#Look ma! A background!

[liccy]

So @seekingseven had another amazing Writer's Appreciation event, and i was so happy to have been able to draw something for @sister-dear! Their writing made me visualize this story so beautifully, from the mood, to the expressions... EVERYTHING! I definitely encourage you all to check it out!

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lufanart #giftart #Writer's Appreciation 23 #lu hyrule #lu twilight #Look ma! A background! #Seriously though #this little chapter was so fun! #Sister's works are just so creative and visual and fun to picture in my head!

[the-shotce-newsletter]

Finished the MW3 Fix-It I started back in November!! They all have a nice long weekend in the snow as our man recovers, Gaz has spiked hot chocolate, Soap Atholl Brose and Price some sleep. Ghost just needs his Johnny. Yes that’s a wee Laswell and her wife in the background.

The idea for atholl brose cocktail and cranachan I got from this incredible fic, a def Must Read about Johnny trying to find his feet again after being medically discharged with the help of his crazy but loving family. The ANGST, but also soft feels and the awkward but passionate ghostsoap? Delicious. I had a fic hangover. The Scotty dog tat Simon has is a ref to several fics I sadly don’t recall the names of.

#ghostsoap #task force 141 #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #captain john price #kate laswell #Kate Laswell’s wife #modern warfare #domestic fluff #johnny soap mactavish #fic art #my art #neil ellice #johnny mactavish #john mactavish #simon riley #samuel roukin #elliot knight #barry sloane #kyle garrick #john price #call of duty #modern warfare 3 #look ma i tried to draw a background #fix it #tf 141

[sleepsucks]

#23.12.22 #3209 #family situation not as bad as this may make it look tbh dw its fine really #it does just feel slightly off & superficial tho. eh itiswhatitis #ma #pa #thats my mom in the background of 3rd panel btw not me. i shouldnt have made her look so similar to me #spot the lack of horns i guess

[whoisnotmyname]

Warden and Barkspawn 80% of the time at camp (they’re recharging after dealing with an unnecessary amount of shem drama)

#warden #warden mahariel #dao #dragon age origins #dragon age #lyna mahariel #mahairel #marabi #barkspawn #my art #art #POV: ur talking to the warden but she's been checked out for the past 2 hours #look ma i did a background

[steelsartcorner]

Drawing of the Day: Carja-Clothed Kotaloy

Practicing colors to prep for finishing a way overdue commission; here’s the update to this WIP post

#horizon forbidden west #kotaloy #aloy despite the nora #kotallo #shippy stuff #look ma I finished something #did I phone in the background #yes #am I done with it anyway #also yes #went to meridian for the renewed embassy reasons #kissed at sunset also for reasons #my art

[batmanfruitloops]

How would Jervis react if he had a wererabbit as a henchman, cuz I have a oc drawing of a wererabbit character, but I’m also asking in curiosity

So long as they're polite and enjoy tea parties, Jervis wouldn't mind having a wererabbit for a henchman.

-Sarsee

#batmanfruitloops #anewgothamau #batman #dc #batman villains #dc fanart #batman rogues #gotham rogues #dc mad hatter #jervis tetch #sars babbles #answers #look ma a background spawned

[inquisitor-apologist]

Just rewatched aotc and honestly I’m in awe of how good the aliens looked especially in comparison to 2023 Star Wars aliens

#like there was clearly EFFORT put into the kaminoans they did look alien #and the detail on the geonosians was actually incredible #even background characters like Shaak Ti or Mas Amedda look good #and then in 2023 Hera Syndulla looks like her face is made of plastic Ahsoka has no montrals Thrawn looks like A Guy painted blue #god the maximum profit minimum people minimum risk business model really kills artistic expression #George Lucas’s stuff wasn’t always good but you could tell that it was made with love and care and effort every bit of it #it used cutting edge cgi that honestly isn’t even that bad today especially when compared to modern stuff and the costuming was great #and the cinematography wasn’t MCU washed out default shit #god im sorry prequels can we go back #star wars #sw aotc #aotc #star wars attack of the clones #attack of the clones

[crownedcrowws]

-:East Is Up?:- (art by me)

#clique art #twenty one pilots #twenty one pilots clique #digital aritst #tyler joseph #i love them so much #trash dragon #scaled and icy #look ma I drew a dragon and a background #josh dun

[doshi-sukiru]

uhhhhhhhhh yea

so I made progress-

does the poem I made make sense with the picture? no, not at all.

is it staying there? absolutely

Mordecai Heller, you are a powerful man if you're fighting Macaque for the "character to fill my head 24/7" spot and I don't like it. Good job.

