#swaggery

[juiche]

I recently went to the Romeo and Juliet play starring Tom Holland … there was a lot of crying :') This scene struck me especially and felt like a slap across the face, so I wanted to try and capture it! 🥹

get a print

[its-kinda-snowy]

Pinky and the Brain

[borgialucrezia]

while i do find max irons' acting amazing in flowers in the attic, i think it was too funny how they cast him as a lead in the white queen only for the hot second son david oakes and the cute but creepy uncle aneurin barnard to overshadow him and make his presence forgettable. let alone the lack of rizz in king edward iv.

[ayylmaoasdfghjkl012023]

guywife wifeguy boygirlfriend vibes

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

okay, I have been waiting to find out what my st denis medical ship will be, and the latest episode finally revealed the truth to me with that absolutely delightful Bruce and Serena plot. it’s them!!!

[hekateinhell]

Lestat to Armand in TVL:

"[...] Try to envision my beauty and my power. Try to see the evil that I am. I stalk the world in mortal dress, the worst of fiends, the monster who looks exactly like everyone else." The woman vampire made a low song of her laughter. I could feel only pain from him, and from her the warm emanation of her love.

"Think of it, Armand," I pressed carefully. "Why should Death lurk in the shadows? Why should Death wait at the gate? There is no bedchamber, no ballroom that I cannot enter. Death in the glow of the hearth, Death on tiptoe in the corridor, that is what I am. Speak to me of the Dark Gifts-I use them. I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose."

... You can easily understand why Armand's very first impression of baby Lestat was: "It came swaggering and camping through the lighted streets of Paris as though God had made it."

[dirtyoldmanhole]

kinda cute stylization/simplification of gunter's armor i go with these days. second splash page in this strip. shapes are a lie, incidentally.

[paperpeachy]

RB in Mimi's outfit has me in a chokehold

yessss we just keep winning 💁‍♀️⭐️

[deeisace]

Life On Mars is on Netflix - I'm only on episode 2, but I'm already gonna have to get on Ao3 about it lmao

[we-re-all-stories-in-the-end]

In my heart I dress like Macklemore circa 2012

[hwang-inhos-fish]

Me, trying to get on to a more plot-relevant part of my inhun fanfic: Gi-hun, buddy, please. We have to move on.

Gi-hun, absolutely babbling through me: AND I BET HE'S A POLICE OFFICER TOO THAT SMUG FUCK, LOOK AT HIM, LOOK AT HIS DUMB SWAGGERY WALK, I HATE COPS HE'S SO ATTRACTIVE FUCK

[just-some-user-hunny]

you know the way to actually HORRIFY Daemon? Be with a “Hightower whelp” more particularly Daeron 👀 who was stated to be the gentlest and most popular of Alicent’s sons who also wasn’t raised in the red keep but in Oldtown and was raised by his Hightower kin. It would be a win-win situation for Alicent like she gained bastard!reader as her “daughter” and Daemon is also pissed as hell ☠️

I won’t lie to you I was purely motivated by how funny it would be if Tessarion and Cannibal ended up being like Vermithor and Silverwing or Sunfyre and Dreamfyre (basically dragons mating)

Anon that would be so funny 💀 I wanna see Daemon turn red like a tomato from pure seething rage the moment this silvery swaggery lover boy waltz in, with all his gentle words and kind gestures. For Alicent, this would be the perfect scenario. A way for you to becomes hers, and to establish you on Team Green right under team blacks noses. (Because even if her other two sons may have more than platonic likeness to you, they're far too intense, and not stable enough to keep you reeled in. The moment Daeron shows up, she's pumping her fists because finally, someone who may actually convince you to stay!!).

Going off on how he is described, Daeron would be an absolute darling to bastard!reader. He's respectful and polite, and the reader is a little shell shocked because he's related to Aegon and Aemond? 😭

Also the idea of big scary goth Cannibal, and the gorgeous shiny blue Tessarion becoming mates would be so sweet. Cannibal all smitten in his own way, and Tessarion being a proud dragon for snagging the Cannibal.

[llamagoddessofficial]

Hey got more aggre guy questions with you hehehe :D

How would you know if any of them had a crush on you?

Hehe... a classic cute question.

Sans: The absolute most difficult to tell. He just acts like a close pal. Honestly, if you're not Papyrus, it's near impossible to know how Sans is genuinely feeling. This guy is a master at disguise. The signs are ridiculously covert- how many words he uses in his texts, which eye he most frequently winks at you with, the kinds of jokes he uses, which side of you he sits on. He gets slightly jealous of people you like, and expresses that with veeeery subtle coldness toward them. To Papyrus Sans is outrageously flirting, and to you he just said 'heh, i'm gonna steal that joke'.

