#saddle back

[swervesbar]

I drew these to set up a patreon, but then I got some nerve damage in my drawing hand and I hit a dry spell 💀I still like these drawings though!

#tf #maccadam #swerve #worm art #the nerve damage is almost fully healed! yeehaw! i wanna get back in the saddle #i miss drawing these goofy goobers

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

Internet Archive

1.) Wart-biter (Decticus verrucivorus)

2.) Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima)

3.) Saddle-backed bush cricket (Ephippiger ephippiger)

4.) European earwig (Forficula auricularia)

#bugs #insects #bush crickets #wart-biter #great green bush-cricket #saddle-backed bush cricket #earwigs #european earwig #signature

[guardian-angle22]

Tarlos Wedding Celebration Event [Week 5] -> favorite s2 moment(s)-> all the flirty banter

#911 lone star #911lsedit #tarlos #tk strand #carlos reyes #tarlosweddingcelebration #tarlosweddingevent #this is my jam right here #flirty boyfriends being adorable af #i don't know if i can pick a favorite moment here. part of me wants to choose the last one #but I also just absolutely love the adorable banter when they were moving tk into the condo #I would love s5 to have a better balance of this with the heavy stuff #s4 was just toooo much heavy. not enough flirting lol #give us flirty HUSBANDS #my gifs #episode: s02e01 back in the saddle #episode: s02e04 friends with benefits #episode: s02e10 a little help from my friends #episode: s02e11 slow burn #episode: s02e12 the big heat

[muffinlance]

Prompt: Aang didn't know Zuko was raising a baby dragon

Aang tilts his head. He doesn’t lower his staff, because—because Zuko, but he doesn’t try hitting him again, either. At least, not anywhere near his chestplate, which the other boy is very suddenly defending like there’s a second Avatar inside.

“Do you… have something in there?” Aang asks.

“NO!” shouts Zuko, who definitely has something inside his armor. It makes a kind of scrabbly-paws-on-metal sound and then—

“Do you have a dragon in there?” Aang squeals. 

And maybe in retrospect he should have thought more before bouncing towards the fiery teenager, but in Aang’s defense there is the cutest, tiniest, fluffiest little maned dragon head he’s ever seen trying to peek out of Zuko’s neckline. And anyway, the other boy is way too busy backpedaling and trying to push the dragon’s snout back inside to Capture the Avatar, so. So Aang absolutely shoves a hand at the dragon’s nose for it to smell him, because that’s how you greet them—

—Or is that praying mantis-dogs?—

And then there is a Fire Prince squawking and shoving him away, which is definitely not a bending move, but not before a little lizard tongue tickles Aang’s hand which is so cute.

“Uh,” says Sokka, lowering his club. “I. I am not actually sure how I’m supposed to be reacting, here.”

“We’re fighting,” snarls Zuko, who is cupping protective hands over the dragon, and definitely not fighting. The dragon has wormed one stubby little leg and an adorably oversized wing out, and seems enthusiastically set on more. 

Which is the point where Zuko’s uncle finally catches up to them, at his usual leisurely pace. If he wasn’t with Zuko, Aang would maybe think that the older man wasn’t all that invested in catching him.

“Nephew, do you…” And then he catches sight of the dragon.

Zuko pales.

“Hello, Uncle Backup,” says Sokka, grabbing Aang and Katara’s arms. “And that’s our cue to go go go.”

Zuko chases them. Because he’s Zuko.

Zuko… gets ahead of them. Which is not very chase-y?

Zuko vaults into Appa’s saddle ahead of them and holds his hands up as Katara threatens him with a hovering stream of water. He… doesn’t seem to be leaving, or attacking, and his uncle is running after them way faster than Aang is used to, so. Yip-yip?

Katara and Sokka sit down, once Zuko’s uncle looks very small under them. Zuko keeps his hands up. The baby dragon is flapping its free wing appreciatively in the rushing air. And chirruping really cutely.

“So,” says Sokka, slowly. “You… needed a ride?”

“I don’t—” Zuko starts to shout, before lowering his volume, even if his tone is exactly the same. “I don’t need a ride.”

