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A penny for Gio's thoughts on The Wizard of Oz? I often feel like it gets often left out when it comes to fairytale discussions or fairytale crossovers like EAH or Descendents (Granted I don't think Disney ever did a Wizard of Oz movie and they've pretty much monopolized fairytale for better or worse... mostly worse.)
It's good to see it get recognition in Lies of P, though!! Eager to see what Round8 does with it!
i think Oz is!!! fun!!!!!!!!! and severely underused compared to, like. Pinocchio or Alice or the other "modern fairytales" when it comes to Big Budget Production, with the exception of like. Wicked ( that i still have to watch/listen to fndsmg musical fake fan right here ) or that one mid-to-okay Oz movie Disney made ages ago and nobody remembers nafdms granted my thoughts on it are a little... tainted? from the high school play I had to do - half of which was great bc my partner wrote it, half of which was Not bc if u guys want me to talk about how my teacher managed to make a bunch of 16 years olds do the cell block tango i'd LOVE to ramble about that play - but I think it's a fun little story with fun little characters
honestly. I'm very hyped for what LoPII and/or the DLC have in mind. i wanna see my little guy (the lion) so bad..............
#like ik theres return to oz but it feels more underground/cult classic stuff than BIG BUDGET MOVIE#and that one cartoon we dont talk about#gio replies
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"the vast majority of legal persecution against early queers was focused on men" ARE YOU INSANE
#rot.txt#DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WOMEN WERE FORCED TO MARRY MEN OR DIE. HUH. WHERE AM I#this is from the section in the new hbomberguy video where he talks about james somertons misogyny and lesbophobia btw#SOMEONES BITTER THAT WOMEN KISS IN CARTOONS SOMETIMES!!!#AS IF THAT ERASES THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF MISOGYNY IN SO MANY CULTURES!!!!!!! GOOD GOD#sorry somerton is just so insanely stupid i cant get over it. why is he like that#like i dont know maybe this isnt important but i remember being asked as a kid to pick a greek city state to live in#but i was a girl. so none of them were good choices because apparently i would be forced to have children no matter which one i picked#and i guess it just stuck with me. if the boys liked to fight they got to pick sparta and if they liked to read then it was athens#but what did the girls get. a little more freedom in certain places but ultimately the same expectation. have babies or die#in hindsight there were definitely options in ancient greece#but my teacher didnt tell us that. we just had to write about whether we would like to have slightly more rights or not#OBVIOUSLY gay men have historically faced discrimination but saying that it wasnt as focused on women is just unbelievably stupid#sorry i dont know if any of this made sense#lesbophobia tw#misogyny tw
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you know i do wonder how many sonic characters actually have living parents. like knuckles is the last of his kind so obviously his parents arent around anymore. both guys who could be considered shadows dads are 100 percent confirmed dead. sonic is canonically an orphan im pretty sure. and on the other side of the coin cream is like the only character in the game cast who has a living parent we actually see onscreen. but what about everyone else i dont think theres a straight answer for any other character. other than rouge's mom being mentioned a couple times i Guess but we dont even know anything about her or if shes still alive just that she existed at some point. are these kids constantly putting themselves in danger because they dont have parents around to stop them or because their parents just dont care
#like what about tails. im guessing he didnt have any sort of family he was attached to if he left to be with sonic so quickly#but that doesnt really mean he didnt have parents at all. maybe he had parents and they just sucked i dont know#what about amy. what if she had parents this whole time we just never see them.#what about blaze. considering shes a princess id assume she was born into that role#but i dont know if her parents are ever actually mentioned#maybe theyre dead and there was no one else to take on their role and thats why blaze has so much responsibility at such a young age?#silver . he was born in a wet cardboard box all alone i cant really imagine him hvaing parents sorry#considering charmy is 6 and living with vector. an adult whos obviously not his biological dad.#i feel like something probably happened to charmys parents#espio i dont really question as much#becuase it feels very common in the sonic universe for teenagers to have more freedom than would be expected in real life#or maybe its not that common and the teenagers we're actually following are just living the most fucked up lives ever. i dotn know#but either way. espio where are your parents buddy. are they still alive. vector where are YOUR parents are they still alive#i dont know if i actually want canon explanations for all this though#because its kinda fun not knowing every detail about every characters life and being able to speculate and insert your headcanons n stuff#to be clear im talking about game canon#i know stuff like archie sonic and the sonic movies and the 90s cartoons will sometimes give characters new family members#or talk about their family situation even if the games dont say anything about that sort of thing
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sorry if you've already mentioned but what (re?)ignited your love of comics/x-men/cherik? curious because there are so many different adaptations of them
i think im gonna speak for a few (or a lot of) people when i say that TL;DR the wolverine x deadpool movie that came out this summer is what pulled me back into comics and i COULD leave it there but i will go into excruciating and unnecessary detail instead because i love an origin story and i love oversharing.
