#I couldn't bring myself to draw them

[ilildefoxy]

Okay I'm alive.

I'm sorry just- Nexus dying caught me hard. But I got over it and I am finally able to draw Sams again.

So they took this picture when Solar first came to the Daycare. Nexus had it in his pocket ever since and when Solar died he scribbled onto it. Out of anger, despair, pain, grief. He ripped it apart when he started hallucinating, keeping the Solar one only. Well, after Solar got brought back, he got the Nexus part from Jack and when Nex died, he found it in his pocket. How? He snuck back and also downloaded his data, so he could bring him back. He glued together the picture and cries over it now, not sure if he should or should not bring Nexus back.

<— That's completely cannon. Yes. It's very cannon. I saw it happen.

[sunwayholm]

This show has brought me back from the dead

[shaylai]

Just a cute little postcard

[a-aruke]

Boueibu movie spoilers below

I went to watch the movie! 7 times so far

Some of my thoughts (without giving out any concrete story spoilers):

The movie really felt fitting for a 10th anniversary. Even though they're all grown up it feels like they haven't changed a single bit

Aye Aye is really cute and the more I watch the cuter he gets

Akoya is without a doubt the MVP of the movie

He wears a fur shawl when he leaves his shop and it's very cute

Atsushi deserves to get sent to jail or at least sacked from his job

The EnAtsu towel scene is really funny

I pity Kinchan for having to put up with the Boueibu's antics back in the day...

VEPPer finally get their more better transformation!!

And here are some photos of the collab food

The roll ice cream could use a bit more fruit flavour but it was not bad

The VEPPer parfait and the Kurotamayu bath water (soup) was really delicious!!

The dorayaki were good and packed full of filling

Karaoke time

[underfan26]

Ride the cyclone day!!!

I love this musical so much and I'm sooo glad that the first time I saw it was without any spoilers... Actually, I had no idea of what it was, but it caught me since the first notes that Emily sang as Jane Doe in the intro, and oh boy, it was an emotional rollercoaster *badum tss*

So I did a little something for it since it's my favorite musical <3

Don't forget to ride the cyclone! 🎢

[hungrywhisp]

How it's going

[storfulsten]

Draw more Whitty x bf (?)

yee ok

sussy space boyfriends counts right

[seaofreverie]

Sparkstember Day 18: Balls (Bullet Train)

Sometimes (oftentimes) it's true that all you need are Balls. I personally absolutely love Balls. I'm a big fan! Ekhem. Today I'm using the help of (I mean, copying most of the passages from it) my earlier Balls rant that I have written down after my first listen of it back in January. I really love this album and I don't want to completely skip over saying a couple words on it at least but I really don't think I have the headspace to write anything very good for it today. I'll still try though!

So yeah, Balls. It's a great album, fun and chill (in my sense of what I call and consider chill anyway), consistent, as Sparks albums tend to be, and as I suspected / hoped it does fit this specific vibe of driving around at night somewhere city-like and illuminated. Or being on a train deep at night and looking at the world zooming by (if you'd even see much of it on a train at night anyway.....). And I do think that it's not so dissimilar to Gratsax (I'd say now that it's definitely darker and moodier than its predecessor...). So it's interesting to think about how it's considered to be one of the "weak" ones (by music reviewers at least) while Gratsax is so beloved in comparision.

I will admit, I don't really know what the big problem with this album could be. As I said, it's fun, it has the melodies, it has the energy, it has the theatricality (I like seeing how more and more orchestral instruments such as strings are being incorporated into the music, in a way the jump into Lil' Beethoven two years later doesn't come of as THAT much of a shock because of this. The evolution of sound here is fascinating!) I really like the intense beats, just as much as the more laid-back and moodier pieces. And there's lots of gold to be found in the lyrics department as always.

One more thing I wanna say is that at some point I wondered if this music sounds older than it is. Maybe it does? But then I remembered that this was 2000 and honestly when I think about it, there just IS something about this album that fits so well with the Y2K image and vibe and all. Sparks 2000 and all that.

