#but idk what i want her default color to be and what the power color should be

[yuridovewing]

Dovewing eye discourse but I'm only having it with myself

[genopaint]

Aaaand here's week 46 freshly finished :)

As always you can follow me on twitter where they’re posted daily

And read more info on each of them below the cut

Daily Dragon #322 - Trotter Dragon

Dragons used as beasts of burden in large, expansive terrains. The skin on their necks bulge out and can even change color when they detect other travelers, or feel threatened. Letting their riders know what's around them.

Daily Dragon #323 - Dragon

"She was locked away in a castle, guarded by a terrible, fire breathing dragon." Dragon from Shrek! Despite being a genuine fan of this series for pretty much my whole life I'm almost certain this is my first time drawing her which is crazy to think

Daily Dragon #324 - Tianhuo

The best horse dragon from one of the best fighting games that deserved so so SO much better. Still genuinely sad it had to come to an end. Tianhuo wasn't one of my mains but I did really like her! She's fun and I mean, she is a dragon lol

Daily Dragon #325 - Freakusaur

Long wyrms with tough, rubbery skin that holds tons of glowing interiors. They're unexpected and odd creatures that appear to be drawn to imminent chaos and dark energy surges soon to occur in the weird places they're found.

This is another redraw of... this thing! From 2019! Back then it was simply called a "Freak Dragon" and if I'm not mistaken it's based on... something from Jungle Beat which I believe I was playing at the time? Idk. It's here now. Enjoy.

Daily Dragon #326 - Dragonquin

I've done Mario dragons, I've done Sonic dragons. So I feel like I have to do something for my 3rd platforming all-timer: Ty the Tasmanian Tiger! So here's the Dragonquin from Ty 3! The quinkan have GREAT designs so I'm glad to draw one!

Wanted to do a dragon from Ty for a bit but wasn't really sure what qualified as a dragon from the series... The bunyip powerup from the first game? An Uber Frill? The Quinking (what I would probably have done). I had COMPLETELY forgotten there was a straight up Dragon boss lol

Daily Dragon #327 - Mephistopheles the Malicious One

Once an all powerful dragon god, when it was discovered he was planning seize power and destroy earth, he was banished from the holy court. Now he's stuck like this, punished to wander the planet he once saw to destroy.

This is, obviously, a 3D Model! I've had Blender for a long time now, and have made some stuff in it. But idk man it's so complicated to use idk how to make 3D models lol. So this is just the default sphere touched up a bit :)

Here's some other angles!

Daily Dragon #328 - Wyvusaurus

Large and hungry wyverns. If they land to eat you, they won't take off again until they've eaten! So either feed them or make it clear you're not worth their effort.

This is ANOTHER redraw! This one is from 2019 I think? And it's another generic dragon just titled "Dragon" in my files. I think it's already a pretty unique body type but I tried to make it something even more unique with a more ghidora styled body

[justsomeoneintoomanyfandoms]

Hey! I got a matchup a while back, and lately I have been craving another one😭 so if it's alright could I get romantic matchups for tears of themis, genshin, and atla? If not that's fine ofc💕

I use She/her pronouns but I've never really cared very much, I'm Bi but I'd like Male matchups for this one if that's alright (I love women but idk none of the women in these fandoms are like my type??? Idk)

Not sure if you use looks to pick, but I'm 5'7, longish brown hair and brown eyes, kinda chubby I'd say, and I wear glasses!

Ok so for the good stuff, I'm an enfp and a virgo and I have gad and adhd so I am very all over the place lol, I'm usually very energetic and loud (got called a human pep rally once) but every once in a while I take a hard turn the other way and do absolutely nothing lol.

Taking thing seriously is kinda hard for me, idk why but I'm very much the deflect and cope using comedy kind of person.

Personal life wise I'm the oldest of four (love my siblings) so loud is kinda the default in my life so I'm pretty comfortable in loud environments, but if I get a chance at peace and quiet I am JUMPING for it.

I have a few plants, I bake quite a bit (I make BOMB brownies), I'm very much a nerd lol, I love comics (fandom request gave that away tho), I play dnd, I love video games (rdr2, mk11 and mass effect are the current ones), I watch cartoons and build legos, and I'm learning how to draw.

I'm big into flowers and flower language, and I play guitar, alto saxophone, steal drum, and I have a violin I'm gonna start working on soon.

This turned out alot longer then I thought so the speedrun of the rest is although I dont often, I really like putting work into how I look (I just got a treble cleft claw clip with some dangly thingys and I like it I just wanted to mention that), no clue how to to makeup tho, I'm planning on going into communications, and uhh my favorite colors are pink and blue.

Thank you so much if you get to this

Hi Abby! Thank you for your request! Sorry it took a while. I hope you like your matchups!

In Tears of Themis, I match you with...

If there’s one thing that drew Luke to you, it’s the fact that you enjoy peace and quiet. He loves being in your presence when it’s quiet around. He just finds it soothing.

Definitely understands you using humour to cope. He does the same so he knows when it turns from just making jokes to coping and will check in when needed.

Please invite him to do gardening together some time. He likes being able to do something where he’s creating and nurturing life. It’s a good change from what he usually does.

Flower language is a big part of your relationship. I see Luke as someone who’s well versed in flower language so every bouquet he gives you has a hidden meaning behind it.

He also enjoys drawing so it’s not uncommon for you to find a sticky note beside your bed with a little drawing on it when he has to leave early in the morning. If you return the gesture, he’ll keep all your drawings in a safe place so he can look back over them.

In Genshin Impact, I match you with...

You and Itto are both the definition of human pep rallies so when your powers combine, no one can stand in your way. You can both be a lot sometimes but you get along well.

He also struggles to take things seriously so he’s a lot more understanding in that regard than others are sometimes. You just get each other.

In a modern au, Itto would be a huge fan of cartoons. He’s a firm believer than cartoons aren’t just for kids and still loves watching all those “childhood” shows.

In the same vein, he also loves Lego. I can’t see him being a big fan of tricky sets but he enjoys all of the bright colours. He’d love to make a set or two with you sometime.

I can see Itto being a fan of D&D as well. I think it might take him a bit to get his head around the different types of rolls and doing so much maths but he loves the roleplay elements and thinks it’s great fun. (I actually wrote this while playing a D&D session!)

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, I match you with...

You’ve got to be a certain level of energetic to keep up with Sokka’s plans. And you certainly meet that criteria. Sokka loves being around someone who can match his energy.

In a modern au, he’s definitely a fan of comics. He’s the type of person who buys two of every comic, one to read and one to keep in pristine condition.

For all his self-awareness, Sokka does have a tendency to deflect so he can easily recognise when you’re doing the same. He hopes you know you can rely on him if things get too much.

When he does run out of energy, there’s nothing that Sokka loves more than relaxing while listening to you play music. He finds it soothing both because of the music and because of your presence.

Please do lots of baking for him! Sokka will never admit it but he does have a soft spot for snacks, especially if you’ve made them.

[tsuki-sennin]

Hirogaru Sky! 29 and 30~!

Back on the wagon~! Or I suppose in this case, the plane. Or Elle-chan's weird crib gondola thing.

First, a story about a missing doll! Second, a Beach Episode! Just as summer winds down! Funsies!

Spoilers, I guess...

-Raaaaaaaain!

-Goddamn I am so sick of rain. Had my power knocked out this evening. Spent half of my cooking time totally in the dark.

-Who dat?

--nya? Hummy??

-Neko-san~!

-An alive neko-san!

-"Did you have fun in the rain? :)"

-"MASHIRO I WAS ALMOST DEVOURED BY A GHOST CAT SOMEBODY CALL THE JSDF-

-In shambles! Completely and totally spooked!

-"Sora, stuffed animals don't speak. Not like birds."

-Man, with all these huge European-style houses that're only occupied by ghosts or villains, a Pretty Cure Town's real estate market must be insane.

-...Hmmmm... I wonder how low the property values can get?

-For villains who live in the Cures' worlds, do you think somebody like Westar fires rent lowering gunshots? Or am I thinking a little too American?

-Ohhhhh, Tsubasa's a believer now.

-Obakeeeeee~!

-Gap moe! Sora's got phasmophobia~!

-Sealed the kitty.

-Elle-chan :)

-What a cute little fella, huh?

-The first step to overcoming one's fear is acknowledging it!

-Yoyo confirmed horsegirl.

-Speak to us, kitty.

-How sweet :)

-Sora had no time for such simple pleasures.

-...put it like that, you don't forget your first friend, huh Mashiro?

-A drone can be as cat-shaped as it wants, I'm knocking that bitch outta the sky.

-"D-don't mind me! My daughter's got a strong arm on her! She should try out for the baseball team~!"

-Ohhhhhhh, the kitty's a dream weaver.

-...man, something about a toy being abandoned and forgotten really hurts me. Doesn't matter if it's Toy Story or the Fresh PreCure movie or even that story TomSka told about that time he buried all his Thomas the Tank Engine toys on holiday in Fuerteventura. You wanna get me to cry, you give an artificial being abandonment issues.

-Neko-san... :(

-Minoton Spotted

-Enter

-"The game is afoot, Pretty Cures!"

-AN ENTIRE HOUSE

-THIS MAN TURNED AN ENTIRE FUCKING HOUSE INTO A MONSTER

-Step into the Hell House!

-This is badass, what the hell

-Oh!

-Breakin' out the colors early, huh Butterfly?

-Get clocked.

-Raaaaanborg!

-Oh shit

-Thanks, cat.

-Sky's athleticism is something to be admired.

-"Nigeteeeeeee!"

-Kick that bubble!

