#so heads up for errors

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why would you—That's not—I just wanted to ask for help, why did you have to go and make it awkward???

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #xue yang #Its such a relief to not have to draw so many characters once again. #Redrawing the specific font from the English translated mdzs books was surprisingly fun! #Maybe I'm alone in this...but I think characters switching to a different font of speech for *emphasis* is peak comedy #you can't communicate voice changes of sound very well in non audio forms so this is the best I can do. #Anyways...rip Xue Yang. You finally meet your idol and he brushes you off #Rather— he doesn't live up to the expectations you built in your head #Kind of an on going issue there Jester (I refuse to call him king or sir) #XY is constantly making people out to be the versions he needed them to be to feel justified in his actions #but struggles to pivot when confronted with the fact that these ppl are *more* than just one surface reading! #wwx doesn't actually think xy is flirting. He's just tired of all the fake fans + wants to get out of this convo. #button mashing the A button to skip the unskippable cutscene #Lan Wangji is in the next comic btw. I've missed him dearly. I'm sorry he's been gone so long </3 #edit: poorly spelt MDZS strikes again. This is why I need more time to write my comics. So I can actually proofread B*( #edit2: I cast 'Power of Technology' and fixed my error. Everyone reblog this version instead please

[atopvisenyashill]

i was thinking more about characters Performing Gender, but not necessarily Transgressing Gender. I wound up focusing on Ned and Sansa bc I feel like I understand them the most but-

Sansa as a hostage is imo the most obvious (bc it’s so well done) moment of someone clearly Performing Gender but not being transgressive in that performance. Which isn’t to say it’s not a complicated performance; it’s a fine line Sansa walks between weaponizing her gender to protect herself without seeming too fake. She’s trying to placate the Lannisters by playing the perfect, dedicated, air headed betrothed because it’s the only defense she has - if she outwardly rebels, she will be punished in a likely violent and/or sexual way (which isn’t even conjecture - when she says “or maybe he’ll give me yours” Joffrey has her struck with an armored hand). She’s not quite successful in being convincing but that’s because it’s a rather extreme situation; despite no one believing her, she does make herself seem meek and stupid enough that no one suspects she’s plotting to escape with Dontos until she’s well away from KL. The fact that she even has Dontos to confide in is because of Sansa’s relationship with gender! When she saves him, she covers her rebellious slip by playing up Joffrey’s intelligence & his role as King; she reaches for “tools” of her gender AND of ~proper manhood~ to save a life and herself from another beating. Her retreats into the godswood and silence are very much Sansa attempting to recharge from these draining interactions, the same way a knight would need to stop and eat and rest after a fight. She is fighting, constantly, by forcing herself to stay within the narrow confines of a specific type of gender performance as a way of shielding herself from harm.

Ned yelling at Cat is another big one, and I’ve seen the scene referred to as Ned using his patriarchal power to scare Cat, which is a great description. It feels like a Performance because Ned is putting on this terrifying Lord Stark mask in an attempt to get Catelyn to stop asking about Jon (and Lyanna). This is not how he usually acts with those he loves! When Ned is with His People, he is welcoming of questions, curiosity, emotion, even transgressive thought (to a point! the idea that Ned is a feminist because he lets Arya learn to fight is Not accurate but you can’t deny he allows significantly more flexibility wrt gender expression than most of the fathers we meet in this series. the bar is in hell tho). Yet when Cat asks him about Jon’s mother, Ned scares her so well she stops asking & still remembers the moment bitterly over a decade later. And if that snippet we see through Bran’s eyes of Ned praying that Cat will forgive him does come after she asks (like it’s suspected), it’s clear not only that this is a performance he’s putting on & weaponizing against Cat, it’s one he does not like using as a weapon against someone he is close to. After using the power his gender gives him to cause harm, he retreats to the godswood and silence to pray and rest, much like Sansa. A spiritual cleanse, the way a soldier may pray after battle, to reset and reconnect Being A Proper Man to Being A Kind Man.

I think there’s something interesting in that two of the characters most widely defined by how well they adhere to Westerosi gender norms both dislike feeling like they had to weaponize their gender. They are exhausted by the performance, because it’s a performance. This isn’t Sansa getting excited over tourneys, or Ned teaching his sons to fight; it’s toxic masculinity, it’s structural misogyny. It’s something they’re good at, excel at, and connected to something they enjoy but when it’s paired with violence, whether done by Ned or done to Sansa, it crosses over in their minds from an innate part of themselves (The Gender) to a performance necessary due to survival (The Gender Role). And that after these performances, both retreat to nature & god as a way of resting and cleansing from the experience.

