#oh my god that took like two hours

[kagedbird]

My back...... my hands..... ouughh I am So Tired

[witchexia]

Dr.Arias/Paradox/Pair of Ducks analysis/headcanons ! (oh my god this was REALLY HARD TO MAKE because NOBODY talks about paradox and theres almost NO info about them ! ill split these into two for Paradox and Pair of Ducks! also know, that these are just my headcanon and theories! they may not be close to the ACTUAL canon!!)

DR. ARIAS/PARADOX:

him and simon were close childhood friends! then, they also became eachothers coworkers! at that time, paradox was the head of psychology and simon was the 2nd best therapist in the site!

they both shared two interests: ducks and psychology! ducks, because of their symbolism and their various number of species!

I AGREE WITH THIS HEADCANON, but paradox smells like poisonous flowers! im thinking of belladonna!

his fashion style is dark academia! its the opposite of simon's; light academia!

he probably listens to someone like Gesaffelstein!

his birthday: October 8th, 1985 (39)

but in secret, outside of the foundation, paradox was a member of the serpent's hand!

one day though, during an experiment with scp-914, he was watching the test, BUT a d-class got scared/angry and shoved him into 914 ... ->

this incident caused him to become two ducks, but both of the ducks have his mind and soul in them! he was STILL proven to be able to work for the foundation for his human-changing trait (and the fact kain pathos is a dog and he still works)

DR. PAIR OF DUCKS

after the incident and him becoming two mallard ducks (one female, one male), obviously people were VERY confused to see two ducks coming in to work! even more confused when they saw his ability to turn into a human with both of them!

this earned his nickname: Pair Of Ducks!

but, 4 months later, he causes a containment breach that involves turning the cameras off, takes advantage of the situation to go steal scp-268 (it originally belonged to the Serpent's Hand, so they told him to go get it!) but then Simon catches him while running to a breach shelter, seeing him with the hat and Pair of Ducks attempts to convince him to leave with him to the Serpent's hand ! this doesn't work, so Simon panics and tries to convince him to defect from the Serpent's Hand last minute! They are both caught, and Pair of Ducks suddenly risks being terminated, but Simon manages to convince the higher ups to not kill him, and the higher ups agree because he's both an anomaly and important asset to the Foundation . But then he manages to fake his death, by Simon and other higher ups helping to spread the word that an MTF killed him, and another rumor that Kondraki confirmed he died. Then, after he faked his death and defected from the Serpent's Hand, L.S took over and suceeded in stealing SCP-268.

after this, the Foundation doesn't completely trust Pair of Ducks anymore, so they separate his two ducks to block his anomaly of turning into a human! Pair of Ducks is two ducks; one of them is a female mallard duck in SCP-765, the other one is a male mallard now known as Maverick; Simon's therapy pet!

When people ask him about the new unique choice of therapy animal, Simon pretends that he's grieving the death of Paradox by getting a pet that reminds him of Paradox.

a little bit about Maverick: now we know that Maverick is anomalous, but also that he's part of Paradox. Maverick can understand people, and during therapy, he helps patients by comforting them when they cry (by going on their lap for example). Paradox WAS an amazing therapist, and forever will be in his Maverick form.

and now a little bit about the other mallard duck: Paradox's other half of him is in SCP-765 (duck pond), it would make sense for this half of him to be there, since the pond has therapeutic effects, and Paradox is determined to be a good therapist even in his separated duck forms!

[skitskatdacat63]

"Non paeniteo potitus."

+ details & process

And, process !!

The jump btwn the second to last and last always surprise me whenever I make one of these because I always forget to take snapshots after I start painting. It's always like: oh yeah heres the lineart with some colors- BOOM fully finished✨️

What he's holding are the Austrian imperial scepter and orb, seen below:

I was going to draw the crown too but decided I don't hate myself that much(maybe some other day), and gave him a golden laurel crown, bcs I'm obsessed with that as a motif, and also its very remincient of the boy king statue that started this whole thing!

There's some symbolism of this, both intentionally but also just historically. I love that the orb represents that the monarch is holding the world in their hand, basically every old monarchy has one of those, and I think it's very cool for symbolism. But also bcs of that, I was forced to basically draw catholic fanart so, you win some you lose some. The star halo above him head is both to reference those religious statues with star crowns(I saw them a lot in Europe and they imprinted onto my brain), as well as: his four championships of course!

[kvothes]

so there i am, walking home with a bag full of haggis,

[leofrith]

got a gum graft 0/10 do not recommend

[hwsforeignrelations]

RANT

[jorvikzelda]

two very different experiences were had

[trashcreatyre]

The amount of time I spent as a kid playing the LPS plug and play game from 2007 was probably unhealthy.

[kj-munch]

something silly based on thinking about acton dealing with sleep paralysis since its something i get all the damn time LOL

(takes place long after his dissent, in the timeline where he meets up with some of my friend felixes ocs, prus belongs to the lix)

better res pics .. beeps

[telemna-hyelle]

is it so hard to believe that Julius Caesar was wrong?

