#juli answers

[vonlipvig]

I finished reading Conclave (the novel) and I loved it – you're right about it being a perfect adaptation. Most of the changes made do make sense – yes, Lomeli and Bellini are supposed to be Italian, but also uhhh…you want to get Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in your movie. (It is funny that Bellini is from the US in the movie, when it's so significant that he's Italian in the book – especially since the big thing that the Canadian Tremblay had going for him was that he was North American without being “American.”) I also appreciate how the book just fleshed out the story more – like, it made sense that Benitez had support from his fellow Filipino cardinals going in. And how we learned more about Sister Shanumi! I have so much to say about Shanumi, I should just make a post about her. But anyway, I'm so glad you got me interested in this awesome movie, it's just an absolute delight! (I mean, you generally have fantastic taste, so I'm not surprised)

it really is such a good, entertaining book, and isn't the movie a near flawless adaptation? like, maybe it's because i watched it first before reading (cause god knowssss i can be so annoying about my fav books being adapted to the big screen), but i thought they did a fantastic job of telling the story as faithfully as possible, and using the visual medium to its advantage.

yeah, i think the nationality changes from book to movie totally make sense and are a small price to pay for such a skilled cast (thinking about it from a business perspective, of course the italian lomeli had to be switched to an english-speaking lawrence cause you want a Well Known Actor to bring in the Money and Audience, but like...we got ralph fiennes, is anyone gonna object to that?! and then with benitez being mexican now, i just think they found carlos diehz and were like "bro that's it. that's literally him holy shit", and yeah. that's literally him).

i do enjoy the book a lot as well, though. like you said, it has a lot more liberty to go into more detail (also, totally canonically bi lomeli YAY) but as someone who loves both reading and watching movies, having both a fantastic book i can reread AND a banging movie i can rewatch is like heaven!

[heaven4lostgirls]

Omg you're a part of all my favorite fandoms ??? Bestie stuff fr

omg stop! am i actually? i love this for us, very much still very new to the tolkien universe but im very excited to get into it more 🫶🏽🩷

[prismatic-et-al]

hi americans. do you feel helpless and scared? do you have access to a phone? boy, do I have the product for you!

it's "call your House representatives right fucking now"!

so the senate passed HR1 aka the big beautiful bill aka "let's slash the budget for every single public social service including planned parenthood clinical services, SNAP, and medicaid, while tripling ICE's budget and rolling back environmental protections" bill

here's what to do!

enter your zip code here to find your rep's name and number, as well as a script to read. if you want to go off-script, this site has some general tips.

call.

rinse and repeat every day

that's it!

I don't care if you don't think it's the most effective method of protest. you can do other things on top of this, it takes almost no time, and it's not going to hurt our chances at blocking or delaying it so more terms will be cut from the bill

[sesamestsaxophone]

can you show me how you do everyone's eyss? i struggle to make them look right :(

Of course! Here is my take on every neighbors eyes! Hopefully it's helpful. Thanks for the ask!!

[gokuisahimbo]

And it felt like meeting the whole world.

Alt version, combined the layers!

[egophiliac]

I assume you got a few asks about the TWST news already but: congrats on 7.5 story, they really said you are not leaving your green kids behind just yet LMAOOO also Overblotters solo songs now too! Overblotting animations added to the game! Overblot Idia card (finally!!) CATER EVENT WITH CHIP AND DALE AND HE ALSO HAS FRECKLES?????? I hope we see him on rollerblades like those waiters in diners that'd be so cool!!

me skimming the stream announcement: "MVs"...oh that's probably just more Blazing Jewel stuff, I don't need to catch it, I'll wait for reuploads :)

Twst: :)

you'd think I would've learned by now, APPARENTLY NOT

man. I don't know if they went into any more detail on the stream, but the absolute lack of any explanation on 7.5 in particular is destroying me. this is the entirety of the in-game notice:

"*Main Story Part 7.5: Main Story part 7.5 will be released."

?!?!?!?!

Twst team back on their usual trick of busting in through the wall, tossing a live grenade of one-sentence info with absolutely zero context, and then peacing out to watch everyone explode. what do you mean 7.5. is this the epilogue/hook to 8 that we didn't get with 7 proper. is it something totally different. what does it mean. WHAT DOES IT MEAN

(and if this doesn't kill me, Catermunk might actually with how frikkin adorable he looks. 🐿 shoot. heck. is this gonna be a whole event with other chipmunk diner boys because I may have to seriously consider how many keys I wanna save versus throwing in for OB!Idia. auuugh you'd THINK I would have LEARNED by now --)

[crunchybeards]

If you could Nestor and Rafta please... I know they're side characters at best but they've wholly captivated me with their little quest...

