#Lightning Developer

[bisexualmcqueen]

whats under the bumper?

mouth, chassis, rollcage, and radiator of course. mouth functions similarly to a grille.

took his hood too. horray for hi-revvin smallblock chevy motors

+apoc au escape moment:

get mcqueen'd, idiot

and whose blood is that?

[bbbigforehead]

i heard that star wars went woke and added witchy lesbians who use the force to have babies, and RAN to redraw an old piece of my force baby oc myre 'n their kiffar oracle mum syna

og piece below↓

[lazyveran]

hc that the fire nation romanticises and places some spiritual value on stretch marks bc they look like veins of lightning on the skin

[isfjmel-phleg]

(The Flash 1987 #61)

One of the most amusing parts of going back and reading the earlier issues of this series is finding out that Wally and Linda, whom I became familiar with when they're already in a pretty stable relationship, start off like they're in some kind of 90s rom-com and we get remarks like this from the future husband/father of three.

[ruegarding]

percy literally made himself angry enough to learn how to dreamwalk without even knowing that's a thing i'm

[roe-and-memory]

its been enough time for me to stop gatekeeping and Immediately talk about how, in a human au, i choose to interpret the night in cars 1 where lightning and sally talk.

sally listens to mater and lightning talk, mater slowly driving down the main road and lightning trotting along beside, talking to him through the open window. the conversation goes how it does in the movie, nothing much changes there, but when they split lightning makes his way into the motel office to get his room key.

hes Dirty. hes got mud in his hair and sally just cringes because the rooms have white sheets and she does NOT want to scrub dirt off of them. she tells him that, he cant sleep in the room if hes gonna track dirt everywhere. he just kind of winces and apologizes. its not like he really has anything with him, and, on his crash into town, he cut his arm open pretty badly and has gauze wrapped around it. doc still isnt too fond of him, and he tells sally that he cant really shower because doc will Kill him if he ruins the bandages.

without hesitation and out of nowhere, sally is like well i can help you wash your hair in the sink right here! and she cant even process her offer until its already out of her mouth. he gets a kind of shocked look on his face and is like oh! okay. that’d be nice. and they both stand there awkwardly before one of them makes the first move (its sally; she quickly runs into the “back room aka her little apartment” to grab her shampoo)

lightning wanders around the counter, studies the stuff on her desk, and flinches when she reappears. he doesnt really know what do to so he just stands there and waits for instruction.

they get to talking, conversation Basically the same as it is in the movie, shes helping scrub the dirt out of his curly hair and its dawning on her that maybe hes not an awful person after all. maybe he Is a little misguided.

its a generally quiet scene, a majority of the light in the little office/lobby is from the streetlights outside, and its very comfortable. they get more comfortable as they chat, and its at this moment that she realizes maybe she even likes him.

the end of the conversation is the same, he thanks her for letting him stay and Also helping him feel a little cleaner considering he hasnt showered in what feels like years (its been like 3 days)

the next morning shes talking to flo and she thinks she can casually talk about how lightning is actually kind of nice and flos like ohhh honey ure so in love with him arent u. she immediately gets flustered and tries to deny it and all flo can do is give her the knowing motherly look of “u love him dont bullshit me!!!”

her and sallys conversation, though, kind of opens flos mind up to the idea of hearing lightning out — maybe he ISNT that bad.

anyways silly domestic salqueen Gets me . i think stuff like this becomes a little tradition between the two like just quiet comfortable chats over random little things. do you get me.

[ko2vo]

We were given permission to share our pieces a few months ago but I completely forgot to!

This was the comic piece I did for @zineofgid, featuring my OC Marcel (a traumatized cult survivor) and @shylittlemoosen's Val (a morally corrupt therapist).

[enter-drfrog]

So we all knew Athena sucks, right? But like Athena suuuuuuuuucks.

I love how much this episode highlighted just how prideful Athena is. I’ve always known that Athena was one of the more prideful gods but this episode really solidified that fact in my brain.

I have four examples so let’s start with the ones the show hasn’t already touched on and jump back to actual mythology.

1. The Trojan War. The whole impetus for the Trojan War was because the goddess were prideful. Eris presented the golden apple for the fairest goddess and Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena got into the whole argument and Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite. Boom, Athena’s pride was wounded so she chose the side of the Greeks. So you know, the side fighting against Paris (who wounded her pride) and the side who won again the Trojans. Moral of the story, wound Athena’s pride, she’ll ensure you lose.

