Last issue I focused a lot on Lanolin because I thought she was the star of the issue, being a new character and all. This issue I think the star of the issue is.... Thomas Rothlisberger?
Yes!! This is Rothlisberger's first penciling job for a WHOLE mainline issue! He did about four pages in issue 43, a story in the 2022 annual, and the majority of Imposter Syndrome! However I think the thicker lineart and strong cel shading made his artwork look a little stiff. I think the thinner lines more subdued coloring by Matt Herms really brings out more of the character in his style.
And Holy Shit the character!! Rothlisberger draws characters with such fun goofy expressions and there's so much movement in all the character poses! Wow, just makes you want to get up and draw, doesn't it? He also brings a lightheartedness that I think has been missing from the comics a while.
As much as I love ABT's interiors his style does seem to give off an overly serious tone. I think from all the fun banter and character interactions it's obvious this arc is supposed to be more lighthearted and fun that I didn't really pick up on from the previous issue. It makes sense after watching two incredibly traumatized children self sabotage themselves that we would now pivot to something lighter. Chao Races and Badnik bases followed the metal virus saga as a fun palette cleanser, and that's one of my favorite arcs! We also get a more healthy depiction of how to move past and deal with trauma from Whisper, it's nice to have her back!
There's a lot of characters running around this issue but I think Flynn handles it well! The more emotional stuff is only handled between three characters and all the fun bot busting is left up to the bigger team. The last arc felt a bit narrow in scope of characters which made sense for the emotional intensity and themes, but I missed having all my favorite guys on screen! And now team dark's about to show up too?? Guess we'll have to wait till next month!
summary: in which harry needed to learn how to ride a horse for his daylight music video
a/n: thank you to the anon that requested equestrian!reader
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harryupdates HARRY SPOTTED FILMING SOMETHING IN ATLANTA!!!!!!!!
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hArrysbtch NO FUCKING WAY
hArrysbtch WHAT IS HAPPENING
harrysmoustache STOP whatever you're doing, just STOP
harrysmylife King is back
harryshoee this is for daylight, i'm telling you!
⤷ stylesbabie didn't he film sth with james?
⤷ harryshoee i think it was only for the show and not the original music video. at least I hope so!!!
harrybestie phoebe is that you?
harryno1fan he has a strange mind...
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yourinstagram Olympics are no more for us, so Don Juan joined a circus!
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hArrysbtch ill recognise that bitch anywhere!!!!
harryshoee ariana what are you doing here?????
harryupdates 👀
user49 hello, why are "Olympics no more"?
⤷ yourinstagram hiii! jumping has been removed from Olympics because of an incident that happened during one of the competitions.
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harrysupdates HARRY FOLLOWED YN YSN ON IG AND TWITTER! he liked all of her photos and commented on the last 10!
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harryupdates YN YSN is equestrian that won silver medal at the 2020 Olympics! she also is rumoured to be involved in harry's daylight music video!!
hArrysbtch nah, that bitch is gone!
harrysmoustache he's taken?!
harrysmylife maaaaan, he in love
stylesbabie oh she so posted a picture of harry on her ig then
harryshoee we're the same. I've done the same to her profile. I love her too
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harrylisbon WTHAJDKOW GUYS!!!! HARRY JUST PLAYED THIS DURING DAYLIGHT!!!!!
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harryupdates what is going on?????
hArrysbtch what if he drops ot during the final show????
harryshoee im losing my shit rn
stylesbabie im seeing him in Rome, he better played it in the background!!!!
harrysmoustache screaming crying throwing up
harrysfan82 I died dead
harrysfan03 i lost the idgaf war....
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harryupdates DAYLIGHT MV 19th JULY 5PM UK
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harryupdates guess what? im not sleeping again tonight!
hArrysbtch excuse me, i have heart problems
harrysmoustache yellow bird supremacy!!!!!
yourinstagram 🏇🏻🏇🏻🏇🏻
⤷ hArrysbtch what you mean???????
