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Wdym I have to line and color this in 40 minutes school ends in two days 😭

the sleeper

Reblog to give the person you reblogged from the ability to finish their WIPs

me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

He's trying so hard 😭😭

Commission for @wayward-delver, Thanks for commissioning me!

you all don't realize I own a knuckles crucifix

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on tumblr.

Today I learnt there is a company called Weeny Beeny and I can't help but think that is totally something Ray would come up with as a company name.

Hello! I’m back, and hope you’re doing well!

There’s one question that’s been kinda itching at my mind for a little bit. Is Matilda ever scared that Ray will hurt her when he’s acting all crazy? How does she calm him down? Also, in relation to your most recent post, does her prophetic dreams ever freak her out? Make her tense for like the whole day or does she not think much of them? How long did it take for her to realize that she was consistently having dreams that predicted the future and how much does she end up relying on them?

Since you are writing for it, it’s totally fine if you don’t want to answer and would rather have people find out through writing. I’m just so curious. Anyways, I hope you’re having a lovely day/night!

Hello, it was nice to meet you again. I don't mind answering all your questions. I like to answer questions for you, and answering your questions will make the story clearer. You can ask me whatever you want. Okay let's get started.

1 In fact, since Ray loves Matilda like a big brother and protects her, and when he acts crazy he is not 90% conscious, so he can know who to hurt and who not to hurt, which means he will not hurt Tilly. Because he still remembers Matilda when he is in a crazy place Of course, Matilda is scared like everyone else, but that didn't happen throughout the trip, as for how to calm him down, there are many ways, and the way available to Matilda is water (meaning she throws a bucket of water on Ray if she can find it) But what is more available at any time and in any place is to catch Ray when he attacks a specific person unintentionally.

2 This is a final post about more information for the story and to understand more about it.

3 Sometimes yes, her dreams scare her realistically and she may not sleep after waking up from a dream. As for her reaction after seeing a dream, according to what she saw, if it was a terrifying and very realistic dream, she would be nervous for almost the entire day and try to tell everyone about her dream, but no one would believe her. Ray believes her a little because he trusts her, but he is not sure if what she saw was real or just a bad dream because of her sadness over Mighty's disappearance, even though she did not show her sadness. And if the dream is not very realistic or not scary, she does not think about it much.

4 She realized that she was dreaming future dreams since she had the second dream which was scarier and more realistic than the first dream, and also at the end of the second dream a mysterious person appeared and told her to prevent this thing from happening before it was too late She relied on these dreams from the beginning of the appearance until the end of which is the day that will happen, this is something that she is afraid of, which is the appearance of the dark side of Ray. At the same time, Mighty was found who made Ray turn into a killer because he saw Mighty in a bad state (I don't want to spoil the events to you) (I hope I answered this question correctly)

Thank you for your questions and I am grateful to answer your questions, I am glad you liked my AU I am ready to answer any question and ask me whatever you want. If you have any ideas or opinions about my answer or about the story, I would be happy to read it. Thank you very much

Redid my Maya Knux gijinka! Now with notes and sources on how I did the design (It's kinda long, around 2k words jsyk):

The hairstyle:

Knux has pretty long spikes, so I knew I wanted to give him long hair! Braids or dreadlocks look pretty fitting, so I tried looking for references of hairstyles to see if any fit what I was looking for:

Source: Mayavase.com (Photograph by Justin Kerr)

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=1092

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=1453

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=694

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=1340

While all the vases show a variety of interesting hairstyles, I particularly loved the look of the braids in K694 (the third picture). Being tied upwards wouldn’t really fit Knux however, so something like the man in K1340 (fourth pic) with his hair fully down, or the 5th man from left to right in K1092 (first pic) with a cloth holding the hair would be really nice!

