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the more we learn about the calamity across campaigns, the more it seems like Matt is eventually building up to a calamity 2.0
#I don't think it'll happen in C3#I think it's a long con#maybe not calamity 2.0 exactly but something similar#in every campaign theres a threat of a new or old god returning to wreak havoc on exandria... so in a way each campaign averts a calamity#but maybe matt plans for one of these campaigns to end with the protags failing#or its up to the dice but he has certain pre-planned events that will be set in motion that are consistent across campaigns#for a world-ending event#and a new campaign to start with the board essentially wiped clean#each campaign introduces a villain from further back in history#according to cr wiki at least#vecna came before aeor but in c2 they have to also prevent the chained oblivion from being released#and now with predathos we're seeing a villain that first appeared before the age of arcanum#I wonder....#it all feel connected in a very ephemeral way#like there's certain actors we havent met yet in exandria pulling more strings than they should#what is going on with these solstices?!#critical role#critical role fan theories#I don't believe we've seen the last of asmodeus either#not after exu calamity
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princess tutu: die jahreszeiten 🌸
kind of a companion piece to my 2022 ptutu drawing | it's on inprnt
this print was at anime north; next con is otakuthon!
oops so my hand slipped and i made another princess tutu drawing. i admittedly don't watch that much anime so my catalogue of work is gonna be the same 5 animes LMAO. what can i say, i love "dark" fairy tales, and i've been really enjoying the more fine art approach to a lot of my drawings as of late (and the watercolour brush i've been using has been so perfect for that...!)
as my first princess tutu drawing is now 2 years old, there are some areas i've grown to have ... qualms with... although both drawings as a whole are pretty much exactly what i envisioned, and that's always satisfying!
both of these were drawn in roughly a week's time (yes really...) for con crunch period (and i went back to this drawing after the con to touch up some areas that were a bit rough!). i wanted a different approach to this new pt drawing, with the focus on the line work, rather than on colours and lighting in the 2022 drawing.
this drawing had 2 goals: to continue the style i adopted in my witch hat atelier "lantern bearers" drawing (which i promise i'll post in full soon as soon as all of the zine artists get their go-ahead to post their pieces!), and to emulate the art nouveau movement's heavy emphasis on line work, albeit not a 1:1 style replication of course.
the seasons also aren't a 1:1 representation, as i didn't necessarily pick flowers or colours that are most strongly associated with the season (e.g. summer being a dark tone is a bold choice?). but it's kinda whatever, as i said before i drew this in a week, there may be more appropriate flowers with better meanings. i couldn't spend too too much time drafting and researching.
FLOWER SYMBOLISM:
- spring: apple blossoms, tulips - the apple blossom is a quintessential spring flower, and thus symbolize the arrival of spring. spring is a season of change, which ahiru/princess tutu is a force of, instigating change in her friends and unravelling the story around her. the flowers below her are tulips, and there are many meanings to tulips depending on the colour, due to their ubiquitous nature. i narrowed on one, and intended for them to symbolize happiness. princess tutu's pose is one in which that is open, inviting, and warm - reflecting her nurturing nature in the series, and her willingness to help others achieve happiness.
- summer: deadly nightshade flower, yellow rose - i chose for rue/princess kraehe to symbolize a fiery summer's night instead of the typical dazzling heat of a summer's day, a rather bold and unusual choice. the warmth of sunshine didn't quite fit, as the character is quite dramatic and passionate, with her intentions often hidden in shadow. next, the deadly nightshade - atropa belladonna - has a lot of mythological associations, a lot to do with poisoning, as the flower is toxic. the flowers bloom at night (another reason why i picked a nighttime backdrop for "summer") and also outwardly match rue's dark design scheme, as the cherry on top. yellow roses, at the bottom of her frame, are the archetypal flower depicting jealousy (as with many yellow flowers are), and at one point in the story, rue only wished for her own happiness at the misfortune of others.
