#like I took the weights off

[alexis-royce]

Youuuuuu got it @windienine ! Updating an old post since the formatting broke on it:

Like any good OC gremlin, I have playlists for all my favs. The one I’ll put before the cut, though, is Kinesis’ theme song, written by Andrew Huang. He legit wrote it for Evil Plan. It’s both about my OC and it has a slick guitar theme that is just….EVERYTHING. It is the best character theme I have and I adore it.

Here’s a pile (though not even close to all) of character songs under the cut:

Evil Plan

Kinesis: Upside down - Barenaked Ladies, Defeat You- Smash Mouth, half the Dr. Horrible Soundtrack because of course, Evil Genius - Pat Benatar, Bank Job- BNL. A reader also once sent me “Sexy Supervillain” by Fanatical, and I laughed so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.

Alice: Science Vs Romance, Rilo Kiley , Do It - Spice Girls.

William: Vanishing, BNL.

Lemon and Lime - Sunday Morning - Maroon 5



Sire

Anna & Susan - Odds Are - BNL

(Cannot for the life of me find the rest of those playlists. I’m sure there were a ton. Anyway I know a fuckton of weird old musicals, it’s mostly them.)

morphE - Mage: The Awakening Campaign

Campaign Theme: Dark Blue - Jack’s Mannequin

Ammi: Esperandote - Rika Muranaka & Vanesa Quiroz

Sanguine (The First One) - Mister Blue Sky in G Major

Amical: Golden and Green - The Builders and the Butchers, Hurricane - Panic!, Killer Queen - Queen

Billy Thatcher: Every fucking song from Chess, The Musical, by Tim Rice and the boys from Abba

Hendrik Rakove: Hurt So Good - John Mellencamp, Lovefool - Spencer Day’s Cover, Love Me Dead - Ludo, Grace Kelly - BYU A cappella cover, Talk about You - MIKA, It’s All Been Done - BNL, The Show Must Not Go On - Harvey Danger, Circus- Drew Gasparini and Lindsay Mandez.

Talaiporia- Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Andrew Cross: Camisado- Panic!

Closing Shop - (The weird experimental meta campaign that literally ate itself)

Steam Rising - Murder By Death, Devil’s Calling - Florence and the Machine, Talkin at the Texaco - James McMurtry, Keepin’ It Real - Barenak BLOW BY KESHA BLOW BY KESHA GET MY SONG RIGHT GET IT RIGHT, Sometimes the Line Walks You - Murder By Death

Exit Signs- Slashers/mixed nWoD Campaign

Season One theme: What if I’m Wrong - Damien Rice

Season Two Theme: I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers

Cyril: Disaster - Drew Weston, A Little Irony - Tom Milsom.

Dea ‘Exit’ DeLus: When I Grow Up - Tim Minchin, Break Your Heart - BNL, If I Had a Heart - Fever Ray, Crystalline - Bjork, Still - Ben Folds, Come Into My Head - Kimbra, Dinner at Eight - Rufus Wainwright, What You Know - Two Door Cinema Club, Big Dark Love - Murder By Death, Bitter and Sick - One Two,

DRT: Bitter Rivals - Sleigh Bells, Passcode - BNL.

Swing: Boogie Feet - Kesha.

Deirdre Whitman: Welcome to the Ball - Rufus Wainwright.

NonPlatonic Forms

I’m Gonna Win- Rob Cantor Boomerang - Lucy Schwartz, Hate that you know me so well- Bleachers, Jericho - Rufus Wainwright, Guster - Center of Attention, Toe to Toe - BNL, Give It Back to You - BNL, Limits -BNL (I apologize for nothing I love Silverball), Blood - ANIMA!, and of COURSE- Dead Inside by Patricia Taxxon!

- Other characters -

Channery Keene

Artificial Heart - JoCo, Erase Me - Ben Folds Five, Desperate Measures - Marianas Trench, Haunted - Maya Kern, Cake - Melanie Martinez, Bulletproof- La Roux, Cassandra - Area 11, Stolen - Greentree, Guster - Simple Machine, Make Me Feel - Janelle Monae, Could I Leave You - (specifically Donna Murphy at the Sondheim’s 80th concert).

