#ig that’s what. the og was too. but.

[swedenis-h]

(X)

#HES SO FUNNY #aos five year mission on my mind all the time #it’s literally just a space rom com show #ig that’s what. the og was too. but. #aos Star Trek show in my head my beloved #Star Trek #star trek aos fanart #star trek aos #spirk #aos spirk #Kirk #uhura #leonard mccoy #Spock #art #my art #digital art #fanart #st aos

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IKUUUU and the kagamines i guess

bonus: look at the detail on htis fucking cake i spent so long on it 😭

#my art lol #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #utau #utauloid #utau fanart #utauloid fanart #acme iku #kagamine rin #kagamine len #kagamine rin and len #鏡音レン #鏡音リン #鏡音リン・レン #based on an aggie.io doodle i did last year w/ a friend; i wanted to redraw it then for their bday but didnt get to so now this year. yea #CRAZY HOW THEY HAVE THE SAME EXACT FUCKING BDAY i didnt realize for so long 😭😭😭. also fucking crazy 16 WHOLEASS YEARS SINCE 2007??? WHAT #maybe drawing iku's og maidloid fit and rin&len's act1 fits wouldve made more sense but fuck it. most recent(?) fits ig #THERES A LOT OF SHIT IN HERE I FUCKED UP 😭😭 BUT ITS TOO LATE TO GO BACK AND FIX IT NOW IM TIRED scheduled in advance post #ik rin and len get a lot for today (which makes sense duh) but i wanted to do smthn slightly more ikucentric b/c I LOVE HER!!!!!!! #i never talk about her either lol 😭😭😭 but since early days such an iku stan. i do not tolerate iku slander at all SHES!!! BABY #i cant believe her vcv dropped jan 2020 3 YEARS AGO NOW??? it feels like yesterday i was so fucking excited when that released. crazy #also that cake is uhhhhh supposed to be a potato/onion cake thing i believe?? i looked up 'onion cake' on google and ahkjshkjgn #i could've done scallion pancakes that wouldve been silly too lmao (and i lovee those irl) but i wanted to experiment #im so bad at drawing food usually 😭 but i do want to get better sshdkjghskg so maybe i need to do more experiments later

[reel-fear]

Wow, so umm... This looks bad, not only is it inaccurate due to using the wrong ink demon design [unless this is confirmation BATIM Ink Demon has been outright retconned... Which would make me pissed enough to make a new post just about THAT] but from an art standpoint this is just... Confusing and poorly done.

I wouldn't care if this was fanart, of course you should support young, indie artists... But for a Graphic Novel making sure your cover doesn't look like something Butch Hartman shat out in an afternoon is kind of important. Remember they're going to be asking us to give money to them to read this. The artist likely won't see any of that money and neither do the authors most of the time, not to mention this art screams of the artist being underpaid and overworked.

Like they Had to get something on someone's desk and their boss said 'good enough'. A concept Joey Drew Studios is very familiar with considering the allegations of poor working environments that Kindly Beast. Not to mention Mike Mood admitting in a Reddit AMA that they did in fact rush projects like Showdown Bandit. [Which they sold at full price]

He also says they can in fact say no or yes to designs involving their IP. Either Mike or Meatly had to say yes to this cover, according to his own damn words.

And do you really think this company in particular would care enough about its fanbase to not sell them garbage? They have done exactly that on several occasions. It's not like they care particularly about art either, considering their previous use of AI Art. There was no apology or even posts addressing it... Instead, they just rushed out an archives update to their game to get people to stop talking about it... Even forgetting an entire character in it. Again

This company is [or at least SHOULD BE] on thin ice when it comes to being suspected of misleading their fans or rushing out crappy products to them.

So with all that context in mind, I'm gonna talk about why this cover sucks ass.

The light sources are all over the place? Why does it look like someone put maces or knight armor on his shoulders but it's just flesh?? It looks both gross and weird [not in a good way either]

To explain more I'm going on a rant below but sadly this seems to have been confirmed to not just be a rough pass but the final cover and man... I am not excited about this graphic novel just at all. This felt like it really drained any possibility of it turning out good for me and I already had expectations low.

Okay first point, the light sources?? And there is no consistency here with the shadows or lighting, it looks like there's a hundred light sources all at once but none of them are even consistent!

the arrows here represent all the different light sources I can make out and yet the the shadow clearly implies there's only one. I understand wanting to use highlights to give the character a more clear shape but then just give him one or two lights behind him or in front of him? No matter how u follow the light sources, the highlights make no sense and the shadows make even less sense.

