Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.
If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.
for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of
also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut
the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)
also minor rant abt the dimmadomes having super curly hair: hi, hello, white dude with very curly hair here, idk abt yall but ive TRIED to get my hair to slick back like dale and devs for formal events before and it DOES NOT DO THAT WITHOUT A BOATLOAD OF GEL. to get my hair to look even partially as neat as theirs i had to essentially glue my hair down AND THEYRE GETTING OFF HELICOPTERS AND WEARING HATS/HEADPHONES AND RUNNING AROUND WITHOUT A SINGLE CURL POPPING OUT LIKE OUGH ik its just bc they prob didnt wanna have to sculpt or animate that but im begging the writers that if they get s2 and ever make an episode abt/involving the dimmadomes having naturally curly hair (bc yk dale literally canonically has curly hair even if dev doesnt) they MAKE SOME SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ABOUT THE SHEER AMOUNT OF PRODUCT IT TAKES TO GET CURLY HAIR TO SLICK BACK LIKE THAT. LIKE HTAT SHIT HAS TO BE CRUNCHY AF. YOU TRY TO RUN A COMB THROUGH THEIR HAIR AND IT WILL JUST BOUNCE RIGHT OFF
how does melian actually make it back to valinor? if having a child and sustaining the Girdle for so long leaves her in the state of being bound to her physical form, how does she leave? by the helcaraxë? does some other spirit or creature ferry her somehow? and when she gets to valinor and holes up in Lórien, why doesn’t she bring tidings or try to intercede on behalf of everyone she left? lúthien is still alive at that point even… why does it take 2 more kinslayings and eärendil’s personal errand?
one theory I had to link these questions is, it’s so taxing for her to return and she’s in such a terrible state that she can’t really talk to anyone or plead for anyone. maybe she spent the rest of her power turning into a bird to fly back even when she shouldn’t be able to change form, and she’s in lórien afterwards to try and recover. or a darker theory: she does plead for help from the Valar for middle-earth and is rebuffed (like ulmo). or she’s bitter about everything and just ignores the rest of the world while grieving, whatever the fallout, and everyone in valinor also ignores her. melian is kind of inscrutable at the best of times which makes her interesting, but a little maddening