#bit of a ramble whoops

[hattiestgal]

If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about drawing fat? :3

JUST THE EXCUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR

So, for me personally, a lot of the time when I draw fat characters, I'm not looking to specifically capture the specifics of fat as much as the feel of fat. Bulkier, rounder shapes in the right places that has a feeling of weight to em! A lot of that is intuition and simplification at this point, but it all works on the same frame as just any ol' person. Like take this-

For example. This is the basis for any body shape, not just the more average one that it may imply. Sure- it can be that average body shape:

But also a fat one too!

And a big part of that is knowing where fat usually tends to bunch up on the body, so lets take a look piece by piece! (Please keep in mind this is very simplified, and not completely precise in some parts)

THE FACE: Cheeks (in purple) and especially the chin (in light blue) are the places where a lot of the fat is gonna wanna gather and round out on your face! Additionally, theres a small pocket of fat beneath the cranium on the backside of your head. It's small, but it is there. I believe fat can build up elsewhere like the bridge of your nose and forehead, but generally speaking, you're gonna have a whole lot more buildup in other places first.

THE TORSO: A lot of the fat built up on the torso is gonna be sent to your tummy. More cushioning for vital organs, mostly out of the way, it just makes sense. Additionally, the lower backs fat builds up and joins with a patch of fat on your sides that forms what is typically referred to as the love handles to make that double belly look. Along with this, the immediate next target for the torso is the breasts, followed by the upper back!

THE ARMS: For this limb, a VERY notable amount of the fat present builds up on the tricep and bicep areas, lessening once you get towards the flexor and extensor areas. You can almost think of the arm as a sort of triangular shape, wide side starting from the shoulder and tapering towards the hand, which itself mostly builds up fat around the back of the hand and the fingers. The shoulders themselves don't build up too much fat unless you got a lot

THE LEGS: And finally, you can think of the legs having pretty similar curves to what you're probably already used to thinking. The front of the thighs getting a big buildup, along with the back of the calves, the other parts being flatter in turn. As far as the feet go- similarly to the hands, the top of the feet, along with the heels get most of the buildup, as fat on your soles would impede mobility. The glute, hip and crotch area will also especially build up fat, lending to the same triangular shape that you can see in the arm!

A big thing to note with fat is that it tends to taper off towards joints. Your knees, elbows, shoulders, hips, and all the other places are gonna have significantly less fat so that you remain mobile and flexible, as that's important!

Now that we have an idea of where fat builds up on the body, you might have something that looks kinda like this

Which yes, does demonstrate a solid understanding of the places fat builds up, lacks the weight you're probably trying to convey, which brings us to out next point! Fat is well... heavy! Gravity is what gives fat much of it's shape, especially as you tread towards larger and larger bodies.

This is demonstrated really well on the arms especially-

Those big ol' bits of fat'll really start to sag when left hanging, and they will squish like hell if they run into something. I like to think of these bits of fat as big ol' ovals that squash and stretch depending on if there's an obstacle in their way or not

These are the important shapes to remember when it comes to the weightiness of fat! If you take all of this into mind, you should be getting something a lot closer to that shape you've been after!

Oh, and always remember that fat bodies come in all variety of shapes and sizes! Play around with a whole lot, and seek out all the resources you can! it'll really lend to your knowledge when it comes to this kinda stuff!

And as I always recommend when it comes to learning art- look at what your favorite artists do with fat bodies. See what you really like about the fat bodies they draw and try to replicate it in your own work, I promise you it's one of the most helpful things ever.

This is like the most basic of basics when it comes to drawing fat bodies though. If there's any additional thing about fat bodies, or maybe you want clarification on something, don't be afraid to ask! If there's enough to cover, I'll make an addition to this post!

#hat answers #my art #design talk #tutorials #yeah im unfortunately pretty tired so this gets a liiiitle rambly at the end but i think this covers like the basic basics #i hope this was helpful at all #and again dont be afraid to ask questions and stuff #if theres enough traction/questions on this i will most definitely try to clear up as much as i can in an addition to the post #whoops this took a bit!

[gotham-daydreams]

Okay we see how Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim and Cass become Yanderes for reader what about Damian, Steph and Babs?

That question is exactly why I'm kind of debating on making a kinda "Part 2.5" sort of thing, and it would show how Tim and Damian got further roped into things like Bruce, Dick, Jason and Cass. Along with how Steph and Babs take the news of "heyyy, um. you know Y/n? yeah that one sibling of ours that's lived here for years that we've barely have like, 10 conversations with collectively? Yeah, that sibling. Uh, we just figured out they've basically been living an entire life without any of us knowing, and might've run away because we were barely involved in their life despite them making multiple attempts to have us be there. So, we kind of need your help to find them. Like. Now-"

Though honestly I'll just put the run down here, so-

Bruce kind of gave Damian the little push he needed before hopping on the train, kind of like what he did with Jason but a little different. With him finding Damian, and some questions being thrown around, before Damian just decides to help look for you.

