#but alas. we ball

[pseudepigraphon]

Image description: Digital art in saturated oranges, pinks, and greens juxtaposed with darker purples and blues. A painter is depicted from the chest up, body away from the viewer but face turning back to look over his shoulder, horrified, at somewhere past. He has his arm raised to a canvas that swirls into abstracted colors, hiding slivers of a figure in the billows and shapes. End ID.

portrait of the portraitist

#newt art #eye strain cw #world: l'ecchiraz #newt originals #mesen kachinoys jo salevant #in a massive funk rn #but alas. we ball

[15-lizards]

What are your thoughts on Northern fashion? You mentioned in an early post that it would be different depending on the location, can you elaborate on that? I also feel like the style changed soon after Catelyn married Ned, since she would bring styles from the Riverlands and Winterfell is the King's Landing of the North when it comes to fashion

Let’s goooo 🏃🏻‍♀️

Starting in the Neck, they would definitely be more like the riverlanders in terms of clothing. It’s a fairly similar wet and muggy climate. Everything is mostly made of wool and hemp and linen. Thinner clothes for the muggy summers and warmer, thicker ones for when winter comes. Leather/animal skin shoes to keep the mud off. Also whenever I imagine the Crannogmen I imagine cloaks and hoods to stay dry in the swamps. So lots of those.

To the East and a bit father to the north, that costal area around White Harbor is colder than the Neck. So theres a lot more layers, and clothing it way thicker. Also the Manderlys are dripped tf out they got that White Harbor money. Wyman has fur lined EVERYTHING his damask coats could put Cerseis to shame. Wylla and Wynafred pull up to the Sept with lace and silk and jewels eating all the other bitches up. Also since they follow the Faith and are originally southern, this area probably follows more southern customs (fabrics, headpieces, etc)

And we finally make it to winterfell 🤸🏻‍♀️At this point everyone’s freezing their tits off, so fur lined everything. Indoors, I think they can wear lighter stuff bc of those hot springs. Even in the spring months, you can catch Cat wearing at least one shift, underdress, overdress, AND a jacket bc I feel like she never acclimated to the cold. Lots of leather and wool for everyday wear, but when Ned throws a feast or something they get to wear more fur and velvet (even Jon gets to wear a nice velvet surcoat, as a treat). Since the Starks are bordering on ascetic sometimes, there isn’t a ton of ornamentation, but Sansa likes to wear southern-ish styles as much as she can, so you can frequently find her wearing clothes from white harbor (aka I want to see Sansa in a kokoshnik)

And then even farther north we start to see Bolton and Umber territory. The conditions are even more brutal than at Winterfell and they don’t even have hot springs :/ like Sansa and Arya could probably get away with not having to cover their ears during warmer days, but the girls of last hearth and the dreadfort have no warm days. At this point clothing becomes a bit bulky and harder to move around in. Dresses are lined stiffly and almost drag the floor, and everyone is always bundled up to the neck. However materials and fabrics are cohesive and nice atp.

And by the time we nearly reach the wall, conditions are almost unbearable during the winter. Even during spring, all the villagers in the gift are wearing at least four layers (bc I hate hate hate how the show made the people at and around the wall just chill in a thin jacket when they were near a gargantuan frozen block of ice). Clothing is a lot less structured here, resources are getting sparse so most people stitch together a patchwork of whatever furs they can get their hands on. You will rarely see a person without a big hood or thick gloves on. And even though they aren’t wildlings, you can probably see a lot of animal head hoods, bc these people do NOT waste any part of the animal

#asoiaf #asoiaf hair and clothing #hiii I hope u like it I kinda don’t :/ I feel like I just couldn’t do the north justice #it’s sooo big so I couldn’t really get any cohesion going #but alas #we ball

[blinkpen]

update!

the family's GFM has met it's goal! i am so relieved, thank you all for your help, i hope for nothing but their safety, health and peace; keep paying attention to the world going on, keep educating yourselves, and keep helping others in any small way you can, focus best you can without getting discouraged.

thank you for being the change we all need the world

#sporadic warbling #if i could do this for multiple GFMs sequentially i would #alas i am one outsider and was bumping up against the limits of what my audience can accomplish in a set time #imagine if Lots of artists All Across the Industry All said We have Morals Actually & We Will Not Make Shit until X Y Z #kind of pie in the sky of me but it'd be cool to be hit with a POSITIVE apollo ball for ONCE

[mythtiide]

normal moment 🥀

#signalis #FINALLY delievered on that bloody falkler kissing i was talking about only took me like 4 days #i still dont know how the blood got there tbh #i havent drawn kisses in a hot min so this might be a bit rusty……. but alas we ball #<- technically this is an Aftermath to a kiss but Yknow #tomato tomato #myth.art #blood tw

[seagull-scribbles]

