#took about three hours

[asukachii]

Where Our Blue Is

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post this gif somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use it in edits/videos. Thanks~)

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk edit #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #gif #my animation #asukachii #if you saw this on friday no you didn't. #i posted this on friday but then noticed a mistake and deleted it super fast #since the rendering takes about three hours i just took my time orz #i was planning this for valentine's day but here we are #''where our blue is'' the title of jjk2 first opening! ''ao no sumika'' #i like the new cover btw #i saw some discourse on twitter but i find it pretty #gojo's smile seems so sincere and his eyes are smiling as well #his dimple ; v ; #the snow... the camellias... #i swear i'm not deleting this anymore #i'm unsure of when I should post things and that's why i delete multiple times... what day. what time. dunno.

[harrowharkwife]

i'm so used to there just being random unidentified bones laying around everywhere in these damn books that it finally occurred to me, just now, to wonder where the bones on new rho came from. y'know, the bones palamedes always tried to teach nona necromancy on.

they're his.

palamedes, who always loved teaching, living on borrowed time in a body that's not his own. palamedes, mentoring, teaching- parenting, by sixth standards, mind you. and that boy is sixth, through and through.

and the entire point of teaching nona necromancy in the first place was to try and determine if nona is, well, nonagesimus, right? so it has to be bones, it can't not be bones. bones are, like, her whole thing.

but they're not in the nine houses, anymore. things are different, on new rho.

they burn bones here. dig up the cemeteries. a society terrified of zombies will evolve to dispose of its dead differently.

the only bones he has access to now are his own. (camilla wouldn't let anyone take them- skull or hand, doesn't matter. they're still him, and she doesn't let go, remember? it's her one thing.)

palamedes woke up every morning wearing someone else's body to then gently place the shrapnel of his own in the cupped palms of a girl who's the closest thing he'll ever have to a daughter and try to teach her- how did the angel put it, again? normal school, as much as possible, for as long as possible.

(but hey, in a roundabout way, at least it's a chance for him to touch camilla again, right? nevermind that she's not there to feel any of it because he's in the driver's seat, that he can only stay for fifteen minutes at a time. it's atoms that belong to camilla touching atoms that used to belong to him, and that's close enough. he'll take what he can get, these days- if she can be their flesh, he can be the end. so what if holding his own bones is a mindfuck? so what if looking at them makes him nauseous? surely he can suck it up and deal with it for fifteen minutes. it's the least he can do— his poor camilla was the one who had to scrape the bloody pulp of them off the floors of canaan house.)

(speaking of, here's a fun fact: we actually only see nona practicing with the bones one time, on-page. camilla's final line in that scene, before palamedes takes over, is none other than: 'keep going. there are some bones left.' ow!)

remember, too, that the only part of dulcinea, the real dulcinea, that palamedes ever physically touched, was her tooth- the one that ianthe gave him, pulled from the ashes cytherea burnt her down to. he only ever touched dulcie once, and it wasn't until after she was already gone, but that doesn't matter- it still happened, and you can't take loved away.

in this same roundabout, bittersweet, by-proxy sort of way, palamedes has been physically touched by nona, too: the atoms she currently occupies, touching atoms that he used to occupy, and never will again.

the main interaction we've seen between palamedes and his mother took place back on the sixth, with her acting as mentor and him as pupil: the two of them studying a set of hand bones, juno encouraging him every step of the way.

we know that harrowhark's "most vivid memory of her mother was of her hands guiding harrow's over an inexpertly rendered portion of skull, her fingers encircling the fat baby bracelets of harrow's wrists, tightening this cuff to indicate correct technique."

they're still small for a nineteen year old, but the wrists are bigger, in this new set of memories nona's making. and it's not an inexpertly rendered portion of skull anymore- it's a hand, now, albeit one crafted from [a piece of skull reassembled (painstakingly—passionately—laboriously reassembled) from fragments, manually, and not by a bone magician, from the skull of someone who, soon after death or symptomatically during, had exploded.] and the identity and origin of these bones is no mystery at all. they belong to palamedes, and he's consented to their use for this purpose, and that matters.

but the details are just set dressing, really. the foundation of the memory is the same.

palamedes and his mother, juno and her son.

harrow and her mother; pelleamena and her daughter.

nona and her father-mother-teacher; palamedes and his daughter.

