Two answers!

The "seven deadly sins" aren't anywhere in the bible. Those come from a old fanfic called Dante's Inferno that a lot of people mix up in the canon because it was popular back in the day. Wrath on its own isn't bad, since there are things that are proper to be angry about; injustice and hypocrisy for instance. There are a lot of verses warning about not being "quick to anger" and not being hot tempered, which is good practical advice to avoid hurting people or making poor life decisions, but doesn't condemn 'wrath' as a concept.

Everywhere God's wrath is portrayed in the Bible it's against people who unequivocally deserve it. In the Old Testament it's often nations that were big into child sacrifices and gangrape. In the New Testament, Jesus himself once made a whip (which takes awhile, he's obviously taking his own advice about slowness to anger) then marched into the temple courts and drove out all the greedy money changers and salesmen who were making bank off of people's offerings. Non-righteous anger, or anger against innocent people, is always portrayed in the Bible as unequivocally bad.

why is wrath okay when the christian god does it but for us it's on the big list of seven things we shouldn't do

Mechanical symbolism in Dune

Dune Part 2 (and Part 1) did something I don't notice much of and don't see nearly enough of, and that's characterizing factions and characters through their equipment. I'm not even talking about costumes, I'm talking about the ship baybeee.

House Atreides has ships, aircraft, and armor that are very angular and square-ish. Their spice harvesters look like NASA crawler carriers, very mundane, very mechanical. Their ships aren't the biggest or most powerful, but still dwarf all the locals when coming in for a landing. Their interior design is likewise fairly minimalist. Their aircraft are ornithopters, which stay aloft using good-ol-fashioned aerodynamics and hard-working nature-mimicking flapping rotors (albiet twice as many rotors as the dragonflys they're based on). If we think of a square as a perfectly "ordered" shape, and nature's methods of flight as the 'ideal', we can see House Atreides, with their endless trapezoids, as the closest this world has to the "good guys." An unassuming, honorable, humble dukedom, though still mired in politics and corruption, still a little (maybe a lot, maybe not enough) too big for their britches. All that communicated by their vehicles.

House Harkonnen is their contrast in every way. The book gave their baron a 'suspension rig' to float around because he was so fat, but the movie ingeniously gave that same tech to their troops as well. They float around effortlessly, climbing mountains with a thought, not even engaging with the terrain, perfectly mirroring their attitude and the superior power they represent. They wear black, the categorically worst color for the desert, and their soldier's faces are obscured, almost inhumanly. Their ships are round, bulbous, shaped like rolls of fat, and so darkly-colored and confusingly-shaped that it's hard to even make out their intricate and crowded details except that they're bristling with guns. Their aircraft use lifting gas balloons. Their spice harvesters are so huge and tall and fat with machinery that they need silly legs just to stay upright. Now of course from all this, we can tell that the Harkonnen are so proud that they consider themselves too good for the ground itself, so rich that they don't have to touch it, so powerful they don't think they need to, so disconnected that it's made them weak.

The Fremen are the simplest and most obvious of course; they have nothing. Their technology is simple. We don't see much of it. I wish their thumpers and compasses looked a little more obviously mechanical, but I can forgive that because they look very simple. The only aircraft we see them using are tiny 2-seater ornithopters with only 4 rotors; a copy of nature's dragonfly, no frills. The instruments onboard look like something out of WWII. Just perfect.

But my favorite of all is the scene where the emperor arrives. The movie shows him going through the flames of reentry, which isn't something movies often show; the director put it in deliberately, because the very fact that he's entering the atmosphere, that he's coming down to the planet at all, is a thing of much importance, spectacle, and monument. And then his ship itself is an enormous shiny chrome sphere. Because of course it is! What symbolism could possibly be better? When you look at him, you can't even see him without just seeing yourself smaller. But as the ship comes in for a landing (and it doesn't even land, it just perpetually hovers) you can see that the mirror isn't perfect. You can see the seams between the mirrors, see it's just square paneling. The emperor is a powerful and proud and magnificent invisible god, except he's NOT, you can see all that splendor and hubris and pride, and see that beneath it all he's just a mortal man, just by looking at his ship. I have never seen that done in quite this way before. Spectacular.

