#and idk man maybe. its bc im yaoi brained

[peachzin]

grrr

#ok im like. 4 eps from finishing fmab #and idk man maybe. its bc im yaoi brained #but #I dont rly see the appeal of royai #I like hawkeye as a character I think shes funny asf #but im like so tired of women characters being the voice of reason LOL #esp when applied to royai like #ok when she stopped roy from killing envy. I get it #I rly do! I get it. thats kinda crazy and yea im sure if any other member of his team were there theyd also be like hey. relax #but bc it was hawkeye... it gave me like #'woman is voice of reason when man goes crazy violent' #type vibes.. and I know thats not the intent! but it just sucks how thats how I viewed it.. #and im not saying hawkeye should have ENCOURAGED that behavior either that doesnt seem her character at all #but yea.. :/ #watching the entire series + 03 anime as well I never rly. got their romance #like I said. yaoi brain #but maes/roy made x10 more sense LOLLL like cmon dude roy goes on crazy rampage bc he found maes' killer like.. #and not only that but almost every baddie they meet mentions maes to roy just to get a rile out of him #bc they know. what maes was to him and its like WHAT was maes to him 🤨 pls explain in detail #idk man I think maes/roy has potential.. but im also sucker for possibly unrequited love story + bonus when one character is dead..

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

what are your influences/inspirations for your art!! like, stylistically or thematically!

visual art, stylistically:

the Borderlands artstyle obviously. cel shading and outlines my fucking beloved. I am so fucking sad that gbx themselves is kinda toning down on it and that they didn't implement the crosshatch shader they put in teasers for bl3. come the fuck on

the Psychonauts artstyle. even if I do no longer draw in the hyperdeformed style I took from that game I still often deform characters and exagerrate their main features in order to make them more distinct. it also kinda made me addicted to shape language lolmao

Team Fortress 2. I am fucking serious btw. blame that one youtube video on its artstyle. it's been a formative experience for me when I watched it and it stuck itself in my brain. it made me appreciate blockiness/solidity/stockiness in art, as well as teaching me how to limit color palettes and how to draw attention to the important parts of the character by using color contrast.

as for actual artists and not. Video Games. I have been eyeing cubists and futurists recently (even went to a gallery with some of Picasso's earlier works) but it's nothing too substantial as of rn

visual art, thematically:

most of what I draw is characters & fanart so. yeah .

however one thing I've been enjoying recently is redrawing paintings or old photos. usually replacing the ppl in them with my fave old man yaoi. maybe it's cringe but they are a very "love in every time" sort of couple to me so :shrug:

literary art, stylistically:

positivist writing, particularly Lalka by Bolesław Prus. perhaps it's because I consider myself academically inclined, perhaps it's because naturalistic descriptions pander to my Biology Autism, perhaps it's bc of smth else idk

impressionism except not really bc im autistic and thus sensory descriptions come to me naturally

Terry. Pratchett. comparisons in my fics are often snappy(tm) as all fuck because they're, well, Borderlands fics, and to me a Borderlands novel should be Discworld-like. also because Discworld itself slaps

the work of Alexis Kennedy: the guy who wrote a lot of Fallen London, Cultist Simulator and also the Horizon Signal dlc for Stellaris. which is all shit im into. and good lird . its hard to describe you have to read this stuff for yourself

literary art, thematically:

again see the visual art section but largely my fics if they aren't self indulgent fluff are just. taken from my brain tee em because I cover topics or angles that the rest of the fandom wouldn't even think of

Alexis Kennedy again bc he writes gothic/cosmic horror. especially the latter. hoo doggy

other things that in general inspire me:

Darkest Dungeon. both the artstyle and the story have been big influences on me even tho I only played the game once and know everything abt it by watching youtube and bingereading wikis

the legacy of H. P. "Racist" Lovecraft. I guess. what can I say I am a sucker (haha) for those tentacles. except I do everything he ever did sexier and cooler and also he can go roll in his grave

legends, folklore, mythology and occultism. Hellenic of course since that's a big part of Borderlands symbolism but I ain't a coward I throw all that shit in there. slavic (creator bias lollll), norse, japanese, a bit of voudoun, biblical tradition, alchemy, tarot, et cetera. of course I usually don't talk about all the symbols that go into my Everything bc there's a crapton and everyone is entitled to their own interpretations but. yknow! and thats not even accounting for my love of assigning complex motifs to things

#this list is probably non-comprehensive but oh well #themanwhomadeamonster #lavos/alto #fourth wall mail slot