#without completely villainizing them

[qoldenskies]

What do they fucking call villain donnie when they bring him home is the real. They literally kidnapped him. They have no basis for who he is, and even if they did he doesn’t even have a name. Both of his parents failed to show up to his birth /ref

well, originally they just called him "that guy" usually in relation to going "ah fuck, it's THAT guy again" (before pretending they forgot who he was when he comes up to them). they brawled for a couple of months semi-regularly, they probably had a designated rude nickname for him (kinda like they did for meat sweats lmfao. maybe he came up with a title of his own and then they bastardized it, and because he only really did it for them that was just what it kinda... ended up being) but obviously if they're trying to get on his good side they're gonna have to drop that.

so at first it's a lot of bro and buddy and dude. anything they'd normally call an acquaintance they dont know the name of. they honestly just thought he was being stubborn about his name, but no, he literally just didn't name himself. shelldon, the only person he's ever spoken to before this point (he made him because he was lonely!), just called him "boss" or "dad". sometime before he gets "adopted" by them he starts hanging around at the junkyard more and working for repo, and he just calls him "kid", usually, in a half-derogatory fashion lmao. he's come up with ideas for his name, but none of them stuck-- and they usually come from when he was much younger, and he's too embarrassed to talk about what he used to call himself because they're silly. he thinks they're gonna make fun of him again.

he also just vehemently denies any suggestions, until splinter finally tells him that he'd named him donatello after he was gone, and they all just start to call him that. even when he denies the name because it comes from someone he's unable to reconcile with. but it still matches with them, so he doesn't actually tell them to stop venomously enough to make them drop it. it's... comforting. he'd never say that out loud, though.

[astronomodome]

Feeling conflicted about the cyberpunk thingy impulse is going for because like yeah it’s a great theme and I like the aesthetics a lot but what I really like most about cyberpunk is the themes of corporate alienation and/or transhumanism etc etc which I know will not be addressed at all and in fact it’s kind of stupid of me to expect that at all from a minecraft series. Does anyone else get that or just me

[satoruxx]

have to remind myself that a big chunk of jjk fans will never be able to accept the fact that their favs were loved by multiple people and loved multiple people …

[vaguely-concerned]

kill me

(*wobbly tearstained voice* this is father & son richard plantagenet in henry vi part 3 1983 dir jane howell btw. which is. extremely good)

[waitineedaname]

One thing that I think muddies the water re: SQQ acting like a buffoon is that he’s much more physically expressive in the donghua? In a very comical and memorable way, like chugging the medicine he tries to give Luo Binghe when the system is about to doc him points, noticing it’s for external use only, and then visibly fainting in front of Ming Fan and Luo Binghe. He’s much more of a clown, and it’s mostly in good fun, even if it’s not accurate to the book. Thinking about it more, my ideal adaptation would have SQQ properly maintaining his immortal facade at all times, but also include an expressive chibi version of himself acting out his inner thoughts and yelling at the system constantly. Only the audience would see his flailing, and also probably SQH when he’s introduced. Also! Showing him get more expressive with Binghe as book 3 goes on and he lets out more of his real personality around him.

that's a really good point about the donghua! I'm charmed by how SQQ is in the donghua because he's such a fucking loser (affectionate) but it definitely isn't very accurate to the novel. tbh the difference between SQQ's inner monologue vs outward appearance/actions is one of the things that makes it hard to adapt from a written form! having a little chibi SQQ to express his inner thoughts is an option, or hiding his expressions behind his fan or waiting until he's alone to scream into a pillow or something lsdkjflksdjf it's tough! it's really one of those things that works best as a book, which is such a shame because GOD i want to see so much of it visually

also him being more expressive with Binghe as their relationship develops is really good :') especially post-canon! Binghe complains that SQQ smiles more at other people, can you imagine what it'll be like once SQQ starts letting more of those walls down and fully grins at him while teasing him? I think Binghe would just straight up short circuit for a second

[thegreatyin]

Extremely Sketchy™ fallen london OC mockup page because i had to share my vision. behold. the scoundrel. left being normal design notes and right being future design notes in which they are decidedly more furry about it all. any questions

[larrythefloridaman]

WOAH, HE'S BIGENDER? I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!

[racke7]

Sooo... I got bored and started trying to make crossovers happen again.

And basically, I've realized how very close BNHA and Worm are to each other, as far as settings are concerned.

Like, there are underlying differences in the world-building, but:

Powers appeared from an unknown source

Heroes and Villains are a thing

Powers are very unique, but tend to be "thematic" in families

In my opinion, the biggest differences between the settings are:

BNHA takes place in Japan, Worm in the USA

Scion is a well-known "all the powers"-cape, AFO is an unknown "all the powers"-cape

Worm has Endbringers

And... that's pretty much it.

Which lead me to think about "BNHA with Endbringers" and... it sure does fuck with the setting a LOT.