#valyrianscrolls #ned stark #sansa stark #getting on my soap box #there’s something here too about romanticism. like shelley and coleridge and whitman. the need to return to nature to undo society’s harm. #especially with the way various romance movements and romantic tropes are played with by their characters. #i can’t even remember who said it which just shows u how shitty an english major i am aksjd but about how. #like society is necessary but just as necessary is the ability to escape into nature. i *think* it was coleridge i’m probably wrong. #the gender war makes corpses of us all #gender politics in asoiaf #obviously you can point to several moments for both of them. sansa calling petyr father. ned’s relationship with theon. wherein they both #are clearly performing something for an audience. #there’s like 12 other branches of this in my head. jaime’s romanticism. being knighted bloody & the sacrilegious nature of the sept sex. #and his inability to escape his gender performance the way ned & sansa do. ned being willing to cry in front of others but robb only ever #crying in the dark with his baby brother after he loses ned. cat’s tower stuff & finding solace in sewing. #i’m gonna try to write up something about loras & renly here too. tomorrow. #also i wrote this at the train station after work so if there’s errors or it makes no sense just pretend u never saw it skskdj

[pokimoko]

Could you do a bi and trans ratcoon?

Lucky for you I did a raccoon critter last year, so it was simply a matter of recolouring those to fit. Here you go! :D

#ask #art #my art #bisexual #bi #bi pride #trans #transgender #trans pride #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #queer art #animal art #critter series #raccoon #i mean...i'm assuming you meant raccoon? ratcoon didn't really come up with anything so i'm assuming that was just a spelling error #apologies if you did in fact somehow mean a rat-raccoon hybrid. hopefully these are still close to what you wanted #i usually try and pick critters that naturally match the colour scheme of the flag so i had to get a bit creative with these ones #working with only three colours is also definitely a challenge. i had to take some liberties (such as keeping the white on the bi raccoon) #also a heads up to anyone following me or led here by the aromantic critter post: #i probably won't be taking anymore requests for critters at the moment unless they are just recolouring of pre-existing ones like this req #so sorry in advance if you send a request in and i don't answer. just going to be a bit busy for the foreseeable future with my own stuff

[jtl-fics]

You ever just get consumed by thoughts of an AU of your AU?

#Fluent Freshman AU #the Fluent Freshman AU....AU #Where Smith through a series of errors within both the school system and the government's switch to digital #is marked down as 2 years older #and no one notices #And Smith doesn't mention it to nobody because he wants OUT #And ends up going to PSU the same year as one Neil Josten #AFTG AU #I have so many stupid scenes in my head for it

[plulp]

JORDAN PLEASE DONT WEAR SO MANY CLOTHES. PPLEQASE

#my art #dol #jordan the pious #PLEASE TAKE THEM OFF PPLEASE #MONK HABITS AARE SO ......... 😰 #i had to LOOK UP THE PIECES OF A MONKS HABIT and MANIPULATE IT to not look like. THAT. #had to look up what a cross looked like too. sorry god #anyways. i think jordan would look cute in a braid and also have a mole #because its cute too #ugh.......... finally able to get this out of my head though #been trying to work on it for the past few days but i just couldnt get it right #for some reason i thought jordan had green eyes? i was wrong though. #its still a little off for me but i genuinely think its because theyre wearing too much clothes #i need to draw jordan without the cowl sometime. i hate the cowl. take that thing off #well. such is the fate of a freak such as i #i might make a poll to ask who you all want me to draw next because ive basically drawn all my favorite characters #besides leighton i really love him <- sicko who does the GET BLACKMAILED thing just so i can cheat save and fuck him repeatedly #anyways hope you all like this one #EDIT: SORRY LOOKED AT IT AND NOTICED A CRITICAL ERROR #UP NOW.

