#and the subject obviously

[jessieren]

Can you imagine waking up to this on a lazy Sunday morning…

Come back to bed babe you can get dressed later.

Actually forget that you don’t need to get dressed…

[meirimerens]

curious and curiouser

[couchcouchcouchcouch]

HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES.

[funkyplantguy]

guys. guys. listen. listen. cub and mumbo as a ship have the most perfect setup and you all are sleeping on it but never fear!! as i am here to spread the Good News of cumbo. number one. they're both fucking insane in the head. they both have the capacity to become completely and totally and exquisitely obsessed with each other in a really weird and probably really fucked up way. number two. they're the Best Friends (trademark pending) of scar and grian respectively. they're both victims witnesses of Whatever The Fuck those two have going on at all times. they can complain to each other about it. they can complain together about how scar and grian dance around each other all the fucking time and how insufferable they both are because of it. they can unknowingly start their own dance, orbiting each other at a distance until one of them goes fucking crazy and veers off course and they make out sloppy style. it's perfect. it's perfect.

[necroixe]

@ younger creepypasta fans, don't be worried about sharing what you make for the fear of people finding issue with it for existing. We like your art for what it is, and encourage you to keep making it, because that's what the core of being an artist is. The ability to write, draw, create, whatever it is that drives you, and literally nobody ever can take that away from you. Those kids with the shitty stories and self inserts built a fandom from the ground up, wrote and drew their characters just because they wanted to. If you don't care for it, make your own art, or move elsewhere.

The quote in anton's original post is incomplete, so here’s a better one— "find what you love, and let it kill you."

[oifaaa]

honestly everything about Tim Drake makes so much more sense when you realise he's the peaked in high-school guy who choose to drop out of high school

[infizero-draws]

idk when i'll get around to designing skizz and mumbo, but here's my wild life grian design :)

[lilybug-02]

“Ugly” Rough Comic Concept.

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I’m hoping to be able to finish this comic this next October or November. I know the idea and concept are conveyed quite clearly just with the rough draft, but I would like to finish it with line art. I want to show this to a broader audience :)

For the first time in a long time, with the CT comic on hiatus, I feel like I can start on some of my other comic concepts. And I feel like I’ve learned a lot from my Hollow Knight comic, with how short I want my ideas to be. I don’t feel too comfortable creating a long comic (or at least one that goes over a year). Being constrained isn’t my style.

[awesomethingsandsuch]

When the performance slips (pt 1)

[taffywabbit]

idk if i'm way off the mark on this, but the way some people are responding to that Guillermo del Toro interview about the decline of studio animation is a bit frustrating to me. specifically the bit where he talks about "emoji animation" and how everything is over-animated and pushed too far and things are rarely allowed to not be ultra-cartoony (y'know, because animation always needs to be marketable to children who are never trusted to have attention spans, right?). like, i think he's generally correct about it! but some folks are taking the wrong message away from that.

i've seen people going off about how "soulless" and "corporate" various recent examples are, and talking about these pieces of media as though they're the result of some kind of personal failing or lack of skill/range on the part of the animators, and it's just like. do people realize that's the only animation you're usually allowed to DO in the industry, unless you get incredibly lucky and land yourself on a project/studio that's unusually cool?

when i was in college for animation it was literally drilled into us nonstop that everything had to be pushed more, that exaggeration was not a guideline or a sometimes-treat but a hard rule that always had to be applied regardless of what was going on, because the viewer couldn't be trusted to pick up on subtlety and we sure as hell couldn't be trusted to convey it. you ever wonder why there's such a specific vibe to a lot of self-directed student films, particularly ones that are focused on character acting/interaction or deep emotions and introspection (especially when there's minimal/no dialogue)? it's because for a lot of young animators, they haven't had the freedom to experiment with realism and subtlety up to that point and they're likely not going to have it again for a while (or at all, unless their career path leads to higher positions where they might have more creative direction over the things they work on. which also becomes a lot less likely if they're anything other than a cishet white dude, for what it's worth).

i would LOVE to see more nuanced, realistic, understated motion and acting in animation. i WANT more characters to be able to express what they're feeling through natural body language and facial cues and for scenes to allow me to breathe instead of spelling everything out in giant bold flashing text all the time. what del Toro wants to see changed in the animation industry sounds great, and i hope others join him in seeking to revamp what modern animation is allowed to be.