Honestly I can imagine that Damian wasn't super serious about finding you or anything at first, and was more so just trying to help because Bruce and Dick were looking for you. Hence why he looks for Alfred first with the intention to get the search done and over with. Though, that does begin to change a little when he eventually stumbles upon your room and gets that small glimpse of all he's missed out on after having talked with Alfred.

The room itself doesn't necessarily get to Damian — not like it does with Bruce and Dick — but it's more of the contents of the room itself that get him started on the yandere path.

Honestly, how Damian and Tim begin to develop their more Yandere thoughts and feelings for the reader is through finding something in your room, leading them to find more stuff, and that eventually getting to the thought process of "i didn't know they did this... i would've liked to know about this before/share this thing with them." Which then leads to a more yandere-like mindset.

For Damian (since we're already on the topic of him), he finds that one art award that you got, and becomes curious. Eventually he finds the unfinished art pieces that Bruce had found earlier, and while he isn't impressed or anything at first, the more unfinished pieces he finds the more he kind of begins to see your potential, and that leads to his own thoughts on the matter. With him wishing he knew about how you liked to do art too, and that eventually leads to him thinking that he could've helped you refine your skill, and the both of you could've drawn or painted together.

What strengthens that mindset is when he gets his hands on a notebook that you had used to practice whatever you were struggling with, and left notes for yourself on how you could improve upon certain things as well. Maybe if Damian had known you were into art before, he could've helped you, and you both could've improved together. Refine each other's skills, and just be able to create together. Which Damian really begins to like the thought of. Especially as he sees how you improved the deeper into the notebook he gets.

So, he also sets out to find you, but with a more positive mindset and thought process.

Honestly, out of everyone, Damian is the least worried about you and your well-being. Not because he necessarily has faith in your abilities to stay alive in Gotham, while also potentially being by yourself, but rather he isn't focused on that part? Not as intensely as some of the others, anyway.

Besides, if you were to turn up dead, then he'd have the "you die, I kill you" mindset. You aren't allowed to be dead or 'missing' in his mind, and so you aren't until proven other wise — but even then he's going to need a lot of solid proof to even believe it.

Damian is just more focused on the "we have a common interest and I want to do this thing with them" part of learning that you're into art. Even if you aren't anymore, just knowing that it was something that you used to do is enough to get him jumping on the yandere train. You'll be doing art with him one way or another, and you can't do shit about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sure his reasoning isn't a strong, but it's enough to get him started and to go looking for you with the others when they eventually start tearing Gotham apart in hopes to find you. Damian now has a sudden need for quality time and your his main target, sorry not sorry.

Tim on the other hand just sort of, stumbled upon your room, and thanks to Dick was very quickly roped into this mess (as mentioned in "Not Here").

He actually looks through the box with all of your more personal belongs first as Dick tries to call and text you like crazy, while also trying to figure out more stuff.

The first thing he minds is an mp3 player, which, again - as mentioned in "Not Here" held very early versions of songs you were working on at the time, along with some of the very first songs you ever wrote. Which, after listening to a few of them, is immediately a big fan. Though that ends up being both his downfall and how he begins to develop his more yandere tendencies.

Like Dick, you had tried to call and message him about certain performances and such you thought he'd like, and hoped he'd attend, but to no avail. It sucks even more for Tim now because if he had just given your music a chance just a little sooner, maybe things would've been different between the two of you. Maybe you wouldn't have left.

Not to mention that, since he now really loves your music - just knowing that he's wasted so many opportunities to hear more of it, and the completed, fully fleshed out versions of some the songs on the mp3 player makes him upset. He really feels the hit of neglecting you, and that hit only lands harder when he goes through that 'List/Progress' notebook that Bruce had seen earlier in "Not Here".

A notebook which does reveal a lot about you, and how you only did so many activities because you hoped that if anyone in the family was into one of the activities/hobbies you tried, then you'd be able to bond with them over it. Though look at where that got you. Countless awards hung on your walls, with a number of accomplishments to your name - and yet not once were you able to use them for their original purpose. Not once were you able to hold a full, long conversation with any of them about any of the things you've done.

It wasn't even your fault because you tried to put in the work, Tim could really see that now, but you just weren't given the chance to actually put it to good use.

Maybe that's why he ended up helping Dick as much as he did, and maybe that's why he took the time to download some of your songs before heading out to look for you. He wanted to feel closer to you then he really was, and wanted your music to be something shared between the two of you.

