#shed your skin

[diana-andraste]

...................moving on to 2024........................

#music #pretty blue guns #garage blues #shed your skin #gif animation #happy new year #rock #snakes #animals #nature #bandcamp #2024 #but 2023 was so good

[girl4music]

DomKat's physical and emotional chemistry: Chin lifting to get each other's attention to kiss each other

This is Part 1 in a meta series in observing how DomKat portray physical and emotional intimacy as WayHaught

What I mean by physical chemistry is natural and automatic bodily responses to one another in a scene where they perform some kind of physical intimacy. It doesn't have to be physical but, for WayHaught, it is more often physical than emotional. However, I will cover both because they do have both - which is extremely rare for WLW ships. Sometimes the intimacy is choreographed by the director or an intimacy coach, so they may be only following that direction. But even so, to portray intimacy in such a way where it does not seem that way is a talent that can only really be done by actors that do have great physical and emotional chemistry with one another. That know how to use body language to communicate and convey intentions and emotions so that each other knows how to react in response to the other to portray their characters' intimacy.

These physically intimate bodily responses to one another from the episodes 'Shed Your Skin' and 'Whiskey Lullaby' in Season 2 of 'Wynonna Earp' could be choreographed, could be improvised. Either way, they are portrayed by DomKat chin lifting the other to represent WayHaught's desire and need to be physically intimate. Something like this can look so forced without that great physical chemistry that these two actors appear to possess. It looks real and convincing and authentic rather than acted, choreographed and scripted. As if they feel like they're the only two people in the room.

It's easy to just assume when we watch physical and emotional intimate scenes between characters that it's because it is the actors' real feelings for each other or even their real desires for one another. And it may be so that that is the case sometimes because many actors that have portrayed romantic couples have fallen in love from it and even gotten together. But in the interest of appreciating and praising an actor's acting talent and respecting them as real people I do not like to think that way myself. Not only can it come across as disrespectful to them as real people if that assumption is pushed on them, as some fans love to do, but it also can disrespect them as actors because it puts their acting talent down to real thoughts and feelings. Meaning it's less acting and more genuine behaviour and action. I never like that assumption and I never like assuming that way myself because being able to portray any kind of intimacy with someone you have absolutely no real life intimate connection with is a talent. It's very true that close friendship and love between actors can translate as romance between their respective characters but to say it's entirely down to that disrespects their talent as actors and it can disrespect them as real people to say it's more than friendship when they'll likely be very uncomfortable with that assumption. Fandoms love to see their ships performing intimacy and it is genuinely down to the real chemistry between the actors most of the time why they do. But it goes too far for me when it is assumed that it's not acting or there's very little talent needed to perform that intimacy because they think that the intimacy is the real deal. I'm not ever denying that it can't or won't be when this assumption is made for any ship, I'm just saying I don't like what that implies when it is.

With DomKat portraying intimacy as WayHaught it's difficult to deny and denounce this assumption because both actors have come out as queer during the period of filming their scenes together, so at the least it confirms that they felt attraction to one another - which is fine, of course, if they're fine with it. In addition to that is that they have been really good and close friends all the while - and therefore much of their friendship and love translates as romance on-screen. And even though the assumption is strong in the fandom that there's more between them, the Earpers are a respectful fandom and do not push the assumption on to them. There might be a few that have overstepped their boundaries and tried to coerce DomKat to confess if there is, but the majority of the fandom have refrained from doing so while still supporting them coming out as queer because of their individual experiences in portraying Waverly and Nicole and the fact that the physical and emotional intimacy between WayHaught has contributed to the choice to address and announce their queerness.

I feel very at home in this fandom. I've been apart of fandoms for other queer ships where the fans were not mature and have tried to push their assumptions and agendas on to the actors because they were so desperate for that representation from them. And while I absolutely understand that desperation and those feelings as a queer person myself, I won't stand for that kind of behaviour in a fandom and will instead choose to separate and exclude myself from it if boundaries are crossed and any kind of violation is committed.

