i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again
these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled
Look, I made a sad! (Sorry! This already ruined some people’s day on Instagram yesterday!)
A little different on the format too - I’ve been pratting about with storyboarding lately, and with so many panels I wanted to try something new for a change for maximum impact and sadness!
I've been doing a lot of "No actually, you're wrong" posts lately (it feels like) but they just come to me...
"The pack survives" - House Stark is a team effort.
No one survives alone. They are all going to be instrumental in saving each other one way or the other. No one will pull themselves out of the mire of danger or despair by the power of their own strength and will. No one in this series survives alone. None of them have up until now. Everyone needs help, and they are worth helping. There is no One Hero. Only cooperation and compassion.
The wolves also only survived because the Starks chose to save them. Their mother was dead, but they found a pack of pups in the summer snows and chose to let them live by feeding them by hand. It was Jon's love for his brother that made the difference and it enabled them to find and include the missing white mute pup, as well. From death, life. Cooperation and compassion.
No one is ending this series as a figure of lonesome sacrifical leadership. That's the opposite of the pack surviving. Jon is not going into whatever shape of exile or separation from his family there is being imagined. Arya's travels will not imply a severance of her family connection. Sansa is not going to be some kind of unmarried virgin queen, lonely at the top as the only way to preserve her power. That's not a win for female rulership, that's a signal of the status quo actually Not Changing. Not going to happen. There will be no future pack if Sansa isn't in an actual partnership. Bran will not be a depersonalized god-figure. He'll be a disabled young boy beginning a new kind of life embedded in a support system. The way he thought he would be the day he fell from the tower.
Rickon. Eternal Mystery.
Family Duty Honor - why is Edmure the Tully that survives? Because he's the only one who didn't turn these words into a farce. He was loyal to his family, dutiful to his subject, honorable in his conduct and intentions. More so than Robb, Brynden, any of them. Hoster betrayed his daughter, Lysa abandoned her family in turn, Catelyn was strangled by the devotion to duty, the discrepancy between honor and family that is forced by patriarchy, until she snapped. Edmure chose his people, he chose his family, and he chose his unborn child, and he chose his uncle. He's not playing brilliant strategic games, he's no crackshot under pressure, he is not the stuff of songs and legend. But he's making the actual right choices time and again. "My people. They were afraid." Swim on, trout.
Ended up down the rabbit hole of how many Jedi there were before Order 66. According to my research, there were about 10,000 Jedi knights. I don't think that number includes any of the younglings, padawans, or elders (I'm including the masters with the Jedi knight number since ultimately, they're still knights but just with a padawan who has passed the trials). It doesn't include the service corps of the Jedi order either. So, just to be super generous, let's just say there were 40,000 members and affiliates of the Jedi order.
As for the entirety of the galaxy Star Wars is in, there was no clear number for the population but the roughest estimate I could find was somewhere between 96 trillion (96,000,000,000) at the lowest to 400 quadrillion (400,000,000,000,000,000) at the highest.
If we were being super duper generous, the Jedi order made up approximately 4.16666667 × 10e-08% or 0.0000000416666667% of the GFFA population.
That number is just so ridiculously tiny. So to get a clearer understanding of how small that is, let's use Earth's population: 8.05 billion. 0.0000000416666667% of Earth's population is 3.35. The Jedi order would be made up of 3 people (4 if we're rounding up) in our world.