under the cut tho because im nice sometimes (there's also wxdp doodles in here. if you want to see that)
ironically (and probably commonly), growing up i was more of an avengers kid. Kinda. Loosely <- binge watched the cartoons and movies and read copious amounts of comics and fics and i am hoarding fanart in my old dresser as we speak ok 'loosely' is a modest lie.
embarrassingly i remember getting into discus cause of captain america LMAO so yeah needless to say i was a Humble Fan- me joining my school's comic class/club didnt help either (shoutout to my teach from that she was the realest one out there for. A Multitude of reasons). she definitely is was inspires me to even draw still and make comics and i often think bout the tips i learned from her class tbh she was great
back to the movies t and comics tho, i got into em because my brother would offer to take me and that's how we'd hang out (i rarely saw movies in theaters and i even more rarely went anywhere as a teenager. still kinda like that today tbh ooops) and yk. it just snowballed after that.
my brother and i have always liked comics- he just more than me for a while (though he still very much loves comics and As We Know From My Posts we still talk about them whenever i see him To An Exhausting Degree)
durin then i was really into stony and i have a few surviving doodles i made but those are between me and god. and anyone who asks tbh LOL
'snap can you make this related to x-men again this is long' ok so fast forward to This Summer again I Still Don't Really See Movies but my brother offered to take me and this was the first time i'd actually seen an x-men movie in full
as a kid i only remember seeing the 'perfection' scene between erik and raven in first class while i was channel surfing. pretty sure i changed the channel after seeing mystique naked cause i was scared my parents would get mad at me if they caught me watching it LOL
BUT MOVING ON As A Kid i think it's also natural you'll sometimes watch 92 if it's on And I Did though evidently it didn't stick too hard (i do remember really liking beast and gambit though.... still do really): my knowledge of x-men was. INCREDIBLY sparse. like diabolically so so i didnt have too much expectations (aside from the fact i vaguely liked deadpool beforehand).
tbh i dont know why my bro never took me to see any of the x-men movies. it's not like he doesn't Also like x-men (90% sure nightcrawler's his favorite but my brother will be caught dead saying he has absolute favorites like that)- he owns a bitch load of deadpool comics/omnibus sets too (of which ive read over the years and reread this year) but Shrug moving on
Much Like Most Of The Internet i fell down the rabbit hole that way. i have some doodles i made a couple days after seeing WxDP that i now have an excuse to throw at all of you Look And Perceive
and so. As I Do. i got curious and told myself i'd binge watch all the x-men movies the week before i went back to school And Then I Did ft. My Brother Sometimes and then i said i'd binge watch all of '92 and And I Did That ft. My Brother Sometimes But Less So and now we're here. currently watching Evolution...
once i got to school i realized i lived near a comic shop and started getting into the comics that way (the first ones i got since going down this rabbit hole was Magneto Was Right!, The Resurrection of Magneto, and The Trial of Magneto. if you were curious !!!!! clearly i didnt care too much about context i just needed to see My Guy jelvejlkvj i have no regrets and Evidently ive read more since)
i'm pretty sure what dragged me into cherik specifically was the fact i saw a clip of The Famous ending to 92 where erik's aghast at the notion jean even has to question his love for charles. i think that was what officially had me refocus my lens on them: not a single poolverine thought after that LOL (all the cherik posting i saw on twitter definitely helped too but that was the nail in the coffin for any other interests i had: i was locked into cherik and x-men in general now)
that clip specifically, i was surprised at the fact they- frequently even- have the x-men franchise say erik loves charles and vice versa so bluntly. even if it's not meant to be romantic, i fear im just a fan of how casually the word's thrown around with them two and i got tender bout it all. Then Yk. i just live for the drama. the hilarity even. the sincerity .... they make me sick if i think of them too long so im gonna end it here
before i go tho ironically enough, the first x-men issue i owned was This one (story a this is that while stuck in some wacko dimension charles accidentally gets himself trapped in logan's mind while utilizing his astral projection. if you were curious). pretty sure i got it for free with another comic set i got years ago since our old comic shop loved to do that, but it's poetic aint it. maybe ill doodle something referencing it..
i should probably look into finishing this arc someday im Dummy curious to even know how it started and how it ends.....
