#I think I bit off more than I could chew

[choccy-milky]

another batch of MCs as thanks for drawing clora🥹💖💖 once i start working on something i cant rest until i get it done so ive legit been working on these nonstop for the past 2 days from when i wake up till i go to bed.......i can finally rest 🧎‍♀️........THANK YALL AGAIN💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏 MC's in order: @moonstruckmoony @syaolaurant @dwightschrute11 @boxdstars @versailles-black @ccelicaa @ethniee @wrongcog @ashiori-chan @tamayula-hl @celestinawarlock @serpensortiamaxima @silvyadrakkon @jadepalaceyaya @zorro-d-t

[casismybestfriend]

suptober day 1: liminal

[sillyrabbit81]

Henry Cavill as Solo

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015) | Dir: Guy Ritchie

@giftober 2023 | Day 16: Tropes (tvtropes)

[lycanthrowup]

@sugarpasteltmnt chapter 21 spoilers

I think u got something on your face buddy

[pac1fythehunger]

my contribution for the Risk of Rain fanzine, Convergence!! super duper grateful to have gotten to be a part of this<3

[clitoris-maximus]

Can I make an art request of Jetfire x Megatron👉👈

HERE YOU GO!! >_<

thank you sm for requesting it really means the most! And i had lots of fun with this one bc i loooovvveeee meg/fire <3

[cdroloisms]

hot take: las nevadas four does not queue up a c!q redemption arc. las nevadas five makes some interesting forays in the direction of comeuppance but fails to make the narrative link between that comeuppance and, ultimately, any change. the reason for this is because the prison arc is inadequately integrated into ln4 and ln5. (i'm writing an ln5 essay rn and this is my prompt for you to join me in hell)

i think people who think LN was heading towards a c!quackity redemption arc were tripping fr 😭 like it's not that i would oppose the idea of c!quackity like, even heading in a different direction. but he didn't? he literally didn't. his interactions with c!slime were never examples of c!quackity realizing the dark course he was taking and changing his ways--if anything, they were a reason to double down? he makes a literal slime army in LN5 like. a literal slime army.

i feel like it comes from this misconception that c!Quackity's whole deal revolves around how he ~cares~ for people, and when he felt betrayed and whatever by the fiances and such then his heart froze over and he went for ambition instead. and therefore learning to care for something can unfreeze his heart and make him good again, or something (<- oversimplified). but c!quackity's deal isn't that he closed his heart off to love? like c!quackity's issue is that he's terminally insecure and therefore kinda terminally self-centered--even in c!karlnapity, he was frequently portrayed as being insecure as hell about c!karlnap and preferred when the attention was on him. when c!karl was freaking the fuck out at him in LN4, his immediate reaction to c!karl like having literal memory loss was to scream at him.

all of this is way oversimplified for the record but it's like.

like, c!quackity and c!slime isn't about redemption as much as it is giving c!quackity an opportunity. and what we largely see, honestly, is c!quackity caring about c!slime...and also grooming him to be like, the successor of his country, seeing him as something malleable that he could use to create another version of himself. it's not that c!quackity was necessarily seeking to harm c!slime, but was he being manipulative? i mean, yeah???

and yeah, for sure, LN4 and especially LN5 heavily suffer from a lack of the prison being properly addressed. the prison and c!dream in specifics haunts c!quackity throughout the entirety of LN--any conclusion to this arc no matter what direction c!Quackity took needed a proper resolution to the prison imo ???

like i don't hate purpled's revenge quest, but bringing it back to purpled-quackity-slime Again in LN5 after the conclusion of LN4 made that all hit a lot less hard. i liked the c!punz scene tbh and i also liked c!dream's ditching las nevadas, but that also feels a lot less impactful when he had like, five lines and barely a confrontation (fuck the internet connection there FR). like, c!Quackity rejecting change isn't bad in itself, but it feels like later parts of las nevadas emphasize his decisions less in favor of what's done to him, and what's done to him doesn't feel enough like a consequence of his own actions. furthermore, so much about Las Nevadas and the Prison (the revive book in specifics) has everything to do with self-centered ambition moreso than revenge, and it feels like that in particular gets kinda poorly addressed? like, the deal with c!Purpled doesn't have to do with revenge, he's not really taking revenge on Purpled--he is, however, ambitious and doing everything that he thinks will make Las Nevadas Great, and the whole thing with him still continuing doggedly on LAS NEVADAS!! even after alluvthat is much more of a commentary on his relationship with power and ambition than on revenge.

