a little catalogue

It wasn't Arwen's name.

His face crumpled when she turned around, and he could see her features clearly. The full force of memory seemed to hit him, and he let out a broken, "Forgive me."

It kept happening. Even her father's face sometimes fell, when the light was right, and she knew. Being mistaken for Luthien, most beautiful of the children of Iluvatar, was supposed to be a compliment. But all Arwen could see was relatives in pain every time they looked upon her.

Until he happened.

When she turned around, ready to correct some distant cousin, she found she didn't recognize the look on his face. Awe, disbelief, even, and sheer joy, that didn't stop when she drew closer. If anything, he seemed to stop breathing. She never wanted to stop seeing that joy, and for a moment, she never dreamed she wouldn't.

thank you!!!! That was actually Ford but Stan is so good I changed another drawing from Ford to Stan and you inspired me to do some more :)) ft. A real rock I stole, I actually took 2. They were heavy.

and it's delightful to me, idk, how odysseus has been trapped and cornered in various way throughout the odyssey, but arguably never so that he has to tell the truth to get out. (with the phaeacians, maybe? the omniscient narrator corroborates some of what he tells them, but do we really know everything?) and in fact he is not trying to get free of penelope. he wants something from her, wants to convince her, wants to be welcomed home, but until this point he's lied to her, revealed himself to other people before her, and been distant with her (though also patient! he doesn't try to strongarm or rush her into accepting him; it's his idea to sleep elsewhere).

Telemacus: *fighting against the suitors, holding his ground but he's slipping*

Telemacus: *sees ody in the shadows, bow aimed at him and the suitors*

Telemacus: *stops fighting abruptly and goes slack*

Suitor: haha, got him

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

Out on a ride

I originally had the dress be a pale red and her belt a dark gray but it made the horse the main focus which I didn't want so I changed the colors and shade and I like it much better this way as it's much calmer to look at and now she matches her horse :)

SUKI.

Suki is from a tiny remote island, where all girls know is face paint, feed them to the Unagi, dismantle sexism, be bisexual, eat hot chip & lie sorry, my point is that aside from the Gaang and enemies, the highest ranking person Suki has interacted with pre-Boiling Rock is probably the crabby customs lady at the Ba Sing Se ferries.

It would be perfectly fine to characterize Suki as being very matter-of-fact, cool, unflappable about their new station in life... but it would be a lot funnier if she only looked like that, while freaking the fuck out internally. Because guess who Sokka just invited out to lunch with them?