#tiny pretty things screencaps

[argentangelhelps]

TINY PRETTY THINGS SCREENCAPS

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[insertdisc5]

Possibly odd question, I'm trying to prepare to write my undergraduate thesis next year and I'm going to do it on creating battle AIs. Is there any chance I could possibly ask about how the battle system AI in 'in stars and time' works? Totally okay if not or if you're busy!

I'm just especially interested in the design decisions that go behind how especially smaller games handle enemies and creat fun/well weighted battles :D

(all the screencaps will be in JPN because I am currently working on the JPN version ok!!!)

i would love to talk about battle AI and this definitely didn't turn into a "this is how I think about random enemies for In Stars and Time which you should wishlist and play the demo of" just deal with it ok

ok so first I gotta explain how RPGMaker's AI works.

You can give skills to enemies, and you can tell them 1. Conditions, aka when to do a certain skill (always? only on certain turns? only if under a certain state? only if under 50%HP?) and 2. Ratings, aka how high that skill is on the action list.

So for example, this is a Paper Tristesse's attack patterns:

Paper Tristesse's [Paper] attack (which attacks only one target) is set to Always, so they'll always have the possibility to do this attack. [Paper (All)] (which targets the whole party) will be activated only if Tristesse's HP is under 50%, and [Does Something] (which actually just... gives a line of dialogue and nothing else) also always has the possibility to happen. BUT those Rating numbers are different- the higher the number, the more likely that skill is to be activated. So [Paper] happens pretty often, [Paper (All)] less often, and only if Tristesse's HP is under 50%, and [Does Something] is even less likely to happen than both of those.

Paper Tristesse doesn't have a whole lot of attacks, because it's easier for the player so they can keep track of what attacks the enemy has, and it's easier for me. So I don't have. To figure out a whole damn complicated AI when this works great (some other enemies have very long lists of patterns but they're spoilers ok!!!)

(sidenote: [Does Something] is here to give a tiny bit of worldbuilding (how does the Tristesse act?) and to make the enemy skip a turn, giving the player some room to breathe and plan. So sometimes instead of attacking Tristesse goes "(Tristesse is distracted.)" I'm being so nice to players)

This simple pattern of 3 attacks is used by enemies that my producer calls "Goomba enemies", which are random encounters that are supposed to be very simple and not time intensive for the player! For the demo, Tristesse enemies are Goombas, and the triplets (seen below)/Rancoeur+Amertume encounters are made to be slightly harder and ask you to think a lil bit.

(oooh what's the difference between those three lil ladies?????)

The way I'm thinking about random enemies is, they should all teach the player something. Basic Tristesse enemies are here to teach you about the basics of Rock Paper Scissors and have pretty low stakes (just one weak enemy to focus on! Not a lot of attacks to keep track of!), the triplets are here to teach you that HEY WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE THREE SEEMINGLY IDENTICAL ENEMIES DO YOU GET WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK AT YET (it's their hands, because they do different hand signs depending on their RPS type), and Rancoeur+Amertume are here to teach you about enemies with different goals/patterns (Rancoeur buffs, Amertume attacks), and also that enemies can buff themselves, and also about player priorities to a certain extent- which one to focus on first??? And learning those things are useful against bosses and midbosses!

tldr: rpgmaker's AI is pretty simple and so my enemy AI is also pretty simple but it works well so it's perfect. for me ✨

[batter-sempai]

Hello hello! ...Dorry for my last ask. Got a bit overexcited and brainspewed all over your inbox.

Guess who's gotten into Ultrakill thanks to you! I'm definately not complaining, that's for sure.

So... I have decided to spice things up with a bit of a Ultrakill ramble instead of my usual Papyrus Nonsense (Does this mean I'm no longer the Pap Anon? The sacrifices I make for new blorbos... /lh)

One thing that I noticed was that I couldn't find a single role reversal fic. Which is fair. The Idoits (aka Gab and V1) are Too Damn Similar to just swap without making it the practically exact same story. So.... I came up with an idea. What if the setting was a "holy crusade" type of story? The angels culling humanity on the surface instead of machines in Hell? And the machines (either previously made for OG purpose or made specifically to fight the angels) have been sent out by humanity in defense? I just think it would be neat.

Side ramble from story ideas since that's the only one I've got, but something that interests me is... how do the machines WORK? I know there's.meant to be suspension of disbelief and all that but I want to Know. Do they have little suction holes all over their plating to suck in the blood? Does the blood work like with humans, only they lack the ability to regenerate that blood? Or is it that the blood works more like oil for a car? And the concept. Oh wow the concept. Imagine being in a weapon design commitee or whatever they have and some saying "you know what would be really messed up?" and everybody just nodding along and saying what a good idea that was?

