#they are both in their element

[hyperfocuscentre]

percy taking annabeth to swim with sharks and annabeth giving him a whole list of cool shark facts that she randomly read in a marine biology book.

#perfect date #they are both in their element #percy in the sea #annabeth with her fun facts #pjo #percy jackson #percabeth #annabeth chase #percy and annabeth #percy jackson and the olympians #the heroes of olympus #grover underwood #pjo hoo toa #pjato #clarisse la rue #thalia grace #hazel levesque #frank zhang #will solace #bianca di angelo #reyna avila ramírez arellano #riordanverse

[elexuscal]

Danny Phantom, The Show:

geeky kid gets super powers from his parents' weird inventions! now he has to fight a rogue gallery of ghosts... but uh-oh! he still has to keep his grades up, deal with his embarrassing parents, and navigate girl troubles! rap theme song!

Danny Phantom, the Fandom, After 19 Years of Fermentation:

a child dies. but not quite. the inherent tension between life and death. the obsession of the dead for faded remnants of the living. warped green shadows on the walls of a dark laboratory. having to hide your true nature from those who should be your greatest allies. the fear of the monster you could become if you let yourself. being a ghost as a metaphor for the trans experience. a cold breath on the back of your neck in the dead of the night. rap theme song!

#also wes is there #danny phantom #okay okay i'm exagerrating on both points obviously #it's been a LONG time since i watched the original tv show #but of course it had elements of these deeper themes and that's why the fandom's lasted so long #but it was a mid 2000s cartoon when serialised storytelling in western animation was still in its infancy #the fandom has spent a long time leaning into the story lines and themes that never would have flown then

[introboy]

So so excited to share my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @follow-the-compass-home! My concept was to combine a bunch of prompts together into one AU.

The premise is a modern-fantasy roommate situation where Tango, Bdubs, and Etho live together in an apartment. The only issue is that none of them are human, but they're all trying desperately to blend in, even though they don't really understand humanity as a concept.

More information can be found below the cut, and an introductory fic snippet can be found here (x)!

Downstairs Neighbors AU

Prompts used as inspiration:

Focus on Tango, Etho, and Bdubs

Include Boatem

Story told from Grian's perspective

Hybrid/inhuman AU

Angst with a happy ending

Emphasis on character dynamics

Here's a summary!!!

Tango, Etho, and Bdubs found each other by looking for roommates on Craigslist. They live in a 4-bedroom apartment together.

Tango is a spirit who wanted to interact with the world in a physical sense, so he built himself a body. He's basically just a ghost possessing an android (but unlike ghosts, he was never alive; he came into being as a fully-formed spirit). He doesn't adhere to normal bodily necessities like food, water, or sleep, which is convenient but also heavily concerning from an outsider's perspective.

Etho is a specific kind of shapeshifter called a mimic. He doesn't have a true form, but can copy the shape and mannerisms of most living creatures. The only constant across all of his appearances is a scarred left eye and white hair. Unfortunately, it takes practice to nail specific species characteristics, so he often forgets what he's supposed to look like and falls into uncanny valley. He wears a mask to cover his more noticable facial slipups.

Bdubs is some sort of plant creature (he doesn't really understand it himself). He has a perfect internal clock and sleeps, without fail, for 12 hours every night. He spends a lot of time in the unoccupied bedroom-- he uses it as a makeshift greenhouse, and it's filled with grow lights and humidifiers. He loves taking care of houseplants, but it's also a cover for him to spend time under the grow lights. Without enough light & water he gets lethargic.

Bdubs, Etho, and Tango, henceforth referred to as BET, all assume that the others are human. But since none of them know how to act human, they continuously pick up stranger and stranger habits from each other.

BET are close friends with Impulse & Skizzleman, who live together across the hall. Their upstairs neighbors are Grian, Pearl, Mumbo, and Scar, who are also besties with Imp & Skizz. BET and Boatem don't know each other well, but Grian especially thinks his neighbors are really odd.

