#and practically obligatory

[wilkoakdraws]

earned cuddle time for tired horror protagonists

#the magnus archives #jonmartin #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #obligatory jmart because *explodes* #and also a pose reference practice #why did i draw jon's face at that angle #beholding help me #tma #magpod #teaholding #jmart

[vumigumied]

Bro. can we like fight on the roof tops. or get aj and doritos?? I gotta know man I just gotta

Bro of course

#homestuck #dave strider #dirk strider #obligatory homestuck art style practice #ask

[majorshatterandhare]

I hope Nastya’s actor is doing well and knows that Nastya is still bringing people joy.

#the mechanisms #nastya rasputina #nastya (actor) #obligatory reminder to not go looking for them. they want to be anonymous and we respect that #started practicing the violin again because of her

[adeleine-everyday]

day 54

found it

#rendering practice pt 2 out of five million #shoutout to ghostbny for revealing their ibis brushes tis another to add to my collection :00 the pen works so nicelyomg #this was my obligatory practice piece with the brush and it blends so smoothly omgomg #adeleine #adeleine kirby #kirby series #day 54

[saintmachina]

I don't talk about Constanta's (A DOWRY OF BLOOD) faith much but it's a cornerstone of the text and I will never regret making an unapologetic vampire an unrepentant Catholic. She lives balanced on the knife's edge between good and evil, day and night, darkness and light, and she never once considers herself a contradiction.

Because no matter what state my belief is in, no matter if there are times when I cannot hold space for my own faith much less the faith of others, she can keep that candle burning. She believes even on days when I find it hard to.

#INCREDIBLY intimate and vulnerable post I can practically hear my industry friends furiously texting me to log off #but I mean this #a dowry of blood #obligatory disclaimer that I am not catholic and not trying to co-opt that for myself but Constanta is #I am an Episcopalian at present #theology #thoughts

[soothedcerberus]

Don't you hate it when your food starts talking to you and making you feel bad for trying to eat it 🙄 Late mermay art of my OCs! 🦭 🐠 🦈

#mermay #original art #this is so dumb ashda but it was fun to draw and good comic practice #my art #original character #character design #comic #creature design #rembrandt the knighttaur #dael braam #dirk the dragontaur #im sorry rembrandt u are seahorse here u get obligatory mpregnanant treatment #im never writing the word pregnant again im sorry #mermaid au i guess different backgrounds with the characters dirk and rembrandt arent brothers and dael and rem are childhood friends #is it obvious that shark dirk isnt used to his food talking to him LOL its a first for him

[maxsix]

#hyunjin #hwang hyunjin #stray kids #i am editing old things today #i just wanted to re do this #bc if you follow me #you know this is my favourite practice video #it's from the kingdom era #obligatory: we was ROBBED OF THIS #but he was so beautiful this era #peak era hyunjin and we saw none of it #total kpop tragedy

[bitsbug]

idk if any creatures live near DH but the idea of her just unleashijg a flood of void fluid on the local wildlife is really funny to me

HEHE YEAH.. that's basically how it went down !!

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#free ascension for everybody!! #imagine being hit by hundreds of tons of void fluid from above. orbital laser type shit #also don't ask why i put effort into the background of a joke #sometimes you just wanna practice plants #ask #obligatory talk tag #oc - DH

[mintedwitcher]

Yes maybe it's a nitpick but the fact that the Hobbit trilogy has such a massive overuse of CGI compared to the original LOTR trilogy is honestly so fucking disappointing (as well as the character designs just literally not making sense in a narrative format given that this is all meant to be 60 years prior to the events of Fellowship, and yet look at the orc designs look at the weaponry look at the war machines etc. They're more advanced (even to the point of redundancy) than it is in LOTR)

And then there's the whole "animate entire fight/chase sequences to avoid use of greenscreens or stunt actors" issue like??? Please why are you CGI-ing a character RIDING A HORSE.

