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Been getting into Neopets again, so may I request your thoughts on the ghost color please?
It’s so simple, but I love the absolute HAUNTED expression that a good amount of the pets get when painted :D
Ghost is one of those very old colours that kind of suffers for its age, because it's... kind of boring? The concept is great, and I do like the way all ghost pets turn the same shade of teal with red eyes—it's very consistent both in terms of the colour itself and in terms of things like NPC characters and whatnot. I also like how the pets' expressions become more sad and spooky.
However, the execution beyond that tends to be lacking, as that's literally all there is to the colour beyond just a faint glow. You'd think that they'd make the pets semi-transparent, give them tails or wispy elements, stuff like that, but instead every pet is just "teal base with red eyes, glow, spooky expression". It's not terrible or anything, and once again it has a lot to do with how old the colour is, but it does feel pretty underwhelming.
You might think some of the blandness was caused by customization, but even pre-customization all the ghost pets were just drawn in their default poses. Sometimes the old art would give them a more exaggerated expression, but beyond that, they were still pretty boring.
However, just this year TNT released a bunch of "eerie" styles for this color with actual unique poses, and I have to say, these are a lot better. The dynamic Halloween styles they did were pretty good as a whole, but they also didn't feel all that necessary. These ones definitely were, as they don't just give the pets unique poses, but also take advantage of the new art to give them wispier, more ethereal appearances. Sure, most of them were sampled from art already on the site (the Flotsam above is based off a user shopkeeper), but if it works, it works. This does mean the styles are pretty inconsistent with the original art and expressions and aren't always on-point in terms of linework and whatnot, but there was so little there to begin with I can't imagine anyone complaining.
Favorite Species:
Techo: The Techo is a really good example of a pet design getting better over time. The pre-conversion art was literally just the default Techo—it didn't even have a different expression. Come customization, and they at least tweaked it to have smaller pupils and eye bags, which combined with the new art looking less overjoyed by default at least gave it a fun personality. Finally, with the eerie style, they redrew it to have what can only be described as a completely zoinked-out expression with irises around the pupils. It also now sports a floating pose with great shapes and flow, and some creative choices like more wispy elements and a complete lack of legs. It's really good.
Usul: The ghost Usul was always a bit unusual in that even pre-customization it always had flowing, raggedy ears and a slightly ruffled tail to match—a unique attribute that I really wish they had applied to more ghost pets with manes and long fur. With customization, the design actually got a bit worse—the eye bags were lost, it kept the same generic expression, and the tail didn't match the ears as much. However, with the new style, they fixed that completely; ears and tail now match perfectly and even the mane has been given the same ethereal look, with the pose and expression really standing out.
Hissi: This one's kind of cheating as I usually try to aim for pets that have both a good default base and a good style. The post-customization ghost Hissi, however, is as bland as can be—even the pre-customization ghost Hissi was absolutely nothing. However, the style is really good. I love the pose and the grabby hands, and the way big chunks are taken out of the body in an almost Wraith-like way.
Least Favorite Species:
Grundo: There are, strictly speaking, uglier species to pick from (pets with a lot of yellow, like the Tonu or Kiko, really don't work), but the Grundo gets this spot for being the blandest of the bland. Not only is there nothing interesting or unique about the design post- or pre-customization, but it doesn't even have a fun expression. In fact, it doesn't even have different eyes from a regular Grundo, because Grundo eyes are solid red by default, thus making it just look completely normal. Hopefully we'll get a style for this one one day that gives it something unique to work with.
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Early visual development for Wish (2023) by Griselda Sastrawinata-Lemay and Brittney Lee.
An earlier version of the film saw Star take on a human form as a magical, glowing character inspired by Peter Pan. Ultimately, the creative team reconceptualized Star as an ethereal, playful entity resembling Mickey Mouse. "Now Star and Asha have an emotional journey. They are soulmates." -Allison Moore.
