#Fan Colored Glasses

[fancoloredglasses]

M-M-M-Max Head-Head-Head-Headroom

(Thanks to Keltik Danger)

[All images are owned by Lorimar-Telepictures. Please don’t sue or cancel me]

First, a bit of history...

In the early 80s, a sub-genre of science fiction known as “cyberpunk” was created. The overall theme of the genre was a dystopian future where corporations have more authority than the government (why does that sound eerily familiar?). Most of the more popular source material includes a world where all computers are connected via a nebulous network known as “cyberspace” (OK, this is getting a bit too close to home...) where artificially intelligent entities evolve and potentially begin to take over (Now hang on a minute!). Most stories revolve around a street-level “hero” struggling against the status quo to try to give some power back to the little guys.

Over the next few years, it started becoming more mainstream, including the films Blade Runner and The Terminator.

Which brings us to this review...after a bit of backstory.

The British network Channel Four wanted to create a music video show starring the first-ever “computer-generated host” known as Max Headroom (played by Matt Frewer, who would later play Moloch in Watchmen), but first they had to explain where this entity came from. So they produced a TV movie called Max Headroom, 20 Minuted Into the Future, where Frewer played Edison Carter, a reporter who was comatose after running his motorcycle into a sign labelled “max. headoom 2.3 meters” (in the UK, the use “maximum headroom” as opposed to “maximum height” in the US) The network uploaded his brainwave patterns in an attempt to gain whatever information Edison nearly died to obtain, and those brainwaves created...

Max Headroom (whose program glitches frequently, making his seem like he has a stutter and, despite being the intellectual property of whatever network created him, is very anti-establishment, often insulting the very sponsors who pay for his continued existence. Ironically, his image was heavily merchandised and he was the spokes-being for “New Coke” (nowadays known as “Coke II”)

After The Max Headroom Show was cancelled in the UK, US producers were eager to bring the concept to an American audience. However, instead of Max being a DJ, the producers decided to create a series around the concept of 20 Minutes Into the Future.

Max Headroom is set, naturally...

It is a world where there are a huge number of television stations, all vying for as big a slice of the rating pie as possible, keeping the masses as entertained so they stay docile (Now hang on!) while buying things their sponsors pay big money to advertise.

Frewer returns as Edison Carter, an investigative reporter for “Network 23″. Edison exposes social injustice on a daily basis on the Network 23 news, as well as his own show. His reports uncover a great deal and make many powerful entities nervous...yes Network 23 refuses to silence him (No, Network 23 isn’t morally better than the others; Edison’s broadcasts bring huge ratings (and huge ad dollars) so they give him a lot of leeway) Edison is constantly going out into the field to get his reports only armed with his video camera (and not even a cameraman for backup) In the pilot episode, Edison pissed off the wrong people and ran into a certain sign while escaping, which led to the chain of events that created Max.

Edison’s handler is Theora Jones (played by Amanda Pays, who would later play Tina McGee in the 90s version on The Flash.

Edison’s producer is Murray (not sure if that’s his first or last name), played by Jeffrey Tambor, who played the Director of the BPRD in Hellboy. Murray is constantly pushing Edison to get to the bottom of whatever story he’s chasing while trying to keep the Network execs off of Edison.

Speaking of Network execs...

The Chairman of the Network is Ben Cheviot. Unlike the rest of the Board, Cheviot tries to do the right thing, but ratings (and profits) are still a priority for him.

Bryce Lynch is a prodigy who is the head of R&D for Network 23 and the person responsible for creating Max after Edison’s accident.

The show tackles subject matter that is a cross between pure science fiction (advertisements that could make viewers explode) and totally plausible (terrorist organizations selling exclusive broadcast contracts to TV networks) to relevant even today (TV editing content to fit their narrative...

(Thanks to BRND MYR)

As always, if you would like to see an episode reviewed, please let me know!

