#best design of the series

[villain-menagerie]

Mod H: not a day I don't think about how much I adore Light Fury and the third movie (as depressing as its ending is, all things considered)

What a queen

#mod h #httyd #light fury #httyd 3 #GOD what a cutie #I just wanna smush her cute lil kitty face in my hands and feed her fish till she likes me enough not to bite XD #like a real cat #perfect character #perfect design #perfect story #perfect everything #how can you look at all these moments and not be filled with serotonin just by looking at her #best design of the series #toothless and whispering death are close 2nd and 3rd tbh

[gallusrostromegalus]

Someone: So What's up with Mimihagi in AEIWAM?

Me, who did not read TYBW and is not about to: Imagine if Bill Cipher was still an eldritch little freak, but had the personality of both Santa Claus and Pepe le Pew, you'll be close. Also he's 12 feet tall with the stupidest proportions imaginable.

#Canon did not staple enough personality to the best character designs in the series so I'm doing it myself #Spoilers: Mimihagi and Pernida are both Batshit Crazy #Also madly in love #AEIWAM #an elephant is warm and mushy #I have a stress fever so you all get to watch me be insane

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[turtleblogatlast]

imo Leo has every right to be prideful about his appearance because if I had red stripes over my eyes, I’d make my face a personality trait too

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rip to the other tmnt variations that are also sliders but don’t have the stripes #unironically i think leo’s design is the best in the series for the stripes alone ngl #immediately drew me to his character #like i love each and every tmnt bro there is no one who is bad and y’all can fight me on that #but rise leo just LOOKS the best imo #he’s got the one benefit that p much no one else in the series has: something more than a mask to make his face stand out #plus the blue and red look so sick frfr #bros the face man for a REASON #ok but like side note i really love the character designs in rise in particular #but also like…every set of turts per series has such a specific and special style that are ALL GOOD #(but red stripes win out) #(like those are built in eyeliners c’mon) #i will say i also really love 2012 Mikey’s freckles they are Very Cute #and i also love love love when the characters have tooth gaps it’s always cute

[front-facing-pokemon]

#bonus angle under the cut because dog #also a fucking incredibly good pokémon?? do you understand. the pokémon designs in gen 8 were some of the best the series had to offer #i say this definitively and none of you will disagree #“ooohh gen 1 pokémon designs were so good” GEN 1 WAS BORING #THERE. I SAID IT #yamper

[palilious]

Kota

#new series alert!! #nomad started a new world and therefore i must doodle #plus this works for Nomad's bday today! #boss man is a year older so i get to bully with art #best of both worlds #oc #art #originalcharacter #originalartwork #sketch #character design #nomad's tales #nomad's tales and audios #nomad kota #nomad longstrider chronicals #pali draws nomad

[liquidstar]

Speaking of Steve Jobs, have you guys seen Steve Jobless?

#heaven's design team #context is that these are all angels tasked with creating animals for god. and these two pitched this one this time #god in this series is the WORST client to work with i pity these angel designers. they did their best with Steve Jobless

[octahyde]

what does kazuya nuri mean by this

#a brilliantly diverse artist with character design except these four. could he be trying to tell us something. #could he be trying to tell me specifically something. that i am correct in what the best yaoi in this series is. #ace attorney #klapollo #ryulock #dgs

[asideofchaos]

Ok so if the thing is going to keep happening every time Shiver wins a Splatfest, I'm just going run this poll.

I'll probably repeat this after the next Splatfest; if I remember too which I probably only will if I need to.

#splatpost #splat3 #splatbands #splatoon 3 #splatfest #splatoon #splat series #shiver #shiver hohojiro #shiver splatoon #splatoon shiver #Personally I love her #She's a drama queen #She shows that she loves her friends #She has one of the best designs #And her dynamic with Fyre and Big Man is amazing

[eclipsesincarnation]

so, um, how do you feel about namemc spoilers

Hmm, you mean THESE?!

First, Pearl pulled a Mumbo and my reaction?

I love when they do dress up with new designs, and the spike in art of them because of it too! Love it! So it seems me saying Gem is red is confirmed basically, and I really like the fact she has one eye indicating lives for everyone one of the skins she has, this applies to Scott's skin too, I really do love when they and art make their eye colours change to indicate lives, such a nice touch This already means 2 confirmed reds, and no way to confirm they are dead (am I assuming more Mumbo has been pulled because life series tend to end a ep.8 and we are at ep.7 already? All I'm saying is it is likely), that's what is important, some people don't change their skins according to lives so there could be many, many, more reds, or many more dead. I'm already thinking Scar pulled a Mumbo too, what with that box of shame on his tweet recently Gosh DAMN IT, Scott, now you are mixing with Impulse's colour, now the colour coding for the band is off, NO, I mean Gem already cause that, but STILL. We know for sure that the Gem and the Scotts Band did survive... some of it did survive

#the girlbosses have the best skin designs of course #geminitay #pearlecentmoon #pearlescentmoon #scott smajor #smajor #dangthatsalongname #secret life #secret life spoilers #secret life smp #trafficblr #traffic smp #traffic series #3ls5 #life smp #namemc spoilers #name mc spoilers #namemc #name mc #eclipsesincarnation just words

[ryuki-draws]

