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lulu2992 · 6 months

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Another “old” drawing!

John has something very important to say, something he hasn’t told anyone in years (or maybe ever; he can’t remember). It’s a short, simple sentence, but also a surprisingly hard one to say, so before Taylor actually hears it, he wants to practice...

Full story and context under the cut :)

So, basically, at this point in Taylor’s story, life is hard.

Because of the truce that was negotiated between Eden’s Gate and the Resistance, Hope County is now living in relative peace, at least for the moment. But for the Deputy who made it possible, that peace comes at a heavy cost.

The same people who used to sing her praises and count on her to make things better now (understandably) feel betrayed, hurt, and are angry at her for sparing John, so they either awkwardly avoid her and talk behind her back, or are openly aggressive and contemptuous. Some shame her for “using her body to buy peace”, even though that’s not quite true (they aren’t there yet in their relationship, and the cult has rules anyway).

And despite the fact that, because of the circumstances, she’s now closer to Eden’s Gate than she is to the Resistance, not all cultists trust her. Of course, they listen to Joseph, who said he had faith in Taylor, but some still (also understandably) remain cautious and are worried for their Herald in the Holland Valley. Is it safe to welcome the Deputy or does that heathen have ulterior motives? What if she’s only trying to use and pervert John so she can more easily destroy him and the Project?

For peace, the Junior Deputy had to sacrifice her reputation, has lost many of her friends, and now feels judged by almost everyone in Hope County, even some of those who still tolerate her. So yeah, life is hard.

But paradoxically, the more upset people are at her for growing closer to John, the harder their hatred pushes her into his arms. Soon, the Baptist becomes one of the few people she really trusts and feels allowed to be vulnerable around.

That afternoon, after a particularly difficult moment in Fall’s End, she drove to Seed Ranch, resolutely walked through the front door without saying a word, barely acknowledging the few cultists on her way, went straight to John… and burst into tears the moment she put her arms around him. After the initial surprise, he signaled to the confused guards that everything was okay, that they could leave the room, and just hugged her back in silence.

“Everyone hates me,” she said when her sobbing quieted down and she was finally able to speak.

“No… No, not everyone,” he replied. “There are... There are people who love you. You know that, don’t you?”

She loosened her embrace to look at him.

“That’s why you came here, right?” he asked, smiling tenderly.

She smiled back, but soon she noticed he seemed… uncomfortable. Powerless, even; unsure of what to say and how to deal with the situation. Suddenly, she felt guilty... She had come here because she needed a shoulder to cry on, but she hadn’t realized her sadness would affect him too.

“Sorry,” she said, shaking her head. “I shouldn’t have come here and burdened you with that. I just- You probably have things to do, I should go...”

“No, wait!” he quickly responded, his hands tightening around her waist. “You can stay, it’s fine.”

She looked at him again, and he nodded before adding, “It’s fine. Really.”

She knew he wasn’t just offering her to spend the rest of the day at the ranch; he wanted her to, so she happily accepted.

That night, she fell asleep where she truly felt home: in John’s arms. Unbeknownst to her, for the first time, he told her something he knew he was ready to tell her, but not quite for her to hear yet; not before he was certain he could do it properly.

As she was peacefully sleeping, he whispered, “I love you.”

#my deputy #taylor rook #the deputy #john seed #john seed x deputy #my art #fan art #traditional art #digital coloring #drawn in december 2022 #only one ‘old’ drawing left!#story: 'that fic I’ll never write'#but wait... am I writing... fanfiction now??#the incredible adventures of john 'emotionally constipated perfectionist' seed #also considering what the fandom is reportedly dealing with these days... yay I can’t wait for this to be copy-pasted!#far cry 5

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rainedroptalks · 2 months

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What is it with fantasy high and girls dying before their lives ever began. How we can never really know who they are, or who they could’ve been. Brennan Lee Mulligan I will find you

