MeaslyFurball

Spam reblog blog. It's hyperfixation all the way down. Call me Measly | 22 | she/her lesbian

[measlyfurball13]

Warning: this blog is absolutely a spam blog and I suck at spoiler or trigger tags. And I’m not consistent, either. My interests vary wildly, and when I get into new things? Oh boy. It’s a mess. I personally would not recommend following this blog. Do so at your own risk lol. I’m totally fine being friends even if you don’t follow me back!

But if you DO want to hear me talk, or talk with me, please find me on one of my side blogs! Most active/current blog is on top:

Overwatch side blog is here: @terrible-overwatch-fan

Sonic sideblog is here: @generic-sonic-fan

Kirby sideblog is here: @generic-meta-knight-fan

(Somewhat inactive) Veigar sideblog is here: @tinypurplewizardfan​

(Mostly inactive) Knight Rider sideblog is here: @knight-rider-fan-2000

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Commission: "How many?"

With many thanks to @measlyfurball13 / @terrible-overwatch-fan for commissioning this piece, it was super fun to work on! I had a great time with this really cool idea.

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A prehensile steel coffin for one please yum yum yum

Anyway, some more Ranger Morgan. Time to update her artfight page.

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Everyone meet Ranger Morgan! A lawman-for-hire in a lawless time, and my personal solution for the "I want to spend my whole life drawing Metroid comics, but don't want to bother Nintendo" problem.

There's a lot of inspirations at play here, but stylistically I was going for something between a velociraptor, a knight, and an excavator. More on her eventually.

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Lego Morgan

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Sphinx Morgan

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Artfight art! Pet, by @letmesleepy

Don't worry, it's friendly.

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Mirror, Mirror

Another artfight piece, this character is Agnieszka, by @roserotz. The CEO of a fashion prosthetics company, who ended up going full borg at some point. Her only flesh left is her brain.

For this piece I went heavily in on the theme of vanity, and had a lot of fun designing the chassis internals and a few of the smaller technical details of the surrounding scene. Personally I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

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Done for Artfight! Gonna start uploading them as they come.

Creature is The Embrace, by Batata. I drew it climbing the submerged structure of an oil rig because I liked the horrible haunting vibes.

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It's another Artfight!

This one is Ash, an alien fighter pilot in the galactic federation. OC belongs to @pjbgamer, an old friend of mine. There's a lot more details to her that aren't visible from this angle, such as her wings and her feet and some of the details of her uniform, but it is what it is. I'm pretty pleased with the comic-book vibe of how this turned out.

Not sure if English writing is exactly correct for all the labels on things, but I wasn't about to come up with a whole conlang just for artfight.

[ganymedesclock]

I think the funniest thing about villainous mad scientist characters is almost always, to a man, they are also bad at science.

Like they have a stable of terrifying potent mutations that they pushed the limits of blah blah blah blah blah, but those things tend to be suffering horribly, have poor longevity, are disobedient, destructive, and seldom represent the actual capability of what they're actually representing.

Everybody knows that one spiderman comic panel that became a meme of "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people into dinosaurs" but the real irony is that guy's actually one of the more successful villainous mad scientist guys. That guy knows what he wants and is taking meaningful steps to accomplish and refine his model of it (turning people into dinosaurs).

Generally speaking one smart guy who is unwilling to talk to anybody else is invariably being his dumbest self. Even if he's the guy that already knows the most, the most successful way to know more is to teach, share, and connect.

Hoarding knowledge is basically the same as hoarding money. Both of these are things whose value actually diminishes the more of it someone just sits on. Cycling it through a mutualistic system that enriches everybody inside of it isn't just the "nice thing to do" it's actually the smart thing to do. Information, wealth, resources, are generative.

And I get in the case of evil mad scientist guys the point is they're wrong but I feel like way too many works that are very clear that guy's evil and wrong fall short of pointing out they're also bad at being a scientist. FF7's Hojo is one of the most famous evil scientist characters and he's also so violently anti-intellectual that it's a wonder he can find his own butt honestly. That guy isn't curing cancer OR turning people into dinosaurs, he's the world's most overpaid schoolyard bully.

