#extremely friend shaped

[katabay]

trains :)

this is a very rough and scribbly comic, but sometimes that's all a comic is going to end up being lmao. the guy with the jacket is darren, glasses is andy. not featured, andy's dead brother who nevertheless insists on haunting the subtext

the main thing I wanted to draw was the train tho

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app

#darren and andy's brother were best friends and darren was there when andy's brother died #and made a very normal promise to always look out for andy. unfortunately. it's a little. hmmmm. suffocating! a decade later! #not that darren's been looking after andy for ten years. they were on opposite ends of a fictional planet #but in the way that andy's in love with darren and would be fine with dramatic declarations of 'i have to keep you safe' if they were #not attached to his dead brother. like. if that's the only reason he gets to hear words like that he would like to Not Hear Them thanks! #also andy is an extremely dangerous person in his own right so it's also like. hmm. hmmmmm. #it's messy. the death of andy's brother defined darren in a kind of way so the prospect of having to re define himself #without the absence of andy's brother to shape that is Unpleasant to think about #thankfully they're both going to be stuck on this fucking train for a significant amount of time! for my enjoyment!!! its train time baby! #long post #komiks tag #original tag

[yardsards]

clint mcelroy creating a dnd character: oh yeah, this bad boy can fit so much simple zest for life in him

#eliot posts #taz #the adventure zone #merle highchurch #zoox anthellae #ive not listened to graduation yet (and idk if i ever will) so idk if this applies to argo or not #i remember so little of amnesty and am only 10 eps into steeplechase so i can't speak for the non dnd campaigns either #it's funny how a lot of people's ttrpg characters often have common themes in them #me and my friend john from our irl dnd group were talking about that and it's like #alicia plays the most Friend Shaped girls imaginable. caleb's Cause Problems On Purpose. julia's are sassy and tend to do their own thing #john's are edgy in theory but extremely friend shaped and caring in practice. and i tend to play The Mom Friend. #not ALWAYS but pretty often. and basically always they're just really looking for human connection (whether they know/accept it or not) #even my goddamned PISS WIZARD is quickly careening towards mom friend territory??? somehow??? #very few people tolerate him so he's protective of those who do. even if it's mostly just a coworkers situation in the party #and most of the party is So Fucking Stupid #it's a very hilarious party composition overall. just 5 guys all thinking ''wow. what a bunch of freaks. good thing i'm normal :)'' #and the only one who is REMOTELY accurate in that assessment is the cleric whose catchphrase has quickly become #''hey. don't look at me. i just work with them.''

[communistkenobi]

I’m curious if other communists have like a religious relationship to their political beliefs for lack of a better word? That’s not a good word to use but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m solidly atheist but all of the feelings and emotions religious people talk about, revelation and spiritual connection to community and so on are all things I experience pretty regularly and I interpret those feelings as fundamentally communist. the way I take in and absorb information in particular feels revelatory in a religious sense. I’m pretty sure this is fairly common with MLs but I’m curious about it in general

#disabling rbs because I don’t want this to leave my blog #I’m using religious in a deliberately loaded way because I lack the language for alternatives #I joke frequently with my friend that communism is the religion of science but like I do unironically believe that lol #also not claiming marxism is ‘just another religion’ I do not think that’s true or useful to think of it in those terms #but if you take political theology seriously the belief in a socialist state is like the modern version of a desire for religious authority #anyway sorry extremely complicated things that I’m not remotely expanding on enough #I’ve just been thinking about it a lot recently #it’s like a totalising force in my life and shapes the way I interpret and understand the world and my relationship to it #I remember reading marx for the first time and in a very real sense I ‘converted’ to being a communist #I need to read more Benjamin because he goes into like jewish mythology and stuff in his work #but like him talking about the divine violence of the state made it click for me and is partly responsible for me making this post

[screwpinecaprice]

I know it’s not a question but i can’t help but appreciate the fact that you draw adult Steven as a chubby guy! We big boys need some positive representation in here. Also, i’ve been following you for almost a year now!

Btw sorry for my English lol.

Hi! It's very pleasing to know you've been around for as long! 😁😁😁 I absolutely appreciate the appreciation! And no worries, your English is super fine! 😁 (Relatable actually. I am also apologizing in advance if I can't exactly have my point clearly across because I'm not well at English myself! lmao)

It took me quite some time to learn how to draw chubby characters but it's so satisfying to have eventually. ( *`u*) (I mean, there's still so much to learn, but still.)

