more 1x5x6 because these losers are in my brain. their main way of showing affection flops between petty arguing or merciless teasing
also oh my GOD engines are so hard to drawwww... those running boards, man. they gave me hell
gonna do a proper image ID under the cut bc my handwriting is a bit ...spindly
[IMAGE ID: A digitally drawn image Percy, James and Thomas from Thomas the Tank Engine in a line, on a plain, olive-grey background, directly facing the camera. James is blushing and looking down, frowning with his nose scrunched up in flustered embarrassment, and Thomas and Percy are looking at James with teasing expressions.
Percy is saying, "Don't worry, James! They may tease, but you're our big engine. Thomas adds, "Aww, yeah, Jim. You're our special-est, splendid-est engine!" Both speech bubbles are full of little pink hearts.
Each engine has words in brackets beside them with arrows pointing at them. Percy's says (teasing) (laying it on so thick). Thomas' says (immediately joins in). James has three arrows pointing at him, with the caption (Absolutely loves the attention).
The artist's signature (DJs-sideblog-for-pog-trains) is written in translucent white over all three engine's buffers. /END ID]
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every time someone calls octavio "fascist" i want to physically hit them with my slosher.
have you considered that maybe it's seriously ignorant to use this term for a society that's had countless numbers of its people die to Actual in-universe fascism?? like commander tartar is right there. THAT is a fascist, not a guy who hates the people that started a war on his own race + made them live in the wastelands.
and that this term is extremely loaded + it feels very weird to call the "we've suffered incredibly from war, we were erased from history, and continue to struggle to exist", heavily-minority-coded people that?
it's not funny, it really isn't.
please please do some reading about the sino-japanese war. about the r/ape of nanking. about japanese historical revisionism. the octarians are pretty specifically meant to be commentary on awful real world events.
maybe I'm just cranky bc I really love the octarians and how they + their wacky leader are written, but I feel like a lot of the western fandom just Say Shit and don't read deeper into what's being said in this series!!!
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Every once in a while I remember that Rian Johnson invented Rose Tico because he originally had Finn (child soldier who was brought up with propaganda and any attempts at identity stomped out recently escaped the people that enslaved him) and Poe (child of the New Republic, grew up in peacetime) at Canto Bight together and saw no potential for conflict or real difference between them. And then I stare into the distance and contemplate what could have been.
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sometimes I think it can be fun to incorporate both original names and localizations into lore... in the underground the band that makes all the stage music is known as OCTOTOOL but when inklings found the master recordings in a trash bin near Inkopolis Tower and decided to put them all together onto an album and release it (canon information) they called the artist Turquoise October because they had no fucking clue who made it but the name sounded pretty :)
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*takes a deep breath* What if you were a fairy and you accidentally got caught in a drider's web while fleeing a bird and you're scared of the drider at first but then realize he's very nice and sweet and brings you tea and takes you in while your wings heal but then once they're healed you don't want to leave because you have a crush on the drider and there's an awkward moment where you both hem and haw about how there's really no reason for you to stay until someone finally says the reason to stay is that you're both so in love.
*passes out from lack of oxygen*
Could...that be a thing??
(Sketch with the bg layer turned off is under the cut)
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