#THAT GAZE THO

[suchawrathfullamb]

we were so robbed of Hannibal's trial scenes because I just know with all my heart that they asked:

Mr. Graham, please, describe the nature of your relationship with Hannibal Lecter.

#hannibal burning him with his gaze #will just “nakama” lmao #no seriously tho #hannigram #nbc hannibal #hannibal #will graham #murder husbands #hannibal lecter

[wuntrum]

happy crash wednesday

#crash 1996 #james spader #david cronenberg #my art #missed the opportunity on actual ash wednesday so. making up for it #girl your gaze haunts me .... #also finally glazing my art. didnt realize itd take so long tho 😭 #took like an Hour for one image. my cursed mac

[radiance1]

A castle mysteriously appears in Gotham one night.

Nobody who noticed it knows where it came from, nor how it got there as it seemingly appeared overnight. It wasn't anything big, as far as castle's were concerned, it seemed to be on the smaller side of things.

However, no one could truly estimate it's actual size. For there seemed to be an ever-present fog that never seemed to stray past the castle's gates.

Just like the fog, you always seemed to hear the cawing of crows and the flapping of bats whenever you step close enough. Yet their visibility was kept hidden in the fog.

Appearances aside, there did seem to be something... off, about the castle and not just because it appeared from thin air, no. It seemed to have a distinct aura of something... other.

No one knew how to explain it, but they could tell there was nothing natural about it. There was something fundamentally wrong with the castle, it wasn't the way it appeared out of nowhere, nor it's appearance.

===

When Sam finally became an adult, she didn't have to think twice about moving out. It was a bit difficult, with her parents not wanting to let her go just yet, but her grandmother managed to persuade them, thankfully.

When she was younger, Sam had always dreamed of owning a castle. Though its appearance did change in her mind when she grew older, from pretty and pink to one of darker colors and crows, which is why she never got one when she was younger, she realized.

But now that she was an adult, what was stopping her?

Nothing, that's what.

So, Sam buys one that matches her tastes and moves in. There was a lot of space, far more than she really ever thought about and now had to find a use for.

Magic.

Was something that enthralled Sam ever since she was young, that and the occult as a whole. So, for a few months after moving did she try and get her hands on things like magical tomes, items, scripts and learn it.

Surprisingly, she was strongly successful in her attempts of learning magic. It was surprising to be sure, but now that she compares it to the portal to the afterlife, having a half dead friend and having hunted down ghosts, she realizes that magic wouldn't be that much farfetched in the equation.

A fair bit of her time now was spent covering her castle in wards, sigils, and runes, ones that would strengthen themselves over time, various protection wards and multiple others that she found useful. Most of them were ones that she found through text, though others were ones she personally made.

After she finished the entirety of the castle, she studied thoroughly to gain more knowledge and power for herself, she even made a few spells of her own along with various potions. Unfortunately, she was interrupted in her studies by various other witches, because apparently having such a powerful fledgling witch on her lonesome was too tempting of an offer to pass up for the nearby covens.

So she had to... move, before they tried to force her to join them. As for how, well, she moved her entire castle! What better way to refuse, really?

Unfortunately, it was her first time using such large-scale teleportation magic and she messed it up. Not that her calculations on where the castle was supposed to be were wrong, but while in the midst of moving through space she was... thrown off kilter.

She didn't even know how or what caused her to mess up. But her castle both was and wasn't where she wanted it to be. Her original destination was coordinates near Amity Park, and while they were on said coordinates.

This wasn't Amity Park.

To say she worried was an understatement. She scrambled to find something about where she ended up, and realized not only was she thrown off kilter, but she was also thrown off so badly that she ended up in an entirely different dimension. Luckily, she managed to make the philosopher's stone.

To say making it was easy would be wrong, for even she didn't know how she created it. It was by accident and for a while she didn't even know she had made it, when she had and tried to do something with it the stone had, uh, well.

It fused into her skin.

It had placed itself right over her face, on her chest, and it granted her immortality it seemed. Though that wasn't the effect she was currently thankful for no, the effect of making gold would be valuable to her, she wouldn't have the Manson wealth, but she could at the very least sustain herself.