#ramblings #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #fantasy high junior year #lucy frostblade #yea yea this is obviously about Lucy. but also..#um #penelope everpetal #(collective booing from the crowd)#(I am dragged off the stage)#jokes aside tho #they both have that quality of haunting a narrative (Penelope specifically in the seven and Lucy in fhjy)#they’re gone. their stories are over. and yet #they have a hold over the ones they left behind #we will never truly know Lucy past anecdotes and old stories #penelope was an array of false faces and honestly? we’ll never know her either. all we’ve got is that old picture of her and Sam #and obviously Lucy was kinder. she definitely didn’t deserve what happened to her #while you could argue Penelope got what was coming for her #but the fact remains #Lucy Frostblade and Penelope Everpetal we’re both teenage girls who we can only catch glimpses of. forever #in some ways #they’re the same. dead girls who never fully leave. their ghosts still visible in the corner of your eyes #anyway rant over I’m just obsessed with d20 girls and I can draw parallels from anywhere #I might make a more… comprehensive post about this one day who knows

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cryptid-condor · 1 year

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little snapshot of a zelda 1/2 au where the Prince actually sucks and he puts a bounty on the wielder of the triforce, which leads to link stealing a horse named Pony who joins him on his new quest to overthrow the monarchy

please click for quality i promise its worth it :)

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu hyrule #all my rat #i really need to learn how to draw leaves #legend of zelda #u wanna know a secret?#i made this au as an excuse to give roolie a horse #i know Pony is Large but just remember: link is tiny #i went down a complete rabbit hole of rein-less horseback riding during the process of this one #ik this au only works if u assume the prince is still alive (meaning hes probably old) or he left behind a triforce cult or smthn #but dont worry about it #i have a lot of headcanons about what rule's hyrule looks like

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crowlipso · 8 months

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Agatha + locs new canon hairstyle.

#my gf paid me to draw agatha lmao #the left one is the one I draw for her its very quick and messy #she only gave 20THB so be it #this is all she will get #the right one is the old drawing that I never post before ljgfddssa #agatha crowley #personal

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arolegos · 5 months

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ending the year w a redraw . ... ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

old art jumpscare

closeups on lloyd bc i (Only) like how they came out 😭

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leaivf · 2 days

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taikk0 · 2 years

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REDRAW TIME!!! ( left is new, right is old )

i like to think that mikey likes to listen to donnie ramble about his inventions, he doesn’t understand most of it but he likes having someone else with him while he sketches graffiti designs :)

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fregget-frou · 1 year

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@autisticempathydaemon said they loved my Angel listener (along with everything else it was SO SWEETTT OMLLL<333) so here’s a doodle for you! They’re also one of my favorites!

Look at that face.

Full of mischief.

Some fun facts about them: they’re native! Specifically they could be from the Salishan (but I don’t know too much so I leave it ambiguous) and are half Filipino, born and raised in British Columbia, Canada around Vancouver. They were raised by their mom and brothers, then moving to dahlia for college.

They originally planned to secure a high end job in Vancouver just going to California for school but they met David. They still visit their family as often as they can.

They’re 5’4, the shortest listener! Aklag is still beefy and could definitely throw David over their head. Their callouses are from being raised on a farm, and they’re starting to fade now.

I took them out of another story I made a while ago so I’m still trying to tweak them seamlessly so I’ll actually maybe probably not but make a backstory sheet for my listeners?

Thank you sm for your words and I hope you like it!

#I originally took them from an old idea I had for a book #basically their family got torn apart after their mom died so they left to California to try to avoid it #see their short hair in my first drawings of them and now after a couple years it’s long again #they were really connected to their mom so her death hit them really hard kinda making a wall around them #instead of being grumpy it’s more of a shallowish happiness of avoidance #David was really the only person to get through to them and I find it very convenient that they’re both parallels #I also made Darlin’ native and originally one of their childhood friends #darling moved to Washington #they stayed in British Columbia #not really being able to be themself #not fully being able to embrace their native nor Filipino heritage #just an idea of someone dealing with grief and I like how that they’ve evolved last my og idea thru Raudio #hint hint their slow hair growth and gaining back of weight to show their healing process #eventually I’ll draw their brothers #aurgghh I just like them a lot and had a lot of unfinished ideas for them I’m glad people like them #redacted asmr #freggzocs #freggzartz #redacted audio #redacted audio fanart #redacted asmr fanart #redacted asmr angel

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ghostenluvs · 8 months

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hey real quick

just a man from epic the musical

but it's swk and macaque's fight during jttw.

like.

like please i don't wanna annotate every frame on this tumblr post but please someone get what i'm saying here.

