#a wonderful and gorgeous being

[joethehoeee]

Stricklake month 24 : Shipwrecked/Resort

I chose shipwrecked and went overboard with it. Not as much as last prompt but still...

SO I AM DONE. Did it take me forever to figure the pose out??? YES. Did I give up????? almost- BUT I DIDN’T.

Sooo. Walter get's shipwrecked as he is on a mission for his overlord Gunmar. He get's attacked and looses continuousness after a hard wood hit him on his head. However...a mysteriously and utterly beautiful creature seemes to save his life.

My written prompt for the picture ⬅️ press on me :3

Anyways, you will get a more lighted drawing:

And now closeups:

Small Infos about the designs/Story Ideas:

Barbara was REALLY hard. I had like 10 sketches of her face bc for some damn reason is that woman my NEMESIS TO DRAW. I kid you not her face is something else. I am not skilled enough. Though I managed to find something I liked. Obviously I toned down her colors to match the sea and used her signital colors. The markings on her eyes obviously resemble her glasses and I gave ger piercings...Just because.

Walter was easy as ever. I draw him so much that he just appears on my pages. He obviously slays with his outfit, mullet and piercings. Though he would wear it in canon...no? I mean maybe not a croptop but then again...he basically wears nothing anyways. He has the sigil of the Janus order on his gloves (fingerless bc UGH. HE IS GOOD LOOKING) and wears some form jewellery/accessories on his horns bc it looked nice.

Story wise it will be as I wrote above in the summary BUT you all get Info to the World building. As in 2023 Stricklake month fire/water (see in my masterpost) there is a war going on between the magical creatures/humans who ALL hate each other. (I am a sucker for magical wars) Only the trollhunter, Jim, will be able to retriev peace amongst the races with help of the first ever cross-raced couple Walter&Barbara. Walter is a changeling commander who recruites trolls/changeling for his overlord Gunmar and kills who refuse to bend the knee. He is the head of the Janus order who is secretly working on killing Gunmar to help the future trollhunter (Jim will be AFTER Barb meets Walt, He will also give Jim a gem that allows him to take a troll like form later). Walter gets caught one day and they ambushed him eventually. He is surprised and almost dies...but gets saved. The Story is simple enough, tell me some ideas to change or how it goes forward if you want <3

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

From Vincent Price's radio show, "The Saint" circa 1950. This man is a true legend. I adore him.

Ladies and gentlemen, poison doesn’t always come in bottles. And it isn’t always marked with the skull and crossbones of danger. Poison can take the form of words and phrases and acts: the venom of racial and religious hatred. Here in the United States, perhaps more than ever before, we must learn to recognize the poison of prejudice and to discover the antidote to its dangerous effects. Evidences of racial and religious hatred in our country place a potent weapon in the hands of our enemies, providing them with the ammunition of criticism. Moreover, group hatred menaces the entire fabric of democratic life. As for the antidote: you can fight prejudice, first by recognizing it for what it is, and second by actively accepting or rejecting people on their individual worth, and by speaking up against prejudice and for understanding. Remember, freedom and prejudice can’t exist side by side. If you choose freedom, fight prejudice.

[agueforts]

just an appreciation post for the set itself. my GOD have they outdone themselves this time

[ingravinoveritas]

New picture of David at Proud Nerd Con in Germany today, and I love it so much. I love that he doesn't look like a celebrity, he looks like just one of the nerds instead who is there to meet his favorite people. I love his humility and how doesn't see himself as being better than anyone else, and it's so apparent here...

