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The comphet energy is strong with this one!

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I commissioned this artwork from Toonrific Tariq. He does essays on cartoons and is creating his own cartoon in this style.

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I commissioned this amazing artwork of Dr. Naomi Hunter from the Metal Gear Series by the lovely ToonrificTariq on YouTube. He does videos on kids and adult cartoons, drawing and gaming livestreams and is the creator of his crowdfunded black indie cartoon, Hey.

If you are interested in commissions, sporadic livestreams, or just simply looking for a cartoon reviewer who is black then Tariq is your guy.

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I have such a love/hate relationship with Jin Kazama because I get why he started WW3 but he is also the living embodiment of the phrase: “men will do literally anything but go to therapy”, but besides that point I’m happy that Namco allowed him to have a boyfriend and girlfriend!

HwoaXiaoJin 💕

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Finally, somebody says what I’ve been thinking about for long ol’ while.

It sucks that her last canonical appearance was looking for Eddy before he goes off to the next tournament in their TTT2 endings.

Honestly, give her a Xiaoyu style friend group because the woman needs some non-Eddy interactions in canon.

I Love Christie Monteiro

The first time I was ever introduced to Christie was when I was 10 years old. My brother had Tekken Revolution on his Playsation 3, and I used to play the hell out of it after school. Revolution was like a demo version of ttt2, so there weren't a lot of available characters. I was surprised to find out she was my opponent, but only because I hadn't seen her before. It was like she was some kind of hidden character.

I noticed 3 things about her:

She's black or biracial.

She's dressed colourfully.

Her fighting style.

I had never heard of capoeira before playing Tekken, so learning about a fighting style that had African roots that resembled dancing entranced me. I was super into dancing (though not professional), and I grew up on martial arts films. I did some research here and there, and eventually, I grew an attachment to capoeira. I had never actually learned it professionally, but I do occasionally like to practice whatever I learned on the internet.

She's a black character, which means a lot to me (even though it's not about me). I had been using Xiaoyu as a self insert, and I still do. I was never able to do the same with Christie, and I think that's what makes her interesting. She was her own person, and someone I couldn't find pieces of myself in. Christie is bright, determined and mature. I think that was the difference. Her maturity. (I'm currently 20 years old, but I still have a long way.)

Her outfits were always colourful and sultry. It wasn't like Anna Williams, where it's dangerous, but more of a "product of environment" kind of way. Christie's outfits resemble what a lot of people wear in Brazil (according to the little research I've made), and have a party goer look to them. Some of her old concept art even gave me 'Rihanna' vibes. Brazil is an overall artisitc, warm and colourful country, so the developers did a very great job pouring all of that into Christie.

I had gotten super obsessed with Tekken, and did some deep dives, which led me to the 2009 film. I was pretty surprised that Christie was nothing like anything in the games, especially since she had a romantic relationship with Jin. On the other hand, her outfit was no longer colourful. Capoeira trousers are typically white, so movie Christie seemed to have a traditional approach when it came to her costuming. It's still, however, stylised to suit her playful and spunky personality (even though the film made her a completely different person. She was also played by a white actress. *Shaking my head*.). It could hint to her inexperience, and how she's not looking for revenge or greedier things, like everyone else, but is there for something as simple as finding Eddy. Or maybe even wanting to raise money for her grandpa's illness.

Back to her out of the blue and out of character romance with Jin. It hadn't occurred to me until currently on other potential relationships she could have outside Eddy. I understand that Christie doesn't have to have those things, especially since Eddy has an actual story. Thing is, why add her to the game if you're going to ultimately do nothing with her in the end?

Movie Christie is nothing like the game Christie, but at least the film was doing something with her.

You know what, let Christie have friends and romantic interests outside of Eddy. Tekken x Street Fighter doesn't count because that was heavily Capcom based.

I got some scenarios. Christie takes over the orphanage that Eddy runs, and enters the tournament to get some cash. She could cross paths with King, who visits his own share orphanages. Common ground. They both have good hearts.

Maybe even a friendship with Miguel. Christie kind of resembles Miguel's sister. They could be in a match, but he can't bring himself to lay a hand on her because of their resemblance.

EDIT: How could I forget, Bruce Irvin. She had one interaction with him in Tekken 5, and that's it? Romantic interest?

But yeah, that's all the info dumping I have for you guys.

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Does anyone remember Tekken Tag 1? I've been thinking about it lately, and so, I drew this moment. I took this opportunity to shoot for a different look from what I normally do digitally illustrating. For this piece, it turns out that all I really did was hide my lineart layer and I got this as a result. I know it needs work overall, but I think it's still worth posting. What do you think? I used the default brushes in Clip Studio. And the really important question: Who wins?

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This woman introduced me to the concept of lesbians. God bless the devs for making her a trollish sapphic who, instead of cutting to the chase and confess her love to Asuka, decides to make it her mission to annoy her to death. As an annoying younger brother, I respect the hustle.

Fun fact: If you watch Xiayou’s, Miharu’s, Alisa’s, Kuma’s, Panda’s, Asuka’s and Lili’s TTT 2 endings they create a lil movie. Can’t really remember the order tho.

If anybody wants more Tekken or other ramblings, just let me know via comments.

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Omg!!!! I’ve been waiting for this forever! And it’s still on YouTube! Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!

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I’m a simple man. I see Kim and Jimmy/Saul or Lapidot

I reblog.

Whatever. Is this anything?

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This is how I predict Trump’s cabinet will act when he inevitably keels over. Living evidence of the Peter Principle: A bunch of incompetent fucks promoted above their abilities.

Speaking about Death Of Stalin, I’d love if Trump, Musk and Putin died on Stalin’s death day. That would be incredible. Like what happened to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

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The lead pipe scene

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He’s so pretty!

😇💖🕸️🧋

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I don’t really post things on this site frequently like this but this is very important! Please reblog! And after the 3 days we must continue. Look to what black people did during the 50’s and 60’s and if that fails, then we must resist by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

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I read the episode’s transcript and it was so sad and beautiful. I really wished that they had storyboards and voiceover done for this episode like Abstinence did.

Sculptwist…

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Just finished watching Hellraiser: Hellbound and I rekindled my love for Julia Cotton: my favorite evil British stepmilf with no skin or moral qualms!

Strange, Surreal, and Nightmarish

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You know if Frank wasn’t an incestuous creep to Kirsty, I’d fuck him. His human form, obviously.

HELLRAISER 1987 | clive barker