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[cabinette]

doodles while relistening to s4-5

[mooingwithmidnight]

It’s so great that I don’t have to waste any mental energy being stressed by the ever-present “because you watched Xena, you’ll like Hercules” Amazon prime suggestions that constantly force me to remember Kevin Sorbo exists in the same universe as me, because the most divine form of retribution is the fact that he has to wake up every single day for the rest of his life and remember that it was (in no small part) HIS show that kickstarted every sapphic couple in TV or movies we’ve had for the past 30 years and that- is lovely <3

[mail-me-a-snail]

heard you needed your guy, so i'm returning the favour. hope you're doing well mate <3 ((ALSO WHY CANT I SWITCH MY ASKS TO MY ART ACCOUNT GRRR)) (shitass tumblr moment)

WAHHHHH?!!??!! MY FRIEND U R TOO SWEET....AAUUUUUUEEEE THANK UUU

[conceptofjoy]

dirk’s a fake intellectual you would habe to drag him crying and screaming to a lecture of any kind. ON the other hand, he will be there on that stage preaching.

[sushiisiu]

Lovely art! Huge fan of your works ❤️ Are there perhaps any artists who influenced your art style?

masashi kishimoto, hirohiko araki and jamie hewlett off the top of my head

i think the naruto influence is the most obvious. i'm really obsessed with the artstyle kishi had in shippuden with the clean and simple linework that still manages to convey semi realism. personally i've always been partial to seeing apple seed nostrils and pinprick pupils in styles so yeah also i looove spikey hair strands.

also a big fan of how he draws anatomy as it is even in fanservice-y gags like the sexy jutsu - again, simple and direct that still conveys realistic proportions even with the stylized character traits. super charming to me.

and then jojo. i sincerely think a jojo phase is like steroids to artists because araki's style really inspires you to study anatomy, fashion and colors like nothing else. at my peak brainrot i was studying renaissance art history while binging milan fashion shows and i literally have no interest in either other than wanting to get better at drawing giorno.

ik jojo posing is a whole meme but honestly it's a great example of what clean and strong pose silhouettes can do for your artwork.

jamie hewlett is kind of a similiar deal with kishimoto for me in terms of really kiki lineart with realistic proportions except his characters are significantly more stylized and just so interesting to look at.

another thing i love about jamie's characters is how diverse their wardrobe is - they never really wear the same outfit more than a few times but you can still get a sense of their personalities through their clothing choices and continuity in terms of style which is something so so important to me. just seeing a character have different outfits for different situations or choosing to wear their hair differently sometimes can help make them feel so much more real even without any actual changes to the writing.

also i think i just like details in outfit designs in general just because honestly? i think everyone accessorizes even just a little. most people wouldn't wear plain clothing. most brands wouldn't even make plain clothing without their logo somewhere. and the graphic/text/colors on the shirt can be indicative of so much in terms of their preferences and personality. also accessories just look cool and interesting. see: these naruto chapter covers

kinda got off topic but yeah these are the styles that appeal to and inspire me :3

[syn4k]

i need everyone to know that 60% of our notes app documents are random poems, 30% is fanfiction, and the last 10% of it is essay-esque bullshit like this

[fujofailure]

mind you im just saying words btw its so easy it comes so naturally to me i was born to be a royal adviser spreading misinformation outta my ass no one to check me :3

[souptomatobasil]

[jelliegirl]

i feel chatty if anyone wants to send asks :3

[ridgystasis]

Now that the official trailer is out and we’ve gotten the final bit of promotional material, I wanted to write out some thoughts and concerns regarding the Devil May Cry Netflix show. Namely, one main concern that kept coming up the more we saw. A lot is happening. In this show. Like all the time. Enemies pulled from all the games, references sprinkled everywhere. 3-Dante has a hat, like that one time! It’s overwhelming, a bit. The biggest red flag was the recent trailer, which presented a plot spread across so many locations and moments that I struggled to piece it together. 

