#it's just a piece of paper that says

[starcurtain]

Imagine trying to be General Mahamatra Cyno when your three closest friends are just:

- Forest Watcher "I don't know what you're talking about; Karkata is a dog" Tighnari

- Scribe "No, I didn't find this canned knowledge on my unauthorized research trip to the desert... I bought it on the black market like a reasonable person, duh" Alhaitham

- and Kshashrewar's "How I was I supposed to know seeking inspiration in King Deshret's ruins apparently qualifies as 'trespassing on forbidden territory' and creating a sentient suitcase to wield weapons for me is 'illicit research into mechanical lifeforms' all the sudden?!" Kaveh

Cyno: I see why none of you ever laugh at my puns. It's because I'm the joke to you, isn't it?

#genshin impact #cyno #kaveh #Alhaitham #tighnari #not a law-abiding citizen in the bunch #alhaitham became acting grand sage #just so he could write himself a pass #it's just a piece of paper that says #'I do what I want'

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

#simon says #i love learning so much and I hate the USA's college debt system #once they make that shit free I will be unstoppable #this topic sprung up because I had the idea that im very academic and annoyingly analytical that I might as well get a degree in it #because without a degree you just seem like an autistic asshole #but with a degree? then you look like a CREDIBLE autistic asshole #don't worry I will still learn but I still want that funky piece of paper to tell everyone I learnt it #also there's some things that are VERY difficult to learn #like I would love to persue this topic further but unfortunately I would need help with that #also before you say 'try taking [blank] classes instead! it's less expensive than a degree!' im broke #my only learning resource is the library sorry about that #also this is not the post to give me unwarranted financial advice #finances are one of the topics I DO NOT care about and I WILL NOT listen to a word you say

[kazoo-the-demjin]

Kevin Day in mid-sophomore year fearing for his life and sanity whenever he hears the question "yes or no" being passed around between his roommates until he figures out they now use the same thing for casual shit too

[Kevin, in his head, about Andrew and Neil: Relationship status: psychic]

#Kevin: oH so now i DON'T have to bolt outta the room whenever they say the three code words?? #Neil: Why is Kevin running out like im gonna start blowing Andrew here? I just sat next to him GOD he's so dramatic #Neil: what the hell i turned to wear one of andrew's hoodies and he just- runs way? is this a problem? #Neil: I LITERALLY JUST TOOK OUT THE STRAY PIECE OF PAPER FROM HIS HAIR KEVIN COME BACK AND FINISH THE FUCKING VIDEO HERE #Andrew who knows what's happening but clears nothing until kevin starts getting cranky #idk #aftg #kevin day #neil josten #andrew minyard #andreil #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #tay shit #tay.aftg

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Are those little dolls made to look like 3zun as animals in the most recent comic? I need to know how/when Nie Mingjue got those. Are they gifts from Lan Xichen or Nie Huaisang? Did Jin Guangyao sew them himself and stuff them full of evil talismans in case the song didn't work? So many possibilities.

The 3zun dolls were a self-indulgent reference to this (previously abandoned) doodle! As for who made them in universe? I'll leave it up for interpretation B*)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #lan xichen #nie mingjue #ask #Ah why not: #mdzs warrior cats au #by 'previously abandoned' I mean to say that this was just a pencil sketch I cleaned up just now. #Because I draw all of these on paper there are a lot of little doodles in the spaces between. #I don't like wasting paper so I try to squeeze something in there! Even if it's just a silly sketch or a doodle. #Sometimes they are little B plot jokes or alt dialogue to a comic. #or notes about what I want to say in the tags! #I was trying to thumbnail what would have been a larger piece (for the lace detailing practice) but put it aside to focus on the comic. #The aesthetic I was going for was 'Antique Victorian Dolls' with the little hand sewn dresses. #I really want to practice drawing lace and I thought this would be a cute way to do so. #Also something about the Venerated Triad being fluffy cats just really speaks to me...This is 3zun. In my heart. #In the comic they are 'cat -bunny - goat' dolls but the kitty trio was the OG concept.

