this close to ending up on the news istfg I'm so overwhelmed with everything and I just realized I misread a project I've been doing for weeks that sets me back and I have a presentation and so much is happening and I feel like I'm hitting gifted kid burnout on top of general burnout and I can't even do 3 tasks a day becwyse of issues nobody wants to believe I have and. God. I want to rest let me rest let me rest please it's only February I want to fucking die
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Okay stream over and as such no one is safe anymore from my RGGJoposting (sorry in advance), HOWEVER I did want to say...
Of course Mine Himself At Present is the furthest thing from punk, but I believe the reason he has that belt is a nod to Nakamura, who is credited with bringing punk influences to the kabuki scene. (This particular photo was taken years after Y3, but...)
By the way, Nakamura is how I found out there's a lot of stigma against sons of kabuki actors who choose to play roles of a different gender than their fathers. He comes from an established line of onnagata, so it was a big deal for him to choose to play male roles.
Arakawa was a taishu engeki actor rather than a kabuki actor, which is less steeped in tradition than kabuki, so I don't know if it would've been the same for him doing the opposite to Nakamura. But it's Neat to think of it as a concerted choice for him in terms of feeling that strong of a connection to femininity.
oh fuck yeah punk in the kabuki world WORD UP TO THE LEGEND.....
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Your art is amazing and I could stare at it all day! But I'm curious about your Ocs, specifically Jacque and Sloane.
Did you change anything about them? Like appearance or storyline?
Thank you so much!
The issue with Sloane and Jacque is that they never really had an established setting or storyline to begin with, and it has given me a lot of headaches over the years when it comes to actually doing something with them and develop them into more than just vague personality concepts. The sketches from last month is me trying to actually give them a setting and story to inhabit for once lmao.
I didn't use to actually write shit for my characters, but my friends have enabled me and I'm now suffering from trying to write actual characters and story. This has been most successful with Otto and Siskin, my tiefling oc's, and Jacque and Sloane to a lesser degree. To claim that they have an actual storyline is a bit of a stretch still, but I've established a more concrete dynamic and aesthetic for them that are both pretty different from what little I had for them to begin with.
In my recent re-hashing of them, the two of them meet as Sloane is taken as a prisoner of war after some sort of ~ambiguous magical disaster~ with her at its center. Jacque is a commanding officer of the opposing side, who for seemingly very selfish reasons offers Sloane protection in exchange for her service.
It's a fantasy setting with a magic system centered around promise, oaths and their binding power. Sloane is an anomaly, someone who's made a desparate choice that she's paying dearly for, and Jacque is someone with quite a bit of power, but not as much as she would like, who's trying to overturn the shape of the conflict they're in.
Their dynamic is tense with a spicy power imbalance. Sloane has wings because it's sexy. That's the basic framework I've got.
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on a less posi note i got another call from my doctors office saying 'oh can u come in today or tomorrow for ur labs? u had one done 3 months ago and u RLY need to get this checked/compared to that one!!' and its like. i talked to a nurse on the phone abt that appointment LAST WEEK!! (it was supposed to be this last monday) telling her that my insurance got cancelled and i absolutely had to cancel that appointment bc i cant pay for the 1. walk in fees without any copay 2. and the labs pay on top of that. the fact they called me again abt it rly did kinda upset me its like. i Know You Think I Need This But It Feels Like You Just Want Money. and did not listen to me the first time we talked abt this, last week!!! and making it sound so Urgent AFTER i said i cant afford it just freaked me out like They Have In Their Files that I have anxiety so Why Did they DO That. After I said I Cannot Come! and i felt rly embarrassed over the whole thing having to be like 'ya i cant afford it' even tho ik thats a reality for a lot of ppl besides myself yk. lol (': basically the Mood today is fuck the american health care system (hint: that is the Mood everyday)
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