I didn’t want to give him a headpiece, if only to not clutter his head, but also I didn’t think it’d fit Knux as a warrior. The ruler’s headpiece in K1453 (second pic) however allows the hair to come off it, and seems to have some dangly adornments on the end of the strands/braids/locks, which I found super pretty. Plus:

“Elite Mayan men and women styled their hair to show off their pointed heads, crafted through the careful head flattening they experienced as children. Women gathered their long hair on top of their heads in flowing ponytails. For special occasions they braided their ponytails and decorated them with ornaments and ribbons. Mayan men grew their hair long but burnt the hair off their foreheads to accentuate their elongated profiles. They would bind their hair into one or many ponytails or tie it in a bundle on top of their head. Mayan slaves had their hair cut short as one visible mark of their inferior status.” p.399

Source: Fashion, costume, and culture: clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages (Sarah Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Sarah Hermsen as Project Editor), 2003.

https://archive.org/details/fashioncostumecu0000pend/page/n5/mode/2up

Taking all of that! I settled on tight braids with a few adornments made of jade and wood, with a red cloth to keep his hair from his eyes. Almost all of the braids are pulled together into a ponytails, but there are some smaller braids loose.

It’s somewhat of a mixture of styles, combining ornaments of special occasions, with the long hair of elites on a character like Knux. But I kept these ‘contradictory’ aspects of the design to remember that Knux kinda learns about his ancestors on the go, through murals, writings and technology, so I doubt he’d have a great grasp on what he should and shouldn’t wear. I think it adds character as someone who’s trying to figure out himself, his history and his place in the world.

Shoes and Accessories:

For footwear I kept it simple, just turned Knux’s existing shoes into sandals:

“Ancient Aztecs and Mayans of Central America adopted a thick-soled sandal with a protective legging attached at the heel, while the top of the foot and shin remained exposed.” p.135

Source: Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (Valerie Steele), 2005

Although my gut instinct was to cover Knuckles from head to toe in accessories, I also tried to keep it simple like the shoes. He’s a very mobile fellow so he can’t have too much weight or annoying bits flying everywhere and getting in his face. So I kept his moon necklace, like in Fleetway, just adjusted the shape to have a bit more of details:

“The jewelry worn by the Mayan, Aztec and Inca people was rich in variety and quite beautiful. Without metalworking skills, Mayans made jewelry from many materials. Mayan men wore nose ornaments, earplugs and lip plugs made from bone, wood, shells and stones, including jade, topaz, and obsidian. Necklaces, bracelets, anklets and headgear were made with jaguar and crocodile teeth, jaguar claws and feathers.” p.402

Source: Fashion, costume, and culture: clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages (Sarah Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Sarah Hermsen as Project Editor), 2003.

https://archive.org/details/fashioncostumecu0000pend/page/n5/mode/2up

As stated here, Mayans didn’t have metalwork, so I imagine this is an artifact that his ancestors got from another group of people.

Just a page before they also mention how the Maya people used to file points into their teeth, to make their mouths more appealing. This includes shaping them into pointy teeth, (like the classic shark teeth), but they could also file them into other shapes, like in this picture:

Source: https://www.archaeologynow.org/blog-3/blog-post-title-two-txwxl (I’m pretty sure this isn’t the source of the image, but I couldn’t find an actual source that wasn’t an uncredited blog)

The Maya people are also notorious for their good dentistry, as seen the stone ornaments in the teeth above. I think the filling is something Knux could do on his own, but anything that would involve actual dentistry would be too much. But it’s still interesting to read about!

(Here’s an article named “Mayan Esthetic Dentistry: Using Modern Techniques and Digital Imaging Technologies to Link the Past to the Present” by Yassine Harichane if you want to learn more!)

While a non-permanent version of stones on teeth seemed cool, like Jade incisor-coverings, at the end of the day I don’t think Knuckles is too vain, so I didn’t add that to the design. Although I think he’d definitely try out a bunch of things like this, just to try to understand them.

For additional outfits I gave him a red layered cape and a green huipil! The red cape is just to bring back more red into the design, since I gave him a lot of green. And the huipil is a nod to his poncho in the comics! (Although huipiles are commonly associated with women and girls, I still wanted to give him one, not only to bring up his partial detachment to his ancestors, but also because Knux probably wouldn’t think much about gender in general let’s be honest)

Source: Mayavase.com (Photograph by Justin Kerr)

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=638

Somewhat based the red cape on the 4th man in this picture, from left to right, but I kept it simple, as maybe just some fabric Knux found around the island, nothing too fancy.

