#the panel doesnt even have anything weird in it

[doublekanble]

oh alastor the things i do for you

[theluckiestrose]

Pokemon AlteRed With Gun is um. Really good so far?

The last time i tried AlteRed was a couple years back and the sprites were...pretty bad. Evidently the team refined a lot of their ideas and made some genuinely excellent pokemon in the end.

Here. Just one example.

This is Zigzagrub. It's a bug/electric retype of Zigzagoon. It has some fun ideas, and the core color palette is pretty good, but the shading is off and the freehand spritework is less than stellar. It's pretty average as far as rom hack spriting goes. This is from the original AlteRed, it's what I encountered in version 10.2.

THIS is the modern Zigzagrub.

Holy SHIT what a pokemon! FosterZ and Chairry did this according to the doc and just look at that little guy! It's still recognizably a Zigzagoon retype, but it's also a firefly and those BLUES. I saw that and said "I NEED IT." This sprite is in AlteRed With Gun and i believe is also in the current version of the original AlteRed.

It shows an incredible improvement in the art department, and it gets me excited to find out what else they've done to the pokemon i know and love. AlteRed With Gun is sort of a difficulty hack, a companion to AlteRed they apparently released for April Fool's. As old school binary hacks they have their bugs, but come on. Go back and look at the Zigzagrub. That's a friend.

For me a rom hack lives and dies by the quality of its sprites and AlteRed is thriving. I'm personally extremely pleased with how it's developing, and I'm having enough fun with it in a casual playthrough i might even do a challenge run or two.

[twipsai]

this one panel in issue #50 and it's, like, not THAT bad alright

fuck it im tired and had a long day this is my treat to myself. im talking about that panel. yes, THAT panel. which one?

THIS ONE. alrighty this is off the cuff and terrible, lets go.

so this panel isnt like, that bad in context when it comes to Sonic. i think specifically "ive made peace with enough enemies to know there is a better way" is a really interesting line here, because it calls back to the amount of times that the "villain" hes fought has just been a person whos hurting, and how hes been able to help those people. it makes sense that eventually hes more keen on trying to figure out someones whole story before deciding if theyve gotta go (which is rare).

but i want to talk about the FRAMING of this panel, and specifically the larger context of this issue in particular. theres a lot of flip-flopping in perspectives. usually, IDW is told through Sonic's perspective (loosely, this kind of thing is up to interpretation a lot), but in issue 50, it switches rapidly between four different groups -- Sonic and Surge, Tails and Kit, Eggman and Starline, and Belle and Metal. within these groups, the perspective its being told from changes a few times, but never as much as Sonic and Surge's do

i actually love these two when they interact as a storyteller myself, and one that has handled scripts too often for my own liking. Sonic and Surge do this thing where they push and pull the pacing of the script to fit their motives -- Surge keeps trying to escalate things, whenever shes in a panel everything starts pushing rapidly and it feels like the panels are tumbling off the page. when Sonic does anything, though, its slow and deliberate. hes having fun fighting, sure, but he can very much tell that Surge is trying to kill him and hes not having any of that. Sonic keeps things slow and focused, Surge tries to push things faster and unfocused. i could get into how this reflects her motivations and stuff but thats not what this is about i already lost track of what i was talking about fuck hang on

ok so. Surge knows shes supposed to be Sonic, to be BETTER than Sonic. its all she knows, really, and thats the problem. shes traumatized and full of rage and Sonic has been put on this high pedestal, not just by her, but by everyone. she cannot stand this.

this panel is how SURGE sees Sonic, specifically the composition. hes shrouded in light and physically above her -- its not even that subtle of a metaphor, they use it all the time in idw.

the entire overpowered saga shows Surge clawing for control of herself, her life, her freedom... this issue sets all that up in the main story. the way Sonic is framed here isnt how he sees himself at all. weve seen him do this exact same thing from his own perspective before, where everyone is on even ground. he doesnt see himself as above anyone, this instance of him being depicted as such isnt alluding to how Sonic feels about himself, its how Surge feels about Sonic.

and, look, its not the most well-done in the world. this issue has a whole host of problems, evident by the constant switching of focus from one group to a next (a problem that i think they did better on in the Phantom Rider saga). i literally forgot about Belle and Metal in this issue bc theres just so much more going on, i wouldve loved for them to slow things down a bit, maybe splitting it into two issues, but hey, what can you do, yk?

as an aside, i think its really weird how people narrow in on this specific panel of Sonic as being "so out of character", which i sorta like, 30% agree with (i think some phrasing could be better), and then ignore the page right after it...

...in which he pretty much says "you dont get freedom if youre gonna be a problem". funnily enough, on twitter i have this flow chart saved whenever i need a quick guide on Sonics morality and stuff, its really not that complicated

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none of this is new imo, we see he has the same philosophy in sa1 and satbk. Chaos was blinded by rage and pain after being trapped for thousands of years RIGHT after they were attacked by the echidnas. Merlina was so scared of death (implied to be because she had lost family members and wasnt able to cope with it well) that she became a monster in an attempt to never let anything change ever again. these arent very different stories in my head i guess, just cases of Sonic seeing people who are hurting and doing his best to free them from that.

uhhhh anyways. all this is disorganized i forgot what i was talking about like 5 times while writing this but. people on twitter are ripping into this issue again. like its a b tier issue stop acting like its an f yk Q_Q i will defend anything if people are too mean tbh

thanks for making it this far if you read all this. i love idw a lot and i think that it does have some flaws, theyre all really blown out of proportion.

