#favourites: a straight line

[laufire]

is this anything

#one hell of a way to escalate a fight #everything i love is the same #buffyverse #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #sense8 #wolfgang bogdanow #favourites: a straight line #id in alt text #captioned

[dalblauw]

Return of the Star Eater

#illustration #monstergirl #alien #oc #original character #digital art #artists on tumblr #original art #drawing #this is straight up a redraw of one of my favourite arts i made back in 2019 #ive wanted to do a lil updated version for a while bc back then i guess i couldnt be bothered to even color in the lines properly #and tbh i respect past me for that but i love star eater so much she deserves a fresh draw

[heartslobbf]

heterophobic nanami real

[ID: two screenshots from 'revolutionary girl utena' of nanami and touga standing in the rose garden. nanami imploringly clings to touga, who stands stiffly with his face obscured from the audience. in the first screenshot, nanami says: 'i know i have to accept that you go out with girls.'

in the second screenshot, nanami continues: 'but don't go out with a girl like her!' /end ID]

#this is one of my favourite scenes for 100000 reasons but i make this joke about this line every time and its tenuous/kinda unfunny at best #but im posting it anyway bc it makes me giggle. its how i cope ok #NORMAL :)))) SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM :))))))))) #i actually think this is probably the closest they ever get to having a meaningful conversation outside of the car scene #which. Hm. to say the least #idk there r so many lies and misperceptions going on in this one but there are REAL core truths to be picked out from it #and i dont think either of them note any of them but you know. what did i expect. car scene happens later after all #swagever im soooooooo normal about them forever and always #i just enjoy thinking about nanami as an avid romance hater esp straight romance (romance repulsed aro over here) #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shut up daisy

[sysig]

It started with a whisper ♥ (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Crackship #Xigbar #Of all the crackships that I didn't expect I probably wouldn't have expected these two the most lol #I super wasn't expecting to feel So strongly about them this is like multi-tier Big Feelings in varying directions #One - ZEX - obvious (lol) | Two - Xigbar (hehe II hehehe) - I think I mentioned it like maaaybe once over here but I was Huge into KH #Specifically Org XIII specifically-specifically 358/2 it is the only game in the Kingdom Hearts line that I've beaten and probably ever will #Oh no wait that's not true I did play through all of the DS release of Re:Coded but like......does that count lol I think no #I played the intro of Kingdom Hearts II and shut it off after the bit with Roxas and Sora like - the egg scene how do I non-spoilers this #I own it and I will never beat it I am too sad I want only my Nobodies lol <3 #Kingdom Hearts had a big influence on me - that and Magic Knight Rayearth are a big explanation as to Why I'm Like This lol #Cough cough casting away the dark parts of your heart only for it to come back and bite you later and also The Gay™ lol #But AnyWay lol - Xigbar! #He wasn't my favourite-favourite - aside from Main Characters that'd probably go to Marluxia - but I still hold him very fondly!! #Definitely doodled him a good bit he's very handsome ♪ #And just - ah ♥ An old fave and a new(er) fave interacting and making each other happy and feel nice and play well I just fsalkfdf #As well as that being Max's body! There's something heightening about all these different aspects that was just overwhelming to me haha <3 #If it's not already obvious - yes this was the happy cries lol this is the only explanation I have haha #I feel very strongly about Them and Interactions and Feeling Nice and fjdslafsdf #Anyway! This isn't Just them! Just a lot haha ♪ #I have started a playlist lol - so far it's just this song - Everybody Talks - but some of the others from SCII playlist fit well too :) #The rest is just ZEX being cute hehe <3 ZEX not understanding what crying is is very interesting to me :3c No VUX equivalent? #Seems like they don't have the same kinds of chemicals like adrenaline et al so I guess a flushing system isn't as necessary! Interesting :D #ZEX fumbliness leading to him being a bit on the back foot is so cute hehe <3 He wants so loudly and openly but actually accomplishing it- #I also really like how he holds himself - all the tension through him to fight against new muscles and bone everything too alien! #I imagine his hands as being very rigid and all the fingers pulled together straight but that could just be how he describes bones hehe #Alien in there <3 Plenty to read into :3c

