#so i guess it'll be...

[exmakina]

Brewed myself a super strong cup of coffee this morning so I can push through and finish translating/editing "All About Mercury." Honestly, I'm pretty proud of my working pace considering I got it on 8/25 and it's a 72 page art book filled with Japanese handwriting of wildly varying legibility...

Just 4 pages left to go... But they mostly include paragraphs and paragraphs of handwritten messages from staff members, so lol.

Looking at pieces from so many incredible artists has me itching to draw something myself though. Inspiring stuff.

#i should prob make a tag for this kinda stuff on this blog too #so i guess it'll be... #adventures in japanese language study #this is why i haven't been drawing or posting much for a while #some blame to be laid at BG3's feet as well lmao

[hansoeii]

head empty, no thoughts. just turtleneck crowley

#that was his superior look no one can argue with me about this #literally THE crowley look my god #SHE LOOKED SO GOOD WITH IT #like my god #whoever decided to put david in that turtleneck deserves a raise #TURTLENECK CROWLEY!!!! #LOVE OF MY LIFE #kiss aziraphale again but with the turtleneck it'll work trust me #anyways #good omens 2 spoilers #i guess???? #good omens 2 #good omens #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #crowley fanart #crowley #david tennant #neil gaiman #my art #digital art

[ruporas]

invisible scars (referenced previous talk here)

[ID: A colourless, digital Trigun comic of Vash and Wolfwood talking about Wolfwood's scars. They're both laying in bed and topless. Vash lays on top of Wolfwood, playing with the rosary around his neck. Then, Vash kisses a spot on Wolfwood's chest. Wolfwood asks, "What are you doing?" Vash smiles sadly, "You got shot here. In the last town we visited. You didn't even bother moving."

Vash props himself up over Wolfwood, who frowns slightly. Wolfwood is quiet for a moment before he says, "You remember that, huh?" Vash grabs Wolfwood's left wrist and brings it to his face. "And here." He kisses another spot there. "When you helped free the hostages from that robber..." Wolfwood dismissively says, looking away, "Was a lucky shot." Vash huffs, “Don’t brag. Jeez.”

Half of Wolfwood's expression is shown, eyes returning to Vash who is now sitting up, continuing to say, "And..." Vash goes on and kiss Wolfwood's right palm. "You got cut here, even though that girl was aiming at me." A moment from the past flashes, of Wolfwood grabbing a knife aimed at Vash, his hand bleeding.

At present, Vash moves down and puts another kiss on Wolfwood's right shoulder. "And here, from watching my back." Another memory flashes of Wolfwood and Vash back to back. Vash looks back as Wolfwood grins while holding Punisher, bleeding from multiple gunshots in his shoulder.

"And," Vash combs up Wolfwood's hair to reveal his forehead, "Here." A final memory shows Wolfwood with a regeneration vial in his mouth while getting shot on his temple. The next panel is framed in blood with Vash at the center, eyes wide and stunned in horror. The next panel is a closed up shot of Wolfwood's eye, locked on Vash's face.

Back to present, Vash’s head is bowed down as Wolfwood raises a hand to his nape and says, “Spikey.”

Wolfwood looks serious and frowns as he says, "We talked about this. Those were my decisions. They're not there anymore. Forget about them." Vash looks very sad before he smiles ruefully and says, "I still see them. All the time." He leans down so they touch foreheads. Wolfwood’s sorrowful expression can be seen as Vash says, "You protect so much. I could never forget what you've done to me. And many others..."

