#.....also honestly. this is unrelated

[raveartts]

#raveartts #httyd #how to train your dragon #light fury #dragon art #anyways so i was trying to study what method was used to draw the httyd concept art #and eventually i think i figured it out #it's (colored) pencils with alcohol markers #i was unsure if it was digital or watercolor at first tbh #also they definitely use toned paper which i simply do not have #so I gave it a shot by mashing up some of the light fury concepts for fun #i didn't fully finish coloring it bc i got tired #but i think i captured The Look at least a little bit #style replication isn't really my thing ofc but for a first attempt. you can see it resembles the concepts #.....also honestly. this is unrelated #but i've never fully watched httyd 3. i tried numerous times but i could never get my full attention on it #i'm sorry it's just. so bad omg #i think the light fury's design isn't as awful as people make it out to be #but she just doesn't look like she belongs in the universe either #SHE'S TOO FUCKING SMOOTH MAKE HER ROUGH #though the way she's animated is very nice to look at ofc

[thy-void-dweller]

happy pride cyberpunk community is this anything

#this is so silly i love it tbh #im a trans johnny and kerry truther #definitely not because im trans nooooooo #did i have to take my own screenshot for kerry cause there werent any good full body ones for him? ummmm no 😊 #also totally unrelated but i finally got reshade after saying i had no clue what it was and honestly this thing is awesome #void has an actual post to share with yall #cyberpunk 2077 #johnny silverhand #kerry eurodyne

[twopercentboy]

I only recently finished sandman and I'll be honest I'm still thinking about hob gadling 🥲 like he ended up immortal bc he was so confident that humanity is so beautiful that it's worth living many lifetimes over, he continues!! to be so hopeful and excited about it, even when he was dirt poor and starving to what would otherwise be death but for him is just more suffering, like he's everything to me, he sees the positive of everything, and he's still just so excited to live !!! I will never get over him

#my.txt #me.txt #the sandman #hob gadling #also the gay undertones of him n Dream but honestly thats an unrelated bonus its mostly hob being so excited to live #dream of the endless #death of the endless

[brother-emperors]

I love how much Lucullus can't stand Pompey, and also this

Pompey the Great: A Political Biography, Robin Seager

with something from this thrown in for extra flavor

Crassus and Pompey, on the other hand, ridiculed Lucullus for giving himself up to pleasure and extravagance, as if a luxurious life were not even more unsuitable to men of his years than political and military activities.

Plutarch, Lucullus

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

#there were going to be more citations for fun and whimsy but the laptop im borrowing can't handle running any kind of applications #right now and ctrl+f searching in a browser/webpage is also taking quite literally forever so I'm DONE for tonight. i need #to lay face down on the floor and scream for a minute #whining aside. i was watching etiquette for mistresses because i thought it was going to be something else than what it ended up being #but the title slaps and im thinking. hmmmm. thoughts. sulla's nightmare collection of fucked up guys. as a kabitserye type thing #which i will be fully honest. kind of doing that anyway. but i mean REALLY lean into it. embrace it. #they would all be SO awful it would be SO good. 200 episode drama material #komiks tag #lucius licinius lucullus #marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #roman republic tag #drawing tag #tris homines #ACTUALLY ANOTHER UNRELATED THING. pompey's whole thing about trying to get the upperhand over crassus #but when milo kills clodius he throws out milo. which honestly. that's about other things. but still! symbolically! it's something! #i'll unravel that thought later

[def-not-kaz-brekker]

controversial opinion but inej ghafa is literally terrifying and (obviously) such a queen.

like she literally held a stadwatch guard at knifepoint after creeping up on him and whispered (I don’t remember the exact quote) “I like it when men beg, but nows not the time” like??? Queen?????

And the end of the crooked kingdom where she cuts pekka rollins after threatening him, and switched alby’s toy lion with a crow?? Fucking terrifying?????

My love for inej knows no bounds and she is undeniably a powerful and scary woman

#idk if this has been said before #leigh bardugo #inej ghafa #she’s fucking terrifying #and I love it #it honestly makes her such a good character #i understand why my homeboy kazzle loves her so much #I love her your honor #pekka Rollins shat his pants so much tho it was fucking hilarious #“I like it when men beg’’??? #queen #six of crows #grishaverse #also unrelated but her determination is so admirable #climbing a fucking incenirator isn’t for the weak #did I spell incenirator right probably not #inej ghafa appreciation post #she could stab me/murder me and I would say thank you #agskajshajah my queen

[tamorii]

Falin - Dungeon Level 6

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #falin dungeon meshi #chimera falin #dungeon meshi spoilers #SURPRISE HERE'S SOME ART WHOOOOO #Started this as a doodle over a week ago and finally finished it tonight !! #Chimera Falin has me in a chokehold so I really wanted to draw her hehe #I love her hair and feathers and wings and !! Everything honestly !! #Unrelated but I'm SO hyped for this week's ep when my fav Dunmeshi character finally gets her spotlight yippIEEEEE #Might doodle her too... but we'll see hehe #OH ALSO this was inked traditionally and had paint splattered on it #And then I scanned it fixed it up and added some gray and more snow in CSP #Tradigital art babeyyy

[evermoredeluxe]

.

