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a project I finally got around to finishing!! the mane 6, inspired by their earlier generation counterparts, within a medieval fantasy style setting. please don't repost without permission! you just need to ask.
some fun facts:
fluttershy is half unicorn here!! that's why she has the deer-like build and slightly long tail.
rarity is half horse
applejack is fully just a horse.
pinkie and rainbow are the only true ponies
their jobs (in the order shown in the lineup) are royal messenger, royal jester, royal menagerie keeper, royal tailor, royal orchard farmer and Queen Celestia's Most Specialest Student.
in this au, they all met due to working within the castle grounds.
in this au, celestia is queen, luna is still banished, and twilight is discouraged from making friends as it distracts her from her studies. she is celestia's heir and grew up in the castle.
they are all marekissers. lol. also rarity is transfem and rainbow is bigender.
#mlp#my little pony#worked SO hard on these I hope you guys like them!!!!#sorry about the watermarks. not taking any chances with these ones I spent hours on them#most of these were finished MONTHS ago. it was just fluttershy I had to finish#mlp fanart#mlp au#my little pony au#mlp g1#mlp g3#horse#pony#unicorn#pegasus#fantasy#yes the wings were heavily referenced. why is feather placement so difficult man#beastwhimsy#medieval mlp#medieval mlp art#mlp medieval#there have been a LOT of people whose ideologies make me deeply uncomfortable reblogging this lately#so. I have added some details at the end of this post. to hopefully dissuade them from reblogging. if I'm lucky#trans exclusionists this post is not for you.
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im not putting this post into words. beams into your mind The Parallels
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#not a new thought at all of course but i havent seen a post thorough enough for Me. the guy who thinks about it a lot#and this isnt all my thoughts either but it at least Touches on each element that i think about...#honestly where i could talk for ages is where the similar things were Different for them. but harder to organize#if you actually went and looked at all these panels with me. thank you for coming to this Presentation and Journey#i hope my Beam is having an Effect.#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi spoilers#delicious in dungeon#thistle dungeon meshi#marcille donato#long post#can i be forrealsies i made this post ages ago and was just referencing it while drafting one About the contrasts and accidentally hit post#so ig might as well keep it up instead of hoarding it in my drafts. and maybe ill post That essay here someday#tistle tag#my posts
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in internet posts it is easy to cut them out of your life. they are hurting you! they aren't listening to you!
they held your hair back. they lent you lipstick. they held your hand at the train station and got you home safe. they rounded on your bully, got loud, said get fucked, spitting-mad in your defense.
they also cut the hair off again. told you that you should really think twice before wearing something like that. took you for granted. took your insecurities and threw them in your face again.
you know logically it should be easy. all the internet advice comments always read it will feel better. like an equation - if a person is rotten, you just remove them. you pull the tooth that's hurting.
but it was never a big flare-up moment. you don't live in a sitcom. they never tried to take your boyfriend or steal from your apartment. they showed up to birthdays and they wrote songs about you and bring you water without you asking. once you found out they carry an emergency inhaler for you, even though you haven't had an asthma attack in years - just in case.
where is the line? people fuck up. sometimes they fuck up badly. sometimes people have raw personalities, like a powerline, and being around them is dangerous. addicting. sometimes they can't help themselves, but you know they're trying. sometimes they are just rough-around-the-edges. sometimes they don't even realize how they sounded when they said that. sometimes it's just - you've both loved each other for so long now, the way this thing hurts goes back to the root.
and that's the fucked up part. you have pushed your fingers against the sweetheart of memory. things these days are electric, tense, harrowing. they didn't used to be. there were a lot of good days in there. sometimes you want to just close your eyes and say can this be over yet? do we still need to be fighting?
doing that would give up any chance you get of getting an apology, but you don't always know that you need an apology, you love them. once they flaked on your birthday party. once they told you to get over it, people are always dying. they also let you crash on their couch for a week after the breakup, handfeeding you when you were so sad you couldn't eat. they are also judgmental about everything, occasionally react to banal statements with an attitude that is weird and fiery. they also love you like a lighthouse sometimes, so strong they cut the storm like lightning.
but the problem is that you might be storm. you might be the thing that needs breaking. what if you are two forces who are desperately, horribly drawn to each other, shaped by the other person's passions, and both good for each other and bad in equal measure.
what if you're both just people, and you're no saint neither.
just cut them off! swallowing the saltwater, you catch yourself in the mirror. you've been shaking more than usual. there's an ache in you that is oblique, loud, impossible to soothe. is this what it looks like? when life is "easier"?
your mouth will always have a hole, is the thing, if you remove the tooth.
