#but still tons of fun!

[bluegiragi]

negotiations.

early access + nsfw on patreon

#dragons get so tunnel visioned when it comes to their hoard. often to their own detriment #y'all wanted to see price in action...you better savour it while you can #also i've not been intentionally neglecting laswell since i love her as much as the average joe #but i guess it just happened... #for the record she's still a human in this au but she keeps up with the best of them #ALSO also i had a ton of fun drawing this section #i hope it shows <3 #monster 141 au #captain john price #manuel roba #simon ghost riley #giragi art

[howlsnteeth]

'cause I am broken into fractions oh and I am driven to distraction

#>:) #cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl narinder #cotl the one who waits #cotl fanart #cult of the lamb fanart #lyrics are from #distraction by sleep token #still not done with this btw. i'm having a ton of fun and i have plaaanty of headcanons so

[buqbite]

Baggage

#this one's real old. like. november or something #link click #lc #sgdlr #shiguang daili ren #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #what would the tag for emma even be. #my art #anyways. this one's a bit rough around the edges but i still had a ton of fun with it

[a2zillustration]

Croissant did NOT like that sub.

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[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

[[ All Croissant Adventures (app) ]]

#Fun bit of banter I caught Omeluum telling Blurg after we talked to them :) #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #croissant adventures #tav #omeluum #comics #OH WE'RE GETTING BACK INTO GALE CONTENT AFTER THIS WHEE #it's been a long time #(((I was specifically avoiding doing more with him in-game bc I didn't want to finish all his story and still have a ton left to do)))

[tradingjack]

There's no turning back.

... Is there anyone who'll be able to survive what lies ahead?

#millions knives #trimax #trigun spoilers #knives sure as fuck didn't lmao #ending my sick drawing saga with this one <3 i feel better now thx #yeah i'll give knives the piano piece. fuck you #i do love drawing knives beautiful. i loved doing the detailing on this one tbh it was a ton of fun #now i am less confident in the background but. what can you do :3 what i get for trying not to use red ig #it's so interesting that quote is from elendira too. she really just wanted to watch the world burn. get it girl <3 #manga #illustration #artists on tumblr #drawing #my art #comic #fanart #trigun #i've been drawing too much knives for someone who likes other characters way better lmao. listen. im still processing the uhh #my own sibling trauma ok #drawing diablo vash is therapeutic in a similar way tbh lmfao

[ruporas]

cafe collab! 

#trigun #trigun stampede #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #did u guys know milly is in stampede! #and she's part of this collab! yeah! #anyway this was. a brainrot for a bit when the collab came out DMGKSDMG more than i like to admit #stares at the tons of sktetches i still have in my files... #i just think it's fun envisioning them working at a cafe like this together #if i could get anyone as my waiter #it would be milly #she would make my anxiety disappear into nothingness #sorry roberto next time i will include him-- but love and peace gang has my entireeee heart #ruporas art

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Warrior Cats AU (part 1): That boy can meow!

Names and a huge inspiration credits to @clintbeefwoods!

(part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #mdzs warrior cats au #wei wuxian #mo xuanyu #little apple #lan wangji #lan wunian #If you thought for a second I wouldn't find a way to keep littlewang in this au #then you have severely underestimated my horse yuri powers. #The start of the Warrior cats AU begins! Yes the clans are somewhat the same but the lore *has* shifted to better suit mdzs canon. #For one: Cross clan apprentice training is an option. Gusu school arc is still a school arc. #wwx would have a blast pouncing on lwj's Too Long Tail He Has Yet To Grow Into. #(Its very important to me that lwj/bluepaw has those kittenish big ears). #I will probably circle back to drawing teenxian apprentice antics after I get through the cast. #I had to put myself into a cat drawing boot camp for this AU (despite my sona being a cat I...actually don't really know how to draw one). #and I feel like I learned a lot + need a lot more practice...however this *is* the practice! It's for fun! #I'll be alternating comics and AU stuff this month! happy chatember! #Clintbeefwoods has put a ton of work into this AU and I am so excited to show it off!

[frenchonionsoop]

I suggest Aya for pixel sprite animation! :D

Thank youuu for the ask here she is!! Along with some warm ups since I realised I hadn't drawn her before this and that's a crime

Again if anybody has any more requests for bsd character sprites feel free to shoot me an ask!!!!

