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fun fact: my level of fulfillment with a portrait is proportional to the amount of layers i can squeeze in before procreate crashes

#portrait #digital art #art #arte #artedigital #illustration #digital portrait #retrato #procreate

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The Miraculous Office AU: Detective Arc Premiere Information

📆 Saturday, February 24 ⏰ 3:00PM ET

Runtime: ~15 minutes

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OH MY GOD you guys?!! the shackles of corporate employment held me back for a few days (it's rough) and logging in to see your reblogs and your lovely words is putting the biggest smile on my face.

My art never gets much attention so i'm just very glad that you guys liked it and that you love this boy as much as i do!! <3

camera slowly panning, face zoom in, music building up: "AND GET THIS MAN A CAT!"

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i have had this in my head for longer than i would ever admit but never drew it because i knew it'd take up too many panels. but apparently i did it anyway

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camera slowly panning, face zoom in, music building up: "AND GET THIS MAN A CAT!"

#adrien agreste #adrien #no. 1 loverboy #plagg hates the cat #mlb #ml #mlb fanart #art #fanart #digital art #arte #artedigital #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #chat noir #cat noir

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The way everything catches up to Luke when he hears Annabeth's voice, you can see his heart breaking in his eyes. His kid sister, the girl whose team he's always on, who idolizes him and adores him completely is looking at him like he's a monster. And that might the be most heartbreaking thing yet.

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PUT EYELINER ON TGAT WHITE BOY!!!!!!

inspired by one of @bbutterflies fics…..wherehe had eyeliner on. we died.

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Annabeth telling Percy “and you thought you were just a kid” after he beats Ares. VS Percy telling Annabeth to “just be a kid” at Disney world.

Annabeth saying he’s more than just a kid to try and show him that he’s better than the world has ever convinced him he is. She’s been raised to believe glory and achievements is how you “earn” love so, to her, telling him that yes!! He has purpose!!! He’s important!! Is the greatest reassurance she could give him. And also recognizing that he has such little self-worth he refuses to believe that he’d ever be important, and wanting to show him that he is.

Percy reminding her that she’s just a kid after the world has expected too much from her, has put too much on her shoulders from a very young age. After seeing how conditional the love she’s been given has been, how much she’s been forced to grow up and be strong in ways she shouldn’t have to. Telling Annabeth “six steps ahead” Chase to be a kid is what he knows she’s needed to hear for a long time, whether she’s recognized or realized it.

Their worldviews are so inherently opposed, yet they learn from and love each other so much.

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i just know he was giggling and twirling his hair ab this later

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My stage career began when I was a little under two months old, when I took the spotlight as Baby Jesus in a Christmas pageant. I’m told that I did a wonderful job and slept calmly through the whole thing, which can only speak to my talents as an actress, because I was 1. the wrong gender 2. a colicky screaming demon of a baby and 3. about as far from divine as it’s possible for an allegedly-human child to be. 

I continued to be actively involved in theater as a kid (and frequently played roles of various small animals, because I was tiny for my age). Around the age of ten, I was cast as the lead character in a musical about cowboys that I no longer remember the name of. It was my first real lead role, and I took it very, very seriously. And because I am myself, that means I maaaaybe went…a little overboard.

My character’s introduction was early in the play, accompanied by the crack of a bullwhip. This was more-or-less pre internet (or, at least, our director was not tech-savvy enough to find sound effects online) and we didn’t have a sound effect track for that noise. There were plans to acquire the appropriate sound effect before opening night, but I rapidly tired of making my entrance during rehearsals to the sound of someone yelling “BULLWHIP NOISE!”

This, I thought to myself, is a problem I can solve.

I learned early in life that it’s good to be friends with people who have skills; they always come in handy eventually.  After rehearsals one day, I put on my cowboy boots and biked a couple miles over to my friend Grace’s house. I went down to their basement and knocked on her older brother’s door.

“Hello,” I said. “I need to learn how to use a bullwhip.”

“….Okay,” he said. It did not seem to occur to him that he might ask further questions about why I, a tiny horrible munchkin composed exclusively of rage and pointy elbows, needed to be weaponized any further. Clearly, I had come to the right person.

My friend’s older brother would have been an SCA nerd, if SCA was a thing where we were. Instead, he was one of those unsupervised 4H kids with weird hobbies, largely oriented around ancient forms of combat. He was somewhere in his late teens at this time, and he liked to make stuff. It was an urge I, even at age ten, could sympathize with. His name was Aron. 

Aron got out his bullwhip (which I had noticed hanging on his wall on a prior visit, and had filed away mentally under a for future use tab) and we went to the backyard. 

“Step one of using a bullwhip,” Aron began, “Swinging the bullwhip.” 

We rapidly discovered that since I was god’s tiniest, angriest creation, a full-size bullwhip was way too long for me to use. Aron’s shins suffered for my attempt. 

“…Step one of using a bullwhip,” Aron said, “Making a bullwhip.”

So we went back inside, found a tanned cowhide (that he just…had? I don’t remember if there was a reason for this.) and some razor blades, and I learned how to cut and braid a bullwhip. It took a few tries, and I wound up coming back for a while, because I kept getting frustrated with the bullwhip-braiding process and Aron kept distracting me with bait like: “Hey kid, wanna learn to make some chainmail?” and “Hey kid, wanna fletch some arrows?” and “Hey kid, wanna try doing horseback archery?”

