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(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing

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ive watched this video 5 times in the last two days and it always makes me laugh til i get a headache & i wanted it on my blog but didnt find it anywhere so guess i gotta do it myself

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i am nothing if not dedicated to the bit

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poor aiglamene

#cog creates #the locked tomb #nona the ninth spoilers #kiriona gaia #crux #comics #black on black on black on black on black #sorry to your screen gamma but im built different #bonus: when crux is like 'i knew your were dead' another four? pages later #like no shit you knew she just told you #everyone on the ninth was affected by the stupid gas apparently #aiglamene

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three of the ideas for pics i have right now involve drawing kids or preteens and that is by far the worst and hardest possible thing to draw

#cogbabble #isaac and jeannemary both ended up looking older than i wanted #and i spent so long trying to get them right #hhhhhhhhhhhh #baby gideon was fine but i wasnt going for a specific age there

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sometimes i cant stop thinking about that final battle in gideon the ninth, and how cytherea was wearing nothing but a bedsheet.

#cogbabble #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon the ninth spoilers #(sort of) #also how did the bedsheet survive #when her dress didnt? #mystery on mystery

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Not of the Ninth, but beholden to it.

#cog creates #the locked tomb #locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #pelleamena novenarius #priamhark noniusvianus #i finally understand on a deep gut level #why everyone includes two versions of their art when facepaint is involved #all your hard work on getting just the right emotion across gets swallowed up #by alabaster and black

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Captain Sorotin Thennis has invited Abigail Pent to the prestigious Eclipse Symposium, led by his husband, renowned necro-physicist Viktoros Towa. But when Towa's lifeless body tumbles from the lectern, his spirit accuses Magnus Quinn of the fatal shove. Now, Pent must race to save her husband-cavalier before the heartbroken justice of the Cohort exacts its vengeance.

inspired by a tumblr post or tweet that i can no longer find that posited the idea of murder-of-the-week abigail pent serial novels. i really want it, but alas, i dont really write. this took me nearly five months from start to finish because i couldn't decide on a hairstyle for abigail (and rl stuff. but honestly? mostly the hair thing.)

#cog creates #the locked tomb #locked tomb #abigail pent #magnus quinn #jeannemary chatur #isaac tettares #artists on tumblr #fanart

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You can literally make anything and anyone problematic if you try hard enough seriously give me people and things and I’ll make them all “problematic” right now.

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one thing you won't know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn't matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.

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crabonated beverage?

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John 1:20

this started as a much bigger idea but three days of sketching in i realized my brain-eyes were bigger than my hand-stomach could manage. i probably still couldve taken it further than i did but i think im still happy with what ive got for two and a half weeks worth of working on it.

also full disclosure the shot of johns politician puppet is almost entirely lifted from a photo of a white house meeting room (mirrored and with some people left out) and i straight up traced the city of melbourne from a stock photo because at that point i was afraid that if i didn't take some pretty extreme shortcuts id never get past it and id lose all my work up to that point. the original intent was for both images to show up for a second or less in an amv or an animatic or whatever were calling them these days so it would probably have felt like less of a big deal. so like, sorry to the original photographers for jacking your shit but also thank you for your service o7

#oh hell yeah

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tumblr isn’t a social media it’s a farmers market and the people you follow are the vendors and your mutuals are regulars and sometimes a person I buy pumpkins from will start selling realistic models of sailboats and damn i’m not gonna buy any but I will come by and compliment you on your sailboats

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im struggling with the sketch on the next thing im working on sooooo lets procrastinate lol

(this is a tag on a reblog of john 1:20)

@swordrogue​ id always intended to censor the eyes on M-- and her nun for a couple reasons. the big one was to mirror the censoring of their pre-rez names and to make john’s stand out more (as both the only ones not censored and because they were originally gonna be the only things in his shots that weren’t desaturated or blue). but also eyes are so, so, so important in this series and we dont actually know what mercy’s originals looked like! im one of those people who gets rly rly anxious about making sure i get the details described in canon right (except when i dont. but when i dont i want to know im ignoring them and not just forgetting them). we know her face shape and hair color but we dont know her eye color and eyes are so important and we dont know!

i dont actually mind drawing eyes (even if i have trouble making em level)! but knowing they werent gonna be shown when i posted it meant i didnt have to spend a million years making them perfect lol

the one big difference between what id originally envisioned and the end result was the final pic. id imagined the light/dark difference being a lot More than it ended up being (id originally planned to paint/shade/whatever you wanna call it these all the way) so cris’ eyes wouldnt have needed a censor bar or scribbling bc her face would have been super in shadow anyway! but that didnt end up happening so that one had to get scratched out too

(now im thinking abt what body part i like drawing least. its probably the mouth or hips/upper thigh area, but unfortunately theres not a lot of circumstances where scribbling out someones belt line or crotch has a lot of narrative significance lol)

#cogbabble #i also wasnt sure if i was gonna scribble/scratch or use generic rectangular censor bars #i tried both and definitely liked the scribbles better #it feels less clinical and john is not a clinical guy #swordrogue #replies #tlt #the locked tomb #sorry main tag there's nothing new here

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the existence of tumblr tags as the sotto voce of internet communication is one of the most brilliant website features ever. and it’s funny because it’s accidental

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John 1:20

this started as a much bigger idea but three days of sketching in i realized my brain-eyes were bigger than my hand-stomach could manage. i probably still couldve taken it further than i did but i think im still happy with what ive got for two and a half weeks worth of working on it.

also full disclosure the shot of johns politician puppet is almost entirely lifted from a photo of a white house meeting room (mirrored and with some people left out) and i straight up traced the city of melbourne from a stock photo because at that point i was afraid that if i didn't take some pretty extreme shortcuts id never get past it and id lose all my work up to that point. the original intent was for both images to show up for a second or less in an amv or an animatic or whatever were calling them these days so it would probably have felt like less of a big deal. so like, sorry to the original photographers for jacking your shit but also thank you for your service o7

#cog creates #the locked tomb #john gaius #mercymorn the first #cristabel oct #ulysses the first #titania tetra #gideon the first #nona the ninth spoilers #fanart #artists on tumblr #tlt

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stop i NEED that pic of the boy who took his cat to prom and she has a lil dress and is looking up at him with 100% love and tenderness……..