#i would've loved to see star as a jack frost-ish character either as a love interest or platonic friend#they really had an original concept with the potential to be great if executed properly but chose to play it safe#disney#wish#my scans from the art of wish#do not repost#asha#star#visual development#disney concept art#concept art#art#artwork#illustration#disney animation#animation#disney wish#wish movie#wish 2023
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Cassie Sandsmark they could never make me hate you. Even if they’re trying. Really hard
Also idk if Greta and Cassie were technically roommates at Saint Elias’s but who else would it be. They’re buddies. Bonds forged in Yj are unbreakable unfortunately
#art#cassie sandsmark#wonder girl#greta hayes#dc comics#I do like some of the concepts. the execution was um. not great#but I can rip the cool shit from it and ignore the rest like you wouldn’t believe babygirl#I do like the idea that she got a new all red suit to honor Donna. I do not like the suit they gave her but still#fun idea#I love the idea of Greta and Cassie being roomies tho#cuz obviously cissie and traya are roommates. and who else would offer to room with a superhero#alos greta doodle! I don’t have a ghost design down for her but her alive self is easier#yea I gave her a white streak cuz of her resurrection . no don’t ask me what fandom I was a part of in 2021#the friendship bracelets are for the Yj boys btw. green for rob red for impulse and blue for kon#she’s got other stuff for the girls (Anita cissie and Greta) but I haven’t decided yet#THE HEADBAND IS FROM CISSIE THO. the communal headband#all the girls (and also bart) have used it#they just pass it around
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sometimes you just gotta lick the homies
#(and blatantly admit your dishonesty to them. yknow. normal friendship things)#friendship is a really strong word tho. at least for these guys#purposely gonna be vague about their relationship for now but i will say that they both consider killing the other on multiple occasions :)#and also they slow dance and kiss but that's unrelated#oh oh oh i should say for those who don't know - daisy (my courier) is a trans woman and uses she/her pronouns#she's got a bit of a beard here but that's bc the only sharp things in the sierra madre are knives#and lies#but those aren't great for shaving#:)#new vegas#dead money#fallout new vegas#fnv#dean domino#daisy correa#courier six#irradiated art#i loveeeeeeeee dead money so much i am kissing the entire dlc on the mouth#dead money <33333333#forced cooperation between a group whose only motive to help the others (at least initially) is that if they don't they die <3333333#a fuckn casino heist <333 !!!!! hello. insane dlc concept. insane execution (/pos). i love it to bits it makes me so sad and so so so hyped
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Whats the name of a pair of character which viciously hate each other and have so many layers to their relationship based soley on that hate. Not in an enemies to lovers kind of way (the romance would make it less interesting) nor in a simple rivals way (the hatred they have for each other is too profound) but a secret third thing. What is the secret third thing called and why am I obsessed with it
#carols.txt#this is about caramel arrow and affogato#i need to tear them away from devsis because they make great concepts and execute them poorly#i love them both as individual characters but the few instances of them hating on each other was what sold me on both#I NEED TO STUDY THEM UNDER A MICROSCOPE AS THEY BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER#the yin and yang symbolism was crazy im ngl#i want to specify that this is NOT in a ship way bc as i said above. it would only make it less interesting imo#i dont dislike enemies to lovers but in this case the 《lovers》 would undermine it somewhat#IM JUST INSANE WHEN TWO CHARWCTERS ARE THE OPPOSITE OF EACH OTHER AND IT CAUSES CONFLICT
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SCP Aesthetics: 6320 (requested by @dewnose2, written by @raddagher)
Hi, I know this isn’t your department at all, but I- I really didn’t know who else to call, this is one of the only phone numbers I had. I need immediate help with a- a situation? Emergency kind of situation, maybe? (blue, galaxies, safe and sound)
#scp#scp foundation#scp aesthetics#6320#love love love this#a great concept solidly executed without overstaying its welcome#fave#also very sorry to the person who requested the 001 from kaktus but i gotta decline#that one is like a novel long#and i sadly do not have time
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Bubbly Vamps
Can I get more bubbly vampires? Like imagine them being more interested in wearing pastels and just being a fucking ray of moonshine. And unliike the others they actually are friends with werewolves and aren't classists or speciest, like they proly also live in an apartment that has a lot of windows with blackout curtains and at night when the moon is full the silver light just fills the entire space with ethereal magic.
Yeah I definitely need more of that and less mopey vamps or pedo vamps that think it's okay to date a seventeen year old when they are like a centaury old.
