#its like oranges but not quite

[yormp]

Why is it that the only time I ever want orange juice is right after I’ve brushed my teeth?

[bluequillss]

JAY FERINNNNNN this haircut was relevant like 20 episodes ago when she got it pretend this isn't months late

[its-pit-not-icarus]

hey lightning rod ⚡ (tap/click for higher quality!)

[happy10thousandyears]

Redesigned that goldfish outfit

[brainrot-stitch]

Goretober except instead of following a list of prompts I draw whatever I want and on my birthday I draw alastyr cross covered in blood and everyone claps and giggles and gives me notes and everything is good forever

[evilsartcorner]

[cescalr]

Watcher pearl.... the angst of watcher pearl... evo -> es1 -> hcs8.... armageddon curse... do you think she's always looking to the sky? Do you think Pearlescent Moon thought hcs8 was finally making explicit it wss her fault? How many times can the world end around you before you blame yourself-

[angelamontoo]

Roderick Raskolniknov and Sonya from Crime and Punishment

They're cute together. I hope Rod got off early for good behaviour and they lived happily ever after. Or better yet, they came to their senses, killed Porifry and eloped

[harrowharkwife]

i am SO fucking exhausted by mainstream media opinions lately and i don't understand why they're frequently SO different from my own? like i genuinely don't think i am approaching anything from that unique of a perspective as a viewer? maybe it's just that i'm too easy to please when it comes to stories or something but like. how is the mainstream, widely accepted consensus on yellowjackets season 2 is that it's "bad" and "doesn't work as a season" and is "riddled with problems." literally what the fuck are you talking about. this is the most fun i have had watching television uhhhhh literally Ever? you're telling me people hated Burial? how? why? like i don't...i just don't GET it. and i'm not playing dumb for kicks here im like genuinely honest to god confused. that was the single best episode of television I've ever watched in my life. like i get that people have different opinions about things and that's fine but HOW am i in the minority here what am i missing

[000png]

i don't have any good pictures but i'm almost done painting my bathroom :D i painted the walls this green which i was a bit nervous about because i've never had any sort of green room period but it's really growing on me

[jewish-elphaba]

the velveteen rabbit be like "folks I actually do need to BeReal"

[denzartriste]

What do you MEAN literally two posts ago I said that I was too mentally sane to draw an orange 🍊 person? I don't think I did youre just a crazy person

@cyrenescreams

[keeps-ache]

mmm metals,

[crescentmp3]

sudden images of my childhood (7yo) house for some reason

[arsenicflame]

options, people, options!

please refer to the previous post if you want more details/rambling on what ive been thinking (and also references of this section)

so ive cut out all i said i was going to, and now is the first look on how it could go together! these first three are with the camel brown colour and the various grass options

and the next ones are with the orange colour (and grass!)

as usual the camera is kinda fucking with the colours but i think these are at least giving a good impression of how they all go together finally!! heres a couple pictures closer up with more accurate colours hopefully

im still not sure about the contrast on the lighthouse, but its definitely not too bad! i think ill start on the rest of the lighthouse pieces next and get a better look all together, but aside from that!!!

what are we thinking, are any of these looking good?

[christaspirit]

Holy crap, I've got a character with this ability, who goes on to be a relationship counselor...

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Most everyone has heard of the red string of fate. Sure, no one probably thought it was real, but many had heard of it. A string tying soulmates together.

But there were others. Strings symbolizing relationships of other kinds. Ties between family, between friends, between romantic partners. The string's location and intensity varied, especially depending on the healthiness of a relationship. A pink string of romance tied around one partner's neck and tinged green was a sure sign to end the relationship. A blue string of friendship fading away on one end often meant the relationship was truly one sided.

Amare had always been able to see these strings. A red and pink between his parents; yellow between him, his brothers, and his parents; blue between him and his friends.

A red string tied to everyone's finger.

Everyone had a red string. A tie between them and their perfect soulmate. Sometimes it didn't have another end for a few years. Sometimes, someone had multiple. Sometimes the string would eventually land between romantic partners, sometimes it was between friends.

If Amare focused on the string, he could sometimes see out of the eyes of the person on the other end.

Most of the time, he tuned them out. The strings could be confusing, and if he paid them too much mind he could feel them, and would often trip on the strings crisscrossing through the world.

He tried not to interfere with relationships, just to force soulmates together. Soulmates would always meet eventually, and so Amare didn't feel the need to force them. If someone wanted his help, however, or if the relationships he saw were clearly toxic, he would step in.

All five of his older brothers had learned to ask him before marrying their partners. It had been slightly awkward for his oldest brother to ask him considering they were 15 years apart, and his brother got engaged at 20.

He'd gained the reputation of being "Cupid" at school.

Despite what he could do with other people, he'd never been able to see out of his own soulmate's eyes. Black met him each time.

He didn't know what it meant. Was his soulmate blind? Could he just not see through his own soulmate's eyes?

It wasn't like this ability came with a manual. Most of the time, it was just distracting. He did not want to see the orange strings between his Chemistry teacher and English teacher. Especially not when they both had pink strings heading off in different directions to their spouses.

He was just glad that he had yet to see an orange or pink string between a classmate and a teacher.

He was a freshmen in high school now, and was relieved he hadn't found out worse. It could have been worse.

No one had called him crazy yet either, so that was good.

But for the first time he was wondering.

The new girl at school, Solis, who had been found in the woods with no memory, was intresting.

She had a faded yellow string and two yellow strings alternating with black. Two dead family members, and one she wasn't close to (which made sense for her amnesia). A faded pink string that twirled with her red string.

So likely, before she lost her memory, she'd been dating her soulmate.

But where was that soulmate?

There were also two faded blue strings, and the stronger blue string toward Luna, that was crossing with a forming yellow one.

But when he had touched her red string, he saw black.

Her soulmate wasn't dead, he knew that.

The year got more unusual when he had checked in on his own soulmate string and... saw, something.

Forest.

Two days later, he met her. His soulmate.

She had a two yellow strings alternating with black, and a strong yellow string leading to... Solis. She had weak blue strings with the three other new kids, two of whom shared a red and pink string, and the third shared a red and pink with... Solis.

The new kids were weird as well. All of them had yellow strings with black segments. Orphans. Beyond that, they talked weird. Very formal.

But that wasn't important. He was just trying to get to know his soulmate.

And figure out why the heck they keep literally bumping into each other.

Some say that an invisible red string is tied around the fingers of soulmates meant to be together forever. As it turns out, you can see these red strings, and have therefore created a highly successful matchmaking business.