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lunchtimebedamned1997 · 5 days

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Vee's Studies!

(scroll to the end for timelapse :3)

I'm like, kind of obsessed with them lmao. While I've drawn Vox quite a lot (I've been working on a Vox animation thing over the last month-ish) I hadn't done much of anything when it came to Val and Vel. I knew I'd want to do something with them all later on, but I wanted to get a good understanding of their designs, shape language, and the differences between the three of them so I can play a lot more when it comes to doing them (heh) in my own style.

So, since I was most familiar (and most obsessed with out of the three lol), I started with Vox :3

While I've been working on the animation project, it had kind of been an 'adjust-as-I-go'/'let's-bullshit-this' process, rather than doing the work of understanding why certain things looked more correct than others, so I still learned a LOT from this one study. (Plus the scene makes me wheeze and I happily took the excuse to use that moment as his study reference haha)

Obviously Val is... an asshole, to really undersell it. But this is hell, his character is interesting and his design is immaculate. I think I had the most fun with studying him tbh. Without his santa wings-coat he- *coughs* - yeah. Uh. Good design. I can actually believe that Angel fell for him at one point. Manipulative bastard - sorry tangents. ANYWAY! XD

VERY fun to draw, and a very good balance within these designs of showing off character attributes but also not taking themselves too seriously (The HATS these boys wear! *wheeze* did Velvette just give up fighting them on it? I've gotta know haha)

I missed color too much by this point to make them all match perfectly, and frankly - trying to draw canon Velvette without hue differentiation is AWFUL she has so many details and overlapping elements. If I ever have to draw Vel from 1x03 again I might cry.

Something about her 1x03 look actually makes me feel viseral irritation just by seeing it (like, even b4 I made myself draw it), but then I see her in 1x08 and I wanna draw her forever???? She's so fucking cool? So fucking cute????? The duality of man ig lmao

Anyway, the TLDR is that actually being conscious of how things are represented when drawing a character can lead to surprisingly immense insight... I feel like I not only understand so much more about how to represent their characters, but also a much firmer grasp about how the shape language in the show works.

These designs are immaculate and I had so much fun. I actually have a lot more I could say about this, but my period came today and I'm tired and this post is already massive so I'll leave things here for now! But yeah! Hopefully more Vee's in the future bc I love them!

Wishing you all well! <3

#my art #digital art #fanart #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #hellaverse fanart #hazbin hotel vox #valentino hazbin hotel #velvette hazbin hotel #vox fanart #valentino fanart #val fanart #velvette fanart #character studies #vees fanart #the vees #the vees hazbin hotel

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jeanbie · 1 year

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MODERN DAY! CONNIE HEADCANONS #1 ★ masterlist.

i've always headcanonned connie as spanish

moved around a lot since he has family all around the world

loves rap music and hip-hop music

definitely the friend who always has headphones with him or on him

always dancing when he hears a song

and he's an amazing dancer

he has an energy that can make everybody in the room more comfortable

nobody's dancing at the party? wait until connie gets on the dancefloor, then they'll come

has an infectious laugh that even strangers find themselves chuckling along with

is able to make friends wherever he goes with whoever

he's very easy-going and chill and friendly

connie loves big dogs, and has never understood why his mom chose a small little ratty dog that he pretends he doesn't like to try and make her feel bad about it (connie loves his dog)

has the best style out of his friends in terms of being original whilst also trying to appeal to different trends

loves camp rock

connie has his shaven head because he thinks it suits him, but when he was younger he had quite curly hair that was almost blonde

always has sasha help dye his hair cool colours

felt very influenced by gekko from valorant and did try and steal his personality and style for a while

very passionate about his culture and heritage and always invites his friends to family gatherings so he can share the love

the friend who is always doing something unexpected, like he's never just not doing anything

doesn't like wearing jewellery like bracelets or watches because he's always active and is worried he'd either lose them or break them

has a few ear piercings and wants to get his belly-button pierced

he got his eyebrow pierced once but he forgets he has it

when he's angry or sad he goes on tangents in spanish

finds it hilarious when his friends get spanish words wrong and deliberately teaches them words and tells them they have different meanings

took spanish when he was at school and somehow got a lower grade than eren who has never studied spanish before in his life

likes instagram but only really uses stories because sometimes he looks at a photo for too long and then decides that he hates it

loves comedy movies and especially loves romcoms

not the smartest kid at school but he gets the job done

never does homework though because it's bad enough that he has to be at school for seven hours a day, why should he do more work at home

quite good at sports, not amazing but not awful

he really likes tennis and he's pretty good at swimming and hockey

he hates athletics though like he does not see the point in running really fast and just being super tired at the end of it

loves video games and will always advocate for the tekken games

exclusively plays as toad during mario kart

genuinely likes marvel movies but always has the worst takes on characters ever

is a pickle enthusiast

he doesn't really like horror movies or slasher movies because he doesn't understand the enjoyment of watching people get brutally murdered

likes the smell of spearmint and honestly just always smells really good

he has really bad hayfever

always remembers to take a hat outside no matter what the weather is like – if it's sunny he has his cap, if it's freezing then you bet he'll be wearing one of those big hats that covers everything

had chickenpox twice as a kid- thinks it makes him special, it does not

never has storage on his phone and his camera roll is probably like full of photos that he never deletes or backs up

never been super interested in dating anybody – he gets more of a kick out of friendly interaction and has never really craved romantic affection, or at least not yet

his comfort tv show is the simpsons

loves primary colours, especially colours like blue and yellow and green

has quite veiny hands

someone who at first goes unnoticed and it's only when people are really looking at him where they realise that he's actually quite good looking

not very good at keeping plants alive

is drawn to a fish tank if there's one in the room – he always wonders what animals are thinking about when they do their daily activities

thinks that slugs are quite creepy

eren once told him that slender man was real and even though he knows it's not true sometimes he gets a bit paranoid about it

is very good at skateboarding

wears one or two necklaces at a time

you know he's coming either from 1) the loud music you can hear from his headphones, 2) you can hear him moving around as he dances or sings or 3) from the sound of loose change in his pockets

loves sour sweets

is always very disappointed by some of his friend's dinners, like where's the spice? where's the flavour?!

never asks for anything for his birthday or christmas and therefore becomes the most impossible person to buy for her

likes stickers though and will find it hilarious if you buy him terrible stickers that are god awful

he adores TMG like he wants to be as funny as them (he is)

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overtheimaginationwall · 8 months

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Favorite boss(es) in No Straight Roads?

Least favorite?

(Sincere apologies. I've been holding this one for more than a year in my box, so I hope you don't mind a really late reply ^^")

(Also Happy 3rd Anniversary, NSR!! 🎉)

I will tell ya honestly - they all are my favourites!

