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t34-mt · 1 year

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qua'tuli and yarey'lu laying down in a sleeping room

beds can just be rugs on the floor with many pillows stuffed with juvenile feathers, stuffed mattresses on the floor, weaved sleeping mats, and so on. beds are generally on the floor, if not they could be a carved large hole in the wall to climb into. large family size hammocks are also appreciated, tho family-sized ones look more like a spider web than a typical hammock, a 1 person hammock is more for daily napping than sleeping through the night. Because yes, I've mentioned it once but maanuls and kyhuines typically nap during the hottest time of the day, and altuyur rotational period is 32 hours. within a day multiple solar eclipses happen because of the other gas giant moon (satmuh moon), while to us that is a crazy thing to witness to them, unless they're a little kid that just opened their eyes they do not freak out about it. It only lasts some minutes (apox 10-15 mins maybe)

But back to the sleeping stuff, beds could also have wooden (or other plant fiber material) "hood" that close off the bed from exterior things. A sort of cozy cocoon that i have yet to figure out how to draw properly. The best example to look at are rolluik bureaus, that have that wood door part that slides down to close it (I've got that type of desk lol!). Then again even those beds are not elevated like a typical European one would, beds stay on the floor unless its a hammock (obviously) or an elevated sleeping hole. Forgive me for the shirt art, but i haven't drawn the sleeping stuff yet , this is what id think the hole beds would look like, this one is more of a style like a large family, id think of the edges being really smoothed out

when sleeping they lightly curl up on themselves, if they have a kid that is small enough they almost wrap around them, closing the circle with their tail and head. since maanuls have a tuff of feathers at the end of their tail they usually cover their face with it, while kyhuines have a smooth tail end it doesn't stoop them from doing similar thing tho that skinny tail tip doesn't hide anything

i should one day draw real cave art of maanuls and kyhuines sleeping, i think of it as stylized so much that they become stupidly round balls, which is impossible for the to each in real life

#qua'tuli #yarey'lu #maanul #altuyur #xenofiction #xenogiology #speculative zoology #ms paint #painting #brown #my art #artist on tumblr #digital art #2023 #worldbuilding #oc #txt

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minijenn · 4 months

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Jen Tortures Herself With Every Dreamworks Animated Movie Ever: Megamind

So surprisingly, this is one movie I've never actually seen before outside of all of the memes and all of the love people tend to shower upon it, and after finally seeing it for myself... yeah, I totally get why. Megamind is based as fuck, ya'll.

We focus on, of course, Megamind, who is a supervillain who terrorizes Metro City and is opposed by the heroic Metro Man. At least until Megamind seems to successfully defeat Metro Man, leaving Metro City in his hands and quickly leading him into wanting more than just power alone. While in disguse, he ends up striking up a romance with Roxanne, a local reporter, and at the same time, he ends up creating a new opponent for him to fight to curb his growing boredum in the nerdy (incel) Hal, who quickly becomes more of a villain himself than the hero Megamind wanted him to be. So of course, this leads to all sorts of chaos and hijinks, and while you might think that plot sounds too complicated for its own good, I can surprisingly say, it really isn't!

Yeah, all of the moving pieces here work so well together, interwoven into a really compelling story with some pretty solid emotions and some great character moments. It helps that our cast itself is fantastic; Megamind is such a good lead, he's a genuis, but he's also totally socially graceless and is an absolute lovable goober as a result, one who comes to realize that he can be more than the "villain" stereotype he believed he was forced into being from childhood. Roxanne is also a really good leading lady; she's funny and snarky and has really great chemistry with Megamind throughout.

Metro Man doesn't get a ton of screentime, but he's a great parody on the usual superhero tropes, while Minion is the perfect right hand man (fish?) to Megamind in every way. Even our villain, Hal, or as he comes to be called, Titan, works really well here; he's the kind of asshole who just doesn't take no for an answer that we can all justifably hate (but he's also hilarious in his own right).

The animation is also really great here. I find that Dreamworks movies tend to look their best when their characters are highly stylized, and that's what we get a lot of here. We get a lot of really fun action scenes, both in terms of fighting and Megamind's tech. and strangely enough the special effects here (things like fabric and particle effects, etc) really stood out to me, they were all super well done.