Tim wants to not only get closer to you, but to hear everything you've ever made music wise. A want which he fully intends on making a reality.

Stephenie and Barbara are a bit different, however. Since, as stated in "Not Here", both of them are informed of what's going on after everyone else but Damian and Alfred absolutely loses their minds over you not being in the Manor. Though, again, both take the news a bit differently.

Between the two, Steph easily feels the worst. So her motivations and actions — like Bruce, Dick, Jason, Cass, and Tim — are more out of guilt and regret. She already doesn't like the thought of her own neglect having caused you to keep so many things to yourself that you basically hid yourself away, but the idea of her — along with everyone else — having pushed you so far away that you ran away? That... doesn't make her feel good, to say the least.

Sure, she doesn't feel as bad as Bruce or Dick - who easily feel the worst because of their respective roles in the family, and them feeling like they failed to even be a semi-present figure in your life for you to recognize them as your Father and Older Brother (to which they are correct, but aren't aware of that yet) - but it's still enough for her to try and look for you too.

Kind of like Bruce when he was looking in the Manor, Stephanie doesn't know where to start looking, and that only worsens her regret.

I guess her development comes more with time? Since the more she and the others look, not only do her feelings grow, but she also learns more about you as everyone starts sharing information over the intercoms. Things they just found out about you — like how you spent your birthdays alone with Alfred and had waited for them each year until recently, how you made music, what kind of competitions and such you've participated in, who were your teachers, how majority of what you did wasn't even for yourself - but rather a chance that one of the many activities you did try out was something anyone of them were into, so that way you could actually have a conversation with them - and more. (Which may be shown later? Not in a official post/part to the series but perhaps in a sort of side thing that shows the mayhem going on. But who knows?)

Case and point, while they are all looking for you - Steph slowly becomes more yandere for the reader the more she learns about you and how her and the other's actions impacted you. Like some of the others, she wants to make it up to you, but isn't entirely sure how she'd even go about doing that. The more aware she becomes, the harder she falls.

Barbara on the other hand, I'd say, is more lowkey as of now when it comes to her development as a yandere?

I mean, Dick, while very much panicking, basically told her it was an emergency and he really needed her on the bat computer because he had to look for you. Which, in the same breath, gave a list of locations and possible teachers you might've had in the past (you can thank Tim for trying to figure all of that out) and if she could look into it.

It's safe to say that Barbara's introduction into the whole situation was very chaotic. An emotional, worried, and panicked Dick is never a good one, so that was fun to deal with while slowly drowning in confusion.

Eventually, she got the run down and was quick to help, but like Bruce, Cass, Damian, and Jason - she was more confused at the start.

Ouf of everyone, and maybe besides Jason, Barbara has had the least amount of interaction with you - and the room for possible interactions with you for her were much smaller anyway considering that you aren't a vigilante, and never intended to be. So, it only makes sense that one of the people you've easily had the least connection with, was the person who communicated and mainly interacted with the rest of the Batfam when they're doing vigilante work.

What didn't help is that she barely even saw you at events or even holiday gatherings and such the family would have, with you being so neglected that they just... failed to even notice you missing at the time. The day she was introduced to you was when you were first adopted, and that was basically both the first and last full interaction either of you have had with each other. Other than that, she would hear small comments about you sometimes from the others, but even then it wasn't much and those soon died out as one could've guessed.

Even when she was in the Manor, she might've caught a few glimpses of you, but nothing else - so the beginning of her fall into being a yandere is definitely much slowly and lowkey when compared to the others.

I feel as if this whole situation may encourage Babs to want to get to know you better? After all, your disappearance did cause the whole family to basically start a whole manhunt just to find you, so I feel as if that would be enough to get Barbara interested at the very least. Not to mention all of the things she's hearing about you from everyone - it would be nice to try and actually meet you, not just know about you.

In other words, I feel as if Barbara may develop more as a yandere in part 3, seeing as I can see her more yandere tendencies begin to develop once she actually 'meets' you. Y'know what I mean?

So tldr; Damian becomes a yandere for the reader by finding out they're into art/have done art in the past, and now has a deep need to bond with them.

Steph becomes a yandere through her guilt and regret, and like some of the others, want to make it up to the reader.

Babs, on the other hand, hasn't exactly become a yandere just yet, but will once she 'meets' the reader and see them for herself. As of right now, she's just curious, but we'll get there in part 3.

Also, this is unrelated to the ask, but I would like to point out how pretty much everyone in the Batfam thinks you ran away rather then you just leaving. Do what you will with this information for now :]

Anyways, I hoped that answered your question, even if I got a bit rambly! If there's anything else in particular anyone else would like to know, feel free to send in an ask!

