Jay

💥he/they💥I make Gifs and Art sometimes 

[escuerzoresucitado]

[thestoryofaslut]

about fucking time

[fluffylandshark]

Reblog to give the prev person some dopamine.

[evevoli]

original story concept: flight feathers (working title)

aka me shoving my new OCs in everyone's faces for a few minutes. low and behold, my gang of losers:

from left to right: Phoenix, Selene, Helios, and Killian

so a wayward beam of divine insanity lightning struck me about four months ago in the form of the first genuinely coherent original story idea i've had in... basically forever and i am finally crawling out of my mad ornithologist lab to talk about it, if only so i have something to point to when i start tagging random innocuous text posts with the names of characters no one's ever heard of. this project is perhaps the most self-indulgent Autism Fueled venture i have ever gone on and it is so fun actually

the basic gist of the story is that local Teenage Bird Hater Selene accidentally gets isekai'd to a Greco-Roman/baroque-inspired city on a floating archipelago hidden in the clouds, inhabited by bird-worshipping winged people. there she befriends a strange one-winged fortune teller named Phoenix, who takes her in while she looks for a way back down to earth.

as a certified Bird Disliker(tm) for reasons she will absolutely not disclose, the idea of being trapped in this city with its strange bird-entrenched culture has got to be Selene's personal hell. but she's already made a few good friends and is learning a lot, so hey... if you ignore the castle surrounded by doves looming off in the distance, and the general poor sentiment surrounding corvids, maybe it's not such a bad place to be after all.

...until it turns out the King himself might have it out for her, much to the dismay of his son and loyal knight, Prince Helios and Captain Killian.

there is. A Lot more to it than that lol—and at least like 8 more characters i haven't gotten to drawing yet—but there's your elevator pitch. to explain the world a bit more, everyone has bird wings to fly with, their own Bird Familiars(tm), and rides around on pegasi and different species of griffin. the world consists of little islands connected by bridges, with the city developed vertically, and sort of resembles a fusion between the Aether mod in Minecraft and Zephyr Heights in MLP G5.

and now the most important thing, the Closeups

some notes:

Selene is transfem :), Helios is transmasc only because i tried giving him curled ram horns and got so frustrated trying to draw them i just gave up and gave him the ewe ones instead

Selene is a Wolf Kid and really vibes with the lyrics to Angel of Darkness on a personal level

Helios's wings are weak and undersized so he can't take off or fly for very long on his own

i like to consider Helios my personal challenge to design the most unapologetically cringe and archetypal character ever. i am going to make a character that is so sad little loser prince. kicks him

Phoenix is a childhood nickname, Killian is just a shortened form of Achilles. Phoenix absolutely hates his birth name. Killian is ambivalent towards his

Phoenix lost his left wing in an accident that changed the trajectory of his life forever teehee :3c

the little blue jay is named Celeste, the crow is Peanut, and the tawny owl is Athena :)

and that is all i shall reveal in this post >:) this idea has been rotting my brain from the inside out for months now so don't hesitate to shoot me an ask if you're wondering about anything :]

[dkettchen]

I am obsessed with her

[fishforjay]

Mary on a Cross

BkDk — Pieta

[fishforjay]

Got some flat colors down!

[fishforjay]

Current WIP!

[marybatson]

MALIK WHITE in BLACK ADAM (2022) #2

First of all, this “black equals bad, white equals good” crap: you do realize we don’t do that anymore. Second—your guy is dying. Gave me his ring—left me in charge, right? Well, then—a transporter, you say?

[fishforjay]

Finally made some more art! This is a MHA/Star Wars mash-up because it just makes sense to me that Anakin has Bakugou vibes

[fishforjay]

WIP of Witcher!Yen

[fishforjay]

Trying out procreate for the first time! I’ve only sketched before on paper so this is definitely a challenge 😆

[fishforjay]

Rewatching S1 of The Witcher and I forgot how fucking GOOD that scene at the end of episode 2 was where Jaskier is playing Toss a Coin for the first time and it’s cutting between the Aretuza Eel scene and Ciri and Dara and it’s just so RAW like what I wouldn’t give to be able to experience that again that scene is the SHIT and just argh amazing

[fishforjay]

So I’ve been trying to come up with some possible ideas for the significance of Jaskier’s jewelry this season. First, this is the necklace we are given:

Obviously there’s the tuning fork, as an artist he is probably using that to tune his lute, I know I’ve done that with my mandolin and guitar 

But I definitely have some questions about the ring. It’s just a plain gold ring. It’s not the one form the first season, that one had a thicker band and symbols on it. So where is it from? Is it a past lover’s ring? Is it one that he has been saving for someone? Does he just keep a gold ring on hand for fun? 