have a great day/afternoon/evening wherever you are yall :) bye bye

[mychlapci]

sorry my liege im working so i cant write anything good- but silly idea for the barbarian au thing where rodimus gets kidnapped by barbarian magnus

Rodimus is so excited hes just like YES hes going to get RAVAGED hes going to get BRED hes always dreamed of getting whisked away by some strong warrior he doesnt understand and etc etc etc it gets him so silly horny

So when this huge guy just picks him up and throws Roddy over his shoulder (YES), Roddy kicks and yells but the other's grip doesnt budge (HELL YEAH), and when he gets thrown down onto some kind of berth and then pinned down (YEAAAAHHHH) Primus he's so wet it's leaking from his panels and he's struggling but he's so ready to be forced into submission- But Magnus just pins him down and like cleans him.

Poor Rodimus keeps getting riled up by Magnus just gripping him and doing something like cleaning or polishing him or painting him or something. Roddy struggles every time to play the part and every time he's so horny but like it never actually happens. By the next time he's so desperate he actually pops his panels open just in case his captor wasn't aware of what he's SUPPOSED to be doing- but it doesnt work

Well it turns out Magnus is a stickler for rules and his tribe has got ridiculously intricate rituals that need to be completed for a mate to be properly claimed. He keeps unintentionally edging his new to-be mate by going in there, doing something, and then leaving as stipulated by the rituals. The entire time Roddy is getting more and more desperate and he has no idea what's going on but hes like AUUUGHHHHH and doesn't get why he hasnt been fragged yet even when he tries to grind his sopping wet valve against Magnus' servo. He just gets a disapproving look and gets pushed back onto his back or smth

oh my god that's hilarious. Rodimus is SO into it. It's all he's ever wanted. To be taken, ravaged, ruined by a big, strong brute... Magnus might be big and strong but he is no brute, thank you very much. They will do this the proper way, following the rituals down to the letter, and he will certainly not have premarital sex with Rodimus.

poor Rodimus gets stuck with the most boring, prudish "barbarian" that's ever lived. It's like a punishment for being too excited for all of this. I love that he keeps trying to flash his valve at Magnus and Magnus just shakes his head and continues his weird ministrations. So annoying.

[shigayokagayama]

The Beach Omake And Authorial Intent

initially i was going to save this for a big teru analysis i had cooking however i eventually ended up deciding that it would feel like a really long tangent in its original context and probably deserves a separate post.

when it comes to the whole "teru's parents" thing i generally see two competing ideas on it

a. terus absent parents are the real villains of mob psycho and are the direct cause of everything wrong with his life and any and all teru analysis must center around this fact

b. terus parents being absent in the first place is only revealed in an omake and only exists for plot convenience and is not something that should be focused on at all when writing him

and whenever i see either of these my mind always drifts to the question of authorial intent. i know how people are reading this information, but how are we supposed to? i know death of the author is becoming more of a common thing in fandom spaces (albeit usually misused) but i feel like a better understanding of why this omake exists and how we're supposed to read it might help to better synthesize two takes that seems to be completely at odds with each other.

okay first i want to go over the actual placement of the beach omake in the update schedule of the manga because, unlike most other omakes, i feel like this ones placement in the schedule of page releases is actually super relevant

the vast majority of omakes come at the end of weekly updates. you finish reading the usually 15-20 pages ONE put out and then you get a little bonus comic at the end, usually something funny or a slice of life but but occasionally more serious. multi part omakes are usually spread out over multiple updates, making you wait a couple weeks for a punchline.

beach omake is not that. between chapters 99 (mob gets hit by a car) and 100 (the whole rest of the omake) there was a 6 week hiatus from normal pages and in this hiatus is where we get beach omake. reading it all together immediately cuts away the sort of "slice of life sunday paper comic" tone other multi part omakes have and make you read it as a part of the actual main story, since that's how you're used to reading these weekly updates.

now the actual tone. generally the multi part omakes exist to be long punchlines and the rare emotional ones are a single page for maximum impact. beach omake has a very different structure compared to, say, the haunted doll omake or the pot of happiness.

off the bat from the first two pages there's not really a joke. the tone mostly seems kind of melancholic. mobs expression for the middle section of the second page (maybe purposely) is obscured by the panel breaking off, it's hard to tell his reaction, all our attention is directed at teru. with all of the panels taken up by dialogue (primarily his own), we're being asked to focus on what he's saying:

-teru lives alone

-he lives alone because his parents live overseas

-he hasnt seen them in a while

-he doesnt like having nothing to do

-he doesnt like being alone

all of this information is delivered with an extremely casual expression from him, implying that it's not something that seems ll the out of the ordinary for him. mob, on the other hand...

the hesitation before he says anything and the way his expression is obscured seems to imply something is... off... about this information to him. this isn't a handwaved "oh mob is walking home from school after passing out because he needs to for plot reasons", we're reacting to this information like it's weird.

the next two pages are, mostly, a lot more of what we expect out of a mob psycho omake. the first one works as a standalone joke page, teru is bad at identifying animals which leads to him showing reigen a roach, something reigen is terrified of, instead of a beetle.

