#this took me so long...almost an hour

[rilu-artblog]

“Send me a character”, for any of the Broflovski’s?

My time has come

Sorry not sorry Anon, I'm doing all of the (main) Broflovski's, I may never have this chance again

Starting from oldest to youngest:

GERALD

First impression First saw him in the FBW games, was wondering why this naked man was huffing cat piss and acting like a little bitch

Impression now Babygirl man, one of my faves, so underappreciated, still a little bitch tho lol

Favorite moment Sosososoooo many it's either him getting super into trolling in 20x02 or when he's cheesing and runs into the boob lady and goes "curse your rocking tits". Or the entire hot tub scene. Or when he smashes the tv playing family guy. Or-

Idea for a story I have so many, but would love anything that explores his youth or him and Sheila's relationship before marriage/having kids

Unpopular opinion Some people are too hard on him and are way more ready to declare him a bad dad instead of making him a fully rounded parent. Also I don't like when people divorce him and Sheila, I love them together. Which leads to...

Favorite relationship Love love love him with Sheila, they're my favorite parent relationship and so 3 dimensional. I also like when he's actually being a good dad to Ike or Kyle. Also also StuartxGerald is way more interesting than RandyxGerald

Favorite headcanon Genuinely have no idea, I like the idea that the reason for him being Skankhunt was because he was high on memberberry wine or something lol

Sheila

First impression From the movie and the games as first impressions, she sure is a bitch I guess

Impression now She has done literally nothing wrong ever in her entire life and is so hot

Favorite moment The entire movie and the boss fight in TFBW. In show, the UPS man scene (U///U)

Idea for a story Just like with Gerald, would love to see anything showing her youth in Jersey and that transition from wildest bitch ever to overprotective mom

Unpopular opinion I don't like when people make her wildly OOC and abusive/homophobic to Kyle, but I also don't like when people imply she's the better parent compared to Gerald and that she needs to divorce him to be happy. Like, no lol

Favorite relationship Her and Gerald of course, she would find him in any universe. She does need more friendships tho, give her and Sharon more scenes together!

Favorite headcanon Uhh it's not a happy one but I do like the headcanon that she had miscarriages before Kyle, which is why she's so protective over him and why they adopted Ike

Kyle!

First impression First SP thing I saw was a SoT playthrough, was rooting for him and the elves and thought his design was cool

Impression now My fave of the main 4, probably second favorite of all the show, think it's wild he causes so much discourse in the fandom lol

Favorite moment Too many, either the entire "Willzyx" ep where he loves orcas (just like me fr) or him yelling in general

Idea for a story Idk??? More post covid stuff or stuff where he's older in general and has his kids. I want to see him be a dad

Unpopular opinion Not him directly but his fans are either super chill or superrrr insufferable. Especially if they have him as a PFP. Also don't immediately give him bad parents, at least let him be the one main kid with decentish parents lol.

Favorite relationship No surprise, really like his friendship with Stan, they should never be separated even if it hurts them or others lol. I do like K2, Nichole and him and David and him together as either friends or romantic

Favorite headcanon Is being premature a headcanon? If so then yeah, preemie Kyle. Also that he's actually a psychic/reality warper but has no time for that and ignores it lol

Ike

First impression Baby boy, baby

Impression now The baby is disconcertingly right-leaning politically, needs more screentime lol

Favorite moment So many, everything he does in the pilot or Season 20

Idea for a story Uhh nothing, I don't think of solely Ike stories, maybe something where he and Gerald hash it out after Gerald tried to throw him under the bus

Unpopular opinion Idk?? Ok why do people ship him and Firkle, is it just because of age?

Favorite relationship He and Kyle have the best sibling relationship, mostly because they're the most focused on but still. I like that he's the moral compass for the entire Broflovski family

Favorite headcanon Cool uncle Ike! That's all I've got boss.

[siffrinsometimes]

Memory of Touch

[theythemmer]

who up thinking abt the implications of dnp being controlled by and sacrificing themselves for demons

[kikker-oma]

Just when I thought I was starting to get burnt out from 3 straight months of continuous drawing I GET A SECOND WIND😈😈😈

muahahahaha this fandom has such a chokehold on me, its unreal

[plushie-lovey]

FINALLY!! At long last, I've gotten my hands on a Pumpkin Kitty, after a whole year of wanting and waiting.

Her name is Latte! (Short for Miss Pumpkin Spice Latte) You can also call her Miss Spice!