this is kinda scattered (like the LN finale LMAO!) but yeah. las nevadas is literally created as a response to imprisoning c!dream, the beginning of this arc happens in parallel to the beginning of his visiting the prison, so having c!dream play as small as a role as he did in the latter two streams really ends up hurting the arc as a whole when so much emphasis had been on c!quackity and ... violence? both outside of the prison and inside it. having c!quackity come to terms with the fact that he does in fact suck fell kinda flat without properly addressing the ways that he actually does suck...? anyway yeah not the best essay kat dorry

[miodiodavinci]

laying down by a brook with one hand in the water like some kind of tragic prince , , , , , ,

[purplesoup-lad-le]

day 15: free day! i mean she looks pretty free if you ask me

@kotlcpridemonth2023

[seiwas]

offering a lil non-curse!au artist!reader x nanami snippet 🥹

You meet Nanami again in the bustling morning rush at the bakery near your studio. 

The past few weeks have been head-down and tedious, late nights working on painting some of the last few pieces for your exhibit. One of them is of your niece, 5 years old in mint and white innocence; your brushstrokes are featherlight, softly accentuated by sponge dabs—a slate barely filled in, with room for more colors to appear with time. 

Another is of your neighbor, an old man whose eyes have seen war beyond your comprehension—a retired soldier, a veteran of the military force. He plants primroses by his windowsill, the pastel yellow a stark contrast to the life he’s lived in red; neither of the colors cancel each other out, neither of them blend. You drag harsh strokes against his jawbone while smoothly gliding watercolor across his eyelids. 

The people in your sculptures have sparked an untapped curiosity—for stories, for lives, for souls and what those might look like. 

You bump into Nanami on his way out, the sandwich in his hand falling to the ground as you frantically attempt to pick it up.

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry.” you turn over the sandwich, checking for any holes or openings in its packaging, “Let me–”

It only registers that it’s him when you notice the same brown Derby shoes, the same watch with that dark face and silver exterior, the same geometric perfection on his face when you look up and finally come eye-to-eye with that same fixed stare. 

You clear your throat. Well, this is embarrassing. 

“Let me buy you another sandwich.”

He doesn’t exactly look angry, expression set in straight lines, but you can’t tell for sure—there isn’t much you can go by.

[pangur-and-grim]

is Kingston cool

[kitkatsgalore]

Happy birthday, Yechan! 🥳

[tea-cat-arts]

What do you mean “my favorite blorbos aren’t the internet’s favorite blorbos and if I want certain content to exist, I actually have to make it???” Anyways, working my way through drawing all the flame chasers

[thepineconelord]

Batman inc vol 3 had a lot of potential going in, but for some reason the legacy of batman inc being,,,, uh,,,, bad.... has continued. continue reading for my very informal review of batman inc vol 3 (2022)

like imma give credit to Ed Brisson, bcuz bro got thrown a lot of historical Batman characters and an underused and kinda bad concept and just had to deal

but i feel like the introduction of all the new character was,,, a poor choice. Like Phantom-one was an interesting addition, but characters like gray Wolf and everyone in Phantom-one's entourage, were just unnecessary and confusing especially when it comes to getting new readers invested.

Like cool character designs but who the fuck?? None of them really drive the plot or anything either. I feel like a lot of them could have been cookie-cutter no name Phantom-one lackeys and that would have worked much better. We're in an era where so many writers are trying to introduce cool new character, and it just doesn't,,,,, like work? Unless you've got the opportunity to really flesh out a character, they just fall flat. and in a team comic like batman inc you do not have the time to focus on any one character!

Using ghostmaker's asshole status to trim down the og cast in the 2022 annual was a great move tho

also with the ability to bring people back in the future really easily!

Batman inc also had like all the issues of normal team comics and no clue how to resolve them. Like the plot set ups were solid and interesting but it was hard to get invested because there's was so much switching between different characters in different places.

I feel like this Batman inc revival could have been a good opportunity to actually dig into the concept of a "batman incorporated" and really flesh out some cool, but lesser known characters, but that wasn't the direction they went in.

I will say even with this, it was really nice to see some little character moments like this one of Raven Red and his dad(man of bats) <3

or this one of gray wolf and the knight(beryl) at a restaurant:

but overall batman inc vol 3 just, wasn't engaging? ig?

I will say that I loved the writing of Ghostmaker in this, he was very fun and interesting and i loved the complexity of him as a team leader, hopefully brisson will write him in a better series later!

[ftcatv]

the sixth station

[tmntkiseki]

Listening to the opening of Delicious in Dungeon and I am reminded of the "Leo practices cooking during his two months in Japan" fic concept.

It's a good fic concept. I should write it.