the second page starts similarly, we get a dumbass joke about reigen trying to pick up women at the beach (note: i think this is the singular time we get an indication reigen is even into women) but then the next two panels take on a more melancholic tone again. we get a small panel of mob and ritsu playing on the beach and a much, much larger panel of teru sitting on the beach, watching them. the dialogue bubble forces us to pay attention to the fact that he is silent.

the ending of this omake is where we bring it home. generally the last panel centers the punchline of the page, or of the whole omake, but the final panel of this isn't really what was being built to in this case.

we start our second page on teru. his expression is obscured, reigens speech bubble is shoved to the side so we can see that teru's hat is being held in his hands.

when we see his face in full view he looks... confused. he looks like he doesn't know how to react to someone going through all this trouble for him. teru is a character who, up to this moment, we have seen as extremely independent. he always rushes into things alone, he always has to be the hero, he always has to be the one to save the day. hell, this omake is immediately followed by the confession arc. where... you know.

so what are we supposed to get out of this omake?

teru's been doing everything on his own up to this point

but he doesn't have to anymore

[azumasoroshi]

i fucking love that kartein doesnt even say anything in this section (171) he’s just like. emotional support idk

the “idk what’s gotten into me” effect will continue to plague many more eleceed adults in the future, cough cough looking at you pluton

does this count as them cuddling im counting this as them cuddling

oh to be jiwoo and have your favorite people turn into cats that you can pet. ohhh if only

no thoughts just kayden being the dad of all time

oh my god do you think kayden and jiwoo will fight one day. i cant think of a scenario where it would actually happen other than kayden needing to prevent jiwoo from going somewhere/getting into a fight with someone so he’d be holding back a lot but like. them actually duking it out would be pretty fun once jiwoo gets all his powers

the strongest sorcerer in history vs the strongest sorcerer of today lmao

also trying to figure out what kayden’s doing in that last panel…like is he just sleeping and shuffling around. is he dreaming of jiwoo winning his match. did he somehow sense kartein shaking his head and being like “lmao ye of little faith”. who knows

i do love the steady background progression of kartein and the cats lmfao they’re so fucking cute

i wonder if kayden’s usual look changed from white shirt black pants to all black for the aesthetic or because he needed to contrast with kartein more…hmmmm

also you go cockblocker kartein we stan!!! please keep jiyoung away from jiwoo not because the ages are kinda weird but mostly because they’re just boring lmao eleceed has so many fun and interesting character duos and relationships but jiwoo and jiyoung are not one of them

like if you REALLY need to give me a het ship at least make it jisuk and subin at least they’re FUNNY

[beesmygod]

when the cursed princess club does it it's good because it suits the story perfectly, at any point any of the people working on it could google what a possum looks like and improve their portrayal of them, but the way they are drawn right now is already perfect, why "fix" that? I love when the characters do actions and you see the little sound effect of the character doing it, it works so well in there. Also you can see the art has been evolving through time For me I think when that kind of things don't work at all in that type of webcomics is in the a) licensed ones, b) the ones that you know could try to do better and do nothing

one of my favorite panels in CPC is an establishing shot of a hospital that the club is doing volunteer work at (god, long story). you know its a hospital because there's a big red cross outside on the building BREAKING THE GENEVA CONVENTION!!!! god i think i need to actually go find it. the first time i read it i just flew past it because i was invested in the story.

someone actually pointed this panel out and thats when i really looked at it

no windows. no doors. set on a patch of vertical gradient. first of all, this is hysterical. i love this. second, this is the perfect amount of effort required to convey information to a willing audience. i didnt even fucking notice this was taking place in jigsaw's torture hospital while reading it. the art has, at all points, been the bare minimum required to tell a good story. this scene did not require lavish realism or detail because it's a cartoon universe where silly things happen in service of a good joke. i have never been confused about where an event is taking place because the information i need is successfully conveyed to me through the most recognizable icons and things. red cross and building. got it.

i think the sincerity of the work also shines through. this is hard to describe, but there is a large contingent of comics in genres that they believe will make them money either because webtoons the company trends toward financially rewarding it or the perception that those audiences are more willing to spend money to create never-ending streams of emotionally empty sludge. their lack of investment in anything other than clout/$ results in a vapid, hollow shell of a comic with an attractive exterior. but a quick glance through the work exposes the author's lack of investment in their own creation.

the willingness of cpc to draw things fucked up and weird sometimes is charming. its actually taking some risks in going against the aesthetic grain of the sea of webtoons comprised of mostly the same few pre-generated assets. its not like cpc DOESNT use assets, but the light touch and geocities ass fire in the fire place just endears me to it more.

its just Right.

[angy-grrr]

thoughts:

Himiko Toga never chose a villain name because she has always been the monster and demon for others, internalizing it. But also because she isnt trying to be someone else, but proudly show herself and her love -AFO exploited this to reaffirm the previous, so she never even realized she could give her blood for others.

