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a bunch of old sonic doodles, from back when I first started my old blog <3

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"Is that a leaf?" *Cue The Weekend* Played around with textures and a limited color palette for this one :3 and I had to paint this scene, fell in love with the music from this episode!

#bluey #bingo #the lighting is simply beautiful

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shadow the hedgehog meets bluey real

i don't remember to context of this ask but. yeah

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#sonic prime nine #sonic prime #nine the fox

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you can (not) be Sonic's friend

#lmao #accurate af #sonic prime nine #sonic prime shitpost #meme #nine the fox

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love hiiimmm, go crazy little guy

#sonic prime nine #nine the fox #sonic prime fanart #sonic prime

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Into The Spiderverse // Across The Spiderverse

#ummm holy shit #that observsation went completely over my head #love cinematic parallels of this caliber! #across the spiderverse #the spot #miles morales

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#across the spiderverse #into the spiderverse #atsv #spiderman itsv #shitpost #dank memes

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Duality 💥

This was a drawing from 2 months ago that I never finished due to exams, it feels good to draw again ^^

#this is so damn cool! #miles tails prower #nine the fox #sonic prime nine #sonic prime

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“I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through me, or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.”

Easily the most heartbreaking line in Nimona’s entire film. Captures all the pent up existential self loathing they are going through. Like, I shed some tears at it.

“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.” “We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.” “You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

#fucking hell #the power of damn good dialogue #carried by the great acting as well too #nimona #ballister boldheart

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A line I don’t think gets talked about enough:

“He didn’t cut off my arm. He was disarming a weapon. It’s how we were trained.”

The Institute took young kids and turned them into weapons. The Knights were trained to view themselves and their bodies as weapons.

Ambrosius cutting off Ballister’s arm was ingrained instinct. You can see in his face that he doesn’t realize what he’s doing until it’s too late, until the blade is already too far along in it’s swing. And after, he drops his sword like he didn’t realize how it got into his hand in the first place. He looks at Ballister with a dawning horror of what he’s just done, on instinct.

And then, the big fight. There’s a reason Ballister was top of the class. When fighting the guards he isn’t touched. In the middle of fighting Ambrosius, he cloths-lines a guard behind him WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING. Ambrosius doesn’t even look surprised that Ballister won, as if it’s normal, as if Ballister had always won their duels before.

I just. I have a lot of thoughts about this and I don’t have the words to express them. I just want other people to see what I see and talk about it too. To think about the implications of that line and how it’s delivered in a matter-of-fact way.

#it's insanely impressive how well the world is built within what nimona is given to use #a kingdom was built upon instilling fear from what was considered different #even allowing things like ballister's arm getting chopped off at the start to be weirdly rationalized #nimona #ballister boldheart #it's fucked up but makes sense #these children were raised to be weapons instead of allowing humanity

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So

An interesting thing about how they handled revealing this... They only revealed it to us, the audience.

When Ballister apologized to Nimona and realized he was wrong for not trusting her, it's based on the time they spent together and he had genuinely grown to care for her. Like...

This

To

When confronting Nimona, he knew by that point that she hated being called a monster. Instead of waiting for her to try explaining herself, he gave in to Ambrosius' own conclusion that she was a monster even while he kept telling him "No, she's not" at the time. So, when he apologized to Nimona, he focused on the wrong thing he did. He didn't need to know the backstory to realize he was wrong.

With or without the backstory, he already cared a lot about her. And that's enough reason for him to apologize for hurting someone he loves.

#nimona #this film handled themes of identity so wonderfully #you could seriously feel how personal it was to the people that poured their hearts into it #ballister boldheart #like the fact he never finds out about her backstory #because he isn't owed an explanation #all ballister needs to understand is he fucked up royally in presuming her intents #nimona is more or less a story driven by compassionan overcoming paranoid fear

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I’ve seen people complain about Gwen saying to her dad “you’re a good cop” but I don’t think they understand what that scene actually means. Gwen’s dad is supposed to represent the “good cop”. It’s like Gwen says: he puts on that badge everyday so someone worse than him doesn’t. Pre Gwen’s reveal, he SEEMS like a good person, advocating for bringing peter’s killer to justice. But then he finds out, and in that moment, values the law over his teenage daughter. He even shows it in their reconciliation scene, even after not seeing his daughter for MONTHS, by arguing against Gwen being a vigilante despite the all the good shes done. When Gwen says “you’re a good cop,” she’s not saying “youre a good person” or “youre a good dad”. She’s saying “youre a BAD person. You’re a BAD dad. you value the law over my life, no matter what I do. You’re willing to sacrifice me for what you assume is the greater good, but it’s not even that.”

So he decides not be a good cop anymore.

#there's the freaking tea #gwen's passive aggressive attitude toward her father was brutal #not to mention when she says in a snarky manner about murdering her friends #like god you could feel how appalled she was underneath at her father #but at the same time he pointed a gun at her and chose duty over gwen #imagine how that must've felt being in gwen shoes? #it's established in the previous spiderverse film gwen saved his life #the fact captain stacy completely disregards all her heroic efforts #that had to have done more than just shatter gwen's heart #she loves and respects her father so much but you could also feel that severe animosity #gwen pleaded to be understood yet he ignored all her cries for help at this movie's start

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every "I can do both" in across the spider-verse:

pavitr

miles

gwen

#across the spiderverse #welp fuck me #the parallel with gwen trying to protect miles #while also attempting to prevent him from stopping a canon event? #talk about a big punch to the gut there #gwen stacy #miles morales

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a world of our own

#across the spiderverse #gwen stacy #miles morales #they're dynamic is highly endearing #love these two so much

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Still thinking about the art during Gwen’s talks with her dad. It’s like. When he’s being a cop or they’re fighting the background is clear. But when they’re having a heart to heart it changes. It gets more abstract. The art styles of the characters change a little, too. Because it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter where they are or what they look like, Gwen loves her dad and he loves her. And the art shows that. They could be anywhere, anytime, and they love each other.

#haven't talked much about across the spiderverse on here but i'm gonna remedy that #gwen's arc in this movie freaking fantastic #like holy shit i adored what it did for her characterization #the stuff between gwen and her father stomped on my heart and made me melt all at once #this is the power of excellent writing at its finest #i still get chills thinking back to that scene of you have the right to remain silent #fucking hell this guy was so torn on arresting his daughter #the conflicting guilt was written all over his face