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Watch the World Burn (by Falling In Reverse) but I match the lyrics to characters from Once Upon a Witchlight DnD campaign
Frost Gricko Kremy Gideon Torbek
Yeah, I got voices in my head again, tread carefully
And I don't medicate, it helps me temporarily
I got problems, I got issues, yeah, apparently
Trauma that I'm burying, I think I need some therapy
I battle depression, I'm back with a message
I'm asking the question that if you hate me, why you acting obsessive?
I'm past the point of no return, fuck being passive-aggressive
I'll brandish a weapon, teach all you motherfuckers a lesson
I actually battle my demons and shadows
They swim in the deep, and they creep in the shallows, I'm lost
I gotta admit that I'm living the life that I've always wanted, but it comes at a cost
They're licking their chops, they're fixing to rip me apart, I'm swimming with sharks
I'm lifting the bar, I'm lifting it into the stars
I'm like a shot of adrenaline mixed with some Ritalin
You started a battle, but bitch, I'ma finish it
You think you can stop me? Not even a little bit
Nowadays, everybody's so sensitive
Taking my words and you pick it apart
Tripping on nothing, just get in the car
Gripping and ripping, I'm sticking the mark
I'm tipping the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charts
'Cause I got enemies trying to get rid of me
Evil tendencies are fucking with me mentally
I got people that don't like me in the industry
I can feel your energy, you are not a friend to me
'Cause I have been to places that you never wanna go, yeah
I got dirt on people, but they act like I don't know, yeah
I could do some damage but I'll never rock the boat
All it takes is one post, watch 'em fall like dominoes
You'll never get rid of me, too many mini-mes ripping my imagery
You know my history, it ain't a mystery
I put every enemy outta they misery
Somebody, send me some positive energy
About to go Darth, about to go Disney
Into the darkness, into infinity and
Shut you motherfuckers up, you listening?
Stacking every little pretty penny that I'm getting
And I'm never giving in to anybody, always winning
Never kidding when I die, I'm taking everybody with me
You're never gonna get me 'cause you'll never see it simply
I'm a motherfucking god, you're a light yawn, I'm a time bomb
And the vibes wrong, is this mic on?
I'm killing the syllables with a loaded refillable
I'm a lyrical, typical super villain, I'm venomous
And I'm never gonna stop until they put me on top of the list
I can't control the monster any longer that's inside
All:
The pain and sorrow left us hollow
No tomorrows hard to swallow
Death is calling so appalling
Tightrope walking, now I'm falling down
Like missiles falling from the sky
Come and save us
The pain and sorrow left us hollow
Here today, but gone tomorrow
The pain inside is the fuel that drives
This flesh and bone through blood-red skies
The death defying, hypnotizing
One day you're gonna figure out that
Everything they taught you was a lie
Watch the world burn
Ooh
The fear is what keeps you alive
Break the fucking chains, take back your life
The fear is what keeps you insane
Break the fucking chains, take away the pain
#ouaw#this is like. if i could drawn an animatic#or if this was a modern day band AU and they're singing this song on stage#idk i just heard this with the group on my mind and i was like woah#is this anything?#also yes yes they dont match EXACTLY but the only way to do that i write a custom song so i made do#a wadda do#lmao
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(SEASON 4 SPOILERS)
Here is the current wip for Dear Wormwood!!
#so far this is like. 30 seconds out of roughly 3 minutes *dies*#and the song is realllllyyyyy drawn out like there’s like 30 seconds of music#it’s a good song but I have no idea how I’m gonna fill that space in. maybe I could pull a dead wife flashback#I have a really good visual for the mood and what it’s about but the problem is my old enemy Getting Started (has ADHD)#i won’t be surprised if I scramble out of bed in the middle of the night because I had a good idea for a scene#Lego monkie kid#lmk#monkie kid#lmk animatic#animatic#wip#doodles#animation#monkie kid season 4#Lego monkie kid s4#lego monkie kid s4 spoilers#lmk s4 spoilers#lmk s4#SCREAM#lmk MK#lmk xiaotian#lmk ink mk#lmk ink
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this is the only mari3 dynamic i'll accept
(plus a little bit of agent 32 teehee)
#splatoon#agent 3#agent 4#agent 8#marie splatoon#marie cuttlefish#mari3#yes i made this video#the processing took 20 hours so i put it on youtube#it's not the best but it's good enough#just ignore how the motion tracking doesn't lock on right#or the times it flickers all over the screen like a hummingbird on crack#BUT IT'S GOOD ENOUGH#don't sub everything i'll ever post will be unlisted#Youtube#I COULD HAVE DRAWN AN ANIMATIC IN THE TIME IT TOOK TO UPLOAD THIS
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OC animatic for my film class; this took me two weeks and it's my first ever animatic, please be nice to me <3
Head AMVs can become a reality if you just believe in yourself
#cws in the description :) its about my oc toby. the most divorced man alive <3#animatic#original character#ocs#oc tag#toby#I feel like I could have drawn him wrinklier and a thicker but whatever#some of these drawings are a bit janky but I was working on this for 12+ hours straight several days in a row to finish before the due date#so I deserve a little bit of slack <3#Youtube
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yall im almost filled my sketchbook, and this is gonna be the first time in a literal decade that ive done that my god.
