#and trying to muscle through

[palms-upturned]

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#meg talks #abt to head back into work #the start of a long fucking week #last time i tried to go back to work i literally collapsed on the ground from how tired and sick i was #if anything it feels like im just getting worse now #my nerve pain is so bad #and my coughing fits make me see spots #at least i don’t have fever anymore and the congestion isn’t as bad #i can breathe okay #but god. im scared that this will be my new baseline #which will mean that i can’t work here anymore… #and it’s just too early to tell. it could take weeks to get my full strength back and i might be fine #but that’s weeks of wondering #and trying to muscle through #which could be making things worse. fuck if i know #i want to quit so bad but at the same time i don’t want to. i don’t want to be muscled out #it just sucks so bad. #and they let this happen to fucking ten out of fifteen of us all at the same time #they really don’t give a shit about our lives #they can always just replace us with cheaper labor.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At rest, your lungs wish to deflate, and your ribcage expands outwards.

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #yiling laozu #Happy Friday the 13th! #This is scientific fact btw! #Ventilation operates through a series of active and passive forces #The active forces being muscular contraction with inhalation and exhalation having their own set of muscles. #but the interesting part is the passive forces at work: #The lungs have a certain level of elasticity to them - meaning the more they expand the more the those elastic forces are functioning- #-to try and return the system to rest (exhalation passive forces). Your diaphragm is the main force - pushing against the lungs at rest. #Your ribcage on the other hand is under a state of being pulled outwards. It *wants* to be as open as possible. #These to contradicting forces create a constant push and pull which assists in the ebb and flow of air. Most significantly with exhalation. #Now that being said - the primary action of inhalation ventilation is through control centers in your brainstem. #If you lose connection to that due to trauma you're going to need ventilation assistance. #Small note: Respiration is the cellular event of chemical exchange in the alveoli. Ventilation is airflow and pressure. #They are both important but also very different things. Sadly used interchangeably. #My anatomy nerd brain is screaming over the inaccurate ribcage...but its...recognizable. I will get it right one day. #Okay nerd rant over (I cut out a lot of stuff about pressure gradients. They are cool. To me.) #This is a redraw of an mspaint doodle I made back in april. I yearn to make the Yiling Laozu eerie as he deserves #Tear that bitch (affectionate) apart! #Been playing around with hatching for a while and its amazing how many styles there are! Not sure I'll stick with this one (but it was fun)

[mahariel-theirin]

Now that botb is a summer show…

Mandatory beach episode

#infamous if #orion quinn #mc aoi muse #gonna try to draw the band as well. and seven staring at mc through his sunglasses #maha art #had to tone down Orion’s muscles a bit 😭

[audhd-nightwing]

if damian got to have a normal childhood, he definitely would’ve been the type of kid that picks up bugs and shows them to his dad with a giant grin

meanwhile bruce is terrified of bugs and has to smile through the pain as damian tries to get him to hold a grasshopper or something

#damian wayne #bruce wayne #bruce having ‘ridiculous’ phobias is one of my fav hcs #he’s def the type of guy to try and muscle through a phobia #despite it being a literal psychological condition #alfred: you don’t have to hold it just because he offers it to you #bruce holding a bug and on the verge of tears: no i got this #bruce 5 secs later: *screeches*

[houndfaker]

why are you so strong. so you can lift up your gay wife???

#p3 #persona 3 #yukari takeba #mitsuru kirijo #yukamitsu #quinn moment #quinn drawings #tthey make me sick. #sorry i always draw mitsuru in like a gay little dress shirt but also like it just feels right. #trying hard to make it clear yukari has Muscles but i feel like its not coming through in my style. will continue my efforts.

[ashchoo]

Silly silly stuff :D���bruh when I saw the buff Colt post I had to make something from it like DYAMNN

we also got some funcle fluff :) ( @thelone-copper )

#Ashton trying to get buff is so funny to me #they’re eight years old they can’t even get huge muscles yet lmaooo #anyways #WE LOVE COLT WE LOVE COLT /p #he will always be the best uncle (real 🤯🤯) #I wanted to do a scene where Ashton starts bothering Colt about working out by my lazy ass couldn’t follow through sigh #oh well #I have so many interaction ideas >:) #I’m so normal #welcome home #welcome home oc #welcome home puppet show #welcome home mob au #welcome home au #welcome home art #welcome home fanart #slay #colt cattlemen #mob colt cattlemen #human colt cattlemen #mob ashton #ashton #ashton is eepy #and will always be eepy #mob poppet #poppet spring #ashchoo

[nerosdayinanime]

midnight city(M83)