If you look at the DMC games and most of the franchise’s external media, what you realize is that almost every DMC plot is incredibly basic. V puts it into words in DMCV—“A powerful demon is about to resurrect, and we need your help Dante.” Substitute in some variety of “unite the human and demon worlds” and there you go. This is further reinforced by the fact that DMC’s antagonists* are incredibly basic. All of them are some variation of “true evil”—they all just want power to have it, and that’s that. It is important to say, though, that this simplicity isn’t a flaw. Rather, it’s actually a really important component in the presentation of DMC’s story. These uncomplicated plots provide the necessary foundation for the heart of DMC’s complexity—its characters.

I think anyone that’s engaged with the franchise would agree that DMC is not really about demon resurrection, but rather the relationships with those you love, especially those you consider your family. And these relationships are presented in interesting ways, with difficult dynamics being exacerbated by characters struggling with their own traumas and maladaptive coping strategies. This is where the asterisk comes in—it’s not a coincidence that the DMC antagonist with the most intricate characterization is also the one who is most involved in this overarching story and arguably acts as its central antagonist. DMC allows itself to be simultaneously over-the-top yet subtle. It doesn’t have the need to spell out everything due to a trust in its players to read between the lines.

I don’t think that the DMC Netflix Show doesn’t trust its watchers. Quite the opposite, actually. Its seeming complexity, the constant referencing without any real intent, even the showrunners’ relentless fan engagement communicates that it doesn’t trust itself. It doesn’t believe that it can “capture the magic”, and so it constantly wants to get ahead of its viewer and give them what it believes they want to earn their approval. But like! DMC shouldn’t ever be like this! Just like its larger-than-life characters, DMC is always confident in itself. Sure, not everyone will like it and some might find it cringe, but the franchise never compromises for these people. It will always be unabashedly, ridiculously itself, and the story invites anyone who wants to come along for the ride. 

Some extra thoughts in this paragraph, but it has spoilers for a scene in the show as well as the DMC3 manga so skip if not interested. Basically, that last shot with Vergil seems to be part of a scene previously shown off last October. In that scene, Vergil shows up (as seen in the trailer). Dante is shocked, shouting that Vergil is supposed to be dead, and we flashback to the night that Eva died and the twins lost their home. After the flashback, it's shown that it wasn’t Vergil, but actually a shapeshifter. Pretty simple. The scene tells you Dante’s feelings, gives you the reasoning behind them, and then continues onward. Compare this to how the DMC3 manga handles this “reunion” (this scene is also the moment that Dante is talking about when he tells Vergil in DMC3 that it’s been a year since they last met, for those who haven’t read the manga). 

Like they immediately start snarking at each other! Pretty similar to their first scene together in DMC3. Their dynamic is funny in this way, since they’re both super larger-than-life there’s never any sort of normal communication that you would expect, it just immediately jumps to shooting the shit. The manga also had a previous scene before this reunion where Dante believes he sees Vergil and he just stands there, stunned.

Whereas the scenes in the manga simultaneously communicate information to you and show off the characters’ dynamic through subtle ways, the show just tells you what you need to know straightforwardly and moves along. The show isn’t out yet though, so I’ll save my judgment for when the full context is shown but yeah. Feels different, I guess. Maybe that's not a bad thing? Guess we'll have to see.

[matcharabbit]

for the ask game:

11. Do you have a favourite soundtrack/music from the animated series?

OHH! Good question! :3

I would have to say the newest soundtrack (Sm 6) perfectly fits the mood whenever said music plays. I found myself listening to the soundtrack WEEKS after it came out, I just love it to bits!!!

Also look at them….

(Close seconds would be Attic Atrocity, Smiley Fella, and Compliments to the Chef, as well as Friendly Nightmares)

[eruditic-akechi]

hhi eruditic!! I hope you’ve had a great day so far!!💜

out of curiosity inspired by the new hexenzirkel leaks;; how do you think each of the remaining four ladies cope (or, are still coping if you believe it to be the case) with losing (majority of) the other members? :’3

hiiiiiiii monards

once again, I am begging for more crumbs about hexenzirkel. BUt assuming that they died closer to 500 years ago than current day,,, it was a Rough time. Also, I'm gonna assume that Andersdotter died first, mostly because she sounded older than Ivanovna in The Video but I am straight up pulling shit out my ass here...

