#There are more drawings I might post them later

[stromuprisahat]

The climax of Malyen's two-person blame train

Siege and Storm- Chapter 18

Starting here, I've analysed Malyen's outburst about losing Alina to her importance. I've saved the end for new post, because Aleksander gets dragged in the middle of it, and uses it accordingly.

Ironically, his tantrum only makes Alina feel so lonely she unwittingly reaches out to Aleksander.

And he turns it against her, slightly twisting the facts she doesn't know how else to interpret.

Why is he immediately offended?

Alina's obviously struggling with something, why isn't he worried FOR her? Why only bark "What?" and draw conclusion she's somehow treating him unjustly? They've just discussed she has a lot on her shoulders, but when she doesn't melt as soon as he kisses her, she's rejecting him?!

Even his body language is aggressive.

How can someone, who claims he ~cares~ about Alina as a person, jump to conclusions so quickly?! And force their view, as if they already agreed on it.

He only cares about how will he look if she dumps him.

Reading it over and over- All the time I was standing there, going on like a fool.- the wording makes it sound as if he weren't speaking just about his declaration, but more generally.

Cunty cunt pokes the wound while fresh, entangling it with his own words to make sure Alina remembers he's always right.

Another unfunded conclusion.

It's funny how it's always Alina unable to control her pussy. It never occurs to him she might realize he sucks and dump him without another man involved.

... hoping that you’d miss ME enough to tell them all to go to hell. "Supportive" boyfriend, hoping his girl will get sick of her duties enough to abandon everything AGAIN, and run off with him, because nothing matters more than him.

*giggling*

He just can't shut up, can he?

(Where else isn't he able to shut up?)

Alina finally finds the courage to tell him about her hallucinations, and Malyen demonstrates, why was she reluctant to tell him in the first place.

This is one of many reasons, why I don't believe Alina's "happy" post-R&R. The only close person she has left is Malyen, who:

a.) Hated her being Grisha, so how could he ever get even close to getting a whit of understanding of what was taken from her.

b.) Hates the Darkling being as much as mentioned. He has no clue what's binding him and Alina together, and never wants to hear about any of it.

c.) Just the fact he basically calls Alina Darkles' whore, and a month, two later it doesn't occur to him she might still harbor illicit feelings for him.. there's a new guy, right?! She totally forgot about that first one...

And he doesn't even let her finish a damn sentence.

He doesn't care what's wrong. He doesn't care what's going on. He doesn't care about Alina's feelings. She didn't fall over his neck, all excited, wet and willing, so she doesn't want him. She's just leading him on. Humiliating him... HIM, HIM, HIM...

Funny, how Alina's either whore, or a pathetic inexperienced virgin (derogatory, if you didn't notice), depending on what's easier to shame her with.

And Alina takes all the blame and necessary work on herself.

Alone, she falls apart. Shaky not only due to her duties, but lacking support of the only person she lets close.

Awww, when they comfort the other...

No, but I think this is genuine. On one hand Aleksander wants Alina for himself, but he also realizes the amount of pain she'll have to weather as long as she feels "so strongly" and clings to people, who can never understand her. Or in SOMEONE's case don't even want to.

#Grishaverse #S&S Chapter 18 #Alina Starkov #The Darkling #Darklina #The Tether #Malyen Oretsev #grishanalyticritical #self centred and paranoid #Siege and Storm #Grisha trilogy #V #books #quotes #Leigh Bardugo #anti Malina #anti Mal

[nohoperadio]

My favourite author is Iris Murdoch.

I don't think I have favourites in any other category, it feels like a bit of an artificial concept usually, but it would be silly to deny this one. I was halfway through my first Murdoch novel (at age 20 or so) when I felt certain I was going to have to read them all (there are 26). My feeling was that I would have stayed true to that even if every other book she wrote had been terrible. I'm sure that's not true, but I say it to illustrate that she inspired a deep and irrational loyalty in me very early on that hasn't waned over time. I've been reading between one and three of her books per year since I started, deliberately spreading them out so as not to deplete a valuable resource too soon, although presumably I'll just start rereading them at the same rate after I've finished. I've read 21 out of 26 so far.

Maybe someday I'll have something to say on here about what draws me to her books so strongly. Not right now though. What I want to say today is that I usually like her opening lines very much, she often starts with some very punchy compact moment that feels weirdly complete already even as it clearly stands in need of unpacking, if that makes sense to anyone else. This post is going to be simply a compilation of some good ones. Let's say 10 of the best, in no particular order.

