#not quite somewhere else

[hawkfurze]

So back when TMAGP was first announced, I had decided I wasn't going to do an Infinity Train crossover with it as well, but after the first episode came out back in October, I had the idea to do an April Fools update, and that ended up being this! A silly, OOC, very meta update. I'm glad it landed on being the update after the previous one, it works really well for where the story is at.

#sum doodles #fan art #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp #infinity train #not quite somewhere else #not quite somewhere else au #nqse #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #alice dyer #sam khalid #samama khalid #gwen bouchard #gwendolyn bouchard #colin becher #celia ripley #amelia hughes #annabelle cane #one one

[puppyeared]

i like him

#somebody needs to keep me 8 metres away at all times or else ill start chewing on him #i just want everyone to know if i end up making a character who happens to resemble harvey in any shape or form #it probably wasnt a coincidence 😐and it will happen again #if i remember maybe ill try getting stardew when it goes on sale.. my friend showed me her farm and she named her chicken after doja cat #or maybe it was nikki minaj i cant remember. and she also said smth about monsters and passing out if you stay out after a certain hour #idk how accurate tht is all i know is the funny fucked up grandpas bed #i read somewhere that harveys supposed to be in his early to mid thirties and i dont have a problem with it but i think itd be very funny #if hes actually younger than he looks hes just a med school postgrad lmao. idk how well that headcanon would hold up since ive #never played the game and idk how often ppl talk about his age or if itsjust an implied thing. i just think its really really funny #im trying to get into the habit of drawing poses so im using reference images to try and build up muscle memory #i found some cute pictures of two ppl playing by the sea shore and it reminded me of xin and sailor so im gonna draw em like that #i havent drawn em in so long..... maybe i should update xins reference since i changed their lore quite a bit #myart #my art #doodles #stardew valley #stardew #sdv #sdv harvey #kinda wanna see him whimper a little bit. as a treat

[rakiah]

Vil’s little meow meow~

#twisted wonderland #twst oc #The Pomefiore Siameses #vil schoenheit #Akanda Siam #Akedya Siam #or how to piss Leona off by sport #So somewhere in Savanaclaw Leona: ‘This is war.’ #also I’m quite ASTONISHED how you guys like these minx! #Like #OMG THAK YOU SM FOR THE LOVE <33333 #They don’t deserve it #They’ll steal your snacks and accuse someone else purring at you

[its-a-me-mango]

AYO MR PUZZLES BEEN KISSING MARIO GUYS!!!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

#Also why did he just do a pregnancy test right in front of me. That's nasty do that somewhere else maaan #Character ai my most hated why can't i quit yooooooouuuuuu #if anyones curious what i said to him. i just said 'congrats on getting pregnant' and everything spiralled from there

[becauseplot]

Penciled Lines

(Cross-posted on ao3, if you prefer to read it there. Reblogs still appreciated!)

Missa wakes up, and he thinks he might be doomed. This doesn’t scare him nearly as much as it should.

Missa is awake early—by his own metric, anyway. His nocturnal nature causes “early” for him to mean “early night” and not “early morning.” Regardless, “early” means that Philza is not asleep yet, still going through his nightly rituals. “Early” means that Philza is sitting up in (his? their?) the bed, pillows propped up behind him, notebook in his lap, sketching away.

And when Missa wakes up to the soft scritch-scratch of a charcoal pencil on textured paper, his forehead just so happens to be brushing Philza’s hip.

Missa can hardly breathe.

Oh no.

He knows that if he gives any indication that he is awake, Philza will stop sketching, close his notebook, shift himself over until he is politely seated on his side of the bed, and greet Missa with a friendly smile. Philza has done it before, when Missa wakes up early. That’s how Missa knows he’ll do it again.

Thus, Missa can hardly breathe—his breaths have to be the slow in-out of sleep. He can’t so much as twitch, either. He has to keep quiet and play dead or else he’ll be found out. Seen. Caught living the lie.

“Husband,” Philza calls him. They’re not married. They share a bed. They’re hardly ever in it at the same time. They have a son and a daughter. Neither of them know Missa very well. Philza has had an extra set of armor and a skull on his backpack for months, waiting for Missa. Missa doesn’t even know Philza’s last name.

Philza is a good man and a good friend—and Missa doesn't deserve him. Still, he takes what he can get. Curls around it. Hoarding every innocent kindness Philza extends like a starving creature: the generosity of a backpack fully stocked with equipment; the trust Philza places in Missa to watch the kids when he’s asleep; and now, the courtesy of not moving his hip from Missa’s forehead to ensure his “sleeping” isn’t disturbed. Missa clutches all of these little offerings in his greedy claws and hugs them into his chest, even as the guilt eats away at him.

