#walking a fine line

[obsob]

a redraw of ‘lament for icarus’ by herbert james draper ✷

#mine #heheHEHEHE #this was a little tricky to figure out colour wise but i did it!! #orange overlay orange multiply my beloved #also made him trans bc. i can. #DONT look at the rocks too hard okay i. i was tired by that point #and the water also thats meant to be a straight line some how it is diagonal #they are going downhill its fine #owhh today we went to a stately home bc my mum got national trust membership heehe #my god that was a home. i havent been to one like it there was a huge hallway #im talking like. very large. lined w tapestries n paintings #i like. wanna learn how to oil paint low key high key. its not rlly a good time for me to learn that now but....one day #i gotta figure out portraits first hehe #i want to draw. realistic. portraits. bring my gcse art dream to life #i think i can do that. it will just..take time. idk how to learn that skajfbsdjkbs #n also need to find my way of doing it artistic language etc etc #ihg my leggies hurt. lots of walking #im going to play some hollow knight i think then go 2 bed #tomorrow is turning into a house task day it seems. maybe i will also try 2 figure out portrait hehe #i'll add id tomorrow!!

[ikarakie]

some random linguist in the 21st century: weird… hey, did you know that the pet name ‘angel’ has really suspicious origins?

the demon crowley, eavesdropping, made everyone think it was a pet name on accident in 62 BC, nervously sweating:

#a woman wrote in her diary about it when she overheard him say it #crowley is walking a fine line #aziraphale is blissfully ignorant #good omens #good omens season 2 #crowley and aziraphale #crowley x aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #azirafell #aziraphale #aziracrow

[goatpaste]

Sorry i got Jotaros big honkadoos on the brain recently also Jotonio has been on my brain like a tick thanks to eve indulging my ramblings and vision for them in my head. Tonio seeing this underweight muscle man and saying, not on my watch.Tonio sending Jotaros ass on a quests of a summer of healthy weight gain and mental healing

just a buncha big boys in my head, big fat hairy men in there whosaidthat

[Commission Prices][Etsy][Buy me a Kofi]

#suggestive #sorry it probably wont happen again #diamond is unbreakable #stone ocean #jojos #jjba #jotaro kujo #tonio trussardi #weather report #walking the fine line between posting here and posting to my After dark...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He's the biggest kid here. Large and In Charge.

[First] Prev <--> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #su she #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #jing ling #Who are the other juniors? Who ever you'd like them to be. I will probably have to retroactively tag them #(Hello! It's Fer from the Future. Here to retroactively add character tags!) #ouyang zizhen #nameless red disciple #The camp councilor energy continues! WWX's secret power/talent isn't demonic cultivation #its herding teenagers. One of the hardest entities to rally #I adore the uncle energy he has with Jin ling here. Oh you're gonna start banging at doors? No no don't stop #you're sooooo good at it why don't you keep going? Yell some more. Use your talents #If he keeps yelling he *might* summon the purple uncle so its a fine line to walk #The goal with jin ling in that last panel was the same energy as when you catch your dog eating something they shouldn't #and instead of running you enter a staring contest. Does this make any sense. #EDIT: I went to check my notes for this post last night and went “oh geez y'all hated this one huh” only to realize that I uh #saved it as a draft and didn't actually put it into the queue. MASSIVE head empty moment. #So sorry for ppl who got worried or were looking forwards to the comic update. I wish this one was funnier to make up for it.

[quinn-pop]

this is a joke but it’s also…almost the meaning of something in drafts

#posts that only make sense to me #kirbyposting #my art or something #meta knight #king dedede #metadede #quinn does comics #okay sorry for the mtdd flood this week i had a lot saved up and actually drew for once #im probably gonna try to do more writing…which is what this is about #maybe some more mags stuff soon #love walking the fine line between shitpost and almost serious

[speakercrab]

funniest aa villains

1. kristoph gavin

-took him seven years and two attempts to poison ONE little girl. she doesnt even die

-one of the first sentences out of his mouth is what gets him convicted in turnabout trump bc he wanted to look smart

-dog called clam

2. manfred von karma

-announces his pin number to the courtroom

-retrained a parrot the night before a trial

-tases people in a police evidence room where there are definitely cameras. even funnier that he doesn't get caught but that ones mostly on phoenix for never mentioning it

-this isn't canon but I love how in the press buttons and talk playthrough his objection just devolves into a grunt

3. shelly de killer

-offers phoenix a job (as an assassin. in court.)

