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darkspellmaster · 7 months ago

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Wish is just a normal Disney film just like all the rest.

Wish is actually a damn good movie, there I said it!

I'm going to start by saying this much, it's very odd to me that so many people are now screaming for a love story from Disney, when not even five or ten years ago there was shouting from the roof tops about Disney doing TOO MUCH romance. For the longest time it was "I wish Disney wouldn't do pairings" "Ugh another romance, can't the princess not." Etc. Now everyone wants one, even though Romance isn't really as big a Disney trope as people think.

Actually let's go through the animated catalogue and see how frequently the love story is centered as the main conflict and asperation to the character. In this case it's the key thing, not a 'Oh they happen to like each other in the end' situation, it's THE thing, the point of the movie is their romance. Then let's see how many have it as the secondary aspect, and let's see how many have it as not important at all. (And we're talking romantic love, not family love)

Romance (Total number: 15)

Snow White, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Secondary Characters hook up so this is a weird one), Doug's First Movie, Tarzan, Lizzie McGuire the Movie, Enchanted, The Princess and the Frog (Only from Naveen's POV), Tangled (could be seen as secondary too)

Secondary (Total Number: 25)

Fantasia, Bambi, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free , Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella Sleeping Beauty

One Hundred and One Dalmatians , Robin Hood, The Rescuers , The Fox and the Hound , Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rescuers Down under

The Nightmare before Christmas, The Lion King ,Hercules ,Mulan ,Fantasia 2000 , Dinosaur, Atlantis the Lost Empire , Meet the Robinsons , Frankenweenie ,Frozen, , Strange World

Not in it at all (Total Number: 42 -including Wish)

Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon, Dumbo, Saludos Amigos, Victory through Air power, Three Caballeros, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan

Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective

Oliver and Company, Ducktales the Treasure of the lost lamp, A Goofy Movie, James and the Giant Peach, The Tigger Movie

The Emperor's new Groove, Recess School's out, Return to Neverland, Lilo and Stich, Treasure Planet, The Jungle Book 2

Piglet's big Movie, Brother Bear, Teacher's Pet, Home on the Range, Pooh's Heffalump Movie, Chicken Little, The Wild

Bolt, Winnie the Pooh, Wreck it Ralph, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Wreck it Ralph 2, Frozen 2, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, Wish

These are just the animated not live action, and not live action with animation movies. All in all it's more common to see a Disney film with NO romance in it at all then a romantic one.

So why is it that people keep saying, but we're missing the romance, it's because of the fact that most of the time the Parks and other media pair the characters together. Take Peter pan, in the movie, the boy is utterly oblivious to Wendy's affections, to the point of pissing her off enough that she leaves the party that the tribe is hosting. In the parks, and other media (the plays, other movies) the romance is in your face, because people want them to be a couple, but in the movie itself you never see it.

Star, based on the making of book, was supposed to be a younger version of Asha's grandfather, which fits the theming of the movie. However, from what I understand, one of the reasons why they went against is was because it was hitting to close to Genie in the shape shifting. On top of that, the character of Star, seems heavily inspired by the art work of William Joyce, who created Night Light.

This is him and Katherine (Future Mother Goose) who is basically Star in a lot of ways. He lights the night to keep the nightmares away. These two eventually grow up (He remembers He's jack frost) and they end up as a couple.

It would be apping off of that story, and sadly people didn't give the William Joyce movie Meet the Robinsons a chance (don't sleep on that folks please! It is a good story.)

Also straight up give more love to the Guardian's of Childhood, you'll be happy while you read it.

I'm not saying don't ship it, what I am saying is that please don't go saying this was planned when it really wasn't. That was supposed to be her grandfather there.

And I'm not against the art work, I find it very cute and sweet and lover the designs. But I do think that the whole, "WE WERE ROBBED!" thing isn't being at all fair to the creative team behind this story, as again, *points up* they were following the tradition of a story that doesn't have a love interest, which is the vast majority of the stories that they tell.

Wish perfectly falls in line also with Disney's normal length of animated movies.

Wish was 1 hours and 35 minutes

The movie that came out before it clocked in at

Strange World = 1 hours and 42 minutes

Moana = 1 hours and 47 minutes

Frozen = 1 hours and 42 minutes

This Hour long movie thing started really with Atlantis the Lost Empire = 1 hours and 36 minutes

While Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch all clock in around =1 hour and 30 at most, some are even less than that. Wish's run time is equal to that of Atlantis, or Aladdin, or Treasure planet. So I'm a bit perplexed on the "It's too short" thing. Maybe growing up just before and during the days of Little Mermaid and Aladdin made me like the shorter tales.

Which is another point. With a shorter movie, you never get complete backstory. It's a fairy tale! I mean, look at Little Mermaid. Seriously can you Name any of her sisters from the opening song.

Like seriously, I don't really know a lot of people who can tell me anything about Aquatica, for example. Unless you actually read the books or watched the TV show. And before then we had nothing. Nothing on her mom, nothing on her sisters.

Then there's the town Belle comes from, what do we know about it? Not much, not even who governs the damn thing. Howe about Aladdin before the TV series and King of thieves cleared up everything. We didn't know who his parents were, nor Jasmine's mom. Hell we still don't know anything about Cinderella's father from the animated movie.

Point being, a lot of information, much like Wish, got cut for time. In Snow white we were supposed to be given a longer back story for her father and mother, that was cut due to it being to long, it's in the golden book though. Prince Florian (Yes that is his name) was supposed to have Prince Phillips escape, but it was deemed to hard to animate at the time.

Also there was one that was dancing on the clouds, with STARS, around them that looks very much like you know, our Star.

So basically, he's a nod to what could have been for Snow White all those years ago. Cut for time.

Aladdin had a whole cut song because they chopped his mother out as she was supposed to play a part in the movie and help her son with the Genie.

Zena is her name and she was cut to streamline the film.

Maid Marian in the original Robin Hood was supposed to protect him after his plunge into the water, and protect him from King John while he's threatening her. King Richard appears in the end and scares him into stopping but she's willing to take a dagger to the chest to protect Robin.

This is when Richard meets Robin with Marian telling him all about what happened.

All Disney movies change. Isabel in Encanto was supposed to have a nerdy boyfriend that the family disapproved of.

Hell, Frozen was at one point going to be the Bad guy wins the guy, the hero (Gerta) that we followed all the way to the end rooting for her, was supposed to be a gold digger, and Kai was supposed to say "Nah, I'm gonna stick with the Snow Queen" because she's sad and your a bitch. (Thanks Eisner, I hate it!)

So yeah, there's probably A whole lot of cut content that was supposed to go in, but to streamline it to 95 minutes, you have to cut! At least it's not what happened to the Black Cauldron. No I will never forgive Katzenburg for that travesty!

Disney always used Popular Music over Broadway

Honestly this is the one complaint that I hear that kills me the most about this movie, that the studio went with a pop music team. As if this is not a common thing for Disney movies!

Fun fact, the team behind most of the musical scores up until the 1960s were all composers and musicians that wrote songs for the radio. Or song writers that did radio music. If I listed every single one we'd be here for ages.

The Sherman brothers actually wrote pop tunes for the Teen sweetheart Annette Funicello and several other well known singers and actors of movies.

The first major Broadway group was Ashman and Menken, Followed by Miranda, and the Lopez's. Most, if not all of the biggest Disney songs were written by pop songwriters, whos goal it was to get that song played on the radio.

Hell The Lion King, Tarzan, The Emperors New Groove, and Treasure planet to name a few were all done by Pop musicians. I didn't hear complaining about it back then! What's the difference now? Because the team is not Elton freaking John, or Sting?

All of Oliver and Company was pop songs. Several movies didn't have songs, or only had one.

If we're going to celebrate a studio that helped bring an artform out of it's infancy and show that you could do a full movie of animated pictures where you get emotions out of it, we need to celebrate all aspects, and that includes things we may not realize are kind of unique.

When Hercules and Hunchback came out, people complained about them not being "Traditional" Disney. It was Gospel, it was too dark, or in the case of Tarzan, why are we following a boy, or Treasure planet, "Yuck a space story". Now people adore these movies. People who grew up with them want to celebrate them, and sometimes they don't realize that they were once derided as hard or harder than Wish is being right now.

I just wish that people would give these movies a chance rather than not let the creatives tell their story. We had a whole damn section of 2D animation in Strange World! No one talked about it! No one went "More of this please". Give me these stories, let me enjoy a original fairy tale, because if we keep rehashing things, there's going to be little to celebrate when the next 10 or 20 years rolls around.

Sorry for the kinda rant. This has just been on my nerves for a while.

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luminouslywriting · 6 months ago

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Chapter 33 (Mastermind)—MOTA Fic

A/N: Just one chapter to go after this....I'm sorry it's late though! Life has been INSANE this past week and I just couldn't get to my phone or laptop between work and prepping to move! As always, enjoy though!

December 1945

Tangled up in one another’s limbs and cramped together in the tiny space of their cabin, Ruth didn’t altogether mind that this room was a tiny one. She didn’t altogether mind that it had been months since the war had ended and they were just barely making their way back home. It was just in time for Christmas and Ruth thought that the best gift that they could give to their families would be to actually come home—along with the rest of their gaggle that were scattered throughout the ship.

Still, she knew that the quiet solitude that she and Robby had experienced for the past few months as newlyweds would end the minute that they ended up back in New York. Their parents were simply going to kill them for eloping and getting married without telling anyone, she was certain of that.

Her fingers drummed against Robby’s chest and she pulled herself up slightly. She had fallen asleep on his chest late last night after several rounds of desperate quiet sex—quiet only for the fact that this ship had thin walls and they both knew that their neighbors would NOT appreciate the lewd noises or being kept up that late.

Robby’s breaths were even and warm, a testament to the fact that he was still sleeping. Ruth couldn’t help but be amazed at the sight of this wonderful man in front of her. He was the best man that she knew and he was now her husband. There would be no end to her being in awe of that simple fact. Her hands roamed over the planes of his chest, going over the grooves and ridges that made Robby absolutely hers.

All resolve crumbled as he shifted in his sleep, hands roaming over her waist. She couldn’t help herself from leaning down and pressing a gentle kiss to his lips. It only took him a moment to reciprocate the gesture—and considering how many mornings usually started like this, Robby wasn’t at all surprised.

“Well how’s that for a good morning?” Robby mumbled, a grin spreading across his features.

