#ignore how bad this is. i was in a rush

[knific]

headcanon that baseball really likes to play with rubix cubes

[s0damuffin]

red characters!

[reel-fear]

Wow, so umm... This looks bad, not only is it inaccurate due to using the wrong ink demon design [unless this is confirmation BATIM Ink Demon has been outright retconned... Which would make me pissed enough to make a new post just about THAT] but from an art standpoint this is just... Confusing and poorly done.

I wouldn't care if this was fanart, of course you should support young, indie artists... But for a Graphic Novel making sure your cover doesn't look like something Butch Hartman shat out in an afternoon is kind of important. Remember they're going to be asking us to give money to them to read this. The artist likely won't see any of that money and neither do the authors most of the time, not to mention this art screams of the artist being underpaid and overworked.

Like they Had to get something on someone's desk and their boss said 'good enough'. A concept Joey Drew Studios is very familiar with considering the allegations of poor working environments that Kindly Beast. Not to mention Mike Mood admitting in a Reddit AMA that they did in fact rush projects like Showdown Bandit. [Which they sold at full price]

He also says they can in fact say no or yes to designs involving their IP. Either Mike or Meatly had to say yes to this cover, according to his own damn words.

And do you really think this company in particular would care enough about its fanbase to not sell them garbage? They have done exactly that on several occasions. It's not like they care particularly about art either, considering their previous use of AI Art. There was no apology or even posts addressing it... Instead, they just rushed out an archives update to their game to get people to stop talking about it... Even forgetting an entire character in it. Again

This company is [or at least SHOULD BE] on thin ice when it comes to being suspected of misleading their fans or rushing out crappy products to them.

So with all that context in mind, I'm gonna talk about why this cover sucks ass.

The light sources are all over the place? Why does it look like someone put maces or knight armor on his shoulders but it's just flesh?? It looks both gross and weird [not in a good way either]

To explain more I'm going on a rant below but sadly this seems to have been confirmed to not just be a rough pass but the final cover and man... I am not excited about this graphic novel just at all. This felt like it really drained any possibility of it turning out good for me and I already had expectations low.

Okay first point, the light sources?? And there is no consistency here with the shadows or lighting, it looks like there's a hundred light sources all at once but none of them are even consistent!

the arrows here represent all the different light sources I can make out and yet the the shadow clearly implies there's only one. I understand wanting to use highlights to give the character a more clear shape but then just give him one or two lights behind him or in front of him? No matter how u follow the light sources, the highlights make no sense and the shadows make even less sense.

Why are the shoulders like that? Like on the legs it's a little understandable, at least those are clearly very heavily affected by perspective, for me I think they are so exaggerated it makes it look like one of the legs is either huge or one is small but that's maybe subjective.

However, the shoulders are unjustifiable, what happened there, what did they do??

I could pick on so much more honestly, how the color choices of piss yellow with no other colors being used, and the harsh pitch black being used for every part of his body is weird. How it looks straight out of Butch Hartman's recent crappy art. But to put bluntly bad start! Also what the HELL is going on with this background??

Seems once again the Bendy team is fine with sending out stuff thinking it's "Good Enough" for Bendy fans and honestly the people trying to tell me to "Be Grateful" for this are just proving that no matter how many times you betray your audience some of em will defend you!

Which is sad tbh. If anything we should be putting MORE pressure on the Bendy team to do better. Cause we deserve better than this, honestly we do. There are amazing artists in the bendy community who could do so much better for a cover. They've employed their fan artists before... Wouldn't it be great to do that for such a lore important book? The book that gives us the identity of one of the main characters in BATIM? The character you spend the entirety of Chapter 4 fighting to save? Not to mention will give several major characters their human designs?

But I guess this is... Good enough...

[ask-404dungeonnotfound]

Command: Watch Elara work (without blinking).

A long moment passes in silence, the only sound being the clacking of keys. Eventually Elara looks back at you with a gentle smile.