[yeetusthemighty]

The creechur

The silly (crazy? I was crazy onc-)

So I got inspired to finally post this guy because of this post by @z4n3jul13n (cool person you should look at their stuff)

full version with my doodles under the cut

(I have a whole au based off of this guy)

[rinisdrawing]

workin’ on stuff… ✍️

[quietlyrebellious01]

Speedpaint and refs under the cut!

References:

The tree: Outside my window. I was racing the winter darkness on this one. It was mildly stressful. The juncos: I stood outside in 6 degrees to get these guys. Still proud of the flight shot. Clark: For his body I used the cover for the DVD case and the skeleton method. For his colors I used some screenshots. Chickadee: No machine-readable author provided. Mdf assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons Nuthatch: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Geese: Geese Flying over Stainburn Moor by Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Owl:brendan.lally, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

[traybakedtoffee]

my little goober I did to add to my carrd. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

[gardenofamber]

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

You said you wanted to talk about art so can i ask what your favourite painting/piece of art is and why? 👀

Someone already asked about my favourite paintings so im gonna talk about some more of my favourite art pieces >:) no architecture bc it gives me headaches

It's a surprise to no one, I rly love antique art. My favourite "type" of art is ceramic.

I have a soft spot for geometric era's ceramics.

For example the Crater of Hirchsfield.

What I love about it is that it shows 2 narrative scenes : The ekphora and prosthesis, during funeral rites.

I find it so mesmerising and interesting how they portrayed the complex scenes so well without the use of perspective.

In class,I love learning to "read" bidimensional pieces that have no perspective (Greece geo era or Egyptian art)

Ofc Exakias is the guy ever but if I had to choose only one of his works to talk about, it would be Ajax's Suicide so I can advertise for my friend's analysis (which makes Exekias already breathtaking work even better)

Apollo of Mantiklos

It possibly is the oldest representation of a god we've ever found. Everyone ik calls him ugly, but to me he's so friend shaped :(( <3

Owl arryballos

Look it's. It's an arryballos (little vase that holds oil) and it's. It's an owl. It's like 6cm tall. Do I have to say anything else ? It's so cute I cry whenever I think of it.

Terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

8000 life-sized clay status and yet none is identical to another. That's just insane. He made himself a whole army to follow him in the afterlife (as it was believed in China). Bro was the main character he thinks he is.

I mean, all of the mausoleum is insane. It's rly is worth looking into.

Couronnes votives mérovingiennes

Considered the most precious treasure from the Merovingian dynasty. I have nothing to say except that it's so beautiful. (There are many more pieces in the trésor de guarrazar)

Dancing maenad

I couldn't finish this without talking about any sculpture.

First, I'm biased bc I love everything related to Dionysus.

Then, what fascinated me as I was learning about ancient Greece's sculptures, is the evolution of frontality and rigidity. The first hard sculptures are struck in a strong frontality, and follow a stick canon, there is little to no hint of movement. With each century, the sculptors innovate to get rid of this (the legs become 2 separated pieces, one foot moves forward, the hips move, faces are no longer neutral...)

Scopas' Meanad is like the apogee of this path from rigidity. She's like tormented, in ecstasy. Each part of her body is violently (yet graceful) torn, the frontality and symmetry are broken from every angle.

[wafflinglumos]

Narcissa is one of the only people in her family to not be named after a star or constellation, her name is the female equivalent of Narcissus from Greek Mythology, and isn’t that poetic? Narcissa, who stuck to her family more than any of the others, was the only one to not be named from the family tradition.

Narcissa as Narcissus

[icarusticrat]

guys look argos drawing :)))))

Been wanting to draw JBA poses for a while because i love that show so much right now so here is the ref i used :D

[deadsince1973]

What happened to Despicable Me?

(SPOILERS for Despicable Me 4 ahead)

I went to see Despicable Me 4 today, and it was easily the worst of the franchise.

I think there were two overlapping problems. The first one is that there were too many characters and too many storylines, and they all felt truncated. The second is that the storylines themselves, truncated or not, were bad. Let's look at the storylines that we got.

First, the big point of this movie: Gru has a baby son now. The arc with the baby is that the baby doesn't like Gru, but then by the end, the baby learns to love his father. That is such a stupid storyline! Babies are not capable of determining who they like and who they dislike. That's just not how that stage of brain development works. I admit, I may not be the target audience of this movie (even though I should be; more on the below), but babies in movies are, in my opinion, annoying, and not at all cute or funny. I heard once that "all animals in movies act like dogs", and not just real dogs, but like idealized versions of dogs, who can think and emote like humans. I actually love that trope, because I love the fantasy that my pets or an exotic pet it would be cool to have could be a true friend to me, as an equal who could understand me and respond to me with intelligence and insight. I can only speculate that many people enjoy having the same fantasy about babies; all I'm certain of is that this storyline did not work for me at all.

