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Blake and Avon waltzing in regency wear, for Lily. I used a Blake's Seven screenshot for colour correction and boy, the 70s sure were BROWN.

#blake's seven #fanart #hopefully none of you saw the version with a WRONGLY COLOURED SLEEVE #horrifying

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Lan Wangji kneels and carefully holds out a cabbage leaf to a small, cautious looking black bunny with red eyes. For Keizh's prompt.

#lan wangji #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs #fanart #I have a working graphics tablet again woo

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Everything you need to know to not be (too) confused by the TGCF Donghua (Seasons 1 and 2) (816 words) by sqbr Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Meta, Fanwork Research & Reference Guides Summary: This is everything I think you need to know to understand the main emotional arcs and plots of Season 2 of the animated adaptation of TGCF/Heaven Official's Blessing. I've hidden all the major spoilers for Season 1 under spoiler cuts, so it also works as a guide to which parts of Season 1 are most central, for anyone watching from the start and finding it all a bit overwhelming.

There's a few things I glossed over which become important in later books, but I can go back over those in a hypothetical guide to Season 5 or whatever. For a more complete guide, check out A Guide to Heaven Official's Blessing/TGCF.

#heaven officials blessing #guide #meta #tgcf

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This idea demanded to be drawn when I hadn't even finished my first playthrough, ages ago, but it's such a complex composition I kept putting it off. 7 characters of different shapes and sizes, plus trees, and my graphics tablet is broken so I had to use my mouse! Phew! Still it was a good chance to experiment with these brushes.

My Tav is a non-binary druid (who had a very cute tiefling design, RIP) but I used the default Tav outfit so any other mindflayer!PC/Shadowheart/Halsin shippers could imagine different genders/classes (or even origin characters, this would be cute with Karlach!)

#baldur's gate 3 #non binary ship #halsin #shadowheart #tav #het #fanart #tav x halsin x shadowheart #polyamory #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Tav Characters: Astarion, Tav Additional Tags: Gnome Tav, Gender Non-Conforming Tav, Fantasy Racism, Slavery, canon typical references to slavery, canon typical references to sexual trauma, the slavery isn't a core plot point this is just for people who want to filter it out, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst Summary:

Whatever Astarion might think of gnomes, he wasn't going to insult one to their face when it might get him into trouble.

Not on purpose, anyway.

#baldur's gate 3 #fanfic #finished it :D #non binary romance #astarion

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This is very silly but watching this video I went from "Haha she has the same sort of high braid as Shadowheart" to imagining it as Shadowheart, Karlach and Lae'zel singing to Shar, Gortash, and Vlaakith respectively, and had to capture my vision:

The lyrics actually work better as, like, Gale singing to Mystra, but this is where my brain went. EDIT: Haha I just noticed that one of them literally has the name Gayle. COINCIDENCE??

#fanart #of a sort #baldur's gate 3 #music #Youtube #drawn with a mouse since I drew it to procrastinate #on figuring out how to fix my tablet drivers

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur’s Gate 3 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Tav Characters: Astarion, Shadowheart, Tav, Gale Additional Tags: Gnome Tav, Gender Non-Conforming Tav, Fantasy Racism Summary:

Whatever Astarion might think of gnomes, he wasn't going to insult one to their face when it might get him into trouble.

Not on purpose, anyway.

#baldur's gate 3 #non binary tav #astarion x tav #gnome tav #non binary ship #non binary #fanfic #YES THAT'S RIGHT LOYAL FOLLOWERS #I ACTUALLY POSTED A FIC

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Water colour painting of the kākāpō Sirocco from https://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/kakapo for @kentsarrow

#birds #animals #prompts #original art

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Faux-watercolour of four bears sitting in a river up to their necks, looking at each other. For ursula. From this photo: https://www.tumblr.com/grandparentcore/717212194372255744/theyre-living-the-dream

#original art #animals #prompts

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Coloured pencil sketch of a fluffy cat flopped face first in a cat tree. For @isabelpsaroslunnen, from https://isabelpsaroslunnen.tumblr.com/post/715156761016926208/speaking-of-my-cats-and-heights-tfw-you-dont-fit

#animals #cats #original art #prompts

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Coloured pencil art of a rabbit riding a hound using a snail as a falcon, based on an original picture from from the Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, for @scytale-transposed

#fanart #kinda #animals #prompts

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Pencil Sketch Prompts of Specific Images

Speaking of which, I should ask my followers here, too! Been a while, innit?

So! Link me specific images to draw as pencil sketches! Photos, anime characters, landscapes, whatever, any level of detail is fine but anything complex may be represented with evocative scribbles ;) If you don't have a specific image in mind then something I can easily find a single reference for is also fine eg "a cat".

No zombies, nothing too sexual, and if you don't have permission to use the image it should be like... stock photos or famous art etc, not some indie artist's original work or some random person's selfie.

#prompts

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A pencil sketch of three emus around a feeding tray based on a photo from caramarie.

#original art #animals #emus #prompts

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A lightly coloured pencil sketch of my cat Bing, for @fredmouseoz.

Haven't felt much like posting art lately but I burned the tips of my fingers on my non-dominant hand and pencil sketches are a fun activity that doesn't requires any typing etc. Hooray for unexpected inspiration I guess!

#original art #cats #prompts

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Hii!! I read your fic Into darker Water and I loved it SO much!! The way you wrote he xuan and sqx's dynamic post canon was very realistic and it did a very good job of doing justice to both their characters and principles. They have a very complicated relationship and it's very hard to pull off romance between them without undoing or dismissing their individual struggles and motives. And you have the biggest KUDOS form me for writing such an amazing fic!! It's one of my absolute favourites of shuangxuan! ❤️ I go back to read that fic again and again. I do wonder about their wedding tho. 😍 was it a grand affair or a private thing just between them 👀 lol but yeah Idk if you ever plan to write more for that fandom but if you ever do, I'd love to read it!

Second thing, I was going through your tgcf tag and I saw the post about Islamophobia in tgcf and that made me wonder .. which part are you talking about? I didn't read the whole book. I only read till the part where pei ming's backstory was revealed and then kinda lost steam and interest 😅 (I may have skipped and skimmed through the rest of the story to read only the parts that I liked & just to get a sense of the rest of the story so I know the major plot points) but is it before that? Would you mind giving the details? And your thoughts about it? if you don't want to answer feel free to ignore this or you can just reply privately.

Thank you and I hope you're doing well xoxo 😘

Thank you so much!! Into Deeper Water is the longest thing I've ever written, in part because it is indeed very difficult to reconcile these two after everything that's happened between them. I'm very happy to know my attempt at it resonates with other people! And I'm actually doing pretty well right now, I've had pretty severe writer's block for like 2 years now but got into doing other creative things and am slowly feeling like poking my toes back into writing. Probably not for TGCF but who knows!

As for your questions: It's been a while since I read/thought about the book but let me see..

1) I feel like they'd have a very private and deeply bittersweet wedding ceremony, since there's so much baggage around each other's families and the idea of marriage. But then afterwards, possibly with some time between, they'd have a huge fancy wedding reception where Shi Qingxuan cheerfully accepts that He Xuan will show up for five minutes then go invisible to snack on the elaborate banquet. But He Xuan does make the effort to begrudgingly accept congratulations from the few people he genuinely likes (and swipes food from anyone he doesn't).

2) It's after meeting Pei Ming's ex, though still in Book 1. It's the part where they go to Banyue in the desert.

CW: fictional and real life genocide and ethnic prejudice.

OK I WAS GOING TO PUT A CUT HERE BUT IT KEEPS BREAKING. JUST PRETEND THERE IS A CUT HERE.

I wanted to link some of the more informed discussion I saw around this topic when that part of the donghua came out but can't find anything, so will just construct what I can from the posts I made at the time.

The country of Banyue is located in north-western China, which in real life is the home of the Uyghur ethnic minority, who are mostly Muslim.

In the novel, the native inhabitants of the region are depicted as violent, mindlessly expansionistic, xenophobic terrorists who shout about having been invaded as an excuse to bomb innocent people. This is the description of their leader, Kei Mo: "His complexion was as dark as iron, while his facial features seemed vicious and aggressive. In fact, his face appeared similar to that of a beast’s." I am far from an expert on how ethnic prejudice and Islamophobia manifest in China, but that's pretty blatant.

And in real life, the Chinese government is currently committing genocide against the Uyghurs with the excuse that their culture and religion is inherently violent. So it was beyond unfortunate for MXTX to construct a plot where their fictional equivalent are literal suicide bombers and the only way to deal with them is to commit complete genocide.

Luckily this plot gets dropped after that section of the story, and it's arguably not notably worse than the Islamophobia that commonly shows up in Western media, especially fantasy. But I still feel like it's good to give people a heads up.

#tgcf #me #replies

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A dollmaker, for creating sprite and portraits for use within Stardew Valley mods .

#stardew valley #mod

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Fandom: Enchanted (2007) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward/Nancy Tremaine Additional Tags: Crack Fic, Humor, Fairy Tales, Meta, Fanart, Feminist Themes, Fanfiction Summary: You might classify this as a feminist deconstruction of Nancy’s story at the end of “Enchanted” if it wasn’t so silly.

This idea popped into my head with great force the moment I finished watching this movie. I mean, how DOES the Andalasian political system work? And how is an American going to cope with being an absolute monarch? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW.

Now that the sequel to Enchanted has come out, I've been getting a bunch of kudos on this ollllld fanfic I wrote back in 2009 after watching the original, so thought I might as well post it to tumblr for anyone else interested in seeing Nancy's story explored. Also, there's a great podfic linked in the related works section.

I haven't seen Disenchanted yet, but can only assume this fic is not remotely compliant with the new canon.

#fanfic #enchanted #nancy tremaine #I'm not letting myself reread it #or I'll get too self conscious #since my writing style has changed a lot in 13 years!