#pre launch

[zeequicks]

hii everyone I will be launching my INDONESIAN SUPERHERO COMIC on Kickstarter soon! please sign up to the pre launch link (click "notify me" to get updates). we are planning to go live in just a few weeks but need a few more followers to boost the campaign 🙏

ROSANA! will be an anthology collection of 5 comics, made by 10+ Indonesian creators worldwide with a love for superheroes, comic book mythology and stories based on our own culture! think wonder woman x black panther but set in Indonesia, with action and sci-fi elements, with a dash of environmental themes. artists who worked on the preview in the link and ISSUE 1 (including the cover ABOVE) are: @bajingoarts @curlytsunamiart and @shaccharin ✨ pls help spread the word as we prepare for our Kickstarter launch, so we can get print issues of the comic made for release!

FOLLOW ROSANA ON:

TWITTER/X

INSTAGRAM

WEBSITE (MAILING LIST)

KICKSTARTER (SIGN UP FOR NOTIFS)

[mintshiiarts]

Here we go for self-promo, which I never am fond of doing but know I have to do it in this case! My self-published, indie comic, Robust Heat is now in pre-launch on Kickstarter! You can find it here.

It is going to be printed into a full volume, graphic novel, with 150+ pages. Full colour, American standard comic book size (6.625" x 10.25"). The printed version is going to be more polished, have rewritten, relettered, redrawn parts that the webcomic version does not have. If you like slight Baccano! vibes mixed with Netflix's Hollywood (2020), then please consider checking it out :D. The actual launch date is going to be on April 2nd, and if you'd like an email notification when the campaign goes live, the notify me button will do the job for you. And if you have anyone in mind that you think might enjoy these series, please pass this along to them! I know I don't have a wide reach/big audience, and what my comic is--I consider kind of niche-so I'm hoping to get this word of mouth get rolling. Thanks in advance \O/ PS, I will be in PCF (Prairie Comics Festival), and hopefully DCAF (Dartmouth, not Dublin, Comics arts Festival) later this year. If any of you are from those spaces, do let me know if you'd be interested in local pick-ups.

[twinstrangersp]

Now for another huge announcement -- Syntax S3 Crowdfund is officially happening, launching FULLY on August 18th! Sign up for your reminder here, and be prepared for more news soon.

You'll find some photos on the IGG pre-launch page, as well -- share these on social media with #syntaxpod to show your excitement. We'll be sure to keep an eye out~

Talk soon, and thank you for your support!

[phantomarine]

well I set the minimum book printing/shipping costs at 100 books for 100 people

so maybe this’ll actually work out 😶

[biznocrats]

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[roorreer]

Something something. Making Solas a liar in Veilguard actively brings back a problem they fixed working on Inquisition.

On December 20 2019 VGS posted an interview with Trick Weekes about their work on Solas. This whole sentence is a link so its large enough for mobile but also disclaimer this is before they changed their name so deadname warning.

Here's a transcription I found here which is where i took the screenshots above. Since I know not everyone has 40 minutes to listen to an online radio interview.

I however highlighted the main point since most of you are not reading the screenshots anyway but skimming through. Rant under Read-more. Also bc i try to not be too negative on people's dashs but also i wanna ramble some more.

"But he lied a lot more. And it really weakened his character."

You can tell this happened during the game. Solas lies only once within Inquisition. He says something he can't be vague about and you push him so he lies, badly. He usually tells the truth vaguely. Typically Solas lies no more than Blackwall.

I fully believe that if in Inquisition your inquisitor figured out that Solas was Fen’harel and asked him bluntly to his face he'd confess. He might even be impressed. But why would you ever start to think that. No one assumes that their coworker is actually Poseidon regardless of how much they love the beach and ocean.

He hides in your expectations.

You can't ask him about being an ancient elf or being Fen'harel of myth because those aren't very probable. They're astronomically low to be truth within that universe. And outside, no one finished DA2 and went i wonder if one of our next companions is the Dread Wolf. Sera said, impossible things can't be surprises. He doesn't have to lie so when the truth comes out it's becomes obvious on a second playthrough.

They then actively bring back a problem they fixed in Inquisitions development. That they were open about fixing. That having a character that outright lies to you makes you have no intention of even hearing out the character. It retroactively undercuts Inquisition bc i see people trying to find Solas' lies in it when they aren't going to find any beyond the court intrigue.

It undercuts any lore we do get from Solas bc people dismiss it outright as being a lie from Mr "I abhor blood magic". I feel like shaking people's shoulders like no, dont do it.

They retconned him guys i have proof from 2019.

And its like if you hate Solas is this even satisfying? Like that's not Solas. His motivations are gone (that's a whole other post) and so is his core personality trait. It's like they went here's the Dreadwolf but during the ten years they replaced the smug asshole who was insufferably right with a 20 yo senior chihuahua that doesnt have any teeth.

My favorite villains are those that tell the truth. Because nothing hurts more than the truth. Can you imagine if he told you the truth. If he told you horrible things that you dismissed as lies to only be true. Wouldn't Varric’s death have more weight if he told you Varric was dead only for you - for everyone - to see him in the Lighthouse. If it was a spirit who took his shape to help you or even because it saw something worth reflecting in your memories.