Then there's the cluster of storylines making up the premise that Gru's family is now in witness protection. -Margot is upset about leaving her friends and having to start at a new school. She gets bullied on her first day. And that is the last we hear about that. -Edith and Agnes go to a karate class. (For the entire day? Why didn't Edith have to go to school?) She breaks the teacher's toe. And that's the last we hear about that. -Agnes is upset about having to leave Lucky, her pet unicorn/goat from Despicable Me 3. That does get wrapped up in the end, but it's absent from the middle of the movie. It's not even really an arc or a storyline, more a callback to the last movie. -Agnes is also upset about having to use a fake name in witness protection, because that's lying and she doesn't want to lie. That's potentially a good storyline because it would result in actual character growth, but it also goes nowhere! Agnes never uses her fake name, and that has no consequences (other than setting up Edith's story). -Lucy's new identity is a hairdresser, and she burns down the salon while working with her first client. The client later tries to chase her down in the grocery store for the sake of a wacky chase scene. Lucy and the girls escape, and we never hear from the injured client again. -Gru wants to make friends with his new neighbor in order to prove that he's not awkward. He plays tennis with the neighbor, but the game is interrupted by the arrival of the antagonist. The neighbor is never seen again.

Even though there isn't even enough room in the movie for all the family members, they still added a new character, Poppy. Poppy is the neighbor's teenage daughter and an aspiring supervillain who blackmails Gru into helping with a heist. Why? What does that have to do with either of the main two plots? (It does tie in with them, but it was entirely unnecessary to them.) Poppy later makes friends with Gru's daughters, but then she disappears during the climax, and she's only seen again during the ending montage, when we see that she got admitted to the villain school. What happened to her pet honey badger? We'll never know.

The A-plot, the one that's set up in the first scene, the one that drives Gru and his family into witness protection, the one that the movie ends on, is about Gru's high school bully. Really though, other than being the catalyst for putting Gru's family in witness protection, he has precious little role in the story. There's a reason this story is so far down the list. There's also yet another new character, Principal Ubelschlect. She's the boss fight of the heist Gru and Poppy do together, but, since the heist was pointless, she's a pointless character too. (This is how Poppy technically ties into both of the main storylines, by the way. Gru brought his son along on his heist, so the heist related to the bonding arc Gru had with him. But the heist was not the catalyst for the baby finally bonding with Gru, so what was the point of bringing the baby along at all?! And when the heist goes awry and Principal Ubelschlecht catches them in the act, she contacts the bully to join her in attacking Gru's safehouse. But there are any number of ways that the bully could have found Gru's location without making a whole other involved storyline that rivaled the main storyline for screen time! That should have been a single story beat, not a lengthy sequence.)

Of course, there are also the cutaways to the minions' wacky antics. This is why I say I should have been the target audience for this movie. I love the minions. Obviously this is a very small sample size, but it seemed to me that I laughed more at the minions in this movie than anyone else in the theater. I mean, if that's an accurate perception, then why were any of those other people even going to see this movie? Despicable Me is the minion franchise. If you don't like minions, this movie isn't for you. And if you do like minions, then this movie should be for you. Anyway, they split the minions into two groups for this movie: exactly the same symptom as the rest of the characters had! One group had a recurring gag about a minion being stuck in a vending machine. Okay, that doesn't need to be that developed. But it was entirely unrelated to the other minions' storyline, which felt weird! The other minions' storyline was the "Mega Minions", the ones in the promotional material. This storyline was about five minions who got superpowers and tried to become superheroes. It had nothing to do with any other plotline whatsoever. It felt a little bit like a retread of the mutated purple minions from the second movie, but the mutated minions actually connected to the main story of that movie!

Altogether, this movie just felt cobbled together from a bunch of disparate ideas. The animation felt as good to me as ever, but the writing and the design felt like it was rushed out the door. It felt like a bunch of people had got asked to write an idea for a funny thing to do with the characters from this franchise, and then they just put a bunch of those ideas in without considering how they would weave together into a single coherent movie.

And all of this is just my analysis of the problems with the stories. It doesn't address some of the other, smaller problems I had with the movie. -The baby was named Gru, Jr. I HATE when characters have a baby and they name one of them "Junior". Not only does it smack of a lack of creativity, but it also really shows how little the writers value the character. This might seem a little hypocritical after I implied above that babies aren't even human and complained about how there shouldn't have been so much of the baby in the movie, but I think calling a baby "Junior" exacerbates the problem. It's implicitly telling me, the viewer, not to care about this character as his own person, but to think of him as an extension of his father. Why should I care about him then?

