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A much older drawing i did of this AU, wayyy back when i first started writing it. I wanted to play with lineless art, and it. Was HARD. Im honestly proud of the end piece, especially considering how long the stupid thing took. It’s meant to be a kind of timeline of what the riders look like through out the story itself. Rob, DoB, RTTE, and then the last stretch. Most of these designs aren’t definitive though, i came up with them on the spot (Kari’s first design isn’t the same as what I’ve settled for now, but I’m super proud of the last Ruffnut) but it was, quite literally, the first artwork i did for this story at all, and felt I should share
Plus closeups, because the artwork is kind of big and i NEED people to see all the stupid details that went into this art piece that took me LITERAL years to finish
#I’ve said it once about a drawing for this AU. and ill say it again#some of these designs aren’t going to be the final look for their respective eras#though some will#if you asked me at the beginning of drawing this what the hardest part was#i would have said the metal for their helmets#now that it’s done?#TUFFNUTS DREADS#THOSE THINGS DROVE ME NUTS#but they’re ironically now one of the parts I’m most proud of#i added DETAILS#details ill save for a comment and not the tags#but ✨here you go✨#httyd/the deep crossover#ant nekton#antaeus nekton#the deep oc#snotlout jorgenson#ruffnut thorston#tuffnut thorston#ruffnut and tuffnut#fishlegs ingerman
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the honda odyssey, huh?
#poolverine has taken over my every waking thought#they're the defintion of matching each others freak#you can tell my brainrot is bad by the fact that I willing drew a car#and don't get me started on this pose it took me ages to figure out#anything for peak old men yaoi#hope you enjoy the freaky little details I added in here#poolverine#deadclaw#poolverine fanart#deadpool#deadpool fanart#deadpool and wolverine#wolverine#fanart#my art#digital art
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Quiet corners 🐈⬛
#cats#black cats#art#fantasy art#inks#lil series of pictures i made based on photos of my sister’s neighborhood#it’s a very hilly and cramped and cute place …#and as usual i added some details of my own#esp cats …#black cat#btw#sry yes i already posted the first one on its own …#posting it again with these other two cuz they’re all based off the same area
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Omg guys he just genuinely likes bugs and mollusks and critters 😭💘💔 Forced to noble when he just wanna crouch and watch things skitter in the dirt…
#Dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#spoilers#dungeon meshi manga spoilers#toshiro nakamoto#shuro#tfw you latch onto the first person you see that shares your interest#I’M SOBBINGGG#Yeah i didn’t know the hag monster tidbit existed so now I’m adding stuff into my masterpost#6 yo toshiro watching a snail and tuning out his nanny calling for him I’m screaming#This post is blowing up so: just for your information I made a masterpost on his whole family situation we do get a lot of info on him#His character goes quite deep it’s just not relevant to the wider story so Kui doesn’t go into details in the plot#So yeah look for that on my blog if you want. Also he likes flowers <3#Nature lover toshiro
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Sarisoka
#since togruta have a lot of Indian influence I wanted to draw her in a sari#wish I added more detail but it is what it is#star wars#ahsoka tano#star wars fanart#my art#snawleyys art#star wars art#ahsoka#digital art#sw tcw#togruta
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a friendly little murder 😊🐦⬛🖤🗡️ the crows really said you're going to wear purple leather and you're going to like it
#teia cantori#viago de riva#auri de riva#lucanis dellamorte#illario dellamorte#datv#dav#dragon age#my ocs#my art#girl help im getting attached to side characters#it's like a little family if you think about it. if you think about. it. if you really think about it. if you really#lowkey wish i hadn't spent so much time on this but u know what#it's been a rough couple weeks i can overwork sm if i want#if there's two things i can always count on in my times of need it's organizing things into categories and adding tiny details to armor#dav spoilers#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#GAH sorry sorry sorry i forgot
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Thinking about trod au 😔😔😔😔😔
