#spectra's inbox

[ghostlyg0ssip]

I just get this feeling that you really like monster high

~💕

WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT

[jaxsterrapp]

What about Penelope Spectra?

omg i love her..... her design is one of my favorites

[spectra-bear]

Considering your master class comics based on Trial and Error, How often have you drawn biblically accurate turtles? If at all? Have you drawn all of the species for each of the turtles?

First off, tysm!! grateful u think so of my art since then, its been a Minute lol. Secondly, Not really, Ive only drawn the turtles since the movie came out, binge watched the series then followed by the rottmnt movie, and started from there.

Over time ive done a few studies to make them look more similar to their original species, but the majority of it ive picked out styles from various artists who've experimented with their shapes. 'Twas a fun fun mish-mash

[realistically-shifting]

🛶 do you have any DRs that are NOT based on fictional worlds or some type of fame DR or waiting room?

💍 are you married in any of your DRs?

🫶 who is your favorite person in your DR that is NOT an S/O?

🐶 do you have any pets in your DR?

🛶: I do! I’m copy-pasting from another post, but I have a DR where I’m part of a nonbinary idol group called ‘N.B’. The group has five members, ranging in age from 21 to 30, and all of us typically present neutrally but we fluctuate between feminine and masculine too. The five of us work with smaller artists to develop our albums, plus each member has an album dedicated to their personal music preference mixed with pop. We’re globally popular across age groups and genders, and we probably have fan blogs dedicated to the femme and masc versions of ourselves. I haven’t even finished the script yet, but I’m excited. I wonder what this will do for my fear of publicly dancing/singing in my CR.

💍: Generally speaking, I have S/Os that I intend to marry, but I haven’t experienced it yet. That won’t stop me from taking this chance to talk about them though!

In my zombie apocalypse DR, Orion, I originally had 12 wives (and Remus is our husband). I’m not sure if I should add them back to my script atm. I didn’t include all the faceclaims because I don’t remember the t.o.s and I don’t want to be flagged, but-

Carina is a botanist and gardener who takes care of our current greenhouse. She somehow manages to spoil Hana more than I do, and almost all the rest of us spoil Carina too.

Daphne is a MMA trainer with a passion for picking fights with the Helvigs. Felix falls for her taunts quite easily. She keeps all of us in shape and all of us have to be trained by her.

Ivy is a mechanical-electrical engineer and was actually my girlfriend in college before we were separated, thought each other dead, and I met Remus. We were in a band together in college, we both love mechanical-electrical engineering and music.

Circe was a lawyer before the apocalypse, now she’s taking this free time to study more branches of law while we go over what the new society should look like.

Aaliyah is an investigative journalist and radio personality, she also has a radio show. She set it up after the apocalypse, since she had nothing else to lose anyway.

Sylvie is an assassin. Is, not was. But since we don’t really have people we want assassinated, she’s basically retired. When she’s not training or helping Daphne train us, she’s lounging. She can be really intense with her eye contact, but I love that about her.

Valentina was a logistician that’s currently helping to handle our supply distribution. She and her twin brother are typically fighting, but he lives with us because they’re inseparable after what happened during the apocalypse.

Lucia was an architect, now she’s using her education and skills for some urban planning. She loves having something to sip on (as an oral stim, not alcoholism), so she often has a glass in her hand. She’s super giggly and she’s tied with Carina for most spoiled because we can’t seem to help it.

Nadia’s educated and trained as an ethicist, but she prefers beekeeping. Hana prefers it too, since the honeycomb from Nadia’s hives are perfect for her sweet tooth. When she’s smoking, her personality completely flips and she loosens up.

Adele is a general surgeon that would love to not be working, but the Helvigs like putting her to work. Even with super healing, we still need things taken out, aligned, etc.

Jade was a psychologist. She was working towards her own private practice before the apocalypse, now she has her hands full with us. But she’s considering training people to be counselors to take on some of the work.

Yasmin is a political historian that was working as an archivist, books and research are part of her special interests. She’s super easy to get gifts for, since she loves old books and the apocalypse happened and everything.

