#or anybody else in the comic :D

[stillfrownyclownlol]

This sounds fun :D (Read: I must talk about sbg or I will spontaneously combust)

Anon asks are open BTW ^_^

CHARACTER ASK GAME!!! 💫

Send a character + one or more of these question!

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

11. Would you date this character?

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

13. What's an emoji, an emoticon and/or any symbol that reminds you of this character or you think the character would use a lot?

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

22. If you're a fic reader, what's something you like in fics when it comes to ths character? Something you don't like?

23. Favorite picture of this character?

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

26. FREEBIE QUESTION!!

[seakraitmessages]

I feel this is more head canon than speculations but! Tying some thoughts and speculations about the umbrella academy comics. Though I don’t know if this will have any bearings on the netflix series since they’re so different from each other. Still, spoilers about the comics, the Safe issue, and a bit of the s4 teasers & trailers ahead!

Thanks to @tinned-beef for the Safe comic scans! I got the pages for the Safe issue from their post here.

Welcome to my Ramble Lair👐

So basically, in the Safe comics, Reginald knew of an ending to “all life as we know it.” He knows this because of something called a Trace, which he used to peek into a region of outer space and that “allows us to have a glimpse into our future, and to look at the very end of our existence.”

[ID. A comic panel showing a mansion covered in snow, in a snowy landscape. A word balloon by Reginald, who is out of screen, states: “This object allows us to have a glimpse into our future, and to look at the very end of our existence. The end of all life as we know it.” END ID.] I think that object, the Trace, are the purple symbols here and contained in the capsule.

[ID. Four pictures including a symbol surrounded in a purple glow or smoke. The symbol is of a single line that loops in itself and is made of angles, squares and triangles. The last picture includes a capsule containing the same purple glow/smoke. END ID.]

(Does this Trace have a connection to the sigil Reginald was using to reset the universe?) (I don’t have a Netflix account rn lol so have this)

[ID. A sigil. Its defining feature are the 7 rectangles with shapes within them all connected to a straight horizontal line, either on the line themself or connected by two lines. END ID.]

Reginald has Abhijat, his right hand man, use some kind of machinery that sends Abhijat’s mind to a certain region of space. (The machinery used was also similar to the machines Reginald hooked some of the siblings to in the trailer! Well, not that similar, but there’s a lever and the head machine thing. You can see a lever in the first pic next to Reginald)

[ID. Four pictures showing a part of a machine. The first two pictures are from the Safe issue, one showing Abhijat taking off a helmet piece while Reginald stands next to a lever, buttons and some screens, and the next showing Abhijat connected to the machine. The next two pictures are from the season 4 trailer, one where Reginald is about to pull a lever that presumably turns on the head machines, and the next showing three siblings on said machine. END ID.]

And the reason why he sends Abhijat to this region of space is to observe these interesting fellas!

[ID. Abhijat in space observes as a number of large octopus-like creatures emerge from a tear. END ID.]

I’m going to call them space-octopus. Even though it looks like there’s multiple space-octopuses, Reginald just calls them singular it. Are they all part of the same being?

One appeared earlier when Luther, Diego, and Dr. Zoo (a friend of Reginald) explore Hotel Oblivion. In the comics, the Hotel Oblivion was actually the place where Reginald sent all the supervillains the Umbrella Academy defeated (provided with Self-improvement Rehabiliation booklets). It was a supervillain prison! It’s also located on another planet/dimension.

[ID. From the comics, Luther and Diego encounter one of the large octopus-like creatures emerging from a tear in the sky. END ID.]

The space-octopus causes visions to Abhijat, and also to Luther when he encounters it. With Luther’s visions, it wasn’t so clear to me what exactly was going on, but Abhijat’s visions were shattered into his younger and more recent memories. So maybe what Luther was seeing were his own memories? But if they were Luther’s memories, what’s with the bacteria(?) panel? A memory of a lab study from his time on the moon? Or maybe they are a collective of Luther’s, Diego’s, and Dr. Zoo’s memories?

[ID. Two images showing an encounter with the octopus-like creatures. The first shows Abhijat in space, whose perspective seem to shatter after seeing the creatures. The next shows Luther being tapped on the forehead by the creature and then a series of images follow: a crying baby, a light or explosion (?), a blooming or wilting marigold flower, and bacteria (?). END ID.]

