#Something quick and fun

[smilezandmics]

the results of the polls and their consequences

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin alastor #alastor fanart #hazbin art #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel lucifer #radiostatic #radioapple #something quick and fun

[transthatfag]

should've hate fucked ngl.

#this is my first clip studio drawing!! #i havent drawn on a tablet in yeaaaars. its been so much fun #its honestly given me a lot more energy to draw too tbh #procreate was great for the time being but drawing on a tablet is just something else #anywho i honestly wish i picked something else to make as my first drawing on that program but eh its cool #i kinda like how it came out. i think i just really struggled with pushing the values and got sloppy with the details. #art #digital art #my art 🦷 #saltburn #oliver quick #felix catton

[stoneshipmapper]

'Meow.'

#World of Horror #Ayaka Kuroi #sM Art #Saw that one post and wanted to give it the WoH treatment #Ayaka felt the most likely #Just something quick and fun

[nocek]

I love this contrast (and the wonders of magical superpowered baby :D )

#across the spiderverse #atsv #miguel o'hara #gabriella o’hara #mayday parker #peter b parker #spiderman #spiderman 2099 #self indulgent dumb doodle level over 9000 #i know i usually do overdone linearts that take forever #but something quick and loose is fun too #and make me less precious about colors #which still aren't anything noteworthy but as far as my skill go are pretty ok given how little time they took

[iwikpines]

happy new year!!!!!

they had to work late so they are celebrating together and they are all alive and fine and happy!!!!

oh and they also exchanged Christmas gifts. if you even care

#wanted to draw something real quick so have this little mess #i just want them to be calm and happy together #ueeeeee ueee #soung of crying #also they might be a little bit drunk #but like they deserve it #some peace and quiet and fun #tma #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus archives #tim stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #jarchivist #gem art #my tma art

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.

Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.

So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.

In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.

Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.

It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.

Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #rottmnt headcanons #how pretentious can I sound when talking about a fictional turtle more at eight #anyway I always loved to think about Leo’s quick line about coping with humor #I don’t care how much people think it doesn’t REALLY matter it’s fun to play around with tbh #also love the idea that Leo’s sense of humor comes from the protags of his fav campy series #(+ from his confident and awesome big sis April) #like idk Leo’s special interests directly paving out how he presents himself both to others and in general is so interesting to me!!! #he is someone who KNOWS people and their quirks so 100% he caught on to that 80’s style of quippy one-liners- #-and associated that with safety and levity #even the villains of these genres who spout off quips tend to be the ones who survive! #Leo desperately fighting to keep the same lighthearted genre as 87 TMNT as the horrors of 2003 and 2012 loom on the horizon #and I think something important to note is that Leo KNOWS things are real #he is WELL AWARE of how dangerous things can get for them #but he copes anyway because it’s easier to deal with everything that way #bro just wants he and his family to be safe tbh

[fraudefiscal]

these

#also yeah only the first one it's colored. got lazy #anyways just something quick #found a new brush and i love it #might do more of these they're so fun to make #tadc #the amazing digital circus #tadc jax #tadc ragatha #tadc pomni #tadc gangle #tadc zooble #tadc caine #jax x ragatha #bunnydoll #raggedyrabbit #pomni x gangle #jesteribbon #scaredylovers #also I wanted to change the bisexuality one to pansexual since I hc Jax as pan but anyways #my art

[harveylikestoart]

Speedran this sketch I can’t believe homers are real

#harvey’s arts and stuff #quick sketch I speedran out #i say sketch but its got fun glows #fnaf #security breach dlc #fnaf glamrock #glamrock bonnie #glamrock freddy #glamrock fronnie #fronnie #idk theyre gay or something #I can’t believe my life revolves around gay rabbit furries now #fnaf ruin dlc

[heynhay]

blue feeling

#breaking out of the queue to post something quick n fun #just playing w fx hiiiii #voltron #vld #lance mcclain #art #my art

[horse-head-farms]

day 2: Royalty/Knight @mcyt-yuri-week

False, a knight famous for her ability to slay magical beings, was sent by her king to defeat the greatest threat of all - the fae. Here, she enters the faerie realm and is greeted by none other than the queen herself, waiting upon her forest throne.