#kamado nezuko #nezuko #neros art tag #vaguely imagined some au where giyuu gets stuck with a bunch of supernatural children and the kamados set themselves on fire whenever #they dont like someones vibes #zenitsu can call on & channel lightning/electricity- inosuke can turn into a huge wereboar- genya gets Big Muscle and grows fangs/claws #kanao can see through walls and people's intentions/actions (kinda future vision? v slight)- senjuro looks like hed do something with fire #but no he just glows. blindingly. do not scare him you will literally burn your retinas. no heat tho- #aoi can summon 3 smaller (magic) children who can control wind water and fire respectively #giyuu himself can turn into water- something something gov usually finds supernatural kids and takes them away so they have living weapons #giyuu managed to stay hidden long enough to grow up and now he and other rogue/escaped supernaturals try to keep kids from getting taken #its been at least a decade since i saw the video for this song but its vaguely inspired by that

[every-sanji]

#one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #everysanji #water 7 #ch435 #ft. luffy #ft. chopper #ft. nami #ft. robin #almost. done. with water 7 #i'm queueing these in early january now i'm just trying to muscle through to thriller bark #though i'm aware these are going to post late january/early february

[cozylittleartblog]

Do you have any tips on drawing the Swatchlings?

frankly i am happy that i have gotten good enough at drawing these bird boys (gender neutral) that someone wants my opinions. anyway

i see a lot of fun ways to draw swatchlings tbh and i don't really know what you want tips on Specifically so i will just make notes on a few of the main things i think about when i draw them, most importantly: just make them bitches broad and fluffy, man. they're all canonically Ripped, but an important thing to remember is that they are likely completely covered in feathers! that's going to smooth out those muscular details, so you wont be able to see them, just the broadness of them.

my style is all based in gesture and shapes, so i use a lot of blocks so they look nice 'n sturdy. it's okay if you don't nail the anatomy on the sketch, i am constantly nudging things around all the way into the coloring phase trying to get the shapes right. frankly i would probably bulk out even this Example Bird if i were drawing them all the way. i usually add more fluff or muscle or chub or whatever when i detail them but the absolute bare bones of them is dedicated to blockie

i give mine these sort of vestigial wings on their arms to make them look softer, and i think about how feathers move and stick out on real birds to help inform how they'll sit on these birds, too. and i carry the soft, pointed feather shapes into the fingers so they also look soft.

tip for drawing Soft: don't get caught up making too many individual strands or feathers, soft things tend to come together in big tufts. you want big gentle shapes, not a bunch of little ones. unless you want your bird to look wet or scared in which case you're doing a great job and you've probably just drawn spamton instead

their faces are really tricky so i think of them as these kinda... non-euclidean semi-hollow pentagonal cones. there's five "planes" with the top two dedicated to eyes and the bottom three dedicated to mouth placement. sometimes you can see the far eye even though, in real life, you would not be able to see that "plane" of their face. you don't always have to understand things sometimes they just look cool, especially when characters are cybernetic birds made out of Magical Darkness. there is no rule about when to draw one or two eyes. it's just whatever looks better.

biggest and bestest tip of all about drawing swatchlings! very important! write this one down in your most favorite gel pen and Really Big! give them either tails, or tail coats. i don't care that canon has neither, canon is wrong. you can switch it out, even - my birds have tail coats as part of their standard uniforms but they can wear their real tails out on special occasions.

lastly, if you want to stick closer to a canon interpretation, i would not try to make the birds too unique, when they're on the job anyway - they like being coordinated! tasque manager is very particular about keeping them coordinated as well. but if you just want to have fun then you can make your birds as fun and unique as you want :) even though i draw them all about the same i personally love love love seeing super funky swatchling designs, making them different colors and species and such.

course summary:

make them Large. make them Fluffy. use really broad, blocky shapes and draw big, thick tufts of feathers instead of trying to detail them too much.

their heads are silly magic nonsense. draw a triangle and get funky with it. no rules, only vibes. if it vibes it stays

they always need some kind of tail or tail equivalent and i don't care what Anybody else says

if you want to follow canon, draw all the birds except swatch just about the same. if you're just here for a good time, throw that out completely and have fun with it.

