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master-k0hga · 17 days

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| T A M I R A |

[ Category: The Promised Land ]

| This is Tamira, or Tammy for short before I actually gave her a full on name lmao- She's the partner of the chieftain of the Frostclaw Traders tribe, Takeshi. Tammy runs a Pharmacy with Andy as her assistant (a previous boy I introduced like a while ago); She is very good when it comes to medical diagnostics and even making her own healing and medicinal remedies too! Which are a very recommended source of keeping yourself safe from sickness and injuries in the harshest bone chilling winter of the Glacier Mountains Resort (and just in the cold mountains in general, it can get really ruthless out there!)

... Hoping I'll ever be able to actually draw the landscapes of this land someday cuz poorly putting it into words does it no justice and writing and describing environments is definitely NOT my strong suit whatsoever.. I draw for a fcking reason, words don't bode well for my struggling brain

... Fun fact, she is my second trans female OC that I have.... I'mean it's not rly a fun fact since nobody gives a damn but I love her very much and I really enjoy her design quite a lot here! Ofc like all my other OCs who are part of the Frostclaw, she was also a Yiga roughly during the time BotW first came out.. Still was trans then as she is now but just part of a personal project for me now-

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Name: Tamira Species: Ice Elf General Personality: Shy, timid, supportive, easy going, hardworking, friendly, empathetic Height: 7ft "2" Relationship Status: In a relationship

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Works and is in charge of the Pharmacy along with anything relating to medical and hospitality within the small town; And her staff mainly consist of not only average healthy lifestyles, but also those who have had history or a rough past of health complications or addictions

She's also a part time therapist and assistant for the leader of the town, who is also her partner; Takeshi. She files and deals with important phone calls and paperwork whilst he is better and more vocal with meetings with other outside leaders and such

She loves to sew in her free time, it soothes her and definitely helps with her stresses of life and her job, which is the burden of carrying everyone's problems and health; Which she believes she has to deal with herself, to which she really doesn't and has been told several times by her protective boyfriend. It's also thanks to Tammy for the productive and comfortable design and advantage the clothing that the Frostclaw wear

Her mother died from an illness when she was young and her father had eventually succumbed to his dementia when he got older, she never got the chance to tell her parents of her coming out as trans years ago. Not caring whether they would've accepted her or not since she would have Takeshi to support her, she personally believes there is now unfinished business with her parents

Enjoys hot baths, however needs to bathe by herself as she is still self conscious about her body

Has gotten angry, like full on angry on a couple of occasions; One time getting mad at her assistant at the Pharmacy she runs (Andy) for being rather discriminatory about one of her then clients at the time, safe to say he kept his mouth shut about judging others and overtime started being influenced by Tammy's empathic nature.. Even though he's still a dick

Is a vegetarian, she used to eat meat from time to time as a kid however became very off put by it one day when she was in her teens after accidentally witnessing someone from the outside walls disrespectfully mutilate a lamb. She has not eaten meat since and has gone for more animal free alternatives to most products like butter, milk and cheese

Her grandparents owned a farm just outside the town that she sometimes manages along with a couple other volunteers; She has at least two of some animals likes pigs, cows, sheep, chickens and goats along with a few other critters that are not known nor exist in our worlds. Her grandparents passed the rights to the farm to her in their will before they died.

Despite not doing it directly to hurt something or someone but in case she is in need of defending herself; She's actually rather skilled with a bow, even going so far as to shoot three arrows at a time. Only times she's ever "used" it however was to ward off potential trespassers or poachers trying to get close to her grandparent's farm; Especially as said farm is now under the protection of the Golden Palace

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I think that's all I have for her right now, I didn't really have all that much for Tammy when I started re-purposing my former Yiga OCs back on DA, I was pretty much starting out on trying to figure out what I wanted to do for them at the time so... Pretty much this is her new purpose now, I think it kinda fits for someone such as her... She's free, but she also has morals that more people definitely need in this world..

Now I just need to finish off her boyfriend Takeshi since his re-design sketch has been sitting collecting dust in my files for literal months.. I think I made him before Tammy as well so like?? Weird tbh??

But he's just his stoic and kinda scary, while also being a very kind self so... Yeah Idk..

. Tamira, Art © Me . DON’T RE-POST .

#MASTER-K0HGA #Ary / Kohga Chronicles #Ary / Kohga OCs and Works #Tammy #Tamira #OC #transfemale #trans #Ice Elf #Frosclaw #Frostclaw Traders #The Promised Land #Original Character #My OC #My Character #My Art #Fandomless #Just realized I don't rly need to use the re-post tags anymore cuz now I'm actually getting to new stuff now or new versions of my OC #drawings that I'm posting on this blog here.. So from here on out even if you recognize an OC of mine somewhat... I'm most likely re-drawin #them anyways cuz some old designs are kinda not good.... Like at all in my opinion so Idk... oh well don't matter #I feel like I'm actually almost close to done when it specifically comes to the Frostclaw tribe #Cuz as I said all of them were Yiga OCs one time before I decided to re-purpose them officially and stuff back on DA..#But I believe I just have the odd few to get on with then they'll be all done for now til I've completely finish off all my OC refs and stu #Then I can get on with proper like world building. lore and all that sorts afterwards!#Which I'm kinda looking forward to but also dreading at the same time cuz I am not rly good with stuff other than OCs and #Humanoid like designs and characters.... And tbh I'm doing this all by myself. I have no one helping me here so I know it's gonna be like..#Wonky... In some areas and whatnot... But anyways that's enough from me for tonight- I'm already tired and I just got on my laptop today #.... Not like this won't already be over a week or a month since the last art spam anyways.. And nobody looked at any of it last time...!#So... Yeah... Whatever... Not like I have anybody to speak to anyways so whatever who cares...-

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guinea-piggies-wheekly · 2 years

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Thinking about possibly getting guinea pigs as a pet? Here are my 5 pros and cons of guinea pig ownership.

5 Pros of owning guinea pigs

1. They don't cost alot to purchase. Compared to a dog which may cost anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, guinea pigs are relatively inexpensive. You can usually buy them from $10-$50 each, depending on what breed you get. Some of the long haired breeds may cost more than standard guinea pigs.

2. They’re fairly inexpensive to feed as well. Their diet consists mostly of grass or hay. If you’re housing them outside grass is generally readily available but even if it's not or you plan on housing your piggies inside hay is quite affordable. You can generally buy a bag of hay from any pet supply shop for about $10, give or take. Depending on how many guinea pigs you own this can last you more than a week. Some stores will also sell bales of hay which generally work out more cost effective, providing you have the storage space. The rest of their diet consists of fresh fruits and vegetables and a good quality pellet. Which means way less wasted vegetable scraps and your piggies get some yummy food. Win-win.

3. They are kept in an enclosure and can be housed outdoors or indoors, making them a versatile pet for those who don't necessarily want animals inside the house or if you are renting and are only allowed outdoor animals. For those who want inside options there a plenty of cages and enclosures specifically designed for indoor use so you can keep your piggies close at hand. Some people even opt to have indoor and outdoor options to keep their guinea pigs amused and happy.

4. They are super cute! Unlike puppies and kittens which start off small and cuddly but may grow big and lose their appeal, guinea pigs start off small and cute and even when they're fully grown, they're still small and cute. Which leads to the 5th and final pro of pet guinea pigs;

5. They love a cuddle. Guinea pigs are social animals and love to bond with their human companions. Guinea pigs will happily sit on your lap or next to you on the couch for pats and cuddles for as long as you're willing to have them there. They might even purr if they are super relaxed and happy.

5 cons of owning guinea pigs

1. You can't have just one…is this really a con? If you think buying a guinea pig, putting it in a cage and feeding it will be sufficient you will be in for a shock. Guinea pigs are social animals so you need at least two for them to be happy. Personally, I would recommend a minimum of three so that if something happens to one you've never got a lonely guinea pig.

2. This brings me to the cost of housing. To have happy, healthy piggies the housing you provide needs to be big enough for them to scurry around and to have the space to provide plenty of hiding places and other amusement to keep them entertained. This can become costly, a lot more than you would expect for such a small animal. If you're housing them outside keep in mind their enclosure will need to be sheltered from rain and wind. Guinea pigs also don't do well in extreme weather so somewhere they can be out of extremely hot or extremely cold temperatures is a must.

3. Bedding can become a hassle if you're not prepared. There are many different types of bedding available from stores but they all have their advantages and disadvantages. They will eat hay, they also like to hide inside it. This means they can pee and poo In the hay which makes it smelly. You can get biodegradable bedding similar to kitty litter but I find this also becomes smelly after a couple of days once it gets wet. These types of bedding are fine if you are prepared to clean it every couple of days but you will be forever buying more and the cost will add up. Another alternative type of bedding is to use fleece blankets. This is soft for their feet, wicks away moisture so doesn't create a smell. These have a bit of an initial outlay but can be reused after a wash.