*Aggressively throws this at your head*

#tmnt 2012 #TMNT #Raphael #casey jones #dudes is it gay to kiss your best friend in the cheek #is it gay to hold your favourite companion close and smile agianst their skin? #asking for a friend lmao #urgh idk why I’m so embarrassed about posting this #I don’t usually draw humans like ever so this was an experience #I’ve nearly finished season 3 of the 2012 show it’s really nostalgic #I’m a multi shipper at heart so I’m torn between ahaha Raphael gay and has aro ace king we the same #anyway yeah cringe is dead but I’m going to go on a little 4 week hiatus #which is in no way shape or form because I’m embarrassed #2012 rasey #rasey #if I grow some balls while I’m away I’ll keep practicing humans and share some headcanons but alas I’m getting the anxieties #oh my friend laughed at me for going outside the lines but that’s intentional I wanted to add to the grimey aesthetic they have #casey jones 2012

[seypia]

some MORE anastasia au

#vld #voltron #voltron legendary defender #vld keith #vld lance #klance #jesus christ i am pumping these out like im ON FIRE #but still #this had three different versions #that had minor differences in the lighting #but alas we ball #anastasia au #sophie art

[feeisabee]

He has made this mistake more than once.

#my art #fee’s bees #not entirely happy with it #but alas we ball #artists on tumblr #tf2 scout #tf2 engineer #team fortress two #tf2 #gfg: comic contest #tf2 medic

[hoodieimp]

[Dark Souls banner popup]

EXAM COMPLETED

#dizzyisms #HARDEST ONE OVER WITH. FUCK YOU FRENCH I WANNA LIKE YOU BUT YOU CAUSE ME SO MUCH PAIN #theoretically I could've/should've waited till a few hours before the actual deadline tomorrow #and spent the rest of today studying so I could go at it fresh first thing #but alas I am stupid and impatient and got too in my own head about it w parents prodding me n just went Fuck It We Ball #brave for someone who never even properly finished taking the last unit's notes #but thank fuck prof FINALLY acknowledged my disability accommodations n gave me a whole extra hour #I kinda left most of the last section blank but w/o that time it would've been more like half blank

[slightlytoastedbagel]

actually On Your Feet gave us two good things (well. three if you like Realize which I do). Kohane's "it's frustrating" line and the great crack fic idea of Vivid Bad Squad getting cancelled online for skipping school to yell at The Kotaki Taiga as he was about to go back to America.

#no because. he went there to continue radder's dream yeah? the one about becoming world successful musicians #and they had a record label for a bit. they were definitely going to make it at least somewhat. #so we can assume taiga is at the very least a semi well known musician yeah? #one that someone about to either leave or enter japan might know about. who will see this musician they enjoy #being shouted at by a high school girl in her school uniform about how they will surpass him or something along those lines #with three other kids (in uniform from a different school) standing behind her #and then going onto sekai universe twitter to post about it and the taiga kotaki fans taking it by storm #taiga gets off the plane in america and finds he's trending and it's because people are making fun of a blurry picture of his ex pupil #meanwhile vivid bad squad just don't know because it was contained entirely on twitter and. #be honest can you see any of them having twitter because i can't. an maybe but akito doesn't have time for social media and toya is toya #and kohane is a tumblr girlie if i've ever seen one #however it does give the great concept of someone else seeing it and debating if they should say anything #because mmj definitely has an official account they could have seen it on and also there's ena shinonome and mizuki akiyama #but anyway this also means when they do put on the event to surpass rad weekend (or whatever their goal ends up being) #there will be a crowd of people looking at it and going “isn't that the group of kids that twitter made fun of ages ago?” #and then taiga kotaki stans on sekai universe twitter will be stunned because they did in fact surpass him #if it wasn't for the gcses i would write this but alas. enjoy my weird thoughts #bagel's rambles #project sekai #i am scared to main tag this one but. fuck it we ball

[vampyriix]

god i wanna draw more spooky!lads so bad

#alas…i have college work… #might just do it anyway fuck it we ball #rtgame #spooky!lads

[astral-from-afar]

So close to the finish line

#astral writes #600 words left #I am committed to doing 5000 words #on the dot #but alas #fuck it we ball

[denim-wizard]

Everlast // Vernal // Arizona for @tabbykisses

#finally posting my dragon art RAAAAH #wings of fire #dragon #others ocs #ooh yuh art time #realwizardhours #best of rottingmoss #I need to destroy myself for making all of these guys look left I CAN DO OTHER POSES I SWEAR <- in tears #only so much one man can do with a headshot #and also all of these were drawn a few weeks apart #alas. #we ball

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

hngnwntnentnrneenfnenfengndngrnengnf

#HNNNNNN #survived a full youth group overnighter none the worse for wear!! #despite some hits to my pride (wiffle ball. also I lost at foosball several times alas) I think mayhaps I am even better for it #had a full functional one on one conversation with the sound guy which was. wild #but I was just wondering how long he'd been doing production stuff so I asked and we talked about it for?? several minutes??? #also girl it's so weird bc I really really do not want children but how is it that watching him be SO good with kids #is one of the most goshdang attractive things I've ever seen #like it's almost cognitive dissonance bc I can't stand the thought of having kids but I also love doing youth group #and also that is. very attractive to me that the sound guy is so good with kids. #I spent like half the time watching people play ping pong. I played ping pong a little bit too as previously mentioned #also ough I love being with the kids... being a youth leader is so so fulfilling #like I never thought it was a ''calling'' until this year but it fills me up so much #and I think the kids like me #at least one girl in particular likes me skdkfnskgnskgns #even though I'm a doof and don't know how to play baseball #I just hope that my motivations are for THEM and not for ME yknow?? #Lu rambles