Even his malicious exploitation of Lucretia raises the very plausible question of how many monsters in his personal horror show lab are even actually his work. It's debatable this man actually does any science since we know he's a plagiarist prone to assassinating his competition. And he's hardly the only example of this trope. Resident Evil's Umbrella Inc is overtly a clownshow full of petty infighting, ego problems, cult indoctrination and "we put the zombie serum into the plant. oh no the plant killed us. who could have seen this coming. at least our trustworthy friend doctor Antisocial And Obsessed With Leeches will- oh my god."

Like these characters are intentionally written to be villainous, their wrongdoing is pointed out, but also I feel like not enough stories go on to hit these people where it'd really hurt them by pointing out they're also really bad at being scientists.

[microsff]

Bouba woke with a start, her strong, round arms reaching out to grab a weapon.

"You're safe. I healed you."

A comforting voice. Bouba looked. A skinny witch, all angles, smiled at her.

"Kiki?"

"Long time no see. When did you get so hard?"

The big warrior laughed. "When did you get so soft?"

[transformrobots]

My secret EVIL headcanon is i think the more desperate the war gets the more prowl starts abusing stimulants to try and keep up

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Then they crash on earth and dont have the resources to synthesize more 50000mg hyper-adderitalin cocaine and this surely is fine and there will be no impact on him whatsoever.

[codylabs]

Everyone meet Ranger Morgan! A lawman-for-hire in a lawless time, and my personal solution for the "I want to spend my whole life drawing Metroid comics, but don't want to bother Nintendo" problem.

There's a lot of inspirations at play here, but stylistically I was going for something between a velociraptor, a knight, and a bulldozer. More on her eventually.

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

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Sorry i don't post a while,I want to draw better drawing and it needed time.But now here is one of the most famous Overwatch support Kiriko!💙🦊

[measlyfurball13]

Hi, I think you’re cool. That’s all I wanted to say. I have nothing for you to write, except more Emfrej

Thank you so much! That means a lot.

[vintricles]

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

[measlyfurball13]

I see Zuko always heralded as the archetypal Perfect Redemption Arc in tumblr media analysis and while I can agree with that sentiment, it's important to realize his trajectory was actually very specific.

Because Zuko started as a good person, before he got the scar.

And Zuko has an extremely stable platform of support for most of the show.

Zuko couldn't have done it without Iroh's unflinching, unwavering belief that he could become a good person again. I've rarely seen any criticism of Iroh aimed at his unconditional support of Zuko- for good reason. It's a selfless act.

Similarly, I've rarely seen any criticism of Zuko saying that he didn't deserve Iroh's support. Maybe a few comments here and there about how ungrateful he is at times, or how he should have "suffered more"(?), but never anything outright saying that Zuko should stay exactly where he is in his misery because he doesn't deserve Iroh's helping hand out of it. And this is for a very specific reason- because A:TLA goes out of it's way to show very early on that Zuko was a good person and can be so again.

So Zuko's arc isn't really even a straight redemption arc. It's a recovery arc wearing a large redemption trenchcoat.

This is an important distinction because a raw, straight redemption arc is often unpalatable to the audience, because it starts with someone who isn't a good person receiving a helping hand out of their misery anyway. A redemption arc starts by looking like someone is forgiving an abuser. It starts by having sympathy for the bad people. It starts by engaging with them and listening to them and empathizing with their struggles.

"But they're a bad person, they don't deserve that kindness!" that's the point.

Certainly not to say that it's the job of the victim to be that understanding, helping hand- of course not. And extending kindness does not mean abandoning moral principles and not holding the person accountable for their actions, a la certain flavors of Harley Quinn-Joker romance nonsense.

But someone has to treat the bad person like they're a person if the bad person is ever going to stand a chance of getting better. Regardless of what the bad person "deserves". The bad person has to accept that help, of course, but there needs to be help (and more importantly, kindness) offered in the first place.

(Oh, and. . . this applies to real people just as much as it does fictional characters.)