#this one is definitely a lot sloppier than the last agh #was still a ton of fun tho!!! #i love her so much definitely the star of the show #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd aya #aya koda #bsd fanart #pixel art #aseprite #my art #ask

[franeridart]

The Housecat Philosophy - Ep 36

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#the housecat philosophy #original comic #artists on tumblr #original art #webcomic #my sketches #it's friends talk time #i love writing this kind of dialogue which is why i gave him a ton of friends to have him get all kind of opinions #and once the story will move its focus on other characters he'll do the same for them #it's gonna be fun #jury still out on how useful the opinions he's getting actually are but #yk #my kids are doing their best given how dumb i made all of them #lol

[chrisrin]

more gemstuck doodles from today!

#homestuck #steven universe #gemstuck #dirk strider #jake english #sollux captor #aradia megido #karkat vantas #dirkjake #arasol #making the dirkjake fusion a centuar is the peak of my design intelligence #i love them so much #still fiddling with arasol's fusion #but i still like both their individual designs a lot <3 #its a ton of fun just thinking abt combos and trying to figure out how their fusions would work/look #its a fun challenge #chris doodles

[myonmukyuu]

markers #21

Happy Birthday, Ayumu! 🥳🥳

While I was in in Tokyo earlier this year, I passed by a crafts store and found lots of pretty paper flowers. I thought they'd make really pretty shikishis... 😊

I've been drawing Nijigasaki for 4 years and this would be the 3rd Ayumu birthday I've drawn for... Wow! 😅😅

Ayumu's my favourite by far - so much that it's kind of hard to word why but I'd hope that adoration comes across in my art. There was originally a comic I was making for her, but I couldn't finish it in time. I hope I can make one in time next year!

WIPs

#this shikishi was especially so fun to work on! #i experimented more with colour glows (eg. yellow blue green) and it really adds to it! #Also when gluing the flowers i realised i should pay a lot of attention to the angles so i can indicate a third dimension #(eg the falling petals as opposed to gluing flat) #it's cool!!! #i bought tons of stuff from stationary and craft stores when i was in japan #so im excitedf to use them!!!! #i hope i can make better and better shikishis...! #i feel like my skills are still very mediocre but the growth from the first ones is pretty dramatic #lets keep working hard! #love live #love live njiigasaki #ayumu uehara #copic markers #myon's markers training arc

[iraprince]

Hiii, i love your stuff and kinda from a distance really look up at you for, in my perception, being able to express yourself without giving a fuck. Thats sick dude, Im so so afraid, of absolutely everything, its nice to think like i might grow into someone less apologetic of my existence. Nice to see people just being yknow

hey, thank you, this is really really nice. the secret that is probably not a secret is that i am also deeply afraid a lot of the time lmao -- but less than i used to be, and in ways that feel less stifling and self-suffocating, if that makes sense.

like, it used to be "i'm scared that if i express myself the way i want to, everyone will find me obnoxious, so let's just sand those edges down to be safe" -- now my fears are more like "now that i'm expressing myself in a way that feels natural and real, i'm afraid that it's all stupid/vapid/not worthwhile or meaningful" (<- specifically abt my art) or "i'm happy that i talk and act the way i want to now, but what if it makes me impossible to befriend," etc etc etc. which still feels bad and puts me in a funk a lot of the time but at least it's a fear that comes After/in reaction to doing stuff, rather than a fear that STOPS me from doing stuff, you know? like, it's evolved into a kind of fear that's less in my way.

anyway. i believe you'll experience something like this, because wanting to grow is the first step of growing. the fact that u hope or wish for something different means you're already on your way. to fewer fucks!! or at least distributing the fucks u give in a way that serves u better

#stuff like accepting that i'm reserved and i'm not very accessible via messages. #or that my online tone isn't very bubbly and it's weird and uncomfortable to force it. #i stop letting fears about that shape my behavior ('i'll look mean or snotty so let's force markers of Friendliness to avoid that!!') - #- and instead act the way i want to and then trade it in for new fears that come After the action. #also a good reminder to give urself is that if ur fear is abt how other ppl perceive u (as 90% of mine is personally) #u really... can't actually control that. and being very very anxious abt it all the time is usually ur brain throwing a tantrum abt not-- #--having that control. bc it is understandably very scary that u don't have that control #as much as it sucks + is terrifying the truth is the only thing u can do is ask urself 'am i behaving in a way that i'm proud of' #'am i behaving in a way that's in alignment w my values + what i think is important' #bc if the answer to that is yes and somebody hates u or is deeply offended by ur existence anyway. well. literally not ur problem #but obv being at peace w that is way way easier said than done + requires tons of practice and will take. probably. years. which is fine #i am stuck with myself. i can either contort myself forever trying to be someone everyone will like and find totally nonthreatening and- #inoffensive and in the process exhaust myself totally and never feel safe or natural myself. OR #i can say okay. so i am a kind of prickly guy with stern and drab speech patterns and close to no social energy. and i think i can still be #-sexy and fun this way. and it is up to other ppl to figure out if they can agree w me on that #ANYWAY enough rambling for now. just another one of those things i think abt a lot so i have a lot of ready-made sentences abt it in mind