The grin that floated across her own features would have surely made her shake her head—acting like a damn schoolgirl around this man still? Truth be told, Ruth wasn’t sure that would ever end.

She ran a hand through his curls, massaging at his scalp. “Well you were very peaceful while you were sleeping and I get bored easily, dear.”

At that, Robby gave a laugh that made her entire being want to burn up—it was a chest-driven laugh that reverberated through her body as he shook. “Why do I have a feeling that you’re always going to be bored now?”

“Because we finished your part of the trial and we’ve been on this boat for nearly two weeks, which means I haven’t been able to really work.”

“Ah the joys of doing projects with you again.”

“As long as it’s not an art project.”

“I apologized for that!” Robby exclaimed.

She lightly smacked his shoulder. “Only after I told you that’s why I hated you. It had nothing to do with that dreadful kiss.”

“I thought you liked my kisses.”

“When they don’t break skin, darling.”

“I haven’t done that recently.”

“No, you haven’t,” Ruth agreed. “I suppose I could let it go, but where’s the fun in that?”

In one movement, Robby had flipped them over and left Ruth with a breathless laugh on her tongue. “Pinned ya.” Robby got this great mischievous expression on her face that knew that if she didn’t put a stop to this, she would not be leaving this bed for several more hours.

“No, no, no—we are not having sex mere hours before we get to our parents. They’ll know!” She exclaimed, slipping from beneath his arms and rolling off the bed to finally dress herself for the morning.

Robby rolled his eyes as he leaned on one arm, admiring the physique that he had lovingly adorned with love bites the night prior. “We’re married, Ruthie. I think they’re gonna know that we’ve, you know, had sex.”

“That doesn’t mean we have to scandalize them!”

“Isn’t that exactly what a marriage is for?”

“No!” At that protest, she chucked a shirt at him and shook her head. “Besides, we have to gather up everyone and ensure that everyone’s ready to go with all of their luggage.”

“You’re such a mother.”

“And you’re lacking in responsibility at the moment, Mr. Sharpe.”

“That’s not how this works, Mrs. Rosenthal.”

“I still think we should have just taken my last name,” Ruth said, slipping her socks on. “Less hassle since I’m more established as a lawyer anyhow.”

“Said the JAG-Corp lawyer to the Lieutenant Colonel.”

Ruth finally came to a stop, coat covering her uniform. She crossed the floor over to Robby and gently took his face in her hands. “I’ll tell you what, Colonel. We get through the whole family meeting and apartment shopping later, then you can have your wicked wicked way with me.”

He gave a wolfish grin. “I’m holding you to that.”

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Being back in New York was perhaps the strangest feeling that Ruth had had in a long time. When she had left these shores, what felt like a whole lifetime ago, she had felt out of place. She hadn’t felt like she was needed back here at home. She had wanted nothing more than to leave this place and not ever come back.

But with both of her brothers at her side, with her husband, and with her other family members, Ruth felt nothing but relief seeing Lady Liberty for the first time in years. There was no other way to describe this place but home.

Tucked into Robby’s side, she grinned brightly at him. “Do you think much has changed?”

“No way,” Robby said, shaking his head. “I’ll bet anything my parents are at your place and gossiping about the latest drama on the floor.”

At that, there was a snort from next to Ruth. Glancing beside her, Ruth found Abe practically bouncing back and forth on his feet. “Ma’ usually knows everything that goes on with everyone. Maybe she won’t even be surprised that we’re here.”

John gave a flick to the back of Abe’s head. “There’s no way she’ll know that either one of us is alive. We’re more likely to kill her off from shock at this point.”

“Don’t remind me. I’m gonna be on house arrest until I’m 80,” Abe mumbled, shaking his head at John.

“That sounds self-inflicted,” Ruth reassured Abe, ruffling his hair slightly. “But don’t worry, I can get you a great lawyer. Robby, wanna cement your place in the family by defending Abe against my mother’s wrath?”

“I value my life far too much, thank you,” Robby declined pointedly.

Ruth grinned and then glanced behind her at Liesel, Sveta, and David. Given the fact that her uncle Yosef had been to New York before and looked pensive as he silently prayed, she chose to focus on her cousins. “Well, what do you think?”

“It looks so big!” Liesel exclaimed, wide-eyed at all of the skyscrapers. “I wanna see everything!”

“I think we will,” Sveta said, slinging her arm around her younger sister.

“I never thought I’d make it this far,” David admitted quietly. “But I’m glad that we’re all here together.”

“Oh just wait until you get some of mama’s cooking!” Abe exclaimed. “She’s gonna fatten us all up and get Uncle Yosef that belly of his back!”

Yosef blinked open an eye, giving Abe a piqued eyebrow. “You prefer me fat?”

“We prefer you here,” Ruth corrected warmly. “Now…shall we discuss how to give my parents a heart attack?”

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Adaline Sharpe kept on looking out the window—at the snow that was beginning to fall from the sky. Hanukkah had come and gone and though the New Year was rapidly approaching, Adaline had nothing to celebrate.

Ruth? Still in Europe and working on helping the Jewish people there. Adaline couldn’t say that she wasn’t proud of her, because Ruth was doing something absolutely wonderful for their people. It was something worthwhile and meaningful—but Adaline missed her daughter. Jonah had returned from the Pacific but a month prior, but even his presence in the home just felt shallow.

The simple fact of the matter was that they could all hear him crying at night and there was nothing that Adaline could do as a mother. And it killed her. Alice was nearby with her children and her husband, and that was a small relief to Adaline. But Alice had been at Sarah’s side when Sarah passed, and things had been quiet with Alice ever since.

Sarah was a gaping wound and hole in the Sharpe Family that could not be filled. Then there was the fact that John was killed in action—they had no body to bury, nothing but the flag that they had hung in their window to signify that he had ever been there. Abe had disappeared years ago and Adaline’s heart ached every day for her youngest son and she prayed every day that she would somehow get news of his fate.

There was Mary—and she scarcely spoke now either. The house just felt lacking of life, lacking of the family. Neither Adaline nor her husband spoke much. What could they say to fill the silence, to fill the gap of life that was no longer there?

At the moment, Anne Rosenthal was keeping Adaline’s thoughts from focusing on her missing children and the grief that she was now experiencing. The two of them sewed quietly, radio chattering in the background to fill the other gaps of silence that existed for them. And then all at once, everything changed.

A knock at the door caught both of their attention. Adaline’s face pinched together as she gazed at the door. “I’m not expecting anyone.”

Mary was quick to leave her books on the couch and get up on her feet. “I’ll get it!” She crossed over to the door quickly and opened it. It was her singular gasp that left Adaline and Anne startled the most.

Because standing there in the doorway—was Mary’s older sister Ruth. She was beaming brightly at Mary, standing next to none other than Robert Rosenthal. “Well don’t tell me that you don’t recognize me anymore! I haven't changed that much, Mary!”

Tears welled up in Mary’s eyes and she flung her arms around Ruth as tightly as she could.

“What’s going on—” Adaline started.

“Mama! Mama! It’s Ruth!”

Adaline practically fell from her chair trying to get to the door. “Thomas! Thomas!” She shouted through the house, trying to get her husband’s attention.

Ruth had no sooner made it one step into the apartment that Adaline’s arms had been flung tightly around her and Ruth melted into her mother’s embrace. Tears spilled out from Adaline’s eyes as she kissed every inch of Ruth’s face. It took her a solid moment to realize that Robby was standing next to Ruth, a large grin on his face.

“Anne! Anne! Your Robby is here!”

“He is—” Anne was moving quickly now too.

“Well I should hope that he is. We got married,” Ruth grinned, taking his hand in hers.

No sooner had the words escaped Ruth’s mouth that absolute and sheer chaos erupted in the house. Because then Thomas Sharpe and David Rosenthal were making their way in to congratulate and see their children. Then Jonah had risen from the depths of his blue days within the confines of his room—At the sight of his sister, his beloved older sister who he was the closest to—Jonah had practically fallen into her arms in relief.

And once all of that was out of the way, Ruth kept a quiet smile on her face. “I did bring home a few presents for you all.”

“Oh nonsense!” Adaline said, shaking her head. “You’re here now! You didn’t need to bring us anything. And besides,” she added. “You got married to Robby! Everything we could possibly want is here.”

“I think you’ll find that these gifts are rather nonrefundable,” Ruth said. “Isn’t that right, Robby?”

“Very much so. Let us surprise you,” Robby added warmly.

Reluctantly, the family let Ruth and Robby step into the hallway. And what happened next, no one was prepared for. Because when Ruth and Robby returned empty-handed, everyone was confused. But then the door to the apartment swung open and Adaline Sharpe nearly collapsed to the ground at the sight of the two people in the doorway.

John and Abe stood there, matching grins on their faces. For a moment, Adaline could not even speak a single word, unable to process if what she was seeing was real. But then Mary and Jonah had moved forward at the same time, each clutching onto Abe and John—and Adaline’s sobs just continued.

“How—how is this possible?” Adaline breathed out, eyes locking onto Ruth.

“So—” Ruth grinned. “John got downed in the Stalag. And Abe flew with Robby until he ended up in a Stalag too. So naturally, I went to get them myself.”

The silence was deafening, sans Adaline’s sobs of relief at her two boys being alive. Abe had sank into his mother’s embrace for the first time in years, the feeling of safety finally washing over him. And when Ruth glanced over at her father, she thought she saw tears of his own glittering in his eyes. He gave a short nod at Ruth—a surefire sign of gratitude and utter love and pride.

“Oh Ruth, you—” Adaline started.

“I’m afraid I’m not quite done,” Ruth admitted. She leaned against the wall as the door opened again, this time revealing Liesel and Sveta. Adaline all but shrieked at the sight of her sister’s daughters—her dearest nieces standing there. She rushed forward, taking both of them up in her arms and holding them to her.

“Liesel found her way to London and Ruth took her in,” Robby explained. “And Sveta—”

“I was part of a liberation force when I went to the front lines,” Ruth said softly. “I found Sveta in the women’s camp.”

“And John found me in the Stalag,” David Aderman had appeared in the doorway with Yosef at his side.

“And Ruth found me in the camp opposite of Sveta’s,” Yosef’s voice had filled the room.

Thomas Sharpe rose to his feet and in two large steps had embraced his brother tightly, weeping at the sight of him.

And as Ruth sank against the wall, Robby at her side—watching everyone in their family reunite and hug and be full of joy—she knew that it was all over. The war for all of them was over. They were home, they were together—they had found hope against all odds.

