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#dishonored #daud #delilah copperspoon #YEAHHHHAHAHHHH #*incoherent zoidberg-ish noises* #funnily enough i found this daud on pinterest (uncredited. fuck pinterest) the other week #and scuttled into one of the dishonored servers and asked for help finding the artist #hiaen helped me out thank you hiaen <3 #but i dont have a twitter account to reach out about how much i love this daud!! #so thank you OP this is beautifully done and a Peak Daud. to me #AND DELILAH. there's a DELILAH. @nekonron get in here its your wife #this feels like a distinctly dishonored 1 delilah which i am loving. shes beautiful. shes everything #man. this daud. his eyes make me insane. not only the red of his scarred eye #but also the wolfish reflection in the bloodied eye #you don't need to snarl to be frightening

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delilah’s hair is hell to draw. miss girl you’re GORGEOUS but what’s with your hairstyle

#dishonored #delilah copperspoon #hey anyone else up thinking about the history of short hair on women and how its tied to like class and race and political statements #and its interesting in a way the assumptions we make about people who are bald #it felt like a really good fit for the witches in dh2 to have some of them be bald #counterculture sure but also very practical for karnaca's weather #it could have been easy to just grunge up existing NPC haircuts and slap those on but they didnt #which is really cool #compared with dh1s brigmore witches who seemed to parody the rich mostly #not that there wasn't brigmore throwbacks in the conservatory stylewise #but they could have kept greater consistency between Brigmore DLC and dh2 and chose not to #but it added a lot really #like it made the witches feel more realistic more karnacan #rather than a fringe group who live in brigmore

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“For some time, Hollywood has marketed family entertainment according to a two-pronged strategy, with cute stuff and kinetic motion for the kids and sly pop-cultural references and tame double entendres for mom and dad. Miyazaki has no interest in such trickery, or in the alternative method, most successfully deployed in Pixar features like Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Inside/Out, of blending silliness with sentimentality.”

“Most films made for children are flashy adventure-comedies. Structurally and tonally, they feel almost exactly like blockbusters made for adults, scrubbed of any potentially offensive material. They aren’t so much made for children as they’re made to be not not for children. It’s perhaps telling that the genre is generally called “Family,” rather than “Children’s.” The films are designed to be pleasing to a broad, age-diverse audience, but they’re not necessarily specially made for young minds.”

“My Neighbor Totoro, on the other hand, is a genuine children’s film, attuned to child psychology. Satsuki and Mei move and speak like children: they run and romp, giggle and yell. The sibling dynamic is sensitively rendered: Satsuki is eager to impress her parents but sometimes succumbs to silliness, while Mei is Satsuki’s shadow and echo (with an independent streak). But perhaps most uniquely, My Neighbor Totoro follows children’s goals and concerns. Its protagonists aren’t given a mission or a call to adventure - in the absence of a larger drama, they create their own, as children in stable environments do. They play.”

“Consider the sequence just before Mei first encounters Totoro. Satsuki has left for school, and Dad is working from home, so Mei dons a hat and a shoulder bag and tells her father that she’s “off to run some errands” - The film is hers for the next ten minutes, with very little dialogue. She’s seized by ideas, and then abandons them; her goals switch from moment to moment. First she wants to play “flower shop” with her dad, but then she becomes distracted by a pool full of tadpoles. Then, of course, she needs a bucket to catch tadpoles in - but the bucket has a hole in it. And on it goes, but we’re never bored, because Mei is never bored.”

“[…] You can only ride a ride so many times before the thrill wears off. But a child can never exhaust the possibilities of a park or a neighborhood or a forest, and Totoro exists in this mode. The film is made up of travel and transit and exploration, set against lush, evocative landscapes that seem to extend far beyond the frame. We enter the film driving along a dirt road past houses and rice paddies; we follow Mei as she clambers through a thicket and into the forest; we walk home from school with the girls, ducking into a shrine to take shelter from the rain; we run past endless green fields with Satsuki as she searches for Mei. The psychic center of Totoro’s world is an impossibly giant camphor tree covered in moss. The girls climb over it, bow to it as a forest-guardian, and at one point fly high above it, with the help of Totoro. Much like Totoro himself, the tree is enormous and initially intimidating, but ultimately a source of shelter and inspiration.”

“My Neighbor Totoro has a story, but it’s the kind of story that a child might make up, or that a parent might tell as a bedtime story, prodded along by the refrain, “And then what happened?” This kind of whimsicality is actually baked into Miyazaki’s process: he begins animating his films before they’re fully written. Totoro has chase scenes and fantastical creatures, but these are flights of fancy rooted in a familiar world. A big part of being a kid is watching and waiting, and Miyazaki understands this. When Mei catches a glimpse of a small Totoro running under her house, she crouches down and stares into the gap, waiting. Miyazaki holds on this image: we wait with her. Magical things happen, but most of life happens in between those things—and there is a kind of gentle magic, for a child, in seeing those in-betweens brought to life truthfully on screen.”

A.O. Scott and Lauren Wilford on “My Neighbor Totoro”, 2017.  

#try to do ghibli style art even tho it's a disney/pixar “content” “franchise” world #that's what I reckon #prioritise sincerity and empathy and immersion and heart #over wisecracks and twee oversimplifications #wherever possible #it's respectful to the reader/watcher/enjoyer to try to go on a journey together #however humble. though that's hard to pull off #there doesn't need to be a grand journey for life to be good #and i think there's too much stock put into specific (western) storytelling structures #which would be healthier for everyone to move away from and enjoy play and imagination again

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Anyway, I'm still obsessed with stud!Billie Lurk.

