#but stuff to improve for next time

[dynastine]

comm for mars243 on fr :)

[yirima-chai]

I made a new doll (Sherlock Holmes)

↓more pictures down here

(including cursed bald Sherlock)↓

His hands

This is his back

A few more pictures of his face from different angles

Ah yes making dolls includes wonderful moments like having cursed bald Sherlock sitting next to you on a shelf

look at his shoes (I made them out of leather)

And close ups of his clothes (they are entirely hand sewn and I'm really proud of them)

[teamoon7]

A bunch of Christmas kn8 doodles I made! I had to finish it even though it's not Christmas anymore lol

They're doing a Christmas party. Narumi was NOT invited

Anyways, MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄

🇧🇷: Fiz uns rascunhos de natal de kn8!! Tive que terminar msm o natal já tendo passado kkkkk (pelo menos dessa vez eu acabei 🙏)

Eles tão numa festa de Natal. O narumi NÃO foi convidado

Enfim, FELIZ NATAL!! 🎄

[kagooleo]

first dates aren't always perfect 💐🌺🌸

[bread-wizards]

I think that Orym actually does doubt Imogen, but this isn't a thing that is unique to Imogen. Orym doubts all of them to an extent, because paranoia is something he struggles with (and this is continuously reinforced by the story).

It's not a 'good' thing that he should never get over, nor is it an immoral character flaw that proves he actually hates Imogen. However it's also not something I think he can get over as long as the threat of having to possibly fight his friends exists.

"I have all the faith in the world in you guys, all of you. And I have also spent time thinking how to neutralize each of you."

[qqueenofhades]

Writing my first paper for one of my very first classes in the new MA, on a subject about which I know comparatively quite little, and having to remind myself with deep breaths that it will actually be okay if I get a B.

[myxineye]

everytime i draw tf2 again it makes me extremely unhappy and fills me with a kind of dread. but i feel trapped cause its probably the most ill ever be known for

[seyaryminamoto]

Hello! Long time no see :) hope all is well!

Not sure if you’re still taking Q&A’s, but I was curious about your opinion in regard to this newest addition in the ATLA live action casting for toph. They have opted with making her “more feminine”. I have seen your interpretation of toph and it was very well executed all the way around. From her friendships and admirations, to her romance and personal struggles/goals. It was well rounded and very in character. That being said, do you think making her more feminine will be an issue? Would adding femininity, -in your opinion- take away from her accomplishments as a character ? Would it ruin what she stands for and the social standards she went against? Or could this be a not so serious variable that affects Toph as an individual? This isn’t counting any other changes the creators have/will make ofc.) I look forward to your answer whenever you have a chance.

Thank you for these latest chapters btw, they have been a true delight! Best of luck to you in your future works. XO - a fan

Hello there! I have a lot of stuff to answer and it's been piling on, but yeah, I've been terribly busy lately, so I'm sorry for that :( but here's your answer, and I'll keep it as... concise as I can make it. Haha... ha. It's me, brevity is not in my nature.

Usually, with ATLA's liveaction, I've been able to trace the reasoning behind their choices. Some, of course, are completely ridiculous and can't be justified as anything but fanservice (looking at you, 41st division), but with several others, while the effectiveness of the changes can be questionable, I can trace where they're coming from and why they're trying to do that.

I have struggled to make sense out of why Toph would suddenly need to be less of a tomboy and more feminine. I have a couple of theories right now: one of them is that they believe it would be culturally unlikely for a highborn girl to be too much of a tomboy for believability's sake. While I could, perhaps, concede on this on SOME level... I also find myself thinking on many modern Korean TV series I've watched, where even if the story takes place in the Joseon era, the female leads might even crossdress as male in order to have a stronger role in society, thus, they can be depicted as... not all that feminine? Not COMPLETELY, usually, because there always needs to be some level of femininity to sell the perfect romance, apparently... but they're willing to provide the characters with different facets of personality that make femininity a backdrop, rather than the core of the character.

If this is what they're going for with Toph, then I guess our Blind Bandit's going to be K-Drama-ized. Sort of. I'm not entirely sure whether that will make her believable as a character at all when you consider what her role was like throughout Book 2, unfortunately, but it's, as usual, a case of reaching your own conclusions when we see it live.