“Uh-huh,” says Sokka, even more slowly. 

Zuko continues to keep his hands up. His dragon is trying to squirm the rest of the way free, and has decided that gnawing at his chest plate is the way to do this. It’s making pretty good progress against the black and red paint. The metal, not so much.

Aang keeps glancing back from Appa’s head. “You, um,” he says, suddenly realizing that You seemed scared will probably just lead to more shouting. And fire. Which there has been a really noticeable lack of, and Aang kind of wants to encourage that. 

“Did your uncle not know about the dragon?” he asks, instead.

“Uncle is the Dragon of the West,” Zuko says, more quietly than Aang has ever heard him say anything. And also like it’s a full explanation. But judging by the equally confused looks on Katara and Sokka’s faces, this isn’t just another thing he’s missed during the past hundred years. 

The baby dragon huffs at its lack of progress. And flops, like an over-cooked and very dejected noodle, against Zuko’s chest. 

Zuko swallows. And stops glaring at any of them, because he’s no longer meeting their eyes. He lowers his hands, slowly, and works a shoulder strap free. It’s enough for the dragon to puddle limply down into his lap, where it curls into a very alert spring. 

“Do you know how someone gets the title dragon?” Zuko says. “By killing a dragon. Uncle thought he killed the last two. And father was—he was so mad, not that uncle killed the last, but that he killed two. That he didn’t leave some glory for the rest of our family.”

Sokka clears his throat, after the obligatory awkward silence. “Your family is… kind of messed up, huh?” 

“What was your first clue,” says the Fire Prince, his scarred face deadpan.

His very prominently scarred face.

Oh. 

Katara crosses her arms. Which makes her look grumpier, but she’s not able to bend as quickly like that, so Aang knows she’s feeling less going-to-waterwhip-you grumpy and more prove-me-wrong grumpy. 

“If killing it would be so glorious,” she asks, “why haven’t you?”

“It— She— She’s just a child. It wouldn’t be honorable,” Zuko says, straightening his back.

“Uh-huh,” says Sokka.

But Aang. Aang grins. “Hey! I’m a child, too!”

The Fire Prince groans, and drops his face into his knees. His dragon climbs up onto his head and, using his ponytail approximately like a tree branch, stretches both her wings out, and lifts her little nose to the wind.

(You can also read this and other prompts on AO3.)

#Sokka: no but really why are you in this saddle #what is the plan here #Zuko: groaning intensifies #the AU where Zuko joins the Gaang early because he needs to put his dragon into Avatar-protected daycare #also the AU where Uncle keeps trying to get close enough to explain but Zuko is Really Good at hustling the Gaang into the saddle #they make GREAT time to the North Pole #Uncle: I JUST WANT TO TALK #Toph: COME BACK WITH A WARRANT #did she join the Gaang early too? #who knows! not me! #Avatar The Last Airbender #atla #Zuko #Aang #Sokka #Katara #Iroh #ficlet

[deadwooddross]

I think my Kofi gets a little lost at times, so I went ahead and made a little gofundme to assist with my current predicament! The short of is: A very expensive panic attack! The longer of it is: I think covid went and made my anxiety way worse, kinda felt like I was dying, and unfortunately the only medical facilities open after 8 are the expensive ones (ER). Apparently I'm fine other than the fact my brain hates me and I now have a bill for about $1,800 haunting me SO, IF YOU'D LIKE...

#gofundme #signal boost #feel free to pass this around #I have not been in the best place for making art lately so I worry about how much I can raise thru comms alone without burning out #really just spent most of this past month getting by and Existing #it's not been the most fun #IM TRYIN REAL HARD TO GET BACK IN THE SADDLE BUT THIS HORSE KEEPS KICKIN ME IN THE HEAD

[ndscottsummers]

Excalibur v1 #54

#i don't super remember what's going on lol. but i am trying to get back in the saddle #r: excalibur v1 #kurt wagner #kitty pryde #blades ///

[tbranch]

ART! Cassandra Cain vs. Lady Shiva

HELLO EVERYONE! It has been a while since I’ve posted new work. I practically quit at one moment, but I’m back! And my first piece is a companion piece to my LAST Cassandra piece. A few days of work and a lot of hardware issues concerning my tablet and it talking to my computer. But its sorted now. I suppose this is the Jade Canary version of Shiva from Pre-52 Birds of Prey. Whatever, enjoy!

