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worfsbarmitzvah · 7 months ago

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there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

#txt #jumblr #i’ll never forget studying parashat noach one week #and i was discussing it at face value as if it was a real historical event just bc that was the most interesting way for me to approach it #and our clergy associate was like ‘okay but we know this is a fable right?’#that just. *chefs kiss* perfectly encapsulates reform judaism to me #this is also why i cant stand when ppl act like reform jews are somehow less religious #i LOVE torah. i love diving into the text and discussing it w people and exploring the historical context behind the words #and treating it as a document written by a human society rather than coming directly fully formed from hashem #adds such a FASCINATING dimension to analyzing the text #what were we thinking when we wrote this? what had recently been happening around us that might have inspired this passage?#what practical meaning did this particular commandment have for daily life in that time?#i love torah i love history i love anthropology and i love judaism #AND THE NATIONAL ORIGIN STORY AS A NARRATIVE FRAMING FOR ALL THE PRACTICAL LAWS!!!!!!! oooooohhhh i love it

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 months ago

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Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

#Mouthwashing #blood #body horror #Emphasizing here that this is in reference to a media and character and not a cry for help on my end.#Mouthwashing is one of those games that tickles my brain and checks all the boxes for my niche interests -#-but it wasn't something that got the silly comic part in my cortex firing up. My analysis brain is eating well though!#What said...It is impossible for me to see this scene and not say out loud: “Me in the middle of my work day".#While there is a lot more going on with curly I personally resonated a lot with his struggles with burnout.#Burnout feels like mouthwash to me. That you keep rinsing out your mouth trying to get rid of the rotting smell #but it's just surface level solutions. The real cure requires something far more significant to actually make a difference.#The job 'is hard' and 'everyone struggles'. It's part of the process right? You're tired? Anxious? Depressed? Us too! Chin up!#Actually I resonated with a lot of things within Curly (this is a curly positive space - he's not perfect. He's just human).#One thing being his desire to see the good in people and believe in their potential.#Because here's the thing. Some people truly do just need someone in their corner who stands by them so they can grow and improve.#And some people will take advantage of your kindness. You focus so much on their humanity while you stop being a person to them.#The horrifically toxic relationship persists because Curly tries to see the bigger picture and believes in the good within.#Anyone who has lived through constantly trying to reframe the hurt as something else knows-#-just how many excuses your brain will make to avoid cognitive dissonance. It's human psychology.#Jimmy sucks so bad. But we the audience have the privilege of not having years of baggage associating him in our minds as 'friend'.

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 years ago

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Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!!#video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet.#the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but.#good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort???#and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it..#if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another....#For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret...#Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

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somsonsomsoff · 1 year ago

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headcanons for the employers have somehow turned into a crossover with de skills

#madness combat #so the thought process is this #based on the episodes the auditor is most likely to be associated with physical pain raw strength and endurance #he appears to be descended to the level of mortals and their physical world and he clearly doesn't mind drinking some sugary drinks #i also like the idea of stygian being his counterpart thematically related to souls and rituals #and through understanding other’s emotions they could be frighteningly comforting to those they guide through the mortal coils #the authority expressed by calling someone a worm seems comical #and the conductor sounds like someone who has something to do with interfacing #it would be interesting if they were the one who set nevada in motion with lightnings and stuff like that #that leaves the deliberator who holds all the knowledge and ability to reason for the rest of the employers #and like what if they were a little more dramatic.#madness project nexus #de skills #madness combat employers

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da-janela-lateral · 3 months ago

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To be part of something big.

#I have the power to make angst of characters nobody else cares about #I've been thinking about that one dimple dialogue on the divine tree arc #about how mezato in the end only wanted to be part of something bigger than herself #doesn't she see herself as someone relevant? or at least worthy of attention?#it kind of reminds me of how reigen wanted to be “someone”#but contrary to reigen it seems like mezato doesn't see herself as someone who can be “big” on her own right #and rather associates relevance with being part of something. this way her efforts would be recognized at least indirectly?#based on article examples on the fanbook mezato takes the school journal way more seriously than the other members of it #and considering how dedicated and singleminded she can be about what she finds interesting...#having your efforts devalued or even ignored must take a toll on the self image of someone like her #people see her skill yet never care about what she actually enjoys and is passionate about. but it DOES mean something for her #I have mezato thoughts.#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 fanart #ichi mezato #mezato ichi #lalarts

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lotus-pear · 1 year ago

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doing a social experiment where i am introducing my friend to bungou stray dogs solely through knkdz content/official art and portraying kunikida and dazai as the "main" implied relationship in bsd. no skk, she does not know chuuya, i have not mentioned chuuya, and she will not meet chuuya until episode nine. this is solely for the purpose of seeing whether or not new bsd fans' pyscholgies are skewed bc of skk or whether they start the show solely for them. after she meets chuuya i'll ask her which pairing she prefers more

