#- top 5 /w\

[saewokhrisz]

redrew two of my fav sprites

#these two are literally my top favourites which is hilarous to me #like ann: cuddled nicely #akechi: bit my ass #also for practice ive been struggling w art.. #goro akechi #ann takamaki #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 #my art #fanart

[humhowellujah]

i'm drunk off two lavender martinis what the fuck do you MEAN dan and phil went on a step by step recreation of their japan trip as a part of a HONEYMOON episode for their sims. be so fr rn be so serious please. dan howell you have 4 minutes to respond . phil, keep it up babygirl. lavender martini recipe in the tags

#2 oz vanilla vodka (i used pearl bc its cheap and good) #1 oz lemon juice #1 oz lavender syrup (1 part sugar 1 part 1 water in a sauce pan #healthy coating of EDIBLE!!!! lavender to cover the top #bring to boil then reduce to a simmer for 5 mins #take off heat and let that shit steep for a bit #longer the better #i say 25 mins at the LEAST for a strong flavor #15 mins will do the job tho probs #filter out the lavender w a siv #add 3 drops each of blue/red food dye to make it purple if u want #garnish w a lemon #i bartend at a restaurant and this is one of our signature cocktails #i was iffy about lavender cocktails/lattes n shit before #but this drink changed me. the perfect balance of lavender notes and sweet/citrus #dan and phil #daniel howell #phil lester #amazingphil #dan and phil games #dnp #dnpgames #dipnpip #danisnotonfire #do people still use that tag #whatever. its there #danandphilgames #<3 #i love them so much #they are my birth mothers

[ultrasopp]

pov you are guarding the castle gate and these weirdos just asked you very nicely to let them inside so they can end the king’s tyrannical rule

#idk something about their expressions to me says 'yes this is very weird but pretty please plsplspls w sugar on top?' #that or 'surrender let ye desiereth death' #soppart #the old guard #quynh #andromache the scythian #yusuf al kaysani #nicolo di genova #its so late and i made soup for almost 5 housr today so will add image desc tomorrow shfhsj

[helielune]

i'll angel in the snow until i'm worthy (snow angel)

#infinity train #grace monroe #she is. such a moment #my art #guesstimating this took like 6-8 hrs #okay actually according to my screentime this took just over 5 hrs? but i literally. basically did nothing except this all day #talk too much was on loop the entire day today it has at least a 90% chance of appearing on my top 5 this wrapped #then again i had a huge loop song last month too so maybe it'll still need to battle it out w the other 9 songs for this yr #it snowed recently and i did not make a snow angel but i did hit some of my friends with snowballs. and get hit. infinite train reference.. #i'm not totally sure how this specific shape of snow angel is physically possible but please ignore physics in favor of aesthetics #eventually i will be able to color things in a way that completely (as completely as possible) matches my Head Vision #this one was pretty good as far as vision matching goes though so yay for improvement and progress and growth

[k-wame]

He wanted to move there. To Berlin. He had someone there. He told me. And he wanted to leave me and Itai here and go to Berlin and make a new life. And he went to get a room in a hotel, and, uh, and then another car hit him on his way there.

The Cakemaker / Der Deutsche Kuchenmacher Feature Film | 2017 | Drama | Germany, Israel | dir. Ofir Raul Graizer

#my top 5 goat films - it's battling w/ the favourite for the 4th place #filmedit #roy miller #tim kalkhof #thomas x oren #der kuchenmacher #the cakemaker #the cakemaker 2017 #gay couple #kiss #couple #affection #intimacy #desire #amor #passion #lovers #romantic #ofir raul graizer #oren nachmias #relationship #queer #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #queer media #lgbt #2017 #beautiful men

[oxenfreewest]

Happy birthday freak

#idia shroud #twst wonderland #twst #ignihyde #hes not even in my top 5 twst characters whats wrong w me

[dykemd]

#in the ​top 5 of his horniest songs to those of us blessed w the sight #spotify

[thegayestofbats]

#my art :)) #the amazing digital circus #tadc #kinger tadc #tadc kinger #the amazing digital circus kinger #kinger the amazing digital circus #I love this dude so much 💕 #I would kill for him #I spent the last 5 hours drawing Kinger instead of sleeping #woohoo!! #as you can probably guess the Kinger in the top right corner is him watching Queenie abstract #makes me so sad but I cant exist w/o angst so 😭😭