“What are you thinking about right now?” Robby asked quietly.

“That I’m grateful that we’re all here and together. That I’m grateful for Abe’s meddling—I don’t think we’d be here if he didn’t meddle.”

Robby grinned. “Probably not. That kid is a mastermind, you know that?”

“Oh believe me, I know.”

#mota #mota fanfic #masters of the air fanfic #mastersoftheair #masters of the air #masters of the air x reader #oc originalfemalecharacters #rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal x oc #robert rosenthal x reader #rosie rosenthal x reader #rosie rosenthal x oc #ruth sharpe #abe sharpe #ruth x rosie

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the-sky-queen · 6 months ago

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March version drawn by @estellardreams

With my tumblrversary (and new sona design 👀) coming tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to look back at all the different versions of my sona throughout the years!

July 2023 version

December 2023 Version

March 2024 Version

Closeups and breakdown under the cut! :D

Version 1! This was the original drawing of my sona that I made for a story I was writing with my friends wherein we ourselves were the main characters. This drawing has the same straight cut bangs that I had back then. I designed the dress to be simple and not overly flashy. It's supposed to be white with gold borders. Then we have the wings, which have always been my favorite part of my sona, the gold feather necklace, and the gold band hidden under my bangs which was supposed to act as a crown. I also hid my hands behind my back because I didn't want to draw them. XD This design was supposed to mimic my irl appearance and it did fairly good job! The only thing missing is my glasses from back then.

Version 2! This one was an updated take on the first version. My art style had changed a bit, so I wanted to draw a better looking picture of my sona. Other than the art style, not much has changed here. The design is still essentially exactly the same. My hair got longer though.

Version [????] I didn't include these in the history pic because I forgot them, but these were two iterations that I did in between version 2 and 3 for thumbnails on my YT channel. They're both once again trying to be an accurate representation off my irl appearance (though once again my glasses weren't included. The first one was an attempt at a chibi art style which I never did again. The second one sat unfinished in my sketchbook for a while before my cousin visited one day and offered to help me color it. We took a picture of it on her ipad and then traced and colored it in whatever drawing program she was using. I played around a bit with the shirt, making it a white into black gradient and brought back in the feather motif because I've always liked feathers. This one stayed my profile pic on yt for a long time.

Version 3! Massive skip in time and drawing style here! This one was designed specifically so I could have an updated sona for when I joined tumblr. (I planned getting my account for months before I finally worked up enough courage to actually do it.) Once again, I wanted this sona to be an accurate representation of what I look like irl. Though THIS time I'd finally gotten contacts so the lack of glasses finally made sense! I'd also gotten a new style of bangs so I incorporated that into the design as well. I brought back the feather as a necklace because I've always liked it. Though for whatever reason I got rid of the wings???? Why. Why did I do that. I love them so much! I shortened the length of my hair back to something closer to version 1 as well. And fun fact about this one! By this point I'd gotten decently good at drawing Sonic characters, so I used my knowledge of how to draw them to draw this version of my sona. XD I wasn't concerned anymore about drawing in a realistic way and leaned into a more cartoony artystyle.

Version 4! honestly, this one was just me wanting to do a Christmas version of my sona. XD Gave myself a cozy Christmas sweater and a Santa hat! I also took my favorite golden feather and tucked it behind my ear. I honestly really like how it looks! (I also messed up the shade of brown for my hair, but oh well.)

Version 5!! Estelle drew this for me and I still love it so much!!!!! I didn't request this of her, she just drew it! I mentioned in a post that I needed a new icon since it was MARCH and I was still using my Christmas pic. XD Next thing I know Estelle is kicking down my door asking me if I wanted her to draw me a new icon. I made sure to specifically request that she include my wings since I'd finally realized how dumb it was that I'd taken them out. But other than that, I let Estelle do what she wanted and I'm SO happy with how it came out!! I really wish I'd used this one for longer, but then April Fools came along and I hopped on the pointing Sonic icon bandwagon. XD But anyway, I'm still very happy and thankful to Estelle for drawing this for me. :D

Annnnnd that catches us up to the present! What will the new version look like? You'll have to wait for tomorrow. :D

#Sky Queen #Sky's Tumblrversary #Sky's Sona #art #my art #traditional art

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o0o0thorn0o0o · 1 year ago

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Mineko Old Art Dump, Cont.

Part 2 of 2 :

Now, time for info!

So, for starters: her name. As mentioned multiple times by now, her name is Asano Mineko, as in 峯子. Whereas Karma gets his kanji from their mother (my OC Kuniko) and Gakushuu gets his partially from their father, Mineko gets the remaining two from both. I was trying to see if there was a similar “updated” thing with Gakuhou’s second kanji (like how 学 is derived from 學), but that doesn’t seem to be the case from what I could find. So even though I don’t need to explain why they did that for Gakushuu and Mineko, I came up with one anyway: it’s a trade-off. Gakushuu keeps the reading over the exact kanji, and Mineko keeps the exact kanji over the reading (Mineko was always the plan, though; not fond of “Houko”, especially for her).

I also mentioned this before, but since I’m dumping quite a bit of info about her here, I’ll mention it once more: Mineko’s the middle child, with her birthday being January 1st, just like her younger brother. In these AUs, Karma could be born on the same day, or he could still be born on Christmas—both ways are possible, though I have a slighter preference for the former for some reason.

Before I get into her personality a little, lemme explain some of the drawings. Only some things. The rest will definitely be mentioned in a character sheet—or before: if I happen to draw it again before it gets done, I’ll probably talk about it at least a bit. Let’s go in order now, shall we?

So, um, height? Mineko’s tall, but idk, I feel like I made her too tall in that Until Dawn AU sketch (she’s not in the AU officially, but I do think about her in it from time to time. And jeez, I need to post about that AU some more…). Either that, or I made Rio too short. Like, idk, year 3 Mineko is 5’6” (167 cm), and she’ll be 5’8” (172 cm) at her tallest.

Second: er, you know that sketch that looks like she’s holding a large ice cream cone in a weird way? Uh, yeah, that’s supposed to be a telescope ^^;;; I just never got around to adding the tripod… or, like, referencing an actual telescope instead of from memory, oops. I might actually turn that into a proper post, but no plans as of the moment. But yeah, anyway: Mineko loves astronomy, and one of her favorite hobbies is star-gazing.

Another one of her favorites that I feel like mentioning now, too, is she loves listening to and composing music—mainly instrumentals/orchestral music. She’s the kinda girl you’d invite to an opera, haha (though, not romantically; she’s aroace. The main reason why this is is because I did not want to end up making an OC to pair with her (this has happened multiple times before with others, so this is a way of me putting my foot down with her, haha). That, and it kinda references the fact that at some point in time I headcanoned Karma and Gakushuu as aroace. Though, I still do personally see them being somewhere on the spectrum. But yeah, she aroace).

Then that one sketch where the art style’s very different from the rest—I’m actually not too fond of it anymore, especially the face, but I thought to include because I like the rest of the sketch and especially because—you know that art style I dub my doodle style? The one where the nose connects to the upper lip, and if the mouth’s open, I add a bottom lip? The one I introduced Mineko in? Yeah, fun fact: this sketch was the start of that art style. It’s changed a lot since, but perhaps I wouldn’t have drawn in it were it not for Mineko, haha.

Last thing before I get to her personality and stuff: I’ll mention something about the traditional sketches. Idk if you can tell, but Mineko is a huge junk-foodie—a sucker for fast food. She still keeps track of healthy food, for the most part—but yeah, she’d never turn down fast food, haha. Also, regarding the water: she’s more likely to casually see food in a “romantic light” than she ever is people, haha.

Speaking of, I headcanon both Karma and Gakushuu as good cooks—they can whip up something decent, at least, haha. Mineko on the other hand has no such interest. She’s got her brothers, after all. She doesn’t see a reason to… until she grows up, and her brothers are living their lives, and she realizes she’s got no one to cook for her anymore… Welp, fast food and restaurants have never left her down before, haha.

Ok, now I’ll finally discuss her personality a bit… well, traits? I wanna talk about her intelligence first. She’s a very smart girl, being in 3-A, but she’s not as smart as her brothers and has to try harder to somewhat be on the same level grade-wise—definitely not touching the virtuosos, but 3-A all the same. She also participates in extracurriculars but not nearly as many as Gakushuu—she can only handle so much.

But while she knows she may not have as high an IQ as her brothers, she very much believes she has a higher EQ than them. And to her credit, she does, but probably not by nearly as much as she thinks. See, she’s emotionally repressed, too—don’t let that smile fool you, haha.

For one, she doesn’t like conflict and does her best to smooth things over when/if she can, play the middle man (she likes to think of herself as a bridge, connecting two conflicting sides (especially her brothers; she also likes to say that’s the reason why she’s shorter than them, as (certain types of) bridges tend to dip below the two points they’re connecting, haha. Just a silly thought she likes to muse)). She likes fixing conflicts but would never intentionally start any. Cautious of stepping on toes.

That’s always why she tries her best to plaster on a smile regardless of how she feels—everything’s fine, don’t you know? She’s completely happy with her circumstances; don’t ever worry otherwise! She should be more worried about you than you about her! But yeah, she’ll either only let it slip should a situation get too stressful that she can’t keep it up or if she believes she’s all by herself. All that said, she’s usually fine. Usually. It’s just… when she isn’t…

Also, this girlie’s got major trust issues and is a misanthrope (Gakuhou’s her dad; enough said). She does believe that, of course, not all of humanity is bad. It’s just… she doesn’t trust individuals, especially the more friendly seeming ones. She’s been raised in a family of masks, adorning one herself, so she has no clue whether someone is being genuinely kind or not. It’s just easier for her not to trust them rather than be let down. Everyone’s got hidden agendas, it seems.

And while she’s friendly and polite to everyone regardless of her suspicions—even when there’s blatant evidence she’s right. Because she wants to be kind and helpful regardless. And again, she kinda believes most are like that anyway. Proof is just more of a confirmation of something she believes already—and while most would find her company agreeable, she currently doesn’t have any friends outside her brothers. And nor does she care to. She doesn’t see what she’s missing. Why would you hang out with someone who’s potentially fake? While helpful, she tries to make herself scarce whenever she can.

But yeah, the only way she’ll ever make friends is through a whole lot of interaction; she needs to be able to build up that trust and feel safe. Being close to her brothers is a good start, but she’ll still be wary for a good while. Not something easy, essentially, and could take years. Hence, no friends as of the moment.