4. Another cost to consider is veterinary expenses. What kind of care does a guinea pig require? Generally, not alot but if they do it can become costly. Guinea pigs can sustain injury from things like hay poking their eye and causing inflammation, other piggies getting a bit rough or behaving aggressively, falls and more. But they're only small so surely they won't cost much? Because they're small they require an exotic animal vet which cost more and depending on what they're being treated for they can cost quite a lot.

5. Many people get guinea pigs as a pet for children or as a first pet. And while they do make great pets and children will absolutely adore them you really need to consider a few factors before committing. How old are your children? Are they old enough to actively help take care of them? Do they know how to behave around them so as not to constantly starle them? Remember guinea pigs are naturally skittish because they are a prey animal. Will your child know how and be able to hold and pet them in a safe way to ensure the guinea pig is not accidentally injured?

So now you've got some information to ponder. Hopefully this helps you make a decision.

#guinea pigs #guineapiglove #lovemypiggies #guineapigpets

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ms-scarletwings · 9 months

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Okay so this is not even a critique or much of a commentary but it’s just acknowledging some Sly Cooper… design choices that keep bouncing around in my head rent free

Like I’ve never seen anyone talk about some of this

- the boldness of making a full 1/3rd of the enemies to be encountered in Paris frog people

- Speaking of Paris, apparently those flashlight guards kid me could only guess were some kind of scary cows have this entire time been warthogs.

- just always thought these cyclops squid guards from Relaigh’s level were interesting.

- boldness part 2: Pigs have consistently been the animal of choice to represent the wider police force behind Carmelita, up until only the third game

- Between the bats, the pigeons, the parrots, and the vultures I need Sucker Punch to answer me straight whether or not all the avians are actually typically capable of flight or not. In-game play seems to suggest they do have some limited form of flight and may just be weighed down by personal objects. Clockwerk flies, sure, but he’s a massive jet boosted android. But wait, Arpeggio’s entire sad backstory is that he couldn’t fly, so that MUST mean the norm for birds in this world is fully flight-functional wings. The reason I’m BEGGING to know is so I can say if it’s canon or not that bird people in Sly Cooper can just take off at any moment by flapping their arms ala Bojack Horseman, because it would be hilarious

- sorry I’m actually not finished with the birds but seriously, are their wings functionally hands or not? Clockwerk has literally been seen to only grab things with his feet, the bats in the Contessa levels certainly don’t seem to get any manual dexterity out of theirs, but????

Okay! So that actually settles it- except in game vulture guards also… only ever… use their feet to handle those same crossbows.

I’ll try to tell the little hamster in my brain it should really stop asking questions about the birds at this point tbh

#sly cooper #sly 2 band of thieves #sly cooper theories #avians #furries #repost from my old blog #scarlet talks about things

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wildartsstuff · 3 months

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We all know that Wick has a metal leg and call me stupid but I always forget that because you seem to rarely draw it. And that makes me wonder: how did he even get it in the first place? And just how much of a problem was it to get used to it? Because I can imagine him falling face first in the first week or so before he finally got used to it.

Ah dw you are not stupid for forgetting about something I barely show, even because I have been trying to redesign his leg into something more consistent that can stay for the future instead of confusing people on what is the right leg design for Lampwick, that’s why I have been sticking to halfbodies drawings of him most of the time.

His leg got amputated after heavily passing out at the end of chapter 4 . The one to do the operation was Panacea himself ( Owl doctor ) when he still worked for the alchemist and before witnessing one of the many tragedies of his own experiment to find a cure ( in which Lampwick was one of the guinea pigs ).

Wick’s leg was severely in gangrene and it would have spread across his body, probably ending up a carcass like his roommate, Alexander. So instead of killing him, Paracelsus requested Panacea to spare him because “he could still be useful” even without a limb.

He was pretty knocked out into the surgery, Panacea didn’t even need to administer anesthesia to remove the rotten leg, he simply went with the saw and then attach a legion leg ( very similiar to P’s arm ) powered by legion charges ( yeah, Wick’s leg has a sort of in-battery built in, he needs charges in order to use it since it is basically attached to his body and can’t remove it ) and that’s it.

Of course when you wake up from a surgery table, in Lampwick’s case, the first thing you ask yourself is how you ended up there to then realise “where the fuck has my leg gone?” Lampwick didn’t take it easily psychologically especially for the chronic pain of the missing limb. He was heavily tied up to the bed shouting in pain and crying through a convulsion, until Panacea heard him awake. That was not easy to deal or to elaborate for Wick since everything happened too sudden for him from getting sick >>> losing a limb.

He felt scared and alone.

Panacea was the only one to take care of Wick as his patient but eventually got knocked out by him in attempt to escape. Lampwick truly went into a “fuck this shit I’m out” state after discovering that for the alchemist he was just a mere experiment, leave and basically become what we all know a love today.

He indeed took time to get used to the leg, probably more than normally since his nerves were basically exposed to the point to cause him continuous chronic pain by walking and falling many times because of it. His will to survive was the only thing keeping him alive even though sometimes death could have been tempting.

Also fun fact : I tend to meme a lot about Lampwick’s boobs and stuff but the muscolar body he has build up is not something he went willingly. Since he was a Bastard and a bodyguard and bodyguards need to have big bodies in order to act as human shields, the alchemist involved with the research to a cure used the Bastards themselves as their Guinea pigs. The medicine was hidden in their meals secretly mixed with steroids and since steroids tend to increase blood pressure, the blood flow because of that is increased giving them faster results in those that could be considered “separable” or “failures”. Lampwick was in constant movement and training with the other bodyguards so none of them never questioned why their bodies were changing drastically. They thought it was all “part of the the training process.”

Hope this answers your questions! Took me a while to find the right words to make it make sense haha

#rewildspeaks

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hislittleraincloud · 4 months

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Caveat: I don't know exactly what the voters need to be looking for when judging this shit. And for all I know the paint blood F/X thing is more of a responsibility for the people behind the camera who want things to look good in the frame.

But really...I honestly cannot believe that this incongruous piece of shit makeup work from 'Woe What a Night' that I always point and laugh at when it's on my screen big or small won a goddamn Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Contemporary Non-Prosthetic Makeup...because shit like this exists in the episode:

In the earlier part of the scene, it's watery paint. We can see that, and we can see how it dripped onto Ortega's face in that thin film, full face coverage, then right after her vision, she zips out of the ballroom intent on getting to Eugene.

But then some ✨creative✨ thought that it would be cool to mix up actual stage blood and then dump it onto Ortega's clearly clean face, even though the paint didn't have that thicker consistency at all (because yanno...Stupid Viewers Are Stupid and Won't Notice, it's not important, so long as it looks okay! which I've never thought that it does 💀). I wouldn't take issue with this if they had just used the stage blood to begin with, but there are pro rules for that too, with professional makeup artists warning not to misuse stage blood:

"...Misusing fake blood can also quickly make a realistic design appear overtly fake. When designing a look, consider the optimal color and thickness of any fake blood you intend to use. It should closely resemble the wound or effect you are trying to create.

Pro Tip: To make a special effects makeup look more realistic, consider the direction that blood would flow from a wound, or how the blood would splatter. Don’t simply spray blood in every direction. In real life, this doesn’t happen NEARLY as much as you’d think."

I can't be the only one annoyed by the difference, SINCE WEDNESDAY EXPLICITLY SAID THAT SHE WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT THEY COULDN'T EVEN SPRING FOR PIG'S BLOOD. "IT'S ONLY PAINT." And it wasn't just on Ortega's clean face, it's on Ricci's clean face too:

✨But Tor, it LOOKS BETTER TH --✨

NO.

NO, IT DOESN'T.

This is just some bull💩 if the Academy thinks this was better contemporary makeup work than The Last of Us, AHS, or Picard. As much as I like and tolerate this show, its continuity is HORRENDOUS, as I've pointed out in Fuck Those Propmasters.

...So congrats(?) on casting some kind of spell over the voters for the win. I haven't even mentioned the CAKE on Ortega's face throughout that erases all of her freckles. Yes, I get it, she had to do whiteface since Wednesday is pale/dead looking, but there was just too much in some places that was really noticeable. (It's most evident when she talks to Enid at the beginning with her Murder Board and when Xavier makes her ask him to the Rave'N. But then it isn't caked during the Rave'N itself. It's actually not as caked on in other episode scenes, like when she's opening her snood gift. Perhaps the makeup of the Rave'N was a factor since it was nice, especially the Nightshade girls and Enid.)

Anyway, IDGAF if I sound like a raging cunt. I expect things that win awards to be legit worthy of recognition...this was not. Not for this, at least. Contemporary Costuming, fair, I guess (I mean...the Nevermore uniforms seem like an homage to Beetlejuice, the cat costumes Batman Returns, but otherwise, costuming seemed rather boring to me, but whatever, maybe it was the contrast between Wends and her colorful roommate that made it stand out). But not makeup, it was just way too inconsistent and there were better nominees.

ETA: I had to re-edit this because some of my other edits didn't save for some reason.

