#all of that expressed in two characters

[zishuge]

The heavens will bless the kind. Since he is blessed, then he should go through hardships to gain knowledge and wisdom. Sooner or later, the truth will be revealed to the world. Story of Kunning Palace (2023) | Ep. 11

#story of kunning palace #宁安如梦 #xie wei #zhang linghe #cdrama #cdramaedit #cdramasource #sokpedit #*gifs:mine #everytime i make a gifset i'm in awe of how rich the chinese language is #re: the last gif — 苦衷 isn't just “reasons” #理由 is ”reasons“ #苦衷 are the secret sorrows and inner difficulties / predicaments that drive your actions and that you struggle with but cannot talk about #(usually used when someone is doing things which on the surface appear wicked and evil) #all of that expressed in two characters #i emphathize with iqiyi translators — there is no way to convey this properly in a subtitle #“reasons” just seems so bland in comparison #anyway this scene like really oddly touched me & i started tearing up at my desk so i had to make this

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #headcanon #my art #nico flexing youngest child privilages by pulling out the most pitiful expression he can manage #anyways i find it fun to explore character word choices #cause yknow no two characters are going to select their words the same way #or even necessarily think about it to the same degree #i like to think Nico thinks about his word choice a lot #so of course every time he uses ''papa'' he fully knows he's pulling the Baby Of The Family card #Hades definitely knows this too but falls for it every time anyways #cause Nico hasnt called him ''papa'' regularly since getting his memory wiped - just detached ''father'' or at best ''dad'' #so it just reminds Hades of How Much He Just Wants His Children To Be Happy Like The Old Days #and how much poor Nico has been through and he's just the baby of the family and- #cue Nico smugly staring at the camera cause he knows how much power he holds #also i say Nico is Hades' only son cause mythologically even when Zagreus *is* Hades' son (rarely) he's. dead. #a major part of Zagreus' mythology is that he died #and im p sure every other deity said to be Hades' children are all goddesses and also are like 50% of the time not his #theres also only like 3 of them. and as far as we know in riordanverse canon one of them is implied to not be his daughter #so Nico is Hades' only son and also youngest in the family (cause Hazel is older by a month chronologically or 1 year biologically) #(and everybody else is a deity if children of hades at all)

[spookberry]

I put them next to each other casually without much thought, but I've had to redraw them in this set up so many different times in the development of this project that I kinda ship them now??? like why are they always lookin at each other like that

#my art #vampire debutante #they dont even have names #but its funny in the very vague concept of these twos characters yellow is like the hunk that all their peers are kind of obsessed with #tiara and niamh even fight over him sometimes(for status reasons not cuz theyre into him) #but i was imagining red as like a bit dorky but sweet #girls arent into him really but they dont turn him down when he asks to dance or tries to make polite conversation #in an earlier draft i was gonna have a bit where Niamh and Tiara are both vying for red's attention and Niamh wins so they dance #Tiara's only other option then is red who isnt as hunky as yellow (L for her) as she needs a dancing partner to show up niamh with #but i didnt wanna animate the stupid little dance battle so i didnt do that #now the boys are just hanging #but the fact that i keep drawing yellow making eyes at red is so funny like thats just supposed to be his default expression but #do you think hes really into red and half of his showboating is just to try and get this dweebs attention but literally nothing works #meanwhile red's just sorta accepted his role as the dweeb that no one's into #oh my god

[munadrawson]

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BONUS:

#Big Man bringing all the bois to the yard cuz his milkshake is—😳 oh my what am I saying??? #Let the Ray date his bois and daddies #hope yall enjoy this since some expressed how yall like how I draw BM #big man #mr coco #gnarly eddy #gnarly eddy and nails #mr grizz #splatoon 3 #splatoon #You know the stereotype of shippers shipping two characters together because they're hot #mhmm yeah thats me drawing all of these #gosh golly BM is so hawt and the rest of his harem suitors #Should I draw BM with Spyke; Bisk and one of the jellyfish merchants??? #lol his types are merchant lads unless ya tell me otherwise #big man splatoon #mr coco splatoon #gnarly eddy and nails splatoon #mr grizz splatoon