#lackadaisy #mordecai #mordecai heller #mordecai lackadaisy #art #look ma I made progress #now let's draw Nicodeme/j #too soon for that #for now I'll indulge in this #by god if the background was ever uglier #ink if you see this #you better not eat it whole #leave some for your siblings smh

[liliallowed]

you son of a

#abstract art #beach? #this ma background i made in five minutes without any plan or motive #random color sploches i call art #idk it looks nice on accident lol

[cave-monkey]

I'm watching Monkey King 2009, and I know a bit of what happens to Six Ears later so I can't help but look at things through that lens, specifically the ways the FFM troop are a hot mess in a way that's actually kind of interesting and addressed in the show (to the extent a kid's show generally touches on those things). Like! The fact it's only the second episode and the troop is now two-for-two throwing Six Ears to the wolves at the first available opportunity! I decided to look back on what happened the last time they did this and go ahead and outline the thoughts I was having on it because, apparently(!), this was not a one-off! And I was not overreacting!

The very first fight scene in the series in Episode 1. Analysis, go!

Specifically, the part where a child is the one facing down the leader of the enemy warband, a combatant who already mowed through the advances of two experienced, trained adults with minimal effort, and the show...actually kind of goes a semi-realistic route with it?

Six Ears starts off strong and confident. He's basically an adult, his king put him up to this, of course he can handle it! He won't let him down!

And he does a pretty good job! It's very kid's show fun and punchy.

But then the Demon King of Havoc - an adult, a trained fighter, a blooded fighter - starts buckling down. And Six Ears slips up. And then he keeps slipping up.

It's not fun anymore. Six Ears is in way over his head and he knows it. So you get this (honestly kind of heartstring-tugging) shot of him glancing away while the Demon King approaches to look for his mentor and idol for help or guidance or something. He's a kid, he's scared now, and he wants his grandfather.

...and finds him asleep.

Now in most media I'd expect this to either be the mentor-figure feigning indifference or carelessness to encourage their pupil to handle the problem themselves (and implying in the process that they never doubted their pupil's ability to handle it - that they were never in actual danger), or this would just be building tension before the seemingly-oblivious mentor-figure suddenly intervenes at the critical moment.

But, of course, Six Ears isn't the actual protagonist, and that's not what happens. Six Ears looks to his king for help, finds none, and that's it. The Demon King of Havoc goes in for the kill and all Six Ears can do is run.

And he does, and he runs and runs and runs, farther and farther from his troop and anyone who can help because apparently no one was paying attention to the kid who was taking on the leader of the entire opposing force by himself, and he barely stays ahead of the sword, the trees the Demon King sends crashing down on him, and he's blatantly not able to do anything more than survive moment to moment.

And then he can't run anymore.

And the Old Monkey King doesn't show up. We find out he was never going to show up.

We get a shot of the Old Monkey King slowly waking up way back in the camp well after this scene, in response to Stone Monkey's hatching. (He also stands bolt right up, which is probably meant to be in shock at the giant stone rocketing into the sky wreathed in universe energy but I also like to think might also have been a "Where the FUCK is my KID" just so I can imagine someone was concerned about Six Ears during all this.)

Like, I cannot emphasize enough, Six Ears would be dead if Stone Monkey hadn't been hatching at this exact moment. An energy burst from the hatching blinds the Demon King long enough for Six Ears to bolt and start the chase again. That's what saves him. And then again when Six Ears manages to get the egg between him and a blow from the Demon King's sword.

