#was designed to be Elderly

[synthaphone]

ok i like the old man cranky villager personality, but i really wish they hadn’t replaced the tough guy cranky villager personality with it because i liked those even more. they should have just introduced ‘old man’ and ‘old lady’ instead of just sorta turning cranky and snooty into those

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

People have been asking for a Chang timeline post! Chang not only represents a turning point in the politics of the Tintin series, he also represents a sense of chronology in the otherwise floating timeline of the canon. While Tintin almost never discusses his past, Chang is a key part of his personal story in Tintin in Tibet.

I imagine him and Tintin being around the same age, with Chang being a few months younger.

Child - Chang had a happy early childhood being raised by his father and grandparents. He never mentions his mother when recounting his backstory to Tintin, so my main guesses are she either passed away or his parents separated before Chang was old enough to remember her. His father and grandparents taught him how to cook from an early age, and taught him the importance of solidarity and community, lessons Chang will hold onto the rest of his life.

Early canon - Chang is orphaned. This sudden loss causes him to act out. He turns to picking pockets and causing general mischief until an orphanage takes him in. Chang learns a lot of skills just to survive - he’s stealthy, he’s street smart and pretty decent at climbing. His experiences as a street kid taught him to be wary of authority.

The orphanage provides a brief period of stability until it is swept away in a flood. Until this point, Chang has felt pretty powerless in his life so just goes with the flow, so when Tintin drags him out of a river he doesn’t think twice about going along with him to break up a drug ring in The Blue Lotus. Going on this adventure with Tintin imbues him with a sense of empowerment and purpose he never felt before.

Student - The Wangs adopt him pretty quickly after he busts the drug ring with Tintin. It’s a sudden change he struggles to adapt to, with the Wangs being wealthy academics and Chang coming from a working class background there’s a significant culture clash.

Tintin leaves just as quickly and rarely contacts Chang, even as his journalism career takes off, leaving Chang lonely and heartbroken. Chang tries to send him letters but doesn’t know that Tintin moved out of Labrador Road.

Having missed out on education for a bit Chang struggles with school. He feels unworthy of the opportunities the Wangs try to provide him with and a part of him feels they only adopted him because they were dazzled by him taking down that drug ring, an achievement he increasingly feels he will never live up to again. He struggles with mental health issues, but finds solace in photography, his portfolio getting him a place at university despite his bad grades.

Young adult - In an attempt to try and help Chang’s mental wellbeing the Wangs decide to send Chang off to visit his uncles before he starts university, only for Chang to nearly perish in a plane crash in Tibet. Ironically, it’s this near death experience that shakes him out of it. Chang has a renewed enthusiasm for life, taking to travelling, dance and photography. Didi trains him in some basic martial arts so Chang can fend for himself.

Tintin makes an effort to stay in touch after having nearly lost Chang. The two repair their friendship, and Tintin has him stay at Marlinspike when Chang studies in Belgium for his second year of university. By the time Chang comes around, he’s had a growth spurt and has been working out - Chang is pretty haunted by his skeletal state from his near death experience in Tibet, so has been making an effort to recover.

After helping Tintin with a case, Tintin gets him a job at his paper as his photographer. Being Chinese he faces challenges in the workplace, and he uses his charm to be as personable as possible. Unlike Tintin, he frequents quite a few staff parties, and ends up pretty popular!

A couple of years later, Chang tries to unionise the staff at the paper. He and Tintin are outed as a couple and the two of them are fired.

Middle aged - After fighting fascists with the Marlinspike team during WW2 Chang and Tintin settle down in Belgium, with Chang scraping out some freelance photography work and a part time job at a portraiture studio. War in China causes them to lose contact with his adopted family. 

While Tintin grows more cynical, Chang accepts the chaos of the world and mellows out a lot. He tries to be a supportive partner and makes extra effort to stay in touch with his uncles and cousins.

Elderly - Chang uses his skills in photojournalism when he gets involved in political activism. He and Tintin are finally able to reunite with Didi and his children in the 70s.

[jellojolteon]

Now that you've made it to the autumn of

Your years and you feel your best yet

-The Bottom of It, Fruit Bats

Izuocha week 2024 Day 6: Cycle/Miracle

[turtleblogatlast]

Do you think the granny disguises Donnie and Leo wear (at Donnie’s insistence) are more of a Them thing or do Mikey and Raph also have their own granny disguises on hand?

If it’s the former then I have to say those two are killing it, I especially love Donnie’s scarf and old fashioned binoculars, and Leo’s eye makeup and pearls.

If it’s the latter though, then we were robbed Mikey and Raph granny designs. 😔

[kataracy]

Kataang Week DAY 3 // Confessions & Whispers

Wanna get out of here?

[goshyesvintageads]

Western Clock Co, 1929

[badolmen]

Actually it really fucking frustrates me as a disabled person how ‘controversial’ video game accessibility is, how contrived it is to find actually useful accessibility mods for even popular games, how abled gamers try to distance themselves from us because we’re the ones without social lives, who don’t leave the house, who can’t work.

[curi0uscreature]

* FOUND THE PN MIRAHEZE AND CLEAR BOB CONCEPT ART AND IM. EMOTIONS /VPOS

[superbeeny]

The animators for Del Toro’s Pinocchio: so is Pinocchio going to have mostly human-like hands or conspicuously jointed puppet hands?

Del Toro: yes

[acmeoop]

ACME Retirement Home (2013)

[happyfunf3tti]

[justcypreus]

Me: One of the little details I love about Saki’s design is the lip gloss. The other girls don't have that sheen and tint on their lips because the make up is an attempt to look more mature so people can take her seriously and not treat her like a child. Saki looks older than she is because she wants to look older than she is.

My brain: What about the professor?

Me: Stress got to him

[dawns-beauty]

man, now I'm not satisfied with Calcelmo's design at all. I don't want to radically change his face structure too much to make him look wildly different from his nephew, but I'm not feeling his hairstyle or beard.

Plus he needs a weirder eyepiece, maybe i can add a second lense to the monocle. I tried the Dwemer Scouter and it just looked too Mad Max for him. Wish there was a way to make his eye piece magnify his eye, that would help give him stronger weird old man vibes I want.

Definitely giving him better robes/mechanical arm, borrowing assets from the ESO Sotha Sil armor that just came out because that arm is COOL.

[mofffun]

Jeramie's hair turning grey in the span of 5 episodes after joining the cast

[mushtoons]

woke up this morning for work and saw we had a thing tied to our door outside with a ribbon and a rainbow flower bracelet only to find out its more of our neighbors welcoming us into the neighborhood and wishing us a happy pride we love it here we never wanna leave

we wanna do something nice for all of our neighbors but have no idea as to what djdkdkdj we're thinking about cookies but thats kinda awkward and if we leave them outside in treat bags they'll probably melt ahhh we dont know

[soldier-poet-king]

I was told a font wasn't "feminine enough" this morning, so the next person to lecture me on gender roles or say I'm too aggressive or easily upset about these things is getting decked