#they are just similar characters in different fonts

[magnecalliope]

#Absolutely LOVING the dynamic Pili and Pangi have got going on rn #And how it ties with the dynamic Clown and Ros have got going on#Two sides of similar coin just in different fonts #And how it has shaped the dynamic now between Pili and Clown #The absolute cold war dynamic #Clown aiming for Pangi while Pili aims for Ros without regard for his own life #Meanwhile Red is conspiring to kill Clown to establish dominance #Pili said yesterday that he knows when to not pick battles he might lose #But at the same time if Pangi gets hurt‚ all that would just go out the window instantly #Pili literally asked Pangi to kill him before Clown could #So it's not losing his life he's worried about #It's Pangi getting hurt #Which is just so 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 #Sacrificial character who might become a pathological killer once the person they care about gets hurt is just ��✨✨ #I want Clown to hurt Pangi so Pili hurts Ros #Faction fight my beloved #Trsmp #The realm smp

via @mikaikaika

pili puts up such a strong front its crazy. like hes making threats he cant be certain he can back up but hes so desperate to put himself between pangi and harm that he's putting himself in deeper and deeper shit.

if anyone was curious like. the minute clown ros and baghera left, SECONDS after pili threatened them AGAIN, he just started sobbing and whining that he was SO fucked and pangi had to reassure him that hed be fine dsfkljsadklf

[localcoffeeshop]

i canr srop doodling and i have nothing to do but stew in my mind palace so heres a dump of various adventure time drawings across like 5 or 6 different canvases

[billtergiest]

the skeleton lesbians and moon lesbians are on a double date

[dramaticpandabear]

The fact that Fiyero is literally Anthony if he were more laid back and didn’t care about the societal expectations of his status as a high ranking noble is literally FUELING MY BRAIN RN

[front-facing-pokemon]

[soniclion92]

"Dear diary, my teen-angst bullshit has a body count."

[nagitosstolenhand]

i dont know quite how to describe it but. cinematic parallels.

[whumpy-wyrms]

hey guys

[greenhillguy]

just saved a url for jet 😈

[raisethe-velvet]

playing psychedelica of the black butterfly, can’t unhear subaru in karasuba’s voice

[amaraudermind]

GREAT

Listen I have rambled...a few times in the past about how thematically Steph should've been in We Are Robin. Which is still soso true. But like, there's so much of that which is directly informed by the parallels between Duke and Steph and their individual journeys as characters.

They are both looking for something when they first hit the vigilante scene!! For Steph it's that justice that she feels isn't there, for someone to finally stop her dad for real! For Duke it's...also about justice, and finding his parents who he knows are out there if someone would just be looking!

The way they end up actually becoming heroes is almost opposite of each other, as well? Because Steph seeks it out on her own, becomes the Spoiler as direct pushback to her dad's villainy and also as a way to give herself her own power and a way to save herself. Instead of waiting for a hero to show up, she became the hero she needed. Whereas Duke was also not waiting for a hero to show up, but he didn't have plans on becoming one, either. He was trying to survive, solving his own problems instead of patiently waiting for someone else to solve them. From his point of view, he kind of stumbled upon the hero thing on accident. From a narrative point of view, the vigilante business sought him out, and he decided it was worth trying.

They both have trouble trusting the respective heroes they interact with initially(Steph with Batman and Robin; Duke with Nest and the other Robins). For Steph, she doesn't trust them as much as they don't trust her. And even as she begins to trust them, there's resentment for them not trusting her back. For Duke he's the one who is initially mistrustful of the others, and they in turn are more guarded around him. Which isn't to say that everyone else trusts each other completely and openly, but more that Duke stirred things up when he showed up openly questioning everything.

There is, of course, the obvious parallel of early resentment of Batman for not being there when they needed him to be. Which is either directly or indirectly what leads them both to becoming vigilantes.

Both of them are very much outsiders to all of it in the beginning. For Steph it's because she was treated like she didn't belong and always had to strive to prove herself. For Duke it was because he felt out of his league and wasn't sure if this was even where he needed to be.

