#things i couldn't put on the pages

[frenchublog]

spuffy doodles

#spuffy #spike x buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #my art #sarah michelle gellar #james marsters #please dont repost #i am so goddamn tired i love them #look at this #spuffy art again lmao #im abt to become more annoying #btw theres bonus art/doodles on instagram #things i couldn't put on the pages

[bg3heart]

I've noticed people saying things like how Gortash tries really hard to seem like a noble and not like the commoner he grew up as

(and of course everyone is free to headcanon what they like)

but I thought it was clear he hated nobility and saw himself above them

I think the best examples of this are the busts in his office, specifically Carric and Dame

*Carric started from nothing, built a financial empire and founded the Counting House. He refused to mingle with the other patriars, saying, "They didn't want me when I was an urchin, and now they can't have me."*

*Dame Amafrey, the Orphans' Friend, founded several orphanages in the Outer City, as the Lower City was no place for children (and the Upper City declined to sponsor an orphanage).*

The narrator gets passive aggressive when reading about the upper city declining to sponsor, and the line about being an urchin feels very directed

So yeah I think at best he thinks lowly of them, at worst he hates these fuckers

#maybe its a thing of like #he and durge are worthy because they put the work in #had the cunning #while most nobles are just handed everything #bg3 #enver gortash #edit: 1. i had to go into the game myself for these screenshits because I couldn't find ANYTHING about the busts and if I have to make #a wiki page istg #2. Lot of people are saying why not both and that's definitely a valid take #my personal take is that he views them below him #and why would you strive to be lesser

[thebirdandhersong]

sometimes (very often) I just sit there like ?????????

#mother has asked once again in all seriousness if i'd consider mr knight if he were to ask me out a second time................ #mother the answer is you couldn't pay me enough money to do that. i'd literally rather be single for the rest of my life #between mr knight and the engineer boy ive learned quite a lot about what i'd like/DEFINITELY would not like in a potential boyfriend #and personally. PERSONALLY. i can't do this no more <3 i CANNAE HANDLE that kind of anxiety sadness insecurity confusion! #the anniversary of the day i wrote mr knight a ten page (occasion: valentine's day) love letter for the first time #and received a random Facebook meme and two weeks of radio silence in return is coming up and i must say #that kind of experience is enough for a girl to put her foot down and declare: that's enough. i can't do this no more :-) #anyway father too was like well all things considered mr knight's not the worst option. he's okay. he could turn out okay #to which i say. father. i may seem and feel desperate at times but i'm not THAT desperate. #no offense to mr knight he simply isnt the right person for me and im simply not the right person for him #i wouldnt be offended if he said you couldnt pay me enough money to date her again either (well. maybe a little. but still)

[seaweedstarshine]

Sources: Nightmare in Silver (+ TV Tropes haha •ᴗ•), Night Terrors, Flesh and Stone, The Day of the Doctor Novelization, The Day of the Doctor, Amy's Choice, The Crimson Horror Novelization, The Doctor's Wife

#eleventh doctor #11th doctor #doctor who #edits by seaweed #words by seaweed #I think he self soothes like this when his head starts going to a dark place (or to a dissociated place or to an understimulated place) #self-harm #(eleventh) doctor is neurodivergent tag #I didnt rewatch eleven's run just bc I got the idea to make this or particularly include EU- I just saw the 'ONE' on the tvtropes #-page and thought hmmm. lol so- I'm SURE I've forgot instances of him hitting himself. so- please feel free to add anything! #day of the doctor novelization #'this is what I'm like when I'm alone' is 100000% better in the novelization #didn't wanna put the crimson horror thing for obvious reasons but I heard the original script had the doctor slapping himself- #-and no kiss- I just couldn't find the source for it. (is it true?) so I compromised and put the novelization instead #anyway #I swear im not wilding over tv tropes #it inspires

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ive never drawn a horse in my life dont talk to me rn

#ieytd #commander solaris #i picked up a pen (art) #my horse art...... she looks so pathetic all burnt and scabbed like that #i have put way too much thought into. everything abt her. #mostly the name and where she got it. but also like. how do you get a horse autistic about lasers #couldn't fit it on the page but i think it would be funny if wherever she came from was just. dangerous as hell. #the roc thing just like. happened every tuesday #sometimes a giant bird swoops down and picks you up and carries you away to eat you. that's just how it goes #also: zor is a dragon. that's why she needs to climb mountains. their cavern house.