-gets excited to say classic kidnapping lines

-just all of the walkie talkie sprites i love them

#ace attorney #i LOVE ace attorney villains bc they walk the fine line between intimidating and goofy so well #dahlia is an honourable mention but imo she leans more on the intimidating side #feminism win

[prof-peach]

thoughts on hisui

I just need to verbalise

---------- I can't unsee a moment in the comic where Peach is running for her life, like, literally pegging it as fast and as far as she can go, barely dodging, even being clipped by attacks being fired off by something VERY persistent.

Her mind tracks back in the chaos of the moment to Plum, they would go running, it was always such a chore for Peach but she joined in to humour her, even though she wasnt built for that, and she'd hear Plum nag her that sometimes running away is your only option, fighting everything will get her hurt, or worse killed. Greys there saying his gears good, really good! But it can't block it all, and that Plum is right.

Peach should have listened to them, should have run more, built up her endurance to long distance sprinting, Plum always outran her on flat terrain, and here she was, once again nearly being outrun by something, no gear, no protection.

When she finally gets away, whatever luck falls upon her to escape in sort of one piece, she starts running every morning. plum was right. Grey was right. sometimes running is the only option. She could stand to learn that a little better.

This gives a glimpse into the things shes missing the most, confronted with her loved ones not being there, them being right and her accepting that now, the fear of dying in the past and not seeing them again. She can't let that happen.

Readers will get a rare peak at behind the veil, why fighting so hard has a purpose for her.

Eventually Rei joins in with her running every morning with her pokemon, he's like Plum, has a nack for it, long legs, and it takes him little time to gain the stamina, overtakes peach in a flat race after 4 months. She looks at him ahead of her on the trail they run, he'd looking back laughing, joyous, and she sees Plum and Grey in him.

Rei's warm and jolly like Grey, and cocky and speedy like Plum. It's a weird realisation that Peach's pulled someone so similar into her orbit.

It's that moment that she realises exactly why she'd kill for the kid.

#im rambling #but im slowly thinking #about how to make this story emotional and exciting #along with informative and beautiful #its a fine line to walk #and rei will always be the one to bring our professor back to the right path #prof.peach #PLE #pokemon legends electus

[semisolidmind]

my favorite dynamic w these guys has gotta be “y/n is a fellow daycare attendant and the boys are obsessed with and would do anything for them while also being sorta antagonizing”

#fnaf sun #fnaf moon #sun x y/n #moon x y/n #fnaf security breach #these guys walk the fine line of being easy and impossible to draw #i can appreciate the unhinged energy they give off #click for quality cause mobile is stupid #fnaf sb

[cuoredimuschio]

okay, but where's my steddie AU where steve wants to learn to play guitar to impress a girl he's infatuated with and he remembers that munson kid was always hanging up posters for his weird band at school, so he hikes out to eddie's usual dealing spot behind the track and asks (with far less groveling than he really should have) if eddie will teach him how to play, and obviously eddie says no because why would he want to help king steve, but of course, steve offers to pay him, $20 a week, and well, that's the kind of get-the-hell-out-of-this-shithole-town cash eddie really can't afford to refuse, so fine, he'll teach steve to play and they'll spend inordinate amounts of time together tucked away in eddie's room and they'll start to see that they have more in common than they thought and that they kind of had each other all wrong, and eddie will put his hand over steve's to help him get the placement for a tricky chord and it totally won't awaken anything in either of them?? where is it??

