#braem makes art?

[braemjeorn]

a long ourank oc presentation because braem is just a writer at heart and soul.

this is honi.

honi is from my fanfic here. would be glad if you read it. would be so happy if you like it. haven't updated it in a while so below are some spoilers for us all(?)

i know. i can't draw the same face. though #Shook is my favourite.

she has longer hair in earlier designs. but then i gave her short hair and thought, oh she looks cooler. like she could be a really cool mom. that's all you need honestly. like why make your ship lovers when you can get kingdom management done with the spiCE that is legal union!

'scuse me. kept the long hair for her younger-tween looks, anyway - wasn't mentioned why in the fic but let's just say that making it to the underworld was life changing. one way or another. she got a scar on her left cheekbone after her twenties (so yeas, i forgot the middle one im sorry).

here's our man because why not. we crave loose hair desha in this house.

im so bad at drawing crowns.

i was keen on the idea of someone to balance desha's personality out, instead of the complete opposites-attract. coz this here is a brash and unapologetic man who mercilessly cackles and taunts bojji and domas at the first meeting. half the fun will be when someone doesn't really flinch at that. tempers him down a bit or countering and riling him up to make firecrackers is what I want to see.

pink ram-lion babies coz why not

honi was nearly engaged before - somewhat more experienced in the field? but things happened and romantic pursuits were shelved before they met. honi acknowledged that he was a man early on in their meeting, but after making up and a few more formal encounters assured her that he was worth being friends with. worth the days-long flight just for a few weeks of teasing, good mead and mushroom pies.

after the winter breakfast but she's still confused.

figuring out she has feelings was a breakdown on a catastrophic level.

but eh, iss all good.

cuties.

not officially engaged but at least the lightning discharge was minimum.

that's all, i guess. some wish-wash, fluffy, alternate-or-future universe musings.

(but then in the manga the ominous naration was like, desha never returned and the underworld fell into ruin *cue queen elinor toppling chess pieces* (overthinking desha's pre-canon shonen arc and how his power is what made him rank 2nd as well as keep order in the multirace, monstrous underworld). in case reclaiming the throne won't work the option is mountain-nymph!honi or passing-farmer-girl!honi. pick.)

(but also the idea that if the canon queen is the persephone counterpart and was on the overworld for her six months deal when the whole season 1 happened is also great. which makes it hilarious if they met during part 2 coz she'd be like 'what tf happened to you?' and heartbreaking if he doesn't remember her. would be fantastic if she's any sort of queen like hiling and stubbornly gets shit done - might have a crisis that she cant find despa or ouken around, or launch some curses to the judge. but I don't know abt canon-queen. only the writer knows what might happen. as long as it isn't some poor excuse of a girl-failure of a villainess miranjo is, I'll be satisfied.)

sometimes i worry if my art will be considered ai work due to my poor anatomy but i swear it's really just a poor concept of anatomy😭 i have so MUCH to improve on digital painting. lighting, shadowing, composition, their size difference—they say the captain is 265 and desha's around the same height in the artbook. honi's like 180 and she's still so tiny! next to him despite being taller than average.

bonus, somewhat suggestive comic below.

double bonus: i think they both agree that domas is a joke and keeping 2000 km distance with miranjo is a must

#aka look at my portfolio #surprise surprise :D #i love wispy hair that consist of mere lines: a discovery #ousama ranking #ranking of kings #王様ランキング #ousama ranking fanart #fanart #braem makes art? #king desha #desha #braem's honi #ranking of kings fanart #canon x oc #oc art #ibis paint x #i'm still anxious abt putting art out #but yeah there

[iliiuan]

I'm going to make a running list of things that make little to no sense in A Memory of Light. Things that unleash fury in my heart.

So far, I've got:

The Dragon's Peace

No really. This treaty is such nonsense I can't even articulate fully how bad it is. Add on top that Rand saved two thrones for his girlfriend and then turns around and says "No one get greedy now! Only one country per ruler!" Just gross.

Elayne running the Last Battle

Excuse me, what? She has zero experience. Again with the favoring your girlfriend nonsense. (From a character standpoint, she does make sense, being the skilled diplomat. But she's presented as war leader, which is not really her skill.) Anyways, it should have been Mat, obviously, but Sanderson couldn't manage that one simple plot point.

Ok, now she's in the Braem Wood being a pest because she can't believe the capabilities of the Two Rivers archers. WHY IS SHE EVEN THERE? She should be at the central command post, not running sorties on one of the battle fronts. What a complete disregard for chain of command.

