#vague hand gestures.

[alives]

❛ there’s no black or white, only gray. ❜ // wwx at lwj plss

darker vibes prompts / always accepting.

" hm , " a noise of acknowledgement as golden eyes slide to peer at wei wuxian out of the corner. there was a time when he would've rejected such a notion vehemently , his sense of justice had been pristine in his youth. when had the lines become muddled ? ( WASN'T HE LOOKING AT THE VERY REASON ? ) a different body , but he was still him. the one that had gotten beneath his skin , carved a place there unknowingly.

long after his death , his absence was everywhere. had that been when the very fabrics came unraveled ? when he'd brought that fevered child into the safety of the cloud recesses & kneeled in - front of the wall of discipline ? the admittance is there in his actions , that the pristine second jade of lan is not who he once was. but his mask doesn't slip , that blank indiscernible look as he sits rigidly in-front of the table. it's a soft truth he gives in the clearing of his throat , " perhaps. " perhaps you're right.

he drags his gaze away reluctantly , refocusing on the papers laid out. his grip tightens on quill , " such a sentiment will cause you trouble here. " but he'd protect him this time , whether he knew it or not. there was no other option.

[katabay]

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[potato-lord-but-not]

one, I love how the ALH3B have fractured from the original source so much that the guys are basically your ocs now (seriously, I love when this happens in fandoms.) Two, Do you think John ever tells the others how much Arthur whimpered in canon-timeline? (i was thinking of this because from a malevolent [hah] entity who is possessing A Guy’s perspective, Arthur being a pathetic little meow meow 24/7 had to have gotten ANNOYING)

teehee yeah they’ve gone through mitosis and I’m using the doubles as my little ocs who get to kiss eachother often

and also I think yes and Arthur despises it greatly. especially because John picks the worst times on purpose

[shadystranger]

jack & dean opening the door for sam (11.16, 14.09)

[morteisshipping]

Someone in the comment section of S-class webtoon said, "If there's any romance I'm dropping it. This is an action genre, there shouldn't be any romance in it." I was like, oh buddy.

Oh, buddy, you sweet summer child.

Don't worry, it's not romance genre. But you see, the MC and Sung Hyunjae are just like *vague hand gestures* this. All the time. You'll get use to it.

[bitternace]

and now a silly one. someone's probably done this before

[ID: A redraw of the "oh Ariana we're really in it now" meme with Demyx. The colors are flat and the background is in light blues. Demyx's shown from the hip up, leading slightly forward into utada hikaru's sanctuary cover shown as a poster. on the bottom reads "oh, Utada, we're really in it now." /End ID.]

(extra under the cut)

[ID: same image as above except that instead of Utada Hikaru, it's Hatsune Miku. /End ID.]

[ishikawayukis]

fave gam3 bo1 wonwoo look for @s-cxups <3

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN (2024): hyunjin in every letter... ↘ D-28 | CHARISMATIC

[daily-isabeau]

He wouldn’t be that happy about it

[peachypine]

the roomies!!! i originally designed this ososan oc trio in full about a year ago to write on an rp blog. it's not really active rn, but i still want to talk and post about 'em, so here they are! just basic rundowns, but i'd be curious to hear which one (if any) is your fav of the three (feel free to leave it in the tags?? if u want!)

bonus transparent of them all together:

aaand some rambling under the cut about their designs

anzu:

i wanted to use orange as a character colour bc it's one that wasn't already used in the matsu rainbow, and i had a concept of a gyaru character named anzu kicking around in my head for a long time as well, so here we are. miwa from the mixer ep inspired the eyeshadow (orange rather than miwa's blue obv, to keep with her colour theme) and delinquent totoko's design inspired her ombre dyejob! i went with a blonde-to-orange look as a nod to anzu's namesake fruit (apricot).

the strands framing her face are split into 3 sections at the end (2/3 are grouped together and 1/3 flips in the other direction) which is a little nod to her being one of 3 siblings (eldest), as well as the "三" character used in her surname (mikado) meaning 3. the rest of her hairstyle is just because i thought it looked cute, though.

