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"Seeking to ease the burden of solitude, lonely Trainers tell Zoroark to show illusions to them."
#pokemon#pokemon black and white#pokemon bw#n harmonia#natural harmonia gropius#pokemon n#zoroark#clai's art#god damn ittttt its 3am again i need to. stop trying to do all my art in a single day but i know if i stop i might not finish ever BDJBDHFB#anyway heehoo. ouch#i said before that i hc zoroark to have Exceptional memory that they create their flawless illusions with but--#--i like the idea that its been so long. so much has happened. that the illusions of his memories of darmanitan have faded#i'm thinking like. as kids zorua did this all the time. conjuring illusions of all the pokemon he and n played with in the forest#and pretending to play with them again. at the time they didn't think they'd be in the castle forever#but as the days went on and n understood his place in team plasma more. they realized they wouldn't leave for a long time#so bringing up the forest became bitter. zoroark stops doing it. only when n is at his absolute lowest during bw1 does he ask--#--for zoroark to bring it up one last time. it doesn't really help. but they're both not sure what else could#my final point. i hate drawing backgrounds BDJVDJFHJD#cryign. to bed with me i cant keep staying up like this
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Prompt 299
Hear me out- Ghosts have wings. They have wings, which are affected by their cores, and can make them disappear from sight if they want or need to. You got that? Good.
Ecto-contaminated people? Don’t have wings. Liminals and Halfas, who have developed cores? Do have wings, and they can’t hide said wings, because unlike ghosts? Their bodies are physical living flesh.
Now Gotham? Ecto-contaminated, there’s no doubt about it. The amount of portals that have been opened there and death pits and death cults… yeah it’d be surprising if it wasn’t. But again, no one really notices, because at most? Most just get a bit of eyeshine.
The Bats however? Oh man are they freaking out when they wake up with aches in their back and feathers starting to poke through their skin. Curse? Nope! Welcome to Liminality, enjoy the second puberty of wings, emotion-sharing, fangs, claws, and whatever else you might develop- also enjoy the whole eating fear thing. (Wait, the what-)
#DCxDP#DPxDC#Prompts#Liminal Batfamily#Except for Jason who is straight up a Halfa#Halfa Jason#Comes out from the Pits with massive fuckin wings bursting wide from his back#Which is hilariously how the batfam figure out that Red Hood is Jason almost immediately when he returns to Gotham#And Jason is so wrong-footed the first time he gets utterly slammed with the rest of the fam’s emotions and utter Joy at him being Alive#Jason has albatross-shaped wings that have protruding bones & a glittering underside like an explosion or falling star#In human form they’re more naturalistic red-brown colors with black & white patterning#Bruce’s wings are massive black ones that fade to a gray on the top like a moving shadow#Dick’s is deep blues & flickering stars & dust#Do you see my vision#Shadow Core Bruce#Star Core Jason#Storm Core Dick#Wind Core Tim#Shadow Core Damian#Light Core Cass#Sun Core Duke#Sea Core Steph#Earth Core Barbara#yes this includes metals#yes Steph can control water & paints & has canisters full of glitter water for mischief#Remind me to describe the others’ wings#because I am worried about running out of tags or Tumblr eating them lol#but also imagine ghost chirp au too#And it could even be before the JL have formed or it could be after#But if it's before JL form or early JL I just think it'd be funny if they only know Batman with wings lol
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“men are always willing to believe two things about a woman: one, that she is weak, and two, that she finds him attractive.”
truly insane to have a character say this and then make them actually attracted to men in any capacity. btw.