#signed - a very cranky ex-A&E critic #woe what a shitshow #woe what a night #paint vs stage blood #wednesday #wednesday netflix #netflix wednesday #jenna ortega #christina ricci #creative arts #emmys

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seventeenlovesthree · 2 years

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@taichiyagamiweek - Day 4: Goggles

Because... Haven’t you ever wondered why Koushirou’s tracking devices have always been goggles specifically? And that those have been worn by Taichi exclusively...?

“Hey Koushirou.” “Mh?” “I came up with something the other day and... It kinda stuck with me.” “Oh? Care to explain?” “... Why exactly did you choose to make distortion tracking devices in the shape of goggles back then?” “You mean in 2005?” “Yeah, but, actually, ever since then. Like, you just gave me the newest model-” “Wrong, you took it without asking permission first.” “-and I just... I never thought about it before, really, but... You probably could have made something more... Easily portable, like a watch or just integrate it into our phones. I mean, you already made those as well! Nothing else to be expected from you after all, but still...” “What’s so weird about it to you? You can connect the goggles to the phone effortlessly, it’s just practical to have your hands free while following the distortions.” “... Okay, yeah, that’s true. But...” “But?” “You only ever let me use them.” “So?” “You never asked Hikari or Takeru or anybody else to wear them instead. And even if you claim that you were mad at me for taking them... You don’t reeeally look like you mind?” “Well... I’d be lying if I said that the first prototype wasn’t just... A very nostalgic invention.” “Nostalgic?” “I couldn’t help but imagine you taking the lead once again - you always had a tendency to run forward and at that time, you were a bit more... Hesitant. So I thought it may have brought back some memories to you as well. To encourage you a bit.” “Huh...” “Don’t get me wrong, I genuinely like you being more cautious, Taichi-san, it’s actually a relief to not constantly worry about you jumping too quickly into danger...” “Pah...” “... But I also know that’s still part of who you are. You want to protect everyone, if possible. That has never changed. And the goggles have always suited you. So... I assumed you’d like them.” “So you did make them for me?” “I knew nobody could have kept you from trying out any devices I’d make yourself - so I may as well have designed them to be the best possible fit for you.” “Aaaaand have done so ever since...?” “... They’re still not perfect, but seeing how you keep snatching them away... I seem to have done a great job through the years.” “Who knew you could be such a sap, Izumi Koushirou?” “If you volunteer to be my guinea pig as consistently as you always have, I can as well dedicate my time to make sure you’ll get back home safe and in one piece at least.”

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yegarts · 1 year

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“I Am YEG Arts” Series: Layla Folkmann

Layla Folkmann, photo provided by the artist.

Ever looked around a room full of talented peers and wondered if you had the secret sauce to stay in the game? If you ask Layla Folkmann, she’ll tell you there’s no secret to it at all—just stubbornness, consistency, and fortitude. Some days, that looks like slogging through the rough patches. Other days, it looks like international success. No matter what the day though, Folkmann is never without gratitude for her unshakable foundation—one built on encouragement and education, with no backup plan in sight.

Mural artist, painter, and public-art advocate, this week’s “I Am YEG Arts” story belongs to Layla Folkmann.

Tell us about your connection to Edmonton and how it’s influenced your path.

As a free-range child of artist parents, I have many fond memories of being immersed in the Edmonton arts scene. From running through gallery openings and eating an excess of cheese off unattended platters, to bouncing restlessly in theatre seats, these early experiences have undeniably influenced my life in both obvious and imperceptible ways.

Education and early encouragement are undeniably the foundation on which my art career rests. I attended Victoria Composite School and the Grant MacEwan Fine Arts program, which provided a solid technical vocabulary that I consistently apply to my work to this day. It’s all these elements that have allowed me to confidently throw myself into the professional realm with the knowledge that I could make it work as an artist.

What themes are you drawn to in your work?

Luminosity and vibrant harmonious colours are aesthetic themes that I work with in all aspects of my painting practice, whether abstracts, portraiture, or large-scale mural work. I'm constantly searching for exciting colour combinations in the world around me to translate into my painting.

Honest portraits of real people is another consistent theme that my artistic collaborator, Lacey Jane, and I explore in our public mural work (Lacey & Layla Art). We find portraiture to be a compelling tool to encourage human connectedness by representing authentic members of a community and, hopefully, strengthening local pride. We aim to celebrate each community's unique character and urban diversity and to highlight community members and the human experience. We also explore what we like to call “techno nature,” which is a combination of design-based graphic elements and natural scenes. These pieces are our exploration into our contemporary interpretation of the natural world.

How do large-scale murals and public art play to your strengths as a storyteller?

By the nature of their size and location, murals can be an impactful and compelling storytelling tool. They are accessible in public spaces and memorable with their imposing format. People have explored this format from prehistoric cave paintings and the Mexican revolution, to the graffiti in New York subway stations. The power of the format is undeniable, reaching everyday people in everyday places.

Art speaks a universal language, and what continues to excite me about public murals is that they remove both the real and perceived barriers of a gallery or museum space and release artwork into the public sphere.

Public art has an unparalleled ability to transform urban—and even rural—spaces into an open living gallery that is free and accessible to everyone. It redefines communal areas and creates new opportunities for engagement, curiosity, appreciation, and ownership for the beautification of often neglected or forgotten spaces.

Each story we tell is curated to the space and the community in which we create the artwork. Each new location provides an opportunity for a new narrative to touch on the core aspects of the neighbourhood and the people who exist within it.

Top: Colour Outside the Lines by LALA, photo provided. Bottom: Larger Than Life A Mr. Chi Pig mural by LALA, photo provided.

What’s the first thing you ever made that inspired your artistic path? Did you know then that you’d unlocked something?

It has always been clear to me that art is what I was going to do; there was just never any other option. The form in which my career took was a happy accident and had everything to do with timing and chance. When I envisioned a career in the visual arts as a youth, becoming a mural artist wasn’t even on the radar. One opportunity presented itself, which led to the next, and then I ended up here. Luckily for me, there has been an international boom for mural art and I got on board early enough and have been riding that wave for over 10 years now. It seems that there is a new appreciation on the part of funding agencies and municipalities for the inherent value that murals can bring to a community.

Tell us a little about LALA (Lacey & Layla Art) and what that collaboration has meant to you.

My artistic collaboration with Lacey Jane has been fundamental to my continued growth as an artist. We initially met while studying Fine Arts at Grant MacEwan University in 2009 and have nurtured our “artnership” ever since. It is surprising to everyone, including ourselves, that we’ve maintained such a close friendship after the hundreds of travel hours and months of 12+ working hours a day in the rain, snow, and +40C heat. Each project has its unique challenges and unforeseen obstacles, but humour continues to be our greatest coping tool. Our enthusiasm for art is what brought us together, and it’s what continues to fuel our creative partnership. Together we push each other to take on bigger and more ambitious creative challenges.

What’s one piece of advice someone gave you growing up that turned out to be true. What’s one piece that didn’t hold up?

A professor of mine once mentioned that stubbornness, consistency, and fortitude are the qualities it takes to become a successful professional artist—not raw talent or early success. I see this truth demonstrated consistently within my artistic peer group. The people who make it work just simply do it, and then they keep doing it. They slog through the rough patches, make the right connections, and see it out the other side.

“Have a backup plan” was advice that didn’t hold up for me, personally. Perhaps it seems reckless to bet all your chips on red, but fully committing gave me the determination and motivation to pursue my passion without deviation or distraction.

What does community mean to you, and where do you find it?

Community is quite simply who one surrounds themselves with. I believe in making active choices rather than passive choices about those who remain in my close sphere. I consider those who I surround myself with to be a defining aspect of who I become as a person. I aim to have a community that I admire, full of positive, enthusiastic, and hard-working people who challenge and encourage me to become more of that myself.

Portraits by Layla Folkmann, photos provided by the artist.

When you’re struggling to stay on task, what’s your favourite way to procrastinate?

Productive procrastination seems to be a method I'm particularly fond of. I tell myself I can concentrate better when I “clean out my corners,” but I have a suspicion that is just an advanced avoidance technique. I also collect hobbies, such as soapmaking, felting, fermenting, carpentry, etc. Any of these can take precedence at inopportune times.

Tell us a little about what you’re currently working on or hoping to explore next.

My most substantial and challenging venture to date has been designing and building my own tiny house on wheels. It has been an ongoing, character-building exercise in creative problem-solving and patience, but it has me hooked. I am thrilled with the range of new skills it has taught me and the obstacles I've overcome. I did a whole lot of things wrong the first time before I could eventually get them right.

New and exciting mural projects with LALA are always in the works, and the winter months are dedicated to planning the next mural tour. Summers in Canada seem to disappear pretty quickly, but the winter allows me to decompress, plan, and create some studio work.

Most of my artistic career has been about mastering realism and representational work, but over the last few years, I have been exploring abstract painting to take a break from portraiture and the faithful replication of photographs. My abstracts provide me with a much-needed refuge in the pleasures of simple colour, light, and composition.

What excites you most about the YEG arts scene right now?

