#bright likes books

[suntails]

knighted

#MOMENTS THAT MAKE ME EMOTIONAL. BAUL CALLING HIM BY NAME NOT CALLING HIM HUMAN. WEAK AT THE KNEES #i think ill only have time to draw these two pieces before i leave for the holidays so i want them to be a set. i think its fun #talked abt it on twt but artistically its SO fun that book 7 has the 'good guys' w the colors of the night. greens and purples and darks #and the 'bad guys' of the humans strike their queen down with a brilliant yellow light. the light IS the darkness is conceptually yummy #trying to lean into color choices and intentional comps lately. lilias piece reading L>R feels like the angle pushes down on him #here sebek faces with the eye's movement so its more positive. like hes climbing towards his beautiful bright future. ouughj #never before in fandom have i wanted to so clearly break down my own art choices like a historian but diasom does smth to my brain #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #baul zigvolt #ch 7 spoilers #suntails

[puppyeared]

hello every nyan

fan character for Laika's Comet, by @catmask (go check it out!!)

#made the colors a lil more vibrant #his thing as a travelling magician to revive the arts is kind of inspired by the troupe in station eleven which is coincidentally a #post-apocalypse novel.. they go between towns performing shakespearean plays and i thought it was really interesting #especially in the context of the rest of the book. im rambling #his clothes are supposed to be an old magicians costume.. i like to think he lives in an abandoned theater when he isnt on the road #want to get around to designing his bunny assistant but im still padding out the details #i put way too much thought into this and im probably already attached lol #my art #myart #my oc #fan character #fc #sleight #furry #fur #furth #furthling...??? #eyestrain #bright colors #Laika’s Comet

[digitaldoeslmk]

"And yet you trust me. I've only been a villain in those stories, but somehow I'm given more goodwill than my Uncle. Why's that?"

#cw eyestrain #cw bright colors #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk au #lmk red son #red son #hong hai'er #im bringing actually monstruous demon design to lmk whether yall like it or not #bell dragon art #by the book au

[ghl-osty]

babe wake up new comfort character just dropped-

…babe go back to bed comfort character just died

#minor spoilers in tags #the maze runner #all the bright places #all the bright places finch #finch #comfort #comfort character #like why do they keep killing my kids off? #please leave them alone? #omori #omori basil #omori sunny #omori game #dont hug me i’m scared #dhmis #in dhmis they all came back #but i still had to watch them die #dead character #bookblr #books #books & libraries #author #newtmas #they both die at the end #the maze runner newt #tmr newt #newt #stranger things #eddie munson #eddie stranger things

[meadowmusing]

My favourite unintentional effect of the casting for the new PJO TV series is Percy's new looks, which make him look similar to Will Solace. Nico is going to be like "dont worry guys I'm definitely over percy alright" and goes and dates the apollo-flavoured percy

Nico is not going to be beating the "still down bad for percy jackson" rumours any time soon lol

#i think i saw a post of someone mentioning it and i cant get it out my head #imagine being like yeah im over him! and then immediately dating the clone of him lmao #its also sweet cause it just emphasizes Nico has a type #charming blonde guys with bright smiles #ahhh the moon always falls for the sun dont they? ☺ #tho i know this wont be relevant for a good while but eventually the joke is there haha #pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #will solace #pjo tv series #pjo books #percy Jackson and the olympians #pernico #percico #nicery

[pharawee]

#i feel you linger in the air #i feel you linger in the air the series #ifylita #bright rapheephong #nonkul chanon #yai x jom #ifeelyoulingeredit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits. #a highlly condensed gifset of yet another beautiful scene #i am highly biased of course but this might be one of the most beautiful thai dramas ever #and i might like this yai even better than book!yai #because we get to see him so vulnerable and with agency #such a kind soul

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lmao Frank would absolutely keep a list of everything they tried to do to fix this situation. He has his work cut out for him with poor wally as well. Does he know what happened to Sally?

