#1up comic

[1-upboys]

I think for Mario day it's time for him to get some good fashion raspberries! Mario just has to go into lee mode for his day! 🥹

You guys are all mean lil gremlins lol

[crimethinc]

Acclaimed artist NO Bonzo has just published this moving allegory about the transmission of anarchist history, "The Beautiful Idea." Among other sources, it draws on a discussion that one of us engaged in with the From Embers podcast about our text, "Against the Logic of the Guillotine."

It's an honor for us to be connected with such an elegant and inspiring project.

You can view it online here:

https://archive.org/details/the-beautiful-idea_202308/mode/1up

Or order a magnificent print copy here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1548877503/the-beautiful-idea-comic

[obscure-earthbound-facts-media]

Mr. Yottore

The Mr. Yottore were a, most likely, friendly species from EarthBound 64, similar to the Mr. Saturn or Tendas. They were little teddy bear-like creatures that had bodies seemingly made of wood and had a leaf growing out of their head. They lived in egg-shaped huts in a village located within the Shimedori Forest (Murasaki Forest in GBA).

Art by Toshinao Aoki

Scanned by @ComfortFoodVG on Twitter

Scans: https://archive.org/details/pollyanna-mother-official-comic/page/n146/mode/1up

[comfortfoodcontent]

Mega Man X 4 Poster from the Comic BomBom Special #116: Mega Man X 4 Strongest Big Reference Book - Rockman X 4 Saikyou Daizukan

My scans here: https://archive.org/details/comic-bom-bom-special-116-mega-man-x-4-strongest-big-reference-book-rockman-x-4-saikyou-daizukan/page/n2/mode/1up

[linksthoughtbrambles]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks @embyrinitalics for tagging me! 🥰

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

31, with some being compilations of very short works.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

361,133 😲

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Zelda! But also a tiny bit of Star Trek DS9 and Lower Decks.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Link's Thought Brambles

Adventure Log+

Crow's Feet

Blindsighted

Substatutiary

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! Almost every time. We are all part of a community that loves Zelda. Why not talk to each other?

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmm. I never quite understand what 'angst' is. But I am guessing the answer is Blindsighted because of the moods and thoughts of the characters at the end.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Link's Thought Brambles 💕

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Very rarely, but when I have it has been that people don't like horror, deviations from 100% Zelink, or characters being imperfect people who don't always make the best choices. (So far. Wait til what happens later in Adventure Log+ 🫠).

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind.

I have a confession here: I hate the word "smut" - it sounds so negative. It has connotations of dirty (literally smut, dirt - see the screenshot of google's definition below), of something undesirable.

That is not what I am writing when I write about sex. Do I write nsfw? Yes, absolutely. I respect some readers' wish to avoid them, so I make those scenes possible to skip if I can (but the work is more cohesive when included 🥰).

I pretty much write Zelink 💕

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Only one so far! "Oopsy" lol where Link and Zelda are the two "humans" in the zoo in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee." It is indeed crazy.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of. How would I find out?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No but that would be amazing!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, several, and more ongoing.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Zelink

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh man. Well, I hope to finish all, but the slowest one by far is the one done as sort of an edited screenshot comic: Adventure Log-. I really enjoy that one, but it has taken a backseat to the more traditional writing.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and characterization. I've had people tell me my action scenes are good, which was a huge relief to hear!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptive prose. I can do it, but I have to spend massive amounts of time and brainpower to do so.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I'm sure it will come up at some point, and when it does I will do my best.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Zelda! But I was a kid writing on loose leaf paper 😂😂 and I didn't get very far.

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

Link's Thought Brambles. I am so proud of it, and that I finished it, and that the ending feels complete (even though there is a sequel).

Tagging @bellecream @1up-girl @zeldaseyebrows @fatefulfaerie @obsidiangst @deiliamedlini and anyone else who would like to play, it seems harder to get mobile to find people's handles than on a browser.

[drsteggy]

Thank you for the tag @tired-twili !

I’m starting a new post as it’s getting very long!

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? Dnd campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!

And my WIP:

Farore Smut

Food Truck

Longest Night

Cats of Castletown

Pony Thing

Skyward

Zelda Backstory Farore

The Chambermaid

Gwen

Miphas Grace

No pressure tags to…. @snidgetwidgeon @cooking-with-hailstones @flutefemme @jenseits-der-sterne @st0rmyskies @aquaticpal @saltysaph @hylianjo @novantinuum and @1up-girl

[zeldaelmo]

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? Dnd campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!

