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Cas stitching up his trench coat in one of the motel chairs while Sam and Dean are asleep and quietly talking to Jack about how to him the coat feels as part of himself now as his blade is. That it reminds him that he wasn't always aware of just how deeply humans could feel. How deeply angels could feel. How putting care into something can make it meaningful. The stars were mere pricks of light before humans decided to name them. The more he cares for his coat, the more of his perspective and memory gets sewn into it. The more it becomes his.
"And the pockets," he confides with a deep wink, "Are good for keeping snacks in."
Later, when Dean is asleep again, drooling over an open book of research in the bunker, Jack watches as Cas tucks his coat over Dean's shoulders and sees how he hesitates for a moment before brushing his hand softly through Dean's hair. Dean is transformed, through Cas’s careful attention, from the man who was the gatekeeper of acceptance and goodness to just a man, vulnerable and in need of care.
Jack wonders whether Castiel cares for everyone like they are a precious object. And he wonders what Castiel would transform him into, if he had to be repaired. Jack isn't sure that he likes the idea. He already has a hard time understanding his own morality, how can he also be expected live up to the idea of himself in Castiel's head? The object that Castiel loves? Does he need to be changed in order to become his?
"I could get him my pillow?" Jack suggests, swallowing against the cold mass in his throat when Cas smiles gently at that. He does like it, then, when Jack acts against his own interest.
"That might wake him. We should let him rest."
"He's precious to you."
"He is." Castiel reaches out and puts a hand on Jack's sleeve, expression sincere, "And so are you."
"Right," Jack says, then, "thanks," and holds his smile until Cas wanders back to sit perpendicular to Dean, to watch him until just before he stirred. Castiel and Jack, both, were good at pretending not to feel what they felt.
Watching the angel watch the man, Jack feels like a star. Immense and powerful but also distant, removed. Not special until a real person decides that he is. He is between angel and human. Person and object. Precious and disregarded. He is the blade and the coat, and Jack doesn't know which is worse.
#jack kline#sorry i started this with cute destiel goggles and then i was like. jack robbed of autonomy kline would be freaked out by this actually.#he literally has rocks thrown at him every dayyyyyy#i love making nice sweet statements like 'you are precious to me :)' and having the other person twist them around in their mind to#be a confirmation of their worst fears. always a delight. i do that quite a lot in a light above descending.#continuing the tradition started by supernatural of castiel giving jack horrible pep talks that make him feel worse ☺️#cawis creates#also continuing the tradition of writing fic instead of getting on with my work!!!! gotta critically reflect rn!!!! bye!!!
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I think I’m legally required to make Malleus Draconia the first entry in the dragon sketchbook
#I’m probably going to do Dan IL next or Bailu#I haven’t done traditional art in so long I forgot how fun it is#also if people have dragon characters I can put in the dragon sketchbook I think that would be fun!#lemon arts#malleus draconia#twisted wonderland#twst#also I swear I’m working on the cat cakes too I just got distracted lol#dragon book series
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Wip Diasomnia Kalim lineart done!
I finally had to will power to work on actual lineart so here it is. Sharing Pre-colors in case I mess up.
Find my socials, commissions and art prints via my linktree here!
#anixdraws#fanart#disney twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland#traditional art#work in progress#lineart#twst#twst fanart#DormSwap! series#DormSwap Kalim#diasomnia#Diasomnia Kalim#kalim al asim#jamil viper#sebek zigvolt#twst silver#lilia vanrouge#malleus draconia
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the skrunklies 💕✨
the scrimblos ✨
#twisted wonderland#twst yuu#twst mc#twst oc#twst wonderland#twst azul#azul ashengrotto#twst#twisted wonderland original character#twisted wonderland oc#twst fanart#twisted wonderland fanart#traditional art#oc#oc art#original character#fucking around and finding out with different art styles#still learning how tumblr works lmao#the shrimpy urge to draw twst characters in the skrunkliest way possible#boopshoopsoc#tcoav#yuu shi#boopshoopsart
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In the first time in forever, I did traditional art for once, before coloring it digitally
Progress and thumb reveal
#sweet tooth#sweet tooth twisted metal#twisted metal#needles kane#art#drawing#artist#my art#art work#digital art#traditional art#clown#game#play station
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whenever ppl try to come up with some version of 'romance and love isn't forbidden by the jedi, on this one novel-'
i'm just...
