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the-nysh · 1 year

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Hi there!! I just saw your tags on the Vash marksman appreciation post and I really REALLY gotta know your thoughts on the fight choreography bc while I did martial arts as a kid I don’t remember everything and just extremely curious!! Wanna appreciate the thoughts put behind making this boyo!!

👀👀!!! Yes, hello! (Note: I'm also about 10yrs rusty out of practice in hapkido--a Korean defensive art that combines many styles from judo/aikido/etc, so while I may not remember all the formal terms and stuff, I can still SEE the very real and very sexy close combat choreography + randori/grapples/ground work they're smoothly throwing in there!) I've briefly tag-ranted on some former gifs I've reblogged here & here but OK, I can indulge into a little more detail! :D

Let's start with this gif, which is such a nice introductory tease!

The point-blank bullet dodging is some of that sick looking 'rule of cool' inhuman spice, but oh what's this?? 👀 The other dude is dumbly holding his arm out (non-defensively, since if that guy were smart about close fighting, he'd have his other hand up at the ready too) right in Vash's personal space, ripe for the taking - to which OH YES he easily blocks with the prosthetic arm and transitions right into a throw for the takedown. Where he shoves the fool over his shoulder with a lot more power (which is hard to do, esp from a standing position without a solid grip on any lapels either; woo he just goes right in for it), rather than using the dude's own momentum against him, since the guy's literally just standing there (as a stationary weight) rather than trying to punch him in a brawl. But LOOK what else Vash does!!! His block with the prosthetic becomes a grip that both holds/pulls onto the guy's arm during the throw and disarms the guy - by tossing his gun away, in one swift movement! :O Not only that, but there!! We see the first quick tease of him reverse-griping his own heavy brick of a gun into a tonfa position to strike the guy at the back of the neck for a non-lethal stun!!! That is SO cool!!! ;o; Some galaxy-brained application of his no-killing fighting style (using both arms + his revolver in his repertoire...oh wait, that already makes up the title's literal 3 guns *gets shot*) where it looks so fresh and seamlessly smooth af. Great stuff.

Then the Livio fight, despite him being double-armed with long-range weapons, is full of close-range gold from the way Vash tackles him, straddles him, and pins him to the floor with a (forceful!) choke to the throat (like whoa excuse me hello), but ALSO from the self-aware way Vash always has his guard up to keep both of Livio's guns out of the way at all times. D: Whether parrying bullets with his prosthetic, blocking/holding the guns away with that arm too (as shown), or even using his own gun defensively as a tonfa-shield to reinforce his blocks as well.

So then we get to THIS GIF, the same sequence that drove you insane for his smooth marksmanship tracking, drives ME insane for his immediate close-quarters holywhattheflyingshit did he just DO!?!?!?! 👀👀

LOOK AT HIM!!! Honestly it's kinda hard to see everything from how fast he goes, but I love the way he zips in there to grapple Livio off-balance, and ahh!! Look at the way Vash ducks and defensively keeps both arms up (this is SO important, because once you've trained you'll notice how in so many movies/comics' 'rule of cool' martial arts moves, they'll often have a character wildly swing their arms out to the sides to counter-balance kicks and stuff, but no--that's bad/unsafe form; bc if you're in a real fight you need to keep both arms up and ready at all times if you want to protect your core/face from getting blown off! Which just as you've noted, is something that needs to be practiced! The fact Vash has kept his unblemished pretty face for 150yrs is testament to that~) Vash knows how to simultaneously use his prosthetic AND his gun as needed--cause look at that, he swiftly holds it reversed as a tonfa again to block Livio's gun swing, which is a really cool way to use a gun as a shield to protect his own flesh arm from the incoming blows.

But that's not all, because ahaaa~ Fighting defensively is not all he's got up his sleeve! The little boxing jab he throws to Livio's face with his prosthetic arm makes me giggle, because OH YEAH that's a real thing! A type of distraction strike you pull - the same as stomping on a foot or kicking someone in the balls, to disorient your opponent off-guard first before you serve your real (offensive) move. Which in Vash's case leads up to a....O___O;;!?!? TF is THAT.

Here's where they're teasing in more of that inhuman spice again, because Vash holds Livio's guns out of the way (as usual) and revs up for a....fucking one-punch to the solar plexus at point-blank?!? D8 Whatwhatwhatwhat!!! Because that wasn't his gun's doing at all; he was still holding it defensively in that arm as a tonfa! That was his real arm's natural brute strength bitch!!! aaaahaha!!! wow I love it. The guy modestly says he's not much of a fighter but that's not trueeee at all, is it~ ;) I can SEE real proof of that otherwise and I can't wait for what else studio orange will show us to blow our minds.

*Ahem* So anyway did I ever mention how much I like the way he reverses the grip on his gun to use as a tonfa? (both defensively as a shield to protect himself and offensively to stun/strike his opponents with) For thematically how much it seamlessly works for his fighting style to never kill, for how the improvised (but practiced!) close-range practicality and versatility of it looks crazy awesome, and because damn, that shit's hot.

#trigun #gif #commentary #totallynotsilversora #replies #hoho so happy to oblige to share more nerding out insanity for him #studio orange really did their homework that's both recognizable and flattering to those who know our shit!#(just don't ask about the footwork as that's where i'm too rusty to comment on the physics without jumping back in the rec room to try)

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quinloki · 8 months

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Marco question time! In a modern setting, what do you see him doing for his career? Would he still be a doctor, or do you see him doing something altogether different?

Oooooh /rubs hands/

I could see Marco being good at a LOT of modern jobs.

If there was a Legitimate "Whitebeard Inc." or something he'd be a CEO, or Vice CEO or something - idk, top dog or second in command position easily. I could see him being good at bookkeeping, and analytics too.

I could see him being good at running a small business nearly solo - flower shop, coffee shop, that sort of thing. (Marco the Book Store owner /GASP/ well, shit I think I know what my next Marco x reader's gonna be >.> )

He would make a decent teacher too.

And I could totally see him being a doctor - general practitioner, ER doc, I wouldn't see him being a surgeon or anything too high profile. Only because I don't feel like it's something he'd aspire too. He's definitely be a part of Doctors without Borders or some such - real boots on the ground practical type medical stuff. (Relatedly I can see Chopper being more of a science/apothecary cutting edge of medication style "doctor" more than general practice or surgeon).

I could see him being a helicopter pilot too - smaller aircraft, not any big commercial type deals. Maybe even a retired military fighter pilot or rescue helicopter operator.

>.>

<.<

I could 100% see him being a stripper/belly dancer/host type person too. No shame. Smooth AF. Completely unfair. Gods helps us all.

Ace kicks off the show, and he's all fire and energy and people cheer and there's money going places and then Marco comes out on stage and the whole audience is hushed. They love it, but it's mesmerizing. He's not riling them up like Ace does, but they're all wrapped around his fingers.

It's sensual. low. You forget to breathe a few times.

...heck me.

Send me asks and appreciate a good art.

#reader insert #x reader #marco one piece #marco the phoenix #send me asks about Marco

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wuzhere75 · 2 years

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More goofy idiots; high school musical edition. Also yeah I probably just could have gotten away with Kinkajou (also yes both her and Qibil’s names are misspelled AF in the image I’m not fixing it right now) plus the actual protags but I need to practice for Arc 3 which aparently has like several dozen pseudo-protagonists, which I’m probably going to do in a slightly different style because I like the idea of trying sketchy line art with the procreate brush pen.

