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[sunlit-mess]

[fisheito]

900 pages......

[chloesimaginationthings]

Miss Weather Report

[hallowshumour]

Various side characters for deans universe.🦨🦝🐐🦁

[avanii]

The prototypes to my Geology Monsters series were these two funky guys from March 2023.

I made the sketch for the marten in the plane from Naples to home, after we'd done a full circle around Mt. Vesuvius and you could really peer into its crater and see how close it is to the metropolis. I had also visited it during my stay there (but it was cloudy all week so unfortunately the view at the summit wasn't good), as well as the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That really sparked something in me. These two volcanic beasts were painted the same week after I got home.

Later I picked up the concept again and the monsters became more, well, monstrous. I still like these though! Both are small paintings done with ecoline inks.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Naminé

[foldingfittedsheets]

So today I got an email that my Nona Burger design had been contested on Redbubble. Fair enough, I thought. The actual artist was annoyed and even though I wanted to supply the masses with Nona’s shirt, it’s his creation.

And then I went down a rabbit hole to see what else shows up on Redbubble when you search Nona and realized that my version of the burger has been ripped off poorly two different times and is being listed illegally by other accounts.

So I reported those and I’m in a pissy mood about it all.

[turtleblogatlast]

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Tfw ur alien supervillain ex roomie knows more about your prison curse than ur family does

Stuck as a sixteen year old with your worst enemy on speed-dial makes for a terrible combination, it turns out

[garadinervi]

A Cartography of Genocide: A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023, Report by Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, October 15, 2024 (pdf here)

[tritoch]

Something that bugs me a lot in Dawntrail discourse is watching people who think they are defending the expansion argue away its best aspect. Because here's the thing: Wuk Lamat isn't like prior FFXIV characters. She takes up way more space than them. That's good!

A common thread you see in defenses is that people are complaining about things they were fine with earlier in the story. "Oh well actually Lyse was also the main character of Stormblood and people didn't hate her as much!" or "Heavensward is the story of Aymeric and Estinien and Ysayle, and the Warrior of Light doesn't do that much!" or "No one complained when Gaia jumped into the Eden raids, or when Emet showed up during Seat of Sacrifice" with the implied conclusion of "Wuk Lamat's not different from any other previous major character, your complaints have more to do with [sexism/transphobia/your crippling insecurity about not being the main character] than the way she's written." First of all people did hate Lyse. I get what you are saying but they very much did hate Lyse.

But Wuk Lamat is different. She's different because Dawntrail is unapologetically, full-throatedly her story. She is there at the start, she is there at the end, she is there basically all the way through except for a brief interlude. She is the character you talk to the most, she is also the character that talks the most. She has more of a complete arc than anyone else in the expansion. The antagonists develop much stronger direct and personal relationships to her than they ever do with you. Several major characters have relationships to you through her more than they do with you directly. At multiple points in the story you explicitly step back and are like "Go right ahead, queen, do the main character stuff." She 100% takes your role in certain ways. She's literally a new WL to your WoL!

and that's awesome! Like, holy shit! If you had traveled back in time and told me after Endwalker, "Hey, the next expansion will be almost solely and entirely focused on the character journey of a young woman, and she'll be nuanced and complex and allowed to fail but also allowed to succeed wildly, and her characterization will be interesting and her ideals will be very directly challenged, and she'll get to do some real classic 'sorry my noble opponent but I must stop you, even though I sympathize' shit, and the way she is framed won't feel excessively male-gazey, and she won't get stuck in the FFXII Ashe Miniskirt, and she won't just be someone you watch and clap for while the real protagonist and narrator is some random guy in her entourage," I would've been like "haha, okay, I like FFXIV as much as the next guy but I don't think it's shaken its baseline sexism off enough to do an expansion entirely about a woman and her personal growth and what makes her a good leader, especially after Stormblood's mixed reception. And CBU3 definitely doesn't have the guts to make her even more of a main character than any other prior NPC, and you didn't mention this part future time traveler, but I also don't believe they'll be willing to cast a trans woman in the role." And I would have been fucking wrong!

Yes, Wuk Lamat is the main character. Yes, she does get more attention than other NPCs, or even your Warrior of Light. And yes, that's totally fine, and even something to praise!!! You don't have to run from it to accommodate people who are looking for something to complain about!

[univemma]

Storytime, I wanted a page from a random movie script for an art project thing so i went looking for the XMFC script, couldn't find it, so looked through the Days of Future Past script instead.

WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME that in an earlier draft of DOFP, Raven had to LEAVE ALEX IN SAIGON, and then later when she found the files in Trask Industries it was ALEX IN THE AUTOPSY REPORT??!!

THEY ALMOST KILLED HIM A WHOLE MOVIE EARLIER

I would like to thank god and quite literally every other person that had a hand in this being scrapped (and the fact that the flashback scene paired with his death was out of budget, bc i believe i heard that somewhere)

I will, however, be thinking about this for the next 10-12 business days

my shayla

[lesiasmadness]

Spade slander

Audio: Borderlands 2

[paperzest]

Origami Franziska von Karma designed+folded by me from an uncut square of blue and orange double tissue paper. 32 grid boxpleat. Got inspired to make her while playing through Bridge to the Turnabout.

This was the initial test fold from a paper I just had lying around, so may revisit her in the future. I wasn't planning on color changing the whip, but it's in the corner of the paper, so it was easy to adjust.

More (group) photos below:

[t4tails]

its just like. when people see somebody say something hateful online, half of them probably just immediately keep scrolling. a quarter of the other half block them, and then keep scrolling. the last quarter all decide to try and report, but when you hide the subject of said report under two menus and then a fucking questionnaire where they basically have to grovel and explain how saying a slur is bigoted, how many of that final quarter are actually going to finish that report? when they could just as easily block and move on? it simply doesnt encourage users that staff actually want to clean up the site.

[hedgehology]

“Knights fight for trans rights!” By hedgehology

[stereax]