#and end up elsewhere

[sopuu]

sketch dump of some guys

#i’ve been hoarding…again…..one of these dates back to june it’s time i cleaned it up💀 #also practicing how to draw these guys bc i need them for au comic purposes #mcsm #minecraft story mode #mcsm fanart #mcsm jesse #my doodles #mcsm lukas #mcsm jack #mcsm petra #mcsm romeo #mcsm admin #still don’t know what those things on jack’s pants are?? #i just went for pockets for now but err might change in the future #oh and happy bday mcsm it’s the 14th on my end but it’s gotta be the 13th elsewhere soo i’m technically not late right #edit: goddamit there was a mistake in one of them HELP #it’s gone now but if anyone noticed no you didn’t 😊 #sopuuart

[anonymouspuzzler]

one Warmup Gone Wrong later i finally have a full ref for the man, the myth, the legend, the minor annoyance, the thorn in the side of petty criminals and more successful heroes the world over, the one and only GOLDEN BOY (civilian name TBD. it's gotta be something super boring like, Jim or Something)

#anonymous puzzler art #anonymous puzzler originals #villain coded comic #casual outfit was going for more of a 'guy who grew up on a farm' vibe but ended up more in the vicinity of Kurt Russell In Every 80s Film. #which to be honest? is also the correct vibe. so we work with it #i've definitely talked about this elsewhere but golden boy is very much a Superman Type Hero. crash landed from Elsewhere raised humbly #was classic hero Silver Fox's sidekick for many years and became a proper hero in his own right after he retired. very idealistic guy #genuinely believes for good for good's sake and helping people and the ability for bad people to change and all that #very Direct and not a fan of red tape. needless to say he is not the Favorite of the current establishment and is often treated as a joke #he is buck and davey's Most Consistent Heroic Adversary especially pre-Minnie

[askwilliamwisp]

Wha… How am I back here..?

Last I remember, I was back at the base.. I took this rat that was attacking Dakota while Tide, Mark and Ashe were on the couch, for some reason, and I set it up with a ghost rat cage and ghost rat supplies in my room while helping Dakota bandage his wounds from the fight..

and now I’m here.

And a bit ago, this splitting noise started ringing from somewhere, but I can’t find the source. It seems to be coming from somewhere above? But it’s so loud that it seems to be coming from everywhere.

I just keep wandering these creepy fucking trees and the barely carved out footpaths hoping to find anything to help me leave, but there’s nothing. My hands are freezing… I’m really glad Tide got me those hand warmers.

I’ve been burning through them to try and keep myself warm. But I guess I’ve lost more feeling in my hands than I thought, because the skin has started to blister in some places from the heat.

I don’t want to think about that right now. I just want to go home.

(William does not wake up to Tide’s alarm. William does not wake up. William passed out in the bathroom mid sentence once he finished bandaging Dakota, and has been dead asleep since.

If one were to check, he wouldn’t have a pulse at the moment.)

also ooc other rp blogs ‘can’t see’ the posts w capital letters aka the posts from the wispering woods. these are meant to represent wiwis internal dialogue and document his encounters w the wisps. jsyk ^^

#wispering #alone #the horrors #ooc: we rped the whole bandaging wounds thing and capturing biwi elsewhere last night but that did actually happen. just not on tumblr lmao #william will not wake up if someone tries to wake him up but he will wake up later. but he is unconscious for today. #once he encounters some wisps he’ll wake up 👍 #however feel free to rp freakinf out about him being unconscious or y’all can just assume he’s rlly eepy XD whatever works #if this is too dark lmk also and i’ll try and dial it back #the end!

[brookheimer]

the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.

succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.

i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.

so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.

#WOOF okay here's my unnecessary ~thematic prediction~ for this episode #i have some more like random thoughts ab what'll happen but those r less thought out and more throwing shit at the wall etc #but i've been thinking a lot ab this ep n idk i just can't see any other way it could be done satisfyingly -- they can't just do 2016/2020 #again. the focus has to be elsewhere. i have some specifics thoughts on details but again those r kinda random n will be in another post #after bizarrely getting a lot of things right this szn i know a lot of people are looking to me to see what i'll say for this ep and let me #remind yall that I AM LITERALLY JUST GUESSING BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHOW AND HOW NARRATIVES #TEND TO WORK PARTICULARLY IN SUCCESSION! if i am wrong which i very well might be please do not crucify me. i know literally #nothing more than anyone else i'm just a random english/gov major who likes speculating about media ! that said if i end up right again #somehow then yes i am a prophet i am jesse armstrong i have never been wrong about anything in my life. etc #watch this age so poorly tho. #LOL #also fwiw i dont think the Shock etc is going to come from the election results - maybe possibly from the way things happen (i could see a #line of miscommunication resulting in fucked up outcomes etc which i can get into in another post) or a roy sibs moment but i just #don't think there's any way the results themselves cld be surprising. it's jimenez or mencken. it's not gonna be connor guys. #succession #succession spoilers #except not really. just succession speculation more than anything else #long post #succession speculation #100

