#lotta what i draw is me bullshitting stuff. idk what i’m doing ever

[sonic-adventure-3]

MAKING REFS IS SO HARD. I wanna maybe maybe maybe (no promises) actually participate in artfight for the first time but I don’t have any good refs for literally any of my ocs. sonic or not. And i’ve got 5 days. And i don’t think i’ve made a ref sheet literally ever… augh

Whats like the minimum necessary/preferred reference poses? Front, 3/4ths, side, back? I could probably get away with no head-on front with humans right. Sonic ocs probably not though. Its so hard figuring out what angles are necessary to provide reference for so designs are understandable to anyone except me. Also hellish trying to come up with like, base/neutral/literal/canon colours, i only deal in approximates and don’t use the same colours more than twice. Red is red and also anywhere between orange and pink and grey in different contexts. Sometimes i fuck even with relative values if it looks nice. idfk what colours my ocs are devoid of any and all context. also why the fuck did i make my ocs with so many tiny stupid details. getting their likeness is easy, barely takes a minute, but getting them on model takes foreverrrr. i’m so sleepy i need to go to bed

#i can probably sketch four sets of four angles if i don’t get too caught up on posing. i did them really REALLY rough already #but cleanup plus line and/or colour? if a miracle happens maybe #rambles #i feel like half the notes on ths refs would be ‘literally don’t even bother drawing this detail’ #lotta what i draw is me bullshitting stuff. idk what i’m doing ever #goddamn you can tell i’m tired #oc posting #kinda. ehatevr #and yeah i know i don’t actually have to have full ref sheets done by the first i can upload them whenever into july #and i can upload other art of them as good enough ref #but if i don’t do it this specific way i’ll die

[antiloreolympus]

8 Anti LO Asks

1. It doesn’t really make sense for a long term comic such as LO to have such a drastic change in the artstyle, and even more you can’t really call it an improvement when all the interesting parts of the art style are now gone and all that it is now it’s just some basic same-face and body art style with barely any backgrounds. RS is incredibly talented for illustrative artwork and it’s really a shame she’s not doing that anymore and instead has left it to her team, with leaving them very messy sketches. The artstyle in the beginning had life and glamour and now it’s just very dull and boring. That’s not an improvement

2. I genuinely can’t think of any man in LO that’s even half way decent. Poseidon maybe? Hephaestus? Those are the only two I can manage, meanwhile the rest are either Rachel purposely ruining them because of her own biases (Zeus, Apollo, Thanatos to an extent) or are “good” men who are just creeps who disrespect all the women around them and are super creepy and obsessed over a literal teenager who acts like a child (Hades, Ares, Hermee, Eros, etc). The women aren’t much better either. 

3. About Perse making Hades childish: (this is no way defending him, just some speculation, and tbh I doubt that RS has thought this through haha) I wonder if he becomes a horny teenager around her because she’s a goddess of fertility? Would that have any affect on him? Doesn’t excuse his creepy ass behavior, but could explain it a bit, I guess?

4. Okay so I'll be honest I dont really see any reason to 'simp' over Any of the LO characters?

Also, not to start sh*t, but - I think part of the reason why some of the LO fandom does not like Zeus (and perhaps gives Hera more leeway - at least in terms of cheating) is because:

Mythologically Zeus is a known cheater / rapist (Io for example, or Semele)

They see Hera cheating a Zeus as okay (its not) because he's been known to cheat on her in the past / fans see Hera cheating on Zeus with Hades as 'justified revenge' for what he's (Zeus) put her through

I'll be honest I dont really see Zeus (or Hades for that matter) as good rulers because

Despite other deities (like Eros) doing 'acts of wrath' - they get away with it because they often have someone to back them up (like Aphrodite offering to sleep with Zeus to get her son out of trouble) - but the one time Persephone does something wrong (an act of wrath) - Zeus wants to give her the Prometheus treatment - mainly so he can feel like an in control king whos subjects respect him

The reason this sound so odd is because of RS writing choices. Zeus is a grade A d*ck who is willing to destroy a 'young girls promising career' because she made 1 mistake that one time. But at the same time the act of wrath is framed oddly because Demeter doesn't want her daughter to get in trouble so she covers it up (its like the equivalent of hiding a murder from the cops).