For now, though, she did have her studies to get back to.

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dp x dc crossover #dcxdp #dc x dp crossover #I remembered about my old au somewhere in the Batpham discord #I think it was called Hecate's castle or something? #But that had a hand in this post #Sam is a powerful witch and that attracted the gazes of various covens #So she just took her castle and left #Unfortunately something through off what was otherwise a successful large scale teleportation #And Sam ended up in the DC universe in Gotham #She also made the philosopher's stone but that one was more on accident than anything purposeful #Like she cannot replicate what she did to make it at all #If I see ghost king Danny in this post I will riot. #This is Sam-centric #We don't need that ghost twink in here #Sorry that was mean ily Danny #Not when your ghost king tho downgrade to a prince or non royalty and then we'll talk #AHEM #Anyways #I was thinking of how Sam could be called Hecate here but ahhhh #We'll see about that in the future lol #Wow this is a lot of tags #Anyways I shall stop now

[ryuzumisama]

Went to ECCC yesterday and I made this Cullen sibling gang gang print just for the occasion 😅 Got Alice (Ashley Greene) and Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) to sign it!

#I wanted to capture the beauty of alice and rosalie #and contrast it with the traumatic gaze of jasper and emmett #tmi but i head canon emmett as my bg3 tav in a different life because they look so similar by accident #head canon that my tav has a fear of bears #also Kellan Lutz was at ECCC but i just didnt feel like standing in line for the signing...another time mayhaps #he was gorgeous fr tho #same with ashley and jackson #also jackson watches Chainsaw Man lmao #twilight #twilight fanart #alice cullen #jasper hale #emmett cullen #rosalie hale #ECCC 2024 #other fanart

[ghosty-schnibibit]

my opinion about the watcher news basically boils down to this:

watcher is screwing over a huge portion of its fanbase with this move considering how many people within it are teenagers who may not have access to streaming services, low-income adults who can't afford yet another streaming service (if any), and international fans who couldn't sign up for a US based streaming service even if they wanted to. it's okay to be angry about this, especially if you're one of those people who now can't support shows you loved or will be unable to see any of those shows going forward because of it.

and

youtube's payout to creators has dwindled in recent years to the point that it is impossible to fund the kind of productions watcher makes purely through it, and in order to sustain a company of 40+ people they need a more stable source of income not reliant on ads from outside companies and patreon, which, in this case, means a pivot to streaming. it's okay to be upset that creators you like have to turn to such methods to continue funding their work, whether you have the means to support them through these avenues or not.

and

if the early reactions to this move are any indication, watcher will probably not get the fan buy-in they anticipated and in all likelihood the new streaming site will either fail within a year or two because it isn't making enough money and take the company with it or they'll be bought out by a larger company and have their shows archived or deleted for tax purposes like what's happened to roosterteeth. it is okay to be scared by that potential future and seek to preserve as much content as you can before that happens.

are all statements that can and should coexist

#watcher #hello all i will post this to vent and then go back to organizing my sideblog's queue like i intended to do today #me gazing tearfully at my substitute + nikola art from two years ago like fuck we didn't know how good we had it huh #i'm glad they've confirmed they're not archiving or deleting their yt channels but enough damage has been done by the confusion #(tho tbh i do not trust them not to go back on this if it it means pushing more traffic to the new site if it starts failing) #and i'm absolutely archiving as much of the puppet history stuff as i can bc it's such a comfort show for me #jfc they really have dropped the ball on this

[biscuitboba]

Rewatching OPLA and god, sanji and luffy are literally just chillin (talking about nami actually, but imho? more like lowkey flirting), and then zoro shows up and approaches them, slowly but surely making his way to (stand next to) luffy... like he is establishing dominance here😭😭

OPLA zoro you will always be famous for you jealou pettiness since day one<3

#zolu #luzo #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #sanji #lowkey sanlu? #one piece #opla #one piece live action #taz's smile tho? i want to kms #and kiki's gaze? grghhhh