Dr. Zoo says that the Hotel was a trap for the space-octopus with the bait being the supervillain prisoners.

[ID. Two comic panels showing Dr. Zoo explaining, “The hotel is not a prison— it’s an Abraxan— a cosmic trap! And the bait is gone.” Luther asks, “A trap for what?” Dr. Zoo points to where the creature disappeared and says, “Whatever all that was— all of this is connected somehow.” END ID. ]

It does seem to look into the hotel, like it was checking if any supervillains were left. Then it went down to the trio, tap Luther on the forehead, screech, and return back to its sky tear.

[ID. The flaming eyeball of the octopus-like creature goes through the sky, stops next to the Hotel Oblivion, and then turns to face Luther. END ID.]

But why would it be attracted to the bait- the prisoners? What about Luther, Diego, and Dr. Zoo— what makes them different from the prisoners? And when it tapped Luther, was it also seeing his visions with him? Maybe that’s why it ran off, it saw his memories, and now knowing how exactly Luther got from Earth to Afterspace, is heading in Earth’s directions? And how did Reginald know about this, how to trap the space-octopus?

Does it have any connections with Ben? No clue! It seems that way, after Luther and co encountered the space-octopus, Ben visits Klaus and tells him “It’s coming. You better be ready” (if ��it’ was referring to the space-octopus, and how else could he have known it was coming if they weren’t connected?).

[ID. In the comics, Ben appears to Klaus and tells him: “It’s coming. You better be ready.” END ID.]

And it certainly does seem to want to come over their reality. Though there was that space-squid from Rigel X-9 in the first page of the comics, so there might just be space cephalopods living out there in the tua verse.

But if in the series Ben is the cause of one apocalypse, then yeah maybe this is it. He inadvertently releases the Horrors or they come over to Earth and it causes the “end of all life as we know it.” But we’ll find out next month!

And that’s it! Thank you for reading all the way here! Let me know if there’s anything missing!

[mudzdale]

i wish this texturing on the light fury was more obvious at first glance... much prefer this leathery look to the skin, versus the weirdly.. almost grainy effect, that comes from the sparkles

[stardewvalleybut-i-draw]

popping in to say i am OBSESSED with your farmer interpretations. im not a big stardew valley fan (not bc of anything, its just not my sort of thing) but gahhhhhh. oh my god. that one painting comic and the background-music writing rattle around in my head so muchhh. they just scratch such a specific itch in my brain.

like. interacting with the world around you on such a different, alien level from anybody else- but not noticing or caring because its just what you've always seen the world as. it isnt scary, it doesnt completely warp your mind, it doesnt drive you to the brink of madness- its just normal. what the world is supposed to be.

it gives you advantages in some situations. but it also isolates you, in a subtle way. because you're different, 'biologically' (for lack of a better term), you cant see what people "should" see, or do what "normal" people should do. you will always just be a little off to people- just through your habits, which seem completely normal and logical to you- enough to put them on edge. its not enough to set anything bigger off, but it shows that you will always be different. you will never be like them, whether you want to or not.

..whoops. sorry for waxing poetic or whatever in your askbox lol i am just a very very big fan of this specific type of thing. anyways! thank you for making this specific interpretation that will probably haunt me for a bit. i hope you have a good day ^-^

Yep, you hit it right on the nail! That's exactly what I'm going for!!

And with the new update (no spoilers here) it seems that's what the game is encouraging you to be!

I like writing them in this way because it adds a wonderfully comedic depression to them! A subtle psychological horror I can use for drama later👀

And again... cuz funny haha 😂

I noticed the Farmer's quirks are only sometimes included in others' writing and only really included for comedic purposes. Still, I think the farmer's odd behavior can add to almost any situation if you know how to work with it!

I hope to haunt you more in the future! Have a great day as well :D

[thecoffeelorian]

Fandom Friday, 11/15: Fanart!

Hello again, everyone…and welcome to another installment of Fandom Friday, the two-post series where I go off to find new and interesting fanworks that might need a bit more visibility.

Before we get started, however...let me just open this with a little bit of positivity, because I know for a fact that we're ALL going to need it for a very, very long time...so. Let's all take a collective breath in...hold it for five seconds...and exhale. Take another deep breath in...hold it for five seconds...and exhale.

