#technical thoughts

[infernothechaosgod]

I've been thinking more about what would comic villians be like if they were the main threat in animated movies made with accual passion to them and it has been really fun untill i got to phantom blot and my mind started to make me eat the walls cuz oooooo the ideas The ideas are being thrown at me by me

So for others it has been really fun too like

I've been thinking of a theme for sylvester I figured his main instruments would be a bass, a woodwind section some piano and strings, I also thought about him having 2 themes, one for his facade of being a kind lawyer just trying to help ya out and one for him accualy being him and stealing thevin taking whats not his from anyone anywhere in a manipulitive ways that probably made some accual shady lawyers go "he just like me fr" I also think his themes could be pretty slow because I think the most fun scenes with sylvester are the ones when he's explaining his plans or making them and a slow theme could give you that vibe of something sinister brewing in his mind, and I think his clothes being animated symiliary to rasputins clothes from anastasia, that being you can see its animated frame to frame and looks very light his probably woudnt went that far, mostly bc his clothes arent that loose and they arent so hanhing and long if you know what I mean?

despite pete already having multiple themes bc he's just such of an old character and he has appeared in many animated projects and movies [musketer pete ily] I thought about a theme for him too, i thought a guitar or a bancho would be nice and some drums something simple I think a simple theme with pretty basic instuments would be good for pete because I personaly think he has those alley cat vibes, theres not much to look around for motivations and his plans are usually not mindblowing but thats what makes him so charming to me, he's a simple man and I simply love <3

and I've been thinking about phantom blot and I mean the early and these creepy not jokey apperances of his the most,they really stand out to me and have a special place in my head, with animation I thought it would be really good to have his whole animation be frame to frame and have him slowly linger over characters as they themselfs don't see him but we just see him linger over them probably taking over a good chunk of the screen animated to smoothly and slowly that it makes us uneven it's hard to explain in words so I thought of accualy making a little animation showing what I mean

but then I thought of the theme for him...and I realized, the best theme for the phantom blot would be nothing, silence in its purest form a white noise possibly appearing would be of comfort, It would really make you feel the PHANTOM in phantom blot

[paintedcrows]

Nooo little Stanley watch out! Your striped shirt, bandage, and sad backstory are too Fallen Human Coded!! The Undertale narrative is going to get you!!!

[technically-human]

This happened, it just wasn't relevant to the plot

[thimblings]

get with the Crow-gram, Davrin

[spookberry]

post trick or treating activity

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[theoldkyokodied]

guess which game(s) I've been playing

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

Neil from the upperclassman’s perspective:

[l-a-l-o-u]

Korra's Wardrobe | 2025 edition

Over 10 years ago, while LoK was still airing, I drew Korra in each of her outfits. I recently found that post again, and thought I should revisit my old obsession, and add the outfits that were missing. This has been really fun, it was like meeting up with some old friends - both my younger self and Korra herself!

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to finish this!! ♥ And hi to the people who were in the fandom with me back then, I'm waving at you from over here in the future :)

None of these are show-accurate, I thought it would be much more interesting to give each design a bit of a twist while keeping their original visual language. It was a really fun challenge, and I love comparing the old and new.

Some of these are a lot further into my own interpretation - the chains ghost, for example, is super bloodied because I'm not restricted by a TV network censor and the Zaheer fight was violent. And it left scars, too! The Raava fusion designs are extremely self-indulgent (Raava I love you, you will always be famous), and the kid designs are pretty far from the depictions of Korra in Friends for Life and Weaver's Ball, but I wanted to make them into a real evolution getting closer to the Book 1 design over time.

Here are the two full lineups side by side:

how far we've come...

Here are some line versions also! I had a lot of fun drawing all the little tiny details:

I once said that if I ever stop posting Korra redesigns, assume I'm dead. and well. I guess it's still true

[felisgalactus]

Any ship involving Optimus Prime becomes ten times funnier if you just imagine Megatron Seething in the background.

[tokkimins]

yap partners

[mohntilyet]

caterina's datamined character description calling her korean-italian and early lucanis designs having him look east asian . i'll just do everything myself i guess

assorted thoughts: caterina is fully 'korean' or whatever the thedas equivalent would be in this design, and clawed her way to the top of the crow food chain after years of work. their armor is something caterina forcibly incorporated to distinguish house dellamorte from the other crows, and a symbol of their status because they get it custom made or imported. of course race-equivalents do not really exist in thedas or this world but i also will never forget how gaider just implied (east) asian people don't exist in thedas because it just so happens that there are no asians on the continent of thedas (guy who forgot about boats) . explode and die. there's not the same kind of discrimination as exists irl ofc (and the dellamortes are actually treated fine, much better than a mage or elf) but a level of xenophobia against foreigners from a different continent. illario looks the least like her, and passes for being fully antivan, which changes how he is recieved by the other crows.

and sorry if the korean is bad please actually let me know if it's horribly translated i relied on google translate . if you are one of ten asian dragon age fans feel free to talk to me at any given moment.

[curiouscatastrophe]

Decorated the frame for my beloved print from @illusioncanthurtme !!

[mimenoises]

Recessive genes

[inkskinned]

we were sitting on the floor and i was cutting out tiny pictures to make a collage for a friend's birthday. you were on your phone and you laughed about something, and i was still in love with you then, so i asked what had you giggling.

"sorry. i was just..." you took a moment and went back to texting. "i was telling someone about how you're afraid of the dark."

i'm afraid of the dark because something bad happened. "oh." i felt a little slinky of shame crawl down my throat.

you glanced up, and maybe it showed on my face, because you rolled your eyes and held the phone to the side casually so i could see the group chat. "what? was it a secret?"

i looked down to the scissors in my hand. "i just..." no, it's not a secret. it just felt like something private, something serious. saying why would you tell someone that just feels like an accusation. it's unfair. i honestly am not even ashamed of it, it's just a fact about my person that i don't usually share.

what a strange experience. is this a human thing or a generational thing? for our grandparents: did they need to worry about how quickly someone can just... share your personal information? again, i didn't even really have a true objection. what could i say? i want any person in my life to feel they can be honest with their friends. it's not like i said don't tell anyone this.

i cut out another letter to complete the rainbow happy birthday, started hunting for the exclamation mark. i heard you sigh dramatically.

"don't make a big deal about this," you said.

this entire conversation was a pattern for us, and this was when we got to my least favorite part of the pattern. i would get my feelings hurt in some oblique not-technically-terrible way, and then it would be making a big deal about something. you'd get frustrated for me for being soft, but i was born soft. you knew i was soft when you pierced me. it's one of the things that made controlling me so easy.

"i'm not," i felt my voice crack. the question came without my wanting. "why are you guys talking about me?" and why are you saying that thing? why not like - i'm telling them how you're generous and kind and pretty.

you let out this low, tragic groan. "oh my god." you tossed the phone away from your body. "there, see? i just won't talk to them if you don't like it."

the rest of the hour went the way it always went, between us: i said i don't actually mind if you talk to your friends but -, you found a way to call my minor expression of discomfort "being dramatic." you got upset that i had been offended. i ended up apologizing, even though i hadn't actually done anything.

afterwards, you picked up the phone again. after texting for a little bit, you snorted. "okay," you said, "but it is kind of funny you're afraid of the dark. i mean, when you think about it."