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rist-ix · 5 days

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OMG ✨YOU✨ REPOSTED MY ART WORK?!?!? QUPVSLADCKPXNXO OH MY GOD!!!

The person who wrote my favourite BloomxValtor fanfic??? IM GONNA CRY NOW.

I saw ✨SPARKED✨ on another website but ao3. It was a translation of your work. I'm gonna be honest, I didn't like it at first, because of the translation. But then I saw an original!!! I WAS IMPRESSED!! The translation I saw wasn't even close to your work.. and I felt bit disappointed because of that. I had feeling that the translation I saw was just a piece of Google translate.

So, the question I want to ask:

What do you think about the translations of your works? Maybe you are positive about that, but I just wanted to ask you, do you know that someone is translating your fanfic?

And once again, I really feel honoured of you reposting my art 🥹

(*reblogged! I reblogged art!! No art theft here folks!)

AAAAAH thank you so much! That means a lot to me! Also it's hilarious how everybody knows everyone here, this fandom really is a village lol. Your art deserves every word of praise btw, it's GORGEOUS.

I'm sorry to hear that about the translation. The only languages I’m really fluent in are German and English, I can’t really judge writing in any other language. And I’m more than flattered anyone would invest all that time and effort to translate something I wrote, so I'm alright if it’s a little flawed. Not gonna lie tho, you preferring the original version still kinda strokes my ego a little :3

I'm not sure what translation - or even what language - you've read, so I can’t speak for that one, but so far I've given like, two or three people permission to translate Sparked, into Russian and Portuguese I think. If there's a version in another language, I'm not aware of it. In general I’m very happy when people want to translate my fics, as long as they ask beforehand and link back to my ao3 for the original. With the internet changing the way it is though, I am worried about how that's gonna be in the future. This fandom is tiny so it’s not like there's a lot of potential for like, content farms or anything, but I don’t want to give a blanket permission I’d end up regretting.

So my general feeling about translations is pretty positive! With slight anxiety for the future.

#asks #I’d love to hear your thoughts on it though! since you've read the translation yourself and speak the language #you probably know more on the topic than I do #and thank u so much for reaching out to me with this it made me really happy!!!

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nekomacheercaptain · 4 months

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Favorite Corazon fanart

(because I am tired of scrolling through my bookmarks on twitter)

40 y/o Corazon (AAAAAH)

He is so pretty I want to cry pls

This au is just so fucking cool I love it sm

*feral dog noises*

I LOVE HIM!!!!! MY HANDSOME MAN!!!!!

Jeg må bytte om til norsk her for ÆÆÆÆH HERREGUD

Corazon would be so cute in the egghead style

🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️ so many sexy men holy fuck HE’S SO BIG!!!!!

This duo would be so wholesome

🥹 so cute

I want to cry, it’s so beautiful

Not directly Corazon, but god this hurts 🥹 so good

THEY’RE SO CUTE 😭😭

Never gonna stop obsessing over their Corazon

Still gaping and drooling over this

Pretty boy Cora 🤭🤭🤭🤭

Again, not directly Corazon, but little Law always hurts 🥲

HIS BACK!!!! AAAAHHHHH gorgeous

Shamelessly obsessed with this, it’s so cool

Cora’s body 🤭

Metalcora 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

This duo is just the sweetest thing

I’m so glad this was a little trend, his back is just so big and broad and ugh 😩😩

I cried when I first saw this + Cora is so big… look at his thighs, hand, tummy…. God…. What a beautiful man

Law’s survival guilt is just so good angst material, I love this

🥹they were supposed to travel the world together

These two break my heart

All of these are just so beautiful and amazingly done, I’m obsessed with all of their art

(NSFW) screaming over this

I think this account is private, but I’m saving the link for me lol my favorite fanart of Corazon

He just looks so good fuck

WHAT SHOULD’VE BEEN 😭

SIIIICK love this

(NSFW) ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? OH HOLY FUCK MY LIFE IS CHANGED I NEED HIM

Wano Cora finished!!!

More egghead!!!

