#still cannot draw hands

[lotus-pear]

whatever happens, please don’t break

#god not a fucking DAY goes by where i don’t think of that one interview and this quote #does anybody have it word for word? please? i’ll pay you #literally every single time i think about how kunikida as w character was MADE for dazai. specifically to share his suffering #i actually sob into my hands because that means they were both destined for tragedy together and the long dark road they will walk #will at least not be lonely. because they have each other. they are each other’s light in the darkness. #DO YOU UNDERSTAND #bro the fact that kunikida is painfully aware of the imperfection of the world and how he still continues to fight for his ideals #paralleling dazai who finds humanity beautiful but cannot become attached bc he feels alienated from emotion #THE WAY THEY COULD HELP EACH OTHER????? SICK SICK SICK I AM SICK #i love kunikidazai sm i wish more ppl could see the potential #but some of you aren’t ready for the sheer perfection of their dynamic #also i’ve noticed that i am only capable of drawing dazai properly when it’s with kunikida what’s up with that 💀 #and sorreyy i know their height difference isn’t THAT big but i didn’t realize until i was halfway into the coloring 😔💔 #osamu dazai #dazai osamu #kunikida doppo #doppo kunikida #kunikidazai #knkdz #kunizai #lotus draws

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously) #but he is just. /clenches my fists!!! #THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!! #who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war? #who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life? #who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession? #no one!!! that's who!! #ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

[braisedhoney]

Draw your favorite ghost! Mine's Ember.

“That would be me. Surprise.”

(ayyy flaming hair favs club :D)

#danny phantom #danny phantom fanart #dp #dp fanart #dark danny #dan phantom #ney’s art #okay let’s not pretend this is shocking #but still #uh. here ya go! #the last like three requests have all had dan in em too so ig you all like him as much as i do #for the life of me i cannot draw this guy in the same style as the others #he just. doesn’t translate in my brain #maybe i should do some studies idk lmao #on the bright side it makes for great muscle practice!! #can you tell i’m doing as many of these as quickly as i can #because i definitely am. trying to take advantage of the brainrot has side effects #namely—hand cramps #stretch people! do as i say not as i do. #you've got great taste btw op—ember is great #I'll add her to my to-draw list

[divvy-div-art]

Initiation

#this had 100 layers #i go months without drawing anything properly and then i just kinda go into a flow state and do something like this #this isn't a very original idea i don't think but i wanna think i did it my way at least #now back into hibernation for a billion years :) #Alan Wake #Saga Anderson #Alan Wake 2 #Alan Wake II #Remedy Entertainment #Remedy Games #The Dark Place #Initiation #fanart #digital fanart #alan wake fanart #my art #a fun thing about this was i see places i can improve but #instead of feeling bad for it not being as good as it was in my head i'm happy for the chance to learn #which is nice #i STILL cannot draw hands #and that's not a learning opportunity i just never am gonna learn #jk

[apllecrash]

x

#izzy hands #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd fanart #ofmd izzy #I'm either sorry or not #I am ahh I...hmm #I go feral for him maybe that's a stage #blackbeard #edward teach #can I say that I'm now watching every damn video and movie with him #kinda proud of the first artwork teehee #more of a journey for me of learning how to draw him and I still cannot decide what's going on

[vanyafresita]

in case anybody needs it or is interested, i went through the entirety of dungeon meshi's manga to collect every appearance of holm because... well, i love him and drawing him is hard, so i needed lots of references, okay ?

here is a link to a folder in my drive with all the pics individually (117 in total) + a rar file if u prefer to download all of them directly

#holm kranom #holm dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi #idk guys am i the only one crazy about this little guy or #whatver this is here for anybody that needs it like me #ive been doodling him all over my sketchbook and i still cannot get his hair what is wrong w meeee #also his hands and feet are hard bcs im always focused on making everythig proportional #but gnomes arent proportional !!! he hands and feet are slightly bigger and puffy !!!! #ryoko kui give me your skill i need it to draw holm wearing linger- (gets run over by a truck) #vanya strawberry flavored #dunmeshi

[thoughtpeek]

scribbly geno doodle

#smrpg #super mario rpg #geno smrpg #clai's art #''keep your art style consistent or draw 25'' me with a massive hand of cards: #i feel like i maybe draw him too cutesy. on one hand i still like it he's just a little guy #on the other hand there is a je ne sais quoi abt official geno i cannot get down in my own art style. bothers me #idk i've only drawn him a few times maybe i'll get there eventually

