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this 'being really tired after work' thing is really getting in the way of this 'pursuing my artistic hopes and dreams' thing has anyone else noticed this

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“You can’t think about saving the whole world. You have to think about saving one person, Miles. Just think of someone you love.”

“My mom, and…my uncle and my dad.”

“In that order? Wanna talk about that?”

“No.”

Another redraw, this time from that great deleted scene.

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What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that? NOPE (2022) dir. Jordan Peele

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I’VE GOT THE VOICE OF THE MANY IN MY THROAT 

THE TEETH OF A FROG AND THE TAIL OF A GOAT

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Jean Jacket. Call him Jean Jacket.

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Made this for my sister when she asked. Though others might want to use it

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“Is Anyone Out There?” Self-portrait by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, 2000.

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rusty quill presents.

made myself some bookmarks!

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Compulsion Costume Redesign

With a new setting and new environment, it seems fit to give the canon characters new outfits and costumes for their new lives. In the story, most of these costumes are made and designed by Midoriya Izuku. There’s some lore stuff about each one.

Midoriya Izuku’s costume is practical and the most armored out of the bunch. With his Quirkless status, he had to forgo the usual flashiness of a Hero costume and stick to something that’ll keep him alive. Helmet has a LED display using the brain sensor from those robotic cat ears. Logo self-explanatory from the story’s setting - Support Course Midoriya AU.

Kaminari's costume contains his electric output and redirects it to the Support-Arm, the Stein-Gauntlet. The gauntlet is responsible for condensing and focusing the energy to let loose a lightning bolt. There is a "Cast-Off" mode that disables this. The armor comes off and allows the discharge to escape via disc-like ports on his chest, back and waist. The logo was once just the lightning bolts but that felt too simply so I added the Omega symbol as it relates to Ohm, a unit of electrical resistance.

Shinso's costume, while sharing a dramatic amount with Midoriya's costume due to their shared movement system, the Maneuver Belt, Shinso's suit focuses on a lot more movement and plenty of pockets. The Rogue to Midoriya's Paladin. To also show that difference, Shinso wields electrified Escrima Sticks while Midoriya wields a electrified bat. (Shinso's hair also continues to be the bane of my existence.) Casual attires show a formal yet casual look. Logo is brain because I already gave the soundwave thing to Jirou so we're gonna stick with that.

Jirou's second costume includes the guitar/axe named Orpheus. The main focus was to give offensive capabilities while providing a safe place for her to use her quick by providing a wireless connection between her cowl and multiple speakers. The mouth mask was to give her those face paint markings that in canon that I think Shiketsu would disallow. The Logo design lacks that real connection to her character apart from the soundwave/bpm thing. The choice of a triangle comes from her consistent eye-shape.

Ashido's first Hero costume at Shiketsu High School, but without the hat. Due to Shiketsu seemingly having a sense of formality or at least uniformity, I decided to remake the canon designs to fit the new setting. A lot of Ashido's flashy costume became muted and limited, but has found its place as a belt/sash. The costume within the story has received some minor attention from Midoriya hence the grenade launcher and similar greave/kneepad armor. I'm particularly proud of the Logo which has a mouth within a mouth to reference the reoccurring 'Alien' joke.

For Yaoyorozu’s costume, Midoriya takes queues from the R-Rated Hero's costume to give Yaoyorozu the necessary skin exposure for her Quirk. When it comes to signatures, armor seems to be Midoriya's. Attempting to abide by Shiketsu's strict regulations, this whole costume is meant to go under a black cloak but that would be visually boring so I went without it. The visor is linked to a voice-activated database filled with the necessary information for certain Items to be used for the Creation Quirk. The bicep armor holds six in each/twelve in total pills that quickly creates lipids in her digestive system. This, however, will not help her in a battle of attrition, but acts as a lifeline as the amount of lipids is not enough to create large or multiple Items. Logo is a mix of the symbol of Gaia and the kanji for create.

This is all for a fanfic I'm writing called Compulsion. www.fanfiction.net/s/13708254/… archiveofourown.org/works/2672… www.wattpad.com/1054264491-com…

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 nourishes it

keeps it warm

fills it with love

fills it with rice

refills sanity bar

grants it a blessing

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horror of dracula 1958 // girlfriend by avril lavigne

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Midoriya Izuku has been set back further than any previous point in his life. If All-Might says he can't be a Hero, what chance does he really have? He has to give that up and move forward realistically. No matter the twist of the knife...

