#11 by bbs

[dysonidk]

[waxn-wane]

I know I keep dissing anime!Ciel for not being able to dress himself, like everytime dress up doll scenes come up I keep heckling at the screen, "YOURE 13!!! DRESS YOURSELF" being unable to tie his shoelaces and button his coat and brush his hair properly, sir please

(although I'm heckling to stop myself from delighting in the obvious sebaciel scene pff)

But then at a closer look at his clothes in Yana's art, goddamn I would NOT be able to put all that shit on in under an hour. I'm more empathetic to his plight, alla that needs 2 pairs of hands and an hour at most.

Although his everyday clothes are simpler. I raise my eyebrow at this, watching the video now, Ciel could put on his socks and coat by himself. I like to think Ciel actually knows how to dress himself in his everyday clothes but just indulges Sebastian.

On the more elaborate sets, thank goodness for Sebastian, to be able to do that everyday (I still think Seb just likes dressing Ciel because that coat is too simple). I mean, he can do all that at superhuman speeds but it feeds my heart that he's taking his time to make his master beautiful

He could just do this ☝️ But he doesnt

[muppetmagic]

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY (2023)

episode seven, book of calvin (dir. tara miele)

[sebfreak]

I applaud your avarice, young master.

[coconut-mamaa]

34 🏹

[theworstcreature]

No “other” option because you MUST choose from the first ten droids I could think up

Reblog for reach !!!

[9no]

残暑お見舞い申し上げます！

そしてFGO9周年もおめでとうございました！

夏イベも真っ盛りですので共にこの暑さを乗り越えましょう✨

直近のらくがきをまとめました！

そろそろCPというか、絡み絵も久しぶりに描きたいところ…

どなたか活力を分けてください〜🙇‍♀️

くの

[rettomus]

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

Annon-Guy: Where did you get those Kokonoe Astral Sprites from?

Think this means other Alternate Costume Sprites for Es and Lambda are around?

Those Astral sprites were ripped straight from the files of BlazBlue Alternative Dark War!

Though we didn't see them all in the game while it was running, nearly all characters in the files had at least one (usually two) additional costumes. They're in various states of completion, though. For instance, Kokonoe also had a costume showing her in a Kaka Clan style jacket, but that outfit doesn't have any battle sprites. If you're interested, you can see all her art here!

As for Es and Lambda, yes! They both have costumes that were implemented and playable in Dark War! Lambda's only costume (finished or otherwise) was her non-combat uniform, as seen in the storymode of the main games. You can see some of her gameplay here!

I don't have any full sprites from her Astral that I can share yet; some characters, like Kokonoe, have full Astral sprites on their character sheets, while others (Es, Lambda, most) are in pieces that need to be edited together.

Here's a few complete sprites I could find on her spritesheet, though!

Es' costume from Lost Memories was implemented into the game, but I've been unable to find any videos of it. Here's one of her sprites, though!

Her outfit from Code Embryo is also in the files, but I don't remember it ever being added to the game. It does have battle sprites, though, so here's the same sprite pose for this costume!

[bonefall]

what do you of "the man who sold the world" for fallenleaf? friend is getting me into nirvana and i cant do anything without thinking of the Beasts

Hmm... honestly? I think it fits other characters much better!

Man Who Sold The World always reads to me as like... a dangerous character, could be a demon, could be an evil parent, could be a more literal villain in some kind of story, who has unambiguously gotten its ass kicked and banished. In its defeat, it realizes that it can turn it around; by trying to convince one of their Victims to join them.

And succeeding.

(and it's why Nirvana's version is my favorite, Cobain's voice is just the right amount of hoarse that makes me feel like the Victim Character has lost a lot of sleep over it. Vulnerable and open to the offer of the Villain, possibly on the brink of desperation in their own life. It has that sort of angsty-young-adult madness that makes choosing bad decisions sooo much easier. Bowie's and Ure's versions are also fantastic, but imo they're a lot more dreamlike, like the victim is being more entranced than convinced!)

The song isn't about breaking out of that cycle. It's about "laughing and shaking his hand," returning home almost unaware of any change. But over many years, in tiny little ways that add up into even bigger ones, slowly the Victim becomes another man who sold the world.

They doesn't even realize when they died alone along their quest, just that it must have been long, long ago.

Some of that fits Fallenleaf, but it's not quite the same vibe. She killed Ashfur in revenge. She sought out Sol and took his deal for power, and tried to kill her own brother. She subjugated an entire Ancient Lake society-- and the only thing she can really blame Sol for is how it got bored of her and kicked her out of her own body.

