#this cover is SO pretty btw!!

[carewyncromwell]

"Who knew that I would be So unexpectedly, undeniably happier, Sitting with you right here, right here next to me?"

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HPHM Cardverse developed by @ariparri // Jacob's outfit // Duncan's outfit (plus a coat and sash)

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The Best Ideas Jacob Cromwell's Ever Come Up With

(according to the "Counselor" of Spades, Duncan Ashe)

A new variation of steam-powered engine powered by a combination of hydroelectric and solar energy. (This would be tested successfully both on the royal zepplin and to power the entire palace and its surrounding buildings, cutting the overall cost of energy production in the Country of Spades by a good twenty percent.)

Several new vaccines, many of which adapted into oral supplements so as to make it easier to vaccinate small children. (Jacob specifically wanted to make something that people who are afraid of needles would be able to take safely, as his little sister Carewyn got very teary as a toddler, when getting her first shots.)

Mecha suits specifically designed to protect coal miners in treacherous underground conditions. (This idea would sadly be "co-opted" by the Tyrant of Spades Patricia Rakepick and repurposed into weapons of war. Fortunately the Joker called the "Escape Artist" destroyed every last one of them before they could be used to attack other parts of Cinderhaven.)

"We could just lock old Madam Ace in her office for a night. Then maybe you could force the army to cut their spending." (Sadly this idea, however tempting and amusing it might've been, was one Duncan couldn't go along with.)

A close-to-unbreakable puzzle lock, perfect for small drawers or boxes. (Jacob put this on Duncan's desk as a belated birthday gift, after he suspected Rakepick was sending spies around to try to rifle through his papers. The Spades technological expert took it upon himself to take out ten different books on locking mechanism and even consult with a locksmith for two weeks when constructing it, and it's thanks to this undertaking that Jacob became very, very proficient at picking locks himself.)

A record player that could be powered through pressing a pedal, rather than being plugged in with electricity. (Jacob put this on the desk in his workshop so that he could play music with his foot, while working on other projects. Duncan actually gifted Jacob several records to play on it, including Sitting on Top of the World, which is one of his favorite songs.)

"Let me come with you, Ashe. Rakepick's stooges will think twice about messing with you, if I'm there." (They didn't, at first. Fortunately Jacob ended up shutting up one particularly mouthy bloke, after he had the audacity to suggest Duncan only ever tapped people for positions at court if he was sleeping with them. Clearly a mean-spirited, untrue dig at his BFF Coby and both obvious and oblivious OTL Jacob. Jacob punched the guy so hard in the face that he nursed a bruised jaw for a solid three weeks. After that, no one dared say a single bad word about Duncan in Jacob's earshot.)

A prototype of a dirigible shaped like a dragon, powered by both wind and hydroelectric power, which uses giant wings to steer. (This also was eyed by Rakepick as something that she could modify into a weapon of war. Fortunately none of her subordinates were sharp enough to figure out how to give such an "air dragon" the ability to breathe fire without damaging the modified prototypes.)

A set of sparkling silver cuff links that, when the sides are squeezed, expanded into very sharp hatpins. (Inspired by the hatpins women sometimes wore in their hats for self-defense, Jacob made these as yet another birthday gift for Duncan, with the idea of them being helpful for self-defense. Duncan personally found them a little gaudy, but wore them anyway.)

"Come on, Ashe...you sing the next line!" (The night that Jacob finally encouraged Duncan to come over to the Cromwell house for dinner, he encouraged Duncan to sing along with him and Carewyn the way they always did, whenever they rode the trolley home together. Duncan actually did hold his own incredibly well alongside the two trained singers, and soon he, Carewyn, and Jacob were all singing together. It was one of the few times in Duncan's life -- alongside his times with Veruca and Coby -- that Duncan felt the way he imagined other people felt, with their families.)

