#visual reference

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

There really should be more catholic-aesthetic necromancers, liches, and other undead.

You lost your keys again?

A pretty gnarly thing is they got the jaw of St. Anthony of Padua as a relic, and the reliquary goes hard af.

So I had this idea and I drew it as fast as I could

[withlovemark]

Kissing and obsessing over dom! hyuck's moles pleaseee

warnings: suggestive

seated between haechan’s! legs, yours wrapped around his torso, fingers softly ghosting over the moles on his cheeks, tracing them like constellations in the sky, “your lover in your past life really made sure i knew how much they kissed you,” you pout, jealousy taking over your features, making him chuckle.

“baby, you’re my person in every lifetime,” he places a soft kiss on the top of your nose, a smile growing on your lips, “who knows? you probably left those behind,” he teases, hand kneading soft circles on your back, “made sure to mark me, huh?,” he smirks, eyebrows wiggling playfully, gently squeezing your waist, making you giggle.

“mhm,” you agreed, loving the thought of being in love with him in this life and all the others.

you kiss each mole sitting on his cheeks, “gonna make sure i find you in the next one too,” you say before decorating his face with soft, gentle kisses, making your boyfriend blush.

the warmth from your lips makes his heart race as he watches you, a sweet smile on his lips, indulging in the calmness of it all.

“hmmm,” he sighs, “got some on my neck too,” he smirks, hands making their way to your ass, gently massaging and you know what started as an innocent act is about to turn nasty.

“how could i ever forget?,” you tease, making your way down to his neck, fingers carefully connecting the dots, soft lips soon to follow, as he gives you easier access. you kiss every mark – starting from the one placed right on his adam’s apple, moving down to the bottom and up near his jaw, each one making haechan shiver under your touch, his grip on your ass tightening.

you take your time, kissing his moles over and over again, switching from his face to his neck, gently sucking, making goosebumps rise throughout his skin.

you suck a little harder on the side of his neck, earning a groan from him, “baby-,” he warns.

“what?,” you smile innocently.

“you know i can’t have a hickey,” he groans but he doesn’t stop you so you continue your artwork.

“just making sure people in this life know you’re mine too,” you purred, proud of the purple mark you have left behind, your possessiveness getting to his head, hips instinctively thrusting upwards.

“hmm, is that how that works?,” he playfully teases, turning your head towards him for a slow, intimate kiss, tongue swiping at your lips for entrance, “mhm”, you moan during the kiss, answering him.

“well, i guess i gotta make sure everyone knows you're my girl,” he taunts mischievously, before picking you up slightly, laying you on the bed, his body hovering over yours as he spent the rest of the night littering kisses and leaving marks all over your skin.

[goldenashes-if]

Dragon mc's arm (a true shifter) vs everyone else:

[city-of-heavenly-heartbreaks]

This was eating away at my brain today - What would Rook have looked like before the events of Veilguard?

On the left, I visualized my Shadow Dragon Rook as her 9:52 self before meeting Varric and starting the Pre-Veilguard journey. According to Solas, Rook was working with Varric for around a year before stopping the ritual, and a lot of things can change in that time.

My Rook was a bit of a party animal with the Shadow Dragons and a big drinker before getting kicked from Minrathous. She would have had more weight on her from heavy drinking and always having access to food. Her natural hair color is black, and she has her bangs cut.

After going off with Varric, she loses weight due to a lack of drinking and always being on the move. Given how scruffy her robes are at the beginning of the game, I assume they've been living a nomadic life for a while. She gains some muscle and ends up with a very lean build. Her bangs are grown out, she's dyed her hair red, and she does not wear as dramatic of makeup.

I really like that there is a clear visual difference between the two - Tarquin and Ashur probably did a double-take when she showed back up in Dock Town.

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Bestiary entry: this knight monster thing with a steel heart, virgin belly button, and elephant body.

Perlesvaus (Evans translation)

So I'm taking another stab at reading the Sebastian Evans translation of Perlesvaus, for... reasons. Or the High History of the Holy Graal, as he titles it -- funnily enough, the people who put out this reprint apparently looked at the title, said "we're not doing that", and spelt it Grail on the cover.

Despite the bizarre choices in diction, it's still pretty fun, and I want to share some particularly entertaining bits of this text with y'all. (For those of you who aren't up on the two different translations of Perlesvaus and don't know what I mean by "bizarre choices", the Evans translation is from 1898 but pretending to be from, like, 1498.)

N.B.: Marginal notes in red are from the last time I tried this -- they stop showing up roughly a quarter of the way through the book, because that's when I decided to buy the Bryant translation instead.

I just find this funny because "who cares?" strikes me as such a modern thing to say. To me it is a phrase that seems most natural coming from a teenage character in late-20th-century media. But nope. "Who careth?"

This is here just for the bizarre scene. We have three women coming into the throne room (riding mules directly into the building, by the way). One is carrying a severed head decorated with silver and gold. Another has "a pack trussed behind her with a brachet thereupon" -- you can see from the notes that I had to look up "brachet", found out it was an old word meaning roughly "female scent-hound", and then had the mental image of this woman carrying around a beagle in a baby-bjorn.