So you dismiss him until it's revealed near the end oh he was telling the truth and you have an oh shit maybe he was right about other things but its too late to try and stop any of the truths he told you which could be from allies/companions betraying to stuff about Ghilan'nain and Elgarnan.

Like the only way to redeem Solas was to listen to him and by going out of your way to address problems he sees and you can find the alternative to tearing down the Veil by a series a little puzzle pieces throughout the game.

Have it be he will only listen to you if you listen to him. That he'll reject your other solution bc why the hell would he trust you if you couldnt extend the same.

Like Solas couldve been a great villian and he should've been great for both the haters and those that liked him. Not only the romance but for those who became his friend. Like i keep coming back to if i hated Solas would i be satisfied with Veilguard.

And the answer is no because that isnt Solas.

Tricking him has no weight bc he's an idiot in Veilguard like not even in the ending bc doesn't notice you switch the dagger around like right in front of him but none of his actions make sense. Ppl have mentioned the regret prison makes no sense for Elgarnan and Ghilan'nain bc they don't have regrets.

Attacking Solas has no weight because he literally needs the shit kicked out of him by a dragon for it to even begin to work. They literally need him to be at deaths door before its realistic that Rook could take him in a fight.

Redeem has no weight bc of the massive retcons to his motivations. They had to retcon the post credits scene bc even if Flemythal went hey i don't want you to do this Dai Solas wouldve went okay but that doesnt solve my other problems with the veil including the corruption of spirits and the fact its in literal shambles so i guess is still coming down.

I'm just disappointed. By the end of Trespasser they had a great villian and they just tossed it to the side and reverted him and people are arguing about a character who's sole defining trait in Veilguard is a problem they solved before Inquisition launched.

Basically we can sum it up with a screenshot.

[astronauticalaspirations]

Me and the boys trying not to accidentally touch anything important while we wait for the dress-simulation to start.

came across this pic of Apollo 7 from the San Diego Air and Space Museum archives I've never seen before and felt the need to share

[notyourmusebby]

nothing just talking about loving things while looking at my teammate up and down with sad nostalgic eyes for our last ferrari presentation together ✍️

[ruebird]

my feelings for dainsleif despite him being my favourite genshin character flops between "i love you so much, you're my favourite mess of a man" and "half drowned stray animal, smells bad, kind of ugly, really pisses me off" and the switch between each mood depends on how long i've waited between each yearly dain appearance

[ummick]

mick schumacher and esteban ocon at the alpine car launch - february 7, 2024 📷 ben stansall / getty

[squeakadeeks]

im working on making an updated transient lineup and first in line is Alpha!

She's Sulu's coworker over at Panstellar Intergalactic Safety Systems (DO NOT ABBREVIATE). personality wise, shes like a blend of Marceline and Bee. Goes without saying that she is, extremely cool.

[defiledcinephile]

An Assistant's face right before they are thrown

[coltmarrow]

Colton always woke up before his tributes on launch day, he liked to have breakfast with them, talk about anything they wanted to, help keep their mind off what was coming, and then impart his last bit of advice he could with them, this launch wasn't going to be any different. He knew, this year they'd have a winner. Currently, he was making a rather large portion of toast himself. Smiling when he heard Mahlon's voice, he raised a rather large kettle of his own.

"Already made enough coffee for about eight, I also have another kettle with just hot water for tea if you'd rather that or if you're a juice guy, I have apple, orange, apricot! I also have toast out and ready, fruit...I know the avox should be back with the bacon and sausage soon. I'd cook it myself but.......the smell is not my favorite. I also took out some different cereals if that's your fancy. You planning on joining us, Mahlon? Or are you seeing your own tributes off? We'd love to have you."

The early morning light was just trickling in, and Greer was out like a fuckin' light, snoring softly, like a cat's purr, though it was enough to stir him from a shallow sleep, drawing him up. Mahlon chuckled, shifting her form until she fell quiet, cheek burrowed into the pillow, back turned away from the sunrise. Greer was beautiful. She was concrete, solid and sure. Mahlon lingered until it felt weird to keep staring, and then he slipped out into the kitchen to boil water in the kettle.

"You're up early," he noted, rubbing the slumber from his eyes, finding Colton in the common lounge. "Or up late?" That was the more enticing option, and Mahlon raised his brows suggestively. "Want a cup of coffee? I'm puttin' the kettle on."

@coltmarrow

[estebunny]

esteban ocon in 2024 season part 4/?

2024-01-25 ✌

2024-01-26 Caving

2024-02-04 with Flavy

2024-02-07 A524 car launch

2024-02-11 Flavy's birthday party

2024-02-13 Choose your fighter!

[umlewis]

"F1 is BAAAAACCCCCKKKKKK 🤩👏" - august 20, 2024 📷 @.mercedesamgf1 / tiktok

[onehundredgar]

My Cecil Palmer design reveal! I know he has amblyopia in my heart. Bonus, my design for the late Mama Palmer:

Coming up; Abby Palmer, Carlos “Dave Robles” The Scientist, and Kevin (The Bigger One)!