#we painted them for him

[dirtytransmasc]

the Sully kids' reaction to Jake saying Spider "knew everything" breaks my heart.

they knew him better than anyone else, better than their parents. they knew his love for Eywa, for Pandora, for The People, for the clan, for their family. they knew he would never tell the RDA anything... not willingly at least.

they knew they were leaving because Spider would be tortured for information, he'd be forced to reveal their home, their plans, their numbers, their weaknesses. their brother would be tortured and they were being forced to leave him behind.

they knew they were being forced to find a new home, without their brother, because their dad knew he would be tortured.

#I like to think. for the sake of my sanity. Jake knew Spider would be loyal to them. that he would only blab once broken by torture. #anything else would kill me. the level of anger would be lethal. #but regardless. I think the kids would also need to believe the same thing. they *need* to think their dad has faith in their brother. #but back to the reactions themselves. the heartbreak and confusion on Kiri and Tuk's face. the way Lo'ak looks dissociated. #we can barely even see his face. but even Neteyam looks surprised and painted. even if its kept under a calm guise #(I will never let anyone convince me 'tey didn't love Spi. James. give us more about them please. more than these little crumbs) #they were just little kids and he was their big brother #he was Lo'ak and Kiri's best friend #Tuk was his baby #I feel it in my bones that Spi and 'tey were brothers with a complicated history. I know 'tey was scared to lose him. #I don't have proof but I know James is cooking up something with them #they would never believe Spider would just give them up. but that opens up their minds to so many things to think about #they had to be so scared for him and angry he was being left behind #(especially since in the comics Kiri. Lo'ak. and Tuk risk their lives to save him when he was kidnapped by Nash) #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #spider socorro #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #kiri sully #lo'ak sully #tuk sully #tuktirey sully #neteyam sully #lo'ak #kiri #tuk #tuk tuk #tuktirey #neteyam

[lesbianchipbastard]

anyways cause i love hair headcanons and minor pieces of symbolism in things like inherited appearance--

mae (may?) ferin has brown hair, but it's very curly.

jayson ferin has the fiery orange hair that's the signature of the ferins, but it's straight.

thinking about ava ferin having the same hair as her father, because she took after him and fit the role she was meant to. became a navy captain(?) and allat

thinking about jay ferin having her father's red hair, but her mother's curls because she doesn't fit the mold of being a ferin in the way her sister did. she's a pirate, first of all-- she never becomes the navy icon she was meant to, but she still has that lingering loyalty that comes from family. she's caught between her rebellion and her love for her family and i love how her alignment isn't black-and-white.

#vixen rambles #jrwi riptide #im sure that mae actually has a canon hair color/type i just cant remember it and #yk headcanons are headcanons so if you dont agree with it that's totally fine bc we all have different viewing experiences :D #like jay's hair is straight in fanon but to me her hair is fucking curly as shit. like im talking 3b or 3c #jay ferin #ava ferin #jayson ferin #may ferin #auuguhghg i love the ferins so dearly you have NO idea #grizzly and condi did SUCH a good job at creating such a complicated dynamic between all of them #like even if jayson ferin is painted as an antagonist you can understand why he does his actions he's not just an antagonist for- #antagonism's sake and i just AAAAA him and drey too man. #just roll with it #jrwi

[vic-does-battlecats]

‘Thunder rolled again, the noise building and building until it seemed as if the whole world would split apart.

Shadowpaw crouched, terrified, under the onslaught. “But what does it all mean?”’

#hey remember when shadowpaw was struck by lightning in the first broken code book. and how apparently this is how ashfur gets into his head #how does he do that. anyway #just wanted to draw this scene . or does this count as a painting I don’t know #was interesting to do!! i love shadowsight he’s so pathetic the narrative treats him like a Ragdoll #i hope him and frostpaw talk a ton and become friends in the new book the few times we have seen them interact r nice #the broken code #a starless clan #warrior cats #warriors #shadowpaw #shadowsight #shadowclan

[skitskatdacat63]

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

+ process(tw blood)

Also, look at him, bloody little guy 🥹

This drawing was inspired by several matador pics :D here and here:

^ I don't think I'll ever live up to the second one ah. There's several pics of that specific guy just soaked with blood, and I'm uh a bit obsessed with then ITS FUCKED UP I KNOW OKAY! But I've not drawn blood in a while so it was a bit difficult so I added less than I would want to I guess. Also I'm obsessed with how often they kneel in bullfighting?? Like okay who are you arching your back and spreading your legs for-

#ah not 100% sure abt this one but i think i still like it!!! #i was practicing matador poses during the wknd and im like yeah should prob paint one #and then it felt like all the energy left my body djfkkglg i was like ugh how do i paint again????? #mostly: just really wanted to draw him bloody #i love how every time i draw him in ferrari colors its just the most eye bleeding thing ever #my eyes get too used to it on my ipad's display and im like aw this isnt red enough :( #and then i transfer it to my phone and it feels like the red suddenly is hurting my eyes even worse djfkkglg #im glad the blood turned out well. i honestly think it was probably easier bcs the clothes are red already #but yes yes suffering ferrari nando. hes my comfort character atp 😭😭 #perfect catie drawing: depressed ferrari fernando. blood. napoleon quote #anyways yeah lmk! i think it looks okay?? idk i think i just love the first 2 matador drawings i ever did #and its very hard to live up to them. but whatever. we move on #im glad i did a more complicated pose at least ????? #also god i was somewhat annoyed w his face and then i redrew his eye and it was like OH OKAY suddenly good okay #tw blood #<- i would put this drawing under the cut but like. my blog i do what i want and i want to draw blood #i used to draw bloody stuff a lot more but ah idk less opportunities now sjfkkglg so it was kinda nice #catie.art. #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #matador au

[loving-jack-kelly]

i think jack has the kind of adhd that makes him go deeper and deeper into the random details of what he hyperfixates on but also have no idea that his depth of interest isn't normal. he says oh haha yeah I've been obsessed with cowboys since I was a kid :) and he means "I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of western fashion from the cowboy era and could tell you the names of every outlaw and how they got caught or died from 1800 to 1850 and I have read journal entries and letters from gay cowboys so obscure that gay cowboy researchers I've reached out to find out more have not heard of them. but I have" he'll spend hours on Wikipedia yes but he'll also spend hours in museum archives so he can put real cowboy artifacts in a cowboy painting and add details that nobody but him and maybe two other people in the world will understand in there. but also he'll just say yeah I like cowboys and think that covers it. get him going and he can't stop but mostly he thinks his interest is casual because he's always been like this.

#jack was diagnosed/figured it out late so he just assumes everyone gets consumed by the burning need to know everything abt something #his love language is accidentally getting hyperfixated on the same thing as somebody in an effort to paint something cool for them #davey is fixated on one specific type of coral polyp and two months later jack is scanning for deals to go on a scuba trip to see one #in person so he can paint it better #(davey finds out and is like. they have my type of coral in the big tank at the aquarium. we could just go there) #(and that's how they have their first date which jack doesn't even realize is a date bc he's so focused) #(on absorbing everything davey can teach him about this coral) #audhd couple <3 #newsies #jack kelly

[seagull-scribbles]

Well I’m not a vampire, but I feel like one…

messy request for @kito-oh-kito 💕 I feel better now, thank you

#TMNT 2012 #raphael hamato #casey jones 2012 #rasey #I was a bit upset the only time these guys interacted the episode was when Ralh squashed him at the end #they’re such a good team in 2012 it have been good these 2 agianst one of the others #this is like the only time ever Casey jones got to not be human too actually isn’t it #I wonder if he liked being a vampire or if he’s happy just being the iconic Casey J #the lighting in this was very fun tysm #didn’t do all the details like Raphs bruises and scars but you bet I didn’t forget his beauty mark #request #kito-oh-kito #doodle #Halloween episodes my beloved #these guys suit the grungy art style so well I love them #what if we where both vampires and we kissed #jkjk….unlesss #super fun doing his face paint again I should leave his mask off a bit more often xx #also argue with me all you want that gap in his teeth is perfect for bleping