And this comparison would not be complete without mentioning their relationships with Damian.

I say this because it's an important aspect to me that neither of them met him and had intentions of mentoring him. Or changing him. Or even having a relationship with him. He was an annoying brat that both of them seemed just as happy to ignore and not interact with. But they were in situations where they were interacting with him. For Steph, she realized he was just a kid. A lonely kid who'd missed out on childhood. For Duke, he realized Damian was a kid. A damn smart kid who knew what he was talking about and was too self righteous and self sacrificing for his own good.

And they both decided he was a kid worth caring about.

There was no obligation. No reason that they had to be around him and gradually begin to care about him.

In just a few interactions, they both met Damian, and both decided he was worth getting to know, even though he could get on their nerves like no one else.

I can't remember that happening this way with anyone else which is why it has to make my rambles about Steph and Duke because it just. Snfjchdbdbd. there's so much about who they are as characters wrapped up in their relationships with all the other bats yes but it's most obvious here. To me.

Does anyone want to talk about the parallels between Duke and Steph or--

[anthonysfingerlessgloves]

sooooo i saw beetlejuice beetlejuice in theatres earlier and i actually really liked it, but like... did anyone else notice that tim burton just sort of copied tyler galpin and pasted him in the form of jeremy? similar personality, similar role in the story (love interest who is then revealed to be a murderer; the only difference being that tyler is a sympathetic character and jeremy is not), very similar voice, similar style of dressing. even jeremy’s MANNERISMS were just like tyler’s. hunter and arthur also look a lot alike (nose, lips, hair type, smile, etc etc), especially their side profiles. not only all of that but jeremy and astrid’s kiss was shot the same way as wednesday and tyler’s. they’re literally the same character in a slightly different font 😭

[arsonsketch]

My promised GF Au comic typography rambling 📝✍️

Mabel's Font

Her font is purposely very close to comic sans. The font is also bold with low lettering space to portray her childlike manner of speaking. She's also the main character in my AU so she gets a simple readable style.

Dipper's Font

His is similar to Mabel's by being bold and with less spacing. But with a serif style of font. Not only is it similar to Mabel's but it's very similar to Fiddlefords. This may seem like a more random connection, why not have his mirror Ford’s font. Because Dipper could've ended up like Fiddleford if he did take Ford's apprenticeship and I find that parallel super compelling.

Fiddleford's Font

Now I already explained the Dipper connection but the reason I gave him a typewriter style is because Fidds loves computers and tech. His is in contrast to Ford's cursive, Ford being more traditionalist with his journals and handwritten notes. Fidd’s because of his inventions and laptop.

Ford's Font

Now Ford's is a mirror to Stan's, a way to connect the two even through their differences. Both are a very handwritten style, Ford's cursive and Stans is normal script. Ford's is directly based on the font in the official journal 3. Plus we all know this dork speaks in cursive!

Stan's Font

Stans is very simple, his obviously mirror Ford's but is also connected to Mabel's. Both have a lighthearted feel and are very easily ready, portraying both are great communicators.

Bill's Font/effect

Bills is round and far more odd in comparison to all the others. He also has a rainbow/glitch effect on his text, it also affects Ford's text when possessed! His font is really just to show how supernatural and inhuman he is and to visualize his voice glitch from the show.

(Also bonus fact only Bill and the Time Tape have any color in the comic, it's to make it visually obvious when magic/science stuff is happening lol)(did I overthink this little comic? haha)

Thank you for coming to my unhinged typography TedTalk!

[cardo-de-comer]

I really like your art and your characters and I had an idea. Dont know if it clashes with your canon but i had to draw it.

It didnt turn out the way ive wanted it and several markers run out durin coloring (tbh i had them since elementary school so...). But at least ive put the vision on paper :)

Holy... You got me at loss of words for a day buddy, honestly every time when someone makes fanart for MY DAMN OCS i want to explode Just change dimensions to timelines and you're golden, I love everything about this and how Imri looks and different fonts for them yessss also random lore drop again but Devil does have another "true" form, similar to Imri /eight-pointed star/ but this whole thing is less about dimensions and more about different perspective.

