#some different books

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

#legend of zelda #loz #twilight princess #loz tp #i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it #it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy #but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble: #i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way #to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present #link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face #and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up #you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way #the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually? #fan art #my art #project stuff #and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!! #especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them #a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt #i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time

[why-the-heck-not]

today very much wasn’t as cozy as the pictures of it, but let’s pretend it was

#that’s just braindumping about different thesis topics so if u’re zooming in for some juicy life details; think again lmao #also idk if this is just me & my mortal enemy of tumblr mobile app but been fighting it for a bit bc trouble getting pics uploaded right so #if this looks weird in ur end; blame tumblr app lmao #studyblr #bookblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #dark academia #winter aesthetic #january 2024 #2024

[obsob]

more kitties that live in my sketchbook

#mine #i just took a huge amount of psychic damage from going thro my facebook page #my GOD. the things i had on there #anyway. i hope u hve had a good week...my week has been mixed but okay! im super tired ugjug #my period was like 11 days late bc since stopping hormones it like has no idea whats going on n my period app was havin a coronary #i got a notifcation that was like ur ABNORMAL!!!!!!!!!! okay and #hmm what am i going 2 do now.....probably som colouring and then some reading #i stopped reading the fantasy book i was reading it was eating my brain slowly . in a bad way #i tried using my lightbox 2day instead of drawing over my sketch n it worked well!! ive bough different paper n it worked way better #am happy !! :))

[bookwyrminspiration]

im aromantic which means I don’t care about shipping at all except for when I do, hope that clears it up

#aromantic #shitpost #scrolling through a tag rn like I could give very few less shits about all this ships I wanna look at the characters #and yet there are some books and stories where I’m like if I don’t think about these guys kissing I’ll die #who knows what makes the difference? I certainly don’t #well. I have some idea. but irrelevant #anyway

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

#art #ive literally just been treating this game as a library simuator #i walk from bookseller to bookseller opening up all of their books #vivecs sermons are either a highlight or the point at which i stop reading #ive been trying to convince the ordinators that imitation is the highest form of flattery but it hasnt been working #let me wear your helmets please theyre so funny.. #posting morrowind in 2024 isnt a cry for help but youre not wrong to be concerned. #morrowind #almalexia #vivec #im going to explain the chitin armor give me a moment #so the bonewalker nerevar on the shrines is adorable and it was only after drawing it however many times that i realized #it looked relatively close to a modified chitin armor #and so i modified chitin armor a few times and this was probably the cutest result #i also know i drew almalexia relatively pristine and untouched by years and vivec not so much but my thought process was #vivecs role as if not a favorite then the most accessible divine or the most “hands on” in a manner of speaking #acting in ways visible to the general population or actions explicitly brought to their attention #like not that almalexia isnt doing anything she is #but the dissemination of information regarding that is very different etc etc etc #anyways to a certain extent a god is the face on a shrine or in art or upon a statue or carving #but vivecs presence is interwoven with the geography of vvardenfell especially and his actions and writings with pubished materials #and the arts and culture and customs etc etc etc #so to me the face of a god you know and feel a commonality with or a god that walks alongside you is a face you would recognize #and vivec is already otherworldly looking enough #the simple mark of the years on his skin in some way grounding him in reality felt more right #that and i think the ways in which he and almalexia care about outward appearance are slightly different- they prioritize different things #and the ways they present outward power and their embodiment of their respective attributes share some similarities as they both have that #important preoccupation with physical power and physical strength to a certain degree #oh my god nobody read this i am yapping so bad. #tes

[vaxxman]

What do you think about 5cp TF2 map Gullywash?

Getting autobalanced on Gullywash feels especially tragic.

More sketches and more impressions under the cut.

In order to draw this, I watched some highlander matches on Gullywash, due to finding no matches in competitive, and the aimbots going rampant in casual. I was only able to play 5 proper matches on casual, (2 of which my teams won purely due to team imbalance,) so some of this is based on what I saw other people were doing in competitive match recordings, as well as how it feels to play on community servers with AI train bots. No one was playing whenever I was queueing up :(

I learnt very fast that Gullywash is one of these maps where you will die a lot, or steamroll the capture points, and there is no in-between, because you either position yourself correctly or you don't. While this goes for every map in tf2, I never really felt frustrated when dying here. I could always find a reason for my mistakes and generally it turned out to be a very rewarding learning experience.

