#because i got bored and didnt have a logo to draw

[thoughts-of-the-unheard]

i need a lockwood and co logo or symbol or something

[anxiousnerdwritings]

I'm getting real bored arent i

anyway heres the types of symbiotes willing to be your family. and how they would be like. oh also this would take place before the adoption wars. I would have to say that each time you switch homes/symbiotes the more likely an adoption war is gonna happen, which is exactly what happens after you spend time with toxin.

venom, 8/10: honestly the best one out of the 5. besides toxin, hes the only one to make you feel at home at his apartment and treat you with respect. while hes obviously not a normal father, especially with venom, he really tries. he even has normal dinners with you since you, ya know, cant have humans, so he would bring something home to cook. by the end of your time with him, you're starting to warm up to him.

carnage, 6/10: am I being to lenient with that number? eh. anyway this dumbass would probably see you with venom and get jealous and ends up taking you away from venom for himself. hes like, the most irresponsible out of the 5. unlike venom and eddie, he doesnt even try to be a normal father, instead deciding that raising you like he wouldve raised his own children was much more better. he treats you with mild respect and is, for the most part, batshit insane. hell take you out only because he knows you will never be able to escape him, and he even taunts you to do it when you threaten to. basically he acts all chill until you start acting hysterically (which is totally understandable)

knull, 4/10: privacy? who that? hes like a overprotective mother who believes everything on a mommy blog. it's just that it's not a mommy blog it's those negative articles that attract a lot of attention which leads him to believe everything on earth is an absolute mess. it's a wonder how you even convinced him to let you stay there (with a body guard of course). he doesnt let you go anywhere he dosent want you too, and hell give you a piece of himself just so when he gets worried about you he wont have to send an entire army to McDonald's bc you were hungry and not answering. he was planning on giving you a symbiote "of your own", but in reality he created a symbiote that was loyal to only him and would protect you for eternity. unfortunately for him he never got the chance...

anti venom, 7/10: not that bad, but not the best. he gets really, really worried or anxious whenever your not within a 10 feet radius of him. he also doesnt let you have that much privacy, because when he did have you he kept you in a church all day. once you went to the bathroom without telling him and he panicked thinking you had left and you found the entire place thrown around becuase of the fact that he wasnt able to find you. living with him isnt a nightmare but it's not the best life out there.

toxin, 8/10: ok ok ok, while he isnt fatherly material hes brotherly material. he found you when you actually escaped the 4 other symbiotes, which is how he became your bigger brother. everytime you were taken to someone else's place, venom, anti, carnage and even knull he would always be lurking making sure that the fatherly symbiotes wouldnt harm you. this is also why they let their guard down around him, since he didnt seem to care for their rivalry. unfortunately for them he did. this is how the adoption wars started, when he would take you somewhere safe when they would fight, and when they couldnt fjnd you they blamed it on each other. this would continue for about a month in a half before the events of the story I wrote earlier happened where he was playing cards with you while the three other symbiotes duked it out. anti venom was just the one who told everyone where you were and you and toxin were just waiting for the winner to emerge and take you to get some food.

thanks for letting me say my bullshit, and this has been knull anon *draws a shitty spiderman logo with my left hand*

I’m living for what you’re offering!!🥰💞

I think Toxin is my favorite so far. He’s protective enough but he’s also chill about it. I get hella fun and crazy uncle vibes from Carnage. I feel that Venom and Knull are both mother hens but ones worse about it than the other. Knull would be the type to homeschool his kid while Venom is checking on them every so often but he let’s them go to school until there’s a reason otherwise. Meanwhile Anti Venom is having panic attacks when his bby isn’t in his sight for 0.01 second.

All the while Spider-Man is watching the chaos ensue.

[gamesception]

Alternate conclusion, the judgements of quality that most critics use - a plot that makes sense and wasn't hacked to pieces, good editing, pacing, & story structure, non awkward dialog, convincing special effects, etc, all things that Venom frequent does fall short in, just aren't what audiences cared about in this movie.

Because, i mean, if you read most of the critic reviews of venom, they're not really wrong about most of the things they point out as flaws in the movie? It was pretty obviously hacked to pieces, to make it shorter and to pull it back to a pg13 rating and possibly to completely rewrite big chunks of the plot given how poorly some of it fits together. The editing is really choppy, the pacing isnt great, the dialog and performances dont work in a lot of places, particularly w the villain exposition, the effects frequently aren't super convincing, etc.

And the backstory and character motivation they eventually came up with to fill the gaping hole left by excising spiderman from venom's origin? None of that particularly works all that well. Heck, even the basic visual design of the character takes a big hit from that amputation, as the white veins really aren't an adequate substitute for the big white spider logo, and the overall look of venom is kind of muddy and boring without it. I think there's a reason most of the fanart I've seen sticks to eddie in a hoodie with the symbiote's face sticking out over his head or shoulders. Rather than drawing the whole venom look, with its fun and goofy monster face and then an unbroken expanse of nothing from the neck down.

