#the colours are very saturated idk if that counts

[just-here-to-art0-0]

Higashikata

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[torchstelechos]

i realize how nothingish this question is regards to like answerability but like how do you get.... ideas...? or. i dont really ever have any kind of bigger things i want to draw its always like small stuff.... or... idk.... i want to make things that are like.. more... i want to make stuff that like... means something makes you think something... most of my stuff is just tiny little things with nothing behind it just something to get it down but i like want to make things that are interesting to look at.... idk..... okay wait ill share a self portrait i did.

^ im really hapoy with this stuff theres color theres studf going on! an eclipse! right like its. its neat theres things theres associations being made theres questions theres something there this is the only thing ive made where i actually feel like ive expressed something that was in me and i just dont know how to do that again i want to make more things like that i want to get more out of my art than just putting stuff down thatll be forgotten the second its down i want what i make to be meaningful to me and idk how... uhhhh anyway thanks for reading thisif you do i just needed to get thoughts out or smth frustrated with this. doing this for six years and its just. ive managed like a handful of things id want to show people everything else is just things made because i just have to do this urghhh sorry about all this

Howdy! I had to take a bit to think of an answer for this question. I didn’t want to fall back on the statement everyone gets when they ask about art (practice), especially since you specified ideas rather than art appearance/style. So! Lets get into that! (gonna be kind of long oops)

First I want to say that I enjoy your self portrait, its very colourful and I LOVE colour. The choices in colour also complement each other very well, as yellow, orange, and blues go well together. Not only that, but the saturation of each colour help bounce off each other and bring it all together. Now, I assume the materials are a blue pen, and crayons? It might be markers, but the way the orange moves across the yellow makes me think of crayons. I adore it! I love crayons and haven’t been able to use them in a while, so it’s nice to see them being used. 

Now, your question, I feel needs some context from my side of things before I can properly answer it. I have been doing art for about 15 years now, and I have done multiple mediums including painting (water colour, oil, and acrylic), drawing (crayons, pens, markers, pencils, etc.), fiber arts (knitting, sewing, crocheting), baking/cooking (i think the presentation counts and how its a medium that takes combing lots of things to make a singular outcome), and a few I wont share right now. I’ve had official art classes that made me do things very specifically, one that taught me art history and how different genres of art were introduced, another on creativity and how to help flourish ideas, and some others on how to use different mediums and styles. I also watch speedpaints, animatics, and animation progress videos to learn some quick shortcuts in digital art since I was never taught officially on digital art. Including all of these, I also have done LOTS of practice in art. Having said this, lets get into some of my own thought processes. 

When I make art, the first things I tend to ask myself is “what do I want” and “what do I think would be interesting”? These aren't mutually exclusive, but they can be answered very differently depending on how I want to do something. For the Siffrin during the Mal du Pays fight piece, I actually started it by seeing a cat picture and thinking, “I want a discord reaction with Siffrin face down on the floor” which went into drawing Siffrin as the cat and then asking myself, “Wait, why is Siffrin face down?” which went into Oh! It’d be funny if it was Mal du Pays! So, doing that I decided to make it in the king's room which meant I had to draw a background. Eventually that transformed into “Okay but it doesnt look right, why?” the answer was that it didnt look like the game so I had to add some texture details and ta-da! Siffrin face down! 

But this also comes from years of practice in knowing what I want and knowing how to draw it, some of my art pieces were, “I think it would be cool if I drew a character looking down at me in front of a skyscraper” but um,, I didnt know how to draw that ;-; so I had to just let my hands kind of try and finish the piece even if I didnt like it. At that point, I realized I needed to practice the character and my style more until I COULD draw what I wanted. Which led into my drawing, a LOT of things I couldn’t and didnt like. 

As for symbolism in art, and how I got ideas for it, a lot of it comes down to knowing the character and how you want to translate your thoughts of the character into art. One of the ways I started doing this was adding flowers to the characters art, or learning what flower I considered “theirs” that way I could add hints to  it in the drawings. Some of it also came from animals, others came from art genres and their historical significance, and some come down to theories (such as colour theory in art). 

Finally, it really does come down to practice. As much as I hate to say it, a lot of the art pieces I do and share tend to lean towards “practice” or concept doodles so that I can better understand HOW I want to add it to a bigger piece. Most of my Siffrin and Loop drawings tend more to that as I need to better understand how their shapes and lines communicate to an art piece (Loop being a fucking star gets me so much) before i can add symbolism and make a bigger art piece. Even then, sometimes it doesnt work and the bigger art piece needs to be put to a back burner before i can communicate my thoughts on the characters as I wish to. 

(Here’s also a neat little trick I do, write out what you want to draw and then draw thumbnails so you can figure out the composition of the piece you want. It helps you know where something goes and how you want it to appear without keeping it in our brain for a long period of time. Some of the things I share are concept doodles but I’ve shared pictures of me doing this before! It can be annoying but trust me, it helps when you can’t figure out the draft at all.) 

Also, heres some of my REAL old art for reference when I say I’ve practiced a lot and didn’t always know how to do big art pieces ;;;;

Hope that helped answer some of my thought process on ideas and how that translates to art? I could go into more detail if you need me to discuss something further

[mythvoiced]

𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗜'𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥!