edit: i started writing it

#steve x eddie #steddie #stranger things #someone tell me this has already been written because i need it. please. #bonus points if steve shows up to the first practice session empty-handed #and eddie nearly calls the whole thing off when he has the Audacity to grab at eddie's sweetheart as if eddie'd ever let him play her #and he doesn't even teach steve anything that day because rule number one get your own fucking guitar and keep your mitts off mine #but by the end when eddie is deep deep deep in love and it's time to send steve off to woo this lucky girl of his #he offers to let steve take his sweetheart because she's guaranteed to make him look ten times hotter and cooler #and he'll have no trouble sweeping his girl off her feet and maybe eddie's breaking his own heart but it's fine—as long as steve's happy #except steve doesn't seem nearly as happy as eddie thought he would be #he seems sad actually and eddie kind of hates that so he starts to make some lame joke about how steve should be honored #because eddie wouldn't lend his baby out to just anyone and that gets steve to crack half a smile #but then he puts the guitar down on eddie's bed (with all due gentle reverence) walks over takes eddie's face in his hands and kisses him #kisses him like he's been dying to do it for weeks. because he has #because somewhere along the line it stopped being about wanting to impress a girl and started being about wanting to be with eddie #it started being screwing up on purpose so that eddie would grab his hands and show him how it's supposed to be done #and forgetting about lessons entirely and just sitting around and listening to eddie talk or just watching him play #because somewhere along the line steve fell out of infatuation and into love with the last person he ever expected.... #anyway idk where i'm going with this

[mar-marmallu]

Dear folks, please go to sleep.

- My hypocritical ass

#been rewatching the ut playthroughs and it's nice #i've also been walking the fine line between stress and chill this week it's kinda weird #anyway #undertale #sans the skeleton #sans undertale

[skelerangart]

Pierre portrait sheet for my stardew playthrough. Hes a little shit, but hes My little shit :3

#stardew fanart #skeledraw #artists on tumblr #pierre sdv #pierre stardew valley #sdv #tried to make him dilfy but still pierre #a fine line to walk lmao

[elksun]

Atticus' parents + his older brother + younger sister update

#that's his parents + brother circa his teen years and his sister in her present state #seee his older brother is supposed to be dead in the present but i fear i've made him too fine😔 #he's walking a thin line rn #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 cas #create a sim #ts4 portrait #sims 4 portrait #simblr #;my sims #c.bowen #c.livia

[bestworstcase]

This is probably outside of your purview, but do you think the fights in RWBY have gotten worse, or just different from what came before?

i think there has been a shift away from tightly-choreographed showcase fights toward a more naturalistic approach prioritizing setting and character over rhythm and composition. whether or not this is aesthetically preferable is a matter of taste, but it is absolutely to the benefit of the narrative as a whole.

there’s this beat during the group fight vs tyrian in volume four where tyrian kicks ruby and her aura ripples out from the point of impact in such a way to create the illusion of deeper motion: it looks like her ribs buckling as that force moves through her body, it feels like we’re seeing this formidable new adversary break her fucking ribs after throwing JNR around like ragdolls. it isn’t shot with any particular artistry or stylistic finesse; the shot is instead lined up to emphasize the violence.

that serves a more important narrative purpose than aesthetics: it makes it believable that ruby just cowers in dread after taking this hit, it viscerally drives home how dangerous tyrian is, building tension, setting the stakes for the upcoming fight with qrow, and thus it also underscores the contrast between tyrian’s wild brutality and qrow’s discipline when they fight and qrow tips the scales not because he’s stronger but because he doesn’t let tyrian rattle him… it’s doing quite a lot of work for a mere handful of frames.

compare, say, the nevermore fight, which is beautifully shot and choreographed but doesn’t have a lot to say: ruby can plan elaborate tactics on the fly and communicate them to her team well enough to execute the whole thing flawlessly, and… that’s kind of it. RLR2 does all the narrative heavy lifting. and that’s fine, to be clear, because this is a point where the story is still setting up the board and introducing us to these characters.

but the nature of rwby as a story is that the fight scenes cannot stay that way. and this isn’t even a “monty/not monty” thing, you can see the experimentation with using fights as a medium to develop character and theme starting early in volume two: ruby calling out team attacks and narrating yang’s semblance during the mech fight, splitting up the team on the train so wby can each duel an opponent who represents their personal struggle*, doing the battle in breach as a sequence of character moments, etc.

