For @designtheendless' draw it in your style giveaway! I've found that I enjoy the challenge of drawing a lot of characters together, so even in this, I also decided to be ambitious. I hope you like it! I adore seeing your art on my dash!
The Giveaway. The original piece.
[Content ID: Art of characters from Netflix's The Sandman. From left to right there is Destruction, a black man with red hair pulled back in twists and a beard wearing a beige sweater; Destiny, a nebulous entity in a brown cloak and a black opening where their face would be; Death, a black woman with loose curled hair wearing an ankh necklace and black tank top; Dream, a white man with black hair wearing a black jacket over a black shirt, his right hand is raised holding an UNO card between two fingers as he hands it to the next character; Matthew the Raven is perched on Dream's shoulder accepting the card in his beak; Despair, a white woman with long strawberry blonde hair wearing a thick bronze sweater holding at least three UNO cards towards her face; Desire, a white person with coiffed blond hair wearing an outfit of differing shades of black, red lipstick, gold eye shadow and a gold earring, holding at least one UNO card upside down; Delirium, a brown woman with red hair pulled back with a blue, green and gold scarf, wearing a pink shirt. All characters with visible faces have smiles of various intensity. They sit around a wooden table with more UNO cards in the center in front of a beige-brown wall. /End ID]
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guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.
and I think about it every day.
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Responses to the most frequent comments on my Dungeon Meshi/TAZ crossover doodle
Laios and fair food
2. Taako cooking for real
3. Encounters with plants
(hello, in the manga, the pollen comes out the mouths)
bonus
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Okay, dearest followers, be honest.
Which one of your fictional crushes do you truly believe that you could pull irl? Realistically. Taking all factors into account. Whether you were in their universe or not, up to you. But be HONEST.
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Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.
By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.
And then ... none of that happens.
Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.
Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.
Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.
Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.
Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.
Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.
And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."
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I love you hated female characters. I love you female characters who are flawed. I love you female characters who mess up and try to do the right thing after. I love you female characters who get the undeserved vitriol from fans. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made. I love you female characters who fans completely condemn because of one mistake they made as a child. I love you female characters who people blame for ripping apart their ships instead of the larger forces that be. I love you female characters who get all the hate as the male characters who do worse in canon get absolutely none. I love you female characters who get hated on because they told a man “no.”
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