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rewatched treasure planet
#dreamworks trolls#trolls#trolls branch#trolls john dory#trolls clay#trolls au#treasure planet au#oooouughghg treaure planet!! love it!! love the characters!!! love their dynamics!! love the art!!!! love the music!!!!#was rereading some tags on a past post and @sili-a mentioned B &JD feeling like jim & silver#and hoooboy do I enjoy that image#in this au there would be some changes from the movie it wouldn't be a 1 to 1 comparison.#clay and branch have the strongest bond as clay did come back after earning his doctorate#but by then branch has already been struggling for a couple years#treasure planet=perfect family harmony??#idk the details really#i don't really have any plans for this heh heh#trolls are there own alien species: still considered small compared to other species#trolls aren't usually taken seriously#really proud of my rhonda#first attempt on digital painting!#it was pretty fun but also confusing lol#so I just kept it loose#gave up at some point hence why i just used the space frame straight from the movie lol just added a pole for b to hold onto#trolls fanart#my art <3#excuse the messiness
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spent like an hour trying to find a post abt the disparity of origin companion's content in bg3 and couldn't so, hey, this fucking sucks
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#the fact that the astarion favoritism is baked into the game itself is so darksided oh my god#bc what do you mean wyll has TWO THIRDS THE AMOUNT OF DIALOGUE???#anyways this thread was also how i found out that astarion is the only one with durge specific scenes#and bc the writer was being forced into crunch and writing for both of them. lol#ETA I know abt Wyll being recast/rewritten and Karlach being added last. the post I linked goes into all of that in detail#as well as linking to another post that goes into even more detail and explains where these numbers came from.#you do not have to tell me. or accuse me of making shit up to make people mad. i know and i'm still mad lol#game design is very complicated yes but there's many ways they could've avoided giving the one black character the least amount of content
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More on the tadc horror au of mine. Jax time
#jax#my art#hes still a menace ofc#just uhm. literally bloodthirsty#took inspo from dif horror i like and ran with it for him#honestly didnt need to change him all too much just make him unnerving by saturating his pallet and adding details#jax the amazing digital circus#the amazing digital circus#tadc horror au#horror au#horror tadc au#art
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Armand...you have bewitched me...
#was going to make it less detailed but ended up adding more and more details but#i think im getting better at portraits! and proportions!#still not great but like im getting there i think perhaps#need to get better at simplifying tho#anyways armand!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11#go watch iwtv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nYOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#iwtv#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#fan art#art#painting#portrait#artwork#artists on tumblr#the vampire armand#armand#iwtv armand#maybe ill draw him with brown eyes next time#sorry i believe in brown eye supremacy#armand fanart#vampire armand#armand iwtv#drawing#illustration#digital art
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okay now please doodle Charles and Edwin’s wedding. Also love your art it’s so cute and loveable in a way
Sherwani for Charles and morning dress for Edwin, yay
ko-fi
And you get a little headcanon/concept
At some point during their friendship, way before Port Townsend, Charles mentioned the tradition of wearing gold at weddings. He did so in a sad sort of way, as he had seen the pictures from his parents wedding, and knew her mum had not been allowed to wear a lehenga nor many gold accessories.
Maybe, as these things are meant to bring happiness to the couple, he mentions that as a child he believed his parents marriage would have been happier if she wore those things.
Edwin starts to collect gold items. He doesn't analyze the reason, but if a case offers gold as payment? Edwin is taking it. Charles thinks nothing of it, it's just one of Edwin's quirks.
After his revelations in Port Townsend, Edwin will eventually realize a few things regarding his gold rush.
And they will have a lot of gold jewlery for their wedding day!
