#jakke —☆— in character

[vvarvvon]

!! jakke cortes & OPEN (mutuals & non; children of hecate) !!

being made of mist, created to always know where those of the divine world were, jakke was always aware of those around him. of their auras, their emotions, their temperaments ("their vibes," as his younger brother would say; benes needed less screentime, in jakke's opinion).

point being—it was not often jakke was caught off-guard.

a sibling stepped foot into his store. but not one he would have expected—three sets of small feet, followed closely by two heavier sets. the one who crossed his threshold was also of the gods. one of his creator's children.

how odd. most of the hecateans he was close with had been slaughtered, killed by their fellow demigods passed three years ago.

"why are you here?" he had moved on. been moving on for the past three years. (trying to, at least. it's hard to move on when every time he closed his eyes he saw those he failed, those he slew.) closer stores existed if they had needed supplies; he wasn't one to entertain social calls.

[sonknuxadow]

transition timeline

[heilos]

I got really excited about my new phone camera and wanted to take some pictures of my Sonic figure collection. They keep me company on my work desk while I draw. :)

[muchalucha-art]

[matbenetti17]

Kwami's Information:

Name: Jakks, the kwami of Instinct

Gender: Genderless ø

Pronoun: He/him

Other names: Fur-ball                              Little troublemaker

Species: Kwami

Height: 10 cm

Miraculous: Jackal Miraculous

Residence: Attic of the Hussains apartment in Paris, France

                     China (Past)

                     India (Past)

                     Pakistan (Past)

Owners: Grandma Hina (previously)                   Shaneeza Hussain (future) Miraculous jewel: Double crescent moon ring

Favorite food: Bread

Likes: Stealing shoes and chewing them              Hunting attic mice              Noise Dislikes: Order Following the rules

Powers and abilities: Aim                                        Flight                                        Levitation                                        Intangibility                                        Miraculous transformation                                        Inability to be filmed                                        Immortality

[drasticlyplasticly]

Sonic and Ninja Turtles Advent Calendars!

[sonichedgeblog]

A turnaround of the Modern Knuckles with Blue Checkpoint 4" articulated action figure, released by Jakks Pacific in 2021. This was part of Wave 6 of the series, which gave the characters a flourescent look. Support us on Patreon

[dollsahoy]

Free Idea for Mattel:

Since the Jakks Pacific Disney ILY4Ever dolls are doing well, and I just saw that there is going to be a line of Doorables fashion dolls with the same Disneybounding theme, you should look into getting the license from either Warner Brothers (who now also owns, among other things, Hanna-Barbera) or Nickelodeon Viacom Paramount to do a whole ongoing series of "Barbie Loves _______" dolls wearing clothes based on their characters

You've done it before, sporadically, you can do it again.

I would honestly be surprised if Mattel isn't trying to do this already, although, more honestly, I'd suspect that Mattel is more likely trying to figure out how they can also do Disney themed fashion dolls, and without learning from the failure of the Sanrio dolls that they need to be Barbie. Playline Barbie.

C'mon, a Paramount license alone would give you the ability to release a line of dolls with one being Barbie Loves Spongebob, one being Barbie Loves MTV, one being Barbie Loves Star Trek. A Warner Brothers license could give Barbie Loves Bugs Bunny, Barbie Loves The Flintstones, Barbie Loves Supernatural

[tailschannel]

Another #SonicMovie 3 figure set appears! We have a look at an upcoming set from Jakks Pacific featuring characters from the upcoming movie. We also get a peak at one of Shadow’s renders for the movie! 👀 #SonicNews h/t: thatsonicfanboy on Twitter

(from @TailsChannel on Instagram)

[son1c]

even jakks figures, which are far and away the most accessible sonic merch, have a horrible distribution system where sonic himself is the most common figure and if you want any of the other characters your only two options are to pay a scalper on ebay exorbitant prices for it or pray.

[vvarvvon]

!! jakke cortes & OPEN (mutuals & non) !!

cabin eleven sucked. there were too many people—all crowded into his space. even back home with three siblings jakke had his own room. sharing a bunk with another teenage boy was a nightmare.

it wasn't just the cabin itself. training was so generalized because no one in charge knew how to train everyone's specific skills. it was always swordplay, archery, and horse riding. nothing jakke would train in if given the choice. (his magic was more than enough in every fight he'd ever been in. what was an arrow to an energy blast? why ride a pegasus when he could teleport?)

jakke hid behind the stables, riding helmet hanging from two fingers at his side.