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perenians · 1 year

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this is the best wally i've drawn ever. which isn't saying much, but he's for @sarahreadstoomanycomics so i tried </3

EDIT I FIXED HIM

#i'm sorry sarah u only get one bust bc my soul left my body halfway #also i SWEAR if anyone tries to dig up my old wallys. do NOT #they are ROUGH #wally west #wally art #peren procreates #sarah 🌸#calm down per #blorbo in law drawings

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midbyte · 1 year

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You're something special, want you to know you are

Your makers must have kissed in cosmic dust

You're something special, you are the little fang

You keep on grinnin' and this world keeps nagging

#ham art #furry #lancer #halflight #finished em! also will be drawing their mech but almost certainly not be coloring that shit #this took way too long as is lol #anyways. this is halflight. theyre a hacker mechanics and most importantly an artist #they pilot a paracausally fucked up mech called shiver and one day they had an accident while within it #which lead to them only sometimes existing #and turns out if only some parts of you exist at a time you get a ton of medical problems! all at once!#they got shoved into this half mechanical android body which stabilizes whats left of their old flesh #and are now in so much debt they have no choice but to continue piloting shiver and working as a mercenary #*the reason they look like that is bc theyre a furry and chose to modify their own body to look cooler lmao

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kotopeachii · 1 month

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bruh (tag rant)

#making really big and super cool improvements on your artstyle and then having to go right back to your old one because of a project #the most beautiful joker ive ever drawn vs mediocre anime girl #whatever. my art is cute anyway. i shouldnt be too hard on myself #besides theres only 2 left and one is a cat and the other is a middle aged man #so maybe its good that i got better at drawing different faces! :P #theres a silver lining afterall #uuugh but i have to do that really shitty screen tone shading instead of the cool comic book style one #!!!!!!! im crippled by my pure awesomeness!!!! i am king midas!!!#whatever

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ninja-knox-ur-sox-off · 1 year

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Sometimes I feel very sad that I didn’t just focus on one creative skill. I look at my art some days and go I wish I’d spent all my time making only that, because that way it would look better and I’d do more and it wouldn’t matter if I couldn’t write very well because my art would be amazing and I’d be able to make the stuff I really want to and maybe even get a job related to it and I wouldn’t feel like so much time was wasted. And often times it really does feel like you’re wasting time and everything is telling you to just pick something to focus on so it can mean something and you can never seem to pick one of anything.

And then other days I feel like an absolute GOD. Anyone else able to write your own fic and then draw art for it just because you can? Can you make an edit/amv after writing a silly little analysis post on the show/character that is so perfectly on beat and fits the lyrics and with transitions so slapping you get chills while watching? Can you write a short silly ditty on the guitar about how you’re feeling using the eight chords know and belt it out only a little bit off key then do a choppy little animation of your sona singing it?

I may not be the most skilled at all of the above, and it can be a little lonely to be a one man band who doesn’t play half as well as a lot of people out there, but when your power goes out or your wifi dies or you have a day off, everyone else is busy and you’re alone...

you play the best gosh dang music in existence

#knox rambles #feeling some kinda way lately o7 #these kinda vibes come back every once in a while #just gotta remind myself that ten year old me would go insane over the fact I can do what i can do #even if I'm not the best out there I am sure the best me out there #and that's pretty cool #i may only know one strum pattern on guitar and half a dozen chords at best #i may not be very good with punctuation and grammar while writing and I reuse words too much #I may do my art all leaning a little to the left too much and proportioned weirdly #I may export my amv's wrong so they're not on beat or forget good audio that would have made it REALLY great #I may write analysis's that are a little biased and look back on them and cringe a bit #I may only be able to animate the simpliest and shortest things and then go months even years at a time without animating #I may struggle to do animatics for what feels like no reason even if i want to so badly #but I can do all that stuff #I can write i can read and I can draw I can play guitar a bit i can sing I can make animatics animations amv's #and wow that's pretty incredible if you ask me #rambling rambling zero thoughts head empty YEET HGSDFLKJSDF #creative insecurities #they always sneak up on you a bit hglksjdfsdf #pretty safe to say I wouldn't be a creative if I didn't feel inadequate every person to ever create usually feels some kinda way ghsdflk;jsd #lays down #woo #hoping I can get back into the swing of being creative #things been pretty rough at home but I miss making stuff #ANYWAY HOPE Y'ALLS HAVING A FIRE DAY

