glockgal

I draw stuff when I'm in the mood. Tag #fanarts

[nimonabigbang]

Tiny Specks Of Light | Rated Mature

Written by @thegrimshapeofyoursmile | Art by @glockgal

When a mysterious green knight shows up at Queen Valerin's court and challenges everyone to a game, her best knight Ambrosius takes it upon himself to defend her honor - and to finally, desperately prove that he is worthy of his place at court. But the game does not end as expected and Ambrosius finds himself bound by honor to meet the Green Knight again at a legendary place in exactly one year to reap what he, Ambrosius, sowed. The journey there is not what he expected, either … and will hold many revelations and twists that Ambrosius is entirely unprepared for.

Content warnings and tags below the cut:

Rating: Mature

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen, M/M

Fandom: Nimona (2023)

Relationships: Ballister Blackheart | Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin, Ambrosius Goldenloin & Nimona, Ballister Blackheart | Ballister Boldheart & Nimona

Characters: Ambrosius Goldenloin, Ballister Blackheart | Ballister Boldheart, Nimona (Nimona), Queen Valerin (Nimona)

Additional Tags: arthuriana, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight retelling, Character Growth, Medieval Fantasy, Fellas Is It Gay To Yearn For The Mysterious Knight Showing Up On Your Queen's Doorstep, Nature Spirit Nimona, Green Man Ballister, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Coming of Age (kinda), Nimona Big Bang 2024

Words: 11,526

Chapters: 3/3

[glockgal]

Huge shout out to @thegrimshapeofyoursmile for being an AMAZING writer and so fun to work with on this challenge! Forreal though, if you like The Green Knight (including the recent Dev Patel interpretation) you will absolutely love this fic. It's got everything. Nimona, Nimona again, sexytimes with Ambrosius and Ballister, a perfect pastiche to the Arthurian myth, beautiful prose and great characterization and dynamics. 10/10 I was a lucky duck for getting to drawr for this fic!

[glockgal]

keychains!

Hey fanartist frands!

If anyone is currently selling artsy keychains of their art, please link me to your store/pricing/etc?  I’m looking out for a friend who needs a keychain.

(I might need a keychain too XD)

[guerrillatech]

[catchymemes]

These circles are stationary

[minoritiesinpublishing]

100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction humanizes the Black experience and enlightens readers by helping them see the world through a Black author's perspective.

[teamjacobthot]

In honor of indigenous peoples day and everyday to support businesses owned by native Americans Why buy native items from these big corporations who never gaf

i know that’s right! here’s a good site to start

http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

BUY NATIVE LIST

About Native American fashion, clothing, and jewelry.

[mbtiarchive]

MEET ME @ THE ALTAR GOT SIGNED BY FUELED BY RAMEN!!! IM SO HAPPY FOR THEM :’)

if u guys don’t know they’re an all woc pop punk band (with 2/3 of the members being black women) that has really amazing stuff so far. them getting signed to a big record label like fbr is so groundbreaking and i just...i’m so ecstatic

[mbtiarchive]

here they are...i’m so unbelievably excited. with the recent resurgence of pop punk/emo music, i’m so ready for what their future will bring.

also you should stream their new single

[ovinegirl]

hi if anyone is an avid tea drinker like me here are some black-owned tea companies ive come across:

- just add honey tea company (based in atlanta; https://justaddhoney.net/)

- harlemroots on etsy (sells other things, but has a lot of amazing tea mixes!; https://etsy.me/3dp5YF2)

- ivy’s tea company (also sells a lot of awesome china sets; https://www.ivystea.com/)

[glockgal]

Can you guess that I started watching the TV show iZombie? I’m on Season 2 now, and while I’m far too old and jaded for queerbaiting to work, oh my god this show!!! I CAN’T.  It is beautiful fun entertainment overall. And Major Lilywhite* and Ravi Chakrabarti can get it, aka each other.

Me & Liv Moore will be eating brains & watching like:

*yes, that really is the white guy’s name and it’s glorious LMAO.