-Goodbye, Monster House.

-Oh man, I don't envy Tsubasa, it must hurt to pick that many splinters outta there.

-"Until we meet again, Pretty Cure."

-Marron-chan...

-Oh, that's sweet... That's too sweet...

-Hello, Summer~!

-...Hey wait a sec, you already got your cameo!

In the summertime, when the weather is hot~! You can stretch right up, and touch the sky~! When the weather's fine, you've got women on your mind. Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find.

-Anyways yeah, it's the ass end of August, it's been raining and thundering a shit-ton where I live when it isn't absolutely infernal, and apparently God himself.

-The ocean~!

-It's really FUCKING big!

-Very cute swimsuits.

-It'll be close to 90% ocean when climate change finally kills all of humanity for the sins of the 1%~!

-That run was the gayest fucking thing I've seen all month, and I just finished Season 2 of Good Omens. /j

-I see Tsubasa goes for the Sonia Nevermind wetsuit style. And Ageha... hoo...

-Brined like a fish.

-Beachy beachy~!

-Sora's got built in Iron Boots. She can do the Water Temple no problem.

-Lotta Sora focus these two episodes!

-...Tsubasa, are the Puni Birds supposed to be penguins?

-...is that why you can dance? Are you just Happy Feet?

-Idk how you expect her to do all that, but okay!

-Swimmer friend~!

-Wingless.

-Half an hour.

-Wipe that :3 off your :3, Mashiron!

-Ah don't worry Tsubasa, summer's practically over already.

-I suppose Mashiro's teaching would be much better by default, but goddamn. Sora really saw her gf in the water and dove right in.

-"My unconditional surrender is all but guaranteed!"

-Rubber ducky...

-Kani-san...

-I love the crabs, little dudes.

-Jesus, that's a shit ton of fish. Is Gran Ocean just a few nautical miles away?

-Floatieeees~!

-I love those.

-Watermelon energy~!

-Summer vacation, baby~!

-Now this is podracing!

-HOoooooooo

-Minoton about to make me unwise.

-I have to wonder how many hot single moms (and dads, of course) see Minoton and feel seen.

-"AH-!"

-Ah, I see Minoton put his clothes back on.

-Good thinking, I think it'd have gotten a little weird if he hadn't.

-Life preserven't!

-Game on!

-SKY-

-Immediately fell into the ocean.

-His ass is NOT fightin'.

-Get deflated, idiot.

-Ironically, I think if Sora asked Minoton to help teach her to swim, he'd have gone for it.

-Goddamn, the ocean's so terrifying. Even in relatively shallow waters like these.

-Sora says "My save!"

-Who needs floaties when you've got lifeguards on duty!

-Baywatch PreCure!

-...man, Mitch Buchannon would absolutely somehow have been a Cure in the past. And yet somehow still be both an armored skeptic debunking every Scooby Doo mystery he comes across and a foremost expert on paranormal investigation who has fought mutant alligators, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and even a climate change-induced apocalypse.

-Incidentally, if you're in dire need of some quality TV cheese analysis, might I recommend Allison Pregler's Baywatching?

-It's part critical commentary, part abridged series, all peak comedy.

-...something of an influence on this program, fun fact~!

-Sunset time~!

-What a fun summer~!

-Oh ye gods, it's raining again, better wrap this up soon.

-PRECIOUS

-Okay, guess we're getting all the previous cameos again. ...I'm not spoiled on anything coming up, I am a good boy, I like surprises, I haven't the damnedest justification to offer as to why Precious wouldn't show up again, shhhhhhhh.

-You are a good bean, Yuin. Sorry the only beach food highlighted was watermelon, but tbh you wouldn't mind at all.

-Right okay, we're done here, I gotta jet! Catch you later~!

[magnuficent76]

OKAY heres some name ideas I'll probably sketch em later <3 under cut because .zero impulse control

Solar Years Guys [Solarclan]

Sunsetpelt -> Sunsetstar [Baltazar] (Look, they're The Sunset Guy, I feel obligated to name them that. They're probably a Really Big Brownish-Orange maine coon who just happened to wander into the woods one day and form a clan]

Snowflakepaw -> Blizzardbite [Luis] (Bite is a good suffix for this guy considering this guy probably has rabies and wants to bite everything. Was from a different clan but then they kinda Died woops. Dark grey cat with some spots probablu and fucked up blue eyes)

Emberkit -> Firestorm [Marsh] (Another guy who symbolically changes his name to indicate getting More Fucked Up because that's my JAM okay. Anyway I think he's probably got like a little color mixing going on but he's mostly dark gray like his brother)

Glowtail [Lazarus] (Lazlo is very long by default so I like to think that's where the tail suffix comes from. They get confused by a lemur constantly because of the black white stripes and just general Shape.)

Crescentshimmer [Andromeda] (Comically large orange kitty with moon markings probably. I like to think she just kinda hangs around the camp and seemingly does nothing)

Goldendapple [Anne] (Light blonde kitty who's very beautiful very powerful... she's the moment and she knows it. I like to think she's got little dandelions in her fur)

Caede Tales Guys [They're several clans probably but the main one (the onr the caedes are actually in) is like Bogclan]

Mantisroot -> Mantis [Melaine] (She's just a comically long black cat there's no other way for me to see her. Maybe she has nightshade tucked behind her ear. She probably quit clan life and started living as a loner once Jonah went missing)

Copperfang -> Mephisto [Jonah/Mephisto] (He's a big fat brown cat. With the messiest fur you've ever seen. Also he inexplicably still has cool prosthetics don't question it too hard. A loner but the kind of loner who can bribe twolegs into giving it food)

Silverthorn -> Archie [Archer] (Ran away from the clan after betraying his brother on accident and became a kittypet but then died anyway. Massive L. Anyway He's also brown but lighter + his eyes are extremely shiny so he gets silver, also very skinny)

Saltspot [Salt] (Very self explanatory I would think. He is technically a black cat but due to a genetic mutation he also has big white spots that earned the name. Very springy, never sits still, and also keeps somehow bringing salt packets to the clan. Won't tell you where he found it)

Alderbelly [Mary] (She's just an old lightbrown kitty. Has never done anything wrong in her life ever)

Lucifer -> Mudtalon [Lucio] (Most raggedy looking bitch you've ever seen. He looks like the one "TIS I WHO SET THE HOUSE ABLAZE" cat but more fucked up looking. Mud because he's constantly covered in it and it turns his fur color way darker. Was a loner before he joined a clan)

Gaslighting Fires gals [It's probably more of a bloodclan typa deal cuz I like to think they live nearby a city but idk what]

Pompom -> Scorpionsong [Eris] (Kittypet turned warrior. She's that girl. Wears a bright pink bow around her neck and if you touch it she kills you. White with yellow eyes and short but fluffy fur :3]

Roseshade [Lilith] (Mostly dark gray kitty with just a completely black face and fucked up looking eyes. I like to think she's technically an elder but refuses to retire and stop working because she's stubborn as all hell. The shade part of her name is not only because of her impossibly dark features but also because she's a big lurker around the clan)

Flintstrike [Jinx] (No one onows where it even came from and it would like to keep it that way. Tortoiseshell with very messy patterns all throughout the fur, almost looking like an explosion. Its fur is also just insanely messy no matter what you do to it)

Cinderpaw [Pandora] (She's the hashtag struggler. Apprentice to Scorpionsong and professioanal silly billy, someone give her a treat She's so Tired. Bengal cat with immaculately well groomed fur, which is a courtesy of her mentor again. Keeps snapdragons tucked behind her ear because its her favorite flower <3)

Aconitestar [Ophelia] (Such a fucking hater. I love her a lot. Ascended to power by overthrowing the last leader and then successfully countered every coup after that. Birman with an attitude and always has her paws stained with deadly nightshade juice. Normal girl.)

Lionelclaw [that's just his name] (Pampered kittpet daylight warrior, Aconitestar's special little guy for no reason other than he brings in tons of food and shinies for her. British short-hair with a stupid little bell that everyone associates with him.]

What if I drew my characters as warrior kitties. I think I might do that today

[multi-lefaiye]

S&S ANON AND I DONT HAVE MUCH TO ADD ATM BUT IM GOOD WITH ANY GENDERED TERMS/PRONOUNS AND I AM PUTTING THAT DRAWING UP ON MY WALL LIKE A MASTERPIECE!!!

I do also wonder what even started the beings picking people to make deals with, since rn it seems like Cyan was the first to make a deal, with Red and Magenta following far behind (Red being second and Magenta just slamming accelerate and being third and fourth). Im also expecting someone to mention how Deedee suddenly has colored eyes too, im surprised no one has questioned it yet (probably just haven't had time to ask). Same with Scoob/Bugs, surprised neither has asked the other about it yet, seeing as they are most likely to understand what it means (i dont even think Deedee knows her eyes are different yet tbh, but i could see her connecting the dots and trying to dig deeper and trying to find more answers after noticing)

ALSO ALSO I JUST REALIZE NONE OF THE OTHER BEINGS BESIDES MAGENTA SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE. I say that but we've only seen Cyan speak, but i have a feeling that Magenta only spoke that language specifically for Deedee (for what reason, idk yet actually. Maybe to make her feel special in a "I can only understand you through my unique power" way, or to chain her to her ballyhoo in a "If you lose your ballyhoo, you lose communication to me" way? It could also just be that Magenta CANT speak english for some reason or another.)

HI YES HELLO SCOOB AND SHAG ANON MY BESTIE!!! YEAH THAT'S FINE, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING!!!!! ALSO I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE DRAWING HEHE <33 I had to commemorate the occasion. Also apologies for the delayed response, I had to scream for the past 18+ hours. You know how it is.