Er, yeah, I guess that’ll be all I’ll share for the moment. Ended up being a lot longer than I thought, but I don’t feel like cutting anything either. So yeah; here is she! I adore her, so I hope you like her, too, or find her interesting at least ^^

I feel like you know about her more than the other OCs I’ve already revealed when they’ve been out for a couple years now. Oops ^^;;

#assassination classroom #ansatsu kyoushitsu #asano mineko #assassination classroom oc #ansatsu kyoushitsu oc #oc #original character #oc art #traditional art #traditional sketch #traditional doodle

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hotelhousecat · 1 year ago

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Addiction as told by LDR

1. For the last couple days I’ve been fascinated by the song Jump from the album Lana Del Rey AKA Lizzy Grant.

One time my little cousin (who’s since come around) told me she didn’t like to listen to Lana Del Rey because it made her feel dirty, like she just smoked a pack of cigarettes.

I think this effect is even stronger in her pre-LDR music, despite the brighter sound. Lana is a wealthy, glamorous starlet. But Lizzy Grant is forever immortalized in a world of motels, gas stations, Christmas lights, flamingo lawn ornaments, and bleach blonde hair.

Palm Trees in black and white/Last thing I saw before I died

Jump is a song about heroin, but it’s one of her most fun tracks. It has an almost childlike innocence to it. That disconnect between the dark subject matter and the sound of the music, her ‘cutesy’ approach, is really disarming. It almost puts a lump in your throat. Like, you know this young girl is in real danger, and here she is singing about the fun of it all.

The lines, “Hair thinnin’ in the wind” and “You got the grin of a very old man” creep me out in particular. It’s a scary image, and yet she’s sitting in his car innocently admiring him. It reads with a sense of dark humour. The simple chorus is just perfect; the tension hangs thick in the air as she asks, “Do you wanna (jump, jump, jump)?”

2. Art Deco is a beautiful track from Honeymoon that I always neglected until I realized it was not, in fact, a song about a man, but a solemn reflection on the naivety of her Lizzy Grant days. A sequel to Jump, if you will.

A little party never hurt no one, that’s why it’s alright/You want in but you just can’t win so you hang in the lights

A nobody aspiring to be a star, caught up in the attention and adrenaline that comes with the partying. I love her choice of words in describing the protagonist as “shining like gunmetal, cold and unsure”.

3. Each of Lana’s albums represent their own era and a sort of turning point. To me, Lust for Life seems to mark her turn toward happiness, growth, and building a future.

The song Heroin is a further reflection on the pull toward escapism. She condemns the drug, commenting on its destructiveness, but lyrics still hint to a sense of nostalgia and longing.

Oh, makes me feel like I can change/Oh, all of my evil ways and shit/Oh, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t sick of it

Substances and addiction are a central theme to a lot of Lana’s music, so forgive me for only mentioning these three songs in particular. Another that jumps to mind is Fuck it I love you off the album Norman Fucking Rockwell, in which she sings “I used to shoot up my veins in neon”.

I suppose the overall point here is: it’s interesting to watch LDR evolve in style and sound, but even more-so to witness the tremendous evolution of character which shines through in her lyrics. I love the song Jump, but it’s hard to listen to with the added context of her later music. The whole fun, fast world of Lizzy Grant gets a lot scarier the longer you dwell on it.

#lana #im sorry i dont know why i wrote this #i have adhd #and im fixated on her rn #Spotify

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roscoehamiltons · 1 year ago

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Here's A Little Get-To-Know-You Tag Game!

Tagged by: @inloif 💜

Tagging: @mrpuppett, @worldscissoringchampion, honestly i would be interested in any of my mutuals answers for this if you want to do it and haven't!

Name(s): ann

Pronouns: she/her

Star Sign: libra (w cancer moon and gemini rising)

# of Siblings & Fun Facts About Them (if you have any): none, i'm an only child

# of Pets: also none sadly, but i want a cat or two someday

Fandoms: the main one rn is f1 lol. before that, kpop was my main fandom from 2008-2017, with a brief return to it in 2019-2021 because i got into wayv (who are ironically, a chinese group lol). i think my time in the kpop fandom is done now lol but i still like and listen to the music regularly, especially from the time period that i was deep into the fandom.

(more specifically in terms of groups and idols, infinite was and still is my fav 💛 but i also rly liked all the sm groups. and my ults were kyuhyun (aka my main tumblr username!), hoya (former infinite member), and kyungsoo (who i have mentioned before lol, from exo). and my fav from wayv is kun lol i love capricorns as you can tell)

Favourite Colour: turquoise, aquamarine, basically any shade of blue and green.

Favourite Song: uh it's so hard to pick just one song that i like lol.. but i think my most played song on spotify is slow song (with dragonette) by the knocks

since i mentioned my fav kpop dudes and groups above, i will also link a couple of my fav songs from them 😁 domino by wayv , monster by exo, and ummm the chaser by infinite is what i would recommend as their best song/single but my favourite single by them is probably btd .

Hobbies: video games lol currently obsessed w honkai star rail, i like rpgs in general (some of my favorite series include dragon age, fire emblem, persona, disco elysium, pokemon, stardew valley lol). besides that, thrifting lol, and photography-- i have a film camera that i've been taking pics w on and off since 2019. i want to get back into reading, and doing more arts and crafts type of things like sewing/diy, punch needle, painting. i suppose making graphics counts towards this too lol (maybe 🤔 )

Favourite Holiday: christmas, although i live in a place that doesn't snow very often and it doesn't have the same vibe as a white christmas does ngl although maybe a white christmas will be obsolete soon thanks to global warming 💀

Do You Have Any Partner(s)?: no

Fun facts about you/anything extra you wanna share!: i'm an og tumblr user lol, i created my main account in 2009 💀 i got locked out of my account somehow in 2016 and forgot the login password, and then regained access to it in 2019 or 2020 because it allowed me to login via a link sent by email lol. so i was lurking on tumblr for a bit with no intention of returning to post but then i got into f1 lol. my friends who like f1 are just casual fans and not really deep into the fandom so i decided to start posting on here again last year to try and make more f1 friends lol

#about me #roscoehamiltons.txt #i think this ask game is just exposing how much of a hag i am lol (do ppl still say hag to refer to an old person on the internet idk)#like 2009 seems so long ago now but also seems like a couple years ago at the same time #some things have changed a lot and some things have still remained the same after all these years #and ngl there's something comforting about it. i've always enjoyed using tumblr and i still enjoy my experience on it even now

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foxounderscorecube · 2 years ago

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A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas

2½ ⭐

CW: mention and brief discussion of SA

Sadly, this one was a total miss for me!! It was a book. I read it.

Here's the thing: I really like this series overall, but there's a lot about it that I am not a big fan of. Typically, the stuff I find interesting and fun outweighs the stuff I find cringe in a not-fun way or just not relevant to my preferences. Because this book is kind of a slice-of-life, tying loose ends kind of thing, it was, like, 90% the stuff I don't care for and 10% the characters being cute and celebrating Christmas Winter Solstice. Worst of all, it bored me!

I don't have anything against slice-of-life, but for the characters in these books, a LOT of day-to-day life is spent being horny. I just don't really get it. Rhysand is the worst for it. That man can't go five minutes without getting a raging boner because he glanced at Feyre out the corner of his eye.

You know, for a series with the effects of trauma as one of its primary themes, Rhysand only really tells us that he's traumatised from being a sex slave for 49 years. I'm not saying that his horniness contradicts his trauma in itself - plenty of people who have experienced abuse become hypersexual, in fact - but he generally doesn't show any indication whatsoever that it's impacted his relationship with his body and/or sex. You'd expect, say, a scene where something that should be innocuous - a phrase or a position or way of movement - completely takes him out of it and he has to stop because he's panicking. Not just in this book, I mean, just in general. I know that Rhysand is supposed to be a Wish Fulfilment Boyfriend but the guy's been through hell.

Related to that, but on a positive note, it was sad to see Nesta so isolated and coping so badly, but how very Nesta of her. Of course she doesn't want help or love or anything like that. I am looking forward to seeing her development in the next book, at least.

However, we've already put a damper on her relationship with Cassian. I'll admit, I adored their dynamic in Wings and Ruin - her spikiness that didn't hide the fact that she'd grown so fond of him, and him teasing her about it, it was all so cute. But then Cassian trailing her home when she told him to fuck off? My guy, I get you're worried, but take no for an answer. Don't be a creep. And throwing her Solstice present in the river out of rage was a BIG ick. I hope that's a one-off and he doesn't get all possessive and weird in the next book but I'm not holding my breath because I think the possessiveness might be intended to be hot?

Part of why I think this is because of that sex scene, which was bizarre. They had sex but then they also had sex with their minds? Double sex? And then Feyre showed him a picture of their future son right before he nutted???????????? Surely that'd be off-putting, right? Like, oh, great, I was about to cum, but you showed me a picture of a kid and now I feel a bit uncomfortable, actually.

Sadly, very little Lucien in this book. I like Lucien :(

The art studio story arc was sweet, although it did feel like it fell into Feyre's lap a little too easily, I don't know. She's always a bit of a Mary Sue but it was hard to ignore in this book. She has more money than God and people are just like "oh my dear High Lady, please take everything I own for free". Still, I liked Ressina and I think the whole thing of free art therapy for the kids is nice.

The multiple POV didn't play to Maas' strengths at all. The characters all have distinctive voices in dialogue, but she clearly can't write from their perspective consistently, so instead we get first-person chapters for Feyre and Rhysand (who have almost identical internal monologues - the only difference is Rhysand thinks about sex a bit more and describes himself as "drawling" more often) and then third-person for everyone else. When the first Cassian chapter came up, I thought he was just referring to himself in the third person like a caveman and didn't even bat an eye, so that was funny, at least. But it's a shame, because there was the opportunity for us to get a more intimate look at the side characters and we just… didn't. Multiple POV isn't something that often works for me - it usually reminds me of bad fanfic I read growing up - but it can be done well and this would have been a nice book to have that mix of personality put into it.

Highlights of this book were the Illyrian warrior snowball fight and the discussion about how none of them can be trusted not to investigate wrapped presents like excitable children. That was very cute. I do hope that Silver Flames is an improvement.

#read 2023 #reviewed 2023 #books #reading #ya fiction #na fiction #fantasy #can't remember if I've said but I affectionately call this series “a court of shit and piss”#this one really lived up to that

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Merry Christmas birthday twin!!!! And what a wonderful gift a new chapter!!! Aaahhhh!!!!! I was so excited reading it with barely contained excitement.