[reineydraws]

mishanks lotr au wip inspired by the march of the fellowship by divinesleep_24 on ao3 :) it's slow burn zolu + established mishanks! this piece is based on screenshots from the aragorn/arwen wedding ✨️✨️

#one piece #one piece fanart #fic recs #akataka #mishanks #opla #opla fanart #bc i actually think shanks kinda looks like mr gadiot in this lol go me 🎉 we'll see if that lasts 😂 #dracule mihawk #shanks #akagami no shanks #red haired shanks #i never do this style. semi-realism + painting??? who am i??????? #im really happy with how shanks's gaze looks. there's like. a light there. #i struggled a lot with mihawk's eyes tho 😭😭😭 #we'll see if i continue working on this. it's fun tho!!! #idk if u can tell but this is a mishanks blog now hashtag sorry not sorry

[robo-dino-puppy]

dappled light

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #maybe this one can be a phone bg too? #had to do a few light/shadow fixes due to her hero lighting again ugh #this was a very happy accident with this pose - it looks like she's leaning against the tree #and the fact that she can't turn any further made her gaze go off to the side #what i wouldn't give for being able to control her gaze direction independently from her head/torso direction tho... #hfw plainsong #verticals

[youredreamingofroo]

Make the Most of It

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Roo boarded a busy bus after an outing with Rylan, and Roo knew the trip was going to be a long one and fell asleep. After sometime, an aching worry creeped into his stomach and began waking him up, and all it took was a gust of summer wind, and an acrid smell of oil to fully wake him up, which was just in time to read his unexpected welcome into Strangetown. Like most people, he inched towards the front to ask the bus driver where in god's name he was, but... there was no bus driver! Who was driving the bus? Where did everyone AND the bus driver go? How did they get here? How long had Roo been asleep? So many questions and all left unanswered as he departed the bus. Curiously, he approached the front door of a home nearby, where he saw a sign that said "This home is now property of Roo Norman," and although he was incredibly stressed and worried, the harsh wind gave him a feeling... He knew he was gonna be here for a long time... So with a free home, sparse money to his name and practically a new life, Roo figured it was best to make the most of this unexpected "vacation"...

Make the Most of It (MtMoi) is a Sims 2 Rotational Save/Series set in Strangetown, of course with a twist as Roo enters the Sims 2 ring and rotation pool. - -

[ more information + transcript will be under the cut ]

Types of Posts I'm gonna try and do a couple different type of posts; -Main posts will have more effort/editing put into them and are more than likely to be of Roo. -Side posts are going to have less effort, and will be where I post little tidbits and/or wrap-ups of a rotation I'm still debating how I wanna do this as I do wanna make Main posts centered around other sims but idk... 🤔 Post Schedule I'm really bad at scheduling posts im gonna be honest 😪 Taking how back-n-forth my burnout/motivation bursts can be into consideration, I'm gonna shoot for once or twice a week with the main posts/roo updates, and once a week with the side posts/rotation updates Side post posting frequency may differ depending on how often I play

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Transcript

Panel 1: So I'm a little lost / For Context: I was taking a bus back home as I usually do on outings- and all was well, until I woke up to a rather dreadful gust of wind, an odd smell and a sign that said... / "Welcome to Strangetown!" / Now I was gonna ask the bus driver what was going on, but as I walked to the front to get off at my... "stop".. There was no bus driver! Thus leaving me... very confused.

Panel 2: I may seem rather calm for such a situation / But what else are you supposed to do when you are completely and utterly lost and don't have some form of way to get home?

Panel 3: But on the bright side / I got a free house!.. Okay maybe not so bright considering everything else

Panel 4: So what now? What do you do when you're lost in the worst climate. are given a new home and a clean slate for life?

