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it's Patlabor day!!

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Final chapter is out!

#patlabor #rblg

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Chapter 19.04 is out!

#we're getting there #oooooh we're so getting there #Patlabor #rblg

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assorted Ultraman '66 drawings I compiled while watching the show the past few weeks :)

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Commission Flash Sale!

This weekend only:

drop $10 and a character (name and image link please!) in my Ko-Fi and get a pencil sketch,

or drop $20 and get an inked drawing!

(You don't need a Ko-Fi account to donate)

Prices only active through midnight Sunday 2/12/23 (EST)…but if this goes well, I'll do it again sometime!

For more elaborate pieces, prices & info can be found here

Thanks!

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Patlabor compilation

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Volume 18 is up on MD!

https://mangadex.org/chapter/afb2ce5e-e828-454c-bac1-139bfbed6ac3/1

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New year, new me, new Ko-Fi shop—but lots of old stuff piled up. Time for a sale!

Enter the code SPRINGCLEANING at checkout to get 33% off your order! Valid through 3/31/22!

https://ko-fi.com/rachelordwayart/shop

(Also, please let me know if anything’s wonky (code not working, weird total at checkout, errors in item descriptions, whatever)! I just set this up yesterday so I might’ve missed something. Thanks!!)

#rblg

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Patlabor haul time! 😎 I don’t usually get the opportunity to buy this much Patlabor stuff at once, but I just found out that Surugaya ships internationally so I went a little nuts haha. SO MANY DOUJINS

#patlabor #would you look at that uchiyan isekai doujin #my fav magic mecha designs #rblg

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I have no idea if you can copy/paste the link through mobile, so I'll rb it too heh

https://twitter.com/suzumebathi_999/status/1406622971507056645?s=09

Animage sticker sheet: Patlabor Spring Traffic Safety

Why are Kanuka and Shinobu riding this water slide? 🤣🤣 I love it

#rblg #patlabor #I'll also search by the map title for better quality

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A bushel of Hiromi-chans for @soft-ice in “My fave is a relatively obscure side character from a relatively obscure franchise” solidarity

#patlabor #rblg #i know i just seen him but i love this drawing more and more

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#patlabor #rblg

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*guy aggressively pointing at painting meme* I HAVEN’T had enough of this dude

#patlabor #shige #rblg

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I think it’s one of those great historical tragedies that Mobile Police Patlabor came about before modern fanfiction culture. There are a handful of fics, scattered here and there about the net, but for a well-regarded show with plenty of episodes, an ensemble cast, and two of the best anime movies of all time, it feels like there should be far more. Alas, Patlabor blossomed in the late-80s/early-90s, too early to experience the explosion of the World Wide Web, and apart from the vastly-underwhelming WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 it had no major releases in the era of social media, web shrines, fan sites, of FFN or Tumblr AO3. 

Which is a shame, because I’m hard-pressed to think of a franchise better optimized for fanfic. There’s enough plot, continuity, and supplementary information that world-building is a straightforward enough task – it’s not one of those shows that’s so vague about its own universe that actually setting new scenes is a challenge. At the same time, there isn’t so much information that it becomes intimidating – no continuity craziness, no impenetrable legendarium. Best of all, the world is still incredibly open to new innovations. You could skip up or down the timeline, jump around the world, add new players or sideline others, all without the narrative surgery a more tightly plotted franchise would require. Any AU can be imagined just be changing the characters’ jobs.

You want to write a crime mystery? They’re already cops. You want to write a political thriller? See the movie continuity. And while there are giant fighting mecha aplenty, Patlabor benefits from never really being about them. Every incarnation of the franchise lives and dies on its character dynamics, from the fluff-filled New OVA to the complex psychodrama of Patlabor 2. 

And the characters are just begging to be picked up and played with. There’re cute characters, serious characters, joke characters who could be serious characters, sad characters, driven characters, characters with a plane full of baggage and characters living their best lives. They all have more than enough depth and complexity to give any writer something to work off of – think of Asuma’s complex relationship with his father, Goto’s lazy Machiavellianism, Noa Izumi’s desire to be seen as ‘more than just the girl who likes Labors’. What’s Noa like in Hokkaido, how were Shinobu’s police academy days, what did Kanuka Clancy take back with her to New York? There are so many plot threads just asking to be pulled on. 

And that’s without even touching the shipping. To its credit, the franchise didn’t force any characters together, but the chemistry between everyone was so great that I hardly would’ve objected if they had. Which, really, just leaves so much potential on the table. How do Noa and Asuma finally get their first real date? Does Shinobu ever reconsider Goto? Is there something more than simple rivalry between Kanuka and Kumagami? What’s Mikiyasu’s domestic life like? Can Oota ever find love? 

It’s like the franchise was stockpiling barrel after barrel of fuel for fanfiction, only to be long forgotten by time that anyone was actually making a fire. The moment for the magic – for a fandom to grow and coalesce around something – has passed.

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!‘”

#op im going to kiss you #patlabor #rblg

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The Patlabor squad, specifically featuring Hiromi and Shinshi since I realized I’ve never really drawn them (sorry, boys)

Everyone in this series is adorable…hashtag SV2SquadGoals

#patlabor #oh they're such cuties ohohohoo #thx rachel! #rblg

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reblog to make Not-Asuma really mad

#patlabor tng #rblg

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💗HEART & BATTLE: The WLW-centric Fantasy Visual Novel & Dating Sim by @lzarts 💗

Love is Calling. Will You Answer?

My masterpost of my dating sim game is here! For most of August, I took the time to design the characters, backgrounds, UI interface, layout and logos/design for this small portfolio project, HEART & BATTLE! Explore a rich world of combat, allies, romance, and questionable forest witchcraft!

The support over Twitter and from my friends meant a lot, and it was fun to get it all dished out in little teaser animations! Sadly, this is not a real, published visual novel game, as much as I would like to bring it to life for the LGBT+ community, especially for my fellow wlw who don’t always have much media to call their own. Especially for my fellow wlw who also happen to love orcs as much as I do.

But if any gaming studios in the California bay area want to hire me, please let me know. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

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