#mais bon...

[nnobodoodles]

Oh wow, I'm absolutely FLOORED by the response on my Strawhat Screenshot Redraws! Thank you so much, been reading all your lovely tags and smiling SO much!! 💖

Here's Part 2 with requests from Insta plus some. Let me know if there's someone else you'd like to see!

[bon-sides-sw]

Happy StarWars Day everyone!

[ilookattextile]

Quilts at the Royal Ontario Museum

[olvaheiner]

Perfect Days (2023)

Directed by Wim Wenders

[flixiastar]

Remakes of Ashley parks in honor of her 70s birthday, love you girl so much

[praline1968]

Bon 1er mai 🌱 🤍 🌱

Source : Tik Tok @barbe.de.jupiter

[sorrydupuis]

[rollinginthedeep-swan]

LUPITA NYONG'O, Death faerie,

crédit : Swan

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Jour ☕️ 🥐 bon Week-end à tous

Affiches de mai 68 sur les murs de l'école des Langues Orientales🗼Paris 1968

Photo de Gökşin Sipahioğlu

[girafeduvexin]

[wantonlywindswept]

forgotten fox ficbit

With Palpatine's dying breath, he curses Fox to be Forgotten.

(Fox isn't really bothered.)

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There was a personnel transfer authorization sitting in Marshal Commander Thorn's crowded inbox.

He didn't remember requesting a fourth commander. The Guard was in desperate need of one following Thire finding Palpatine's wrinkled ass dead in his office, and the ensuing shitshow about the former Chancellor being a Sith and also controlling the war from both sides. Interim Chancellor Organa was incredibly competent and parsecs better than their previous natborn overlord, but even he was being swamped by the uproar in the Senate and the peace talks with the Separatists and the doubled amount of assassination attempts and the petabytes and petabytes of datawork--

Thorn couldn't remember requesting another commander, but he also couldn't remember the last time he slept.

Commander Vertex stood calm and at the ready on the other side of Thorn's desk, all-black helmet tucked under his arm as he waited patiently for Thorn to remember how to read. His hair was stark white, and there were vine-like scars wrapped around his neck that disappeared down into his blacks. The remnants of Sith lightning, Thorn knew, now that they'd been briefed on what that kind of thing looked like. 

Vertex's file was sparse, mostly redacted, and marked him as coming from the Special Operations Brigade, which Thorn could entirely believe.

"This isn't part of an investigation, is it?" he blurted, brain-to-mouth filter entirely gone after five too many cups of caf and an inadvisable number of stims over the past month. "The Guard was already cleared of suspicion involving the former Chancellor's death--"

Vertex held up a hand. Thorn's mouth snapped shut. 

"It's not," Vertex said, his voice firm, reassuring. There was something about it that made Thorn relax, as if his beleaguered hindbrain knew that the other commander had everything under control.

Spec Ops troops were amazing.

"The GAR is just reallocating resources given the recent upheaval," Vertex continued. Thorn nodded along like that all made sense. "I'm here to help with anything you need."

The word 'help' triggered a sudden burst of manic hope in Thorn's chest, and he lurched forward across his desk, grabbing Vertex's free hand in both of his own. The commander didn't even blink at the sudden movement, calmly meeting Thorn's wide, desperate eyes.

"Can you--" Thorn struggled to keep from sounding like he was begging, which he definitely was. "Can you do datawork?"

Vertex's sigh was entirely exasperated, and the roll of his eyes oddly, familiarly fond.

"Yes, Thorn. I can do your datawork."

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Pt 2

[bon-sides-sw]

May the 4th be with you!!

Love my Blorbos

[mari-bon]

Ok it's been a few months time to post art about my sillies and do my part in keeping my ship propaganda alive and well

[gurokichi]

Does anyone want to volunteer to be kidnapped by me

[praline1968]

[bugstung]

A part of me sees why you wouldn't want your kid (Nathaniel.) to be a comic illustrator because it absolutely sucks lmao. You don't earn enough to make a living, the writer gets all the credit, and you don't even get any royalties most of the time.

Like. Illustrators are very consistently screwed over in the comic industry- I understand that part! A lot of them have been homeless at least one point during their careers and that's not something you want your kid to face, especially when you've worked so hard to provide everything for them. Especially especially when you're a minority (and I've heard that France is still a very bad place to be Jewish!) and you've done all this so they don't have to go through what you and your ancestors did. And a comic illustrator is not a good profession for avoiding those things. Really, I get it. These are legitimate fears.

I just wish the show had done a better job at conveying that???

Nathaniel has never said he wanted to make that his job (yet), so it's mostly just his mom being an ellitist woman who doesn't want her son to draw any type of art she doesn't seem "useful" (+ the clear homophobia metaphor, in this episode the comic part is more the excuse to tackle the homophobia than the opposite)

Let's not forget Nathaniel is 14/15 in the show (with a main public younger than that), they still got time to figure out and the show has other arcs to focus on first before tackling the topic of "your dream job may not make you any money" subject lol (especially since Nathaniel is a side character that hasn't been in the spotlight in. a long time)

Yet I still want this to be a little positive; Avril_circus (the artist who does the illustration of Nathaniel in mlb) has several comics published to her name, and I'm guessing works in freelance (as seen for mlb) for other stuff. I know several french comics/manga artists irl and yeah they struggle if they aren't super popular, they sell at cons or work in freelance, got a side job or live from the government's money. We still have benefits as artists that let us work a few months on different projets and still get money when we aren't so it's not like. Super bleak like you make it seem.

I haven't researched about royalties so I can't speak much about it, but I'm pretty sure the artists get credited, there is a big comic (and manga) culture in France.

Thomas (and the rest of the team) is also very clearly a comic (and art in general) lover, I think he wants to inspire more artists rather than discourage them. Even Marinette or Kagami draw, and most of the side characters are some kinda of artists.

Who knows maybe Nathaniel will get his blue period arc in season 10 or something, but I do think it's too early to establish that kind of concept for kids this young. Let the 15 yo kid draw his comic