#took me almost a year but I got there :)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

soon it'll be dawn again

transcript under the cut ⏬

page 01

Fig: no way? - you're still up?

Riz: Wh– yes?

Riz: Why'd I not be.

page 02

Fig: I me~~ean - that took.

Fig: whole day.

Riz: Yeah?

Fig: 'm beat.

Riz: you should sleep.

page 03

Fig: nah. my guy's still up

Fig: I wanna hang out.

page 04

Riz: That's really nice.

Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.

Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.

page 05

Fig: yeah, but you do it…

Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.

Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.

page 06

Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.

Riz: … - mm.

page 07

Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.

Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.

page 08

Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.

Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now… 

page 09

Fig: Hey.

Riz: ?

Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.

page 10

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)

Fig: o yea.

Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.

page 11

Fig: here u go

page 12

Riz: uh

Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.

Fig: I'll show u

page 13

Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try

Riz: uh - What. do I carve?

Fig: anything!!!

page 14

Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?

Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - okay - wh. what's next?

Fig: haha - watch this.

(sound effect text): FWOO—MP

page 15

Riz: WH– DON'T JUST DO THAT???

Fig: Now it's fired!

Riz: THAT WAS NOT SAFE

Fig: (actually it's just dry. if u add water rn it'll dissolve)

Fig: ok catch!

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - careful!!

Fig: dw no need haha

page 16

Riz (thought bubble): oh - it's warm…

Fig: now I want you to throw this.

page 17

Fig: u gotta do it - c'mon

page 18

Riz: wh– - It's like 3AM right now

Fig: oh it's not /fired/ fired it's not gonna make a loud noise

Riz: And then just? leave a pile out here?

Fig: pour water over it & it'll be gone I told u

Riz: but

page 19

Fig (off screen): RIz.

page 20

Fig: I've done all this before.

Fig: Can you trust that at least?

page 21

Riz: no, I– - I do. - I trust you.

page 23

Riz: okay what happens now

(sound effect text): glob

page 24

Fig: we do it again!

page 25

Riz: wh. [larger than usual space] What do you mean. (this clay's too wet also)

Fig: see! you're already learning

Fig: [blank speech bubble] - there are flows that are futile to fight. - The world changes.

Fig: Things change.

page 26

Fig: I've learned my lessons with "forevers". - But - as an artist

Fig: I can give you one thing: - You can always do it again.

page 27

Fig: most of everything depends on the rest of the world, - but this. - making new. - that's yours as long as you want it.

page 28

Fig: So?

page 29

Riz: Yeah. - Yeah! - let's make another one.

[marshmallowgoop]

no thoughts just Heiji Hattori (HD)

[shima-draws]

Finally got new glasses (lenses AND frames!) bc I broke my old pair lol

Thing is I had my old pair for. I don’t even know how long. 5 years maybe? Either way I was long overdue for an upgrade to my prescription and holy SHIT when I tell you my jaw dropped when I put my new pair on. You people see like this? Crystal clear? Every day? You can read signs from really far away? And not have to squint?

When I was driving home today I could see all the way to the mountains I could literally see all the little details of the snow and the trees and I was like YO DUDEEE this is INSANE. People with 20/20 vision you have no idea how good you have it I cannot believe people can see that clearly normally

[zroem]

3 VR drawing commissions for LeoMinimus, ArpeggiosMelody, and battle_xo on twitter (listed in order of the turn-y videos at the end)

3D models | twitter | instagram

[harboretum]

New comic coming next week or right now if you're a patron

[xxplastic-cubexx]

From the same Storm mini-series 🥹

THE FAM 🥺

[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

[rickybaby]

Genuine question as I am curious — I know it’s pretty obvious with his expressions/ body language that Daniel seemed shy/insecure(?) about having his braces, but has he ever outright said anything about feeling that way with them? Just out of curiosity as I am new around here!

“I feel very different in terms of looks. Fortunately, experience also bought me better looks. I’m not really too fond of showing people photos of me when I was younger”

[leafuxxtea]

I feel like I haven't posted milgram stuff for a while now, so here's my contribution

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[radioisntdead]

I have the worst luck with nail salons dear grace, what I wanted vs what I got

[ivy-creeping-ivy]

PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: girl time!

image ids + NAKED version + the actual kitty ss under the cut

[Image IDs: digital art piece of a black-red tortoiseshell mercat with the broken tabby pattern. her fur is long, poofy, and round. their tail is the "gold" color; pale yellow and with a round tail-fin. her two front legs are poised close to her chest, but still in a relaxed position. marigold is smiling at the viewer with two freckled whisker pads.

marigold is wearing several robes and flower bundles. around her neck are light orange pearls that hold two orange tasseled cloths on each side of her chest, adorned with a ruddy red lily where the two cloths meet. tucked underneath the right cloth are light orange-yellow marigolds that sit on their shoulder. two more cloths wrap in loops around Marigold's midsection.

all over her body are more marigolds; mexican marigolds, pot marigolds, and petals, ranging from dark purple to light yellow. a bundle of marigolds wraps around the end of their fishy tail. there are also orange unnatural shards circling around her head. the second image is a version of the first, but this time marigold has no clothing. her tabby patterns are more visible. the third image is a screenshot of Marigold, directly from the website. End ID.]

[every-sanji]

[lemonsharks]

Edit: replies and asks are on; reblogs are off; this post is pinned

Back from voluntary commitment (five-ish days) to the local psych ward (needed it, positive experience overall) and I'm still processing. I have *so many notifications*. So many people care about me and it's breaking my brain a lot.

Some highlights:

The Filipino night nurse and I bonded over a shared love and correct pronunciations of pandan. ("Like vanilla if vanilla knew what it was doing.") I made new friends in the ward (especially V and L, if you find me here), and we watched all three iron man movies back to back one day. I could not remember my doctor's name to save my life (at one point I referred to him as Dr Baumkuchen).

On the last(?) day I found a tuft of my cassiecat's hair in my bed at the hospital because I carry her love and her cat hair with me wherever I go. It made me laugh.

I feel loved. I don't know if I was in further immediate danger from myself.

Wounds are healing and so freaking itchy. I've marker-drawn around my wrist.

I'm not angry or upset with anyone who called the wellness check on me. I needed it a whole lot. But hot damn to the surprise of no one cops do not like it when you tell them any kind of no.

Police involvement below the readmore.

I extensively insulted the responding the officers, who saw my Mexican surname in my Indian & Pakistani neighborhood and were so surprised when a white chick opened the door. (Once in the ER and sitting calmly I had the privilege of saying pretty much whatever I wanted to them.) ("Kid bullies grow up to be cops." - me, quoting Tumblr.)

Review of me by the police, "She was so compliant and now she's so mean."

[waywardwizzard]

Look, a wild Layton game has appeared!

(I finally found a copy of the game that didn't cost me an arm and a leg. Excuse me while I go and cry over puzzles <3)

[mischefous]

👆this is me when i see ur art

HJKAKFKEKKAKEHFJK this lowkey jumpscared me XD, just me scrolling through my asks and BOO! SKELETON WITH BULGING EYES

on the other hand, this is me seeing all the lovely kind words about my art, it brings happy tears to my eyes. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! I LOVE YOU ⋆⭒˚.⋆💙