(*weiss feels disgusted by what the SDC has become and wants to reclaim the schnee name -> she faces a white fang officer who loathes her for being a schnee; blake is torn up about not knowing how to solve all these big social problems and reeling with the emotional fallout of leaving adam’s white fang -> torchwick tries to push those buttons; yang feels rootless and hollow and worried her current outlook is unsustainable -> she has to fight somebody she literally cannot touch and her increasingly frustrated attempts to punch through get turned against her the instant she overextends.)

in early volume two it all feels a bit clunky and uncoordinated in part because the mech fight is still so stylized. the fights on the train and the battle in vale are less so; you still get those tightly-choreographed sequences, but balanced out with moments that are more raw and real—the fake-out “slow-motion killshot” that turns out to be just weiss’s time dilation catching up, followed by the lieutenant grabbing her face and yanking her out of the air, is a particularly effective example with the grapple being shot with the same intention as tyrian kicking ruby in the chest—and also just more grounded in who the characters are (weiss gets in trouble trying to be fancy, yang’s frustrated determination is both a strength and a weakness, blake takes torchwick down with brutal efficiency because she’s used to fighting people but she also lets him say his piece before knocking him out because that matters to her).

so like—waves hands—volume two sets the course that is followed in the latter volumes where the fights become increasingly less about style and more about substance. the style is very much still there, it’s just not The Main Event anymore. it’s garnish on fight scenes you can write robust character analysis about.

#it’s also like #rwby is not a story about how fighting is awesome #rwby is a story about increasingly traumatized teenagers fighting an apocalyptic war that got dumped in their laps #so there is a fine line here that has to be walked #between the style and spectacle of the fight scenes #and the story being told. i think they’re handling that remarkably well esp in V7-9 #and they manage it chiefly by sacrificing style when it’s inappropriate to the tone #which is a good thing. that is good writing 101.

[seriousbrat]

honestly i get whiplash bc I see takes that are like "jkr HATED SNAPE he's her least favourite character and she mistreated him" and then immediately I'll see someone else b like "jkr LOVED SNAPE he was woobified and his actions excused" . ladies calm down. he is simply complex and multifaceted. he is beautiful yet ugly. he is hateable yet lovable. he is brave yet cowardly. he is beyond our understanding and yet he lives in every one of us.

#although id say he's probably one of her faves but she did not woobify him imo lol #the CORRECT take is that he is just an interesting character to write bc he's good and bad #embrace him as i have embraced him! #severus snape #the fine line i must walk alone (with my snutuals) #(snape mutuals) putting 'sn' in front of everything to make it about snape is so funny to me. first time i saw 'snlog' i died #seriously though he did bad things but also suffered and is worthy of sympathy. that means good character to me #snuffered. snympathy. god

[bloodthirstysadist]

My name is Liana Dimitrescu, at least my new name. I don't remember my old name. Not even my old life. I live with my mother and sisters in a castle in Romania, that's where I come from. Forever the age of 25. Forever young and bloodthirsty.

⸻ 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐃? ⸻

𝐉𝐔𝐑. Te voi face să suferi în moduri pe care mintea ta rea ​​nu și-o poate imagina. 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬.

#𝔏𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔞 𝔇𝔦𝔪𝔦𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔠𝔲 † she walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic. #userfakevz #owncharacter #pls do not interact with me if you are under 18 #residentevil #german preferred

[spritehouse]

sometimes i'm afraid of mischaracterizing characters/making them ooc and then remember the spencer "guys what is sex🥺🥺🥺🥺" reid mischaracterization and move on

#NOT CRITICISM #write characters how you want #but there's a difference between taking creative liberties and infantilization #and some of yall are walking that fine line like a tightrope walker #lex rambles #criminal minds #spencer reid