"i can feel your eyes on me. you going to talk or what?"

[sonknuxadow]

PICTURES OF INFINITE AND CREAM ACTION FIGURES CAME OUT ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RN?

[maleyanderevnshowdown]

Male Yandere Showdown List (Draft)

If you have any suggestions for changes, feel free to send me an ask!

Rules:

1. Can only be male yandere characters from indie games

2. Must at least have a demo out

3. One character per game

4. It's all for fun! Be nice, please!

List:

Ren (BTD)

Sunny Day Jack (SWWSDY)

Peter (Your Boyfriend)

Alan (My Dear Hatchetman)

Bo (Dachabo)

Kylar (Degrees of Lewdity)

Z (Favor)

Adam (You and Him)

Friend (See Thru Friend)

Ren (14DWY)

Ezra (Restart Heart)

Cassanova (Cannibal Sweetheart)

Tenebris (Duality)

Sasha (Hopeless Romantic)

Sebastian (Particles of Reality)

Markus (Yandere Island)

Dorian (10:16)

Griffin (Duplicity)

Rook (Cry for Help)

Jakk (Courtin Cowboys)

Nial (Parasite in Love)

Fone (Honey Hotline)

Stalker/Dameon (Broken Colors)

Klaus (Please Don't Hate Christmas)

Devyn (Invite Me In)

Liu (Glass Mind)

Simon (Colored Gaze)

John Doe (John Doe)

Gold (Ai-yo, Kogane-San!)

Ashton (Picture Perfect Boyfriend)

Liev Latane (Pulsatio Cordis)

Eros (Seven Bloody Nights)

[taybatwo2]

Another Magic Mixies Pixling Review!!

This time of Marena and how she compare to similar themed dolls.

So many fins and shades of blues!

Here is a close up of Marena herself. She’s really cute (I have been loving the Pixling dolls). She’s similar to the other dolls in the line, with a ball joint in the head, shoulders, hips and elbow joints, a (very nice) fabric skirt, and a molded on top.

She’s supposed to be a mermaid Pixling, but she gives me more of a water nymph vibe…..yup, that’s just going to be my head canon.

A close up of her face up. Her screening is lightly pixelated, but it’s not distracting like what Mattel uses on their Fashionistas. I love the little scale pattern around her eyes and wish that’s what would have been printed on G3 Lagoona’s forehead. Her ears look to be added on as separate pieces and have a tiny bit of glitter in them.

While her shirt is molded on, it is a very cute mold and “ties” around the back. The extra molded detail, paint, and unique design adds to her cuteness (they could have just had the same top design for all the dolls, but instead they have made separate molds for all the characters….so far). Her skirt is silky (but not the paper-like silk that Disney/Jakks Pacific/Mattel uses), hemmed, with a tule around the bottom (along with the cut, it is is reminiscent of a mermaid tail).

Even the shoes have cute little pear, heart and scale patterns (matching her skirt). More under the cut:

Marena was swarmed by some adorable, big haired aquatic monsters. Marena meet the Mermalades! I always like to compare the Pixlings with Moose’s Zelfs. Their ancestor of sorts.

Marena likes the look of these sea buddies.

Mermalade is a darker blue, and the newer Mermalades actually has more fins than Marena does (I wish she did have some webbing in between her fingers and maybe some fins off of her forearms). Interesting to note, that the fins are more curved than the pointy fins Marena has.

She actually has a much closer color pallet to Sealia or Oceana. But I do not own these little guys…yet.

Huh, something scared them off….I wonder what it-

Well that is startling, but not an usual sight around my house. “Is this how you treat your dolls?!?”

No no no, this Taylee Turtle Enchantimal was going to be a Monster High custom…and that’s as far as I got…

“I can’t see anything!! Hello??”

Don’t worry Taylee, you’re doing great.