Frank does know what happened to Sally! ofc he caught his first glimpse of her when he sorta woke up, then after he Actually woke up, Wally made sure to sit him down and be like "she will kill you if you go near her <3"

still, Frank didn't really believe Wally. so Wally showed him proof:

and Frank quickly changed his tune.

and honestly, it's more like Wally has his work cut out for him with Frank lmao. cause by the time Frank fully wakes, Wally's pretty much given up. and rightfully so, there's... not really anything he can do except protect his sleeping friends.

so Frank's initial attempts to make a plan kinda went like:

Wally is very earnest about saying "that's nice". it is nice. it's refreshing to have someone around that still believes something can be done, however futile that hope is. Frank will catch on eventually.

#these two are very fun to explore in this au because its kind of a role reversal? in a way? #bc after literal decades of being alone in the dark #wally is jaded. hes learned things. hes unlocked a variety of emotions. hes adapted. hes had an all around bad time. hes Different Now. #and frank? frank (at least in the above scribbles) hasnt dealt with that #comparatively hes bright eyed and bushy tailed!! #so hes like drawing up plans and brainstorming #and meanwhile wally is just lounging off to the side with a book hes read about a thousand times #frank: I HAVE A NEW PLAN! #wally: *pats his head* good job neighbor <3 #wally: *goes back to staring into the void* #wh lights out au #scribble salad #welcome home au #within the year tho frank goes from We Can Fix This! to actively talking to a stick with eddie's hat hung on it #and i mean. there is really Nothing they can do. its out of their hands #but perhaps its in someone elses door.... #also thank you for the opportunity to Talk about this au! ive been marinating it in the braintisserie a Lot!

[notedchampagne]

harrow the ninth, gideon pov & seven stages of grief feat. harrowhark nonagesimus

#reposting the harrow page because i finally got the energy to scan it properly #after the main tags ill go over all the small details im excited about bc i want people to have the chance to pick them out themselves so: #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth spoilers #griddlehark #dudele #john gaius #okay so details: #the halo around harrow (gideon)s head is the iris of an eye #same with alectos eye and 'first flower of my house' #the shadow of one of the iron railings and the zweihander make IX #i referenced that freak bug description from the actual book lmfao i hid the page number in there #dont forget the 'river is a revenant' theory w the teeth as is described in ntn so i added that in there too #i balanced green on both sides of harrow(gideon) with the bug AND the stray leaves from the planet harrow killed- #- the bright green stands out and is supposed to feel unnatural against the orange #for the harrow piece: obviously i replaced like all stages of grief with denial #but i put some random words in there too in the bg/in different colors #to try and represent her forced changing of the 'stages' so to say #behind harrows head in the top right you can see the first two letters of 'acceptance' #if you look closely at alectos hand her fingers are fused together and are smaller proportioned. that is on purpose. ily barbie #i do NOT have a distinct gold marker so imagine all the orange is gold. now look at that last golden denial eye. hi gideon #i also hid stairs in there. haha <=== homestuck

[thelaurenshippen]

cw: harry potter, jk rowling, transphobia

I occasionally see posts/get messages about the various harry potter references in the bright sessions, etc. and I've gotten a bunch of new followers recently so just so any new/younger listeners of my shows know:

jk rowling is a terrible transphobe whom I hold zero respect for and I haven't given a dime of my money to her since she revealed who she truly is. I want the whole bright universe to be a safe space for trans people (including the trans folks in our cast and crew!) and if I could go back and remove those references, I would. but I can't! harry potter was an extremely significant part of my life until...well, until it became very clear who she really was. it makes me so sad to think that folks might be finding TBS now and get thrown out of the story by these references, but just know that the people who made the show do not stand by jk, and that in many ways, the show is a product of its time.