Feeling relaxed now...? Great. Here are my picks of the week.

THE CLONE WARS

The Clone Wars Fanart--By @lonelyredfox:

The Clone Wars Fanart--By @secretly-a-trekkie:

THE BAD BATCH

The Bad Batch Fanart--By @therainjumper:

The Bad Batch Fanart--By @m00ntunaart:

THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY

Original Trilogy Fanart---By @instarwars:

STAR WARS REBELS

Star Wars Rebels Fanart--By @starwarsrebelsrant:

THE MANDALORIAN

The Mandalorian Fanart--By @mythosaursarecool:

The Mandalorian Fanart--By @popolonium0227:

AHSOKA

Ahsoka Fanart--By @welcometocaritas-creations:

In conclusion, as part of my mission to poke around the Star Wars fandom and, on Friday every two weeks, highlight those artists who might otherwise go unnoticed…I hope you will check out the links I have included for yourselves and like, comment on, and reblog them, as well as also giving the artists a few more followers to their Tumblr pages.

Please also like and reblog this latest installment so that these links can be spread around to as many other fans as possible, just in case not all of them can tune in at the same time.

An additional thank you goes to @djarrex for making the divider I used earlier in this post, but still want to give credit for.

And finally, so that I do not forget…this post will be continued in its second half: the Fanfiction Edition.

Thank you, stay safe, and I’ll see you in the next post!

No Pressure Tags: @melymigo @algo-o-nada @theosb0rnway @everybirdfellsilent @skellymom

@leos-multifandom-corner @maggie-dylan @leenabb104104 @gun-roswell @tazmbc1

@bluedeedeedoop @its-time-to-rise-above @tlmtwelve and anybody else who might be on the lookout for new SW fanart.

[brawltogethernow]

Who is your least favorite spider-man writer and artist and your most favorite artist and writer of spider-man?

Picking favorites feels surprisingly tricky, not because I can't but because Buscema edges out Romita on art but Conway edges out DeMatteis on writing (by dint of spending thirty straight years + 20 more off and on kicking my ass and how when he falls on his ass it remains fun for me), and these names next to each other are nothing. This is a stupid combination. Really highlights how superhero comics are made by teams and a single dude cannot guarantee quality if they're not vibing with the rest of the carpool. But if I'm picking a team the seventies beats the nineties, and it's sooo disingenuous to try to narrow down one pair of names when that era was Lee/Romita bleeding into Lee/Conway/Romita into Conway/Romita/Kane, also every few issues Mooney dips in to push the Peter having pretty eyelashes agenda and then leaves. Like some of the best art in this era had Kane doing pencils and Romita inking, and I like their combined style more than Romita penciling his own work if we're talking the period where he was still a full time illustrator, but I midkey dislike Kane's pencils inked by everybody else. I looked up who was illustrating 90's Web with Conway on scripts and it turns out the art I like best is a penciler and inker team and the quality takes a dive whenever either of them takes a month off and leaves the other one in a substitute's hands. You know! Team efforts! Anyway here are some iconic combinations in no order cherry picked to cut out overlap and sneak more people in.

Yes Please:

DeMatteis/Buscema

SSM #180

There's a rhythm to this team's work I've full stop never seen anywhere else.

Lee/Romita

ASM #83

The Vibe.

Conway/Andru

ASM #145

The number of times Gerry Conway has kicked my ass. u_u With Romita Sr. and Andru the most distinctive art trait is the faces - Andru's were never as doll-perfect as Romita's, and that's kind of the best thing about them?

Now guys I hate on the other hand. Way less complex. Debated whether to answer this because I try not to go on about who in the industry sucks at their job but this is not because I couldn't.

Please No:

Spencer/Otley

ASM (2018) #30

It should have been difficult to outdo the preceding run, but writing that was simultaneously nonsensical and insulting, deflated pacing where each issue achieved about as much as a single newspaper strip, a teeth-first art style where every face sports a pained grimace and the meandering composition always scores a D-, and the finishing touch of colors that I can only describe as Averaging Out to Oatmeal...combined to create some of the worst comics I've ever seen. Spencer and I appreciate so many of the same comics and his understanding of what makes them good is so poor that it's almost like receiving a personalized hate letter.

Slott/anybody

ASM #546

He can write well which just makes it worse. I don't even know where to start enumerating his crimes. Like do I just pick one anecdote? When there are so many?