#vampire#werewolves#tired tropes made new#Twilight had a great concept but the execution was horrible#If I had the brain power and skill I'd produce a mini series#colourful vamps#I love vampires so much
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Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.
#the groening show on netflix#it had so much potential#and i did enjoy it!!! plenty of the characters were awesome#but it tried to be too big. wanted to incorporate too much. i didn't like beans magic. it got really repetitive#it felt like a lot of the movement between “lands” was super unnecessary. and took up a lot of time that could have been used in narrative#development#and you know the most fucked up part is that there was a Canon wlw couple that was end game AND I DIDNT EVEN LIKE THEM TOGETHERRR#and the last seasons egregious hyperfocus on love specifically romantic love like#it was cringe im sorry!!! not great writing#im glad beans relationship w her dad got better but i didnt like how instantanious it felt#also obv. i hate the whole thing with prince derek and his pixie gf. ew. really weird#but there was so much good and it couldve been great#i still enjoyed it but it fell short in so many ways#HOW DO YOU HAVE A QUEER GIRL COUPLE THAT I DONT LIKE!!! ME!!! QUEER GIRL NUMBER 1!!!!!!#i like EVERY WLW SHIP#and mora x bean had potential but like#it seemed a lot of the time liek they didnt even really like eachother. they aggravated tf out of eachother and not in like a hehe gay ppl#who bicker type of way. it was very much lesbian couple written by straight man feeling. idk if thats true but its the vibe i got#to the end im sad elfo never really actionably got over his weird thing about bean. he just said he did#and him and miri/mop girl. ehhhhh#i like her but she should have had a more gradual introduction into the main cast because she really feels like an after thought#glad zog moved to the woods that seemed like the right move#bean kinda handing the kingdom off to the elves kinda felt like a cop out after thought#like she got all weird about this is their kingdom we stole it from them and then only rwally gave it up after she got something that she#wanted more#please let me remake this show!!!!!!!!#also steam land!!! i like the concept but the execution and the travellimg back and forth between the two#the biggest issue this show suffered with though was repetition.#animation was fun. i enjoyed the use of 3d especially in later seasons#a lot of the jokes were funny but a lot just fell short.
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My mini contribution to @echoes-lighthouse's Evil Slasher Orphanage! My wife Anna and I are here to help, and brought a few more kids of our own.
I really thought I was a horror fan until I sat down to draw this and came up blank. I guess I'm not a slasher guy, because a LOT more Monsters and Beasts came to mind, so it took a while to form a list. Though I did include Sam who is certainly a Creeture but.. They're human enough.
#Emile's Arts#Proud Parent Posting#Slasher Orphanage#I'm stealing the Entity's abilities from DBD and giving them to me#And then immediately using them on accident to bring all these kids into one reality#That doesn't have to be canon to the orphanage obviously I just love being an Eldritch Being but Stupid#Also Friday the 13th is a movie in the Scream franchise so I thought this was a fun way to explain that fkjsdfkdfdkj#Honorable mention goes out to Frankenstien's Monster he is my baby but I could not for the life of me choose a design for him#I knew I KNEW I wanted Brandon immediately amazing concept that movie horrid execution#What if you had the powers of God in Middle School. You'd kill people right??? Right.#Also Sam Trick R Treat my beloved amazing Comic series that I love their design and energy#Spirit of Halloween little guy#One year I will dress up as them.. one year#ALSO BUBBA#I was so surprised Bubba wasn't in the original Orphanage cast he's SUCH a sweet pea I love him#Do not let him in the kitchen I don't care how big and wet his puppy eyes are do not let him in there#I also included Billy Trick R Treat because I wanted to the kid who plays him in the movie adaptation is very cute#And I LOVE a murderous little kid it's incredibly funny to me#More honorable mentions I considered;#Fran Bow and Misfortune but neither of them are Slashers on Purpose really#Misfortune is just a victim and IF Fran did kill her parents it wasn't her own choice#Six LN as well I love her but again... Not really a slasher. Also she's like two feet tall#I also though M3gan but eeeeeeeeeeeh I dunno I might come back to that#I was thinking about Rin Dead By Daylight as well and she's still on the table I think she'd fit in#I was also originally going to do The New King from Chzo Mythos but changed to John just because he's more Slasher Child than DaCabe#And again I kept running through Monsters like from Crypt TV and such and decided against them#Me my children my wife and this random person who's farm we stumbled across and are now crashing in#It's fine Anna's very use to Farm Labor she'll be a great help#And she is VERY calm comforting mother-y when she eventually calms down#She's gonna dote all over those girls
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people who still make Joey the ink demon despite canon steering far away from that being the case this is for you I am sending u kisses XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO <3
People who make Joey well-meaning, sympathetic, a lighter shade of morally grey than canon I am also sending u lots of love <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3!!
