#VERY HARD TO EXPLAIN

[beastofmoss]

For the character opinion bingo!! Mmm what about tsukasa??

Ah, the sweetest little guy ever(in my eyes)~☆!

Whenever I talk about characters younger than me, I have an urge to adopt them as my younger sibling. I know Tsukasa can take care of himself, but I can't help but want to spoil him. It's also nice to know that he's, well, supposed to be chubby as well—although they don't really show it as much. Such a young king! He's just so sweet, although I don't know much about him sadly! I'm so sorry my son~♡!

He deserves better!

Ask game:

#qinn who doesnt read stories (yet) tries their best #HES JUST SOOOOOOOOO WHWHWHW #baby! #but thats only bcs hes younger than me #let him be a kid ! hes still a kid! a weird kid but aaa #very hard to explain #qinn answers

[mizuthe-cat]

I have to explain cjrp to my friend

help

I don’t know how to explain this to a semi normal person

#Very hard to explain

[sae-mian]

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

i had like. 3 separate ideas for this one so i hopE THIS ONE'S OK

TIMELINE: ballad WHEN: 6.1 WHO: nira'sae/g'raha SUMMARY: i don't know how to succinctly summarise this ;;; uhhh local Warrior of Light returns from the end of the world with Voices In Their Head

┈┈┈┈┈❀┈┈┈┈┈

Hey.

Come on. I know you can hear me.

You can't keep doing this. You know you can't.

Listen to me-- hey--

"Hey--"

Nira'sae jumped as a hand gently grasped their shoulder.

G'raha. He was studying them, brow pinched.

"H-hey, sorry."

They tried to put on a convincing smile, hoping to appease some of the worry clearly evident on his face.

"You okay? You've been staring off into space out here for a while, now."

Had it been a while? They looked back out over the skyline, Old Sharlayan sprawling out beneath them. The lights from windows and lamp-posts emitted a soft glow, illuminating the streets where the sky above did not.

Huh. They could've sworn it was still light out, when they came out for some air.

Time flies, doesn't it?

What? You want me to stop? To go away?

I fucking can't. I wouldn't even if I could.

You can't escape yourself.

Nira'sae.

"Nira?"

They shook their head roughly, as if that might help dislodge this... presence in their mind.

There was nothing for it. Sooner or later, they'd have to figure this out, once and for all.

No point in needlessly worrying 'Raha about it, though.

"I'm fine." They smiled at him again, though they couldn't help but think it was even less convincing this time.

It didn't matter. They pat his hand where it rested on their shoulder, before hopping down from the wall they were sat on, and heading back to the Annex.

#ffxiv #ffxiv oc #nira'sae #ffxiv writing #ask meme #ask answered #to summarize better down in the Pit Of Tags #when nira'sae is re-forged #a BIG chunk of their aether is cut off #imagine it all being stuffed behind a big fuckoff dam #the tower's logic being that the new body would take time to adjust to the sheer weight of aether #it should have trickled out slowly and unnoticably but.... it didnt #so once that dam fully breaks (endsinger babey) its a full rush of all their stank ass old aether #and it kind of forms a... personality of its own? its. #VERY HARD TO EXPLAIN #SORRY

[itspronouncedfeckyou]

goofle is it normal to hear Noises that arent there but they surely are in my head

#sometimes they get . really loud. #like to where my head slightly hurts #or i think it hurts #its weird #all kinds of noises too #and it kinda sounds like its. deeper? in my head? rather than an internal monologue #like my internal monologue is kinda in the center but the noises i hear sound. different???? #very hard to explain #ipfy dot txt

[obsob]

the accolade ( the...the cat-olade...)

#mine #original #i cannot even begin to explain the anguish. the torment. this drawing has brought me #and i STILL dont like it. i simply cant work on it any longer i cant i cant. i must be rid of it #eating drywall as we speak #you want to know how many weeks ive worked on this. THREE. ALMOST. #you want to know how long my other cat drawings take me ?? 3 days absolute MAX #anyway. begon foul creature etc #i havent left extremely long tags for a long while hello everyone good lord there are many of you #we are going stratford this weekend very exciting #its going to be a little chilly and i want to take my new coat with me but issue its not chilly right now so i cant wear it onto the train #i do not think. i can. stuff it into my suitcase i dont think that will happen #i am sure i will figure it out #also. no longer vegan . eggs have won me over. egg egg egg. #im having to restrain myself SO hard from buying more wool i want a shawl i want a shawl #i want more cute DRESSES why are nice comfy dresses 10000£ #i look on vinted and its like dresses for popping your pussy in like not. the vibe im going for thank u #anyway. im going to eat crackers now

[volaenii]

𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘦, 𝘑𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘮?

Thank you all for your support and happy new year!

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #volaeart #this will be the last art I post in 2023! #tysm for the support on here even if I don’t post much #fun fact abt this drawing is it was actually my art final for my college class and I had to + #go up in front of my classmates and teacher and explain my drawing process ((embarrassing)) #I had a hard time with this drawing and there was many times where I almost gave up #shoutout to the couch trauma server for keeping me sane #my favorite part of this drawing is the hair and the black parts of it #very vague volume 10 reference haha #anyways! happy new year everyone 🤍

[mumblesplash]

part 2!!!! [read part one here]

transcript below the cut arranged into stanzas to help show where the rhymes are:

“that’s why they brought gem in? as a failsafe?” as a pawn. we were told to point her at whoever we need gone

“gem won’t hurt her allies. …yet.” the curse she carries will it’s had its eye on her since she lost the other eye she was specially selected for her hunting skill it’s quite the high honor. “wow. how generous.” we try

think about it: why does almost no one fight the curse? “given how fast scott killed skizz last season, i can guess.” [“any pain you spare your friends, you’ll have to suffer worse”?] it’s designed to shut down higher reasoning with stress

#if you still can't see the rhyme scheme try reading it out loud #if that doesn't work uh. idk. can't help you #my art #grian #geminitay #smajor1995 #bdoubleo100 #inthelittlewood #secret life #grian and his terrible horrible no good very bad eldritch coworkers: the sequel #cant wait to post the next part so i can be like 'my three secret life comics. and yes they all rhyme' #this one narratively doesn't work nearly as well as a standalone compared to part 1 #however i accidentally went way too hard and could probably upload the middle page + second to last panel as their own separate art pieces #tbh i'm considering putting an explanation of everything below the readmore buuut i don't feel like it atm. :3 later maybe #me and my 20+ life series headcanons i only allude to without explicitly stating don't need to explain ourselves #still experimenting with this webtoon-esque vertical comic style #still not sure i like it #it gets long too quickly #among other things #but it's very easy to read on a phone so

[olyoil]

what is worse is i keep seeing cats like it’s not like i am having full on hallucinations but i feel like i am seeing cats sometimes i just feel awful i miss my cat

#very hard to explain #but i can't just not talk about it lol

[suicidalandhighonmidol]

#my husband worked very hard on this #I explained it to him and he said “one sec #twitter #vanilla extract #vanilla #let’s bake a cake #marvel #marvel meme #meme #hela #hela marvel #Loki #thor #suicidalandhighonmidol #extract #ragnarok #loki ragnarok #hela ragnarok #thor ragnarok #tom hidleston #chris hemsworth #superhero #poll #polls #i have polls now #i love polls

[somnimagus]

My page for @destinytriofanzine! I drew something about kids always dreaming of far off places

[id in alt!]

#kingdom hearts #kh #ahh this one was so hard to draw; i never know how to combine a bunch of scenes in one picture without it looking cheesy #just threw a bunch of waves and leaves and birds on top and called it a day haha. it might be a bit too busy though #the white line going up the center is supposed to be a trail left behind by the gummi ship! it connects to the ship in the bg at the top #it's kinda meant to evoke little kids dreaming of other places-> getting older and earnestly making the raft to try to reach the dream #->the gummi ship as a premonition of how they'd actually reach the dream in the future. i guess? idk how to explain #and i really wanted to have kairi's expressions be really similar but changing subtly from wonder to worry when she's older #the boys are just max enthusiasm the whole time #but yeah. something something Symbolism and hopefully it's at least kinda pretty if it doesn't make sense #i'm just super proud to have been part of this project! everyone's work is just amazing #the destiny kids give me this soft feeling of kinda lonely nostalgia. it's nice to have a book full of that #very wistful looking through it #fan art #my art #project stuff

