#so. gestures vaguely

[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

[kaidatheghostdragon]

Good reveal au, where after learning phantom's identity and realizing the atrocities that the GIW have committed (or alternatively, ethical science au, where they find out the GIW plagarized them), the fenton parents decided to create the 'ultimate ghost-ending weapon' and sell it to the agents.

They go absolutely overboard, describing to the agents in meticulous detail how it evaporates any ghost it hits near-instantly and describing it quite ruthlessly in the blueprints, and soon the GIW have raplaced all their main weapons with the new gun.

Except it doesn't actually kill ghosts. It's the Fenton Bazooka. You know, the one that creates a portable portal to suck the ghost back into the ghost zone? What they actually did was retool it slightly to make it look more grusome than it actually is. They even added a beacon in Phantom's Keep, which all Fenton Bazookas will target when they open a portal, so the ghosts are always delivered to the keep.

From there, Phantom stationed an emergency medical team at the keep to treat the many injured and ragged ghosts that the GIW 'destroyed,' and to explain what just happened.

What they didn't anticipate was that now that the GIW have a mass-produced weapon that they believed would effectively eradicate ghosts, they would go on the offensive. They have a number of cities they've been monitoring but didn't want to get involved in without better tools.

One of those cities is Gotham.

And the Bats are ectocontaminated enough to register as ghosts.

Batman witnessed several of his children get evaporated by green energy weapons within mere moments of each other. He's absolutely gutted. Devastated. They didn’t even stand a chance.

He'll get his revenge, and it's frighteningly easy to track the weapon to private subcontractors. The Doctors Fenton, in Illinois. Their research calls for the genocide of all ghost kind, and apparently, that war started by killing his own children.

His children will not die in vain.

He gets to Amity Park and finds the Engineer's Nightmare of a building that is Fentonworks, but that night, before he can hack through the security and break in, one of the windows opens.

It's one of his kids that he had watched evaporate before his very eyes. They give him a silent signal of one of their identifying security codes and gesture for him to come inside.

Is it a trap? A prank in poor taste? Utterly genuine?

He goes through the window.

All of his dead kids are there, wearing borrowed pajamas and only their dominoes to conceal their identities. Daniel Fenton (son of the Fentons, this is his bedroom, has voiced a few arguments against his parent's views, but still an unknown) is among the crowd of teens and young adults, twirling on an office chair and obnoxiously sipping a capri sun.

"First thing you need to know, Bats," Daniel says after finishing his drink, "is that my parents are absolutely NOT genocidal ectophobic scumbags, and that is the reason why your kids are still alive."

#the bats are not the first human liminals that the giw 'killed' #whenever humans land in the keep frostbite immediates calls phantom to take them back to earth #alternate scene at fentonworks: #bruce spies maddie on the phone and overhears her saying she'll 'inform batman when he arrives' #its frostbite/phantom on the phone telling her to keep an eye out for any bats because some of their team was 'killed' #and shortly after she spots batman spying on her and gestures for him to come in #and when theyre both in the lab the spectre speeder returns chock full of various bats and team phantom members #needless to say bruce is very relieved and incredibly confused #and his kids have a pretty wild story to tell #i deliberately left which kids vague #but i imagined jason and tim for sure and possibly two others #they hadnt left fentonworks yet as to not inform the giw that they survived and knowing that bruce would find them #it would also give away the fenton's trick and dont want to reveal that before the agency has been stopped #so they have to make a plan that doesnt reveal that theyre alive or expose the fentons deceit too quickly #the fentons may have to be temporarily arrested by the justice league while the investigation is ongoing #to hide the fact that they werent actually helping the giw #dpxdc #dp x dc

[valentjin]

put the devil in his place

#raphael bg3 #raphael #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #digital art #my art #i just think. you know -gestures vaguely- #it's been a long week pass the yaoi or whatever #i just think this is is a good look on him. on his knees - perhaps slightly humiliated - perhaps with tears in his eyes - idk #we love a man who's a little pathetic. babygirl.. meow meow... #IF YOU SAW ME POST THIS AND THEN DELETE IT AND REPOST... PRETEND YOU DIDNT... i hadn't added the bloodied version.. #i didnt know if editign the original post would fuck it up so i just panicked deleted it and tried again aahhHHHH #mine

[muisley]

rip kim dokja

#wip for an orv project but ended up not continueing with this concept so i might as well just post it #*redacted* arc after they all leave the station together and uhm *gestures vaguely* drives me insane... save this man from himself #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #fanart #orv #art

[pyralart]

Surely that can't be a bad deal...