Marine Rosi

Coradad with his 4 children

So gorgeous

(TW organs (?) and nudity) This is really cool

This Coradad WIP 🥹

(TW blood) this is so amazing

(nsfw-ish) God it’s just right there… I would be tempted too much

Awkward sibling hug

Love when the size difference is so visible 🧎‍♀️

🥹🥹 crying actually, will never get over his death

LMAO his bounty being lower than Chopper’s 😭

SERVING CUNT

Ooohh cool

He looks so gooood 😩

Baby Rosi 🥹

He is so beautiful

Corazon as a bird

Guilt

Bloody dog Cora with cat Law on his back🥹

Law finds out Cora doesn’t like bread

Little Law builds a snowman 🥰

Umeboshi

The most beautiful man in the entire world

Cora and Law as minks

Bloody Cora + full picture

Wounded as Corazon + Rosinante

🥹🥹 the best parents

….god he looks so good

Reverse time travel au - adult Law finds Child Rosi 🥹

I love this so much… the kids playing on the beach is so cute

LMAO Chopper’s POV

Law doesn’t want to go to the hospital

Corazon shoots bread lmao

Coradad and his 4 kids

WHAT SHOULD’VE HAPPENED

He’s so beautiful

CORA-DAY!!!!

Valentine’s Day

(NSFW) shy Rosi 🥹

STOOOOOP 😭😭😭😭

#corazon #art #links #fave #cheer’s a simp #cleaning

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stardust-3saders · 5 days

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your most recent gorgeous art post is at the top of the #jojo oc tag 🩷

Hello nonie! I'm sorry, I saw this when I woke up and had to check but couldn't answer until now bc of uni

My dividers kinda screw the preview, but AAAAAH.

I usually don't check that tag because I still tend to compare my works and OCs to other's, but it was really nice to see that happening 🥺

Thank you for telling me, things have been quite rough as of late, so this was a highlight of the week.

Hope you have a great day/night!

#anon ask #Little things like that always make me happy so thanks for mentioning it!

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fortune-maiden · 2 years

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Olympia Soiree First Impressions

- I’ve played for about an hour an a half and so far only met 3 of the 6 love interests! This story is slow moving xD

- It also has not offered me any choices so far which feels a little unusual

- I am enjoying the story so far though. The world is very interesting and deeply messed up and so far that has been the focus more than the heroine’s quest for a husband. In fact the deeply messed up world is the heroine’s main reason for needing a husband

- And as for that heroine, BYAKUYA MY BELOVED! She’s innocent and honest with coming off as being too naive to function (Cyrus Tistella I am looking at you.) but also really feels integrated into her world as a living breathing character with a story to tell, and not just some prop for the ikemen to fawn over. In fact, one of her establishing character moments is explicitly establishing that she is not a doll, and she will not be treated as one. I love her.

- She also gives me some Cardia vibes in the best way between the doll-like treatment and circumstances preventing her from being able to socialize (though she may have it sliiiiiiiiiightly better than Cardia in the sense of not being a death sentence to those around her if she’s not careful... or at least I think? She’s had some Moments....)

- I also really like her relationships with the non-love interests so far. Douma in particular is an abusive dick, and may or may not be up to Shady Things, but his relationship with Byakuya is fascinating to me. I hate him but I am also very intrigued by him. The other two leaders also seem very dubious, but I’d like to believe Jigen is okay at least. I don’t trust him at all, but maybe? hopefully?

- As for the three love interests I’ve met so far, I can’t say I have any strong impressions yet ^^” None of them have really captured my heart the way (say) Van Helsing or Okazaki did. (and the route I am most interested in is apparently more lore than love... but honestly I’m probably fine with that) Honestly I’m way more attached to Byakuya than any of the dudes xD

- THE ART IS SO BEAUTIFUL! I love all of Byakuya’s outfits and her sprites look gorgeous. Aaaaah is there an artbook? I really just want full body art of Byakuya in all her of her outfits T_T

#olympia soiree #so basically my impressions so far are just BYAKUYA-HIME <33333 #which in my defense have always been my impressions xD i am like a crow. i like pretty things #byakuya is very pretty xD

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eld0ts · 9 months

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just popping in here to say your art is absolutely gorgeous!!!! i’m in love aaaaah

the colors in your art are soooo pretty, and the rendering on the isaac piece is just ✨🌟⭐️✨🌟✨⭐️☀️✨🌟

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!! THATS SO LOVELY OF YOU TO SAY!!! i had to let the rendering cook for a few days while i thought about what to do and where to put different strokes, im so so glad you love how it turned out!! AAAAA HAVE THE BEST DAY!!! 💕💕

#currently crying with shyness and gratitude WAAAAA #thank you so so much for the ask as well it means so much!!#ask

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finduilasclln · 1 year

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Oh my gosh your art is so gorgeous!