#deltarune #swatch #swatchlings #tutorial #art #ask #anonymous #anon #and now everyone knows about the funny little flap birds have on the back of their pants to fit their tails through #i have explicitly gotten better at broader bodytypes just by drawing birds and i am thankful for it every day #i guess there's some other smaller stuff like i try to make their uniforms more on the fitted side #because the birds apparently like to be Looked At and be Showoffs so fitted uniforms are better for that #but im not sure if my style is detailed enough for that to come through on anybody but swatch #specifically tailored their vest to accentuate the Donbonhonkeros 👌👌👌 #aaand it's okay if they lean a little more chubby than tanky sometimes because practical muscle and fat can look a lot alike #but either way those feathers are gonna smooth out those shapes #and they're wearing many layers of clothes on top of that! #once again i am not the Utmost Authority On Birds and this is just some stuff *i* think about when i draw them #if anybody does it differently or You want to do anything differently that's totally okie dokie :)

[jtl-fics]

i just want you to know that I've started watching The Fantastic Race (I'd never heard of it before) and i too cannot stop imagining Andreil in it.. but also a Foxes/Exy only edition.

like, one is Foxes only, 10 teams, either with some of the freshmen, or while Seth is still alive/in an AU where he survives.

one is Andreil against other Americans where they dominate everything

and one is Andreil, Kevin/jeremy, riko/jean, and some other teams from other American Exy teams

i will eat this thing upppp!! please write it, i beg of you lmao

I do love me some Amazing Race. I think I could give you a Miracle Year of Collegiate Exy version of the Amazing Race.

I think maybe after their initial run through and victory Neil and Andrew are like absolute fan favorites and even though Neil, Andrew, nor the show ever say it there is a general belief that Neil and Andrew got together BECAUSE of the show. Any follow-up publicity on it has Neil and Andrew just staring at the camera like "Are u for fucking real?"

The thing with these shows is that fan favorites get asked to go back ALL the time and Neil gets a lot of very lucrative sponsorships that make the Moriyamas VERY happy after it.

They offer the same deal, a cut on the % that they will take from earnings and this time it's just for competing and this time it's a deal given to. They want the Miracle Generation of the Foxes to come and if every one does then Ichirou will lower Neil, Jean, and Kevin's %s owed to 50% (Maybe the deals are that good, maybe Ichirou is a big fan of the show, maybe he has a finger in it's production. This is mostly just like rationale on why the fuck they'd all do this. Especially Neil and Andrew since like Andrew had a bad time on those planes).

Either way not a single Fox disagrees. Arrangements are made for everyone's kids / pets. Shit is talked.

The Miracle Generation Race is ON.

The Teams are As Follows:

(Fox) Neil Josten & Andrew Minyard (Orange) (Dating)

(Fox) Kevin Day & David Wymack (Green) (Father-Son)

(Fox) Dan Wilds-Boyd & Matt Wilds-Boyd (Yellow) (Married)

(Fox) Allison Reynolds & Renee Johnson (Pink) (BFFs)

(Fox) Aaron Minyard & Katelyn Minyard (Blue) (Engaged)

(Fox) Nicky Klose & Erik Klose (Purple) (Married)

(Trojan) Jean Moreau & Jeremy Knox (Red) (Dating)

(Raven) Johnson & Reacher (Black) (Friends)

(Trojan) Alvarez & Laila (White) (Dating)

(Raven) Thea Muldani & Jenkins (Teal) (Friends)

(Penn) Penn State Coach & Penn State Captain (Grey) (Friends? IDK I ran out of people to be honest and thought well maybe we just have some throwaway team to lose first)

One of the funnier things I could do with that is that this Miracle season is also fan favorite season too and they want the cast to come back but no one can be with their same partner again. So you get shit like Neil and Jean, Jeremy and Andrew, Allison and Kevin, Renee and Aaron, Wymack and Nicky, etc.

#Neil and Andrew are like 'yeah we're not trying that hard' #but then Aaron and Katelyn pass them at a Detour and it's like 'Oh fuck that running.' and proceed to have the MOST insane rivalry #Neil and Andrew actually trying because they just can't tolerate any of their friends / family beating them #Like it was FINE last season they just had to do pretty well and Ichirou would be fine with it #This season? It's fucking PERSONAL. #Catch Allison nailing any and all of those fashion related ones #Renee always is a hit with the locals and can get anywhere easily #Matt just has the MUSCLE to be able to just force through the challenges #Dan's unyielding spirit pushes them past their most difficult challenges #Nicky and Erik flat out just have the benefit of being EU citizens #Aaron and Katelyn have a thirst for blood because they have medical school debt to pay off #Honestly the foxes have already decided that they get the reward money but they're not TELLING THEM THAT #The Ravens are the race heels #Like full on fuck those guys #Is the energy everyone has #At one point Allison just flat out pays one of their taxis to go to the wrong place #Thea keeps trying to talk to Kevin and everyone keeps getting in the way of that #They broke up like a year beforehand and it's AWKWARD (tm) but Kevin is doing so much better now #All for the Race (A Season of Miracles) AU #AFTG #AFTG AU #The Palmetto State Foxes

