#this is sorta brief

[black-and-yellow]

Ingenue

Reel it in.

(NB even though this reads right to left, the pages are ordered so that they will be in order when scrolled through on full screen)

#ending's a little anticlimactic but here it is #I've spent a long time on this bad boy #been thinking about them more recently #their dynamic is under-explored #congrats to School Briefs on being like the only media that gives them interactions with each other #maybe Vigilantes too idk I still haven't finished it #hate drawing Yamada's hair down like this i am not very good at it #I need . segments. that's the only way i can mentally process hair #bnha #hizashi yamada #present mic #mha #villain!mic #loudspeaker au #nemuri kayama #midmic #micnight #sorta. if you wish it to be #enjoy. eat up. #now give me those sweet sweet notes

[nocofamilyau]

not related to noco at all but what is katie and sadie’s relationship like now?

pretty good all things considered! while they're both married to two sweet guys and have separate families (none of their kids are other td characters, unfortunately...) they're still really close, and still live next to each other at that same beach town they grew up in, now both running that successful 80s themed ice cream business they've been dreaming of! its safe to say they probably suffered the least on Total Drama, only leaving with a couple of minor scars, good god were they lucky..

#noco family au #total drama #total drama katie #total drama sadie #total drama katie and sadie #I mean its ok to ask non-coco related questions here I won't complain #and I guess it makes sense talking about these two since they made like #a VERY brief cameo in the Wayne arc #just thinking but I've been too harsh on these two for a bit now they're actually pretty sweet #like yea they were annoying and gimmicky on the show but #they kinda feel like wasted potential #like their bios talk about so much we don't see in the show #like how they love the 80s #or that they make their own ice cream #or that Katie sews their clothes from scratch? #like #that's fucking adorable #but then they're resorted to annoying filler characters #like I sorta get it from a writing standpoint but.. #when Katie was voted off they did sweet FUCK ALL with Sadie #like Sadie didn't even SPEAK until the episode she was eliminated #and then they don't show up again unless its to simp for this seasons hot boy or whatever #idk

[fishfingersandscarves]

a conversation with self through the vessel of the other

(poem by intactics)

#my art #fishfingersandscarves #the sandman #the sandman netflix #dreamling #dream/hob #sorta lol #brief lives #the sandman comics #blood tw #death #dream of the endless #dream (the sandman) #hob gadling #robert gadling #death of the endless #death (the sandman) #comic #poetry #poem #smth smth dream trying to convince himself to live and failing

[ryoko-san]

sillies

#redacted asmr #redacted fanart #redacted audio #redacted art #redacted au #redacted vega #redacted brachium #brachium x vega #redacted regulus #(brief appearance) #lol sorry for not drawing much this month #just lost the mood and motivation:C #human au #also uh regulus is apparently their sorta- #-adopted kid (he’s as menacing as his og counterpart) #-but a bit morally better in some sense

[designernishiki]

i keep asking my friend why majima no majirock Exists and he always just says “well kurohyo needed karaoke songs” and when I follow that up with “that literally explains nothing, how and why does majima have a popular rock hit that’s technically canon because kurohyo exists in the same universe as the mainline games” he just casually says “i don’t know. it’s just there.” needless to say I have no answers and the enigma of majima no majirock just sits in my brain eating at me indefinitely

#what IS it. why is it THERE. why does it SLAP #why do you occasionally hear it on the radio in stores or in the taxi in various yakuza games #and no one ever addresses it. it’s just. there #ITS KILLING ME. WHAT IS THE LORE. DID HE HAVE A VERY BRIEF CAREER AS AN IDOL. IS MAJIMA A ONE HIT WONDER #rambling #majima #everyone’s idol goro is real but his outfit is extremely different than whatever he both started and ended his career in #probably more leather involved #and yes I see how this could tie in with mirei which makes it even more fucking wild #this man’s done every job on the face of the earth #ohhhhhhhhhh actually imagine a visual kei sorta look….. #that’d fuck so hard man

[ven0mvamp1re]

“she stares at the world with two mismatched eyes: one emerald green, the other pale blue through which silver flecks flicker and swim like a shoal of tiny fish” (brief lives)

#and i took that literally #back with yet another drawing of my favorite girl #the sandman #art #artist #delirium #delirium of the endless #delirium sandman #procreate #artists on tumblr #my art #fan art #sandman comics #brief lives #the sandman brief lives #vertigo comics #panel redraw #sorta

[presiding]

What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?