[saizov]

♡

Art is under a cut because I’m rusty and don’t want my first step back into the pool screaming on the dash 😂

Class/es. Ninja (starting) -> Apothecary/Swordmaster (with a narrative focus on heavier blades)

Trinkets!

Trained as a ninja from his earliest years ( and you’ll see a running theme that Saizo always has his child/children begin exploring the world from the ninja’s lifestyle ) but pursued a singular focus on the blade and apothecarial practices in honor of his mother’s strength and her gathering talents

Would have progressed to become a samurai and pursue the Bushido code but was informed (by Saizo) that they do not wield heavy blades nor dish out sweets, so Lapis!Asugi said heck to the naw

Bonds heavily with Midori and even sort of tutors her along her early journey towards medicines and concoctions

Can whip up the most insane meal from all of like four ingredients. Will also go out and about to find his own resources instead of going to the markets — he just thinks he can do a better job

Learned he inherited his ma’s strength when he sock’em bopped his pop in the face as a kid and broke Saizo’s nose. Couldn’t have been more proud of the boy despite the pain and intensity of the injury

It’s almost written in his blood to become a retainer

Brings his own made sweets to Rock Paper Scissor tournaments both as party favors and consolation prizes for when he whoops the other kid’s ass

Family is el numero uno — he used to play pretend that he was the retainer to one of his parents (typically his ma) and go about doing things for her

Has made the most insane contraptions with his ma’s innovativeness and pa’s understanding of technical gimmicks explosions

Redneck ingenuity — look it up

Doesn’t really boast about much, and tries to keep on the down-low — both from ninja training and modesty

Very secretive — it’s like pulling teeth to get him to talk about something other than sweets. He simply will not talk about himself — he just doesn’t feel the need to, and when he gets asked, he’s like “Why do you need to know? 🤨”

Messes with his pa about how his own favorite colors happen to match Lord Ryoma’s. Saizo just lets him at this point — sure kid.

#//no tags bc mobile but alas #//was gonna come up with a format and everything but said fuck it we ball bc not everything in life needs a formula #//she has such a pretty shade of pink in her palette 🥰☺️

[randomnameless]

So this may be an odd ask, but if you could pick a real-world culture to be the basis of a Fire emblem nation in a future game, which ones would they be?

Hmm...

Given what Fodlan did to Almyra...

I mean, we're on par with "Verdane was inspired by Persia" from Jugdral, and we're not in the early 1990s anymore, so I'm not really trusting IS with any "real world culture" anymore.

But for some sort of revenge bias - after Almyra and TS, well, Hyzante - I'd like to see IS, try to get designs and clues from the Middle East, but without the 1800s bias that ultimately created Almyra.

I know FE isn't like, an Assassin's Creed game so you can't explore "real world cultures" that much, but if they could just take inspiration for clothes and designs from one "real world" place without slapping obvious prejudices it'd be nice.

#anon #replies #i was thinking about the Golden Sun series recently #sure some villages and locations aren't well developed #but you could see the devs tried their best with the limitations of that time #iirc irl there's a real statue that was used as the model for the Ankol ruin puzzles #and you don't have that much 'those people are savages' claims because even the obviously african themed kibombo #is actually a culture with a very powerful spirit guardian who nets you the necronomicon #even if it's only nods here and there it's a welcome addition #but FE imo shines when it takes inspiration from clues and aesthetics from real life or not but more importantly #when it creates a real state/country which makes you think ah yes this is not any random country this is idk Crimea or Daien #Fodlan really dropped the ball here even if I still think Adrestia and Faerghus from the few things we see and find between the lines are #very different in mindset and governance #alas more differences will have to be found in the 10k years of lore

[itsbrucey]

Debating if I wanna do fics + art for hot Glenn holidays like no girl......objective is to survive

#this is a /j but i often overestimate my time + abilities #i could crank out fics! but would they be good. what about the typos. of which i am infamous for #Also i want to do MY KRAMPUS GLENN. I NEED TO QUIT MY FUCKING JOB #QUIT MY JOB. JOIN MY SEXY GLENN CLOSE ART PROMPT GAME!!!!!!!!!! #And the requests....oooooo busy bear busy bear. i wish i could quit my job but alas... #the expenses. #also im timid bc i don't want to get too Nasty on main bc SOME OF Y'ALL. ARE MINORS #AND THAT MAKES ME NERVOUS AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT I DON'T SAFEGUARD #idk we'll figure it. fuck it we ball