#is still a great tag btw

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 6 month anniversary of this blog! Check out these cool bugs I found.

Part 2 - Part 3

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #hollow knight #mdzs au #way too many characters to tag #'OP why?' Listen... It was either this or a Homestuck crossover. Which is still on the table btw. I've put thought into it. #Speaking of putting thought into things...I have put two full asses of effort into this. So I'm gonna talk about it in the tags. #I mapped all the major sects to hallownest clans and drew *way* more than just the characters shown here #More pertinently not shown are the Nies - Who are beetles! #The mantis clan has a lot of crossover with the Nies given the lore but I Love Mantis Wangji and you cant take him away from me. #wwx was a moth solely for his ties to Baoshen sanren (nearly forgotten sect & nearly forgotten clan) #but (HOLLOW KNIGHT SPOILERS) the ties to her radiance and the infection made for some very fun parallels #YLLZ moth 100% is puppeting husks around #JGS is a pale king expy becuase...you know....lots of children... #it also gives me a great excuse to explain wwx's soul taking mxy's body. #Still have lots and lots to say but I'm already running late! More funny - less specific to a very small population - comics to morrow! #This was more or less a style study and I learned a lot! #Thank you all for an awesome 6 months B*) You guys have pushed my way more out of my shell (pun intented) than I would- #-have ever gone had I just hidden away like I usually do. Thanks for all the support even with silly things like this <3

[redrobin-detective]

Which Danny Phantom episode had the Coolest idea but the Worst execution

#danny phantom #like we all know DP as a concept was So cool and so underutilized #but what eps boil your blood because of HOW WASTED the idea was #for me its a srs toss up btw memory blank and masters of all time #MB could have been a great exploration of what if showing that dannys powers did have meaning and helped people #not to mention him taking control of the narrative and choosing himself to get his powers #butttt masters of all time could have been such an interesting exploration of why vlad is how he is the nature of being a halfa #and how both vlad/jack and fundamentally different people #(See my idea where halfa jack and maddie still marry and danny is born with his powers and vlad is a vengeful human hunter out to get them) #phans plz put in the tags why certain episodes destroy your souls! #Also sorry if I didnt include your worstie #I had only 12 spaces so I picked the 12 most egregious examples imo

[svtskneecaps]

also in terms of the bolas playlist it's fascinating to me that the songs added by each person have a slight tendency to represent a consistent aspect of bolas

like

the songs added by slime are their chaos

the songs added by philza are their rebellion

the songs added by cellbit are their rage

the songs added by baghera are their anguish

it's so fucking FASCINATING TO ME but i don't know enough music theory to elaborate lmfao this is Vibes Only

(mouse's songs i can't boil down to an easy noun which is why they aren't mentioned lmao anyway they go hard asf)

(also i went on the longest fucking unhinged elaboration in the tags lmfao i almost didn't have enough tags left to tag "long tags" at the end

(i could have even gone on longer in terms of where their characters were at entering purgatory [philza: cage for a cage; cellbit: fed worker murders; baghera: her past as a federation experiment; slime: turning into a code because of the code pretending to be his daughter] but i ran out of space and also time it's 4AM AAAAA)

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory #this is a sweeping generalization btw esp for baghera's she added a WIDE variety of music #qsmp bolas #sorry i forgot that tag existed lmao #i will elaborate slightly: #slime added: find your flame; gas gas gas extended; waltz of the meatball man; foghorn sound effect #philza added: b.y.o.b.; throne; the melting point of wax #cellbit added: hayloft II; brazilian dança phonk (which roier literally played during purg while beating the shit out of bbh lmao) #baghera added: can you feel my heart; still waiting; and coincidentally she added 'it's been so long' (the fnaf song lol) #TO BE CLEAR THESE ARE GENERALIZATIONS #baghera also added the government knows [REBELLION] and oops [CHAOS] #philza added given up [ANGUISH] #cellbit added zombie [ANGUISH] and tokyo drift [CHAOS] #slime added as above so below [ANGUISH] #it's not a perfect category; ESPECIALLY for baghera's songs i want to make that so clear in these tags #HOWEVER. it is interesting. #anyway i went after lyrics for these examples but just generally when going through the playlist the first time #i kind of learned that like. #music to murder to was probably cellbit; punk millenial music was probably philza #the wackiest shit was probably slime (was shocked to find out tokyo drift was a cellbit song for this reason lmao) #baghera's i usually could only pin down bc it didn't sound like anyone else's #and mouse's added songs i could not describe the vibe if you threatened me for it but it has one #i guess the closest vibe is 'a college radio station run by anime fans' and even then it's not that close #it kinda excludes songs like the b//ad bun//ny songs #unless college anime fans are also fans of them in which case great! #IDK IT'S 4 AM I WAS JUST MAKING MYSELF SAD ABOUT TILIN I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP #shut up vic #block game brainrot #long tags