(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)

thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -

short answer: she’s really cool

& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...

long answer:

i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.

since you ask...

billie is a cool character

when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.

then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!

she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.

but... the meta

mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.

skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.

i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.

most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).

i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.

ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.

while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.

it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-

- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?

.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.

lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.

you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.

in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.

all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3

billie's character potential

she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.

she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).

her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.

she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!

#i assume my followers are cool enough to let me give a brief measured critique on fandom trends and DotO #thanks for the anon question!! what fun! #i love billie lurk <333 #jumped on the opportunity to rant n rave #what part of billie isn't my fav! (im a guy who likes the bad stuff too. mmm interesting meta) #trying to be not unfair or mean- i'm not targeting anyone but rather trends. and it's ok to be disappointed with something you love #fuck it. make it part of the appeal! her writing sucks! plenty of room for me & other creators! #its easier for me to indulge my billie brainworms when it sorta feels like she's not getting as much love as she deserves #you know? i want stories where her history is explored and her agency is important so i guess i'll roll up my sleeves #tumblr is a terrible place for this sort of critique IMO- lots of nuanceless empathy-free guilt-trip-ish rhetoric #so i hope i avoided that. but not so much that i seem forgiving. #that said i'm not tagging this one with fandom tags! no thank you. #i am blaming arkane yes. but that is also not without games industry context #i could complain about amateurish writing but that also never happens in a vacuum. industry problem(s) for sure. #people love to blame writers for things #and yeah a couple really fucking good writers can push a boulder uphill #but its usually a company problem #hire lots of diverse people in your company. give them authority and respect and reasonable workloads. and no crunch. #ah fuck this is a separate essay in tags. again #THIS WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION #*clutches head in hands* #uh if you're still reading at this point im SO sorry and thank you and i love you

[amygdalae]

Had a dream once where a scary faceless woman in lingerie tried to seduce me into killing a rat for her, and I felt too awkward to mention that the rat was also me, I had been switching perspectives between the human and the rat throughout the entire dream, then I watched through the rats eyes as my human self try to kill me with a knife like in ratatouille

#woke up so mad at myself for tryign to commit rat murder-suicide #not my proudest dream moment #suicide mention #sorta #it was interesting tho there really was a v brief moment there where in the dream i occupied 2 consciousnesses at once

[roakkaliha]

Was it just a cool design choice for Goosefeather to have those funky double eyes in the one side or is that actually something cats can have? Either way I’m obsessed with it

well theres polycoria (more than one pupil in one eye) and cyclopia (two eyes stuck together in one socket), but neither of those are what i was going for in that pic ghbbh. my idea was more like.. two seperate eyes in the same socket, which im pretty sure isnt a thing that can happen irl, or not at least in the way i drew haha. i kinda wanna give some wc design polycoria, but idk if goosefeather would be the right call for that ya know.

#i had this wicked idea of goosefeather getting a vision of the three where his eye splits into two #to sorta see through the eyes of each of em at the same time for a brief moment #so the double eyes arent a normal thing for him #just starclan fuckery

[heliosphere-underthesky]

Are the Alpha Centauri trinary system like the Sun's siblings? Cousins if that's the case? (Also how is Ceres taller then Makemake when she's smaller then him in real life)

Hi! Actually I'm still not sure, a lot of the stars are friends. Sometimes if they're in the same system, then they could act as if they're family, found family, or even lovers for some. Sun probably sees the Alpha Centauri system as close friends! Earth looks up to them too. The three are likely friends or found family, I haven't thought about them much yet.

Also for the height, I'm still working on them! The main cast should be fixed, but the deuteragonists like Ceres and Makemake are still not fixed.