Having grown up on tales of the fae and their evil trickery, False is surprised by how beautiful and kind the queen is, but isn’t going to let down her guard yet.

Queen Stress is rather impressed by this mortal who not only managed to find her way into the faerie realm, but is also brave (and foolish) enough to try and fight her! She has no intention of hurting False, and instead wants to teach her the mischievous ways of the fairies, get her to lighten up a bit and all that. And, well, if she tries to court the handsome knight along the way, who can blame her?

#im not sapphic (bi guy) but the world could always do with more gay women so i was like. might be fun to do yuri week! #i know for royalty/knight its usually a monarch and their protector and that is fun but i wanted to subvert that a bit #and have a knight who is actually sent to defeat that monarch. and also faerie queen stress is just perfect have you seen her hcvh outfit? #most of my art on here is quick doodles to get my ideas down but for this one i really wanted to go all out and create something nice #mcytyuriweekvalentines #mcyt #also this is days late oops but it still counts #fress #falsestress #i am not tagging a certain someone who is a tumblr user #stressmonster101 #hermitcraft #hermitshipping #hermitshipblr #my art #not in this but i imagine iskall is also here as a fairy. he’s stress’ advisor / best friend / guy who does her dirty work on earth

[rushinintolove]

Not even the god that I told to quit

#good omens #goodomensedit #crowley #aziraphale #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #myedits #whew what a roller coaster of an edit this was agsddsjgadf #kept scrapping whatever i came up with until finally a couple days ago and now it's doneeeeee woooooooo #i had fun searching for scenes to use in this set #made me fall in love with the lyrics even more #adore the order of the “even though they're all gone / but they're content” and also following up the quick “this is...” lines with #the longer “this is something where no one ever gains” sentence #ughhhhhh incredible song #also loved messing around with blur effects on this both for the more hazy atmosphere as well as tying the gifs together

[arcadeplayer-nickonz]

Quick Farewell Mermay post w/ Phantom

or better said me really wanting to draw something for mermay but having no spark for it until the very last day where Manta Ray Danny popped into my brain, but yeah this was drawn in a day and i did try doing more painterly(?) strokes too. And yes, glowy freckles are random but so fun.

#i saw everyone else's mermay posts in the phandom and i just had to do something real quick #but uhhh yeah ghost zone but deep sea i guess? honestly the idea is pretty dang fun #and with Jack and Maddie being like #sailors hunting down the beasts from below or something #danny phantom #danny fenton #mermay #nickonzart

[dahlmao]

sad mime face.

wes bby don't be sad. You've died enough times to bad luck, but you know you'll always come back <3

#GUESS WHO'S PLAYING DST AGAIN #just wanted to do something quick ^.^ #i've been playing with a slanted rectangular brush #sooo much fun #dontstarve #dontstarvetogether #fanart #digitalart #dstwes #wesdst #dst #dstfanart #doodle #dst wes #art #game fanart #my art

[fate-defiant]

🦋~I want you to kiss me, I want you to remake me I want to drown in this moment of captivation~🦋

(I fucking did it dear god that was so many fucking layers)

#princess tutu #ahirue #ahiru #duck #rue #fanart #my art #this was by all means supposed to be a quick shitpost #but then I was looking at the sketch and the flats #and was like “this is bleak. dismal. i can do More” #so i did it for realsies and look how pretty it turned out #it feels good to complete something #i havent done that since like 2020?...21? i dont remeber 💀 #and i can't lie i had fun figuring out the shading on the hair and skin #it was very fun #i mightve drowned this in way too many glowy effects though. i tend to do that a lot #but I decidedly do not care look how dope all that glitter is this was so fuuuuuun #if the lighting seems bogus no it isnt and bullshitting the light source is an honored artistic tradition. so #do not @me about anything ever #god tumblr nerfed the image quality so much #i was gonna upload this as JPEG but that looked even worse than this #well whatever. whatever #hitting post now good night IM DONE. 10 HOURS BABY I DID IT ITS A FINISHED ILLUSTRATION WHOO HOOOOOOOO

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I've been thinking a lot about the one-dimensional kinda fandom interpretations of Dazai and Chuuya in particular - the overemphasis on Dazai's weird brand of mischief/manipulation and Chuuya's anger and tendency to lash out and how it's not like these traits are... wrong, per se - these are their surface level/immediately notable characteristics - it's just that it misses the nuance as to why these traits likely exist.

