#ye olde plague

[d-does-art]

What if Luffy found someone else at Egghead?

#this has been plaguing me #finally done with school this semester #one piece #monkey d. luffy #portgas d ace #one piece fan art #one piece seraphim #seraphim ace #you all will probably get more of this soon #Yes he does have Ace's memories #but only up to 10 years old #this one is right after Sabo died #egghead

[gayemeralds]

wish to death i could like. draw. bc there’s a vivid scene in my head of tails staring up at Eggman, doing an iconic sonic pose, 11 years old and cocky and ready to fight, and it sort of blurs to sonic, 11 years old, challenging Eggman for the first time, cocky and ready to fight, and present Eggman just sighs before smiling and going “it’s so obvious you were raised by him sometimes.”

#YES it’s the little blurb i just posted but this was in my drafts from before i bothered to writer it down #anyway. they plague me so much. #i imagine 11 year old tails looks like boom!tails #sega official speaks

[mattodore]

he's waiting on a call he's planning to send straight to voicemail

#sorry matthias </3 maybe he'll pick up the next time you try calling............ <- me when i lie #river dipping #ts4 #ts4 edit #gifs #theodore doe #echthroi #hi friends and lovers hope everyone's doing well <3 #i got my old laptop to work so i have a laptop again even if the battery on it is messed up #but still #i haven't been online much bc i've started getting dizzy from staring at computer/phone screens for too long #and in particular the act of scrolling either on mobile or desktop makes my head spin and my eyes hurt :/ #but i powered through it yesterday so i could get in game with theo (and matthias) since i missed him really bad... oc plague be upon ye #i took... well. like five hundred screenshots and forty videos... i was in the soup. the mattodore soup. what can i say? #i don't like posting too much on here bc. i'm crazy (<- has avpd) so i probably won't post much from yesterday's fun here #but i'll post whatever i want on pillowfort <3 pic of jerma holding out his hand captioned let's take mattodore together #what else should i say before leaving... right my inbox... well i'll get to it eventually <- have been saying this since october sorry #but okay i've been staring at my screen too long so i need to go lay down for a bit #enjoy theo in motion!! if you’re a theo-head like myself #theodite à la jermamite? hm. its in the works. i’m workshopping. #mentioning jerma twice in these tags… busting a cyanide pill onto my tongue i’ve said too much #i have to go now mwah mwah mwah bye warmth and love to you mwah

[queerliblib]

it’s one book, Michael. What could it cost? $10??

Lucille doesn’t have anything on publishers setting ebook/audiobook licensing prices. We are 100% funded (thank you, thank you!!!) but our fundraiser is still live ‘till end of day Friday (July 7th) so, more money = MORE BOOKS. Check out our blog post and let’s see how far we can take this book blitz!!!

#yes yes in the year of our plague 3 we do in fact have an old school blog on our website #we know better than to rely on the bird app #i know i said before that 100% was the funner number #but hey… #if anything is more fun than 100% it’s gotta be 110%

[theeio]

i found some old art of my oc Plague way back in 2018🥲 and i tried doing some redraws, 6 years later!

i tried redrawing the first five here

#if you recognise who this oc is ur an og #and yes im calling them by another name bc their story has changed too #draws #doodles #plague #oc #oc plague #honestly i still like alot of elements of my old art #should carry them on…i need to refine my stuff more #the emotion back then was quite well done too i must say #but im really proud of myself now that i have a better understanding of heads and faces #i dont always nail it but i have a far better understanding now #form makes such a big difference #man

[tleeaves]

The art is lovely and now I'm gonna ramble because that's what I do when I care about something.

For the love of women, please PLEASE can fan artists remember to add muscle to their Shadowhunter ladies? I'll commend Bowater for cleverly giving James that sculpted and lean look without making him a beefcake (nothing against beefcakes, I'd love to hug them), but Cordelia is once again suffering from Arms And Shoulders Too Slender It's Hard To Even Imagine Her Picking Up A Sword. There is some there, yes, but artists shouldn't be afraid of giving particularly Female Main Characters weight and toned muscle. Cordelia is supposed to be nearly the same height as James as far as I can remember, and she's curvy, and full, and she wields a sword like it's second nature to her. Please explain why she looks so tiny in James' lap.

Also I'm pretty sure marriage runes are supposed to go over the heart whenever possible (thinking about Will's parabatai rune being over his heart instead -- he didn't get Tessa to draw over the scar, did he??) and... either I'm looking at the picture wrong or James' rune is not over where his heart should be.