Zeus wanting to Prometheus Kore seems overly harsh because she is a Child. (Well a teenager) - so it adds to the "Zeus is a d*ck" card, because she doesnt have the life experience to "get away with" stuff like the other deities because she is young AND sheltered.

Like again, the whole concept of Human Laws applying to Gods is so confusing:

Would Zeus have been this harsh if Demeter had simply come forward in the first place about Persephone's murder rampage? Why did she blackmail / get other deities involved to cover it up? Is Zeus THAT much of a d*ck in Demeters eyes that she knows he would harshly punish a child for something "she didnt mean to do" (killed mortals based on a feeling?)

Why is there a motherf*cking trial in the first place? Do All the other deities get the right to a fair trial or is this a special case? (Like can any deity just offer to sleep with Zeus and he'll let them off the hook?). If the other deities had commited the same crime would the trial / punishment be the same or does Zeus just have a rage boner because he was lied to? If thats the case then why are the other deities taking Persephones side during the trial? (Ares I can maybe understand cause hes the God of War and stuff but everyone else is taking Perse's side because their either her personal friend or family member (Hecate, Hermes, Demeter, Hades etc).

Why are there certain laws like "Zeus cant get to Persephone because she has clemency in the underworld" but other deities - including Leto, Demeter and others (like Perse's nymph family) can just stroll into Hades house? Why is Hermes still on house arrest? Why are Hades + Persephone throwing a house party when shes on trial for scythe crimes??!!!

Why are the gods bound by such petty squabbles?

The way RS set up the governing "laws" in universe just doesnt make a whole lotta sense. Also, sorry this got ramblely.  

5. Tbh i don’t think that Hades acting differently when he’s with Persephone is a bad thing, as a concept. But there are many issues with this such as the fact that Persephone is barely legal and Hades act like an actual child around her. Obviously when you’re with someone they are going to act different than they do when they are at work. The problem is that Hades essentially goes from the “cold-scary king” to a 17 year old hormonal boy when he’s with Persephone. And him making out with her in a middle of a store or them golfing with diamonds or him making out with Persephone again in front of his workplace is not exactly acceptable behaviour from a king. If Hades acts all lovey-dovey with Persephone when their at their home together it’s different, but when they’re at a public place they can’t really do that. I would say that he has to keep a status about him but from what we’ve seen all the citizens of the underworld hate him and don’t respect him at all, from yelling at him to actually fighting with him, so idk how much status there is actually attached to him 

6. I swear, the majority of the “cute” HxP moments in LO just seem like a single father dealing with his hyperactive 8 year old over the supposed future intimidating rulers who Rachel is obsessed about talking and drawing their sex life. Is it really that hard to depict Persephone even acting like a smart teenager at the very least, as opposed to an airhead grade schooler? It doesn’t scream cute to me, it seems more like a father/daughter relationship. It’s just weird. 

7. i mean, i have a LO oc who's persephone's brother (fertility god) between demeter and zeus. dude got thrown into tartyrus to cover up the affair and now serves cronus. he was the god of summer, and my reasoning was demeter's seasons/harvest + summer thunderstorms. wrote a whole minific i will never post about him and persephone realizing everyone around them are assholes and healing together. so the mistress-of-zeus oc isnt that weird.

8. I’m not a Zeus stan by any means, but I do find him one of the most interesting characters, and one that RS has, in her attempts to make him be the worst ever to make Hades look better, actually way more interesting and compelling than the majority of the cast. He doesn’t lie or whine to the audience he’s some good person like Hades when he’s not, he owns that he’s a dick and doesn’t bullshit the audience into thinking he’s someone he’s not. RS tries to show us he’s a “bad” king, yet we see no proof it beyond what, he wants to uphold the law P broke and doesnt kiss Hades’ butt? That’s not a bad king, it’s a good one that he doesn’t let family ties or lust cloud his judgement, unlike Hades or Hera, for example. I don’t condone his cheating either, but it’s not fair to hate him for it, but love it that Hades cheated on Minthe so he could get into a teenager’s skirt and praise Hera for sleeping with her brother in law while punishing Zeus’ mistresses because she’s being a fake “loyal” wife. Just because he’s a deeply flawed, even a bad person doesn’t make him a bad character. Hades and Hera and even Persephone are awful people who do worse than Zeus, yet they’re loved and praised for it, all while being written with the depth of a puddle. 

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #lo critical

[flaming-ramen]

Pyromania MeeMee

Hot: What do you look like? How old are you? Describe yourself in detail.

