#uh yeah that’s great

[piedpiperart]

About to go to the Peace Corp and I am struggling to decide which books and movies to download to keep me entertained for the next TWO years

#they were like yeah brings some movies and books and games and music #uh yeah that’s great #how do you expect me to choose #out of all these #*guestures to literally everything I have ever watched* #despite not seeing it in years I absolutely MUST bring frozen to show my host family #every Disney movie ever?? how to train your dragon?? KUNG FU PANDA!?! #not even including anime and cartoons #what will I do without my xmen evolution?? my justice league unlimited?? my my hero academia????! #I will be somewhere with limited internet access for two years and if I am to be missing all of the new releases for that time I absolutely #have to bring the essentials #every marvel movie you say?? one piece?? #since being gay is illegal there I cannot bring *everything* I think #avatar the last air bender is also a must #and then I have to ask myself #would my host family enjoy shrek???

[anemonet]

this bad boy can fit so much sick symbolisms

#disco elysium #harry du bois #hey guys lil doodle cause i got my pen display back and also as proof of life and also im obbsessed with this game! #also it was about time i posted totally indesheirble art that only makes sense to me :) #cause casue he dosent wanna be this kind of animal and theres a HOLE in his head and and #also testing some new brushes so thats fun #anyhow uh yeah hope noone minds soem very unfinsiehd art!!! #song of todaayy isssss noootttt this is why by paramour #it is instead woke up new by the mountain goats which a friend pointed out is a great pre game harry song #spins him around #:)) #my art

[nordidia]

having a very rough night so raph doodles needed to be made

when in need, mash two interests together

#i love him so muhc ghghgh #and uh please stop sending me asks straight up demanding me to draw more /nm #if u've sent me an ask just regarding art before pls dont feel anxious this is about people actually DEMANDING like im some sort of machine #im absent due to my work/mental health situation going up and down #tmnt will ofc always be special interest but right now its in the back row #theres little time for anything but work and meetings and thinking about work and.. well.. monster hunter escapism egsfkhjhh.. #but yeah i promise im still here #and i want to draw him when i can #but stress is high right now and drawing takes too much wrist stamina to do often now #i hope u understand #sorry if i worded myself badly im very tired and stresed n its ... oh its 5am great. wellp. goodnight skafklgsjdklfnshh #my art #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #nordidia art #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #id in alt text #also one would think my art style is easy on my wrist but #i gorilla grip my pen and when i learned to write as a child i held the pencil jank #and it stuck like that #so its really rough on my hands #sadly

[lunesprite]

I have wanted to make a 'harvest lest' for actual months, and a friend finally pushed me into picking up the new tablet to take it for a spin - and now harv-lest sticker is real.

Harvest Moon belongs to @venomous-qwille !

#gitm au #damn man i need an art tag i guess #anyways hey these are the tags for behind the scenes chat #originally his hand was gonna be posed a little more uh #coquettishly #you know like a kiss on the cheek type beckon or mirroring the fool lest a little more closely #but then i spent half an hour with those grabbers #i could have yelled #cried #begged #harvest i said through tears we have gotta get you some mittens #anyway harvest is great love him can't wait for him and his charm point grabbers to come wreck shit #oh also yeah he has fab 'hair' because of bean #thanks bean #i really like the art you did of him with a bouquet it was very charming #i love this sticker and i am so pleased with it beyond words and i am tickled pink folks like him too #spritedraws

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about the Don Suave scene and what it means in terms of LGBTQ+ representation because my brain does nothing if not torment me with random topics to ramble about on the regular.

Anyway, I just wanted to ramble about why I like the scene but to get it out of the way - the scene can very easily be interpreted in so many different ways, and all of them are valid. I personally see it as Leo having at least some attraction to a man. And the following is an explanation of my own interpretation and thoughts on it and what it means especially for Leo’s portrayal in the grand scheme of things.

Long-winded interpretation under the cut!

Now, to start with, it’s important to me that in the scene Leo looks at Don Suave in the very beginning and then for the entirety of the rest of the time the man is on screen, Leo’s eyes are closed. Yet, in the end, he is still visibly enamored with Don Suave, happily cuddling up to him as he’s being carried away.

