#favourite passages

[2impostors]

he said "the ships. the ships were still full of people, i reached our hand out into space. i extended. i struggled" -- "then, they were gone...lost to me in time, forever. that'll teach me not to hesitate."

#tlt #john gaius #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #genuinely one of my favourite passages in any book imo #this entire chapter fundamentally changed my brain chemistry and i've been wanting to try figuring out how to draw it since #very much Not my normal thing as far as art goes #so i'm a little nervous for the reception #2impostors art

[soracities]

"You were welding something. You wore a leather apron and apart from that a pair of shorts. In front of your face was a dark metal shield.

When you emerged from behind it, you were wearing a black patch over your right eye, and your face was screwed up as if in pain.

Is your eye hurt? I asked.

It’s inflamed, you replied, and I had to go to the hospital. It happens with this—and you held up the welder.

You were wearing heavy leather boots without socks and with their laces undone.

Where are you from? you asked me.

I told you and explained how a guy in the petrol station, seeing I was taking this road that nobody takes, had asked me to deliver the battery.

You looked me up and down and murmured, thank you.

How long do you have to keep the patch on your eye? I asked.

Until I find gold! you said.

Then, smiling, you slowly strode towards me and took it off."

John Berger, From A to X: A Story in Letters

#q #lit #quotes #literature #john berger #from a to x #i lose my mind at this passage every time. every time. #the lovers #forever favourite #eyes exist in the savage state #x #m #reading #*

[scaridea]

when they see the circle or something. idk i dont main bedman

#the caption is /j i know bedman and delilah lore i just wanted to be funny #first time draw bedman and its a soyjak redraw or whatever. great #its like a rite of passage for my favourite characters to be drawn over awful shitposts #art tag #my art #art #digital art #fanart #fan art #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #bedman #bedman? #bedman guilty gear #delilah guilty gear #ggst #bedman ggst

[pokimoko]

Hello!! I came across a couple of your animals with pride flags series (idk what you're actually calling it lol) and I wanted to request an intersex blue-ringed octopus (I'm not intersex myself tho lol, just thought it might look neat)

Oooh, this was a fun one! Thank you for the request! 🐙

#ask #art request #art #my art #intersex #blue-ringed octopus #octopus #queer art #animal art #digital art #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq+ #critter series #someone requesting an animal that matches the colour/look of the pride flag with it? *wipes tear* brilliant. you understood the assignment #like i love doing people's favourite animals with their flag but there's just something so fun about animals that match the colour scheme #or at the very least are very close to matching it. it makes the designs so appealing because it looks more natural #and it's always nice doing flags i haven't done before #the blue-ringed octopus was an excellent choice for the intersex flag. for obvious reasons. i also think it looks very neat :) #(the back legs are doing a very very good job of being hidden behind the head and have nothing to do with me forgetting about them) #i saw one when i was a kid. i was in a rock pool and as I got out it swam across. it was a very 'woah. i could have died just now' moment #but then again close encounters with deadly animals are basically a rite of passage for kids in australia #id in alt

[jjsanguine]

Pisaeng: I can't help thinking that if you dated some girl and not me you wouldn't have to worry or feel guilty.

Kawi: possibly? But it doesn't matter because you're the one I want. I don't want to lose you anymore.

Later probably:

#this balcony scene is basically wedding vows and they've been dating for TWO (2) days #he literally said wedding vows off the dome. OFF THE DOME! #plus given that kawi confessed to pisaeng sometime in the evening of the previous day it might very well have been less than 24 hours #like I'm really shit at tracking the passage of time but even i know it's been no time at all #i know it was serious but it's actually serious #be my favourite #be my favorite the series #be my favorite #pisaeng #kawi

[alicunt]

a storm of swords: sansa vii

#this is one of my absolute favourite passages #just this image of arya and sansa playfighting in the snow it means SO MUCH to me they're SISTERS #what do i want with snowballs there’s no one to throw them at :(((( #rereading #sansaism