[dear-ao3]

am i happy being a lando norris fan? yes. absolutely. it is wonderful. am i also annoyed at myself for being basic by liking him? 100%

is there anything wrong with being basic? no absolutely not. it’s great. but liking lando norris is the equivalent of being given the aux cord and playing love story by taylor swift. iconic? yes. a cultural masterpiece? yes. basic? yes. and then you have someone come up right after you and play some indie underground song that they heard in a bar once in scotland at 3am when they were 21 and you look at them with shock and adoration and wish, just a little bit!!, that you could be as effortlessly cool as them. but you are not because your favorite driver is lando norris and theirs is valtteri bottas.

#i monologued this to my sister and we both said bottas at the same time so i know he’s not the most cool #but he’s still valtteri bottas man of mystery and cycling #meanwhile lando has what stroppnwaffles ?? #don’t get me wrong i love him he’s great but still every day i ponder briefly #and then i said no you’re basic accept it #not a tag #from saph #f1 #lando norris #this is not an insult to lando girlies btw we’re all cool and funky

[skitskatdacat63]

"To dream the impossible dream, that is my quest." - Prince Fernando of Asturias

+ Seb not getting what he ordered

+ the usual

Hello yes, look! It's baby Renault Fernando, isn't he so cute??? Who wouldn't want to force him into an arranged marriage, like cmon man be real. Here is the progress as usual, as well as his suit without the design, cause I'm pretty proud of it just blank even!

Okay so this is pure Fernando, innocent Fernando, before he had his apirations ripped way from him. Well not fully ripped away tbf, because that's the crux of his character: is it more humiliating to never succeed or to only succeed because someone handed it to you with concessions? I guess that's up for him to decide though ;;;

The thing I love about this drawing and young Fernando in general is how much easier it is to see his and Seb's similarities. Look how similar they look! Seb is just a bit more evil.

I think that's a big part as to why his feelings about Seb are so complicated. He both loves and hates how similar they are. From an egotistical point, he can appreciate and respect the familiar traits in Seb, the hunger, the exuberance, the pride, the ego. But also we hate seeing our own traits in other people, it's almost like turning a mirror on your worst traits and suddenly being able to see yourself from a new perspective. The biggest point here though is that Fernando turns that resentment onto Seb, as a way to clamp down on self hatred.

He becomes more bitter and resentful as he grows older, and loses a lot of his whimsy and joy. So it hurts him to see Seb, who in addition to getting everything he's ever wanted, also retain his whimsy. He, wrongly, just sees it as something that had to happen in order for him to grow up fully. It's more of a survival tactic, it started becoming unbefitting for him to have that level of unfounded confidence. That's the main reason he sees Seb as childish, immature and undeserving. He hasn't fully grown out of his capacity for whimsy and joy, and thus is below Fernando.

Well that was depressing oops! As the chibi art represents, this is probably a painting Seb got sent in the early days of planning their marriage. This is the Fernando who is still prideful, the Fernando who is still confident, the Fernando Seb vaguely remembers meeting his youth. Seeing this definitely pushes him even further towards the marriage(though tbf it's not like he even has a choice either.) Though when the time to actually start courting comes around, Fernando looks very uh different. This is both a joke about how different Fernando was in his first renault stint vs his second. But also I think he does show up very moody and disheveled, as a sort of last chance way to try and turn everyone on Seb's side, including Seb, off from the marriage. However, it's pretty much a done deal by that point.

Seb is uh, definitely confused, but I think he would be drawn to Fernando regardless. Actually, this might make Fernando even more appealing. Seb gets to push him all the time, try to break down his walls and get a glimpse at the real Fernando, if even just for a moment. Seb wishes he had more that just a blurry, vague recollection of Fernando at his peak confidence. Fernando definitely grows into something resembling his past self, after recovering from all the hurt, but there's just something about youthful exuberance that can't really be fully replicated.

