#the similars (2015)

[pangur-and-grim]

I looked up the posts I made in 2020, and last time Pangur was hospitalized with pancreatitis, she was there 5 days straight. I think she only ate on the final day.

that makes me feel better about this current situation. she's been hospitalized roughly 2 days now, and this time she's getting nutrition through a feeding tube. I really do believe she'll pull through, and that I'll be able to take her home by the end of this week.

[yankasmiles]

what country is 🏳️‍⚧️ and why are so many cute girls from there

[vertigoartgore]

Spider-Man 2099 meets Batman Beyond by artist Dan Mora (2015).

[doctorsiren]

little idea for the mini au of Phoenix prosecutor

what if von karma somehow found out that Phoenix and Miles were friends when they were children (maybe hearing him talk about a certain Phoenix when he was a child or whatever) and upon knowing that Phoenix was going to be a prosecutor he decided to take him in as a student to have a replacement for what Edgeworth was going to be and at the same time have someone who was close to him at one point to tease him about leaving his path and his teachings when becoming a defense lawyer or something like that idk

I just want to give ideas because I like the au a lot jaja salu2

I want you to know that I was literally thinking the exact same thing…and then while I was in the middle of drawing this, @wrathofthestars said in the reblog tags basically the exact same thing BUT they also mentioned the bit about Phoenix writing Edgeworth all those letters WHICH WAS WILD BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY DRAWN THAT PAGE BEFORE THEY SAID THAT

Anyways great minds think alike

Instead of Manfred manipulating Phoenix the way he manipulated Miles (i.e. being awful, psychologically abusive, etc.), he goes the opposite route and manipulates Phoenix in a similar way to how Dahlia (and later in typical canon, how Kristoph Gavin) manipulated Phoenix (i.e. praise, attention, etc.). It’s the fastest way to get control of Phoenix and get him to trust Manfred.

Also I hate drawing this toad man 😭😭😭

[lousirs]

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! i get to be entirely self-indulgent and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!

so i drew these two again xD horray!!

(can you tell i've been watching their shows? xD)

original post for the 2nd drawing under the cut:

[gender-trash]

digging through old county records to try to find out more information about [sparkle emoji] MY HOUSE <333 and man in 1911 they really let you buy a property with $10 in gold coins.

[fictionadventurer]

I got curious about the podcast you've been listening to, and I listened to the Snow White episode tonight. They got into this abstract discussion of motherhood, and I was surprised that no one brought up the fact that Snow White herself doesn't have a mother anymore (or a father, presumably), and the fact that she is an orphan contextualizes how she responds to others with motherliness. I just rewatched the movie, and it's notable what an especial compassion she has for anyone without parents. Before the huntsman makes his attempt, she's concerned about a little bird separated from its parents and helps them reunite. Later, she concludes that the inhabitants of the cottage must be seven children who are orphans, and it's clear that she's worried for them, and ready to step in to help them out--which in turn will help her out, because she's an orphan in need of care herself. No one has been taking care of this girl, and it says so much about her character that her response to this deprived upbringing is to make every effort to give others what has been denied to her.

I noticed the same thing during rewatch--Snow is constantly caring for others, especially children. I hadn't consciously connected it with her orphan status--I focused on the fact that she's a good mother contrasted with the evil queen as a bad mother--but you're so right. Snow White knows the pain of losing her parents and it gives her so much compassion for those in similar situations, and it's so impressive and says so much about her strength of character.

[addison-was-here]

CRAP

DAMMIT

NOT AGAIN

[saturnniidae]

Boovtwt fascinates me.

[ssruis]

Part of the reason why I don’t respect the vocaloid fans who are pissy about pjsk because it replaced project diva is because they got several games before sega stopped making them due to low sales like. You are so ungrateful. Some of us have had their favorite game IP locked in the Sony IP dungeons for over 9 years. At least you can mod project diva for new content. At least miku is in pjsk & it’s still a rhythm game.

[headfullof-ideas]

Thinking about the Nektons and their ethnicities, the languages they might speak, and Dark Orca Dynasties post about Australian Kathryn, and then thought about her husband, who might be French? Jacques is a French name, could Jacques be French or part French? I’m headcanoning him as at least part French now, or at least growing up there.

Now on to the point of this post. What accents do the Nektons have? Kaiko and Will are from different cultures and ethnicities and likely raised in different parts of the world, and they and their children travel all over the world since Ant and Fontaine were either born or very very little. SO, I don’t think they all have just one kind of accent

Will: Had a mix of an Australian and French accent as a kid, and it petered off as he got older and started moving to other places. It’s still there in the subtext, but it’s not too thick. Can kind of affect a poor Japanese accent due to trying to win over Kaiko’s parents. His accent gets really heavy when he’s flirting with Kaiko or REALLY tired or mad. When he’s speaking another language he tries to affect the accent it’s spoken in, to varying degrees of success