BUT, the bits that work and make the movie fun - tom hardy being a weird goofball, and the fun & funny character dynamic between eddie and the monster? The bits that make Venom himself a fun character still worth caring about today and not just another past its prime holdover from the bad old days of late 80s edgelord comic books? Those bits, the bits that matter, aren't really hampered much by the rest of the movie kind of sucking around them. That's the one part they had to get right, and they did.

Sort of like how a fun & goofy performance from someone like nicholas cage can make a movie fun and entertaining and totally worth watching even if the rest if the movie mostly sucks.

Or like how the one part batman v superman had to get right was the actual fight scene between batman and superman, and if they had gotten that right, even if critics still would have hated it and still wouldnt have been 'wrong' about all the other problems in the movie, maybe if that one sequence had been great the whole dceu wouldn't be in its current hole.

Though, at the same time, I'm not sure how much the bits Venom got right were even intended going into the film's production. It feels like it was meant to be a much more gritty/serious/violent(/boring/unfunny/edgelord/played out) thing going in, but that at some point the movie got written off as a lost cause, and someone who didn't care anymore told hardy to just do whatever, and that whatever just happened to be great.

Anyway, hopefully sony isnt scared off by the bad reviews and actually makes a sequel, and hopefully when they do the filmakers are able to see and capitalize on the bits of the film that audiences connected with, so we can get more goofball tom hardy, and more eddie/monster fun, only on purpose this time, and with a better movie and better story for them to play around in and bounce off of. At the very least, Woodie Harrelson would probably make for a more interesting antagonist. The box office has been pretty good so far, but i imagine sony eill be looking pretty hard at second week dropoff when deciding if they want to do more of these, so if you do want them to make a sequel, and you know some friends who didnt watch it opening weekend, maybe see if you can talk them into watching it this coming weekend.

venom.

31% on Rotten Tomatoes

35% on Metacritic

2/5 on Empire

1/5 stars on the Rolling Stone

“a massively overqualified cast”

“What went wrong? Everything, actually.”

“No one has to fake a bad review of this”

“The ending suggests that there’s a…sequel…Audiences have suffered enough.”

Also:

95% of Google users liked it

89% of Rotten Tomato audiences liked it

The average audience rating was 4.4/5 (18,619 reviews)

My mother, who doesn’t usually like superhero movies, says that this movie deserves at least 80% and that’s really something

[zzpopzz]

Really long rant about how I made Vanilla Twilight, I typed it at 2am so it’s kinda crappy and boring, just skip through this post.