The humor is absolutely fantastic here. It's not as adult as some of Dreamworks earlier days, but instead it relies more on who these characters are and how they interact with each other. I think one of my favorite running gags is Megamind obliviously mispronouncing various words (like school and Metro City). There's a bunch of small bits just like that throughout the movie, and they're all so fast paced and well delivered by a really stellar voice cast. The emotions also strike a cord here; there aren't any tearjerker moments, but you really do feel Megamind's growth here as he falls in love and eventually decides to become the hero he never thought he could be.

So yeah, I really enjoyed this one! It's a shame it took me this long to watch it, because it was super enjoyable all the way through. Also amazing that it never really spawned any legit sequels, but I heard its getting a show next year, so idk. I am probs not gonna watch it. Movie good tho, give it a watch if ya haven't.

Overall Rating: 9/10

Verdict: There is no Queen of England

Previous Review (Shrek Forever After)

Next Review (Kung Fu Panda 2)

#jen watches #dreamworks watch #megamind #jen tortures herself with every dreamworks animated movie ever #dreamworks

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genericpuff · 7 months

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Weird thing I’ve noticed:

Rachel seems to be deathly afraid of giving her characters facial hair- even tho that was like, a staple for a lot of male Greek gods and deities

Well, except for the “unattractive” ones

In Rachel's defense on that one, I can attest that it's difficult to give these characters facial hair when they're all painted neon colors LMAO like, I LOOOOVE drawing facial hair, but even I haven't really bothered giving the male cast facial hair because they're so ethereal/non-human looking that if you gave them something like a mustache or beard, it would start to tip them more towards the 'human' look and it could clash with the colors and enter uncanny valley territory. Like, the characters would either have to have full stylized cartoon beards-

-or nothing at all.

(that's how I get away with it with Dionysus, because his beard is basically just a big 'ole berry bush, so it's able to color match his face and not be distracting with its stylization).

That said, I've seen some great edits of LO panels where characters have facial hair, so that's not to say it can't be done! I just don't know if it's something that Rachel is capable of doing.

Because straight up, Rachel also just doesn't know how to draw men. Or rather, she only knows how to draw one type of man. Most of her portfolio pre-LO consists of drawings of women, many sharing the same body types (though there are some variations around 2010-2014). And just like with the women, when she does draw men, they've all got the same facial structures and body types:

(from The Doctor Pepper/Foxglove Show)

Like, you've got 6 guys here, six, and not a single one of them has facial hair or any extremely varied hairstyle. Half of them look like Hades. I get the sense that Rachel basically learned how to draw one "type" of male and one "type" of female and has just been drawing from those same templates ever since while swapping out minor details like nose shape and hair type.

Shit, here's an actual Hades drawing from back when she started doing Hades x Persephone sketches around 2016/2017:

Like, that's just a guy from The Doctor Pepper Show. He looks like a mix of Donovan and Shifty Ricky LMAO And it's not like she doesn't have mortals in LO either who aren't colored with highlighter marker, but I don't think she ever really gives them beards either. The only guy I can think of off the top of my head is Psyche's *future husband:

And that has the exact kind of stylization/structure that I was talking about before that Rachel would likely have to do if she gave the gods facial hair to keep it from looking silly. Case in point, that time Hermes grew a mustache:

All that said, I do think it's a combination of Rachel not knowing how to draw men (she's even admitted in past AMA's and interviews that she's bad at drawing men and that doesn't seem like something she's tried to improve judging by how the men look in LO) and LO's art style just not mixing well with more human features like beards and body hair. It could wind up looking like a Barbie doll with marker scribbled on it LMAO

(*edited because that's not her dad, that's the man she was married off to , my bad LOL)

#lore olympus critical #lo critical #anti lore olympus #antiloreolympus #ask me anything #ama #anon ama #anon ask me anything

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kikker-oma · 4 months

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hi friend!

idk how you phrase this but like

How do you draw bodies

because your art style is so good and I’m trying to find mine but people just don’t make sense to me 🥲

but aside from that, how is your day been?