Land (the porn trace guy)

Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality #2 but I could have opened anything and found a bad traced yelling face

You know. The guy. Who traces from porn. That guy. He remains gainfully employed despite being known for this. Does he have dirt on an important executive?

Campbell (yes he watermarked the one on the left two separate times AFTER signing it)

ASM (2018) #2 variant, Renew Your Vows #11 variant

If you're distant from the recent comics scene it's hard to convey how omnipresent this guy is. He's like the comic sans of artists. After having the way he draws women ripped to shreds by social media over a decade ago, Campbell doubled down and has since then drawn hundreds of pinups of identical women in invisible high heels making the exact same face. Singlehandedly a huge factor in how people visualize MJ becoming "skinny carrot top with a pointy chin and freckles". He's proud of this.

[waynefamilyreactions]

Hi! I really want to get into Batman but I've no idea where to start. What would you recommend to someone who likes reading the Wayne family dynamic posts, the essays about Bruce's particular way of loving them,etc.? I literally know nothing except what's in the films (live action and I remember a cartoon in the early 2000s) and have no idea where to start. Thank you!! <3

Hi! I got into the whole batfamily shitshow by watching young justice. Dick was the Robin of the first season and that caught my attention. Then more members were added but they were not really the main focus. That show was more of a Justice League thing.

I've read Batman and Red Hood and the Outlaws comics before and while those are pretty cool, the Wayne Family (as a whole) is not the main focus.

For easy-going reading and Batfamily-centered , I recomend: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. Those are so cute and wholesome! :D

If anybody else would like to add recommendations, please add them in the comments.

[buf309]

Self-Love Tag Game

Tagged by @whateversawesome

List your top 3 favorite works you’ve done (art fics whatever u want) AND WHY :D gotta make sure to do the why👹no self deprivation here🕺Feel free to rope anybody else into this chain we gotta self lovo 🤸‍♀️

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If you aren't counting those comics I drew as fanart for my friends' fanfic, I think I'm most proud of these three:

1/ [DOPPELGÄNGER]

My biggest fancomic project to date, which I think most people can't quite understand right now, and they keep a cautious "wait and see" approach 😂 Because every time I updated, there was a spike in new followers, but notes on the post itself is quite low compared to my other short comics.

At least, my test-readers, aka. my friends, who has read the rough draft of this story, told me it was interesting enough 😳 I believe in them. Well, even if no one else likes it, this is a challenge I'm doing first and foremost to entertain myself, so I'll see it through to the end no matter what.

2/ [The Adventure of the GREAT L❤️Y SHIP]

This one was just a lighthearted idea I got after reading many fellow shippers' lament about the TwiYor drought back then 😂

It has 3 basic concepts "tiny TwiYor boat in the middle of nowhere", "Loid sleep on Yor's lap", and "Yuri, Franky and Loid being a pain in the butt to each other". I think I manage to portray all of them clearly enough.

I'm very fond of this carefree Post-Reveal!AU, where nothing will ever go wrong, I have ideas for 2 more stories, one about Yuri and one about Handler. Maybe even one for Franky someday 🤔

3/ [Comfort]

Well, this spot is a toss between this one and a new trilogy comic which yet to be drawn. And the tag said "work I have done", so I choose Comfort instead. And I have no clean-enough pics of the trilogy at all is also a big factor 😂

This one is my most well-known and most stolen piece of work, only the "Bond nap" comic comes close enough. The original draft only had the 2 panels above, the rest are just for the purpose of leading up to them.

Funny enough, like a signal, every time I log into tumblr and see it climbs back to the top post position in my activity and not my other recent posts, I get a feeling of "ah, people get bored already, it's time to make something new then" 😂

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Yeah, that's it.

Well, please only do this if you have the time and feel like sharing, okay? @crucipuzzled, and because I'm very curious @aerequets, what about yours? which of your fanwork is your most favorite?