Chrome and Prism

Kiss with a Fist - Florence and the Machine, Langhorns - Spybeat, Dancing’s Not a Crime - Panic!, Thanks I Hate It - Simple Creatures, Sweet Talk - Saint Motel, This Is Love - Air Traffic Controller, Nothing Without You- Vienna Teng

Harold Ludicael

Consequence Free - Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares- Great Big Sea, Don’t Threaten me with a Good Time - Panic!, Dust and Ashes from Great Comet, I Need to Know from Jekyll and Hyde; Boy Decide - Murder by Death, Spring Break 1899 - Murder By Death, My Type - Saint Motel.

#ocs #character songs #I think I also have a playlist for Gray Jacket but I can’t find it #I apologize in advance for no Academic songs yet #haven’t been listening to enough new music lately #But I used to burn CDs for my tabletop groups #I made cover art and liner notes with art for the tracklists too #And I also spliced songs together on occasion #the Keepin’ It Real track in Closing Shop started glitching in the middle #before turning into Kesha’s Blow #It was a way to both characterize the villain AND have them pull off a 4th wall break #The fact that I don’t do webcomics or twice a week tabletop sessions anymore is #like I took the weights off #if anyone wonders how I make so much stuff #it’s because is was forced in a terrible crucible #XD

[solradguy]

Johnny Guilty Gear Strive is not a single day under 37 years old. "Age: Unknown" my ass. Face of a man whose frequent all-nighters in his 20s finally caught up with him. I understand, Johnny, I empathize...

#Photopost #Beard Johnny is awakening something in me... #Jk Johnny's always been a babe. Putting a beard on him's like garnishing a good steak #And like any juicy rare steak worth it's weight I will pick him up with both hands and tear him apart betwixt my jaws like an animal #The power went out and there's so much red and bright blue lightning outside it's like an alien planet. My phone is at 50% #The wind was blowing apples off the tree in the backyard and they were bouncing off the roof haha #Tomorrow I need to go see if it knocked down any of the ripe red ones from its apex... They're small but they're delicious #Tree had so many apples this year a big branch snapped from their weight. Bees'll be happy though when the apples fall and rot #Anyway I think Johnny mostly bottoms for men and less so for women but for Johnny/Sol... well... ;^) #I've imagined that Sol only bottoms if his partner can kick his ass #Lmao this took a turn. Bored and stoned. No internet and no lights to even read by. Unfiltered Sol Radguy after dark thoughts #Suggestive cw #Drugs cw

[luck-of-the-drawings]

DISTRACTIONS sometimes its the drive to help and save our friends that pushes us to learn and to succeed. unfortunately its normally ''unethical'' to replicate that in a classroom setting. I ONLY JUST FINISHED THE LAST PAGE HERE, THE FIRST TWO WERE LITERALLY FROM LAST YEAR, N A FEW MONTHS APART. LOOOOK AT MY EVOLUTION. im very proud of this and bled REALLY HARD FOR THE LAST PAGE. PLEASE ABSORB THIS.

#gillion tidestrider #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi riptide #the last page honestly just took super long bc i dropped it for a long while. only recently wiped the dust off o it. #IM RLY PROUD OF ALOT O THINGS ABT THAT LAST PAGE #LIKE THE PERSPECTIVE N THE WIDE SHOTS OR WHATEVER #IT WASNT EASY BUT I MADE IT LOOK GOOD!! IM SO HAPPY WITH IT #I ALSO just really love drawing gillion as soooo small #just a little guy with the weight of the world bolted to his tiny tiny shoulders #n yknow what while im here ill talk abt the first two comics aswell. i like taking inspo from JTHM for this kinda stuff #more specifically SQUEE n the way his dad was just sooo honest and cruel to him. 'yeah its your fault my life sucks' n all that. i imagine #that gillion prolly dealt with alot o that too. i know weve already seen the elders #but i did initially imagine them to be very much like the Tallests from invader zim. they just hate this little guy. hes so small n lame #hes prolly had teachers like that im sure. i like thinkin about gills experience in school!! #i fell in love with him the moment he said that he wasnt good at being a student like girl ME TOOOO WAAAAAA #HE SUCKS In school and everyone is just sooo tired of him but they gotta put up with him bc hes the Chosen One #but GOD they wish they had someone more competent i bet. it was prolly a relief when they banished him #could u imagine being that? someone so insufferable that people sigh in relief when youre gone. poor poor gillion #ANYWAY THATS ALL MY THOUGHTS #TALK ABT UR THOUGHTS IN THE TAGS TOO DIPSHIIITT CMAAAHHNN

