Looking back its funny how after first reading the books I actually hated Shay, and only learned to understand her because of another girl I had a friendship with a very similiar dynamic with. Her rage, her manipulation, her self-destructive behavior…
#ShayUglies #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #YAdystopia
ID: Shay, a muscular, tattoed all over East Asian woman, lying on her back as Tally, (muscular white woman, also tattooed, also short hair) rests between her parted legs, her face between them. Both of them have self-harm scars on their arms, and battle scars on other areas. Digitally colorized pencil drawing.
Realized that I somehow didn't have any drawings of Tally going down on Shay for their movie versions, and really needed to see that
#nsfw #Uglies #Shally #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #SciFiFemslash #NSFWFemslash
ID: Closeup on Shays (as an Ugly) face, with a rip with edges like a glitched screen going diagonally through it, showing Tallys face underneath
ID: Shays face as a Pretty, with Tally as a Pretties face behind a rip again
ID: Special Shay, with Special Tally under the ripped picture
Did these for a fic cover, showing Tally and Shays interconnected arcs and so on, but thought they looked too cool to not share
The way bluesky arranges pictures *really* does not work well here; click for better view
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #YAdystopia #FeministSciFi
Day 14: Predator/Predator
"During the rebels feast, Shay and Tally escape into the privacy of the prairie to give in to their instincts"
They were compared to wolves too often to not use this
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #Schlocktober
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ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay dancing on a party, with flickering lights and other people in the background. Shay is a thin but curvy east Asian woman with tied back black hair, wearing a suit vest with no shirt underneath and a glittering suit pants. She smiles at Tally. Tally is a petite white woman with long blonde hair, wearing a white dress with golden straps at a cutout on her back, outlining her broad hips. The viewer only sees her back.
Saw a woman wearing this outfit and thought about Shay starting to remember her old self, starting to dress just the slightest bit more like herself, but before she starts spiraling
#Uglies #TallyxShay #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
During Shays Special Surgery, she sees different ways her and Tally could have encountered each other.
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Harrows “This is not how it happened” fever dreams (Locked Tomb) but with Shay
#ToxicYuri #Uglies #ShayUglies #TallyYoungblood #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
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ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally and Shay sit outside, both holding a wrapped present (it isn't clear who gifted it and who recieves), and holding each others arms with the other hand, smiling. They are both young woman with short hair, a wiry built, tattoos, and self-harm scars, but Tally is white, with battered clothes, while Shay is East Asian and wears pristine futuristic clothes. There is a futuristic city and the sea in the background.
Happy birthday Tally and Shay (well, in around 300 years...)
Headcanon that not until their 18th birthday they actually celebrate together. 16th obviously bc events of the book, and 17th they still need to process and heal
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #YALit
Screencap of a tumblr post, with the first person writing: "ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on" and the second saying "FUCK this post and happy birthday" and then hastily pasted in "Tally and Shay"
Have to post this here too:
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #YADystopia
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing, six portraits up to slightly below the shoulders of Shay. 1. "15 (Uglies), showing her with long, brown braids, green eyes and a pointy face 2. 16 (Pretties), with wavy long hair and bangs, her face now slightly softer, her eyes bigger and copper 3. 16 (Pretties, Specials). Long black hair in a tight braid, red and purple eyes, tattoos all over and angular and intimidating 4. 20 (Extras), shoulder length hair, the upper part tied back, other than that just like the one before 5. 25-30 (between Extras and Youngbloods) Short hair in a relatively flat style 6. 35 (Youngbloods), very short so that all of the hair stands, wearing futuristic armor
Wanted to do a companion piece to (my pre-movie design) Tally over the years and her hairstyle changes (link in comment), but then forgot to publish it
I actually predicted both Shays short hair and her having bangs and waves as a Pretty, lol
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #YADystopia #SciFi
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally and Shay having sex in the middle of a meadow with flowers at dusk, kissing, Tally sitting and Shay kneeling and reaching forward to touch her flanks. Tally is a young white woman with brown hair, Shay is a young East Asian woman with black hair. Both of their hair is short, both are sharp faced and wiry, tattooed all over, and have self-harm scars on their arms.
Perk of being a rebel mostly hiding outside the cities: Really idyllic places to make out
#NSFW #SciFiNsfw #Femslash #Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies
ID: Shay (as a Special) punching for Dr. Cables head, other hand already pulled in a ready position, but Dr. Cable moved out of the way and used that to step closer to her. Shay is a young East Asian woman with a pointy face, undercut, tattoos all over any visible body part, and wearing a tank top and long, loose trousers. She has self-harm scars on her arms. Dr. Cable is a middle aged black woman, both wiry and very curvy, angular face, intense grey eyes, hair in a braid and wearing a white sports bra and short leggins. Both of them are sweaty and mildly bruised.
