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giffingthingsss · 2 years

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#i had to abbreviate this a lil for room #voyager things #imperfection #i remembered the icheb parts #but i forgot this scene #i swear when seven gave her reasoning and janeway stepped forward a lil i was like #'omg hug her. freaking hug her.'#'hug this poor baby'#she's just sure the reason janeway can't accept reality is her own failure #when the opposite is true #it can't be that janeway loves her or anything #and she's doing an intervention to release janeway of her obligation so she can accept the situation and move on #janeway's like 'i'll take you to see indiana' and seven's like 'no you effing won't i'm dying and i'm sorry'#baby

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niishi · 1 year

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the thing that bothers me about Sanji fans is they'll be like "oh I love sanji so much" and then you mention any canon thing about him and they get so upset. what's the point of having such a dynamic character with so much intricate dimension and then not wanting to acknowledge any of that bc you're uncomfortable by the fact he is multi dimensional and not a perfect Mary sue

#neither sanji nor Zoro fans have media literacy #they think bc sanji has backstory that it = development #and they think that since zoro doesnt have backstory that = no development #when the opposite is true #this is one of the millions of ways they parallel each other #and everyone sees it so simplistically #zoros lack of dimension and abundance of character development is the point #sanjis dimension and lack of character development js the point #its like everyone takes everything at face value and doesnt analyze the purpose and meaning #you think its an insult to you and sanji that be doesn't have character development when in reality #its an intricate writing process in order to parallel dimensions and development #mostly between zoro snd sanji #anything that one lacks #the other one thrives in #idk im tired of trying to talk about sanji and getting my head bit off #i love talking about him bc he has so much to analyze #im not shying away from his canon characteristic and dimension #bc i genuinely like his character #that doesnt mean im going to ignore 90% of it and pretend hes my mary sue oc #zoro is the mary sue

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the-good-ol-art-corner · 1 month

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I know a couple of people have already redrawn that one panel, but fuck it we ball-

This is roughly how I thought Norman would look in canon (and Buddy <3) but uh, yeah that dream is squashed ig fml

Reblogs > Likes, Thank You!

#norman polk #Buddy Lewek #batim #dreams come to life #the projectionist #bendy and the ink machine #bendy dctl #bendy graphic novel #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #boris and the dark survival #bendy lone wolf #bendy the cage #my art #digital art #reblogs > likes #artist on tumblr #I was actually gonna color this normally and not in sepia #But I know I KNOW someone's gonna try to defend the white Norman stuff with-#-'Well it's hard to color black people in yellow shades/sepia'#When one that's just. not true? You absolutely can?? It's just a limited palette??#And two BATIM and BATDR stray from yellow into colors of orange and borderline red. And on the opposite end BATIM had slight greens #just sayin'#Also yes I did change what he said in that graphic novel panel back to what he actually said in the og book #So glad you noticed :)

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haunted-xander · 1 month

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Something something kh2 Sora's outfit being primarily dark colors despite being associated with light and Riku's outfit being primarily light colors despite being associated with darkness

#something something riku letting himself be eclipsed by darkness (taking on ansem sods form + black coat) to preserve soras light from afar #only to cast it off and return to light (true form + lighter colored outfit) once hes reunited with sora #ALSO something something riku using a blindfold to shield himself from the light (sora/his feelings for sora) to ensure he remains in the da #rk #ALSO soras red (sunset-dawn-light) to rikus blue/purple (midnight-dusk-dark)#but they still both have traces of yellow (sun-stars-moon-union of day and night)#the sun chasing the moon but never fully catches up until the moon aligns itself with it- a solar eclipse #a union that takes both parties meeting halfway to achieve- a chase that ends when the target wants it to- connection and love and wanting #im getting off track my point is FOILS!!!!! OPPOSITES!!!!!! SHOWING CONNECTION THROUGH ASSOCIATIONS #brb im going insane #sora #riku #soriku #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #kh #kh2 #xander rambles

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wikitpowers · 3 months

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Ash unfolded the paper. A jolt went through his body. He turned away quickly so that Jace and Sebastian, deep in conversation, wouldn't see his expression.