#these fucking books. every 2-3 business days i'll find some new detail to be insane about #this post took me like three hours to write. what the fuck #palamedes sextus #nona the ninth #the locked tomb #nona #palamedes the sixth #tlt #ntn #camilla hect #tlt spoilers #pal honey. im :( :( :( #spiritually that man is a MOM okay! there's a reason tamsyn specifically assigned him the same imagery in this scene #that she's been using to represent crucial bonding moments between mother/mother figure and child/child figure #that and the 'sextus you'll make a very irritating wife someday' joke and cam's 'i'll talk to your mother later' face #ie: talk to palamedes about nona #that boy is momcoded i don't make the rules!

[unfamd]

i strongly believe that in any universe modern or otherwise lwj uses lan xichen as a kind of confessional like a catholic priest. he literally comes into lan xichen's room at four pm precisely because that's the scheduled time that he allows himself to share an Emotion with his brother and sits down and says in a distinctly monotone yet perfectly recognisably anguished tone 'brother i have sinned' and lan xichen sighs very quietly because he doesn't want to hurt his brother's feelings and puts down his pen and says 'is this about wei wuxian' very gently and Lan Wangji is like 'mn' because it has never once Not been about wei wuxian. and then he says something that is Kind Of Weird, But Still Not A Sin like 'he fell asleep when we were studying and i watched his ribcage moving up and down for thirty eight minutes until he choked on nothing and woke himself up; am i evil' and once again lan xichen will kind of not-sigh in a way that makes it very obvious that in all other ways except physical he Is, Indeed, Sighing and has to reassure the most rigidly distraught younger brother in the history of mankind that what he is suffering from is in fact a malady known colloquially as a crush

#the untamed #wangxian #lan wangji #lan xichen #wei wuxian #mdzs #cql #and then they never speak of any of it again even though lan xichen has to physically control the fact that he's having a Stroke #when lwj makes seventy eight Weird But Pretty Okay Really confessions about this boy for like three years and then leaves for college #and starts doing it over voice message instead #lxc sees the notification that lwj has sent him 16 voice messages in the last half hour and Knows Deep In His Bones that this is about wwx #poor man. he needs A Break #eventually the stress back ache gets too much to handle and he goes to a Very Fancy Chiropractor Spa Thing and meets meng yao and Is Happy #but it took some getting there #unfamd originals

[anglerflsh]

ring around the isles

#[.art] #toh #the owl house #it took about- three hours and a half. because the poses were so hard even if I had a whole statue as a reference #luz noceda #the collector #gus porter #willow park #amity blight #hunter toh #philip wittebane #anyways you ever think about how at the start of the series luz was living out her childhood dream in a less twisted parallel to philip #''playing at being a witch'' season one Luz and ''playing at being a witch hunter'' philip etc etc #i just think those are neat parallels

[gallusgalluss]

long time no aliens, huh

#took a bit of a break from drawing woodwinds just Because but felt like drawing them again cause i miss my weird anteaters #also i decided to give the species a few edits. the most noticeable one is probably their hands #they only have 4 digits now and i wanted them to look different between the three species #plainswinds only using their hooves for walking. waspwinds using their hooves and Backwards Digit #and lowinds not having a hoof at all #also gave lowinds more physical differences so they aren't just small blue plainswinds (shorter torso. dewlap skin instead of wattles. etc) #yea :V! #art #drey draws #woodwind aliens #speculative biology #ouuuh i missed my funny guys i need to talk about them for a million hours rn

[venvellan]

da2's arishok is a good villain. if you have a fundamental understanding of the qun and listen to his thought process, the things he does makes sense. he uses the qun to justify slaughtering kirkwall's people, which is utterly inexcusable and what makes him a villain, but his character is complex enough to make dealing with him that much more thought provoking. he sends agents to kill petrice because she was killing his people, he doesn't give up the elves because they committed their lives to the qun, no matter how recently they converted, and he refuses to leave without the tome (and isabela) because his idea of justice hasn't been done. his logic makes sense, generally, though it is wrong on more than one occasion. he isn't moral, but he is methodical.