My objective for doing this meta series in observing DomKat's physical and emotional chemistry is to appreciate and praise the acting talent it takes to portray physical and emotional intimacy as their respective characters on-screen and I'm hoping the amazing Earper fandom will see this series and follow suit in doing the same because the more we express and discuss about how physical and emotional intimacy requires physical and emotional chemistry without just putting it down to the assumption of real thoughts and feelings and behaviours and actions, and rather how honestly hard working this specific acting duo works as a unit in their scenes together, the more we can help to encourage other actors to portray this level and intensity of physical and emotional intimacy with each other without being scared that they'll be exposed for being queer if they are closeted at the time, or if they're not and just want to provide queer representation in solidarity with their queer audience. I think it's very important that we are able to show that we respect them as actors and as people because it's a very difficult thing to do to put yourself out there like that whether you're queer or not queer.

Part of the reason I had the idea to do this is because Dom PC confessed in their coming out announcement with Advocate that they felt like they were a hypocrite in portraying a queer character and representing a queer on-screen relationship with Kat Barrell when they couldn't come out as queer themselves. It made me feel upset and sorry for them that they felt that way when everybody - be it an actor or not - are on their own journeys with experiencing their queerness and I think that the courage and strength that they had to portray Waverly Earp and represent a significant and deep on-screen intimate relationship with another same-sex actor even though they had not yet come out as queer themselves is fucking incredible. Not to mention that they were also closeted in gender identity at the time too. They had no idea they were non-binary and not female which must have just made that coming out journey all the more difficult to do while still in the spotlight and representing WLW. They probably felt they were even more of a hypocrite because they weren't being honest about either their sexuality or gender identity when that's just not how it works. If you don't know, you don't know.

So, you know? I just feel like something like this is necessary to do and I guess I've decided to "start the wave" - as Dom likes to put it. So as I talk about and post this meta series, I would like to see other Earpers or other creators in other queer ship fandoms follow suit and show appreciation and praise and respect for what these incredibly amazing and talented actors do for all kinds of queer representation. How they do it and what it takes. The effort and dedication and talent. I think we owe it to them for what they do for us all the time in sincerely representing who and what we are as queer individuals even if not queer themselves or haven't yet come out as queer. Maybe something like this will help them begin their own journey because it really is a two-way street how this whole thing all works.

#wynonna earp #shed your skin #whiskey lullaby #wayhaught #domkat #waverly earp #dom pc #nicole haught #katherine barrell #meta series #part 1 #physical chemistry #emotional chemistry #physical intimacy #emotional intimacy #chin lifting #representation #wlw representation #queer representation

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

and then everyone had nightmares for a month. the end

#caterpillar-butterfly metamorphosis is. Um. inch resting #fascinating! also horrifying! id like to Experience it! #oh to dissolve into soup and be radically transformed into something new. preferably with wings #also realistically. there would be a shed skin left behind #like watch a time lapse of a caterpillar forming the chrysalis #the chrysalis forms Inside the bug and then like... splits it open and the caterpillar's now empty skin just shrivels like a rolled sock #so like... whoever discovers howdy's chrysalis would have to deal with seeing his scooped-out body #UNLESS IM THINKING ABOUT IT TOO LITERALLY BECAUSE HES A MF PUPPET #still. something to think about #scribble salad #yassified howdy <3 #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home fanart #frank: never fear neighbors - ill ease your worries with detailed information! that way theres no room left for anxiety-inducing mysteries! #frank: why are you screaming

[xxthis-is-a-wastelandxx]

When you're feeling

Safe in your skin

Maybe we'll meet again

#title fight #shed #safe in your skin #emo night #title fight pls come back i need u more than ever #Spotify

[snoopilittle]

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#This is your Test... Come Forth #Confess ! Extend #Your Tongue Speak Out Go On #Shedding Your Skin Showing Your Texture #Time to let everything Inside Show #random layouts #twitter layouts #random moodboard #grunge moodboard #indie layouts #indie moodboard #grunge icons #grunge layouts #moodboard #edgy moodboard #edgy layouts #vintage moodboard #vintage layouts #visual archive #kpop moodboard #anime moodboard #kpop layouts #anjme layouts