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Hello hello! Somehow it’s mid-january already, 2023 has flown by at Mach 10 speed, and better late than never, here's my favourite films of 2023 (meaning that left the most lasting impression on me). This is still going to probably change in the next few days, but here’s my fluid Top 20 at the moment. Disclaimer: I have included films that were released late 2022 (particularly in France) that I watched in 2023. 1. ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE (dir. Justine Triet) 2. JE VERRAI TOUJOURS VOS VISAGES (dir. Jeanne Herry) 3. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (dir. Martin Scorsese) 4. SHE SAID (dir. Maria Schrader) 5. THE HOLDOVERS (dir. Alexander Payne) 6. CORSAGE (dir. Marie Kreutzer) 7. PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song) 8. SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN (dir. Monia Chokri) 9. LE RÈGNE ANIMAL (dir. Thomas Cailley) 10. OPPENHEIMER (dir. Christopher Nolan) 11. A THOUSAND AND ONE (dir. A.V. Rockwell) 12. ANNIE COLÈRE (dir. Blandine Lenoir) 13. THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY (dir. Morrisa Maltz) 14. SISI & ICH (dir. Frauke Finsterwalder) 15. SALTBURN (dir. Emerald Fennell) 16. MAY DECEMBER (dir. Todd Haynes) 17. PASSAGES (dir. Ira Sachs) 18. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET (dir. Kelly Fremon Craig) 19. BARBIE (dir. Greta Gerwig) 20. REALITY (dir. Tina Satter) I’m also proud to have completed the 52 Films Directed by Women Challenge! Here's the list in case you're looking for something interesting to watch: 52 Films by Women | 2023 challenge I’m hoping for a gentle 2024 for everyone, we all need it. Big love 💗

#ranking list #top 2023 #favourite films #anatomie d'une chute #je verrai toujours vos visages #killers of the flower moon #she said #the holdovers #corsage #past lives #simple comme sylvain #le règne animal #oppenheimer #a thousand and one #annie colère #the unknown country #sisi und ich #saltburn #may december #passages #barbie #reality #anatomy of a fall #are you there god it's me margaret

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

I mean, who hasn't lovingly grabbed their best friend's hips while reassuring them of their innocence

#extremely heterosexual behaviour i tell you. completely and utterly straight #this is one of my absolute favourite episodes!! i couldn't make a watch thread because i'd stop every two seconds to comment something lmao #but i just had to point this out #like she goes for the elbows but then she full on hugs blanche's waist. and i don't blame her but also #wife behaviour #blanche & dorothy especially are very romantic in this episode i think. they spend entire scenes touching / in close contact #i also saved another screenshot where they are in such a married pose lmao #this is just a Really Gay Episode in general. murder mysteries are already gay culture in my book #at the beginning Dorothy quotes a passage from a book and she chooses the one that describes a beautiful woman. girl idk how to tell you... #and it's gay for me because i literally ascend every time i see blanche's shoulders. who allowed her to wear that frilly dress #because she makes me 500% gayer every time i see her in it #i have even more gay comments on this but. i'll keep them to myself. #anyway yeah enjoy the blanche/dorothy of it all #this is S7E2: the case of the libertine belle #the golden girls #golden wives

[searchingforserendipity25]

is eärendil’s whole ‘skin shining with the dust of diamonds’ after walking through tírion thing like. permanent or what. it sort of seems like it is permanent if it’s how he’s described while flying outside arda.

maybe it’s an half-elf thing! maybe the matter of valinor does that, to the second-born - invade and alter, exalt and claim. maybe his body absorbed the diamonds like really persistent body glitter. this seems somewhat overlooked. elwing is part-ainur herself, and her metamorphosis is quite a bit more literal, so perhaps it shows differently in her.

but eärendil both carries light and refracts light. lovely symbolist! wonder if he had any sort of choice in this. if he’s tried to wash it off and only succeeded in making it shine more clearly. has the diamond dust gone under the first dermal layers entirely or is it more of a freckles and spots sort of situation? how does elwing even get any shut-eye. does he have to wear those all-body pjs to be covered. does he ever get to rest his eyes, does anything of his skin remain his own.