i feel this way about solas, too. i like da2's arishok for the same reasons that initially draw people to solas, i think. when we meet them, i find them interesting and educational to talk to, someone worthy of respect, and someone very honorable in their own way. similarly, many of my issues with solas compare with flaws in the qun/the arishok.

solas asserts that all of his beliefs are correct, and we're never allowed to challenge him on any of it. if he has high enough approval, he'll approach you to go, "yknow, i thought you were all [insert prejudice or stereotype] but YOU showed me that some of you guys are actually okay," which is NOT what it looks like for someone's beliefs to be challenged.

brief aside, i want to be fair in that we don't get this opportunity with many of the companions, and it's not even an inquisition specific issue. the dialogue format is agree, joke, be mean, and it's flawed, but it works in the majority of interactions. we don't really get to engage in nuanced discussions with characters, but there are positives and negatives to the system overall. it is possible to challenge and shape a character within this dialogue system (i.e., garrus vakarian) but in dragon age that really only comes in the form of harden/unharden. it was a little more doable with origins' system, but it really hasn't been a huge part of any dragon age game. most characters' beliefs remain largely unchanged by you regardless of how you play.

solas also possesses a strong sense of duty and purpose, though what duty he has, what his true goals are, he keeps hidden as long as he can. the most damning comparison though, to me, is how willing he is to destroy the world and bring back "his people," while the qunari fight to conquer the world and homogenize society into "their people."

in any case, with both him and the arishok, you can see the wheels turning in their heads. you can see why they do what they do, even if it's wholly immoral. it makes their threat a lot more personal, a lot scarier, psychologically, that a "normal" person, who doesn't want to cause suffering, can hold such specific beliefs and such strong conviction that knowing that they'll hurt people doesn't give them any pause. the root of their motivation is understandable. solas wants to right his wrongs, at his core. the arishok implicitly believes that the qun is safer, better for its people than life outside the qun. we can see that they're taking it too far, but they don't care. it makes them good villains.

"i am not corypheus, i take no joy in this." sure, which is a very similar sentiment, emotionally, to the qunari sense of duty. you can say you don't enjoy it all you want, you're still committing genocide. you can hate the qunari all you want, but you fight with their ferocity, their unshakeable faith in their own cause. their need to "do what's right," no matter who's caught in the wake.

i understand why people like solas, i go back and forth on it myself, but i don't think he's all that different from the arishok in method and motivation. they're each thrust into a world so different from what they believe is "right" that they demand it change around them. if we had to kill the old arishok, then if solas refuses to give up, he will have to die. he doesn't get to do genocide just because he's romanceable. he's a good character, he's a good villain, but he's not a good guy, and unless he stops before he does any real harm (which he will not do), he should share the arishok's fate.

#ive had a hard time trying to put words to the way i feel about solas #but this does it #solas is a good character and quite likeable for lots of reasons #especially in inquisition's main story #but end of the day hes not a good fuckin dude #also please engage with this it took me like three hours #da discourse #cw: genocide #dragon age #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #da2 #dai #the arishok #solas #fen'harel

[danandphilcatboys]

mister phil michael lester do i need to remind you that you are on camera, @astrophilip you asked for this

(while everyone else lost it over dan's touches on phil's face i have literally ascended to the heavens because of this incredibly soft look on phil's face it is literally a split SECOND but once you notice it you'll never be the person you were)

#dan and phil #dan and phil games #dnp #dan howell #phil lester #daniel howell #amazingphil #yall keep talking about heart eyes howell but what about phil #heart eyes lester #phil is so in love i'll die #this is literally A SECOND but once you see it you'll NEVER be the same again #i have officially died #i have ascended to the heavens #THIS TOOK ME THREE HOURS BECAUSE PHOTOSHOP KEPT CRASHING #i'm actually quite satisfied with how this turned out #wasn't planning on actually making this but made for one of my fav blogs on here #this was so hard the quality of the camera was so shit #boys please i'm begging you get a higher quality camera #i cannot deal with this ever again #phil's birthday livestream #phil's face totally says i am so in love with this boy #oh boy i am crying

