#lets start today!

[kimtaegis]

JIN HUGS JIN HUGS! for @jinstronaut ♡

cr. namuspromised, dwellingsouls, 0613data

[buttercupshands]

I started drawing this next day after I finished Act 6

13 or so days and it's finished!

Main things are traditional and Loop's body was edited digitally after

Unedited it looks like this

I've been torn on how to do Loop's body for the entirety of lining, also

A bit sad the main lines are visible only as a wip, most of this thing is literally just a ton of sharp lines

I think it's also my first day of drawing, Loop is just a sketch here (feat. my leg)

I even finished the beans before it so they were a moral support, because if you let me things like this take a year

[rocketbirdie]

i feel like i failed you.

[porcupine-girl]

[izuizzy]

“First Word” 💙💙

made a comic to express the relief and joy sonic felt when talia finally spoke for the first time once she became more comfortable. [read from left to right]

[mask131]

I am re-reading the Silmarillion, and something strikes me. The women of Tolkien's world have been talked about TO DEATH especially with all the recurring debates surrounding the Rings of Power series.

As we all know, Tolkien was not a "feminist" in the modern sense of the word. He had a very male-centric point of view and appreciation of the world, he had male-driven and male-centered stories, and actual women characters were sparse and rare. There are only five really big female characters in "The Lord of the Rings" - the quintet of Galadriel, Eowyn, Goldberry, Lobelia and Shelob. [No, don't talk to me about Arwen, she only really was a character in the movies, in the book she's just there in the appendix and she was literaly an afterthought of Tolkien to act as Eowyn's romantic double...]

Consider this. Galadriel, Eowyn, Goldberry, Lobelia and Shelob. This tells you everything you need to know about Tolkien's women, in good and bad.

The Silmarillion has the same motif of having a lot of female characters, only for most of them to be just footnotes, secondary characters with no lines, under-developped one-liners... with in a contrast a handful of super-cool, super-badass, complex and developed heroines at the center of the plot.

Aka, on the bad side, when listing the Valar, while Tolkien gives an interesting personality, great domains and cool attributes to all the male ones, half of the female ones are just... there. And do one stuff. And never appear again. I mean come on... Vana and Nessa? Estë and Vairë were done dirty... That's the actual type of "non-feminism" Tolkien has. It isn't about him hating women or trying to be offensive in his depictions - it is about him just, not putting as much thought, effort and care into his female characters as his male ones, a bit the same way he creates the vast expanses of the East and South of Middle-Earth and then never bothers actually developing more of it or seeking to tell tales of it - but that's for another discussion about Tolkien's "racism". Here we talk about women.

But here's the thing, aka the good side... When Tolkien does find the time and care to develop and flesh out a female character, by Iluvatar he goes all out! Again, we are back on what I said earlier: the women of Lord of the Rings can be counted on one hand... but these fingers are Galadriel, Eowyn and Shelob, so you can't claim he isnt writing powerful, important or uninterestng female characters. Which leads me to my original remark - as usual I get driven away in digressions of all sorts and kinds.

Have you ever noticed that Melkor's greatest enemies, the ones he fears the most, and his most effective foes... are women? Tolkien might not like to put them front and center of his tales, and he might have been a man of the early 20th century England in culture and mind, but boy does he has something to say about how women are actually the first enemies of the literal embodiment of evil and destruction! I mean think about it. Varda of the Stars, and Yavanna of the trees. Nienna has her ambiguous relationship to him - her tears work against him, and yet without her plea for him he likely would not have been released from the dungeons of Mandos. You have Melian with her Girdle, and Luthien with her Hound. And of course most of all Arien, guardian of the Sun, not only one of the rare fire spirits that Melkor couldn't corrupt (despite him basically ruling over all fire), but that frightens him so much he keeps hiding away and doesn't even dare to attack her... [I also reblogged some times ago a post praising the brilliance of Tolkien keeping the old European sun-moon motifs but switching the genders. The weaker, inconsistant, lustful, whimsical, disorderly, untrustworthy Moon is now a male principle, while the steady, dangerous, strong, powerful and beautiful Sun is a woman.]

It is actually REALLY easy to do a feminist retelling of Tolkien's work. Melkor doesn't fear Manwë as much as Varda. Aulë's works and servants get corrupted by Melkor, while Yavanna's do not. Melian and Luthien actively works against him. He friggin' pisses himself when the Woman of the Sun shows up. Sure, there are some evil female characters that serve him down the line and are relegated to the "obscure footnotes and undescribed secondary characters" zone - Thuringwethil the vampire or queen Beruthiel. I coul also dropped deleted characters from early drafts, like the ogress Fluithuin. But among them stands Ungoliant... THE only true female big bad on the dark side of Arda. THE badass, nightmarish, creepy eldritch abomination. And who ends up double-crossing Melkor, almost KILLING him, and again making him basically shit in his pants - as Varda and Arien do.

The first enemies of Morgoth are not the Valar, or the Maiar, or the Elves... It's women.

[chitinleg]

got him off-balance!

[demaparbat-hp]

Want to know what I believe? It's right here

Dig a little deeper and it's crystal clear

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(WIP)

[shevr]

newly employed type of girl who is coincidentally freshly 30 as well which is unrelated but also not necessarily a helpful addition

[castielsprostate]

day 200 of asking misha to put his hands around my neck and choke me lightly

[stardestroyer81]

It finally happened— Pizza Tower is releasing on the Nintendo Switch today!!! I knew I had to whip up a little something to celebrate, so have this drawing of Peppino and The Noise... on the go! 🍕✨

[punch-love]

(This is Hemlockdreams) Just wanted to let you know that i am bigly obsessed with your work. I absolutely adore your Spideypool voice.

Thank you! I always love when people who enjoy my work come off anon and let me know who they are on AO3. I’m glad you enjoy it! I had a very specific vision for those characters and it’s great when readers really connect with it.

[moonchild-in-blue]

Do you ever just stop and think about the The Night Does Not Belong To God x Euclid connection? Cus boy, I sure am.

We start the trilogy with "I know for the last time you will not be mine, so give me the night" and end with "By now, the night belongs to you".

"The night comes down like heaven" vs "And if your wings won't find you heaven, I will bring it down like an ancient bygone".

We start with Vessel both dreading and desiring the night, the one time of the day where everything is sacred crumbles and gives space to love - imperfect and painful, and divine in its imperfection. A time where he is no longer an unworthy outsider at the eyes of daylight angels, of God.

And we end with him defying heaven itself, no longer a bystander but a fighter, for daring to close itself to the ones bellow. It's acceptance of a flawed self, it's acknowledgment of a fabricated holiness, it's retaliation for the humanity of which he was robbed of. A consacration of bleeding flesh before the toppling of a golden cross. The man who died for a fallen god, resurrected.

The night does not belong to god, it belongs to you. It belongs to me.

And still love remains, the love who both saved him and entombed his name like a hushed sin, echoing in falling rain and blood-soiled dirt.

The whites of your eyes Turn black in the low light In turning divine And we tangle endlessly Like lovers entwined I know for the last time You will not be mine So give me the night

And so the rain falls, the leaves turn yellow, and the cycle begins once more.

[balkanradfem]

Do you think that low birth-rates are a problem?

I think they're the opposite of a problem :)

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

[faeriefully]

what a blessing from the Lord genuine friends are