#LISTEN DONT YOU THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED FOR ONCE #SKK AS THE RAREPAIR??? KNKDZ AS THE MAIN PAIRING??#this is so evil and delicious of me i am rubbing my sick twisted little hands together and grinning maliciously #what happens when a pairing is forced down someone's throat since the start of the exposure to the media they are indulging #will they stick by the pairing bc they associate it w the introduction of the show? or will they move on to another pairing?#only time will tell #bsd #skk #knkdz

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ryllen · 3 months ago

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liker of peculiar thing

#poot jack #something he would do i think #don't rly vibe with the gal's clothing so these are what my farmer has been wearing #story of seasons #story of seasons pioneers of olive town #fanart #harvest moon #sos poot #pioneers of olive town #poot farmer #was going after ralph bcs i like his appearance the most #but undeniably his personality is so mid; that jack's 5th heart event snatched me just like that #and then i think he suits my farmer more in term of personality #i always have the rather-not-go-with-the-blondes mindset #but here we are #character with blonde hair always has the annoying “man i'm gonna be so popular bcs i'm blonde” vibe #they are so mainstreamly loved that i just lose interest from the first round #but he is more quirky than popular i think #he looks especially handsome in that yukata #i think i am attracted with things associated with deep blue color bcs of my past fav #it brings much harmony to his hair tho

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punster-2319 · 8 months ago

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“Animated Family Films Made After 1968 That SURPRISINGLY Got G-Ratings” Starter Pack

(Before anyone points it out, yes, I am aware that The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven were edited before their releases to avoid getting PG ratings).

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peculiarbeauty · 12 days ago

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ok ok this is SO WEIRD of me to ask . . but i am gonna ask it anyway and hope ppl jump in like they normally do without being like rose ur so weird hahahaha. IF your muse was a cat or a dog .. what breed + why . i NEED to know . it's for science .

belle 110% is a border collie if she's a dog breed bc she's SO intelligent and they are known to be very intelligent animals. that's why they are featured so much in competitions bc they are SO QUICK TO LEARN. plus they're freaking cute i mean HELLO .

#⊱✿⊰ ┊ ˢʰᵉ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ⁱˢ ᵃ ᶠᵘⁿⁿʸ ᵍⁱʳˡ ( ooc )#[ inc nini explaining the reasons #ariel is prob a pomeranian or something #FDJJKDFDFK IM JK NINI #IM JUST MESSING W/ YOU #im curious what breeds u associate ur muse w/#they say that there is a dog or cat breed for every person #idk idk #its interesting !!!

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warning-heckboop · 2 months ago

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Oh to be able to make the complex lore comic that lives in my head about the concept of fairies, anti-fairies, and pixies once being a civilization of one single species of fae that splintered both metaphorically and literally due to internal conflict

#Basic concept: one fae has their good and bad sides split into the fairy and anti fairy #While what remains (ie their more 'grey' traits) are left behind as a third being that's more of a Husk than anything #Pixies are kind of like the Kingdom Hearts nobodies in my head #None of them are directly associated or bonded to any single fairy the way anti-fairies are #They're just sort of a mixed bag of leftovers #Different from Nobodies in that aspect #The conflict that caused the initial split was the decision to stop doing harm to the humans through the planting of changelings #Which eventually evolved into a debate over how they treated humans in general #All desires to help and care for the human race was separated into fairies #While all desires to do harm was divided into antifairies #And then the left over unrelated stuff (like not caring about the humans either way and only being self interested instead) became the pixie #Unfortunately for everyone involved the split caused a severe decrease in magical abilities for all sides #Since it was really just one magic that was split into thirds #Having children was also banned at this point because there was no way of knowing if the children would be of one side #Or if they would be the original unsplit species #And there was concern this would cause conflict #I also like to think the heads of each faction erased the populations memories of their origins eventually #If only to make it easier to dehumanize the other factions and elevate themselves by erasing any associations with them #There are still some fae who exist who either were part of the split but escaped before they had their memories wiped #Or were never affected by the split and therefore still exist as the original form of fae #With all three 'types' of magic under their control #ANYWAY #fop a new wish #Fop #fopanw #fairly oddparents #fairly oddparents a new wish #A new wish

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bookshelf-in-progress · 4 months ago

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Story Ideas I'm Never Going to Write #1: The Midnight Door

A mashup retelling of "Cinderella" and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"

Main character is a young woman who is heiress to an estate and fortune that can pass down along the female line. Her father has remarried a woman with two sons of her own. Stepmother resents that Cinderella is going to get everything while she has two sons who get nothing.