Ochako Uraraka's goal and arc isn't finished until we see a few main points: "who will save heroes?" A discussion about heroism and saving, and I wouldnt be too surprised if saving villains also come up here as a developed version of the first. They are all people, and that's what matters over their assigned roles. "Himiko Toga". Where is she? Ochako's arc can't be finished until we see or hear what ended up happening. "What does she feel about it all?" She needs a resolution and express her feelings, and with the hiding she has done recently I cant help but wonder even more about Himiko's state, as she is the person who makes Ochako feel safe enough to talk about her thoughts. And lastly"You like him, dont you?" What will happen with her love for Izuku? Is she going to hide it, confess, talk about it more with Himiko? I still think about "the reveal" during her fight with her, and her hair covering her whole face... It could be because she "needs" to tell and show her whole face to Izuku*. I would prefer it another way tho

*She said she admires Himiko for being able to say her feelings and love who she does with her whole face, if I remember correctly, while remembering an Izuku who is looking somewhere (someone?) else smiling. I believe its important that she doesnt have her face shown there, but we still dont have a clear reason why. Is she just not able to show that love to Himiko because she hasn't shown Izuku first? Is it because she no longer feels it? In the next panel she says shes now going to stop her, we can see her face, and her mouth is covered in blood. Is it because their battle was never about him? Because she is ashamed of those feelings? Because she doesn't want to engage in them?

With chapter 425 taking us by surprise because of her first interaction with Midoriya after the war, I prefer to think she has her hair covering her face because she still can't be honestly herself with him. Partially? Yes completely, but she can't tell him her feelings like with Himiko.

I hope she expresses her feelings to the class, to her parents, her friends, the civilians... but I really don't think a confession to him and him only would solve anything.

She doesn't want or can't chase him and his feelings like with Himiko; Izuku is acting weird, upset about many things, and she doesn't see that, im sure she would have tried to help if she actually knew. Even tho she looks around to find a crying Himiko, she doesn't try to do the same now, and in fact rejects it; she decided her feelings are not for him or others to see, at least at the moment.

So how does Hori plan to change this in such little time? Is Izuku going to chase after her, when thats what he has always done with everything he wants? Doesn't he deserve to be chased back? Doesnt she deserve the right to decide how much of herself she wants to reveal to him? Or mourn the loss in her own terms, in case Toga's dead or she thinks she is?

With her feelings for both Midoriya and Toga she has tried to put heroism first, focus only on that; with the first one because she fails at her goals and just blindly imitates him without finding herself, and the second one because she shouldn't feel that way and questions herself over those quite frequently.

I have no idea if Horikoshi plans to make her put her feelings first for him over heroism like she did with her -risking it and acting against what a hero "should" do so they can both just be Himiko Toga and Ochako Uraraka.

I have no idea, but it would make me so sad if he did.

EDIT:

In chapter 424 we see Shoto first in the hospital, when the narration explains things cant be as simple as Deku thought as a kid. Then Ochako appears, with her arm over her stomach probably thinking about her fight. It can't end so easily, and I wouldnt be surprised if chapter 427 or 428 was about them.

Fun thought: what if Himiko is the one about to see Spinner? jkjkjk. It could be cute tho.

[unsanitarystation]

AM I TOO LATE FOR MINIMUS FUCKING RODIMUS' PEE HOLE

Look like minimus in his true irreducible state is so small. A lot of minibots tend to at least be chunky, mims is just Small all round. I'm sure he could stick his tiny little turbofox spike into roddy's pee hole

In fact this is probably what Rodimus tells him in the first place. He goes to Magnus with one of his Amazing Awesome Ideas and today that is the idea that Minimus out of all his armour would have a spike small enough to frag his lil waste port.

Magnus literally doesn't even deign him with a Weird or Grossed Out look. He simply reacts as plainly as possible and says "No."

Cue Roddy dropping to knees and just going PLEASEPLEASEPLEASPLEASEPLEASPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASPLEASE Look look he'll even do the MATH if Magnus wants!! Please!!! He'll stick a finger into his pee hole right now look-

Magnus' jaw falls open and he literally does not have the time to stop roddy before his captain's panels have already snapped open and roddy's digit start prodding at his waste port. Maybe his vocaliser fails because he's been stunned to silence. He watches Rodimus swirl a single digit around his vavle, collecting his slick, and then starting to tease at his waste port. There is absolutely nothing in Magnus' processor that can help him receive and process these audio and visual inputs of his captain wiggling his finger around his waste port, and- and then- and pushing it in

Magnus' first instinct is to wince because that must hurt. And yet, Roddy groans in contentment and then immediately looks back up at Magnus. "See? It's fine. It's good!" He pistons his finger in and out of the tight and straining shaft as he adds, "Perfectly good for a good fragging!"

Magnus doesnt want to believe it, but Rodimus does make it look like he is enjoying it, if the moans and stuttering of his hips are anything to go by. But him? Even in his smallest form? He's not sure his spike would be narrower than Rodimus' singular digit.

But Roddy can be persuasive when he wants to be. He teases and begs for daaaaaaaaays until, one day, it's Minimus who visits his captain after hours instead of the full magnus armour. Roddy is overall just excited to see Minimus in that form, but then gets even more excited when he's told that Mims has decided to give Roddy's stupid pee hole fucking a go.

He also wants to make a disclaimer that it was never his fault, and that the MOMENT anything goes wrong he is hauling Rodimus to the medbay immediately. Still stuck on his spike or not. Pee hole still gaping and leaking or not.

When they finally lay down on Rodimus' berth, Roddy lays back but props himself up on his elbows, knees also drawn up and legs spread. Since this would involve some sense of 'aiming' Roddy wants to give Minimus the best view possible ;3

To Roddy's surprise, once Minimus settles between Roddy's legs, he actually spreads Roddy even further. Small servos splay around Roddys' valve and pull the folds aside, giving him a clear view of the usual valve channel and the much smaller waste port.