2. Arachne. Arachne was a great weaver. From what I remember of the myth she was humble about her skill (but that might’ve just been one author’s interpretation because in my brief fact check I couldn’t find anything to prove that). From everything I did find, she was boastful about her skill and challenged Athena to a weaving competition. (From what I remember Athena was jealous of Arachne’s skill, spied on her, then Athena prompted the challenge). But anyways, Arachne wove a better tapestry and in a fit of rage Athena tore apart the tapestry because, you know, wounded pride. From what I remember of the myth, Athena transformed her into a spider, forced to spend her days spinning and weaving webs because she thought was so good at it. (Other interpretations say Arachne hanged herself and as a “mercy” Athena transformed into a spider, allowing Arachne to live and continue to weave). Moral of the story (from the version I remember at least), wound Athena’s pride, she’ll punish through a sick twist of “giving you what you want.”

3. Medusa. Now the show did go further into this one so I’ll keep my explanation shorter. Medusa worshipped Athena (like a super devout worshipper) and Poseidon ended up going at her in Athena’s temple. Athena was offended that they would have sex in her temple and turned Medusa into the snake-haired woman we all know today. Moral of the story, wound Athena’s pride, get fucked (now there are obviously different interpretations about what Athena’s intentions were by doing this to Medusa, but the take that it was a mercy to save Medusa from other sexual predators is a more modern take, and doesn’t push the narrative I’m crafting here).

4. Now for the show. Percy sent Medusa’s head to Olympus despite the very clear protests of Grover and Annabeth. Athena took this as an offense and blamed Annabeth. Blamed Annabeth enough to allow Echidna and the Chimera to enter her temple and attempt to kill her daughter, who so far, had been described as the pride of Athena’s offspring. Pride. What a funny word. One hit to Athena’s pride and she loses any pride she had in her child. Moral of the story once again, wound Athena’s pride, she’ll fuck you over.

Big moral of the story, Athena sucks and only cares about her pride.

No wonder Annabeth’s fatal flaw is pride. Like mother like daughter.

[thegreatkarma]

i truly believe characters from book adaptations (specially the main ones) should be played only by actors who are already fans of the source material

cause they truly know the character and their journey

walker and leah know where their characters are supposed to end. so they can give us the 12 year old percabeth crumbles on the way they look at each other to set the path for the future seasons

[gardening--tools]

insane how the light pollution from this fucking storage unit is so crazy, that with all the snow and clouds, you can see perfectly fine outside right now..

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #43: Azula vs. Unnuaq

Not too surprising that my latest prompt, "epic", would yield this particular result in the poll, considering this scene happened quite a short time ago. Here's our Patreon artwork for the past month, I took a bit longer to post it due to Glaze and Nightshade taking too much time, but here we are.

I've said it a few times, but... this was goddamn cathartic to draw, not because of the scene itself, but because I channeled my emotions regarding real life events into how I depicted Azula's rage. I very much worked on this while watching from afar as my country fights for its freedom and finally is in a promising position to seize it, even if all attempts are being blocked by the tyrannical government in charge, unsurprisingly. So... I find myself more than a little spread out lately, my mind all over the place, eager for any tidbit of news that tells me it's finally ended for the better. It hasn't yet. Only time will tell what the outcome of this particular mess will be...

It's that much nicer to actually know the script and be aware of where things are going, huh? Gladiator's going into a pretty high tension stage, and we're on our way to the story's biggest climax. May my country find a conclusion that fills me with the same hope I can nowadays write into Gladiator's upcoming chapters... and may you all enjoy this piece as well, intense and wild as it is.

If you'd like to be part of the creation of these pieces, a $1 pledge on Patreon is enough to make you eligible for suggesting prompts and voting for the monthly artwork, as well as reading Gladiator snippets 6 days in advance!