You can very easily interpret this as Leo being spellbound and that’s honestly super valid and I believe he likely was at least somewhat in the beginning, but considering how fast he looked away and how he never looked again, I personally think it makes more sense to read it as Leo just finding the man attractive, at least somewhat. (For the record, I personally headcanon Rise Leo as bisexual with a heavy preference for men, but I want to be blunt when I say that any interpretation is valid. Literally any. Ace, pan, gay, bi, none of the above or a mixture of something new literally all of it is more than okay and fair. Hell you could even interpret this entire scene as more romantic attraction than physical and it would still work. Anything goes!! Don’t bother people, guys, really.)

The main reason I take this scene to be at the very least LGBTQ+ adjacent isn’t just because of how it’s portrayed, but because of who Leonardo is. Not in terms of Rise of the TMNT, but in terms of the entire Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™️ franchise.

Leo’s a character who, while changing with each iteration, has still at his core been around for decades upon decades as “the blue one”. One fourth of the team. He’s the one most are going to look at as the Leader, and oftentimes he is the one closest to having the title of Main Character. Not to say the others aren’t just as important, but Leo’s presence in the A plots of basically all TMNT media is often something very main character-esque.

And that’s very, very important to note. Here we have a Main Character of a prolific and decades long-running franchise distributed by a children’s television network. You can play around with his and his brothers’ characters all you like, but there is always going to be challenges to dodge around, especially since this was still in 2018-2019.

For example, you can play around with their designs so long as they’re color coded turtles, but their sexualities? Now that’s tricky.

“But what about Hypno and Warren?” Not main characters and also they’re Rise originals. They have a lot more room to play around with than a character like Leo does. But even talking about main characters in the franchise, you could arguably have an easier time playing around with Donnie or Mikey’s sexualities than Leo or even Raph, as (unfortunately) the former two tend to get more B plots, so they’d likely have had a little more leeway (still not a lot though.)

So, where does this leave us?

It leaves us in a place where outright stating and/or showing undeniable proof of Leo’s attraction to men is very, very difficult. So, workarounds!

Workarounds like the entire Don Suave situation.

To be honest, as left up to interpretation and lowkey and deniable as it is, this whole scene means a lot to me because of who Leo is as a character. It’s just nice when we get so see even the bare bones of representation with characters that have been such a large part of pop culture for decades, y’know? Even if more would be so much nicer, this is better than I thought we’d ever get for these boys.

And, again, literally nothing I’ve said is the only way to interpret it, I’m more than happy when people interpret media on their own honestly, it’s just something I’ve been thinking of lately and I was wondering if others felt the same way.

Whatever you think when you interpret this scene or Rise Leo as a whole, I just thought this would be interesting to think about, even if it was ramble-y, haha.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rise don suave #rottmnt don suave #I lied I’m back to ramble because I’m just #so bad at keeping my mouth shut #or uh #not typing word vomit #anyway- yeah this is my personal interpretation #I believe Leo was legitimately mesmerized by Don Suave’s powers…in the beginning #but even the series’ creator says it was ‘at least PART of what was going on with Leo’ so #idk it’s something that’s been on my mind and I was wondering if anyone else felt the same?? #may delete this later who knowssss #pleaaaase feel free to disagree I just like to talk lol #but yeah sometimes I look around at how much media has LGBTQ+ rep in it now and it honestly makes me emotional?? #(we always always ALWAYS could use more but) #we did not have even a crumb of this as kids #but also like most of that rep is new properties #and I just was thinking about what that could mean #idk man idk #once again please don’t take this as facts it is VERY MUCH NOT #man I was looking around for good images to use and found jack all #anyway tho did you know Donnie often has bi colors around him and Leo is often dressed in the colors of the trans flag- #okay anyway back to the caves I go this comic won’t draw itself #I gotta spray myself with water any time I go to type long winded essays because they’re not great for the mental health fr