#star wars#jedi order#jedi critical#sorry no that makes no sense with what's presented through most of the canon#'but it was in this one novel' then that novel it's trying to retcon it or to twist the in-between lines because it doesnt make sense#the belief that the jedi only forbid romance if it's possesive or stops someone from caring about others it's a lovely pink-tinted view#but it doesn't work with canon and the only thing that it accomplishes is attempting to to give anakin a different narrative#which is 'anakin was actually just too stupid too understand what the jedi's teaching meant'#and yes you can make an argument that anakin didn't understand all of the jedi teachings but not in the way this idea proposes#it's actually ridiculous#'anakin why you kept this secret didn't you know romance it's actually allowed by the jedi? we all have our crushes and partners lol'#'you silly the only thing we forbid it's becoming toxic and possesive'#headcanoing or making aus or fics with the jedi as this#big happy hippie family full of pacifists that try to destroy the pillars of traditional conservative nuclear families in pro of free love#it's fine like go ahead headcanon that and make aus of that but when someone comes to try to argue that no it's in fact very canon#it's just...what like come on#EVEN OBIWAN the picture perfect child for most jedi fans said he would've had to leave the order to be with satine aka IT IS FORBIDDEN#i'm going insane or what they told a 9 y/o that missing his mom was path to the dark side but no no they're FINE with romance#how could we miss Yoda's three romantic partners and Mace's being a swinger and also Shaak's polycule Anakin you're just stupid#(he is stupid but not like this lfmao)#fandom stuff#ranting#AND TO BE CLEAR no this isn't an argument about traditional nuclear conservative families or some bullshit being needed#this is me saying the jedi in canon are pretty fairly conservative as it is sorry but they're basically the knight templars with powers#and orientalism in the form of buddhism as a white american man (GL) understood it (badly)
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Umh Shrouds💋
#sketch#artists on tumblr#twst#disney twst#twisted wonderland#twst shroud#death shroud#shroud#ortho shroud#idia shroud#traditional sketch#traditional drawing#traditional art#art work#art
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In quiet moments at work I made this little Adachi sketch 🖊️
#persona 4#p4#tohru adachi#the cutest#bad kitty#MyArt#sketches#traditional art#traditional media#today was a vaguely calm day with twists and turns. some people are crazy#my superior is so badass and has infinite patience I admire her a lot#the fact of being in charge of the place and organizing work for everyone puts her face to face with a thousand different cases of misogyny#I'm talking about misogyny and post Adachi#seems right#lol
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post oc lore king/queen !!
😭 I don't really have lore tbh, mostly vibes. Everything is too underdeveloped for lore
I have vague ideas of what I want my ocs to be.
For example, I want to put these guys in a 'time travel' kinda situation, where a murder takes place (that phone guy, who was the only one who knew how to help them get back in their time).
