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Elizabeth Gaskell has the kind of brilliance that makes you forget how brilliant she is until you come back to her work after reading inferior authors. Her type of talent is understated skill that does everything so well that it looks easy.
She has prose that's descriptive without being flowery. Plots that take their time but also keep pulling you along. She writes about everyday life in a way that makes it enthralling without over-romanticizing it. She can take what would be stock characters in the hands of other writers and explore their upbringing and history so thoroughly that they become real, nuanced individuals. And she does it all so simply that you barely even notice how much talent it takes to write like that.
#books#elizabeth gaskell#whether intentionally or not it seems like january has become the month of the gaskell novel#it started with wives and daughters in 2021#n&s in 2022#mary barton last year#and now ruth#there's just something about the bright clear january light that sets off her writing to perfection#and with this book the descriptions of january's beauty made it especially fitting#i'm only three chapters in and shocked by how much i'm loving it#i'd read some less-than-impressive short pieces last year that made me wonder if i liked her as much as i thought#and then this book hits me in the face with 'oh yeah she's brilliant'#i think it's that her talents are novel-writing talents#she's not well-suited to write concise vivid moments#she needs to linger#draw out nuances#tease out backstories#draw threads together#when she gets the chance to do that she's incomparable#the best that realism has to offer#since i'm only three chapters in there's no telling how i'll like the book as a whole#but for now she's drawn me in
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Birds of a Feather
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#my art#feralnette au#birds of a feather#long tags#sorry I went apeshit in the tags#LETS SAY IT ALL TOGETHER NOW#I - M - A - G - OOOOOOOOO#its fun drawing marinette's back to Alya and having her appear stout and unstoppable and totally logical#and then you see her face and she's like two seconds from completely snapping and is keeping it together by a thread#as a note just because mari feels very certainly abt smth doesnt mean she's right. feelings can be valid and also irrational#in the throes of grief she decided it was better to be alone than to lose someone again so she started pulling away#and lila made pulling away very very very easy to do#shes also vaguely aware she's being unfair in pinning this on alya which is why she started spinning the drain on cockmoth again#legitimately all the shit that's happened to her wouldn't have been so catastrophic if he was never in the picture and she knows it#but the bitterness of her bestie choosing a fantastic liar over her at the worst of times stiiiiiings#alya's personal timing was bad but lila really took advantage of the fact that marinette had been acting off and weird#she basically clocked marinette as being unstable from SOMETHING and made up a lie about her#knowing she wouldn't have the strength to defend herself#between her social life going tachy bc of lila and losing fu in a way that felt like personhood death marinette was really put on the spot#and alya doing her thing of busting in there and assuming her bias is correct was a terrible combo#essentially marinette is highly unstable and alya is just realizing that#busting in and giving her a lecture when she's slightly hysterical and definitely delirious from exhaustion is NOT the way#to show her she's self sabotaging#cuz thats just gonna make her double down on self sabotaging. bc marinette will not accept that she is also a CHIIIIILD
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theres something about the way raph and mikey used to be closer when they were younger that really gets to me (with how raph either parentified himself or got parentified by his brothers, and mikey whos the baby of the family really wants independence) and i like to think there was a point in their lives maybe post movie where they sort of realized they've grown past that stage and really appreciate each other as brothers and equals who can support each other
sometimes youre close when youre little and grow apart. and sometimes you find each other again.
idk, siblings, you know?
#tmnt#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rise mikey#rise raph#sunset duo#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt raph#art#my art#idk guys i have been in my feels about stuff#i love this family#was trying to come up w a way to tie these drawings together and then i was literally seeing you know... thread. ties#mikeys an artist lets do that#maybe its corny but THATS JUST HOW I AM#I WONT APOLOGIZE FOR THAT
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there is hope for the frubbo nation?? mayhaps???