[indigenousfawn]

I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)

Some tribal owned grocers that ship:

Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)

Native Harvest (White Earth)

Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)

Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)

Ramona Farms (Gila River)

Tanka Bars (Oglala)

Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)

Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)

Ute Bison (Ute)

Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)

She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)

Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)

Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)

Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)

Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)

BONUS: coffee :)

Yeego Coffee (Navajo)

Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)

Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)

Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)

[fleursartificielles]

“Canada likes to present itself as, historically, a safe haven for Black people escaping slavery in the United States. However, the institution of slavery existed here until 1833 and was followed by an era of Jim Crow like segregation. There have been centuries of overrepresentation of Black people in state run institutions of confinement. White supremacy, as an institution in Canada, was shaped by the enslavement of Black people. In the almost two centuries since the abolition of slavery, Black people have been consistently criminalized, policed, and harmed by the state and civil society. Following Canadian Confederation in 1867, colonization and settlement continued to rapidly spread west of Ontario. Along with the establishment of the North-West Mounted Police and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, penitentiaries were constructed to extend Canadian law and assert colonial jurisdiction in the west.”

— Our Neighbors to the North: A Brief History of Prisons and Resistance to them in so-called Canada (via effectiveresistance)

[glockgal]

If you’re in the GVRD, donate and/or support* the Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund

*support = learn about, think about, chat about!

[superheroesincolor]

Black-Owned Bookstores to Support Right Now (and Always)

“Being an antiracist reader means not only educating ourselves, but also paying attention to the institutions we support financially. 

We put together a list of Black-owned independent bookstores, thanks in part to this Twitter thread and AfroTech’s list of 10 Black-owned online bookstores to support while at home…”

Keep reading at blog.libro.fm

[SuperheroesInColor faceb / instag / twitter / tumblr / pinterest / support ]

[glockgal]

When I was trying to get back into drawing last year, for some reason Johnny and Moira Rose were my subject of choice.  I drew this and then never posted it.  I wanted to just draw something to see if I could, for myself.  

It’s not the best and its unfinished, but in the spirit of Schitt’s Creek sweeping all them fancy TV awards, I found it again!  Congrats to Schitt’s Creek!

[glockgal]

any photoshop-equivalent recs?

So it looks like Adobe finally cottoned on to my CS6 and now it won’t open without requiring log-in or subscription or whatever nonsense, eurgh blah.

I guess it’s finally time for me to try a new drawing program. (Insert obligatory mourning over using Pshop for half my life, change is hard, etc).

Can anyone rec any drawing program good for an old Win 10 laptop, compatible with a super-old Intuos?  I tried Gimp many years ago and didn’t like it, but maybe it’s better now.  Any advice would be very helpful.

Ugh I feel discouraged.  But thanks, peeps.  <3

[notcuddles]

Luckily, there are a lot of options out there!

I know a LOT of people who swear by Clip Studio Paint (aka MangaStudio) and having used it a bit myself, I can confirm it is good…and also has a pretty steep/frustrating learning curve.  In part this is BECAUSE it works very similar to photoshop….except for the points where it doesn’t.  However if you go into it with this in mind, I think you’ll find it meets your needs pretty well and the price point is not unreasonable.  It’s also on sale pretty frequently.

I personally like to use Paint Tool Sai, which is really cheap ($50) and while it doesn’t have the broad functionality of Photoshop, it does do a really good job when it comes to its brushes and having them feel natural.  Honestly, I prefer it to Photoshop for painting and I like that it’s very stripped down and minimal.  That said, if you need to do a lot of color correction or rely on some of the more fancy photoshop features, CSP is probably a better option.

Honestly, if you just google photoshop alternatives, I think you’ll turn up a lot of things which might be worth trying and even the stuff that isn’t free will at least let you have a trial period to see if it works for you. 

Good luck in your search and sorry Adobe is the worst

[glockgal]

Ahhh thank you for the recs!  Learning curve, I think, is my biggest obstacle at this point.  Just gotta mentally convince myself that it’ll be fun trial and error, discovering something new and wrangling it to do what I want. XD

Clip Studio Paint (what a name, haha) looks like a good thing to try out, and if it goes on sale during holiday season, even better.

Thank you @melisusthewee and @stupidlullabies for the confirmation as well!  <3 You guys always have my back and ilu.

[glockgal]

Nile Freeman - The Old Guard (Marge voice: I just think she’s neat!)

[glockgal]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed in:

Nightcrawler (Rick and Lou Bloom) The Sisters Brothers (John Morris and Hermann Kermit Warm)

They really need to do a third movie together one day.  If only to fulfill my little completionist heart!

[glockgal]

Based very loosely on an anon I saw on @yusufnicolo​‘s tumblr that said: ‘apparently in the comics nile was planning to go to art school after leaving the army and now i can't stop thinking about her asking yusuf to teach her more’

And I was like kfjsdkjfsk Nile is artistic!!!! and dkjfskfjhsdkfh Joe falls back on his favourite subject matter for his and Nile’s art-time.