#my brain hurts looking at this

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[Image transcripts in order: What you can NOT illustrate: Mushroom house or any related, text or typography, deserts, drawing based on Al generated image, dragons and mermaids, bones as a part of scene, any scene related to violent or graphic content]

[INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Mushrooms, Ying-yang sign, Peace sign, Corner suns, Daisies, Famous people, Race cars, Horses, Rock stars, Polka dots, Trucks, Planes, Cars, Ballet, Suns, Theatre Masks, Moons, Dragons and Dinosaurs, Stars, Hearts, Feathers, Birds, School mascots, Athletics, Sports Illustrated pictures, General flowers, Music covers, Copyright materials, Furry and non-furry animals, Drugs, Kittens, Alcohol, Puppies, Cigarettes, Eyes, Tigers, Leopards, Snakes, Butterflies, Unicorns, Pegasus, Under the sea, Side fish, Cartoons, Anime, Clothing and shoe logos, Dolphins, Rainbows, V or M birds, Dragons, Princesses, Balloons, Puffy clouds, Stick people, Tears, Gaping Mouths, Monsters, Western themes, Howling wolves, Wizards, Vampires, Aliens, Outer space, Lipstick tubes, Ipods/Phones, Love, Hearts, broken or otherwise, Eyeballs, Tagging, Seasonal themes, Ladybugs, Crowns, Angels, Mythical themes, Teddy bears, Bows, Simple fireworks, Close ups of watches/clocks, Half faces, Generic houses, Fire, Blood and guts, Camo, Food, Snowmen, Pyramids, Deer heads/antlers, Tree frogs, National Geographic copies, Makeup ads, Pot Leaves, Smiley faces, Roses with or without dew, Bats, People kissing, Drama masks, City, Skylines, Spiders, Palm trees, Beach scenes, Umbrellas, Seashells, Fairies, Scallop waves, Dripping blood, Knives, Devils, Tulips, Bubbles, Puffy/fluffy clouds, Dollar sign, Disney characters/video game imagery, Eight ball, Lips, Sun with sunglasses, any Emoji, Swords, Bubble lettering, Flames, Mermaids, Crescent moon, Skulls, Cats, Trees, Birds, stuff on fire.]

[Why should you avoid these images? They are common and trite. It has been done to death. It does not challenge you as an artist or as a student. It comes across as immature or elementary. You can do better!

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have i ever shown you guys my professor’s DNI list

[thebrainrotsreal]

Drew this real quick because I fucking love these two so much ???? Especially Bee. I wish they interacted more so badly. PLEASE.

Also learning how to draw these guys.. slowly.

[crustyfloor]

My night was going so wonderfully.

The headshot of this cover is just PAINFUL. They're actually acknowledging each other, they're the only ones on a cover to do that. And it's the prominent detail that Mizi looks horrified staring at Sua, even though they're clutching each other so... like they can't let go, while Sua looks reverent in the lane of that gaze, even blushing, slightly, savoring the moment. This also looks like their kiss scene...

To me, she looks just the same as the day she died because I think this cover is Sua's haunting of Mizi, because Sua's singing is just that, haunting and distant the longer she sings, she's fading out, but so gently despite its gruesomeness. And Mizi is grieving.

She's as angelic as she is in Mizi's memories..

But there's a cruelty to this because Mizi will never forget what she saw in round 1, that's why seeing Sua over and over and over again terrifies her, hence why the tone of this song is SO dark, especially in the second half when they're coming to a close, they get desperate to keep each other close, and there is a certain, but familiar ignorance to Sua's presence as if she can't see Mizi's pain even though Mizi is crying right in front of her--childish egos, Sua becomes a more honest character after her death, and in more expressive formats like this, and I like how she takes on that position in this song, the taker. (Like Till, he wanted a security blanket out of Mizi; Sua is similar in that sense.) as she takes and wants from Mizi for her own sanity.

And this newest illustration, oh my god. EXPRESSES THIS IDEA PERFECTLY, Sua looks so utterly distant, ghostly, dead.

In contrast to Ivan and Till's cure, Mizi and Sua's cure is more of a duet, and they switch places often. Mizi starts the song, she ends the song (just like in my clematis), and Sua supports it. Whereas Ivan and Till take turns leading and harmonizing, Mizi and Sua both participate.

And I believe they're interacting? Ivan and Till's cure wasn't a message to each other, something a lot more complicated than that--but Mizi and Sua transition frequently and it feels like they're singing to each other, It's more intimate.

Mizi - Allow me, to the tips of your finger

Allow me, to the ends of your feet

Dissolve me in your gaze

I don't want to let you go.

Sua - Please, leave me scars

Please, hurt me so that not a singly drop of me remains

Let me drown in you.

(The backing vocals mean so much to me, it's like a choir(?))

Mizi - Until these falling stars

Are buried in the blur of time

On your icy lips

Read my soul, yes, my soul

It wasn't spontaneous for the sake of it either, because this is a call-and-response

Sua - Even if your cold words

Carve scars beneath my eyes

May they linger on your tongue

You can break me apart

Mizi - Notice my pain

And mend me right now

To quiet my fears

I'll drown in you

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Mizi is directly asking Sua, or the version of her she can't forget, to stay with her, calm her like she used to, as she wishes to have remained in the dark, to drown in her, or to have just not been left alone and, because even now Sua's death is not something she can accept, the portrayal of her feelings as she expresses her pain and desire to keep Sua close, even the false presence of her "On your icy lips" and "notice my pain and mend me right now" even though It's terrifying her, she doesn't want to let go.