[yunjardi]

hm he looks a lot like the loml in these pics 🤔

[anastacialy]

alright as much as everyone (including me) has been nitpicking and critiquing season three of bridgerton i have to hand them one thing and that's no other season has made me this insane

[in-hav3n]

Happy 60th birthday sweet old man. Thank you for being you <3

Credits to the owner of this pic

[deafeningfanlight]

I'VE RETURNED TO DAMAGE YOUR EYE SIGHT AGAIN THROUGH TSAMS/DCA ART >:D

I'M NOT DEAD Y'ALL, JUST SCHOOL STARTED AND I FELL INTO DEPRESSION AGAIN 😭🙏 Like school BE TEARING US APART AND SHOVING SOME MATH FORMULES INTO OUR FACES - DUDE, I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT I ATE YESTERDAY, AND THEN YOU WANNA TRANSFORM ME INTO SOME NEXT MATH GENIUS??? 😭 AND WHY ARE THERE SUDDENLY MORE LETTERS THAN NUMBERS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS MATH AND NOT GERMAN 😭😭 I am not gonna survive this I tell u - MY BRAIN IS ALREADY ON LIFE SUPPORT 😔✋

ANYWAY, enough of my ADHD lore-dump, LET'S-E GO >:D

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I love unhinged Sunny and cutie potato, anxious and wholesome Moon 😭✋ LIKE SUNNY THE TOTAL B*TCH AND MASTERMIND AND MOON JUST DEFINITON OF "Y'all this b*tch crazy :'3"🤣

SING IT WITH ME BOYS >:D... or else QwQ " YOU'LL BE BACK, SOON YOU SEE, YOU'LL REMEMBER YOU BELONG TO MEEEE" 💃✨💅

DON'T JUDGE HIM FOR LOOKING CLOSE FROM SNAPPING, WE ALL ARE SOMETIMES A BIT ✨SILLY AND ICONIC ✨ HE JUST EPXRESSING HIMSELF 🙄

I DON'T WANNA EVEN KNOW MY THOUGHT-PROCESS BEHIND THIS?? 😭 LIKE DID I THINK OF A DEMON AND TURNED SUNNY INTO THIS SLEEP PARALYSIS DEMON THEN 😭

Sun. With. Pupils. Is. SCARY 😭🙏 AND NO, I'M NOT SENSITIVE, LIKE JUST LOOK AT HIM - HE BE KNOWING WHAT MY IP ADRESS IS 😭😭

I DREW THIS TODAY CUZ I HAD MY FIRST CHEMISTRY LESSON- AND LIKE I'M NOT READY TO LEARN THE PERIODIC TABLE, NUH-UH, I'VE GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO LIKE HYPERFIXATING OVER CHARACTERS AND IDK BREATHING 😭

[little-cereal-draws]

When they interview the vampire or something, idk i've never seen it

[cuteniaarts]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...

Who's the fairest of them all?

[fallloverfic]

I am legitimately confused by repeated comments that ORV's opening is slow or boring or uninteresting, especially people who say you need to read [insert some very large number of pages/chapters] to get to the "good" parts. I've seen this on multiple socials at this point and I originally wrote this post months ago, but recent potential news has brought back people saying this again, particularly in recommending it to other people/trying to get other people into it.

I would personally argue that ORV has a good opening. A very good opening. And the early part of it is very good, too.

ORV opens with a literal train of angst, attempted friendship, workplace harassment (Sangah getting harassed by her boss), some neat Korean folklore (dokkaebis hello), graphic violence (remember when Bihyung just kills the president on TV?), a group of people in a subway attempting to beat an old woman to death, Dokja winning a pissing contest with a teenage edgelord, a bunch of people getting murdered, bonding in times in despair over a really unique form of problem solving, a man breaking open subway doors with his bare arms, young love, and magic, fleeing onto a bridge that gets exploded to bits by an evil gremlin, a horde of zombies appearing, the protagonist getting new magic powers, and then his getting held by the neck over said broken bridge in a complex back and forth with the "true" story protagonist before getting dropped into the mouth of a giant sea monster.

It covers topics like the limits of human compassion in times of strife, the complicated presence of the military (Dokja hated his time being drafted v Hyunsung's military leadership doesn't save anyone), international relations (Sangah is learning Spanish), trope subversion (I mean it is and isn't the entire book and Dokja's character, but he's constantly trying to be 5-10 steps ahead of what's going on, including literally fleeing Joonghyuk until Joonghyuk grabs him by the collar), workplace harassment, bullying, and it's all taking place during multiple apocalypse scenarios.

