#thanks for asking !

[raayllum]

tell me the story of how you found tdp

I think this is somewhere in my forbidden op lore tag but I found TDP at first in Nov 2017, as it was announced Aaron Ehasz from ATLA and Justin Richmond from the Uncharted video game series would be working on a new fantasy show together. I've been a big lifelong fan of both properties so I was pumped to say the least. ATLA has such great characters and worldbuilding (& at the time was my #1 fave show, although now it is TDP), and the Uncharted games have such cool mysteries and puzzles to solve. I kept an eager eye out since then!

Then in July 2018 (I think it was SDCC?? the info might've been released earlier, but that's when I saw it) we got our first summary for the show. I made this sideblog right then and there (I believe it was "crowndragonprince" to start with). I changed my url twice (once to raylaswife iirc) afterwards as they released little character snippets and names that summer on twitter.

After s1's release and the ship name for Callum/Rayla (who grabbed me thanks to a screencap of them sitting under the show released 8ish days before s1) was settled on as Rayllum (initially I was rooting for Cayla), I added the extra A and here we are... 6 and a half years later.

It's been a wild ride but every moment watching and talking about TDP with friends is something I'll treasure forever. Here's to another 6 years!

[halemerry]

In case you were wondering I'm still thinking about the composition of this shot. The absolute split down the middle between light and dark colors. The way that despite that both sides have their own lights and their own shadows because one cannot exist without the other. The fact Aziraphale's side is a warmer sort of light that compliments Crowley's colors and Crowley's is a blueish sort of dark where the windows even look like tartan. The fact Crowley's side isn't the green dark of Hell and Aziraphale's isn't the sterile white of Heaven but are both shades shifted slightly to the left into something distinct and totally their own. It's balance - even in the middle of heartbreak - and it drives me absolutely wild.

[occudo]

8 for the fandom asks!

8. you hope more people will come to appreciate ___ (a ship, a trope, an episode, etc)

I mean... more Gertrude/Agnes would be nice...

[sweet-prroncito]

Hot diddly darn! Those batgirls came out way past any expectations! It’s always fun to see the uniqueness of their respective styles and outfits!

How about some light sparring? It was always fun to see Cass tapping out Steph in a sleeper hold a while back lmao. Or Barbara being a baddie with those Arkham style silent takedowns XD

✨🦇💜🌈

Light sparring it is~

[sleepyc63]

made a ton of canon accurate scugs in my style recently, i think they look interesting so i thought i'd share

[alchemillae]

just leaving this here for my fellow peemphum enthusiasts!! 👀

cr: louverue

[cuethesolareclipse13]

“Why are you crying it’s just a line in a book”

The line:

“I miss you. It’s better when you’re around.”

[louisisalarrie]

When an artist has a confidential guest attend one of their concerts, how is that accomplished? Does the guest arrive in a disguise? Is there a staff member assigned to help hide the guest? I’m imagining Louis sneaking around like a ninja.

helllooooo anon! im sure louis is quite the ninja lol. welcome to the show

Louis and Harry’s situation is very specific, but it does definitely happen. Ill speak in general terms a bit too to give you a bit of a scope on how this works

Now, firstly, it depends how big the artist is, and how big their touring crew is. So, for example, a small band when touring will never have the same amount of crew as a big artist obviously. They will instead outsource and hire local crew from crewing companies to do FOH, security, etc. and will sometimes have the venue handle the guest list as well. But with smaller acts, they’re not usually hiding a massive secret or having A listers rock up that need to be hidden, so yeah.

Harry’s touring party, rightly so, is massive. There’s roughly 80ish crew that he took on tour with him throughout LOT. like… almost all these people flew to every city. wild. But anyway, big stars have their trusted A&B party staff and rarely are swapping people in and out, because these folks know what’s gonna happen, they’re high up in their field, they’ve run the shows before etc., SO anyway sorry im rambling but basically big stars bring their trusted Backstage/VIP staff on tour.

There’s a few positions that crossover with this role of looking after confidential & any other guests, sometimes called a Backstage Coordinator if they are also handling a few other backstage roles and do not need to dedicate their entire time to the confidential guest (less likely in Larry’s situation), or they can be called a VIP/Guest Handler if there are going to be multiple guests across the tour/the confidential guest goes to more than one show, but much like most of the industry roles can overlap but yeah - there will be someone allocated to look after guests

ANYWAY

So if there were to be a confidential VIP coming through, it’ll be kept as quiet as possible. Only people who need to know will know, and oftentimes the promoter/local staff/venue staff will be shut off from entering that area of the building/venue without a short NDA signed for only very essential people. However, it depends on the venue layout for how strict they can be, but obviously stadiums are huge and have a lot of different entrances so yeah, it can vary. But usually the person is always in disguise.

