#an uneven mess

[thenookienostradamus]

Ok so one of the things I liked about TRoP that I'm guessing many did not was the fact that it made use of a LOT of over-35 actors. Many of them 40+. In an extremely ageist film industry, I think that's pretty remarkable.

I mean, one could definitely argue that it was possible in some cases to find, let's say, more exquisite specimens of the 40+ crowd to represent Elves. I don't think anyone would argue that folks like, say, Thandiwe Newton (50), or Gael Garcia Bernal (44), or Daniel Dae Kim (55), or Aishwarya Rai (49), or Mahershala Ali (48) are sufficiently otherworldly-looking to be convincing Elves. I mean, hell, Hugo Weaving was already 41 when he played Elrond for the first time in 2001.

But it was fantastic to see some people who aren't 19, 22, 25 as dashing heroes and romantic leads. The extremely lovely Nazanin Boniadi (Bronwyn) is 42 - seven years older than her onscreen love interest, Ismael Cruz Cordova, who is objectively the prettiest Elf by far.

I definitely would have preferred an intriguing-looking 40-something Sauron to the 29-year-old Generic White Boy we got.

As someone who was mildly shocked 21 years ago by Jackson's casting choice for Elrond (look, I was 22 and by my own admission knew sweet fuck-all about anything), I'm now considerably more appreciative of older actors getting fat chunks of screen time. No matter who you are, you want to see people who look like you in media.

[salamispots]

first 3 rug hooking things I did haha

[landwriter]

dead boy detectives is a show whose shortcomings and strengths make total sense when you think of it as a comic on tv, ie terribly goofy expository dialogue that sounds way better when you picture it in comic book font with every other word bolded, panel-paced conversation as our heroes figure out something very obvious, fun enormous monster set pieces that used up all the cgi budget which is why all the rooftop shots look Like That, incredible snap zooms and smash cuts in montages that hit exactly like comic panels, and side characters with bland or brilliant characterization that seems to hinge on the metric of ‘how much cunt did the actor put into their line readings’

[mishy-mashy]

Something I made in a post that I think'll be lost in the texts + expanded a bit more

These panels are chronological events following AFO's pursuit of Yoichi's Factor.

AFO could tell if people were related through a Quirk. AFO and OFA also are connected to each other. In Kamino, AFO could confidently tell All Might that OFA had been passed on, so all that All Might had left were leftover embers.

When AFO killed Kudo, he asked where Yoichi was. He knew Kudo wasn't the holder of Yoichi's Factor at that time. He also realized when looking at Yoichi's hand that Yoichi's natural Factor was so weak he hadn't registered its existence. This implies AFO could sense Factors since he was young, and Yoichi's natural Factor never stood out to him.

Below are three panels of Bruce (right to left). Bruce fought, AFO killed him, and looked away in disinterest.

When he beat down Bruce, he already had a sense that Bruce didn't hold the Factor anymore. That's why, rather than yell in his face to figure out where it is and interrogate for a long time, he pulled up his corpse to inspect him better.

Bruce's corpse isn't resisting anything. Look at his feet; AFO literally dragged him. Bruce is already dead. Yet he's looking for something from him.

Bruce doesn't have anything for him. Nothing AFO wants.

When he looks away, he's dismissing Bruce, because Bruce doesn't hold Yoichi. AFO is wondering where Yoichi is, because he knows now that he's out there somewhere. Thus the pensive look to the wind.

After Bruce is killed, AFO and Garaki meet for the first time. Shinomori has Yoichi at this time, and AFO never comes close to him, so AFO is lost. He doesn't have any leads, and Yoichi has vanished.

Now that he knows Yoichi can transfer, it's possible for Yoichi to be kept out of his reach for the rest of his life. So meeting Garaki and having access to Life Force gives AFO more time to search.

Yoichi is still missing for 18 years though, because Shinomori is in hiding. AFO couldn't find him during the Fourth's turn.

This is why, when he encounters Banjo, the Fifth and active wielder of OFA [Yoichi], AFO is smiling.

It's been a long time, but Yoichi's in reach again. He knows where he is now. And this is the first time he's encountered the current holder.

Thus his shock.

[Yet... you never behave as I wish.]

It was the first time a Quirk wouldn't let itself be stolen. This was AFO's first encounter with this wall: it doesn't transfer without the holder's consent, and requires willpower stronger than all the holders combined to override that.

The holder is never going to give him that consent. To override the collective willpower, he's going to need something greater.

Meanwhile, look at Banjo's arms. Shinomori is the catalyst to tip OFA over the edge, that an unprepared vessel will be destroyed by how strong the Quirk is.

