#never have I felt so motivated

[imaginingmoonlight]

First full day of study leave and I’m loving life. Made myself an iced chai latte and I’m eating raw peppers with hummus (first class snack)

[snarkspawn]

Oh look, it's that time of the year again :'D (how tf did that happen??) Anyway, hm. Mental health-wise this year was the worst in quite some time for me, so for some months I literally only had one, maybe two finished pieces to choose from. BUT on the plus side I'm fairly happy with most of the drawings I did finish, so that's good! I'll just focus on that, and on all the things I still want to improve on in the future. Here's to hoping 2025 will be less rough, and a little kinder, to all of us :)

On that note I wish all of you a wonderful end of the year and a great start into 2025! Thank you so, so much for coming with me on my art journey, for liking and reblogging, and for leaving nice comments and messages! You make it all worth it and I appreciate the hell out of you, whether you've been following me for ages or only just got here 💜 mwah!

[tora-the-cat]

An interesting little fun thing with team 7 is that you assume that Sakura's gonna, like, woobify and simplify Sasuke by putting him on a pedastal,cause her goal is centered around him and shes a 12 y/o fangirl so like of course her understanding of him is skewed cause she doesnt see him as a person, just an object of affection, right? She's can't get Sasuke, can't imprint on and/or traumabond with him like Naruto and Kakashi do. They don't see him with rose tinted glasses, because they've lived through their own Horrors and empathize with Sasuke's experience.

......right?

WRONG lmao!! They have too many ghosts!! Naruto's single-minded codependent ass won't get out of his own way long enough to see Sasuke for who he actually is, only able to empathize with the parts of his trauma Naruto relates to and not really capable of understanding him outside of the context of himself (because Sasuke is. His other half). And Kakashi is far too jaded to be fair to him!! He can't decide if Sasuke is gonna end up as a mini-him or a mini-Obito or maybe a mini-Itachi, but either way he ALSO is too traumatized to see Sasuke AS SASUKE.

meanehile SAKURA'S autistic ass may have dogshit empathy, but you know what she does have? A special interest in sasuke. Nothing better to do then give herself a degree in Uchihaisms. She can write character studies about him. she can read his soul. Whenever she says something about him she is right. Every fucking time! She is RIGHT!!!!

'sasuke would NOT compliment me this directly or explicitly express worry unprompted, especially if it gets in the way of his goals' correct.

'Sasuke shouldn't hide that curse on his neck its not healthy BUT if I tell anyone about it he'll never trust me again, which might be even more dangerous for him then the curse mark. Like he can probably handle the curse mark but no one else can stop him from ripping peoples arms off.' correct.

Speaking of! 'Sasuke would not hurt me even when he seems to be...possessed? whatever the only way to knock him out of it is to present myself as Alive and thus something to be protected rather then something to be avenged, because he gets really stuck in his own head about revenge' CORRECT

'hey so um. like. Sasuke's gonna leave Konoha. I'm not sure anything can stop him at this point and honestly I'm kinda starting to doubt anything should, so the only thing I could possibly do to help him at this point is ALSO defect.' CORRECT!!!!

[iamirhen]

I just can't manage to do full comic pages and clean lineart with procreate so I'm doing these doodles for fun instead while I wait for my Huion to arrive.

I wanted to do this scene from her point of view. Robbie's first interactions with her suffered greatly from her having just talked with both Tony and Stephen first.

The first days after her resurrection Blade hold the badge of "only normal male teammate" until she actually talked with Robbie and got to adjust her mental image of him. It was a "not all men, Blade would never" kind of situation for her.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[necrotic-nephilim]

for the ask game (3)

au where all robins develop a mental link after fighting some magical criminal of the week. what would they see in each other's minds? what secrets and repressed feelings do they discover? how would they deal with it?

for the ask game!