I think Gullywash is extremely fun and fast paced. I especially enjoy giving scouts and pyros overheal buffs, because of how much flanking you can do here. The symmetry of the map is immaculate and the amount of objects that just lie around allows demos to place a lot of traps and players to just hide in corners.

(Using Scouts as your Uber Driver here is also especially fun, so many near death situations!)

For some reason, the soldiers and demos who play on this map are really good at protecting medics? That's the impression I got, everyone knew when to retreat and not push, everyone turned around when they saw my health go down, everyone was shooting the spies for me when we were in the open and I was too focused with healing the people fighting death matches at the front so we could capture.

(My personal heroes who just rocket jump over to you just to shoot the spy 2m away from you, and then just rocket jump away again)

Snipers aren't much of a problem, since there are so many options for hiding properly while still being able to reach your team mates. The same sadly doesn't apply to spies and I think I have died more to spies on this maps than to sticky traps.

While I love the vaccinator, I think Stock and Kritz are the better options on this map. Nothing cries geneva convention war crime more than entering the door to the last capture point and ubering a soldier who starts spamming everyone with rockets in this rather crammed up room where everything can give you splash damage.

Shoutout to a pyro called Joey who carried the last game I played, it was a blast ubering you through the last capture point.

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #tf2 engineer #tf2 spy #tf2 demoman #tf2 pyro #While this was super fun to assemble - drawing the backgrounds absolutely took me out here #Apologies for that scary looking picture with spy I had a very different idea for that panel but it just wouldnt turn out how I wanted it t #I'm also going to be a bit less active these coming weeks because work is getting busy #I have to redo some statistical analyses and fix an abstract and prepare a poster and then book a flight overseas I'm already tired #this makes me very sad because I have so much fun drawing these comics :(

[ineed-to-sleep]

The style evolution tho. Who am I

#I'm leaning more and more into using lines for everything and I'm loving the look so much tho #rendering is fun but lines is my beautiful wife.......... #2023 and 2024 don't have that big of a difference but I can see the anatomy improvement #and the lines 👁👁 more linesss #I rlly wanna lean more into anatomy & expressions this year and developing a style that's quick to execute #I love a comic book style w a lot of lines + cel shading #and I wanna see if I can develop this to make comics at some point. without giving up halfway through bc each drawing takes too long yk #so hmmm 🤔 aiming for that this year we'll see if I can get there #sleep.txt

[kopfkino-o]

Like how can you NOT want an Elain book next? She’s got so much going for her.

Unknown and unexplored powers? Check.

Two hot guys thirsting after her? Check.

Mated to the sole Heir of the Day Court, the Sun’s Son, the sly fox himself? Check, girlie, check.

Has the Spy Master of the Night Court ready to beg on his knees for her? Girl you know it 💅🏼

Friends with the mysterious shadow wraiths who’ve been around since the first book in the series? Also check.

A Made being who, like both her sisters, has the potential to be connected to the Starborn bloodline? Mhmm check.

The High Lord of the Night Court as a potential bat boy besite? Also check.

Ties to Koschei, Queen Vassa, plus a potential connection to the Prison aka the dang Dusk Court? Checkkk.

The only other baddie in-universe to have ever wielded Truth-Teller? Check. And you know she served 💅🏼💅🏼

A softer yet equally as strong personality that we haven’t seen from a female lead in this series before?? Check, check, check.

She’s the freaking Seer of the Night Court. Elain Kingslayer. The Lovely Fawn. The third and final Archeron sister.

And the potential Elain has, regardless if you’re team Elucien or team Elriel, is actually so scrumptious and I will never understand how there’s people out in this fandom who genuinely don’t want her book to be next.

#pro elain #elriel #elucien #I know why some folks don’t want her book next #but that’s a post for a different time and a different day #give me Elain or give me nothing!!!

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

#our experiences are very different lmao #pjo show crit #sure the show isn't completely out yet #but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4) #and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad #but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao #the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy #but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence #but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there #I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother #... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book #which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible #its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application #she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd! #I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke #actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao #and then grover #by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least #in the show?? not so much #and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth #like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right! #and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa #but his highlights there were cut completely in the show #and finally sally #...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson #percy jackson #mine

[starrysharks]

bunny blast-off!