After relocating to Montreal for nine years and then returning to Edmonton, I’ve viewed the strength and quality of the YEG arts scene through a new lens. What I used to view as small, I now can appreciate for its intimacy, strength, warmth, and tight-knit community. The YEG support that our mural work has received throughout the years has been quite touching, and I feel quite at home.

Want more YEG Arts Stories? We’ll be sharing them here all year and on social media using the hashtag #IamYegArts. Follow along! Click here to learn more about Layla Folkmann, Lacey & Layla Art, and more.

A Charm by LALA, photo provided.

About Layla Folkmann

Layla Folkmann is an Edmonton-born internationally recognized mural artist and painter. She studied Fine Art at Grant MacEwan University (2009), École d'Enseignement Supérieur d'Art de Bordeaux (2015), and graduated with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal (2016) with a major in painting. For over a decade, she has dedicated her practice to socially and culturally engaged public art as part of LALA (Lacey & Layla Art) while fostering a passion for portraiture, realism, and the representation of compelling characters. Layla has collaborated on hundreds of murals across Canada and internationally in places such as Iceland, France, and northern Uganda. Layla has travelled extensively, having backpacked through nearly 40 countries. Over the past decade, she has received numerous grants, notable public projects and awards such as the 2021 Edmonton Artist Trust Fund Award. Layla is currently designing and building her own self-sufficient tiny house and maintains a full-time studio practice in her home town.

#yeg #yegarts #yegmurals #edmontonarts #IamYegArts #artistfeature #public art

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hervygervy · 3 months

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I always talk about how my favorite genre of video game is the monster-collecting RPG, but I’ve never actually played the game that started it all: Shin Megami Tensei. My good mutual once reblogged a post about it, so it got me thinking: can I really call this genre my favorite if I haven’t even played the original monster-collector? Thus I bought the latest game on Switch. And I gotta say, really enjoying it so far! Definitely satisfying my need to fixate on something lest I start getting depressed again.

I really like how all the collectible monsters are based off of folktale or mythological figures. It kinda warms my heart to see all these various beliefs coexisting together. There are also monsters based on Judeo-Christian lore in the game, which I think is especially neat. Like you can recruit the demon Legion, based on the one of the same name that possessed a bunch of pigs in the New Testament. Anyway, I’m getting off topic. What I want to talk about is one specific monster. I’ve reached the point in the game where I can recruit a nekomata. Now that’s a classic Japanese folklore monster! It’s a youkai that takes the form of a bipedal cat with two tails. Their skill set varies, with shape shifting, summoning fire, possession, and necromancy being some possible abilities. You’ve probably seen one in media before—it’s just that iconic. In monster-collectors, Jibanyan and Meowstic from Yo-Kai Watch and Pokémon respectively are easily recognizable as nekomata thanks to the fact they stand on two legs, have two tails, and exhibit a variety of supernatural abilities.

Obviously a lot of contemporary Japanese media likes to depict them as a lot more humanoid. The nekomata units in Disgaea are a good example of that, basically being female heads attached to beastly bodies. But they still have the two tails at the very least. Now the nekomata in Shin Megami Tensei?? Who let the artist cook??

Content warning: artwork featuring scantily clad/nude women below the cutoff. Please proceed at your own discretion. Thank you!

Like what is this?? I don’t like the Disgaea version either, but at least it had enough animalistic elements for me to perceive it as a monster. This? This is a lady wearing crappy cosplay. Where even is the second tail??? That’s like the whole point of a nekomata! The only thing this lousy design has to convey the concept other than the ears and tail is a black skin blow the eyes and claws so it looks ever so slightly less human. And then it’s also wearing like a fur jacket or something. I am not buying it. This sucks. My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

I looked up if there were any other iterations of the nekomata in the SMT series out of curiosity because frankly this design frustrates me to an irrational degree. And the older designs are so much better, there isn’t even a contest:

The first one lacks the second tail and still has some dumb top on but at least it looks more like a cat thanks to the nose and consistent skin color rather than a lady in a cheap Halloween costume. I prefer the second of these two since it looks even more like a cat, with a calico pattern and everything. As for the tail… it’s still technically not correct. That’s the tail a bakeneko would have, or the creature that represents a regular cat transitioning into a nekomata form. Did the artists have something against a proper second tail? Lol. Neither of these designs are perfect, but they’re leagues better than the modern version. That design makes me upset and makes me want to draw my own version.

#shin megami tensei #nekomata

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kvhaani · 1 year

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MICHAEL

MUSE: MICHAEL D. V. SANTOS

Date written: mid 2020!!

Short summary of plot: This roleplay was based on the movie ‘6 underground.’ One powerful man assembles an elite team of people with specialised skills that take down terrorists and other dangerous individuals. They refer to each other in codenames from one to ten. Michael’s number is #4.

Michael isn’t a huge fan of rich assholes in expensive suits, but as luck would have it, he finds himself mingling with a bunch of them tonight. The cocktail party reeks of evil affluent motherfuckers blowing all their blood money on booze, women, and gambling. Everyone at this party has a net worth in the millions, if not billions, and they’re all tied to shady organisations in some way, shape or form— everyone’s got a connection to a weapons manufacturer or a terror group, or a drug cartel.

They parade around in public cutting checks to charities, and secretly use those charities as tax write-offs. Point is, as much as these fuckers pretend to be angels for the cameras, Michael knows different— not a single person here has a single atom’s worth of morality left in them.

Jesus would weep at the sight.

Number Four is already tense when he enters the party, though you would never guess it judging by his looks and the confident way he carries himself. A master at masking his emotions, Michael flows through the exquisite party like a natural, working the room and the people by making conversation, cracking jokes, and flirting where appropriate. Women with seductive flashy dresses, men with imported cigars blowing their toxins into the air, waiters dressed in suits more expensive than most people’s yearly incomes— it’s truly a rich person’s playground and it makes him sick to his stomach. So far, none of the lowlifes at this party have offered any sort of valuable information that’ll help them get their target.

Their coy smiles and arrogant words ignite venomous fires in Michael’s veins, who wants nothing more than the opportunity to sock each of these power-hungry pigs in the throat and watch them choke on their ambitions. Their conversations consist of stock prices, corporate gossip, and the occasional mention of their visits to their favourite country clubs.

“Ted and I just bought our third property. The Hamptons estate is lovely but I wanted my private island and Ted doesn’t say no to me.”

“That dress is gorgeous, Martha. Who’s your designer, I need to fly them in to design one for me.”

“My son just graduated. We celebrated by buying him his second Lamborghini— but you know Rudy, he’s a businessman, just like his old man. He negotiated with us until we agreed to buy him a yacht too. He’s gonna take Wall Street by the balls when he’s old enough.”

Social climbing, materialistic, capitalistic fucks.

Watching the light leave their eyes wouldn’t make Michael lose any sleep at night, that much he’s sure about— if anything, he knows the world would be a better place without them in it. It’s a wonder how he manages to maintain his own dazzling smile and charming facade when all his thoughts are running around the idea of somehow bringing back guillotines.

He’d always been partial to violence; growing up a rowdy kid with no father figure and an abusive mother with substance abuse issues rubbed off on him as a child. It was easy to be angry towards everyone. Michael seemed to resent the world for everything. Fifteen years later and that dissent hasn’t changed one bit, in fact his resentment has only grown— however, his hate’s focus is now directed towards the world’s most corrupt. What Michael wouldn’t do to teach these modern-day Lex Luthor’s a lesson.

That’s exactly what he’s doing here. Tonight, it starts with Nathaniel Warren.

‘The mission is to isolate Mr. Warren. Ladies… I assume you can handle that pretty damn well. If we can isolate him. . .”

“We can teach him a lesson he won’t fuckin’ forget,” Michael mutters under his breath, finishing One’s sentence as he takes a sip from his vodka martini. The drink burns his throat but he welcomes the stinging rush, it keeps him alert.

If One needs him to isolate the rich asshole, that’s exactly what he’ll do. Michael has never been a fan of authority; if a person’s in power, it’s usually through fucked up means and therefore they don’t deserve to be respected. His mistrust for authority stretches back to years upon years cycling through the foster care system, being juggled from institution to institution. Teachers had always hated him, social workers thought he was a headache, and the young man always found himself landing on the wrong side of the law. So it’s truly a wonder that One’s influence is the only exception to the anti-authoritarian code of conduct Michael governs himself with.

The most frustrating part is he doesn’t even know /why/. Why is One’s approval so important to him? Why is Michael’s primary objective staying in One’s good graces? Why does he feel the need to respect the billionaire that seemingly doesn’t give a shit about any member of this fuckin’ team? It drives him crazy that he can’t— no, that he /won’t/— bring himself to go against the man’s demands, no matter how outrageous they may be.

Deep in the far corners of his mind, buried under layers and layers of denial, in the crevices of his cracked soul, Michael knows the answer. He’s too afraid to even /think/ about it out of fear that he might somehow screw it up with nothing but his wishful thinking.

Dean’s the closest thing he has to a family.

