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None of our hands are clean
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangshan#mianmian#The secret meaning behind one of the jin members scuttling off is:#I couldn't make three people work out in the remaining panels and per my rule of '3 attempts and take a different approach' he had to go.#Sometimes there are meaningful reasons why something happens in the background. And sometimes it is like this.#Let's just say he saw what was about to happen and got out of there before mianmian started throwing hands.#Okay no more delay. The sheer boldness to call WWX a killer in a room full of people who wear their war body count as a badge...#It's about hypocrisy yes - but it is also about how the narrative shifts on the same action depending on the frame.#Because at the end of the day...the blood on our hands is still blood on our hands.#Both the deaths on the battlefield and the deaths of the Jin's abusing the Wen remnants are still deaths caused by another.#They are also deaths that - depending who holds the frame - are noble acts to protect others.#But it isn't supposed to be about who was right and who was wrong.#It is about the need to be seen as the victim to avoid culpability.#Because if you aren't responsible you don't have to be held accountable. You don't have to grow or change.#If someone takes all the blame then there is no need to reflect on your own faults.#We have to protect our fragile ego from the mirror lest it shatter and we have to remake it anew.#Horrifically enough...even if WWX spared the Jin guards or even never ran into Wen Qing#He wouldn't have been able to escape being the scapegoat. He downfall was set into motion a long time ago.#My goodness...What a deliciously tragic story Wei Wuxian's first life was.
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Who'd win?
also warning there's actually noise in this one
#stop motion#felt guys#undertale#undyne#papyrus#chara#sans#frisk#made for fun!#very very short something#i think i want to start adding sounds to the animations...#they gonna fite!!
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Assorted Horror and Killer doodles since there aren't enough of them c:
Killer by Rahafwabas Horror by Sour-apple-studios
#UTDR#UTMV#My Art#Killer Sans#Horror Sans#Pigeon look!! I remembered :D#Sadly my uncle did not leave early the other day but I finally had some time and finished them!#I know everybody has the hc that Killer climbs Horror like a cat tree when he's bored#And I like to think Horror's starting to deal with it by giving him a task like helping with food prep#Killer likes the motion and sound of chopping stuff#But also sometimes he just wrestles him about it because y'know. he's annoying (affectionate)#Also I didn't draw it cause I think I've drawn it somewhere before but I like to hc that Killer can barely see in the dark#Because of his lack of eyelights and the goop and everything his vision's kinda shitty when there's other impairments#And Horror loves sneaking up and scaring the shit out of him when he can't see#It's an easy target but he can't resist#I just want you to imagine Cross holding Killer's hand guiding him down a dark hallway like he's helping a lil old lady cross the street#And then Horror suddenly shouts from right behind them and Killer jumps into Cross's arms shaggy and scooby style#They're silly your honour c:#Anyway I have. like 3 different ideas I wanna do to sounds tiktok style#(Yes they're all game grumps clips sssshhhh)#I may have to make some kind of mini compilation or something idk
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spirk fucked on the shakedown cruise btw. IF you even care.............
#the shakedown cruise after TMP to be absolutely clear#i started a fic about this and never got around to actually writing it#i should go back to it now i feel like im a much better writer atp and i could actually do something with it#star trek tos#spirk#star trek: the motion picture
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Mairon/Adar animation I need to finish one day. (They're gonna kiss!)
Inspired by the little chain on Mairon's corset. What else could it be for but to be pulled at?! ╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭
#maidar#adar x sauron#adar#adar rings of power#mairon#trop#trop fanart#rings of power#sauron#animation#wip#2024#There is supposed to be more at the beginning#and the end#I just started at the middle#also missing more frrames in between to make it smoother#and proper lineart#and colour#...#definitely need to exaggerate the motions more too… hhhh#animation takes forever but it’s fun.#and then people watch the whole clip in 3 seconds and move on to something else hhhhh
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OH YEAH. okay one thing I DO want to talk about from Skyfall. That I think we should be talking about more. is the "he went into the priest hole for TWO (2) DAYS" thing.