Wow this is getting long. Going to cut myself off here but tldr thank you for the Thoughts.

- No Longer Just Pap Anon

Hehe hello there Pap Anon. :D I’m so happy I got you into Ultrakill. I’ll reply to your other asks too, I’m sorry it took so long. ;_;

I guess you’re both the Pap and Ultrakill anon now? Nice. ^^

Now that I think about it, what would a combination of both games be called? Underkill? Ultratale? Both sound pretty great.

Yessss I love how similar Gabriel and V1 are, while having the opposite goals. Both of them are, or now were, pawns to a higher force (the humans and the angel Council) and tend to act on instinct. Their dynamic is fascinating to me.

Ooh! I love the idea for this AU so much. :o Maybe in this world, humanity didn’t destroy itself with war and making the war machines, and managed to live on somewhat peacefully. But the Council didn’t like that and sent an army of angels, including Gabriel, to purge the humans. Would be very messed up if the angels sent down had to consume blood to survive too. Humanity’s last-ditch effort to survive was to send machines to fight the angels, and V1 being the last and most powerful weapon they made. V1 and Gabriel meet and fight like they do in the game, only on Earth instead of in Hell. ^^

On the topic of how the machines work, the game says that all machines who aren’t V1 have a “separate blood refueling process”, though it’s never specified what it is. V1 is unique that he’s the only machine that can absorb blood through his metal plating. So maybe V1 has very tiny suction holes on his plating to absorb blood. But the other machines might have to stop and siphon the blood into them somehow. I like to think they have some kind of blood vacuum, but I still need to give it more thought.

Also I think blood is actual fuel for them, due to the tagline “blood is fuel”. It’s mostly like gas for cars, they need it to keep moving. I've seen some people depict machines as having tubes as veins for blood in their bodies, or having parts that look like metallic human organs, which are amazing ideas, but I don't know how canon that is.

Here’s a screencap I took from the game explaining V1’s refueling process.

And honestly, the humans should have seen this coming. Imagine making powerful machines that NEED blood to survive and not expecting anything to go wrong. Then again, I guess humanity in real life isn’t any less foolish sometimes. But hopefully we won’t make something as awful as blood machines.

It’s okay ^^ Thank you so much for the ask.

I guess I can be both a Papyrus theory and Ultrakill theory blog too, because this was really fun to type out.

Also, here’s a screencap I took in Roblox of Papyrus and Gabriel. Hope you enjoy it Pap/Ultrakill Anon. ^^

[ryuichirou]

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Some replies today!

Anonymous asked:

the other Ortho anon, and i read the reply X3 it's the second time i use this space as chatroom tbh, it's fun to talk with the other Ortho anons. i hope you get to share! i will love to find it!

btw Ryui, did you see the idia relaxation card. the nape out, absolutely slutty/j but also when you focus on the shorter part of his hair he looks like a grown up human Ortho........... i was gonna die yesterday of nosebleeds, idia the pretty princess......

Yeah, I find it funny and cute in a way that we end up becoming a hub for Ortho lovers every now and then lol I don’t mind as long as it’s not for too long and people get to connect with each other. Share and enjoy each other’s work, Anons!

And YES, Idia relaxation card ended me. That pose, that face, everything – he is indeed slutty. I saw someone comparing him to that one Megara screencap, and fuck yes it fits. It’s the nape + hair combo… they’re so long… Idia the pretty princess indeed…

I didn’t even think about grown up human Ortho’s hair looking like the shorter part of Idia’s hair but I can see it!! God I love Shrouds too much..!

Anonymous asked:

like l alway say about your art

Some one should make this official meme

OH GOD I didn’t expect the punchline… this is brilliant lol

Thank you, Anon, you are too kind lol

Anonymous asked:

Hello !  Oh, I'm so glad you like Bachira and he's so cool in your style !  He's like..a cutiepie, and at the same time, completely unhinged (he LOVES walking around butt-naked, for example and thinks he has an inner monster who talks to him while he's playing soccer, telling him the best moves, etc.)  I really like him and his bromance with the MC ! Blue Lock is really fun btw, it's like a soccer Battle Royale, with LOTS of strong feelings between the characters (so many rivalries and bromances !) .  I should also add that the artist has worked as an assistant for Isayama during Attack on Titan and..let's say it shows XD The characters all look really, really intense  while playing soccer, it's honestly a little scary sometimes ahah.

Everything comes back to Isayama..! This man is too much of an influence in our lives lol

Thank you for the trivia, Anon! It’s very interesting. And also fun to learn more about Bachira, he seems to be as unhinged as he looks lol I’m glad we got a chance to draw him. Sports anime are always surprisingly gay, intense and intensely gay, but in my opinion they should also be unexpectedly creepy every now and then. So yeah, I think it’s a great thing!