#if anyone knows WHY they did this please tell me #but its honestly such a let down #im trying to enjoy it and i just fucking cant rn cus all i can see is how much of it is just pure cgi #the hobbit #i do love the characters but seriously why is it like this #where are the practical effects? where is the artistry? why is EVERYTHING ANIMATED #obligatory disclaimer this is not hate this is criticism

[spooksicl-e]

a day off

edit: tried to make a variation with john’s hand. uh. it looks vaguely threatening which obviously wasn’t the intention but whatevs

#don’t say anything about his feet okay i already know #except i’m still expecting tags about the feet regardless #the concequences of having the dogs out #obligatory sherlock in a sheet drawing #also a practice in anatomy?? sorta???? #my art #the @ is my insta #art #fanart #fanartist #sherlock fanart #sherlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock bbc #sherlock holmes #johnlock #not actually but well #if you want to imagine john somewhere to give more context to this drawing then have at it #benedict cumberbatch #the struggle of finding the colour of that couch is what took me three weeks to finish this halfassed drawing #as is the way with heavily filtered tv shows from 2011 #expect future edits to this post #im just too lazy to fix how bland it is rn

[diavorchid]

yeah Art should AND would give Jack his little reward

(forcing myself to post this tonight in case we get more depressing entry tomorrow)

kinda based on this but that's just a convenient excuse for me

#holmward #jack seward #arthur holmwood #artjack #should i tag main dd #dracula daily #john seward #dd sept 10 #kinda. i guess. #10 years in fandoms and it's the first kiss (that i published) lol #obligatory dont do it irl #listen Art is a practical learner ok. van helsing taught him a blood donor for lucy deserves a kiss #my art #my post #Arthur x Jack #dracula fanart

[akins-art]

Skinner, 1993

#on my quest to get somewhat good at realistic-looking stuff #and last time I did Teds face it looked good #so... here is obligatory Dennis in a bathtub #my horror spree continues #i kinda lost my patience with the background #one more thing to work on #skinner 1993 #dennis skinner #ted raimi #slasher #slasher movies #horror #horror movies #my art #digital art #art #anatomy practice #digital painting

[starriskiesstuff]

image credit: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/218424650665429037/

#the ides of march #stab everyone and laugh #all hail (the death of) julius caesar #it's the fifteenth how could i not? #it's practically obligatory #so let us all come together to stab annoying politicians

[moraygrotto]

on the flip side of this, i should assert how important i think it is not to idolize someone too much in the tumblr kink community—if ur a fan of someone's blog, and they make posts that hit your kinks perfectly, that person is also invariably going to Absolutely Not be into at least one of the topics you love. they are creating for themself, not for you. especially for those who struggle with RSD, it's important to come to terms with this fact as early as possible, and try your best to conceptualize the people you look up to as people first & kink creators second

#moray rambles #NOT a follow up to my prev post abt the thing i dont like lmao im just thinking in general #& obligatory note that if someone you like is an asshole abt a kink you have then u have the right to be mad #anyway. continuing my tag rambling. i desperately need to practice what i preach here bc every time someone seems to have the exact same #interests as me im all like 🥰omg hiiiiiii🥰 lol

[whatudottu]

Because I've been steamrolled by another character to hyperfixate on completely out of the blue, I feel the need to talk about TFA Soundwave and his siphonophoric ass- yes, I said siphonophore, now read under the cut to find out more-!

Aside from me now suddenly getting attached to another minor character (not as fucked over as Skyke but an extra episode is STILL just 2 total episodes), I caught the curiosity bug and looked a little deeper into this bastard, and here I am sharing it.

As a refresh, Soundwave in TFA was a 'gift' for Sari with the actual motivation to be used as Megatron's new body; the method to do so being the Key and the Allspark energy it uses. Now, in terms of all the Earth sparked cybertronians (not to be confused with Earthspark), you can probably pit the two types of mecha into 'Key-born' and 'shard-born'. You get the Dinobots as the first Earth cybertronians firmly in the 'key-born' category and the Constructicons (+plus unrelated Wreck-Gar) in 'shard-born', and considering the methodology used to make Soundwave- well- SOUNDWAVE was the Key, you'd also think that he'd also be as such fitting in with 'robots Sari tampered with and Megan profited off of'.

Well- to say that Soundwave's transformation from simple Earth music bot to fully forged and sparked cybertronian was actually complete would be - perhaps - a lie.

Megatron had originally wanted Soundwave to at the very least stick around Sari long enough to fully upgrade into his new body, his cybertronian body fueled on by the Key and it's Allspark energy, and to probably remain under his command just long enough for a transfer of some sort. It is Soundwave's act of defiance, a shock to even Megan, that cut the ties between the full frame upgrade and the actual upgrading of his processor.

It was Soundwave's rebellion against the (presently) organic Sari that prevented him from being 'Key-born'.

That's not to say he isn't sapient, more that it is to say he's significantly more different in comparison to other Earth-born cybertronians.

Soundwave becomes the Soundwave Megatron designed him to be only after making the upgrade himself, with a lot of smaller Detroit robots serving as the materials to build up his frame, himself the personification of the Earth robot revolution. And when he is summarily defeated by Bulkhead (and later by Optimus in 'Human Error') all the parts that were his body shattered into the scrap parts of possessed robots passed their usefulness. All that remained of Soundwave was a little section of his original make that just so happened to be where the Key would be used.