Other than them, I don’t have solid plans to marry in most of my other DRs. My only other husband would be…

🫶: HANA To be honest? My CR little sister who shows up in about half of my scripts as my little sister. If not her, then Juliet Starling, who is my opposite aesthetic best friend in my Lollipop Chainsaw DR.

🐶: Yeah! Not many, though. In several witch DRs, I have a white Burmese Python named Velvet. She’s just a baby and she’s the sweetest thing. She’s my familiar, so she helps me with my magic, protects me, and we have a psychic connection that allows us to communicate. This is what she looks like at only four months.

I also have a Bernese Mountain dog named Titan. Technically, he used to be Remus’ trained dog, but the hard truth is that he just likes us better lol

Thanks for asking!

[jqmon]

Knocks on your inbox and throws these in,,, your Whisperis a cutie pie and Nate' outfit is FIRE ‼️🗣🗣💫 Jibanyan's ears were fun to shade in too, lol

Also spectra cause I love her 💖💖💖 #1 Spectra fan HERE

Hahahaha thanks so much! You drew them so well X3

And yes spectra looks very pretty😊

[stargirlsuicide]

if u r interested in a white base for goth makeup check spectra cosmetics! they ship to italy and seem good for goth makeup looks!

this has been sitting in my inbox forever and i always forget to reply and ive been going crazy over it cause i actually havent been able to find a brand with this name. ive seen spectra paints by a brand called glitter cosmetics and a brand called spectra studios but they mostly seem to make contour palletes and FX makeup 4 like TV

[burning-love-letters]

*pokes you* Hey.

I said that Thistle will wear Spectra’s Haunt Couture outfit better than her.

So, now I am proud to announce that I have finally drawn it to prove my point.

I wanted to tag you on the post, but it didn’t work for some reason, so I decided to visit your blog to let you know, since you were the one who inspired me. (In case if you were curious how it could turn out looking.)

...great, and now tumblr doesn't let my put a link in the ask. Anyways, it's easy to find on my blog because I posted it today.

@villain-in-love

Helloo! 👋🏾

Sorry this took a minute to get to, I tend to run out of spoons near the end of the month, so I'm just now checking my inbox. 😅

Ooh, wow! I'm so glad I could inspire you! 😊 I'm gonna check out your art as soon as I can. 💜

Yeah, sorry about the @-ing thing. I had to mess around with some blog settings. Should be good now. 😂

Thanks for reaching out to me! 🩷

@villain-in-love

[celestekrp]

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[sweetpeaachtea]

SPECTRA SWEEP IN UR INBOX

[ghostlyg0ssip]

What's your favorite thing or aspect about the G3 reboot?

everything ngl

whenever i try to imagine my ideal MH reboot, i always give up pretty quickly because it's literally just g3 with a few minimal changes

[spectra-bear]

super mario

Yahoo

[persnickety-doodles]

Can i just say,, that i love ur art 🥺 ur doing amazing keep it up 💕✨

thank you!!😭❤️you’re too kind! 😭

[birindale]

History of the Star Sisters, Pt. 1

A series of interviews by He-man.org user Tallstar, which I’m wishing now I hadn’t messaged him about bc I’ve since found them on my own & I feel bad for buggin’ him. Parts 1-3 were up on the org & part four’s still available on the forums--I’ll be uploading them in their original segments. This is the first.

When the opportunity arose to communicate directly with the artist responsible for conceiving the unproduced '87 Star Sisters trio, I felt an adrenaline-charged rush of excitement over the possibility of hearing back from this former Mattel employee who, in my mind, is a legend for having been instrumental in giving life to what I believe would have been some of the most innovative figures of the entire Princess of Power toy line.

For a toy line geared toward young girls, I always felt the feature-driven Starla, Jewelstar and Tallstar figures were somewhat ahead of their time and pushed the boundaries of what was possible from a storyline perspective.

Excitement then turned into almost paralyzing awe and an overwhelming feeling of honor when I finally saw the initial response in my e-mail inbox, which divulged some basic information on how the project came into existence at Mattel and left the door open for me to acquire further details.