Aaaaah, omg! I forgot to answer to this lovely ask. I'm so sorry! It's been 6 days! I saw, it made me so happy, and I did that thing were I went "I'll reply in a few minutes" and then stuff happened and I forgot. Sorry!!

But thank you so much.

#daniwib #asks #replies

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pluviatrix · 2 years

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Recently found you blog and the art is gorgeous ! Everything you draw is so soft and and detailed and juat feels like a hazy dream (colour wise) and the content is just *chef's kiss* 🖤🖤 Like- I- no words, it's all just so beautiful !! I was wondering if there was a masterpost of your dadlink comic / information about it? I'd love to get even more invested into this or start from the beginning

(I give BIG SMOOCH to you and all your characters❤❤❤)

aaaaah thank you!!!!! <3 <3 you're so kind thank you !!! :,,,))) every time people call my art soft and hazy it makes me all warm n gooey inside hehe C:

i do not have a masterpost!! i think i really should cuz ive gotten a good amount of requests for one, its just a LOT of info to sort! i have a sideblog that I've been trying to consolidate into a sort of archive but it's slow going and its out of date rn akdjsf

@hylianrepentance

#ask

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asahicore · 1 year

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im. here to scream about gorgeous yet again!! IM NEVER GETTING OVER THIS PIECE OF ART WORK. THANK U 💖💖

AAAAAH omg thank u so much anon, this willbe my sign to start working on part two 😖💗

#will try to post it sometime this week #answered #anon #work: hey heeseung

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liemonyellow · 1 year

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I posted 618 times in 2022

12 posts created (2%)

606 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@thecrowssideblog

@imma-potatoo

@princeanxious

@lost-in-thought-20

@red-imeanblue

I tagged 564 of my posts in 2022

Only 9% of my posts had no tags

#janus sanders - 394 posts

#art - 302 posts

#remus sanders - 158 posts

#virgil sanders - 108 posts

#logan sanders - 88 posts

#incorrect quotes - 72 posts

#roman sanders - 60 posts

#daily reminder that janus sanders is gorgeous - 46 posts

#patton sanders - 45 posts

#anxceit - 37 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i know religious trauma is a whole thing in the series but i'm not religious and was raised buddhist so i have like no connection to it lol

My Top Posts in 2022:

Crow's horrible challange:

Start writing a story using the prompt: "I'm going to close my eyes and count to ten. Maybe I'll convince myself you were never here if you won't be here when I open them." with any character you'd like and the tag 3 people who you want to continue it. You can give them their own prompts to include :D!

Virgil hadn’t even turned around from closing the door when he started speaking.

"I'm going to close my eyes and count to ten. Maybe I'll convince myself you were never here if you won't be here when I open them."

Janus should have known to expect such a cold welcome. He stared at Virgil’s back, willing him to turn around and hear him out, to notice and acknowledge him, even just to glare at him. The sharp interjection of Virgil’s counting cut through the air before he could speak.

“One.”

It had been instinct, to go to Virgil first. His former best friend. The one he once trusted more than anyone else.

“Two.”

Maybe Janus should have gone to someone else.

“Three.”

Patton wouldn’t have turned him away.

“Four.”

Maybe Logan would have tried to help.

“Five.”

Roman... Roman probably would have pretended he wasn’t there, too.

“Six.”

Remus would have stayed until the bitter end.

“Seven.”

He was already running out of time anyway. What did a few more seconds matter?

“Eight.”

But, if Janus was being honest with himself - and sometimes, he was - he just wanted to see Virgil one last time.

“Nine.”

Janus closed his eyes.

“Ten.”

No one was there when Virgil turned back around.