#Max Headroom #matt frewer #network 23 #cyberpunk #Fan Colored Glasses

[cappycodeart]

🎶🎹CHILL IT OUT TAKE IT SLOW THEN YOU ROCK OUT THE SHOW🎵🎹

wow I can’t stand this guy I was happy when he died he was such an annoying egocentric jerk and a pain to deal with, anyways //draws him a bazillion more times

#adventure time #atimers #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #winter king #fionna and cake spoilers #at spoilers #spoilers #fan art #digital art #flat color #2023 #I haven’t stopped doodling him since the episode dropped I’m so angry #maybe I’ll get around to posting more #he might be dead but he’s still very alive in my heart (unfortunately) #it’s kinda funny how much he looks like ice king without his glasses and shoved in the robe #but that seems obvious tbh

[lulu2992]

I don’t know what the story is or why I ended up improvising a new coloring technique as I went, but I had fun drawing this :)

#I saw the scene in my brain and wanted to see it with my eyes too #my deputy #taylor rook #the deputy #still her but also not really I guess #this isn’t part of 'that fic I’ll never write' #john seed #look I drew his glasses for once #john seed x deputy #my art #fan art #traditional art #digital coloring #drawn in june 2023 #I need to post art because I now have 4 new drawings (this one not included)! #far cry 5 #story: 'I don’t know I just felt like drawing this'

[glasswarproject]

“Elegy for the End” from Genshin Impact

This was the first recreation I ever made in my stained glass journey 🦦🏹✨💕

#stained glass #dnd weapons #fantasy weapons #genshin impact #genshin fanart #genshin oc #genshin venti #fantasy #fantasycore #dnd art #genshin cosplay #genshin prompts #stainedwindow #color palette #queer artist #queer artwork #art #artists on tumblr #fan art #artwork #anime art #genshin spoilers #venti the bard #genshin impact venti

[umbrenshadowart]

Scourge colour palette challenge!! I really like how he turned out

#umbren shadow #fan art #digital art #my art #scourge #scourge the hedgehog #archie sonic #archie #sonic the hedgehog #color pallet #purple #super scourge #yeah I forgot his glasses

[croissantk]

So please listen clearly I love you dearly !!!!

#big fan of music. the way i am the music listener #the colors i picked from the first glass beach album cover art . btw #glass beach #glass beach band #croissart

[spacerockband]

top 10 nona quotes to eat sand to

#ntn #nona the ninth fanart #nona the ninth spoilers #tlt #the locked tomb spoilers #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #tlt paul #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #john gaius #art tag #fan art #prince kiriona gaia #kiriona #amending this to say i missed BOTH nona And pauls haircut. in my defense i was reading very very quickly. next time ill draw them. #drawing pal with glasses but the lens poked out is a purposeful choice though bc i dont feel like coloring eyes each time i draw cam pal #and it makes me laugh

[unforth]

Since I've seen several posts floating around that try to rebut the points of @end-otw-racism by saying that AO3 is too big to moderate, can we PLEASE take a moment and remember that AO3 IS ALREADY HEAVILY MODERATED.

We all know the obvious one - that if you post anything about monetizing fic, you will be moderated into oblivion. We also all know why! This is essential to AO3's survival as a non-profit! No one would propose changing this!

But a lot of people seem to forget that AO3 is moderated in other ways! For a personal example, several years ago I got a "change this or we're removing your work" e-mail. The work in question? A collection of pseudo-ficlets that were somewhere between outlines and sketchy fics. What I got moderated for? I said in the a/n that if anyone wanted to expand my kinda-outliney nonsense into fully fleshed out stories, they were welcome to do so! I was told this was a violation of the ToS, because fics that are collections of prompts aren't allowed, and that if I didn't change the a/n I'd have to delete the work. Of course I edited the a/n, and my work was allowed, and I moved on. I did, immediately, delete another work I'd posted, which WAS literally sets of prompts I'd written free to a good home. It was clearly in violation of those rules, and I just hadn't realized content like that wasn't allowed.

Numerous things are forbidden on AO3 and will get moderated and potentially deleted, including:

advertising

"find a fic" posts

spam

plagiarized works

virus spreading

doxxing

actual CSAM

lots of other stuff as listed in the tos

If the foundation of your argument is "AO3 is too big to moderate" your argument is bad. AO3 is already moderated.

So that means your ACTUAL argument is "I think AO3 is moderated enough as-is and I don't think AO3 should be moderated in a way that might better protect fans of color."

Having that attitude despite the many, many, MANY fans of colors who say "hey, we don't feel safe here, can this be better moderated to protect us?" (when, by the way, the existing harassment policy SHOULD protect them but clearly isn't being implemented in ways that actually DOES protect them!)

Well. That's sure a take.

(TO BE CLEAR: I am anti-censorship. I am pro-moderation. I am pro-AO3. I fucking love your dark fic, your underage works, your non-con stories, your kinky pwp with "no redeeming qualities," your dirty-wrong-bad ego fics. I would NEVER want a solution that removed that content. And I believe AO3 is the greatest thing to happen to fic in my lifetime and I want it to continue to be the wonderful thing it is. I think that what AO3 already is can be reconciled with the demands of fans of color that they be better protected. I believe fans of color when they say that the current policies don't protect them adequately, that they don't feel safe, that this drives them out of white western fandom. I've listened a lot, and I've seen a lot, and I've learned a lot, and I want AO3 to be better than it is in this regard. I'm honestly kinda depressed how many people seem comfortable with the status quo.)

