#and including elements of

[endocathexis]

#ecthxs #sidewound #digital collage #stigmata #aesthetics #christianity #mysticism #dark art #inspired by #and including elements of #medieval art #judas could never

[katabay]

desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..

#specifying ‘and friends’ because I hate William Miles with my whole heart and he is not included in this sentiment #anyway vaguely this is nyc so the cops are probably wasting taxpayer money by fucking around in the subway #komiks tag #assassins creed #shaun hastings #desmond miles #this is almostttttttttttt shaundes #but I didn’t continue the dialogue far enough to make it really flirty. There’s a hint of flirting happening. #someday I’ll have to actually do a longer form fan comic to land my favorite ship AND my favorite narrative elements in the same #go (the horror and dialogues on free will and what we owe each other past/present/future & also what failure means AND-) #this ties into my second favorite relationship dynamic: clay and desmond. obvious. clay might live in my head rent free a little more than #Desmond does because that end of game reveal in AC1 is a top 10 games experience to me and I think about it all the time #ANYWAY IM OFF TOPIC NOW. desmond picks up snacks at a bodega on his way back

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: disassociation / (well kinda??) ]

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Casey grew up idolizing his Leonardo. For all the differences that version has with this Leo, it’s not hard to spot the similarities. It doesn’t mean he likes to notice, especially on such a young face.

Leo, for his part, is just trying to keep himself together.

#prison!leo au #rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise leo #rise casey jr #rottmnt casey junior #dissociation / #again kinda #of all the paths this can technically happen in all of them #but it’s most apparent in #path c #me: what would Junior look like #me: … #me: *throws in elements from past caseys (including his mom) plus the turtles* #it’s so weird for me to draw Junior as a full grown man next to baby leo #and I haven’t even drawn future Leo ever #I should #maybe path b #pretend that I didn’t forget the line on Casey’s poncho shhhh I don’t feel like going back and adding it djjdjd #we can just say that that line and only that line faded with time #edit: nvm I went back and added it now we’re just gonna ignore how the emblem should be bigger lmao #wanna reemphasize that it’s not all just dissociation #there’s a reason why he calls it going spooky

[betashift]

STAR TREK MATTE PAINTINGS APPRECIATION VOYAGER — by Syd Dutton, Robert Stromberg, Eric Chauvin (Illusion Arts Inc.)

Zahl Colony — "Year of Hell" Ocampa — "Caretaker" USS Raven crash site — "The Raven" Ocampa City — "Caretaker" Access shaft (Ocampa) — "Caretaker" Martian City — "Lifesigns" Ocampa City — "Caretaker"

#from my previous post it seems people think the matte paintings were a TOS thing only? but all the old shows and movies up to voy had them!! #the obv difference being that these are all composites that include some animated and/or green screen elements but they're still pretty <3 #mattes #trekedit #voyager #star trek: voyager #voyageredit #startrekedit #tvedit #scifiedit #whenever voy and ds9 finally get a bluray remaster....that will fix me (until then I suffer. badly)

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

As demonstrated in my most recent fic, I'm obessed with the idea that Fabian's fire elemental ends up being so obviously biased towards Riz because it's influenced by all the affection he won't allow himself to shower on Riz. Like, when Fabian summons it to help the other Bad Kids, it does what it's told with haste and urgency but when Riz is involved it's so obvious that this living flame has a favourite.

The elemental kisses Riz’s cheeks, ruffles his hair, dries him off if he gets soaked, coos and fawns over him, and always moves just a bit quicker if he's in danger. If Fabian forgets to give it more orders, it won't stray more than its full movement away from Riz. Who doesn't mind most of the time because the elemental counts as an ally and can grant him sneak attack.

The other Bad Kids recognize this and joke about it between themselves while Fabian and Riz are truly clueless about it.