but as things currently stand, and as they've stood for a long while now, most artists doing the grunt work on the shows and movies you see are completely at the mercy of corporations and networks who have a vested interest in producing a very specific kind of marketable and cost-efficient media all the time. (and by extension that style is ALSO what's taught in most animation schools, because their job more than anything is to grind you down into a perfect little sweatshop worker who will bend over backwards to meet quotas and get your work approved and not question the higher-ups, even if you have little to no personal investment in the projects you're working on, so that the studios who employ you can maintain their good reputations or whatever)

anyways idk what my point was here, this really just sorta became a rant and my views have undoubtedly been coloured by my own personal experiences (this kinda shit is largely why i dropped out before my last year of animation school, for the record).

i guess just be kind to folks in the animation industry? they've had it fucking rough nonstop for well over a century (the majority of them are still not unionized and there's HUGE pushback against doing so in many places). i assure you they are doing their best to infuse the latest uninspired illumination flick or weird spinoff kids' show with literally any amount of soul they can. you don't have to like the stuff that gets produced by any means! be a hater! i'm certainly not gonna stop you. just remember where these creative decisions come from and why these conditions exist, and consider that when YOU watched something and thought "hmm that could've been done better", you can bet your ass someone actually working on it probably thought the same thing but couldn't do anything about it. these things WILL change as the industry itself improves, but in the meantime folks have to pay their rent, and that usually means doing what they're told and working in a way that will minimize revisions and meet quotas so they can keep their jobs. it sucks, but it is what it is.

[klapollo]

truly i think part of why fatphobia is so tempting to a lot of not fat people no matter how 'progressive' they are is simply because it gives one a way to feel better. when society tells you you're inherently more virtuous because you're slim, you perceive any social gains (with or without regards to body image/beauty/etc) made by the "ugly" people as a slight on you, an attack on your heightened position. it's (part of) why some skinny women get so completely bent out of shape seeing someone like lizzo be widely loved and praised. that's not allowed! she's fat! I'M supposed to be better! a lot of these people are utterly miserable and self hating and they hate having their one little trophy taken away so they hold it over their head and hit people with it

[mollyjames]

To decide whether or not something is "good" representation, I like to imagine like I've been invited to a party. If I'm going only so the other guests can make fun of me, that's bad. But if I'm only invited so you can show off to your friends that you know a trans person, I'm also not super jazzed. Ideally, I'd like to have a good time at your party. Offer me a drink. Introduce me to some of your friends. Let me mingle. I dont mind answering some questions, but dont ask me to give a lecture. And maybe, if it goes well, I'd like to get invited back. Doesn't that sound nice?

[haunted-xander]

Do you think Saix' emotional co-dependence started as a Nobody or did it start as human Isa and just grew to an unhealthy degree?

[fluxydrawings]

skidaddling!

(original image under the cut)

[brawlmetaknight]

to be honest meta knight has been portrayed in so many different ways over the various games, manga, novels, anime, smash etc that you can basically Build A Meta Knight and end up with something completely different than somebody else but all the traits are still somehow official lol.

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I wanna talk about Agatha All Along for a minute-- no spoilers. It's been my new fave these days, to the point I'm ravenous for new episodes as soon as I finish one. I've been examining why I enjoy it so much, and I've come up with a couple of things.

It's female led. So often in any media, but marvel specifically in this case, the women are overlooked in terms of screentime and character development. But here we have a roster of strong female characters with distinct personalities and motivations and backstories that are compelling and engaging. I actively want to learn more about them, and when I'm watching them I am wholly engrossing in who they are.

It's largely a standalone. Sure, it spawned from Wandavision, but honestly I don't remember much of it and don't find myself needing to in order to follow what's happening and understanding the plot. Marvel has largely gone stale for me in the sense that I recently haven't seen anything that hasn't needed 10 movies worth of previous story in order to understand. Having something this self-contained is a breath of fresh air.

It's queer. I think we have Disney's official first queer character on screen, and we also have whatever is going on with Agatha and Rio. Love love love it. It feels natural, unforced, and genuine. Less a performance of queerness and instead a simple act of just being queer and loving who you love. Even beyond marvel, that feels rare in and of itself.

Honestly, I can't recommend it enough. If you've been on the fence thus far, or have been holding off because it's yet another Marvel property.... it's worth it, trust me. I was hesitant, but the risk in watching it paid off a hundred fold. I am so into this show guys.