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I cannot tell you the amount of self-congratulatory cringe the people working on this game managed to generate.

Girlies, I am so tired if this shit. Like, if "colonial undertones" or whatever bother you so much, you shouldn't even be playing a game called Tomb Raider, let alone working on it. Rummaging through ancient tombs will always be an adventure trope that's both kind of iffy and super fun, and either you can accept that it's not that deep, or you can't - which is fine, but then put your money where your mouth is and go play something more in line with your principles.

Who else saw this coming a light year away?

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Ugh, preach! Tbh I feel DMC4&5 are pretty mediocre in terms of story, especially since they seem to be ashamed of the fact that their characters might have actual emotions. Trish and Lady are catty and mostly there for fan service, Dante's and Virgil's conflict is now just a pissing countest, and there's really not that much going on with Nero (which is probably on purpose, because it makes him easier to write than Dante: Dante needs to be cool and witty, while Nero either scowls or shrugs). What made 1&3 so good is that they had a real, honest emotional heart underneath the bravado! Without it the whole thing feels kind of shallow, like one of those fancy cakes that's actually just rolled icing on top of dry sponge and tastes like sugary sawdust.

This is probably why I'm open to giving the Netflix version a shot, currently the bar for the franchise isn't set that high lol.

Easy question, DMC3 or DMC5?

DMC3 because Lady's actually relevant to the plot and not just there for weird fanservice scenes

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C, D 👀 👀 👀

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

I decided to go through my looong list of blocked tags here on tumblr.com and try to pick at least a few, but then a strange realization hit me: I didn't really hate most of these ships per se. Sure, there's stuff in there that I don't find interesting or that's not my thing, but aside from iffy stuff like incest I can't really say "I strongly disagree with this pairing". TBH the reason most of these ships are blocked is because they're popular ships that won't become canon, which creates this annoying mix of delusion and defensiveness among fans that's hard to avoid, and in the end it's just easier to block the whole tag if you're not into the ship than try to "separate the sheep from the goats" (not to imply fans who ship the same as me are perfect, but in this case I'm willing to weed out the wackos in order to get to the good stuff haha).

So yeah, sorry if you thought this was going to be more spicy lol.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

Ishizu Ishtar x Seto Kaiba (Yugioh) and Dante x Lucia (Devil May Cry) are two ships that on paper should be my thing, but in reality I never got hooked on either of them. Sometimes ships are the same in fiction as they are in real life: it's supposed to a good match in theory but you're just not feeling the chemistry.

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A, M and R :3

A - Ships that you currently like a lot.

I'm back on my teenage bullshit again:

Anzu Mazaki/Tea Gardner x Seto Kaiba (Yugioh) - I started shipping this almost 20 years ago and I think I'll never be over it :D

Dante x Lady (Devil May Cry) - Another oldie-but-goldie, the new Netflix show isn't perfect but damn I can never get enough of these two

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Elita 1 from Transformers - gal pal AND car in one, what's not to like!?

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

The obvious answer would be the main squad from Yugioh DM (Yugi, Anzu, Jou, Honda), I just love their dynamic though there's also something bittersweet knowing that most teenage friendships don't last beyond high school :')

I will also give a shout out to the 2007 Devil May Cry anime for making Trish and Lady friends (in the end). I always felt like DMC 4 & 5 were trying to make them be constantly catty to each other so I prefer the anime version.

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A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

J - Name a fandom you didn’t think about until you saw it all over Tumblr. (You don’t have to care about it or follow it; it just has to be something that Tumblr made you aware of.)

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. (Characters you’re neutral about are fair game, as are characters you merely dislike. Characters that you absolutely loathe with the fire of ten thousand suns are exempt, as there is no point in giving yourself an aneurysm over a character that you hate.)

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Q - A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

V - Which character do you relate to most?

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

X - A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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Final chapter of "Where did the time go?" is up now!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63030889/chapters/169542451

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Thank you for this wonderful Alrick, @drawinglinestoconstellations! QoQ

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Since kaiba never cries during the show, could you draw him crying showing his emotions for the first time and maybe a cute cat or something comforting him would be cute concept

Tbh I just can't imagine Kaiba crying at all?? He gets Isono to cry for him lol.

"Isono, I am sad."

"Right away, master Kaiba!" *starts crying in a dignified way*

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For you who've read my fics, here's Seto with the cats Mokuba got them to adopt: Kai (gray), Lucy (calico), and Goober (white) 😆

(errr the background makes sense if you've read the fic 😅)

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His face when he sees her with the shard. Lol. Lmao.

(RIP long bangs I will never forget u)

P.s. do people not know this is a meme?

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"For Tony Redgrave" DEVIL MAY CRY - SEASON 2

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Happy Easter to those who observe 😆

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"Dante and Lady."

"Lady and Dante. Not Dante and Lady.

"Eh, we'll work on it."

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I know I can sometimes be a petty little hater, but the truth is I'm not that bothered by people rebooting and remixing stuff - sure it's often done as a cash grab and is rarely an improvement on the original, but whatever, not everything is for everybody, I'll be salty about it for a week and move on.

BUT! But. What gets me every time is when the new creators openly talk shit about the original creators and the IP (*caugh* Ninja Theory and Crystal Dynamics *cough*). Listen, you wouldn't even be here if the original IP didn't exist, and you're being allowed to remake it because at least something about it was good. Show the slightest amount of humility, or - if you can't even manage that - at least be professional about people who are basically your colleagues.

I just can't stand this, and I take it as my personal duty to be forever petty about it lol. (And usually that's not hard, because so far I've never seen this attitude result in a better product.)

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Reboot Lara is unhinged (derogatory), unlike the original Lara who was unhinged (affectionate).

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I've seen this meme going around and Dante would 100% be into it