Because, regardless of the lack of mutual feeling, he loves Philza. He loves him so, so much, and that is why he is doomed. He can’t afford to lose what little he has. He can’t cross that line. 

So Missa lies beside Philza, forehead pressed against Philza’s hip, pretending to sleep so he can imagine that they’re not just lying in bed together, but lying in bed, together; and later, when Missa truly wakes, he will sit on his side of the bed and look at Philza’s face soft with sleep and think about how lucky he is that he still has a side-of-the-bed to begin with.

Missa doesn’t mean to drift off. When it starts to happen, he’s hopelessly torn between shaking himself awake and thus giving himself away, or remaining how he is, silently fending off the inevitable. In the end, Missa clings to that scritch-scratch sound of Philza’s pencil on the paper for as long as he can before the fog at last pulls him under. 

Eventually, he dreams. In fact, he dreams of the calloused fingers he dreams of every night, hands like his own, an artist of Death, cradling and shading the contours of his face—a softness dashing charcoal across his jaw, and over his cheekbones, and perhaps on his lips, too, if he’s lucky. Defining every edge of him.

~*~

A deep sigh. Phil stops sketching as Missa shifts in his sleep. He tilts his head up so that the tip of his nose is now just nearly brushing against Phil’s hip. The motion disturbs the wild splay of his dark hair, revealing more of his face: eyelashes, cheeks, warmth. Tender blush of something Stygian and otherworldly. New.

Phil’s lips tilt upwards. He turns to a fresh page, and he starts again.

#qsmp #pissa #qsmpshipping #qsmp missa #qsmp philza #i hesitate to put main character tags bc it's shipping content but i think we're all p much okay with that?? we chill??? we chill thumbsup #my fics #ficlet #anyway would you believe me if i told you this took me a week to write. hhourgh. #i'll prolly make small edits as time goes by if i dont scrap this version entirely. #i really like it rn but we'll see how i feel abt it in like a couple hours or a day. the sheer number of times ive rewritten this hhhhh. #this little character/relationship study is primarily for me to try to work them out in my head. #so if this doesnt quite hit the exact vibe you know why. #im still getting acquainted w missa's character but i gotta start somewhere ya know #i didnt actually get to explore missa's feelings of inferiority as much as i wanted to but thats bc i found trying to tackle that As Well- #-as everything else saddled the fic/setting w too many Things and made it cumbersome and muddied the story being told. #so another time perhaps. #anyway i adore them. beloveds.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i like to think that Poppy holds Wally when she's scared/nervous

#hes very cozy #she probably has so much fluff its impossible to hurt him when squeezing #hes her... fuck what do you call it #not a stress ball or emotional support animal... somewhere between the two #the very faint upper right scribble is barnaby handing wally to her #twelve apples tall = perfect holding size #welcome home #welcome home fanart #welcome home puppet show #welcome home poppy #welcome home wally #poppy is Very easy to draw for some reason??? #it took me quite a few doodles to figure out wall and everyone else #i still havent gotten frank or eddie or howdy right #but poppy??? first try i was like Oh. Thats How #anyway i see a criminal lack of poppy fanart #shes wonderful <3<3<3<3<3

[saetoru]

with no disrespect fem doesnt equal she/her tho it would be easier to just say reader uses she/her

bro she’s fem! bc i said she’s fem! like fr y’all nitpick over everything. reader was referred to as suguru’s “sister” and used “she/her” pronouns and had a pussy like that’s very fem to me thanks !!

#asks! #i rly try to be respectful to everyone and cater to everyone #but #literally no matter what i tag reader as #everyone got something to complain about #i tried afab for just anatomy but no pronouns on reader #but ppl had issues w that #apparently me being cis means i cannot write afab so ok !! sure !! i quit using that altogether bc i rly #could not be bothered #sometimes ppl get mad at me for gender neutral #‘sweetheart is not gender neutral’ #SINCE WHEN ???? WHAT. #and now i’m fairly confident #as a female myself #that i can confidently say reader pretty much checks the boxes that #calling her fem reader in this fic #is not hurting nobody #so pls #leave me alone and nit pick somewhere else #it is so exhausting

[spider-man-2o99]

“why are you always only ever talking about, like, spider-man 2099’s childhood and mental health issues instead of posting panels of him Biting People” uh. because... spider-man 2099 the comic book... also does this.?

