#And Lava Lamp Guy

[completeoveranalysis]

[1] 

Chapitre 196 - A Moment’s Hesitation

Oho matching covers! I love it!

The splash text reads:

The entrusted wish, the imparted power

Surge out now, until I am at the height of my limits!

And visually we have Lava Lamp sadly holding the shoulder of his younger self as the tiny Lava Lamp looks at the camera with determination. I love the expression on the older Lava Lamp, eyes closed in such a sad expression. Because he’s the one who’s seen what happens, while the Younger him still thinks he can stop it. Oh! And they have a visible shadow beneath them! Just one big distorted shadow. Very interesting choice. 

The billowing cloak brings so much energy to such a somber image, but what I’m really picking up on is the stuff I probably could have noticed ages ago if I’d been looking. Lava Lamp’s outfit (minus the cloak) is split evenly between black and white - ie, the yin yang symbol that represents his soul. But there’s a little strip of his black shirt that stretches down with a white circle on it which is a perfect simulacrum of that same symbol. I’m not sure if there’s anything equivalent elsewhere that has a black dot to balance it out, but if we’re just looking here then you can find them on the Younger Lava Lamp, the many tiny black buttons across his white clothes. The cloak could also, at a stretch, be said to be in the shape of one half of the yin yang symbol, making Lava Lamp’s black shirt itself the little inside dot we were looking for. 

(And does the rest of the empty space imply that he's only one half of the solution that will bring the ultimate balance back to everything?)

It’s all such an incredible visual balance. You could frame this.

[lava-lamps-forever]

[sentientstump]

chuckles

hes in danger

[mother-ofthe-universedraws]

Simon has a small handful of Stuffed animals, all of them named after old friends

[icy-gendango]

Lava lamp!

I really liked the idea with this one, but I didn't have the time to render or like flesh it out, so it's another sketchy one.

[buckttommy]

my otp is ryan guzman + happiness and peace. btw.

[egostrawberry]

what would you do if you looked over and your lava lamp had a little guy in it? That’d be pretty cool I think

Reference image

[iluminaughter]

Billtober Day 3 — With a Henchmaniac!

Yeah, a little late... but it was worth it!

I wanted to do something different, I was thinking of doing something simple but I was listening to lo-fi and my head did the rest x_x

And I also wanted to do it with a little-known Henchmaniac, but at the same time he is my favorite! I even gave him a name bc the poor guy doesn't have one :<

Welp... *dies in details*

PS: In the cup there are some references to other popular henchmaniacs, you can find them all?

[moonsidesong]

genuinely what is with object show characters and left eye injuries. what's up with that. why's it always the left one

[bluejaybytes]

Being employed is so weird. What do you mean my boss wants to buy me a lava lamp

[endless--sunsets]

☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜☎️💜

self indulgent phone guy stimboard for me! this was so fun to make, sorry for not actually including vincent this art just scratches my brain /pos art credit 📞

[completeoveranalysis]

[9]

MOM HOLY FUCK THEY REALLY ARE SAYING IT

EXCUSE ME

EXCUSE ME

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT IS THIS THE GREATEST THING 

LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS

Clamp absolutely set the precedent for this with our visit to Shura/Shara all those years ago. We’ve SEEN the possibility of being in the past and future of the same world and teleporting between the two. We knew the feathers could appear pretty much anywhere in the timeline of a world, given how time works differently across the mutliverse, and we DID just straight up go backwards and forwards in time via Mokona, so it’s absolutely possible for them to appear in the Past of the Kingdom of Clow. 

WHICH IS APPARENTLY ACID TOKYO????

WHICH JUST ABSOLUTELY BLOWS MY MIND WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT A WAY TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER??

X/1999 IS THE SET UP TO THE CLOW KINGDOM?

THE CLOW KINGDOM IS IN THE RUINED ECOLOGICAL DISASTER OF OUR OWN CURRENT WORLD??? 

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle as a pseudo-not-really-but-kind-of-sequel-event to Cardcaptor Sakura but ACTUALLY ALSO being the sequel-kind-of-but-not-exactly sequel to X/1999???? Or Alternate Timeline X/1999? Where things are ever so slightly different but the world was ruined in the same way?