[tentajack]

Farewell person who only mentioned they were a minor in a carrd I never bothered to look into until a post about still being in school was seen

#tentatext #c'mon you couldn't even give a warning on your profile page #it does put some things in proper context though #I'm not going to open a carrd unless I'm directly shown the link in the blog description #how would I know to look for it otherwise? Not every blog opens with the custom theme (Which is where it was)

[sysig]

I decided to give a go to @niennanir’s lovely print-your-own-fic recipe on my Inside and Out as a test run and I’m quite pleased with the results as a first pass :D

I wish I’d taken a few more process pictures but there was a slight lull as I had to go shopping for 12x12 cardstock lol, but! I do have a couple closeups/extras that I added for funsies :D

I went with freehanding the title and I think in the future I would opt to not do that lol, at least not without a printed template. That said, both LibreOffice and SAI refuse to recognize my SCII fonts >:0 If you notice on the first page, I used the Ace Attorney font in italic haha, it’s an okay alternative even if it’s not what I actually want |0 I am happy with the gold detailing tho :3c

I did have an unconscionable amount of fun freehanding the ship caption tho ahh <3 <3 Immediate happy stims upon completion, their names together look so pretty ♥ Credit to Zarla’s original minicomic on that one :3

I also managed to get the last sentence of the fic isolated on the last page thanks to the formatting haha ♪

I was also able to add a bookmark! Ma happened to have a couple very thin ribbons to choose from and red ended up complementing the green very prettily!

It reminds me of VUX tongues hehehehe ❤️💕💖💞

#What do I tag this lol #SCII #I am continually and incurably in love with papercrafts <3 #Hard to believe it's been since Pokemon Homestyle since I've given anything a go! These darn talented artists inspiring me! Lol #Honestly tho I would absolutely recommend this project :D The prep work is manageable and friendly and the action itself is enjoyable #Depending on how much you enjoy repetitive motions haha ♪ Folding and creasing the pages was very relaxing to me :) #I went for my own fic as a first run since y'know - I have very direct access to it lol #Plus it'd be less sad if I messed something up - I want to do right by my favourites from other artists! I'm allowed to make my own mess lol #Also finally convinced me to return to the loving embrace of LibreOffice after like a decade away lol #I just never had a reason to redownload it! Wordpad does exactly what I want 95% of the time! #But it couldn't do columns so okayyyyy fiiiiine I'll get it again (lol) I do rather like it :) #There's still some things I'd change! I'm sure you can see from the pages where you can see both edges that the layout's a bit uhmmmm #Skewed? Corner-heavy? Lol just a matter of changing the borders :) LibreOffice's measurements are wack tho :P #But I fully intend to do this again! :D Print a few test sheets first >:3c Legitimately looking forward to it! #Probably gonna do another one of mine next before I give a go to someone else's I'd like to keep #I have ideas for how to improve! And better and more plentiful supplies! It makes me want to make! :D #Oh yeah and being in the book-making mood reminded me of one of the Vargas-as-a-psuedo-bible ideas I had but didn't put anywhere lol #If I may posit for your consideration: Before as the Old Testament and After as the New Testament :3c #I'd Absolutely buy two versions - And a full version for the record lol I would easily own multiple copies of physical!Vargas lol #Fun thought to me hehehehe ♪♫

[daisywords]

it's been raining all day here and I've been drawing with 2008 doctor who in the background

#envy me #anyway last night I went to get started making wip pages #but then I ended up changing my blog theme #and then I finally added a background to my icon so you can see it lol (although it's not showing the latest version for some reason?) #and then I browsed for page themes and tried a couple #but I couldn't find one I wanted so I think I'm going to try to do it from scratch #(well not entirely from scratch more like skeletonize a few and then frankenstein them together and build from there) #but then I was like #you know what I'm going to want to put on the page? character portraits #so now I'm doing that lol #I would chastise myself for getting sidetracked but that's the point of a low-stakes creative endeavor #I am just here to make things and have fun

[neversetyoufree]

Sorry to ask, but do you have some meta or opinion about what could be going on regarding Vanitas hourglass earring? It is empty in some panels and then goes back to being full of sand at the bottom.