#a bit of a ramble- whoops #though that is generally how it goes #and again i might write some of this out- but mostly the things i mentioned about steph and babs #yandere batfam #platonic yandere batfam #platonic yandere #yandere dc #yandere x gn reader #gn reader #sibling reader #neglected reader

[stealingyourspins]

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Ninjago Mermaid AU- Zane.

Species: Narwhal. Chosen because of their ability to withstand cold temperatures plus their color pallet.

Zane is a Marine “spy” Robot used by researchers to record and collect data of Merfolk in their natural environment. Made in a partnership with Borg Industries and Julien Laboratories, he is a revolutionary advancement in the robotics field, going past a simple language learning model level to becoming a true AI in the 25 years of development. Zane’s expedition is simple: to help marine biologists to study Merfolk and blend in the best he can.

(Alt version with no spots under the cut and non transparent versions)

#spins writes in the tags #ninjago #ninjago fanart #ninjago headcanons #ninjago mermaid au #spins art #bones art #zane ninjago #ninjago zane #mermay #guys I’m so proud of this design lookit how uncanny valley he looks #guys the angst potential of the others being worried because Zane is programmed to send all data to the folks upstairs #and Zane is programmed with emotions to best fit in with Merfolk… consciously disconnects communication lines between the scientists? #like it would be CRAZY #ESPECIALLY because both a company the size of Borg industries wouldn’t want their tech just… inoperable. they’d try their best to retrieve #Zane and he would do his best to hide because he wants to stay with his pod. his friends. his family. they view him as a bit quirky and odd #but he is their friend and they love him. the venture to retrieve their multi billion piece of tech that newspapers all over the world #dubbed: ‘the underwater Curosity’ (akin to the rover) won’t be lost forever without a fight of some sort #whoops I went on a ramble but hiiiii guys if anyone wants to take this au and make anything with it feel free

[2aceofspades]

Do Leo and Usagi hate each other in the post apocalyptic future?

Not really...? They just have a bit of unresolved tension. I have a lil storyline in my head where they kinda split up a little before the apocalypse started. Usagi went back home for a few years and Leo obviously stayed behind. Usagi would have eventually caught word of what was happening in New York with the Krang and the resistance and makes the journey back to rejoin Leo. I think Usagi kind of 'convinces' himself that Leo could use the help from an old 'friend' (wink wink) and uses that as his excuse to rejoin him. In reality, Usagi misses Leo very much and wants to support him...aw.

Anywhizzle, they left off on rough terms, so Usagi's main focus was originally just to help out Leo and possibly join the resistance if necessary, not to re-kindle a relationship. However, both of them never really let go of their feelings for each other when they were apart, so they do end up getting back together. In my lil story, I imagine that they aren't actually very public or open about being back in a relationship. Especially with Leo now being the leader of the resistance, he doesn't really have time or energy to spend on an open relationship and Usagi understands and respects this. However, they do manage to find time to spend with each other and talk and do normal couple stuff to 'recuperate' away from the war. Usagi stays and doesn't leave his side, and knowing me and how I write 'stories', things will probably not end well or happily ever after for them. Then again, this is all just a lil ramble of a story that probably won't happen...so yeah

Sticking this here just cuz~

(:

#ace answers #that was a bit of a ramble... #whoops #long story short..nah they just need to work out some things #i dunno #i appreciate the curiosity tho 🙌✨! #:)

[ironunderstands]

Don’t attack me but I really like radioapple, I think it’s so funny, but I could never see it genuinely becoming a relationship. However I must say that stupid rivalry, to stupid rivalry with begrudging respect is a top 10 character dynamic, and Alastor/Lucifer execute it perfectly.

#radioapple #alastor #lucifer morningstar #hasbin hotel #also I am on the aroace spectrum myself lol don’t come after me for that part #The appeal of a toxic queerplatonic but not really- relationship is ever present #don’t ask questions #Sometimes u just want a rivalry with a bit to much tension than what should be reasonable #Just adds a little spice in life #Firm believer that tension is what makes fictional relationships interesting anyways (either internally or externally) #And radioapple is pure tension I love it #I’m rambling whoops

[exhaustedwriterartist]

Okay so you said Rise Leo is your favorite, but it took a good bit of time for him to get to that spot. It sounds like there’s a story there, and I’m curious. Would you mind sharing?

Hi Crow! There is a bit of a story.

