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Some more bust commissions (here if anyone is interested in a drawing like this!)

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i wish years and years (2019) was a little better known than it is...

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thoughts on the doctor who finale?

left me feeling a little cold, which is sad because there's a lot of interesting stuff in it - the doctor as a queer man trapped in a time loop based on a conservative podcaster's ideal world is patently a much more evocative premise for a season finale than what the same showrunner was doing back in the late aughts; it feels like a very pointed thesis statement for the show and more in line with what I like about RTD as a writer. I like the bait and switch of the "character trapped in fake universe realizes the world isn't quite right and breaks out of it" type plot where it turns out the villain is exploiting the inevitability of a universe breaking to other ends. I like that the villain is a weird eugenicist who's goal to revitalize her species is something the doctor is kind of tempted by; that feels spiky and like the thematically correct choice for this version of the show and the anxieties of the main characters. I like the set and creature design of the bone palace and the "fossils" a lot. etc etc. but also you can just tell it was originally a much tighter story that production issues hit hard (like "ending changed while season was already airing" hard), both in longer term ways (it's pretty obvious the story was originally about ruby before problems with the cast, and so attention is split between her and the character written to replace her this season in some pretty frustrating ways, like how the ending with bel and the baby wouldn't be that strange if applied to ruby, who's in a family that fosters) and in short term ways (the pick up filming is like, half the episode, and is a pretty rough and not especially elegiac send off for the characters...). Kind of a mess, but I also appreciate it in certain ways?

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boiling brew (for "The Crooked Moon")

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before you start writing there's one very important question you need to ask yourself

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they gotta keep putting development off of this until they finish addressing "quality of life improvements" and 'adding updates and features' to keep it an active place... girl those aren't chains you can ever break!

funniest thing with flight rising is that they've had plans for the past decade to eventually turn it into some sort of video game that they've never shown dev work on or even really explained and basically every major plot thread on the website is intended to be resolved "when the video game is finished"

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funniest thing with flight rising is that they've had plans for the past decade to eventually turn it into some sort of video game that they've never shown dev work on or even really explained and basically every major plot thread on the website is intended to be resolved "when the video game is finished"

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some more recent bust commissions! (again still open here if anyone wants to grab one!)

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"the worst thing a piece of fiction can be is mean spirited/insincere" < person who's never sat through the most dead boring milquetoast movie of the year in a theater with broken air conditioning

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hypnovulfen (from "the crooked moon") + some concepts

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corn curse (for "The Crooked Moon)

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one r/worldbuilding post i couldn't really include on that last post but i found very funny was this person asking if it's cool to "adopt" alien designs they find online because they don't feel creative enough to make any up. girl just stick four eyes and a snail shell on a penguin and call it a gleepglorp. instant masterpiece of character design and worldbuilding. god.

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Some of the concepts I did for the lake dredger!

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The Lake Dredger from "The Crooked Moon"

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I thiiiiink I can decipher the "white male pookie" anon? It's rancid, though. Option one: your Star Wars post rubbed up against a discourse leviathan. It goes like this: There are a faction of fans who liked the Rian Johnson movie, but criticize its sequels for basically abandoning a lot of the plot hooks and themes it laid out. Then there are a faction of fans who prefer the sequels, because they focused on the popular Rey/Kylo Ren ship (Reylo). The ship itself is a controversial topic. One of its worst defenses is "a lot of women like it; therefore, criticizing it and/or criticizing sequels is misogynist and women-hating". The anon is doing some absurd leaps in logic. sparrowlucero liked the Rian Johnson movie -> sparrowlucero disliked the sequels -> sparrowlucero opposes reylo -> sparrowlucero hates women and loves the white male director (rian johnson) The only other idea I have is that they're resurrecting the old Steven Moffat nonsense, but it boils down to the same thing. it's equating 'fandom' with 'women' and saying that by disagreeing with fandom takes, you're siding with the director over women. Either way, the anon's probably not worth your time.

i feel like i should clarify to that anon, for posterity, that this is the extent of my understanding of "reylo"

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Some design work + final illustration of the Drakkenhob from "The Crooked Moon". probably my favorite guy I designed for the project