Also yeah that's a really good question!! Honestly, this update answered a bunch of questions but also opened SO many more. I do agree that this is one of my biggest questions too tbh, and actually now that you mention it I wonder that too!!!!! I went back to check before responding to this b/c I had the thought that maybe the eye color changes are more for the reader's sake than anything, but no yeah Mick's red eyes are specifically referenced and called out ASDFJKL; so yeah confirmed the eye colors Are happening that way. So yeah now I'm curious why no one has mentioned Dee's eyes yet? I def agree that I don't think she's realized anything has changed about herself yet, but maybe once things calm down a bit someone will ask her about it.

As for Bugs and Scoob... I get the sense that it's very possible they both already know what it means for each other, and that's why they haven't mentioned it. It's very possible they had some conversations during the timeskip about it, or otherwise they just have a sort of understanding. I do definitely want to see if this is talked about further, which I'm assuming it will be now that we're receiving so many more clues. I want to see how these puzzle pieces fit together, dammit!!!

YEAH THAT'S SOMETHING I WAS THINKING ABOUT!!! I think both of your theories definitely have some merit to them (and I think the former is especially interesting, because that implies so much about Magenta as a character), but I also wonder if it's possible that the beings, by default, speak that way, and it's only after you've made a pact with them that you can understand them perfectly. Though that doesn't really explain how and why the pacts are able to be made..... okay I'm gonna have to ruminate on this a bit more.

[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

1. is it just me, or does it seem like persephone doesnt even like eros most of the time? like most of the panels with them she seems aggravated or annoyed with him, but they're apparently better friends than her with like, idk, any actual woman? like we could have had her friendships be with artemis, or athena, or hecate, or daphne, or literally any one else, not the overactive man child who literally got her blackout drunk and put into a stranger's car.

2. comics like hxp ficlets and punderworld also deal with same face/bodies, but they do a lot more with the designs to tell them apart. like PW persephone only wears greens or purples, hades only wears black and is more angular than the other men. ficlets makes sure they all have certain colors, different hairstyle, style of clothes, etc. LO only has color to tell anyone apart but even then they're all the same. youd think with her style she'd have fun designing other characters, but i guess not.

3. lo hades is deadass the ugliest person on cast so making every man just be him with a different coat of paint just making the cast uglier by default, while the women just being the same as persephone is just showing rachel's lack of skill and/or want to bother to draw outside her comfort zone (how is that a "flexible" style, exactly?). you cant even say its like adventure time where it has certain design features (ie. the simple faces and bodies) its just pure laziness.

4. 🗣BRING BACK TWINKY THANATOS AND EROS 🗣

5. ok but for real? hxp, at least in LO, are worse people when they're together. like hades just becomes a violent, controlling jerk who lashes out like a child because he ~has to protect her~ by isolating her from her actual family and friends and controlling where she lives, what she wears, and what she does, while persephone just becomes a spoiled, mean spirited brat who just goofs off and abuses her powers while it literally harms others, and this is supposed to be a good thing?!

[shananigans402]

1-65 will do, please. Thanks fuck face :)

I knew exactly who this was and I was so tempted to not reply, but your punishment is having to read through all my answers and remember them forever or you fail the friend test. To everyone else, please do not click unless you want to be very bored, my answers are not interesting lol

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you? Nope

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you? Assuming 5 is the most, 1. Maybe 2. 

3. The person you would never want to meet? The person who sent me this (jk I’m excited for our eventual meet up where we hit up a strip club first thing 🙏)

4. What is your favorite word? I answered with ‘conniption’ the other day and still have not found a word I like more.

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be? Already answered this, fruit tree! I also like palm trees, maple trees, and willow trees. I know that’s not the question, I’m just saying random shit now.

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought? It took me a long while to remember where I was this morning. I honestly don’t remember, I was rushing to get ready for an early morning meeting.

7. What shirt are you wearing? My Orlando Strong shirt 

8. What do you label yourself as? Lesbian

9. Bright room or dark room? Bright room

10. What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping? Possibly checking on a feverish little beeb who was going through it with her second dose of the vaccine.

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far? No idea. I like various ages for different reasons, but this age so far is not bad. 

12. Who told you they loved you last? Probably my sister 🤷‍♀️

13. Your worst enemy? The person who sent this ask.

14. What is your current desktop picture? The apple pic of Catalina island that changes based on time of day (yes it’s the default, don’t judge me)

15. Do you like someone? Lol yeah I hope so 😂

16. The last song you listened to? Pretty Girl by Hayley Kiyoko 

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up? Definitely @raginage

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face? I feel like I can only attack Raginage so many times. Can I pick a fictional character? This week I was real mad at Dave in The Darkness. BaBe!​

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do? Lol no one, you’re talking to a person who feels very uncomfortable with anyone doing anything nice for them.

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional) Not this again. Last time I said eyes? Still no pics, sorry

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do? What would I look like? Do I get to design myself like a sim? I honestly don’t know what I’d do because I doubt the world needs another clueless white man walking around, so maybe just stay at home. 

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it? Nope. And my last answer to this was awful. I do think I have a fantastic ability to annoy my friends but in a way that’s just amusing/endearing enough to make them still want to talk to me 😌

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of? Unique? Uhm well my two big fears are confined spaces and deep water so a submarine is like my worst nightmare.

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal. Oh this is going to sound so odd. To be clear, I’ve had better sandwiches, but my go-to is provolone, turkey, roast beef, and spicy brown mustard or whole grain mustard. Please don’t judge me.

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it? Travel budget for future trips to visit my buds and get into trouble and eat food. I know $100 won’t go far, but it’s something.

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go? Well, after my last answer I want to visit my friends! But there are too many people to visit and I only have one ticket. So change of plans. I’m going on a solo trip to Greece. Or Argentina. Or Iceland. Or Bali. Damn, I’m indecisive. 

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be? Rabble red blend. Just a solid red wine. Also because @viola-lloyds stole my answer the other day (Juneshine; to be fair I asked her this question but whatever) and I don’t want to copy her.

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place? Oh I answered this one, something about respecting others. Yeah, a nice rule like that. Want to establish some healthy communication on this island.

29. What is your favorite expletive? It’s still fuck

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno? But what about my PLANTS. Can they count as loved ones? Probably my laptop, I know that’s lame but like...I have a lot of stuff on here. Or the collection of cards I have that my granddad drew little drawings in, I want to get them all framed.

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be? To be honest, I don’t know if I’d change big life events in case it altered the trajectory of where I ended up. So idk maybe the ending of Bly, let’s give those lesbians have a happy ending!

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world! Italy! But wait, let’s get back to this sleeping with celebrities and super-powers bit...

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back? Oh that’s a really tough question. I always wanted to meet my great-grandma Olga because she seemed like a really awesome lady. 

34. What was your last dream about? I can’t remember, this is bothering me because I wish I could! I’m sorry. My gf recently had a dream where I kissed a dude right in front of her. It made us both very uncomfy lol

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]? I hate this question because I can only think of one thing.

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital? For surgery, yeah

37. Have you ever built a snowman? But of course!

38. What is the color of your socks? Not wearing any? I was wearing blue ones earlier. Jfc my answers are so boring.

39. What type of music do you like? Lots! I tend to listen to indie, classic rock, and some pop

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets? Sunsets!

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor? Chocolate or a variant (chocolate peanut butter, chocolate caramel)

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer) LA Rams or Seattle Seahawks. I know they’re in the same division. It’s tough. (Please don’t ask me why these teams)

43. Do you have any scars? Yep, mostly from burning myself on ovens. I simply get too excited for my food.

44. What do you want to be when you graduate? I...have graduated? 

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Well bestie recently said I have “lesbian hands” and I think that’s code for man hands so maybe that hahaha

46. Are you reliable? I try to be!

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be? How many more times will I watch The Darkness before I learn my lesson? (Related: When does other bestie finally admit to her fetish?)

48. Do you hold grudges? Not typically, no

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create? A dog and an otter? Can we domesticate otters? No, a horse and a large bird, create a pegasus and then free travel.

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had? Oh god. I don’t even know where to start today tbh. Damie and pokemon and cosycon and looming and feet and [redacted] and developing apps for VP. So many fantastic conversations. 

In real life, probably the time I was at a laundromat in Italy and this guy wandered in with a beer, sat next to me and my male roommate, assumed we were a couple, and proceeded to give us bizarre life advice. I wish I could remember more of it, but it was so odd.

51. Are you a good liar? Hmm I’m okay at it I think, that is, I can convince people I’m serious when I’m actually joking. But I don’t like actually lying if it’s not just teasing someone. 

52. How long could you go without talking? Probably a few days if I had to.

53. What has been you worst haircut/style? The haircut I got before studying abroad! It was too short and I was so sad.

54. Have you ever baked your own cake? For a birthday? No. For fun? Absolutely.

55. Can you do any accents other than your own? Not well, no

56. What do you like on your toast? Butter and/or honey and/or jam

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of? My beautiful depiction of a scene of chapter one of Private Dancer. 

58. What would be you dream car? An electric car of some sort. I don’t know enough about cars tbh

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain. Nope but sometimes I’ll play music and dance and maybe softly sing.

60. Do you believe in aliens? Yep! Definitely 

61. Do you often read your horoscope? Almost never unless someone sends it to me.

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet? Already answered, A

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons? Dinosaurs! 🦕

64. What do you think about babies? What do I think about them? They’re pretty cool. Just tiny little humans. 

65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of. I was very nice and let you correct your mistake and submit one after the fact:

In your opinion what is the best thing you can cook, like your speciality? My favorite thing to make is pasta, I started making my own sauce and I’d love to make pasta from scratch sometime.

