Hello from your local queer/disabled Tumblr bard! I'm saving up to get my family (spouse, mom, pets, and me) into safe, stable housing by this summer, and to help with that, I've created an Etsy store.
If you like jewelry, rainbows, or BG3/Megamind inspired fanworks, please consider visiting my Etsy shop,
The Bard's Lair!
Signal boosts always appreciated. Thanks for looking! 😄✨💕
revamping my rendering process because I want to add more color and messiness into my work except I have no idea what I'm doing and twt is making me anxious SO! I'm putting my attempts here!!!
Okay I need to clean the living room so I actually have enough clear floor space to take a good picture, but the rainbow triangles (aka Postcards from Sweden) quilt is done!!!
I love it so much, I can’t wait for it to get cold enough to actually use it
If I cannot shut the fuck up about Raise a Suilen it's probably because of this fucking solo from "7th LIVE" - worth noting that there's actually a whole 3min epic drum solo before this starts, but I cut it off so tumblr would let me post this.
As a full-time dad-prog-rock appreciator, this is one of my favorite performances from them, their skills are fucking insane and I'm not even talking about Raychell's surreal vocal skills. istg this never gets old!! <3
the way bel found a family that actually loves him, despite how they may all act on the outside, while rasiel was met with individuals who would let him be eliminated for their ends in a heartbeat. say what you want about varia not caring for each other, they don't actually feel that way. they have each other's back in the end. xanxus is there to kill rasiel when bel couldn't. he did not do it for bel's sake, but he was actually there to follow up on the havoc rasiel was raining down. rasiel? rasiel had no one to fall back on. not a soul was going to help him against xanxus' wrath.
after being introduced to rasiel and having him reveal how much he belittled bel, how he was allegedly constantly rubbing in his face that he was better than him, it's beautiful karma to see bel not being alone anymore. he's not the 8 year old kid that had no one to rely on except himself. he has a family.
what's especially heart wrenching about knowing their backstory properly is that you find out why bel acts the way he does. suddenly, we are told that rasiel's treatment of him is the source of so much of what makes up bel as a person. it clicks. i still most often see people thinking of bel as conceited, but i really don't see that. not with the context of him looking completely blank when rasiel says that he was always better, no smile, no retort.
when bel lets down his guard with lussuria in the manga interview, he is extremely dismissive throughout. he is in no way excited to talk about himself. he even says that he doesn't want to stand out too much at the end section of one of the volumes where characters comment on fanart. this kind of humble comment doesn't exactly fit the way people around him tend to view his vanity. bel's desperation while fighting as soon as he bleeds also seems like...more than just flashbacks to that fateful night that he killed rasiel. it's like the inferiority complex he must have built up kicking in, he has to win, he has to get validation that he can win. he can't keep losing like he did repeatedly to rasiel in the past. again, i have to emphasize that rasiel says that bel was always worse than him and bel does not speak out. the one who everyone would see as egotistical does not say a word to defend himself. just silence. not even a hint of annoyance. this all sounds like i'm just taking things from canon and making a headcanon through that (which is fine), but then you realize that bel's only dislike listed on his "vongola 77" character page is himself. bel calling himself a genius & making his royalty a statement is sometimes simply just for mischief, a funny excuse he likes to throw around, and other times a cover. maybe a few times, he actually believes it. when he succeeds.
on the other hand, rasiel fully believes that he is better than everyone else. i have no doubt about that. even when bel won once, he still thinks bel is inferior. that bel is trash in comparison to himself. but in the end, he got destroyed by bel's boss who labels *him* trash. throwing that straight at his ego.
Stumbled across a shop with the greatest name EVER!
Emo Friend Boba Tea.
Made my little black elder emo heart so happy! Not to mention the tea was fucking delicious and the shop walls were covered with CD cover inserts for bands like MCR, The Used, Evanescence and Linkin Park 😄🖤
soooo i have been on a winx club brainrot these past couple of months and i made a full-blown, 20-page of an idea dump for a personal reboot that’s just living in my head rent free (among other things ashjfhsahsasa)
i ended up searching some dress-up games cause lord knows i don’t have the drawing skills to have a sense of consistency for my vision - so special thanks to @ummmmandy, i used her dress up, schmess up to customize the girls’ looks (and canva cause i used that site to slap on my notes for the looks)
bloom (1/6)
stella (2/6)
musa (3/6)
flora (4/6)
tecna (5/6)
aisha (6/6)
bonus: notes on hair
i have “moodboards” for their looks where i patch up four different outfits for them (one main look and three “secondary” looks cause why not hehe <33):