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cosmics-beings · 7 months ago

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I wanted to make a post like this for a while, but since i was asked the question i can make it here!

i'm also speaking as an actual black person....so if you don't like these conversations where black people speak on black issues and how we feel, then just ignore this.

So in the past, yeah I agreed with this but my opinion has kinda changed with TF One.

However, I am still extremely uncomfortable seeing depictions of Black human formers Megatron because most of it, especially in ship art is extremely racist and relies on racist stereotypes of black men being abusive, violent, and problematic when his partners are drawn white or lightskinned (i see this all the time in megastar and megaop art. megatron is portrayed as the huge brutal black man and starscream/optimus are the small white twinks who are being beaten by him - it's gross and racist but for some reason it's common).

In general, I think it can be harmful to make a slave character, who inevtibly turns into a genocidal war lord and a generally awful person, a black person (even with his redemption arcs). it also racializes slavery, when we know that slavery doesn't have a race, and Megatron himself is a gladiator. Gladiators are slaves, and one of the most famous gladiators was from Thracia. This again is mostly a fan issue, because I at least have always seen Megatron coded as white in the comics and in the shows. In many depictions, he has a European accent, voiced by white European people (posh english lmao, or in ES Scottish).

That said, in TF One, I'm willing to let it slide. That's because Megatron isn't the only slave. Optimus, who is voiced by a white man, is also a slave, as is Elita, and Bumblebee. I think you know, not racializing slavery and having this notion that slave = black by default, is what makes it okay.

I still wouldn't feel super comfortable seeing Black megatron fanart because again, none of the depictions have been good in my opinion, as a Black person. And i mean none of them, and I do wonder where the thought in this fandom came from that making a person who canonically is violent and aggressive, was okay, just because he happened to be a slave. It is a far too common trope that I see in fanfic and fanfart, especially again...in a shipping sphere.

But I think TF One is able to balance it out, and since this is D-16, he is. a lot calmer, kinder, etc. I think things can get in muddy area when he eventually does turn into Megatron and he becomes the genocidal tyrant we all know and love....especially when you make the black one of the group the one who chooses violence whereas the white voices ones don't.

but who knows? My opinions are ever changing depending on how things are handled.

if you disagree with this, that's fine just do so respectfully and i mean at least be black

#megatron #transformers #transformers one #yeah humanformers megastar and megaop artist who draw megatron black need to get their tablets taken away - unless u plan to draw optimus #or star black but other than that y'all are NASTY- esp with how it's handled in megastar - CHILE #I ALSO kinda like that we're gonna see megatron turn evil #not that i mind the abundance of redemption arcs he gets #but i tend to think fans forget that he was a villain at a point #or at least #that's how i say it #i find that nowadays when i speak of megatron as being a villain #people look at me like i have two heads #i love good grandpa megatron #but i also like him being a villain #the woofbifiers got him #because peopel get mad mad when you say he is a villain #and tend to forget that he did all of this #which is why i LOVE in earthspark how thrash is able to be mad at him and he's valid in that #but aside from that - i want him to be a villain just straight up #but i also am going to love the kind personality we get from him in tf one

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cozylittleartblog · 4 months ago

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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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chalkrub · 1 year ago

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strange fellas

#my art #demon #illustration #oc #ethos #pathos #logos #lino printing fun as hell yippeeeeee #i don't have a scanner at home and i forgor to ask my mom to scan these for me like two days in a row so i just took photos #of the original scans and made do. too impatient. and the paper texture looks neat anyway #how the hell people make intricate line work with lino i do not understand. saw a mutual post a wolf's head lino print the other day #and it was so detailed with thin decorative lines. idk how they be doin it #if the answer is lots of patience and the knowledge you could fuck up at any moment then i guess i'll never hone the art

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fatedroses · 2 months ago

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Two former military elites taking merc jobs perform absolutely hellish battle tactics together.

