#DUDE ITS SO LARGE

[ratislatis]

I MADE A FANFICTION (and now it's YOUR problem).

It's Marco Li/Grant Wilson because I genuinely cannot control myself when it comes to this absurd podcast.

The sections are divided by little doodles I made myself. This is an art blog, so if you just want the art and not the actual fanfic I'm slotting them below the break <3

Ciao, fuckers

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #digital art #grant wilson #marco li #fuck do I have to make a ship tag? this is so cringe of me #grant wilson x marco li #that text post I made about ao3 tags was directly related to this btw. cope #heehee im so proud of my little catbug #oh btw if you like bravest warriors or sonic?? read the third section of my fic. you will appreciate my artistic personality #(which is a teenager in 2013 watching animations she should not be watching) #I would've kinned scary marlowe so hard back then you dont even KNOW #hoyl shit tyhe burger is so muich bigger than marco's laptop io #im sobbign thats so funny #'hoyl SHTI #DUDE ITS SO LARGE #OOPSIES

[fidgetspringer-art]

✧ The Ardal stars ✧

#artists on tumblr #art #illustration #digital art #digital drawing #dnd #dungeons and dragons #homebrew #original art #my art #my ocs #Setting: Heim #I drew these a couple of years ago now i think #but since i'm drawing stuff for this setting again i'm reuploading with updated information cause the last one is outdated #I will say right off the bat however #If you compare my designs to already existing IPs i will block you on sight #the last time i posted these they got compared to a piece of media i really dislike #and that comment alone made me fall out of love with this setting for almost two years #so please. do not. it's rude and unnecessary #These are the artefacts my setting and its story is largely centered around #Tethry is credited with creating them (Even though he didn't) #They were gifted by Tethry to each of the largest cities in the world to serve as power generators supplying arcane power to the whole city #immediately pushing the four sister cities into prosperity and progress. leaving literally everyone else in the dust #which caused some understandable tension between countries that already had a bit of a strained relationship to begin with #There is SO MUCH to these little trinkets and their link to Tethry and how finding them essentially fucked up his whole entire life #You'd think becoming the world's most renowned arcanist would be the best thing that ever happened to an aspiring caster #but to some poor dude just trying to study arcane language. stumbling across the magical equivalent of the demon core #was very much not on his wishlist #especially not dealing with the consequences of trying to make sure no one actually realises how nasty they have the potential to be #which. someone inevitably does

[moeblob]

Windy at my house + power flickering = no comm work = quick laptop doodle

#my characters #i genuinely hoped the wind would die down but like ??? nah? #and the last time we lost power without an actual storm it WAS bc of wind #and so i just get so panicked over please dont fry my tablet with a power surge #if it calms down by tonight i really wanna work on art since i spent almost all day yesterday struggling with a pose and i finally #think i thought of something that could work and then (gestures to the wind) fuck me #also in regards to these two you have seen me drawing deacon a lot recently and i only drew armya once so far #she is a devoted follower to fulj which is really rare since fulj no longer has a large following nor a temple #so when fulj finds her its comforting and reassuring and she adores armya a lot #however the fact that fulj relentlessly teases deacon and calls him names is like..... ok wait would you really be mean to me if it wasnt #for her ? like would you still pick on me? :c and shes like lol yeah dude absolutely #deacon is just constantly dunked on by the lightning group and hes so sad because he wanted to be friends :c #but also the guy wouldnt really recognize the followers if it wasnt for the traces of lady fulj #so if they would wander into the city without having been possessed recently he probably wouldnt even cast a glance their way #nothing personal he just straight up doesnt decipher looks fast at all #he could think they look familiar but then not know why ESPECIALLY if they wear something he's not used to them in #like if armya showed up in something other than her loose white jacket he would not be able to go AH YES ARMYA immediately #he identifies people by hair or clothing details so it kinda messes him up if people remove whatever identifying trait they have #long hair getting a hair cut? suddenly a whole new person #and armya knows this very well since he never looked her way unless fulj was possessing her or trailing her #so she does like to tease him as just. we are both in servitude to a deity and same rank but like. bro youre too easy to mock #(fulj agrees)

[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

[bambambambino]