“I know espurr eyes are made for staring for long periods of time but I would recommend blinking every so often. You wouldn’t want to strain them.”

[glitchyvoice]

finally got this to a postable state!!! meet jootrena, my favourite girly!!

also happy mermay i love fish girlies sm if u couldnt tell

[rebisgender]

post workout tummy tuesday pic!!! (girlbulge edition under readmore)

[caernua]

finally finished dai and trespasser

[transheimdall]

sum soft modern heimes bc they have . given me brainrot

[heffrondriving]

❝ Who do you want to be by your side during a zombie apocalypse?

Me, your best friend EVER, who has a protective nature! ❞

: ̗̀❥ happy birthday @diamondjames!! ଘ(੭ˊ꒳​ˋ)੭* ੈ✩‧₊˚✧

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

lol now that i went back and redid the whole thing, the final conversation with shadowheart is actually that fucking bad in general.

(for the good(TM) ending i.e no shar) she has one of the most emotion driven slowburn romances in the game if you do it correctly that is purely committed to each other shit, she literally tells the pc she wants a life WITH THEM WHICH THEY CAN SAY THEY WANT TOO, if her dad is there he tells the pc he hopes shadowheart will want to live near his wife and him, with her paramour, and then larian proceeds to treat relationship is treated like you had a fling and you never discussed your future together, lmao 'you and i had a connection' 'oh i had hoped for more bc our time has been so precious to me' 'come find me when you're free it's not like i just asked you to build a life with me recently' just remove all of the player's autonomy here too, what a fucking joke.

[imagineagreatadventure]

today proved i cannot ever again live in a red state bc i almost got into a verbal altercation in a blue state with retired (or off-duty?) cop & firefighter (old white male boomers btw) who were loudly saying horrendously stupid shit in a public FORMAL place about 1/6, Ferguson, and Baltimore and I couldn't deal with hearing stupid shit all the time

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread  

Returning To You

NA contemporary romance-ish about a travel influencer moving back home to reconnect with her dad, who ends up living with her college friend and fake dating her to get her parents off her back

ace bi & aro bi MCs

I did….not think the aro character in particular was handled very well tbh

[glitchyvoice]

"yeah guys ill get that omen post out tomorrow probably!!" i say with a full page of sketches and one (1) fully coloured drawing intending to shade and render it

putting on the clown makeup rn.

[iwillkeepfighting]

Maybe He's Desperate

Ninjago Seabound spoiler fic/drabble below the cut.

((@lloydskywalkers rereading some of your fics is what jogged me to write, and it is Lloyd, so if you happen to log on again i thought maybe you'd like to see ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ ))

Lloyd doesn't know how they didn't see it sooner.

Ever since they lost Nya to the sea, he's seen hints — a glimmer in Zane's eyes at a dry ice supplier, unconscious static crawling through Jay's hair with every storm, Cole's ever-growing distaste for the sky even on dragon-back and the way the jagged cracks in his arms extend a little further every time his power lights them up.

He sees it the most in Kai, he thinks — smoke on his brother's breath and wisps of flame curled in his hands, the way torchlight bends towards him no matter what way a breeze might blow, the shapes that only appear in a campfire when the Master of Fire is near.

He saw it in Nya, a little, before... before. Tides would get stronger with her on the beach, the Bounty (when they were waterbound) would sail more smoothly. He had assumed it was intentional. He'd assumed all of them were intentional, or had always happened, or at least were harmless.

(harmless like his own eyes, that should be red but turned green while he was on his own for so long without other Elemental Masters for backup. his own eyes that went dark once but have been glowing brighter every time he feels the power pulling at him.)

(his friends' eyes glow in moments of great power, in response to great danger. his glow all the time. it's fine it doesn't mean anything it's harmless)

(there's a lot he can chalk up to his weird heritage; maybe he attributes more to that than he should. maybe it's better not to know for sure.)

He thinks maybe he feels another hint in the wind, every gust that bites as deep and cold as death — but that could just be the trauma.