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #xina kwan #marvel #comics #comic panels #i earnestly am not trying 2 gatekeep here lol i Desperately Want people to read spider-man 2099 and ALSO Like The Thing I Really Really Like #but. (deeply bitter) The Internet Does As The Internet Is i guess. #plus i Already Have posted every single panel of him Biting People that currently exists. and then ppl left viscerally uncomfortable tags. #..well. Viscerally Uncomfortable for Me. obv the people Leaving those additions seemed pleased as punch to publicly puke em onto my lap. #urgh woof i Know it's a Bad Idea 2 bring attention 2 it bcuz this specific breed of Pest thrives on Attention but like. i am so Tired #like one of those panels was an instance of the main character rebuffing an attempted assault Put Your Pants On And Quit Moaning. Christ. #this is My Personal Blog. i post abt this comic because im autistic and it's been my special interest for going on like 10yrs. #if i decide i want to Stop Posting about it then i will just Stop Posting About It. and i will tell people Why if it is for any reason. #but i just. /jesus/ yall. go be intolerably Straight somewhere else. my house isnt the place for that i just Block Creeps.

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

#he is easy to hurt. this is a fact. it is also anathema to his own self conception as well as the model of him in anyone elses minds. #xue yang #yi city #mdzs #aphelion.txt #xy #Contact is crisis; every touch is a modified blow #<- xycore anne carson quote. if you even care #meta #i guess? idk #it is always character analysis hour in my head #with a disclaimer that whether or not someone experiences empathy is NOT correlated to their morality #i dont think its necessarily that xy is incapable of empathy it's that any empathy that might exist in him is deeply deeply repressed #bc he views it as a death warrant. he (at every moment in his head and really quite often in reality) is on trial for his life #and it would be suicidal to give a shit about anyone who is not him. #especially since he knows- down to his bones- that no one is ever going to give a shit about him EXCEPT FOR him #the one chance he ever got to escape this cycle of brutality came with an expiration date built in by consequence of his past atrocities #and he only first started to comprehend anything about his own emotions after it was all already irrevocably fucked #in canon he is doomed. in fandom i am always picking him up and putting him somewhere kinder #shakes you by the shoulders do you understand what he does to me. do you. do you #if you tell me im excusing his crimes i will kill you w my lazer beam. #this isnt ABOUT THAT. this is ME BEING UNHINGED ABT HIS PSYCHOLOGY in a moral vaccuum. #i'm not saying 'hes sensitive uwu' but like i kind of am. unfortunately it mostly just motivates him to murder people #OH and when i connect the fragility to the tenderness i dont mean that i believe hes like. secretly soft #i mean that being as he is so deeply impacted by people's slights against him. he is just as deeply impacted by people's kindnesses #and he's not incapable of reciprocating it. he is INCREDIBLY fucking bad at it. but not incapable #ok i have to post this before i feel compelled to ramble any longer in the tags. jesus #got consumed by my a-yang feelings on a sunday morning sorry #not sure why i worded it as 'continues to survive' other than a constant subconscious denial that xue yang is dead

[hazmatmaid]

"Oh, this? This is just my daughter! Say hello, Shirley." "Hullo." "Ain't she a doll?"

This is just a little branch-off from the rest of my AU stuff I'm trying to handle. This one in particular is mostly just "Spamton's daughter if was born 1997," though as you might imagine, it's a bit bittersweet.

Her being born 1997 would also mean she'd be an adult by the time the events of the game happen, but those are details for another post.

#deltarune #spamton #spamton g spamton #big shot spamton #deltarune oc #shirley spamton #my drawings #doodles #she's supposed to be wearing a matching suit but the colors don't quite lend to that #didn't have time to scribble up anything else before work #there's some other post somewhere showing he's not the best father in this era #i still stand by that

[hawkfurze]

It's been a while since I updated, but I've had a crazy busy couple of months. Here's to hoping the next update doesn't take as long, but I also don't have the next part finished being scripted, so who knows.

#sum doodles #not quite somewhere else #the magnus archives #infinity train #tma #not quite somewhere else au #nqse #amelia hughes #one one #jonathan sims #martin blackwood

[opera-ghost]

I can't stand the 25th concert. Every time I hear sierra all I think is how Katie Hall would have done it better. sierra chose the easiest cadenza, singing an A which is the easiest vowel, was belting the whole time and everyone thinks she is the best. It is really annoying, especially since Katie suited the role far better. Same with John Owen-Jones, he deserved that concert more than anyone else. I wish there was at least a full video of JOJ with Katie from when she was alternate. Even in the terrible quality bootleg audios John & Katie sound heartbreakingly beautiful together, John crying his heart out at the end always gets me. I read some comments from people who saw them back then and they said John & Katie were overwhelming and realistic. I so regret have looked into this show.

ok

#[walter white voice] ... who are you talking to right now #go monologue somewhere else you weirdo #for anyone confused this is the infamous JOJ anon who is quite literally a white supramicist #i linked a previous post with more context that has other people's posts linked too #but you can also just search 'JOJ anon' on here and find some fun and normal interactions /s #asks