#snap chats#usually this onea them posts i ramble bout in the tags but i have photos and this is Long long so .. i use the main body for once ...#sorry i gave a biography but i never talk to people and i also love typing. im one of those party can-of-worms i fear#i feel like i could talk about this forever because x-men itself has never been super prominent in my childhood#it was just kinda there in the background BUT comics themselves have always been with me. theyre a keystone to me i think#but yeah. x-men definitely sticks a lot harder than avengers does now OOPS this is not me taking shots i am just SAYING#i have a lot of old marvel doodles tbh .. i found an old deadpool one i remember drawing with my bro during a car ride#kinda funny how much my bro and i bond i dont think of it much but I Guess thats another reason why comics are special to me#we dont bond much- i dont bond with my fam in general tbh we're kinda. Isolated in a way LOL so its cool we're tight at least#if you wanna go deeper bout Comics And My Family my dad really liked comics growing up- more dc tho maybe#apparently he used to draw hulk a lot but if he did those drawings are loooong gone.. at least i know who to blame for me drawing#he loves superman tho. i remember id get embarrassed watching superhero cartoons and superman was on screen when he was around#for some reason i thought id get in trouble if he caught me watching superman but when he did once he was real happy so. tf wrong with me#he loves to say hes superman a lot and id be like Dad... Stop... LMAO but in the cheesiest way possible he do be my hero so. accurate ig#but yeah thats my origin story for why i like comics again thank you for reading if you actually read all that#and sorry it got all sappy Unfortunately i be like that sometimes. i am very emotionally constipated and i over explain a lot#ok i fr gonna end it here im gonna keep going by accident if i thinka any longer and i have stuff i still have to do
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For real though as someone who has watched both MP100 and Steven Universe I can tell you with relative certainty that the reason SU is so hated is because there were complex women in it. A lot of the guys (gn) that praise MP100 as SUCH a good show that shows the power of MERCY and UNDERSTANDING are literally the same people that shit on SU for being "too pussy to prosecute its villains properly" <- real words from a man I've spoken with about it 🙃
I like both shows and they're actually very similar, which is why it's hysterical to me when people try to rag on SU after having praised MP100 so ardently like,,,,if you're misogynistic just say that lmao
#not tagging fandoms bc this is a personal rant post#grim rants#but still—#a show about a teenage boy growing up trying to get a handle on his strange powers that sometimes go out of control#dealing with his emotions and puberty all while battling monsters and authoritarian groups hellbent on world domination/destruction#'Its Up To You To Save Everyone!'#CRIPPLING GUILT#PTSD#WAR AND VIOLENCE#goofiness inbetween 🥰#MORE VIOLENCE#accepting yourself#helping others accept themselves#copious redemption arcs#even for characters who do NOT deserve it thematically#You Were The Final Boss All Along :)#honest to god even if you dislike su if you like other media with the same tropes as it maYBE DONT GO AFTER THE TROPES??? LMAO#this is specifically aimed at that one guy i was talking ab anime with for a while before we moved on childhood cartoons & he said this shit#also because he said hed never rewatch any of the shows bc They're For Kids#like damn motherfucker so are gushers but guess who has Adult Money to buy them with ʘ‿ʘ
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oh we're so doomed i just saw an ad from the energy provider from my country using generative AI to make an animated character and voice over ... we are so doomed oh my god this small country where the opportunities for local animators are little already has companies opting to use AI instead of our talent we're so doomed😭😭😭
#i talk!!!#generative ai rant#like this country already hardly has any education that supports animation and such we dont have a very established animation industry#there are cartoons local to this country supported by our tv industry (the one main entertainment industry here) every once in a blue moon#and ive seen so many people passionate about animation and finding ways to study it yet the big companies here are already looking at gen ai#its so ovwr man😭😭#AND THE VOICE ACTING WHAT WHAT WAS THE NEED FOR THAT#like our country has some very nationally renowned voices known by everyone who if they speak in your ad. youre winning people trust them#WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU OPT FOR A MONOTONE AI WOMAN WHAT#money its money but JESUS CHRIST over all things the most surprising thing is that they did it for the voicing YOU HAVE A LOT OF MONEY??#most of the well known news journals here talk well of gen ai we're so over
