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nothirtysix · 3 months

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drawing has been Hard so I'm diving into OC stuff :P figuring out how I wanna draw this fella

#my art #my ocs #he doesn't have a name #bc of course he doesn't #bleeeeeeehhhhh #he needs to be more Creature #this is just a dude

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panthermouthh · 4 months

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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”

#Frankenstein #gothic literature #gothic lit art #victor frankenstein #happy new year lads #ive been thinking about nothing else but them for the past 3 days #been trying to figure out a decent design for victor and i think im getting closer #he needs to have a cruelness to him #and he needs to be kind of pathetic #someone who the creature could snap in half yknow #and i need to make the creature more Mean looking but it just feels right to draw him sad and despairing #THAT BEING SAID i think i did a good job here hehe #henry is next :)))#my art #illustration

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stromblessed · 5 months

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Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

#blue eye samurai #mizu #racism #bes #I am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that Taigen saw Mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal #but I still think that scene is making a point #again I dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously #but its been bothering me ever since I first saw them #I really dont think Mizu just looks like a 100 percent Japanese person...... with blue eyes #and I bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to London where Im sure she will meet plenty of people #who are more than happy to point out their observations to her #also I ran out of room in this post to go into it but this is also what made Mizus marriage an absolutely doomed prospect #Mikio talks about wanting to find the right creature for his lord and well... a mixed race woman is the right creature huh #he just needed a little push imo #getting kind of sad at the thought that Ringo is the only person in Mizus life who knows her whole identity AND accepts it wholly

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somegrumpynerd · 1 day

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I really want Nightmare and Dream to freaky friday swap into each other's bodies and have to deal with their enemies from the other side.

Like Dream is trying to get used to one eye and being encased in goop and how do you control these tentacles and every few minutes one of the boys appears to ask for something or show him something or just hang around him. He's trying his best to sound professional and stern (it's not a great impression) but also he feeds off negativity now right?? So why does it sting so much when they're around him?

Meanwhile Nightmare is goop-free and seeing in two eyes for the first time in centuries (and probably takes twice as long to do things because he forgets he doesn't have tentacles anymore). He's trying to sound upbeat and cheery (again, not a great impression) but also good grief people really bother Dream for things. It seems like every way he turns there's somebody who needs something or has a sob story or a complaint, and he's beginning to realise why Dream protects Blue so violently how are you emitting all this positivity please don't leave me. Also where is Ink. Every five minutes where is he what is he doing.

#UTDR #UTMV #Nightmare Sans #Dream Sans #I just want them to trade places and see what the other deals with and realise how different it is from what they think #Nightmare thinks his brother just frolics and has fun all day long and is loved #And has to realise that actually the whole multiverse has his number and they aren't afraid to dial it #And Dream thinks Nightmare is living with a pack of attack dogs that he controls with threats #And has to realise he is a single father to 4 of the strangest and most clingy creatures in the multiverse #And also this is a good excuse to make them talk and get along and you know I love that #Anyway I need to sleep #One more day of work and then I'm freeeeee (for like 2 days)

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asavt · 8 days

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Into the confessionary a little spider walked

Mind not quite there

Quite lost

Memories scrambled around, confused

Pain flaring up, things that shouldn't have been said out

Siblings falling apart

Guilt over forgotten acts

#cotl shamura #shamura cotl #cotl #my art #fan art #digital art #Although nowadays Shamura sees the other ex-bishops as family #its not a lie to say that at first they took them in out of convenience #Kallamar once begged for his life when he was no more than a young god #round eye of his crown looking into Shamura's eyes #whispering things #Shamura initially took them all in out of convenience #They were the God of Wisdom and War they knew that to win the one they were in they needed resources #powerful ones #A many legged creature once walked into their web -terrified of the world and what it had become of it #a newborn god -harbinger of bad luck- was found in the middle of a dead plain #one with an anger immense enough to consume the whole world was given a reward- and then a task #and the one who looked for a purpose proved himself useful #They initially took them in out of convenience #and then war ended #and things changed for the spider #they took them all in out of convenience #something never said out loud #something they were all aware about but refused to speak of #the truth spoken into the wind stung more than they all thought it would