Okay so about the quote. I went with Don Quixote this time instead of the typical Napoleon, because I thought it'd be funny. Fernando picks up the book at some point during his youth, and it inspires him a lot. He doesn't really see the satire in it, and comes to really admire Don Quixote's mentality, he's like "wow he never gives up! That's so admirable!" It definitely helps him through dark times to aspire to never give up no matter what. Though later Seb definitely rags on him for not knowing it was satire, and Fernando is like "wh-what do you mean satire?" But he's mentally strong enough atp for it to not cause his whole worldview collapse. About the quote specifically, there's definitely some part of him, even when young, that knows his aspirations are borderline impossible. I wonder if that part of him feels weirdly safe and comforted about the marriage. Yes, it's not ideal, but it's safe and secure. He gets what he wants, and there's no chance of anyone taking it away from him, no matter what.

I think his title would be Prince of Asturias? It was either that or duke, and I think prince fits him bettee(Machiavelli reference?) That title is currently the title for the heir to the Spanish throne. In this time period, it's also commonly used for the heir, but for Fernando it's a bit unsure. Like in real life, he's not directly the offspring, but he's still the most obvious choice for heir. But there's still enough room for Seb and his house to try to vie for the throne themselves, so it makes it all complicated.

#*btw that quote is from don quixote just so thats clear. creds to Cervantes lmfao. i explained in the read more why ! #hahahaha all my lore and tags and everything got deleted so i had to rewrite this all. original post you will live on fondly in my memories #^ i was half asleep writing it the 2nd time so i hope its still good? #its always going to be inferior to me but ig it doesnt rly matter bcs im the only one who actually got to read it ha #anyways super happy with this ahhhh!!! #it was so much fun to draw. i got to focus more on the fashion and its great as well bcs renault's colors are fire #im also glad to draw him bcs i feel like ive neglected hima bit compared to the others! its been a fair bit since ive drawn him #i cant remember what else i said here haha so ill just say hope ya like! #im still happy with the characterization notes and lore in the read more so def read it still!! #and as always please inquire if you have any thoughts or question abt the au #fernando alonso #f1 #formula 1 #<- it gets more and more absurd every drawing to tag this but ah tradition ig #catie.art #boy king au #vettonso

[butterflysonnets]

sometimes a family is two queer traumatised substance-abusing teenage boys and their little gay dog

#the goldfinch #boreo #fuck it i'm not tagging anything else the real ones will find this #anyway guess whos reconsuming the goldfinch in all 2 (two) of its forms #i said this old hyperfixation would come back and i was right!! #i need to be chemically restrained #hi to the three people still hanging out in the boreo fandom this is for you i love you #and btw they become two men in love recovering from trauma and crime and drugs and they live together in nyc with their old gay dog :) #because i said so :) #i should write a fanfiction #eve text #eve's great tgf rehyperfixation

[swiftcast-selene]

30: Dawn

he'd stayed up all night for this. seeing the sun - the proper sun - crest the horizon again... it had all been worth it.

#miqomarch #miqomarch 2024 #ffxiv miqo'te #final fantasy 14 #seeker of the sun #shb spoilers in tags... beware #essentially he. was brought in like. a while after alphinaud but before alisaie #and spent a whole year on the first on his own - no selene no sagra #and since selene is his conduit: with none of his healing magic either. #so without any magic or any knowledge of the local plants #it was like he had been stripped of literally all purpose #which as you can imagine for a man who mostly views himself through the lens of 'how can i help others' #was not great for his mental health! #mostly he just became some sort of lydha lran cryptid of sorts #wandering the fog in old tattered voeburt clothes #waving a rusty old sword around to keep people out of the pixies' home #(since his soul is still owned by selene they couldn't really do anything to him) #which eventually ended with him having some sort of Thing with urianger #BUT. once sagra made it back with selene #and once they talked a lot of stuff out - its a long story - #there was definitely something like. oh. fuck. oh fuck yes this is the reason im here. this was worth it. #to see the relief on everyone's face on the crystarium #we're going thru shb again HEHE i have a lot of thoughts about himmm. my little GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #miqomarch fans how excited are we to almost be done btw???

[scredgirl]

Been playing Call of the Netherdeep and I unfortunately (and predictably) have a thing for Aloysia Telfan, the resident moon occultist.