Might post some pages from it once its done.. I feel like this is the first time ive really done a sketchbook "right." Before i always felt pressured to just fill it with finished pieces, but thats;; not really what a sketchbook is for. Its for practicing! Trying out things! Etc.! So with this sketchbook i gave myself a really hard challenge: draw almost entirely in pen. I always hate drawing with pens cuz, yknow. cant erase if you make mistakes. So whenever im inking something im a nervous wreck the entire time. but now i was gonna do *everything* in pen. All my mistakes with be left there, all guiding lines and such will show. And this was very hard to do at first, but now its really natural! I actually like doing it this way now, which is kinda crazy to say. And i've filled it with a variety of things! There's me practicing things, just drawing random characters, lots of pages of me playing around with character designs, many pages of animatic plans, and some that were literally just me smearing paint on the page to test the colors or how it behaved. I even have a few sticky notes in it, and ive taped a couple of things in! A while back i was trying out acrylics for the first time, so i ripped out a few pages to experiment with trying to fill the whole page with paint and see how the paper would fare. And they look atrocious, cuz i really didn't know how those paints worked, but hey! It was me trying things out! So despite me being slightly tempted to just throw them out, i actually taped them back in. And another time I didn't have my sketchbook with me when I was hit with inspiration for a character design, so i drew it on index cards and taped em in so all my design notes would be in one place. But more than one index card didn't really fit on the page, so i had to cut the others into weird pieces so they could fit. And these sorts of pages are my favorites! Its satisfying to flip thru my sketchbook and come across very different or "out of place" pages. Im hoping to do more stuff like that with the next one!
#josh talks#dang somehow i always surprise myself with how much i can yap about a simple subject that shouldve taken a few sentences#but yeah i wont be giving like a whole sketchbook tour cuz one that would take forever#and 2 my anxiety says no :(#some things im embarrassed about even tho nothing ive drawn is embarrassement worthy..#but since a large majority of the drawings were done in pen there are some especially messy pages#and like i have multiple animatics mapped out in this sketchbook. and for those i draw fast and small#all i need is to have something that will help me remember my idea#so a lot of them look extremely ugly and strange#which!! shouldnt be an issue!! i shouldnt be embarrassed!! but brain says no :(#im already gonna show some pages im a little anxious about so im not gonna push too hard into facing my fears territory#theres a time and place for that and ive decided to save my mental power for another battle#but thankfully im mostly excited to show them off!#maybe yall will find it interesting.. cuz since i cant erase anything you can see all the guiding lines and like#character “skeletons” for posing n such#i think i use a sort of “skeleton” method that ive seen people say NOT to do lmao#just goes to show that sometimes u can ignore art advice#i mean maybe a different method would lead to better art somehow#but eh im happy with how my drawings have been going for years with this method#maybe it could be better but its still good this way <3
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Oh look, a younger ford blushing picture...
I... may or may not be making something...
#stanford pines#gravity falls ford#gravity falls fanart#Uhh I've never once like interacted with the tumblr gravity falls fandom#Also i technically have a fandom blog but uhhhh there's too much notifications and now I'm avoiding it because it's scary-#TT^TT#But anyways yeah I'm tryyyying to make some sort of PMV/animatic or something:DD#Which I've attempted before but I've never gotten as far as now so yay!#And it's a very short song and i mightn't do the full one anyway so realistic goals B)#I expected to get this far with like a warrior cats thing seeing as that's been my most consistent obsession lately#Plus the thing I've drawn 90% of the time lately (admittedly 99% of my drawing is doodles in class)#But the billford obsession took over like yesterday and it's too strong#Like i read ONE fic and now this is happening TT^TT#Also it's a crime that there's only one billford animatic on youtube#A CRIME#Like come onnn y'all have seen the piano serenade + whatever simping in journal 3#At least the animatic is really good though nice and toxic and fucked up :3#Because like i don't get wholesome billford stuff because there's NO WAY their relationship could EVER be healthy without huge au stuff#But yeah I've been playing the animatic on loop and i think my brother hates the song from it by now#But yeah i think this is it for my 2 am ramble!#That's why i love tags#Don't have to worry about being annoying XD
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this is how you tell i've been drawing almost exclusively for a podcast for 6 months but between the blackbox archive and the entire orv webtoon god i am feeling so SPOILED for references
#asto speaks#orv mumbles#rwd is the main culprit but tbf arknights didn't help#i just got so used to drawing designs that are a. moderately to massively complicated b. partially obscured so i have to infer parts#and with orv it's like a. the main characters designs are so nice to draw bc THEYRE WEBTOON CHARACTERS THEYRE DESIGNED TO BR DRAWN LIKE#50 TIMES VERY FAST#IM DEFINITELY NOT SIDE EYEING NOIR RN /aff#k-lb a man designed to be drawn once and once only and me the fool who has probably drawn him like 6 times by this point#and at this point in the webtoon kdj and yjh has been drawn in like every angle under the sun and i am *so grateful* for it#yeah me drawing orv is just such a. rat in the rice jar moment. hell yeah#and omg wait the main score from the webtoon: THE ENVIRONMENTS. THE BACKGROUNDS#like the fuckin. suffering i had to go through to draw the backgrounds for my rwd animatic#there are literally zero visual references for what an average street in tu'narath looks like in ALL OF DND CANON HELLO???#and now its like if i want to know what post apocalyptic seoul looks like i could just LOOK AT THE WEBTOON. AND ITS THERE#insane. absolutely delightful