I don't know if you've read Pandora Hearts, but it reminds me a little of some marks some characters have that indicated how many times could they used certain abilities before dying, or turning into something more twisted and inhuman.

Oh anon, never apologize for asking!

Although, before I really answer, I might have to ask you (or others that know) to point out what panels show his earring as specifically empty? Because I know you don't see the sand clearly every time, but I've always just interpreted that as an artistic shorthand, rather than something particularly meaningful. If there are close/detailed shots that vary with whether the sand is shown, though, that opinion might change.

However, though I'm not too inclined (right now) to read into when we can/can't see the sand in a given panel, I do think the placement of the sand at the bottom has meaning. Aside from it just being where the sand would practically end up in an earring like that, it also works really well as a Vanitas symbol. I think I've talked about this before, but Vnc, especially where Vanitas and Luna are concerned, is filled with references to the Vanitas painting movement. Those paintings are all about reminders of the inevitability of death and the vanity/pointlessness of earthly pleasures in the face of it, and death is kind of Vanitas (the human man)'s whole Thing.

In other words, Vanitas is going to die. The first chapter (and later ominous foreshadowing) assures us that his death is a foregone conclusion. As such, an hourglass with the sand at the bottom works really well as a symbol for him. If the sand has all already run out (which, whenever we see it, it has), then his time has run out as well. The ever-present earring serves as a reminder that Vanitas's death is inescapable. It's a memento-mori!

Also, I do want to point out that, before it was Vanitas's earring, that hourglass was on Luna's bracelet. Vanitas seems to have taken/inherited it along with their book and title, which ties the hourglass (the run-out hourglass, a symbol of death) to the role of "Vanitas" itself. It marks whoever holds the book/name as a symbol of death for vampires, but also marks the oncoming and inevitable death of "Vanitas" themselves. Luna has been dead since before the story even began, and symbolically, so is Vanitas. Their time has all run out.

Then, cementing this even further, the one other time I can remember seeing an hourglass in Vnc that isn't that bracelet/earring is on the inner cover of Volume 1. The whole frame on the front cover of v1 is covered in images (bones, fruit, flowers, gold) straight out of a classic Vanitas painting. And though we can't see the bottom of the frame on the front cover (Vani's leg is in the way), the exact same frame is replicated on the inner cover:

And guess what's at the bottom of the frame. An hourglass! So even though hourglasses were slightly less common in Vanitas paintings than some other symbols (though they were very much still present), I do think this confirms we're meant to take the hourglass as part of the Vanitas (painting) symbolism in Vnc.

So though I have read Pandora Hearts, and I'm familiar with Mochijun's fondness for inscribing countdowns on characters' bodies, I don't think that's what the hourglass is doing. It's not that the sand running out marks how much time he has while he's still human. The fact that the sand has already run out reminds us always that he has been pre-determined to die.

In fact, I think that rather than the hourglass, the cracking scar pattern on Vanitas and Misha's arms actually fulfills the exact symbolic purpose that you're talking about. We know that it spread when Vanitas used a lot of power in Gévaudan, and we know that using the book's power is what's going to cause Vanitas's eventual transformation, so the representation is pretty obviously linked. Plus, it looks like whatever's happening with the cracks on Vanitas's arm is further along on Misha, and Misha seems to be further along in losing his humanity (judging by what happens when the book goes wrong in 54 and 54.5), so once again, we have that correlation.