Okay now time for the actual headcanons

-I originally was going to give Moon a way different design (her horns where going to be long and curved like ibex horns/crescent moons but I couldn’t get that to work in the sketch; she was going to have a split color design, like one side of her body was going to be light and the other dark like a half moon), but then my brain went “albino=white/pink with red eyes, that’s moon-y because the moon looks white from earth sometimes and blood moons are a thing so red”. I do like the sketch I came up with. I still think I could have gone harder with the wrinkly skin and underbite, since I imagine it those are details frequently found on Nightwings from the volcano.

-I think Moon being a twist villain, or at least an untrustworthy character, would be kind of interesting. Like if she had been the final POV character instead and she’d been kind of this ambiguous, somewhat suspicious guide to the Darkstalker stuff.

-The entire modern Icewing royal family is considered somewhat strange looking by that tribes standards; unusually short horns, typically no fur, and oddly dark and saturated colors. I’m not from a place that gets snowy, white winters that often. More “everything dies back and it gets muddy, foggy, and frosty”, thus Winter’s color palette.

-I have a headcanon that firescales/fireless twin sets are technically identical (Sky being NB), it’s just due to the presences of no/too much fire, their features develop differently. Peril has far richer and saturated colors than Sky, but their actual patterns are identical. Due to her fire, Peril’s feathers never properly grew in (she’s like the sphinx cat equivalent of a Skywing), while Sky by comparison is very floofy. However if you peeled Sky (shaved off their feathers), they would have the exact same body shapes and features as their sister. Also the aforementioned color patterns are based of the American Kestrel.

-I have a couple of old Turtle designs kicking around my Procreate; I originally was going to use one of them (which I might post at some point to embarrass myself), to inspire this one. However, I ended up creating something entirely new. My original design had him as a lot more solid, gross yellow-y shade of green, with no tan underbelly or needle. However I discovered that the underbelly and needle would give him some nice resemblance to his sister Tsunami. Also I was using mata-mata turtles as one of my primary design references and damn those bois got schnoze.

-Turtle also would have been an interesting twist villain. Like if we got faked out like “he’s too suspicious to be the bad guy” and then he just is.

-Funny thing about Qibil; I always mis-remembered Qibils earring as having a black diamond earring rather than an “orange sunstone” one. Perhaps I was confusing his drip with Blister’s. He gets both as a treat. Also the reason why he has the classic fan depiction head sail strandy-thingy because of the scar his mom gave him. The sail behind the scar grew back all delicate and long; he’s let it grow out to see how long it can get.

-The little unneeded spite for the series/fandom I have for some reason built up on Qibil for some reason. Maybe because seemingly the rest of the fandom worships the little guy. I’d probably like him if I actually read the books, but I have developed a stupid re-write of him where he is sort of like the annoying little brother of the Jade Winglet and Jade Moutain as a general who thinks he is hotter shit than he is that nobody dares talk down to for fear of bringing mama Thorn or big sister Sunny down on their asses. He’s tried to flirt with everybody in his winglet and they’ve all pushed him away with some degree of gentleness.

-IDK who was the first fan artist to do magenta-yellow-cyan Kinkajou but it sure as hell works. I have a headcanon that younger Rainwing dragonets tend to have brighter, saturated comfort colors (image the “crayola water marker base pack” color palette). However as Rainwings mature, they tend to “mild” out their comfort colors with more varied hues. Thus, she used to have the neon pink-yellow color palette when she was younger. Also she kind of ended up looking kind of like a lychee or rambutan and I love it.

-I didn’t have too many thoughts on Umber. I mostly just focused on making him look different enough from Clay while still making him look like a possible sibling.

-I thought I was going to put more effort into Carnelians design, but I ended up just yeeting something together based off the real world carnelian stone.

-I know Anenome is described as being pink and blue/white in the books, but where I live we have neat little pink tipped green anemones so that’s her color palette. Also I imagine she wears a lot more jewelry when she’s at home but she just took a few things with her to school.

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cuddl3s4shur1 · 1 year

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My Cheerleader 📣

Shuri x Black NBA Fem Cheerleader

Summary: Riri your younger sister is coming to one of your bulls games to see your perform but riri brings a special lady that has eyes for you

Authors Note:this is hella random I lost ideas for a story and came up with this idea .Most likely I was lazy af and didn’t want to grammar and spell check but ENJOY

Part 1: Cheer

Riri’s Pov

Today was my big sisters big day .My Family and I grew up being big fans of the Chicago bulls .My sister was always energetic and a dancer and now she cheers for the Chicago bulls. My sister was a luvabull and I was proud for her. She has been calling me and tell me that she was going to perform at the next Chicago bulls game.An because of that I’m going to surprise her and go see her . Plus I’m taking my friend Shuri to go I decided to ask her when I was in wakanda and she couldn’t make it the first time but now she can. So know shuri can meet more of members in my famiky starting with my sister .I hope shuri likes her as much as I do .

Y/n’s Pov

Today you were going to finally cheer for the Chicago Bulls.you where so excited this took time and effort .People where going to see your efforts come together . You walked into the locker room for the cheerleaders .”Are y’all excited “ you say with so much emotion “YESS my mom are coming to see me “ your friend Alina responded. You were in a Chicago bulls jersey to get ready in .You did it on purpose so no makeup would get on your cheer outfit. You started to do you hair it was a curly 30 inch buss down . You guys had to have it in a half up half Down style for todays game .

You had to do your make up for todays game it was a red firey make up look and too black marks on your checks. “Does my make up look good “ you ask your friend . “Can you do my makeup y/n “ your friend looks at you im guessing my make up looks good . “So my make up is good right “ you ask . “Girl you look to die for “ you friend says you being in to smile.”Alright let’s get started on you “ you explain sitting her down in the chair “

Riri’s Pov

It was almost time to see my sister perform at the bulls gamee!!! This wasn’t my first time seeing her perform. Ever time I see her perform she eat that shit up

. I begin to face time shuri to see if she’s done getting ready .”SHURIII are you almost ready in trying to see my SISTERR” I say hig pitched . “Wait where seeing your sister “ shuri asks me questionably .”Yeah she’s a cheerleader there plus I thought it would be fun for you to meet her “I say smiling . “Your going to like her she is pretty kind and fun “ I say high pitched and taking with my hands . “Oh well I “ shuri says doing her simple make up look “yeah yeah so are you almost done or what-“ I begin to say before I get caught off .”Annnnndddddddd done !” Shuri says as she places her makeup brush done . “Are You like done done or just done with make up “ I begin to say while taking with my hands .”You can come pick me up type if done “shuri says while getting her stuff together . “Alright see you soon “

Y/n’s Pov

You started to practice my cheer so you wouldn’t fuck up on the court . You had to play at the beginning of the game and at the end .

A/N: YOU KNOW I HAD TO DOUBLE ITTT

You made sure your hair was good,your bow was up right,your make up good ,your outfit was on right .All that for your first performance .The coach started to come in “10 MINUTES 10 MINUTES BEFORE YALL GO ON THE COURT “ .You begin to get nervous about it .”You got this your a bad bitch “ you repeat in your head . You take deep breathss and start to zone out .you begin to hear your name muffled .”y/n Y/n Y/N! Come on it’s time to perform.

