#so [vague hand gestures]

[katabay]

ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#the economy and my bank account are in shambles and i ended up stress drawing this whole thing in one go #its so many lines. the next time i draw this. because i will be revisiting this composition. i want to use a different inking brush #i think. but the next time i draw this it will be with solid blacks on the stair case steps i think #hey here's a fun fact for those of you who aren't catholic. did you know that kissing the ring of the pope/a cardinal/etc #grants you an indulgence. cardinals also used to kiss the pope on the mouth. also foot and hand iirc. anyway #there are no cardinals in this drawing but im saying if you write medieval/renaissance smut about men of the cloth #you can really amp up the friction between holy and seductive with a lot of the (gestures vaguely) that. #actually another fun fact about cardinals. their fun sun hat (it's called a galero) has some fucking weird as hell fever dream (literally) #origin lore. so if seductive isn't your thing. the horror of a thing that you wear is also extremely fun #esp when you get into medieval gender performances of clothes and how they define a person etc #generic medieval tag #original tag

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN (2024): hyunjin in every letter... ↘ D-28 | CHARISMATIC

#hwang hyunjin #hyunjin #stray kids #bystay #createskz #staysource #a9gifs #*gif #*ccarly #*carly:hyunjin #*hyunjin #*series:hjbday24 #aka Cunty #or cool. etc #sorry this one does not have very many diverse moments but again. #i did this forever ago. and i kept forgetting to timestamp w this set in mind #so [vague hand gestures]

[suntails]

loyalty

#bashing my skull thru the floor #its so fun how both of these two would do ANYTHING for malleus and are loyal to their core but like. it manifests differently #like okay. the school vignette where its sebek doing Everything for malleus and silver is more hands-off. the one where he sees jamil w kali #m and is like 'okay yea my way is better' like. that mentally difference translated into the Everything of them is so INCHRESTING #sebek is much more the type to have blinders on and to immediately jump in to what malleus is saying. silver is more levelheaded abt shit #like hes more likely to hesitate if something is off yknow? im gaahhahh im trying to beam my thoughts into ur head. gesturing vaguely at the #the picture describes itself u dont need me to write my little novels here (i will anyways) #mwah mwah if u read this far welcome to my favorite person club <3 <3 an ELITE group u should feel honored #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #<3 #sebek zigvolt #malleus draconia #i need the OB NOW #suntails #oh yea also more silver head chopping #dont think i forgot

[brainrotisseriechicken]

..

extra:

(it was a spring morning)

(he was a frail boy with no friends)

(he ran into you from across the wall)

(you said hello to him, and asked him to play along)

(at that very moment, he received his lifelong—)

extra 2: oscar boogaloo

yeahhhh....iykyk

#ozpin #professor ozpin #it never gets less embarassing tagging this #rwby #ugh #wait hm #ozma #salem #not tagging ozlem because its kinda giving ottokallen and ergh #oscar pine #sighs anyways #both of them have the same role functionally #they parallel eachother via #hold on im getting ahead of myself #he really does remins me of otto #theyre like prometheus #but with the gift of flight instead of fire #(haha flight as a heavy-handed metaphor for civilization) #they both give said gift through something of the previous civilization #im playing fast and loose w otto but he gave the gift of flight through ingenuity #thus wooden planes #ozpin gave the gift of flight (quite literally) through his magic #thus #gestures vaguely #i have so much more to say but alas ... #horrible corvid anatomy cw #while ozma is kinda su coded tbh...immortal brown dudes dealing with their megalomaniac white-haired situationship core #if you know what im referencing im so so sorry #EVERY NIGHT BRINGS A DREAM BUT THE DAYYYY RELENTLESSLY KEEPS ME AWAKEEEE #honestly idk where the quote is from kevin said it so it must be true

[mrehkka]

Any gesture that uses just the first 2 fingers is vulgar to Irkens. Zim was very confused by humans doing peace signs for photos or using finger quotes when talking

Doing this sign from the forehead means the Irken military in particular bc of the forehead symbol the elite soldiers have

Editing to add: Irkens would be APALLED to see any of these gestures used- Zim has just been on earth long enough that he doesn't care anymore lmao if he does this in other Irkens' presence they would smack his hand down so fast AND ALSO Zim isn't wearing any gloves?? This makes the gesture even worse!

#invader zim #iz zim #Irken lore #Irken language #Irken #my art #Irkens have a thing about hands and feet being covered #feet more so than hands #zim eventually relaxes enough not to wear gloves on earth but going barefoot takes him WAY longer #also also #i give Irkens 3 fingers and a thumb #in the show while zim has 3 fingers total which is one less than humans who have 4 fingers total. So if I give dib 5 I give zim 4 #I'm a nerd #I have so many Irken cultural headcanons. gestures. words. you don't wanna get me started lol #fun fact- the reason this gesture is vulgar is bc it vaguely resembles Irken genitalia #much like how the middle finger is bad supposedly bc it represents human male genitalia #the more you know! #am I gonna get in trouble for this? do I need to tag it as something??

