A Crownless Fool

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."-Stephen King.

[twnyart]

🌽

[wakethedevils]

the intro to devil may cry 4 will always be funny to me. imagine you’re attending church at the vatican, held by the pope himself, and then the actual jesus christ comes crashing through the ceiling and shoots the pope in the head

[ashesfordayz]

Vergil and Nero's relationship is still a lil rocky lmao

[t-e-e-n-a]

I let them rest a bit.

While I fight the demons of actually rendering and actually finishing a piece.

Did a little emote of Nero, recreating the pose I hit whenever I literally just look at any dmc character. (I needed it, so I can have a personalized sticker and to abuse the instagram sticker creator, a genuinely very great addition to chatting. You do not know how much I be Vergil reacting over there...)

If anyone wants to use him as their own reaction emote, you have my full permission.

[tarteggs]

we gotta save this doggone city…there’s no time for that nero………

[r4diumgirlz]

take ur kid to the temen-ni-gru day

[saintprey]

we saw the tv glow

[underscorecip]

Dante and Leon sharing a drink cuz they deserve it

[blu-aj]

You should draw more Tim :)

Have more Tim I've been working on

Also a still image version cause the quality as a gif isn't the besttt

[mylittleponyfag]

[avroditelovesthesun]

[miiilowo]

hold on i need to engineer an image that will cast 20 psychic damage on a niche group of people

[miiilowo]

how are we feelin

[dimeadoesnt]

[havingapoemwithyou]

Earl by Louis Jenkins

[a-clockwork-justice]

One of the things that strikes me the most about Wake Up Dead Man is the portrayal of Grace Wicks.

Normally when a character (usually a woman) who starts the story being villified and villainised, just as Grace was deemed "the harlot whore" for 60 years, their redemption in the eyes of the story comes from the revelation that they were a better person than people gave them credit for. Maybe they were a good mother, or did their best in the face of the deck being stacked against them.

With Grace, we don’t see that. I can’t recall any instance in the movie of her being a particularly good person, or a good mother to Jefferson Wicks, or a virtuous woman as befitting her name. A lot of her actions are recontextualised to be more understandable within the story, yes, but that’s not necessarily the same.

Grace is messy. Some would call her shallow with her focus on expensive brands. She’s unashamedly destructive. She probably wouldn’t have wanted her father’s church where she was pretty much held hostage for years to be named after her, even if the Wicks family weren’t in charge anymore.

And she STILL didn’t deserve what Prentice Wicks and her family did to her, whether she was a good person or not.

There are no perfect victims. Trauma, shocker, tends to mess with people’s mental state a lot, and they’re not always going to act the way people think they should. They can’t always be, well, graceful about it- I dare say they can’t be EXPECTED to be.

And people don’t have to be perfect or even particularly good people to be sympathised with as victims.

And it didn’t take anyone finding out about her secret better side or good deeds. All it took was one person - Vera - having a change in perspective, to consider things from Grace’s point of view and realise she never really had a chance to BE a better person, to plant that idea in the heads of the characters and the audience.

That poor girl.

[shinesurge]

Guys if you want queer shit written by queers on our own terms you're going to have to start seeking out weird independent media. I'm sorry that's the only place you can regularly find it idk what to tell you, we can't keep acting like there's nothing if we're not getting blockbusters and triple A titles or whatever it is we're waiting around for. The thing you keep saying you want is already being offered for free by one person making a passion project on the internet and you would both benefit enormously if you interacted with it instead of lamenting that the only options we have for representation are pandering afterthoughts from corporate shit

[fandomsandfeminism]

I say this with so, so much care: Real queer shit written by real queers can and will sometimes make you uncomfortable. That's one of the defining features of weird, independent queer media. And weird independent media more broadly. Art that comes from true individual passion and authenticity has edges and bite to it that mass market corporate products intentionally do not. Has a rawness that can offend.

You are allowed to feel uncomfortable about it. But don't ask for queers to self censor for your comfort.

[depsidase]

[spookynest]

"If we break quarantine, we could all die" 👽