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Nearly Witches by Panic at the Disco always makes me try to draw pre-betrayal Ford in Awe of Bill over and over again with no success </3
#billford music#its about the Vibes it just Captures a Feeling of Reverent Awe during the chorus and Especially the Ending#and during the verses its this hopeful eager self-confident icarus-metaphor energy#I just want to make an animatic that is SO full of reverent-and-in-awe ford and icarus metaphors#ford literally looking up at bill and then he's looking up at the sun and reaching towards it and then the sun is bill again and he grins#grins a toothy too-wide grin and then the circle thats been the sun and bills eye then becomes the portal and ford falls into it#idk theres so many ways it could end I am so full of thoughts and have drawn Zero of the animatics I've thought of about these two.#but the plan for this animatic. the Plan at the very least. practically writes itself.#I never listened to Any panic at the disco songs until I looked through billford playlists to find music about them.#and now I listen to like. 2-3 of them.#like. come on. a literal angelic choir singing out 'Mona Lisa pleased to meet you'.#its About Them. ford seeing bill and being like 'wow! you are like a legendary work of art! I should sing hymns about you!'#sometimes you gotta not worry about the lyrics being really vague and just Bask In the Vibes#tags essay#godsrambles
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Absolutely frothing at the mouth. Losing my MIND!!!
THIS!!!! IS INCREDIBLE. Oh my god, we had the sketch of this pointed out to us on instagram, and were both like "oh my god it can't get any better than this," and now there's a full illustration and i'm losing my MIND. The way you drew this- the lighting and the angle and the attention to detail... Grian's face as he swoops in to save the day, and Scar being such a handsome bad ass, with the zombies in the background. It's literally exactly how I pictured this scene in my head, and it's so classically Zombie that I can't get enough of looking at it. It's the platonic ideal of what something zombie related should look like. I love it- I'm like.... I want to put this on my wall!
Also can I just say that we're both soooo thrilled and so flattered you enjoyed TAMN! I'll be honest, I've been a huuuge fan of your work and have been sooo inspired by it in the past (and had a lot of your videos playing in the background while I worked on TAMN!) so this is really awesome hahaha. THANK you thank you! We love this piece (and can't wait to see more! aaaa!!!) <3 <3 -🔒
It's finished! There Are Monsters Nearby is complete!
This fic has been the best piece of literature I've read in a while and I'd like to thank Key and Lock @uhohbestie for sharing an absolutely jaw-dropping and heart-wrenching piece of fan fiction with the community. This one's going in the pdf saves to make into a hardcover book for my library one day. Thank you guys so so much.
I feel a little bit behind as I missed most of the hype for the fic, since I've only read it all these last two weeks 😅 but in the next week I'll be sharing all the finished arts and sketches I've made for the fic while reading it. It was so inspiring for me and it's kinda what's gotten me back into MCYT recently.
Absolutely amazing <3
Also this scene is from chapter 19 when they get the vespa :3
#TAMN fanart#I can't get over their faces....#smug and tired and dirty#totally in sync despite it all#they mean the world to me and i LOVE how you've drawn them#like a wrap-around cover or something........ GOSH <3#(Key here!!! 🔑) LIKE LOCK SAID#we’ve loved your art for a while now and have gushed over your animatics and other work before#so when we saw the sketches we were stunned and sooo grateful!#this one especially i couldnt stop imagining in its completed form so IMAGINE MY DELIGHT to see it now!#it is truly SO beautiful and you’ve gotten their expression down SO well#grians grin and scars more serious expression aaaaaaa WHAT A TIME THIS CHAPTER WAS#IT ALL FEELS SOOOO LONG AGO#thank you so much for reading and enjoying our fic and making beautiful fanart for it to boot :’)#AND HEY!!!!! it’s never too late to join in on the hype!! >:D#there are plenty of sidefics to come and Lock and I are always happy to chat about TAMN here or on ao3 or on the server 💕#THANK YOU AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING AND SOOO HAPPY TAMN COULD INSPIRE YOU 🥹🥹🥹 -Key
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Been thinking a lot about the queer rep of the qsmp and like how much i appreciate characters saying full stuff about being only into women, or liking men, or being gay in general. Like I remember distinctly during the first movie night is when it first hit me. The milk carton animatic was playing and it ends with qcellbit and qroier kissing at the wedding. And like i remember physically looking away and preparing to see one or both of them be really uncomfortable or joke about it. But they were really happy about it instead and I felt like just weird relief from it. Cause like yeah mc smp's tend to be very homoromantic, but everyones tends to be very almost prudish about wanting those relationships to be shown or go anywhere or be drawn kissing and stuff like that( At least in previous smp fandoms I've been in). Then, although it was before that moment, cellbit saying "I want to be gay and happy" although funny, it's just so nice to hear the word and have it not be a joke or not danced around cause someone's uncomfortable with it. Like the character likes men and wants to be gay and happy, simple as that. Then you have q!bagi saying that she's only interested in women, and liking melissa, but not roier, even though they're the same person. Then there's q!fit who told Ramon "I'd prefer another dad for you" and just how much knowing his backstory that being canonically a gay man adds to his characterization(i could write like a 5 page paper on that alone). And on top of it all it's the language and seriousness of all the relationships as well. Foolish and Vegetta were calling each other boyfriends, and 'my love', people go on dates and talk about what they want out of their relationship and how they're feeling about it, and like it's even normal for a lot of the couples to normalize implying or just having straight up sex (thanks for the trauma slimeriana and maxpierre/lh). Like I know I'm rambling, but, it genuinely means so much to like have the queer romance be explicitly queer and also more than just a joke. Like in ways I didn't realize at first, but it's kinda fucking awesome.