I'm going to be completely honest, I did not like ROTTMNT when it first came out. It was so different from 2012, 2003, and the 2007 movie, and I didn't like that when I was younger. Because of all the differences, Rise Leo was my least favorite out of the turtles. 2007 Leo/2012 Leo were my all time favorites at the time, so it was hard for me to accept this silly boy. Looking back, I have no clue why my younger self didn't give ROTTMNT a chance, because this show rocks!

When I finally got into ROTTMNT and accepted that every iteration is going to have big and small differences, it quickly became my favorite iteration. Why? Because I find all the turtles and April very relatable, the 2D animation is one of my favorite styles, and all the lore and stories in the show are so well told. For the longest time, Rise Donnie was my favorite, and he's still up there for me.

But why is Rise Leo my favorite now? Because I relate to him the most out of the four brothers and I love his dynamic in the show. Of course not fighting bad guys and stopping an alien invasion, but his struggle to find his purpose in both his family and in team, his "it'll be fine"/laid back attitude towards his problems and things in general (excluding things that he is passionate about [as it is for me too]), his relationships with his siblings, his struggle with taking on leadership responsibilities (out of fear of failing his team), the endless amount of jokes and references he makes, the love and care he has for his family, his times of a younger sibling being a menace, his struggle with guilt and his problem of blaming himself, him being a silly guy, his problems solving skills and ability to think outside the box, his stubbornness, his determination, and many many more things about him I relate with. I could talk about him for hours and hours.

Yeah... This blue boy really is my favorite character, not just turtle.

Thanks for asking Crow!

#exhausted answers. #exhausted's half awake jumbles #rottmnt #tmnt fandom #my art #exhausted's art #art #rottmnt leo #leo rottmnt #Took me a bit to answer this. 😅 #I needed to think about my answer a bit #and I was already going to draw a bunch of Leos so this was perfect timing. #Whoops this turned into quite the ramble lol

[catzgam3rz]

Tada! Tommaidinnit be upon ye.

Welcome to tumblr big man

#rambles #my art #mcyt #maidcyt #tommyinnit #mcytblr #WHOOP DRESS DRAWN #I like what I did with it. It's workabe #I like the shirt bit the most and not giving him dress shoes #i haven't drawn mr innit in a while it's always so fun ;w; #dsmpblr

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Sorry for the random asks, I just get random thoughts.

If the Wobbly Hearts AU Ninja were in a band AU who would be doing/playing what?

-froginninjago

bro ur asks are fun so this works out HGLKSJDF

Okay, i had to think a bit hard on this one but here we go

Jay - Lead Guitar: Bro has some wild speed which would be dope for shredding amazing for finger picking, this, ofc, is in reference to his elemental power of lightning. I'd think he can play several different types of guitars ranging from a standard electric to the banjo. He also likes to be front and centre a lot of the time and absolutely thrives off of attention so guitar solos would really give him a chance to shine. I imagine he'd play with a speed similar to this guy though likely not with that type of guitar

Kai - Bass guitar/backup vocalist: I'd actually give Kai the bass cause it's criminally underrated (like kai in the show it feels like sometimes) and it kinda lends itself to the fact his character ends up being more of a supporting role (specifically to Lloyd in the show) in the background rather than the main protagonist. He's extremely skilled in a way that not a lot of people notice, an avid bass defender and hype man and only slightly annoyed that Jay has more fans than him. He likely posts lots of bass shredding vids online

Cole - Drums: I mean come on you had to have seen this coming. I know it almost feels basic to put him but it fits so WELL. He's the one who keeps the team on track in the show and on beat in the band. He's so steady and consistent that it kinda blends together and you forget he's there sometimes. He's the one band member who can go out in public and not a single person will recognize him and he's cool with that. He has an amazing voice and could easily be a lead singer but he's content where he is. He's wildly skilled on the drums and I imagine people would start taking notice in him when he has like a drum solo that happens and its kinda like how Jay is crazy on the guitar he'd be outrageous like this dude

Lloyd - Lead Vocals/drums: Lloyd's currently learning drums from Cole and he's having a lot of fun with them. (a nod to my hc of Cole teaching Lloyd how to lead in the show.) He has the best voice out of the group with an INSANE range in his vocals. He can go from more like straight up angelic sounding to like hardcore screaming and so he's pretty versatile. (A nod to his oni/dragon sides.) He doesn't enjoy singing as much as he does drumming but he's good at it so he doesn't mind being the lead. Though he's not a huge fan of his fans. They're a little crazy. If you want to see him smile ask him to play the drums for you, he gets really winded and is always grinning with his hair a complete mess afterwards. He gets a lot of dopamine from da drums. He also enjoys helping Nya out with writing their lyrics

