#which I like obviously

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I haven't been drawing very much lately and have been thinking about it in part because I always assumed that that would be a part of my identity and a significant part of what I did as a human being--I am not sure I ever very seriously expected to make a living at it, but I thought I would do it at least on the side

Anyway one of the things you'll hear people say and I think that I think this, at least, sort of, is that you are supposed to make art for yourself first and foremost.

People say this I think to mean a couple of things, with which I do agree: that you should not be overly worried about the attention, that you should not be concerned with wealth or fame, and that you should not be cynically chasing down fads. That all makes sense to me.

But there's something in that framing--for yourself--that has a kind implication or edge to it that I think nudges the posture through into something curved inward in a bad way. Like you should really just do it to make yourself happy and to no greater purpose, in true indifference to every outside consideration.

I find that very empty. It's not only empty, I find it kind of saps my creative capacity. Not that you should never make art just for yourself but I feel like my best artwork has been produced when I felt like it had some purpose outside of me, or when I had someone in mind that I knew (or really hoped) would like it, or when someone had inspired me somehow

[bogkeep]

ok so i think that my favourite fantasy subgenre is The Inherent Tragedy Of Being Born Into Royalty. which mostly means that i like to read about gay princes but with some nuance

[chloesimaginationthings]

I can’t wait to see mangle in the FNAF 2 movie,,

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

return to sub level 50

[ceruleanvulpine]

helena eagan both defying and exceeding my expectations by losing so hard and so immediately... having an even worse relationship with her dad than expected... filming a youtuber apology with an embarrassingly obvious fake cover story... reacting to the cctv footage Like That

[personnotfound]

i hope whoever actually shot that CEO is having a good day.

[verflares]

(click for higher quality!) draconified link concept ive been chipping away at this past week ..... here's my funny little compendium concept for him:

"A heroic spirit has taken the form of this bestial dragon. Unlike it's kin, this creature exhibits an extremely aggressive disposition. It appears highly territorial, and will relentlessly chase down those who disturb its skywide patrols - of which it seems to be endlessly searching for either a long-time vassal or foe. Unfortunately, it seems the spirit within has long since forgotten exactly who it was looking for…"

[fallenangelblade]

i always wonder in the wake of these category 5 destiel events how long it takes for misha to get a “hey man” text from jensen

[clouvu]

It's been one of those weeks, pass the yuri‼️

[jubileepizza]

The absolute crime that was Jack Harkness being a total enthusiastically knowledgable technology geek being written out of his character for torchwood. You wanna write a sex icon without his most attractive quality?? Come on now. Give the man his passion back.

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[aerequets]

she deserves a cropped blazer jacket I think

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike thinks Michael is dumb as hell

[foone]

In 2006, the Tamil-language film Paramasivan was released, about a criminal sentenced to death but employed as an assassin instead.

It is, of course, a localized remake of Kartoos, the 1999 Hindi-language film, in which a criminal is trained to assassinate by government agents who have him on tight leash, having already sentenced him to death.

Kartoos (meaning "cartridge", as in firearms) is directly based on Point of No Return, a 1993 American film about an assassin who is trained instead of having her death sentence carried out.

This film was released internationally as Assassin, or (in France), as Nom de Code: Nina (Codename: Nina). Anyway this film is a remake of Nikita.

Nikita is the 1990 French film by Luc Besson, about a criminal, sentenced to death, works as an assasin, yeah. That story. It was released outside of France as La Femme Nikita. This is the original, Nikita.

Which of course should not be confused with the 1997 Canadian TV adaptation: Nikita!

Nikita (also known as La Femme Nikita outside of Canada) is (well, this one is) about a innocent woman sentenced to the death penalty, but forced to become an assassin instead.

The same name, identically, was used for the 2010 American TV Adaptation Nikita.

In this one, it's about a woman who has already been through a whole-ass Nikita situation (which I trust you should understand by now what one of those is) and is now trying to get revenge on the secret organization that put her through a Nikita-Situation.

But the first remake was the 1991 Hong Kong action film 黑猫, or Black Cat.

黑猫 (Black Cat) is about a woman who is sentenced to a Nikita-ass situation. This time she's on the leash of the CIA. And then there's a sequel, 1992's 黑貓II：刺殺葉利欽, or Black Cat 2: The Assassination of President Yeltsin! *

黑貓II：刺殺葉利欽, or Black Cat 2: The Assassination of President Yeltsin is about ... exactly what you'd expect, really. She's still in a Nikita-ass situation and now they want her to kill the then-president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.

Is that enough? No! No of course not. Because there's also 2017's Korean adaptation, 악녀 (The Villainess)!

악녀 (The Villainess) is a loose adaptation where she's already an assassin before she gets her death faked.

I'm not even going to go into the canceled PS2 game.

But yeah. There's a surprising number of these Nikitas.

* BTW if this was the point where you went "wait is foone just making up movies?", I'd like to say: thank you. Thank you for thinking I'm creative enough to make up BLACK CAT 2: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT YELTSIN.

[technically-human]

Part two of the reverse verse is here! The reverse boys meet the original boys. They're not really getting along as well as I had hoped...

Again, this was a commission for @i-am-as-normal-as-you-are and they asked for angst/funny vibes... I think it's mostly just angst though. Oh, well...

Part one