[benevolenterrancy]

relistened to Last Beacon, aka Ianto And Owen's No Good Very Bad Hiking Trip

#torchwood #ianto jones #owen harper #the last beacon #big finish audio #i honestly love their dynamic they are SUCH a pair of dumb bitchy idiots #though all the opportunities they take to take potshots about the welsh rain makes me laugh #i live somewhere that gets twice the annual rainfall that cardiff does -- those are some baby numbers they're complaining about #man i haven't drawn for torchwood in years and i had never quite figured out character design the first time around either #i hate the first bit of time spent drawing for a fandom you have to get all the ugly out before you can start making any nice art #and live action shows are a pain in the butt trying to figure out functional cartoon short hand is the worst #i don't suppose anyone can point me at someone else's art who's figured out a good way to stylize them? #i would be much obliged for the help #my art

[vintageskeletons]

ID : A digital drawing of Zuko and Sokka from Avatar the Last Airbender. They are both in the middle of a forest, on the right is Sokka in his canon sleeveless Water Tribe attire and is curled up on the ground sleeping, pillowing his head on his right arm. His boomerang lays in front of him. On the left is Zuko in his stealth outfit and a cloak, his swords are strapped to his back and his hair in a half up half down. He is standing with both his hands in front of him and looking down on Sokka with a blank expression. The drawing is mostly coloured in cool tones. End ID.

don’t you just hate it when you stumble upon a cute boy napping alone in the middle of the forest while you’re out having ‘me time’?

no seriously why is he out here alone :(

#image described #avatar the last airbender #atla #zukka #sokka #zuko #fanart #my art #hi im not dead #i don't actually have a pre-daydreamed canon divergence AU for this one. it just came on the spot lol #is he just taking a hunting break? did he get separated? did he cried himself to sleep? did he escaped from something? is he scared? #well someone's gotta take him somewhere safer and warm him up... he looks pretty cold :// #i was working on something else and hated it midway and instead of rage quitting like i always i do #i started doodling this and i liked it??? #the brain works in mysterious ways

[catgirlreisuwa]

Me when I am literally twenty and five years of age and I have literally just found out there are consequences to my actions

#buddy daddies #catgirlreisuwa #buddy daddies spoilers #get fucked lmfao lame ass twink with muscles or whatever idk i wasn't looking at his muscles i promise i was looking somewhere else #at the end of the day it's not funny is it. gross ineptitude caused by parental negligence and quite possibly neurodiversity. like. i know #BUT his face here is so funny. also it's an unrealistic as hell anime LET ME MAKE FUN OF THE PRETTY BOY

[torgawl]

i think what hits most about nobara's backstory is everything that's left unsaid and peaks from between the lines. it's the fact you can easily infer that something was wrong without ever having clear answers on what exactly was wrong. but if you can relate to the feeling of wanting to escape a place and the alienation from everyone around you, especially when you're brought up in small communities, then you can certainly understand, if not fully then partially, nobara herself and the struggles she might have had to face all by herself for a very long time; maybe even the importance fumi and saori had in her life and the pain from having to part from them; and, perhaps the selectiveness in letting people in that she later on develops as well.

#the way her story is told from fumi's point of view is quite interesting #nobara's backstory is like a silent whisper without a lot of obvious context and told from someone else's perspective #someone who until the end never really understood her fully despite their obvious close bond #someone who we weren't even aware was part of her life #and nobara's peak emotional moment and the last person she thinks as her life is in danger is her and the promise she didn't accomplish #a promise to reunite with the friends that shaped her and her life #ah. #i find her last line so... powerful? #she definitely struggled growing up and the only two people she kept in her heart from her life before jujutsu were people that #moved to where she lived. saori didn't even stay in that place for long. and then she moves somewhere new and she meets people #and a group that actually feels like home a community where she fits in and suddenly they kind of break through making place in her heart #just for everything to come to a halt. to turn to shit. for her to see that shatter away little by little. and in the end she's put in a #position where she knows she will not be able to hold on to what she cares for the most. that she will hurt people that truly cared for her #for not being able to go back to fumi and rekindle the friendship with saori and for being forced to be another punch in the guts for yuuji #and everyone else that up until that point were forced to go through losses already and traumatic events #and she decides to encourage yuuji to go on a good note and she truly believes the people she met made it worth it #even if it was for a brief moment in her life #i am not being coherent right now but it pains me :') #she deserved so much better #and i will hang on tightly to the line saying that she had a small chance of survival until the end #because she deserves it she deserves to live 😭 #i'm taking her from that stupid anime and putting her in a slice of life anime watch me #yuuji too. and everyone else. i'm taking the kaisen out of the jujutsu and you can't stop me #jjk spoilers #nobara kugisaki #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 💭 #my post