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This one goes out to all the slow burn enjoyers, the dense Y/Ns, and the soft robo jesters that suffer in silence!
Inspired by @bamsara's “Solar Lunacy” fic.
If you feel like reading my ramblings and want to experience more heartbreak for fictional jester blorbos, check under the cut where I detail all the planning behind the frames!
so i heard this song for the first time in a while and the opening lyrics immediately made me think of moon, so i was daydreaming some scenes and then i decided to thumbnail some ideas:
and it all went downhill from there as everything became a metaphor and a parallel to each other, which i will now go into detail on!
you thought the animatic itself was sad?
*writing muse laughs maniacally* IT'S ALL A METAPHOR
Frame 1. "turn down the lights" We start with a back view on Moon. The lights are out, the Moon is out, but we do not see his face. The music and the greyscale atmosphere are enough to establish the weight of the moment and the weight on Moon’s mind.
Frame 2. "turn down the bed" We cut to a shot of Moon's body, kneeling on the ground of the daycare, like a padded cell. Moon’s hands are twitching with the effects of the glitch, with purple sparks coming from his hands. We still do not see his face.
Frame 3. "turn down these voices inside my head" Cut to an extreme close up on the dark half of Moon’s face. Now we see his face, but only a portion of it. His left eye is wide open, red and glitching out. The voices in his head can refer to the glitch but also his repressed feelings. Or maybe it could be Sun's voice in their shared headspace.
Frame 4. "lay down with me" Y/N's hand enters the frame from the upper right corner, lowering down to meet Moon where he kneels on the ground. Only a corner of Moon's face appears on the bottom left corner of the frame, his starry nightcap beginning to cover his glitched left eye.
Frame 5. "tell me no lies" An full shot of Moon on the floor and Y/N standing in front of him with their hand stretched towards him. A light spills out from behind Y/N, creating a boundary between them.
Now we see more of Moon. It is only when Y/N enters the frame—enters his world—that Moon’s body is shown in its entirely. When Y/N is here, he is no longer fragmented. He is whole.
Frame 6. "just hold me close" pspspspsps Playfully, Moon extends his own hand, beckoning Y/N to come closer, to join him. His right hand crossed over his body as he uses the playful gesture to hide his true feelings—to put distance between him and Y/N. His hat continues to cover his glitching left eye. He doesn’t want to worry Y/N.
Frame 7. "don't patronize" In response, Y/N’s hand pats Moon on the head, returning his playfulness. Moon looks surprised by the action. Moon, notably, does not lower his hand—perhaps he has forgotten it or perhaps his invitation is still open.
Frames 8-9. "don't patronize me" Moon rotates his faceplate so Y/N’s hand is touching the side of his faceplate, a more intimate gesture than a head pat. However, his hat is in the way. At this angle, his starry nightcap fully covers his glitchy eye and the dark side of his face, hiding his defect and acting as a veil between him and Y/N. A self-imposed boundary. So close, yet thinly separated. It's better this way. It's safer this way.
The lyrics are broken up by Y/N's arm, both to illustrate how the song is sung ("patronize" is drawn out and "me" is briefly added in before the chorus starts) but also to show how Y/N interrupts Moon's resolve, highlighting the irony between the visuals and the lyrics. Demanding not to be patronized, yet Moon happily accepts this play at intimacy. Don't patronize me, I am weak for it.
This is also the only instance where the red light of Moon's eyes glow and tint the surfaces around it. Visually, it makes it look like Moon is blushing (heavily inspired by @restinsodaroni's art). But also, in this moment of honesty, Moon's intrinsic light spills out, colouring the greyscale world. In this brief moment of honesty, Moon touches the world with his own colours, his own light.
(and this is also where i forgot to clean up the shading on Y/N's arm, but it's okay it doesn't need to be perfect it simply needs to be. And Moon will still love Y/N even if they are a continuity error.)
Frame 10. "'cause I can't make you love me if you don't" A parallel to a frame 4, Y/N retrieves their hand away and immediately Moon is reduced to the corner of his faceplate in the frame. Only now his glitched eye is fully covered by his hat.
