#honours project

[winterprince601]

"he was never unfaithful to robert, was he?" - jaime, acok

ha. ha ha ha. the irony of this line is incredible. what's so striking to me is how one dimensional the realm's understanding of eddard stark as an honourable man is - honour itself is an incredibly complicated and unattainable ideal in asoiaf and i think ned as the stereotypical emblem of it encompasses many of the reasons why. because whilst he absolutely does consider acting in a conventionally honourable way important, he always prioritises those he loves. he defended cat's actions as his own without a second thought when she arrested tyrion. his main priority in king's landing is to see his daughters safe, not to secure the succession. lyanna is the prime example: jon's existence is not the result of the lapse of honourable ned stark, it was honourable ned stark choosing his love for his sister over his duty to his king. that and his personal ethical belief that the political murder of a child is never morally acceptable.

no one in the realm has the insight into his personality we get in the first book. none of his children, vitally, understand that he would always prioritise their safety over any honourable scruples. all of the starklings question what their honourable father would think of their actions - killing in self-defence, marrying jeyne westerling, sleeping with ygritte to name a few examples - without recognising that ned's true first priority was always his family's safety.

in fact, he betrayed robert far more than he ever betrayed cat and he would have betrayed honour for his family's safety every time.

[jones7]

XB3992 - Honours Project Proposal - Week 1 #1

To start us off, I made my proposal of my Honours project. This idea was crafted allowing me to show off my main route - Narrative Design - and the lesser specialism of Technical Design. To give a brief synopsis of what the general idea will be: A persona esc game set within a University take has been taken on by an impossible madness, instead of running however the main character has realised his sister is stuck higher into the building and deeper into the dark...

[caitlyn-comics-honors]

This is my double page spread in my comic that I’ve used for the banner for the online graduate show!

[buttercup-barf]

Drive your friends home, fellas.

[tigerjolteo]

it's been a while [ dumps ruinene on your dash ]

[corpsoir]

post zucchero fight etc ahah .

[flowercrowngods]

thoughts thoughts thoughts i apologise it’s 2am i have to sorry @babyboymunson

Steve knows that Eddie has a whole library of characters. And when he says library, that’s not an understatement; because Eddie has a lot of them, and he keeps all his characters sheets incredibly organised. Even those for the NPCs.

He claims not to have favourites because, “They’re all my badass little idiot children, Stevie, don’t make me choose.”

So Steve doesn’t.

But the thing is, Steve has never been above choosing a favourite badass little idiot child — sure, it might have changed daily with the kids, but still! He has a favourite character of Eddie’s. One who survived the campaign, actually, to everyone’s utter disbelief both past and present.

It’s one of Eddie’s first, from before he started taking on the role as Dungeon Master more often than that of a player.

And when Steve first finds out about the character, reads his character sheet and sees the art Eddie had made for him, that is when he knows: one day he’ll find a way to marry this blushing disaster boy.

Sir Gonthar Veten, a human paladin with high charisma and uncharacteristically low strength, laughably low intelligence but hey, respectable wisdom modifier. “A bit of a wild card,” as Eddie has put it, pulling his hair in front of his face to hide his little smile or the absolutely besotted expression.

It doesn’t take him too long to find out that Gonthar is essentially based on him, and even his name is an anagram. Oh, Eddie had it bad! He teases him mercilessly, but they both know that’s Steve’s way of saying, “You nerd, you absolute nerd, I can’t believe it took me so long, but know that you’re the love of my life, too.”

So, in 1983, Eddie has a crush on Steve and is so mad about it, he made a DnD character about it.

In 1986, Steve kisses Eddie for the first time inside his new government-sponsored trailer and begins what will be the rest of his life.

In 2006, Steve buys Eddie a star for their anniversary, and Eddie laughs through the veil of tears when he sees what Steve named it.

“Sir Gonthar Veten,” he reads, grin so wide that it has to hurt. “Can’t believe you went and named a star after yourself, Stevie.”

“Yeah,” Steve laughs, stepping into Eddie’s space and pulling him close. “Yeah, that’s exactly what I did, Munson.”

“You’re so lame,” Eddie sniffles, and it’s the happiest little sound. “Thank you.”

Steve brushes a kiss to his forehead, his temple, his cheek, and finally his lips. “Happy anniversary, Eddie.”