[foolnamedjoey]

i cant dm you so im just gonna send an ask

dude ik ur taking a break (good for you btw take ur time) but as isaid b4 you can always ask for a friend to chip in(? idk english expressions)/help out

there are sososo many webtoons and comics out there where friends/family/partners collaborate so nobody gets too heavy a cargo and nobody pays anybody unless they hire a professional or the project makes profit yakno?

i feel like im being ridiculously insistent about this especially since we're not friends or anyhting but like

you also gotta have time for your studies n stuff and having a comic to work on all by yourself in the quality you deliver (which is great just in case its not clear) will only generate more stress in your life

ayways i feel like im being overbearing but sendind it anyways

its okay to ask for help and collaboration and no you dont need to pay your friends unless you actually hire them

As I understand a lot of your points, and yes it does take a lot out of me, I realize as a person I struggle to share(?) creativity through my art. I'm very controlling when it comes to my art, and I don't work well with other people when it comes to drawing.

And on top of that, I'm not entirely comfortable giving someone (even friends or family) any level of labor without compensation. It feels icky to me lol.

I know it's okay to ask for help, but I think my stress would get worse if I gave someone else power over my comic pages :<

I understand your worry though! But I really prefer to keep my creative power over my content :D

[toastling]

This might be an unpopular opinion from all the responses I've seen here on tumblr this past month, but I think this whole Jack Blacklash has been completely blown out of proportion. I think you might all be a little bit too online. I can't believe I'm saying this with a straight face, but I think we might all need to go touch some grass.

Like, I get it, okay? I make jokes that read like death threats all the time about friends and enemies and politicians alike. We all do. But you and I, we're all literal nobodies. Who cares if we end up on some watch list for some off-color humor, we don't have careers. Not huge, public-facing ones that would be horrifically impacted by said off-color humor.

Jack Black is a public figure. He doesn't have the luxury to say the kind of shit or cosign the kinds of jokes that we all do. And I don't think that's fair, and I don't think that's right, but that doesn't change the truth of the matter. Hate the game, not the player. If you actually watch the event in question, he's right there on stage laughing along with the the rest of us. He's explicitly stated since thta he and Kyle still are and always will be friends *and* that Tenacious D isn't over.

But he, and more pointedly, his PR team, cannot allow that sort of joke about a major political figure, no matter how pathetic and fascistic he may be, to fly. And the response really does read more like PR damage control than it does something he actually has his full weight behind when you take into context everything else he's said about the situation since.

"It's just a joke". Yes, I agree, and personally, I'd have commit career suicide and stuck by it because that's the kind of person I'd be in any given spotlight. I'm not interested in celebrity, and I'm not interested in longevity at the expense of unlimited free expression on my part either. But I'm in the minority on that. Most public facing figures have to tow a line with this sort of thing.

Unless they're A) Already in politics, particularly as a right wing chud or B) Deeply entrenched as an edgy comic, and a stand-up comic in particular, then most famous folks cannot get away with an assassination joke like that and not face disastrous, potentially career-ending consequences and a visit from the FBI.

And yes, it's just a joke, but also, stop and think for a second the kind of world you're trying to create here. The alt-right dipshits all over Twitter and Reddit and the rest of the internet already use the same exact excuse of "it's just a joke" to try and get away with wholehearted bigotry and *actual* calls for violence. And yeah, it's bullshit, and usually, everybody knows it. But it's not always so clear.

If Kyle made that quip a bit more dryly and only made it clear it was a joke after the fact, all we'd have to go on is his word. And he's "our guy", so of course we'd take him at his word. Would anybody else? Not just "the other side", but actual, neutral, not terminally online morons? You know, like most of the world's population is? And even with how it *did* unfold where it was *clearly* meant as humor, it still has very real repercussions *immediately following a legitimate assassination attempt*.

You're really tempting fate and cracking open Pandora's Box there if you genuinely think public figures should be held to the same lax standards as us nobodies. As much as I personally loathe respectability politics, I'm not stupid. I understand very well the purpose that they serve in preventing every minor political squabble descending into outright violence, small scale shitstain vs shitstain or full-on civil war.

For a site that loves to complain about everybody else's lack of critical thinking, I've seen a shocking lack of it from everybody here on this particular matter. Just because the guy we hate was the butt of the joke doesn't make the thing that happened 100% okay. This shit can and does have serious consequences.

And now I see some chucklefucks saying shit like "Oh, Jack Black is the new Chris Pratt now", as if Jack Black attends gaybashing mega churches or has a psychotic paramilitary brother he supports or is in any way on any level even remotely as vapid as the crisped rat.

