I am the Bard of HeartDive

chase me if you must, but i’ll be the one to capture you

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ppl keep asking what fandom this is from. it is from a fandom of one (1) and that one is me. it is from my brain. my heart. my very gay and horny soul.

I love their complex relationship

Soda Pop: A highly carbonated soda drink. It can be used to restore 50 HP to a single Pokémon.

Another minor edit!

Ashley and Kaidan reassuring Shepard before the attack on Cerberus base.

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I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.

but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.

christ, he's good.

the eliding of “you all” to “y’all” while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. “bear with me” said exactly like i’ve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.

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These two are amazing!

@x-heesy 💃🏻🕺🏻 Friday vibes!

I want whatever it is that these two have

Context! This is called a Jack and Jill! It's a contest in a style called West Coast Swing.

Here's the thing... it's ALL improv. The whole thing. And those two? Randomly matched.

Dance is a sport where strangers fall madly in love for a few minutes. And I need more all the time.

damn, what sorcery that she's doing that in BOOTS?

I’m sorry, wait stop. That was IMPROV???

Dance like this is a magic I just can’t fathom.

Oh yeah the fun thing about being even a base level performance dancer is that you can actively see their communication the entire time! Some of it is more obvious than other but if this was choreographed they wouldn’t need to communicate hardly at all. Lemme break down a few spots!

The moment in the beginning when they started dancing helped them set the tone and energy for eachother so they knew what type of dancing to expect, and they proceeded to pull from that vibe the entire time.

Around the quarter mark when they’re spinning around, green shirt looks at purple shirt’s feet, watching to see if purple was going to move. Purple then takes that and begins to move backwards, into the hand switch (which would have been far more fluid choreographed) and as purple raises their arm, green does the dramatic lean back utilizing the visual element of her hair. Unclear if purple necessarily was the reason but they were definitely asking for some sort of flair and green definitely delivered.

An easier one to see was that the trust fall was not planned but you could see the Very Direct Communication from the purple to the green offering that opportunity. Green didn’t have to take it but when they saw the opportunity they then positioned themselves and timed it with the music so the drop in the music coincided with their torso hitting purple’s arms.

Also the little coordinated butt wiggle at the end when green let purple lead was hilarious loved that.

There’s more but I don’t feel like giving a play-by-play but maybe y’all can see more of it now that I’ve pointed out examples! Remember folks, dancing with others is about communication!

This line killed me

In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)

I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).

Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.

So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.

I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.

I hope we will be dragons.

The Real Mass Effect (Manip)

"Hey, jeffe, what you workin' on?"

Bundled in a sweater against the 'nighttime' setting of Normandy's thermoregulator subsystem, Joker turned to answer Vega and caught an eyeful of the man's massive pecs. They hove into view, unexpected as an iceberg to the titanic of Joker's self-control, and in a ham-fisted attempt to avert catastrophe, he turned back to the display he'd been studying and groused, "Put a shirt on before you put someone's eye out with those things, would you?"

James only snorted and leaned in a little closer to examine the display-- so close Joker could practically feel the heat radiating off his muscular frame. Warmth crept up the back of Joker's neck in response and he felt not only his ears and face go hot, but the rest of him too.

So much for needing a sweater.

Healing

I have finally finished this very short character exploration for Jacob! It's not much, but I think I like it.

Thanks to @neonbutchery for the beta reading!!

You can read it on Ao3, or under the cut!

for @cannot-rest‘s ashley week.

(thank you @edains for letting me use your scenes)

Beaches of Virmire

Early Ashley Williams Appreciation Week piece (kicks off Apr 9/23 but I'm an impatient one).

Messy lil one brush and one layer painting (Sargent's Oils Filbert brush for Procreate)

PS - while her likeness isn't as accurate as I would have liked, hopefully it's received ok.

Where are all the Calvin and Hobbes enjoyers??