#threw this together in ten minutes#cause that fucking twitter thread had me in tears lmfao#qsmp#tubbo#frubbo#mito does drawing
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man the way Magnus entrusted his relic to Jack and June because they were good people with rustic hospitality and it turned an entire town into a place of betrayal and coups and distrust and finally an inescapably looping nightmare for years where death was perpetually an hour away and the way that the town was ultimately saved with kindness to animals through reuniting the purple worm with her children and the self-sacrifice of the town's self-appointed protector
and the way Merle's relic took love that had bloomed from rivalry and twisted it into a desperate need to prove oneself capable and better, to become unto a god, the way it drove Sloane to run away from everyone she cared about rather than reach out to them for help, and the way it was only stopped with peacemaking, with reaching back for her still when all hope seemed lost, with Hurley leaping headfirst into silverpoint knowing full well she would be killed but doing it because she cared about the person inside even at her worst, even when she was irredeemable, even when no one else would think to find anything human left in there at all
and the way Taako's relic was put to the use of science and exploration and used, for a while, successfully, but with too much greed, with too much selfishness, with too much focus on Maureen and Lucas's goals and too little trust of other people's word on how dangerous these relics are, the way it ultimately became the tool of a creature trying to claw its way back to the life and loved ones it knew and had lost, a creature that had long since lost its sense of self, that had merged with others just to survive, and the way familial love was necessary to stop it, the way Lucas got to his worst out of love of his mother and the desperation to do anything to get her back, the way he got brought back to his senses by that same love and the realization of how badly he'd failed her, the way he was still an untrustworthy dick at the end but they let him go anyway and he came back when it mattered
the way Lup's relic was locked away for a decade and ultimately uncovered and reactivated by Gundran's desperate desire to reclaim what once belonged to his family, the way it was not stopped, the way the loss of Phandalin haunts the narrative, a reminder of failure and of people the boys couldn't save
the way Davenport's relic gets caught up in a game of smoke and mirrors while on the harsh time limit of the end of a journey, the way part of Jenkins' ploy is that he seems utterly unthreatening, the way Hudson's death and the loss of his head in particular is practically collateral damage, the way the train could not be saved but this time the people were
the way Barry's relic is in the hands of two liches who are very obvious and intentional foils to him and Lup, but even more than that, the way it's so buried in the suffering of losing everything that makes you yourself, over and over and over and over and over, the way Wonderland is designed to make you eventually dependent on this cycle of loss just to stay alive, the way it's only beaten by changing the rules of the game
and of course the way Lucretia's relic stays glued to her side, the emblem and reason for her loneliness, isolating her in a bubble of her own making, until, of course, she lets her family back in, and as raw and painful a reunion as it is, as it has to be, because you can't stay safe from your mistakes forever, the seven of them together find the solution she could not find alone
#taz#taz: balance#i am drawing narrative parallels in the sand#some of these. particularly the later ones. are obviously intentional#but some of them definitely WEREN'T and yet they work so beautifully anyway#sometimes you don't know what story you're telling until you've finished it#and you look back and find it isn't all just loose threads trailing behind you#you have in fact woven them together even if you didn't realize it
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Unpopular Opinion: Every time a black female character (especially if this black female character is dark skinned) enters into a relationship with the popular fan-favorite white male character usually one of three things happen a. the black female character is now headcanoned as a lesbian (never bisexual or queer or anything that would leave the character with the possibility of still entering into a relationship with a man) b. white male character is now shipped with other popular fan-favorite white male character/other white female character (the popular fan-favorite white male character is usually headcanoned to be bisexual and when he is, shipped with a woman that woman is always white) or c. black female character (and sometimes their actresses) is now being talked about as if they are the devil himself.
Wanting characters to explore their sexuality is fine but I always find it odd how this always happens when one member of the relationship is a black/blackish woman. *forgot to mention the suddenly polyamorous relationship the three (black female, white male and white male/woman) characters are now without a doubt in*
Anon you spoke nothing, but facts right here 🙌🏽
(The only thing I’d add is that they don’t just do this when the woman in question is with a white man, see Namor and Shuri and the backlash some shippers got for shipping them).
You aren’t the only one who has been noticing this trend.
I say trend loosely because really just a new stereotype to add to the bunch😒
It would be one thing if it was a want for actual representation, but every time now like clockwork. as soon as they see a Black woman who looks like she’s going to have a romantic arc with said popular fandom man, boom she must be gay😑
Hell, it’s getting so bad that these shows/movies are automatically just writing their Black women characters in that way.
If people can’t see how this can be harmful/dangerous, that’s cool, but anytime you want to paint all of a group a certain way and won’t show them in any other setting, that’s how you end up birthing new stereotypes.
This isn’t creating diversity. It’s limiting it(once again).
It’s so all or nothing with our media representation. Black women don’t want to be shown as one thing(which seems to go right over most people’s heads).
We just want the same opportunities as everybody else and not to be put into one or two narrow boxes of acceptable characterization that doesn’t threaten the status quo(aka you can't have Black women looking desirable especially not when there is an available white woman right there next to her).