#hphm #hogwarts mystery #cardverse au #hphm cardverse #duncan ashe #jacob cromwell #my art #damn it I'm still not done giving love to these two #I have yet ANOTHER sketch of them in progress in my sketchbook XDD #specifically them with carewyn pre-hearts #<33 #this cover is SO pretty btw!! #I like the original too but this girl's voice is just *chef's kiss* #also yes jacob's clothes are in the same color palette as duncan's #duncan totes picked them out for jacob yes but jacob does like them #fashion-dumb idiot he may be #but hey his boyfr -- I mean *boss* picked them out for him <3 #the 'boss' thing is honestly part of what made duncan hold back on coming onto jacob too hard #along with his own pride and fear of rejection #I mean come on it's not exactly good optics if you're dating your subordinate

[asukachii]

Where Our Blue Is

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post this gif somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use it in edits/videos. Thanks~)

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk edit #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #gif #my animation #asukachii #if you saw this on friday no you didn't. #i posted this on friday but then noticed a mistake and deleted it super fast #since the rendering takes about three hours i just took my time orz #i was planning this for valentine's day but here we are #''where our blue is'' the title of jjk2 first opening! ''ao no sumika'' #i like the new cover btw #i saw some discourse on twitter but i find it pretty #gojo's smile seems so sincere and his eyes are smiling as well #his dimple ; v ; #the snow... the camellias... #i swear i'm not deleting this anymore #i'm unsure of when I should post things and that's why i delete multiple times... what day. what time. dunno.

[galaghiel]

what remnant does to a mf

#fnaf #michael afton #me doods #look away people! this one's just for me and myself only #(despite maintagging yes i know but its for organization purposes) anyways #i am a big fan of remnant mutating the shit out of a person #pair that w michael's unique death and continued exposure to the spirits it ends up doing pretty fucked up stuff lol #post scoop michael looks like a purple titan 💀 #i'm literally just making fun of my own design atp lmaooo #whatever's the opposite of same face syndrome i have that w michael #just recently added the bolts to the jaw and i love it sm i'm keeping it #post scoop michael is 6'7 so i just want yall to imagine this absolute unit of a cryptid losing his mind managing the pizzeria #he's out there sobbing shitting rolling on the floor trying to mute the fucking ads absolutely flooding his monitors #i drew what his neck looks like but its usually covered in bandages or a turtleneck #you do not want to see what's under his shirt btw. its a whole circus in there AHAHAHAHAHA

[a1sart]

Blue Diamond Miss Trixtin and Pearl Philza for @chrisrin 's gemcyt au!!

#mcyt #miss trixtin #philza #gemcyt #als art #I was just vibing thinking about this au when I realized Kristin would be a great blue diamond #I feel like I could have done more with this design but blue diamonds actual design is pretty simple so I didn't want to add too many thing #also phil was going to be a green pearl at first but I wanted him to be blonde so I made him yellow-green <3 #that is the only reason I made that choice #also maybe a bit of a reference to that pink diamond lizzie and lime pearl joel #now TWO diamonds have off color green pearls because they love their silly little husbands #also phil's hair covers his eyes as a reference to blue pearl in the show #look at the cracked gems on kristins hat btw #mayhaps an example to other gems not to cross her? or just a decoration? probably both knowing her

[olasketches]

mhh close enough…

#this cover is amazing btw!! #megumi is so pretty #fushiguro megumi

[sophiethewitch1]

You mentioned that all the Wayne's post thirst traps. And that Damian's are like Victorian women showing some racy ankle. What does he consider a thirst trap then.

Have you ever seen a man in a dark turtle neck sweater.

#sophie speaks #sophie answers #also he thinks the rest of the batfam are pathetic and embarrassing but ALSO he's just. too competitive #its beneath him. but also he got like 20k more likes than dick without even posting ass in yoga pants so who is winning #his thirst traps are unbelievably obnoxiously artsy #'paint me like one of your french girls damian' 'what the fuck did you just say to me' #he would do it btw if you offered to nude model for him i think like you'd actually see his brain explode #thats off topic ANYWAYS all his posts are like beautiful lighting that makes it hard to see him #and hes always fully covered #suits and shit. he also likes those domtop shots where the camera is literally pointed at his shoes #people go crazy over that and while he wont admit it its very obvious he feels quite smug about it #its like a cold war for him he's never gonna speak it out loud but he IS winning (delusional) #in reality its pretty evenly matched. everyone except cass and duke have extremely feral fans tho #reader in www is one of them lets be honest #stan twitter queen you know her posts where going viral

[warriormoustache]

Got my first shrimp goby pair last week and this is my impression of them so far.