I had like. known that was A Thing, but ig didn't see or forgot what it looked like. but the first look at it I was like. whoa. this is.... how do I say. like there's something visceral and primal and primitive about it just being bare rock. and I made a comment about how insane that is, and esp seeing the mine/cave-like rock and the thought of TWO DAYS down there.. that it's sth "like returning to some sort of primordial earthly womb (tomb)"
but then later they showed that the priest hole is NOT just like a bolthole. but a whole-ass tunnel system!!! EXTRA wild! what was Bond doing down there? WHERE exactly was he in the priest hold then? Was he hunkered down in some corner? Was he wandering around the caves like some sort of primordial spectre.
also there's something interesting/cool about it being like. seemed like it was just going to be a bolthole, and then they revealed it was this whole-ass tunnel system. Skyfall has a lot of maze/hidden/hiding symbolism, and there's something interesting about there being this, like. hidden earthly labyrinth at the heart/hearth/underneath Skyfall.
also the idea of baby Bond wandering a stone labyrinth under the very bones of his ancestral home after the death of his parents... and the whole when he came out he wasn't a boy anymore or whatever it was exactly Kincade said.... hmmm......... Minotaur? Minotaur vibes perhaps? I think there is something here- I think there's something to be said about hidden monstrosity/adversity bringing out monstrosity in us, plus the whole nature/nurture question of like, Bond and HIS "nature," was he born brutal or was he made brutal
(by his career, by his forging as a 00 agent, by M's machinations-- speaking of machinations. but okay god the way she. Manages him... I DO think there's a lot of interesting parts throughout the movies but there was a particular moment in Skyfall when she was like. hunt them down. for Ronson. like ggngng that was like. the emotional equivalent of those loop/stick leashes they use to capture stray dogs.... lowering the loop around his neck and tightening... and then once it's tightened she can move him around cuz it's a stick and not just a rope leash, she can literally physically lead him...) (and also the nature/nurture question of Silva's rats thing)
#halfbaked00q dot edu#Skyfall posting#there's also a lot of interesting things we can analyze here abt the way Bond does or doesn't make eye contact#I think this is one of those 'soul looks like it wandered away from his body' movies#the way he is SO locked in with Severine in that convo... it's soo interesting#and the way he's like. kinda absent/going thru the motions w Moneypenny... until she puts that finger under his chin....#I also do rly like the way they kept it ambiguous if they slept together or not#although it does mean that Doylistically I think that means they shoehorned in the sleeping w Severine thing#cuz that's like. What Bond Should Do (sleep with hot chicks) but it didn't FIT with the previous scene I don't think....#although perhaps there's something interesting to read into like#she's a victim of the sex trade. he's a casualty of the need for sexspionage & 'by any means necessary'#and both of them in that moment were doing 'what they were supposed to' (I almost said what they were told lol. but I mean. ig that's not#wrong either? just like. what they were told. but doylistically)#so yeah I DO think there are interesting things in Skyfall that we could dig into more#that I don't think I've reaaally seen done or maybe done a lot of in fandom#although. you know me. I think the whole digging into the tension/fracture points in Bond's character are soo interesting. and so underdone#I think it's easy to just go with Bond as a whole character but to ME it's like. he has SO many stress points and fractures and#contradictions in his character. and that to me makes it sooo interesting#cuz it's present and it DOES cause tension/problems/trauma/etc#but also he's very like. brutally practical about it lmao! like. *shrug* strap my ribs in and keep walking cuz I gotta#or like. balances the knife edge of his contradictions and threads the needle of Remaining Functional#he's the machine that has been jury-rigged and patched up so many times that it's like. actually DON'T service it cuz you'll just#make it worse... like uhh water heaters that have never been drained - DON'T drain it cuz the limescale is probably what is keeping it#together and if you drain it you may actual reveal corrosion that is only being held together by the build-up#or like the car thing of like. if you've never changed your transmission fluid then the only thing keeping it running is the metal debris#and if you change it then actually it loses that debris that lets it catch and start and then you need a new transmission#sth like that
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This is so messy but tmh silhouette exploration
#annoying artist notes that could be an essay:#if jan and river are complimentary than theyre both triangles inverted of each other#river will be all curves and flowly like their namesake#cuz no matter how stoic they are on the outside you can still tell they have some curiosity (?) about the world#but their “straight lines” would have been forced into them as a child#whereas jan's straightedgedness is something learned willingly#the thing about ballerina characters is that it is hard to draw them with so much fluidity and motion (imo) without losing that disciplined#straightness to them#i looked up character design sheets for ballerinas and none of them really spoke to me on how i see jan#anyways with aubrey theyre such a squareish character to me even if theyre wilder in nature compared to river#their shape is trying. like REALLY trying to be as poised and elegant as river's. but in the end itll never stand as fluid or as tall as#river's silhouette#id also make theirs foiled to jan's in that they share that straightlinedness (i need a better word jfc) in their legs#okay im gonna go and continue brainstorming thoughts and critiques welcomed#addendum: ADDITIONALLY DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE GALE SIBLING COLOR DYNAMIC. LORD I WILL BE HERE FOREVER.