#ffxiv #digital art #zenos yae galvus #estinien wyrmblood #adventurer zenos #I will always adore this duo conceptually #because like- socially theyre that aragorn-geralt brooding in a corner of a tavern meme #but in combat they are absolutely terrifying #the azure dragoon and the super soldier legatus are here to fuck up a poachers day #aka zenos is about to crossmap someone's airship cause he knows estinien cant make himself jump that far #why have him try to jump when he can just Olympic-level javelin toss this man #also guys #my dudes #all this time I've been working on adven!zenos being a tank #I... have realized I just write him like a warrior who isnt carrying a weapon- sturdy unkillableness and countering and all #I am only a little bit of a dumbass but orogeny just seems to live in my head rent free #it also gave me the terrifying concept of- after spending time with the scions and after the ultimatum-#of him trying to learn more about dynamis- and zenos being zenos starts learning eventually how to harness it #local calm apathetic man can berserk on command because he's a lot angrier/more expressive inwardly than most people expect #depending on how I look into it- it might be how he fuels most of his shinryu transformations but I'll have to work on it more #but ANYWAYS #I love the thought of these two hunting and working together #and estinien being tossed being turned into a tactic #especially with proper form #this is something ive wanted to draw for a very long time and im very happy I actually have the skill to do so now

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tagarilaghost · 13 days ago

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I SWEAR CELEBI'S THINGY IS COMING SOON BUT I REALLY WANTED TO POST THIS ALRIGHT

yeaah... future trio got me too...

and Darkrai is there too, because of course he is.

hey look i drew a cute Drifloon :D

...ignore the rest

whatever started at Darkrai doodles ended in brainrot of future trio + darkrai and I'm blaming @scribz-ag24 for this

#Can you believe between the first pic and the 4th pic is only a week inbetween. I sure can't but like why did I mirror the pose...#ON ACCIDENT??? Everytime I look at the two Grovyles I'm like... how... how did they end up so differently???#also probably blaming @cozybells as well for this but I really fear tagging people so I'm just letting y'all know in the tags because #I do wanna let everyone know who inspired me when someone did <333 better get running [you know who you are!!!!] DusnoirXDarkrai is next...#also: upon seeing scribz-ag24's art my brain said: You need to color too! ah yeah that went well with the doodle batch #I really hope you're able to read everything with how messy I can write sometimes. If not please let me know and I'll add sth in this post!#Also the doodle batch was the first thing I drew so well... never drew dusknoir before and grovyle once i think...#please go easy on me I have yet to explore the relationship between literally everyone😭 and I have no idea what I‘m doing and I'm a little #lost I normally only draw King Boo or Darkrai but I'm sure scribz-ag24 sprinkling in bits of Darkrai got me in love with the future trio to #grovyle #future trio #celebi #darkrai #dusknoir #pmd hero #pokemon #drifloon #totodile #my art #my stuff #tagas friend spoiler #pmd #pokemon mystery dungeon #IS THERE A SHIP NAME FOR FUTURE TRIO... there must be. ...oh... is it just...#futuretrioshipping #i feel sooo stupid rn.#also everytime i drew darkrai i had evil spiteful bastard in mind (except for the one with an arrow pointing out he's redeemed) but i think #i literally mixed every possible version of him in my head so got absolutely no clue what i'm doing :D #anyways i hope you enjoyed this and thanks for reading through my ramblings! Have such a wonderful rest of the day yippiee <333 #pmd2

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shepscapades · 4 months ago

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Why does Ren have 4 ears? Are they all real or is one set fake?

Hehe I’ve gotten this question a lot actually! They’re all real— I like to think hybridization isn’t always a clean balance of traits, so Ren just unfortunately ended up with two sets of ears— his Dog ears being much more receptive to sound, naturally— and sometimes when the extra intake of sound is too overwhelming, I imagine he wears earplugs in his human ears to help adjust :> it’s a bit weird, but idk! i like to make designs funky and nonconventional! I liked the idea that Ren had hearing struggles due to wonky hybridization and just kept the concept :>