⤷ harrysmylife yn, tell me you're involved!
⤷ yourinstagram 🤫
harrysmylife he's in his taylor era
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harrystyles DAYLIGHT MV just for you, H xx yourinstagram
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yourinstagram Don Juan looks magnificent!
⤷ harrystyles what about me?
⤷ yourinstagram we still need to work on your posture
⤷ harrystyles yes, ma'am
⤷ hArrysbtch WTF, he knows how to comment?????
harryupdates that's your best video to date
harrysmylife he can ride??? what can't he do??
annetwist Proud ❤️
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harryupdates "She was the first choice from the moment the idea popped in my head. I couldn't be happier about it. She's the best." HARRY ON WORKING WITH YN IN DAYLIGHT MUSIC VIDEO BTS
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hArrysbtch he in love
harrysmoustache HE BLUSHED SO HARD!!!!!
harryshoee the clips of the laughing together??????
harrysmylife and and and the way he looks at her
harrysfan94 but the clip when yn's doing all the jumping and all??? she's sooo good. couldn't harry just have her starring in the mv?
⤷ yourinstagram yeah, harrystyles?
⤷ harrystyles there is this version...
⤷ hArrysbtch WHAT
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yourinstagram THE Don Juan and some indie singer on their first lesson
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harrystyles the star 🐎
harryupdates the shade???
stylesbabie uhhh, they so together
harryshoee do you give lessons to ordinary people?
⤷ yourinstagram during the summer when there's no competition I'm holding a camp. you can enrol with the link in my bio!
⤷ user92 be careful, it's expensive as hell!
⤷ yourinstagram well, we do not take any money from our pupils. we ask for food or money (however much you want) donation! hope that helps, x
harrysmoustache oh, I'm so in love with them
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harryupdates YN AND HARRY SPOTTED HORSE RIDING OUTSIDE OF LONDON!
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hArrysbtch oh so we know what he's going to do during the break
harrysmylife 😭that's😭so😭sweet😭
stylesbabie he looks so cute in his little outfit
harryshoee SAVE A HORSE RIDE A COWBOY
harrysmyman unholy thought, unholy
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yourinstagram ❤️❤️❤️
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harrystyles congratulations, darling.
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harryupdates the support
hArrysbtch we haven't heard from him in months
⤷ harrysmoustache and we've got a prize today for waiting patiently
stylesbabie everyone say: THANK YOU, YN
harrysmylife and everything started because this man has a mind strange enough to start a circus...
quick TL for Swummer Module bc it was great (and a bit of Chummer's module)
Happy 5 year anniversary of the chenswire (chapter 5) banner
[Pinned] Regular Chat Group (4)
16:26
Guma: I'm hungry, what's for dinner?
Swire: Let's have something nice. Grand Lungmen Resturant, 8PM! You need to try that new puhn choi on their menu. It's their usual recipe, but they use ingredients sourced from that new MCT trade route. They have stuff from Rim Billiton to Sargon. Super fresh. The set also comes with a bottle wine from Sami!
Swire: Bison and I worked our asses off to establish this supply chain so you guys better try it! @ Rat
Rat: You're counting me in?
17:09
Guma: So hungry. can we go now?
Swire: There's no seats available rn, just snack on something first!
18:32
Guma: hungry...
19:20
Guma: so hungryyyyyyy...
19:58
Rat: Something urgent came up, you guys go on without me
20:08
Swire: Huh?
Swire: Wb hoshiguma?
20:23
Swire: It's been so long since we had a meal together so we better get one today! Lmk what you want to eat asap after work!
20:41
Swire: so what are we having tonight?
21:19
Swire: what are we having tonightttt???????
Swire: LIN YUXIA I SAW YOUR READ NOTIF!! answer!