[spitblaze]

Gold and Silver are good kids and Gold likes to show up unannounced to Lance's house post-game to bother Silver and Silver is like 'ugh great just what I need a loud annoying weirdo' but they are neither loud nor annoying while they hang out they just quietly sit on the floor reading magazines abt pokemon or playing video games and sometimes Gold will shove something in Silver's face like 'WHOA CHECK THIS OUT' and Silver will be like 'can you quiet down. What stupid thing could possibly get you that excited' as if he wouldn't also be equally excited about the very cool article about Sharpedo Gold just found

#spitblaze says things #i just thing gold and silver are two different flavors of neurodivergent #gold has the overactive adhd kind and had issues w volume and impulse control #silver has the quiet (traumatized) autistic kind where he basically makes his way thru life by playing 4d Social Expectation chess #v good at masking. unfortunately his mask is aggression #gold doesnt care hes hot garbage with social cues too but makes zero effort to mask or compensate #its fine tho they both have the same special interest. Pokemon #(also gold makes a very good compression stim. silver will just be like 'will you lay on me please' and gold is like 'sure thing buddy :)' #and theyre just like that. on the floor. like cats. clair doesnt really know what to make of it but silver doesnt seem bothered #so its probably fine) #pokemon #preciousmetalshipping #(i mean i guess lol. either way they are Best Fwiends) #trainer gold #rival silver #idk why im so invested in these two. johto isnt even in my top 5 #pokemon gsc

[solarpunkani]

Ok fuck it you know something I've never really quite understood about part of the Leftist vs Liberals debate on voting.

So so so many people act like its either-or. Like you're either dedicating your entire life to voting and promoting politicians and phone banking or whatever, or you're a True Rebel waiting for The Uprising to Come and Solve Everything.

But like. In my experience. Me voting is just me kinda go 'which person seems kinda good? Which one at least sucks the least? ok lemme go vote.' and then its anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour tops of my life. And I still have plenty of time to do Stuff and participate in Conversations about Other Important Things. And also you can admit and acknowledge and understand that the system As Is kinda sorta really sucks ass, but also still admit and acknowledge and understand that at this current point in time we are still living in the suckass system and do something to alleviate the suckass At Least A Little while also working to bolster/create/advocate for Other Systems.

I guess just like. it's not a black or white thing. Between 'top 500 volunteers for a specific politician/voting office/etc' and 'absolutely positively not voting at all' there is a gray area called 'vote and then just do other stuff'.

#out of queue #ani rambles #ani rant #now hang on its time to acknowledge my Privilege(TM) #the first few times I ever voted for anything I was in college and the student center was a voting center #so asides from waiting in a long (~30 minute tops bc early vote) line to get in I didn't have to do a big drive or anything #and at my house there's a voting center thats a like 5 minute drive from my place or a 10 minute drive depending on what election it is #and im ablebodied and have a open (read: jobless) schedule so I can Just Go for the most part #i live in a City so there's probs lots of voting centers at churches and libraries and all across town too #but like. some people act like people saying Hey Go Vote Plz are screaming like #'if you don't donate 200 dollars and 4+ weeks of your time to canvassing and calling and volunteering you are RUINING AMERICA' #when at least from what I've seen its just like. 'can you maybe go fill in a bubble on a Scantron so people like me don't Die Faster.' #also there's early voting and mail-in voting and all that jazz like yeah the current system makes it harder to vote but theres still W AYS #you don't gotta pull up at 6am on Election Day Tuesday yknow? #if i get blasted for this remember as I was: happy and rambling at 3am about greenhouses and solarpunk stuff #plz be nice i beg k bye

[lemongogo]

what's your process for coloring like? the look of that elendira is so textured and interesting, i can't figure out how you do it