#Art #Fish #Fishblr #Fish art #My art #The fish is fine btw just a coward #Though I do think he might have gotten a small concussion from his two escape attempts #Jumped out of the tank literally at one in the morning and then an hour later at two in the morning it was a miracle I was awake during this #I have since covered the food holes in the lid with heavy objects #It gave me a heart attack on day two cuz I thought it was dead #I even poked it with a stick and it didn’t react at all #Luckily I left it in there and it was up and going about six hours later and has since been behaving normally #It is eating tho which is a good sign #Tested my paremetres and there’s nothing wrong with the water so ╮(╯_╰)╭ #Shrimp is delightful to watch #She explores the tank a lot and is super cute #Idk what the sex of the fish is but I’m pretty confident that the shrimp is a girl #Has snapped once and I was unprepared for how loud they actually are in person #The fish cuddles the shrimp with its tail and they’re super cute #They gave me a stress for a few days but everything’s stable now so #10/10 aquarium pets #Aquarium stuff

[amethyst-halo]

a pass at a riju redesign ive been researching so much for her. lays on the floor

#loz #totk #loz totk #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #totk spoilers #just in case :) #gerudo #riju #loz riju #totk riju #sketch's sketches #i tried real super hard to be respectful w the sources i had but if i missed smth feel free to lmk!!! her formal wear is a sari from india #but her fighting wear i just wanted to cover her up from the sand so its not super specific inspired or anything #saris are so pretty btw i think they are so cool i am looking respectfully and appreciating them so much

[nin-nyan-ve]

आठ

|| रेणू हरीकरण ||

Hakurei Reimu with an indian twist for the toonsutra contest on instagram. calling her Harikarna Renu.

#decided to join an art contest for the first time in five years out of the blue and completed this piesce in about 4 or 5 hours #ahh pixel brush my beloved. im also starting to properly use the patterns and effects brushes. #her design is pretty normal. just a lehenga and dupatta. #the sleeves are also rolled up dupattas. the hardest thing to substitute was that damn stick.. so i just put a dupatta on that too #you know what they say.. got a problem? cover it up preferably with a scarf #reimu hakurei #touhou #anime #illustration #art #krita #artists of tumblr #desi #i was originally planning on making an indian junko enoshima design but i had no idea how to pull it off :/ #oh btw if anyone wants to participate the deadlines been extended till the fifth of july #rkgk

[luck-of-the-drawings]

YEAH SURE! WHAT COULD PUNCHING A WALL POSSIBLY DO TO YOUR ROTTING LITTLE ARM, ZOMBIE BOY? HUH? HUHH????

#cw gore #jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi pd spoilers #william wisp #RAHHH THIS IS SO OOOLLLDD BUT IT NEEDS TO GET OUT OF MY WIPS N INTO THE WORLD BC ITS STILL PRETTY GOOD... #ITS NOT THAT BAD #I loved this stupid scene so much btw actually the one thing that stopped me from finishing it for sooooo long was that i actually wanted #to draw the rest of the scene leading up to it. smth smth givin vyn mouth2mouth i dont remember what the bit was. cpr. whatever. i forgor #but its NEVER GONNA HAPPENNNN RAAHHHH IMM TIRED N LAZY AND I JUST WANTED THIS OUT. #IF YOU DONT GO HERE U WONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCKS GOIN ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #ANYWAY IM RLY PROUD O THAT BONE. SO GLAD THAT WILLIAMS TOO DEAD TO HAVE BLOOD OTHERWISE I WOULD #HAVE TO COVER UP ALL THE DELICIOUS BONE N MEAT. I LOVE DRAWIN BONES N MEATS!! YEAH BABY!!!

[samglyph]

I have been in such a redraw mood lately I don’t know what’s up. Fun way to test out new techniques I guess.

#when I don’t know what expression to give Dae I just draw him crying. I’m so sorry #my ocs #pretty happy with this actually. the comic will not be looking like this cause this took too much time but maybe the covers #my art #Woodward #Woodward webcomic #pieridae #prince Pieridae #faeries #folk lore #character design #Pieridae uses any pronouns btw

[silvermoon424]

I don't think I've ever told this story before, but when I was in third grade we had to do this history project where we pretended to be a famous person who influenced history. We were stationed around the school and people (namely parents and kids from other grades) would talk to us to get to learn more about the person we chose.

I chose Rosa Parks because she was my hero at the time. Please let it be known that I'm EXTREMELY white.

So that day people saw an 8-year-old super pale girl passionately talking about Rosa Park's life while decked out in old-timely clothes.