Line of Action - best for figure drawing practice

@mellon-soup - has an INCREDIBLE repetoir of pose references. Here's their insta handle!

PROKO - has a lot of really great drawing fundamental resources on their YouTube channel for free. They also have paid online courses that go more in depth!

PoseManiacs - I used this when I was trying to learn and practice poses as well!

@miyuliart - on Twitter (or X , whatever it is) has a lot of great posts regarding pose study and anatomy! She even has some books for purchase too.

Lovely Blare, you are so sweet!! I'm glad you like my art style ❤️ it's definitely still being developed and I'm no master, but. I'm having fun building up my skills!

See below the break for more info cus this is kinda long lol

Above I've listed just a few of the many many many resources out there to study poses. These tend to be the people I look to most for references, tho they aren't the only ones!

If you're looking to practice and get better at anatomy and the fluidity of your poses, I would suggest starting by drawing actual people first. That way you know how real bodies move and twist and turn and what masclues go where. It makes simplifying and stylizing easier down the road!

Something I did a LOT, and honestly still do a lot, is find pictures of people or art of characters whose poses I like and just try to draw what I see. I have sketchbooks fuuulll of poses I copied just to practice! Tracing can definitely have it's value as well when you're learning!

I utilize Pinterest a lot to creat difference boards for reference photos I may need, and it's come in handy quite often!

I can show you how *I * draw bodies in general, but know that I kind of flub around until something starts to feel right haha. I'm still learning and practicing as well! How I draw bodies may now work for you and that's chill! Its all about trying out lots of different styles and seeing what you like best, or what methods make sense to you.

Fair warning: this probs isn't the most accurate tutorial, I just kinda threw something down as a general example hehe. I'm preaching about references but didn't want to use one at the moment cus I'm tired haha

Often my sketches are much messier and I just make lots of lines so I can find the "right one" lol.

These are some sketches I did for Peggys fan art!

Basically, just keep practicing until it eventually starts to look right lol

#sweet blarefordaglare #art advice #sorry this was so long #im still a novice tbh #study better artists than me #im just out here having fun haga

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cutelittleriot · 3 months

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Return to origin chapter 10

Branch wakes up to hearing Poppy wincing in pain.

Bolting up he goes over to her, what was it? Was it something new exclusive to her? His mind begins to race with the possibilities of what's going on.

"Hey Poppy are you ok? What's wrong?" He asks as he gently shakes her awake. "Its fine Branch just slept wrong on my....my tail!" She exclaims as she gets up to go to the bathroom to see but she frogot that her legs have completely changed shape and falls down thankfully he catches her before she could hit the ground.

"Woah there someone's excited" He chuckles. "I sure am! I'm getting a new appendage and I bet it's going to be super cute and I can't wait to stylize it!" She exclaims excited.

"Well how about we work on walking first before you do anything else ok?" He suggests to which she nods. "Now I want you to try walking on mostly your pawpads and take your heel off the ground while doing so" explains to her and she follows what he says and soon enough she is in a standing position.

"Woah this sure feels weird" She says getting a feel fro her balance. She takes a look at her new legs just like with Branch they are now a digigrade shape and her feet are the same shade of pink as her paws.

"Yeah don't worry it won't feel as weird when your tail fully grows in, it gets easier as time goes on" He explains as she heads to the bathroom as he heads to the kitchen to give her some privacy.

*In the bathroom*

Poppy is so excited to see what her new tail looks like! *feeling around to where the dull ache is she is disappointed to feel that it's only a small lump. Looking in the mirror the lump is around the same shade of pink as her hair if a bit darker. "Aww here I was hoping it was already grown a bit" She sighs as she leaves the bathroom.

'Just be patient Poppy it will grow soon enough' the mentally tells herself as she heads to the kitchen to see Branch who is cooking some eggs. "So how did it go? Wait let me guess it was just a small lump wasn't it?" He asks guessing it right on the nose. "Yep I wish It wasn't tho" She complains as she lays her head on the table.