#dbhc #dbhc ask #ask #anon #dbhc ren #renthedog #dbhc doc #since I talk about him in the tags FGBJCGHN #it’s another one of those situations where I drew it that way when I was younger because I didn’t really understand why ppl were drawing #hybrids with flat spaces where human ears should go and have dog ears on the top of the head— I couldn’t figure out anatomically #it makes more sense to me now since animals are literally like that but it’s just something I kept doing and came up with a better #reason for it later once I had a better understanding of stuff #I don’t necessarily think two sets of ears is logically more sound than reworking the anatomy of a human head to have ears on top but!#it’s really not that deep LMAO #I like the idea of hybridizations being wonky because weird stuff physically happens to people all the time #hybrid or not #and then we gotta deal with the physical consequences of stuff we were born with… yknow #ANYWAY WHAT A WEIRD RAMBLE #tldr funky hybrid who now has hearing problems/gets overwhelmed easily by sound. ren the dog I love you #and if you were to look into my soul you would find that I also think dbhc doc helped him craft earbuds using android tech to work perfectly #to tune out the sounds he needs #:3 because they are friends and I think doc should use his expertise to help make life easier for ren #I’M STILL RAMBLING!!!#good grief

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valgeristik · 2 months ago

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Ничего не останется от нас, Нам останемся, в лучшем случае, мы

hi. hello. listen to this song

i have so many thoughts about these two. oh my god. maybe i will write it out some day, but for now drawing it out will do

translation will be under the cut! knowing the words does add to the work so i do recommend reading it. or just enjoy the art <3

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heres the translation, color coded according to how i broke it up for the art. just in casies

first page:

Love is scarier than war

Love strikes more true than steel

second page:

More true, because of your own volition

third page:

You run towards all the winds

Let there be pain and eternal battle

Not atmospheric, not earthly

fourth page:

But definitely with you

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There will be nothing left of us,

we will be left with, in the best case, ourselves

#kunst huli #legend of zelda #botw link #botw zelda #botw zelink #tloz #zelink #totk #botw #i cannot express how proud i am that i actually managed not only to finish this #BUT. to have it look GOOD #painting stuff n making it messy in an appealing way has always been a fucking STRUGGLE for me #n i do think u can see my over-rendering tendencies rear their head up on the last one #and also i guess i should have made the last two pages connect like i did with the rest of them but i think it still works. thematically #the last one is like. the end. a break. the start of a much needed retirement #a breather u might say!#i also think the devs should have let link hug her at the end #he deserves it he thought hed never see her like this again #oh alsooooo since im on a tangent anyway #like many people i was disappointed by the cop-out of just giving link his arm back at the end of totk #and i still think it would be cool if he didnt #(or if he kept the magic hand. just imagine how thatll help with all the restoration work dlkfgjdfkgjdfkg)#BUT anyway. i thought about it. n i have a theory about what tf did they do at the end to get not only zelda but his arm back #the fucking time powers!!! what if they just reversed time on them...........#much to thunk about. anyway #hope u enjoy <3 #now i can go finish phantom hourglass #god i hate having to go back to the temple of the ocean king tho. its like dishonored but u cant go up OR knock those guys out

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lunarin64art · 8 months ago

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That feeling when he can't stand to see you that way, no matter what you do, no matter what you say😩😭💔

#scott pilgrims precious little life #scott pilgrim vs the world #spvtw #spto #scott pilgrim #wallace wells #lisa miller #scollace #kim pine #natalie adams #envy adams #don't rlly know if I like how this turned out but oh well;;;#hope its obvious that this is based on the song “Scott Pilgrim” which the creation the comics were inspired from #the lyrics always make me think of Wallace and Lisa's feelings for Scott every time I hear it #ofc you could also relate it to Kim especially since the singers voice kind of reminds me of her #but overall the lyrics fit these two much better since Scott never truly “saw them that way” despite how long they've liked him #and they always seem happier to see him compared to Kim #Im surprised tho that I havent yet seen anyone draw these two together now that their dialogue parallels have been acknowledged more lately #also tho I wish more people pointed out that they both got cucked by red heads LOL #and Kim and Envy actually do look really similar when scott first meets them #makes me wonder if Scott subconsciously went for Envy since she reminded him of Kim (which would be fitting given that you could argue that #Envy dated Scott because he reminded her of Todd. Since he and Scott are confirmed to be meant to be seen as similar to one another #so much so that even their first and last names rhyme #last thing I'll add tho is that while Wallace and Lisa are very similar even personality wise #the one big difference is that despite that whole conclusion on vol4 of Scott not cheating on Ramona with Lisa because he loves her #the writers apparently think it would be ��organically correct” for him to have an affair with wallace LMAO #but I guess we shouldn't be surprised since Wallace and Ramona are both in the front of the official valentines art which is clearly #a deptiction of Scotts wet dream or smth (oh and you could also argue that Wallace and Lisa parallel on that art since they're both #shirtless with white socks.. which could be a reference to how lisa wears skimpy clothes for Scott and Wallace often only wears boxers #to like sexually frustrate Scott for fun or smth