[mqcuriosities]

“Crawling out of my skin” 4.28.23

#digital art #bug art #insect art #insect #bug #cicada #entomology #drawing #artist commentary: #been plagued with a lot of ‘I want to crawl out of my skin’/escape my body type of thoughts lately #and so this was created #but also like idk I think it’d be cool if you could just shed your skin every once in awhile #the benefits of having an exoskeleton #these are normal thoughts people have right #also have y’all ever seen cicada molts before they’re gnarly looking #we occasionally find them on the front porch and have to sweep them away before the cats try to carry it in #mq art

[ftmsteveraglan]

sometimes i wonder what drugs the og springtrap artists were on to draw him as both a buff furry sexyman and a gross zombie monster, because i need them. like now.

#i'm trying to draw springtrap in that sort of thirst trap artstyle #it's a lot harder than i realized #i wanna sketch something for the fic i'm working on #i was thinking 'shed your skin' would be a cool title but idk #william afton #springtrap #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #shitpost #ftmsr

[quietwingsinthesky]

the last unicorn post from earlier has me thinking about the master. that yana is still in there, you know? is still someone he was, if even for a brief flash across the life of a time lord. there’s no way to unlive that life. there are ways to twist it later, sure, to make utopia into hell on earth. but the life was lived. in much the same way that the doctor can remember, can feel, the love he held onto as john smith even as that life is ripped out of his hands. the doctor choose denial and then grief and then to shutter it all away. and so john smith died, and so professor yana died, and the doctor and the master live on. the doctor has done this before, and he lives in orbit around humanity, trying to keep the best parts of them and hold them deep enough to take root (which he can pretend he gets to choose, as a time lord. as a human, it all floods in and can’t be dug back out.) but what about the master, right?

to borrow a turn of phrase: i think there are two time lords left in the universe, and they both learned how to regret.

#regret here meaning less feeling the emotion of actual regret obviously because time lords do not actually funxtion on unicorn rules. they #already get sad just fine on their own. no humanity needed for that. #but i dont know. i just dont think he brushed it off so easily. i think he did a hell of a job convincing himself he did. #and what better way then to twist his own great works and destroy the species he was working so hard to save at the end of the universe. #but what about the knowledge that he *could* be that person. that somewhere in him exists a version that wanted to save people. #a version that is painfully too much like the doctor. even. now is that part worse or better than the human part? #but if past regenerations are ghosts i think yana deserves a haunt. #anyway maybe ignore this one im rambling about nothing here #theres just. i dont know. what if you were the last of your kind and in surviving you made yourself Not Like Them in a way you’ll never #escape. #i mean doctor who is just so concerned with all these plots about hybrids and children of the tardis and clones and What Makes A Time Lord. #but they’re so obsessed with it in just. a very Lore way. is what it feels like. we get brushes of more like with jenny and how she’s #physically a time lord and the doctor denies her that inheritance. a shared suffering… #but me myself im just fascinated with the doctor and the master as the time lords who survived. but they survived Wrong #its. its. children of gallifrey that don’t belong to her anymore. you know? #i dont care if river’s got time lord dna!!! or the metacrisis is physically human!!! i dont care!!! talk to me about what it means beyond #their blood and bones!!! what’s it like to have your sense of self stripped from you like that!!! #what’s it like when so much of you is the shed skin of time lords past. but one of you was human. one of you was painfully *humiliatingly* #human!!! #enough about how much dna you need to count as a time lord. i want to know how much they can mutate until they can’t be recognized as one. #does that make sense?

[jestiamy]

I like mentally equating haircutting in humans are space orcs aus to those hoof maintenance/horn trimming videos that get like. at least ten comments each time going "???? so are we going to ignore the literal animal torture happening here??"