Rhine took it... horribly, to say the least, but at the same time, it's the healthiest she's dealt with anything. It was her first time watching someone live their entire life, and since the remaining ladies have watched plenty of people naturally age and die, they've gotten better at dealing. But they were all so worried about Rhine because she was already in a bad place (even if she acted unaffected by the cataclysm), she was watching one of her best friends die in real time, AND this was going to be her first, harsh reminder that she won't experience things as a completely normal human anymore. When Andersdotter did pass, Rhine initially went to her normal coping mechanisms, which is to say nothing. She disappeared, completely throwing herself into research and probably messing with abyss/forbidden knowledge stuff again after laying low for a while because the crazed whispers, hallucinations, delusions, and obsessions hurt less than having to sit in silence with her own grieving mind.

Thankfully, before she was too far gone again, Alice snapped some sense into that poor woman. Alice seems to be the type to use manipulative tactics and low blows, not to get her way but just to get people (especially Rhine, seeing how stubborn she can be) to Do things better. She straight up pulled out the tried and true "is this what Andersdotter would've wanted? Do you really think she would be okay with you suppressing things this hard?" With everything that's piled up and the idea of Andersdotter being upset with her, but she wouldn't actually be upset because she's dead... Rhine just breaks. She's in hysterics. She's inconsolable. She feels like she will never be able to stop crying because this is the first loss she has felt and has let herself feel. Alice almost feels bad after seeing how hard Rhine breaks, but she knows it's for the best, so she holds Rhine even as she cries herself into a flare-up. Once Rhinedottir actually gets started with the waterworks, it takes at least 3-5 business days for her to calm down again because of everything she's hidden away trying to come flooding out. But once she did calm down, she felt okay. She had come to terms with the fact that her friend was gone, that it was okay that she felt her grief, and that crying actually made things easier to deal with. If only she'd do that with everything else... She didn't even feel that guilty that she was okay with everything instead of forcing herself to hold onto the pain. Andersdotter would have been so proud of how she handled it :').

In general, the others are much better at dealing with things because they are pros, and because they are much less emotionally constipated than Rhine. I'd go as far as to say that they processed Andersdotter's death faster/better than usual, because they basically experienced anticipatory grief in response to figuring out what to do with Rhine once the day came. However, I'd say it hit Alice slightly harder, because of the whole teaching her the meaning of grief thing... it became a little too real for her. But at least she had Rhinedottir. Helping her took Alice's mind off of things, and she allowed herself to cry alongside Rhine.

Barbeloth handled it like an old lady. She tried to appear strong for all the others and knew that death was a natural part of life, but when she was alone, she cried. She knows that there are things she cannot change, and not allowing yourself to grieve will make you hold onto things forever. Also, she obviously knew LONG before anyone else because... y'know... astrology, so she had time to say goodbye while Andersdotter was still alive. She feels grief as a long-lasting dull ache that never quite goes away, even if she can go about her life, rather than the sharp, all-encompassing pain that someone like Rhine feels.

Honestly I have no idea how Nicole would cope, other than it would be much better than Rhine. She seems like the type to sit at the grave and just update Andersdotter on everything while having a few drinks. Of course, before she'd go home, she'd pour the rest as an offering. IDK why but that is just a very loud thing in my head,,, I didn't even think it, it just entered my mind. Going with the Seelie theory, she's probably the most acquainted with loss and even having to deal with constant reminders of that loss, so she tries to celebrate the time they had on Teyvat rather than overly mourn their departure. That's not to say that she doesn't feel any grief... she definitely does! She 100% cried at the funeral, but she doesn't want their memory to be permanently clouded with unpleasant feelings.

Ivanovna's passing went much smoother than Andersdotter's, mostly because Rhine wasn't as distraught. She was more prepared and now had experience with outliving humans... and she wasn't as close with her :/. Yes, they were friends, but it wasn't as intense of a bond as her friendship with Andersdotter. TBH, her bestie dying first was probably the best outcome because it both let her deal with Ivanovna dying better AND because if she was the first to go and Rhine expected the grieving process to feel like it did that time around, she would've been even more out of her depth when Andersdotter died. Honestly, she might not've been able to come back from that loss if it were any more severe, so...