[sysig]

Bitter breakup rivalry (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Emperor Awesome #Commander Peepers #I dunno lol I just wanted to draw Awesome being pathetic and insulting Peepers and maybe immediately regretting it :) #As much as I think their relationship dynamic could go very well I also think it could go very poorly >:3c They have a lot of potential! #Awesome trying to get too close too fast to manipulate him before he's proven a useful asset would basically be a death sentence hehe #Especially if he tried to flex about it - he definitely has physical might over Peepers but honestly I think that'd just piss him off furthe #Like ''You think you can just sling your weight around and intimidate me? Hah! Who do you think I work for?'' #Even with the equivalent of a peashooter I think Peepers could take him on ♪ I mean heck he beat the Potted Plant with just his hat #He's very resourceful! Out of necessity but hey it just means he's practiced! I think he could MacGyver his way out of most confrontations #Plus y'know - Awesome is already kinda pathetic haha ♪ He gets a bruised /ego/ and he goes home what would a smack to his face do #That said he was there for the Battle Royale - I think he's aware of his intimidation factor :) Intimidation is also charisma! Haha #I think a fight between them would be interesting Especially if they brought feelings into it but even just a slugout haha #Awesome's really fun to pose I definitely would've drawn more of him being dramatic if I hadn't run out of room #But I mean so is Peepers! They're so fun to draw ahh <3 Look at his shoe/knee contact! Flat foot on the ground! I'm so pleased! #Only took a very cartoony style to finally get me to work on contact points haha ♪

[s1l4s-l1k3s-t0m4t03s]

im sorry i cant handle this

#i hate my irls so much #like so much its horrible i hate myself #all they do is talk abt weight and calories #and theyre both underweight (not by an ed btw) #they just talk abt weight by pointiny out mine and saying im thin while im barely less thsn them #and always looking at cals and giggling snd stsrjng at me when they dont even count cals #like a packet of my fav chocolate i was letting myself have on a meta day (reeses) and one took it snd went “is it a safefood 🥹🥹” #fuck off get your hands off my food?? #i threw it away i was so sad #or one akways makes sh jokes #and no offence but god dont do that?? #dont randomlt make jokes or pull up your sleeves to show me ur cvts #they saw my beans once and asked if i can teach them how to go that deep #fvxk off ive been doing this since i was 8 years old #you jumped on a month ago bc you literallt told me jts a trend #fvxk i hate my irls so so so much

[chiptrillino]

ok now i have to ask

why do you hate the cape (from the comics)?

Welll... -inserts edna mode no capes montage-

But in all honesty... I understand tradition costom and representation. But the whole design for zuko is just... heavily weighing him down. And the cape makes it worse.

I dont think a cape is a good idea when somone fights with fire. Exspecially somone that does lot of spinning or sometimes brakedancing moves.

You want to make zuko look badass? Scrap the cape, return his swords. Because where are they?

Give this man his swords back dang it!!!

The only time we see in canon zuko wear cape is when he sneaks around and hides in the third season. With a hood!

