#this is. well its certainly something.

[wazzappp]

Im not fucking alright brother I'm too far gone for this. You're getting magical girl transformations with my attempt at character shit going on buckle up chucklefucks were going to flavortown (<- what).

Alright so I tried to make Robbies transformation subtly different by not having his face tilted down in the initial 'I am a being composed of pure magic holy SHIT' (<- need you to imagine that being said with a slight hillbilly accent idk why but this is necessary in my brain please please) phase. He's actively looking away from his Connection Gem because HES NOT DOWN FOR THIS. He hasn't given up on finding a way out of his contract (details are being discussed, trying to figure out what will deliver the most EMOTIONAL DAMAGE). He's not even wanting to fucking look at it because FUCK Sneli, FUCK the Connection Gem AND FUCK THESE GODAMN HEELED BOOTS (he has rolled his ankle 5 times. his healing factor has been used more for these horrible contraptions than fighting ghosts). His tried and true tradition of 'If I don't look at it, if I just ignore it then it might just go away'.

@cicada-candy bro your fucking johnny design. It fucks SO HARD.

So Johnny is FANTASTIC and like. Slay and everything but theres also some sadness behind that. Johnny hasn't been in control of anything for basically his whole life. He couldn't control his fathers death, couldn't manage (at least at first) his love with Roxanne so FUCK IT. If he cant control his own Fate or appearance anymore either then he is going to own it as much as possible. If he is assigned thigh highs and skirts for the rest of his existence then godamnit he's going to make it look fucking GOOD.

@rokhal YOU. YOU FUCKING DID THIS TO ME. YOU WERE THE ONE WHO MENTIONED DANNY USING HIS MAGICAL GIRL PERSONA TO ESCAPE FROM LIFE. YOUUUUUUUUU. Alright so Dannys whole thing is him shifting and gaining confidence as he does. He starts off facing the left and shifts to the right as he completes his magical girl transformation. He also starts off very curled into himself, like he's protecting his connection gem from something, then slowly starts to take up more space and becomes more confident as he progresses.

FRANK. YOU. WHY WERE YOU SO DIFFICULT. Frank is direct and over this shit. His poses are the simplest and he is ALWAYS facing the "camera". His magical girl transformation isn't something that he enjoys, it's more something that he ENDURES. He would really prefer to just get to the point (fighting ghosts).

Anyway, I hope this is mildly comprehensible. My brain is fuckging. Idk man something is going on and it IS enjoyable but I am afraid that the opening of my skull to the universe is having some negative effects on my ability to communicate. I'm gonna go. Drink some water.

#ghost rider magical girl au #my art #sketch #robbie reyes #danny ketch #frank castle #johnny blaze #this is. well its certainly something. #fuckinggggggggg flavortownnnnnnnnn #god shit fucking damnit I forgot to give johnny his stubble.... ughhHHHHHHH

[russellius]

2024 BAHRAIN GP : P5 | © Sam Bloxham

#george russell #f1 #*m #bahrain gp 2024 #*p #24 #bhr24 #bahrain #(the clash of the 'villain in a big black coat with upturned collar and sharp cheekbones' vs 'absolute pookie' vibes....) #(its certainly something) #(darling boy... you did well out there)

[eddiebabygirldiaz]

no one told me how isolating unmasking would be

#and its certainly...something #like i dont regret it #i dont wanna masking to be my default and i dont wanna be in pain or uncomfortable anymore #but realizing that the ppl in my life have never been exposed to the real unmasked version of me #and finding that most of them dont like that version #well its kinda heartbreaking #and dont get me wrong i do love my alone time #but im also so terribly lonely at the same time #and dont know hoe to fix it bc for most ppl relationships depending on the going out aspect #and lots of that stuff is painful for me and im trying to not force myself to do #so im just left on my own #just wasnt ready for how terrible this would be even tho its also great #autism #ry rambles #probably will delete later

[skitskatdacat63]