- autumn: douglas fir needles, orange calla lily - autumn is another season of change - although much more tumultuous, as this season is traditionally taken to prepare for a long winter ahead - fitting for fakir as the role of the storyteller. the douglas fir is not a flower of course, but is a tree - with many different parts of this tree offering many benefits in advance of the winter season. i wanted the versatile nature of the douglas fir to reflect on fakir's dependable personality. next up, the calla lily is a flower with a dual meaning - on one hand you have life, on the other you have death. a storyteller quite literally can grant both at the tip of their fingers.
- winter: birch tree, snowdrop - winter is a rather still and unchanging season, a lull in the passage of time. this symbolizes mytho's passive nature at the start of the series, especially with his doleful pose here, as if almost in hibernation. to contrast, mytho is perched on the branches of a birch tree, which means new beginnings and renewal - as mytho is one of the characters that undergo the most change throughout the series (i'd argue the most?), regaining pieces of his heart. under mytho's frame is the snowdrop flower - and if you've read my witch hat atelier: seasons piece symbolisms, one of the snowdrop's meanings is rebirth, with connotations to the bible, bringing hope, when all had forsaken eve. the snowdrop is one of the first flowers to bloom even when the snow has not yet fully melted, further echoing mytho as an analogy for rebirth.
#princess tutu#ptutu#ahiru#fakir#mytho#rue (princess tutu)#fakir (princess tutu)#mytho (princess tutu)#ahiru (princess tutu)#my art#im not much of a painter but painting the curtains was kinda fun... got lost in the sauce every single time i tackled that area#so i think i understand why people paint now#im free from con deadlines for a little while so i might try my hand at oc stuff...#and i want to get better at my sketch/doodle style too bc admittedly it takes way too long to draw anything and i want to change that#which is why ive been doing the lineless style for sticker sheets and keeping them pretty basic and rough!! im happy with em#i only know how to 'complete' drawings really so . lot of sketching ahead this summer hopefully..#artists on tumblr#illustration
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We all pretend to be the heroes on the good side
does anyone remember that one trailer for KH3 where they showed a quick shot of Aqua (evil) in the realm of darkness........... I lost my mind back then over 3 seconds of content
#myart#kingdom hearts#kh#aqua kingdom hearts#brrrrroooooooooooooooo like.............................. strong powerful women but like a little :woozy face:#do you understand#anyways this is old art again. i haven't drawn anything relevant in a long time :(#im finding a lot of my old KH fanarts.... thinking of putting together a little art zine for an upcoming con
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Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)
You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s
#my sigh of relief when the inevitable billford question was phrased tastefully & answered gracefully. now NEVER EVER bring it up again lads#So annoyed I didn't get to meet him tho!! Wasn't even too far back in the queue but it went verrrry slowly and he couldnt stay long#I don't think the staff were prepared for a comic con type crowd at their industry event lmao. so the queue was not well organised#But I DID get drinks with JAMES BAXTER my little wannabe animator heart is still quaking!! and I only did so because of Topaz Animations!!#He is so cool go follow him on youtube and check out his proof of concept for his show Wild Westly IMMEDIATELY#Also watched James Baxter animate for nearly 3 hours??? Literally the wildest 2 days of my life. Everyone I met was SO COOL#burn out be damned I think I do want to get into the animation industry! I'd almost lost the spark for it but this event man. INSPIRING#Gravity Falls#Alex Hirsch#Bill Cipher#Book of Bill#tbob#InMotion Festival London 2024
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never tell your weeb boyfriend you know six languages including Japanese
more snotacon at the comicon
#metal gear solid#otasune#snotacon#mgs art#solid snake#otacon#snotacon goes to comicon#the last two panels are actually older but i think they fit better at the end... idk... anyway.#i haven't been to a con in a long while i sort of miss it but also it IS exhausting so i get snake#i have a few more jokes in this setting but i'll probably keep them more doodly in the future also i'm gonna get them out of the cosplay#because they have a two day pass