#unforth rambles #racism #end racism in the otw #end otw racism #the specific post i saw made me so angry it's taken me the better part of a week to cool down enough to speak coherently about it #way to write a HUGE post that all starts from a very false premise #well two false premises actually #the first is that the end otw racism movement is calling for content to be deleted #which it's not literally no one is saying read billions of words of fanfic to protect fans of color #that's an absurd thing to say and everyone involved knows it's absurd so nice straw man #but even more fundamental than that HELLO THERE IS ALREADY HEAVY MODERATION #enforce the rules that are ALREADY THERE #BE MORE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING #these are not unreasonable requests #i'm really starting to think some people can't be bothered to actually read what's being asked for #and are instead seeing what they want to see there #and to be clear i also am surely reading the text with rose-colored glasses #i don't want to see yes we mean deletion yes we mean removal #i personally want a solution that's both as anti-censorship as possible and also is pro moderation and protects people #so that's the lens I read things through #but I KNOW the lens I'm reading it through and I KNOW that lens may be coloring my interpretations #have you taken a moment to take off your glasses and see how they might be coloring your own intepretations #because maybe you should

[thesoulspulse]

I have a weakness for stained glass designs so of course when I saw @ecto-stone shared a bunch of lineart/coloring pages I had to make a fan color of it! Credit goes to them for the original version of this incredible artwork!

Lineart: https://www.tumblr.com/ecto-stone/703406261615607808/free-coloring-page-of-my-old-pieces-that-no-one?source=share

#danny phantom #ecto-stone #hachi doodle #fan coloring #vlad plasmius #stained glass #stained glass window #thesoulspulse #thesoul'spulse #the souls pulse #the soul's pulse #I couldn't resist #coloring page #lineart #base used

[cr-arnival]

#yugioh #ygo #miho nosaka #anzu mazaki #tea gardner #yugioh girls are cool. teehee #uhh. #eyestrain warning #bright colors #ask to tag further! #i rise from the dead to bring you: a completely different fandom #anyways hello miho nosaka fans how are we feeling tonight #also an anzu bc her hair is fun to draw and i love when she gets all fired up #what if miho had colorful browline glasses. that'd be beat i think #my head hurts #crarnival art

[laugtherhyena]

Despite having really bad eyesight Beni only got her glasses when she was around 12-13 years old, so for basically her whole childhood she was tripping over and bumping into things, hence why the bandaids on her kid design.

#they're in front of a counter or some in the first sketch it's not super clear without colors #but i didn't feel like coloring these. i think they look nicer like this #anyways Beni didn't want to wear glasses at first but when she did got themshe got used to it almost immediately #she's definitely slept with them on a few times out of being so used to wearing glasses that she forgot to take them off before bed #Benitsuru Ando #Akira Tomori Hatano #Oc #Fankid #fan character #dra #danganronpa another #sketch #doodle #hyena scribbles

[fancoloredglasses]

Voltron (two very different series with the same name set in the same universe? That's not gonna be confusing!)

[All images are owned by Toei Animation and World Events Productions. Please don’t sue me.]

As I mentioned before, my first exposure to anime (or, as I called it back then, “Japanimation”) was Star Blazers and an anthology series called Force Five (again, if anyone finds any footage of this series online, please let me know!)

However, years later I was exposed to another anime series that is likely to be more familiar to everyone.

[NOTE: As with Star Blazers, I am covering the American version of the series rather than the original Japanese, though there’s one difference between the two I’ll briefly mention when it comes up]

(Thanks to Peacock Kids)

(Yes, the narrator is none other than Peter Cullen, who is the voice of Optimus Prime. Nice to know Voltron has the support of the Autobots!)

Voltron (AKA Voltron III, Voltron of the Far Universe,or Lion Force Voltron) tell the story of a team of five Space Explorers who travel to a planet known as Arus to assist the government against an alien invasion. The five are entrusted to reawaken the planet’s primary defense: Voltron (why didn’t they have Voltron online before the invasion?)

(Thanks to Al Kennon)

…a squadron of giant robot lions which…well, we’ll get to that in a bit.

The leader of the team (henceforth called the Voltron Force) is Kieth, who pilots the Black Lion.