I love him so much 😭

#this was when he was 2 and we first moved into this house #i love this dude so much hes my little man #hes very large but hes still my little boy #i need to take a picture of him with someone one day so i can see just how big he os #he doesnt seem that big to me but its because i see him all the time #dogs #my dogs #kaine #german shepherd #gsd #dogblr

[cosmicaces]

im so happy to have gig back but man. the character assassination and the undermining of the og lore that abstraction added in is Really Bad

#cosmic chatter #gigantic #its a huge mess! im so mad dude #my one fear abt this game coming back happened #im just largely gonna ignore whatever dumb shit abstraction put in #it just ughhh imagine saying you respected the og devs and then treat it like this #the old lore was Incredible. the new lore is lazy. inconsistent. all sorts of bad

[mantisgodsdomain]

Fun fact about us: we really, really like doing crossovers, whether between different Things or just between different AUs of the same Thing. We deeply enjoy throwing things into each other and seeing the relative "normal" interact, tinkering with different potential outcomes of the same general thing, fucking around with culture clash and alternate realities, and all of that fun stuff.

Unfortunately, we also get into flavors of media that isn't quite finished a lot, and we often really want to throw together AUs that we have to write ourself together with things, which means that we're nearly constantly running into the same handful of roadblocks: it's really hard to write about stuff when people have no idea what you're talking about, and it's also really hard to write about stuff when you don't know half of what's going on.

This means that a decent chunk of our writing that is finished tends to stay in drafts - fics based on information that needs to be revealed in stuff we haven't yet written, fics based on media where half of the things we need to know aren't yet revealed in canon, and similar situations easily make up our second most common category of "finished but unpublished" and "finished except for That One Thing" fic (our first most common category is "we need to come up with a decent opening and writing a good hook is hard")

This is, of course, a hell of our own creation. A problem of our own authorship, that we still consistently fail to escape because of our sense of pride and unwillingness to turn out anything that isn't at least half-decent. Similar to the way that we force ourself to reread any media that we write fic of for the sake of accuracy before we can publish it. It makes things take longer, but allows us to ensure quality - though it may hold us back from a certain degree of self-indulgence, mischaracterization is the thing that bothers us most, and if we release a misreading or mischaracterization, that'll haunt us more than any level of soul-baring ever count.

Anyways, all of this is to say that peak self-indulgence for us looks like an isekai Dungeon Meshi/Runaway to the Stars crossover where we stick a handful of characters into the dungeon and let them just kind of cope with that for the forseeable future and the only thing stopping us from doing this is a sense of pride and the fact that Runaway to the Stars doesn't actually have finished & published books right now.

#we speak #writing #no clue if thisll go in the tags for either of those pieces of media. tag search is very inconsistent on that. #if you're looking at this from a fandom tag then hi #this is the same force that keeps 99% of our hbg fic in development hell and the same thing that keeps our multichapters in limbo #if you see us say “we're writing something” and then we don't post it then theres like a 80% chance that its one of three things #either we couldn't make a decent intro we ran into a “need to post this before this” error or we ran into a missing info error #assuming that we didn't get stuck on the reread ofc #sometimes this will also make us into a massive hater because we put large amounts of effort into making things Consistent and Functional #and then we run into authors that Don't do that and we're like “what the hell dude why is your world so sloppy theres holes in here” #the problem is that we unfortunately probably thought it through more than you and now we're in the pit again #anyways. do you guys think that the dungeon could spawn monsters that are edible for talita if she got hungry enough in there #can the dungeon manufacture centaur macromolecules. could talita eat dungeon meat. could the dungeon make centaur safe meatplants #we answer this question in twenty years when rtts is done and published and we can finally write fic for it

[junotter]

sometimes researching for avatar redesigns has you 6 layers deep into the Japan's Meiji era allies wiki

