#I guess. shrug.

[ssruis]

Why the change of “now, I am able to understand and connect with someone without relying on shows, and I’ve come to value the beauty of laughing alongside others (TL tsukasa’s #3 fan)” -> “now, I don’t need shows or anything to get to know someone. On top of that, I want to share smiles and laughter with them” bugs me so much - beyond the fact that the official TL just straight up does not sound like rui - is that like. The fan translation (which, while I’m not a Japanese speaker, I feel comfortable assuming is closer to the intended message than the official one just based on the precedence of ensekai fucking things up) says a lot about rui’s character and the official TL… does Not.

The word choice of “relying on shows” emphasizes the fact that rui has viewed shows as the only way he could connect to people for a very long time. His friendship with wxs is founded in the group’s love for shows. His friendship with Nene as a kid began out of their mutual love for shows. His friendship with Mizuki is an outlier in that it was founded in mutual loneliness, but that’s not something Rui wants to be his primary way of connecting with others. Rui’s dream of creating a show that can reach everyone and bring everyone together regardless of who they are speaks to the fact that he has always seen shows as a way to connect to others when he’s been unable to do so outside of shows. The plot of the RMD show points to that as well (& RMD in general, with him attempting to connect to his classmates through that show).

Rui being a genius has always been something that set him apart from others & his more intellectual interests (engineering, inventing, science) were all things that the average child is not going to be interested in because they’re more interested in like. Playing tag outside. Shows were probably the first thing he had interest in that other people his age would also share an interest in. Now that he’s older, his passions are more understandable for his peers (npc thinking his robots are cool, for example) but he’s still using shows as a way of connecting to others (talking abt directing, story ideas, etc). It’s just not the *only* way he’s able to connect to others. He can just talk to them.

The “I’ve come to value the beauty of laughing alongside others” also says a lot wrt the fact that Rui is a director/producer of shows - he primarily operates from behind the scenes. He makes *others* laugh, but he’s not a part of the audience. Experiencing something together is a way to connect to others, and while Rui creates experiences that allow for that, he’s notably not a part of the actual connections being made. Pandemonium is an event where he’s finally a part of the audience as opposed to being the director (aside from the part where he’s directing shizuku), and he’s experiencing things with other people - not just the parade, but things like card games with his classmates or souvenir shopping/sight seeing with new friends. Rui is valuing experiencing things with others (something that’s new for him) as opposed to creating experiences for others and being divided by the stage.

“now, I am able to understand and connect with someone without relying on shows, and I’ve come to value the beauty of laughing alongside others”: “I’ve realized I’m capable of forming relationships outside of having a shared dream/passion, and I’ve realized that experiencing things with others is one way of connecting with other people that I hadn’t considered before.” There’s a lot to read into here. A piece of dialogue that excellently sums up rui’s character growth.

“now, I don’t need shows or anything to get to know someone. On top of that, I want to share smiles and laughter with them”: “I can get to know someone outside of shows (what is the anything?). I want to have fun with others (implication being that he didn’t want to do that previously??).” Nothing burger statement. Boring. Kind of just spoon feeds you the messaging in pandemonium and doesn’t really speak to rui’s overall character growth.

As a side note even though I care less about the whole “Tsukasa-kun truly knows how to bring endless smiles to my face” -> “Tsukasa’s given me so many reasons to smile” thing, it was really stupid to remove the implication that Tsukasa himself is what is making rui smile/happier given that 1) there’s this line from mizuki in rui’s first birthday card 2) literally IN THIS EVENT one of the npcs is like “we didn’t think you really cared abt other people until you started hanging out with tsukasa”

[musiclovingmoth]

pretty princesses

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

people be wondering why there's no appearance from hades in any of the sagas, especially the underworld saga (even if he wasn't in the odyssey itself) i have a theory!

spoilers for vengeance saga and future ithaca saga!

do you not understand how busy that poor guy/god is during odysseus' terrible, horrible, no good, bad journey home™

first he has 7 freshly made pancakes men (14 if you count the club smash noises in survive, but we'll go with 7 for this) sent by chef polyphemus, appearing one after the other.

not long after that, you have 550 very soaked (drowned) men pop through in the blink of an eye, no thanks to his younger brother, mr ruthlessness himself, poseidon.

then while he's still counting/organising the paperwork for them, a young man appears, who happens to be very drunk (talking about pig men?)

not long after that, somehow a warship filled with mortal men breaks into the underworld, ALL ALIVE, and the (king? leader? captain? he's not too sure at this point) starts singing outside his front door about becoming a monster????? but before he can sic cerberus on them, they leave on their own

finally he thinks he has a break when 6 men holding torches (are some missing limbs?!?) have now joined the party down under (granted they're all in no mood to party, they weren't expecting to become snacks for a sea monster)

and just as quick as they'd arrived, in a flash (just like the snap of lightning that took them out) 36 crispy/fried men (gods damn it zeus) appear, weapons drawn like they were about to attack someone (how does that one guy at the front swing such a big sword?)