Speaking of wanting less of the baby in the movie, I just want to add that part of the reason why I dared to have higher hopes for this movie despite the presence of the baby in the marketing is because of the Shrek movies. A friend of mine told me the other day that they had noped out of the Shrek franchise when babies became involved because they feel the exact same way I do about babies in media. But I don't really think that's fair. Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After did an admirable job of keeping the babies on the periphery. I'm just bringing this up to say that that was very much an option for this movie too. They could've had their cake and eaten it too.

Almost as criminal as the poor writing was the poor design. The main villain, the bully, was cockroach-themed. That's not bad, per se, but compare him to the villains from previous films: Vector, who had both direction and magnitude (how memorable was that line?!); El Macho and his pet chicken; Bratt and his 1980's theming; Scarlet, with her feminist bent and perky personality, and her husband Herb who was delightfully 1960's; and the Vicious 6, all of whom had amusing puns for names: Jean-Clawed, Nun-Chuck, and Svengeance being the stand-outs for me. I guess, on paper, a cockroach theme isn't any worse than any of these other villains, but Maxime really had nothing else going for him other than his French accent. He didn't have a funny name, he didn't have an over-the-top personality, and he didn't have a particularly memorable style.

Finally, and here's where I'm fine with being disagreed with because it's just a matter of taste, but: as a general rule, I don't like bathroom humor in kid's movies. There were two jokes that were just about an animal pooing, and, worst of all in my opinion, was one of the English words in the Minionese. My friend and I had been discussing whether the one Mega Minion had "a cone head" or "was a missile." Well, one of the other minions shouted "suppository" when it jumped off a rooftop. So that clears that argument up. -_-

I just think this is a real shame because, while the other movies weren't flawless (except possibly for Minions), they all had a charm to them and at least a few good jokes. I'm also the type of person to find the storylines of Despicable Me 2 and 3 painful, but at least there were enough moments that I found sweet or endearing in those movies that I still enjoyed them more than I expected I would. This was the opposite, because the only moment I found charming at all was when the camera did a fly-through of the AVL office and we saw the minions participating in a wide variety of activities. I'm always a sucker for that.

This honestly makes me reluctant to hope for a future for this franchise. :/

[joocomics]

Okay so, for that Gunil pic I was imagining how he looks like the perfect boyfriend when you're around friends and the other members or just out in public. So sweet and doting. Always has to be touching you in some way, in an non sexual manner, just to feel you. Never takes his eyes off you and fondly smiles at you. Overall he's such a gentleman. But when you're in bed together, he's completely different. His dominant side comes out. He's so rough with you, treating you like his own personal whore (affectionate.) Doesn't hold back from calling you that, probably calls you a slut too. Teases you for not being able to talk properly when he's slamming into you. Says the most absolute filthiest things. Tells you to scream his name when you're cumming. After he's made you cum multiple times, he's back to being his sweet and attentive self. Gets you anything you need and asks if you're okay. Holds you in his arms as he whispers how well you did for him. He definitely melts if you fall asleep on him right away. He feels proud of himself if he's fucked you to sleep ❤ - 🍑

cw: hard dom!gunil, cussing, face slapping

oh, but he IS the perfect boyfriend; the perfect gentleman who’s fully aware you’re in love with his duality that fulfills all your desires, even the ones you didn’t even know you had. gunil treats you like a princess, and always makes sure you have everything you want - some may say there’s a chance of spoiling you too much, but he doesn’t care. so it’s only fair that you show him how grateful you are, right?

“thank you for taking me out tonight, i had a great time,” you tell him after you two get home and you prepare a vase for the beautiful bouquet of flowers he got for you. “thank you for being the best boyfriend..” your whisper clashes with the sounds of his belt getting undone, as he instantly takes the lead when you brush your lips against his. you gasp, wondering how even his soft sensual lips can hold such power.. nevertheless you love it, and it always makes you anticipate how he’s going to dominate you next. you’re already making noises just from his kissing when you feel his fingers crawl up the back of your neck only to pull on your hair. “down.” he demands and you listen

you’re still on the kitchen floor - messy hair and smudged makeup, red knees and breasts sticking out of your dress, - when a puddle of your drooling forms around you causing gunil to chuckle at the desperate sight. “aren’t you gonna ask if i’m gonna fuck you or not?” he squats, lifting your chin with one finger, looking into your dazed eyes. “what is it? too pathetic to even ask for it? tsk, what kind of a whore you are then…” wordless, you only press your lips gently against his palm while he cups your face. he reacts to the kiss by giving you a quick slap that rings harshly in the kitchen. “better start talking, pretty one. i want you to fuckin’ scream my name when i give you my cock, okay? that’s what sluts are for.” you nod obediently, letting out a raspy yes, watching him stand back on his feet. “i’ll take you to bed now cause you did well with your dirty mouth,” he smirks hearing you thank him while getting up with wobbly legs. “don’t dare go silent on me again, got it?”

