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alicenpai · 4 months

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forgotten playthings, forgotten child 🧸

Jack from my series Lost & Found Children 🤍🖤

i hope to showcase more of my ocs in 2024 hehe! im FINALLY getting around to finishing art i left to rot in my folders (the pandora hearts drawing last month being one of em). if you saw the WIP of THIS particular drawing 2 yrs ago... no you didn’t 💔

my charas are very personal to me, but tbh ive always been a bit hesitant to share their stories. over time i realized ... it’s kind of a shame to not make art from one’s heart. which is something i regret a lot year after year whenever i make my yearly art summary reflection. i'm like damn i need to make more emotionally evoking pieces!!! so i'm gonna keep going in 2024 with that in mind ❤ i have to admit, although this drawing started 2 years ago, and there's a lot i would do differently if i were to supposedly draw it now - this concept goes pretty hard.

the final drawing stayed pretty close to the original concept which im so relieved for! i think part of the reason why i left it on the backburner for so long, was the fact that i included so many details, and i was unsure of how to colour the "background". (not to mention stuff like cons & real life getting in the way).

i'm glad for discovering a really handy watercolour brush, it's helped me a lot in my last few drawings, bc i dont have to colour in each detail. especially since the witch hat atelier: eternal ephemera zine piece i did. otherwise if i coloured this back in 2022 with my usual method, i'm pretty sure i really would have included a shading and highlight layer for each individual toy... HAHAHA. much to think about

oh yeah and in the last few days of drawing this i was listening to some visual kei bands. i love how some of the band members literally have been performing since like the 90s or something and DO NOT AGE and are literal vampires. every so often i fall back into visual kei (you can tangentially thank aggretsuko although yes i know it's not the same). and i kind of realized. i like Jack's edgy design so much because he looks like. a visual kei esque vampire.

#illustration #artists on tumblr #original #original character #my ocs #jack #i will post more on my ocs eventually... slowly.. this coming year #2024 will be the year of the oc..... definitely want to lean into developing my stories & charas & gothic aesthetic a lot more hehe #leaning into like. whatever late 2000s manga had going on with their dark aesthetics - pandora hearts. black butler. d gray man etc #those mangaka were drinking some good shit. permanently altered my little teenage brain forever #i also managed to record a timelapse of this drawing #but my computer cant handle timelapses on csp so i had to like. save this drawing in different parts #so ill have to stitch together the timelapse videos #sorry. got rid of the closeup bc it didn't look that great #ill post it in the read more later #lost and found children

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shirecorn · 1 year

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What’s your favourite mlp species? Have you got any thoughts on kirins/niriks?

Request ponies, species, etc I havent done here

I am both a creature and character designer, so I have a lot of thoughts about MLP world!

Paradoxically, the non-pony species interest me less than the actual ponies, because they are all really solid and well done designs. There's not a lot I would reinterpret tbh, and drawing them would just be taking what they have and making them realistic.

The non-pony creatures tend to be more detailed because they are generally cameos and don't need to be animated doing nearly as much as ponies do.

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The kirins are really lovely designs! I love the ankle tufts, and how the stripes on the horns glow when using magic. Really nice creature design here.

The Nirik part was a little boring, and the plot/conflict was not sophisticated enough for my tastes. But it is a show for young children, not biology majors. Lots of room for worldbuilding and headcannoning lore to flesh it out, but I prefer something I can completely rewrite. The kirin lore was fine and I'm fine leaving it as-is.

Another good one is breezies.

I love them they look so stupid. Their wings are over the top but perfectly designed to sell the "piece of lint in the wind" delicateness they have.

as for my favorite creature?

Bug momma

I really love changelings and love how edgy they are.

The reformed changelings are decent but I would have designed them differently. I may take a crack at them later on if I feel the need. I feel like they should either be pony-adjacent (with manes at the very least) or further removed from ponies. this middle ground is kind of like having a bug monster alien that just happens to be bipedal, with humanoid shoulders, arms, and hands for no evolutionary reason (the reason is practical effects and putting a dude in a costume but shhh)

all this is about creatures though, and its very important to talk about character design whenever we discuss creatures. A character's personality should be the quickest read about them, rather than their biology. If something is too complex, the personality gets lost because you have to spend your details adding ankle tufts and articulated fingers.

The mane six, and basically all other ponies, use the same base puppet, and each unique part needs its own turnaround. Every prop and hairdo and eye shape needs to be understood from every possible angle because these are main characters and they need to be be able to turn, spin, and do karate without the animators having to make up the back of applejack's hat every time she faces away from the camera.

Having the same body means animators know how to draw both rarity and rainbow dash from a back 3/4 view with one hoof raised. So from a technical standpoint, simple is best.

Even in big budget productions, where every character has a different body with different close and face shapes, main characters are simplified so that the audience can quickly read pose and expression without getting lost in complex clothing designs or face makeup. Reading poses and expressions quickly is very important to understand and empathize with the character before they've moved to the next pose. You need to understand the emotion the character is feeling and the action they are doing in a split second.

you start to get more complicated and an entity becomes less of a character and more of scenery because it has so much detail its harder to read the emotions from one frame to the next.

There's a reason he doesn't wear his funny hat for the duration of the movie! It's much easier to read his emotions without it. Adding lots of detail and weird props is something designers do a lot when introducing a character if they want to make that character feel mysterious or "other" because its harder to relate when your brain is stuck on the details. also masks just do that by nature of being masks.

where was I going with this

My little pony g4 has great creature and character design.