[sweetlydraws]

Here are Viperion, Carapace, and Ryuko redesigns for the Painted Lady AU.

More about the redesigns as well as the PL Canon info for each miraculous

Viperion! 

I wanted to make his outfit have more of a punk-ish aesthetic. (He ended up looking like Superboy from D.C...) I didn’t mind his original design, most of the boys hero costumes are good, but I didn’t think my Luka would choose that. 

In his original costume he has one yellow diamond, and the fangs on his mask as yellow. I wanted to take that yellow and add it more on the design. His over colors are a bit more green then greenish blue.

About the snake miraculous -

In the original order the snake miraculous was unused. They would only use it for worse case scenarios, The snake and Bunny miraculous was do not use unless end of world. 

When Fu destroyed the order a few order members tried to get to the snake miraculous but sadly ended up dying before they could reach it. 

When the miraculous ended up lost, Shockingly the snake miraculous never ended up with any villains', it ended up with gamblers. The gamblers would use it to win every bet, Master Fu got it back by winning it in a bet. (Yes he did cheat, he used the fox miraculous to do so.)

Carapace!

I don’t like his canon costume. It just doesn’t look like something Nino would choose you know. IDK it just doesn’t say Nino to me. 

In my redesign I wanted to pull a Cyber-Punk-ish type of clothes. I wanted it feel like cyberpunk D.J. I think I got it. He still has his hood I just didn’t want to draw it up. He has head phones/ a visor instead of goggles? I don’t like the goggles. I made his colors more sea green instead of dark greens, also no yellow/ red on the hood it just looks out of place on my design. My favorite part of the design is his boot.

About the Turtle miraculous-

The turtle miraculous was always used by the leader of the order. The leader was to protect everyone thus always deemed to be the Turtle user. The turtle miraculous is never to be in the front of battles, always in the back protecting people. The training for the turtle miraculous was the most painful and difficult. 

Master Fu was training to possibly be the next turtle user. (There was always at least 5 people training to be the miraculous users, so that if one person dies, there will be no time to worry.) Master Fu was not chosen to be the next turtle user, instead he was the runner up. This caused jealousy to form in him, allowing the slightly corrupted Peacock miraculous to feast on his jealousy and destroy the order. (Note it was the essence of the peacock powers not Duusu them self.)

The turtle user died in the fall, master Fu manage to get the turtle  miraculous before it could be lost. 

Sadly from the death of his real master, the loss of his family, and watching some of the horrid things Master Fu has done to get back the other miraculous has caused Wayzz to have  some corruption in him.

Ryuko!

Ryuko suffers from the every girl hero has the same body disease... Stupid. I don’t like her canon design like at all. Normally I do like asymmetric designs but hers... gross. Because other then the one leg, and the tail design everything on the design is symmetric, the gloves, the mask, the horns, even the feet designs on the bottom are the same! I don’t like it! Don’t get me started on her revealing her identity! In the Painted Lady that never fucking happened. Kagami should be smarter.

My design takes elements from different fencing outfits you find when you google fencing outfit. Ryuko has “3″ different outfits but in reality, the yellow colors will change base off what power she’s using or has last used, yellow is the default. The red in her outfit has a scale type of texture on it. Her pants are 2 toned, its only a gray and darker gray but I like the look. Once again the boots are my favorite part. 

Dragon Miraculous-

Before the ladybug was added to the front lane the dragon was the third in command. In reality it should have been the second in command but the core 7 take priority. Much like the Cat, the dragon miraculous was considered a evil miraculous by the order. Unlike the cat however it was considered a controlled evil.

During the fall, the daughter of the current dragon user had taken the dragon miraculous and fled after her mother’s death. After that the dragon miraculous was passed down from daughter to daughter in the family. Each daughter was a fighter in her generation, a pass user was Mulan.

Fu only got the Miraculous from the family by marrying into the family and taking the miraculous from his “wife” before fleeing into the night. The family thought he died and moved on.

Kagami is a descendant of this family. (Yes I know Kagami is japanese and Mulan is Chinese. But people can marry into other races.)

Kagami was stronger then both Ladybug and Master Fu realized. She was meant to be the dragon user.

ENJOY! I don’t plan on making a redesign for Rena Rouge or Queen Bee. So until the next post! 

[septiembrre]

GG Headcannons

Tagged by @sothischickshe. Thanks, boo ;-) 

Ship: Beth x Rio -- in honor of our lovebirds day for GGWEEK2020

38. What is/are their love language(s)?

Haha, this has already made its way into one of my ficlets. I am also writing love languages into my next chapter of Better Be Mine. I can’t let it go!! I don’t actually care about them as tool for my irl relationship but it’s so easily identifiable for Brio. So my headcanons here... 

Rio’s love languages: 

Rio prefers to receive love through Quality Time. 

Rio shows love through Physical Touch. 

Beth’s love languages:

Beth prefers to receive love through Words of Affirmation.

Beth shows love through Acts of Service

49. Do they have differing political opinions?

Lol, @sothischickshe I can’t believe you tagged me in this!!!! Stop reading into the underlying vibes of Beth/Rio conversations in my fics! 

So the short version of my response is: yes. 

Now the absurdly long response:

I think about Rio & Beth a lot. I think about them talking about politicized issues quite a bit and imagine them in conversation with each other, teasing their beliefs apart. I like picturing these conversations instigated by hard parenting moments, things in the news, and things that come up as they finally start saying more words to each other. I think Rio could also just directly ask Beth about her political beliefs (I can’t necessarily picture the reverse yet).  

I think Beth is definitely more conservative than Rio -- and that’s an assumption I make because Rio’s a Latinx guy who probably came up with lack of access to wealth, and Beth as a white woman in the suburbs who formerly perceived herself/her family as wealthy. 

Beth’s characterization is complicated -- sometimes it really leans into Karen stereotypes/white woman privilege (lol, I cannot believe they literally had her show up at Gil’s workplace. I CRINGE!) and other times her beliefs and actions positively surprise me. Personally, in my fic writing, I love leaning into an idea that Beth grew up more working class/experienced neglect from her parents. I don’t want to romanticize these experiences but trauma around financial insecurity & complicated family relationships personally resonates with me. Ugh, I love writing about it, and it’s something that I read in her childhood that I like to lean into. That flashback in Season 2 really humanized Beth for me and it really made me love her. 

Okay, that was a major digression about class, but her life experience must lend itself to her political beliefs. She married into a wealthier family -- a family that owned it’s own business, was financially stable and just... a family perpetuating all the harmful effects of white heterosexuality and problematic gendered labor. And she conformed to it! Beth diminished herself to make herself fit there, to find safety and stability, to feel worth. So, I think her politics as an adult are also “safe” and probably echo the popular moderate trends in normative, toxic parent groups. Honestly, irl as a queer WOC who is anti-capitalist and been forced to be political for my own self-preservation and preservation of folks I love, I would not seek out PTA Beth’s friendship for multiple reasons, but I still have such a soft spot for Beth as a character?

That being said, Beth in the context of Annie & Ruby is obviously a different Beth. She loosens up in these spaces, she speaks her mind much more freely and in these scenes she comes as a normal, relatable human and she’s funny and prim and awkward. I think she comes across as somewhat liberal but not particularly educated on the issues/progressive (as is the way most characters are characterized on network TV). In this vein, she throws around a lot of white privilege and because some of it has gone un-interrogated in the context of the show... I’m not sure how intentional these vibes are or if it’s just par the course of it being white-owned network TV. Obviously characters are allowed to make mistakes and do shitty things, but I wish there was more on-screen acknowledgement of race in the show, and more intentional naming of things. In regards to Ruby + Beth in particular, I feel like an American white woman can’t have a life-long/multi-decade friendship with a Black woman and not be intentional about acknowledging racism/the specific misogynoir that Black women face. But the show hasn’t really acknowledged this aspect of Ruby + Beth’s friendship... 

*stares at the camera like I’m on The Office* 

It would be such a rich opportunity to discuss the challenges of interracial friendship if done well. Also, what an opportunity to delve into what it’s like to maintain friendships across the years (um, it’s hard!!! Even with people you love so much! Tell us more about Beth & Ruby’s ups and downs!). Beth and Ruby care about each other so much. When they and Annie get friendship beats -- I cry! Just make it make more sense! If the show filled in these blanks, it would be so great. Beth is obviously awakening~ definitely so in regards to her gender and her power and it could shift her political opinions? The show definitely poked a little fun at her crime “wokeness” by having her push back on cultural appropriation with those other PTA parents. Just by the exposure of her own relationships, Beth has experience with the lack of American safety net, our terrible, impoverishing health-care system, and inaccessibility of higher education. 

So, on one hand the show tries to do a thing where they equalize and don’t name race in the context of the three leads, “they’re three women”, but then they play on racial tropes with Beth and Rio’s relationship... I would like for their interracial relationship to be more overtly discussed/acknowledged outside of Rio’s somewhat performative call outs of Beth’s white lady fragility. 