Kaiko: A mixture of Japanese and Greek (her great grandmother was Mediterranean and Kaiko spent a lot of time in that area growing up with her great grandmother and friends there, so she picked up a bit of the accent). She has a bit of an American accent as well, due to lots of her coworkers in the World Oceans Authorities having that accent which she started subconsciously picking up on. Her accent is pretty light due to her time at the WOA, but it gets prominent when she’s relaxed and heavy when she’s mad

Ant and Fontaine: Nobody knows what Heck kind of accent they have. They were surrounded by so many different accents and languages growing up that they just have a kaleidoscope of accents smushed into one weirdly indiscernible accent. You pick up something or another here or there, but they don’t have one dominant accent. More a mix of their parents and extended families wide variety of accents. It gets stronger here or there depending on what words they use, or how mad they get. They are also really good at picking out someone’s faint accent by ear, or learning an accent they don’t have by ear as well

And then just because, Nate and Kari’s accents

Nate has the same accent as the coastal town that he lives in, which sees a wide variety of people coming through due to tourism and the fact the town he lives in serves as a destination stop for the occasional cruise ship. He has the tiniest bit of an Italian accent as well from his Italian grandmother, though it’s not noticeable until some cooking crime occurs in his vicinity or he gets super excited and rambly.

Kari has an American accent, specifically from the midwestern region where she grew up. Her family lives in Seattle, where she also lived for most of her adolescence, when she wasn’t with her dad at the Nektons base in the summers. As she spent more time there as she got older, she picked up a little bit of the accent from that area (same as Nate’s) but nothing too crazy or noticeable. More like a subtext, and some specific ways of saying words here or there.

[cathalbravecog]

first thing i drew on my new tablet to test it out is the tv beast themselves

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: On the rainy night of October 2, 1968, eight characters waiting on a remote bus station for a bus heading to Mexico City start experiencing a strange phenomenon.

This movie is very 60s inspired down to the poster of the film, it looks really interesting.

[butchjesus]

that part in the scene at the college where finnegan is dousing victor in sarcastic praise whilst calling him a pervert and a lunatic and victor responds by yelling "again! harder!" at his boyfriend... hmmm

[batsplat]

a lot of dramatic irony in the fact that vale's attempt at an act of erasure is what truly tied their legacies together. i mean, first of all, in my opinion, vale has a bigger chance at winning his tenth if he doesn't make that accusation public, even if he believes it. but secondly, it is that claim of sabotage that means no one ever can forget that marc and vale were part of each others careers, nor can their intrinsic similarities and differences be denied

valentino's low-key quite quirky with legacy management in general, like there's a different ask in my drafts about this but it's sooooo funny how he keeps talking down biaggi/gibernau because. y'know. why would you do that, they were your main opponents in your prime... it's in your interest to talk them up! you want people to think they were super strong and tough to beat! also you did struggle with them you twat. with jorge/casey it's just kind of interesting how little he's concerned with arguing his case, y'know? jorge and casey, especially the latter, are quite actively concerned with Selling their sides of that rivalries, reexamining various controversies quite regularly - which is fun and interesting because it's kinda unintentionally revealing about what's going on in their own brains where valentino is concerned, how they want to be perceived etc... it'd probably be a bit undignified if valentino started getting petty in the press about it, but that didn't need to stop him... he really just has taken a general 'ah isn't nostalgia lovely' approach to discussing these rivalries, he's really not doing much of his own pr in that regard

obviously makes it interesting that he still kinda gets into it with marc when you catch him in the right mood and idk host a podcast. but even there, is that really legacy management? is that really pr? honestly, I kinda think that's just the stuff that feels a bit more compulsive... it's a bit confessional vibes, where usually when he's asked about marc he can be quite sensible about the whole thing and keep it to relatively bland + uncontroversial statements. on the rare occasion where you get more out of him (and it really is pretty rare, that podcast was a bit out of nowhere when you're following this stuff on a rolling basis over the years), it's less selling his story and more just needing to have a bit of a rant? kinda the urge to be a bit cruel with it where he usually knows it's not really in his interest? basically from at latest mid-2016 onwards, he was aware of this dynamic and tried to starve that rivalry of oxygen more often than not... but sometimes he's slipped up. quite memorably so, on one or two occasions, still clearly a slip up

anyway I'm sure it is kinda frustrating how closely they are linked, which, yeah it's fun! marc and valentino were always going to end up linked just because of how bloody good they both are and how they did have a decent bit of overlap in their competitive windows... but! now it's a story! it's the rivalries everyone remembers, and they've managed to tell the most memorable one of them all. I still think in a way, y'know, the deed was done because he did still manage to cut that interpersonal link... it's not like most fans of either of them these days would really see the two blokes as particularly similar. kind of the natural result of the polarisation that's taken place, but it is a narrative that's gradually changed... obviously more neutral fans are generally still aware of it lol - but I wouldn't say the similarities can't be denied... a lot of people seem to be doing just fine at that. still, even the fans can't deny the importance of the enemy in their guy's story, kinda beautiful in a way. everyone's trapped forever and ever

[ardenrosegarden]