Would you mind if I drew this art in my style? (This is so beautiful, btw, it broke my heart!)

Permission is *always* granted to people wanting to do redraws! I am so touched you liked it enough!

ouuuuuuugh palamedes describing the way dulcinea always took him and his feelings and questions so seriously and treated him with respect and kindness even when he was eight years old and kind of nuts, objectively, and then thinking about the way he interacts with nona in ntn.......... dulcie's life brushing against nona's from... how many deaths away? four? five???* -- so very kindly...

the unwanted guest did things to my brain about them. palamedes briefly talks aloud to dulcinea in the same 'you' form when he's confronting cytherea as he does throughout tug. so he does that when he's about to die, both times. one of the last things he does both times is to turn to talk to her, even when he'd have no reason to think she could hear him the first time around and doesn't understand how she could be there the second time. well. she was tired of roses and horny for revenge and he necromantically DIYed himself into a bomb precisely to get some revenge on the person who killed her and I hope she knows that. is all.

*if we're keeping to only the people directly involved here we've got at least dulcie (twice!), palamedes (as of yet only one but about to go for seconds with cam), harrow and through her gideon

layers of school and family and health issues and future planning and final exam stress aside, do you ever feel like there is a long ongoing scream inside of you that seems to have no end ha haaaa

how do you get your colors pallets to be so united while also having accents?

i love you all so much and i will try my best to answer this but i am not the person to go to for art advice. NEVERTHELESS. i will try.

when it comes to color palettes i'm a large proponent of unabashedly stealing the palettes of other paintings/drawings you stumble across. really dissect and study why you like the art that you like!! adjustment layers & other overlay effects can be your friend too

i personally like using a textured brush + a soft muted color as an underpainting in order to help set the mood & color for a piece, the texture that seeps through is also really nice to have on what would otherwise be a plain background

^ small process gif of my last drawing, maybe it'll help (?)

i apologize to anyone who knew me during 2021

HIHIHI ARI!!! MY LITTLE SWEET IRIS MY DEAR BELOVED!!!! DID U SLEEP WELL? how is the gojo fluff coming along? are the words working with you? (they better be smh!!!) anyway anyway i am here to thank u for ur words. sleepy sugu swims in my head and everytime he speaks it's just your words that are coming out idk u guys are kind of One in my head i think... YOUR WORDS MEAN THE WORLD TO ME I AM HOLDING THEM IN MY PALM N I AM NUZZLING AGAINST THEM OK!

btw i was thinking whether he'd say please in the end too or not... bc i think he wouldn't wanna come off as too bossy? but then i decided to not put it in bc i think his tone would already indicate that. a very very silent plea....

and hahshshahaha i'm glad u liked the silly little poetry lines too that made me feel so warm WAHHHHHHHHHH okeoke i'm giving u a big hug and a wet fucking smooch on ur forehead MWAHHHH thank u for existing my love<3333333333333 i hope ur day will go sunnily that is not a word but i am making it into one rn the sun will warm u always always always

- @catchuuu

MICKEYYYY MY ANGEL MY LITTLE SUNFLOWER SEED good morning to u too !!!! <333 i slept like a fucking log LMAO i had to drag myself out of bed.. almost fell asleep on my way out …….. i think i had a scary dream but it was fine i snoozed a bunch I HOPE YOUR SLEEP WAS JUST AS SOFT <333

and wahhh thank YOU sm for writing it 🥺🥺🥺 AND FOR THE TAG I ALMOST EXPLODED WHEN I SAW IT IN MY NOTIFS mickey!sugu is such a gift i love him sm :(((( pls kiss his little head for me.

“u guys are kind of One in my head i think” I’M SO HONOURED?????? it’s crazy that u say that too bc i 100% associate soft sleepy satoru with u 😭😭 i’m writing the fic rn and i’m just constantly going… ohhh mickey might like this line….. i wonder if i can make mickey cry if i make toru cute enough………. this part is very mickeycoded…………… PHDJSP u get what i mean. the duo is duoing <3333

AND AND AND!! that’s such a good question tbh….. i agree with u i think that under normal circumstances sugu would say please bc he is in fact a big ol people pleaser smh BUT…. when he’s so sleepy and unguarded i think it would just kinda slip out :((( it’s desperate in a way!! he just needs to feel u. he’d explode if u stopped. :((((

i think that when you get down to it sugu is a bit of a brat tbh.. he’s similar to satoru he just hides it better. but i think he’s such a sweet whiny little clingy brat when he truly trusts u <3333 when you guys have been dating for a while he’s flopping down on you like a big dog and asking so sweetly if u could play with his hair pls 🥺🥺…. if you tease him or decline he starts demanding it though PHDJDBD … “i do so much for this family and you can’t even spare a minute out of your day to appreciate me” IT WAS NEVER THAT SERIOUS SUGU ??? I WAS JUST JOKING ??????? he’s the silliest man alive… (the “family” in question is u + ur three cats btw <33 he’s a cat dad. it’s canon.)

portwell nation how are we feeling

(thoughts on the ep in tags)

im pretty adamant on being a genshin only blog atm bc this game has me in a death grip and won't let go for anything but at the same time.....path to nowhere..