Why are the shoulders like that? Like on the legs it's a little understandable, at least those are clearly very heavily affected by perspective, for me I think they are so exaggerated it makes it look like one of the legs is either huge or one is small but that's maybe subjective.

However, the shoulders are unjustifiable, what happened there, what did they do??

I could pick on so much more honestly, how the color choices of piss yellow with no other colors being used, and the harsh pitch black being used for every part of his body is weird. How it looks straight out of Butch Hartman's recent crappy art. But to put bluntly bad start! Also what the HELL is going on with this background??

Seems once again the Bendy team is fine with sending out stuff thinking it's "Good Enough" for Bendy fans and honestly the people trying to tell me to "Be Grateful" for this are just proving that no matter how many times you betray your audience some of em will defend you!

Which is sad tbh. If anything we should be putting MORE pressure on the Bendy team to do better. Cause we deserve better than this, honestly we do. There are amazing artists in the bendy community who could do so much better for a cover. They've employed their fan artists before... Wouldn't it be great to do that for such a lore important book? The book that gives us the identity of one of the main characters in BATIM? The character you spend the entirety of Chapter 4 fighting to save? Not to mention will give several major characters their human designs?

But I guess this is... Good enough...

#ramblez #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #sorry I've been on a positivity streak with bendy I know but I have to be honest and being honest I think this sucks lol #Im sure plenty of people Disagree and while I would argue this is more objective than subjective people will ignore me if they want to #maybe Im just a hater idk #but I do know one thing I sure do hate this and Im pretty sure Ill hate this novel and its designs #but maybe I wont ya never know #anyways if they do retcon batim ink demon I will make a post abt how much I dislike batdrs ink demon design #and why I think all the people saying its better than the og seriously arent understanding #what made batims ink demon good or character design in general tbh #to put bluntly just bc something is popular opinion DOES NOT make it right or a good idea design wise #not everyone is qualified to be a character designer and thats just good advice in general tbh #anyways yeah thats it sorry im being mean today </3 #I simply think corporations shouldnt be able to rush out crappy products to their fans and get paid for it but ig thats a hot take now #but esp with how bad that updated employee handbook was too and it still had stolen renders from fans in it... #yeah I dont think theyve learned a damn thing

[bdoubleowo]

Love when u wander into the caard of a person you’ve been following for a while and it says “mcyt fans dni” and you’re just like. How did I get here.

#ngl I was like ‘you’re NOT a mcyt fan?? why the hell did I follow you??’ #I’ve been on the verge of unfollowing them for a while #someone was a little too angry about the cryptid splatfest methinks. it’s video game. relax #honestly we might be mutuals on my main I can’t remember #fuckin. guess that’s what this blog was for. stealth mcyt fan #you never know who might have a secret mcyt blog. it might even be someone you love #og post #discourse #ig

[hauntedorpheum]

first time people tell a content creator GIVE US MORE ADS

#i dont think they are greedy corporate monsters. i think they are creators trying to run a business with no knowledge on how to do that #icarus flying too close to the sun and all that #is just so clear they didn't make any kind of market research #a youtube poll would have helped them #is just a shitty thing because they clearly just want to have more creative freedom and do bigger things #but if you are running a business then you also need to think about your audience. which i don't think they did #and the international issue with dollars in this economy #+ the need to use a vpn in order to watch in certain countries apparently #+ an audience of mostly 20 somethings and younger people who have other priorities #and like nearly every single person that i've seen that actually likes this idea. has also said that are not paying #because they can't afford it. so even if people were on board with this. is just not viable with their audience #like sorry. but 'streaming service' is not plan b on the list of things to if you dont wanna rely so much on ads #and them doing a 14min long video that is edited like a shitty corporate apology video #in which you say 'if you can't give us money. bye ig' while promoting #a show about people traveling to dif places and paying expensive meals #while also saying you have no money to pay your 25!!! employees #not to mention not clarifying anything and leaving everything in vague terms #like international issues. whether you are deleting your previous youtube content or not (they don't say anything about this on the vid.... #.... Variety said they were gonna do it. but then they did the pinned comment so it feels like they are backtracking... #...even if they were never gonna delete it) #what newer content you want to make. the pros you get subscribing #broken record with this. but watch the og dropout ad. its clear. adresses concerns. tells you what shows would be available #and the one moment that they use sad piano music is used with irony #ok. no further comments until they say something lol #watcher #my post

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

You are seriously my favorite blog right now. You opinions and meta for ikevamp are so spot on. You somehow are able to flush the characters more than the canon. I just wanted to say I appreciate all the time you put into your writings and I love everything you have written so far!!!!