[euijin]

YUNJIN | COMEBACK SHOW 'UNFORGIVEN' FANCAM

#huh yunjin #yunjin #le sserafim #femaleidol #femaleidolsedit #femidol #femadolsedit #lesserafimnet #kgoddesses #lesserafim #flashing tw #*ccarly #sorry for these. i don't like them but sunk cost fallacy #hopefully. u can still see Her and not just the. [vague hand gestures] #tumblr always likes the sets i hate tho so we'll see how this goes <3

[defeateddetectives]

[endless muffled screaming]

#once again i do not have the words so vague hand gestures and pictoral parallels it is #natsume problems #natsume yuujinchou spoilers #horrible exorcists #@ms. midorikawa i am asking so respectfully: what did you put INSIDE OF THEM???????????

[completeoveranalysis]

[10]

OH OUCH

CLAMP COMING BACK SWINGING WITH THE PARALLEL TO THE MANGA’S OPENING SCENE 

BRUTAL. 

To have Sakura and Lava Lamp promise to hold hands when at THAT moment they ALSO couldn't close that distance? When it mattered most?

Was it these two all along, back then? Was the manga's opening a glimpse of what happens on between THESE two characters, in ten years time? Or is that still yet another scenario we haven’t seen yet?

Either way THIS almost-touch between them is accompanied with the PROMISE that they’ll close the distance between them on her birthday. Establishing the pattern of Sakura and Syaoran ALMOST touching but then not being able to - for it to become the outline of their lives afterwards, and the lives of their clones, and onwards until the present day. 

So Lava Lamp made two promises here (to protect Sakura, and to hold her hand) and we're SO close to him maybe being able to fulfill them after all this time! 

#Either that or Sakura just died off screen #Which I insist is still stupid #So we’re not doing that #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 192 #Lava Lamp Guy #Sakura #Which Sakura? #A Sakura #And HANDS #The continued power of that Hovering Touch #Of ALMOST making that connection - but not quite #Of being held apart by circumstance #But at least HERE they're young enough to be optimistic about it #Instead of *gestures vaguely to literally the whole manga*

[bitternace]

69 and vexen pretty please :3

oh, turpentine, erase me whole

[ID: a digital drawing of vexen from kingdom hearts, that features a digital painting portrait of ansem the wise and even. The background is grey green with soot marks.

vexen, shown in profile from the waist up, has a hand on the wall, as he looks up to the painting, which is half burned, with light embers and only partially shows even. Ansem is in his labcoat and scarf, with either hand behind his back. none of their faces are fully visible. /end ID.]

#arsenicstrudel #hey there fren ty for the req #i laughed SO HARD. alas. I wish it had been smth silly so i could do something silly #but it was. honeybee. which is to me one of the most heartbreaking romantic songs to ever be sung #BUT I DIDNT WANNA yk. make it not character focused. it's not a ship piece but i would understand it being seen like so #i was gonna make some sort of allusion to vexen in com (as per the tagline;) but i felt like #i wasnt executing it well i did like 4 attempts before i just. (Vague hand gesture) made this #this is not a ansem tw apologist account but he is very interesting as a character to me #and in light of kh3's....... whatever that scene in tt was #i was like. oh. You didnt have to look my way #start my circuit start a flame but you did. But That was more apprenticeship; n since it was vexen and not even well. this is what came to #which i'm taglining into apprenticeship->'i thought you had abandoned us'->oh turpentine erase me whole #i'm not experienced with digital painting but i tried 💪🏻 #would this painting exist? Hell no. is it symbolic hell ye #i might execute this better at a later date but i am. so sick rn. mwah mwah tysm #nano does reqs #if some of this doesnt make sense sorry i am. so sick #vexen kh #ansem tw

[banished-away]

I honestly can't wait to get to generations bc i need the massive shotgun of the whole zak-drizzt father-son relationship to go off