#im trying to mess with some of the stuff that feels weird about the ways the fire nation is depicted idk #like i do not feel optically it is good for like them to be so heavily based on japan's imperialist actions #while dressed in clothes that come from places japan colonized #but i dont want it to just be solely japanese though i did draw zuko and azula in hakama but its largely cause i wanted to draw hakama #and like the only place with strong japanese influence being kiyoshi island and my own frustration with the modern day samurai depiction #i think fundamentally it isnt a choice that had as much thought as i am putting in put into it but it does raise an eyebrow for me #anyway i think keeping the thai influence is fine despite the brief invasion japan had into thailand due to thailand then allying with japa #and further allying with the axis due to allying with japan #ugh and ive been told not to think this much about it because its fiction but its also fiction so so so heavily based on real places #and when you base fiction on real cultures you fall into some unintentional pitfalls #i also fucking hate the royal fire nation robes they look so meh and the most costumey out of everything in the show #they look like heavy blankets despite being a supposedly hot nation #theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets #back to kiyoshi island i think the really only aesthetically japanese reference in the show being an island of noble warriors is lame #plus over done #it feels like nowadays theres a lot of people who get all whiney about people saying fire nation is based off japan #but like dude the creators in the comics and korra like go even more into the japanese influence and clearly it was the original intentions #also i do think you could do some pretty interesting world building by having say there be an older cultural influence on kiyoshi island #from the fire nation especially if the place is established as a central port area then you tie in some okinawan or even hawaiian reference #and gives an explanation that makes sense to why kiyoshi stands out from the rest of the earth kingdom you have long term cultural trading #and it establishes interesting relationships even pre kiyoshi time thereby drawing back onto some real historic references #cause for awhile ryukyu china and japan used to be this trading triangle which could explain some of these various influences going on #i think you can get a really interesting harmony when you create the fire nation out of a mix of japan and thailand #i mean both have these floating buildings due to living on some pretty wet lands and theres harmony in that mix #god i did see one person go like “fire nation is more based on china because theres a lot of red and red is important in china” #my brother in christ red is also important in japan #red is important in like many many asian cultures #i mean of course a lot of that importance stems from china and cultural exchange with china but idk kinda silly to say with your whole ches #like if you want to bring china in then the dragons are the biggest thing like sure some mythos has dragons in japan #but a lot of those comes from china in some way

[1pcii]

one piece modern au mentions zoro is bad at math or actually genuinly stupid/unintelligent 143 dead 657 injured

#like theres a difference between poking fun at him for being directionally challanged or looking at books more than reading them #or generally being more brawns than brains. and going 'dumb stupid idiot' idk #it just bothers me alot #especially making a point about him being bad at MATH??? disproven by canon but go off ig #idk maybe its just me since i personally see him as nd but it rubs me the wrong way went ppl straight up insult him #psii.txt #text #fanfic #roronoa zoro #also proabably dosnt help i relate to some of his worst traits but for largely more medical reasons. like boy they- #-talking about a 2d anime dude dont take it so personally 😭

[gourde]

There's this huge server I'm in just for some Roblox game updates and the mod team there are the most boring people ever. I understand restricting reactions as people can make explicit ummm ones that are not appropriate for a. Roblox Discord server. BUT THE MODS ARE SUCK KILLJOYS only people who have like level 50 in there can react to things and when they have. Fun. On announcement posts which everyone can read and see easily they're like "Reactions are a privilege not a right 🤓 Don't abuse this luxury" and it's like are you kidding me. No one is fun here. Also they banned the word midget

#rambling #its so easy to tell when a server is run by NT white people. there is no fun #like i get needing rules for a large server with a younger age range but sometimes its like #dude its okay. you can relax. #oh also they were so so sad when the queen died i need to find the announcement it was so bad

[selfshiprequests]

If it's no trouble, could I get headcanons for Darkiplier and Anticepticeye with a male s/i who loves to listen to music with them and get them into new bands and songs?

sure thing anon!! i didnt expect to get any ego requests, i was super happy to see this in the inbox <3 hope ya like it

- mod malware

they both love to hear about the things you like; music included! granted, you won't often hear them say it out loud, especially from anti, but hey, it's the thought that counts, yeah?

outwardly, anti scoffs at whatever you're making him listen to, acting like its an inconvenience, but there's a reason he lets you play the music for him anyways. he often actually likes the songs and artists you introduce him to; even the ones that seem WAY out of character for him to enjoy. turns out he actually has pretty broad music taste

"dude, this song fuckin' sucks." (his head has been nodding to the beat since it started playing)

of course, his preferences lean more towards rock, death metal, breakcore, and dubstep, which is the type of music he'll blast loud enough to be heard through the entire house without any shame. but, if you occasionally make him listen to a sappy love song or a pop song too catchy for it's own good, you might catch him listening to it with headphones on at 3am.

