HowToCookCalamari

Not an actual blog on how to cook squids sorry :( Just a place for me to post about stuff I'm interested in and A LOT of fanart any constructive criticism is welcome since I'm kinda in an art slump right now, so don't be scared :)) I use she/her pronouns

[aioliravioli-69]

idk why I'm only posting this now

I read a fic where LLoyd shrunk and thought the idea was so nice I wanted to draw it and gift it to the author but for some reason I couldn't upload the image on ao3💔

if anyone knows how to get to them I'll be forever greatful omg😭

btw fic was called "Intrusive Thoughts and their Consequences" I think (go read it it's so peak🫶🫶)

[lorica-nia]

(author of the fic here)

omg I absolutly love this!! It's so beautiful!! The artstyle is so cute! I love the vibe so much!! 🫶

Thank you sooooo much 🥳😊

(If anyone's curious, this is the fic. I linked to your art at the end. I hope that's alright.)

[aioliravioli-69]

YAYYY🥰🥰🥰

Thank youuu and ofc it's alr🫶🫶

[aioliravioli-69]

idk why I'm only posting this now

I read a fic where LLoyd shrunk and thought the idea was so nice I wanted to draw it and gift it to the author but for some reason I couldn't upload the image on ao3💔

if anyone knows how to get to them I'll be forever greatful omg😭

btw fic was called "Intrusive Thoughts and their Consequences" I think (go read it it's so peak🫶🫶)

[saja-55]

Everything changed the day Amira was born. The world outside was collapsing — bombs, dust, screams, and fear. Yet inside a small room, by the dim light of a single candle, a new life began. While others were running for shelter, I was holding my newborn daughter, trembling, crying, trying to believe that something so pure could still exist in a place like Gaza. I named her Amira, because I wanted her to feel like a child of life —not a child of war.

  A year has passed since that night, but nothing has really changed Our house is still rubble, our streets still carry the smell of smoke, and the sky still echoes with sounds that make Amira flinch in her sleep. She has just turned one. She’s learning to walk, holding my finger with her tiny hand, laughing at the smallest things — as if she doesn’t see the destruction around her. She doesn’t know the word “loss.” She never met her father, but when she smiles, I see him there. Sometimes I watch her sleeping, and I wonder what kind of world she will grow up in — whether she will ever know what peace feels like, what home smells like. And yet, when she opens her eyes in the morning and says “mama,” everything becomes bearable again. I want to rebuild our home. Not just for the walls — but for her future. For Amira to have a small room, a safe place to dream, a life that belongs to her, not to war. I’m not asking for much. Only for a chance to give her a beginning filled with warmth instead of fear

Help Saja Rebuild a Life After Everything Fell Apart

My name is Saja. I am a mother, a wife, and just one of many women in Gaza trying to hold on — to hope, to my family, and to a life that no

 A Mother’s Message

To everyone reading this — thank you for listening to our story. Your kindness means more than words. Every share, every message, every donation — it all helps me rebuild not just a house, but a future for Amira. From the heart of Gaza, from a mother learning to hope again — we will live. And I will make sure my daughter grows up in a world that knows love more than war.

[aioliravioli-69]

more artttt (took me longer than I'd like to ever admit💔)

idk how to feel about the freckles tbhh

reference:

[aioliravioli-69]

been ruminating on this for too long

Go, my King of Hell Javier design

[nourasbasha]

Art By Ruby Mellen and Rama Duwaji.

This is not only my story. In Gaza, our stories blur into one another: some of us survived, some of us didn’t, and the bombs never cared to tell us apart. We are a people living through the largest genocide of this century.

I survived… but a part of me is still trapped there, in the moment I almost lost my life.

I return to my children trying to look strong, while the truth is that my family has no home, my husband has no work, and fear sits heavy on my chest every day.

And sometimes, when I quietly fall apart inside, a painful question passes through me: Would it have been easier if I had died? But then I see my children’s eyes… and that question fades, leaving only my plea to you.

We need your kindness and support, so we can stand again and so I can protect my family before despair swallows us completely.💔

[medusas-daughter]

The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.

And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.

Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.

[ministarfruit]

no one mourns the wicked, do they, big guy?

[aioliravioli-69]

I like to believe the dance club had no members cause these were the type of posters Chase was handing out

for context: I wanted to make a magazine cover at first and gave up midway lol

Btww! Any constructive criticism is appreciated!

My art's been pretty stagnant lately and any type of help in improving it would make me very happy :))

[fishinspacey]

THE BOY

[aioliravioli-69]

his outfit makes me kick and scream and cry

WHO'S GOT THE CHEST WINDOW NOW HUH????

[aioliravioli-69]

I like to believe the dance club had no members cause these were the type of posters Chase was handing out

for context: I wanted to make a magazine cover at first and gave up midway lol

Btww! Any constructive criticism is appreciated!

My art's been pretty stagnant lately and any type of help in improving it would make me very happy :))

[wushdxiuehciuhdoijei-deactivate]

LETS TAKE NARRATONIN TOGETHER

[nevernovember]

@aioliravioli-69

[aioliravioli-69]

let me get the straws-

[aioliravioli-69]

it's my first time animating something be nice pls😭

(yes I know the girls hair defies all logic, but let's pretend you didn't see that)

This was supposed to help me practice for smth bigger I'm working on but I'll see if I can even manage to finish it

[aioliravioli-69]

EY Y'ALL NEED TO CHECK OUT THIS ANIMATIC FROM @fishinspacey

LOVE THEIR SERIES SO MUCH IT HURTSSS

(hope none of y'all find my instaa 🥲🔫)

BUT LIKE FRRR

THE TALENT????

LEAVE SOME FOR THE REST OF US DUDE😭😭

That's The Spirit!

Hero and Alto, former friends turned rivals, are on their last year of school training to be aviators- a fancy term for "ghost hunter." The

GO FOLLOW THEM OR ELSE

[lilliferwashere]

From @inc0mple's Keys Are People Too. God tier fic, 10/10, leaves me dead on the side of the road with every chapter. I'm so invested in this fic it's unreal 😭

I also did a sketch of the dip at the end of the (not)square dance that shows more of Chase's outfit, which I will render eventually!

[aioliravioli-69]

OMMMMMGGGGGGGGG💞💞💞✨️✨️✨️

[fishinspacey]

HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEENNN 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻

thought it would be cool to bring back this old drawing trend of the haunted house reaction images lol!! uhh don’t think about the size of silver and bronze, i totally meant to make them look like normal human sizes 😀😀 totally didn’t forget to make them tiny..

and then in a super subtle promo for my comic, i drew my character and CB characters with swapped outfits! if you wanna read my comic, it’s called “That’s the Spirit!” on webtoon 😈🤙🏽 it’s about gay mexican ghost hunters.

anyways, happy halloween chasers!! 👻🎃🔮

[aioliravioli-69]

THE MASHUP WE ALL WANTED AND NEEDED ✨️✨️✨️✨️

THEY ALL LOOK ADORABLE

[aioliravioli-69]

y'all I've been turned into SAUCE

NOOOOOOO😭😭😭😭😭

[aioliravioli-69]

...

I have never realised before how much I needed a story like this

DDOGAK I LOVE YOU OMGGGG

I LOVE THE TWO MAIN GIRLS SO MUCH OMGG

they're so precious

Like, one's dealing with the traumatic effect of bullying and the other(while I'm not quite sure yet) is just doing her best to keep a certain secret and is dealing with a seemingly unloving (possibly abusive???) father (-> all of this is taken from the last scene of the free release)