For the huipil I wanted to do something more detailed but was having a really hard time coming up with designs. And I didn’t want to straight up plagiarize someone’s else work, so I kept it vague, maybe some day I’ll sit down and give it a more detailed version. I did come across a very nice store/ catalog that sells traditional Maya textiles, and this one was very gorgeous! Highly recommend give this and the other textiles a look!

In the end I made the huipil look vaguely like the ones shown in page 128 of the following book:

“In the Museum collection, costumes that looked very much alike usually turned out to be from villages that shared a language. Among Cakchiquel villages, dialect differences were usually mirrored by costume differences. Working on this principle we were surprised by the striking similarity of style in the huipils of San Antonio Aguas Calientes (fig. 195) and San Martín Jilotepeque (fig. 196). These villages, while both Cakchiquel, spoke very different dialects and were separated geographically (map, below). The similarity of their huipil was so remarkable we felt the need to investigate these two villages more thoroughly and found that a multi-cultural history probably accounted for these unexpected similarities of style. Huipils from these villages may well illustrate the earliest examples of pan-Maya acculturation after the Conquest.”p. 127

Source: Threads of identity: Maya costume of the 1960s in highland Guatemala (Patricia B. Altman, Caroline D.West), 1992.

https://archive.org/details/threadsofidentit0000altm/page/n7/mode/2up

Lastly on accessories, which I don’t know if it counts as an accessory but I didn’t know where to put it: the body paint. Last time I gave Knux a human design I couldn't find a good resource on Maya people painting their bodies. Every source mentioned and was in consensus that some of the people did paint their bodies, but that was the extent of the info. I wasn’t able to find any patterns or meanings of the body paintings, or even good visual reference for it. But! This time I was able to get a bit more:

“Body painting was a common Maya practice. Classic Period murals and polychrome vases depict warriors covered with red or black paint; sometimes their bodies were striped with red paint. Paint was also used around the eyes and nose to give a fierce expression. In the 16th century, these practices continued. Women also applied red paint to their faces and bodies, but presumably to make themselves look beautiful, not fierce. Small paint jars of red hematite mixed with mica were found in the houses at Cerén, and these may have been for cosmetic use. Unmarried young men painted their bodies black, and so did those who were undergoing periods of ritual purification and fasting. Priests often wore blue body paint. “p. 338

Source: Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World Lynn (V. Foster), 2002.

Source: Mayavase.com (Photograph by Justin Kerr)

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=2800

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=2573

http://research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hires.php?vase=7996

I of course wanted to give him red paint, and I really liked this design of the red lining the cheeks on the face down to the neckline. However in most of these depictions the red on the body is accompanied by the white face, which I can’t actually tell if the face has white paint, or the body has black paint, like described in the quote before. Either way I chose to only use the red, to keep in line with Knux’s original design.

(It’s worth mentioning that these vases shown depict rulers, as you can see the intricate thrones and altars, which isn’t really fitting with Knux. But again, I want to keep some mismatched aspects into his design, not only warrior-related things.)

The main outfit:

Last but not least, the main outfit. Don’t have much notes on this I’m going to be honest, I just tried to keep in line with descriptions of warriors clothing:

“While some warriors may have been resplendent on the battlefield, the common Maya soldier fought with little clothing other than loincloth and body paint, based on battle scenes in the few Maya murals that remain (see figure 2.9, page 54).” p.147

Source: Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World Lynn (V. Foster), 2002.

I considered putting him in a loincloth for accuracy, but tbh I was scared people were going to be weird about it, and so I gave him a skirt with some fabric that emulates the look of a loincloth and some scrap fabric around his waist and limbs! He actually ended pulling up a lot from the dude I mentioned in vase K1092 (the very first ref pic in this post) lol!

And that´s all, hope y’all liked it :P

Hello, I'm back again, I'm sorry I've been gone for so long, I was getting ready for important things but now I can post, about my AU I brought some more headcanons about Ray and Matilda and also some about Mighty To illustrate the upcoming events, I plan to write a series of stories about Ray and Matilda's adventures from beginning to end.