Tho if to be more specific I decided to set them up by TOP.

1. Sayu

Oh Sayu, my beloved <3

The Best Virtual Idol and The Reason I bought this game in the first place!

Her music and style of battle was the most fun and dancy! I still vibe to it to this day-

Sooo many references to Internet Culture and Digital Art fills my heart with warmth and gives me determination just like her song itself as well!

Funny Useless Fact: She is the only boss I've beaten on Rank B on my first blind playthrough!

2. DK West

He's OUR MAN, He's THE BEST!

My second favorite and at the same time the hardest for me to beat.

I personally didn't adore RAP genre at first and never seen anyone preform it as an actual entertaining battle until he showed up...

HOLLY MOLLY DESPITE ME BREAKING MY THUMBS WHILE GOING THROUGH THE PAINFUL DODGE GAME - HIM AND ZUKE RAPPING FELT LIKE I'M WATCHING DISNEY-

LIKE-

I STILL HAVE IDEA IN MY HEAD TO MAKE A SORT OF ANIMATIC WITH "FIRST ENCOUNTER" ALONE!!

Anyway, despite damaged fingers - 10/10, would fight again!

Funny Useless Fact: When I was drawing him for the first time I listened to his theme on loop for 4 days straight in order not to get myself distracted or lose motivation, so I finish the piece.

3. Yinu

Oh, sweet child...

I love Yinu and her theme lots even if I'm not that big of a fan of Classical Music. And her backstory...Gosh! It made me cry a lot.

And I'm still feel ashamed of breaking the piano ;;-;;

Love the pace of how music goes with the fight and it feels even better when you get into actual rhythm. There were issues that gladly wore off thanks to practice and fighting this boss over and over.

Tho those slamming cords haunt me whenever I listen to the song off-battle-

Funny Useless Fact: I didn't like her Mother at first but when I read more about her and relationship with Yinu my opinion completely changed. And this is why I would nominate No Straight Roads for The Best Storytelling and Character Design.

4. EVE

Two-faced, tall woman.

Used to be one of my favorites but due to some circumstances I can't look at her the same way I used to but I still adore her as a boss!

I honestly love her style of the fight and music that changes depending on who you play.

Tho fighting her is literally like eating a lemon but eventually you kinda just accept your fate and roll with weird artistic antics happening around you.

And EVE herself as a character is so fascinating. Like this is the moment where I started to see that these aren't just bosses, they are actually characters that tie this little but complex story together bit by bit. And this is why I would nominate No Straight Roads for The Best Storytelling and Character Design AGAIN!

Funny Useless Fact: EVE was supposed to be a next character to have a complete and detailed art of but due to my forgetfulness, difficulties with her design (and many other things) - it was never finished but I hope to get that dusty sketch out of WIP folder someday.

5. Tatiana

The Bitch. The Boss.

I don't really like her music and rhythm but I can forgive that since it is kind of fitting for conflict between her and the BBJ.

She tries to hide her true image throughout the story and the fight but ultimately crumbles cause escaping from the past isn't the best option to improve.

I love her design and personality and I wish there were more villains like her. Strict, simple, stoic and yet well-written.

Funny Useless Fact: I've never drawn Tatiana until NSR announced their release on Steam with addition of Fanat Graffiti Contest that I certainly didn't want to miss out on. It was difficult but I did it and ngl, I am still proud of the results.

6. DJ Subatomic Supernova & 1010/Neon J

I can't really say anything much about both of them. Sorry, guys...

Their designs and personalities are fun and well-made but due to one of them being the first you fight as "tutorial" and the other appears only at the end of a fight. (1010 band doesn't count as an actual boss to me more like a part of it) They didn't struck me much as the others did...

I will say this thou: their backstories are interesting. One is an academy astrology teacher with a goal of achieving the stars and other is a war veteran who just wanted everyone to live in peace and he himself despite everything never stopped his passion for doll-making and making people happy.

Just simply, beautiful...

Cool Science Fact: Their VAs are GOLD!

#sofiath ask #thanks for the ask!#no straight roads #nsr #nsr neon j #nsr djss #nsr sayu #nsr tatiana #nsr dk west #nsr 1010 #nsr yinu #opinion #sofiath thoughts

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kraaico · 1 year

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Where/how do you get the ideas to make these super cute art? I love art but I basically copy others and I wanna have my own style.

What a nice question!! I could honestly write a book about this, but for now I'll keep it condensed. (maybe uhhhh a blog post later or smthn) ....Sorry it's long anyway lol

These are my thoughts as an independent illustrator/artist that has the time and freedom to create what I wish, keep that in mind. I can't vouch for what it takes to get through art school or build a portfolio for <specific thing X> cause I don't know shit about that, this is just for creating art that you love making.

✨️Developing a style ✨️

A lot of people talk about 'finding your style', but I'm personally an advocate of developing a style - and most importantly it being a process that never stops. Now I don't know how old/experienced you are, but especially when you are just getting into art (and with 'just' I mean years) it'll change a lot because you will be improving a lot!

Now for me personally, I've been busy ~finding a style~ since I was 10. And up to like 2 years ago (I'm now 28) I was frustrated I just wasn't able to find one. Every half year or so I'd try to get back into art "for real this time", stick to one medium and general style and/or subject, and within a matter of weeks become frustrated and then not draw for a good while. That style-mentality really took a toll on the fun I had in making art, but also stunted my own artistic development. I was restricting myself at a stage where I should be everything BUT. I told myself I wasn't good enough, not cut out to be a professional, wouldn't be able to sell myself if I couldn't stick to one thing, yada yada. Great mentality. I'm now in therapy!

Anyway, what broke me free of that was a promise I made to myself back in 2020. I told myself I would get back into making art, but this time, just do what feels fun *at any given moment*. Let go of the pressure. I didn't post to socials and just shared with my friends, and eventually started posting to my then very humble Twitter following. I liked Twitter, cause there wasn't the pressure that Instagram always gave me of having to have a perfect feed. So I drew digitally, I drew with pencils, did some painting, got oil pastels, tried collage. And those experiments all influenced one or another. That's been key for me. If I feel like I hit a creative wall, I just try another medium or another CSP brush or another app on my tablet. Just experiment with lines and colors and not worry about what ends up there. (it's usually cats) Creating like this kept the fun in it for me and I've created nearly every single day since then, and that too is key to style development: Create A LOT. Don't hyperfocus on one perfect piece when you can also create 4 good-enough pieces in the same time.