#cassandra cain #lady shiva #black bat #dc comics #dc redesigns #art by tbranch #batman #back in the saddle

[angeltk]

TK STRAND IN EVERY SCENE 2.01: back in the saddle

#mygifs* #angeltk #911ls #911 lone star #911ls 2x01 #episode: s02e01 back in the saddle #tk strand #tyler kennedy strand #ronen rubenstein #my gifs #my colouring #lonestardaily #lonestaredit #911lsedit #tkstrandsource #tkstrandedit #firefighter!tk #alloftkennedy* #.

[blackbackedjackal]

More gsd colors???

So many...

This isn't even a complete list since it doesn't include all the variations, but they come in a wide variety of colors. Throwing in Panda for good measure because LOOK AT THEM!!

#Lobo's littermates were super funky #Lobo was a blanket back #his sister was silver #and his brother waa solid black #they have a lot of variation but you normally see saddle backs in red or cream #or sable #since that's common in working lines #ask

[rising-volteccers]

How (not) to carry children (safely) when you're riding Charizard according to Friede

#Pokemon Horizons #Professor Friede #Liko (Pokemon) #Roy (Pokemon) #Dot (Pokemon) #Sprigatito #Fuecoco #Quaxly #Captain Pikachu #Charizard #Pokeani spoilers #Screencaps #My posts #I understand it's probably more of a balance thing so Charizard isn't saddled with all that weight on his back #But the kids looks so unsecured in that grip man

[simreaper]

i needed full body freckles that were a little more transparent...with a little less OOMPH...so here we are. i really wanted cute little ear freckles and feet freckles, so that’s what i did, plus a little extra all over :-)

ft. awkward butt shot so you can see the little details. click below for download and a few unedited previews. can u tell i hate making cc previews because i do

disclaimer: these were primarily made for me, and i play with custom skin tones and reshade, so these might not make you as happy as they make me! which is fine :) but i hope they look good in your game too! also, i was primarily concerned with making them work for light skintones and dark skintones, so the “medium” tones kinda fell to the wayside.

enabled for teen-elder, m and f

download: sfs

previews: (forgot to take pics of lighter skin tones but it looks about the same as the previews tbh)

@public-ccfinds

#back in the saddle...jk i made these for myself and wanted to share bc i feel like i just Consume things here at this point #my cc #ts4cc #ts4mm #ts4 cc #download

[forecast0ctopus]

redraw of that one scene because i wanted to draw doc holding all those papers

#and added more papers just for kicks. wanted a comical amount of papers #back to the future fanart #back to the future #doc brown #marty mcfly #marty mcfly fanart #bttf #bttf fanart #future boy…………im no future boy……….. #also i didnt notice until i was drawing this but marty took docs shoes for the dance lmao. stolen #also i thought marty wore saddle shoes but he wears whatever the hell these things are. theyre not saddle shoes

[revenantghost]

My brain: Hey how about this fucking badass AU idea

Me:

#HELP I'M ALREADY DEAD STOP THIS WEH #Listen this idea is going #SO far down the line #First is untitled E fic #Then the plan was to get back into the longfic saddle by finishing Kittenwood #(Which... do I really need it after this bullshit 'short' fic tho) #Then my VW reverse bang #Then finish Hallowboned #AND THEN A DIFFERENT AU #NOT THIS ONE!!!!!!! #AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! #Yadda yadda

[herebecritters]

Some Nergal disguises/characters

#htf #happy tree friends #htf nergal #htf be brave #Htf oc #he has so many I love drawing them #warmups #I tell y’all it feels good to be back in the drawing saddle #he’s so theatrical HA #yes the idol itself kinda counts but I guess that’s more of a…double or substitute than a disguise #an avatar is probably a better word #either way it’s a way for him to ‘safely’ interact face to face with the surface world #he gets SO BORED being alone in his burrow #yes he does have a character named creamy what’s your point?

