Look it’s late and I just have to say this. The fact I live in a time where Daniel Bruhl exists and there have been two new versions of Little Women filmed in the last decade and neither of them cast him as Professor Bhaer is just proof there’s something deeply wrong with the world.

(Robbed. We were robbed I say!)

Lineart by me! (extra info for colorists in og tags) I couldn't resist a dappled light variant on this. @green-with-envy-phandom-event

fun fact: this lineart originally had the actual lunch/picnic table ridges and then i realized that was too much, especially without access to the layers of lineart (personally, I would color the lineart for the table and then the support bars would be colored and the layer moved underneath the table top. I decided not to put colorists in a position to try to color it with one layer of lineart, but I did get quite far before making that decision)

If you're still up for requests how about Shadow or Rouge? :]

ask and you shall receive

I am going to walk into a lake. Please do not retrieve me

Various fairy tail sketches (id in alt text)

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

Important question, do more of the RE8 villagers survive in this version?

Yes, very much yes. I can't, at this time, guarantee any specific characters other than Elena (definitely) and Luiza (probably), and an undetermined number of unnamed villagers, but I definitely plan for some of the villagers to survive.

While the total wipe-out of the Village in RE8 is a lot more believable than other "total wipes" like Raccoon City or the Pueblo in RE4, as it seems significantly smaller than both RC or the Pueblo, and has a more intelligent breed of bioweapon under specific instruction to exterminate the Village, Resident Evil has a weird and kind of uncomfortable history with complete massacres over its long history that I'm always inclined to push against. It's lazy, uninteresting writing to me when it's a trope recycled so frequently... especially given it's very clearly mostly used to provide clean narrative "closure" between each game by eliminating any other survivors other than the main protagonists (and Wesker lol). Like... RE4, for example, functions as a contained narrative because the Pueblo dies at its end. Its function is over in the continued story of "Resident Evil"... it only matters going forth in the context of Leon, Ashley, and Ada as characters. But as a writer, I'm much more intrigued by a version of that story that involves other survivors. What would it mean to live through something like that, not as the hero outsider protagonist, but as a civilian? How do you even recover? Who would you be after?

The weight of the horror of the complete destruction of a place that's isolated to a single game becomes faded when it's the same shit in every game. I'm sick of it, and bored of it. It would hit harder if it wasn't every damn game... better to take it apart and try something new with its empty box.

Another project, a dozen drawings based on 3 rules you set for yourself!! mine were flower heads, shows the sky somewhere, and they're all different times of day

Let's become one; it's okay not to be able to turn back.

That's fine, for you're my one and only love.

at first I thought that the game had sold my house to some random woman (thank u Clavia for sweeping but you scared the shit outta me) and then I was relieved to know that it was still link's, but then you get inside and all the stuff has been replaced w Zelda's stuff and her journal is in the bedroom and her secret well is down below. I know a bunch of people have said like oh they were living together and I thought that too at first (despite the one bed), but the more I hang around the village the more I'm convinced that Link just gave Zelda his house and kinda fucked off a little. it would go a long way towards explaining how everyone knows zelda but no one knows Link (though that seems to be a common theme), but the greatest evidence imo is when you talk to one of the kids from the school who's waiting for Zelda to return near the house. she asks link if he's going to "zelda's house" and says that zelda often leaves the village but always quickly returns. it seems based on this and the interior décor that the house now firmly belongs to zelda, and link was maybe a non presence in the village after the events of the first game. I wonder if he gave her the house as something of a retreat, a place where she could be alone and recover while also being close to Purah - one of the few other people she knows from Before - and the lab. meanwhile it doesn't seem like there's any space made for link in the house or the village. idk what it all means but I do have enormous feelings about Link giving up the one space that was really his so that zelda could have a home again after hers was destroyed

I like portal revolution a lot but i certainly think its the weakest out of the fangames. Ps:m has more consistent difficulty and a (in my opinion) better story, and aperture tag has an interesting gimmick thats super fun even if the story is. Nonexistent. I just feel like revolution shouldve more strongly committed to certain things and... The ending is really bad, im sorry. For one, stirling switches from calling what happened at the spire an accident to blaming the mc and wanting to kill her shockingly quick. Even before he finds out that conly wants to stop him. If they had elaborated on it and been like "oh its his abandonment issues that made him think that" then mayyybe it wouldve been better ? And the ending cutscene is nigh incomprehensible. I had to rewind multiple times to figure out what was going on. Either they shouldve committed to everyone dying in the explosion, or committed to conly and the mc surviving in the facility. The halfsies style ending they chose with conly (and stirling?) ending up on the moon whereas the mc is nearly killed makes very little sense for either characters and its a bit frustrating. I could go more in depth as to How it makes no sense but. I feel like if youve played/watched it then you know what im talking about