What does he hide this time? (Probably himself because he is ashamed and embarrassed that he has to wear...THAT)

All my frustration aside the design is... alright. Its a good and flexible redesign of the former fire lords ones. I can live with that. Just NO CAPE

#chip!ask #zuko #i cant be the only one that thinks that? #at the end its just pixels but... ahhh #idk i am sure some comes at me like 'actually capes are not so much of a hindrance' whick okay fine valid #but in the show zhao wore one and imediately took it off once a fight began #even azula lost hers in the agni kai #and ozai immediately burned off his entire outfit #so i guess its canon that capes only look and are impratical for firebending! #idk what the EK deal is #i guess because they dont spin and move as much can wear them. #not much of a hindrance the weight is good for them! #and yeha aurbenders are also the exeption to the rule i think #they can use it fir pratical prupose! #but still!!! #no capes for zuko! jasnt this boy suffered enough???

[currentlyonstandbi]

man what the fuck is happening . 8 months back i was running 10km like it was no big deal and now i'm struggling to even make 5km

#i know i took time off because of injury so i have to work back up to it but it should not be this difficult #feels like i can't breath properly whenever i go now like ????????? #i feel like i've hit a total plateau with weight training too and it's bumming me out ngl

[walfs]

“The Eye of Michael and Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Pastor of St. Michael’s Church, do hereby enter into the following contract with respect to their work. The Pastor agrees to faithfully perform all duties as commanded in the Eye of Michael, effective June 2nd S.E. 110, and to abide by all rules and regulations, swearing in the name of the two angels sent by God.

The Pastor agrees to receive immortal glory from the Priest William, through the Suffering of the Holy Angels.

In the event of abandonment of his duties, or in the event that the Executive Board determines that there is sufficient cause, the Pastor shall be permanently expelled from the Eye of Michael and St. Michael’s Church, and the family members of the Pastor shall be subject to the same punishment.

Special Notes: If the work is approved, the Hopeland Orphanage and the surrounding area shall be secluded from the pilgrimage rite.“

#more for my own ref than anything else tbh #wish i knew what year the main story was happening in like all i know is ep 1 takes place on may 25 #was it only in june of this year that he finally caved and signed a contract?? #is that why sometimes he moves like he's not used to the punisher's weight???? #like it showed us that he took out someone defecting or w/e and he said to zazie he just does his jobs as asked #there's the implication he's already killed a lot of ppl #so how fucking long has he been doing this???? long enough to be good at killing but not enough that he's used to being off-leash????? #so many fckin questions #trigun

[bugmistake]

i love being in bed everyone say hiiiii being in bed i love you being in bedddd yayy for being in bed!!!!

#worked rlly hard today. a short shift but. more physically intense #than i am used to! #n then i went and got snacks n took them to a friends place and we #celebrated april 20th god bless. and now. i am home #and cozycozy like you wouldnt BELIEVE. #face washed. teeth brushed. under my 4 regular blankets and one weighted blanket #lights. off. my gay ass? horizontal as all get out. #imagine me. now imagine me horizontal. tbats literallyyyyyy me rn :3

[jacqcrisis]

Ronan's standing there, watching this, glad there's a pause on the whole sex thing cause otherwise Astarion wasn't making it out this room unravished, the other party members be damned.

#ronan: hes not allowed to become a powerful evil ascended vampire #also ronan: he can be a little evil. as a treat #gale getting whacked by the ole tail when astarion starts throwing his weight around #ronans just a big fan of when his twink does a stab or a murder or a violence in general #also it took me a HALF HOUR to get this vutscene #cause every time i came up to these two they poofed #turns out if you have the glowing sun mace set to UV light #these two will just vanish if you approach #and you dont get to talk to them #i had to look it up like what the fuck what i doing wrong #had to turn my macelight to off #also ronan did tell astarion to let the dude go and also call him out on his bullshit #immediately after they left #i wonder what halsin and gale thought about all this #anyways #bg3

[recitedemise]

