#we dont talk about the background

[nais-doodles]

Asher Stop Jaywalking Challenge

#redacted asmr #redacted asmr asher #redacted asmr milo #redacted asher #redacted milo #redacted asmr fanart #nais doodles #we dont talk about the background #I got lazy

[thatweirdtanglednerd]

My drawing for effingvarigoweek day one:family. Varian introducing Rapunzel and Eugene to Hugo.

#effingvarigoweek #varigo #i made this instead of sleeping #its rushed and you can tell #we dont talk about the background #pride month #how do you do draw hands #first time drawing Eugene (which is why his hair looks so fukin wonky) #not my best work #CRAP I FORGOT RAPUNZEL CUT HER HAIR

[timpaxew]

The “oh,” moment in found family fics is when ‘the kid’ becomes ‘my kid’ and I stand by that

#smth smth protectivness #smth smth #listen my biggest pet peeve is when found family stuff has the adoptee call the parent 'mom' or 'dad' instead #its not realistic and its also less emotional #like you dont give the parent a new name #the Meaning of their name changes #like ive talked about this before #like probably since i was 13 and writing irondad #but like #no one calls their adopted parent mom unless they were super young or they never had that genre of parent previously #like we arent replacing their dead parents! 'dad' is a name and it is inside the coffin #i think i would die fr if i was forced to call my stepmom 'mom' #though #it does work if the kid is talking to someone else and simplifying the relationship for the story #(telling a story to friends) and my uh- my mom said #mom in question crying in the background #listen i WILL talk about this for hours

[mushroom-inks]

Spring break hasn't given me any new motivation to draw but I figured I'd try to draw master Lloyd anyways B)

I don't have any hc designs for any of the ninja yet but maybe that'll change idk 💃🕺

#lego ninjago #lego ninjago fanart #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago lloyd #ninjago #lloyd garmadon #we dont talk about the background idk what i was doing

[cocojamss]

i just thought their sideburns were funny

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #fanart #be proud of me yall i actually drew a background #ive actually been drawing them exclusively but #we dont talk about that

[gemsofthegalaxy]

Greg and Marianne are so interesting, in addition to Greg and Ewan (and the fact we somehow never got any interactions between Marianne and Ewan?). @mossiestpiglet said in the tags of a post that we don't talk about them enough, and I concur. So allow me to do so.

I really do need to re-watch the early episodes to confirm, but from my memory, Marianne says she can't give Greg money and encourages him to go to New York City to ask for a job from Logan despite having, like, $20 left when he arrives (which makes it a huge gamble to do, given how fucking expensive NYC is otherwise). And despite the fact her own father would hate this, and wants Greg to have nothing to do with Logan. I always took it to mean she was not willing to give him money, but later on Greg talks to Caroline how his mother is solvent, debt free now. And even later, he's paying for her credit cards. So perhaps she simply had none to give.

Still, I remember getting the feeling that she was tired of dealing with him in the first few episodes and I sort of think that's part of it, but I also think she just can't help him any more than she has. She probably feels like a total failure, I mean, look at her cousins in comparison. Sure, we as the audience know they are complete messes, but at least they're rich and have the freedom to do whatever the fuck they want. Marianne at the very least does not have that luxury, and I'll say more on the financial situation throughout this post.

Greg is very clingy to her early, on and I believe they're implied to still be in contact afterwards. I think Ewan says that Marianne asked him to make sure Greg ate at Thanksgiving- that means Marianne is worrying over him going hungry (and he was going hungry, he was stealing food from work and Tom made fun of him for it).

Despite one mention in the script, Greg is vaguely not in contact with his father canonically, and I take his father's marked absence (when Greg is so reliant on his mother) to mean that he was raised by a single mother (I strongly believe he would have asked for support from his father too if he was in contact with him. It doesn't make sense to me that he wouldn't.)

Many people have noted that Marianne's scenes are often held in a bedroom, and it gives her a vaguely depressed vibe, and with her alluded financial issues, it seems like she struggled, alone. Even though her own father has millions of dollars he refuses to use.

