#I’m itching for

[sweet-jolly-fucken-ranchers]

desperately doing shadow work because I’ve become hyper fixated on rise of teenage mutant ninja turtles and I know when I have a hyper fixation on media instead of hobbies I’m neglecting a part of myself and looking for escapism

#that being said I LOVE this version of Donnie #he was always my favourite turtle but rise made him so baby girl #AND he’s CANONICALLY AUTISTIC #the whole show and movie (I’ve seen 3 times over 2 days) #is gumball levels of good writing and actually funny #I have tmnt brain rot I’m actually considering watching the grotesque Michael bay films #like it’s not funny I was at work making coffee physically at the machine but mentally replaying my favourite moments in my head #I do wonder how it took 23 years for somebody to formally diagnose #me as autistic #I can’t ever have a normal interest #it’s always found family action horror or sci-fi media #I’m itching for #my next fix of tmnt #and I loved mutant mayhem I just wish they’d toned down the gen z lingo because it was hard to listen to at parts #it’s not gonna age well whereas I think rise has #personal

[withdenim]

How sad to watch him grow

#I did the thing I said I would!! for once!!! #so here’s the piece I mentioned doing about lloyds loss of childhood #look . if you look at older lloyd the sand is stuck to him #cause like #the sand metaphor is really intentional pls I love the sand metaphor #me when it’s slipping from his fingers but it’ll be stuck in his clothes and to his skin no matter how hard he tries to get it off #I’m normal #he’s ever aware of the itch in his skin that tells him what he’s lost #hey also btw idk if you noticed or care but Lloyd is so pretty #ninjago #lego ninjago #Lloyd Garmadon #ninjago fanart #ninjago Lloyd #Lloyd Garmadon fanart

[rinisdrawing]

cozy summer afternoons

#fnaf #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #fnaf ruin #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #glamrock freddy #gregory fnaf #fnaf gregory #vanessa fnaf #fnaf vanessa #3 star family #ever since it was confirmed that the 3 star family ending was canon i’ve been itching to draw these guys again #i wanted to set this sometime after sb and before ruin! #i imagine that theres peaceful moments where greg is making comics and fred is talking to him and ness is developing code for mxes #also for mobile users i’m terribly sorry if the quality is super bad.. this got compressed bc of how large of a canvas it was </3 #i tried encapsulating as much of gregory’s personality and interests as i could bc i rlly wanted this to feel like his room #(peep the lil mario and luigi statues above greg’s bed hehe) #and yes i did reuse the photo booth pic i drew a few months back.. just a personal lil easter egg :) #rin’s artchive

[clownsuu]

Howdy My Beloved

(I’m so down bad for him it’s horrifying)

LMAOOO mostly mutual howdy love

speaking of howdy iv been seein cowboy/Wild West aus for welcome home and I decided to dip my toes in it a lil while I was hyper KXHDGDH

cw poorly drawn guns and messy sketches

I was just gunna make Home a sheriff’s buildin’, but I thought it would be cooler if he was a big bad spooki

also howdy’s lil bugdega is both a convenient store and a restaurant/bar (same building, all shopping stuff at the front while the restaurant is in the back) howdy can make a mean beef n cheddar KDHHFH

#Welcome home #welcome home howdy #welcome home wally #welcome home barnaby #welcome home home #howdy pillar #wally darling #barnaby b beagle #yeehaw #Also Funfact #Iv been gettin a lot of people asking me how I draw so much in such lil time #It happened last year and now this year JDHDHDJ #But I have a thing where if I get extremely hyper focused on something I basically draw-stim #It’s a huge itch that I gotta draw SOMETHING #And if I don’t it plagues me #Up side to it I consistently post like twice a day with multiple doodles and I don’t get bored by it #Downside I wanna play monster hunter so bAD BUT MY BRAIN WONT L E T M E #Thankfully my sketching has gotten a lot faster throughout the years so I’m able to put all my dum lil ideas down #And still have time to play games I wanna play and get stuff done

[prince-peachie]

so… how are all the aftg fans doing right now?