So anyway -- Rio’s politics. We don’t know a ton about Rio so we don’t have too much textual evidence to go off of. But, we do know that Rio picks at Beth’s facade of white women fragility all the time -- sometimes with more hostility and other times simply teasing. When I write him, I give him my own experiences of having to become well-versed discussing politicized issues by the default of growing up experiencing racism and xenophobia. Rio, like any Mexican-reading man, has probably been told to “go back to his country” throughout his life -- and I can’t imagine it not politicizing him... Though, conservative Latinx exist and constantly shock me with their assimilationist audacity. *stares at the camera like I’m on the office again* But, idk, it’s something about their characterization of him of being so worldly~~ I imagine him being informed and up-to-date on the American news. I want him throwing around his power and $$$ by donating to local, progressive candidates of color. But, this is all projection~ :-) 

Ha, I feel like this was too critical of my forever otp (and on ship day to boot)!! And of Beth. The show has a habit of putting Beth through the physical and psychological wringer, and what I want instead is for our baby to be out of harm’s way, financially stable, divorced and independent, and also forced to interrogate the more harmful ways she deploys her whiteness. Lol, no one would watch my show. I know. 

I love Beth & Rio. They thrill me. And like many others in the fandom,  I often want to remove them from the GG canon and make them have harder/real/necessary conversations -- and generally converse about anything/everything because they barely do that on screen. I love the drama of their scenes, but my happy place is skipping a year ahead and building headcanons about what they could look like in actual relationship with each other... and one of these daydreams is Rio pushing Beth on her politics. I’m in an interracial relationship with a white woman myself -- and one of the things I love is endlessly discussing political issues and processing and growing together, and I like transplanting that to Brio in my fic perhaps too much, and it makes them OOC in my writing at times. 

Okay!!! This got long again. Thanks for tangling with this if you’ve gotten this far. There were a lot of assertions up there and I’m happy to unpack something further (but, thats at your own risk y’know. Clearly I don’t know when to stop when it comes to writing these ridiculously long posts).

[purplesurveys]

998

survey by starsareonly2nd

How many text messages are currently in your inbox? I don’t know if my phone can provide that particular feature. Suffice it to say there’s a ton because I don’t really do spring cleaning with my texts and I’ve kept messages since getting this phone in 2018.

Is your profile picture in color or black & white? All my profile photos have been in color, and I think I’ve only had to have a black and white photo once.

What's your favorite Christmas movie? Love Actually.

Did you dress up for Halloween this year? If so, what were you? We’re gonna be having a virtual Halloween party at work on Wednesday and I’m thinking of just going as Dora the Explorer again since I wasn’t able to maximize my costume last year anyway (the Halloween party I had gone to didn’t allow shorts - wtf? so I ended up wearing orange pants and looking nothing like Dora) and this time around I also actually have bangs to complete the look. But idk, the party announcement says we also have 30 seconds each to impersonate the character, and I'm just not extroverted enough for individual presentations like that. I’m heavily leaning towards skipping the entire thing because of that one instruction, but we’ll see.

Are there any posters in your room? Of what? Yuh, Nam Joo Hyuk.

Do you read Rolling Stone? I don’t think I ever have.

Which Harry Potter book (if you read them) was your favorite? I read up until the blue book, but I don’t remember which one I had enjoyed reading the most. I do remember breezing through one of them and finishing in just a couple of hours, so I’d say that was my favorite.

Do you have any stuffed animals you still sleep with? No.

What kind of cell phone do you own? iPhone.

Do you have any pets? Yes :)

Are there currently any accessories in your hair? Sure, a hair tie.

Are you involved with any clubs at your school? I was in two organizations in college andddd in high school it was mandatory to be in a club, so I was in one for each year.

Do you have an MP3 player? What kind? I used to own an iPod Nano.

What's your favorite sport to watch on TV? Wrestling!!! My first love, forever and always.

How many people live with you? Four. Parents and two siblings.

Are you good at any styles of dance? Haha, I wish. I’m a terrible dancer.

Do you think that your hair looks better curly or straight? Neither. It’s best when it’s wavy.

Where was your default taken? It’s not a photo of me, first of all. It’s from an episode of Bojack but I can’t remember which episode it’s form.

Have you ever been to another country? Yeah, several times.

Do you prefer cats or dogs? Dogs.

What was the last thing you ate? Kwek-kwek. My grandma made so many pieces for us when she came over yesterday <3

What's your desktop background? It’s of a mountain range and is one of the provided backgrounds in my laptop.

What was the last movie you saw at a theater? For the billionth time, Knives Out.

Did you think it was a good movie? No, but I’m biased because I hate that genre. I’m fairly sure it was well-received and that it’s objectively a good movie.

Are you afraid of spiders? The ones we have here are super tiny and look pretty harmless, so no. But I’ve seen how freaky spiders can look like in other countries and I understand why so many people are terrified of them.

Did you carve a pumpkin this year? If so, what did you carve into it? No, we don’t practice that here.

Which Disney movie is your favorite? Toy Story makes me the happiest.

Are you the youngest, oldest, middle, or only child? Eldest.

If your power were to suddenly go out right now, how would you react? Annoyed at the inconvenience, but glad that my laptop is at 88% and that I have a bunch of tabs with surveys so I can at least do something; unbothered because the weather is cold; and pleased that I have enough mobile data to keep myself from getting bored. Overall I wouldn’t mind it, hahaha

Do you enjoy photography? I don’t enjoy doing it, but I like looking at photos, sure.

What's your favorite thing to do at the beach? Swim and allowing myself to relax and let go in the water.

Are you afraid of heights? Not for most situations, but if I had to do an extreme stunt or dare that involved heights then yeah it would.

If someone were to cut you in line at a store, would you speak up? No, but I’d take a photo of their back and share it on social media and call them an asshole to release my annoyance. I’d probably try to sneakily elbow them as well, just so I can sleep soundly at night.

Are there any foods you enjoy baking/cooking? No.

What website would you say you visit the most? Definitely YouTube.

What book are you currently reading? [continued from yesterday] I don’t think it’s still fair to say I’m reading Midnight Sun anymore. I haven’t opened it in about a month now, even though it’s constantly on my desk just right beside the laptop I work on.

Is it for school or just because you want to read? It’s because I do want to read it and because I like Twilight hehe. I’m not in school.

Are you going to any concerts in the future that you know of? I’m just waiting for my third Paramore show, whenever that is; but otherwise no and I have no clue who or when the first post-Covid concert is going to be.

Do you play any instruments? No. I can play some tunes on the piano but it’s cheating and I don’t count it, because I’ve only memorized which keys to press and I don’t actually know how to read notes or use the proper fingering.

Are you looking forward to the new Alice in Wonderland movie? This question is so cute considering it’s been a literal decade since that movie came out...anyway, no, I didn’t look forward to it as I’m not a fan of the genre.

Do you get seasick? I do but I can handle my stomach for the most part. The only time it got really bad was during my cruise, and the only reason I didn’t throw up was my dad has a cabin at the bottom floor of the ship, where the shaking was a lot weaker.

When was the last time you hung out with your friends? This is so painful to read lol...last week of February.

Do you drink soda on a regular basis? Nopes.

Are you currently wearing a hoodie? No but I can do with one right now to feel cozy. I just don’t feel like getting out of my chair.

What's the weirdest food you've ever eaten? Gulab jamun was personally a unique experience, but weird has a negative connotation so I’m avoiding that word.

What was the last sporting event you attended? I think it was like a UP/Ateneo volleyball game, which was the only type of UAAP event I attended anyway.

Do you understand Shakespeare? Nope, that’s why I got books that had the modern-day translations right beside the original text lol. I mean I would probably be able to understand it if I exerted time and effort into reading Shakespeare, but I don’t have either, so.

Is there a bookshelf in your room? Nah but the top of my closet acts like one.

Do you need to wear glasses at all? Yes, all the time.

What's your favorite genre of books? Anything non-fiction, so books on history, memoirs, etc.

Do you think it's too early for Christmas music? Not in the Philippines. Christmas for us starts in September :) Anyone’s free to put up Christmas trees and lights or listen to Christmas music as soon as the clock strikes 12 midnight on September 1st.

What's the longest you've ever gone without speaking? Maybe during my dark days in 6th grade? I was super depressed, had no friends, had a strained relationship with my entire famly, and was holed up in my room all day long. It’s very possible I went several days without talking then.

Does your house have a garden? I wouldn’t call it a garden but we do have several trees and plants around the house, yes.

What color is the shirt you are wearing? It’s multi-colored stripes.

Do you know what brand of toothpaste you use? Colgate.

When was the last time you were on an airplane? Early 2019.

Do you have a permit or license? A driver’s license, yes.

Did you walk any long distances today? Nope. So far I’ve only gone down to the kitchen to fix myself a cup of coffee.

Are you currently wearing any make-up? I’m not.

How do you feel about bands covering old pop music? I personally don’t like most covers but I don’t take it against the bands. I just won’t listen to those versions.

Are your nails painted? Never are.

Do you use correct grammar online? Sure, unless I want to use bad grammar on purpose.

Do you agree with the statement that Miley Cyrus is a bad role model? I don’t think she even ever claimed to be one, so that’s an unfair accusation. I personally never had a problem with her and I admire her confidence and boldness in her performances and other things she does. Slide Away in particular is a very beautiful song.

Do you give out cards on Valentine's Day? No.

What are you listening to right now? I can hear the wind lightly blowing outside, but thankfully it’s no longer as violent as yesterday.

[scarletwitching]

(sorry it's about the mcu) It's always interesting to me that in the beginning of the films, the twins were not just eastern european but also heavily coded as romani, but as the movies went on, wanda became less and less "eastern european" and more americanized to the point that her next appearance is slated in a classic staple of american pop culture (a fifties tv show). it's been said before but wanda is like a new character each time she appears, and that's not said in a kind manner.

I feel like the MCU is about to become an unavoidable subject because… well, not to stomp on anyone’s fun, but I heard the Jaws theme song when I saw this. I have stuff to say about this subject that I don’t think anyone else has touched on yet and it’s the middle of the night and my sleep pattern is ruined.