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ALIAS / NAME : Len or Lena or Lenlen go wild~

BIRTHDAY : sept. 3rd

ZODIAC SIGN : virgo (and?? idk anything about any astrology) & earth rabbit~? if my googling doesn't betray me??? i saw Ferre's and wondered HMM~ if i were to answer in that same astrological vein hope i'm not misstepping ♥

HEIGHT : gosh it's been so long since i checked lmao 5'2'' or 5'3'' depending on how delusional i'm feeling (most likely somewhere in between tbh)

HOBBIES : reading, singing, LEARNING LANGUAGES i agree so hard- listen, Ferre, learning languages is so much fun, i'm beating the SHIT out of that owl (yes i use duolingo i love the colours lmao so Dutch, Korean, Mandarin, and Vietnamese on the stupid owl, i actually added the Vietnamese course recently after trying to wish Ferre a happy new year's so YES PEOPLE, make FRIENDS, they will evoke INTERESTS in you~), writing ofc, cooking...?? does that count, i recently found i like cooking idk

FAVORITE COLOR : no idea i just really like pastel colours yknow? or simply nothing too saturated

FAVORITE BOOK : pandora hearts & trimax >:3333 (but also the martian and this is how you lose the time war and idk)

LAST SONG : mother knows best from the tangled soundtrack, for the singing hobby KLDFJHGKLFHL

LAST FILM / SHOW : the prince of egypt and... =.= is last show last show i completed? bc... idk season 1 of the mdzs donghua?????

RECENT READS : gosh lmao okay i'm reading a lot of things at once so i hope this is about 'completed' reads uhm... volume 13 of detective conan???? last BOOK i finished was the martian by andy weir

INSPIRATION : everything everywhere all at once (not the movie, i haven't finished it yet KLDFJJJJJDKLGJ gosh that's silly) no seriously anywhere i can take it from, mostly listening to music will do or checking out aesthetics, so... yeah~

STORY BEHIND URL :  i used to use my interest and knowledge on norse mythology as defining Thing about me lmao but tbh just mythologies and folklore as a whole really always intrigue me? the blood and soul of cultures i dare say~ and 'voiced' is a play on how muns/typist usually add 'penned by' or 'written by' [mun-name] so the idea i believe was a blog voiced by myths which i guess works just well enough considering how rare a non-supernatural muse is on ye olde mythvoiced

FUN FACT ABOUT ME : i have pretty good eye-sight, the best in my family actually, but that's also because theirs is just... poor straight-up, BUT i guess to balance it out i am NOT very good at?? idk figuring out which directions sounds are coming from? like i can hear regularly well (except for some processing issues tbh) but gosh i have literally wondered where breathing is coming from before realizing it's ME

[thegirlinblueblog]

I'll always be fond of summers. Summer holds the dearest memories for me, like a warm embrace gifted by life. You hate on summer now, you can't stand the heat, do you recall summer being so harsh while growing up? I don't.

I remember my chotonanu making an array of tok and daal during summers. I always anticipated with great enthusiasm what type of daal would grace my plate. Somedays it was a tomator tok with choto choto maach. Other days, the daal included kaacha aam in it, or aamloki, or sometimes tangy jolpai. After just one sip, your entire body quivers with the sharp tangy goodness. (My mouth is watering as I write this.)

The afternoons were lazy once my stomach was full of daal. The naps after lunch hit differently back in those days. Soon, the naps would be interrupted by the sound of kids playing football in the goli. Their ball would strike the main door with a rotating wooden latch known as a "khil" or "bang" by some. This simple, wooden water-drop-shaped contraption was sufficient in those days, to keep the door shut. A small piece of wood carried the heavy load of the trust of an entire family of more than ten individuals if you count all the little rascals. Theft was rare back in the days. If I walked straight from the main banger dorja, I'd enter our mini paradise, my Nanur uthaan.

Our uthaan came into life during summers. The greenery seemed more vibrant and saturated. White spider lilies scattered around the landscape in full bloom in faded, fat blue plastic drums. The scent of it would fill my lungs. I would take a deep breath every now and then, I could never have enough of the scent. Puddles dotted the uthaan after chotonanu watered the entire area with a long blue snakey watering silicone pipe, over which we carefully placed long wooden planks, our very own makeshift bridge which we called a shaako.

The sound of balls banging against the door would rouse us from sleep. We were well energised from the nap and ever so eager to enjoy the bikel as the uthaan awaited us. Borof paani, bouchi, kanamachi, gollachut, openti bioscope, you name it we've played in all in our little paradise. "Ayre amar moyna" I hated the flick on the forehead while playing fultokka but the anticipation of the flick on the forehead always made me giggle. My forehead was really ticklish, I could not even stand a graze. On some special Jummah days, we used to scour our surroundings to gather all the big leaves, sticks, and branches lying around. Our discoveries served as our prized utensils, cutlery, and fuel for the fire we'll need for our mini picnic. We called it Jolapaati. "Ek much chaal, ek muth daal, paani ar lobon" the recipe we religiously followed to make some khichuri in the mini maatir chula chotonanu made for us. Of course we "borrowed" all the ingredients by sneaking into the kitchen through the back door where the panir house was situated. Opening the big chaaler drum, by standing on our toes in the peeri, with our tiny hands was no small feat.

Amidst all the shenanigans we could get up to in the uthaan, my chotonanu used to cut fruits and bring them to us. Thanda tormuj, bangi, aam, kathal, peyara, jambura, kamranga, lichu, jamrul (idk why I used to call it amruj chotobelay, am I the only one?). On some special days we'd quench our thirst from all the douradouri with ebur shorbot, bel er shorbot or daaber paani. After gobbling up a handful we would wipe our mouths with her aachol and then dash back to our hooligan ways.

When the hujur tapped on the mic three times before saying the maghrib er azaan, we used to run to the tap, detach the big snake like blue hose to wash ourselves. We washed the dirt off each other by spraying each other with water without a worry in mind. Remember those rattan weaved rounded lounge chairs? Everyone had one back in those times, we would rest there, catch our breath while we watched the sky change its colour from a deep blue, then a purple to a pitch black.