#call of the netherdeep #d&d art #exandria campaign #critical role fanart #this is still WIP but I haven’t posted in too long #highly recommend the campaign btw it’s been a great ride #aloysia telfan #idk if anyone else searches her tag but I DO

[layalu]

hey guess who just finished EotE and is feeling So Very Normal about it

#i wanna paint this properly at some point but i needed to get this out of my system #my art #id in alt #outer wilds #outer wilds eote #outer wilds spoilers #(idk if this says anything without context lol but i'll probably ramble in the tags so imma give it a spoiler tag anyway) #i will admit i only watched a walkthrough instead of playing bc i am a wuss :') #would def recommend playing over watching any part of ow but still. hhhhhhhh #the thematic contrast & parallels of the strangers is so gooood #also the atmosphere (it is great in the entirely of ow but i love how eote keeps it up while making it distinct from the main game?) #also also solanums and the prisoners theme together is the best thing. btw. so pretty but it makes me cry #but ye. i love how it starts with one eye and then every species that gets involved has progressively more #which idk if there is supposed to be any meaning to that lol but it sure is cool for Imagery TM

[lividmorbidity]

"OMG he's so vocal and whiny when he's grabbed!!" my brother in christ he is getting mauled to death by a 3 meter man-beast he is NOT enjoying that shit 💀

#amnesia the bunker #henri clement #i'll probably delete this later #but just because a character is vocal when they're harmed or injured doesn't mean they're enjoying it! it actually means they are scared #and in pain #anyways. Amnesia the bunker is a great game and I love the beast's design a lot. still really sad that's Lambert. #spoilers #in tags that is #I speculated the height btw. saw a post with a comparison between Henri and the Stalker and just guessed

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Life update Life advice. Go Bald and be free.

#non mdzs #Everyone was very nice and supportive about my new baldness I mentioned in the tags of last post. #And originally I was going to keep it in the tags exclusively for The Bit. #But your support has emboldened me. Now it's public knowledge. #I will still be baldposting in the tags until I'm no longer Smooth. #Showers are great btw. I have never felt so clean. #I worry for sunburn but I can just wear a hat! #My little cat guy would feel like warm raw chicken.....Things to think about. #Hair holds to many awful secrets and you can be free from it all by just going bald!

[moonpaw]

Oda: I’ve killed this character, here is their death scene

Me:

Oda:

Me:

Oda:

Oda: They’re 100% dead, here are the graves

Me: Oh you were serious

#one piece #one piece spoilers #for WCI and wano so dont read the tags #oda's been killing more prominent characters lately but i still have such a delayed reaction #yasuie was putting his whole body into having his death scene and all i could do was watch it with a straight face like #''he'll be fine its not like he'll die from this'' #then he went and got buried and i was like ohhh uh oh #the same for the other two wano deaths but i just felt like those were... not that great #i didnt even realize izou died until suddenly ''oh yeah we buried him btw'' #bro?? #pedro was the same but im still half convinced hes gonna pop up later since we never got his body

[taaalia]

tori was fucking awesome but giving hermie/anthony/the literal joker a 4 is factually incorrect

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #I EAS GIGGLING #ANTHONT BURCH YOU ARE SO FUNNY AND I HOPE YOU KNOW IT #A 4?? yeha maybe the pacing was a bit quick BUT IT WAS FUCKING FUNNY #and the joker makeup #this man deserves every award ever created idc #urgh he was so funny and added so much to hermies character while still not going off plot or whatever it was so great anthony burch ur coo #...ur cool but yk what would make u cooler?? MENTIONING YEET BIGLY IR KILLA DEMALL #I DONT EVEN NEED PROPER CONTENT ANTHONT PLEASE I JUST NEED ONE TEENY TINY COMMENT THAT HALF THE FANDOM WILL IGNORE AND NEVER TALK ABOUT #i hate it when my brain does that thing and focuses on shit that will never be brought up again #because it has been literal months since this fixation thing started #MONTHS. and its STILL GOING. #btw yeah if ur new here hi welcome to my silly tumblr blig #50% of it is yeet bigly #40% is me begging anthony to add yeet bigly or killa demall content as if he will ever read this #and the rest is me shitting on willy stampler! #i love tagging

[commsroom]

Ok so I absolutely love your Hera art.

