#i couldve done so much better

[master-missysversion]

"Doctor, its okay!" "It's not okay!"

#so much touching in this scene #the way yaz just holds her is everything to me #doctor who #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #yaz khan #ugh i couldve done better on the lighting here #gifs

[largeyellowewe]

#wtnv #welcome to nightvale #i’m a little high right now that’s i’m posting something original with tags isn’t this so scary #if i was more functional i couldve done this so much better

[cargoshortsenjoyer]

I drew Herbert West from reference and I'm proud of it! I see a lot of flaws but I really think it's so much better than all my other attempts at drawing a face from photo reference.

#like the left glasses frame should be a little longer horizontally #the forehead is slightly too short #the nose should be wider including the nostrils #and the lips should be a bit bigger i think #but like...it definitely looks like herbert west. not some guy with misplaces features #I also definitely couldve done the shading better #but i dont wanna tweak something until i die so im stopping here and will draw more faces from now on!! #maybe the fact that i like herbert so much is what made this turn out good #reanimator #fanart #stuff i made #i remember that tag! #re-animator #Herbert West #tell me if you like!! i crave praise

[s0fter-sin]

less a continuation and more of a thought bubble but ghost would hate price in this au

when he pulls him out of the gulag, so many of soap’s new behaviours click into place. things that never made sense to him as a natural progression of who soap was, that aren't just a product of walling himself off and turning his heart to stone

his soap never smoked. always complained when ghost lit up about the damage it did to the lungs, how it would slow him down in the long run

his john, always trying to be the best soldier

that's why seeing him suck on a cigar like it's second nature is so jarring. even more so when he'd only take a few puffs; enough for a taste and to make smoke coil through the air around him. always the same brand, always left to burn down in his fingers

then ghost sees him gift his cigar box to price, something that took pride of place on his desk practically before the man clears medical and seeing the way they both relax as he sets a match to one makes him realise

in an effort to run away from soap, john had tried to mould himself into price

god forbid ghost ever reads soap's journal. he's heard the "what the hell kind of name is soap” story from him, of the first time he'd ever met the captain and if he ever saw his words echoed in john's hand? saw just how far the man had wormed his way, so deep into him that he was speaking with his tongue?

price's monologues, making himself larger than life all in an effort to make this shitstorm feel more grand than just another war they're all trying to live through, acting like he’s being profound when he’s really just dodging anyone that questions him

letting price take roach out from under his wing like soap didn't identify with the kid the second he saw him, all of his self-deprecative habits hitting tenfold as he blames himself for every stray bullet; as if price could've plucked them from the very sky

the way soap steps back without a word of protest to let price command the team he handpicked and price just accepting? like his years of leadership mean nothing, like john means nothing after trying so hard to follow in his footsteps, just to be tossed aside

the rage ghost would feel at his indifference, as if soap’s behaviour is to be expected and not a series of red flags. add the nuke mission and his actions during and after shepherd’s betrayal? ghost would despise him

#this instalment brought to you by mactavishs journal bc holy shit #his obsessive hyper perfectionism is heartbreaking #he sees literally everything as his fault #every failure every mistake every accident he always looks for something he couldve done better #then increases his training to /make/ himsef better #the way he sees himself in roach and wants to help him become a better soldier like price did for him #only to immediately give him to price bc who better to turn him into a better soldier than price #there is so much characterisation in this thing and it blows my mind that it wasnt an ingame easter egg you could find and read #its an actual journal you could buy #it completely changes his dynamic with price from mentor and mentee to this godlike hero worship #and ghost finding out that soaps changed himself so much for this insane guy who almost nuked america? #that he cant see beyond his thirst for vengeance that soap would do literally anything for him #the shepherd betrayal and prices ‘you have to trust someone to be betrayed. i never did’ and you never thought to warn soap?? #the rest of the 141 you can understand but hes so callous in that scene #and since ghost and roach live through it i just know ghost would go apeshit for treating soap like hes not worth the dirt under his boots #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #talk to me ghost #09 soapghost #09 soap #09 ghost #captain mactavish #ghoap #soapghost #ghostsoap #cod mw2 #ghost cod #soap cod #captain price #we’re a team. ghost team #save post

[pikkish]

Yeah we've already talked about how outright stupid the lore n writing for modern Doom is, but tbh I can understand why they had to do something with Doomguy, why they had to make him The Specialest Boy instead of Just Some Guy. Do I like how they did it? No, I would've taken it a different direction. Do I think that hugo could've done it well even if he took it in the direction I would've? No, I have minimal faith in his story writing. But realistically, how many times can a guy singlehandedly accomplish the impossible before you have to acknowledge he's very much not Just Some Guy who happened to be at the right place at the right time? I think that, with how every single other person on the Phobos UAC base were killed in Doom I, doomguy stopped being Just Some Guy the moment he decided to do anything other than just lie down and die.