In Comte and Leo we trust 🫡

Aww, thank you so much! 💛💛💛

Honestly I have no control over the brainworms, I feel like Ikevamp is so saturated with implications that extrapolating becomes so much natural fun for me. I started writing and analyzing (with no supervision to stop me, big mistake) and I'm still so fascinated with it. I can't believe it's been almost what...four years? Five years? Since I started playing the Japanese version where this all began. I'm frankly flattered a lot of people agree/like my takes, it makes sharing my work really rewarding in ways I never expected~

I don't always have time for more than Comte thirsting and silly quotes these days, but you're more than welcome to enjoy what I've curated here! I imagine I won't stop shitposting until the app is discontinued, and even then I'm not confident I'll shut up 🤣🤣🤣 Comte's the best baby girl I've ever known lmfao

o7 PUREBLOOD STAN OR BUST HELL YEAH!

#tysm for such a kind ask! this made my day <333 #pureblood propaganda #(people need to stop validating my breaching containment it only makes me more powerful /j) #sometimes I wish the eng ver implemented more of the depth and hank pank from the og more consistently but alas #localizations are a bit of a hit or miss business im afraid #i also love how i've inadvertently created a sad pureblood fan club over the years (not you vlad) #(you can join after you've had your time out like a good boy) #but in all seriousness i find their lives strikingly saturated with complex emotion and subtle tragedy/melancholy #ig for a lack of a better description i just feel like they're relatable? #like yeah if i was leonardo and my abusive family could harass me forever #i would also be incredibly guarded and set in my ways to protect myself and probably hate vampires and their power plays #if--like comte--i felt a sense of identification with the people i was pressured to subjugate #i'd feel lost and empty too; unable to co-exist with my own kind but also inevitably at a distance from humans #both scenarios create an emotional and relational quagmire #and i think what's even harder about it for both of them is that they just have no choice--and rather few allies besides each other #all they can really choose is duplicity if they wish to remain true to themselves and reasonably survive #and i think that's a really exhausting/somewhat self-impoverishing position to be in #comte tries to subsist on ephemeral moments he shares with people--with varying levels of success (little) #leonardo forces himself into stasis bc if he doesn't he'll keep making the same mistakes #aka getting too close to people and getting hurt when their time ends #ive prbly said all this before but idk in light of so much i've learned since starting this blog #the allusions to vampirism being a vehicle for certain 'othered' identities seems boundless to me (domestic abuse/class structures/nd etc.) #vlad is a pureblood but he seems like one of those flat movie vampires pandering to the aesthetic obsessions of a v particular audience #any story needs both flat and round characters--so naturally his existence serves a purpose/function; nothing wrong with that #but i find myself to be too Shrek to be v invested in him (FAVES HAVE L A Y E R S) #ig i just think its very easy and a bit bland to associate vampires with horror/gore/unmitigated violence/extreme emotionality #but much more engaging to explore the status of monstrosity as it relates to oppressed identities and unconventional kindness #or maybe that's just the monsterfker in me--in which case sorry everyone being cringe on main (it will happen again)

[loki-loving-lesbian]

One of my biggest holdups with believing in an afterlife is the fact that the majority of “documented” paranormal activity isn’t straight sass from the newer generations, like idk if time = power with ghosts but at this point I feel like the ouija board should have a reputation for calling you slurs, roasting your outfit and airing your dirty laundry, you WILL end up divorced if you play this

But also if I die I’d 100% pretend to be a demon to fuck with people so maybe I just solved my own problem

#og post #ghosts #paranormal #afterlife #queue t pie #the most beliveable evidence is when it’s the most human bc guess what ghosts are #anything with absurdist humor from the dead? i will believe you. the unus annus video where mark had subscribers in the great beyond? real #evidence of millennial or Gen z ghosts please bc I wanna know how my friends are doing thank you #ig time equalling power would make sense bc it’s more time to have your energy permeate and linger on the living realm Yknow #but still I’ve seen some funny 100 year olds so where’re they are people boring in the afterlife too? dammit

[welcometogrouchland]

Finished rewatching spiderverse

[ID: the Jonathan Van Ness "okay, it's totally fine. Why am I crying?" Meme. End ID]

