#its so weird to create fanart for something that isnt even out yet

[moxidi-fanarts-and-sketches]

WHEN THE WORLD TELLS YOU TO ALWAYS KEEP SUCKING DOWN...

[akaneenaka33]

No one else wondering about that sword and shield prophecy rn? Just me???

Hak is the shield, Soo-Won the sword and Yona is the king? Or maybe Soo-Won and Yona are interchangeable. Maybe we should question the foundation of the prophecy itself. No one? Like, at all???

Okay :]

That being said, personally, I think too many people are being weird about this chapter. While I have my reservations about it, there's symbolism and growth highlighted in it that's actually pretty interesting. Analyzing a series is fun and great and all but guys. It's just a series, it's not that deep. You have to know that I thoroughly understand the investment one gets in these series, but just because you dont agree with the writing doesnt meant that it's bad writing, even if the ending or even the next chapter isnt what we're expecting. And even if it is bad writing, again!! Its not that deep, and its out of our control. Its a hard pill to swallow, but one I have to force myself to take. Why? Because if I remain overly critical, I will lose the enjoyment I get from reading this manga.

Not to say I'm against criticism either, I just think one needs to find a steady balance.

Anyways, as a MASSIVE akayona fan myself, yeah. I wish things were going in a different direction. I wish some (a lot of) things in this chapter and arc were different. (Time travel, characters, plotholes and such.) But I trust Kusanagi's incredible writing skills and have no doubt something great is about to happen, and if it doesn't, well, I'm incredibly grateful to have been along for the ride. Besides, there's infinite possibilities when you have hundreds of people out here willing to create their own versions of the story. Its simple. If you end up being that upset with the finale, remold canon and write a fic! Make fanart! Create scenarios in your head! Your imagination is your greatest tool, so don't be afraid to use it!

My point being, give Kusanagi a chance. As an author she's nothing short of a genius and a talented storyteller, so I wouldn't doubt that she's got a few more cards up her sleeve. The series isn't over just yet!

[lost-incident-kid]

Happy Birthday Miyu Sugisaki (for tommorow) might do some art for her idk

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Edit: ah heck! Ive had this queued for months, but i forgot to actually do the art haha, i’ll get something done overnight so it might be rushed and look like trash, it might look reasonably ok. Who knows at this point. I dont trust the sleepy version of myself to create anything good but hey, theyv created some stuff that wasn’t horrifying before :/

Ok, starting here i legit just start live-blogging myself staying up alnight drawing. Ignore me. I didnt know where else to say it. I’ll delete it later.

Edit 2: this isnt gonna be done. Like frick, i just spent 6 hours on miyu’s fricking hairstyle, thats all done and even shaded and looking fabulous but ive only got a rough lineart for litterally everything else. This might not be done, but if it is then her hair is gonna be a fuckign masterpiece (i hope). Im writing this edit at 1:42am, and im gonna go to bed somewhere between 4 and 5, lets go! Hell yeah! I might do this! Perhaps! Im gonna try! 3-4 sprint time! Yeah!

Edit 3: frick, im failing to do this, miserably. Its 3:03am and i got distracted playing mobile games and didn’t get anything done. My existence is futile, existentially im a waste and I should not exist. The atoms within me deserve to be part of something better. Sorry. I’m a f*ck up and unless I get my sh*t together in the next like 5 mins (unlikely) then this aint gonna be finished.

Edit 4: ok, meltdown like 20% over. Its 3:52am, I think the issue then was the face. Faces r hard bruh, they suck do draw. They a festive lil ho ho ho. I was drawing everything too high up on the face cuz my dumb *ss forgot to draw the line thingys on the face or even look at a reference image for proportions. Ive done it now amd life is now a bit more on track. Might get this done if I continue work in the morning.

Edit 4.5: nothin much (hence the .5), its 4:14am, just downed 4 cups o tea for caffeine and sugar (all the coffee we got is decaf lol). I’m gonna get this sh*t done! Ive litterally only coloured down to the face, neck and the hair but still.... I’m gonna get it done anyway! I dont care about going to bed between 4-5 anymore! I’m getting this done!