Those were things she did. And they're things she lives with. Trickery was less a part of it than she might have wanted to believe at some point in her long, guilty life.

NATURALLY I'm inspired by Cheecat's really great animation they made with Brambleclaw and Tigerstar, and I think it fits Tigerstar to a T, but who I always think of is Hawkfrost.

Especially in BB, where RiverClan raised him to lean into his legacy. Not Clanborn, from a young age he had to work twice as hard, prove that he and his sister were "worth" keeping around, told that they were only protected by that diluted Tigerkin blood that trickles through their veins and that Tigerstar was an ideal to live up to...

Only the thinnest veneers of, "Be what he was, without his flaws" to hold him back from fully adopting everything his father ever stood for. A father he never met, who hurt his mother, who killed and traumatized countless clanmates.

And then Hawkfrost sees him. The song kicks in. "I thought you died alone, a long long time ago."

"Not me. I never lost control." It means that those "flaws," they weren't so bad. "You're face to face with the man who sold the world" and I can teach you the value of that.

He leaves that exchange feeling warm. "I laughed and shook his hand." He goes through the destruction of the forest (looking for form), the great journey (and land), and eventually finds himself in all the conflicts of TNP. No one knows at what point he stopped being the noble young warrior who stood up for Reedpaw against his tormenters, or when wanting to protect his sister became abuse and belittling.

But at some point, he died alone, long before his heart stopped beating on that stake.

He ends up in the Dark Forest with his father, preparing for the change that's coming in OotS, but not by the end of the song. At the end of the song his father has successfully dragged him down to his level, singing the same tune, trying to pretend that his dad getting him pointlessly shish-kebabed for a petty personal dispute wasn't a critical L to the chest.

[dysonidk]

[lyknest]

i'll always have bad buddy & moonlight chicken though thanks <3

[carbone14]

Cuirassé USS Iowa (BB-61) au large de Pearl Harbor – Hawaï – Etats-Unis – Novembre 1952

[lonestarbattleship]

USS TEXAS (BB-35) and USS ORION (AC-11) docked at a wharf, possibly the Norfolk Navy Yard.

Photographed sometime between March 14, 1924 and June 20, 1925.

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[trevination]

anyone awake for me to post my cover of great expectations

[goldensunset]

while I can't say I've encountered nearly as many Radiant Garden fans as you probably have in order for that to jump to mind, I actually did find myself really agreeing with your take on it. I totally thought I was missing some cutscenes for a while, like maybe I just hadn't seen something that was in the manga or in the DS version of 358/2 days, but no. people actually do just extrapolate off of nothing. and while that's fine for the most part, I never see this level of dedication being put in for female characters. as a huge Aqua fan it's frustrating that she has so many interesting qualities that I'd love to see explored but DON'T because most of the fandom would rather extrapolate from a guy with 4 seconds of screen time than even think about her. unless she's being shipped with Terra, I guess. I think the R.G. folks are just a microcosm of that bigger issue--they'd dig into the earth's fucking mantle looking for gold in an emo boy before digging six feet down for a woman

salt under the cut (i won’t make this a habit i promise)

adjdjcnsnxn that’s an incredible way to put it i might steal that phrasing… see like again i understand the ienzo thing purely from a life situation point of view. if a lil boy was an orphan raised by sketchy weirdos in a lab and then at the ripe old age of 8 had the whole losing-his-heart-and-growing-up-less-than-human-raised-in-a-cult thing. sure i’d want to explore that too! i’d read farther into it than canon. but literally where is the passion for aqua or kairi or skuld etc etc… i mean the girls have their fans but like no one is out here constructing an entire elaborate universe out of them. like i do my best but it’s hard work… but i mean that’s hardly surprising right. that’s how the story goes

honestly ienzo fans don’t even make me mad it’s more like i get annoyed when ppl obsess over like. aeleus and dilan.. because respectfully and i say this with love. there is *nothing* there. they didn’t even bother bringing back their vas in kh3. they are filler. why do all the shifty weirdo radiant garden men draw rabid fans but heaven forbid the ladies get love. hold on *approaches hornet’s nest with a baseball bat* i think there’s something about specifically adult fictional men that- ((i reconsider and stop myself))

but like. people are allowed to do whatever they want idk at worst it’s annoying when they start attacking others over alleged mischaracterization. yes i know in your fun and admittedly interesting fantasy he acts like this. but you cannot get mad when another fan portrays him the way we see him in canon lollllllllll