If it were high budget, major studio with All The Money, there might be more variety in character proportions, and more distinction between the different pony species. But its a puppet animated show that was always meant to make marketable designs to be turned into toys. We just get lucky when there's a good story to tell along the way

#ramble machine #ask #shire screams

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fish-sause · 2 months

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Why do i kinda wanna bring back the toxicity of the scene community lol

Like guys i know this is such a hot take but like... scene is so lame now. WHERES THE BULLYING INTO BEING COOLER???? PUT THOSE SNAKEBITES TO WORK!! DONT BE A PUSSY DO IT!!!!!!!!! Scene is literally a culture scene (you know) and right now i think its all a bunch of consumerist shit like.. if your just a kid on discord whos a little weird and buys fandom merch from hot topic and draw cats your not a scene kid, just a weird one. PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE AND GET CRUNK or something....

idk where else i could post this because id get bashed on discord bashed on tiktok praised on twitter for the wrong reasons and tbh bashed on tumblr too

EDIT I THINK I NEED TO RE ESTABLISH WHAT I MEANT

im not talking about bigotry stuff. Im talking about the babification/new wave of the scene community into becoming less about being edgy and cool and trendy and more about a place for kids. Its great to have safe spaces for kids, but.... i feel like its wrong to associate it with such a controversial community. So your either in it full on or like.. inspired by it (scenecore or something....)

#scene #scene kid #2000s scene #2000s #hot take #emo #snakebites faggot fights gotta make sure those jeans are tight #PLEASE DONT CANCEL MEE

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maymeowmoo · 5 months

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Felt like writing about my OCs a bit so yeah~

As you probably noticed I tend to use one of my two OCs to represent myself. The actual character for drawing myself (ig?) is this purple little ghost thingy! I uhh never gave ‘em a official name but they do represent me so idk naming them differently than what I name myself would be kinda odd >.<

The other two are original characters that are supposed to represent a certain aspect of me~ As seen in my first post, Maroon is the representation of my intrusive thoughts while Noble is the ahem ‘Cringe' part of me.

Maroon was actually created wayyy before this blog. Their original purpose was to be a villain in a really edgy Pokémon fanfiction I wanted to make. I never really got around to writing it (for the better tbh). Later on I always cast them as the villain in any made up story I created since well… I needed one and Maroon fit the role. After awhile I realized Maroon was created specifically to satisfy my intrusive thoughts and scenarios, and here we are now ^v^ The whole reason this blog was created are those thoughts so yeah.

Cringeness was created specifically for this blog~ After I decided ‘Yeah you’re right inner thoughts I will allow myself to be cringe!’ I made this blog and along with it Noble. Personally when I refer to myself as ‘cringe’ I see it more as a reclaim of the word I guess? Or something like ‘yeah I can be consider cringe by some and that is perfectly fine’. I guess Cringeness is a character that is basically ‘accepting the part of me that can be considered odd by some’. Fun fact: I was also gonna use them as a Villain for an AU originally but decided against it =u= OH! + Their name is a mix of Cringe & Empress UvU/

Design wise I decided to make Cringeness the exact opposite of Maroon. They are rounder and more feminine unlike Maroon who is more masculine and sharper. Oh! I also wanna add how I intentionally made Maroons eyes have long eyelashes while Cringeness basically has none =o=/ Whenever I draw ‘em I always make sure to draw this part correctly!

Uhm… That is it for now, maybe I’ll make another post in the distant future about my OCs that is more comprehensible /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ Ty if u read this, idk if what I wrote made any sense whatsoever but I hope it did. I know I can write a bit chaotically at times XD

#ocs #oc art #my ocs #original character #art #digital art

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heartlurch · 8 months

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if u had to define it, what is it that u try most to bring out or represent in what u make, both aesthetically and narratively? I get a lot of the feeling if weird childhood feelings intersecting with like, adult feelings we don't quite understand yet- a kind of innocent puppy love that leads to a very sado-masochistic but equally innocent frame of mind. the idea that you want someone to be completely part of you, in every sense, in the most innocent- but not necessarily nice- way possible. like, when you're little, anything makes sense because nothing makes sense. (and also something something the inherent closeness of siblings...)

A real thinker. Hmm, how do I word this...

Aesthetically, I've always been drawn to 'cute' things. Little anime mascots, pretty creatures with bright eyes and long flowing hair. I'm inspired by things like Hamtaro, early Pokemon/Neopets design sense, a couple aspects of Digimon... My Little Pony! All things that have been dear to me since I was a lil kid. :3

I was also an edgy kid, though, so the kind of narratives I was inclined towards making were full of, er, murder, kidnapping, rape, slavery, cannibalism, torture... debauchery. Le weird age gap relationships, le interspecies, le forbidden love. (Funnily enough, I was late to the game with incest, it didn't really 'click' until I was about 17...) But yes, sado-maso, that was the core fixation. I wanted to see raw emotions! Misery! Scary situations! Dire romances!! And, I wanted all of these things to be inflicted to the pokemon, the my little ponies. I wanted to see those designs, that I was so attracted to, be put through this. Being honest, I don't think it was about contrasting something from my 'childhood' with something 'adult'... Well ah, real animals experience violence, death, rape, subjugation... *taps chin* I'm not sure if it feels like an 'adult' concept, because it's not as if it's exclusive to adults... Anything can experience intense circumstance, right? At that point, it's a matter of wanting to apply a sense of 'reality' to these creatures... Beyond that, it's also as simple as mashing up my favorite things together in a big pile. At that point, it's just incidental I wasn't like, idk, into detective dramas and putting the pokemon in that. (Not to nitpick too much... I'm just reflecting on my perspective. I'll circle back to this.)

