#i will not be elaborating on thus

[absurdumsid]

btw if ur ever struggling to draw hands just remember the thumb is 90% of the time facing toward the character unless the palm is upward/facing away from them ok gnifht

#sid rambles #im too eepy rn #it is 12am #i will not be elaborating on thus #<- will probably elaborate later #oh wait i have ONE (1) more post to make brb

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I’ve been reading the Grishaverse books/watching the Netflix show for the first time over the past couple weeks or so and I just have to say that I think it's so funny whenever Kaz gets snarky about Inej's proverbs or Matthias's religious talk or Jesper’s Jesperisms or anyone else being even slightly philosophical or theatrical or whatever because Kaz Brekker is the most dramatic bitch in all of Kerch. Like. I'm pretty sure this kid graduated top of his class from the School of Dramatic One-Liners with a double major in "Commit to the Aesthetic" and "Writing Epic Love Poetry Whilst Maintaining the Bad Guy Reputation". Dude wanted to impress a girl and wasn’t sure if getting the whole ass king of Ravka to find her long-lost parents was enough so he bought an entire warship from his friend who absolutely would have just Given It To Him but noooooo Mr. Protecting-My-Investment over here had to pay a fair price otherwise it doesn’t count.

The only, and I mean the ONLY reason I don't say he's the most dramatic bitch in the entire Grishaverse is because Nikolai Lantsov exists and that man once wore his entire army uniform under his jacket to go volcra hunting in the Shadow Fold on the off chance he would get to make a dramatic reveal at the end. He put a spring-loaded curtain in front of the weapons rack on his personal ship just in case he had guests he wanted to show off for. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did the dramatic flourish every time he opened those curtains for literally no one but himself. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he made that set up after he had guests he wanted to show off for. That curtain either went up two hours before he used it or it was the first thing he built on that ship there is no in between.

I need copious amounts of Expo markers, PowerPoint slides, and glitter to figure out which one of them takes the title it is CLOSE.

#remind me to ramble about the similarities between kaz and nikolai after I finish the kos duology #is always ten steps ahead of everyone else and has these big elaborate plans they don’t tell anyone about until they’re actively happening #does not know how to be chill about anything in their life ever #has ISSUES #losers. both of them. #I am shaking them in a mason jar as we speak #anyways I have more thoughts on this universe #this was just the funniest one and thus it gets posted at 2am immediately after finishing ck #kaz brekker #nikolai lantsov #six of crows #crooked kingdom #shadow and bone #grishaverse #six of crows spoilers #crooked kingdom spoilers #shadow and bone spoilers #grishaverse spoilers

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

How do the girls get along

Pretty great actually!

Jenny and Kim are very good/close friends, since they met relatively early compared to others (they actually met each other first out of everyone, then others at one point and another) and had a shared adventure sometime after the ends of their respective shows (wink wonk).

But, their first meeting was not actually very um, positive. There was some conflict, but after it was resolved both of them gained a very solid friend for life!

Jenny, was glad to meet someone else (beside Brad) who treated her like a person/normal teenager (instead of an 8th wonder of the world or a freaky robot) and not to mention she got a fellow superheroine girl friend! After Misty, she kind of missed having someone like that to kick butt with (considering that like, 70% of her friends are dudes) or just hang out.

Kim was fascinated by Jenny, not because she is a robot (tho she does think its pretty cool) but because it kind of gave her a contrast to her own life in a weird way? Like, Kim was a normal teenager who got into superheroing on accident and just went with it, while Jenny was created with a goal of being Earth's defender but rebeled to have some sort of normal life. And now they both live those weird semi-normal lives, that led them to meeting each other.

Jun is around 5-6 years their junior and while they met each other much later on, when Jun was a little older (like not 11-12 age of the show), she still kind of looked up to them and both Jenny and Kim felt an instant kinship with the girl.

Before she met Jenny and Kim, Jun only knew a couple other guys as fellow heroes/magical protectors (guess who ;D lol), and while she had plenty of female role models (Ama/Jasmine being the most prominent) and friends, she kind of enjoyed meeting some cool older superheroines to bond with! It also helped that despite the age difference, both Jenny and Kim never looked down at her when it came to superheroing/fighting, but respected her abilities and expertise (considering that Jun was practically an apprentice to her Ama since at least 8-9ish of age, when her powers first awakened, she has a lot of experience).

They both are kind of like cool older cousins to her, who travel a lot for their work and come visit to hang out often and tell/share stories about their adventures. Their and her lines of work while similar, also run in completely different circles (human/interplanetary vs magical/supernatural), so its always a treat to hear about the things they do.

(And yes sometimes she feels jealous about the fact that both of them get to travel all over the world, and despite the developments, more often than not she has to stay town locked and limit her excursions to magical realms.)