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Wow, I wonder what happens next? Also, I never know who to tag, so write your own continuation if you want ;-;

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hate the sin, love the sinner

dukeceit week 2022 day 1: truth/dare

[Image Description: A colored drawing of Janus and Remus facing the viewer with the text "Truth? Or dare?" beneath them over a dark grey background. Janus is wearing a wide hat, a capelet, and long yellow gloves. He is making a shushing expression while holding out a bitten apple to the viewer. Remus is wearing his canon outfit of a black long-sleeve shirt with a green sash and embellishments. He is standing beside Janus with a devious expression and holding his morning star over his shoulder.]

@dukeceitweek Thanks to @sanderdarksides and @mimssides for putting up with me while I worked on this XD

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oh, yee-aaaaah! it was like lightning!

dukeceit week 2022 day 2: mischief/dancing

[Image Description: A drawing of Janus and Remus dancing with joyous expressions in front of a dark grey background. Remus is standing slightly bent over, holding Janus by the waist. Janus is hanging upside-down with his legs crossing behind and above Remus' back and head. They are both wearing their skirt photoshoot outfits. Remus is wearing fishnets under a slime-patterned tanktop and a frayed tutu skirt. Janus is wearing a long black skirt, yellow opera gloves, and a black and yellow capelet.]

@dukeceitweek Thanks to @sanderdarksides and @mimssides for putting up with me while I worked on this XD

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I drew the boys for @sanders-spring‘s intruloceit day! God, I love them.

215 notes - Posted March 2, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

CW: eye contact

who’s really in control here?

dukeceit week 2022 day 4: wild/control

[Image Description: A stylized illustration of Janus and Remus in silhouette, lit from each side by green and yellow light. Janus is sitting in an armchair with his legs crossed and hands clasped in his lap. Remus is leaning on one side of the armchair with one arm draped across the back of the chair and resting a baseball bat on his other shoulder. Their faces are obscured, showing simplified smiley faces instead. Remus has a mustache and Janus has a snake eye and split tongue. The background is a swirl of green and yellow that fades to black from the center out.]

@dukeceitweek Thanks to @sanderdarksides and @mimssides for putting up with me while I worked on this XD

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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comradekiwi · 1 year

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hiii kiwi ! 🥝💚

i know this is so late, but thank you loving my art. i still can’t believe you love my work and i still can’t believe you follow me ! i don’t know why but it might be because i consider you to be a popular blog ? hahahahabvsbs but i really admire your work ! i want to draw more scenes from your fics but i only have one hand ! anyways ༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ <3<3<3

hi tay!!! ily!!!!! yes ur art is amazing incredible and deserves all the love. AAH it makes me so excited to hear you say that you feel like I have a popular blog HAHA I’m pretty sure I don’t (and don’t need to ofc) but that’s still cool to hear :DD

I wish you had a twitter dude!!! I actually am somewhat popular on there w 3.3K followers and they would all eat up ur art so happily!!!!!!!!! I’ve shared a link to it before hopefully it got some more attention then but def consider making a twt for ur art so I can actually use a popular platform of mine to boost it :D

and AAAAAH ppl drawing art from my fics is genuinely the best most flattering most gorgeous thing ever ilysm for doing it even once!!!!! and if you did more I would die probably. from raw joy

<3 ily tay !!! ty for the ask :)

#kiwi answers #bkdk

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tsscat · 2 years

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Okay my thoughts on jfo

Disclaimer that my analysis on game design is from a limited perspective as I really don’t play many open-world, role-playing, kind of games and this is really the first “Dark Souls-esque” game I’ve played. What I loved (other than most of it):

I know this has been said before but truly a spectacularly beautiful game. Like good graphics but also the art/design itself was gorgeous. The cinematography and lighting was incredible and it really added so much depth to the storyline and to the enjoyment in exploring. I hate the planet Zeffo for personal reasons (specifically those burrowing hog-things I’m forgetting what they’re called) but Zeffo to me was the most beautiful planet. Something so idyllic and serene about greenery in combination with the shiny blue-grey ice and stark rocky cliffs. Everyone who worked on the art and lighting and cinematography, and everyone who found ways to render and code this!!! In such detail without breaking the game or having any glitches!!! Truly everyone who worked on this deserve so much respect and admiration

My boy Cal! Love it when a jedi character is unequivocally kind and compassionate. Love it when they strive to be good and do good. Love it when their strength is in caring about other people and drawing people together because of that. Ezra and Cal my beloved <3.