#I'm pretty sure I was the only kid who covered a person of color btw #then again my grade was very small and very white #if I can say so myself I think it was pretty iconic of me to stan Rosa Parks so much #despite me being a white Midwestern suburbanite #we need to teach more POC history in schools #so the next generation gets inspired by people who made a difference in spite of the barriers they faced! #personal #rosa parks

[im-smart-i-swear]

im sick so i drew my girl nika to cheer myself up,,

#felix net i nika #fnin #my art #she has a tooth gap now!!!! and pimples!!!!! i dont make the rules!!!!!!!1! #her outfit in the first drawing is what she was wearing on the cover of 'orbitalny spisek' btw<3 #ughhhhhh im having Nika Thoughts (tm) AGAIN #im not gonna elaborate rn tho cause i Dont Feel Great #maybe ill ramble about her tomorrow #i love drawing her sleep deprived and tired and pissed and sad<3333333 shes got Problems #sweet jesus i spent so much time on that first drawing........... im never drawing a skirt with a pattern again. #it turned out pretty cool tho i think!! #i used so much orange....... gee i wonder why:) #god i want atumn to come already. i want to wear sweaters and sweatpants and i want to be able to sleep at night without feeling like im in #a fuckin furnace!!!

[pynkhues]

curious as to your thoughts on the may december discourse (some spoilers i guess) - vili has come out and essentially said that he felt the film contributed to his victimization and hurt him. and the response from a lot of film twitter seems to be to yell ITS NOT A BIOPIC and to say he doesnt understand the film (gross). i feel like i dont really care if its a biopic or not, when the film literally quoted vili/mary kay, recreated the mary kay in prison photo exactly, and both charles melton and julianne moore studied vili/mary kay for their performances. to hand wave that all as "not a biopic" feels like a way of writing off any discomfort. i feel like the film should not have made those specific choices, but having done so they had a duty of care to vili. i dont think the film that ended up getting made is worth the continued trauma to vili even if it is art. there were other ways they could have told the story to minimize the harm and they chose not to - and i dont think that choice is a great commentary on tabloids or whatever, its just a ghoulish thing to do

I did see that, anon, and I do have thoughts on it as it's a real grey area in terms of creative license, art and storytelling, and it's a grey area that's been around really since storytelling existed, but before I get into that I just want to quickly clarify what Vili said, because I do think it's important.

Vili didn't say that the film contributed to his victimisation and hurt him, he said the film offended him because it was a ripoff:

“I’m still alive and well,” says Fualaau, now 40 and still living in the Seattle area, where the scandal unfolded. “If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story. “I’m offended by the entire project and the lack of respect given to me — who lived through a real story and is still living it,” he adds.

“I love movies — good movies,” he says. “And I admire ones that capture the essence and complications of real-life events. You know, movies that allow you to see or realize something new every time you watch them. “Those kinds of writers and directors — someone who can do that — would be perfect to work with, because my story is not nearly as simple as this movie [portrays],” Fualaau adds.

The reason I think this distinction is an important one to make is because in interviews since Mary Kay Letourneau passing, it's pretty clear that Vili - while absolutely being a victim-survivor - doesn't see himself that way, and even says pretty specifically in his Doctor Oz interview from 2020 that he doesn't see her as a predator or himself as having been preyed on ('there was no perversion...she was my wife and my best friend' are his exact words), and he's pretty clearly open to the idea of a film being made about his story.

I'm not saying this to diminish his feelings about May December at all (I strongly believe that Vili is entitled to feel any and every which way about the film) or to patronise his own understanding of what he experienced - I can't even begin to imagine the complexity of trying to unpack the life he shared with her - but I think it's important to reflect his feelings accurately and to provide a little context to those feelings.

With that said, do I think the creative team should've reached out to Vili before making the film?

Honestly, I don't know.

I think it's one of those questions in art where there's not really a right answer. If Vili's feelings towards Mary Kay are still lost in the silver linings of her grooming, any film that has his direct approval or involvement is going to run the risk of tacit endorsement. It also hamstrings the creative team and opens them up in terms of liability (I actually was a writers assistant on a TV show a million years ago that was sort of a bio pic and I can tell you for a fact that it was a disaster once the person it was based on got involved), and, of course, it runs the risk of shifting the focus of the story the writer is wanting to tell.

And that's the thing about art, right? By design, art is supposed to reflect us back to ourselves in ways that we might not always be comfortable with. Of course, that usually happens less literally than in how Todd Haynes has used Vili and Mary Kay's stories, but not always. Todd Haynes is certainly no stranger to the technique given Velvet Goldmine is pretty transparently inspired by David Bowie and I'm Not There is often confused as a Bob Dylan bio pic despite the fact that it's actually not.