Silly thing, but Jun absolutely adores Jenny, for one simple fact that she can travel to space just like that (she and Danny, fellow astronaut/space fans, share that, despite the fact that Danny kinda can travel to space just like that too.)

#que? #hom au #hom au q&a #juniper lee #jenny xj9 #kim possible #fun fact: both jenny and jun have beef with some other person in their friend group while Kim doesn't #Kim is very likable ;3 and also sensible even if she is sometimes overly competitive and a perfectionist lol #both Jun and Jenny can get overly passionate and thus they have a recurring beef/argument/tension with their respective opponent (?) #Jenny and Kim are that sort of friendship that one makes in a camp and you exchange numbers/e-mails and you dont see each other for months #but message almost every day and like know a lot about each others lives and when you meet again u like instantly hug and everythng is cool #also their families (some members at least) are sort of? friends now too. i will elaborate on that later ;3 #still answering homauQ in broad strokes because i just cant decide on the details lol #i promise im answering asks TToTT i was just eyebrows deep in the comic itself to actually answer properly #i have like several in drafts and some in askbox and also i think i lost a few when i was cleaning my other askboxes so um like sorry #if i never answer those they are now forever lost in tumblr graveyard

[thermodynamic-comedian]

doll, i am inventing new tma rarepairs everyday. its a hobby of mine

#mostly jm ships because im putting her in SITUATIONS. #thus far my correctest inventions are: #michael/melanie/helen #jane/jonah #daisy/elias #stranger!jonah/sarah baldwin #agnes/gertrude/manuela #jude/jonah #why am i calling my followers ''doll''? dont even worry about it man i am having a normal time tonight. #happy new yuri #tma #tma ships #the magnus archives #feel free to ask for elaborations on any of those ships btw

[littlenimart]

i wish we’d gotten actual flashbacks of this relationship from Y5 because you know it was sooooooo Fucked, like joker and harley quinn-type toxic…

just going off how Mirei described her past to Haruka and what one can assume about Majima’s mental state at the time… vivid image of two abused people disastrously desperate for any kind of human affection, one of them being an acutely insecure teenaged idol and the other one an adult man who spent most of his 20’s in the torment nexus. Woof. the fact the game doesn’t talk about it after the car scene is imo a huge waste of juicy character stuff

#y5 #mirei park #goro majima #cw unhealthy relationship #it’s SUCH a terrible dynamic and that’s why I wanna peek so bad.. these games love to set up that kind of fucked up tragedy #these games love to fail to fully realize the thematic depth and pathos of the situation they’ve set up and thus waste it.. y5 IN CHIEF #y6 weirdly one of the only ones to do catharsis successfully and boy can I elaborate on that because I KNOW that game has haters #the fact that there’s no scene in Y5’s finale where Haruka meets up w/ Majima as instructed and shows him the pen.. #it’s the dramatic equivalent of being blue balled

[stellorc]

nosy scout

tfw you're about to flirt with a sith officer chilling at the local cantina.

I've had this silly concept in mind for far too long and always failed to complete it. Must be a curse or something bc I swear i never had so many crisis in one single piece in a while. It's just a stupid portrait with no complicated elements and it dragged my ass to the ground. Truly a humbling experience. Anyway, now I want to replay kotor and let my beloved Jesra destroy a couple of lives as a treat.

also have a process gif and behold the mess that was this piece. (flash warning? I'm not sure)

i had no idea what I was doing and I'm probably in the middle of a style crisis so send me prayers pls

#yes that's the smuggler jacket but after analyzing the evidence I decided to ignore it. #the scout outfit is ugly and jesra likes red #carth is just outside of frame sighing and contemplating his life choices #gosh i miss kotor so much i need to play it more #though i always lose my shit whenever malak appears #it's too early and i'll not elaborate #I'm not sure if I love or absolutely hate thus piece #Heh time will tell I suppose #I finished this yesterday but had to wait and see if it was Worthy enough to share #shout out to my lovely goblins at our art discord who helped me not completely give up again #kotor #revan #also me posting Three finished pieces in a month???? #I feel unhinged #my art yall

[antirepurp]

you know, they Could just say that silver has been lying when he talks about his world and the way he travels back to the past. they could still make a storyline about post-06 silver that dips into existential horror and does something interesting with him. they still have the opportunity to determine some rules for the way time-travel works and do so without looking directly at the player and spelling it out for them. like silver hasn't had significant appearances outside of forces and spin-offs after his debut and thus his exact position in the world is vague at best and highly up for interpretation. most doors are still open. they could still make him canonically interesting

