#kinda dark honestly

[sword-opera]

yoink

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #my art #enver gortash #bg3 dark urge #durgetash #i really could not think of a caption for this lmao #in other news i got a slow cooker lately i think i mentioned and i learned to cook my fave curry in it??? #lifechanging honestly #also i totally could have tidied this doodle up more but honestly? kinda like it messy lol

[clouvu]

I love them your honor

#genshin leaks #genshin impact #arlecchino #sandrone #arledrone #I HONESTLY DIDNT THINK I WOULD ACTUALLY LIKE LONG HAIR ON ARLE BUT THEY REALLY DID SOMETHING BY GIVING HER A LOW PONYTAIL;;; #rika pokemon looking ass..... i love u sm #sandrone looks SO pretty too and I wasn't expecting her outfit to be as dark as it is #also curious about the lil key thing jammed into her back ngl she's like a lil wind up toy #LOWKEY kinda grieving over her being the size of a garden gnome tho #@ the other 5 tall woman model sandrone believers we lost #random observation but i like how in all of sandrone's appearances she either is making a neutral :I face or a :) face #despite this I still can and will draw her looking like she's constipated because it's funnier #her being officially short now only proves my point further because short people are closer to hell and thus angrier #just like me fr

[flowersforfrancis]

I adore messy annotations.

A page suffocated by scrawls, scribbles, lines, arrows, circles, highlights, all near illegible. As though the reader couldn’t contain those thoughts. They were overpowered by emotions and ideas. A ruler-less underline because you read that quote and the pen couldn’t be in your hand any quicker. Scribbled sentences that require the book to be turned upside down or on its side to be read again. Exclamation marks, because you’re at loss for words and the author said it best. Books of mine start with ruled lines and perfect hand writing, but by the end are sometimes too messy to be reread. I find messy annotations the most beautiful, the most intimate.

#No hate to neat annotations or whatever. honestly If I’m enveloped in a book I just don’t have patience by the end of it #No this isn’t intended as a metaphor.. but i mean… it can be… #I just like them I wasn’t trying to reassure anyone of their wonderfulness or anything but I’m know seeing that it does kinda look as thoug #anyway… #dark academia #chaotic academia #romanticism #books and literature #classic academia #dark romantica #academia #aesthetic #ramblings #rant #shitpost #thoughts #annotating books #books #books and reading #classic books #bookblr #booklr #book annotations #chaotic aesthetic #light academia #academia aesthetic #anyway..

[fisheito]

He gets a little ..Dark Mode every other event

#that's a gif *points* #when i say dark mode i mean... hmm... dommy? possessive? moody shadow serpent hours? #maybe... light mode means more Bullyable? #honestly he's kinda split on cocoa liqueur. nerdkumo gets a lil All Consumey Dark Impulses too. uhhhh #and i'm not even talking about his behaviour in the story i'm just thinking of his h scene actions #because i def can't call chimes of darkness yakumo Light Mode in general *flashbacks to loud cult noises in the catacombs* #ok so he's a little dark mode in every event because that's just yakumo BUT11!!! #i needed to ignore the grey zones FOR THE GIF #the on off light switch gif action doesn't work as well when a couple lamps are on sometimes 🫤 #honestly this is all just an elaborate justification #for my hopeful prediction that the yakumo cycle is coming round to subby again #come on! lights on! i want him extra pathetic next time!! #he had his glorious high heeled mountain goth moment #i want him SCRUNCHED for his next event #nu carnival yakumo

[tricoufamily]

oh i can just show a journey through beckett and connor to show you what i mean by i went through this awkward transition phase before. do you see what i mean

#blood sports characters aren't changing at ALL i'm still very happy with where they all are right now #if no one got me blood sports got me you know #but they couldn't have gone from step 1 to step 4 just like that they had to go through several variations on step 2 and 3 #i don't even hate og beckett anymore honestly. i think he has charm #do you like beckett's dark academia phase sdjfklsjfs. yeah there was a point where blood sports took place in london. i don't even know #he has not always been southern this is actually a fairly recent development #he started out kinda punk ish then got grunge then very very briefly dark academia and now he's our country boy. he's been through a lot

[boxofthings]

I really love exploring GhostRoach's dynamic with mute!Roach, especially since I hc Roach as American, so he'd likely be using ASL

I think Ghost would be proficient in sign, however, since BSL and ASL are very different, I just love imagining him going out of his way to painstakingly learn practically a whole other language just for Roach.

