#I WOULD DIE FOR CLAIRE

[alicenpai]

Baccano rewired my 14 year old brain fr (true story) 🍾🗽🚂💰🔫

i made a sticker sheet for one of my favourite animes ever, for anime north 2023 this month! One of the drawings I did for my first ever con was Baccano, so I wanted to pay tribute. It makes me overjoyed the fandom is alive and kicking in 2023. if you can’t get to AN and you want the sticker sheet, keep an eye out this summer for my online shop!!

A lot of the media I first experienced when I was a teen was so formative for me as an artist, Baccano was one of them - and I love inputting vintage aesthetics in my art whenever possible (unfortunately not possible half of the time). I've watched the anime many times, and I'm almost done the 1st book, unfortunately I learned theres 22 other books (DW voice: I can't read!!! 💔) Planning this sheet took a LOT of work - each individual sticker composition, trashing and reworking sketches, research and visual reference, drawing inspiration from the art nouveau and art deco periods, as well as film noir era posters. 

There were countless times where I regretted my choices and thought, "Oh man, why did I do this to myself?! I think I should have drawn chibis of the characters instead!!". Planning and drawing this took so long that I couldn’t envision it being complete for my deadline. But with the power of god and anime I pulled through. I'm quite happy I went with this more graphic design approach! I definitely want to try more graphic design stuff in the future, it’s a lot of fun 🤔🤔

I ended up with a completely NEW pinterest board of 125 art deco related pins over the course of drawing this... help

the flames in the “The Grand Panacea” poster were inspired by these two posters

[supermusicallee]

NO other show in existence understands sister dynamics better than fleabag. especially from the perspective of older sisters i believe. having the same character yell "...you're fine! you'll always be fine. you'll always be interesting, with your quirky cafe and your dead best friend. you just make me feel like i've failed," AND "the only person i'd run through an airport for is you" !!!!!!!!! it's insane and it's exactly how i feel

[avirxy]

beauty and beast au but Claire’s the one cursed because she’s the only one I can see literally pissing a sorceress off enough to get cursed. (If we’re going off the original movie Jim would probably offer them a hot meal and a room for the night, knowing him he’d make everything super accommodating)

[blackjack-15]

this 80s romcom lighting outside is hysterical oh my land

"wanna see the restaurant?"

"there are about 10 things in here that could kill you" 11, counting Syd

and among all this chaos he has one pertinent question:

"why didn't you call me?!" "i should have called you!"

this is going age like milk when syd sees who else is here!

syd was right last episode that carmy should have called her; carmy's right this episode that syd should have called him they're great at knowing they're a partnership. right now, they're not sure what that actually means, however, and it's causing massive friction, miscommunication, and stress

wow claire great time to introduce yourself there. like a bucket of cold water. she didn't really need to is the weird thing? nat was already talking to her, already greeted her? most people would have been like mm let me take a step back, maybe even come back later. but not claire! no she strides in like the elephant in the room and does a dance

oh ho. syd's face when claire says her name. that's a whole look

"this is my friend, claire" most honest he's been about this whole arrested development situationship

"sorry to interrupt, you all seem really busy" mm. no kidding.

"i'm sydney, it's really nice to meet you, i'm also sorry that you're here" SYD I LOVE YOU

she explains what she means and all but like. what a choice of dialogue, huh? and carmy's face. holy eff this is amazing

"interesting" oh richie. and nat's face when he says that -- the Wheels are Turning. direct comparison to his "ooooh" from last ep.

also i do love carmy's noticeably softer with Richie here. he knows richie really is just trying to help, and -- more than that -- knows that nothing else is gonna get done tonight

OH. INCHRESTING.

he tells everyone great job and to go home -- syd's rolled eyes here are a Pleasure -- and then when syd does that? carmy's reaction?

"what?" "i'm saying good night!"

very reminiscent of carmy's "what are you doing" when syd's quitting in S1E7. hmm i wonder why there's a bit of betrayal there.

this. this is beautiful. and he watches her go, too. beautiful direction, dialogue, etc etc

richie and nat are having similar problems to syd and richie last season. looking like we're gonna have a similar blow up. nat please keep the knives away from richie's ass, he's already a cheek down

the camera pan and hold on "carm/syd menu review" and then back to carmy and claire? i think that's the least subtle thing in the show, and we've seen richie's behavior + syd's temper almost literally bite him in the ass

"we're very fast" the subtlety is just...any more subtle and we'd have neon lights going. this is enjoyable because holy crap the telegraphing is Blatant

also this is some of the worst flirting i've ever seen. we're back to the total lack of chemistry and the two of them talking like 8th graders.

"i did that." "i know you did, and now you have to go" i'm still amazed that this is all text? none of this is implied? the writers are normally a little more subtle, so like...this is on purpose.

and the predictable kiss! you knew it was gonna happen, and they don't care. carmy going in with the same hand thing claire did earlier? either i can see the future or they're flashing the cliche, high-school nature of relationship with big flashing signs

and i can't see the future.

as a final note? i'm just gonna say. carmy is inexperienced, etc etc, yaddah yaddah. his actor on the other hand, is very much not. well done there sir.

[v-tired-queer]

Thirty seconds into the first actual scene with Spencer in Delilah Green Doesn't Care and I already want Delilah to beat his ass from here to the middle of next week, fucking sass him out, Delilah

[ryoukio]

the trio post city kershploding

[havendance]

Okay, I am still thinking about Cass and Claire.