#the bright sessions #harry potter #jk rowling #transphobia #I know there's PLENTY to say about the bigotry in the actual books and I think there's a lot of merit to those criticisms #and I'll own to choosing not to see some of that stuff before all this went down bc the books were meaningful to me #(this is not HP specific - another beloved childhood book series that was EVEN more formative to me growing up) #(is also something I've grappled with in recent years bc I think the author is actually probably wildly misogynistic) #(even though he's never behaved badly (far as I know) in his public life - there's stuff in the text) #BUT ANYWAY #it can be so hard to remember that we didn't have ANY inkling of her bigotry in this regard until 2018 #all of the original run of TBS was written before that #and I'll admit I gave jk the benefit of the doubt in 2018 re: her liking that tweet! I wanted to give her a chance to learn and grow #and she did....not do that #but TAMA was written in that little grace period #and then a few references in TCT were taken out during recording bc june of 2020 was when she really started to go mask off #and so we were making changes in real time #we didn't know what to do about quidditch #bc we were like 'this is a sport that people play in college and it's just called that?' #'and it's already canon that caleb plays?' #and it wasn't called quadball yet #anyway not trying to make excuses! #just know that none of those references were put in with any malice #and I guess I *could* go back and rerecord all those lines and replace them #but I know enough about my original audio engineering to know that it woudl be VERY hard to make it sound natural #and idk I do think there's something to be said for not covering up errors in old work #I'm not going to try to pretend HP wasn't important to me #EDIT: I've turned off reblogs for this post #also this is not me trying to tell other people how to approach their own HP fandom #fanworks especially - there's no benefiting jo in that - and I think it's totally legit for ppl to want to take HP as their own!

[klonoadoortophantomile]

style experimentation stuffffff

#big fan of when ppl stylize objects like this . its real good #not sure if ive entirely captured what im trying to go for yet but WHATEVER im having fun and dont hate how these have been turning out #ii clover #ii suitcase #bfdi book #inanimate insanity #bfdi #osc #scribbles #bright colors #eyestrain #id in alt text #(was originally gonna post this when i first drew these which was likeeee at the very start of the year i think #but i never got around to it. so uh all thw previous tags r kinda old #i dont feel like rewriting them. #anyways uhm. been wanting t o mess around with this kinda style for a while now #like as far back as 2019/2020 #never got around to like. commiting to stylizing characters that much though cuz uhm #idk i was lazy??

[puppyeared]

weird dog

#i tried combining watercolor textures with chromic abberation and i think it turned out well!!!! very proud of this #normally i try to color and shade with a different brush so it contrasts a little with my lineart. but in this case it kinda #feels more.. put together?? like smth youd see on a print comic book i think.. #i havent drawn this guy in so long.. i dont think he even has much going on hes just fun to draw #campfire monster who cooks your smores and eggs in exchange for sticks and coal ^_^ #my art #myart #illustration #my oc #oc #rover #eye strain #eyestrain #bright colors #monsters

[radiohead-spiderman]

LILY EVANS BUT MODERN AU YIPPIE, I gave up at the end so she kinda looks weird but wooohoooo

BONUS: James’ reaction to the image above

#I’m thinking popular book YouTuber #Remus occasionally comes onto her channel and the comment section goes wild #Remus is a barista #James is a hockey player btw #Sirius is a nepo baby and a model #James wears bright red short shorts #Peter is also a YouTuber but like a video essay YouTuber #Lily isn’t supposed to look like that but she doesn’t look bad #please don’t point out the flaws in it I will cry /hj #click on them for better quality I think?? idk quality looks bad for me #screw jkr #marauders #marauders era #jily #Lily evans #james x lily #modern au #marauders modern au #marauders fanart #platonic moonflower #lily evans fanart #fanart #flowerpott #peter pettigrew #Sirius black #Remus Lupin #marauders art #the marauders #goosejam’s art

[mad-raptorzzz]

[ID: A fullbody drawing of a red-orange SkyWing dragon named Peril from Wings of Fire. She is sitting on all fours hunched over awkwardly with and awkward smile on her face. She is thing and gangly. She has bright re-orange scales and a bright yellow belly and wings. There are feathers along her spine and sprouting off her shoulders. Her tail ends in a large feathery fan with two smaller feathers sticking out to the sides. Her horns, claws, and teeth are a bright white. The horns on her head curve up slightly. She has bright electric blue eyes. In her right hand she is holding a small trans flag. There is steam arising from her and her body emits a slight yellow glow. The background is mustard yellow. ./End]

Peril is my favorite arc one character (minus Scarlet because Scarlet). The firescales mechanic is cool. She for sure has blue fire, the same color as her eyes, and when she's made she glows blue and leaks blue fire from her mouth and vents along the sides of her neck. I think she's skinny because she eat a lot of rocks and charred food. Also, not too buff because most of her enemies burn up before real fighting starts. But she's super fast in the air.

