#a lesson in practicality

[ascenari0]

Screenshot Redraw Of Robinsdraw’s animatic of A Lesson In Practicality, written by @residentanchor you guys should read it, it’s amazing and I love it and there’s a SEQUEL.

I love robins style sm you guys don’t understand IM OBSESSED.

#sanders sides #logan sanders #my art #roman sanders #patton sanders #thomas sanders #sanders sides art #virgil sanders #sanders side fic #sanders sides fanfiction #sanders sides fanart #a lesson in practicality #probable theorem

[pu-ri-el]

A lesson in practicality draft designs!

(Planning to post individual one's in the future~)

Some inspiration from @robinsdraw own designs, but I tried basing it off this post on @residentanchor :DD

Bonus logicality kiss:

#GUYS HELP THE BRAIN ROT IS SO SEVERE OMF #A silent thank you to celery I used their writing style to help me on an English narrative assignment- #Probable Theorem #A lesson in practicality #Alip! #Pt! #Sander Sides #Logicality #sander sides fanart #This was a “I need fuel for my brain rot” can't find anything? “Fine I'll do it myself" kinda thing

[moraent-keys]

I feel like I should mention this is the official eye chart I use when I draw alip characters? I made this a year ago and forgot to post it

@residentanchor it’s not a big piece of fanart but I think it’s neat

#my art #digital art #a lesson in practicality #eye chart #sanders sides fanart #sanders sides #you may want to pay attention to the pupils

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtle Takedown Teamwork.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #tulu xuanwu #Something about changing the action sequence to something gentle is hilarious to me. #The lesson here is “Be nice to turtles. They are gentle creatures. And many are very endangered.” #don't get me wrong here; I love this scene a lot. LWJ's string technique is one of my favoyrite things. #We do get a fair amount of LWJ fighting but I always loved how the theme of strings comes into play. #There is actually a lot to unpack with LWJ being associate with 'strings'. #The musicianship: Of dedication and rigor in one's practice. #The tension between following along a path or composing your own way forwards (playing what has been written vs composing) #A string is a tightly coiled/taunt entity; The same tension that makes it sing so beautifully can be it's downfall if pushed too hard. #And as a non-musical string - something that binds. Be it to his sect and family or how he binds his fate to WWX - #LWJ cannot exist without his binds. It is not something which ties him down though. It keeps him together. #And he himself *is* a bind. He 'ties wwx down' in ways that are initially negatively viewed ('come to gusu' - feels like: come be trapped) #But later it is shown how (despite being introduced as a free spirit) WWX truly wants to be bound to something and someone. #Marriage is a bind he wants. He wants to be tied and grounded by LWJ. #It's starting to sound like innuendo. Let's call his fondness for being literally tied up smart thematic writing. #Finally. Sex scenes that are important to the plot and characters

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

#cue the 2003 tmnt dramatic Shredder sound effect TM #my art #rat sons #tmnt au #ask reply #TOOK ME A FULL MONTH TO ANSWER AND IM STILL NOT SUPER PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS BUT #also apologies if shits incohierent im v sick rn #but thank you so much for the question copper!! #a parents grief and terror at the thought of outliving their children #always gets me #and boy howdy these rat babies do Not make that shit easy for ol Splinter #all of them have brushed too close to death too many times #tbh thats probably why he started teaching them ninjutsu etc #like yeah yeah discpline and routine and practice all excellent lessons #but also #yall squishy babies and ur father is Stressed please learn to fight good so its one less thing he has to worry about #sorry splints theyre hamatos now theyre destined for danger #cw blood #cw gore

[shrugsinchinese]

Someone called Jester falls down and pops up in Professor Widogast’s class! 

...what was the reason for her visit again?