Now on the topic of copying: it's a natural thing to do. Just be responsible about it! (don't share on socials if you blatantly copy something. While it's a good method to learn certain techniques, it's something that should stay in your private sketchbook) Also be sure to study from many different places, don't fixate on just a couple of artists! Find what inspires you in real life: be it buildings or nature or animals or people or objects, and try to capture them in different ways: from realistic to just the basic shapes. You'll find out what kind of style and level of detail you're naturally drawn to soon enough. Creating your own visual library in your mind by drawing many different things is ultimately what will allow you to put your ideas to paper in a quick and intuitive way. Having a (cheap!) sketchbook that you don't show anyone but just goof around in and explore everything and anything is a very helpful tool.

✨️ Generating ideas ✨️

I get my ideas from SO many different places. Many of my cat paintings were actually created to deal with a strong emotion or feeling I was having at the time.

Now externally, I get a lot of inspiration from nature and from the place I live in. I used to live in a fairly urbanized area, but it wasn't until I moved to the country side with wide and far views that I saw daily that I started getting interested in drawing landscapes. I didn't draw a lot of cats until they were chilling in my garden everyday. When I lived at home I drew a lot of fish, cause my dad had an aquarium. What you see and observe everyday matters. Taking your camera or phone on a walk in the neighborhood and capturing small details is a great way to gather inspiration, even if the area is a bit boring. I have a Fujifilm X100F that I try to carry to most places I go, cause I can quickly photograph things and I like it better than phone photography.

I also draw a lot of ideas from the media I consume: shows, movies, games, comics, music... Sometimes it just hits that inspiration button and lights a lil flame that'll turn into an idea. I love the magical worlds Studio Ghibli creates for example and the soothing calmness that games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley have. Things like that just work their way into my art, often subconsiously.

I also draw what I yearn for: be it a doodle of a comforting hot bowl of soup when I crave it, or a beach scene cause I want to go for a beach walk. It's fun, and lets me daydream a little about things I maybe cannot have in that moment.

Another big thing is worldbuilding and storytelling: I have this fictional world in my mind that I desperately want to get out, and it will, piece by piece.

So yeah. There's many places to grab inspiration from. Writing down what inspired you is useful. Doing it every year or so is too, cause then you'll start to see trends and get a better understanding of what drives you. Cause in the end that's what's most important, I think: Find the things that ignite a flame in you and then let it out in a way that is fun and comforting to you. Don't worry about what other people are making or that you're not making what you 'should' make!

I hope this was somewhat helpful - it was fun to write at least, I have many thoughts about this :')

#art #art process #art education #personal #ask #thoughts #learning artist #learn art #creativity #art style #illustration #infodump #tldr: have fun making what you wanna make #you're spending more time with your art than anyone else #better to make sure you're enjoying it #artists on tumblr #art resources

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jadinerhine · 10 months

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I reached my rate limit over on twitter about 10 hours ago despite not even reading 600 tweets (more like barely 50) and I still can't read anything over there LOLOLOLOL, so congrats, tumblr, you're getting this first.

Since we can post our pieces in public, here's my piece for @fandomfastfoods! Featuring 🍕Umi from Magic Knight Rayearth 🍕and 🍕Makoto from Sailor Moon🍕 in a setting very exemplary of 1990s Pizza Hut. Right down to those red cups...they were ginormous to kid me, and it's funny seeing all of that ephemera now as an adult. I lived it, and it's a little weird seeing people go "wow this was awesome" or other positive things. To be fair, I haven't been in a Pizza Hut in a while because my family stopped going after a while but I personally also didn't go back because they decided to turn their back on the 1990s era design and branding, so clearly I am a pot calling kettle black.

Wait, this was supposed to be about my friendotp.

YEAH UH. I actually had three ideas, and this was one of them, including using the experimental perspective. Hanging out and relaxing after closing hours, after likely a very busy day.

I had to really try to make these two the focus of the piece, as opposed to letting everything distract from them. That said, not sure if it worked. I was so focused on making sure the angle and light sources were working, that uh....uh....I think I just kinda skimped out on my own intent by accident.

At the same time, this is one of the few pictures that turned out exactly as it was in my head. Well. Give or take my art style, you know. (They were drawn by someone else in my head lol)

Makoto and Umi have been two characters whom I've often thought would get along. I often imagined them having like a shop side by side, one cooking and one flower selling. I am a sucker for crossover anything, and this one has been one of the oldest ones I've had for friendotps. I just never did anything because uh, reasons? Anyway, luck is to chance or however the idiom goes, where not only I got to draw these two hanging out--I also did it in technically their setting (1990s), I used something I knew well (Pizza Hut) and best of all, I tried new things! Primarily trying a painted background with cel shaded characters. I think that worked out well.

Oh, their uniforms are a mix of 1970s with 1990s Pizza Hut uniforms. The 70s ones are neat.

Hope you enjoy!

#umi ryuuzaki #umi ryuzaki #makoto kino #sailor moon #magic knight rayearth #rayearth #pretty soldier sailor moon #order up #zine #fanzine #zines

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thatsmimi · 7 months

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i want to send you characters for that bingo i rbd from you but somehow i am forgetting all ur fandoms ._.

Blorbo Bingo

@stormbreaker101 thank you for sending an ask :,3!!!! i vaguely remember tagging a post about Elle/Nora/Eleanor and then never actually getting to talk about it.

She's a Paranatural oc I've made when Aprilside campaign was still going on! I went a little too silly with making her and still think about her time to time. I very recently did a revamp of her story :3

Nora Mullins grew up in Aprilside but never got to see its supernatural side before her entire family had to move away after her brother Remy went missing/was presumed dead. They used to be quite close having grown up together in an abusive household? But something caused a drift between them, so she had always felt somewhat responsible for losing him.

When she's forced to move back years later to sell her old haunted family home for her college funds, she slowly discovered that she's a spectral and could see spirits! Ooo. Paranatural styled world building etc.

(These are her recent redesigns, from 2022 and then 2023. Both are equally canon imo.)

While Nora's struggling with this whole new world she missed out on as a child + being broke asf and debt ridden in Aprilside, she also discovered that Remy had been a spectral all along!! He turned into a ghost (that she can now see) when he died in... "mysterious circumstances he can't recall"... and has been haunting her house both metaphorically and physically ever since! And he's a huge asshole about it.

If this was a story I adapt to comic or ask blog or anything, i think it'd be kind of a lighthearted one like bee & puppycat, but with a dash of pnat's supernatural intrigue and a dash of infinity train level coming of age (fueled by the Horrors) element?

I also at some point made some conceptual drawing of her story adapted as a RPG maker horror game? I think I still have some maps drawn, but it never went anywhere and this is all i have.

#mimi answers #paranatural #pnat #pnat oc #paranatural oc #nora posting #elle mullins #mimi.txt

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ravioliet · 3 days

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What I think OSMU would be in the mlp AU:

Opal: pegasus. Longs to leave the Arctic to find somewhere warmer where she can fly.