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scullcrusher101xd · 10 months ago

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so glad the movie finally confirmed tf2 heavy and tf2 soldier as hatred`s real parents!

#bc i heard people say his features look like if heavy and soldier were mixed #i dont headcanon this thouh im joking im jokimg #also i had to draw me two wifes soldier and sgt interacting #i think hatred wouldnt react with <:( face at soldier`s head collection as i drew him but i needed that reaction for a comedic effect #the punchline is : soldier is crazy! everybody laugh.#why tf are images so frigin huge here duuuuuuuuuhhhhh #venture bros #sgt hatred #tf2 soldier the demon that lives in my head #I dont even know if the second image is funny everyone so used to soldiers heads that they have no shock value anymore

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fisheito · 6 months ago

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emotional support wolf meets too-shy-to-live sneetah

#this particular image has not left my head since its conception and now i have finally drawn it #for those who don't know:#cheetahs are actually anxious AF and suck at functioning in captive environments #so some zoos have had success giving them Companion Dogs #friend dog is not nervous?? ah. then i do not nervous. i continue eat #i can't remember if this companion dog thing was supposed to also boost the cheetah breeding rate??#i might be mixing them up with pandas #now i'm just imagining the zookeepers introducing a mate for yakumo and he just looks to garu for affirmation #and garu is like 👍😄👍 in the background #so yakumo (newly encouraged) tentatively slinks away with the new addition #yaku sneetah with loooong limbs and ungainly large paws. yeah. shoulda made the paws bigger actually. MORE ungainly #actually.... should put karu in there too... TWO companion wolves...#they flank yakumo while he's eating so he feels secure LOL #there's another photo i saw of a cheetah and dog chillin with their trainers or whatnot #and the dog is SOAKING up the attention. splooting on the ground. happy as can be #and the cheetah is just awkwardly standing on the table like. help me. who are you people. i do not want to be here #*smooshes yakugaru together* THEY ARE!!! HELPING EACH OTHER!! BE BRAVE!!!!!!!!#nu carnival yakumo #nu carnival garu

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originalcontent · 1 year ago

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I can't find art of my ship anywhere so I GUESS that means I have to make it myself, here are some doodles.

#ugh i can't believe i have to make my own shipping fanart #tfw you're complaining to your sister that you can't find any content of them but then you remember you have the power #man i do not know how to draw kissing or hugging or any of that romantic stuff #mostly i just know how to put paragraphs of dialogue in between two talking heads #but this seems to be something of a rarepair even though they are obsessed with each other so i suppose i gotta try #karlach #lae'zel #shipping #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #karlzel #i think that's the ship name but i have found so little of them that i'm genuinely not sure #laelach #(just in case)#but come on they're perfect! they're sunshine/raincloud! dog energy/cat energy! tall/small! hot and cold! canonically into each other!#character who represses sadness and character who doesn't understand happiness! pretty girls who can both bench press each other!#considering what their banter looks like i don't get how this isn't a more popular pairing. who else does karlach wistfully sigh over?#my sister tells me that lae'zel is not well-liked by the wider fandom and that that may be why (so sorry if other people have bad taste)#or maybe people don't often put the barbarian and the fighter together in the same party at the same time #anyway now that you're 100% convinced feel free to draw them making out so that i don't have to k thx <3

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undead-moth · 5 months ago

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I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.