AA THANK YOUU ^__^ !! textures & brushwork are my favorite things abt my art, so im happy you find it interesting hehe . its SOO cool to look at & so much fun to draw imo

i prefer to color by building in layers , if that makes sense 🤔!! hundreds of them !! such that i'm always drawing on Top of previous layers, working from big & messy blocks of color to, eventually, small and refined blocks of color until it feels processed enough. as a result, i rarely ever erase (!!) and i rarely ever draw lineart aside from the initial sketch

a rough, patchy textured brush is key here, as it'll give you dimension and variability w/ your colors. i recommend "Brush and various sets of fountain pen style (万年筆風ブラシと色々セット)" on Clip Studio (ID: 1679706) !! :3

im terrible with explanations though, so i'm going to show a step by step of that elendira drawing if you dont mind :3

sketch layer !! because i mostly render through color alone, i try to make this as close to the finished thing as possible . ^__^ i hateee drawing the same thing over and over and like the expressivity and movement of my sketches anyways , so the more i can preserve at this step, the better. if u were to look at a side by side of my sketches and finished pieces, youd notice a lot of those og lines are present in the final drawing :3

2. flats !! pretty self explanatory, but the solid background gives me an idea of where the figure begins & ends while the colors themselves help distinguish whats what . i stick to ambient lighting @ this point because im usually not sure what i want to do with the overall palette or lighting yet . having two tones (ex, dark and light in her hair or dark and light on her skin) can also help in identifying key features early on that u wanna preserve. as you build layer by layer, sometimes these areas will remain untouched and i think it makes for a rly lovely feel at the end

3. start blocking !!! to be totally honest with you, i dont really know what i do here HAHAHA. like i just scribble the shit out of it, usually focusing on what i might want to do with lighting (ex: grey areas to accentuate folds in her costume). i think i like to start "erasing" the sketch where possible by coloring on top of it .. like if you look at her hat or her arm , you can tell i'm starting to get a sense of the shapes i like vs the ones i dont. it's at this point that the final image starts to emerge in my mind , like im gradually pulling her from a tarpit of scribbles until shes recognizable lol. chipping away at the marble until i can free her. tbh.

4. keep blockingg...when u think u are done , block some more . as you can probably see, the brushwork becomes more intentional as i add more shape, with specific focus on line weight. this is also where the patchiness of that textured brush comes in - notice how none of the colors seem totally uniform (ex: the red cross or the original sketchlines for her waist). you can see bits and pieces of the layers underneath pushing through and i really like that !! ^__^ its very fun and sketchy to me, so i try to keep them around. those areas are also great to colorpick from, because it'll give you "new" colors to work w/ that are already part of your palette.

5. GRADIENTS & GRADIENT MAPS !! TONE CURVE !! COLOR PICKER !! this is the best stage tbh. flatten your image so its all on one layer and just go crazy with all the color settings in ur program. add gradient layers and set them to darken, or overlay, or subtract, orrr. lighten or dodge glow or divide or soft/hard light.! OR!! edit the hue, saturation, luminosity and contrast.and then color pick from these edits, block even more on top of ur image, flatten, color edit again, etc. etc. until u feel satisfied.

ANYWAYSS . i hope that makes sense @__@ sry i wrote this out and deleted it like 23 times trying to make it make More sense but thats what ive got HAHA i hope its useful though :3 !

#SRY I STRUGGLED 2 EXPLAIN THIS #dude its like my brain bcomes stuffed w/ cotton anytime i try 2 write #i hope it makes sense tho.. #it also probably sounds so redundant to make new layer one after the other for just a few brushstrokes #but those brushes i linked have a multiply property so if you draw on top of prev lines they'll create dark patches #and so if im working over a large area ill generally need like . 5 layers each with one brushstroke :sob: if that makes sense #this one had . 84 i think. total. layers i mean. the merylvash one had 300+ HAHAH so it rly depends #like YEAAH i could just use a normal brush but i really like the way this looks #andd sometimes the multiply function works really well or will give me the proper shadow tone im looking for #anywas.wanywaysn anyways #asktag #anonymous #long post

[skitskatdacat63]