[trashlord-watson]

in honour of @moonyinpisces 's brilliant 'how do we turn on the light'

#lmao pls be kind that's my 1st gomens fanart ever #good omens #gomens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #hdwtotl #léo draws #still cannot draw hands lmao

[munadrawson]

💓🐙🤏🦑

Click and Open images for HQ! [Commission OPEN] | [Cheap-bi Commission OPEN] | [Ko-fi] | [Twitter] | [Instagram]

The first comic is a response to how I drew that kiss. Supposed to be a stand-alone comic. The rest follow suit to the absurdity of the first one. ***Footnotes on cultural contexts are in the alt texts.

BONUS:

#Oh goodness oopies my gay hands keep slipping #fryver #frye #shiver #big man #deep cut #I got inspired to draw a swim form after looking and reading other artists'/writers' works. #Not the best interpretation from me but it's still a courageous attempt. #splatoon 3 #splatoon #big man splatoon #shiver splatoon #frye splatoon #frye onaga #shiver hohojiro #I cannot believe I once again drew multiple comics in somewhat of a continuous story #All because of frye's COMPACTS #Why does my brain works like this #anyway happy pride month yall 🌈🌈🌈 #to my fellows trans and enbies stay strong and stay safe. Do not give in fear.

[chiropteracupola]

No one ever told me leaving was the easy part / I've got to stay away / Leaving you was easy, now I've got to do what's hard / I've got to stay away...

[a tristan for @mortiscausa’s ’march to camelot,’ for the prompt ‘love’]

#em draws stuff #march to camelot #arthurian things #arthuriana #tristan and iseult #BACK ON THIS HORSE AGAIN! it is going to STAY MARCH until I am DONE WITH ONE MORE OF THESE and THEN it may be april #this one was So Very Hard and I'm still not 100% sure on it but it's done and I did it and anyway I like it more than the cei one :/ #I'm VERY pleased with the dragon altho' I can't rightly say where it was that I found the version of the story where there Is a dragon #I suppose it was either in roger lancelyn green or in rosemary sutcliff's 'the sword and the circle' #but having neither on hand at present I cannot exactly Check alas alack #caption lyrics are from 'stayaway' by muna as I was listening to the tiny desk version whilst drawing and I felt it was only apt

[harvestmoth]

more rejuv things but its. its just this guy again, im sorry shes all i can draw

#everyday im like i wanna draw :] and then i just end up with this thing on the page #i refuse to draw hands holding. because i cannot and im too lazy to figure it out #oh yea a couple of these i havent posted before because theyre lame to me but ill put them here for now #anyways!! #i was gonna say something about a couple of these but i forgot #oh well #pokemon rejuvenation #does she. lose her ribbon in blacksteeple. i forgot #she still has it to me.. #to me her c15 hair tie is a torn part of the ribbon #anyways again. yesterday i finally figured out what the rejuvrp is. very cool stuff im so incredibly intrigued by it #i have no idea whats going on! but it looks so cool ill try to read it more later. #oh right again about the rejuvrp thing. the character designs ive seen are so so so cool i want to draw them so bad #i think i have to ask about that first though and there is! no way i am going to do that!!! i do not want to bother them #and i think my heart would explode from the fear of it all before i even typed the message. #that and im very lazy! theres a very good chance i wouldnt even draw it in the first place #anyways unrelated but i think if i get another comment from someone on something i Will Actually Explode. #i see someone said something and it kills me on the daily. what is happening... thank you.. i appreciate it very much... #sorry to whoever read all of that. um. hi youre really cool and i hope you have a good day/night #i think being on twitter has done something to me i have to leave it immediately. anyways back to twitter #wait actually i should go back to playing rejuv. im still in the grove from when i first posted the gym leader melia au. im afraid to leave #also play pokemon rejuvenation no i will not stop saying that everytime i post one of these

[quoththemaiden]

Aziraphale: The Sword that Guards the Tree of Life

Looking where the furniture isn't

This post is dedicated to @meatballlady's excellent insistence that if we want to try to predict where season 3 will go, we need to look at where the furniture isn't. That is, what must have been there but wasn't shown?