Nya - Stage Manager(previous)/Backup Guitarist/Second Lead Vocal/Songwriter: Nya is pretty versatile in what she can do. She knows the basics of base, is a pretty solid contender for lead guitar, she's also learning drums from Cole alongside Lloyd. She used to handle the behind the scenes stuff at some point before she actually joined the band. Her ability to both carve out her own place and easily fill in for the other's if they need to tap out lends itself to her element power of water something something. I kinda think of Walk Off the Earth with their two lead vocalists and how their voices blend together really well and the harmonies are really nice for how Nya and Lloyd would sound together. She also has a huge hand in writing the bands songs obviously. Kai did a lot of the lyrics for a while but he's not the most creative person. The whole band kinda has a hand in writing and its a group effort but Nya's usually the one leading it

Pixal - Stage Manager (current): I'm thinking Pixal used to be like, a solo act for a while or something? I dunno I actually couldn't get many ideas for her. But a soloist songwriter and maybe singer and she eventually retired from that and runs things behind the scenes for the band, booking stuff, getting transport, she's great at her job and the whole band loves and appreciates her, Kai regularly dramatically falls across her lap to ask "What would we do without you?" when she hands him a juice box after a set. She also handles the technology (with some assistance from Nya and sometimes Zane) and any more digital sounds they want added to their music

Zane - oh screw it, it's gotta be violin doesn't it??: come on just listen to his Falcon Chase song what else would he play??? All his songs in this show are literally strings!!! Cello, viola, violin, fiddle. i imagine he's classically trained in a lot of the bow + stringed instruments. I'm thinking Lindsey Stirling type playing probably or something. It lends itself to his controlled but emotional?? way of dealing with stuff? You can get a wide range of emotion from these types of instruments and he knows how to pull at your heartstrings (get it cause strings instrument--[gets hit with a chair])

Am i well versed enough in music to know if all these instruments would work well together? No, no i am not. But the concepts are cool and I guess i can be a lil silly goofy with it

#asks #knox rambles #froginninjago #LEGO Ninjago Wobbly Hearts AU #LEGO Ninjago #Ninjago #ngl this would be a really fun AU on its own #i dunno if you were expecting a response this long i certainly wasn't what a fun thing #wowee anyway wooo i looked up and like an hour has passed whoops #i thought about this for far too long #you can tell i kinda ran out of steam at Zane a bit i'm more rambly #WELP OKAY TIME TO POST AND YUP OKAY

[cathalbravecog]

So I gave in and done it - Drew my Minecraft sona / skin, Larimar with Cathal since the two have some design similarities both being CRT TV inspired TV head robots... Let's just say yeah, there's perhaps a few reasons why I got so attached to Cathal like this, yeah?

#toontown #toontown corporate clash #minecraft #oc art #cathalposting #multislacker #guz art #doodles #u know ive gotten confident when i post even my goofy stuff on the main tag.... lets hope that doesnt get to my head now before i force #myself back into hidey hide again. but hey means im generally having a good time here but i miss my hidden feel a bit . i gotta be less #normaler #mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i ame having secound thoughts but eh screw it.. main tag it is #rips fur out #RAH ! #'coz my art been getting quite a bit of traction lately and i rlly dont want it gettin into my head bc its not been stressing me out for #once but with this other problems can arise whoops i mean . ... flashbacks to my bugsnax era #ERM YEAH THAT #GGrrh.... ive been so proud of the art ive been doing lately so i wanna main tag it but i just kinda..... #wish to keep it low again......... have da same feelie feel yknow #i have an interesting way of talking here i just realized. its ok it adds to my swag . ok ramble over *drops mic* *struts out* *stumbles #over and falls on my face* *dies on impact* #i maye remove hte tags later but who Knows

[the-nightmare-theater]

FINALLY FINISHED THE BED REF SHEET

I figure this might be useful to someone out there, so I decided to post it.

The not compressed version is linked under the cut. Might add onto this at a later date if I missed anything of note/if I was wrong in any of my assumptions about how things work lol

Here is the uncompressed version.

#i was up until 4am working on this last night #i hate drawing this bed but my god is it fascinating to look at and think about #yes this was heavily inspired by erus bedman hair notes lol #although these are nowhere near as neat/readable so uhh WHOOPS #ok ill stop procrastinating actually drawing now ill post my actual art at some point i swear #guilty gear #bedman #nightmare ramble #im legit a bit nervous posting this ngl #*sweats*

[blimbo-buddy]

ooh what was the actual relationship between slash and star flower like in your rewrite? i'm curious

So I still have some drafting to do with them both, but:

First off; One-Eye and Slash are kittenhood friends. One-Eye was just a little bit older than Slash and the two were like brother and sister