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗲. After ridding himself of the orb at last, in fact, the wizard becomes a force that's once more unstoppable. He can cast spells without a word, capable of summoning infernos with a wave, and the ease in which he harnesses storms is frightening, but only as frightening as it is an art. Of course, Gale, however, had proved long ago his more prodigious talent. Still, to see him in action beats just listening to this talk. Gale is powerful, relearning all that he'd lost with alarming speed, and that's all a testament to his blinding brilliance--and, of course, his ingrained ambition. With the orb, the wizard had to limit all manner of casting. He had to sate his hunger, was forced to draw back as to not tempt fate, and with the orb in place snuffing his most powerful spells, was something of a tempest in a thick glass cage. However, with the orb finally gone, those limits have at last been lifted. He had became a level 12 wizard with a hell of a handicap, and with that handicap absent beyond its lingering scar, it's like all his previous mastery finally returned--and with force, mind you, like a strike of lightning. In a way, one could compare him to a runner stripped of their weights. He'd learned unparalleled control with an arcane bomb strapped, but now no longer fearing his imminent explosion, is free, as goes the metaphor, to cast a god damned marathon. And Gale is learned. Rather, he's disgustingly learned. He knows all schools of magic, is qualified to teach every field in Blackstaff, and he doesn't serve his city or own his own floating realm, but he'll once again become archwizard in those ways that matter--in his ability to cast and his hellish ferocity. Maybe he won't become as great as he had been with Mystra, but as a former chosen, it's a helluvan accomplishment. In time, Gale Dekarios becomes Gale, professor at Blackstaff, but as a testament to his ability, the city again warms to the idea of Gale of Waterdeep--because she's really only one Gale one could possibly need.

Of course, he doesn't advocate for the title... But it still delights him.

#HEADCANON. #Okay...so I had to see what really constitutes an archmage/archwizard cuz I'm back on my archmage Gale soapbox. #And he didn't serve the city like an advisor OR had all the fixings and domain like Karsus #so...I think archwizard for Gale is more in terms of his mastery of the Art #which is to say...yeah. Gale had a potent efficiency paired with his knowledge in high arcana #because why wouldn't he have that knowledge as Mystra's lover? #He might be a former chosen now but that knowledge doesn't go away #and Gale is sorta like Rock Lee when he took off his weights in the chuunin exams. #Don't @ me for my Naruto reference but I'm right. Gale without the orb after #learning to control it and his spell casting for so long #is kinda a menace now that he's been stripped of it. #I think being favored by Mystra allowed him to excel faster but Gale is still and had been a remarkable caster before Mystra #and will remain so after her. He isn't an archmage or archwizard in the traditional sense but he has a bar none unspeakable #talent in it and is so damn smart and capable and still sorta...I'm ngl...OP. #Also obsessed with ppl still calling him Gale of Waterdeep. Gale is not THAT ambitious anymore #so he didn't advocate for it...but it flatters him. And lbr Gale wouldn't quell his ambitions 100% anyway. #He's just wiser now. And a lot more humble with where those ambitions take him. He finds ample fulfillment simply teaching.

[sysig]

My kingdom for a "So you say” (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Dexter Favin #Hhhh they ;; Their ''first'' interaction! #Officially up to three cryings - not that I'm surprised I love Dex <3 #My head was fully abuzz during this scene there are so so so many interesting details! #So interesting to see which ''held true'' and which were left behind - which ones became Helix while others didn't! #At this point I almost see Helix as an alternate timeline - kind of like how Defeated is a branching arm off the main body #Not terribly dissimilar but the details that are different are too interesting to let go of so just make it all canon in its own way! Hehe #Especially since Helix is largely from Max's 3rd person perspective so the way he tells it is different than Dexter haha #Very interesting what he leaves out in his retelling hehehehe ♪♫ #Anyhow enough of Max he's not even here rn sheesh ♪ ZEX! And Dexter ;; #Hghhghh it's all set up so deviously <3 That fact that up to this point ZEX has been relying on Zelnick especially to give him credence #And then as soon as someone he ''knows he trusts'' comes to throw a wrench into things - Dexter has as much weight or more! #He's specifically engineered to sow doubt and confusion! Gosh what a place to grow his character from <3 <3 #ZEX's pride undoes him completely it's So well written ♥ Truly a fatal flaw for VUX and the way he's picked apart aghh <3 #And?? The fact that I can hear ''Max's'' voice in ZEX's syntax as soon as he doesn't have a good argument??? Hello???? #I know they come from the same base but like!! How!!! Masterful 💖 #As I drew it it's a bit out of order - Dexter says he can't protect Max (😭) before ZEX starts crying it all got a bit mixed in my head #I was very emotional at the time you understand haha #It's all so sad! They're so close in some ways to being or having what the other wants but both fall just short #No wonder they took what little comfort in each other they could <3 ZEX comforted by his voice and Dex comforted by caring for his body #They have so little to offer each other trapped as they are ;; #It's all so interesting and distressing!! There's so much to think about as everything falls into place!

