i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it

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Book 1, Chapter 7: Things get ugly when the bullies decide to push the sisters into a lake. This was so fun to draw, I hope you like ❤️

SPOILERS!

Obviously the ballad of songbirds and snakes and Lucy gray’s fate is meant to be up in the air and for the reader to speculate on, but I really think snow killed Lucy gray and sunk her body to the bottom of the lake with the guns in the sack. That’s why he gets sick, that’s why he’s in such pain and disorientation and he blames it on the snake bite, which ends up not being venomous. He killed Lucy gray and hid her body and it’s so horrific to him that he makes up his own story in his head, he lies to himself and creates his own mystery like the song in order to keep going, because snow knows if he thinks about Lucy gray and what he actually did to her he will never forgive himself, and he won’t survive.

Suzanne Collins walks a fine line in writing Coriolanus snow in this book between deep, burning hatred and genuine sympathy, and I’m in awe of it. It’s interesting though, the fact that after he drowns the weapons (and Lucy grays body, but again that’s just me) in the lake, it’s like a baptism for his presidential life. His family photos and his mothers powder are unsalvageable, but his fathers compass survives. In killing Lucy gray, snow finally chose his ambition over his heart, and it rules his life for the rest of his days.

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Sometimes I look at my art and the time I have to spend on my art to just make it look decent and sometimes not even that, and then I see people who speed paint so good in so little time and I’m just - 

So apparently this random doodle of mine that I made years ago has been passed around quite a bit? I managed to find it in my archived pages. 

lol, shit, how am I supposed to know i should’ve watermarked EVERY SHIT DOODLE. I didn’t even bother to save a psd of this cause it was just so shit lol. but it’s in my art folder xD

Anne of Green Gables Covers

The series is also known as Anya of Green Roofs / Аня из Зелёных крыш

Ana de Las Tejas Verdes

I recently finished a character design mentorship and wanted to share some of the things I did for an Anne of green Gables reimagination!

Anne of Avonlea illustrations for a russian edition made by Olga Brezinskaya [x] published in 2022.

Just wanted to do a little sketch of Anne since I'm watching the new anime 💖 can't wait to see how they adapt Anne of Avonlea and Anne of the Island!

Anne's House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery

yes, i got a library card at 4am just so that i could read anne and gilbert's wedding. and what.

Getting a head start on the bonus for the chapter 4 pdf :)

The Reason Why Noah is Scheming

Raeliana is just about fed up with Noah’s overbearing behaviour since the moment they knew she was pregnant. She is perfectly capable of caring for herself and living her life just as she did before their baby. Noah, however, is not so sure. And yet despite his usual dissent, he’s the one proposing they have a fun-filled day out. What could he possibly be planning?

Pairing: Raeliana McMillan x Noah Wyknight

Warnings: Some implied suggestive content

Notes: This is currently one of my most favourite stories!!!! I adore Raeliana and Noah so much I was inconsolable when I finished the manhwa. I hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did writing it!!!!

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“I’m fine, I am more than capable of walking on my own feet!”

Raeliana’s shouts echoed through the high-ceiled halls as she marched through the mansion. Her feet did, in fact, hurt, but she wasn’t about to admit that. They had swelled so much she couldn’t fit into any of her old shoes, and numerous new shoes had needed to be purchased.

She’d needed new dresses too, new everything, and she felt a little like a whale, or perhaps an overweight penguin, waddling down the halls in so much fabric with her swollen belly.

She laid a hand on her stomach, rolling her shoulders as she paused for a moment, leaning against a window looking out over the gardens. It was late autumn, the air cool enough that frost gathered on the windows, making the grass sparkle in the early morning before the sun melted it away.

And yet she was so unbearably hot she had already started sweating despite only walking for a few moments at most.

And her feet really were starting to hurt, and her lower back was aching, the weight in her belly putting pressure on her back as she struggled to stay up.

Raeliana struggled to rub the small of her back, the pain nearly overwhelming there. But the sound of footsteps made her pause in her vain efforts to find relief, and she started moving again, determined to at least make it into the gardens.

She’d wanted a walk, all she had wanted was a short walk through the garden. To walk past the trees whose branches were alight with the colours of autumn, to feel leaves crunching beneath her feet, to feel the crisp wind on her cheeks and in her hair. She had wanted to take a look at the flowers still in bloom, wanted to sit beneath one of the trees and close her eyes and breathe in the cold air until her lungs burned with it.

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The Reason Why Noah is Scheming

Raeliana is just about fed up with Noah’s overbearing behaviour since the moment they knew she was pregnant. She is perfectly capable of caring for herself and living her life just as she did before their baby. Noah, however, is not so sure. And yet despite his usual dissent, he’s the one proposing they have a fun-filled day out. What could he possibly be planning?

Pairing: Raeliana McMillan x Noah Wyknight

Warnings: Some implied suggestive content

Notes: This is currently one of my most favourite stories!!!! I adore Raeliana and Noah so much I was inconsolable when I finished the manhwa. I hope everyone enjoys reading this as much as I did writing it!!!!

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“I’m fine, I am more than capable of walking on my own feet!”

Raeliana’s shouts echoed through the high-ceiled halls as she marched through the mansion. Her feet did, in fact, hurt, but she wasn’t about to admit that. They had swelled so much she couldn’t fit into any of her old shoes, and numerous new shoes had needed to be purchased.

She’d needed new dresses too, new everything, and she felt a little like a whale, or perhaps an overweight penguin, waddling down the halls in so much fabric with her swollen belly.

She laid a hand on her stomach, rolling her shoulders as she paused for a moment, leaning against a window looking out over the gardens. It was late autumn, the air cool enough that frost gathered on the windows, making the grass sparkle in the early morning before the sun melted it away.

And yet she was so unbearably hot she had already started sweating despite only walking for a few moments at most.

And her feet really were starting to hurt, and her lower back was aching, the weight in her belly putting pressure on her back as she struggled to stay up.

Raeliana struggled to rub the small of her back, the pain nearly overwhelming there. But the sound of footsteps made her pause in her vain efforts to find relief, and she started moving again, determined to at least make it into the gardens.

She’d wanted a walk, all she had wanted was a short walk through the garden. To walk past the trees whose branches were alight with the colours of autumn, to feel leaves crunching beneath her feet, to feel the crisp wind on her cheeks and in her hair. She had wanted to take a look at the flowers still in bloom, wanted to sit beneath one of the trees and close her eyes and breathe in the cold air until her lungs burned with it.

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7th Time Loop Volume 4 Side Story: The Tale of the Imperial Guard Knight and Oliver, the Attendant

This is a bonus side story written by Touko Amekawa set around 7th Time Loop Volume 4! It's about Oliver, Arnold's most trusted attendant/secretary, and Kamil, one of the knights from Arnold's Imperial Guard.

Disclaimer: This translation is made by me for fandom purposes only. This unofficial translation is not affiliated with the official 7th Time Loop franchise. All rights reserved for 7th Time Loop to its respective committees, committee members, staff, author and rights holders. PLEASE DO NOT REPOST THIS TRANSLATION ANYWHERE.

The actual side story can be found in this link at Shousetsuka ni Narou's web novel link for 7th Time Loop!

I'm posting my Ko-Fi here as currently, I've been having financial troubles, so if anyone can donate, I would be much grateful for the help, thank you very much.