Number Eleven’s annoying voice cuts through his morbid thoughts like a knife, and for once, Michael is glad to hear it. This ‘team’ —a loose term for a bunch of professionals with specialised skillsets united under an umbrella of serving justice to the elite— has a bunch of people he can’t stand on a good day, however, out of all of them, Number Eleven takes the cake. Out of all the unlikeable shitstains in this ragtag group, Number Eleven is the one he would easily punt off the side of the building, if given the chance— not that that would ever happen.

Michael can only hope.

One of the last members to join, Michael hated her from the start. For one thing, she seemingly came out of nowhere with a skillset extremely similar to his own, and for another thing, she just has the kind of voice that makes Michael want to strangle her. The rational part of him knows she’s just another person trying to do some sort of good for this world that doesn’t deserve it, and that she’s probably got a decent moral compass— hell, she might even be a better person than he is— it still doesn’t change the jealous part of him that despises her with the entirety of his being, down to the molecular level. Maybe it all comes down to their expertise being too identical.

And maybe he feels like Dean doesn’t believe in his abilities enough, and that he’s expecting Michael to fail so Eleven can take over his role.

“Great. What’s the move? Because I swear if I hear another story about a singer compliment a greasy dude’s wealth and hair we will have one target more.”

“Here’s an idea,” Michael hisses into his earpiece, “get out there and do your fuckin’ job. You heard One: isolate the target. Didn’t think he needed to spell that shit out for you, Eleven.”

Is Four the unofficial asshole of the group? Yeah. It’s no secret that he dislikes everyone on the team, or at least he acts like it enough to give the impression that he can’t stand any one of them. While his hatred for Eleven is as honest as it gets, that doesn’t necessarily mean that his negative attitude towards the others is as sincere as he tries to make it out to be.

Someone with more than a shred of emotional intelligence could probably dissect the fact that he only pretends to detest everyone to keep them at arm’s length. The last person Michael had allowed past the iron walls he’d created in his mind had been Dean, and now he can’t stand how vulnerable he feels around the man. No one should have that kind of control over him, especially not the people that could die in missions with him— the last thing Michael wants is to feel the pain of losing anyone he cares about. He’s experienced enough of that shitty feeling to last him a lifetime.

So the more he pretends to hate these people, the more he can convince himself that he doesn’t care about them, and the less it’ll hurt when one of them inevitably dies. Because if he’s being honest with himself, there’s no way all of them are going to get out of these life or death situations One has planned for them.

Nathaniel Warren isn’t the only cocksucker they’re taking down.

Michael has never been good at math, but even he knows the statistical probability of one of them dying is fuckin’ high. Personally, he hopes it's Number Eleven— he’d have no issues with her losing a few limbs, or her life— either works for him.

Number Three’s voice pipes up next, sultry and smooth like the velvety wine many of the partygoers are drinking tonight. Michael hopes they all choke on it, take their pretentious bullshit with them all the way to hell.

"Well, I’m off to keep my cover up, y’all don’t start the party without me, okay?”

“Typical,” Four rolls his eyes. “There are other ways to keep your cover up, you know— ones that don’t involve bein’ a whore.” Even as he says that, Michael allows a tiny amused smirk to play at his lips. There’s significantly less malice in his voice when he addresses Three, as opposed to when he’d addressed Eleven, but a tiny bit of annoyance still creeps into his tone.

“Leavin’ the rest of us to pick up your slack, as usual,” he chides into his earpiece. “Some of us are better at our fuckin’ jobs than others, I guess.” Three probably won’t take his reprimands seriously, and he doesn’t /have/ to, either.

Four has personally seen what the guy can do with a good gun.

Maybe it’s a good thing Three doesn’t have Michael’s violent tendencies, and that he carries himself with humour instead of fury.

Michael continues to mingle with the guests a little while longer, taking his time to subtly map out all the places with security cameras and guards, in case they need to make a clean exit. He spends what feels like centuries engaging in meaningless mundane conversation with these insufferable loaded morons, trying to get any sort of intel, until he finds himself within earshot of the conversation one of the drunk partygoers is having with Ten.

“Oooh you smell so nice, Spencer.”

Of all the names to choose, why would you go with Spencer? Dumb fuckin’ name if you ask me.

Michael makes eye contact with Ten, raising a brow as if to say, “Seriously?” He’s personally seen Ten take down three guys at once, but his weakness is a drunk woman throwing herself at him? The situation is a little funny, he has to admit. Four has half a mind to leave ‘Spencer’ to the mercy of this intoxicated woman but he rolls his eyes and takes a sip of his martini, dropping the empty glass in a nearby waiter’s tray before strolling over to the chaotic pair.

God, the woman’s perfume is almost potent enough to be the cause of her intoxication.

Two pumps did the job just fine— jeez, lady, did you break open the bottle and shower with it?

“Spencer, /there/ you are,” Michael says, putting on his best grin. His cheeks hurt from smiling all night, facial muscles screaming out in agony from this prolonged shitshow. “I’ve been looking all over for you.”

“I don’t believe we’ve had the pleasure yet.” He shifts his sharp gaze towards her, projecting hostility and disdain her way. “Domenico Fernandez at your service.” The name isn’t at all creative; his middle name and mother’s maiden name is what he’s chosen as his alias tonight but Michael doubts anyone is smart enough to piece that together. No one here knows his real name, besides Dean— it’s better that way, less attachments.

He takes Ten’s hand in his own, making a big show of it in front of Perfume Lady. “I hope I’m not interrupting anything here. If you’ll excuse me, my fiance and I are going to get ourselves a drink— I would ask you to join us but you look like you could use some water, mi querida.”

Michael Castaldi is a Brooklyn-born Italian to his core, but tonight he is Domenico Fernandez, a gay socialite with a Spanish accent, who’s engaged to a man named Spencer, apparently. What a tragedy.

“You should get in your fancy limo and go home,” he dismisses her with a wave, walking off in the direction of the balcony and pulling Ten along with him. Once they’re out of earshot, he drops the other’s hand and shoots him an annoyed look, folding his arms.

“Well, did you learn anythin’ important yet, /Spencer?/” Michael asks, his own Brooklyn accent more discernable now that he isn’t pretending to be someone he’s not. “There’s three guards near the south exit, two security cameras mounted on the east wall closest to the bar, and someone suspicious hangin’ round the dance floor.” He takes a moment to breathe and take in the warm summer air around them.

“God it’s nice to get away from them,” he mutters. “Took everythin’ in me not to kick ‘em in the balls every time they mentioned golf.”

#MICHAEL #oc ; michael

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francostrider · 2 years

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Surfacing the Subtext: Ion Fury

I am happy to see the so-called “Boomer Shooters” making a comeback. Modern and “realistic” (citation needed) shooters never interested me. I loved the original Medal of Honor but using a real life third world nation as target practice always rubbed me the wrong way. Give me demons, robots and Lovecraftian horrors to slay, not a poor guy driven to acts of violence because of the propaganda he has not way of shutting off.

In 2020, before the world ended, I decided to play three of them as a trilogy. Ion Fury, Dusk, and then Amid Evil. Partially for the Heavy Metal inspired groupings of sci-fi fantasy, but it also shows some evolution of the FPS as a genre. From the 2 1/2 D of Doom and the Build Engine, to the bright colored lighting of Unreal and other related games.

But there is a an obnoxious “truism” among these kinds of games: That there is No Story. If you read my thoughts in “Video Games Do Not Need Oscars” than you can probably guess my stance on how video game storylines should be measured. Many people believe that it’s solely the cutscenes or the dialogue segments. But I would argue that the story of any kind needs to encompass the whole work: the action scenes, the quiet moments and even the mundane things like armor repair and heading to the shop. Anything you see on screen or on the page is the story. Stories include battles and the mundane, is what I’m saying.

This can be a hard stance, as a single character murdering that many people is a stretch of the imagination. But games tend to get away with it because it is based on your skill. You see the ins and outs of how the character takes on an adversary. And it’s during gameplay that the subtler moments, like background story telling and character establishment, can occur.

With that in mind, let’s look at Ion Fury, developed by Void Point and published by 3D Realms. There is controversy with this game and that should not be entirely ignored. But I am going to put it aside for this discussion as it’s not what this article is about.

Ion Fury is the descendant of Duke Nukem 3D. In fact, Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison, the protagonist, was originally a sidekick for Duke Nukem before being dummied out. Duke Nukem 3D was a ground breaker in some respects, as it was the first noteworthy FPS that made levels look like real, lived in places, as opposed to the monster closet mazes of Doom and Quake. Now, Duke Nukem 3D didn’t set out to make a compelling storyline. Most of it were voiced references (passing off as jokes) by Duke himself, and locations were designed to replicate the team’s favorite action and sci-fi movies at the time. Arguably, during that era, Blood did more to establish a consistent tone and character arc.