#unrelated to my last post #also this is gonna be an unpopular opinion #but i’ve honestly made my peace with how taylor approaches her public politics #(i’ve said this before too) #i may sound like a cupcake right now #but i don’t have the energy to bang my head against a wall when i know no matter what i do the wall won’t break #and that’s just the harsh truth #i have trust that she is a good person and her actions show that and it is enough for me #she’s not interested in being a political figure or representative and just wants to encourage people to vote #and will speak up during elections or during pride month etc #and ofc you can make the argument that she’s so influential so she should be and i agree but also! it’s her choice! #she is political in her private her life and she doesn’t owe her politics publicly #people should focus more on actual politicians and presidents and world leaders whose actual job it is #arshia talks

[tarotmantic]

i will never justify why i like deh bc i don’t have to actually. i can just like it no qualifier needed

#this is inspired by a post but by no means a direct response #im just sick of anyone who ever says they like deh following it up with an ‘even though it sucks’ #u can just say u like it #also it doesn’t suck okay it’s not problematic bc that doesn’t #doesn’t mean anything #the story isn’t trying to tell people to lie about knowing dead kids it’s not a moral lesson #the music slaps #have ur issues with it whatever but stawp with the shame #no media is without flaws #deh is not objectively bad as much as people want to believe that #honestly no one gets to clown on deh when dark romance is insanely popular on tiktok #by which I mean clearly we can understand that media doesn’t have to reflect real life morals #it doesn’t have to be pure and clean #im literally so cold rn #that’s unrelated #let people enjoy deh guilt free #let the tiktok girlies enjoy mafia stalker fiction #live and let live! #do i main tag this #dear evan hansen #deh #dear evan hansen (2021)

[extrajigs]

HI YOUR CREATURE DESIGNS ARE SO COOL!!!!! what are you inspirations/ how do you study to make designs?

Ahh thank you! It really means a lot to hear/read that! And HMM honestly I my process for creature making is a lot of just thought soup. Most of my inspo comes from nature and I like to watch/listen to a lot of stuff about that which has LOTS of fun ideas in it. Usually for my critters I'll go off of one core 'idea' and then look around for things that would be fun to draw/complement that well. A lot of it is just mindless sketching until I find a good lead and then just build off of that! Some creatures have 4-5 iterations before final, some are literally the first sketch. It just varies!

#thank u for the ask i hope i explained it alrightish lmao #also my work process is a lil disorganized rip #the ideas just arrive #honestly usually while im drawing for coms and completely unrelated stuff

[yume-fanfare]

*shakes you* she was her god she was her universe

this is true cinema i believe this fully. amidst the heavenly choir, the profound monologue and the hopeless situation, a glimpse on how she is still but a childish girl who loves her friend. sua alienstage you are everything

#im realizing i already know everyones names except blond freak #who is just blond freak to me #but yeah sua........... im on this for her honestly ive liked her for a while................... #unrelated but also the animated hair movement is so nice............. #im still on this video once im a bit more over it ill move on. <-guy who took like a week to watch 8 mlgrm videos when first getting into i #preguntas #surreal-duck #alnst

[pagesofkenna]

this is a bit of a D&D movie spoiler and I get that it's the lowest stakes take possible, but I think it's silly they tried to give Chris Pine's character a Bard NPC statblock when he's clearly a Mastermind Rogue

'there's already a rogue in the party, edgin plays the lute' yeah yeah I get it, we're clearly supposed to think he's a Bard walking into this movie, but he's got no magic to speak of, which is actually kind of a relevant and noteworthy plot detail. he's not actually casting Charm Person or Friends or anything, because those are actual spells with spell components we never see him use. He's just got a high Charisma score and the Master of Tactics class trait

Edgin Darvis should be a Mastermind Rogue with the Entertainer background and probably the Inspiring Leader feat

like, he definitely seems to have some of the non-spellcasting abilities of a Bard (is that Bardic Inspiration or the Mastermind's bonus action Help we see?) and obviously I recognize this is probably intended to be a bit of a rules fudge to showcase how not everyone has easy access to magic in this setting... but a nonmagical bard is a rogue!

plus, reading him as a Rogue means his Lute Bash is adding sneak attack damage and that's why that's his only utility in combat and yet it works