#earendil #elwing #it's super cool! always mildly horrifying #earendil walking through abandoned tírion and being covered in the diamond dust is one of my favourite passages. as if eonwe's arrival! #very beautiful very eerie. the implications tho. #the silmarillion #tolkien #the silm

[hussyknee]

I think sometimes you just have to make peace with the fact that your actual hobby is collecting books. And that that's okay.

#i used to devour eight books a week up until I was about 22 #i couldn't fathom leaving anything in the house unread #then it's like my brain maxed out #coincided with my cptsd manifesting in crippling depression‚ triggering my bipolar #and hitting that mid-20s adhd wall where all your coping mechanisms fall apart #it's just been getting worse ever since #i can no longer read anything but fanfic #i was able to make a great headway through alexis hall's work but then I fell into a hyperfixation again so #bye bye everything else #i couldn't read comics even when I was back to hyperfixating on comics #i can't absorb things and when I do I can't hold them in my head #i used to be able to pull out entire passages of my favourite books from memory #now I can barely remember what happened in them #sometimes i wonder whether it even mattered that i used to be such a voracious reader #sure it gave me writing skills but i was never able to do much with them because of the complete mental and physical breakdown #and people young enough to be my kids write better than I ever did #i still have the thirst and hunger for knowledge and stories #but no capacity for it at all #books #reading #just adhd things #actually adhd #burnout #book collection #knee of huss

[soapkaars]

this is kind of a series of questions in one big question but do you think any Peter Lorre characters have tattoos and if so, who is it, where do they have it, and what does the tattoo look like? (I kinda have this feeling that at least one of them has a tattoo that says "Kleine" (baby girl in german) in cursive and it's embellished with hearts)

Oh this is such a fun ask!! I spent way too much time on this and it’s three in the morning now but here goes!

First up is Victor Emmric from The Verdict:

Everyone’s favourite morbid illustrator from the Victorian era, if anyone has a tattoo, he surely does. I’m imagining a gothic Victorian vampire tattoo with an edgy snake across, and because Victor is somewhat of a wine woman and life man, he’s also got a very shitty tattoo drawn on in a drunken mood on his hip. Live every regret tattoo it has an ex-flame named on there, later corrected in another drunk mood with another ill-fated name

Next, there’s Marko from Black Angel:

Ever the sentimentalist, I think it’s extremely in character to have a tattoo on his chest with his daughter’s name on there. I’m thinking it’ll be something very simple, a bunch of roses for instance, because Marko isn’t one for grand gestures.

Kismet from My Favourite Brunette:

Our (my) favourite French-speaking, knife-wielding, civics test studying butler/gardener! This man is definitely tattooed, and I’m going all in. I’m giving him a badass French tattoo with obscure symbolism, knives, blackjack and hookers. A bizarre collection of symbolism only he knows and understands and something that’ll instantly intimidate mild-mannered photographers who fancy themselves to be a detective!

Gino from The Chase:

Love or hate this film, I certainly love its weirdness and proto-Lynchian atmosphere. Gino is an Italian name, so I settled on some Neapolitan mafia tattoos, and I think they fit well with the character.

The General from The Secret Agent:

Does this man look like he makes well-thought out decisions? I’m imagining an early 20th century version of a tramp stamp: on the lower back just above his crack, a sword piercing a heart, a crudely drawn woman cleaved in two, and some latin meaning ‘shit bitch’. An edgy shitpost of a tattoo! Also to answer your question, this man is the most likely candidate to wake up one morning with ‘babygirl’ tattooed on his buttcheeks. The design of which I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader…

Finally, Abbott from The Man Who Knew too Much:

The man has a scar and painted hair. How would he not have a tattoo? But, being Abbott, it’s gonna be a map of the prison he last stayed (and escaped from). Also an anarchist black cat because I like it and I think he carries his politics on his sleeve.

I was too tired to draw more, so honorary mentions to:

Nick Dramoshag from Quicksand. He’s bitter, he runs an arcade, he drinks, he smokes, he’s a nasty crook with a switchblade… This is definitely a man with a faded sweetheart tattoo.