In the last image, they're drawn more cartoonishly. Wolfwood sweats and asks, "You don't actually remember every wound, right?" Vash points at a spot on his chest. "Kuroneko left a scratch here 7 times." Wolfwood, startled, says, "Why the hell are you keeping count—" End ID]

Credits for ID here and here

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #another scars comic for one of the vw week days!!!! frankly i think about their scars WAY too often . most notably wolfwood's because #it really symbolizes a lot for him imo bc for vash it's a history of all the people that's ever harmed him betrayed him and the trust he has #given to humanity despite it all. its a beautiful reflection of his character and then u look at ww and presumably #since we dont really see him half naked Ever (shame) and i mean. i guess technically its a hc -- i assume he wouldn't have any scars bc #of the regen potions (which is why he doesnt have his t scars btw the regen pot took them away :pensive:) #in a way its like washing his hands of blood. giving him the body of someone who might never been involved in a fight never held a gun #but he knows thats not true yet he cant really do anything about it anyway bc he's still just human. if he stops taking the regen pots #he can't press forward. so its just a rinse and repeat and growing accustomed to whats inflicted on him because he knows it'll go away at #the end of the day. he's human but he's also not he's far beyond what could be considered a normal human but he still just is. #mortal but also not immortal. idk. i overthink about it a lot GMSKGMDK frankly i dont think it matters THAT much in the context of trimax #but it means a lot to me somehow. also thinking about how no matter how many times ww kills he's never numb to the sensation of it. maybe #the adrenaline gets to him for the beginning half but ive been rereading like.. vol 3? and that entire fight for ww #u can slowly see him spiral as he keeps on going on. anyway anyway. i love ww #ruporas art

[anewp0tat0]

lil doodle to end the week

#dunno why I come up with little scenarios that focus on such minute details. lol anyway I GOTTA improve my line shading #my crosshatching has taken a dip. gotta pick it back up again #kuroshitsuji #black butler #kuroshitsuji fanart #fanart #sebastian michaelis #ciel phantomhive #digital art #elizabeth midford #lizzy midford #sketch #also wow I can't believe i missed reaper day. I was literally doing something and then got side tracked but i didnt stop myself cause i #thought 'eh I have time' #oh well it'll be done someday. plus i didn't see yana do anything so far so I guess i didnt miss such a big holidays after all... #welp it's expected. be happy for the reapers anyway!!!

[waveoftheocean]

06.10.23 happy birthday iwa-chan!! sorry for inflicting paperwork on you for your bday but at least you have oikawa to help (coughdistractcough) you 🥰

#haikyuu!! #iwaoi #iwaizumi hajime #oikawa tooru #haikyuu #hq #mine #my art #wip #lol i wanna color this but at the rate i'm going at it'll be finished in either a week or in 3 years so uh. guess we'll see how it goes :DDD #still can't believe it's already been half a year since i started this... #(absolutely not looking at the wips that have been sitting in my wip folder for years) #i'm not exaggerating literal years..... #but ANYWAYS yeah i specifically am inflicting tax paperwork on them bc its what i was procrastinating on when i started this #but you can imagine it's whatever kind of paperwork or homework or whatever tedious suffering you want :D #love is stored in the “i hate this thing SO MUCH but i hate it slightly less when i'm with you”

[moreaugriffins]

IDK who needs to hear this, but Egon and Ray aren't the only autistic og ghostbusters

Peter is too

Your telling me this man with two PhDs related to psychology, who always has the exact right thing to say to manipulate a situation to his favour (when it's a planned/known situation), but cocks up massively when it's an unknown situation, who has a massive reaction to getting slimed (more so than the others), who would rather joke all the time than take a situation seriously because wtf should he say

you're telling me this man is neurotypical?

nah

Winston's the only NT in this group (idk how he deals with these weirdos (affectionate))

#rambles #ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #to be specific i guess #peter venkman #egon spengler #ray stantz #winston zeddemore #i've encountered a few autistic people like peter #it's mainly the focus on business and the intense interest in studying people and behaviour and the mind #but he gets so irritated and angry when he gets slimed #the same way i feel when oil or glue gets stuck on my skin #“but he's so good at social situations-” but that's just it! #he is! #because he studies people - studies their reactions - their interactions #a business chat always goes the same way so he can plan what to say to get the best thing out of it #when he flirts with women it seems to be the same way each time - like he's planned it - because he thinks it'll get a reaction he wants #and i dare say that Peter masks a lot more than Ray and Egon. i mean he was a probably more of a cool slacker type at uni and got on well #with more popular students (sorority house students? idk im not american) and yknow it was the 70s! couldnt exactly be fully himself #idk where im going with this - ive lost my train of thought #but yeah #peter is autistic as well and i'll die on this hill