Enchantimals are about the same height as Pixlings, but have smaller proportions. They also have opposite joints (well, at least Taylee has knee joints, I don’t believe most Enchantimals have these). You can also see how basic the molded (granted I acetoned some of it away) and fabric pieces are compared to Marena. I mean it’s not really a fair comparison because I think of Marena as more of an aquatic mammal, fish, or amphibian and Taylee is more of a:

Here are Dolce Dolphin and Sedda Seahorse.

Yeaaaaah, the skirts might look a bit more inspired, but none of them have fins sculpted to their legs or arms, and their shirts are still kinda boring. Also wanted to compare her to this unreleased mermaid Novi Star, just because her decorations around her eyes and her large ear fins reminded me of them….and actually the large head, small torso and hands are kinda reminiscent or Marena too, huh….

Okay, Taylee wandered off when I was looking at the other Enchantimals and Nobvi Star concept, soooo, let’s compare Marena with Ebbie Blue, the youngest of G2’s Blue family.

“She’s like a mini me!” She is both less and more detailed than you Marena (I LOVE the scales on the arms and under her pigtails, her little fins on her arms, and how the scales merge into her tail, but she can’t tip her head up and can move her arms out).

Also, she’s got widdle, round fingers that look like they have not finished growing.

Let’s compare you to someone a bit older: Kelpie Blue from G2!

“Look at her sharp toe-nails, and those shoulder spikes! I think she’s more sea monster than nymph.” “Is someone saying something down there? I can’t move my head down to see.”

Well….that’s a little better. Kelpie has really cute and unique scales, fins, and shortened webbing in between her fingers, but her articulation is REALLY poor (she can’t move her head up/down, or move her arms/legs out).

Her ears were also added on later, like Marena’s.

“I wonder if all dolls get stiffer when they grow up?”

“I dunno, I have a torso joint that es magnífica.”

“Are you a sea monster too??”

“Sí! But don’t worry I won’t eat you up, you’re too cute like my Señor Squishy.” “Whoa!!”

“Let me introduce you to more Lagoonas.”

After chasing the speedy G2 around, she finally got to look at her tiny little ear fins while playing with her hair, and Freshwater Lagoona and Saltwater Lagoona both couldn’t get over how cute she was.

“Look at the lil’ kindy!”

“A lil’ sea grub!!”

She’s actually closest (design wise) to both G1 Lagoona’s. A lack of scales, she’s in-between both their colors of blue and she has the added pink accents too.

Side tangent about Lagoona:

Thought I should add a quick summery of my thoughts on my different generation Lagoonas. G1 Lagoona:

pros: All the different material used in her clothing, her face-up, her personality, her addition of a diary, her fully webbed hands (with different colored webbing and see through fins). cons: she has an ill-fitting swimsuit, her fins keep falling off, her thin joints make her pretty delicate, glue head (this one is treated with La’s Totally Awesome cleaner, but I still need to treat Freshwater Lagoona, and de-yellow her head), and the elastic hip joints make her floppy. Her character being ALL about Gil in the series (I really don’t hate his character and I LOVE his G1 design, I just wish there were more to her stories than just him).

G2 Lagoona (I’m still looking for the OG G2 Lagoona, so have the Beast Pet one here):

pros: Her softened face is kinda cute, her sculpted scales around her arm and leg fins, her stronger joints, her fins stay in SO MUCH BETTER. cons: I remember her being a lot more hyper and speedy than G1 and it’s an odd choice to me, her eyes were changed from green to blue, her webbing decreased in size and is no longer another color (and many of her dolls didn’t have this much articulation).

G3 Lagoona (I originally gave her braids to make her have kinky hair, but the braids are kinda growing on me).

pros: torso joint on most of her dolls, see through legs, her fins stay on pretty well, larger ear fins, a really fun personality on the show, her joints are stronger/her doll feels sturdier, I like many of her shoes and themes (jellyfish/tentacles/pearls).

cons: I didn’t like her first couple of releases, her pink (while it reminds me of an axolotl) is a bit too sunburnt looking for me…? Maybe a paler or darker pink. I would have liked it if they would have painted her ears/and had a blue to pink fade on her arms as well…also her dots on her forehead should have either been sculpted scales or drawn scales like Marena. Biggest disappointment: should have hand webbing, a diary, and accessories that have to do with her love of telenovelas!!! I’m still getting used to her being really different than G1 Lagoona and would have really liked it had she been her cousin from the Amazon (because I want to see them interact with each other SO BAD).