#honor among thieves #i love this movie with a passion. fantasy heist with a reward for doing the homework? wow i already DID the homework! #also while writing this post I was doublechecking his statblock and saw he has SEVENTEEN D8 HIT DICE???? #YALL THESE ARE HIGHEST TIER CHARACTERS??? whoever wrote this statblocks was JOKING #its honestly kinda funny at this point. these statblocks are garbage except as interesting NPCs you could refer to #not in that these statblocks are horrible on their own or anything theyre just. completely unrelated to the actual movie lmaooo #edgin is level 13 at best #and even that feels like a biiiiiiig stretch

[macbethz]

I think hazbin hotel is part of a common trend recently where things call themselves “adult” to mean like saying bad words but still have the themes of and are structured like children’s shows

#like even 90s edginess still usually seemed like it was trying to be aimed at adults #this and stuff like gen v is identically structured to children’s media except with swears and penis #even the ‘jokes’ are structured like kids shows #ALSO unrelated to the point here but the depiction of addiction is so out of touch it’s unbelievable #child’s understanding of like drugs and sex work as a concept #warlock wartalks #honestly I would respect it a lot more if it was just a kids show #you’d barely have to change anything

[silly-little-headcannons]

Julian gets a little confused when it comes to queer things and doesn’t really know how to show his support, especially to the Captain.

He ends up showing his support by begging Alison to buy any sort of rainbow capitalism related thing he sees online, and making a show of pointing out rainbow stuff and being like “gay rights :)”

#julians also bisexual #but I honestly think that’s unrelated to how he shows his support #this is based off my own dad #he gave me a pride uno deck for Christmas once #just because it was pride related #I thought it was so sweet honestly #bbc ghosts #julian fawcett #julian ghosts #julian fawcett mp #captain ghosts

[this-cannot-continue]

omg! world's most hyperspecific self-indulgent crossover just dropped! (it's the locked tomb. it's a nier automata tlt au.)

#look im mentally ill about both of these series ok? ok. #2b9s are soooo necrocav to me #eighth house because uhhhhhh. ok fine its because i wanted an excuse for them to keep their funny little blindfolds #BUT ALSO i think the spirit stuff is a good stand in for hacking and theres a lot of potential w/ soul siphoning. you know. for suffering. #although it would be funny as hell if 2b was second house and 9s was ninth #second or fourth house honestly might be a better fit but i think the religious overtones of the eighth r interesting too #unrelated ill take any excuse i can to put 2b in masc outfits #i really do think i am uniquely ill about this game ANYWAYS read tlt it goes so hard #nier #nier automata #tlt #the locked tomb #fanart #crossover #my art

[addamvelaryon]

DEAD THINGS IN THE WOODS. DEAD THINGS IN THE WATER.

I was once again thinking about how Patchface has a tendency to say some rather odd things, and if you view the phrase "under the sea" as an indication of death/afterlife, the things he says take on a more sinister connotation:

Patchface rang his bells. “It is always summer under the sea,” he intoned. “The merwives wear nennymoans in their hair and weave gowns of silver seaweed. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

Patchface was capering about as the maester made his slow way around the table to Davos Seaworth. “Here we eat fish,” the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. “Under the sea, the fish eat us. I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

“Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish,” the fool muttered at Davos. He bobbed his head, and his bells clanged and chimed and sang. “I know, I know, oh oh oh.”

— A Storm of Swords, Davos V

They found Her Grace sewing by the fire, whilst her fool danced about to music only he could hear, the cowbells on his antlers clanging. “The crow, the crow,” Patchface cried when he saw Jon. “Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XI

Patchface jumped up. “I will lead it!” His bells rang merrily. “We will march into the sea and out again. Under the waves we will ride seahorses, and mermaids will blow seashells to announce our coming, oh, oh, oh.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII

“Under the sea, men marry fishes.” Patchface did a little dance step, jingling his bells. “They do, they do, they do.”

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XIII

Patchface drowned but survived under mysterious circumstances:

The boy washed up on the third day. Maester Cressen had come down with the rest, to help put names to the dead. When they found the fool he was naked, his skin white and wrinkled and powdered with wet sand. Cressen had thought him another corpse, but when Jommy grabbed his ankles to drag him off to the burial wagon, the boy coughed water and sat up. To his dying day, Jommy had sworn that Patchface’s flesh was clammy cold.

No one ever explained those two days the fool had been lost in the sea. The fisherfolk liked to say a mermaid had taught him to breathe water in return for his seed.

— A Clash of Kings, Prologue

The previous passage almost seems to echo the following:

He had been the thirteenth man to lead the Night’s Watch, she said; a warrior who knew no fear. “And that was the fault in him,” she would add, “for all men must know fear.” A woman was his downfall; a woman glimpsed from atop the Wall, with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars. Fearing nothing, he chased her and caught her and loved her, though her skin was cold as ice, and when he gave his seed to her he gave his soul as well.