The most reliable sign that he likes you, is he would rather be with you than without you. He messages you when he's bored, when he's got a day off he asks if you want to come over and hang out together. He's casually affectionate with you; with everyone else he's very physically guarded, not really allowing any prolonged contact, but he'll sit close enough for your knees to touch and lean on your shoulder. When he's sleepy, he'll just put his head in your lap.

If at any point you're actually starting to suspect that Sans has a crush on you (ie you catch him lightly blushing or looking at your hand like he wants to hold it) that means he's already fully in love with you. If it's obvious enough for you to tell, he's planning to spend the rest of his life with you.

Red: Red is also pretty difficult to tell. Not as hard as Sans, though. He's highly flirtatious in general, but even more so with people he's physically interested in. Sometimes, it can be hard to know if he's just a super flirty guy in general, or if he genuinely really likes you.

When he's in love he switches between totally forgetting to flirt (he's thinking about more than just sleeping together) and acting more like himself, then panicking that you won't like his real self and becoming EXTRA flirtatious and swaggery. He instinctively wants you to see the real him, and like him... but he's also terrified of you not liking the real him, so he clams up and tries to play the part of the big sexy badboy that everyone else seems to like so much more. The longer he likes you the more he eases. If at any point you find out he needs glasses, or that he quit smoking out of fear that it'd impact your lungs, that's a sure sign he's fallen for you.

Another reliable tell is jealousy. Red doesn't get jealous a lot, because usually he doesn't really care all that deeply about his flings. If he shows jealousy about who you're with, it's a big flag that his feelings run a lot deeper than he wants to admit.

Skull: Skull isn't difficult at all. It will be loud & clear that he likes you. Nonstop staring, intense blushing at the slightest interaction, he drops/breaks things a lot because he's distracted just looking at you. His brain -> mouth filter vanishes, he'll be completely silent except to blurt out things like "you're so pretty" and "i like your smell". Before he drums up the courage to start talking to you properly he might even come across as a bit creepy and overwhelming, given his size and strength, the intensity of his feelings, and his love language being staring.

Papyrus usually comes very in handy. He makes Skull seem less intimidating by providing the cute real reasons for Skull's bizarre behaviour around you. He can be a great translation service for his brother- when Skull mumbles something totally unintelligible to you because you make his brain stop working, Papyrus can step in. He's also great at getting that perfect balance between encouraging his brother, and stopping him from crossing any lines; he'll help Skull approach you at a house party without teleporting somewhere completely random out of nervousness, but he'll also dispense helpful advice such as "PERHAPS YOU SHOULD INTRODUCE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU TELL HER YOU WANT TO HAVE KIDS WITH HER."

[springbons]

@arsonaetcuh​ You find me, find the last thing I reblogged, and then reblog it back. You have no idea who these people are, put NO tags in, and I’m just supposed to wonder who you are like a stranger passing in the night? No, get back here! I see your license plate! Who are you and how did you find my blog???

HC Time!

AH YES. Headcannons. Thinks that aren't true (maybe? @springbons might confirm them) but ya know ya know. So, here's some of my own for FM/CY (mostly Noah and Riktor but whatever)

-Noah can and will put on one color of a shirt, and say it's a different color just to throw Riktor off.

-Noah is WAY cuddly when he's feeling down.

-Riktor ain't getting any sleep until Noah drags his ass to bed tbh. Bro stays up reading. Guys tbh these two would never sleep until they have to.

-Moira would totally wrap Jackson up in her tail and he'd be so okay with it because omg it would feel like a weighted blanket

-(I'm starting to wonder if (if possible) Derringer is attracted to idiots)

-Not Kurt playing childhood games with Kelp and Sparrow

-Sparrow and Cori just sitting out in the snow, Sparrow freezing her was off but Cori having the time of his life

-One morning Noah just...finds the peanut butter and empty and he KNOWS who did it. He knows damn well. So every time he goes to the store he gets an extra jar of peanut butter.

-Late Night Movie Watching With Noah, Riktor, and Derringer

-Noey <3 (Actually I think this is canon-)

-Noah hates his arms being bare but Riktor and Cori doodle over the scars and Noah gets all teary eyed because of it (it would be so sweet)

-Sparrow making flower crowns and she makes one with orange flowers in honor of Tarrel. If she can't get him back, I know she'd have a little grave in honor of her lover.

-SPARROW SHIFTING HERSELF WITH A TAIL JUST TO HOLD CORI <3

-Not Cori running off with Kurt's bones (the ribs specifically.) It just becomes a running joke.