#dragon age#morrigan dragon age#i know i’ve said this before#captain holt voice. and you’ll hear it again!!#like listen. i know it would change the implications of the ritual. but clearly they’ve already considered#that you can have sex with people you’re not attracted to bc she can sleep with an unromanced warden or alistair or loghain#yknow it just ties into the whole. my mother raised me to be a certain type of way but that’s not me#i really like her friendship w a female warden and feel like it’s a good romance on-ramp but it would also be thematically interesting#if she were asexual#but i know 1) leliana was originally supposed to be a lesbian and that didn’t fly#and 2) if it was on their radar even a little bit. they would have avoided it bc of Problematic Implications#ie discourse about corrective rape. even though she’s the one who initiates it and makes it very clear. if she’s not in a romance with#that character. that it’s just doing a job that needs to be done and there is no emotional attachment there#i also think. perhaps. they could have done something different for the ritual ESPECIALLY if they’re going to call it that#like obviously it’s a fade to black scenario but persistently calling it a ritual makes me think there’s something Else that happens too#maybe lean into that#anyway i’m just saying there’s workarounds for these excuses i made up lmao#mine#morrigan
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why is mattel so allergic to giving their dolls curly natural hair
#like. i know irl black women can do whatever they want with their hair#black hair is super versatile and that's legitimately amazing#and i know giving hundreds of thousands of dolls tiny little braids would be very expensive to manufacture#even if the process is totally automated#but. would it kill them to give their dolls tighter curls??#or not just slap a few braids on top of straight hair and go 'eh good enough'#like. there are SO many natural hairstyles they could do that don't involve microbraiding doll hair#half up half down. fauxhawks. bantu knots. pineapple updos. tree braids. afros. afro puffs. thick twists. french braids#goddess braids. undercut fades. pixie cuts. literally just ponytails#like! there are so many options! and it feels like they keep hitting the mark#monster high
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Blooorrrboooooooo
#getting back to your old wip and trying to mimic your artstyle IS HARD#I didn't know how to shade in the fading ibis pen anymore#i was like bruh i dont like you#i dont even fw special pens anymore now the bestie is the color picking wheel and some basic pen#bruuuhhhh#i think i did the coat well tho?#sorry for THE HAAIIRR#it's a disaster girlll#they weren't lying when they said shading BLACK HAIR is a NIGHTMARE????#hello girl i need to call an ambulance and idk if its for my drawing or me#the lightest shading you could have possibly applied to artttt and GUESS WHO DIIDDD ITTTTT#they look kinda nice tho#even if im a forever bird poop nico hair haterrr#someone could appreciate it...?#drdt#danganronpa despair time#my art#nico hakobyan#pokemon#drdt pokemon au#zigzagoon
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Wataru and Keisuke on a winter date!
As for the dog, Rachel and I decided that Wataru needs a dog and Miran was created. I love her so much, she's my sweet girl.
#if anyone wants to know more about miran i will talk about her forever#she's the dog i wish i could have but can't because i'm very allergic to them#i love wataru and keisuke so much#there are not enough words to explain how insane they make me#initial d#wataru akiyama#keisuke takahashi#keitaru#wataru <3#keisuke <3#my art#faded art#i love them i love them i love them#btw they are sharing the coffee and they both needed to compromise on the way it was made lol#i headcanon they like their coffee the opposite ways (wataru - black and keisuke - lots of cream and sugar)#first time drawing a dog ever too
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The sukugo fight can't get animated any sooner I'm craving sukugo tiktok edits
#jjk#ryomen sukuna#gojo Satoru#sukugo#my post#sukugo's date night#Grown ass men beating each other up looking each other in the eyes thinking about love while a cutesy song plays in the background 😍#I saw a tiktok edit of Sukuna annihilating everything with the song “what is love?” by TWICE playing I was like wait a minute THISSS!!!#but with the Sukugo fight!!!!#I have a whole montage in my brain hear me out.... starting from 2:27 minutes in#Wonder where you are?~ I'm gonna find you~ Wonder where you are?~ I'm so dying to see you~ I can't take it much longer~#👆🏻these lyrics with that scene of Sukuna waiting for gojo on the rooftop before their fight...hmmm yes yandere vibes yes#How it could be as sweet as candy~ How it's like flying in the sky~#👆🏻These with Sukuna and gojo clashing in the sky over kenjaku#this part of the song is the slowest so a slow motion scene of them in the sky would look beautifulagghj#I wanna know know know know~ what is love?