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meruz · 3 years

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asks which i realized i actually havent answered in a while?

thank you for all the hobbit love!!!!!!!!! I was kind of nervous about posting that design because i didnt know whether tolkien fandom would be chill with ...well furries essentially. happy that you guys dont seem to mind at all ^^ here’s more that I could never figure out a post for LOL

thank you! and lol i was kind of joking about leaving the p5 fandom but uhhh I don’t think i’ll be drawing much more p5 because I think I got it out of my system. also tbh I don’t know if I actually like p5?? or if I just had a lot of shit I wanted to express and say about it via fanart. I had like this whole agenda where I wanted to make p5 art based on a more noir...almost graphic american comics style because I felt like that was the most interesting thing about the game’s art direction and not a lot of fanartists cashed in on it. Also I wanted to depict like a very specific shuake vibe that wasnt too romantic but also not ... completely un-romantic. something that really capitalized on the fact that they’re just terrible teens. idk. anyways I like the work I made for the fandom and I think I managed to say everything I wanted to say w it.

I AM signed up for a shuake zine though so expect an encore before I sign out completely LOL.

thank YOU being very nice to me. ik its been a while but I WILL Draw digimon again sometime. kids with big shoes and monster pals is just the most fun thing to draw ever.

uhhhguhhg not particularly? The tamers kids just seem SO young.

I thought the scene where takato confesses to juri was incredibly lovely but it’s well done because it’s not particularly romantic or ship-indulgent its like... all about the way kids attach to each other when they feel out of place or scared. and how simply someone can become special to you at that age.

if i mentally age them up a little I could see kazu and kenta being a fun ship. they had that one episode where they were like. kind of a parallel for those married digimon?? which is deeply amusing.

also I think ruki is a baby lesbian. just the way she dismisses every boy but is obsessed with even the most random girl they encounter...! but i think her rivalry with ryo is so so funny because its like a like... little league tcg rivalry. I want to believe that when theyre in middle school ruki and ryo date for like 2 weeks and the plain existence of that relationship wreaks havoc on kazu and kenta who are in weird idol love with ryo and hate ruki but also are friends with ruki. and then they break up because they realize theyre both gay or whatever but kazu and kenta take approx a month to recover from the psychological& emotional damage.

I like ruki/juri too but i have no solid concept of how that would work out...

I actually totally meant to draw all this in like a convoluted fanart post at one point but I never got around to it so thanks for asking about tamers shipping LOL

How it ends up looking painterly.... idk. Because I’m a messy painter and I use big strokes? I don’t really blend but I do use mid-opacity textured brushes when I paint a lot so thats probably part of what makes it look soft/painterly/integrated. I use the lasso for hard edges and then brushes to create soft shapes within them... if that makes sense? SORRY THIS IS HARD TO EXPLAIN, anyways, I have a handful of videos of me drawing on youtube. Theyre really boring because they dont have music and I didn’t bother to edit them in interesting ways but.. theyre there. Maybe itll help?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxOLP2dN4f5kJKT6p3Inq4A

Thank u!!! steve and tony are positioned to be slightly holding hands lol

My pull list currently is:

X-Men

Marauders

Excalibur

S.W.O.R.D.

Hellions

X-Factor

Wolverine

Cable

X-Force

New Mutants

Guardians of the Galaxy

Daredevil

Miles Morales: Spider-Man

Champions

Far Sector

True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem

Home Sick Pilots

So like all of the x-books, the occasional teen hero and the occasional indie. I was thinking of dropping Wolverine and Cable but idk... Cable sort of won me over during x of swords and if wolverine brings adam kubert back I think I’ll start digging it again LOL. I jumped onto Guardians on a whim but its suddenly become one of my favorite books along with S.W.O.R.D... so I guess I have to go back and read Immortal Hulk at some point, become a true Al Ewing stan.

Far Sector is my only DC pull atm but also I loved a lot of the GN releases this past year and Wonder Woman Dead Earth is like my favorite 2020 comic actually. So dc imprints are KICKING ALL KINDS OF ASS. main dc tho.... idk. I’m kind of eyeing the new robin book but I think thats where my interest ends.

#asks #ask #I can never remember my own damn tags #anonymous

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albusgellertalways · 5 years

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ou know what would be cool? A young Dumbledore movie. (After they finish Fantastic Beasts 3, 4, and 5, which are slated for 2020, 2022, and 2024.) Warner Bros is going to want to keep pumping out movies set in the Harry Potter Wizarding World because it makes them a ton of money and they also have theme parks to keep promoting. In the Fantastic Beasts series, Dumbledore is a middle-aged background character.

The FB movie series is centered around Newt and his friends, and Dumbledore’s impending famous duel with Grindelwald is looming around in the background somewhere. A movie about the life and times of Albus Dumbledore would be perfect to show what made him the great headmaster he grew to be during the Harry Potter books/movies. We get mere hints of that in FB 2, and while I imagine we’ll get more in the next three movies, Dumbledore is such a well-loved and multifaceted character, I think the potential for a really meaty character driven story is already there in the HP texts.

The Star Wars franchise has an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie in talks, so spinoffs are something that franchises are considering. In a way, Lord of the Rings did it with the Hobbit, which was Bilbo’s story originally written in a relatively small book that was turned into three ridiculously long movies. Star Trek is making a series based around an older Jean-Luc Picard. Spinoffs really do have merit and if it’s around a character that catches peoples’ interest, it could be an entertaining and financially successful endeavor.