Riris Pov

We brought some snack to the game due to us knowing we where going to be hungry . “Shuri when you see y/n dance you are going to be flabbergasted “ I say I love hyping up my sister I think to my self. “INTRODUCING THE CHICAGO LUVABULLS “ they say on a speaker . I begin to recored this to show my sister after. “That’s her right there “ I point at one in the front “. they do there dance and cheer and it was clean .A couple minutes after they leave the game starts . “ Shuri did you see my sister and how she ate that “ I say getting excited.”Yeah Yeah” shuri says I’m guessing she thinks about work or something.

Shuri’s Pov

As riri points to who her sister is I begin to look surprised. Due to her sister being the finest one of the team . She is in the front being the center of attention. She held her self up high and performed killer . After her performance she did a small wave for riri to see .she begin to walk off stage with confidence .She was beautiful like really beautiful. Her smile ,Her eyes ,and oh her lips, she was beautiful.Her outfit hugged her curves . All I could think about was her .

Y/n's Pov

When you got off of stage you rushed to your phone. "Hey siri face time ✨🤪💕𝓣𝔀𝓲𝓷💕🤪✨" you say excited . Your sister Riri answered her phone “Why didn’t you tell me you where coming “ you say happily .”It was a suprise duh” she rolls her eyes .”Don’t you dare roll your eyes at me “ you say being funny .”I did roll my eyes and I will do it again “ riri says being funny . “Anyways SIS YOU ATE THAT SHIT UPP” riri says hyping you up.”You know I had to eat it up “ you say while smiling . “Oh yeah I brought my friend to come and meet you “ riri says giving the phone to her friend. “Hi my sister’s friend “ you say being nice . “I know you ain’t putting on no nice act “ you hear riri say in the background. “Hey I’m shuri “ Shuri says to you while doing a small smile . “It’s nice to meet you over the phone I’ll probably meet you in person after the game “ you say while smiling at her . “It will be nice to see you in person “ she says while smiling. “Ok y’all can stop flirting now “ riri says in the background.”Girl don’t be mad you can’t find yourself a boo ,I was being nice “ you say throwing shade . Riri grabs her phone from shuri to talk to you. “Mhm being nice my ass y’all where practically eye fucking “ riri says to you .”Bitch you sound slow how the fuck do you fuck “ you say while talking with your hands. “You imagine that your fucking that’s eye fucking” riri says . “Girl get off my screen with this nonsense “ you say being funny “Alright see you soon “ riri says being in a good mood.

Riri’s Pov

After I got off the phone with my big sister I turn to shuri . “You like my sister “ I say to shuri . “I do not like your sister riri” shuri says defensively . “Lies” I say to her “You most definitely like my sister “ I say being honest and serious. “Ok fine I do like your sister but don’t tell her “ shuri says trying to be calm “I can’t promise about the last part but FIRE COUPLE” I say smiling on the last over .”Do you think your sister will you know like me “ shuri says while blushing a little .” If you treat her right than yeah “ I say to shuri . “Let’s get back to the game “ I say so shuri can relax . “Mhm” shuri says turning away from to look at the game .

Y/n’s Pov

The game was almost over and you know what that means it’s almost cheer time . You already took off your make up and your friend took of hers.You had to do a different make up look for your next performance .The make up was red white and black lines with stars . You did your make up 40 min before the next performance you knew you would take time on it . You friend from earlier also needed her make up done so you did hers to . You re did your hair and added red and white highlights to it.You put your back in half up half down. You put on your outfit it was black mesh top and shorts . You whore a red and white and black bra underneath it and red white and black shorts. You went on in 5 minutes . Your moves was good make up was good and hair on point . You whore red white and black forces . You made sure your friend was good and everyone else on the team . By the time you made everyone was good .The time was up you had to go play and perform.

Shuri’s Pov

The music for the cheer started to play .I see y/n in her outfit she looks so mf fine . They did their performance which was clean .All people in place and dance on time . I love to see how y/n was making sure she was ok . They went off with the same music they came on with . The game was over and everyone started to leave.Me and riri stayed and waited for y/n to find us in the stands .

And there y/n was she looks just like a dream the prettiest girl I ever seen

#black panther wakanda forvever spoilers #shuri udaku #wakanda forever #princess shuri #queen shuri #shuri fanfiction #black panther #black panther marvel #daddy panther #shuri #riri williams

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dapper-lil-arts · 5 months

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1. How did you get so good at drawing? And do you have any tips for someone who isn't?

2. Of your characters, who gives the best hugs?

3. What inspires you to make your characters?

1 - i practiced and fully finished a piece DAILY for at least 3 years, i used TONS of reference and was inspired by plenty of diffrent artists. And i also was very motivated on making "feezable" bodytypes rather than just realistic human ones! taking the furry concept of character design to its maximum capacity. I would say another thing that made me good is my constant desire to outdo myself and learn new styles of coloring and shading and lining and anatomy. My advice for getting better is trying, trying, trying! keeping an open mind and love for art, trying as much as you can passionately everyday. and keep in mind that you will suck at something before you're good at that something. 2 - depends on whats best for you tbh. some people like to be smothered, others embraced gently. 3 - i like making original stuff a LOT. i never wanted to just follow trends, but i realised i needed to have SOME appeal to my art, so on the nsfw i decided to make booby ocs. it kinda spanned out into it being its own semi organized thing on its own, rly i still express myself even on the facet of huge breasts. Also i never liked to half ass anything. so rather than making semi large breasts like the classic anime girl, i decided to go all the fuckin way. if the concept and appeal of these characters is that they have big boobs, i am going all the fucking way. breats bigger than head. (which ironicaly lowers mass appeal lmao. very few people are gonna wanna reblog huge tits.) on the sfw character front, (and generaly rly even booby) ive always been fond of characters that were combinations of multiple tropes and concepts at once, and still worked, easiest example is Agatha, shes a witch, a mom, goth, a killer, and sexy af; it was so fun creating her by combining a whooole buncha concepts and tropes n ideas; forming their own original thing! A lot of my sfw characters can be seen as those combinations too; one of my favorite side-passtimes is making a list of all characters that remind me of my own that i see out there. its very messy, and yet, very fun to do.

I honestly recomend anyone that has ocs, even if they dont share them and their details with the public (like i sure fuckin dont lol) to try doing stuff like this. its rly funny to have those "aha!" moments when you realise a character you love has stuff in common with a character you made. like YES jim hawkins DOES have a lot of daddy issues and is an angsty teen! add him to the list. lmao. thanks for the ask!

#ask #ask doodle #i love talkin about art n characters n stuff!

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ashes-writing · 2 years

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the power of love pt two | stranger things ; s. harrington

A/N ; So this is the second part to the thing I posted for Steve yesterday, I think? Yeah, it was yesterday. I wasn't expecting to have another part quite so soon but like.. Inspiration hit. And I was in the mood for some like.. domestic-y fluffy type stuff, so here we are. As I've been writing this I've been bombarded by thoughts / images and headcanons for this duo, that's not weird at all, right? Psst, if you're curious, you can totally ask me.Only if you wanna, it would make me happy and I could probs talk and ramble about them all day, oops rip.

Pairing ; Steve Harrington x Henderson!Fem reader

Timeline / Other Stuff to Note ; part I can be found by clicking. This chapter takes place at least two weeks after part I. As previously stated, none of the Upside Down and it's unholy terrors will be happening here, the time frame for this is 84 (s2) just after his breakup with Nancy. Yes, Dustin and Steve will become friends, but they start off a little wary.