Hey, do you remember that really homoerotic scene from Skyfall? No? That's okay, here's a Vettonso version of it :)

- explanation & w/o text:

Hi hello, finally my weird psychosexual relationship with Casino Royale has come to fruition. Yeah this is directly based off a scene from Skyfall, but I def envision the vibe as being more like Casino Royale hehe. I can't believe I made that inspo board for this AU almost 4 weeks ago, and then ended up drawing a four panel "comic" about it. Ahhhh proud of myself, a bit, a tad. I think this took 20+ hours across the span of a week? God. Anyways I digress! The AU!!

First of all, their Bond song would be "My Way of Life" by Frank Sinatra. It's so toxic, codependent and obsessive, I'm in love with it. And it really suits Fernando and his motivations and outlook in this AU. Basically, MI6(in the context of James Bond) in this AU is an analog for Ferrari. It picks theses guys up, tells them that they're Ferrari MI6's most special boy, chews them up, and then spits them out when they're finished extracting all their talent and skill and life force.

Much like with Ferrari, Seb in this AU replaces Fernando after Fernando loses favor and becomes undesirable. Now Seb is the new golden boy, and Fernando has turned to a life of crime! Fernando resents Seb for this of course, but also becomes obsessed with him and the idea of him , and how they are connected. It's weird to watch someone else basically go down your exact same path and unknowingly make all the same mistakes(buying into the mysticism of it all too much, being overly cocky, having naive beliefs and goals, etc.) He is caught between wanting to doom Seb even more but also wanting to "save" him, by corrupting him and convincing him to work together.

Basically: He's both a Bond girl and Bond villain.

Fernando is in such a weird place in this AU. I think he's just very dramatic. Seb is just casually living his best 007(005?) life, and Nando is watching him with binoculars, whispering to himself: "DOESN'T HE UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE NARRATIVE FOILS!?" Yeah he hates Seb, but like the song lyrics say, their lives and dreams are inherently tied up together. He would feel lost without Seb, because Seb basically, unknowingly, destroyed and then took over his life. Maybe he'll feel satisifed if he manipulates Seb into going down the exact same path a bit better.

About the drawings themselves. Still can't believe this scene is a real thing that actually happened, insane to me. But in this AU, after the events of these drawings, Fernando definitely kicked all his henchman out of the room, and fucked Seb in the chair. And then against the wall. And then on the floor. Hey man, Seb is already looking mighty delicious with his unbuttoned attire and being tied up.

I think the general plot would be that Fernando keeps trying to seduce him to the dark side, and Seb keeps making him think it worked, only to escape at the end of the encounter. Leading Fernando to just come up with increasingly more violent and kinky traps. Seb goes along with it(read: enjoys it), leaving Fernando satisifed, only to somehow escape and wink and make kissy faces at Fernando in the process. (Fernando smoking cigarette in bed: "How do I make him stay. Sigh.")

I like to think though that Fernando does win in the end, by realizing, ah wait shit I do need to actually explain my motivations to Seb. And Seb is so worn down by his job, not Fernando, and how he's being treated, that he listens, really actually listens, and realizes Fernando does really have valid reasons. And then they become evil crime husbands yayyyy. Wow you thought this was a espionage AU? Well it is, but just not the outcome you'd expect.