There seems to be two things going on with MCU Wanda’s ever-changing everything: 1) No one was especially on-board with Whedon’s ideas and more broadly, no one can agree on who this character is supposed to be. 2) The post-Ultron movies have tried to mold the character to fit the actress better.

The latter is easy enough to explain. The very dark hair in Ultron didn’t suit her, and red is a better fit for her natural coloring. There’s a reason red hair and green eyes is such an iconique combination. They ditched the accent because, well, she’s no good at it. I think the changing wardrobe is partly this and partly an attempt to show character evolution.

The former reason, though, is where we can get into the weeds. Age of Ultron was a troubled production. One of the sticking points between Whedon and the studio was the dream/nightmare/mind control sequences, which the writer-director was attached to and which executives hated. Not a shock that they haven’t reappeared since. That the telepathic powers as a whole vanished is more curious, but I feel like the Russos, Markus, and McFeely don’t care about Whedon’s version of Wanda. They weren’t involved, and they don’t like it.

There was more back and forth with the accents than people remember. In 2013, The Wrap reiterated an earlier rumor that the twins would have British accents in the MCU. At first glance, that’s jarring, but sometimes, people who aren’t from Britain have British accents. It’s not my favorite choice for these characters, but it happens. Aaron Taylor-Johnson said he was the one who pushed for the Eastern European accents and for Pietro to have his white/silver hair (originally it was supposed to be brown). But he wasn’t sure, even while filming, if they were going to leave the accents in or ADR over all their dialogue. Once he was gone, there was no one to advocate for the inclusion of the accents, so everyone said, “Fuck it. She learned to talk with a US accent.”

There’s also the parts of their backstory that were cut, supposedly for time. Namely their Romani background (which seems to have been in the script) and any specific references to the US military being the ones to bomb their apartment building (something we can figure out from interviews and from context). Both things that were either already causing controversy or could have caused controversy, which were cut “for time” and for no other reason. Totally. Definitely. I suspect the later movies don’t pick up those threads for the same reason they drop the telepathy stuff. They’re not anything M&M and the Russos care about, and their stance is, “We don’t want to get into that.”

And then... there’s the Hydra backstory, which fits into the same category of “a thing that was dropped and it’s not hard to figure out why.” I have no clue what Whedon was thinking when he did that, and I don’t know how any future writer could incorporate it without doing an outright retcon. That wouldn’t be hard since there’s a reason most people thought those characters were held captive. The cinematic language in the Cap 2 end credits scene is at odds with what Whedon was trying to convey. When you have characters in cages looking drugged (complete with injection sites), what am I supposed to think?* “Wow, spooky”?Probably. Whatever he was going for, it didn’t work, and who is surprised that it was ignored? They should have fixed it, but this is another case of the later writers and directors looking at what Whedon did and not even caring enough to either acknowledge or contradict it.

That’s the theme here. That Markus, McFeely, and the Russos didn’t care about what Whedon did, but that they also didn’t replace it with anything. The stuff they did with Wanda was all plot-essential. Somebody’s gotta cause the superhero civil war, and guess who’s the easy choice. Somebody’s gotta care when Vision dies, and guess who’s the easy choice. You get where they’re coming from. They have 375 characters to worry about, and she’s not one of the popular ones. The end result is a character who isn’t really anything.

Even within his own movies, the characters Whedon was allowed to introduce into the MCU are half-baked. What if Vision was Adam Warlock? What if The Colonel meets Jean Grey? What if Quicksilver only existed to die? It’s a lot of stealing from various sources without thinking through the meaning and significance of what you’re stealing. James Gunn gives zero fucks about adhering to comics canon, but at least, he has concrete notions of who his versions of the characters are. They may not be what I wanted (#JusticeForMantis), but they’re cohesive entities on their own. Can you say that for Ms. “Let’s join Hydra and kill random South Africans and oh no, I’m scared of fighting”?

Lastly, the 1950’s housewife thing is more about the extremes of character interpretation. Whedon focused on Wanda’s past as part of the Brotherhood and used Ultron and – for fuck’s sake – Hydra as stand-ins for that (while ignoring that Wanda’s time in the Brotherhood was defined by the abuse she suffered and not by random murders she committed by mind controlling the Hulk). To quoth the man himself, “They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers.” He envisioned them as the kind of Radicals With a Point that superhero films love, but his execution didn’t match his vision. (Maybe it was better in the script, idk.)

In creating that godforsaken tv show, Feige is leaning on the perception of Wanda as a conservative figure. That idea comes from the fact that so much of her story is wrapped up in family and babies and sexist stereotypes. It feels mismatched with the former. (Not denying the realities of human complexity, just saying you should have a clearer vision for a made up person.) We’ll have to see how it plays out, but it seems like a case of no one agreeing on what this character believes or how she views the world. Or maybe it was Nightmare/Chthon/Mojo all along. Lotta maybes going on.

Anyway, the Americanization issue comes down to treating your own culture and worldview as default and trying to work around miscasting, and the overall issue is that you shouldn’t make characters who only exist to be sites of tragedy.

*They also look drugged at the beginning of Age of Ultron, when they’re with Hydra, and at no other point. Does Whedon associate that aesthetic with menace/villainy? (If so, yikes!!) Additionally, I’m gonna leave this here with the reminder that it is from the same movie.

[lovelytonys]

100 great things about megamind

basically i just watched megamind and wrote down everything that made me go “hey that’s good”

1. The opening monologue slaps I literally do not care about your “cliches” it’s GOOD

2. “8 days old and still living with my parents...pathetic right?”

3. The idea that Megamind is inherently good since his origin story should have been his dad saying he’s destined for “greatness” but the greatness got cut off uwu

4. Literally just the fact that Megamind was about to go to the Rich Nice House and his destiny changed at the last second,,,everything about this movie makes it a cinematic masterpiece

5. “A baby! How thoughtful!” “yes yes I saw it and thought of you”

6. “While they were learning the itsy bitsy spider I was learning how to dehydrate objects and rehydrate them at will”

7. When you hear the Bad to the Bone guitar riff kick in,,,,,,heck yeah babey!!

8. J.K Simmons is here! yeah!

9. Will Ferrell’s voice acting is literally SO darn good like even just from the beginning,,, the funny affectation of whatever kind of accent that is,,,,,the expressiveness of literally everything he says,,,,,I’m not actively a fan of Will Ferrell or anything but he just did a good job ok

10. “His heart is an ocean inside a bigger ocean”

11. Idk why but I just love the phrase “you fantastic fish you”

12. Metro Man is such a fun character. Like. A hero who shouldn’t be a hero, but he just….is one? Someone who’s idol-worshipped and, despite his grandeur, doesn’t exactly deserve it?

13. MEGAMIND’S CHARACTER DESIGN IS LITERALLY SO GOOD like the vivid colors of his skin and eyes? His COSTUME? His hilarious proportions, between the giant head and the skinny & scrawny everything else? Superb, you funky little alien

14. All dialogue between Megamind and Minion is god tier by default

15. The twist on “damsel in distress” where yeah the girl gets kidnapped but she is so not distressed and has the intellectual power in the situation as she roasts Megamind at every turn and he can’t combat anything she says

16. “Oh potato tomato potato tomato”

17. “I’m shaking in my BABY SEAL LEATHER BOOTS”

18. THE ENTIRE EXCHANGE BETWEEN MEGAMIND AND METRO MAN ABOUT JUSTICE AND REVENGE AND THE MICROWAVE OF EVIL AND WARRANTIES

19. “Can someone stamp my frequent kidnapping card” “You of all people know that we discontinued that”

20. The way this movie manages to SO effectively establish character while diving right into the action and keeping with a fun, fast pace? The world & characters are set up incredibly well AND the start of the journey/ “break into the new world” hits at a brisk 20 minutes? Lovely work, Dreamworks

21. When Highway to Hell kicks in with the lasers and Megamind dancing at the police,,,,,this is nothing short of priceless

22. “Imagine the most horrible terrifying evil thing you could possibly think of and multiply it…..BY SIX”

23. When you’re a supervillain who takes over the city and you say “let’s just have fun with this” to the citizens

24. *whispering behind the door* “now slam the door really hard!” *snickering like a 12 year old girl* “move they can still see you”

25. “Did you think this day would come?” “No, no not in a million years, not ever...I mean yes”

26. “That’s called a window, sir. All the kids are looking through them”

27. Crazy Train is SUCH a nice touch, the fade into Alone Again Naturally is great. The use of music in this movie is absolutely A+, MEGAMIND DID IT FIRST AND GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY AIN’T SPECIAL (jk gotg you’re so special ily)

28. The images of Megamind’s destruction & deterioration of the city are so creative and funny

29. *to a desk toy bird* “What’s your vacuum like?”  