He's methodical about it. Minimus pinpoints the location of the port, then pokes and prods at it until he is satisfied. All the while, Roddy is whining and wriggling from the touches.

The next step is to thoroughly coat Minimus' spike in lubricant. And he means Thoroughly. He applies some lubricant to the waste port as well for good measure.

Then finally. FINALLY. Minimus leans over Roddy and positions his spike right at Roddy's waste port. Rodimus whines and pleas for Mims to fragging get on with it already

And so he does.

Minimus pushes in very very slowly. He pushes just the head against the tight port, slowly increasing the pressure until the seal parts and allows his spike to begin to push in. He lets out a shaky exvent already.

It's a long arduous task to slowly sink into Rodimus, Minimus panting and shaking from the tight wet heat around his spike and the physical restraint to keep at his face. Rodimus is, meanwhile, also panting and blabbering "yes yes yes oh Mims yes c'mon I can take it it will feel so good push push yes" whilst trying to keep his hips as still as possible to let Minimus do as he pleases

Once Minimus is fully sheathed, once Roddy begs him to fuck him now please please please, Minimus finally relents and begins to move. The whole channel is so tight. Even just a slow thrust in and out lights up all his sensor nodes. Clearly Roddy feels the same as he immediately starts keening and rolling his hips into the slow thrusts.

The control doesnt last long. Soon, Minimus is slamming his hips against Rodimus', forcing his spike into Roddy until he cries and arches his back.

As their overloads approach, Minimus tries to warn Roddy, but the captain just blurts out "No! Nonnononono i want you inside me- primus- Mims i need you inside me do it do it in me" and thats enough to throw Minimus over the edge as he slams into his captain one last time, spike twitching and shooting ropes of transfluid directly into Rodimus' waste tank.

Roddy's overload follows soon after, the bot all but screaming as he arches his back and clenches his empty valve around nothing, pushing out even more globs of lubricant that now collect beneath his aft.

After a few moments to come down, Minimus lets out a shaky exvent and slowly pulls out, leaving a loose and gaping port dribbling out a mix of waste fluid and slightly thicker transfluid. It's...disgusting. But it also makes his engine rev at the sight.

Roddy is currently just strutless and blissed out and laying on his back dont worry about him

Minimus fucking pee holes!!! YES!! He's so tiny in his true form, he could do it. If Roddy's finger fits, so will Minimus' spike.

He would never admit it, not even to himself, but Rodimus' peehole feels so fucking good. It's not often Minimus gets to fuck a hole that tight. It's perfectly snug, squeezing him for all the transfluid he has to give. The mess Rodimus made was disgusting, but Minimus can't stop his spent spike from pressurizing again at the sight of a fucked out Roddy pissing uncontrollably all over the berth... Pity he's too exhausted to fuck Rodimus' piss back into him.

[termagax]

i hesitate to reblog my comic pages a whole bunch of times because i have a lot of personal gripes and things i dont think look very good or i wouldve done differently or reworked if i hadnt been so fed up with it ESP. the dialogue im so bad at dialogue and i worry that reblogging it a bunch is gonna let other people notice that especially so long after ive made it. but also there are a few panels tjat ARE so so so cute

these first ones especially look good and i KNOW thats because the entire comic was just to give justification to THIS SHOT i LOVE this shot i was havign DREAMS avout this shot i have 5 different abandoned attempts to write it out in a fic i spent days thinking of nothing except how badly i wanted to cut his hair and run my hands over it and kiss him on his stupid head and i think it REALLY shows. esp the angle of his head when its turned away from the camera like that looks SOOOO good to me.

this bits fine i think it couldve been laid out better and i wish i was good at lettering but the drawings themselves are fine. i DONT think i figured out how to draw this hairstyle like i dont think it comes across well unless you already know what hes supposed to look like. but its fineeee i like how square i made his head and i like the ideaaaa of making fun of him for being old so i think the interaction is cute enough to justify the jank

THIS PANEL ALSO. JUST SO CUTEEEEEEE theres a lot of jank w proportions and shape but again the interaction is everything to me i like the idea that he isnt really comfortable being looked at like that? like in my head hes not an insecure guy and clearly hes very very confident in himself and his appearance but i just dont think hes comfortable being. treated affectionately in that way ? if that makes sense? i know some people disagree with this but i just dont think he really dates or even really does hookups so i think hes just easy to fluster. hes a confident guy but the attention he gets is usually more people being scared or finding him weird or offputting or gross. scary dog. so i just like the idea that he gets embarrassed when they look at him or call him pretty. and also i like when he shrugs it off by being a dickhead.

i wish i liked the panels on the second page more but it was a huge struggle to figure out and id been working on it for like 8 hours and i was so annoyed and none of the panels were turning out and i couldnt come up with anything better than the PLACEHOLDER DIALOGUE. and the panelling is ROUGHHH like the layout is just not good and i dont think it communicates what i wanted to.

but THIS panel is so cute to me I LOVE THEMMMMMM my friends my best friends. you can actually see on the hand here and a few other shots on this page i was STRUGGLING w my lines and was trying out a different technique that my best friend nini suggested where you block in a sillouhette and then erase out the middle chunk. and it looks really cool i like the look of it but i think you can clearly tell which things are done that way and which ones arent so its a bit jarring. but i DO wanna use that more because it looks good it just kind of conflicts with my normal process so i have to find a Project. it doesnt work well w an undersketch so i tend to use it when a pose just is NOT coming together or when i can really see it in my mind and just cant get the structures to work out.

