#the scar is from blue

[troublesomeari]

BACK AT IT AGAIN YALL. I almost always exclusively draw four swords art with Link separated into the 4 boyos, plus Shadow of course. I wanted to shake things up a little! Explore a post-canon life with Link whole but Shadow around and being his perfect menace self.

I realize upon drawing this I made Zelda's hair wayyyy to poofy compared to her manga design BUTTT I like it that way so I'm keeping it. She looks fun-shaped.

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[alienssstufff]

need more art of THEM in thuh world

[redbean-nom]

thinking about 17's grievous incident again

(he also sent the pic to Grievous)

shebse interactions once again inspired by @thefoundationproject, because I feel like Priority would have Much To Say about it

and the version without the priority additions

[strawberryreddy]

Some mirror doodles...

[arachnits]

hc i came up with a bit ago, i thought itd be cool if once someones in your heart, you take on a physical trait from them!! sora truly is a mosaic of all the people hes ever known

[eastbluecrewed]

tendonitis flared up bad during this one but i had fun so its ok. nerve pain is temporary east blue crew is forever

[ceruleanterrapin]

Anyone else still remember the submarine scene

[mimjandoodlesstuff]

Finally, the last part of my drawings of @indieyuugure's humanized turtles, and this one's a double serving!

Here're Raph and Mikey :)

I managed to carve out some time this evening/night (Finnish time) for more fanart of a fanfic I'm obsessed with.

Part 1, Donnie Part 2, Leo

[eddiezpaghetti]

Okay, so my experience with Stranger Things is a weird one.

I didn't care when it first came out, started to watch it out of "might as well" in 2020, wasn't interested in it enough to make it past S2, forgot about it outside of going "oh, hey, cool, there's a lesbian in it now, I guess," in S3, got really annoyed when "Running Up That Hill" got popular from it because it was a song I listened to on fucking loop after one of my best friends died in high school and I fully expected its appearance in the show to ignore the whole survivor's guilt theme of the song (and was very happy to learn later that it did the exact opposite of ignoring the lyrics), saw people drawing Eddie, suddenly got a lot more interested, watched just the fourth season like a fucking psychopath because I was seriously only there for Eddie, then got interested enough to start the show over properly, having mostly forgotten what I did watch of the show before.

And let me tell you something from the perspective of someone who started with the complete fourth season, who wasn't there from the start, who wasn't tainted by ship goggles or this internal battle of hope and despair, who wasn't theorizing about what the painting could be or expecting Mike and Will to kiss when Volume 2 happened or rooting for Mike and Eleven's relationship to go down in flames or whatever the fuck. Just someone who went blind into Season 4.

It's really fucking obvious that Will and Mike are gonna be endgame.

Like holy fuck. It's so fucking blatant I don't even know why people are nervous.

No sane fucking person would shoot this scene this way if they wanted the audience to care about El and Mike as a couple. Despite being all blurry in the background, Will's reaction to what's happening here is smackdab in the fucking middle, clearly showing that the important part is what's going through his head here. What he's feeling. It's like the opposite of that scene from Kingdom Hearts II where Sora and Riku reunite and Kairi just fucking vanishes into the aether while it's happening because, despite the fact that she was standing between them when the scene began, she doesn't matter to the scene, so she's just kind of gone when the camera angle changes. Will could have been behind one of their heads, or so far in the distance he blends in with the background, but he's not. He's so obvious that despite being massively blurred out, he's still the first goddamn thing you look at. What, you think that's an accident? You think he's in the middle of this dramatic fucking scene because of a mistake? He basically has a big flashing neon arrow pointing at him with "THIS IS THE POINT" being screamed through a megaphone.

And then this?

They're paired up like they're taking fucking prom pictures. Each one of these pairs is so fucking close to one another and so fucking far from everyone else. It's not, "Oh, they're standing vaguely near each other in a group shot," it's fucking Noah's Ark out here. Again, there's no way to take this as an accident. It's not just a framing issue. If they wanted to make the shot look balanced while still not hiding anyone else behind El, they would have scattered people around much more naturally. Even if they wanted to keep Nancy with Jonathan and Hopper with Joyce, there's so much room on that hill for three people to stand on El's left and three on her right. But they didn't do that. They put Mike and Will together on purpose in the most obvious way possible.