#no I haven’t read tsc yet #yes i absolutely need to #I’m itching to draw these two again #but I’m trying to wait until I’ve read the actual book #Jerejean #they make me feel so many things #the sunshine court #tsc #aftg #all for the game

[teehee-vibes]

Finally started listening to Riptide, new hyperfixation just dropped

#jrwi riptide #just roll with it #chip jrwi #jay ferin #gillion tidestrider #tv’s art #I’m kidding btw the buzz isn’t the worst thing in the world lmao #I’m only on episode 33 #what the hell is chip’s deal btw guys #why is he the way that he is #adore him tho #OUGH also Jay has me positively captivated #she is so cool like oh my god #the family issues we keep getting snippets of and the way she defeated the empress… she’s so great #gillion is one of the sillies ever though I’m afraid #he itches the brain in every possible way #I literally adore them. the ultimate trio. #cannot wait to encounter The Horrors

[doctorsiren]

HEY HELLO THAT NEW LIVING TOMBSTONE FNAF SONG FROM WILLIAM’S POV????!?!? IT’S SO GOOD??!! thank you for the meal TLT 💖💖💖

#doctorsiren #not art #siren speaks #the living tombstone #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #HAVE YOU HEARD IT?? #THE LYRICS ARE SO SO GOOD AND SPECIFIC AND IS MY KIND OF FAN SONG #it scratches an itch in my brain #I’m so incredibly normal about music #:))

[herebecritters]

Can you draw flippy x flaky please

You’re lucky I love them ❤️

#happy tree friends #htf #flippy x flaky #flippaky #gush n mush #htf flippy #htf flaky #no I am not open to requests #but I haven’t drawn em in a minute and I felt the itch #they still have a huge special place in my heart #but I’ve been on an oc and htf god lore high lately #it’s been shaping into a buck wild and awesome story hehe #if you fill my inbox with request I will more than likely ignore them #please don’t I beg of you all #I like good lore questions though hehehe #I’ll try to sprinkle in some canon character art more often up here though #I know that’s what people ACTUALLY care about #but I’m not stopping with these ocs any time soon hehehehehe

[icaruspendragon]

Hey, I am writing a research paper on fanfiction for a Sexuality and Social Media class at my university. Can I use some of the things you have said about fanfiction, citing you of course, in this paper? I almost definitely won't get published but I'll get a grade and I like fanfiction and gay people so I get to choose this topic. (I want it to be on the points of contact between fanfiction and the queer community/their relationship.) I can absolutely send it to you when I'm done with it too if you want to see it.

absolutely!!

i’ve done two interviews for college papers this week and it’s honestly one of my FAVORITE things to do! so you’re welcome to use whatever words i’ve said previously. but i also have a lot of thoughts that i haven’t shared by nature of having SO MANY of them if you’d wanna chat one on one via zoom or whatnot!!

and that goes for all of you proving fandom and fanfics validity and importance in an academic setting. :’)

#this is one of those things yall don’t get to see mainly bc i don’t really talk about it lmao #but i did four interviews in feb #i just love it when folks lemme yammer about my blorbos academically #bc i don’t always get the chance to share that kinda stuff #bc more people want me to be funny instead of educational #which i don’t mind #but i’ve got So Much knowledge in the brain soup i’m itching to share

[mangozic]

my son that I literally never draw, I’m holding him up proudly for everyone to see

#I literally never post oc art. im still in tma brainrot town do not worry #I think I started this literal months ago but never finished for some reason #decided to render it as a warmup today #and here we are hours later #god I missed rendering… haven’t really had the chance to sit down and paint in a while #funfact he was originally designed for my stop motion dollmaking class #he grew on me that’s for sure #andd just so happened that hes slowly transforming into a dnd character that I’m itching to play as #do I call multiple characters my sons? absolutely. #oc #oc art #dnd oc #dnd character #original character #original art #illustration #digital art #dnd art #artist on tumblr #my art #commissions open

[fistfuloflightning]

It was a slip of the tongue, Shen Yuan screamed internally. He’d been thinking of—well, it didn’t matter what he was thinking of! It just slipped out and now Jiu-ge was laughing at him behind his fan and thinking all kinds of awful ways to mock him for those three words.

He risked a glance back up, only to catch Shen Jiu’s fleeting smile before it hid itself again. He closed his fan with a snap before using the end to tip up Shen Yuan’s chin. “Took you long enough,” he murmured. Lips pressed to Shen Yuan’s cheek, dangerously close to the corner of his mouth. “I love you too.”