And then the ring Jaskier wears on the middle finger of his right hand this season is also different from last season. It looks more like a knot design than anything else. 

Season 1 on the left and Season 2 on the right

He switched both what the ring was and the placement of the ring on his right hand. There’s a lot of possibilities as to why or it could be he’s just a bard with lots of different jewelry and he wants to be fancy. 

If anyone has ideas feel free to add them! 

[fishforjay]

Just thinking about…Jaskier calling Yennefer “my wife” as an inside joke and then slowly over time Yennefer realizes she likes hearing it. Maybe it isn’t a joke. Maybe she likes the way his name rolls off his tongue and she wants to call him husband in return…

Oh wait I just wrote that 😆

Read:

Don. Veish. Mein.

[fishforjay]

There are two reactions Witcher fans have to this Jaskier quote:

“They come for the Elves, Yennefer. They’ll come for the dwarves. And sooner or later they will come for everyone. Anyone that they deem the ‘other’ so…”

1) non!human Jaskier headcanons are alive and well head so empty

2) Jaskier’s emphasis on “other” is an indication of his queer identity in this essay I will…

Or possibly people are having both reactions simultaneously

[cracks-and-chaos]

I’m actually surprised more people aren’t picking up the reference here: This quote is referencing a famous poem about the holocaust. First They Came..., by Martin Niemöller: 

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

When I first heard Jaskier’s quote this poem was the first thing that came to mind. It used to be really famous, even having a picture book adaptation called “Terrible Things,” by Eve Bunting. I’m genuinely surprised it’s no longer in the common consciousness. 

[fishforjay]

@cracks-and-chaos I actually made a post about that there’s a reason this post says “fan reactions” and not “what is this referencing” because I think the poem is pretty obvious but a lot of fans used it to craft some of their own theories based on the meaning of the quotation.

As well, many people reference it as a poem but the poetic form was popularized off of Neimöller’s lectures. There are actually different versions of this quote because Neimöller would often speak extemporaneously at events and didn’t use the same wording every time.

Pretty interesting real-world tie-in the writers used for the show!

[fishforjay]

The way that Eskel’s death and Ciri’s possession were directly meant to mirror each other is just--- 

With Eskel, Geralt makes the final blow, he sees Vesemir in danger and makes the call. Similar to Ciri if they had just had more time, created the right potion, spoke the correct spell, he could have been saved. But Geralt made the choice to save Vesemir at the cost of Eskel. 

Then with Ciri, when Vesemir goes to make the same move, to kill Ciri to save the others, it is now Geralt standing in his way, refusing to let Vesemir make the final blow. Now obviously Ciri holds the future of the continent in her hands and killing her wouldn’t stop the demon the same way you can stop a Leshen but the parallels are clearly meant to be seen by the audience. 

The first time Geralt is making the killing blow. The second time, he is standing in the way. 

[fishforjay]

Can we talk, I mean CAN WE TALK about the implications of Fringilla being taken away alongside Cahir. Because for all the fellow fans of the books we know what this means. Because Cahir being imprisoned by Emhyr and being labeled as a traitor to Nilfgaard is what leads to him joining the Hansa alongside Geralt and Company. 

So what I’m hearing here is that we are going to see Fringilla joining up with the Geralt and Ciri and Yen crew sometime in the future. IF THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS I WILL LITERALLY ----

[fishforjay]

I think it’s pretty clear to many people who watched The Witcher that this Jaskier quote from S2E04:

“They come for the Elves, Yennefer. They’ll come for the dwarves. And sooner or later they will come for everyone. Anyone that they deem the ‘other’ so…eventually no artist is safe”

Is meant to mirror this quotation from Pastor Martin Niemöller referring to the Nazis:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

And they really don’t try and hide this fact either. They use the same anaphora and general sentence structure

But just for those who maybe missed it (let’s be honest it was a fast paced season) Here you go!