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I finally just watched K-Pop Demon Hunters after putting it off for so long, and bitches were right, this shit is like crack

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The title page for the official first chapter of the rewrite is hands down the best thing I've ever drawn and it's not even close.

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Elizabeth with white/silver eyelashes is my new truth

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How to spot signs and symptoms of Breast Cancer 

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Seven Deadly Sins: Original Sin

Prologue

Well hello there; if it isn't me, your local insane person.

At long last, the prologue for the rewrite comic is finally here! Only took me... like... over a year. But with luck, the next update will not take that long.

As you can see, we went through many trials and tribulations while making this! Like the shading and style kind of changing between pages. This is the physical evidence of me trying to figure out what worked and what didn't, and trying a couple different things to establish what I'm doing. This may, and will, continue to happen, but don't worry about that! It's all gonna be fine.

While there was some tracing over anime screenshots for various pages (you can probably guess which ones), I would like it to forever be known that those cobblestone roads were done by hand. And are at least 80% of the reason I've gone insane. And also some of the little details because we're all about foreshadowing and callbacks in this house.

Anyway! Let me know what you think! I hope I managed to convey the appropriate level of suffering, and now I'm gonna go nap! (lies, I will be lurking to see how people react)

Enjoy!

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are ya ready, kids?

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I'm so glad I decided to not post the chapters page by page as I finish them, because the inconsistency between the Zaratras panels that I JUST noticed in the prologue had me tweaking like never before

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So. Who's hungry?

Just another set of sketches, really; this time focusing on Meliodas' horns! I'm still trying to figure out exactly what they're going to look like, and I am constantly going back and forth between a few options, so I decided to put some on paper to hopefully get my thoughts a bit straight.

Learning to draw horns properly was fun! Especially when they have little twists in them like B and D. I'm a little more partial to the ones that point upwards, though, since I feel like it makes his silhouette a little more dynamic and less... just like a ball of stuff going on, I suppose. But we'll see!

Hope you enjoy, and be sure to let me know what you think! Will it influence my final decision? It just might.

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Being on this website is fun because you can absolutely tell when a blorbo clicks in someone's brain. You're scrolling, and suddenly out of nowhere there's like 12 posts about the same character back to back reposted by the same person, and you just know "oh. They're a permanent part of their psyche now." and honestly it's a vibe go off king

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SHOOTING CIVILLIANS POINT BLANK. SHE WAS TRYING TO GET HOME AND THEY SHOT HER FOR NO REASON. GET THIS FOOTAGE OUT!

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Something that endlessly fascinates me about Seven Deadly Sins, which I am 100% applying to the rewrite, is the potential it had to make these characters truly morally grey.

Not that the twist of them being innocent of the crimes they were accused of is bad, I think it worked fairly well for what we got, but it was also a missed opportunity to have the Sins genuinely be guilty of morally deplorable actions. Not because they themselves are bad people or had harmful intentions, but because they were driven by their own flaws; not just victims of circumstance but also their own mistakes, and the journey some of them go on to repent for what they've done and overcome the guilt of things they can't undo.

Ban's was already done the best in this regard, as he's never portrayed as a strictly morally good person (at least not at the start of the series). His original intention WAS to steal the Fountain of Youth, which is exactly what he gets tried for along with murdering the saint that guards it, which he DIDN'T do. But what if he did? What if it was Ban who hurt Elaine while trying to fight the Red Demon? Ban who is cocky before he realizes he's outmatched, before he realizes that he now has someone he cares for who isn't himself no matter how little time they've spent together. And he tries to save her, tries to make it right by giving her the Fountain of Youth, but she gives it to him instead. And he can't possibly imagine how she could think he was worth more than she was when he was nothing, nothing compared to her, especially when he hurt her (it doesn't matter that he doesn't mean to, because he still did, didn't he? And how can he ever explain that to her absent brother who she'll never see again?). And the guilt never leaves, and punishing himself through countless failed executions is never enough, because it's her gift to him that keeps him alive and somehow that makes it worse.

The circumstances behind King's crime always felt like a bit of a cop-out, with him having amnesia and not remembering who he is or the responsibilities he has or the people who need him. What if it was a conscious choice to stay away? Not out of sloth, but out of love? Out of devotion for this little giant girl who's all on her own with no one to rely on, who isn't helpless but is still a little kid. "Tomorrow," he tells himself, "I'll go back tomorrow, just one more day." And he tells himself that every day, and the longer he stays with her, taking care of her, making sure she's okay (because what if he leaves and something terrible happens to her and he isn't there), the harder it is to leave her. And then he does, because he is forced to confront the reality of his absence, and he can't erase her memory like in canon, and it breaks his heart and shatters hers and Diane is left bitter and angry, because everyone leaves and she's never enough for anyone because she's weak, because she's not naturally gifted like many of her other Giant brethren, and she hates herself, hates them for it, because why should they have so much power when she doesn't? Is it not just as much her right as it is theirs?

And Meliodas? Do not even get me STARTED on that little fucker. The series had the potential to do some truly interesting things with him, but it seemed to take on a very black-and-white narrative, more or less, a lot of the time. Maybe he doesn't feel guilt about all the terrible things he's done. Some things, sure, but all of it? No. In some ways he still revels in it. He does not feel guilty for slaughtering goddesses, because his rage against them is unending and "don't you see what they did to us?" Maybe I don't want him to be a wholly good person. Maybe I want him to be a little bit fucked up. Maybe even a lot fucked up. Maybe the threat to him ISN'T reverting back to his evil self - maybe he already is a little evil in some ways. How much moral greyness can I shove into one character? Let's find out.

TLDR; Nakaba fumbled the bag on potentially making these characters morally grey and complex, so obviously I'm going to do it myself.

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📢 ISRAEL HAS KIDNAPPED ALL 12 CREW ON BOARD THE MADLEEN HUMANITARIAN AID SHIP 🚨

Earlier this evening, the IOF boarded The Madleen humanitarian aid ship, headed to break the siege on Gaza.

As a result, 12 foreign nationals have been kidnapped by the IOF and their fate is currently unknown.

You can help.

You can contact the relevant ministries of foreign affairs for the crew on board The Madleen and also the UK foreign ministry as this was a UK flagged ship.

This is a violation of international law and an attack on the UK's sovereignty.

The crew on board The Madleen also reported white "paint" being poured on them and it's unknown what this substance was.

Please write to your local representatives and the relevant ministries of foreign affairs to demand the safe release of all 12 crew members who were on board The Madleen.

This is a crisis.

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dear lord, please take all life problems and responsibilities away from fanfic writers but also make them financially stable and happy with nothing to worry about so they can happily focus on writing and posting fanfiction. amen

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