For the matter, where are their other runes and scars?? James' Voyance rune isn't even on his hand. And I'm pretty sure he's right handed. I could have that wrong though.

Another thing: no one can ever decide what Cordelia's hair looks like and it's the funniest thing to me. This is what happens when all you do is vaguely say the colour is like fire but also like rose petals but also a flowing river of those things but also is Red (probably for redhead, but then from there I never understand where the rose petal analogy comes from considering the typical rose is a deep bloody colour -- I do acknowledge the existence of those light orange varieties though which might more closely resemble red hair). In the end, I'm glad readers can infer what they want and imagine the characters how they like.

Anyone else think James looks like he's built like a tennis player? Oddly specific, maybe, but it was a thought I had. Mostly the arms and somewhat narrow body.

James' hair is nice, his eyes are an interesting take on gold in the shadows. Bowater managed to also make him look closely related to his father, so bravo for that.

In the end, the focus is obviously on the marriage runes and not other physical aspects outside of it being clear that this is James and Cordelia. Bowater's style is very beautiful and elegant. Love the way fabric and lighting is done too. I'll add also that it is possible to be a smaller person who is slender but still strong so I mean Cordelia's not necessarily done wrong, I just interpret her appearance differently. Obviously, they're both hot and they're both attractive and I have my qualms with the series, chronicles, and author -- the fandom I am so-so on, though I'm still here, aren't I? And I'm taking the time to ramble about my thoughts on a piece of fanart -- but this is good. Gorgeous, even. Both James and Cordelia are beautiful.

#side note: am I the only one who thought cc made a mistake trying to describe james as handsome in cordelia's eyes #as opposed to matthew being the beautiful one #when there has always been a deep and aching strange beauty to james?? #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #vaguely crediting charlie bowater though it isn't like you can't find a dozen more copies of this with the credit #also yes I mercilessly picked this apart because I am still trying to find avenues to express my dissatisfaction with tlh #I search for flaws what else can I say #I am aware of it but it's hard to turn those thoughts processes off #maybe I'll write a post at some point all about the authors I once Loved that I am now deeply critical of #a lot of people would hate me for it but eh #also we all know about the marvelisation of cinema #but is it time to talk about the marvelisation of book series/worlds? #or perhaps it has a better and more book-focused name? the jkr approach? rick riordan's marvel-esque flaw? the sjm plague? the clare affair? #we'll workshop it #maybe it's the curse of middleschool-YA series and the issue of aginh readers in fandoms #and I don't mean this as discriminatory against anyone older in fandom because there is not really a limit nor should there be #for most media #but the issue of when the readers grow up amd authors try to accomodate for that -- not necessarily by making their work more adult -- #but by making MORE because there is also an influx of new fans and they want to stay relevant while retaining the old #it's a whole thing though I'd need to sit down to properly organise my thoughts to talk about it

[mus1ca1]

nightmares

#characters who cope well in the waking world but are plagued by nightmares are my fav #to be fully honest I've spent a long time mulling over how exactly I want to portray how he carries his past and i still don't know #tw #cw #cw horror #tw horror #cw blood #tw blood #tw trauma #cw smile #cw body horror #tw violence #cw violence #tw body horror #<- covering caboose's effed up limbs #he's always bleeding in his nightmares from caboose pushing him off the cliff ;-; #and he's always rusted again. it doesn't go away in the dreams #stex #starlight express #YES IM EDGY LIKE A 14 YEAR OLD it's whatever

[anglerflsh]

meet the artist (04/06/2022)

#[.art] #self #meet the artist #feat: my summer most worn outfits #a lot of new people started following me recently so I'm using this as a formal introduction #if you can't read it just send an ask I'll clarify my cursive #also yes the three flavour of things I wear are 'Tintin character' 'five year old boy during the black plague' and '1800s poet' no inbetwee #don't even ask why my full name is Viktor M. P. Wing you don't want to know what those two letters stand for <3

[basurable]

This worker was sent away on a fool's errand for the crime of not following protocol. Sanitary Masks are mandatory!