The artist later promised to send me a word file with some additional thoughts the following week, but little did I know that I would receive a whopping four pages of information that probably had not been recounted in a number of years.

My mind was spinning. Frankly, I fantasized about something like this happening for over a decade. Ha-ha

All of the aforementioned feelings were almost immediately followed by some self-created pressure to come up with a plan for presenting the history behind The Star Sisters in way that would not only do justice to the characters, but also honor everyone who was involved back in the day. After all, this is a particularly important piece of Princess of Power history that's on par with the Powers of Grayskull extension line for Masters of the Universe.

At the same time, I was mindful of the hardcore Princess of Power fans who haven't really heard much in terms of the history of classic toy line over the years; especially when compared to the venerable Masters of the Universe line. (Let's face it. Masters fans have been treated to an explosion of information, interviews, concept art and so on, over the last decade.)

I struggled with several hypothetical scenarios. Finally, I decided Princess of Power fans would probably appreciate an online series of historical articles. This option would allow me to get something out "sooner, rather than later" to the fans who have been fiending for historical background on the Princess of Power toy line, while giving me some time to get into contact with some other members of the Mattel team who also played a role in the creation of The Star Sisters.

By now, many of you may be eager to know the name of the artist I've been showering with praise and admiration. That person is Jon Seisa, an award-winning professional with 35 years of experience as an Art Director, Designer and Illustrator. At Mattel, he served as Art Director Of Advanced Concepts for the Girls' Toy Division during his 7-year run from 1985 to 1992. He also conceived The Star Sisters.

If you don't recognize the name, no doubt many of you will be familiar with some of the brands and products Jon was involved in at Mattel: The Spectra doll line, Barbie and The Sensations, Perfume Pretty Barbie, Jewel Secrets Barbie, The Heart Family Schooltime Fun, and many, many more.

Before I continue on, I would like to preface by saying that, at the moment, I'm conceptualizing this as a two-part series of articles, and they will not be in your typical Q & A interview format, but rather Jon's personal account of working on The Star Sisters. Jon's statements will be in bold text [[note: I inverted this for consistency with other interviews; since I don’t bold intros it’s not as noticeable on this installment]]. He readily admitted to me that his memory is a bit fuzzy on some of the details, as it's been 27 years, so would I suggest that the fans go into this with the understanding that certain information may change if/when more information comes in. I'm hoping the story of the Star Sisters will come together/become clearer when I hopefully hear back from the former Disney employee that was hired to help with the backstory on The Star Sisters, as well as some past Mattel employees who were involved in the marketing end of things.

This is the story of The Star Sisters Part 1:

The Star Sisters doll line was designed to be an extension line to the Mattel Toys She-Ra, Princess of Power (POP) doll line with the lead doll She-Ra of Eternia, being for the girl-oriented consumer market and branch of the Masters of the Universe world and the animation sequels animated by Filmation. At the time, market research indicated that the life expectancy of a doll line is roughly 3 years; and thus, the marketing strategy emerged to revitalize the aging POP brand for additive commercial longevity with an extension line. Hence, The Star Sisters was the subsequent created and proposed result brought forth. However and sadly, orders from retailers and buyers were ultimately disappointing not meeting the projected and anticipated goals, and subsequently the potential line was regrettably terminated. Consumer interests were changing and moving on to other interests and new trends, and consequently the POP line began to overall fade. Initially, I was brought on to Mattel Toys in October of 1985 to join the Princess of Power design team headed by design manager Chris McAdam and under Diana Troup, then design director of Barbie and POP, to help facilitate a creative product vision of what form this extension line might possibly embody. Working with the POP design team in ideation and brainstorm sessions, with illustrators,material and artist vendors, model makers, sculptors, fashion designers, hair rooters, and face painters, we developed The Star Sisters. I formulated a preliminary product positioning for the character dolls that ultimately emerged, creating a mythic type legend of their origin. This first served as an introduction to my presentation to upper management and was used as a rudimentary foundation for further development of the back-story when we hired an outside writer/vendor, (name removed), a former associate of mine from my years at Walt Disney Imagineering prior to my employment at Mattel Toys. The legend was simple. Once upon a bygone eon… The Star Sisters were banished by a wicked celestial witch who entombed the sidereal siblings in a small star that was hurled on a collision course with the planet Eternia, resulting in a catastrophic impact that formed the subterranean Crystal Catacombs of Eternia. Thus, The Star Sisters were eternally imprisoned inside the crystalline formations, awaiting for the day of their liberation. This legend changed somewhat down the road and to some degree with the marketers’ input and the writer hired (name removed), but basically this was the fundamental scenario I had concocted and established, initially. The celestial witch remained nameless because this was not a character (doll) scheduled by management to be budgeted for development within the line. My first significant unveiling and presentation of the doll line was to one of Mattel’s top brass design executives, Judy Shackelford, and subsequently thereafter to Jill Barad, at that time the girls toys marketing director. For the Shackelford presentation, I knew I would be extremely nervous since my very employment hinged on the success of this line, so my strategy was to begin with a highly dramatic ice-breaker by creating something that I could purposely read verbatim, but in a dramatic theatrical fashion, and this would guarantee me that my nerves would not overwhelm my thought process to forget crucial details of my presentational speech. Consequently, I decided to create a legion of The Star Sisters to read, and so I created a large scroll out of over sized ochre parchment and wrote on it in calligraphy the legend of The Star Sisters. I aged the scroll to look utterly ancient and scorched its edges for additive authenticity. But before rolling it up, I sprinkled some baby talc powder and iridescent glitter in its center, and then after rolling it up I sealed it with a ribbon tie. For the presentation I strategically spread out a plethora of exotic eye-catching sparkly materials in intoxicating colorful piles on the presentation table to enhance the visual senses of the world I intended to convey; glitter fabrics, pearlized colored fabrics, lenticular colored plastics, dazzling acrylic clear jewels, large mirrored prisms, strands of crystal and vacuum metalized plastic beads,iridescent foils, Mylars, and so on. As the key people sat before me I began my presentation by relaying, "Recently, I had ventured down into the deep dark recess of Mattel’s dank and musty basement, and to my absolute bewilderment I stumbled upon the most astonishing discovery, the unearthing of this utterly ancient scroll festooned with----- the dust of the ages!" As I spoke I untied the ribbon and unfurled the scroll held before me, and immediately after I uttered the words, "…the dust of the age!" I comically blew off the baby talc and glitter lying on the open scroll which undulated upward into a big billowing white cloud of dazzling star dust. Delightfully surprised, everyone burst out with an uproar of gleeful laughter. Instantly, the ice was broken and the rest of the presentation went exceedingly well… much to my relief, as I settled calmly in the rhythm of my presentation with flawless delivery. The names of the two character dolls "Starla" and "Crystal Star" retained their original names from the very start, but "Tall Star" was a name later established by the marketing group for whatever rationale they cited, most likely for simplicity and to have the "star" aspect integrated into the name, while originally myself and the design group referred to her initially as "Expandra" and then later for my presentation it was changed to "Telescopa". The marketing culture at Mattel at that time had a tendency to rely too heavily on child testing and most often created names that were overly simplistic, often giving children elements within their known sphere of knowledge and influence, rather than promoting new unknown elements to expand their knowledge, like learning a new word. So names marketing considered to be "difficult" for children’s minds to grasp or pronounce were entirely avoided for more simplistic names, hence "Tall Star". Glory Bird was merely a reincarnation of another POP bird with color and aesthetical material changes enhancing glittery visual attributes. I never agreed with this basic Mattel Marketing principle because it promotes the "Dumbing Down of America", particularly since in Mattel’s historical infancy names for Barbie lead and feature dolls and fashions where extremely sophisticated and embodied an "ambience" that allowed children to learn new big words, like "Rhapsody Blue" or "Sophisticated Lady," which later and tragically evolved to painfully rudimentary names with the iconic Barbie name attached as if no one in the entire world knew her name was "Barbie," like "Golden Dream Barbie" or "Western Barbie."