An extensive knowledge of Heroes and their world has its uses elsewhere. However, can he truly abandon that want, desire, need to be a Hero? Can he deny himself that? Or will he give to his compulsion?

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13708254/1/Compulsion

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My heart goes out to the 27 victims of the recent ligma outbreak. You will be in my thoughts and prayers.

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John Boyega went from thinking he wouldn't have a career after fighting racism to a Golden Globe Winner

I've talked on what happened with John Boyega and Disney Lucasfilm a lot. Maybe because even for myself, I'm not over it either, but because I want to make sure everyone knows this story. They know what happened. It's why I've basically dedicated most of my Tumblr, YouTube Channel, and Twitter to talking about this.

This may be the last time though just because unless more comes out publicly, I think there's not much else I can say on this and I'd like to start covering what happening with Ray Fisher at Warner Bros

But one last time, let me explain what happened with John Boyega and how a this Golden Globe win something so earned and proof that being a good man who fights for what's right and a great actor who never stops, is what has given John the career he deserves.

Back in 2014, it was announced that John Boyega would be the male lead of the Sequel Trilogy

John Boyega had been announced as the male lead of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy after the IP had been purchased by Disney. The casting process was a hard one for John Boyega since Disney Lucasfilm wanted to cast a white actor, but JJ Abrams had fought against Disney Lucasfilm and after 8 different auditions, John was finally cast as Finn. A big part of what got John the role, beyond his powerhouse acting chops and JJ Abrams fighting for him, was that his chemistry test with Daisy Ridley, the actress that been chosen to pay Rey, had been the only one that Daisy herself had liked. Daisy, being cast after her first audition. Meanwhile Adam Driver, who would go on to play the sequel trilogy's antagonist had been hand picked by Kathleen Kennedy.

Some time later, the marketing for the first film in the Sequel Trilogy, The Force Awakens (2015) had started and well the internet reacted as well as you'd think it would back in the mid 2010's

Despite the racial backlash and a call to boycott, The Force Awakens broke all box office records and to this day, still holds the record for highest grossing film in North America of all time.

Sadly though, Disney Lucasfilm chose to go a different direction...a direction that sidelined him.

The TLDR being he was Black and they didn't want a Black male lead.

For more detailed breakdowns, here are two different videos I made on the subject.

This one is 40 mins and its a detailed breakdown of John Boyega's experiences throughout the sequels.

But if you want a shorter breakdown that just covers why he was sidelined and how it damaged his character, here's a shorter 23 min video

From John Boyega's own words, Disney Lucasfilm based his experience in Star Wars off of his race and at the time of the second film in the ST, The Last Jedi (2017) it was a re-ordered character hierarchy that saw John now pushed into a supporting character role.

The trilogy ended, with a wet flop, as we all know. Months of re-shoots re-writes from Disney Lucasfilm had turned the final film, The Rise of Skywalker (2019) into a studio mess that saw John Boyega once again on the short end of the stick.

In the next following months, John Boyega would speak out against many of the creative choices made in the sequels, something that got him LOTS of backlash by angry Star Wars fans that were calling for his career to be over and him to be canceled. John responded with a video pushing back against them.

Then later in 2020, John Boyega went out to take a stand against Police brutality and systematic racism during the Black Lives Matter Protests

John would later in the year of 2020 go on to speak with GQ and speak out against Disney Lucasfilm's racist treatment of not just him, but of how badly they treated fellow co-stars Kelly Marie Tran, Naomi Ackie, and Oscar Isaac. Further proving that it was the lives of others, other POC like himself, that John was fighting for.

It was during all this that John Boyega had lamented that his career could likely be over after all this. He had taken a stand against racism on two fronts, Disney, who own a good deal of the entertainment industry, and police brutality. For a Black man in the film industry, this fear is honestly a real one.

But fate has a funny way of rewarding the noble and kind hearted folks of the world. Not always, we all know that's not always the case, but for once, it was. John Boyega didn't lose his career. In fact, many saw his fighting spirit and saw his bravery, saw that he wasn't going to lay down and let anyone suffer if he could fight.

The year is 2021 now and John Boyega has won the Golden Globe for his role in Small Axe, a story that ironically touches on racism and police corruption.

Its been an interesting journey for John Boyega. From a kid being able to live his dreams and be cast in Star Wars to a man fighting against racial injustice both in the world and in the entertainment industry, John's story is one for history books of our generation.

Whatever future John Boyega has in this world, I truly wish him the best and I'm thankful that someone like him exists to be a role model for so many people, regardless of where they come from or what they look like.