Trans guy whose first love is literature - particularly the Coldfire Trilogy. Many, many other fandoms will be found here, though. Can be found on AO3 as The_First_and_the_Last, where all my work is (eventually) cross-posted. Also on Bluesky as thefirstandthelast.bsky.social. Side blog for Coldfire Trilogy aesthetics is forest-of-jahanna. Side blog for politics and queer solidarity is neocount-news
Do you have any tricks on anatomy?? Or like what shapes should be for where??
for more accurate proportions, I like to mark down some landmarks early, so clavicle/pelvis/feets/etc. and then go back and add and refine based on that
for shapes, there's not really any specific assigned shapes like "the arm should be a cylinder and the shoulder should be a circle." I usually like to think of shapes more abstractly. The stricter you are, the stiffer your figures will look.
maybe one shape thing is to think of the torso a little like a bean? That's what my figure drawing profs teach lol
Also you can use references help guide you. In the above image, I have my reference photo, the action lines I traced from it and then a drawing based on that
Welcome to Breedvember! This is an event/challenge based around breeding kinks. There are 67 different prompts with two prompts listed for each day and 7 bonus prompts that you can use as swaps. I’ll be opening a collection on AO3 on the first of November so look out for that too!
If you have any questions, please send an ask.
Rules/Guidelines:
This is an 18+ only event and is focused on NSFW content!
Any fandom, as well as original content, are welcome to join!
There are no minimum or maximum word counts for fic.
The challenge is to try to have one prompt filled for each day, but it’s just that, a challenge! Feel free to fill as many or as few prompts as you’d like.
Dead dove content is allowed for this fest, just please make sure to tag it appropriately.
The prompts are based around the idea of a breeding kink, so pregnancy is not necessary for the fics/art. In fact, M/M and F/F pairings are completely fine as long as the fanwork leans into the breeding kink (i.e. dirty talk, imagining scenarios, roleplay, etc.)
If you are posting on Tumblr or Twitter, please make sure to use the #breedvember, so I can reblog your fanfics/art/etc.
which movies have you watched the most amount of times? they dont have to be your actual favorite movies, just the ones youve rewatched most. for example: mine are the final destination movies and scream
"Consensual, but still weird" is underrated in toxic freaky shipping world. There are many ways you can make it weird while still having everyone agree to it
Behold, the one thing that can make the Dread Lord of Mordor, he who felled Numenor and served as the right hand of Morgoth, absolutely shit his drawers in terror;
There are very few situations in the Third Age that could not have benefited from Huan Being There
Frodo is suffering from the Horrors of The Ring? Well you see Huan is there and also a dog. The purpose of Dog is to Lessen Horrors. Mister Frodo will be okay.
Pippin and Merry are causing shenanigans? Well Huan can just sit on them can't he.
Legolas makes his smart-ass remark about 'going to find the sun' and Huan takes a look at the people who can't walk on fucking snow and promptly tackles Legolas into the snow.
Huan lets Gimli ride him into battle. They both have the best time of it.
Gandalf is standing there like. "Look, Huan, I thank you for all you've done but you are not supposed to be here--Stop that. Stop giving me puppy dog eyes. You are smarter than the average elf. Stop that. No I don't have treats--'
Gandalf is lying, he does have treats. Huan knows he has treats. Huan also knows that he makes Gandalf feel a little less lonely and a little less homesick.
Huan and Shadowfax meet in a peaceful moment. Huan immediately play-bows and frisks and the two of them have zoomies over several dozen acres of open fields. Huan bounces back wagging his tail; Shadowfax has a very "you did not see that" expression.
Not enough military-adjacent sci-fi takes advantage of the humble rearguard action tbh.
(Not talking about hard military sci-fi since I haven’t read enough of it to say one way or the other. I’m talking soft quasi-military sf like Trek)
Like if you think about it narratively they’re incredibly useful because it’s a type of battle where:
1. No matter how spectacularly well the people fighting one do, it’s inherently not gonna successfully take down the big bad. Because the battle that could have done that is already lost. So it’s a time when they can win (achieve their objective of a successful orderly retreat) without winning. Always useful in a story where you need your protagonists to not win until the end.
2. You have an excuse for your Very Clever Plucky Band of Protagonists to be taking on a much much bigger and better armed force without it being just plain stupid to do so. No idiot balls here, just an acknowledgment that we inherently have to be asking a small force to hold off a large one, so the rest of our large force can get clear.
3. Great potential for a heroic sacrifice that doesn’t feel contrived BUT a sacrifice is not required. As mentioned in point 1 your protagonists can also do really well without it screwing up the pacing of the story. This means that your audience will not know for sure which way it is going to go based on the rules of storytelling. So you can get genuine tension/suspense and genuine catharsis.
4. Battle tactics and objectives can be complex and difficult to get across on page or on screen at the best of times, but “cover everyone else’s retreat from a lost battle” is easy to understand, sufficiently high stakes, and emotionally impactful—much more so than any convoluted “get the macguffin” or “take this territory” could ever be.
5. The combo of high stakes, inability to retreat (the whole point is they’re already retreating) and desperation mean it’s a perfect excuse for your protagonists to pull out all the stops. That experimental weapon that has a one in three chance of blowing up? Might as well use it because if we don’t not only are we dead, all our friends retreating behind us are too.
6. A rearguard action is easy to make unambiguously heroic or at least more morally defensible many other kinds of battle. Whatever lead up to this, right now our allies are just trying to not get killed/captured and we are standing between them and a force that wants to overwhelm and kill/capture them. This works even when the antagonist force isn’t evil or dishonorable, because “chase a retreat to try to turn it into a rout or full surrender” is considered pretty acceptable in many kinds of warfare, so your Honorable Enemy is likely to engage in it to an extent—it’s not reserved for the Evil Forces of Evilness.
im not immune to the condition that makes you think "but what if the evil alien/robot/eldritch entity/whatever that kills everyone was nicies to me. because im literally chill and have good vibes."
As a security guard, should I perhaps be a little more subtle about how bad I am at recognizing faces?
Perhaps.
But is it not, on the other hand, incredibly funny to point to a guy in line for the door facing the other direction and wearing a face mask, sunglasses, hoodie, and ball cap and tell my partner, "Hey, that's Shitty Rick, he's not allowed in here"?
Always ordered the same weird drink at some point every single time without fail
Same belt
Same shoes
Changed clothes but kept coming back with the same person
Distinct body odor
Missing a canine tooth
Uniquely pronounced superorbital ridge
Skin condition
Birthmark
Unique facial tic
Kept trying to get into the same place, ALWAYS in full disguise- Wig, glasses, clothing, makeup, etc- so consistently that every time a "new" person showed up, it was them
Mentioned their Russian mother to every person they spoke to, to the point that "they would not shut up about their Russian mom" was enough to know they'd been there
Left and came back in a full face mask but changed nothing else
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