ANON YOU ARE SO GODDAMN VALID FOR THIS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW. Their quest/ side story lives in my mind rent free and the subsequent ending genuinely makes me so damn sad.

Okay because they make me sad to think about here's a much better outcome (Copium) where they hang after Nestor goes to see Rafta :)

Nestor meets up with Rafta for a few hours and they just talk and they have picnics and just yap until the fifteenth day and beyond that.

[ziekkfreak2-0]

Virtue: ...I'm calling Tessa.

Based on an actual conversation I had with my brother. I think both he and Julie were being plagued by exam stress.

AU INTRO POST:

[xx-sketchy-xx]

Make it blue!

make it green!

make it red!

@kittydiamond49 I think you asked to see Julie and the siblings, so tada!

[noroalia]

your marigolds really are very, very rude!

[whaliiwatching]

one in a million admirers…

based on ofc this prompt

[vonlipvig]

I wish we could see the in universe memes that would come out of Pope [Redacted] being announced in Conclave. There’s no way the internet in that universe isn’t immediately obsessed

oh, pope redacted would be getting some fun edits on tiktok, you know that's right. he's getting put on hear me out cakes as we speak.

[aimlovesmusic]

Ben and Gwen anodite headcanons? Please!

Ooohoohohoh yes I do

Spent two days messing around with doodles.

LORE BEHIND EACH DOODLE! NOT THE FINISHED DESIGN. please send more asks or screenshots to edit anodite Ben to plz! I've already done a whole bunch last year!

PRIME------

Top left mini comic: when extremely exhausted and stressed from a long battle. He sustains an injury during battle from an energy cannon but feels none of it. Turns out energy blasts all this time not having too much of an effect on him was because the heratige.

The group doodle: (the four of them hang out often) not much lore behind this except after transforming really often within short amount of time, he gets extra glowy. His skin is trying it's best to contain him. Rook is fully aware of what's happening while Ester and Rayona are amazed and concerned (when is anyone not when it comes to the watch bearer)

Bottom left: how he wouldve looked in full anodite form pre explosion in "the new dawn" finale.

Left full body: him after omniverse's finale. The image of his arm being all starry after reverting stuck with me and boom there's one of my most important headcannons(lmk if y'all wanna hear me blab about that one)

Mini thing below the fullbody is the pose he pulled trying to shield himself from the anihlarg explosion.

GWEN 10 AU------

Right full body:more turquoise color when calmer or not brimming with energy. The large star shape on the chest indicates a young anodite hybrid who awakened rather aggressively. Blasting their very form to smitherines abruptly.

Right top corner: color potential palettes. High energy. Being a full anodite in this au he toys around with the normal limits of his humanoid anodite form. This freaks out ppl.

Him and Julie before he lost his skin during the highbreed finale in alien force.

All the anodites in their fulls.

- Verdona is magenta and has a hints of teal. She's the least humanoid in appearence. She's got spikey bits of mana protecting her around her shoulders and occasionally anywhere else she seems nice at that moment.

- Sunny is indigo and is little more humanoid sporting curved horns since she thinks they're cute and can add dangly jewelry.she has a wrap like skirt that blends into her not really there legs. She has floating solid shapes of mana circling around her neck.

- Gwen the most humanoid teal one. She has double layer of horns that appear like cat ears. She's the only one to have inherited the dual color from verdona. She can be spotted with a lion like tail at times.

- Ben the green one with short horns. He's somewhat humanoid like Gwen but leans more into things he thinks are cool. He plays with his form alot. Has a jellyfish like poncho and coils. Sometimes has ribbon like arms instead.

Verdona(and her sister for sunny)passed down mermaid/aquatic like traits(Gwen's ripples like water/Sunnys mermaid like legs/ Ben's jellyfish traits and all three having webbed hands.) plus a heart like facial markings,Though it's reversed on Sunny.

@ideas-of-immortality here's more 👍😁

[anamericangirl]

Happy tea in the harbor day!

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

Ngl your welcome home doodles are so silly ngl

Thank you so much! :) I try my best to make them funny. Here are some more silly doodles for you!

[backjustforberena]

I'm sorry, what do you mean she was filming them at the same time?!