It can be simple, like a hoodie and a hat and sunglasses and a Covid mask for example, but in something like Larry’s situation they’ll definitely be as in disguise as possible, escorted very quietly with certain entrances shut off, and venue/local security will also be warned to keep a close eye out. They’re not told who the guest is, but just that there’s a vip walking through the building and it’s crucial that this pathway is kept entirely blocked off. That staff member who’s looking after the VIPs would have received a map of the venue and would be all over it with security to ensure there’s a quick and discreet route. But stadiums are the best place to do this, because they are huge and there’s so much going on that it’s easy to slip by sometimes.

Louis would be easier to sneak into Harry’s shows because of the venue size, but also because he’s a little less recognisable too. For H to go to Louis’ shows, it’s still possible obviously he’s been before but just a little less easy to be sneaky with the venue size and how easily recognisable he is. But yeah, anyway

They’ll be escorted up to a press/media suite/corporate box/VIP box whatever you wanna call it after initially hanging out backstage, and usually be out of there before the show ends to meet the artist back at the hotel or whatever. They don’t ever catch the whole gig for their own safety/confidentiality. They’ll have their own security, driver, the works. They’re looked after just as much as the artist.

In short: the people who need to know, will know. Someone from the artist’s trusted team will organise the logistics of getting them in and out of the venue safely. They’ll be very looked after and then they’ll disappear before the end of the show to be on the safe side. It happens a lot.

[tgcg]

Who else are your favorite characters/ships aside from Karkat and Dave?

[animezinglife]

Oh, to be Elain Archeron wearing a lightweight, flowy sundress while having breakfast in the garden, an excuse to say bizarre and mysterious things out loud, and two hot Fae males pining after you.

[raayllum]

I thought season 7 was to be the last? What's this about the third arc?

So this past weekend at San Diego Comic Con, the crew confirmed the 'mythical 3rd arc' that we thought had been folded into arc 2 (S4—S5 being their own thing, and S6-S7 being the third arc) is actually still its own full blown thing. This would bring TDP to being a 10 season show in total, with three main arcs.

Previously, we thought S7 was the series finale, but it's been confirmed there are 3 more seasons planned after S7. This would constitute arc 3, and these still need to be greenlit. Whether Arc 2 will finish similarly to Arc 1 — most things wrapped up entirely with only a couple of loose threads — or on a big cliffhanger of sorts remains to be seen.

Arc 3 will likely feature another timeskip and focus on more magic lore / dealing with the Cosmic Order council that Aaravos seemingly wants to destroy.

The best thing to do is to rewatch S6 fully through consistently on Netflix (especially this first week / month), submit request forms to Netflix for seasons, review on sites on IMBD and Rotten Tomatoes, and use hashtags like #GiveUsTheSaga and #ContinueTheSaga on Twitter (and potentially tumblr).

Learning about it felt like this and I'm still losing my mind

[wayward-banana]

kingdom hearts 2 is a good. good game

(^woman trying and failing to be normal about roxas)

[illyrianbitch]

Thoughts on the Vanserras?

yes i have those all the time

[occudo]

Ask game :D

7. your favorite tropes to read/write/draw

9. a ship that isn't your OTP but that you enjoy

15. the character that always makes you smile

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

20. your very first fandom!

Some of these I already answered, so the ones I don't:

9. a ship that isn't your OTP but that you enjoy

Tim/Gerry or goof troop :D

20. your very first fandom! Tma is the first I'm active in? But the first I made fanarts for was the Bartimaeus trilogy (my blue beaked crow is a nod to those books actually :D)

[tiny-prom]

If Luigi is uncomfortable with the pressure of being the hero, and Mario is dissatisfied with the little attention he gets as sidekick, why do they occupy the roles that they do? Is something forcing/pressuring them to?

There are two main reasons why they keep up their roles!

First off...fate! Luigi has terrible luck, and even tho he begs and cries to not be the hero... there's always something that pushes him into a situation where he has to be the hero. It's kind of like scooby doo logic in a way.