[coquelicoq]

crashes ur board meeting n drags u out by the collar but its fine bc youre the one always saying shit like "im looking for people i can use" ok lol. get used idiot

#just tracing like. the sequence of events that had to take place in order for this to come to pass #1. natori and his shiki are skulking around homura stalking ban. possibly it's just his shiki and natori is elsewhere. #either way 2. natsume shows up and natori learns about it either bc he witnesses it or a shiki comes to tell him #3. natori gets in his little richard scarry apple car (this is my mental image for some reason) & fucking. BOOKS IT to the matoba compound #4. goes inside. presumably matoba lackeys try to stop him bc their boss is in an important meeting but somehow he gets past them #(possibilities here are v fun to think about. maybe natori does this all the time and they're used to it. maybe he's never done it before #but they're all on orders to let natori in if he ever shows up. maybe natori convinces them he's supposed to be IN the meeting #which is great because it sounds like some important clan thing so what is he in the clan now??) #5. interrupts matoba's meeting like 'i need you' and matoba's like 'bye everyone whatever this is is more important' #6. they get in natori's comical apple car (again the apple car is not canon don't worry about it) #& natori drives like a bat out of hell back to homura. (SOURCE: matoba is so scarred he refuses natori's offer for a ride later) #i wonder what they talk about on the way there? because they don't talk about why natori is stalking ban until much later #so they must be busy talking about something else. but what?? #that or they're both too distracted by all the near-death experiences from natori's crazed driving lol #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #homura cats arc #horrible exorcists #my posts #sidenote i feel like that page at the end where both matoba and sensei refuse natori's offers of a ride is really funny because #sensei's reason is that it will take too long. but sensei did you know natori drives like a speed demon? think it thru... #also like. how long did it take him to decide to involve matoba? was that his backup plan all along? #also it's pretty lucky that he found matoba at all considering he could be anywhere...the matoba have like 15 houses... #he has matoba's schedule memorized lol #natori sparkling to the assorted clan members in the meeting: sorry ladies and gentlemen i just need to borrow this~ #*throws matoba over his shoulder and fireman-carries him to the parking lot*

[elsewhereuniversity]

eyo i see you've got a lot of dice now Archivist! let's play a oneshot sometime!

I would be honored.

#i did get really into dnd over the pandemic actually haha #i'm running ghosts of saltmarsh for my family which is a lot of fun #writing the lil elsewhere game and dming both fall neatly into a kind of storytelling i really enjoy #which is to say trying to imagine every possible outcome and then still being surprised by where it actually ends up

[cantsayidont]

August 18, 1946. In the comic books, the regeneration of Two-Face lasted for more than a decade, but in the syndicated Batman newspaper strip, Two-Face met a different and much grimmer end. This Sunday newspaper continuity was written by Bill Finger, who wrote Two-Face's early comic book appearances, and borrows parts of its plot from those stories (this scene is a variation of one from DETECTIVE COMICS #66), but the newspaper Two-Face is a vain actor, Harvey Apollo, not a district attorney; he has no fiancée; and he's presented as being unwilling to consider plastic surgery out of wounded vanity, rather than the only capable surgeon being in a Nazi concentration camp (as was initially the case in the comic book stories). Several of the continuities of the newspaper strip were similarly repurposed from early comic book stories.

This was one of the last Sunday continuities of the 1940s BATMAN newspaper strip, which ended in late 1946. Unlike Superman, who would remain a newspaper comics stalwart for many years, Batman and Robin's track record in the newspapers was hit and miss.

#comics #batman #newspaper comics #bill finger #jack burnley #win mortimer #golden age batman #two face #the combination of burnley and mortimer looks a little odd #mortimer said he ended up inking the strip because burnley had deadline problems #although elsewhere each ordinarily inked his own work

[mtsworkshop]

2wink Week Day 2 - Stars!

Something a bit simple for today, but I have to admit I'm really quite pleased with these.

Please credit if using!