But

Have you considered

Pink/orange/multicolored Hera

Honestly I feel like warm colors in general just suit her so well.

oh, i don't know! when i ask people to draw hera blue, the reasons for that are: 1) it makes her more immediately recognizable, and 2) i like what it represents! it draws on existing sci-fi imagery of holograms. a projected image of someone who is physically elsewhere. it's associated with water and sky, distance and longing.

physically, i think there are two heras: there's the way people literally perceive her from an outside perspective - formless, or associating her with the hephaestus itself, which is misidentification. i love when people draw eiffel interacting with hera's cameras + monitors very much, but i also think it's clear she feels she's seeing through them, not that she is them. and there's hera as she sees herself in her own mind (and in eiffel's mind, in the finale), where... i really think she just perceives herself as an average, tangible person.

so i don't think she's literally blue, i just think it's a good way to give her a visual presence in art that's closer to her self-perception, while still communicating some sense of distance / disconnect, if that makes sense? if hera had a body and could wear clothes, i think she'd love to try on all sorts of colors!!

#hi i'm so sorry about the delay! you caught me in the middle of eiffel questions #(just moving this part to the tags for clarity but i said before like. i know you mean 'your' as in art done for me of my design #for hera. but i feel like i should still acknowledge all of the wonderful people who have drawn her for me.) #anyway. blue is the hera color to me for all of the above reasons but also that shade of blue looks great with eiffel's bright orange. #i think it can be neat if people give her an orange visor or floating screens etc. to mirror hephaestus uniforms as like. work equipment #and i would love if someone made blue + pink art of hera in like. a trans way. but as a base color to represent her... i don't know #nothing except that shade of blue feels right to me. #i think warm colors would be lovely on her! but i think even that is more effective as like. if she has a body #then it communicates connection and presence and self expression and all of that in contrast. you know. #(though i think she would like blues as well anyway because of that association with the ocean. blue + yellow's a really sunshine-y look.) #thank you for asking!! #and your icon is so cute btw. is that your dog #asks

[seagull-scribbles]

From Chapter One of On Mistakes and Birthdaycake by @bemmiecake on AO3

I started reading this fic when it first came out and it’s had such a huge impact on how I think of knuckles and you have definitely seen it’s influence in my art this past year! So it only seemed fair to try do something for the fic itself x

#sth #knuckles the echidna #tikal the echidna #I out tikal in blue because that was a royal Mayan colour and also water and chaos yaknow #and knuckles always gets green in my book tbh #I kind of merged my own design with the description from the fic to meet it halfway #this is the most canon I’ve drawn Tikal in a while ahahaha #on mistakes and birthdaycakes #bemmiecake #it’s been so long since I did fanfiction art #I miss being able to read fanfiction tbh #this one’s been like really good with me self projecting and trying to heal I guess #but I’m not going into that here #this is a beautiful unfinished fic about expectations and self pressure and found family #it’s got great details and world building and a lot of fun echidna culture and law interwoven into it #it’s tagged as sonamy and kuxouge but I don’t ship them and I’ve really enjoy it regardless it’s not in your face #so don’t let that deter you #it’s still being update btw it’s not abandoned but as of uploading this it is unfinished #I really wanted this to have an ethereal feel and also be like a book illustration so #messy by intention and I didn’t render the marking cause I really wanted them to pop that’s what I want your eyes to be drawn too #oh I forgot this fic actually goes into knuckles connection with the metals and how it calls to him and how he can feel and #sence chaos energy in everything and nom nom nom I am eating it up

[astranauticus]

A thrilling and horrific tale of 5 strangers caught up in a mysterious supernatural conspiracy, will they uncover the secrets of the peculiar artefact bestowed upon them or will they fall to what lurks in the shadows? Find out in Curse of the Amulet, coming to a theatre (heh) near you this Halloween season!

#rolling with difficulty #how the fuck do i tag this #rwd curse of the amulet #?????????? #for the full effect please imagine sophia's voice reading that caption #and disregard the fact that i wrote 'this halloween season' in the dead of july #this took me like a full month to draw and like yeah i was busy with other shit in the meantime but i just feel the need to point that out #bc this wasnt even as high effort as my last piece THAT was me running at 120% #this was just a very 'some things are gonna take all week no matter how half you ass them' kinda project #also in case youre wondering yeah alistair's was the one i thought up first and it was 100% inspired by the original cats musical poster #that and red's joke at the end of the episode about jay gatsby surviving all the glowing green lights #im still mad about that btw. cuz the great gatsby was my favourite alevel lit text and jay gatsby is my pathetic little meow meow #so the fact that someone in this one shot set in 1920s america is playing just Jay Gatsby But Worse is just #KJSDHFKJSDHFKJHDKH #/pos i love alistair so much #art i made