And look, Luigi may be a coward, but he's not an asshole. He's not going to let people be hurt just cuz he doesn't want to be the hero

The second main reason has more to do with Mario...and Mario just doesn't want to take away his brothers spotlight! He would never ever want to be recognized at the expense of taking away attention from his brother. Mario also hopes he can use the attention and fame to get Luigi to overcome his anxiety

A common Mario quote to Luigi is "everyone calls you a hero because you ARE a hero"

Some other more obscure reasons are social pressures (fans in the koopa kingdom want LUIGI not Mario), and Mario's crush on Peach can blindside him at times

[jemichi90]

okay OP, in your recent art you mentioned that "you will explain if needed" and gave a detailed explanation of what might have happened (to Charlie and Maxwell).

I'd LOVE to hear more of your thoughts, and the "explanation" that you said you'd provide (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

ps i really like your art.

Oh! Hello there! 👀

And yes indeed I did. Alright then, get ready for the brainrot. xD

For a long time I've thought that Charlie died and came back wrong, and in the recent updates there have been several things hinting at it.

Here is a list of the ones I can remember right now:

Maxwell says ”There's a story behind that...” when inspecting a touch stone.

After the recent update, the ”dark side” Winona can sense traces of Charlie on the touch stone, confirming it's related to her (the quotes vary).

In the Encore animated short, there is a brief flashback of Charlie with the Ancient Fuelweaver behind her, and then her Chess piece is seen falling and sinking inside a black square on the board - some heavy symbolism there, sparing us from the gory details, I guess...

In Charlie's stageplay, the doll that represents her breaks, but she's brought back to life by the Mirror (Them?) - alive but different, as she says.

And then there are things that fall more into the headcanon territory, until more evidence comes up that either proves or debunks those ideas entirely, but I'll explain those as well, since they heavily influece my art inspiration.

I subscribe to the idea that the two characters in the ancient murals represent Maxwell and Charlie themselves in their early years in the Constant (but depicted by the locals that were unfamiliar with human anatomy). Time moves differently in that world so it could have been thousands of years ago, but the two made contact with the locals and briefly improved their life through the use of Their magic – until it backfired and the entity that must have been sealed for a reason broke free. Assuming the character with the torch really is Charlie, she died protecting Maxwell from the consequences of his own mistakes. In the final mural image, only her cracked head can be seen.

Another headcanon I have comes from the fact that one of shadow Charlie's arms seems to be entirely made of shadows (curiously, there are also arm bones attached to the touch stone, although they could have belonged to a pigman too, like the heads), so I think that whatever happened to her basically shattered her to pieces, and some pieces may still be missing - like that arm. But details like this are only a headcanon for now.

This also falls in the time period between 1906 and 1910-ish, when apparently some crazy stuff happened that Klei hasn't showed us much about – yet (according to their own post some years ago). ^^

So based on all this, my idea is that Maxwell summoned the Fuelweaver (as seen in the murals), but he messed up big time and Charlie got caught in the crossfire trying to protect Maxwell. She died a gruesome death (that may have torn her to pieces even more brutally than in my drawing). Maxwell in his desperation made the touch stone in a hurry (which is why it looks so rough compared to all his other constructs), carried what was left of Charlie there, and made a deal with Them to bring Charlie back to life no matter the cost. And they did. They just didn't bring her back exactly like she used to be, and she would probably fall to pieces and die instantly if she was separated from the entity that she now shares the body with...

I think Maxwell had been able to move freely in the Constant (maybe even out of it, based on his disappearances earlier) until then, but deals like that come with a price, so he lost his freedom and became Their tool (sold his soul to save Charlie?). Or something like that anyway.

There are also the parallels between Charlie and Abigail with their connection to their special flowers, as highlighted in the newest animated video. Charlie just might be another ghost inside a flower herself, but thanks to Them, she got to keep her body, or at least a form that resembles her body.. But I prefer to think that her actual broken body is still a part of the deal, as messed up as that is. We already know that They can keep a body that should have died a long time ago alive for an eternity, thanks to Maxwell. When he was released from the Nightmare Throne and time caught up to him, he didn't just die, he turned to a skeleton that crumbled to dust in an instant..! That's some old corpse, but he'd been conscious all that time because They wouldn't let him die.

So yeah, these happy thoughts inspired that piece. I might draw more about that if I still feel like it later. :D