#svsss #jiuyuan #shen qingqiu #shen yuan #shen jiu #rogue cultivator shen yuan #my art #svsss art #my writing #it’s been a while #ive been itching to draw jiuyuan again and this is what decided to show up lol #I’m rather fond of aus where SY realizes his feelings first (very non-canon compliant I know 🙄) #or at least is the one who voices his attraction first

[fairyfortalliance]

the imagery of no health regen…… wounded skin that doesn’t heal…. torn clothes….. burns…. scorch marks….. bite marks….. blood everywhere…… unraveling bandages…… oh…….

#secret life #secret life smp #if i ever write a slsmp fic. everyone is going to be wounded as FUCK #like. i love it when fan artists draw the characters punctured with arrows #or burned after dying to lava/fire #and now with no health regen. how the injuries don’t go away #a worn and ragged green life almost desperate to turn yellow #if not for the full set of health again #stab wounds that don’t close. a heart bleeds until you die. the scratch marks itch under the armour #ohhhhhh it’s so sexy #teammates changing each others bandages bc the blood never stops #infected wounds? that only ease when more hearts are earned from the secret keeper? #i’m so obsessed with this already #like yessssss the player gets weaker and weaker as they lose more hearts #they are so damaged and injured they can barely raise their shield #their whole body aching. scathing with every hit and blow #and then when they gain hearts. and the RELIEF #of scorch marks fading. wounds closing. blood drying. pains easing. broken bones set themselves #so much cruelty in the world. everyone takes that extra little care with each other #no more friendly slaps on the shoulder or even high fives #everyone is just very still. too fatigued to do anything but survive

[burnpyygmalion]

work in progress charactwrs 😇

#my art #ocs #my second oc story is furry because i’m itching to design more furries

[pawpotato]

I became immediately enamored with Zoro’s shirt in the Arlong arc

#one piece #one piece zoro #I’m in skypiea now I’ve been itching to draw him for a WHILE #roronoa zoro #my art

[heythere-mel]

Just thinking of a modern Javi sending you pics from the field. The first one trying to be all hot and serious, the second not so much and you’re the only one he’d share this side of with. 🤍

#I haven’t written in like a year and I’m starting to get the itch again #and peña is at the top of my list 👀 #javier peña #pedro pascal

[lady-harrowhark]

hello, can you explain to me in more clarity your “waxen” theory regarding Ianthe? I’m not picking up on what this implies but it’s making my brain itch.

Sort of! Totally fair question, I just don't have a lot of clarity myself in that I don't have a fully formed theory lol. There's definitely some links and parallels in verbiage that are pinging on my radar, so I do think something's funky, but I wouldn't say I'm fully on board with this yet. I'm just playing in the sandbox Tamsyn has provided us, tossing out ideas and thinking out loud. But I can go into some more detail, and add some more thoughts that have occurred to me since I posted that last night.

(Here's a link to the post in question, for context)

Anyway! So let's first lay out all the times we get someone described as some type of wax. At various points in HtN, we get the descriptions "a shoddy wax cast of some more beautiful sculpture," a "wax figure in a pink dolly dress," a "wax figure in pale purple chiffon," and "waxen face" for Ianthe. We also see that descriptor used a few other times for other people throughout the series. In GtN, Harrow's parents' bodies are called "waxy" and the first introduction of Protesilaus (as the beguiling corpse) says he was "waxen looking in the sunlight." In NtN, Kiriona's skin is said to have a "weird, waxy quality," then Naberius's skin is called "waxen" when they first meet up with Ianthe, and again a few pages later it again references the "waxen, handsome face". What I'm getting at here is that every time this sort of description is deployed, it's in reference to a dead body that's been preserved, manipulated, and is essentially masquerading as a living person... except for Ianthe.

We also know there are a multitude of times that she's described as looking like a poor copy of Coronabeth. There's that "shoddy wax cast of some more beautiful sculpture" line, her first introduction calls her a "starved shadow" of her sister ("or the first an illuminated reflection [of Ianthe]," and actually, off the top of my head I don't know that we ever see their descriptions framed that way again... I'd have to investigate this more later, but this might be the only time that Corona is described as a "better" version of Ianthe, rather than Ianthe being a "worse" version of Corona, which is interesting), there's a point where it says "The second twin was as though the first had been taken to pieces and put back together without any genius. She wore a robe of the same cloth and colour, but on her it was a beautiful shroud on a mummy," etc etc etc. I know there's more, but I'm too lazy to go pull the rest of the quotes and you get the picture by this point I'm sure. So nearly all of these situate her, at least visually, as a copy or approximation of Coronabeth, and one that doesn't quite live up to original at that.