[scenetocause]

[lesflaya]

Toya on the brain ✨

[sillyfairygarden]

uhhh double life but its a snowy medeival story about a wet cat, her ex-husband, and his polycule

[tev-the-random]

So the thing that gets me about Starlo — the thing that really gets me — is how much this guy hates himself.

It's not something you notice the first time you're playing, because he's so confident and enthusiastic. He'd almost be cool if he wasn't such a dork. But after replaying the game with the context of where he came from, — and I'll admit, after reading some very interesting, in-depth fanfics and analysis about him, I'll try to link them if I find them again — his character becomes a bit... blurred. How much of this is Starlo, and how much of it is North Star?

Because- because the whole point of his sheriff persona is that he gets to be someone else, isn't it? When he's out there rootin' and tootin', acting out his hero fantasies and trying to imitate the characters from the westerns he admires, he becomes someone much cooler than himself. North Star is everything Starlo wishes he was: the fearless leader, the cunning cowboy, the confident sheriff who saves lives and wrangles bandits and hangs out with humans. Not just some nobody farmer who could disappear in the corn field without anyone noticing, not the son who wastes his time on daydreams.

He craves praise so deeply. That's the big difference between Star and Papyrus, I think, because Papyrus is just so unapologetically himself, while Star... he starts spending more and more time with this mask of greatness he made himself. Because people like North Star. Not Starlo.

North Star is a real sheriff. Not Starlo.

North Star is the one who brings help and hope and fun to monsters. Not Starlo.

North Star is the one worthy of being appreciated. Not Starlo.

And like... he wants to be liked so badly. So much effort is put into making sure North Star is good enough that Starlo tends to assume people hate him. He assumes his parents hate his life choices (they don't; they're proud of him and know he cares), he assumes Clover will laugh at him when he shows his face to them (they don't; despite everything, it's still him), he assumes the reason he fell out with his friends is because he wasn't a good enough sheriff (he knows damn well it wasn't actually Clover's fault, he's not THAT stupid. But he's still desperately grasping at the last pieces of his shattered persona, so if he just works harder, if he does what a real sheriff does and captures this human, then everything will be alright, won't it?)

I really wish we could have gotten more insight on Starlo's relationships and personality before the whole Wild East thing consumed him. Ceroba and the Feisty Five say they miss the old Starlo, but we never really get to know who the old Starlo was. And I don't think he knows either.

Wake the hell up, Star. People started liking you before you were North Star. Go eat some corn and calm down.

Point is, the impostor syndrome goes hard and that's such a mood. He was supposed to be the cool and silly cowboy guy, what the fuck–

[mutantninjamidlifecrisis]

Don't want to sound like a jerk pal

But ummm is there going to be an update for MNMC?

I'll get it done one day, user canabalistic-brainrott. *looks wistfully into the far distance* one day...

[fukinkitty]

do u guys like my comic i worked so hard on it

[caitlyn-comics-honors]

I’ve been very busy! Deadline is now only a week away! Ah!

Last I posted was the test for the print version of the comic, well here’s the final print version! It’s a little difficult to figure out because it’s ordered the way it is for best printing but don’t worry because I’m doing a digital version as well. 

Printing with risopraph at outoftheblueprint meant I had a few restrictions to adhere to, such as the text couldn’t be bigger that 12pt which is why it’s so difficult to read here, which is what made me decide for definite to make a digital version where I could have more creative freedom. In the end, it’s just nice to have a physical version of something you’ve made and I wanted people to be able to take one when they come to the graduate showcase. 

I have a few things I want to change when I format the digital version. I’m worried that keeping it strictly black and white seems lazy in terms of development for my honours degree, so I’m going to experiment one last time with greyscale, halftone and colour tone to see if one of those options works better for me. The text is going to be almost completely reworked, including the balloons, so that I can have it readable, have emphasis on words and invoke tone. This wasn’t something I was able to do with the risograph restrictions and with the deadline I had to send to print by but I still have time before the deadline to work on. Using the greyscale/halftone/colour tone experiment I’ll add more depth to the panels and also add the tartan pattern in the character designs because that was something I left out for printing because I was worried about it being readable when printed. Once that’s decided I just need to format it into a PDF!

[osteichthyens]

have this vbs thingy i never finished fhenfjdh

[mintcakeart]

Summer, 1989. A little piece of the sun.

more steddyification of pinterest pics