It was her, the strange human girl he's once seen in the Unseelie weapons room. Dark hair, eyes the colour of the sky he only partially remembered. A murder of crows circled in the sky behind her. Not a photograph, but a drawing, done with a wistful hand, a sense of love and longing emanating from the page. A name was scribbled in a corner: Drusilla Blackthorn.

Drusilla. She looked lonely, Ash thought, but determined as well, as if a hope lived behind those summer-blue eyes, a hope that could not be quenched by loss, a hope too strong to feel despair.

Ash's heart was pounding, though he could not have said why. Hastily, he folded the drawing and thrust it into his pocket.

there is literally nothing (and i mean nothing) that anyone could say that would convince me that ash doesn't have the biggest crush on dru blackthorn idfc.

LET ME TELL YOU this ain't platonic in the slightest, okay?

NOW FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TIME I WANNA ANALYSE THIS BC I HAVE ISSUES WELCOME

this one is for the folks who doubt morgenthorn will be endgame *peace out*

like the "her" being in italics is already sus enough because he's like "omg it's the pretty girl i saw that one time *blushes furiously*" and then he seems so pleased to finally know her name????? drusilla???? and then like examines the drawing so thoroughly it’s actually mental???? he thinks she’s the most gorgeous human to ever walk the earth (and he’s not wrong)

and to top it all off he’s all “hmmm my heart is beating kinda fast lolsies i wonder why” and then wait for it HE FUCKING TAKES THE DRAWING!!! LIKE HE FOLDS IT AND PUTS IT IN HIS POCKET BC OFC HE DOES!!!! HE HAS TO LOOK AT IT IN HIS FREE TIME U KNOW BC THAT’S WHAT U DO (when ur a freaking simp)!!! he is so so whipped already and twp hasn’t even been released pls i’m so far gone for them save me

dru is getting like properly thirsted over AND FUCKING RIGHTFULLY SO bc she’s an absolute goddess and we all know it… and ash is the drusilla blackthorn fanclub founder idc like god he is gonna have it SO bad for her in twp and guys when she finds out he kept the drawing all these years, i will simply evaporate out of existence

morgenthorn is gonna be my downfall mark my words

i can’t wait yay A N G S T😀

[pterodactyl screech]

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stuckinapril · 5 days

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the reason why i don't believe in soulmates (never did this just solidified it) was literally how the ex bf treated me ... like brother if u think im your soulmate some self improvement is neededddd ... i think ppl rely on the whole soulmate thing too much honestly. like ppl can and will work together if they put in the effort and try to improve for the other! but leaning so hard on "we're meant for each other" will ruin one person or the other but that's just MY two cents all i want from a man now is gold

leaning so hard on "we're meant for each other" will ruin one person or the other <- exactly!! working through tough stuff is what love is about—romantic or platonic or otherwise—but at some point you have to realize it’s okay to pull the plug and pivot your attention elsewhere if something just doesn’t fit. the whole “but we’re meant to be, so we’ll push through it anyway” is just the scarcity mindset repackaged to me. this is what makes people stay in abusive relationships that serve them no favor, or relationships whose expiration date has long passed. like please work through things, that’s what love is about, but that should coexist w walking away when the situation warrants it—bc there are 8 billion people on this planet, and at least a handful of them are bound to be soulmate material the same way ur shitty ex was

#But yeah people exploit the opposite end of this too and we start engaging in toxic cutoff culture so #Love is hard work and just bc a relationship is hard work doesn’t mean it’s not right #But know when to walk away too and that just bc you did doesn’t mean u lost out on ur one true love #Also hi hizu I love u 🌷🌷

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byooregard · 2 years

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i think we as a fandom do not talk enough about the fact that tim was a fully licensed and relatively practiced driver at age 14 . also the fact that bruce’s reaction to this kid getting a driver’s license was to immediately give him a robin themed version of the batmobile