#aoi yuta #aoi hinata #2wink #2wink week 2024 #enstars #enstars icons #ensemble stars #ensemble stars icons #yuta's in particular i'm especially in love with! #i knew i wanted to do the blue and gold combo #i tried with his mirage card but that render is a bit too awkwardly shaped/positioned #but then his big ocean card worked perfectly! #i would have used hinata's fs2 since it's kinda space themed. but i have Plans for that one elsewhere :3 #and his nightclub card ended up having silver to go with yuta's gold. how do i keep getting this lucky!

[cancerian-woman]

Even though we barely saw him and he’s dead. *glares at Davina and Lucien*

Do you think Finn would have treated Marcel more kindly than any of the rest of the Mikaelsons?

Tbh, yes and no I think Finn & Marcel would’ve taken some time to be friends.

Marcel is still similar to Klaus/Elijah in how he behaves towards people & values those who are loyal to him vice-versa. Marcel’s approach is different you treat people well and they’ll respect you back. However, Marcel is arrogant and enjoys being a vampire, getting his hands dirty. Finn wouldn’t admire that in Marcel really since he doesn’t enjoy those qualities in his own siblings. Both are outcasted and seen as villainous by the Mikaelsons so I can see them getting along there. Marcel would still be on defense with Finn since he is a Mikaelson at the end of the day. Same applies with Finn since Marcel has that Klaus/Elijah mentality. I could see Marcel trying to understand why Finn hates immortality so much as someone who does value his immortality. Marcel would probably show Finn the fun-side to vampirism. I do think if Finn was around when it came down Marcel vs. The Mikaelsons, he would’ve stood on Marcel’s side or played a part in setting them up. You would think Kol would’ve been on Marcel’s side since Freya&Elijah sacrificed his girlfriend but….Finn did enjoy the things he did with Freya, i think the big part is making sure Finn feels valued same with Marcel.

That being said even if Marcel/ Finn had varying opinions & fell out. I don’t see Finn acting the way his family did. Like throwing Marcel’s slavery in arguments or going on about how he was never family, a mistake etc etc...(Klaus,Elijah,Kol..) Not considering him family or a friend or valuable period (Hayley & Freya…)

Thank you for the ask!

#Marcel Gerard #finn mikaelson #anti the Mikaelson’s #anti the originals #chocolateshortcake02 #dria responds #anti klaus mikaelson #anti kol mikaelson #Anti freya mikaelson #anti elijah mikaelson #anti Hayley Marshall #Tagging this properly before it ends up elsewhere

[vroomian]

You know what hell probably doesn’t have? Mail carriers.

#vrrm vrrm #much to think about #does Yrz end up owning the postal service in hell??? #like idk how it is elsewhere but in the USA you Do Not Fuck With The Mail #the usps does not play around #tampering with mail is. I hoesntly think it’s the one crime most Americans agree on as Bad? #Hazbin au

[vodid]

reminder that i do have a ko-fi membership for wips/exclusive art that i am planning on using more with my current productivity o7

second reminder that art is my only income. any support is greatly appreciated, even a one-off tip!

#i never use it bc i always end up sending shit on discord first and i'm like. wait no my kofi. GDSHFDSFS #but i am going to attempt to keep things there more before sharing elsewhere - including a blitzwing comic >:) #the more members i have the higher chance i may give out discount codes for my store too :3 #i hope to do more with it. if i can get to a point of making monthly prints id LOVE to offer that to kofi members

[ghostcond]

doodles for today

#i read a forum thread about simeon. i only tag him with his last name because otherwise these posts will end up elsewhere #but apparently he dropped his last name so #g art #wizard tag #malorn ashthorn #ceren nightchant #suzie gryphonbane #simeon firemane #mindy pixiecrown #celorn #nightthorn

[pennaraptor]

good morning

#winston ended up walking closer to him and i tried letting allen step up in case he was scared and then he flew off #but wasnt upset and landed elsewhere in the tree and took treats from me #allen #winston

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF Thought of the Day

The urge to frankencanon Ling Wen’s revised backstory to keep all the cute moments with Bai Jing but still have Ling Wen be actively responsible for Jing Wen’s pseudo-death and somewhat responsible for Xuli’s downfall

(preferably with swd & pm’s backing)