[bizarreandjarring]

girls night

#kim gamer face #harry: let me braid your hair #kim: uhh… there’s not much to work with cherie #harry: don’t worry i got this babe *gives him cornrows* #this started out as a draw them in ur own clothes (i have harry’s pjs but not the fluffy slippers sadly) #i really wanna go to a girls night with hdb i think it woulge be fun #me and harry making frozen margaritas and watching a horror movie while we paint eachothers nails #and his boyfriend kim is in the background in his gamer rig lit only by the cold light of the computer screen #my art #disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #INJUST REALIZED I FORGOT TO OUT *FUCKING* ARMS ON KIMS GLASSES #fucks sake #ok well #he’s got so much authority he doesn’t need arms on his glasses they just stay there #shit #i am not fixing this fuck urself

[pickled-flowers]

I have such a hard time relating to cishet people like wtf 😭

#bestie invited their cishet date to our new year party and his insta pic is those ms paint meme faces..... #immediately i was like hum dont think ill get along with that guy #i do get along with my other friends bf Zak #hes cishet but hes a good guy i really like him #and tbh my friendships with cis men are super precious to me as a transmasc! #but most cishet men.... make me cringe #anyways shoutout to my cishet guy friends 💞💞💞 #love them love that they make me feel like one of the guy theyre great #also its always funny when theres one cis person at the function 😂 #like this guy is going to spend the evening surrounded by non binary and transfem its gonna be great #and me also ✌️ #not even scared about him being shitty because i know if he says anything my good judy Rose will punch his ass 💖 #i guess this is also a love letter to my transfem friends 💞 #Rose and Jill <333 #i dont see rose often but every time we meet we're both like Woah! your HRT is doing its job! #and Jill my good pal Jill #love her so damn much #precious swiss fairy #also Miranda will be there and i love them muchly #they were my qpp for some time i still feel so safe around them <3 #aaaaah i love my friends!!!! i love going on tangents!!!!!!

[irenespring]

Happy Ides of March to @lorata's Victors: you would have loved finding some old history book and then making Brutus' life hell all day every year.

#we must be killers: tales from district two #district two #the hunger games #lorataverse #Everyone saves their broken or old knives they no longer want for Ides of March and then dumps them on Brutus' doorstep #he thinks he's safe and then in the afternoon...more knives #Bb!Misha made Ides of March knives when she was forced into metalwork #Devon makes him a knife-shaped cake and uses frosting like paint to perfectly shade and make it look like metal #Lyme and Brutus have a toga wearing contest one year #ides of march

[taruruchi]

"Do you know this story?"

"Of course I do! This is my favorite story in the history of ever! When the prince was willing to give up his life of luxury for the waitress, and the waitress was willing to break their deal because she realized her dream would be incomplete without him... It gets me every single time. Just— the way he's looking at her!"

"You're right. He looks absolutely love-struck."

Happy birthday, Azul <3

#i gotta post this before 3 mins ends so i'll just edit later and add my rambles #☆ taruchi's drawings 🖌 #twisted wonderland #azul ashengrotto #twst oc #*rubs hands together* time for post post ramblings #First of all I started this like one or two days ago and had to kind of speed run so I'm proud I got it done before 3 #Bc technically Azul's bday didn't end yet bc it didn't end in the en server #Second why did I choose that picture #I'm obsessed and I have a problem #That's my favorite movie ever. Like. Of course I'm using it #Third I was originally gonna make them both look at the painting #Then I changed it to Taru looking at him #Then I changed it to vice versa because something something I had a reason but I forgot #OH BECAUSE IN THE VOICE LINE HE HAS A LINE THAT WAS LIKE “Your eyes look so bright” bc we were looking at a painting #So I was like OH. OH OPPORTUNITY MY MIND IS CLEAR and now she's excited abt the painting #And he's looking at her supposedly in a similar way that naveen is looking at tiana #FOURTH what is Taru holding #Shell. She's holding a shell which is his gift #Not the shell but what's inside it. And what's inside it? #...... <3 #I'll leave that to imagination #But I was also trying to make it similar to how naveen has the nut(?) with the ring he was gonna give #. I am noticing a flaw in the drawing so I'm gonna stop looking at it #I'm sane about them #Them being both couples #Very normal about them #I actually had quite a bit of fun drawing this #I missed drawing and writing for them... Feels nice to do it again 🫶 #I think that's it and this is apparently my last tag so uh jsbdjdnd if you read all that ty and ily <3

