#Lunes 2

[cada-sonrisa-que-finjas]

Le agradezco a mi cama por protegerme del mundo.

-Galimatías

[artpicsrare]

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)

[lunarcloak]

Honestly, even if the animation is a little rusty, the art direction is stunning. All the watercolour and paint effects work very very well with the theme of this season. The opening is beautiful, as is the ending. The CGI caught me a little off guard but the imagery is done well. I like it! And I think we should try to be more positive about it.

Also, let's all appreciate the voice acting, yeah? They're absolutely NAILING this. I'm loving it. The vibes are all there, and the lighting and rendering really sets the tone and vibe of everything. Hell yeah.

Kicking off my favourite arc of the story with a bang, aren't we?

[nullphysics]

Benidetto’s Halloween outfit — James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2

[summermimosas]

The Itoshi Brothers: And My Very Late Take On Them. (Part 1)

look, I've had very strong blue lock brainrot for a long time now. Rambled plenty to my dear partner-in-crime about it.

The reason this post exists is because I read almost all of the analysis posts by @/riririnnnn regarding the Itoshi brothers, and now I need to add my own two cents.

In particular, this was inspired by two posts: Rin and Sae by @/riririnnnn Rin's Ego and Aura by @/boinin

The core of this theory/analysis is: What exactly is the core of Rin's character, why it made Sae react the way he did, and why this entire mess exists in the first place.

If you think about it, from the very beginning Rin has had no basis of ambition or foundation for himself at all. His beginnings were really humble, wherein he just watched Sae play and thought his brother looked amazing as he did it. It was admiration, and the kind of younger sibling energy that makes you want to emulate your older sibling. It isn't just about playing alongside Sae, but it's about being like Sae.

It spurs him to read Sae better because he wants to learn. And eventually, it happens. He's reading a talented player, and he has the same(?) talent within him, so it's no surprise that he shocks just about everyone when he can keep up with Sae.

This? This is why Rin started playing football. To be like Sae, to play with Sae. Sae, sae, sae, sae- It was never of Rin's own volition. And it won't be, for a very long time.

He learns to emulate Sae, be the player Sae wanted on his team. That requires him to be precise, elegant and efficient. Sae hasn't changed fundamentally as a person even after Spain, the core remains the same. He passes to people worth passing to. And in their old team, nobody was worth passing to except Rin. So it worked out, that Rin kept associating his plays, his dreams, his ambitions, with Sae.

I think this is why he never had an "aura" of his own- or any sort of foundation of his own, at all.

And Sae knows this. That is exactly why this is one of the few times we see him genuinely curious (concerned?) about what Rin will do when Sae is gone. When it does have to require him thinking for himself, being his own person.

He's right to be worried.

Because, as expected, instead of Rin becoming his own person, he takes Sae's playstyle and makes it his own. He's very good at it, mind you. Nobody understood Sae quite like he did, all this time. But it's not Itoshi Rin anymore- it really is, just, Itoshi Sae's little brother.

And he doesn't realise it just yet- but that becomes a trend. From here on out, that is what people will see him as. After all, he's made his playstyle to be viewed as such. Those elegant kicks and precise analytics that Isagi observes the first few times he plays with Rin- they're not completely Rins' at all. They're adapted, taken from Sae. It's why the beginning of the U20 Arc feels like looking at a better, more midfielder focused Rin.

It's always been the other way round.

And so, when Sae comes back four years later, he is understandably disappointed. Nor has he ever been once to mince his words. Rin could never understand- of course he couldn't, he doesn't know what's wrong. He's not letting Sae explain. Sae isn't about to explain, either. They SUCK AT COMMUNICATING, THE PAIR OF IDIOTS.

Rin, if there's one thing you shouldn't have taken from Sae, it was his pathetic style of communication.

(Rin notices how tired and unwell Sae looks- that one's more explored in the post I linked as my inspo. Not getting into that- maybe some other day? If people care enough to listen.) Rin, above all, feels betrayal and shock at the change of Sae's ambition. If Sae changed his dream, and Rin has been emulating his older brother all this time, what happens now?! What is he supposed to do!? There's really no point, then, if he can't play with Sae. The way he's been envisioning for years now. It's brutal, and it's also pathetic because neither of them care to listen to the other speak.

Sae will never understand how Rin's ambitions and connections to other people for his own sense of self work. Rin will never understand what Sae went through and why he changed. He will never know why Sae was so upset with Rin constantly, constantly viewing himself from someone else's lens.

And Sae knows.

Oh, he knows.

But even after that- after ALL THAT, Rin will not think of himself as a separate entity. Nonono, now it's just- defeat Sae, instead of be with Sae. Sae, sae, sae, sae-

After Blue Lock, there's more labels that come in. He's Itoshi Sae's little brother, he's the Number 1 Striker in Blue Lock, he's Isagi's shadow, rival, partner, he's Shidou's foil, counter, the center piece for the Blue Lock 11 Team- (I remind you, again, of how his playstyle and moves are described. Beautiful. Elegant. Perfectly thought out. Now take those adjectives and use them for Sae. Don't they fit better?)

But he's never Rin. Heck, he's never ever ITOSHI Rin. Why would anyone see him as Rin alone? Part 2- Explores U20 and further.

[lunefuforu]

My lackaocs!

+ their relatives

I didn't design bios for the relatives because I did not have the time and energy for that so it's just written

If you'd like to know a lot more about my lackaocs I made an infodump post here

Edit: Since Tony got married and changed a bit here's his old look for comparison

[d-feng]

Happy pocky day everyone

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

Less than 2 hours done drawing them

Featuring Luna (left) and Lune (right).