#idk i feel like a lot of people assume he can't drive because its funny when in fact the opposite is true #he just. had a car.#an armed and dangerous car #the license btw was i think explained because his dad was wheelchair bound for a while there #so tim got a provisional one? i feel like theres no way thats now it works in real life #but the point still stands #dc #dc comics #tim drake #batfamily #cleb talky

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ellies-enrichment · 9 months

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goodnight

#we end the nonsense there #but please... please understand #its the holiday remix....#im talkin deckin all the halls im talkin spikin eggnog #im talkin opposite of small im talkin bIG SNOW BALLS #you got a new toy for me im out here trimmin the tree #i CAUGHT THAT HOLIDAY GLEE #MY TRUE LOVE GAVE IT TO MEEEE #let me come warm you up you been out in the snow #baby im tongue goes numb #sounds like hohohohoho #and i dont want santas elves underneath this ol tree #heres a little carol i wrote its about you and meeee #youre my wishlist #lookin at you got me thinkin christmas #snowflakes in my stomach when we're kissin #and when you're comin down the chimney oh it feels so good i nEED THAT CHARLES DICKENS #you'll be santa claus and i'll be mrs #i'll take you for a ride i'll be your vixen #i dont even know im talkin christmas (im talkin im talkin im talkin)#look at all those presents that a big sack #boy that package is too big to giftwrap #woke up this mornin thought i'd write a chrismash #hoW QUICKLY CAN YOU BUILD A SNOWMAN THINK FAAAAASST #christmas nonsense is my favorite thing on earth actually

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quietwingsinthesky · 11 days

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sometimes interpreting media through a shipping lens enhances it, on occasion even beyond the author’s original intent, but sometimes, you do have to accept that your ship was not in the heads of anyone making the source material and trying to force it to fit into evidence of your ship will severely hinder your ability to discuss the actual text.

#and also ill hit you on the head with a brick #posts that. im not going to say theyre about destiel. im not going to say that.#and im not gojng to say it because. i dont need to. you already know <3 #and to be clear: its not the interpretation thats a problem here. thats the fun of shipping. its then taking what youve interpreted and then #trying to backread that onto the media itself as intentional. as intended.#dismissing the actual themes and story for evidence of a ship is the problem. u get me?#shipping brainrot is not ‘oh i think these characters would kiss for this reason’.#its ‘this show is and has always been about these characters kissing no matter how much i have to ignore about the show to make that true or #pretend is completely different than its actually presented or straight up make things up to make my ship be a part of the intended reading’#thats the brainrot. the brainrot is when u step off the train of reality.#this is not true about the best piece of art ever made Captain America and the Winter Soldier. btw. that movie IS about bucky and steve #kissing alsjfdjskdjg #(<- okay im being silly here but id like to make a real point here too. the thing about TWS is that. it is genuinely enhanced by a romantic #reading. its not *better* than a platonic one. its just different. being able to see it through that lens does make a lot of the original #movie’s ideas even more complex. case in point like: steve struggling with his dating life. because what shared life experience does he have #with other people who look his age. and the movie is. about. someone who has his shared life experiences. and his mission to get bucky back.#you can see how that lens would be beneficial to the original movie rather than fighting it to prove the ship works in opposition to the #author’s original intent.)

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thelightwillbreakthrough · 2 months

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…and if i said ‘maps’ from fun home is also spankoffski brothers coded (specifically pete’s pov)?