Edit 5: its less than ten mins later (4:22am) and im taking a quick 20m break to watch youtube while I wait for the caffeine to kick in because im too braindead to continue right now. Like what art style am i even trying? Idk... its really fricking complex tho. Lowkey pretty tho, like if i finish this im gonna be so proud of it like it looks great. But its taking forever and im need break.

Edit 6: ok we back. Its 4:41am, caffeine has not really kicked in but i cant permit myself any more time anyway. Back to drawning.

Edit 7: holy frick, new episode of the vrains dub came out. Man... im leaving vrains fanart to watch the vrains dub. Am I obsessed? Is this hyperfixation? Probably? Either way, its 4:50am and im going to go watch the new episode. I’ll come back to this when im done.

Edit 8: HOLY FRICK GUYS! THE DRAWING APP IM USING KEEPS CRASHING AND SAYS ITS STILL THERE BUT WONT LET ME CONTINUE AND KICKING ME OFF THE APP?!?! ITS 5:06AM AND THE PANIC ATTAC IS BACC! The new episode of the dub isnt completely out yet, im watching that version on yt where its just smol clips of it. Not all the clips r up yet. I was just going on it while waiting for the next clips to go up and thats when the app did the thing and life got 280% sucky-er.

Edit: 8.5 wahoot it stopped kicking me off the app and it let me continue. Its 5:12am and we are FINALLY continuing.

Edit 9: its 5:36 Im tired sleep time I’ll finis thos in the morning goodbye yall have a greatt day

Edit 10: ok, so im a failure. We live in the timeline that god abandoned. I cannot sleep. I shall get more cups of tea, watch yt until the caffeine actually kicks in, and then continue. Its 6:03 right now, I shall be back. Perhaps half an hour?

Edit 10.5: its 6:11am. Not much has happened, just a slight change of plans. Ik its irrelevant but im liveblogging so i gotta say, my eye hurts so im gonna stop looking at screens. Perhaps gonna try to sleep again, if not then i’ll put read a book, redo my makeup (it smudgey) or straight up just listen to music and stare into the void. Litterally anything other than look at my laptop/phone. Peace out homies, i’ll be back at some point before 7 probably (unless i do go to sleep).

Edit 11: Its 6:41am, my eye hurts. Ive been staring into the darkness and listening to various fallout boy songs. Now i feel edgy. Its been half an hour, so im gonna continue drawing. Caffeine and sugar has worn off again so im tired and unmotivated but yno what, it is what it is. Aint life nifty, i gotta get this done.

Edit 12: 6:52 everything burns im in pain my eye is on frickign fire and it looks bloodshot but now also weird azz headache that i never got one like this before so im gonna turn off all lights cuz that seems to make it marginally better am i dying probably idk either way im not gonna continue for multiple hours it is stare into the void time and stare into the void time alone ok this should be the last update

Edit 13: It is 3:16pm, didn’t continue liveblogging cuz i got one heck of a migrane. Im back and well... Happy birthday Miyu for today! I’m still gonna try to get this god forsaken art done, but holy shit what is that art style i did. Its genuinely nothing like anything ive done before, I don’t remember doing any of the colouring but apparently I did and it looks better than anything ive done before and idk if non-fricked up me can replicate it. I’m starting to wonder if i got bored and just copied it or something, like idk how i did it. Look at it

The grey is the lineart I remember doing but man tHE FRICKIGN HAIR like i couldnt have created that, could I? I can see why it was taking so long yesterday like holy shit man that stuff takes time yno

[bettycrocker]

sorry but if your going to support 2nu shippers by reblogging their art and just ignoring their shipping preferences, that makes you just as bad as them :////

why because i’m not going out of my way to block every single person who ships something i dont ship?? because i’m not actively and openly bashing people (who might be minors mind you) on my tumbler.corn blog as though i’m saying something new or amazing??? because i’m not reblogging the artwork with “OH MY GOD YOURE A PEDOPHILE FOR SHIPPING THIS YOURE DISGUSTING BLOCKED AND REPORTED” commented on it in an attempt to humiliate the artist to force them to stop just doing something they don’t realize could be harmful to others?????? its almost like the people who draw these ships are just participating in the fandom in their own way and don’t see 2nu to be as harmful as others say it to be.