#I feel like I may have gotten a bit off topic from answering your question in the middle there #but the Vanitas (painting) symbolism in Vnc is one of my favorite things to talk about #and I haven't finished/posted my long volume 1 cover analysis yet #so I couldn't resist the temptation to talk about that. since it was at least a little bit relevant. #vnc #vanitas no carte #vnc spoilers #the case study of vanitas #english major hours #vanitas my beloved #ID in alt text #ask #anon #also forgive me for not putting this under a readmore #but for some reason tumblr won't let me format the images the way I wanted if the readmore is there #and I think that having two full length manga pages stacked on top of each other in the middle of a post. #is even more annoying than scrolling past a bunch of text #long post

[polycreek]

so.. what if i came back.. in my own time? [continuation in tags]

#hey #for whoever gets this on their page #i miss drawing ponies #i made it too professional and stressed myself out trying to please other people #college didnt go well. i dont feel well #ever #and i want to use this account to have an outlet like it was supposed to be #not a constant request blog i couldn't fulfill #so if i choose to come back #i hope the work i put out isnt disappointing i suppose #it wont be the same style as before since its been a while #i'll have to relearn some things too probably #but i hope i can just post one thing #just one. that's it. #when i do #if i do #treat it with kindness #in the mean time enjoy the new icon #i finally redid it #edit: sorry for the bummer sounding post btw im just being real. i have to if i ever want to be comfortable and non professional LOL

[chaotictomtom]

omg....finished making my last sketchbook to digital like ive finished to put the entire pdf together.....omg...im finally done.....i have 7 more to go but. at least the others are like as a bundle. this one as it is the most recent one and has okay drawings in it i felt like selling it on its own. and. ill be able to put it on my ko-fi shop tomorrow let's goooo

#it'll be a pay what you want/can price #but might start at 5€ as ive put. many many many many many hours into the scanning every sketchbooks + going through the files separating #each drawings. step i haven't even finished. then doing every pages with like the summary title pages etc etc etc #and i couldn't even count the amount of time ive spent on the actual sketchbook so' #i think this might deserve a few bucks </3 5€ is still selling myself short but im kinda desperate and broke #being broke i also get ppl not being able to afford pricey things too #i know this is probably hurtful to the “Artist Economy Value™” or some shit but. shit's hard 💀 sold only 2 zines and one being from my bff #so. i need it #now that i have a Child to feed (cat that we saved) #da beybey..... da beybey needs food #anyway either way i feel like loosing as if i put the price as i should i feel guilty for ppl who can't afford it #and on the other hand i feel guilty of participating on the whole thing abt artist being underpaid #each way! a big ass L! + no one buys my shit anyway why am i stressing out abt this smh #tomtom_is_rambling

[frenchublog]

ily

#spuffy #spike x buffy #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #my art #lmao guess who's brainrot again #sarah michelle gellar #james marsters #redraw screenshot #in pain since like forever #spuffy walked so that reylo could run #because it seems like all my ships are doomed and you'd think id be full of hate but no #im powerful because i decided to not care #denial is key #please dont repost #this came to me in a dream #they're effulgent #btw theres bonus art/doodles on instagram #things i couldn't put on the pages

[ask-the-latibule]

Alright you little shits open your ears it’s time for the pope

A couple things for clarification: 

This is about the 2007 Sweeney Todd movie. There are enough differences that I am going to be largely disregarding the musical. Also I have not seen the musical, only the film.

Under no circumstances is any of this reasonable. Get used to it. There are no gods here, only wikipedia pages and a probably neurodivergent teenager.

I cannot read roman numerals. Unfortunately, those are kind of essential for the pope. Spare me some patience here, I am but a fucking idiot.

I understand that Pirelli lied about literally everything. I do not care.

Okay get a warm drink and a cat because this is long

So in Sweeney Todd there is a scene where Mrs. Lovett takes her local emo(one Sweeney Todd) out for a nice walk. They run into a cart where a small child(Toby) starts yelling at the crowd about a magical elixir that made his hair grow and how he’s selling it with this dude named Pirelli(remember that name) now. He tosses a few bottles out into the crowd to check out and a bottle makes its way to our coveted cannibalistic couple. Sweeney smells it and realizes that it’s not, in fact, magical and is instead made out of piss and ink. He kindly lets the crowd know and then this fuckin man bursts through the curtain and starts screaming. 

Look at him. Look at him and tell me that god exists. 

Anyway his name is Adolfo Pirelli and he brags a bunch about being a really good barber(see the sign behind him that I didn’t actually realize existed before taking that screenshot for this). Sweeney calls him out and says that he could shave a face better than Pirelli could and you can’t really back down from a challenge like that (actually Sweeney put him in a really tough spot there where he couldn’t say yes or no without destroying his reputation, it’s neat) so Pirelli flips his cape because his hair has so much gel in it that it’s basically made of stone at this point and agrees. Thus, the Pirelli Shaving Contest. They get two random dudes to be shaved and this dude named Beadle agrees to be the judge. 