[mattodore]

a little update on what i've been doing in the sims lately! don't mind the huge walls of text for once i'm saying things in the post instead of the tags lmao

matthias's scars are very slowly coming along! i really love his left leg scar but can't really show all of it because i'd have to get him naked for that and it also wraps around his leg. um, but it starts at the side of his hip and carves down at an angle before abruptly following a steep line to the back of his calf. it looks gnarly which is exactly what i'm trying to achieve with matthias's scars! i'm also pretty pleased with the scars on his wrists and side, but the scar he has on the back of his right leg is... a little too crunchy? i don't know, it just looks weird. it's kind of hard to get the scars i'm making to look good on matthias's body. especially scars that're smaller or delicate... like the instant loss of quality makes me want to chew on exposed wires. but that's where i've left off on them! his arms and back are where he has the most damage but my god... it's SO difficult trying to get scars to look nice over his biceps and back muscles. also the hair ties i made for him look nice on his wrist <3

theo's apartment is also finally in the works. i've got the base layout finished and a general idea of what all the rooms are for. building and decorating isn't actually that daunting to me, surprisingly—instead, what's actually causing me a lot of grief is the realization that this is too big for theo to really be comfortable in. so, i was thinking, okay, that's fine, just get rid of three of the rooms and scale down the living area. only to pause and take into account the fact that theo's parents pay for this. they're controlling and also very big on appearance so i'm not sure they'd be fine with their son living in a shoebox—i mean, what would people say if word got to them that he doesn't even have a walk-in closet? like... that's the kind of people they are. but i wanted theo to feel comfortable in his apartment so now i'm feeling conflicted on how i want it to look. i'm definitely going to scale down the bedrooms and the living area... but it'll still feel too big to theo. there are just too many corners for him to ever fully let his guard down... which, hm... well, maybe that fits the story more anyway.

this is his general aesthetic for the interior btw... i want it to be brown, cream, and green all throughout the apartment with splashes of orange (this mix between his old dorm and his childhood home but with something new blending it together). i really wanted him to have stained glass windows in his kitchen and bathroom but couldn't find any </3 so sadly that's not happening. and i need to find a nice curio cabinet for his collection of bells... along with bells too lmao. but that's where i'm at so far! i'm seriously going to just sit here in build mode for hours just... trying to figure out how to make this place more comfortable for theo. like it's supposed to be where he feels safe but it's just too much rn.

#river dipping #matthias evanoff #theodore doe #echthroi #also if anyone has any tips on getting scars or other skin details to look good let me know please... #i'd love to try projection painting again but my laptop is too slow and i can't get opengl to function on my desktop </3 #like i get an error every time i try to open matthias's .obj and even reddit is failing me on a fix for it <///3 #and okayyy theo's apartment!! i'm so torn up abt it now #but does his bed not look super fucking comfortable... #i might have to change his bed to that queen bed in the guest room just because the one in theo's room is... interestingly colored. #i'm going to recolor it to just plain white/cream sheets... and maybe mess with the mesh a bit. really i should test the bed in game #bc i'm not sure it'll work very well... #i wanted theo to have a wooden headboard but all of the ones i had like that just didn't look like he could nestle into them #he's just. a little guy. if i can't picture theo curling up in the center of the bed then it just won't work #but yeah. that’s my update ☝️ #........i'm super excited to start on the home matthias buys shortly after he starts falling in love with theo btw #the floor plan in my head is so beautiful and it's all very open... bc <3 matthias was thinking abt putting theo in his home from the jump #long post

[caus34concern]

more filipino bmc. if anyone cares.

#sorry for de-jockifying jake #it's just in my head i've decided that instead of playing every sport he plays every instrument #and so his fingers are always covered in bandages because calluses #christine will always be trans to me sorry #fun fact i based christine off of a friend who wants me to shut up about bmc at all costs (/lh) so that's funny #also christine dyed her hair the same color as her cat and the dark brown is her roots showing #be more chill #bmc #christine canigula #jake dillinger #error 340

[venelona]

“wŵĥęŕē ťŧţø ŋņĕxť‽”

@fransweek Day 4 - Travel

Error Sans by loverofpiggies

#undertale #frans #sans #frisk #error sans #fransweek #frans week #frans week 2023 #frans week 2023 day 4 #undertale au #errortale #error sans x frisk #frisk x error sans #sans x frisk #frisk x sans #fun fact this is the first picture i drew for this frans week #cuz i knew ill spend a ton of time on all the backgrounds #another fun fact - i used no references for those bgs so #if you wonder if they dont look that good XD #also i absolutely messed up his outfit cuz top is from his redesign and bottom out of. my head idk i just effed it up lmao

[bloodysparklez]

i redrew one of my favorite scenes from the novel! they're literally so silly. it's comedy central out here in puqi shrine

