#puberty is rough

[rosewoodroad]

Art dump of rat college days (ft. @valiant-portabella-pirkko's Ruju to the right with the kitty nose 😻)

Smaller segments and tiny wysma lore below!

Wys is ~15 here, running on the assumption that Asuran college = highschool years (Taimi was 13ish when she began studying)

We don't get a lot of insight into college culture, but if it's full of teenagers, it's full of teenage drama. Wysma doesn't learn how to be assertive- or confident- until much later, so he gets pushed around a bit 😌

[an-indigo-moose]

Yes!!! Being too “big” for some actions, being to “small” for other actions. This story was very much about being a girl on the way to becoming a woman. There is nothing sweet or ethereal. There are no role models. In Looking Glass, going from a pawn to a queen isn’t even gratifying.

in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

[mitamicah]

Day 4 of @kaarija-inktober took a turn: the prompt is screaming

Inspired by Menestynyt Yksilö and Kintsugi (putting together broken pottery with gold glue)

So ... welcome to the ranty part of the post.

I have felt like I have been stuck recently. It is not as bad as it was pre-Käärijä where I couldn't sleep due to existential dread and had almost stopped caring about myself and my well being since I was constantly feeling inadequate.

That said my energy (physical and mental both) is fluctuating a lot where I sometime feel like all I can do is as little as possible (which results in me trying to nap and end up more miserable or going to bed way earlier than I actually want just to get the day over with). Artistically while I have some days where I'm hit with the inspirational dogde ball and can create artwork after artwork no problem, most of the time I feel like I am on the verge of an artblock. My gender dysphoria has been a rollercoaster as well going from days I feel like I've never felt better in my skin to days where I haven't felt worse. These emotional peaks are draining me and so when I sat down to draw this prompt and just couldn't get a good sketch going I gave in and decided to make this into a vent artwork. (Sorry to vintage Kä and especially MY for always seeming to get back to them when needing to vent).

So yeah - things are odd rn and not in a good way. I really hope things will turn around soon (maybe I have just reached that part of second teenage hood, who knows?)

[baseballmomlesbiandad]

sheng wang spending his day on no sleep accosted by visions of tian in the shower is killing me, I get you wang

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

I'm posting this now because I'm impatient and also because I just got that commission done by jerribbit (go look at it and admire it 🥰) which is based off of the same thumbnail as this drawing (lol) 'cause I had one of those moments like, "wait this concept is too good for me to not also draw this picture," so even though I paid someone else to draw it, I decided to also draw it. But expanded upon.

anyway it's AU-related and I plan to actually put this in a post with some other images later but I have to like, draw the other images first...

these are both Kaine as he looks in Houston in windowverse; left in mid-october or thereabouts and right in mid-november ish. 2015. he's 26/27/28/6 years old depending on how you start counting. (lol) (he's 27 and a half)

originally, I was gonna put his costume underneath, but I ended up deciding to bare his neck, just for the like... cohesion of the image as a whole.

closeups/details under the cut:

left pic is Kaine in mid-October ish as mentioned, mid-to-late really... he ran out of medication and he's not doing so hot. some breakthrough spots as his immune system kicks back into gear.

some of those spots (the little ones) are just from picking at his skin though.

then he gets eaten by werewolves.

also shaves his head. the white pupil is a cataract he's had for a few years at this point. a combo of meds + physical trauma when he was a few years younger.

also it turns out shaving a character's face and making his cheeks rounder really shaves off the years.

he may be going through some shit and adjusting to new medications and so on and so forth but at least he's eating enough ❤️

stop chewing your lips dude. anyway i spent at least an hour on coloring his scars in the second pic lmao, i just enjoy that. Like, lighting? no. texturing? yes. it's just a bunch of overlapping marks of cain. mark of cains. handprints :) a la Spider-Man: Redemption.

opposite side obviously.

some red hairs in his scraggly little beard :p

his voice is fried, for the record. that scar is right over his voice box. it's like five years old though, so it's well-healed.

and then it gets even more fried, probably. this relatively fresh extremely gnarly scar is from getting his throat ripped out by a werewolf lol.

