BRUISE!

amateur photographer & aspiring writer

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introduction 🗯

~ hi, i'm bruise. i'm a junior highschool student with the grace of a limping dog.

this blog is my very own journal for photos (that one up there is of my taking), attempts at writing poetry and shitpost, amongst other things i feel the need to dump into tumblr's heavily degenerative void.

as for my interests; i like dc, shameless (us), sally face, neon genesis evangelion and sometimes death note. #1 flatline/nika.

be my moot! :)

[dr4k0ns-deactivated20250915]

mail jeevas 🚗

[cosmicpoutine]

do you guys wanna play a game? i give you lineart you color that shit in bc im lazy as fuck

[cosmicpoutine]

okay so here's the lineart (and a png ver) i know it's not the most ideal for this kind of "event", but im too lazy to make something else

some rules tho:

don't remove my watermark

tag me if you post it

if you remove my watermark i will eat your parents

can't alter the lineart in any way except maybe color

if you post without credit i will eat you too

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[willothewispwisteriadawn]

We need to talk about Tartt’s character descriptions

More Donna Tartt praise.

She writes human physical descriptions in the most genuine and true-to-life ways. I didn’t even realize how many books do not go into the actual nuance of human appearances until I read TSH and Goldfinch.

I think most books kind of categorize people as pretty, ugly, or plain then lean into what generally makes people pretty, ugly, or plain plus hair and eye colors. I love how Tartt’s books make characters appear how the majority of people really do: an assortment of specific details. There’s Boris’s bitten nails and how Henry is big and square but does not carry himself as if he is. Bunny is a once-muscled guy (now more chubby) whose naturally good looks are starting to get a little sloppy. His nose is also a bit small/sharp for his face shape. Camilla is pretty, and we hear about her thick ankles and the way her curls rest at her temples. Francis is nice-looking because he carries and styles himself well, but we hear that those things compensate for his kind of beaky nose and boney angles.

Pippa is another great example! Theo describes her looks as tender and precious. She comes across as very cute in a homely way. But we hear that her eyes look “naked” because her lashes are so pale (I can imagine this so well!) and that her nose is long. Her cheeks are thin. Theo notes these things, and thinks she’s pretty anyway; he assumes he must have some personal affinity for her and is given a wake-up call when Everett also finds these traits cute.

OH actually let me squeeze in Mr. Barbour here. Because lol???

His eyes were a queer unstable gray and his hair was pure white, which made him seem older than he was until you noticed that his face was young and pink — boyish, even. His ruddy cheeks and his long, old-fashioned nose, in combination with the prematurely white hair, gave him the amiable look of a lesser founding father, some minor member of the Continental Congress teleported to the twenty-first century.

This is so specific and so easy to see. It stuck out to me when I read it, and my mom mentioned it to me when she read it. She said she was really hit by Andy’s dad’s description and thought it was funny but did a really good job delivering an image.

It’s just so real and gets at how normal people actually are: not always pretty in a “safe” way. Tartt has the guts to give you a description of an actual unique, textured person and say “This is nice.” Or, in Bunny’s case, give someone who is basically handsome but not necessarily pleasant-looking. Theres so much nuance, and it’s honest.

It kind of made me rethink how I write human descriptions. There are “safe” things to point out that become a little insubstantial if you combine too many of them: “The pretty girl has glossy hair and curves and bright blue eyes.” And then there’s going into actual shapes and the way people carry themselves and how some features look against others. It honestly just makes the characters really pop and they’re easy to envision.

[caramelbyblur]

Conversational Russian scene word for word

[se-qo]

everybody tell duke how good his moth costume looks or i'll blow this place up

[vinelark]

everyone in young justice separately sending this tweet to tim

[taters-for-tots]

yj98 if you even care

[wobubling]

Fake cover from the fab five era of teen titans! This was so incredibly fun to make. This is Wally’s 57th consecutive head injury btw

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The last resort

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IMPULSE - BART ALLEN

Digital Illustration

[lingziziovo]

A little GIF

[ectonurites]

Was messing around in After Effects a while back making little animated logos for the YJ kids... sort of imagining what a title sequence for a cartoon about them could be like

[cosmicpoutine]

do a flip

there's an art print and a speedpaint

[danield1909]

while I love the art as always I don't fw the music tbh

[cosmicpoutine]

how dare you, that's minecraft ost

[birf]

boy group matt and mello with “good so bad”