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That's a Teen Titans creature design. What's that doing in my Superman show? Did Glen Murakami...

Got his ass

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genuinely find it fascinating how much fantasy writing discussion/advice online is centered around the struggle of making a dndish/tolkien rip off fantasy world stand out and feel different than the others, and regularly comes to the conclusion that to succeed at this you should focus even harder on realistically detailing the cultures of the elves/humans/orcs/dwarves/whatever random group of fantasy races are hanging around (the thing most of these projects already massively focus on) in the hopes that yours is simply the most vivid and evocative ever, as opposed to, like, just writing anything else

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i wanna talk about this little segment of animation on peridot because i think it’s really great. a'ite so at the beginning of the ep here she’s having this breakdown right? peridot’s already infamous for her incredible facial expressions, and this segment is definitely no exception,,,

but what i love even more is how it’s expressed through her fingers, how such a unique design element is used so naturally and dynamically in her language.

i don’t know how exactly she moves them, but it’s clear they reflect something of her state of mind. peridot loves nothing if not order; keeping a bunch of little poles in a hand or otherwise functional arrangement all the time seems like a unnecessarily small thing to point out for that, until you look at how they behave when she’s not fully keeping control.  

they go everywhere. she’s a mess. girl’s on her last desperate nerve here and it shows. she doesn’t even have them in a sensible arrangement until she deliberately gestures with them, and even then they’re way more loose in this scene than any before.

like she’s literally barely holding together.

it’s mildly interesting that she’s more collected [visually, at least] immediately after he last hope is extinguished, until she has to explain to steven about their shared fate.

it’s easy to see what she’s trying to do with her hands, just a general “throwing hands up in exasperation” gesture, but geez, at this point their arrangement barely resembles anything any more. and then this:

side note- i also think it’s cool how they managed to get her to simultaneously do like 3 different nervous gestures with one hand here; she’s just putting her fingers to use wherever they ended up.

even the hand that’s just idling as a hand is floating everywhere haphazardly

anyway my favorite part is this bit here,

it’s again easy to understand it simply as an “okay listen, kid” kind of gesture, but the way her fingers methodically reorganize back into hands as she inhales, it’s like she’s recomposing not only her stance, but her thoughts, both of which are conveyed awesomely through this deliberate “lining up and holding together” animation.

peridot has so many ways to be expressive and the crew utilizes them all  so expertly and i love it. and i mean, this isn’t even touching how shelby rabara nailed every voice crack and anxious falter in peridot’s voice while all this is happening…

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I was working on another MLP x Game Changer comic a few months ago but ran outta time on it. I might finish it but also might as well post what I've got now.

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your dark fantasy novel doesn't need a logic-based magic system it needs a bear with a human face

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to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

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My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Albert Uderzo – Asterix (the cover of Uderzo l'Irreductible (2018), but originally much older)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

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a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:

it's been there for years and they never "stock" it so it's just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.

it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn't fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please

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Microsoft Productivity Pack for Windows (1992)

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Fenqihu in Zhuqi Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan

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Why does like every language do things with their R sounds that nobody else understands

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Klumbo my beloved…

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I read the BFB on Mega Man 3 a while back and thought it was pretty good. There was a segment where the author delved into retro cartridges and how the internet spiked their prices purely because of notoriety. It referenced how Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was like a dollar before AVGN me it famous and now it's 30 bucks. Interesting stuff.

I always wanted to write one for DKC 2

they've been fascinating.

dkc2 would be a good choice, i think.

ultimately, i think the biggest barrier to writing what the line is looking for is a matter of networking, which has always been one of my biggest difficulties. never been good at hobnobbing and getting invited to places and introduced to people.