~ What love feels like~#👆🏻 these with Sukuna giving Satoru that look💀 and thinking about yorozu's words after Satoru chose their date to be on 24th..#How it keeps you smiling all day~#👆🏻 this one is obvious there are too many instances of them freakishly smiling during the fight that it's hard to choose lmao#How the whole world turns beautiful~#👆🏻cut to Sukuna saying he cleared his skies...yeah...#I wanna know know know know what is love?~ Will love come to me someday?~#👆🏻 and maybe if we're getting angsty with this... that scene of the last time “the one who will teach you about love” was brought up#in the airport where we see Sukuna from behind and Satoru says it was fun asdhjkkll#Then the song just continues with I wanna know~ I wanna know~ for 30 seconds until it ends#👆🏻 And here comes a compilation of Sukuna missing gojo and standing there looking bored and we have Yuji black flashing his heart#and sukuna looks behind him and has heart eyes for larue but it fades to him looking at yutagojo thinking it's gojo#because these two scenes are SIMILAR for some reason and then yuta failing at being gojo and sukuna copying gojo's hand sign and-#Do yall see what I mean this is their theme song fr The song being cutesy and upbeat is what makes this for me#Sukuna is living his first teenage girl experience Yall don't understand I need this so baddd I'm gonna learn how to edit and do it myself
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Volo of the Ginkgo Guild
(Part 3 of The Outsider, Chapter 1/3, 3201 words)
Put simply, Volo liked being his own boss. Accepting any other chain of authority would prove itself a challenge. “Tell that to him,” the outsider said, nodding towards Ginter as he approached. “I am terminating your employment,” greeted Volo’s boss. Shit.
#my writing#volo#volo pokemon#pla#pokemon legends arceus#there's a lot going on here#but i think the funniest part is that he gets a new outfit#given the mobile game news#also i left it right before i could potentially write something m/e-rated but girl i don't know how to DO that#i will probably chicken out and leave it as a fade to black and just continue with the plot#but...#maybe not???#volo x reader
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Currently reading Ao Ashi for the first time. 100+ chapters in with no hint of stopping the binge and I can officially say that this is in my personal top 3 favorites in sports manga, alongside Eyeshield 21 and Baby Steps. It's got great art, thorough character development + interesting characters, and engaging matches that really gets you pumped!!!
#ao ashi#sports manga#lowkey hoping we dont draw out too long the whole thing with hana#like there's sort of a love triangle but no doubt mc likes her and only her + the thing with black haired girl was just used as a foil to#draw out hana's insecurity about not knowing shit about football#but like#hopefully she soon knows that mc just wants her genuine support#and if she feels insecure#she could just???research about it??? and ask questions???#and dive more into her path to becoming a doctor for athletes instead of just being constricted to the role of a pining girl with a crush#anyway just want this to be a quick arc and for hana to support mc and for mc to acknowledge her importance and for them to#support each other naturally like maruo-kun and nacchan in baby steps#and for hana (like nacchan) to strive towards her own personal goals#god i hope we dont do the annoying non-existent love triangle for too long#also hoping we soon go into otomo#so far we got focus placed on ppl like togashi and tachibana and stuff so it feels inevitable that we'll get to him soon#right?#god ive been waiting since tachibana's story was done#otomo's been here from nearly the start alongside mc#then he just kinda faded to the bg#looking forward to seeing more of his personal motivations and character arc and skills#also excited to get an arc on akutsu cuz i wanna know why he's such a fucking asshole haha
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so in the past month-ish there have been two separate instances where a friend of mine has had reason to show me that the fandoms I enjoy (namely star trek and a niche book series I'm obsessed with) have thriving fanfiction communities (context: While I did already know this about Star Trek, I have never read fanfiction or dove into that corner of the internet b/c I find it a little intimidating lol)
Anyways I've been thinking about Star Trek Voyager a little too much, specifically the ending and how unsatisfying it is.
There's a little voice in the back of my head telling me to spend what little free time I have writing something from the perspective of various crewmembers like a month after the Voyager gets back to Earth. It would inevitably be bad and I know this but like what iffffff?????????