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what is the most difficult part of the fic to write and why is it the middle
#paige rambles on#i mean i know why. you did so much but you still have more to go#now all your plot threads are in motion and oh no did you forget something#and wait. what did i say at the start. does this still work#oh that part isn't for another 10k#etc etc
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Help. I thought I was just writing morally ambiguous lesbians. Now it's a thesis on how love without agency is just a different kind of violence.
Bye bye mental!
(;´∀`)
#excuse the rant#but#i wanted to write something interesting!!!#with messy chars in a fucked up situation#now im despairing because god#its a slow motion train crash that i'm orchestrating in the name of ethical portrayal#bc yes i know intimacy is compromised under coercion#they cant heal because they cant leave#or wont#but i care too much about them now and am too emotionally and chronically invested to do anything but see it through#even if it ends in a way that just#says we can't fix it#we can't do it cleanly#but we're choosing this as much as we can in this world#im so fucking saaaaaaaaaaad#why am i such a bummer of a cynic#and it's not a short time investment either#im just starting and its 5k#just Old Yeller me already#its a kindness#esp with the nature of my rl job rn#and the worst bit is that it doesn't even stop me from wanting to work on it#im turboing my own mental!!!!!
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As an immigrant child, your new fic had resonated with me. It made me tear up eating dinner with my family.
When Saffron said, “This selfish desperation to know that I haven’t lost my connection to my home." It instantly took me back to being constantly teased by my friends for not being 'in tuned' with my culture like how they were, or how I desperately tried speaking in my native tongue with my parents, despite having a very clear american accent and them constantly assuring me that speaking in english is fine. My grandmother had passed earlier this year, she was the grandparent that I knew the least. I started asking about her from her sisters as my mother isn't in the state to answer anything, I've tried so hard to pick up the pieces of what her sisters have told me to construct an image of her personality. She used to constantly ask me to call her so when I read about Saffron talking about how video calls have were never the same and never enough, it hit me like a load of bricks.
Your fanfiction is so tremendously beautiful in describing the feelings I have felt all my life. How I know that where I am right now isnt home, but my actual home has been so unfamiliar after my grandmothers passing. I have constantly felt like I have disappointed her, so when Sunset confessed to the same thing, I couldn't hold my emotions in anymore. The ending with Saffron talking about how she would be waiting for Sunset to come home if she was her mother made hope that was true with me and my grandmother, if I were to ever reunite with her again when I pass away myself.
Thank you so much for writing this story. It was the most comfortable yet intense stories I have ever had the blessing to read. I am sorry for rambling and I hope this entire message makes some sort of sense? I hope whatever you're dealing with gets solved to the way you have hoped it would.
You have also made me see dal in a new light, it was never a food that I used to like, but I am willing to give it another shot lol
i looked at this ask earlier and had to take some time to process how to respond to this. i think tho i still dont really know how to, so i hope thats ok!
first of all, thank you so much for being comfortable enough to tell me ur story. it really means a lot that you would open up to me, a stranger, and the fact that you did so bc something i made had an impact on u quite actually moved me to tears. im a bit of a soggy mess rn lol. thank you again, truly.
second, i want to express my empathy for you and your situation with your grandmother. my grandad passed away before i could graduate, and it was during the height of lockdowns, so i hadnt seen him in a while. i didnt go to visit him in the hospital, so theres always this feeling of "what if i had called more? what if i had tried harder to visit? what if i spent more time with him?" that doesnt really go away. and, as a kid of 2 immigrant families, i can also really empathize with feeling a disconnect from your culture--when ur not surrounded by ur parents culture but u also visibly dont look like ur "from" the one u were raised in, it can feel really alienating, even though you havent done anything except just. exist in this sort of inbetween?
all of this i guess is to say that, i put a lot of my own experiences into this fic. and it's almost relieving in a way to know that u saw what i put there, and that this experience is something that other people have felt as well. thank you so very much again for reading ;v;
#lili talking#also ty for ur kind words toward my situation ;v;#i feel like im in a slow motion car crash or explosion or something but im getting thru it. one day at a time#and im happy that u might give dal another shot!#ive recently started going to a local indian place and aaaa i love their dal so much#its defo part of what helped fuel me to finish this fic haha
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writhing on the floor because i thought about art for a second too long
#.kitschy klatter#AuUgH#live action does something different than animation 3d does something different than claymation does something different than stop motion#does something different than puppetry does something different than practical effects does something different than cgi does something dif#fferent than movies does something different than episodic does something different than frame by frame does something different than riggi#g film does something different than comics does different then visual art does different than graphical art does different than#sIGNS POSTERS ADVERTISING INFORMATIONAL TECHNICAL PHOTOGRAPHY FROTHING AT THE MOUTH#NOT EVEN TOUCHING ON MUSIC......#any time i linger too long on art and how much i just wanna See It and Understand i start feeling insane#im like. trapped on the tippity top of an iceberg. theres so little time on this baka world#i understand an iota of what being attacked by c.hainsaw man's cosmos devil must feel like#i should be in a dark dusty archive studying every known bit of art history and then clock out and go home after a reasonable time#and use the knowledge to draw my ocs more.
