#this is from may 2022 i think

[melonimili]

a while ago i had the urge to draw seph as a catboy. hope you guys enjoy his sillyness

[ID: Digital drawing of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII, portrayed from the shoulders up. He’s wearing cat ears and a cat collar with a paw printed on its medal. He's smiling mischievously with his eyes closed. Tiny purple paws are spread in a white background. End ID]

[kingslayerstew]

jaimeilyn from the perspective of jaimes entourage...

[orykorioart]

June 2023

How could you forget Lup?

[Image Description: A 5-panel illustrated comic featuring Taako and Lup in a limited color palette of pink, light brown, light red, purple, blue and yellow. Taako is is depicted with light brown skin and dark hair, which he ties behind his back. He wears a purple cloak. Lup is depicted with light brown skin and dark hair, which she ties in front of her. She wears a red cloak.

Panel 1: Young Taako and Lup, on both sides of a pot. Lup is stirring as Taako looks in. Below the panel is captioned with purple text:

“What’s the feeling”

Panel 2: Close-up of young Taako and Lup. You can see half of their face, and they are excitedly talking to each other. Below the panel is captioned with purple text:

“When you have a broken home, home, home?”

Panel 3: Pans down to young Taako and Lup’s torso. They are standing close to each other, indicating that they are holding hands. Below the panel is captioned, text in purple:

“Where’s the love when you were left on your own”

Panel 4: Taako’s hand, wearing the Bureau of Balance bracer. His hand is relaxed, but alone. There is a brief out line of Lup’s hand, reaching out for his. Below the panel is captioned with purple text:

“So alone”

Panel 5: Taako is standing center-frame, and you can only see the bottom half of his face and his torso. There is a single tear rolling down his cheek, his mouth slightly agape. He is grasping the Umbrastaff tightly in one hand, holding it close to his chest. There is a faint outline of a hand on his shoulder. Below the panel is captioned with red text:

“Who said you’re on your own?” End ID]

[azolitmin]

Commission for Serena / Rinaworks 🌹

[tyrianludaship]

whenever a disney movie makes their villain unconventionally attractive to make them disgusting / to reflect their actions or whatever, all it accomplishes is making me love and adore them with all of my heart.

like sure yeah, that guy is a loan-shark and that lady tried to take over an entire kingdom, but what the hell did you expect from me when you made them look cool as shit while doing it?

[dead-petey-au]

REALLY ANCIENT ART. don't ask how I got these

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[oneprotagonistshort]

also a Dirk Gently WIP whenever just for kicks. from the ongoing Forces Unseen sequel

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“Holy shit,” Todd said, hearing Dirk come in through the door he’d left propped open. “Did you know we can see the Washington Monument from here?”

Dirk joined him at the window and wrapped an arm around his middle from behind. He was suddenly feeling a bit clingy, like he was going to need to front load all the cuddles he could get, which was abjectly ridiculous. Todd had never shied away from that, if anything it was Dirk who’d been jumpy lately about tender little moments like this. Still, Dirk couldn’t shake the feeling that he’d be wanting more of this later but might not be able to get it. He hooked his chin over Todd’s shoulder and squinted out the window, not sure what Todd was referring to. 

“The bloke on the penny’s house?” he asked, not seeing it. “I don’t think he lives in DC anymore, Todd.”

“What?” Todd asked, pulling back a little to look at him before pointing at a large lit-up obelisk surrounded by illuminated American flags. “No, that. I’ve only ever seen it in movies, National Treasure didn’t prepare me for the real thing.”

“Ohhh,” Dirk said, comprehension dawning as he held Todd close to his front. “You mean the giant pencil statue.”

“The giant—Dirk, that’s the Washington Monument. As in George Washington? It doesn’t even look like a pencil.”

“Doesn’t look much like George Washington either,” Dirk mused, and whatever retort Todd had been about to fire back was interrupted by the sharp trill of Dirk’s phone. 

[slashmagpie]

I can't find evidence of Cleo saying that THEY aren't a woman, but they DID at one point have to explain to someone that referring to their partner using gender neutral terminology wasn't because said partner was a woman (I'm pretty sure the partner was Cam. I'm not 100% on the timeline there)

Yeah, I found that while searching and it is 100% not what I'm looking for unfortunately. I think the original tweet might have been deleted (which is very fair) so I have been looking for the screenshot I originally saw on tumblr but that is very much like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

(From my memory: I'm pretty sure it was during the drama with that reddit mod a couple years ago over Cleo saying "shit" on stream, someone on twitter told her that her language was not appropriate for a woman or something like that and they responded with "I'm not a woman." However I have been looking for a solid hour at this point and am beginning to convince myself that maybe I never saw this in the first place and it was in fact a very vivid dream I had.)