Anonymous asked:

Sebek in the Egyptian wear is doing things to me… sir those tiddies look heavy, may I hold them for you- maybe give them a tiny little bite-

BEAUTIFUL WORK IM GOING INSANE AROUND AND AROUND SEBEK’S THRONE…

Thinking about sweat glistening on his chest as he barrels into whoever’s underneath him, hands on their hips, gripping so hard that the person bruises… lowkey I’m thinking about hate-sex with Leona but yknow scenario can change as it will-

Thank you two for the delicious food once again!!!

Oh no, Sebek’s godly tiddies are under attack lol

Thank you so much!! <3 I am very happy you liked how he looks. We wanted to do something with Sebek as the-crocodile-deity for a while now, more than a year to be honest lol So I’m glad we did!

You’re describing quite a lovely image, not gonna lie… I think Leona works nicely visually with this setting (?) and stuff, and the steaminess of hatesex obviously makes it even better. But yes, I can see other people with this Sebek as well. All of them to be honest. He’s the fertility god after all lol

[koiifiishy]

:-3 i made another sims apartment, this time for my dol pc + sydney! if it were to be a canonical representation, it'd have to be their place when they're older and not during the game's timeline haha. but i think the apt is cute! under cut bc there's a few pictures (also shared some pics of the sims themselves at the end!)

entryway! i recolored the accent walls to be a dark brown bc it was ugly base sims orange at first. these kindsa "fake fancy" apartments always have wall scones but no overhead lights so i made sure to put those in too.

kitchen! & a portion of the living room. i realize now i didn't take very good pictures of the kitchen lol, the parts you cant see too well is a counter with some kitchen clutter, microwave, and overhead counters. also put up a small herb shelf and aprons (i thought it'd be cute if they got a set!).

it's a pretty small place, but the size felt right! there's an attempt at splitting the room into a living room & bedroom, but it's still pretty small. i included a few of the things from eris' orphanage room too :>! in true sydney fashion, i don't think he'd of brought too many of his own personal touches to the apartment and would be more content to just let eris fill it up and decorate it however he thought looked nice. still tried to add some of his own touches to the place though, like the books and ocean themed paintings!

bathroom's very tiny, but still cozy enough. tried to add just a little more clutter to it to make it feel lived in :3 specific things of note is the jewelry dish for their promise rings and sydney's cross, and the bathmat being "bookworm" themed - eris would definitely gift sydney things like that to fill their apt with, so he also has his own things!

and the sims themselves, i think they're cute! in true dol fashion, they immediately banged upon being in their new apartment for not even one minute LMAO... obviously im not gonna share screencaps of That but i thought simsyd's face here was cute huhu and its sfw enough to share,

they went to a karaoke bar, got sims wasted and then sang really off pitch together after that HAHA.

[himebushou]

do you think kazuki will beat himself up over rei irreversibly damaging his own arm? rei did do so for their sake after all...

Hi!  So I’m going to have to start by apologising – originally, I was hoping to scoop up some screencaps to underline my thoughts, but it’s a bit late over here so I’ll just go on memory, lol

Long story short: If Kazuki does experience any guilt over Rei’s arm, he internalises that feeling and keeps it very much to himself.  For me, I think it’s more likely that Kazuki just accepts that it was something that Rei felt that he had to do – and, as such, Kazuki supports him 100%.

Long story long: I’ve mentioned before that one of the really special things about Rei and Kazuki’s bond is the sheer level of trust they have in one another, even though they don’t always verbally communicate their hardships.  Kazuki and Rei are two men who, when they devote themselves to a decision, do so with almost terrifying conviction.

With the exception of Episodes 10 and 11, where their world was thrown into disarray because of Misaki, Kyuu-chan and Ogino, Kazuki and Rei, after committing their lives to looking after Miri in Episode 3, never question their choice.  Instead, they both accept their new dynamic as the new status quo and neither of them ever begrudge it (I mean, Kazuki ‘vents’ to Kyuu-chan in Episode 7 about having to do all the housework and there’s some tension in Episode 5 where they try to balance being papas with working, but on the whole, there’s never any ill will about the fact that they’re caring for a tiny person).  We can see, therefore, that Kazuki and Rei are both pretty flexible – Kazuki a bit more so than Rei, but if we consider that Rei, who was ‘like a robot’, signalled that he was Miri’s papa within a month of meeting her, we can appreciate that he’s pretty dang adaptable, too.

That trust is communicated in other ways, too.  Kazuki’s the one who collects their payments from Kyuu-chan (Episode 1).  Kazuki’s the one who keeps an eye on the household finances (Episode 5).  That alone speaks volumes.  They’re living under Rei’s roof.  In Episode 2, when Kyuu-chan asks whether they’re ready to take on a new job, all Kazuki and Rei have to do is briefly nod at one another to know that they’re on the same page.

