#it's a lot more refreshing

[yujateaandpi]

Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing. 

[delicourse]

been watching dungeon meshi...🌱

[strwbrryfire]

BURN CRASH ROMANCE !

need y'all to know that eat them alive is my current roman empire and i will be drawing so much redbull oscar

go read eat them alive by @drivestraight ♥️

[ohithankyou]

thinking about a very recently-out (as in that very day), 45 year old tommy whose marriage of 17 years just imploded, drinking his sorrows away at a local la bar on the same night as young college-senior evan buckley celebrates his 21st birthday with his friends.

buck walks up to the bar to order another round of shots for his table when he sees a wrecked and disheveled (but somehow still angelic) tommy sitting there with his glistening greys and the most beautiful nose buck has ever seen. he’s finishing his third glass of draft beer, about to order a fourth, when buck interrupts with, “let me.” tommy caught off-guard, gives him a quick scan up and down, and asks (tired and stand-offish), “are you even old enough, kid?”. buck (cheeky and excited) responds, “actually it’s my birthday. i-i turned 21 today. about an hour and 13 minutes ago if uh-if we’re being technical.”

tommy takes the last sip of his beer and replies (dry but friendlier now) “well. then shouldn’t i be the one to buy you the drink?” to which buck negotiates (eyelashes fluttering, smile beaming): “o-okay. how about you buy me a drink and i-i listen to you talk about whatever it is that’s bothering you?” tommy tells buck that won’t be necessary because he’s fine. but, buck looks at him with his adorable and disbelieving baby blues and says, “first. you’re not a very good liar. and second. it’s my birthday, remember. you’re not gonna say no to me on my 21st birthday, are you?” and well. tommy doesn’t.

[dontpetmeibite]

When a person is repressing everything under mountains of work that other people have failed to do (and only occasionally unleashing his raw, cold fury upon other hapless people), much of the work that normally only he would do falls upon his backup, the second-in-command of his unit, because she is the only other person who knows how to do it.

So that would be...yes. Actually.

Have you considered purchasing a space station and starting a free love anarchocommunist collective for a few thousand of your closest friends? It worked a treat for us.

A great talk of violence, now.

Has any one of you tried repressing everything under mountains of work and only occasionally unleashing your raw, cold fury upon other hapless people?

[automatonknight]

id: two digital drawings of a humanoid character and an old, beige desktop computer on a solid, black background. the humanoid creature has a sort of spiky ball of light for a head and its body is covered in wings-they’re on its ankles and arms, as well as two pairs on its back. floating around its head there are smaller, yellow and orange stars. the crature itself is white with light pink and blue accents.

on the first drawing, to the left, the winged creature is holding the computer in its lap, leaning its head close to its monitor, which is displaying a drawing of the sun. its wallpaper shows grassy fields and a blue sky. the computer tower is floating neraby and the computer’s mouse is swung over the creature’s shoulder. one of the wires forms a heart and the computer is shown singing four notes. the characters are slightly turned away from the viewer.

on the other drawing, the creature is upside down, laying on its back with its legs propped up on the monitor. one of its arms is under its head, holding the computer mouse and the other is touching the monitor. this time, the computer’s wallpaper is an abstract drawing showing dark blue waves. there are two windows open-one is playing a song and the other is displaying a photo of a daisy in a grassy field. the computer tower is once again nearby. here, the characters are facing the viewer. end id

[houseswife]

something I love about hilson is that (at least within the show), nobody ever tried that “they have a brotherly bond” BS. because pretty much every queercoded pairing from that era has said something along the lines of “you’re like a brother to me”. but not them!! they were always like “yeah I’m violently attracted to you and think we should fuck…./srs.” yes they were repressed but at least they were REAL about it

[kj-beastboy]

design by Vec @ OnionPowder_ on twt

I feel like... there's smth about it. it's not all that good, bc the pose is a bit awkward, perspective is a nice attempt but a little off and I drew quickly without thinking, later couldn't fix it/was too lazy/had no time, but the colors, the shading... idk, I'm oddly a fan of it so I'm throwing it here.

see it as practice/warmup. I'll never get to smth better if I don't let myself fail a bunch of times first. don't be afraid of failing.

