Gothmog, Thuringwethil, and bonus Tevildo
i was digging around in my files and rediscovered some really old silm art of mine, including my original angband trio designs (mostly traced off heroforge models lol):
and they're actually pretty cool! thuringwethil's tail is maybe a little questionable of a design choice (how are you supposed to fly with a giant tail flopping around...) but it looks really good on gothmog.
i don't really remember what i was doing with sauron (he looks a little like early curufin for unknown reasons) and idk what the wrist things are supposed to be, but Original Flavor Thuringwethil was actually a corrupted maia of manwe (eonwe's sister?), hence the feathers instead of traditional bat wings. for Original Gothmog i am less sure about his origins but he is possibly a corrupted maia of ulmo (originally a sea serpent, hence the tail and ulmo style ear-fins) who basically dried up into a more stone-based serpent
anyways i think I might keep thuringwethil's face/wing design and gothmogs full design for future use
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modern got au in which asha is a "teen parent"
or more accurately, asha and theon have a much larger age gap, 10/15-ish years, type of age gap (she's at least 18/19 and theon's only like 4/5), and in a series of freak events, their lives are turned on its head.
their brothers were dead. their mother and father were ruled incompetent, the former left a shell of herself after the loss of her sons, no longer able to care for her remaining children, the latter was never a father to begin with and he didn't seem to have any wish to become one now.
she was an adult by law, meaning she was free from the hell that was the system. her kid brother - the one who smiled at her for seemingly no reason, the one who crawled into her bed when thunder rattled the house, the brother who held her hand on their rare family outings - was not.
she couldn't leave him there, even if she wanted to, even if it would make her life so much easier. she wouldn't abandon him like the rest of their shitty family. he was blood for fucks sake, she'd die before she let's him get taken away from her and given away to strangers to be used and exploited or treated like a shelter puppy to be pitied and fawned over.
cue asha fighting for custody of her baby brother, doing whatever it takes to be deemed a suitable guardian, and the two of them taking on the world together.
more thoughts:
they have to find an apartment cause they can't afford to keep their family home. moving into the cheapest place they can find with only the stuff they can fit in asha's truck, sharing an air matress and eating off of a coffee table while watching movies they rented from the library.
asha cleaning her brother up before his first day at his new school, trying to get him to look suitable, but not really knowing what suitable means for a kid going into kindergarten/first grade
theon comforting his sister when she gets overwhelmed with it all, doing his best to ease her tears. the night ending with them both curled around each other, just two scared little kids trying their best.
asha fighting anyone she has to to keep custody of theon, whether it be the social worker, the judge, people who called cps to report her. she doesn't care, no one will take away her baby brother.
asha taking theon to work with her (she works in a boat shop cause she already knows what she's doing) and having to keep him entertained while she works so they don't get sent home.
their first christmas/birthdays by themselves. theon putting together gifts at school (finger paintings or paper mache or something of the like) and asha cherishing it forever. asha spending all the money left to her name each time to get him something nice so eh can feel like a normal kid.
theon doing sports in school (little league or something) and asha making sure she goes to every damn game, being the loudest in the stands.
asha getting more and more used to being physically affectionate with her brother at time goes on. before everything she'd tense up when he'd hug her legs or hold her hand, but now she scoops him up like a rag doll, ruffles his hair, kisses his forehead, without a second thought.
{I'm so normal about them I swear}
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EDIT: I'd appreciate knowing why you picked what you did in the replies 💙
DW about the colors, they're just to see certain patterns and color values, not concrete. The main vibes were supposed to be; figure skating, magician, and prince.
(Just thought I'd give the wayfinder trio some post kh3 redesigns, based on the idea of Aqua as a Prince, Ven a Princess, and Terra a Ronin, and my own taste in fashion design.)
Link to the latest design and the rest individually, here!
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Should I be controversial? Anyways I think animatics and animation memes that use black voices jokes and culture absolutely contribute to the exploitation of AAVE by nonwhites. Like the black person -> black artist -> nonwhite artist -> nonwhite person pipeline is so real but the only way for ppl to grasp that would be for them to grasp shit like digital blackface and minstrel as a whole but starting from THIS convo it’d be laughable bc I genuinely don’t think that’s what those nonwhite ppl are doing HOWEVER let it be known that this kind of thing has very rarely happened with terminology from predominantly nonblack ppl. Like the closest I’ve seen is ppl using inshallah or Baka incorrectly and each of those is rooted in their own distinct branches of dehumanization and racism. On the other other hand when ppl mentioned that the way some of y’all used each thing is weird and racist there’s a significantly larger ratio of ppl who listened (or at least stopped) than when we say it’s weird that y’all use the ninja emoji to mean nigga or say gyat in the dumbest way possible. When black culture is discarded there’s always this wave of ridicule after that I personally haven’t seen anywhere else but maybe the hot cheeto girl thing which was partially rooted in in blackness as well.
Anyways my point is even if the vid makes me giggle I’m never gonna like one of those ppl drawing the characters using heavy AAVE and blaccents in audios and on a bad day I’ll block too sorryyy
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