[decepti-thots]

i cannot believe this isn't fake. an actual mainline senator shockwave toy. in TWENTY TWENTY THREE

#it's so obviously them bending over backwards to make this happen look at that janky lad. love it #you can tell someone REALLY wanted this largely unknown unmarketable character and was like #if we retool this mold and slap some paint on and make it a two pack #it will look like him and be cheap enough for hasbro to agree #thx to whatever toy designers found a way 2 pitch this ilu #toys #idw

[roxynugget]

Guys, please, Tango doesn't consider himself a builder in the same way Michelangelo might not consider himself a painter* (see tags). You can accept you're very good at two things, and still consider yourself better at one over the other. It's not negative talk when he calls himself a redstone guy.

#tangotek #* Michelangelo was definitely good at painting but his preference was sculpture. Painting commissions were more frequent and profitable. #I don't know if this is the best example because it's difficult to parse exaggeration and fact #About historical figures in general especially artists and their personal feelings about their own art #and he definitely wouldn't have put a very strong divide between his skill sets because like. #You can see how much working and studying 3D space helped him create such life-like people in a 2D painting. #But I think Decked Out is a good example of harmony of skills too #The building part of game design and the coding part needed each other to create Decked Out 2 #My point here is #That we can't ask Michaelangelo if he considers himself a sculptor or painter #Because he's dead and also may not have an actual answer himself #But we can ask Tango! And he says he's a redstoner not a builder. And that's ok :) #Dear God this entire set of tags sounds like pretentious rambling but I'm gonna post it anyway bc I hope people see past me comparing #a beloved Renaissance artist to a Block Game Guy #and take time to reflect on how an artist might interpret themselves vs how their audience sees them thru the lense of their work.

[balaclava-marks]

Leonidas || Fineliner and acrylic marker / text under the readmore / click for better res

Leonidas of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας ὁ Ῥόδιος; born 188 BC) was one of the most famous ancient Olympic runners. For four consecutive Olympiads (164–152 BC), he was champion of three foot races.

Leonidas is acclaimed by some to be the greatest sprinter of all time. Competing in the Olympic Games of the 154th Olympiad in 164 BC, the last of the "golden age" of the ancient Games, Leonidas captured the crown in three separate foot races: the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos. He repeated this feat in the next three subsequent Olympics, in 160 BC, in 156 BC, and finally in 152 BC. Leonidas's lifetime record of twelve individual Olympic victory wreaths was unmatched in the ancient world.

There is very little biographical information about Leonidas, and no images of him survive. But his name - derived from the Greek word for lion - suggests he was a man of distinction. After his death, Leonidas was worshipped as a local deity in Rhodes. There, a statue of him displays the legend: "He had the speed of a God."

#sebastian vettel #f1 #f1 art #yeah guess what. i am still not over seb saying he'll be forgotten when we still know the names of athletes from thousands of years ago #shut up fuckface you are way too beloved #fucking. dinosaur skeletons. they have NAMES and we have to tell people not to climb them. because we LOVE THEM SO MUCH #CAVE PAINTINGS OK #AND HE THINKS HE'LL BE FORGOTTEN #RESPECTFULLY SHUT UP ASSHOLE I WILL NOT #MY LAST THOUGHT BEFORE MY DEMENTIA RIDDEN BRAIN GIVES OUT WILL BE OF YOU AND THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT BITCH #i felt very smart doing bull and horse wall paintings behind him ngl

[skitskatdacat63]

“Amore et Timore” - King Fernando I “El Animoso”