Like, one single choice we don't like because orange man bad, and literal *decades* of good will just evaporates overnight. Hell, some of you pretend like you never even had that good will in the first place, when you verifiably did. It's not like he called you a faggot or pushed an orphan down the stairs, he got spooked about the fact that the FBI might bust his door down because his friend made an off-color joke in front of tens of thousands of people immediately following an assassination attempt. Like??? You call *this* critical thinking???

Honestly, you guys are no smarter than your parents. And if that pisses you off, then stop being stupid and think about something outside yourself for a second and recognize that Hollywood Superstar Jack Black does not have the same privilege of inconsequential mediocre anonymity you and I do. That doesn't automatically make him "bad" or pro Trump. That makes him somebody who gives a shit about keeping his career going for another 30 years.

In summary: touch grass, eat ass, let it pass.

[inkforhumanhands]

fandom asks: 1 2 8 11 12 17 23 24 25

list 3 positive things about your current fandom(s)

a) I love that the Daredevil fandom has been kept healthy with several events over the years: shout out to @daredevilexchange for all the work they've done! b) My mattfoggy buddies are all so sweet and supportive; I know I can always count on someone to leave a comment on my fics even if they're occasionally a bit niche! c) I'm currently loving the surge in podficcing! We've not only got longtime veterans doing podfics for other people's work, but several of us have dipped our toes into the waters and have begun to podfic our own work. Not only a neat part of fandom but a step toward some more enjoyable reading for our friends who primarily use screen readers.

2. a headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like!

I think at first I wasn't super big on the whole "Mike is in love with Foggy and obnoxious about it" thing, but as anyone familiar with my fics knows I've since come to embrace it.

8. you hope more people will come to appreciate ___ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc)

Honestly I'd just like people to write more fics and draw more art directly inspired by comics storylines, especially some of the older stuff! That's what I'm hoping to get people to do with my upcoming DD comics bingo event. :D

11. if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making?

At the moment I'm really proud of Hearsay, which is a comics volume 1 wip. I just think it's very tightly written.

12. compliment someone else in your fandom

@mutuallyprime is as lovely and supportive as it gets! You can count on her to boost you up if you need it 🥺 and she's written some truly great fics! The DD 2003!Matt/Milla fic is never leaving my brain.

17. the thing in canon that everyone loves and that you also love

Already answered this one with Matt and Foggy's friendship, but I suppose I also love their frequent divorces. 😌 Great source of drama, I think we can all agree about that.

23. the fandom you're curious about because of a mutual

lol sorry this is a boring answer but at the moment... none! I have in the past however been influenced to watch things, including Hannibal (loved it), Interview with the Vampire (loved it), and BBC Merlin (hated it lmao).

24. how has fandom positively impacted your life?

I've made so many friends!! It's lovely to wake up in the morning and be able to go and say hi and chat about this thing we're all obsessed with. Far less lonely. :D

25. a piece of advice for taking care of yourself in fandom spaces

literally don't listen to anybody telling you you're doing fandom wrong because you do/don't do x, y, or z. it's your life and anybody espousing these opinions has a very narrow and limited view of other people's interiority. get the hell out of there if you see a post like this. you deserve better.

[kindaoptimisticsquirrel]

Trigun Bookclub Vol1 Ch1-3

Heey I also want to contribute some thoughts from my third reread during the Trigunbookclub Event! It is so fun seeing all the other posts, theories and stuff, often something that completely slipped my mind before! I really can’t wait to see all the reactions of people reading that stuff for the first time :D

I probably won’t go so much into detail, more or less just point out stuff that I found nice :) My focus throughout the series will be more on the gorgeous drawings and storytelling style of Nightow! Until mentioned otherwise, these reviews are spoilerfree.

I really like the introduction into the world. People dying on the street is a total normal picture here, even more so emphased by the bad guys that just step over him, not even sparing a glance. The reader directly knows this is not a place where you’d like to be.

I’m posting these whole pages cause I just like how they are set up and the effect they have! On this page, I adore the middle panel. It cuts right into the scene of Vash getting his food, so we know that these events are taking place at the same moment and second, and then the way it is slightly tilted in the angle, one guy closer and one further away...giving me super cinematic vibes because I can really feel the scene play out in my head! Nightow, I love your storytelling.

I love this page because nobody listens to what Meryl has to say. Poor girl.