RAY

During a journey between worlds, Ray finds an axe and decides to use it as a protection tool and to collect firewood in the winter. Also Ray likes to wear a weird but cute smiley mask for Ray, and you should know that the mask metaphorically represents the four sides of Ray. (I will draw a mask and what do you describe about Ray), Ray loves making friends when he moves in worlds,He is a good, kind and loyal friend to everyone and everyone loves to be with him. During a fight with a certain enemy, Ray fights with an axe. This gives Ray a terrifying appearance, which is why he only ever fights with an axe in a gloomy or dark place, and if he does fight with an axe, he uses a mask If he uses an axe in combat or to hide his identity, In battle time, the crazy and gloomy side is what benefits him in combat and helps him to defeat enemies, Ray loves to protect people and he protects Matilda very much because he loves her like a big brother to a younger sister.

MATILDA

Tilly has realistic dreams or dreams that predict what will happen. In one of her dreams, she saw Ray with an axe and a mask, covered in blood, in a dark place. This made Tilly know that one of Ray's sides will cause terrible chaos in the future.That's why she was careful that this thing wouldn't happen, but she chose the wrong timing and something happened that she feared, but she was able to stop it before total destruction. Matilda is always attached to Ray because he is the only brother she has at the moment, they both miss Mighty so much because he was the best big brother they had. Tilly is not good with everyone, especially some of Ray's friends. Whenever Ray makes a friend in a certain world, Tilly thinks that her friend is a scam, so she sometimes acts weird with him. Sometimes they are aggressive with each other. But Ray stops Matilda and makes her understand that Not everyone is as bad as she thinks. Tilly is sometimes aggressive with everyone and most of the time she is cold with everyone, Have you ever imagined seeing Matilda carrying a gun and using it to fight like Shadow? I'm thinking about this too, maybe it would be great for her. But in the end, her arms are the best She always fights with her metal arms and can defeat powerful enemies.She also protects Ray just as he protects her. And Tilly is sometimes funny and that's a positive thing for Ray.

SOME HEADCANONS ABOUT MIGHTY

Mighty is known to be strong, kind and calm, but sometimes he explodes if he gets too angry. Due to anger issues, he tries not to explode in front of people, especially in front of Ray and Matilda, because he doesn't want to hurt them. They know this is a problem, They help Mighty control his anger.

Mighty's disappearance was sudden and Mighty's last appearance before his disappearance was me. Mighty told Ray and Tilly that he was going for a walk alone in the forest because it helps him control his anger. He said he wouldn't be late, but he never came back. This is where Ray and Matilda's adventure story began.

Thanks for reading my post, and again I am very sorry that I have been away for so long, I had important things to do but now I am done and trying to post something about my AU Every day, either a drawing, or a story from a series, I am happy that there are people who like my story, and I try to publish something every day. Currently, I am drawing a picture, and it is just an idea, and I will publish it soon. If anyone has a question, opinion or idea about the story, please tell me. I am grateful to answer your questions and read your thoughts and opinions. Thank you very much.

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silver coded image reference image below the cut

My turn to put Team Dark in situations

(Hmu if you want a sticker)

My hot take of the day is that I really love that one infamous Silver line from Forces that everyone mocks. Like yeah, "I'm an optimist, but I'm also a realist" is objectively not true, but the idea that Silver thinks that of himself is one of funniest things imaginable

is blaze in the metal wins au or is she just chilling in the sol dimension blissfully unaware

Yeah no, she has no clue any of this is going on LOL

2012 & 2018 Michelangelo (thats I hard name to spell good lord. . .) my own turtle design! (Kinda)

The Mikey mix~

another run down, but this time it’s different!

In the 2018 series the boys are all different types of turtles, Leo is a Red-eard Slider, Raph is a Alligator-Snapping turtle, Donnie is a Soft shell turtle (shudders) and Mikey is a simple box turtle, in the 2012 series Donnie says that he suspects their Common-Box turtles and/or Dimond-Back Terrapins.

So they’re all different turtle Mixes, Mikey’s pretty normal compared to his brothers (well thats not something you hear every day. . .) because of this I decided to add the Yellow-Bellied slider given that the 2012 Mikey is a much lighter color compared to his brothers which is neat, so he’s Dimond back terrapin/Box-Turtle & Yellow-belly slider

his Yellow-Slider is most visible on his shell/plastron and in his light skin tone

I gave His plastron a yellow tint to show it. the mixed shell pattern is supposed to be the Dimond-Back terrapin and Box-Turtle

other then that there's really not much to say for him regarding turtle mixes, so I’ll just talk about the other details on him!