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i think the whole "miles is ALSO spider man" debate becomes worthless when you realize miles is in fact referred to as spider man in every single rendition of him..... except for the ones aimed at 4-8 year olds. which at that point makes your argument mean nothing
#.text#we know hes spider man. getting mad because of a cartoon show for 5 year olds gives the spideys different names#so it doesnt confuse its audience. of 5 year olds. is like. dumb. dont you have better things to do.#it again just circles back around to the timeless debate or whether or not good cartoons should really be labelled as kids shows#like that one post talking. about how at is still a kids cartoon. even if its good. its a good kids cartoon.#like that.#ultimate spiderman is good! but its still made for 10 year olds.#them giving the different spideys different names so the kids dont get confused isnt like#damning. idk why people act like it is. he is spider man everywhere else. its fine.#like he is one of the few other spideys that DOESNT have a real alternate name even#am i even making sense. who cares. this argument is dumb as hell.#i think people should watch or read things meant for adults every now and then. maybe itll open their eyes#and distract them from problems that arent real
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I fucking love my friend!!!!!!!
#red said#I've been staying with my friend since Thursday night#they are one of my two amazing trauma-bonded pals from way back when#the Gay Goth Goblin Gang#as we have renamed the groupchat since everyone came out#and we have just had a chill fuckin time. we haven't really done anything other than that they had a gig on Thursday#which slapped btw#since then we've just like. sat around. watched cartoons and Auntie Donna. listened to the Trump arraignment.#talked a wee bit about trauma and mental health#most of the time we're hanging out on the balcony while they smoke up#uhhhh we went to their friends house and watched dont hug me I'm scared. we went out for wings. i met their boyfriend#these sorts of things. super chill super low key.#anyway i am in my way to bed and i gave them a hug and thanked them for a lovely weekend and they said#'thanks it's been nice to have a couple of days free of anxiety'#and i just. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i love them so much#tbh last time i saw them one on one (cause the three of us catch up most Christmases) i was kind of a mega ultra me#mess. like i had been in therapy for like 6 months and i was in the break it down phase of breaking myself down and building back up.#and we were smoking up with their friends and they were talking about a stag do they'd gone to back home that my ex had been at#and my ex. I have. Experiences. that I'm fairly sure my friend is unaware of or they would NOT have been talking positively about him#so last time we were hanging out i was attempting to hide a full blown ptsd attack while also trying to be Charming to Strangers#cause i wanted to talk to my friend about the thing that i was dealing with but i was too scared to 🙁#this time has been REALLY nice. like super nice.#i haven't gone into close detail on anything but we've chatted broad strokes about a lot of both of our Shit#which is also what i found talking to our other bestie. we're all in a place where we can support each other without depleting ourselves.#and with enough distance from our teenage selves that we can joke about the whole nonces-hanging-around-14-year-olds thing#and in their case the violent homophobia thing#idk this is all getting really negative sounding but it's not negative!!!! i just love them!!!!#I'm really happy i made some time to come and just Be With My Friend for no reason with no structure other than Hang Out#it's nice!!!!!! i like them!!!!!!#also holy shit leeds has some good food
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some of the shenanigans the unicorns were up to were straight up cartoonish in nature. the long lost documentary should be reformatted to cartoon format to reflect this. thats just my vision. because im a visionary
#im having revelations after spending 3+ hours in a row on my 24-page comic today#dont be fooled. i think everything on earth should be turned into a cartoon. the unicorns aren’t special#my favorite thing on earth actually is making ms paint cartoons but#they’re so time consuming I haven’t made one in years#anyway i think every story ever invented by mankind should be adapted into a cartoon#AND!#sorry im not done#no more of this cutesy shit OKAY. I don’t want to see that shit#we need more characters to be ugly. And im not talking about bad character design okay I mean#WHY. are all cartoons so pristine now.#BACK IN MY DAY…… all our cartoon characters were more scrungly#its a serious problem……………….. facing the nation#ok anyway. i don’t even remember what my original post was about#OH YEAH lol. That would b funny#my mind
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how am i still getting stupid responses to this post. what are you bonding over the RACISM????????????