at this point hades is wondering what the fuck is happening upstairs, because ain't no way these 600 men are all from the same fleet/island under one guy's command (turns out the captain's name is odysseus)

he thinks his prayers are answered because he has had peace for 7 years, just the normal flow of souls into the underworld- (wait whats that chanting)

suddenly those previous 600 souls are flying their way outta the underworld (he didn't know they could do that) while singing "six hundred men! (six hundred)" on repeat

they return though (thank the gods, he didn't need to go soul hunting) and once again he thinks everything will be calm

(he also found out from zeus, that their brother got his godly-ass handed to him by that MORTAL odysseus! WHO USED HIS OWN WEAPON AGAINST HIM (something to help make him laugh over spring & summer and while he waits for his beautiful persephone to return home))

he finally thinks his time with odysseus and the souls that come from him/being around him is over. when in minutes of each other, the souls of 108 men appear, all killed in gruesome ways. then they tell him that they were killed by beggar who then revealed himself as king odysseus, from trying to marry his wife and take over his kingdom (ok very understandable murder then)

at this point hades doesn't know whether he's excited for, or dreading the day he actually meets odysseus in the distant future (yes distant, i don't care about/ don't accept the telegony. let the poor man enjoy the rest of his life with his son and wife!!!)

but yeah, understandable why you don't hear from him throughout the sagas

[mithrandirl]

Get some sleep, Frodo.

[ofcowardiceandkings]

tfw ur havin a convo with the neighbours and ur bf is in need of a cuddle ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[vcrnons]

SEVENTEEN + the MOGU MOGU plushie.

[hitracks]

maybe we were better for eachother in another universe

[saturnaous]

lady sneasler and the weird ass guy she found. she's done this twice now

[mbat]

yknow what i honestly never realized that bill canonically called ford 'fordsy' though like i kept reading that in fics and being like. yeah i can see him saying that but idk why everyone latched onto that-

but no i went and watched some clips from the show to remember how bill sounds and when he said fordsy it was a fucking jumpscare. WHY DID ANYONE EVER THINK THESE MEN WERENT GAY AS FUCK?

[icaruspendragon]

my husband and i started dating almost six years ago and our anniversary is coming up so i was looking through texts from when we first started seeing each other and jfk i'm just now realizing he was flirting with me and i simply did not realize that’s what was happening.

he'd say something like "aren’t you just the sweetest thing" and i'd respond with some shit like "that's nice of you to say. i have a deeply ingrained borderline pathological need to be liked and also to make other people happy so it's good to know i'm succeeding in that."

[xxplastic-cubexx]

If you were to like redesign Magneto's classic outfit in a way that both suits the character and your own tastes, how would you redesign it?

uhhhh errrmmmmm i dont know i really couldnt improve upon perfection but i have still tried for you my friend !!!

[marigoldendragon]

I did an oil painting of Jade! I wasn't sure who I wanted to paint, so I rolled a dice and Jade was the lucky winner. I had a lot of fun doing this one, I need to use my paints more often.

And I took a whole bunch of photos of the process, so you guys can see how it came into being!

First things first. Planning. Traditional painting doesn't have the luxury of being able to make sweeping changes as you go like you can with digital, so if you generally want to plan ahead.

Next I printed out my lineart onto some watercolour paper and taped it to a board. I then sealed the print/paper with some clear acrylic medium and painted my tape white because it was bright fucking green and would throw off my colour mixing. My set up is pretty simple. I have a jar of mineral turpentine with a strainer at the bottom to clean my brushes on, my palettes are just boards with wax paper clipped onto them (easy cleanup) and a roll of paper towels and some rags for cleanup. And I also use an medium that both thins out my paint and helps it dry faster, otherwise oils can take months to fully cure.

I planned out all my colours in advance, so all I had to do was mix up the appropriate shades and then pretty much play paint by numbers.

The general process is block out each colour and then do whatever blending is required. If you want a harsh shadow you dont do too much blending, if you want a soft shadow you use a fluffy brush and go over the area multiple times.

And then you just go around area by area filling it in as you go. Of course there's a whole lot of different techniques and processes for completing a painting. This is just what I did for this specific painting.

And he's done! He took a few days to dry, even with the added fast drying medium. There's a few areas I'm not happy with, but I would cannibalise any colour on my palette by mixing it into the next colour I was going to use. So sans re-mixing that exact specific paint, I couldn't go back in to touch up anything.

The digital planning stage was done the evening before, and the painting stage was about 6 hours? So all in all anywhere from 8-10 hours total for this.

If you guys have anymore questions (this was a pretty brief overview) feel free to dm me or leave a comment or whatever. I don't bite and am happy to help anyone out there looking to improve thier skills, or satisfy anyone's curiosity.

[bobzora]

various star rail doodles + a comic

[leafie-draws]

still here

[spookythesillyfella]

they make me want rip my brain out of my skull ...........

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[camthecatchameleon]

diversity win!! these ninja GAY!!!

free to use discord emotes, with credit ofc; individual pairs under cut