Everyone deciding that Caemlyn absolutely must be rescued

I... don't get it. It's lost. It's far south, providing a magnificent distraction to the Shadow. Set up a kill net around the city, like whatever Rand had used on the Waygate in Shadar Logoth. Trollocs leave the city, trollocs get dead.

Perrin saying that there's no way to destroy the Waygate

Um, excuse me, were you not paying attention AT ALL to Loial's lectures? You remove both Avendesora leaves. Like what is even going on here.

Rhuarc and Amys insisting that the Aiel can do whatever the fuck they want at Shayol Ghul.

They just signed the Dragon's Peace and agreed that Elayne would lead. There is no way under ji'e'toh that they would immediately ignore their pledge.

Not inviting Seanchan and Shara to the party

Yes, I'm still bitter that not a single Aes Sedai thought to go check on Shara.

Also, Tuon definitely should have been there. My need for thoroughness and consistency demands it.

The numbers don't seem right

I haven't done the math, but there seem to be too many trollocs (where was there space for so many? And what did they eat?) and too many armies of the Dark, with a very small showing of forces for the Light. And then the small matter of so many channelers being turned. Like, I get that it would be a difficult war to win, but the numbers seem really skewed to me.

The Horn of Valere

Rand really didn't put together that Mat wasn't bound any longer? (Maybe not, ok ok, but still seems like he would have pondered it more.) Egwene really went to the Field of Merrilor to prepare for The Last Battle and didn't bother to bring the Horn of Valere with her? What level of unprepared bullshit is going on over here?

The Ogier

The world doesn't have enough food, so the most important thing the ogier can do is... fight? NO. Sure, send the warriors out, but have the rest sing food to life. I just. What a waste. (And a rather large lack of creativity.)

Pevara and Androl

An Aes Sedai (you know, the women who perfected the art of not responding to emotion) who's been alive over a hundred years (so she's definitely practiced) and is in the Red Ajah (you know, the Ajah that oddly doesn't have Warders), in a moment of panic, bonds a man who can channel.

I also was annoyed on my first read by having these randos all of a sudden occupying a rather large portion of the pov. After 14 books with a rather breathtaking cast, why are we exploring new people? I don't get it.

Cannon Misuse

They lined 100 cannons in four ranks across a road. That's 25 cannons across. That many cannons *might* fit across the monstrous 14 lane freeway behind my neighborhood. Maybe. That's *way* too many cannons for a forest road to nowhere.

Perrin Hesitating

You know, we finally have Rand being rational about female combatants, and now Perrin is hesitating over a fucking Forsaken? He didn't hesitate over the Shaido, so I'm calling bullshit. He would have taken Hessalam out immediately. Moonhunter maybe not, because he didn't put together who she was until it was obvious she was helping him. But going after Heartseeker is like starting a hunt, and my boy would NOT squirm just because she's a woman.

Dreamwalkers Abandon the Dream

The Aiel Wise Ones, for all their bluster, turn out to be neither particularly wise, nor particularly brave. "Ooh, the Dream is so scary now! We better stay away!" Meanwhile, the Forsaken continue to roam. Did they ever even consider hunting their enemy? Did they even notice the purple domes? Do they care at all about anything beyond the end of their noses?

And Egwene isn't any better. Instead of being on a battlefield pretending to be a warrior, she should have been in the Dream, hunting with Perrin.

The whole thing was really disappointing.

Gareth Bryne

How, exactly, is Graendal able to compel Gareth when he's Siuan's Warder and they're always together? She should have been noticed and rebuffed.

Plot Lag

Yes, it's a problem through the entire series, but The Last *Battle* ended up being a book and a half political mess plus lots of blood and gore. The whole Black Tower debacle? Should have been resolved already. Perrin hunting Slayer? Should have been resolved early, so that he's leading the Hunt as Rand *enters* Shayol Ghul. Mat getting fitted with Seanchan attire? Should have happened instead of sitting in Caemlyn for a month, because there's no way that letter doesn't just fall open after a few days, bellowing smoke and yelling that trollocs are about to invade.

Moiraine

She is constantly expressing emotions. This is not my Moiraine. What alien did the Finn return to us?

She's also back to giving really bad advice. I thought she had grown out of that? Le sigh

Story Imbalance

I sincerely thought that the war part would be maybe a third of the book, and then we'd get into the aftermath. I guess I was naive.

The Last Battle

Who the fuck approved a chapter over 150 pages long? WHO? Absolute insanity.