So when One-Eye came around with his little daughter StarFlower (who most likely had a different name at the time), Slash instantly became attached to her

They're like godmother/aunt and niece

Also, since Bumble and StarFlower are sisters (Bumble is the little sister), Slash was eventually introduced to Bumble later down the line and became attached as well. But he never saw Bumble much on account of her being a Kittypet

Slash heard from time to time about some new forest/moor cats, and that Bumble slowly became closer to one of them specifically

Then, news came of Bumble going missing, and Slash set her glare towards Tom, suspecting him of being apart of this

Bumble's starved corpse was found, bloodied and beaten

Slash learned of this when One-Eye and StarFlower came to Slash and his group, One-Eye asking his old friend for support through his "army" and Slash agrees

During the preparation, Slash is there to comfort StarFlower a bit. But his way of encouraging isn't really the best and he unintentionally tries to have StarFlower take instant action

StarFlower is a mentally strong cat, but she just lost her sister and she needs some time. Slash doesn't understand this

Slash cared about StarFlower, he really did

The reason the story version claims that Slash was promised by One-Eye that StarFlower would become his mate was because… -drumroll-:

ClearSky had told everybody this!

I have a brainstorming idea that the reason ClearSky thought this was because of some mishearing

I don't know how I'd approach this part but I have an idea:

Slash calls everybody "Mate", friends, family, anyone

However, because ClearSky doesn't know about what "Mate" actually means in slang terms, he came to the bonkers conclusion that Slash was promised by One-Eye that StarFlower and him would become "mates"

This ties into an idea I want to approach in DotC where many cats don't understand the culture of the cats before them

That they believe that anything they don't know must have a negative connotation, leading to the twisting of history and the demonization of those who were there before them

So in this case: ClearSky doesn't understand the cultural slang that Slash is using, and equates it to something that he himself thinks it might be linked to, which is usually something negative

But I digress: Basically, Slash and StarFlower used to have a close relationship with each other. But due to the death of Bumble and the eventual death of One-Eye at the hands of The Settlers, it caused a strain between the two. I want the outcome of their arc together being the damage that The Settlers caused to many families and friends, tearing them apart through their conflict.

In this rewrite, they are NOT MATES nor did One-Eye promise to make StarFlower Slash's mate. That is kept in, but it is kept into the story that the Clans would later go on to tell, a completely mangled and twisted version of the truth Of course, I still need some rough drafting to do with them and right now I'm really occupied with 100 other things, but hopefully I can find time in between to work on them more. Maybe even some suggestions (Which I'm open to completely)

#blimbo rambles #ask #wc #wc rewrite #I kind of dodged the question a bit whoops #Need some time and energy to go more in depth with their relationship towards each other #my dotc rewrite is really turning into ''THESE CATS ARE COLONIZERS. DO NOT SYMPATHIZE WITH THEM COME ON'' #about the clan cats

[kaiserkisser]

i found this one quote in a quotev quiz yesterday and it rly stuck with me bc of how true it is

"when a child gets punished for being honest and speaking the truth, that's when they start to lie. "

idk this is genuinely SO true atleast for me. i honestly cant remember a single time where ive honestly spoken abt anything of even minor importance and not been scolded/punished for it, esp if it relates to me.

like my mom always goes, you can tell me what ur thinking/ feeling i promise i wont scold you. but the moment i ever told her even a bit of how i felt over smth, esp if smth had happened recently to create a bit of friction, i got scolded so badly that i shut myself in, mentally if physically wasnt possible.

slowly for self preservation i learnt to lie well. now, no matter what she says, if she asks me abt my thoughts and feelings, unless its truly inconsequential and will have no repurcussions, my standard response is- im not rly thinking anything right now and im feeling perfectly fine as always- even if im not

why? because ive learnt from experience that it will get me punished, and i am not masochistic enough to want that

#🔮rambles~ #parenting #children #whoops sorry i rambled a bit there bc i rly wanted to get it out sigh

[safewavess]

I think it’s kind of ironic that tubbo has been the only one actively trying to figure out what has been going on with the eggs, has voiced clearly that he is playing because he wants the eggs back, has been the first to always suggest theories around the eggs and the cursed team, but doesn’t even have an egg himself.

i also found it ironic that the ones who actually have eggs to find have totally given up

even though they’d spent almost half a year with them, and only a few weeks in purgatory, the switch from pill-eating president and traumatic bird cage, from federation worker killer and people trying to cover up their own sadness and longing for their eggs back, to the switch of ‘just kill my egg, i don’t want to be here anymore’ in one day makes it seem like there wasn’t even a connection between the players and eggs at all, which was pretty surprising to me.

that was all it took? one day? did you even care in the first place? or are you finally so desperate to feel happy again that you will give up what you’ve been wanting for so long? are you so tired of being knocked down that you’ll give up what has made you happy for months, just to feel something even somewhat close to that? to happiness?

i think that the swerve from sadness of missing eggs to desperation of getting something no matter what, even at the cost of the eggs is so interesting.

like, how are they going to act towards their egg if they come back? will they be happy? will they say that they never gave up hope no matter what, even if it’s a lie? will they straight-up say that it wasn’t worth saving them? that they would have rather not gone through the hell that was purgatory and would have rather left them on egg island?

