#apprentice part 2

[darius-1]

[turnipoddity]

what if we are stuck in a death game and you got out and promised to come back for me and i waited for you and waited and waited until i’m sure you’re not coming back so i got out on my own and i got recruited as an apprentice to the guy who put me in said death game and met you there who is also an apprentice so i hated your guts ever since because you could’ve saved me this whole time but you said you didn’t know i survived and i still resent you for it but we eventually got closer as we work together as an apprentice and we’re both guys

[snobgoblin]

curious

is there symbolism in Danny's color palettes for his designs?

like, is it just because it looks good on him(like everything) or there's more?

YESSSSS there's always some kind of underlying reason for choosing the colors I do- as a recent example his masquerade outfit is colorpicked directly from the goat sprite in the Lost in Prakra tale, and his pre-plague everyday outfit is color picked directly from the Apprentice's magic shop

as for his normal design see: his sprite, I colorpicked a bit from Scout to represent the fact that he is in possession of The Fool's Body, but left the belt red and gold to allude to the fact that there's more than there appears to be

this one isn't design specific but Danny's skin tone and hair color were colorpicked directly from The Devil's sprite (his hair came from the dark part of the horns and the skin came from the gradient from the horns to the forehead)

[somekindabard]

Okay Im reeeaallly hoping for some legends characters like they said so what if season 2 happens and we find out that Qimir was Tenebrous's apprentice, a new character or was set up to be darth Venamis (Darth Venamis is a bith in legends so probably a new character with a similar story? Or they'll just take some creative liberty and make him human)

In legends, Venamis was Tenebrous's secret apprentice that Darth Plagueis killed and brought back to life. I think that either Qimir was the secret apprentice and follows that story or he was the main apprentice and Plagueis was the secret apprentice and was sent to kill him to take his place as a test by Tenebrous. (Something Palpatine did to Vader in the comics... Like a lot). Either way, Plagueis either keeps him from dying or brings him back to life and he feels betrayed by Tenebrous and horrified that his life was used as an experiment and leaves to find his own acolyte, plotting to kill Tenebrous and Plagueis for what happened.

Also if Plagueis and Tenebrous are in the series it would explain how Mae & Osha were created by the force. Either Mother Aniseya got the help of Plagueis to create the twins or Plagueis stole Mother Aniseya's work after Mae & Osha were born to create life on his own.

And that links Qimir to Mae and Osha in a way and in his mind it's a poetic way to bring down Plagueis. With his own creation. Or he blames Mother Aniseya for the way Plagueis played with his life and that leads to him discovering Mae and Osha.

[lambiewrites]

Me as a Jigsaw Apprentice Intern Part 2

Me: “okay gang here’s y’all’s coffees! I had the barista put y’all’s names on it and with a sticker!”

John: *has a smiley face sticker cup*

Amanda: *has a skull sticker cup*

Lawrence: *has a peace sign sticker cup*

Hoffman: *has a glitter heart sticker cup, extra girly with lots of sparkles and pink*

Hoffman: “What the fuck is this?”

Me: “oh uh…”

Me: “uhm..”

Me: “idk I guess because you’re literally serving?? Idk…” 👉🏻👈🏻🥹🤭

Hoffman:…..

Hoffman: “You’re fucking weird.”

[that-one-enby-ranger]

Ranger's Apprentice Characters in Hazbin Costumes Pt. 1

I didn't have the right colors for everything but it'll have to do. I started off proud of it, but when I outlined it and added color I started to hate. Just like everything else.

Pauline - Rosie

Halt - Alastor

Crowley - Vox

Duncan - Lucifer

Part 2!

[locitapurplepink]

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[dinneratgrannys]

ONCE UPON A TIME REWATCH: 4.09, SMASH THE MIRROR (PART 2) Eventually, everyone sees me as a monster. Maybe it’s time to embrace that, and be one.

[sheigarche]

APT: Mercy Kill - part 2

Read part 1 here!

