@farore-or-less This one’s for you! I saw the little thumbnail you’d found for your fic, ‘Of Midnight Findings and Revue’ on FF.net, and went to town. Here's a link to the fic on AO3 (the best place to read it!) [Warning, it's an NSFW fanfic.]

Hope ye like! 😏❣️

Prompt 220

Danny has made a delightful discovery. Blob ghosts can in fact change their shape! Sure it’s simple shapes, but still! He has a school of flying blob fish and blob cats following him around and they’re adorable. And it’s not like most people can see them outside of Amity anyway, so they’re fine to follow him around as they like. 

Though maybe he should have remembered that the most doesn’t mean no one can see them. Um, hello? Feral stabby child?? No you can not steal some of his friends??? Where are your parents???? 

[id: a digital bust drawing of marin from link's awakening. the art style is different than usual, using varying line weight, softer brushes and painting. the thinner brush allows for more detailing. end id]

evil art style! here's the traits y'all pointed out:

thick marker brush (with cell shading)

controlled lines + curves

color holds

ahoge + floaty eyebrows

the eyes and noses

bright colors

i decided that going for a soft, painterly look was my best bet! i tried to use more pastels and used less color holds. i knew i wouldn't be able to change my shape language w/o challenging myself too much, and i wanted this to be chill so here lol

Guess whose brain cells finally collided to form a thought?

…me… that’s who…

Anyways! Since my brain has been fried I have just not been thinking much—seriosuly why on gods green earth did I decide to do 2 practicums this semester?!?!?!?— but so here’s my thought

Do you think a Modern Reader (aka Reader from our world going into LU world) constantly gets an uncanny valley feeling from the chain and just all the other beings in the LU world?

Cause I mean it could make sense, obviously when comparing characters to real life people there is something slightly off.

And not even just the pointed ears! Maybe there eyes are too wide compared to Readers, they move too fast; faster than one should, etc!

I think it could be both a funny and creepy factor to add into stories or little fics I guess, just reader always getting just a bad feeling in the back of their mind even though they know the chain are good people.

This whole thought partially stemmed from me watching observation watch and other horror games lol but also from the fact that my younger sister is constantly creeped out by Twilight Princess because it’s too real looking to her.

Anyways what are your guys’ thoughts?

Rabbit-hearted 🐇❤️

I was drawing up a ravioli comic because apparently I can't do challenges like a normal human being and drew up Sheerow from memory. I just wanted to get my idea on the canvas and figure details later. Well, im a perfectionist so I wouldn't have been able to sleep if I didn't at least Google the little thing.

And.....

WHY IS IT SO NIGHTMARE FUEL??

Look !

IT HAS FEETS. ACTUAL LITTLE FEETIES. PUT THE GRIPPERS AWAY.

And those lightless eyes..... Sheero why are you the way you are ?? Well IT IS cute but also creepy--

Anyways, have a more round, actually bird like Sheerow I drew up when I was still unaware of the little ball true nature

Yea it's sipping stealing some soup.

My secret fairy gift to @thomtrebond one of the longest analyses I've ever written until now (so much so that I'm still working on this). Truthfully, I was afraid that The Whole Shebang podcast had already said all there was about the Oscar Wilde references in Velvet Goldmine, and it has been a while since I've read The Picture of Dorian Gray, but while writing and doing research for this (I've studied more for this analysis than I ever have for school lmao) I realised things that I hadn't thought of before so this was a surprise for me as well! Also, since this analysis is gonna be split into different parts I'll link them all once I'm done with them. I hope you enjoy your gift <3

Part one: The importance of being Jack Fairy

When thinking about Velvet Goldmine and Oscar Wilde I'm reminded of the first episode of the miniseries "Queers" (2017), although I can't stand Mark Gatiss (Sherlock trauma) this episode is well written and just thinking about it makes me cry. There will be spoilers for the episode in this analysis, so be warned.