The lyrics here (and in the next frame) in particular grow lighter to emphasize Moon's diminishing resolve and agency.
From here on out, the lyrics here are broken up, carrying on this theme of fragmentation. Y/N is pulling away, Moon is breaking up, the words are breaking up. Everything is coming apart.
Frame 11. "you can't make your heart feel something it won't" Y/N turns to leave. The lyrics, broken up as before, highlight the irony of the situation. Y/N, a human, can’t feel something they simply don’t feel. Whereas, Moon, the machine, feels something his code never intended him to feel.
Frame 12. "here in the dark in these final hours" Another full shot that parallels frame 5, as Y/N steps towards the light and Moon leans forward into the space Y/N once occupied. Y/N is leaving—that which makes him whole is leaving. And he is only capable of making it to the boundary where the light cuts into the darkness. The "final hours" suggest it might be the end of Y/N’s shift, or perhaps this scene takes place right before the glitch takes over—the final hours that Y/N has with the true Moon. Either way, time is running out—and only Moon knows it.
There is a contrasting display of body language here. Moon is on the floor leaning towards Y/N with his hand still left out. Whereas Y/N is turned away, walking away, and has already slipped their hand away and into their pocket. Y/N is closed off while Moon is limply open. Y/N is actively moving while Moon is on the floor, waiting, hoping, for that which he lacks the agency to reach for himself.
Frame 13. "I will lay down my heart" A close up on Moon’s hand, rising up again, perhaps to beckon Y/N back once more. This is a slight parallel to Y/N's hand reaching out to Moon. While Y/N can freely reach out and touch Moon, Moon cannot. He can't enter the light and more importantly he can't risk potentially harming his relationship with Y/N—be it through the glitch or by his feelings. He can only lay down his heart—put aside his feelings or hope that someone will pick up his pieces and make him whole.
Frame 14. "and I'll feel the power" Still on a close up on Moon’s hand, now clenched in slightly. This initially was going to have the glitch effects. However, I felt it more meaningful for it to be left without. Leave it up for interpretation why Moon pauses his hand. What is the power that he alone feels and stays his hand?
Frame 15. "but you won't, no, you won't" A parallel to frame 1, a view of on Moon's back with his hand stretched out towards the light, and Y/N walking into the light spilling through the open daycare door.
The placement of the lyrics suggest two different “you won’t”—Y/N who won’t realize Moon’s feelings, and Moon who won’t dare speak them into reality.
Another note on the parallel to frame 1, this time we also see Y/N's back, but it is notably different from our view of Moon's back. With Moon, we literally see inside him through the hole for his loop. However, Y/N is shrouded in shadow, just a solid, obscure silhouette against the bright light of a world Moon—and Sun for that matter—are closed off from. We don’t see into Y/N, just as the Daycare Attendant doesn't have any vantage point of Y/N's life beyond their time at the PizzaPlex. (The unfortunate reality of a being a character made for the purpose of being a vessel for the reader.)
Frame 16. "'cause I can't make you love me" We finally cut to face Moon head-on, frozen in place with his hand stretched out, unable to cross the boundary into the light. His eyes have gone dark. Where we began by seeing bits and parts of Moon, and never seeing his full face—now we, the viewer, see the full Moon, open and vulnerable—unbeknownst to Y/N.
Frame 17. "if you don't" But in the dark, behind closed doors, there is no one to perceive him—no one to receive him. The light dwindles as the daycare doors are closed. Moon stays frozen where he kneels. It is no longer the glitch that plagues him, but a far deeper dread.
But a lone streak of light peaks through the gap in the daycare doors. Perhaps that is just enough. A silver lining. A frail hope. A single, ethereal thread out of darkness and into light.
Thanks for reading and watching!
We'll be back to our regularly scheduled fun and games shortly!
#fnaf moon#fnaf dca#dca fandom#so this idea had me by the throat ever since I heard this song again#I've never done an animatic before but I wanted to give it a shot#the opening lyrics already reminded me of moon right off the bat#but then i kept listening and started thumbnailing some frames#it was actually the frames with moon receiving the head pat and turning his faceplate that convinced me i had to do this lol#the sweetest images resulted in this work of angst#thank you if you read all this!#i promise to post something cute soon to balance things out#and no promises but i will say the second verse of the song is PERFECT for sun#“morning will come and I'll do what's right just give me 'till then to give up this fight” /lyrics#hahaha it hurts :')#crab art#traditional art#digital art#traditionally inked and digitally coloured#animatic
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you are love itself (君は愛そのものだ)
cw. fem!reader, childhood friend au, established relationship, love as worship, love as a choice, reader has a defined devil fruit ability
pairing. portgas d. ace x reader
synopsis. his skin is dotted in stardust.
notes. a 1.3k look into those short moments of privacy you have with ace on the moby. i got the title from 'therefore you and me' after rewatching this amazing asl brothers animatic for the billionth time. cover comes klimt's the kiss (1908).
Everything is made of stardust; the stars that made Ace are simply visible to the eye.
They couldn't be contained in the depths of his body like the rest of the world's inhabitants. It's scattered all across his skin in a beautiful display, matching the skies they fell from. Isn't that something? You brush a hand against warm skin in awe. It's all right there. The stars themselves rest upon his skin, how beautiful is that? How could anyone want someone like that dead?