Hell, everyone loves that Succession points a pretty clear finger to the Murdoch's, and while, of course, the Murdoch's - and Bowie and Dylan for that matter - have social, political and economic power that Vili doesn't which does impact the ethics of the decision, it's still made under the same creative ideology that aspects of a real story can render an artwork, a story, a film more emotionally authentic, can create greater resonance, can offer a sharper reflection of the world we live in and offer, perhaps, a message or a question that lingers.

All of this has actually kind of been funny timing as I just finished reading Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita the other day which is a really excellent blend of true crime, literary history and critical commentary on this exact topic. The book explores the real life case of Sally Horner who was kidnapped by a pedophile in 1948 when she was 11 years old and was forced to roadtrip with him around America for two years. It's actually mentioned in passing in Nabokov's Lolita, but once you go a little deeper it's pretty clear how much of Horner and her story Nabokov used to create Dolores Haze / Lolita.

In the book, Weinnman asks the question as to why Lolita gets to be remembered when Sally's been left to obscurity, and of course, the answer is that there are other Sally's in the news cycle, but only one Lolita in art, and that hopefully in her writing Sally Horner's story she can write her back into bookshelves and place her back into this artwork but who knows if that's what Sally would've wanted (Sarah does, at least, talk to Sally's lone surviving family member, and makes a measure to show that it's very unlikely Nabokov ever did the same).

Was Nabokov wrong for not seeking out Sally's family for Lolita? Honestly, I doubt it even would've occured to him to do so, and the fact that we do now ask questions like this about the ethics of inspiration is, I think, a good thing. We should be critical of how stories are told and who is, and isn't, involved in the telling of them, but again, I don't actually think there are right or wrong answers here.

Fiction is always inspired by real people, real events, real life, it's a part of creation, it's a part of capturing a moment in time, it's about reflection and authenticity, but of course that's been rendered more complex in recent years by the fact that we live in a world that's ever shrinking and the people or the events that inspire new stories are inevitably brought into the public narrative in a way they just weren't back in 1955 when Lolita was first published.

So what does that mean for creativity and inspiration? I don't know, but personally I guess my thoughts would be that Vili is absolutely in his rights to be offended by the film, but I also don't think the filmmakers were wrong necessarily to not reach out. It's not the most ethical choice, but I also don't think it was an inherently bad one either. This isn't a Blonde situation where they write fiction and present it as fact, the creatives have been clear about it being inspried by what happened between Mary Kay and Vili, but they're also not saying Vili and Mary Kay are Joe and Gracie.

I appreciate you feeling like it's much of a muchness though given how they've apparently lifted entire scenes of dialogue. It's a murky question after all, and it's certainly one that's more complex when it comes to people like Vili and Sally than it is with the Murdoch's or even David Bowie, but yes, I'm not sure I see it as something inherently wrong, and I don't personally think it was ghoulish. I just think the specifics of this particular case just kind of shows how the sausage is made when it comes to storytelling.

#the ethics of inspiration is genuinely a pretty interesting topic #when i used to work at the writers centre there was this huge scandal about remix poetry #namely poets being inspired and riffing off other poetry #and oh man the DISCOURSE #anyway #sorry this is so long and rambling #i do recommend the real lolita btw #i finished it on the plane the other day and everyone in my row wanted to talk to me about it when they saw the cover lmao #may december #film asks #welcome to my ama #full disclaimer i still haven't seen the movie as it's not out in aus until 1 feb #but i am planning on seeing it

[neolxzr]

i'm a controversy

#quin sketches #rinne amagi #amagi rinne #enstars #ensemble stars #rinneposting #HIII HII HIHI I DREW SOMETHING FINALLY ^_^ #redrawing things always pretty solid at getting u out of artblock #also i love this song so much #any ado fans in chat. i love her #might redraw some more album covers or something cuz this was fun #oh and the japanese text says “orecchi wa mondaisaku” #its just the title of the song but with rinne's preferred personal pronoun #orecchi is so cute btw. i love you rinne amagi

[hibiscera]

I ALWAYS WIN!!!!

#dan mora posted this literally 10 minutes ago im just not normal. #ITS FROM A NEW COVER BTW SO OFFICIAL ART. #they're not anywhere near each other here this is mostly just about seeing my favorite guy stylized cute #the little killer moth.... dan mora pleaaaase draw him forever and ever for me pretty please??? #mir talks #comic sillies