But here’s the key point: when Kazuki or Rei makes a decision, the other doesn’t question it.  For instance, in Episode 3, when the family embark on a quest to return Miri from whence she came, Rei asks Kazuki whether he’s sure, but he doesn’t argue the point (admittedly, this was pre-Papa Rei).  In Episode 11, when Rei says that he’s going back to the Suwa mansion, Kazuki is momentarily surprised, but expresses his understanding – and then goes off to vent to Kyuu-chan.  Once again, we can see that the pair are forceful with stupid things – such as when Kazuki drags Rei to the daycare interviews in Episode 4, or hauls Rei around the zoo in Episode 6 – but when it comes to big decisions, they respect one another’s autonomy.

The way they respect each other’s boundaries is so, so important.  Rei was raised to have zero autonomy and yes, Kazuki takes liberties, but he doesn’t infringe on Rei’s lifestyle or try to force him to change.  Similarly, Kazuki’s lack of control over a situation led to the biggest losses in his life – it’s understandable, therefore, that he goes to extreme lengths to try and control what’s going on (as Rei notes in Episode 8, Kazuki’s ‘overprotective’).

How does this all relate to Rei’s arm?

In Episodes 10 and 11, Rei and Kazuki have their first real disagreements – because they’re literally fighting for their lives, including the life that they’ve built together with Miri.  They reach a conclusion quite rapidly; Rei expresses what he wants and Kazuki throws his heart into it, but lays down some ground rules.  Having done that, having sworn to Kyuu-chan that they’ll move forward properly and be a family, this time with renewed conviction, I think Kazuki and Rei both knew that the other was prepared to do whatever was necessary to secure that future.

Therefore, when Rei staggers out of the Suwa mansion, bloodied but free, and says, “I did it to myself,” Kazuki… gets it in a heartbeat.  He understands.  He appreciates that Rei did what he had to do.

And, rather than angst over that and wallow in a fugue, or make Rei question whether the sacrifice was worth it… Kazuki knows any sacrifice is acceptable for protecting the life that the trio have together.

Kazuki, therefore, supports his partner 100%.  The same way he always has done.  The same way he always will do.

[megaderping]

You know that RP chat you linked on one of my asks. I have been spending a lot of time reading the RPs and debating on if I should try to get in on the fun.

Though If do, I will either RP a base Yu or a Ren based on the Timeline of 'The Phantoms of Gotham' fanfic both sound like it would be fun though I'm leaning towards Yu because of the sheer amount of Ren/Akira's even if Trying to navigate Tokyo or any of the Japan locations when Ren is from the Crime capital of the dc universe, and having the other people I'm RPing with having to decide if the DC comics exist in their universe and if so react to the fact that this Ren goes from being accused of assault, to being pretty much adopted(unknowingly) by Batman, to Phantom thief within the span of a month or two. Would be stupid levels of fun. Ren would be so godamn lost

But anyway, I have to say the RP with Tiny Baby Ren was freaking cute, adorable, also very cringe on behalf of older Ren. Also for the life of me can't find the RP where Raven gets Loki been searching it for the past three weeks I know it has something to do with Sparrow's shadow because accidentally got spoiled. Can you help pleeeeeease???

No worries! I can get that thread. It's a fun one. First, context: Meeting with the Shadow of a Maruki Ending Akechi. And the BIG THREAD that includes him awakening to Loki and also a lot of cute and stupid stuff between both the P4 and P5 versions of my Akechi and Magpie (Vashti's canonkechi). But thanks for the interest! As far as joining goes, it is invite-only mostly to keep the community from ballooning outta control (easier to moderate), but I brought up your interest in the mod channel, and we're discussing how we ought to handle interest via tumblr and other outside spheres, since a lot of our player recruitment has come via Discord servers we're a part of or just people we happen to know. We don't want to seem unwelcoming to interested parties, but we also want to make sure we coordinate and are on the same page, since we're a rather small group. Once I have a better idea of how we're handling things, I can give you an update! What I will say is that when it comes to RPing from someone else's fic or fanwork, you'll wanna ask the author first and get a screencap to prove you got the okay. It's mostly just so we avoid issues because we have a few fic authors in our community, and we never know who will wanna join us, etc.

[chiclet-go-boom]

... for those of you not paying attention at home, I have been deep in the weeds these last few months resurrecting old websites I used to run or co-run back in the day. in this brave new world of corporate takeover and the tiny little cries of the oppressed going "where are all the little webpages now? the carefully curated lists of things that only three people actually care about? what if i want to hear all the dialogue lines from Gambit as voiced in the now defunct Marvel Heroes mmo?!" --- I have risen like cream.

