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Anonymous said:

how do you manage to put characters with vastly different standard palettes into scenes together but keep everything harmonious? if that makes sense? I have a hard time with colour whenever i actually try to properly utilize it and putting multiple characters into one scene is incredibly frustrating because their palettes don’t always work together. :c

I don’t actually know if I’ve effectively answered your question with these, but I tried! This post from a long time ago might also be relevant.

I didn’t have time for a cute fashion picture today, so… here’s your reminder that there are 21 days to go on the Cucumber Quest Kickstarter!

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Here’s a really gay comic I made out of nowhere!

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burning holes

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Might write a modern au bg3 fic about the tadpole gang adopting Yenna after their adventures and all of them raising her together. Gonna call it "Oops! All parents!"

Volo is gonna be like an uncle

Mrs. Dekarios is mad that she had to hear about her grandchild through Tara

Duke Ravengard is mad he had to hear about his grandson through reporters

Karlach and Lae'zel take turns teaching Yenna how to stand up for herself and that goes just about as well as you'd expect. One of them gave her a sword and it's not the one with a hunk of infernal metal in her chest.

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ok ill not be playing ISAT all the way through again for at least a little bit, on account of the deep emotional toll it took on me (positive), so for posterity i am going to write down all the loose ends i never ended up cracking to see if anyone finished them (spoilers, natch):

connecting mira with the stylish girl who’s a big fan

building the bomb, what the fuck is the long thing and the secret ingredient

finding the last book in the chateau series (head housemaiden mentioned that she was reading it, not sure if you can actually access it)

not sure if theres something you can do with the four leaf flower you get from sky kid? wish craft ritual book mentions four leaf flowers and shooting stars and feels like there might be something w that and isa’s scene

finding the bonding earring library person’s partner

this isn’t a loose end but im deeply curious as to if there’s more than one ending

how many of the souveniers had interactions? im gonna be totally honest i kinda forgot they were there until i cracked the sharpening stone keyknife and then i didnt have them all. i know there’s a tiny scene with the glass shards, but the bell pendant? drawing of the squad? crumpled poem? etc

is there anything you can do before the end of act 4 (or 5? whenever you get to the king after watching bonnie die) that will make your family ask if you’re ok, the way that in SASASAP knowing where things were and zoning out and being generally weird enough collected enough flags to trigger a certain ending

who and what the fuck was loop????????????????????

What Is The Croissant Lore

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i had a thought, and now i'm going batshit crazy with this thought

IMAGINE AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE WITH THIS-

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@is-the-snake-video-cute Cool snake pin!!

IT'S HERE!! My kickstarter is now live!!

Anodize-Diaphonize is a glow-in-the-dark enamel pin series of diaphonized wet specimens. The pins will be soft enamel and anodized rainbow metal!

The initial funding goal is for four pins, but more will unlock as stretch goals as funding increases!

Give a look! And if you could spread the word that would mean the world to me!

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@groundnotsteel​  im answering in a new post because this will go a little long. i cant speak for the entirety of the fanbase but the reason *i* like antoine is because i really love the way his character development and relationships are handled over the course of the comic.

antoine starts the story as the epitome of the french coward. hes weak, largely unhelpful, egotistical, and difficult to get along with. as the story progresses, he overcomes a lot of this as you’d expect, but i found the way he overcame it to be very interesting. he drops his ego before he learns to be brave, which leaves him feeling weak and unloveable. his father was a general in the war, and antoine was meant to follow him, a core member of the the group of kids that almost singlehandedly kept the revolution going for years after the fall of the acorn kingdom, but he’s a loser. and once he drops his overbearing pride, it starts feeling less like “serves you right” and more just.. sad and pathetic.

i could go into every step of his development but i wont because that’s not what you asked me to do, but i will say that what i REALLY love about him is that after his arc is “complete”, he’s still very much himself. he’s brave, he puts his life on the line for the cause and for his friends and at the point where the story abruptly ends he’s in a coma because he threw himself over an explosion in order to save the prince. but he’s still a nervous character. he’s jumpy, he asked amy and sonic to come with him when he went to PROPOSE to bunnie because he was scared to do it by himself, he has his moments of pride, he’s still very much ANTOINE.

