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mayorofclowntown · 1 year

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I finished my other sketchbook so I started a new one 👍👍👍👍

So I'll like- separate them:

welcome home: puppet show;

Deltarune + an Oc named Chakra (get it- like- its- do you get it---):

Rise! Mikey!!!;

COD Ghost 💕💕💕💕 LMAOOOO-;

Thank you for looking 👍

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caitas-cooing · 1 month

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#I feel like I could be a good phantom thief #they're already a group of outcasts #also I'm not doing 1 and 2 because they get outvoted and I would feel bad #also what would you even call the p1 team?#persona series

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acecroft · 11 days

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lenievi · 2 months

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maybe with more info it'll change but Javert>Valjean gets funnier with the way it goes in the book

like Javert saw Valjean when Javert was in his early 20s, then he became a policeman, and some 15 years later (when he’s around 40) he meets a guy, his instinct goes !!!! and he spends FIVE YEARS watching him and thinking about him and studying him and collecting info and trying to make him crack, but also three of those years were spent being extremely respectful towards Madeleine because he was his superior (not to mention Javert avoided him as much as he could in those three years), and all that time Madeleine is just kind to him and Javert's mind just goes: but convict? can't be? no? yes? no? but my instinct! but instinct is not infallible! convict? no?

and then Madeleine is not kind to him once and Javert gets petty and goes yeah, he's Jean Valjean after all

#i'm not that far yet but i also feel that the reason why javert identified champ so easily and quickly was because he did not really want #madeleine to be jean valjean so he took the opportunity #and saw what he wanted #not because of some feelings but because madeleine was a magistrate and champ was a thief #but it works really well as a fodder for shippy fanfics :D #valvert #and actually years later valjean is kind to him again and it breaks javert #if it wasn't so tragic overall it'd be comedy #les miserables #javert

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nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui · 7 months

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Here is your answer then, humblest of mortals

The reader may believe a goddess came bearing a message for the king or believe it was only the effect of the smoke from the braziers. The acolyte can offer no corroboration. From the slightly bored expression on her face, I gathered that she saw only the king lying on the floor, not Moira bending over him, the pattern on her shawl changing in the dim and uneven light. "Eugenides," said Moira, and I heard for the first time what the Oracle's voice only echoed. "Tell me again why you pester the Great Goddess?" [...] She crouched beside him and pushed his hair to one side, tucking it behind his ear so that she might whisper softly into it. "Here is your answer then, humblest of mortals. You will fall, as your kind always fall, when your god lets you go." She patted him on the shoulder. "Now you know what many men do not." ~Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

Me, tackling yet another scene where the complicated lighting situation is explicitly described: There better not be any fecking complicated lighting in there

But the temple scene has been living rent-free in my head ever since I first read RotT, and after the tentative lifting of the most recent bout of art block (also known as Too Much Stuff Going On), I thought it was a good idea to tackle it at last. Although I cannot reccommend taking on illustration ideas clearly above one's skill level when one is also lacking the time and motivation to do it justice, sometimes a half-assed exorcism is better than none. Or, in this case, a half-assed invocation. I guess. Please do not ask me about the perspective or proportions. Let's blame it all on the coleus smoke, OK?

#queen's thief spoilers #return of the thief #queen's thief fanart #my stuff #watercolour #moira #eugenides #pheris #let's also ignore the mechanical damage at the top of the sheet because i'm a cheapskate who will use scratched paper >_>

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lucasino-a · 10 months

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The Percys have doubled!