this shot is ALSO REALLY CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVE HIS FACE. this comic was fun because i usually use his long hair to cover his face (because i think its cute and cheeky to not show his face as much as possible and esp. when hes younger i just like the idea that he sort of hides it even before he had the mask.) so i dont have to worry about his expressions as much so it was FUN to get to draw his whole face. but also it changes the balance of what details i have room for? idk if you guys have noticed but i try to keep my shapes really distinct and my art not too busy so there are pieces where i will fully leave out details i think are there especially his facial piercings (youll notice he doesnt have them in this comic) and sometimes even his scar if the piece is too busy in the head/torso region. and a lot of times between his bangs and the way i do his facial hair i just end up leaving the scar out or leaving it as light implication. but it is always there. so because his hair is out of his face i got to consistently include it (though not every panel - see the one i talked about earlier? i leave it out there because i think itd make the blush lines not read as well and i was trying to stick to black and white.) and that was interesting to proportion. BUT ANYWAYS. this panel is so cute i think everything came out really well and i kind of nailed the style i was going for with it like the tooneyness is just totally there. i struggle sometimes with figuring out the right way to do his jawline and i think this one just clicked so nicely and its exacltly what i wanted it to look like.

although if youll permit me to ramble EVEN LONGER i worry sometimes that going so cartoony means he doesnt look "like roadhog" like ovw has such a semirealist style which i hardcore struggle with sometimes (and u can tell in this comic when i do try for that it doesnt looook as good) and i worry that im abstracting the realness out of him and not communicating it as well as some of the artists i really look up to who are SUPER good at striking that balance btwn cartoony exaggeration and expression and realistic weight and proportion (im not gonna namedrop but youve certainly seen me gush about their stuff before). it wouldnt bother me so much if he had like a canonical face like i dont sweat it with rat everyone knows what rat looks like but this is a guy i made up in my mind so i REALLY WANT to be able to communicate what i think he looks like so i get nervous doing these abstractions. but ultimately i think those abstractions are the better half of my work they just look better and i basically only draw for me anyways so leaving details implied works fine for me (ie: when i see his face in my head i think he has a lot more signs of age. but i leave them out because it would clutter the place too much)

anyways sorry for the impromptu directors commentary i just think SO MUCH abt my art and every decision i make has like 900 years of thought behind it and i like to talk. thanks if you read this far i love you 🫶

[steven-has-exploded]

massive apologies to all the tanizakiheads seeing me in this tag every other day but now that we have confirmation he and naomi arent even siblings, ive been looking back and just. realizing how weirdly their whole relationship is written BEYOND the alabama shit?

this is also gonna be a teensy bit long because i cannot shut the fuck up, anyways warning for mentions of s/a + some panels of That and incest. also naomi likers proceed with caution, i really dont even dislike her to be honest but the point of this post is to point out the really weird way her actions are written, so if u dont wanna see that then. there

so. ive realized that basically no part of their "activities" is written explicitly as being consensual on junichirou's end, and im unsure if asagiri even did this intentionally because its just. never talked about and also constantly treated like just a running gag

like maybe this is just the translation im reading but id say that it actually implies moreso that the stuff behind closed doors is nonconsensual rather than the opposite, the language used especially by junichirou really implies that theres at least something questionable in regards to that aspect, i.e. this page in chapter 15 right before naomi was taken into annes room by lucy

right before this is naomi saying that junichirou claimed hed "do anything she wanted", which. yeah im not gonna pretend like that isnt just supposed to be some haha funny kink joke, but junichirou claiming that she "forced" him to do something combined with that forms some really unsavory implications that i, again, dont think were intentional on asagiris part

and this continues through their interactions in the earlier chapters; every single time they talk about some kind of unspoken thing that happened between them, its always phrased like this. ive seen a considerable number of people in my time lurking over arguments online claim that junichirou is in on it because of this panel;

and while. firstly that isnt how consent works - second, since this entire fandom sees their relationship as weird in one way or another and not just funny like asagiri hoped we would and im coming at this from the same angle, this seems more like him trying to let her down softly instead of saying she can do whatever in private, since they were in the middle of an investigation at this point. "not here", at least to me, doesnt imply that hes chill with it in private, but that he just doesnt want whatever to happen in public based on the way its been written

and obviously this isnt even bringing up the fact that one of the first scenes we see of them just earlier in ch3 involves naomi groping junichirou in the middle of uzumaki cafe, because that obviously IS nonconsensual and its just. brushed off. like kunikida tells atsushi not to question it and then they just move on. its very obvious that asagiri wrote it this way because it was supposed to be a gag, but seemed completely unaware of the completely godawful implications of this situation just because its happening to a man. junichirou is visibly uncomfortable in all of these scenes, its heavily implied that theres a lack of consent beyond just the scenes on screen, and then its never brought up again because its supposed to be a "joke"

i dont know. i just wanted to point this out because from my personal perspective as a man whose also a victim of sexual harassment, particularly from a family member, this is the way it came off to me and ive been thinking about this for a bit. dont idolize asagiri thats the moral of the story here mans weird as shit

[supportanimy]

gonna go on a incoherent ramble cuz i got thoughts again

I hate the character archetype of sweet little girl who has never done anything wrong or even have any even slightly selfish or mean thoughts. like it always rubs me incredibly wrong when it's played straight, idk how to explain it.

