rough concept for a hare pearl design, just a normal lass

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Because I am literally never not thinking about weird meta, blurring lines between reality and narrative, and the whole concept of actors becoming their characters, I am now entertaining thoughts of a Shadow of the Vampire-style story wherein a late-2010s-style all-female The Lost Boys remake gets derailed when the lead actress suddenly starts not showing up to shooting because she's sleeping all day...

ur post abt the green lantern’s political leanings was so interesting!! can you do one for the bat family? (but only if u wanna!!)

Honestly, I can't, because their politics are so incoherent.

Like, take Bruce. (And again, like with the Lanterns, I'm talking about canon here, not how I wish things were.) On the one hand, you would imagine he's pretty progressive, right? He's almost certainly a single issue voter and that single issue is gun control. He believes in rehabilitating criminals and in fact a lot of Wayne Enterprises hires are formerly incarcerated people. He is an active philanthropist who pours money into schools, orphanages, hospitals, public spaces, and the arts. These are all leftist values!

And yet the modern Batman is also a completely unrestrained violent anarchic-libertarian power fantasy. Bruce has invented his own law, which he enacts and enforces completely arbitrarily, however he feels like doing so. He obeys the laws he wants to obey and ignores the ones he doesn't care about, while insisting he is law-abiding. He tortures people literally constantly and considers it righteous. He uses the profits from his publicly traded company to become a one-man military industrial complex. (The emissions from the fucking Batmobile alone...!) He illegally surveils the entire city and sometimes the entire planet (Brother Eye, anyone?) because he has decided that his moral authority overrides literally anyone's right to privacy, anywhere. He allows his defeated foes to be locked up indefinitely regardless of their mental state in an institution that would make any qualified mental health professional run screaming in the opposite direction. He's sexist. All of these things sit on the right of the political spectrum, but imagine me pointing to the right like Charlie from It's Always Sunny pointing to his murder board.

And none of the Batfamily is any better. Some of them are honestly worse in certain aspects. Dick was a cop. Jason loves guns. Babs and Tim are even more in love with surveillance than Bruce is. Remember when Tim wanted to replace the police with, like, a Bat-army??? BECAUSE I DO.

It's not really "their fault," as much as anything can be a fictional character's fault. It's the result of being written by writers who are, for the most part, consciously trying to write the Bats as good Samaritans, but are also living in a world where we have had our brains warped by all of our blockbusters being funded by the US military, in a medium where badassery is prized above everything else, and so all this really problematic shit spills out onto the comics page without being questioned. It's also kind of a boiling frog situation: i.e. Batman has always had a cool car, so as he got tougher and tougher, of course that car would eventually become a tank, and no one stopped to go "Wait, what the fuck? What the fuck? How is this billionaire driving a tank around helping anyone???" I guess god bless Zack Snyder for inadvertently highlighting how fucking stupid and counterproductive a Batman taken to his worst extremes is.

To be clear, I don't think this is what most writers are trying to do with Batman (some of them are, but fuck those guys). But it's what happens when all you care about is rule of cool, and the more I think about it the more I'm like...shit, maybe Alan Moore was right and superheroes are just stupid.

Anyway in conclusion, comic book writers should consider the ramifications of what they're writing occasionally. But Bruce Wayne probably still votes blue, at least.

These guys are like. Man what. Like what even. What are they doing. Lmao

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hi yall! first go at an auction :-) sorcerer inspired dog!!

sb 15 usd and mi 5 usd. auction ends 24 hours after last bid

i'll update in comments through main! (also up for auction here!) to bid either dm me or comment ^_^

i accept money thru paypal and thru kofi! i will also not offer refunds x_x

buyer will get a textless + transparent bg reference

buyer is free to make any changes to the design after purchase

please keep my signature on the original ref and please credit me as the designer :-)

design can be traded/gifted. can be resold but please try to keep the value similar

not for use as an nft/anything ai related

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A Fresh New Makeover!

After some rewriting and compiling all the inspirations I have on Pinterest, I decided to redesign my Welcome Home/OC persona so that I can work from a "bottom-up" (designing a character based on lore) approach as opposed to a "top-down" (writing lore based on the character's design) one.

Of course, I'm still somewhat of an amateur when it comes to character design, and I would love to receive some feedback from anyone more experienced. In the meantime, I'll continue to work on my persona and hopefully get her story out there once it's finally ready!

Edit: I changed the alt descriptions a bit, so my apologies for any confusion!

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One of the problems that I have with her old design is that she looked too human for someone who's supposed to be a half-sea dragon, half-celestial, and was almost akin to Howdy Pillar (minus the multiple limbs).

Another is that the gem on her chest didn't make much sense, as Amy is already pretty animated in her facial expressions and body language. Also, I had no idea how to incorporate it into her alternate form (see images above). So, rather than being a body part, I decided to change it to be more of an accessory/tool.

Lastly, I changed her attire quite a bit to emulate her connections to the sea and sky, such as her hair being inspired by ocean waves and stratus clouds, and make her stand out more from the rest of the neighbors.

As for her alternate form, as much as you guys adore the little worm, it didn't exactly look like a dragon (or in this case, a wyrm) as I intended. So, sadly, I have to make some changes to that as well. I did try to carry over some of the most notable traits, mainly the caterpillar-like body and big ol eyes, just to retain that same worm-like appearance.

However, what really bothered me about the old design is that it didn't look functional as an actual puppet due to lacking a proper mouth, which I hastily added in the final version. But after finding references online, I got a clearer picture of how a dragon/worm-like puppet operates. It's not the best, but it's still a massive improvement.

A robot can have evil little electricity eating tentacles in their wrists. As a treat.

(This is pretty much just a Seven Red Suns Hand/Harvester ref for Assembly)

a page has never felt so long as when you're writing a 1 page cover letter. wdym it takes that many paragraphs to fill a page. there's no way that's right

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"The Titan III-L series was a Martin Marietta concept (late 1960’s into early 1970’s) for a heavy lift derivative of the Titan III-C launch vehicle. The core would be increased in diameter from 10 feet to 15, and the number of liquid propellant rocket engines increased from two to four. Additionally, the vehicle could be given two, four or six solid rocket motors (Titan III-L2, Titan III-L4, Titan III-L6). The Titan III-L6 concept was considered as a first stage booster for the Space Shuttle.

The Titan III-L2 had enough lift capacity to launch an Apollo-derived capsule and service module, providing an alternative to the Saturn IB for space station logistics and crew transfer."

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I'm still trying to figure Vincent out. I want him to be freaky and bad to look at but still like. passably human and capable of surviving alone for a very long time. I've decided that while he can 'stand' like this it's not comfortable, and he cant walk like that. He can sorta shuffle on the two hands but his primary mode of ambulation is on all six hands with his leg dragging behind him.

Ive also decide he's a fancy lad who likes to dress all dapper. also Despite my best efforts to make him a muscle bound hunk with no fat on him, Big men sexier than muscle guys.