I have three quarters of the webcode for about four different fansites from wayyyy back in the day when I was absolutely feral about building websites for whatever my current obsession was, and right now i'm currently putting Bird Go back together - a fansite for Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets specific to Joe/Ken yaoi but we were equal opportunity smut purveyors and pretty much entertained all comers.

For the most part I have left the old code intact and surprisingly most of it still functions, although its laughably bad if you consider 'best practices' of the here and now. But - it serves webpages on desktop monitors which is what it was originally meant for so I am content. Some stuff has been lost over the intervening years, old folders of images or pages not copied forward through hard drive crashes and the like, so there's been evenings of hacking through the Wayback Machines to try and restore at least some of what's gone missing.

Today though I have just finished re-creating 105 webpages for the individual episodes of the first series and can now attach the 40 folders of screencaps that I carefully put together back in the day because, yes, I do have the entire first series on CD and did spend quality time like the fan I was/am to crib all the really good shots (and all the really horrific ones) for posterity.

so please, in my carpal tunnel pain - see also my little drawing and painting attempts below that were lovingly drawn at the same time as this very old website, because there's nothing like a strong love for a particular anime to inspire a gal to want to make pictures for it.

Science Ninja Team Gatchaman! I will love you forever.

[hazelcallahan]

hi dani, hope you're having a good one. your gifs are so vibrant and hq! if you don't mind sharing, what's your process?

i appreciate the compliment! i first started making gifs back during my glee fandom days in 2011 so i have been doing this for a while lmao, but here's my general process (under a cut because it got long as hell):

i'm gonna assume you know the general giffing process for this - if you need me to help you out with screencaps, lmk! just make sure whatever you use is 1080p. i torrent to get the best possible quality, which is its own tutorial, but there's plenty of those out there.

open up whatever you use to make gifs - i use adobe photoshop cc that i definitely legally got - and go into file -> scripts -> load files into stack and select all the pictures.

once you've done that, go to the window tab and check "timeline" to add the timeline window to your workspace and click "create video timeline, then click the three small boxes in the bottom left to convert it to a frame animation. then go to the hamburger menu in the top right and click "make frames from layers". this will actually put the frames in reverse, so go to the same menu and click "reverse frames". from here i go the same menu AGAIN, click "select all frames", then change the frame delay to 0.05.

now it's time to crop! for the best quality, make sure your image size matches that of tumblr's. tumblr's image width is 540px, if you're doing two images side by side it's 268px, and i do not recommend doing three side by side because things get weird. the height can be whatever you want.

sharpening is another aspect of getting those gifs as crisp as possible. there are many ways to get a good sharpen, but the way i do it, you have to convert your timeline back to video timeline, so click the little icon in the bottom left:

then select all your layers, right click, and select "convert to smart object". then, with that layer selected, go to filter -> sharpen -> smart sharpen, then use these settings:

duplicate that sharpened layer, then go to filter -> blur -> gaussian blur, with these settings:

then take the layer that has both the sharpen and the blur, and set the opacity to 50%.

now it's time to colour! i have the same general process to colour all my gifs, sometimes with an added selective colour layer if i really want to amp up or turn down a certain colour. but all of them can be found under layer -> new adjustment layer. first is a curves layer to brighten up the whole thing

then another, different curves layer to add some contrast:

then a vibrance layer set to pretty high, around 80-100% but i play it by ear because the next layer is actually a gradient map set to soft light with 50% opacity to add some more contrast and tone down the vibrancy a bit

now, in order, i mess around with a selective colour layer (generally i only touch the red, yellow, white, black, and neutral colours, unless there's something i really wanna specifically bring out like the cyans/blues/greens in a lot of the arcane gifs) and for this there's no real system. you just gotta play it by ear depending on the scene. next, do the same with a colour balance layer. i usually top it off with a levels layer to add just a tiny bit more contrast, but that isn't entirely necessary as you can do the same by amping up the blacks in the selective colour layer.

once you're done colouring, go to file -> save for web. make sure to set the looping to "forever", and keep an eye out for the file size. luckily for newer gifmakers, the size limit is a whole 10MB now (though sometimes it'll cap out at something like 9.8 so stay on the safe side). it used to be a LOT smaller, iirc it was 500KB when i first started. if your gif is over size, you're gonna have to just cut out some frames by playing with the edges on the timeline window, since cutting down the colours will affect quality.

you're actually not quite done here - after you've saved it, close your file and then open the gif you just made. it'll default open in frame animation, and you'll see that the delay on the frames is actually 0.07 now. it's something that happens during the conversion to video timeline. select all frames and change that delay back to 0.05 since 0.07 is actually a noticeably slower and less smooth gif. save that the same way you did before, and NOW you're done! thanks for sticking around! happy giffing!

