#this is a big departure from that

[yozi-porn]

but those are just his wishful fantasies aren't they

[themachine]

[kg-clark-inthedark]

I've been bewitched body and soul by @uncontrol-freak's corvosider au in which Corvo is a grizzled sea captain, so I made a short fan comic for ch 2. If you want to know where the seas will take them, check out their fic, Abyssal!

Higher quality version linked here because tumblr always chews up my comics

[minai28]

Watched the first bit of arcane season 2.

Did not expect Viktors path to machine herald to be quiet so... Jesus

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - The Land of Departure

[poirott]

Detective vs. psychic medium

A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023), dir. Kenneth Branagh

[werewolf-w1tch]

she property on my hate till i [ ]

[mc-critical]

1.10 / 1.09

[madsway]

now that i've taken in the entire show and am about to rewatch simply because i can............... i'm so pissed that dave erickson got fired because damn........

[revvethasmythh]

The score for Veilguard is actually so cool, because obviously it's a departure from the originating themes that were loosely shared between DAO and DA2, but it really stands against the sweeping orchestrals and pounding drums that drove you in Inquisition (perhaps more than the story itself was driving anything). In comparison, Veilguard leans much more toward synths, electric instruments, and there's even a track with western inspired strings and a harmonica (and it SLAPS). It's varied and reads as more modern, but also carries with it this cacophonous sense of apocalypse as well as, perhaps, presenting an idea that this world is moving on and forward, that I think fits very well thematically and musically

[eegasleega-will-change-this-l8r]

-OUR FOUNDER-

⚙ THE CHAIRMAN ⚙ OF COGS INCORPORATED EST. 2003 ---------------------------------

So I've never talked about this on here before, but Toontown was one of my absolute FAVORITE games as a kid (despite never having membership so being locked out of 99% of the actual game jlkjfsakj) Like it was absolutely formative for me, I drew the cogs a bajillion times and they inspired a ton of my own stuff later on (and still absolutely do) Then the game closed and Rewritten came out so I could actually play the whole game for the first time (haven't gotten anywhere close to getting to the end though) To this day I have an on again off again interest where once or twice a year I'll suddenly get absolutely smitten with it again haha

So, if you're also into Toontown, you'll obviously be familiar with the mysterious, unseen overarching villain The Chairman This is my own take on his design that I came up with a few years back ^^

We don't have much to go off of from the original game for what the Chairman might've been like, so I had a couple of different inspirations

Obviously the giant head in the Sellbot Factory, since those old Chairman pics with that head pasted onto a cog body were absolutely what I was most exposed to as a kid, but it's also not a 1:1 lift

In some of my earliest sketches trying to come up with the ideal design I tried making him look like he had the giant robot from the old installer video underneath his suit, so he had like lanky, cartoonish proportions, toonier hands, etc It looked really bad though and I couldn't do what I wanted with the head since it would've had to fit over the shorter, wider robot head, so I just ended up scrapping it (i do take some inspiration from the video for my vision of Toontown's story, but i've just scrapped the robot entirely) Oh I also gave him the eyes from the Field Office since I thought that could be neat, but it looked out of place so I simplified them to what he has now (they're still stylistically similar to the eyes on regular cog buildings, so i don't think i'm really losing any of the meaning behind them at least)

By far the biggest inspiration was when the FY11 plans got released

Holy FUDGE did this blow my mind when I saw it for the first time All those years as a kid of the Chairman not even being ACKNOWLEDGED except by the CEO's final words and a couple odd references in obscure magazines and whatever Desperately speculating and grasping onto all those tiny pieces of some mysterious, horrifically evil entity behind everything And then this??? This awesome, ominous silhouette?? Plans for something huge??? Seeing it is what drove me to go and draw him in the first place, it still gives me chills just looking at it

So yeah, I wanted mine to have that same aura of cold evil, that striking silhouette, while also having a bit more character to him Like most cogs are frozen in the same screwed up scowl, where there's not much room for expression If I could, like, make an actual model for him, I'd want him to have the same sort of capacity for different expressions as the toons have (even some you wouldn't expect from the head of the cogs)

He's ruthless, calculating, doing everything he can to maximize the profits and efficiency of Cogs Inc and expand their operations to the entirety of Toontown, with no regard for ethical business practices or the wishes of the people he plans to subjugate (But does it work? Is he happy?)

I'm absolutely gonna do an analysis of the cogs as a whole at some point (as long as my interest doesn't plummet for a little while longer), there's a ton of stuff I wanna get into about my interpretation of them as villains because oh my god I love them so much

OTHER STUFF - He's not as massive as the other boss cogs, but he's still absolutely huge (iirc the highest level cogs are all canonically like 8ft?? and he's got a LOT of height on them) - He's drinking oil in the pencil drawing - I happened to watch this video where one guy talked about the way the villain in Tarzan held a glass of wine and how it left a huge impression on him, so I just arbitrarily decided to emulate it in my drawing XD - Oh yeah a big reason for the main drawing in the post was that I really felt like I was getting too attached to a single style in my digital stuff (literally just using the same default pen tool for everything, never changing the size), so I wanted to force myself to try something new - I drew the frame myself, just kinda winged it so it's. not as good as it could be but it works fine I think

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

(part 1)

[aura-bug]

as much as I want some ykw4 stuff to be acknowledged I also think it'd be funny if akihiro hino just scrapped the whole thing from existence. yo-kai watch 5 (or ghost craft or whatever) should be about how hinozall wrote "yo kai watch 4 shadowside + academy y" into the enma note

[moe-broey]

You know Henriette is lowkey kind of anime (like the SuMo anime) Lusamine-core. To me

[ratatatastic]

THE SEVEN UP TABLE HAS TURNED INTO THE MONOPOLY DEAL TABLE BECAUSE OF NATHAN WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THE EMOTIONS IM GOING THROUGH 😭😭😭

[mashamorevvna]

its really hard to be one of those people ultimately disappointed in the direction the dragon age franchise has gone, but also really disagree with some statements made by people in 'my camp' so to speak.

for instance, i don't really think bioware has ever, all things considered, focused only&exclusively on small stakes stuff; they can write very good and meaningful personal stories of a handful of characters but the backdrop is always 'hey you, player character, save the country, the world, the galaxy, the planes'. the only outlier i can think of is da2, and that's bc it was born as a dao dlc that had to be expanded for quarterly revenues at ea