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lotus-lamps · 6 months

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yeah i DID just put art of three different fandoms in one post im just that crazy

god the first one is so old it makes me physically cringe to look at oh boy. all the other ones are old too im just putting up old stuff so i can pretend to make WORK ON new art

#lotus drawdles #oneshot #niko oneshot #hollow knight #ghost hollow knight #yeah thats right its a crossover #the one on the left is like 10x cooler but whatever #im too lazy to redraw it #oneshot maize #mantis lords #cookie run #cotton cookie #digital art #art #wow i still cant believe i put in the time and effort to make that cotton cookie drawing lmao #it was pretty fun ig but lineless is still not my thing #can you tell that i gave up on the background #both the maize and cotton drawing was for an october art challenge in a server #the only motivation for me to finish drawings lmao #the mantis lords one is still old art but it was a WIP so i decided to finish it but its still old #cause some of the coloring was already done and i didnt want to change it #its nikover #ok im sorry i'll leave #i have to work on a project i have been putting off that is due tomorrow lmao #OH AND I FORGOT TO ADD #IGNORE THE HANDS FOREVER AND ALWAYS #artists on tumblr #artblr #oneshot fanart #hollow knight fanart

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hazeism · 6 months

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And Earth has been crazy I hope Daneel and Trevize fuckkkk (it's only his custom!!!)

context for the first image:

#also sorry going clockwise the busts are cleon trevize (daneel) d.g. seldon (demerzel)#one day i'll do a lineup MAYBE don't hold me to it but I hope I do #when he started becoming psychologically dependent on his computer in Edge I was like omggg c/fe baby daneel would be so pleased ahdkfudhff #daneel loves to pick people up he's so cute and also i'm so so sad.#i actually only have like two chapters left but I just stopped reading because I don't want it to end. um #asimov chronology #r. daneel olivaw #golan trevize #tag later #queue #doodle #these are posted pretty much just for me to enjoy adhbjdf #i draw so much less than i used to though ahh i have to go through old documents

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arolesbianism · 6 months

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While I may not be allowing myself to post spiraling upwards spoilers, I see no issue with posting art of a bunch of folks who are dead before the story starts and one Conetalon who isn't

#keese draws #warrior cats #warrior cats oc #spiraling upwards #these are all the og leaders and deputies of each of the 4 main clans!#and cone is the only of the og deputies who didn’t die before their leader lol #also two of these are mother daughter duos with bonestar being conetalons mom and bristlestar being gullspots mom #gullspots died during a horrible flood in their old camp #and this was pretty early on in the clan’s life too so no one else was rly qualified to be deputy #she ended up choosing honeyfeather as her new deputy which honey did. not take well.#she had be among the injured in the flood and had just lost her tail along with her best friend #so she was not in a place to be deputy at All #and things would only get worse for her when bristle died only a few months later of old age #because of this she has. complicated feelings on bristle to put it lightly.#frostflow died from an infected wound after a nasty fall which left pretty much the entire clan devastated #foggystar didn’t want to force anyone who was grieving to become deputy so he decided on a cat who had only been a part of the clan for #about a year after his old owners died in a house fire #his name was daisy and he’s one of my favorites and currently he’s the youngest of the four leaders #pigeon died via snake bite which is ironic for reasons I won’t go into now but everyone was devastated blah blah blah but really this did #fuck up most of the older members of the clan a lot as pigeon played such a vital role in them all being alive here today #ratstar ended up choosing her other crush (more complicated edition) as her new deputy since she was the right hand man to the cat who #started the revolution that brought them all together but abt a year later it became clear to both of them that nightfur wasn’t able to #handle the pressure of this anymore so she retired #after that ratstar just tried to pick the most responsible looking cat and she kind of succeeded #I say kind of because she Was but then 3 of her children got murdered and her best friend died right before ratstar dropped dead #so now she’s barely holding things together and has some newfound anger issues #and then my girl conestar just got to hang out and become leader when her mom died lucky her #well no she was absolutely devisated when her mom died as bonestar was like the number one cat she cared abt #she had been terrified of losing her mom for good for years so even though she could tell her mom was getting old and was able to talk to #her directly about these fears she still had a hard time moving forwards

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