[arohuacheng]

imagining the story from pei ming's perspective is rlly funny i think. this god from all that time ago ascends again (you were there for the first two times) and immediately waltzes into a situation that fucks something up for your descendant (putting both of your reputations on the line, messing up how hard your descendant worked to become a god and how hard you worked to ensure that he would have that chance) and then refuses to let you smooth the situation out and on TOP of that your friend's little sister (who hates you and who you are trying to look out for by request of your friend) is on your case about it too. so you've gotta work all that out and then like. you chill for a little bit (still kind of upset about your descendant) until your friend undergoes a heavenly calamity. and then in the space of like A Day the god from earlier shows up again with a fucking ghost king, your friend dies, the little sister you're supposed to be looking out for disappears, and everything just kinda goes to shit. so you're like. grieving. trying to process everything. until your OTHER close friend goes off the fucking rails with the spirit of that guy she murdered, and then you get called out to the spooky ghost mountain where you're confronted with the girl whose death YOU were essentially responsible for and have never really come to terms with, and then like. you just kind of hang out with these gay people until everything resolves itself. fight some ghosts. fight the heavenly emperor. get your friend to stop being evil for a little while so she can fix the filing systems. and then you just have to keep being the god of love i guess

#characters who are so related and yet so unrelated to the story my beloveds #is he really necessary to the story. no! he's so essential to me though #nobody talks about the tragedy of the three tumors... i know it's cause they're awful but c'mon guys... #these three people who only have each other... pei ming losing both of them one after another in their own way... #i think he's probably pretty chill about ling wen being evil. i don't remember how he responds but i don't think he's that worried. #but still. that's two for two on the 'people i care about getting fucked up somehow' list #and then the kid that you're supposed to be emergency older brother to fucking DISAPPEARS. #so you can't even follow through on your promise to your dead friend... #shaking my computer. do you all understand how i feel #pei ming posting tonight. so many thoughts but so little expressed in the pei ming posting #too sleempy... will return to thoughts later #i am going to become the pei ming poster of all time. just watch me #talking #tgcf #pei ming #tian guan ci fu

[carmineskiesandspidereyes]

ok ok ok listen listen I know I KNOW we’re all used to it by now—I know they’ve been vibing for a good bit now—but I still have to take a moment to look at these two dumbasses, and just acknowledge how much and how incredibly their dynamic has evolved.

Look at Tarvek’s expression. Fucking Look at him. He’s being a shit and he KNOWS it.

The fact that he can lean into Gil’s comments about his family and quip back with so much ease is just. It’s suddenly hitting me for some reason, because there was absolutely a time where a comment like that would have made Tarvek bristle, and jump to just as quickly point out flaws in the wulfenbach empire… but now? Now he and Gil are so at ease with each other that comments like that aren’t personal, and any threats between them hold zero weight. Now he can fully indulge in the impish, smug delight of still being a nuisance to the empire without worrying about setting Gil off. He’s able to join everyone else in taking the piss out of his family, and comfortable enough around Gil to know that, even coming from the weasels den, they’re friends enough that Gil wouldn’t ever get rid of him. (And further, went through ridiculous ordeals to rescue him. Twice.)

But point is, he can be as annoying as he wants. Even Gil’s expression here is more put upon and “what else did I expect” than anything close to real anger, and I just!! Them!! They’re joking and teasing and there’s no stakes and no tension whatsoever, (the only tension that’s feasibly left between them is the question of “in the end, who’s actually gonna rule next” and possibly Agatha. But even then, they’ve both admitted separately that they would step aside for the other to make her happy. So.)

grrrgh I just. I love them. My stupid genius boys. Look look look at how far they’ve come.