Tag List ; @musichealsscars @aries-arcade @hcloangcls @allelitesmut and I'll throw out a bonus tag to @rampagewriting -feel free to ignore if you want, bb. if you'd like to be added to my taglists for anything including Stranger Things, please let me know or add yourself -> here.

Warnings ; reader is not wearing pants -and also probably not a bra... but is wearing an oversize shirt, massaging, thick af sexual tension, lots of internal pining, domestic type fluff / friendship ? That's it.

Other Stuff ; tag list doc || my rules - fandoms and some characters I write for || requests are open (pls.. pls... send me things) but they're limited to headcanon asks + filth/fluff alphabet letters and I'm not accepting wrestling / wrestlers in my ask box. Any other fandom/character but wrestling that I happen to write for is fine and I beg of you -> send me things.

I do not consent to my work being reposted elsewhere or copied/reworked/rewritten and reposted here or elsewhere. You don't own this, I do. So like... don't steal my shit.

From inside your house, Steve could hear Led Zeppelin playing at an almost ear-splitting volume. He’d already knocked two times and he was about to knock a third when Dustin peeked out of the open garage and motioned him over. Led Zeppelin changed to Van Halen inside. Steve wandered into the garage. Dustin opened a door that led into the kitchen and yelled out over the music, “Gremlin!”

From the top of the counter, you glance back over your shoulder at Dustin. Almost the second you see Steve leaned in the doorway awkwardly, with his books and notebooks, you want to crawl in a hole and die because yet again, he’s caught you pantsless.

To be fair, it’s like Russian Roulette to an extent because the second you’re home, you usually tend to start stripping down to get as comfortable as you can. The shoes followed by your bra is the first thing to go. Then at some points, your pants or shorts or whatever you’re wearing as a bottom happens to come off. Then you’re finding the oversized shirts you own, the ones you can practically swim in, and you’re putting those on.

Today’s chosen shirt was an old Black Sabbath shirt that belonged to your mom’s oldest brother Tim. She’d stolen it from him when he lived with your mom and dad for a while before you were born and then you just kind of stole it from her.

Steve reaches out and lowers the volume on the little boombox sitting at the end of the counter he stands closest to. You find the pan you were looking for but you have to stand to reach it because it’s not one your mom uses often at all.

You pump your fist in victory when you’ve gotten what you think is a good grip on the pan and steady footing on the counter but somehow, you weren’t steady enough.

And yet again, it’s as if Steve is there before your brain even fully processes what’s about to happen because you haven’t even started to really fall yet and he’s caught you, holding you bridal style in his arms.

Whether you choose to admit it or not, being this close to him definitely throws you into a bit of a frenzy. He stands you on your feet and you sit the pan on your favorite eye.

“You like grilled cheese, right?” you ask the question as you gather cheese, bacon, butter and bread, lining them up on the counter near the stove.

Before Steve can answer, Dustin speaks up. “You like her grilled cheese. Just trust me.”

Steve nods.

It’s not as if he has any sort of home cooked anything waiting for him at his parents because they’re never home. When they are home, they’re always out on dates. Or fighting and on different sides of the house with a stony silence hanging heavy in the air.

It’s nothing like the atmosphere he feels in your house. Warmth. Coziness. It’s inviting and for once, a parent other than Tommy’s mom actually seems to like him. Twice he’s been over so you could tutor him and twice, your mother has not only asked him to stay for supper and a game or two of dominos, but she’s also sent home leftovers with him. Which, yes, were definitely appreciated because a guy can only eat pizza or diner food or the processed shit he grabbed just for convenience when his parents left grocery money before leaving town on another long trip.

“Dustball, damn it. I just mended those jeans, you little doofus.” you motion to your brother’s jeans when you happen to glance over and notice that he has yet another burn hole in the denim. “Go up and find somethin else to wear. Leave ‘em on the end of my bed and I’ll fix them again later. Mom’s not made of money, damn it.”

“Okay, alright. The hell am I supposed to do, weld without pants? We’re not all feral nudists like you, gremlin.”

“I am not a feral nudist. I just happen to think bras, pants, underwear and shoes are all bullshit.” you flip your brother off and point to the stairs. He’s about halfway up when you think about the fact that the damn kid probably has at least three days worth of dirty clothes in the hamper and your mom’s worked back to back all nighters at the hospital where she’s an RN.

“Hey! Bring down all your dirty clothes. All of ‘em. I’ll put it all on to wash.”

“Want me to grab yours too?” Dustin asks.

“No, I’ll get mine later.” you call up to him.

This leaves you alone in the kitchen with Steve Harrington. And as you start to fix the sandwiches, you can feel him staring. Finally, when it’s just too much, too intense for you somehow, you look up at him.

“What?”

Steve chuckles wordlessly.

The puppy comes rushing down the stairs and you bend down to sit on your knees on the floor, scratching him behind the ears as he stands and puts both his front paws on your shoulders so he can really get in there good and cover your face in little puppy kisses. Steve pulls out one of the wooden stools sitting at the island and sits down.

“Nothing.” he finally answers. You pull yourself up and slink over to the sink, washing off your hands with soap and water. You start again putting sandwiches together and at one point, you don’t even realize Steve’s not sitting on the stool anymore. You find this out when you turn around to grab a spatula and flip one of the sandwiches in the sizzling pan and you find yourself body to body in front of the stove with Steve towering over you.

“Is there uh… Anything I can do?”

As he asks the question, he gazes down at you. And he really tries not to stare too long at your eyes because they seem to have this habit of sucking him in or your lips, because the more he does that, the more intrusive thoughts like grabbing your jaw and kissing you pop into his head and he’s still hell bent on not even trying because Nancy messed him up that bad and he knows it’s too soon, he just… can’t control where his mind goes or how often it goes there. And he can tell himself it’s just a touch of his old habits and wanting to sleep with you coming back again but deep down, he knows it’s a lie.

There’s something different this time. It’s a rush but it’s also scary as hell for him because he feels ten times whatever he felt for Nancy Wheeler in the beginning.

And he can’t stop thinking about how much the end of that hurt.

You bite your lip and shake your head no. “I’ve got it.” you manage to mumble but only after you’ve stupidly gone and gotten all lost in his eyes again. But you remind yourself that Steve’s got a type -and a reputation, and you are sadly not his type.

If only you knew just how wrong you are about that thought.

But you don’t quite yet.

“Thanks though.” you add the words with a softer cute little smile as you tilt your head slightly and look up at him. “It’s not my mom’s food but it’ll keep me from starving and going into a hunger induced rage.” you laugh when you say it as you start to pile the finished sandwiches onto a plate.

Steve takes one and bites into it, fanning his mouth when the hot and cheesy sandwich burns his tongue and burns its way down his throat. He groans as the flavors of the different cheeses burst in his mouth. “This is good.”

You laugh softly. “Thank you. It’s better with tomato soup or marinara to dip it in but there wasn’t any around.” you take a bite of your own and bounce up and down while grinning to yourself. CCR is playing on the radio and you reach out, turning up the volume. Steve can’t help but laugh because no matter how hard he’s trying to fight whatever…. This is… that he feels for you, it goes without saying. You’re fucking adorable and he’d be lying if he didn’t at least allow himself to admit that.