#ah well this was certainly a project.... #rn i feel like im devolving into illness so im glad i could finish this up before it possibly gets worse #this is my magnum opus as of rn. just bcs ive not really drawn such a longform thing for them!! happy w it :) #i think i def like the first one the best #it made me suffer so bad but i think i soften on my own art after a few days #like i finish it and know its 'good' but cant help but critique every little thing #but ive had that one done for almost a week so now i look at it and really love it #i was originally just going to draw that one only but then realized i really like the full dialog so. might as well. #generally i liked this though bcs even if it ws difficult. it was nice to have really direct and clear reference #like ah ik where im going w this rather than it being an image in my head that i cant represent the way that I want #ah anyways all my vettonso aus tend to be just wanting to explore specific dynamics of theirs #and this one is basically how i feel about their mutual relationship to the institution of ferrari and how it affects their dynamic #basically: THEY'RE MIRRORS!!! #there's always something to be said abt nando being resentful abt seb bcs of 2010/2012/etc and then seb taking his seat at ferrari #but then witnessing seb basically go thru the same trials and tribulations and failures at ferrari #and realizing huh wait maybe he's not who i was villianizing him as. maybe hes at my level too. maybe he's not infallible. maybe hes like m #a very bitter nando who has to fight btwn his impulse to ruin seb further or to relate to him and start to like him #so yeah that's ^ basically what i want to portray in this au(just like all AUs tbh) #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #catie.rambling.txt #catie.art. #vettonso #bond au

[no-light-left-on]

I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?

what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?

when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face

#li.txt #dh #dishonored #kinda like the high chaos brigmore witches ending #there is no reason for corvo to kill daud if you finish BW in high chaos. but he still does. because the world Knows #but the very Active choice of the player and by extension the character to take the throne and keep their last family locked in stone.... #its certainly a choice. and it makes me wonder about many a thing #i really wish we got more info #karnaisbear mentioned that itd be cool if we got comics expanding on alternate endings and like arkane. arkane can we please get those #I just really wanna know What It Was Like to live under the rule of Emily or Corvo in the very high chaos endings #and the fact that it seems like they can still free the other person? that adds so much more angst and tension to it #is there a time limit? do years pass and does corvo grow old and weary and thinks that yes #he has done his job and he has done it well. and the empire is righted and he can hand it back to emily now #and he cups her cheek and it remains cold marble #and all he did was for nothing #and he cries #(can u tell ive been reading thru the corvo the black tag) #not to mention something similar to that but with emily!! #imagine she grows old! older than corvo was when he was frozen! #the century is coming to a close when she finally frees him and she is older so much older and corvo will have to live with losing her #in every single impossible way he has lost her #and then he gets to bury his daughter #these tags got so dark wtf

[lucabyte]

I am literally obsessed with everything you do that involves sifloop you are THE sifloop artist to me

thank you!!! it means a lot to hear that haha

I've been like... near exclusively an OC artist for like 8 years at this point so every time i post fanart and ESPECIALLY ship art i feel like i have to fight every screaming cell in my body to post it because i feel like... RUDE? for projecting my own thoughts onto another creator's characters LMAO... so it's reassuring to know people actually like what i'm contributing!!

as for sifloop as a ship. i really should draw more isiloops because . rotates all three of them in my mind. but yeah. I think the thing I like most about the dynamic really is the like... way Siffrin and Loop canonically aggress each other despite an extremely persistent undercurrent of caring about the other not suffering.

Like. the back and forth between Loop constantly talking past/through Siffrin to really painfully insult the pair of them, and things like the [Forgetting Mirabelle's Name] event being so astoundingly gentle. just as a general example. (RNG event that only triggers after certain actions so you may need to look it up)

THEN adding the element of throwing them in postcanon with neither of them wanting to upset the party and thus having to keep a lid on it... I like the potential dynamics of such a painful and conflicted relationship having to be almost hidden and downplayed so as to try and not worry anyone, and thus becoming softer and introspective while still keeping a bunch of the more insidiously toxic behaviour.

Both of them acting with genuine best intentions in mind but still understanding each other to have way *way* more sadness and anger and guilt than they let on, and thus being able to clock it. Both for good and ill. Neither of them enjoy confrontation, but it's almost unavoidable when they KNOW the other knows what they're probably thinking.

