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Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

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Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">

Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">

nth kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">

yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

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Maybe I'm misreading things and straying into "She would not fucking do that" territory but imagine Susie talking to Mecha Knight while she works on him. Like, this is her pet project that she works on by herself so she just starts telling him about all the things that frustrate her and all the things she can't talk to other people about because who's he gonna tell? He can't talk and he's been reprogrammed to follow her orders. Its kinda like how some people'll tell their dogs about the terrible day they had just to get it off their chest. That's a thing people do, right, I'm not just making that up?

Really this is just me trying to come up with ways to exposit her backstory in a hypothetical Planet Robobot cartoon. Like, use this as a framing device for flashbacks.

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⚔️ bonk

❗slight eyestrain warning❗

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kirbtober day 10 and 12 Mechanical and Clone/ Copy

At first I thought that the 10th and 12th were between those two so I made a drawing of the themes and now there will be no drawing of the 12th

"Don't worry your majesty, I assure you that with these improvements I have made will be more than strong and more than capable of ending that magenta annoyance, after that you could have your puff back and your family will be fine.

I know that the familiar faces of the cloned dead may bother you a little as if they could have resources from the originals or be upset, but don't worry, they won't turn against us, none of them 4"

Susie's words to her comparator King Dedede to calm him down in the face of the progress of her request

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A quick doodle I did so I can finally say I drew Elfilis seriously! Feel free to use as an icon if you want!

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Drawcia in the style of Madoka Magica! Tumblr murdered the image quality with this one

Gekidan Iny Curry's artsyle is still super hard to study and emulate, but I think it looks way better than the Magolor one I did nearly 2 years ago, so I'm happy about how this one turned out!

I wish I could've added more symbolical elements but there really isn't much about Drawcia so I just went for basic artsy stuff like paintbrushes, frames and binders clips

I'll probably do Marx next, hopefully it won't take me as long this time x)

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Embrace.. rebirth as a new being

Kirbytober day 10: Mechanical

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🤖 Kirbtober 2024 Day 10: Mechanical 🤖

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Susie proudly showing off the company’s newest security guard, Mecha Knight, who hangs limp and unconscious from several support cables suspended from above, his metal-grafted wings held aloft, his new horns and missile-launcher pauldrons gleaming under a single spotlight, his six-pronged beam sword gripped firmly in one hand and alight with a fiery pink glow. END ID.)

“It’s our newest model! Top-of-the-line in company defense! Complete with all the latest security updates, bug fixes, and almost no resistance-based crashes to date!”

Previous Day | Next Day | Prompt List (made by @/paintpanic)

Started on 09/11/24, finished on 09/12/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

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Wdym Meta Knight likely has'nt been hurt by mechanization ?!

This is Kirby we're talking about, boy ! The same franchise where you've been able to hear people scream/cry in pain as their souls are getting erased from existence ! Twice ! Where a crazy queen steals body parts from others to become more beautifull by stitching them to her own, and then begs for death ! Where a mad cultist sacrifices his unconscious followers and then himself !

Like, how would you expect anything less from someone getting mechanized against his will and then forced to work for his enemies in this serie ?

Kirby games are just getting more fucked up as they release, at least according to how the more fucked up stuff is also more recent. It's only downhill from there.

Whenever there's a Kirby Planet Robobot remake, the angst is gonna be crazy. So much stuff in this game has the potential to be so fucking dark. I cannot wait for it.

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I am digging this subject. Overthinking it, even.

I'm personaly a big fan of the second interpretation, because it allows him to keep his whole thing of being mysterious while exploring his vulnerability.

I don't really understand people saying that he was'nt impacted by it tho. Not to judge anyone, but is'nt the point ? If not it would'nt have been a plot point... I def gotta think about that some more

Either way have a nice dayyy

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Let's talk about Mecha Knight

Well, well, well, would you look at the time. It's "me writing too much about Kirby" 'o clock ! And it seems like Mecha Knight will be the topic.

So, the reason I am writting this is that I see more and more people say that Mecha Knight is an overused subject and it doesn't deserve to have so much angsty fics, art, etc. I strongly disagree and I will explain why. I know people won't change their mind with a single, random rant, but I just want to share my opinion on the matter. With that in mind, here I go, describing how the whole Mecha Knight thing is indeed messed up.

First I want to objectively describe the situation. So the Haltman Company invades popstar, starts mechanising everything and everyone. Meta Knight has the Halberd blown up, and we don't hear about him untill world 4. We discover that he had tried to fight the corporation by himself, then failed and was captured. Then he was turned into a cyborg forced by mind control to work for the guys who are actively destroying what he was trying to save against his own will, and forced to try killing one of his friends/rival twice, before being freed and helping the heroes.