Keith’s second in command is Lance, who pilots the Red Lion.

Sven pilots the Blue Lion…until he’s hospitalized by an enemy agent (here’s the one difference I'm discussing: in the Japanese version “Sven” (I’m not looking up his Japanese name) is killed in the attack (obviously we couldn’t have the kids see someone die!). However, his twin brother appears late in the series; the American version has Sven make a return after his recovery) to be replaced by…

…Princess Allura, ruler of Arus.

Pidge pilots the Green Lion

Hunk pilots the Yellow Lion.

The Voltron Force defends Arus against the forces of…

King Zarkon

Aided by the witch Haggar, who creates giant monsters (called Robeasts) to send against the Voltron Force.

Zarkon’s son Lotor commands Zarkon’s armies and has a bit of a crush on Allura, determined to take her for his bride.

The battles are pretty much the same: The Lions attack the Robreast Of The Week, but are overmatched until…

(Thanks again to Peacock Kids)

After that, the fight’s a bit more even until Voltron finally creates its Blazing Sword weapon and slices the Robeast in half (why doesn’t it start with that?)

However, Voltron isn’t the only Defender of the Universe!

(Thanks to T. Winters)

The Galaxy Alliance is overcrowded and it’s up to the Space Explorers of the S.S. Explorer (really original name, guys!) to find new planets to colonize. This inevitable puts them at odds with the Drule Empire (it’s never officially stated if King Zarkon is part of the empire, but Drule’s giant monsters are also called Robeasts)

Like the Lion Force Voltron, this version of Voltron (AKA Voltron I, Voltron of the Near Universe,or Vehicle Team Voltron; there was supposed to be a third Voltron series, but negotiations between Toei (the animation studio that produced the original manga) and World Events (the American company that converted the series into Voltron fell through), the team consisted of smaller vessels that combined to form Voltron. Unlike Lion Force, the vessels were three squads of fighters that specialized in either air, land, or undersea combat.

(Thanks to reminators)

As many of you are aware (mainly due to the fact that NO ONE remembers the Vehicle Team series), the Lion Force became the most popular of the two, and their story has been retold at least twice.

As always, if you would like to see an episode reviewed, please let me know!

#voltron #lion force #vehicle team #anime #Fan Colored Glasses

[cappycodeart]

Fiiiiiiiine alright I'll stop holding hostage my piles and piles of simon doodles aughgh...

#adventure time #atimers #ice king #simon petrikov #fan art #digital art #flat color #2023 #this is my way of bracing myself to watch him go through The Horrors™️ again #I'm scared :') he’s so important to me #becomes exclusively a simon+ice king fan artist until F&C drops /j #ignore the fact I switch between both glasses colors I like both #how can a dude be so silly and so sad at the same time y’all

[ramenwithbroccoli]

finally introducing the other character who also occupies a part of my brain:

Meet Giewont!

while the creator of it, Maria Leszczyńska, originally intended to make a war machine, she struggled a lot with finding resources then. however, with her and her family's life deeply affected by both world wars, the idea never left her mind. inspired by utopian idea of glass houses from a novel "the spring to come" ¹, she created her machine from glass. it would be cheap to make, yet durable, available as help to those in need, able to do hard work in times when it was needed - but if fragile peace was in danger again, it could fight alongside other soldiers. as if to set that role of protector in stone, she named it Giewont ². to test her creation, she gifed it to her brother Andrzej, who owned a small farm near the seaside.

Giewont worked as much as four men, not needing to be paid or fed like people would. it was a perfect solution for everybody, the new industrial revolution. that was, until about half a year into her work, glass started to shatter. it turned out not to be as durable as the utopian story made it to be, especially in contact with rough farm tools. small cracks also started to appear after they worked outside in winter, with low temperatures on the outside and hot steam circulating inside. with her fingers and edges getting sharper every day, Giewont was forbidden from taking care of animals anymore, as she would injure them. she was given the only task with no way to injure others - they recieved a showel fully made from metal and was ordered to dig. she did as she was told, even though the work put strain on her already-falling-apart fingers.

but when one day, when returning home, she noticed daughter of Andrzej, Aniela, swimming too far away from the shore and having trouble coming back, long forgotten wire snapped into its place as she jumped into the water to save her. while Giewont did bring her back home, carrying her in their arms, the girl had severe cuts on her body from coming in contact with robot's sharp hands. furious with his sister creation, Andrzej took it outside, desperate to destroy it. blinded by anger, he didn't even notice the storm gathering over the horizon

