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Columbo and the Knight (1984)
put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.
Autism W!
#columbo#knight rider#art#michael knight#kitt#comic#highlight reel#crossover#telebeast#there are two small easter eggs here. can you find them. they were somehow not Entirely lost when i resized these for the public#this is what i mean when i say I Draw And It's Everyone Else's Problem. look at my INCREDIBLY niche crossover comic boy#if the knight rider fandom has like 12 people in it. how many of y'all have seen columbo#this comic is for like 4 people and me and phoenix are already two of them#niche is my specialty lets be real. weird niche obscure shit and ships nobody's paid attention to yet#not to suggest this is ship art. columbo has his wife and michael has his car lmfao#stylizing real people is EXTREMELY hard btw sorry for when they get off model. its partly a 'better imperfect than never finished' situatio#cant tell you how much i redrew some of these panels. weeps#this took me 2 weeks but i think i thumbnailed it all in may and the ideas been rollin around in my head since march#is anybody good at editing. please edit michael and columbo into an image together like its a screenshot. NOT generated. edited.#it would be so cool#ive drawn columbo a lot but i haven't drawn a lot of michaels. i was learning things about his outfit AS I WAS DOING THE DAMN#COLORS ON THIS. all the lines done. it was too late to change anything. i did all the lines and colored page by page#i realized my mistakes on like page 3. 1 and 2 were already done. it was Too Late.#imagine it though. them working a case together. switching between the more serious tone of columbo vs the goofier#action antics of michael and kitt. columbo being so impressed by Modern Technology. there's more i could say but phoenix may write#more of this crossover and i don't want to spoil it :'3#there's opportunity here though i swear. there's gold to be dug.#i like how kitt gets shading but columbo's junker peugeot doesn't. kitt looked wrong without any. columbo's car is matte and dirty#i also applied effects to this to make it look a little film-grainy and VHS like. some CRT TV vibes#the only question left is. did they put knight rider into columbo; or columbo into knight rider 🤔
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We all love Frater Imperator but based on the 'tax season' chapter I don't think he's going to be very good at the job actually.
(This is a vine btw)
#50 year old man#in retrospect i think he only had the '2nd most employee of the month awards' because psalterian is the only other employee#ghouls don't count they don't get paid#ghost band#copia#the band ghost#frater imperator#sister imperator#shitghosting#my art
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You idiot! clingy girls LOVE to get pushed around teased messed-up with manhandled bullied!! ESPECIALLY this one!!
#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#marchil#marcille donato#chilchuk tims#finally I got this out of my system. Once again it's quick and messy but hey I'm not getting paid for this#In my heart Marcille is the definition of “Don't bully me I'll come”#and I love her for it.#that girl is a BOTTOOOOOOMMMM~ THAT GIRL IS A BOTTOOOOOOOOMMMMM
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you know what else fucks me up about the US election? one of the things that has left me reeling in bewilderment and grief this month?
I'm a scientist, y'all.
That means that I am, like most American research scientists, a federal contractor. (Possibly employee. It's confusing, and it fucks with my taxes being a postdoctoral researcher.) I get paid because someone, in the long run ideally me, makes a really, really detailed pitch to one of several federal grant agencies that the nation would really be missing out if I couldn't follow up on these thoughts and find concrete evidence about whether or not I'm right.
Currently, my personal salary is dependent on a whole department of scientists convincing one of the largest and most powerful granting agencies that they have a program that is really good at training scientists that can think deeply about the priorities of the agency. Those priorities are defined by the guy who runs the agency, and he gets to hire whatever qualified people he wants. That guy? The Presidential Administration picks that one. That's how federal agencies get staffed: the President's administration nominates them.
All of the heads of these agencies are personally nominated by the president and their administration. They are people of enormous power whose job is to administer million-dollar grants to the scientists competing urgently for limited funds. A million dollars often doesn't go farther than a couple of years when it's intended to pay for absolutely everything to do with a particular pitch, including salaries of your trainees, all materials, travel expenses, promoting the work among other researchers, all of it—so most smart American researchers are working fervently on grants all the time.
