#/at least not traditionally

[eggsmuses-a]

30! And/or maybe 27?

munday talky talk (friday edition) / accepting

30. your choice !

i never thought i'd become selective with certain rpcs or even have trouble with them, yet here we are

i'm not really gonna be (or try not to be) negative or nothing but it genuinely surprises me that i would have problems with a community (especially since i was so convinced rp would be smooth sailing since im pretty casual). that might just be the price that comes with multifandom multis though, you get dirt and problems you otherwise would have never encountered if youd been single JVSJSV

another thing about being multi is that its really upsetting when i am fixated on a specific fandom and its muses and im expected to have high muse for my other fandoms during that fixation (especially request muses). a word of advice: muse does not work that way. i work on what im motivated for, which is why some threads will take a long time to get responses to. which is why i gave precautions on muses that are set to tertiary and request; i cant guarantee they will be active

if people have problems with that, so be it, but id really appreciate if both my confidence and motivation in a portrayal was respected. just something ive noticed in the rpc

im just not gonna give people the time of day if they cant respect i am human and cant operate to the same standard all day every day and not equally to all my characters

27. an old muse

i miss my first rp blog a lot if i havent made it clear LMAO

fn.af rpc era during security breach was fun, and i enjoyed portraying roxy a lot but the usual story happened. bigger, better blogs that had more detail to how they looked etc and that was it

i left bc it was just too much, especially when i was being shun and treated as lesser for seemingly being behind

id love to write fn.af again, ive been wanting to put michael here on my blog again because he was a muse i was passionate about and wanted to share my interpretation on a lot but theres something thats holding me back, and i just dont wanna go back tbh

i miss the sense of community from the time i wrote roxy and the feeling of the times, but i just dont think i could slot myself back into the rpc again. who knows bc i might make a private mutuals-only blog for old muses id love to write again LMAO but yknow, thats it. will forever love how it was though

#/this turned out a lot more negative than i intended i think oops KGSKSVS #/but yeah just a lil bit of thoughts #askthekirbysquad #( out of eggs ) -- ooc #( eggs benedict ) -- ask #neg // #/sorta not really tho #/at least not traditionally

[taffywabbit]

local silly girl tries to learn something new, dozens injured

(this caption could refer to Claire or myself and it would still generally apply)

#SLARPG #super lesbian animal rpg #claire higsby #fun fact: this is the first traditional piece I've inked in at least 3 years #(it is also the one i was working on at that wedding i mentioned) #it's been fun to shake the rust off and push myself to work traditionally here and there when i have some time to kill #anyways i wanna colour this traditionally too but I'm posting this now in case i lose motivation or mess something up #furry art #witch #taffy art

[alonetogether]

srar patato sketch cause i like never draw him

#my art #patrick stump #fall out boy #fob #traditional drawing i do love you oh so much…… #my art has such a different vibe traditionally … at least to my overly critical art brainBCKDBF

[uncharted-constellations]

Re-reading untold tales kills me every time, They Were Babies 🥺

#spider-man #harry osborn #gwen stacy #marvel #art #my art #i was Not in a line art mood so i sketched this one traditionally but anyways #it wounds me whenever harry is added into the highschool era but gwen isnt #harry and gwen were best friends first! #spect-acular at least made them friends somewhat outside of peter but still #everything about their friendship is such a goddamn tragedy #and the fact that none of the adaptions truly want to go into it #truly fucking boggles the mind

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Late Night Talking

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#poorly drawn mdzs #MDZS #wei wuxian #lan wangji #This scene had massive 'we are the only two people still up at the sleepover' energy #thought let me set the record straight; wwx doesn't open up in the scene. He fully deflects #Nor does LWJ play with ants B*( #I wanted to merge the two scenes a bit that's all #My OG script was a bit funnier but it broke continuity so rip (i.e: wwx outright stated 'remember when YOU...' in reference to the ants) #also rip to lwj saying 'hey U up?' like he's texting his crush. I hope the spirit is still there #We all know lwj sticks to his 9pm bedtime no matter what #and wouldn't be traditionally texting on a cellphone #He wakes up at 4:30 am to go for a run #gets home at 5:30 to use the lan household computer to go on his shared google doc with wwx and comments 'are you still awake?' #cause lets me real. wwx might also keep a steady sleep schedule but at least he *can* pull an all-nighter #Can you imagine lwj at a sleepover? I admit to being the kid who went to bed and woke up 3-4 hours before the others #you either get fed up and wake someone else up for enrichment - or plan ahead to bring a book - or Walk Home #I fully missed out on all that deep heart to heart stuff. I usually was the one to go 'guysssss we are gonna get in troubleeee go to sleep' #wait this is too much sleepover talk I need to talk about wwx in the last panel. It's a mix of panic and pride. #He's just at the beginning of realizing this guy has changed a lot in 13 years #gonna be a while before more comic pages get posted but they're ready to go in the queue! #(I'm still posting other stuff daily though!)

[extraordinaryandroid]

BOO

#two grown ups fucking oh noooo #can people get a hobby that isn't flaunting their lack of intelligence as morality. at least do that in a church. traditionally #they talk in the post about how do we not realise we're the freaks - do they feel the same about half the youtubers who played it? 😂

[sevendutchies]

"You thought I was bringing you flowers?"

Just about a post where @jewishdainix once pointed out a possible parallel between Fitz feeling offended that the Fool would dare think he'd be bringing him flowers during The Quarrel vs. when Fitz decorates his funeral Pyre after the Pale Woman…………..not that it actually mentions Fitz using flowers for the pyre but the thought still made me go insane and I had 2 draw it teehee

#rote #realm of the elderlings #the Fool #fitzchivalry farseer #robin hobb #:v #btw I completely gave up trying to get an accurate skin/hair tone for the fool in favor of ummmm color palette <3 #also this rly made me realize how much better I am at traditionally painting stuff than digital.......girl I am out of my DEPTH #to say the least. on a computer that is. #at the risk of sounding vain I am very proud of how this came out and think it ended up looking 1000000 times better than anything I could #digitally

[blueskittlesart]

I was disappointed that Haruhi was treated like a girl by the host club members. Anyway I’m trans now 👍

this is actually probably another example of cultural disconnect irt ouran! I don't blame you for it because if im right about where you're coming from, it's a linguistic thing and unless you understand japanese/how japanese works it's not a connection you're going to make. I think that much of what english-speaking fans percieve as haruhi being treated like a girl by the hosts, aside from tamaki's obvious Thing about her gender, is the constant use of she/her pronouns. Most of the hosts (sans tamaki) don't go out of their way to treat her like a girl in terms of like, social context, aside from a few bits that are implied to be instigated by tamaki (i.e. lobelia academy plot.) I will admit that the she/her-ing of haruhi is pervasive in the english translations of the show, but it's not actually an accurate reflection of the original content. Conversational japanese largely drops gendered pronouns from most sentences, meaning there's very little overt gendering of haruhi either way by most characters in the show. this is part of the reason why it's somewhat believable that she managed to pass herself off as a guy--it's actually entirely possible that she didn't KNOW that people were assuming she was male until the hosts made a big deal out of it, because it's unlikely she would be referred to by gendered pronouns in conversation with her peers. this is unfortunately one of those things that it's almost impossible to not lose in translation since english sentence structure relies so heavily on gendered pronouns, but i do think it's worth pointing out that in the original japanese the boys WEREN'T openly calling her a girl at every turn. except for tamaki who absolutely was but that's like his own whole seperate thing

#my least favorite anime scene is the beach episode argument bc i will never understand why they made that shit all about her being a girl. #in the manga it was very much more of an issue of her refusing to call for help when she needed it than a 'you are a weak female' situation #anyway. irt the japanese pronoun stuff the pronoun that IS commonly used on her is the one she uses for herself #which IS a traditionally male pronoun but is also stereotypically used by like. tomboy girls girls who dont care abt gender etc #which is another reason people assumed she was male. she was using a technically masculine pronoun on herself #but not in like a 'i am a boy' way in like a 'who gives a shit' kinda way. yknow #asks

[chiptrillino]

why not show the scrawls that could be wips 👉👈

you know what... you are right why not!

i do not carry a proper sketchbook with because... when i am outside, i don't often find the time to sit down to draw. Also i feel really anxious so most drawings i will show here did max take 30 sec to 1 min. because i basically scribble down the idea on the nearest piece of paper in the most recognizable way and then move on. at a later moment when i have time and peace, i cut them out and glue them in a very old notebook with cheep bleeding paper or a repurposed exhibition and theater program booklet. you know recycling? sort of, i think.

so here we go! (i try to include ID in ALT text but its scrapbook pages with many small drawing)

if some images look familiar. its because the first scrap page contains the original sketches for these drawings of the fire hazard siblings and LINK, LINK, LINK, some of the OC drawings were also created and posted here LINK

second image contains on one page the first draft for the teeth tutorial LINK, the third has the sketch for the jee and hawky sketch as well the idea for the kataang drawing LINK, LINK, LINK

sometimes pages are minimalist and boring looking though

#chip!ask #i really do hope the image description are somewhat adequate ;;; #honestly i really can't draw outside around people ;;; i cant! #i should maybe start again but i don't have the time ;;; #also its not like i have an erase r and pencil by hand. usually i just have a pen... and barly 20 sec... #i should... draw traditionally again #at least give it a try because its fun and i miss it a bit... #LIKE SERIOUS TRADITONAL DRAWING!

[utilitycaster]

Something I really like about how Laura plays Imogen is that her idea of what's appropriate to say around people she likes is completely warped by her powers. I think Imogen feels it's better to voice your honest thoughts, even if they're somewhat tactless or lack the niceties one would expect, which makes sense because what most frustrates her is people who think one thing and say the other. However, that's not the standard for hypocrisy among people who aren't psychic, which is why she often comes off the way she does.

#critical role #honestly as someone who usually finds psychic characters VERY annoying i think this is giving us insight that is usually lacking #imogen's standards of empathy and hypocrisy are on a fully different scale than most people's are - including all of bells hells #and on some level it's like. she does know how to mask it but doesn't w/people she's more comfortable with (the party & her father) #but also it means she's often the least traditionally empathetic with people she cares about #it's a SUPER interesting flip of Laura's usual M.O. #imogen temult

[dailyedgeworth]

today, a semi-realistic portrait of franziska

#doing them on post its is easier bc theyre small #at least for me #i have some issue with drawing on bigger canvases traditionally? so i figured i'd do another study #theres something here that looks wrong to me but im not sure what #ace attorney #franziska von karma #traditional art #study

[kotdish]

I make it my thing to redraw this one drawing of mine to make as my steam avatar

It’s scout in pin-up. It’s always scout in pin-up

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 scout #scout tf2 #my art #I think these pin-up illustrations are funny! at least in this context where you’re taken traditionally masculine men #and putting them into. into pin-up lolololol #if this does well enough I’d love to do medic and soldier seeing as they’re also classes I play a lot #maybe pyro too! but in a goofier manner because he’s too innocent

[sinisteryuri]

ok. tragically separated wwi era vampire twins.

#seabirds.txt #seabirds.art #mystery twins #gemeos do misterio #q!bagi #q!cellbit #qsmp #i did research 1920s era clothing for this but i based a lot of it off of their mc skins. #cellbit is a sailor turned vampire who ended up in europe during wwi after fighting naval battles at sea and never came home #bagi becomes a journalist to find him and stumbles across vampires along the way not realizing he had become a vampire too #design notes: this all started off of bagi's newsboy cap which was popular in the 1920s with working men. i put her in men's pants because #wanted to give this energy of working a job traditionally not worked by women at the time. <- women started campaigning to work as #journalists notably around the late 1800s and early 1900s (at least in the us and some european countries (couldnt find info on brazil)) #i was thinking of nellie bly when thinking of what bagi would be doing in this au! she also has a bandana to hide her neck where her vampir #bite would be and a hanky for blood clean up. perhaps something from home. cellbit is not concerned with hiding his own neck. he's just #wearing a dress shirt LOL. i feel like cellbit would be fully embracing his vampiric tendencies at this point and a part of more vampire #society than human while for bagi it would be the other way around (she's still looking for him in the human world using vampire resources) #that is why he is so bloodstained. i feel like in his free time he would be freelancing detective work for other vampires maybe to gather u #favors or something similar. he's a little bit fancy because of this but still casual enough that there's no suit involved.

[neurotonic]

oh it's ok ma'am. girls just wanna have fun as they say

#i expect you to die #ieytd #the fabricator #hiii . hiii #tw blood #i dont know how to draw it lol #tried to do this traditionally but i didnt like how dull the colors were #against the black paper #ahh. maybe someday #also im just playing around with me signature so at least the username's there #gene art #So normal. so normal about women doing violence

[butchladymaria]

Immortality, Motherhood, and Pain: A Closer Look at Annalise and the Doll

Finally revisiting this from ages ago, because the parallels between these two are just SO fascinating. Content warnings for discussions of misogyny, genocide, abuse, and pregnancy/childbirth.

This analysis will cover the parallels between Miss Doll and Queen Annalise through the lenses of the misery of immortality, the trauma of marginalization, and the liberation they find in motherhood. Both the Doll and Annalise are undying, both coded as mother figures, both marked by death, and both very, very alone.

Miss doll and Annalise are the only characters in the whole game who are undying. You can kill them, but not meaningfully - not in any way that matters - and they seem to know it. Neither will try to stop you, nor will they fight back, should you choose to attack them. They will come back, and your violent betrayal will have seemingly meant nothing to them. They both are very aware they will outlast whatever violence you may inflict upon them. It's evidenced in their dialogue:

If you attack, Annalise says:

“Enough. If only Our life was so easily forfeit… Grieve not, for Us.” “How sad this is. If only Our life was so easily forfeit…”

If you attack Miss Doll, she used to say:

“I must have displeased you. Go on, shut me down… Even so, this vessel will remain in your service… So have no fear."

I think this point of comparison highlights just how deeply they've both been desensitized to violence and abuse. They do not beg for mercy, they do not put up a struggle - they only remark on it with distant chagrin. They both seem keenly aware that their flesh need not be in one piece to fulfill its purpose.