#i love zak and he did the best he could #but when i see art of him being all cutesy with small drizzt all i can think of #is that one of the first things he did when meeting him was dislocating his jaw #which makes sense in context. physical punishment is near daily for male drow so it doesnt stand out as particularly cruel #its just what zak knows and he may even have been soft by menzo drow standards #but i think a lot abt that one passage in one of drizzt's thinkpieces #i cant for the love of god remember which book #where drizzt outright mentions how he was grateful that his father tried to kill him (twice!) #and how incredibly fucked up that is #zak's hand was forced to a degree. in his head the drizzt he knew might've been already dead anyway #and zak's life is all about kill-or-die. so he didnt know any other option. and if he did they wouldn't have mattered anyway #but it is still an incredibly fucked up thing to do. and imo erasing that part of him does an incredible disservice to zak's character #the zak drizzt remembers is not the full picture. its the image created by a young man desperate to have someone guide him #of a man that he had just discovered was his father and then was killed that very day #IDK. just. gestures vaguely. zak Do'Urden #bani.txt #legend of drizzt

[yangjeongin]

HYUNJIN | MAXIDENT TRAILER MAKING FILM

#hwang hyunjin #stray kids #bystay #createskz #malegroupsnet #a9gifs #hyunjin #*gif #*ccarly #*hyunjin #*carly:hyunjin #hi #we live.... #sorry i started this gifset when this vid dropped but SDFSGSDGGSD [vague hand gestures] #here it is now #last gif kinda weird but the entire thing was too important to me and cutting it into two didn't work so #i'm tired now. but hopefully i won't take more than a week to gif again next time SDFSDGSDG

[mrspockify]

Mute Mario developing arthritis in his hands and having to find adaptive ways to keep using sign language, because signing is starting to hurt just as much as speaking does 💔

#🙃 #why don’t I just combine these two headcanons/concepts I’ve been throwing around huh? #but also of course he’d find a way to keep signing #just more vague gestures instead of precise hand movements #deaf/hoh ppl obv get arthritis too so it’s not like the end of the world #but just another obstacle that makes him feel awful for a while 😢

[johannwolfgangvongoethe]

#koga oogami #oogami koga #enstars #i was thinking about the. his shirt was way too big for him line in small red boy #but i hate slayer because (vague hand gesture) metal bands will do this thing where they love to look like neonazis #so he has a wolfmother shirt bc that seemed like a safe choice #anyway. had a moment today thinking about ajj small red boy in the context or koga or rkg #enstarsposting

[can-i-get-a-yippee]

There’s an alternate universe where the 911 writers didn’t murder Shannon, and she, Buck, and Eddie get to have a similar dynamic to Micheal, Bobby, and Athena

#back on my Shannon lived bs #I just feel like it would’ve been really cute for her and Buck to develop a friendship :(( #like they both love Eddie and Chris so so much and they’re two of the only people who call Eddie out on his shit #Shannon being a spitfire and Buck being an enabler #Eddie getting called to the police station while on shift bc his ‘wife and boyfriend(?)’ got arrested after inciting a fight #He rushes over only to find Buck looking a little ashamed and Shannon looking not sorry at all along with another woman with a black eye #(and Christopher just having the time of his life entertaining the officers on duty) #He goes over to his ex wife and work partner and looks vaguely disappointed #Buck holding up his handcuffed hands with a placating gesture to Eddie and saying ‘in our defense we didn’t start it’ #Shannon saying ‘She should’ve known better than to talk about my son when we could hear it’ #Buck giving a ‘what can you do? she’s right’ shrug and Eddie rubbing his temples #because if he knew that Buck was going to enabled his ex wife he would’ve never introduced them #911 abc #buddie #eddie diaz #evan buck buckley #shannon díaz

[defeateddetectives]

romeo & juliet: prologue & act 2, scene 2 // natsume yuujinchou: ch. 53 & 112

#[vague hand gestures] is this anything #profuse apologies to midorikawa yuki #but in all fairness SHE FIRED THE FIRST BULLET (STRAIGHT FOR MY HEART) #there are probably better panels/quotes but these were the first ones that came to mind #my grade ten english teacher would be so proud of me for finally paying attention to this play.....even if many many years too late! #eating my bucket hat over ancient blood feuds that have wound up Here of all places #natsume yuujinchou #natsume yuujinchou spoilers #horrible exorcists #natsume problems

[wawamouse]

6x08

#oz hbo #miguel alvarez #chico guerra #hbo oz #i'm trying to find scenes for a gifset (unfortunately the blocking of this scene doesn't work) and like #no bc i was gonna make a joke bc i'm allergic to being serious #but then i noticed that miguel does actually touch his wrist or hand real quick #(the joke was 'me and that stray cat i kept letting bite me when i was 11 bc i had nothing else to give it') #which come to think is not very funny either #but anyway i was just thinking that usually miguel is the cornered animal in his life #so like his 'hey there i mean no harm' voice is like idk *gestures vaguely* i bet he wished he heard it more #fact he didn't doesn't stop him from trying to comfort someone else #even if it isn't accepted #🫠🫡 #well break over back to work lol