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frecklydork · 6 months
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"What do you mean I'm a top Ryan Gosling blog???"
Insert the obligatory "if anyone could/should top Ryan Gosling - it's you" joke.
IM CRYINGGGGGGGGG
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sator-the-wanderer · 1 year
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Okay so our WiFi is dead until further notice and I'm running on 4G so neither my scanner nor uploading digital art online want to cooperate, BUT I still wanted to, idk, give you a little something as a token of appreciation for your existence on my dash.
I hope that this December is going well for you, and than 2023 will be gentler on you than its predecessors. Thank you so much for your wonderful drawings, and for having the coolest taste in media (from Discworld to HLP to Moomins) on this website. Peace!
This made me scream 🥺🖤🖤🖤 thank you so much my friend, you made my day!
We all need gentler times. Hope the new year will bring good fortune and new adventures to you!
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queezleofprague · 2 years
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Phase 2 of Skullduggery Pleasant sure is... something. I haven't read very deeply into it before I fell out but I'd love to hear your thoughts about it! 🐙
I’ve read up to book 13 and then just purposely had the last two books spoiled for me because I didn’t care enough to read them, but Until The End doesn’t sound too terrible so maybe I’ll see if my library has it.
That being said, phase 2 in general just feels like all of my problems with the series cranked up to 11 and without any of my favorite parts. The whole magic system just makes less and less sense as the series goes on, the new characters feel really flat and boring, and a lot of people also say the books feel really ooc, but I think it’s more than that. It kind of feels like Landy just doesn’t know how to write character development, like he’s trying to have Valkyrie process her trauma, for example, but he keeps missing the mark. Her character arc doesn’t have the emotional impact it should, and any time she makes even a little progress, it’s undone by the beginning of the next book, with no real explanation. Her friendship with Skulduggery has basically devolved into them being very reluctant coworkers, but again, the book avoids addressing this change, why they might need space from each other, how dysfunctional their original partnership might have been, etc, in any meaningful way.
Skulduggery himself also continues to just. not get any emotional depth. and it is so frustrating, especially because Valkyrie trying to deal with her own issues could have opened up an opportunity for Skulduggery to start trying to do the same in order to help her. And a lot of what’s been happening in phase 2 should have had some emotional impact on him, but again, I feel like Landy doesn’t know how to write that.
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artemis-entreri · 1 year
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shadowy-dumbo-octopus replied to your post:
I'm aware you tagged this as ooc but I choose to believe that this is legit what Arte's drawing skills are like
[[ I absolutely believe that this is the maximum amount of effort he’d spend drawing a portrait of Drizzt and Guen XD, but I think his drawing skills are probably pretty decent. During Road of the Patriarch, he drew a silhouette of Jarlaxle that was recognizable as Jarlaxle, although admittedly it doesn’t take all that much art skill to do that. However, as the partner of someone who is notoriously bad at drawing, I can attest that it probably takes more skill than to draw a couple of bad stick figures to do what he did in RotP. XD
My personal headcanon is that Artemis is at least decent at drawing, as he doesn’t seem like the type of person to allow himself to do anything badly. Plus, it might come in handy being able to draw a recognizable likeness of someone, if he had to resort to more “traditional” methods of locating his mark. By the present timeline, he’s been alive for over 150 years, and there’s only so many hours in the day that you can train your swordsmanship. While Bob would lead us to believe that when his characters aren’t training their martial skills that they’re just sitting around somewhere drinking a lot of stuff (or in Jarlaxle’s case, sleeping with the entire continent), one can’t help but wonder if those characters might have inclinations aside from the two mentioned above. ]]
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Re: the ship name for RoS's gruesome twosome (derogatory) (affectionate) I haven't seen anyone use one in ages. I suppose khammet could work, but I've been using otp: I like you hungry since 2016 because I can't be arsed to go through my tag to change it.
I also refer to them as K/A (though this can be confused with Kitty/Asmira* which btw is a neat concept. Throw down with the government while holding hands with your gf), the Bastards, and reasons 1 and 2 why I cannot have nice things.
(*BTW one day I'll gather enough spell slots to write out all the similarities between Nat and Shadowfucker McGee up to and including getting into politics at a young age, summoning something you shouldn't have and absolutely not getting attached to it in some way, and having a teenage girl want to beat the shit out of you.)
I like Khammet! SSDLFKJDSLKJ I like you hungry is absolutely fantastic too I love that- Gosh why are they like this
Ohhh, okay that makes sense. Especially the second one. XD (Also Kitty and Asmira??? I am listeninggggg???)
SSSLDKFJDS THAT'S HONESTLY A REALLY COOL COMPARISON. ESPECIALLY with Khaba turning out as evil as he did... What does that mean for Natty boi, and are the differences between Bartimaeus and Ammet one of the main things that made them different? One of the most disturbing things about the Bastards in my opinion though is that they remind me a lot of Marissa and Ezekiel from L&Co., and with Khaba being the absolute monsterfucker he is I want to know what that means for Marissa...