Greg, although he is taking care of his mother financially (after she was unable and seemingly less willing to do so for him), is also a brat to her despite being an adult. No more than in the scene at a funeral where he tells her to shut up. (I personally have fairly chill parents who I can get fairly angry at and we bitch at each other, so,) I don't see this as majorly out of line or horrific, but rather as portraying that they are very casual with one another and she probably did not do a great job with discipline or, arguably, boundaries.

One thing I do want to take as canon despite it only being in the scripts is Greg's post-funeral fight with Ewan, and what I want to point out is that Greg says "mom and I have been talking and We are not coming to Christmas" which is only one line, but it feels HUGE in put together with the rest of their scenes.

Here, Greg is presenting himself and his mother as a united front against Ewan, a rich man whose child was in debt severe enough to be a topic of family gatherings, and whose grandchild was in such poverty he was sleeping in a church at one point... We have almost nothing to go off with Ewan and Marianne, but, I say again: it is quite absurd to me that he was sitting on 250mil for Greg while she struggled to raise him, presumably on her own. While she clearly checks in with Ewan about Greg back in Thanksgiving (again, unless i am mistaken then oops), Greg sits between the two of them at the funeral although he is her father, not his.

I have had friends tell me that even with their limited interactions, they get a strong impression that Marianne and Greg are quite codependent with one another, and I feel like I agree; he relies heavily on her for guidance and does not want to do things alone, but also takes care of her financially and comes across as mildly defensive about her towards Caroline, at least trying to make sure the family knows she's in a better place than she used to be. And, then with Ewan, he goes out of his way to say something to feel like it's him and mom against Ewan, when he is feeling incredibly, incredibly defensive and upset at Ewan.

For one reason or another, whether it be depression or financial mismanagement (probably a combination of both that fed into each other) Greg probably has not had much stability from Marianne but seeks her out anyway. Sure, he is an adult, and you may argue that he should be able to stand on his own feet by the start of season 1, he doesn't seem to have much else support besides her- and her him, from what very little we have seen. And honestly, parenthood does not stop at 18 years old, parents in my humble opinion should be prepared to support their kids for their whole lives as best as they are able.... and from what we can tell, this very well might be the best Marianne could have offered Greg, with how little support she must have gotten from Ewan who is incredibly gruff and only interested in his own 'environmentally-friendly' agenda. I doubt he was much help if she is indeed depressed, as many have taken her to be.

I am not even sure how to wrap this up. Just- the little glimpses that we get into Greg, Marianne, and Ewan paint such a sad fucking picture to me. Single mom, obstinate grandfather, and child who tries to please both of them but still never quite measures up. Growing up poor, with a grandfather who has millions but thinks money is the root of all evil and would rather nearly starve his own family than give it to them. And Greg doesn't even seem to resent this, although Marianne might at this point; at the start of the series he genuinely wants to make a good impression on Ewan and be sweet with him still. We didn't actually get their funeral fight, either, we got Greg saying "that was a good speech grandpa", playing both sides to the bitter end, still wanting to please Ewan in what tiny way he might be able to after his show of trying to stop him speaking. Greg desperately wants love and approval from Ewan, and he seems to get some but not a ton of support from Marianne, and we have almost no way to know exactly what goes on between father and daughter with the other two but... I cannot imagine it's a strong or loving relationship.

#greg hirsch #marianne hirsch #ewan roy #succession #the way marianne is a roy and greg is not but shes just like. in the background completely #i bet her and connor would get along well T-T #long post #hope you dont mind i tagged you but you said we should talk more about marianne and i was like. youre correct #justice for the random women in the background of succession............

[arcanabananafefifofana]

#my art #birblian #julian devorak #bird julian #sad boi hours #I forget his reverse end turns him into a bird man. #we dont talk about that much #oh hey! look there's a background! that's rare!

[pendelphine]

pain and suffering. i have never drawn using actual human references before, and it was DIFFICULT.

#lifesteal smp #baconnwaffles0 #planetlord #yeah jaron #theterrain #photo from the 3ht irl stream yesterday #i just think !!! them!!! #this was originally going to have a background. um. we dont talk about that

[pianapplez]

I'm so tired of shows that absolutely ignore the source material and feel like they straight up don't understand what's important about it, just make a different show why even bother at this point.