So I'd been thinking about it for a long time now, even before finishing Vanilla Twilight that I'd talk about it if someone asked, well that never happened so I was just thinking that I'd let it go but that post is so important to me so well fuck it I'll just talk about it anyway. I did it completely on a wimp like how cool would it be if I make a lyricstuck for Toumaki like I'd be the first (if anyone did this before me im sorry). The first song I intended to do wasn't VT, it was a much shorter and easier song. I saw the music video first time after a while and the lyrics gave me some scenes to draw right away, like the tones, the atmosphere, the lyrics all fit them very well, made me wanted to draw something happy but sad. The ending for it was a happy one instead of a sad one like other songs I did (I didn't post the ending for any of them, just let the viewers decide what it's gonna be) I was very scared like what if it won't turn out ok and people gonna hate me for it or no one even gonna look at it. Also what I visualized are mostly illustrations with backgrounds, what I never done before so high chance it won't go anywhere. I thought well let's just see how far will I get and won't talk about it at all until I post it so at least I won't be all barks no bite. I was very traumatized that someone might know about what I did so I locked all the files when I shut down my PC in case someone hack into it lmao. I started with making a storyboard(kinda) for it, this is where I first got trouble because there was some part I didn't think of when I visualized what I'd draw at first ( 'I don't feel so alone' part mostly and some in between) and it's only at this point that I realized how many I'd have to draw (over 40 images total) and it's mind blowing for someone who rarely finish a painting like me at that time, that number is more than what I'd draw in a year. VT doesn't have choruses that meant I can't do tricks like repeat some panels (I don't like this anyway). I usually painted on small canvas before that but I wanna make sure I can fix things later and some idea I had was pretty big so I used 3000x5000px canvas then trimmed them down ( I didn't know how big it was and it's huge). The idea was to make a tumblr scroll-post like a lyricstuck (my favorites are by paperseverywhere and toastyhat/emptyfeet , they made really cool tutorials about these) so I tried to drew out compositions that would look good scrolling down panel by panel and have some connections between them (this didn't turn out so good in the end because I wasn't good lol) Since I was scared that people might point out that I draw something wrong, it took me almost a week or something searching for references (check my pinterest board) like the streets, sky, houses, roads, outfits, poses,... I was going to draw. I got some knowledge about bikes by this too, like I can tell the differences between road bike, mtb, touring bikes,... I also see and captured bunches of screenshots and reread ywpd trivia countless time to make sure I won't get anything wrong. If you take notice, every outfit Toumaki wear in there are all canon, from anime or promos. The first few panels was really exciting because I had never painted so many with backgrounds before, I was really happy when I almost finished the first verse even compared to the full 3:50 of the song it was only 20 seconds and I thought maybe I can pull this after all. The last panel was intended to be Makichan standing infront of his house looking at the sky but I wanted to show the sky at the end of the panel and that wouldn't work on scroll-down post so I had to leave it for later, I repainted this panel for about 3 times and finished it just 30' before posting. The first panel of the second verse wasn't turning out alright too because that was my first time doing a 3 points perspective drawing and the colors didn't turn out as I wanted either (my intention was a green/gold dawn scene). Things kinda worked well despite that until the scene when Toudou sits in his ink, gdi I didn't know why I was so caught up in that and painted every piece of that wooden floor, it took me almost a week but turned out better than I expected so I was ok with it. I was going to make sketchy paintings for all of the panel but I did too much details on that one so it gave me the impression that I'll have to do just as much for every others. Now I still had school to go and that semester my uni got me pretty crappy schedule that made me have to wait for classes at school frequently, I was frustrated because I didn't get to paint during that time and I might finish it too late (even though I didn't set a deadline) and when I got home I just spent so much time checking twitter and just can't pick myself up to draw and ended up feeling shitty about it. *Side story*  I was so mad because I didn't get anything done and there's still more than half of the whole thing to do and the worst part is that I had no one that I can talk to because I didn't have any friend who ship Toumaki and I also don't want to publicly talk about what I was doing, I wanted to surprise people when I'm done, I didn't wanna give people the expectation then screw it up (I literally thought I'd drop a bomb not a grenade lmao) I can't remember how long was that shitty phase but I felt like it was so long, I barely finished verse 2 at that point. I was so mad at myself and my progress so I spent a few days to look at time management threads and this helped a lot, I changed my habits completely  by this and I still apply those methods now, like I used to stay up til 3am to read fics (bless you writers you fueled me with your writings bless you all) then I switch to bed before 12 and get up early for a good start or reduce working time while increasing quality* After that I kinda got things together,I just went ahead with painting tho it's still kinda tiring, I had to work on 5 essays during this time too. At this point I was like screw all, I give no shit about what everyone thinks I'm just gonna finish this and get some good nap (I practiced power nap to get more focus time for painting but dude everyone wants a good long nap) 10 days before uploading I found out that there's a Toumaki day (I'm so sorry), I was going to posted on the first sunday of June (I did researched on which was the best time to post on social medias so I randomly picked a sunday) and Toumaki day is the last sunday of May, that meant I had 10 days left and 15 panels to paint! I was going to ignore that but I already made it big I should make it right too so I shit my pants going through those last panels. I purposely hiding Toudou's face till the last verse to emphasize the feelz and got so relieved that I finally got to paint him (I read some tags that some viewers got emotional at this part so I'm so glad it worked). The whole things was put under Makichan's perspective so I was so sick of painting him at that point, he showed up in every panel and I can't paint him ugly because he's beautiful (especially his hair, I spent shitload of time painting them). I can talk lots about why I picked to do so but that's headcanon shit and it's embarrassing so let's just skip that. The last day I had only 3 panels left and I was hell confident that I've got this and somehow spent the whole evening rewatch Toumaki pingpong ep (end me). Of course that didn't end well, I managed to finish those by midnight but I still had like 3 panels that needed  repaint completely and all 43 needed retouch and edits. My plan was to post at 9am sunday (thats 9pm saturday est) so I had to get up at 5am and finish all that, I ended up cutting down 2 panels and simplified the instrumental panel (some tags said that was nice so I was at least relieved). Unlike other songs I did, the length of every line's quite different and the original sizes I did would make viewers have to scroll slower or faster at different parts. I didn't plan this beforehand and had to trim down some panels even the parts that I really liked and spent lots of time on. I also found out that people outside the homestuck fandom might not familiar with this type of post so I made a video too (I’m sorry I have zero skill in editing). After posting I was terrified of people's reactions or worse, there won't be any reaction so I turned everything off and went to sleep and woke up with an unimaginable number of notes I'd got, I set the target of 500 notes and I really didn't think that I'd get past that number like maybe 2-300 (well my other songs didnt even get 200), at the end I got 5000. I spent the next week reading and screencap tags given in reblogs, I put them on desktop and they're still my motivation til now. Vanilla Twilight is the thing I'm proud of the most even until now, when I've done other songs and projects that look somewhat better. If I have to recommend one thing on my blog I'd recommend it despite its' unskilled paneling, poor composition and muddy colors. It was the first time in my life that I'd put so much effort into something and went through such emotional roller coaster, the feelings I put into it was raw and the idea was very original compared to other songs, I improved and changed a lot during the 2 months I spent on it and never once regret doing it. ***Anyway, you sure have much free time to read it this far, here's a little game for you: I put random things in VT and HF like some characters/stuff from other series, my ocs,... (there wasn't anything purposeless in there even the logo on their cups or the bags they wear) just send me anything you find and I'll draw you something in return**