How can I not love summer? I owe my happy days to it.

"ছেঁড়া ঘুড়ি, রঙ্গিন বল

এইটুকুই সম্বল

আর ছিল রোদ্দুরে পাওয়া

বিকেল বেলা।"

[poguesrforlife]

Young and Beautiful | Rudy Pankow - Part 2

You guys are literally the best! Thank you so much for all the amazing feedback for this little weird imagination in my head :’) BTW I have no clue how the movie business works or if this is even close to accurate but just bare with my fantasies here okay :D xoxo

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Trigger warning: It gets a bit very smutty people, be prepared, angsty ???idk

Word count: 3295 (so I went totally over the top with this once again)

Y/N just got the role of her lifetime, starring beside the cast of Outer Banks in the second season as JJ’s love interest. It’s a dream come true and gets even dreamier when she meets Rudy Pankow her alleged love interest. Lines start to blur between reality and film and Y/N is left wondering if taking a leap of faith is worth risking her career.

A couple minutes later you found yourself in your trailer alone. Images and thoughts were flashing in your head, all of them revolving around that kiss. That kiss that didn’t feel like a normal kiss, or any kiss you ever had before. That kiss had been pure magic. There was no other way to describe it. Alone the thought of it send your heart into overdrive and quickened your breath. 

And that wasn’t even the worst part, in a couple of hours you were expected back on set after a scene change and doing that kiss with Rudy over and over only half naked. 

You had to calm yourself down right this second. Your possible feelings for him couldn’t get in the way of your big break. There was so much more on the line.

A soft knock on your trailer door pulled you out of your thoughts and after opening the door you were faced with a grinning Madelyne and Madison who immediately snuck into your four walls for now.

“What was that?” Maddie C squealed as she sat down on the couch and pulled you down with her. 

“What do you mean?” You feigned innocence and looked at them quizzically. 

“Hun, you’re a great actress but not that of a good actress and neither is Rudy,” Bailey stated and raised a brow at you.

“Like, Chase and I had our moments on set and even JD and Bailey but we never got so into it that we ignored the ending of the scene,” Maddie pointed out, big smile on her face.

“Guys,” You groaned, just thinking about the embarrassing moment from before. “I don’t even know what happened out there,” You admitted quietly hands over your face as you leaned back.

The girls shared a worried gaze between them as they looked back at you.

“Are you okay though?” Maddie asked and patted your thigh lovingly. 

You were so grateful for these two in that moment. You wished you could just bawl in their arms and let all your frustration out but bigger matters were at hand.

“Yes, I’m fine… well I don’t really have a choice,” You mused and gave them a reassuring smile. 

Bailey looked at you with a sympathetic smile and closed her arms around you. 

“No matter what else might’ve happened out there, you were great. Really really great,” She praised you and you couldn’t help but laugh at her sweet words.

“Thanks for supporting my kissing skills, I guess.” The girls chimed in with laughter at that and you stayed cuddled on the couch until it was time to get back on set.

“You’re going to rock this,” Maddie assured you when she saw your faltering confidence the closer you got to that scene, “and then we can talk about it properly after you had some time to think.”

You squeezed both of the girls’ hands as they led you back to the cameras and the action. You were grateful for their support but the only person you wanted to talk to right now was Rudy. Maybe you shouldn’t have split immediately after the scene and actually talked to him so it wouldn’t be awkward now. But you were an actress after all, you could pretend to not care as much for just a bit longer. 

As he came into view with his soft blond waves, where hours before your hands had been entangled in, your heart stopped for a second. 

But he didn’t seem to be too bothered as he joked around with the guys and laughed carelessly. Had you been the only one affected by the kiss? Was he just a better actor than you had thought?  The thought stung but you knew it would only be for the better. You could be just as nonchalant as him. 

“What’re we laughing about?” You chimed in and smiled at the guys. You cringed a bit at your overly joyous voice but couldn’t take it back even if you wanted to as all eyes were fixed on you.

“Rudy just told us how terrible his first kiss was,” Chase explained and smirked at his co-star. 

So they had definitely talked about your kiss otherwise they wouldn’t be on the topic, would they? You tried your hardest to look unbothered by it, hoping your face wasn’t turning crimson again.

“Well, I sure hope that I wasn’t your first kiss then,” You joked, “For your sake and for mine.” You bit your bottom lip as your eyes traveled over his face. 

He regarded you with an amused little smile playing on his lips as he took you in. 

“What? Y/N, as if. Yours would win all the most passionate kiss awards in the country,” JD babbled which earned him a stern look from Rudy and an eye-roll from you.

“At Rudy’s first kiss he actually accidentally spit a piece of gum-“ Chase started giggly but got interrupted by Rudy pushing a hand over his mouth and pushing him out of your ear-shot.

“Would you shut up!” He warned him under his breath and you had to suppress a giggle at his antics.

You could imagine all too well what might have happened with the piece of gum and the poor girl. 

For now though, you were just happy that all seemed to be calm and collected between the two of you. 

Sooner than you would’ve liked however you were back in business and a dozen people were around you, giving you instructions, doing your make-up, positioning you right and and and…

You loved your job, you really did, but right now you just wanted some piece and quiet. 

You were led together into the bedroom of JJ in the Chateau for the scene. It was supposed to be a bit more intimate and shown sex scene than what Chase and Madelyne had done in the first season. You couldn’t help but feel a bit uncomfortable but this wasn’t the first time that you did something like this and you were sure no one would ever get used to that kind of film-making. 