[canisalbus]

I had a scrap piece of paper and drew the little freakish dog 👍 I have been silently enjoying your art for like a couple months now? I found it randomly on uploaded Pinterest and was like “oh huh that’s rad” and yeah he’s such a lovely sad little beast

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#oooh another tiny machete sighting! #I don't know but I find it just so endearing that people are out there doodling his weird little face #on post it notes corners of scrap paper and at work #I do that too but then again I'm rotating him in my head at least fifteen times a day so I kind of have to #the WHISKERS ah #scruffy little animal #putting him in my pocket and taking him to the grocery shop as we speak #thank you! and I'm glad you've been enjoying my art! #I've always had a little difficult relationship with pinterest because a lot of art gets uploaded there without proper sources or credit #and whenever a piece of yours gets reposted sourcelessly often enough you kind of end up losing ownership to it which isn't fun #it gets used without artist's consent as bootleg prints and shirts and tattoos and such #but lately a lot of people have come to me saying they discovered my stuff through pinterest #or had seen my character there and recognized it later when they came across one of my own posts #and it's always very nice to hear that I'm glad you've found me here #but I'm getting very off topic didn't mean to ramble like that #gift art #answered #wwildcatt #own characters #Machete

[b4kuch1n]

making of a feathered thing

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #tagging ship like a power word kill here #hi. linked there is a fic I wrote in uhhh. three hours? something like that #literally have no idea how to explain it to you at all. feel free to read if u wanna. mostly its like damn I keep puttings pictures into thi #s literary piece. #gonna cool down soon. oh boy is it hot here. probably why I wrote that #that took place in like november but the vibe is. summer. or something like that I really need to sleep #new ink arrived! its kinda watery! line still feathering! not into this! #I'll try to see if thats more my paper. dont enjoy that #but yeah Ive just been testing the ink and stuff out with these #doing these like. less than an hour each. no brain just go #man I wanna fly a kite... theres an open plot of land right next to me. I should try doing that #go out and hang out with so many bugs and fly a kite #gods. I need to sleep. idk not much to say here I simply think reki is a growing boy and he'll become great and awesome #thats all folks! have a good night. well good day. its 5am #sleep well! run so fast

[mueslicrumbs]

#my art #this was meant to have another zoro hand panel but it wouldnt fit in the tumblr image limit (explodes) and the final one was more important #one piece sanji #op sanji #black foot sanji #straw hat sanji #black leg sanji #sanjionepiece #nico robin #robin op #robin one piece #bi sanji supremacy is all im saying #also im kicking him down the stairs like hes a toilet paper roll btw #this was made for a tiktok!!!!! but gotta crosspost bc i spent a while on it #also i love robin i hope u all like my robin shes my everything #this isnt intended as a ship post between robin and sanji btw! theyre just both classy ladies having a chat while everyone else is asleep #i like to imagine robin is the one who has all the deep conversations with the strawhats because she never sleeps #they all have various reasons for staying up as well #one piece #one piece fancomic #one piece fanart

[swsf]

just because I’m here. pet postal.

#ahhh I made the Pearl design before he skin #but I didn’t color it. so. I stole the colors. etho will never change his skin so they just give him a satchel and stuck a piece of paper th #at says mail boy on his back #male boy ? little redundant don’t you think ?? #doobles

[meirimerens]

for viktor kain so loved his gay son he gave him a pixellisation beyond earth's knowledge so i could be squinting of all 4 of my eyes trying to make notes of the moles on his face to make a map for when i draw him again.

#man squinting at a very tiny piece of paper png #was gonna say ''i need to boot up my game again'' but if i do i'm afraid my laptop will just start convulsing like a retching dog. #and also i had to play on the lowest settings for it to run so i ain't seeing anything regardless

[chr0n1c-ag0ny]

Fyodor/Nikolai/Sigma, domestic au, but they are painfully slavic and living their best lives, is something that can be so personal.

(this post took forever cause I essentially had to make it twice. I didn't look at what blog I originally posted this to the first time round. shoot me)

#the mixture of Russian. Ukrainian. and Polish would be so beautiful and so messy dear lord #they go to church at least every sunday if not more. Fyodor tunes into a radio midnight mass. Sigma veils when he goes to church #they all help cook so every night is fusion night. they scrounged up an *old* cookbook somewhere cause none of them had any family they- #close enough to to get an authentic grandma's cook book. so they make do with what they've got #they all speak all three languages #they believe in *every* slavic superstituion and piece of folklore. its actually like. hard to exist. they're bordering being annoying with #i say lovingly #breakfast is their favorite time of day. they make fancy teas and kiss and read the paper with the radio going #fyodor has a library of old slavic literature #fyodor and nikolai almost only go by fedya and kolya #nikolai lives up to the smoking/alcohol addiction stereotype and he's proud of it #this post is made by a polish slav that is only just starting to reconnect with the culture my family tried to bury so bare with- #the sparsity please. any suggestions would be lovely! #slavic is a blanket term #slavic #sigma #sigma bsd #sigma bungou stray dogs #bsd sigma #(implied) fem sigma #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd fyodor #fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #nikolai gogol #bsd nikolai #sigfoylai #siglai #fyolai #fyosig #bsd

[kirkwallguy]

my most evil inquisitor lore is that my trevelyan has a sister who died in the kirkwall circle just before the chantry explosion and cullen had a massive crush on her. she looked just like her. many implications.

#she was caught trying to escape and had to be made tranquil #cullen signed the papers but he warned her ahead of time which gave her a chance to. well you know. #and that was his tipping point turning him against meredith's rule. #he DOESN'T know she was a trevelyan though bc her parents were so ashamed of having a mage child they made her change her name #and he just doesnt make the connection between two blonde girls. he just thinks he has a type. #until. on THE wedding day. hawke is invited (because my trev has a crush on him. and is desperately mad of his tall blonde wife who she saw #when she snuck a glance at his locket one time. she lied about reading tale of the champion.) #anyway bethany sees her and is like. wait. she looks exactly like this woman i was in love with in the circle. #and she puts the pieces together. realises shes marrying CULLEN of all people. and is like oh fuck. #and she like. warns her. but at that point what can you do? the wedding is arranged and trevelyan is a massive public figure #so she walks down the aisle towards a man who is a) possibly only into her because he's chasing the ghost of her dead sister b) possibly the #reason her sister is dead c) actually kind of evil now that she's hearing stories about him from bethany #sorry the dai romances are boring to me i need to inject toxicity and horror into them to be interested. #anyway. all this to say that cullen kisses mary on the forehead when she reaches him at the altar and everyone who Knows (several people #by this point. dorian was there as well so he's been whispering) goes dead silent

[heraldofcrow]

There’s mine!! I started trying to draw in late 2022, but 2023 was the year I really tried to work and improve on it. I can see subtle progress throughout the year, but I hope to see more general diversity in 2024!

Overall, it’s been an absolute thrill to draw Bloody Crow endlessly to give myself a fav character to use for practice. I still love him with all my heart, but it might be time to let other characters join the archives too lol.

Much love to all my artist mutuals and best wishes for 2024!! 🎶🖤

#june and july are still my favs looking at them tho 💀 #like damn i love unhinged Crow with his crow-wings i just— #<333 #december is encouraging though because i am seeing improvement with clothing maybe? #i have been figuring out that not everything has to be so angular #heh #i will be real though i still have the worst imposter syndrome lmao #i struggle to even feel valid as Someone That Draws #god i don’t even want to say artist #but it’s not fair to myself because i could see someone scribbling demented spongebob on a piece of toilet paper and call them an artist #everyone is valid ‘cept me!! —my brain #fml 💀 #anyway here’s to improvement 🍷 #art stuff #CrowSketch #2023 #bloody crow of cainhurst #bloodborne fanart #bloodborne

[frecklystars]

I fucking love Ryan Gosling in these Barbie interviews. Someone asked "hey what would Ken say in his bio on a dating app? what kind of person is he looking for?" and Ryan's like "uh... well before he even looks for a Type Of Person™, he's gotta be real up front that he's got no job... and no house... no real prospects of any sort, really, he just kinda sleeps on the beach, and -- you know what, he doesn't even have a phone? I... I don't know if he can even sign up for this app?" and Margot said "oh but he has abs. That should get him somewhere" and he said "no, no, I don't think he even has an email address, I don't think there's any way to contact him??"

and it's like three minutes of them talking about Ken not even having any pickup lines because his way of flirting isn't even flirting, it's him picking up something Barbie accidentally dropped (even though Barbie doesn't make mistakes) and saying "oh hey you dropped this 😳" and then offering it to Barbie and then when Barbie says thank you while making eye contact he's shaking and thinking "oh god what a perfect day Barbie looked at me" and then he'll ride that high the entire day. and the interviewer was like "but that isn't a pickup line" and Ryan said "no I don't... I don't think Ken does that, I think he just creates moments with Barbie and cherishes them" WHAT THE HELL SIR YOU'RE MAKING ME FALL FOR KEN EVEN MORE

#'the dude is homeless and unemployed basically. and has no phone' #'and he wouldnt even flirt he will pick up something you dropped and stare at you' #im already on my knees with a wedding ring in my hand #ken will you do the honor of being my malewife #my horsegirl boyfriend pathetic wet piece of paper of a malewife #i promise i'll make eye contact with you the entire time despite the obstacles my autistic ass trying to prevent me from doing so 😳 #love notes #💕 I'll fight for you!! - ̗̀🐎🏖️✨ ̖́- #the fucking way ryan is like. tired. sipping coffee and his voice is husky #bc he JUST FUCKING WOKE UP #nd theyre asking him these questions and hes politely like... ken would not do these things #every time someone asks him abt ken he's politely saying. oh. youre wrong FJDHGFKD #hes like. ken is the most loyal devoted motherfucker and his entire life is dedicated to Barbie #someone's like hey what's ken's favorite food and ryan is like ANYTHING BARBIE LIKES #i love the running joke in all these interviews that kens just huddle on the beach #margot jokes that they literally just go completely inert #while the barbies get beauty sleep the kens just stare into space completely immobile #and then snap out of it when the sun rises #i think thats more merciful than literally sleeping on the plastic pink sand #god i love these interviews im having a field day #ALSO in the beginning of the interview #margot was like 'wait why would barbie need to be on a dating app?' #and ryan's like 'HM. YEAH. WHY.' side glacing at her LKFDJJLSDFKJ #and he said 'ken picks up your phone you dropped and sees YOU'RE ON DATING APPS'

[problemswithbooks]

Shark Genitals & World Building

So, I've seen this Q&A a few times now and it really got me thinking about Fish-man biology.

Now, to be clear, I think it's pretty clear Oda isn't being entirely serious. When you look at how he designs his characters he goes for whatever is fun. He's not doing extensive research on whatever aquatic species he slaps on his fish-men or Merfolk characters. This is why for a lot of them, if you look up what they are mixed with they rarely share much if anything with the animal he's picked.

Saying a character has two dicks is funny, so Hody has two dicks--that's all.

But taking the answer more seriously the idea that at least some (because they do vary so widely from fish-person to fish-person) have changed genitals because of their added fish anatomy is interesting from a world-building perspective.

As someone who has a special interest in animal biology and has watched a lot of documentaries I can say that fish have really diverse breeding strategies. So, I guess, if Hody can have two dicks because he's a shark, I wonder if this could be true for any other fish-people and merfolk.

We see that at least some fish-people do have children the same way regular humans do, but to my knowledge we don't see any pregnant mermaids. Given how much larger Neptune is then his wife, and how massive Shirahoshi is, I think it makes sense that perhaps like many fish, Otohime laid eggs that were fertilized separately (this is actually how goldfish mate).

It could be possible that the way mermaids or even fish-women have children depends on the father. If they are not compatible in size they can reproduce Ovuliparity (the way I imagine Otohime did), or if they are of similar size they either go the more human route or, after copulation they lay fertilized eggs (like the skate cases often called mermaid purses you find washed up on the beach).

There's also something to be said for the variations fish have with gender. Some fish are capable of changing gender. It's more common that female fish become male (protandry), usually the largest of a group replacing the dominate male in the group. This happens mostly with coral reef fish like wrasses, groupers and parrot-fish.

Meanwhile, anemone fish, like clown fish change from male to female. When the one female dies the remaining male will become female, while an outside male will become that new female's mate.

Then there are Black Helmet fish which are both simultaneously and take turns releasing eggs and sperm when they spawn.

So, if fish-people and merfolk had similarly diverse genders and ways of reproducing I think that'd just be really neat. It could also lead to some fun misunderstandings between fish-people, merfolk and humans.

Of course, I don't think Oda ever put that much thought into it. He just does whatever he finds fun character design wise. I mean, it's not like Arlong has barrels like Sawsharks do, and Jinbe looks nothing like a whale shark. On top of that the story isn't really focused on that type of world building. Nor do I think he could really showcase something that deals so much with sex--even if it is fish sex.

Still, makes for some really great head-canons.

#one piece #fish-men #merfolk #fish biology #Arlong #Jinbe #Jimbe #his name is always spelt different ways #idk i sort of wish there were more funny misunderstandings between fish-men and humans #i mean given how isolated they were #and that Jinbe grew up a orphan #he wasn't given an education and what he did get was based on the world he lived in #what i'm saying is that I don't think he knows Chopper is a reindeer or in the very least doesn't know that not all reindeer are sentient #I just want that one pic of Griffin McElroy replaced with Jinbe #holding up the paper that says 'idk what a reindeer is and now i'm to afraid to ask' #also i wonder if Arlong and/or his crew tried to give Nami the talk when she was like 12-14 cuz they felt they had to #not knowing she got it from her sister already (who got it from Bellmere before she was killed) #and she's just silently thinking 'what the fuck are you talking about?!' #already horrified that this was the one time they decided they needed to kind of act like parents to her #but they don't want to end up with any human babies so they're just like 'don't lay any eggs for boys you don't know' #it does mean she knows way more then she wants to about fish-people biology then she'd like though

[crispyflowerblaze]

i don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or anything, but does anyone agree with me on this: i like enj and grantaire to be horribly awkward around each other more often than they're arguing and getting into fights. maybe it's cus i've read so many enjoltaire fics at this point but like, to no fault of the authors, if it starts out with arguing that feels like something i've seen before (not because they're being copycats or whatever, just because it's understandably a very common enjoltaire trope, and just because i've read so many enjoltaire fics), i'll usually click out just cus, again, i've read so many enjoltaire fics. gotta just use my own version of them for examples lol, hmm what are good examples for this hmm. so basically i don't mean awkward as in awkwardness from liking someone and trying to hide it, even though there's that too and that's great, but more like awkwardness cus they clash and get under each other's skin and they can't ignore each other. the kind of awkwardness where you misunderstand someone and they misunderstand you so it's just awkward and annoying, i guess. and obviously this is only one part of their dynamic of course. basically, it's the causes of how you'd see them arguing all the time, but just to me it feels more natural that more often the effect of that would be them just bringing out the weirdest things about each other, if that makes sense. also banter and bickering and stuff like that of course. basically, i just get bored of actual serious arguing all the time (or really just much at all, i dunno if they argue i want it to be about silly things lol), and plus it makes me like them less as characters lol and not think they're as cute together. oh man gotta think of examples cus i feel like this doesn't make very much sense. yknow what oh well who cares lol. but yeah let grantaire and enjolras just be really weird and awkward around each other, it's very funny

#enjoltaire #enjolras #grantaire #les mis #is this anything? well i know it is to me but like does this make sense to other people? the world will never know #but yeah i mean i did rant about them at length in that horribly disgustingly long text post about my au so like yeah #but hey it's nothing compared to how long the actual au is! it's so long lol #i'd say it's well over two hundred pieces of paper (it's on paper it's like a bunch of paper tied together with a string) #but then again i cannot guesstimate anything for the life of me #so just trust me that it's a shit ton of paper #anyway yeah i just love making enj and grantaire so freaking weird lol

[soccerbf]

🎆☀️🍦🌟 ES DIECIOCHO DE DICIEMBRE DEL AÑO 2022, SON LAS 3AM, Y ENTRASTE A MI LOCAL PARA PEDIRME SI PODÉS USAR EL TELÉFONO PARA HACER UNA LLAMADA 🌟🍦☀️🎆

#my art #god this is my favorite piece i've ever made i'm so proud of ittttt #pls pls pls consider giving it a rb this took me so long to make #look at those nails!!! the stickers!! the phone!!! #i'll post a little version with close ups of all the stuff on the walls cus i love themm #the date is bc i made this on dec 18th at 3am <333 #drawing it i felt we'd win the wc #*the paper sketch btw not this whole piece which i have just finished #artists on tumblr #digital art #Paint Tool SAI #Original Work