The second option is one I find a little more outrageous: the show may be looking to disregard a lot of "character stereotypes" from the 2000's. The erasure of Sokka's early sexism most likely comes from this logic (the bad writing around the rest of his character, unfortunately, makes it a lot harder to love him even if his egalitarian view of society should make him more likeable, weird self-own there...), it's an attempt to "modernize" the story and show us the character as something other than your stereotypical 2000's male cartoon character who masks his insecurities behind sexism. And I will say, in my eyes, the logic of "modernizing" a story is the very reason why remakes are supposed to exist: the issue comes when the people creating these remakes somehow fail to hit the mark and their new version winds up being less genuine and more shallow than the original (see most of Disney's liveaction remakes, ofc). I don't think ATLA's liveaction is necessarily doing EVERYTHING wrong, but while the changes can have their logic, in this instance it would be really hard to argue that the logic sustains itself, because...

I don't know who on earth finds tomboy characters offensive, but if such people do exist? I hope they step on a lego.

Tomboy characters can be great representation and validation for girls who (like me) weren't all that gender-conforming. It could even help some people make sense of their own gender dysphoria! All of which is very modern and forward thinking and not at all stereotypical of the 2000's because nobody in that era was creating these characters for those purposes. But upon removing Toph's "tomboy" status in order to turn her into a more "traditional girl", it leads me to think that Mai's NOT going to be a goth girl because "that's no longer such a common personality type, 20 years later, so its dated and needs to be removed", and Ty Lee is suddenly going to be written as an erudite because a carefree girl who doesn't seem to be all that intellectually inclined (note that she CAN be depicted as smart in her original characterization, it's merely that it's clear her interests don't lie in knowledge or so, she's a physical, spiritual kind of person, not bookish by any means) would be offensive and enforcing the idea that feminine girls are stupid! All of which would, of course, turn them into entirely different characters.

Toph was a great tomboy, a lot of people loved her for it, and a lot of people liked that she could be this while also being blind. It's possible that the liveaction people think that tomboy + blind are one too many traits and she needs to be nerfed (...???) in order to handle her better? I don't even know. While I can't say for sure how bad the result will be once this version of the show releases, I'm not very confident that this change will help her character in any way. I actually think Katara ended up having a curious arc in Book 1's liveaction, if not what her fans wanted, and I don't mind a lot of the changes they gave Aang. Zuko... eh, I will never love him, that much is obvious, but I appreciated that he seemed to take his mission and his honor a lot more seriously than in the show, where he seemed to think that sailing everywhere to find the Avatar was enough to get results even before Aang broke out of the iceberg (the fact that he had a BOOK here where he wrote things down was such a nice change! I was caught off guard completely by the notion that Zuko can write, let alone investigate things! :'D).

But this Toph change honestly seems to lean more towards the Sokka change... in the sense that on paper MAYBE they have their reasons and yet in practice it could just result in a character being completely derailed from its purpose and crippled on a characterization level, which then gets overcompensated with... uh... unnecessary convoluted matters like "my dad doesn't approve of me, my life is useless, this is where all my insecurities come from :((((", for instance.

Time will tell and I guess we'll have to watch it to see whether it works or not... but unless they leaked this information to gauge how to calibrate this change based on fan reaction? I'm not sure this is going to be remotely as agreeable a change as the liveaction's creators might have hoped it was.

Addressing your specific questions: a more feminine Toph will definitely need a wholly different character construction. Her clashes with Katara are bound to lean towards classism now ("I'm highborn, you're a peasant, why would you expect me to set up your tent? You should be the one setting up mine, lesser being"), which won't make her any more agreeable as a character, as long as they do retain some of the story beats from Book 2, ofc. Her training of Aang will definitely be weird because Toph was supposed to be the embodiment of earth, so in tune with her element that she's basically a rock, or metal once she develops that one. And worth noting, she develops metalbending by punching stuff: this isn't very feminine :'D I'm not entirely sure how they intend to recreate these scenes if her character will be fundamentally altered.

I do think that, unless the tomboy side is replaced by something even more impressive (and I can't really think of something), this change won't be very agreeable for me. A great deal of what draws people to characters like Toph is their personality and their willingness to go against the norm. She does this by being a tomboy and by being blind but embracing her condition rather than bemoaning how sad she is about it. And the issue is, considering Toph's background, the only things I can see them replacing the tomboyish behavior with, in order to obtain similar results, is... making her a social snob. Which people won't like. I, at least, can't imagine anyone enjoying that switch. Otherwise? She'll just be a cute, chirpy girl who is perfectly complacent and compliant with everything, meaning there will be no conflict with her character and all issues between her and the Gaang, while shortlived in canon, will be rendered non-existent altogether here.

So... yeah, I'm not exactly hyped, if still slightly curious as to what exactly they're planning to do to her character. It does remind me of Sokka's changes too, because... I don't really hate that he wasn't sexist. But I disliked the writing around him so much that the removal of sexism legit did nothing to improve him, in my eyes (I won't say the lack of sexism made him worse, though, it was the REST of the writing that did that). As a flaw for his character that I didn't really care for, it's weird that its removal didn't help my view of their Sokka in the least, so I am admittedly wary that a personality trait I DID like, Toph's tomboyish demeanor, will get nerfed or deleted outright... and it's hard to believe this can be an improvement for her. We'll have to wait and see.