[fuckmeyer]

blows my mind there's not even a Chinese coven in The Twilight Saga. no Indian coven. only ONE coven in the Middle East/Africa: EGYPTIAN. no Greek coven, no Iranian coven, no Afghan coven, no Ethiopian coven, no Nigerian coven; FUCK ancient civilizations i guess! no one in South or Central America but the AMAZONS???? for real?????? the POTENTIAL to incorporate LEGENDS and HISTORY and CULTURE — wasted! i CANNOT with this author thinking the only vampire civilizations exist in Europe & America!! fuck off directly into the sun!!!

#you know what the worst part of this is???? #it's actually better off they don't exist because you KNOW Meyer will just depict them as RACIST CARICATURES #this tag is sponsored by Maria 'her features were clearly Mexican' [NO LAST NAME GIVEN] #and of course the 'wild' 'feral' Amazons #oh and lest we forget Amun 'all Egyptians look the same' [last name] #OH AND LEST WE FORGET #THE ENTIRE NATIVE TRIBE MEYER APPROPRIATED & COLORED W/ RACIST TROPES & STEREOTYPES JUST TO PROFIT OFF OF W/O GIVING BACK ANYTHING TO THEM #yeah it's such a shame actually this author is so ignorant bc this series could have been batshit insane with coolness #whatever you won't hear me complaining too much - that's what this fandom is for #saddle up twilight bitches we ride at dawn #twilight #twilight renaissance #the twilight saga #twilight saga

[yuri-is-online]

Same Anon here that dropped that mess of an angst post lol. Maybe I should find some name for myself if this becomes a regular thing.

There are a lot of valid points there. For as lightly as the story treats everything, wow this would be messed up irl. But I digress, I personally can see this potentially taking a much darker route. I don’t know if you’re comfortable talking about this so TW: Brief mention of suicide

I imagine Yuu to just bottle everything up for the aforementioned reasons of being seen as weak for expressing any of their emotions only for it to all come out in one big mental breakdown. I think it would be quite poetic for Yuu’s breakdown to be more of a quiet self-destructive thing just to contrast the showy, outwardly destructive nature of the overblots. I always thought it could be some spur of the moment decision to just end it all out of sheer hopelessness and a thoroughly crushed sense of self-worth. I just can’t see a teenager handling a burden this heavy very well. Whether or not Yuu survives could be up to how dark you want to go.

Also if it isn’t too much, I would like to see that post about the boys’ individual reactions to Yuu running away sometime. But I’m aware you only write for a few at a time so…

previous post

You are more than welcome to give yourself a name! I don't have any named annons so you are free to choose anything you like, and make regular appearances if that is what you wish. While I try to only write for a few characters at a time, I don't mind doing a bullet point type post with my thoughts on the boys reacting to Yuu running away sometime, but I need to think as part of me wants to write something sappy and romantic, while the other part wants to focus more on Yuu and their character. I could do both I suppose (￣ω￣;)

I'm fine with talking about suicide, but since it's a sensitive subject I am going to place my thoughts under read more and tag it so if it is something you, dear reader, are triggered by you needn't see more than you are comfortable with.

notes: they/them used for Yuu, discussions of suicide and depression, isolation, abandonment, and missing persons. This also kind of takes a trip into theory town I am so sorry annon. Please do not interact with the words below if you do not wish to think on such things.

I want to start out by saying that when a person is depressed it is not always obvious, even if they are contemplating suicide. We don't have a complete understanding of what drives someone to kill themselves because we can't ask people who have. I do think there is an element of assuming that either the world or you will be better off if you are dead; which I would like to stress simply is not true, but you are not evil for struggling with that feeling even if people try to make you feel like you are.

Yuu's breakdown being "more of a quiet self-destructive thing," as you stated dear friend, would be extremely poetic. To me it highlights the disparity between Yuu and the overblot boys. They have power and are able to hurt others to try and make themselves feel better, Yuu has next to none and is only able to hurt themselves.