Soundwave became a little cassette.

Bestie I swear to god-

Seeing as how his minicons Laserbeak and Ratbat don't transform into cassettes themselves (bass and keytar respectively), plus are probably part of the 'shard-born' half of Earth cybertronians, I think that it'd be a fucking hilarious reversal if the Cassetticon for the Soundwave fam was SOUNDWAVE HIMSELF! Like, if it ends up that Laserbeak and Ratbat have more cybertronian of a spark than this bitch then his siphonophoric ass has got to find that fucking shard-

And yes, back to siphonophores.

So, I love me some siphonophores, love the bitches that group together to form one being, love me that so much. I think if Soundwave were a siphonophore cybertronian frametype, it would certainly fit with the whole hypocrisy of his mentality, of unleashing a 'robot revolution' by uh... mind controlling robots to be free from their servitude by organic hands.

His spark's in the right place (buried deep within minibots or toy Soundwaves) but perhaps being like a day's worth of being vaguely sapient might kinda skew that revolution to be 'i want you to be free the way I define free' and boop I've made another mind controller a siphonophore eep-! (would be a great time to put in a link, were it not a link to a collab with a friend's deactivated blog and also not even transformers related 😔)

Considering the title of siphonophores in a more general sense are 'colonial species', a Soundwave built up as a colony of robots (so far only Detroit tech robots) and presents himself as this signal for a revolution, I think it's awfully fitting that the mentality of 'be free MY way' could be boiled down to 'be my body'. Because as a cassette - or perhaps more a cassette RECORDER or tape deck - Soundwave literally cannot move and has to rely on his music in order to get anything done, to get others to do the things he needs them to do FOR HIM. To escape from the Autobots a second time he needs Laserbeak - one of the instruments TO HIS VERY MIND CONTROLLING MUSIC - to snatch him out of there to rebuild another day, to gather enough stray robots to become a colonial system of machines in order to function as 'cybertronian'.

I just... think I really like siphonophores, man. I think they're real neat little cities, yeah? And I think Soundwave's network of robotics is just being head by someone who's like... idk give or take a few Earth months/years between Sari's season 1 birthday and Earth's season 3 Christmas old, significantly less than even the youngest of young bots (though Dirtboss and the Luna-born clones are like... the youngest newsparks) and most certainly an age that even humans would find young.

Idk, maybe Soundwave using all this Earth tech is not getting the parts that he actually needs to be actually officially a cybertronian, even if perhaps he remains a siphonophore type frame. Perhaps, with a special delivery from Megan himself all the way from Kaon, a colony of cybertronian made minicons could help connect the missing piece.

Eh, I'm just rambling at this point.

Anyway; *rotates TFA Soundwave in my head* *rotates TFA Soundwave in my head* *rotates TFA Soundw-

#soundwave #tfa soundwave #transformers #tfa #maccadam #xenobiology #just a little bit #this is mostly about soundwave i don't think i should tag the others #bestie i have no idea how this happened i just sat there thinking about transformers then i blinked and now i'm thinking about tfa soundwav #this happened with prime shockers too but at least i'd been thinking about the show often enough it was bound to happen #especially with mutuals who are also invested in shockers but like tfa soundwave just- out of the blue!? #haha because he's blue haha #but like soundwave in tfa only has only like 2 episodes to feature in and i practically see NOTHING about him in fandom stuff #like i see him in the obligatory wavewave ship that's like your standard typical way you see tfa soundwave #but like- i like skyquake! there's more stuff the sphere of influence i engage with that bring that dead boy up #even if it's heavily strengthened by the power of 'having a sibling that shows up' tragedy #well hey at least it's not makeshift level of obscurity *cries a silent tear* #really rooting for the dead ones aren't i #anyway boom bang *making another fucking mind controlling siphonophore* #bestie if you give a baby mind control powers there's gonna be a few moments of hypocrisy shit happens

[ransiquack]

I'm tired of not making every character realistic

Some headcanons under the cut 👍

Not too proud of this one but its whateva

#the first one on the other hand.. #this is anatomy practice #'men' and their slutty little waists #this is for the luci simps #/j i swear #art #disenchantment netflix #luci disenchantment #elfo #luci #luci x elfo #they kiss on the mouth #fanart #disenchantment #demisexual #didnt put anything for his obligatory genderqueerness since it is actuslly canon #still my favorite fact #The Quack pot