[skyriderwednesday]

I love the little cartoon doggies :)

#bluey #i love the style of this show but it's so much more straight lines than mine #anyway bingo is my favourite

[freckleslikestars]

The X Files: Detour

Living Polaroid Project: 101/219

#favourite episode alert #'I fell down a hole' - best delivery of a line ever #partayyy #detour #living polaroid project #living polaroid project season five #my gifs #xf gifs #msr #girl waxed in anticipation and my boi ran straight to the forest #If dana scully came to my motel room baring wine and cheese I wouldn't be such a pussy

[bitmeddler]

My high-res re-creation of the logo from Hermann’s SPACE CHAMPION helmet during his drift sequence with Newt.

#hermann you will always be our favourite CHAMPION of SPACE #seriously though this took me such a long time #I lined the logo up and straightened it out as much as I could #and then re-created each letter over a grid system to make sure they were straight #it was definitely a labour of love #hermann gottlieb #space champion #the drift #pacific rim #pacrim #newmann #a Bit of art #bitposting

[marielle-heller]

Happy Birthday @spikes-jonze !!! 💕

what a better way to celebrate another year of life than with some of the things you got to do this year!! from lots of concerts to Barbenheimer with Robin and Vivian to taking me around New York, you've had an incredibly eventful year, and I hope you've enjoyed every minute of it!

this year was also the year that we got to actually meet in person which was so surreal and incredible!!! I'm sure you know that I've always treasured my time with you, and being able to have some of that time be in person and on an incredible trip just made it even more special! I hope you know what an impact you made on my trip, and how much you're a part of my fond memories of it (and also how much I want to go back, I am thinking, I am thinking)

you're continuing to thrive in your career, which I'm so proud of, and to lure me into the most unhinged of TV shows, which is a fun ride. I wish you a wonderful birthday, and I hope that 25 can be full of even more amazing experiences and memories for you! time will only tell, but I know you deserve the absolute best, always

love you, Miss Kim <3

#i am so proud of myself using a fancy gif technique #and yet i think my favourite use of it might just be how clean and straight the line between the new york events is #i would use that again to put two gifs side by side rather than do it with the white line break #anyway happy birthday kim i just had to get my gif thoughts out #yay kim day!

[ray-elgatodormido]

WIP Wednesday. Thank you @lucien-lachance for the tag!

Just making something while I juggle college stuff. (The art program I’m in is real chill btw)

#Can anyone guess who’s the bleebus I’m drawing? #Hint: He would get lost in a straight line #wip #wip wednesday #one piece #one piece live action #roronoa zoro #ah yes my first teenage fictional crush #My favourite grass headed minecraft block looking ass swordsman

[thatrandombystander]

Just got back from watching a production of Les Mis and yeah man to love another person really is to see the face of God 😭😭😭

#my favourite musical. last time i saw it was in..... 2015? around there #i have... some criticisms for this production but it made me cry a lot and left me dehydrated so it's still a win! #les mis #ramblings of a bystander #ok but seriously who decided to cast what looked like two south east asian sisters as child cosette and child eponine #and then adult eponine was also south east asian but cosette was NOT and was a full white woman #bizarre choice. we have so many characters to keep track of you should not be confusing my ability to follow them #a bit TOO many extras and too much activity on stage during sort of ensemble scenes #that made it a bit difficult to locate who was actually speaking/singing a couple times #javert was just a touch too stiff in his body language. actually a few missed body language opportunities #that would have helped clarify what was happening I'm just lucky to really know it all already #REALLY didn't like fantine's characterisation and delivery on a few lines but otherwise she was fine #also i can't believe enjolras first appeared on stage NOT wearing red and then had a costume change for the les amis cafe meetup #just put him in red straight away? why did grantaire also have a costume change to completely different color scheme at one point. #...it WAS a good production I'm just nitpicking. because it's my fave so i have OPINIONS #jean valjean was fantastic! #anyway. I'm gonna make myself some dinner now. and then see what I've missed

[bluberimufim]

Happy STS! 💜💌 What role does symbolism play in your WIPs, if any? What symbols relate to certain characters, events, or emotions? How do you decide what symbols to use, or what these symbols mean? Are they intentional, or do you notice them after they've appeared in the story? :) - @liv-is

Happy STS!!