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 9 months

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Bestie Deficiency

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #a-qing #xue yang #xiao xingchen #Xue yang is cold because cold blooded creatures can't generate their own body heat #I am skipping over drawing the stories they tell due to the fact this arc is already really dragging #but I think they are very key in understanding the yi-city characters #Even if they are stories that really bring down the slumber party vibes A-Qing was hoping for.#I mentioned some of my thoughts in the tags of no. 76 but to continue on a bit more #I think xxc and xue yangs stories inversely mirror each other on the meaning of sacrifice and what it means to 'deserve' something #to xue yang he has only ever sacrificed - therefore he is in his right to 'deserve' what he wants. And he wants everything.#xxc leaves song lan thinking its the best course of action to atone but my god. No it wasn't. Poor communication crown actually goes to xxc #but it's what xxc he feels he deserves - continued sacrifice to atone. He wants to want nothing.#both are very stuck in the past in ways that are not actually accounting for their actions #It's easy to look at xue yang and go 'dang you need to get over your childhood trauma'#but that very much ignores that fact that we - real human beings - define so much by our childhood pains.#Growth is having to come to terms with it and trying to move past it...and not everyone is ready for that.#I have a lot of thoughts on that matter but I'll let it be for now.#Anyways. Amiguito appears to be one of those words whos meaning change depending on speaker and contextual factors #So as far as I can tell it slides around on the scale on romantic and platonic. Which works for this dynamic. I think.#Native Spanish speakers I am so sorry.

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zero-is-nebulous · 4 months

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Ronarry woah

Uuuuh sorry for being MIA and also gaining a new hyperfixation. Work changes people fr

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oberonbronze · 6 months

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i love creature batman. no body just his pointy ears and eyes. he’s not even human. he can probably fly. he makes no noise when he moves. how he procures a seemingly endless supply of human children is a total mystery, but they seem to love him, so rescue efforts are usually ignored.

Commissioner Gordon, standing on a rooftop with a cup of coffee and a megaphone: Tim Drake, get away from the Batman. You have human parents and they are going to be very worried about you

Tim, sitting in Batman’s lap as a spindly, clawed hand affectionately pats his head: YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, JIM

#in my head he Lowkey kidnapped dick and Jason but then they realized that he’s pretty chill and very warm to sleep on so they like him #when jason dies Tim just abandons his whole human life and offers himself up #what does Bruce look like under the cape? no one knows. all you see is the eyes and the ears and occasionally a clawed hand #he is a very good dad yes he loves his little nestlings. he always needs more. give him more #he doesn’t know what dollars are give him a toddler #cass is also a Creature all the other ones are humans #yes including Damian #girldad things #batfam #Bruce Wayne #Tim Drake

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subtle-as-an-earthquake · 7 months

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Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud? [x]

#alex turner #arctic monkeys #just a little humbug angel alex for you #i still don't know if i believe that he was real #much more likely that he was just like a fantasy we all collectively dreamed up #idk it just seems fake that this creature actually existed do you know what i'm saying #😭😭😭#anyway i just needed to make this for several reasons #one of which being that it got me in the zone for my fic #got me in the zone so gooood #now back to the doc i go #humbug angel alex #humbug era #the fire and the thud #my gifs

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normalbrothers · 2 months

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TOMMY: The stag is to remember him. We eat and then we forget him.

No need to forgive him. Agreed?

#peaky blinders #tvedit #peakyblindersgifs #remade this post from a million blogs and a million years ago but Worse this time #has there ever been a more haunting and chilling episode than s03ep04?#there's so much going on in his face the gifs don't even capture half of it #the stag is a much more dignified creature than their father ever was which adds to this ... ambivalence of longing and dread #'we needed you ten years ago' he said in s1 while looking at him with trepidation #so different than arthur's wilfull faith that he had finally changed #both heartbreaking in different ways #(setting The Subtext aside)

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gunsatthaphan · 1 year

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↳ requested by anonymous ♡

#moonlight chicken #moonlight chicken ep3 #first kanaphan #alanwen #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #HELLO SIR #so happy hes finally here lmao #but why are they making him this mysterious creature lmao #like hes just existing in the background lmao #i need to know more about him #hes just laying there looking like a snack like he wasnt about to wreck 2 lives at once #the calm before the (gay) storm #at least hes beautiful #jdkhgdf #gif request

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holymolyineedtherapy · 29 days

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My Straw Hat Headcanons Part Two:

Zoro

After joining the crew he actually starts bathing more. Not like actual baths with soap and stuff, but he'll at least go rinse himself off with clean water.

That started after Nami, Chopper, and Sanji all yelled at him. Nami, claiming that she was gonna increase his interest, Chopper, going on and on about how much of a health risk it is, and Sanji just told him he stunk.

Everytime a new member joins the crew, he keeps his swords much closer than usual. He doesn't quite trust them the way that Luffy does.

Luffy and Nami started saying that Zoro likes people based on when he leaves his swords nearby them.

It didn't take long for him to welcome Usopp and while he would never admit it, Sanji too.

Robin was the one Zoro took the longest with. It wasn't until after Enies Lobby that he left his swords alone in a room with her.

The ones who he warmed up to the quickest were Chopper and Jinbei, both because they saved his crewmates.

Zoro mainly likes onigiri because it was what he mainly ate growing up at the dojo. Trying to feed a lot of kids to gain muscle and not spend a fortune often lead to them eating a lot of rice and seafood.