And people who generally steer wildly from the direction Bendy takes with its characters and has fun with it I hope to see more from all of ur aus and rewrites!!
#ramblez#batim#batdr#this is not me saying aus that don't do this r bad blah blah I just personally have a super soft spot for Joey being the ink demon#since I really like the idea storywise the symbolism of Joey becoming the ultimate monster of this story#joeys who also take a very sympathetic role who are more morally grey than canon also hold a special place in my heart#joeys who think what theyre doing is right not just for them but for their staff who genuinely care abt them who love them mwah#I just love to see very unique takes on these characters I kinda miss when it was only like chapter 2 so everyone had this wildly#different but very unique and fun takes on where we thought the story would head hell for a while we didn't know if Joey was evil or not#thats what spawned Encore it was originally just a collection of theories I thought would come true#esp since I dont think bendy is a particularly well written story its fun to see the fandom have such fun wild ideas on where to take#the concepts and idea presented in bendy that never really panned out into anything interesting or were discarded or retconned#yknow? I miss the days where the aus were wildly out of sync with the actual story when all we had was a few names a few tapes#and we all went wild making our versions of the story and characters and then got so attached to them we doubled down#when canon didnt deliver on em#umm oops this is long have a great new year folks! Get wild get weird with ur bendy aus and rewrites#lets have fun this year and take canon as optional bc lets face it Bendy isn't great but man is it fun and I care abt that way more than#the quality of the story tbh#it had great ideas and executed them uh badly! But idc bc I can stir those great ideas in my head all day and see others do the same <3#anyways yeah thats it love ya guys have a great 2024 <3
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To this day I'm still amazed they fucked up a concept as fun as "dick grayson forced to go undercover as james bond". Whether you liked Grayson as a title or not (I have mixed feelings about it lol) you have to admit that the idea of having Dick or really any batfam member become a SPY is hilarious. There's so much they could've done with this concept but they fumbled it so hard. I will forever be bitter actually
#i love the concept and im grateful it gave us tiger#even tho hes ambiguously dead in current canon#but yeah it wasnt well executed#dick was a spy and threw his gun at someone instead of firing it woebddkddje#it was great!!#grayson#dick grayson#chatter#nightwang#agent grayson
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I have such mixed feelings about the Switch as a console honestly
#cookie.txt#like. conceptually it's a great console#the portability along with the ability to hook it up to your TV like a traditional home console#it's an amazing concept#but execution wise... idk the switch falls a little flat imo#they could've made it better#still not over how plain the UI is in comparison to the wii U and 3DS#like. the switch doesn't feel fun. it doesn't feel like it's made for fun. it just feels... utilitarian. does that make sense?#not even mentioning the flimsiness of some of its hardware#it's been 6 whole years you'd think they'd actually fucking solve the joycon problem at this point.#idk. i like using my switch. i love the games i have on it. if my switch ever broke i'd be immensely upset#but like the console by itself. i don't think it stacks up with previous nintendo consoles
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since we're all gonna die i have something to share with you all. i did not care for the mandela catalogue
#speak friend and enter#i keep seeing stuff about it and i really like analog horror as a medium but. idk it insists upon itself#like i loved local 58 and petscop and i really like gemini home entertainment but i feel like mc could've been better#it's a super strong concept that was very well executed in the beginning but as it's gone on....idk i feel like it kinda fell apart#the gabriel/lucifer thing was super cool and the alternate concept is really interesting but imo it doesn't live up to the hype#i feel like the scale got away from it y'know. like it became too big plot-wise too quickly and lost a lot of the stuff that made it good#like there's a saying in screenwriting that goes 'if you start out screaming you've got nowhere left to go' and i think that applies#bc it starts out SO impactfully and that in and of itself isn't a bad thing but like. how do you ramp up from that and keep the impact#i also feel like it's indirectly responsible for the analog horror boom that imo has kinda killed the genre via oversaturation#and that's not the creator's fault ofc it's just bad luck but i feel like every new project takes its cues from mc and it's like. really?#like mc has great ideas dgmw but there are in fact other ideas out there that could work for an analog horror story#anyway i hope they're able to end it in a way that wraps it up logically and in a narratively satisfying way#and i hope the creator doesn't feel pressured to keep going with it just for the notoriety. like don't simpsons this thing