#I love the idea that they werent really sent away on boat to get the islanders back #but to get them off the island like how they'd handle lepers in the old times #Away with ye plague rat #qsmp

[shitty-eyepocalypse-domains]

not necessarily a SHITTY domain but i had a 100% vast dream last night where i was on an infinitely tall hill (like, i couldn't see the bottom or top, it just Went) and there was the sky. and those were like the only two things that existed the sky was fucking huge. i was looking at a daytime cloudy bit and in my peripherals i could see the night sky w/ no light pollution and sunrise with like. pink streaky clouds. however big you're imagining the sky double it. it was insane

Ohhh cool. The sky extending into atmosphere into galaxies into nothingness and yet even further, somehow, and still a rosy pink. We here at the Watcher's nightmares stan your dream :p

#jonathan sims #the magnus archives #the archivist #tma #tma podcast #the eye #the eyepocalypse #shitty eyepocalypse domains #shitty eyepocalypse domain submission #the vast #the falling titan #mike crew #simon fairchild #if anyones wondering if you have asthma pls dont rip up old carpet with the fam #it is a bad idea :( #also patho classic is so fun i love it it feels like an interactive book where you constantly catch the plague #irrelevant yes but its great go play it

[yuno-karei]

Do any of your oc's go to Babyls, and if so what are their familiars?

I kind of went overboard oops

this is totally not an excuse for me to try drawing more animals

But yes! The ocs I've shown so far mostly go or went to Babyls. The main oc of the group is Urrun, and they would be 2nd year as of the current arc. They get a change of uniform design as well :>

At the same time:

The Babyls old graduates' familiars, featuring Doccy (possessed doll), Mr Glutton (bear doll mimic), and Lux (firefly hivemind)

I unfortunately do not have an idea for Tehilah's familiar yet so she will be left out for now and since you asked for Babyls students only Inae won't be part of this

They will get their own posts someday!

#yuno answers #mairimashita! iruma kun #m!ik #m!ik oc #oc #yuno art #thank you for the question omg <3 #I've been itching to show the 2nd doodle for such a long time #yes it's based off the plague doctor doll I'm original /lh #I also can't draw new doodles for the other 3 my hand hurts so have some old ones I did #I actually have more babyls student ocs I just have not fleshed them out yet #vinea urrun #vinea eliakim #vinea mulir focalor #vinea gressil #yunOCs

[olden-towne]

being in your 20s in the 2020s is so bizarre. Like, as a kid, I was not sure whether or not my hometown would be above sea level by the time I entered the job market, but it didn't really matter, because my top priority was having fun in middle school, followed by just trying to survive high school. "have fun with friends" is a short term goal. "don't step in front of a subway train or slit your wrists in the bathtub, today" is a short term goal. Now that I'm in my 20s I'm expected to plan for my long term future. Getting schooling and internships in areas I think I might enjoy having a career in. However it's all pervaded by this ever-present sense that I will see society as we know it crash and burn in my lifetime.

How do you do career planning when you feel like you might outlive capitalism? How are we living in an atmosphere where writing may be a safer long-term career path than accounting?

#twenty something #suicide mention #the old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born #fact of the matter is I don't believe capitalism can fix climate change and I don't think it can survive it either #and that is fucking terrifying #but its also a little exciting #presuming I survive long enough to see what comes next #I don't think capitalism will go quietly into that good night #Feudalism became capitalism through plague famine and bloody revolution yes #but also through democracy republicanism and enlightenment age philosophy #and living then must have also been terrifying #and incredibly exciting #I can't tell whether or not its safer now #because unlike then we do have penicillin but we also have nuclear weaponry #english major musing

[transwolvie]

My villain origin story is when I tried to discuss how there's no way bubonic plague was spread more among human to human contact because plague contracted from aerated particles is pneumonic plague, and the specific symptoms of bubonic plague are related to it being contacted from a flea bite, which is why people develop "bubos," a hallmark of the condition, and so yes, we DO know that plague is in part spread by poor living conditions, because bubonic plague specifically comes from being around rats/livestock, something we further were showcased during the plague outbreak in America,

And a fucking "history" Twitter decided to try to debunk me and eventually blocked me, and they have so many followers and they are just LYING to people about bubonic plague!!!!!