This is the like first 11 chapters of the book. And it never stops. There are "slower" moments, moments where characters take a breather (like it takes a while for Dokja to negotiate his contract with Bihyung, which is slow if you ignore the fact Dokja is arguing with an interdimensional being/alien for the limits of his own life and autonomy in the most dangerous streaming event imaginable, knowing he may still die if he gambles wrong on his personal wikipedia brain), but it's still frequently confrontational, whether that confrontation is about what characters mean to each other, what lives are at stake, finding your purpose in life, adaptability to complex circumstances, overcoming trauma and self-doubt...

And it's more intense in a way in the manhwa adaptation because you can clearly see most of it visualized (e.g., how visually wrecked the characters get, how young the kids are, how terrifying the monsters are, how scary the odds are, and how dangerous Dokja's gambles can really get with a fickle streaming audience), and Sleepy-C's art is gorgeous.

I just have to wonder (though this is more of a rhetorical question), what on earth do people consider fast? Because I am quite honestly terrified of what the answer is.

Like I get that ORV is long. It can be hard to recommend very long books to folks (and as the manhwa keeps going, long comics). To each their own, everyone is different, what appeals to me won't appeal to others. But there's a difference between "it's hard to recommend a very long work to someone" and "it's hard to recommend something that's long and takes a while to get into", and maybe folks are just writing the former a bit weirdly. I completely understand having trouble recommending long series to people. Also ORV has a very complex plot and I don't blame folks having trouble recommending that. I'm writing fic for later parts of orv and other manhwa and I dread explaining all the context for all that to someone who hasn't read them.

That being said, ORV has a very good introduction. Both chapter 1 of the novel and episode 1 of the manhwa are very good. They're not perfect, I can't say I was hooked from the immediate moment I started reading the page, but both of them have good introductions and it doesn't stop, and there's stuff to love in just about every chapter/episode, and I was definitely hooked enough by the time I finished to keep going to chapter/episode 2. Chapter 1 of the novel has great angst and character building, and it's funny and sweet and tragic. When I first read Dokja trying, earnestly, to recommend TWSA and getting harassed about it and worrying it will hurt this art and artist he cares about, but not being able to do much else to give thanks for this experience because of his circumstances, I cried. The first page/episode of the manhwa has them delicious boys love vibes and gorgeous art (and cute baby Dokja, I die for him), and the promise of a fascinating story ahead, and then the following page/episode has more gorgeous art and angst and great characters (combining them cause the first page feels sort of more like a teaser than a first page, though Episode 0 ends with a spread of Kimcom that makes me tear up). We'll unfortunately never know if I'd have loved ORV as much if I'd read the novel first, but I like to think I would cause ORV's opening is just that good.

I just truly, truly do not understand the sentiment that idk the opening and the first [insert large number of pages/chapters] aren't good or interesting or engaging enough. Maybe I'm out of touch. To each their own on what appeals, maybe I'm built different (doubt it though) but it just feels kind of dismissive of ORV's opening, in both the novel and the manhwa, which are both really good. Will it win over everyone? No. It's fine if you weren't grabbed by the opening or the first [insert however many pages/chapters/arcs]. It's fine if you took a while, even a long while to get into it, or never really did, and maybe don't like the manhwa, which is a great gateway into the story, or don't like the novel for whatever reason and prefer the manhwa. And at the end of the day it's just random opinions online, we all have different ones. Make the posts that appeal to you on your blog, complain on your socmed, whatever. But the opening is good, it keeps you very engaged with a lot of difficult scenarios, the characters are great and fun and funny, in those parts especially, and idk why I'm supposed to pretend that's not the case.

Anyway I don't like writing complaint posts. The opening and general start are excellent and Imma go back and cry over Dokja again ty singNsong for my tears.

[xhuuya]

Started watching Blue Eye Samurai today

[immamapletreekid]

ok movie thoughts time

[revserrayyu]

One HSR Character a Day Day 51: Yukong (last one. for now.)

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

i am not the same person i was before i listened to one man band