For this one, my source material is going to be Genesis. That is, in no small part, because it does in fact fuck severely that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett took the angel with the flaming sword and the serpent of Eden and made them kiss (@joycrispy, @ouidamforeman). It's also because Genesis, quite simply, exists, and it seems safe to assume that most everyone in Gaiman and Pratchett's intended audience has been exposed to at least its first few chapters dozens of times.

What does Genesis tell us about Aziraphale's purpose?

3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out with his hand, and take fruit also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—  23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.  24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

@joycrispy's analysis above highlights Aziraphale's role as given in the last verse: as the angel chosen to wield the flaming sword, he was sent down after Adam and Eve were expelled to prevent them from returning. Instead, he chose to protect them by giving that sword away. His desire to protect humanity is indeed beautiful (@give-soup-please, @snek-eyes).

But wait, what came right before that? "And take fruit also from the tree of life...?"

2:9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused every tree to grow that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

That's right: What we see in the show is that Adam and Eve were sent out of Eden so that they'd have to deal with the rain and the animals and have to work for their food, but that was never the primary motivation. God planted two special trees, and after Eve and Adam ate from one of them, God was terrified at the prospect of them turning around and eating from the other. And thus, the Garden of Eden was made off-limits and set to be permanently guarded by an angel with a flaming sword.

So, the flaming sword.

Twice now, Aziraphale's sword has helped humanity survive complete and total destruction (@nottobehornyonthemain). The first time, he handed the sword to the first two humans, which protected not just them but the entirety of the human race via Adam and very pregnant Eve.

The second time, he let it be wielded by The Them, who used it to best the Four Horsepeople of the Apocalypse and save the billions of humans already alive as well as unborn generations.

Perhaps the flaming sword was only intended as a plot point in the first season. However, if its purpose were completed, it could have easily been destroyed. As a narrative piece, it could have broken dramatically at the end of the face-off against the Four Horsepeople. Or, Watsonianly, God could have chosen to break it Herself; after all, it was already used against its intended purpose twice, so why let it keep existing?

Instead, it's carefully taken away to... where? Heaven?

The place Aziraphale is now going?

Or at least a place where he could likely find a record showing where it's being stored?

Whether you call it "rule of threes" or "Chekhov's gun," I think it likely that Aziraphale will be getting his sword back in season 3. He probably doesn't want it (@createserenity, @ineffableigh, @doctorscienceknowsfandom), but he'll need it.

The question, then, is what would Aziraphale do with the flaming sword he was given to prevent humans from reaching the tree of life?

If we're looking at where the furniture isn't, the biggest stretch of an interpretation would be to say that the missing furniture is the tree of life. If anyone knows where Eden is, it would be Aziraphale, Guardian of the Eastern Gate. We know that both Heaven and Hell want to end humanity. The opening credits have humanity walking to their judgment after their deaths; what better way to prevent that than by preventing those deaths?

The most intense version of this theory says that the audience should be familiar with the story of the Garden of Eden and know damn well that there are two special trees there and that Aziraphale was put in place to guard the second one — the one humanity hasn't eaten from yet, the one that grants immortal life. That's where, if I were truly trying to swing for the hills by aiming at where the furniture isn't, I would ideally like to end this post. If that were the case, season 3 could even open with Aziraphale walking towards the Garden of Eden, sword in hand, but this time approaching it from the outside with the intention of tearing the wall down.

But, let's be honest, making individual people immortal doesn't feel like it would fit with the themes of Good Omens, nor with Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett's world views.

So, let's take the tree of life symbolically: Instead of the tree of life granting individual humans immortality, it could instead represent giving humanity immortality. In that case, the thing that's where the furniture isn't is Aziraphale's sword. You know, the sword that's already saved the human race from extinction twice now, with both times being because Aziraphale gave it away.