Bringing us back to the Build engine two decades later, Ion Fury does, in some ways, matches the musclehead bravado of Duke Nukem 3D. But its world is a bit more consistent, less like a collage of random action movies and more set in its own world. It’s a cyberpunk dystopian future. Big money basically runs the world, crime is rampant, police is militarized and its raining a lot. A lot of the ads you see on the walls are over the top and goofy, but there is a sinister undercurrent, made up of the usual corporate corruption (that is having more and more trouble hiding within the last few years).

That whole paragraph? That is just about what you see when you explore. I haven’t even touched the storyline yet. Despite the primitive graphics, every inch of the game screams horrid urban life to your face.

And these details are not ignored during the actual plot either. You are Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison (part of GDF, the law enforcement), and you’re trying to stop the plans of the evil Dr. Heskel, a billionaire scientist out to take over Neo-DC. And, yes, it’s as cheesy as it sounds. They are constantly taunting each other with bad puns and dated jokes the whole game.

But the mooks you fight aren’t pig cops or lizard aliens. They are brainwashed cyborgs. Dr. Heskel’s firm specializes in cybernetic impants and artificial limbs, presented to the public as helping people back on their feet. With that same technology, Dr. Heskel has created his army, likely lobotimized and turned into killing machines. Kept further from the public eye is his weapons development branch.

On the surface, it’s easy to see this as pro-cop, anti science/medicine. And admittedly, I felt a little uncomfortable with the game in my library. But it’s not as black and white as all that. You can find ads for GDF basically advertising itself for people with aggression issues. And there is a brutal parody of Trump’s campaign ad in the hidden level.

Shelly herself is a bit of a blood psychopath. It’s easy to dismiss most FPS protagonists are blood thirsty killers. But I would argue that Shelly is a psychopath where the original Doomguy isn’t. Doomguy’s back story is that he is put on the Mars base as punishment for disobeying orders. Said orders were killing innocent civilians. He does have a big grin when picking up high tech weapons and ammo, but let’s put it this way. Doomguy is in an absolute nightmare scenario. He is surrounded by literal Hell. And when pitted against what seems to be insurmountable, any weapon looks like a glimmer of hope. That this can be won. That he can survive.

Shelly is enjoying herself basically the whole way through. Arguably, she is also in a nightmare scenario, but often her one-liners are a bit more off putting than anything Duke says. And unless she’s grievously wounded, she always has a grin on her face, where Doomguy always looks cautious and focused. While the game and the text does side with her in the immediate storyline, there’s a sense that she would have been a villain in any other story.

Probably the most generous interpretation is that the game is ultimately anti-megacorporation. That it’s not science or medicine that is the problem (since you use plenty of both), but what corporate greed does to them. Dr. Heskel mentions that GDF relies on the weapons he creates (the usual we’re-not-so-different speech), but it makes sense. The villain has the ability to work and invent high tech solutions, but he would much rather sell weapons for profit. Weaponzing medicine, weaponizing science, weaponizing law enforcement and growing rich off of both. The cyborgs can be seen as a corporation grinding people into cogs, as mindless machines for one’s own agenda.

And let’s not neglect the combat itself. While not as absurdly bloody as, well, Blood, it is visceral in its own way. Headshots are possible now (and impressive feat given the engine), and corpses are not untouchable. There were plenty of moments where I dodge a grenade, and watch pulverize a body into gibs. Blood and cybernetic parts fly through the air, an illustration of the wasted potential of the technology and the violence that it brings. Environmental damage, which I tend to ignore in most modern games, is heightened by the sprite work. The violence isn’t just the blood, but the world around you, from broken glass, to wrecked toilets to busted vending machines. The facade of an orderly, futuristic society is torn asunder by the very people with power.

I imagine there are two camps of fans of this game: the kind of people who read into it and make articles like these, and those who take it at face value and just enjoy all the guns. And I know the controversy muddles my point. They’re often easy to miss, but that does not dismiss the decision to include that.

You could argue that the game is noncommital, bringing up subjects but not really doing anything with them. And a serious talk isn’t really what the developers intended. But there is not nothing. It is, like most speculative fiction, a reflection of our own world. And with its Bulid Engine graphics, Ion Fury says a lot from the neon lights, violence and locations.

So, well done, Void Point. But maybe keep the unfunny trans and gay jokes out of the expansion? Thanks.

#ion fury #void point #Duke nukem #Blood #Build Engine #dusk #Amid Evil

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For ship bingo, how about Baffy (Bugs and daffy)?

y’all know me. y’all go here (and if not then y’all are in my house anyways so I guess you’re gonna eat the food i’m prepping)

I find their fiery relationship and rivalry endearing. There’s a lot of cute moments in LT iterations that aren’t hard to find, BiA a key example (and my favorite) of their relationship.

They’re the face of Looney Tunes, there’s a show and movie dedicated to their dynamic, they’re paired on more merchandise than any other Looney Tunes pairing, they’re a duo through and through. They’re not drawn for each other and will never be officially together, but it’s undeniable they are drawn to each other nonetheless.

As always, an extension of this blurb of consciousness is down below:

(Back in Action was my earliest exposure to Looney Tunes as a toddler, and I was OBSESSED with the looney tunes show in middle school. So already I am HIGHLY biased when I say that Bugs and Daffy are really really good for each other. You need to understand much of my argument will draw from a skewed and fangirl logic)

Cartoon characters in the early 20th century were either drawn as standalone characters, or with a counterpart in mind. Those relationships stayed more or less consistent, whether they be a romantic couple like mickey and minnie, or a dynamic duo like Porky and Daffy, their personalities were designed to counterbalance or compliment the other, or at least develop with each other at the early stages of their run. But Bugs and Daffy’s relationship tells a much different, unconventional story, one that was 20 years in the making (quite literally). Let’s start at the beginning.

Were it not for Daffy, Bugs would not exist. He was created as a carbon copy of Daffy, a throwaway standin rival for Porky when Daffy was clearly a better option. Unlike Daffy, who’s debute ushered Looney Tunes’ golden era AND the creation of a character archetype, Bugs’ character was nearly scrapped at every failed debute. Audiences were bored of his first appearance in Porky’s Hare Hunt, audiences found him annoying as variants of Happy Rabbit. It was until his 4th cartoon that he struck gold and earned an oscar nomination. Fast forward to Porky Pigs’ Feat, and audiences are pleasantly surprised with a left field Bugs Bunny cameo. The end is as zany as they come, but the significance of the short is how these three characters view each other. Porky and Daffy are familiar with Bugs (who isn’t?). Porky admires Bugs, while Daffy is *inspired* by him, calling him his hero. He admires his wit and how he’s able to get our of any tricky situation, but in line with the LT universe, sincerity is offset by a gag. Daffy rings up Bugs, and his view of Bugs is completely shattered when he finds that Bugs is not the hero he imagined, and in fact thought to act the same way he did. Dramatic yes, but so is our Duck. From here on out, the Looney Tunes pantheon grew and for Daffy to stand alone outside of Porky, his stories leaned into his theatrics and preservationist tendencies until meeting up with Bugs Bunny again in 1950.

Why the long winded backstory? Their relationship is built on the context of their character evolution and subtle relation to each other. Maltese and Jones saw that Daffy’s spotlight was stolen by Bugs, and translated his frustration through the iconic Hunting Trilogy. Not just them, but the directors of Termite Terrace were eager to cast Bugs and Daffy as each other’s foils and friend in proceeding shorts.

The trilogy shows that while other characters are either too incompetent, or lazy, impatient, high strung, or self absorbed to outmatch Bugs, Daffy keeps up. He’s so crazy he doesn’t know it’s impossible to defeat Bugs. So he tries. The shorts explore the full spectrum of their relationship, surprisingly. They can either recognize their strength in partnership and fall in sync (positive), Bugs winning over Daffy by taking control of the dialogue, frustrating Daffy (neutral), or driving Daffy to the brink of insanity, all characters near parodies of themselves (negative).

Plus, the significance and longevity of the Duck Season Rabbit Season gag is that it’s Bugs and Daffy’s stalemate. Bugs’ cool is lost, Daffy’s focus is honed, all snarky comebacks are thrown out the window. It’s a last ditch effort to win an elusive goal, evolved beyond survival and the threat of elmer himself. It takes an outside force in the form of an Elmer Season poster to break their spell.

Then Bugs, in a rare display of amity, defeats the greater conflict with Daffy by his side. It’s not a shock that they would be depicted as friends in their next shorts; that aforementioned act alone invites a level of trust that Bugs doesn’t lend to other Tunes.

My comment errs on the side of blasphemous, but I believe Duck Amuck wouldn’t be revered as a culturally significant piece of media if Bugs wasn’t revealed as the artist in the end. His significance to Daffy (and the payoff to 6 minutes of buildup) is THAT important. I envy audiences of the mid 1900s, they were able to see the Daffy and Bugs’ character reach it’s apex, their iconic dynamic was a brilliant buildup of the shorts that came before it.

Ok, that’s enough of my rant about the trilogy/ chuck jones era. Let’s move on to Bugs’ side of the relationship, both in film canon and show canon, because that’s where a lot of the weight lies.

