so are we not gonna talk about the parallels here? the similarities in their positions both physical and situational are crazy, john thinking he's gonna die and william actually dying, father and son in the same position ;-;
Huh, this thing has pockets.
the near future for season 3 was lookin a little bleak so I tried to depict it (so hyped) (they're not making it out of this unscathed)
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
the edit itself
this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point
Im not even american but im having a great time with this
DONT LET THIS DIE
credit to miraculousgastropod for the original
"What once felt unbearably hot is now a cold that reaches into the deepest depths of his soul and attempts to snuff out every last trace of life."
not my best series plot wise but it was fun to write
being aroace is somehow a blessing and a curse at the same time.
it's either, "oh everybody's after love/sex but I'm not!"
or else, "everybody's after love/sex, why can't I be the same?"
ridiculously pumped for season 3 y'all got no idea
“Rule number one for surviving prison: the tougher you look, the easier your ability to choose the person you want to be while you’re inside. Be labeled or perceived as a punk, a bitch, or a weakling, and you will have your public perception on the inside chosen for you. So you can lift weights, learn to fight, practice snarling in a mirror — you can do all these things, but none of them will accomplish as much for you as getting a [good] tattoo.” — Chris Dankovich in The Tales of a Former Prison Tattoo Artist
An alternative idea to my first, more pessimistic Season 3 Prediction, in which they find him looking a little more like this ^
For the tattoo designs I did a lot of research and I chose them carefully. The snake tattoo I chose because it is: A. Not affiliated with any particular real-world gang, B. Common among white prisoners (many prison tattoos are racially specific), and C. Notably, not a nazi thing (I did check). Snake tattoos can sometimes symbolize change or rebirth because of the way they shed their skin, but there doesn’t seem to be any one, universal meaning for them. For Blyke here, I thought it would serve as a message to other inmates: “Don’t touch me, I’m venomous.”
The rose with a dagger through it can mean many things in the free world, but in prison it means someone was locked up before they reached adulthood. I don’t know if people typically get this as kids or if they get them when they grow up (probably the latter), but I imagine that Blyke gets it because: “I was a kid when they locked me up. But now... I’m a man. Grr, hng, and other macho man noises.”
More versions of the drawing below the cut
Latest chapter as of Prediction: Side Story — Triple Threat (2)