#tgcf #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #nan feng #tgcf comic #tgcf fanart #me 🤝 hua cheng: liking it when xie lian is mean #i just love that xie lian knows his cooking is bad and actively weaponizes it against ppl lmao #this is from the end of ch 29 (of whichever fan tl i found) btw! #i refuse to acknowledge past mistakes and so i got more than 3/4ths of the way through this thing without reading the og scene at all. so. #<- has done this before and ended up making huge lore-related errors #also im gonna take this opportunity to complain: hands are so fucking hard wtf. i used references for that closeup and it STILL killed me #i looked at my thumbnails while inking and put my head in my hands

[sysig]

He needs so much attention, all the time (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Lord Hater #Wander #Death Glare #Wandering Eye #Those first two made me start a whole new page just to get them out of my head and then a bunch more followed lol #Early Death Glare maybe? First coming to terms with his massive crush? Just an average day of being Commander Peepers? Who's to say lol #The idea of him vibrating out of his skin trying to not act weird around Hater is very funny to me haha #How do act normal around the guy you like when it's just you two but in a professional setting?? Training didn't cover this #Meanwhile Hater is oblivious obviously haha #They have to be mismatched - one has to be like ''Oh grop I love him so much but can never tell him'' at a time for the max comedy of errors #Peepers is so small I can't get over it lol #And then a little Wandering Eye for the road <3 He can't be emotionally open so much of the time! #Anger is about it and even then it mostly manifests as frustration - he sublimates it into work as much as he can #Anger is hit or miss depending on what Hater's willing to put up with too ahh #Give this man a therapy session and a box of tissues pls #Is it because it's fun to draw his whole head/face crying? Shhhh that's irrelevant (it's not) lol #Wander always has a hug ready for whoever needs it <3 #Sweet lad #Both of their feet are really fun to draw too haha - Peepers' are like plush and pillowy #While Wander's are so stretchy and squishy and silly haha they're fun to pose! #Been so happy with the points of contact lately as well ah ♪ Knees and ball of the feet touching the ground! Yes!

[gnomewithalaptop]

What is cue the sun? 👀

I need you to know I am kissing you on the mouth rn (platonically) -- I've been rotating this plot in the microwave since like. mid-august.

It's transcendence au (obvi) but here's the basic hook:

The year is 7098. The last Mizar (Fang Wu -- and shoutout to aba_daba_do for making a kickass OC) has been dead for four years now, and Alcor has been MIA for about the same amount of time. In their absence, the North American continent has broken out into a full-on, cross-continental war, with the main players being the Greater Austinian Monopoly (formerly known as Texas) and the Alaskadian Collective (Alaska, plus some parts of Canada and north-eastern Russia).

In a last-ditch effort to find some long-forgotten piece of magical information that could win the war, Alaskadian scientist Fatima Tursynbekova (an r!Ford) is sent to the abandoned site of what used to be Gravity Falls, accompanied by her troubled teenage daughter Olya (an r!Gideon). They're expecting to find little more than scant remnants of a town that was razed to the ground over thirty years before -- not much better than an archaeological expedition if anything.

However, what they find instead is a thriving small town -- the inhabitants of which are all completely and utterly convinced that it's the year 2016 (feat. the OG Mystery Twins and an extremely sus Stan Pines).

Anyways blah blah blah romance, secrecy, interpersonal drama but COME LOOK AT THE MAP I MADE I spent entirely too much time on it and I've been dying to share:

(Plus better quality image link for if tumblr steals all my pixels)

#this-is-gnomes-writing-tag #transcendence au #beloved mutuals #asks #cue the sun #if i mention a long fic this is what i'm talking about #unfortunately haven't had as much time to work on it now that the semester's started but trust me it still lives in my head rent free #anyway Tranzian as a language is something I stole from one of Gauvain's old fics because I was like 'that's so silly and meta i love it' #also pls don't look too hard at the translated city names i only speak english and russian i tried my best with what i had okay #yes Palo Rojo was just me renaming Baton Rouge to be less french bc I thought it would be funny #might go in there and make edits to stuff as i make changes to the worldbuilding but for now this is it!! #the only difference between ontarian french and regular canadian french is that the adjectives go before the nouns btw #this was definitely a conscious decision and not just something i made up on the fly after a translation error

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.

