Polite with a Sardonic Twist

Fangirl, Dragon Rider, Compulsive Doodler Animal Lover, Snark Master, Film & TV Aficionado, Book Hoarder, Ancient History & Mythology Enthusiast. This is an anything-I-feel-like-posting blog. The key ingredient is that it must be beautiful, funny, and/or thought-provoking. Multifandom, but currently really into Our Flag Means Death and The Old Guard with a side bit of Kylux and The Magnus Archives. I unabashedly prefer baby elephants to baby humans.  *Tumblr keeps eating my edits so please forgive the fact that none of my links/pages with all my original content work anymore* 

[lizzybizzyart]

The Old Guard Big Bang 2022 || @oldguardbigbang

THE LOST ASTRONAUT

written by @gallifreyburning and @takiki16

art by meeeeeee

Nicky is lost in deep space after he and his crew are separated in an explosive getaway from Merrick Station. He wakes up in the random ship he stole in the midst of chaos, adrift impossibly far away due to emergency light speed jump. He’s desperate to repair the ship’s engines and get back to civilization before the isolation affects his physical and mental health. But first, he has to get to the root of the the slow, creeping feeling that he isn’t actually alone out here in the vast emptiness of space. There is someone else hiding on the ship.

[goldheartedsky]

I love a good process gif so I wanted to share a couple here as a little "behind the scenes" into how my WIPs turn into finished pieces!

I tend to go in three or four steps, sketch/lineart, flats, rendering, then lighting! I always love seeing how much life the rendering adds but especially how much magic the lighting adds at the end.

Here are a couple more sketch/lineart vs final shots!

So that's my process! Sometimes it absolutely feels like witchcraft but that's part of the fun of art!

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted

[hiscarissima]

Wait what.

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Sometimes old ladies had to kick the ladder out from under their stepfathers when they were girls and that’s valid

[saint-batrick]

oh, my little old lady murder story was her replacing the medication in her abusive husband's capsules with rat poison.

"back in the day, our grandmothers worked on their marriages and didn't get divorced!" nah, friend, they COULDN'T get a divorce so sometimes they killed their fuckin husbands. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smashasaurus-rex]

My grandma murdered her first husband the first time he beat their daughter.

[sandersgrey]

[thatdisasterauthor]

My college was next to an assisted living facility and one time we went over there to draw people’s portraits so we could get practice drawing older people. The lady I was drawing idly told me that she "dealt quite handily with her first husband” while making a stabbing gesture. Five minutes later she requested I make sure not to draw her double chin. I honored that request.

[need-a-new-reality]

So when I was a child my grandmother told all these great stories about growing up in the Alaskan wilderness. Amazing bad ass stories about her and my great-grandmother. I recently asked my mom why my great-grandmother moved from Texas to Alaska in the first place. Turns out my Great-grandfather was abusive to my great grandmother for years and she lived with that until the first time he hit my grandmother, who was like three at the time, my great-grandmother got him very drunk and beat him to death then moved to Alaska to hide from the cops.

[drst]

Men don't realize their life expectancy went up thanks to divorce.

[the-bibrarian]

Figure 9.3 shows that the number of males killed by intimate partners dropped by 71.4% between 1976 and 2002. Researchers and advocates for battered women attribute this dramatic decline to the widespread availability of support services for women, including shelters, crisis counseling, hotlines, and legal measures such as protection and restraining orders. These services offer abused women options for escaping violence and abuse other than taking their partners' lives. Other factors that may have contributed to the decline are the increased ease of obtaining divorce and the generally improved economic conditions for women.

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[gaal-dornick]

happiest of birthdays to my most beloved @usermarwan! a little gift for you who is one of the greatest gifts this fandom brought me 💗💙

[mannadraws]

Went back and updated that Nicky because I didn’t like the flower. I like it better now!

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[ID: Digital fanart of Nicky from the Old Guard. He is standing facing forward, holding a completely white sword that is shattering at the end of the blade. The hand holding the sword is armored and his other hand is bare. In his bare hand he holds a white lily flower against his chest with a golden halo around it. The stem and leaves of the flower extend below his hand in a white outline. He is wearing armor similar to Templars in Dragon Age: Inquisition that is painted a heavily textured grey to make the metal look old. He is wearing a cloak over his armor that is painted with textures in orange, purple, and gold. The bottom of the cloak fans out and resembles the outside edge of fire in coloring. The cloak has very small details in thin, gold lines. His expression is sad with a smear of blood across the right side of his cheek, crossing over his nose and up onto the left side of his forehead. The background is dark green with spots of lighter green and gold and outlines of plants. End ID]    

[mannadraws]

Tiny, tiny details

[goldheartedsky]

Movie Night

Booker’s not a fan of horror movies while Andy’s not sure what’s supposed to be so scary about a decapitation, but at least they’ve got snacks!

Drawn for this month’s @theartguard prompt: Food

[ramsranch]

if you'll never see 'em coming you'll never have to hide

[hoax1918]

Look,Yusuf!

[sherlockig]

“I'm folding stuff… and that's okay.”

[dorywhynot]

A significant act of kindness was a certain someone carefully folding his red silk.

"Do you need anything folded? Shirt, your socks?"

[amuseoffyre]

“You wear plain things well”

[countessagaby]

Happy one year anniversary to ofmd!! 

[waldmaerchen]

Forget the last WIP, I started something new and it’s soft ;-;

[un-monstre]

What's everyone's worst OFMD opinion? Mine is my genuine belief that if Izzy had let Lucius dick him down in E5, the ensuing sexuality crisis would have stopped him from selling Ed out.

[meanmisscharles]

Mine is that if Stede had dicked Ed down in ep 5 LIKE HIS DUMB ASS WAS SPOSED TO, WE WOULDN'T BE HERE NOW!

[karrahe]

Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate

Some studies for fun 😊

[8lack-8beard]

Breaking through time zones to steal our hearts all over again.

[saltpepperbeard]

“This is a very popular question, and I want to know this too. David, what, in your opinion, is the worst thing about cats?” [x] (big thanks, @beardedblack​!)

BONUS:

[villiedoom]

“Goliath” (temporary name until I come up with a new one) - a fantasy creature resembling a mix of a vaeraf (my main original species), a hyena and a bear. I saw them in a dream about two years ago and decided to make them part of my world (most of my beings and stories come from my dreams in one way or another), and also I made a base model. In the past, I already had ideas about hyena-like creatures and I still like this idea!

They are large (about like bears), have a long neck with a mane, short tail and long legs with huge paws.

Model and renders are made in Blender ~