I'm defining "opening lines" as not literally just the first sentence but enough to cover the first self-contained "moment" of the book, which is a bit of a judgment call for sure but you can be confident I've judged correctly in every case. For The Philosopher's Pupil (but no others) I've blatantly cheated by entirely skipping a sort of prologue chapter because I think the opening of the next chapter is both more opening-like and more compelling, I acknowledge that this is illegitimate but you'll just have to deal with it. Okay here goes.

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The Unicorn

'How far away is it?'

'Fifteen miles.'

'Is there a bus?'

'There is not.'

'Is there a taxi or a car I can hire in the village?'

'There is not.'

'Then how am I to get there?'

'You might hire a horse hereabouts,' someone suggested after a silence.

---

An Accidental Man

'Gracie darling, will you marry me?'

'Yes.'

'What?'

---

The Bell

Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason.

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The Philosopher's Pupil

I am the narrator: a discreet and self-effacing narrator. This book is not about me.

---

Bruno's Dream

Bruno was waking up. The room seemed to be dark. He held his breath, testing the quality of the darkness, wondering if it was night or day, morning or afternoon. If it was night that was bad and might be terrible. Afternoon could be terrible too if he woke up too early. The drama of sleeping and waking had become preoccupying and fearful now that consciousness itself could be so heavy a burden.

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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The boy was there again this morning, and the dogs were not barking.

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A Fairly Honourable Defeat

'Julius King.'

'You speak his name as if you were meditating upon it.'

'I am meditating upon it.'

'He's not a saint.'

'He's not a saint. And yet—'

---

The Message to the Planet

'Of course we have to do with two madmen now, not with one.'

'You mean Marcus is mad too?'

'No, he means Patrick is mad too.'

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The Red and the Green

Ten more glorious days without horses!

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The Sea, The Sea

The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine. With the tide turning, it leans quietly against the land, almost unflecked by ripples or by foam. Near the horizon it is a luxurious purple, spotted with regular lines of emerald green. At the horizon it is indigo. Near to the shore, where my view is framed by rising heaps of humpy yellow rock, there is a band of lighter green, icy and pure, less radiant, opaque however, not transparent. We are in the north, and the bright sunshine cannot penetrate the sea. Where the gentle water taps the rocks there is still a surface skin of colour. The cloudless sky is very pale at the indigo horizon which it lightly pencils in with silver. Its blue gains towards the zenith and vibrates there. But the sky looks cold, even the sun looks cold.

I had written the above, destined to be the opening paragraph of my memoirs, when something happened which was so extraordinary and so horrible that I cannot bring myself to describe it even now after an interval of time and although a possible, though not totally reassuring, explanation has occurred to me. Perhaps I shall feel calmer and more clear-headed after yet another interval.

#sometimes you gotta make a too long post that's entirely just for you you know? #nohopereadio #uninteresting #iris murdoch

[theautotrophic]

my girl Violette!!!!

Dumping all the lore I have about my stupid little girlfailure bisexual radiostatic fankid <<<3333

So basically, she's a loser, a fossil, and I don't mean to sound hostile - but the demon is a coward >>:D

She's an absolute LOSER GIRLFAILURE just like her dad <3

Idk know how to explain it honestly, like, just think of the biggest, most dumbest of ass, girl loser you can think of and that's her

Just an absolutely deranged loser idiot

She runs a company with her brother Veer (maybe streaming or smth 🤔🤔 I haven't figured it out yet). She's the "creative mind" (kills people) and he's the brains behind the operation

A company name I thought of might be Viedio Enterprises?

For her powers they're a bit of a mixture between Vox and Alastor

She can travel via shadows the same as Alastor

She can use other people's shadows to puppeteer them

She's got a connection to the Internet and television the same as Vox because of her head and antenna

Can play things through her radio and on her screen and manipulate devices around her

Connection to radiowaves

She can probably traverse the Internet

Can corrupt technology

Basically, she would be an extremely powerful overlord if she wasn't such an idiot

I think I'm gonna have like two different timelines for this AU since I couldn't decide if I wanted them to be adults or kids when the hotel opens and Alastor returns after 7 years

Cause I think it would be really funny if Vox accidentally created her (and her brother Veer who I'll probably post for later once I actually make a good drawing of him) while Alastor was away for seven years and Alastor comes back and learns he has kids and is like "how the fuck-"