I really relate to her a lot and support any and all trans Peril and/or trans Sky headcannons. Again, mostly because I relate to her a lot. Plus, I like the new genre of villains who are evil but not homophobic or transphobic. Scarlet having Peril murder countless dragons, then one day little Peril says "Queen Scarlet I feel more like a dragoness." And Scarlet, while sipping wine, replies, "great get your she/her ass back in the arena doll-face." And that was that.

I have heard some people remark that trans Peril/Sky headcannons can be pushing stereotypes that all trans women are bold and loud and that all trans men are quiet and soft. Which is, first off, absolutely not true. Second, I do respect that argument, however I just relate in my gender identity a lot to Peril and imagine she is a she/they trans dragoness. Everyone thought maybe she would be more quiet and subdued after transitioning, but no her personality stayed the same because that's just Peril. Let her be her.

#wings of fire #skywing #peril wof #trans peril #trans character #this dragon is trans #firescales #I also really like her book in the second arc because I just like hearing her crazy mind think #also love the color combo of bright orange and bright blue

[camelspit]

uhh very quick alternate graphic novel clothing design ideas for sophie.

@skylilac @callas-pancake-tree @arson-anarchy-death @steal-nightmares-leave-dreams @neverseen-nevermore @abubble125 @purplesoup-lad-le @gay-otlc @thefoxysnake @keeper-of-the-lost-dadwin @ravs6709 @did-i-say-you-could-get-up @kamikothe1and0nly @that-glasses-dog @presidentroarie @even-if-in-another-time @nyxpixels @slozhnos @katniss-elizabeth-chase @sofia-not-sophie @moontoastt @lemon-girl-in-devil-town @three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat @purpleunicycle @just-a-honey-badger @loverofallthingssmart @antisocialdork @tamsong @cutebisexualmess

#these arent very well thought out but still! not that ugly! #i do kind of get the gn artist now though #she wants to blend into the background and she has little to no experience with elven clothes #she doesnt like fancy things but she also has a certain weird girl charm that needs to be kept #all while keeping things simple enough to draw over and over #overall i dont think mine are bad but! would def have to go through more drafts that i dont feel like doing rn #im guessing the bird dress from the last scene in the book #and the weird greenish orangish dress from everglen #came from the desire to make her a bit weird and out of place #this girl wears gray her whole life! shes suddenly tossed in a world of bright colors and fancy clothes! #ofc shes struggling #i think dellas really the one to blame. for buying her those outfits in the first place. #kotlc #kotlc fanart #sophie foster

[caramelldraws]

„And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!“

A take on Galadrielˋs Test. Turns out I got my quotes mixed up lol

„Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!”

#galadriel #lotr fanart #lotr #my art #accidentally went with the princess celestia Color scheme #oop #also tried to play with the sorceress of the golden wood thing a bit #which is fun because ppl feared what she wasn’t but could’ve been if she hadn’t passed the test #evil lady step on me #lotr books #might revisit this one for cleanup before I print it but here we are for now #the movie went with the more easily understandable sea Color schemebut I liked the idea of going with the dawn #creepy and wet vs creepy and bright #also help im still trying to figure out colours I used to mainly work in blackandwhite like a year or so ago qwq

[after-witch]

“Last night–I tried to go out of my room. The door wouldn’t open, and–I was frightened.” “I see,” he said; it was no more than a rumble deep in his chest. “It was on my orders that the door was locked.” “You said I had nothing to fear,” I said. “That is so; but I am a Beast, and I cannot always behave prettily–even for you,” he replied.

--Robin McKinley, Beauty

#book quotes #fairy tales #robin mckinley #this was one of the books the smiling man put on Ollie's shelf #and I feel like it fits Empty Smiles themetically in terms of their dynamic #also will be relevant in Bright Lights eventually.