#hamfists

[nikkidawes]

I decided to get a little wacky and imagined a new weapon for Bloodborne: the Hamfists

#bloodborne #hamfists #I'm not sorry

[bytebun]

my piece for @thecodywanzine! thanks to the mods who let me go completely ham and cheese on this bad boy. this one's about living longer than you ever expected and not knowing what to do with it

#they're having a leftover sale with free shipping if you want a ridiculous amount of art and merch for an insanely low price #codywan #commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #star wars #comics #codywan zine #i went kinda nuts with the sun symbolism on this one. even i feel like its hamfisted but like listen am i not going to self-indulge #if not in a shipping zine piece then where #hope and love and the sun and etc can be an. omelette. spanish omelette specifically. that you share with your fambly #food cw #its also about looking at your best friend over a table and going. i lvoe you. i love you. i want to spend the rest of my life with you #i want to see the future with you. im so glad we're both alive even though i thought we'd both be dead by now #bytebun draws #lets not talk about the way there is zero consistency in my art style. <3

[cloudgainsborough]

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH — the trial of cloud good, cloud, very good. fill your hollow heart with rage.

#final fantasy #final fantasy vii rebirth #ffedit #ffgraphics #gamingedit #cloud strife #*userbolt #ff #ff7r #gif #rebirth spoilers #ff7r spoilers #the remakes are so hamfisted especially when it comes to seph. but sometimes the visual symbolism just hits #whatever you say gorgeous i would never doubt the word of a morally ambiguous blond x #sorry about the agonies. i'm rooting for you

[hellofriendhawke]

I agree a darker danny phantom would be really cool, but what i think would be even cooler would be a danny phantom where they make Danny's deepest desire to be normal consistent thruout the whole show. paired with Sam's desperation to be unique as his sort-of foil. only, by the end of the show they realize normalcy and weirdness are relative and unimportant, and what really matters is genuineness

#it can still be darker tho i mean i wouldnt be mad about it #sorry i was just thinking about how good danny phantom could have been thematically if they were hamfisting weird ass moral quandaries #danny phantom #danny fenton #sam manson #Samantha manson #dupree

[seven-ruins-it]

god i love writing regulus as a stupid delusional idiot about his feelings

#hamfisted hemopheliac homosexual #dead gay wizards #marauders #marauders era #marauders fanfiction #marauders fanfic #starchaser #sunseeker #jegulus #jegulus fanfiction #jegulus fanfic #jegulus fic #regulus black #james x regulus #the marauders

[45percenterthen]

ted lasso bravely asks What if we spoonfed 16-30 year old men the concept of being a nice person . like when u hide your dogs heartworm medicine in a television show about football. and thats beautiful

#EARNESTLY hamfisted

[skepsys]

artfight revenge on @knuckle-cluster watch out here comes my beam attack HIYAAAAAAAA 💥

#artfight 2023 #i told myself no full illustrations this year but unfortunately its my 2 fav things to draw. robots and shitty hamfisted cities. fuggggg #ive been lazy abt posting my attacks ill prob just do a big dump of the ones i havent posted yet idk

[clonehub]

Honestly the premise "what if there were clones who didn't look or act like clones" reminds me of ideas like "what if there was a sith but they were Good" or "what if there was a Jedi but they were Bad". Like when little kids see a monster destroying everyone and theyre like "what if there was a nice monster who's kind and good! :o". Juvenile is what I'm saying. It's boring and juvenile.

#ch posts #authorial discomfort with uniformity leading to these hamfisted tHerEs a DifFeReNt OnE #reactionary isnt the word im looking for. kneejerk? #Special Boys Syndrome #evil empire serves a narrative purpose but no wait lets have one go against the grain #a group of people all sharing a unique niche in life has a narrative purpose #and insane amounts of depth actually #but no lets make some of them different #and what that difference brings to the table is as shallow as both the changes made #and the amount of thought put into it #idk im cranky

[retroautomaton]

☕️

Pg. 4 & 5 <- ->

#I don’t know why I love like business setting plan monologues #something about laid out expositions fun to me #I know it’s a bit of a hamfisted way to intro a plot but i think it’s kitschy #in a good way haha #Metropolis Cocktail #comic

[arkaylarts]

I changed up Nova's coloration to be more aligned with the descriptions in WHB! His personality isn't changing though.