Rat: I just finished work. Didn't you just release your Director Swire Lungmen Food Guide with the nonstop noisy af TV ads. why are you asking me to decide
Guma: Done with my emergency mission. I'm fine w anything as long as there's meat. So hungry I could eat an entire burdenbeast head
Rat: What about the snack street? 'the shopping district is right next door, a convergence of unique goods from all over Terra. Only in Lungmen can you shop the whole land!' Writing's not bad
Swire: Duh its my work so ofc the copywriting has to be good too
Guma: nah sounds like there won't be a lot of meat
Swire: Remember the volcanic mud cleanser I got for you @ Rat and the surfboard @ Guma you can buy them there too
Swire: Bison and i adjusted the prices until they're just slightly pricier than what you'd pay in siesta. Does that work?
Guma: Don't feel like eating surfboard
Rat: Then international trade park? The guide's no.2
Swire: Sure we're drawing some investors over there atm so there's plenty of foreign food there they're p good
Guma: I want meat also ill take more than 30min to get there from here ill die from hunger
Swire: Pity. It's pretty popular with the youths yk, recommended date spot
Rat: Agh!
Rat: Final option. The cai zhe min stall behind the LGD office. That or you guys can starve
Guma: no objections
Swire: no objections
21:30
Swire: wait LYX why do you have my guide i thought you didn't like that sort of noise
Rat: Just happened to pick it up, problem?
21:33
Rat: Why is the czm stall not in your guide?
Swire: I wanted to but the boss wouldn't let me sth about its too bougie for him hes just a regular noodle stall
Swire: True tho. Certified Lungmen™️ moment
21:38
Guma: I already ordered come ASAP
23:35
Guma: Why hasn't chen read any of our messages?
Swire: Bc she has to connect to an intercity net first. Who knows she might just be on the top of a haystack in some valley waving her terminal around for signal right now
--new messages--
PGL: ......
PGL: you mean a pile of rubble
PGL: I'm back in lungmen, i want to eat czm too
thoughts/notes:
As I mentioned in the other ask Swire set nicknames for the other 3
Hoshi: 🐻🐻
Chen: Puk Gaai Lung
Lin: Stinky Rat (wanted to use CLS (cau lau syu) but i kept misreading it as cho shan land so lmaoo
Hoshi 'i don't feel like having surfboard for dinner' guma
Lin really likes her cart noodles huh (nodding)
Hoshi and Lin both finished their urgent work at the same time 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
this is so good for character study idk like the way lin is like indirectly 'me too?' and never commits but doesn't exactly ghost 24/7 either also her being like -_-💢this or you starve idc
HOSHIGUMA.....hungryguma so cute she dgaf
Swire. 'the youths love coming here for dates' spoken like a real 25+yo
AND CHEN... when youre that one guy in the gc whos overseas or in a diff timezone .......i doubt the timeline doesn't add up so nicely but i had a funny mental image of the 3 eating their noodles and then suddenly chen in her victorian outfit shows up behind them all covered in blood and dust from ch14
Right uh Chummer module:
shes in dossoles, some boy is asking her for help because his dad pulled his mom into some smuggling trade (and he used to be part of it too) chen is like dw i'll punish him and his gang if they deserve it and the boy asked if prison will reform his dad (chen: ...why do you ask) saying his dad used to be Normal but then became money hungry after they came to dossoles and promised him he would take them on a cruise to spot rainbows or something?? chen is like theres water everywhere here shouldnt you have seen enough rainbows. hes like it doesnt count it has to be on a ship and all... she thinks its valid as she remembers how much she wanted wei's approval back then and asks if he still thinks the same and hes like yeah but i cant do it alone... chen is silent for a moment and then helps the boy out, leaving a note before they split ways 'then you'll have to figure out a way to make him hear you out, to tell him you want him to be a better person. at least, he needs to understand your point of view' then it switches to 3rd person narrative lol it rained that day, and chen(女侠 ..!!) subdues a criminal gang, rescuing a woman. the surprising part is that the leader wanted to fight to the end before a child suddenly appeared before him. at some point the rain stops and a rainbow appears, making the gangleader hesitant and eventually drops his weapon after (his son) says something to him. witnesses remark on how chen did not seem happy by this outcome, only pensively staring towards the east
honestly my first reaction was 'omg chen nuxia interrobang' and then 'wuh..??' bc it was so vague compared to what was essentially chatfic or w/e the term is lmao not much on the brain atm except:
hen module: looks toward lungmen
swire module: im back
He started by reading fans' comments and after the 1 hour mark it's more him just going off on what he thinks the job of a screenwriter is in relation to a yearly kid-oriented toku. All around interesting stuff. Lore-wise, answered Sayonara Moffun, Glodi's origin and how he decide to contrast Morf and Suzume. The character creating order part he mentioned before in the Ch2 start roundtable with KMH and Giramie.