The next director of the NIH will be a Trump appointee, if he notices and thinks to appoint one. NSF, too; that's the group that funds your ecology and your astroscience and your experimental mathematics and physics and chemistry, the stuff that doesn't have industry funding and industry priorities. USDA. DOE, that's who does a lot of the climate change mitigation and renewable energy source research, they'll just be lucky if they can do anything again because Trump nigh gutted them last time.
Right now, I am working on the very tail end of a grant's funding and I am scurrying to make sure I stay employed. So I'm thinking very closely about federal agency priorities, okay? And I'm thinking that the funding climate for science is going to get a lot fucking leaner. I'm seeing what the American people think of scientists, and about whether my job is worth doing. It's been a lean twelve years in this gig, okay? Every time the federal government gets fucked up, that impacts my job, it means that I have to hustle even harder to get grants in that let me support myself—and, if I have any trainees, their budding careers as well!—to patch over the lean times as much as we can.
So I've been reeling this week thinking about how funding agency priorities are going to change. I work on sex differences in motivation, so let me tell you, the politics reading this one for my next pitch are going to be fun. I'm working on a submission for an explicitly DEI-oriented five year grant with a cycle ending in February, so that's going to be an exercise in hoping that the agency employees at the middle levels (the ones that know how to get things done which can't be replaced immediately with yes men) can buffer the decisions of those big bosses long enough to let that program continue to exist a little while longer.
Ah, Christ, he promised Health & Human Services (which houses the NIH) to RFK, didn't he? We'll see how that pans out.
I keep seeing people calling for more governmental shutdowns on the left now, and it makes me want to scream. The government being gridlocked means the funding that researchers like me need doesn't come, okay? When the DOE can't say fucking "climate change," when the USDA hemorrhages its workers when the agency is dragged halfway across the country, when I watch a major Texan House rep stake his career on trying to destroy the NSF, I think: this is what you people think of us. I think: how little scientists are valued as public workers. Why am I working this hard again?
This is why I described voting as harm reduction. Even if two candidates are "the same" on one thing you care about, they probably aren't the same level of bad on everything. Your task is to figure out the best person to do the job. It's not about a fucking tribalist horse race. A vote is your opinion on a job interview, you fucks. We have to work with this person.
Anyway, I'm probably going to go back to shaking quietly in despair for a little longer and then pick myself up and hit the grind again. If I'm fast, I might still get the grant in this miserable climate if I run, and I might get to actually keep on what I'm trying to do, which is bring research on sex differences, neurodivergence and energy balance as informed by non-binary gender perspectives and disability theory to neuroscience.
Fuck.
#us politics#science#biology#career#probably my last word on the subject for some time#but fuck yall when the government goes down i don't get paid and i have to go do something different#which generally is beholden to the interests of some rich private fucker#I'm just so fucking tired of feeling like i can relax and getting slammed in the face
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I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.
Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.
So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.
I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.
Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.
You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.
[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]
#not art#dungeon meshi#rant#i'm someone who can get obsessive over colors in my own art#will stare at the screen adjusting hues/saturation for hours#luckily i've gotten faster at color picking#but yeah modern anime's color design is saddening to me. the general trend leans towards white/grey desaturated palettes#simply because they're easier to pick digitally#this is not the colorists fault mind you. the anime industry's problems are also labor problems. artists are severely underpaid#and overworked. colorists literally aren't paid enough to do their best#there isn't a “creative drought” in the anime industry. this trend is widespread across studios purely BECAUSE it's not up to individuals#until work conditions improve anime will unfortunately continue to miss its fullest potential visually#don't even GET ME STARTED ON THE USE OF POST-PROCESSING FILTERS AND LIGHTING IN ANIME THOUGH#SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK. I HATE LENS FLARES I HATE GRADIENT SHADING I HATE CHROMATIC ABBERATION AND BLUR
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Some of y'all trying to encourage empathy for these unethically wealthy people, who agreed to be bolted in to a metal tube, that was unapproved, unsafe and was controlled by a fucking off brand playstation controller from 2011 just for a cute lil death tourism trip is why we as a society will never be free.