Just watching the progression of their relationship where it starts with Ghost needing someone else on the task force to translate what Roach is saying, to him becoming the designated Roach translator lol

I'd imagine once they get closer, Roach would start writing notes for Simon instead of having a third party translate. And for a while it'd probably be their norm, where Roach will automatically pull out a notebook to talk, but then maybe one day Roach will casually sign something, forgetting that Ghost wouldn't understand, but then Ghost will respond without a second thought and they'll just stare at eachother for a moment like "what?"

and boom. they kiss.

nah but just think about how cute it'd be?? Ghost probably isn't that great with words, so you'll see how he cares about someone more so through his actions, and him studying for months just so Roach can more comfortably communicate with him is just so??? soft??

and the effort isn't lost on Roach at all. He sees how Ghost abashedly looks away after the slip up and mumbles "It's just good to know american sign, too" (excuses), he notices how Ghost will try minicking hand signs when he thinks no one's watching, when he hangs around in Ghost's room, he notices the small stack of ASL dictionaries on his desk.

and Roach just becomes all the more infatuated with him. Big scary lieutenant who yells at all the new recruits and can kill a man with his bare hands but will go out of his way to learn a difficult language. All for Roach.

it'd be a cute way to progress their relationship. Every now and then they'll have tender private moments where Roach will try teaching Ghost more thoroughly, and sometimes Ghost will get frustrated or just sign wildly incorrect words, and Roach will just look at him all adoringly like ughhh they'd be so soft.

#im just saying if i already knew a variation of sign i honestly would not go thru all the trouble of learning another version of it #so ghost kinda a simp for that #i feel like in the beginning ghost would sign 'i love yous' to roach in the dark where the other cant see #because once he realizes he has feelings hed be too afraid to ever admit it out loud #so he'll just sign all the things hes ever wanted to say to Roach while the other cant see it #the ASL aspect just makes their dynamic feel sm more special like theyll just be in their own lil worlds communicating w eachother #gary roach sanderson #simon ghost riley #ghostroach #roachghost #ghost x roach #call of duty #cod #mw2 #modern warfare 2 #box of posts #box of words

[mermaids-ate-my-dinner]

*my durge going down*

Astarion: "Noooooo! My sweet, bloodthirsty friend!"

Yes, this is real dialogue 😅

#i guess we're just bloody buddies #i mean honestly #he's kinda the only one that's not judging me after *you know what* #no spoilers here #bg3 #bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge #baldurs gate 3 #dark urge #astarion #astarion bg3

[layla-carstairs]

when I was going down the demi Julian rabbit hole the other day, I came across a poll of asking whether or not he was demi (which, he canonically is! hope that helps <3) and basically every single comment under it was people saying they originally thought so but then saw on the wiki that he had a crush on Isabelle & changed their mind or was now unsure. (side note: the fact that's the first thing listed in Julian's trivia section is always a jumpscare lol)

I get where the confusion might come from if you're not aspec yourself or have limited knowledge about aspec experiences. As someone who is however, theres actually a very simple explanation for this; Julian made it up! faking crushes is a very common phenomenon among aspecs as a way to fit in with their peers. I could do an entire breakdown on how this applies to Julian with textual evidence however I am tired so. trust me bro. I will say the fact Julian brings up this crush on Isabelle one time(!!) and it's in a conversation with Emma from her pov where they're talking about love/romance/relationships etc. really tells you everything you need to know lmao

#mecore honestly #the fact it's so debated is kinda strange to me tbh #like that man could not be more demi 😭 couldn't be more clear without outright using the term #as there's a very good explanation on why he doesn't #life as a aspec characters I suppose 😔 #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #julian blackthorn #the dark artifices #tda

[lina-corsa]

Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber livery for the 2024 season

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#it sure is bold #she has a tramp stamp that says hashtag unleashed #they wrote stake like 20 times on the damn car we get it it's your new name #honestly i'm just glad it's not too dark #neon is kinda camp and fun so not too mad at it #f1 #formula 1 #stake f1 team #sauber #valtteri bottas #zhou guanyu #stake f1 team kick sauber #livery reveal #livery #*m