And then and THEN the next time we see the emperor's ship, it's after it's unpacked all its cargo, into this huge palace, complete with a complement of battleships and thousands of ground troops. My first thought was "hey how did all that fit onboard? That should be a literally impossible construction. Oh well, it's just a movie, who cares." But then the Fremen attack happens. A nuclear strike destroys the defenses, and then the sandworms come in, and something hits the palace, and the entire thing shakes and rattles! Because of COURSE it's not an actual building! Of COURSE all that could fit onboard, because it's just a shaky, fragile house-of cards! Sheet metal held together by rivets and a prayer, because he wanted to appear magnificent on his visit! The imperial rule makes a big talk, but it's all bark and no bite and it's fragile enough to be done in by a stiff breeze, and you can tell all that from the mechanical design alone!

GOSH these movies are good.

Dang. I moved east two years ago and things just look different in Illinois. Didn't realize what that difference WAS until just now but... Yeah. Above pic is instantly recognizable as having been taken back home. I miss the big grey thing in front of the sun.

i love living in western washington. i can literally just get on the ferry

I like fictional universes where there are just flat-out no humans, earthly creatures, or human-adjacent objects ever present. So unless the devs chime in or nerds in the fandom overanalyze the physics of water droplets, there's NO WAY WHATSOEVER to tell how big anything is or how tall a character would be next to a human. That's just so magical.

Yo I saw your Bubblegum Crisis fanart a week ago and I thought they were really cool! (yes I know they are old but whatever)

I'm not sure if you still are a fan of the series but I've got a question:

Hypothetically speaking , if BGC was going to release today as say a remake/soft reboot- 12 episodes ideally what would you add or change? (Outside of some obvious things like flashing lights)

Personally I'd make Leon a tad more likeable and give each Knight Saber a bit more development.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm

I would give the suits ankles.

Define the Sabers' weaponry and equipment a little more rigidly, so that combat sequences can follow a little more internal logic than their current "we've got newer upgraded suits that can punch harder than your lasers can lase" or whatever.

I would make the suits a little bulkier to allow space for internal machinery and enough... Oh heck I won't keep going on about the suits. You saw the fanart so you already know the attributes of my opinions on such matters.

Uhhhh get rid of the topless scenes; for Various Reasons I'm not a big fan of fanservice in general.

Make Mackie and Linna actual characters, with character traits and character arcs and characteristics and stuff. One of the only good things the 2040 reboot did was make Linna a sort of POV character as the only 'normal one.' I thought that worked really well. In the fanfic I wrote, that's how I use her. And Mackie... His big sister is a closeted psychopath with the fortune and propensity to fund a private army, frequently makes him drive through exploding factories in the dead of night, and in the morning he has to... Go to school? Do his friends just think he spends all his time on some obsessive hobby, so when they come over he has to pretend to be some kind of expert in building model trains just to keep up appearances? Do the Sabers go on a mission only to discover they can't fly, because Mackie had hockey practice and forgot to fuel the thermal rockets? Is Sylia on the PTA??? This is comedy gold.

As far as animation style goes, the original nailed it in terms of what I want and what I like. Yeah it would be cheaper today to CGI it, but that sounds worse to me for reasons. And yeah I know how much difficulty and baggage is added to art by costly development, but I want to have my cake and also to eat it. Pwease.

The show is usually fairly good about this next one, but I'll say it because a lot of modern stories fail at it: keep the plot small-scale. The show kind of lost me when they exploded all the Genome buildings around the planet, and the reboot REALLY lost the plot. Like, the protaganists are just one team, they should fight one-team sized threats. Just like Spiderman shouldn't face anyone bigger/badder than Doc Ock, the Sabers shouldn't ever deal with anything bigger than "somebody stole the codes to a military satellite." The codes to a military satellite is big stakes for them. That's a big deal. Their regular fair should be bagging/tagging/pacifying rampant androids or sabotaging corporate mischief. There's tons of ground to explore there. Maybe they can go biggish for a finale. Maybe. If they behave and are good. As a treat.

I like that the original was very episodic. Every episode can stand on its own as a little movie. I like that.