[mechanismmadness]

Drumbot Brian regularly takes out his spine and just cleans it with a brush (like those big brushes for,, horses? I think they're for horses)

#this is probably very specific to my brian design because his spine is like half in? half out of his body #hard to explain without visuals but I cannot draw him properly rn #the mechanisms #the mechs #drumbot brian

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

all the rise boys get done dirty on characterization by fandom in different ways i think. (not ALL the time every fanwork etc etc these are just like, trends i tend to notice?) every fandom suffers from losing character nuance.

- leo i’ve talked about plenty on this blog, how some of his canon traits (genuine belief in his skill and cockiness, capacity for joy, his manipulativeness whether for good or ill) seem to get watered down or wiped off the board and supplemented with generic sad boy. his struggles with purpose and identity and not wanting to fail somehow morph into “he hates and completely holds no value for himself”

- donnie’s canon personality gets blurred out and largely replaced with whatever list of Neurodivergent Traits. and i think there’s such a fine line to walk between exploring a character that’s been word of god confirmed as on the spectrum and overwriting what’s canonically there. it’s a hard needle to thread. it also feels like a lot of his canon emotiveness gets left off the table for some reason. bc he does have his moments of flat/deadpan delivery, but a lot of the time he’s honestly very emotive. he has the passion of a theatre kid and the vindictiveness of... also a theatre kid. and the mind of a scientist.

- raph loses so much of his rowdy teen boy energy it’s kind of wild? like interpretations sand off that he’s also impulsive and can be reckless and dumb and LOVES fighting and roughhousing and isn’t the most eloquent person. suddenly there’s this pitch perfect soft boy big bro who would never hurt a fly and always says the exact right supportive thing and singlehandedly raised his 3 brothers (which simultaneously sands off all the nuance of splinter’s issues emotionally connecting with his sons and how that affected all of them). and like i LOVE raph, he’s so full of love and care and anxiety, he clearly has learned to put a lot of work into being aware of his strength and size. but there’s a difference you know?

- mikey is like. where raph gets overparentified by fanon, mikey gets over “family therapist”-ed IMO. the impulsiveness, the goofiness, the powerful emotions including a VERY powerful temper, the flat-out dumb teen boy choices... they get ignored. suddenly there’s this only very sweet and earnest boy who has read a hundred psychology books and runs group family therapy weekly or something. he is crying in his room bc leo and raph are arguing about something. which is so. he IS very sweet and can be very earnest and is full of love! he HAS come in with his opinions and unsolicited advice a couple of times and life coached for the greater good. but there’s a difference between what he does in canon and the role he gets in fanon.

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #idk this is not a very eloquent rundown its very hard to explain exactly my vibe #ig the long story short is i feel like a lot of their most interesting and fun qualities get left in the dust #mikey as family therapist is getting under my skin the most rn i think its just so. #for as much as it seems like his brothers try to shelter him (esp raph with his overprotectiveness)..... i just dont see it #i dont see his brothers and definitely not his dad putting their issues on him like that... #him dragging donnie into that one dr feelings session and dragging draxum into a new moral alignment were different #than 'yeah everyone tells mikey their stuff and he has to do the labor of helping with it' #like it just doesnt vibe for me #i think he is very emotionally OPEN on all levels compared to his family #i think he is more likely to share when HE struggles #i dont think raph or leo is sitting with him at 3am like 'it all started when i was 4 and accidentally broke a plate' or what have you idk #it's all so ymmv i do just scroll past stuff i dont vibe with i dont drop hate on it i just #idk dudes its so hard to see the appeal in some of the choices made

[lotus-pear]

LMFAO HELP I WAS DRAWING SKK AND MY LITTLE 4YO COUSIN COMES UP DIRECTLY BEHIND ME AND I DIDNT HEAR HER AT ALL SO SHE JUMPSCARED ME BY ASKING “who’s that :3” AND NATURALLY I WAS LIKE “uhhhh characters from a show i like :’)))” AND SHE POINTS TO CHUUYA AND GOES “she’s reallyyyy pretty is she a disney princess??”