He also secretly loves trying new types of mix-ins that Sanji create but a simple tuna onigiri will always be his favorite.

Secretly loves music too

He loves to take his naps when Brook is playing and it also helps with his meditation.

He is a math genius and Nami hates him for it. How dare his only brain power go to numbers.

He's only good at math because he's used to counting his reps and weights so much.

#hes such a creature #definitely needs to bath more still #one piece #roronoa zoro #zoro #zoro headcanons #the strawhats #strawhat pirates

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measlyscrapofseafood · 3 months

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rinzler doodles to try to get out of artblock 🧡

#tron #tronblr #tron legacy #artist on tumblr #rinzler #fanart #tron: legacy #my art #trying to make my rinzler into more of a Creature he’s too much of a normal guy rn #he needs to be a Thing #was listening to eyes w/o a face while drawing its so him

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somegrumpynerd · 18 days

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How absolutely wild must it have been for Nightmare to have like, minimum-to-no contact with mortals for hundreds of years and then the first two he has any regular close interactions with are Killer and Dust.

Like he must have a book in his castle somewhere of all the observations he kept like he was studying a new species

#UTDR #UTMV #Nightmare Sans #Killer Sans #Dust Sans #I could probably ramble for a while about the effect Killer had on him alone #But imagine being hurt by the world and carrying the grudge for hundreds of years while you wreak havoc all by yourself #And then you get one (1) roommate and he's so strange and unhinged but not at all what you expected #And then you get a second and he's so different again it's like they're different creatures even though they came from the same root world #And you get a third and he's a little more grounded but still has such wild needs and stipulations #By the time he got Cross he was probably onto his 3rd book of observations #If you dig around in Nightmare's library or office long enough I just know you can find at least one book where he's noted down what all hi #boys need and like and hate and what they refuse to do and how to handle them #Like someone leaving super detailed instructions for the care of their pampered beloved pet #Anyway Killer loves to joke to the other 3 that they should be nice to him because he ''let Nightmare adopt them''#and he's not entirely wrong #Anyway I need to go to bed so I can work all day tomorrow (rip) goodnight gang!!

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ch3rie-pop · 5 months

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SCP Y/N because I can’t stop thinking about them.

or Dr. Starling if you wanna be formal

I have a tendancy to switch between making them baby-faced cartoony and anime chinned male

I know what you’re all actually here for, le oiseau bitch, WELL HERE HE IS SO NOW GO AWAY!/j/j/j

Making a human face claim for 049 cuz I got curious. I tried drawing him with his hood on and now he just looks like a nun. Nice 😏

do something with that fanfic writers-

ANYWHO!

Kondraki is a vibe, I should really read some more tales about the dude and figure out how the FOUNDATION’S FRICKEN TAGS SYSTEM WORKS

It’s Clef, but I stuck to the references the site provides and I forgor his third eye or whatever because who needs three eyes? Does he have a third eyebrow to go with said eye? Too much anatomy man I’m out/j

Can we talk about how filthy that water is when 049 takes a bath? Decades worth of bird grease, ANCIENT DISEASES, debris, dirt, grime, soil, and sweat is probably lurking in those robes man.

Lovingly, 049 is disgusting.

I want to clean his putrid ass with dawn dish soap and a pressure washer.

#My art #SCP #scp fanart #scp 049 #dr clef #dr alto clef #scp clef #dr kondraki #scp kondraki #scp 049 x reader #scp 049 x y/n #because every Y/N needs their tumblr sexyman in visual form #Lovingly 049 is disgusting #I’m thinking about it y’all #And the more I think about it the worse it gets #IS HE CLEAN?#HIS CONTAINMENT CELL HOLDS A BASIC SPACE FOR HUMANOID CREATURES OR SMTH RIGHT?#IS HE USING THE SHOWER????#DOES HE WASH HIS HANDS?!?!?!?#Probably n o t right?#Do you understand where I’m coming from here?#I don’t care how good his treatments are or how mid of a medic he might be #Dude #There’s like the spanish flu up his sleeve like- I can’t #Unless I have detailed documents about his shower habits get him away from me #But I still love him #he’s like that chubby nasty ass raccoon digging through my garbage that I admire but hell if I’m gonna touch it #Thank you for coming to my tedtalk #*bows*#OH SHOOT WARNINGS

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gerardway-is-my-babygirl · 3 months

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The renfield hyperfixation Is going so strong I can't stop drawing him In paint

#Ignore the way his hair looks In some of these #the creature #hes such a loser (affectionate)#let him Into your home he can exterminate all of your bugs for FREE! (don't ask how)#I need to try drawing asylum renny more #renfield #renfield 2023 #r m renfield #my art

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