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misha i love you but he absolutely would not do that lol
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I've been thinking about terrestrial sea slugs (lmao) again which obviously means I draw my splatsona. They get their own last name now
through their powers they can carry on my legacy of wearing ski jackets in May
#i think unlike myself in real this guy is they/them only#Conarts#Splatsona#Con's face#Squid 2 the evolution of the squid#my big blue jacket... havent worn it in so long because IT'S SO WARM EVEN IN WINTER!!!!!!!!!!#though ive put slug respiratory pore around the shoulder area so they might open the jacket to get cooler air to breathe#this guy is me a little bit technically so despite what ive done with the species they personally probably prefer the cold (relatively)#''cold'' for a seaslug is probably like. 60F. if they push 50F thats probably the coldest they tolerate at all
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TFA Blitzwing
#do you people know how long it took me to figure out how to do the pics for this poll#longer than it should've#but i guess if he has three faces i can justify three pics#bonus poll coming soon so look forward to that#maccadam#transformers#tfa#poll#smash or pass#request#blitzwing#god i love him so much though#literally the robot of all time#hes a tumblr sexyman. hes the only con having a pretty good time on earth. he disses megatron to his face. megs doesnt seem to care.#hes secretly very sad inside and thinks nobody likes him. the cons actually DO like him but he doesnt know that#he tries to kill the constructicons and then probably gets drunk with them#he watches earth movies and tv so he probably figured out how to pirate that shit from the cave base#icy has nearly no sense of self preservation#hothead can actually speak so so gently#random does cannibalism for fun#and he has a whole weird gay thing with lugnut#literally who else is doing it like blitzwing. nobody. hes an icon hes an idol he is the moment
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So heres a really weird Shockwave x Reader scenario I had. It was inspired by a dream I had.
Yandere Shockwave making an uncanny sexdoll of you. Logically it's unlikely you'll return his "feelings" and most likely run away, which will be a real hassle for him and the plans of the Decepticons. Sadly for him (and buying time for you) a mere doll will be good enough. at least he knows that it can take his girth, even if dolls don't make good conversation.
But his plans change when, for one illogical reason or another, you decided to sneak onboard and into his lab. In your human error you bump into some equipment, and to your horror you discover it. This...thing had every mark and blemish you had, all the intricate details that made up your body were in full display. It would be like looking in a mirror if it weren't for the dead eyes. The disgust alone made you tear the intricate double to pieces. Carefully placed wires and circuitry get haphazardly cast aside. The synthetic skin gets reduced to mere ribbons as you deny the monster who made this any more satisfaction.
There can't be two of you, and soon enough this anomaly was extinguished, there is only the original now.
But sometimes the prototype has better features, at least to Shockwave. You stare in utter wide-eyed horror; he stares down with a single emotionless eye. "And I thought you were smart.." But his voice gave a different intent. Before you could take a single step, he quickly grabs you, pressing his fingers onto your body. "Let go of me!" You sob, his hand presses in. A warning perhaps, it's useless trying to get out his grip. "Now why would I let go of such a such a fine specimen?" He purrs, heat radiates from his chassis as one of his finger's carefully caress your body, taking in every soft detail. Perhaps he can have the best of both worlds.
#tw dub con#shockwave x reader#transformers x reader#tw yandere#I made this at 5 AM#it took me way too long to come up with Shockwaves dialouge#why is he so hard to write for wtf#I was mostly thinking of G1 or IDW when i wrote this but i feel like any iteration can fit here#tw implied noncon#might make a fic out of this#maybe#yandere transformers
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im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.