What these interpretations don't fully capture is their very similar cores deep down - two people plagued by feelings of alienation, human inadequacy and repeated loss. Despite starting from these very similar places, they both dealt with the issue in near opposite ways. Dazai numbed himself to pain (remember: he hates pain! I cannot emphasize this enough!) and rarely gets close to anyone for fear he will lose them - his loss led to apathy, a withdrawal from humanity, a fear that he will always be empty inside - his ability: No Longer Human. Chuuya, on the other hand, refuses to numb himself and instead feels every single emotion in full and values his bonds with others over anything. He wants to belong and makes efforts to be perceived as a part of his group. Underlying this, however, is a kind of tired grief paired with resilience - remember that his ability is Upon the Tainted Sorrow. Not anger, or rage.

Sorrow is what results from this kind of heavy identity crisis and loss - for both of them. Think of Odasaku's read on Dazai as someone who looked close to tears when "acting" in front of the sniper poised to shoot him, describing him to Gide as a too-smart child left in the dark, or the way Stormbringer constantly reminds us that Chuuya is 16 and the desperation he feels in the scene where he holds his own dying clone, unable to help him.

Both characters carry a melancholy, resulting from their respective issues with their own humanity - I know I'm not the first one to comment on how their abilities could just as easily be referring to each other as well as themselves. This reads as very intentional to me - much like Atsushi's story begins as a clear parallel to the short story Rashoumon and Akutagawa sometimes being referred to in more beast-like terms than man, it makes sense that Dazai and Chuuya would reference each other in a similar vein.

And if that was the end of it, then we would expect that deep sorrow to shine through in both characters, but it rarely does except in pivotal moments. That's because the both of them have had to constantly deal with external threats - they believe they cannot afford to show vulnerability.

So, what you get instead is Dazai taking a kind of twisted ownership over his inhumanity and using it to make people afraid of him and to control everything so that he is never blindsided and hurt again, in the process, further alienating himself and making his issues worse. He inflicts fear so he doesn't have to be afraid. He can relax and be as silly as he wants - so long as everything around him is completely according to his predictions. There's a bonus to his foolish demeanour as well: hardly anyone can read him well enough to get close.

Then you get Chuuya, who feels so strongly and so much that it has no choice but to boil over, and due to never being able to or feeling comfortable with being anything but "the strongest", he hides moments when he is touched, or worried, or grieving, with anger and violence and defensiveness. As such, he is always seen as more weapon than person, a cut above the rest, forever standing out to others no matter how much he tries to integrate. The closest he came to true belonging was wrenched away from him before he could have a chance to know what that would actually feel like with the death of the Flags.

These surface traits are defense mechanisms. And the amusing thing to me is that likely means these two would love if that's all most people ever saw of them. (Of course, they clearly do want to be seen and accepted, but defense mechanisms become automatic over time because they often feel much safer. Likely another reason they clash so much - they see each other, and it is deeply uncomfortable for them both.)

So, you have Dazai defending himself with his two-faced nature, making jokes and/or manipulating everyone in the vicinity, and Chuuya defending himself with intimidation and anger, never letting any vulnerability show through because anger is easier but at the core of all of this is that loss and that grief and the sorrow and fear that pervades from it.

#they both really said 'do not perceive me' lol #i know i'm kinda stating the obvious here but eh #it was fun to write out #also quick note #i don't have the novels on me so i'm relying on memory #if i've misremembered something please let me know and i'll fix it - just be polite! #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #soukoku #skk #storyrambles #actually does this even make sense? #lol i hope it does #bsd meta #bsd analysis #ugh i've read this over like five times i'm just gonna post it now

[singing-robot]

Photoshop flowery with the Grimm pallets would be very cool.

The first time I saw Photoshop Flowey, I went, “hmm. yeah. it’s time to go to bed.” Shut it off and went straight to sleep. (palette)

#photoshop flowey #undertale #singing robart #I was originally going for a really cool perspective thing #but then I remembered I wanted this to be a quick fun thing and I was envisioning something a lil too ambitious for that #was actually a little hard to figure out how to put what colors where since I didn’t have the green for contrast