#like it looks really bad to us but this is not a harmful process (if done right) and is. very helpful to the animals in question actually #I've seen the “aliens think cutting hair is like insanely painful” thing before but I don't think I've seen an elaboration on. why. #like. fur sheds??? if there's fuzzy aliens or whatever it has to be atleast somewhat known this occurs #I can understand like. a scaled alien equating this to something like a violent ripping off of skin or something #but I. struggle to imagine an alien with fur coming to a similar conclusion #so I like to imagine hair cutting is only perceived as painful because the method itself to do it is seen as unnecessarily violent #like. why are you doing that??? your head fur should just fall out when it's ready to?? you're going to damage your coat??? #and even then it's probably more of like. if you saw someone use a chainsaw to cut their nails. kind of reaction. #it's more. this is violent and potentially extremely painful and also there are better ways to do this specific thing. #saying stuff #i think. #humans are space orcs #I think I forgot to explain the hoof maintenance/horn trimming connection #basically it's like. logically yeah this looks better but it's seen as painful/even if you know this helps them it seems like it hurts

[misc-obeyme]

Do you think barbatos sheds his whole body or just his tail and stuff. Do you think he'd have a split tongue like I hc Levi does? Like yeah, sure it makes sense for Levi to shed his whole body but would barbatos have to? From his demon form he looks like some kind of reptile. A demonic lizard kinda.

- bows for barb

You know, I think it depends on how many animal characteristics the demons actually have. The game doesn't really specify, so I kinda think you get to make up whatever you want about it.

In Levi's case, it's easy enough to base how all that would work on snakes, what with the shedding of skin and the forked tongue and all.

But we don't really know if Barbatos is supposed to be a specific animal. I've heard a lot of different opinions on it, but I think the one that makes the most sense to me is salamander. Because the only thing we know about his tail, other than what it looks like, is that it's kinda slimy. And lizards are always dry, as far as I know.

Of course, you could easily explain that away by saying his is a demonic variant of lizard that is also slimy. And maybe there are slimy lizards irl that I'm unaware of lol.

If we go with salamander, though, I don't think they shed? I don't actually know. I don't think they have split tongues, either. I always think of them as lizard shaped frogs. You know, amphibious.

And if you really wanna be technical about it, humans also shed all the skin on their body. They just do it a little at a time as opposed to a snake situation where you get the whole thing all at once.

I kinda lean toward him not having to deal with that just because that butler has enough stuff to do without having to worry about shedding his entire skin at once. Can you imagine? I feel like it'd stress him out so bad, he'd lock himself away until it was done. I think it can take weeks for a snake to shed their whole skin. So if Barbatos had like a week long skin shedding phase, I think he'd just be like okay going into seclusion now because no one can see me.

And like I'm not even thinking about the horns they're like wing hands? That says bat to me, not lizard. What is he some kind of amphibious mammal? Dear god, is he a platypus?!? Nope no, I'm stopping this train of thought right there.

Anyway, I think it's whatever you want. I kinda like the idea that the demons have forms that are even more demonic than the one we normally see. So I would headcanon that Barb has a forked tongue when he's in his most demonic state. Mostly because I think it's hot it could match his forked tail, you know?

But I personally would spare him the full body shed lol. Though it would be a really sweet and intimate moment for MC to care for him through the process. :')

#I just wanna pamper him that's all #like is your shedding skin itchy? #I will scratch all over #let me wash it too #massage #oils #whatever you want Barb #obey me #obey me nightbringer #obey me barbatos #bows for barb anon #misc answers

[girl4music]

DomKat’s physical and emotional chemistry: That quick sexy Lift thing that Nicole does with Waverly

This is Part 2 in a meta series in observing how DomKat portray physical and emotional intimacy as WayHaught

These physically intimate bodily responses from the Season 2 episode 'Shed Your Skin' and the Season 4 episode 'Crazy' are likely more improvised on the spot by Kat than choreographed by anyone. Kat portrays Nicole lifting Dom portraying Waverly onto her waist in a playfully dominant action to engage in physical intimacy with her. Not only does this require great chemistry between them but also immense trust as, because it's likely improvised on the spot, there would be no indication to Dom that Kat was going to do that. Having that established trust between them throughout all their intimate scenes would provide them freedom to slip into improvisation where bodily responses are much more immediate and quick than they would be if they were choreographed and have to be remembered. It absolutely still requires acting talent because improvisation is still a performance and all of the best actors always include improvisation in their performances. Especially when performing physical intimacy. 

