Pastel to Retinal Damage Pipeline

| Foo/Petya | 24 y.o. | they/them | nb ace | Russian | personal blog! ! My art blog is @foopsie

[yfel-axel]

I don’t care that Christmas is over

[merryweathart]

apprentices and teachers by day, daughters and fathers by night

[am-iaou]

Evening coffee ☕🌌

Begging for Oru and Qifrey to catch a break PLEASEEE the last chapters made me go insane. insane !!! It's been so long since I last drew WHA fanart but I'm participating in a fan event so I've been cooking up stuff for months hehehe..

[owainigo]

strohl piece I did a year ago for @zinedenuit

[questbedhead]

I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.

I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.

So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.

Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".

Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.

[kyraneko]

This is actually a really cool variant solution to a real historical problem, wherein either primogeniture or other profoundly shitty customs led to wealthy parents having insufficient resources to provide for all of their children in a manner consistent with their station.

Historically, the Church and its widespread monastic structure functioned as a dumping ground for second/third/etc sons and all the daughters one can't afford to marry off adequately, with the military eventually picking up the slack for the former post-Reformation to the point where it's been argued that the need for something to occupy these dispossessed sons played a role in Europe's ongoing conflicts between its nations and the eventual push of imperialism and colonization over the rest of the world.

In a world where homosexuality were more accepted, it would offer a new option: spare a comparatively-small outlay of resources from the main family fortune to equip a house and accoutrements, which would be reabsorbed into the family as a return inheritance in a few decades, and contract a marriage which would be deliberately unable to produce legitimate offspring.

You get the advantages of creating marital ties with another wealthy family, the people married therein have a spouse and the status achievements that go with marriage, and the risk that your child goes off and marries someone unsuitable or inconvenient is removed entirely, as is the risk that they could marry someone and have legitimate, inheritance-claiming children with them. Sure, they can have affairs and thus get children if they're married to a same-sex spouse, but those children cannot be passed off as legitimate issue of the marriage, and so they pose less of a threat to the the main body of the family's wealth.

And, thus: perfectly reasonable reason why your pseudohistorical fictional characters can find themselves in a same-sex arranged marriage!

[aqueerkettleofish]

"Nicholas, we've arranged for you to marry Eric, in the neighboring kingdom."

"But father, I'm not...."

"I'm well aware. I've just decided that you shouldn't reproduce."

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[3liza]

THE MOM IS RIGHT. DONT GET RID OF PHYSICAL MEDIA. YOU WILL REGRET IT. YOU WILL REGRET IT. DONT LET SPOTIFY CONTROL YOUR POSSESSIONS

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

The mom is absolutely right. Also, I can tell just from this one shot that they have enough room for them. This isn't a studio apartment situation.

[vaspider]

I still have all my copious piles of Tori Amos bootlegs and b-sides, and just... piles of others.

[nemesismess]

Even Spotify can randomly just restrict content for whatever reason

Heres a screenshot of a remix album by a artist I really like that I’ve been listening to for years then all of a sudden Spotify gives me this prompt

With companies keeping content digital only then dropping it with no prompt, physical preservation is important

[mediati0nal-field]

i absolutely adore this show i’m so happy it exists 😌

[nefja]

I-I'm sorry but I can't stop thinking about this

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

My roommate just called from the kitchen to ask what was wrong because I laughed so hard I gave myself a coughing fit.

[brown-spider]

Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933

[flagellant]

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it

[toskarin]

you can't really place all the blame for bad female character design on artists because a lot of that comes from higher up the chain of command, which is something I learned the hard way when a client had me draw breasts and eyelashes on a wasp so that it was obvious she's a girl wasp

[snakesinsocks2005]

Op I'm so sorry but I had to immortalise the vision this post gave me

[toskarin]

I can't post the actual art here but it's actually uncanny how close the second image is to what it looked like

[chipsncookies]

Revy, Brent and Gram

[chipchopclipclop]

drawing my alchstars wifeys to get back in the swing of things after a few days

[galacticgoldfishart]

Guess who’s my favorite!

[mcapriglioneart]

how to draw arms ? ? 

[swagginsloths]

holy fuck

[shoutsofthunder]

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

[mcapriglioneart]

yes !!

[empresspinto]

but how much extend

[thunar]

^^^^^^^^^^

[kvothe-kingkiller]

[gabbyzvolt25]

I NEARLY CHOKED

[lifeofcynch]

ENJFDFNFATFVFDF

[deactivated-blog]

finally. i can be accurate

[shiny-charming]

This is too fucking great to not reblog

[wishem]

I give it MASCLES

BIG MACHO

[keithislactoseintolerant-deacti]

🤣🤣

[urhella-gaychloe]

LMAOOOOOO

[fernacular]

Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

[fernacular]

So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting: 

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

[bachium]

Saleh/サレフ　　  　　

[arcane-gold]

“your spells are always so thoughtful. much more eloquent than your words”