#spilled ink#warm up#writeblr#this is about someone specific but feel free to blorbo on main.#tbh this is familial for me so that is an element but it's also about childhood best friends#and probably about ur enemies to lovers blorbo#(but i want to specifically say if ur partner is like this. not necessarily a good partnership lol.)#(the dynamics at play in familial/friend relationships feel equally important and in some ways are HARDER to escape.#bc we can see that this is a potentially toxic romantic foundation.#but in family ? ...... it's toxic and it doesn't stop u from loving them. bc u always have.#and i think that makes it harder. by a lot. which is what this is referencing).#but genuinely and really truly forever feel free to tag ur potentially toxic enemies to lovers on this and all my poetry#here i'll do one for u - adora & catra :x
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isat npc designs!!!!! wahoo!!!!!
greyscale versions below :3
i don’t really have much to say about the colors here?? all of these fellas are vaugardian (i think) so i just kept their palettes Warm. i did give claude stains on her coat because i think she drops Chemicals on it all the time and doesn’t wash it throughly enough to get the stains out. other than that all of these are pretty straightforward!!
#marshdoodles#isat#in stars and time#isat spoilers#<- technically? shy stranger and claude are minor spoilers i guess#i was going to do more of these but. isatscryption. the brainworms took hold#anyways! i know theres that little. triangle thing? on the daydreaming one’s dress but i couldn’t figure out what it was#and i didn’t really have a lof of good images to reference from so i just left it out. sorry girlie#i wanted the locked one’s colors to be more muted? and less Warm to show their disconnect with the rest of dormont#also going to be honest. claude’s design was just referenced off my friend pastell’s design for her#i couldn’t find any references of her before act 6! and i like its design a lot
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misc tos redraws and silly things
#star trek#star trek tos#doodles#sorry a lot of these are movie referencing ones I realize lol#the what son hark a vagrant redraw is one of my favs#bc damn do I forget about Jim’s son too#these are from like…. 3/4 years ago#huh.#crumbles to dust
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Blue Stray on the brain…
First of prolly like. A billion pieces of fanart I want to draw for @tumble-witch ‘s Bread Girl AU!!!! I wanted to post a bunch at one time but I am so impatient lmao ITS BLUE STRAY HOURSSSS‼️‼️
Gotta draw Golden Beetle next I am 3-1 on Marinette vs Adrien drawings my boy needs some love 🙏🙏 (Im just a sucker for angst)
Went. Insane in the tags bc that’s the best way to yap 💖🌸
#the colours beat me up so bad#I referenced the ones from the Valentine’s Day comic bc they’re so pretty 😭🌸💖#one thing I rlly love about the hero designs in this au is simply that the hair is different#it’s such a small thing but it makes such a big impact#like the length of their hair is completely different to their civilian forms#it’s like they swapped lengths lmao which I’m assuming was on purpose#it makes it sm easier to suspend disbelief that nobody can tell their identies#past just miraculous magic and all#spinning this au in my brain so much#y’all don’t know how much swap aus excite me like#it changes the foundation of the media in such an interesting way without changing the core concepts#ITS SO NEATTTTT#I’ve been brainrotting over bread girl au sm lol#just as much as my s and sh swap au#I’ve just been working on this whilst watching canon miraculous and going ooooo I wonder how that would go in bgau#help me/silly#rainy art#I keep forgetting that tag 💔💔💔#I don’t even know if that IS the tag 😭😭😭#I hope this looks alright I’ve been staring at it for. too long.#I started colouring it last night but it wasn’t looking good so I waited till today to finish it#helped a lot‼️‼️‼️‼️#I GOTTA DRAW BLUE STRAY MORE SHES SO CUTEEEE 💖💖🌸🌸🌸#silliest girl ever (she will face the horrors)#okay I will cease my yapping now otherwise I WILL go on forever and ever
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more mercenary analysis, whichever merc you want <3
Not a mercenary but... Okay!