Woe, brave boy be upon ye

#I spent so much time looking at 87457 wikipedia pages to make sure has the vibe but isn't too similar to any existing robot #that I didn't realize I ended up with Roddy looking guy #but I'm probably not the best at evaluating the designs #because the moment I see two robots with similar color palette it's the same picture to me #anyway #he kinda sorta has a name but I'm not sure he'll keep it so #thinking of his second mode (drama relevant) as well as the rest of the team #will he get a giant flaming sword too? #stay tuned to find out! #go to sleep R #brave oc #brave series OC

[saint-nevermore]

im watching a playthrough of Dangan Ronpa (the third game) with my partner and i have thoughts. its definitely one of those things that were ruined by a fandom because they were too young for it. dont get me wrong, the characters are so out-there and unique they lend themselves to be perfect shipping war candidates, but there is seriously a wealth of artistic value to the games. watching through it ive been delighted with the artistic direction and sound design. the OST is dripping with personality and whimsy. its all around a fucking hoot to watch. its goofy and leans into the absurdity of it's setting without sacrificing sincere moments of the story. the murder mysteries are solid and engaging. Monokuma and his kubs are the stupidest motherfuckers ive ever seen and are hilarious whenever they show up. Ouma is there. ive had the most fun interpreting the ultimates as different flavours of neurodivergent and even if their role is short (i.e. theyre an early game victim/culprit) they have complexities. DR is genuinely cool as hell, if youve ever been interested in it i recommend tackling the playthroughs to enjoy the art of it - there really is nothing like it and i think we're all grown up enough to see the beauty in the absurd.

#i love when things surprise me witj being works of art. i never saw any kind of interrogation of the design in fandom #its a piece of media that begs for the characters to be scrutinized and explored so i get it #but ugh holy shit its pretty. and the soundtrack is incredible. #dr3 is the best in my partners opinion and im looking forward to seeing how the other games compare #also Ouma Kokichi is a fucking good ass character i hate and love his gay ass #dangan ronpa #raven.txt #also i watched the anime a Bit and i remember it being Alright #but it lacks what makes the series so distinct due to the shift in medium

[shishikusas]

SHE IS RISEN

happy 10th birthday shikyou amanojaku. ur a big girl now

#onibi series #masa works design #vocaloid #shikyou #amanojaku #kagamine rin #omemebi #digital art #my art #yes this is referenced from badlydrawnonibi bc its so iconic #its lower effort but ive had straight up a bad time lately so #plus i mean look at her. #shes perfect #anyway i love u shikyou thank u for 10 years of being the best song ever in the history of hte world <3

[larrylortt]

DRAGON TYPE 🐉🌟 Ao Lie x Pokemon crossover :3

#drew him in iris' outfit!! #iris was the best designed champion ARGUE WITH THE WALL. #should i make this pokemon x lmk crossover a series??!?!? #give requests!! #lego monkie kid #myart #artwork #lmk fanart #art #lmk #ao lie #ao lie lmk #ao lie monkie kid #pokemon #pokémon #crossover #dragon type #flygon

[sysig]

Care for your sparring partner (Patreon)

Bonus:

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Commander Peepers #Sylvia #Wander #Everyone asking Peepers questions that just skirt that line: The Series lol #Shoutout to Autumn for directing my attention this way and encouraging my brain to think about this A Lot lol #Drawing Peepers sliding around 'cause he just throws himself into everything ✨ That's it that's the whole thought lol #I haven't worn a binder for long enough to lose my breath so apologies if this isn't quite how it goes but y'know - *gestures at The Vibe* #He would overwork himself to the point of nearly passing out if it meant he could keep fighting the way he wants to pfft #Sylvia's rough and tumblr and she can be mean but even she won't kick him while he's down! Mom friend activate haha #She's grown a lot <3 #Also getting a bit easier to draw her >:3c She does have a fun design :D #Her mouth is the most fun haha ♪ It really reminds me of Moomin! Cute cutout shape :3 #''Why are you fighting with like five coats on'' ''Dysphoria'' ''Ah'' #Notice how he covers his chest when she brings up his ''tank top'' ♪ She just goes on giving him a lecture and he's like ''Did she notice'' #She didn't lol especially if that bonus is any indication #Weeks/Months/Years later and she's just like ''So that time we were fighting he was- He wasn't- :0000'' Lol #Bonus Wander brushing her comb ♪ Gotta take care of his best friend/steed! Probably just knocking the dust and dirt off haha #Their discussion would probably be silly hehe you know he'd ask and then /she'd/ ask #''Did you know??'' ''I don't make it my business to pry into other's personal matters-'' ''First of all that's not even a little bit true'' #It's just all about respecting boundaries! All the way around :) Respect the sanctity of the relationship whether it's friendly or combative

[madamchriss]

OK OK MY TURN

Everyone I see is drawing the main 6 (and sometimes Sunset Shimmer) as humans, and so I wanted to put my own spin on it because I can!!

Sooo first up is Fluttershy! My headcanons are that she’s goth, an earthy “goth”? And the tallest out of all of them. I also made her Indian because I can :3 and that’s how I envision her

PSA: This is how I see them, so I don’t want to hear complaining this is my art and all of the main 6 will be drawn and envisioned as WOC. If you don’t like it then draw them yourselves

So thank you. :D

#digital drawing #my artwork #artwork #mlp fim #mlp redesign #mlp art #mlp #my litte pony friendship is magic #my little pony #fluttershy #fluttershy human design #equestria girls rainbow rocks is the best in the series