#He just has that emo boy pizzazz

[miniscule-meow]

Do you have canon visuals for what Charlie and Felix look like? 0v0

And is it ok if I draw them? 0v0

🤩😍 Ahhh!! Anon, it would make my entire year if you drew my characters are you kidding me omgomg

I realized I haven't really delved into physical descriptions all that much. I'll try my best:

Felix is of sort of average height. He isn't particularly tall when he isn't gigantic. He's more in the 5'9" range. He's one of those guys who used to be really lanky and hated it so he started working out in a casual hobby kind of way to fill out a bit. So he's still sort of lanky, but stronger than you might think.

He has dark brown eyes, a septum piercing, and dark hair. I don't want to say he looks like a diet version of one of those fluffy hair emo boys, but.... I mean if the shoe fits 👀. I think about it like if a young Leonardo DiCaprio had curly hair? Like it is almost long, but it isn't completely in his eyes all the time. (I hope that made sense) I'd say his features are just barely leaning towards being more angular than not.

He likes layering a hoodie with one of those thick flannel kind of jackets over top. That's his usual style, unless it's super hot out then he's just a jeans and a cool looking shirt kind of guy. Maybe a light flannel on top for some pizzazz. He doesn't think about it too much usually.

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Charlie has a wavy hair. It's around chin length. I guess that's a bob? It's somewhere between dark blonde and light brown I think like in the caramel range?

She has sort of a round or maybe oval face? Round, Brown eyes. Lots of freckles. She is just a hair shorter than Felix is actually, so maybe around 5'7"-5'8" ish. She's also on the tall and semi-lanky side. Her parents made her dance all growing up. She kinda has a love/hate relationship with it.

Her style is definitely also T-shirt layered with flannel, but with more of an "I'm fashionable but also going camping later today" kind of vibe... If that makes sense 😅

[swynlake-spill]

In light of recent events who is your go to team for swynlake disasters?

obsessed with this question. this should be mandated. if you don’t have your team-up for the apocalypse, what are you even doing? We recommend a team of at least six. 

My personal Swynlake Avengers, as per the performances over the weekend: 

Louie Mallard: Gutsy AF, he dodged potholes and pigheads on his moped like a super version of a delivery boy who was SERIOUSLY working for those tips! Rescue to you in 30 min or less, or your money back guaranteed! 

Barbie Roberts: We all know she had pizzazz, but turns out this girl has PUNCH! Barbara, I’m SWOONING, do they teach you those moves in Zumba? We’re talking Black Widow realness without any of the emo Russian backstory. Thanks for saving Ashlé and more! 

Marlin Bae: Every team’s got to have a sexy medic and look no further than Marlin, who was seen leading a few other healing-talents through the rubble! Lots more ppl would have hit up the general hospital without our very own Magic McDreamy! You’re hired, Mr. Bae! 

Ian Lightfoot: Don’t underestimate him! He kept his cool and was there Emotionally, Physically, and Magically for yet another Ashley (why r all u ashleys a tiny bit helpless smh just saying). If I was nerdier I’d make a DnD reference about him being the cleric or something but I don’t honestly know if that’s even accurate, but turning invisible seems to be highly useful so i WANT IT 

Toulouse Bonfamille: a controversial choice I know, considering the whole WOLFING OUT thing, but nobody was eaten and Peri, it seemed was actually rescued! Who let the dogs out? Me, I did, and I think it would be very cool of me to ride Toulouse Bonfamille into battle one day. Please don’t make this dirtier than it is, I simply love big dogs (why does every sentence make it worse)

Tiana Truitt: Tiana is obviously the Nick Fury of the group. Level-headed and practical, she was working with me to spread info and to help ppl get the help they needed! Where would the heroes of Swynlake be without the Tianas of the world, there to keep supplies runnin’ and to pack a killer lunchbox? 

and there you have it! Who would you team up with? 