#hatchetfield #ted spankoffski #pete spankoffski #spankoffski bros #tgwdlm #black friday #nightmare time #npmd #like. the image stuck in my head is pete roaming about town after [whichever one of teds deaths] just to look at everywhere he'd been #they keep calling it a ‘tiny town’ so like. what is the true distance from their family home to downtown?#from the college to hidgens’ house? or the theater????#the places he went every day vs where sheila or melissa dumped his body...#his entire existence within the confines of this Tiny Town...and the people he left behind still there with the empty space....#pete looking at his life in comparison to ted’s; being essentially the same age now ted was when he was born…#…the points where their lives converged; teds past and pete’s future going on in opposite directions…#head in hands. his whole life was inside

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gideonisms · 2 months

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I think we have more bottoms than tops on this website because it selects for people who like clear and specific instructions PLUS we're all like 30 and after more than a decade in the workforce there is NOTHING sexier than being told what to do but in a way that makes sense

#i guess you could go the opposite direction and say that since no one is giving effective instructions you must take it upon yourself #anyway i saw that post that was like 'it's harder to express desire to act upon someone'#yeah true but this is also the clear instructions website #anyway. when an instruction is coherent 😳😳😳😳

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serialreblogger · 1 year

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the thing about the joker

is that - well, even canonically, he’s not actually “insane.” in the most canonical version of his backstory (bc there are many conflicting incarnations, but this one is the touchstone for a lot of later canon), he was part of a street gang before falling into a vat of Nondescript Toxic Waste that damaged his melanin production and That’s It. he supposedly “lost his mind” after seeing his reflection, which is absurd on many levels. no. he’s not “insane.” what he is, is an angry white boy.

the thing about the joker is that he exults in his own uncontainability. He laughs, because all of gotham - all the world - is built to be his playground. the only lunatic thing about him is the lunacy of ~Society~, to borrow from the joker’s own playbook; the lunacy of the joker lies in the world that grants him power: in the inheritance of loss: in white privilege, and what it means for everyone else.

“to prove a point.” those were the joker’s exact words, when he shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon. she asked why: he laughed. “to prove a point.”

because that’s all he ever does. he hurts people because he can. and because all the power in the world can’t save him from getting hurt - and isn’t that just peachy?

because the thing about the joker is that he can get hurt. he has been hurt. but he has so much more capacity to harm than to be harmed. he is immortal. he and he alone will never have to face the consequences of the hurt that he inflicts on other people.

so then: why not hurt them? misery loves company, after all.

the joker is the embodiment and end result of our own social system: the madness of the exception: the laughter of the white man: the imprecation to smile, as he kills you.

(no one ever says it, i find, but it’s still true: barbara deserves to kill him.)

and who, then, is the batman? if the joker is the yin to his yang? if they’re two sides of one irredeemable coin, if they represent the “balance” of an unjustifiable system - who is he if not another white man?

because he is. Bruce Wayne is a white boy born into unspeakable privilege and forced to endure suffering anyway; who copes with his suffering by taking it out on others; who copes with his suffering, not by taking advantage of the world as it is, but by attempting to reshape it. to make it in his own image - as if it isn’t already his, as if claiming it further will crush out the pain.

the batman is the benevolent oppressor to the joker’s malevolent one. he changes nothing, in the end. two privileged white boys with their own respective navel-gazing grudges - where, after all, lies the difference between benevolence and malevolence?

because they are not “chaos” and “order.” not really. They are laissez-faire laughter and law. Joker exults in the disease of the system, Batman seeks to treat its symptoms, but neither of them will ever change anything about the root cause. because they may have suffered the faults of this system, but they still benefit so much more from it as it exists. Uphold it or break it, neither of them wants to change the law.

but the law is only as good as the people it’s made to protect. and who does that law protect, really?

waylon jones is, in one issue, explicitly depicted as Black. between that and his skin disorder, there has never once been room for his character to be any more than a monster: king croc is, always, a character to be violated and brutalized, over and over and over and still - always - written as the villain. (he tried so hard to scrape out a place for himself, so many times, in so many incarnations, and each and every time he finds himself relegated once more to the sewers. he will never be anyone’s king. there is no place under the sun for people like him.)

victor fries only ever wanted to save his wife, and a capitalist mogul decided a few extra numbers on his eight-digit paycheck were more important than the people whose lives depended on that money. fries’ body was damaged to disability by that choice, left without the resources to find a cure for his wife, and he robbed banks because there was no other option available to him. we seem to have forgotten, or maybe never really understood, why that matters. why a desperate man trying to save his life and that of his loved ones under the crushing gears of capitalism is a villain, and the one who stops him is our hero. why, under the law batman upholds, a bank vault and a CEO’s hoard is worth more than a life.