But also their adult personalties are so fun and I'd love to think about how they would react to Alastor going missing for 7 years (cause if they were adults he def would have raised them with Vox) and I just think the potential in that AU is more fun, while them being kids I can just think of a lot of art and funny moments to draw

So, in the case where they're younger Vox would accidentally create them a few months after Alastor has left when he's super desperate to find him. He would be like doing some type of demonic magic summoning circle type shit to try and summon Alastor or find out where he is but he has actually no idea what he's doing. So he's got like this whole setup sort of thing with like his blood and Alastor's hair in this wholeass satanic circle. And so he does the spell. And instead of summoning Alastor it like combines their DNA and BOOM, congrats ur a single father now. And now Vox just has two kids to raise. (Yes I thought of all this just because mpr3g makes me uncomfy (but also this scenario is both very funny and kind of sad to me and I will be drawing it at some point. probably)).

OR

if they were older, like in their twenties by the time Alastor comes back idk Vox would probably still accidentally create them somehow I'd have to think about it

So yeah ill probably just do both versions and do what I want

Anyways! Send me asks about her if you'd like I'd love to talk about her :]

#hazbin hotel #fankid #fanchild #radiostatic #staticradio #staticlovetune #voxal #my art #Violette radiostatic fankid #I love her sm #why she ourple #she has an emo furry gf btw #if u even care

[raspberryflo]

Various magnus archives drawings I did while listening to it (I stopped at mag 101 for unguessable reasons)

#the magnus archives #tma #art #erm okay theres a lot of characters. how do I tag these #michael distortion #gerard keay #jonathan sims #sasha james #helen distortion #gertrude robinson #There are more drawings I might post them later

[splickedylit]

You can't fight the role the Mother had in store for you

#Homestuck #Karkat Vantas #Eridan Ampora #Sollux Captor #Gamzee Makara #Kanaya Maryam #Aradia Megido #Tavros Nitram #Feferi Peixes #Terezi Pyrope #Vriska Serket #Equius Zahhak #Splickedydoodles #I started drawing Karkat last night at like nine PM and then I pretty much blacked out and woke up with these at eight AM #this style is VERY fun and relaxing to work in it turns out it's been a minute since I got in my flow that hard for a piece of art #keeping my shit fast and loose!!! painting all on one layer and going by the Vibes!!! #anyway here's these I might have to queue them to post later tonight too haha #I'm not good enough at delayed gratification to just wait till later when more people are on and I need to go to bed tbh

[dispotatorulzz]

Queen and Laz plus some little pages !!!

Lazarus looks kinda bald but there is like nothing I can do about it hes just built like that . ALSO !!! Lazarus is a bigger pony Queen is just an alicorn (big)

I hope we get to see some of grefgore destroying someone with that sword he was given what happened to it even

#jrwi the suckening #the suckening #jrwi grefgor #jrwi shilo #jrwi soda #jrwi emizel #Laz looks like hes tiny and also balding man cannot win/lh #i promise he is like one of my favourites i wanna give him a kis s #i really like the idea of emizel drawing angry eyebrows on his cutie mark to make it seem cooler its so silly #i MIGHT do edward twilight later(no promises !!!) #ALSOOOO. ive had these pages done for a bit i did Not do all this in two days LMAOOOOO #i would talk about them more but i dont wanna make the post to long </3 #if you have questions about design reasons for them (or any of my ponies for that matter) just ask i probably have a reason #MyArt

[baloooga]

Tween Sparrow brain rot

#listen #I drew so much sparrow today #I have more #I might post more later #she’s just so fun to draw I adore them #sparrow oak garcia #sparrow oak #dndads #dungeons and daddies

[rainblescake]

me when the ship wrecks 64 idk I didn't play the game

#rainbsart #shipwrecked 64 #shipwrecked64 #broadside beach #bucky beaver #walter walrus #giovanni goose #olive otter #not really happy w bucky i might change him later lol #you can really tell the first one was my first attempt at drawing these guys lol #theyre really fun to though i think im gonna draw them more often #I REALIZED LIKE A DAY AFTER I POSTED THIS THAT WALTER HAS BOOTS NOT SHORTS FML #LMAOOO

[arcadeplayer-nickonz]

Happy Valentine's from us to you! - Hazbin crew ♥️

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #charlie morningstar #alastor #vaggie #angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin hotel niffty #happy valentines #probably one of my biggest drawings yet! super proud with how it turned out #SHH I KNOW AL'S POWERS ARE GREEN IT'S FOR THE AESTHETIC- #and of course it ended up taking longer because i tweaked the designs here and there- why? cuz it's fun #i might just use them when i draw the crew from now on! #also holy shit believe me i had more planned for valentines day but things got hectic.. alas maybe i'll post the sketches at a later date #anyway hope you folks had a lovely valentines day :] #AND ESPECIALLY MY FELLOW ARO FOLK!! #nickonzart