yeah, i’ve had 2nu shippers come into my askbox and harass me before but like???? should i really let it get under my skin when they were too much of a pussy to actually get off anon and say what they wanted to say to my fucking face??? hell no, they’re probably just some kid who got overexcited with seeing my writing and wanted me to write something for their ship and got upset when i said it made me uncomfortable. which is understandable, because this fandom has a really weird shipping hierarchy that needs to fucking stop because these are fictional characters whether you want to believe it or not. they cannot be effected by the decisions a child makes, only jamie and damon can make anything that happens in gorillazverse canon. until people learn to accept that, there’s gonna be shipping drama all the fucking time even though none of the canon characters are ever going to get together. it’s been 20 years, if it hasn’t happened yet it’s never going to happen unless jamie is revealing himself to be the fucking king of slowburning storylines.

while we all know that noodle isn’t comfortable with being shipped with her family (ie, the band) funnily enough that isnt going to stop people who are drawing non-canon fanart for something they think looks cute together!!! i could scream HETERONORMATIVITY or PEDOPHILIA or CHILD ABUSE when i see the ship but i don’t. instead i fucking ignore it because i have the ability to do that as a fucking human being who can make rational decisions instead of typing before i think. we are all capable of not typing something, you have to make an effort to move your hands and do something. it’s not like youre talking and you just randomly blurt out something offensive. you, as a human being who can think and make rational decisions with just a little bit of effort, can absolutely just scroll past the image and not give it another thought.

most artists usually become even more discouraged when their artwork is ignored and they’ll eventually stop drawing what theyre drawing. however, negative attention is still attention. some people enjoy that kind of attention and will keep doing what they see makes others notice their work. it gets their work notice and recognition and spreads it to other people who support that kind of thing, believe it or not. while i’m not saying 2nu shippers are seeking out negative attention, i’m more or less saying giving them any kind of attention is just feeding a mentality of “i’m getting recognized, i should keep doing this!!!”

it’s also a case of them forming some kind of subconscious spite toward the people who are constantly telling them theyre not allowed to do something, so they keep doing it in order to push the fact that they don’t share the same views as others. ignoring it is the best option when it comes right down to it because youre not feeding the artist positive or negative attention. it wouldn’t completely wipe out 2nu shippers but it would end up discouraging a lot of artists from creating something that isn’t getting attention on its own merits and eventually conform into the art and shipping ideals tumblr has. but thats a whole other tangent on the lacking of self-awareness tumblr, a community that calls out toxicity on a daily basis, has.

basically what i’m saying is grow the fuck up and just ignore the parts you don’t like instead of bullying others in order to push some fake-ass agenda you have. stirring shit up doesn’t fix anything, learning how to stand your ground and show youre not going to tolerate something you find offensive in a non-aggressive way is the key to a far more peaceful and open community. y’all wonder why the fuck this community overall is so dead or the tag is so slow or it’s like a taboo to talk about shipping in servers or just in general; it’s for petty ass reasons like this, this nasty mentality of “i’ll bully them until they go away” that you all have come to the conclusion of. i want no part of it because i’m willing to have self-control online rather than letting my frustration get the better of me. there’s literally no reason to single an individual out just because you don’t like their fucking shipping preferences. just ignore them like the fucking adult you either are or are going to be in the very near future.

tl;dr: shut up and unfollow me all ready i dont need your petty, childish bullshit bullying and genuine toxicity in my life.

[crimsonsalutations]

shoutout to everyone who followed me expecting reblogs and got Daniel’s 24/7 R76 Talkshow

niceteeth-nastysmile  replied to your post “WHILE i’m mad here’s another hot take: i hate hate HATE how the r76...”