#soda offers you a can #pushing my existential horror silver agenda but like you have to admit that would go pretty hard #and patch up vagueness about why he's still here post-06 #like fully and wholly canon-compliant silver has lost his edge i feel #cinnamon roll time traveler eats apple and falls for updog #too smooth. you can't grab that in any meaningful way #perhaps his life in the future brings a source of conflict but because we know nothing about it post-06 #that's only speculation. and post-06 implies that the future is fixed and fine anyway #except when it isn't in forces. but forces is in many ways a dumpsterfire that fails at appealing to everyone #whatever the comics are doing is to me dubiously canon at best. like they are their own timeline entirely to me #so they aren't exactly anything to go by either imo #and the end result is a character who was filed smooth by the mere fact he was brought back with no further elaboration #shadow was brought back without him losing his edge and arguably became more fleshed out as a result #silver doesn't have anything #he can be a goofass idc but if i can't grasp his character firmly there's nothing captivating for me to bother with #and thus i must carve the edges in myself

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

anyway, feenris is important to both their characters because he taught her that her kindness wasn't a weakness, and she taught him that he could still have conviction without losing the parts of him that purely cared btw. if that even matters to you.

#and they both lie like dogs. #feenris #iris hawthorne #iris fey #phoenix wright #i could elaborate on this but like. i think i have. a lot of times. #anyway just to be clear it's how he tells her at the end of bttt that he's always believed in her thus assuaging her fears about her so- #called 'weakness' having hurt him irreparably and being what draws him to hazakura to begin with #and how her strength is what he mirrored at the end of dahlia's case when he insisted that their love was real and he wouldn't believe #otherwise. they saved each other. do you see that. one could not have gone without the other or else both their lives would have fallen #into tragedy so much sooner. sure phoenix says that it's edgeworth who taught him to believe in people no matter what but it's iris who's #the first person whom he puts that into practice for. they're quintessential to each other. do you understand. #bring her back!!!!!! #ace attorney #ace attorney trials and tribulations

[collectingthestars]

guess: you like the older bollywood movies

false

guess something about me and i'll respond with true or false

#diya answers #HOLD ON LEMME ELABORATE #i say false bc i am a whitewashed basic bitch who barely watches bollywood movies and thus technically i cannot say true #even though i know you would be right #april <3 #ask game

[captainadwen]

The more I play FFXV the more I realize... this is the closest I've come to recreating the feeling of playing genshin impact back when I enjoyed it

#adwen plays ffxv #to be clear it is not as bad as genshin is #though i think in some respects (namely exploration) it genshin does it better #but like... the brainless sidequesting and exploration..... #the plots that dont know what they want to be and thus dont push their message correctly #the lack of -- actually lack of female characters with important roles isnt a fault of genshin #but that the only woman with wrinkles with a speaking role in ffxv (up to ch12) is a minor npc? #yeah #i can elaborate more but it just... has genshin vibes lmao

[chiropteracupola]

Spring's a girl from the streets at night...

#em draws stuff #the wolf and the watchman #anna stina knapp #johanna ulv #autodesk texture essentials pencil pal... the best textured brush in the world... #various statements to make about this drawing while we are here. #one. perfectly aware that johanna actually spins on a wheel but Consider that a drop spindle is easier and more pleasant to draw #and also I Can Actually Spin on a drop spindle and thus am Thinking Of Spinning so much of the time these days #two. since the playlist got more attention than I anticipated I probably should say a bit more about this book #if you must read it then I do advise to go with caution. and to read some reviews by more qualified people than me beforehand. #that's that on That for now. altho' perhaps I may elaborate depending on which other characters I draw in the future. #three. augh out of all the guys here and all the terrible things that happen to them I think I am the Most sad about anna stina and johanna #I am Choosing To Believe in their being just fine and together even though that is not really the case at all at all. #and four. caption lyrics are from the pogues' 'dirty old town' since it seemed too apt not to do so.

[sergeifyodorov]

where would YOU put an expansion team. also, whats the progress on that book you were going to try to get at the library?

Second Toronto Team Be Upon Ye

notes

called the whiskeyjacks after the bird (other common names for the bird: canada jay, gray jay, and... camp robber?). the bird name whiskeyjack is an anglicization of the algonquian name wisakedjak who is a fairly important figure in algonquin/cree mythology. which i think is cool

get it, gray jay... blue jays... toronto siblings... anyway.

blue and white. toronto team thing. i guess

no i don't know why the raptors are like that

the pegulas would veto this team existing in real life but i hate the pegulas for what they did to jeichel so im putting a team here. it's not like mlse cares. if anything they'd like it

also on the book front i found the first book, small game, finished it, pretty good, and today i got the email from the central branch saying the other book, welcome to the goddamn ice cube, is also free! so we are vibing

#asks #hiiiii alek sorry this took like. two days i haven't been ignoring u i have been committing inefficient textbook piracy #and have thus had 0 time to think abt how to elaborate on this concept

[trans-xianxian]