Dustin wanders in just as you and Steve have started to attempt getting him caught up in the math class he was taking and as soon as he sees you standing behind Steve’s chair with your hand on the back of it, he snickers to himself.

You can say you’re not into Steve Harrington until you’re blue in the face but your little brother knows otherwise. He’s never seen you this touchy or giggly or forgetful around anybody else. And honestly, he’s okay with Steve being around a lot.

He didn’t think he would be at first, but then he realized that maybe Steve wasn’t the guy he originally thought.

You’re rubbing his shoulders as he sits in a chair at the dining table and the more you rub his shoulders, the more he can feel himself just kind of melting. Going limp as the stress related tension built up in his shoulders just seems to vanish.

You lean over him a little and pluck the pencil from his hand when he’s starting to get irritated with a pointless word problem on the page. “Okay, watch me, alright?” your breath is warm against his ear and he finds himself gripping the edge of the table as your soft lips graze against his ear just slightly. Without warning.

And he knows you’re just tutoring him and that he’s still messed up from the way things ended with Nance, but at the same time, he also knows that whatever is happening is going to happen and he’s powerless to stop it this time. Because he’s been trying and the harder he tries, the harder it becomes.

You work through the problem but you do it slowly and you stop frequently, making Steve repeat what you’ve just shown him back to you verbally. The way you’re leaned over him and as close to him as you can get makes the whole thing seem more intimate, more personal somehow and you tell yourself that you’re imagining the way the air feels so thick with tension right now that you almost can’t breathe. But you can tell yourself that all you want, but it’s a lie and you know it.

The scent of his cologne and the hairspray he uses is filling your nose and dominating the space and like in the hallway a little over two weeks back, you feel calm. And somehow, you feel a little giddy at the same time. You decide to sit on the counter next to his open notebook and you grab yourself another grilled cheese from the stack on the plate, nibbling on it as you watch him work through the rest of the worksheet he had to do. He happens to glance up at you at one point and watching the way you hold the sandwich between both hands and the way you’re sitting close enough that your thigh has brushed his forearm at least three times now and the scent of your perfume lingering all around him is almost sensory overload before he can get himself reigned in.

He shuts the notebook and rubs his temples.

You tilt your head slightly to look at him as you continue to nibble the sandwich. “Headache?”

“Kind of. It’s math. Me n’ numbers.” he shrugs as he says it and you slip off the counter, holding out your hand to him.

He glances from your hand to you.

“C’mon. You need a break. I need a break. Because that stupid essay is… Words hard. Brain hurts.” you laugh out the words and Steve chuckles quietly, finally allowing you to grab hold of his hand. You start up the stairs and Steve lingers awkwardly at the foot of the stairs, laughing when Dustin gives him the old as time “I’m watchin you.” signal.

He laughs because he knows it’s not like that.

But deeper down, he can’t say he’d mind at all if it were like that.

You peek out a door at the top of the stairs. “You comin up?”

“Yeah, yeah.” Steve starts to walk up the stairs.

He stands in your open doorway, just sort of gazing into your room. The closet is a mess, there’s clothes practically leaking out. Your bedframe isn’t assembled, it’s just kind of stacked against a wall and your mattresses are on the floor. There are posters of hair metal bands, some bands like Black Sabbath and The Doors that he’s heard here and there. He can’t help but snicker quietly to himself when he sees bold red lip prints all over a Poison poster next to your mirror. In the corner by a big window, there’s an easel and all your canvases. What surprises him the most is the room is soft pink and cream colored. Which is a huge contrast to the tie dye throw and the string lights that are tacked above your bed. Or the stuffed animals neatly stacked like a pyramid at the foot of the mattresses.

“You can come in.” you laugh softly, patting the empty spot next to you on your bed. You’re sprawled across on your stomach and you’re flipping through a magazine. Steve finally decides to step into the room and at first, he kind of sits awkwardly on the edge of the bed.

“Have you ever had a scalp massage, Harrington?”

“Nope.”

“Lay your head down in my lap.” you instruct, sitting up. Steve swallows hard and at first he tries to find some way out of it, but you’re giving him that cute little big-eyed look and he just winds up caving. He positions his head awkwardly in your lap and you start to drag your fingers over his scalp, rubbing as they move over. Steve groans before he can stop himself at one point and you giggle.

“Feels good, hm?” you question. When you lean down to ask him, your hair falls against his cheek, soft to the touch. The heavy scent of strawberries and when he blurts out what he does next, “Did you switch shampoo or somethin?” he wants to disappear.

He’s so much smoother normally. But everything about you has thrown the guy for a complete loop.

You can feel your body burn hot all over and you’re caught totally off guard. Surprised that he noticed something that small.

It’s not like you’re constantly around him.

Though it could be argued that he does seem to pop up a little more lately than he used to.

You laugh softly after you manage to convince yourself that it’s not a big deal and reminding yourself that he’s just a normal guy, he’s not a god or anything. “Yeah. They were out of the green apple Vo5 so I got stuck with strawberry.”

The scalp massage feels so good he’s squirming just a little. When you start to rub his temples, you’re humming under your breath and he chuckles. “Are you tryin to put me to sleep?” he asks in a heavy and hushed voice.

“Nope. But I am trying to keep your headache from getting worse. I’m rubbing pressure points.” you answer quietly. “Have you never had a massage before?”

“Nope.” Steve answers, going quiet.

“Oh.” you’re a little stunned by the fact that not once has he ever gotten a massage. And giggling because the more areas you massage on his body, the more…. Responsive… he seems to get.

“Lay on your stomach.”

“You don’t have to do this.” Steve insists.

“If I don’t, Harrington, you’re going to shoot off into space, alright? Have you felt the tension you’re carrying around, man?” you ask with a mild shrug as you motion for him to lay on his stomach on your bed.

“It can’t be that bad.” “You’re so tense I’m surprised you’re not in actual pain, sir.” you retort as you straddle his hips and start to work the tee shirt he’s wearing up his back so it’s not in the way quite so much. As you start to massage his back, he has to shift around quite a few times because not only is he relaxing… But the way you’re sitting on his hips in just a shirt and underwear… It doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination.

And he feels like a creep for the turn his mind takes with the whole thing, but he just can’t help it.

You finish massaging his back and he sits up, tugging his shirt back down. You manage to keep yourself from staring a little too hard, but only barely.

“My head’s not hurting as bad anymore.” “Amazing what getting rid of a little tension will do, hm?” you’re only mildly amused when you ask the question, giving him that little smirk.

“I wasn’t that tense.”

“You were.”

“I didn’t think I was.”

You’re zoned out a little, eyes fixed on full and soft lips. Trying to keep the intrusive whim to pull him in by his jaw and kiss him just to feel how soft they really are at bay.

He snickers quietly. “You’re kind of staring.”

You only stick out your tongue. And then you’re pulling yourself off the bed. Holding out your hand to him. “C’mon. Might as well finish all the shit we’ve gotta finish.”

Steve lets you think you pull him up off your bed and the two of you wander back down the stairs, into the kitchen so you can get back to studying.