#tgcf #ling wen #random tgcf thoughts #I am still mad about that one change in the revision #was it a censorship thing? lw can’t get away with everything in the end if she murdered someone? #everything else about the backstory is great but I refuse to acknowledge this part #how I would do it is have her actively plot against jw #she knows xuli’s downfall is coming no matter what so she decides to speed it up #after BJ refuses to withdraw for her she finds some conflict to keep him busy #and makes arrangements for other kingdoms to start invading - BJ can’t be everywhere after all #and then in the confusion actively starts burning JW’s temples #(possibly pm helps here) #(or for more fun it’s swd who borrows PM’s men and makes him complicit) #while lw stays in heaven and waits for jw to weaken enough so she could kill him #(but he manages to survive like in the og novel) #i like the idea of lw trying to keep bj safe at first but then settles for just having him elsewhere #but the general feng conflict happens anyway #and her temple burners spiral out of control #and target her own temple as well - but BJ protects it #also picturing a scene where lw warns swd about pm (who he’s kinda friendly with) #pm is a xuli man and owes jw some favors #so if swd starts an open conflict with jw he should expect PM’s help #*shouldnt #(lw is wrong about this - pm wouldn’t help jw and would prefer to stay out entirely) #(but he also doesn’t actually like jw) #(the favor jw did for him? help clear his name after the failed rebellion) #(pm never asked for that and it caused the beautiful tale to spread) #(however I do also see pm in a sort of lxc-style peacemaker role for lw swd and jw)

[peacereturnedtothevalley]

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#every day I go to the big discord to get annoyeddddd #I should not go there for longer than a minute #simple solution everyone else catch up on eps immediately so I can see reactions elsewhere #there’s criticism and there’s worst faith takes b4 an arc has ended bc we don’t have all the answers yet #the discord hasn’t rchanged in 7 years <3

[stellacaerulea]

Paper announced a new Nikki figurine, and I'd like to make a not-so-short rant on the subject - feel free to state your views on the matter afterwards

Disclaimer: this entire text is my opinion on the matter and in no way an irrefutable statement

This week another SN figurine was announced, with Nikki in an unknown Cloud-style outfit. I mentioned that before in other occasions in the community at large, but why is it that only Nikki gets anything outside of the game?

People constantly come to the quick conclusion that, well, Nikki is the protagonist and all so it's only natural that she gets most of the attention, but there's a noticeable difference between getting most of the attention and getting all of it. The only character to get anything at all outside the game - applies to both Love Nikki and Shining Nikki - is Nikki and, by proxy, Momo.

Earlier I heard in my server that "she is the protagonist, so she's the game's selling point" - fact is, Nikki alone isn't strong enough of a selling point. Anyone somewhat familiar with long-running gacha RPGs knows the other characters are often just as, if not more, important as the protagonist and appropriately, they get a share of the spotlight outside their games.

Think about other games in this segment I know which one you're gonna think about. While the protagonist's story is the driving motor of the game, what we actually hear/read most is the stories of the people surrounding the protagonist, and as a result the game becomes more of a collection of stories of interesting people, and said interesting people gets just as much attention as part of the game as a product as the protagonist does, to the point that often the protagonist is ignored.

Of course we don't want Nikki to be ignored, even though I personally have been finding her a bit flat as a character as of late. But consider: when was the last time we saw artwork of other characters in their birthdays or other big events outside the game (say, holidays) that weren't reflection arts or concepts? To be honest I've seen it around 5 times ever since TW SN was released - April 2019.

Likewise, I made that survey a few months ago, asking if you were interested in merchandise from anyone other than Nikki, to which the crushing majority said yes. And I know for a fact, half the community would be fighting tooth and nail for a Lilith figurine with a sparkly silver dress, or maybe Loen in some action pose [edit: my gf arrived as I was typing and added she'd kill for a figurine of the Goddess of Desire]. We could have gotten a short animation (even if it was live2D mostly) of Ashley's past which is a very popular story and honestly how most people even heard of Shining Nikki to begin with or some slice of life about Aeon and Marina taking care of the personality mirrors in the Ark. But instead, anything that isn't Nikki herself is neglected and treated as secondary even if in practice they are most of what makes the game.

In short, my point with all this is to express my disappointment with how a world meant to be rich and attractive is neglected and the game is treated as if it were only pretty clothes on a silly (affectionate) pink-haired girl. Of course the game would decline as it has been lately. We can have a dress-up with pretty clothes anywhere. Just ask Archosaur.

#shining nikki #it was a long rant in the end #i know you probably saw it elsewhere in the nikkinet #if the moderators didn't block it for some weird reason #but i'll post it here nonetheless #i think it's about time we address that #plus imagine #black hole glow in a ballet pose #with a galaxy coming up from her feet #also sorry but nikki has become a bit stale in the story lately #there's too little building on her feelings and thoughts compared to other characters #the other characters DO look more interesting than her lately