I still think revolution is a worthwhile play or watch, but if someone were to ask me for a fanmod to play, im still going to recommend ps:m first .

i’m aware the reception of TUA s3 was mixed and i’m not here to talk about any of that

what i am here to voice is my absolute BETRAYAL that klaus and five did karaoke to (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life and we DIDN’T get klaus bodily throwing himself at someone to do the dirty dancing lift. and i for one will never forgive them that missed opportunity no matter how many other great moments we did get in s3

from square one, just looking at their respective introductions, these games have different priorities.  Rindo’s character arc is weaker than neku’s?  Yeah, neo is less interested in Rindo than twewy is in neku, and it never pretended otherwise.  Preferring twewy is understandable, hell, same, but knocking neo for not having the same focus and approach never makes sense to me.

my roman empire is all the things dragonwatch dropped and never came back to like okay i can excuse the seven scepters of wymroost being dropped but— the favors to dromadus? and weren't seth and kendra supposed to you know, try to spare dragons when they got the chance? that sure went out the window along with dromadus' pacifism. why is seth's problem with dragon taming suddenly the fear side of it and not the way they mesmerize prey like in fablehaven? how the hell did ronodin get bracken's third horn and is anybody gonna fix the font of immortality??? and WHY did so much stuff involving ronodin and bracken happen entirely off-page man. why did kendra's deal with ronodin never come back up? don't get me started on dagny either. i have so many questions.

I'll never stop thinking about vampire Kuvira and werewolf Baatar like it's just so correct.

A tiktok just came across my feed that just gave me the ick. I’m not gonna link it because I cbf. But a girl was talking about a group of people who took a louis themed sign to Harry’s Perth show. And how fans do it with Harry themed stuff at Louis shows.

She was saying how it’s appreciated at Louis shows because his fan base is primarily Larries while Harry’s is not and is a complete different crowd and that annoys me because of how much Louis has always expressed his discontent towards the larry ship and it just seems like double Standards. Like why is Harry themed signs okay for Louis but Louis themed signs aren’t okay for Harry?

This is just a reflection of their professional branding. Harry and Louis themselves contribute to this disparity, so ultimately the buck stops with them.

Since 2014, Harry has separated and distanced himself from One Direction. He branded himself as different from the others; he is privileged and unique. His solo career owes nothing to the other boys; his fashion is distinct, he has his own aesthetic, friends, industry connections. His girlfriends are movie stars and directors, people with careers and connections. Harry is all about high level connections. The hoi polloi, the poor, the people who can’t afford his products— are poison to Harry. Sure, he’s rich enough to care about other people, but does it help his career? Harry is a royalist and an opportunist. “Common people” are dirty words.

Louis has become the antithesis of Harry in branding in every way. Louis is “just like us,” a commoner, a big fan of One Direction. Louis wants to break down barriers between him and fans. He goes to the barricade to be with fans. He writes songs about 1D and happily talks about it, still. Louis didn’t take “1D” out of his Twitter bio for seven years after the band broke up. His documentary will include 1D clips and Sony-perpetuated stereotypes. His fans are OT5s and Larries who want a reunion: young fans looking backward, never forward. His girlfriends are influencers — people that Louis thinks his fans want to be, like his sisters. Louis’ songs focus on nostalgia. He doesn’t want to let it go either. Fans feel free to chant 1D songs in his concerts because subliminally, Louis tolerates it. His team (&BMG) doesn’t bother growing his fanbase because they’re too busy fanning the embers of nostalgia. Maybe the reason LTHQ won’t hear the frustrations of fans is because the directive and the ignorance of the fanbase comes from the top: from Louis himself.

I’m not blaming Louis for his blacklisting or any of the industry bullshit, but Louis needs to see that this 1D-focused strategy is promising something (a 1D reunion) that will never happen, and that will ultimately result in a lot of fans turning viciously against him. First, he should stop promoting the idea that reunion is a sure thing. It isn’t. Second, he needs to think about how 1D fans can support his next album, and the next, and the next, as these 13-18-year-old fans age out of their 1D phase or want to have actual Faith In His Future.

If Louis doesn’t have the confidence to go his own way, why should the fanbase? If he can’t hire a better team, how can we have hope?