ososan's style is more simplified, but i wanted to convey makeup that was a little bold, but cute (long false lashes, eyeshadow, & and a soft pink or nude glossy lip). clothing-wise, she mixes and matches a few different substyles (agejo and onee are prominent, with some ane, tsuyome, and general old school gal influences as well?), with a particular fondness for animal prints, esp. tiger print. (that said, orange tiger print doesn't seem all that common in gyaru clothes, so in-universe i like to think that the top pictured above was originally a black-and-white zebra(?) stripe print she thrifted and dyed at home--close enough!)

her nails day to day are usually medium length since she has a lot of hobbies that involve her hands and anything longer makes those things a bit more cumbersome. sometimes they're decoden/bedazzled, sometimes they're just painted a cute colour/pattern, depends on the day! and i think she opts for press-ons over extensions for longer nails, since it's cheaper.

ran:

i'm just a bitch who loves purple, that's the reason for this one. i think the hime cut with shorter bangs is nice because you can showcase the eyebrows (i think eyebrows can really elevate a character design so i gave all 3 their own brow shape) without worrying about the lines for the eyebrows and bangs intersecting in an annoying way when you draw it. i like shorter, slightly sharp eyebrows like these because they're easy to draw, lol. i think they're usually furrowed like she's displeased with something, but that may just be her resting face. i also thought this blunter, sharper-looking cut (bold, standoffish) was a fun contrast to anzu's flippy half-updo (bright, bouncy) and yuzu's short, wavy hair (languid, relaxed).

5 piercings on each ear (2 spiked helix & 3 lobe) = 5 siblings including ran (4 older brothers). the other reason for this number of piercings was that her namesake flower (orchid) had--i thought--5 petals, but as it turns out i'm a fool, it's actually 3 petals (including the lip) and 3 sepals??? ah, well.

clothing-wise, influences from various punk/vkei styles alongside some rokku gyaru. (maybe anzu introduced her to this one?) this brash style is the total inverse of how she was expected to dress growing up. (when she and anzu first met, she was an OL with no piercings, undyed hair, and positively miserable, but that was a number of years ago now.) i'm really not reinventing the wheel with "small and angry", but y'know, we have fun here.

yuzu:

is teal distinct enough from blue to count as its own colour? i think so. for yuzu, i really loved the concept of a deadpan-looking character who is very much not the straightman, who in fact wants very badly to be the funnyman 99% of the time. that kind of straight-faced but silly comedic character is always really fun to me.

half-lidded/heavy-lidded eyes paired with thick brows are always a winner to me fsr, and i wanted to give her a more "handsome" looking face with a bit more of a defined jaw than you typically see on women in ososan. as a treat. i wanted her to look a bit like a mysterious prettyboy, but she's not actually mysterious, she's just a space cadet. (and very straightforward about her thoughts and feelings, saying them with little fuss or thought.) expectation vs reality, people deciding what you're like based on their own perception vs what you're actually like, etc. etc.

i don't have anything deep to say about her hairstyle, but maybe that's how yuzu would like it, what you see is what you get. (again, eyebrows vs hair... let that eyebrow scar that i gave her for no reason shine.) as for clothing, she prefers things that are easy to move around in, so her style is the most "matsuno"-like (t-shirts, hoodies, basketball shorts, sweats, etc.). in particular, she likes shirts with phrases, usually in english, that are funny or almost make sense but not quite ("for background visual gags" and "for the english speakers in the audience").

[arovalentines]

time to make your choice only you can be the one

[the-kipsabian]

[sharedtomorrows]

best friends, ex friends til the end

[ID: two traditional illustrations. the first is of ryan akagi portrayed from the waist up. he is holding his guitar and looking off to the side; the drawing is rendered in red and black. red text to his right reads in all caps, "and i cast a spell over the west to make you think of me" the second is min-gi park, also from the waist up. he is laying on his side and staring sadly at his stylophone; he is rendered in blue and black. all caps text above him reads, "the same way i think of you" you is written in blue, while the rest is red. /end ID.]

[brainrotisseriechicken]

..

extra:

(it was a spring morning)

(he was a frail boy with no friends)

(he ran into you from across the wall)

(you said hello to him, and asked him to play along)

(at that very moment, he received his lifelong—)

extra 2: oscar boogaloo

yeahhhh....iykyk

[red-moon-at-night]

Today I present: my attempts at trying to understand Paris' phrygian cap from greek pottery, for science.

[starrymushrooms]

This is what Baroryuu is to me/JOKES

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