#i want them to be friends #so expect some percy and percy interactions ig #also I'm NOT tagging this with the movie because I know some of you mfs probably have that blocked #you WILL see my boys interacting #smhhh #percy jackson #pjo #pjo fanart #pjo the lighting thief #riordanverse #my art

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dnangelic · 2 months

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what kind of emotion(s) do u guys write from

#*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.#i think abt tht post tht says siken writes w panic and mary oliver writes w hope n i was thinking abt #hiwatari's 'if a shadow is behind a circle then it's a sphere and if a shadow is in front of a circle then it becomes a hole'#obviously that can apply to dark + dai vs krad + sato as part of their dichotomy but its also applicable to both of them as individuals #if u include the manga bc of the way daisuke/dark's heart is. solemn and grandiose but vacant with nothing to satisfy anyone in it #everything they do or say comes from tht empty cathedral. a graveyard. the noble but desolate dust-filled underground of an opera house #i'm writing abt summer and winter but most importantly im writing abt love and light's echoes in a jet black space #i'm saying the reason dark and daisuke are always so grateful for others is because they're always so lonely #and emotionally if not socially malformed and outcast in their own ways #writing daisuke is anxiety and deep guilt on the surface with an undercurrent of pride and arrogance #writing dark is pride and arrogance on the surface with an undercurrent of anxiety and deep guilt #but anything and everything is sourced from that hollow and empty well. that 'nothing' that is a phantom thief's #restless and covetous heart #even within canon the things dark and daisuke both REALLY want- they lie to themselves lie to the audience about until they finally #either obtain or surmount it #well. anyways. sorry for tag essay #i had a lot of feelings and no place to put them 💀

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transvaltrans · 4 months

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Looking back on the books I read this year, and was reminded of just how much Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief- absolutely frustrated and disappointed me. Spoilers ahead.

To some degree, this was going to happen; the whole series has been heavily hyped up to me, it's hard for any book to live up to such lavish yet vague praise. But, you know, I actually got through most of the book without being distracted by my own expectations. It was tense, and spare- it felt like every word mattered and hinted at an underlying truth. I love when books withhold from the reader, and nudge at you to consider what might be left unsaid. And I was so, so satisfied when my predictions paid off (totally called Gen palming the stone rather than losing it).

The worldbuilding was interesting and unique, I enjoyed that the author wasn't committed to a super specific and our-world-accurate timeframe for technology, and I found the characters compelling and variable. I always enjoy travel stories, nevermind stories about thieves.

Which is exactly why I was so annoyed by the ending.

Again: I love twists. I love being able to predict them, and I love being surprised. I did not feel like any of the twists in The Thief were unearned; it's a well-composed book, with plenty of foreshadowing.

However, one of the twists, despite being foreshadowed, absolutely blindsided me- because I would not have considered it as a possibility, due to undermining exactly what had me so excited to read The Thief in the first place. Fantasy literature sometimes shies away from politics, into pure escapism and fluff. Even some of my favorite fantasy books are pretty hollow when it comes to their fundamental beliefs, and shy away from challenging the status quo- unless it's to restore old glory (cough The Old Kingdom series).

But I can almost always count on stories about rogues, and thieves, and con artists, to at least bring up the issue of class. These characters so often come from disenfranchised backgrounds, from the poor and displaced. They're street rats and gutter scum, who have clawed their way up from the bottom, and never forget where they came from- can never forget, from the way others treat them. Theft is subversive; there's a reason we won't let go of Robin Hood, but even more self-motivated thieves often have something to say about the unfairness of wealth distribution. Stories about thieves almost always have something to say about the relationship between the wealthy and the poor.

So, yeah, I was really fucking annoyed at the reveal that Eugenides was actually the Queen's cousin. That pretending to be from a lower class background was so insufferable to him; that of course he's only so educated and knowledgeable because he's a noblemen, that it was so hard for him to pretend to be stupid and crass like a peasant. That the reason he was so pissed about being disrespected by his captors wasn't because they beat him and imprisoned him and insulted him constantly, that they treated him as less than human because he was poor and a criminal, a tool for their own use and disposal- but because he was one of them, and it injured his pride- his noble pride, not his human pride- to be treated like that. Like he wasn't one of them, and deserving of their respect.