Banjo's arms are both messed up below the shoulder, just like Midoriya used to be. And like Midoriya uses Blackwhip to reinforce himself and stay standing, Banjo uses Blackwhip to hold his fist / arm together. His hand is being wrapped to stay in a fist.

(What I think is) The reason the limbs turn red, and then purple, from breakage, is a matter of blood vessels. Small, itty bitty, fragile things.

Using OFA breaks the whole area, from bones to blood vessels, causing internal bleeding. Thus the redness. But breaking those vessels again in a second go turns the area purple, because it causes instantaneous internal bruising.

But En wasn't ripped apart by using OFA. There's a cut on his thumb that lines up with the path of destruction; AFO sliced him in half. Otherwise, he wouldn't have that cut if it were just OFA.

It's hidden by the text in [... you never behave as I wish], but depending on where you see this chapter, you can see he got cut on the thumb. It's clearer where we see Nana take his hair from him, in [I only want... to make you mine!]

I have a post in drafts about En being cut in half rather than it being because of OFA, but I also hit an image limit, so I'm gonna end here. Ta.

[apparently-artless]

Shiguang Daili Ren S02E08 - Cheng Xiaoshi

[mugmegan]

Dyeing Power's hair so they look like siblings to hide her identity.

This is for the latest chapter of the Devour You Whole series by @mistystarshine

[goldenpinof]

somersetprintco: 🤙🏼 VIDEO OF THE PROCESS HERE AT SPC. PRINTING A MULTI ITEM RANGE 🤙🏼 #screenprint #merchandise #production #musicmerchandise #mhmscreenprinting #printlife #squeegee #printmaking #somersetprint #somerset

the making of wad merch

[parsenidoxical]

[tbgkaru-woh]

Black/White split hair Ye Baiyi. What may have caused it??

[cptnwynnie]

She’s on my mind again and everyone’s gonna hear about it

[forgetfulmachineart]

[ID: Three digitally drawn side profiles of Red Son. He has three hair styles left to right. "Pre-Time Travel" is a high ponytail, "Pretending to be DKR" is a half up bun, "Ch. 12" is a messy layered chin length hair cut. /End ID]

How I imagine Red's hair through A Test of Time by @purble-turble ! Go read it now ����

[dentpx]

Body is as good as it’s gonna get unless I want to be brave and darken / clean lines with acrylic paints (which I will not be doing) so body is done! Just need to do a final seal today. My hair comes Thursday so I can’t make any progress until then, but I need to deal with this hole from the part line first. I got some recs and I think I’m going to use a vinyl glue to seal it since it’s a small hole, except that won’t come until Friday so really nothing more can get done until this weekend.

[akiramona]

See? I said I'd come back with something soon enough ;)

Let me invite you to my inner world 🙏 My mental process that went into this: I have made myself a mask, but what else could i make to go along with it? That's it! A giant fucking sword! It's not the full story, but I'll tell you this much... The extended version makes even less sense xD

Now, when decided that I SHOULD be making a sword, I had nothing to go off of except for the Black Knight theory... and frankly, it was like May and my investment in Genshin slowly waned, because I told myself "hey! no 8 hours of Genshin today! no dc with the pals! you gotta study!" and then I played Arknights instead 👉👈 In fact, while I was "studying" I finished chapters 8-13 in the Main Theme of Arknights... And that's the obsession I have been suffering from to this day :)

The sword belongs to a character named Hoederer... for those who are interested (And I could ramble about him for a long time, but I am gonna try to keep my cool to not scare away the few people that view this xD). All I have is a sword for now, but I am planning on making some horns as well as getting some additional stuff in the future. If I don't go through with that? Doesn't matter, I have a cool sword, nothing beats that >:) As for how it was made? EVA foam, some PVC pipes... I had to pattern it myself, but despite that it turned out pretty nice xD

I'll be signing off now for... again an undefinable amount of time. May our paths cross again! ^^

[the-girl-from-danger-days]

I think it looks good

@broken-acid-in-the-morning-light

[graveyardcuddles]

CW: self harm mention.

This is pretty upsetting, but I literally couldn't get this thought out of my mind, so I'm subjecting others to it now, sorry.

So, I don't necessarily NEED an angsty backstory/explanation behind why Astarion's hair is short. The explanation of "he was a cosmopolitan high elf who didn't strictly follow tradition" works just fine. And the idea that Cazador cut it himself is already awful enough to imagine.

That being said, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone bring up Astarion's "year of horror," where Cazador had him sealed in a tomb as a possible explanation. He talks about screaming until lost his voice and clawing at the tomb until his fingers were worn down and bloody.

What if, over the course of slowly going insane during all that, he also started ripping his hair out? :(

[organised-disaster]

Sucked it up and drew the Snowbird girlies myself

Based on this comment under a youtube video