#Like I could have all these scenes where the crew deals with the little shit of normal life after literally 7 years of being on high alert#Especially Janeway#And obviously I'd throw in some Janeway/Chakotay fluff because cannon can go jump in a lake#And OOOUUUGHHH!!! 7 of 9 dealing with being in a fucking society all of a suddennnnnnnn#But like beyond that. I feel like there was so much story to tell about these people that the show just didn't address#They get back to Earth and it just fades to black. That's lame#I'm just such a perfectionist when it comes to my own writing so IDK if working with pre-existing characters would help or make it worse#Who knows. If in a month I come back to this post and say something like “lol guess what I just finished writing” yall can make fun of me#fanfiction#star trek#star trek voyager#star trek: voyager#kathryn janeway#captain janeway#7 of 9#seven of nine#voyager#st voyager
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how it feels getting through the majority of fics i had planned for The Way We Connect
how it feels realising i need to figure out new plots and places to go with this and also resolve plot points i added in and then already forgot about
#got a two parter i am abt to upload the first chap of#then i’ve only got like. 5/6 other ideas for stuff. which sounds like a lot but i came up w them ages ago so idk if i’ll still do them.#but first i gotta finish this fic im doin#constantly going back and forth between like#including smut and not including smut#hmmm#i know i could [fade to black] but#idk. CONFLICTED#will probs have some smut parts occasionally#idk IDK#sunnyposting#idk man i’m just chattin#TWWC
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It's been a little over a month since I read FTB and I wanted to do (and say, I think) a few things related to it. So here, take this. FTB stuff I was wanting to share.
Including some drawings/my designs for some characters (the ones above), some separate sketches, and giving some long thoughts on the book. (This post is looong so I'm going to put everything under the curtain. Enjoy!)
Starting: Rose, Evan and Archie. They are the ones that, I admit, are what I wanted to draw/design most while/after I read the book. Now, at least, if I want to make something involving one of these three one day, I have designs ready to go! Hooray! Evan is the only one of the three that I actually had to design from scratch. With Rose I had made a sketch 1 year ago conceptualizing the idea for her design, and it was only recently that I came back to this idea to finally solidify it. And I had already done Archie's design last year while I was doing my designs for the human cast of BATDR, so I was already prepared without even knowing it.
Also,Ink!Archie!! The poor guy got screwed pretty badly. First two designs in the first image are based on the events in the book. The one on the left is him seen mostly in the book (alive) and the one on the right is when he is in the Ink Realm, post-death. The design in the second image was supposed to be a stylization/variation of his Cycle design. I tried drawing him with a visible mouth/teeth similar to what I did with Sammy in a recent drawing and in some sketches that I didn't post here. I'm not sure about the beard tho. I think I exaggerated it. Next time, remember to draw less beard in this design. (And maybe, for the design that is more "close to canon", don't draw the ends of the hair and beard in the Cycle design)
Any other character in the book, either I don't have a design and I don't plan on making a design for them now, or I do but it will take a while to show them. (I promise I'll show Dot one day)
I also have some additional sketches. So if you want to take a look at that too, here it is:
Ollie Sorenson. This wasn't quite the way I had imagined him when I was reading the book but 1. the hair I tried to draw for him before didn't work out well, so I went another route and 2. Ollie isn't particularly a character in this book that I'm going to I think a lot in comparison to the others (he's still cool, tho) and I doubt I'll make another design for him, so let's go with this one. Not a bad design,so,eh.
Rose. Sketch on the left was made last year. I'm almost certain it was done after the book synopsis was revealed by Kress. The sketch on the right was made last month when I was reading the book. I took the idea from the sketch on the left and tried to solidify her design better.
Evan. Some other sketches made when I read the book. I had just completed his design and wanted to test it a little more to, you know, see if I can actually draw him. Verdict? I think I can.
And now uhhhhhh what I thought of the book! I previously considered doing a separate text post with these thoughts only but I don't do text-only posts in general and if I were to make a separate post it would take a while and it would come out more than 1 month/probably 2 months since I read the book and it would be kinda awkward. And I'm already writing this post, so why not put it all here now, right?