"Don't worry it wasn't long before mine grew maybe a half hour at best. When the pressure stops that's when you can look" He explains as he places her some sunny side up eggs just the way she likes them. She eagerly digs into her food finishing pretty quickly compared to him who like to take him time when eating.

"You sure are energetic today" he says chuckling at her. "Of course I am Branch why wouldn't I be? It's the final day of my transformation and I'm growing a tail! I have always wondered what it's like to have a tail!" She exclaims. "Well take it from me it's annoying most of the time, it shows how your feeling and I don't like that also it seems to have a mind if it's own I swear" He complains looking at said tail with a glare to which it curls up as if to say 'I do?' Before moving away.

"I can't even hold anything with it becuase it's not prehensile. All I can is store stuff I it that's about it" He says taking a bite of his food. "Well who knows mine might be different you never know. Tails can come in all kinds of shapes and sizes" She says to which he nods "True" He says agreeing with her.

She decides to leave Branch to his breakfast as she heads back to continue her scrapbooking though she is having a hard time focusing she is just waiting for the pressure on her spine to release already she wants to see her tail!

She has to wait a agonizing 20 minutes before the pressure releases and she hasn't ran that quick in she doesn't even know how long. Turning around in the bathroom mirror she gasps.

It was small like she thought it would be as it's still growing only the length of one of her fingers. The fur of it is the same shade of pink as her skin while it has a curly tuft of fur at the end of it,the shade of it a bit darker than her hair but not as dark as her paws.

Gently she touches it with her paw and it reacts by twitching a bit before trying to curl around her finger but due to its very short length it's unable to. She can't belive she now has a tail. She can her own paw when she touches it showing that it's in fact connected to her and has its own nerves and senses and everything.

She makes it back to the kitchen as happy as she could be. "So how did it go?" Branch asks as he easily heard her running to the bathroom with his new hearing. "Its adorable! I can't wait until it gets longer! It's different compared to yours thats for sure though" She explains and that pipes his curiosity just what did it look like? Oh well he will find out soon enough.

Poppy heads back to finish her scrapbook while he decides to work on his jigsaw puzzle that still needs to be finished he had just been so preoccupied with Well everything else he just left it there half finished so with nothing better to do he gets to work on it.

It's around lunchtime when he sees Poppy again. That's when he sees her tail, it's certainly different compared to his for sure. It's already to the back of her knees and something tells him hers is easily going to be longer than his.

Judging by its shape its prehensile,lucky her. The fur at the end is curly for some reason but he won't question it. "Hi Branch!" She yells as she hugs him tightly tail wagging like crazy. "So? What do you think of my tail? Cute huh?" She says twisting around to show him the new appendage.

"Well it certainly suits you" He says looking at the limb that is alot more reactive than his but then again it might just be him as Poppy often wears her emotions on her sleeve and tails react to emotions and how a person is feeling. Meanwhile he is harder to read at times and it sort of reflects on his tail.

"Did you finally finish that scrapbook?" He asks as she has been at this for a long while now. Usually it doesn't take her this long to make one but then again it's hard to scrapbook something that hasn't happened yet and don't know what will happen so once she knew what was going to happen it became much easier.

"Yep sure did!" She exclaims as she places it onto the table. "I can't wait to share it with everyone. I have so much to tell them" She says tail once again wagging at the thought of seeing everyone again. "Please don't tell me your going into heavy detail about the transformation" Branch says paling at the thought.

"I won't don't worry I'm just telling them the basics of what happened" She says waving her hand. "Soooo jigsaw puzzle? Oh right we never did finish it so let's finish it today as like a milestone for completing this transformation thing" She says thinking positive just like she always does. "Sure good idea" He says smiling at her and the troll couple got to work.

When they work together with one goal in mind they end up working really fast but then again this is a one thousand piece puzzle and Branch had only around 600 pieces done when he started today but still!

While they were working Branch is alerted to a new sensation at his tail. Looking back he can see that Poppy has wrapped her tail around his. At this point it reaches her feet with how long it is,just how much longer was it going to get?! Poppy seems oblivious to this as she continues to work on the puzzle meanwhile Branch is trying very hard not to blush.