Omar: earth pony. Doesn't understand Opal completely, but he agrees with her other reasons and he wants to see the world so there's that.

Oswald: unicorn. Mostly uses his telekinesis for sorting stuff in his job as a library-museum pony, but has been tempted to try out stuff in old spellbooks every so often.

Orla: dunno atm. was very young when the event celebrated on Hearth's Warming Eve occured. Still guards the 44-leaf clover.

Oprah/the Big O is still here and looks WAY more regal than when we last saw her(s2 finale). Like our main 4 are astounded by it when they first see her.

Veering off the OSMU track, I think Olive is protective of Otto, as in canon, but it gets extreme sometimes. Blank flank insult from Oren? She will yeet him across the room with her telekinesis. It takes a lot out of her to lift a whole pony tho. Aside from the fact that Ms. O is an alicorn who could easily overpower her if she tried that, that's why she opted for a stunpulse during "Ms. O Uh-Oh".

Also I wonder if there's some sort of ritual that Directors go through to turn their successors into alicorns. T'would be interesting!

yeah! so i never really got around to watching osmu beyond the few episodes i managed to catch on pbs kids but i know some things and yeah this seems pretty accurate, might have to steal from this haha

anyways yeah mlp Olive is so funny to me, she's pretty good at magic and all that but she's also still into sports and athletic stuff which most don't really expect from a unicorn so sometimes she'll pull stuff like letting someone think she's going to fight them with magic and then opting to kick them across the room horse style or something. Ms. O does stuff like this as well since she was an earth pony first before becoming an alicorn and she has the earth pony strength and resilience and everything. she has a full grip on her alicorn abilities because she's been one for a long while now but she still does stuff like kick holes in walls just because. you do not want to end up in a fight with either of them they have both magic and physical strength and you WILL lose.

and about the alicorn bit i've actually been plotting out some of the alicorn stuff and you got it pretty close with the ritual thing actually! in my mind when a director has to step down or leave for whatever reason they either have to hand off their alicorndom to their successor themselves or they have it revoked by someone else and passed on for them if that makes sense. it's just so that there aren't any random alicorn civilians out there or anything lol. because in my mind at least director level alicorns aren't technically royal alicorns (if they are they're very low ranking) they just have alicorn powers and leader status. however the Big O position does come with royal alicorn status, with their sorta domain being the whole organization since it's all across equestria and everything. so yeah you pretty much got it spot on with the whole idea of Big O Oprah being more regal and powerful looking because she's technically a princess now! she's very small compared to the other princesses but she's a princess nonetheless :)

i also have some silly facts about alicorn Olive and Otto in particular that i might share later if i feel like it but i don't know if i should wait until i've drawn them or not sdhfjh

#i am planning on drawing them soon though i've just been a bit busy lately #odd squad #mlp #mlp au #odd squad mlp au #<- tag for this au maybe??

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leavingautumn13 · 1 year

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What equipment and programs do you use to make your art? Your about says you're self taught, what helped you learn? And does anything specific give you inspiration for your current style or what you'd like to achieve in the future? I really like your art❤️

ahh!! hey, thank you so much!! <3 that's so kind of you to say!!

easy questions first: for digital art i use a wacom intuos tablet and paint tool sai, which is the only setup i've ever used. i've been trying to get into clip studio paint but something about it just doesn't stick with me. i think i need more practice.

for comic panels and lettering i use adobe indesign, and export as png to before putting them in sai.

everything else under the cut so this post isn't miles long

i've been drawing ever since i was a kid, but until middle school i mostly just drew animals or little notebook paper comics about animals. i grew up on a farm so there were lots around, and drawing from life is something i think really helped. like, there's a difference between knowing what a cat looks like and being able to pick one up and see how its bones and muscles fit together, being able to watch it change how it moves around depending on what it's doing, whether it's catching a mouse or playing with another cat or curled up asleep, and being able to break down that anatomy and movement into simple shapes. i'm a pretty visually oriented person so knowing how a thing functions or fits together as simple shapes helps me visualize it in my head and imagine how it would look in different poses or from different angles.

around middle school i moved onto drawing people, again from life while sitting in a cafe or at a park. actually being able to get what's in my head down onto paper in a way that satisfies me is something that i think just took practice. only recently (like, late last/this year) have i been consistently satisfied with the way i draw things.

sorry if that sounds weird or clinical--this is the first time i've been asked to explain how i learned to draw and this is the best way i can think to say it.

honestly, finding my own style has been looking at what i like about other artists' styles and trying to figure out how they achieved that. i did a lot of redraws of other peoples' art as a kid. for me, trying to replicate something makes me really think about why i like the way it looks. i try to lean towards a semi-realistic style--i don't like drawing super realistic all the time, i love cartoons and think they have a lot of character--but i also don't want to lose the underlying anatomy or structure because it helps my brain make sense of stuff. so i try to find the middle of the road, where things are simplified but still structured, if that makes sense.

brief tangent... that's why i draw pokémon the way i do. they're not on model, they're how i imagine they would look if they were real animals, based on the sort of animals they're... uh, based on. so like for this piece, because camerupt is a cow/camel hybrid, i looked at a bunch of pictures of cows laying on their sides, what their hooves and skulls looked like from certain angles, etc. and then i could draw what i wanted.

as for improvements, i need to get better at backgrounds and realistic coloring/lighting. color theory is one of those things that i understand... well, in theory, but when it comes to practice and paying attention to it when i color, i need work. and because i've mostly drawn animals and people my whole life--organic stuff--i find buildings and backgrounds difficult, so i tend to avoid them. and i need to not do that.

#thank you for the ask!! this one really made me think #let me know if you'd like me to clarify anything... i tend to get longwinded and distract myself with tangents.#so idk how clear this is? i really look like the charlie conspiracy board meme trying to explain anything to anybody #bc like there's CONTEXT alright #like i deleted a tangent about how much i love hiromu arakawa and fullmetal alchemist and it was a huge inspiration and #like damn dude that amount of granular detail was not asked for lmao #autumn.ask #autumn.personal

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sehnsuchts-trunken · 9 months

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Hi, may I get a match-up for the hobbit please? I'm genderfluid they/them) and would like to shipped with a masc character please.

I'm an INFP-A, 9w1. My horoscope is gemini sun, leo moon, and libra rising. All of those are extremely accurate lol. I'm very whimsical and distant, but once you get to know me I'm even MORE whimsical and very emotionally intense lol. I'm a bit of a manic pixie dream girl lol. My intensity usually intimidates people, but otherwise I'm very open and friendly once you get to know me. I'm observant and introspective, which ironically makes it difficult for me to make friends and makes me a bit sensitive. I'm extremely compassionate, empathetic, patient, and understanding. It's one of my worst traits as well, since i struggle with forming boundaries and being angry at people who mightve wronged me. I'm also incredibly indecisive. I'm not a pushover though, and have no problem gently letting ppl know when I disagree with them or something.