The brainrot this literal 2 second clip had given me is insane

#(tumblr deleted all my tags so unfortunately they wont be as unhinged as my og tags but) #AAAHHHHHHHH THE WAY IS SEB IS LOOKING AT HIM IN THE THIRD PIC I CANT I CANT #SO TENDER IM ABSOLUTELY INSANE ABT IT #this hug is probably my top martian moment ever i literally cant get over it #i just obsess over saving every single angle of it i can find #but the thing abt the photos of it is that you can mostly rly only see mark's fond expression #so to see the way seb is looking up at him...im just still so unwell about it #the typical paddock one hand bro hug but they're literally so close together and curled into each other #martian one handed hugs always ended up w their clasped hands tucked in btwn their bodies and im just so abnormal abt it #the way seb's shoulder is tucked into mark's chest...mark's hand grasping his neck...the way seb is clutching his arm...their clasped hands #i needed to post this to get it out of my system bcs every time i glance at it in my camera roll i just end up staring at it for 5 mins #as i said i feel like every pic of this is just completely permanently burned into my brain #i still cant believe mark posted a pic of this hug hes just like me fr ;;;; #mark webber #sebastian vettel #sebmark #martian #2010 monaco gp #f1 #formula 1 #(i will eventually make this vid my header im just very lazy abt it)

[mitamicah]

I found these old doodles I made a month after Eurovision where I drew my top 5 at that point in time IF I couldn't count Käärijä

and so here we have:

Joker Out (Slovenia), Albina & Familja Kelmedi (Albania), Mimicat (Portugal), Lord of the Lost (Germany) and Gustaph (Belgium)

Could it be fun make another set of doodles half a year later? Feel free to let me know if you'd like to see that ^V^

#I remember having a whole excel arc keeping score of who was my fave after every live show xD #albania surprised me - I really liked their live show OVO #another thing that surprised me is that only one of my top 5 w/o käärijä even hit top 10 in the contest :'3 #so many people got screwed over #and this is not only all of them #gustaph #albina and familja kelmedi #lord of the lost #joker out #mimicat #esc2023 #mine #my own art #jure maček #nace jordan #jan peteh #kris gustin #bojan cvjetićanin

[watcherwatts]

something ive noticed lately is that ryan and shane are either: sharing this red beanie, have the same one, or both have similar red beanies. either way, its very cute + silly. <3

#ghost posts #watcher #they are Best Friends. #shane madej #ryan bergara #when i realized it made me go: :0 :D :) ^w^ <3 #watcher entertainment #i wish i could have a friend that o could share clothes with #top 5 beatdown #ww+ #watcher weekly + #t5bd #i love them so much #giggling and kicking my legs bc of these dumbies <3 #friendship makes my brain go wild

[stuckinapril]

About to get really annoying ab Dunya Mikhail. I am dead serious you will never hear the end of her w me

#I never be seeing her in yalls top 5… that’s going to change w me #about to go do a late night study session at the library and then I’m sniping one of her books there and ravishing it #(and yes I checked. the library does have a couple of her poetry collections) #I will never shut up about her. never never never #phenomenal Iraqi American poet her words r so poignant they literally make me cry on sight

[minamotoz]

riley asking shawn, "when you looks at me, does it remind you of what you can't have?" was a crazy ass moment because yes the line was about shawns intimacy issues and his inability to commit to a longterm relationship, but holy shit if that isn't the most blatant way you could confirm that shawn was in love with cory and the existence of riley was just a constant reminder that he had missed his chance and could never be with cory. what if i went insane

#boy meets world #shory #shawn x cory #i havent finished GMW because even though i like the dynamic between the kids everything abt the shaty ship tease makes me want to *** #it took me like 5 hours to get thru girl meets hurricane because i couldnt deal w the horrible way they dealt w angela #who even though i dont talk abt much is in my top 3 for BMW characters #but this one line from that one episode drove me mad like. did i die ? am i dead? #it actually took me until the end of the episode to realize what that line was supposed to mean #bc it read so explicitly to me as a confirmation of shawns feelings for cory #not to mention his ass literally LEFT THE CITY and never came back after riley was born #ignoring the continuity issues that crop up w this . its giving shawns wedding breakdown 2.0 lets discuss #i think that the take of 'shory is entirely one sided and shawns feelings for cory are unrequited' #is pretty surface level and it doesnt add up much if u take a deeper look into corys character #but GMW definitely leans into this take #what with shawn desperately trying to mirror corpanga in all of his romantic relationships (to run away from his feelings for cory) #like ​is it really in shawns character to marry a woman hes barely known a year ? #or is he just trying to mirror cory and topanga who basically rushed into marriage the second they. were legally able to #i'll let u be the judge #am i making sense idk im tired n i havent watched sn episode of GMW in months