I'm 14, approaching 15. I'm short, scrawny, and pale. I've got this short and choppy brown hair with random mixes of red/black in it from genes, y'know. I've got light brown eyes that some have described as bronze, orange, amber, etc. I have "sharp" features (i.e. a tapered nose, chin, knotted eyebrows) and many freckles along my arms. I wear baggy boy's clothes so I can appear bigger bc I'm actually a really small person. I've got orange, rectangular glasses, and am never seen without some kind of baseball cap

Flame: What is your relationship status?

Single. Dumped just a few months ago.

Matches: What is your gender, sexuality and/or pronouns?

I'm a cis gender female, hetero (straight) I guess. I can go by she/her but they/them is also accepted I suppose. Lmao I know I'm boring

Firefighter: Describe your perfect partner or significant other.

Somebody solid that I can trust in. Able to cope with my OCD ass lmao. Someone that's willing to offer me tons of affection and reassurance and snaccs when I need it, cause I get to be a sooky binch sometimes. Maybe a person that likes memes and video games too. They gotta be willing to put up with my nerdy rambling pffft

Fire: What is it about fire do you like best?

It can't be held down. You can control it, to some extent, but the instant you let your guard down... Bam. Wildfire. It can be humanity's greatest bringer of life, or it can be total destruction. It can be warm and cozy, or raging. It's always changing.

Pyro: Do you consider yourself a pyromaniac? If not what then is your relationship with fire?

Sure, guess you could think of me as a pyromaniac. I love fire, and burning stuff for fun. Gotta feel the burn lmao.

Explosion: How intelligent would you say you are?

Fuckinuhhh idk. I'm usually in all these advanced classes and shit, I've gotten a few awards for my academic accomplishments. I know I recently took an IQ test that set me to a level of 129, but idk if it's bullshit or not

Burn: Has anyone ever hurt you? Tell me about it.

I guess my mother is pretty abusive/neglecting. She blows up on me for the smallest shit. I know I'm often running around to do stuff for her, but she's ungrateful for a lot of it. She's hit me before, verbally lashed out plenty of times. I know I've been ignored before so she could hang with her pals; she has substance abuse issues too which makes matters worse.

Lighter: What is your preferred method of ignition? What do you use to light your fires?

Matches and lighters are both guud for small things, but you'll need a blowtorch or flamethrower for something bigger. I like the last method

Embers: What is your aesthetic, or favourite kind of aesthetic?

Hmmm, I like neon city aesthetics. A lot. Something urban or nostalgic, with a colourful glow. Yeaaa

Bonfire: What is your biggest pet peeve?

Someone accusing me of shit I didn't do. That sets me off.

Wildfire: Do you have any talents like singing or such?

I suppose I can draw alright, I play piano sometimes.

Forest Fire: What is your opinion on smoking?

Don't much approve, depends on the type of smoking tho. My mother smokes cigarettes and it's fucced up my breathing

Flamethrower: Masochistic, sadistic, both or neither?

Sadistic, to some extent. If the person deserves punishment then it's all guud.

Gasoline: What is your favorite song, or most recently listened to song?

I've been listening to "Sober Up" by AJR a lot. I like the songs by Imagine Dragons a lot tooooo

Petrol: What is your favorite movie, or most recently watched movie?

Either The Lion King or Pet Detective

Burning Buildings:  What is your favorite TV show, or most recently watched TV show?

I like watching a lotta Scooby Doo ">//> Monk, The Mentalist, Psyche, Rizzoli and Isles, Rookie Blue, Burn Notice, White Collar, are all things I watched a lot. I used to watch a lot of crime shows when we still had a teli

Fahrenheit 451 (Burning Paper):  What is your favorite novel, or most recently read book?

Fuckinuhhh... Logan's Run is noice. I used to love the Animorphs series (Logan, you'd love it too lmao)

Sparks: What is your star sign, Chinese zodiac, blood type and/or personality type from the 16 personalities (Myers-briggs).

I'm a Libra, and a goat lmao. I'm not sure about my blood type, but my Myers-Briggs is INTJ (Introvert, Intuition, Thinking, Judging)

House Fire: Favorite social media?

Does Tumblr count? Idk. I don't use much else.

Wrow, I know you haven't had much motivation to do stuff lately, but in case you wanna I'll tag you buddy @hypnodelic