Fuck, I hate it so much. It immediately took away my favorite parts of the book- the tension between Gen and the magus's companions, the weight of the magus having been a commoner once, the way Gen constantly stuck by himself and refused to just accept his shitty treatment- the way every monarch treated him as a means to an end. I thought there would be more tension in Gen having conflicted feelings of resentment and camraderie with the magus- I thought it would pay off with either some of them acting in his interest for once, and/or some of them rejecting their freindship and leaning back into that class difference between them.

I'm not opposed to Gen having been working for the mountain kingdom the whole time! But there are so many other ways to do that- I was suspecting that someone was holding his family hostage in some way. It's easy to imagine a story where Gen is a lower-class thief, who was also being used by his own country's royalty.

But, making Eugenides a nobleman is a subversion of the classic trope- which means it's clever and interesting. Uugh. It just exhausted me, and- disappointed me. I loved so much of this book, and it had been a while since I'd read a good low-fantasy story about thieves. It was suspenseful, with rich descriptions, and interesting character dynamics. I thought I was getting something like Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge, or The Goblin Wood by Hillary Bell- not necessarily stories about thieves, but stories about the underestimated and undervalued, peasant con artists and hedgewitches. But with more of the tension and bite of your average dnd rogue getting up to stupid shit (my go-to class since I was a kid).

I totally understand why people love this book. There is a lot I really admire within it. But man, I don't think I can get over how much that final twist- not just rejected my original interpretation of the story. That's fine, plenty of good science fiction or horror does that. But that it specifically rejects the character and story type of the lower class thief. The very name of the series, The Queen's Thief, had me expecting a story about that seeming contradiction; about the power imbalance, and a constant game of cunning, of maintaining autonomy despite being bound to a royal power. And I expect there will be some of that, in the later books; it just loses a lot of its appeal, when it turns out Gen himself is a nobleman, who was doing a favor for his cousin, the queen.

I liked that the book ended with more insight into the mountainous kingdom, and Gen's feeling of belonging and pride to a cultural group everyone else had been deriding- but that didn't have to be accomplished by him being related to the nobility of that country. None of this had to be accomplished through Gen being a nobleman; it just felt like a 'gotcha' subversion, taking away, rather than adding more.

#I emerge from the mists a hater sdfghjdf #god I wanted to love this book. and I did- up until the very end.#also gotta be clear: I was not expecting The Most Class Conscious Themes- just the basic ones all thief stories dip their toes into #anyways I read this several months ago ergo me not naming the various kingdoms. because I'm lazy and just needed to get this out of me #going to main tag it because- I'm curious if anyone else felt the same way! I've seen so much love for this series on tumblr #and again: totally get why! It's well written! it's fun and compelling and tense!#but boy it was a let down for me personally #the thief #the queen's thief

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yoinkschief · 10 months

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In regards to me calling WTFuture!Fartlord a grumpy Persian cat

I will not be apologizing and now it's my own personal headcanon it's his fursona and not even god (Stromboli) themself can stop me/hj

#I'd like to think WTFuture!Edd hates Fartlord because he stole his coat schtick #Which WTFuture!Edd stole from 2004 Tord #Who's the real thief #Also I'm so sorry for the god forsaken furry art I did I've only been able to draw good furry art once in my life #And it was for someone I'm not even friends with anymore #I tried I promise #eddsworld #ew #meme #joke art #I spent like too long on this #jay draws #eddsworld oc #WTFuture Edd #WTFuture Fartlord #Fartlord #I Love Fartlord #ew Edd #Edd

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zoebelladona · 3 months

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words are being written for this thaluke fic 👁

i'm calling it my fleece quest luke au to keep it short. but the fic will probably be titled lightning in a bottle. the gist of it is luke, not a traitor this time around, goes on the golden fleece quest in a desperate attempt to save thalia