[toasted-buguette]

yknow I might just not be deep enough in the tag, but there is a truly disturbing lack of Rock Lee references in the Blue Eye Samurai fandom

#bes #Blue Eye Samurai #Like it was my immediate thought the second Mizu took off her weights #And NO ONE is talking about it #Nature is healing I guess

[smilepebble]

FINISHED OT2. SOBBING CRYING WAILING

#op #and i just unblocked all my spoiler tags... i feel like an shonen protag who just took off their training weights

[urban-hart]

*looking through some sketches for that older collab project I mentioned once* I WANNA DRAW MORE PROJECT STUFF!! :D

*flashbacks to the frustrating team dynamics* Ohhhhhh right right, that's why I haven't touched it in over a year :c

#i was the art department #which would've been fine #if i wasn't simultaneously told to research things for INSPIRATION but then LIMITED to THE ONE IDEA for resource material #and one other brainstormer just #did NOT pull their weight #then had the GALL to act tired about the things writer sister and I DIDN'T develop yet #and then was just really condescending sometimes?? #liKE ExcUSE Me???? #YOU think of some named philosophers and whether bamboo is a common resource!! since you've contributed little else thus far!!! #I'M the whole freakin art department #and writer sister is literally carrying this project #like writing the story and THEN handling logistics like meeting notes and OBTAINING COPYRIGHT #since the actual project head took their hands off the wheel basically AS SOON AS I JOINED #what really gets me is that #the instant they said they were stepping back I knew the project was going to die #and it did #in the EXACT WAY i foresaw #>:( #it felt like writer sister's and my contributions oftentimes weren't fully appreciated #and that's why i'm hesitant to make anything new for it again #aksjdhkjash i will #probs delete this later.

[piosplayhouse]

I don't want to be too mean about this because I know it's probably unconscious behavior but I would like cql fans who claim that cql does more justice to the female characters than mxtx because it ostensibly has more screen time for them to really reflect on why they trust a giant media monopoly that paired one of the most important independent female characters with a man she had no chemistry with in the original text more than an independent young female author whose entire first book was made up of critique against popular media that relegates female characters to collectible love interests

#looking at the notes on that qingxian post that say i wish they made her live but took away the het romance : ( #like i get what youre saying. dont get me wrong i would give my left nut for wen qings life because i love her. but do you think that #perhaps her death was symbolic not of mxtx just not knowing what to do with her and more about how the structure of mdzs sexist society #could not allow her to live as a woman in a position of power. she chose to die too. she purposefully drugged wwx to sacrifice herself #her sacrifice was both as weighted and meaningless as wwxs. thats a theme of the book! #the weight of despair and sacrifice and how that interplays with making a better place for your descendents #anyway again not criticizing if you think wen qing shouldve lived !! i wouldve liked that too!! i think it would be awesome if she was #the fierce corpse. actually i heard rumors that in mxtxs first drafts she was revived and wen ning perma died? but idk how substantial thts #but just criticizing people who put so much stock in tencent for bringing them uwu pure gay romance unlike what that nasty independent #author whose ORIGINAL WORKS WERE ALL TAKEN DOWN FROM THE SITE SHE POSTED THEM ON BC OF CENSORSHIP #SO SHE CANT EVEN MAKE MONEY OFF OF THEM THAT WAY #lmfao #cql #cql discourse #the untamed