poison ivy just wants to live, too. wants a life not defined by the devastation of her body, of the beings that exist as extensions of her, a life where green and growing things are not commodities to be plowed up and poisoned and destroyed for the sake of another man’s profit. these are villains; they are written as such. these are their motives.

who does batman fight for, really? who is our hero, this emblem of our law?

is he our hero? ours, the broken and bleeding members of the world he claims to protect?

who does the law protect, except him - him, and the joker?

#i'm having another Moment over batman friends #this is not a bruce wayne hate post #for the record. there is so much to be said in a bruce wayne hate post about child abuse and authorship and diversity of canon #but this isn't about bruce wayne. it isn't even really about the joker #i'm stuck on batman. batman as a story. batman as a myth #because the myths we tell and the threads that run consistently through them despite the multitude of tellers and times -#those say so much more than people give them credit for #who batman is - who his villains are - what those heroes and rogues represent? that *matters.* on a level wholly distinct from comic fandom #because one of the few things that remains true of batman across his many incarnations and authors and settings and media #is that: he stands for the law. (except for all the ways in which he breaks it.) his only role is to catch the criminals #when he loses control and begins dispensing Punishment he must be drawn back from the edge. because that is not Batman #Batman is Jim Gordon's only deputy. Batman is the myth of the Good Cop #and the joker? the joker is batman without the law #this too is one of the few strains that carry through nearly all tellings. the joker is never his opposite:#the joker is him without a direction. without restraint. without limits. without control #and these things say a lot about the world beyond batman. about the storytellers behind him. who - to them - is a hero? who is human?#and who is a monster? the joker is a monster because he is lawless. because he is ''mad.'' because he looks Wrong #bruce wayne is a hero because he is lawful. a dark hero because he walks very close to the line of that law - but lawful still #and what is that law? what law do these storytellers see fit to uphold? for which characters does that law do any good?#which characters explicitly harmed by that law are disposable? which are villains by birth?#the fact that someone made the creative decision to depict king croc as Black in a 2008 graphic novel wherein he went cannibal -#the fact that the issue where babs was assaulted and paralyzed was also the issue in which batman sat down and sympathized with the joker -#that all of these villains are neurodivergent or queer-coded or intersex or disabled or Disfigured or just plain not white -#it says a lot. not just about the comics; about the world in which so many writers have crafted this consistent narrative of heroic cruelty #the world that accepts these as our villains. these as our heroes. it says a lot. and it *matters.*#batman #dc comics #linden writes an essay #linden's originals #linden in the tags

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almoststedytimetravel · 2 months

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i saw your naoto post and deep dove your persona 4 posts (like a normal person). i am now asking what are your trans naoto discourse opinions

Scariest thing I've ever seen in my ask box

ahem

Personally idc what people headcannon a character's gender identity as (Especially one as poorly handled as Naoto giving you so many avenues for interpreting their Gender), just as general rule. Have fun with it, they aren't real people, Godspeed. As for my personal reading of Naoto as a character though...

So I'm not gonna deny that the specific way Naoto (specifically their shadow) talks about themselves comes across as transphobic. Shocking that a game that first came out in, what, 2008, isn't very good at talking about Gender issues. If/when P4 gets a remake they will almost certainly over hall the script for Naoto's arc (Thank god).

That being said I think Naoto's choice to crossdress her way out of misogyny is a way to show her social isolation and naïvety. Naoto expresses that she didn't have any friends until she met the Investigation Team and that she read a stupid amount of fiction from her grandfather's library. Crossdressing to do quote-un-quote men's work is something pretty confined to fiction, which was Naoto's only real window into the outside world (Other then the police force). Anyone with any real world experience could tell you that transitioning (or crossdressing) is not going to get you respect, especially in the police force.

