#bit the onion

[starrysharks]

trixie's design, almost done i might have to "weirdofy" her a bit to fit the weird proportions of the rest of RAA's cast

[whaliiwatching]

list of adults who are great with kids

unfortunately i cant actually make a meme better than the movie

[zorangezest]

OML YOU REMEMBER THAT HGHFHUSHHFHHHHH

the story and characters have changed a LOTTTT A LOT using this request as an opportunity to show some of the new designs ive been stewing heh heh

don’t worry, while roro might’ve outgrown her hideous wardrobe, it’s all been passed down to her little brother yin!

[kitakami-kid]

my brain is a machine that turns KIERAN POKEMON into MANIC OBSESSION

[twipsai]

this one panel in issue #50 and it's, like, not THAT bad alright

fuck it im tired and had a long day this is my treat to myself. im talking about that panel. yes, THAT panel. which one?

THIS ONE. alrighty this is off the cuff and terrible, lets go.

so this panel isnt like, that bad in context when it comes to Sonic. i think specifically "ive made peace with enough enemies to know there is a better way" is a really interesting line here, because it calls back to the amount of times that the "villain" hes fought has just been a person whos hurting, and how hes been able to help those people. it makes sense that eventually hes more keen on trying to figure out someones whole story before deciding if theyve gotta go (which is rare).

but i want to talk about the FRAMING of this panel, and specifically the larger context of this issue in particular. theres a lot of flip-flopping in perspectives. usually, IDW is told through Sonic's perspective (loosely, this kind of thing is up to interpretation a lot), but in issue 50, it switches rapidly between four different groups -- Sonic and Surge, Tails and Kit, Eggman and Starline, and Belle and Metal. within these groups, the perspective its being told from changes a few times, but never as much as Sonic and Surge's do

i actually love these two when they interact as a storyteller myself, and one that has handled scripts too often for my own liking. Sonic and Surge do this thing where they push and pull the pacing of the script to fit their motives -- Surge keeps trying to escalate things, whenever shes in a panel everything starts pushing rapidly and it feels like the panels are tumbling off the page. when Sonic does anything, though, its slow and deliberate. hes having fun fighting, sure, but he can very much tell that Surge is trying to kill him and hes not having any of that. Sonic keeps things slow and focused, Surge tries to push things faster and unfocused. i could get into how this reflects her motivations and stuff but thats not what this is about i already lost track of what i was talking about fuck hang on

ok so. Surge knows shes supposed to be Sonic, to be BETTER than Sonic. its all she knows, really, and thats the problem. shes traumatized and full of rage and Sonic has been put on this high pedestal, not just by her, but by everyone. she cannot stand this.

this panel is how SURGE sees Sonic, specifically the composition. hes shrouded in light and physically above her -- its not even that subtle of a metaphor, they use it all the time in idw.

the entire overpowered saga shows Surge clawing for control of herself, her life, her freedom... this issue sets all that up in the main story. the way Sonic is framed here isnt how he sees himself at all. weve seen him do this exact same thing from his own perspective before, where everyone is on even ground. he doesnt see himself as above anyone, this instance of him being depicted as such isnt alluding to how Sonic feels about himself, its how Surge feels about Sonic.

and, look, its not the most well-done in the world. this issue has a whole host of problems, evident by the constant switching of focus from one group to a next (a problem that i think they did better on in the Phantom Rider saga). i literally forgot about Belle and Metal in this issue bc theres just so much more going on, i wouldve loved for them to slow things down a bit, maybe splitting it into two issues, but hey, what can you do, yk?

as an aside, i think its really weird how people narrow in on this specific panel of Sonic as being "so out of character", which i sorta like, 30% agree with (i think some phrasing could be better), and then ignore the page right after it...

...in which he pretty much says "you dont get freedom if youre gonna be a problem". funnily enough, on twitter i have this flow chart saved whenever i need a quick guide on Sonics morality and stuff, its really not that complicated

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none of this is new imo, we see he has the same philosophy in sa1 and satbk. Chaos was blinded by rage and pain after being trapped for thousands of years RIGHT after they were attacked by the echidnas. Merlina was so scared of death (implied to be because she had lost family members and wasnt able to cope with it well) that she became a monster in an attempt to never let anything change ever again. these arent very different stories in my head i guess, just cases of Sonic seeing people who are hurting and doing his best to free them from that.

uhhhh anyways. all this is disorganized i forgot what i was talking about like 5 times while writing this but. people on twitter are ripping into this issue again. like its a b tier issue stop acting like its an f yk Q_Q i will defend anything if people are too mean tbh

thanks for making it this far if you read all this. i love idw a lot and i think that it does have some flaws, theyre all really blown out of proportion.

have a great day/afternoon/evening wherever you are yall :) bye bye

[writhe]

spicy roast chicken & white bean soup - tried to make something that would taste really good after being out in the cold for a long time

[beaulesbian]

important announcement from lucanis

[icewindandboringhorror]

What would you choose? :0c

(note: original image is from HERE (link) - but I edited it to add a wider variety of options.. also added $3 extra to the total, even though I know that makes it more uneven lol, I thought if you're adding 10 whole extra items, the money to spend should at least be increased slightly, if that makes sense..)

[corvesha]

If Gummy Bear becomes canon in TPOT, I'll eat an entire onion.

Here's some doodles I've drawn on my phone but never posted here with the first one being a style experiment.

[anthropwashere]

I tried making cabbage soup for the first time yesterday and I finally understand why this bitch was in a million books I read as a kid

Like I only had a mug of it fresh because that's what was left after storing it in no fewer than 3 containers (2 in the freezer because I'm attempting to adult in that Food Prep Life kinda way for once) and I still needed to finish off the last of the Delicious Hungarian Mushroom Soup (finish off as in eat the largest bowl of soup in my life so I could wash the container) AND I also made bean and potato soup in the slow cooker because the chicken had gone bad and the potatoes were on the cusp and I had an extra can of white beans laying around so I had a bowl of THAT yesterday for lunch and only snacked for dinner SO THIS is my first real bowl of the cabbage soup

and I get it I get it I get it, I used SO many veggies that otherwise would've been wasted AND so many spices AND there's that Good Cronch, how did I once scoff at the concept of cabbage soup this bitch is so GOOD

(I used no fewer than 3 bell peppers, one of each color, and a cucumber, and lazily threw in a cup of baby carrots, and committed to a WHOLE ASS onion in one dish instead of roughly half like I normally do, this bitch is good this bitch is good hell YEAH this bitch is good!!!)

[starrysharks]

original

[fisherrprince]

I’d like to thank the government for this banger focaccia I’m making

[carlyraejepsans]

Domestic 1 and/or 2 *bats eyelashes*

hiii jackie

iv.1 When they move in together, who gets the most say in decorations? What do they each have to have in the house?

trick question, papyrus does it instead.

honestly i feel like the bros just manifest their house on the surface and have toriel move in, so pretty much nothing changes. maybe the decor gets progressively more weird the more they live and explore the surface and they accumulate dozens of souvenirs and tourist trinkets while traveling.

iv.2 If they get married, who proposes, and how do they do it? Would they change their surnames?

well as per my magnum opus, it's "know any puns about proposing?", but i am also quite fond of the way my dad went about it, which was waking up at 5am in the morning, turning to my mother in bed and going "hey, you wanna get married" and my mom being like "yeah." and then they got married. except if this was soriel it would go something like

"hey. wanna get married?"

"Oh. Do we have to?"

".....naaaah."

and then they don't! piss and love🙏

[zerotab]

worst thing im posting . im sorry guys

[writhe]

roving the mists today. made some spinach & pea soup after