. but yeah i just think they're neat! also a bunch of stuff related to asexuality but . shh

#also since. well. i dont know where else im gonna put this. because its CERTAINLY not going in the body of the text #an early way i worded my reading of Loop's characterisation when talking to my friends was: #'Loop is sexually frustrated in the same way as a poorly kept parrot' #WHICH SOUNDS INSANE but hear me out. if you know things about parrots you know they'll imprint on their owners. and it ruins their brains #parrots like this will see humans as potential mates and get AGGRESSIVE when nothing is happening! because... they aren't human. #the 'sexual' part of my reading is a bit of shock hyperbole but i basically mean they are socially/romantically/etc frustrated in this way #they are asexual obviously (... as am i for the record). but yknow. they and siffrin are both still ravenous for physical touch. #and loop... no longer being human. having that disconnect. BEING human FEELING human. but not being. #as well as literally physically lacking the ability for certain things. (staunch 'loop has no mouth and cannot kiss' truther here) #+ i think this is FASCINATING in context of both Siffrin and Loop's asexuality. its something i like thinking about. #two freaks who want intimacy but not in the 'normal' way. again as an ace myself. i think abt it #lucabytetalks #isat spoilers #sifloop

[intertexts-moving]

realized i can literally just draw whatever i want forever.... hualesbians.

#they r both trans.......................... hc is a leather femme dyke she told me herself <3 #this is.. nebulous human/contemporary au.. xl is a disgraced ex-pro martial artist hc is. well she is certainly up to something. #i read rare as the glimmer by euphorion Once & it PERMANENTLY realignedmy brain cells... he/him lesbian hc. ouagh. #<- the reading of this was months ago fwiw. its just been sitting in my brain this whole time #hualian #tgcf #hualesbians #xie lian #hua cheng #mine

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Come on dont be shy, show us the Barnaby x Eddie x Howdy art

we don't bite [At least I don't-]

its almost done its almost done its Getting Its Own Post!!

#it deserves its own post!! #im somewhat Proud of it!! #i am... Improving... #and well! i certainly Do bite so i'll take care of that for the both of us #trust me i was Quite Literally periodically biting my own arm/hand while scribbling the shippy doodles #the emotions were too much... i needed to sink my teeth into something... #rambles from the bog

[front-facing-pokemon]

#mawile #bonus for the tailmaw under the cut. because it's a mouth so it may as well count as a face. and i did girafarig's tailface so its only fair #i expected this one to be. i dunno. somehow Different when ffp'd but this is what we ended up with. is this good #or bad? we may never know but it's certainly something. steel/fairy is a little bit nuts and this one also has a mega evolution #wait fuck i just realized i forgot to queue up mega sableye even though i literally acknowledged its existence in the tags hold on #hi i just queued up a bunch of megas i missed. including mega gardevoir. so. happy birthday #i'm gonna go get some breakfast before i die. y'all're gonna have a whole saga to follow in the tags of these ones #trynna piece together bouncing from tags to tags which ones i wrote when. bc i wrote the mega mawile tags before this one #and mega gardevoir is in their somewhere… hhehehehehe! what a mystery…

[theambivalentagender]

Fellow writers/comic artists/people involved in the writing thing in some way:

Do you ever get this problem where you watch a bunch of media produced and set in another country, and then when you go to write all the dialogue starts coming into your head filtered in the accent(s) and manners of speech of that country that are distinctly different from where you've set your work?

I've watched all of Good Omens twice in the past week and now as I'm trying to plan out the next Valley Echoes comic everyone's suddenly got strong British/Scottish accents.

#Shane sounds like David Tennant when he goes into his deeper register #i do headcanon that Shane has a slight Scotts-Irish accent but its certainly not anywhere close to Tennant level #i recently had to go back and edit dialogue where someone said “ah yes well...” #i think things are still slipping by anyway #do other writers actually work like this anyway? #where you kinda hear the voice of each character in your head and write it down? #like you go to your brain “ok heres your conversation topic #lets see how these characters talk about it“ #and you mentally sit back and let it play out? #that's actually why i dont finalize dialogue until after the drawing is done #sometimes the act of sketching a scene gives my mind something to work with regarding what they're saying #anyway #valley echoes asides

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Mmm

Ugh. Writing is on the wall for this one folks. I'm trying to remain positive but I will be surprised if Adams stays on the Flash series after the Flash #800.