Anyway, I can’t with the damn article?! Like already? Leave my girl alone she’s barely been with Ruben and they’re already trying to fuck this up. The interview she did now….why do I feel like she was being a little tiny bit shady when she said “he’s steady he doesn’t allow outside noise to come between us” because I know a certain someone that couldn’t handle it (yes im still upset about Daniel breaking easily when she started getting shit)

Also, what do you mean they were at the wedding with their other partners?!?! And the whole puffing of chests? 🤭 I would’ve said “man, put your titties away…at least until we get home 😉”

Personally I think she should come out with an EP like “all my vulnerable songs I didn’t want to put out but here’s me baring my soul” and fuck it, you should totally use all of Taylor swift’s songs I mean what is she gonna do? complain? Ok, I made myself really laugh with that one. Especially use Sabrina Carpenter’s sad ballads cause they’re insanely well done I mean have you heard Cindy Lou Who? Opposite? HEARTBREAKING

Also I wouldn’t be too mad at our girl releasing some horny songs about rúben (again cough Sabrina Carpenter cough) that would totally result in an even more jealous daniel which personally I feel is deserved. But imagine her releasing bed chem about Ruben and then when she eventually gets back together with Daniel she releases Juno hehe just cause I feel like she could only ever talk about having kids with Daniel.

And that picture Daniel deleted?!?! Dead, I just know the drama about this that’s gonna come out is gonna be insane especially when they find out the boyfriend and girlfriend weren’t there ugh!!! Never ending cycle

I will come back in 6 months for the next chapter (yes im poking fun at the fact that you wouldn’t update cause of you’re indecisiveness about the graphics and song choices)

which is so silly, I would read alphabet soup that you randomly threw on a piece of paper because that would be another piece of art just like this

Anyways bestie, well and truly amazingly done 💐

This was an amazing Christmas present yaaay to all of us who celebrate 🎉 🍾 🙌🏼

💜

merry christmas and happy new year, bday twin! 🥳 i rushed to finish the chapter that afternoon, right before xmas eve's dinner lol i dropped the bomb and then i ran for my life 🤪

those two articles felt like the scooby gang unmasking the villain iykyk, like 'let's see who's been behind all that bs thrown at my Queen... AHA! gotcha, you bastard!' (? AND THE INNER CIRCLE 👏🏽 STEPPED 👏🏽 UP!!! 👏🏽 my boy andrew, aka andy aka vitto's baby daddy, is stepping up to manage the chaos that is her life and lighten it up a little bit, and for onceeee he is someone who actually cares about girlie's well-being!

the interview was fun to write (and also, becky's interview was really nice to listen to!). she sees rúben as a lighthouse in the middle of a storm—he came into her life right when she needed stability, assurance that she is worthy of being loved for who she is, and a little discipline. with that i'm not saying that daniel lacked discipline but (to me) rúben feels soooo...idk...centered and focused i guess?? like he can be fun and goofy but he's also super calm and communicates bluntly/clearly how he feels and what he thinks of something. and what was one of the main reasons her relationship with danny-boy fell apart? lack of clear communication. so in my head, he teaches her the importance of this skill and how to use it.

the whole 'puffing of chests' was actually a little oopsie on my part 😅 there was a part riiiight after the wedding where rúben was supposed to attend the monaco gp as a rbr guest, and he & daniel (who was rbr's 3rd driver back then) were suppose to see each other in the garage and be all macho about it lol but then i realized that rúbencito went to that race but in 2022 so it didn't fit with my current timeline. it was a last minute decision to take that off the chapter which led me to forget to change the group chat's texts hehe sooo oops! 🫣 BUT THE WEDDING!!!! I've been planning the whole chapter around that event since the actual wedding happened lol i wanted to rush the 2022 chapters just so i could do this chapter 😂

imagine the drama™—daniel and girlie seeing each other for the first time over a year after the breakup. each with their own partners. girlie seeing (for the very first time) ((live, with her very own eyes)) daniel with heidi. daniel seeing girlie with rúben. AND (i thought this was funny) girlie and heidi wearing kind of the same shade of dress to the reception!!!! *GASP* *IS SHOCKED IN SPANISH* 😱😱😱😱

and fuck it, you should totally use all of Taylor swift’s songs I mean what is she gonna do? complain?

that made me laugh!! 😂 she's honestly so relatable with her songs, when ttpd came out i remember listening to the songs and being 'this sooo dan-yn core!' 'this describes girlie so well' and so on and on lol I'VE BEEN DYING TO USE CINDY LOU WHO SINCE IT CAME OUT!!!!!! fun fact: the qatar gp being where the rumours of daniel and heidi 'being' together started came straight from "Maybe he met you somewhere in the desert." 😌

oh this is a new era, babes—'horny & depressed but still slaying' is the new aesthetic 😏😜 just cuz ilysm: if you can, listen to + (más) by aitana feat. cali & el dandee as a hw for the next album 😉 (that's another song that i've been basing this series on)

I will come back in 6 months for the next chapter (yes im poking fun at the fact that you wouldn’t update cause of you’re indecisiveness about the graphics and song choices)

i'm a libra, bestie. indecisiveness is my middle name, i can't help it lmaooooo hopefully i'll be able to post a bit more on schedule now (fingers crossed 🤞🏽) but there might or might not be two little things coming out really soon 👀 also! i have the other album covers i did for revenant, should i post them for funsies??

thank you so so sooo much for reading and waiting, and taking the time to talk to me about it 🥰 it truly makes me giggle and kick my feet everytime i receive one of these!!! (even if it takes me a little while to answer because i get overstimulated ((in the best way)) and don't know what to say) 💖

#nonnie talks #[tjatq's asks]#i wanna give u an emoji 🤔#u can choose one that u like but meanwhile...#🍰 nonnie

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puppetsandpantry · 1 year ago

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My Avatar History

This is the post the last month of content has been building up to. It doesn't really mean anything to anybody but me, but I want to document this info as a fun little project. This will be going through all the variations and changes in my online avatar since I first started using custom avatars. Let me weave you a tale.

So sometime in the past, around August of 2020, I was a player of the now shuttered game Club Penguin Rewritten. The owners of Club Penguin Rewritten held an art contest, and I decided to participate. I drew a pixel art version of the Astro Barrier ship from the minigame Astro Barrier. I don't have that file anymore, so I can't show it here, but imagine the astro barrier ship (which was already pixelated) but with a bit more graphical fidelity. Like taking something 8-bit and making it sixteen bit. I really enjoyed drawing that space ship, and so I decided to make another, fully original, top down spaceship image. After a bit of tinkering, and a lot of use of the "make rectangle" and "make circle" tools, I came up with something that looked like this:

(This is a recreation based on my memory) At that time, I realized that it vaguely looked like a face. So I made it a face.

At the time, I thought this looked really cool, and based on my desire to have a custom avatar on youtube, I chose this to be my avatar. (Fun Fact: The green and red lights were holdovers for the idea of this being a flying ship of some kind.) One of the next days, I decided to make this not just a head, and gave it a body.

This thing looked really bad, and not long after making it I decided to shelve the idea of giving this thing a body. (Fun Fact: This is the first time I recorded the light on his face red rather than green. This would not be done consistently afterwards, but I did it here first.) The only thing I would keep from this design was the little blue glowing hands, though they never appeared in any official capacity.

After this, I wanted to go back and make some changes to the avatar, or at least I think I did. I don't remember. In any case, due to the way I used to save my pixel art files, when I brought the avatar back into the editing program, it made some weird color blurring changes. For some reason, I liked how said changes looked at the time, and decided to use them in the actual version. I christened this version the "Hi-Rez" version, despite that making no sense.

(I think I thought that it looked like it was shaded better, but it really just looks messy.)

After this, I made some variations for holidays, Halloween and Christmas specifically.

The Halloween avatar is supposed to look like a Jack-O-Lantern, and the Christmas one should be self explanatory. I think I only used the Christmas avatar once, but the Halloween Avatar got used a couple of times. Now for a quick diversion: My original tumblr avatar. The avatars I've shown thus far were only being used on Youtube and Twitter, and maybe some other places that have since stopped existing. When I created my Tumblr, I initially planned on keeping my Tumblr and Twitter separate, though I've now gone back on that decision. When deciding on an avatar, I picked a random file I had lying around, and that was this:

This is a design made inside the Nitrome game "Steamlands," which includes a rudimentary flag designer tool. The resolution on them isn't great, and this is an upscaled version. It's supposed to be a skull, but it looks crappy. I figured it would suffice. At this point, my avatars are stable for a while. To get into why they changed, we first have to talk about my twitter banner. Here is my old twitter banner:

It's the name "Dipped Feathers, with what are supposed to be feathers in the "t", with Sleeping Beauty Castle, a really squashed game controller, and a half animatronic, half bird thing in the foreground. These were chosen to represent my main interests at the time, theme parks, video games, and animatronics. I don't have the file anymore, but the original version of this banner had a dog instead of a bird for the animatronic; I changed it when I realized that a bird made more sense with the name. (Fun Fact: I will not disclose where the name "Dipped Feathers'' comes from.) Here is the Christmas version:

There is snow and the controller is now hot chocolate. This probably also got used only once. (Why there isn't snow on the roof of the castle, I don't know.)

Cut to September of 2023, and I realize that I really didn't like how this banner looked. So I decided to make a new one. Here it is:

I decided to focus more on wavy letters for this one, which are something I have a fondness for. The weird divot at the beginning of "Dipped" is so that the banner doesn't overlap the twitter avatar space. I made the background for this black, which I like because it looks seamless to the rest of the twitter interface when in dark mode. I was really satisfied with this logo, and left it like that for a while. Cut to late September, I became really interested in The Amazing Digital Circus by @gooseworx and Glitch Productions. Even now, I remain obsessed. Knowing that the pilot would be released on October 13th (go watch it), I decided to prepare something to show my excitement. In addition to a group shot of all the characters from the show, I also made this:

It's my avatar with Pomni's Jester hat. (Note: I made the light red instead of green when designing this one, along with cleaning up the blurred details of the "Hi-Rez" version). I used this avatar from October 13th to October 23, before switching back to my halloween avatar for the rest of the month. But while I was designing this variant of the avatar, I realized I really didn't like the avatar base. For one thing, I'd never given it a name (the file name is just "yeet") or even figured out what it was. It wasn't really an OC because it didn't have character. It's a gormless face thing. So I began to make some new ideas, staying in line, color wise, with the new banner I had made. Here are those:

These were all pretty bad. My first attempt was just recoloring the old avatar with the new colors. It didn't look good, but it did lead somewhere. I now share with you, in gif form, the process of getting from my old avatar to my new avatar:

I realized while messing with the colors that the central teal part of the old avatar was basically a little ghost shape. So I gave them the colors of the new banner, and almost immediately I loved how it looked. It's definitely simpler than the old avatar, but it has potential to actually be a character, and it actually looks like something. I couldn't tell you what the old avatar was. This one is a ghost. Simple as that.