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thinking about shane telling rick congratulations when he finds out lori’s pregnant and both of them knowing full fucking well that baby is shane’s still makes me crazy in ways i cannot describe
#toxicity levels so high i feel drunk i feel like i’m on a morphine drip#god i love adultery#i’m almost finished with s6 but i had to rewatch s2 real quick#rick/lori/shane is perfection i love it in every way and especially for how it informs and offsets his relationship with michonne later#unlike the the rick/jessie/pete situation which is clearly a parallel to that but it causes me endless psychic damage#like i’m extremely particular about domestic abuse storylines in general and that one just sucks shit#there are good themes and interesting concepts and callbacks buried somewhere in all that but the execution is. not great#best thing to come out of that storyline is michonne hitting rick over the head to make him shut up that’s love baby#twd
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these lizors are so much fun to fight :)
#also rip me i died on the very next stage#stupid nobody#but yeah i love fighting dmc lizards!#blades and assaults are great#frosts are lots of fun but they get a bit annoying on dmc4 dmd#and blitzes are fine but furies are the much better execution of the same concept#riots and chaos are the most fun of the bunch#lizors :)#devil may cry
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I forgot to make a post about it til now, but in Onestar's Confession, Tallstar going to the Moonstone to confirm Crowpaw's story and being told by StarClan "yeah he's right, you'll never get your home back so you need to leave" makes me even more exasperated at the plot of Midnight. Already that book baffles me in hindsight because I misremembered it for years — I believed that the journey to Midnight was to not only strengthen bonds between cats of each Clan to help everyone work together, but also to point them in the right direction of a new home because the lake was so far outside StarClan's sight that the Clans needed an outside source of information.
Turns out I was wrong. The whole journey was just so Midnight could tell them to leave their home, and they had to figure out where to go entirely on their own. (Sure they had a shooting star help them out but it's not like StarClan couldn't have predicted that too.) But if we have confirmation by this point (also confirmed in Shadowstar's Life) that StarClan already knew they had to leave, then what was the point of all that??? All they really accomplished was stalling the great journey for multiple books and letting a bunch of cats suffer and die needlessly. I don't agree with the idea a lot of people have that StarClan and all these characters should simply (and uncharacteristically) work together and flawlessly avoid conflict, I like conflict, but I want a reason for it. The case of Midnight is just so unfortunate. It's such a mess that could have so easily been streamlined into something that makes more sense, but it just... wasn't.
#anyway i have such complicated feelings about tnp. i enjoy the concept but the execution of the first half wasn't great#dawn is one of my least favorite main series books bc the vast majority of it is spent finding excuses to stall the journey#only for the journey to take place over a few chapters at the end#i would have absolutely loved the journey portion to be longer and actually showcase the clans bonding and working together#instead of basically just telling us later after speeding through the whole thing#anyway my impression of onestar's confession so far is that it's just meh#it's not as bad as i was expecting but it does feel like someone looked up all the scenes of him on the wiki and stitched them together#i'm extremely baffled at them making ashfoot and morningflower his littermates#while looking for something else recently i found an old facebook post of vicky's#and one thing she said is that ashfoot and morningflower were onestar's siblings from an older litter#and if they have to be siblings then that makes a lot more sense to me#considering that morningflower at least is supposed to be getting old by the beginning of the series and onewhisker is not#but of course nothing in this book is especially well thought out. on the plus side it's not as bad as leopardstar's honor lol#pigeon mews
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