Panel 5: [Silent]

Panel 6: You have to / Make the Most of It

#Live footage of Roo melting from the hot weather and poorly chosen outfit coming out soon LMFAOO #that gif of him cloud-gazing is just so nice. i love how he lays down at the end it was so perfectly timed😭 #I already have a bunch of screenshots ready for the next post or two (MAYBE three depends on scripting and stuff) #for some reason I started with only one day of summer tho so Roo's rotation is ALREADY over 😭😭 #Roo #Roo* #MtMoi: Roo #Make-the-Most-of-It: Roo* #Making the Most of Main-posts #ts2 #ts2 simblr #sims 2 #sims 2 simblr #the sims 2 #simblr #ts2 screenshots

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oh today was a TREAT! makeship drop + howdy ad, no work tomorrow, got free cake, new 911 season.. Yeehaw...

#I CANT WAIT TO SHEAR OFF THE BACK OF MY FLOOF #now that i wear a hair net... fuck it. BYE #the mullet era was good.... #AND IT WILL RETURN. EVENTUALLY. MARK MY WORDS #BURY IT SHALLOW BECAUSE IT WILL BE BACK! #anyway i cant wait for my makeship stuff to arrive #i was Literally the other day researching how to make enamel pins so that i could make my own barnaby pin #yk with my own art ofc #AND THEN THIS HAPPENS? OH HAWYEE! #barnaby!!! on my Vest!!! holy shit! #i love enamel pins i love them so much #absolutely unprompted #gonna have some cake & gaze at my purchase confirmation email & enjoy this Brief Freedom #pros of working in a kitchen: so much free food #cons: i am actively losing my whimsical will #OHHHH I CANT WAIT TO WATCH THE NEW 911 SEASON THO #THEYRE BACK!!! THEYRE FINALLY BACK! #AND I SENSE THAT ABC HAS LET THE WRITERS/ACTORS OFF THEIR LEASH! #i still wanna finish my rewatch but babey if im good at anything its Bingeing #we are feelin Good tonight... might even have the energy to create something.. #doodles perhaps... there is a certain wiggle i wanna scribble...

[theabyssgazesalsointoyou]

be more chill color wheel 🌈

(⬇️ with color filter)

#i have my own reasons and complex thoughts behind the colors i chose btw #it's funny how no two people in the fandom can agree on what colors the characters are lmao #this was the wrong fucking pen to work with it looks so messy 😭 still very proud of it tho #also i'm sorry for drawing fire next to rich but don't take it seriously. in my defense what else was i supposed to draw there huh. #i think i deserve a pass. if anyone knows how to give rich proper depth and not just reduce him to the fire it's me/hj #bmc #be more chill #squip squad #michael mell #rich goranski #brooke lohst #jake dillinger #christine canigula #jeremy heere #chloe valentine #jenna rolan #when you gaze into the abyss's art

[liquidstar]

crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.

#this doesnt mean i think all ''cute girls doing cute things'' anime is feminist btw #thats not my take. the test itself isnt a metric for feminism #im just saying if you take the rules purely at face value. that type of show kills it #but also no the genre isnt for the male gaze! everyone go watch 'a place further than the universe' and develop some emotions #even k on which i joked abt in the post- its actually a bit complicated bc of the way the anime deviates from the manga #but the short of it is the further it gets away from its source and becomes its own thing the more it becomes abt the girls #s2 being all original was the strongest. its a great story about the fleeting nature of youth and lasting friendships actually #ppl dont give it enough credit. yes its slice of life ofc but its really good #also not to mention bocchi. everyone loved bocchi. in that show they literally have a joke where they dont show the dads face #bc no male characters LOL #the acceptation being that one club owner who is meant to be more feminine? manga readers know more abt that tho

[im-smart-i-swear]

figuring out how to draw this fucker(and sonic characters in general)

#hello my dear followers who are here bc i drew brightheart that one time. gaze upon my attempt to draw silver the hedgehog. #my art #silver the hedgehog #i blame tumblr user themetalvirus for me adoring this guy. he eats concete and was born in a wet cardboard box all alone...... #i have no idea why the fuck i drew him without gloves. i literally dont know #i like drawing paws ig?? #btw ignore crucified silver in the second image #its an inside joke with my friends from summer camp lol #sonic characters are very hard to draw to me for some reason:( im working on it tho!! #very proud of the first drawing! took me a while but it was worth it i think:]

[sleepynegress]

Like I said zawe is lucky and Tom hiddleston is the best and hes sexy you need glasses

Ahhh them. I'm gonna answer this nicely in hopes of maybe helping with growth? Love isn't "luck". What is initially physically attractive to many? Is often determined by what society tells you is.