Also? Thank you very much for your kind words regarding how I characterized Toph <3 I actually got used to Toph fans not being very happy with how I wrote her since she was so very aggressive and bold at the start instead of having softer sides all along, but that's why you write very long complicated stories! To flesh things out as you go along rather than since day one x'D Along with that, an older Toph whose life grievances festered for about 7 extra years, and who never had the Gaang's influence, sounded like one hell of a molotov cocktail of a character to me, so I really enjoyed working with her based on this premise. So glad you've enjoyed her <3 and really happy to hear you've enjoyed the newest chapters too! Finally a bit of deserved respite, haha, be it for you guys or for our main dorks <3

[psychophanticpervert]

Wonder what they're talking about... (it's you. They're talking about you. He's spilling all your darkest secrets. It's devastating, you're devastated right now.)

FORGOT HER BOTTOM LASHES IGNORE LAST POST/further yapping in the tags guh

Niko ( @pervertreckoning )

[corvid-language-library]

I've been drawing every single day for 3 weeks now and I can't say there's much improvement but I can say I'm having fun and that's the important thing

[tj-crochets]

The okapi plushie prototype is done! There’s a few things I’ll change for the next version (the slope of the back, the shape of the neck, things like that) but I think she turned out pretty darn cute!

[phoenix-clan]

Haha hehe hoohoo... it is time for me to announce what I've been working on all this time and what my plans for PhoenixClan are going forward hehehehe...

I am pleased to announce that PhoenixClan is being remade and reworked on its very own ComicFury page!!!

Long explanation and rambling thoughts under the cut for those curious as to the direction of PhoenixClan going forward:

To be honest I was only going to remake everything up to 4 part 1, but when I looked back on it all I really regret pretty much every part I've made pre-7. I think it all could have been handled much better by me, the art looked sloppy and was often rushed, and it was bugging me that it wasn't as good as it could have been.

At the end of last year, I was even debating on ending PhoenixClan altogether and moving onto a different comic project I have been extremely eager to write. I also debated making that project on the side as I continued to chug through PhoenixClan.

Ultimately, I came to a realization that the reason I was dragging my feet on making more PhoenixClan was because I felt like the early parts of PhoenixClan were half-heartedly made, and I was just going through the motions with every subsequent part so I could get to the better plot moments. I should have been truly dedicating my time and energy to it, and making sure I was happy with the pacing and writing.

This is not even mentioning how terrible the character writing was when I first started! I had no clue who any of these characters were yet and instead of doing practice comics and drafts to understand them better, I just wrote the comic without even thinking about who each of the characters were as people. Now that I have a better understanding of them all, I cringe at those early characterizations.

I truly do love the story I've been writing with PhoenixClan, and I want to share it all with you. But I thought that I was bound by unspoken rules that a comic can never be reworked or remade, and thus I was left with a story whose contents I truly adored but was hindered by my amateurish first attempt.

I will not be deleting any of the previous parts of PhoenixClan, and I will still include them in my website and blog directories. I will simply partition the new stuff from the old stuff, so you can still enjoy the early beginnings of PhoenixClan. I will still be uploading new PhoenixClan parts here as well, so don't worry if you don't want to make the jump over there!

However, from here on out I'm going to be creating all of it from scratch again. I want to be a better author, a better artist, and a better comic creator for PhoenixClan. It deserves that much.

And yeah now it's also all gonna be uploaded to ComicFury on top of that lol

I only have a default template look for the site rn but I'll see about doing some more unique stuff with it in the future :)

[dhs-in-disguise]

If you're still taking requests to draw something, could you, maybe draw tfa starscream and bumblebee having a little chat? 👉👈 I love both of these idiots with my heart and soul and your art is incredibly beautiful. Sorry if my english is bad, btw. I'm a bit rusty in using it once again... (;´༎ຶٹ༎ຶ`)

This is probably not what you had in mind, but I couldn’t think of any other situation to put them in. Also my requests are always open, suggest as much stuff as you’d like. Also also your English is fine (from my non-native English speaking perspective) and thanks so much for the compliment I’m flattered that you like my art, have a cookie as well 🍪

[canislupusangelus]

[cold-neon-ocean]

I don't usually do these but I felt like I drew so little this year I was curious to see if I could fill one lol. It was a rough year I'm hoping next year is better, I want to dedicate more time to personal art and improvement.

[starrytoya]

im on the last page of my sketchbook that I started back in march 2022 woah