#i am. incredibly confused. #they just gave him another book so he's still doing comics. plus he just got marvel books. #so hes definitely not done comics. and they're ongoings as well. #its possible he couldn't juggle them all and he dropped the Flash. but hes talking like DC is kicking him off not the other way around #but his Flash book is selling out??? and reprinting #its doing so well??? DC would have to be nuts to kick Adams off the Flash or cancel the series #if they cancel the Flash im done buying comics fr #my only thought is that they cancelled it or someone big wanted to write it and they couldn't say no #Mark Waid just came back to DC.... Johns is back.... Williamson is using Barry for something.... idk. itd have to be one of them #but i don't know that Waid and Johns would go back. they told their story. they certainly wouldn't kick Adams off the book #Williamson might. idk. he got a promotion so hed have the power to do so. he also is using Barry for something and keeps saying that #he wanted to use Wally and Bart but wasn't allowed to when he wrote the Flash. so he might want a second shot #but idk. pessimist in me is saying that its cancelled :( #dc #dc comics #the flash

[vaugarde]

yeah its important to have interests that arent just for children as an adult because at the end of the day it’s good for you and the way you percieve media overall to have a variety of things that you like but like you also shouldnt make fun of adults who are passionate about childrens media and imply theyre stupid for it. i think both of these takes can exist at once

#i dont like how some people are taking ''read a book for adults'' as ''do this so you are less cringe and stupid in my opinion'' #rather than ''do so because its genuinely good for you'' #and even so if someone likes childrens media and they like to analyze it and theyre not being a jackass to kids about it #just leave them alone? sometimes that's just what their interests are and thats okay. it makes them happy #and i hate to be That Guy but uhhhh. yeah theres an overlap here w nd adults #not all of us but certainly a good amount bc some special interests are so strong that they last throughout childhood #past an ''acceptable'' age #and again not the case for everyone but like most autistic adults i personally know are into childrens media #and have been into a specific property since they were a young child #and thats just autism like im sure for people with down syndrome and others have a similar experience #and even if they like something recent like bluey like. who cares it is not hurting you #echoed voice #and it also annoys me that most posts like this have people going ''um well fandom moms are annoying tho'' #or even worse literally implying there's inherently a sinister motive #as if its not common for adults to get mocked for being childish and naturally get defensive #and as if every single adult into a pbs show or toh is inherently a bad person or something. #bc people will go through several mental gymnastics to defend being a jackass over something not socially acceptable #before they go ''yeah thats kind of rude sorry''

[thehappiestgolucky]

I don't know if you're going to answer this but, Vigilante Tiso, is this an AU of yours? If so, I'm curious about the context of this concept!

Yep! Vigilante Tiso is one of my older and blog popular AU’s for Hollow Knight (based on poll results)

Originally, it started as a joke about Tiso being in Hallownest early just to take the piss out of PK and Lurien, but slowly developed into a more complicated story about Tiso being Xero and Markoth’s son (Xero biologically and Markoth via marrying into the family) as Tiso moved to Hallownest much earlier - eventually putting his distaste for the royalty into become the cities Vigilante that continued through the Infection Outbreak and in-game events. Instead of an arrogant ant that dies in the Colosseum, he’s a hot headed ant that’s been trying to protect survivors of a dying kingdom whilst wanting a solution and is willing to die for it.

A lot of it focuses more on the character relationships as they change and are affected by the story events - particularly with a small family being torn apart as simple mortals in a gods war.