I think we can all agree that this a bad thing to happen to anyone. Kidnapping, enslaving and modifying someone without consent is pretty horrible, and there is no denying that. Everyone who has basic ethics and empathy would know that. So logically, people sympathise with Meta Knight, and they can show it by imagining what it must have felt like for him trough art.

So, why the heck would some people try arguing why it actually was'nt that bad and artists should stop "milking angst" out of this ?!

Here's their argument ; Some have said that Meta could'nt have been badly hurt, as he is seen seemingly fine after fighting Haltman. As if being fine physically means you are fine mentally. If you were mechanised, do you think you would'nt feel at least a little bad ? Is it wrong to think the victim of this situation may keep some scarring memories ? Or is it that you think Meta Knight having trauma is contradictory to his character and he should'nt be allowed to ?

Well, in fact, if you look back at his personality, having trauma out of being Mecha Knight make perfect sense as it goes against his most defining trait ; stenght.

Normally he is very powerfull, physically, mentally and politically. His character practically revolves around power ( he is often shown trying to be more powerfull ). So imagine what it must be like, having all that strenght completly taken away from you and used by his ennemies against his allies. How it must feel to go from leader to slave. Not being able to move an inch by yourself while your body moves on its own. And it's only made worse by how in every other instance of him being posessed, he was shown to have tryied resisting evil influence. Even in RoMK he was revolting against lazinness. Here, the only clue we have about him trying to resist was the title of his battle theme, commonly known as "inner struggle". But the fact you can't even see that in game prooves how powerless he was, how vain his resistance was.

Even if having been turned into a robot did'nt disturb him, not being able to do anything against it definitly could have made him question himself. It could have shattered his ego and confidance in his abilities. It make perfect sense.

And, well, being turned into a cyborg must have been terrifying anyways. We don't know how mechanisation actually worked, but according to the number of screws in the mechanised people's design, how we only see him after a while and Kumazaki's habit of impliying terrifying stuff going on behind the scenes, it's understandable to assume it was painfull. And it must also suck to be treated as an actual object.

So, yeah, the situation was indeed pretty fucking bad, and seeing people trying to say it’s not unnerves me. I think they either are Meta Knight fans who feel like him being allowed to feel the slightest of insecurities would make him weak, MetaSusie fans who are trying to defend her actions by minimilizing them or just fan that have enough to see it over so many other topics. Like, bro, feel free to make your own art instead of complaining. Or potentially write countless paragraphs to share your opinions like I do ( just kidding, it’s actually pretty anoying ).

Basically, it's normal to see angsty art and fics of an event that was objectively pretty horrible and complaining about it is weird.

Either way, if you’ve read trough all this, congratulation. Must have been long. Thank you for your time and patience, and I hope you have a wonderfull day.

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I wanna draw this when I have time and energy but I like to imagine that Phantom Meta Knight is sorta like. The most imperfect(?) of the alt dimension meta knights. DMK is from the mirror world and Parallel MK is from the energy of the Jamba hearts, which did successfully possess Meta. However Phantom MK is moreso the energy byproduct of Meta resisting Fecto’s mind control and its memories of that. So there’s a lot that probably had to be “filled in” either through bits of what Fecto has grown familiar with in the forgotten lands (so, like, the beast pack) or generally just assuming or making things up. Had to Frankenstein this bitch together a little.

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Sleep tight, sweet princes.

Slowed the speed down, because the animation happens so fast. I love how Dedede just conks out, but Meta Knight tries his hardest to resist XD

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Today Super Smash Bros Ultimate turned one year old and Kirby means so much to me for being the very first game I played as a child. Please N-joy this one year anniversary comic! Thank you so much for creating SSBU!!!

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I wanna know: We know how Forgo Meta Knight turned in the Forgo Knight AU(My name to the Forgo Meta Knight AU, it's that or Beast Knight AU), would he faintly recognize Dedede as his sworn partner in his state, like he doesn't remember Dedede at all but he just feels some sort of familiarity for him, that can make him hesitate in a possible fight. Except for the fight near the lab, where Forgos influence is strongest.

I want to see your creative juices flow! And I'm admittedly kinda bored so I wanna hyperfixate with someone on something lmao

DAHDJKFDASJ the tropes where someone under mind control has a moment of clarity makes me SO WEAK

I think it's very possible that the first time he hears Dedede's voice there is a tiny glimpse of the real knight within. Just one second where he almost remembers who he is. But it's tragically brief :')

I wish I had unlimited time to dive into this story- I really do. But all I can offer are some post-its and an invitation for anyone to explore this story if they wish-!!