[fourseasonsfigs]

Xiao Yue is Coming - New Year's JZEU Series (7)

With fig number 7 in this series, we're leaving behind the splendors of costumed drama for the real world.

This is another one of those figs I fell in love with at first sight. I mean, how do you not love a fig on a scooter? Especially with such a cutely woebegone look on his adorable face?

The woebegone cuteness is because this is our dear Wang Yue, who's had a rough go of it in his life. I know this because my Best Fig Friend finally convinced me that despite the adult subject matter (in the decidedly non-fun bills and tough life circumstances way), Brother was a brilliant performance by Zhang Zhehan and worth watching, and also a super short film. She was right, as usual.

The inspiration for this particular scene isn't even one I need to screencap, since the fig maker has extremely helpfully provided it for me in her sample fig pics.

So we have his outfit in the top pic, and the scooter itself in the bottom. WHERE is your helmet in the bottom pic? Safety first, Xiao Yue!

Ok, with that inspiration in front of us, let's turn from the prototype to the real thing.

This little man arrived complete in one piece on his scooter, and with a separate road platform. You can see the little pegs on his scooter wheels that should fit into the little holes on the road.

SHOULD. I mean, technically, they did fit just fine in the slots. What they did not do was stay. I tried putty, I tried wax - finally I gave up and glued him in.

And that worked well! Maybe tilting ever so slightly to the right, but on my shelf he looks great.

He's so delightful! I love his expression, it makes me laugh whenever I look at it. A+ to this figmaker (she's indeed one of my favorites!) for the fringe of hair and the enormous cute helmet. Of course, I also love the Junzhe iconography of the moon and stars.

Despite the fact that the pegs don't quite snap into the base, I think the fig modeling is fantastic. It feels balanced and even, with the tiny scooter visuals making it cute and adorable vs. undersized.

There he goes! The back box on his scooter is quite large in the short film, so this is pretty proportional.

Ah, you can really see the bit of lean here in my amateur gluing job. On the shelf, though, it'd have to have a massive lean over to the side for it to be noticeable, so this is nothing (she says to make herself feel better).

Notice instead the cute moon and stars pattern replicated on his bag! Super cute.

I also like how the scooter has a little mud flap (which is true to the original). The stripe on his back of his shirt vest looks sharp and clean.

The visor on his helmet looks like it should move up and down, but it does not. Which is fine, since that face is too cute to hide behind a visor. I know in the inspiration pic above that he's not wearing his helmet, but this is exactly the one he's wearing in the short film.

And now we're back around!

The top view - this is a nice angle for his pose and hands and the moped itself. His face looks even more concerned from this angle!

And the back view as he putt-putts over to the hospital to see a certain Dr. Ling.

Once again this fig maker does not disappoint with her gorgeous box art. I love the four seasons here of him going about his work - beautiful and poignant at the same time.

Material: PVC (fig) and plastic (road platform)

Fig Count: 259

Scene Count: 19

Rating: Tiny and adorable!

[link back to Master Fig Index for more posts]

[philcoulsonismyhero]

#broo this looks so good!#how many hours did it take?#it's all pencil linework#must have taken patience beyond my understanding

Thank you!!

You have activated my trap card: talking about drawing

I wasn't keeping track, tbh, since I've been poking at it on and off over a couple of days. Some number of hours greater than two, but I genuinely have no idea. Believe it or not, this is actually what counts as relatively loose and sketchy by my standards! Pencil lineart is what I fall back on when I don't have the energy for proper inking, since it's a lot more forgiving. (Plus, I've got this excellent propelling eraser that lets me clean up really tiny details, so I was able to get rid of the construction lines without losing the details around/on top of them and that helps it to look neater.) Usually I'd get really particular when inking the lines, but this time I just quickly went over some of them with a really sharp pencil for definition, or a blunter one for weight, and let things stay a bit fuzzy in places.

The whole thing was pretty haphazard and improvised, actually. I started redrawing a screencap, but then I changed the expression, moved the limbs around, messed up his hair and clothes... It was pretty much an experiment in being a bit looser and not so reliant on references, so it's interesting that it looks like it took patience! It felt like the total opposite when I was drawing, I was just throwing things at the page and seeing what stuck by the metric of what I found the most entertaining. It does help that I've drawn Ironwood a truly ludicrous number of times by now, so I've got even his more complicated prosthetic hand pretty down, and I could probably draw his face and hair in my sleep.