#Gg #girl genius #tarvek and gil #tarvek sturmvoraus #gilgamesh wulfenbach #listen I just saw his expression today and it hit me #That they would not have interacted anything like this pre-timestop #even right up to the end of the siege. #The character development these two have gone through will never not make me go crazy #and seeing Tarvek give such a bright shit-eating self satisfied grin just brought it all to the forefront

[rainingstorms1220]

I'm going to expose some of my delusions here:

Arashi is an OC of mine, but I also use him as my TWST Ramshackle OC... He was actually ORIGINALLY a TWST OC that I made into an OC with proper lore and stuff in my own personal stories (namely FTW) <3 but the TWST version of him I keep very close to my heart <3

I'm quite. Obsessed. With Leona. So that led to a lot of Thoughts™ of Leona x Arashi (LeoAra). Are they just friends? Or something more?? Who knows 😏

I hope to expand on Arashi's TWST version some day! I don't usually pair OC x Canon but this one is just. Ugh. UGH. My delusions. Guilty pleasure.

Also Reiyuu ( @tairimisu ) and Idia cameo — I know what you are 👁️

#twisted wonderland #oc #original character #illustration #rs:arashi #leona kingscholar #i cannot express how much these two make me delusional. #like they are so. #similar. #i love them #i love them both #like the way leona will treat arashi ao fiercely yet tenderly #and arashi gives leona all the unconditional attention and affection this bastard lion man never got #im so. #they are both my sincere delusions #one day i will introduce things properly i swear #art #twst oc #oc x canon #leona x arashi <3

[zaacoy]

redrew an old piece from foreeevvvvaaahhhhh ago because the anatomy was all wonky, they dancey dance together yippee yippeeee :D

#Freenoodles is the couple that likes to dance together alone all the time and it STARTS out all formal and nice #but then they get distracted by how pretty the other is and how happy they are and eventually their dancing gets sloppier and less put- #together and they start tripping over their own feet but it's okay because they're so in love and it doesn't even matter #Tang is the type to just start busting out laughing and pigsy melts at his husband's unfiltered joy and they're juST SO. #RRRGHHHH DYing sobbing do you see my vision they are EVERYTHING #This is a redraw of smth from February crazy what 5 (technically 4) months of drawing the same two characters over and over again can do #They're so much rounder and softer and expressive now- improvement!!!! :D yyippppeeeeee!! #lego monkie kid fanart #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #lmk tang #lmk pigsy #freenoodleshipping #lmk freenoodles #freenoodles #zaacoy art💫

[anominous-user]

triple threat end card but with the honkai inpact trio. and also bald TT.

#the henry stickmin collection #thsc #honkai impact #bronya zaychik #kiana kaslana #raiden mei #do i tag. the thsc trio for this. i mean they are here as bald as they can be #i guess. #charles calvin #henry stickmin #ellie rose #a-u edit stuff #note that i edited them based on their poses/expressions this does NOT mean bronya = charles or mei = ellie cuz #characters flip around a lot in my edits there is no set standard except for maybe like one lr two characters and even then. #ok anyway i mainly edited this with the honkai trio cuz. they dont interact enough in the story. #like its funny when you think about it but like they separate in the early chapters and only reunite completely in the final arc of part 1. #and i wish there was more. just like how i wish the tt dynamic was more fleshed out #theyre nice and all. just. nothing for me to chew on #ok rant over #i actually am currently redrawing the end cards in the same vein as honkai cgs i jist needed to get this out of my system #i was also highly considering leaving kiana bald. jsut like her great-grandpa^44 kevin.

[shima-draws]

Rewatching HTTYD 2 and RTTE made me realize how badly they fucked everyone over in HTTYD 3. Like. Did they just look at all their character development and go “Yeah, we can flush this down the drain”, or

#Shima speaks #It's so bad. It's SO bad #I mean arguably the characterization in HTTYD 2 needs work as well but like. #We got the MAJORITY of the character development in the TV series so it's fair they can't really express all of that in the films #But like. Even the difference between 2 and 3. They reduced all the dragon riders to be comedic relief #And it makes me SO sad #Especially Snotlout and Fishlegs #And don't even get me STARTED on how they totally bungled Valka's character #Lies down #Thinking about HTTYD 3 makes me so angry. God dammit. #They had ONE JOB #Putting aside all of my regular complaints about 3 there's still SO much more that's wrong with it #Grinding my teeth banging on the walls pulling my hair out etc #HTTYD #Sorry lmao just. Watching the first two films and the series really puts things into perspective of how bad the third film is #I cannot. I cannae #How To Train Your Dragon

[coffiicorgii]

They didn’t lie, that tower can really pizza.