Mikey’s covered in paint, a detail that two people I showed this to seemed to love and I do to! I figured Mikey would have fun painting his shell and I even added (or wanted to add) the little detail that he paints a lightning bolt on his plastron to match Raph, (which I added in an additional thing)

But it was also a little difficult. I’m mostly using the 2012 color palette, so when I use the paint colors from 2018 I had to make sure colors didn’t clash to much which is way I didn’t add more colors because they just didn’t work (I had that same problem with Raph and his mask&/red-ear-marks) + I’m not the most creative when it comes to sparatic details, tho I do think it’s works and looks quite nice! he also has paint on his equipment, which Splinter probably got mad about it on his nunchucks.

when adding on his specks/freckles I had a moment thinking is this to much? But then I got reassurance from someone that they liked it so, I do think his cheek freckles get lost but he makes up for it!

I’d also just like to point out that I hadn’t drawn Mikey before this, seriously the only I did of Mikey before this was the first turtles thing a draw a bit back it was a little odd but not as bad as the story I have for Donnie. . .thats for another time tho. . . . I didn’t really have much problem with Mikey, the only thing close to it would be the feet and nunchucks which I wasn’t originally gonna add but put in anyway because it looked weird without them (I had to do the same with Donnie’s staff)

Also I just wanna say. The reason this took so long was because I just hadn’t got around to writing the actual post sorry! . also I have the base line of Donnie and have had it for a bit I just need to finish him which shouldn’t take long it’s just if I feel like doing the rest of Donnie I feel so bad about it!

drawn, May 3rd

Leo: Raph: Donnie:

I like them in their silly little matching AU outfits

Me conning my little sister into eating healthy stuff via Transformers (the applesauce packets have Optimus Prime and Bumblebee on them), doesn't have the exact vibe as me finally getting her to understand football by explaining it using Spider-Man but...they're definitely similar and I'm starting to see a pattern.

starline when he learned that sonic is afraid of water and tails is afraid of lightning

picking out pumpkins 🎃

Close ups

Sonic boom episode idea (if it wasn’t already done) where the entire episode is recorded by robot and cubot. They travel around hedgehog village, documenting all the residents as if they were on National Geographic.

When watching the villagers and team Sonic in the bushes, they tell real animal facts and habits about each character and their earth animal counterparts.

Such as hedgehog facts and habits while watching Amy, Sonic, and shadow, echidna facts while watching knuckles, fox facts while watching tails, etc.

At the end of the episode they document Eggman, referring to how not-so-smart his species is and the camera cuts to static after Eggman tosses cubot at the camera.

Sega you cowards bring back boom so my boys can join-

(2 versions bc Espio gets a cool fit)

on my hands and knees begging for kit’s redemption/healing arc to take longer than surge’s. it has to and it feels like we might already be going down that path what with surge actually making an effort to be heroic and kit doing whatever the hell he’s doing

i think in order for kit to even start in his redemption/healing, he has to overall make the choice for himself. he can agree all he wants when surge says that they should try genuinely becoming heroes, but thats him still following his programming. it can be a starting line, but overall he needs to come to the decision that he wants to be his own person, someone separate from surge. he needs to learn how to do his own thing and make his own choices without surge being there. he needs to learn to think for himself and part of that is him deciding what he wants to do with his own life

and because i’m a big fan of kit being tails’s number one hater, i don’t think he needs to learn to like tails in order to be redeemed, the same way surge doesn’t need to like sonic. if anything, i think they’d need to learn to pay no mind to them so surge and kit can start to build their own identity. maybe tails and kit become friends or just two people able to exist in the same room together with no issues, who knows. however, i do think kit gets one (1) attempt at tails’s life. as a treat

will tails probably end up playing a huge roll in kit’s redemption arc in through helping him learn to become his own person at all that? most likely yeah. but a bitch can dream……

anyway yeah just another surge and kit rambling. it will happen again

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Edit: Animated a few of them

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