#pikspeak #im sure this is old news what with eternal being 4 years old now but. idk ive been thinking abt it. #i dont like the 'you were a chosen one from the very beginning!' trope too much #makes it feel a little like what the character actually does doesnt really have any significance #like if they were the chosen one who was going to win from the very beginning then why does it matter. #its the whole free will vs predestiny argument and. idk. i just think it could be done better. #no modern doomguy cannot be just some guy anymore but. it couldve been done a lot better. let him have been just a normal guy who had the #option to be normal and die but chose not to and through his own actions made himself significant #then again. maybe it wasnt the moment he didnt stay down that he became significant. i do like the idea of blazko having something to do #with it. i do like the idea of blazko having picked up the spear having something to do with it. #but still. 'youre actually a god and you were going to be this powerful Always' is just. not appealing. let him have some influence in his #own power. u dont even need to take the thing w the divinity machine out. just make him a separate entity from davoth instead of davoths #clone/destined counterpart. let dg make the decision to rise to davoths level instead of saying he was always there from the beginning. #sigh. i couldve written eternals story so much better. and yet. somehow i am still repeatedly drawn back to it. sighing smh.

[xzenvii]

Powering through burnout atm :'3 Decided to try new brushes!!

#Zack Fair #FFVII #crisis core reunion #i couldve done so much better on the anatomy and posing but OH WELL.

[dumortains]

ugh tried the not splitting up when the three kidnappings happen path and. i feel like that could've been such a good opportunity to show us (and for once not tell) how much mc has become a part of ub and in which way they fit into it?? we could've had a fight scene where we see all of ub using their different strengths and how they compliment each other and how mc's skills fit into that. we could've had a nice contrast to some of the fights we had before in b1 and 2 where mc often seemed to feel a little left out, where ub was fighting together like a well-oiled team and the detective was kinda off to the side, doing their own thing and struggling with how to fit into their dynamic and fight with them not just in proximity to them.

and ub just getting incapacitated the moment they show up makes the choice whether to split up or not feel so meaningless. like this could've been used so much better than just to show off how talented and special the mc is

#we couldve had them all work together to take them out #see how mc now knows them so much better #and is able to pick up on their cues and communicate with them using barely any words #them already guessing what the other memebers strategy is gonna be #and helping them by driving the trappers where they need them for their plan #stuff like that #pearl.txt #the wayhaven chronicles #twc #game: the wayhaven chronicles #twc book 3 #twc book 3 spoilers #might be a bit in my hater era now tbh #i still enjoyed book 3 and there are a lot of things i liked #but there are also so many things that couldve done with a bit more editing #and a lot of missed opportunities

[yasha-artblog]

"i'm not a homosexual. i get good grades, i go to church, i'm a cheerleader!"

#but im a cheerleader au 👁 #i drew this while wearing rainbow pjs similar to what dolph worelols #anyway i hate this so much #like u dont understand #its too simple #i feel like i couldve rendered it more #but idk how #and the expression is mehhh #idkkk i just feel like i couldve done better #also #for accuracy purposes half of this is traced #👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 #<- potential but im a cheerleader au tag #lily evans #pandalily #pandora lovegood #pandora rosier #marauders #marauders era #lesbian #wlw #fanart #my art #but im a cheerleader! au tag

[blobbei-art]

Scene drawn very carefreely.

There is also no story context, I just wanted to draw Kasifer in a simple scene. But it looks like he saw someone sneakily taking a picture of him.

#kasifer #oc #ocs #my art #artists on tumblr #original character #its rough around the edges and many things i absolutely couldve done better but this was super not meant to be a bigger drawing #my goal was to just get it to a point where most things are worked on and look somewhat fitting into the scene #and then call it a day bc detailing it too much would just frustrate me bc i know i can never get it to be perfect #and thats perfectly fine #i think sometimes you can just let yourself be a little messy for the sake of hey! you finished something and you got the point across #because one day my 'messy' will be what i currently consider polished and so on #its a process and we are here for the journey and not the finish line

[slutdge]

typical 7 am judas moment where im sobbing over what i could have been and accomplished if my parents had loved me :)

#what a waste of a life this has been #i gotta go to work now at my job i fucking hate and pretend im not constantly tormented by how much better i couldve done #if id just been loved and had the money to succeed #explodes and dies forever lmao #what did i do that was such a crime even as a baby that they hated me since the day i was born #what is so wrong with me #what is so intrinsically wrong with me that they have hated me since i was born?????? i drive myself crazy thinking about it #im totally fine and calm and collected enough to go to work (im not. i wish i was fucking dead. i cant take this anymore) lol #anyways broken record i know yall are tired of hearing about it. imagine how tired i am of living like this for 24 years lmao

[sluttypatrickstar]

getting a lot of notes on my post about how the male presenting line was silly bcus the doctor is literally always like that and people being upset and you're all right and i agree with you it was a let down in the episode and very essentialist but at the same time im glad there is the space for there to be a let down. im glad they put a trans character in and put trans rep on one of the biggest and most popular shows on terf island and im glad they kept swinging even if it meant a few misses.