I've used this avatar since I made it here on Tumblr and on Youtube, but I've waited till today to use it on twitter. I actually made this avatar on the same day as the Pomni version of the old avatar, and had I not made that avatar, I would have started using this on twitter immediately. I really wanted to use that avatar (and the Halloween one, one more time) before saying goodbye to the avatar design, so I waited until the beginning of November. Which is now, as of me writing this. Thanks for reading!

#pixel art #old art #no one cares

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botslayer · 3 months ago

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For no other reason than this initial post being a lot of fun, I'm going in on some more classic horror characters and how I think "Leslifying" them into this theory might play out. I also want to address some of the Easter Eggs in the movie and the fact that Eugene, Leslie Mancuso's mentor, is, and I swear this is true, the director and a few others swear by it, meant to be Billy from the original Black Christmas (1974) and also the guy from The Toolbox Murders (1978) who dun went and did the murderings in that. And also his wife is implied to be one of his survivor girls.

With that out of the way: Let it be said that I'm just doing ones I personally like and know enough about to jam into this. I can't promise I'll get everything, but I'm throwing in what feels natural to this theory. I'm keeping some of the crazier ones at arm's length because NGL: I can't figure out what The Leprechaun would be like in this universe. He's just too out there as a concept. Same with the Killer Klowns from Outer Space. These are one-off killers, slashers, dynamic, singular antagonists or less bizarre groupings. Okay? Okay. 1. The Cenobites

Now I know what I just said about bizarre groupings and things, but A. There is a Lament Configuration in Eugene's house in the movie. They're using it like a damn paperweight. B. I can actually think of a pretty logical way for them to fit. What is it? They don't exist. Consider that you could theoretically buy a supposed "Necronomicon" online these days, and even plausibly back in 2006. Be that the one from Evil Dead for replicas' sake or the one supposedly written about in the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. I think the Hellraiser movies, or at least the novel the first one or two were based on, "The Hellbound Heart" written by Clive Barker exist in the universe of BTM. The Lament Configuration in Eugene's house is not a functional magical object. It's just a piece of merchandise related to those films/that book. It's the same as having a Freddy glove or a Morpher from Power Rangers. However, this selection makes sense when you remember Cenobites are all about torture and pain in unbelievable quantities. Seems like an on-brand thing for a brutal serial killer to have in his house. 2. Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Can... we stop this bit?

For those unfamiliar with the story of Daniel Robitaille, Basically, his family were slaves, but he was born free and in fact, was quite wealthy due to his father's inventiveness. Thus he was free to pursue art and layers of higher education in the comforts of the upper crust despite his racial background to the point where he became a well-known artist and was thereafter commissioned to paint a portrait of a rich guy's WHITE daughter. They fell in love. And The Daughter fell pregnant. This, being a relatively recent post-civil war era US, even in Chicago, wouldn't let that slide. So the father had hooligans cut his hand off, they jammed a meathook into the stump and bolted it in there, chained him to a rock, bashed open a few beehives, and covered him in the stolen honeycomb until the bees effectively stung and kinda ate him to death. After that, he began to haunt Cabrini-Green, where his ashes were scattered hither and thither before it became what it was by the time of the first Candyman movie, his new name, "Candyman" being his calling card. If you say it five times in the mirror, he appears and then murders you. The movie itself picks up with a college student, Helen, trying to write a paper on urban legends and getting pulled deep into the specifics of Candyman as a story because not only is the story fascinating and kind of depressing, but it seems to have left an impression all over Cabrini Green... To the point where we actually could have the best link to BTM: A normal guy running a gang, calling himself Candyman, and murdering people with a hook. That sounds just like Mancuso with more accomplices.

Now, in the movie, the faker and his men beat Helen senseless and leave her for dead. He didn't quite finish the job, though as of the very next scene, Helen picks him out of a line and tells the cops he's the one who led her physical assault. Now the question of why a supposed slasher wouldn't just MANGLE her to death is an interesting one. And my honest answer is complacency. He got comfortable doing that stuff for a few YEARS if the movie's timeline is to be believed, then got sloppy with Helen and it turned out to be the one that bit him in the ass and finally got him arrested. Albeit he was also apparently running a few different criminal organizations personally. Ignoring that for a second: What about Helen herself? 3. Helen Lyle

Helen appeared at the end of Candyman after some really fucked up shit happened to her. See, her assault less than halfway into the movie was less than half of her overall suffering. She was publically blamed for the killing of a sort-of friend's dog, the kidnapping of that friend's baby, got committed to a mental asylum for a whole month, and ultimately burned to death in a pyre fire the people of Cabrini-Green started after saving the aforementioned baby from Candyman's threats upon its life. After her funeral, her (Now-ex) Husband said her name five times in the mirror, accidentally summoned her, and then she murdered him with Candyman's own hook. Which was put in her grave by a procession of people from Cabrini-Green.

What I think might have happened here is that Helen was a real person. Her brain was damaged after her run-in with the "Real" Candyman. She starts suffering from a series of paranoid delusions. That the thing in her paper is coming after her. And the movie does kind of imply that's what it LOOKS LIKE to any outside observer. She, as far as everyone knows, killed the dog, killed her friend (Bernadette), kidnapped a baby, got committed, killed her own doctor, randomly decided to climb into a pile of junk for shelter in the winter night and crawled out with the baby.

I think some of that could logically be embellishments to the story. She has her run-in with the gang leader, she has her traumatic brain injury and the trauma of the near-death experience, then gets institutionalized under mysterious circumstances. Several of which are over-blown by the imaginative minds of the people of Chicago. Hell, she may have escaped the institution at some point. The death of her husband, Trevor, might have been the result before she was locked up again. Also worth noting: The place of her death and the cause could be traced back to something else from the first post. Chucky. Think about it, big fire, partial explosion, the same general area of the same city, and the first movies are only FOUR YEARS apart. 1988 to 1992. That's really not that long. stories about all sorts of weird shit could have cropped up between the two and given circumstances, these are just different perspectives on one crazy overlap of coincidences. These coincidences are tied together over and over and mutate, becoming two or three distinct figures in the minds of people all over. 4. Pennywise/It/Robert Gray

Yeah, if you didn't know, Pennywise, despite being an Eldrich horror beyond our mortal minds, actually addresses itself as Robert Gray in a limited capacity. My hand to god. Now, in-universe, Pennywise exists as this eldrich horror from "The Macroverse" that feeds on fear and human meat. He tends to go after children specifically because they're easier to scare than adults and fear to him is "salt" for the meat. It goes into long hibernation cycles, awakens, spreading all sorts of evil, and then usually caps these cycles off with one big shebang of awful before retreating back into the darkness from whence It emerged. A local group of kids, "The Losers club" Were behind a series of events that injured it one cycle, then killed it the next, possibly under the auspices of It's creator, "The Other," or It's rival/brother, "The Turtle." This is somewhat unclear but that's the sense It makes of the situation. Now, in the BTM world, what I feel is most logical is that the original Pennywise, an actual person, probably killed some people. Do remember that a partial basis for why Steven King wrote the original book was John Wayne Gacy, an IRL Serial Killer who worked parties and charitable events as a clown named Pogo. He then raped, tortured and murdered 33 young men. And then died via execution in jail.

So what happened in BTM's world? Pennywise's performer, possibly one Robert Gray, ends up discovered for some huge tragedy, likely involving children ala Freddy, and is then executed. Whether this was extrajudicial or completely legally sanctioned is up to interpretation. However, much the way of a story like Gacy or Michael Myers, he's likely the local boogeyman of Derry, Maine. You tell small children not to go out at night, or else Pennywise The Dancing Clown will get you. And he'll eat you up and leave whatever's left for sewer workers to find. Local tragedies are periodically blamed on this imagined common entity to keep kids in line, perhaps. And again, you could have, intermittently, psychos putting the makeup on and going berserk, slowly easing their way into the town and actually causing a bunch of deaths and disappearances, all while dressed as clowns and scaring people. Like the 2016 clown sightings (Remember those?) but with more fatal consequences. The Pennywise character over the years has also probably built a reputation as being an alien who looks like a clown, a monster with a clown-ish appearance, and god knows what else because that's just how these sorts of stories work. 5. Art The Clown from Terrifyer

We're doing another clown because "Screw it." Art himself is a being of, at the time of writing, ambiguous origin, he's got some crazy demonic vibes and does all sorts of really sadistic, evil shit to people because he can, though. Like in Terrifier 2, he literally ripped a girls arm off and after cutting her all up, poured a lot of bleach and salt on hr just to inflict more pain. He's as savage as Josan and twice as sadistic as Freddy. It's nutty.