#leverageposting#leverage#sophie devereaux#particularly that one of or both her parents had to move around a lot for work & so she would change herself to fit in at every new school#or new town etc etc. and that whatever original identity she had was dropped due to some kind of really awful event and her bio family think#she’s dead. eg she got into some kind of extreme legal trouble for the first time & she faked her death & everyone she knew as a kid thinks#she’s dead too. like. astrid wasn’t the first person she left to miss/mourn her.#but also that she was a teen runaway at like age ~16 and pretended to be an adult (like. 18/19) cause theres not much you can do by yourself#as a minor like booking flights or renting an apartment. and so began her first proper alias. and she was a pickpocket until she could fund#her life fully through grifting & cons.#or alternatively her parents died when she was a teen & she was old enough to become an emancipated minor (everyone in lev is an orphan)#and she kind of just fell into crime from there bc she had no one#or perhaps she got married at 17 and realised how fucked it all was and stashed money until she could run away & leave it all behind. that���s#bc of a single vague sentence on john rogers’ blog saying she was married at 17 and in context it was quite possibly a joke or random#hypothetical example but i was like what if???? What If???????#i also like the hc that she’s trans which i’ve seen a few times#in some versions in my mind her parents were okay and in some versions they were awful and in some versions it was so complicated.#i think tara has heard one story and parker or hardison have heard another and nate has never heard any story. he’s never asked.#she is here now and that’s all that needs knowing. and sophie devereaux is her real name in any way it matters.#eliot has also never asked and she asked if he was curious once and he just asked if she was curious about What He Did and that was answer#enough for the both of them. just a mutual agreement not to ask and it actually solidified their bond.#i think she struggled for a long time about whether to tell her new family The Real Story but in much the same way we never hear her birth#name bc it’s not Her anymore… she never gives The Real Story. bc it no longer defines who she is. she’s so much more than whatever happened.#lvg
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So completely here for Michael loving Mrs. Robinson as much as the rest of us…
#michael sheen#welsh seduction machine#there’s something about movies#mrs. robinson#genderfuck!Michael Sheen is the best Michael Sheen#and apparently 10 out of 10 Michael Sheens agree#someone please let him be a drag queen already#i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now#bless his bisexual Welsh chaos#this is why i love this man#london comic con#amazing
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I’ve been thinking about the Magicians Nephew, right now specifically Polly Plummer and in an attempt to get back into doing art outside of work.
I’ve been thinking of what she’d maybe look like in the book and then as she ages (except it turns out I have such a hard time visualizing the passage of time in decades I was not alive in)
most of the references I looked at for clothes was anywhere from 1900-1940s. Maybe some late Victorian in her younger dresses? Not sure. Mostly Edwardian.
I like to think of her definitely going to school, and then becoming a journalist. She’s super sharp and level headed in the Magicians Nephew, and also has an interest in writing.
Also she definitely wore pants.
More rambling stuff under the cut if you’re specifically like me and fixated on Narnia for most of your life
Ok so c.s. Lewis isn’t very well known for his like, accuracy/timelines making sense. (The beavers somehow had potatoes and other vegetables despite it being a 100 year winter).
The magicians nephew takes place in somewhere between 1900-1910, cause that’s his childhood. And then LWW takes place in the 1940s, so like at the oldest Digory and Polly would be in their 50s by then, but also Digory is an old eccentric professor with white hair?
(I could be wrong and maybe that does work timeline wise, and I suppose in different eras, 50s is a lot older. My brain just doesn’t compute that at ALL. At the very least the movie version of the professor DOESNT look like he’s only in his 50s with how they made him look.)
I am also not a clothing expert at all, but it’s cool looking up fashion from different eras. I slightly interpret Polly as having a rich family because her first thought seeing digory is “oh he’s dirty”. I think it’s a thing that richer Edwardian children were usually dressed in light colours which wrapping my head around is tough, cause like, are their play clothes also white?
