#before i restart (again)

[gooperts-gunk]

im so crazy over the tragedy of everything q!bbh does being under a demon pretense even though he's a fallen angel.

do u think he just accepts the demon label because it's easier. do u think he believes it too, and catches himself in his thoughts with "oh, right. im not exactly that". and maybe he believes that he did this to himself? do u think what he did was to protect himself or someone? no matter the fall, he still has so much kindness to give and his brain just isn't wired the way a natural-born demon would be, he can't hold back instincts when time demands it, maybe that's why he fell in the first place.

and when he's finally bad, not good, it's treated like the end of the world, without empathy on why he would act out. do you think this keeps happening? the same scenario, multiple times, every timeline? he has to be used to it. so he has to take it in stride. he's good until he lashes out under extreme pressure, and suddenly he's called demon. and once again he's what heaven made him out to be. what he made himself to be, his brain would ruthlessly provide...

i don't think he wants to be that, though he hides secrets behind secrets of which neither identity is a home... but i don't think he wants to have to change, either. and i don't think that's wrong of him.

...you collapse atlantis ONE TIME and all of a sudden YOU'RE the bad guy and SURE it was FUN but REALLY now,--

#lots of expansion on this in tags beware #this is a draft from 2:40AM the day before i just felt something within me and i needed to write about fallen angel q!bbh angst NOW #this post is brought to you by q!bbh in purgatory and post-purgatory i will never forgive you purgatory 1 #no one can bear to have a healthy conversation about q!bbh's behaviors let alone TO q!bbh. BUT IF Q!BAGHERA WASN'T STUCK ON THE ISLAND... #i miss u bbh + baghera interactions let me see u soon pls #he isn't impossible to communicate with ur just not jiving with his autism right u can get through to him i swear BUT TOO LATE he DIED #now he doesn't remember!!! (unless that part of the library is recovered) u lost ur shot!!! (ur issues with him will rise again) #now every time bagi goes “'cause he's a demon” with bbh i go OH MAN SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S MORE... it hurts how flippant it is sometimes #because WE KNOW OH MAN WE KNOW IT'S MORE and this concept of him being fallen adds SO MUCH CONNOTATION to EVERYTHING he does #it isn't just DEMON THINGS it's GOD MADE ME THIS THINGS and i just can't wait to know WHY what did you DO!!! #your instincts are to be nice though cautiously detached when your life restarts so WHAT DID YOU DO IF YOU ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD??? #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[oliveroctavius]

I got this ask on main but thought I'd pick it up here, my comics history/fashion ramble blog. I'd been wondering this exact same thing recently, and Google initially wasn't much help—Rocketeer replica jackets describe themselves only as "Rocketeer jackets" and the one Lobster Johnson cosplay thread just suggested ordering one of those.

The most curious part is the double seam and horizonal row of buttons that mark out the entire front as possibly being an unbuttonable "bib", like a plastron front. (Please don't ask how late in the game I worked out that "plastron" is the right word for that.)

The closest genuine Golden Age example of a plastron jacket I found was the military tunic style uniform of Blackhawk, created in 1941.

(Pics from the '52 movie serial (right) really show how awkward it is to combine open lapels + plastron. On a double breasted coat, that chest panel IS the bottom lapel, folded shut.)

Here's the thing: This outfit mirrors that of the Nazi ace pilot he fights in the origin issue, von Tepp (middle). And compare further to the far right: real life WWI flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, AKA the Red Baron, in imperial German Uhlan (lance cavalry) uniform.

"The Germans had designed such great costumes, we decided to use them ourselves," co-creator Cuidera is quoted as saying in Steranko's History of Comics, which (more dubiously, in my opinion) compares the look to the Gestapo or SS. Breeches or jodhpurs weren't strictly a Nazi thing at the time, but they do add to the overall effect.

Compare two other military tunic themed costumes from 1940, on Captain Marvel and Bucky Barnes. These are asymmetrically buttoned, and switch to a more classic circus strongman look below the waist.

But somewhere around 1975, with the Invaders book, Bucky gets a buttoned bib! There's something infectious about it—the symmetry, maybe. (Even re: the characters we started with; Mignola didn't draw Lobster Johnson with buttons down the right side, but every artist after does. And Spider-Noir wore a sweater under his coat until Shattered Dimensions introduced the double-breasted vest.)

If it didn't reach his belt, Barnes' button-on front + shirt collar combo would resemble a bib-front western shirt, like the one that became the Rawhide Kid's signature look in '56. (Or Texas Twister's in '76.)

This shirt entered the old-West-obsessed public imagination in the 1940s/50s largely because John Wayne wore it in several cowboy movies. In reality it was rare among cowboys, more common with firefighters and civil war era militia.