Pirelli does a shit job and loses but we don’t care about that right now because while he is singing about how good at shaving he is he says, and I quote(without writing out the horrible italian accent because I hold myself to a higher standard than that) 

“Signorini, signori, you look at a man who have had the glory to shave the Pope! ‘Mister Sweeney-Whoever’, I beg your pardon, you’ll probably say it was only a cardinal no nope! It was the pope!”

Now this was a mistake on Pirelli’s part because he didn’t know that I have had a long-time obsession with learning about popes. I don’t even know how this started but I decided I would find out if he did(spoiler alert: he didn’t but this rant devolves into time travel so hear me out)

Luckily for me, Pirelli shows a picture of the Pope that he supposedly shaved.

Now this further cements that no. his ass did not shave the Pope. Infuriatingly, the pope only signed his name as “The Pope” and did not disclose which pope he actually was, so I was not told exactly which pope this could have been. I started my research.

First step in my descent into madness: Find out when Sweeney Todd takes place. Sounds simple right? Wrong, nothing is ever simple. I will spare you the anguish of trying to figure out when the movie takes place and tell you that it takes place in 1846. The Pope at the time was Pope Pius IX. He looked like this.

This could reasonably be the dude that Pirelli shaved. But in 1846, a fascinating event happened. The Pope changed. Now this doesn’t happen a lot because it is custom that when somebody becomes pope, they’re pope until they die. Technically, popes can retire but only two ever did: Pope Benedict XVI who retired back in 2013, and Pope Celestine V(one of my personal favorite popes, which is a totally normal thing to have), who retired in 1294. 

Back to the topic at hand, the previous pope was Pope Gregory XVI. He looked like this:

Now, along with having all of the characteristics of one of God's least favorite creatures, he does not look like the pope that Pirelli claimed to have shaved. He died on June 1st, 1846 and Pope Pius IX promptly became pope afterward.

So Pope Pius IX became pope in June. Neat. That raises the horrible question: When in the year does Sweeney Todd take place?

Throughout the movie, it’s seems to be getting warmer, though true to london weather, it’s never actually sunny unless you’re in Mrs. Lovett's weird beach-dream-thing. As far as I know, it’s never stated what month(s) it is, though feel free to fact check me on that. I’m guessing it’s somewhere in March-May.

Now, time to put all of this together.

Pirelli claims to have shaved the Pope, showing a picture of future Pope Pius IX when the pope at the time would have been Pope Gregory XVI. Even if the Pirelli Shaving Contest happened after Pius became pope, he would not have had the credibility yet that shaving him would have meant much of anything. 

The conclusion I have reached? Pirelli is a time traveler from a future time, possibly even being an older version of Toby himself, who, when he looked up who the pope was in 1846, found a technically correct answer and was lazy enough to run with it. 

Alright I’m done. Technically there are a few more details to this that I found and a whole other story with the dates, but they aren’t actually as relevant as I would like and were removed for the sake of my sanity as I am writing this when I should be sleeping.

If anybody does want to hear my explanation of the plot of Sweeney Todd I would be happy to give it, it’s genuinely one of my favorite musicals. I’m sure my friends/boyfriend are getting sick of it at this point.

#sweeney todd #popes #im trying my best #Fun Fact! I was going to write and post this last week but the morning after I first talked about it I was struck down with a sickness #I couldn't even put on my glasses to see things or i would throw up #I can only assume that the world decided this did not deserve to exist #Fortunately I'm a dumbass who has never listened to anyone ever #frothing at the mouth:h.hey who wants to hear about my stupid little ideas #one of my hobbies is reading entire wikipedia pages #I've read the entire page on soup before

[intravention]

I went on another manga shopping trip.

I got the art collection book! Another volume might release in the uncertain future with more updated art, as this one is from 2016... hopefully it'll have more museum collab works featured, and more character design sketches.

Since I was going to buy the one book for BSD anyways, I ended up ordering a bunch of other stuff to make the shipping more justifiable.