They went to a part of the ocean that is so deep, more people have been to space than that far down. With a man who said safety shouldn't be a concern. Oceangate literally fired someone for saying that the window wasn't going to be able to withstand those depths. They'd lost another vessel before for 5 hours. Like plllsss the self preservation left the room. This whole situation is absurd.
Even this man's own stepson doesn't give a FUCK and you want me to? Nuh uh you have the wrong one I'm afraid😭😭
#scribblesbyc#titanic#the way I was hooting and hollering as soon as I saw what they paid a quarter of a million to get stuck inside😭😭😭#this entire situation is fucking ridiculous so imma laugh#oceangate#yeah i know its a Logitech controller but its still an off brand playstation controller hence why i called it that 😭 dw guys 😂#sometimes a girl likes to add a bit of pizzazz when I'm on a rant pls don't come for me 😭
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whenever Andrew or Neil are talking about Kevin to the other they refer to him as "your boytoy"
#Neil to Andrew at the end of trk: don't worry. I'll keep your boytoy safe for you until you get back#Kevin: 🧍#this is even better in a kandreil exclusive way#like Kevin is not romantically involved but they use it totally seriously and casually#lmao it gets to the point where Kevin will respond to it. like hell lift his head up when he hears it bc he knows they're talking about him#LMAO all I can think now is Coach seeing this and being like I do NOT get paid enough for this shit#neil josten#andrew minyard#kevin day#aftg#mine aftg
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he's not a kin or a comfort character but a secret third thing (my worksona)
#strong bad#homestar runner#SB sits in the beautiful tier of Mascot Zone on my kinlist. I too am a tired gay emailer with masculinity issues#the brothers chaps were so real for bis cas fri I feel that shit all the time#literally don't even get paid for this crap those corpo bitches love screwing over pre-meds#I DO own that little blue flower shirt in the first pic tho. love that thang#anyway I'm quitting soon tee hee. for a paying job#w art
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Okay, Dandadan is probably one if the stupidest plots for an anime I've ever watched, but DESPITE THAT-
It still manages to have extremely compelling characters, an awesome rom-com of the two MCs, awesome supernatural powers, and a surprisingly tasteful portrayal of the main plot.
Like, I know anime, I've watched food wars. I know how anime can be, and suffice to say: I'm honestly happy with how the writers are treating the plot.
It's not overtly sexual, they haven't turned the missing balls into some sex-fueled fantasy that can only be solved through fanservice and the main characters getting it on. Instead it's been treated like it is: a circumstance thats so fucking ridiculous it is legitimately hysterical, the idea that a ghost stole your balls is honestly comedic, and I'm glad that the anime (I haven't fully read the manga so I can't speak for it) is treating it as such.
Plus, the Opening, and artstyle in which the anime is being produced with is so fucking incredible, from the designs, angles, and action sequences to the actual character movements, each scene feels so alive and every personality really pops through the character's motions. I don't feel like there is a stagnant moment in the anime so far, and it's really fucking awesome to just sit and take in the art that is being blasted into my retinas.
So all in all: do I contemplate my life choices every time I think about the plot of the show? Yes, but do I also take into account that it could've been worse, and what we got is actually really fucking amazing all things considered? Absolutely.