Military tunics, Western shirts, alright, but does anything match the style and material and era, or are these jackets a total anachronism? I tried looking into 1930s leather flight jackets and was surprised when the closest-looking results were marked as Luftwaffe.

It took me a bit to work out why: USAF and RAF issued standard flight jackets with a center closure. The Luftwaffe instead let their pilots buy non-standardized ones. The 'weird' double-breasted black German flight jackets were in fact fairly normal (but repurposed) motorcycle racing jackets.

Far left is an English biker's jacket that dates back to the 1920s. Even without the bib, this may be as close as you'll get to an authentic Rocketeer. The jodhpurs were pretty common to complete the look. (What was an early motorcycle anyways, if not a weird metal horse?) The first biker jacket with the now iconic off-center diagonal zip was designed in America in 1928 and yet as far as I can tell, not a single actual pre-war pulp hero wore one.

The greatest weakness of this post is that I haven't been able to find any of these artists' notes on how, exactly, they arrived at similar versions of this iconic Pulp Front Panel Jacket. I'm sure I've missed some things. But as far as I can tell, this jacket is an odd bit of convergent stylistic evolution from the above influences that's picked up enough momentum to now be self-perpetuating.

The problem with pulp heroes is that for the most part, they just wore clothes. The appeal of this jacket is actually very similar to what the 1940s thought the appeal of the bib-front shirt in westerns was: It's alien enough to feel "old". It looks like something invented before zippers or synthetic fabrics. It looks formal and militant but also renegade, rebellious. It also looks a little mad-sciencey*. It's a costume, but you can nearly fool yourself into thinking the past was weird enough that you could find something this cool on the rack.

If I wanted to end on some grand point, I could try to argue that there's a thematic throughline between fascist fashion, John Wayne movies, and throwback pulp. A manufactured aesthetic valorizing the violence of a fictional golden age... but I think the noir stylings of the post-Rocketeer comics in this lineup mean that, at least on some level, they know the "good guys" didn't dress like this.

*If I had another couple weeks of time to burn, I'd try to trace the visual history of the Howie coat in popular culture and investigate its possible connections to this. Alas, I do actually have a life.

#thank you for reading. also don't read golden age blackhawks the racism is awful even by era standards. #comics history #costume taxonomy #<- forgot I had that tag. #not to be like ''in MY favorite comics...'' again but may I point out that Hellboy and Robo and Tom Strong just wear... clothes #like. yknow. A pulp series that had confidence in itself rather than trying to cosplay as eras it thinks were cooler might do- #[I am yanked offstage before I can restart that rant] #the rocketeer

[xraytheredx]

Welcome to the neighborhood~! 🏡✨

I couldn't stop myself from drawing up just the neighbors; I sprinted the whole nine yards for over a month! XD It was worth it though; I even pixelated plant life for the first time, and they came out pretty well! >u<

Would like to give a bit of thanks to @carnivalcarrion for pointing out some hidden details that I wouldn't have thought to look for, especially in the bodega! (Check out their rant about it, and all their awesome art while you're at it! https://www.tumblr.com/carnivalcarrion/727782616285249536/x)

#raysartwork #8-bit art #pixel art #welcome home #wally darling #julie joyful #frank frankly #sally starlet #eddie dear #barnaby b beagle #howdy pillar #poppy partridge #Just like with the neighbors each home had their own difficulties #Julie why does your house have to be so round everywhere?! Measuring all that out was so tricky!! #The colors on Frank's place did NOT wanna cooperate; I had to learn to fiddle with saturation when I got to his #Wanted to animate Home's eyes moving but that's a thing for another day! #And again first time of me drawing plant life; had to really push myself to draw out the trees on Poppy's barn #(I don't know if they're behind it or a part of it 'cuz... y'know Bird Home) #HOWDY'S PLACE THOUGH!! HOLY CANOLI!! #I've never drawn a building at an angle like that before; I had to restart on the linework SO!! MANY!! TIMES!! #((All this ranting and I still hope we'll get interior views of these places at some point; this was all really fun to make! X''D))

[yeehawbvby]

HIS LITTLE SMILE :D !!!!!!!