The directors sent everyone out of the room they did not especially need to make it as comfortable for the both of you as possible which you thought was infinitely thoughtful. 

“You guys have the scene in your hands okay?” Jonas assured you as he went over it with the both of you. “You do only what you’re comfortable with and stop whenever you want.”

“Thanks,” Rudy nodded at his kindness and dropped an arm around your waist. “You’ll tell me how far you want to go okay?” 

“We’ll work it out as we go?” You suggested and he pulled you closer to him with a sweet smile. His lips met your forehead in a soft kiss and your eyes fluttered shut for a second at the gentle contact. 

“You’ll be great, I’m sure about that,” Valerie gave you a thumbs up and then cameras were rolling. 

Rudy’s arm was still around your waist as he led you to the beginning of the scene. 

“Promise me, you’ll be honest with me when it’s too much” He whispered, lips grazing the shell of your ear barely and a shiver went down your spine. 

You turned your head slowly, eyes locking with his and the incredible saturating blue colour. You didn’t realise how close he was until then. Just a step forward and you would be kissing him. 

“Promise,” you gave him your word and watched as relief washed over his face. A simple gesture as him making sure you were comfortable was worth more than any gifts and roses he could have gotten you. Your heart swelled as you looked at him, so grateful that everything in the world aligned for him to meet you in that way. The word ‘destiny’ was dancing around in your mind. 

“Action!” You heard someone call and then reality was hidden for the next moments and you were back playing a part. 

His lips found yours immediately, just as passionate as before if not even more, and your hands grabbed at him, anything to get him closer to you. 

One of his hands pushed the door to the bedroom open as the other sneaked around your waist and you stumbled into the room, lips never leaving another. 

“Jump,” Rudy or rather JJ instructed you and you locked your legs around his hips as he grabbed your thighs. Goose-bumps erected on your skin as you felt his touch on the back of your bare legs. 

The both of you were already breathing hard, as you couldn’t keep away from each other long enough to catch your breath. It was like your bodies were melting into each other, always closer.

At last his lips left yours and you almost whimpered at the loss of contact but he found a new home on your jaw and neck as he pressed you against the walls of the wooden cabin. Your hand locked around his neck, pulling at the blond waves at the base of it when he met a particular sensitive spot.

“You good?” He asked and you weren’t sure if it was Rudy or JJ asking you. The lines were blurred once again in your mind, but God yes you were more than okay.

“Yes, JJ, yes,” Your voice was slightly hoarse and you thought you heard him moan as he pulled you tighter to him and lifted you off the wall to bring you towards the bed in the middle of the room.

Gently he let you down and hovered over you for a second, admiring your flushed cheeks and red swollen lips. He pecked your lips sweetly over and over and you pulled him in-between your legs, wanting him as close to you as possible. Your breath hitched when he discarded his shirt and you were met with the bare skin of his torso. Your eyes admired every valley and hill of his muscles and soon your hands followed, carefully touching the soft and strong grooves of his abdomen.

A sharp breath escaped him as your cold fingers met his stomach and he leaned back down, reattaching his lips to yours. His right hand found its way to your waist where your shirt had ridden up slightly and you gasped at the contact. His hand wandered to the small of your back, pushing slightly, a signal for you to sit up.

You pushed into him further, your chest pressed to his and he was fingering the hem of your shirt.

“May I?” He inquired kindly and stopped his actions to take a moment to look at you. His brows were drown together as his gaze met yours and you instinctively reached out your fingers to caress the worry of his face. You nodded willingly before you pulled him back into a short kiss and then he stripped off your shirt.

Your head hit the pillows once again and you felt his wet lips on your stomach seconds after. You were only in your bikini top and a pair of shorts now and you tried hard to blend the other people in the room out. Rudy was making a fantastic job of distracting you on that part. 

You felt your heartbeat quicken, felt your breath going faster and you knew that this wasn’t anything you could tell your body to do. This was a genuine reaction to this wonderful boy on top of you.

Your whole body felt like it was on fire and drowning in ice-cold water like-wise. You couldn’t remember the last time somebody made you feel like that. The thought that this wasn’t actually real was pressed to the very corners of your mind as you stared into Rudy eyes, his shirtless form hovering above you. God, he was gorgeous. When he looked at you like that and touched your bare skin with his slightly calloused warm hands, it was too easy to forget all the cameras and people around you. But all this was just in your head and you were playing your part just as he did. How you wished in that moment it would be true.

He leaned down further, one hand on your waist drawing lazy circles there and the other one holding him up to not crush you. His lips wandered from your cleavage up your throat to the sweet spot under your ear. Your legs locked around his hips and pulled him closer, his groin meeting the spot between your thighs and you gasped at the sudden sensation, pulling his hair where your hands were entangled.

“Can I take your top off?” He whispered only for you to hear and goosebumps were flashing on your skin at the soft vibrato of his voice. 

“Yeah,” You breathed out and arched your back to give him access to the knot between your shoulder blades. 

His hand was resting there for a couple seconds without moving and you grew concerned and pulled back to look at his face.

“Are you sure you wanna do this?” He was genuinely trying to make sure you were comfortable with the scene and your exposed body. Nobody in the world could’ve made you feel more secure in this decision than him. 

“I would do everything with you,” You whispered just loud enough for the microphones to pick up. You weren’t talking to JJ in that second, you were talking to Rudy. The flashing spark in his eyes and the easy smile returning to his lips told you he knew that as well.

He pulled you up against him and sat up with you straddling him, so your back was turned to the cameras. You gasped surprised at the sudden change of position but it didn’t escape you that he moved you like that so your bare breasts wouldn’t be seen by anybody but him.