Anyways this is why im just not really a fan of how most of canon writes maria and cream, though with cream i did like how she was in rush where she was a bit blunt yet naive as she just offends knuckles and amy to their faces

but with maria, it feels especially wrong because we have never seen her from her own perspective, only others. like, i think they were projecting their idea of maria to be a saint. i feel like there's just something really icky about the other characters seeing her as super pure and good and never for any other parts of her, like they only ever see what she was like to them personally, never what she was like as an actual person, it feels dehumanizing.

i headcanon her to have resentment for her place in life. Being stuck in space, not having too much to do, possibly having to obey many rules just so her condition doesn't worsen or just to stay safe in space. she keeps a smile on just so that others dont get upset. so that gerald doesnt start overworking even more at his age to cure maria. so that shadow doesnt blaming himself for any of her negative emotions. just for others.

also only slightly related but in the panel they said something along the lines of shadow being marias only friend which is not true, the gun commander said she was like a sister to him, unless he actually stopped hanging out with her after shadow left the tube, which might also explain why shadow doesnt seem to remember him, but also theres no way they know enough to come to this conclusion so they're still wrong and wow, im so great for correcting people who were wrong about shadow the hedgehog (2005)! thats totally not weird to care that much about people being casually wrong for things that dont matter at all!

[chamiryokuroi]

ok but what abt the art u posted with the scratches on his back or any of the other stuff youve said or how quick u were to jump to making that panel w/ bernard boxing abt him being sexy. im not talking abt 1 thing im talking abt a pattern of a 30 yo being weird abt someone who wouldve been abt 10 when you were in college. but the opinion of a grown adult woman is more important than someone whos actually bernards age and a gay man bc ofc it is. it doesnt even matter what else i say bc youre gonna ignore me so you can stand on your pedestal and preach instead of taking 1 sec to realize you might have made a mistake. and ofc im on anon when u have an army of people who would happily harass me if i wasnt XD none of you wanna discuss it u just wanna stand there and pat e/o on the backs when youre ignoring the entire point of this thing to defend the fact that youre old and in fandom. nobody cares if youre old online but we do care if youre old and sexualizing people who wouldve been in diapers when u were in middle school. would u hit on a 20 yo rn?

You’re young, and you feel unsafe, and no matter what I say you have already created an image of what I am like in your mind, because to you I am just a degenerate and it won’t change. You will take all I say and twist it to fit your narrative.

You have a right to feel uncomfortable with my art, you have a right to don’t like the content I create, but I do not have the responsibility of catering to you or anyone else, this is the third and last time I say this anon, BLOCK ME, for your own sanity of mind and my own.

So yes I have created “spicy” content of characters that are 20yos, and yes I might create more (tho I doubt will be posting it here anymore) but no I do not think it is sexualizing the character because I am not explicitly creating it to get off to it, and it isn’t even actually explicit content, and I’m sorry that you don’t agree, you are free to think what you want of me. I do not think I am above you, I just have a different way of interacting with a fandom, and that’s just how it is sometimes. That’s all I have to say to you.

And btw no, I do not have any desire to date a 20yo, and I don’t understand how anything in my art could had given you that idea.

[ungodlybliss]

hi guys i want to break down these panels into my own thoughts bc im unwell 🫶🫶🫶

first off - after ages of not seeing each other slade is taking out rose for some fuckass mission as an excuse to see her, normal dad behaviour ig. but as they talk, slade is consistently berating her for her actions and her small talk with him such as explaining how she wasnt screwing the guy slade found in her bed yappa yappa yappa.

slade criticises her, claiming that because she was telling him these things (making basic small talk with her dad) that clearly she cared what he thought - which is *weakness* and means ‘shes not ready’ but the thing is, he doesnt even know what hes talking about himself.

rose is justifiably confused and asks “ready for what?” to which slade doesnt even have a valid answer. as usual, slade is trying to emotionally push rose away and keep her on her toes. he expects rose to to be prepared for “anything” but cant even tell her the specifics because he doesnt know what she should be prepared for either. realistically, he knows rose is capable for herself yet he continues to put her down so she can ‘do better’

Right after that its clear to see that rose feels hurt. She asks him “how long have you thought that?” showing that Rose must have thought she already met his impossible standards, yet apparently she never did which makes her doubt herself.

Even Slade is confused with himself - this whole time hes been making things up to keep her at an arms length and encourage her to work on herself in his own weird way. The way right after, Rose begins listing the things shes gone through and overcome in order to get his approval which she assumed she got.

“Ive studied your tactics. Ive mastered…”

“Nothing”

Slade immediately tears her down again, destroying the belief that she had finally gained his approval through overcoming all these challenges, yet her assumptions were ‘wrong’.