[reallydumbdannyphantomaus]

My notifications were being kinda screwy with me so I didn't realize you updated Switch until now and!!!!!!! AAAAH I'm actually [crushes fingers together] this close to losing my shit I am SO scared to see Spectra soon cause like my BOYS... about to be HELLA vibe checked in the worst way... also?? The lil moment just as Danny saved Kwan. The tentative 'are we good' conversation and pinky-promise at the end. Ur gonna kill me but I'm ok w/ that I think!! Amazing chappy as always op 💛

ahhhhh thank you! so sorry about the late reply here but this got buried in my inbox a little 😅 but ahhhhhhhh!!!! yeah these boys have what you might call a stranglehold on me!!!!!!! and spectra is going to fuck shit up so bad!! thank you have fun!!!

[dinzeeyz]

hey, hey. [lightly smacks ur inbox] what brush did u use for the bones in the ocean drawing owo its so nice and ur drawing is swag as hell

heyoo [baps u back]

thank you my dude! I used procreate for those drawings. For lining, i used a brush called Nico's brush that I cant seem to find online anymore for some reason, so if you want it, DM me!

For the coloring, I used the default painting brush called spectra! It gives a really nice watercolor-ish texture to it that i really like.

[ladylynse]

Do you think all the ectoplasm/stank has side effects on the students of Casper High/NHS? What about Akumas?

I think it’s a very interesting idea, but admittedly I’d change my position on it depending on what I needed for a fic. 

Truthfully, I’d personally be less likely to write about the side effects of akumas--barring the emotional effects, of course; I’ve capitalized on those in more than one fic--since the Miraculous Ladybug restoration theoretically puts everything back to the way it was, so I’ve never really thought about it beyond a mental toll. Granted, the person most routinely akumatized seems to be our friend Mr. Pigeon, so saying he seems normal enough and not affected from the repeated akumatization may not be the best example, especially when kids/teens could be affected differently. That being said, I did read a fic once that had a really cool take on it! Having side effects from being akumatized, I mean. I...am now realizing I didn’t finish reading said fic, even though it’s now finished, so I dug it out from my inbox alerts, and it’s this one. It was written in the early days of the fandom so will be AU for some things now, but it involved people being able to access a bit of the powers they’d gotten when akumatized (one of the tags is ‘residual villain powers’) and is worth the read. 

It’s pretty much canon that ectoplasm affects humans and can cause mutations in your DNA. Jack and Maddie wear the HAZMAT suits for a reason, Danny and Vlad got more than their fair share of it in a single shot, and although the point is arguable because Spectra was behind it, the ghost mosquitoes didn’t do people many favours. Casper High being a fairly common site of ghost attacks would lend itself to having a slightly higher than normal concentration of residual ectoplasm, even in Amity Park, and that could well lead to subtle effects that no one really notices until they leave. And I mean tiny things, like always managing to sneak up on people because they never hear you coming; never feeling the cold as much as your friends, despite some of them growing up in even colder climates; always being able to blend into a crowd at will and never be seen unless you want someone to spot you; having hair that reaches a certain length (read: whatever you had in high school) and just never seems to grow longer, even though it seems to grow insanely fast to reach that magical length in the first place. It would all be things that are easy enough to explain away, at least until you got together with some friends from high school and realized that everyone has a story like that.

I think stank would be a little bit different, but it would be fun to argue that it has an effect, and I’d probably treat it as a diminishing effect that wears off the longer someone is away from Norrisville. People would assume the thinner line between their emotions (that switch between laughing and crying and the like), the shorter tempers, the tendency to yell rather than talk the moment things get the slightest bit heated-- That all of that is just stress, that it was just high school or hormones or just being too inexperienced to have learned decent coping mechanisms. But it’s not. Their emotional state has been heightened and used against them for so long that most of the high school graduates either flare up or take forever to blow. It’s not only being quick to angry or rapidly reduced to tears vs being known as the calm and collected one in the friend group, though; even things like holding long, bitter grudges rather than even considering forgiving people is common to the point that it doesn’t seem remotely out of place. And for those who were routinely stanked, well, they’d have it the worst. (Everyone would’ve assumed Julian’s affinity for spiders was just because it was Julian until they heard what happened to Bucky and Flute Girl after that trip to the aquarium.)

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