So now let's pick apart this snippet of conversation we overhear between Silas and Ianthe at Magnus and Abigail's dinner party a bit. Ianthe says she was born via "surgical means," which I'm assuming is referring to a C-section delivery (or whatever the necromantic equivalent is) and notes that Corona is a few minutes older. Silas seems surprised (or perhaps concerned?) that they "risked intervention" and Ianthe says Corona had "removed [her] source of oxygen". At this point Silas says, "A wasted opportunity, I'd think." I had always taken this for him just being a dick and implying he wished she'd died in the womb, but coming back to it with this new angle... well. She says "Corona's birth put my survivability somewhere around definite nil." And I'm wondering if that doesn't tie to Harrow's comment about infant deaths generating "enough thanergy to take out the entire planet." Basically, could Silas have been implying that the Tridentarii's parents wasted an opportunity to use the thanergy from baby Ianthe's death to power up Corona?

Harrow says that twins are an ill omen, but the text hasn't come back to that as of yet. Given the difficulty necromancers experience with pregnancy, I'd imagine twins would could be especially dangerous and that in and of itself could be considered an ill omen. Ianthe's comments certainly suggest that their mother carried the pregnancy, although I don't think we know for certain whether she was a necromancer. I am so intensely curious about the Tridentarii's childhood and their parents; we get so many gestures towards some really twisted family dynamics, but very little in the way of concrete explanations. Particularly relevant here, I'd love to know more about their father wanting a "matched set" and how that came about. Did they intentionally plan for twins from the start? Was it only once they knew they were having twins that that became a factor? What's the significance there?

Outside of those "waxy" descriptors, Ianthe tends to be described as much more sickly looking than even other necromancers. We know that necromancers on the whole tend towards a phenotype of physical weakness, but even still, there's an emphasis on this with Ianthe beyond that. This might be due in part to narrator bias (coughGideoncough) or the direct juxtaposition between her and Coronabeth's vivaciousness, but what really jumps out at me as contributing to this effect is how frequently she's described as being colorless, pale, washed out, bloodless, pallid, anemic, etc etc etc. It very much makes me think of the way the color drains away from Colum (and even the rest of the room and the others in it) when Silas is siphoning. Silas himself is also often described as colorless ("mayonnaise uncle," "milk man") but not so much in a way that implies frailty as much as I read it as implying a stark coldness, in line with the very black-and-white moral authority he presumes to wield, a purported "purity", much different than Ianthe's colorlessness. With Ianthe, you get a sense that her palette ought to have been or perhaps was closer to Corona's, but the color's been drained away; where Corona's hair is described as golden, Ianthe's is "canned butter", for example. Almost like the life's been siphoned out, one might say.

So to kind of circle back around, do I actually think Ianthe is dead or a corpse like the other "wax" figures we've seen? Nah. Between Harrow and Palamedes, and especially Palamedes's medical necromancy, I think we would have heard about it by now if that were the case. But I do think it's entirely plausible that she's had a bit of a brush with death and that perhaps she's never quite fully come back from, and I do think she's being intentionally positioned as somewhat adjacent to death. If their parents were wanting twins from the outset, perhaps they used necromantic means to encourage the conception. Or if the pregnancy was as high-risk as I suspect it was, perhaps she'd died or nearly died at birth and been resuscitated. Their parents may have gone to extremes to keep her alive, to maintain their matched set. Given the themes of this series, I do feel it's necessary to draw a distinction between "resuscitation" and "resurrection" although they are curiously adjacent to one another. For all the text has grappled with dying and staying dead, dying and coming back, dying and choosing whether or not to return... we haven't touched on what something like a "near death experience" would look like. I'd imagine having that sort of experience, even at an incredibly young age, might lead one to be fascinated with, to use Ianthe's own words, "the place between death and life... the place between release and disappearance."

#it was making my brain itch also! #thank you for indulging my meandering rambles lol #I’ve got another ask sitting in my inbox that I’m working on too… I promise I’m not ignoring it! #tlt #tlt meta #ianthe tridentarius #nona the ninth spoilers #ask #mcdreary #two halves dead