#it's a small little piece of hope

[cosmic-light-fics]

Watching season 3 ep 2 of The Bear for "funsies" (still trying to wrap my head around it after nearly a whole year has passed lol). Mainly watching for Sydney. I'm mad that the episode begins with this super sweet, rare moment between Syd and her dad because it's literally working so hard to lull you into a false sense of security. We've never gotten such a domestic view of Sydney before. She's a little whiny from having to cut her bathroom time, but she's happy, cracking jokes and reminding her dad to take his medicine for the umpteenth time. She even sounds happy to say she's going to work. She has no clue of Carmy's hostile takeover until it smacks her in the face and there's absolutely nothing she can do about it by then. All that happiness and those good feelings and familiarity that started the episode, yeah that's gone.

Sydney's excitement for the menu? Gone. The warm atmosphere of a ship and its crew finally being on the right course? Gone. Having a partner she could rely on and share ideas with? Did she ever really have that?

What's worse is how the Berzattos unceremoniously shove their proposal of ownership on to her. Like they expect Sydney to just be on board with the daily scheduled program of their, specifically Carmy's, chaotic bullshit. Not gonna lie, I'm thoroughly sickened by how they did not care in the slightest how Sydney would feel about having ownership. "Oh don't worry, you don't need to discuss anything with us, it's all been drafted and looked over by one of our guys. Oh no, you don't need an attorney, we already have one for you. Just sign this legally binding document so we can move on. It's not like you wouldn't want to."

It took only five minutes for them to destroy any faith Sydney had in this restaurant being different. But she can't leave because she's too invested, as is shown in the last episode of the season. The Bear staff is her family, for better or worse, and it's eating her alive.

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

[buwheal]

BEACH OUTFIT 💥💥💥💥

He used to surf the web back in 98'.

[risto-licious]

dino suicune? more like diyes suicool (I named mine vaporwave)

[mechanical-artery]

its MY birthday and and I get to make everyone look at this old guy

[fluffydeoxys]

okayyyy hehe people were very nice and i shall write my thoughts.

one of my weirdly specific favourite things about madcom is specifically 4:56 through to 5:59 in expurgation, both in the song itself and in the animation (though the duration is a bit longer in the animation specifically). putting my yammering under the cut

You have such foreboding magnificence building in tandem with Sanford fighting alone through the horde of Tricky skeletons, outside and fully exposed with the backdrop in red. The music pairs so well with the scene, conveying this sense of "I'm fucking fighting against a power so much larger than me", it's so intimidating and grand in this menacing, otherworldly way.

5:00 through to 5:15 the sound design of the bullets pinging off the shields, Sanford struggling and throwing down his weapons is so fucking fantastic, it masterfully sells the visceral struggle that San is clawing through. Prying the shield off to protect against the Mossberg 500 and claiming it for himself...

and arghhh my fucking favourite bit 5:17. Put 5:17 Expurgation on my damn forehead because I will never ever stop thinking about it. The music swells with the tap of Tricky's hand against Sanford's shoulder, then sending him careening away with a mere swing of an axe.

You have this AMAZING choir-like sound ebbing and flowing through the background, punctuated by the immense weight and sound of rocks moving and chains clanking through 6:25-6:40, forming this huge tower that stands over Sanford.

then 6:40 is like I am fucking ascending man, the choir ascending as Sanford turns and grips his wound, directly facing Tricky who prepares the M60 far away, the terror of seeing it. The music and scene building up to that point. I really wonder what it was like watching it for the first time in 2019.

Like uurughhhhh have you seen anything so cool??? Music that's so fantastically orchestrated in tandem with the animation that fits its tone perfectly? That sensation of doom, of staring down a power that could and might actually kill you? That you're all alone, back against the wall but still holding it together by a hair fighting something you barely even understand?

Sort of related but a pretty minor but surprisingly significant detail after rewatching through madcom a few times is how important sound design is to conveying the visceral brutality and tension of these scenes. Every force of every bullet, every meaty impact of every punch, it matters a lot. The scraping of metal, and the crunch of stone, it really sells this power that is integral to what makes Madness Combat special. Though you do kinda miss the silly grunt noises the guys used to make when they were hit

[cuteniaarts]

Part 2 of my set of presents for my dear @katkastrofa’s birthday, combined with a small belated commemoration of LaF’s tenth anniversary :)

I know I’ve said it countless times yesterday, but once again, happy birthday, Kat!! I hope this year brings you many, many good things, everything you deserve and so much more. Thank you for being my friend <3

[mintjeru]

one of my friends said his auto attacks look like the ones in nier

open for better quality | no reposts

[thedailyvio]

New Year, new update

This makes 7 years completed? And onto 8

Goals for '25?