For the people that don't care about spoilers here's a small summary of what you need to know to understand this analysis: in the episode, titled "The Man On The Platform", the protagonist, a WWI soldier, gets asked about how gay men recognise each other, and he answers saying:"A certain liquidity of the eye." Later in the episode, he recalls a story from his teen years, while waiting for a train with his family he sees a prisoner getting taken away, he meets the gaze of the prisoner for a second and he feels seen by him and thinks "He knows me for what I am", after that he learns that the prisoner is Oscar Wilde.

In Velvet Goldmine, it's the pin that creates this connection between the characters and Oscar Wilde, Jack is able to find himself and others quite like him after finding the pin, and later we have all the young queer fans relating to Curt and Brian. The movie shows that self recognition through the other is an important aspect of queer communities, having an example of queerness to relate to or be inspired by makes it possible for people to find each other and learn about themselves.

In Jack's case, Oscar Wilde is not only a connection to queerness but also an inspiration for his art. Jack Fairy is the personification of art, specifically born from aestheticism's idea of "art for art's sake" Jack's persona is just that, beauty that exists simply to be beautiful and reveal nothing, the movie adds to this by never making Jack Fairy speak, even during the Death of Glitter concert he's either reciting a poem or singing, the little we know of Jack's inner thoughts is shown in the flashback of him as a child, adult Jack Fairy is a complete mistery to us.

What's interesting about this is that, unlike Brian, we never feel that Jack's persona is a manifactured one, even if we know nothing of him, and his looks and aesthetics are obviously thought out, he still appears much more genuine than Brian. Following Wilde's idea of art as an amoral creation that never expresses anything other than itself (in true wildean paradox fashion Wilde himself doesn't always respect this rule), it then becomes obvious why it doesn't matter if we know nothing about Jack, the way he presents himself is enough to express everything he wants other people to see, he's being truthfull to himself never trying to justify or moralise his art or himself but simply being, any possible reading or interpretation about his persona becomes then nothing more than the viewer's own thoughts or ideas projected onto him and do not necessarily reflect the truth, adding to the allure of his persona and making it a perfectly malleable art medium, free of bounds or expectations (apart from beauty, which is of course what all art, according to Wilde, should strive for).

On the other hand, Brian constantly trying to add a message to his aesthetic ended up being to his detriment since what he was saying was being fed to him through the record company to attract press, not leaving then any room for interpretation and putting strict barriers around his art, and of course to define is to limit causing his entire act and persona to never be as authentic feeling as Jack's. It's clearly artificial but not in a camp way, even if it might have started off that way, the alien and uncanny later becomes fake the same way advertisement is, planned and trying to get your attention for money, reaching the peak of uncanny valley with Tommy's way too pristine looks and character.

But even after having roasted him I have to admit that Brian's character has a much bigger connection to Wilde's work than Jack does, since Jack's story is more inspired by Divine from Genet's "Notre-Dame-des-fleurs", even having a scene from the book remade almost exactly in the movie, with Jack it makes more sense to compare him to Wilde himself since, just as Wilde became one of the major exponents of aestheticism and homosexuality in England, in the movie Jack is one of the original inspirations of the Glam Rock movement and an iconic figure in the queer community of the 60s and 70s, so of course he'd be the one to find the pin and carry the legacy of Oscar Wilde.

Tune in next whenever I post it to see me roasting Brian more in part two

eroica 35th anniversary book

inside illustrations; the laughing cardinals

Venger (Feat. Greta Link) by PERTURBATOR

This DALL-E mini tool uses artificial intelligence to construct pictures based on your suggestion. I put “American Girl dolls” into the prompt box, and here’s what the AI imagines them as:

That’s an interesting interpretation. And fairly accurate.