Ivanovna's death probably hit Barbeloth the hardest because she was the last normal person to be in the group and now she's left with Nicole, Alice, and Rhine :'/

When they all went to the actual public funerals, they were all normal about it and were respectful and quiet, but I feel like afterward, they had their own parting ceremony. IDK what they'd do,,, but they would definitely say goodbye in the most Hexenzirkel way possible. It became the weirdest, but most cathartic clash of their cultures because they're all different breeds of Old. Thank Barbatos that they have their own floating island because anyone who stumbled across this event would probably start the Mondstadt Witch Trials.

[phinjeet]

genuine question: but why do you have certain typing mannerisms? like I'm putting them down or saying "oooh weird = bad" just curious?

like why you put * at the beginning of a paragraph or use z instead of s

it's very interesting and i'm just curious why

* hmm ! well ! the asteriskz at the start of paragraphz are cuz of a past undertale hyperfixation lol (i enjoy feeling like every message i send iz a line of dialogue in a videogame hehe) , n the z just feelz natural ig ?? where u write an s but it Soundz like it should be a z . im just like hmmm . ykw . it WILL be a z (mayhapz this iz a non-native english speaker thing , we uze z a lot in latvian n itz a lot more phonetically consistent)

* therez also the shortening of wordz like love to lov , and spacez between text n punctuation which i just one day thought would look cool , so i started doing it n now itz uncomfortable Not to do it

* writing “normal” just feelz too .. serious ? formal ? not quite genuine ? and it feelz like im communicating som of my weirdness through the way i type , and it can kinda work az a test of like . will u accept that som ppl type (talk , behave) “Weird” ? will u think less of an autistic person for how it expressez itself or can u respect me and my opinionz even if u dont understand me ?

* but also i just like to hav fun , and this iz how i hav fun through typin stuff ! i mean itz not much different from ppl who type in all lowercase (which iz . lookz away . also smth i got from (sanz) undertale) , i just kept adding onto it lol ! it scratchez my brain , makez me happy . im kicking “if u do this ppl will think ur weird , no one will be ur friend” in the face cuz no i WILL be outwardly weird ! scare away the shallow ppl who cant look past simple differencez n attract the fellow neurodivergent weirdoz who are happy to talk to me typing quirkz and all !

* idk if this stuff makez a good enough answer , ultimately i just do it cuz it makez me happy ! like i put a bit of myself into my text !

[conceptofjoy]

hussie pretentiousness rlly leaked into dirk's dialogue w jane about irony i wont fuckin lie. what 16 yr old doesnt know about irony, they teach u that shit in middle school english class

[banoranwhite]

Personal thoughts, been thinking about spirituality and religion, etc.

As a child growing up, religion was one of the main ways I was able to connect with my culture as someone with immigrant parents. But even as a child I felt quite ostracized by the parish. And now as a queer, transgender adult, it's hard to accept the Orthodox Christian church as a safe place. I don't hate my parents for being religious and I do try to observe holidays together, it's just not how I find peace with the world. It's terrifying to want to live forever in a vast afterlife. It's also terrifying to know that one day everything will end for me. I'm starting to come to terms with Inevitable Death but it doesn't make it less of a terrible concept. The one thing that keeps me alive is paleontology and the study of all life on earth. Creator or no, isn't it just as powerful and good to be kind with a lack of a Greater Power?? There's no one to impress or get good boy points/punishment with after death, it is good to be a loving person knowing that you will never gain or be punished personally from it. It is beautiful to be the wild, loving human animal. The things that swam, crawled and lived and died would want me to swim and run and crawl and jump and love and live and die like them. And I want that for the future as well. I am kind to others because I am kind, not because of a looming threat of eternal damnation.

[insignificantstrawberry]

it’s so great to be aware of how crazy you are. yippeeeee this behaviour is not normal give me four to sixteen weeks to figure out why then I can go “fuck!” to myself at six in the morning