Obviously the answer to these questions was “BOY, WOULD I EVER!” Some delays are necessary to the artistic process.

(At one point my mom asked me “Hellen, what are you doing over at Grace’s house all the time?” And I, perfectly innocent, said, “Making weapons!” and my mother, who never understood why I was like this, but accepted that a girl has needs and those needs occasionally involve stocking a personal armory, said “Okay! Have fun!”)

Soon, the bullwhip, size extra small, was finished. The lessons on actual bullwhip use commenced. 

It should be noted that Aron was self-taught, and really had no idea what to do, so this was mostly an exercise in the two of us standing twenty feet apart and flailing wildly with our respective whips until snapping noises happened. And then we figured out what we’d done to make the snapping noises. And then we kept doing that. Extremely vigorously. So vigorously that at one point one of the bullwhips launched into the air and caught on a tree branch and we hand to drag the trampoline over so Aron could bounce me high enough to grab it. But we persisted!

Eventually we reached a point where we could line up pop cans on a fence rail and hit them off three times out of five.

Feeling extremely accomplished and like I finally understood method acting, I packed my bullwhip into my backpack for the next play rehearsal. Soon enough, it was time for me to make my entrance. 

I leaped on stage in my cowboy boots and cracked the bullwhip as hard as I could, immediately launching into the song despite the fact that the sound of five feet of braided leather breaking sound barrier had startled the accompanist so badly she’d keysmashed on the piano.

The director shouted something she probably shouldn’t have shouted in a room full of small children, and then demanded, “WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!”

“I made it!” I declared proudly. “I’m a cowgirl! I can make my own bullwhip noise!”

“You…made it?” 

“Yes! Because we needed a bullwhip sound effect. And bullwhips are where bullwhip sound effects come from!”

This was, of course, impeccable logic.

It is apparently difficult to argue with a gleeful ten year old who happens to be armed with a bullwhip longer than she is tall. After some negotiation, the director agreed that I could use my bullwhip for my opening song, provided that I didn’t pop it while anyone was anywhere near me on stage and I didn’t let anyone else play with it. These terms were acceptable to me. 

Somehow, no one was injured and the play went off without a hitch. We can only chalk up these things to the magic of the theatre. 

Nearly a decade later, an unsuspecting college classmate asked me, “Hellen, wanna take a class on bullwhip combat with me?”

And obviously I answered, “BOY, WOULD I EVER!”

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idk what to caption because all of my thoughts about the show are just “AUUUGHHHAUAGGHH!!!!!!!” (<- positive)

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my girl marinette but it's just me playing dress up with her character like a 2000s kid on girlsgogames dot com

and yes she would trip face flat wearing heels, yes she would wear them anyway

#love her #miss her #my firtborn daughter #marinette #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #miraculous #miraculous lb #fanart #art #digital art #arte #artedigital #mlb #mlb fanart #ml #sorry about the beret #not french friendly apparently

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I’m actually LOVING how Rick Riordan, and the other writers of the show, took his initial concept of a Percabeth rivalry fueled by that of their parents and kind of turned it on its head?

Now, instead of Annabeth being wary of Percy because he’s a son of Poseidon, he’s wary of her because she made a callous impression on him. They get off to a rocky start even before finding out who Percy’s father is, and when they finally do, Annabeth doesn’t care. Instead of them fighting because of who their parents are, they’re fighting over their own opposed worldviews.

Then, instead of them arguing over which of the gods is cooler and who was right in the story of Medusa, they realize that, just like Medusa, Annabeth is a victim of her mother and that, unlike Medusa, she is a far kinder and stronger person, unwilling to repeat the cycle of hurt. They realize that, like his father, Percy often acts without considering potential consequences and that, unlike his father, he is a far kinder and stronger person, willing to step up for someone he wronged and whom he cares about.

Instead of Percy and Annabeth’s rivalry being focused on that of their parents, it’s focused on who they are, themselves. But the path to friendship is still the same: a realization that they have each other’s backs, no matter what, because they’re not their parents after all.

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I love that the beginning of ep 4 shows that Sally is not perfect. She’s done being patient she’s scared she’s trying to prepare her son for something terrifying that she can’t tell him about and she looses it a bit. But Percy’s reaction shows how much love and trust there is between them because a child that young doesn’t know to calm someone in this way unless he’s been shown it, his first instinct is empathy and love, and I just absolutely adore Sally for not being some Holy Mary Mother of Christ who can Do No Wrong but just a young woman who loves her son so much and so deeply it’s insane.

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huh yunjin as bloom from winx club! 🧚🏻‍♀️✨

#iykyk #THEE ending fairy #magical girl thingz #yunjin #huh yunjin #jennifer huh #le sserafim #le_sserafim #kpop #fanart #art #digital art #illustration #arte #artedigital #winx #winx club #winx bloom #fairy

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PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS (2023)

Ep. 1 I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher Ep. 2 I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom

@lgbtqcreators CREATOR CHALLENGE

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people saying percabeth’s slow burn is too slow is so funny to me because they gave soulmate from the moment they MET. annabeth saying “he’s the one.” percy comparing annabeth to a princess. mind you this happens before they even speak to each other.