#this stuff's older news

[ontosgold]

future vision

#xenoblade #shulk #alvis #shulk xenoblade #alvis xenoblade #bit of an older piece (its almost 2 years old i think) but i still love it a lot ^_^ #i rlly wanna post some of my xenoblade stuff on here ^_^ these games mean a lot to me #if u couldn't tell by my blog's theme #also man its been a while since I've made any new xb pieces... i kinda miss it #ontos.art #<- giggling a little using my art tag on this piece

[koboldfactory]

My dad: “now I’m not like anti-capitalist or whatever, I believe in capitalism, but: [the most anti-capitalist statement you’ve heard about exploitation of the masses through monopolized markets of overpriced commodities that have become required in every day life]”

I’m convinced so many people would be socialists or even communists if those terms didn’t exist surrounded by tons of vague language and propaganda that’s poisoned anyone born before the late 80s from being able to comprehend a better option than what we have because obviously everything else has to be worse, right? There’s no room for improvement at all! This is as good as it gets!!

#koboldthoughts #I didn’t wanna try to paraphrase what he said but we were talking #during the 11 hour car ride to my new apartment and it’s always interesting seeing how older people rationalize stuff

[colorful-horses]

doodle pages

#but only the good ones LOL #i would like to redraw aj pinkie and twilights #like. just draw entirely new ones. with dif poses and such #also i didnt update the watermarks on these. youre going to have to take me to court over it #reposting some older art while i work on comms and oc stuff sorryyyyy #mlp #My Little Pony #mlpfim #my little pony friendship is magic #rarity #rainbow dash #fluttershy #my art

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor (and his Sonic Screwdriver)

for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)

#david tennant #tennant tuesday #his hands are so pretty #fourteenth doctor #I did get the new sonic screwdriver toy #and am very pleased #as are my kids #we're all older now but haven't outgrown sci-fi toys #thank goodness #doctor who #stuff i posted #this has been in my drafts for ages #its time has finally come

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny covered his nose with his hand. Where ever he landed smelled absolutely foul, like rotten fruit and burning tires mixed with chem lab.

"Remind me to bring a face mask the next time I explore the Infinite Realms." He muttered, before kicking a soda can down the alley he was in and being repulsed by the squelch sound it made when it came into contact with a very questionable looking puddle, "Better yet, a gas mask." He glanced at the puddle again, "Or I could go full Hazmat." Clockwork had told him this world was full of superheros and villians and to steer clear of it, but once he learned there were aliens in this world he couldn't help himself. Danny had always been weak to his curiosity, but he liked to believe he was cautious, and chose to stay in his Phantom for for added protection.

Turning on his heel he exited onto a deserted street lined on one side by a chain-link fence. The sky above him was filled with clouds so ominous and dark that Danny honestly couldn't tell you if it was night or day, all he knew was that it was going to rain soon and hopefully these awful smells would be drowned out by the downpour.

Danny got his wish only minutes later. Thankfully Phantom was unbothered by the cold and could just bask in the rain as it fell apon him. A lesser known fact about ghosts is that thier clothes are made from thier ectoplasm and are part of thier bodies, much like a second layer of skin, so one would be able to feel things on thier clothes as easily as they would with thier bare skin. The level of sensitivity varies with the type of clothing however. All this to say Danny loved the feeling of the rivulets of rainwater traveling down his ghostly hazmat suit.

He was so preoccupied with enjoying the sensation that he didn't notice anything was wrong until he was jolted forward from the weight of someone landing on his back. The person was quick and precise, taking no time at all to have his wrists pinned behind his back and- weirdly enough- thier teeth digging into the material around his neck.

His parents designed the Hazmat suit Danny was wearing not only to deal with dangerous chemicals, but to fight supernatural foes. The area around the neck was reinforced with the intention of protecting against fatal gunshots and decapitations so naturally someone's jaw wasn't going to be enough to break through to his neck.

Danny let out a laugh as the person kept chewing on his neck like a confused puppy. Oh, Danny thought, they've gone feral. It was odd for someone to go feral but it could occur when a person has gone through something traumatic recently or through extreme stress. It made sense since the person ridding piggy back on him was dressed like a superhero. Danny wondered if that was why the person didn't have a scent. Danny learns facepalmed when he remembered that scentblockers existed and not everyone's scent dramatically changed whenever they went out as a hero. The scent change was probably one of the few things that have kept him alive up to this point to be honest.

"So, I guess you're not going to tell me why you're chewing on my neck like the worlds most pathetic vampire, are you?" No one deserves that title more than the fruitloop to be honest. He made a mental note to use that one against Vlad the next time he saw him.