[tonguetiedraven]

I wanted to try drawing a few Blue Exorcist characters in Junji Ito's style. Expect a few more to be coming along.

#ryuuji suguro #ryuji suguro #rin okumura #ao no exorcist #my art #blue exorcist #bon suguro #suguro ryuuji #aoe #aoex #weekly ryuuji #i want to try the undercut ryuuji too #and mephisto and izumo #shiemi would be fun #but i'm still trying to figure out how to do nee with her #yamantaka would be a ton of fun

[2hoothoots]

i was having a chuckle to myself last night about Gristol, and how his plans are basically:

Restore Ford Cruller's memory

Find Maligula

???

Profit

but then... of course they are, right? this is Gristol we're talking about. Fatherland Follies drives home again and again that he's still operating on a child's logic, a warped and reductive version of the world that he never bothered to grow out of. both of his memory vaults center on the images of his childhood, this idealized version of the past that he clings to no matter what. and that's still how he remembers Maligula, too - as this saviour figure, who rushes in to help him when he's in trouble.

[ID: Two slides from Gristol's memory vault, Glory to Grulovia! Left: Gristol clings to Maligula's back as she summons waves to sweep away his assailants. Right: Gristol and Maligula waving from a balcony as the people cheer. Gzar Theodore brandishes a dagger in the background.]

like so much else, Maligula represents a return to this idyllic childhood - to the peace and simplicity of his youth, when he was free from worries and responsibilities. in his mind, he doesn't need to make any further plans - once Maligula's back, everything will go back to normal. Maligula will make everything better.

...is what i thought, but then i remembered this line:

[Screenshot source. ID: Gristol, in Truman's body, bows on his hands and knees in front of the newly-awaked Maligula. The caption reads: "Yes, High Priestess! I am here to correct the mistakes made by my father!"]

and that's kind of interesting, right?

to be clear: this happens directly after Maligula sees Helmut-in-Gristol's-body, and recognises him. her line before this is:

"Little Gzesaravich! Have you come to pay for your father's sins?"

my first thought was that Gristol hadn't expected to still be in Truman's body by the time he managed to find Maligula, and this was him trying to placate her and buy some time until he could explain the situation. but watching the cutscene back, that's clearly not what's happening here. Gristol is answering as himself, and his response of throwing himself to his knees before her is, as far as i can tell, genuine.

so what is going on here?

in Fatherland Follies, there's this line in the ride narration that stuck out to me:

"Why didn't the Gzar help Maligula in her time of need? No one knows, but historians agree - it is Gzar Theodore's biggest failure."

other lines mention Gzar Theodore's "mistake", and it's wording Gristol himself echoes in the screencap above. evidently, he believes that his father abandoned Maligula, leaving her to her fate at the hands of the Psychonauts, and it was that mistake that lead to them being driven out of the country - that mistake which he seeks to correct. maybe he even feels like he has a debt to repay to her for his family turning their backs on her all those years ago.

the 'High Priestess' thing, though - that's kinda weird, and threw me for a loop the first time i played the game. it took me until my second playthrough to connect the dots, and remember how the room in the Lady Luctopus - Gristol's room - was full of Delugionist scribblings and symbols.

