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I love you, I hate you, I missed you.

My partner showed me Gravity Falls lol

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Beyblade heavyweight division

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Just gonna add my other Ford drawing here as well!

I think im going to start posting here again with how Insta’s going. Why not start off with some Bill and Ford drawings ;)

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Pokemon Z-A starter predictions

Now that we know the starters are Chikorita, Totodile, and Tepig I want to guess what their new final evolution types will be. I predict Emboar will be fire/steel, Feraligatr will be water/fighting, and Meganium will be grass/fairy. Here's why:

In more recent years, Pokemon has been giving their starters secondary types that counter each other in a similar way their primary type does (ie. Legends Arceus with dark-ghost-fighting and Kalos with psychic-dark-fighting). Steel counters fairy, fairy counters fighting, and fighting counters steel, a perfect circle!

With Chikorita being a starter, I knew that Meganium is most likely going to be fairy. I mean, come on, it's perfect for a fairy type! Additionally, it could have a perfume design as its dex entries often describe a calming and rejuvenating aroma and France (the place Kalos is based on) is the heart of the luxury fragrance industry.

To counter the fairy type, Emboar would take on a steel typing. I chose steel for Emboar since it already has a secondary fighting type and its a great type combo, resisting around 9 types according to my research with a 4x ground weakness that evens it out. I imagine Emboar's new design would be inspired by chefs and the cuisine of France as its fire would cook the food and the steel would be the oven and stove it would cook in.

Finally, Feraligatr would gain a fighting type to counter the steel type of Emboar. The fighting type would draw back to France's history of war and revolution. Also, Feraligatr's design is already so aggressive, why not point that fury towards a cause, for freedom! According to the poke dex, Feraligator is savage and has powerful hind legs which would be perfect for the French fighting style Savate which specialized in kicking techniques.

To top it all off, all three starters would have a shared theme of fairytales. Meganium would represent the princess with its elegance, beauty and serenity. Emboar would be the knight in shining armor and filled with fiery determination and pride. Feraligatr would be the beast/dragon (despite not being a dragon type, I know) that acts fierce, savage, and rejects the status quo.

Let me know what you think about my predictions- do you agree or do you have something different in mind for legends Z-A?

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I think im going to start posting here again with how Insta’s going. Why not start off with some Bill and Ford drawings ;)

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Gravity Falls AUs

What are some of your favorite gravity falls AUs?

I'll go first:

Euclydia Rises by @orxinus (specifically mm!Ford)

Apostle Bill by @fishymom-art (specifically muse!Ford)

Now What by @fishymom-art

Stellar Remnants by @xx-akubara-xx

Blind Eye Ford by @kuj0goth

Rewired by @nostalgink

Star Falls by @fazfuri

Reverse Falls (specifically Stanford Gleeful)

Vampire!Fiddleford and Werewolf!Stanley (Can't find an actual au name for this)

You uh. Notice a pattern yet lmfao? I just love it when nice characters go apeshit. They deserve to be a little mean. As a treat >w< Also just in general toxic yaoi. Love me some toxic yaoi >>>

Let me know any other AUs you like! I always love checking out new ones :)

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This is too good not to repost to the main account

'Bill Cipher fumbled'

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is that a sense of impending doom, or just the summer pollen? probably just the pollen.

anyway, i don't plan on posting full chapters like this too often but take this as a reminder to go check out Ad Astra Per Aspera on its neocities page, where it updates every Friday! In case you’re into comics about things that already exist.

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Yesterday, I decided to use AvM as an example for "Expression through Body Language in Animation" so I thought; why not share it over here?

Expressing EMOTION through Body Language (Using AvM as an example)

Body language is actually very important in animation. The use of it can help express just about anything! Sometimes it doesn't have to be facial expressions or strong voice acting to make a point about how someone is feeling.

For example, simple movement, like throwing your hands in the air or jumping around, can express joy,

confusion,

and even woe and sadness.

Sometimes, the complete use (or lack) of movement can be very telling of an emotion. In the picture above, Purple is standing completely still at his mother's grave, head cast down in sorrow.

Did it take any line of dialogue or facial expression to make his grief clear? No! All it took was simple body language.

It even helps differentiate one character from another, in terms of how they walk,

(Green skipping dramatically just SCREAMS theatre kid in The Wishing Well short:)

how they pose

("Blue" posing in a way that the REAL Blue most likely wouldn't in The Witch:)

(and Red’s aggressive movements vs Green's cocky ones from The Prank; you can tell by the way Red stomps up to Green that the poor guy is getting mad)

their fighting styles, too; where Red shows his aggressive and impulsive nature in the way he fights, compared to Yellow taking a more defensive stance in 'Green's Channel';

And even how they sit! HOW THEY SIT!

The animation team could've easily had them all sit in the exact same way, but no! They had them sit differently, in ways that give them all more personality.

And later on in the same short, they expressed frustration differently!

Red's pose here being some sort of pout, Blue’s feeling more of a "damn it!" while Yellow is a classic thinking pose; showing that he's possibly coming up with ways to succeed in another try.

And it didn't take a single word, nor a FACE, to get this point across! All it took to convey emotions was how they move! It's actually really interesting to think about. It didn't take voice actors or faces or even character design to show emotions and personality, all it took was a good understanding of body language and movement. Props to the Alan Becker team for that!

Before I go, here are some other examples of how simple movement conveyed emotions in AvM.

Blue's shock turning to horror in the Omelette Short:

Green laughing in Fruit Ninja and Wallpaper:

Orange tiredly rubbing his eyes in Ragdoll to show that "He didn't get enough sleep for this nonsense":

And finally, Red, Green and Orange leaning differently during a race in "Carrot on a Stick"

That's all I have, thank you for your time <3

I genuinely admire how the animation team managed to pull off body language so amazingly! It's so cool how you can express so much about yourself through your movements alone.

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nobody asked me my headcanons on Bill's weird alien shape gender but that's only because you didn't know you wanted to know

of course he has gold bricks and pronouns

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OK I REALLY LIKE HOW IT TURNED OUT-

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ITS TIME

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some sketchy izutsumis (liberties were taken with the refs)

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and that was Pearlina Week!!! i have officially spent 40hrs and 56mins drawing pearlina during the last 7 days. this was a lot of fun :D i love them so much and SIDE ORDER HYPE!!!!!!!

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I feel like a lot of us are forgetting that in the “normal” world Fionna and cake are from, everyone else is ok with how things are. Sure, Fionna is struggling financially, hopping from job to job and wishing her world was more interesting, but there are people who are interesting and she just doesn’t care to notice (see episode 1).

Gary is building his own pastry kingdom and plans to have his own business. Marshall Lee is happy playing on street corners. The two of their relationship is starting to bloom. Hunter has grown a beautiful secret garden in the park. Ellis P. Is just himself. Even the two roller derby girls were happy to have Fionna join their team.

By just caring about what she wants (making her Universe magical), Fionna likely will ruin a lot of her friends’ live in the process resulting in a magical yet hurt world. She needs to come to accept that her world is ok as is and she just needs to change her perspective. She could even wish for a new universe that she and Cake can live in instead if she can’t give up magic. I think after Winter King, she’s starting on the path that her actions have real consequences, even if she just wanted to have fun. I cant wait for more episodes!

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Invincible storyboard from the Atom Eve special

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What if I went insane actually