Aka I finally managed to save up enough to get pizza tower and I’ve been having so much fun with it, so I figured I’d try drawing Peppino! :D

#my art #peppino spaghetti #pizza tower #pizza tower peppino #pizza tower gustavo #gustavo pizza tower #anxious Italian man is now a character type I enjoy… I have two of them so far :] #anxious Italians in question being Luigi and Peppino lol #ALSO I’ve been listening to the soundtrack since the game came out I’m so glad I can finally play it #it’s sooo much fun :’D #I’ve only been able to clear two floors so far tho. my wrists have been killing me lately #lap 2 theme has been stuck in my head all day today actually #Peppino is genuinely a delight to draw #I want to do more goofy expressions again! been a while since I’ve done those so Peppino is perfect for me to draw :D

[yourhighness6]

...I'm gonna need more therapy after the end of season 4

#never before have we seen adora look so broken #this is the second time catra has expressed a desire to end her own life in two seasons #glimmer has never been so scared or guilty #bow has never looked so desperate #scorpia trying with all her might to get to frosta and perfuma to offer them some semblance of comfort has left my heart broken #seahawk clinging to mermista unable to do anything about her pain shattered me into a million peices #light hope is gone #hordak has become a sympathetic character #I literally want to die #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #spop season 4 #crying screaming throwing up #scorfuma #seamista

[licorishh]

OH YEAH ALSO finally watched the FNAF movie with the coolest person on Earth, 11/10 movie, Mike looked ready to curl up into a fetal position on the floor and burst into tears at all moments, he is so me, would watch again

#fnaf #fnaf movie #five nights at freddy's #mike schmidt #anyway. i loved the end scene where the four of them do the thing with afton #i was also extremely glad the springlock scene was very palatable and not gory or overly vivid because i can't and won't watch that stff #when i tell you i HOLLERED when cory showed up. almost cried. my BOY #cory is the king of youtube fr fr. nobody does it like him #he's on a hiatus again but we the samurai will patiently wait for the shogun's return #i am getting off-topic. matpat's nametag said “ness” which was extremely funny #afton was in literally two maybe three scenes tops which i was not expecting but he stole the show ofc. very spazzy. dig it #vanessa was so mysterious?? #i kinda loved her and mike's dynamic though. so very silly the pair of them (running from real-life manifestations of fictious characters) #I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW FOXY WAS IN THE MOVIE. THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY #foxy's always been my favorite. my boy. he can have a little murder. as a treat #VANESSA HAD A GUN!! VERY COOL AND GOOD #she barely even shot afton though. honeybun literally had the upper hand by a mile #that man did not have a long-range weapon. he was entirely at her mercy. if she'd shot him all the animatronics would've instantly helped #still like her for some reason though. she permanently has the default sim expression etched on her face #also i don't know if y'all saw but in the credits it says foxy's humming was my boy kellen goff!! #mike was so STRESSED and so DISTRACTED the ENTIRE TIME i see so much of myself in him #can we also agree josh hutcherson looks great with a goatee like that is eons ahead of the peeta look (never read/watched himger gims ok)

[tea-cat-arts]

Mihoyo may have forgotten Su is just as big a nerd as Bronya and Kosma, but I sure haven’t.

Really feels like missed comedic potential though. Like, maybe they could’ve had Su desperately trying to hide that he actually gets Kosma and Bronya’s references, but he keeps having to translate for them, so everyone else is slowly catching on to Su (meanwhile Kevin knows damn well about Su’s mech phase and is desperately trying not to laugh at him). Or maybe have Su be like one of those anime nerds that was really into Akira and other older anime and tries to bond with them over it, but he hasn’t seen anything that was made in like the past 15 years so all his references are incredibly outdated.