Cinderella is in love with a seventh son who's also a soldier. An upcoming ball is going to be Cinderella's last chance to see him before he goes off to war.

Cinderella's father disapproves of this relationship, believing the soldier to be a fortune hunter. To keep Cinderella away from him, he forbids her from going to the ball and the family leaves her behind.

As Cinderella is mourning this, she is visited by a fairy who offers to help, giving her a ballgown and transportation to the ball (as well as magically ensuring that her family doesn't recognize her) so long as she returns by midnight.

Cinderella has a wonderful evening, bids her beloved a fond farewell after promises of everlasting devotion, and returns at the stroke of twelve. She thanks the fairy profusely, wondering how she can ever repay her.

The fairy says she'll think of something.

The next night, at the stroke of midnight, a door appears in Cinderella's room. When Cinderella walks through, she finds herself in a magical garden. The fairy states that the door will appear in Cinderella's room each night, which will allow her to come to the fairy's home and complete a few small tasks to show her gratitude for the help she received in getting to the ball. If Cinderella refuses, this will be proof that she is a wicked, ungrateful child deserving of magical punishment.

Cinderella has no choice but to agree. The door appears each night, and Cinderella spends each night completing tasks for the fairy--sometimes ordinary cleaning or gardening tasks that she doesn't want to waste magic on, sometimes on quests into the magical wilds to find items that are best retrieved by a pure-hearted human. Sometimes, the fairy offers magical help with these tasks, which only gives Cinderella more debt to work off.

This leaves Cinderella exhausted during the daytime, and eventually, her family notices. The stepmother thinks that this is proof that Cinderella is living a pampered, worthless lifestyle, and she convinces her husband that Cinderella needs to take up more responsibilities if she wants to live up to her role as heiress to the estate.

Cinderella tries not going through the door a few times, but time always stays frozen at the stroke of midnight until she goes through the door.

Cinderella's father figures out that she's going somewhere at night, but since the magic keeps everyone in the house asleep while she's gone, and keeps her from telling anyone the truth, he's unable to figure it out.

He recruits the help of some eligible young men in the area (hoping that this will also help her forget about the soldier and agree to marry a suitable man). Since the bonds of marriage are stronger than the bonds of gratitude that bind Cinderella to the fairy's service, the fairy gets worried that she might lose the best servant she's ever had, so she takes the precaution of stealing away the young men who try to solve the mystery, turning them to stone, and leaving them as statues in her garden.

The fairy has a brother who eventually comes by and learns about the situation. The brother doesn't approve of his sister's cruelty in general (which is why he interacts with her as little as possible), and he has a sympathy for humans after spending a portion of his young life as a changeling. He learns that his sister has no intention of ever allowing Cinderella to work off the debt, and he tries to force her to set Cinderella (and the stone suitors) free.

The sister is enraged, and with her stronger magic, she casts her brother out into the human world, leaving him weak and nearly powerless .

He's in this weakened state when a soldier comes by and offers help. Taking food from a human will leave the fairy in a debt to him similar to the one that binds Cinderella to his sister's service, but he's too weak to care much.

A conversation with the soldier reveals that he's actually Cinderella's sweetheart, newly returned from the war. The fairy is unable to directly tell him what's happening to Cinderella, but since he's now bound to the soldier's service, it is totally legal for him to set up a situation where the soldier can figure out what's going on for himself.

The fairy gives the soldier an invisibility cloak, and advises him to go to Cinderella's father and offer to solve the mystery. The father figures that this is a win-win situation--either the soldier solves the mystery and they resolve the situation that's harming Cinderella and stealing away these young men, or the soldier will get stolen away and her father won't have to worry about this unsuitable suitor chasing after her.

The cloak and the fairy bound to his service protect the soldier from any detection by the sister's magic, and he follows Cinderella and figures out what's going on. They could break Cinderella's bond of service by getting married, but Cinderella refuses to free herself until she can free all the innocent men who've been caught up in this.

The three of them figure out a way to save the suitors and defeat the evil fairy, Cinderella's father learns the truth and agrees to let Cinderella marry her true love, and everyone lives happily ever after.

#adventures in writing #fairy tale retellings #cinderella #the twelve dancing princesses #i think you can see why i'm never going to write it #(the whats and hows are pretty thin on the ground)#(especially when it comes to the ending)#the original idea had a creepy vibe surrounding the fairies #(i was inspired by the scary fairy vibe of stuff like jonathan strange)#and i wouldn't want to go as far in that direction with it now but i can't shake the association that makes it seem unpleasant #i did consider writing it out as a fairy tale #but a lot of the interesting stuff requires more character detail #so you get the middle ground of a bullet point summary #which has the added bonus of me not having to figure out the ending

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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MDZS Disco Elysium AU part 2 - Psyche Skills

Part 1 - Part 3

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #disco elysium #MDZS disco elysium au #jiang cheng #jiang yanli #yu ziyuan #While it's more in vogue to draw a character's skill roster tailored to them -#One of the more subtle details I love in DE is how some of the skill portraits parallel character portraits of people hbd associates with.#Theres somethine rather poetic to be said about how other people shape out thoughts and sometimes act as a 'voice' in our head.#How we are in part a collection of impressions other people left behind on us.#I am a huge Skillhead (Those are my friends! My party members! They love me! They have their own agendas and alliances!)#so of course a healthy portion of this AU is dedicated to them <3 #the Int skills go basically unchanged from DE. Psy as well (with changes to a few quirks in voice).#Fys skills though...well...wwx is in a different body! Those voices belong to Someone Else.#Esp electrochem (MXY in this AU also partied to near death. WWX is withdrawing and craving substances he's never even heard of before)#While I personally don't fully subscribe to Volition Jean I *do* see Volition Jiang Cheng. The voice of your Not Brother keeping you afloat #All three of these parallels make me unbelievably sad. They are also both purple. Art is like that sometimes.#Empathy Jiang Yanli...oh man do I have a lot of thoughts about her. Disco fans Who Know....you can probably see what I'm cooking.#Authority is a really interesting skill in DE because *yes* its about power and intimidation - but it's also about finesse and respect #Titus Hardie and YZY both abuse *and* finesse how they establish their authority - in a way that leaves quite an impression.#2 more mdzs disco posts that I *need* to create and then I'm off to working on raffles <3

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age-of-moonknight · 1 month ago

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“Reborn,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (Vol. 2/2024), #2.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu vol. 2 #Moon Knight: Fist if Khonshu 2024 #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #Iron Man #Tony Stark #you can’t tell me Mr. At One Point Had His Own Star Trek Uniform didn’t immediately clock the classic #«I’m a doctor not a…» set up hahaha #(Although maybe I’ve played too much Rainbow Six Siege because it also reminded me of Jäger’s «I’m an engineer not a medic!»#love that guy ANYWAY)#okokokok this is….interesting #I’m I guess you could say intrigued that so far it seems this volume is shaping up to make addressing Marc’s self-proclaimed addiction #to violence a central theme as it’s come up in both comics released so far #I guess I never thought they’d take it seriously since such descriptions of one reason why Marc does what he does is because he’s hooked #on the sort of high-octane rush that comes with combat have popped up in his comics for years #but that language was pretty common in 80’s and 90’s comics portraying tough guy characters willing to kill people #but it’ll be interesting to me at least to see how this more serious approach will develop #Mr. MacKay has given me little reason to doubt him so far but if they continue with this #idea of treating addiction seriously since they’re using the language associated with it I hope they’ll address it #with the appropriate gravity such a topic necessitates #anyway don’t mind me musing in the tags

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lunetual · 1 year ago

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𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 - PLAVE 'thanks to' sign-offs (source/tr.)

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euryleli · 4 months ago

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I like the idea of will byers carrying a gun in s5 not because I think he would enjoy it/it would be badass, but because the ANGST and the exploration of the abuse lonnie put will through is really important to me

I need it to be addressed!!

#stranger things #byler #will byers #will byers has a gun #and its not a good time for him!!#lets think for a sec #we see jonathans trauma around lonnie and him teaching how to hunt and what not #do we really believe will would feel safe with a gun in his hands? with all the history it carries #the trauma and the abuse and the act of conformity associated with the fact that he has to use a gun?#i think its such an interesting take and i would love to see it in s5 #its not a badass moment! its heartbreaking #will doesnt need a gun and to be honest i dont think it would work for him in the long run #i saw a really good post about it #its amazing guys #but lets please stop portraying will with a gun in fics as this super awesome and exciting moment #he would struggle for real i think

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fiendishartist2 · 1 year ago

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its been so long since i first shared my designs for them, so i thought i would try again with my new art skills :3

#i love them all so dearly man.....#my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #petscop #paul leskowitz #petscop paul #belle leskowitz #petscop belle #carrie mark #petscop care #lina leskowitz #petscop lina #i do have an idea for what lina looks like but i think it's important that you don't see her face #like it separates her from marvin and rainer's idea of her. keeps the real her out of petscop #also about care: i made her more desaturated than paul bc i wanted to show how lifeless/unhappy her character is #not only is paul associated with a bolder colour but his hair is less limp and his face has more colour #i also think its interesting to have paul's eyes covered w/ his glasses. as if hes hiding a trait he cant get away from #omg also belle's hair!! i love the look of beads in braids in general but i thought it was a nice way to make her hair look like the mask-#-without changing the style or colour

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