My biggest peeve with the fandom behind this ship is the massively dense amount of people that oversimplify both of these characters, strip them down to basic cookie-cutter yaoi boys and completely disregard what makes them interesting. They're old vets with (likely severe) PTSD, vigilante complexes, life altering physical trauma (including the super soldier program) -- dude I could write an essay. The dynamic is awesome but everyone ignores ittt

yeah, I have problems with this too, like, they have one of the most unique relationships in the whole game and people waltz into the ship and create content that feels like it’s not even r76. and i mean. i cant really fault people for wanting their weird porn; you see that in all fandoms, all communities as a matter of fact, and if someone wants to write porn of the 2 hot dudes they saw in passing in ovw fanart that they know nothing about... well I’m not going to try and stop them, but I can and will laugh at their characterization, lmao.

but even so, there’s some people who are like... dedicated to the characters to an astounding degree and yet they insist on writing them so weirdly. i think one of my main problems with r76 fic, to say it in the fewst words possible, is people write them too nice. the ‘sad dads’ thing is cute and all, but i think people take it too far sometimes. they’re 50+ year old war vets, war machines, who are tired and violent and angry and pissed at the world that ate them up and spat them out when they outlived their usefulness and people...... write them as cute dads. I mean. I wont tell them no. but. it feels like a disservice to their characters.

(plus people who hate angst and love r76. it’s weird. like walking into a knife museum and saying you hate knives. why are you here if you hate knives???)

pcturtl replied to your post:

“WHILE i’m mad here’s another hot take: i hate hate HATE how the r76...”

A comparison we can safely make is Gabe tends to be a logic driven planner, while Jack tends to act more on instinct (with Overwatch/Ana/Gabe being 80% of his impulse control). Something so many people give Jack guff for is that he *hesitated* to save the girl, but given the choice, Gabe probably would have prioritized the objective. Disagree about the intentionally nonlethal ult though since it's limited to body shots. He probably wouldn't care if it killed them or not.

yeah, that is one of the few assumptions we can make, though the intricacies of that dynamic (ie. how it changed over the years, to what extent jack/gabriel are impulsive/tactical, etc) aren’t so clear, but I mean nothing is clear in this fuckin lore.

and YES that was actually what I saw that made me mad in the first place. Someone was saying 76 kills all over the place and reaper only shoots at those who shoot first (which is. wrong?? hes an assassin? do people know what an assassin does?). and it was so wildly wrong i got mad. lol.

And yeah, Gabe is tactical to an extreme degree. I’m quoting off the top of my head here, but in-game, his kill line for every non-overwatch player is ‘that was a tactical error’ which i think speaks volumes. Hana. Lucio. Fareeha == tactical errors in his head. doesn’t even refer to them as people. (and i think jack has a similar line but it isnt used in the same context? I’d have to check.)

He’s very tactical & very apathetic towards the world, I mean the only things I can say for sure that he cares/cared about are jack, ana, and blackwatch,and maybe jesse. honestly cant say if he ever gave a shit about overwatch, and my guess leans towards he didn’t. 

working somewhere for 30 years doesn’t mean you care about it as an organization, you know? the same goes for talon: we have 0 proof he cares about talon either. 

people try to use the bit in infiltration where he doesnt shoot That Dumbass who knocked himself out as proof of his goodness (whatever that means exactly) and its like... That Dumbass put himself out of the equation. why waste a shell on him if he wasnt interfering with the mission any more? reaper isnt excessively violent, as much as he cackles about death and whatever, and it seems like if something doesnt directly benefit him or benefit something he cares about, he doesnt care whether that thing or person lives or not. (like overwatch, like that guy who knocked himself out, like the recall agents. he just doesnt care)

re:  the jack ult, correct me if im wrong but i dont think that just because an ult works a certain way in-game doesnt mean it works that exact way in the cinematics. like genji cant actually deflect hanzo’s ult with his own ult the way he does in dragons. 

and i think that’s less jack caring about the ~*sanctity of life~* or giving a personal rat’s ass about los muertos jackasses, and more of an instinctual thing for him. like in the beginning of hero, when the one guy calls ‘come out and fight perro’ jack couldve easily shot all 3 of those guys and called it a day from his hiding spot. it’d be easier and faster and less of a risk for him. but instead he comes charging out, gun under one arm, and punches one of them in the face.

but at the same time we also saw him kill at least the guy with the minigun, and probably a couple others. off the top of my head, i think only half of them walked  drove away from that confrontation alive. if jack can get out of a situation without killing i think he would, but i also think he wouldnt hesitate to kill if it came to that. especially when it comes to ‘bad guys’ like los muertos

i think i’ve mentioned this before, but gabe’s and jack’s respective fighting styles can be summed up with ‘gabe=shooty shooty die’ and ‘jack= smacky smacky concussion’ with exceptions, of course