But where Miss Doll was made to embody the Victorian patriarchal ideal of womanhood, Annalise wields womanhood as her last weapon against the dehumanization of the church’s genocide through her queendom. Upon being resurrected the next time you return to the dream, Miss Doll will act as though nothing had happened at all. However, if you bring her flesh to the Altar of Despair, Annalise will call you an arrant fool, and remind you that “Vileblood or no, forget not; We are thy Queen”. Miss Doll kneels to serve the hunter, while the hunter must kneel to serve Annalise. Miss Doll has been conditioned to passively accept dehumanization and submission, yet Annalise demands respect through your submission even in her dehumanized state. Miss Doll is subjugated by the trappings of womanhood, while Annalise is lifted from subjugation by her womanhood, in some ways.

I find this fascinating, however, because while Miss Doll appears in every way as a pure, demure Victorian woman was meant to, they are also dehumanized through the denial of gender. To Gerhman, their creator, they are nothing more than another tool of the workshop. An object. Even the Doll themself uses neutral "I" pronouns to refer to themself in the original translation. I think it is pertinent to note that the only canonical reference to Miss Doll as a "woman" comes from Eileen. In the original Japanese text, she refers to the Doll with a term of endearment reserved for young girls. Miss Doll's appearance is the historical ideal of the subjugated woman - yet when Eileen confers upon her the status of "woman", she does so in an endearing and humanizing way. Therefore, for both Miss Doll and Queen Annalise, the status of womanhood is a rebuttal of their own dehumanizing subjugation: Annalise as "queen", and Miss Doll as "daughter".

Both characters are arguably seeking/find liberation through motherhood. Miss Doll gets "Childhood's Beginning": their creator and animator have both been put down, the hunt is finally over and they are no longer bound to serve its participants, nor must they watch their beheadings. They cradle the newly ascended hunter. It is a highly atypical “motherhood”. It exists in the performance of the role rather than the biology of childbirth. In the same way, the Doll possesses a highly atypical “womanhood” which exists in performance alone, rather than in biology or even identity — but nonetheless, it is real, and it is hers. I, perhaps too optimistically, choose read it as humanizing for them; because unlike their “womanhood”, Miss Doll is allowed to choose this for themself rather than having it imposed upon them.

In the same vein, Annalise seeks to birth a child of blood for a similar but perhaps more somber reason. She wants a child because she wants an heir — which is to say, because it is the only way she may once again have kin. Because it is the only way she may fulfill her duty as Queen. She witnessed everyone she ever knew or loved — surely her own family included — slaughtered before her eyes. Annalise seems to seek motherhood in order to be a homemaker - in the most literal sense possible. She wants to rebuild the community, the home, which was so brutally torn away from her. She wishes to restore honor to Cainhurst. For Annalise, having a child is an open act of rebellion against the genocidal eugenics-frenzied bloodthirst of the Church. I can't help but wonder if part of the reason Alfred is so hellbet on destroying her, why the Executioners imprisoned her the way they did, was to strip her of bodily autonomy so she couldn’t “reproduce”. Her desire for a child is her way of seeking liberation for her and her people.

In this sense, taking up the role of a mother, of "women's work", is what confers the agency upon both Annalise and Miss Doll which had been otherwise stripped from them. Annalise's by the genocidal eugenics of the Church, and Miss Doll by the pact of servitude she was seemingly born into.

#percy theoryposts :) #i'm aware this is a generous interpretation #miss doll #bloodborne is very much about womanhood and the trauma it brings but i think its a stretch to say that message is executed perfectly #the few fem-presenting characters who get hopeful endings do so by escaping/trying to escape a cycle of violence #but it also involves taking on very traditionally feminine roles which have historically been subjugating in and of themselves #so you kind of have to take from that what you will #but at least the pattern seems to be that those roles are liberating and powerful when they are CHOSEN rather than forced #ie: arianna is FORCED to become a mother #and this is not remotely empowering to her #i think it comes down to the concept of socialization though: the doll CHOOSES to become a “mother” in the symbolism of the game #but they also have been conditioned their whole life to know nothing but serving others #so its....................... iffy #i also dont know if i'm certain this was Intentional on the part of fromsoft. bc especially in elden ring they dropped the ball slightly im #but its MY interpretation god damn it #plain doll #bloodborne #queen annalise #annalise queen of the vilebloods

[7-andahalf-rats]

puppy dogs on a moon near you

#I love that spore lizard I drew I think I ate #I think I'm gonna start drawing traditionally more instead of digital bc it's more fun for me :) #and I like the look more #not too proud of the thumper but I like the arm #should draw more thumpers. tbh I always saw them as more cat-adjacent but I honestly couldn't tell you why #every self-respecting game should have at least a few dangerous household pet-adjacent creatures imo #lethal company #eyeless dog lethal company #eyeless dog #spore lizard #thumper