Like I get that coming up with crackpot theories is fun in and of itself and I'm not blaming anyone for having fun. I totally get the appeal of arguing a point and reaching for every stupid little thing to pull into it because it's like a game, okay? I've done that. But if you're trying to actually convince someone (whether it's someone who wants to believe or someone who's pissed at the very idea that Mike and Will could be in love), stay away from blue and yellow lights, stay away from costume design, stay away from the existence of closets in backgrounds. And don't worry about whether Mike's gay or bi when he's in love with Will either way. I'll give you a little tip about persuasion: You're only as strong as your weakest argument. Even if you've got strong stuff in there, too, the person you're trying to convince is going to dismiss anything you say as complete insanity the second you start going on an entire tangent about the shape of a character's fucking pocket.

Sometimes, clothes are just clothes. Sometimes, there's a closet in the background because it helps establish that a character is in a bedroom. Sometimes, blue and yellow are just a couple of colors that look nice together. And sure, it might be set designers and costume designers and cinematographers smirking and winking at the audience from behind the camera. But if the show was just those things, instead of those things in the context of everything else, they wouldn't be saying anything of note.

But this?

This tells a story all on its own. Someone with no context can look at this and automatically assume that each paired person is standing with someone they care about deeply, seeking comfort as they watch some sort of disaster unfold. And yeah, romantic couples usually come in twos, and we live in an amatonormative society, so that's going to be the first association anyone makes seeing a bunch of people paired off.

It's the same reason you look at this

And go, "Oh..."

"Those two are probably a couple."

And I genuinely don't understand how people could have watched S4 Vol. 2 and gotten scared. Because as someone who went in with no investment whatsoever, I just looked at these two--

--and went, "Oh, those two are a couple. Good for them." And I moved on. Shut up about the trees for five seconds and just see the forest for what it is.

Oh, and if you're still nervous? Little thing from a storyteller here: You don't leave a hanging thread like "Will confessed his romantic feelings for Mike by projecting them onto El, but Mike either didn't understand or at least didn't say he understood," without coming back to that later. That's Chekov's gun hanging on the wall, babes. It's gonna fire at some point. If Mike was going to reject Will's feelings, if they weren't relevant, they would have had that discussion in Argyle's van. There'd be no reason to leave you in suspense.

[troublesomeari]

Its a little funny thinking of a post-canon four swords where Link stayed separate. Imagine you're Link's dad in this scenario. You've got a rambunctious, talented swordsman of a kid with a penchant for getting into fights (Which he deals with by HIMSELF. Your kid is gonna send you to an early grave with how much stress he's giving you) and rarely listens to you. Then Hyrule falls to Vaati and some demon kid that looks like YOUR kid. Then your kid splits into 4 different selves cause of some magic sword and you don't really have time to dwell on that cause you know, Hyrule is at stake and all. Then when everything is said and done, you can finally get things back to normal. Except not cause your kid(s??) have decided to STAY as four people. So now instead of being the father to one rambunctious kid, you've got FOUR.

Bonus points if you headcanon Link having no mother, cause there is no one mentioned in the manga. So Link's dad is a SINGLE father of FOUR kids. Oh my god.....

That's not even counting whatever the hell would be going on with Shadow if he gets brought back post-canon.

[yb-cringe]

kind of obsessed with the third person perspective of all this. imagine the purgatory arc from the census bureau perspective told like a report. a dark shadowy virus takes over your vacation island. your residents go missing while on their way to evacuate somewhere better. and when they come back they are not the same. not even close.

they never fully explain what happened but their teeth are sharper and bonds have changed and their breath smells like blood and viscera and you dont know if its their own or someone elses. they all look incredibly hungry, scarred from poison or beasts or lava, and they refuse to drink tea because it makes them sick to their stomachs.

how do you write a report about that. how do even begin to explain what happened.

[candlecanoe]

Don't mess with Tex she'll fuck you up

[friskxsansship]

SECRET SANTA (@secretsantafrans) FOR @cjhern1109! Also fit the @frans-monthly prompt in there lol.

The story behind this is that I was trying really hard to come up with an idea for a frans picture. Cjhern didn't specify what she wanted, so it was up to me to decide! I filled an entire sketchbook page full of ideas, but couldn't find one I liked enough... Till I had the brilliant idea of just, uh, coloring all of them XD

I was heavily inspired by @ttoba's old Undertale drawings. I've held them close to my heart for many years, and I'm SO proud that after years and years of practice I've finally learnt how to draw like them!

comments are highly appreciated (no pressure though), since I worked really hard on this! I'm so proud of myself.

ALSO ALSO, I've recorded me drawing two of these! My friends wanted to see the process, so now you can too ^_^

The link goes to youtube, but you can watch it here if you prefer.

[askblueandviolet]

Are y'all Bai He's father figures?

[kaesaaurelia]

Friends, tonight's Hero Forge theme is betrayal, heartbreak, and having entirely too many dogs.

Companion to this.