now, he has people who love him for who he is, and he is very open about loving them. his relationship with bunnie is so fucking cute, he is impossibly proud to be able to call her his wife, and despite being like. kind of objectively stronger and cooler, bunnie feels the same about him. he and sonic used to NEVER stop ragging on each other, but by the end of the story its so clear that the respect they have for each other has skyrocketed. antoine can still be, like, a little bit annoying to some of the other characters. because he’s antoine. he is a little bit of an annoying guy. but he has so much love in his heart and he tries so very hard

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A guide to designing wheelchair using characters!

I hope this helps anyone who's trying to design their oc using a wheelchair, it's not a complete guide but I tried my best! deffo do more research if you're writing them as a character

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colored a schezo from 80 years ago -3-

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Laranthir is a fine soldier. As the co-founder and Grand Warmaster of the Vigil, he does our people proud. I’ve always found myself familiar with the secondborn, for his determination to take on the sword against the Elder Dragons while never quite leaving his foot in the pool of… romanticism. There was a time I saw a bit of myself in him. I’ve long been resigned to a lifetime forever betrothed to my Wyld Hunt and nothing more. Never did I imagine that would ever cease to be the case. How fortunate I am for that… the next time I see my brother, I shall like to remind him that sometimes it’s up to us to open up our hearts and realize the answer to our loneliness is often right in front of eyes. As Tyrians, we are surrounded by a world of incredible people. It is a gift the Pale Tree blessed us with that we cannot take for granted.

-Trahearne’s journal. 1326 AE, after Zhaitan’s defeat

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Malyck as a Lieutenant of Mordremoth, with an imprisoned Pact Marshal Trahearne

This past Sunday, when I wanted to play a bit of GW2 on the 10th year anniversary, my internet kept intermittently cutting out. I was able to occasionally connect to post that morning, but not enough for something like an online game.

I sketched a bit instead until it was restored a few hours later, and this is what I ended up with - almost right after I made that “hopefully more art of these two soon!” offhand-comment from the last post, haha! 

You can thank our internet provider having issues that day for this sooner-than-expected Trahearne & Malyck artwork. Might continue with/finish in the future, because it was a fun idea to paint!

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Could you share your thoughts on Madge?

The screenwriters/director apparently felt she was irrelevant, but she must have a deeper meaning to the series, right?

Oh wow, thank you for the question!!!

So yes, Madge's character sure does have a deeper meaning!

On the most surface level of the story Madge acts, in part, as a characterization for Katniss. As we all know, Katniss is a pretty unreliable narrator. She seems to be under the impression that she's just like Gale but here's a prime example of why she's not. Madge is Katniss's only friend, other than Gale. And she's not just a merchant kid, she's the daughter of the mayor. While Gale has a narrow viewpoint and see things much more in black and white(she claims he understands the socioeconomic differences are just the Capitols way to divide 12, but he has a really tough time extending empathy to people he doesn’t relate to, unlike Katniss who is incredibly empathetic when she takes time to put herself in the shoes of others), Katniss actually has a more nuanced understanding about the Seam/Merchant dynamic which later extends to deeper understanding to the other tributes and even Capitol citizens all really just being victims to their circumstances. With the director ditching (mostly, Gale still has a few choice words about merchants) the whole Seam/Merchant narrative her role is vastly diminished.

The pin that Madge gives to Katniss as a district token (and later the symbol of rebellion) is so much more important in the books because of who it used to belong to, Maysilee Donner, who was Madge's aunt (her mom's twin), Katniss's mothers best friend, and partnered with Haymitch in his games. It's most likely Haymitch's own experience in surviving the arena with Maysilee as a team that gives him the idea to partner Peeta and Katniss. Without Madge most of these connections are lost.

In the metanarrative Madge represents a lot more. She, through the symbolism of her name, offers salvation through sacrifice. She gives Katniss the pin:

"His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress. Real gold. Beautifully crafted. It could keep a family in bread for months."