#like ofc i think they couldve done better and maybe consulted and maybe those lines would've gotten picked up and removed #but sometimes it just feels so bleak here on terf island that i feel joyous seeing them throwing so much trans stuff at us today!!! #doctor who

[perfectharmonyloveschaos]

I have hopes for 'Ahsoka' cause she's Filoni's golden girl so he'll probably fight for her with Disney but also

#i swear if they pull that shit again like they did in S3-4 im gonna combust #LET EZRA BE IMPORTANT PLEASE #LET HIM HAVE A REASON TO BE THERE ASIDE FROM SHOEHORNING AHSOKA IN THE POST-REBELS PLOT #they had so much they couldve done with ahsoka and they still choose to chop the rebels sequel instead #im sorry but it should be an ezra sabine show ahsoka should be Sabine’s partner not the other way around #they better do my kids right #regardless if they ruin the rebels characters im just gonna consider it noncanon #swr #ezra bridger #star wars #star wars rebels

[anatomical-puppet]

“gives you hell” is truly The beyond-era danbert song of all time to me. partially because it just feels so correct and partially because i always giggle at the image of herbert being like “hope he’s enjoying his STUPID JOB and POINTLESS CAR and ARBITRARY PICKET FENCE 🙄🙄” king you are IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

#he’s suuuuuch a bitch. slay #for a guy who’s never seen beyond i sure do think about it a Lot #i refuse to watch it because i couldve done it so much better 💔💔 maybe. idk how to make movies but i couldve done it better #re-animator #danbert

[smittyw]

the many faces of Top OC in between rounds !! also known as: my big bad composition heavy pieces i wanna show off from the past few months 💪💪

it was suchhh good practice and a lot of fun to draw new characters in new settings! all the oc’s featured besides fred & natty aren’t mine, so i’ll list the creators’ instagrams below :-)

_mooney.looney_

daag1604

leillr

elleabeeart

beetrootbot

rei.d.maniac

jamiejacksoninsta

swimming.away_

nina.letters

mentallymusical

hannrum

snow.in.summer.art

jellybean_tales

kathy_r0se

sugarandstars.x

wiseguava

baovihnim

pls check them out if u can! youll get plenty more fresh oc content to appreciate ✌️

#ocs #top oc 2023 #other peoples ocs #no id #whats up!! i wanna draw more miku or maybe more silly things but for now im just postin these #la la lalala #i forgot to update what happened w this competition umm well we got eliminated round 3 LOL #i couldve done much better for the latter 2 submissions so maybe sometime i’ll rework them #for obvious reasons the between-round optional prompts were my favs

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

“i have loved being with you and i have loved being me”

#theres #its #like #i couldnt have asked for a better end #like. none of the stuff that i wouldve done happened but like EMOTIONALLY it all happened #im just so happy thank u chibs #i dont have words rn i just hve feelings im gonna....watch that again and process and make a video and then maybe #i'll have words #im just so glad i was alive for this #i love you all and i love doctor who im so glad this show exists #like a house that we just all keep building new floors on top. and more rooms inside than should be possible #and all kinds of secret passageways #and youre like this should collapse under its own weight #but it hasnt yet #because everyone loves this wibbly wobbly impossible house so much #i love the thirteenth doctor and i love everyone who made her exist and i especially love everyone who loves her too #im gonna go to bed im glad i exist #not having a regeneration into 14 Does kinda fuck with my video plans though but hfkjghjghg #couldve anticipated that one i suppose #i'll make it work #god i have so much new material now #like SO much #so much thoschei material so much thasmin material so much doctor material #a whole feast #okay im gonna go sleep i love you

[hardrockshrimp]

Little Green Men!!!!

#im so normal about this part of the so g #sorry for janky bits its my first time doing stop motion 💔💔 #but i think for what it is its pretty cute #i wish i couldve cropped the sides but there wasnt really a good way to do so BUT the mouths and hands moving at the side is fun #but the trad animated stuff was difficult only cause my workspace is TINY so there's no space to put drying cels #so i decided to just scan in the trad bits to get it as done as i tangibly can #this is my application to laika /j #but fr i love doing stop motion its so much better than drawn animation 😭😭 #anyways #steve vai #stop motion #scribblies #if this counts?