Sylia should appear to testify in court wearing full armor with a darth vader voice synthesizer. Nothing would be funnier than this. The show should be a little funny. It should be a little campy. The cast are all funny people with strong personalities. They should be allowed to be funny.

I disagree that Leon is currently unlikable, I think he's great. Obviously, he's a huge simp and a total tool, but he has tons of good aspects as well, and is an all-around swell dude if he weren't ever exposed to w o m e n. IMO, being a perfectly moral star child isn't what makes a good character, and if he has flaws that's opportunity for growth. But I concede that he does need to do more in the plot though. I'd give him an arc, some development or at least resolution to him and Priss, maybe he figures out Nene's secret ID and acts as their man on the inside, maybe he shows up with the calvary, maybe he's actual useful for once in his life, IDK.

Wild west episode.

Show boomers active in everyday life, I guess. We hear a lot about how useful they are in industry, but all we ever see are state-of-the-art combat models that look all scary, or weird one-offs like illegal vampire hookers. There are innumerable directions you could take domestic androids .

There's probably more I could say, but it's 2 in the morning and I'm pretty much just procedurally generating ideas like an LLM at this point. I still do like this show a lot, though maybe not as much as I once did.

Okay so tentative lore of the AU is that the events of the game just happen to have occurred on Earth instead of That Other Planet. The reincarnation cycle causes every sentient lifeform (humans, and dolphins/elephants/monkeys/octopi to a lesser extent) to have hazy memories of previous lives, both distant past lives in which they grew old and died, and lives as recent and present as "oh if I would have jaywalked just now a car would have hit me", groundhog-day-style. (This is my best guess for how it works in canon as well, but don't @ me on that.) Particularly spiritually attuned individuals may be driven mad by the full awareness of the cycle.

The other and most crucial difference between this and Earth: Void Fluid deposits instead of petroleum deposits.

Random tangent about the canon: the existence of Void Fluid and reincarnation on Canon Planet is never explained in the canon itself, which I suspect is because (without any space travel/exploration that we hear of) nobody in the canon realizes how odd and unusual it is within the wider universe for a planet to have an ocean of exotic matter in its core instead of, ohIdon'tknow magma. However the canon has some clues. There are apparently-intelligent void worms, and a few lines about ancient civilizations being layered on top of each other like sediment, and the planet's crust replacing itself slowly but completely, which is (barely) enough for me to work with to make a theory. A game theory. I propose that Rain World is not a natural planet, but is in fact a artificial megaconstruct created by some billion-years-gone precursor race who feared death enough to 'cure' it via spacetime-altering fluid and machinery in the planet's core. They now live in the dark down there, in perfect peace, perfect happiness, perfect stagnant eternity, with impenetrable fail-safes against any remotest possibility of death. Whenever intelligent life re-evolves on the thin shell of crust surrounding the planet-sized immortality engine, this reincarnation cycle drives them mad and they re-find the void sea and join the precursors. Nobody knows how many times this has occurred. The most recent civilization built the iterators as their last act, and the iterators didn't last long in the grand scheme of things, nor did they accomplish much. This paragraph is entirely unrelated to anything else I'm saying, I just had to get it off my chest.

Anyway, I don't know if Earth is exactly like that in this AU, but suffice to say that the industrial revolution happened... Differently on this Earth compared to ours. Unlimited free energy from vacuum state rarefaction caused a boom in manufacturing and farming, and massive improvement of quality of life, allowing a large portion of the population to seek higher sciences such as genetic engineering and reincarnology. The canon story, including the proliferation of purposed organisms, the discovery of void fluid ascension, and the construction of the iterators, progressed in almost the same way.

However, humans are not the same as the Ancients of Rain World. Although the world stage and the fires of industry united in cooperation with the iterators' construction, other social issues on the periphery continued to be plagued by civil unrest, economic disparity, and religious disagreements. When the rains became too heavy, only the rich and powerful and 'useful' got to escape the surface and live on top of the cans. The rest of humanity needed to survive the rain either in bunkers, or far away from iterator facilities. I guess that's another difference between this and canon: in canon it's implied that iterators dot the entire planet's surface, such that all water sources and all oceans are utilized, and everything without a foundation is pulverized to mud. In this AU they're much fewer and more spread out, so the ecological effect isn't quite as drastic. There's the American local group, Brazilian local group, Russian, Chinese, Dubai has several, etc. Five Pebbles and Looks to the Moon are American I guess. Not sure if I should change their names; those names wouldn't make sense for human-made machines, but I don't know what else to call them. Ideas welcome, I guess.