despite being gunil’s whore at this hour of the night he still lifts you up and takes you to the bedroom while holding you in his arms

[baxxartist]

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Part 4

Royal AU belongs to @aychama

✨Disclaimer✨

This is not my au, I never claim this to be my au

Please treat nothing in this story as cannon

Later that morning, Ari watched the training grounds. He knew Aym was irritated that a servant got the better of him. The knights were suffering for it, as Aym was more rough with training. Ari simply watched from the window as he always did, but he couldn't help but find it cute that he was so upset that a servant could best him. Smirking as he would tease him about it...if he wasn't afraid of having his ass thrown in the prison. Before he heard someone walking in his direction and quickly went back to work, not wanting to get caught staring.

Aym dismissed the knights for the time being. He hated it, but Ari was on his mind. He wanted to know more...no, Ari is a servant, most of them don't get good starts in life. There's nothing special about him, he had more important things to focus on. 

Ari very much stayed out of the gossip circles, he knows the basics of what's going on. But he finds them a waste of time and disrespectful to the king...plus he never had a good feeling about the new knight who's always at his side. Sal warned Ari that the knight was bad news, but couldn't say more, so Ari kept an eye on them.

He could care less who the king loves, he's bearly seen him as Ari's tasks and work usually means the two rarely cross paths. Ari can count on his hand how many times they've spoken. He's a hybrid, so he's given the hard labor and dirty work, meant to be kept out of sight by the head servant's orders.

Not that Ari minds, he's used to being alone and has always been the outcast. He noticed Aym and Baal speaking to each other, choosing to pick his battles and turns back around. Heading back in the direction of the King and the knight at his side, knowing he could be screwed either way. But there's no way he's going to be able to resist teasing Aym and though Ari doesn't fear death, he still chooses life.

Later that afternoon, Ari notices some movement in the halls, which is not unusual. But he has a bad feeling about it and follows the movement, deciding his task could wait for a moment, keeping a grip on the dagger he carries with him. Before noticing that knight going into the archives. Ari follows, leaning against the door frame as he watches silently, his tail swaying before finally speaking up. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" 

Lambert jumped and looked over at Ari in surprise. Thinking quickly before he spoke. "The king sent me here." they respond. Ari smirked, it was kinda funny how easily they were startled. He looked for any unusual behavior from the lamb. But any he notices could also be passed up for the fact he just scared the hell out of the knight. 

"What are you doing here anyways?" The lamb asks. Ari shrugs "I was heading to another task and noticed you snooping around." he teases. The lamb glared at Ari. "Shouldn’t you also not be in here?" they ask, in a cocky tone. Ari scoffed "I’m in the doorway, not the archives. What are you looking for anyways?" He didn't want to help them but he also had nothing better to do.

The lamb now had to think fast, what the hell would they be sent to get? Ari smirked "You don't remember? Or are you just somewhere you shouldn't be" he teases. They nod. “...I did forget” the knight responds. Ari smirks, “Good luck explaining that.” He teases before turning around to leave the area. He needed to entertain himself somehow, and who better to mess with than one of the knights. He’s watched the lamb on the training grounds a few times, though he’d much rather watch Aym. His face getting red as his mind wanders off, before noticing the lamb catching up with him, wasn’t like they were hard to notice with that bell around their neck. “Is there something you need?” Ari asks politely, he was still a servant after all. The knight looked at Ari. “I don’t think I’ve seen you around before, what’s your name?” They ask, walking at Ari’s side. The knight was slightly taller than Ari, making him have to look up.

Ari didn’t have much to lose, plus a name could be changed anyways. “My name is Ari,” he says calmly, tail swaying. The lamb smiles. “My name is Lambert” they respond. Ari smirked, he was never going to use their name correctly, but oh well. “Where are you heading to anyways” Lambert asks. Ari shrugs “I was sent to do a few tasks the other staff hates. It’s usually messy or hard labor but I don’t mind, I just do what they need me to. It passes the time and means I don’t need to really care to much on what I look like. But I need to go back to my tasks and I know the King is likely waiting for you to come back with whatever it was you were looking for.” Ari speaks before walking in a different direction, leaving Lambert alone.