hello white fallout new vegas fan. I want to play a game. in front of you is a native american. they are going to list their grievances with the honest hearts dlc. you have to listen without interrupting to justify the writing decisions made by the creators. fail to do this or mention the quality of joshua graham's character writing and the bomb collar around your neck will detonate, just like in the hit game fallout new vegas. live or die the choice is yours
#dont harass the person who left those tags btw thats not cool#but just. dont say stuff like this on posts about racism. ok.#i for one am NOT glad we got one of the most racist stories ive seen in a video game#and probably the most racist story ive interacted with in recent years. what.#that shit was on par with some of the racism ive seen in OLD cartoons#you know the ones that caused warner bros to issue a disclaimer on their dvd collections#and it is NOT something i can bond with people over. in fact it makes me miserable#bee talk
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every time someone tries to talk to me about pop culture I'm reminded about how very not normal I am
#this one time this girl in my class was tryna make conversation with me cuz we were working on a project together#and she was like 'oh have you heard about the discourse between *idk two female celebrities I dont even remember*?'#and like that's the exact moment I realized that my interests aren't that like well known ig??#and like people will try to talk to me about shows and stuff like fucking idk Riverdale ig#but like I really only watch cartoons and anime so like????#what do you what me to say#'yeah Tom and Emily should've toootally gotten together!'#BITCH WHO TF IS EMILY???#like my biggest interest at the moment is a webcomic from the fucking 2010s idk what you what me to tell you#idk pop culture is weird to me
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Honestly, I think the full extent of my existence is inherently baffling and mythical to the "I just think we need to remember that this character is horrible and irredeemable and the worst!!!" and "we just need more villains to BE villains!!!" and "people who 'woobify' villains are stupid shallow idiots!!!" crowd.
Like yeah, sure. I like most of my villains to be tragic and/or sympathetic. I like them to have the capacity to be a wet pathetic baby bean, even if I might have to force them into the role a bit.
But I also like Professor Hojo as-is and he's the ONLY reason I got into FF7, and my favorite character from FF7, and he isn't the only purely evil and terrible villain I adore as a purely evil and terrible villain.
Like.
You can have both, and it's fully possible to like both.
(And that's not getting into how often I see characters who DO have tragic backstories and actual reasons for doing terrible actions, as an explanation not an excuse mind, and then the fandom just rabidly insists that character is pure evil and malicious and can't possibly have any other reason for doing anything beyond sadistic enjoyment...)
#not important#chaotic rambles#yes im back on my bullshit again#im an avid villain enjoyer so this attitude pisses me off a lot#also sorry if me liking Hojo is a shock to anyone#honestly i refused - REFUSED - to give FF7 the time of day until my friend brought up that he existed#it's kind of irritating to have the final fantasy you grew up with overlooked and bashed#while a different one you know nothing about is praised to high heavens by everyone and their dog :\#honestly i had everything about FF7 spoiled for me years and years ago EXCEPT for Hojo#no one talks about him at all#probably for the best because otherwise getting me into FF7 would have been a hopeless venture#i've noticed that people who claim to like villains that are evil and terrible people#tend to complain HORRENDOUSLY when a villain is portrayed as anything else#and go “well i do LIKE tragic villains but not ALL THE TIME!!!”#bitch it aint all the time#stop your whining there's SO many fucking villains out there that'll never be redeemed and never be explored in any meaningful way#beyond “evil” and “insane”#especially if you're like. into comic books or horror movies or honestly most games AND most fucking anime#AND most cartoons!!!#1 piece of property comes along where everyone gets to be redeemed and suddenly#“oh it's happening ALL the time!! where's the REAL threatening villains anymore?? why's everything so soft now :((”#“why cant we just kill bad people anymore why do we have to TALK to them now”#im so sorry there's like one whole property per medium where everyone wasnt pure evil wow that must be so hard on you#im so sorry like one out of every fifty stories has exactly one character in it that gets a redemption arc#i understand...it must be such a struggle...vile villains are totally going extinct i know.......#some stories dont even have a villain? wow..... the world must be ending......