Again something I find funny. Gawain just leaping through the air to interpose himself between the horses and this hermit, like he's trying to take a bullet for them. This is entirely because he is 100% certain the hermit will handle the saddles incorrectly, and when the hermit assures him he actually does know how this stuff works, Gawain calms down & lets him do it.

This is, for my money, one of the funniest things in all of Perlesvaus, which is saying something because it is a bonkers text. This lady rolls up and provides that description, and the hermit recognizes who she's talking about. Like, "oh yes I did see a knight with a heart of steel and the navel of a virgin". I want to give this description to a sketch artist. (I kind of want to throw it at an AI just to see what it comes up with, but you know. I don't want to encourage the machines.)

This time I'm nit-picking the translation, because that strikes me as a misplaced modifier. Obviously it's meant that Gawain is unaware of events, but the sentence is constructed to make it sound like it's referring to the building itself, which is of course unaware because it's a building and isn't aware of anything. (Also, side note, I like the phrase "as methinketh!")

One more, and I'm leaving this for now...

Here is a case where I was going to complain, but on further examination, I must hand it to Evans. I assumed that he was just randomly archaizing, but I looked it up after uploading this photo, and according to the OED, this was a valid alternate spelling of sovereign from the 17th to the 19th century. (Interestingly, the latest attested example on the OED is from 11 years before this translation was published, meaning this is evidence it was in use slightly longer than the OED entry would suggest -- does anyone know if there's still a way to submit instances of a word to the OED?)

[silentsnaps]

SH 2 Remake Texture Rip - Maps

[spaceintruderdetector]

Tanks Illustrated History Of Fighting Vehicles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[mrsjellymunson]

I’m just creating a visual reference for anyone who’s wondering which Captain America scene I took inspiration from for Knock At The Cabin Part Two. For no other reason. Nope. Nothing else going on here at all *clears throat* 👀

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

[wolfsetfree-if]

Reference for the pack's big bathtub (enough to hold Bela + pups, or a shifted Omega)

[yuyuyuann]

Because sameface syndrome is so common especially depicting Asians, I put together a quick and small reference for how to draw different types of faces.

Remember that "Asian" includes Southeast Asia, India, and west Asia as well! We're all not held to the beauty standards marketed by westernised Asian media exports! Even "mainstream" north eastern Asians do not always have the long face and white skin that you see in movies.

The opening image is a more photographic depiction of some different face shapes, but for a simpler image, eyebrow fashion is actually a good place to find face shapes. (Apparently styling the eyebrows to compliment the face shape is a thing. Who knew)

Averages of faces over a few countries. I do NOT recommend using these averages to reference characters, because every individual is unique. If you point at the "Filipino" square to say, "This is the faceclaim for my Filipino character!", you're once again in the Asian sameface hole. However, it's just a reminder that there are many, many different ethnicities that fall under the "Asian" category.

This eye shapes chart is quite simplified, and the appearance will change slightly depending if the eye is double or single lid. However, these are classic archetypes that are commonly identified in Chinese culture.

Translation, left -> right

Row 1:

Zuifeng eye (or fox eye) rarely seen

Danfeng eye (or phoenix eye) rarely seen

Peach flower

Row 2:

Apricot eye

Round eye

Hanging eye

Row 3:

Upper tilt eye

Willow leaf eye

Thin eye

I feel it's really important to note that the first two eye types, Fox and Phoenix, are the ones most commonly portrayed on Asian characters. However, they are actually the LEAST commonly seen in real life. Most people have some combination of the two lower rows.

Last but not least, people are not all lily white like in commerical ads. Makeup foundation swatches are a good place to reference skin tones in general, but I grabbed this image from Shiseido, a popular beauty store chain in Asia. Look at those variety of tones.

(And for the love of god please do not make your asian characters literally yellow. I will manifest on your doorstep with a pickaxe)

And that's all I have for now. Obviously not a comprehensive guide, because my cultural knowledge is limited to my own demographic, (and because nothing can comprehensively cover the wonderful variety of humans), but hopefully it can help a bit.

And very importantly, I don't advocate for any one feature over another, we are beautiful because of our differences.

[asikku]

Natoya!!

Me da paja dar contexto, los que se acuerden de todos estos chiquilines que antes eran OCs de splatoon que he posteado como humanos ahora, good. Los que no, serapio pero esta bien

La mensa se viste con lo primero que pilla, poleron de cuarto en la universidad y todas esas cosas jiji

[feniverse-unfiltered]

Creating a compilation of Wolfwood's motorcycle

The ones below are from when he returns to the orphanage, it looks like a different bike

From Tri98:

[goldenashes-if]

man I just looked at those pic inspo’s and goddamn *fans self*

Putting them here too (used purely for reference, all credit to the artists)

Papa: (with russet skin tone)

Haba: (with dark violet eyes)

Zaza:

[rplayeusefeministeetromantique]

butterfly dress

[elfsonglandlady]

Halsin & Shadowhwarts Cabin. The first floor layout to go along with my AO3 fic. Is she an artist? No. Is she a visual person who has to have some vague reference? Yes, unfortunately.

Please enjoy the tiny footprint and bird tracks relating to chapter 10 ✌️