yay! I drew these quite literally three years ago. dragonheart!milo and raihan! a knight on a doomed dragon hunt being lifted out of his station by a small village medicine man. together they become magic lawyers and overthrow the government
the main details in these do survive into the iterations I’ve drawn (instead of these actual designs I spent time to make el oh el): the “leaf” diamond quilt/gambeson and the plaited coattail for milo, the “atypical” weapons, long coat, and large number of scattered fake gold trims and accessories for raihan. I think I lost raihan the hat and added a cape for milo further down the line because like this their general silhouettes are too similar for my liking lol
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First Fanart Post of 2024
Copying this post:
Which was based on this screenshot:
Now go follow @kohrokke bc their art is so good I'm dying
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OK
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This was originally going to be a shit post bc I saw a comic panel (idfk what comic it was from or if it was just fan made) and I had an urge to draw Noir in a 1930's Evening Gown for shits and giggles and totally not project but then it turned into a serious study of this one dress I found and I was like
"Damn. I'm spending wayyy too much time on this goddamn"
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not to talk about dune on main but like. lisan al-gaib became an instant meme in the theater i was at. like great acting amazing music (thank you hans zimmer you're a real one) phenomenal photography and setting and fight choreography
but stilgar's LISAN AL-GAIB in every circumstance possible was so funny it made the whole theater erupt into laughter directly after the fight with feyd-rautha which is supposed to be like. poignant ig and powerful and an overall vibe
y'all hit the wrong vibe besties 😭😭
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Good adaptations aren't scene by scene, line by line reenactments of a book. It's a completely different medium, that the creators can use to tell the story a different way. Besides budget issues (just writing a scene where a bunch of crazy stuff happens costs about $0, while portraying it on screen is a different matter), the pacing/flow is different in live action stuff than books.
The SPIRIT of the adaptation is what matters. The original PJO movies weren't bad because Annabeth's hair was brown or they didn't say the dialogue straight from the book or dare I argue, because they mixed in elements from further in the series. Rather, it was bad because the vibe was simply far too edgy. Percy was sassy, it did have humor, monsters were fine, but it fell flat on its face because it didn't understand its characters, its world, or its TONE. THE TONE. It was genuinely awful.
Good adaptations expand on the source material without losing the charm of the original. They understand what makes characters tick and what's at the core of the journey, its not about aesthetics or being faithful to the point of being dull and having nothing new to say.
The PJO series is doing that. Having Rick involved probably helped a lot. It has a rocky start, in my opinion. But from the second half of ep. 2 and into ep. 3, I see it gaining its footing.
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Gael García Bernal photographed by Matt Winkelmeyer @ the BAFTA Tea Party 2024
"The nature of doing theater, of interpretation, in itself creates a world where anyone can be anything. Whatever mask you put on you can tell something that has a lot of truth and it doesn’t matter who’s behind the mask. Therefore, you start to deconstruct gender as well. […] The theater is a tender place to explore your sexuality. Growing up, I felt like I could explore whatever." (x)
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sooo against everyone's advice i watched oz: the great and powerful, and tbh it was on par with harem anime (unlikeable protag who gets all girls who have little going on except being into unlikeable protag).
it made me sad what they did to wicked witch of the west and glinda :( witch of the east ate as usual but it reminds me why i never go full evil with nessa, although it might seem cunty at first, and it's because it removes depth. there was no love between any of these women and even the conflict felt superficial, and all the chichéness felt really against the spirit of 1939 oz / the original books. also i get now why no one has done a wicked au of this - nothing falls in place lmao (maybe this movie was actively trying to differentiate itself from wicked).
the only thing i agree with the movie (hope i don't get hate for this, its not the worst thing i've posted on my blog) is that i would also make the wizard/oscar attractive in my version. i'm sorry but this is the only way i can make myself like *this specific character* (this requirement doesn't apply to the others), and i want to like everyone in wicked. here is my tentative design (+ elphie and nessa because i felt like it, nessa is trying on evanora's outfit). soon i'll also post my design of frexspar, younger and old age (as in the books), melena (whom i don't want to look identical to nessarose bc i dislike that trope), the lion, and with that i think i'd have covered all the main musical characters.
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a petty complaint but still: to the various posts i’ve seen about how Aragorn disrespects Lúthien by summing up her entire life and legacy as “she died” - that’s movie Aragorn. book Aragorn sings his nine-stanza song about Beren and Lúthien, gives a quick history lesson of the First Age, credits Lúthien with rescuing Beren from Sauron, explains how they successfully stole a Silmaril together, and then how Beren dies and she follows him and gets him back, before they both die. and then he explains how her heritage lives on! like slander book Aragorn for the things he actually does, if you want, but not for giving Lúthien short shrift in his story. that’s on the movies
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