(Warning: My thoughts on the book ended up being MUCH LONGER THAN I EXPECTED TO WRITE. You don't need to read them if you want, they are just more additional and optional things. But if you are going to read them, be warned)
(Spoilers: I may have strayed a little off topic when I started talking about Archie. Don't mention how long his paragraph is, tho)
But yeah, Fade To Black. That was something else, I tell you (and I mean that in a positive way). Probably reading this book after all the fuss that happened about the books a while ago wasn't the best idea possible. But even with…all that in mind, I still wanted to read this for a long time, and I'm glad I went ahead with it. I had a lot of fun with the book! And thinking about it a little over a month after finishing it, I think I can say that this book is up there as, like, one of my favorites of the Bendy books that have been released to date. Before this, I would have considered DCTL my favorite of the books, so I'm somewhere between saying that both of these two are my favorite books in this series and that I like them equally, or that FTB has now become my favorite book of the series, surpassing DCTL. (Maybe I'll have a better idea of this later this year when I reread these books once again)
I really liked the story told, its concept had already interested me since its synopsis was revealed last year - the setting in the 50's, the TV show, the whole 3D glasses thing - so it's no surprise that I was very interested in what this book had to tell. And since I already brought that up: I liked the new concepts it brings to the table,specifically,of course,the glasses and the TV. An idea that,I admit,at first is something I thought was a bit different (and dare i say unusual?) from what I usually see in the Bendy universe (although, it's not something so out of the ordinary from what we've seen before in the series) but I have to say that it's something that I thought was cool even so. 3D glasses that end up transporting your mind into the televised cartoons (and,by all accounts,the ink realm). The jokes I saw that Joey created virtual reality in this book weren't so far-fetched after all lol. But still, it's a concept that I admit to having been interested in, and that it might be cool to play around with in fanon stuff. I also considered this could open doors for other, more "wild" ideas to be explored in the books (as long as they still make sense for a >Bendy< book, of course). I also liked the whole segment taking place in the ink realm at the end of the book, and I hope that this can open up possibilities for future novel stories to take place there, either partially (as in this one) or in full (I accept an entire novel taking place in the cycle,ngl). The additional lore for the ink realm is a nice treat and adds more to what we have in the games. I admit that, at the same time, I feel a little thoughtful about a certain part of this additional lore that - assuming the way I understand it is right - leaves me wondering if this "extended origin" of the cycle coupled with what we already know of its lore would make sense in the games, and how these ideias would be acknowledged in future entries. But at the same time, I may be overthinking this, and the stars may still be aligned, and I've gotten the information wrong. Despite everything, I liked what was told about the ink realm in this book, I appreciate this "extended origin" at the end of the day.
I really liked the cast, both the new ones and the old faces. Rose is great, I really liked her as the protagonist. She's already one of my favorite book characters, I hope we hear from her again in the future. Also, it's good to have a protagonist in these books who survives in the end. Okay, sure, she didn't come out of it 100% unharmed, considering what the ending implies, but still. Again. It's good to have a protagonist in these books who came out of this alive at the end. Evan is also very good. Even though I want to slap him on the back of the head, I also hope to hear from him again, especially considering the way he "exited the story" (is that how you say it?). I talked about the possibility of a future novel taking place in the ink realm, I think that would give a good chance of bringing him back, now as an ink creature. I don't have much to say about Ollie, but I also thought he was cool. The scenes between him and Rose are very nice and the scenes related to the "Bendy Visions" caused by the glasses is another concept that I found very interesting (Tense moments, but cool ones nonetheless) Very happy to see Dot again. I like her character, and I always wanted to see what happened to her after the events of DCTL (TLO had already implied that she was still alive, but I wanted to know more, you know). Her participation in this book is very good, and a chapter that I have to highlight is the one where she meets Rose and they talk in the cafe. Their conversation alone is very good, but the specific part that got me was Dot talking about Buddy, what happened to her after the first book, and Buddy's family. That part was like. A slap in the heart, I'm not going to lie. This chapter made me sad, 10/10. Favorite chapter of the book.