#steve harrington #steve harrington imagine #steve harrington fanfiction #steve harrington fanfic #steve harrington x henderson!fem reader #steve harrington x henderson!fem reader imagine #steve harrington x henderson!fem reader fanfiction

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runa-falls · 5 months

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saw something about a ship game? huh? If that's a thing that still happens then that would be great but also I don't know how to use this website and refuse to learn so If I'm behind the curve just ignore me please (I also literally have no understanding of internet slang despite growing up on amino, so if I've missed something that says you don't do this stuff it's not me being an inconsiderate jerk, I'm just dumb) 5'7 (practically 5'8), pale af but covered in freckles, blue eyes with a little amber sorta ring around the pupil (its a type of heterochromia I think), love language is physical contact of any kind (this includes things like punching or tackling), barely shoulder length brown curly hair (like tightly curled- about as tightly curled as white girl hair can get) shaggy wolf cut style, I wear lots of chunky rings, and I'm built even though I don't look it (but in a good way)

hai :3 since you sent this in i'll match you with someone!

when you mentioned playfully tackling as your love language, my mind immediately thought of jake (lockley ofc)!! i love that you have a sleeper build and could probably wrestle him until he's out of breath and screaming truce (even if he could just shove you away lol).

you'd only be a tad bit shorter than him, but he doesn't really care about height as long as you'll let him take care of you (though he's aware you could do just fine by yourself). jake is a gentleman, but he can be really playful and teasing, so i hope you're ready for an annoying best friend along with a doting boyfriend <3

#90frogsinatrenchcoat #ship game #jake lockley

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Do you have any drawing tips for semi-beginners hoping to improve drawing people? 🙏

Draw at least once a day, even if you don't feel like it. Artistic skill is 5% raw talent and 95% stubborn af bull-headed "fuck you I'm mad that I can't draw a 3/4 head so I am gonna draw it a hundred times until I get it right"

Do drawing warmups– straight lines from the shoulder, spirals and circles and cubes, things that get your muscles, well, warmed up. Even if this is all you can draw that day, you're still gaining fine motor control.

Copy from old school masters. I literally, 100% do mean "sit your butt down and freehand a copy of whatever famous painting/sculpture/piece you're gaga for". Critically analyze how these artists drew the human form. Why do you enjoy these artists' works? What would you like to learn from them? I'm not a great colorist, so I enjoy studying how other artists utilize light and color.

Listen to Jack Kirby's advice:

Use references. All the time. Every damn day. Download stock photos that look cool and try drawing them. Take photos of yourself, your friends and fam and draw them. Feel weird because smug little assholes cry that "that's cheating", or folks make fancy jpgs of how you have to change a certain percent of the pose/hair/face/the way the shirt is flowing on your friend's body because exact life-drawing studies are "copying" now??? References are how artists work successfully and grow as artists. So you know, fuck them.

"Stock photo [person] [action]" is a life saver for finding poses to practice on

Use grids if you need to. Our predecessors did. Hell, they used crazy things like the camera obscura to make the perspective of their paintings correct. Programs like Procreate literally have grid guides to help.

Just completely stuck on a body part and frustrated that you can't get it to look right? Trace it. You have my permission. Trace it to get the form right, then try free-handing it again. You'll probably nail it. MAGIC. This is not "cheating".

(Don't trace stuff and pass it off as yours/use it for final pieces* unless your style is literally rotoscoping, a perfectly valid art form. Like, know your work and take pride in it.)

Related to that, don't feel married to a particular "style". Learn the basic foundations, then Experiment. Do those "draw my character in [X] style" memes. Flexibility will help you be kinder to yourself. Push your limits.

Redraw old work, so you can see how much you've improved.

Everything about a person can be broken down into basic shapes. Don't feel like you have to draw all the body contours perfectly the first time, and don't feel married to your first drafts. Revise, revise, revise.

Be kind to yourself. Seriously. Allow yourself to be patient with yourself. Adults in particular are so hard on themselves when it comes to drawing, when we don't need to be.

*On the topic of tracing:

Want to know where you CAN trace all the live long day? Your own work. "What?" Yes. Good god, yes. Light boxes exist in meat space for a reason! Layers in digital programs exist for a reason! So you doodled two different pics of Bucky Barnes and you love his face on one but hate it on another? C&P that sucker over or draw off that. Make a new layer above the mess. Finesse the Winter Soldier into complying cuz he's an obedient boy. It's your vision, go HAM.

On the subject of "Originality":

Andrew Loomis' Figure Drawing For All It's Worth is a solid read that goes into the specifics of how to draw people, going into anatomy and breaking down bodies and faces into shapes and lines. Part of my improvement came when I stopped stressing out about the whole image (at least at first) and took things section by section.

It might seem a little dense and intimidating at first, but it's so much better than a lot of the "how to draw" stuff on the market today.

This is also dense af but I hope it helps!

#my art #art asks #text post

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obviously it's early yet and there have only been 2 episodes but so far i am underwhelmed by the percy jackson tv show. thoughts behind cut (i guess very mild spoilers but nothing big)

mostly b/c every time it uses cgi fx the lighting gets DULL AF and terrible and i am begging disney etc to just pay for lighting people and practical effects/mixture of cgi and practical so it can be lit properly and not rely on making everything dark to hide shitty looking composition with weird flattening color grading (the actual models don't look that bad, they're just badly composited. like let a dramatic rim light enter your life, fam, i am begging you).

The props also look a little cheap? Esp in the capture the flag war scene, they all look/sound like plastic with little to make it seem like they're not (also the fit on the helmets was kinda meh, but i realize this is nitpicky).

it just added to making the show look cheap in a way it def shouldn't be b/c the mouse has so much freaking money. idk, it feels like they got a meager budget for a thing that deserves a GoT or at least a Mandalorian/SW budget tbh (orrrrrr i wish they'd just done a cool animated show in the style of the opening/closing credits but obviously that would be more expensive and the house of mouse are cowards T.T)

also the writing has been a lot of "tell instead of show" exposition so far which makes for not so great tv (it would have been much cooler to see the luke/thalia/anabeth bg stuff as a flashback instead of just having luke explain it on screen- stuff like that. Which is probably a budget/direction issue and less of a writing issue tbf). More characterization in general- like it just feels a little rushed like they were trying to hit major plot points faster (esp with the inter god house relations).

It also feels like someone told Jason Mantzoukas to dial it back and so he feels weirdly restrained as mr.d (a very strange choice imho). Like you hire him to be loud and a little obnoxious and i'm not sure about this directing choice for this character (this is sort of minor but it contributed to the first 2 eps feeling overall kinda muted?)

Book 1 is the weakest book by far tho so probably season 1 will be the weakest since it's an adaptation of that but I thought maybe they'd be able to fix some of the issues since Riordan has more direct control over that with this adaptation. Like move some plot points around/character narratives to make it a little more dynamic and make us care about more of the main characters sooner.

it also feels like it's missing a little bit of that rick riordan is a huge classics/mythology nerd DEEP CUT references that are in the books (we got a little with that one kid talking about the goddess of failure but not really enough)

the casting is great tho and maybe it will get rolling as the season goes on, i will keep watching for sure. I'm just sad it wasn't better b/c now I'm not going to be able to convince my partner to read the books lol. He already read the Magnus Chase books which he liked, but he's afraid of the PJ books b/c the first few aren't as good/were written earlier

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson show #percy jackson spoilers #percy jackson premier #percy jackson disney+#text post #i think this suffers from the trend in doing 8 to 10 eps of shows these days #i feel like 12 to 15 is the magic number for good storytelling balance without the story feeling crunched #more than that usually has too much filler #josh pointed out that 12 to 15 eps is a season of modern anime lol (look they usually do have good pacing)#i mean obvs there's lots of corporate greed trying to not pay people or run around labor unions at work here too i think #pretty sure if it's 8 eps they can call it something else and pay folks less/do less residuals kinda thing #but in an ideal world it'd be nice if good storytelling and paying people proper wages was prioritized instead #q

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chichiraion · 2 years

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Akko HCs 'cause why not...