#fabian aramais seacaster #fabian seacaster #riz gukgak #fabriz #i hope brennan and lou figured out a proper mechanic for his fire elemental becuase it's just so dope #do you know that meme of rdj cuddling his daughter while hemsworth throws his around? #that's this fire elemental with riz vs the other bad kids and that includes fabian

[colourfulplague]

Redesigned Gigi Grant (now Jiji Jinn) to not be orientalist

Her story needs to be rewritten as well, but we'll go into that later

#Monster High Gigi Grant #Monster High #art #digital art #Jiji Jinn #She's a jinn now instead of a genie cuz yea #Included palestine traditional clothing into her design as well as traditional tattoos #As well as more scorpion elements #Also her hair can turn into a scorpion tail #Jinn

[tanadrin]

Red - places which have lent their names to cheeses

Green - places which have lent their names to breeds of dog

Yellow - places which have lent their name to types of cloth

#obviously a non-exhaustive list #i tried not to include any cheeses which are 20th century marketing inventions #and no dog breeds whose place name element is very generic #like 'spanish' #also sorry this is kind of hard to read #not bringing my best graphic design skills to this one

[petridumps]

wip of something something :)

#wip #i have a fairly rough idea how this'll turn out #but i'm torn between including angst elements #or stay true to my brand of fluff lol

[bumblingbabooshka]

[Tuvok & Janeway: Control, Distance, Duty & Connection.] Sources: St Voyager Transcripts / Mitski 'First Love Late Spring' / Disco Elysium

#web weaving #star trek web weaving #st voyager #Kathryn Janeway #Tuvok #be the change you want to see in the world - make a long post about Tuvok & Janeway's similarities <- angel on my shoulder #I feel like a lot of people see them as 'opposites attract' sort of friends where Janeway is unhinged & Tuvok reigns her in #but in reality I think that while there is that element in there (exacerbated HEAVILY by their delta quad circumstances) #what I see most in their relationship is how they both value loyalty and duty above all and are extremely rigid with themselves #and the people around them. How they both have to maintain distance from others bc of their positions as captain & vulcan #I hate when people dismiss Tuvok as not being remotely interested in Maryana or Noss - it erases an interesting struggle that he and Janewa #both share - their desire to stay loyal to their spouses vs the 70 years of loneliness that that loyalty demands of them #But they BOTH triumph and they BOTH remain loyal (Tuvok until he returns to T'Pel and Janeway until Mark informs her that it's over) #and for both of them it's a little bit insane for them to do that. #Isn't it more interesting that Janeway and Tuvok both have feelings for people other than their spouses but don't give in #to that temptation? #They're both people who live very fastidiously by codes. Either written codes or moral codes - they very rarely if ever do things because #it's what THEY want to do. I'd say they're the least emotion-driven members of the crew and yes I'm including Seven because Seven #has a very...how to describe? It's a blunt and insular selfishness. She does what SHE wants to do and doesn't really care about others. #To me that's emotion-driven. Or...personal desire-driven? Not a bad thing at all but very different from Janeway & Tuvok who #are always more 'this is logical' or 'this is for the crew' rarely do they think 'this is what I want' bc they can't afford to #for different reasons (captain & vulcan) #they both also are in the most 'caretaking' positions on the ship from my POV. Security and Captain - both are directly in charge of #ship and crew safety. #Janeway & Tuvok #star trek voyager #st voy #when I say caretaking I'm NOT saying they're everyone's mom and dad or whatever - I'm saying they're in positions where they always #have to think about the greater good and the crew as a whole and how much danger is acceptable etc etc. #Janeway is always killing herself for the crew but Tuvok is right there beside her

[oracleofdiscord]

ns4//ns5

#ninjago #kai smith #ninjago morro #lloyd garmadon #sensei garmadon #(included both because he's relevant to seasons 4/5 and because he's relevant to the green ninja prophecy) #ns4 #ns5 #ninjago possession #tournament of elements #my art #undescribed

[thunderpot]

hello hello helloo lovess! Carnaval is gone, but today I bring 2 arts I did for a dear friend freyja a little while ago of GI characters as mestre sala and porta-bandeiras, the standard-bearers of brazilian carnaval parade, wearing attire based off their og outfits from genshin but still keeping the og shapes for carnaval -and performing some traditional steps (your spin turned into being lifted gorou. You're too short! 🤣).

