reading 20000 leagues under the sea and because i can't read anything without illustrating it there is how i imagine the characters to be (sorry my boy conseil i love you i'll draw you more in the future IT'S A PROMISE)
Can I also get abducted rescued by a mysterious submarine and held captive indefinitely go on cool fun adventures with the captain of the submarine who lowkey kills people info dumps with me for half the book?
Guys is this too niche
Guys I swear this book is homoerotic as hell I'm not crazy I'M NOT CRAZY RIGHT
A quick comic strip I made some years ago. I've never really tried comics. For a long time I thought it would be too difficult for me ! How silly I was, this way to tell stories is the best one ever. :')
My story Libertatem is not about 20K, but it fills the blanks before and AFTER 20k :) But I wanted to illustrate a scene from the book, just to challenge myself first, with a part of the story which is not mine :)
Since then, my designs changed a little bit, especially Pf Arronax.
Can I also get abducted rescued by a mysterious submarine and held captive indefinitely go on cool fun adventures with the captain of the submarine who lowkey kills people info dumps with me for half the book?
Guys is this too niche
Guys I swear this book is homoerotic as hell I'm not crazy I'M NOT CRAZY RIGHT
These two have been living rent free in my head for years, especially after I bought the artbook and read a few interviews with Miyazaki...
More under the cut!
I'm not the biggest Studio Ghibli fan, but Ponyo and Howl's Moving Castle are movies that always stuck with me for very different reasons.
HMC takes the source material and injects overt romance and grittyness into it, making it a movie mostly about war. It also makes Howl much more of a dreamy prince compared to the absolute fuck up that he is in the book (seriously, look it up XD).
Meanwhile, Ponyo brings up serious themes, from pollution, natural disasters and families with one absent parent and doesn't give any of these much thought nor time.
I find both movies quite puzzling to be honest, despite loving both for their visuals, personality and beautiful, lively animation.
In the interviews about Ponyo's production and in the artbook, there are very interesting tidbits specifically about Fujimoto and Granmamare. I absolutely adore the idea of her human form as the 'lure' of a prehistoric anglerfish (and I find it very funny and totally in character for Fujimoto to learn about this and going 'Joke's on you, I'm into that shit' lmao) but it is the little backstory we get for Fujimoto that actually sparked my imagination the most.
Many kids have a dinosaur phase, well, not me. Baby me had an ancient egypt phase AND a Jules Verne phase. I absolutely love Verne's novels, especially 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. The 1959 Voyage to the Center of the Earth movie is also a big fave of mine and growing up, one of the anime that fascinated me the most was the now largely forgotten Nadia and the Secret of Blue Water.
Secret of Blue Water is a retelling of 20.000 Leagues under the Sea and Hayao Miyazaki was involved in creating the pitch for this show in the 70s. It was produced many years later under the direction of Hideaki Anno but, if you're familiar with Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that he was fond of that concept and wanted to reuse some of those ideas in a project of his own.
So... yeah, these silly concepts of mine are basically a weird crossover between Nadia and Ponyo, placing a young Fujimoto on the Nautilus from the tv show, which already has a memorable cast of fun characters and deals with similar themes to those only brushed upon by Ponyo.
I also wanted to avoid the cliche of having his encounter with Granmamare mirror that of Ariel and Prince Eric (aka: having her saving him from drowning) and I thought it would be more interesting if they were brought together by their mutual worry for Captain Nemo. If you're familiar with Verne's book (or Blue Water tbh), you'd know that Nemo is quite a tortured character that inspires both loyalty and fear in those who encounter him. I like the idea of Fujimoto seeing him as his mentor but realizing that Nemo is walking down a path he doesn't want to follow while Mamare, being obviously familiar with the Captain as she is with all that moves below the waves, has always been fond of him but can now see that he's becoming more desperate and violent.
I do like the idea of Mamare reaching out to Fujimoto without revealing her divine nature in the hope that he can help her reach Nemo (Nemo used to 'hear' the sea, but now he has closed his heart to anything but revenge). So basically the story would be about the two of them trying to save a mutual friend from himself and failing, which obviously leaves both of them quite distraught, but also a lot closer to each other and with Mamare's secret now out in the open.
I may expand on this idea later on, but so far I had a lot of fun coming up with these designs :D
Samuel “Sammy” Lawrence (Bendy and the Ink Machine)
Voting ended onFeb 4
PROPAGANDA:
[Badeni]
"HE DESERVES IT, GET THAT CATHOLIC MONK PREGNANT NOOOOW."
"Under-rated Catholic Monk from the Heliocentrism anime where the Catholic church keeps cucking all the rebellious gays.
He's a washed up defamed scholar with a baby bit of a God complex, who turns his project into kinda more of a "I made this. This is a thing I made. #mything" Also, he kinda throws up every time he gets creativity hype. Metaphorical morning sickness, see? But his research is personal and a thing he'd prefer not to learn to benefit humanity, moreover his own scorched pride.
Even though he totally scores himself a total himbo / provider of a potential baby daddy (Oczy) he's hesitant due to his work being stolen in the past by a former friend to even have any more so-called friends, let alone have someone get him in a family way.
Oczy did actually point out Badeni's main issue at a pivotal moment in their storyline, asking more or less if it wouldn't make him happier to share what he learns with others, not to bring knowledge and light to the world, but for his own sake, because Oczy wonders if it's lonely.
Without spoiling exactly what happens, this actually causes Badeni to finally commit in a self sacrifice-y kinda way. Because Oczy is worth it, he feels like Oczy is definitely someone he can lean on, and so on.
Considering the sheer amount of fanarts I have seen of him pregnant on Pixiv, I definitely get the impression I'm not the only one who looks at this and finds the domestic coding.
Even if his possible frailty would result in a high risk pregnancy, but who doesn't love a little risk for their reward? And drama."
"Someone needs to archive his copy from Oczy!!! Even if he didn't want to."
[Sammy]
"he has such a deep religious level of self-deprecation that he would fuck SO crazy. I think he would see his pregnancy as a holy antichrist moment and that might actually fix him for a little bit. Also he has the sort of voice that you just NEED to hear him whimper."
"I have personal biases because he's my longest running fictional crush but he's got that Itty bitty waist and I love him."
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