Thank you for always thinking of me @adrift-in-thyme! I feel a little bad because I ignored so many of your tags, but I’ve been a bit busy...

Ok, I’ve done this game a few times, so a lot of these wips already have posts floating around on my blog.

Arranged marriage AU Spirit Tracks

Drunk Zelda (NSFW)

Loftwing Letters fic (don’t ask after this one, it’s a surprise)

Magical 

Stewardess

The Promise

TP smut weapon arsenal (NSFW)

Spy AU

Inspiration, Illusions, and other Inconveniences (NSFW)

I’m tagging... @eventid1ngs, @silentprincess17, @inkandmoonbeams, @hyylia, @aurathian, @linksthoughtbrambles, @1up-girl, @keikbird, @onewingedsparrow

[deiliamedlini]

Get a Broom for All these WIPs

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.  Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it!  And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.  I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either.  Sketch titles?  Comics?  DnD campaigns?  If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!  

THANK YOU FOR THE TAGS @hpeg-art @1up-girl @pastelsandpining Omg 🙈 be prepared for an ungodly long list; this is TOTALLY going to hurt! But also this is like, my favorite ask game that’s out there.

Oh... oh no.... why does this always happen right after I organize and spread out the files 😅 Im going to actually need to use a screenshot for my oneshot folder on this one.... this is...... this is where it gets bad. BUT! I HAVE THEM ORGANIZED IN MY ACTUAL FOLDERS SO IM ORGANIZING THEM HERE TOO:

Publishing

One Knight

Dance With Me

Through Hell or High Water

I Walk Beside You

The Time Traveler and Her Knight

Okay I have two folders for “non-oneshot” WIPS, so a few are ABC order and a few aren’t! 

Childhood Friends to Lovers

Edge of Humanity

Ghosts of Hyrule

Marriage of Convenience

MMORPG fic

Mob AU

Portal Travel AU

Spirit Tracks AU

Swan Song

Uncharted AU

Zombie AU

Spy x Family AU

LOZ Spy x Family AU

Zelda’s Adventures

link pov pirates fun

Black Cauldron AU

Hercules

Anastasia AU

Mulan

Jungle AU

Lion King 2

Prompts (WHICH I SEE, AND I WILL GET ON I SWEAR ON MY SOUL THESE WILL GET DONE!!)

Prompt: I have this

I’m finally here

Have you ever

Oneshots (this is the part that hurts lol)

Struggling Artist Link/ Successful Violinist Zelda

Bad Calamity

Contractually Obligated

Unreal AU

West Dr AU

DWTS AU

Ships in the Night

Dark Link/Hylia

Superhero AU

But in Dreams 

Surprise Post Calamity Pre Calamity Pregnancy

WWE/WWF

Shadowland

In the Face of the Enemy

Double Amnesia

Space Scientists

Glorified Cheating

Zelda v Ganon

Evil Child AU

Android Link AU

Thinking of You Again

One Knight Part 2

Makeela and Pipit Mini Adventure- Pre Dating

The Cycle Repeats

Across The Room

Stop Following me 

Firefighter Sequel

Supernatural Creatures

Ghost/Haven

Like Father, Like Son

Staged

One heat two minds

What I Wouldn’t do for you

Mind Share

BOTW 2

Besties

Princess Zelda’s Time Loop Sacrafice

One Last Look

Gerudo Prison

Jedi

Jet from Avatar (this is a LoZ fic though, just fyi)

Impas escape

The Flood

Nightmare Arm

Zelda can take link’s pain for herself

Canon moment

Spy goodbye

Lost In Gerudo Desert

Lost in the Lost Woods

SS Zelda Fire Temple

“Link is not Attractive” 

Veternarian Zelink

Backwards Calamity

Bookworm Link/Librarian Zelda

LIKE HELLLLLLL AM I TAGGING THIS MANY PEOPLE!!! LIKE. HELL. BUT please feel free to do this game or send an ask about any of these fics because I have issues (clearly) and love to talk about them bc it usually gives me a new idea! Also, fun fact, several of these docs are totally empty and have nothing in them! 

[lesser-mook]

Now Jiro has LVL 99 Plotarmor CHP 355 (SPOILERS)

"you made my friends cry", ohhh brother, here we go again Jiro.

Always jiro given the worst lines, what’s that about?

 100% contrivance, 100% plotarmor, 300% corny. This is why it's a miracle anyone truly believes any of these villains are a threat anymore. 

 Kohei needs to stop gassing up the bosses power level, if he insists on tying their hands so no LASTING consequence happens to the heroes.

Mind you, again, the power levels are a relevant reason why this makes zero sense.

Why make your villains too powerful, SO powerful that you have to nerf Tomura in the most forced way possible; And then invent a reason why AFO doesn't kill Jiro, one of the more irrelevant side characters.

Why even make them threatening at all if they're not allowed to live up to the hype.

Now all of a sudden All For One is stopped before Jiro's dies,which is the only logical outcome of a C lister punching up to a S Tier threat.

Of course her plot armor goes full throttle now all of a sudden an Inner Mutiny straight out of a Venom or Hulk comic stops AFO from going to work. 

 Garbage, how can there any tension or investment in “who will win” when nothing bad is allowed to happen and STICK without uno reverse cards. 

 Bakugou bites it, now he gets an extra 1up life token from some random extra, how convenient. 

 Wouldn't want the readers to think anyone's in any real danger, cause now we have obscure heroes scattered all over that can do pretty much anything the plot needs them to do. 

 Jiro punching up to this world's equivalent to Darkseid, but NOW his hands are tied thus the most she got was minus one ear lobe- 

Jeanist, Nagant, now Jiro. All survived AFO somehow, SOMEHOW! Mirko (garbage character) somehow survived Nomu, High-End types if i’m not mistaken, how.

All For One is a character that could definitely go 1v1 with the early 40s Fleischer Superman.

 He could BE a legitimate casual Shazam or Superman villain without the nerf bullshit. And that's coming from me. 

 So why tf is All For One consistently made to look inept & incompetent when it comes to killing these nobodies who aren't even WONDERGIRL or BlueBeetle levels of power. All because Horikoshi is afraid to commit and let THE man do what we know he can do. jfc.

Imagine if Carnage killed NOBODY but we're told he's dangerous.....kind of redundant to tell us, if he's not allowed to shed blood so we can see it.

Where are the stakes, if the villain isn’t a threat in reality.

Horikoshi has a consistent commitment problem, he introduces concepts, characters, ideas, plot threads = POTENTIAL, does nothing with it or backtracks.

I don't care about Jiro, but her & Bakugou dying permanently would've set the tone of this war in the best way possible, that anything goes and the stakes actually MATTER. Establishing the villains as a legit threat.

This is why you don't oversell your villains, if you have to fabricate excuses to tie their hands behind their back, then you raised the bar too high.

[stefankarlfanblog]

Alfred J. Kwak - Alfreð Önd (1990)

These are all the publically uploaded episodes of Alfred J. Kwak in Icelandic, in TV listings archived on Timarti, only Stefán Karl Stefánsson and Magnús Óláfsson are credited as the main cast.

Link: https://timarit.is/page/2925911?iabr=on#page/n13/mode/1up

18.00 Alfred Duck (1) (Alfred J. Kwak) Dutch cartoon series for children. The entrepreneurial spirit of Alfred who has a strong sense of justice and nothing spiritual is irrelevant to him. Alfred travels extensively, both in time and space, and does his best to make amends. Voices by Magnús Ólafsson and Stefán Karl Stefánsson. Translation by Ingi Kari Jóhannesson.

Alfreð Önd - Hinrik er faðir minn (Episode 4)

"Hinrik is my father"

Alfreð Önd - Leyndarmál Dolfs (Episode 5)

"Dolf's Secret"

Alfreð Önd - Keppnin mikla (Episode 6)

"The great race"

"Alfred J. Kwak is a Dutch-Japanese animated comedy-drama television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen, produced by Telecable Benelux B.V. in co-production with VARA, ZDF, TVE, TV Tokyo and animation studio Visual '80, and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes. The series characters were designed by Harald Siepermann. There are also toys and a comic based on the animated series."

All of the episodes were uploaded by Barnatíminn around early December 2017, you can find more information about the show in this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak

[1-upboys]

Headcanon: Luigi is the type of guy who wears the cutest PJs <3

Oh hell yes, definitely!

[1uppod]

The 1UP Pod gang rise from the grave on an unreasonably warm evening to discuss Telltale’s The Walking Dead.

We talk all about the history of the zombie in video games, leading up to the release of Telltale‘s 2012 Game of the Year winning series. In addition, we share our thoughts on The Walking Dead comic books and TV shows and what drew us to Telltale’s take on the franchise.

We get into the story, the illusion of choice in narrative gaming, and some of the difficult (and not so difficult) decisions we made along the way. We also spend a lot of time talking about the heartbreak synonymous with this series and how it affected us to different degrees.

Other discussion points include our thoughts on the core cast (fuck Ben), our experiences with the later seasons, and Chip’s ill-fated ‘dickhead run’ on Twitch.

Our recommendation for this month is Project Zomboid, available on Early Access on Steam.

Please do drop us a like, share, subscribe, and drop us a review/rating:

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And always remember to get a life and play video games.

[thetouringtest]

This comic is brought to you by Al P. Hakka....

In 1 week, on August 20th, I will be hosting the closing reception for my comic art show at 1up gallery in New London, CT! Come see it in person in all its glory! 

#artisticgenius #greatartist #wowsogood #thebestartist #genius #amazing #thebest #wow

[michpat6]

tag game!

im clearing out my mentions if you couldn't tell, and I was tagged by @novantinuum (and I think @1up-girl? for some reason I can't find the notification) for a tag game!

Rules: tag 10 people you'd like to get to know better!

Fav color: I really like blue!! black and green are tied for second :)

Currently reading: mainly fanfic, but I've also been reading a lot of batman graphic novels, the idw sonic the hedgehog comics, and I just recently started reading the one punch man manga after catching up with the anime! I tend to read a million things at once lmao

Last song I listened to: not necessarily one song because its a playlist but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCCovrKvAtU that YouTube video! its "80s Japanese city pop" and its what I listen to when I write all of my fic

Last series I watched: ABC's Scandal with Kerry Washington! its a weird comfort show to have but its one of my comfort shows and I rewatch it like twice a year, this is my second annual rewatch and im almost done with it!

Last movie I watched: i just finished rewatching The Old Guard on Netflix for like the millionth time! I love that movie (and staring at Charlize Theron lol she has NO RIGHT looking that good. the plane fight?? PLEASE)

Sweet/spicy/savory: im stuck between sweet and savory, I love both it just depends what mood im in! I can't handle a lot of spice :(

Currently working on: a lot of my wips and getting ready to go back to college in two weeks! im excited to finally see my friends again

OKAY SO I CAN'T THINK OF TEN PEOPLE BUTTTTT IM TAGGING @mikamoony, @kotaface, @obsidiangst, and @bellecream!

[robins-den]

Stupid robot jumpscare

Anyway went through the new uploaded anthology. No Robo Ky except for these two guys. I'd care more about the rest of the compilation if I could read them or if they included Justice. Thank you for uploading them in such banger high resolution Tillman o7

The first comic actually was VERY comedic. I managed to laugh a couple times even without knowing what they were saying, which is pretty impressive.

https://archive.org/details/ggxx2/page/n49/mode/1up

Da link. It's from tillman it's just posted here so I remember which ones have Robo Ky in them

[histrionic-dragon]

Almost Captain America’s birthday....

Tomorrow, hopefully, there will be another insightful and moving comic by @potofsoup2.  In that spirit: do something civically engaged today or tomorrow or this week. Take five minutes and call, email, or send a postcard to an elected official.

Here’s a good place to start: https://americansofconscience.com/06-16-2023/  Updates every two weeks or so with new things you can do.

Small Deeds Done also has a weekly checklist (scroll down past the blog post): https://smalldeedsdone.com/2023/06/27/another-win-for-democracy-lets-not-waste-the-1up-okay/

Not political, exactly, but also a Steve-relevant cause: RIP Medical Debt buys up medical debt for a cent on the dollar and forgives it, so if you give them the cost of a fancy coffee drink someone gets $500 forgiven.

Doing things can feel like it doesn’t make a difference. It can feel exhausting to contemplate taking on the responsibility for doing it. Staying on top of the news to know what to do can feel like staring into an abyss. (I get that. I skim, and then I engage, and then I cut myself some slack. And action resources like Americans of Conscience help on both fronts.)

But take ten minutes and do it. Do it for Steve, if that helps. I know it helps me.

Do something because, as Sam said, the only power we have is that we believe we can do better.