Testing the prototype
Man, the dynamic between Shay and Dr. Cable at the end of Pretties and beginning and middle of Specials is so uncomfortable and interesting
#Uglies #ShayUglies #DrCable #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
#SciFi #BuffWomen
ID: Screencap from Netflix Uglies, showing Tally and Shay walking beside each other, shown from up the hip, arms around each other. Tally smiles and looks at the viewer, but Shay has her head turned to the side and looks at her.
ID: Tally and Shay dancing wildly and unelegantly in the middle of a cheering crowd, holding each other at the hands.
This small moment of them dancing at the Smoke...
#Shally #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Uglies #Femslash
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing, showing Shay as a Special, surprised and flustered, in the middle, with heart or star shaped bubbles around her showing Tally (as Ugly, Pretty and Special), David and Tachs smiling at her. Above her is written "Go for it, Shay"
Very late to the meme, but just had to
Decided to include David and Tachs (guy she recruited into her cult in Pretties) too since canonically in the books, or respectively the graphic novels, she is attracted to them
#Uglies #ShayUglies #GoForItMeme #YADystopia
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay naked cuddled against each other, Tally half on her back but with her legs draped over Shay, and Shay half under and half beside her, arms and legs draped around her. Both are tall and muscular, tattooed all over and have self-harm scars on their arms and battle scars on the rest of their bodies, but Tally is black and curvy in a sturdy way, while Shay is just lean and a Latina.
How peaceful they are. I love this, even beyond my OTP being cute. Maybe it's because their scars and angular faces and warriors bodies, but they're resting instead.
(Tally/Shay post-canon, my pre-movie design)
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Femslash #NSFW
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally, a chubby black girl in futuristic, pastel colored clothes, dangling from her cuffs and looking slightly upset, while Shay, a skinny brown girl with a futuristic black tank top and a green cargo pants, hoverboards close to her, smiling. The hoverboard Tally fell from is waiting in the background.
This was my pre-movie imagining of the hoverboard training scene by the way
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing showing two thin and rather bony girls standing nonchalantly beside each other. Left is a short East Asian girl with short hair, crooked nose and angular face, wearing a black tank top, a dark green cargo pants and hiking shoes. Left is a vaguely brown girl with dark brown hair in long braids, a long, pointy face, wearing a futuristic school uniform and a frayed scarf over it.
Clothing swap between the movie version of Shay and my pre-movie design.
I love Shays short hair in the movie. They toned down the bisexual subtext otherwise, but this fits so well
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #ShayUglies #BrianneTju #YADystopia
ID: Digital drawing showing Shay, a muscular, tattooeed all over East Asian woman wearing cargo pants and a sports bra, holding Tally to her chest while having a knife in her other hand, showing off her abs. Tally is a sharp faced white woman, short hair too as well as tattoos and self-harm scars, but she wears a black dress flowing in the wind, showing her legs and arms, and lots of silver earrings and rings.
Had a blast doing that "Old Romance Novel Cover" trend.
Briefly thought about doing some of their other identities, but then realized that having two rather masculine female super soldiers doing these very gendered poses would be the most interesting
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #femslash
ID: A curved, flower-vine esque bedframe in warm red light
"In a foreign city, Tally finally manages to get over her fear to fully be intimate with Shay. Neither of them, with their bodies and brains modified to be weapons, expected it to feel so.. loving"
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #femslash
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ID: Tally, scratched up and dirty, as she has finally arrived at the Smoke, holding up her hand to her shoulder and softly smiling as she sees Shay
ID: Shay, in the process of collecting sticks for a fire, turning around to see Tally, disbelief in her expression
Seeing each other again.
Don't tell me that doesn't look romantic
#TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #yuri
ID: Screencaps from Netflix Uglies adaptation, showing a closeup on Tallys face. She is a white girl with a pointy, somewhat big nose, relatively narrow lips, a sharp chin and slightly messy shoulder length brown hair.
ID: Shay face closeup. She is an East Asian girl with rather angular cheek and jaw bones, a crooked nose and short black hair with bangs
ID: Closeup on Tally as a Pretty, now with unnaturally smooth skin, a slightly more rounded off face, golden eyes, a smaller, lesser pointy nose and fuller lips, and golden, elegantly waved hair
ID: Shay as a Pretty face closeup. Unnaturally smooth skin too, her face now looks narrower, her eyes bigger and light brown, her nose smaller and she has shoulder length wavy hair with bangs now
I need their official designs as Specials
#Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #JoeyKing #BrianneTju
Realized we never got to see Pretty!Shay and Pretty!Tally in one frame or even just interact in the adaptation, and damn do I wish we had
#TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Uglies #ScottWesterfeld
ID: Shay laying on her back half in a sleeping bag, Tally rests her head on her chest, and Shay caresses her shoulder. Both have their eyes closed. They seem to be in a tent. The pencil drawing is colorized in brown and ochre tones, giving it a warm, subdued atmosphere.