The animals that my friends/family say remind them of me are bears and elephants. My favorite color is yellow, and my favorite flowers are honeysuckle and jasmine. My favorite season is a tie between summer and winter, even though I HATE the cold.

With my friends I'm very chaotic and they describe me as "a silly gnome/goblin". When with them i initiate most hangouts and have always been a sort of ring leader.

My giving love language is quality time and words of affirmation. Receiving they are physical touch and quality time.

I come from an abusive household and had to look out for my younger siblings (2 younger sisters and 3 cousins who are basically brothers).I've been through a lot and that's given me a unique perspective on the world and what it means to be alive.

For hobbies I really enjoy reading, crafting, writing poetry and am very good at it, and just spending time outside. I love listening to music and listen to absolutely everything and enjoy it lol. I'm very go-with-the-flow and am down for practically anything and everything at least once. I don't like mean-spirited things/people, the cold, and being man-handled lol.

My style is very hippie/70s with goth influence. I have very long dark straight mahogany hair and blue eyes, and a very small/petite frame (hence not liking being manhandled lol). I'm very pretty in a free-spirited way, and I'm quite graceful.

My ideal type is someone who can get me out of my shell a bit while still appreciating my soft/whimsical side. Someone who can have my back and we can be our inner children together, if that makes sense. I'd do well with someone who could understand me, and help me be the best version of myself. I believe love and empathy are the only things worthwhile in life, in all the various forms they take, despite what I've been through. It terrifies me though, so id need someone to convince me to take that leap with them. Its easy to scare me off as well so someone who could understand how to approach me without overwhelming me would be best. In relationships I'm very much drawn to a twin flame sort of dynamic lol.

((I'm sorry if I did this wrong, I couldn't find any rules through navigation on mobile or anything other than your post about opening match-ups, I'm so sorry if I did this wrong! Thank you so much💗))

you did everything right, no worries!! there actually should be a post on rules and stuff tho so um, i'll have to go check what's wrong with that soon. but you're all good!!

im a bit insecure about just how this turned out, cant really tell if you'll like it but we'll see!

I ship you with...

Fili!

You've known Fili your entire life. You were born at around the same time Kili was and you're pretty sure that's the reason why you're so close to them. It makes sense. Your parents had never been the best and you had a lot of family that you were happy to escape from now and then, plus Dis was lovely and more of a mother to you than yours ever was. So you spent the better part of your childhood with Kili - and with Kili meant with Fili as well, because they came in a package deal. Always.

While Kili grew to be your best friend, much like a brother, Fili... you'd always felt a few butterflies around. You could've written it off as some kind of childhood crush, of an infatuation in your teenage years, but honestly, you'd never quite got over it. You were older now, old enough that you should have long since been normal about the whole thing, old enough to have found work for yourself and left your parents behind. But you were still just as close to Kili and Fili and no, you were not over your crush in the slightest. Over the years, you'd just gotten better at pushing it down and suppressing it.

So you're there with them when Thorin calls on them for the quest of reclaiming Erebor. You're there because you're practically family, because Thorin knows and trusts you, and you're just as quick to agree as his nephews. And why wouldn't you go? You love them all dearly, you'd never been on an adventure before and Erebor was your home too, after all, or would have been at least, under different circumstances. So a few weeks later you start out on a life-changing journey with your two favourite dwarves in the whole world and you're honestly only a bit wistful because you'd had to leave your books and paper behind.

The three of you are a force to be reckoned with. Kili matches your chaotic energy exactly and Fili is - though certainly being the most responsible out of the three of you - still not nearly as responsible as his uncle, so your journey to Bilbo's little home all the way in Bag's End is some of the most fun you've had in your entire life. Daily life with them is obviously great as well, but what with your work and all, you haven't seen them this much in a long, long while.

It quiets down a bit when the rest of the company joins (most of them you know, some of them you can't remember), but you're still enough to get on Thorin's nerves quite a lot. You do make friends with Bilbo, though, who's drawn to just how whimsical and open you are. He may have been a bit put off by your joking about with Kili and Fili at the start, but you have him charmed a few days into your journey. You talk about books and plants and really, anything at all, and by day six you think you may have found a new life-long friend in Bilbo.

But even though you're now spending your time getting to know someone new, you're still as observant as ever, and you notice - of course you do - that the closer you get to Bilbo, the less you see of Fili. Kili is always close by and you certainly spend at least half of your time joking about with him, but whenever you ride or walk next to Bilbo, talking and laughing, Fili seems to disappear somewhere into the background, so much so that you actually have to search for him to spot him. It hurts, a bit, because you can't seem to pinpoint just what's wrong for a while. Wasn't everything just fine when you started out on this journey? Had you said something, done something wrong? You knew this kind of thing from your parents, but never from Fili, especially because he knew about... well, about everything, really, so he knew just how sensitive you could be about things like these. You did your best not to let it bother you too much.

Instead, you focused on Bilbo. He was funny and sweet, intelligent and understanding and for as much as you love the dwarves, for as much as you love your kin, you like that he's not as rough and intense. He's different. And maybe you're a bit different than the rest of the dwarves, too - you'd always been a bit slimmer and smaller and more petite than the rest and maybe that had shaped your personality in some way, too, you weren't sure. Maybe that's why the two of you grew so close in such short time.

You express your feelings for him quite the same way you do for everyone: loud and chaotic, just the way you are. You tell him that he's funny and sweet, intelligent and understanding because that's exactly how you show people that you like them, so, well, you do. But every time when, in the spur of the moment, you give Bilbo a friendly compliment, out of the corner of your eyes you see Fili scoff. You frown and try not to interpret too much into it, but it's hard - after all, you've been doing nothing but interpret and think and imagine because you've kept all of your feelings for Fili bottled up inside of you for your entire life, analysing and wondering if maybe, just maybe, there was a tiny little chance that he liked you that way, too. Not that you've ever really found anything. He was always just Fili.

But not this time. No, not this time. This time he's scoffing and turning away and staring gloomily at you when he thinks you don't notice because you're too deep in conversation with Bilbo. You do, though, definitely, because he's not being as secretive as he thinks he is. You watch him argue with Kili one evening, which you're sure hasn't happened this severely in years. Simply put, he's being weird.

He stomps off and Kili plops down next to you right after - you ask, of course, what's wrong with his brother, but you've asked Kili multiple times already and he simply won't tell you. And as much as Fili's behaviour is upsetting you, you won't go up to him either, because you're not that kind of person that pushes others - you're not even really angry, you rarely are, because whatever the reason is why Fili is behaving this way, there surely is a reason and you know him well enough to be aware that it's a good one too.

It all comes to an end in Rivendell. Most of the dwarves are in a bad mood, Bilbo hasn't been as ecstatic the entire journey and Gandalf seems to be much happier here than travelling, so the company is a bit split when it comes to their opinions on this place. You don't mind it much. You like being clean for once. Bathing had become a luxury. So while the dwarves keep complaining and brooding moodily, you're talking happily with Bilbo and Gandalf.

The elves seem a bit put off by you, but you're used to that, and after a night in Rivendell, when the dwarves have started brooding less and - well, no, they're still complaining just as much - some of the elves are conversing more and more with you. Maybe it's because you're spending most of your time with Bilbo and Gandalf (and Elrond in tow) or maybe it's because you're open and friendly, but either way you're meeting new people left and right. And that's when Fili's behaviour changes yet again.

Instead of staying out of your space and scoffing, suddenly he's by your side everywhere you go, every step you take. You're happy at first, excited that he so surprisingly comes back to you (now you're glad that you weren't all that angry in the first place), but it becomes clear after a few minutes already that he's not there to talk to you very much. It seems that he's made it his mission to stand gloomily beside you, glare at everybody who comes close to you and generally answer everything you say to him with an unmotivated "hmpf". It irritates you.

But when you get woken up by an annoyingly loud knock in the middle of the night, that's it for you. You open the door to see Fili and you're not even angry, you're really just... tired. In every sense. He's standing there in his night clothes and he seems to have had an epiphany of some sort, he looks starstruck and you're so done. You're so done you just pull him in, close the door, get back in bed, pat the empty space next to you and tell him that if he wants to talk, he should do it quickly, before you fall asleep again.

He stands in the middle of your room for so long you've actually almost fallen asleep again when he speaks up. Stuttering, which isn't what you're used to at all when it comes to him, and stumbling over his words, admitting that he's been acting stupid, that he's been acting dumb, admitting that the reason, that reason that you were sure was there, is that he's in love with you. Deeply, desperately, for so long he can't remember a time when he wasn't.

You don't really think you've heard him right but you also don't care. It's too late, you're too tired, he's looking too warm and broad and comfortable and before you can think about much anything, you've reached for him and guided him to your bed and cuddled up to him - he smells familiar, he feels safe, and he's reaching his arms around you and placing a kiss on your hair and telling you good night and somewhere in your hazy mind, you recognise the weird feeling in your stomach as butterflies.

The next morning, you wake up warm and cozy and when you open your eyes, you're facing Fili. You're actually, honestly, truly facing Fili. It takes two seconds to register. Then you feel his breath on your lips and his forehead against yours and your eyes fall closed all by themselves as you listen to him ask if he can kiss you now. You let him. Of course you let him.

You actually do talk it out that morning, though. Between a lot of kisses and a lot of cuddling, there's also a lot of talking. You're a bit nervous (even though that feeling settles after about the third or fourth kiss) but Fili has always been good at convincing you that you were brave and strong enough to do anything, and with the rhythmic stroke of his hand on your arm, the way he beams at you when he makes you giggle, how happily he listens to you talk, all of that convinces you in just a few hours how very right you were to pine for him your entire life.

When you don't show up for breakfast, you guess the others were worried some elf had killed you in your sleep, so Kili comes knocking on your door some time before noon. In full Kili fashion, he doesn't really knock at all, he more like just comes barging into your room, so you have barely enough time to look up before he stands at the foot of your bed with a dumb grin on his face that tells you he was very much aware of what was going on with his brother the past few weeks.

You don't mind. You don't really mind anything anymore. Because you spend your days in Fili's arms now, with his hand in yours and courting braids in your hair, and you're happier than you've ever been before. Now the people you'd always considered family more than your real family did become your real family, a few years after you'd recovered Erebor, on the day that you marry Fili. The happiest day of your life, because Fili made you feel exactly the way you'd always wished he would, because he was exactly what you'd always wanted, because you loved him. And because he loved you.

#matchups #hobbit matchups #the hobbit matchups #matchup #fili durin #fili #fili durin x reader #fili durin matchup

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frecklystars · 1 year

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I'm so sorry if this sounds insensitive, please delete this if it does, but I loved your vent art you made. The one where you're hugging the orange dinosaur. It's been so long since I've seen you post any art and fuck it looks so good! But I know you made that when you were really hurting so I'm sorry if this comes out weird

OH thanks!! No it's not weird at all and I totally get what you're saying. Thank you for clarifying! I'm so glad you thought my art looks good, it's been so long since I've drawn anything... it's been 9 months actually!! I'm very pleased that my art style hasn't gotten too rusty after it had been forever since I'd picked up my tablet pen.

I was actually crying while drawing it, tears literally rolling down my tablet screen, yet at the same time I was thinking to myself while coloring "hoooo damn this SLAPS actually!!! 😩✊✨"

#anonymous #asks #Triceratops is a TF character but I have literally never drawn him before days ago #and he felt 'safe' to me (at the time) because... i dunno... he's not in many eps #and I never saw my ex-friend commission herself with him or even talk abt him #and I was trying to rewatch some rid episodes to try to reclaim my Saving Starlight AU #i looked at rid Starscream and thought oh he wants to beat me to a pulp. which. isn't good!#i used to think he'd miss me terribly and i used to feel SO comforted watching my saving starlight eps #and then Triceratops walked onto the screen and I was like. oh. this guy. this little dude. I need somebody to hold me and You're It #and I looked at that little orange beast and I was like 'YOU. COME CLOSER'#I still felt like he wouldn't love me or care about me at all but I drew it anyways #I'm so numb to all characters but I'm hoping with time that will change #I rly resonated with him bc in one episode he keeps saying how he doesn't trust anyone #because he's been so severely hurt. and betrayed. and deep down he's so scared.#and I feel like he'd understand how I feel even if our situations are different

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0perfectimperfections0 · 1 year

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Relax

I don't know how it happened but me and @natalie-the-writer wrote a whole short story while talking 😂 She kickstarted the scene with an idea she had:

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Here's a mental image for you that's rolling around my brain:

Lou, half laying, half sitting at the end of the couch, knees drawn up as he scrolls through his phone at doll test scores and progress while the others watch a movie. His head is propped up with his hand, elbow against the armrest, and he's twirling his own finger in his hair subconsciously. His hair is wavy, having lost its perfect style after a hectic day, and his eyes are half lidded. He's having to read things three times before he registers them and is trying to muffle little, silent yawns whenever they come up. It never feels like he's completely off duty, even though he wants to be.

Someone gets rid of the phone and it takes him a half second longer than it should to realize it's gone

He squints down at his empty hand like, "....wait a second..."

"Hey!"

"The fact that it took you a second to respond is a problem."

"I have to check the grades to see what needs to be worked on." Lou reached for the phone back.

"Nope." Ox says, holding it out of his reach. "Moxy, catch." He throws the phone to her. She catches it easily, then passes it to Mandy for it to be stored somewhere safe within her house. "Everything is fine, Lou. You can look at it when you're actually teaching."

"I want to have it done before class tomorrow!" Lou pouted, draping dramatically over the arm of the couch.

"You can do it before class, but you need to give yourself down time, too. It's not life or death. None of us expect you to work constantly."

"Just chill, dude!" UglyDog called as Babo threw popcorn at the blue doll. He caught a piece while the rest hit the couch.

"Right," Nolan picked one off the couch and threw it at Lou's forehead. "Relax once in a while."

"Yes," Lou rolled his eyes, watching the popcorn falled to the ground below his head. "Be lazy and worthless instead of actually doing something productive."

"Hey, are we being lazy and worthless right now for throwing popcorn?" Moxy asked, grabbing her own handful to chuck at Mandy.

Lou squinted at her, "None of you are lazy and worthless."

Nolan scoffed, "Then why are you calling yourself that?"

"Because I get this icky...guilty feeling every time I'm not doing something productive. Like I wanna throw up or something." Lou sat up, twisting his fingers together near his stomach to elaborate.

The others shared a brief look of concern but tried to keep the mood light. "Probably because you've never relaxed a day in your life." Moxy said, smiling. "Like, you're wearing your suit right now, at ten o'clock. That's not really relaxing. Neither is looking at your phone for test scores."

"I can't." He sighed, sitting back against the couch with his legs crossed. "Like right now, I feel nauseous because I'm not doing anything productive. Believe me, I've tried relaxing and...chilling," he scrunched his nose at the weird phrase. "I can't make it more than a minute without wanting to spew my guts out."

"Do you know what's causing it?" Ox sat down beside him, arm against arm. "I know, not working, but why do you feel the need to work?"

Lou shrugged, twirling a bang around his finger. "I don't know. It's been like that since...I guess since I was made. Well, okay, maybe not. I guess when Greyson started...reminding me to work instead of...well, anything else, really."

Nolan squinted. "What do you mean by 'remind you'?"

Lou went quiet.

Sensing Lou might not want to talk about it - at least not openly - Ox pressed more against his side. "Well, Greyson's not here. Henry is in charge. Would he want you to work constantly? Nope. He already worries for you as is."

"Yeah...," Lou kept fidgeting with the bang between his fingers, looking down at his lap.

"And it would be a real breather for us to know you weren't working yourself to death." Mandy walked over and sat on the arm of the sofa beside him.

"Yeah...," he pursed his lips, finger twirling.

"So how about it, brother?" Ox nudged him. "Relax with us and just... be you. All the time. Be you. If you need a break, take a break. No one is going to scold you for it." He said, specifically referring to Greyson. "No phone for tonight. You'll get it back in the morning."

"Okay..." He noticed he was still twirling his bang. Straightening, he clasped his hands in his lap, looking at the others. "How do I do that?"

Ox hid that the question threw him off a little. Mandy covered for him, sweeping Lou's bangs to the side with her hand. "You do things that you like to do. You could watch this movie with us, if you're looking for a starting point. It's Finding Nemo." She smiled.

"Okay." Good. A plan. He liked those. Another peice of popcorn was tossed at his face.

Nolan was the assassin. "And loosen up. You're not being graded on posture. Change out of your suit, too."

"There's a lot of rules for relaxing," Lou muttered.

"Except they're fun rules, so they're not really rules." Moxy said, hopping up on the couch to avoid a piece of popcorn being thrown at her. "They're... chill rules." She grinned.

Mandy left and reappeared a minute later with a set of pajamas. Blue with a diamond pattern. "Here. Go change." She tossed them toward Lou's head.

Lou blew out a sigh. "Alright." He returned minutes later, setting his suit on the kitchen table. It had been folded neatly. He shuffled back into the room to avoid tripping on the long pants that covered his feet. "Better?" He asked sassily.

"Very." Mandy said, but then her gaze caught the too-long pants legs and her eyebrows furrowed. "Those should be tailored to fit your height. Did I measure them wrong..."

Lou looked down, wiggling his socked toes from underneath. "Um..."

"Hey, yeah." Nolan got up and stood in front of Lou, holding a hand from his head to the blonde's. "How'd you suddenly shrink?"

"Ah, that," Lou blushed, smiling shyly and looking off to the side.

Ox tilted his head, intrigued. The conversation had gathered all of their attention, even if they tried to pretend it hadn't. Lou's shy smile said Mandy hadn't gotten measurements wrong. She never did.

She raised an eyebrow at him. "Don't tell me you're some kind of... shrink wizard." She tried to joke, but curiosity was clear. Like this, he was shorter than her and Nolan. Not by much, but a little.

"U-Uh," he rubbed a toe against the floor, not meeting their eyes. "I...might...put something in my shoes to...erm...make myself taller."

For a second, there was silence. Confused, curious, and a little concerned silence. Nolan tilted his head to the side. "Why? And I thought we were all made the same... ish. At least in height." All the Pretty Dolls were the same height, not counting hair. Lou's hair actually could add to his height if it weren't so loose at the moment.

Lou wrung his hands behind his back. "Well, they are--you all...are...um. I was handmade, though...so, my measurement aren't exactly the same." Lou shrugged and laughed lightly, "A-After all, I was the guinea pig. What's the point in using up good cloth for me if I don't work out?"

They'd never seen Lou so anxious. Even before his first class after redemption, he didn't have this much anxiety and shyness. He didn't stutter often either. This was something close to home for him.

"You're worth it." Mandy said steadily, pushing down the anger in her chest at how he talked. The anger wasn't at him, no. It was at Greyson. The factory. She hated that they taught Lou all the negatives, all that he wasn't, before he even knew what it all meant. "And you don't have to put stilts in your shoes if you don't want to. Height doesn't mean a thing." Besides making him look cuter.

"Exactly." Nolan draped an arm across Lou's shoulders, silently enjoying being able to lean over him. "That's gotta hurt your feet. Plus! Now you get to be the wittle bwothew," Nolan pinched Lou's nose, making a baby voice.

"Gah! Hey, I'm still older!" He pushed the brunettes hand away.

"Age doesn't mean anything when you're meant to be the same age your whole life." Mandy said, grinning at the tension broke. "But you are, technically, Nolan's little brother too now." Her lip tilted up in a smirk.

"Ha!" Nolan grinned down at the blonde. "And you know what's better? Now your nickname makes more sense."

"Which one?" Ox snorted.

"Baby blue." Nolan crossed his arms, grinning at the way Lou's face flushed again.

"I will get my revenge one day." Lou huffed, plopping back down on the couch between Ox and Mandy. "You don't mess with short people."

"That's fair. How's that saying go?" Nolan tapped his chin and sauntered over to Lou. "Don't steal candy from a baby?" He booped his nose.

"Watch out, Nolan. You might get bit." Ox joked, reaching out to put his arm around Lou. The blonde seemed more relaxed in posture now, if pouting, and his form sunk into the couch. He had a bet in mind that the blonde would be asleep in the next hour if they left him alone enough, considering how tired he was earlier, but now was time for some relaxing fun. "He threatened you with his shortness."

Lou narrowed his eyes at Nolan, grinning. "Yeah, don't wanna lose a finger do you?"

Nolan grinned. "I'll take my chances."

"That's not what we had in mind for relaxing." Mandy rolled her eyes. She fixed Lou's bangs, brushing them behind his ear. "Besides, how is Nolan gonna eat his popcorn without fingers?"

Lou stuck his tongue out at the brunette. "Sounds like a personal problem."

"Wow," Nolan laughed. "Little brat." He grabbed a peice of popcorn and chucked it at the blonde. Lou laughed and started throwing it back.

Mandy giggled, "That's more like it."

#uglydolls #lou #fanfiction #writing #short story #moxy #ox #nolan #mandy #@nataliethewriter #this was so much fun to do 😂

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rightpastnowhere · 1 year

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📓📓📓📓📓 FIVE PLS

this feels like that bit in animated shows where the teacher drops like a stack of books on the student's desk, you know what i'm talking about ??? maybe ?????? anyways

TIME FOR 5 FIC IDEAS I GUESS

send me a book emoji and i'll tell you a fic idea that i have thought about but haven't written anything for yet

1. okay so. stupid one first - tangled au. like the disney film. percy as rapunzel, which means that, yes, he has beautiful long and flowing hair. the flower is still some sorta sun flower, which makes sense with the de rolos being connected to pelor, but it makes his hair white instead of golden. delilah as mother gothel, who steals baby percy away from the de rolos, and is trying to use his magic hair to bring back sylas, as well as to keep herself young. vex & vax collectively as flynn ryder, the thieves who split from their band after a heist gone wrong and kind of fuck up a lot. (percy is initially attracted to both of them, but only falls in love with vex.) the rest of VM are the hooligans at the snuggly duckling. trinket is maximus. also?? you know the scene where flynn cuts rapunzel's hair??? same thing happens here, and it fades to the soft brown that matches his family.

2. kind of tentative about posting this one, since i do hope to write it, but maybe manifesting a little of it into the world will motivate me more to write it. so! i'll give you a little sneak peek. the bare bones of it is a modern au where percy and vex, newly engaged, have to deal with the sudden and unexplained fire that burns down percy's family's home, as well as some other things happening behind the scenes. it's a mix of a big hurt/comfort fic and a mystery fic, with a focus on percy learning to navigate non-rich boy life while he stays in vex & vax's apartment. i'm unsure on what happened to the rest of the de rolos as of right now, but i'm workshopping it!! anyway unlike the rest of the ideas on this list, this one is still something i'm holding onto, so pls don't steal it if you see this

3. i had this idea based on one of the cr q&a's from a while back, and i actually think this one might be right up your alley, aich: what if cass actually managed to slip away from the castle when the briarwoods attacked, and stayed in whitestone to lead the rebellion? it changes so much about canon - percy would likely meet her much sooner into the whitestone arc, he wouldn't have her name on the list, and the rebellion might actually have made more progress. i admit that i haven't watched much of the briarwood arc of the campaign, so i don't know the minor details surrounding cass' involvement, but it might be fun to play with!! i also have no idea if someone else has done this lol

4. this is an au i've spitballed with my friend to a point of pretty decent development, but i also know it would be a long fic, and i SUCK at writing long fics, or completing them if i do write them, so i'm tossing it into the crowds!!! for your consideration: siren vex. she and vax are both sirens, and they usually go after pirates (the like, nasty ones) or trade ships or military ships. vex specifically likes to go after the extravagant fancy rich people, luring private boats or larger ships to crash on the rocks. she's only had one exception so far, and that was this sad rich boy who was running away from harm - he all but collapsed into her arms sobbing after his boat had been wrecked, and she sees it's a dingy little escape boat, and this man is so pathetic she almost feels bad. this, by the way, is tary, and he eventually gets a lil shack by the shore, and becomes her gay human best friend and he hangs out on the rocks all the time.

the SECOND time she spares a sad lil rich boy's life is when she sees this beat up lifeboat, and sitting in it is the most haggard man she's ever seen. she was initially drawn to the crest on the boat (half-scrubbed away, unable to be tied to a name, but she's familiar with the style of the engravings), and then she noticed that the finely-made clothes are all but water-laden rags now, and the man looks like she hasn't eaten in days. she lures him over to the rocks if only so he won't drift out into the open seas, full of creatures that hunt and sirens who are much less merciful (all sirens are much less merciful, really; she's the outlier here), and hauls him up to a rock while he's in a trance so she can look at him. she calls to tary for him to help, and together they help the man - whose name they learn is "percy" - to get back on his feet. he moves in with tary, and becomes fast friends with the two (and vax as well), and it's all fine and dandy until they realize why he was out to sea with nothing but the clothes on his back: he's being hunted, and the hunters - the briarwoods - have just arrived in the nearby town, and are asking after a man named percival de rolo.

this au was initally inspired by art of mermaid!vex by @burr-ell (here's the art!!) and i would LOVE if someone wrote this, i'm happy to throw more ideas at people for it if they like!!

5. AND since you're also a fan of wanda maximoff, have one of my ideas from my marvel phase! this was an idea i cooked up for AU-gust 2021 but never ended up writing (in fact, i only ended up writing one prompt, whoopsie), and it's essentially a doomsday fic. the world is ending by meteor, the bunkers are full, and both wanda and vision have no place to go. neither has any family to speak of - wanda's parents died young, her brother in a car crash recently, and vision's adopted mother passed earlier that year - so they're some of the only people spending their last minutes outside, in the park, just looking at the sky. (it's a morbid picture.) they just... sit on a park bench and talk, getting to know each other, having a nice and normal conversation. it feels like any other day, for a few hours. i was thinking of a little parallel to tie the ending to earlier in the fic - maybe one of them mentioning they didn't have any regrets as an early icebreaker, except now they both regret they hadn't met each other sooner. not necessarily romantic, although knowing me i would have hinted at it, lol

if anyone wants to use any of these as prompts for writing (except number 2 of course) please feel free!!! and please tag me so i can read it, i'm trying to manifest these ideas lol

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