And then she basically risks her life to bring pain medicine for Gale, who hasn't been particularly nice to her:

When she opens it, there’s not a squad of Peacekeepers but a single, snow-caked figure. Madge. She holds out a small, damp cardboard box to me. “Use these for your friend,” she says. I take off the lid of the box, revealing half a dozen vials of clear liquid. “They’re my mother’s. She said I could take them. Use them, please.” She runs back into the storm before we can stop her.

Madge (and Mags) is short for Margaret, which is derived from the Greek word for Pearl (pearl is derived from the Sanskrit word for Pure). Peeta and Katniss are Pearls as well, so I'll expand on the pearl theme beyond just Madge.

Pearls themselves are created through sacrifice, traditionally the life of the oyster is forfeit for the gem. In some asian cultures the pearl represented the journey of the soul or spirit along the path to perfection (The Hunger Games trilogy is a retelling of Dante's Comedies- which represents the souls journey towards Paradise- the pearl symbolically represents Katniss’s inner arc). In ancient burials, mourners placed pearls in the mouths of the deceased. Since pearls apparently contained the principles of life, they hoped they could assist the dead on their journeys beyond. Mourners also decorated burial gifts and clothes with pearls.

Pearls are mentioned a LOT in the books. Here's a few quotes:

‘Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls!’” Effie beams at us so brilliantly that we have no choice but to respond enthusiastically to her cleverness even though it’s wrong.

He unzips the bag, revealing one of the wedding dresses I wore for the photo shoot. Heavy white silk with a low neckline and tight waist and sleeves that fall from my wrists to the floor. And pearls. Everywhere pearls. Stitched into the dress and in ropes at my throat and forming the crown for the veil.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. “For you.” I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight.

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss from the giver himself.

Katniss putting the pearl to her lips as both the mourner and the dead. We can actually infer that the pearl is a placeholder for Peeta.

But what exactly does the pearl represent beyond the obvious? There's the biblical symbolism and then there's literary symbolism.

There's a ton of Christian symbolism in these books, probably the most obvious being the Christ-like sacrifices that Peeta makes, he sacrifices his body to provide the life saving bread, and again in the arena which after spends three days in a cave, followed by his resurrection. The trilogy follows the Divine Comedies, Katniss as the heart and caught between Gale (the body) and Peeta (the spirit).

You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord.

Above from the Bible, below from The Hunger Games

It was the boy. In his arms, he carried two large loaves of bread that must have fallen into the fire because the crusts were scorched black.

Below is a quote from the Bible (Revelations) describing the 12 gates of Jerusalem. It could be written off as a coincidence, 12 gates, 12 districts, except that the 8th gate is the Cotton Merchants' Gate, which correlates to District 8, which is the district that manufactures textiles and uniforms.

And the twelve gates of the city were twelve pearls; each single gate was made from one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. 

In literary symbolism Pearl, (the daughter of Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter), represents several things. Pearl was the physical manifestation of Hester's sin (adultery), the pregnancy therefore making it apparent she had sinned. At the same time Pearl was a blessing, as without her she would have most likely committed suicide.

 “… Had they taken her away from me (Pearl), I would have willingly gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man’s book too, and that with mine own blood!”

This is similar to Katniss's thinking at the beginning of Mockingjay

Peeta. If I knew for sure that he was dead, I could just disappear into the woods and never look back.

Below is a quote from the end of The Scarlet Letter:

"Pearl kissed his lips. A spell was broken. The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl’s errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled."

And another quote from the near end of Mockingjay:

I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. “Don’t let him take you from me.” Peeta’s panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. “No. I don’t want to . . .” I clench his hands to the point of pain. “Stay with me.” His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. “Always,” he murmurs.

I delve a bit into the Divine Comedies in this post.

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Ryker: Care to explain why Palmo told me you just spent fifty thousand G on furniture?

Ares: Ahahaha… um.

[In Lucas’s house]

Ares: I, uh… felt bad for him.

Ryker: …

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A lil lazy doodle I made while waiting for my chicken to defrost <333 I’m still redecorating Lucas’s house, he has so much empty space LMAO

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head drawing practice and at the same time quenching my thirst

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everyone's favourite big sis QuQ