First part - Previous part < >> Next Part

Also oops, looks like they're not alone... I really wanted to have this one done before monday! Phew so many backgrounds...

You can find the pages as soon as they're done and some exclusive art/extras on my Ko-fi!

#pyralart #the owl house #toh #fanart #the owl house spoilers #philip wittebane #luz noceda #luz toh #Back To The Human Realm #emperor belos #belos toh #toh comic #toh fancomic #owl house fancomic #oohh I was so excited to do that parallel of Luz glaring at him this time #She is NOT happy #I mean... fair #And as always Belos doing what he does best. #Just... *gestures vaguely* doing all this #Hope you enjoy!

[snowydawn17]

Every few months my brain goes “hey remember Ouma v Junko that’s a fun idea” and I spend the day a spiraling mess bc it’s been Literal, Actual Years and I’ve yet to think of a satisfactory conclusion

#it’s like. nondespair au ie everyone’s at HPA #but also Junko is Junko #so. gestures vaguely #narratively: ouma’s downfall is that he tries to do everything alone #that’s just. a cornerstone of his existence in my head #and Junko is defeated through unity and trust etc etc I have a lot of feelings about 1&2’s finales #so like. yeah the ending is the power of friendship (and this gun I found) #(bc Junko Has To Die. she won’t stop just bc a plan failed #and she won’t stop if she’s just arrested #she just. Junko *has* to die to truly ‘defeat’ her even if her death isn’t like #the climax of the defeat #like in dr1 her death was After the plot’s climax yknow #but it HAD to happen she still HAD to die for the ending to Work #anyways. tldr #Ouma has a no-murdering rule and Junko has to die #so #(hands Amami a gun) Godspeed my son

[goodtimeswithgrian]

you sure are now!!!

#jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #martyn inthelittlewood #itlwart #big dogs #secret life #kinda. its big dogs so. gestures vaguely

[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]

the general’s son

#why has nobody drawn silver or sebek in the Newly Dropped briar valley soldier outfits huh??? why. theyre literally training for the role #having to do EVERYTHING myself frantically shitting this out in my last 3 hrs of free time tn #sry sebek i didnt have time to draw u both </3 maybee eventually. maybe someone else will carry that torch on my behalf #the briar valley soldier fits are...so fuckign cool. like obv lilia's looks cooler than the mob guys but im assuming his gets General Perks #gestures vaguely. u know what im like. okay i cant draw for like 4 days now at LEAST and im abt to have 60hr workweeks again so uhhhhhh :) #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #twst silver #silver vanrouge #suntails

[glitterghost]

Being ace can be pretty isolating at various times, for varying reasons that I don't feel like I have to explain because if you are ace, you probably get it.

#asexual #ace #pride #vague post but you know..*gestures to nothing* #i dont think i even need to expand on this #aromantic #could be thrown into this as well #things are just sometimes frustrating when people dont get it #if you read tags cook bc here we go a bit #there is always this talk of being left behind or being forgotten about or whatever #and yeah its true and when things happening almost in succession that makes it even more aware and apparent that yeah you kinda do get left #behind a bit* #so many ppl want marriage and or kids and its like #what about the people that want to hold on to things as they currently are? #to friends and books and cats and fictional feelings #and the way some ppl you know talk about how people gradual drift apart? #like thats a full on decision #thats not always a mutual thing #people leave at times and another person that might not be ready to end that connection with a person has to navigate their way through it #on their own #but like society is so weird to people that dont want the predictable life path #as you get older questions become are you married #do you have kids like its expected #where are the questions like whats the latest book youve read #whats your current favorite fandom #what makes you happy or brings you joy or whats a good thing about today? #not sure where im cycling down into with this bc theres too much to touch on #but not everyone wants sex or kids or marriage or crippling responsibilities of adulthood #sometimes we just want a hobbit hole to disappear into #a friend to text or pizza to eat or something funny to laugh at

[yrlocalghost]

none of the statues of the hollow knight have the loops on the armour. do you hear me. can anyone hear me. is anyone home

#the armour always makes me feel so. so. (gestures vaguely) #to carry such a burden and then the memorial/statues just. make it seem like it was so much less awful than it was #trying to sanitize the whole situation of condemning them to. all that #it has now been 4 months of hollow knight replay induced brainrot

[recurring-polynya]

It has been 14 hours since I found out that, according to Kubo, Byakuya calls Renji by his given name "because Rukia does" and I am obsessed with this information.