oooh, i love telepathic links that end up revealing secrets. especially with a family like the Batfam, who are usually so convinced they're good enough at reading each other to not have many secrets kept. so weird reveals are always fun

if i did this, i'd do DamiTim. just because of all the like, "deep dark feelings that are being hidden" for Robin shipping, DamiTim is the most fun for me. you expect DickTim or DickJay or JayTim, even DamiDick. but there's something that's so enjoyable about Damian having his feelings forcibly outted. not just to Tim, but to everyone. the way it'd be an active landmine none of them knowing what to say but all feeling each other's reactions. i honestly think Damian would try to punch somebody about it. (also, if you do a history of TImSteph where they've had sex, Damian would be directly linked to Steph's memories of how Tim was in bed, so that's fun as both something horrifying and enlightening just to screw with his feelings some more.) would they end up together? in my head probably, but it'd be weird and likely toxic bc how do you date someone you know inside out and know exactly what they think of all your flaws and what parts of you they obsess over. the answer is not very well but hey, the sex is good-

i think Jason *directly* feeling how everyone felt about his death would really rock him. he's heard all the apologies, but part of him isn't convinced there's truth to them. so to be crushed by Dick's *grief* over his death would be a come to jesus moment for him. but on the less fun flipside, you have him feeling how Dick feels about him *now*. because Dick doesn't really *like* Jason and deep down, sees Jason as a lost cause. that's his "deep dark secret". and Jason would feel and know that from the one person who he still wants to believe in him. i really do think Jason would have the Worst Time with all this, overwhelmed with everyone's intimate and complex feelings over his death. Jason is a very defensive person when it comes to his death and how reactionary he gets when other people make it about them, not him. so for Jason to have to constantly deal with that in his head, i truly do think he'd lash out a bit. the arguments. yelling at Dick and feeling Dick's guilt and snapping bc Dick has no right to feel guilty now. feeling that Tim viewed Jason as a failure. it's just a damaging mindspace to be in and man do i think Jason would take a While to recover.

oddly though, i think it'd be a good bonding moment for Steph and Jason. we really don't get much exploration of Steph and Jason bonding over dying. bc sure, Steph didn't actually die, but she *did* experience the social death where everyone believed she was dead and mourned her as such for a good while. she also felt *directly* responsible for her own death. a lot of blame falls on Steph for War Games (for the Doylist reasons of sexism but yk) and Jason feels responsible for his own death for walking into a trap. but unlike Jason, Steph had no suit in a case, no memorials, her name held no infamy. so i think she deserves just a bit of righteous fury about how dramatic Jason can be while she just has to move on bc hey, it's not like she *really* died. and she buries those feelings well, but not well enough to hide them from a mental link. and Jason, who hasn't really considered Steph before because he was so wrapped up in his complex over Tim, confronts those feelings with her. if anyone is going to know how he feels, it's going to be her. you could do it platonic or romantic, but i do think when Jason sinks to his lowest, she's the one who snaps him out of it, both with tough love and genuine compassion for his situation.

for the less serious crack of it all: they're all going to have far too intimate knowledge of each other's sex lives. everyone's gonna know Dick has fucked Slade. everyone's gonna know Jason has fucked Talia. in my heart, i believe Tim has slept with Anarky (Lonnie, not Ulysses) and everyone would *know* that too. absolute judgment all around. it's the spider-man meme of "wait you've done WHAT with WHO" and honestly, it gives a nice distraction for the more serious feelings. it's a palette cleanser they can default to. like when the fighting gets a little too serious and they're cutting too deep for comfort, someone's going to blurt out "well at least i didn't fuck Deathstroke." and the whole moment goes awry with laughter. bc i do think, at the end of it once they get through the worst of the angst, they'd be closer for it and self-aware of the ridiculous nature of all this. it's enlightening, in a way to see how they all felt about their time as Robin and the baggage/trauma they hold. even the ugliest feelings they hold for each other don't completely suffocate the fondness/respect.