I got manga special editions for Frieren volumes 7-11 (didn't get special edition volume 6 because I have no use for the 2022 calendar bonus), Blue Period volume 11 (special edition volume 8 was sold out by the time I was making the purchase) and Toilet Bound Hanako-kun volume 20. Picked up the novel adaptation for Twisted Wonderland Episode/Book 2 while I was at it. I've heard high praises about the novelization, so I'm really looking forward to reading it!

I like collecting special edition manga bonuses, if it wasn't already obvious.

The Frieren pins are pretty colorful! I'll try to fit them on my itabag if I have space.

#intraventing thoughts #bungou stray dogs #bsd #the art collection book is really well put together #there's cute chibi art inside! #among other things... it's nice to have and hold #frieren: beyond journey's end #read the manga for it a long time ago #caught up recently and have been watching the anime semi-regularly with some friends #the playing cards are a lot more slippery than I expected but they have manga panels and color pages as card art! #the stickers have a lot of german text on them. huh #the pins! the pins!! gorgeous #love the himmel pin... himmel :( #a bit bummed I couldn't get the blue period special edition vol 8 #the 'sketchbook' extra is mostly a collection of color pages/spreads #it's really charming #but the art in the coloring book (that I'm definitely not going to color in) seems to be new pages/not in the manga? #for tbhk I have both art books and all the other special vols except vol 11 #the ghost cafe booklet :( #should've bought the case study of vanitas special edition vol 10 while I was at it

[luvsavos]

so not only does genki canonly exist in the reboot but it seems strongly implied that he and doc ketchum worked together at some point??? i do not like that concept At All!

#mar.txt #saints row #professor genki #doc ketchum #<- does he even have a tag ik he doesn't even have a wiki page #saints row 2022 #genuinely baffled that ive seen quite literally ZERO mention ANYWHERE that a) he does in fact show up in murder circus (well not HIM him #but someone dressed as him and he's talked about + afterwards kev mentions that definitely wasn't the real him because he's immortal，so #apparently immortal in his case not only means unaging but also straight up unable to die) #and b) there's. so many things referencing him on boot hill?? a TON of cat heads that appear to quite obviously be stylized genki，that #appear to have been painted over a different colour than pink，booths that say smthn like 'the doc and professor show'，and on the main #hidden history thingy (which i ALSO couldn't find a SINGLE guide for/barely any mention of on google ANYWHERE) that has doc's face painted #on it saying smthn like 'doc says hello' there's a little sign tacked on that says 'genki lives!!!' which. ?????? #i wonder if they worked together and doc tried to fuck him over at some point，possibly by killing him #which obviously did not work #anyways. murder circus is fun so is the reboot and i'm baffled at how so few people seem to have put the (imo quite obvious when you see #them) pieces together that the reboot likely IS in fact a direct tie to the reboot ending of gat out of hell #anyways im completely normal about saints row and genki can't you tell i definitely didn't stay up way past my bedtime specifically to #grind out murder circus so i could see genki (he's got some nice Drip™️ btw it looks kind of marshall-inspired) #i'm going to be slowly going ever more slightly insane over pondering wtf the connection between he and doc ketchum is

[supercantaloupe]

finished reading into the wild

#opinion: it was alright #i like the afterward that elaborated on the cause of death. for whatever reason reading abt chemistry in nonfiction has me enraptured #but i'm not sure if the author's writing style is exactly my thing. didn't quite grip me like i expected it to #i might try reading into thin air or under the banner of heaven at some point and give him another go #but i'll probably dig into underland next since it's been recommended to me/on my reading list for a while now #and i would like to try reading smth else next #sasha speaks #sidenote. the last books i was reading on my kindle were the terra ignota quartet last summer #and seeing the length of the progress bars on those compared to into the wild is so funny to me #especially perhaps the stars. long ass book #i usually only use my kindle for traveling to cut down on packing weight so it's always harder to judge the length of a book #compared to a physical copy. girl perhaps the stars is like 600 pages.... #say what you will about terra ignota but that's a book series i couldn't put down til it was done..wow #tore through that shit like a hot knife through butter in like a month's span. anyway