Archie Carter was a big surprise (not really, I already knew he would be here before reading the book), and he is another of my favorite aspects of the book. It's good to see one of the characters from BATDR's human cast ending up being used more in a story. Archie in the game, like other characters we saw in the audio logs in DR, is a "One and done" situation where we only hear from him once and that's it, combined with the fact that he is ultimately just another background character who exists mostly to fill the world and give information that is not necessarily integral to the main things that occur in the game and is more to tell about different things, people and events that were also occurring inside the studio and in the outside world ( those of the lost city and Gent Workshop, essentially) pre-game events. (I really don't know how to explain this properly, but I would say that the "thing" of the information given by the new human cast (with the exception of the Archs) is the same thing as the characters who are giving such information: filling the world. I hope you get the gist of what I'm saying) And while I wouldn't say the information on these tapes is really irrelevant (in Archie's case, he provides some of the most interesting), and in my case, I don't mind the addition of the newbies, I don't blame other people for not being interested, don't get attached to or even dislike these new characters who don't do much in the grand scheme of things in DR and in comparison to the BATIM cast (or at least, the majority of the IM cast). So seeing at least 1 of these newcomers being used more deeply in a story and having their characters expanded is good! And I liked what was done with Archie here. You know the guy who worked at Gent as a test subject and who saw bad things happening at the company? Guess what! Same company screwed up his life and now he's a half-human-half-ink creature guy infected with evil ink and his current situation is not good at all! He's going through horrors unfortunately (especially in the cycle), but I really like what Adrienne did with Archie in this book. Again, he is one of the highlights of this book, and I hope that something similar ends up happening with other DR characters in future stories (manifesting the novel that uses Bill Danton and/or Grace Conway in some capacity 🙌) Plus, I also think it's cool that of all the DR characters to be used, it was the one voiced by SuperHorrorBro who ended up being chosen for this book (I like SHB, what can I say)
Joey (like in the other books) is a standout (and considering what we specifically see of him in this book, he's especially a standout here). More of Allison, even though in the end it's just a small one-scene cameo. Finally, I'm being fed the bread crumbs I craved. And I think now I have another version of Henry to talk about. My collection is growing strong, now I have 3 versions of my favorite old man! Among the new ones, and especially the secondary and tertiary ones, Papa D and Gladys are nice, even though they don't have much time in the story. Oh, and Wilson showed up too. He doesn't do much either, he's just there to be creepy. But I will acknowledge him.
I also enjoyed seeing some of the ideias showcased first in BATDR here (which makes sense, this book came out well after the game finally released). I always found it interesting to see more of Gent in the spotlight, and reading and knowing a little more about the things they were doing after JDS closed is nice. (And I think it's good to see more reaffirmation of what BATDR had already implied. That Gent also had eyes on the Ink Machine even when the studio was still open, and when the studio collapsed, they still continued the ink experiments in their own facilities. Again, this was already something that had been shown in DR, but it's good to see more reaffirmation here) The appearance of the Siverlane Express was something that I really appreciated, even if it was something very short. I ealready talk about Archie in one giant paragraph, and again, Wilson is here too.
There isn't really anything I "disliked" about this book, but at most, I only have a few nitpicks. The Ink Demon appears in the story, but compared to DCTL and TLO, I feel FTB is definitely the book where he appears the least. I mean, yeah, the story isn't about him in the end, but it's still something I managed to notice. I also feel that, in my opinion, this is the least "scary" of the 3. Not that it doesn't have "scary" elements but still, compared to moments in the other books like Buddy in the infirmary, or the TLO trio in the old factory, I don't know if this book would be the most "scary" of the trilogy. However,FTB still has several suspenseful scenes (the Bendy visions, some scenes with Ollie, Archie's pre-introduction, Wilson in the library), which I also like anyway. And I'll admit. While this idea isn't that far out there - and in the context of the story, it makes sense - I kind of raised an eyebrow a little at the whole "using your mind/imagination to get out of the ink realm" thing. It is not bad! And again, with what we saw in the book, this idea actually fits with what we had seen so far in the story. But I can't lie that when we got to this moment I was like "oh, this is something that happened, I guess", you know? But even so, I didn't dislike the idea.
