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*smashes reblog* There you go again. Drawing his alien mug so beautifully. D: His sexy forearms... That cute confused/surprise expression, the angry face, the ACTION SHOT with the little air puff, his gorgeous jawline and collarbones.... D: Yeah, his Bracca outfit is super annoying to draw for some reason. I prefer his debut outfit, or BoBF, actually.

It's been ages since I've posted something original, apologies my peeps. And ages since I tried to make time to finish this, as much as a sketchdump could ever be finished. But oh boy working on this felt gooooood. A bit crowded but there was a stain on the paper and it had to be made into a sun. :D His Bad Batch attire is surprisingly difficult to draw...have to memorize it better because it's super sexy imho. Hope y'all are alright and well!

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I completely agree. There is next to zero fandoms for anything on Netflix. I'm so glad Disney+ did one thing right by a week-by-week release schedule for it's shows. I LIKE to theorize stuff. D:

this this this

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My head-canon is after the events of the movie they resettled on Pandora and coexist peacefully with the Na'vi. I would love that crossover. Imagine the Pearls telling the Na'vi their planet was destroyed by Human wars BS so the Na'vi grant them refugee status. They give them another cove or island nearby. There's so few left of the Pearls, Jake Sully would say they're pretty much near extinction and would be easy to wipe out if they posed a threat. The Pearls prove to be very peaceful and they were worried for nothing. After getting to know them, the Water tribe realized just how similar their cultures are and they just *vibe*. Both species have leaders have both a warrior-like male and a spiritual female. The fishermen trade catching/hunting tactics while craftsman nerd out about jewelry making and garment creation. The Pearls are fascinated by the giant trees and hanging buildings, exploring with childlike awe. (Afterall, their home world was mostly sandy beaches with tropical plants like the Florida Keys). The Pearls catch on the the Na'vi language very quickly and both races eventually exchange words they find particularly useful, eventually "Emai-nee" and "Oel ngati kameie" become pretty inter-changeable between the two villages. Very little is known about the Pearls, sure. Their part in the movie was sadly brief, but that also would allow creative freedom on biology. Like... what if they were a silicate based lifeform and ate coral? That way the air/gas of Pandora doesn't poison them like it would a human. >_> They're taller than humans, but shorter than the Na'vi. They can't link like Na'vi can, but are capable of telepathy. I personally think they're more advanced than the movie let on, not in science, but perhaps making leaps forward in quantum mechanics and biological abilities. There's so many cool things they showed in that 3 minute sequence, especially with the energy-ball pearls they collect and use to restore balance to the planet with the use of the Mül . The little creature called a "Mül converter", the last of it's kind, somehow finds a similar creature on Pandora. I'm just gonna pretend the native creature is genetically compatible and a cross-breed occurs, replenishing numbers of the Pearl's favorite animal companion. The Na'vi end up loving the little things too. Either that... or perhaps the Mül critter can procreate through self-replication, which only occurs when it senses there are no nearby mates. I suppose this would create another valuable resource for Humans to get greedy and fight over, but I'm going to ignore that. I personally hate the "evil humans" take on movies like these. It's just so pessimistic and makes me angry. D:< This is a random daydream I've been playing with. I would love to include a race like the Pearls in some future sci-fi novel (I'll likely never write... sigh).

Has anyone ever made a supercut of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets that is just scenes with the pearls because I would watch that on repeat

Remove the rest of the movie, give me the pearls

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Ever read an actual novel and just think: This author totally writes fanfiction. The tropes are there. I see them. And I'm here for them.

I've been sucked into this book for two days straight. I can't put it down. It's a real damn shame there's not fanart whatsoever of this series. WHY?? And literally no one is talking about it aside from reviews on amazon. This makes me upset.

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Because of you, I can never see this gif/scene without thinking "Ye got cronuts today? No? Blast. I'll come back tomarrow."

I just like this gif in particular because we so rarely see Bane trying to appear neutral or non-threatening, even friendly. Pro tip: his eyes get wider when he's not trying to terrify you and just wants to know how his asset is doin'

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Look at her giving him saucy eyes and he probably doesn't even see it because of the brim of his hat in the way. It's ok. He knows he's cool.

I bet he’s fun at parties. He probably knows a joke.

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This must be shared. <3

Hala and her cousin Nar, at a festival on Duro

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Hahahaha! This. But Cad Bane. XD

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Go to the original post of the image. Right click on the image. Open Image in New Tab. Copy HTML. Go to Edit Fanfiction. Work Text: Put your cursor where you want the image to appear. Select the image icon "Insert/Edit Image" Paste the HTML in "Source" box. Save. I think. EDIT: .. Actually. The reason I even made a tumblr account was for Tumblr to be my host site for all my fanart just so I could use it on AO3. >___________>;;;

hey so how the hot fuck do you upload images to a03? I'm in the rich text editor, I linked to imgur, I put in the title & width and height, and it doesn't work. I just get a broken image icon.

@xinambercladx you seem to have success with this? Am I doing something wrong?

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Hahahaha! Yes. This is how it should go down. God, I hope so.

how next episodes going to go

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Sharing this again

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That sweet little droid also threatened to tear C3P0's apart piece by piece... so there's that. XD He's picking up bad habits from his master.

I would die to see more of their dynamic. I bet they're like this sometimes. XD

I'm wondering why, narratively, they decided to include Todo? Why they gave the biggest baddest meanest most awful bountry hunter ever a sweet little droid? What were the writers trying to achieve with that decision?

Look at this little baby angel

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I have so many of these. lol

having an oc you havent drawn / written about publicly yet that only exist as a concept is so funny. i have special access to this limited edition guy from my brain

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*Gigglesnort*

Does anyone else hate writing the smut part or is just me and Marie 😭

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I was able to log back in. Everything is fine. XD I have comments to read. I feel so bad about neglecting them. D: I promise I'll answer each and every one of them!

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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I haven't checked my AO3 in so long... my readers probably think I'm dead. >_>;; Hopefully none of this has happened to you all, or me.

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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the moaning and thrashing, the undinified agony of editing