AND THE RESERVOIR

THE RESERVOIR IN ACID TOKYO IS THE RESERVOIR IN THE CLOW RUINS????

I’m REELING OVER THIS

THEY SET THAT UP

SAKURA WALKED THROUGH THE DESERT TO PURIFY THE WATER TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE AND IT MADE THE RESERVOIR THAT LOVED SAKURA SO MUCH THAT IT PROTECTS HER

AND WATANUKI! WATANUKI WAS AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF SETTING UP THE RESERVOIR IN A WORLD BEFORE HE EVEN EXISTED IN THAT TIMELINE

And that’s Definitely the feather they’re talking about, isn’t it? The feather that Sakura left in Acid Tokyo is still in the Reservoir right now, and is the reason the water is magic and loves her so much - because it’s a piece of her, and -... well, a piece of her clone. But it’s a piece of SAKURA, and so they resemble and resonate with each other, and that's why the water is so close to her, but 'Sakura' can’t absorb the feather because she’s already a full person and those aren’t her memories, but the memories of her clone.

Meanwhile Sakura (ie, our cloned Sakura) is currently on the other side of the portal at a point in time that DIDN’T exist a few seconds ago, for Original 'Sakura', but the rest of the universe has moved on and decades have passed (even though no time at all has passed for her) and now the feather from her clone has ended up in the past that set up the reservoir potentially centuries before she was even born. 

Timeline!

Oh my god?

Oh my god. 

I’m going to be thinking about this forever. 

No wait I’m not done ACID TOKYO WAS like THE point in the narrative where everything changed forever. And from a Tsubasa point of view it felt like a world picked at random for all the Important Narrative changes to take place - but it never was! It was the most important world of all! It was the Clow Kingdom!

So Syaoran lived his life in the Clow Kingdom, and then his soul collapsed in Acid Tokyo, which was ALSO the Clow Kingdom, and then he went and died defending Lava Lamp, in the Clow Kingdom. All at completely different points in the timeline but all in the exact same world. 

Though I will say I am thoroughly baffled by the connection between the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and THE CLOW RUINS???

ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME BUILDING?

Oh my god they’re in the same location aren’t they. The reservoir was underneath it and now it’s under the ruins. I suppose they have Magic so they could probably reshape them however they want but WHAT A CON CLAMP HAVE PULLED ON US

TO SPEND THE ENTIRE MANGA STARING AT THE WINGS OF THE CLOW RUINS AND THEY WERE SECRETLY WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO TELL US THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING ALL ALONG

THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL

[brutal-nemesis]

Do you happen to know any ways to torture a shapeshifter effectively?

I'm assuming said shapeshifter is gonna shift bigger/smaller to get out of any restraints? In that case...

The good ol' pitfall with spikes at the bottom, and then you gotta put like a lid on it that also has spikes. Like an iron maiden type thing. Basically just make it spikes on all sides! They might be able to make themselves real small to avoid being hurt tho 😔

But hey, while they're trapped, light a fire under that shit because even if they aren't getting poked they sure as fuck can't get away from the heat <33 or cold you could also freeze it whatever suits your fancy

Trap them completely underwater. They can turn into a fish? What if that water is acid instead, or molten metal :) And you can let that metal cool and then wow you have a fun mold!!!

I am now remembering that maybe they shouldn't die, but you can still do less intense variations of some of this stuff, trapping them in a metal box and getting it hot or spraying acid on them where they can't avoid it

They might be able to shift out of restraints, but what if I impale them on the ground with a piece of rebar, huh. what then

Give them a nice brand or marking that's visible no matter how they shift, so you'll always know it's them

Good old starvation and dehydration (and if they turn into a camel then that's just cool you got a camel hell yeah)

In conclusion, as long as you can figure out a way to keep them from getting away, you can do whatever you want, baby

[ferronickel]

I found this recently and realized I never posted it to tumblr. Promotional artwork I did for a webcomic I was coloring back in 2020.

[turbulentornado]

Just got me some cute tatts!! I got me a small tinky winky and a lava lamp on my arms 😎😎!!

[juniperspolyphony]

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