Anyhoo... His little pea was thinking of such things at age like, 8, or something. Though I think I was closer to 11-13 when I was trying to actually write and draw these thoughts. None of this is so unique really; you can find tons of dA galleries from kids who want to see pikachu be fucked up and evil. As a result, I didn't feel like I was weird for what was doing, tbh. If anything, discovering fanfic dot net and dA made me feel validated — lots of people want to see this stuff! It was euphoric for a moment. Ah, so lots of people think like me... Cool!

I was mostly self-conscious at my own feeble skills. I'd have in my mind all these complex, winding narratives... Envisioning demon rituals where a kid needs to crush a live mouse between his teeth, swallow it whole, to complete it — but I couldn't remotely illustrate my thoughts. I'd barely be able to make some chicken scratch scribble of the design, and it'd be some feeble chibi lol. I felt a dissonance between my art and my desires. And it felt incompetent of me...

(You wouldn't know this girlie is a despondent sex slave, would you-??)

How do I improve drawing things that are pretty, cute, and appealing to me... but also, how do I create atmosphere? How do I convey all they are going through? This is where it's difficult, because there's not much to teach you how to... draw your cutesy little critter, writhing in agony. Expressive faces and posing are such a hill to conquer. And then beyond that, I have to realize there's other art that inspires me... I really love moeblob anime girls! Frilly shoujo styles! Expressive toons and furries... The simplicity of something like Adventure Time. What do I take away from these things? How do I integrate them-? I was honestly so clueless about it for years. Kind of at a loss of how to convey everything.

By now, I realize I want things to be mm... fluid, fantastical, a bit boneless... But not TOO boneless, it needs to be! Grounded! It needs volume, weight, I don't want things to get too loose, too flat, too 'shapes'. There's a lot of beauty to organic form... Grit to the living body. I want to imbue my favorite designs with that! A mascot is often designed with no intention to see it twist, flex, roll around, writhe... I want to look at a design like pichu and give it muscle and organs. It has a skeletal structure! It breathes! It exists. With all the dreamy, unreal smoothness of a real mouse. :3

Beyond that, I had much to hone about what I value in narratives. Getting it down to a science... What do I really want? At first, I think I over-emphasized wanting 'bad things' to happen. Harm happened, but too much for the sake of it. There was not enough meaning behind it. What imbues it with meaning...? I've found that the answer is: characters being obsessively, madly in love. A love that consumes everything, a love that drives you to act in a way you can't understand. This is where you get into the 'want to be completely intertwined, want all of you, no matter what '. That mentality. The kidnapping should happen because of love! The cannibalism should happen because of love! The rape should happen because of love! Love, love, love. It's always out of love! Love is the only thing that matters.

As for your bit about "adult feelings we don't quite understand yet", I do ponder this sort of thing quite a lot. I feel like... a lot of your experience as a child is that people underestimate what you are capable of. It's kind of frustrating! You see how children are depicted in things... and it makes you feel microaggressed, almost, haha. I'm not so gormless... I have an inner world, I have desires. One can develop an arrogance about this even... I think kids are pretty arrogant, often. Since they know they're being underestimated?

But... you... don't know everything yet! You can be in over your head. That's the tricky thing; there's a lot you haven't experienced before and cannot put to words yet. There are feelings that you have, that you chase, but you don't even know why. Sometimes it's fully unconscious... or sometimes, you're half-aware of it, but you struggle to confront it. Maybe you'll let yourself 'get away' with what you're doing, by not looking at it head on... Ah, and then, I think about all the memories I have of being pointlessly scared or confused about something that was so simple in reality. There are so many anecdotes people share from childhood that I really dwell on. An innocuous post like this really sums up how you can have a very inexplicable but real fear, that gets overturned by something very arbitrary. DON'T YOU HAVE A 100 MEMORIES LIKE THIS...?? It's the comical aspect of it all.

I really like the respective 'flavors' of specific ages as well. So it's fun to get into the head of a 15 yo, a 13 yo, a 12 yo, a 9yo, a 6yo... And the intersection of different personalities and ages! What about a distinctly 'slow' or immature kid, paired with someone younger yet more mature? Or perfectly on their level? Or... [goes on and on...] How do they encourage one another, who instigates what, what do they incidentally stumble into? I love accidents. I love not planning to do something... not intending to do anything more than an innocuous game. Or a mish-mash of, one of you is more clueless, the other knows they're doing something underhanded... Indeed, it's not always nice. It's often selfish. Love makes you selfish, love makes you impulsive and reckless. But it also makes you covet, find things precious. You end up feeling protective, as much as you feel destructive. How contradictory it all is!! Hehe. As you can probably tell, by now, I could spend all day thinking about this stuff...