#pjo tv crit #atla #atla netflix #pjo #Stop it!!!!! im tired!!! #yes i am talking specifically about the pjo show and the atla live action remake #atla is great! why is there even a need to make a live action show ab it when it will very obviously #take away all the suspension of belief or disbelief idk what it's called #but basically it's gonna be a lot harder to sell a world so full of magic like that when it all looks realistic bc we /know/ water #doesnt do that etc etc #especially if the costuming and the backgrounds look cheap/very cgi-ed #just leave it! dont touch it just stop!!!! #not even gonna talk about the pjo show rick just straight up lied to us lmao #and the worst part is. im not even mad that it's not book accurate bc as long as it captures the feeling and the vibes! then i dont care! #but it absolutely does not. idk what got lost in translation tbh

[mochapanda]

kabru is like one the most interesting well developed kind and sweet characters in dungeon meshi and yet every post is either him wanting to kill laios or shipping him with laios i fucking hate it here so much

#CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT HIS BACKGROUND HOW MEETING A DUNGEON LORD CHANGED HIM #PLEASE PLEASE UR NOTHING #i think itd actually be so epic to think about how hes probably the driving force behind bringing everyone together in the kingdom #itd be cool to see him interact with mithrun more post epilogue too since theyre both staying #anyway kabru going from being an expert in killing people (milsirils fault.) to being an expert in helping ppl and bringing them together. #and using ppl as a means to an end vs understanding everyones inherent worth and ability to grow and change UGH. #REFLECTING ON HIS OWN PERCEPTION OF HIMSELF AND HEALING HIS SURVIVORS GUILT #WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT IT #going insane

[willczek-art]

TOH SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 SPOILERS!

so That Look™ is an absolute hit with my brain-

#toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #toh hunter #possessed hunter #toh fanart #the owl house #sketchdump #they are from the day of the premiere #i watched it with my fabulous friends #we fought through the livestream that didnt work paw patrol the movie and finally watched the episode at like 4/5am #and then i left all of those nerds sleeping on my couch to doodle The Look™ #and all of the trauma aside mannn thats a hell of a design for an one-off battle!! #i absolutely love every aspect of it and will continue to contemplate it in an aesthetic bubble away from the context of the scene #so i dont get sad #my art #sketches #also obviously Phoenix wasnt in the last episode but i dont have the heart to erease him from this page #so he got his own little blue highlighter background and is now objecting to all of the bad things that happened to hunter c: #phoenix... magical bird... we will not talk about that #tw eyestrain #? im sorry i like to crank up saturation on these sketchdumps lately plz tell me if that bothers you and how to tag it so its not a problem #100

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

im sure when luz has her inevitable mental breakdown in the next two episodes it will be her mom or eda and king who comforts her and helps her complete her character arc where she realizes Not Everything Is Her Fault, Actually. either that or the entire main cast is going to somehow show luz that she’s been a positive influence in their lives. and luz will be inspired to defeat belos with the power of friendship or whatnot. or amity or hunter will have something to do with it, though if they’re a part of it, the rest of the main cast probably will too bc i don’t see why they would be the only ppl there at the climax of luz’s character arc and not eda, king, and camila.

but what i would have really liked would be if when luz is at her lowest point the person to encourage and inspire her was willow. they haven’t touched on these two’s relationship since season 2 so they probably won’t go this direction but i think narratively it would come circle. willow was the first friend luz ever made. she introduced her to other kids their age and basically kickstarted luz’s relationships with her other peers. without willow, luz never would have gone to hexside and learned about witch society and magic. or at least, she wouldn’t have gotten as much experience with it if she just stayed with eda all the time. without willow, luz definitely wouldn’t have met amity, gus, or even hunter probably. from their adventures with their friends, luz and willow have both matured. and while willow is doing a lot better than how she was at the start of the show (though there are still parts of her character i think they should have explored more in s2), luz is suddenly doing a lot worse.

at the start of the show, luz helped willow gain confidence in herself and discover who she wanted to be. i think at the end of the show, it would be nice if willow helped luz do the same

#toh #the owl house #shut up pandora #luz noceda #willow park #listen to me #listen #i care about their friendship so much #dana robbed us of more willow episodes in season 2 #no im not talking about the shortening im talking about s2a #i know they had to introduce like 8 new plot threads but let my girl hang out in the background please! #i didnt mention him but gus too! #willow was luz's first ever friend and gus was luz's second #theyre so important to each other and im so sad the show and the fandom dont focus on it as much as i want them to #we love a good emerald trio but what about the og hexside trio #anyway i do think that willow park