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Back on my Wyll script doctor because I was talking about it with a friend. Specifically imagining a version of Wyll's big Character Choice that felt like it had some actual teeth.
Imagine a world where instead of a cartoon evil hot lady Mizora and Wyll's relationship actually had some complexity to it and like. some genuine push and pull which gives him temptation to stay. I just keep thinking about this 17 year old who his whole life wanted more than anything to be a hero, who got his chance to do something heroic and selfless and save the city from certain doom, and his reward is getting kicked out because he did it the "wrong way".
Imagine if instead of forcing his silence, Mizora instead comforted him. How unbelievably cruel of your father! Well...since you've nowhere else to go, why not stick with me? We make a pretty good team, as it turns out, and I can get you a whole list of monsters who need killing. Plenty of devils and demons loose in your world targetting all sorts of innocents. Our interests can keep aligning, and you get a place to sleep when you need it.
Wyll makes his peace with it, because he has nothing and no one. And Mizora's not GOOD maybe, not by Ulder Ravengard's definition. But she's fun. She delights in his growth. And she does certainly keep direct him at greater evils, devils who really do need killing. And if she spies on his every waking moment, well, she worries. If she sends him after the occasional innocent, well, she had people who she has to answer to as well. She's a devil, how much can he fault her for her nature? She's always seemed like she knew where the line was...
Karlach (and the player) express their doubts, of course, but for act one at least he's defensive. Yes, she punished him and he hates it and its miserable but....he was in breach of contract! She's NEVER gone outside its bounds, she's always stuck very closely to their agreement. Wyll, who wants so badly to trust others and believe everyone has the chance for good, can't find it in him to believe the worst even of a devil.
And Mizora is FOND of Wyll, loves him even in her way. As a cherished pet, as a trusted tool, as a best-laid plan. Never enough to choose his own well-being over her own agenda, never enough to see him as his own person. He's her little project, the long shot noble brat she gambled on when Tiamat decided to get too big for her britches. And it paid off! Wyll always pays off, currying her all the favor from Zariel she so desperately craves. And who are you, or anyone, to come between them? She's treated him well. As she's quick to remind him, she wanted him when no one else did, aided him while the rest of his city slept snug in their beds. And if Ulder Ravengard didn't want a son with a whiff of infernal, then do you REALLY think he'd want you with lovely horns and Avernus in your blood?
You discover his father's been taken. Beyond igniting a lot of old feelings, it brings up a question of succession. Of course, Florrick isnt giving up on him, but if not...there aren't currently any likely candidates to take over the Flaming Fists. Not trustworthy ones. Florrick will take the position, but everyone knows in the back of his mind Ulder never really stopped planning for it to be Wyll. With the city in chaos and a cult army on the rise, they may need an answer sooner rather than later. Wyll feels the call of the Gate, but knows just as well that Mizora wouldn't want him to return in such an official capacity.
For the first time ever the leash starts to chafe in a way he can't keep pushing through.
Act 2 rolls around. Mizora sends up the Warlock signal. After potentially some encouragement from the player, Wyll (NOT THE PLAYER. I DONT KNOW WHY ITS THE PLAYER IN THE GAME ITS WEIRD) hesitantly proposes that maybe, if he does this....they can do a renegotiation of his contract. Not break it, he assures her quickly! Just....reopen the terms, take a looks at the agreement. Maybe discuss an exit ramp? After all....I mean, neither of us truly thought I'd be doing this forever, did we?
Based on Mizora's reaction. Yeah she did.
But fine. She agrees. And Wyll's not mad that it turns out you're rescuing her, not a nameless "operative" for Zariel. He would've done that on his own had she asked. Its the fact that she apparently didn't feel like being honest, that she let him fret and worry about potentially handing Zariel back some runaway for basically no reason. Its the fact that she came here to check in on the cult that abducted his FATHER just to see if Zariel could make any use of them. And its the fact that she seems surprised and annoyed that ANY of this bothers him.