[mz-elysium]

astarion is so vtm-coded im tired of not saying it

"unable to disobey his maker, he was forced to seduce and bring home pretty young things for his master to feed/do wild bloodmagic experiments on and any infraction results in torture funtimes" is classic vtm bloodbonded sire and childe. literally at least three clans could and would do this. "his bond of obedience has been MAGICALLY BROKEN and he's hunting for a way to secure his freedom forever and extract revenge" ok, baby sabbat.

also, the idea of him skulking around TAVERNS makes me laugh every time it comes up. like. no babes. you belong in a laser-lights early 00s industrial rave nightclub. he can even keep his camp clothes on and not be out of place.

his twisted relationship with sex and violence is also ground-floor vtm. everything is violent. everything is murky shades of grey. everything is sexy. masks upon masks upon layers of lies and broken identity.

he's just a lil boy who wants to have fun.

sure sure sure. "bad coping mechanisms" but his story isn't about dumping them, it's about freedom.

he hurts people to feel good. he's sadistic and has a level of excitement around blood and gore that's distinctly Uncomfy. he's a bully, a racist, and a selfish dirtbag who can't see beyond "me and mine" as ppl worthy to consider or care about. don't tie yourself in knots trying to talk your way out of your fave being "bad". the fandom police won't come for you. just EMBRACE IT.

#honestly in this way the vtm fandom is so healthy and so is any Dark fandom #like when the canon has a certain expectation of dark-grey morality then you can accept bad people make great characters #the doublethink essays of trying to Justify astarion's flaws #i dont wanna make him worse or better #i just wanna be along for the ride #let him murder and torture and be genuinely mean as a sexy lil treat #bg3 spoilers? kinda this is pretty vague

[beesechurgerzz]

pariah 💚

#canon pariah is SO UGLY and goofy and honestly i kinda love it but like #im insane #pariah my bby girl i can treat u well #dp #pariah dark #danny fenton #clockwork dp #vlad masters #also vlad is SO jealous. he thinks he’s losing the father figure spot #dude that has been clockwork’s since forever lmao #even then pariah is only a grumpy uncle at best. you’ll forever be the disgruntled rich aunt

[huecycles]

oh hey :) thanks for the kind comments and tags left under the last post!

it's so wild how body hair in art & media in general is seen as something "disgusting" or "weird", at first i thought that maybe the way i drew it made it look confusing but no way in hell you couldn't zoom in or just... think logically to know that is natural hair? some people are hairy like that! the way i draw it is more fluffy yes because i love floof and i dont give a shit tbh lol

i knew about the "issue" of jevil being fat so the body hair one threw me for a loop like wow. idk why jevil specifically gets this type of treatment, maybe other fat characters in utdr do too but i always see toriel, asgore, alphys, lancer, king, catti, sans who is a skeleton (and i really can't see him any other way, the fandom is doing a great job in keeping him chubby-like i love that) drawn with mostly correct proportions to in game/official art, yet jevil seems to get this mixed reaction. idk why i still see skinny jevil, or why some people insist his clown clothes are just "baggy". the jester is circular, look at his torso please for the love of god. sorry but i just want more fat rep as a fat person myself. i want jevil to remain short (his sprite is shorter than kris and slightly taller than spamton) and fat like he is in game!

drawing him helped me understand a lot about plus size anatomy, and honestly i couldn't be more happy about that because i'm also dealing a lot better with my body image issues and finally bringing more diversity to my art. him being hairy too is yet another thing that makes me happy as someone with pcos, and portraying him as a fat, hairy trans man as someone who is nonbinary and for months has been wanting to experiment with different pronouns/wondering how it would be like to transition is something really special. it's messy and silly but spamton and jevil are the ultimate comfort characters/ship to me, their stories and how they were written speak volumes and resonate with me a lot + headcanoning them as t4t has been beyond freeing and making me get a lot of gender euphoria/dysphoria/envy all at the same time lmfao what the fuck.

i'm honestly glad for these characters because they're what helped me articulate my recent feelings about my gender to my mother, who has grown a lot and is making an effort to understand all of this. the reaction i sometimes get from people who talk to me, come into my inbox or just pour their feelings out in the tags about how they love my portrayal of spamton and jevil's gender identity + their relationship and how important it is to them is so so cool. yeah :)

speaking of chest hair, here's how spamton looks without the shirt. the left side of his chest has a panel for his heart (a smaller version of neo's) and of course top surgery scars, a different type. he's also hairy! not that much since he's a puppet but he still has the addison floof, it's cute