[Screenshot source. ID: left, the walls of the hidden backroom in Gristol's hotel suite, covered in scrawlings of eyeballs and Maligula's name. Right, the pinboard from the hidden backroom. On its surface are photographs and newspaper clippings connected by pieces of string.]

i mean, look at this stuff! he had a whole conspiracy board and everything!

we learn very little about the Delugionists and their beliefs as a whole during the game, but i think drawing the connection here suggests two important things. one: that Gristol was in deep with this stuff. i don't know how he linked up with them - maybe via old family connections, or just good old-fashioned digging (we know he's skilled at worming his way into peoples' good graces, after all) - but it seems likely that he's begun to internalise their ideas, maybe even warping his own memories of events. and two: the Delugionists themselves are, if you'll pardon the pun, pretty far off the deep end.

like... i understand why PN2 didn't go heavy on the "mass-murderer cult worship" aspect of things, in the end, but man this is such a tantalising glimpse into the wider mythos around Maligula. Gristol is proud and haughty and thinks himself above everyone else; the fact that his first reaction seeing Maligula is to throw himself to the ground at her feet says so much about the way he's come to see her. he's not just trying to bring back Maligula, his childhood bodyguard. he's trying to bring back Maligula, the High Priestess of the deluge, the semi-mythical figure whose supporters believe even death couldn't stop. he doesn't even flinch at the way she confronts him, and maybe it's because he's bought in so completely to this deified figurehead, this idea of Maligula; more a living force of nature than a person. and it all comes back to the same place: an abdication of responsibility, not just to the person who protected him when he was little but to this avatar of floods and destruction. Maligula will make everything better.

i'd write more about my thoughts on the Delugionists but that'd be taking a hard turn into speculation, and this is already kind of long and rambling so i'd better end it here. but what an unexpected and evocative line, right? it's some of the only stuff we have to go off of regarding the Delugionists as a whole, but i think it does such a good job of hinting at the wider story - at teasing another layer to the mythos surrounding Maligula, one whose ripples we see throughout the game but which never quite breaches the surface.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #bored waiting at the airport so you get more psychonauts meta from me #the delugionists have been on my mind recently (because i Might Just have an upcoming au lorepost about them and also cults are fun) #so tossing my thoughts up here because people seemed to like the last few times i did this #and also it's my blog and i like to talk :) #related vent i HATE drafting posts in the tumblr editor because if you hit crtl+z to try and undo a formatting change #it deletes like half the post you just typed out #(yes i did it again while i was writing this. yes i'm still salty. why do i even bother) #what else... this is just becoming a disconnected thoughts dump #but if you've seen my posts you knew what you were signing up for when you hit the button to expand the post tags #there's new art coming hopefully this weekend if i can get it finished! it's more mermaid au designs #i'm two and a half weeks late for mermay but it turns out starting a new job and moving house doesn't leave you with a ton of free time #but that's okay it's never too late for mermaids #omg and artfight's coming up next month too! geez #i gotta make refsheets for the fsau trio because i would LOVE to get art of them #and this year i don't have a thesis to crunch on so i might actually have time to participate #oh and then in august i'm having top surgery! will make a proper announcement post for it at some point #i say 'announcement'. it's just a life update but it's nice to share #i'm super excited about it :) #i might end up blogging the process and recovery but obviously it won't be going here lol. i'd put it on my main #idk if anyone would find it useful but when i first started looking into surgery i had like very little idea about the whole process #and it's only through joining a bunch of online support/discussion groups that i managed to find more info and resources #so hey it might be useful to share? we'll see #our flight doesn't land for another fifty minutes so now i'm just writing in the tags because i'm bored #alright i'll proofread this and then post it when i land and have signal again. peace out yall hope your pride month is going well

[luckygoblinnn]

paladin frames

#warframe #warframe fanart #hildryn prime #oberon prime #excalibur umbra #excalibur #this took so long that i forgot what prompted me making it #drawing tons of armor is fun but time consuming 🥲👍 #also im still a baby excal believer. he's just a baby

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

when i say that i'm an old soul, i mean that i stand at the window with my hands folded behind my back, watching birds in the yard, then immediately go tell someone when i see a new one. i just Entirely Sincerely said "there're new birds. [bird name]. quite Striking"

#AND IM RIGHT! #very gorgeous very happy to have them here #i spent a solid few minutes tracking down the species #would've been quicker if they werent so far away... #absolutely unprompted #i love birds <3 i love casual birdwatching <3 #honestly id love to go on a genuine birdwatching tour. brochure and binoculars and all #ive done One but it was more casual. still an absolute ton of fun! #birds my beloved <3 #i want to get a hanging suet block #a lot easier to maintain than a legit feeder! which is perfect for me lol #wanna hang it riiiight on the porch... the birdwatching would be Insane... #watch me drag roadkill deer into the yard to attract eagle & raven action-