#NoVa

[crowo08]

gonna use the funny silly post for politics things, oopsie.

i live in northern Virginia. Our lives are closely tied to the government. anyone you meet, there's a one in three chance their parent works for the feds. a lot of people have this idea of people who work for the government as Stupid Swamp People Who Are With The Corrupt Feds. And like. As a Swamp Person. Fucking hell I can tell it. Like, I don't work for the feds, but I can feel the hate.

That's also why the underreaction to the January 6th Insurrection is baffling to me. They were near me. Those people, with guns and violence and hate in their hearts? An hour away from my house, max. When my family's water heater broke down, we stayed at a hotel where a lot of the insurrectionists stayed.

The whole damn state works for the feds

[rockybloo]

I am gonna make an effort to draw more Nova and Pluto stuff this year since they've been missing in action for far too long and their designs are finally at a spot I'm happy with.

I figured the best way to go about this is redraw some of their greatest hits with their new fleshed out designs and personalities.

This comic may just look like a rehash of Sweetheart and Bitterbat's but the original of this one actually came first!

Original under cut because my 2021 art stings me

Ah, old art style...I did not miss lookin' at ya' one bit.

I switched up the dialogue a lot because Nova ain't the ditzy little catgirl I wrote her to be all those years ago. Girl ain't taking shit from anybody, ESPECIALLY some giant alien cyborg hitman.

[novacomics]

i need them back this year

[crimeronan]

how did you name your original characters? trying to name some guys without getting distracted making a whole conlang again :/

unfortunately it Did involve getting distracted by worldbuilding. LMAO.

naming conventions are usually the first thing i pin down when i'm culturally worldbuilding bc their construction says a lot -- are there surnames? patrilineal, matrilineal, both? are people named after relatives? do people choose their own names? how common is changing a name? etc etc etc

i think it would be hard to hang out with a million trans people and NOT have a fascination with naming conventions leak into my writing.

so. oichen culture, which is where both ruby and sol are from, doesn't use traditional surnames. people are, for the most part, named for literal concepts & then translate those names literally across languages. if you're a functional parent in this society you're generally expected to name your kid after something that brings you joy/peace. it's a way of passing down bits of a parent's personality/values, which matters more than linear surnames.

ruby sunrise was named by a pair of insufferable morning people. honey fern (another important character) was named for the way sunlight falls across leaves in summer afternoons. winter solstice was named for the most loving and celebratory holiday in the oichen calendar, because when you're in a very northern country with bitterly cold winters, you Must celebrate the days getting longer. and getting together as family and friends is much more important in the dead months than at any other time. we made it to the end of the darkness!!!

sol, of course, now lives in a place with a very small oichen diaspora, at least compared to the rest of tachni's population. both "sol" and "winnie" are easy nicknames that make her sound less Foreign. she's spent years getting rid of her accent and assimilating and building a completely fake self.

so when she tells people her parents named her winter solstice because they sensed the empty ice in her, Most of them don't know enough to dispute it.

(ruby does. obviously.)

on the Other hand, tachnin names are Much more like typical 2020s suburban american names. sometimes literally (robert, nova, maddie, etc) and sometimes just in vibes (camde, adan, etc). because tachni is the heart of global commerce and capitalism and imperialism and whatnot.

so. feels thematically appropriate.

nova's name was chosen because i wanted something sky-related and light-related to contrast winter solstice.

devin is the only one i just named off the top of my head iirc. but conveniently the name has irish origins that mean "poet" and french origins that mean "divine." so it SOUNDS like i put a lot of thought into it.

"tach" as devin's surname is just the name given to every sad kid in the city with no parents. tach, ie: a ward of the state of tachni. yayyy.

moira tach was named to match devin -- moira is the anglicization of máire, which is the irish form of mary. we love divine women who are in hell. YAAAY.

and then when i'm naming Other supporting cast members, i've been working out cultural and ethnic backgrounds on a character-by-character basis. helps me figure out what other countries are in this whole fantasy world!

[theobs3ssivepuppeteer]

REAL REAL REAL

what I also love about this scene is that Callum asks for permission before putting the scarf over Rayla’s eyes. I feel like not everyone would do that; some would just be like “hey I have a surprise for you” *blindfolds*

but instead, Callum asks. He makes sure that Rayla feels perfectly safe around him before he does anything. It’s so small, and I could be overthinking, but it makes me very happy

this has to be one of the most beautiful rayllum moments ever. like they both know the answer to his question, but she still takes the time to confirm with a loving look and a delicate touch of his white streak that yes. despite everything, of course.

[chernobog13]

Tsuburaya Productions accounts: You're waaaay over budget for Ultraman Leo. We can only give you two hundred yen to create this week's kaiju opponent!

Ultraman Leo production team: We can work with that!

Sadly, that's pretty much what happened with the last third of Leo's series.

[acousticmalta]

Friday night with my cultist wife 🖤

[michaelwarming]

🤍

[iingezo]

Nova for @ambrosiafaery !

[pokeranger-kaveh]

[m4rs-ex3]

ok but one of the funniest moments in season 7 is the council meeting in ep9 where ezran has his dramatic mic drop with "it's time to build something ~ N E W ~" and everybody literally claps and then opeli is just like "uh ok. i mean i saw potato you say potahto but sure whatever"

[finger-eater]

wanna get out of here?

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1970 Chevy Nova Yenko

[karuframe]

Protoframe Nekros, Oberon and Nova (more in works! ♥)

[projectorthus]

Started reading Champions

Is this anything?