In the BTM universe, I feel like Art, "The Miles County Clown" only had one significant appearance. The options here are worth thinking about. Either the first Terrifyer, where, again, his kill count might be a bit inflated because stories tend to do that, or the 2013 anthology flick, "All Hallow's Eve" where he passes a kid a VHS tape of some horror films for Halloween, then murders that kid and his sister. These could be blended events. Art could have killed those two kids, and in the same Halloween, murdered a few other people given the crowds wandering this way and that among other things being plausible distractions for those evenings. There is a slight uptick in murders on Halloween, didn't you know? (Albeit, that's all crime, INCLUDING Murders) So Art has one night where he has a big blowout murder fest, scars a woman's face heavily, and then commits suicide in front of the police. They get him to the morgue. Now, it's canon in the Terrifier movies that Art's body vanished from the morgue and no one found it. A year later, he attacked again. I feel like that might be the embellishment. Art, the real one, was buried. He is dead. But again, these stories mutate, common beliefs about them spread despite the truth because it makes the story interesting. Art's copycat or copycats exist though. and it explains why he, like Pennywise, returns periodically. 6. The Odets from Wrong Turn, The Sawyers from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, And The Mutants/Hill People from The Hills Have Eyes

I'm clustering all three of these together because they're all excessively similar. Buncha inbred/mutant Cannibals out in "God's Armpit, Wherever, USA." Going back to the real-world influences of these characters and what happened to them, The Sawyers are based on the real-life killer and taxidermist of human parts, Ed Gein, albeit the family is considerably larger, the Odets clearly have a Texas Chainsaw influence, and the Hill People follow similar in-group trends to their counterparts albeit their origins are somewhat different. Like in the Hills Have Eyes reboot where they were mutated by nuclear bomb testing. What I think happened here is similar to "Crybaby Bridge." A real urban legend with a few variants. But the basics tend to be a woman pulled over on a bridge with her baby and the baby went over because either she threw it or it just got out of her sight long enough to go over. In some versions the woman threw herself over. Either way, at night, you can sometimes hear the baby's spirit crying out for its mom, the mom crying out for the baby, or the baby crying while its mom screams in fine terror. The thing is there are like six or seven of them all across the USA. I think, then, the similarities between these guys and the Sawney clan from Scottland (Again, another real-life legend) might have something to do with it. It's a lot of cross-pollination and overlap with Ed Gein, and there may have been local goings on at some point in the history of these places like Donner parties or the like.

It's just a coincidence that a lot of them have these similarities because similar phenomenon happened at all of them, prompting small groupings of Slashers to spring up like deranged cults. Speaking of Cults It's just a coincidence that a lot of them have these similarities because similar phenomenon happened at all of them, prompting small groupings of Slashers to spring up like deranged cults. Speaking of Cults 7. The Killers from Haunt

The guys from Haunt are doing stuff right out of a decent playbook for someone like Leslie when you think about it. They're setting up an attraction for Halloween night to lure people in and have them offer themselves up on a silver platter for their deranged games. Killing, scaring, physically torturing these poor people. All in attempts to "Earn their faces" (Taking the "Vampire" killer at his word) as in "They surgically modify their faces to fit their costume personas." They take people's phones at the start of The Haunt and MICROWAVE them to render them untraceable and unusable. Then they boobytrap the place up and down to lure victims into new spots and find whacky ways to torment them further and get some pretty gnarly kills in. Remember that Mancuso sets up a lot of the stuff he does with DIY sabotage, home dis-improvement techniques, and stage magic. These guys are basically doing the same exact thing. They're also capable of adjusting their plans if the people going through The Haunt derail them. Like Mancuso. Really, save for the body modding, this movie could probably play out perfectly as is and still function in a context like Behind The Mask. It's nutty. Also, you should see it, it's great.

8. Sam from Trick 'R' Treat.

Continuing the hard Halloween theme for our last stop on this guided tour of this theory and my mad ramblings, Sam is a half-pumpkin child who embodies Halloween. He has set rules that if you break, you will die. Because HE will kill you. With his razor chocolate bar (A nod to his rule about checking candy) and sharply bitten lollipop, he has two edged weapons and a supernatural kind of strength, not to mention a decent healing factor. I think it's also important to note Sam, short for Samhain, is always dressed like that. Orange pajamas, a burlap mask with button eyes and a stitched smile, fingerless gloves, and he usually has a burlap sack to carry his sweets around in as he Trick-Or-Treats and wanders the streets.

Again... This kid just seems like a local legend. The kind of things parents tell their kids about. "Be safe on Halloween, follow the rules or Sam will get you! We even have rules for ourselves!" Kinda like Pennywise but more firmly rooted to Halloween as a day like Art or Michael. I think if someone wanted to piggyback off of Sam's Legend, they could do all sorts of BS like the stuff Sam does in the movie during his encounter with Mr. Kreeg. Painting the whole "Trick or treat, smell my feet..." thing on the wall, lighting Jack-O-Lanterns and littering their front yard with them, leaving pumpkin guts and bladed candy here and there, etc. You just gotta get a kid or two to wander the streets in a costume that looks like the local figure (Relatively easy) and carry out the murders yourself, planting the calling cards that point to Sam.

Anyway, that's all I got. I hope you enjoyed this follow-up/expansion. If you have any other suggestions for horror movies I can try and wedge into this bloated connected universe of madness I have going on, feel free to suggest them, because season be damned, I enjoy horror and I wouldn't mind following this up again later. And Considering what tomorrow is, I say it with more power and feeling than before: Happy Halloween. All of You.

Horror Theory: Just Men Behind The Masks

So I just rewatched Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon. A 2006 deconstructionist horror film. And I have a thought for the rest of the horror community to chew on:

A lot of people mention idly that this is a "Shared universe" film. That this is a universe where Chucky, Michael, Freddy, and Jason (All of whom are name dropped) exist. Which heavily implies the rest do, to. I have a different idea.

This is a universe where those STORIES exist. Fred Kruger may have been a real person. Jason Voorhees drowned at camp that fateful summer. Charles Lee Ray was gunned down in a toy store. Maybe even Michael Myers went to the asylum and got out.

Here's the kicker tho: If you pay attention, at least, it's implied that the characters as we know them are fake. The only one I'd be willing to say exists properly from the first movie is Michael.

Spoilers ahead but the guy up top is the titular Leslie Vernon... Except no. He isn't.

The Dr. Loomis to Leslie's Michael (The in universe term is "Ahab.") is Doc Halloran. Halloran reveals and Leslie later admits he is not Leslie Vernon. His real name is Leslie Mancuso.

(Incidentally, yes. That is Robert Englund as Halloran. A+ casting.)

At the end of the movie, after carving a bloody swathe through a bunch of people, Leslie is "killed" by the survivor girl, Taylor. When asked if Leslie is dead, she says "I don't know what he is." Halloran reflects on the idea that Leslie was "Just a man."

We spent the entire movie up to this point getting into Leslie's head, learning how he does things. Seeing all the preparation not only he, but the other slashers put into the things the do. Why is Jason's Machete indestructible but all the other tools around break with one swing? Sabotage. Why are windows usually stuck? Nails. Why do tree limbs break right away and cars not start? Also sabotage. Stuff like that.

We also find out that Leslie Vernon was very likely a real person but has been dead for twenty years. At the very least Leslie Vernon is a popular folk tale around the town, Mr. Mancuso is just piggybacking off it to do some murder in the interest of making his survivor girl stronger and doing good for the world through evil.

(Pictured: Leslie Mancuso as Leslie Vernon during his killing spree)

The story of Mr. Vernon, the dead man, is that supposedly a bastard kid was born to a married couple (possibly through rape.) They worked him like a slave, forcing him to till fields with nothing but a hand scythe until he murdered both of them. The town found out and a mob of people drowned the boy after the murders and his body was never found as the water was too cold, so he never came back up. Turtles picked his bones clean.

Twenty years later, Mancuso took on the name and started plotting to murder people at that farm house. The rest of the movie is the set up and execution of that murder plan.

So what does that say about people like Michael, Jason, Freddy, and especially Chucky?

We'll start with the man who started it all. One tragic night in 1963, a young Michael Myers murdered his older sister with a kitchen knife. No one knew why. No one understood his motive. But the fact remains he did it. A little before Halloween night 1978, Michael escaped the mental institution he was in and went on a killing spree for reasons not everyone will know but was injured and eventually stopped by Dr. Loomis and a local baby sitter, Lori Strode.

I see this as being the thing that inspires that most horrible of things in-universe: Copycat Killers.

They mention directly that Michael has done his attacks on Haddonfield at least 4 separate times. I don't know much about Halloween as a series so I don't know what movies that number specifically is referencing but I'm willing to suggest the first two movies are billed together as one attack because it was basically one protracted occurrence. At the end of which he was blinded and then set on fire, burning to death.

Later movies retcon that death but logically, the real Michael is dead in this universe. Later instances where HE supposedly attacks are the works of more calculating, crazy people like Mancuso. His whole deal is "We set things up like this, we figure out how to do that and yadda yadda."

You could easily apply most of what he says and does to people who can act out just like he does. Bullet proof vests, gel applied in spots to stop bleeding. Breaking into people's houses and cutting the power and telephones, etc. I think the other supposed three attacks in the BTM universe are people who took on Mikey's coveralls and a replica mask, were in some way stopped or got away, and then were either replaced by new fakers or maybe continued being Mike a time or two before being stopped. This could also theoretically riff on the idea of Michael using body doubles to fake his death in some of the movies.

Alternatively, The real Mike could still be at the Smith's Grove Sanitarium in this universe. He never got out but his legend made a perfect starting point for people to latch on to and start "being him." Or he may be a local legend with no real basis in reality.

The problem is we don't have any further context for the four attacks that happened. So... Yeah, this is nine tenths me BSing.

How about Jason? The Crystal Lake killer and my personal favorite?

I think the most likely case of what happened with Jason in the universe of BTM is that Jason Voorhees did actually exist. He did drown that one summer. Some years later his mother would go on to slaughter a bunch of camp counselors before the camp could reopen. Note the thing about how slashers need a story like that which would naturally draw somebody.

So I think it's worth considering that the "dozens" of people "Jason' supposedly has killed over the years we're actually the works of either one faker or multiple fakers who've taken up residence at camp Crystal Lake over the years. This is because while we don't have any real evidence that Jason is 100% real we do have evidence that sometimes people will take up these mantles just to take them up if it's the convenient one to work with and use for your own ends.

If you go to Jersey and you want to start offing people, why not try and find a way to pin it on the Jersey devil?

So you have this local legend of a kid who drowned in a lake and his mom goes on a murderous rampage. So what are you, an up and coming slasher going to do? Well you start acting how you think Jason would act. You put on this facade and start doing damage to people. Given a lot of the stuff Mancuso does that actually makes him look undead, a talented enough makeup artist could actually theoretically make themselves look like a super deformed crazy guy like Jason or even like Freddy... Speaking of.

I think the most likely course of Freddy's history here is that he did still kill around 20 kids at some point in the past. And then the people got together and they burned him to death in the boiler room.

However I think maybe there's a chance he survived and went on to not so much invade people's dreams as he did perhaps start drugging people and then torturing them. Alternatively his "Slasher" copycat started doing that.

We know that in the actual nightmare on elm Street movies Freddy likes to get in your dreams, play with your fears and even use some of your greatest strengths against you, because he just can. Now imagine someone with the face of a burn victim breaking into your house at night, drugging you or gassing you up in a way that makes the whole world feel very dream-like, and unreal, and then butchering you.