[arcanegifs]

#BRUHHHHHH I NEED ANOTHER TEASER I BEG YOU RIOT #ITS BEEN THREE YEARS I CANT WAIT TO USE NEW CONTENT FOR GIFS LMAO #personal tag #dont look at me im just here to complain about content drought lmao its really not good in fostering a healthy fandom ngl #because ppl will just hyperfixate and consume media for like a month and then the fandom goes poof right after lol #i miss all the people scrutinizing media every week i miss all the essays pumping out when content arrives #these days its just.... nothing lmao i only really still have arcane in my mind because of fanfiction and a lot of fics have been inactive #ik we're getting new stuff in a few months #and ik we're not in canceled shows hell but like #i really hope that if theres season 3 we're gonna get it a bit more regularly #i really miss it when content was like weekly or every 2 weeks because ppl and the fandom are wayyyy more active during those times #binge culture and netflix sort of changed it lol #i miss it when fandoms were huge!!! i miss it when it was so CHAOTIC lmaooooooooo #I MISS WAITING FOR LONG ASS HOURS WAITING FOR CONTENT TO RELEASE EVERY WEEK!!!! I MISS IT!!!! that was like what 12 years ago LOL #I KNOW arcane is special with their 3 year drought because it takes time to make arcane #but like..... idk man i miss content lmao #iirc they took too long to make s2 bc they have no idea if s1 would be even renewed #so i hope s3 will be a bit more regular now #anyways im gonna go bye bye

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Oh don't mind me, I'm just listening to my silly little folk tunes and envisioning lore for my ocs after months of making barely any progress with them

#it was american murder song I was listening to specifically btw #seriously though. I've had so many epiphanies in the last three hours #and all it took was murder ballads #american murder song #the oh hellos #the crane wives #the last bison #passenger #caamp #fish in a birdcage #radical face #mother falcon #hozier #these are the main ones but trust me there's more #go ahead and tag the bands that do it for you #I am also once again waiting for someone to ask about my ocs *stares at askbox* #just oc things

[braisedhoney]

Part 1 - Part 2 (You are here!) 

Well ain’t that sweet as punch. 

… and bonus page under the cut! 

#you ever think about how as far as Yancy knows we’re just a random escaped convict who comes back to visit him #I think about it #also that hug pose took me like three hours just to sketch #also also my favorite panel WAS the hug pose bc of course it was #ft. Yancy’s magical tattoos #because mark indulges us lmao #personal head canon that the tiny-box-Tim one is the only tattoo that doesn’t change #totally not bc I merged the layers before I could check #yancy iswm #yancy ahwm #iswm #in space with markiplier #iswm 2 #in space with markiplier 2 #y/n the captain #technically head engineer mark is here too #but that doesn’t count lol #ney’s art #ney’s chatter (ask answers) #ney’s comics #markiplier #iswm fanart #ahwm fanart #a heist with markiplier #iswm captain

[arom-antix]

@fishshit I consider your post canon so I made it

Edit: I FOUND IT

Edit 2: Yakov trauma

Edit 3: I lied, here's the design rant

#i cant find the original post T_T #im going to search your entire blog if i have to #i will find it #anyway in the mean time heres something that started as a sketch and then went completely out of control and i am not sorry #i am beyond repentance you could say #it took me at least three tries to spell that word right on the illustration and english can go die #viktor deserves to be dramatic as fuck #yakovs aura was made of retirement papers when viktor showed him this #especially when viktor added that “oh by the way ill be wearing a big ass luxury designer fur coat” and then skated away #have fun deciphering the meaning behind all my design choices #for once i will not rant about them #ruins the fun #but if youre interested i do have a breakdown ready at your leasure #im sorry ive been listening to the song for hours now while drawing this and it just fits viktor so well i cannot #this is canon in my heart #arom antix art #arom antix #art #yuri on ice #yoi #yuri on ice fanart #yoi fanart #fanart #viktor nikiforov #also i am so sorry the mukbang comic is taking so long i swear i havent forgotten #some of it is done but its far from finished but itll happen #im going to finish it and you can quote me on that and come to my house and whack me with a newspaper until i do it if you want to #collab #religious imagery