When you were children, Ace told you he would bring you the moon.
What do you need the moon for when you've been touching the stars since you were 10?
Straddling his lap, you can't help laughing as you think you'd been fighting a losing battle from the start. From the beginning, you'd been drawn to Ace and his stars and you wanted to follow where they'd go for the rest of your life.
"What's so funny?" Ace murmurs into your shoulder.
"I think I was born to love you." It is the only plausible conclusion for you to reach after 10 years of loving the same person. For the half of your life you've known him, you've chosen Ace from day one. You will continue to choose him for the rest of the life you have. You chose to chase him all around Mt. Corvo, you chose to be his friend, you chose to join his crew and your heart chose him even if your head had been slow to realize. "We don't need to find the One Piece," you murmur as you lead a trail of kisses from his shoulder to Ace's cheek. "I already have everything the world has to offer right here."
You feel Ace stiffen beneath you before he laughs sheepishly, "I think you need to have your eyes checked if you think that."
"Hey," you lean back so you can see his face. Your brows are furrowed sternly but your eyes sparkle with mischief and your lips stretch into a challenging grin. "I have better eyes than you, I can see the soul."
Ace snorts but his voice is light and as warm as the smile painting his face, "souls of the dead, yeah." Smiles suit Ace more than the frowns that were once commonplace when you were younger.
"That still counts," you protest with a chuckle. He doesn't have to believe he's worthy of it, you'll tell Ace all the same. You cup his face in your hands and enjoy the vibration of his mellifluous laughter under your fingers tips as you squeeze his cheeks. "There's a lot you can learn about this sort of stuff when you can see the dead." How the soul carries its wounds even after death. How the soul carries the essence of everything that makes something itself. How love can carry on beyond the grave.
You've seen it countless times by now in your truthfully short time of being a power holder.
The spirit of a man who wanted a few berries to leave as a surprise his husband could stumble upon to brighten his day.
An elderly woman dancing in the town square, seemingly alone following the steps she took with her lost love long ago. Unbeknownst to her, however, her love danced with all the same as they did once a long time ago.
Pods of orcas full of members past and present, refusing to part from their birth pod even in death.
How beautiful it is, a love like that.
Even while deceased, they choose to remain by their beloved all the same.
Whenever it is Ace's time, he'll take his stars with him and they will rest on his skin just as they did when he was alive. But I'll make sure you're so happy you won't want to stay, you vowed when you partook of the sea's cursed fruit. You carry this vow even now. Ace will die a happy death but more importantly, he will live a long and mirthful life.
(You can tell for as sure as your eyes are dry; the urge to cry and scream in mourning and warning nonexistent. Still it's your heart's desire that you go first so you don't ever have to risk the day you know death will come for Portgas D. Ace.)
"You know what I think," you cease your pinching, letting your lax thumbs stroke his face. Dark eyes look up at you like you're a dream and gold like sunlight rests in your chest. It's light yet heavy and even if your heart is calm, its rhythmic beating tells you something precious. And he's so, so precious. "I think that when people move on, they're reborn as someone else. Then they get to live life all over again. And one day, that's gonna happen to us."
Then you'll cease to be the 'you' you have been and so will he.
Maybe that time, you'll be raised in separate seas and there will be no trio of brothers you'll latch onto. Maybe he'll be born somewhere in Paradise but I'll be from the West Blue. Or maybe he'll be a fishman. Or a giant!
Maybe next time, Ace will be a short girl with firey auburn hair and chocolate brown eyes with the disposition to match. Or he'll be a scarred and gruff dragon moray eel fishman who is an overt romantic.
Maybe next time his stars will follow him as the marker that ties him to his previous life. Then you'll recognize him the moment you see him. But even if I don't, I'll love you then too. You don't need reminders of who he was to make you want him again.
Whatever the outcome may be, you will embrace it wholly.
"Whenever that happens, I'm gonna find you and I'm going to love you all over again. You can be a girl or a giant or a fishman." Or maybe he'll be the tiny human and you'll be the giant. It will be nice being taller than Ace for once, you tell him as much with a laugh. There's a spot of wetness at the corner of his eyes that you wipe away instinctively. "Or… maybe this world runs in one big loop and we get to be us again but that time we get to make different choices. Do the stuff we didn't do last time. But regardless of all the different things I might end up doing, the one thing that is gonna stay the same is that I'll choose you all over again."
There's a pause before Ace ducks from your gaze with a wet laugh, forehead pressed against your shoulder again. The unmistakeable feel of warm droplets subsequently follow. "Thatch must be cutting onions," he chuckles weakly. "Sorry."
"Dummy," you wrap your arms around his shoulders and inhale his scent. There's a natural sweetness to it you can't explain; it's sweet but there is a peppery kick. It's been that way since the first day you met him. I love him, I love him, I love him. The sentiment echoes throughout your entire being. "it's okay to cry."
"Would you really want me again?" His voice is soft and unsure like a young bird who doesn't know if it can trust its wings.
Who else would I want?
Why would I want anyone else?
