Aaaaahh not sure if this is my best work 😭 I just really wanted to draw smth for vettonso day but my brain hasn't really been functioning well LOL so I kept dreading working on this, especially bcs its so important to me, y'know? I hope it's good????? I'm happy with the concept, but I was just so unsure on so many of the angles and it was killing me. I did the color thing bcs I thought it'd add something interesting to it :) since I didn't paint it as I usually would
Anyways! Process!
Now I will explain all of them:
Boy king au is where it all starts of course. I think their relationship is the most developed in this compared to the others, but at the same point, they just start from such a different point, especially affection-wise. All of these kinda have a power dynamic, except the last one, and this is the most imbalanced. Fernando is being subservient, the only part of Seb he may kiss(in public lol) is his hand.
Matador au next. They hurt themselves when they try to be affectionate, because they live in the culture of a sport of violence and death. The sword separates them, their love for the sport keeps them apart, in fear that they hurt each other. Seb, yet again, looks down upon Fernando. Seb haunts Fernando's whole career, the constant overhanging presence. Also aside from that, shame that you can't see his three musketeers look bcs of the black background 😔
2012 core!!! I think this one is pretty easy to understand. Both of them often kiss their trophies, more so than any driver. So they're both trying to claim the wdc trophy by kissing it. Maybe you guys should just get rid of the trophy altogether and claim each other! But yes, just like the sword in the matador au one, the trophy and their ambitions divides, keeps them from ever bridging the vast gap between them, at least at that point in time.
The conclusion! Aka what I wish we will get at Imola 2024- kidding kidding. But it is 2024. Finally there is no conflict between them, there's no big thing keeping them in conflict, they can finally come together. Finally they can touch, there is no gap to bridge, they can appreciate each other, and appreciate what they failed to in years past.
The thesis is basically that they always have their aspirations between them, and their aspirations happen to be basically the same thing. Until those are resolved, the gap between them is too vast for them to recognize and/or find any commonality. How do you get along with someone when you're both fighting for the same thing? How do you get along when it feels like one of you is winning more? How do you get along when there's such a vast gap?
In boy king au, it's going to take a while before they both feel settled about the issue of the throne. That's what makes that au interesting, they're trapped in this state of non-closure and they have to actually solve their issues without the matter of one of them simply removing themselves from the equation. They have to find a way to get over themselves and their aspirations, because like it or not they're stuck with each other. I think with the hand kissing, it represents how Fernando, at that point, is only willing to play along with the game if it's tradition, and he often won't budge in other ways. Yes, I will show subservience, but only in this detached, formal way that I don't connect personally to. He's still holding his own bitterness over meaningfully appreciating Seb. Though it's not like Seb isn't at fault. It takes a while for him to not hold things over Fernando, and constantly humiliate him. One day they will meaningfully show affection, and it won't be some sort of power play.
I think matador au is pretty similar to real life, and the 2010s era(it's basically just their actual plot line but in the context of bullfighting.) They're forever going to have this big elephant in the room, and it only really gets resolved when one of them leaves the sport. Once they're not fighting directly against each other, they realize what they've been missing out on and what they were not appreciating for so many years beforehand. They finally come together because they can't just rely anymore on the sport keeping them together. They actually have to make that step to be in each other's lives, rather than just taking their presence for granted.
Also the text on the comic. "We keep missing, and missing, and missing, and finally kissing." It's basically: we keep missing the point of it all, we keep failing to appreciate each other presence in our lives and in our own individual grand stories. But when we're not forced together anymore, we have to make the choice to come together again ourselves. We keep missing what we actually need to do. Missing each other in favor of our aspirations. Etc etc. One day we will finally embrace and there will be nothing keeping us apart.
I tried waiting for a few days and not doompost, but at one point, my feelings don't seem to change and what's the difference between expressing myself and doomposting at this point?
I tried, I really tried to remember that QSMP is about breaking language barriers and uniting communities around the world. I tried focusing on this very aspect and being grateful that without QSMP, I would probably never have heard about BadBoyHalo. I tried telling myself things take time to settle, and that I have to be patient. I tried listening to my streamer telling me to keep a good spirit and hold my hopes up.
But I can't. Yesterday's award was shamelessly not reflecting the server at all, I had to stop watching after 30 minutes. Soulhunter and a date between Cucurucho and q!Bad couldn't bring my mood up, all I thought about was how empty this server has been lately, how Pomme would never get to mess with her dad and be upset about him being closer to Cucurucho.
And I initially said here that I'd stopped talking about QSMP, then, knowing full well that as a BBH main I would watch his QSMP stream, I retracted what I said. But now, even with all BBH's talent at RP and streaming, all I think about is how unfair it all was. POMME AND DAPPER DIDN'T DIE. They left because no one at Quackity Studio knows how to respect them, to just talk to them. There's a huge difference.
If the eggs never come back, the server is too empty for me to enjoy, and I'll stay too angry and mad at Quackity Studio for not using commun decency and logic in dealing with the situation. If the eggs come back, how do you expect me to be happy when the absence of Dapper and Pomme will be felt everywhere?
Sadness and angriness have been the only things I felt when thinking about QSMP lately, and I can't think of a situation where that changes.
The foster kittens are having pretty gnarly diaper rash and for some reason this is the one that gets to my head the most. Like ..it hurts them so much. Their little lungs cry so horribly when I clean them and put ointments on their butts, they'll hurt worse if I don't. Maybe I'm just in a god awful headspace today idk how vets do it, they're so small and they're hurting so much and I cant make it better, and I'm making it about myself, the babies are the ones in real distress and I'm making it about myself
the ending was magnificent. the way Loki turned into god of stories. lovely.
and then we got the "after.". for a while i thought that Loki fixed those branches in a place and can move...freely? thought we'd get to see him in the meeting, organising it all
and then i saw Mobius sitting at his desk, without spark and my heart dropped TwT
MAN, IT HURTS LIKE HELL
and Loki never even got to say goodbye. he didnt get to explain to his friends how he tried and suffered, lived thousands posibilities, and this was the only option to keep them all with "free will" and safe
people really love to conveniently forget trans men exist when they talk about feminism. or if they dont they make us out as also part of the problem as if we somehow are able to have the same amount of privilege as cis men. absolutely wild
‘my lord n is a kind and excellent person who understands the hearts of pokémon. but conversely, perhaps his ability to understand the hearts and feelings of people is not developed enough. but… even that was part of the perfection of ghetsis’ plan.’ SHUT UUUUP I SWEAR!!!!