#sucks to be those guys

[suckinitup]

also. I think that mark and tides fights were fucking TERRIFYING. i think they were BLOODY. i remember how scared tide was when he learned that wavelength was on the island and he still has never been that angry as when the team disobeyed him then. i think that mark wavelength winters’ priorities of “keep ashe safe. Also live” would let him pretty freely literally sacrifice the lives of anyone else he was teamed up with and i can see him throwing BAD agents at tide to keep him busy/distracted. Civilian in the way? oh well theyd better get out of the way then. leave it up to the heroes to save them he is BUSY getting MONEY so his SON can have a HOME. like i think mark would have been NASTY in an almost self destructive way that cemented “does whatever he has to” in tide’s mind in a really scary way. until he learned about mark’s kid-sparing thing. and then it all made sense

[a-most-beloved-fool]

makes me a little sad when star trek ignores IDIC. like. vulcans are logical. that is true. But 'logical', for vulcans, does not amount to 'without compassion,' and it definitely doesn't amount to 'racial superiority.' Belief in 'infinite diversity in infinite combinations' should NOT result in the weird racist/speciest stuff we're getting in some of the newer treks. It does make sense that some vulcans are discriminatory. They're still flawed. But that should not be common or expected, like it seems to be in SNW. If it is, then it's a race of hypocrites, which. doesn't seem very true to Star Trek's message.

I think TOS Spock does a pretty good job of embodying this. Not always, it was the 60s, after all, but mostly. He was often trying to find non-violent routes, and get by without killing - even if they were in danger or had already been attacked. (See: the mugato, and the horta (until Kirk was the one in danger, lmao. t'hy'la > IDIC), the Gorn ship). Kirk, in his eulogy, calls him the most human soul he's ever known, and I've always read that as Kirk calling out Spock's overwhelming compassion.

It's just so much more interesting when Vulcans get to be radically compassionate. I want them to believe that everything and everyone has value. I want them to respect all ways of being. I want them to find ways for even very non-humanoid aliens to exist unfettered in society. I want them to see hybrids and think that it's amazing. Also, like, disability rep. I want Vulcans to have The Most Accessible Planet and available resources because they want everyone to feel accepted and valued. It makes for better characters and more interesting stories.

[lazylittledragon]

do any other artists feel like. yeah you're a 'good artist' because you draw things that look nice, but like. TECHNICALLY? you're really not great

i really hate that i can recognise that yes, my art is good, but is it VARIED? is it dynamic?? is my anatomy good? is it full of texture and colour theory? do i know how to do This? can i do That? no, not really. and that's quite painful actually

[milesofstars]

sleepy shuichi doodles, he probably just woke up

been messing around with my artsyle a bit recently so its a bit different between pieces

also this was just drawing over a sketch i did while rewatching sonic fandubs for the millionth time (where r the sonic fandubs fans at!! please i love them sm)

[formulanni]

just one lap ahead

Taglist: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing

[alicornze7]

Silly guys goin' on silly adventures:]

@rorydrawsandwrites's puppeteer au but the only difference is that jax gives consent

My contribution to this wonderful au has been long overdue:')

Rambling in tags ehe (cw: ribbun:p)

Well maybe it's not the only difference

[lobie-the-cartoonist]

...idk how to explain this one

[mesopelagos]

3 guesses as to my favorite faction and the first two don't count

[sparrowlucero]

Why don't you like the sea devil design from Legend of the Sea Devils? It looks just like the originals

Unfortunately it's probably my least favorite nuwho imagining of a classic monster, mostly because a lot of it's flaws don't feel like intentional art direction but just a failure to get what the classic one is going for. I think the original (right) was clearly working off of concept art that was referencing animals very closely to attempt to create a natural looking design (as was the case with many of the pertwee era designs), whereas the newer one (left) seems to be working to replicate the original as closely as possible without quite understanding the anatomy or considering how to better realize it with the resources of modern fx:

I think this original is a much more thoughtful creature design in general - I think the eyes look more like a real sea animal, I think the lines in the face look nicer when they're much more subtle, the lower beak is a little narrower which I think looks better. look at, for instance, how comparatively natural the bone structure of it's frill and the slope of the head is.

and you know on top of that I just don't really want to see a 1:1 recreation of the original, even if it had been perfectly replicated; I would really hope the show would take the original design and create a new version of it with modern, more versatile fx. Oh well. (also: as I mentioned earlier, I just flatly don't think it's good looking or even workable fx. There was some sort of public falling out with the big established studio that had been doing practical fx work for the show since 2005, and they brought in a new, much younger studio to do the final season. I absolutely respect their work as artists but unfortunately, I don't really gel with their style and I think that their relative lack of experience - iirc this was their first job - shows with all of their creatures to some degree. It's especially notable here as, to my knowledge, they were working on bad crunch time and ultimately weren't able to get the sea devil head to function as intended. So, you know.)

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

[puppyeared]

beep beep im a sheep

speeddraw below the cut (audio warning)

song: "Cult of Dionysis" by The Orion Experience

[artificialcaretaker]

HERE’S HOW WE CAN STILL WIN GUYS-

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

tennis

[cowboylikeyouu]

i made the mistake of reading 0.5-1.5 star letterboxd reviews for deadpool & wolverine again and honestly??? at this point i only feel sorry for these people lmao like all of us tumblr fangirls and comic nerds are having the time of our lives with this movie while you guys have to be whiny bitches on letterboxd to somehow feed into your superiority complex😭 we are having fun, you are not, who is superior now?

[angelthemanspanker]

how does it always take him like eight seconds to get here. who hears "my boyfriend is naked out of necessity so we have towels up for privacy" and says "oh don't cover his naked body on my account I am ready and willing to see it. I'm not thinking about touching him btw. if you were wondering"

[ickypuppi3]

the whole karen storyline will always be soo annoying to me because as a concept, i don’t hate it. like yeah, it sucks but that’s the point and it could’ve been good that way. it makes an incredible amount of sense for billy to end up in that situation for a million different reasons but it just .. wasn’t played out like that. it could’ve been layered and heartbreaking and fucked up but instead it got played for sexiness points which is just weird as hell to do when the creators spent the whole time demonising billy aka, you know, the victim

oh if only billy were a character in another show ..