#ask ask ask#dead boy detectives#dbda#payneland#edwin x charles#alright so i knew i wanted charles in a sherwani though i did not know the name#to make things easier for myself i decided he's punjabi#that being said he is biracial so i didn't know if should incorporate something from his british heritage as well#i decided that meh the ceremony will be british enough#also i added some details#to both his and edwin's outfit#that are not very traditionally masculine#this is a very queer wedding#i was so scared of this request people you have no idea#thank you girlfriend for dealing with me rambling about it
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oops ponied more lifers (Jimmy and Joel are redesigned lol, design notes and original under cut)
With Tango I wanted to play with half body/split coloring and make him look scorched, including his horn which will just smoke while he's not using magic. I'd like to think he's absolutely fine and all that's changed is that he can only conjure fire magic but he doesn't care that much. His tail and mane can burst into flame whenever
BigB is a big guy with a thousand yard stare and prey animal behavior with his ears constantly tucked back. I really like the idea of him having a huge tail dragging behind him, adds to the unnerve a tiny bit. When people look away he turns into a hyperrealistic creaking horse
Why did I make Jimmy all yellow. His color is blue!!! Blue!!!! Even if I usually highlight him with yellow because it just looks nicer but!! Blue..!! Seeing Lizzie build a blue parrot for him inspired me to finally redesign him, his coloration is based on the blue quaker parrot! The canary theme can still work with this, I'd like to imagine his flight feathers started going yellow and he wasn't just born with canary feathers. Also tried to get across that he's a lanky ass pony but makes himself look smaller
Joel I think works so much better when he's relatively monotone and the green highlights are implemented sparingly (you know, as highlights). I think it makes him look more special even with normal horse colors than if he was mostly green, kinda loses that bit of the design that really identifies Joel AS Joel. Yeah my first Joel design was garbo. Also he's very angry that god made him an earth pony and tiny. sorry little guy
Also also I made this little video where Joel eats Scott and runs away with Jimmy you're welcome
#jimmy solidarity#tangotek#joel smallishbeans#bigb#bigbstatz#omg whaaat a blue pony bigb....? no way#My first set of designs were kinda. bland. a lot of them. so I went a little wild with the different patterns and details in this one#trafficblr#ponyfication#? I guess thats a tag that exists I might as well use it#tubby art#I accidentally deleted BigB's name on the 1st image and added it back on mobile lol please ignore that
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launching a rescue mission!
from utilities included, ch. 8
masterpost
#one piece#sanji#zoro#zosan#nami#usopp#helmeppo#koby#bartolomeo#other ppl but theyre just cameos#utilities included#DONT draw crowds. i suffered. i cannot explain. i didnt even detail that many crowd ppl but i was fighting for my life the whole time#blood sweat and tears. ill be complaining about this one for a while#BUT. IM SO HAPPY WITH IT?!#shoutout to emmie for helping me with the barto pose#and shoutout to bege for bringing a whole infant to a rager. my favorite detail that i added to please myself#anyway i learned i love drawing koby and barto
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happy last life anniversary!
#mumbojumbo fanart#mumbo jumbo fanart#last life#last life fanart#trafficblr#traffic series#traffic smp#life series#life series smp#lmk if u can spot all the little details i added :3#mumbo fanart#mumbo jumbo#last life mumbo#kyuu art
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Revolutionary Girl Utena: Gender in Context
beneath the cut, I discuss the RGU's portrayal of gender in the context of 1990s Japan.
in Ikuhara's interview with Mari Kotani, he stated that in traditional Japanese society, "prince" meant "patriarch." the same is true in Western societies--there was a time when a prince would be an heir to a royal line. by 1997, this meaning had died out of large parts of the world. even the association between princes and traditional masculinity was fading. Saionji, the weakest, most pathetic man in the show, is a parody of historical Japanese masculinity, with his kendo and his blatantly regressive beliefs about women.
in RGU, prince may still mean patriarch, but in a far more subtle fashion. Ikuhara and Kotani discussed the changing expectations for men in the latter half of the 20th century--it became gauche to fight over a woman with one's brawn, so instead, power struggles were played out in the arena of looks and sex appeal. one can see this reflected in the character Akio, whose power as a prince arises from his ability to turn "easy sensual pleasure based on dependency" "into a selling point with which to control people."
