This blog is a bit quieter these days (my main tends to see more regular updates), but I've failed to entirely kill it yet, so hello!
[updated 28/April/2024]
@wolves-in-the-world / wolves-in-the-world.tumblr.com
This blog is a bit quieter these days (my main tends to see more regular updates), but I've failed to entirely kill it yet, so hello!
[updated 28/April/2024]
Me: Tell me what I should draw. Any character you want to see.
Wife: Draw Hardison. As a Jedi!
Me: … okay!
[one hour later]
Me: What colour would his lightsaber be? Purple?
Wife: Totally purple.
I’m honestly blown away by the number of notes on my Jedi Hardison picture (seriously I’ve been reading tags and reblogs and holy shit you guys are taking this awesome places), so I decided to go for the great Leverage OT3. Going with some of the ideas people like Venort added, I asked my wife (again) for some input and went to town.
(And yeah, y’all have a point, Hardison would have at least one lightsaber that’s soda-orange.)
Fluffy E/Q shifter verse prompt:
Set in an AU where Eliot and Quinn are both shifters and Eliot's animal form is a wolf and Quinn's is a cheetah (Quinn's form inspired by AlannaofRoses's amazing and perfect The Pack Long Con verse)
Quinn volunteers at an animal shelter and takes pictures of the tiniest, most pathetic looking puppies and sends them to Eliot with captions like "reminds me of you" or "looks just like you in the morning"
Eliot retaliates by finding videos of kittens doing really dumb stuff (like trying to jump onto a rubbish bin with a swing lid and falling in) and sending them to Quinn with captions like "this you?"
a thought that's brought me great joy the past few days: eliot getting teased in the group text by means of videos of wolves being extremely soppy
also, when he naps around the others - and if anyone else is as invested as I am in eliot x naps, have a fic rec - it's gifs of sleeping bears.
a thought that's brought me great joy the past few days: eliot getting teased in the group text by means of videos of wolves being extremely soppy
[ID: Sketch in greyscale of Hardison walking while carrying an unconscious Eliot, who is shirtless and bears multiple injuries, including bruises around his wrists, and on his face, ribs and knuckles, and blood on his face and chest. End ID]
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I am slowly returning after a long time of being away due to illness during which no arting was possible 😭 This was a commission from ages ago, but the account is now deactivated so I don’t know if the person who requested it will see it. But I hope they do, and even if not, I hope it brings some people (obviously not Hardison or Eliot because whump is afoot) joy! 😊
I think it’s going to take a while to get my art brain back to proper functionality, but hopefully will do soon 😅
haitian créole has my entire heart
First base is violence second base is convoluted codependence third base is applying pressure to the vulnerable parts of their body to keep their entrails from spilling out
so uhhh that trailer huh :)
one upside of this whole thing is I just told a mutual "do you think moreau's heart broke a bit when eliot broke too much to be able to work for him anymore"
friends I'm switching the tag from #red widow to #red widow trainwreck so I'm free to be a bit critical without flooding the original tag. letting you know so folks can update their filters!
I think I'm going slightly mad trying to analyse red widow as good media. I could write up a whole thoughtful post about how moreau and schiller are similar characters seen with very different framings because red widow glosses over the gritty reality of the world the protagonist is born into and gets dragged into after her husband's death, and it would have some merit, OR I could just accept that red widow is just very bad and best watched with one's brain entirely disengaged until a nicholae scene pings as interesting.
(which some of them really are. genuinely, nicholae and moreau make the same "there are assets and liabilities" and "please be an asset" points. nicholae gives a lovely little villain speech about money and trust being the only things that matter in business. his casual murder of a poor sod that I and the protagonist had actually come to like, shrugging it off with "there are many [name]s" like that's some consolation, was delicious. the torture joke he made while someone was trapped in an elevator with him, reminding them that they probably shouldn't be wasting his time, made me clap with joy - and the way the actor can differentiate between genuine warmth and the kind of smile that is 100% a predator's warning with, as far as I can tell, only his eyes, is just so good.)
(I just need to avoid falling into the trap of treating the whole thing, or even just nicholae's character as a whole, as something that stands up to good analysis. no matter how much the creators' love for the story shows in some of it. and no matter how much a talented actor clearly thrived in the role.)
(folks I'm going through the five stages of grief about this fuckin show.)
You know with all the shit Nate puts them through he might have deserved this shock.
He sees Sophie less than a minute later so it's not long scare either.
banner change, for posterity:
sticking to the theme and switching from one messed up guy in desperate need of a nap to another 👍
Goran Visnjic as Nicholae Schiller | Red Widow 1.03