These are probably things I missed when I rushed through my first reads and didn’t take my time to really understand what’s going on sometimes. (Here it’s not so complex but we’ll get more pages where the situation is much more difficult to grasp) So, apparently poor Gofsef hurt his knee because someone parked their car at the wrong place! Look at that poor boy’s face :(

I love how Milly is holding Meryl here! Please let her catch her breath, Milly.

Slight spoiler so just skip to the next image if you’d rather not read

I just kinda like how this page already picks up on the theme that will follow us through the series, aka Vash never killing anybody and being called a hypocrite, and just how alien and absurd that concept is to everybody else on the planet.

This is just before Gofsef fires his arm again, and I loved the panelling here! I’ll say it more often and especially a lot in Trimax because I know we’ll get the most gorgeous panels there, but I love Nightow’s style! Just like his characters, as somebody else pointed out in another post/tweet I read, the actions read without being explicitly told or announced. Rather Nightow uses lots of silent panels, showing what is happening through a neat sequence of panels...like here, you can really feel the suspension before the shoot. It would maybe be much less impactful if somebody said “He’s gonna shoot any second now...what is he gonna do to defend himself??”. But because we have all these different views arranged in front of one background, nobody saying anything, it feels much more like the silence before the storm, and like all these scenes happening at the same time. SO well done.

Another thing that just caught my attention were these panels and the beautiful way, the japanese sound words are used as elemtent of the image! Because of the nature of the japanese characters it just works better than in western comics, and the Katakana especially with their very reduced, graphic style. So really cool how this “Do” splits the image in half! It also looks like it’s the sound effect of the cannon arm, being split in half between those panels (the other says “n” so the full is probably “Don”)

TINY MERYL I ALERT TINY MERYL

[cartooncreaturelover]

Hi I really enjoy your art and your characters!

So I would like to know more about Freya, because she's probably my favorite (I think she's the DnD one, not 100% sure.)

Have a good day :D

✨ Aww, I appreciate your kind words & interest in my art & characters very much!

Everything involving Freya & the story with her is currently conceptual & not super set in stone, so everything detailed below may change if I ever finalize these ideas into something that folks can properly read through to enjoy!

So! Freya is a part of a loose concept I have for a potential comic/graphic novel involving three elves & their big monster bodyguard as they travel around the land to make ends meet & maybe solve a mystery of something, who knows! Each of the three elves are meant to be a different kind of elf & a different kind of entertainer! (And each character is color-coded via their outfit!)

Freya is currently meant to be a Forest Elf (my naming conventions for elf species is based off of what environment you would find them in!), her entertainment style primarily relying on her looks combined with music &/or dancing (possibly leaning into suggestive stuff, not 100% sure at the moment!), & her main color is pink (or magenta, to be more specific!)

A couple fun facts that I have about her include...

• I first drew her on April 13th, 2021 (so that's her birthday!)

• Even though her entertainment (currently) leans into essentially seducing others, she's not actually interested in that kind of intimacy at all! She sort of "flirts for work," if that makes sense!

• D&D 5e mechanic wise, she'd probably best fit as a College of Glamour Bard!

You (or anybody else who may see this!) can totally ask me more stuff about her, any of my other characters, how I made or drew something for a particular piece, or even myself, if you'd like! I hope you have a good day as well! ✨

[peter-my-parkers]

TYSM @brotherdusk for tagging me!! Hi btw!!! :D

Last song: In My Head by Mike Shinoda and Kailee Morgue! Very good song from the latest scream movie

Last show: Hell's Kitchen.. I fell down a youtube hole and ended up watching the series..

Last film: Scream 6!!!! It's very good

Current show: Still Hell's Kitchen.. there's 21 seasons of that show and I just started season 7

Currently reading: The Scarlet Witch (2023) comic! It's really interesting!