#what a silly scrungly little man!!! #oh no I’m playing swsh again #i wanna restart but. not before I do a few more star tourneys #at least with the spikemuths and Leon and raihan #i love this game so much #pokemon swsh #piers pokemon #pokemon piers #swsh

[vaguely-concerned]

I am so mad about how desperately into pan I am. he was specifically made to fuck me up. they dangled him in front of me like 'hey would you like to see a sad clown trickster with emotional intimacy issues and a heart of, if not gold, then some mysterious alloy with qualities not at all unlike those of gold at the end of the day?' and I went 'boy would I!' and now I'm lost. I'm on my knees he's like if reyes vidal was actually redeemable instead of just a 'release my man he did do all of that but I don't care' situation

#the way he seems so genuinely *delighted* by grace finding her voice and wants her to be able to make her music again #even when she's not the muse anymore............ what the fuck that is the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my LIFE dude #low-key grace's biggest fan musically at least fhsajkd #stray gods #stray gods pan #(this is not a slam on reyes btw the fact that he's unconscionable is part of the appeal in that specific case lol) #I went into the game mostly blind and from what I had seen I fully intended to romance freddie #and then... this bitch shows up for literally one song and I have to restart the whole thing before I even get to challenging a queen #because I now desire the goat guy carnally and I want to duet with him for the rest of forever thank u #also I don't think I can ever not romance him now seeing the contrast between what he gets up to in the endings #what do you MEAN if you don't romance him he just goes off and no one knows where he is. he's still just so alone??? no not on my watch #(if freddie is dead ( :( ) and you romance him there's an *adorable* part in the epilogue where he tells you hekate has him running around #getting lost relics back in a series of distinctly indiana jones-esque misadventures and it sounds like he's having the time of his life #if this is what it takes for him to actually talk to his family without anyone being complete dicks about it I must solemnly accept #the terrible burden of kissing him on every single run through of this game. it cannot be helped it's out of my hands now)

[nolongerapileofashprobably]

Kass has to be our DLC companion. When else will I hear the song he crafted for Zelda?

#I just finished all of Kass’ quests in botw again and god it makes me emotional #I miss THEM #I miss KASS #I had to put my switch away before I beat the calamity #I swore to myself I wouldn’t until all the shrines are done #bc I’m trying to do a ‘canonical’ run of the game before I restart totk #zelink #botw zelink #loz botw #botw #link botw #the legend of zelda #botw link #zelda botw #zelink botw #the legend of zelda breath of the wild #botw Kass

[theyhitthepentagon]

this video makes me cry laugh every time i watch it its so fucking good

#genuinely i could write at least a paragraph about how this is the funniest video yet #its so well put together #the video already catches ur eye from the start because its sped up a little #and its not short enough that you see the punchline and then just scroll #but its not long enough so that you dont scroll before the punchline hits #its like the perfect length #once you see the ounchline and start laughing the video restarts and plays it AGAIN #so its like. blow after blow after blow #you dont have time to recover and stop laughing #its so so good this bideo is like genius to me

[suave-hogan]

ONE WEEK!!!!!

#suave says #im so happy and excited! #not only do I get to hang out with my bestest most wonderful friend! but I also get to see twrp again!!!! #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #me and my friend are getting together tomorrow to plan stuff out! I still need to figure out my concert outfit #those that have met me at shows befor know i used to have a wonderful mullet #I ended up shaving my hair (excluding the ear tufts) when restarting T #I’ll likely draw my sona in my outfit choices and show you guys what I mean #anyway #fire grobb

[hexados-on-a-string]

believe it or not, i was going to make some with other characters but i have a favourite i am so sorry

#gus grav #bakugan #bakugan new vestroia #i saw the tweet in the first one a few months ago and it reminded me of gus so hard it restarted my hyperfixation #id tag the others but i would rather die than tag z*noheld #i can be serious. i just choose not to. #i also think im really really funny #i hate when ppl ask me my favourite character cuz i have to lie and say its someone normal and well known #and not gus #but i assure u. gus grav. is my favourite character ever. of all time. i think hes very interesting. no one is as big a fan of him as i am. #that will never change #anyway i think these are all accurate enough and if they're not. who cares. its for the funny. #im trying to get as much content done as possible before eventually the anxiety and self doubt take over and i disappear again

[currentlyonstandbi]

i must be some kind of masochist

#i restarted the game 🤭 #just to swap combat styles . i knew i should've stuck with the path of the bastard but i got my ass handed to me at krat station #and worried that dex based combat wasn't for me so i went with path of the cricket ... well . here we are again #yes i know combat path doesn't really matter once you start levelling skills the way you want !!! #but the way the rapier handles combat is different to the cutlass #and honestly this is the easiest time i've ever had playing the game ! didn't even die once on both mad donkey and city hall boss #but now its like . is it easy because i've already experience these levels before . or because the different combat style really does work #lies of p

[louwhose]

Happy Pi Day! Or... is it pie day? White day?

Whatever, today is something and I'm celebrating whatever it is with this ship I'm far too obsessed with for how little screentime they have.