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#im watching a video about wario land music -> 'the bizarre music and sound design of wario land 4' by geno7 #good video so far! i like this guys stuff. he talked a bit about how they did some of the sound effects for warios voice #a very like. chopped and remixed sample style of doing his vocal lines. which is very cool 1) because it saves a bit of #precious space on that gba cartridge BUT ALSO 2) it just sounds cool and interesting stylistically #and man sometimes trying to keep a file size down really does give way for some really interesting stuff #on my own personal interests in games i ADORE rpg makers rtp and how people can find creative uses for it #i love that a bunch of games can draw from the same asset pool as one install on ur computer #no bloating your hardrive with a bunch of copies of the same assets - its just already here! #and from a developers perspective i love when they reuse old assets from other games in new weird ways #some small visual novel companies will reuse backgrounds and other assets #altho i dont mind a bit of bloat with VNs since a big draw can be the big pretty images and big pretty sounds #but its still cool when people find ways to get creative with space saving. and from a players perspective its also nice #space is cheap nowadays. but its not Free. we can swallow terabytes whole with micro sds and everything #but a lot of players dont get the chance or ability to upgrade their internal memory that often. so i think being considerate of filesize i #very important. and thats not even getting into the download bandwidth limits - a lot of people all across north america can only get like #internet from 1 provider and that 1 provider often likes to upcharge and limit shit because they can #we might live in a future where a lot of powerful technology exists. but access to that tech is another story #so remember the filesize. remember the filesize. #dies in your arms

[iindigoeyed]

A detail I noticed about Feast

Feast (S3E15) is a very important episode for many reasons: it gives us Fu's backstory and origins of the miracle box, it hammers home the element of emotions when creating sentibeings, it restores the Tibetan temple and causes a chain reaction that is relevant later in the series (namely with Su Han), Mayura is there... but I rewatched it recently and I noticed a detail near the end that I believe to be foreshadowing.

At the end of Feast, our heroes defeat the sentimonster by entering it and cataclysm-ing Fu's staff with the amuk in it. Once Ladybug casts her Miraculous Ladybug and returns the world to normal, the Guardian Temple reappears and we can see the news reporting on it:

As the news is reporting on the temple, a few people can be seen watching (or listening). Those would be Gabriel and Nathalie, Tomoe, Alya, and Audrey Bourgeois.

Gabriel and Nathalie makes sense. They are Hawkmoth and Mayura, after all-- and Gabriel used the peacock with Emilie to create Adrien. Tomoe again is understandable, as she is a close ally to Hawkmoth and possibly used the peacock miraculous to create Kagami (which is all but confirmed in canon at this point.) And Alya herself is the catalyst for this episode's events: she brings Marinette to the Louvre where the dormant sentimonster is, shows Marinette her findings about the guardian symbol, and publishes those findings on her Ladyblog which HM & Mayura then discover. She's also a Miraculous holder too.

Now, why is Audrey watching the news? From a meta standpoint there's no need to show her in this scene since she isn't of the same importance that the others are. Hell, Audrey wasn't even in this episode before then. Even if her daughter is a Miraculous holder, Audrey has no reason to be interested in the Temple...

...unless, of course, she has some connection to the Miraculous.

As an aside... I'm not sure exactly what this means. If Audrey used the peacock to create Chloe like many believe, surely Audrey or Andre would've fallen ill like predecessors Emilie and Colt did. You could argue that she used the peacock miraculous to create Zoe as we've never seen Zoe's dad and aren't sure he's even alive, but considering this was in season 3 before Zoe was even introduced to us I have my doubts to believe this was the intent. Or maybe there's some unseen third option that I don't know about.

Regardless, this seems like pretty obvious foreshadowing to me. Even if this ends up going nowhere it's interesting to recontextualize it knowing everything that we know now. I don't think we've seen the last of Chloe or of her family quite yet (even if the writers want us to think we have.)