“Thank you,” You let out under your breath just for him to hear. You looked at him with so much adoration in that moment and couldn’t help but let your heart fall for him just a bit more.

His eyes moved over your face, just like one of his hands, as if he tried to memorise every plain and freckle on it. You leaned back down to connect your lips and felt an enticing shiver down your spine as his calloused hand opened the knot between your shoulder blades and moved up your spinal column to your neck to remove the top from your upper body. 

You welcomed the sudden cold on your bare skin, everything was too hot in that second. But as soon as Rudy pressed his own chest to yours, creating friction on your nipples, it felt like lava was flowing through your veins. 

“God, you’re so beautiful,” He said between kisses and one of his hands wandered to your ribcage just below the soft skin of your breast, slowly caressing the skin there.

Your emotions were running high and so was your heart at his touch and his words. With your eyes closed you could pretend that he belonged just to you and nobody else was in the room. Just him and you. 

You started grinding on his hips involuntarily your body taking matters into its own hand and not listening to your mind anymore. You gasped when Rudy took one of your breasts into his way bigger hand.

“I need you closer,” He groaned and pressed his hands to the small of your back and your neck before he lay you down again, his chest pressed to yours so close, not allowing anyone to take a look at you.

His hand wandered down to your shorts and he looked down at you questioningly before you nodded and he removed another article of clothing. He removed his own shorts quickly afterwards leaving both of you only in your underwear. 

Before it could go any further however he grabbed a blanket lying around on the bed and covered both of you from the waist down and then pretended to pull your last clothes off as well.

“I’m gonna fuck you now, ok?” He groaned in your ear and you could feel his wicked smile pressed to your skin as he told you so. 

Holding your eyes locked to his he gave you one last sweet kiss and waited for your consent, which you gave, before he pretended to enter you.

You fake gasped as his hips bucked against yours and your fingers dig into his back as you held him close, chest to chest.

Even though this was all just pretend you couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like to actually share this intimacy with Rudy. What he would feel like inside of you. What he would to you and with you when no one else was around. The thought alone made you wet and your nipples harden. 

His head rested in the crook of your neck as he moved against you and breathed hard, occasionally leaving wet sloppy kisses on your too hot skin.

“Fuck, JJ!” You fake moaned and locked your feet around his tight ass as you pulled him closer.

Rudy picked up in pace, you could feel his member even through the hard protective underwear he had to wear for scenes like that. And it drove you absolutely crazy. He through his head back, breaths coming in gasps as his hips grinded into yours.

You wanted him so bad that you felt your insides twisting and knees buckle. Your mind was filled to the brim with thoughts of him: his bright blue eyes and how they crinkled at the corners when he laughed, his brilliant smile with his adorable too sharp teeth, his sinful lips that drove you crazy, his strong body the shone in the late afternoon sun like a god’s. It was only him, him, him. 

“Cut!” You heard Jonas scream and the magic disappeared like somebody had hit you with a baseball bat right in the stomach. You could’ve killed him right there and then. 

Rudy hovered above you unmoving, still shielding you from the views of everybody else in the room and grabbed a shirt, JJ’s shirt, for you to cover up.

“Are you okay?” He asked once again as soon as the shirt was over your head. 

“Yeah,” You smiled at him thankfully, “Are you okay?”

“I am,” He laughed at your sweet question and pecked your forehead before pulling away from you so the both of you sat up in the bed. 

Your pulse was still a bit too fast as you faced the team surrounding you.

“Okay, that was wonderful. You two did great. Are you both comfortable?” Jonas asked and you nodded immediately. You were a bit too comfortable actually.

“I think, we’re gonna shoot this scene a couple more times, just to get some different angles and then just JJ and Y/C/N sleeping afterwards and you’re done for today,” Valerie mused and looked between the both of you and to Jonas. You all agreed and then the ordeal started all over again.

It didn’t get any easier to entangle your thoughts of JJ from your thoughts of Rudy however, no matter how often you did the scene. 

You were always just as enchanted by him as the first time. His skin on yours, his eyes, his lips, all this sent you right into an abyss of feelings and emotions where no return would be possible. 

You had always been good at differentiating between reality and fiction but right now you weren’t so sure if there was anything to keep apart. Because the way Rudy looked at you in-between scenes and during filming… it was the exact same passion and kindness in his eyes.

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content creator appreciation! list five favorite sets you’ve made and send this ask to five other content creators 💖 (hi!! i adore whenever you talk about hyyh and well anything you do on this blog! thank you 🧡 i hope you are having a wonderful day (or night)!)

PLS.....pls this is too sweet tysm angel :') <3 i'm so honoured u thought to send me this and also that u enjoy my blog and my hyyhposting!!! tysm for liking my little internet home :3

ok well in no particular order except for this first one:

wings x arts and symbolism - i truly believe this is my magnum opus. i had sooo much fun with this much n i was honestly pleasantly surprised it did so well!! took quite a bit of research but it was rly i think probably the most fun i ever had making a gfx :') maybe i'll do a part 2 just around demian

jimin tour poster mockups - i've made a few tour poster sets now, but i think jimins' are still my fave out of all of them! i tried smt different than my hobi ones, and i think i was able to make smt rly fun and interesting that captured jimins' versatility rly well :3

hoseok hair colour compilation - again, ive done a few of these palette-type gifsets but i think hobis came out the nicest :3 i just like how the colours came out, the low contrast worked rly well to make the higher saturation not too jarring - one of my best colouring jobs methinks!