Considering how eager the generals are to throw Six Ears to Stone Monkey when they're still convinced he's a legitimate danger in literally just the next episode, presumably just days after all this went down, and I...sort of think they were fully aware Six Ears was likely going to die to the Demon King. While I hesitate to say they didn't care at all, they showed in Episode 2 pretty clearly that they definitely cared way less about a child of their troop's likely death than they did about saving their own skins. Not enough to back him up, not enough to go after him when he's forced to flee, not enough to take on the fight in his place.

Which is tremendously messed up all on it's own, but it gets worse because these generals are all for treating him like a young kid when it's convenient for them. They see him as a child! But they're just as quick to throw him under the bus of adulthood as soon as that's convenient for them. Whatever requires the least effort from them, that's what they want him to be.

Seriously, who the hell is taking care of this kid? Because at this point it sure seems like the Old Monkey King - who is very old and very tired and whose body is blatantly failing him - is stuck not only trying to keep his troop in something vaguely resembling working order and secure them as much as possible for his imminent death no one but him seems concerned with, but is also somehow expected to be the primary (if not sole) caregiver of a young child. Something he can't be. Like, geez, guys. Let the man wither away in peace without piling on him more fraying threads of the things he can't possibly tie up properly before he goes, thanks!

Not to mention how this would blatantly conflict with the Old Monkey King's need to have a successor as soon as possible, since the most eligible adults in his troop are, apparently, all lazy cowards who are entirely unsuitable. He brings it up like two or three times in the first episode alone, so this is clearly something that's stressing him out, and his best option is still a boy. Meaning Old Monkey King is in a position of having to desperately (but trying not to show that he's desperate) push Six Ears to grow up just a little faster because he doesn't know how much longer he has left. There's just not a lot of room for him to just let Six Ears be a kid, in those circumstances. He needs a king. He needs Six Ears to make decisions and lead and take risks, even if the ones he's taking are far beyond the sort of things that should be on a kid's shoulders. He can't be his mentor and his grandfather and his king. No one person can be all three of those. Something is going to give. And so the Old Monkey King makes his mistakes. He piles too much on Six Ears too soon. He expects too much of him too soon. He nearly gets Six Ears killed in the first episode. (He accidentally leaves Six Ears vulnerable in the future to adults who want to use him.)

It's a fascinating little set-up. Obviously not really addressed in the show, since it's for kids and framed from a kid's perspective, which is also sort of genius? I'm thinking of the second episode where the generals are more than willing to dump Six Ears on the sacrificial alter, even physically carrying him out the door, an adult on each arm, like he might wise up and get scared and run (and if he did, like they wouldn't let him), and all Six Ears does is laugh. He's a kid. We've all been kids who think some of the most messed up things are perfectly normal simply because you don't have anything to compare it to. This is just the generals being the generals, obviously. They're so silly :)

But adults were writing this show, and I can't imagine an adult writing this not knowing exactly what they were doing. Especially knowing what happens to Six Ears.

Anyway, long story short: I want to fight the generals with my bare hands. I do not want to fight the Old Monkey King with my bare hands, but I do want to give him a long, disappointed glare over his cups that I feel like he would understand perfectly.

Also, someone needs to wrap Six Ears up in a burrito blanket and stuff him in a pillow fort with Stone Monkey where nothing can hurt them. That would be nice.

#images under cut #mhw09 personal #if this had a structure it went out the window real fast it's just me yelling about things at some point #okay look I guess I just had a lot to say after just two episodes. that's what blogs are for. (right? right. right.) #not even getting INTO how they talk about Stone Monkey #okay actually let's just not allow these guys around young teens at all. they can't be trusted. #you know what old monkey king how about you just point at one of the random background NPC monkeys we see hanging around and make THEM #your successor? #come on now #you're desperate and it's gotta be better than the literal child you are lovingly handcrafting SEVERAL major complexes for as we speak #and while we're on this topic how about you point to four random ones and make them your new Generals! #I mean sure the fact Ma Beng Liu and Ba are the Marshals/Generals probably means the others are somehow LESS competent or able #(maybe a cultivation level thing?) #but come on #actually I'm wondering if the Generals' lack of care for Six Ears comes from a similar place as their #fear and aversion to Stone Monkey #Six Ears is pretty blatantly noooot really a monkey “like them” either? #so wherever he came from I wonder if they had just as strong objections about HIM at some point #obviously they'd be mostly over them by now but...I dunno man #I wonder if they think of him less as a monkey kid and more as their king's weird alien pet project #oh! almost forgot! episode 2! the fact they off-handedly say they'll at least be hiding nearby in case Six Ears needs help #but uh...a whole-ass imp attacks him and they are nowhere to be found. Surprise surprise. #ugh they're the worst #they better get kicked into shape and grow better as people or they better get buried istg #that's a bit extreme #I mean it though #or at least replaced all right we'll go with 'get better or get kicked'

