THINGS WE SHOULD BRING BACK:
that thing where rich people would adopt pet artists and pay for them to just sort of hang out and be the weirdest goddamn person alive in their guest room
being sent to the seaside for your health
guillotine
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Having read a fair amount of Poirot as of late (the first two novels and most of the short stories in Poirot Investigates), the thing I’ve overwhelmingly come away with is that Poirot and Hastings both are and aren’t what pop culture would have you think that Holmes and Watson are like.
Poirot is outwardly conceited, thinking the best of his own abilities while deriding those of the people around him. Hastings especially falls victim to this, being teased for “not seeing” and manipulated more than once as Poirot withholds the facts, and being resentful of Poirot’s arrogance while also being unduly arrogant himself - nearly every single one of his own proud deductions turns out to be intensely wrong, and he is also prone to foolish or reckless acts in the name of trying to score one off Poirot. Holmes and Watson, on the other hand, certainly have their faults, but their relationship is not so tempestuous, and Holmes is kinder and Watson less foolish than is often presumed by those who have not read the canon. Holmes, while possessed of some immodesty, never flaunts his intelligence so dramatically as Poirot does, and Watson is largely faithful and amazed by Holmes’s deductive capacity, and though occasionally annoyed is almost never resentful.
However, what I like about Poirot and Hastings is the way in which they aren’t like Holmes and Watson as painted with the pop cultural brush - namely that, like the original Holmes and Watson, Poirot and Hastings are unquestionably fond of each other. Their tiffs and petty spats are always contrasted with their affection, if not shot through with it in the first place. Poirot may speak ill of Hastings’s intelligence, but it is shown multiple times that he does not genuinely want to hurt his feelings, and he always asks Hastings to come with him on his cases - not because Hastings always provides any material aid, but because Hastings is his friend. Hastings may tease Poirot and think condescendingly of his mannerisms, but his laughter is always fond, and he admires him and desires his praise and respect just as much as he worries for him and wants to help him in potential times of need. Most importantly, despite their arguments and many differences (age, culture, temperament, just to name a few) they remain steadfastly together (with many year living voluntarily under the same roof!) and ultimately both wish and facilitate each other’s happiness.
They are more difficult than their Doyle-penned forbears, but for that there is no less love.
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Congrats, you singlehandedly got me and my friend into Trainwreckshipping lol
HHHHH REALLY OMG that is seriously so flattering to me you don't even know, that makes me so happy to hear 🥺💖😭💖🙏
here, here is another trainwreckshipping drawing to help draw you into the ship more! :D
emmet is playing pokemon black/white version while they ride the train home
(do you think he's hatching joltik eggs or battling himself on the battle subway)
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I was talking a bit about this but I think part of the reason iterators are designed as these small little doll-like puppets is both to humanize and dehumanize them by the Ancients. The puppet, at is core, is a means for communication with a great biological machine- to give it a face and features and ground it as you ask its advice or it's progress. This massive, world-altering creation simplified down to this little thing that had all the features of a person.
But its also small, cute, Ancient-like but clearly not an Ancient itself. They're colorful and simple, like a toy for children. And I think thats largely how Ancients saw them- often not as a person with desires and opinions but as an extension of the Ancient's work, a personalized character that represented their cities and people, whos citizens could like them and were comprehensible to their children, but was not them- and would not reap the reward of being them when a solution was found. Each one pretty and unique to make them individuals, but not seen- truly- as individuals by many- just as parts of their cities, something under the Ancients. Like if every town had its own personal My Little Pony they could ask advice on where the next community center should be built.
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no one technically requested konan but i couldn’t split up the trio again……
[ ID: three bust drawings in a canon vs your design template of yahiko, konan and nagato. yahiko smiles wide and looks at the viewer. my version is blasian with brown skin, loose dark orange coils, and freckles. konan smiles looking to the right. my version has brown skin, light freckles, and light brown eyes. nagato smiles looking to the left. my version has pale skin, heavy eye bags, visible eye veins and acne. all three of them have matching rain earrings. the background is a rainy sky. END ID. ]
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i do want to say that i honestly think kinning is good harmless fun for the most part and that it gets a bad rep it doesn't deserve because people go out of their way to dig up "insane kin drama" because... people being mad online is funny i guess? and they're ~cringe~ so it's okay to subject them to public humiliation (combined with the general online attitude of making callout posts and airing your drama on public social media instead of resolving your interpersonal issues through more private communication making people's disagreements an easy target for ridicule). like if you think that being fictionkin or otherkin or w/e is inherently bad and stupid then i think you should probably mind your own business better. who cares. whether it's a coping mechanism or just somebody enjoying life by living it as their favorite fictional character, it really doesn't matter that much. get a real hobby if it bothers you.
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And they scream, "What are you running away from?" / And I scream back, "Everything and everyone" [The 411 - Bears In Trees]
made a little comic very slightly based off of these lyrics :)
I very quickly sketched out the idea when I was listening to the song, and then when I went back to actually draw my idea I had almost no clue what I was going for lol
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