Let's dissect Pauling
Always so collected, responsible and efficient. The one who is not afraid to get her hands dirty for the sake of a goal, and her performance is always one hundred percent. What could possibly be not cool about her?
Well, maybe the fact that this all is, in fact, an act. Of course it is.
I'm not saying her determination and dedication to her job aren't sincere decisions of her heart, she really enjoys it and shines in her work. It's just a matter of WHY and WHAT she's doing it for. And on what scale.
For her, her job is EVERYTHING. Eagerly working 364 days a year with barely any rest, masochistically putting herself in so much danger, blindly following the boss's instructions, not even hesitating to kill people standing on the way...
Wow, there's gotta be something going on here.
Well, obviously the Administrator plays A HUGE role in this situation. Why would Pauling trust her so much? Referring to the comics, Pauling trusted her wholeheartedly on whatever the Administrator was planning, even though she didn't know what it was. This blind following that vaguely resembles nothing less than a weird somewhat child-to-a-mother attachment. It's just a Boss, just a job, why?
Because that's what it is. Mother issues. Very apparent.
We don't know anything about Pauling's past, so there's where the headcanons begin:
I'm assuming her birth mother was very neglectful and dismissing, never acknowledged her daughter's accomplishments and struggles. No matter how hard Pauling tried to become "worthy" in her eyes, it seemed to be never enough, as if she didn't even exist at all. Maybe her mother was a substance addict or something and their household wasn't safe and stable, so Pauling had to become an adult early and run away from home as a teenager and find a job to get by.
(I assume that because I believe there was a mention in the canon lore that Ms.Pauling had been working for the Administrator for long long years (don't remember exactly), indicating that she started working when she was still a minor).
So, being taken under the Administrators wing, her young wounded brain found a substitute for a very thing she was lacking, subconsciously clinging onto the Administrator as a newly mother figure, in order to "get it right this time".
Administrators Strictness, responsibility and demandingness were the most favorite qualities of a person of authority in Pauling's eyes, in contrast to the laziness, unaccountability and indifference of the environment in which she grew up. She could finally strive.
This time she would show the mother figure that she's worthy, she's important and irreplaceable; she exists. She would prove that no amount of hardship is too much for her if it means approval for the Administrator.
And the Administrator kind-of-sort-of gave Pauling this pseudo-love in return, encouraging her to sacrifice herself even more for their work. Which is at the very least unfair, and at most just predatory. Administrators "love" was conditional, in contrast with when the real motherly love Pauling unknowingly expected. Administrator was too immature for a mother figure, too much in power for a partner or a friend, yet too close for a formal boss. What is this!? Something not nice.
The Administrator doesn't love Pauling for Pauling, she loves her working qualities. And thus, Paulings subconscious guess was confirmed that "I'm only important when I'm doing the job. I AM the job."
Tying your worth to what you DO instead of what you are is a huge dangerous existential rout one could choose. But she never really knew her importance outside of her skills, so she wouldn't know.
Now imagine how actually painful that character arc was for her, when the Administrator proved herself to be unreliable and secretive, and when Pauling started to question her intentions for the first time.
"... Because I trusted you!"
"Then why are you questioning me now?"
It wasn't even the real conversation between them, just Pauling's mind torturing her.
It reminded me of the crisis of a 4-year-old when they realise that their parents aren't perfect; they don't know anything and they CAN hurt you.This shattering illusion of almighty love. When a child stops believing that the "harsh love" their mother treats them with is simply an abuse.
Wouldn't it be terrifying to realise in your 20s thar despite running for "the mother's approval" all your life, you will never truly get it. If your mother failed to provide it to you at such a young age, nothing will truly substitute that, especially now, when you're an adult, no one will love your inner child the way it was supposed to be loved.
Unless you yourself decide to take that role.
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Realistically speaking, it's not nearly that sever with Pauling! She's happy in the environment she's in, there's lots of interests for her to explore (Guns, fights, killin'!) So many adventures every day! Even if Pauling has her inner suffering, it's not that bad aa I describe it. Her mother problems may actually be an advantage, a reason she is such a good and caring boss for the mercenaries.
I'm just edgying things down for the sake of the clearer analysis. But still...