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zkretchy · 2 years
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@shadowy-dumbo-octopus​ Okay so-I had the idea/want to draw your boys for a bit now-your birthday (happy birthday btw) being today is very incidental but hey~it’s fate~ 
For everyone who is new here-Levi(the very white one) is a Witcher OC created by shadowy-dumbo-octopus (for the sole purpose of appearing once in Krakens and Tadpoles and staying around anyway)...well and Kiyan(the bane of my existence) is Kiyan-this design being also done by shadowy-dumbo-octopus and me trying my best to get other peoples brain-ideas onto digital paper in any decent way (art is hard) The above mentioned fic of Krakens and Tadpoles basically deals with Kiyan and Levi meeting throughout the whole part of Kiyan being tortured all the way into getting saved by Levi and getting to see the Kraken school (also created by shadowy-dumbo-octopus because why not just make a whole Witcher School as well-love it) and it’s inhabitants and philosophies and so on It’s a good time, a bad time, a good time, a bittersweet time-that’s my summary
I am sure I’ll go of rambling in the tags but right now my brain can’t think of more to say in here so-bonus content
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#art#zkretchy#the witcher#how the FUCK do i even start tagging any of this xD#levi#kiyan#fanfic fanart#i am making this a tag now this is the 2nd time i did smth like this bless y'all#gezras of leyda#gezras#krakens and tadpoles#shadowy-dumbo-octopus#alright so number 1: //screams incoherently#I got distracted SO often drawing any of this bc I was very much watching nature documentaries on the side#one of them was actually about frogs and the fact that there are tadpoles who can shoot out of their eggs is now forever etched into my eyes#cuz wtf you funky little shits-bUT ANYWAY#hi hope you're doing well shadowy hope you enjoy this#i worked on a 'as i remember' mode mixed with checking for physical traits i reread to get other things right#so this is very much a mix and match of 'definitely accurate' and 'i am sure levi wasnt sitting on a rock but he is now this is my land now'#i also tried rly hard to think about whether or not i saw any fish with scars but then just coloured levis like you did aka pinkish#i know what sharks with scars look like but thats about it#also levi looks so much more nerdy than I planned for-i didnt want him to look that way at all#more spoopy or such BUT here we are#i also finally got to dig out 2 of my fav and saved on palette dark colours again~ thank you levi#also you: kiyan has short hair here- me:.....fine okay i can work with this#kiyan later on near the end 'i wonder if gezras will recognize me my hair is shorter than before'- me: mothERFUCK-#hair-love it but the shortest i usually draw is gezras who i give a fringe for days-and who has hair that looks like it belongs to a rex cat#i had a whole strategy in mind for drawing levis bc i wanted it to look nice nd pretty#and then in the bonus where i just sketched it found a way more comfortable way to draw what i wanted with his hair-which-fair enough but-#anyhow i lost a whole train of thought i wanted to add so have all this for now and enjoy~
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squidsploitation · 1 year
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You know what's fun? Top 5 weird/unusual items you have lying around.
(I personally have a reenactment sword, a 100 year old book on hypnotism, a piece of bark from the oldest tree in Poland, a wooden flail (ball and chain weapon) snagged from a flea market, and a tealight stand shaped like a googly eyed spider.)
(whoa this is a fine collection! huge respect for the weapons obviously <3)
i.. well. i don’t think i have anything like that though, sorry.. i’ve been trying to keep my possessions sparse for almost a decade (for reasons i won’t go into for brevity’s sake) and stuff i own is. pretty average orz
i’ve got a kalimba i keep failing to learn how to play on and some older books on gothic art but i don’t know how to rate/catalogue that, sorry)
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thirstyforred · 1 year
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For the ask meme I wanna go with Hubert purely because I'm curious which unhinged squares you'll tick for him. But also Adda and. Yknow what. Dettlaff. Not the most unhinged as far as villains go but very goth.
ty bestie, you know my blorbos <3
HUBERT
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i think that hubert is the funniest mf and it's a real fucking shame that the fandom is SLEEPING on him. catholic serial killer vampire?!? and btches don't love it??? I'm frotting at the mouth. and that's before we even go into all the alvin stuff I'm throwing at him
ADDA
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i feel like she's my blorbo by proxy, but that proxy is rod de wett living rent free in my head 😔
DETTLAFF
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i liked him in the game, but then fandom made me annoyed, and now I'm ig jealous of the attention he's getting bc there are other vamps to mess with in canon ugh. i think his story is very well written and he's a sympathetic figure, but people sometimes paint him as syanna's poor little victim. like, yes, she lied to him, manipulated him, hurt and abused his trust, but at the end of the day, he isn't human. he's gods' stupidest killing machine, an adult of his own race, capable of making poor decisions on his own, and half of the bad shit in blood & wine is still his fallout lol
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baekuras · 1 year
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On all levels except the physical i am gently seating you down at my table and handing you a bowl of something warm and filling that doesn't irritate your pain.
going to take this and make a lesser stir fry veggies and chicken version tomorrow v-v
i am not going to go out and get like paprika and other ingredients-this household will survive on whatever is left in here
aka potatoes, some veggie mix, noodles, rice and chicken and multiple spices and sauces also milk...but i dont think i'd wanna add milk into any of the above
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shadowy-dumbo-octopus · 2 months
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You know when you're looking for a specific fic, don't find it, and realise that you'll need to write it yourself? I'll be honest, I'm not even mad about it, I'm just mildly peeved that I'm too tired to write it into existence.