Although! There's an answer for that too. In the lore, sometimes the Caelestis (personification) aren't always proportional to their real life counterparts. It all roots down to their house size and their ranks.

For example, Halley's comet is taller than Mercury! But Hal ranks lower than Mercury (comets rank lower than planets) and his home is much smaller than Mercury's.

Given this information, you can just imagine how huge the Sun's palace is... or how huge TON 618's manor? Castle? Is.

Heliospheric Lore - Caelestis and Ranks (Toyhou.se)

#asks #anonymous #art #halley's comet #hal #mercury #hermesio #i won't be able to draw all their houses a;sdklfj i just sorta winged this but in that same doc diff chapter #there's a brief description of what kind of house they could live in #they're not neighbours! this is just to show their differences #although hal does visit all the planets every once in a while. his favourite to visit is earth because they're on the same wavelength #also i'll try to take it easy with doodles. i want to try loose doodles again but i'll still do my best to keep them easy on the eyes #tag commentary

[speromint]

"Your mom would be fuckin' proud, man."

And Ashe feels himself falling. His body moves on its own, now-clawed hands pushing up from the ground. He wants to turn and look back at his friends, wants to see one last glimpse of them, but his head only manages to twitch to the side for a moment.

His mouth opens and speaks in a voice that is not his own.

Ashe can feel his consciousness fading, smothered by the Trickster's will. He's kicking and thrashing, but he can't stop himself from sinking down into the depths of his mind.

His consciousness fades out, and Ashe drowns.

There's a ringing in his ears. Every inch of his body aches fiercely and his bones feel impossibly heavy, like any sort of movement would be a herculean task.

His head is against something jagged and hard, and through the pain Ashe feels something warm and wet sliding down his back. Most of the pain radiates from there.

"Ashe!"

The familiarity of that voice causes Ashe's eyes to open halfway. His vision is blurred, but he'd know that vibrant red hair anywhere.

"D'kota?" His tongue feels swollen in his mouth, like it's made of cotton.

"Ashe, holy shit!" Dakota instantly goes to hug him, but Ashe's pained groan as he's lifted off the rubble deters him.

Someone comes to kneel down next to him. He hears more than sees his father.

"Ashe, kid, jesus-" There's a metal-covered hand on his shoulder, and Ashe weakly turns his head to see him.

He's so different than Ashe remembers. His hair has gotten longer, and he's grown a short, greying beard. His vision clears for a moment, and there's an expression on his face Ashe hasn't seen in years.

"'m I... dead?" he slurs.

"No, kid, no you're alright. You'll be alright. Just- just try and stay awake, okay? Doctor'll be here any minute now."

He tries to nod, but he doesn't have the strength. He thinks he rasps out an "okay", but he's fading in and out of semi-conciousness and it's hard to tell.

"A-? -she! -on't fall asle-! As-!"

There are flashes. Someone is lifting him up. There's something over his mouth. Wheels screeching. A constant beeping.

Ashe finally comes back to consciousness sometime later. Beside him is the source of the beeping noise- a heart monitor. It picks up as the fog in Ashe's head begins to clear.

His back aches badly, but the pain isn't nearly as intense as earlier. He's in a small, standard hospital room, wearing a deeply uncomfortable medical gown. He's not wearing his binder, but something is wrapped securely around his chest and back as well.

Something in the back of his mind is distressed at the lack of mobility, and he instinctively tries to flex muscles he does not have.

Right, the wings. That's what the bandages are for, then.

He hasn't used his body in nearly a year, now, and he feels terribly weak whenever he moves. He can barely bring himself to sit up properly, much less move his legs. Most of his movement this past year was probably relegated to his arms and wings, letting his legs fall out of use.

The feeling of having little control over his own body again sends him into a bit of an instictive panic, only amplified by his very recent possession.

"Ashe- calm down, kid, you're alright, you're safe."

His father looks exhausted, like he hasn't slept since their fight with Overlord. He can see heavy bags under his one uncovered eye, and he looks so much older.