The only thing worse than their designs are the names
#these are old pictures. I technically have reference sheets of them but they are at my house. if I remember I'll post them wg#*when I get back (cut myself there oops)#ask#anonymous#art#traditional art#oc#original character#Cay#Tor#amazing names not at all lazy or uncreative#some 'lore'. since Tor is based on a more modern piece of technology he is too out of place in the story#this really is a problem for them because they don't want to attract unwanted attention so Cay haves to be the 'leader' of the situation#this whole thing cane from me thinking of the plot twist in the end. so I'll probably never actually flesh the story out#it'll live in my head forever#but I will try to flesh Cay and Tor out#I was also thinking of giving Cay a bow tie instead of a regular tie. we'll see#the phone guy doesn't have a name yet#btw I'll probably draw more of that other new oc (the human with no name) and Trime#“king” “queen” nah. more like. more like “Monarch”#although in my head both queen and king are gender neutral somehow. like grandma and grandpa and dad etc#edit: I just saw 'haves' instead of 'has' because autocorect doesn't work on the tags for some reason (I changed the sentence midway through#I swear I know how to English)
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i legit love when a character's gender is so integral to their personality (and perception obviously.) like so concrete that if genderbent their whole shtick would just be absolute dookie. anyways i'm just writing this text so i can talk in the tags (My beautiful safe haven)
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this 14 minute song is soooooooooooo FYRE
#text#actually i'm thinkinbg about this only cus i'm drawing female neloff and i'm just like#Elder dookies fans already hate females..... imagine them tryign to handle a woman with NPD that is reaching toxic waste levels#old decaying female with NPD.#but i'm also drawing female neloff for fun cus i have an idea for a look; i don't think it's a good idea#and he is just one of those characters that feel very good in the strict cismale box.#i also feel silly talking about gender-anything in any fiction because that's a topic only Am*ricans with no real problems sweat about#if that makes sense#just not something that interests me in the slightest#actually this might jsut be fascinating 2me because it is interesting indeed to see the different ways narcissism is treated. in characters#if i keep saying females instead of women it's bc i legit love that word. Sorry#and el*nwen+ulfr*c too are those female+male respectively perfectly fitting characters too#but notice how i didn't say cis. exactly. i'm thinking about the person that said elly did his top surgery in the torture basement. 4 free#or maybe i said that and they jsut said they're both t4t. Mmmaybe#the absolute W we copped with elly being the ' ' Big Bad ' ' th*lmor as a woman who is just obsessed with the luxuries of life.#stereotypical high society woman#she's so cute#i might just be obsessed with exploring very traditional dynamics too. i love keeping it grounded yk#Me after reading too many geriatric centuries old novels and huffing copium on sk*rim#i think i legit hate having fun with wilder character personality-morphism (because it is useless) that's not working with what u have#i'm just saying things that will make sense only 2 me now. Bye#why did i develop interest-related nihilism that extends to me hating fantasy franchises and anything that isn't non-fiction#i love it tho makes me feel so sophisticated#this is what happens when nobody humbles you while you draw regurgitated glorified studentXteacher (with a medieval twist) for a year.#i'm so excited for the year to be over not bc it's bad for me but bc i wanna see what all of the n*lvas art i drew looks like together#i wanna compile it like i did with eltl in 2023#n*lvas been treating me so well though liek i've been at such an artistic Peak especially after may#i'm always at my artistic peak tho.#i have a picture of n*relion on my mspaint canvas and it keeps looking at me while i'm drawing . he scares me because who gave him -#- the t*lvas hairstyle and the n*loth beard Bro.
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Today I’m going absolutely bonkers thinking about stories where the medium itself becomes so interwoven with the narrative that the two are inseparable and the story borderline unadaptable into other formats.
Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Portal and listening to the Malevolent podcast for perhaps the third time, and as any slightly obsessive fan who desperately wishes for more when I run out of story I find myself thinking ‘man someone should adapt this into a movie/tv show/novel/etc’. And then I stop and think, ‘wait a minute, how?’
How could you possibly adapt the puzzle aspect of Portal into anything other than a game? Sure you could make some cool action sequences out of it, but that would get old quick, and you never get any chance to solve the puzzles yourself. And how could you adapt it without them, when the tests are a deeply intrinsic part of the narrative? You would end up with a vastly different story.
And Malevolent. Malevolent! Rarely have I experienced a story that so masterfully not only gets around the limitations of its medium, but uses them to their full advantage. How do you explain your lead constantly speaking out loud to themself (since the dialogue-only format doesn’t allow for internal monologue)? Why, put a possessing entity into their head, so that they’re literally never without a conversational partner! How do you fit visual descriptors into the story, since characters explaining their surroundings out loud would be weird? Make one of them blind and the one possessing him his seeing-eye entity, of course!