Crowley mentions that there is counseling available to all NRC students, assuming the school follows real life laws we can assume the Professors are mandatory reporters. If Yuu shows signs of depression or self-harm, they will be required to report that and recommend Yuu for counseling, but the thing about therapy is that it's not a one size fits all solution. The patient needs to accept that they have a problem and, perhaps more importantly, trust their therapist otherwise you won't benefit from the treatment.

That's assuming that a counselor would even understand how to treat Yuu in the first place, there's a lot going on with their situation and while I could see a good therapist taking it very seriously, there's only so much they can do, which brings me to my sort of sticking point with this and why it took me so long to answer your ask.

Why in the hell is Yuu in Twisted Wonderland in the first place??? "Because they're Alice" ok sure but what does that like actually mean. I don't want to derail this into theory town but I keep thinking about the translated lines Crowley mutters to himself when calling Yuu a beast tamer that doesn't appear in the text box... something about how they look more like they are meant to be eaten by the beast than tame it.

There is a part of me that feels like Crowley wants Yuu to feel isolated and despondent about their chances of getting home, like he needs them to be accepting of their death and convinced it's the only way they will be useful. Something to do with Grim and that big Chimera at the beginning of the game, in the light novel there is someone telling Yuuya to take their hand but they can't move to take it, all they can do is stare up at the big monster and it's evil grin (if i remember correctly)

Anyway all of that to say I can see two sorts of scenarios leading to Yuu trying to harm themselves.

Route A: Summer

As was correctly pointed out in these tags on the original post, I think Summer would be the worst time for an actively depressed Yuu. If they have been seeing a counselor, they will likely not be available over the summer months, Crowley didn't take us on vacation with him the first time so there's no way he'll do it now, and everyone has their own families to get back to.

They only have Grim and the Ghosts. And while Yuu might love them, they technically belong here. Yuu does not. The lack of other friends bothering them means Yuu has time to think good and hard about where they are. And who they left behind.

I like to listen to Dateline while I work sometimes and one of the things that always gets to me is how little closure people feel when someone goes missing, even if they find out what happened to them. If Yuu is missing in their world and their family loves them... they just have next to no chance of ever finding that out. Ever.

If Yuu has a bad relationship with their family, or none at all, they probably start feeling like they are going insane. They have nothing worth going back to really, to the point that people would probably encourage them to see being in Twisted Wonderland as a good thing, a chance for a fresh start. But it has been anything but.

Summer would be a good time to run away, it's easier to be homeless in the Summer, plenty of places need part time help anyway, and Yuu can make a clean break from the school before anyone notices they're gone.

It's also a good time to decide you want to die. By the time your friends come back they will have already gotten used to life without you anyway.

.... i could see this making grim overblot tbh. He blames the school for taking Yuu from him and by the time everyone returns he is there. Waiting. The consequences of their actions given form.

A monument to all their sins.

Option B: Sacrifice

So back to theory tangent.

Grim and Yuu are one student. Crowley treats them as such, but what if he-

Or whoever the real final boss is

Need them to actually be one student.

So they approach Yuu, offer their sympathies. Tell them they know why Crowley cannot send Yuu home.

"Because you came here by dying, don't you remember? These events you have seen, all your misfortunes and troubles, they've all been like one big dream. What a terrible fate you've met... but no worries. I know how to set you free."

The strange masked man places his hand on your shoulder and guides you to the mirror. You see your reflection in it, for the first time you idly realize, hair spread out on the pavement with a halo of blood spatter about your sleeping head.

"You needn't be scared." the man's voice is calm, soothing even, so much so that you almost believe him when he says

"You've died once before, after all. You know exactly what it feels like, it will just be like going to sleep."

Sleep sounds good, even if you have just gotten done fighting to stay awake, so very good you nearly miss the creature's wicked grin spreading mockingly across the reflection of your peaceful face.

#twisted wonderland x reader #twst x reader #tw sucidal ideation #tw suicide #sorry i was gone for so long i was obsessing over cows and ufos -_- #i think i worked it out of my system and put posting fic in my goals for this week so time to get back in the saddle