Like BET, Grian is not human, and neither are the rest of his roommates. But they all know about each other, and Grian especially is really good at knowing how to act natural in public places. He's an avian shapeshifter, who can take the form of either a scarlet macaw or a human. Unlike Etho, both forms come equally naturally to Grian, and the shapeshifting process is a lot easier for him.

(Imp & Skizz are not human either-- they are a demon and an angel respectively. But, like Grian, they're really good at blending in when in public.)

One day, Grian gets injured on a flight and accidentally ends up on BET's balcony instead of his own. He's too disoriented to shift back into his human form or fly away, so Bdubs and Etho find him outside their door. Tango calls Impulse over in the hopes that he knows how to fix the random-injured-parrot crisis, but the only result is that Grian and Impulse start to truly take note of how strange their neighbors' living situation is. Incidents like the one pictured above arise (i.e. everyone finding out that there is not a singular scrap of food to be found in the entire apartment).

Ok that's all the rambling I'll do in this post, but I hope you enjoyed! Happy holidays!!

#downstairs neighbors AU #mcytblrholidayexchange2023 #ethoslab #etho #tangotek #tango tek #bdoubleo100 #bdoubleo #bdubs #grian #impulsesv #impulse #mcytblr #trafficblr #hermitblr #<< this au takes elements from both the life series and hermitcraft #/mine #/myart #thank you for your patience! I know it's the end of posting week #it took me a little while to put together all the pieces #Hope you enjoyed!!! #hall of fame

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslighter? I hardly know her!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #jin guangyao #qin su #The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony. #wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found. #Much to their chagrin and concern. #For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY. #specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age. #I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking! #Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing. #before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by. #The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version). #Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/ #ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician. #not much of a mystery to it all innit. #Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.

[theonewhowails]

Golden Fleece

#my art #cotl #cotl lamb #blood #it was really fun to ponder this one #cause in the game sprite the body on the fleece has the scale-like texture but the hem is sharp like the standard fleece #i felt a 2 tiered piece would work nicely to show both of these contrasting elements #the sprite always makes me think of gold scale mail but i wanted to avoid it looking explicitly like armor #since the fleece gives you stacking atk damage in exchange of taking 2x damage when hit #although tbqh gold armor would be fucking pointless anyways. gold is a very soft metal. which may have been the point but w/e #instead i wanted the shapes to be more reminiscent of wool since like. yknow. the golden fleece #and i wanted it to speak of luxury and power but be rather impractical for movement or protection #i just wanted to do an axe for funsies and by wonderful coincidence remembered the godly axe was gold :] #anyways this pose is brought to you by my stupid ass who spun too hard with my upper body when swinging a bat and felt cool for 1 second #before totally unbalancing myself and falling #the instant after this image lambo eats shit. rest in peace

[psychopathic-moves]

Going back & moving forward

(Prints)

#guess im doing things in series now #this one has the least amt of symbolism and elements but its my favourite of the 3 tbh #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho 100 season 3 #mob psycho 100 spoilers #mp100 #kageyama shigeo #reigen arakata #ive read the manga years ago but im still processing the ending. give me another series thatd be filled with such kindness #and have so much heart #im gonna miss it so much #bones give us the reigen movie we both want it #and preemptively: yes the wires are severed #myart

[longclawshilt]