He both loves and hates how their tails seem to fit so perfectly together. It was like how they held hands well paws now it just felt right in a weird way. Turning back to the puzzle the couple manage to finish it near dinnertime.

It was still a bit early for dinner and now they litterally have nothing to do. They have already cleaned up the place in preparation for Poppy heading back to the village,all the dishes were clean, all the stuff they used was put away. Poppy looks back at her tail it's longer now and it even drags on the floor just a bit but not by much thankfully.

"Wow didn't expect it to grow so long" Branch says whistling at its length. "Yeah me neither here's to hoping nobody steps on it or you know shuts a door on it that would hurt.... alot" She says her ears lowering as she could only imagine the pain.

"What do we do now?" Poppy asks him to which he has no answer for once. "If you want can we.....cuddle?" He mumbles the last part out but Poppy easily heard it.

Cuddle? Oh my sugar they haven't cuddled this entire time! Well they sort of did yesterday during her whole fiasco with her legs but that didn't really count as she was in pain. Usually she is the one who asks for him to ask it's really special as Branch is a troll who doesn't like to be touched much as evident by hug time, if he were the one to initiate touch it doesn't bother him but when it comes to surprise hug he hates them. Apparently it bothers him due to sensory issues so she made it clear to not surpirse hug him.

"Sure we can cuddle. I'm so happy you asked me to!" She happy grabs him as they lay on the couch as she lays her head on his chest as they both just enjoy eachothers presence and warmth. No words were exchanged between the two trolls becuase sometimes words weren't needed to be said.

Soon both of them are purring in both happiness and content "Thank you for being there for me Poppy I really mean it" Branch says as he squeezes her gently. "Thank you too Branch for being there for me as well" She says gently squeezing back as they both gently kiss each other for a few seconds before letting go and smiling at eachother.

Who knew this whole transformation would bring them even closer together than before? Soon though they had to stop as both of their stomachs growled demanding to be fed.

Groaning the two stop cuddling as they get up "I was hoping we could cuddle a bit longer" Poppy says smiling. "Same but looks like our stomachs don't agree with us" He says as he heads into the kitchen. He decides he is going a bit fancy today as it's their final day of being cooped up her together so he gets some meat and begins to cook it for the both of them.

Soon enough Poppy could smell the cooked meat and it takes everything in her not to drool. She has to wait for at least 10 minutes before Branch tells her the foods ready and she eagerly heads there ready to dig in. "Here ya go. Thought we should have something special for today as a sort of celebration" He tells her.

"Aww yeah normally I would break out the glitter but I won't today as I know you wouldn't want glitter in your food" Poppy says before digging into the meat. "Yeah I wouldn't want that" Branch chuckles at her statement before joining her.

Soon enough their plates are clean and their stomachs are full. Branch goes to clean the plates as Poppy gets ready to do her night routine. Soon enough he joins her as she lies down in her sleeping bag and he heads to his bed.

"Can't wait for tomorrow" Poppy tells him. "Yep the whole village is going to see our new selves" He says sort of dreading tomorrow. He truly hopes they will accept them. He has no doubt they would accept Poppy she was queen after all but would they accept him? The former grey recluse? He could only hope.

He closes his eyes and soon falls asleep.

Fun fact if two trolls tails are entertwined it's a sign of a good healthy relationship that is sure to last. Only couples and family members would entertwine tails as some can be sensitive so it's a sign of a strong trust between the two.

Hope yall enjoyed the cute broppy moments and yassss they kissed. I feel like they would take it slow with their relationship and wouldn't kiss too often so each one they savor but not too much

Also sorry for this chapter being shorter than the others

ANYWHO here is poppys design and yes I know her crown isn't there I just didn't want to draw it but I assure you it's there in the story

#trolls #trolls 2 #trolls 3 #branch #poppy #broppy #return to origin

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kurjakani · 1 year

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A very bastardized Gyutaro from Demon Slayer :0 Hes soooooooooo beloved.... he likes ugly pathetic people....... hes just like me fr and i kinda wisg 2 smoocha him... I rly struggled tho 2 figure out how to translate him into my style since the demon slayer artstyle is soooo stylized and strong on its own and i rly rly could not even begin 2 try to replicate it, SOBS.