Trilla and Cere and Merrin!!! Love the grief and complexity and heart in their stories! Trilla as the child betrayed and who grew up to become destroyer of everything she once loved. Cere who suffered a horror and failed her Padawan, growing with Cal to forgive herself and move forward. Merrin, the sole survivor of a massacre, stewing in her grief and rage for decades until an unlikely ally reached out and offered to be her friend and she chose that path to heal and grow instead of continuing to live in her past. God, the women in this game really did steal the show.

BD-1 <3 ofc. His mannerisms remind me of my kitten, difference being he is actually helps you, healing you and hacking into things for you while she bites. Love BD’s friendship with Cal too.

I like Greez too lol he’s nice he’s just. Tho feel like there’s not much to say compared to the others lol.

The themes of grief and of moving on. Star Wars at its worst struggles with how incredibly scarring the events of the prequels and Order 66 were. But when Star Wars gets it right god does it get it right. Love the hopeful theme of that, while you cannot ignore what you’ve lost, as it’ll always be a part of you, you must learn to stop living in the past. You must start moving forward, rebuild in any way you can. And also! To not fear failure, as it is essential part of life and is a necessary step in success.

Speaking of Order 66 I loved the Order 66 part in this game it was so heartbreaking!! I feel like in this day and age bringing up Order 66 in Star Wars media can sometimes feel like. Sadness bait if that makes sense. Like they know SW fans are gonna cry over order 66 scenes. But this did not feel like that at all. It was such a meaningful part (level???) and it was so scary playing as little underpowered Cal while the entire clone army was trying to kill you and your master. There was no health bar during this part but I feel like there should have been just to add to the feeling of vulnerability. Also love how it integrated all of the different skills you had learned through the game. When Jaro Tapal died and Anakin’s Betrayal played I cried. And THEN when you go back to the title screen after that and understand what it means aaaaah

LOVED how the gameplay played into these themes! Playing jfo was definitely frustrating to me, especially as I am not very familiar with this kind of game, but I came to realize that the struggle was *meant* to be part of the game experience. It’s okay to not get something on your first time! The point is to keep trying again and learn from your mistakes. I think many people had issues with the parkour in this game and how challenging it was at times but I think that was also a necessary part of the theme of struggle (tho I have one issue with it that I will get into later). Also love Cal’s power to read the past from objects and how you can essentially follow small stories from the past as you’re exploring with this power. It really does add into the weight of the past and also I think adds to the caring nature of Cal’s character.

I love the part when Cal breaks his lightsaber and he has to figure how to make do without it. First of all love when he has to run away from all the undead night sisters with basically no protection other than the force. I was stressed the whole way through but it was really so chaotic (affectionate). Ofc the storyline part of it was also amazing and made me cry again but also I think players up to this point have the tendency to rely too much on lightsaber mechanics and on Dathomir and Illum you were forced to use and get accommodated with other mechanics more especially using the force. Illum also was a nice moment of calm after the high stress Dathomir escape. And then ofc Cal’s moment of glory (really it’s *your* moment of glory) afterwards when he fixes his lightsaber and defeats all those storm troopers.

What I didn’t like/thought could be improved:

I don’t understand why the fighting tutorial in the train cart wasn’t…more tutorial-y? Like they kinda threw a bunch of stormtroopers at you and were like 'quick do all these things before the stormtroopers kill you' and you just had to figure it out. Like maybe I'm biased bc Ive never played combat of this style before but… Idk why they couldn't just remove the health bar for a bit until players figured out the mechanics. I think it would have been good also to have players fight one stormtrooper (maybe a more powerful one so it lasts longer) before they move onto multiple. What would have been helpful to me is if they had a one on one fight where you could try blocking a bunch of times, try parrying a bunch of times, trying evading a bunch of times until you figured it out, similar to the style of the later Jaro Tapal visions

I may be directionally challenged but I feel like navigating was often kind of frustrating and not in the good way. I would constantly take wrong turns and end up making 30 min detours. I sometimes navigating felt tedious and unnecessary and the map often felt difficult to read or make out.