#read left to right #critical role #critical role fanart #caleb widogast #Professor Widogast Series #surprise bet you thought you saw the last of this series #turns out i'm super productive when i'm restricted access from twitter #notes: #i am super out of practice so the pacing is kind of rushed #though if i added any more i wouldve lost motivation #ahhh i missed my student ocs #i have a backstory for each one haha we'll see if anyone wants to know more about them maybe i'll do a little questionnaire for them #the next comic is either a find familiar lesson or beau visiting #also favorite jester noise: ahua ahua ahua

[cuoredimuschio]

okay, but where's my steddie AU where steve wants to learn to play guitar to impress a girl he's infatuated with and he remembers that munson kid was always hanging up posters for his weird band at school, so he hikes out to eddie's usual dealing spot behind the track and asks (with far less groveling than he really should have) if eddie will teach him how to play, and obviously eddie says no because why would he want to help king steve, but of course, steve offers to pay him, $20 a week, and well, that's the kind of get-the-hell-out-of-this-shithole-town cash eddie really can't afford to refuse, so fine, he'll teach steve to play and they'll spend inordinate amounts of time together tucked away in eddie's room and they'll start to see that they have more in common than they thought and that they kind of had each other all wrong, and eddie will put his hand over steve's to help him get the placement for a tricky chord and it totally won't awaken anything in either of them?? where is it??

edit: i started writing it

#steve x eddie #steddie #stranger things #someone tell me this has already been written because i need it. please. #bonus points if steve shows up to the first practice session empty-handed #and eddie nearly calls the whole thing off when he has the Audacity to grab at eddie's sweetheart as if eddie'd ever let him play her #and he doesn't even teach steve anything that day because rule number one get your own fucking guitar and keep your mitts off mine #but by the end when eddie is deep deep deep in love and it's time to send steve off to woo this lucky girl of his #he offers to let steve take his sweetheart because she's guaranteed to make him look ten times hotter and cooler #and he'll have no trouble sweeping his girl off her feet and maybe eddie's breaking his own heart but it's fine—as long as steve's happy #except steve doesn't seem nearly as happy as eddie thought he would be #he seems sad actually and eddie kind of hates that so he starts to make some lame joke about how steve should be honored #because eddie wouldn't lend his baby out to just anyone and that gets steve to crack half a smile #but then he puts the guitar down on eddie's bed (with all due gentle reverence) walks over takes eddie's face in his hands and kisses him #kisses him like he's been dying to do it for weeks. because he has #because somewhere along the line it stopped being about wanting to impress a girl and started being about wanting to be with eddie #it started being screwing up on purpose so that eddie would grab his hands and show him how it's supposed to be done #and forgetting about lessons entirely and just sitting around and listening to eddie talk or just watching him play #because somewhere along the line steve fell out of infatuation and into love with the last person he ever expected.... #anyway idk where i'm going with this

[wormwoodandhoney]

books read in 2023: alice hoffman's practical magic series

All the same, there were some things they needed to learn. Do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour. Always leave out seed for the birds when the first snow falls. Wash your hair with rosemary. Drink lavender tea when you cannot sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more.

#bookedit #practical magic #magic lessons #rules of magic #alice hoffman #photoshop hard #well technically i haven't read book of magic yet but sstill

[blairamok]

after the harrowing experience that was my 30 min learn to skate class with blades as sharp as butter knives, i went online and secured myself a secondhand pair of beginner boots with blades and!! i’m so excited!! cant’t wait for them to get here so i can get them sharpened up and go back to the rink

#the prospect of going alone or unsupervised does scare me a little but i have the lesson seared into my brain for next time #and i’m going to practice until the Big Class #picking out guards and soakers making me so giddy waaahh

[cirusthecitrus]

Entrapdak Positivity Month 2023 Days 9-10: Invite + Argument

Mkay story behind this one: one of many parties in Bright Moon, everybody promised to bring something they cooked/baked themselves. And Entrapta was very excited to make something for her friends! Hordak saw her the night before the event, all glowing and happy, so when some of Entrapta's friends had the audacity to dismiss her dish like this he could no longer stay in his quiet corner (the dish was still terrible)

#entrapdak #entrapdak positivity month #hordak #entrapta #spop #shera #cirus doodles things #sketch #another prompt another comic layout practice i guess T-T #btw didnt mean to bash on these two specifically it's just that hordak needed to yelll friendship lessons at sOmEoNe

[ascenari0]

Made this sketch of @residentanchor ‘s Virgil from a lesson in practicality on the plane back home, though I’m pretty sure this is robins design for him. It’s been a while.