Current obsession: The Scream movies.... I'm so normal about them right now. They're my first horror franchise and I absolutely understand why people love it so much. Also the 6th movie goes hard

Tagging.... @katebishop-ladyarrow @trespassers-will @books-and-glitter and anybody else who wants to! 👀

[evilwickedme]

🔥 any topic of your choice

I think we need to be more forgiving of people who are new to comics. Comics are a really inaccessible medium and especially if you're trying to get into one of the big two companies you're inevitably going to be confused and uninformed. I've been reading DC comics for about a year now (not including watchmen or wonder woman by Greg Rucka which I read years ago but didn't manage to get me into DC), and I've only really been a part of the fandom since July or August, and it's still really confusing and hard to tell what's fanon and what's canon. I have so many characters I haven't managed to read for at all despite wanting to, or only a handful of issues, or only minor appearances. I'd love to have read every single one of Roy Harper's pre-52 appearances but it's just not feasible, especially since DC particularly is inaccessible in another way - their app is only available to US residents. If you want to pay for comics then it's going to be expensive, even digitally - I managed to get Young Justice books 1-3 through comixology, which in itself is not a cheap subscription, but then the rest of the series is $20 a pop!! That's a lot of money!! And in print books go wayyyy higher, or even if they don't cost that much if you're buying a bunch then it's going to get expensive. But even if you're not paying it's confusing to just jump into something like this - don't get me wrong, this is what I've done both with marvel in 2015 and in DC last year, but it's not an easy thing to do and at first you're going to be fucking baffled. You're never going to know everything, it's not physically possible. Even for marvel, which, again, I've been reading since 2015, I haven't exactly come close to reading everything. I haven't even read every Deadpool comic, not even his main titles! I want to read gwenpool and moon knight and daredevil and non-spider-verse-related Spider-Man stories but it's just really fucking difficult to prioritize, not to mention keeping up with current runs.

And I'm doing my best, right? Like I recently finally managed to start reading superfam comics, and last year I started reading x men and scarlet witch, and as I said above I've been reading young justice, and I'm keeping up with like a dozen or more ongoings, and it's so fucking hard and I'm lucky to have enough disposable income and free time to do this. And people have been genuinely fucking mean to me. Like really super fucking dismissive bc how dare I ship the obvious most popular ship and not this more niche one when I haven't even read an appearance of that character!! How dare I not know everything about this run when I haven't gotten to that run yet bc I'm still trying to even track it down!! I can't prioritize comics I can't get my hands on when I have a shelf and a half of DC comics and I've only read about a third of it!!!

And it's worse for people who don't have the money and free time that I do . My parents pay my fucking rent and I only work part time, okay, I'm in a really privileged position. Some people are only reading the DC webtoons or only watching the young justice TV show and yeah it's frustrating to see so many people who don't know your favorite characters as much as you do, but I've been a Deadpool fan for close to eight years now and I've never gone onto anybody's page and told them that they're interpretation is bad and they should feel bad, I keep that shit to myself or AT WORST I complain to my friends in DMs or WhatsApp messages or whatever. The only stuff like this I complain about in public is stuff I consider genuinely harmful (the pit rage trope for Jason for example) or upon specific prompting, and even then I do it on MY blog, not somebody else's, and I don't tag it so people looking for content that they enjoy don't have to see it.

Like... Basically I feel like people are too harsh on casual, peripheral fans, or people who are new to the material, or even people who aren't new to comics but just don't know as much as you. A lot of people don't have any other options. You don't have to like the content they make. But actively going into their content or constantly making negative content about them is exhausting. I'm really tired of constantly seeing memes about how terrible batfam stans are. I don't even disagree, I just think you're annoying. But I don't reblog those posts just to shit on op. Maybe some of y'all should consider it.

[deathdefyinglifeleaps]

10 CHARACTERS

how to play: name 10 of your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people to do the same

Wei Wuxian, The Untamed/MDZS

Kate Pryde, X-Men/Marvel

Waverly Earp, Wynonna Earp (TV series and comics!)

Gideon Nav (and her other various names), The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Murderbot, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Da Qing, Guardian/镇魂

Lexa, The 100

Asami Sato, The Legend of Korra/ATLA

Wang Yeo (Joseung Saja), Guardian: The Lonely and Great God/쓸쓸하고 찬란하神 – 도깨비

Midnighter/Lucas Trent, The Authority/DC

and so many more!!! thank you for tagging me @amethyst-noir!! sorry it took me so long to do the thing... :D you're wonderful and i appreciate you!!

Tagging: @dovebeast, @intoxicatingimmediacy, @dendrocnide-moroides, @hasanyoneseenmyspoons, @twtd11, @boyga-king, @catsundmaus, @pleasantscreams, @inthelifeofa, @bio-digital-jazz and anybody else who wants to do the thing!