[lunearobservatory]

baseball posting on main el oh el

rangers beat yankees 15-2 🤭 embarrassing (i hate the rangers too but ANYTHING to take down the yankees tbh, signed a giants fan)

speaking of the giants

giants and padres played in mexico city which was super rad ! out of country games woo !!! and that's all i have to say about that !

[boxten-a-musique]

Helo!

Hai!

I just wanted to say I love how u draw Boxten!

Like, he is so silly coded!

(Also I wonder what gave u the idea to give boxten doll hands-)

<33

🧟: THANK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I'm not going to lie I think the doll type thing I draw for Boxten was part osmosis from other people's Boxten drawings (though I can't find any or pinpoint the ones I rmber:( ) and then part just me associating music boxes with ceramic dolls. I used to have a ceramic doll that was also a music box!!

[inlovewithdestruction]

show bebey

Dont mind me, I forgot i had a 2nd blog where it's actually for this and it had questions.

So to the actual writing. -Pic 1 Since a lot of the child rearing falls on Shion more so than Malroth, She plays a lot of dress up with her very compliant child. Lune doesn't mind it so much if it's after she's been fed. She's not a very happy camper missing meals. -Pic 2 [Discord shenanigans]

So in the server, Body pillows was thrown around and i quickly drew up this. Malroth may not do much, but he still helps. Skin to Skin is a very important plus of bonding with your child when they pop straight out the oven so to speak. When Malroth cant be there for Scheduled daddy time, Shion has to get creative. The pillow was suppose to be temporary until Malroth could return, but I think Lune Attached to it more than they would hope. Thanks to coming to my 3am ramble. >>Ask Questions here <<

[snowsays]

ok before I forget this train of thought I had

Architect moment

I was thinking about elvin modes of transport and architecture, like you do when you're hyperfixating in the book series that derailed your architecture thesis for 20 days straight, and also of the fact that Havenfield's party hall (forgot what its called oops) is what Sophie's room used to be, and it's on the third floor, and I was like ...why?

And it made me think of this excercise I had to do in 9th semester (aka hell) where in groups we had to outline a society 100 years in the future. Everything. From how the number of people would grow to methods of food production to garbage disposal to modes of transport. And all of that affected somehow the housing design

For example, if you pose that cars now fly, and all mode of transportation is made through the sky, why would you need a front door in the first floor? And why would you have bedrooms in the second+ floor (which we do for privacy, in houses that have more than one floor ofc) if you're coming in from the upper floor? What would make more sense in that case would be to flip the spaces and put the rooms in the first floor and any common spaces in the second one and up

So that would explain why the dancing hall in Havenfield was in the third floor, considering Leapmasters are chandeliers and from what we've seen they usually are in the upper floor, but THEN, they dont use Leapmasters to come back to the house, and I'm pretty sure the Leapmaster leaves you IN FRONT of the place you're going to, not under that place's Leapmaster, so once again, WHY IS THE DANCING HALL IN THE UPPER FLOOR? It explains the fact that elvin houses still have a front door (if it was only for utilitarian purposes like, I went for a walk and now I'm back, or I went to the pastures to feed the animals and now I need to get back into my house, it probably wouldn't need to be super grandiose, tho I get it checks out with how the elves try to make everything huge and wowing), but I guess it might be just a Havenfield thing, because Everglen does have its dancing hall on the first floor

idk, I guess it's probably that Shannon didn't think it was that deep (insert "you know what it never was? that serious" tiktok audio here) and its just my architecture degree holding onto a tiny detail, but it made me think

It's also interesting to me that Leapmasters sound kind of like teletransportation pods in scifi, but dont have like a specific spot where you land

anyway

-takes off architect hat- ramble over, hope it made any kind of sense

feel free to add anything if you have a theory/opinion

[melancholictearz]

how i’ve been lately

[lunarcloak]

Itoshi Brothers my BELOVED. I wasn't ready for them starting the episode with their backstory scene, honestly. Probably for a shock/suspense value to the season?? But I loooove the vibe of the scene. The still scenes and dramatic lighting caught me off guard but HOLY SHIT. They nailed the winter, cold, eerie energy of that scene. The warmer lighting was surprising-- maybe it's just me but I've always imagined that scene to be in cold, dark lighting. Fancy stuff, huh?

Besides that... Hm. Shidou looks absolutely unhinged in this episode. There was the extra scene of him and Rin going at each others' throats even before they get on field-- interesting addition. Not sure if I like it yet, the jury is out on it.

Not many comments on the actual episode yet-- animation looks as ever, not quite that bad. Art is BEAUTIFUL. I'm so glad they're nailing the vibe of the scenes and hitting every single point with the voice acting and character vibes. Aaaaah. I missed this. The lighting always makes me happy.

My favourite part by FAR has got to be additional time. I love the expansion on the characters. Rin wanting a room all to himself, pffft. Never change, Rinrin. Don't attack me, but I'm so glad they're giving Otoya more of a personality with all this too. He used to just be a typical stand in otherwise. Brilliant stuff.

They're doing well! Cheers. See you next week, folks.

[isabaeart]

you ever draw something for a tweet like super fast? I sure af did.

Who is this? > Check this post here.

[jackoino]

JAWBREAKER LIVE AT THE BLACKBOX NOV. 16TH 2005