Lucy Lawless, for example, is very adept at this and this is why I liken Waverly and Nicole to Xena and Gabrielle when it comes to their physical and emotional intimacy. A lot of body language is used to communicate and convey their intentions and emotions in scenes. What it shows most of all to me when Kat does this quick sexy Lift thing is that these two actors are very comfortable with being in each other's personal space. Most probably because their friendship off-screen is just as comfortable and natural and they can play off of each other seamlessly without any kind of direction or choreography. Their body language is at a level where they do not need words to communicate with each other, nor any scripted action or behaviour which is just how it also is with Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor. 

But nevertheless - friendship, no friendship - it still requires talent because improvisation performing is not something just anyone can do. You can ask any dancer or athlete the same and they will tell you what it takes to be able put their mind aside to achieve these feats. Kat Barrell may not be either but she's very good at physical acting and even something as small and simple as this action proves it. Dom's ability to anticipate Kat's bodily response with their own response in that they react to Kat's by immediately jumping into her arms just displays immense trust in their connection as their on-screen characters as well as their off-screen connection as friends. It's really something and likely couldn't be done with anyone else. These two actors share a very special camaraderie with each other that allows them the ease to just go with the flow in their intimate scenes and observing and examining it as closely as I am right now only makes me love their physical and emotional chemistry all the more because I can see how natural and organic it is between them. I have watched so many other physically intimate scenes between other actors where that's not the case at all and it looks incredibly contrived and awkward and you feel like the characters are violating each other’s personal space because they don’t look comfortable at all. The energy between them is off-putting to watch. I never feel that way with either Xena and Gabrielle or Waverly and Nicole because I just see how right it is for them to be together. In actual fact what I'm witnessing is the organic, natural, real chemistry between the actors when performing intimacy in their scenes. While it's true that Lucy and Renee had very little of the physical to portray compared to Kat and Dom, I can still tell that had they been allowed to portray that same level of physical intimacy as their characters, it would be as seamless because of their friendship combined with their talents in improvisation and physical acting.

In other words - I COULD very much see Waverly and Nicole do justice to Xena and Gabrielle cosplay and vice versa because the level of chemistry between Lucy and Renee and Kat and Dom is similar, as is their level of acting talent and ability together as well as individually. I always say there will never be any other WLW ship like Xena and Gabrielle BUT partially the reason why I say that is because of the unique way in which they provided queer representation with them. It had to be carefully written and performed as to appease studio censors prohibiting their physical intimacy as a WLW couple - hence why their emotional intimacy was amped up to the max. That will always be what makes them really stand out as a WLW ship compared to any other ever. But the level of chemistry between Lucy and Renee has been officially achieved in my opinion with Kat and Dom. I see and feel just as much chemistry between Kat and Dom as I do with Lucy and Renee to the point where if they were to be put on a panel together in competition discussing their characters and the intimacy that they portrayed for them, I'd hear much the same answers back from both duos. If anything DomKat would win with actually remembering their scenes because Lucy and Renee have never been the greatest with remembering, and that's fair enough since their show ended a longer time ago and they don't watch and rewatch as fans themselves which DomKat have spoken about doing several times in panels. So, yes, there is a lot of difference but there is a lot of similarity as well. They are both honestly the best representation I've ever seen in portraying very natural and organic intimate WLW ships where it is as real and authentic as it possibly could be in TV art/entertainment at the time.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: It is like Xena and Gabrielle walked so Waverly and Nicole could fly. This is great progression for WLW and queer representation and I will talk more about the similarities between these WLW ships when I move on to the parts of this meta series addressing emotional intimacy because there is really distinctive parallels there that need to be acknowledged on this subject.