#demon slayer #gyutaro #daki #i love them both theyre the worst

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rist-ix · 6 months

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I have a question for you what do you think of the quote unquote age gap between Bloom and Valtor?

I had to do alot of research to understand Bloom age when I started to like this ship better than Mr cheater. So here's a brief information dump:

Bloom is 16 in the first episode and its confirm her bday is December 10 (we don't know the the exact year when each girl was born only the fact Stella is the oldest by that logic Bloom is the second youngest out of the group) when we get to season 3 it is confirmed that the girls is in their 3rd semester so that makes Bloom 19 at point. Valtor's age we do not know however I'm going to say at most early 20s from what we know Valtor working with a younger Griffin before he got Popsicled.

Here comes the tricky part. In s4 the girls just finished their semester and graduated making them 20-21. Up until s5 where Nicklodeon had to reboot their age making them 16 again. Flashforward to s8 and that makes Bloom age 19 if you are following the reboot or 23 if you do not follow the reboot. Since we don't know how long Valtor been frozen his mental age is up for debate.

For me personally I don't see Sparxshipping as an Edward and Bella situation as Edward was aging naturally during his years while Valtor was frozen and couldn't age naturally but only mentally.

Okay okay first of all! Your Bloom math checks out and I just realized that I for some reason always thought Bloom is 18 in s3. Which is still possible, I think, I just dont know why I assumed that. Actually no, it works, if she is 16 in s1 she is 17 in s2 and 18 in s3, but we dont know a lot about how the school years work in Magix so I'm gonna jot her down as 18-19 for the remainder of this post.

Still dont know how I passed math btw.

Anyway. Valtor's age is where the real mystery is at. We've got two possibilities in my opinion.

1. He's pulling the ageless immortal card.

My personal go-to for fics and discussions. Love me some 300 year old mommy issues. He has too much practice being a messy bitch, there's no fixing this man folks.

Evidence: There's a flashback showing him with Griffin as a tween: she looks MUCH younger, he looks exactly the same. Unless he also stole the secret magic of the world's most potent anti aging cream, or Griffin's proximity to Faragonda just aged her by three more decades, he does not age.

2. He is the age he looks.

Which, in my humble opinion, would not put him anywhere near twenty. That is a grown man. He's not college age, unless you count college professors under that word. Even if I were good at guessing ages the very stylized art style would throw me for a loop, but im gonna say 40s, give or take. Look at Avalon, look at Codatorta, look at King Radius if u must. That is the age range we're looking at.

Evidence: I dont have any. We're ballin'. I guess it's never explicitly stated he's immortal, which you'd think would be big enough of a deal to mention. If u got something feel free to let me know.

That being said, the Winx Club Wiki page for the canon timeline (ha, good one) puts the time of Valtor's creation in a rough time frame from "Over 17 years before season 1" to "Under 100 years before season 6". So he could technically be anywhere from 17-97, though I'm not sure the upper limit is as reliable as the lower one, given the check-list format of the website. So make of that what you will.

Now that we've got the question of age out of the way, lets get to the age gap. I have no idea what the situation in twilight was to be honest, so I cant compare that.

Realistically, there's at least a decade between Bloom and Valtor. Possibly two decades and change. And that is just from visible age, we can add a few centuries on top of that if we're sticking with the immortal bit. I'm gonna be gonest, I dont think being frozen for 17 years will make a whole lot of difference here.

If you find that icky, which is fair, you can always change that for fics tho! Either turn him into a twenty year old or put Bloom in her milf-era, the options are endless. Personally, I think the age difference is half the fun though, and also the least of their issues. When you're off making out with the objectively worst person in history, wether he's too old for her isnt gonna rank very high on people's list of concerns.

#asks #sparxshipping #winx bloom #winx valtor #i think their very obvious gap in knowledge and experience is very intrinsic to their canon dynamic #Bloom being the underdog while Valtor is VERY convinced of his superiority kind of defines the ship for me #and it makes it so much more satisfying when Bloom does put him on his ass

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