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Feverishly bangs out a ref for my Fallen London oc in preparation for Artfight. It turns out the secret to doing a turnaround is to have a character design that warrants it.

I had a lot of fun designing the Weeping Scars even if they're a fair bit deviating from canon. The longer winding scars is because the rind peeling imagery in Seeking Mr Eaten's Name stuck with me.

Mr Eaten spurred their interest in the Correspondence, which turned out to be their calling due to their language and conceptualization aptitude. They will turn back, to kill a certain someone. The Discordance is in their future, which I am excited about. A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.

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What I really like about The Ugly Stepsister is the way it manages to do a revisionist fairy tale from the villain's point of view without rewriting all the characters to be their opposites. Elvira gets meaner as the story goes on, at first casually and then maniacally, but I believed every step of that downward progression. Agnes/Cinderella isn't as sweet as her Disney counterpart, but she isn't unreasonable- she needs a rich husband to get her away from her stepfamily, and if she isn't all that sympathetic to her bully's unhappiness, would I have been?

There is a true fairy tale heroine, though: Alma, the other stepsister, who didn't go to the ball. She has all the fairytale protagonist characteristics- she's plucky, she has no time for her mother's mind games, she'll go to heroic lengths to save her family, and perhaps most important, she's the youngest of three sisters. And at the end, she rides off to seek her fortune, like a good fairy tale heroine- looking, in fact, a bit like the title character in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella.

Is this fair? Of course not! Alma gets to be the fairytale heroine because she doesn't care about being one, and that's not fair at all. That's the bind women are put in, where you're supposed to succeed while not putting in any visible effort (that would be vanity, after all.) But neither fairytales nor horror movies are fair.

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"becomes" 🤨🙄

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i’m not saying im a lesbian im just saying

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reese and tigra <3 (extremely unasked for opinions on tigra’s design under the cut)

honestly i straight up had no notes on reese, her design is pretty much perfect and i couldn���t think of anything to change. tigra gets an almost full redesign though because she’s worth it.

(also feat. angy wet cat tigra because i had a flash of divine inspiration)

in general i get very bothered by supermodel skinny tigra built like a marathon runner because this woman is basically a world class wrestler and climber and also i believe that she feeds herself so behold. muscle mommy [literally] tigra: now with tummy fluff and some amount of body fat! (made her colors/stripes more tiger accurate too because im a nerd. marvel were cowards not giving her a white chest/tummy and tummy stripes, i tell you)

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What started as a rivalry ended up a relationship.

Proxy inspired by a Discord conversation!

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They don't let Steve be a furry the way they used to........ looks so puppy.

Captain America V1 #405

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My Steve Captain America run ideas;

Supporting cast of minimum two transgender women (Charlene McGowan and Jack Munroe) advising him at all times

Gets yelled at multiple times for going to other countries by their representatives as a metaphor for American imperialism shrouded in the blanket of charity which Steve has to deal with the consequences and guilt of.

Gets back with Diamondback who is a struggling superpowered detective also working as a waitress to meet ends meet.

Arc where he gets framed for murder by Kingpin or Red Skull or whatever and goes to the Raft and deals with the danger of both villains looking for revenge and the villains who are not necessarily bad people but don't want to rehabilitate themselves either, to challenge some of Steve's notions of criminality.

This arc culminates in Bucky and John Walker joining forces to break Steve out of prison, secretly organised by Sam who obviously has been operating as Captain America full time in his stead.

He becomes Capwolf again for a bit.

Gets a day job as a comic artist for Marvel again except this time he doesn't get given Captain America as a title but ends up drawing for X-Men or something in a comedy of errors.

Goes back to Ireland after being lured there for whatever reason and ends up reconnecting with his parents' land and ends up in a Gaeltacht and even though he doesn't speak the Irish language hearing music in it changes his brain chemistry and he ends up staying in Ireland way longer than he should do.

I have more ideas. They should let me write a Captain America volume I think I have enough credentials now and I have ideas.

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He's the guy ever actually. Played around with his suit design.

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Thinking about the concept of self-teratomancy again. On the one hand, the agency of self-modification. On the other, the inherent implications of that being labeled teratomancy instead of Shapeling Arts: that there are hidden histories to be unlocked, that you as a creature are fragmented or ill-suited to your purpose, that to break and make yourself anew might be required. The cruelty and mercy of the knife instead of a slow and warping moulding. The fact that to change yourself requires first to know it, on a level deep and stark enough to leave the salt of your ancestors' blood on your tongue.

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i think sam should get to wear long frilly gothic dresses. y'know, as a treat.

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there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

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Achievement unlocked: discovered piece of media at exact right time in your life to experience maximum peak emotional impact and infatuation

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Want to give him a mug that says "World's best grandma"

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MOON KNIGHT.

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My Lvl 70 Babies, None of them would be able to stand each other

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