-the end-

I just wanted some fluff after the angst from the previous chapter, but Amicia really wants to sleep 🤭

[dweemeister]

Reactions to the 97th Academy Awards nominations

Well, I've taken more than a full day to process most things. Forgot to post this last evening, so this is a bit delayed. But here goes nothing:

Full disclosure: I have seen 7/10 Best Picture nominees. Emilia Pérez I have procrastinated on because I unfortunately have not been able to drown out all the discourse surrounding it. Nickel Boys has not been given a wider release by MGM and I'm Still Here - Brazil's first ever nominee in Best Picture - has not even ventured outside the major cities.

At this moment, The Brutalist would be #1 on my ballot. I think it's a magnificently directed, sometimes overly self-serious epic about a failed American Dream, but especially about the relationship between artist and patron. I think Adrien Brody is even better in this lead role than he was in The Pianist (2002), which he won Best Actor for what feels like eons ago. I think Guy Pearce is underrated in Supporting Actor, and I still wonder how this was made for less than $10 million. I know this is a cynical movie and paints midcentury America in a poor light, but how I wish director Brady Corbet in Q&As and interviews would not so easily declare that the American Dream is a sham. You film is an immigrant's story (and a beautifully told one). Not the immigrant's story.

Wicked is in trouble, Best Picture-wise. It missed in Director, and it missed for its screenplay. No film since Grand Hotel (1932) has ever won Best Picture without either a Director or Screenplay nomination. That just feels like too much history for Wicked - which I very much enjoyed, but am more ambivalent about the direction - to overcome. So if Ariana Grande - who should be considered a co-lead, not supporting - doesn't win in March, can we please take a deep breath before we post stuff online?

Did Anora and Conclave peak too early in awards season? I'd like to see Mikey Madison take home Best Actress, but the film has been losing ground to Emilia Pérez for some time. And I can see many older members of the Academy thinking that it's essentially softcore porn (which parts of it can be, but the film is far much more than that). Conclave fits that mold of "Film the Academy Really Respects, but Doesn't Love Enough to Put Down as Their #1 Choice". Director Edward Berger is on my shitlist after All Quiet on the Western Front (2022, Germany; the link takes you to my write-up to the film and why I think the film is a terrible adaptation of the original novel). But, other than the oppressively dark color palette that looks terrible on home screens, I really liked that tale of Vatican drama. I would be fine with Fiennes winning, if it came to that.

A Complete Unknown - which is essentially a concert movie that told us little more about Bob Dylan that I already knew - overperformed. James Mangold in Director? No. Monica Barbaro in Supporting Actress? Eh. Adapted Screenplay? Please. And the kicker: I've never really taken to Timothée Chalamet, and I think it bewildering he becomes the youngest actor to receive a second Best Actor nomination since James Dean (posthumously, for 1955's East of Eden and 1956's Giant). Best Actor skews older than Actress, sure. This one was powered by older AMPAS voters, wasn't it?

I saw The Substance on Sunday after I missed its original release back in September/October. Too busy with work and body horror is one of my almost "no-go" subgenres. I admired the film far more than I liked it. And I had the biggest grin on my face as we got to the chaos of the final half hour. It's a fascinating film, and congratulates Coralie Fargeat on the Director nomination (I agree!). Would I vote for The Substance in any category? No, except for Makeup and Hairstyling. I thank that one's a shoo-in for reasons I won't go into here.

Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two got a lot less love than the first part. Now, I thoroughly dislike the source material (I was assigned it during summer school and adding to this... the teacher who taught it was not great) and I'm very ambivalent towards some of the people who appear in these movies (read: Chalamet). But the movie just continued to remind that there's a far superior movie made with very similar themes that was also set in a desert. And in fact, author Frank Herbert was inspired by that movie when he wrote Dune. The movie? Lawrence of Arabia (1962). By the time I reminded myself of the Dune-Lawrence connection a third of the way through the former's second part, I watched the remainder out of obligation. I suspect AMPAS voters want to award Villeneuve if he completes Dune: Messiah... and that's not even a guarantee.