#zeno's art #ultimate x-calibur #ocs #nova starbridge #optico #this was kind of spontaneous #most of the time when i make an illustration everything about it is in my mind already #but this was just based off a doodle that i decided to finish #i dont like this piece too much. i think i should've gone about the lineart differently - i also think it looks too clean #if that makes sense #i payed a bit of attention to values but the grayscale plan and the end result's grayscales are definitely very different #in the end i dont like this piece but i did like drawing nova's expression and the world behind her with the exaggerated city #i dont want to be too negative on it though... it was fun to draw #i hope everyone likes it. also i dont have a plan for a halloween piece just yet but ill try and find some free time to get one done #im booked and busy next month with studying so dont expect much

[phoenixyfriend]

Something something """canon""" age difference, modern AU where Rex actually is a decade younger than Anakin

And for Reasons, 34yo Anakin and 39yo Padme have decided to invite this Hot Young 24yo Who Just Exited The Military into their bed for a quick romp that turns into something of a longterm relationship that is sortakinda sugaring

………….just realized this makes Rex only [checks math] twelve or thirteen years older than the twins.

Which is very funny to me. These tweens are so unimpressed by the GI Bill college guy their parents are wooing. Is this supposed to be their new babysitter? A nanny? Wait, he's your boyfriend??? EW.

Such a weird age difference to have with your sorta stepkids

#rexanidala #rexwalker #anidala #rexidala #captain rex #anakin skywalker #padme anidala #skywalker twins #phoenix talks #modern au #age difference #star wars #the clone wars #Rex was probably medically discharged due to a head injury that required brain surgery (a la chip removal) #I want him to be a college dude. but also he's had a career already. sorta. It got cut short but it was a real contract with the military #but I want people ragging on Anidala for dating 'a college kid' and they keep protesting that he's 24! he's a veteran! he's on the GI Bill! #Rex Fett Is Old Enough To Make His Own Decisions Thank You #Rex is just like. okay then. you folks can have your age discourse I'm gonna go put on some swim trunks and be lifeguard for your 12yo twin #means I can get in their good books by being the adult supervision for the pool time they want to have #while also showing off some Nice Pecs for the hot rich older couple I'm dating

[foldingfittedsheets]

At the local bookstore there’s a system where employees can write a snippet about their favorite stories and they go on the shelf under the book as a little endorsement. On the last visit I very quickly noticed that every book I’d loved in the past year was marked and I instantly trusted the employees.

Then I started bouncing along the shelves to see which books were marked that I hadn’t read yet and instantly put holds on all the ones I was unfamiliar with. I didn’t even read the synopsis. One upshot of this was discovering T. Kingfisher.

Nettle and Bone had a little employee card so I popped a hold on it. It came in a few weeks later and I adored it. The storytelling was beautifully done and I thought, okay, what else you got.

So I got my hands on A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking. I think I’d seen it floating around and written it off cause of the silly cover. Fucking phenomenal, great storytelling, tight pacing, just overall wonderful. Read Thornhedge. Loved it.

So I just moved T. Kingfisher to my “Always Read” list. She has not failed to delight with any of her stories and I’m now pretty confident that regardless of content I’m gonna have a great time.

#ramblies #reading #books #I don’t have a ton of ‘always read’ authors #because some authors have series I don’t care for or different genres that are more meh to me

[apollo18]

Concept: the justice league finds out that Blaze and Satanus, the rulers of hell, are kids of their ‘even more of a boy scout than Superman’ coworker’s “boss” and think Shazam is the Christian God. They ask Billy really vague questions that lead Billy into confusing them even more and they become convinced that Marvel’s Wizard guy is God with a capital G and Marvel’s either an angel or the second coming of Jesus.

Meanwhile Shazam doesn’t even know what the Bible is and his knowledge about religion is so outdated he still thinks Solomon’s Judaism is new age and not worth his time to research such a ‘fad’ religion, but he knows humans will make a religion out of anything as well as bastardize existing ones and very well could have mixed up actual tales that involve him, his allies, and his children into some sort of melting pot of a religion.