It's like: they both admire Batman and they came into Gotham as vigilantes because of that. Cass was searching for redemption. Claire was born of a reenactment of Bruce's tragedy, only one where he was able to stop the worst from happening. Claire doesn't have that life on her hands as a catalyst.

Then there is the deal they make: power for a life. Claire's powers use her life up when she wields them. Cass makes a deal with Shiva, in exchange for her previous capabilities, she will fight her to the death. To Cass, it is a death sentence because she refuses to kill. With Claire, I get the impression that she makes her deal as much because Hank does it. Because she admires her brother and follows his lead. But also she makes the decision because it gives her the ability to do more and to help more people. Cass makes her decision because she can not do what Batman does without it, but also because she can not stand to be less than what she was. To spend years relearning what once came so easily to her.

In a way, they both need to make that deal to fight alongside Batman.

Then there is there relationship with their coming death. I'm still working my way through Tom King's Batman, but Claire seems to me that she isn't thinking about her coming death. She feels young, a teenage who has an easy immortality. Death is a lifetime away even if it is closer to her than most. I think that if she did think about it, death would scare her though. Fear is a thread throughout her both in her part in her and her brother's origin, and then with Pyscho Pirate. Cass knows what death is. She knows what it looks like. It does not scare her, in fact, part of her wants it.

Finally, there's the way that they interact with Batman. Both of them are more powerful than him in their own way; they each have capabilities that he can never have, but the differences in the way he interacts with them is striking. Part of this, I'm sure, is due to differences in authors and the times of their introductions, but you can see some of this even in the comics where they run parallel to each other. Cass is far more isolated in her relationship with Bruce. It's focused entirely on her abilities as a crime fighter. In her Batgirl series, she doesn't learn his identity until she figures it out for herself. Bruce doesn't take her to the cave under Wayne manor, he gives her a satellite cave of her own.

After the incident with Psycho Pirate, Claire is brought back to the Batcave, and brought up into Wayne Manor. Part of that is likely due to the state she was in, but it doesn't change the fact that she is brought into the secret of Bruce's location and identity far sooner. This also is also likely because of there being less of a focus on secret identities in newer comics, but the difference is still striking.

Even in Cass's concurrent appearances in Detective Comics at that time, she doesn't have that same closeness to Bruce. She is on the team headed by Batwoman. While there is a sweet moment where Bruce is like "We should do something with Cass outside of vigilantism", the bulk of her connections are with her teammates and not Batman.

(Once again, different authors, the fact that Detective comics is more of an ensemble cast while Batman is more focused, changes to Cass's backstory etc etc. Still, I think the point stands.)

I also have thoughts about the idea that Bruce sees different parts of himself in each of them, different potentials for their parts in his legacy. Maybe it's simpler for him to connect with Claire in a more holistic manner due to her ordinary background, her relative innocence compared to Cassandra. When he starts separating Bruce Wayne from Batman, which part is better and which is worse? But, I need to think more about how to articulate that…

[darklight-owl]

Thank you for everything you do for PL women. You are the bravest PL warrior ever o7

Happy to serve o7

I like things but I don't like when said things have obvious misogyny so I usually end up going "FINE. I'll fix it MYSELF."

I love adding detail to underwritten female characters 🥰 makes the "11 year old shonen fan who would latch on to any passing woman in her animes like a stray puppy because there was no main character with her gender" in me very happy.

[sprnklersplashes]

your post about jd and claire (which was so funny) got me thinking... what would claire's reaction be to jd doing drugs, or even thinking he's doing drugs?

I honestly think that, especially given Claire being a foster parent and having had troubled kids come through her house, her reaction would be closer to "I don't necessarily want you to do it, but I can't stop you so at least do it safely". Hence why JD ends up getting an education he never asked for on various drugs and how to do them without dying and what to do in the event of himself or someone else overdosing.

The same thing applies to sex. Claire knows he and Veronica are doing it and is like "listen you're 17 I can't stop you but for the love of God be safe about it". And since they become incredibly close but not necessarily parent/child dynamic, Claire just casually asks JD if he needs her to pick up condoms while she's out. And he also gets a lecture on STDs that he hates and Claire refuses to let him leave.

[watermelon-melody]

[rakkikuroba]

Resident Evil 5, nothing changes except everytime someone says Uroboros it’s changed to Natalia mispronouncing Uroboros : "Oubarobo"

[bitchthefuck1]

The Bear fans stop being wildly misogynistic about Claire challenge

[timeforsomethrillingheroicsblog]

finished season two

i have so many questions and so few answers

[rescuefield-arch1]

imagine if claire had told neil about the chip

[g0tmilkx3]

Idk why ppl think the writers of the bear are dumb and don’t have a storyboard but these writers are fucking fantastic and I trust them to give us an amazing szn 3 shipping aside they always give us the best writing and god the directing is otherworldly they need to be paid™️ their worth bc I wouldn’t survive a pushback or worse a cancellation 🧿

[rescuefield-a]

murdering the bloodline joke in cold blood by telling you that claire would never tell chris she's dating leon or even that she's been carrying the torch for him since dinosaurs still roamed on earth, because as much as they are cute and all, seeing what chris has seen in vendetta would you want your sister to be involved with all that BE HONEST