I think it creates a really interesting dynamic between the eggs and players, because there are so many opportunities for change and possible conflict that can happen between the eggs and their parents.

would the eggs be mad? would they say that they didn’t care? would they forgive them? would they live in bliss thinking that their parent cared for them no matter what? would they be angry knowing what they had to go through?

would they be mad knowing that their parent’s team won to sacrifice their siblings? would they be disappointed in their lack of care for one another on the island despite living together on the same island for over half a year?

would they be angry that they actually played the game, instead of working together? would they wallow in sadness at their siblings’ deaths and be conflicted at the thought of what their own parents had to do to save them? to sacrifice and kill others only to learn that they enjoyed doing it?

I want egg and parent / egg and egg conflict so bad

the fandom couldn’t even handle the tallulah and richarlyson painting dilemma though so maybe not

#I’m still mad about the tallulah and richarlyson painting dilemma #there was so much miscommunication laced into that situation #and you guys decided it was a ‘Who’s right’ instead of ‘why aren’t they understanding each other ’ kind of thing #none of them were right! tallulah is an immature child because she has no life experience and gets attached to anything that relates #to her family because she has daddy issues and richarlyson blatantly refuses to tell anyone why he hates those paintings and #his evil alter ego so it was just miscommunication after miscommunication because they both held attachment to the painting #in different ways with tallulah refusing to give it to him because she became attached to it and richarlyson because #that painting is a literal part of him that he despises and will go out of his way to destroy #qsmp #whoops rambled for a bit in the tags #I need egg and egg/parent conflict #qsmp purgatory #qsmp eggs #qsmp tallulah #qsmp richarlyson #qsmp tubbo

[little-pup-pip]

12: what’s some good advice you want to share?

Hmm, I see a lot of people worried about not doing things 'right', and I don't like it! There's no wrong thing to enjoy, or an incorrect way to play, or talk, or look, none of it is wrong!! If there's any advice I have, it's to let your regression be yours!!

#ask game #Pip's barks #thanks for the ask! #i rambled a bit #whoops

[alto-tenure]

the investigations games are so much about legacy. miles edgeworth redefines the prosecutor’s path; he is not beholden to what his father left behind or what manfred expected of him. franziska claims the von karma legacy as hers and hers alone; manfred plays no part in it, he’s lost his claim to it. sebastian has to grapple with the fact that his father isn’t the best and he shouldn’t strive to be like him. lang’s mystery in aai2 is all about resolving the lang house’s decline. kay’s legacy as the yatagarasu, the thief of justice and truth, is caught between noble goals and the infiltrator that’s corrupted the legacy she sees as hers to claim -- and so she does. the inherited turnabout is called that for a reason; katherine hall is driven to live up to her mentor’s legacy and seek justice, and miles edgeworth resolves his father’s final case.

#ace attorney #aai2 spoilers #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #sebastian debeste #shi-long lang #kay faraday #katherine hall #meta #this is a little bit of a rambly mess whoops #the whiplash of me switching between writing bratworth and post aai2 franziska is getting to me

[meltymoth]

i love your swamplings

all of them

i feel that swamplings in general have a

"heh loser, i love you" vibes

either that being said to them or them saying it kinda way

i wish i could art good to express myself as a swampling but i am bad at art

so i shall continue to look at yours intently

aww hehe! alluvium is definitely kinda like that, and fen is just sorta. rough around the edges, but yeah.

there's a couple more swamplings i designed last year (for the most part i still like them! might've made A a little bit less lizard-y now), to give a bit of a broader idea of the variance between them.

also this highly scientific chart. the main things that are set in stone for swamplings overall is that they're mammals, tend to have some fur on their backs (which can extend from right around the shoulder to anywhere beyond that point), have possum-y hands and feets and any type of lizard-y tail. and kind dog-ish faces but obviously there's a lot of variability with most of these traits.

loose enough of a definition that i hesitate to even call them an open species, but if anyone is interested in making a swampling absolutely feel free to 💖

#asks #i got a bit rambly there whoops hehe #my comms are open btw winkwink #totally down for designing more swamplings for people :3 #swampling