Favourite songs (and other highlights):

Balls: I mean. It's Balls.

Scheherazade: absolutely LOVE this one and I had the strangest impression of it sounding very familiar when I first heard it. Months later I found out that it was just briefly featured in TSB so I think that explains it (I will talk more about my TSB viewings on TSB day. EVERYTHING has to be explained in excruciating detail, lmao)

The Calm Before The Storm: bugsonas 4ever. Song itself is amazing too

How To Get Your Ass Kicked: how can a song about getting your ass kicked be so pleasant and relaxing, it always keeps cracking me up, how perfect that is actually

Bullet Train: I love it how introducing the topic of the song with a "It's the [topic of the song]" is a reoccurring theme on this album. Thank you Sparks for this ode to technology and art (these lyrics always have me giggling). And also it just goes hard as heck

It's Educational: a perfect fusion of / sequel to I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car and Progress (it's mostly the vocal delivery that reminds me of the latter)

The Angels: such an odd one here but I still like it a lot, I apparently said that it sounds "surprisingly mainstream for Sparks but somehow in a positive way". It's very sweet and I absolutely love how Russell sings here, it's so different from what we're used to but that only makes it hit you even more in the feels, lol. And I actually prefer the alternative version of this song that's featured as a bonus track, and I do think that's in big part because you can hear Russell better on it (or that was my first impression of it at least and it kind of stuck)

[fuushhh]

an idea I had in my sleep and wanted to draw it

little extra lower!!

[saveugoodmadam]

my favourite lodger <333 mr aneurin sinnett you have my whole heart

sorry that it's been a while since I posted any art, this was a bit of an exercise in shading and anatomy, plus trying out a different lineart brush! :3

under the cut is a warm light version because I loved it a bunch and also a bigger version of the doodle! plus hcs if you're interested!

warm light version!!! he's so autumn-coded I need to see that fucker with a pumpkin spice latte in a scarf walking overy crunchy leaves STAT. preferably holding arthur's hand. (that's probably what I'll draw next lmao)

plus the doodle! I feel like he's the kind of guy to wear t-shirts with puns and I'm extremely proud of coming up with this one myself.

hcs:

his first name is aneurin. I saw ppl hc his name as anthony and while I respect that I think he'd probably be more likely to have a welsh name so yeah 👍 definitely did not nick it off the founder of the nhs (←lying) 👍

he's a really good hugger although sometimes he squeezes a bit too hard with the metal arm and nearly cracked griffin's ribs once.

I do think he was just born without his arm like there's no traumatic fire incident behind it he's just always had a stump.

if he was an animal he would be a dog, specifically an irish setter (begging you to read the wikipedia article, especially the temperament section bc it fits so well)

his bffs are flowers and pennebrygg!!! they all joined around the same time and so they kind of bonded by virtue of being the three new kids. pennebrygg and flowers also worked together to build his prosthetic, pennebrygg did the machinery work and flowers coded it to be able to move as naturally as possible.

he does know quite a bit of welsh but he can't speak it with many people- usually he speaks it with arthur or jekyll.

he has two sisters, one older and one younger.

[beastsovrevelation]

The Lord of Flies is such a doll~ 👑🪰 Not that she won't kill you.

(I needed a reference picture of Beel with long hair. Should I try and colour her?..)

[randompumpkinkiddo]

She got a gift

[tinyetoile]

for some reason, this bliaut/houppelande inspired white mage redesign is the only thing i've been able to draw in months. i don't know either

[underfan26]

Ride the cyclone day!!!

I love this musical so much and I'm sooo glad that the first time I watched was without any spoilers, I didn't have any idea of what was I about to see and my god, it was an emotional rollercoaster *badum tss*

Still my favorite musical

[masschase]

Also how fucking cute are-

[bookmark-extraordinaire]

Mad respect for people who can look back at their old art (be it pictures, writing, whatever) and feel good about their growth or nostalgic or something, the only feeling I can ever fathom when looking at my old work is the utter shame of ever having liked something at all.