Chewy whined at this, seeming to slump a bit from the apparent failure to bite him. What was that about? Was this actually a vampire? How would a vampire even react to Dannys ecto-blood combo meal anyway? Would it be like food poisoning? Or would it taste amazing from one undead to another. "I'm not exactly human, are you sure you wanna bite me? I might not taste so good." Danny warned, but the moment he mentioned letting the person bite him they were eager again.

Danny chuckled and unzipped the material only a bit before it was loose enough to move out of the way. The vampires bite came with a sharp pain like he expected but there was no suction. No drinking of blood. Just some weirdo biting Danny on the neck. Huh.

Danny hoped he didn't get rabies from this.

He must have accidentally said that out loud as there was a small laugh from the rooftops above them. There stood another person in a superhero outfit with some really tall dude dressed as a giant bat, and that was when Danny decided to bail. It was one thing to let a maybe vampire bite you in a random street in the middle of the night but more of them? And ones a big scary furry? Hard pass.

Phantom did as Phantoms do and went invisible and intangible, escaping from Biteys jaws and startling the heros. He ignored the distressed whine Munchy let out after loosing their spookyest chew toy and quickly rubbed the scent gland near dannys jaw on the top of thier head as an act of comfort before bolting.

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Danny poked at the bite mark on his neck. Screw rabies, he better not get turned into a werewolf. He didn't need that on top of his ghostly crap. Sam seemed fascinated by the mark, after all, it wasn't every day that Danny got a scar, especially one so obvious. Most injuries heal quickly and leave no trace of him ever being injured in the first place which helped a lot in keeping his secret identity.

Luckily Danny hadn't needed to lie to mom and dad. He truthfully told them about some wierdo jumping off of a nearby rooftop and plunging thier teeth into his neck and that two other people had tried to corner him during this. He assured his mom that he had gotten away quickly but was a little shaken by it and his dad praised him for being brave and managing to escape.

That was nice. But he still had to figure out what was up with this bite...and why he felt so compelled to go back to that city.

Back to that hero.

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Aka an A/B/O au where in Danny's universe all the Alphas are extinct and the betas followed soon after and the DC universe all the Omegas went extinct and betas followed after . Not like a "they finally went extinct in the 1700s after centuries of thier numbers dwindling" thing and became a myth/fairytale (tho I like that too) but a "this might be the missing link between cave men and modern humans" kinda thing.

Its up to you which bat bit Danny and exactly what that means. I love abo aus without smut cause there's so much potential for chaos and I am very much ace.

#dp x dc #fanfiction prompts #prompts #abo #everyone is confused and no one has answers #i would however like some slowburn romance #whichever bat you choose is going to get teased forever for running up to some random meta and biting the crap outta them #i tricked yall into reading an abo prompt didnt i? #i slept little over an hour last night so i woke up choosing violence #its been a very bad day #the store didnt have a lot of the stuff i needed to buy and on the walk home i saw an older kitten that looked kinda like my cat get hit #the car didnt even stop. poor thing got hit by the next car too and i just stared and it started raining like a freaking movie moment #tw: animal death #tw for the tags #so i got new trauma today #gonna make that everyone elses problem #a/b/o dynamics #kinda #just wanted to add the tag incase yall have it filtered

[kopimoss]

june's little house <3

#can u tell how hard i was trying to lean into the 90s thing #ya #except june kind of likes older retro stuff so its a mixture #andalso ofc theres handmedown furniture from her parents #still using that new gshade from pearlean!! <3

[secondbeatsongs]

when you're into the Big Ship™ in a Big Fandom™, you have the luxury of having an OTP - a real One True Pairing, where you can read about just them for ages, and you will never run out of fics, and everything is perfect and beautiful and nothing hurts

but when you go to a smaller fandom, you'd better pray to whatever god you worship that someone else in this room ships the same thing that you do, and that if they do, they're writing more than late-night crackfic, because you're on thin fucking ice!

and how small is your small fandom? is it less than 100 fics? maybe even...less than 20 fics?

welp, then it's time to make peace with that god and either open up a text document or learn how to ship everything, because it's swim or drown babey! and your ship is sinking fast

anyway all of this is to say that after hanging out in small fandoms and shipping less-common pairings for a while, going back into a Big Huge Fandom™ is wild because suddenly it's like...wait, why didn't I ship these people again? I don't remember. why was I only sticking to one ship in this fandom?? boring of me, honestly. these guys should make out.