The camera angle when you’re fighting is sometimes very weird. I’ve looked into this a bit and apparently it’s a bit of an issue with many Dark Souls-esque games but every once in a while if you were fighting someone in a more closed-space the camera would randomly veer off into some corner and you wouldn’t be able to see anything.

The puzzles are….ugh. In theory I would have loved the puzzles, as I would have loved something that was a break from the parkour and combat that was less about quick reaction times and more about taking a bit of time and thinking about a solution. However frankly the puzzle designs were awful. The degrees of freedom/what you could do or manipulate within a puzzle space were never clearly defined which makes puzzles more weird and confusing (in a bad way) than challenging and enjoyable. So many difficult puzzles were only difficult bc of how it required noticing some insignificant detail rather than intelligent design. And force pushing those damn spheres to their sockets was soooo tedious

While I liked the parkour, I do feel like the fact you couldn’t adjust the difficulty of the parkour made the game more inaccessible. The parkour relied on very very quick reaction times which could prove too difficult to someone with say, mobility issues.

Okay also I think the fixed save points were a necessary part of the gameplay but I hate how when you could stop playing were sooo dependent on them like. If I ever needed to stop the game suddenly my choices were to try to find another save point or lose all my progress. Felt like they could have had a word around for that.

Whyyyyy did they appropriate Amazigh attire for Merrin's clothing and then have her take off! the specifically Amazigh head piece!!! When she was no longer a villain!!! UGH orientalism is a stain on Star Wars and you can never seem to escape it

Anyways this is all of the big things I can remember for now but here are some details of the top of my head I thought were cool/ some other notes:

The fact that in the Dathomirian ruins when Cal was facing against force-vision Jaro Tapal, Cal turned off his lightsaber and Tapal’s saber stopped at the top of his head and how that mirrored Cere knighting Cal. Cere only knighted Cal later but that moment on Dathomir was when Cal became a knight in spirit. Dathomir was essentially his Jedi trials

When you were in that force vision to get the Holocron and you were in the dark so you had to illuminate the place with a lightsaber but when you did it was a red lightsaber and Cal had become an inquisitor. GOD that was good that was such a clever use of a pre-established mechanic for the purpose of story.

Cere using Trilla’s lightsaber in the final battle. It’s a metaphor for her accepting her past, it’s a metaphor for her regaining her confidence in herself as a Jedi (bc she trusts herself to stay in the light despite her use of a dark-side lightsaber). Cal earlier had felt Cere and Trilla’s overwhelming trauma surrounding this object and now here she is, bearing this same object as she fights for the future.

I like the fact that you gain the ability to force pull an enemy towards you and stab them that’s such a power trip

I like it. When Cal ride the dinosaur <3

The ninth sister is kinda hot even though she killed me a couple of times

Love how blunt Merrin is lol. She really is just figuring out how interact with people after she turns to your side like go queen explore the world around you

I could definitely see hints of kotor in this game which was interesting

I don’t think this would have improved the gameplay at all in fact it could have hindered it a bit but I think they should have given Cal a gun. I just think he should have one. Also some bombs. Give this man some explosives

Anyways my ranting is slowly turning incoherent and this is all I can remember. There’s definitely way more to talk about tho. All in all a lovely game that I really enjoyed despite being super stressed about combat (in storymode no less 😩).

#tara talks #jfo #Star Wars #media #veeery long sorry #jedi fallen order

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koraesrambles · 2 months

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GREAT READING ADVENTURE part 2

Just finished reading the first volume of SAGA by Brian K Vaughan, which covers the first six issues of the story.

I'm. Um. Holy crap guys.

Sandman's horror was beautiful but a little much for something I'd usually read just for fun, but dang it, Saga is EXACTLY my kind of story in almost every single way. To say I loved the volume is an understatement. I have to again add reading the entire series to my list which aaaaah if I have to read the entire series of every single book on this list I'm probably going to die. Why am I doing this to myself? I make terrible decisions.

The Writing

I've never heard of Brian Vaughan before, so I don't know his history in comics or how much he's done, but I did read his end letters and saw how he'd been nervous about cancellation and how happy letter to the editor letters made him, so he seems like a pretty alright guy.