#happy screms #vigilante tiso #its certainly one of my favourite aus tbh #i just havent had the brain power to think for more things for it rn but i also do #im always open to talk about it! the steam died down for it but it still lives rent free #there’s a lot more - but that would be a really long answer lmfao #like how tiso basically becomes vessel dad out of outrage over how the vessels even came to be and treated #tiso whilst still being arrogant and hot headed - is a lot more mellowed out from both heavy trauma and how well xero and markoth did- #-raising him. also the two dont die but aren’t present still for after Infection things until after ETV ending #sometimes i might also doodle for offshoot aus for fun. mostly Pantheon!VT (which is just tiso joining ghost in the pantheons to personally- #-fight the god that tore his happy home apart. its personal) #if the tag length wasn’t obvious enough - i still think very hard about this au because im personally happy with how i’ve written the- #-relationships. hell i’ve been meaning to add something to lurien and tiso’s dynamic :) #basically uh - recommend looking through the tag or asking if anything has changed since it has been years and obviously my thoughts on- #-some things will change

[gemwolfz]

FUCK IT. POLL

*does not necessarily correlate with general swag. as obviously these frogs are mostly swagless.

brother poll here

#sgt frog #keroro gunso #out of curiosity after seeing takes from the evergrowing Tumblr Frog Circle #my vote will be going to giroro still personally. #this is unfortunately in part due to unfortunate attempts at jokes on canons behalf #but also it's fun to think about (+ sgt frog abridged runoff also plays its part) #anyway some of you have strikingly compelling evidence for our buddy kululu as well #maybe not a girl but certainly something. #my prediction is that tamama and dororo will get the least votes because i more commonly see them associated with the transmasc swag #actually should i make a sister poll on who has the most transmasc swag. #to compare and contrast #that would be funny. yeah i should do that. off to do that

[tangerisms]

Geno drawing from the absolutely devastating photo of sid and geno at the olympics

#tonights game drawing is...well its certainly something #did not have a good night #pens lb #evgeni malkin #pens #scars art

[commsroom]

the association in wolf 359′s sound design between memory and water, and the association between water and hera by extension; the artificial construct of a beach as imagined by someone who has never seen a beach but wants to. what’s expected of hera, the parts of her that were programmed to serve a certain function... “or end up in other places, doing things not because you’re good at them but just because of what you are" ... is so much in conflict with who she is, what she enjoys and feels drawn towards. the natural world, appreciation of music and literature, even spirituality... in one AMA, sarah shachat suggested druid as an rpg class for hera, and i’m fascinated by that. hera’s draw towards the natural world and, broadly, things the text associates with the Human Experience is such an interesting and deliberate choice. that alone feels like such a statement about isolation and loneliness as obstacles to personal growth and self-discovery: to have some innate longing for things she literally was not designed to experience.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #hera w359 #the association of water + memory is its own topic #esp. storms in the sound design. in memoria in change of mind in brave new world #even paradise valley is lyrically About Water #there is something to that. i don't know. if memory is more than the incidental. if memory is the You part. the way you interpret the world #then there is something intrinsically human tied to the concept. and by extension #the conflict between technology and structures and situations #that aren't designed for or are actively hostile to human life and the human spirit #paired with these motifs of. nature and music and all of the connected associations #is certainly. well i think at the very least you can interpret it in the context of capitalist disregard for What Makes Us Human. #all things considered #and i do think that's particularly interesting with hera #the divide between WHO she is and WHAT she is #the things she values and the way she thinks as a person #this draw towards a natural world she has never experienced and wasn't made TO experience #vs. the way she's expected to think by virtue of programming and automated functions and the job she has to perform #she can also be. surprisingly spiritual #i just think it's such an interesting choice. when i have the time and inclination i'd like to expand on this #re: potential options for hera post-canon and why i feel the way i do about them. i think there's some interesting potential thematically #also yes this ties into the way i think you can read her character arc as a trans narrative. of course it does. #oh i thought i'd mentioned this but reading this back. i didn't. so #i also think that even #hera's appreciation of space. the way she observes it and the way she describes it. is in ways both appreciation of art and nature