#sbs rambles #fandom #fandom stuff #ao3 #basically. I hung out in superwholock for so long back in the day #but then I got weird and cool and moved on to smaller and older and stranger fandoms #and decided to throw a party and have fun and enjoy all of the small and weird in those fandoms #and now rewatching media for a big fandom I'm like. huh. sucks to be everyone else I guess. they're missing out on some wild dynamics here #because I'm havin a blast #and like. when I mean small fandoms I mean SMALL #my one fic I wrote for one tv show makes up 25% of that entire fandom on ao3 #(double checks) #oh!!!! new fic in the fandom!!!! #my one fic only makes up 20% of that entire fandom on ao3!!! #time to throw a fuckin party! 🎉🎈🎊🥳 #anyway it's really funny because based on this some folks are going to assume what ship I'm into in a Big Fandom now #but buds. you can laugh at me #I'm thinkin about sam and cas #what's up with those guys? #fucked up actually. they should hold hands about how much they love dean #:') #but also supernatural is way more fun if you watch it out of order #that's what I've realized #now if only the RNG would give me something in season 1 or 2 T_T #also if you're at the point of reading fic on livejournal or wattpad in the year 202X you've reached ''small fandom'' status #that's the rules

[sonknuxadow]

this is probably an unpopular opinion with the amount of "everyone is married with kids" type future aus people make for sonic characters but i cannot see sonic getting married or having a kid ever. if he did somehow end up with a kid hed be the worlds first transmasc absent father or however the joke goes

#i can only see sonic with a kid if its some random kid he accidentally adopted or whatever #and if he had a partner whatever they have going on probably wouldnt fit the typical idea of how having a partner works at all #i dont think sonic is a very romantic guy to be honest. and being in a serious relationship or ''settling down'' wouldnt be for him #i guess you could argue his feelings towards that sort of stuff could change once hes an adult #but i kinda. dont like. the idea of him suddenly becoming interested in romance and wanting to settle down #as a sign hes ''finally grown up'' or whatever. because lack of interest in romance isnt an immature trait you have to grow out of #some people never want that sort of thing and thats fine #anyway i dont hate fankids to be clear i think theyre fun in concept . like from a design standpoint #taking traits from characters you like to make a new guy out of it is fun #i just cannot imagine those things ever actually happening does that make sense #actually while im at it i dont think rouge would want kids at all either . people want her to be motherly so bad but she just is not #she is the cool older sister figure who teaches you how to steal from the pin container at hot topic without getting caught. not a mom

[immediatebreakfast]

One of the things that it's always interesting to see in a gothic noble is what the villain, or the antagonist represents in the narrative as a whole.

The Gothic is a romantic literary response to the historical, sociological, and political contexts of the the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It's a look through the ruin, the passionate, the bigoted, the decaying, and the irrational rationality.

It's an explanation as to why it's crucial to the narrative of why Dracula is a count, why Jonathan is an inexperienced worker, and why there is so much emphasis on the locals.

"Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool! Those flames only appear on one night; and on that night no man of this land will, if he can help it, stir without his doors. And, dear sir, even if he did he would not know what to do. Why, even the peasant that you tell me of who marked the place of the flame would not know where to look in daylight even for his own work. Even you would not, I dare be sworn, be able to find these places again?"

How much contempt, and underlining hatred can one fit in a single paragraph that bordelines on a monologue? Dracula truly holds true resentment towards the locals of Transylvania for daring to try, and defend themselves against him.

He doesn't call them locals, citizens, not even commoners, but peasants. A word that not only signals the kind of social hierarchy that Dracula benefits the most (notice how he also included Jonathan in the social class at the end), but also why he is shown so angry despite Jonathan asking a simple question.

The locals of Transylvania had commited the worst crime in the eyes of the Count, the peasants dared to revolt against their "master" in order to keep themselves alive instead of baring their necks for the slaughter. Even with all of the fear that Dracula has sowed in the heart of the locals, to the point that they obey all of his orders, it's still not enough for him. That fear it's not enough for Dracula because it lacks the concrete submission of his old days as an actual noble class.

The locals of Transylvania fear him for his power and his wealth, but they lack the class mentality that would truly put them under Dracula, and that is eating the Count alive. He calls them fools while they fill their streets with protection wards and put rosaries around their necks, he calls them cowards while we have read how everyone around Jonathan risked the Count's wrath to protect him.

We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may lie amongst the common dead. 

The Count hates the old innkeepers, the coachman, and the passengers for daring to rebel against him, even if he is still the unliving cause of their suffering.

Hell, it's heavily implied that all of that is still not enough to fully stop Dracula, and yet he is still so angry. There is nothing that the aristocratic nobility hates more than the mere vision of how the people they deem beneath them act together to stop their abuse.

#The Count is a complex gothic character in regards all of the stuff he represents both in the good watsonian and the bigoted doylist sense #What do vampires represent? The dying aristocracy trying to hold their fleeting power as the social system shifts in a new century #While still bleeding the working class under them dry #And Dracula as a conqueror a noble and an older experienced man represents that perfectly #dracula daily #dracula #count dracula #jonathan harker

[paintpanic]

My cool and awesome rats.. (Another gijinka redesign!)

#kirby gijinka #elfilin #fecto forgo #i've decided to bite the bullet and just make them furries lol #more fun to draw #anyways; what do you think? i'm pretty happy with these guys! #sorry if my writing is hard to read here. tablet pen nib was really worn out. #also yeah! this is from my new tablet. i think i've gotten used to it fine. can you tell the difference between these and my older stuff? #to me it's staggering.