#bnask#bnasks#fandom misogynoir#misogynoir#I understand the need for representation but it can't just be all one thing#there is a really good thread I want to link on this#but I’d rather not have people flooding that website#lol this reminds me of the people obsessed with Laena velaryon and Rhaenyra Targaryen#Look at how they won't even draw laena with her husband 🙃#yes I’m aware she’s a race bent character but in the show her and Rhaenyra hardly interact#she isn’t her lover(and she’s probably not in the books either) yet y’all just love to draw that version of them together#and refuse to draw that version of her with daemon 🙃#let’s not get into how there were some trying to say nettles is a lesbian with no proof#or baela and putting her with nettles#again I understand representation but it’s all very suspicious considering this is the same fandom that likes calling black people dirty 🙃#the bear fandom is another one that likes to do this#sydney adamu#nettles#laena velaryon#shuri udaku#baela targaryen#tagging all the ones from recent years#y’all rarely do this with white women#she breaths next to a male character and it’s ‘I ship it’🙄
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I follow on TH too and would love to know which of your kids has the claymore. :] also “modern day setting with monsters” is that Just the monsters or are there any additional fantasy elements built into the story?
this is going to sound insane based on the characters i actually feel compelled to publicly expand on but my whole headworld actually centers on the antics of one 13 year old girl, literally named Kid, who also literally has a claymore lol
She's Isadore's biological daughter, and David's adopted daughter. The claymore in question is actually an angelic artifact vaguely known as The Edge Of The Universe that takes the shape of whatever the person it's bonded to wants it to be, but she's a 13 year old autistic girl that thinks Dante from devil may cry is the peak of what it means to be cool so. Giant sword.
As far as the setting itself, it's all very boilerplate modern fantasy/sci-fi (it actually might be more sci-fi than fantasy, given how much I like the concept of explaining the supernatural with science) with the main premise being "what if monsters and magic existed in almost all aspects of human life, but we just didn't know about it." Because im boring and what concerns me in world building is the conceptual social services and paperwork that would even functionally go into keeping all that bullshit secret lol
theres also alternate, pocket, and parallel dimension time dilation physics bullshit going on but we do not have time for that when there's bisexual werewolves to think about
#shut up bug#not art#izzy is functionally the character that threads all other characters together#but i rarely draw her bc she's just minding her own business 90% of the time lol#and kid is 13 so how many problems could she actually cause (several)
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I use falling asleep time to tell myself stories (otherwise the background brain music would be so loud I couldn’t sleep). A lot of times that’s my paused book but the scenes get stale from that so I bop around comic ideas too.
One popped up the other night as a little one off joke and then I was like, huh, maybe I’m on to something… so the last couple nights have been what I think will turn into the next comic.
#ramblies#the rival thieves comic needs a name but since I’m inking the story is done and I need something new#I thought I might do a red riding hood one but the plot elements werent coming together for me#the current one bopping will have a magic shop I think cause I hate myself#I’ll hate every second of drawing the backgrounds but the setting feels right#and one of the leads will be a faun#thinking I’ll have my first disabled character and I have my twist element but there’s threads I still need to connect so I’m still noodlin
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I decided I didn't entirely love my Watcher Grian design, so I was gonna just draw a bunch of different designs and see which ones I liked best, y'know, testing out ideas
But, I think the first design has won without me even beginning on other designs
#I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS FOR COLORING TOO#also I have this idea that I came up with for him where something went wrong while he was turning from human into watcher#and then he had to be sewed back together piece by piece using thread that was literally made of the universe#I have no clue how I came up with that but it's such a cool thingy that I'm gonna keep it#watcher grian#grian watcher#grian#grian art#once again the longer I look at this more I remember that I cannot draw men#he is more twinkified than I meant to make him I'm sorry Grian lolll
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how do you quantify "first" and "second" projects when you start one, realize you need more colors for it bc you ordered without reference, and then start another to while the time away until u receive more thread?
anyway here's initial progress on baby's first embroidery projects!!!
#life with sao#embroidery#fiber art#i knew thread painting was gonna be my shit and it is#its that 20 years of drawing sewing and knitting coming together to be like “pick up this craft on easy mode”
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based off a true story
[Image description: One Punch Man fanart comic drawn with messy lines.
Page 1 Panel 1: Saitama and Genos are seated down for a movie night. Saitama is sitting on the floor with his leg up, holding the remote while Genos holds a bowl of popcorn.
Saitama: Let’s watch this anime King reccomended.
Genos: Yes sensei!
Panel 2: They both eat popcorn while watching an episode of Cardcaptor Sakura. On the TV, Sakura is saying “Tomoyo! I’m so sorry I cant go out with you! I forgot I had chores to do!”
Saitama looks annoyed: Ehh??? This is some preschool crap! Lets watch something else.
Page 2 Panel 1: Saitama catches a whiff of something.
Saitama: wait Genos do you smell oil-
Panel 2: Saitama is shocked to see Genos next to him crying. His tears are made of oil.
Saitama: GENOS ARE YOU CRYING?!!
Panel 3: Genos continues sobbing as he crushes popcorn in his fist.