I suspect that the sword will wind up in Aziraphale's hands again in season 3. I also quite suspect that it won't be staying there. In the end, I expect it will once again be up to humanity to reach out their hand to take the apple from that second tree.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens season 2 #good omens season 3 #aziraphale #the guardian of the eastern gate #the sword #the tree of life #self post #did i overdo it with the citations? #writing this activated Essay Mode and i went all in on crediting my inspirations #if i could draw this post would definitely include a picture of aziraphale stalking towards eden through the desert with sword in hand #because even though i don't think it's likely it would be one heck of an epic scene #with him tiny and small under that great wall but so so so fierce and determined #alas that i cannot even manage stick figures #anyway i've been kicking this post around in my head for two months now so hopefully someone still finds it interesting! #(feel free to make your own guesses as to what parent of unborn generations might take up the flaming sword in season 3)

[belligerentbagel]

even Atlas has only two hands

vent art

#this one's for all the teachers out there #horror cw #hands cw #draws #after 2.5 years of caution and masking everywhere; i tested positive for covid on wednesday morning (first day of fall semester) 😔 #at earliest; i can be back in the classroom on monday #wednesday itself was an absolutely horrible 24 hours (but admittedly the anatomist side of me has been going 'ah! physiological data!') #but thursday and friday were a grim indicator of how much capitalism has rotted my brain #because after getting through 24 hours of a MASSIVE illness with undetermined long-term effects; i felt compelled to return to the #6-hr-sleep 18-hr-waking cycle that i was accustomed to; out of GUILT for falling behind in work #(note: i was NOWHERE near 100% back on thursday. i could have charitably been put at 50% - still headaches & fatigue & productive coughs) #a friend had to very sternly tell me 'you cannot solve structural problems through constant 80-hour-week heroic measures' #'you especially cannot do this when you are recovering from a debilitating illness which has the potential to remain a - #- serious lingering problem if you overwork yourself' #like. gods. yeah. it's not my fault that my classrooms are stuffed to the student maximum that our union has valiantly maintained #it's not my fault that the district only gave us one pre-semester prep day; meaning that my room & plans were left unfinished before day one #and - even bigger; it's not my fault that public health in the US is careening into 'can we pretend hard enough like nothing's happening' #my students will have a milquetoast start this fall semester. that is fine. #their teacher might not be able to stand and talk for longer than ten minutes at a time #i will do what i can. i still care about them. i am reading their introduction emails and smiling a bunch. #but i refuse to allow myself to be consumed in order to keep this fire lit.

[tidekissed]

moment before bed and after a big day

taglist; @shimichazukes | @miggywife | @dmclr | @muddlemore | @okiria | @over--heaven

#art tag #my art #I still cannot remember which tag I used #🌿 #don’t look at me ok. all I can draw is hands

[screwpinecaprice]

Was doing some warm up sketches for a Ko-fi request. (I wanted the requested drawing to have a dramatic feel so the sketches are on the dramatic vibe also.) And of course some of it were connverse. Haha It cannot be helped.

Just had the realization that I tend to draw Connie in this angle/bust pose. Smh 😒

#connverse #connie maheswaran #steven quartz universe #steven universe #su #my shiz #skedoobles #NEEDED TO FINISH THE DRAWING TODAY or my schedule is going to get messed up again. 😰😵 #'Dramatic' isn't actually the word I was looking for but is close enough. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #Man... This is why I make Connie's hips wider. To still give a cue that she's at least 20 something. I cannot tell if the character looks #as old or young as I think they are until it's all done. Smh 😒😒😒 #Unowat I am not going to think about that too much. Maybe I'll just grow out of it naturally. #Connie is suppose to be holding a water bottle but RIP hands so nevermind.

[skitskatdacat63]

I also think about the Roman Empire every day 🤭

#i cannot off-hand mention any drawing idea bcs then i definitely will end up drawing it #caesar fernando would be a menace and curse to society(affectionate) #this is mostly just: needed something to keep me awake during fp2 #but also ofc cannot miss out on drawing relevant historical art #to quote maddi(martian-jpg): he is my roman empire #ah still kinda shocked at myself drawing so often lately!! lots of silly art tho is fun :) #ugh if theyre gonna make a vid of him reading about the Roman should really just put him in a toga 🙄 #(commentary:) #(i will say. as you all already know. i think about an empire every day but not the roman one 😭😭) #(but i will say when i saw a julius caesar bust in person i was having a moment. we all have our vices.) #(BUT STOP IT I CANNOT HAVE ANOTHER EMPIRE AU STOP STOP STOP) #(seb as his twinky little blond concubine- hadrian and antonius who????) #fernando alonso #f1 #formula 1 #f1 fanart #formula 1 fanart #catie.art.