I think it would especially be very easy to reframe a lot of the ways in which these people turn up dead as Freddy simply doing things that he knows because it's established in the BTM universe that a lot of these killers will stalk their victims from months at a time.

That one scene in dream Warriors where he turns his hand into drug needles and injects a girl with them? Well that could be suggestive of the idea that instead what Freddie actually did was drug her and then make her OD in her sleep.

A lot of the kills all of these guys do could be someone embellished like that one time that girl was force fed things until she choked to death in her dream, in real life her windpipe just kind of collapsed if memory serves. As if something had been weighing down on it.

Then again, maybe most of the kills from all the movies we know didn't really happen. Michael being strong enough to pin a guy to a wall using a kitchen knife is otherworldly in its own way. Like. Maybe that didn't happen that way. It's just the rumor mill circling around.

Now. The last one. My personal least favorite. Chucky. AKA Charles Lee Ray, the Lakeshore Strangler.

Charles Lee Ray killed a good handful of people as a normal adult but in a crime gone wrong, he got gunned down in a toy store somewhere in Chicago. In the universe of the Child's Play movies, he uses a voodoo spell to put his soul in a "Good Guy" doll. He then uses a normal little boy, Andy, to go kill his partner in crime, Eddie and then spends the rest of the series hunting for Andy so he can be human again by putting his soul inside of Andy. Or just trying to kill him in three and I think Curse's after-credits.

In universe, I think what really might have happened was Charles swore bloody vengeance on Eddie and the cop who killed him, expecting to escape. He was then killed in the store either trying to get the drop on the cop or just get out. The hideout Charles and Eddie, who escaped custody, used to use, exploded in a random gas leak incident.

But urban legends have circulated over and over. That it was Charles' ghost possessing a Good Guy Doll. That a little kid was seen on the train carrying one such doll heading toward Cabrini-Green. Etc.

Now, I'm not 100% sure how later appearances by "Chucky" would go. Like. How do you fake a killer doll? Tiny Animatronics? A REALLY short guy? Leaving them as calling cards? I dunno. But it is just another guy piggybacking.

The only cue that anything vaguely supernatural is happening in this world is at the end, Leslie is alive after having his head crushed and being burned, but, to his credit, he was established to be a pretty tough bastard up to that point and the press was only turned enough to lock him in place and hear one squelch. It probably did damage but it also probably didn't do enough to put him on ice. So it's fairly ambiguous and still probably means killer dolls aren't a factor.

In summary: Behind The Mask is not a universe where all of our favorite killers exist. It's a universe where their legends exist and people who want to do evil become those legends. For a time at least.

Happy Halloween, everyone.

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James and Lily are thrown into detention together after getting caught arguing in the corridors past midnight.

Underwater (co-written with @petalstofish)

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Sometimes, the fact that she’d chosen him, loved him, just the way he loved her, felt so unbelievable that he could barely string two words together. Right now, with Lily’s hand caressing his face and pale skin glowing like something magical, was certainly one of those times.

First Light (fem!jily)

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Lily Evans wakes up to find four peculiar individuals standing around the bed. Even more peculiar is her strange attraction to the one named 'Prongs'.

Yoghurt and Punch

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When Lily is coerced into attending a stranger's birthday party, she is understandably cranky, tired, and not willing to deal with anyone's shit. All that changes when she accidentally spills yoghurt on a disarmingly handsome man though.

Sweet and Sweeter

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Lily Evans seemingly hates Valentine's Day. And yet, one head of messy black hair does seem to change her opinion a lot.

Very Merry Love

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“So your sickeningly chirpy mood and giddy smiles have nothing to do with one six-foot tall raven-haired Adonis with honey-brown eyes who’s been absolutely smitten with you since the tender age of thirteen?” Lily's not very good at confessions, and the lack of this skill comes back to bite her in the arse on Christmas Eve.

Potter Who?

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The one where Lily struggles with shifting name usages.

Snatch My Heart

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What began as an ordinary Wednesday for James Potter, somehow ended with him saving the day, procuring a broken nose, and having his heart snatched away by a foul-mouthed goddess.

Ready or Not

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Lily Evans finds herself in an exceedingly mortifying situation, only to come out of it with quite...unexpected results.

Drabbles/Ficlets:

HodgePodge

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A collection of unrelated Jily drabbles and ficlets that were too short and silly to post as stand-alone stories. Will be updated as and when I write more.

#jily #jily fic #jily fic recs #claudiawrites #james potter #lily evans #james x lily #jily au #jily canon #jily fanfiction #uhhhhh god this took me a lifetime and a half to make #i hope the links work

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heliphantie · 2 years ago

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Happy 1st anniversary of Encanto!

Sample of several Brunos drawn during October. Tag yourself, as they say.

Under ‘read more’ – small selection of art through the year + some ramblings:

Back in the middle of 2021, I’ve got interested by couple of things about it: implication that Disney – or animation in general - does something inspired by Gabriel García Márquez, and also being Latino-inspired Disney musical movie, which I wanted to see since listening to “Snuff Out The Light” from what became “Emperor’s New Groove”. Wasn’t expecting a lot, neither, to be honest, got in result, except some surprising consequences. I admire a lot of work, classic and more contemporary, by Disney animation and its creatives, even if nothing in last decade or so impressed me on the level Golden Age, Renaissance, or even early 00s production did.

To be fair, in the end I only stay intrigued by its concept and production art more than by actual movie, and it’s realistically more than I would expect. That, and fact Disney happened to create character catering specifically to me in a lot of aspects, which is unfathomable (but it’s a talk for other time).

I would like to collect all my thoughts about the movie to make thorough writing on it, but it calls for motivation and time dedicated to it. In one or another form, I still consider to do it sometime, not necessarily in consecutive form…

What is significant to me, it has triggered my long-tarred decision to resume drawing, which I had on hold for literal years. For now, beside of continued efforts in building skills, I feel almost obligated to put on paper (or digital canvas) all ideas thinking about the movie sparked (and I’m not even over a quarter of it currently).

I’d like to do one another big thing for its first anniversary before the end of year, but being on low energy and not wanting to rush through it, I hope I finish it to Christmas. Anyway, there is some of my work of that year which, out of all artistic attempts, I find satisfactory, considering my current level.

Sort of digest of the (not complete, given I started in April) year of art, dedicated mostly to one subject.

Julieta Gets All Kisses Returned (April 2022)

One of very first, early pictures. In fact, I drew it in pencil on very first day, April 1, along with couple of other small doodles. Idea for it was also quite old, from February, and it was supposed to be birthday-related, before official birthdays were revealed, and it turned I have to wait for half of year😊 Or draw it regardless, because it still worked out of that context and was small and simple enough for first steps. With all its simplicity, it *could* have been better, but I’m even fond of its roughness. There are some drawings I realize liking only for having low expectations for it, but as time goes, they look crappy to me, but not this one. (May be fun to re-make it too next year, to look at progress/improvement, assuming I’ll reach any.)

Teenage Bruno (April 2022)

This one I did in pencil on the *second* day. Piece of wisdom to myself: comics, even short ones, are trickier than regular drawing. It’s consisted of small frames, but you have to figure out composition and make character designs in each panel consistent. It takes twice time to make everything right and without a hurry.

Whole thing barely fits into any context of canon, I just imagined young Bruno interacting with children similar to Mirabel, and this conversation sprang to mind. I had to come with context to support it (Bruno had his gift kept in relative secret til late adolescence), but in general, main connection with my personal headcanon is just that he always was more resilient and lighthearted than given credit for.

On this note, I’ve had intention of exploring my headcanon about characters and Bruno in particular via mini-comics (lot of it had comic scenarios in its roots), and there’s bunch of scripts for it lying not processed into work yet, and as I said, I’m going to finish them because I don’t want for this spurt of inspiration to go to waste, even if it takes time.

On the comic itself, I also like how it turned, given all imperfections. Having to figure look of younger Bruno was fun, and it had some amusing by-products as well I’ll show other time😊 People online seem liking it, too, maybe because it has some narrative. And, frankly, I ought to make narrative things more often.

WDTAB Reenacted (April-May 2022)

Another fun early idea, WDTAB musical number with only Mirabel and Bruno. Two challenges: full-body figures in dynamic poses and drawing with references (without tracing, purely from eye), putting some spin on it. Curious realization: no matter how I try to keep body proportions accurate, all people I draw look like hobbits… except Bruno who does look like hobbit by design already.

My favorite is middle-bottom fragment, dynamic pose construed from scratch.

Bruno & Toni (July-August 2022, fragment of mini-comic)

It’s just this, a fragment of another (rare) mini-comic, but somehow in the end of it, I unexpectedly liked this one panel enough to single it out. I still struggle conveying emotions and mood of characters, but this one turned fortunately in that regard. It’s “sparking joy”, to use meme-speak.

Dolores (August 2022)

I wasn’t exactly determined to draw something to every official character birthday, only when I had idea in mind and it happened to align with date, but since May I was going (almost) steady providing something to each, small or bigger, like that one. It was first full-page picture with background and multiple elements, I wasn’t sure I’d finish it on time, but I managed to, and for most of it, I like the result. It’s not always that vision of thing is clear from beginning and gets exact realization, it’s interesting to see what I get in the end. Layers of background and decorative elements are all over place, it’s accidentally looking like sort of collage, but popping up quite vividly. It got some attention on Twitter, and frankly, I’m pleasantly surprised with it, the work paid off.

Also, how I pointed while presenting it for first time, I was inspired by production art and lines from script depicting Dolores as “weird cousin”, and to lesser extent by fan song “Turn It Down”. When someone mentioned she looks Tim Burton-esque, I was glad I nailed that association.

For further note, Dolores and Pepa are two characters with very attractive color design, I like every opportunity of drawing them.

Bunch of small things drawn during September-October – see samples in header image of post and under ‘encanto fanart’ tag in the blog by yourself, they’re all recent.

Despite smaller goals, I feel like it’s biggest improvement of the year: slowly getting expressions, shadow and lighting rendering, figuring out consistent personal style for characters, etc. I may get slowed down for now (and it affects my work), but I realize there’s long way ahead, and it’s encouraging to see I already have progressed a bit. Fanart is legit good starting point for working toward artistic aspirations, both fun and productive.

So, this post turned into one about personal achievements rather than one about the movie, but in the end, it’s all thanks to inspiration it gave me, so my felicitations to it!

#encanto #disney #encanto fanart #disney fanart #la familia madrigal #phantieart

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