Marius from Passage to Marseille. He was a prisoner on Devil’s Island, I don’t think many would come away uninked from there. Maybe the amazing lockpick has a little safe in a heart tattooed on his arm?

Major Siegfried Grüning from Lancer Spy. My headcanon is that this guy eventually becomes The General, so he’s gonna have the ‘shitbitch’ tramp stamp and ‘babygirl’.

Mr Strangdour from Muscle Beach Party. The strongest man in the world, I think he might have some fun ones under that turtleneck of his.

#thanks for the ask! #peter lorre #the verdict #the chase #black angel #the man who knew too much #my favourite brunette #the secret agent #passage to marseille #lancer spy #muscle beach party #quicksand #drawing #doodle #this was FUN

[omgeto]

I will write a great gatsby inspired fic called... wait for it.... the great gojo 😌

#I will not be writing this #but it was an idea that crossed my mind for a split second #and then I laughed as that idea is dumb #however I do have a deep obsession with the great gatsby #and it is one of my favourite books ever for some random reason #so thats something to think about #and one of my fics was inspired by a random passage out of the great gatsby #bonus points if u guess which one #anyways #I still need fic ideas

[ejunkiet]

I love two (2) lovelorn idiots. (yes I'm still thinking about the passenger okay)

bonus: best way to kill a mood 😂

#it's all about the BOOP #the passenger if #this is my favourite passage #hands down #finally played the jonny route with friended roach #and all the details in this scene that are romanced only #my HEART #<3 #roach tp

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Happiness is a bolt of lightning. It dazzles and blinds you; one doesn't recognise what it is until after its passing, with stupor and nostalgia.

— Edwige Feuillère

#excuse me while i CRY #do you understand why i've been in love with this woman for like almost three years sksksdjfk 😭😭😭 #an hour after i finished reading the book i just burst into tears thinking about this passage #it's one of my favourite things anybody has ever said or written #quote #edwige feuillère #quotes #memoir #edwige feuillere #olivia 1951 #nostalgia #happiness #dreamy #retro #aesthetic

[songofwizardry]

hey there's a lot of shit out in the world but like. there's also 300k fanfics written as labours of love and exuberant comment threads on art that point out and gush over little details and there's people who spend hours sewing tiny details on their cosplays and there's fragments of poetry that get shared over and over and bring emotions over and over and there's entire communities of people built around 'we loved a story together' or 'we made a story together' and there's people poring over every line in a work and building theories together and there's getting together with your friends to have ridiculous fantasy adventures every week and yeah. there's some good stories here too yknow.

#text post #my post #yes this post was made immediately after d&d when i am emotional about the absolute fucking luck and joy of getting to do this regularly #but like #yknow not to quote the 11th doctor on you but it's TRUE we are all stories in the end #anyway i've been listening to lilli furfaro's stories a lot can you tell #just like. art and people and shared story and yeah #i got like three ao3 comments from the same person last week cause i'd left a comment on their work #and like. we don't know each other we've never met but now we've gone through each other pages and realised we feel the same way about this #and we have made each other smile with comments multiple times over the last week. that's fucking wild #like you know you watch a cosplay video and you see how many people and how much love and how much togetherness has gone into it #you recommend a book to a friend with your favourite passages underlined #you take part in a fic exchange and you make each other cry with words #you watch your friends roll dice and have emotions and fight and succeed and fail and you build a world together #idk idk i'd say i'm too emotional about this but i think i am the right amount of emotional actually #as lilli furfaro said. stories stitched together are how families are born

[likethecolour]

in preparation for artfight this year, here's a new and improved outfit/design lineup for Mercy! i do technically already have an outfit design for her, but it's really old so I wanted to redraw a more accurate one!

#the northern passage #tnp hunter #artfight #artfight 2023 #outfit lineup #oc: mercy belmont #i think my favourite part of her design is the detached hood #and also the fuzzy socks. those are definitely integral to her design..