I've known you for 10 years, Ace. There's nothing about you I don't want.
"Over and over again," you kiss his temple once, twice and then a third time before you lift his head and kiss the corners of his eyes. "It's you and no one else."
A noise of surprise escapes you when Ace's lips press against your own but you relax a beat later, humming tenderly. You relish every sensation, how his arms wrap around you tight and how his fingers gently dig into your back. The taste of salt on your lips is akin to the ocean and your heartbeat reverberates throughout your chest.
Yes, it's telling you something precious.
#look she's writing#one piece x reader#op x reader#ace x reader#portgas d ace x reader#portgas d ace#i used ellipsus to write this to give it a test run#look it's self shipping hours#flaming pearls#sea otters#drabble in my brain that i couldn't get out so now y'all have to deal with it#flaming pearls (sea otters)
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Akdjakkdjs yes I'm alive! I'm actually in my final year rn so I got a Final Year Project to do before I intern around next year October. xD
Sorry for not being alive, I had the summer off and was just goofing off and drawing anytime I could. ( ˋ ⁻̫ˊ)
I got a little bit of stuff for your LMK AU but they're all just sketches atm hahaha
@floofypan i hope u know I saw u in my notifs and went "*gasp* floofypan!! Ur alive!!" asfkfksjddj
#Little rant because I feel bad over my radio silence--I've been hella intimidated by the prospect of continuing the animatic / PMV as I want#(like adding full colored background)#I'VE NEVER DRAWN ANY TYPE OF BACKGROUNDS SO OF COURSE I'M SCARED AND LOWKEY SETTING MYSELF UP FOR FAILURE LMAOOO#So you know what. //breathes// For now..#I think I'll just focus on completing the general scene ideas I had and try adding the backgrounds bit by bit.#I can't animate and was suggested I could do a PMV instead so I might just do that.#This will still have to wait ofc since i got classes now and tasks to do in general but yea sounds like a plan!#End of rant sorry bout that (;´∀`)#reblogs#ritz-writes
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Captain Ava & Captain Lizzie
literally cannot wait until we get more development on this plot bc it’s so so good
also I got around to listening to the Black Rose One-shot and Lizzie was originally blonde??? ik her design was changed a lot during the campaign in general but I’m deciding to play around with that info—I’m thinking she started dying it after joining Shadowbeard’s crew
anyways thoughts I had about Ava/the Ferin’s while designing her (possible spoilers or maybe just incoherent rambling):
gave her a rifle bc I feel like she’d have sharpshooting capabilities on par with Drey, but a pistol just didn’t seem appropriate for her. but I also see her favoring close-range attacks so she also gets a big knife as a treat
I think it’s mentioned in an episode how Jay looks more like their mother, May, so personally I think Ava resembles Jayson much more with certain aspects (specifically height, nose shape, eye color, hair ‘style’— Jay got his more square-ish face shape and broad build; they both have the same eye shape)
expanding on that fiery hair ‘style’ thing— I’m thinking that’s smthn that just kinda comes with the Ferin abilities and I’m thinking those powers need to be unlocked in a way?? there’s no other reason I can think of as to why Jayson has the flaming hair and specific magic skills while Jay doesn’t, so I’m thinking Ava may have been more in-tune with/naturally drawn towards the Ferin magic (esp since we see her using that golden form during the animatic sequence in ep101) while Jay become more influenced by May’s magic (since I think she spent the most time with her esp after Ava’s death). maybe Jay and Drey suppress their Ferin abilities (Drey def intentionally, Jay maybe a bit unintentionally?) and it could kinda explain why Jay has special blood: she’s a mix of two [supposedly] powerful magical heritages
I also have this thought that Ava may have unlocked these powers earlier than most of the Ferin’s, resulting in a fate similar to Gillion’s where she was regarded with pride for this yet constantly pressured and trained into becoming a weapon for the Navy (perhaps by request of Grandma Fey, who seems to be a very controlling character and could be the reason Jayson acts so cold and ruthless). and when she failed to uphold their beliefs that’s when The Order was given (maybe they found out about her & Lizzie???)