that said, knowing the baggage/trauma. oof. i don't think Dick has ever fully opened up about his history with Mirage/Tarantula/Liu and now it's forced to sit in the open. Damian has never admitted the worst of being raised in the League. Tim hasn't fully faced the suffocating image of his dead father and his deep-seated want to kill Boomerang. all those ugly truths they stamp down bc well, either you're a vigilante or you're a well adjusted person, are out in the open now. and it's ugly and gruesome to force those thoughts to be shared. they all want to comfort each other for different reasons, while simultaneously not wanting their own trauma to be acknowledged. it'd be fun to see who'd instinctively react to whose trauma first. because it's an overwhelming rush of information, and you just naturally get pulled in certain directions. i think Damian would react to Dick's history of sexual abuse first, whereas Jason would be reacting to the murderous rage TIm is trying to fight off. Tim is reacting to just how much guilt Steph carries about War Games and all of it is very crunchy. there's so much they'd all have to talk about and it'd take days for them to address it all, between the arguments about the ugly parts. would they come out stronger for it? yes. but only if they didn't kill each other in the process. i hesitate to do a "and they come out one big happy family" ending, bc it's not very in canon, but i do think the bond of the Robin mantle is something special. even when the link is broken, they hold onto a freakish understanding of each other. they react and move in sync, can fight together without needing words. are they emotionally on the same page/have they forgiven each other for the worst of it? absolutely not. but they've got each other backs. it's a very much "if you called i'd drop everything to save you. but also we don't have it in us to hang out casually." bond, which i think is deeply underrated in fanfiction. sometimes, you can care about people but you have to do it from a distance.

[jesncin]

Are there any characters from fandoms outside of DC which you have changed in your mind to a similar level as some of the DC characters you depict?

As an example, Ma'al, who at this point feels like an oc of you (I say this with respect and affection, I will see all Ma'al's that aren't like yours as wrong for the rest of my life), I just wanna know if you've reworked characters from any other fandoms in such a way

HAHA I'll take that Ma'al compliment, I'm honored. This is a great question! And the short answer is: no! This DC fandom AU remix stuff I'm doing is the first time I've truly engaged in fandom that wasn't just drawing a quick illustration and dipping out (and stalking fandom blogs). Back then I didn't really understand the appeal of creating AUs or remixing the characters because my thought process was "well the canon thing I like is already good, why change it?" but well!

This late into my career where I'm allowing myself to let loose and have fun to combat the creeping threat of burnout, I've come to love the transformative side of fandom that takes canon material and makes just as if not more compelling stories than canon. And cape comics really lend themselves to that because DC canon is just as nebulous and evolves with time and writers/artists.

Back then I never understood why people could like narratively weak characters, but I get it now. I like drawing niche characters within DC, because, not only is it a cozy smaller space of fans, but when the source material is flawed, I like getting creative with how I'd remix the story to make it my own. It's a mix of being at the skill level to be able to make comics and fanart regularly and being at a unique point in my life where playing with DC like they're my toys is exactly what I need as a break from work, haha.

[yrlocalghost]

you know. i feel like chara is obviously a very complex character and has a lot of problems and a lot going on, but i always thought that the fact that the whole wanting to kill people from their village was like. not that bad. in and of itself.

[possamble]

I'm not allowed to be on social media for more than two seconds today but I just wanted to say that Laios will absolutely have his own reaction to all this as someone who would die for Falin but has also imprinted on Marcille as his Emotional Support Comphet White Girl Not-Girlfriend along the way

[miquella-everywhere]

No actually the thing that perturbs me the most thanks to this absolute nonsense retcon is that you have the whole dominating color scheme of Gold and Scarlet within elden ring so when you get to the whole dynamic between Miquella and Trina you pause to think, "why purple? where the heck did the purple come from?" but then you think even harder and remember Melina and the whole sealed away purple eyeball thing going on with her and then you remember that the Gloam-Eyed Queen existed and how data-mining the dlc reveals that she was supposed to be there but ultimately wasnt for frankly stupid reasons and then you remember the story trailer of marika stealing from a pregnant woman's corpse and how the Gate of Divinity had that Gold and Purple backdrop going on but instead the writers were lame and now even Melinas own greatest mysteries were never answered and wow this retconned lore sucks absolute ass

anyway gloam-eyed queen is marikas sister and melinas mother truther forever 🤟

[girlivealwaysbean]

can someone tell me how to keep going if your hardwork does pay off but you don't feel anything when you achieve your goal just relief and numb again