Genos: Didn’t you hear Sakura, Sensei? She said she couldn’t make it to her friend’s outing because of chores and-
Saitama: OI PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!!!
/end id]
#draws#post#doodles#comic#one punch man#opm#saitama#genos#not ship art but i dont mind if you interpret/tag it as such!#upon revisitng and catching up on opm#saitama and genos Seem to be only be a teacher and student dynamic#but in reality theyre also just both depressed roomates#who are the only few people in their lives that hold each other's sanity together on mere threads#so this comic is kinda following those trains of thoughts#post 169 when they find a new place to stay n whatnot#and idk just allowing them to have some time to chill#and to just FEEL something.#(at least genos in particular kfdjfkfk i know its ooc but ive been thinking abt like. what if he let loose a little more)#even if its sobbing over cardcaptor sakura#WHICH LITERALLY HAPPENED TO ME#KFKFKFGKDJFJJF#yeah sorry im still trying to get a feel of the characters its been 6 years#head full of genos rn
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i have to finish a poetry analysis essay by tonight but my brain wants nothing more than to draw my old gayass dragons enabling each other
#girl help lol#pin talks#i still need to draw the toxic polycule together ofc but ohmar and priscus specifically are their own special kind of toxic#in an aita thread theyd be esh#and they need to make out about it
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haii! i hope your day is going well! if you don't mind me asking, how do you plan your stories? do you use a templates of sorts, or do you map it out in your head?
hi! my day is going pretty well, i hope yours is, too!
i mostly map things out in my head; i tend to have a vague idea of where a story has to start, and where it has to end up, and a few key points in the middle, and then i just write until i hit those checkpoints? i'm aware this is mildly unhelpful advice, but i'm definitely not a planner. i guess i just set up a very basic framework for a story in my head, and then improvise to fill in the blanks between the major plot points.
personally, i find that if i plan things in too much detail, my brain gets bored of the story and i struggle to actually write it; there has to be a degree of me not knowing what happens next, or i won't have the motivation to tell the story.
again, i'm sorry if this is unhelpful; feel free to message if you want to chat more about it, and i'll try to be as helpful as i can <3
#asks#p3wer#i am so not a planner#but i have a great deal of practice telling stories#so i sort of know that i can comfortably rely on myself to make a story make sense#if you have less practice at drawing plot threads together it can absolutely be helpful to make a plan beforehand#writing#fanfic
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Any traveler embarking on a nautical trip will no doubt cross the North Sea, which contains some of the busiest waters in all the world. When you pass through its waves, you will find ships carrying goods from distant lands, or adventurers in search of gold. But beware of pirates!
Chapter three of Threads of Gold (words by @spadebrigade , art by me) is here!
#threads of gold#doodles and miscellania#there's an extra little drawing in this chapter...!#which actually i probably shouldn't hype too much bc it's not That exciting but i did get to whip out my inks for it#which is fun for /me/ :)#also i feel like i'm gonna have to put together a pile of my brainstorming sketches doodles etc when the story is finished#bc it is a growing collection
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goin through getty images for reference photos for Taika and constantly going "oh fuck me"
#dickfuck#my glasses are so dirty from rubbing against my eyebrows from all the times i've gone to rub at my eyes or pinch the bridge of my nose#ugh he's SO HOT#and this started as an attempt to find recent photos of all the FOB members together#imma just have to make up a composite image there#or whatever you call it when it's a drawing you're talking about#not that there aren't decent images of them all together but when i have hot ones of them each individually or like in pairs#i'd rather draw those#ugh then i went 'gee it's been a while since i looked up taika i wonder how many new ones there are of him'#that was a mistake#im so distracted#i've been at this for hours and i've drawn NOTHING#i've spent like an hour an a half on these taika pics alone jesus christ#get a GRIP SANDRA#internal monologue#taika waititi#oh but his hair is back i fucking can't#okay fuck calm the fuck down#like it's one thing when it's someone's twitter thread or something. or just the timeline#eventually i will close the app#but now i have hundreds of tabs open and i WILL save all of those photos and salivate over each one see if i don't#and WHERE DOES IT END#at the MET gala pics that's where.#because i already have those saved#and i've already drawn two pics of him and one of rita from those
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Gee, I wonder who's Jun's glasses-wearing prince with shoulder/neck-length brown hair 😔
#I-MART STAFF BEST STAFF | The Inoue Family#World Wide Chosen Web | The Digimon Network#Dubious Logomark Designing | Personal Drawings#digitaladventurers | XOXO Gossip Sisters#As Long As We’re Together | momojun#[this has been lying here for a while now]#[i'm waiting for my brain to clear up to reply to the actual thread]#[maybe i should rewatch 02 again??]
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