Sorry to have procrastinated this ask but I wanted the answer to be good because of all the different parts the ask has. I'll split it into parts. The answers are about "Black and White", my beloved main WIP.

This is gonna be Lengthy.

What role does symbolism play in your WIPs, if any? What symbols relate to certain characters, events, or emotions?

Colours are very important in B&W. The whole circus is like a colour wheel with a big black and white tent in the center (each colour zone has a distinct Vibe but that's a post for another day). This mirrors how the story has a lot of pieces, with each side character being represented by a different colour, but they all ultimately revolve around Darius and Diedrich, the two protagonists, represented by black and white respectively.

In truth, Diedrich (white) is the original here, and Darius wants to define himself by contrast, while also being a foil to Diedrich, his kinda-mentor. Diedrich carefully guarded the secret of having sold his soul for his magic, while Darius tells everyone he did the same, despite no one believing him. Diedrich took Darius as an assistant and, in turn, Darius says he'll never take on an assistant in his life. He wears black suits and Diedrich wears white suits. But there's still many similarities between the two: their names start with the same letter, they use similar-sounding intros for their shows, and, when Markov joins Darius later on, he can't help but think of him as "his" Johann (who is Diedrich's best friend and travelled everywhere with him).

The Thing I wanted to get to is that both of their love interests are associatedwith the colour red. August (Darius's (ex)boyfriend), wears red almost every day as part his costume, and Lucille (Diedrich's wife), says her favourite colour is red. Hugo, who is Darius's other ex-boyfriend, also has slight associations with red. This is because all these lovers have one thing in common: they are tossed aside by their significant others in exchange for success. Although it's much more prevalent in Diedrich, on account of him being in the story for 38 years, Darius also does this. Diedrich has abandoned his wife three separate times because he just can't quit being a magician. (One of these times was when their son had just died, something indirectly but kinda directly caused by Diedrich, and he just didn't want to be with his wife bc it was depressing.) In the very first chapter, Darius leaves Hugo to go work under Diedrich, knowing full well this will probably land him in poverty. Then later, he basically says to August "come with me or we're done" (slightly better than straight-up abandoning, I guess, but still messed up), and August says "let's break up then".

How do you decide what symbols to use, or what these symbols mean?

The use of colour came to me very easily. I'm an artist, so I give it a lot of importance. For me, it's always one of the things that better defines a character's design in my mind. I'm a very visual person, so it ends up being the most obvious symbol for me, more than actual images.

I also have a Thing with Veera and Alexis's colours in the dystopia WIP, but I feel like I need to develop that more, but also because this post is already enormous. The dystopia WIP has a lot of colours.

Are they intentional, or do you notice them after they've appeared in the story?

Mostly they're accidents. Like the tent thing? I just realized that while writing this. The red thing has been around for a biiiit longer but it was also accidental.

But when I do notice a nice parallel or symbolism, I double down on it.

There's this parallel I completely accidentaly established between Anna (Diedrich's sister) and Johann's romance and Alphonse (Diedrich's son) and August, and I only noticed because I repeated a sentence in two dialogues (it was along the lines of "I want to love you in the sunlight"). Johann and Anna are obviously straight but their romance is taboo just as much as Alphonse and August's (which is gay) because Johann is married, but the marriage was forced upon him by his parents - kinda like, for queer people, society decides what your love should look like with no regard for what you truly want. Johann and Alphonse have just as much fear of disappointing their families, despite their difference in sexuality, because they've been told their love is unacceptable.

Aaaaaaanyway this was a very fun ask! I love rambling!!

It was also huge tho. I went off the rails.