#what in hell is bad #whb mc #what in hell is bad mc #digital art #oc #my art #to be completely honest i don't like that PB is hamfisting a personality onto MC #MCs are supposed to be mostly blank slates but like MC in WHB is SOOOO maidenlike #but i digress

[itwoodbeprefect]

all gmmtv shows are actually set in a subtle alternate universe where everyone is continuously fascinated & delighted by their printers

#drinks deodorant inhalers cars. sure whatever #but those hamfisted canon ads (the printer company not the fandom word) always get to me the most #let's stop everything for thirty seconds to adoringly stare at our printer together! 🤩 look! 😮 it's so easy to refill!!! 🥰 #< this is just fjkdfd. such a normal human way to behave. not weird at alllll. this is part of my daily bedtime routine actually #and then there's the sort of closeup usually reserved for big emotional moments but. sorry if this sounds harsh. that printer can't act #VERY flat performance. colorful as it may be it's paper thin #* #mama gogo #is the show that made me write this. but it also applies on some level to at least #3 will be free #bad buddy

[zvaigzdelasas]

ppl who are trying to do explainers abt current events in DRCongo are rly imo doing a massive disservice to ppls understandings without talking abt the regional context of DRCongo being where regional tensions have boiled over regularly - see Both Congo Wars - as well as putting M23 - as well as those wars - in the context of Rwandan/Burundian Genocides & the dispersion of Tutsi militias (see also: CNDP) in & around the Kivu regions since then - but also even Rwandan Hutu militias (see FDLR)

#i havent rly read enough m23 statements to rly have a good feel on their intentions #so not going to rly say whether or not genocidal is applicable #but there are also regional historical and geopolitical factors #idk rly dissatisfied w how a lot of conflicts get overly simplified like this #and reductive in just a template sorta way #like if u wanna say m23 is genocidal and if this is all just a hamfisted abstraction of israel #one might think theres a potent point to be made with rwandan/Tutsi genocide victims becoming genocidaires #the fact i havent seen a single person make that analogy rly highlights how surface level this all is #like even if idk if i agree w the analogy at least it betrays context awareness #also potent historical point of comparison in drcongo itself w european backing of the katanga crisis #had a post like 6 months ago w more contextualizing the conflict re: congo wars i should try and find it #like. if you wanna talk about complex politics congos much much more complex than israel-palestine

[anhttydbookfan]

Again, I'd love to see a Wizards of Once movie. I'd love to see an opening narration that introduces the Darkwood and how wild and dangerous it is ("more dangerous than the Warriors?" "Oh, please, this place eats warriors for breakfast.") and how even the prettiest looking flower could be hiding a nasty secret. As the narrator says that last remark, the screen focuses on a very pretty but suspiciously jaw-shaped flower (with an X the color of witchblood displayed prominently on the petals because I like my foreshadowing to be extremely on the nose), and a bumbling, fuzzy little... flying creature buzzing on top of it to admire it. Xar swings in from offscreen and catches the baby sprite just as the petal-jaws start closing around it. Xar is revealed to be the narrator when he says "...But you don't have to be afraid of any of that! Because I'm the leader, and I, Xar son of Encanzo, can protect you from anything!"

#twoo #the wizards of once #wizards of once #Critics will say that it's hamfisted exposition but WE'LL know that Xar just talks like that

[0l-unreliable]

Monster Party or Monster Mash? either way here's a sketch for my next poster

#all for the game #aftg au #aaron minyard #kevin day #andrew minyard #neil josten #nicky hemmick #ttrpg au #loving all the acronyms here #I imagine they pull off their quests in the most hamfisted and bloody way possible #but by god do they pull them off #ORT

[noirtek]

always wondering what exactly hoffman planned to do with strahm had he ended up in the coffin (via trust or sedative) because he certainly wasn’t going to let him turn him in

#the only thing i can figure is a very hamfisted attempt to turn him into his own apprentice #given the penchant he has for violence and revenge of course #but strahm would sooner kill himself than aid in the murders and i think hoffman is at least smart enough to know that #i think sdate hit it on the head with hoffman having no clue what to do with him and just keeping him in a glorified dog crate until he dies #r

[pigeonwit]

okay okay okay. oh my god. okay. rabbit jack. jackalope. your brain. oh my god.

what my little brain snagged on was “davey is a dog” and as a dog-metaphor diehard lover and a davey jacobs defender i am humbly begging for more thoughts on this front

anon. i love you. moving on-

so when i say 'dog imagery' for davey i mean a specific kind (or. haha. Breed.) of dog imagery, which @we-are-inevitable sums up very well; #it’s the inherent obsession with loyalty to a fault and the shame that comes with being a bad dog.#it’s the need to sink teeth into flesh and bone but knowing it’ll result in being sent away from all you love.#it’s needing to run but not forever and its wanting to be a hulking beast but not having the space to grow

it's about having your instincts trained out of you because they're wrong, and you know they're wrong, but they're always there under your skin, so maybe you're wrong, too. it's about learning to be led or tied or caged because as much as they love you, as much as they trust you, they can't afford for you to act on your own. just in case, you understand? it's about always coming back when you're called because you don't know how to live off the leash. it's about desperately loving people who do not have the time or space between their many responsibilities to love you back.