[regular-lord-reckoner]

well, i guess i'm as winter storm ready as i can be !

i clocked out of work for a bit to go run the errands i normally do on fridays because tomorrow we're supposed to get a few actual inches of snow (we'll see !!) so that was..... exhausting to do in the middle of a work day (and right before a snowstorm in the south... the traffic....) but it's all done !!

i've gotta work a couple of hours tomorrow because i ended up taking longer than i meant to (mostly because of the traffic) but hopefully i can get up and get that done before there's any possibility of even losing power so fingers crossed !

hope you're safe out there if you're reading this and stay warm/safe if this shit's about to hit you as well !! <3

[pagesofkenna]

how the writing's going: I've managed to completely restructure this world's cosmology for a third time over, still don't have a name for the type of alien the main character is, ergo haven't started on the second draft

[harleybarbarahandler]

i’m ngl that one scene from babylon where the director grabs nellie’s face and forces her to spit her gum out does make me feel Things

[surreal-duck]

hi!! i just wanted to say that ive liked midoyuzu since i was like 14 and its been a few years since then (obviously) but seeing your midoyuzu art now is so!!! its so fulfilling to my past self who had like NO art to go off of, i guess? anyway! your art is super good and i love it so much <3

im glad omg? extremely late to the party but by god i am bringing snacks in here or die trying o7 was pretty baffled the first time finding out more abt their dynamic and looking them up on here to find maybe like two more recent posts and the rest from no sooner than 2017 or so askjdghsjkgdhjks but really THANK YOU!!!!!!!! happy to be of service to your inner 14yo somewhat ;v;

yknow what though the really funny thing is that i wasnt even that into them initially. just remembered that cute interaction at the end of xmas live and thought "huh these two r kinda sweet actually" and that curiosity is always a slippery slope into genuine investment and by god is tripping into it a favorite pastime of mine

[waywardsalt]

Hi! I hope you’re doing good in life! So it’s spooky season so I have an ask related to that. I don’t know if you play horror video games, watch horror movies/shows, or read horror books, but if you do, I have to ask: What is the most disturbing book, or video game or show/movie that you’ve played/watched/read? In my opinion, there is two types of horror: the ones that scare you, and the ones that traumatize you. If you can think of any book, movie, or game that really kind of fucked you up, I’m curious to know if you feel like answering. I hope you have a good day and a good life.

Hey, I’m doing good and I hope you are too!

the answer ended up being really long lol

Woof, this is honestly a pretty hard question, since I can't really name any horror (or otherwise) media that actually left me kind of fucked up for a bit, at least not to the degree where it affected me for a while. I probably haven't been really fucked up by anything since I was a kid, so I'll try and recall what a few things fucked me up back then...

Off the top of my head I know that two different spongebob episodes got me bad, the first being one with that tunnel of love thing (tho tbh i havent seen it in a while so it might still spook me today) and the one where i'm pretty sure for whatever reason squidward gets locked in some small locker and has some kind of fucked up dream, whatever that was. I remember there was an eagle in that one. the eagle terrified me. (i looked them up, and the first episode is titled 'tunnel of glove' and the second is 'squidward in clarinetland'. with how badly that second one got to me, i'm surprised i ended up learning to play the clarinet at all)

other than that, i think the courage the cowardly dog episode 'the house of discontent' got me pretty bad, too, but i think everyone who saw any amount of that series as a kid has at least one episode that got them fucked up.

there's probably a handful of scooby-doo stuff that got to me when i was a kid, but i could not name any specifics (asides from charlie the robot's original episode, christ) because i think i managed to see just about every bit of available scooby media around that time.

nowadays stuff still does kinda fuck me up, but it's usually only for brief bits of time. the most recent example I can think of is cowboy bebop's 20's episode, pierrot le fou, which is honestly some great horror, especially how it uses the show's typical format and flips it on it's head, but i wouldn't necessarily say it got to me because of it being scary, more because of the way the ending disturbed me for a bit. it was the only episode that had me stop afterwards and really look into it for anything other than clarifying a character's gender, lol.

the endings of both neon genesis evangelion and end of evangelion had me shaken, the latter more so than the former, but not really due to horror aspects, though. i did have to take a walk after finishing end of evangelion. i don't really watch horror movies, i just... read the wikipedia plot descriptions of them.

honestly, i think some of the more popular youtube analogue horror series have gotten to me worse (likely due to the fact that they can get a bit more fucked up than, say, a tv show or movie), specifically the walten files (which i did watch) and the mandela catalogue (which i just watched wendigoon's vids on), and those two and mostly because facial distortion is generally just an incredibly effective form of horror imo. a lot of the time (esp with the childhood examples) the way i was 'fucked up' was that id be in be visualizing the stuff that scared me, and both the mandela catalogue and the walten files had me doing that for a bit.

now that i remember it, i was really scared of fnaf when it first came out. i first learned of it second-hand from seeing some other kids looking into it, and the bits and pieces i put together about it really scared me.

honestly, it's usually straight-up disturbing sequences or imagery that gets to me the most, and i know my limits well enough to generally identify and avoid that stuff, which is probably why i don't have too many recent examples. i've got one or two examples of non-horror movies that fucked me up as a kid, but that's mostly because they were wildly inappropriate for someone of my age (at the time) to be witnessing, so that's a different sort of topic.

i mean, i think i generally have a decent tolerance for fucked up stuff in media, anyways, i mean, i enjoy berserk and haven't really been too upset or disturbed by what happens in it (look theres some nasty shit in there im not saying its not that bad) so there's definitionally some kind of line that media needs to cross to really get to me nowadays, or it just needs to be a specific kind of fucked up. books generally don't do that for me so i don't have any book examples. no games, either, though shadow mario and the haunted house segments in super mario 3d world scared me so much that i had to make my mom do the levels for me, and i'm pretty sure scooby doo: first frights scared me a bit when i first played it on ds.

other than that, though, I just think that, in pokemon x, the story that an npc tells you during your first trip to route 14 and then the strange office building encounter with the animation-less hex maniac creeped me out pretty bad.

yeah, it's kind of hard for me to think of anything (recent) that actually really fucked me up or anything. most stuff just scared me, never really fucked me up or figuratively traumatized me in recent years.

[milo-is-rambling]

Who was gonna tell me that reading is fun sometimes