#Me vs mini me

[faenemy]

i return from the aether with starfire doodles

fire hair go brrrrrrr

[raayllum]

So following writing this short meta about Rayla and Callum's differing responses to their hostage exchanges (in 4x09 and here above in 5x08 respectively), I was also thinking about this scene with Viren because it shows, perhaps, the biggest difference I've always seen between Callum and Viren, even back in S1/S2.

I've talked about it before, but it always bears repeating: throughout the first three episodes of S1, we see Viren try everything he can to save Harrow's life, including offering up others' and his own through the soulfang spell... but giving up the egg never occurs to him as an option. The fact that we know it wouldn't have necessarily worked (hi Runaan's stubborn refusal) is a moot point; relinquishing a 'weapon' and letting it fall back into Xadia's hands is not something, point blank, that Viren is willing to do, even to save the life of someone he loves and is willing to die for.

And although the contexts are different - it seems Viren knew saving Soren might sour his relationship with Lissa (and led to him coining Kpp'Ar) but there were no global stakes attached to it as far as he knew or could conceptualize. However, it does show the way he's fallen, particularly with S5 in mind (as in the dream 'flashbacks' he tells Soren what Claudia did in 2x09: "You're okay now. That's all that matters"). But here, it doesn't Matter at all.

Arc 1 Viren is a villain and an antagonist precisely because of three things.

He's willing to sacrifice other people, even people who trusted and followed him (his best friend's children, the human armies)

He's willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and selectively choose amongst his children (Soren and Claudia)

He cares too much about what he considers to be the Greater Good ("a bright future for humanity" / "his destiny will be the destruction of all of humanity") that he loses sight of who he wants it for (his children: "I would've asked you to choose the egg over my own life, if it came to it")

While Viren says much of this is for the greater good, it's also very clearly self-serving in his own quest for power ("You made the same choice you've always made: the one that gives you power"). And while Callum has pride, he does not have ego.

Because you have Callum. The revenge spell creates a dangerous weapon. He knows this, and has seen and fought against the harm it caused first hand. Claudia was faced with a similar choice in 2x07 ("If you must choose between Soren and egg, pick the egg") and even she hesitated. But Callum doesn't. He doesn't hesitate for a second to give Finnegrin what he wouldn't under torture and under principle, because "the second you see that elf girl in pain" ("the second it looks like you're in danger, I'm jumping in after you"), he loses himself.

Because Viren says, "I would do anything for you," and doesn't mean it, but Callum says, "I would do anything for you," and means it in its entirety.

While Callum and Viren have a lot of similarities, they will never be truly like each other because Callum will never be willing to sacrifice his loved ones in the same way. That is their core and most crucial difference.

However, that doesn't mean that - like Viren - Callum's core and choices cannot be exploited, and that the ones he makes will always work out for him, going into S6 in particular.

Because he loves his family. And that's it - and that's everything.

[junipers-insects]

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

I'm basing the answers the characters will give on all of you freaks btw

[j0ypatron]

[hella1975]

so there's a reason my new job got back to me so quickly about my application and that's bc it's an absolute fucking shambles like actually perfect timing for me to decide to rewatch the bear bc i have never more felt like ive been thrown into a broke on-its-knees establishment trying to crawl its way up the ladder where i am somehow a godsend to them. my old job was crazy and shambolic in the sense that the industry is just Like That but this one?????? insanity. every 5 mins i am questioning what im doing with my life. ive already had a walk-in fridge moment

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[themyscirah]

Ok game time which 3 series would you just DIE to get a run on ? I'm talking full creative control, can be as a writer or an artist + plotter if that suits your vibe best

My 3 are

Suicide Squad

Wonder Woman

Green Lantern Corps/Green Lanterns

(in that order)

[nutcoffin]

Whenever I listen to "Fail" by Get Scared it makes me think of your hikinito. Might make an animatic about it when I recover

If Hikinito sang this to me it would be considered as a personal attack

[damnianalghulnotwayne]

ppl make a good point when they say making Damian pale isn’t whitewashing. i just get annoyed when ppl make him a Brucie junior with blue eyes and a button nose and such. he IS half white so it’s not crazy for him to be pale or take after his dad a bit, but i think it’s CRIMINAL when ppl give him blue eyes or dont a LEAST draw him with a wicked ass, cool ass BREATHTAKING nose. as long as y’all get those eyes and nose right i’ll leave u alone

[ilovedthestars]

Ok, the poll isn't completely closed yet but looks like there's at least 30 people among my followers and followers-in-law who'd be interested in putting their doodles in the Doodle Zine! I think I can safely assume that that's a lower bound, and if/when I make an actual submissions post it will spread farther and probably get more interest.

Which is a pretty substantial number of submissions to expect! So, time for a logistics question.

I want this to be a zine that people can print out and hold in their hands. There are a couple different formats I have in mind for this, and they both have benefits and drawbacks.

X-book - This is the traditional mini-zine format. It's one sheet of letter paper, folded into eighths and with a slit cut into the middle. Not counting the front and back cover, there are 6 pages, each 1/8 of a sheet of paper

Benefits: These are really simple to make--one sheet of paper, printed on only one side, and some scissors. No staples required. They're also a very nice pocket-size.

Drawbacks: There's only room in one of these for 6 people's doodles. If I get too many submissions for one zine, I'll happily just make this a series of zines--but with this format it would likely become a lot of zines pretty quickly.

Pamphlet - This is a pamphlet, meaning it's a stack of sheets folded in half (it would be stapled or sewn at the spine to secure them together, although this example isn't). In this case, the sheets are each half a sheet of letter paper, so each page of the zine is 1/4 of a sheet.