30. “GOING OFF THE RAILS ON A CRAZY TRAIN SIR”

31. Haven’t yet mentioned how lovely the animation of Megamind’s face is! Every single frame, he’s so expressive

32. Mispronunciation of words like “school”, “Metro City”, and “melancholy”

33. This voice cast in general is so good like it’s not just big names phoning it in for an animated movie, they’re fully into it

34. Real Bernard doesn’t get much screen time but he’s hilarious

35. “Typhoon Cheese”, whatever that was gonna be

36. The juxtaposition in body language & facial expression between Real Bernard and Megamind Bernard,,,,,actually just the way Megamind’s physicality is transferred to the other characters he disguises himself as. Great stuff

37. Megamind’s off-the-walls high energy is so fun and electric

38. “This is a bad idea” “yes, a good idea for the greater good of bad” “maybe it seems good from your bad perception but from a good perception it’s just plain bad” “oh you don’t know what’s good for bad”

39. Ollo? Oh, hello

40. “I’m just yelling at my…..mother’s urn”

41. Megamind and Minion just saying “code” before things that aren’t in code. This movie is so good with its running gags, they don’t feel like “oh haha they used that joke again!” they feel like inside jokes between the characters I love it

42. Megamind fighting himself as Bernard while complimenting himself, COMEDY GOLD

43. The various occurrences of random life-altering things happening on a whim to the wrong people, like Hal getting the superpowers and earlier Metro Man being molded into a hero and Megamind landing in prison as a baby

44. The forget me stick

45. Space Dad and Space Stepmom

46. Every character Megamind inhabits always retains Megamind’s eyes

47. MR BLUE SKY PLAYING OVER HAL’S DISASTROUS TRAINING SEQUENCE AND THE FALLING IN LOVE SEQUENCE THAT INCLUDES DONKEY KONG AND MEGAMIND WEIRDLY TEXTING ON A FLIP PHONE (gotgv2 who? Don’t know her)

48. Roxanne’s positive influence making Megamind genuinely want to make the city better uwu

49. ROXANNE AND METRO MAN WERE NEVER A COUPLE! Lovely trope subversion

50. Tropes in this movie in general are so fun. This isn’t some uninspired genre parody. They don’t just subvert tropes in the exact way that you’d expect. I feel like the way that this movie plays with the superhero genre often feels unique and creative

51. Bernard’s character design kind of slaps tbh. The turtleneck, the hair, the glasses, all very nice

52. When Hal calls Roxanne “a really good looking one I’ve got my eye on” like she’s meat or something as opposed to Megamind valuing her personality…..makes ya think u know

53. T h e  b l a c k  m a m b a a a a a

54. “Maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore!” and Megamind & Minion’s subsequent falling out that served as a precursor to the disastrous date with Roxanne- it happens pretty much exactly halfway through the movie. Some people look down upon following structure to a T, but sometimes it’s satisfying when a movie perfectly follows structure and this movie’s structure is flawless

55. “Good luck on your date” “I will” “That doesn’t even make any sense” “I know”

56. Right after fighting w Minion when Megamind looks in a cracked mirror and frowns at his reflection but then changes into someone else, into Bernard, and then smiles? THE CINNAMON TOGROPHY, THE STORYTELLING

57. When Hal is just an incel whose feeling of entitlement is framed as disgusting and he’s not supposed to be sympathetic and Roxanne’s rejection of him is not framed as evil but rather completely justified? VERY epic of them, this movie would have SMASHED the pop culture scene if it came out today

58. The GRAVITY of the part when Roxanne accidentally reveals Megamind in the restaurant is so powerful that I can STILL barely watch it even though I’ve seen it so many times

59. The part that immediately follows where Roxanne shuts down Megamind is SO well done. Roxanne is giving out some harsh words to our dear protagonist, but she is not framed as the bad guy. The great thing about this scene is that they let Roxanne call out Megamind on how he’s been a jerk and she gets to be RIGHT. How very cash money of them! The emotion here isn’t anger at Roxanne because she’s ~being mean~ to Megamind. It’s a sting over the fact that she’s right, and the heartbreak over the dramatic irony of us knowing that Megamind is becoming a better person and Roxanne having no idea. Now Megamind is left with a decision that will show who he truly is on the inside: he could either retreat back into safe, evil ways for the rest of time because it’s easier to be bad because then no one expects anything from him and rejection is easier to handle, or he could ultimately choose to grow from this and recognize how he was wrong and how he has to change. The execution of this midpoint is exemplary.

60. “Do you really think I’d ever be with you?” “....no” the delivery of those lines is so good

61. “You were right! I was….less right!”

62. The Black Mamba is a god tier costume and the fact that it has its own theme song in the score makes it at least 6x better

63. WHEN BACK IN BLACK KICKS IN YEAAAHHHH (Iron Man who? Don’t know her) (Iron Man was already out at this point but how fun is it that this movie used TWO iconic mcu songs)

64. Megamind in the giant suit playing with cars

65. Hal SUCKS I love how much the movie wants you to hate him

66. The difference between Megamind and Hal/Titan/Tighten is so interesting to watch. How Megamind is the self-proclaimed “bad guy” but he’s not even out to do serious damage & it’s just a game to him, while Hal is out for blood but was created to be a hero

67. “Now it’s time for witty banter” “AAAAAAAAA” “I’m not really sure where to go with that”

68. “I’M CALLING A TIME OUT”

69. Twisting the Kryptonite trope by having Metro Man make up the copper weakness

70. “Does he have a hideout? A cave? A solitary fortress?” lol I understood that reference

71. “OW! MY GIANT BLUE HEAD!”

72. Metro Man’s confession scene is so good. Really, how often do you get a hero who feels that he was forced into being a hero? That’s usually a villain trope. Does the hero ever realize he doesn’t want to be a hero….and actually quit FOR GOOD? Again, the trope subversion is awesome

73. “I have eyes that can see right through leaaaaaaaad” that’s my favorite song

74. “You left the city to HIM! No offense” “no I��m with you”

75. “There’s a yin for every yang. If there’s bad, good will rise up against it.”

76. “I say we just go all GANGSTA on him” ms tina fey i would die for you

77. Megamind turns himself in to the police, the fact that he willingly submits himself to the punishment of being a villain at this point is a lovely and stirring way of showing the sense of justice he has deep down and showing his character development

78. When Roxanne gives Megamind a desperate & compassionate pep talk over live tv no matter what it means for her reputation :*))

79. When Megamind has 88 life sentences

80. “I. Am. Sorry!” *dramatically slides down door*

81. Megamind’s heartfelt and regretful admission of all his mistakes that brings his character arc to a head? Lovely

82. “Good luck” “WE’RE GONNA D I E! Hahahaha!”

83. “There is no Easter bunny, there is no tooth fairy, and there is no queen of England.”

84. MEGAMIND’S EPIC ENTRANCE BY COMING OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH

85. “Oh you’re a villain alright. Just not a super one.” “Oh yeah? What’s the difference?”

86. P R E S E N T A T I O N

87. METRO MAN THUNDER CALVES

88. Again with the green eyes continuity! Love that!

89. “Going somewhere? Besides jail?” *flies in a fancy pose*

90. When Megamind is ready to let everyone think Metro Man is back but Roxanne wants to see the real hero :*))

91. “This is the last time you make a fool out of me!” “I made you a hero, you did the fool thing all by yourself” SICK BURN

92. “There’s a benefit to losing. You get to learn from your mistakes”

93. WHEN THE DEHYDRATION GUN COMES IN CLUTCH

94. Minion being a drama queen lol comedy peaked in 2010

95. Minion’s Little Face

96. “GET BACK YOU SAVAGES” “Sorry he’s just not used to positive feedback!”

97. “Destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves”

98. When Megamind gets to parallel Metro Man’s entrance from the beginning of the movie and everyone cheers for him :*)) and he adds his own fun little twist by making a villain joke

99. “Megamind, defender of Metro City” “you know? I like the sound of that!”

100. Name a better villain to hero story. YOU CANNOT. Cinematic excellence. I am never disappointed.

[kissmeinfrenchh]

1: Name: France

2: Age: 24 3: 3 Fears: Snakes. Heights. Tornadoes 4: 3 things I love: Mountains. Blue skies. Peace of mind. 5: 4 turn ons: Kindness. Strength of character. Honesty. Principles.

6: 4 turn offs: Rudeness. Pretense. Arrogance. Unthoughtfulness. 7: My best friend: Jesus 8: Sexual orientation: Gay 9: My best first date: Err too many haha  10: How tall am I: 5′2  11: What do I miss: Freedom! 12: What time were I born: 7 in the morning 13: Favorite color: Blue 14: Do I have a crush: Not right now. 15: Favorite quote: An unexamined life is not worth living. 16: Favorite place: Anywhere I can see a clear view of the sky, mountains, trees 17: Favorite food: Still deciding 18: Do I use sarcasm: When talking to someone dull  19: What am I listening to right now: Safe With You 20: First thing I notice in new person: Vibe 21: Shoe size:  36-37 European size 22: Eye color: Brown i guess 23: Hair color: Black/brown 24: Favorite style of clothing: Homeless look 25: Ever done a prank call?: Yea 27: Meaning behind my URL: When i created this acc, i still haven’t had my first kiss yet. And i was already 2nd yr in college (WHAT!?) 28: Favorite movie: Cant decide!  29: Favorite song: Cant pick one 30: Favorite band: The 1975 31: How I feel right now: Hungry 32: Someone I love: My sister 33: My current relationship status: In a serious relationship 34: My relationship with my parents: Good 35: Favorite holiday: None 36: Tattoos and piercing i have: Tatts on my chest. I used to have an eyebrow piercing. Thinking of getting one again but i think my boss will disown me 37: Tattoos and piercing i want: Eyebrow piercing 38: The reason I joined Tumblr: My ex crush haha 39: Do I and my last ex hate each other?: No but we’re not talking 40: Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?: Yea 41: Have I ever kissed the last person you texted?: Yea 42: When did I last hold hands?: Couldn’t remember. 43: How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?: 30 minutes 44: Have You shaved your legs in the past three days?: I don’t. At all. 45: Where am I right now?: Office 46: If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?: Girlfriend 47: Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?: Loud 48: Do I live with my Mom and Dad?: Dad 49: Am I excited for anything?: Shoes I ordered haha 50: Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?: Nope 51: How often do I wear a fake smile?: Rare 52: When was the last time I hugged someone?: Couldn’t remember 53: What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?: Guess I’ll be single again  54: Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?: Probably..  55: What is something I disliked about today?: Nothing 56: If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?: Including dead people? Gotta be Socrates  57: What do I think about most?: The future 58: What’s my strangest talent?: Idk 59: Do I have any strange phobias?: I am scared shitless of people with physical disabilities. Ahh basta! Kanang mag kurog2 ang kamot. 60: Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?: Behind 61: What was the last lie I told?: I was asleep so I wasn’t able to reply 62: Do I prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?: The former 63: Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?: Yea yea 64: Do I believe in magic?: Yea 65: Do I believe in luck?: No 66: What’s the weather like right now?: Shitty 67: What was the last book I’ve read?: The Alchemist 68: Do I like the smell of gasoline?: Very 69: Do I have any nicknames?: Ya 70: What was the worst injury I’ve ever had?: Prolly that time i fractured my shin when skateboarding  71: Do I spend money or save it?: Save then spend 72: Can I touch my nose with a tongue?: What the? 73: Is there anything pink in 10 feet from me?: Ya 74: Favorite animal?: Gotta be doggos 75: What was I doing last night at 12 AM?: Sleeping 76: What do I think is Satan’s last name is?: Loser 77: What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?: The 1975 - It’s Not Living if it’s Not With You 78: How can you win my heart?: Be yourself  79: What would I want to be written on my tombstone?: “One who lived her best life” 80: What is my favorite word?: Love 81: My top 5 blogs on tumblr: Nop 82: If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?: Seek to have a relationship with Jesus 83: Do I have any relatives in jail?: Nope 84: I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?: Super strength. I know i know. I’m a simpleton haha  85: What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on?: Secret 86: What is my current desktop picture?: Windows default desktop pic 87: Had sex?: Yea 88: Bought condoms?: As a prank, yea 89: Gotten pregnant?: Nop 90: Failed a class?: Ya 91: Kissed a boy?: Ya 92: Kissed a girl?: Ya 93: Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?: Ya 94: Had job?: Ya 95: Left the house without my wallet?: Ya 96: Bullied someone on the internet?:  Ya 97: Had sex in public?: Ya 98: Played on a sports team?: Ya 99: Smoked weed?: Ya 100: Did drugs?: Ya 101: Smoked cigarettes?: Ya 102: Drank alcohol?: Ya 103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan?: Nop 104: Been overweight?: Ya 105: Been underweight?: Ya 106: Been to a wedding?: Ya 107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight?: Ya 108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight?: Ya 109: Been outside my home country?: Ya 110: Gotten my heart broken?: Ya 111: Been to a professional sports game?: Ya 112: Broken a bone?: Ya 113: Cut myself?: Ya 114: Been to prom?: Ya 115: Been in airplane?: Ya 116: Fly by helicopter?: Nop 117: What concerts have I been to?: Nothing omg 118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex?: Ya 119: Learned another language?: Ya 120: Wore make up?: Ya 121: Lost my virginity before I was 18?: Haven’t had sex with a guy if that’s what you mean 122: Had oral sex?: Ya 123: Dyed my hair?: Ya 124: Voted in a presidential election?: Nop 125: Rode in an ambulance?: Nop  126: Had a surgery?: Nop 127: Met someone famous?: I dont think so  128: Stalked someone on a social network?: Ya 129: Peed outside?: Ya 130: Been fishing?: Ya 131: Helped with charity?: Ya 132: Been rejected by a crush?: Ya 133: Broken a mirror?: Ya 134: What do I want for birthday?: Sperry topsiders or Dr Mrtns/Timberland boots pleaaaaase 

[moony-balloons]

it’s been a decade babes

lemme show yall one thing I drew every year from 2010 to 2019 so I can feel better about myself, yes. go on a journey with me.

2010. Colored pencil shit featuring my OC Cerise, back in the days where I really just did not give a shit if what I was drawing made any kind of sense. What is that outfit? Idk, I had fun.

2011. The water looks like galaxy shit bc they’re space pirates. so the water is space. do you get it? real boats don’t need anyone to steer it’s fine. The fucker in the orange and black is @fiddlezips​‘ idiot and the other dude is mine.

2012. tfw you drew Anime Cat Girl Nyaaa for the memes and it’s actually the best thing you drew that year. ngl I still dig the lighting on this one. check out that default photoshop grass brush though, that is some high brow shit.

2013. what if I used white lineart instead of black, wouldn’t that look neat? it sure would. kinda still want this lady to step on me.

2014. I’d like to say I have an explanation for this but I don’t. yes that’s the same idiot from the 2011 one, he has unfortunate staying power. he’s a. mage? who is too cool to walk now? I forget. I spent a lot of time on his makeup and you better look at it.

LOOK AT IT.

2015. I drew a deity from a friend’s long-running project, my good pal Tenor (whom I don’t think is on tumblr anymore but correct me if I’m wrong) and their Iotera universe. This is Bataashi, a shapeshifter who always looks incredible regardless of form, probably. v purple and sparkle.

2016. A fan character for the same project as 2015, a member of their plant-people species called Laies. Why did I do the thing with half of her hair being leaves? Because I hate myself and like to suffer is why.

2017. Again this same project, these 3 being the main characters of the comic Tenor was working on at the time. Those borders were fun in their own hellish way.

2018. I drew so fuckin little that year that this chibi (of a character belonging to @toranekohybrid​ and yet another species of Tenor’s) from ArtFight last year is the best I got. That said, I do still like the hair. I kinda wanna touch it.

2019. Hey look it’s Sailor Moon. This was the first Nice, Finished digital piece I had done in a really long time and it felt good. It’s from the beginning of this year but yknow what? It’s more than I did the year before and that matters.

Anyway thanks for walking down dumb ass memory lane with me. Have some honorable mentions.

local child found dead after being smothered in his sleep by a growlithe, more at 11.

my magnum opus. it was with a heavy heart that this wasn’t my 2010 selection, but it wouldn’t have been fair to all my other art to compare it to This.

His name is Gyarabro. That is all.

[fierceawakening]

So I have just received some awful news I cannot share yet

So in the interest of distracting myself/improving my bad mood with cross fandom silliness:

Mtg color alignments for Thanos and the murder kids? Anyone have ideas?

Here’s mine, fwiw:

Thanos:

Black is obvious (”unchecked life is Bad, and the obvious solution to this is judicious application of death”)

White is obvious (”things must be in the proper order for the sake of the greater good, and Bad Terribles happen if they are not”)

The third color could possibly have been Green if he saw The Quest more as keeping life and death in the proper balance

But I’m (following MaRo and) going with Blue--it’s not just that life and death need to be balanced out, it’s “if you don’t stop life from just... growing all over everything you are being Terribly Irresponsible,” which is much more Blue. He knows the order he’s imposing is artificial, he just thinks that’s a vast improvement on the default.

Nebula: 

...yep, she’s Blue. I don’t know what other Luphomoids are like exactly, but this particular Murder Child is definitely the MCU version of a vedalken.

I was thinking “Blue and Black pre-redemption, Blue and White afterward,” which I still think makes some sense... but her motivations are very emotion-driven which is Red (”Thanos made me suffer horribly. I want to make other people suffer horribly. At first I’m somewhat random about this because I can’t imagine turning against Thanos, but once this shows up as a possibility, YEEHAW”) so maybe Blue/Red?

...ffff now that I’ve thought of that I want a crossover with her on Ravnica during the spark war going after Dovin Baan

Dovin: Well, yes, you see, this plan does require large amounts of Planeswalkers to lose their powers and die horribly, but...

Nebula: ...!

Anyone who has interacted with Nebula for over three seconds: Dovin no

Dovin: ...but proper order must be maintained.

Nebula: *CHARGING BULL MODE ENGAGED*

Chandra, fists and hair ablaze: Back off, Blue! That guy’s MY nemesis! 

Chandra:

Chandra: ...never mind.

Chandra: I like this one. Can we keep her?

(Chandra is Terribly Disappointed when Nebula calms down and acts like your average vedalken until something sets her off. FALSE. ADVERTISING.) 

Gamora: 

I’m... not sure? Though marching straight past a Giant Death Army with (proverbially) your hands on your hips to confront the giant leading it and tell him off seems pretty Red, so I’m gonna go with that.

Maybe a bit of Green in there too actually, given the lecture she gives Thanos on Vormir when she thinks he won’t be able to get the Soul Stone. “You asked the universe for something and the universe said no” seems pretty Green to me.

Also would make sense that she’s the two colors Thanos isn’t. Him being like “I am intensely intrigued by this confusing yet fascinating Angry Smol” makes a lot of sense.

Ebony Maw:

Pretty much your standard Devoted Dark Cleric, so White/Black all the way.

Maybe some Blue in there given his powers and the hint that he might do actual surgery with those needles.

(I made him the actual medic in my fic, so my version of him is probably this.)

(Makes sense that he and Thanos get along well if they have the same alignment, too.)

Cull Obsidian:

He doesn’t really have a personality so idk? Though the Wiki suggests that he’s unique among the Black Order in that he enjoys his work where the others are more acting out of duty, so... Black/Red, I guess.

Proxima Midnight:

I’m going with Black/Red here too, just because responding to an enemy saying “Thanos will have nothing but dust and blood” with “We have blood to spare” is the most Rakdos line I have ever heard in my life. EVERYONE DIES BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY YOU

Corvus Glaive:

Another one who doesn’t really have a personality? But I’m gonna go with White/Black because he seems dutiful and honorable and to want to do things the right way, as shown by him ?!?!??!ing at ‘14 Thanos when he orders him to fire on his own guys but obeying anyway.