While Daffy’s feelings towards Bugs are a HOT MESS and a mixed bag, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Bugs is very fond of Daffy. His laid back, quiet fondness for him stretches across all iterations of LT, from the films, to shows. But how? Why?? I think the creator of the Looney Tunes Show, Tony Cervone, explains it best:

“Bugs Bunny is…cool and in control, and Daffy is nothing but pure chaos, so Bugs is amused by that. He likes [chaos] and he likes Daffy’s unpredictable nature.”

The Looney Tunes Show was canned before Bugs and Daffy’s relationship was fully explored, but episodes like “Gossamer is Awesomer” shows how Bugs needs the chaos brought by Daffy’s impulses in order to function. While Daffy may not say it, the need is mutual. He sees Bugs as a rescuer, someone who offers shelter and accepts him for who he is and asks nothing more of him. In the second to last episode, Daffy’s obsessed with having Bugs to himself— the show creates the one-time character Rodney as a narrative tool to show the time-bending lengths Daffy would go to keep Bugs as a key figure in his life. Not the healthiest expression, but in line with Looney Tunes’ brand of insanity.

Meanwhile in canon, Bugs’ fondness of Daffy is almost a weakness for him. Bugs can be oblivious at times, but whenever Daffy calls in that saccharine pet name (“Oh Bugsy!”) he’s…I wouldn’t say vulnerable, but he’s always caught off guard. Alibaba bunny had him sticking his neck out for Daffy when it was inconvenient to do so, Abominable snowman left bugs open to violent cuddles from the titular monster (and started the adorable gag of Daffy babbling to himself while Bugs tries to catch his attention, his cool mask slipping with each word) In the comics, he doesn’t protest to Daffy inviting himself to dinner, he tells the reader on multiple occasions that he has a soft spot for Daffy, if it wasn’t obvious already. Back in Action shows that Bugs refuses to move forward on projects without him, turning down offers of a hot female co-star in his place, quietly commenting on Daffy’s strengths as an actor (“Daff never misses a cue.”), and travels from earth to space just to get him back. (I may be wrong, but I believe the ending reveals that Bugs concocted the entire movie so Daffy could live out his fantasy of being a hero).

Daffy may act like Bugs is the bane of his existence, Bugs sees him as anything but.

Unfortunately, this love/hate relationship can be one sided. While Daffy’s admiration of Bugs is there, his fixation on Bugs’ status perverts his attitude. He’s too envious and bitter from Bugs’ effortless popularity to positively reciprocate. But I promise you, all Daffy wants to hear is that Bugs appreciates Daffy for who he is and his efforts as an actor. Sadly, Bugs struggles to communicate his deeper feelings (be it in BiA, the classic LT canon, or TLTS) so Daffy has no other way of knowing just how much he means to him other than Bugs’ invitation to road trips and teasing. They’re comedic characters with depth and room to evolve, but not allowed to grow. So in service of comedy and status quo, Daffy stays bitter, and Bugs silently puts up with Daffy’s tantrums and plays back, and they bicker, and duck season, rabbit season, duck season, rabbit season…

What’s more, I think, is there’s something to be said about the popularity of a ship between two characters who have been portrayed through a queer lens more than their toon colleagues (cross dressing, mannerisms, colloquialisms, etc, while at first derogatory have been reclaimed by the queer community, including modern icons like RuPaul). With the recent acknowledgment of Baffy’s existence via social media, who knows? maybe a bone will be thrown our way. There’s still so many ways their dynamic can be explored regardless.

Bugs and Daffy’s team up was 20 years in the making. Thanks to Maltese, Jones and the other directors of Termite Terrace, they developed a lasting and culturally impactful relationship. They are a prime example of an iconic duo, one that’s maleable and marketable in every facet (to my knowledge, Bugs and Daffy are featured together more than any other Looney Tunes pairing, be it romantic or platonic). They work well as rivals, friends, and roomates. I’m of the opinion that the gap from friendship to romance is smaller than we realize. Initially, they weren’t designed to be each other’s perfect foils, yet they individually developed to the point where the directors of termite terrace were itching to pair Bugs and Daffy as soon as they could because of the comedic potential, and they’ve been a matching set ever since.

The only thing stopping them from getting together are their insufferable, larger than life egos (and social acceptance but bahhh). Bugs’ refusal to vulnerability (even though Daffy is shown to be his weakness) and Daffy’s bitter envy of Bugs (a perversion of his once passionate idolization of him). Like their classic duck season rabbit season gag, they could spiral forever in their worst parts of themselves and each other….until an outside force sets them on the right track. I’ll be waiting until that “final poster” comes.

#looney tunes #baffy #bugs bunny #daffy duck #I already typed so much but I want so much more to say…#cel speaks #cel answers #I spent too long on this between airplane trips jfjfjfj take it just take it #there’s so much I cut that I couldn’t fit anywhere in my already disorganized train of thought #such as ‘Porky may be Daffy’s best friend but Daffy is Bugs’ best friend’#i guess as a little extra to the ‘love/hate is very one sided’#basically their love (platonic romantic whatever) is mutual it’s just… neither make the move to communicate or TALK through it #Daffy attempted to in BiA. but Bugs is too gobsmacked to respond #sigh anyways yeah #spicy ship very problematic but also with a LOTTTTT of backing #the baffy essay is complete (ish). now i rest

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SHIPS THAT ARE 'CANON' IN MY AU INCLUDING EXES (WHY IM USING THEM)

Basically the ships that I use for this AU. If you don't like any of these ships, thats completely fine, but NO ship wars! You respect my ships, I'll respect yours! Now on with the list!

The only actual Canon ship

CageBlade: This is the only Canon ship that I like in the series. I love their dynamic and how they get back together at the end because they realized how much they love each other. Their story's the same as the game in this AU, with some of the Legands movies sprinkled in!

The ships that I use for my AU

FireDance: Ah, my OTP! This ship consists of my oc Varian and our lovable wraith, Hanzo! Funnily enough, Varian was originally going to be with Bi-Han before he died and then ultimately end up with Kotal. But after fully finishing her backstory, I decided that she was better suited for Hanzo. I feel like they balance each other out very well in every aspect. Sigh, they just make me so happy! I also just want Hanzo to be happy since NRS is apparently allergic to that.

LiuLao: OK BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER I WANT TO MAKE THIS CLEAR- Liu Kang and Kung Lao are NOT related! Tobias HIMSELF had to step in and make it clear that it was an error on the movie's part! They never have been and never will be blood related! OK, on with the ship: I FRICKIN LOVE THESE TWO! They were my first ever mk ship! I just love their dynamic and how their meant to be foils to each other! I'm so weak for the childhood friends trope. Everything about them is *chefs kiss*. Also in my AU, they don't die stupid deaths and become evil for the sake of shock value. They instead stay alive and raise Jin together so he can be happy, healthy, and ACCEPTED!

Jatana: Man, am I predictable or what? XD I ship these two for a lot of the same reasons I ship LiuLao. They have such amazing chemistry with each other, I love every scene the have together. THE WAY JADE IS SO PROTECTIVE OF KITANA IS JUST SO IMMACULATE! I'm weak for lesbian warriors protecting their lesbian princesses. It's the good food right there. They die but get resurrected and rule Outworld together as Queens.

ArticGem: So this ship is between Kuai Liang and an oc that I haven't introduced yet: Ruby. I came up with this ship because while I do ship SubScorp, I hc both Kuai and Hanzo as bi and I wanted to try shipping Kuai with a woman for once. Ruby was an already made oc (with full backstory and design) that I was gonna have be on her own, but I wanted her to be my guinea pig for my shipping experiment. It wasn't meant to be permanent but here we are. I'll explain their relationship more when I have Ruby's outline done.

StryBal: I absolutely love the idea of a New York City cop dating a Black Dragon member. Know what I love more? Stryker being a backstabbing bitch and being a secret BD member and selling all of the NYPD's secrets. Basically, these two are the bastard power couple that no one expects, and that no one can really trust (except for each other).

Exes!

RatTheif: That's right. In this AU, Erron and Kano dated. The relationship was mostly sexual, with Erron really only being interested because of the special treatment he got. Kano was only interested in the sex and adrenaline rushes. When Erron said he was done, Kano didn't believe him. While he was asleep, Erron took all of his shit and sold it before returning to Outworld. Kanos still pissed about it. I'm literally only using this ship for shits and giggles for the backstory.

Rain X Mileena: They both used each other with the plan of betraying the other. Both had the gall to be shocked when it eventually happened. I like the idea of two people using each other for the same reasons. It makes a fun read for me personally.

SubSmoke: They tried it because they thought that they loved each other romantically. While it was true on Kuai's end, Tomas was AroAce with both romance and sex repulsion. He apologized to Kuai, genuinely feeling horrible for starting something serious like this only to end it abruptly. Kuai held no grudge against him, supporting him fully and not tolerating any hate thrown Tomas' way. I like these two together as friends, I've always had the AroAce hc for Smoke, but I imagine him trying something out before ultimately realizing his Sexuality. And Kuai being nothing but supportive of his BFF! (P.S. I know that AroAce people can still find love/have sex, but I personally hc Smoke as being repulsed by those things for himself! I hope you understand!)