#ramblings of a lunatic #EVERYONE SHUT UP I'M THINKING ABOUT MILES MORALES #specifically thinking abt how his inclusion in spiderman stories changed the comic landscape forever #AND THEN HIS MOVIE DID IT IN FUCKING ANIMATION TOO #DO YOU UNDERSTAND. THE POWER. THE INFLUENCE #HE IS THE MOMENT AND HE HAS BEEN SINCE THE 2010S #but for real i always forget how emotional the storyline of into the spiderverse makes me #it's like. i see this spark in you! it's a leap of faith! how do i know i wont mess up again! you don't! IT'S A LEAP OF FAITH #IT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING FINAL CONFRONTATION. HOW IT'S EVERYTHING FOR MILES' CHARACTER #HE IS SO FUCKING SPECIAL TO ME #i never delved far into his comic runs bc I've never liked bendis as a writer and by the time his first non bedis run was coming out #i lost the hyperfixation on comics (tho never the special interest) #whenever it's next activated tho (bc I'm a fucking sleeper agent ig) i think I'll have to check it out. especially post spiderverse #it's too good for there not to be bleed back #anyway. my only gripe with the entirety of spiderverse is that while peni parker is funny they should've gone with her og character- #-as a fuckin. i believe it's an evangelion homage? bc it'd be funny if the cutesy anime girl was actually the most fucked up spiderperson #and they didn't go with that for the sake of cheaper more generic anime jokes. boo #still the best movie ever tho idk what to tell you #I'm crying!!!

[caruliaa]

the problem with carulia is that there isnt a rly good classic multi chap au fanfic for it for me to loose my mind over. and most of the multi chap fanfic that is out there for it straight up bad if i remeber right 👍🏽

#like not bad bad like mischaracterizing bad yk. i also havent read a lot in a while but yk #i remember there was this one fanfic called hook line and sinker that like in the old og carulia server was joked abt as like #thee caruia fanfic and so many people had read it and its so bad and not good #bad carulia characterization !!! it was like carmen youre Perfect at everything and julia is so flustered by your flirtatiousness and ugghh #ihate u ppl sometimes !! specifcally the people of ao3 bc omfg #how come people like saw carulia and saw the interactions that show their relationship and the actual dynamic they have #and only like. take the fact that theyre in love from it and just add a dynamic that so not their dynamic and so bad over top of it #just uggh. im sure there is a lot of rly good carulia fanfic out there tbh. but also not searching for it rn its wayy too late #i was just thinking bc im like. jealous/envious whichever one means i want what u have NOT i dont want u to have what u have #whenever luce mentions w.a.r. like pls i also want a thee multichap fanfic tht makes me feel insane for my fave ship #andi have been in fandoms/had ship were they have had tht nd iwant it soo badly w carulia. #ig i will have to write one then but also i dont have any multi chap au fanfic ideasss 😭😭😭 #and i shldnt be coming up with any at a point were im not even working on my non au mostly one shot ones lmao #flappy rambles

[widevibratobitch]

need to reread dorian gray... basil hallward my beautiful faggot girlfriend i miss you so much

#gave my mother my annotated copy with my own translations and notes about the og uncensored version #and i can tell she doesnt really and is very apprehensive of this book cause yknow she's ✨not homophobic✨ but asked me before she started #doesn't really like it* #if the gayness of this book is very in-your-face cause she's not interested in reading some cheesy gay romance #and like :/ girl. ive been obsessed with wilde for years and i was truly insane about him when we were still living together #is this what you think of me? #you think i only like his works because he was gay and only ever wrote 19th century equivalent of a Y/A gay romance booktok books? #ngl this actually did hurt me a little. its like 'yeah i wanna read more classics and ill take your recommendations as long as they're not #Too Gay(tm)'... #idk. just made me feel a little sad ig. those tiny glimpses of how people really see you no matter how nice they are about it. #homosexual undertones are childish and immature ig and not an actual element of serious literature analysis 💁‍♀️ #cant believe my own mother hit me with a 'homoerotic subtext ruins the dramaturgical interpretation' 😭

[todayisafridaynight]

For the record I do want to stress that I am that same anon from some while ago who said that I enjoy Y4 in the same way I enjoy being immeasurably stoned and waking up in a different state. So like. I have no good excuse for why I like Y4. I just like all of the Yakuza games despite the issues. I think it's the part of me that's a refugee from Transformers fandom who is used to rewriting 80% of the bullshit internally (or externally if I feel spicy enough) to suit my tastes.

omg stoner anon how you livin bruh

anyway yeah you CAN like it i aint sayin ya CANT: i unironically love shadow the hedgehog and that game gets panned to death every other month.

you can like stuff despite knowing their flaws that the beauty of media and if anything enhances your enjoyment of it: being able to criticize the things you love means you want better things for it because you enjoy the concepts and characters it's given, so i ain't sayin ya gotta suck rgg's tits to love the games 😷

#snap chats #also. hey. transformers fan here too #transformers def is waaaayyy different from yakuza tho LMAOOO #i get what you mean tho but TF also changes entire characters sometimes #like how many incarnations of prowl change from being Cool And Serious to just bein a fuckin goober #SAME GOES FOR WHEELJACK ACTUALLY WHY HE KINDA NASTY WITH IT IN PRIME #but in the OG he's like. a redneck. i mean ig he like a redneck in prime too but he's more like a space cowboy #omg space cowboy.... #idk where im goin with this i just miss wheeljack

[penrose-quinn]

I wonder if Bonten is somewhat like Hangure (半グレ). I just never really had a grasp how their organization worked, but tbf it was just a brief appearance in the manga. I wonder if all the bad tl Toman is/like Hangure....