#wynonna earp #shed your skin #crazy #wayhaught #domkat #waverly earp #dom pc #nicole haught #katherine barrell #meta series #part 2 #xena warrior princess #xena #lucy lawless #gabrielle #renee o'connor #physical chemistry #emotional chemistry #physical intimacy #emotional intimacy #sexy quick Lift thing #improvisation #physical acting #trust #representation #wlw representation #queer representation

[danidoesathing]

bitches cant be normal about fic writing they'll watch something silly and not meant to be taken seriously "hmmmm yes but have you thought about the horrific implications of living through such an event" and proceed to write the most fucked up shit you've ever read

#its me im bitches #cant fucking enjoy anything without my mind going 'well have you thought about the body horror of snake vampirism' #or 'hey if we apply this cute fan headcanon to this canon scenario it makes that event WAY more fucked up' #like girl why cant you just write something stupid and funny. why do you gotta make it tragic #dani speaks #but like fr the potential body horror of lair of the white worm #your body and mind being altered and molded against your will by an evil deity. literally shedding your skin. the cannbialism #the secondary fangs growing in your skull. having your mind merging with a higher deity to the point you cant tell the difference #the RELGIOUS TRAMA could you IMAGINE

[eraiyang]

蛻

#钟离 #morax #zhongli #原神 #pov youre marrying zhongli in exchange for his gnosis jk but i wish zhongli was my wife :( #i wanted to draw a 'final molt' for zhongli #exuvia is already a play on molting so idk i want .. i wanted that final goodbye to rex lapis portrayed as shedding skin one last time #aka i spend hours upon hours being like I DONT WANT IT TO LOOK TOO.. BIRTH-Y

[catgirlkirigiri]

My scug, Dandy! They can piggyback two slugpups and carry one in their mouth to hold babies and keep their hands free :D They'd start their campaign with one pup (that pup being Metal Pipe, the little grey/black one) and have increased pup spawn rates. She's also able to tame lantern mice, centipedes, and jetfish! And finally her spots and antennae glow in the dark, essentially giving the effect of eating a neuron fly without having to go get one. They would also be unable to ascend due to their title/role as a parent to abandoned slugpups; I like to think their campaign's ending would be similar to the slugtree ending Monk and Survivor have.

#gradient and solid patterns are interchangable. you can also mix and match ie gradient legs w solid tail or vice versa #the skin i made has the gradients but in my brain she doesnt so both are equally canon lol. you could also do a smooth gradient if you want #im not planning on making a campaign mod for them i just like thinking about my oc lol. idk where in timeline shed be or how many food pips #theyd take. id imagine not a lot of pips cause the focus would be on taking care of your pups but idk #also do yall like my scug anatomy. most scugs just have the solid color eyes like pipe's but dandy has rivulet-type eyes #zoracontent #zora arts #clovers characters #dandelion the caretaker #metal pipe #rain world #rain world oc #slugcat oc #scug oc

[nazyalenskyszoya]

I don't know what the general consensus on the How Will They Break The Curse Theory Department is and I am terrible at speculating (this show is smart, I'm dumb) but has anyone considered that maybe a possible solution would be for Nancy and Ace to just. die? Like. Just a good ole soul reboot?

Something about Ace saying "real love isn't dying for eachother" so adamantly and Nancy immediately going "then what is it??" like she's so sure that IS what real love means, kind of had me going why haven't we tried this? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#think of it like a snake sheding their old skin #you die and your soul sheds the curse #...no? #also because potentially Temperance knew neither of them would go down that specific path #because neither would want to take such a huge risk #don't mind me just spitballing here #A's rambling

[junosmindpalace]

I can’t believe none of the dr stone characters had a wardrobe change after they opened the department store. i know their primitive clothing is apart of their designs but that fashion show could’ve been a GREAT segway into another era of clothing that could’ve been just as definable to their designs, ESPECIALLY with senku’s clothing montage

#Don’t take this too seriously it’s just a thought #Why are you staying in your HIDES BRO #YOU CAN SHED THE ANIMAL SKINS NOW #WHY ARE YOU ONLY TAKING THEM OFF TO HAVE A MOMENT #dr stone #drst