[shadyhouse]

hello!!! i was able to get all my bills paid for this month without overdrafting my bank account, which is amazing 🥹 but my rent is coming up and due on the first, i only have $5 in my bank account but i need $750 to pay rent 😭😭😭 im working my ass off on comms in the coming weeks, if anyone is interested in getting one in the meantime im extremely open! $80 for a single character and $120 for two characters!

and if you cant afford that and just want to throw a few bucks at me that's much appreciated too!!! anything helps at all, anything will help me not be severely overdrafted before my next (very small) paycheck hits on the first of january!

im still on the job hunt and nothing has turned out so far unfortunately :( commissions are my main source of income for the time being since the job market is in shambles

pp: paypal.me/bewearrr

vnm: tobias_leviathan

0/750

[aroaceleovaldez]

full on feel like pjo tv s2 is not gonna hold up so they need to drag as much attention to the series as they can by using nico as a sock puppet w tsats2

im fully expecting the show to go the way of the movies. it doesnt help Sea of Monsters is almost unanimously the least favorite book of the first series. People frequently forget it even exists or what happens in it, especially more casual fans.

Heck, just look at how little fanfare the second season has gotten so far as compared to the build up to s1. I wouldn't be surprised if s2 totally flops. It would be a little funny.

[moowithmidnight]

Unfriendly, very pointed reminder that people are allowed to mourn the total lack of Agathario backstory in the final episodes.

The people upset about it aren’t idiots- I’m very aware the work that must’ve gone into convincing Marvel to let Agatha have a canon, explicit, visible female love interest.

Seeing this woman-led, blatantly queer show exist where the main characters are queer and that’s simply accepted without conversation? It’s made me cry- genuinely- because it something that didn’t need to happen for the story to make sense, but still did.

Agatha being a canon LESBIAN is giant for us too- it’s always easier to convince networks to give us sapphic characters if it’s reasonable they’ll end up with men. There was never a chance in hell Agatha would- now for two reasons.

This is an undeniably huge win, and I adore this show for that (along with many, many other reasons).

But I’m also disappointed that we never got to see the positive half of the history that was clearly so integral to how Agatha and Rio interacted with each other. They had something much less complex once and I’m frustrated they basically told us this and then gave nothing.

People are allowed to criticize a show they love, whether it’s “valid” or not- and they’re allowed to feel disappointment while also acknowledging that all of this was an incredibly huge step.

[sketching-shark]

Been a couple of years, but I still think fondly of Grace Monroe from Infinity Train for achieving that very rare redemption arc narrative of "the people you hurt are allowed to sever all ties, and you can still become a better, happier person."

[quibbs126]

So I woke up this morning and for some reason, I had some of my old fankids in mind, specifically the darklico ones, so I was like “screw it, I’ll draw some fankids as humans”

This is a screenshot and unfinished however because I realized, of the human designs I’ve done, not many of them do I have ships for, or at least that I’ve completed

Like of this group I do have some, like Dark Cacao/Hollyberry, Sea Fairy/Moonlight, and I think Sea Fairy/Fire Spirit, but when I was looking at the first two for the references here, I realized that I didn’t have many outside of ships within the Cookies of Darkness. Which even then, I only have two pairings completed

So basically, I have to put the rest of the page on hold now. But I still wanted to show off what I did draw, so here’s a screenshot of the current lineup

These are their Cookie forms for reference

There is a third darklico kid, Gancao, but I’m also aware she’s in need of a design overhaul, so I didn’t include her here. Also Licorice Cream here is older than how I drew her initially, because I later decided she was the oldest due to her being an accidental homunculus rather than a product of the two getting together. So she also needs a redesign, but I at least have some reference to how she’s supposed to look now