05:58 record-breaking number of fans coming in as extras, high-five on the finale set at Kamihori's order
07:58 Q: Jeramie's facial expression change at ep46
09:10 Q: ep3 Hime signature line
10:48 Q: drawn in because of Gira's scene ep1, no him no kingoh
11:32 Q: love Goroge's silence wheng Bugnarok forms their nation ep26
12:15* Q: love that characters of every age, gender and race has a moment to shine
14:42 Q: thought Himeno was selfish but saw her defend kogane, like her from there ep1
15:30 Q: review from ep1, all of Racules's expressions and lines now have different meaning
A: Yeah, right! I was the only one that get to say "Amazing! Yano-san!" for a long time…
15:56* any clues you prepped but can't use?
17:26 op song is difficult for kids to sing along
18:53 hime gira scene ep46
22:40* TKM not involved in g-ro so he enjoy "ko not written by me"
24:54* sayonara moffun
26:52* difficult vocab/"Living is hell" line - only possible because it's movie not for tv, not sth you drink down with dinner
I know Ken Penders is pretty much a hack but are there any stories by him that you like?
A decent chunk actually:
Knuckles Miniseries 1-3
Knuckles' series up until issue 22 + STH 58
Endgame (STH 47-50 + SSS 6)
Tales of the Great War (STH 71 - 74 and STH 76 - 79)
Reunification (STH 106 - 109)
Ultimate Power (STH 114 - 118)
The Quest (Sonic In Your Face)
Bunnie Rabbot: Upgrade (SSS 11)
1. What have you learned about people in the recent years of your life?
codependency is their happy place
2. What got you started in your current job and how does it compare to your first job?
just kicking dirt tryna figure out something i’d milk some enjoyment out of doing, which came to be sth i’d once sworn i’d never do el oh el. first job was boring corporate cog in the machine brain-killing bullshit, godspeed to those days being over
10. What does your everyday, average day look like?
talking to ppl, maybe 6-7 of them, usu 1-on-1, + anyone else who meanders into my orbit. good for me, an extroverted freak
27. Who was the last person who gave you something and what was it?
perspective. also a few clients have given me holiday gifts
30. When you go for a meal with friends, who pays? How do you split the bill?
we take turns or each person tends to their own, depends on the occasion. i hate stinginess sorry like i’m physically allergic to it gtfo
47. Where did you go last week?
should i just turn on my location. admit that’s what you want. i can’t remember, a party
52. How would your friends and/or family describe you? How different are you really to what they’d describe you with?
i’ve gotten aggressive, stubborn, curious, non-judgmental, and other variously interesting positive or negative things, also loyal, which is the most important. i like being social and want everyone to be comfortable, but if i catch you being dishonest, i’ll flame you even in group settings for free
and yes so if that’s their perception, it’s gotta be correct
58. How important is writing to you?
as important as any other hobby. if i couldn’t do it, whatever. but if i could do none of them, that’d be a problem. proper tools for self-expression are vital for me long-term tho