[yendts]

scorbmas day 5: mistletoe kiss❤️

#i unfortunately have to be done with these sketch prompts bc my carpal tunnel is not recovering after each sketch like it usually does #this particular sketch took a total of one hour over the span of three days to complete 🙃🙃 #im very sad about this but it’s just physically not possible #anyways enjoy a sweet little scorbus kiss <33 #albus severus potter #scorbus #scorpius malfoy #albus potter #harry potter and the cursed child #hp #harry potter #the cursed child #ccsquad #scorbmas #scorbmas2023

[bellelovesyou]

                         ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ                    @sakkurify

                    ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤorder up! (๑>؂•̀๑)

#the middle gif took me THREE HOURS #never again #i dont want to talk about it #beomgyu #choi beomgyu #kpop #kpop bg #kpop boys #txt #tomorrow x together #tomorrow by together #papas games #papas freezeria #txt moodboard #beomgyu gifs #beomgyu icons #beomgyu moodboard #kpop moodboard #kpop aesthetic #flash games #webcore #webcore moodboard #idol #cutie #vintage moodboard #soft moodboard #moodboard #purple moodboard #purple #milkshake

[anglerflsh]

as Lucifer fell

#[.art] #les mis #les miserables #This took about three hours. I need to stop doing lineart more often it was fun to work by colours alone #any character can be an icarus figure if I so choose. No one is safe. His wings specifically are meant to be that of a peregrine falcon #because that's the one I saw used in falconry when I attended the two lessons I ever did on that and. Tamed for the hunt. You get it #javert #inspector javert #lest I forget his actual title lol

[figofswords]

the post grad why did i get an art degree what am i even doing what do i want in life where am i going crisis has finally hit i want to. lie down in the dirt. or something

#WHAT AM I DOING!!!! #i get up i go to my stupid retail job i stick labels on bags they pay me fucking thirteen bucks an hour i come home i lie on the couch #too tired to draw in too much pain to go anywhere no energy to reach out to college friends to do anything fun #no idea where the even start with getting an industry job no clue what i even WANT at this point #trying to remember what i loved so much about comics i want it BACK i HATE this #WHAT IS THE POINT!!!! WHAT DO I WANT WHERE AM I GOING!!! WHAT COMES NEXT!!!!!! #there's no clear career trajectory i can't do freelance i need structure i can't work too much i need free time #my brain doesn't work every job requires me to move across the country the irs just took fucking three hundred stupid dollars from me #my friends live in different states i can't get a job without experience i can't get experience without a job #i can't work on my portfolio with no energy and no time and i dont have any money and everything is so expensive all the time #i can't get anywhere bc i dont drive and im too stressed to think about taking driving lessons again #and WHAT DO I WANT! #THE MOST INTERESTING THING I DO EVERY WEEK IS GO TO PHYSICAL THERAPY! #I AM EXCITED EVERY WEEK FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY!!!! WHY!!!!!!!! #anyway WHATEVER i need to go to bed #delete later #i got into spx. today. so. had to have a crisis about how i felt when i attended spx (energized. excited. a part of something. ambitious) #versus how i feel now (tired. unmotivated. kind of apathetic about art. disconnected) #i dont miss the stress of school but i miss being around other artists. ppl who speak your language and who want the same things you want #ppl who are excited abut art and that makes YOU excited about art. ppl who get you #i miss that i want that back #whatever. its 1am i gotta go shower i have an 8.5 hour shift tomorrow. wahoo. $13.50/hr lets go

[kinun]

During the setting Sun

Ayyyy, it's the legendary Venus de Milo!

I needed something to get back into practice on my drawing tablet and I picked her because we all need more Venus in our lifes.

Here's the sketch for anyone curious (it's pretty old at this point):

#tmnt fandom #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #tmnt venus de milo #tmnt venus #tmnt fanart #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1987 #rottmnt #tmnt 2018 #Took me about three days #No idea how many hours exactly #i'm pretty happy with it #also #I've been experimenting with colors #So maybe somethings wonky idk #Kinun's drawings