So when someone finally asks Marvel outright if his “boss” is God, Billy goes ‘wait… old guy in white robes and sandals, with long white hair and a beard… lives in space… aka the “heavens”, whose a ghost(Holy Spirit), and knows everything(historama)??? I need to dig deeper into this hold on guys’ and goes off to ask the wizard.

So when Billy asks the Wizard he just tells Billy “well, my boy, if so many things match up, maybe it is so and the tales of myself and my champions grew so estranged from their origins or mixed in with other beliefs that it can explain the things that aren’t true to our reality.”

Then The Canonical Character To The DC Universe, Jesus of Nazareth, shows up.

#billy batson #shazam #dc captain marvel #dc comics #I really like religious history and folklore and that’s sort of what really got me into Shazam #Fawcett and DC’s interpretations are all so weird and conflicting just like actual religious history lol #I think comic books really capture the essence of the ancient myth very well #there’s so many different interpretations of a character with conflicting lore and so many writers across the decades #Batman: for the LAST FUCKING TIME our coworker is NOT Jesus #Guy Gardener: The man fights demons called The Seven Deadly Sins and follows orders from some guy he says lives in space also isn’t in spac #Guy: what the fuck else are we supposed to think?

[sinusoidaldisfunction]

Blister. Twisted Sister.

#wings of fire #wof #wof fanart #wings of fire fanart #wof blister #dysfunction's designs #i think she was my favorite queen when i was a kid first reading the books #nowadays Burn is my favorite character but Blaze is my favorite to draw #anyways this was my most complex design yet. usually i get it down in one sketch and come up with colors as i go #this one had two sketches and two different color palettes. that i then fucked around with in the color editor #she seems a little busy but i think it's okay for a villain to have a more complex design. #also headcanoning that the sandwing monarchy has nightwing blood from all the way back around darkstalker times #the sandwings didn't steal the treasure. some rich prince sold them out lol

[sleepychaika]

it aint much but its honest work

#johnkat #homestuck #john egbert #karkat vantas #im sad because of how dead the tag is please have some spare jhnkts from my skech book #its a shame i cant draw digitally for now. id color this. hey does anybody want to color this #every time i sketch john his hair is different i CANNOT settle #its so hard to interpret those 3 hair triangles of his so i end up coming up with something of my own....... #also i moved on from drawing karkat w/ curly hair because .ok wait ill stop lest i turn these tags into a headcanons infodump #john #karkat #.txt

[1eatboys]

I keep seeing the odd post here and there mentioning that Ballister Blackheart is white in the Nimona comic and it hurts my heart a little each time I see somebody say that bc he’s actually not! Ballister Blackheart is canonically Asian in the comic, he is East Asian and simply has light skin.

I just find it saddening and wrong (granted I’m white myself so maybe it’s not my place to have an opinion on) to erase a character who is canonically a poc just because they have light skin :/

This is not a diss to people who didn’t know or people that were mistaken, that’s sort of the reason I’m making this post, so more people can know the truth rather than be misinformed or assume incorrectly.

(Context of the photo attached is that it is from a QnA Nate did on the Nimona comic years ago)

Edit: added alt text of everything written in the photo

#ig ppl default to the idea that a character who had an ethnicity change resulting in them being a poc means they were originally white #and not possibly a different ethnicity that is also nonwhite #but ballister has always been Asian #his ethnicity was just changed so he is East Asian in the comic and South Asian in the movie #(most likely to better resemble his va riz ahmed who is Pakistani) #ig ppl see movie ballister who has darker skin and then assume comic ballister with lighter skin is white #also possibly bc ethnic features are more obscured with the simpler comic artstyle #there were points in the book where he was paper light so I understand the assumption to some extent ig #but there’s still something so…. weird abt assuming that he’s white since some poc have lighter skin #also the more recent the art you can see nates style better develop his skin tone #nimona #nimona movie #nimona comic #nimona book #nimona graphic novel #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #nimona ballister #nd stevenson #nate stevenson #when will my boy beat the white allegations #also lmk if you think anything I’ve said is out of line lol I was debating even posting abt this bc it’s not really my conversation #also pls read the graphic novel if you haven’t already it’s so good !! ok gn