he tends to get really into his music too, for lack of better phrasing. listening to music can change his entire mood, for better or for worse; naturally, he prefers music that'll get him fuckin pumped up !!!!

and then, we have dark. his taste in music is a lot more enclosed; he tends to prefer slower, gentle music, often in the circle of classical, jazz, swing, sometimes opera and even musical theatre when he's feeling more dramatic. he'd probably take a liking to the rocky horror picture show.

that being said though, he's willing to listen to whatever you'd like him to listen to; he can tell it means something to you, and he'll trust your judgement.

"hm, this is... interesting. who did you say composed this? i'll have to take a look into their catalogue later."

he's not super likely to actively enjoy or seek out a lot of the music you show him, as he generally just doesn't like a lot of modern music. there's definitely the occasional exception though.

maybe try to avoid stuff that's too energetic (anything that anti would like basically), as it can give him headaches.

i imagine trying to jam out with both of them would be a little difficult considering their very very opposing music tastes (anti thinks dark's music is boring, dark thinks anti's music is just mindless noise).

"listen, anti, there's a very distinct emotional turmoil present in the flow of the melody, one that-"

"blah blah blah, nobody cares about your 'emotional turmoil' old man. your music is shit, go argue with a wall"

... you're sure to find something they both like eventually, right?

and even if you don't, well, they'd probably both stay anyways. because if it makes you happy to share your music with them, then it'd be worth it in the end, without question.

maybe you'll find they secretly have an affinity for lady gaga or something :P

#selfship #selfship requests #selfship community #self ship #source: markiplier #source: jacksepticeye #character: darkiplier #character: antisepticeye #headcanons #request #anon #mod malware #fun fact im an anti kin if my mod name + color didnt clue anyone in so this was particularly cool to write #its also nearly 4 am as im writing this so if its bad then blame my sleep schedule #oh also the male reader part didnt really come up at all except for anti saying “dude” so i think this largely counts as gender neutral #but anyways. always cool to see another ego selfshipper. ur awesome anon

[a-haunting-of-endermen]

I love when a MCYT'er teaches me actual things about astronomy.

#cubfan135 #A CYCLICAL NOVA????? dude that's so freaking cool #a smaller star orbiting a larger star; forever suffused in it's twin's material cast-off #it goes supernova but! because it's still in the large star's orbit it quickly gains more of its own material to grow larger/supernova again #*** sorry — not supernova; a nova outburst #it's going to be bright enough to see unaided for an entire few days!! #that's. so cool.

[faineant-girl]

idk how many of you keep up w kurtis connor uploads on the regular but does anyone else agree that this latest one blew chunks

#.tlktxt #for future reference. itd be the one abt the animated movie a youtuber made. almost by himself. but whatever #like to be fair i havent finished the video. i got pretty far but it just kept pissing me off #i hate when people who dont know shit abt animation or its production try to talk abt animation production. especially for critique #also just like. kinda rancid video in general i think. i know yhat the like. being q small youtuber doesnt automatically mean youre free of #criticism but like. dude its a single man operation on a minuscule channel that now is only known to an audience of people who love to make #fun of others. friendly or not. so like fucking imagine how dogshit that guys comments are gonna look like #like it wouldnt be great if it was like a morally abhorrent movie either but like it wasnt. it was a tiny passion project. made by one #fucking guy. and like its worst crime is being like. incoherent and dare i say cringey #man idk. i think i just feel for the reviewer guy. something something people woth large followings need to be careful abt who they #spotlight and how and why. whatever it pissed me off though.... sigh #also just like. bad jokes in general. not a good video bad video!!!!

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

Jecra is nonbinary to me. Computer send post.

#snappy speaks #but not nb in the tradtional way #i could explain how i think the kirby universe largely full of alien societies where gender is irrelevant #but most people do not appreciate that vision so #i will say that jecra is more any pronouns but loves being a father so much its part of his identity. but hes not a dude #also something something being in circumstances where he can not fully explore his identity #but i digress literally nobody thinks about this character except for me. nobody asked and im yapping to myself #kirby right back at ya #jecra