I'm procastinating stuff I really shouldn't but y'all deal with me.

Anyways, some general Akko HCs, I also have a very very specific background for her so mind that.

Oh right, I'm also adding stuff from a previous post of mine.

This is long Af too. Seriously this is LONG.

(If anyone knows how to put this under a cut I would be forever grateful)

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She was part of her school track club

While good at English she actually never was part of the English club at school, she however studied by herself and with her dad's help

She really likes baseball, her favourite team is the Saitama Seibu Lions.

She lives in the Chiba Prefecture. (This was confirmed apparently)

While she mostly likes pop music (Kpop, Jpop, English Pop, etc etc) she also has a nick for Rap and more Indie-like music.

She has undiagnosed Adhd, she was called quite the problematic child at school back in Japan.

She figedts a lot, she also has some toys to help her with that. (Like a chewing necklake, puffer ball and a fidget pen). Finnelan once confiscated them and Chariot had to step up so she could get them back, the other teachers don't mind it too much.

She is fan of rythm games and she's pretty good at her, while some of her faves are in the style of Dancerush Stardom she's also pretty good at playing Taiko and Pc Games like Muse Dash and Osu!.

She also prefers Sonic over Mario.

Likes Visual Novels too and can get very inmersed into them, just don't let her alone to play one that lasts 60+ hrs.

She likes dancing and sports, she would practice some in her free time. (Usually weekends) However is there's one particular thing she did spend the most time at was probably Parkour.

Loves anime and American comic books, specially superheroes as such one of her favourite anime/manga genres is the shounen.

She also likes magical girls for obvious reasons.

She adores animals, her black cat is actually called Jiji, like Kiki's cat. Can't have a dog because her apartment is small but she would love one.

She used to spend a lot of time with the neighborhood animals, she has a pretty good read on a lot of them.

She has an easyness when it comes to picking up languages.

Used to work at a convenience store for a part-time job, even tho her school didn't allowed it.

While not having many friends she had a couple of regular pals back in Japan and they're still in contact.

She likes vtubers too.

She has a bike and loves to ride it, it's prone to accidents.

When excited she tends to speak Japanglish (Japanese/English mixed)

Akko is decently versed when it comes to modern technology (ie daily life stuff like Pc, Phones, etc) she also has rgb cat headphones.

Likes to doodle on her notebooks, specially stuff related to animals and magic. She's pretty decent at it.

She's not really good at singing but that doesn't stop her from going to the karaoke.

She's very street-smart. She's goos at travelling too and has quite the spacial awareness.

Her favourite type of magic is metamorphosis, sound mimicking and illusion.

She can speak at double tempo if she gets excited enough (God save you is she starts rambling like that)

She has lots of scars from her endeavours, she's not really too careful even when hurt and others have to step in and make her slow down.

Regarding her scars she has lots of bandaids with different colours and designs she loves to use.

She doesn't look like it but she's quite strong, can easily carry any of the other girls around.

She really likes swimming too.

Her room is quite a mess but she always ends up cleaning it eventually.

She has a lot of shorts, t-shorts and jackets, when it's too cold she usually uses jeans, also her foot wear to-go are sneakers.

Tends to like colorful clothing.

Not really fond of makeup, she says it feels weird.

Has tried Ice Skating and Snowboarding, it hurt. She's good at gymnastics tho.

She really likes Ghibli and Disney movies, good lord does she know a good amount if not almost eveyr single song from the golden age...

She's a pretty decent cook, she would most of the time had to make herself some food.

Akko is very physical focused when it comes to affection.

She doesn't get sick usually, until she does and she gets to be bedridden with fever for like 2 or 3 days.

Akko knows some piano, while not the best she can actually give her friends a small show.

Akko can't handle milk very well, also don't give her alcohol, she can't digest it.

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More... personal? Hcs and more specific fan-story of mine.

Personally I Hc her as Panromantic Ace but you do you.

While divorce is not as common in Japan as other countries Akko's parents are actually divorced.

She lives with her dad in Chiba Prefecture, her mom lives in Tokyo with a new family.

At the time of the divorce her mother wasn't really prepared to take care of Akko and as such her father got custody.

Akko's mother got her life back on track eventually and remarried, she has a son now.

Akko loves her stepbrother and they have a good relationship, they would spend time at eachothers house (Like summer)

They have roughly 5yrs of difference (Her lil' bro is around 10)

He's way calmer than Akko but also anxious, they help each other with it.

They share interests in manga/anime and games, as such they tend to go to the arcade to play games, they also like to go to the Karaoke.

She has a kind of a strained relationship with her mom, they love each other but they don't really know how to act around each other. They're awkward around each other but was worse when they first met again after ebing separated.

Akko's mom didn't re-enter her life until she was aroun 10yrs old, she left when Akko was about 4-5yrs old.

Akko's dad works a lot, he's usually not at home a lot of times.

He loves his daughter dearly and it's always there trying to cheer her on.

Convincing her mom to let her go to Luna Nova was a bit difficult as she wasn't sure what to think but eventually both parents signed all the necessary papers.

Akko's hair colour is closer to that of her dad while she gets her red eyes from her mom, her stepbro has a darker hair like her mom but has dark blue eyes like his dad, however both have facial features more closer to their mom that their respective fathers.

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Aaaand I think that's it for now lol

I did say it was long...

#akko kagari #hcs #lwa hcs #Akko #headcanons #headcanon #long post #little witch academia #little witch academia headcanons

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vazaez · 2 years

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(sort of¿) ANATOMY TUTORIAL!!!

More like how *i* do amatomy for my drawings because it's mostly not very relistic tbh

Letsgoooo

(this is mainly for @deadcolor but i'll post it anyways in case anyone else is interested)

Also i'm inconsistent af and i don't really pay a lot of atention to follow my own anatomy in most of my art because it's usually not worth it the effort for stuff that isnt even that important but when it's needed i actually have my own advice in mind lmao

Typical case of giving other people advice you don't actually follow but yeah lets get to it

1- i start with the good ol circle with a cross to do the head, usually i put the eyes over the red line and it's also where the cheek™ starts

2- body structure. Mostly shapes to know how i want the pose to look, the chest part is sort of a hexagon? With a line that will be the reference for the angle of the chest, this time it's from a bit low angle fue to the posture of our silly model guy so the line is curved up

Then a cilinder for the stomach and a triangle from where the legs will come out

All of these can be changed depending on how you wanna do your character, here it's some kinf of a beefy guy. But you can make the shapes a bit less wide for skinnier people or make them wider and less sharp for chub, etc... It's fun to play around with the shapes till you like the way it looks!