(I once saw someone describe this part of the book as "they canonized no-clipping in Bendy" and you know what? I think that's funny. I think we need to start referring to this idea in the book as that instead of "using the imagination" /hj)
But even so, even with these small "nitpicks", I still had a lot of fun with this book. I really enjoyed reading it, and not only is it now one of my favorite Bendy books so far, I dare say it's one of my favorite things about the franchise in general. Like, if I had to make a top 3 of my favorite things from the Bendy series so far, I'd say it's this book and the first two mainline games. I guess this is to show how much I enjoyed the book!
And with that, my journey with the Bendy books ends. At least, with the books I managed to have access so far. I have no plans to pursue the updated version of the Employee Handbook so far, but from what I've heard and seen so far, I'm not missing anything too important. And the DCTL graphic novel….exists. It's definitely a graphic novel that exists. Dare I say that it is definitely one of the graphic novels of all time, alright. But what have I read so far? It was what I would say, a good journey. I've been interested in the Bendy books for a long time, and it's been a while since I read them, and I'm glad I did, despite recent events. Of course, they have their flaws and problems too, I have things about them that I myself identify as bumps in the road (and that applies to the novel trilogy too btw) But even with them in mind and acknowledging them, I still think that they are worth something. And I hope people still continue to recognize them and give them a chance. Even with its flaws, and with their whole canocity thing that happened a while ago, I still believe that people should check out the books eventually. Give it a chance, you know? If they did, and liked what they read, great! But if they don't like it, that's okay too! In the end, at least they, on both sides, gave it a chance. And that's what I at least want to see. I don't like the idea of discarding these things and pretending they don't exist just because the devs said they aren't canon to the games (because, in my view, just because the books aren't canon doesn't make them without value or that you can't have fun with them after all)
WOW, this is getting long, I think I got carried away. I think that's all I had to say. To conclude everything, here is my list of the Bendy books that I like the most and the ones I like least:
Fade To Black (I've already talked a lot about this book)
Dreams Come To Life (hand in hand with FTB being in first place. It has its flaws, some that may have already been mentioned before, but I still found myself liking it in the end. For a first novel, it worked out fine)
Crack-Up Comics (Really liked the comics. It's good to see more things related to the cartoon characters, and I like some of the characters introduced. Pretty fun stuff)
The Lost Ones (it's not a very "Bendy" focused book compared to the others, and I don't blame those who didn't like this one because of the lack of many Bendy elements, but I confess that I still liked it as much as the other 2, and I loved the protagonists of this one. Even so, of the trilogy, it is the weakest book)
The Illusion of Living (In itself, it's an interesting read. It's really cool to see more of Joey from a deeper angle, and see more of his past. But I confess that it's not my favorite read, and I still prefer the main novels. Not bad, tho)
JDS Employee Handbook (2019) (For the first Bendy book overall, it's not bad, and I like the lore tidbits it has. But compared to the rest, it's actually the weakest)
The TL;DR is: Fade To Black is fun and my favorite, I liked its story and characters. I liked the books. Check them out if you want. If you liked them, cool. If you didn't like them, that's cool too. Read in general.
And if you've read this far: Thank you! And at the same time, I'm sorry! Have a good day/afternoon/night everyone. Peace.
#bendy and the ink machine#batim#bendy and the dark revival#batdr#bendy: fade to black#bendy ftb#rose sorenson#evan ftb#archie carter#ollie sorenson#crookedsmileart#SORRY FOR 2/3 OF THE POST BEING LONG AS HECK#I got carried away a lot and there was no way back#I considered kind of deleting everything and rewriting it in a shorter way#but then I would erase a work that I could not erase#So there it is; my review (kind of) of Fade To Black#a book that changed my brain probably#and for now; my marathon of rereading the Bendy books is over#for now at least#I'm going to reread the trilogy again this year; I hope lol#Now I wait for a fourth novel#I really hope we get past 3 novels#I doubt we won't have a fourth book written by Kress#But still#I hope this really happens#I had a lot of fun with FTB; I don't want to stop here; you know#as a side note; I have no plans to read the books that will come out this year#not in the tradicional way at least;#i'll figure it out;just saying#blink;blink
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hey do you think the Crows control the mage circles in Antiva too, in some way? do you think the heads of Houses get handed the phylacteries of their mage members? do they bring in trainers from the Circles, or send them to classes in the towers, or do they have to wait for a mage to "graduate" before they can recruit them into a House properly? or are mages who are taken by the Crows just quietly ignored until the phylactery needs to be used?