Anyways, Tangent over:

My last take aways is: MARENA HAS THE BEST HAIR FIBER OUT OF ALL OF THEM!!

okay, now the review is over.

[blazehedgehog]

What fired you up more this week: Prime’s incredible pixel artistry, or Sonicman vs. Mephiles?

Sonicman vs. Mephiles, no contest.

Sonic Prime having a bad pixel art flashback sucks, but it's more of a "they're at it again" scenario. We've already had at least two of these just in Sonic Prime alone, in the first batch of episodes. Though it's fair to argue this one might be worse in some ways. Sloppy tile placement, mismatched art styles, weird proportions, mixed pixel resolutions, choppy framerate... somebody tried, maybe, but they didn't try hard enough.

We had the same problem with the credits for the first Sonic movie, something they corrected for the second Sonic movie by hiring very talented pixel artists straight out of the community (shoutouts to Mit and Crepe).

No such luck here. Given the show's production schedule, maybe it makes sense they wouldn't swap out for more talented pixel artists. But they needed to do a LOT better.

Sonicman vs. Mephiles, on the other hand... You wouldn't think I'd care, but even back when people were still in shock over how bad Sonic 06 was, everybody still loved the absurdity of Sonicman.

Both characters have kind of been ignored for their connection to Sonic 06, but Mephiles has been slowly gaining some traction. He's turned up in games like Sonic Runners and Sonic Forces Speed Battle, he's gotten his own plushie, and just next month he's getting his own action figure courtesy of Jakks Pacific.

Comparatively, Sonicman has gotten almost nothing. Outside of fandom memes, his main claim to fame was being referenced in the Archie comics for one panel, one time, as a Power-Rangers-style TV show airing on Breezie's entertainment network. A future issue was supposed to introduce him properly, as well as the rest of his sentai team, but the book was canceled before that happened.

So Sonicman deserved a win, in my opinion. And the race was so close, it was hard not to get really, really invested in it. The last 48 hours of the Sonic Channel poll was a lot of back and forth between Mephiles taking the lead and Sonicman taking it back. It was kind of harrowing. I was on the edge of my seat.

And, goodness. The fan art it generated. It's been said, but it almost didn't matter who won, because the outpouring of cool images this resulted in is worth the battle alone. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

[mythosidhesdollhouse]

First new arrival of the week: 14" Isabela Madrigal from Jakks. Not as cross-eyed as I feared she might be. Overall I am happy with my purchase (all $7 of it) and look forward to giving her a glow-up to replace this sad excuse for a dress.

(General thoughts and comparison with other dolls below)

I have several of the 1/6th Jakks Encanto dolls, so I more or less knew what to expect as far as the quality of her clothing goes. Not the best, but I've seen worse. The printed design doesn't bother me as much on the fashion doll, perhaps because it's fitted to her body better. 14" Isabela's dress looks decidedly cheaper and more costume-y, though I do appreciate the sculpted floral details on her sandals, which are absent on the smaller doll. None of this matters overly much, as I intend to make her a new dress regardless.

The comparison with the 14" live action Ariel is interesting, because although they appear to have the exact same body sculpt, Ariel's head is significantly bigger! And her features are much more detailed. I suspect this is in part due to the fact that Ariel's sculpt is a stylized adaptation of an actual human face, while Isabela is a pretty direct copy of her face as rendered for the film (this is way more apparent in the 1/6 dolls but still noticeable on this larger head). With the animated characters, Pixar has already done most of the work for them. For the live-action films they have to create new heads from scratch to resemble the actors.

On the other hand, I think another contributing factor is that Disney (perhaps rather incongruously) just seems to devote more resources to developing dolls for their live action films over the animated features, and/or Jakks puts more effort into making them. The latter is clearly the case when you compare the level of detail in Ariel's dress to Isabela's, or indeed even to the Mattel 1/6 Ariel. Looking at them all side by side, I think it's obvious where the budget went. (The Jakks dolls for Maleficent blow all of these out of the water, but that's a discussion for another day).

All that said, I do enjoy the girls on their own merits, and wouldn't be opposed to adding a few more of these larger Jakks Disney dolls to my collection, should the opportunity arise.

Ran out of steam for writing so might as well end this one here XD