[sixofshitposts]

crocs for crows

I was inspired by @fabrikaator ‘s post {http://fabrikaator.tumblr.com/post/169164055099/hey-has-this-been-done-yet} and sought the ugliest crocs I could find for each crow:

kaz:

cause you know he’s all about that badass emo life

nina:

an honestly terrible combination proving that there is no god. it has, however, all the flair nina could want

jesper:

for jesper, we have these bad boys, which are indeed platform crocs....... which were apparantly debuted at................. paris fashion week? go figure???

just IMAGINE the following conversation: matthias: for the love of djel, jesper, WHAT ARE THOSE ABOMINATIONS?!? jesper: it’s called fashion sweetie, look it up ;)

inej:

for Ketterdam’s best spider, we need a little something to keep her toes cozy as she scampers across rooftops and up drainpipes on cold winter nights. hence the marvelous addition of guady pink fur.

wylan:

a little somethin’ spicy for our demolitions boy ;)

kuwei:

though he’s a fugitive, kuwei has an undeniable........... ~pizzazz~ about him. and I mean, come on, these light-up crocs are perfect for any inferni

matthias: 

would rather walk across the frozen plains of fjerda barefoot, because he is a righteous and god-fearing man. he would not be caught dead (sorry) in a pair of crocs. that’s it. i can’t get any on him. sorry.

[jemandthesingalongs]

how i think dark jem could of been better

after some lovely encouragement by @androgynous-barbie i’ve decided to write out my thoughts abt this! please take this post with a grain of salt as they are just my opinions and it’s been awhile since i’ve read dark jem.

i’m also gonna be using bullet points for this because it’s more thoughts than an in-depth anything, but also at some point i’ll try to do some sort of “review” of each arch/issue when i have the spoons to

lets start off with the pros and cons of the story

pros:

the ART AND DESIGNS, ofc it’s sophie behind the art wheel so i never doubted it’d be great. the design work of the dark holograms is probably some of the best in the entire series. silica is def tops in this too, she’s so ooey and gooey and creepy and intimidating i love her.

the idea of dark jem over all. it’s not your run of the mill mind control story, they’re not really mind controlled, they’re just gloomy emos. seems a bit silly but it’s really speaking “jem” to me since it involves music and a genre of music, that being goth.

i think the holograms being effected too was nice, seeing them all goth’d up. it was a drastic change from their regular selves.

pizzazz’s scene at home alone in the dark really was a shining moment in this arc, and a good show of exactly how lonely she is, and how bad her homelife is and how much the misfits mean to her.

the flashback part with the holograms parents, despite some issues, i genuinely enjoyed this scene, and just how... gentle and nostalgic it was. also the reveal of jacqui and emmett in such a nice scene was tops. the art also was really great in it too.

the build up (within the arc at least) was SO GOOD, i was really caught up in the story... at least up until 15 which leads me to...

cons:

the plot... ended up really becoming rushed during 15 to 16. 15 was pure just, text and explaining and it wasn’t at all integrated well into the story. i mean it was interesting to see and learn WHAT silicia’s powers were, but it wasn’t delivered the best. and 16 just became a “fix-it everything is fine” ending which didn’t seem at all tied to the story.

plot hole:

pizzazz’s sudden return somehow knowing EVERYTHING about what’s happened? and her voice is okay now? no or little explanation for it. this goes above with the “fix it” issue i had above.

how silica got the sickness in the first place. we didn’t see the sickness un-silica’d before or after, or anywhere silica could of had a backup band?

more nitpicky but how was silica able to project herself without the earrings or the machine? there’s a part where she’s projecting herself to one of the sickness members yet no explanation as to why or how.

silica looking like jem and nothing coming from that? not even anyone pointing it out?

eric/techrat KNOWING for a FACT it was the ai doing this, and then confronted the holograms, but nothing... came out of it? even though they knew the holograms had the ai.

the flashback bit with emmett “creating” silica? nothing is really answered about this?

the scope of the mind control is wide-spread, to the point it infected 5x5 yet this doesn’t come up at ALL in later issues.

the sickness as much as i loved their designs, ultimately proved pretty useless, more on this in my “better suggestions”.

as an issue with most of the comic i have, too many characters in both issues and arcs.