#I saw One source say Antiva has Mage Circles and it's been haunting me ever since#because I just... I don't see that system working as well as it does in Fereldan#I don't see the Crows (who tend to recruit very young) leaving mages as an untapped market for their members#nor do I see them leaving them in a Tower when they could be training to be a Crow at the same time#it feels like maybe the Knife Houses would get stuck trying to snag an older mage and speed running some Crow training#while Talon Houses could just stare down the Tower and make them send tutors#I've been quietly thinking about how Viago might react to Rook de Riva getting stuck in the Fade#and how Antiva having a Circle means they have a phylactery system#and him being like “well okay you're all fucking stupid- we have their blood let's use that to track them??? idiots??”#not taking into account that I have no idea if the tracking magic would even work#or if all the Circles/Towers would use that same system outside Fereldan#and this ignores the funny little Colleges that could be a thing depending on your Inq choices lol#I'm just a Mage Origins girly so I see “circle” and “mage” and go oh!! blood fuckery!!!#the storage of said phylacteries could be either with the Houses (again Talons likely) or in the Tower(s) either works I'm just Thinking#like what if.... black market Mage Circle... just for the Crows.... it could be worse than the usual Circles.... I'm Just Thinking...#sleepy and thinking about this while editing chapter 2 instead of dunking myself into bed#just imagine Viago during the year Rook de Riva is away staring down a little vial of their blood#knowing they're just a little ritual and a few months away from being home again#I like the angst!!! I like how torturous that could be at times!!!#DAV Posting
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This is hanging in a hallway right now, belonging to an 80-something-year-old woman who probably doesn't remember who painted it for her now. And that's okay, she's buried her grandchildren and shouldn't be required to remember.
#photography#photographer#original photographers#musings#original photography#photographers on tumblr#painting#acrylic on canvas#color fade#black vines#hearts#sylized vines#she saw me working on it and simply asked if she could have it when I was done#I had no reason to say no#She also has framed pictures of both my kids#she doesn't know who they are anymore either
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If you were a deer would you flee or be shot?
be shot because that's the sexy option
#random asks#/j for the most part.#in all seriousness. if i were a deer. i would run for my life. as quickly as my legs could carry me.#so fearsome am i. that my body will fail me. i know it will but i fear nonetheless.#eventually it shall buckle and i will tire and they will catch up to me. i would flee to the best of my ability. but eventually#the light must fade from my eyes. i must give up. i have no choice. i must surrender.#and as the bullets graze my head and knees i shake all over but with my black lusterless eyes i stare into theirs so pithily.#it is a final plea they do not know to respond to. they are only human. unable to understand this.#and so the lead is lodged between my ears and in my heart.
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Why do I feel like it's possible from the spoiler pictures that the 'proposal' is the red herring, because she's not asking him to marry her right there, she's asking him to get married, right there. Surely that can't be, like it makes no sense, and yet..... It also kind of does?
Does Freddie need another wedding? No.
Is everyone they love already there? Yes.
Could the cliffhanger be 'Does he say yes?' possibly?
I don't know guys, a perfect red herring is not are they engaged, with that name we're either expecting that to happen already, and if they don't that's no real surprise either. We're already strictly in one camp or the other. So the question begs, how do they knock us off our freaking chairs? Skip the engagement and suggest a wedding.
And then fade to black.
#I know it doesn't sound all that plausible#but if we take the photo stills Marissa and lewbert are with each other prior to the wedding#would he see her on the wedding day?#they don't look all that happy in that photo#and okay moving that aside#in the photo with the director only the main cast are there#If that's a wedding photo why aren't Marissa and lewbert there?#and in that photo that's making us all crazy#they seem to be at the front of the isle#and she could have been telling everyone the wedding is off but then proposing to him#and saying that she doesn't want to waste time#they've wasted enough#she KNOWS that he is it for her#why not start today?#and then they fade to black and we collectively lose our shit#creddie#icarly#carly x freddie
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