Or for other occupation related humor, he could just have extensive knowledge of poisons and dangerous chemicals that just comes up in casual conversation and concerns everyone else around him. Or give him a sorta back and forth with Vill-V on what would or wouldn’t kill a man, but in like the most casual/deadpan tone

I haven’t really thought about this point well enough to articulate it well, but you can derive comedy from someone just being enthusiastically nice. The best example I can think of this is Tanjiro from Demon Slayer

Idk, it just feels like Mihoyo just doesn’t really know what to do with Su a lot of the time

#honkai impact #honkai su #kinda glad Mihoyo forgot about him in the last arc so they couldn’t fuck him up #this is 100% just baseless speculation on my part- #I wonder if the butchering of Kevin and Su to a lesser degree is partially in response to Kevsu #like the devs realized they had way more chemistry with each other than Kevin did with Dr MEI #so they tried remove the things that made them work #but things that made them work with each other were also the things that made them interesting characters #like how they both have this unrelenting kindness to them that’s expressed in two very different ways #speaking of things that made them work- #I miss their little jabs at each other #like in that one memory file where Su jokes that he’s gonna max out Kevin’s credit card at dinner or something like that #I also really feel like Mihoyo forgot that Su is constantly flying by the seat of his pants but tries to hide that to comfort others #like he and Kevin tried so hard to put on this persona of being the reliable one #it was always sweet to see them call each other out on it and try and take care of each other #ya I personally ship them but all the things I’m saying could be applied platonically too

[elvisqueso]

I am on some bullshit right now, bruh

#just re-watched pocahontas for the first time in many many years and dawg #the character animation in that film is so gorgeous #like they went so hard on ACTING through the animation #im getting obsessed again like i was when i was little #like u gotta understand: the disney pocahontas character (a truly fictional character inspired by real events let's get that straight) #i was like in love with her. i wanted to be her like oh my god #and the way they animated john smith was such a departure from their other disney LI's up til then (as *i* recall) #so detailed!! the expressions!!! the fucking YEARNING!!!!!! #best love story out of all the disney flicks imho. as a Story it's so powerful #I'm gonna think about the symbolism of them having to part #after grandmother willow had told them 'only when the fighting stops can you be together' #implying that the fighting isn't over and probably never will be #fuxking painfuslfjk #i know i know: c'est ~~problématique~~ #but look. I'm from a racially diverse family okay? #my dad's side especially. nobody over there stuck to their own race/ethnic group #my parents are a mixed couple. i know how hard it is to make that work. #most interracial couples I'd seen on tv until that point were very...chaste? #mostly played for laughs (oh haha the cultural dissonance is so cute and funny!) or worse: to play up racial sterotypes #but to see one depicted as a straight-forward romance- as two people deeply in love and not played for a gag? AND as the core of the story? #mannnn that means a lot to me even all these years later #so yeah im deep in the 'hunting down feel-good fix-it fics' phase wish me luck

[okkennymay]

Commission for @riverclanning + A lil bonus sketch

I struggled with consistency with ‘ol Randy here, I do hope I did your Older!Randy Cunningham justice River! 😤 (and if I didn’t here’s a bonus sketch! UvO””)

#randy cunningham 9th grade ninja #randy cunningham fanart #randy cunningham #older!randy cunningham #riverclanning #commission #icon commission #icon #reaction icon #KennyMay_OvO #I'm just coming in to leave this one thing here #I wish I could be happier with these #i've already redrawn two of the icons but gosh if I kept going i was going to end up having to redo all of them #I'm kicking myself for not just sketching him out for funsies before I worked on the chosen expressions #Trying to replicate expressions and draw a new character at the same time was a foolish move #This is why i tend to sketch extra things but I figured eh it's just icons it's fine- but it was not fine #I did my best riverclanning and I hope they meet your approval!