Mark Winters had been a fairly young father. Young enough to stick out in a crowd filled with the parents of his classmates. Now, though, his dark blonde hair was streaked with white, and his face wrinkled with worry lines. At least, the human side of it did. Ashe wasn't sure there would be any signs of aging in the spatterings of deep green scales across his body.

"My- my legs-" He gasped out, looking down at them through the blankets. "I- I can't-!"

"I know, kid, I know." Mark reached out to him, but stopped halfway. "You're gonna have to get used to using 'em again. Doctor said there's a lotta atrophy goin' on."

This didn't help much, but Mark kept his voice calm and even as he continued, "you'll be alright, Ashe, I'll help you through it." This time, his father's hand did rest on his shoulder, trying to reassure him.

"How long was I gone for?"

Mark sucked in a breath, hesitant. "Just over a year, now. It's January 8th."

Ashe looked down at his hands as he processed this. There's so, so much he wants to say, to ask, but instead what comes out is, "I'm eighteen, now."

"I know."

A beat of silence. Something drips onto his hand and Ashe is suddenly aware of the hot tears rolling down his face. He's missed so much. An entire year of his life, gone.

"I know, kid," Mark gently pulls him in for a hug. Ashe can't remember the last time he'd done so. "I know."

#prime defenders #jrwi #ashe jrwi #ashe winters #dakota cole #mark wavelength #mark winters #jrwi prime defenders #jrwi wavelength #wrote most of this a while back. I wanted to share my personal headcanon that post-possession Ashe goes into a brief coma #and has to use a wheelchair. then crutches. then a cane #as he tries to get used to his body again #but it sorta got away from me #I haven't written much in YEARS and you can absolutely tell #characterization is probably a bit off here. sorry. it's nearly 3am

[gofancyninjaworld]

The MVPs of the Monster Association Raid

Looking back at the arc, this cover gets another meaning. These are the heroes most responsible for the defeat of the Monster Association. Because nobody does it on their own.

The photobomb of Drive Knight booking it to safety is a nice touch. Also, Murata, why did you steal Genos’s clothes?

#OPM #official art #Saitama #Genos #Tatsumaki #Fubuki #Pig God #bang #bomb #Drive Knight (well... sorta) #everyone worked hard but these guys made the most impact #Saitama (of course) smacking down Orochi and Psykos-Orochi when it mattered also stopping Garou #Fubuki stepping up to heal heroes and defuse a nuclear bomb #Tank Top Master and Pig God helping those who couldn't help themselves #...which was everyone at at least one point #Bang and Bomb being there for Garou #Tatsumaki spectacularly taking on the worst monster seen to date while being a splendid hero #And Genos was everywhere he was needed from spectacular start to horrific end #almost forgot Drive Knight -- his coming in at that brief juncture kept Psykos Orochi from escaping #the death toll if that monster had broken containment doesn't bear thinking about #it's already high enough

[hecksupremechips]

Teehee I got hugged today 🥰

#the klock keeps ticking #it was literally like 2 seconds but idk im like WOOOOO #like it wasnt long enough for me to be all satisfied touch wise nah im so starved itd take all night and day man #and also this particular person is uh. very special ahem. and it was like #i wrapped my arms around them best I could and i could just feel their hips and like their body squish under my hands #cuz theyre so squishy and sturdy at the same time it felt safe and its like. thats really scary actually #ive never ever felt safe hugging anyone this kinda thing is brand new to me #touch in general is new to me. at least consensual touch that i wanted and initiated #and i just felt really nervous cuz like i really love this person but sometimes its hard cuz like ‘guys’ dont hug each other often #or at least not in a case like this where we’re friends but theres this sorta avoidance around anything romantic #cuz we’re both very awkward and also uh. trying not to cross certain boundaries just yet we need time #but unfortunately im so aaaaa rn and touch starved and i was like im just gonna bite the bullet and ask if we can hug LIKE A DAMN GAY ASS #its like fuck i may as well propose marriage and get on all fours while im at it aaghhhhh why am i like this #but it was fine they werent weirded out or anything. not visibly anyway. and they hugged me!!! #me! of all people! im like so happy we got to hug but im also really pissed cuz it was really brief and i didnt get to memorize how they #felt and now im just like grrrrr. fucking tease why must i be so tortured i get the smallest taste and then poof its gone #i just wanna cuddle and hug them for hours and pull their hair and feel their body all over and uhhhhhhhhh #ahem. i may be getting too gay here huh. damn itttt. fuck me. how do you ask your mate if you can explore bodies #in a way that definitely isnt platonic without making things weird