#listen i love diedrich #he's one of my favourite ocs ever #but lucille needs to divorce him asap #great character. ok father. absolutely shit husband. #i wish she was like august and just straight-up broke off the marriage on the spot #fun fact if you line up all the side characters in a particular order #you get the original pride flag #bc i'm queer and i do what i want #writing #my wips #writeblr #sts asks #asks #sts #black & wip

[laufire]

#he continues to be an atheist icon. #stacked100 #the 100 #the 100 2x16 #john murphy #favourites: a straight line #id in alt text #captioned

[born-to-lose]

"Legs up for infidelity" in Trivium's This World Can't Tear Us Apart is such a Line

#it's just. a friend of mine was cheated on recently and i want to kill that guy with my bare hands #they were together for like 2 years almost? i'll never understand why some people decide to cheat in their partners #when there are so many other ways to work around that like talking about issues or even breaking up if there's really no hope #so every time this happens to someone i know (or me with my shitty first boyfriend) i'm so mad #and this line is the perfect mix of sarcasm and anger and bitterness #tho it kinda puts the image of your partner fucking somebody else in your head but it expresses that upset and angry feeling you get #it's one of my favourite metal love songs but also makes me sad because of memories #fuck why did writing this hurt so much. it's been ages and i'm 100% over that asshole but why would someone do this to me #similar thing goes for people who hook up with someone new straight after getting out of a relationship. something itches me about that #tho i think that's more of a personal and not universal thing. it just feels a bit disrespectful when it's too soon #like a few days or weeks afterwards idk i just wouldn't do that personally but maybe i care too much #no shame if you do tho as long as i'm not involved #mel talks

[oatbugs]

a triangle and other things id like on my body

#bc alt j but also like . cool shape mathematically + delta as in everything delta represents including a change / transformation #still need ideas for a tattoo that goes along my entire spine though #ill defintely get the phi symbol tattooed at some point and probably psi as well #tifold knots mean a lot but also i feel the triangle covers it . same w R^3 spaces .. #and also like . 2n-3k-3>0 maybe somewhere bc in knot theory any smooth k sphere to which that applies is unknotted . and it represents sm #bc it has so many applications to like . diff areas of maths and bio and genetics and physics and everything everything ever . #some of my favourite axioms . including axiom of infinity + also a { } for obvious reasons (existence of an empty set is still an existence #but also like . idk theres more 2 it im sure you get it maybe) #something to do w angels more to do w manifolds #the letter v (a valley like the one i died and loved in + the longitudinal fissure + vogt dig for kloppervok + lots of other stuff) #an octagon formation that reminds me of breathing #(alders breathing keeping weeping leaves all sinking fever dreaming brothers sleeping wolves all creeping weavers weaving - wickerbird) #some forms of liquid swirls in red (red for wine or love or blood but mostly wine) particularly around the angels bc its a persian poem #and its where my name is from and it means a lot . a straight line with regular gaps inbetween it like the windows of a train #(particularly around or inside or a part of the angels maybe for many reasons . incomplete line / train imagery paired w holiness . hmm) #something to do w an opened up pomegranate (preferably close to the red lines) #a part of the night sky superimposed over itself (twice as many stars as usual) . in the dark times will there be singing ? there will be #singing of the dark times . #rippling effects somewhere around the wine swirls (diving into your grief and raising your head instead of drowning + the universe #isnt mine its me + to care is to accept that you may drown for it + my memories w vodka + a lot more) #dots going down veritcally (water falling off trees and the pipe of the building as the snow melted in the mountains) #the audio waveform of the repeating tune in the song dissolve me #maybe around where the wine lines ripple out a bit #archives #quartz clock

[littlecutiexox]

Sorry to be anxiety dumping but god I’ve not been able to do anything recently I’m literally shaking 24/7 and oversleeping like hell, I hate it. It feels like I’m not living, I’m constantly wishing I was different and getting so angry at myself

#came to my favourite shisha spot to draw #and i cant even draw a straight fucking line #im shaking like a chihuahua #forced myself out today because i knew id stay in bed and do nothing otherwise

[keep-ler]

A disbandment serve!!!

#😭😭😭 #Straight line immediately becoming my favourite tt just like that huh #kep1er #kpop #kpop gg #Can you believe we’re losing them soon