#pen rambles #ig what's curious to me is how bonten/bad toman seemingly don't have or isn't implied to have connections with the yakuza #so i assumed they could be hangure (but a more refined version of it?) #makes sense with the manga and rl timelines wherein the yakuza is in decline #the only time we get some kind connection/ref to the yakuza is through wakasa in the og tl #but toman doesn't exist in that timeline so #i also read jake adelstein's post abt hangure the other day which just intrigued me #i'm thinking abt this too much. i don't even write for bonten lol

[plushiehamuko]

in case you're wondering i am still updating this btw

#squishy talks too much #squishy plays p3p #i fucking HATE. hidetoshi i hope he dies or sum #i decided i like junpei tho. STUPEI ACE DEFECTIVE THE OG DETECTIVE PRINCE #also fuuka has been here for less than an hour but i'd die for her #also the more i learn about mitsuru the further to the left she goes #i love her. also what is wrong with her #shinjiro has only spoken two times i can't say much about him which is why he's neutral. slay tho ig

[kuiinncedes]

fjgfghdj

#as more time and more shows go by #my desire to go to eras tour / get tickets gets stronger and stronger LOL #i WAASSS somewhat indifferent abt not having tickets . but #😐 #lol i guess this is why i didnt get my tickets or even look into it for rep tour until like #two weeks before or sm XD #why r concert tickets so expensive / hard to get / etc etc etc #not that i've even tried for eras it's all just what i've heard LOL #so for all i actually know they're like $10 and in abundance #:)))))) #lol y cant concerts be easy to figure out and go to ;-; #am i just lazy perhaps but also #like #anyway #maybe i will cave and look at tickets like too late before the show lol #it worked for rep ig who knows TT #i doubt it would work this time #😐😐😐😐 anyway lol #jeanne talks #also my irl big swiftie friend actually got tickes just recently and is oging lol #and im sooooo excited for her but i'm jealousssss lmaooooo 🤩🤩🤩 #it's also bc of the goddamn nashville weekend LMAO #ppl i know who went and my parents seeing our family friends' kids went and asking me like #omg did u know taylor had shows in nashville this weekend YEAH I KNOW #and this person went YEAH I SAW TT #'u should've gone' NFGJDGJDHFKSJGH WDYM

[dbphantom]

Alright the Trigun Stampede OST fucking slaps

I really like the vocals in the jeneora rock resistance, which I did not expect to hear but am totally here for. its so catchy...

#I see why that's the song they picked for the trailer and like. the iconic scene showcase. #The og is still the best but they definitely did it justice #Especially since this show is waaaaaaaaaaay less western-y than the og #It still has that western style inspiration but yknow it's more sci-fy with a thin western veneer and u can tell with the ost too #And that's cool #I'm curious to hear what they're gonna do with Legato's theme bc I don't think you can beat [horrific screeching metal sounds] #Cruddy rambles #No I still haven't slept yet... I know I /had/ a sleep schedule going but uh. Now I don't ig lol

[mechawolfie]

hm. should i be worried about blank untitled blogs following me

#smudgy.txt #like 2 ppl w blank blogs have followed me lately #like are yall bots or. what #i blocked blank blogs b4 but i dont see the point/feel bad if im blocking ppl who genuinely just want to see my posts #so i havent been doing it lately #the only thing that bothers me is no age but like there r non blank blogs following me who dont have their ages listed so 😑 #ig i just prefer to trust that ppl r seeing & respecting my rule #& i just block when its more obvious they arent #anyway i was just wondering bc #there were those posts going around addressing ppl w blank blogs #& i get the not reblogging anything being a problem #but like. i personally dont rly mind? wrt my og posts anyway #but also i saw mention of ppl getting hacked??? is that a thing related to blank blogs following u?????? #just want to make sure here #oh also when i started being more active on this blog i intended to post more n/s/f/w stuff but i never got around to it so #thats why im not too bothered abt the ageless bios. but if i #ever build up the courage to b H*rny On Main i will Definitely start blocking more liberally lmao