In all honesty, I do think Licorice Cream looks the worst here. She’s not terrible, but I think her eyes are slightly too small and her face just isn’t quite right. Also for some reason when I look at her, I think of Iris from Pokémon

But I mean, I can probably chock up her off design to the fact that I drew her at like 3-4 in the morning. I woke up randomly super early and it seems like I went to sleep at random as well last night. I refused to go back to sleep this morning so I stayed up, but I don’t think my brain was operating at full capacity yet

Black Choco I think looks plenty better, though maybe not much like his counterpart. But also I can’t give him his hair streaks or purple fade, since my rule with these is that they can only have dye or contacts if it fits the character, and he’s a small child so I don’t think he can. I at least tried to compromise with the brown fade

Also I’m not sure I have his expression right. It was an issue while drawing, because I recall that he’s not supposed to be sad or anything, just jumpy and nervous, and he’s supposed to be looking around. But this was the best I could do, so oh well

Zuccotto on the other hand I think turned out great. I had it in my head that he generally looked like Affogato, which I think I achieved (to me they definitely look related), but he acts more like Red Velvet. I don’t entirely remember if that’s his character, I haven’t looked at his post in probably a good year, I just remember he’s Licorice Cream’s bestie and the straight man to her antics

But yeah, I think he looks pretty good. Admittedly though I don’t know why he, in-universe, has the super light hair when I made both of his parents naturally brown haired. I mean maybe it’s dye, but I don’t know how feasible that is with a lighter fade at the end as well as dark streaks. But oh well, it’s what worked best with how I designed him

And yeah, that’s about it. Hmm, maybe I need to go and make more human designs. And/or more fankids

[waitineedaname]

hiiii lily what is this ‘orv’ i have been seeing…..

HIIII MIKE. SMILES. orv is Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint! it's a webnovel with an ongoing webtoon adaption and it is making me Fucking Crazy. basically the premise there's this really unpopular really long webnovel called Three Ways to Survive an Apocalypse, and for years, Kim Dokja has been the only reader. when the novel finally ends, the author sends him an email with the txt file of the whole novel, and then suddenly the novel is wiped from the internet and in that instant, the events of the novel begin taking place in Kim Dokja's world. the apocalypse begins and humanity is subjected to cruel scenarios and challenges livestreamed for the entertainment of these powerful entities called constellations, and as the only one who read the story to its end, Kim Dokja is the only one fully equipped with knowledge of how this story goes (or at least, how it originally went)

it is SO good. it lures you in like "ooh this is a normal reverse isekai" and then ends up being CRAZY. it deals with questions about the boundary between characters and Real People and whether that distinction really matters, and it's one of those stories that looks the audience dead in the eye and dares you to look away first. literary devices are made Real (oh fourth wall we're really in it now...) and it plays with narrative voice and pov and unreliable narration in such fun ways. it is ultimately about the value of stories and the value of being a reader and the choice to wrestle with the story that's been written for you in favor of the story you really want to tell. it's also about Kim Dokja having something Deeply Wrong With Him skdlfjlksdjf the journey i went on with him was "okay he's a reader insert who reads novels as escapism, i get it" -> "oh actually he has something wrong with him" -> "oh he has something Wrong With Him" -> "WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK. HELLO. WHAT WAS THAT." I'm obsessed with him.

I read the webtoon first which I think is a pretty effective onboarding point! some of the art had my jaw on the FLOOR it's so cool. the webtoon has adapted roughly the first third of the whole novel so far, and if you want to read the novel just dm me and I'll hit you up with the epub file lol (not just mike but anyone who is interested!)

[pixlezz]

dnd mk

i am mad unmotivated bcz of all thatz been going on in the world and thiz iz a fairly old sketch but a while ago I posted that I made mk in dnd so yar. thiz iz kinda hiz full design and i named him xiao for the sake of the dm and the other party to be able to pronounce hiz name easier

however the face and general hair style and featurez iz how i draw mk now anyway .P

[charlotte-family-apologist]

MK would’ve been the perfect series to explore the never ending cycle of violence but nrs isn’t ready for that.