Having a chubby main protagonist is so wonderful to have. And a good kid at that. (Ngl I'm attracted to kindness. haha So of course it's very important to me that he's fat AND kind.)

Also design-wise, I personally think it fits his character so well. Soft and huggable, shaped like a friend. Thick arms to hug people with snuggly. Body wide like a shield. etc. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And I just really like to capture these elements when I draw him as an adult. Also that it's just fun to draw.

Simply personal thoughts about it, nothing against any other ways he's being portrayed by others of course.

#And it's not even because English isn't my first language. Just generally bad at language. RIP #I had this conversation with someone once where they headcanon he'd get lower back pains if he slim down because of how his gem will #poke or stab his spine #I really like that he's chubby/fat just because. and that he's happy and confident about it #but him being fat not entire by choice is an interesting angle to look at. #I mean obviously he's naturally chubby because of DNA too but you get when I mean. or I hope you do. ;u; #Yo I had a theory.... or at least a headcanon about how his gem is arranged inside his body and how it's practically designed so it can be #passed down eventually without killing him. But I never get to a cohesive written explanation about it so I kept procrastinating. #I like to think the Pink Diamond gem will become like an heirloom. But I digress. #Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #I guess implied connverse #connverse #TFW growing up in media where 'look at us we're different but we are all friends!' And the differences were just personalities and status i #society but the body shapes are practically the same. 😆 #They were the same shape because the merch used the same mold. ^^; But I think that contributed to messing up my perception. #Like. The level of unawareness I had in drawing fat characters is crazy back then. #when I thought I drew a chubby character but the reality was that she was still slim! I still have her saved in my Deviant Art account #Nobody would've known because she's my OC. #If I were to argue with that past me that she's not chubby. Past me would be extremely confused because she is totally convinced that she #drew a chubby character. Mind you I was above 18 then too. #I had another OC I wanted to be really chunky but I was so bad at it that I found an excuse why she's so slim so I can avoid drawing chunky #I did eventually made her chunky but I almost never posted any of my OCs lol. She also have a black and pink theme. 🤔 #Same with skin color but it happened in my own Sona. I have a tan skin tone and I thought I gave my Sona the same skin...but like... Bruh. #I'm even looking at it now. That is kinda pale. RIP #It still baffles me how different I've been seeing thing in the past. Eugh I'm digressing again. :/ #sc answers #ask #luisnavarro04 #meme

[girderednerve]

all these leftists casually like "we won't have plastic after the revolution" okay i get it & i endorse this set of priorities but just consider how entrenched plastics are in vital industries. i've seen acknowledgment that some medical devices are plastic & will still be needed but what about my squishable realistic packer. what about my dick, guys

#dont even get me STARTED on the one shaped like a bug or whatever. that's a medical device okay juice those dinosaurs. for HEALTH #i am joking extremely here but i am serious about how wildly & frighteningly entrenched plastics are in every industry #& how complex some of these competing imperatives & priorities are. i don't think a leftist vision which is genuinely responsive #to climate emergency need answer these questions ftr! there is no 'after the revolution' only the continual product of our actions. imho. #anyway how's your tuesday night #tmi but we are all friends here & we love jokes :) #fake transing for clout

[umbrify]

Hey guys. This is my minecraft city, Frostwatch :]

More under the cut!

Here's some more of the city itself, at various times. you can see the main city platform with the bridge and the mountain, as well as some shots of the coliseum, which is the big round building.

This is inside the coliseum, and the main battle arena

And then this is the tavern, perhaps a bit unassuming because there's not much around it yet, but it has one of my favorite interiors

And here's a close up of the town hall building on the main city platform, as well as a cool shot of light coming through the stained glass window at the end of the bridge

There's a couple other things around that I forgot to take pictures of, but yeah! That's my empire, Frostwatch

#umbrify talks #hi guys. builds be upon ye #sky smp #<- thats the server i play on :] #also yes that nether portal is an extremely illegal shape we have a datapack #all built in survival! most with the help of my lovely friends that i play with :] #either in material gathering or the building itself #and its far from done! i just thought these shaders made it look so so cool and i wanted to share #shaders are complimentary reimagined bw if anyone was wondering

[lostboywriting]

Gosh, what a happy and pleasant episode! Downright cuddly, even. Not at all horrific or viscerally upsetting in any way, nope, no, nuh-uh.