magic shop website mockup - THIS ONE....took too damn long getting it just right but i think it was worth it! i spent ages just trying to get the colour palette just right and i spent maybe a year on and off trying to perfect it, so definetly this is one i think had the best payoff :')

aaaaand finally, idk if this even counts lol and its kinda silly but this top 10 korean songs of the first half of 2020 set i made for a tag game :3 it was just for a tag game n i made it very quickly, but i rly like how the colouring came out and how nice it looks <3 now if only i could make a palette set this nice regularly :')

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Why YGO Vrains is such an immeasurable disappointment: a list

First of all, I need to make it abundantly clear that Im a big fan of Vrains – I love Yusaku, Ryoken, Ai, Kusanagi... you see them very often on my dash. I fantasize about the ideal version of Vrains that’s written well, the Vrains that’s fully exploited its potentials, every night in my sleep. I wrote this list PRECISELY because I love Vrains. That’s why I got so frustrated with its cardinal writing issues (and production issues). It physically pains me to hear people calling Vrains the worst and most boring series of YGO – but the fact that I couldn’t argue against that because it’s true pains me more.

And now, an incomprehensive list of the faults of Yugioh Vrains.  

1.      What the fuck is wrong with the character designs (beside that of Yusaku and Ryoken???) Everyone looks aesthetically displeasing – characters in real life look incredibly boring they could easily drown in a crowd of background characters, but their avatars are OSTENTATIOUS. Seems like the character designer had no clue what “less is more” means – blue angel, soulburner, and Bohemann for example, look like they were immersed in a bucket of glue and then dumped into another bucket filled with random accessories.

(from a fan artist’s perspective…Im especially salty about takeru, akira, Kusanagi, and the Knights of Hanois’ designs…like, their designs don’t inspire me to draw. Their personalities might be interesting, but their looks lack the vibrant, enthusiastic energy that the 5Ds, Zexal, and Arc-V characters possess)

(imagine how many fanfics and fanarts of Kusanagi x Yusaku there would be had Kusanagi looked HALF as hot as Ryoken)

And don’t even get me started on the colour palette – whoever decided on the colours just cant make up their goddamn mind! Colour saturation is way off the charts, the range of colour is too wide the audience simply dont know where to focus.

2.      Forgotten plotlines. Yusaku’s link sense? Hanoi’s spy in SOL? The Queen and the rest of the chess pieces? Yusaku’s forgotten memories? The rest of the victims of the Lost Incident? Just to name a few. 

3.      Character relationships are weak to minimal to none. Bonds and friendships – the vital element in all previous YGO series – is practically non-existent in Vrains. Where’s the camaraderie between our main casts (Yusaku, Aoi, Soulburner, Ema, Onizuka, etc…)? They don’t feel like a team fighting the evil together. They’re completely separate individuals who don’t give a single fuck if one of their…acquaintance…dies in a battle. We don’t have heartwarming moments of friendship blossoming and consolidating. It’s honestly such a let down.

4.      Interesting and debatable topics thrown away. The conflict between artificial intelligence and humans could spark so many in-depth discussions, but then the writer just decided its all Lightening’s fault. No morally gray situations, no ambiguity between the line of good and evil. It’s just all Lightening and his petty jealousy… yeah.

Oh and if Ai lives on the world will blow up. Why? Do we have a concrete reason to back that statement? eh...

5.      Overall quality of the animation. I don’t know if its because the animation staff was short on time or low on budget, but for a megacorporation (konami cough cough) that makes billions every year, they certainly are capable of investing more in this anime series. I can count the number of episodes in which the characters don’t look wacky with a single hand.

6.      Character development, wasted potentials. Ryoken is the only character who received decent treatment. The rest of the Vrains cast are all disappointments. Original concepts are cool and promising – Yusaku, a victim of child abuse with PTSD, embarking on a journey to overcome his reclusiveness and learn to open up to people around him? HELL YEAH. Aoi, a teenage idol with depression developing into a more mature and responsible heroine who saves Link Vrains? IM ALL FOR IT.  Soulburner’s character arc is fine overall but personally I don’t feel like it’s expanded enough. Also, there’s the mistreatment of side characters like Onizuka, Ema, Akira, the list goes on. I got so furious just looking at these characters and remembering that they’re all wasted and sidelined.

7.      Incoherent/ random plotlines. IDK all episodes in season 1 (Hanoi’s arc) felt pretty consistent, focusing on a linear theme – Yusaku’s revenge on the Knights of Hanoi. But after that it felt like the writers gave up writing outlines and just wrote whatever he pleased/ considered more convenient for the sake of…a plot…that he had no idea which direction it was headed for. This is reflected in the amount of forgotten plotlines we listed previously.

8.      Weak villains. Kinda related to point 4. Bohemann, Lightening, Windy, and Haru are all one-dimensional, flat, predictable villains with the cliché goal of “destroying humanity cuz humans are dumb and Ais are superior”. Not likeable, not fun to watch, not morally gray (something I expect from well-written antagonists), they are just there to serve as symbol of evil for the protags to defeat.

Honourable mentions - what I personally want to see in Vrains, really. Very biased.

-        The familial interaction between Yusaku and Kusanagi? Brotherhood, perhaps? Without any mention of Yusaku’s parents, Kusanagi is the closest Yusaku has to a brother figure. I crave for some wholesome brotherly moments between these two.

-        More slice of life episodes please.

-        The friendship between Yusaku and Takeru. Please. Please. PLEASE. From the second opening we can see the animation staff CLEARLY intended for there to be a strong bond between Yusaku and Takeru – Takeru probably was written to serve as a Jounouchi/ Johan/ Crow sort of character. Yusaku and Takeru could bond over their trauma and overcome their PTSD together. AND IT WAS SO HEAVILY HINTED AT IN THE 2ND OP!!! fam what the fuck happened to that friendship, Im so robbed.

-        Yusaku and Ryoken’s duel or tag duel. These two haven’t duelled AT ALL since the first season ended. Isn’t Ryoken Yusaku’s official rival? Isn’t it Yugioh tradition for the protag and the rival to duel like, a trillion times? AND ISNT IT ALSO A YUGIOH TRADITION FOR THE PROTAG AND THE RIVAL TO TAG DUEL?????? The fact that Yusaku and Ryoken never had a tag duel haunts me every night in my worst nightmares afjw4ot9wgrk

-        Topologina Nabee

Thanks for coming to my ted talk, this marks the end of my rant on YGO VRAINS DISAPPOINTMENTS. Again, I harboured no malicious intent when I compiled the list – its more like a vent of frustration than actual criticism. I would pay billions to see a Vrains reboot or, if there exists an alternate universe where none of the writing/production issues above are present in Vrains, I would do a Kaiba and build a dimension travelling machine and immigrate there.

TLDR: wasted potentials. wAsTED PoTEntialS. WASTED POTENTIALS!!!!!!

[checkmate-cherik]

50 questions

Tagged by @turtletotem!!! aka my favorite aunt!!!

1. What is the colour of your hairbrush? The most awful combination of dull denim blue and grape-flavored-lolipop purple.

2. Name a food you never eat: If you hand me fish I WILL turn into that meme of the guy frisbee-throwing a plate of spaghetti down a hallway

3. Are you typically to warm or too cold? Every day is too hot

4. What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Cookin’ dinner

5. What’s your favourite candy bar? 3 Muskateers because I have a death wish.

6. Have you ever been to a professional sports game? Yeah. I was ten. We went to a baseball game. Most boring-ass twenty minutes of my life. We left very quickly.

7. What was the last thing you said out loud? “No, I don’t need more water.”

8. What is your favourite ice cream? Caramel Caribou

9. What was the last thing you had to drink? Bottled water is evil but giant gallon jugs of store-brand water is like. peak luxury for me.

10. Do you like your wallet? I mean, the front pocket is ripping, but yeah, it gets the job done.

11. What was the last thing you ate? dinner and I hated every bite

12. Did you buy any new clothes last weekend? Nah

13. What’s the last sporting event you watched? I watched my favorite witch youtuber pole-dance because she’s fucking amazing, does that count?

14. What is your favourite flavour of popcorn? Popcorn bad

15. Who is the last person you sent a text message to? The grocery shopper (are we decadent fucks? maybe. Is it better for our mental health to pay someone to get our groceries instead of spending every week full of dread and resentment because we have to get groceries? Yes.)

16. Ever go camping? Yeah but I absolutely hated it and I refuse to do it again unless I get a sugardaddy who glamps.

17. Do you take vitamins? What’s a vitamin (jk I used to take vitamins but the adult vitamins taste like blood to me)

18. Do you go to church every Sunday? I only go to churches for funerals.

19. Do you have a tan? Fun fact! I am actually, physically, medically allergic to most sunscreens! I am not allowed in direct sunlight anymore for extended periods of time!

20. Do you prefer Chinese food or pizza? Chinese food!

21. Do you drink your soda through a straw? Only at restaurants.

22. What colour socks do you usually wear? Bold of you to think I usually wear socks (I like dark jewel tones but I have sky blue and bright yellow socks too)

23. Do you ever drive above the speed limit? Another fun fact! Driving gives me panic attacks!

24. What terrifies you? Old age, being alone, blood

25. Look to your left. What do you see? My bottle of dusting powder from Lush that I’ve had like five years akldghaplke

26. What chore do you hate most? Vacuuming. Please don’t make me vacuum. Please.

27. What do you think of when you hear an Australian accent? Jazza!!!!! He’s a youtube artist! He’s a fucking child and I love his art!

28. What’s your favourite soda? Can’t choose tbh, as long as it’s cold I’ll drink it.

29. Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive-thru? Drive-thru

30. What’s your favourite number? 7!

31. Who’s the last person you talked to? My mom

32. Favourite cut of beef? Is beef even worth it anymore? I prefer chicken.

33. Last song you listened to? Vitamin String Quartet cover of “Thrift Shop”

34. Last book you read? Currently in the middle of “Squire”, third book in the Protector of the Small series!!!

35. Favourite day of the week? They all blend together too much, I can’t tell.

36. Can you say the alphabet backwards? Absolutely not.

37. How do you like your coffee? Absolutely saturated with flavored creamer. Does it look like a Starbucks frapp? No? Not drinking it.

38. Favourite pair of shoes? My tennies!!! They’re black and brown and so so so comfortable, I could walk for hours in them.

39. Time you normally get up? Between 8AM-11AM. Do not ask me to get up earlier than that. Do Not.

40. Sunrises or sunsets? Sunsets. Clouds are prettier.

41. How many blankets are on your bed? One.

42. Describe your kitchen plates. Paper. We have some square plastic ones and Fancy Ceramic Plates that are our last resort.

43. Describe your kitchen at the moment. Fucking filthy.

44. Do you have a favourite alcoholic drink? I don’t drink but probably cocktails with too much sugar to taste the alcohol.

45. Do you play cards? Solitaire and Wizard

46. What colour is your car? White

47. Do you know how to change a tire? Kind of? My dad taught me when I was a kid but I have since blocked out the memory.

