#what a turn this one took

[lurkingshan]

How does one even talk about Doctor Slump, which started spectacularly as one thing before devolving into a completely different thing? I guess I’ll treat is as two distinct dramas, because that’s how it felt to me.

The first half of Doctor Slump was a touching story of two people in mental health crisis learning to take care of themselves while supporting each other through the worst moments of their respective lives. I found Ha Neul and Jeong Woo easy to empathize with and even easier to love, and the mature way they communicated with each other so honestly about their feelings felt like a revelation. I was invested in the work they were each doing on themselves, the unfairness they sought to address in how they’d been treated, the hard conversations they had with friends and family, and the effort they put into understanding each other and finding equilibrium as a pair. I loved this show very much.

The second half of Doctor Slump was an incoherent mishmash of random kdrama tropes with only a passing relation to the first show. The characters ceased being mature adults and started interacting mostly via exaggerated aegyo. They felt increasingly less grounded and more like caricatures of themselves as the show abandoned the mental health storyline in favor of silly plot contrivances, trucks of doom, manufactured health scares, and more filler content than I could cope with. This show skipped any meaningful relationship development and ignored their mental health until the very end when it suddenly brought the doctor back to tell us no more therapy or meds are needed now because they’re happy, you see. I hated this show very much.

If you’re seeking a great drama with flawed and lovable characters that takes mental health crisis seriously, I highly recommend It’s Okay, That’s Love. You won’t find what you’re looking for here.

[chiptrillino-art]

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Zuko is just playing hard to get

[hinamie]

some quick jjk eye paintings

[palettepainter]

Still tryna figure out how I draw him, I think I draw his legs too big and his neck too long but either way, he's fun to doodle!

[secretsimpleness]

Sometimes I want to bring Morrigan but then I remember I play as a face-tanking rogue and I bring Wynne. Warden Cousland, Morrigan, Wynne / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware

[tenowls]

rivals

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 13: Beware the Grapes of Wrath.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[rottengurlz]

she’s like if the virgin mary smoked a pack of pall malls every day 🚬

[weirdglassthing]

LOA Shiptober Day 4: How They Met

October content month was ambitious..

This one took me. Shockingly long. Whoops! I’ll probably end up jumping around the prompt list and it might extend into November 😋

I’ll try to do day 31 on the actual date of Halloween though 🫡

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

[kindred-spirit-93]

*appears with a note saying "odypen art pls?"*

mwah!

*skidaddles*

russet potato & banana peel <3

[heartorbit]

mira monday is upon us

[arielluva]

straight through the heart

+ some zoomed-in shots bc i know the qualities gonna be. not great.

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

This image somehow explains everything and nothing about Gabriel at the same time...

[annasofthe11thdimension]

Alright, so this is basically...an art dump for all the pics i drew when i was trying to draft the ending i wanted my Odile looping Au 'Like a Wheel Ever Turning' which...is not even SLIGHTLY how this fic is going to end now, but while figuring that out i still like draw all this and had to do SOMETHING with it.

So figured I'd post it and be like 'hey! fun Odile looping act 5 boss fight vibes not connected to anything else!' since like...that basic IS what they are at this point lol.

The one cool idea i loved that i think is now FIRMLY ditched is the act 5 boss fight starts when Odile uses wish craft to splinter herself into two halves.

The 'old/current' her that is meant to be her coldly logical side, and a younger 'copy' version, which is meant to be the childish irrational side...that is what's stopping her just shutting down the time loop because she can't figure out how to be happy with her friends leaving.

I mean, if you murder the part of you that WANTS the wish to come true, that's basically a 'get out of time loop free card' right? Right! Totally sound logic!

Yes the 'young' version of her firmly believes that she's real, and also also got memories going up to about age 21, and also that she ought to be in Ka Bue not HERE among these french weirdos.

Also yes again, a 'young' Odile is EXACTLY as unhinged about this as you'd expect a 21 year old to be upon finding out that apparently the 'real' her think murdering her is the correct solution to this problem!

The shift of the fight was meant to have the inverse 'colors' shift from one version to the other by the end, wrapping up with the point where the 'original' Odile is forced to have a heart to heart with the personification of her perceived 'worst' qualities.

Pretty sure the vibes for this ending was a lot more focused on the resolution of having deeply complex feeling about EXPRESSING emotion directly to other people. That along with a side helping of how isolating it is to be perceived as a 'real' adult such that you can't be weak enough to ask anyone for help. Because really if you can't even be that then why are you any different then when you were irritating mess of a youth?

Not saying any of that isn't still present in the story, but like...there is a LOT of other stuff going on, and those themes are now linked into many other ones too, and that's not even TOUCHING on how Loop's been...somewhat complicating my redrafting lol.

...Also I might have drawn/plotted this version before i knew about two-hats lol. THAT also is a factor.

Anyway! Still liked all of these enough to want to do SOMETHING with them, and figured this worked, so i could like map out my thoughts on them, even if i never got to write this.

[ninjasmudge]

pinned like a butterfly

hes fine lamb just wanted to take a closer look at him

(its much better with brightness up)