[theygender]

I love being T4T. My gf has been on estrogen for a couple weeks now and she's been having a rough time with her mood so I'm teaching her about the ancient art of soaking in a bubble bath with a little drink to sip while watching shows on your laptop

#pro-tip for any girls newly on E. this is The Cure for PMS #(which accurately describes what youre going through btw) #other great cures include putting on nice smelling lotion and fuzzy socks and wrapping yourself in a blanket burrito/nest #also eating lots of chocolate or other sweets and drinking your favorite caffeinated beverages #my mom used to always put on lotion and fuzzy socks and drink dr pepper and eat chocolate #my cousin likes to watch netflix in the bath with wine and then get in a blanket burrito with her favorite lemonade tea #if youve got someone to take care of you then you dont even have to come out of the burrito. you can just ask them to bring you things #all of these methods help a lot. we're experts on this you can trust me (family of people with endometriosis) #also if youre having headaches and bloating and stomach pain you might try midol (generic works fine) #it has acetaminophen for pain + caffeine for headaches (like excedrin) + antihistamine for bloating #also to clarify: i said girls newly on E only bc i figured girls who have been on it for a while might have already figured this stuff out #but PMS is by no means exclusive to transfems who have newly started on E #many transfems have reported getting PMS symptoms and even cramps on a monthly basis after being on estrogen for a while #this is bc after a while on E your body can start naturally making more estrogen and this can come with its own hormone cycle #and as a result you can essentially get all of the symptoms of a period just without the actual bleeding #(this can include cramps bc even in cis women the signals for the muscle spasms can sometimes get misdirected to nearby organs— #unfortunately causing stomach issues as well) #so if anyone out there happens to not already know this information and youve been feeling like shit periodically for seemingly no reason #now you know 😅 #its your period #rambling

[xuyanzheng]

#my art #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #kiryu kazuma #yakuza 0 #rgg0 #augh i hate drawing their tattoos. difficult. #drawing has been hard for me lately but i’m trying to muscle through it.

[capn-twitchery]

sorry for sappy on main but i wanted to say if you've left nice comments on my art or sent me an ask about my ocs in the last month, thank you so much, it really, really means the world to me!!♥︎

the past 3 or so years have been hell for me creatively for a lot of reasons, & even though it really knocked my confidence--i've been excited to draw & drawn more in the past month than i have in a Really Long Time ;; it's been nice

it's still something of a battle but thank you for helping me with it♥︎

#now if i can manage pain better and get more confidence back that the last few years have eroded. i will be Unstoppable #sorry this is sappy but my brain wants to be negative this weekend but i'm not gonna let it. sit down brain #fredspeaks #3 year summary is that my university experience was made Awful by a lot of health issues #and the stress of trying to work through it all has compounded into chronic muscle tension + pain #which had horrific effects on me mentally + creatively and it all Spirals. agh #i'm doing a bit better now at least!!! getting back on my feet. slowly #but my main point is art means a lot to me and i was scared to draw again for a really long time #so thank you all for helping with that even unknowingly ;; #ok essay concluded

[241731bbean]

Help me fix my laptop and get some art!

After replacing my last laptop, this one seems to have been damaged in my move - or it's just altogether pooped out. ;w;

I have the full type-up on my dA post if you'd like to check it out!

I'm still in the midst of moving, but hopefully I'll have some more examples to upload soon! Plus, this image is a photo, but I'm planning on getting things actually scanned for better quality digital upload :p

#I can only control my own actions right? #Nothing else I can do but try to muscle through it! 💪 #I should be ripped by now lmao #I made this #not flightrising

[ilikedetectives]

Sending the vibe out there for Kassandra crossover in AC Japan *fingers crossed*

#Kassandra #AC Project Codename Red #AC Japan #AC Odyssey #I just wanna see Kassandra in samurai armor #also in kimonos because a scene where Japanese ladies trying to fit Kassandra's muscles inside a kimono would be funny #'Kassandra your muscles are bursting through the silk!' #the contrast of Kassandra's muscles and the soft silk just saying

[oceandiagonale]

kjshdkjfh sorry everyone I got so bummed out by the end of SV I need to lie down, I'll stream more oc sunday stuff tomorrow

#oceandi speaks #sigh................................................. cowabummer #well that and I worked retail today so my back is killing me too much to sit up for too long #but I was still going to try to muscle through it before this game decided to be....... bit of a letdown kjfsdhkfjh