If the Administrator will be gone and Pauling loses her life-dedicated job... What will be left? Who is Pauling once Mann Co is no more? Can she answer that?
References:
– A video that helped me better understand the Good Girl mask:
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– "Lise Bourbeau's 5 soul wounds model: Injustice"
#tf2#miss pauling#ms pauling#team fortress 2#artists on tumblr#character analysis#tf2 character analysis#psychoanalysis#team fortress fanart#team fortress#insecure about this one honestly#please watch the referenced video it explains a lot#it was very difficult to write for some reason. maybe because there isn't many familiar/relatable points for me#or maybe because I'm neither a woman nor sapphic#if female mother issues are actually different from any other in this gendered world#i don't wanna gender her though#we all would probably be fucked up if our mother wasn't nurturing regardless of our gender right?#my art#miss pauling is so much more than I was able to fit into this post#loveable idiot
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(im only on chapter 5, don't tell me if it follows through or not)
#book one was so LIGHT and HAPPY and EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER#and i found it a bit saccharine and wished it had touched more on the actual reality for the characters but i LOVED it#and now im listening to arthur justify his existence and be interrogated and politicised and its genuinely making me uncomfortable#in a good way! its great writing. but also the trans issues etc that its referencing are a little close to home and all#definitely not devouring this one in a couple days. i need to take breaks because its making me feel things#nyxtalks#the house in the cerulean sea#somewhere beyond the sea#cerulean chronicles#tj klune#its so good. its so so good. just listening to arthur be grilled in that hearing is hard#you already know theres going to be no change. there never is. but now its about arthur personally#its good. its good. its just a lot#i guess this is the switch from linus to arthur. its different when it affects you
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so draw your blade, you wretched fiend and let's you and i fight like the dishonourable dogs we are savage, violent, yet free and when the curtain calls, let me put you out of my misery
#mak art#mak draws aa#the great ace attorney#dai gyakuten saiban#tgaa#dga#tgaa spoilers#dgs spoilers#kazuma asogi#kazuma asougi#barok van zieks#klint van zieks#genshin asogi#genshin asougi#artists on tumblr#OW MY FUCIKIGN HAND#i took like a whole month on this. working on and off#never hyperfixate on a series set in the 20th century that makes u wanna draw in a style ur not good at#worst mistake of my life#i referenced a lot of chiaroscuro stuff for this#'the fallen angel' painting was used as ref for barok too#wanted to fit in a stronghart motif but#couldn't make it work w/o cluttering the whole thing tbh. so#(looking at bvz and kaz) ohhh they hate each other so much......... but they're mislead........ ohhhhhhh#also i hope to Never fucking draw or paint dogs again. Horrible#theres more stuff on the way. probably#one's a video but. i gotta rest first. im gonna Die#anyways. enjoy gang
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dna
#project sekai#pjsk#kanade yoisaki#nightcord at 25:00#25 ji nightcord de#dna kanade#my art#digital art#this one took a lot of reworking. i wanted to stick with a limited palette like the others but then the bee wings wouldnt be as iridescent#yes shes referencing the vocaloid version bc dna kanade keeps facing away from the camera
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#Transformers One#TF One#TF#D-16#Megatron#Orion Pax#Optimus Prime#TF One D-16#TF One Megatron#TF One Orion Pax#TF One Optimus Prime#TF One Spoilers#Transformers One Spoilers#Transformers#I loved this entire race scene#A lot of referenced characters and the bond between Dee and Orion is so soft#Best friends....
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A actual friendship forming between Cherry and Pony sounds interesting, however all I can imagine is Cherry saying something like “Luncheon” and he just stares at her for a solid minute.
