#Rainbow Drop

[almightyhamslice]

The final battle! Dark Matter reveals his true form and fights Kirby one-on-one!

Dark Matter himself is a rather underexplored character I think. He's not the only one of his kind (Zero has at least 4 Dark Matter henchmen, so even though DM Blade reappeared in KDL3, there's still 3 others just like him), he is the only one who can transform the way he does (into a swordsman). I like to think he's 'special' and favored by Zero, though we have not met Zero yet. Its generally accepted that he returns in KDL3 with reinforcements to finish what he started in KDL2, this time with his master's help.

However, what's less well known, is that Dark Matter Swordsman is... surprisingly lonely! This is sub-canon and not mentioned directly in any game, but he targeted Dreamland because it's supposed to be a friendly place, and he's jealous. He honestly has no idea how to befriend anyone, maybe he isn't even familiar with the word 'friend'.

As I see it, friendships among Dark Matters are basically unheard of-- they're all 'bonded', but in a very formal way. Zero is their leader, commander, and parent, but they are very distant and hands-off, merely giving orders to the Dark Cloud and treating it as their army (its like an insect colony, I suppose). As such, Dark Matter Blade echoes this with his treatment of Gooey, Blob, and his non-Dark Matter subordinates. He 'respects' them, but he is distant with them and doesn't know what it means to 'love' them. Maybe if things had gone differently between him and Kirby, he'd be able to learn? Who can say...

also LOL im 85 days into this challenge!!!! I'm going to pause it in October so I can draw Insektober stuf again since that was fun & I know I can do one or the other, but not both at the same time!

[foamywishes]

finished concept sketch for Prism Myra, a special form she tales once she gets ahold of the Rainbow Sword. Also I just wanted to do prismatic, mary sue type hair for once.

[constantlyfalling]

🌦 rainy drive 🌦

[artandmartini]

Happy 27th!

[samgirard]

billie jean king drops the first puck at the inaugural pwhl game | pwhl tor vs. ny | 1.1.24

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Abell 21, Star Drops in Medusa’s Hair

[6kn0wh3re6]

❤️‍🔥Daily...Bailey❤️‍🔥

Bailey Jay

[clownmoontoon]

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[dalesramblingsblog]

I know we've been commenting since The Star Beast on the irony of Russell T. Davies taking Disney money and using it to say trans/gay rights as part of one of the biggest British television events of 2023/2024, but I think Dot and Bubble fully opened my eyes to something I've been quietly contemplating since at least the time of The Giggle.

I am genuinely convinced, knowing everything I know about Davies' comments on the state of the BBC and the kinds of art he's been making of late, that Series 14 is a brilliant and purposeful piece of artistic subversion that has taken Disney's money to not just say trans rights, but to actively comment upon the cold, empty yawning abyss that is modern MCU franchisecrafting.

Time and time again, the show has returned to the idea that that sort of "artistry" is completely anathema in a cosmic horror sense to the very fabric of Doctor Who. The Toymaker is an arbiter of rules and continuity, who threatens to turn Doctor Who into a knock-off of The Avengers before everything collapses back into a game of catch with the Doctor in his underwear.

73 Yards is quite explicitly about the loneliness, emptiness and futility that accompanies human beings trying to impose rational, ordered frameworks and narratives on a fundamentally chaotic and strange universe. The very fact that the episode exists in a media ecosystem where hackish YouTubers will be falling over themselves to make "Ending Explained" videos for it *is part of the point*.

And then we have Dot and Bubble, where the modern glut of franchisal/social media (and the two are often close to interchangeable, as proven by this very blog post) is explicitly shown to have an anaesthetising effect that insulates people from real-world suffering. But it's more than that, because that same anaesthesia ties into expressions of actual, direct racism that are so baked into the foundations of that media and who it tends to uplift (white, conventionally attractive and implicitly straight people) that they become indistinguishable from said suffering.

After years of Doctor Who trying its hand at being a generic MCU-esque property and fans creating mockups of Phase-esque release timelines with a million spin-offs focusing on the Wacky Adventures of Miss Evangelista or whatever other bullshit fandom constantly clamours for, here is an era that puts its foot down and says "Actually, the foundational elements of that brand of media consumption are materially connected to the constant racist or sexist backlash you see against the casting of Ncuti Gatwa or Jodie Whittaker or Kelly Marie Tran."

And it is absolutely, positively, 100% correct.

How, then, does Doctor Who resist the creeping power of this monolithic cultural entity? In a world where studios seriously try to argue for the artistic worth of tripe like Morbius or Madame Web or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, what is the appropriate response?

The same response that it's always had, the thing that it's been doing for sixty years. Getting people to learn how to run down corridors from hokey aliens, hoping against hope that those people don't turn out to be massive fucking racists and telling them exactly where they can shove it if they are, and instilling the children of the world with a healthy dose of fear and light-hearted humour.

Welcome back, Doctor Who. God, I have missed you.

[almightyhamslice]

Kirby's Dreamland 2, world 5: Red Canyon! I'm still passionate about this project, even (almost) 60 days in! I planned some of these in advance, but only on days where I knew I wouldn't be home for long. Actually, funny story... I was experiencing a POWER OUTAGE (and later a wifi outage) on july 29th! So I drew Waiu while staying over at my grandparents' house, and drew the next several illustrations (Cutter Rick, Captain Stitch, Needle Rick) without using my computer to find reference material & such. I had to use my phone!

Anyways this is still fun to me as a project ngl! I'm glad I picked Kirby for this, because it's something I've always been interested in ever since I was a kid. Sometimes hyperfixations come and go for me, but Kirby is eternal. I suppose this KDL2 series has been a real testament to that-- would you believe I don't even like KDL2 as a game? I don't! I thought it was really frustrating! But I beat it 100% anyways! Because I love Kirby. LOL

[foamywishes]

quick wip of something I've been working on. I keep jumping OCs but this pretty gal is my main. I love her a lot even if she is a handful

[skunkes]

weird 2 say but sometimes i wish i was more into hobby/medium so id have an excuse or wasteless purpose to get more of it. Like. Wish I had purpose within watercolor illustration and as a medium in general so I could get those fancy artisinal watercolors just bc they look so beautiful

[mintypsii]

one piece x steven universe au where instead of being a crystal gem, luffy is sort of a rogue who flies around in a spaceship adventuring through space and making/recruiting friends on different planets and gem colonies, he was inspired by earthlings and now he wants to live freely without the constraints of gem roles and expectations (tagging this with #gem piece)

[boygirl-rouge]

MLP ship graphics for ur rentries or whatever crafties u wanna do ♡ might make more eventually these are fun to make !!!! f2u with or without credits! DO NOT REUPLOAD

[phopollo]

There was something so cruel about my peers and adults around me making me feel weird and like there was something wrong with me for liking My Little Pony

I was 9

[transbro]

Various gay icons from glitter-graphics.com