#tmagp vague #extremely friend-shaped honestly

[loppiopio]

an imitation of the cheap variety

#durarara #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #shizaya #a cheap imitation #i made a thing #ehe it's like a parady of one of the saw movie posters a friend sent me a while back #the one with the hanging teeth #and i also absolutely took reference from the way @shigaeru draws izaya's knives #i just really like the distinct shape he gives them #also since this is aci that knife design is kinda burned into my mind as the aci knife design whoops #the colours are also pulled and tweaked from that comic's first volume cover #the red bg is very iconic and fitting for this sort of thing and the blue shading looks really pretty with it..... #this whole thing is extremely derivative as you can see #i wanted to adjust more with the piece but i make my best art in the very first burst of loosely slapping stuff down #trying to clean anything up from there is futile #so i tweaked some things and just had to make myself share it as is #i wanted to make it clearer how the blade is cutting into the fabric but i couldn't figure it out :( #i hope you can still manage to derive the intended symbolism from it lol #i had this idea a while back but decided to use #shizayaweek2023 #free day #as a deadline to help motivate myself to actually try it #it's still late but whatever #throwing it up at the door rn #okay i actually sat on this for a few extra days just because of the horrific compression cursed upon it on upload #why??? #i could not win no matter how small i made it #i have no clue how to fix it so now it just looks like that i'm sorry ;o; #maybe i'll try posting it somewhere else as well idk

[randomwriteronline]

It was so warm and tender that he thought he might have died.

It was a fleeting thought, bursting from his chest with the rustle of a small bird's wings as it left him only a heart beating fast and gentle, and a splendid unknown with curious eyes looking up as it laid beneath him.

Could he have described it? Oh, he didn't know; he wasn't enough of an artistic soul to do such a thing justice with his words. If he was forced to wrack his brain about it, he would have said it was incomplete: like a sketch left unfinished, the vague shape of an anatomical structure made of sand abandoned at the cruel mercy of the rising tide, some new flavor of sublime.

But he didn't want to think, and all he could describe it as was handsome.

He leaned down upon it, basking in the heat and light and barely completed physicality. His hand brushed the cheek, pressure causing its infinite pieces to crumble before they returned to their rightful place.

So handsome, he muttered as he settled between the ever shifting legs. So handsome.

The marvelous being looked at him with the gleaming eyes of a puzzled child beholding a strange rite for the first time.

"What is this?" it asked.

"Oh, we've got names for it," he replied: "Some crass or mean or downright silly."

He sunk into the body of multitudes like one sinks in a warm, dense liquid, with a pleasant mellow resistance enveloping him wholly; his gorgeous partner gasped without a mouth, and its arms melted briefly as it was taken by surprise. He kissed its forehead kindly, feeling its fluid chest lurch slowly forward for an overwhelmed second before deflating so sweetly.

"If you like it, we can call it making love," he said with a smile.

The body beneath him raised to surround him.

"I do," his wonderful lover replied breathlessly, wrapping him within itself slowly, limbs rising to consume him, swallow him, with such magnificent tenderness, and on its yet to be drawn face bloomed something akin to watercolor blush beneath its shining eyes: "I do like it - I do like it very much."

He moved forward, sliding without opposition deeper within the gentle mound covering him, embracing him slowly.

It felt sweet, and good, and just like he'd imagined it, or almost; the strange non-existence of the body he pierced at such a deliberate pace felt welcoming despite the peculiarity, the fleeting sensation as it barely clasped around him like a spectre's shadow upon a wall - but after all, he could not expect the taking of a formless minor god to feel too similar to that of a creature of flesh and blood.

A blissful sigh grazed his face through a cloud of mild golden embers.

"I like it so, my friend," the wondrous beast whispered, its voice propagating through him in long waves: "I do like it - I truly do like it so, my friend, truly, truly..."

He was slow, so slow, so gentle, as he kept going, going, going, sinking further and further down in that barely held together shape that kept enveloping him with relaxed coils as if trying to turn him into another part of itself - here he was, inching slowly along its stomach, digging in its faux entrails to fill it up completely, kind and warm and loving, moving into its chest where a quiet thrumming spasmed rhythmically through the sand-like form while it curled around him, covering every single inch of him, leaving a sensation so indescribably good across his skin.

