I've Been Watching You Longer Than You Know. Recklessly Drawn To Your Destiny, Like A Flame. My Beautiful

i've wanted to create a series of paintings of my favorite c2 female npcs for eight billion years now, and i'm finally doing it! starting with marion & featuring some of my thoughts on menagerie coast fashion ❤

Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.

This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.

Everything he shares is true.

In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.

This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).

I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.

finally...my designs for the short kings. together at last. (versions of the designs with insp pics under the cut)

finally cross-posting this Essek from twitter ✨quite a few people seemed to like my choice for his outfits in my two recent drawings so if you're curious, they're inspired by old russian noblewomen dresses! (also i'm definitely giving them more flair next time i draw him, absolutely not enough embroidery)

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym and his husband Will from Critical Role. Orym and Will rest their foreheads together, Will smiling and Orym looking peaceful. Orym's left hand cups Will's face, and Will has a hand resting on the back of Orym's neck. Behind them is a stylized cloudy night sky with Catha and Ruidus arranged as they are in Orym's tattoo, with Catha wrapping around Ruidus. Catha is positioned behind Will and Ruidus behind Orym, matching them. End description.]

Big moon little moon

messing with designs (versions of each with some of the insp pics under the cut)

[ID: A digital illustration of Will and Orym from Critical Role. They're sat under a tree together and Orym is resting his head in Will's lap as he smiles up at Will. Will smiles back at Orym, stroking his hair. Orym's tattoo is visible on his right arm. There are a few flowers in the grass around them. Most of them are white but there is a blue-grey flower, a red one, a yellow one, a bright blue one, a pale purple one, a dark almost black purple one and a pale green one growing near Will and Orym. End description.]

Reunited 🌙🌕

hehe i finally finished the rest of my designs for the crownkeepers! versions with some of their inspirations below

Oops, my hand slipped (It actually slipped so much I spilled tea on my laptop lmao) | Angst version |

brjeaus being brjeaus