It was quite fun to design these! I was a bit torn on what to put on their flags because originally, the bearers showcase their school/group's flag for the competition. But then it occured to me both chs on each pic had the same element, so element flag it was! For gorou I took some liberties in adding some of miss hina's elements bc they are pretty! hehe

Between geo and dendro, who do you think would have the prettiest parade?🤔

#gi #haikaveh #ittorou #kaveh #alhaitham #itto #gorou #carnaval #my fave detail on these is actually the pattern inside itto's outfit there #I thought it would be too plain without anything #but then I remembered he has some patterns going on and they fitted like a glove! #another fun thing but abt haikaveh is that birds are part of their elements #and flag bearers often wear bird-like feathery shapes too #so I was sure to include that for them hehe #and for itto I used a drum queen's outfit for reference! she looked gorgeous in it and it fit him #so why not! hehe

[valyrfia]

im afraid the brocedes brainrot has taken me. childhood friends who banded together because no one else liked them who spent years growing up together and helped each other to set up their karts and went on holiday together then ended up at a team (bought for them) before getting to f1 and living their childhood dreams and becoming teammates and outright saying that nothing could get in the way of their friendship only to be proven wrong in the most slow, agonising and horrific way possible and suddenly all those childhood secrets that you share become important weapons in a war against your arch nemesis as you turn an entire team against itself and you can’t eat can’t sleep all you can think about is beating your enemy, your rival, your best friend, your closest confidante and the fallout of the civil war that raged inside your team, inside your friendship, and inside your own head is so toxic and absolute that you can barely say each other’s names years later all you can manage is thinly veiled apologies on TV or declarations of love and remorse to the entire world except the one person you hurt the most and you’re adamant that even though the world whispers in quiet remembrance at the destructive nature of this war they have no idea what really went down or how completely you destroyed each other.

oh and also throughout all this you lived in the same apartment complex and take the same elevator and you do still.

#to love is to destroy. no one can do it like them #brocedes #like look i love lestappen it is my favourite I am a girlie of lestappen through and through #but there’s a toxic addictive element to brocedes you can’t find anywhere else it’s the you’re my only true equal element #and you’re also the only person who could destroy me completely and you did just that #the fact that everyone involved (toto wolff included) had to go through copious amounts of therapy to process 2016 speaks VOLUMES #nico saying he’s still my best friend :( Lewis saying he’s a better teammate now :( #im so ill over them #also like. brocedes are the ones who should’ve made it but didn’t. lestappen are the ones who shouldn’t have made it but did #thinking thoughts about brocedes thesis and lestappen antithesis

[captain-lovelace]

I think the thing that really makes it so frustrating that people insist that you can write good horror without liking or reading or watching horror is that it comes from a refusal to acknowledge that horror as a genre requires skill specific to it. It's this assumption that because they've felt fear they understand it, and can therefore inflict it on their audience using whatever skills they already have. There's just one issue: not a single person on this planet has never been afraid, so it's a really easy emotion to get wrong in fiction. It's extremely easy for a portrayal of fear to come off as, for example, cheesy, or unintentionally funny, or disingenuous, or for it to just be too personal to be scary to other people. Studying how fear is written and portrayed, both effectively and ineffectively, makes you better at doing those things yourself. In order to write better horror, you have to treat horror as a genre worthy of attention and study. And I, personally, would argue that means that you have to interact with it.

One of the biggest and most important pieces of advice that I got as a writer was to read. It's hard to be a good author who doesn't read, and it's even harder to be a good genre author who doesn't interact at all with the genre that you're writing in, because you have massive gaps in your knowledge that you're not even aware of. You might not even be able to properly critique your work! You have nothing to draw from, nothing to be inspired from except things that were not made for the purpose of inciting fear-- you're fitting a square peg in a round hole and hoping it works.

The people who say no, you can write horror without having read horror, are the same people who would never say the same thing about whatever genre they like the most. On some level they're aware of how much it sucks to have someone with no experience in a genre come in with 100% conviction that they are actually the genre's savior, before coming up with something stale, bland, and full of half-baked inspirations from whatever bits and pieces of genre media they picked up through cultural osmosis, all of which they're convinced are so original because they have no idea they're drawing on any sort of larger tradition. But, because it's horror, this for some reason does not cross their minds.