[the-shotce-newsletter]

If the 141 were in Mass Effect, you know everyone single one of them would be an N7. In the Systems Alliance for Earth in Mass Effect that’s the most elite, top tier, badass rank you can get. Ghost having a pet- *cough* trained varren was @starlightvld ‘s idea. Boo has adopted Soap until Shepard’ been set loose (though you know Price would totally break them out). Instead of calling them muppets, Price calls them all pyjaks (space monkey) because he was a krogan in another life.

As I doodled and tried to figure out their classes, I had this idea of Price starting a task force of N7s to help Shepard in the war against the reapers.

#task force 141 #ghostsoap #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #kyle gaz garrick #captain john price #miniature giant space hamster #space hamster #kate laswell #neil ellice #samuel roukin #elliot knight #barry sloane #n7 #n7 day #call of duty #modern warfare #my art #look ma i tried to draw a background #lazy ass background ftw #ghoap #johnny soap mactavish #johnny mactavish #soap mactavish #simon riley #mass effect #holy xovers batman #soap in a kilt #Kyle Garrick #john price

[cannibal-rat]

Ghoul Hideaway

#Fire Ghoul #sodomizer #Nameless Ghouls #The Band Ghost #ghost band #ghost bc #ghost fanart #Ghoul fanart #digital art #look ma' I drew a background #and foreground

[loodness]

No one tell him his sarong's coming off 🤫🏖️

#Loodness #LoodChris #fruitsona #oc #anthro #pineapple #fruit #furry art #s-sir ur bobbies #LOOK MA I DREW A BACKGROUND

[munamania]

orchid and jasmin :)

orchid ⇢ what’s a song you consider to be perfect?

literally made a playlist called 'songs that are perfect' and the only things i put on there are fast car and lover you should have come over so. real. i would maybe throw im on fire in the mix bc that instrumental is brazy. would also consider rabbit heart (raise it up) and/or cassandra by f+tm

jasmine ⇢ do you have a movie or book you loved but will never watch/read again?

lol i think i answered this with dps which isn't true i'll rewatch it at some point... um idk im so prone to rewatching and rereading i cant even think of anything else

#asks #woohoo i love answering things. hey look ma i made it is playing in the background rn though im gonna kill someone

[coralsgrimes]

CORALLLL IM CACKLING. HE POSTED A SALE ON HIS MERCH.

On one hand I feel bad because he was pushing the EP so hard. And then on the other hand I don’t feeeeeel bad at all.

UNMISSABLE OFFER MUFFINS! take it while it's hot x.x how much signed cd will be????? will it be a fresh signature or last years from that limited edition signed pile???? idk BUT MUFFINS if ye are REAL fans!!! help Benny pay his NY expenses!

Probably wanna make space for new merch. New era or something, he basically tiny scale TSwift right?

#sorry not sorry #ye know what i feel? #we about to witness benny boy t-mobile cinematic universe #soooooooo lemmme guess #he WAY WAY misjudged how much merch his fangirls gonna buy? #soooo now he has it all stashed under his lil bed cuz he has no idea what the fuck to do with it? #cuz obvi no one buys #ye know what? #i feel like more peeps would take loans to buy it if it looked better #and not like...... well...... this? #cuz it looks like wish version of actual merch ngl #ma da's over two decades old metallica tee is laughing in the background #thanks muffin #🥔🥔