Now that I have my ultimate best friend forever and ever, my wifey, it's all I want to think about. :3 I feel like being with her specifically, is what helped me fully understand the appeal of sibling characters. I've kind of dabbled in it before but, it's really being with Avvy that makes me crave the fantasy of wanting to be born together, grow up together... Never be apart. We're inseparable and spend every second with one another, so it's very natural to translate our dynamic into something like the Yugi twins. How warm and cozy! Let's play forever!

Bit of a tangent, but it's all relevant, I promise.

So hm... going over my art journey and all... As an adult, I've reached a point where I can reflect on everything I've been drawn to, and why, and I can understand what I want to make of it all. I felt more aimless before, and helpless about how to make everything harmonize. It all kind of felt like a big soup of disparate things I was trying to mash together, with mixed results. Now I feel more exact. And I can reflect on my own experiences and memories and use that to connect and explore characters. I like this... it's like my entire life becomes a reference point, something to pull from. A moment, a feeling, a tactile experience... It can be plucked and made into art. Which is lovely. At this point, it makes me a little excited when I experience stressful things, because it can be something I use later. Physical illness is fodder for a sickly character. When I'm bedridden and my wife is bringing me water, it's like some weird kinnie euphoria lol. My twin is here for meeee... kaff kaff

I keep trying to think of how to succinctly summarize this all... Maybe I can't. The last thing I want to say is I put a lot of reverence in my personal art, now. And I'm pretty severe about this, I don't want to draw something out of any other reason than adoration. It needs to matter to me. I have to love it. A lot of my old art is embarrassing, but as long as I was trying my best, it's not so bad. The stuff I truly hate was when I faffed off and drew some meaningless meme, just cuz my friends were doing it. And drawing things purposefully ugly. Making fun of my interests, out of shame, or something... I resent this. I won't ever do this again! If I draw Tsukasa... I need to make sure I'm conveying how I love him and how he is beautiful! At most, if I'm drawing something silly, it still needs to be cute. Appealing. A silly little comic. It's no fun of me, I know, but I hate meme-y art as a result. Useless to me. It's easy to be irreverent. Try praying to something next time you draw, if you want a challenge... *insane person voice*

Something something... oh, the reason I feel 'weird' and 'crazy' nowadays, is because I think a lot of people outgrow the edgelord, drawing pikachu crying blood phase. Or, it developed into something more... *squints* 'respectable'...? But I feel as though my raw desires haven't changed. If anything, I'm leaning into it allharder into it than I ever did when I was young.

I hope any of this was interesting. 🙇‍♀️

#asks #under the cut bc too much waxing

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warrior-cats-rewritten · 5 months

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💫 7, 8 and 16 for Ivypool and Dovewing? Also, have you read Thunder?

I haven't read Thunder but I know what happens.

Alright, Ivypool, you're up first.

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I LOVE when people draw her like a possum. Sharp and pointy and like she has a big mouth she will open wide to frighten off those she feels are a threat. And I like the funny metaphor in that statement. I also like her being pathetic. Bonefall put it as "sneaking into Dovewing's house to rearranging the fridge magnets to say "TALK TO ME""

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Please stop saying her relationship with Fernsong and becoming a "post protag soft mommy" was due to her trauma. There is no evidence for this. Also people (teenagers who are definitely being groomed themselves like i was) saying she groomed him, when they are only seen interacting when he is a full adult. Same case as SorrelxBracken, yall.

16. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Blossomfall. I still ship Ivy×Blossom.

Your turn, Dovewing!

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

Make her fat. I love fat Dovewing. Also heterochromia is always fun with her! Everyone also just... letting her rest. Letting her have a good time.

Also I'm starting to see the appeal of BriarxDove. If anything else, I'm just glad it spites Bumblestripe even more. "I don't like you but your sister is hot as hell." BriarxTigerxDove AU when?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

I will NEVER forgive the fandom for calling her a fucking 'Mary sue' because everyone was too much of an edgy 14 year old and fawned over Ivypool's shitty little outbursts. I admit, I wanted her to have a little bit more to her, but I liked her too.

Mainly I wanted her to have Starclan based dreams were Starclan angels were bothering her but ultimately trying to help as opposed to Ivypool's Dark Forest "friendly" death cult conditioning.

16. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

It isn't a GOOD relationship, but her mentor being Lionblaze right off the heels of his sister's "death" is so interesting, i just wish canon!Lionblaze was a bit... More of a cat. Also, her friendship with Rosepetal was funny, I wish it had been expanded upon. Let girls be friends. All her OOTS relationships needed fleshing out, tbh.

#warrior cats #asks #character ask game #ivypool #dovewing

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vorpalbun · 6 months

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Introducing

Deryn

Who is the main character of my NaNoWriMo project and my Baldur's Gate 3 tav (plus there's another version who's no longer in use)

Due to BG3's limited character customisation (and because I haven't used mods) and because I can't draw people, I don't have any pictures of him. So I need you to imagine a twenty-something East Asian trans man with a scouse accent. The most important Deryn facts are as follows:

OC Deryn:

Is an elf-like species I made up called an esfa

Grew up in a mysterious and reclusive village in the woods called Sign

Is enthusiastic about and has a natural ability for magic but isn't good at it because it's discouraged in Sign

Impulsive. His main commitment is to the bit

Vacillates between the being the peppiest ray of sunshine and a massive bitch

Is adorable and knows it

Cares about his appearance and enjoys fashion but is permanently a bit dishevelled due to outdoorsiness and regularly accidentally setting his own clothes on fire with magic