Human society continues to exist after the mass ascension of the upper class, although the advanced manufacturing base of the world's economy has slowly but surely ground to a halt, so most people are reduced to farming or more agrarian lifestyles. Country borders and governments are dissolving one by one, phone lines and postal services are shutting down.

Clouds emitted by the iterators have radically increased the albedo of the planet's surface, causing an increased amount of sunlight to be reflected back into space, and less reaching the ground to warm the planet. Heat emitted by iterator processes is offsetting the felt effects of this temporarily, but the ice caps are growing exponentially, which is also increasing the albedo, so that even if the iterators were to go offline and the clouds could dissipate, the reaction may at this point be too far gone to halt.

The year is 1924. The great depression has not occurred in any meaningful way. On February 8th at 10:43 AM the American midwest is rocked by a magnitude 7 earthquake when Computational Unit 248aLTTM collapses in Chicago.

The year is 1953. The second of two world wars has neglected to occur. Franklin Brown is born in a small log cabin, in the wilderness just outside of what used to be Joliet, Illinois. Computational Unit 248bFP is visible on the horizon as his father teaches him and his brother how to survive.

The year is 1970. Man will never walk on the moon. Franklin Brown falls down a deep ravine into fast-flowing rapids and is swept into the intake lines, leading toward Chicago.

The year is 1999. The internet was never invented. Torrential rains have destroyed all local farmland and rendered 60% of the state uninhabitable.

The year is 2024. The world has found its silence at last. An ice age is coming.

Hello Rain World fandom.

Whenever I play this game I give the little creechers these Needlessly Specific voices and personalities, so I figured the only way to properly address the matter was to draw them all as humans.

Hello Rain World fandom.

Whenever I play this game I give the little creechers these Needlessly Specific voices and personalities, so I figured the only way to properly address the matter was to draw them all as humans.

I really loved reading your comic on Deviantart "Gravity Falls: Wendy Vs. The Future"! You said you'll try and get page 27 and beyond out 'soon'... In 2017... Are you still working on that comic?

Oh man that one! Tell you the truth, it's been going on 5 years since I've even read the entire thing, and I wasn't too pleased with it last time I did; I've progressed a lot since then in terms of writing and art style, and my old work gives me the major cringes. Kind of odd to say about that comic in particular, since it set the plot for my entire AU in motion and was the first 'popular' thing I ever made online. The community I found with it is the reason I made a Tumblr account and a ff.net account, so it's a big part of who I am and where I am... But no, I have no plans of finishing it. Honestly haven't thought about it in the longest time until I read this ask.

I guess I could finish it though? The main roadblock is that I don't know what else to say. At the time I originally wrote it I had a lot on my chest and by writing it I really got it all off. So if I were to return 7 years later to finish it, I would need to reread it, compare where I was then to where I am now, and finish it with a more mature outlook in mind. (Which would actually be a really thematically appropriate way to finish a story about a visit from a future self, now that I'm thinking about it. Wow. I might actually consider that. Huh.)

nice Metroid comic! i would love to see your take on Starfox.

Thanks!

Okay so while I LOVE Star Fox and would love to do something with it, (and have done things with it sort of, more on that later) I decided not to ever touch it directly. In part of course because I'm trying to slowly move away from fanfic, but mostly because I don't think I could make a 'definitive edition'.

With Metroid I had my own unique vision for the setting and the character that I'd never seen anybody else pursue in the same directions, and I personally prefer my versions above both canon and every fanon I've read. (With the possible exception of NickOnPlanetRipple, who made an EXCELLENT comic called Metroid Revival. While I personally prefer my own work, and we went in radically different directions in terms of plot/setting/tone, I respect his work a ton). If Nintendo miraculously gave me the directorial position on some Metroid property, I could accept the position knowing that I could do a darn good job, and do something with it that nobody else could.