now, every story has its cons, and of course everyone has their own suggestions so here are mine! i’m gonna in “before, during, and after” format. with before being obv during the arc in previous issues, during the arc, then after in issues.

what could of been made better before the story of dark jem:

a much stronger foreshadowing storyline, from what i remember, the foreshadowing was in the annual in the form of coughing in the dreams by synergy and then in viral with the name being viral + techrat saying something is wrong with the ai. this, over all, didn’t... amount to too much haha so i’m gonna break down my suggestions for it.

for the coughing, i would have had that synergy was using silicia’s powers to like, weakly control people to like the holograms music and also be able to “enter” into the minds of the holograms? like silicia was able to do this albeit with more malice intent, and THIS could of triggered silica’s awakening/overtaking of synergy and techrat’s learning the ai is bugging out. which leads me to

like i said above, synergy using silica’s powers. synergy in both the show and comics (I assume) is amoral. she’s bound to whatever she’s ordered to do, since she’s an ai, a very advanced one, but still a computer. so her lightly drawing people in using a form of brainwashing to like the music of the holograms, isn’t that far off the mark and would have overall made for a stronger build up and interesting character.

what could of been made better during the story of dark jem:

oh boy here we go

let’s start off with a big one: the sickness. like i said above, i like the sickness, i like their designs but... i have 0 emotional investment in them as characters or any problems/danger they were placed in. they’re new characters, we were introduced to them AS mind-controlled pawns, so we don’t know what they are like before this so therefor shouldn’t care.

i’m biased i know but if the stingers were to be introduced at the end of this arc, they should of been the sickness. sure it would have been obvious (one male, three females band who else could it be), but then we as readers would have been emotionally invested in them and wanting to see them be free since we know them as characters.

if not the stingers THEM THE MISFITS! they were THERE already and easy pickings for silica. it could of even happened with kimber -> stormer and kimber could of blamed herself. and i think overall that would have made a much better conflict with eric, and pizzazz’s determination to save her band and team up with jem.

even the limp lizards would have been good..., i truly had a theory about that when dark jem first started.

the flashback with emmett and where silica “came from” is probably one of the weakest parts of the story over all because it doesn’t explain anything. emmett somehow made silica...? okay how? why couldn’t he of gotten rid of her? why was she “evil”? a lot of questions unanswered.

this could of been solved with making silica a sort of “synergy beta″, a prototype deal. and the original intent wasn’t meant to be malice, just have people be drawn in by music but it proved to be too powerful, but emmett couldn’t delete it and just made it core coding for synergy 2.0.

pizzazz’s sudden return was not really explained at all, or.. earned? i mean it just seemed like she was back to give it the story the “fix-it” ending.

i would honestly say she should of not shown back up, or not physically or something. like over the phone encouraging the misfits and have blaze lead the team-up.

overstuffed character roster.

have none of the boyfriends show up, because they didn’t contribute much outside rio being kissed by jem. and like i explained above change the sickness to previously established characters.

what could of been made better after the story of dark jem:

i adored the idea of jerrica being afraid of being jem again, that was real true consequences but then it was... dropped? and instead changed out for jerrica getting confused she was jem, which is ALSO something i really enjoyed but it really kinda ruined the impact of dark jem and silica’s control

i would suggest having jerrica still be terrified to be jem, and have her make synergy project jem in her place, and that be an issue when riot shows interest in “her”. then having to come to terms with being jem and being herself or something.

eric/techrat knowing the holograms had an ai and nothing came of it other than one scene. a huge waste, and even now nothing has come from this conflict.

i would suggest like, eric blackmailing the holograms over it post-dark jem, maybe something like making them leave 5x5 and they’re forced to start their own company (starlight music). honestly anything better than a dropped plotline

so.. ahaha done i guess! i didn’t proof read this much it’s just my brain spewing out thoughts, so if something is wonky/doesn’t make sense, that’s why! i also didn’t talk about blaze or her arc because it’s not my place to comment on her coming out, and also because blaze deserves her own post about her arc and character because i love her that much <3

i’m certain i missed stuff, or mis-remembered things, but like i said above it’s just some of my opinions and thoughts on how to improve an already good comic!