Oh hey do you guys wanna see a thing I drew over Christmas and am super proud of but completely forgot I hadn’t posted until literally right now?
Okay so I wanted to do some more of that sketchy realistic style right? And I figured hey, ya know what’d work really well in that style probably?
The classic NWHS Portal Ford reveal shot!
So I did up the sketch and I’m like “this is actually sick, dang... should I colour this? I should colour this” and I did and I got kinda carried away with the lighting and stuff so HERE IT IS FULLY RENDERED :D
Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)
Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.
And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.
Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.
"he gets only partway before something soft and warm presses against his mouth.
lips. lan zhan’s lips. lan zhan is kissing him."
- "mask" by @humanformdragon
warprize!ji art i made as part of our collab for for bottomjibigbang!
I obviously cannot gif out this scene but I would like to point out moves that caused my insanity like this first one with reaction watching!!!! Jade was looking up to see Mai's reaction?!?!!? GIVE ME A BREAK
Or this one with the hair gripping and Tutor having literally NO mercy on Yim's chest? can I say that?
Over here you can clearly see what caused my insanity.. Its the hand movement from the hair to the chin and to the neck but also the fact that Jade might have a choking kink and ANOTHER fact that Mai clearly enjoys it! Not only here but when all of this started Jade constantly had his hand on Mai's neck!
This one is obvious so please don't make me say it
No.1 the fact that Mai follows EVERYTHING Jade does and plays along with it and No.2 Jade baby are you sure you only read Detective Conan because I think you might be reading something else as well... fanfiction
This one is here only because Jade is really enjoying himself I really love how he raises his head up
This one is here because Mai stole Jade glasses that is basically it... also Jade's hand on Mai's neck....
And that will be it because my heart cannot handle more... I never expected that TY would go this far so I am just shocked and I just cannot process this.... see you tomorrow with The Sign because I need to get off this app and process my what just happened
I put this together months back when I decided to burn a dvd of the movie and only realized yesterday looking at a bunch of cool art in the tag that I never bragged about it to more than like two people. so: my Emesis Blue DVD cover, complete with a rave review from the comments section.
Bonus: here it is with the rest of my little collection :)
I was so incredibly thrilled to be assigned to you these have been a labour of (many many hours) of love! For the rest of you who didn't get to read my email I give you Lye Lychen and Es, swing dancing and sneaking off from a party you're supposed to be infiltrating you guys!!!