#dwight in shining armor #disa #chlodwig #phoebe #....STILL need to figure out a good ship name for them #phoewig? chloebe? #the “oe” in both of those is the long e sound in my head. for clarity #well then just in case I will tag this post with both of those options #phoewig #chloebe #okay maybe that second one could be more of a. chlO-E-be #idk its an incredibly made up ship name why am I stressing over it so much #also if you are reading this far I shall serenade you with some history about this piece #it took me months and several iterations of this piece to finally finish it #which was incredibly frustrating because it felt for a while that everytime I came back my art had leveled up enough that I had to restart #from scratch because the different components simply would not work together #but finally I finished it. #...over a month before posting it BUT DANG IT PI DAY WAS WORTH WAITING FOR #also pretty sure that this is the last thing I completed before my friend forced me to figure out the pressure sensitivity in my tablet #and that changed my art style completely again it feels like but. alas. this is definitely the last of its kind #lou draws #WOWWWWWWW forgetting my own art tag #at least it's impossible to forget about this piece with how much I went through for it

[cassandralexxx]

I am not built to live alone. I’m alone at my house today bc my parents have been away all weekend and my sisters at work and I am soooo paranoid 😵‍💫.

every creak has me thinking there’s someone in the house. I’m doing the laundry so every so often I’m like… who’s there. Earlier a bag was rustling bc the fan was on in our guest room and it had me so freaked it was insane.

#mylife #Like I have something wrong with me today bc I actually was so convinced (even tho ik there wasn’t anyone) that I went to my room and - #-locked the door for 6 minutes to make sure no one came after me 💀. After that I went to the room in question turned on the light then- #-openeed the closet shined a light in there checked behind the door checked the light if the neighboring bathroom- #-checked behind the curtain and door before chilling out 💀💀💀 #It’s like when last year I was at that apartment I was convinced someone would come every time I heard a slight move 💀💀💀 #It’s giving paranoia #If I experience any of this again when I restart therapy I’ll prolly mention it 💀💀💀 bc it was illogical

[koko2unite]

#shadowbanned again on twitter #sigh #i just... #i recently reached 10k on my twitter AD #and 8K on my main #my accounts suddenly got a lot of engagements #i got my first viral art on OC goddammit #that never happened before!?? #until suddenly twitter turns into total shit and now its X #and everybody starts moving out #so i have to restart on whatver fucking site people will jump on #i thought oh well lets ride until it dies or smth #but oh no #i got hit by shadowban!! #suddenly no engagement #followers gone one by one #why the fuck is that a thing anyway #do twitter force unfollow people when theyre shadowbanned #i dont fucking get it #i was hoping itll get fixed by the end of the month but theres no sign of it getting better #how the fuck am i supposed to open commissions then??? if twitter gonna shut me down #i was hoping i could jump to tumblr and use this as my main social page for sharing my art and getting financial support #but even here i get constantly ignored #mutuals who refuse to reblog art #people that i wanna mutual with but they never reciprocate #and the worst?? #people who just moved from twitter to tumblr last week #already surpassed by miles #people will send them dm asks and reblog their art #every single one of them and they always go thousand notes and i hate it i hate it how i felt like i got left behind because im not worthy

[i-write-shakespeare-not-disney]

It's actually insane that I'm struggling to understand jjk more than I did snk :/

#idk what it is #no i do know i just dk if i should make a post about it #i restarted the anime to try again before catching up #jjk #jujitsu kaisen #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin

[bhaalkin]

will you guys promise to be nice to me if i say i haven't actually finished act 3 in my personal playthrough

#[ ooc ] * murderous retort . #like ok. obviously i have seen playthroughs and got a solid chunk through act 3 + orin's quests in my first playthrough #...before deciding to restart all over bc i killed halsin in act 1 and it was eating away at me LMAO #current personal playthrough is smack dab in the middle of the first ketheric fight bc i cannot be fucking bothered to fight him #and also i don't wanna kill kar'niss i FEEL BADDDDD #the only thing pulling me through is that i will finally get to see the sun again and also see MY GIRL

[shrekshugebadussy]

started playing The Arcana again bcuz i forgot it was a thing and i never finished it (only got halfway thru Asra’s route) & i got very curious about Lucio’s route since he’s practically the dead one & how that would work and let me tell you when that motherfucker opened his mouth… yeah i knew i was in trouble 🙃

#he most certainly fits my type #i mean he’s a little (a lot) full of himself. confident asshole. troubled. protective & flirty. mischievous. #just… #i’m ngl kinda reminds me of astarion a bit #but yeah i saw an ad for it and forgot it existed & i started the Asra route again #but i had to restart bcuz i couldn’t remember what happened #but i think i stopped reading before bcuz i constantly had no coins & i couldn’t earn them thru the wheel & i kept losing the game 🥲 #i get they’re an indie developer but i hate that i have to spend so much just for a special scene #but only did i now learn that the paid choices do not affect the ending so i’m glad about that #i think that’s what mostly turned me away last time #i thought the coined choices got the good ending 😭 #anyways #mine #the arcana #delete later? #oof