#dandadan anime#i wanna read the manag but i don't wanna go searching for it online#maybe i'll buy it when i get paid next#momokarun#momo ayase#okarun#dandadan#I genuinely love the chemistry that Okarun and Momo have together#they are so boy fail x girl fail while simultaneously being badass x badass#and i live for it#the first episode was wild and i almost dropped it because of it#but i'm glad i stuck it out#birbblurbs
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hey guys you heard of these things called trees ??? wow
#bolt experiences the splendor of nature#i don't get paid enough to NOT take an extra half hour for lunch and go look at trees#back to meetings. see you later 👋👋
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Doodles because I can't code anymore
#original dialogue happened last night when I was working with my friend#hopefully we're gonna get paid for that shit#if not I'll go feral#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel vox#hazbin hotel valentino#hazbin vox#voxval#staticmoth#hazbin hotel fanart#i miss drawing them#i don't have enough time and strength to draw since uni started#only have time to smoke and sulk#*sigh*#my art shit
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framing the lost light as "found family" is lazy and boring fandom cliche to me, however i do 100% believe rodimus is the sort of person who would try to wave over all the shit that happens if you work for him by pulling the "we're like a family, haha" line. look me in the eyes and tell me rodimus would not respond to complaints about the whole place being run Like That with some vague platitude like that if only cybertronians broadly understood what "family" is in the first place.
#i say work for him. none of these people are getting paid.#i don't think? maybe drift just pays people and rodimus doesn't realize
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Eowyns armor in 4k
#lotr#eowyn#lotredit#lord of the rings#miranda otto#4k#armor#perioddramaedit#periodcostume#woman in armor#costume design#shame on me i never paid attention to this armor before#i always thought that it was just some stuff she grabbed in haste#but it looks awesome#all the details with the horses#and her sword#don't get me started on her helmet it's exquisite metalwork#even the chainmail is beautiful#the only thing that looks cheap is her cloack but that's okay because she has to sell the part of the low soldier in disguise#rotk#the return of the king
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The Red Hair Pirates Navigator gets sick or something while Mihawk is visiting and Mihawk, who rides around on an overgrown raft and has probably never steered an actual real ship in his life but loves a challenge, volunteers himself as a stand in while acting like they've forced his hand.
So it's just like
Absolutely No one:
Mihawk (sighing) : I guess since you've begged I'll do it 🙄
And Shanks is so excited because Mihawk is actually taking a vested interest in his crew and this is probably the closest he will get at having him as an official rhp and of course watching Mihawk do piratey things he rarely does is very hot.
Everyone else has a couple of......questions
Benn: I've never seen Hawkeyes use a map before, I'm not even sure he own's a log pose.
Shanks (insanely whipped would let Mihawk crash them into the rocks like a sailor to a siren call) : But he get's where he needs to go and that's the important bit.
Mihawk gives directions that the helmsmen has never heard of in his life, never actually opens a map navigates soley on memory, they don't see a single Island for days and he leaves the crew wondering how exactly it is he ever gets anywhere. They still somehow arrive 3 days earlier than expected.
#A little worse for ware but they got there and that's a win in Shanks' book#Mihawk is ofcourse extremely pleased with himself#I just think Mihawk interacting with the crew would be so funny#Their the only ones that can really see how much of a little weirdo he is#but most of them are too scared or too entertained or simply just don't get paid enough to say anything#one piece#dracule mihawk#hawkeye mihawk#mishanks#akagami no shanks#shanks#red haired shanks#red haired pirates#benn beckman#akataka#mihawk x shanks#incorrect quotes#one piece incorrect quotes#one piece funny#one piece meme#one piece shit post#shitposting#op
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NEW HELLUVA BOSS EPISODE..... NEW CHARACTER VOICED BY KESHA? KESHA???
KESHA??????????
#dear god... please let these artists and animators get paid today...... and WELL#also her character is so hotlikeso hot I'm so gay I'm such a furry i need to be put dow.n#and if you wanna know my opinions about the episode or the show or vivzie DON'T!!!#I don't THINK watching this show. thanks 🥰#helluva boss#helluva boss spoilers#words
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He left just as quickly as he arrived, not once looking your way. Yet all you could think of was how soft his hands must be, were they to only hold you for a moment.
#silven#giant tiny#g/t#thought about coloring this but I do not have the energy for that#I love making Silven untouchable#he just shows up and does his thing and gets paid#undeniably making an impression on folks during his visits#most too shy to approach him#if they'd only muster up the courage to he would gladly engage#he's just respectful of humans and minds his business so they don't think he's trying to hurt them#and YET#I gotta write this.
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