[esleep]

the whole "cats choose their owners" thing is really funny to me because ivy very much did NOT choose me. she was a slightly dim-witted and very rambunctious feral kitten, and that combination led to her getting herself stuck inside an old chipmunk nest halfway down the steep bank of the creek by my parents' house. from there she proceeded to scream her head off until both my mom and i came out to see what on earth was making all that racket, then we excavated her out of that hole like a sad little potato. she was grateful for the rescue, but definitely NOT grateful for the ensuing flea baths and conversion to indoor cat life at my apartment, which she reminds me of regularly. ivy i'm sorry for saving you from an early death due to predation/disease/cars, but can you stop biting me every day of my life please

#even every other day would be an improvement. #i do in fact take her out for leashed walks regularly when the weather is tolerable but it hasn't been possible for months and she's FED UP #however. i say all this but she routinely climbs into my lap for naps & greets me at the door purring & headbutting every time i come home #so clearly she's not that unhappy. her tolerance for regular cat-owner shenanigans however is essentially non-existent. #after 6 years though i can read her like a book. i know exactly how many head smooches i can get in before she gets too annoyed #and exactly how long she wants to be held when i come home before she wants to be put down #and exactly what she means when she 'gently' chews on my ankles ('play with me now or i'll bite harder') #but strangers on the other hand? guests in my home? my beloved human friends? they do not speak her language. #and the margin for error with her is razor thin. if you don't listen immediately when she says 'stop touching me' she will go from lovey #to SCRATCHING YOU BITING YOU HISSING HISSING HISSING almost immediately. #i have tried everything to convince her that's unnecessary but i think she is just SO sensitive she can't handle it #but i still love her so much. i understand her and she understands me. idk WHAT i'm gonna do when she eventually dies i'm gonna be a wreck. #in a lot of ways we are SUPER similar. i also lash out when i'm overstimulated & i also have a much lower threshold for that #than most people. #i get it.

[brainworms-all-night-long]

I'm sorry but it's late and I'm noticing some deep multiversal parallels here and I'm not explaining myslef

#sonic prime #underverse #across the spiderverse #only one of these did not accidentaly destroy their universe while high over the head thinking he was actually doing a good thing #ok I will sorta kinda explain because I literaly cannot shut up today #theyre all mutiverse stories(kinda. you gotta squint a bit at sonic prime) #and each of the ones pinned down fucked up the multiverse one way or another #which the black yellow and blue one doesnt like so he will proceed to beat the shit out of or just straight up kill the other #on paper these are all the same scenes to me #those who get it can sit at the cool kid lunch table #error sans #cross sans #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #miles morales #atsv miles morales #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic prime season two #sonic prime spoilers

[designernishiki]

okay but. why does it seem like 24 year old majima’s ridden a horse before. why does he talk like he has Experience. what is this lost lore

#rambling #we just gonna gloss over this #to me ​this either implies he’s from either a REALLY country background Or on the other end of the spectrum (my personal belief) and he’s #from an upper middle class to well off background and has been to like horse camp or horseriding lessons or something in his childhood #oh man please i love the image of an 8-14 year old majima being made to do horseriding by his parents because hes this #lanky pale ass kid who needs to do SOME kind of sport or something #and boy would he Hate it #he’s bizarrely prodigious at a Lot of the (especially technique based) things he tries canonically so I imagine he wouldn’t actually be Bad #at it after some trial and error but. he’d still fucking hate it. and his cool persona in his head would be riding a motorcycle or something #instead cause that’s Way cooler to him #man I have so many thoughts about young majima I really gotta go into depth on it soon #oh yeah just a note: part of the reason I don’t think he’s from a country background is cause his Real Accent canonically is #a tokyo one which he’s still getting the hang of covering up with a kansai one when he’s 20. meaning there’s not a ton of time for him to #have adjusted into a Tokyo one or something prior if he hadn’t grown up there #so I’m pretty damn sure he’s from Tokyo #that + a number of other details that make him seem to me like he grew up with a more formal education #and ywah blah blah blah #majima #Yuki #sunshine siblings #y0

[kaiowut99]

you ever just lose your arm

GX 109 has some really good art and animation, but I suppose that doesn't make it any less susceptible to art errors with Neos missing his arm in this shot after Cobra reacts to O'Brien starting to turn his back on his mission in his duel with Judai. I wonder where the budget for that arm we--

...I see, carry on then

#subbing rambling #GX #yugioh gx #ygo #ygo gx #Elemental Hero Neos #the perks of going frame-by-frame with this show sometimes lol #would try to fix this but they don't reuse this shot and there isn't good reference of Neos with his arms crossed from behind like this #to try drawing it in some #there's also an odd error as the Scattershots hit all three Heroes where Featherman's head pans out of sync with his body #which is unfixable bc of the ghosting going on with the footage lol--but it's a quick fire-rains-down shot so not as noticeable #gx why didn't you get touched-up dvd releases #have to make a post with the frames from some of Judai's attack sequences bc they're so gooood