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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

#omg #yes yes yes

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny photographed by David LaChapelle

#the x files #i lol'ed #amazing

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I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

#this a million times

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me reading straight up pornography: hmm… this one just doesn’t have enough accurate character psychoanalysis to get me off

#i lol'ed

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He’s taking his stimulants, just like me!!

#luke skywalker #star wars #i love love love the realism

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This is my adaptation of a short excerpt from Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko's novel "Vita Nostra". Often compared to "The Magicians", "Vita Nostra" is more so an atmospheric metaphysical dark academia novel. It's a favorite of mine because Sasha's love and compulsion to learn is complicated by the violence of the institution. In this part of the book, Sasha's homework assignment to listen to "silence" pushes her past human limits.

#vita nostra #omg this is so cool

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sasha samokhina.

#i read... #vita nostra #it was w i l d #not as into it as I was with library at mt char #but i appreciated the mindfuckery

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Harrow's necromantic power includes the ability to create underlighting whenever it's necessary.

Bonus:

#tlt #i LOVE this scene

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#um yes #I am on the bandwagon #i don't dare hope #but I am on the bandwagon #the bear #sydney x carmy #i love them you honor

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I love love love the moment in Gideon the Ninth where the Third challenges the Sixth in a clearly unfair move, and Gideon, half-on-instinct, still faking a vow of silence, simply unsheathes her sword, at which Harrow doesn't miss a beat and says her "The Ninth House will represent the Sixth House" line, while Gideon just smiles.

In Gideon's head this is "I am not standing for this shit anymore. For the love of God, Harrow, please understand what I'm doing and back me up here. Oh thank fuck you've got it. I'm so happy I could kiss you."

In Harrow's head this appears to be "For fuck's sakes, Nav, what do you think you're doing. Ok, think. Can't give anything away. Have to project unity, but fuck you, Griddle, for making me do this."

But for everyone else this is the legendary, mysterious, terrifying, bone magicians of the Ninth House, with no warning, stepping between the Sixth and the Third. The skull-faced cavalier who hasn't said a single word simply drawing her sword. The shockingly powerful and inscrutable necromancer matter-of-factly declaring an alliance that no-one, even the supposed allies, knew about. The sinister smirk on the cavalier's face. And the line from Harrowhark: "Death first to vultures and scavengers."

I love it so much and I love additionally the moment that this sets up in the climax, which is essentially the same emotional beat, the key changes being 1) both Harrow and Gideon have become open and vocal with each other; 2) both Harrow and Gideon are working together consciously as well as instinctively; 3) their opponents don't back down so they follow through. "Nav, show them what the Ninth House does." "We do bones, motherfucker."

#gideon the ninth #god I love death first to vultures and scavengers

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Hey, that "my father was horrible and I am his daughter trope" is kind of amazing.

#the library at mt. char #green bone saga #folk of the air #gideon the ninth

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The thing with the Library at Mt Char that I liked was that the massive trauma Carolyn endured didn't make her a mustache twirling villain or rather, her monstrosity was her single mindedness and utter indifference. You don't (or I didn't) even fully see that until she achieved her goals because there's so much distracting villainy elsewhere.

#i read... #the library at mt char

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i fucking love the recurring jokes in library of mt char. carolyn not knowing what club soda is. carolyn telling the others that they have to blend in as americans as well as they can clothes-wise, and then cutting to steves pov as he’s like what the fuck are they wearing. carolyn always thinking how good the guacamole is on one particular stop near the road, even in the literal midst of an apocalypse. nobunaga being a tiger. like sure it’s an existential, dark, speculative work of horror, but god if it doesn’t know how to get in its laughs

#the library at mt char #what a horrific book that was also #so funny

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“We made her dress out of silver lamé  and iridescent rainbow paper, overlaid with lace and jewels on the bodice,” recalls Ellis Flyte. “We had costume breakdowns and a color chart on every character, and in this scene, her silver and mint color pallet set her apart from the others in the ballroom. Lovely young Jennifer suddenly was a beautiful princess. Her hair was dressed with jeweled glue particles. It all took a great deal of work, but she did look otherworldly!”

“Oh, that enormous hair!” Connelly gasps today. “Who can forget that?” The hairdressers opted not to give her an elegant updo; instead they wove delicate tendrils of silver through her dark hair, like enchanted spiderwebs. She looked older and more mature that a fourteen-year-old–yet younger and far more innocent that the other guests at the ball. “It was such a nice change from the blue jeans that I wore in almost every other scene,” she says. “It was really fun at the time. I’d never had an experience like that before, where I’d been dressed like that. It was kind of magical.”

- Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History (2016)

#Labyrinth #formative

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Journey to the Force Awakens art by Phil Noto

#luke skywalker #leia organa #star wars

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Don't you think you owe it to readers to give them what they want?

No? What an odd take. Read my fic or don't.

#i lol'ed #ive gotten some variation of this #but it's okay #i know who I am

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The Twice Lucky from Fonda Lee's Jade City. Modeled in Blender and painted in Photoshop.

This painting is many many months in the making, glad to be finally put the final touches on it and send it out into the world. Please read the Green Bone Saga!!!

#green bone saga #jade city #fanart #so amazing! #the colors! #the vibe!