[skizabaa]

Magma doodles: featuring portal au doodles, a random moon, and some horror sun designs <3

#skizabaa scribbles #fnaf sb #fnaf daycare attendant #dca portal au #fnaf moondrop #fnaf moon #moondrop fnaf #moondrop #body horror tw #body horrow cw #body horror #fnaf sundrop #sun fnaf #sundrop #the horror designs are literally so much fun to draw... might make an au for it who knows #im such a big fan of body horror in designs... #also there are more magma doodles... I'll post them either later tonight or after the holidays <3 #There are so many magmas now... there were like 4 in one day... fr wish I could join them all #if anyone has name suggestions for the horror sun design/possible au lmk!!

[voidedjuice]

Some sidecharacters from Ilta & Cecily's thing

Cecily's adoptive sibling and Ilta's uncle

#my art #artists on tumblr #oc #original character #my artwork #drawing #traditional art #als an aro ace agender guy cecily picked up when raiding the castle she now lives in #they were working there as a maid & througj various circumstances ended up helping cecily & thus got spared (& later turned) #iltas uncle (name in progress) is just some guy running a motel with a bit too many unusual clients #during his hitman days he got real good at pretending not to notice things hed be better off not knowing so he Doesnt See any of it though #might post more about them later if i feel like it #theyre sorta hanging out in the background of the loops but tbh theyve both got enough stuff going on to be the protags of their own stuff #oc lore #ah yeah feel free to send me asks abt them if they interest you ive got a lot of stuff for them thought out #even if i barely ever draw them :')

[moccasins]

went on a week long trip and ended up drawing a lot so have some of my favorite doodles

i didn't have any references so don't get mad at me if they look wrong lol

#undertale #undertale fandom #undertale sans #undertale au #undertale multiverse #sans undertale #sans the skeleton #undertale art #sans #undertale drawings #error sans #ink sans #killer sans #reaper sans #geno sans #geno x reaper #afterdeath #pen is so hard to draw with but so satisfying #i have more of these but they aren't as good #i might post them later anyway lol

[keyks-art-zone]

MORE FARMWORLD

I am so ill over this universe, someone please sedate me...

#noelle deltarune trauma go brrr #what a nice family i sure hope nothing bad happens to them! :D #fiona and cake #adventure time #fionna and cake #farmworld finn #farmworld huntress wizard #farmworld fionna is kinda hot ngl. might draw more of her later #my post

[glitzybunny]

Assorted Solar Lunacy Doodles! With some minor(?) spoilers for Chap 13 in the small lil bab’ panels at the end-

Honestly might flesh out that Eclipse Drawing if I remember, cause omg

#Solar Lunacy #Fnaf moon #Fnaf sun #Fnaf eclipse #doodles #my art #glitzybunny #moon x y/n #sun x y/n #eclipse x y/n #might draw more later pfff #im obsessed I tell you #long post #I got better at drawing them towards the end #the end being concerned moon #PFFF

[lahmajun]

brine shrimpz, a band from the western splatlands who describe their music as "zombie salmon hip hop"

(original pic,species and more stuff under the cut)

2d: firefly squid murdoc: red devil squid noodle: octoling russel: horned ghost crab

yes i am aware that modern day uk wouldnt really be "western splatlands" in canon (inkadia and im 95% sure the splatlands are in japan) but cmon i think we can all agree that being british is a flaw /hj but seriously i didnt really know where to put them and also idk if like the actual location would define the modern day equivalents of the places if they even have them (if you get what i mean im bad at explaining help) soooo

brine shrimps are a genus of aquatic crustaceans that are also known as sea monkeys

#i love you combining speciql interests together<3 #splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #splatbands #gorillaz #gorillaz 2d #gorillaz noodle #russel hobbs #murdoc niccals #gaz draws stuff #artemiaz #might post more art of them later idk

[albinocapybara]

The suffering that is having concepts for LeshyCat children but also nonexistant art skills to actually make them

#cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl leshy #cult of the lamb leshy #cult of the lamb yellow cat #cotl yellow cat #i straight up dont remember the last time i even tried drawing something #and i never did anything more elaborate than stick figures #i might make a text post later about them if people want