Thinking about how in the book, Tally and Shay seemingly cuddled so frequently, including falling asleep cuddled against each other, that after Shays surgery Tally could do a whole list of details that felt differently
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #femslash #YADystopia
ID: Tally and Shay wrestling in a futuristic trainings room, Tally nearly on her back, Shay over her, grabbing her arm as Tally presses against her neck. Their faces are very close. Both of them wear cargo pants, sleeveless futuristic uniform tops, have tattoos all over their faces, neck and arms, and have cutting scars on their arms. Digitally colorized pencil drawing.
The good thing about them being super soldiers is that I can draw so many slightly too homoerotic trainings fights
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Femslash #BiArt #Butch4Butch
ID: Fausto, Shay and Tally lined up in what seems to be an assembly. They all wear grey uniforms with white, small circle structured details that look very sci-fi-esque. Fausto is a sharp faced desi man with square tattoos and long hair, Shay is a quite angular looking East Asian woman with pointy line tattoos and an undercut, and Tally is a sharp faced white woman with asymetrical bar tattoos.
Wanted to draw Tally and Shay in uniform (+bonus Fausto)
Of course Shay would do the Ensign Mariner sleeve thing
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #SciFi #YADystopia
ID: Tally and Shay hoverboarding, digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally is smiling boisterously as Shay is half pulling her and half holding her hand. Shay looks back to her and smiles too.
Realized I apparently had never drawn them on their movie design hoverboards and had to change that
#Shally #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia #Femslash
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing of Tally and Shay, both having short hair, rather muscular, tattooed all over and scarred, but Tally is white and Shay East Asian, having sex on a hotel bed. Shay is wearing a strap-on and on top, and holding Tallys arms down. Both are gasping
Little headcanon that for them, since they wouldn't want to waste backpack space by carrying around a strap-on, that is a luxury thing they do whenever they are in one of the cities. Of course Shay would top
#nsfw #EroticFanart #Femslash #Uglies #UgliesNetflix #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #Shally
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawings. Shay, now with a side cut, red eyes, tattoos all over her, and self-harm scars over her bare arms, holding a visibly scared Tally, emancipated, her creme colored jacket battered and ripped, her blonde hair open, and touching her chin.
That scene between Tally and Shay at the finale of Pretties, holy shit...
#ToxicYuri #Femslash #Uglies #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #ScottWesterfeld #YADystopia
ID: Digitally colorized pencil drawing. Tally, age 35, a muscular, tattooed, scarred, very tall black woman, touching her fiveteen year old selfs cheek tenderly (she is chubby and wears futuristic pastel clothes). "You were okay the way you are" is written in blurred print over this.
ID: 35 year old Shay, tall and wiry, with tattoos, short hair and self-harm scars over her arms, quite pointy face, hugging her 15-year old self closely (just haggard, long brown hair). "You were right"
Thinking about their 35 year old self from "Youngbloods" meeting their 15 year old self from the beginning of "Uglies".
May or may not redraw this with my current art style and the movie designs.
#Uglies #ScottWesterfeld #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #YADystopia #SciFi
ID: Photo of a couple in water
As Tally and Shay are finally alone outside in nature again, they can have some tender moments with each other. If it just wouldn't be so difficult with all the baggage...
archiveofourown.org/works/65046703
#Uglies #UgliesSeries #ScottWesterfeld #Shally #TallyYoungblood #ShayUglies #femslash #yuri
ID: Digital drawing. First row shows Dr. Cable in three different uniforms, the first is light grey and white, with the white parts being textured and on neck, shoulders, flanks and in narrower lines down her legs. Second is white and light grey too, but now plated, futuristic looking armor with visible straps. Third is a tight-fit black overall with futuristic silver patterns over it. Second row shows Shay as a Special, wearing a sleveless black top with silver straps over the shoulder and a large part of the front being silver too, cargo pants and futuristic combat boots. The second beside this shows the same outfit, but now with a wide black coat with silver line details worn over it.
Some headcanons for Special Circumstances uniforms, since in the movie we only saw the sneak suits - at least they look the closest to what the books described the sneak suits even if they didn't ever change colors to blend in anywhere.
#Uglies #UgliesNetflix #DrCable #ShayUglies #Dystopia