I think Naoto's social link does a fine job of implying that pretending to be man was making her miserable, but I think it could have been more explicate about it. The spin offs however (Dancing and Arena specifically, if you bring up Persona X Detective Naoto in my presence I will reduce you to atoms) Really put a fair bit of effort into showing that presenting as a girl does make her happy! Her idealisation of Mitsuru in Arena, even saying that she was the type of woman Naoto wanted to become, does a lot to patch up the holes in her character.

Of course since these character moments are confined to spin offs a lot of people won't see them and only get her bad dungeon and mediocre social link.

Personally I like She/They nb Naoto!

#Honestly when I said I wouldn't say anything about Naoto's Gender unless I was asked I didn't expect anyone to actually ask #but honestly I'm glad someone did #Also her ass is not Practicing safe binding techniques!#That has nothing to do with Gender that's just a thing I know to be true #There probably something to be said about Kanji and Naoto having the same fundamental struggle from the opposite end of the Gender spectrum #but that their solution to said struggle is the same in forcing themselves to act more masc #save me thematic and narrative parallels #Persona 4 #Naoto Shirogane

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forcedhesitation · 2 days

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crazy how he just ignores everyone else and speaks directly to wyll. it's like wyll is like one of the most important characters in this game, or something.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #I'm sure if karlach is there- gort might address her first instead?#I looked at the screenshots from my other playthroughs to see if I had this scene archived.#of course I literally have everything BUT this part.#I mean it makes a ton of sense why gort addresses wyll.#beyond the fact that wyll's father is there- baldur's gate KNOWS who wyll is. the patriars know who wyll is. they know he was exiled.#gort's trying to make wyll feel small and out of place. referring to him as the blade but undermining his heroic image by mentioning-#-his newly acquired fiendish features. also a bit of a brag I think. since gort himself escaped the hells & a devil physically unchanged.#that and I think gortash is like...a perfect mirror opposite to wyll. so to have them at odds over the fate of baldur's gate makes sense.#fits the whole fairy tale theme of wyll's story too. I mean how many stories are there of cheats like gortash being ousted from their-#-unrightful place on the throne by the true heir? the valiant and just prince come to save his people from the cruel lying tyrant?#*sigh* yet another thing that I wish they developed more in wyll's quest.#because this would all feel like a rather complex and complete story if wyll himself is your avatar.#but when he is a companion- I just don't think the quest features enough to make up for him not being the avatar.#I wish there was more of this- more wyll being the focus- more baldurians recognising who he is! it's HIS city after all!#I AM going to enjoy beating the shit out of gortash again though.#he and mizora are on my “top ten video game characters of all time I'd like to see SKINNED ALIVE” list.

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rat-withapencil · 11 months

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I finished Bioshock 2, I wouldn't say I'm a fan but the combat was fun. Fanart be upon ye

#The story just felt like a rehash of the original as opposed to a true opposite parallel to Bioshock 1 #I get that its a great standalone but I had a lot of desires when it came to where the story would go that Bioshock 2 never delivered on #I would have liked to see more context about the original set of characters from Bioshock #like seriously I cannot believe Tenenbaum just gets hung out to dry like that #more tenenbaum she was literally so compelling #anyways #bioshock 2 #bioshock #art #fanart #bioshock fanart #bioshock 2 fanart #bioshock art #bioshock 2 art #andrew ryan #andrew ryan fanart #andrew ryan art

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tomiyeee · 1 year

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i find it ironic that i can feel myself improving and gaining more confidence in my art, yet from the outside it probably seems like the "quality" of it is going down cuz i've been doing less fully-colored, finished pieces and more sketches n doodles lately

doing sketches just helps me focus more on refining specific aspects of my art, like expressions, motion, and poses, without diluting it by forcing me to think about making it look Good™

#equishit #i feel like some ppl might see me doing less finished pieces as me putting less effort bc im losing inspiration/motivation #when in fact the opposite is true #...im not actually sure if ppl see it that way or if im just projecting

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