[oloreandil]

as a chronically ill person with asthenia and particular ways of speaking, i've always felt uncomfortable with how Frodo is treated as a weakling and a wimp by so many lotr fans. not only does it ignore how insanely heavy the weight of his burden is (regardless of how constantly the narrative and characters repeat it in like. extremely plain terms), but it often leads to ableist comments of "well other characters were in pain too and they dealt with it better, AND without whining all the time :/"

however, listening to the audiobook, i'm only now realising why i don't like the treatment of Sam's deference to Frodo and their interactions during their quest. yes, you can absolutely do a class analysis of their relationship (Frodo is his "master" in the aristocratic sense of the term, and the narrative treats is as a quality that he "knows his place" - subservience). yes, Frodo sometimes lashes out at Sam unjustly (which is treated as bad by the narrative, again very plainly)

but, and i cannot stress this enough, having a Sam by your side as a disabled person on any kind of adventure is literally the only way to stay alive. Sam notices his health fluctuations, is on the lookout for ring-symptoms that Frodo may not even have noticed yet, makes sure that Frodo has the accommodation he needs to be in as little pain as possible as they live through the great evils of their time... Frodo relies heavily on Sam's support. like any disabled person on a year-long march would need to. especially when your condition keeps worsening

it feels so incredibly loving and revolutionary that, in Rivendell, when he sees Frodo awake for the first time since Elrond healed him of the Morgul blade, Sam takes Frodo's left hand in his and shyly says he's glad it's warm again. i don't think Frodo knew how cold it'd gone, or thought anyone else had noticed, and indeed the narration moves on quickly. but those moments are constant and deeply touching. it's hard to articulate just how accurate Frodo's journey is to my own disabled journey, and how profound it is that Sam's care is foundational to saving the world

#frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #lotr #lord of the rings #meta #olorea talks #in many ways i cannot articulate how deeply healing it is that EVERYONE regards frodo with great esteem and compassion #they all acknowledge how incredibly incredibly hard his struggle is and they're dedicated to help #i also cannot and don't really want to articulate how being disabled AND lebanese affects my views of living through war #but uh. yeah. it's Emotional Lotr Listen-through Hours lately i've been dying to speak of it #maybe later i'll feel more equipped to put more of that into words #making my own post like a GROWN UP look at me lmaoooo #txt

[astronomodome]

black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool

#you dont understand how insane i am about him. hes not even real #he deserves to go silly crazy personally i think he would have a great time #🐏💖🩸 #tw blood #tw dead animal #yeah prob wanna tag that :) #my art #life series #zedaph #i feel bad fully tagging this bc uh. hes not real #still tho.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

If it’s not too much to ask.. can we get a timeline for the lights out au?

(Not the full story, obviously. Just the bits of the timeline that have already been revealed. I just think it’d been nice to have a neat guide to it all)

oh for sure!

this is gonna be a little clumsy because I have a very bad grasp on time & also math. numbers suck and i hate them. but i Am trying to create a timeline, ill give you the Very basic, Very vague one

~~~~~

1972 / the show is cancelled, and the neighborhood is abandoned in the dark

1973 / Sally starts sleepwalking, Wally loses his eye

1975 / Wally starts exploring beyond the set

1980 / Barnaby loses his arm

1986 / The Divorce™️ happens

2007 / Frank wakes up

2013 / Poppy wakes up. Frank starts getting worse

2015 / Howdy wakes up. They barricade Sally in her house.

2016 / Eddie, Julie, and Barnaby wake up. Arc One ends.

~~~~~

aaaand not going into the other three arcs. the second is still nebulous, the third is soooo spoilery even though Does That Really Matter?, and the fourth is a mix of both.

sorry this isn't as in depth! aus aren't a high priority for me, so they're more like little side thinkings i tinker with when my main Interests start to get burnt out. keeps me fresh!