[wings-of-angels]

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#vent tw #vent #threats mentioned #domestic abuse mention #(sorta) #i hate my fucking brother #i hate that he thinks hes entitled to using bathrooms when other ppl were already there just cos he came home from work and thinks he can #kick people out #we had like a brief back and forth cos i was about to have a bath when he came home #and he was looking for food so i said im gona go have the bath real quick if hes not gona go up #he ended up going to have a bath pretty quick so whatever #not the ppint #the point is that like several several months ago there was a time when i was in the middle of having a bath when he came home #and he threatened to come in and forcefully take me out if i didnt stop so he could have a bath himself #and we dont have a door on our bathroom fyi and while he couldnt see me cos he was at the end of the hall it still fucking terrified me #and i get that hes just got home from building and is dirty and wants to use thr bath immediately so like.. today for example i get it he #can use the bath first #but any arguement about using the bath first fucking reminds me of when he threatened to physically remove me #and even tho he didnt it still makes me start shaking when im reminded of it #and i fucking hate it i hate it #he has a history of violence so like the threat felt very real at the time #sorry idk how to properly tag thus

[pankomako]

doodle based on the tilt n tumble stream + some sharky n shipwreck as housemates bc i had no other ideas lol

#failboat #gangs bay #im not normal. sorry to say but it's true #ive covered it already but when shipwreck moves in w sharky they have to share a workspace #shipwreck will be an idiot on stream and eventually sharky's like #'ok thats it i and the hundreds of people watching have suffered enough' and just takes his controller from him #sharky probably still has a habit of fumbling to hide what he's drawing when someone enters his work room but more often when it's smth sus #also obsessed with the idea that like #shipwreck is a coward. sharky is not. when they're in a scary situation sharky sorta has to protect/reassure shipwreck #it's funny bc youd think the big guy protects the little guy but it's the other way around. im a tough bitch and so is sharky by extension #although if it's a heights situation theyre both screwed LOL #hope yall dont mind the sorta brief crossover here. i cant just post one doodle lol

[kraviolis]

anyways i got sidetracked from what i was originally gonna post. now that im off my medication for the foreseeable future (with minor exceptions like whenever my mom shares their adderall with me) ive become more acutely aware than ever before exactly how genetically predisposed to addiction and substance abuse i really am

#krav talks #im actively craving alcohol at any time of the day #and only after i got drunk ONCE #the cravings arent severe but its more of like “man drinking would make me feel so much better rn a drink sounds so good” #sorta the same as basically craving like a donut or something #ive experienced this before with smoking when i was like 15 and stole a pack on my mom's cigarettes #i would have a smoke every morning when everyone was asleep but never developed a full addiction bcus i literally forgot where i put them #but that nicotine craving has never gone away #and ive kept a close eye on it since then bcus FUCK being addicted to nicotine that shit is so expensive #i literally cannot afford to be addicted to anything i can barely buy myself shampoo rn #but if someone offered me a cigarette.... yeah i'd take it #im doin the same thing with alcohol rn. well im being a little more indulgent #bcus alcohol isnt as cancer-inducing as smoking #and its more socially acceptable #but yknow. keeping an eye on it. being self-aware of my own habits. #last night i really wanted to drink but instead i had like 7 coffees so im all good #oh im 100% addicted to caffeine honestly #for a brief moment when i was 18 im pretty sure i was close to an adderall addiction #but then i stayed awake for 72 hours that one time and heard people whispering my name and thought my food was made of maggots & ants #so i cut that shit out for the most part. my brain functions & sleeping habits have never been the same since then :)