#dishonored #billie lurk #RIGHT. RIGHT!! #so in love with this

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I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

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Dishonored by Kevin Spoonfish Lee Broberg

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #corvo attano #kevin spoonfish lee broberg

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humansider by @lapinneok

#dishonored #the outsider #death of the outsider #humansider #AU in which he takes up art :) #kind of interesting to consider him to go from someone who is removed from the tales he's narrating #to switching to a more immediate hands on style of communication now that living is more like that. you know? #last year i started work on a post-doto fic #its a coming of age for two people who are far older than the usual 'coming of age' protags. for different reasons. #billie and humansider are figuring out their lives now that everything has changed. featuring some cute corvosider #and billie x emily. who are even more complicated than usual. god help us. #i've been distracted by a jessamine is a literal ghost AU which is more experimental in terms of style and hopefully hard-hitting #but i can only selfishly keep a comm to myself for so long. so please enjoy <3 #the colours & lighting in this are absolutely beautiful #my commissions

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Lurk

#billie lurk #dishonored #leona florianova billie lurk art!! thank god I saw this the day is saved!! #obsessed with her expression in the first img. that's the talking to daud face that is #something about women in bulky bandoliers that aren't meant to be flattering #but are #love your style as always!

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#emily kaldwin #jindosh #dishonored 2 #ohhh this is so cute! jindosh like a rat in his own walls. in spite of what he calls you from the comfort of his desk

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As an enjoyer of bad things happening in fiction as Bad Things I sometimes find myself in the really odd position of thinking. Well I don't SHIP it but I can see where you're getting that idea from. That would be fucked up and narratively interesting. It would fit the themes. What do you mean domestic fluff with these two

#my goal is to spin characters off each other like beyblades #want to see them spin out of control. maybe break a little. become something else but also peel back the layers of why they are like that #im only interested in an everything is fine AU if it's a Process TM to make it fine. you know? hard won. cathartic. an Arc. #ambiguity and big stories and hypocrisies and human nature. that stuff. eating it #need Themes like cooking needs seasoning

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sure

#daud #daud dishonored 2012 #cults as macguffins bother me - when there's a cult but they could be replaced by any bad guy group with the same effect #i dislike when cults are held up as like this thing that happens to other people #or are sort of portrayed as like an extremist thing that 'normal people' would never join #if your cult is bad you can show that without cariacaturising it #see i love the whalers #and i know I dunk on daud all the time (i love you daud never change/please change) #but to me the whalers are a MUCH better example of a cult than much of arkanes recent stuff #primarily because other than ticking the BITE boxes they seem to flag very rarely as cults to fans #which is fucking brilliant in a way. you are not immune. as is realistic! #follow this handsome confident guy who will give you powers if you are fit and willing to put yourself on the line for him. #do not expect him to explain his ways and choices to you. die for your brothers. die for your master #other gangs are thugs that don't know real power like we do. the rest of the empire is dangerous. #you can only trust other whalers. #you will do things for daud that will make you unacceptable company to all others #an assassin is calm and willing to die. are you a real assassin #no one has ever doubted daud before. there's no need to. until. until... #cults can add a lot I'm sure but if you're labelling it a cult in universe you're probably writing it wrong 9 times outta 10 #cultists as mobs are.... ough to me. ymmv of course but there's a big difference between a mercenary #and someone who has been manipulated. hi doto. hi. yeah. what's the deal. #yeah yeah it's a game whatever but similar to how Abuser isn't a personality type but a behaviour pattern #what does it say that we slap this label on this type of mob and never interrogate it #like who is the bad guy then? when we're mowing these people down with no repercussions? #it's just not the quality of thought that id expect from dh #dishonored #pres writes essays in tags #cracking this essay out of drafts

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doodle of corvo, who is the most tired any man has ever been

#dishonored #corvo attano #oooh. very corvo

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it’s been so long and you’ve been through so much

#been working on a thing that is both daud and jessamine centric #cannot be normal about jessamine atm #ok the hesitation in the voiceline though #like jessamine doesn't want to insert herself more than her death already has destroyed emily's life #or worse like years in the void really has ripped away so much of jessamine. who she is. what she remembers #gravehound art 😻

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“can i be a hater for a second” girl you can kill someone in front of me and id be okay with it be fr

#daud and young billie

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some Billie and Emily for you from the previous post (tumblr doesn’t want to put a link to it, ugh). I don’t remember if we know was Billie among the whalers that kidnapped Emily in the first place or not but I think they did interact in some way during the time she was in their hands

#reblogging again #important addition to your dashboard

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the world

#dishonored #emily kaldwin #colours!!! love love love this concept and execution #always thinking about how emily went through the horrors but even when her dad was High Chaos TM #she's still drawing him in such a goofy affectionate way #I also like how clear it is she's really imaginative #making up little stories for herself to cope with the lack of agency and responsibilities #that weren't of her choosing #rat tea party 🥳 #and stabby corvo like a doll she's fond of #yeah love this you just don't see her portrayed this way much! refreshing!

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guy tries to toss a cigarette on the ground but the ground parries it and it flies back into his mouth and he solemnly continues to smoke it

#daud's relationship with dunwall. sorry.