6 Rats Do Art

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Jud Duplenticy and Josh O’Conner have been stuck in my head.

These are all little practices I did where I skipped my usual sketching phase and went straight in with blocking shadows and shapes in marker. It was great practice, but some attempts were definitely better than others lol

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Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Knives Out (Movies), Wake Up Dead Man Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benoit Blanc & Jud Duplenticy, Jud Duplenticy & Jefferson Wicks, Benoit Blanc/Phillip (Knives Out), Benoit Blanc & Marta Cabrera, Benoit Blanc & Helen Brand, Jud Duplenticy & God Characters: Jud Duplenticy, Jefferson Wicks, Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Geraldine Scott, Martha Delacroix, Phillip (Knives Out), mentioned - Character, Marta Cabrera, Helen Brand, both only mentioned, Grace Wicks, Mentioned and haunting the narrative as usual, Nat Sharp (Knives Out), and dead - Character Additional Tags: I’m not entirely sure how to go about tagging this since so many of the tags I want might not exist yet., so here goes nothing I guess, Jud Duplenticy needs a hug, Jud Duplenticy has ptsd, or something like it, former addict Jud Duplenticy, Jud Duplenticy is struggling, Jefferson Wicks is aweful, Homelessness, Past Homelessness, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Past Drug Addiction, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, like two lines - Freeform, but still, hurt comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Emotional Hurt, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Catholicism, Catholic Guilt, I’ll hopefully update these tags as I get more chapters up and more tags become common, no beta we die like Jefferson Wicks, movie quotes, Implied/Referenced Police Brutality, Implied/Reference Racism, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Like a little paragraph in chapter three, Character Death, It’s Jefferson wicks though so pretty expected, Jud Duplenticy has abandonment issues, POV Jud Duplenticy, POV Benoit Blanc, just for a bit, Jud Duplenticy centric, Religious Guilt, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Anxiety Attacks, Panic Attacks, Jud Duplenticy has anxiety, Jud Duplenticy has panic attacks, Intrusive Thoughts, I may have given Jud like two of my own OCD symptoms, I can’t help it, Jud Duplenticy gets a hug, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst Summary:

This is little moments from the movie where I want, ‘wow I wonder how Juds alluded to previous life impacts how he thinks and feels in these scenes. It must really suck’ and then I wrote all that down.

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Jud feels the fist of Monsignor Wicks collide with his stomach.

“You’re angry, you should be. It’d be dangerois if you weren’t,”

The Monsignor is speaking to him. He knows that, but it’s not just the Monsignor’s fist he feels. It’s his first fight in the ring, and it’s the fist of his father, and it’s the fist of the man he killed in the ring. It’s hard to keep straight whose fist it is because in the moment Jud’s mind remembers a hundred punches just like this one.

now that I’ve finished writing this one in its entirety it’s time to share it with the masses!!

[freakoutgirl]

*searches signs of ocd again to see if there will be a definitive answer about whether i have it or not this time*

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I really love when Tim Drake is a skater. That guy was alive and thriving only four years after JNCO jeans let’s not forget

[ot3]

i'm sorry for not stopping to suck off the platonic ideal of a Good Christian before i point out that the religion is in practice a regressive hate movement that sees people like me as subhuman. good god people

[isaacsapphire]

Lols, double dog dare you to say the same about Islam.

[ot3]

well you see I don't live in a country where Islam has any political power, so it doesn't get to influence any aspects of my daily life, and as such I have no reason to be overly invested in critiquing it. making broad, sweeping statements condemning the culturally and politically dominant religion of your country is very different from making broad, sweeping statements condemning a religion that your country has demonized and used as a scapegoat for military intervention resulting in countless deaths and regional instability. when you change the words of a sentence the meaning and context of the sentence change too. hope this helps.

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I did a little study/redraw/sketch of a panel from “Batman The Cult” (written by Jim Sterlin illustrated by Bernie Wrightson and one of my personal favorite Batman miniseries)

The nature of the panel made me think of the bat-blob doodles that my friend Grae drew a few weeks ago so I made a a couple of my own blobs :)

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Some fairly quick lil bird doodles

Messing around with variant designs and color placement

Originally the Damian one was going to be another Tim one. So I used a reference of a guy with a baseball bat because I thought it’d be funny for Tim to just haul off and whack someone like that with his bo staff. But then as I got into the suit it looked more like Damian and I hadn’t drawn that guy yet so I decided to take the chance and pivot. Even though the pose doesn’t fit as well for his use of a katana

I love the look of some of the more armored/padded Robin suits. So for Damian I took inspo from some of my ren faire reenactment friends. So the armor Damian is wearing here is very European inspired. Which is okay for a lil sketch. But I really want to redo it and use references from the Middle East as a nod to his background.

Ft. Little sketches for a mini stamp/block print that I made :)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

New fic just dropped!!

Sometimes your sad and need to project that onto your favorite Robin just a bit

Excerpt below cut

Sometimes I wish that I could reach down and split my own chest open. Dig my hands in, shattering my own sternum. Just to grab each half of my rib cage and tear. Tear body and bone open in a display of love and affection. Revealing a warm, soft, dark place within my own chest that he could finally find a safety in. A safety that cannot be found in the embrace of arms alone. But one that comes with knowing that you are fully surrounded, encased, in someone you trust. That they want you there. That they care. They care so deeply that they want to protect you and shield you from the world with their own flesh and bone. That they will tear themselves apart, exposing their most raw and vulnerable parts, just to make sure that you are held, and safe, and loved.