#there's more to it but i'm leaving it at that for now 🤭#the hardest part has been trying to weave my usual canon seamlessly because i cannot write pjo without my ocs now #also yes hudson and piedad are gonna be luke's quest mates why do you ask <3 #in this au i think luke's quest mates for the golden apple did die. i don't think hudson and piedad went with him #mostly cause i doubt chiron would allow all 3 of them to have a second try at a quest after failing lol #how do i give piedad her scars those are an important part of her design ✍️#also percy isn't claimed yet in this au. he's just chilling in cabin 11 because there was no lightning thief #percabeth might sneak into the quest because i like shenanigans #i have to reread som to keep writing #.txt #my fic #fic: golden fleece luke #thaluke

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johnsilvers · 2 years

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— Ahlam Mosteghanemi

#john silver #silverflint #black sails #edits #james flint #captain flint #the way his smile gets less wide and then dissapears completely.#and also the way the camera pans farther away from his face with each shot and eventually he is not alone in the frame.#but with flint behind him.#cause like. yes he's a thief and a liar and selfish and the truth about it is solidified in the last episode.#but he does the things he does because he starts caring about people!! madi and flint!! i'm unwell.#sails.txt

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kekaki-cupcakes · 2 months

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PJO RANT FOR THE ONE PERSON WHO ASKED :D

@seeking-further-illumination here you go, lol.

I think that the expectations of the show were for exactly what everyone wanted, because of Rick's involvement and the budget, but everyone imagined the books differently, so not everyone could ever be happy with it.

There's that, and it is marketed towards a younger audience and I'm not making any assumptions but most of the fans who aren't happy [from what I can see] are a bit older then the target audience [not that there's anything wrong with that, obviously, don't come at me], and if you re read the first book it's literally written for children.

There's literally backlash for everything ever made because for some reason people just can't chill [???] but I think the reason the Percy Jackson show had such a large amount of people unhappy with it is because we haven't had anything like it before. I don't know how to explain it but we've all created our own little versions of the show and made our own content for the fandom cause we were left to our devices for so long, so now that we have something, viewers already have these empires in their heads that they want to see on screen.

I'll just put it like this, if the show came out, like, a few years after the og book series, there would be less people unhappy with it.

#I could've added so much more but I'll lose track of what I'm even saying lol #anyways lemme add some shit down here #that's less coherent #the actors are also really young #so there's always going to be a bit of stiff acting or less amazing scenes every so often #everyone is just so used to seeing literally adults playing teenagers because apparently that's something else we do #and apart from the fandom maturing #Rick Riordan has as well?#like #he wrote the lightning thief so long ago that if he was to rewrite it now it would probably be very different #and he could Chanel that into the show this time around #to suit the viewers and how things have changed #in the world in general as well #lets just say #have you ever read a fanfic you wrote or art you drew five years ago and just died?#Percy Jackson show #pjo disney plus #pjo fandom #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians

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thesporkidentity · 2 months

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okay so disclaimer about differing social mores of the time and intimate friendships and modes of expression meaning that straight men's interactions were often different than the average straight dudes of today, i haven't read up on the author but the subtext is most likely unintentional blah blah etc etc

but

y'all. i have lost count of the times i've stopped in my reading to be like. bunny, sweetie, that's gay. dude has it baaaaaaad for raffles

I see his indolent, athletic figure; his pale, sharp, clean-shaven features; his curly black hair; his strong, unscrupulous mouth. And again I feel the clear beam of his wonderful eye, cold and luminous as a star...

it's the UNSCRUPULOUS mouth that gets me. that's the most (probably unintentionally) homoerotic thing i've read since hemingway's description of f. scott fitzgerald "The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more."

#raffles #like look. do i know it's because raffles is a liar and a thief? yes #but at the same time WHAT OTHER UNSCRUPULOUS THINGS ARE YOU IMAGINING HIS MOUTH DOING #don't look at me #between this and the fagging i'm losing my mind #(yes i also know what it means in this context don't @ me)#(it...does not necessarily make it less gay)#it's like a perfect storm of changing social standards and vocabulary to read as EXCEPTIONALLY queer from a modern standpoint

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ebbpettier · 1 year

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The neverland kisnapping AU?

anon this beast is EXTREMELY SELF-INDULGENT and i made it purely and 100% because peter pan has been a fixation of mine since i was a little sprog (specifically the 2003 version with jason isaacs as hook)

TL;DR baz and his siblings are awayed in the night by a sinister faerie creature known as peter pan, who baz finds out has been doing away with the lost boys when they get too old to play his games anymore.

