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[canisalbus]

✦ Pebble ✦

[risestarkiss]

On His Own Terms

Rise Ramblings #2

In my post, “This Whole Situation,” I discuss how Donnie doesn’t see himself or his mutation as something that needs to be hidden away. He wears clothes when he's out and about, and that’s about it. However, as turtlemen in the middle of NYC, sometimes they need to actually wear disguises. So, what does Donnie do in those cases?

Old ladies? Well, that’s a choice. And the way Leo phrased the question is interesting as well.

“Why do you always make us dress up as old ladies.”

This means that every time it’s up to Donnie to choose the disguise, it’s not up for discussion. They’re going to be old ladies. Period.

But the most interesting part of this scene is Donatello's answer to Leo's question.

You would think that blending in would be the main goal, but no. Donnie’s main goal with his chosen disguise is: comfort. He’s not willing to sacrifice his own comfort just to make other people comfortable with his presence.

He’ll wear a disguise if he must, but only on his own terms.

And I’m happy that he can set his boundary and stick to it.

Never change, Donnie, never change…

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…Does anyone else see Leo’s old lady drip?! Where did he get those pearls from? Forget the pearls, where did he get the pantyhose? Did he style his own wig? How long did it take for him to put on his makeup? What color eyeshadow is that? Look at those lashes! Look at those bazongas! He put so much work into his fit, no wonder he received a compliment.

[goatpaste]

thinkin bout old fighting game idea I had and the character designs i had made for it and missed themmmm went back around to play around with their designs and tinker with them,,, still playin around with changes to them and stuff

be fun to do something with them but alas, my inability to know how to make games or focus on projects has kept them as mere doodles on my computer lol

[Commission Prices][Etsy][Buy me a Kofi]

[kitkinnie]

can the other therians relate

[drawing-every-dndads-character]

the second randomly picked dndads character was grant wilson!

[nannaaoki]

Idk but he came out a bit grumpy to me, maybe he's in a emo teen phase :^

This is @silentzprincess zelink kid design :)) go check her out! She has amazing art

I just think he's the cutest

The reference:

[skunkes]

another day another vee redesign

[radiospectre]

ignore the text it was stuck in my head LOL. my friends keep quoting the original meme im in hell. mostly just a style test for future artistic endeavorsss & whatnot

[bokskat]

it was my sister's birthday so i drew her dnd character

a harengon named Choux !!

[canisalbus]

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[confused-cakepop]

Kai probably gets such baby fever when looking at photos of little nya. Like he sees her big eyes and little nose and has a "my shayla" moment. He remembers holding her and carrying her around everywhere but he forgot how small she used to be so the cuteness aggression gets so bad he almost lights the montesary on fire when he's reminded of how little his sister actually was.

Nya makes fun of him for it but she gets the same way when seeing photos of little kai and his porcupine spikes.

[bahbahhh]

DAY 4 - SAGE

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[loopyarts]

Can anyone guess who my favourite character is ha ha… Anyway, I think Shouma is very neat.

[matoitech]

custom design for the winner of the april raffle on toyhouse! the winner asked for a lily pad theme. this was fun to do! a little outside my box of what i usually try and im happy with the result :-) next months raffle will be posted on toyhouse first on may 1st!

[eethok]

Whoopsie almost 3am here….have some previews of new/reworked things

[mollysunder]

The Medarda arc of s2 struggled to be good, because the plot viciously smothered it. You can argue that Arcane was never about politics but you cannot say the Medardas were never explicitly a family defined by politics. So when the show shifted it's priorities from a drama steeped in political conflict where even though the setting was fantastical the stakes were grounded to a shift where magic is the end all be all threat to humanity, the Medardas are rendered largely irrelevant.

In s2 Mel's agency over her own story is both largely stripped from her and poorly communicated. Arcane has Mel abducted from the plot to be the Black Rose's captive. Even when Mel manages to free herself it's not through the traits the audience understands are her strengths, her cunning and social intelligence, it's through an innate instinct that natural to her and indecipherable to the audience.

Ambessa as a character is more or less a villain of convenience, which would be fine if she wasn't immediately following Silco's act. Once Mel is removed from the story Ambessa is largely disconnected from any emotional tension fuels conflict between the characters and previously drove the plot in s1. She's there to play the worse bad guy for Caitlyn and then give Viktor the man power for the Glorious Evolution.

It's frustrating to see the Medardas used the way they are in s2 because when they're together I can see how it could be good. When they're together Mel forces emotion out of Ambessa. In Act 1, Ambessa proved she could do circles around Piltover's court, which could actually put Mel in a tight spot.

Their final scene on paper sounds like a good idea where the true resolution to Mel and Ambessa's story was that Ambessa saw Mel's own ruthless behavior as she not only betrayed Ambessa to the Black Rose, but used her as BAIT to double cross LeBlanc. Ambessa died proud that her daughter killed her the way she did, and that's so cool and tragic, but the execution was a flop.

One, their final fight is completely unimportant to the actual Glorious Evolution, Mel's grief can't even be a highlight because it's interrupted by Viktor's mind trap. Two, their fight didn't rely on any of Mel's actual strengths, just magic and the poorly explained MacGuffin LeBlanc gave her. How did Mel even know it would do that?

It's like the writers had the bones for a great story for the Medardas, but then they're like the world's worst archeologists and fit those bones together in the worst way possible because they were convinced the bones made a stegasaurus instead of a T-rex or something.