This was a lot of fun to play around with, so I also put in “baby dolls” as a prompt: 

Prompts don’t need to be necessarily based in reality, though. This one was “Barbie doll riding a shark”: 

Anyway you can be as basic or as specific as you want, so you can try out things like “Molly McIntire drinking coffee with Pikachu” and probably come up with some wacky stuff. If there’s a lot of site traffic it sometimes takes several attempts to get it to go, so keep trying.

SO I was inspired by This Reblog and absolutely adore any and all dragon Aus. And was hit with a rapid bit of inspiration.

Danny sighed through his nose, rolling his shoulders as another blob coiled across his arm like a serpent. It was an interesting thing, how they mimicked other forms, though he didn't understand all of it.

Normally they wouldn't mimic him so much, not so strongly at least. But well, the ghosts here were mere whispers, visible to a few and unable to interact much. Which is what really brought him here in the first place.

Apparently something is blocking the access to the Realms here, enough that someone needs to do something about it. And look, he's not the Ghost King (thank fuck, he'd never be able to have Star-Time if he was) but he does sort of have a job to do. As the child of Time and new Ancient of Space to-be.

Not to mention that as said new Ancient-of-Space-to-be the Observants can't complain that much about him entering a world they didn't like.

And oh boy, this world. Yikes. There's some corrupted stuff freaking everywhere (even if not visibly), and monsters. And he does mean monsters, a lot of these things are corrupted as all heck- though thankfully the skeletal undead ones leave him alone no matter what form he takes.

On the other hand? There's this little gremlin child that reminds him of Ellie that runs into him repeatedly. Danny is starting to think it's on purpose actually. Child? Child where are your caretakers, you can't just charge at the lion-horse people- ... Danny despises prophecies. Alright child, he's going to start following you because you haven't even eaten tonight apparently. And your weapon has broken. Twice. And you're apparently surrounded by ghosts, how has he not noticed- alright. OKAY. This is fine.

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Link, would like everyone to know, that he is actually having so much fun right now! There's this sort-of Hylian that he found when looking for Koroks whose sort of like a stal-hylian? Or something? But they're nice!

And they have wings! He thought it was some sort of cloak at first, but no, they're full on wings! And he's going to convince them to take him flying. He will.

After he takes care of this itching on his back, because it's getting really distracting...

Yes I used Flight Rising specifically because @fairy-lights-and-blobs mentioned it specifically for Danny's wings.

A Danny & Link <3 But also feel free to imagine them as mixed with any dragon really.

i just finished mob psycho 100 season 3.  ;u; it was beautiful

but holy fuck the psycho helmet arc monster design freaked me out and reminded me of the youtube short horror video ‘the guest’.  horrific visual wrongness. excellent job.

BENS!! i forgot how fun drawing/designing pastas can be,,, i’m re obsessing

ramble down here btws,, //death mentions since he is a ghost

ok so ben is an old fave and i have thoughts. this first new hc design isn’t that remarkable except for the fact that instead of trying to make ben look like a dark/‘corrupted’ link, i tried to draw him like a kid in a hand-stitched link costume.

i will be drawing/writing(?) ben as a kid btw, specifically a ghostly 12 year old kid whose hobbies include trying to stress his cohabitants into early retirement.

the ben fullbody on the left is a slightly more corporeal form that he uses when out in the open and interacting with people in person. while still ghostly (like. swipe at him and your hand will go straight through him kinda ghostly) it’s more solid and has more of his features that he possessed before his death. he floats!! that’s his main mode of transportation in the open. he floats.

the one on the right is one that you’d see onscreen! he’s quite literally ‘rendered’ differently giving his victims that patented dread associated with ben. uncanny valley yk

when scared or upset his pupils vanish leaving you with those empty dark scleras. this doesn’t happen often though!

anyways that’s all for now!! an anon asked me to draw hoodie so i’m off to go do that :)

tried the 'your art but evil' challenge and honestly im hanging on my a thread and im about to punch my screen

[link to evil post, and sorry for the person who asked me to render but it looked so uncanny valley with the thick lines]