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faquarlofmycenae · 7 months
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I should rub my two braincells together and finally write my extremely iddy Farquitty AU. Y'know, to contribute smth besides Khaba/Ammet insanity to this fandom
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turbobyakuren · 8 months
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Hi! I know that post about you disliking the movie Amélie is like 2 years old but I found it in the tag the other day. Is it okay to ask why you don't like it? Not looking to argue, just to read another opinion. I personally love it but acknowledge it's fairly..... eccentric.
i realize i forgot to reply to this ask bahaha
amelie is like one of those films that i completely understand that people are into and love, but that i just think isn't for me. it's a film i fundamentally don't get.
don't get me wrong it is a very pretty film, jeunet is a great director and one of my favourites. hell, i even liked a film a long time ago when i was a kid! and then later i wanted to rewatch it bc i wanted to feel the whimsical magic of it and it was just fucking gone because it's one of the most "whimsical" films i've ever seen. in a negative way.
the protagonist is a manic pixie girl to the extreme. the way she acts verges on the extremely annoying to downright ridiculously toxic (that one scene where she takes a blind man for no reason and explains him everything and leaves has generated a hundred of toxic well meaning ableist people and i'll never forgive jeunet for that). the vision of montmartre is very pretty but also TOO romantic.
when i rewatched it, i realized that the film was a film about nothing with characters i couldn't like and i just turned it off halfway through, completely disappointed.
i don't think i'd rewatch the film again because if i wanted to see amélie poulain, i know 100 of them in real life and they're all fucking annoying in real life, why would i enjoy seeing them on film?
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sator-the-wanderer · 2 years
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This might read as weird and sappy, but I'm kinda in hell atm. Health-wise and deadline-wise (partially out my own hubris, I know) and I'm, well, hanging in there but by an itty bitty thread.
But that Moomins art you've just posted? Well, it helped. Can't tell you how exactly, but the mix of my childhood emotional support show combined with your lovely art style combined with the pretty lineless [brain.exe forgot how I wanted this sentence to end but the lineless is very pretty] COMBINED with the ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS colours (the gradient on Snufkin's coat reminds me of a sunrise/set and it just planted a sweet little ball of warmth in my chest, tasting vaguely of peach & mango sherbet)... It all just sparks so much joy that it got me smiling for the first time in two weeks. And the Tolkien quote fits very well and overall the whole thing picked me up off the floor and REALLY brightened my day so thank you for that.
OMG I love this comment 🥺♥
I'm happy to have brightened your day a little bit: you absolutely made mine! Thank you SM!!
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queezleofprague · 2 years
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You know what? Give me the swag for the main 5 (Nat, Bart, Kitty, Ptolemy, Asmira.)
I personally tag Nat as ace/demi, Kitty as ace/grey, Bart as aroace (possibly ace/grey depending on how you read his relationship with Faquarl), and Ptol and Asmira as both aroace.
Nathaniel: gray ace and lithromantic. He seems kind of content to have a crush on people from afar, and it fades when they show interest.
Bartimaeus: ace and quiromantic. What even is romantic attraction?
Kitty: aro and demisexual. This one is mostly just vibes.
Ptolemy: aro and ace
Asmira: aro lesbian
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asexualreptile · 3 months
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Alright @shadowy-dumbo-octopus, let's try this:
I can't really think of one particular character who fulfills the Blorbo criteria but there is a cast of characters that's rotating in the back of my mind at all times. We all know them, we were all surprised by their existence; the werewolves!
Yes, I know there are named characters who are outright stated or heavily implied to be werewolves but it's not really them that I'm interested in. It's not even really the fact that they're the police and what kind of real life commentary that is.
What I can't stop trying to wrap my head around is how werewolves as a species fits into the wider world and history of the BS worldbuilding.
Does the average citizen know that they exist? Are they discriminated against (were they? There have to be cultural differences in how they're treated right?) They seem to be in the minority but have they always been? Everywhere? Are there countries made only of werewolves? Tribes? They have to come from /somewhere/ logically but where? How do they reproduce? Bites? Sex? Both?? They're clearly integrated in London and have been for long enough that they can pass as Londoners but?? Are there werewolf citizens?? Do they have their own culture? Why are they more resistant against magic? My dark imagination wants to go down the selective breeding route that would end up putting them somewhere on the second-class citizen spectrum but there's literally nothing there to support that; just seems like something magicians might come up with in the search for obedient, powerful servants that are more easily controllable than spirits.
Also: how many more magical species exist in that world? We know of the spirits, werewolves, the Rock (that huge bird). Bart takes the shape of a phoenix at something point, does that mean they exist(ed)? The Golem's straight up made with different kind of magic (and what was that about).
I guess, the Blorbo was Stroud's implied worldbuilding all along
Anyway, thoughts and feelings?
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icpe · 2 years
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wakfu doodles #136
This doodle is for @shadowy-dumbo-octopus thanks for reblogging my Wakfu Nox shit lol
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