All this builds, of course, to the final confrontation. The basic elements are the same. Mizora outside the coronation (this time needling at Wyll, "I'll be at camp if you're not too high and mighty to consort with the likes of me anymore"), Ulder tadpoled and fighting it. Mizora makes her offer. I can end the contract now, and you're free to go running after daddy (who won't want you btw! not like I do!). You'll lose all your powers, all my aid, all those juicy quests to chase down the greatest monsters in the hells. Take on your father's job and settle in for a life of misery and compromise and only doing as much good as the nobles will let you. Or: pledge yourself to me, eternally. I'll give you a boatload of new powers and eternal life to boot, so long as you serve as my sword and shield.
From there I think three endings branch out, and with it three classes for Wyll. If he stays with Mizora, accepts a relationship where he will never be an equal or a free agent in exchange for the affirmation he wants so badly from his father, he remains a Warlock, with some juiced stats and extra spell slots, along with shiny new gear. If he pledges to follow in his father's footsteps, he instead becomes an Oath of Devotion paladin, pledging himself in service to Tyr, if with a sense of doomed finality. The Blade of Frontiers is officially retired, and along with it any identity he has outside of being his father's son. Or the third path, break the contract without taking his father's role. He will look for his father, yes, but whether or not you find him he's going back to his roots, travelling around to do some good in the world (as the Blade of Frontiers) or kicking ass in the Hells with Karlach (as the Blade of Avernus). In this timeline he becomes a fighter, with a default preference for Eldritch Knight.
What's important: if he breaks his contract then Mizora is NOT hanging around camp. She will leave in a fury, accidentally bound by her own word to withdraw her influence completely if he breaks his contract. She may still approach the player some night to sleep with the player, framed for high approval/romanced players and her trying to take something back from Wyll. But Wyll will have to learn how to define himself without her breathing down his neck, without keeping her happy dominating his every thought. Its nervewracking, and even lonesome at times...but its freedom. And, perhaps, that's worth a little bit of lonesomeness.
#long post#again i want to be clear because i think wyll fans are a little understandably defensive of him#this is not about wanting wyll to be a bad person#its about wanting him to have an arc that parallels the rest of the companions#and be more firmly centered on HIS feelings and choices#ive done my best to preserve wylls canon temperament here#just give the circumstances more teeeth#bg3#baldurs gate 3#wyll ravengard#mizora#ulder ravengard
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Hey are you even Native American? Because this is kind of a weird take to have if you aren't Native American. I'm Native and I made this post because I LIKE the allegory, I like this movie. Have you talked to a Native American about this movie? Have you even talked to a Native American about horses? Because if you ask us about them, most of us will tell you that many Native Nations have an overwhelmingly good relationship with them & that they've almost fully integrated into a lot of our cultures, particularly plains cultures. A lot of our languages words for horse even translates to "sacred dog" or "sacred ___". & not that I necessarily think it's not true or impossible, but I've never heard ANY Native person say horses are bad for the environment here. Again I don't doubt you about horses potentially being bad for the environment (esp in certain areas), but I've just never heard a Native person specifically voice this concern.
Little Creek (or any Native man) probably wouldn't have traded in a horse for food, he most likely would've gone off and hunted something for himself. Because that's what Native men did, it was something they took pride in. & Plains people ate more than just buffalo, we also ate deer, moose, elk, fish, rabbits/hares, ducks, beavers, berries, roots, the list goes on. The government killed off so many buffalo not only because it was a primary food source, but because we used it for so many other things. & a trading post probably wouldn't have been as interested in horses anyway, they primarily wanted furs from us a lot of the time & other things they couldn't get in Europe (like beaver pelts), but they already HAD horses. It probably did happen at some point, but horses weren't exactly a hot commodity or super popular to trade with White settlers when they could also very easily buy horses from OTHER White people or just go wrangle a wild one themselves (which is literally what they do in the movie). If anything, trading posts and settlers were the ones exchanging horses TO US. Horses a lot of the time were very USEFUL to us, so why would he trade it for food?
Also, there WERE horses Native to North America. There's also oral history from multiple Native Nations detailing the presence of horses in North America before colonization & before Europeans brought any over. And Europeans didnt "give us some land" (they didnt give us anything) primarily so that HORSES could have the rest, they used to reservations system to keep us out of the way so SETTLERS could have it. The movie's residential school allegory is about the way White people tried to "domesticate" us, that is, assimilation. They wanted us either to be assimilated or killed. That's why the movie used residential schools as the allegory here.