Akio has his moments of showboating masculinity, but when preying on Utena, he operates by making himself seem non-threatening and soft.
not only that, but he purports to want to allow students to express their individuality and thus approves of Utena's masculine form of dress. this is a front--by the end of the show, he's telling Utena that girls shouldn't wield swords. thus, through Akio's character, the show argues that traditionalist patriarchy in Japan isn't gone, but instead has only been papered over with false progressivism.
with all that said, there seems to be more to the character. he's taken the family name of his fiance, Kanae, and whatever material power he has in the school is dependent upon her family. in Japanese society, this is considered a humiliating position to be in, something that only a shameless man would do. the show never gives the audience any insight into how Akio feels about this--is he unbothered entirely, or are his actions against the Ohtori family an expression of his repressed anger? does he harm the children under his care to compensate for his humiliation?
this aspect of Akio's character may seem irrelevant in light of the larger, immaterial social forces at work in the show. however, I would argue that it was included for a reason. Akio, despite his status as ultimate patriarch of Ohtori, is in fact a highly emasculated character, to the point where lead writer Enokido even said that he is driven by an infantile mother complex.
to explain why Akio was portrayed this way, we have to discuss Japanese history. the nation suffered a major defeat in WWII and was forced to accept whatever terms the United States laid out for it. for an examination of how the Japanese have never truly processed those events and have plunged into modernity with reckless abandon, I recommend Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent. to sum it up briefly, in a very short period, the nation regained its economic footing, and by the 1980s had the largest gross national product in the world. this economic boom may have allowed Japan to maintain a sense of sovereignty, dignity, and power, but it was inherently fragile.
the infamous "bubble economy" lasted from 1986 to 1991. during this time, anything seemed possible; financial struggles appeared to be a thing of the past, and capitalist excess reached new heights. the ghosts of this period can be felt across Japanese media; for instance, think of the final shot of Grave of the Fireflies (1998), where the two dead children look down on Kobe, glowing an eerie green to imply its impermanence. the abandoned theme park from Spirited Away (2001) is explicitly referred to as a leftover from the previous century, when many attractions were built and then tossed aside in a few short years.
the bubble popped in 1992, leaving an entire generation feeling cheated. the bright futures they'd been promised, which had actually materialized for their parents and older siblings, had been lost to them overnight. economic crises are often accompanied by gender panics. to quote from Masculinities in Japan, "The recession brought with itself worsening employment conditions, undermining the system of lifelong employment and men’s status of breadwinners in general. The unemployment rate was rising, and although it never reached crisis levels, men could no longer feel safe in their salaryman status. Their situation was further complicated by the rising number of (married) women entering the workforce."
with this in mind, Akio's character can be taken as a representation of masculinity in crisis in 90s Japan. he's forced to rely on women for his position in life and has failed to save his only relative, Anthy. he tries to escape his misery through hedonism, perhaps an allegorical representation of how men tried to maintain their old standard of living after the economic bubble burst.
but of course, Akio is not the main character of RGU--the story is about girls. mangaka Yamada Reiji discussed the series in the context of the 90s, stating the following:
while I opened this essay by discussing the prince, the same points could be made about the princess. despite the increasing irrelevance of royalty, princess is still an important concept. how does it relate to the socioeconomic landscape of the 90s?
in Yamada's view, RGU is full of relics of the 80s; for instance, the figure of the ojou-sama, an entitled young woman who never lifts a finger for herself. during the economic bubble, it was increasingly common for women to be entirely taken care of by the men in their lives. Yamada names Nanami as a clear ojou-sama type character: she weaponizes her femininity, demanding to be rescued, doted on, and served.
however, by 1997, the ojou-sama could no longer expect to get what she wanted. from the 80s to the 90s, the percentage of women in the workforce increased around 15%; it was no longer viable for most women to be "kept" by their families. as the men experienced the humiliation of not being able to provide for their wives and children, women were undergoing a disillusionment of their own.
Yamada blames Disney for creating the ideological structure which led women astray. obviously, the company is known for its films about princes rescuing princesses. in Yamada's recounting, during the 80s, the company was infiltrating Japan through its theme parks as well; across the country, Disneylands were opening up, and people were buying into the escapism the corporation offered. Japan, as America, became a country of eternal children. its people were waiting for a prince to appear and save them.
but fairy tales can't stave off reality forever. Yamada claims that RGU embodies the rage of young women who woke up one day and realized that they had been raised on a lie. this anger pervades the work from beginning to end.
though RGU was created in a particular social context, its lessons can be extrapolated to any time and place. as the first ending tells us:
I hope this essay helped provide more context for the series. thanks for reading!
#rgu#commentary#revolutionary girl utena#this was originally a part of another essay but i revamped it and added a lot more detail
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