Andrzej took the metal showel and struck Giewont on the side on their head, then again, until her body fell and crumbled to pieces. He covered it with sand and raised his hands to deal the final blow.

that's when the lightning struck.

and the man fell to the ground, dead.

the sand melted from the heat around Giewont, filling the empty spaces and connecting the pieces back together. raising from their shallow grave, with body more rigid than what she was used to, she took her shovel and decided to bury the man, with what respect they had left for him. that was, after she dealt the final blow herself.

although miraculous, the lightning didn't return her to the previous state of being. their motions were stiff and some parts of theirs got lost forever among the sands of the beach. the part of her head where the first blow was dealt never worked properly again, rendering Giewont deaf in one ear (or whatever was left from it). however it did some good as well, as it widened the space around her mouth, finally making them able to talk - even if it was simillar to a whistle. determined to help people but with a body that kept hurting everyone around her, Giewont set off into the world, trying to find a home and piece herself together, leaving parts herself and a dead body behind.

footnotes below the cut:

1. "During one pause in their journey, the elder Baryka tells Cezary of an entrepreneur who, along Poland’s Baltic coast, devised an ingenious method for manufacturing durable glass from the vast reserves of pristine sands that had lain for eons beneath coastal peat fields. By a massive Rube Goldberg-type arrangement of channels and a creative method for harnessing the westerly winds (the storytelling here is a literary engineering feat in itself), an incursion of the sea provides power for converting the extracted sand into glass. From this vitreous wonder substance, prefabricated houses of glass are built inexpensively. The houses are strong as steel, hygienic, and easy to heat in winter and keep cool in summer. Whole villages are built with houses of brightly colored glass. Life becomes less of a struggle for mere existence, more civilized, and without the need to toil incessantly. People eat less meat or no meat at all, and begin to revere farm animals as sacred beings. For the reader, the digression serves to freshen the mental palate. For Cezary, however, the story is altogether beguiling, raising the utopian prospect of a more wonderful life, reunited with a homeland that might have been his to begin with and a father he has just rediscovered" - via neh.gov

wow thanks for skimming through footnotes as well! as a reward, here's the first ever design of both Janka and Giewont (which proves they were both created around the same time :] )

2. "Those knights had been in a deep sleep for hundreds of years and they only would wake up if it is time to fight on a great battle. When this day comes, the earth will move, there will be thunders that would shake the sky, many trees will fall and break, and there would be noises when the Border Mountains will break. On that moment the knights will take their horses and they will gallop to fight for Poland once again." - the legend of the sleeping knights

a lot had changed since that time :]

#i hope it wasn't too long :') #sorry if tge drawings vary in between them i kind of drew them in way different times #AND BTW i know all of them have cracks but yellow cracks were supposed to apper after they got almost killed #i just never did the drawing of original giewont. huh #me when i try nkt to give my oc a backstory the lenght of do you love the colors of the sky post -> 😰😰 #OH AND ALSO she doesn't have to be purple. thats just what i went with because of my pens but. shes glass #they can be blue. they can be green. they can be yellow or rainbow or whatever. she can be see through. so if i draw her again and the colo #is different don't yell at me alright? the cracks stay yellow tho #spg fanbot #<- i mean. technically it is the same case as with janka but im even less sure now. can remive the tag at request #oc #original character #giewont spg #<- gotta remember to put spg there or mountain fans of tumblr will come for my blood #welcome to the family giewont :D

[creamecream]

Beach Bo 🌸

Bonus a few beach BoLambs/BoChops! 🔪🌸

#these are oldish but I just had an idea for bo’s swimsuit once upon a time #and thus I drew her in it along with lambchop #the first one was the last I drew and just meant to show off the glasses when actually wearing them #it’s six in the morning I’m going to bed excuse me #fawkes and ruuuby are off playing in the water together bo is stuck with lambchop #I would have drawn fawkes and ruuuby but I couldn’t figure out a swimsuit for ruuuby especially one without color #sweet no death #lambchop #fan character #bo #wip

[at-weeb96]

Still working on new artwork so here's my old (2020) Obsidian fanart from when it aired and before I started my digital artworks

#adventure time #fan art #fan art throwback #traditional art #colored pencil art #obsidian #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #marceline #marceline abadeer #marceline the vampire queen #bubbline #glass boy #see through princess #STP #let's hope fionna and cake jumpstarts this fandom again like obsidian did for my fan art to branch out #and come out of my shell and interact with you awesome tumblrites #especially teethcritter #lobsterlover #jagm #and sometipsygnogstalgic #y'all are the best #thank you