So maybe he doesn't ask Kai to roast marshmallows for him anymore, sits closer than he would normally and lets himself be pulled into hugs-turned-cuddles so that his brother won't feel the need to be closer to the flames to seek warmth. Maybe he keeps Cole in the air as much as he can, or at least aboveground, works harder to find creative solutions that won't require super strength on missions. Maybe he suggests a trip away if storms get too close in the forecast, or drags Jay to play games with him somewhere so insulated that they can't even hear the thunder (maybe he plays up his fear of storms, and if that's him avoiding the wind, nobody mentions it; if it's Jay avoiding the rain, likewise, nobody mentions it). Maybe he helps Zane cook more, and never asks the nindroid to retrieve anything from the freezer, stops asking for ice cream, makes sure they have fire extinguishers everywhere so Ice isn't needed for every training accident now that they don't have Water

Maybe he doesn't go to the beach anymore. Maybe he pretends not to see how Jay and Kai can't keep themselves away from the shore for long, maybe he makes himself scarce before they can ask him to join them, because maybe he doesn't know if he'd be able to say no, because — maybe — he'd lose his mind if the splash of a wave looked too much like his sister the way she looked when she disappeared.

Maybe he spends too much time staring at the mirror, willing his eyes to stop glowing. Or maybe he doesn't look at mirrors at all anymore.

If it were any of his brothers that had been lost, he might have considered seeing how lost he could get in his own powers, because he might be able to find someone lost in a power he has his own connection to. But Water wasn't one of the Elements of Creation; his connection to Nya runs fully as deep as his heart does, and deeper, but not to the level of elemental power. Water wasn't even under the dominion of the First Spinjitzu Master himself, so Lloyd hadn't even inherited some kind of secondhand connection by becoming the Ultimate Master however long ago now.

No, Water was beyond his grandfather's power, in a category all its own with Wind, Uncle Wu had said, and now it had taken its Master away.

Water...

and Wind.

Maybe he has an idea.

[jvzebel-x]

"only other Hawaiians ever make me feel not Hawaiian enough--"

"Hawaiians from the islands are racist--"

"Hawaiians from the mainland have REAL aloha spirit everyone up here is just Hawaiian, no matter how much blood you got--"

okay but you understand that every single portion of what you just said is rooted in colonialism&the attempted murder of our people+culture, right. like you GET why kānaka from the islands have to be so protective of things as they are on the frontlines watching both our culture&our land get chunked for the proft of those who have no right to any of it, right. like you KNOW that hawaiian homelands requires a 50% blood quota to even get on the list&a 25% quota from anyone you leave that land to post mortem, &that the list is STILL decades long because the vast majority of the homeless kānaka back home MEET that requirement, right-- that the homeless demographic in the islands has the largest percentage of us left in one grouping in the world&it isn't surprising the families who maintained a higher blood percentage are also too poor to leave the islands even while dying on the streets, right. like you are CAPABLE of conceptualizing what all of that would do when confronted with someone from the diaspora who "doesn't understand why the aloha spirit is dead in the islands". right. like you can SEE&HEAR how it sounds when you say the nonhawaiian people&legacy of the colonizers that tried to obliterate your ancestors are the only ones who make you feel hawaiian now that they as a group have successfully taken up the primary position on what makes a good hawaiian. right. like you KNOW why there's even a push to properly exemplify kānaka maoli after literally hundreds of years of our people having to save us from cultural obliteration, &that the push to be a "real hawaiian" definitely didn't start with us, the people who you are trying to reconnect to&identify with. right.

like, i get feeling like the expectations are too high-- there isn't any right way to be kānaka, &there are most definitely kānaka who are shitty about that-- but coming back with, "BUT THE HAOLES VALIDATE MY HAWAIIAN-NESS" is just fucking WILD, like i don't know how to explain to you the haoles thinking they have a right to validate fucking anything in relation to us&our struggle&our people is just...

blood doesn't matter, but obviously not in the way you seem to think, lmao.

[artekai]

Spare Kai angst, anyone? 👉👈