He died! Then he got better. Obv being eaten by werewolves is directly lifted from his Scarlet Spider solo, though not everything is identical.

i had to bullshit the way it looks also cause idk about you but it seems like asking for trouble to try and google, like, "scars from wolf mauling" or something. lmao.

in the windowverse setting, the Other heals injuries but existing scars stay put, and in this case the life-threatening injuries he sustained made new scars rather than healing away to smooth skin, on account of, hey, he got torn limb from limb by werewolves! not exactly a papercut, you know???

admire his hair. the only reason it's not one big fluff is because of his expensive hair products.

oh yeah blue pullover hoodie because that's what Ben has :)

and the charcoal gray hoodie is a $345 Derek Rose hoodie he got from Saks after Aracely decided that she liked his blue hoodie and it's hers now.

oh right as far as his age goes—

this pic is, as mentioned, how he looks in fall 2015.

he was ''born'' on 4/1/2009 (so if you must be literal he's 6 years old)

he reached 22 the day after Peter's 22nd birthday (10/31/2009) (so he's 28)

but his 22nd birthday wasn't until 4/1/2010 (so he's 27)

according to the birth certificate wally gets made for him in this au he was born on 4/1/1989 (so he's legally 26)

He usually counts from his observed 22nd birthday in 2010 so generally he would consider himself 27 at this point. as long as he can remember his fake birth year it doesn't matter if he forgets what age he's ''supposed'' to be and since he was born in 2009 technically that makes 1989 much easier to remember.

also aracely was born in 1999 in this universe so this makes her both 10 years older than and 10 years younger than him :) which was another factor in why i picked 1989

[kenobihater]

you ever write up a combination of words you're really proud of at the time bc you think it's vivid but it's actually so atrocious that you remember it eight years later bc it's burned itself into your long-term memory? just me?

[wildmousesword]

HOW HAS NOBODY BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS!?

Wind is a small little baby bean right? NO well not for long at least because he’s 14 and that usually when puberty starts OH BOY POOR WIND IMAGINE BEING SURROUNDED MY 8 OTHER GUYS WHO 100% R GOING TO TEASE HIM ABOUT VOICE CRACKS AND PIMPLES AND WERID CRUSHES AND …..other things 💀 HEY MAYBE SKY AND HYRULE WILL HLEP AT LEAST as someone who had older brothers growing up (even though I’m a girl) he genuinely is going to wanna punch them so hard across the face but won’t because he loves his brothers to much 🥺🥺

[trollwizard]

peace and love on planet earth :)

[carbonateddelusion]

fun fact: Jack was a fat ass baby. chubbiest cheeks in the world. and then when he grew up a little, he was a skinny lil twig like Elijah. but puberty hit like a TRUCK

Eddie was always a skinny lil thang though... when he hit adolescence, he just shot UP in height

[alurite-l]

Damn I really do bet on losing dogs.

[electryone-moon]

Surely, surely there are spells that dust, clean, scrub bathrooms, wash clothing? House elves can do it with a snap of their fingers, wizards can do it just as easily with a wave of their wand.

So why do house elves clean dorms and do laundry at Hogwarts? There’s only one explanation:

It has nothing to do with how easy the task is, and everything to do with it actually getting done. In other words, teenagers.

Living in dorms with other teenagers.

At some point in Hogwarts history, there had to have been teenagers running around in three week old uniform shirts and genuinely not realising it was a problem.

Like, it had to be bad enough that someone decided it was enough of an issue to call a meeting about it. House elves have been washing Hogwarts uniforms on a nightly basis ever since.

[angelsaxis]

"omg why is this teenager tall and/or hairy and/or look like an adult" what exactly do you people expect puberty to do lol

[agirlwithmagicpals]

Revamped au skunk punk info

In this revamped version of my au crash is a spotted skunk Mobian human hybrid with a human mother who lost custody of him after people had found out that she is a chronic addict even when she had good intentions.

After that he mostly just moved around from foster home to foster home before finally being adopted at 15 by rough and tumble who loved the idea of having a third member on their cute little team although he didn’t necessarily go through puberty until he was about thirteen or fourteen and it was a mix between them producing some estrogen while also being able to produce testosterone at any other time note the long hair(anyone can have that tho)and certain traits such as body curves and having a period one week but next thing you know a month later they go through male related puberty.

They’re just such a little adventurous punk with a straight forward attitude and I love them so much💙💙💙💙💙💙

[qyriaha]

interacting w any media is rough but esp medical shows bc like damn. would anyone show up if i got in an accident? we can't tell

[sliding-graphite]

Content Warnings: active talk and display of voice dysphoria for FTM people, menstruation as an existential crisis

Until I can make a more qualitative cover and get my vocal cords up to it, here's a 'performed' one take wip cover of ThatLuckyPanda's "N0RMAL."

I wanna do it justice, and it'll take some time, so feel free to listen to the original here before I'm ready to bring out my proper cover:.

[veganhamsalad]

Tmi nsfw in tags just rambling