if you could pick any inter-team pairing out of all of the professional sports teams in the bay area who would be involved? what is your personal most ambitious crossover event of the century lmao

omg amazing questions, thank you 🫡

Under a cut bc I suffer from can't shut up on the internet disease

1. This is such a good question because for a metropolitan area that is absolutely dripping with sports teams and social media admins who are up in each other's grill constantly, we truly do not have that many juicy inter-team pairings. like obviously you are a scholar who has opened the minds and hearts of hundreds to the truth of Tony Kemp/Mike Yastrzemski and that one is elite. And why are the San Jose Barracuda and San Jose Giants' cursed fucking mascots always acting out with each other. BUT I think my favorite might be Buster Posey/Steph Curry for the NARRATIVE PARALLELS bc u know I love a parallel. drafted to shit tier teams! dragged them to greatness! the fall from grace and then the return! and they are both so cute in such an American way! idk if you read that Tim Kawakami dream diary piece on the two of them a couple years back in the Athletic but it literally rewired my brain. Like I had a legit mental breakdown reading it.

the parallels have become less powerful with Buster Posey retiring, but I literally dream every day of a urban fantasy fic where they are arranged married at draft bc the Bay Area faultlines are held together by ARRANGED MARRIAGE and SPORTS MAGIC and they have to right the sinking ships of their teams to stop the Bay Area from being destroyed from an earthquake (just roll with it) and along the way kind of grow into love and grow into companionship. I don't trust myself to write it bc I do not know anything about the Dubs in the early 2010s and also am too cheap to subscribe to the number of local newspapers' archives I would need access to to pull this fic off. but I want it so bad

2. This is ambitious bc your team is in hell and my players are in hell and while I am starting to feel hope that the Vegas deal falls through I am NOT feeling hopeful about my hockey blorbos' chances of success in the Sharks franchise now or like ever... but basically I want Nick Cicek of A's Hat Wearing Fame to fall in tender love with an A's player (unsure who, I need to familiarize myself better with your boys) and for both of them to either spend their careers in the Bay Area forever OR for both of them to absolutely firework for a season and then they both get traded and all I am left with are memories and my tears, as is typical of a sharks fan.

This is also very ambitious bc hockey and baseball is a hard crossover event since their seasons don't overlap and most North American hockey players somehow all end up in either Michigan or Toronto to train during the offseason so why would Nick be in the Bay Area during the offseason?? How would they meet?? But I dream of him being an A's wag and riding the Bart in anonymity to see his boyf 🥲 Need another public transit romance. Like I romanticized Caltrain, it is now time for me to turn my attention to Bart!!

I'd offer ya shoulder pats if I were in proximity, but I'm obviously not, so... uh, I'm doin' so in spirit, I guess...?

-Gardevoir doodle anon

thanks........

Men?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

toewgmo house chatting but uhh just the immediate line of "Older now, got some kids. Love you all. Die for this" and the way it follows like. all these years with all the ducklings in any season eventually ends in him faking his death for one of the people he loves most (the person he loves the most) something something

oughhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,,,,, screaming cryign throwing up

he loves them all sosososo much and he cannot say it in a normal way!!! but his actions show it so much he has so much love in his heart aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhhh

Bro u cannot live like this get the fan. I'll send u $27 rn if u drop the venmo to keep u from living in a 85 degree apartment please I'm begging

pls its literally okay i’ll probably pick up a box fan tomorrow and see if it helps….i spend Most of my time in my room with ac and a fan but its like ohhhh cooking and watching tv and anything i want to do in the rest of my place? Get in the toaster.

“come on david, where is everybody going” for the fic title game?

A consolatory pat of North’s hand on his shoulder. The shove of South’s elbow into his ribcage. York’s hand clasping his, hauling him up off the training room floor. Maine’s gentle, calloused hands on the back of his neck.

Or: A fic about last touches, and Wash’s ghosts.

4, 11 and 13 for the ask game, pls! Thank you and have a good day!

ask game here!

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

let's see we can list more of this! I draw birds and wings a decent amount and still every time I draw that I still have to look up one of those wing anatomy charts. I find I'm not well practiced with transparent materials yet, but I hope to get better at that in time. I'd like to get better at figuring out how to lay down a nature scene quickly too, I love to work with that in theory but in practice every time I draw that kind of background I had to stare at like eighty tabs of refs the whole way through. I'm such a city kid through and through...

I'm mostly blessed to not have to worry about hands and shoes too much, I usually have an okay time with them, but I do have days I call bad hand days and bad shoe days the way folks have bad hair days. sometimes even things I like drawing and usually have a good time with don't come out right! just gotta stand up and do something else for a bit

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

absolutely! especially nowadays. I rotate between my current favourite albums and youtube videos/stream VODs. the most consistent caveat is I cannot listen to anything with a plot. that will distract me way too much to draw at the same time.

I also call my friends and hang out in vc while drawing sometimes! especially if I really need to get something done. this is honestly the only way to subject me to new medias I don't know about

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

ahh this is hard... I usually don't look too hard into things I don't actively care about. I guess I'd say the Phong Dương comic team, they're immensely talented people who practically carried Vietnamese comic on their back for a while, and I love Thành Phong's inking style, I just... can't read their comics. for some reasons. they just flow off the back of my skull! I still have all three volumes of Long Thần Tướng currently out on my shelf, but every time I try reading them they just don't stick. I'm honestly kinda mad abt this lol