Enjoys writing songs that inflict psychic damage on anyone within earshot. Not in an edgy way they're just odd

Pronouns are he/they

Floridly homosexual

Tav Deryn:

Half-elf sorceror

Has impersonated a doctor on multiple occasions. This is because I always pick medicine checks because I think it's funny

Loves using detect thoughts. Wants to have a rummage. Wants to scroll through your mind like a groupchat

Can manipulate mansplain manwhore his way into and out of almost any situation

D&D Deryn (the OG Deryn created for a campaign with elements from His Dark Materials. Now defunct):

Basically the same as the other two

But a different backstory: Raised in a traditional elvish community, he has no contact with his human family. He leaves to find them and discovers they're mafia or something. I never got that far with it tbh

Has a fucked up jackrabbit daemon

#deryn #my darling boy #my stuff #raiperra

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ithinkabouttzu · 1 year

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Take all the time you need <333 for my ship request, id like a male ship with the pacific please! i'm filipina, 5'6''-7 range, a Leo sun, Taurus moon and Cancer rising. Im in my last year of college in liberal studies. I love to watch tv, youtube videos, read, write fics and poetry, draw and paint. Im listening to a lot of emo/punk rock music, but right now its goth rock music ! I squeeze in kpop music here and there; my fave kpop groups are blackpink, twice, (g)i-dle and red velvet! My fashion is a mix of grunge/punk and goth (its mostly all black and dark colours at this point) Im currently saving money for the TWICE concert right now so Im working really hard. I'm kind of introverted and sarcastic most of the time. I have faded copper red hair cos my jet black roots are growing. I used to wear euphoria themed makeup but its kind of altered to a new style due to my dark phase lol. I also love learning French, Portuguese and Tagalog whenever I can bc I would love to travel one day. I hope this is ok!! <3

Yes thank you sm for the request lovely!! 💗

I ship you with…

Eugene Sledge!

Song recommendation: Only - LeeHi

-Okay cute couple alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨‼️

- hear me out, but y’all would be like adorable and y’all’s looks would compliment each other so nicely omg 😫

- Black Cat gf and Golden Retriever bf type couple fr

- Right off the bat I think he would find you so pretty! Like he would be so nervous to come up to you because you’re like super cool and edgy and he’d be scared to mess something up or embarrass himself LOL

- He LOVES how different your style is from his! Like you’re so different from the basic girls he sees everyday so you would be honestly so refreshing to admire for him LOL

- One day he’d be just like looking around, and he’d find your drawings, and he find would them so pretty! I think he would be fascinated at how good you are at drawing

- I think he would find you so damn cool in general! Like you can speak multiple languages, you can draw amazing, your gorg, and you’re a good writer. (his dream girl omg)

- He would love your painting SOOO much, and everytime you draw something new he wants to be one of the first people to see it (he’s a supportive bae) like he honestly thinks you’re good at everything tbh.

- He’d like your sarcastic humor A BUNCH, he’s not very good at sarcasm but he likes to hear it from you, also he doesn’t like when anyone else is sarcastic BUT you (snafu’s jealous LMAO 😭)

- What a cute introverted couple AHHH i’m shipping so hard

- One date night, y’all had the idea to like draw each other which is so cute tbh, but like you actually draw him so well and it looks realistic while his on the other hand is literally a stick figure LOL (it’s the thought that counts though)

- He would be such a thoughtful and sweet boyfriend though 🥺, like if you’ve been wanting something for a long time ( like those twice tickets for example) He would def by those tickets for you to go to and he’s just so cute omg 😭

- Or like if you wanted a certain type of filipino meal he would try to make it for you and surprise you with it, he would get all the ingredients and he so serious on cooking the best meal ever, dude turns into Gordon Ramsey for a bit LOL

- Omg i could see y’all just traveling together and getting to learn all these different cultures and customs y’all would have so much fun

- Also I could just see you trying to teach him some french, bc like he thinks the language is so beautiful, and he is so attentive when you teach him and ends calling you little pet names in french

- goth rock might not be his fav but he’s def into listening to it when hes with you, he really doesn’t mind if it means you enjoy it

- canon: one time, he tried to write a romantic poem for you on valentine’s day, and failed horribly 😭 but it was so cute because you could tell he tried hard on it, even though it was adorable and it surely made your heart melt

- Y’all would have the cutest little stay - in date nights omg, I think gene would set everything up, snacks and all. you guys would be like watching your fav tv shows with some of the best cuddles EVER

- But overall y’all would be such a cute couple and i think y’all would get along like so gooddddd 😫 y’all would even each other out so nicely and yalls relationship would be so smooth and steady!!

Thank you again for your request and I hope you like it 🤞🏼💗!!!

#the pacific #the pacific ships #eugene sledge #ithinkabouttzu

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chenria · 7 months

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Weird artist ask: 3, 14, 17, and 29!

*hugs* thank you for sending an ask ♥ much appreciated!

3. What ideas come from when you were little? How "little"? Now that I am approaching the 40 I consider myself "little" when I was 20... XD There are not that many ideas that prevailed over the years. Mostly because you grow and develop and some ideas are a subject of their time and part of a person's (and my) development. My character Alani is with me for several years now. She was created from another character of mine actually and she developed and grew with me in a way. Other ideas and characters were left behind... their chapters closed.