[lecliss]

Alright I'm on team Sunday now. Like whatever he's about to do I'm sure is gonna be taking it into antagonistic and villainous territory so like, don't do that. Don't turn this into an Artorius situation cuz then I'm just gonna be mad about always painting us as horrible uncaring people but Sunday's core philosophy so far is like, yeah I 100% agree.

[c1trvswurld]

What the spiderverse Fandom did to Miguel hobie and gwen-in fact all the main cast is evil and cruel and all ya bitches need your Fandom rights taken away ASAP

[coridallasmultipass]

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[ducktollers]

chat im really starting to fear that spiderman 4 wont have peter be nearly as sad as i need him to be. nothing at all has happened to indicate that but i just got a bad feeling. im almost completely expecting disappointment atp im just like mj fr

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of bsol through speaking of xmas xtrav that like i'm so augh god hand over heart falling over (just like the bloodsong b/c it's the like conclusion of being Overwhelmed By Artistic Effect that then in the ideal version you may as well die) at the thought of the finale where you have the main plot conclude as that Story w/those Themes like ah but even then, the influence, the other the musicians now, that this whole time like yeah you have to do it even if you just keep building or die or were thwarted even prior to that b/c you didn't know you wouldn't be....but that then just like in the opening song Outlaw or sort of distillation of the theme abt being someone making art Last On Land or that at other points other characters have emerged as not really their characters not really a greek chorus but elements of the story helping to Tell It, here's Everyone again for the friendship song altogether & each with an instrument & like not even able to see it but pics & imagining & the enthusiasm & the Thematic Resonance like this is when you are pursuing these pursuits together like _o__ (splayed out facedown emoji) aaauuughhh ;;mm;; bsol finale with everyone showing up playing & singing & dancing the song celebratory finale it's all the Theme when the full cast of Characters had only ever all been together for the one standoff scene at the end & yet obviously We've known them all & everyone is outlaws which is a song like i'm already going sicko mode & this is just the intro, so yknow, The Conclusion, good lord find an iconis musical finale without that place for the celebratory outpouring of enthusiasm right amidst other feelings & situations but Good Lord Here's This in a story that'll always have been all about people's depths & heights & widths & breadths & variations & tumult & all the dimensions, people will have Brought It all over the place & it's like yes leap around together playing & singing this song together which isn't The Story but is such an extension of it b/c bsol has its show within the show quality still infused all in it & if this flurry of Actors Celebrating Outpouring We Put On This Show but still within the show you are seeing as an audience in this venue wouldn't have been part of the original plan with a whole [outside the show within the show] plotline like. embraces bsol holding it so hard my becherished

[poniko-w]

been making concepts for magical girl adukin au.. i am forming a semi-consistent plot & having fun.. i might draw some other characters in magical girl outfits even if ive sort of laid out what the "canon" magical girls are for the au, but idk who i would draw.. maybe fusakin and syumitaro because well. ones a balloon with a human body and the other is God

[oldsoul--newmachine]

Body horror ahead. A while back I conceptualized what look the description "a monster garbed in forbidden science" might apply to. I couldn't begin to present it visually and think it might have greatest potential in abstract imagination. Here's what I wrote down in attempt to paint that picture: A bland sort of stormy villainous grey. Subtle ragged tears of orange and blue in disturbingly natural tones, constructed in functional but bizarre ways. Like a walking flayed, but the flesh is incomprehensible. A suit with subtle and disturbing hints made to reflect the body horror of self incarnate. Powerful, horrendously real and alive. Metal/carbon suit pieces- functional -but the gaps and the textures are flayed, shaved and burnt. Smooth to the touch but looking so molten, bruised and torn, thus revealing damaged shades of orange and blue as to look akin to flesh and blood. Oddly mechanical. The ugliest most horrifying amalgamation of clearly intentional and crafted damage. It flows along the lines of the scars. A helmet reminiscent of itself tearing away from itself, from nondescript features. Where is the face? Which layer is it? Joint gaps rubbed away ragged. Half a chest piece blended into carvings like real muscle and ribbing. Built so that the suit holds up but damage purposefully shows. Each hit breaks and warps the body, seeming to bleed beneath. A force-sensitive skinsuit beneath that shows the illusion of more and more gore wherever it is hit and revealed. A basic blue that turns sickly murky but clear orange. Everything it reveals that it shouldn't, becomes a fractal pattern of orange that's different with every battle. Orange like old blood. The most fearsome person in the room is also falling apart.

[orangeearlgrey]

Several things about the **** and **** drama is how many people have hopped out to go omg so is the lady we have decided is the only big bad villain responsible for planting all of the hate against insert group/idol here when I watched in real time for all of those examples their own fans jumping on their favorite idols for things that were clearly just scraps of bad rumors they just completely made overblown THEMSELVES under the guise of trying to look 'critical about their faves'