Twinkling Cake and Starry Frosting

NOT A KINK/DDLG BLOG white / cis female/ 30s/ Fandoms, cute stuff, and my girlfriends - who fall into the previous category as well.

[plaguedocboi]

I feel like starfish are one of those animals that are treated as very “normal” by people but absolutely shouldn’t be. Like they’re a wheel of repeating heads connected by a central stomach. They walk around using thousands of tiny sticky hydraulically powered tentacles. They have an eye on the end of each arm. Instead of having a mouth they just have an opening where their entire stomach can be pushed out to engulf prey. And they’re just allowed to exist like this. It’s not illegal or anything.

[twinklecupcake]

Scribbly sketch of 'Ghost Groom event' because lissen I need Yumeimi in a bridal dress and and

Ghost Prince, isn't there someone (a few someones) you forgot to ask?

[twinklecupcake]

Friend: Question: would this take the place of, be before, or be after Idia and the Ghost Bride event?

Me: I wanna say after, because I just think that peak comedy is "Thank god that's over - and here we go again."

Friend: Yes, but also Idia: * violently grabs Azul * I WAS ALMOST LEFT FOR DEAD LAST TIME GET HER THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!

[twinklecupcake]

#boss music playing in the background as the unofficial yumeimi protection squad rounds up#especially from the octovinelle corner

I just suddenly thought of 2003's The Haunted Mansion.

"If there are any objections-" "YEAH, I GOT A FEW OBJECTIONS."

[basedhighsenberg]

[vaethry]

📣 MY COMMISSION IS OPEN! 💖

✅ yume illust, comic page, and costume design

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[vaethry]

I have ONE MORE SLOT open this week!

[celesse]

Two lips meet in the spring. Love blooms 🌷💋🌷

xoxo💕

[the-disney-elite]

John Alvin’s poster concepts for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991).

John Alvin is the artist behind the iconic movie posters for such Disney classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In addition to his work in animation, Alvin also did posters for live-action films like E.T., Blade Runner and Jurassic Park.

Alvin’s wife, Andrea, has released a GORGEOUS book highlighting her husband’s many illustrated accomplishments. As Mrs. Alvin frequently assisted her husband with his work, she also has a lot of fascinating back-stories about the paintings. Reprinted below is her account of the creation of the poster for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast:

“There were many concept sketches done of the two main characters in various settings and poses, both by the staff at Disney and by John. John’s method of working on this aspect of a job was to do very rough thumbnails of various ideas. From that point he would do a larger sketch, around 8.5 x 11 inches, with more attention to detail and composition. He would then move on to color sketches and color comps.

“John did not do too many small color comps on this film. Instead, he did several medium size paintings as color comps and at least two paintings that would be considered finishes. One was the couple dancing in front of a stained glass window featuring a rose, and the other was an image of the couple bathed in an ethereal light. The second was the image used on the one-sheet.

“The poster was done before the film was complete and the characters were not completely finalized when John started painting. That was one of the reasons to have them in somewhat of a silhouette. His technique to create the mood was to begin with a dark background and bring the subjects into the light. He applied the paint with an airbrush, building his paint in transparent layers, similar to a watercolorist. Most airbrush artists use a number of elaborate friskets or masks to protect the areas they don’t want painted at that time. However, John felt that light didn’t have hard edges, and so his painting shouldn’t really have hard edges. It was a game for him to see how few friskets he could use in a piece of finished art. He was fascinated by what he called “heavy light”—the light Steven Spielberg had used in E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That was the look he was trying to emulate in the Beauty and the Beast art.

“The final piece was a hit and John was very pleased with it. The printers had some difficulty reproducing the magentas in the art, but in the end did a beautiful job. It was the beginning of a long and successful relationship with Disney feature animation.”

Amazon link: The Art of John Alvin by Andrea Alvin

[funstyle]

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand

[twinklecupcake]

Me seeing a bunch of new people in the notes of Yumeimi pics...

hi

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[dduane]

It's coming, cousins. ...This could be as big as March 15th if we made it that way...

[mollylele]

Everybody sing!

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Big Comic for Lady (ビッグコミックフォアレディ) / Shōgakukan (小学館) / Jun 1982 issue

[fruiitlins]

afterschool

[draconym]

I've been in an evil mood for hours and I just discovered there was a piece of glitter stuck in my contact lens so I'm going to assume it was that the whole time and now the curse has been lifted.

[draconym]

yeah it was the eye glitter. I'm fine now.

[gardensandghosts]

What in the fuck did you possibly do to get hit with the modern day “shard of magical ice in eye that freezes your soul and makes you unable to recognize joy” curse? Like come back here that is literally how the fairytale goes, WHAT happened to you

[draconym]

Cast in a rock opera about vampires that is set in the 80s. There's a lot of glitter.

[twinklecupcake]

Scribbly sketch of 'Ghost Groom event' because lissen I need Yumeimi in a bridal dress and and

Ghost Prince, isn't there someone (a few someones) you forgot to ask?

[twinklecupcake]

Friend: Question: would this take the place of, be before, or be after Idia and the Ghost Bride event?

Me: I wanna say after, because I just think that peak comedy is "Thank god that's over - and here we go again."

Friend: Yes, but also Idia: * violently grabs Azul * I WAS ALMOST LEFT FOR DEAD LAST TIME GET HER THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!

[parkchanwoohoo]

[thenamelesslily]

Part 2 of turning the overblots in witches like madoka's

Plus this extra WIP with Yuuna

[niyarest]

the amazing digital circus is a show about empathy and what it does to you if you go too long without a support system so the show starts with sympathizing with Pomni (the most empathetic person, easy), ep2 is empathizing with an NPC in a game (no flaws), ep3 is empathizing with a man who has dementia, ep4 is empathizing with someone who annoys you when they're unmasking, ep5 is asking you to empathize with an abused rich white woman and so on....

so it all works up to the empathy boss - a bush era edgelord millenial trans girl who thinks she's Max from Sam & Max and is inherently unworthy of love

and some people failed the empathy test

[sodamnbored]

I know Tumblr is full of posts about the virtues of commenting on AO3 fics and such. But like. It works.

I just knocked out 8.5k words in one single day for a chapter update because of one reader leaving one of the most absurdly endearing comments I’ve ever gotten. That is unheard of levels of productivity for me.

The power of the fandom. The power of the comment.

[rachelteazer]

This is very true. The power of commenting 🙌

But also. I got a LOT of comments on my most recent fic, most of them from people whose work I love and have (enthusiastically!) commented on myself. I can’t confirm it, but I think some of them left a comment for me because I left a comment for them.

That was never my intention as an avid commenter (I started reading/commenting way before I started writing), and I certainly don’t want anyone to think it’s tit for tat. But I think it’s a cool bonus!