#but yeah thats the very basic timeline.... #about. what was that. 43 years??? #im purposefully making it shorter than the canon timeline to make the au feel a bit more... sensible #grounded? hm. #like in a 'the whrp is still a few years away so Its Sooo Realistic And Faithful Trust Me On This One Guys-' way #an alternate timeline events #< says the guy who doesn't know the timeline of events #thinking about this au wildly flip flops between #this is so fun!! im having a great time!!! yeehaw!!! #and banging my head against a wall a la what the Hell am i doing #but that goes for uh. pretty much everything i think about ever. so #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au

[irregularbillcipher]

bill cipher is the character ever. he swears in cartoon sound effects. he has beef with a baby. he didn't know what colors were until he was like at least 27. he's the most powerful being to ever visit earth. he only exists in dreams. he's an alcoholic. he's a victorian. he almost certainly worked retail. he doesn't know about his own gender. he also doesn't care about his own gender. he's depressed. he likes silly straws. he knows everything. he's stupid as shit. he thinks that normal is just a setting on a washing machine. he's touchy about his sides being uneven. he's a flatland oc. he's owned by disney. he responds to "willy." he thinks in all caps. he has a reddit account

#i always think it's really funny when people rewatch gravity falls and are like 'oh bill is uh. kinda stupid' like yeah!!!!!!!!! #that's why he rocks so much!!!! he's just a pathetic little man with a manipulative streak and godlike powers banking on the sales skills h #was forced into learning as a flatlander!!! he's so uncool in every way and that's why he's great!!!!! #his whole plan is just 'manipulate people a bunch so i can throw the sickest rager with my pals because i'm a repressed victorian' #which is DELIGHTFUL! it makes him one of the most funny characters ever #also i purposefully put 'touchy about his sides being uneven' next to 'flatland oc' for a reason #another url i considered was irregularbillcipher so. that's my highly specific hc of the day

[franky-y]

felt like shit so i drew this

#häärijä #jukka sorsa #käärijä #digital art #this drawing isn't too detailed or anything #i made this mostly because i needed a distraction from literally wanting to kill myself so uh yeah #anyway #i wasn't sure if i was going to post this at all but i figured why not #also drawing this really made me want to hug häärijä again... #tho i would love to hug jukka as well #seems like he gives great hugs too

[seaweedoverlord]

''Rage flowed like magma through his veins, mixing uncomfortably with his anxiety. He’d known Wukong for millennia, and was still struck down despite it. He had been known as the king’s warrior, his second hand. Wukong had known MK for not even three years, and yet he stopped? Just like that? Why? It wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair. Why did he stop for MK but not Macaque; not his warrior, his best friend?!

Why didn’t you? Macaque's mind asked him. ''

Fanart for Rit'z awesome fic. Go read it. Pls.

#yeah #uh #so #im absolute doh shit at comics huh skull emoji #but hey im trying my best... and my best ain't that great... #monkie kid #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk fanart #my art #lego monkie kid mk #lego monkie kid comic #qi xiaotian #lego monkie kid fanart #lmk fic #lmk sun wukong #lmk six eared macaque #lmk monkey king #lmk macaque #lmk mk #lmk wukong #lego monkie kid macaque #lego monkie kid sun wukong #comic #tearex art

[gossip-girl-of-middleearth]

Just got back from watching Guardians of the Galaxy 3, AKA my first loves in life

I don’t care much for Marvel anymore, but holy shit that has got to be their best movie ever, it had me on the verge of an anxiety attack like 24/7, and I cried from every emotion possible, even emotions I didn’t know I had

Really just wraps everything up nicely. I was 12/13 when I watched the first Guardians of the Galaxy, around 15/16 when I watched the second one, and now here I am, 21, having pretty much grown up with these movies

Must, must, must see. I love it more than Jaskier, if that gives it any perspective lmao

#I love Jaskier #but guardians have always been my first love #when I was 16 I used to stargaze on my roof at night and ‘telecommunicate’ to every satellite that went past in case it was a guardians #spaceship to come pick me up #my bribe was that I’d even scrub the floors #and uh yeah they never picked me up but hey they gave me great taste in music #according to Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds (where I get all my psych knowledge btw) the music we listen to at 14 impacts us the most #beyond any other age #what you listen to at 14 is the most influential in your entire life #guardians of the galaxy #guardians of the galaxy 3 #marvel #rocket raccoon #rocket #Peter quill #starlord

[genericpuff]

