all my advice about using real athletes to learn drawing bodies beyond hard abs, and my particular pref being wrestlers, also applies to women btw. you can draw women who r strong and not an hourglass shape. fucking do it.

kris statlander, rhea ripley (look at her SHAPE), willow nightingale, ruby soho, these r just four off the top of my head that have obvious musculature and different body types. skye blue and julia hart have more slim cheerleader style bodies as well, i REALLY wanted to put emi sakura who is fucking STOUT (adoring) in this post but i couldn't find a good demonstrative pic, the list goes on

DRAW DIFFERENT BODIESSSSSSSS

nazarbayev prospect & karasai batyr street // almaty, qazaqstan // october 2023

shot on kodak gold 200 with kodak kb-10

having halsin as a companion and party member is very funny because none of this shit is his problem he just likes you so much

i had not seen the "durge/astarion is canon!" post until earlier today with that discord screenshot and honestly ... a writer being like "i managed to shove in all this extra content for astarion/dark urge, but then we simply ran out of time for the other characters" is not good, actually. that doesn't mean your ship is the most canon. it means that astarion kept getting extra attention and other companions kept getting neglected. that other companions simply do not have the amount of content astarion has is not a good thing, it is a bad thing.

and like i'm saying this as someone who really loves astarion/durge. it's unplatable to me and that larian writers are sitting in fan discords going "yeah we just didn't do that for other characters but somehow i found the time for this!" is kind of gross to me

my therapist: pre-alpha raphael isn’t real and can’t hurt you.

pre-alpha raphael:

my eyes glazed over and when i opened them i saw this

dark urge is so. is so

hi sorry i got sucked in by this post and the assumption that everything ever is bad and stolen too but i need to point out that if you follow the links the glaze person says the issue isn’t in glaze anymore. acting like its using stolen code by linking to a year old post where the creator admits to it and says its been resolved since is disingenuous at best. maybe the creator still has stolen code in there but there’s nothing in this post since a year ago. let me know if there is more recent info but 🤷‍♂️

i think the overall point of this post (just watermark your art) is great but like. you know. you can just say glaze isn’t as effective as artists need it to be without just… whatever the opening of this post is. it’s clickbaity honestly

hey so

sorry if you think hozier applies to any of your ships but he actually only applies to halsin now. halsin is a very tall, unbound heart, restless wanderer, nature’s defender, politically furious, could be found in a bog. horny with you whilst mad about society abandoning the vulnerable. hozier? more like … halsin.

the impression i have rightly or wrongly from "the resident of the boudoir" is that haarlep simply does not leave the bedroom, which had me thinking about things:

the extent of the decadence in there. most of it is raphael's taste, but i think haarlep would drive raphael batshit if haarlep did not have the appropriate amount of enrichment in his enclosure

haarlep spends their whole life eating nice food and sleeping in a nice bed and has a bath so big u can swim in it ... who is the princess here ... (it's still raphael, but haarlep is borderline princess)

i do not get the impression we're supposed to feel sorry for haarlep. it would be very easy with a few tonal changes and suggestions for the game to make it clear that haarlep is miserable and their situation sucks. haarlep doesn't mind making trouble for raphael but doesn't seem to hate him either

wait what other creature gets kept indoors all the time, has to have enough enrichment or they go insane, and has a questionable amount of respect for their person

cat

haarlep is a house cat

haarlep is one of those indoor cats bc if you let them go outside they're going to decimate the local bird population

the thing abt eddie kingston is that he has the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen. why is he like that. his eyes so large and beautiful. like portrait of a religious icon tier eyes. who is going to break a glass over my head.

as part of fucking old men we need to fuck old men who are balding and be nice to them. not just shaved naked head but guys who aren’t all the way bald yet or haven’t taken that step.

baldur's gate? more like baldur's GAY haha! (a secret service agent leans close to my ear and tells me about balduran and ansur)

"i love chubby characters" "i love soft tummies" "it's dad bod time"

my brother in christ you drew him the same way he looks in-game but without extra ab definition.