[punkeropercyjackson]

I've had it with the assumption Duke Thomas is just a DC version of Miles Morales.Y'all literally only think that because they're both black and you may call it 'representation' but it's tokenization by stripping them of their depth(and their designs.....they don't look similar and once again you're being antiblack by saying they do).Here's how Duke and Miles aren't 'same character,different font':

Duke is too mean to be Miles(a compliment to Duke and not an insult to Miles)

Duke is a Meta and the son of a god named Gnonom and therefore a half human hybrid,Miles became a mutant while born as an ordinary human

Duke is only AA,Miles is AA and afrolatino

Duke's sun motif is based on his powers,Miles' sun motif is based solely on personality

Duke is actually like Hobie Brown:Dystopian black punk teen boy who lost his childhood but only let that make him an optimistic anarchist,professional insitigator and stay silly,is the leader of a mantlesharing team of other troubled kids of color and an absolute sweetheart despite the audacious attitude with absolute batshit street cred

And Miles is actually like Jason Todd and/or Tim Drake:Black and red-coded,secondmantle holder who went to a far off place when he was 15 to find himself at the manipulation of an important woman in his life and had his life irreversably impacted by a Canon Event Death,went from a soft peppy nerdy boy to a self-isolating goth asshole mentored by a major figure from his dad's past to cope with his trauma and a precious teen genius who has to deal with typical teen problems even in his double life and talks so much trash and gets himself into so many situations it's a (boy) wonder he's still alive

And jic y'all get any ideas about what i'm about:Batcest isn't a part of Batlore,that was made up by white gays to make themselves look smart and i never watched Deadpool and Wolverine and i think nobody else should've either

[who-is-page]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Inky Paws #3

Inky Paws is a nonhuman anthology zine for original fiction writings by nonhumans and alterhumans about nonhumanity, alterhumanity, and similar, related themes. This zine is primarily literature focused, but will also be open to more illustrative methods of story-telling such as comics. The zine’s focus is on fictional pieces that are centered around nonhumanity, alterhumanity, therianthropy, and similar (see Submission Guidelines section for more details).

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Each individual may contribute up to 3 accepted submissions to be published in Inky Paws; individuals within systems may each submit 3 pieces, that is to say 3 pieces per systemmate/headmate/preferred term.

Comics and similar multi-part pieces count as one submission altogether: if you submit a single story that has been divided into two sub-stories for dramatic emphasis, or if you submit 10 pages of a single-story comic, or if you submit a written piece of fiction and an accompanying image that you drew or otherwise created to go along with it, that would still only count as one piece.

Submissions must fit the thematic criteria of:

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Having strong themes or describing experiences strongly reminiscent of or related to nonhumans, otherkin, therianthropes, fictionkin, alterhumans, or similar such as (but not limited to):

Characters experiencing nonhumanity or alterhumanity as being a part of themselves/their identity,

Characters experiencing anything similar to a shift (including physical shifting),

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Written submissions must not exceed 7500 words, and must also use a reader-friendly font with a text size of or exceeding 16 pt.

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With that said, It should be noted that any items submitted with soapboxing intent and anti-nonhuman, anti-alterhuman, anti-fictionkin, or similar leans are largely not welcome, as this is a zine geared towards all aforementioned groups and then some.

Q: Can I submit an in-progress draft or sketch? Can I claim a spot in the zine before sending in my submission? A: We are not currently accepting WIP pieces for submission at this time, though feel free to send us your WIP if you have questions related to its future submission. We also cannot reserve or guarantee a spot in the zine pre-submission, regardless of any existing drafts or WIPs.

Q: Can I submit a piece of fanfiction? A: While we've now accepted pieces of fanfiction in the past, we tend to prefer to leave them out for legal reasons. If you submit a piece of obvious fanfiction, please know that it may be significantly more likely to be rejected from the zine and that, if the piece is accepted, the piece may be removed without warning from the zine later on if DMCA or legal issues arise. We strongly advise that individuals who wish to write something inspired by fiction make it non-obvious to the outside reader where the inspiration is being taken from.

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