The same cannot be said of Star Fox. While I do have ideas for the characters, spaceships, and post-war future of the story, I don't have nearly as much to add, and I could never make my favorite version of Star Fox because the beating heart of the franchise is the characters, and Matthew Gafford already did it WAY better than I ever could with them in his youtube animated series A Fox In Space. If I dabbled in Star Fox, I would just end up comparing myself to him and I know I could never top that. If Nintendo gave me any authority over Star Fox, I couldn't accept. He deserves that job. I might be able to put my own spin on some aspects, but not all of it.

HOWEVER.

One of the original novels I'm working on is actually directly inspired by Star Fox, and by some ideas me and my brothers had about what became of the team after the war concluded. None of the characters bear much resemblance to the originals (and they're not animals), but if you squint hard enough you can sometimes see who was who before I de-fanned the fiction, and I like it so far, especially the direction I took Krystal's stand-in.

In terms of what I've done with Star Fox itself, I'm afraid all I I can give you is this, which I drew like ten years ago:

OKAY OKAY So I was actually just thinking about this topic the other day for one of my stories! (well not specifically about alcohol or drugs, so this is a bit of a tangent, and not specifically about elves, so this is a HUGE tangent, but shut up hear me out, I promise I'll circle back around eventually)

It all started when I was watching LOTR the other day and thinking about whether magical elvish tree cities would have handrails or not. (In LOTR they don't. (This bothers me.))

So we're talking about an ageless race/species that never naturally dies or decays (or in a scifi setting, one which has solved aging/disease/vanilla-type-deaths through medical technology, same difference), how would that affect the value they place on life and safety? Just because they don't age doesn't mean they can't die. No amount of agelessness or medical technology can prevent getting shot or stabbed or car-accidented or receiving a fatal dose of fall-off-ladder-hit-rock-break-neck, and if any of those happens they would be just as dead as anyone else.

Of course, they've had centuries to hone their spatial awareness, acrobatics, foresight, wisdom, and any other skill they like, so it makes sense that they could be just-slightly-superhuman (as indeed they are often portrayed), and less at danger of random accidents than most races. But no matter how diligent, wise, or acrobatic they are, accidents can still happen, which means that given enough time, something will get to them. Not only can they die, they will die. Every day they walk down the road to the grocery store they're gambling against eternity: trips and falls; drunk driver; muggings; random rabies chimpanzees. A human could rationalize such risk away easily, by saying he'll die within a century anyway, so the odds of buying it to a rabid chimpanzee on a grocery store walk are astronomically small and unworthy a second thought. But if an elf did nothing in life except stay at home and walk to the grocery store once a month, they're still guaranteed to buy it on one of those walks, by any of a number of tiny mistakes. They could double the number of millennia they live by preventing tripping by carrying a walking stick every time, double it again by taking backroads with fewer cars, double it yet again by avoiding people in general, and when the only thing on earth that could possibly harm them are random rabid chimpanzees, they could quadruple their life expectancy by getting their rabies shots.

Therefore, there is a fact hanging over the head of every elf that they're going to die someday, just as it is for humans. But the difference being that there's even less way to see it coming, there's an infinite life to gain by preventing it, and no matter what it is, they ALWAYS COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO PREVENT IT.

So how does that affect the way they live their lives?

They could take on a sort of yolo attitude and go about their days as convenient for them. I would consider this especially likely if they have a belief in God and a spiritual sort of eternal life, which both relieves some of the responsibility for their fates, and changes the meaning of life away from perpetuating that life and more toward the results of that life in others (including creating new life, I guess? Whatever). At its most extreme, an apathy toward immortality would cause them to act like they don't have it at all, thus exactly resemble humans, which is boring. This is the same-handrails option.