Randomly thinking about grrm’s deconstruction of knighthood in asoiaf and how ironic it is that the Night’s Watch - an organization known to be half full of murderers, rapists, thieves, and all sorts of criminals - is essentially in charge of defending all of humanity when shit hits the fan. Like westeros just scrambled ‘the lowest of the low’ together into a penal colony in the far north and is totally fine depending on them for their survival; though tbf, i guess part of it has to do with expecting these societal ‘others’ to give their not so valuable lives for the good of the realm, who really cares if they live or die because they’re out of sight and out of mind. And it’s kinda funny too when we factor in the kingsguard because it’s a far more respected institution than the NW presently, but it too has its fair share of monsters. Quite a few men of the kingsguard have been morally bankrupt individuals, and we even see how the men of the KG sometimes forget other people they should be responsible for because their one priority is the king (we see what happens when you put the people of the realm first and then are ostracized by it a la Jaime tho there’s more to it). Missing the forest for the tree is something both institutions share, making them quite similar. So it’s interesting how grrm flips the fantasy classic of the black knight vs the white knight. The black knight is often anti-heroic, if not straight up villainous, and is often made to be diametrically opposed to the valiant and ever good white knight. But asoiaf has white and black knights both be shown of great virtue and great vice. The white knights in this story really are no better than the black knights. I’d love to see how these two entities could intersect, i.e., what happens when a white knight eventually changes his cloak for a black one (*cough* Jaime *cough*) and how that falls into grrm’s deconstruction of the romance of chivalry, the extent of personal heroism, and perceived knightly virtue. Welp I don’t even know what point I’m trying to make anymore, I just wanted to talk about the KG and the NW because they’re really cool.

#asoiaf really really is for the arthuriana girlies I tell you what #like the entire concept of knighthood in asoiaf being steeped in deconstructions of arthurian legend #we got galahad and lancelot and everything else #galahad is an example of a traditional white knight but his asoiaf parallels are the black knight jon snow and the not even a knight brienn #it’s really cool #and it’s also cool how black knights and white knights both can be admired but there are darker elements in both #as jon and bran eventually find out #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #the night's watch #the kingsguard

[cozylittleartblog]

whip you into shape!!

#deltarune #tasque manager #deltarune chapter 2 #art #hello ma'am i have been waiting to draw you for almost 2 years but i simply have not gotten around to it until now #i love her i love her design i love the holographic elements i love how she and swatches faces kind of match #Queen Turned Their Faces Into Robot Ones (And They're Both Better Off For It) #deltarune fanart #i mean i've drawn her before but i wanted to give her a Nice Big Image not a doodle yknow #ohhhh all the tasque manager art i've started and never finished #ohhhhhhhhh there's so much of it. there's so much #finished one :) #i saw all those numbers and said Naw not doing that. which is probably not the correct option #but alsooooo whatever lol

[zirconisblue]

i made some vash & ww design sheets :)

#didnt quite finish ww bc lineart is not something i enjoy #i think i cleaned the sketch up enough thats its clean tho #also i tried to combine elements of 98 + trimax + tristamp for both of them #see if you can guess what comes from where? or not i cant tell you waht to do #zirconart #trigun #trimax #tristamp #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vashwood

[bastart13]

Some designs for an Avatar Legend of Korra/The Last Airbender generation swap AU!

Korra is now the 14 year old airbending Avatar, found a century after the Fire Nation started their war. She's found by Asami, a non-bending member of the Northern Water Tribe and together they set off to find Korra a way of mastering airbending, spirituality, and defeating the Fire Nation.

Bolin and Mako are children of the Fire Nation colonies, both forced to hide their bending (now firebending and earthbending respectively) and make whatever living they can as orphans until Bolin meets Korra and through hijinks, convinced Mako to let them accompany them.

Then Opal is the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, fiercely protected and hidden away by her family despite her desperation to use her skill to help people, and Prince Wu is the disgracefully soft Fire Nation Prince, banished for speaking out about the war and forbidden to return until he captures the Avatar and regains his honour.

#avatar #legend of korra #the last airbender #atla #lok #korra #asami #mako #bolin #opal #wu #prince wu #au #gen swap au #element swap au #costume design #this au is so fun to think about #bolin and opal are absolutely adorable as 12 year olds #and korra's dynamic as both the last airbender and a personality not easily suited for airbending is fascinating #bolin wears a mask in the earth kingdom to hide he's a firebender #and mako is fiercely protective of him due to people suspecting him of being part of the war

[kabukiaku]

got hunter on my mind again, so here’s my own take on his appearance post s3 episode 1. he looks really good in red 💔

#my art #the owl house #toh hunter #hunter #hunter noceda #the owl house hunter #fanart #toh fanart #digital art #traditional art #toh season 3 spoilers #toh season 3 #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #he's wearing red to honor flapjack of course...T__T #i want hunter to kill belos himself. him and luz especially. #he looks REALLY good in the second hairstyle.....jim hawkins vibes #very intentional on my part yes. #also is it normal to also throw in elements of ur oc to a canon character cause they now both are traumatizedTM

[keejot-arts]

wolfwood wednesday monday

#nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #keejotscribbles #hello trigun fandom my offering is cowboy wolfwood #i desperately wish tristamp had gone for more of a cyberpunk western fusion in terms of character designs #like there are elements of both but they tend to favour one or the other depending on where they are #i just think it would be rly fun if everyone had some more cowboy vibes #i have some trimax sketches laying around . maybe ill post some eventually. maybe. #cowboy #1k

[demobatman]

fruity four dcom when

#disclaimer any arrangement of these characters would work i just happened to land on this one #and YEAH... i know theyre not supposed to fall in love with the movie characters but in this au they DO... #bc i say so #also eddie and robin both have elements of lela in their design bc they absorbed her #he is butch and lela she is tanner and lela #suck it #my art #pla enjoy i did a background and everything #if they look weird dont say anything im not redrawing it #slay #fruity four #fruity four au #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #steveddie #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #ronance #teen beach movie #lol #SURF SURF SAAAAND ITS A BIKINI WONDERLAND... #stranger things au #steddie au #ronance au #stranger things fanart #steddie fanart #ronance fanart

[ganondoodle]

did another rough concept for faron for my comic

design is based on both skyward swords and botws look since they are the same character in my AU, idk if this is the final one; she will show up in chapter 4

basic design, with robe, and one of her being noisy

(comic concept art)

#ganondoodles #zelda #art #tloz #loz #character design #doodles #skyward sword #the legend of zelda #i kinda want the dragons to look like both skysw but also hint at that they are also the dragons in botw just wayyyy evolved/older #while still have it unique looking #and the fact that shes named faron even though thats kinda ... wrong for her element i based that on hylias poor eyesight #so she literally .. accidentally switched two of the names around #also naydra being the one getting corrupted is bc faron was the one thats been against hylias growing affection for demise #and she really does hate him #so shes more susceptible to malice corruption #even if in botw she is a mere ethereal spirit and theres really nothing of her character left from the time this comic takes place #even if it doesn matter in the story that that happens in botw- it is where i got the idea from #plus shes kinda rude in skysw anyway lol

[ruporas]

honeymoon phase! (ID in alt)

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #me when the modern au fluff gets to me viciously #i LOVE modern au... i'm so weak to it... augh..... i love them in another universe getting the chance to be mushy and sweet *explodes* #most of all i just like to see wolfwood in his full element of being able to love and care about someone so openly and honestly. #it's what he was meant to do... what he wants to do.. what he deserves to do T_T but anyway. this can be interpreted as their many years to #come honeymoon phase but i do think modern au vw would have like their 2 year break up that devastates the both of them and irreversibly #changes their lives but it wouldnt be anything nasty. it just is. and then their lives go on as is for those 2 years before they steadily #and veryyyy very very very slowly get to around a second chance for each other. never necessarily awkward but theyre obviously afraid of #hurting and being hurt and also uncertain of what's right for themselves. but then they'll just get it one day and then they get married! #that's my ideal modern au vision anyway...... happy end... with so much emotional devastation of unspoken feelings and personal life troubl #ruporas art

[averaillisa]

tao & rina doodles

#originally just wanted to doodle them both since they're my fav girls but then it ended up a bit shippy? #fellas is it gay if you're two be-hatted girls with awkward dragon employees and almost directly opposing color schemes & elements #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #my art #genshin impact #genshin hu tao #hu tao #genshin furina #furina #doodle #chibi #whats their ship name lol err #hurina? fu tao?