BUT in comparison to Jayson who absorbed himself in his work, and Gillion who was forcibly separated from his family, Ava was able to visit home often and had May and Jay to lean on as a support system. that connection alone could’ve helped separate the brutality and violence of her work in the Navy from her actual personality—the one that she became admired for and the one Lizzie was drawn to. it could also be speculated that she had the same ideas as Kira and Jay: that she could make the Navy better from the inside (obv this would be more difficult if she was held to high expectations, but she could’ve been on her way to making it work)
speaking of Jay—I think I remember a moment where someone explains how Jayson didn’t want her to join the Navy at all, and I always thought this was odd considering how it was moreso pointed towards her rather than Ava (as well as the fact that the Ferin’s ostracize those who don’t join, like Drey). this would coincide with my theory that Ava was expected to join bc of ‘unlocking’ her powers early, so maybe Jayson didn’t want Jay joining due to the fact that she hadn’t tapped into her Ferin powers yet, but Jay being Jay decided to enlist anyways and eventually gained a different motivation for her involvement than the rest of the clan [thanks to Kira & Ava]. or there was another thing at play. idk kinda just throwing smthn at the wall with this one bc that little comment stood out to me and I can’t remember if it even happened lol
also do we think the whole ‘sun nightmare’ is like,,, a test to unlock those abilities?? we know Jay and Drey opted to jump into it which kinda resulted in some magic golden eye phenomena (which we’ve seen in action once by Drey), but the issue here is when Jay rejected the heat the first time it just resulted in pain. so what would’ve been the option that leads the Ferin bloodline to become so powerful? do they choose to combat the sun?? do they conjure up heat of their own until they overpower it??? so many questions
gaaahhh I can’t wait until they’re out of the Black Sea so we can delve into this more bc I’m tired of feelin like this:
#lots of thoughts about these two#the drama and angst is just *chefs kiss*#my art#digital art#jrwi#jrwi podcast#just roll with it#just roll with it podcast#jrwi riptide#jrwi spoilers#jrwi fanart#jrwi ava#jrwi ava ferin#ava ferin#jrwi lizzie#jrwi lizzie lafayette#jrwi elizabeth lafayette#lizzie lafayette#jrwi waning crescent
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A quick message to Goodtimeswithscar fanartists!
If you tend to draw/portray Scar in fanart with zero mobility/disability aides (wheelchair, cane, cannula, etc), or with them but in a way that pretty much disregards their existence (keeping the cane on his back at all times, making the cane purely aesthetic and not functional, treating the wheelchair like it's as light as a feather and can go anywhere, drawing cannulas but no oxygen tank, etc), I just want you to take a second and ask yourself why you portray it that way.
Scar has stated that he is ok being drawn with or without being visibly disabled, but he sees the wheelchair as a big part of himself ([LINK]). I'm not here to force anybody to do anything. But I just want you to seriously consider why you minimize or completely erase his disability. Is it just because he's a minecrafter and therefore he's not disabled in-game (debatable because when making fanart, the medium and therefore many universal constants are 100% malleable, not to mention how his disability does indeed affect his content such as when he is forced to take breaks, falls out of his chair, etc)? Or could it be that you are uncomfortable with the fact that he's disabled, or at least uncomfortable portraying/acknowledging that in your art? Could it be that you're afraid to get it wrong, don't know how, or simply don't feel like it? Please don't take this as an attack, but a small ask to consider the reasoning behind this design choice.
I do not use mobility aides as my physical disabilities would not be benefitted from them, but I am quite active in the online disabled community, and please believe me when I tell you that physical disabilities are erased enough. They are ignored and minimized enough. If you look in the comments of Scar's videos, if you look at the donations that were read during the charity event a couple of months ago, you will see so many people using mobility/disability aides (or not because they can't get them for many reasons, but need them very much) who are so encouraged by Scar doing what he does, by seeing a representation of their experience and community that they very, very rarely see (and even when they do it's in a pitying, infantilizing, or degrading way). When you draw fanart of Scar, please consider this. Please consider why you are erasing or minimizing his disability, and if you find it in your heart, please consider a design change.
There are aesthetically pleasing ways to include mobility aides. Some great ones I have seen are linked below if you want design inspiration. And plus, if nothing else, it will help you become a better artist by diversifying your experience:
[LINK] - An example animatic with a cane. While it is sometimes on his back, it's usually when he's flying (how would he use it? It makes sense for it to be put away). While he's walking it is being used properly. We don't see him walking around much since it's an animatic, but if I animated it more thoroughly, I would show that he had a clear limp, fatigue, or other difficulty walking, to avoid the "cane solely for aesthetic" interpretation.
[LINK] - An example animatic with a wheelchair, which is coincidentally the same scene. There was a fantastic one where his wheelchair transforms into a flying machine but I searched for 30 minutes and can't find it, so if someone knows the one please link it!
[LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] - Great example drawings with wheelchairs.
[LINK] [LINK] - Drawings with canes.
P.S. all of this goes for writing and other non-visual forms of fanart too!! I see him written disabled even less often than I see him drawn disabled.
Thank you for reading all of this. I hope it helps somebody.
#goodtimeswithscar#gtws#gtwscar#gtws fanart#hermitcraft#hermitcraft fanart#life series fanart#life series#traffic smp#trafficblr#traffic series#disability#mobility aid#fanart#If someone who uses mobility/disability aides sees this please feel free to reblog and weigh in!#schipperke's posts
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what sucks about art school is that I spent forever on this less than a year ago and thought it looked pretty solid at the time and now it already looks like total ass to me
actually here’s all three of my lovelies together and this will probably look awful in dark mode but oh well
#i am doing turn arounds for lloyd and evelyn right now and I'm using this as a ref#and it's just like... ergh#like good in pieces but as a whole i could do better now#and in a way i am because i'm redoing it#and i'm reposing them to look less anxious 😒#lloyd's pose is very similar though tbh#trying to do something more mentor-y#and evelyn will be more karate-y#i'm debating a literal karate pose or just something that hints at her being a martial artist#something kind of active?#idk#i realized nothing i've drawn for LV shows that it's an action show LOL OPPS#anyways in 10 weeks i'll have an animatic for you guys hahaha
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