[happyk44]

Jason Grace and Jason Todd are both huge boys who died once, with fat tiddies, capable and comfortable with murder, and have parental problems stemming from the day their mother betrayed them.

But they'd also fucking hate each other so much, I think.

[pasta-pardner]

spotify | you're a good man, arthur morgan.

(primarily blues, roots, and folk.)

[a-couple-of-notes]

full disclosure, as soon as I heard people thought kit was annoying, my contrarian brain kicked in and made her my favorite character without having seen a single second of the show. so that's where we started.

now I have seen the show, and maybe my contrarian brain is still running things, but I think kit's great and some of the discussion surrounding her makes me go huh?

(tw: suicide, under the cut)

for example, I've seen a bunch of people talking about this past episode and kit's rant at elora, attributing it to "misplaced anger." which, yes, that's a valid interpretation. kit is saying some horrible things to elora, it's stemming from a completely different hurt, elora doesn't deserve it. however, this glosses over what is (for me) the point of the scene, which is: kit is having an emotional breakdown and is goading elora into bringing the chamber down, possibly in an attempt to commit suicide.

the scene doesn't read to me like an argument. it isn't kit brattily picking the wrong time to hash all this out. kit's not even angry when she enters the scene: she's not storming in, looking to pick a fight with elora. instead, she's completely silent, numb, and traumatized.

elora didn't deserve what kit said to her. of course not. should kit have, ideally, understood the bigger picture or directed her emotions toward the "right" target (her absent father)? well...sure, I guess? but again, so many of the takes I see pointing this out seem to hand wave the context of - and I do mean this literally - kit being in the middle of a complete emotional/suicidal breakdown. (many of them do acknowledge kit's hurt, but rarely have I seen the extent of the situation made clear.)

so maybe disapproving of how kit is mean to elora and how she really should have been mad at her dad, actually, is not exactly what we were supposed to take away here?

[emma-d-klutz]

You know I really do not need Jeremiah Arkham to be Black Mask at any time ever. Someone’s gotta fill the niche of mental health professional who is 100% not a supervillain. A guy whose evildoing comes only as an example of what a psych ward can do to you if they just choose. 

The tension of knowing he started out extremely dedicated and genuinely wanting to help people, seeing him victimized and bullied by rogues in his care until even the last shreds of professionalism that held place of his already run down empathy wear out, and despite being sympathetic to this hopeless state being nonetheless nauseatingly horrified when he turns to abusing his patients because in his position he can just do that and hypothetically could have chosen to do that over anything,

is way better to have in there to work with Batman’s exploratory themes of power, justice, corruption and institution, mental illness, and ‘Society’ ect ect

than just saying “and then he snapped too much so now he’s in a legacy costume and a straight jacket too.” 

No hate to my other villains who have lost their licenses. Some of those guys are some of my favorite rogues, and I love them dearly, but we need one uncostumed one. 

(Yes, I am arguing that something from a giant superhero franchise should not have another costumed villain because themes, as if costumed villains is not the whole genre. I am also the sort of person who gave up on No Game, No Life after reading more volumes than I’d care to admit, because I got sick of wading through the gross parts waiting for them to tackle the subjects of debilitating phobias, isolation, codependency, and family that I thought were promised to me before realizing that was never gonna happen. So. Take me however you will. Please pretend reblogs are disabled bc tumblr isnt giving me the option rn)

[sntoot]

no way no way the last time i drew xenoblade was 2018 what the fuck????????????

[ikyw-t]

y'know I think about this tweet often. I don't think truer words have ever been spoken....

[cowsaresushi-coral]

Summary of 2022

Significantly less than last year given general exhaustion, but I’m surprised I had something for every month! And comparing the art to last year’s, uh, I didn’t realize it, but it’s definitely gotten better! Can’t say it’s a quality over quantity thing because though I drew less, I only spent a little bit more time drawing. Just got better, I guess. How dandy. Oh, and June when I did that commission was when I finally learned how to draw human heads, which I’m very happy about!

Was a very rough year, but hopefully next year will be better! Came out of 2022, and I’m here for 2023!

[not-to-be-gay-but-holy-shit]

Damn yall ever experience grief for the first real time during your existence on earth and then proceed to ghost everyone in your virtual life that you could conceivably ghost for a whole year