[lolrentz]

when is a post about tboys or transmascs gonna blow up on this website!! my dash is filled with thousand-notes tgirl post after tgirl post and as a dedicated tgirl soldier I love showering in the wonderful words of women but also hey guys you should perhaps say 1 word about me. some day. when you're ready to remember I exist

#or should i just shut up expect nothing like always #men be wanting attention i guess #maybe you should deprive me of this anyways make the little man in me be so lonely. for the bit #anyways guys did you know transmasc people are real and you can TALK about them??!! 😱 #knowing this site I'll get my viral tboy post and it'll be about knocking him up or something. no hate btw just sayin!

[fawfulydoo]

me: ok im gonna animate

me: *animates*

brain: it looks liek This

#ALTHOUGH. i guess i just have a better eye for animation now and my skills are better so #this is not entirely a bad thing maybe?? #like realistically i know it doesnt look like that its just im the artist and therefore i look at it for a very long time throughout #working on it so im like OH THIS LOOKS SO WEIRD and then i'll come back to it and it'll look a lot better

[focsle]

I hate websites I hate managing websites so much. I'm always clenching my fists waiting for the day GTW completely breaks. I just wanna draw comics man.

#the plugin I'm using has been unsupported for years #and I'm like...waiting for the axe to fall #it seems like the only one being regularly updated is one that caters more to the webtoon kind of format #and the second I read about how to integrate things my eyes glaze over I HATE computers #Dunno how they work...don't want to fuck with things lest my shoestring whatever completely collapses #so I just cross my fingers and hope nothing catastrophic happens #god i wish i could apply to hiveworks or something #I could look into transitioning to comic fury or something but that just...I don't want to start over again #I just want something that's Actually Fuckin Supported but i guess the nature of technology is it'll never be stable for more than 10 years

[cyberspacebear]

i finished this painting and all i felt was hollow. which is fitting. curse of aimen

#the curse of a realism painter #or any perfectionist artist i guess. just feeling absolutely empty in the emotions aisle after finishing a big project #the yard #the thing is that i was actually ecstatic after i finished the painting. it was the end of a two month process and i was so relieved. #but then i had to take photos of it #and now one could say that i'm feeling less cool #anyways i'm not begging for compliments i do like this painting. it'll just take me another month before i can get a big ego about it #aiden calvin

[royalarchivist]

Green Gay Ninja's "team full of strong opinionated leaders" ran into a lot of communication issues on Day 1, but nobody has more experience wrangling loud rowdy people than FitMC.

#FitMC #QSMP #Etoiles #ForeverPlayerG #Forever Player #Purgatory #Forever #Green Team #As someone who's worked as an educator and someone who Cannot Stand People Talking Over Each Other and/or Not Listening To Each Other #This was so hard for me to listen to I started skipping through the VOD because it was frustrating me to a ridiculous degree #but Fit doing this made me laugh out loud #I've definitely been in his shoes before #Q #Poor Etoiles they picked him as team leader but nobody listens to him #Today (or I guess yesterday. I'm queueing this on Sunday and it'll post on Monday) Etoiles was talking about it #and he said he was a bit shy / quiet when they elected him as leader #and he kinda laughed at how he constantly got talked over #meanwhile I'm just like [SEETHES] #It's not actually THAT big of a deal I just have hangups about being spoken over which makes me sensitive seeing it happen to others #regardless of the circumstance #But it is literally Not That Big of a deal here. They're all friends just hanging out going on a roadtrip in Purgatory together lmao #Anyways #When I occasionally catch myself being frustrated over non-issues like this I just give myself a vibe check like: #[Etoiles voice] ''Relaaaaaaaax bro; it's not that deep'' #A bit of a tangent but #I think a lot (not all but a lot) of fandom discourse stems from people projecting their personal feelings onto situations #''Well if *I* was in this character's place I'd feel [insert emotion]'' #''Therefore my perspective on this matter is objectively correct because I have experience with [whatever] so I know how they'd feel'' #I think we all need to remember to vibe check ourselves and take a step back occasionally. Not all experiences are universal #Fit