#character swaps another artist's painting with their own greasy self-insert OC's #calls it a 'study' #then slaps all of her “awards” over it and makes it her twitter banner #yeah that's uh #that's not a great look IMO #and i use the term “awards” loosely because most of these are paid for or based solely on marketing metrics LOL #lore olympus critical #lo critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus

[1driedpersimmon]

hello sea i hope you’re having a great day !!!

if you don’t mind could you break down how you draw bodies? nothing in depth, just the basic guidelines ! i’m trying to get better with anatomy and i don’t think the guidelines i use right now are the best… i love the way you do anatomy and was hoping to see your process of getting an initial pose down and making sure the proportions look right :D

ty in advance and no worries if you don’t feel like explaining / doing a guide !! 💙

Ok forgive me for leaving this unanswered for months, I promise I wasn’t ignoring it I was just busy and also trying to figure out how to best answer this aljskjs

Ok anyways so I broke down the absolute basic basic steps that I like to do for my figure, but I didn’t quite get into the specifics of anatomy and stuff like that (I’d have to do a whole lecture slide and well…. That’ll take much muccchhhhh longer) but anywho!

So I’m certainly not the be-all and end-all of anatomy/pose advice, but I’ve found that breaking down the figure like this into simple shapes is one of the best way I figure out a pose in the years I’ve taken classes/figure drawing myself. A good exercise is to do some gesture drawings with a time limit (for speedy folks like myself (hehe) I like to keep the sketches down to seconds! But if you make a nice sketch in say… 3-5 minutes, that’s a good time!) gesture drawings are literally just drawing people posing (live drawing sessions are really fun, but pictures are just as effective! I’ll say Pinterest is pretty solid for looking up dynamic poses to practice with, but if you just look up something like “dynamic poses online” you can find lots of solid sites that have collected poses over the years! Also do mind some of these have nude models option so if you are in public, at work, and if you’re a minor, please mind those options) another good method is to actually directly trace the figure itself. Not to get too into the ethics of tracing or whatever (good for practice… bad for “saying it’s yours and whatever”), but sometimes tracing the figure directly can help you understand what parts of the body connects to what, and overall would help you identify the various body parts a little better. But yeah! So that’s the gist of it. Again I haven’t gone too deep into the technicalities of anatomy as I would take much longer to do so (one day I will!) but I hope this answers at least a part of your question and helps you on your artistic journey :3

#asks #ok I think I said all I wanted to say #let me know if there was anything else you wanted to know! #for more specifics I’ll def have to take longer on it #…perhaps I’ll make a video… hm… that would be fun #also don’t mind uh. my. not so great graphic designishjgdjhdhjdh I in a car doing this lmaooooooooo #ah no I didn’t do this all in a car I did half at home and the rest while being driven #anyways #hm… what else do I tag this was uhhh #art guide #how to #yeah ok

[high-noon-raccoon]

we are very serious gamers who are professional at Lancer

#lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #shitpost #actually last night's mission went relatively well #it's kind of incredible how great our team works together and covers so many bases #and we're proud of our poor administrative nhp friend #who had to come with us into battle and drive two trucks at the same time #but yeah #we still had our uh #moments

[dizzybevvie]

So you know how self inserts r like really cool right

#as some of you will know ive been rewatching riders and defenders of berk this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #im on a Tale Of Two Dragons and GODDD its reignited my love for this franchise #so uh!!! yeah!!!! Riders of Berk self insert!!!!! #im still not sure on the colours (MOSTLY of the boots) #i wanted this to be more green than teal but the necklace didnt make sense to be green for Reasons #so yeahhhh BUT ANYWAY!!!!!!!!! #I HAD A LOT OF FUN WITHTHIS !!!!!!! #tumblr loves to crunch the quality so click if u wanna #but i did do this on my phone so quality isnt gonna be great anyway #KANSDKNASKDN BUT YEAH !!!!!!!!!!!! #httyd #riders of berk #defenders of berk #httyd oc #rob/dob #httyd rob #httyd dob #how to train your dragon #Beverly Says Stuff #Bev draws #<new tag!!! I dont think ive posted any art since i migrated to the Beverly tags #also i know theres a lil grey line. i cant be bothered to get rid of it so its gonna stay there forever im afraid #bev's self inserts