How could you possibly adapt any of that into, say, a movie? Having the entity describe visuals the viewer can already see would be distracting, but having him not do it would break suspension of disbelief because why is Arthur not constantly bumping into things? Of course, you could remove the blindness, but aside from being a shitty thing to do it would also remove the delicate balance of power between him and the entity that forces the two to co-operate.
I’m thinking about these two stories especially because it’s where my obsession lies right now, but there are lots of examples of similarly interwoven narratives and medium. Think of epistolary books, webcomics with animated images and music, webnovels so adapted for a digital format with links and gifs and layout that actually printing them would take away from the experience (everyone go read What Football Will Look Like in the Future and An Unauthorised Fan Treatise right now, you can thank me later), or other podcasts that give their narrator an intrinsic reason to speak and describe everything aloud, such as The Magnus Archives and The Mistholme Museum (which I need to catch up with, by the way). It drives me insane! The medium is the message!
#malevolent podcast#portal#long post#nella talks#this isnt me saying that this type of story is inherently better than stories that dont enmesh themselves with the medium in this manner#or that the stories mentioned in the post are wholly and entirely unadaptable#just that youd end up with a fundamentally different story#anyway. the way different mediums work and how narratives have to twist themselves to fit them is utterly fascinating#and one of the reasons i find the rise of ttrpg streams so incredibly cool#we're basically living through the birth of a new storytelling medium! how incredible is that!#now if only people could learn to actually keep the medium in mind when analysing and theorizing and writing meta#i swear we wouldnt get half as much discourse in the critrole fandom if more people realized#a story told through a ttrpg is going to be fundamentally different from one told through another more traditional medium
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cater slaying fr
@ceruleancattail look at your ✨️bestie✨️
#irene draws ♡#twst content <3#twisted wonderland#twst#twst art#cater diamond#cater diamond fanart#traditional doodle#look at him strutting like he owns the place#in a way he does#work it caycay!!!
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OC Art dump <3
#art work#oc artist#oc artwork#genshin oc#twisted wonderland oc#twst oc#Frost ❄️#Eira🩵#art#traditional art#traditional drawing#traditional sketch#sketch#drawing#hehe#twst sketch#genshin sketch#archon oc#hydro archon#french#archon#art dump#oc art dump#Winnie's Art*
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i have a proposed revision for the pc port
#this is so shoddily edited because i was scrapping it together for a joke while half-asleep. put those guys in the elysium#but that said... i do genuinely think this could've had#the best chance at recreating the effect they were seeking from the ds; to keep monologue on-screen + allude to future twists thru color#for which i must add#999 spoilers#anyway. ace has the outline/examination cursor color junpei is using bc he had originally created the 'game'#the grey monologue would probably be a bit muted but still lean toward a purple/blue for akane#which would realistically be more apt for longer descriptions; with junpei's personal thoughts maybe having a slight indent#or even being associated w his name as is; like the options implicitly are in color (darker red)#it's not a traditional visual novel format of course; but it'd still work well...! to me...!!!#alas. i haven't practiced modding of this scale. maybe one day...#jestersvaguely#ze posting
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Kalim's reliance on Jamil comes at a cost.
Whumptober 2023
Day 10
"Can't you see that you're lost without me?"
#whumptober2023#no.10#Can't you see that you're lost without me?#twisted wonderland#jamil viper#kalim al asim#art#traditional art#blood tw#stabbing tw#twst#twst jamil#twst kalim#whump art#whump stuff#whumpblr#whump community#my art#my work#original#i hope my fellow twst fans spot the symbolism
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So I'm kinda ill lol so to the art raffle winners your prize might be delayed and I apologize for that. However look what I found
Meet the cursed grim origami I made at 3 am
#ravnfaye updates ✨️#but yeah#im going to work on them out might just be slow#which i apologize for#the line art is currently done fir 2 of them#traditional art goes weeee#grim twisted wonderland#twst grim
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