[forestfolke]

#doodles #soul eater #tumblr is not letting me post art idk what's happening so let's see if it'll take excalibur #Ok. he's fine i guess. well go to neocities if you want to see the deer girl pictures i was going to upload then cause i'm in prison

[evakant]

wei wuxian scolding jiang cheng in the burial mounds about not remembering what the wen siblings did for them vs jiang cheng earlier on standing up for him in front of all the sect leaders saying "you all might not know this but the person wei wuxian saved and his sister helped us a lot during the war" and getting promptly shut down by nie mingjue (the wen clan that massacred lotus pier? is literally what he says, out loud, to everyone)

edit: now with visual aids !!!!

#though lan xichen tries to smooth things out by saying he also #remembers the wen siblings as being different from the wen they all fought during the war #fra.txt #untamed.txt #yunmeng shuangjie #jiang cheng #i wanted to make a gifset but i can't figure out how to put the two scenes together rn so maybe later #it's just.... long scenes #i'm guessing two columns each with one of them but then i have to match up the conversations #and again it'll be tricky and i just don't want to right now lmao

[francy-sketches]

made a pie chart of asoiaf dragon colors bc I was curious about it ^_^ my verdict is asoiaf is severely lacking in cool dragon designs why's there so much grey/brown/green I need more prettygirls. (I based this off of the books/grrm's descriptions, so vhagar is counted as bronze and vermax is undescribed even tho they're green in hotd. also quicksilver is technically undescribed but I counted her as silver bc of the name)

also heres a version not counting the undescribed ones

#only 2 blue dragons is CRIMINAL #i guess vhagar had bluish green highlights. maybe she counts? idk what grrm means by 'highlights' like are her wings green or is it like #green shine like a pigeon. I assumed it was the second one but I've seen people draw her as the first so. idk #not even one purple one :( purple and gold would slay so hard.... #tbh I think asoiaf's just kinda lacking in the dragon department in general #which is fine bc that's not really what I read it for. but I am a dragon enjoyer so I do kinda wish they did more #or at least looked cooler #at least even if hotd starts being shit it'll still have dragons I can go googoogaga at

[hotjaneaustenmenpoll]

There needs to be an "Austen adjacent men" bracket. So many hotties in Austenland (and other properties I guess) and no way to rank them.

it may not be a full bracket but your wish is my command - here are some austen-adjacent men to vote on...

curse my spelling mistakes *Mr Nobley

#hotjaneaustenmenpoll #austenland #the jane austen book club #becoming jane #Paging Mr Darcy #I'm not sure Tom Lefroy quite fits here but I think that might be my anti-Becoming Jane bias getting in the way so I've included him #also I haven't seen any of the hallmark Jane Austen films (curse them not showing in the UK yet) so I have no idea if Sam Lee is worthy #But I liked him in reign and step up 2 so it's an educated guess he is #This is also why none of the new sense and sensibility men have been included in the main bracket as I don't think it's released even #in the us until Sunday #I'm not holding out much hope it'll be good but I do think it will be fun! #jane austen #hugh dancy #will kemp #bret mckenzie #jj feild #ricky whittle #james mcavoy #mini poll

[en-chi-la-da]

danganronpa rarepair week 2023 DAY FIVE: favorite book/favorite song feat: kaede/maki

i have so many songs that i associate with the more popular dr ships, but none of them really applied to the rarepairs i wanted to do, so i just settled for kaede showing maki one of her favorite piano pieces to perform! that counts right? lol

#and maybe now it'll be one of maki's favorite songs to listen to! uwu #dr rarepair week 2023 #ndrv3 #kaede akamatsu #maki harukawa #kaemaki #is kaemaki a rarepair even? i dont see it a lot so im assuming #the piano perspective makes it look like kaede is a bit bigger than maki and that bothers me but. whatever i guess i already drew it #lol also i rlly like how i drew maki here #danganronpa #ari art