it's impossible not to reference 'how to be a dog' by andrew kane if we're talking about dog imagery. i mean it's the blueprint. so here:

If you want to be a dog, first you must learn to wait. You must wait all day until somebody returns, and if somebody returns late, you must learn to wait until then.

davey's used to commands. used to hierarchy. he's been trained all his life to wait for permission, to wait for his mother to say the blessings, to wait for his father to eat first because even if they never say that that's a rule, he knows it is - he knows he has to wait when he eats, too, has to take polite and careful bites with his mouth closed, timing every chew and swallow. but if you look closely, there's this split second where his teeth tear through his food like an animal, so quick you'd barely see the primalness of it.

Next you must learn to relinquish all control over everything you might wish to control. You must learn to prefer to be led about by the neck on a piece of string, or staked to a neglected lawn by a length of chain. You must learn, once you have sampled the freedom of a life without a chain, that it is better to return and be chained again.

davey as a character needs to be kept in line. he needs to provide. he needs to take care of his family because they're his family. they feed him. they love him. so he needs to repay them for that. he does the work, follows the commands, he keeps the rabbits off the crops and the coyotes from getting over their fences, but there's this old itching in his bones that wants to hop that fence and run with them. but he can't, because he knows he needs a place to rest, too. he wants that place to rest, he'd never take it for granted. but he has to choose between the two, and shelter's more important than running, and so his teeth rot in his mouth from lack of use, and his bones keep growing under skin that refuses to stretch with it.

You must learn to speak in one of the voices available to you, high and light or mellow thick and low or middle-range and terse. Whichever voice you learn to speak, you will meet somebody who does not like you because of it, they will be wary or annoyed or you will remind them of something or someone else. Once you have learned to speak you must learn not to speak unless you absolutely must, or to speak as much as you feel you must regardless of how many times you are told to stop, or sit, or placed behind a door—this will depend on what kind of a dog you want to be.

davey's whole life has been spent learning how to be the right version of himself. he knows how to be well-behaved enough to not be hit. to be rewarded. but then he meets the newsies, and suddenly, he's a bad dog. he's wrong. but how can he be wrong when he never bit anyone?

but that's the beauty of his relationship with jack. because jack un-trains him. davey doesn't know how to live off-leash yet, how to run for himself - so jack gives davey something to chase, something to sink his teeth into, and he finally feels real. like he's part of a world beyond the fence. but davey's a good dog, so he always goes home afterwards, and when he goes home, he's punished. of course he's punished. his fur is unkempt, there's teethmarks on his skin, there's blood matted around his mouth. he bit. and good dogs don't bite.

(what's the point in doing all this work to be a good dog, then, if one bite undoes it all?)

Of course you must learn to love, to love always and love entirely and to be wounded by nothing so much as the violence of your own love. You must learn to be confused but never disappointed by a deficiency of love. [...] You must learn how to wait at the foot of the bed and hope, silently, that somebody is drunk enough or lonely enough to invite you up, and you must learn not to show your excitement too much or overplay your hand.

davey's always searching for his place to belong. he loves people like a dog does; vicious and messy and panting. he drops words and ideas and newspapers at their feet because he's good and he loves them and he needs them to know. and then they turn around and leave. but davey's a good dog, so he'll wait until they come back. and before they even open their mouth, davey forgives them. because davey loves them. he tries to hide it; he didn't think loving too much made you a bad dog, but he tries to hide it anyways. he doesn't hide it very well. his parents see it. they try to keep him trained. they try to keep him leashed, because when a dog is cornered, it bites, and they can't afford for davey to bite. i know 'leaf pile' by the front bottoms is hardly dog-related and definitely a leap from an andrew kane poem, but it still reminds me of davey;

Do I seem anxious to you? Do I seem backed into a corner? As if I had to make a move But you could tell I didn't wanna

he wants to stay. he wants to follow the command. he can't. he's not a violent dog - but he knows that he can bite. and that's what makes him dangerous.

#this took me ages because davey and dog imagery matter so much to me actually #ik this is a hamfisted description i promise i can write more subtly than this i promise i swear- #but you asked for dog-imagery and by god i delivered #ask #anon #newsies #davey jacobs #david jacobs