14. Any favorite motifs? I am not totally sure I get the question? Aren't motifs patterns? As a non native English speaker I sometimes still wonder about some terms. But I think it means favorite subjects to draw? Like... I enjoy drawing romantic couples and fluff (when I am not in a depression) or I also like drawing character illustrations. I have a tendency to prefer to draw female characters because they are... softer most of the time. Men are so ... edgy :P

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what? Drinking... yes. Mostly tea or sparkling water. But I have that next to me most of the time anyway. Eating, not so much. When I am drawing I need my right hand to hold the pen and the left hand uses the keyboard shurtcuts... I don't have a spare hand for eating ^^"

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically. Oh... a lot actually XD I love Korean dramas and what quite a few on Netflix these days. But they don't inspire me to draw fanart for of something. My guilty pleasure mobile games... (like "Love Island the Game"). The fandom is sometimes too weird and aggressive so I stay out of it and don't feel too compelled to do fanart. Criminal Minds is a show I keep watching on repeat... same as some other shows, but no fanart or other inspiration. (But then, lately not much inspires me. I am not even inspired by BG3... but that's a different story and has more to do with me staying away from the fandom as far as I can tbh.)

#Weirdly Specific Artist Ask #Artist Ask #thank you for the ask

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Your recent reblog has left me wondering who could possibly die in the third game.. tbh I'm scared while hoping this doesn't happen, but because it's MW3 we're talking about, you know it means trauma and disappointment at its finest..

If they ever make the deaths referenced to the OG's, you'd know how shattered we'd all be 😭

You know I have a theory: .. I think Soap would survive. That man just started his journey and it'll make a lot of sense when we'd see him grow into a Captain and carry onto those memories. Ghost has a probability that he might survive because of the term he said before, "you can't kill a ghost".

So the probability goes on Gaz, and Price.. would the devs take away Price's immortality and finally put him to rest? To give a conclusion to the reboot MW series? Or would Gaz sacrifice his life for the Captain, as character development?

I've been thinking about this.

I actually hope that they have the fortitude to make some difficult decisions about character survival in the next installment, because I felt that by playing it so safe MW2 came across as very pedestrian. I suppose that coming of the back of plots that very edgy for the sake of it that perhaps pursuing a narrative where a main character died, or we were forced to torture a character, perhaps felt like creative stagnation. Nevertheless, Shakespeare wrote more than one tragedy.

I disliked in MW3 2011 that Soap die, because with him being Price's protege, and the previous narrative being about his story moving forward through gaining his commission and his promotion to Captain, that him dying but Price moving on, felt unsatisfying to me. If Price had died in Prague, and the story been about Soap's duty to vengance, it would have felt that Soap had closed off part of his life (leaving Price on the bridge) in a satisfying manner. But I digress.

Gaz's journey, I agree, is about learning from a mentor in the form of Price. In my opinion, the natural conclusion of this is him to spring forward and take command on his own, but I very much feel like the game hasn't shown me that he is ready to do this. Certainly he's developed in the sense of what he believes is ethical and acceptable, but we've never seen him leave Price's shadow. If Price died, Ghost is next in line for command (so nowhere for Gaz to go) and I just on't know if I could find that believable. It's also the reason why another tea-shop type epilogue scene where Gaz is offered the chance for commission doesn't feel satisfying unless we see some serious character development in the game. There is a part of me that wonders if Gaz has come as far as he will go, in which case, unlike MW3 (2011) Soap, it makes sense for him to complete his journey with Price (through death, possibly) and Price to move on to another apprentice. There's tragedy in this because Gaz stagnated, didn't realise this and move on, but it's more satisfying in that it draws something that has reached the end of it's journey to a close.

Soap and Ghost on the other hand are in some kind of mutual co-dependance as well as having a mentor-mentee relationship. Ghost is (and we'll gloss over that Soap is the only demolitions specialist who doesn't appear to known how to blow anything up) teaching him skills, and Soap is encouraging Ghost socially. These two will need to be separate in order to grow, and I wonder if Ghost either actually dying, or Soap believing him dead, are reasonable conlusions.

I'd really like it to be the latter, because that fits in with the whole ghost theme, except I'd like the audience to be in on this when Soap isn't.

#modern warfare2 #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish

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fandumb-whimsey · 1 year

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So. My interest in crafting a variation of Scarecrow that leans into the "violent dancing" aspect aka turning him into more of a physical threat has also somehow spiraled into making him the leader of a fear cult. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So it all started with some dc wiki perusal and, at the mention of his violent dancing style, the page linked to the wiki entry for drunken boxing. I don't know why this is tbh, but the ideas started percolating. Now, I wouldn't apply any of the styles 1:1 to Jonathan because I don't think it'd be suitable; he wouldn't be like Jackie Chan in the Drunken Master, etc. The general conception, however, is very appealing:

It's unpredictable. Disorienting. Pretty ideal for someone who enjoys dishing out some delicious fear. But one of my fave parts:

I like the idea of him appearing unbalanced even when he's not actively engaged with an adversary. Because someone standing there looking like they could fall over is just a fun and potentially unsettling gimmick. Of course, this would also mean he has killer core strength. As much as I like ghoulishly thin Dr. Crane, this version would have muscle. He'd still be an ectomorph body type though so definitely more wiry and flexible.