[Clcik or Tap for better quality! 💜]

#my art #sanders sides #thomas sanders #a lesson in practicality #probable theorem #virgil sanders #a03 fic #my favourite #favorite fics #sanders sides art

[pu-ri-el]

“Virgil, are… Did you fall asleep?!” - Ch. 18

My favourite scene from the latest chapter of the miraculous @residentanchor of their fic Probable Theorem

Highly, HIGHLY recommend a read :DD

#Please be respectful and patient with updates though #Fairly new to digital art #give me tips/criticism if you can! #resident anchor #prinxiety #sandersides #I trieddd basing it off the fic's descriptions best I could #Also the light is an artificial one from an opened door. I don't actually imagine it there in the fic but the art looked #really bland without it #so *AESTHETIC* #A lesson in practicality #Alip! #A lesson in practicality fanart #Probable Theorem #PT! #Probable Theorem fanart #Quick mention of my undying respect for Celery's and Robin's design for Princey's outfit #ITS SO GOODD #sander sides fanart #sander sides au #sander sides superhero au #drawing #Had to colour and EVERYTHING ELSE with my touch pad cause my pen died halfway during the lineart

[moraent-keys]

Once again I am able to upload actual pngs instead of taking a picture of my screen, so here we go

ALiP!Virgil sketches as I work on something

@residentanchor idk if this is discernibly alip!v anymore or not tbh

#my art #digital art #virgil sanders #ts virgil #a lesson in practicality #alip fanart #alip!logan #alip!virgil #alip!roman #sanders sides fanart #sanders sides au #I haven’t read alip in a while #I’m gonna be honest I forgot what they looked like #I just started drawing my own hcs for them aha

[saturnvs]

i badly want to return to my old riding school … there’s a person there that i really do not want to meet, but i think my love for the horses outweighs the fear of possibly bumping into that girl 🫣

#i Yearn for the ponies and horsies that practically raised me #i like the current place but it’s not Home #that place is home!!! and whenever i make my peculiar little horse artworks i think of them #it’s an ache an open wound and a sorrow!! and i want to heal it!! #sorry for babbling on the art blog but there are many people on here and i desire to be listened to😔✊ #i’m thinking of sending an email and requesting a private lesson

[wildflowercryptid]

i like to think that the other bb students' perception of florian goes from thinking he's this cool mysterious & melancholic pretty boy trainer from paldea that blazed through the bb elite 4 and nearly beat kieran to wondering how the hell someone who seems to know shit about dick when it comes to battling ended up as an exchange student at a battling-focused school.

#really how did he manage to fool ppl into thinking he's cool TWICE?? #the events of indigo disk really end up twisting ppl's perception of florian #so when he comes back with this cheery demeanor everyone's like ??? #they're even more baffled by how lost he seems during practical lessons ( though his can-do attitude towards improving is pretty endearing ) #florian's definitely a better trainer than he was before teal mask... but he's still bad at fully grasping the mechanics of battling #dude rolls up to a school that specializes in double battles not even knowing that you can optimize your team for that battle style #he really does just brute force his way through battles thanks to all his pokemon being lvl 100 & also full of love #hc : (pkmn) mjverse #hc : (mjv) paldea #chara : florian russel cavallari #mj.txt

[kuronekkosan]

"Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer."

"Drink lavender tea when you can not sleep. Know that the only remedy for love is to love more."

"Plant roses and lavender for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."

—The endings of Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic and Practical Magic, books 1 to 3 of the four part Practical Magic series by Alice Hoffman.

#alice hoffman #magic lessons #the rules of magic #practical magic #the book of magic #witches #bloodline witches #curse #owenses #love #romance #familiars #book quotes #bibliophile #books #books for life #nameless art #witch trials