I'm not saying you have to like this movie or refrain from critisizing it at all, you don't, or even that we shouldn't talk about any ecological effects of wild horses, but you're kind of speaking for & over Native Americans in a weird way while also oversimplifying our history to the point of misinformation, and misunderstanding a lot of our relationships with horses.
Spirit: Stallion of The Cimarron & the Indian Boarding Schools/Residential Schools allegory
#also maybe dont call us 'tribal Americans' or 'tribal peoples' please. the use of the word 'tribes' has some debate if its even accurate#because thats the settlers interpretation of us that we were essentially all the same but just with different 'tribes#but we're not. we're different Nations with different cultures#if you go into the tags youll see a bunch of different Native people talking about how important & ACCURATE this movie is#this is probably one of the most accurate depictions of Native people that exists in a kid cartoon#i dont really think its 'lying' tbh
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ive talked about it before but i wanna talk about it again and that's
body types in drawing especially in terms of one piece characters
and i know its because official art presents them all the same but it just does not feel right to me, y'know? especially when i look at fanart and it looks like they just drew the same body multiple times with different faces (talent in that yes but god change it up a bit PLEASE)
like with my style i like to draw semi-realistic cartoon type beat, and that means im thinking about an abstract of shape language in the way that i present the characters. i consider their fighting styles and workouts when i think about what their body type would be, not just for op ive done this with mha and jjk characters too because god dammit gege, maki deserves bulkier muscles for her efforts
so here it is. my analysis of more semi-realistic designs for these characters. all my opinion and not meant to be a call out to anyone.
also, not including the women because we all know how unrealistic they look and i dont need to explain that to you im begging just use reference.
LUFFY
rubberhose arms are ESSENTIAL in his design so when i draw him, i never put too much definition in his muscles. real definition should be reserved for gears that alter his muscles
noodly arms and stick ass legs that is his Charm thank you i dont need super definition
ZORO
on the opposite end of the spectrum, zoro.
though, i see many people draw him more bodybuilder silhouette when he should be powerlifter silhouette, youve SEEN how this man works out. stereotypical bodybuilder physique that's all muscle and no fat is EXTREMELY UNHEALTHY TO MAINTAIN and you know theres no damn way sanjis letting someone on the ship watch their weight for the sake of visuals. he should be defined and bulky, but softer edges on the abs.
USOPP
Speaking first on pre ts, what does he excel at most? long range weapons and running.
obviously he gets proper strength training during timeskip, but i really think the best representative for him is olympic sprinters
muscular, but still pretty skinny
SANJI
hear me out. ballet physique.
i see him drawn w the same physique as Zoro and it just feels so wrong. he doesnt train his upper body, so most of his definition would be in his core and legs. not to mention his flexibility tracks with that.
maybe ill come back with a figure study on these later to fully show how it translates into my drawings but. for now. tumblr wont let me add any more images to this post
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uh, hi, cass. time sensitive ask this is what was posted on the og cartoon base account
uhh, simultaneously i think you might have a hand in this. generally. you know. making rottmnt trend here and on other platforms. every week i dont think we should take that super seriously but a q&a is defenitely in order and i didnt see anyone talk about it so heads up! maybe we'll get to find out if that ask you got about your work is actually true. or something like that have a fulfilling one.
Hmm. I don't know how much importance my comic has outside of tumblr. But I also won't deny that Rise is like...suspiciously...conveniently trending(I mean. Not only on tumblr) every time something really dramatic happens in the Apocalyptic series haha
Like the time Donnie died and Netflix had a sudden increase in views on Rise movie lmao
Personally I'm quite happy with the two seasons and the movie we already have, but I definitely wouldn't turn down the opportunity to get more.
So if this fandom gets even a fraction of Nickelodeon's attention because of my comic, I'm happy to provide👍
#also the art director of Rise kinda saw my animatics for Mutant Ninja Midlife Crisis fic#On Twitter#And retweeted#A bunch of people from Nick kinda knows I exist#that helped I think??#idk#I just like to draw turtles and make stories jrjfhfjf
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