[sirdurbe]

*takes a drag from my cigarette* lightning and ryoken were supposed to be narrative foils, you guys. two sides of the same coin. ryoken wanted to make dr. kogami's vision of what the future should be happen and lightning wanted to prevent and defy it. at first they were each motivated to protect their own, but eventually they were willing to sacrifice the people who weren't just their allies, but their family. ryoken was determined to walk the path his father designed for him; lightning was determined to surpass the limits dr. kogami saw in them. but ultimately neither of them could escape him entirely, and when they finally clashed, they both lost. literally it was all right there and it wasn't even especially subtle.

but noooooooo, what if lightning was just born evil and professor child torture had a point 🤪 and what if his fellow child-torturing assistants suddenly had the moral high ground because Kidnapping And Tormenting Jin Was Only Okay When We Did It, And We Said We Were Sowwy. never mind the whole stupid retcon of lightning tormenting jin during the lost incident anyway, it had literally been established that the ignis weren't born until after the kids had been freed and all the data collected. ugh ugh ugh. i gotta do all the work around here, don't i

[size-two-shrimp]

If V2 had survived Greed, do you think they'd develop a fear of heights??

[stormbreaks]

Despite not fully knowing yet , because I am insanely slow and procrastinate to hell and back , but I have yet to decide the subject of Hela on this blog. The writing within the movie wasn't entirely an eye sore , but is it more appealing to the story as another child of Odin? Fraught with trauma . . or is it better for her to stay as she is in the comics / mythos? Well today is not that day so sorry to disappoint any of you reading.

However it is important to note that it is important to this headcanon. In their fight to stop the fall of Asgard , she takes his right eye with a single cleave of her Nightsword ( Necrosword ) armed with the potent magic of hers , one that is of the dual essence of life as we know it , the power of life and death bend to her own will. Even for the gods to some degree. Thor who at least at one point his canon , he had a weakness to magic or still has , and to a Goddess of equal strength? His eye is completely ripped from his skull the essence of the Goddess of Death's magic drips into his own Aesir essence, infusing within completely destroying or nullifying his god-like regenerative ability. It was too late the cut was far to deep to even heal by normal means , even with his ability to recover from injuries along with her magic it was all but lost to him. The lasting damage is that he can recover his eye nor will the scar fade away , a permanent reminder of a failure to stop the Goddess of Death. Sigyn manages to heal most of the damage but is unable to truly undo it. There had been short talks to use Vanir magic to construct a new eye , or would have if Hela's magic having not sustained further damaged then initially thought. Thor despite obtaining a prosthetic eye from Rocket , he finds it a little uncomfortable , the way it works in allowing him to see especially following their defeat at the hand of Thanos. He tends to wear it less and less preferring to continue wearing the eyepatch. Unbeknownst to him that would rather add more upon the discomfort he feels within , the guilt , anger , vengeance , regret it all further adds to the weight he feels after The Snap. Thor within those five years develops ' dysmorphia ' that when the periods in which he feels uncomfortable he retreats from public , often avoids mirrors or if he hasn't destroyed them already , but the focus of his is that sometimes he sees his father especially as his hair and beard have both grown in length. The lines blur and there may more to how this developed within him , it is more likely then tied more to his trauma or otherwise realizations about his father. Even within himself too the point that eventually he begins to see more then a disillusioned version of his father within him. The magic of Hela did more lasting damage then both Thor and Sigyn had once originally thought. That in her quick and swift strike that she had damaged not only the nerves to his eye on a divine level , to the point where even a falsely created eye would be more painful then none at all , and the prosthetic eye is no better for him. On good days it's as a light uncomfortable feeling to feeling as if his eye is on fire. On it's worst he wants to rip it from his skull. Even going so far as to developing Phantom Eye Pain whether this is or was the cause of his previous discomfort , but it's a diagnosis that comes to no shock to Sigyn or Thor. In fact that these are things that don't pass the lips of those who know for the fear of being seen as weak. Odin may be dead but his enemies may not have been. Despite all of this Thor has learned to accommodate his fighting style because after all he is still the God of Thunder , King of Asgard , and the All-Father. It's worth noting that all of these things are heavily timeline dependent on the severity , or simply up to my discretion , but it is something that he will likely suffer with for the rest of his godhood. The episodes of his Dysmorphia as he begins to finally settle the ghosts of his past , the separation of the similarities between he and his father. I will simply state that this isn't the only part of his physical being he will loose , and it too will come at a cost.

[jarkonian]

Bit more under the hood stuff this week (look at how smoooothly I move with that platform!), but also got to indulge in some color changing shenanigans!

[akimojo]

all the bonding moments in ffxiii slap so hard but theres something that makes the snow and hope scenes specifically so so so good