-Noah carrying baby Seren in a sling type thing

-Noah and Riktor dancing in the moonlight of the woods, even though they can't dance.

-Derringer calls Noah 'Poster Boy', so in return, when Derringer can't hear him, Noah calls him 'Little Gun',

-Noah and Derringer just being stupid together.

[agarthanguide]

i love the new orym and ashton portraits! it's cool how they both look very "heroic" but in different directions. orym looks so much more gritty and weighed down now (makes sense) while ashton has a very different kind of confidence from his first, more swaggery (?) art. i'm curious about how you arrived at these changes - was it guidance/feedback from the players? did you focus more on the expressions or poses to get those vibes?

(also congrats on somehow managing to make ashton even hotter than they were before)

Hey! Thank you for the ask and for the kind words!

Yeah, Ash and Orym in particular seem to be leaning into something, don't they? They've got these new adjectives and defining traits, and they have really chosen to go for it.

I'm gonna do Orym in this ask, because there's another right behind it with Ashton. So! Orym-

Liam actually is pretty specific about expression. I think a lot of expressions in character art tend towards neutral, mostly because you don't want to insert too much intention, or have the art distract from an RP moment if the tones clash too much, but you can throw that out the window with Liam, who reeeeally knows what he's doing with the acting.

Actually- every time I've drawn Orym for character portrait purposes, we've gone back after the art was 99% done and done deep dives on expression. I can honestly say that I did better this time than other times (100% because I know Orym and Liam better now), and the going back was more about Orym personally evolving his opinion of the situation rather than the expression not reading quite right.

Fun fact that makes me love lvl 10 Orym- Orym has round, cute eyes. But he's feeling a lot right now, and he was originally given a much more dead-eyed, thousand-yard stare. His current look is much more intent and like... I would say committed. Maybe a little more regretful? Like he wishes it hadn't come to this. That was achieved by tightening up the musculature beneath his eyes, which is a thing that Liam does when he's being serious!

[gatheringbones]

[“There is this idea that turning points are clean and complete, but while my body seemed to want more of these experiences with Jane, my mind remained wary and confused. It was like a tug of war: one minute, I would buck against the dildo Jane held in her hand and the next I would push it out of me. I’d hover above Jane, careful to keep from resting even an ounce of my weight on her and then I’d suddenly plop down on her lap and grind down on her like a pestle. I’d thrill as Jane’s eyes roamed across my body and then I’d hear myself say, “Stop looking at me.”

For so long, I had dismissed the parts of me that wanted to be an object of desire, telling myself that my worth lay in the pleasure I gave to other women. And while I had squirmed against the butch label, that was perhaps because I also saw how I much I hid behind the swaggery, masculine aspects of it to keep myself safe from rejection. When I was suddenly faced with a person who actually wanted the soft, vulnerable—dare I say feminine—parts of me, who made me feel fuckable, it took time for the old stories to sieve their way out of me. And they never did completely. But as we kept having sex I began to feel relief instead of fear in giving up control. I began to appreciate the space it afforded me to start paying attention to what made my body feel good and not just my partner’s. I also began to see how femininity and objectification held their own power. There is something so emboldening about holding a lover’s gaze, about allowing them inside the deepest parts of you. And even when you are “the bottom” there is a constant dance of consent and choice being navigated between you and your partner. Understanding this made me a better lover when I was topping too.

It is not as if being fucked with one big dick a few times made me comfortable with the fluidity of my gender and of my sexual desires, but as Jane and I continued to stretch each other’s boundaries inside of a monogamous, trusting relationship, and my adult friends embraced the sex we were having, I started to experiment with my body in other ways. I asked Jane to show me how to apply my own lipstick and eyeliner. I started wearing dresses and heels, first to fancy occasions and then, sometimes, just because. I stopped pretending I always knew what people were talking about and discovered the joy of learning what was on the other side of an admission of not knowing. Jane changed too. She bought ripped jeans and T-shirts. She cut her hair short. She became more assertive and direct, eventually coming out to her parents. Once Jane and I realized we could actually inhabit the things we were attracted to in the other person, that it wouldn’t compromise what was already there, we also became kinder to each other because we stopped needing the other person to be a certain way in order to feel complete.

After two years, Jane and I broke up. It was painful, not devastating. We hadn’t hidden or twisted our desires with each other, so when we couldn’t meet them, it didn’t feel like a rejection of who I was but rather an indication that we had simply changed as much as we could together, and whatever else we were changing into, we had to change with other people, and perhaps, more importantly, on our own.”]

amy gall, from my dick, your dick, our dick, from wanting: women writing about desire, 2023