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Today’s sketches, a little fun with Green Bone Saga vibes. Shae and Hilo. Siblings you do not want to piss off…

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People who try to moralize about classical myth are unwittingly acting as a chorus. Discussions are framed and interspersed with rueful cries of "Why is The King so capricious and manipulative? Why is The Queen so vengeful? Why did Death steal that girl away from her mother?"

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I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

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Backwards, Warsan Shire

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if the whole “romantacy” genre gets big and we stop getting darker more political fantasy like the poppy war, jade city, and etc i will be so upset

#i fear it is already big? #i support dividing genres into subgenres like romanctic fantasy and political fantasy #but sometimes the merging of two is designed to have mixed resutls (like new adult)

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logged back on for 2 seconds remembered how good it is to be on a site where everyone has a personality

#ish rants #AND TAGS!!! #LOOK AT THIS! #special subsection for subthoughts

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Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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Ayt Mada 🔪🔪🔪

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bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about "you" instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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"The mind cannot adjust quickly to a fundamental change in reality without breaking. If the moon vanished from the sky, people would not believe it; they would think it was a trick of light or clouds."

Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee

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obsessed w jade legacy's refusal to wrap everything up neatly like yeah the war was resolved but it wouldn't make much sense if everything for everyone else was too, that's not how life goes. i love that it leaves when there's there's still a story just

people still don't understand niko at all. will anyone ever learn about autism and get him a diagnosis?

will his and wens relationship ever truly recover?

will jaya be able to let go of mada still being alive? or will she go after her herself?

anden's relationship is still kind of rocky

lott's still just so repressed. lott/anden juiciest messiest middle-age man affair janloon has ever seen when

where will tia's place be when she grows up?

the clan system is still completely fucked and there's still no hope that it could ever be brought down bc they're simply too powerful like????

insane actually

#you are so real for the andenlott affair #he's in his 40s and about to be a politician #he needs to watch scandal and take some inspiration

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obsessed w jade legacy's refusal to wrap everything up neatly like yeah the war was resolved but it wouldn't make much sense if everything for everyone else was too, that's not how life goes. i love that it leaves when there's there's still a story just

people still don't understand niko at all. will anyone ever learn about autism and get him a diagnosis?

will his and wens relationship ever truly recover?

will jaya be able to let go of mada still being alive? or will she go after her herself?

anden's relationship is still kind of rocky

lott's still just so repressed. lott/anden juiciest messiest middle-age man affair janloon has ever seen when

where will tia's place be when she grows up?

the clan system is still completely fucked and there's still no hope that it could ever be brought down bc they're simply too powerful like????

insane actually

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this showed up in my FB memories, the lightning bolt trick! I don't sketch out the lightning bolt much nowadays but it's still super helpful when I need to lay out tricky arms and leg poses. And I still apply the logic of it, especially with how I draw arms :' ) Biggest thing it helps with is shape breakdown and visualization, we gotta use whatever works to break down shapes into simpler concepts for our brains 👏💓