Benefits: This can have as many pages as you can reasonably fold together, which leaves a lot more room for a larger collection of doodles. (This one is made from eight half-sheets of paper, which gives us 30 pages plus cover.) The pages are also larger, so there's a bigger canvas to doodle on.

Drawbacks: These ones are a bit more work to put together. They need to be printed on both sides, cut in half, stacked in the right order, folded, and stapled (or sewn, if you're fancy). They're also just slightly too big to fit in a regular-sized stapler, which can be annoying (you can make it work but it's not perfect).

Secret other options - I personally really like the half-sheet size of pamphlet, but you can do this with any size of paper. We could do quarter-sheet pamphlets (mini-zine sized) or full sheet pamphlets (concert program sized). Smaller ones would be easier to staple, large ones would be harder. Otherwise the main difference is just how much space there is to draw & how much paper it uses.

So, the question is: Lots of little zines or fewer big zines? And is it worth the extra effort to put a pamphlet together so that more doodles can be included in one volume, or not?

[s0lie]

Have muffin

Sulom is a muffin a cupcake with out icing and if so if you do have a cupcake with out icing is it a muffin and if you put icing on a muffin is it a cupcake?

enjoy your muffin

Luca: I don't want it anymore 😭

Sulom: Sit down and cry

[vaugarde]

pokeani moments that exist purely to make Me miserable:

the line where they call ash's oshawott a throwaway pokemon in the unova league so they're just flat out saying they think it's a worthless pokemon

to thine own pokemon be true (extra angst points for me bc ambipom was my second favorite on the team at the time)

the granddaughter of the guy who trains gliscor calling gliscor pathetic and weak to her face despite gliscor being an extremely sensitive pokemon

pretty much everything about that gible

blue episode (favorite color but they made it a fetish somehow and also dewott and brionne and meowstic are all there and its so bad)

boxing heracross immediately. also that battle frontier episode where it's literally the only returning ash mon (barring torkoal i think but i dont count it bc its native to AG) to get humiliated onscreen

pidgeot returning but gliscor didn't even show up in the miniseries despite being an Actual Character

[junipers-insects]

Part 1 / Part 2

[shadowslocked]

Mmmmm it’s hard for me to put into words but I feel the reason why people have such a hard time with this Q!Foolish arc is that it doesn’t really fit easily into most arc/tropes what have you

Is Foolish being manipulated and used? Yes, a lot of Cucoruchos language is very off and clearly intended to pull Foolish in. Foolish also suspected this and wanted to see what would happen anyway because he thought it would be fun (unsure if he means in a meta or character way).

Is Foolish probably in some danger by interacting closely with the Federation meaning it’s harder to pull away? Possibly but I don’t think Foolish is overly concerned about his safety at the moment considering his response to a possible trap for him was to go “Let’s check it out :)”

Is Foolish a neutral/amoral immortal who doesn’t fully grasp the consequences of his actions? Most likely yes given he’s asked twice now if he’s made the wrong choice, but he’s not so amoral that you can say he doesn’t care about Tazercraft or what happens to the other islanders.

There’s no way for Foolish to know about the harsh conditions of the prison or about Tazercrafts traumatic past? Yes, very true, Foolish largely has a positive view on the Federation and likely assumed they would be okay and returned later like Max was BUT ALSO dude had no way of knowing that and you know what they say about assuming. Whether or not he knew Tazercrafts past prior, he doesn’t seem to grasp the seriousness of that trauma when talking about it with Fit

Tazercraft likely would have been arrested anyway? Yeah more than likely and while I do think it’s the Federation setting up a decoy to take the heat from them it’s still a dick move on Foolish’s part

Foolish has been completely honest? Foolish has been pretty upfront with most information BUT he is also lying about doing it to keep Richarlyson safe and has been keeping the fact it was Cucorucho that hired him a secret. So yes, Foolish isn’t a complete liar but he has lied because he knows the true answer wouldn’t be satisfying to the others

But he can’t tell the others? As far as I have seen Foolish was never threatened or sworn to secrecy, you might say he’s doing it because he does genuinely believe the Federation doesn’t want him to tell but it’s also just as likely Foolish just knows people would be even angrier with him if they did know the truth

TLDR: basically Foolish is very weird in his arc because it’s not a complete villain arc (or at least my understanding of one) but his actions are also not good either but also Q!Foolish could have a very different view of what’s happening due to his immortality but also that doesn’t change that he hurt Tazercraft but also he does care about them but also he’s a silly guy

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Is this like you, but with Aporia?

not really!

I see where this meme is coming from, but there's a couple things that don't really fit. A.) Aporia isn't really a sacrificial character to begin with (barring niche circumstances like his Tag Force route,) especially not to an implied Christlike degree. He is a character that is literally the embodiment of despair and suffering, but he isnt really suffering to SAVE someone else (except maybe Z-one, but his dynamic with Z-one isn't 'savior sacrificing themselves for the one devoted to them.'--Aporia is 100% the one who's the devotee here) Really Aporia seems to suffer largely because he either does it to himself or he's just, Extraordinarily Unlucky.

anyway, more importantly, B.) this meme implies illustrating a religious undertone present with the character in question is an act of "fanon" which is..................just straight up not true in this case !! Aporia is Very deliberately surrounded by religious motifs In The Text; when I'm drawing and talking about him with regards to religious symbolism I'm pulling from how he's presented in the show itself, I'm not just yanking things out of nowhere for the sake of Cool Religious Aesthetic™ lol. He isn't a sacrificial savior figure, Z-one is presented as a God and Aporia is one of his angels, right down to having a halo/predominately white color scheme/etc. Again APORIA'S the devoted one here! that aint fanon that's just canon right there on screen babeyy!!

[junonreactor]

just did all the party sidequests. that was really cute