Going from there, I started pondering on designs which would facilitate a more active fighter. My idea is very derivative of the Arkham Asylum version followed by TNBA Scarecrow and Arkham Knight designs for vibes. Looser/less clothing, more practical than spooky (unfortunately). My version of his mask is more horror movie to accommodate that. I asked myself what scares me and that's mortality and body horror, so some skull elements were definitely used. I'd love to go more into detail about it but it'd be better to have a doodle to go with my atomic level rambling on design choices. Initially, I veered more towards a medieval executioner feel, but it 1. was before I was like "okay but what if he had a cult" and 2. didn't mesh with the fighting thing. I guess. I kept it though since his look changes with a single article of clothing and it works with the whole life and death theme I have going. I call one look the Shepherd (has a hood, sickle with long handle as a "shepherd's crook" for weapon) and the other the Executioner (mask only, full on scythe mode). This would make more sense with drawings, though I'm not much of an artist. (Ｔ▽Ｔ) I'll still try though. Soon.

I don't know where the cult idea popped up from. Maybe it was the God of Fear comic storyline? Maybe it's all the shitty darksynth with ominous pipe organ and satanic chanting I listen to??? Anyway. The general idea is college professor Jonathan Crane would really like funding for experiments related to fear, but no one is interested. Somehow gets the idea to start some secret society (named something edgy and cool like Eye of the Crow Order) based on, you guessed it: fear! The concept would be making individuals stronger mentally by forcing them to confront their fears. And other philosophical bs. At least on the surface. Jonny boy really just wants willing participants in his experiments but shhhh they don't know that. Induction into the group would involve being injected with a weaker form of the fear toxin or something. With time, more people join in. People who want to get hit with the fear toxin again would prob get subjected to higher dosage or a more experimental variant.

The turning point is after he's fired for, you know, the whole shooting a gun in a classroom thing. He kidnaps those responsible and decides to make a spectacle of their murder during a meeting of the secret society. This causes massive division within the group and a double or nothing scenario; people who aren't cool with murder and craziness obviously bail out, but those completely devoted to the "doctrine" go all in. And so begins the era of Scarecrow and his fanatical cult following.

This version would have no need to hire thugs. He has his "flock" fully willing to carry out his vision. The most committed of them (his "Disciples" perhaps?) are probably those who volunteer for multiple occurrences of fear toxin experimentation (and live through it) which has left them a bit unhinged and probably very dangerous. These are the ones which would likely also get shipped to Arkham if caught. But yeah, the cult angle is great because it adds an element of intrigue (is this otherwise polite Gotham citizen part of his cult??) and it makes Scarecrow a bit more threatening not only to Batman and the Batfam, but to the other rogues. Can't imagine some of the latter would be very keen on dealing with zealous cult members if a team-up was orchestrated.

As for Jonathan, the whole thing starts as a front just to get bodies to experiment on but, after huffing enough toxin over the years, he starts fully believing he is the Master of Fear and deserves to be worshiped over it. ALSO. He has a nice, tidy murder of crows. He gets all of them to mimic the sound of creepy laughter and say "hroo hraa" :)

also also trying not to feel A Way at him calling his followers "lambs"

#jonathan crane #scarecrow #cult leader scarecrow CULT LEADER SCARECROW #I shall affectionately call him cultcrow #sorry this is very long #I wrote this instead of sleeping because of s t r e s s :)#not 100% committed to All of This but the ideas are fun so far

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echofromtheabyss · 8 months

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I am increasingly feeling like I want to broaden my skills and certifications into more general IT and get a public sector type of job.

It is just impossible for me not to shit where I eat as a pro designer also trying to do my own art, while writing novels in a genre where people are after your throat. I can't keep my creative identity and work identity as separate as I need to. Tbh it's only since doing DoorDash and being between clients that I've really felt the freedom to write edgy (as in, it would be normal 70s-80s-90s sci fi but we are prudes now) work.

I'm doing iffy enough as a designer to be faced with the choice, do I make a lateral move into something that can be much more compartmentalized off from my creative life.. or just go deeper into design/teach it/etc.

Except my work isn't uWu enough to not want to maintain strict compartmentalization

And I can either stay in design and make my work more uWu

Or write and draw what I want but have a largely unrelated day job

My writing has been so much better since I started DoorDashing because I'm not worried I'm going to get canceled out of that job for writing body horror

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askingdiabolikbois · 1 year

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Hey. Hate to bother you, and I’m not 100% sure this blog is alive but I’ll leave this here nonetheless. Mind if I have a matchup for DL? I’m a enby bisexual. Myers Briggs is INFJ and Enneagram type is 4. I have very strong beliefs and I’m a bit stubborn to change them otherwise. I’m quite the introvert. I’m not really a people person at all. I tend to scare people off too just by my overall vibe. Like I look like I just got out of prison. When in reality I’m just intimidated by everyone around me. I find the most comfort in just being in my room drawing, reading and or listening to music ( Get Scared, MCR, P!ATD, MSI, Glass Animals, sometimes ICP or Mother Mother ). I’ve been told I’m witty, and I can be rather humorous when it comes to my sarcastic humor, insults or anything insulting in general. I can be rather rude. I’m a plushie maniac and when I fall asleep you can always see me cuddled up to one of them. Mainly because I’m really touch starved. I’m also a horror enthusiast. Anything spooky is my kind of style. I also wear all black most of the time. Or just "edgy" clothes in general. I’m guilty of being a huge submissive type unfortunately. I have autism and I suffer from severe depression and severe anxiety. I can get really down for no reason or just freak out over random stuff. I’ve had to hypoglycemic attacks from not eating. I just sometimes have a really hard time taking care of myself. If you do get to this, thanks for your time. - Coii

I ship you with : Subaru !