(extra dangerousTM because baz discovers that not only can he be injured like a normal person here, but if you die in never-never-land you DO die in real life)

also finds out that captain hook used to be pan's right-hand playmate as a child and has been rescuing pan's castoffs to try to fight back, the guy takes baz under his wing and teaches him to swordfight. that coat is the one hook was wearing when pan maimed him, and he gave it to baz because it was the only thing he had on hand that would fit a teenager.

"Didst thou ever want to be a pirate, me hearty?"

bonus content when baz gets back to watford simon has a minor crisis about him looking all scarred up and adventurous and rugged

#heavily inspired by things ive heard abt Lost Boy n The Child Thief because my friend really loves em but god help me i cannot find a copy!#baz pitch #the pen is mightier #i have a lot of drawings i never posted just bc they either #1. didnt feel polished enough to justify sharing #2. were of OCs and i've got a little bit of Hangups and IssuesTM about showing those off to the internet #but this peter pan au is very near and dear to my heart because fuck i love PP2003 but also because #i love the intersection of carry on's idiom-based-magic and neverland's imagination-based-magic #EVERYTHING IS STORIES AND SONGS AND WORDS GIVEN POWER.#enjoy my mile long tags i could literally talk about this for hours but i'm big shy

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one-bunny-a-day · 1 year

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15/01/2023

Justice bunny

#daily bunny #015 #oc bunny #my oc #they/them prn please and thank you #they're a vigilantee type and were trying to capture a thief #but the thief turned out to be a robin hood type and sweet talked them into letting him go #unfortunately he did not shake them off because they decided they still have too much to learn and declared themself the thief's apprentice #also two vers bc I'm very indecisive dfsgfd #multiple eyes

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fictionadventurer · 9 months

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#okay i promise i'm going to get off tumblr and actually get something decent done #but i just have to mention that i started reading 'thief liar lady'#the cinderella retelling where she's pulling a con #which i did not have high expectations for because that concept screams 'we're going to prove how dumb the original cinderella story is'#so i have to give it credit that so far it's pleasantly surprising me by pulling back every time it's about to do something stupid #within the first page or two we have 'they say the slippers were glass and the carriage was made of a pumpkin which is so dumb'#which seems like standard cinderella bashing but it's also framed as an explanation of the magic system #as in 'this is a waste of magic based on the rules' not 'this story is stupid and my 'real' one is better' so i can live with it #we have the enemy prince she's trying to con but he's not a dumb strawman royal #he's actually a sweet guy and a shrewd diplomat #all the royals are actually getting credit for talents as well as flaws #no strawmen in sight (i still shudder to remember 'just ella')#it feels like real politics #and there is *so much* politics and i am eating it up #(which makes me realize that one of the reasons i love cinderella retellings is that there's a lot of potential for politics)#we did have a scene where she goes into the throne room and meets a strange disheveled nobleman lounging on the throne #which made me roll my eyes because you could not have had a more obvious 'meeting the ya love interest' scene #but then there's a scene where she's like 'i don't care about embroidery'#and i internally groaned #but then she's like 'but i do like the embroidery circle because it's relaxing to be away from the men for a while'#so to my delight i could cancel the 'not like other girls' alert #the queen is feminine and her social skills are presented as a vital political skill #the swearing is really stupid and out of place and brings the book down #and i know that there'll most likely be something that makes me stop reading it before the 25% mark #but i do want to give the book credit for pleasantly surprising me #i'm liking it more than i otherwise would because of all the ways i was expecting it to disappoint me

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