Or they could embrace the personal-responsibility aspect of their fates, and emphasize personal care and ability. If a guy lives 4000 years then falls out of a tree and dies, then he'd wished he spent his younger years learning how to climb trees better. Same for a soldier who couldn't see an arrow coming , or the lost sailor at sea wishing he could navigate, or the guy on the way to the grocery store wishing he knew how to fight chimpanzees. With a theoretically infinite life to live and a theoretically infinite amount of time to learn everything that needs learning, they have no excuse for dying, even in dangerous situations. Thus it's sort of every-man-for-himself without any protection or safety. This is the fewer-handrails option, and I don't think the logic really holds up under scrutiny but whatever.

And finally the more-handrails option. Living longer means they have more to lose by dying. Friends they've had for centuries. Marriages for millenia. Possessions they can't become unaccustomed to. Habits so old they can never be broken. No need to seize the day or yolo or indulge in excess when they'll live forever, so they have their thrills safely, carefully, in wisdom and good measure. They would have handrails EVERYWHERE. This seems like the most logical and interesting option to me.

Humans are stuck in perpetual cultural conflict between old/conservative/permanent and new/liberal/changing philosophies because there's always new humans growing up with a new notion of how to do things, while those who have become old have become set in whatever way they grew up in. Elves (if their population is at all stable) would have very few children, and very little stimulus for changing their ways, and their culture and lifestyles would default toward stagnation and perpetuation.

An elf might regard a human in much the same way that humans regard bees. A bee doesn't live very long, and will never have a chance to do anything in that life except serve the good of the hive, so it's free to live dangerously, fly far and work hard, spend both its short life and its quick death in the service of that hive. To a human, it seems absurd and horrible that a bee dies half an hour after using its stinger. To an elf, it seems just as absurd and horrible that a human would risk life and limb on a ladder or a trampoline or a car. Totally unthinkable that they would ever go off to war. And equally unthinkable to fill your otherwise-immortal body with dangerous levels of feel-good-wake-up-with-headache-and-damaged-liver chemicals.

TL;DR: I think elvish wine would be pretty darn mild, and that the stereotype of them being snobby aristocrats with a sensitive, refined pallet is actually an entirely logical result of what they are.

And frankly, dwarves have a lot of body mass and a high tolerance for chemical imbalances (adapted as they are for breathing cave air and drinking ground water.) Their culture is built around cheer and comradery and one-up-manship, and their sciences are strikingly advanced on whatever narrow fields of study strike their interest. I challenge your claim that they would not be the ones to brew the kill-you-dead-where-you-stand juice.

Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit

herbivore jaws are designed for slicing at the front, and grinding at the back. Carnivore jaws are designed for piercing at the front, and sawing at the back. My jaws however are designed exclusively to maximize the mess it makes when I destroy a cracker or a sweet bread or another tasty treat.

Lifting Body Aircraft my beloved

Martin Marietta X-24B

Working on a new comic. Haven't even drawn the characters yet; so far it's been 6 pages of straight spaceship.

Heartbreaking: these characters are REALLY hard to draw.

Working on a new comic. Haven't even drawn the characters yet; so far it's been 6 pages of straight spaceship.

Working on a new comic. Haven't even drawn the characters yet; so far it's been 6 pages of straight spaceship.

The really heavy thing, and an important thing for me, is that the before he got the magical solve-the-plot power, he actually DID accept that he had to do it, and WAS determined to do so. And if he didn't get that power, then that would have been IT, and everything still would have been fine. He would have demonstrated his mastery of the elements by the sick moves he used to take out Ozai's airship, and then when Ozai shoots him in the face with lightning, he would have used the Cool Handy Trick that he learned from Zuko who learned from Iroh, and redirected it right back at him and killed him dead. Without the Lion Turtle and the energy bending, that Would Have Been It. The plot would be no different, the fight would have been shorter, the day would still be saved.

The Lion Turtle isn't just a plot element, its something powerful acting with its own agency, to enforce some larger cosmic balance. Its gift not only made Aang's fight much harder, but also allowed him to spare his conscience, and preserve the teachings of the air nomads. Its somebody up top looking out for a little guy, which is a thing I adore. Plus it's sort of the conclusion to all the previously-set-up-things about the spiritual realm and the Avatar's connection to it. Imo it's the perfect way to end a show about the Avatar who's the last of the Airbenders. Full circle back to the title baybe.

can't believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai