#doomed to fail

[chronicsydspams]

question: do y'all think the Minecraft film would be better if they went about the "Enchanted" route with starting off with live action characters and then stuck with animation (and i mean Proper animation, not whatever they're trying to do here) for the Minecraft world or do you think this was doomed to fail no matter what option they took?

(also now that you think about it, isn't it SO much better that Blumhouse got their hands on the FNAF film? Like it's nothing perfect but i bet WB would have probably used CGI for the animatronics making them look horrendous)

[garashir]

one of my favorite things in video games is when you’re given a quest objective that You Will Fail no matter what you do

[chloesimaginationthings]

Guilt will follow Michael in every FNAF universe..

[marvellousstawler]

Marvo, you're making the thing wrong.

It occurred to me that I'm not using my tumblr for its intended purpose. (I have honestly probably made more posts about what the blog's purpose is than actually using it for anything, which is very like me). It's "Marvo makes a thing," not "here is a piece of thing Marvo is making."

It's a progress blog. I shouldn't be waiting until the progress is "worth reporting;" monumental, or specific to just one big project, or entertaining/useful to the beautiful 10 of you who see this. I should be treating ALL progress as significant, even if it's small, even if it's self-indulgent (or "not important"), even if there's nothing. No matter who does or does not see it.

For like a month-ish I've been journaling my Art, Writing and Reading progress (yes, reading is difficult for me), in a small notebook. Starting from now I will be endeavouring to post those progress entries here for everyone to see. To hold myself accountable, maybe? Or, maybe, someone else will find it inspiring (which would be heccin awesome), either by copying the idea or by getting competitive, I guess. I have a slight worry that I'm going to put someone down by "gloating", but at the same time, acknowledging my own progress isn't gloating! I work 9-5 and more and more these days I feel like I'm doing "nothing." It's the responsibility of Past Marv to remind Future Marv that she IS doing stuff and she's doing just fine.

I had previously made Tuesday my journal day, so I'll post an entry today, but going forward it should probably be Monday. D&D is today! Don't expect consistency, though. The sheer volume of digital ink spilt on the apparent "purpose" of this blog should attest to my fickleness.

[albonium]

french university system is fucked because students get basically zero support from professors, that's why i stopped after the second year of the general chemistry and physics bachelor and did a material science and engineering bachelor in a tiny department with 30 people. professors had time to explain everything and were waaaay more available

[jadeazora]

Numerous exterminations since the late-1800s? Survived.

Getting into turf wars with Cherri Bomb? Survived.

21 losses to the Radio Demon? Survived.

Getting vaporized by Adam? Died, but still survived.

I really hope next season Pentious' general unkillability is mentioned when the cast finds out he made in to Heaven. (If the elder Seraphim don't try to hide things anyway, but I can see him and Emily rebelling if need be.)

[cubbihue]

Vhnemdkjf purble irep! Can we see more fairy irep and anti-fairy peri?

Yup!! During their schooling, where the most amount of swaps happened, the two would end up swapping in more than just color palettes!

Sometimes Peri would get caught scheming and plotting Irep's demise (Revenge for Ruining his Science Project). Or Irep will get caught doing something very nice and wholesome for another Fairy (Helping a new student find their way around school).

Just as Anti Cosmo and Cosmo has a bit of each other's personalities mixed up, Peri and Irep has a bit of an overlap in behaviors, haha. They both love to monologue, for example. The more swaps a pair does, the more mixed they get!

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[shkika]

the amount her death haunts me is unreasonable

[demigods-posts]

me whenever i see people write off annabeth as an annoying and controlling and crazily jealous girlfriend with anger issues. understanding that the foundation of the rhetoric is based off of annabeth's behavior toward percy and rachel is tbotl and tlo. except annabeth's behavior in those books is soley due to the surplus amount of traumatic experiences she's had. ranging from her parents neglecting to care for her well-being when spiders attacked her in the middle of the night as a seven-year-old. to watching everyone she's ever dared to care for die, abandon, or leave her for a better option. so it's much more likely than annabeth was expressing great mental and emotional distress during a period of her life where it was uncertain if the boy she loved would drop dead on his sixteenth birthday. on top of having to uphold a reputation as the best strategist at camp half-blood and devise a plan to fight in a war and save the world before she's a sophomore in high school. so the notion that annabeth is an abusive and toxic individual lacks the consideration that maybe she was just a child forced to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders at all times.

[ganondoodle]

did a little sketch yesterday that i really liked and tried to get it done today just so i got literally anything to post- but i fell into the trap of 'making sketches to elaborate and thus really stiff and non fun' (for me), ... soooooo .. im redoing the whole thing

but the idea was a mummy ganondorf for my (yes still existing) totk rewrite; i wanted to make him more scary looking and also emphasize just how horrid it must be to be kept in between life and death by having your heart grabbed by a cold and vengeful magical hand for thousands of years (in this case the ancient queen .. which i also tried to sketch despite not showing up aside from her dissolving hand)

the spell starting to fail and his body being more damaged in some parts (jaw being only the bones left for example) and his chest open from being slowly eaten up by the queens magic, the ribs contorting around it like its a gravitational pull- sounds cooler than it looks bc this sketch did not work out, so im saving the details for the .. hopefully, better version

[nataliabdraws]

imagine you're Maedhros, you're at least thousand years old, have survived (and took part in) several kinslayings, survived the Horrors™ and are trying to recruit a reclusive elven people to join your fight only to end up being violently humbled by said elven people's princess who happens the elven equivalent of a 13 year old at the time.

anyway i was thinking about the one time Narien meets Maedhros while he was still alive and how much of a menace she was about it (she absolutely had a crush on him but you'd have to pry that info from her cold dead hands). i did write a short story about their meeting but idk if it will ever see the light of day

[phantomrose96]

Any recommendation I make will first and foremost come from “do I think this is good media?” which I’m calling out to be clear this is not me saying “it has The Queers what else do you need?”

The Silt Verses is good because it’s good. But also big The Silt Verses win that I’m on episode 23 and I think we’ve racked up 4 non-binary characters so far. And the total lack of any romantic or sexual plot lines is a cool win for the asexual aromantic agender agenda.

[demigod-shenanigans]

Feeling some type of way about Leo deciding Jason is the one who needs saving when Jason’s been the one saving people all his life.

The thing is, once they realize what the prophecy means, Jason decides if it’s him or Leo, it has to be him. He outright states this in his narration twice:

As much as Jason loved his life, he couldn’t let his friend die for his sake. He could never live with the guilt. ~ House of Hades

He knew the risks. But he wanted to take those risks himself, not put them on Leo. ~ Blood of Olympus

And the thing is, Leo knows this. Jason never tells him, but Leo still knows it. He doesn’t tell Jason and Piper his plan because he knows they’d never allow it. Because he knows Jason, stubborn hero leader that he was raised to be, would never let it be him.

Leo knows Jason would die for him and he will not allow it.

Thinking about how one of the first things Leo says when he manages to string words together after learning what happened to Jason in The Burning Maze is “He did what Jason always did. He saved the day.”

[another-day]

“were we even really friends in this one?”

ii 16 really messed me up

alt under cut

this one doesn’t have the blur effect just because i like how the drawings looked

[cookiekitkat8484]

It has come to my attention that people who haven't read the comics don't realise Wallace was the one who harassed scott into being his friend. Like he saw that nerd at uni and went oh yeah that's my guy now. This bitch would not shut up and showed up at his house uninvited to hang out till scott gave in and befriended him, then they got suuuper drunk and scott let him crash at his. He comes to family dinners, is best friends with his sister, and chats to his mum.

He despises envy more than anything and is furious when she tries to mess with his life again and scott gets hurt, so he cooks him breakfast and comforts him. He coaches scott in fighting and helps with strategies so he doesn't get his ass kicked. He bullies him to leave the house because there's a heatwave and he wants to make sure he doesn't get heatstroke. Like they're close enough Wallace walks around in his underwear (though scott whines about it).

I've seen people assume Wallace supports scott out of pity but that man is a bitch and morally questionable (affectionate), I do not think he would put up with it at all if he didn't want him around, especially given he can barely afford to support them both. When they stop living together he doesn't just kick him out it's because their landlord kicks them out, he actively enchorages scott to move in with Ramona out of care for him and offers to stay with him if he needs it, though ends up signing a lease with his boyfriend (in his defence scott didn't ask for him to stay and decided to try make things work with Ramona) but still let's him stay at the new apartment with them when Ramona kicks him out.

Yeah he's mean to scott sometimes and makes fun of him/is brutally honest but he basically became part of Scott's family and part of that is calling people out when they're being a total jackass and teasing them, he's that kinda guy and scott knows that he doesn't actually hate him or something. Yeah scott will do puppy dog eyes if he wants something but wallace is frequently nice to him on his own initiative and scotts not a suck up to Wallace, he can be a bitch right back at him.

They're a really important part of each other's lives. though I can understand people not familiar with the characters who watched the show thinking Wallace doesn't care about scott being gone, literally all the characters reacted super casually. Bryan has tried to clarify his way of trying to cope is him "being a jerk"/disconnecting/acting apathetic. Also in the show o'malley basically confirms Wallace had feelings for scott and that was why he had the affair with Todd and you can quote him on that, aswell as scott admitting how they became roomates was "somewhat gay" in the comics, so there's definitely some weird more than friends emotional mess tied in there.

comic panels i reference under the cut

TLDR wallace lives with him because he cares about him, whether you read that as still somewhat romantic or now platonic, with either interpretations fitting better with different versions of the story

[canisalbus]

I've been following you for years, and I love your art. Seeing you repost your older art pieces reminded me how much I loved the angry, bitter, miserable Machete art and how it resonated with me... but a part of me is also so happy to see the current art of him being happy. Cute art of him as a unicorn, or chilling in a bathtub with Vasco. Like, we're all growing and healing :')