#I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO NOT CACKLE AND HAD TO EXPLAIN THAT HE WAS A BOY #SHE DID NOT RECANT AND WENT “well he’d be a very pretty disney princess i think he should be a girl” #chuuya is a disney princess confirmed you heard it from the expert herself #anyway just thought i’d share i’m not getting over this #bsd

[lygma-nygma]

Honest to god Titans Tower is probably the funniest thing that's ever happened in comics to me? Like, there's so much to unpack here it's insane?? The tear-away stripper Red Hood costume? The knock-off Robin costume with the stupid ass yellow tights that somehow looks worse than if Jason just rocked the bare thighs? The way Jason is drawn like he is fully 35 with two stepkids and a mortgage? Jason inventing fanfiction about Tim and Bruce's relationship in his head because he refuses to believe Tim actually stalked his way into being Robin?? Trying to mimic his crowbar death by beating Tim with his own staff but I as a reader am entirely unable to take it seriously because of those stupid fucking tights-

And then you get to Tim's side of things and he says like, all of 5 things the entire time and three of them are a coded 'fuck you'. He has absolutely no time or respect for Jason's pity party and it's actually hysterical because Jason cannot stop yapping. Meanwhile, Tim is like, definitely losing the fight which makes it funnier?? Then the ending?? Jason scrawling "Jason Todd was here" on the wall in blood (or red paint meant to look like blood, up in the air) and signing it with a handprint like he's a middle schooler who just discovered Creepypasta???? Ripping the 'R' off Tim's costume when he's literally already unconscious?? Zipping away from the scene thinking "damn I actually like that kid, wish I had friends tbh"??

And then it's literally never brought up again.

#He's running away from the crime scene and I'm just in the back shouting at Jason Peter Todd to explain himself #Bestie not one of those choices made sense are we hitting the sauce too hard? #This is the only thing Jason does in the UTRH era that actually reeks of 19 year old to me #Also the whole scene has the vibes of that one post #guy in a fist fight very clearly winning but he's sobbing and wailing the whole time #guy visibly getting his ass wrecked in a fist fight but hes talking shit about the other guy like hes winning #That post? Yeah #tim drake #jason todd #red hood #red robin #titans tower #Oh look more Tim and Jason content #I promise I care more about just them but they're so fucking funny I can't help it #This is what happens when you're the middle children DC can't give a fuck about #You get put in a blender and the dumbest shit ever comes out #batfam #batfamily

[ink-the-artist]

so somehow it’s the first time I’ve seen your Dogs illustration from May. it’s very very cool and strongly reminds me of AI-generated art — did you use AI to inspire the shapes? or otherwise influence the piece somehow? interested in your process! very cool.

yes! some more directly reference ai images id generated than others lol

#these were made in artbreeder (formerly called ganbreeder) #theyre obviously shifting their focus to ai art if u couldnt tell by the name change #which is unfortunate but they still have available the original ai image generator i used years ago #these pics are just the ones i remember referencing #i referenced a ton of different images to get a good idea of how to make the dogs sufficiently fucked up #i have a bunch of older horror art on here that was very inspired by ai images but most of the time i didnt use references #just tried to emulate the effect of ai #i want to start using references more often so i can get a better feel for this stuff and get better at emulating that effect without them #its def challanging trying to draw something that just barely registers as a thing without drawing the thing itself #and that emulates the uncannyness of ai images #i also dont want to just draw the ai images one to one exactly as they are i more so want to create the same feeling that they create #while still having it be my own thing #its honestly kinda hard to explain the process of drawing this stuff just bc of the nature of ai images lol

[oneday-yourside]

Being released into the wild after a lifetime in captivity

#i have so many feels about being treated as an animal for being disabled and mentally ill and all that by one's society #and harry just is that #its hard to explain so i drew this instead #being thrown into the world and just expected to function even though no one ever told you how #he's my babygirl #disco elysium #harry du bois #harrier du bois #de #my art #very quite proud of this one #why dont i use refrences more often...