I've been fortunate enough to have lived long enough to see "beauty standards" change. I remember when people didn't want BBLs or curves. I've seen the cute TikToks where moms would show their teen daughters the "hot guys" from back in the day and the girls would just go "Eww!". Figuring out what you really want, or don't, often comes with experience; the variety of people you get to be around and care for in life, and how open you are. Often "pretty" people become ugly through their actions, vice versa, and everything in between...

It's a whole package thing. In my deep MCU days, Tom didn't cross my radar because he came off as feeding on the attention and fame. I mean he was cute back then but in a twinky way, IMO. Boyishness makes me want to mother you, not think you're hot. But for the younguns I get it. The housewives? My lip is curling up and I'm side-eyeing a bit... at least for back then. Plus his fandom came off like too many I've encountered that treat white men and their characters like they are infallible, but need protecting somehow?.... Again it added to that little boy sense of him. Since then, (in my parasocial speculations), he's acquired some wrinkles and wisdom and learned that what he thought he had in all that Hollywood attention, wasn't "real" and now he actually does seem attractive because he's a grown man, now. Now, it's if Gene WIlder and Lee Pace could have a middle-aged baby, it would be Tom. All those things that drew such a following back then came off as performative and people-pleasing to me. The lack of boundaries, the talking over people, and going on and on... My grandma would have said he was smelling his upper lip. He was academically intelligent but often came off as socially naive, IMO, and I think most could infer the most naive stumbles he made in that era...*ahem* Zawe was one of many Black women from before I knew of Tom who I rooted for in the industry. ... Many of whom, you don't see much anymore, sadly. But the difference in their journey IMO & her accomplishments w/o the money, gender, and racial privileges her partner has, says a lot about the kind of character Zawe possesses. Again, parasocial! ... but I see a man who encountered a grown woman not enamored by or deeply entangled in the industry but had carved out her own path despite lacking all those things the industry demands you have to have, to succeed. A smart person would be impressed by that and her authentic kindness, sense of humor, intelligence, and joy in what she does...on top of being what he likes physically (we not gonna act like that man does not always ping or have the best onset chemistry when a leggy woman is around).

He's a leg-locked king (apologies or you're welcome for the imagery). He seems to be a gentleman and Zawe is not one of his little fangirls. They come across as equally enamored, and grown, and I would like to think they have a healthy loving partnership. Which makes them both extremely lucky.

#tom was steven universe as a child #skipping around singing giant woman #and then he got one as an adult #tom and zawe #meta #ask #I turned it wholesome and educational I hope #but seriously leave zawe alone #tom hiddleston #zawe ashton #also that man can only dance well to the white gaze #he dances like a typical white guy #...he can work his hips tho

[perhaps-in-anotherdream]

[CN] Victor’s Upcoming Date!

“Regarding those matters, I’ve been contemplating giving you the answers, too.”

—

#PUDDIIIINNNGGG!!! BOI HAS GROWN SO MUCH SINCE WE LAST SAW HIS CG!!! 🥺🥺 #poor boi looks like he doesn't wanna be declawed tho 🤣🤣 but Vic’s gentle gaze!! HE IS SO FCKING GENTLE MOM 😭 #his floofy hair too!! 😭❤️ and the camel!! 🥹 #mlqc victor #mlqc li zeyan #mlqc #mr love victor #mr love queen's choice #李泽言 #恋与制作人 #love and producer #mlqc cn #mlqc spoilers #mlqc translations

[autoboros]

Somehow amidst my crippling art block my brain allowed me to do one(1) thing and it was this

#gaze upon my creatures #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon ocs #inkling #octoling #art #splatoon meme #i guess #strangely happy with how this turned out even tho im probably gonna be discontent by next week