#wheel of time #wot spoilers #a memory of light spoilers

[rfhusnik]

Corzer’s Second Letter To Ralph From Paris

CORZER’S SECOND LETTER TO RALPH FROM PARIS PART ONE

 Written By:  Charles Platt and George Jennifer

  AN INTRODUCTION TO CORZER’S (CHARLES PLATT’S) SECOND LETTER TO OUR CITY’S THEN MAYOR RALPH HAWK:  I’m George Jennifer, the current mayor of “the city.” And these are some words of introduction to Corzer’s second Parisian letter to his friend, and our city’s then mayor Ralph Hawk. And yes, I believe that releasing this letter at this time is a controversial action. It’s somewhat dated now. A number of years have passed since it was written and sent. Yet, in consultation with Corzer, F. John Surells, Orlon Braem, Rashon Leyf, and a few of Ralph’s other favorite writers from this city, a decision was made to grant it “the light of day” so to speak. And that decision was partly prompted by the knowledge that the entire story of Charles Platt and Valerie Danns may never be completely told. However, since it was a fairly long letter, the group of people alluded to above, and myself, decided to divide it into two parts. Part One appears here.  

I’d like to say as well, that the same group of Ralph’s former friends also decided to re-release Joseph Same’s impressions of Mona Lisa. That will appear (unless something of great importance occurs either within or outside the city) as the next installment after the completion of Corzer’s letter. Thank you, and may God protect you in these troubled times.

                                                                                     Mayor George Jennifer

  PART ONE OF CORZER’S SECOND LETTER TO RALPH FROM PARIS:

  Dear Uncle Ralphie:

 The rain slithering off rooftops here is a gentle rain. And it’s falling across the city of light. It’s an overcast day today. And I’m fearful some unseen entities may be lurking outside my window. But if they are, I can’t see them; not merely with a glance through the glass at least.

Yet, there must be some forms out there. And they must be formulations of what mankind, in no doubt a rare consensus between its four divisions, has concluded that “good people” should be, and appear as. And isn’t it such a wicked world today? Yes, and I’m deeply troubled about what the United States of America will be like if it doesn’t elect better leaders at all levels of its government soon. But as I live here in Paris today, I imagine that all the scenes which seize my sight here are murals of sections of that city nine miles from my farmhouse home – my childhood home!

And that city has two divisions, doesn’t it Ralph? And as a child, although my mother would have strongly objected to my thinking such thoughts, and although I actually lived nine miles from it, I often found myself contemplating what I sensed to be a self-pitying, animosity filled mindset prevalent on the south side of that city. And those thoughts often troubled me then, since even as a child I believed in the freedom of thought and art; and, of course, in the rightful constraints of self-responsibility.

And it almost seems as though someone has agreed to meet me here this morning. And I’m thinking we’re supposed to leave here, maybe aboard a magic carpet, or maybe via a spacecraft within my mind. But God, please never again make me board Joseph Same’s vicious circular ship with ride!

And if we indeed leave bound on such a mental missal, or physical missile, then perhaps far away amongst present and bygone stars we’ll find time to think many thoughts we probably should have previously pondered. But we’ll contemplate them then. And I fear we may find that many of them were generated by a sort of “heavily handled overbearance” which we utilized in a “weighted” past, but only remember today.  

And I’m so very thankful that except for possible inter-reality transfers, I’ll not need to relive the past. But then, who can say what lies ahead of us? And who knows if we’ll journey through pragmatic light years spaced by epochs of good and evil, right and wrong, etc…?

Yet, we do know that in the Court of Verifiable Nations, the proctor once said, “Amalgamation and individuality will know a marriage of many difficulties. Still, for the good of their offspring, and of time passing by, it’s best they try to avoid divorce. Nevertheless, I fear the day will someday dawn when many of those who violated America’s southern border will regret that they did so. ”

And yes, I believe that’s true. But it’s also true that sometimes, when someone turns a page, everything seems so different, so changed! But even then we know who the grandest pretenders are. They’re the non and anti-intellectuals who know little of life except their left wing ways. And do they even know that the greatest event that ever occurred in anyone’s life was his or her acceptance as a child of God? That acceptance granted he or she the possibility of entrance into the timeless light eternally, but couldn’t guard him or her from the cutting blade of liberalism temporally.

But oh, it’s so difficult for me to not focus on the past. And I wouldn’t have gone into the military had not my older brother done so before me. So, that makes me wonder if I’m only a follower of others. In other words, just because certain people did certain things at certain points in their lives, does that mean I have to replicate those deeds and those people’s choices?