#tomi talks #YES i think abt this more often than i should but it drives me CRAZY #it's fine to say that old timey ppl weren't as dirty AS WE THINK but they were living with livestock and rats #and we KNOW THIS because of bubonic plague cuz YOU CAN ONLY GET THAT FROM BEING AROUND A BUNCH OF FLEAS #AND WE KNOW /THAT/ BECAUSE THE TYPE OF PLAGUE YOU CATCH IF YOU GET IT FROM ANOTHER HUMAN IS FUCKING DIFFERENT #IT'S THE SAME BACTERIA BUT YOU'D GET IT IN YOUR LUNGS NOT YOUR FUCKING LYMPHNODES

[gunthermunch]

Do munch friends like max, Ulrike or Morgan, know about Lilith vampirism??

well marcus ulrike morgan maaike cassandra siobhan and probably nervous all know. max doesn't, he needs the munch catch up but the last time he got to speak to a munch for more than five minutes was the confession scene and we know how that ended

#he's been avoiding all the munches like the plague #yes even mila #ask #gm reply #munch ask #i feel like it got mentioned around him at some point tho but he just shoved it off like yeah sure gunther celibate munch #(max the 12 year old saying this #pierce and elsa know because they listen to lucas rambling about bluma all the time

[maxfieldparrishes]

i think about john’s, uh... alterations to gideon and her body, and it makes me so sad, because it’s yet more violence done to her? a lifetime of physical and mental and emotional abuse, and then her own fucking father goes and does... whatever it was he did? after the trauma on the mithraeum and in the river?

we don’t know if she wanted to have her bones and blood altered, we don’t know if she wanted to become kiriona gaia, we just don’t know! john took a dead-and-dying girl and made her into exactly what he wanted, and the worst part is that it’s by far not the first time! we don’t know what exactly he’s done to her! he doesn’t give a shit about her autonomy, or anyone else’s! god he’s the worst i hope alecto harrow and gideon all kill him dead for realsies together

#nona the ninth #ntn spoilers #the locked tomb #john gaius #gideon nav #tlt #i am plagued by this! john altering people with or without their consent is a go-to move in his playbook!!! #yes he's peak cringe and that's funny but he's also deeply malicious self-absorbed and capable of powerful self-delusion #he doesn't care about other people anymore he's too old and too jaded and - honestly - i think too deeply hurt #by his history and the past to really care about other people as individuals #his nicety is a pretense and is pragmatic insofar as it relates to his personal relationships #he appears kind and gentle because being an asshole causes problems and he doesn't want to deal with problems (see: all of htn) #you catch more flies (or girls with mental health issues) with honey etc etc #and it further sucks because nona reveals that his passion and devotion was at one point genuine!!! like he truly wanted to save the planet #god if that's not a tragedy then i don't know what is #i should write a lil something about john and his narrative arc and how it relates to greek tragedy #i plan on doing something similar with that and htn because the structure of that novel is... interesting...

[myriadsystem]

Still a work in progress but my little art wall side of the new room is coming together and im in love with it 😍 i be feelin myself so much more with the new space 🥰

#personal #selfie #punk #pretty #grunge #most of the items are either: -handmade by me #-handmade by local artists #-given to me as gifts from people i love/d #-found on trips to new places with people i love/d #-thrifted or gotten from local small business markets #so yeah im pretty fucken happy with how its turning out. some of the corners need more art and i will make it #as soon as i figure out what i want and where. ive half made the next one for the space next to the door above that plague nurse print #by valeriadarkmoth on etsy incase you wondered but its gonna be a family heirloom silver bracelet as a frame for some skeleton print #lesggings ive cut up and come little red and black beads and skull beads as tassels #really do feel like the tiger with the best enclosure when i look around this room made with stuff i love and memories that mean the most #its so cool. as a crafter i make lots of stuff all the time but its really cool to finally see it all out and be able to look around and #be like. yo damn i made like 60%-70% of all of this im so talented fuck yes go me. and other artists made the rest? this room rules #and yeah. i feel like an elegant rich old vampire queen within here ok? and yeah thats partly because im part vampire but the vibes #the vibes in this space are immaculate and they make me feel good as a person too. its so very much just made of stuff i love and has #worked out to be cohesive and fucking beautiful from every angle #the floortime spots have their own interesting shelves of sentimental trinkets and handmade goods to peep at from that view #ive never been more in love with a space. ive been nervous to post it and its still not done but i really am so in love with what ive built #i built it for me. of my stuff and my memories. its no one elses and i actually genuinely dont care if you dont like it because after years #of abuse. i built this. by myself. for me. i didnt just hang some shit i made most of it. for me. its mine and i did it myself. #chose which memories of people i love still get to be in this home. i choose the light and the heat and i choose that no bad energies may #enter my space without my permission ever again. my fortress of trinkets filled with love that remind me i am safe now #its almost enough to cry over but everything here is so beautiful i dont feel the need to cry. just gaze in wonder at what ive done #decor #witch #vampire