wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!
like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"
the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.
emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.
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Another Sky line up!! This one is for those skys who couldnt fit on the page in the last one! they were having a pumpkin soup party!!
this one is also compiled of Linktober Inktober prompts but is a lot more vague than the last since the prompts are in the atmosphere and not the characters!!
Thanks to @minas-linkverse @hazethestrange and @bowl-of-ravioli for creating and letting me draw your amazing little guys!!
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Feathers Minaslinkverse
Matdas Hazey Horizons
Cloud Lots of Ravios
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prince in da bathtub (he just likes to sit in there. no water. takes the fattest naps in the tub) info abt him utc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
prince is the most recent member of my retired battle team! i received him as a gift from a relative and he's been a permanent member since then. :] i'd wanted a clodsire/paldean wooper on my team for a while because ummmmmmmmmm my favorite poke celebrity crush has one (if you know who that is between us okay) and they're very adorable!!!!
he is very chatty!!!! and loves meeting new people. him and cinders are nearly always together unless im doing something that gets cinders' curiosity.
prince's crown is his favorite thing! when he was a wooper i had been crafting little paper crowns and prince had finagled one onto his head. he LOVED it, up until the point it got soggy and ruined. so i custom made him a more durable, and nicer looking little crown. he hasn't parted with it since.
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Don’t tell me my first completed artwork of the year was of a bunny boy from a series I don’t watch, headcannoned into a show about turtles that I hyperfixate over? This is my chosen path?
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Umm, I made him rich?
Idk model au Johan ? 😭
Johan could've simply gone into the media industry instead of stealing shoes. Half his problems wouldn't exist.
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Spent all day figuring out what I want my new Harlan sprites to look like. Got one pose down, plus an alternate for it :D
HOPEFULLY NOW THAT I KNOW WHAT I'M AIMING FOR IT'LL GO FASTER FOR THE [checks file] SEVEN REMAINING POSES! I'm also making sure to have a better workflow this time so I can more easily go in and draw new expressions later
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Part 5 of Transformers Animated and Lobotomy Corporation(/Library of Ruina) fusions. Didn't touch any humans fusions, which I should probably do. Most of them are tied to item abnos which... *check doc* huh I only have ten item abnos left. Weird. Anyways.
Per usual, a cut after the first one. Also near the end of this batch I started using Procreate so if anything looks weird it's probably because of that.
Metalhawk as The Dreaming Current.
Lyzack as Ozma.
Sunstorm as Flesh idol.
Slipstream as Void Dream.
Ratbat as Fairy Festival.
Steeljaw as Scaredy Cat.
Oil Slick as Melting Love.
Lester Black as Fragment of the Universe. (This probably just looks like Fragment if it had orange eyes instead of hearts which... yea. Lester Black is a news reporter, how else would I do this?)
Flareup as Alriune.
Mindwipe as Nosfertu.
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Oh. Oh no. I have not logged on to Firn after graphic update and uh
Who... who gave him those eyebags? Firn baby, you might be nigh immortal but you need to still sleep.
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