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HELP???
#melonposting#this is all so incredibly interesting to me. by the way. madoka magica always delivers#we want to increase the entropy of the universe... we want to turn the universe into a perpetual motion machine...#we need a source of energy that increases from input to output... and human emotions serve that purpose#especially the emotions of girls undergoing puberty#<- it doesn't explicitly state why pubescent girls have the most emotional energy. however...#i'm sure it has something to do with the prevailing gender ideology and how that affects girls' perception of puberty#in that it's both liberating and terrifying and burdensome and so many other things given society's roles for women#as in... you are becoming a woman as evidenced by the development of your secondary sex characteristics#so now you have to deal with all of that#(and of course boys deal with some of that too but it's different. because. well. sexism)#and the roles of womanhood have been a theme thus far... what with madoka's mom and teacher#you start a magical girl and turn into a witch. that process releases emotional energy#there's a certain cynicism about it all#where witches are exclusively arbiters of violence#and the supposedly heroic magical girls inevitably turn into them...#...by using up the magic needed to kill them#they sustain themselves as magical girls only by 'feeding' on the grief seeds left by the witches they've killed as 'reward'#and magical girls who only seek to kill witches for good end up being worn down by the system they're in. they turn into witches faster#i've yet to parse through all of the allegorical layers behind the relationship between magical girls and witches...#...but madoka magica is proving to be incredibly meaningful. and feminist
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When you feel so many "bad" emotions that your system goes cold and you full disassociate.
#sunnie thoughts#how long will this feeling last#dissasociate#dissociate#dissociating#idk it started with anger and then embarrassment and then something else brought rage and it was just too much too fast and now in--#just#NOW IM JUST GOING THROUGH TYE MOTIONS HOLY FUCK I HATE THIS GODFAMN AUTOCORRECTING ASS KEYBOARD CHANGING ENTIRW WORDS AND MASHING SHIT TOGE#cant even doomscroll just gonna stand in place and angrily stare and wait for time to pass ifg
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day 1 - spuddy
(except i don't know how to draw foil and couldn't figure it out... so sticker version)
#the bg and emoji are from the game. those i was too tired to attempt to replicate#not my best work but i'm happy :D also i actually started! so that's something!#also the blur on the paws is meant to look like motion blur ??? idk if it looks like that ???#bugsnax#spuddy#bugsnax spuddy
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/ Completely random and out of the blue but;; I had the realization that J.ing Y.uan is such a -rests his chin on top of your head- kind of guy, the thing is that he ends up dozing off and forgets that he's actually heavy as heck, so it's like trying to keep a rock balanced over the top of your head (he's like a lazy lion lounging around truly)
#;ooc#ooc#i don't know how f.u x.ua deals with him bc i would be like; ENOUGH. -RATTLES HIM- which is probably what she would do as well-#like; GO DO UR JOB STOP LOUNGING AROUND 🫵#and he'd lightly chuckle and go 'yes; yes- I'm on it' <- guy that actually has already finished his work but goes along with it#then when they need something from him and come running at him exhasperated; he just -slides the documents-#and all the problems that were starting to bubble up suddenly are poof! gone#and ur like WHY DIDNT U SAY SO EARLIER!!!! he took a stroll around the garden and was curious about how they would all try to fix the issue#the back up plan was already set in motion; he just let the river take its course
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yo so since pix had that whole "beating minecraft dungeons without using any weapons" series, i like to think that in series like the survival guide cubitoriffs has hand wraps and stuff like that, especially during the early game. or like fingerless gloves or something like i've seen people draw for his esmp s2 design. in conclusion: give this man some cool ass gloves or glove adjacent things!!! he uses his hands a lot!
#ray's tag#pixlriffs#mcyt#in my head the man is always in motion so this also makes sense as something to fiddle with. goddddd. i might actually have to study#some like. proper anatomy so that i can start working on some dynamic poses because it is a CRIME that i cant!! draw!! him!! moving!! well!
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