#as always sorry if someone's pointed this out before. but i didn't see anyone talking about it! #granted it's a really fucking old episode and i'm New In Town #miraculous #chloe bourgeois #indiposts #inditheories #Though to be honest it wouldn't surprise me if they've given up on the whole sentibeing-chloe thing. #TBH i dont think they know what theyre doing with chloe or any of the bourgeouis-es... #it seems like they tossed zoe in there to make up for how unlikeable chloe is #and so they dont have to properly give chloe an arc #because if they did give chloe an arc ppl who dont like her would be mad #and if they DIDNT then ppl who DO like her would be mad. #it's a lose-lose scenario especially since thomas himself hates her. #So things might have changed since feast was released #and chances are this background detail is going no where. #but i thought it was a fun observation to throw out in case they end up using it. #Some other notes: I hesitate to think that there are MORE sentibeings that we dont know about. #I dont think Gabriel seems like the type to toss out his miraculous all willy-nilly. #Him lending it to Colt seemed like a one-off thing #and him lending it to Tomoe seems like an even bigger stretch but not totally implausible esp considering the circumstances #The fact that they found the peacock exactly where it was left (that is to say exactly where Fu left it) #makes me think they are the only ppl who know about it #So while i've seen other ppl say that everyone at the Diamond Dance couldve been a sentibeing #I just don't see it happening. Sorry! #And that's why I don't even really know about Zoe. #But what I find interesting is the age gap between Zoe and Chloe. #Surely they must be close in age since they're in the same grade right? #And if that's the case... how did Audrey get pregnant so close together? #Might be another reason to believe one of them is a sentibeing... or adopted LOL. #Anyway i'm done! Lmk if you remember anything important! ciao

[dhmis-autism]

SORRY. JUST REALIZED I ORIGINALLY SKETCHED THE STUFF FROM THAT LAST WIP POST IN. MARCH.

GODDDD...

#I GUESS MY WRIST FUCKING UP PUT ME FURTHER BACK THAN I THOUGHT #but also like. i was JUST talking about it in chat. i have a comic about the Three Of Them that i wrote in a frenzy in FEBUARY. #by the time i rewrote the dialogue and figured out the ending it was SEVEN FUCKING PAGES. SOLID. #OF JUST SCRIPT. #I STILL HAVENT EVEN FINISHED SKETCHING IT. YOU GUYS ARE NOT SEEING THAT SHIT UNTIL 2024 #sometimes an idea of them will grasp me and i will just write the script out in the middle of the night #I realistically. dont even know if you guys are gonna like my scripted stuff. #the first scripted thing i wrote was a yellow&duck comic that im STILL SKETCHING BACKGROUNDS ON #i could be really bad at writing for them. i could totally not get them at all. #but hey! #we'll see when we see I guess #BUT YEAH UH. SORRY FOR LITERALLY ALL I POST BEING WIPS NOWADAYS I AM JUST WORKING ON LIKE 5 DIFFERENT DRAWINGS AT ONCE #STILL TRYING TO GET MY SPRING STUFF DONE. AND ITS ALMOST FALL. SO :] #I JUST CARE SO MUCH ABT THOSE PUPPETS DAWG I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS FOR THEM #I HAVE!!! EVEN MORE DRAWINGS THAT I JUST HAVENT SHARED!!! bc i either made them for something real specific in the discord #or bc theyre phone doodles and i dont think theyre that great. or bc i made them just for a friend and thats like. theirs now kjdhkjdfhs #a lotta times once i finish drawing smth for a friend ill just never post it bft. so its just like. for that one thing and nothing else #ANYWAYS HAPPY 3 AM IM FORCING MYSELF TO GO TO BED #AND I STILL HAVE THE ANIMATIONS #AND THE FANART FOR LIKE 5 FICS I WANNA DO #OHHH GOD CMONNN BRO IM NEVER FINISHING ANYTHING #my postings

[edge-oftheworld]

5sos really did be like ‘no there’s a better story for teens who might end up in incel spaces’ and wrote try hard

#the fact that this was 10 years ago now #or more #basically they built up the whole don’t stop background with this story on the ep #and that’s kinda incredible actually for a bunch of kids #try hard #dont stop #rejects #wamf #iydk #5 seconds of summer #5sos #ashton irwin #luke hemmings #calum hood #michael clifford #tbh it does show the lack of worth they felt then but also the hope and optimism #and for that reason we need to talk about the b sides for self titled more