[wonder-worker]

"It is too easy to dismiss [Leonor of Navarre] as an overambitious schemer who would do anything to obtain a crown, shedding the blood of her own siblings and her subjects in order to attain the throne. However, a deeper investigation of her long lieutenancy and ephemeral reign shows a woman who fought tenaciously to preserve her place but also worked tirelessly to administer a realm which was crippled by internal conflict and the center of the political schemes of France, Aragon, and Castile. She tried to broker peace, fight off those who opposed her, repair the wounds caused by conflict, protect the sovereignty of the realm, and keep the wheels of governance turning. Leonor was not always successful in achieving all of these aims but given the background of conflict and the lack of cooperation she received from all of her family members, bar her loyal husband, it is a huge achievement that she survived to wear the crown at all. Many writers have argued that Leonor deserved the troubled lieutenancy, personal tragedies, an ephemeral reign, and a blackened reputation, basing their assumption that she committed a crime that cannot be [conclusively] proven. However, a more fitting description of her would be that of a resolute ruler who successfully overcame a multitude of challenges in order to survive in a difficult political landscape and gain a hard-fought throne.”

— Elena Woodacre, "Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition", Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz)

[rubitheracoon]

Who knew the first humanoid I would ever draw decently would actually be the character I've been obsessed with for the last 3 months

ANYWAY I FINALLY MANAGED TO DRAW A PERSON IM SO HAPPY!!

[copia]

i'm going on exam season lockdown as of today, which means no more gifs/edits/anything else because i spend way too much time on them for an engineering student in the trenches lmao. posting this not because i think anybody will notice or care, but so i can hold myself accountable and get embarrassed if i break the pledge. see you on june 3rd for a ghovie creativity extravaganza

edit: besides the ghovie trailer 😭 i cant restrain myself from that one

[arolesbianism]

Further info:

- I can draw any species as long as the design itself isn’t super complicated

- that being said, I am willing to simplify complicated designs for commissions

- I will not draw nsfw or kink related stuff at this time

- nudity is fine tho just know I'm not super experienced with it

- payment can be done through whatever you’re most comfortable with as long as it’s available to me, feel free to ask if certain payment methods will work for me!

- I am willing to draw gore and body horror, but do know I’m not super experienced in either

- I prefer to be messaged here on tumblr, but I technically can be messaged on other socials, just know I don’t check on most of them much

- I reserve the right to deny any commissions that make me uncomfortable

[cactuscryptid]

Ok listen to me this is how we can save Venom. (From someone who hasn't read the comics and cannot remember any of the Spiderman movies.)

Ok so we're about due for another Spiderman movie, haven't heard from that little guy in a while. And I'm thinking Marvel's plan rn is to do a venom Spiderman thing HOPEFULLY GOD PLEASE. And with the Kraven movie coming out 🤨🤨🤨🤨 they're setting it up guys trust me.

So ok so Venom is a cockroach, yeah? He can't be destroyed, he'll always come back. And he's STILL KICKING OBVIOUSLY so. Ok so he's gonna find his way back to Eddie and he'll make it to new York by hopping from one organism to another. And then one day he comes across Peter Parker just chillin doing his college thing or whatever (guys how did the last movie end didn't he wipe his friends' memories or some shit) ok so he's with Peter and Venoms like lol let's kill some people and Peter goes emo OR HES ALREADY EMO AND VENOMS JUST LIKE. Idk just capatolizing off of that. I need to rewatch the Tobey Maguire movie ugh. Listen ok.

Ok so they're in new York just ditsin around and then somehow either on the street or at a store or something they pass Eddie (depressed as all hell but trying to rebuild his life) and venoms like WHAT. WAIT TURN AROUND. But then Something Happens (big bad, monster, whatever) and Eddie gets put in danger??? And Peter's trying to do his hero shit but Venoms like NOOO WE'RE PROTECTING EDDIE and at some point in the fight he makes the jump back to Eddie and Peter's just left standing there like "traitor wtf"

LISTEN TO ME I'm going crazy. Then they have crazy reunion sex the end.