#oc x canon #mk au #what if au #mk oc #liulao #Jatana #cageblade #Strybal #Mk ships #I'm not gonna tag all these characters lol #i'm too tired for this

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The Immaturity of Thomas Astruc Masterpost

General Information

An Introduction…

What else has Thomas Astruc done?

What not to do when interacting with Astruc online (AKA, NO DEATH THREATS)

How did I get into Miraculous Ladybug?

My thoughts on the Season 5 Bible leak

Analysis of Astruc’s Online Behavior

#1: Chloe’s “Damnation Arc” That Was Totally Planned From the Start

#2: “Kung Food isn’t racist at all, why would you think that?”

#3: “I’ve done more for the entire comic book industry than anyone in 30 years!”

#4: There’s totally character development, you guys! You just don’t see it!

#5: The One With Astruc’s Self-Insert

#6: “How can you think a character named Ghetto Blaster could possibly be racist?”

#7: “Stop being mean to me on Twitter! I’ve never been mean to any of you!”

#8: “You want Adrien to get more focus? You sexist pig!”

#9: “Ladybug can’t be akumatized because I said so!”

#10: Felix, Part 1: Introduction

#10: Felix, Part Two: The Episode Itself

#11: “The New York special was supposed to be confusing! There wasn’t any cheating involved!”

#12: “Alya isn’t a bad friend! Is Krillin a bad friend for losing a fight to Majin Buu?”

#13: Return of the “Toxic” Chloe Fans

#14: “We’re introducing a new villain to the show! Wait, you think it’s anything other than a new form for Hawkmoth? You’re overthinking things, dude!”

#15: “The Simpsons doesn’t have a consistent timeline, so why should Miraculous Ladybug?”

#16: “I never insult people back! That’s it, you’re getting blocked!” (500 Follower Special)

#17: LGBT Representation in Miraculous Ladybug (Certain facts are wrong/inaccurate, so read at your own risk)

#18: “Adrien isn’t a boring character because he’s perfect! Why do you think people love Superman so much?”

#19: “Fan theories are ridiculous! Why can’t you understand how a Sentimonster works? The show isn’t that complicated!”

#20: “’Simpleman’ is the most meta episode of the entire show, and you’re just like a stupid old man if you don’t get it!”

#21: The Rising Sun Flag Controversy

#22: “Constructive Criticism Doesn’t Actually Exist! Only People Who Know a Lot About Animation Can Criticize My Show!”

#23: “The Miraculous Ladybug Movie May Give You What You Want, but My Show Gives You What You Actually Need! You Don’t Work in Television, so You Wouldn’t Understand.”

Other Stuff Astruc Has Said Online

The Time He Said His Team Had Better Character Designers Than Pixar

The Time He Criticized Wonder Woman 1984 for Things That Can Easily Be Applied to Miraculous Ladybug

The Time He Said He Based Marinette’s Parents off Himself and One of His Former Girlfriends

The Time He Acted Like His Show Was Morally Complex While Condemning One of His Characters As Pure Evil

The Time He Compared an “Antagonist” to Donald Trump (Yes, Seriously)

The Time He Blatantly Admitted Every Episode Has To Have Marinette Make a Mistake and Not Any of the Other Characters

The Time He Claimed Fans Were in Denial for Not Viewing One of His Characters the Exact Same Way He Viewed Her

The Time He Insulted Fans for Not Caring About One of His Characters Even Though He Barely Gave Her Any Focus or Development

The Time He Implied His Self-Insert in One Episode Was a Way To Make Fun of Himself and Not an Attempt To Get More Sympathy From Viewers Outside of the Show

The Time He Dismissed Fanfiction As “Not Real Writing”

The Time He Hinted a Character Was on the Autism Spectrum Without Actually Saying Who It Was or Even Bothering To Do an Episode About It

The Time He Heavily Implied the Character He Has an Irrational Hatred for Is a Complete Idiot Just to Give Her Another Bad Character Trait

The Time He Said Having an Obsessive Crush on Someone Counts as a Personality Trait

The Time He Compared Fans of One of His Characters To Abuse Apologists (OBVIOUS TRIGGER WARNING FOR DISCUSSIONS OF ABUSE HERE)

The Time He Yelled at People Online for Three Straight Days Because They Liked One of His Characters That He Hated

The Time He Dismissed the Dynamic of Opposites Attracting As Toxic Without Realizing That’s Literally What the Appeal of the Main Couple in His Show Is

The Time He Continued To Yell at People for Liking One of His Characters He Doesn’t Like While Implying She Isn’t the Victim of a Troubled Childhood and Should Be Treated as Evil Incarnate

The Time He Cited the Works of a French Psychologist To Explain Why a Character Is So Evil While Saying It Doesn’t Apply to Her Sister

The Time He Said He Wasn’t Racist Because Some of the Main Heroes in His Show Were People of Color

The Time He Said One Character’s Less Than Noble Actions Could Be Excused Because It Was His Superhero Alter Ego Doing It While Saying That Logic Didn’t Excuse What the Main Villain Does

The Time He Blamed a Character for Causing the Apocalyse Just for Giving Someone a Hat

The Time He Said That His Show Always Has To Revolve Around Romance

The Time He Blamed Two Characters of Color Having Whiter Skin in Their Hero Forms on an Animation Error

The Time He Acted as an Expert on the Climate Change Debate

The Time He Called Fans “Toxic” for Misinterpreting One of His Tweets About a Character While Clarifying It Wasn’t What They Thought It Was (Trigger Warning for Discussions of Incest)

The Time He Shot Down a Fanfic Writer’s Idea To Give a Character a Different Miraculous Because of “Symbolism”

The Time He Said the Main Villain Can’t Try Any of His Plans Again Because They All Failed Once (Ignoring Someone in the Show Was Akumatized 72 Times)

The Time He Claimed Every Akuma Victim Isn’t Brainwashed

The Time He Blamed Adrien for Being Uncomfortable When His Girlfriend Was Violating His Personal Space

The Time He Downplayed Marinette’s Obsession With Adrien

The Time He Ignored How Overpowered He Made a Single Miraculous

The Time He Claimed His Show Was More Popular Than Pokemon

IOTA Reviews (In Chronological Order)

Season 4

#1: Truth

#2: Lies

#3: Gang of Secrets

#4: Mr. Pigeon 72

#5: Psycomedian

#6: Furious Fu

#7: Sole Crusher

#8: Queen Banana

#9: Gabriel Agreste

#10: Mega Leech

#11: Guiltrip

#12: Crocoduel

#13: Optigami

#14: Sentibubbler

#15: Glaciator 2

#16: Hack-San

#17: Rocketear

#18: Wishmaker

#19: Simpleman

#20: Qilin

#21: Dearest Family

#22: Ephemeral

#23: Kuro Neko

#24: Penalteam

#25: Risk

#26: Strikeback

Miraculous Ladybug Season 4 – An Overview

Every Episode of Miraculous Ladybug Season 4 Ranked

Season 5

#1: Evolution

#2: Multiplication

#3: Destruction

#4: Jubilation

#5: Illusion

#6: Determination

#7: Passion

#8: Reunion

#9: Elation

#10/#11: Transmission and Deflagration (The Kwamis’ Choice)

#12: Perfection

#13: Migration

#14: Derision

#15: Intuition

#16: Protection

#17: Adoration

#18: Emotion

#19: Pretension

#20/#21: Revelation and Confrontation

#22/#23: Collusion and Revolution

#24: Representation

#25/#26: Conformation and Re-Creation (The Final Day)

#27: Action

Character Analyses

Master Fu: Master of Failure (200 Follower Special)

Lila Rossi: I’d Say She’s a Good Villain, but Then I’d Be Lying (300 Follower Special)

Gabriel Agreste: Interesting Villain, Horrible Character (400 Follower Special)

Other Miraculous-Related Musings

(Accidental 150 Follower Special) IOTA’s Top 10 Worst Episodes of Miraculous Ladybug (Part 1)

(Accidental 150 Follower Special) IOTA’s Top 10 Worst Episodes of Miraculous Ladybug (Part 2)

(Accidental 150 Follower Special) IOTA’s Top 10 Best (and By That, I Mean Personal Favorite) Episodes of Miraculous Ladybug

IOTA Reviews: Miraculous World: New York - United HeroeZ

What exactly makes “Chameleon” such a controversial episode in the fandom?

The Love Square - How Did It Lose Support In the Fandom? (Late 1000 Follower Special)

The Temp Heroes - Why They’re Not Exactly the Justice League (Late 1500 Follower Special)

IOTA Reviews: Miraculous World: Shanghai - The Legend of Lady Dragon (Late 2000 Follower Special)

Hope Morphin Q&A

#immaturity of thomas astruc #thomas astruc #thomas astruc salt #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug salt

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