This is both the best and worst possible answer to this question. I feel like if you asked Byakuya, this is exactly the reason he would give. However, if Rukia were present, she would lose her damn mind. While I do think Rukia's assertion that Byakuya didn't look at her even once in 40 years is hyperbole, over that time I can imagine Renji's name coming up in conversation once, maybe twice tops.

Like, two weeks before she goes on her fateful mission to the Living World, B's been shortlisting Vice-Captain candidates, and over dinner, real casual:

B: Rukia. You know your friend?

Rukia: My who now?

B: That friend of yours who shouts too much. The boorishly tall one. With the red hair. Is he in Squad Eleven now?

Rukia (wracking her brain frantically for people Byakuya would consider 'her friend'): You mean Renji?

B: Yes, him.

Rukia: What about him?

B: Is he in Squad Eleven? The Sixth Seat?

Rukia: ...maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The next day, Byakuya's office, Renji shows up for his job interview.

B: You must be Renji.

Renji: uhhhhhhhh sure why not?

#byakuya kuchiki #renji abarai #rukia kuchiki #i have spent over 5 years intensely thinking about the circumstances of renji's hiring and it just keeps getting stranger in my mind #i do think b was very excited about having a vice captain who was not picked by his grandpa and he genuinely like renji for an entire 5 min #like he was probably in the best mental state he'd be in for 50 years #'oh yeah me and this rowdy squad 11 guy are gonna have so many good swordfights' byakuya is thinking #'maybe i can even get him to have a conversation with my sister so i don't have to' #and then ::gestures vaguely at soul society arc:: #thank you kubo #and thank you especially to whomever sent this question in #i am kissing you on the lips we will have a spring wedding

[mettywiththenotes]

Murray: “You, you’re harder to read. Probably, like everyone, afraid of what would happen if you accepted yourself for who you really are

and retreated back to the safety of... Steve.

We like Steve.

But we don’t love Steve.”

Nancy: “What? No, we- I mean, I-I-I do...”

Why are the Wheelers so see-through

#are you kidding me i heard that IDENTICAL three-time stammer and i laughed so hard #they're so see through #its the way murray would tear mike apart if they met now #he'd take one look at mike and go 'nancy's brother right? i can tell. since you have all *gestures vaguely to him + will* THAT going on' #stranger things #stranger things season 4 #st4 spoilers #mike wheeler #byler #stranger things 4 #mettys posts #metty posts #hey girlies i'm struggling with analysis posts so i have resorted to doing Screenshots And Quotes #btw that last screenshot isn't what mike says in response to eleven showing him the letters #i just found it similar to nancy's nervous denial stammer #to me mike and nancy's nervous denial stammers are the same #mike wheeler is not straight #byler tumblr

[frogs-in3-hills]

[Image ID: A digital illustration of Maya Fey from Ace Attorney. She is drawn with sketchy, pixellated line art and colored with hatched lighting and cell shading. She wears a look of focus, her eyes closed and her fingers pressed together in front of her. She stands on a small patch of grass, from which tiny flowers sprout, along with three large, detailed sunflowers that frame the lower half of her body. A light, wispy form wafts behind her and curls around her head. End ID.]

#i really like the sunflower motif in the anime opening so [gestures vaguely] #maya fey #aa fanart #silly sully art #super sully art #described #aa

[rivalkieran]

I have no caption for this. kieran :)

#solis art #solisverse #rival kieran #kieran miyata #in all honesty I just wanted a kieran drawing to set as my character playlist cover to match florian #so [vague gesturing] here we are

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

image description: documenting the making a digital painting depicting bachelor daniil dankovsky in a scene from the marble nest

#plein-air-in-progress #not pictured: my many takes of slumping-stumbling-flailing-fainting-and nearly face planting through doorways to find a pose #so. did the line art make the painting easier? #eeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhh * gestures vaguely*