He leaned down to kiss where its mouth should have been and felt a pair of lips kiss back.

"I love it - I love it, I do," it breathed through him, overwhelmed by something too delightful to explain: "I do, I do, I do."

In a moment, he was swallowed up completely.

The splendid creature exhaled through his lungs, long and quiet, as they both unwound.

"I do," they both repeated longingly, bodies and minds muddled together imperfectly like too much syrup in too little water, distinct but not for long: "I do. I do."

His hand reached out.

Something akin to another palm caught it.

He held onto his marvelous lover for a long while, feeling it pulse over him slowly.

"How wonderful," it sighed through him, smitten.

He laughed quietly, just as lovestruck.

"How wonderful indeed." he whispered through it.

The dream kept going - longer than it should have, really; the shapeless body enveloping him held him down, close to the unknowable core of the gorgeous chimera in his grasp, until their thoughts began clearing from the humid mist overtaking them again, until their forms began to divide enough to be pulled apart from each other again, until he could see those magnificent eyes clearly again (half-lid and heavy and gleaming with the soft sheen of velvet, taking all the time in the world to return from their bliss), until he could feel the hand gently resting on his nape as something outside himself again, until the invisible mouth that met him halfway to a kiss was one with his own in a manner different from the inexplicable unity that had bound them again.

He felt a quiet sigh curl upon his cheeks, just for a moment, warm and tired. Then his sublime partner closed its wonderful eyes, breathing deeply, fast asleep - and Ackar woke up still groggy, with his body half aching from moving in ways it hadn't enjoyed in a long while now, as Mata Nui slumbered deeper still in his own rest, exhausted from making love.

#bionicle #mata nui #ackar #random writing #suggestive #local man mistakes passionate night with his friend Yaldabaoth the Demiurge for sexy dream (in his defense he was literally dreaming) #literally. just Some Guy going down on a false god extremely tenderly and not realizing This Is Happening For Real #one day hell realize and go ohhh my god wait. he lives in dreams. oh my god. OH my GOD i didnt even fucking ask for his CONSENT #(slams head on wall) (passes out) (visits mata nui) IM SORRY I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS *REAL* I THOUGHT I WAS JUST SLEEPING I SHOULD HAVE ASKED #mata nui forgives him bc tbf thats a pretty normal assumption for anyone whos not a minor god forcibly having 2 sleep within a mask to make #also welcome to yet another iteration of my fav trope for OG Form Mata Nui being a Vague Shape Possibly Made Of Light And/Or Sand #in this case coming to save me because i Cannot Write Sexy Details lest i Die Forever due to repulsion

[aeide-thea]

poäng appreciation post 💛

#i forget if i said but Baby Sister and i stopped off at ikea on the way back from picking her up at the bus stop on monday #and finally replaced the ruined-by-a-succession-of-cats-(in-ways-both-unsightly-and-gross) Accent Chair in the living room #with a poäng rocker (bc the shape is a little more interesting and less instantly recognizable than the regular chair) in birch (my beloved #also they make fancy tufted cushions for it now! wish they came in more colors but it's a real improvement on sad options past #and anyway it's like. now you can actually sit here in the morning and look out the window at the extremely beautiful view #and the chair actually supports you??? like i could see down the road trying to work out some kind of custom cushioning that's thicker #but the shape of the frame is so ergonomic for me that it's genuinely quite comfortable regardless. bentwood exocorset… #anyway. not a very original post but i just DO really love ikea #like yes it's a mixed bag but also honestly if you're buying particle board— #(i was going to say 'and expecting it to hold up' but. honestly i think it's just. if you're buying particle board period) #—that might be on you. #(like. if you're being pressed in from all sides by budget constraints and immediate need and no accessible better-made used alternatives— #obviously you do what you have to. but it's like buying pleather—you know‚ or should‚ that the material is going to disintegrate.) #but the things ikea makes with decent materials are remarkably well-designed and affordable for what they are‚ has been my sense? #you just gotta shop carefully but like. that's true literally everywhere. #anyway. in conclusion i love my new buddy with its clean lines. …do people name chairs ever. #i've never before had the urge but this one feels like a little assembly-line friend that deserves its own identity. like a star wars clone #(lol what if i gave it a little nametag somewhere hidden. secret identity talisman 4 chairpal.) #(& yes i promise i'm as aware of the‚ uh‚ itself-ness of this tag spiral as you are. :) ) #domesticities