I think I'd like to build my mental library more and Finally study something for once

Probably would like to work on my technique a bit more so I can be more comfortable drawing too? I kind of always need to refine something with 3+ passes to feel comfortable with it, but I'd like to get to a place where I can draw a bit more simply for not-grand pieces at least

A lot of things are up in the air right now for how much I'm going to be able to commit to art this year, so I can't predict what I'll have space for

However, I think while I'm going to stick to weekly posting for now (this will only change if I move back to desktop art more predominantly and I don't foresee this for awhile) I do want to try and post on the last day of each month also To better keep each everything in its proper month at least

[princekirijo]

Honestly would love to try writing again but I don't think I would post it anywhere.

[millenari]

Ive been going through a really rough time rn, and i am gonna be completely honest: Gold Rush is one of the only things keeping me going. Every Wed and Sat i keep refreshing around the same time you usually update, and seeing 'next chapter' pop up makes me so happy.

Then it hit me: how much this fic really means to me. Its really helping me take things one day at a time, which is difficult in my situation. This fic is literally like, the one good thing in my life rn. So, thank you. To some it may be a fun fic. But to me, its a reason to keep going and not give up.

:) I'm so happy my little fic can be of so much help

[nikkiissleepy]

heartbreaking: the hair, which is the only thing i really want from the first set, costs 1060 diamonds

[lenievi]

ok, but the question is, is Christina Chong just getting a solo or is there gonna be a Kirk/La’an duet? Can Wesley sing?

in any case, there’ll probably be a Kirk/La’an song and <3

[artblock-tm]

DP I have a bad idea and I'm making it your problem

Do you have existing art of Jaide's family before the divorce and Vanessa? Sorry if it's somewhere in Masked I don't feel like looking for it wjfnbwbxb

I have some! Let me grab what I have.

This one is older art of me practicing the storybook style- it's older since I have a much better art program now.

This one is from when I was working on the storybook. Maybe I'll try again, now that my motivation is better, and I know how much better I can do now.

This again! Ignore Shapeshifter. They're not part of the family.

That's it on the digital art front! Here's some traditional art. Well, the stuff you can actually see. I don't have a phone to take pictures with </3

This again. lemvi,,,

Yeah no okay that's all I have. That's not much but I'll try and tell you about their designs!

-Jaide has the best of the refs, but I'll briefly go over what remains constant in her designs: vest, blue undershirt with cuffs on the sleeves, long skirt, and the gray cloak with the frills if she travels out.

-Even for a nobles' son, Levi's clothes are kinda basic. Just a basic shirt/tunic and pants, with some variations of collars or cuffs. He has blond hair (blond is a stretch. it's really yellow) and his bear mask is only for traveling out.

There's a forever lost page of the old storybook I used to work on that showed a better picture of Jaide's husband. If you look close in the background of the storybook page I did share- there's a painting with the happy family there.

-Jaide's husband has red, curly hair. He has a red shirt with some yellow stripes on the fluffy parts of the sleeves. He has purple puffed pants and brown boots that come to the knees.

I'm not great at describing clothes, sorry </3 And I can't give away too much about Jaide's husband! He's going to star in a oneshot that's going to come sooner rather than later.

[fisheito]

Do you... do you... draw professionally. Because you're just so good and you are inspiring me to keep trying! Manifest those mental images!! Learn to draw yakumo getting railed, and other Normal reasons to revitalize one's previous interest in drawing

u think i could draw professionally??! 😲🥺🥺 i am so flatter..... i think ur draws are so scrorchy (very enjoyable] so if i can help u have inspire 😭😭😭😭😭

omfg if u learn to draw yakumo getting railed i'll probably explode/implode/evaporate/change states of matter in a sudden, violent way

bc. i cannot do it. fun fact: when i read y'all's collab fic of dante's sex ed i felt the urge to draw 3 specific panels for it. but as i put the stylus to the screen, i realised that SEVERAL ppl would have to be naked for the drawings to be storycally accurate. so even tho they were comedy panels, my hand... it betrayed me. it was like trying to draw porn but i blink and suddenly everyone's in 14 levels of victorian extra-garment. F...H?OISTED BY MY OWN UNHORNY

so yes. pls. i would love to see more of your contributions. the very special contributions that only u can make 😂

[sliceofhotsoda]

happy birthday, shoyou!!! I love you, i am so happy to share my birthday with you. thank you for everything.

(these are based off of a scene from princess kaguya :-)