It shows how no matter how damaged their relationship consistently becomes, Rose still wishes that her father would be proud of her for her achievements, but now she completely doubts herself and all shes done because he thinks shes mastered “nothing”.

anyway idk if this made any sense im really bad at expressing my thoughts but GOD i think about them all the time dude and this panel just HIT me tonight

[p8567899754nhu]

sakura making fun of naruto for being an orphan is B.S.

sakura never made fun of naruto for being an orphan . yeah thats it . no matter how much naruto dude-bro's may lament over it she never did it. i mean their sakura hate is so comical they keep inventing weird shit to back it up , but here are the panels from the manga for reference:

she is not "making fun" of naruto in either of these panels though she says a bunch of stuff-

"naruto was badly brought up"

-im sorry ? do you object to this? do you think naruto was not badly bought up? idk what to even say here, when usually naruto wankers' lament over how sad were the conditions in which naruto was bought up and how hiruzen is a trashy caretaker , also notice how sasuke doesnt care when she says that and continues to walk past

"how he always comes between us"

um.. considering the shit naruto was just doing(beating sasuke , tying him up, and then fcking trying to kiss sakura disguised as sasuke!! ) and before that (sitting on desk and glaring at sasuke because sakura likes him and he is popular) i dont think sakura's complaint is very misplaced , and it could be that he might have done similar shit prior to this

"dont you envy him for being alone, not having parents to nag at you all time"

This is somewhat insensitive and not to naruto , who isn't even present at the moment but to sasuke because she is ASKING sasuke if he envies naruto because his parents dead .sakura saying to sasuke (indirectly) that lack of family is something one should feel good about and is lucky for .(although compared to the shit naruto and kakashi and even lee give sasuke on his clan in particular this is something that is indirect and somewhat subtle and is not intended to berate sasuke in anyway )

P.S.: she is not a psycho who wants her parents dead or anything she wants to be alone and to not have her parents nag at her or ground her

but I never saw this as delinquent or unsual behaviour from sakura's POV, because sakura is a normal 13 year old !!

it would make perfect sense for a teen to want to be alone , to be rebellious, and to not want your parents tell you how to do everything!

especially since kishimoto wanted sakura to be a charechter that is relatable to young girls

however post time skip sakura's views have on family seemed to have changed a bit when she asks sasori "what is family to you?!"

i really really cant understand how psychos of naruto fandom would give a pass to-no askchually WORSHIP charechters like Itachi (who is a fucking remorseless genocidaire!) and hate this girl , i made a post before but it seems its a lot of misogyny acting up, aint it - for she not only rejects naruto(which is a big sin in itself) , she HATES him , and doesnt coddle him (most of the time-although there are moments when she does), she doesnt give two hoots about him a lot of the time and is fangirling on sasuke -oh the misery!! - arent these reasons enough to take petty things about her and constrew them as though they were on a whole different league of evil .

"he doesnt have to answer to anyone, its made him selfish, if i did something similar, id be grounded for life"

well.. sakura's speculation on why naruto is selfish is sort of misplaced but somewhat makes sense comparing to the shit naruto has done up to now i dont think she is wrong in calling him selfish -he does what he wants without giving a damn about anyone else ,that is selfish -isnt that what he did just now, he beat sasuke, tied him up and went to kiss sakura without giving 2 hoots bout either one of them, and got no consequences for it ! if sakura wouldve attempted something similar then she would've been punished severely by her parents, who would perhaps also make sure that something like this never happened again. - is there something wrong in what she said here ? i dont quite understand...

To sum up everything , all she says is :

1. Naruto is badly brought up

2. He does fucked up shit because he's badly bought up

3. He has no one to watch over so he does selfish things

4. Sakura wishes she could do a lot if the things naruto does and is envious at how far he can go without getting reprimanded

[dabistits]

i checked the raws of 415 and that labrava panel had an expression in it i'd never seen before and every source ive looked at indicated that its presence indicates that labrava was saying the arresting part was a bad thing. it's like [arrested my beloved] [which he shouldnt have but still] [made him even more wonderful] [boy] (japanese word order meaning all the other stuff is describing deku, he's the boy who xyz)

all the sources i found indicated it's not something that easily translates into English as a phrase. even machine translation sites and apps didnt change between me putting it in and taking it out. try it yourself:

with: 私の愛する人を逮捕に落とし入れてあろうことかより一層素敵にさせてくれちゃった男の子…！

without: 私の愛する人を逮捕に落とし入れてより一層素敵にさせてくれちゃった男の子…！

also doesnt help that horikoshi changed the first kanji of 落とし入れて to 貶 which, while also said "otosu", is not used in that word (meaning arrest) usually, and brings the nuance of his arrest being slanderous in itself (貶す itself means "to speak ill of" or "to disparage")

she even adds the regretful indicator to the end of "made him more wonderful [for me]" to show she's still bitter.

imo it's less that going to prison - a bad thing on labrava's account - that made him better, and more that it was izuku. though she doesn't want to show gratitude for it, *because* he got him arrested.

idk if this changes anything or if im even right, but that's what i got from the raws, just so you have another source. if others in the know disagree w my interpretation then all the better for more voices on the topic. ^^

this is interesting, thank you for writing it in! i definitely don't have enough japanese knowledge to confirm or deny this, so if any of my followers are proficient in/native speakers of japanese, maybe y'all can weigh in?

i had wondered if it was a mistranslation (because it's such a weird thing to say in general), hence waiting for the official translation, but the official translation only seemed to confirm the fan translation. based off this i assumed everyone was more or less in agreement and there was probably nothing lost in translation, but maybe that's not the case? maybe i'll look it up in chinese and see what those translators used.

if you ask me, i think i would've translated the sentiment you're describing as "even though." so: "even though that boy arrested him, gentle became more wonderful" or "despite being arrested by that boy, gentle etc." which would put the arrest and gentle's growth in contradiction with each other, and be much more fitting for la brava's character and at least reflect a little better on the series lol.