But my older brother had a girlfriend within a year of his discharge from the Marine Corps. And they dated then for about half a year, and then broke up. And after they split, I asked Gregg why they separated. He said “Both of us just agreed we weren’t right for each other.”

And you know Ralph, I hope my tracing of my brother’s footsteps ended when I left the Corps. I don’t want to break up with the girlfriend I have now – well, actually the first real one I’ve ever had. And I can’t say if the fact that she’s French contributes to my infatuation with her. But she’s “gotten under my skin.” I hate that phrase, but I’ll use it so you understand that I feel as though I’m “hooked” – another winner of description. But let me tell you about the first time I saw her.  

[braemjeorn]

future fic-chapter spoiler much?

this🤚 happened, because of this👉 fic i wrote. which happened because of uncontrolable brainworms.

i know nothing about digital art nor shading so i just took a pic of my sketch and winged it through ibis. (which is why the lighting looks terrible istg it took a few months to get this style so i hope to do better). the proportions is also... off, coz even at 180, honi is tiny compared to our king but i still like this so much lookatthesesoftfools—

i have more to tell about them - if i can get around to compiling them. but i hope you enjoy this for a bit, and have a good day.

#ousama ranking #ranking of kings #王様ランキング #ousama ranking fanart #fanart #braem makes art? #king desha #desha #braem's honi #ranking of kings fanart #canon x oc #oc art #ibis paint x #you dont know how anxious i am putting this out

[braemjeorn]

me gushing about Maniac because Lee Know needs to screw my brain back up again

[THIS BE THE PART TWO TO THIS]

another seungmin for the soul. I think the necklace is very pretty on him. (and if I learn the price!?😳)

FELIX'S HALF SKIRT. it pleases my eyes so much, the things in this MV

Han Jisung and that lyric i'm just😳 SMORT. Genius rapper J.One less get it!!

I want to talk (gush) about Lee Know. (THIS MAN...)

I can stare at his face here. Forever. It's pleasing to mine eyes, like the planes and lines of his face—I would search it forever. I like it a lot gosh...

The thing is my biases aren't usually visuals. In truth I'm just as bad as people who like idols merely for the visuals—I think people like them too much? More fans compared to the others?

Lee Know has that classically handsome, male k-pop idol face, so at first I wasn't—gosh I even had a hard time recognising him as a baby Stay, he was the last whose planes of nose and eyes I could make out.

But then I see him with the members, the weird things he says and his likes, the rare cute noises he makes; he is soft, he is kind, despite the dryness and threats of his tsundere/scorpio being; we're cat people, I like that too! But I like seeing him as a dancer best—I think it is very cool of him.

Idols are human and they are many things that endears them closer to us instead of mere, million-seller artists on economical report—sometimes you just forget they have this, highlighting talent that lets them be part of that group, perform on that stage(or is it just me again!?😳)

Lee Know just grew grander before me when he dances—you can see the year between him and that art—like when he guides them in a practice or they ask him things and he's very cool at that. Wow, my words fail me right now... But this part of him in the centre? With Han swinging his head?

Oooh and this one O.O

punching it all down in that angle? another part of the choreo I fixate on. I'll say it again: he's very cool, very charming 참 멋있어요ㅠㅠ HE DANCES LIKE THE TIGER HE IS

...I'll add some later if I ever get back to this post but—for the time being, I shall appreciate every attraction and charm you have, Mr Lee. You deserve this fondness.

(another Hyunjin center because danceracha slay this choreo)

This has been, 지금 까지, braem, with some thoughts on Maniac. It ends rather abruptly but yeah, I have to listen to the entire album now. This is just a rant of opinion. Like the transcription if I had been a youtuber(I am not, because it would not be fun, I assure you, that's why I write this!!) Still, I apologize for any mistake both unimportant as well as those felt as untoward. Any correction is welcome, of course.

Now I'm just going to laugh like a madman and sing this song out loud if Spotify ever plays it on me playlist. (I SWEAR KPOP GAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO CERTAIN WORDS AND NOW I WILL SPEND THE WHO TIME READING THEM STIFFLING A LAUGH OR A BONE FROM DANCING)—

#스트레이 키즈 #stray kids #skz #skz oddinary #skz maniac #oddinary #maniac #skz comeback #stray kids comeback #jyp entertainment #kpop mv #skz gifs #stray kids gifs #skz thoughts #bang chan #lee know #changbin #hyunjin #han #felix #seungmin #i.n #have a great weekend! #and please pray for our two rappers too hope they don't get worse #and the others too because comeback season can be trying #but all the best to the kids #much love!! #i haven't said anything about the second unit looking like lovely little bees but they are