🌷mal🌷

mal, they/them 🌷d&d • art • ts4 🌷 magnoliidae@bsky

[magnoliidae]

hello! i'm mal, they/them, white, chronically ill, thinking too much about my ocs this account is for: my art, ts4 builds/screenshots, dnd, inspo reblogging, and some occasional fandom stuff on twitter @ ambrosiorum

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[magnoliidae]

ahaha ive not shared my art here (or elsewhere in ages lol) but! gonna try to get back into it~

some 4ish month old art of my undead ranger being moody bc they inherited some jewelry from their body and then got almost kidnapped and a lot was happening :'-)

[pmamtraveller]

Gustav Klimt garden paintings

[magnoliidae]

ahaha ive not shared my art here (or elsewhere in ages lol) but! gonna try to get back into it~

some 4ish month old art of my undead ranger being moody bc they inherited some jewelry from their body and then got almost kidnapped and a lot was happening :'-)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

using lemon slice to draw the side of the eyes by 画久久

[magnoliidae]

oops, i keep forgetting to also post new stuff here. anyways:

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[magnoliidae]

⛈️ a tempest’s wrath ⛈️

[magnoliidae]

oops, i keep forgetting to also post new stuff here. anyways:

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[astrangebird]

I love you I love you I love you I love you all so much

[magnoliidae]

recent art commemorating the end of my d&d group's four-year campaign :')

[camelidae]

You are strongly advised not to feed the ducks in this pond.

[magnoliidae]

recent art commemorating the end of my d&d group's four-year campaign :')

[magnoliidae]

✨magical not-a-girl girl✨

[magnoliidae]

✨magical not-a-girl girl✨

[senshis-top-surgery]

I like to imagine that Senshi isn't acting that different as an Elf, its just coming across different bevause of his looks.

I like to imagine this is how other Dwarves see him, a delicate pretty boy. It's just other races can't read Dwarf body language that well.

Then he's an elf and suddenly they see his mannerisms in a different light, but he's always been this way. They just didn't have Dwarf Goggles.

Like how other Half Foots instantly clock middle aged Chilchuck but everyone else thinks uwu baby

[cloverandcrossbones]

I think this is supported by the text!

Specifically, in how other dwarves like Senshi's old mining party treat him. Even knowing Senshi was still a child, they still expected more "dwarvenly" behaviour from him than he exhibited.

The text tells us multiple times that Senshi isn't your typical dwarf. He doesn't have the usual dwarf skills and his interests are pretty unusual. It's hard to tell early on because the only other dwarf we see is Namari and she reads as pretty butch to us...but I think it's actually Senshi who moreso doesn't conform well to dwarf gender roles.

Sure, he might seem like a macho, stoic, spartan-living survivalist to us, but, I think, to other dwarves he's kind of an effeminate nature-loving hippy pretty-boy.

I think that his mannerisms get overlooked because he's a beefy guy with a big beard; but, if you look closely, he's always been prone to pretty poses:

And some of them aren't really that different from his elf-form poses...

(that first pose is actually in the manga but he's partially blocked by Laios so it wasn't as clear of a visual for this purpose)

Senshi has always had a bit of a flair for dramatic and emotive posing, it just becomes more evident when he is in elf form because of our own gender biases: to us, dwarves seem more masculine and elves seem more feminine or androgynous.

To half-foots, Senshi might be the epitome of macho manliness, but to other dwarves, Senshi is unusually feminine. I read Senshi as a gay bear-type. He might be big, bearded, and buff, but he still has a queer flair to him. He is confident in himself and changes for no one, even if his behaviour and interests make other people uncomfortable.

[cloverandcrossbones]

I wanted to add a few more examples but I hit the photo limit on my earlier reblog.

I think the biggest difference between elf-Senshi and dwarf-Senshi is that elf-Senshi doesn't know what to do with his long limbs and hair.

He is used to wearing a helmet all the time which keeps his hair in place, so he has to keep flipping his hair out of his face dramatically.

He keeps crossing his legs because I don't think his legs were long enough to really DO that before.

He also usually carries a big pack on his back and hanging onto the straps kept his hands busy. His pack is too heavy for him now so he isn't wearing it and keeps resting his hands on his upper arms or face instead.

He often touched his face or stroked his beard when he was in thought, but now he doesn't have a thick beard to stroke so he just looks like he's voguing

Ryoko Kui is a master at depicting the different anatomies of the respective races. Things like the length of characters' limbs inform how they have to carry themselves and that influences how they are perceived.

Senshi takes this lesson to heart.

[magnoliidae]

I had no choice but to draw him, simply No Choice

[magnoliidae]

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