I'm enjoying the fontaine storyline so far I feel like it's progressing the plot forward a good amount and we're getting some rlly cool and important lore info but I Am sort of like. can we solve an insane crisis now. can we have a boss fight please. I enjoy that we're learning a bunch of stuff but it feels like we're Only learning a bunch of stuff and not actually Doing anything of monumental plot importance we're just sort of watching all of the other characters do it

#like I enjoyed the newest archon quest a lot it was great it kept me engaged!!! but also we didn't do anything #like we weren't even there to help fix the water thing because we were sitting silently watching arlechino interrogate furina??? #everything we've done so far in fontaine feels very idle #the trial last patch was so low stakes in like. the grand scheme of things and just served as world building/an elaborate lore drop #most of the archon quest this patch was investigating childe #and then when the big high stakes thing Did happen we weren't even really there for the important part #we did nothing at the tea party w arlechino and furina except watch it happen #and again I'm enjoying it!! we're learning a lot and thats rlly cool!! important world and character information is being gained!!! #but we aren't Doing anything or Solving any problems like we did in other nations #and I guess its sort of a nice break? but doing random tasks while watching Other characters fix the crisis is sort of getting old #like I think fontaine has had some of the best written storyline thus far #I just want to actually participate in something of real significance to the world or nation as a whole #hopefully they are just doing like. a fuck ton of exposition for The Big Crisis and its gonna feel extra important #but like. chop chop #never thought I'd actually be Asking for a boss fight 😭 #ghost posts #text #genshin

[bootlegfrank]

How do you draw so good like omg it’s so good 😭😭😭

Thanks! There's no trick to it except pushing yourself :] I drew a shit ton as a kid, spent all my time drawing, and about ten years ago I got into fanart, and just drew and drew and drew art of the things I liked. I took art in secondary school and that taught me the importance of doing studies, of composition and all the different forms of contrast, and that helped push me along. Your style will find you, your anatomy will get better the more you practice, and all you really need technical knowledge on is technique. Google the different forms of contrast, look at classic paintings and explore the compositional shapes in them, think of art as more than just your line-art <3

#this is a pretentious answer but its true #i dont have enough time anymore to make elaborate pieces like when i was in secondary school #but the knowledge i was taught will always be in the back of my mind #and youll be able to have that knowledge too just by watching a couple of youtube videos #itll change the way you look at the images you reference and thus change the structure of your art #for the better of course <3 #also i just like drawing a lot its one of the things that makes me happy and calms me down #this account is new sadly so you cant scroll down in my art and see where i began with mcr #but even in the year that ive been on tumblr ive improved massively cuz ive been drawing a lot more #just keep drawing #about art #asks

[opheliaswings]

nidhogg is the fuckin charizard of love nikki

#love nikki #to elaborate to the non pokemon enjoyers #charizard always gets special treatment and attention bc its popular w the genwunners and keeps getting more than other pokemon would have #examples: its one of the 2 (mere two!) pokemon who got TWO mega evolutions. it got a gigantamax form when other kanto starters did not #(the other kanto starters were not even IN THE GAME and then later got in and got the form in a dlc) #the champions ace pokemon in this same gen is charizard instead of something. yknow. new to the region #and ppl r tired about all the attention being on charizard all the time #the parallel im making is that while all the other daybreak cast rotates nidhogg is always on there and always gets literally all the #attention leaving no chance to the rest #thus daybreak war is always boring and predictable and ppl always rally behind him even more for the extra couple tokens #and they should try hosting a daybreak war w/o him and see everyone scramble and scatter and the numbers shift #id like to see the chaos #i dont even understand why. he bores me. as does mercury. maybe i am just too much of a lesbian #opheliasthings #am i swinging a bat at a hornets nest

[royalreef]

       “It is a rather good call that I was not invited to such an event. I would not want to show up all the poor souls who cannot possibly compete with the royal tailors, after all.”

#Glory and Gore || IC #The rumor mill || Dash Commentary #Bony eared Assfish || Crack #(( but also is it- #(( but also. vibrates in the merfolk fashion tradition. #(( theyre still in their maximalism phase precisely BECAUSE fast fashion never became a Thing inside the merkingdom #(( so instead it becomes a greater power move to have more elaborate and decorated outfits #(( since the royals there will take patronages with designers that they like and provide them full housing and the resources of their throne #(( and thus if you do have those extremely elaborate outfits then you have more tailors who are better cared for than your competition #(( and it becomes a show of wealth just to make a point of how much hours of effort and time went into an outfit for them #(( its fun! miranda has pet artists that she keeps fully cared for just to see what art they make her #(( in a very renaissance type tradition #(( merfolk eyes also automatically follow light and movement so having elaborate moving and shiny parts is also In Style #(( and they know how to make glowing clothes as well #(( oops i got distracted by my own worldbuilding as well