i don’t love chat noir not being in final fight with his father, but at the same time i do love that this was the first finale where we see ladybug 100% confident in the face of impossible odds. she’s clearly terrified out of her mind but she never stops and doubts whether she can win. and it’s not that she doesn’t still need her team because she does and everyone is behind the scenes helping her, but this is the first finale we’ve seen her without any doubt in her ability to win. it’s the first time she doesn’t need a pep talk from chat noir to keep her going.
but even though she doesn’t need a pep talk and he’s not physically there with her, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t still need him. it means that he’s part of her now even when he’s not there. you can feel the boost of confidence after she transforms into bug noire and it’s more than just the added power. it’s that this time she doesn’t have the ring because he abandoned her but instead because he has faith she can and will save them all. she can only do it without him because he believes she can, and through that she can believe in herself. she’s finally able to internalize the things he’s told her every finale. girl didn’t doubt for a second that she could kick gabriel’s ass and reform her team and she didn’t doubt her chat noir would be part of that team. i love how confident and strong she was and how far she’s come.
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Ang ganda yung art mo GGHHHOORLLLL!
I was looking at the line work you do and was wondering: do you ink it physically and then scan it, or is it fully digital? It's really good and gives a solid grit to it and adds texture to your works. How do you do that?
shdhfh maraming salamatttt 💞💕
99% of what I post here is all digital because I don’t really have access to a scanner very often! my inking style looks the way it does because I draw traditionally in my sketchbooks a LOT and the way I ink digitally is Exactly The Same as I do traditionally (which is why you see a lot of double lines in my inking, stray lines, or scribbling when I fill in solid blacks without the fill tool, I also always turn off any stabilization features a brush might have bc I don’t like the way it feels) and I often go looking for brushes that are gritty or crunchy so that it looks similar to the pens I use on paper!
You can see a bunch of the stray lines and general scribbling I did here, which is exactly what my irl sketchbooks look like, and the circled brushes (I edited these after I downloaded them all to have 0 stabilization) are the ones I used for it!
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can I say, even if to tease the audience, it is SO megalomaniacal, egotistical Gabriel Agreste to tell a giant, glowing god, “read my heart.”
that’s all, nothing more. he repeats it! well done cementing his character through the end imo
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just watched the season finale and all i have to say is i hope this is a nightmare ish alternate reality (since everyone was already being haunted by nightmares) cuz everyone is way too happy and ALIVE (wasnt there supposed to be two sacrifices??)
also pls someone tell adrien he's been fighting his dad for five seasons
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like i see people say stuff like “rei is a deconstruction of the idea of like the perfect girl in a male gaze-y way” and and i'm ready to agree until they go “it’s because she’s creepy and weird and bad!” like no. rei's a deconstruction of misogynistic ideas of womanhood because they’re ideals forced upon her that damage her, not because she’s in any way “creepy”. like, the fact she’s a fourteen year old girl who was basically used as a substitute wife by her father bc she looked like his own dead wife is not something that is meant to make rei look bad like holy shit.
like both rei and asuka are very obviously like. showing fantasised and misogynistic ideas of an idealised woman don’t work irl yeah. shinji's misogynistic view of them is wrong. but that’s not because rei and asuka are bad people it’s because like. “fourteen year old who's flirty and seductive” and “fourteen year old who's a quiet obedient object” are major signs of abuse and trauma and anyone actually acting in those ways at that age clearly isn’t normal. asuka is desperate for attention in any way she can get it, even unhealthy and dangerous ways. rei is at the very least I has a weird pseudo-incestous enmeshment filled abusive relationship with her father, even if she's not actively being sexually abused. asuka is seeking support, rei is a grooming victim. these are not things that are flaws in their character the entire point of subverting the expectations is to show how those expectations are unhealthy to rei and asuka like. god.
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legitimately I think the most emotionally affecting arc of the entire original show is the Appa arc. that stretch of episodes between The Desert and Lake Laogai contain some of the most tear-jerking moments of the whole show. between the tales of ba sing se, Aang's grief over losing not just his best friend but his last remaining connection to his previous life, culture, and people (I know he has Momo too but Momo wasn't there 100 years ago, not like Appa), actually seeing what happened to Appa, and then Jet's death, like...these are some heavy episodes and they're all back-to-back.
I don't think even the Sozin's Comet specials quite match it, and I really think the biggest reason is Appa himself. Appa's genuinely a character in the same way as any of the others, he's not just a magical flying bus. he has personality, he has character, he has or develops relationships with each of the main cast. he's a huge part of the emotional core of the show. the gaang depend on him, of course, but he's also kind of a living manifestation of Aang's heart, and his culture, and all that he's lost.
so watching Appa be in distress and abused isn't just watching senseless animal cruelty (which is already an especially heinous crime), it's watching Appa being in distress and abused. it's watching a universally beloved character. who doesn't love Appa? who doesn't get a kick watching him torment Sokka or lick Aang's face or tease Momo? who doesn't love it when Appa swoops in to knock out an enemy or rescue the gaang? we all fucking love Appa, and yes it helps that he's an animal and animals are always gonna be non-controversial characters in a story about humans, but I don't think that's the main reason we all love Appa so much. we love Appa because he's Appa. because he's a character, not just a pet.
knowing how much pain Aang (and even Momo) are in while Appa is gone makes this hurt all the worse too. all the near misses, all the moments of connection between them that we see in Appa's Lost Days, knowing what Appa means to Aang, and what Aang means to Appa...I mean I don't know how you watch that episode and keep a dry eye. I really don't. saddest episode of the entire show and it's not close.
and then it doesn't help that they threw Iroh's big sad moment and Jet's death into this arc either. you're already primed to be emotional from all the Appa stuff and then they throw those in? come on that's just not playing fair.
so no, I don't think any other arc in the show matches the raw emotionality of this one. Sozin's Comet comes the closest, but even that doesn't hit like the Appa arc.
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(I found time before work lmao)
You see Ryuji seemingly back from the dead but his tattoo looks like this
1:1 recreation idk what you talkin bout. his tat looks EXACTLY like that fym
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