#the wheel is...not quiet

[naamahdarling]

JUNIE USED THE WHEEL! Flat-out run!

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay but it's super interesting how

Din = Power = Ganondorf

Naryu = Wisdom = Zelda

Farore = Courage = Link.

Because Din, in the hylian creation myth, created the physical world. Naryu then created the laws - gravity, time, etc. And Farore finally created life - plants and people.

Din created the body, naryu the mind, Farore the soul.

And the triforce and its wielders so perfectly reflect that.

Ganon is physical power, he is big and intimidating and he breaks things. He is cunning and determined, but that's not what he focuses on. He is might makes right.

Zelda is wisdom and cleverness. She is stall tactics and information and team work. She is a powerful mage with a spine of steel, but that's not how she'll win. She is the pen being mightier than the sword.

Link is courage and persistence. He is the wild card sneaking behind enemy ranks, always moving, plunging into terrifying situations head first. He's a phenomenal fighter with a keen wit, but that's not what will get him through his challenges. He is bravery not being the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

They sit in perfect parallels to each other.

And ganon is reborn through his body - his resurrection is immortality. No matter how low he is cast, as long as he has a body he can claw his way back. He can cling to his power, build it ever higher.

Zelda is reborn through the magic of her bloodline. It's the accumulated knowledge handed down for generations, the unique power she must master, the skills she must develop to survive and get her kingdom out the other side intact. Even her name, the knowledge of herself, is handed down from all the way from the very first. Her ancestors knowledge of her future presence, her stability, is what gives her the edge.

Link is reborn in spirit. He is not bound by flesh or blood. Just like his wanderlust soul he can reappear in any time or place. His variation, his unpredictability, is exactly how he fights. It's what makes him so hard to pin down.

Ganons need to build strength means he can't chase after link. Links impulsiveness means zelda can outwit him. Zeldas stationary predictability means she's an easy target for ganon.

But the other direction?

Fire melts ice, ice redirects lightning, lightning burns fire.

And that's the very essence of the triforce.

[astraerystarr]

Mothra and Battra have me in my feelings again and I don't know what to do with it so woe; little doodles be upon us all

this was supposed to be a comic but I almost died just coloring this, I'm not finishing that thing >:(

[vomittedsoap]

Another poll

Besides who is your favorite,,, like who do you think you could actually tolerate to be around?. Like based on experiences with similar personalities as in the show. Cuz if you ask me, I think I could never get along with like 90% of these guys no matter how much I like the idea of them.

((put them in groups just to whittle down the options... feel free to comment any that weren't included rip, and you cant say Jacko or Neptune...that's cheating.))

[milkbreadtoast]

sum twsb phone doodles... well it's all cedric and jesse(yeseo) dkjfjd🫣

[evilphrog]

Pretty sure the overlap between the He Who Fights with Monsters fandom and the Wheel of Time fandom is like, five people. This is for you five.

[evil-ava-daniels-truther]

Perrin DOES dream of labor.

[moghedien]

the way Im so afraid to talk about any Moghedien moment that's gonna come in the season because I don't want to get my heart set on things that might not happen

[wardingshout]

Hi!! I just wanted to say that the way you draw characters/use colors in your art is an absolute dream, I've never seen anything prettier. Do you have a specific way you pick/use colors, or any advice for coloring? You inspire my art so much, and I'd love to learn how to color like you someday :)

@braventheninth gonna reply to both of you here hope that's cool!

aaaah thank you so much I'm really honoured to hear you both like it and that it inspires you anon !! ;v; I don't actually know much about art theory-wise, aside from very basic colour theory that I always forget so most of my choices are pretty instinctual and based on my own preferences!

i can do my best to explain my thought process though! uuh it is. lots of text though just as a warning.

one thing I tend to do with almost everything is pick what kind of colour mood I'm going for! usually, since I love orange and also warm feelings, I'll aim for some kind of warm tone and when doing that I try to slide every colour I pick towards the warm end of the colour wheel. Blacks and whites are especially good for this! As a general thing I almost fully avoid picking any colours along those edges of the colour picker

instead I'll move all my colour choices a nudge into the square for the colours towards the tone I want (in this case warm) (the white is there be warm too I just forgor to type it).

and since I wanted warm colours for this drawing I desaturated the blue of Brain's pants so it would fit in better. I once heard someone say you should always pick one main colour and saturate fully and the further away from it on the colour wheel you got, the more desaturated your colours should be. I don't really do that bc I like my colours to stay bright but I do keep it in mind to mess around with sometimes.

I'm not always great at keeping this consistent, but I think it usually makes for pretty decent results... Other things I keep in mind are that when I pick the colour for my shadows I always make a little slide on the colour wheel towards the opposite tone of what I based my main colours on. oh and picking the right base colours ?? no clue tbh I always put every colour on it's own layer and then I spend a couple minutes adjusting them all seperately until I feel like they go well enough together. I usually avoid the bottom to right section of the square fully, bc I find they often get oversaturated and muddy, but that's just a personal preference I guess.

also since I enjoy the way coloured lineart works for my stuff I tend to mess around with layer settings for my lineart! usually the end results will look something like this:

where the clipped layer is clipped on to my colours folder. lineart is the only place where I just use plain black since I'm gonna change it with these layer settings later. it often still shows up as black for darker colours (and especially blues?) but it keeps a slightly coloured edge that I enjoy. if the blacks of the end result don't look good, messing around with the layer opacity usually changes stuff up. sometimes I'll also erase part of the lineart from one of the layers as a way to adjust.

I think what might be more relevant though, is the way I've been picking my colours for most of my recent posts though, which is. very differently. and also quite dependant on the fact I've been drawing on Tegaki! Tegaki has a limited colour palette that looks like this

only the 6 colour slots next to the bottom greyscale can be replaced by your own colours. As shown here I only bothered to add something to half of them; mainly the beige-ish colour I like to use for whites, a brown that I never use bc it's ugly with everything else here and a purple? that I only Think I added. both the brown and purple suffer from being too desaturated for the rest of the palette, which makes them stand out in a pretty bad way when used tbh.

I have. absolutely no idea what I'm doing with colours on this site though ngl. I think it just automatically pushes you to be a little more chaotic with the choices? a simple example is the green I picked for Link's tunic here doesn't really have any good, easy choice for shading imo. most of the "darker" green tones just feel more saturated, and it sticks out pretty bad as a shading colour for the more muted green I picked for the tunic. Removing those, the choice was either a mossy green or a blue.

and while the mossy green is still green, it feels far too dark a shading colour compared to what I picked as shading for the rest of the drawing. The blue has the added bonus of being closer to the purple I used for the black-ish parts.

I think my point is that it's really easy to push yourself to make some fun new choices when the tools you're using limit you a bit in a way? Looking at it now, I'm also seeing that the hands were lined with very different colours. I remember just thinking that I couldn't be bothered to find the exact same purple I used for the first hand so I just went with the first thing I landed on, that being a pink. But now I think it works pretty well since the one hand is lifted a bit more into the light and that goes well for a bright colour like pink. happy accidents and all that right ?

I am fully just yapping at this point 🧍 but the point still goes for most things drawn on this site.

like there was no reason to add the blues or reds or pinks to the heather here but I only had so many purple shades to work with. it might be less realistic but I don't think it would've come out as well if I had stuck to only the purple shades from my reference photo.

This ended up way way too long and I have no idea if any of it made sense or was helpful at all, but it was surprisingly fun to reflect on my own choices a bit more! especially since I often just do whatever I feel like I think it's helpful to sit back and consider what instinct actually tells me it's the right thing to do.

in an attempt to do something actually helpful uuh I recommend messing around with 2 specific things and switching around with them a bit; namely limited colour palettes (like 1 or 2 main tones imo) and then just going absolutely ham and just using whatever colour for everything (make them orange! put some blue and purple on the bark! leaves can be blue if they want to! (go more ham than I did tbh))

I think just messing around does so much for making some kind of sense of colours even without Knowing how they work. it's easy to say we should all study, but personally I'm pretty bad at it and it's more fun to just trial and error it... errors do happen a lot though omg do they happen, but that's helpful for figuring stuff out too!

[a-special-ship-safe-space]

instructions unclear

doodled the ship instead

@candyheartedchy

[warpedpuppeteer]

Buddie headcanon: when Eddie has a nightmare about Buck getting struck by lightning, the only way he'll calm down is if he's lying down on Buck's chest to hear his heartbeat and feel his chest move because Eddie is haunted by the remnants of doing cpr on Buck's corpse on his fingertips. He'll only be able to go to sleep with Buck constantly talking to him, his words washing over him in soothing waves, because the worse part of it all was the silence there had been when he lost Buck. He couldn't hear Buck anymore; couldn't hear his heart or his voice or his bright laugh or his "Eddie". So he presses close to Buck's chest, and let's Buck's arms and words wrap around him comfortingly and lull him back to sleep.

[unreasonablereasoner]

I’ve read the books but I have literally no clue who’s going to die next episode. I’m terrified it’s going to be Moiraine—it’s been foreshadowed to death and it could be a strong driving force in Rand’s arc. But I do worry about viewership for a potential S4 if that happens. I can fully imagine a lot of people being justifiably upset with a bury your gays plot line, especially with Pike playing pretty much the lead role in S1 and S2. Disregarding the meta aspects, though, it makes sense for her to die plot—wise.

[squirrelwrangler]

For the colorism optics, I will say that I wish Ihvon's actor didn't have to be recast and thus Maksim written in to take over Ihvon's role (even if the Ihvon as the lynchpin between Alanna and Maksim works for angst- but Ihvon yelling that she never loved Maksim as much as he did would have also been angsty).

[onaperduamedee]

I was pondering whether to post it here because it isn't my turf but I was quite pleased with the result and even more pleased for daring to publish it

Here's my WoT Idol holiday parody of Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby, Forsaken style

Spoilers for the entire Wheel of time books series :

[aidenwaites]

i just know in my heart that the Prime WoT adaptation doesnt have a great chance of making it all the way to the end but it IS good. dont let anyone fool you. its good

[supurrb]

being the upstairs neighbor with a cat that is literally addicted to his cat wheel and scream cries if i take it away from him feels criminal. but here i am, silently groveling to my downstairs neighbor while i let nova get his sprints out before i take the wheel back down.