[emuwarum]

the other character I was unable to find for a while. Finally found it in the depths of my art folders within art folders (no clue why past me put it there)

#Emu does art #here we go the vague shape guys #this one is extremely sad and frustrated #Aka I had a meltdown at swimming class and drew this sometime afterwards #actually probably why I hid it #didn’t make me so happy after drawing it #it does now though #i also was this character in a dream and had to hide from people chasing me #wearing sunglasses and a scarf #there were friends too but we got separated and I got caught and the dream ended #these funky colour guys.. they mean a lot for me #my first representations of people but without faces #I was focusing on the character rather than them having a face #my first proper attempts to have a humanoid subject in my digital art in a whole piece #rather than individually drawing the face #there are roughly four humans I’ve drawn but I don’t like them a whole lot now #necromancer and deathbird boots will haunt me slightly #proud of trying to do that though #there is also two similar character to these guys I’ve drawn before #but I don’t like the concept very much and it was long ago #anyways I love you my characters. Goop characters. I will reblog on the others in tags what they are like

[humanmorph]

i enjoy alekest & pickman friendship theyre fun to me. i hope when 2angfielle starts* shes just been hanging out with him having a probably stressful time what with the. wall city falling and heartland spreading but youknow

#*in a year or so because palisade will be such a long season smile #i still cant think of a way the blackwick group would get back together. like. #they all went their extremely separate ways and it ruled. there was a whole epilogue about it. #my guess is something similar to cascara after the tm midseason finale brining the notion together? #but who even. nay i dont have an idea #rosa rambles #theyre just so coworkers and occasionally friends(some of them) #pickman and alekest are friends and occasionally coworkers on account of both being shape knights

[ozymandiasdirge]

kaku is soooooo 🥺🥺🥺 in the ten panels he’s been in so far i love him why do i have to be cursed with the knowledge that he’s a world government shill

#he’s shaped like a friend someone introduce him to some literature #one piece #please let me have gaslit myself about that spoiler being realll #unfortunately he’s hanging out with lucci #who while being extremely hot has the same philosophy as immanuel kant….unfortunate

[blujayonthewing]

shoutout to millipedes and centipedes for sorting their vibes out so efficiently. one of them is a small slow shy gentle friend and one of them is BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU and when you look at them you can instantly tell

#as a spider enthusiast far be it for me to slander centipedes I'm sure they're lovely creatures in their own way #this is mostly about me as a child wanting to pick up millipedes all the time and wanting NOTHING TO DO with centipedes #and then growing up and learning that centipedes do in fact bite and many species are in fact venomous #thank you for communicating that to me so clearly when I was six #millipedes and centipedes are like a textbook example of friend shaped vs villain coded creature design #it's honestly really funny to me like-- #you see one of those giant bright red centipedes that are extremely dangerous and it's like 'okay isn't this a BIT heavy handed??'

[jaekaicx]

i just finished playing in stars and time the other day, and because everything has to come back to amphibia, im thinking about the calamity trio and timeloops.....

#isat spoilers in the tags #gonna ramble a bit in the tags but before i do that #isat is a really cool game that you should totally check out if its ur type of thing #and i wanna talk about spoilers #so consider this a warning #anyways. i keep thinking about specifically marcy and siffrin #the way that they both held on so tightly to their closest and only friends #how they were both so scared of losing those friends and the extremes they went to in order to make sure they wouldnt #but then also how all three of the calamity trio were so codependent towards each other at some point #how they all held so much fear - in some shape or form - of losing the others. of being left behind #like im very biased towards marcy so he's always gonna be my first thought #but also theres that one sasha timeloop fic that left a permanent dent in my brain #and theres all the sasha and siffrin parallels... how they both were so desperate for control #for some sense of agency. for security. #....i feel so bad about not adding something about anne #but. i'll be real. marcy and sasha are the main ones that are. in my brain. with this. #but uh. yeah #the isat brainworms. the amphibia brainworms. theyre plaguing me. #(​i hope this doesnt show up in the main tags-) #j rambles #k.txt