3- then i add the shoulders, just two circles at both sides of the chest, i usually tend to go in this order: shoulder-hand-elbow because from the distance between the shoulder and the hand i can find the middle part and put the elbow cirle there idk if i explained that well 💀💀

I also use the same lenght for both arms if the angle doesnt change them much, and since here it's in a 3/4 angle but sticking their hand up and slightly to the front it rlly doesnt change much

One more thing, for me it's easier to use rectangles and Squares as the hand shapes but that depends on how each artist finds it easier

4- the same goes for the legs just that i use some sort of triangles for the feet with semi circles at the front for the toes

5-now this is how the whole structure ends up looking

6- now this part is completely free, you can make the limbs thin or thick, with muscles or more smooth,

I usually do kinda muscular or sharp(?) arms in most characters, probably influenced by the rise style lol but if a character needs me to get out of my comfort zone then i adapt it

So yeah this is 100% personal choice of how you want ur characters to look

7- here it's once again up to personal choice whether you wanna make the body more smooth or just cleaning up the base shapes but leaving the body just as it is, i don't smooth it out because i like how it looks kinda sharp but yea this is all free choice

8- now the base shapes of the hands and feet, for the fingers i like to use rectangles or sausage-like fingers as reference to the positions i want them to be in, and for the feet i honestly have no idea??? Just kinda round shapes at the end of each foot 😭😭 im improvising w this one i never draw feet i'm sorry 🚶🚶

9- so i clean up the hands n stuff and it's done! I then just add the clothes on top and thats usually it

Idk i should practice feet and more anatomically correct bodies instead of just the bases to put the clothes on top but ion have enough time so rn it won't happen 🏃🏃

#not even gonna tag this lol #anyways i'm not a professional so this is probably really off and badly explained but it's just how i do it!#i hope it's useful regardless tho

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angelliyo · 1 year

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MATCHUP FOR @ kitten anon !

I match you with..

TREY CLOVER

Honestlyy hmmmmmm unsure about this one... I mean I could write different characters if you want but I'm feeling lazy rn maybe you'll be alright with one or two characters😭

Despite your glaring differences, this pairing of opposites can work together as a team and perhaps build a successful romantic relationship!

With your short attention span, he helps reminding you of the things that need to be done, and help ground you down. He'd also help you with anything you have trouble with, and tries to remove any distractions!

And he would always help with your clumsiness and bad health! If you ever feel like you're gonna pass out, he'd always be there to catch you. And if you feel like you can't walk anymore, he's willing to help!! He'd also try to prevent you from bumping into stuff/people, and prevents you from falling! (Prince Charming... Lucky you.. 😔)

He's definitely chill about you liking girls, he doesn't mind it at all! He won't intervene.

would be a little interested in you style, he likes it! I mean it's cute af!!

Would dance with you if you like cliche romantic stuff. Yesyesyesyes.

And he'd also love to see your designs! He could even buy you some fabric or stuff if you really wanna make it! And since you see stuff he'd totes wanna see your work!!(why did I use 'totes'? Idk)

you both r very loyal to eachother, might as well just die for each other at this point😭 y'all r too wholesome for this world😞🤍

Runner ups;

Malleus draconia

Riddle rosehearts (?)

Lilia Vanrouge

Edited : maybe when I get some sleep because I haven't slept in like 2 days😭😭

Xtra note to kitten anon: U'RE HONESTLY SO COOL.. U ALSO DRESS IN GYARU AND LOLITA CLOTHING??? please be my friend already because I am practically begging you rn..

#Matchups #Twst matchups #Malleus draconia #Riddle rosehearts #Lilia vanrouge #Trey clover

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milla984 · 1 year

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6, 10 and 23!

6. Describe your personality in 3 words or less Neurodivergent cynical romantic

10. How would you describe your style? Having sensory issues I don't like clothes that are too tight so I guess my style is comfy, practical and casual. Also, I have to keep in mind that my clothes could get ruined at work (it has happened in the past) so I don't usually buy expensive stuff.

23. Describe your dream date I'm sure this is going to be extra cheesy but let's do it:

my dream date would be spending the entire night exploring a city one of us knows very well (ideally the city I'm from or the other way round), visiting the less 'touristy' spots, eating street food, talking about our lives and the connection we feel to the different places that have a sentimental value for us, stopping at a diner/breakfast restaurant while the sun is rising - both tired af but none of us willing to part, our first kiss tasting of coffee, pancakes and maple syrup… 🥞

#tysm for the ask!#answered asks #milla answers #milla rambles #i'm living in a fanfic world in my mind

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foggyparadisecandy · 3 months

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Ooof. I'm honestly not a huge fan of this person's stuff tbh, but this is such a ... savage ... and spot on assessment of Anxious Preoccupied attachment style.

A quick summary of the different attachment styles:

Secure Attachment people live with need for connection and need for independence (mostly) in balance.

Dismissive Avoidants live with high value for independence.

Anxious Preoccupieds live with a high value for connection.

The thing is ... she doesn't actually give practical ways to do the things she states - accurately - are the path to clearing an Anxious Style. But she does nicely sum up the main things that need to be done.

Look ... it's worth watching just to hear how Anxious Preoccupieds tend to create the very situations they are afraid of (being abandoned) ironically by being people pleasers and never speaking about their own needs.

I also liked her idea that anxiety comes from always living in the future and not the here and now. And she offers a practical - but scary af - suggestion of "let what will happen, happen, and don't ruin your life living in the future - either good or bad. The future will unfold as its meant to and the person you are with will either stick around or they will cut and run / hurt you. (I'm paraphrasing.)

youtube

I had a pretty shitty day Saturday.

K gave me a final goodbye DM without the courtesy of a conversation. NGL, it hurt. It ... hurt. I don't have the words for the hurt tbh. Isn't that odd considering how many words I know and use.

But I've been working on my attachment style enough that I am bouncing back faster than before (look - no lie - I'm still very much hurt but I'm not devastated).

Plus I have to shout out the support of a very lovely friend <3 <3 <3 who took time away from a birthday party to remind me that I am not a shitty human being - which was my first reaction to the rejection.

I honestly wish K would have made room for me. I am not happy with her choice … I feel like her subconscious was driving her away - “I can’t make time.” :(

K has to find her own way and I have faith in her to do it. I have said it a million times: I believe in her and I know she is strong and capable.

I know people will think I'm a sucker but ... I forgive her - and I always will because I empathize with her, I understand her pain, and I love her. Yes. Still love. Still caring. Still forgiving.

It costs me nothing to forgive her and she has more than earned my forgiveness with everything good she brought to my life. And she has been shit on by life - it hurts my brain to even think that I would add to that intentionally.

Enough said there.

On the off chance she reads my blog, I hope she watches this, sees herself, and starts digging into Attachment Theory and healing her Anxious Preoccuppied style.

I can tell you all firsthand - it has helped me tremendously. The proof is I'm not curled up in a ball in the corner of my room rn with the painful blow K delivered.

No promises but ... I *think* I'm mostly done talking about K and writing posts for her after this.

Oh ... one last thing about K ... I haven't been trying to consciously "win back" whatever we had. It was unhealthy af for both of us. Early on in that relationship though, I had suggested some day we might evolve into something else if and when she found a RL partner. For me, I kind of wanted to see what we could do there. I don't think K could get her head around it. I don't blame her. It's an unusual thing - particularly given how complicated our relationship was with hypno + kink + nurturing + ddlg elements. It is what it is at this point.

I will keep sharing some of this stuff because I am geeking out on it and it's helpful to share it in my own words. It helps me absorb it better. And I hope it is useful to some of you all!

#self care #self healing #self reflection #self improvement #self love #love #Youtube

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