I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you
A long time ago when I was first getting into tma I did an au where it's set in the Wild West, so I thought I'd make a return to it since it's such a fun idea! So here's Michael and Helen for it, I'm hoping to make more drawings of other characters later
"...this is the first series there has been where nobody in the house is actually related. It’s quite a modern family vibe - we are this weird, disparate group of people that get on.” Samuel West
i don't think dc could ever release anything better than impulse 1995 like that was their best nothing can touch it in my eyes. like the intricate and personal relationships between bart and the people around him like max, helen, preston, carol etc him just BEING a kid whilst also being impulse and eventually settling down into a strange unfamiliar world and like even the relationship between him and thad because each of barts relationships goes further than skin deep and because he doesn't think too much about them either but he does at the same time too and it's just something to special to me that i fear nobody understands because bart allen impulse is such a complex character i could talk about forever about his relationships between each of the people in his lives cuz even if they seem insignificant bart makes them significant and i'll just shut up now.
I am still not done btw, I still need to refoam her beak, patch up the hole by her eye, and finish cleaning her. NOTE the weird dark stains on her beak are just water
While visitors to the practice were principally there to see the real James Herriot, and were often overcome with excitement to meet him - which always bemused Dad - they were also delighted if Donald Sinclair (better known to them as Siegfried) made an appearance. This of course tickled us as, since we had grown up in and around the practice, Donald and his younger brother Brian (on whom Tristan was based) were like family.
They were a constant presence in our lives, Donald was Jim's godfather and we always referred to him and his wife as "Uncle Donald and Auntie Audrey."