#didnt mean to ramble lmao #i guess that makes up for that one post #where i said i'd talk about t4t spamvil #and i'm honestly still not done #this is more on the personal side of things tbh #i dont like sharing too much. #but it's nice to see positive things and all #esp now that im going through such a dark time in my life #ill leave the actual trans talk and how/why i believe spam & jev are transmasc for the sideblog lol #there's a lot to go on in the case of spamton of course #but also for jevil #based on my interpretations of a few of his lines #taking his personality into account as well #and his relationship with spamton #dhscdnk kinda giddy i'll leave that for later #they make me so soft #and happy #i want to wrap them up in a blanket #burrito style #what banger characters #do i even tag them here uh #yeah whatever #spamton #jevil #transgender #i like the thing tumblr gives to pride tags :) #my art #txt

[papabearbobbynash]

GUYS

Peter said on this recent interview "Some won't make alive".

I was thinking... There is no space in that single helicopter for everyone remaining on that ship. What if Bobby and Athena are the only ones who can get rescued from that disaster? Imagine the guilt and trauma of going through all that and their effort bring such result??

#911 spoilers #911 abc #bobby nash #athena grant #honestly i'm kinda traumatized ABC went dark this time on the traumatic experience

[archangeltama]

So I got to Chimney Canopy

#rain world #rain world slugcat #rw scug #scug #scug oc #rain world lizard #I stg magenta lizards have it out for me #I can avoid green. I’ve gotten good at spotting white. Blue… honestly blue seem kinda dumb? #Blue lizards tend to get stuck spinning in circles instead of eating me #also. my path has gone Start of game-Dark area- turn tf around because fuck Deepnest- industrial -chimney canopy #I don’t know where I’m going to but I am on my way

[front-facing-pokemon]

#poochyena #LOVE this guy‚ honestly. HUGE fan of poochyena‚ i don't Care if it tries to fucking Eat the professor at the beginning of rse or whatever #idk what happened there it's been a while. but this is a good pokémon it's a fucking dog and i think dark-types are pretty good #you can make anything a dark-type and it's instantly more unique bc *now* it's evil. and i love that #and i think poochyena is cute. honestly end of sentence that's kinda all i have to say #there's team poochy from the guild‚ shoutout to anyone who remembers them. i love those guys #sitting there barking at the request board. literally i do that hello that's the best thing ever #i wish poochyena got more love………

[tricksterlatte]

It always makes me sad whenever stories with hopeful messages or lighthearted moments are sometimes dismissed as unintelligent or weaker than tragedies. Isn't joy and hope what makes a dark journey worthwhile? Not every story needs an unhappy ending to serve as a lesson.

I will forever be a fan of stories that say hey, maybe the world is a rough place, and it will always be this way, but you can make a difference with the people who matter to you. Even if no one else will know, even if no one else will remember, the ones you loved, and who loved you in return, will remember. People who are holding onto you, even at the end of everything else. People who remind you that new beginnings are born from the ashes.

My favorite stories will always end with love, hope, and the sun rising on the horizon after hell and high waters. The world can be so cruel, but we can choose not to be as individuals. Joy is as human as anger and sorrow. Joy is what we reach for when we are at our lowest, whether we realize it or not. We want what was lost back. I love stories where the characters reach the light at the end of the tunnel, emerge on the other side, and are allowed to heal. Even if they’ve done bad things, even if they aren’t perfect, isn’t that true of all of us?

#Parker says things #writing stuff #I’ve been going through some big changes this year and honestly every year up til this point #I’m tired. but I’m healing. I like writing about similar #I’m damaged. I’m flawed. I’m a little broken. but I can still be good #I can still seek light after everything that’s happened #this time last year I was writing out of desperation. putting something out there in case I didn’t make it #but I made it. I’m still here. even if I flubbed along the way #i spent a lot of time hating the person I was this time last year? now I just want to hug him #he’s gonna be okay. kinda funny the stuff I wrote to stay alive led me to someone who changed my life for the better #and I changed for the better too? special thanks to my clown frogs and my Kanonno squad #I don’t talk about stuff and idk if you guys are seeing this but just know you mean a lot to me #it’s late and I’m rambling but reading and writing about light in the darkness led me to my own light #so I’m going to keep at it #thank you especially to Nyx. don’t know where I’d be without you but I love you so much #tricksterlatte writes #this is sentimental but I don’t care #expanded version of a post from bird app