The argument seems to be that you don't have to read horror to write horror. You don't have to like horror to write horror. You don't have to care about horror to write horror. It's a genre that requires zero effort, zero knowledge, zero skill you can't get elsewhere. It has no value-- but you, the person who doesn't know anything about it, you can give it value.

They don't seem to realize just how insulting that is to hear.

(Final note: queer horror and horror by POC both have rich histories, as does horror that isn't USAmerican or Western European in origin. It's a genre that is popular almost worldwide and has a lot of really excellent offerings from everywhere. Also, in addition to horror movies and novels I really recommend checking out horror short stories/anthologies, which can really show where the genre shines. Don't shy away from older horror, as well! Some of my favorite horror stories are from the 19th century.

If you love the idea of horror but have never really found anything that clicked, I guarantee that there is something out there that you will probably like, and if you want to write horror seeing the sheer breadth of what's out there will help you write better horror-- if at least to show you what you would like to see more of, or what might be missing.)

#horror #writing #horror is a lot like romance in that people who don't know what writing a good HORROR STORY or ROMANCE looks like come in convinced they #know how. and they don't even think #'hey maybe writing A ROMANCE is different from (e.g.) including a romantic subplot. hey maybe writing A HORROR STORY is different from #including horror elements in a story that is ultimately Not That.' #they're treated as Trash Genres. 0 effort all reward. #also 'i don't connect to anything that's out there right now' is not an excuse for IGNORANCE of what's out there right now

[nikki-tine]

Man. Bori's ecto-body is so fun to sketch,,,

#art #tickle art #tickling art #nikki-tine #undertale #skeleton monster #sans #(tagging sans as Bori LOOKS like one but isn't) #(also to cover my bases here) #Elemental monster #Spirit Elemental #undertale tickling #Borealis LeDrac #Borealis #Hey look Bori's last name is here for once! #(Figured it'd be nice to not blow up the Aurora Borealis tag with my funny skeleton) #(For this one though I'm including the tag to transition it over gradually) #Niko Spirata #undertale au #unicosm #sketch

[kagooleo]

the zine’s officially out, so I can post my contribution for the @extraordinaryzine :D!

my piece is an interpretation of the caverns on Iron Island 🏝️ so I wanted to incorporate more of the water surrounding it by creating a sea cave to have light spill inside (akin to the modra špilja/blue grotto)

the focus of the zine was on the daily lives of trainers and their pokemon, so Riley uses a spot inside the caverns like this to meditate with his team, although any new Riolu he trains can’t resist wanting to jump into the water to play υ´˶ ･ﻌ･ ˶`υﾉ”

this piece alongside a ton of amazing artists can be found free to download digitally here! (and lastly some closeups bc I liked getting all the little deets down)

#kagarts #trainer riley #stat trainer riley #pokemon dppt #pokemon zine #this one definitely proved to be a bit of a challenge since. backgrounds are a whole other thing #but this got me interested in worldbuilding on a location #got me incorporating various elements from both the games and anime bc they both have their own specific strengths and limitations #that make it fun to interpret and feel more lived in #I can ramble a bit about it but for one the island in the games is just limited to being >place to defeat team galactic at #there’s only really leftover caves after mining expeditions so it’s mostly just abandoned mines type of deal #and riley’s singular house you can visit of course #but the anime includes a port town and scientists studying different parts of the island #so it fills in the gap left behind from game limitations #if there’s a town on an island specifically full of stronger pokemon that adds onto what riley’s job is on said island #to make sure either side of the town and caverns on the island are kept in check/at peace #adds to that job of being iron island’s guardian (and I haven’t even gotten started on aura yet LMAO) #I have a lot of notes but I’m saving any extras for later #go get this digital zine!!! it’s free!!!!!!

[mariiyetti]

✿ meadowsweet ✿

#i was trying to combine some elements of multiple gens here :) #i grew up with g3 so included the little heart mark that signified where the magnet was ya know? and i gave her a tail bow like in g1! #and setting is probably like. g4 lol #mlp oc #my art #digital art #mlp #my little pony #my little pony oc #artists on tumblr #oc #original character #mariiyetti ocs #paint tool sai