A24 really botched the release of Sing Sing, did they? I know A24 has its fans online, especially among younger cinephiles. But - giving you some inside scoops here - theater owners from outside the big cities tend not to like the fact that A24 tends to super-promote one movie at a time (like I Saw the TV Glow or Civil War earlier in 2024) and give short shrift to the others. A24 is also notoriously bad at following up non-big city theaters about their release strategies and intentions. Sing Sing dearly paid the price for the studio's concentration on The Brutalist.

Did we really just fucking nominate The Apprentice for Actor and Supporting Actor? I haven't seen the film, but do we REALLY want Donald Trump to chime in on the Academy Awards season? I think AMPAS is in the mood to "send a message" rather than honor quality filmmaking right now, and that 's being shown here and - ostensibly - with those 13 nominations for Emilia Pérez.

The little Latvian movie that could, Flow, becomes only the third animated movie to have been nominated for International Feature (Waltz with Bashir and Flee before it). It overperformed on the day, and it's what I would vote for on Animated Feature. Made on free software for a pittance, it is incredible what director Gints Zilbalodis was able to do. It'll cross borders and generations, easily.

Elsewhere among animated works, I'm overjoyed for Memoir of a Snail and Adam Elliot. Australia's stop-motion animation poster child is a name that more people should be familiar with, and this nomination is very much overdue. Not enough people saw this film, though. So the nomination is 100% a win. Pity that Mars Express couldn't find a way to break through here, but even fewer people saw that in theaters, comparatively.

Inside Out 2 is gonna find a way to win this over The Wild Robot and Flow, isn't it? AMPAS loves their Pixar and Disney. They have never given an Oscar to someone outside a major American studio or anyone not named Hayao Miyazaki (I acknowledge that he is a fantastic filmmaker, but unlike some of his other anime colleagues, Miyazaki gets far on name recognition alone and he gets a lot of big Hollywood figures to campaign for his films).

Speaking of The Wild Robot! Kris Bowers' score to the film is the score of the year. Bowers is one of a few young handful of composers who I hope usher in a new age of Hollywood film score composers that will not only usher in a promising future, but also understand the value of melody and the richness of what orchestras - or orchestras combined with electronic elements - can provide (which I think many recent film score composers are abandoning).

And now I risk the wrath of people - largely folks my age and younger and the Letterboxd crowd - on this website. As a film score diehard and multi-instrumentalist, seeing all that praise for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score to Challengers (which I think should've been nominated for Editing, but nothing more) was, frankly, grating to me. I thought the score was play far too loudly in emotional scenes. And just because the whole fucking score is banger club/workout music does not necessarily make for what I consider to be effective film scoring. (If you think I'm delusional... the music branch of the Academy includes composers and lyricists and producers but does not include the musicians who play those scores. Many of those who play on film scores hail from small ensembles or orchestras, and probably think similarly and might even consider Reznor and Ross' process to be a threat to their futures in film scoring). In short: I'm fine with Challengers not being nominated in Score.

But fucking hell. That is one of the worst Best Original Song slates I can remember in sometime. My god.

Congratulations to France's Miyu Studios, who either produced/co-produced/distributed three of the five nominees in Best Animated Short. And just going to show how democratic the short film categories are, there were three past nominees on the shortlist for Animated Short, each of whom are major figures in the world of contemporary animated shorts - Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow), Dice Tsutsumi (The Dam Keeper), and Torill Kove (The Danish Poet and Me and My Moulton). Not a single one of the previous nominees made it.

Three monkey movies in Visual Effects (Better Man, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wicked)? Hilarious.

[jedidryad]

Just don't let him take your ship!

Leaving the academy was supposed to relieve stress, but, instead Mara just finds herself stuck in the middle of a high stakes competition between two friends. Lightsabers Are Always Loaded: Chapter 27

[artsysurvivor]

Idea: Berrigan also being trans and teaching Halt how to make his voice deeper.

[jewishcissiekj]

toxic yaoi

[timesskip]

ok Im back

[falling-mellow]

When a cat wants to offer their healing skills to your Clan and you let them in, also bc you happened to be in need of a new med cat, and all of a sudden patients and other cats in your Clan are left murdered.

My new med cat was literally murdering their patients 😳

They were already old of age and after some moons he died yesterday. I send the mf straight to the DF 🙂