The writing in this volume is well-paced and engaging. It started En Media Res, which is something I tend to favor myself. It's a bit of a cliche to start with the birth of a baby, but it didn't stick out or feel dull to me. Also, the mom didn't even die, so it's already doing a lot better than 99% of stories I've seen that begin with a birth story.

Brian made me fall in love with the two main characters almost instantly. I'm glad he started out in a high stress situation, because we were able to get to know who they were and how they handled stress and danger in record time. He made me care about these two star-crossed lovers when romance is normally a pretty hard sell for me. I also really liked that he made the decision to have them be an already established couple who clearly loves each other instead of a will they/won't they situation. I also really loved that I never doubted their relationship's strength, even when they were bickering and fighting.

Anyway, the writing was beautiful and vivid. I felt like the story was well paced and that he introduced the characters in an easy to follow way. I liked the choices he made to try and get us to like each character (obviously I like Alana and Marko best, but the mercenary guy won a LOT of points by being willing to kill a dude to save a child, and the fact that the robo dude's wife is pregnant gives him immediate sympathy (though he's kind of on ice for being racist and trigger happy. . . )

The theme of children and saving children extends to all of the main cast of characters throughout the book. Even the bad guys who want our heroes dead are disgusted at the idea of harming a child, no matter how unfortunate their birth, and all of this with the voice over of Hazel talking about being born and how all children begin as simple ideas.

Honestly, it's downright poetic. I love stories like this, stories about families, stories where people are willing to do anything to protect the people that they love, it's just my jam. The only complaint I have is the fridging of the spider creature thing at the end of issue 5. He'd done such a good job of not using the death of a woman to motivate a male character at the beginning of the story, so I was bummed out that we still got a "he killed my girlfriend" storyline. But just because it's overused doesn't mean it didn't work in this instance. So, trope is annoying, but not incompetantly done.

The Art

The art is drop dead gorgeous. I wish I could draw like this. It's the type of art that I see and it makes me itch to pick up a pencil and start tring to figure out how they did it. The artist, Fiona Staples, is incredible. I found myself studying the backgrounds, how she was able to pull our attention to the things she wanted us to see while still making sure every frame was full and felt grounded in the world. I started taking notes on the way she was drawing the action scenes! How she made them poigant and the way they were all pieced together. It's freaking amazing. I would love to be able to produce art like this some day.

Some of my notes, just cuz I think they're cool:

don't just draw the action, draw the moment before and the effect after.

you don't always need highlights

background can be lower rended, which adds to the style

move the camera around the character, it doesn't have to always be from the same angle.

These are probably super obvious tips to anyone in the world who knows anything about comics, but I dunno, they just absolutely stuck out to me this time. The sense of adventure and fear and excitement the art invoked was just perfect for me. I loved it.

The Characters

As mentioned earlier, the writer did a really good job at introducing everyone and making me interested in them, at least a little. I cared immediately for the couple, the mercenary grew on me and the robot is clearly doing his best even though he's in a crappy situation and is kind of an asshole.

The character designs were all distinct and I had no problems telling anyone apart. I always knew where we were and the stakes for each character was very clear.

I can't remember all of their names, but I dunno if that's the writer's fault so much as I just can't remember names for the life of me. I can remember Hazel's name. Hazel's name stuck with me.

Usually when I start a story that has the cast separated at the beginning I'm looking forward to them meeting up. Even during times where one of them is hunting the other, like Zuko hunting down Aang from Avatar the Last Airbender. But uh. . . I do not want them catching up to each other in this one xD how bout we just say that Marko and Alana raise Hazel in a happy family, and nothing bad happens to them ever again, the end?

Yeah, not that kind of story. But I'm enthused by the lack of both child and parental death so far.

Final Thoughts

Saga is extremely fun, fast paced, well written, well illustrated, interesting and fun fantasy/scifi comic that I can absolutely learn a lot from. I knew the comics on this list would be good, but I was still pleasantly surprised by how this comic, that I had never heard of or run across before, was able to draw me in and attach me to the story so quickly. Beautiful. I'm very glad I read it.

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