[r0b0t1me]

#my art #motorcity #work fucked my hand back up woohoo!!! i have been braced for 2+ weeks!!!!!! #dont mess up your wrist/thumb tendons kids this shit sucks #Still on hiatus this is 75% older stuff #ive been drawing incredibly sparingly lately and trying to get used to phone art #Also. 2nd image. if you know what song that is youre my new best friend

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

hey

#i have my ALT notes here and ready to go but it's Stress Week(TM) so ill be adding it later #not really a fan of the grown woman i dont feel the childish need etc etc one #bc while the image context fits the vibe itself somehow does not :/ #anyway tags #detective conan #dcmk textposts #<- the collection guys #magic kaito #haibara ai #kudo shinichi #edogawa conan #kuroba kaito #chianti detective conan #akako koizumi #done good night bye #ALT ADDED #STRESS WEEK IS OVER (I HOPE) #which means i can enter a new stress week but this time with different cause and stuff #i love growing older !!

[synthaphone]

If it's not too much to ask, how do you shade complex patterns easier?

Its not too much to ask at all!!

My easy trick for shading complex patterns in cel shaded Neopets style art, where you'd want to hand pick your shadow colors for each element:

First, I make a flat base layer, and put each unique color on its own layer that i clip to the base.

After i finish the flats, i then duplicate ALL of those layers, lock them, and recolor each duplicate with the color i want to use for that element's shadow. these are now effectively my Shadow layer, and i rename the base duplicated layer so i know its my shadow base.

and then i use a layer mask on either the base layer or a folder i put the shadow layers in- i use this to paint in the spots where i want the unshaded areas to be.

This method makes it really easy to change my mind on a shading color for a specific area without having to carefully repaint the shadows, or tweak where i want the shadows to fall without having to worry about matching the colors, similarly to having the shadows painted on a multiply layer.

if i'm using a PSD where I already made a shadow layer, like my basic Centibyte base, i just duplicate all of the clipped areas from the flat color base, clip the dupes onto that shadow layer, recolor it to be the shadow color for the base color, and proceed from there.

You can do this trick for highlights also- I've noticed that highlights are typically used sparingly in Neopets art though, so I kind of just go with whatever i think looks right.

For Tyrannian, I decided it looks fine with solid white highlights at a lowered opacity of 70%, so i didn't bother coming up with a unique highlight color for each area. Sometimes I'll make the highlight layer an Overlay layer since that can help the highlights with not looking washed out, but it feels a little inauthentic and loses contrast over certain colors, and in this instance Normal ended up looking better.

I hope this was helpful and not too unclear! I'm not super experienced with making tutorials, but I'm always happy to share what works for me as best I can!

#asks #neopets #neoart tips #god maybe i need a better tag for this stuff. i had to hunt down that it was 'neoart tips' #my older version of this method is ALSO in that tag- its a little more convoluted than this one though so i wanted to share the new version #lmao i was like 'lock your shading layer duplicates' and some of mine are unlocked in the screenshot. don't live like me. play soccer

[rustingcat]

#a little birthday drawing from me to you all #best way to celebrate it is with some supercorp art of course! #i tried some new stuff with this one and im pretty happy with the results #supercorp #supergirl #kara danvers #lena luthor #my art #here's to getting older i guess

[njere]

Emmet's love for joltiks knows no bounds 💛

#submas #submas emmet #emmet #submas kudari #ingo and emmet #submas ingo #submas nobori #emmet pokemon #joltik #pokemon fanart #submas fanart #my art #bit of an older piece i haven't posted here yet #new stuff is in the works just give me some more time i'm slow af

[tanglepelt]

Dp x dc idea 145

Superman’s bio parents took a notes from jack and Maddies book.

Jack and Maddie only found out about phantom after he was injured. While it looked like he wouldn’t recover from the Giw. The only way to stabilize him was to deage him to his ghost age.

The earth wasn’t safe for Danny. The Giw made that clear. So they sent Danny away. To the ghost zone. With a rocket that clockwork had promised them would get launched to the right place.

He landed on krypton.

When they sent Clark off. Clark was accompanied by his older brother. Danny was only four?? Maybe younger. When they crashed landed for Martha and Jonathan to find.

If desired. Ellie could of been de aged as well. Sent with Danny in the rocket.

#dpxdc #Clark gets an older brother #Danny’s still has ghost powers #he 100 is protecting baby Clark #I’m mentally seeing him arriving in kyrpton he is two #If Ellie is involved #they get three new kids to raise #how hard could forging birth certificates and stuff be #i don’t see Danny having his memories #at least to start #imagine him getting them all back when he turns the age he had been #food for thought #tangles prompts