So if it ever does get approved, what should it be about? (Harry Potter 7 book spoilers ahead.) I’d love to see Dumbledore as a magical prodigy child growing up with his ill sister, the incident where his father gets put in Azkaban, Dumbledore having to prove himself at Hogwarts as a super overachiever to overcome the stain on the family name, him and his friend Elphias Doge getting up to Weasley twins-esque mischief at school, his mother Kendra’s death and Albus’ subsequent role as caretaker of his younger brother Aberforth and younger sister Ariana, who is more than likely an Obscurial with very unstable magic.

I’d like to see what made Dumbledore ultimately decide to be a Professor at Hogwarts, and why he switched from Defense Against the Dark Arts to Transfiguration. I’d like to meet Headmaster Dippet and the other teachers that were Dumbledore’s mentors. I’d like to see young Hagrid and the other students that had Dumbledore as a teacher when he was relatively young. I’d like to see Dumbledore teach Tom Riddle and later grow suspicious of Tom’s motives. Dumbledore was the only teacher out of all the faculty at Hogwarts that saw Tom Riddle, aka the future Lord Voldemort, for what he truly was. And do you know why? Because he knew exactly what to look for. Because Dumbledore learns from his mistakes and he wasn’t about to make the same one twice.

Because Gellert Grindelwald happened.

I think this would be the main draw, the real meat of the story. After that absolute tease of a scene between them in FB2, I want to see the summer of 1899 where they meet, (thank you Bathilda Bagshot) share ideas about planning their revolution around wizarding domination over the muggles, and fall in love. Well, Dumbledore falls in love. It’s not completely clear if those romantic feelings are reciprocated, if Grindelwald is just using Dumbledore as a means to an end. I want to know exactly how and when Dumbledore realized that Grindelwald was truly evil, and it wouldn’t necessarily have to be the threeway duel between him, Aberforth, and Grindelwald in which Ariana gets killed although that would certainly be the last straw. I want to see him agonizing over losing his sister and Gellert all in one day and watch Aberforth break his nose at Ariana’s funeral.

If this movie was made by some miracle, WB would have to deal with the homosexuality issue. How much or how little could they include? No matter what, some people will be upset or offended. Some people online have been disappointed that Dumbledore didn’t have an ‘explicity gay’ moment in FB2. However, that was Newt Scamander’s movie so taking a whole scene explaining Dumbledore’s sexuality just would not have worked – the movie was enough of a mess of plotlines already. I think they really did the best they could without completely alienating their audience. Dumbledore sees Grindelwald in the Mirror of Erised, which shows you the deepest desire of your heart. Dumbledore and Grindelwald made a blood pact as teenagers never to fight each other. They gazed at each other and intertwined their hands. Dumbledore told the ministry official guy that they were closer than brothers. They don’t have to explicitly say it! Good grief. That was way more than I was expecting them to include and I want to give props to WB for allowing it as there could’ve been a backlash.

But in a Dumbledore-centric movie, they would have time to explore the issue. It would be the late 2020s if they made it several years after FB5. That would give us another decade to get more comfortable and used to the idea of gay marriage and gay characters and the importance of their representation in media. I really think if they did a young Dumbledore movie they would need to address how LGBT relationships worked in the wizarding world, which would be really interesting. I imagine that they would not be accepted and have to be kept secret when Dumbledore was young if the muggle world was any indication, but they could go in a different direction if they wanted to. I would prefer it they didn’t turn the story into Dumbledore’s cliché tragic gay love story and instead focused on Dumbledore’s inner struggle as he experiences the events in his life that lead up to him becoming the wise old wizard that mentors Harry Potter. His sexuality is only one of the many things that define him.

Timing really is everything and our world would need to be at least lukewarmly receptive to a movie with a main character who is gay. There would be a huge issue with a character in a children’s book being portrayed as gay in a movie, even though JK Rowling herself outed Dumbledore in 2007 and there is no indication of it in the books. A young Dumbledore movie wouldn’t be aimed at children. It would most likely be PG-13, like FB. The violent revolutionary concepts that Dumbledore and Grindelwald are planning alone would give it a higher rating. It would be up to the parents to decide if the movie and its content would be appropriate for their child to see it or not.

But honestly, this would be a movie that the LGBT community could really use. It would be a positive role model navigating through his teenage/early twenties years while coming to grips with his sexuality and ultimately deciding to accept and forgive himself (for the most part) for all of his mistakes and decide to reject his quest for power and use his exceptional magical powers for actual good, not ‘The Greater Good’. It would also be a great “non-example” of what a healthy relationship would look like, as Gellert Grindelwald certainly will be manipulating the hell out of poor innocent Albus Dumbledore. (You can learn a lot from non examples!)

I also think that Dumbledore’s character not being incredibly flamboyant (as evidenced by everything we know about him so far) would be a good way to portray a non-stereotypical gay character. I have nothing against flamboyant characters, but not every gay person acts that way, just like not every woman likes to wear dresses and heels. (That doesn’t mean that Dumbledore can’t look fabulous in purple.)

JK Rowling has stated that Dumbledore is her favorite HP character and after FB2, he’s now mine. Growing up I loved Hermione the best in the HP books, but I am just endlessly fascinated with Dumbledore’s backstory and I would love to see it explored. You never know. It could happen. Thoughts?

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