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Congratulations to the 2025 sexiest podcast character!!

Glenn Close you will always be famous

Constantly torn between the belief that Glenn never lets people see him without the eyepatch because it requires a level of vulnerability that he is incapable of and a love of drawing that there scar. It’s just so fun!

Ft. The longest guitar you’ve ever seen. Whoops

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I'm volunteering for a literary journal right now and there's two things I think you all should know.

1. Most people that submit to literary journals are cis white men. We know this because our journal has an anonymous survey about demographics for people that submit.

2. Most things that get submitted to the creative non fiction section are on the level of middle school "What I did over the summer" essays.

I cannot see the demographics of the people whose essays I'm reading, but guys, if you are wondering if you should submit your work to a literary journal or not, I promise you that just in terms of statistics there are a lot of mediocre cis white men and people in general confidently submitting weird crap that isn't literature to literature magazines. Do it. Submit your work. Please. If you want there to be more diversity in literature, be the diversity. Do it. Do it do it do it.

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In general literary magazines want to include more diversity, but if poc, queer people, disabled people, etc. don't submit their work then they aren't gonna get more diverse because we just won't have the material necessary to get more diverse. Submit your work. Do it. Do it. Do it do it do it.

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Here's a list of university run literary journals. Do it. Get published.

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[wilthered-dreams]

Many indie lit mags also welcome works from BIPOC and LGBTQIA creatives because the editorial staff themselves are in that demographic. Quarantine brought on the start of the SO many indie lit mags - it’s almost a golden age. Don’t be afraid to submit — there will always be so many niches and aesthetics that one will bound to be the one that fits your style. 

There is so much work from marginalized narratives in litmags these days — people lament there is no representation in media, but that disregards the progress and diversity of the works of editors and writers who help make these litmags possible. 

There is representation, and it is flourishing. They are waiting to be read. 

The Lumiere Review compiles a list of submission opportunities every month, and it are always very useful: 

https://lumierereview.com/sub-sep-oct-2021

List of Litmags that Specifically Look for Work from Marginalized Creators or is Run by Marginalized Creators:

Warning Lines: https://warninglines.com/

With Confetti: https://with-confetti.com/

Giving Room Magazine: http://www.givingroommag.com/

The Bitchin’ Kitsch: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/

Tealight Press: https://www.tealightpress.com/

Tipping the Scales: https://www.tippingthescalesjournal.co.uk/

The Winnow Magazine: https://www.thewinnowmagazine.com/

perhappened: https://www.perhappened.com/

AZE Journal: https://azejournal.com/

Honeyfire Lit: https://honeyfirelit.com/

and so much more!!

(And even if some litmags’ mission statement isn’t specifically for marginalized creators, they will always welcome these narratives.)

So please, please submit!

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Independent magazines are great too! I’m more familiar with the university journal scene so I appreciate this addition.

[martabat]

hello, this is a list of asian literary journals!! it emphasizes south-east asian journals, but there’s a few from other regions as well

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Pemguin :)

I need to finish watching Gotham. I got really far into it last summer but then have been so busy and have been watching Abbott elementary instead so haven’t watched anymore penguin in a while.

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I need some opinions

Is this funny? Do you get it? Would you laugh?

I get it and it’s funny

I get it and it’s not funny

I don’t get it but its still funny

I don’t get it and it’s still not funny

I’m bald

Voting ended onAug 28, 2025

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Something great about tumblr that I really love is when I try and post something and it takes awhile to show up on my dashboard. It’s like I’m standing in a huge dark cave and shouting into the void. But there’s a 50% chance that I’m not actually facing into the depths of the cave but am instead yelling into a wall and the only person that can hear it is me. And I just have no idea

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Going through the sketchbook I had previous to my current one. Found Ron and Glenn of dungeons and daddies fame scattered in with a stupid Les mis joke and some Pinterest inspired studies and practices

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I’m trying to make a new post and it can’t so I’m rebloging to make sure that still works and to put a call out into the world on how I can fix my issue. I click the lil button and nothing happens

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Going through the sketchbook I had previous to my current one. Found Ron and Glenn of dungeons and daddies fame scattered in with a stupid Les mis joke and some Pinterest inspired studies and practices

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A recent sketchbook page featuring another one of my all time favorite guys Glenn Close from hit podcast Dungeons and Daddies

The big portrait at the bottom was an excitement with colored pencils and ink because I want to get better at doing skin tones with colored pencils and because I love the impact of line art on a piece that is otherwise quite soft and blended.

The little Glenns on the notebook paper I did during a class that I hated. You can only listen to so many wretched takes about something that you love and care about deeply before you have no choice but to ignore the professor and draw Glenn Close

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Morning reblog with some close(haha) ups of the Glenns

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A recent sketchbook page featuring another one of my all time favorite guys Glenn Close from hit podcast Dungeons and Daddies

The big portrait at the bottom was an excitement with colored pencils and ink because I want to get better at doing skin tones with colored pencils and because I love the impact of line art on a piece that is otherwise quite soft and blended.

The little Glenns on the notebook paper I did during a class that I hated. You can only listen to so many wretched takes about something that you love and care about deeply before you have no choice but to ignore the professor and draw Glenn Close