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[parasolladyansy]

Hero of Bombs - My Hero

Whether your hero is fictional or not, I don’t think it matters - what matters is the light & courage they give you when life is dark & frightening. ⚔️🍃

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I’ve talked about what Ingo means to me as a character, but not Link. As I thought about it, this is what flowed out (lol…how did my silly AU end up having all these serious art therapy stuff?)

On that note, some of the adults in my life wanted me to quit drawing. My drawings were ripped up a couple times, & I was told art was useless, that no matter how hard I tried someone will always be better than me. Somehow, no matter how very mean they got about it, I still made art, & I’m very glad I did: art helped me survive.

If it helps you weather life’s storms, don’t ever stop creating. 🩵🌧️

PS: that little drawing at the end is a tracing from one of my drawing diaries when I was little, full of fanart & fancomics. ;u;

[sporeclan]

FINALLY got around to making a new pfp after like a year of intending to do that :'D A lil Crowstar for the soul <3

[rednightmare18]

It's not even about the vindication of calling a ship, okay. It's that the supposedly anti woke studio wrote about 3 million words of medieval fiction centering the relationship of the two main characters who are in most ways (or in all ways if you follow the obvious canon momentum of the story) meant for each other, as counterparts who help each other survive the great travails of their lives and who challenge/complete the other to become fuller, braver, kinder people. It's so clear these two people are soulmates, platonically or romantically, something observed consistently by the world around them and by themselves.

Except their society (feudalism, Catholicism) dictates that they are intended to be completely incompatible by nature and divine law. Not just for the obvious fact they are both men, but they are separated by what is arguably an even steeper chasm of social class. Their existence even as friends utterly spites, interrupts, and threatens feudal order right down to its theological and philosophical roots. They should not see each other as human and yet.

It's the fact that they do. The fact that the entire story has been about this--that these two protagonists fit together, undeniably, and grow to love each other fiercely (a love that deepens superbly from their knee-jerk playful puppy-friend-love in kcd1 to something selfless and mature by the end of kcd2). And they do so despite the immense opposition by their world, their social circles, their faith, and indeed their fandom.

And yes, it really does fucking matter that all of this culminates into a deep onscreen romantic love (if you get out of the way and allow it to) between two fandom-beloved male main characters (not just side characters rammed in for an optional gay romance but THE main characters of the duology; the "you" as in the player character and your erstwhile dick-jokes bro you have perhaps grudgingly at first been invited as the audience to love) in a historical fiction story that has been wrongly touted by the worst of our contemporaries as the holy grail of cultural conservatism.

Holy shit. Warhorse -- y'all. I'm sorry I doubted you. So few game writers understand how love works and indeed how people work, let alone translate it so well onto the screen.

Calling this an "optional romance" is not technically incorrect, I suppose, because it's true you can opt out and choose to remain platonic friends. But this language feels like a disservice, as if Henry & Hans's romance is a typical RPG wham-bam fanservice makeout with a minor fan fave character who never interacts meaningfully with the player again. Or as if it's a Bioware-style "give this NPC the right gift and do their side quest and you get to see a jankly ugly-bumpin' montage" situation.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is so very much not that. The "main, optional" romance scene in question is just one consummation event of two people who have been growing up and falling in love in front of us over the course of some 200-300 (or god knows how many) hours. The fact these protagonists openly love each other is very much not optional.

This is, sincerely, groundbreaking storytelling in this medium and this genre. How fucking cool that we all got to see it now.

[sosadraws]

Another Sosa animation?? Hell yeah~

Thanks to the host Sunbird for helping me with the bg on the second shot.

Bonus: The King in Yellow cover by itself, because I put way too much effort into drawing it

[cartoonytoonycharacters]

I DID THIS!!! :D

I participated in The Wishing Star Zine for the 25th Anniversary of the movie!!!

i'm really proud of how it turned out considering it was my first time doing a lot of things and it took me a lot of time BUT IT IT WORTH IT!!

please check the zine out if you haven't already!!!

@wishing-star-zine

[tobyisave]

just a coupla lonesome cowgems roaming free without their sally mays

(aka they both canonically use country music to cope with their aloof blue life partners leaving them and i think thats beautiful) (alt under cut)

[aesdi]

the tragedy of James and Mary Sunderland is one of the most heartbreaking and (most importantly) human stories I’ve ever had the joy in witnessing

[clfixationstation]

princess x knight Catradora, but knighthood is a duty that weighs heavily on Adora and she's raised to believe everything that goes wrong is her fault and that she doesn't deserve to be treated in the soft way she desires, and Princess Catra resents the demeaning way she's treated and the demeaning role she's trapped in and seeks autonomy and power. So, like canon basically.

Catra envies Adora's practical, masculine garb, and Adora secretly wishes she could incorporate some of Catra's feminine styling into her uniform :)

[wolfram-but-art]

mercenaries the typa person to say "is anyone gonna fall in love with that?" and then not wait for an answer

reblogs > likes btw \(^_^)/

zoom-ins under cut :3

the polka dot brush texture was made by ggutinho on DeviantArt btw!!

[crystallizsch]

kalim loungewear groovy come out already so i can finally share yuusha's loungewear card concept that i accidentally rendered

[theokusgallery]

Yeah sure

[synthaphone]

With the completion of Tyrannian, the (pre-conversion) line-up of colors for the Centibyte is complete!!

I can't believe I finished 54 of these- 12 have unique poses, and 6 more involve heavy lineart edits or complete relining of the base pose. I had a lot of fun figuring all of them out, and it's really satisfying to be able to see them all together now

[junebugtwin]

Undersiders but Teen Titans!! Idea from this post :D

[grapedemon]

Finished drawing the cccc instrumental album cover in my style ^^

Hope you all enjoy the art! (shading about took me out on this one)

cccc instrumental cover art originally by:

sly (cinnamonsly)

[epicness1000]

An End at the Hands of One's Own Creation

My art for a scene from "Monsters", a Sephiroth-centred character study/fanfic I wrote in 2023 (link!).

“Just a moment, dear boy,” Hojo drawled, coughing up blood as he spoke. “Surely, Sephiroth, you are not blind to this truth.”  

Sephiroth stepped so close that there was no more space between them. He looked down at the crumpled, old scientist, refusing to kneel to his level. The crackle of flames was the only sound to be heard, overwhelming heat contrasting so strikingly against Sephiroth’s cold, frigid gaze.  

“Were it not for P-Project Jenova– for Project S. For Lucrecia, Gast, Shinra and I... you would not exist. Were your foetus left untampered, what makes you you simply would not be. Your power, your strength, your intelligence, your appearance, even your name. Your extraordinary nature, all your greatness– it is because of me. The only way you can exist is as a scientific experiment. Never forget that, my boy.”  

Sephiroth did not move. He was still as a statue, remaining outwardly calm in the face of Hojo’s words. The moment seemed to last an eternity, the sound of crackling fire mixing with the scientist’s feeble, wheezing chuckles. The room felt colder than the most isolated regions of the northern continent. And the angel of destruction bore a frightening expression, one of darkness and impending doom.  

“Better a monster than to be one of you.”  

[chainlxnk]

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