While I'm rambling about the drawing process (I meant it about the trap card!), I put far too much thought into the damage and the blood (and my usual habit of making sure the lines of his metal arm are vaguely realistically visible through his sleeve, because I always thought the show animation was lazy about that). Obsessive levels of detail is always the fun part, I get into the zone and forget how long I've spent on things. The vague context I had in mind is that this is the result of the big James-vs-everyone fight in the better version of vol8 that exists in my head. (I did vaguely consider making this the aftermath of the Watts fight, but I chickened out of the level of gory involved in drawing his burns.) His aura has been knocked out, he took a glancing bullet to the shoulder, something nicked his face or maybe it's a laceration from a blow, and the big one is that he's over-exerted himself far too soon after getting his arm replaced and he's bleeding from the amputation site. Figuring out where the blood would have soaked through his jacket sleeve while running down his arm as it hung limp was fun. I would have drawn blood on the knuckles of his left hand as well, but metal hands don't bleed and I was less keen on the implication that it was someone else's blood, so I just went with damage to his glove. Can you tell I've been watching a lot of forensic pathology crime dramas lately. Oh yeah, and it's less clear in pencil than it would be in colour, but I had to include the heavy dark circles under his eyes that I always draw him with as one of the few bits of shading. Man has Not been getting enough sleep.

I do love drawing this disaster, it's been way too long.

Vent art? Stress relief art? One of those things, feat. this disaster because he's good for that

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makes like 10 icons out of one pic and calls it a day

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gosh, thank you for the addition @embracing-the-ineffable, very kind of you.

absolutely agree, the change in bentley actor doesn't explain why the car changes body in the middle of ep3, but i have to say that i do still, personally, think it is explained within the narrative; that aziraphale changes things around, and crowley accepts it as part of how their relationship is evolving. i also think, given how little they actually talk to each other about this very thing, it's entirely in-character that neither remark upon it. the changes may well have an ulterior motive with s3 payoff, but that's my thought process as it currently stands.

because i like to conduct my own research for my own peace of mind (ie. nothing at all against your own screenshots, not at all! they reminded me of body shots that id forgotten were buried within the eps!), ive gone through both seasons again to see if i reach the same observations on the changes as you did! (spoiler: i did)

starting chronologically with 1941 and 1967 which, tbh, only 1967 can be fully seen (even then not that reliably) and idk if we can rely on any detail from the 1941 screencap, as this is the s2 flashback:

but then moving onto s1, again just to essentially provide the control variable:

✅ grey bodywork ✅ two door/small window ✅ small silver hubcaps

now s2 - so, again, we know the physical car changed, as mary wasn't available. but they've done a pretty stellar job of finding a similar model, albeit id say is a slightly darker grey colour. hubcaps also seem to be similar, if not the same design. it also appears to account for why the back window is larger at the start of s2 - it remains two door, but the bodywork is subtley larger (?).

✅ grey bodywork ✅ two door ✅ small silver hubcaps

but moving onto ep3 where i think, given the narrative, we can say the change factor comes into play - the bentley, as far as i can see, starts the same, and as far as i can recall (can't find the exact ask, typically, but will come back and link if i do!), neil confirmed that the yellow colouring was all post production - ie. not just when it magically changes back, on-screen, to what i think is the dark grey (bottom left pic).

but when we get to edinburgh, and the design changes entirely. ❌ black bodywork ❌ four door ❌ tiny silver hubcaps.

ep4 is a little strained in terms of visuals on screen, given the hitchhiker scene lighting, but the return to soho is much clearer that the bentley keeps the black, four door bodywork with the tiny hubcaps. this continues all the way through eps5 and 6 to the s2 conclusion.

❌ black bodywork ❌ four door ❌ tiny silver hubcaps.

now that ive looked at it closer, looked at the pattern - no, it's not a continuity error. i think in any eventuality, all the changes on the bentley happen in connection with aziraphale, on the way to edinburgh - that's the common denominator, as far as i see it - and i am therefore fairly satisfied personally that we have an in-character, in-story explanation for it!!!✨ (famous last words)

i know loads of other people have written and theorised about this, and there was an amazing post about how someone knew the actual owner of the bentley and how things had to get swapped around*, but for the sake of my own bloody sanity i needed to go through all the bentley snippets we see re: seat colours, interior door panel colours, and the bond transfers because otherwise it was going to drive me loopy-

*if anyone has a link for this post, please wing it over to me and i will link, it was really interesting!!!