Sua acknowledges Mizi's pain, and their shared pains after she died for her, the blame and the betrayal. Interestingly, Sua takes on the metaphorically self-destructive lyrics, Sua lives in fear, anxiety, and utter gloominess, she didn't want to be hurt by Mizi in the literal sense, but she would've rather been warmed in Mizi's soft light, her false hope and optimism, to be destroyed and to destroy Mizi's hope, even dying as the penalty of their love was far better.

Then Sua goes on to sing through the perspective of Mizi and her loneliness and grief after losing her with perfect clarity, it takes me back to the comic where Ivan scolded Sua about her plan, saying that she'd be nothing more than a trauma to Mizi after everything is said and done, she got upset at Ivan because she knew that, was devastated by the fact that she would be a burden just as she always feared, but then, what's a life without Mizi by her side, her only safety net? Her every reason for living?

This song displays their deep love and devotion, they sound melancholic but even in these horrific circumstances, Mizi's pain and hesitance, they don't drown each other out, they move together in perfect harmony just like they always do, in this way, it also feels like an apology of sorts from both sides before the bitter end, and a final goodbye.

AND THEN AT THE END WITH THE PERFECT SYNCHRONIZING OF THEIR VOICES ARGHH

And a new Sua illustration for the occasion 😭💔 (I'm gonna catch you soon Vivinos just wait.)

[xx0fuck3drott1ngthr04t0xx]

(spoiler warning for the morph s2 tas plotline in caption and tags)

pov: your shapeshfter bf gets an evil brainworm imlanted in their head by their abusive manipulative adoptive dad so you gotta find em, and you go all the way to south america to find em disguised as a bartender, but when you tell em to come back to you, they start a fight n fuck with your head by insulting you while shifted into your gf, and then run off still disguised as said gf

[idontmindifuforgetme]

At some point checking into social media starts to feel like masochism…. Literally flogging my brain every time I try to keep up w people’s lives

[turtleblogatlast]

Fun little silly thought I had about the Lair Games and specifically Leo deliberately losing is all the reasons he could have for doing so.

My favorite headcanon for his main motivation is that Splinter wasn’t proud of him anymore.

I imagine that, in the beginning, winning the Lair Games was Leo’s opportunity to shine. He wasn’t artistic or the baby of the family like Mikey, wasn’t a tech genius who created amazing inventions like Donnie, wasn’t the eldest who was insanely strong and dependable like Raph. So he had to shine somewhere else- anywhere else- and what better way to get attention than to be a winner? A champion?

And then he won too much. And it wasn’t special anymore. He got too big headed, too cocky, he knew this was his element and he ran with it.

Splinter’s words of congratulations slowly petered out. Suddenly, there was no real reason to win.

Winning feels empty when the only one cheering you on is yourself.

So- Leo schemed. And he’s a great schemer, fooling his whole family (and Donnie did deserve a win- people were way happier when he won.)

He even gave up his prized possession! His room!

Though he knows his brothers probably think it’s a bad prize. A terrible one, even.

Leo doesn’t sleep much as is, though. So Dad’s snores were more comforting than anything. It was reassuring to hear him so clearly alive and close by.

Even if the distance between them was larger than Leo’d like.

He’d just have to find something else, something more to show his dad that Leo was someone to trust, to be proud of, to love.

He gets his chance soon after, when he needs to pull off a plan against Big Mama at his dad’s side. Leo can only hope this victory is one that has a lasting effect when his father looks at him with pride once more.

Victory, for Leo, is a pretty loaded term.

[somerandomdudelmao]

I stole something from Sara you will love it Also December is soon yes absolutely soon

Ooh intriguing~

[zenkohoney]

I could not stop thinking about @meshonax ‘s post with Bee, Optimus, and Megatron in their fluffy scarfs!!!! Look at him!!!

[skunkes]

[what-an-art-blog-huh]

I'm planning on making more with Gideon and Kremy and maybe Torbek if I can think of a good idea for him but here's drawings of hootsie and Co., lightly inspired by me and my niece

[1percentcharge]

season 14

[blakbonnet]

If you see Ed and his journey, and you immediately don't feel an overwhelming hard to contain amount of love and affection for him, and fucking protectiveness over him like you want to just keep him safe from everything, and you don't imagine a soft and loved future for him, I honestly don't know what to tell you

[spaciebabie]

at first getting diagnosed with cptsd was like, "yay my trauma has been validated (it always was valid)!" and i really thought that was going to be it, but then i started to do research as i do whenever i realize i have something and learned that!! the way i experience socialization is!! quite horrid actually!!

[kelin-is-writing]

Sorry, but I can’t stop think about this right here…

[stefisdoingthings]

a moment of love and peace for Vash the Stampede

[offorestsongs]

Lysander got a New Years outfit too! i love my sad pink hare boy so much

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