— A Storm of Swords, Bran IV

That's not the only connection that exists between the merlings and the white walkers:

Mormont was deaf to the edge in his voice. “The fisherfolk near Eastwatch have glimpsed white walkers on the shore.”

This time Tyrion could not hold his tongue. “The fisherfolk of Lannisport often glimpse merlings.”

— A Game of Thrones, Tyrion III

Which of course reminds me of Cotter Pyke's ominous letter to Jon Snow:

At Hardhome, with six ships. Wild seas. Blackbird lost with all hands, two Lyseni ships driven aground on Skane, Talon taking water. Very bad here. Wildlings eating their own dead. Dead things in the woods. Braavosi captains will only take women, children on their ships. Witch women call us slavers. Attempt to take Storm Crow defeated, six crew dead, many wildlings. Eight ravens left. Dead things in the water. Send help by land, seas wracked by storms. From Talon, by hand of Maester Harmune.

Cotter Pyke had made his angry mark below.

“Is it grievous, my lord?” asked Clydas.

“Grievous enough.” Dead things in the wood. Dead things in the water. Six ships left, of the eleven that set sail. Jon Snow rolled up the parchment, frowning. Night falls, he thought, and now my war begins.

— A Dance With Dragons, Jon XI

Dead things in the woods. Dead things in the water. Here's the description of the white walkers and the merlings:

Will saw movement from the corner of his eye. Pale shapes gliding through the wood. He turned his head, glimpsed a white shadow in the darkness. Then it was gone. Branches stirred gently in the wind, scratching at one another with wooden fingers. Will opened his mouth to call down a warning, and the words seemed to freeze in his throat.

[...]

A shadow emerged from the dark of the wood. It stood in front of Royce. Tall, it was, and gaunt and hard as old bones, with flesh pale as milk. Its armor seemed to change color as it moved; here it was white as new-fallen snow, there black as shadow, everywhere dappled with the deep grey-green of the trees. The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took.

— A Game of Thrones, Prologue

They tell of pale blue mists that move across the waters, mists so cold that any ship they pass over is frozen instantly; of drowned spirits who rise at night to drag the living down into the grey-green depths; of mermaids pale of flesh with black-scaled tails, far more malign than their sisters of the south.

— The World of Ice and Fire, The Shivering Sea

Pale and black and grey-green. All frozen.

There is also this similarity of both being said to lay with human women to sire terrible offsprings:

He remembered the hearth tales Old Nan told them. The wildlings were cruel men, she said, slavers and slayers and thieves. They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. And their women lay with the Others in the Long Night to sire terrible half-human children.

— A Game of Thrones, Bran I

An even more fanciful possibility was put forth a century ago by Maester Theron. Born a bastard on the Iron Islands, Theron noted a certain likeness between the black stone of the ancient fortress and that of the Seastone Chair, the high seat of House Greyjoy of Pyke, whose origins are similarly ancient and mysterious. Theron’s rather inchoate manuscript Strange Stone postulates that both fortress and seat might be the work of a queer, misshapen race of half men sired by creatures of the salt seas upon human women. These Deep Ones, as he names them, are the seed from which our legends of merlings have grown, he argues, whilst their terrible fathers are the truth behind the Drowned God of the ironborn.

— The World of Ice and Fire, The Reach

We know the dragons are contrasted against the white walkers, but perhaps the merlings are too:

The big man looked out toward the terrace. “I knew it would rain,” he said in a gloomy tone. “My bones were aching last night. They always ache before it rains. The dragons won’t like this. Fire and water don’t mix, and that’s a fact.”

— A Dance With Dragons, The Dragontamer

Although no one can say for certain exactly what kind of creatures Euron (who, while not exactly THE NIGHT KING, is still very Night King coded) plans on summoning from the sea, but perhaps the merlings are part of his plan.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf #dragons #merlings #white walkers #the others #patchface #euron greyjoy #meta #asoiaf meta #text #I would say I'm back on my bullshit but I never did leave it #though this time I'm writing out my thoughts on this a bit more comprehensively #honestly if the merlings are the white walkers of the sea it would confirm quite a few theories of mine #also grrm is a genius but we all knew that #can't believe this idea came to me because I was originally thinking about 2 very unrelated (but actually still very related 🤭) characters

[bionicboxes]

I was trying to redesign Lovebomb to be easier to draw but have come to the unfortunate yet inevitable conclusion that how over-designed he is is part of his charm to me.

#box art #LoveBomb #my ocs #iloveyou #apparently that virus was also called 'Love Bug' but i cant tag that because i have a completely unrelated oc named that. with two 'g's but #still. #Love Bomb does honestly look. not that dissimilar to love bugg LMAO. how i drew the hair here doesnt help with that.