#I’ll probably draw digory and other MN characters as long as it’s still giving me dopamine#also to me Polly is either a lesbian or aroace#some form of queer#regardless I don’t really see her marrying#and if she does it’s definitely later in life#but it makes me sad to think of her leaving behind a spouse in the last battle#also I suppose if she’s gay she probably wouldn’t have a legal marriage#just a roommate#she doesn’t seem like a joy Davidman insert to me idk I could be wrong#so I don’t think her and digory ever got together#I read their relationship as like lifelong platonic friends#fairmerthefarmer art#CoN#the magicians nephew#Narnia#c.s. Lewis#character design#procreate#illustration#Polly Plummer#Digory Kirke#artists on tumblr#trying to come back from art block yayyyyy#narnia books
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a dumping ground for some random quick doodles
#fei is wearing my outfit bc I think it'd fit him (there's bananas on the socks)(the tote bag is local con merch)#(and the dog tags are custom made with lyrics of a song that I relate to fei but also to myself so uhhhh coincidence?)#ichihoshi is a “I feel like drawing something flowy and simple” and only now realized I just left his left hand like that#I found the official sewing patterns for the penguins from old files and thought genda would be a crafty one#(I made a penguin myself with those a long long time ago but I think I dumped it at some point because it.. wasn't very good...)#handa & someoka came right after starting the s1 rewatch and I just love the og trio#hiroto is just back pain vent#own art#inazuma eleven#inazuma eleven go#inazuma eleven orion
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gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)
Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:
he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament
turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter
(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)
(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)
proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)
gloats evilly
opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters
exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass
RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line
completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)
petrifies her
(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)
(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)
looks in the chest
there's no light force
considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh
uhhh
evil laugh
teleports the fuck out
He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.
None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.
(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)
Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.
#vaati#minish cap#loz#mc#he's my stupid little squeak squeak and i love him#meta#op#sorry this got long but i have So Many Words about this little bastard#i think he's a really fun foil to ganondorf tbh -#ganondorf looks like a brute force guy but in practice tends largely toward manipulating and long cons and cunning#the appearance of dumb muscle but is actually refined and clever and skilled while also still being built like a brick wall#vaati looks like a classic scheming squishy wizard guy but actually is just cheating and does almost all his nonsense very directly#and his plans tend to be either Do X / ??? / Profit stuff or barely exist at all#to the point where og four swords is gated primarily by your ability to convince great fairies to help you rather than vaati stopping you#ganondorf is a guy given power who wants a magic wish granting artefact#vaati is a guy given a magic wish-granting artefact who decides he wants more power now actually#vaati has had a significant minion approximately once (shadow link) and that was in shared custody with ganon
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PART 1/2 - Storytime!
Once Upon A Time… Things were great! Until they weren’t. dun, dun, dun
Every great fictional world starts with a history lesson!
#Gerson is the resident Snowdin Shopkeeper!#i think this suits what im going for pretty well…#not a big long con comic#more a series of short stories#kinda like how Handplates started out???#They all will and DO have important lore in em though#god its gonna be hell not talking about all the silly forshadowing and little details I put in 😭😭😭#watch me post these here then lore dump on my main acc#AUGH IVE GOT SO MUCH PLANNED!!!#hope you tune in to see the development of captain bone and his side kick *TRAUMA*#btw I ALSO PROMISE THIS IS NOT JUST A SKELEBRO THING#they’re important#but so is basically every other main character!#theyll get their turn to BASK in the suspiciously *Delta Rune* shaped sun#storyshift#undertale storyshift au#undertale au#storyshift sk#Gerson Boom#Librarby#Short stories#short comics
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PMD COLLECTION SO FAR..
#i got gti box and papers too its just delievering.#this is what im doing with my frist job money tbh#i wanted to get pmd things for so long..#I ALSO GOT A POSTER BUT UTS NOT IN SHOT LOL#personal#i got eos manuals and box for my brithday :)#the fennekin isnt pmd merch but i bought it for psmd partner reasons#ill make an actual display soon#i am Not looking forward to trying to find red rescue team box and papers#also my blue rescue team and my eod are missing papers :(#I GOT THE PIN SO CHEAP. its from 2015 comic con i believe. i think its offical promo material. so cute its so small
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