#the outsiders#either referencing a actual formal socialite lunch she has to go to or just straight up calling the meal that#one of those ‘rich friends out of touch moments’ lol#I have a lot like this#outsiders#ponyboy curtis#cherry valance#sherry valance
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“I’ve been watching you for some time now. I saw the way you wielded that sword. It’s a good fit for you. Did you enjoy tearing up poor Kuma?” “Not especially.” Zoro says flatly. "Don’t act like you’re so above it all. I think that you feel excited when you see blood. You don't have to be ashamed of it.” Zoro glares at him, watching him pace back and forth. “Did you become a homicide investigator because you get a kick out of seeing shattered bone and mutilated corpses? It’s not something we in polite society discuss very often." —Ch. 10, Tiger by the Tail by Vandereer (@dandunn)
obsessed that they had their confrontation in a crumbling cathedral so i had to illustrate it (close-ups under the cut)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
#one piece#roronoa zoro#dracule mihawk#modern aru#tiger by the tail#tbtt art#ok umm lazy religious symbolism explanation for ppl who managed to escape catholic/christian upbringing#mihawk is standing in front of a stained glass depicting the annunciation (the angel gabriel tells mary she has to bear jesus)#mihawk is the angel of death etc (stole this from a line in ch. 20)#yoru's hilt is blocking mary's face (she's commonly seen as symbol of mercy). make of that what you will#umm what else. red crosses on either side of mihawk is st george's cross#there r also red dragons curling up the crosses on the door which alludes to the legend of st george defeating a dragon#(you probably have to squint bc i turned the brightness down a lot)#i was referencing the interior of calvary-st.george's parish in nyc which is where daredevil season 3's church fight was shot#ok i think that's it. anyway i'm surprised that i managed to make a whole illustration. this was intense n the background killed me#but dramatic and bloody church confrontations ft stained glass is my weakness!!!#oh yeah i added the votive candles bc i remember it was such a good detail when zoro came into the church and was like#wtf there are still ppl here???#also needed an alt source of lighting. but not going to lie drawing them was scary but it turned out well#illustration#my art
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The future submas bosses gonna do the famous Stamp Ralleye themselves for fun!
#pokemon#pokemon fanart#submas#subway bosses#emmet#ingo#nobori#kudari#joltik#litwick#stamp ralleye#referencing one of the submas episodes mwehehe#had a lot of fun doing the stamps actually#this piece is so old but man i still love how clean it looks#the reddish grey too waaaaah
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just gonna say my peace and then spam reblog some more posts but
when Remmick talks about the “Our Father” and how he was forced to learn it from the people who stole their lands. that can still mean he was Catholic despite being about 600 years old in Ireland where Catholicism was running rampant, but it just means he was Irish Catholic. yeah, 600 years is not far enough for there to be an Ireland where Catholicism was not the majority religion, but you know what wasn’t something many Irish from 600 years ago (until 1930s) did???
spoke English
so it is very likely Remmick was not talking about the religion itself but rather being forced to lose his mother tongue by the English invading and colonizing Irish lands. forcing the stop of speaking Irish also had two major goals 1) control over the people and the property and the laws and 2) “unity” through one kingdom, one empire, yada yada— VERY reminiscent of the themes presented in the movie
just something to think about
#just while in the fandom tag i see a lot of discourse about Remmick’s history and some of it is sO close yet not always there#and it peeved me a little so yeah#it wasn’t the religion itself that was necessarily forced (tho Protestantism DOES become an enforced religion by the 1600s)#(however if we do the math Remmick was allegedly turned in the 1330s which is WAY before Protestant religion comes about & reaches Ireland)#so really that talk about forcing the way to SAY a prayer read to me as Remmick being forced to lose his language WHICH DID HAPPEN#HISTORICALLY IN IRELAND and around the 1910s-present there was a rise in bringing Irish back was happening#but yeah#which this is just ONE aspect of sinners and this focuses on the antagonist and how he shows himself to be ‘unifying’ everyone but is still#perpetuating that cycle of violence and violation and colonialism#tho there is something to be said about Sammie choosing the Our Father as the prayer he speaks but in terms of the#history Remmick is referencing? it’s not so much the prayer itself but the fact that it’s a prayer spoken in English#sinners#sinners 2025#remmick sinners#remmick
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Albatross Cookie by design alone looks like the type of person to have ridiculously high standards and will not accept anything less than absolutely perfect.
He says he likes to run a tight ship. You do well, you get to enjoy the luxury of a 5 star cruise for a good week. Fail? Well... They don't talk about what happens when you perform poorly.
#asks#yes I referenced the cuphead show#I rlly like the devil in that#he's a fruity lil bastard~#took a lot of insp from him for alba's character#that and lord Shen from kung fu panda-#one day I'll design his lackeys#specifically his top two sailors#they're seagulls#cookie run kingdom#cookie run#crk#Albatross cookie#fan cookie#cookie oc#crk oc
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