- Subaru is intrigued by your appearance, he thinks your really cute and cool looking

- He isn’t intimidated by you at all and if anything, he understands as everyone seems intimidated by him

- He doesn’t mind your strong beliefs and is silently happy your so strongly passionate about something, although he will probably mock you if it’s something overly religious

Subaru likes that your introverted, as he is too, he’ll be happy to spend time with just you, and you alone

- He too is stubborn so I can see a lot of meaningless fights over nothing important, and it comes down too whoever caves first tbh

- Suba too likes spending the majority of his time in his room, so he would be content listening to music and chilling / napping with you

- Having a snuggly session with all your plushies as pillows, drinking your blood would be the perfect way to spend his day

- He enjoys watching you draw, and is often giving you ideas of what to sketch like roses

- Gets totally flustered when you draw him although will definitely appreciate it

- He’ll happily watch horror movies with you, he enjoys laughing at them whenever there’s a really stupid kill or unrealistic blood splatter

- He’s really into indie horror and loves finding underground, f*ckd up horror movies

- He loves your style, and thinks it suits you

- He hates how down you can get but he’s exactly the same so he knows there’s not a lot he can do, so he just tries his best to comfort you, or if you need space he’ll give it but remain close by if he’s needed

- Since your submissive, he’ll enjoy that and will take your blood as often as he pleases

You and Subaru met when he was just wondering one day, he thought you looked cool and overheard what you were listening to through your headphones. He was a big fan of Get Scared and thought your edgy clothes were cute on you. He isn’t one to approach people but you caught him staring and he kinda screamed in your face. He made a random comment about how he enjoyed the music, and asked what else you were into. Subaru caught feelings a little too fast but didn’t admit it. He pretty much used you for blood at first since you seemed to submit to him pretty nicely, though when you weren’t around he really missed your company. He started to crave your attention, so always seemed to loom about near you and always ended up just chilling with you.

He was so consented about your situation with food, he isn’t much of an eater himself but he could sustain himself on blood. He honestly considered turning you into a vampire so he wouldn’t have to worry about your nutrition. He even resorted to guilt-tripping, declaring you need to eat so he has healthy, delicious blood to drink. Subaru isn’t the best at dates but he gave you some roses and asked if you wanted to see a movie, suggesting a horror one.

Overall Subaru just ended up greatly caring about you and wanting to protect you. He tries his best to improve your mental state, and encourages you to look after yourself.

Hi sorry this took a while! Hope you enjoyed the matchup! Your music taste is super cool, I love msi, mcr, get scared and p! in particular. Im also a big horror fan, I have tons of recommendations if your interested! Hope your keeping well with your mental health and everything is okay in general! If you ever need someone to talk too please feel free to message :)

#diabolik lovers #diaboliklovers #sakamaki #subaru #subaru sakamaki

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magpierrecanarie · 1 year

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I seriously need to keep up with my schedule, this is the second time in the same week I've forgotten to post something on the day I said I would.

On another note, thanks for 40+ notes on the Technoblade fanart, it means a lot to me :D

TL;DR: I talk a bit regarding my plans for my Vocaloid AU's Piko Utatane, not very long since I've been slaving away doing a bigger project.

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Hello again! My brain and eyes have been dying on me these days, I'm so sorry I couldn't get to this earlier.

There's lots of things I haven't gotten to doing tbh, BUT I can happily announce that I've been starting on my portfolio projects for my college. I'll probably post progress pics of them every time I reach a certain point I'm happy with. The one I'm currently doing is more hands-on and less about drawing, which is why I've been running out of stock. (This is 100% an excuse to start posting WIPs)

In fact, one of the projects I've listed down is an entire animated PMV for this AU, with Piko as the MC!

I'll have to ask the person responsible whether I can send them that though, so it's still up in the air as of now. I have plotted a general storyboard of what should happen when and I'll be posting some of its pictures in... maybe a couple more days?

Anyways, back to the main focus.

I vaguely remember mentioning that Piko's a dickhead in the story in my last Oliver post, and that's absolutely true LMAO. I want him to be this little man who's incredibly cocky and mad, who had big aspirations but they were crushed by reality. He lashes out at people whenever his insecurity is brought up and he especially hates the people responsible for it.

His friends have been trying to get him to open up about it but it never works, sometimes it even backfires on them because he's just that stubborn.

Even so, all he's trying to do is protect his friends. In his perspective, he's just trying to make them stop associating with that gang because it won't do them any good. Just like what he went through when he first arrived. They'll only feel hurt when they realize the truth.

Which is why I've designed him with this concept in mind, like a floating jacket is cool as hell and I would love to have one in real life, (Even if it may be absolutely useless, it's for the a e s t h e t i c, okay?) but the implications of it is GREAT. He also has sharp as hell eyeliner because who doesn't like eyeliner? I think it makes him look really edgy and that is exactly how he is as a person so it works out kinda.

Okay, this is getting really long for just "a bit." I'll probably go into deeper detail once I actually ask about the PMV stuff.

See you soon! B) I can't explicitly say on which day because I know my stupid ass is going to forget somehow.

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