#*why is it that when I write tags that are genuinely imporant and wordy it always doesnt save UGH #well. ill try and rewrite them. #hahaha I bring you curly haired king Fernando!!(mostly for cofi) #2011 monza gp core Fernando that gripped us all by the throat right?? right???? #also i hope that his hair doesn't appear red to you like it did to me on my pc??? its brown I assure you #anyways! historical context for nerds like me: #'el animoso'(the spirited) comes from Philip V of course #it was apparently bestowed on him bcs of his perseverance and unwavering fervor in battle #and is that not the most Fernando coded thing youve ever heard????? #'Amore et Timore'(through love and fear) however comes from Joseph I #whom seb is partially based on but i thought his Latin motto fit Nando way better so here we are #philip v didn't have a motto as far as i could tell so that's why I stole Joseph's #but i do think the motto for the Spanish kingdom fits Fernando's career pretty well? #'A solis ortu usque ad occasum'(from sunrise to sunset) and i think that suits Fernando's 'longest f1 career ever' p well #anyways I sent a sketch of this to cofi the other day like yeah I probably wont finish this #and now here i am on 5 am on a tuesday grinning manically sleep deprived like HERE YOU GO #i think he looks very cute in this!!! i really did a lot of work on his eyelashes...very important detail to me #he kinda accidentally looks like Louis XIV unfortunately #but thats down to his hair I think. it looks a lot more like the traditional wig style from then compared to what I typically draw #but god imagine being seb in this au!!! you get to wake up next to this majestic beast.... #seb would have this painting framed over his bed or something. i mean who wouldn't???? #f1 #formula 1 #fernando alonso #f1 fanart #formula 1 fanart #catie.art. #boy king au

[starsandthorn]

ah. so elynas and durin really are siblings huh

#personal stuff #thorn plays genshin #hm. hm. #can't believe albedo has another sibling! fontaine event where albedo goes to elynas. who's with me #hsdgfjdkh but fr i thought so after completing the quest! #big dead dragon born from a cosmic void with blood that crystallizes. cells that literally drop Alien Goop #and then the world quest where we get the pov of the ship's crew talking about the Abyssal sea monsters #AND THEN. now. rereading durin lore #durin specifically arose from the Sea and is described as being a black *serpentine* dragon in line with elynas's appearance #festering desire also speaks of a Mother #then dragonspine spear paints durin as being gentle and wanting to befriend the people of mondstadt #and feeling no ill will towards them or dvalin when he died #which is VERY in line with elynas saying he realized the things that interested him brought fear and pain to others. #and that if he could traverse this world without causing pain or fear he would. #is very similar to durin wishing he could have met dvalin and venti and mondstadt under different circumstances #both weapons speak of being born from the same darkness that elynas talks about #AND both of their hearts are still intact. why tf did jakob want to get elynas's to beat again. what the fuck #just aoooh. i love how much of genshin exploration is just realizing how fucking fitting the Cataclysm is as a name for what happened #and how much it happened Everywhere #like. at least 3/7 of the original archons died. which is fucking. bonkers to me #considering MOST of them lived until that point with the only confirmed exception being the og pyro archon #don't even get me started on the fact that most of these deaths aren't even known #makoto obviously and rukkhadevata retroactively. no one in fontaine says a WORD about the lord of amrita #the only ones who seem to care about her are the oceanids. what the fuck #but god. like #the narzissenkreuz institute and the order of skeptics questline. the impact that people trying to investigate the cataclysm had #on others and themselves #like it makes a lot of sense but we don't see it anywhere else!! fucking of course people would try to study the cataclysm!! #of course people would try and find out wtf happened!!! #but now everything to do with the cataclysm is confidential to the point where people don't believe that most of the stories are true

[thebedroomblues]

i’m sorry but having the star-treatment-is-about-miles theory definitely confirmed isssssssss

#BLOWING my mind out of proportions #like we suspected this #but having him POINT AT MILES and SING IT AT HIS FACE #is giving everything a new meaning and perspective #means more than any hugs or anything my favorite part of the ireland tour was ALEX SERENADING MILES FOR FOUR SONGS #so ultracheese is 99.9% about them too #and body paint #and he sang i just wanted JET SKIS ON THE MOAT now look at the mess you made me make #OHMYGOD #i keep thinking about every line every quote every photo every video #it’s al soooo…. #milex