48. Your favourite state? MICHIGAN FOREVER solely because my state is the prettiest, fuck your deserts and rock formations, go to the UP and watch snowmelt make waterfalls on the cliffs, it’s absolutely magical. Also the played-out copper mines are just as breathtaking to me as natural caves.

49. Favourite job you’ve had? Honestly---and this weirded me out too---helping at my dad’s shop last summer. I like the simplicity of the machines, and the mindless sweeping, and, to a lesser extent, emptying garbage tins of metal scraps. It was loud and I sweated constantly and I stank like oil and metal and cigarette smoke at the end of the day, but the work itself was... nice. I felt like I was doing something.

50. How did you get your biggest scar? I don’t want to answer this question thank you.

Idk who to tag for this ahhhhhhhhh

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Odds, but only if you vibe with the number

hell yeah Thanks

1) Mercury: What’s your full name?

middle names are always subject to revision but for now like, milo sky kilopascal burrows is the Full Story. it took forever to land on a ~last name~ b/c really i just was very Shrug about the matter. but it’s a fun niche lotr reference and it just also sounds right so. milo burrows is the more nailed down part here

3) Earth: Where’s your home?

well so far i’ve always lived in virginia, a wildly cursed place, but also there sure is a lot going on here. i don’t really feel that attached to anyplace, but i spent the first couple decades of life in a 40 mile radius of dc, as in washington dc, and visited the city often enough that i kind of feel some attachment to that, or like yknow That’s Where I’m From. but not really that much, b/c also i’m not actually from dc, just the dmv area / nova. also a wildly cursed place with a lot going on though

5) Jupiter: Do you have any siblings?

yeah im the middle sibling betwixt a slightly older sister and a slightly younger brother

7)Uranus: What’s your hobby?

i guess i draw often lol

9)Pluto: What time is it right now where you are?

as i type this it’s 11:44pm. eastern standard time club

11)Sun: Have you ever had alcohol?

yeah

13)Rigel: Have you ever gone on a rollercoaster?

yeah ive sampled many kinds....wooden.....indoor......ones with a loop de loop....ones with the uhh Hydraulic Launch.....ones that go backwards for a bit.....one with an 85 deg drop.....ones with the bar across the lap / seatbelt and ones with the vest thing that swings down....ones with the track above you....idk ive had a rollercoaster journey, i like them...

not rly vibing with 15 :///

17)Aldebaran: What’s something you care desperately about?

oh yeah i skipped this one. "desperately” is a big adverb and like, if i try to think outside the realm of Human Rights my dude, Antifascism, et al, like, what am i desperate about? anything? hard to say. other people like, who i know personally, and like, humanity and shit. and any cat i ever see. stem and humanities subjects are friends actually. i’m fond of the lhc. i like not being cold. when it comes to Interests it’s like, look, when one of your major Focuses is billions, it’s just like, welcome to hell.

19)Bellatrix: Have you ever been forced to lie/keep a secret?

uh no i’ve Chosen to tho lmao

21 does not pass the vibe check

23)Orion: Favourite month?

idk june is nice? i dont have a solid answer. sept / oct would be more fun if i wasn’t already dreading the onset of winter at that point. live in the moment i guess is the motto of fall

25)Delphinus: Favourite study?

never liked school. recess XD...in middle school during my last period i’d finish shit early and the teacher would be like “you can go hang out in the library if you want” and i was like, sick thanks

27)Gemini: Favourite song?

i don’t have one

29)Libra: Favourite colour?

i like that real saturated cerulean / curious blue type deal

31) Aries: Favourite movie?

i also don’t have one

33 idk not feeling it it’s a bit Much with the repeated digits

35) Andromeda: Do you consider yourself social?

yeah lol like......i don’t necessarily Vibe very well with people too easily, i’m Picky, and also people don’t vibe with me, so it all works out so that i don’t find ppl i’m mad comfortable interacting with that often / usually it takes time anyways cuz i’m not used to people wanting to talk to me haha.....but i also just like to Be Around people even if i’m not necessarily interacting with any and all of them and i like to casually talk and stuff and like, in college i’d go to the coffee shop mainly cuz it’s like. i want there to be People Around me rn.........and then as always cishet bros ruin things b/c they think if you talk with them for 15 sec / joke around, that’s Hitting It Off and Flirting or whatever. but they never count

37)Cartwheel Galaxy: When was your first kiss?

well in.......20...12???? i think?? someone kissed me but i wasn’t really vibing with that either so, speaking of Not Counting lol......not like i consider a ~first kiss~ to be anything that important to me so it doesn’t really matter either way but it’s like. i would prefer this not have happened regardless of Firsts or not

39) Comet Galaxy: Have you ever had to leave a relationship because someone changed too much?

haha i guess not

none of the 40-odds thrill me? do i not like 4?

51)Pulsar: What do you hope to do in the next 10 years?

i don’t really think with this Framework at this juncture lmao....i guess i never really have lol i’m not big on like. planning out things to a T anyways

53 Not for me....

55) Black Hole: What’s the last thing you want to see?

jesus christ idk. if i knew i was dying afterwards it’d be sort of difficult to appreciate it. i’ll see whatever i see and i just try to appreciate Nice Moments as they happen. like, a nice sunset where i don’t die afterwards is the same as a nice sunset which is the last i ever see ever, same with anything else. pretty skies Are nice always though. but like idk even as a hypothetical i don’t really want to formulate my ideal demise. or see much of a purpose in doing so except i guess as a like, “ooh if you were going to die tomorrow what would you do today�� cuz it’s like goddamn idk? why ask? you’re not gonna Know, unless you are, in which case, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it or whatever. no wait scratch all that. looping kompenso clips until i die lmfao. really idk