let's start with the 1941 and 1967 flashbacks where we see the bentley: ✅ brown seats ✅ brown panels (as far as i can tell) ✅ bullet decal (1967):

then let's move to s1. tbh, i've only done this for the sake of full disclosure, but as far as i can tell, ✅ brown seats ✅ brown panels ✅ bullet decal (no pics but fairly content that they're there in all scenes):

and then, post bentley going up like kindling, and being resurrected by adam, we can see what looks to be black seats and, i'd hazard is an open window (given the lack of shimmer/reflection compared to the window on its left) - see we can't confirm the bullet decals. however - and mainly because it doesnt fit the pattern im about to lay out - this image is very zoomed in, and lighting quality isn't quite reliable. so personally, im considering this as inconclusive:

so now let's move onto s2. eps 1 and 2 are fairly straightforward, ✅ brown seats ✅ brown panels ✅ bullet decal:

episode 1: (3rd and 4th images are before and after the beelzebub interaction)

episode 2:

but here's where things get interesting (stating the obvious, i know that everyone knows this), but given that this is when aziraphale takes the bentley - after the very poignant "our car' discussion - we can see the following:

setting off from soho: ✅ brown seats ✅ bullet decal ❓brown panels, but likely

on the way to edinburgh: ❌ black seats ✅ bullet decal ❌ black panels

arrival in edinburgh: ❌ black seats ✅ bullet decal ❌ black panels

okay, well, he changed the bodywork and hubcaps too, so this makes sense. but black? for aziraphale? feels somewhat like it's a compromise; he's gone ostentatious on the outside, literally the colour of crowley's eyes, but red leather for the interior... is a little much. so he compromises - keeps the decals (to honour his knight in turtleneck armour), but changes the inside to a cool, suave black. very 007.

but then we go to ep4, and specifically when aziraphale is accosted by shax. now, clear point to remember - shax has to have permission to enter, and compared to ep2 when she asks but materialises inside anyway, she now waits for aziraphale to acquiesce. this is the difference between a demon's car, and a demon-and-angel-couple-who-arent-quite-yet-a-couple-but-thats-just-semantics' car. by this point, crowley has accepted, agreed, that it is their car.

hitchhiker: ❌ black seats ✅ bullet decal ❌ black panels

return to soho: ❌ black seats ✅ bullet decal ❌ black panels

ep5 carries on in much the same way as the end of ep4 - crowley has not changed anything since edinburgh, ❌ black seats ✅ bullet decal ❌ black panels (not pictured, but can be seen in the same bit as the first pic):

and then ep6, beloved. again, nothing has changed. crowley's window is, however, rolled down in the departure scene, so the decal can't be accounted for. that being said, im fairly sure we can be certain it's there (and i have a thought about why it's rolled down but tbh it's so arbitrary that it's barely worth mentioning imo). in any case, ❌ black seats ❓ bullet decal ❌ black panels:

now i know there's the whole separate thing about the exterior changing from light grey to dark grey/black, but tbh i think that is going to be down to the continuity issue with the original bentley used in s1. as for neil's answers on his asks, here and here... look. could be something of nothing, but i don't think personally it's a wider conspiracy; i think it could be just be either that yeah, maybe some of my colour assignments in the above screenshots are wrong, or he's doing his parent-teacher-writing thing of what do you think?

maybe not, maybe it was a continuity issue, and we just have to apply hc to this to get an explanation.

well, mine is just simply that it's not a nefarious issue or mucking about with time etc... i think crowley just accepted aziraphale's ownership, and whilst he drew the line at yellow bodywork (the respectable choice imo, tbh), he kept everything else.

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Getting nostalgia for SPN fandom experiences is rare but I'm feeling it tonight. Back when the show was still on, and a new season would have 22 episodes, it would air weekly from October, with a couple of holiday hiatus's all the way through til the following May. 8 months of almost constant weekly new content. I miss that experience.

SPN fandom back then was great because after a new episode aired you had a week to discuss, write meta, analyse, speculate, make gifsets and fanart, and just generally thrive in the excitement of what was gonna happen next.

Yes SPN was for the most part a pretty crappy show with terrible plot holes and repetitive stories that made no sense half the time but that only added to the fun of it.

I miss it. I know there are still SOME shows on network TV that have these schedules but its rare to find an active fandom nowadays thats blessed with constant new content to bond over. Streaming shows get released in bulk, or the ones that are released weekly are at most 10 episodes long and so the fandom build up and excitement only ever lasts a few months at most (followed by a minimum 2 year hiatus in most cases!)

I wish we could go back to the pre binge watching days. Half the fun of getting into a new show should be getting to experience it weekly with the fanbase on Tumblr. Thats how people interacted and made friends.

The landscape on tumblr is so different nowadays, and I think streaming platforms are partly to blame for that.

Anyways this is me telling all my old spn moots still hanging around on Tumblr that I miss our weekly spn chats and long text posts sharing meta and speculation with about a dozen excellent additions to every post. I miss the episode reviews and the shit posts and how if there was even a tiny destiel moment it would instantly become the most gif'd and screencapped thing on tumblr for the entire next week. I miss the post episode fic drabbles that would immediately fix whatever crap the episode pulled that fandom decided it hated, and I miss the hilarious and yet ruthless way everyone would tear apart Buckleming after every single one of their episodes.

Those were good times on Tumblr. The golden days of SPN fandom. It was so much fun back then.