this has been discussed before but reducing female characters to the girlboss braincell holder in the name of combating misogyny in fandom is ironically also a form of misogyny
people love love loooove to go on and on and on about whiteguy #135336843’s internal torment and the nuances of his writing and then when it comes time to talk about women it’s all um actually she can do no wrong and holds the braincell and babysits the boys like a mother hashtag feminism. i hope you fucking blow up
putting female characters into the reasonable girlboss box is still putting them in a box. the flaws and mistakes and possible stupidity is where all the meat of the character is and “she can do no wrong” feminism is such a cop out. what’s even having the character if there’s no mess.
let that woman fuck up spectacularly or do terrible things. if she’s well put together, it should be clear that it takes effort to maintain that. if she babysits the men? ok well those dudes have now inherited her weird psychological issues. enough with the blank waxen state of perfection where’s the guts
Some more~ i had a lot of fun with these designs <3 (a break down for them under the cut)
Kid and Killer would be two Gym leaders who introduce the idea of Duo battling in the story mode of this hypothetical game. They'd probably be one of the first gym leaders the player would face.
They would enjoy their job of getting to beat up teenagers thoroughly even though they'd have to hold back for the sake of not killing them. (for legal purposes obviously). They Profight on the side to let loose sometimes. To make sure people still know they're dont
Carrot: @majestick-posts-op's design for carrot inspired my design for her, the elbow pads and leg warmers gave me the idea of a roller skater and ideas took off from there! the silhouette of the helmet to match her original silhouette from her bob is a perfect way to keep her original silhouette and have her suLONG hair.
For her hearts, i know its obvious but she loves her tutu, she loves her roller skates so the hearts are on those. but if you look closely, there are also hearts on the carrots on her helmet!
Shirahoshi: i was having trouble with her design at first, but then i looked up what kind of fish she's supposed to be and a vision immediately appeared in my head
look at this thing. look at those pathetic eyes. what a creeeeaturee.... so i made her a crereeeaturrreee.
The silhouette of her hair loopies and her head is supposed to look like a fish, and the bottom part of her sweater is supposed to also evoke fins/a tail! Her top is meant to reference H2O Just Add Water mermaid tops, and she is all around kinda loosely inspired by MLP:FIS Fluttershy <3
I really tried to make her look kind of regal, with her sheer sweater and long flowing hair. But also i wanted her to have elements pulling her down to earth, like having heir hair all dirty from walking in nature and flip flops to tie in her whole beachy feel.
The heart on her design is on her big ol' Nature Club pin on her left chest, even over her heart.
Kid: There's a lot with him that i felt i needed to scrap (Pun Intended.) because i just had no way of incorporating his powers into the power system i have. So i'm thinking instead of metal he can repel and attract, he throws and absorbs cactus's into/from his Big Cactus arm with his Growth, Absorbing, and elastic powers.
You can vaguely see his hearts in the pinks of his cactus hand! but the real ting indicating his heart is probably his belt buckle and his neck bandana ;3c
Killer: The whole reason i got the idea to make these two Plants That Hurt is because when i was sketching out the silhouette for killer, i thought i had make his hair kinda sorta look like the mouth of a venus fly trap and my mind was like "Wait. Say That again." so i went off from there! I got the help from my friend @zethsdumpster and their friend who's the local Kid & Killer Thirster and we came up with the idea of them being punk cowboys too! and now here we are <3
Killer's boots are meant to look like terracotta pots and his hat is meant to look like a venus fly trap about to munch on a fly (the white and yellow sash around it). The blades on his gauntlet things, i added a handle part to them to make them look like sickles because sickles are used for gardening and that was really the only way i could tie in whatever the hell those things are to the motifs these two have.
Killer's heart if you squint is in the negative space from his choker and open buttoned shirt, the color of the choker being Kid's color EHE HEHEHE EHE EHEH EH EH
YEAH I MADE THEM HOMOSEXUALS WHAT ABOUT IT?!?!??!!? AND WHAT ABOUT IT?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IT HUH?!!!!!!!!!??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! thats what i THOUGht. its hard to NOT make them homosexuals when what they got going on is what they have going on. ehehehehh hehehh ehehe hHHEHHE h H HA AH AH AH H AHAAAAAA anyway
I bought the game Tiny Glade to make this building layout LOL and i really havent played it since <3 its a lot of fun though, i enjoy their ducks and their sheep :3 though i would appreciate if they added in a copy building option.
The building is inspired by the school buildings in Card Captor Sakura and Ouran High School Host Club! I wanted a really romantic design like a castle to contrast heavily with the Full Colosseum Structure behind it. Though if i could do it differently, i think i would instead put the arena where the track field is instead. but like theres only so much room on a Tiny Glade workspace.
I have been working on inside setting images too but it is. life draining. This is why I'm a character artist not a background designer.
The middle school Carrot and Shirahoshi would go to would be a sister school to the DDBA and would be close by but in a different location.
I think! that's just about it..... thanks for reading if you got this far!!
the three most overused jobs for horror movie protags who investigate strange happenings that have nothing to do with them out of a sense of professional obligation are journalist, writer/filmmaker, and cop (which is both overused AND lame). here are some suggestions for other possibilities:
insurance claims investigator
grad student using excessive research to procrastinate writing their thesis
tradesman hired to fix the spooky house’s pipes
mafia debt collector
normal debt collector
middle aged woman who just wants to get a refund. who in this place can she to talk to who can give her a refund, she has the receipt right here
sakura and naruto parallelism. Lonely yearning outsiders to the shinobi world with repressed rage issues, contradictory dreams that center around sasuke, and the stubbornness and purposeful naivete of a iron headed god.
I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
i am banned from eating my herring inside. they make me eat it on the smoking area by the loading dock, under the theory that it already smells bad there. but it was raining today which was preventing my breakfast, so i was feeling sad and hungry and then i realized that there was a large cardboard box in the dumpster from a previous delivery. like a fridge sized box. so i fished it out of the dumpster, then tipped it on its side and had a nice little cardboard cave to watch the rain and eat my fish in. which was a great experience. very soothing. very zen. at least until the security guard from the day before stepped outside to smoke. then i tried hiding from him by crawling deeper in the box, which unfortunately did not work. instead he saw a sort of damp sniveling pale hairless creature eating fish in a box, and delivered the verbal killshot of "good morning, mr. smeagol." which is how my day was ruined before 8 am.
the progression of zoro's feelings for luffy is something you can genuinely pinpoint in the series. like he's never been normal about him (sailing off into the sunset w a weirdo in jorts hours after meeting him and saying they were in for a grand adventure) but as much as i joke about tummy ache zoro, his jealousy wasn't explicit (or there at all) in the early arcs. it wasn't until long ring island that we get 'i can't believe he picked usopp as a cornerman'. he and luffy used to function more independently but by post time skip they'd turned into luffyandzoro. 'i'll come with you' 'i'm going (with luffy) anyways. you think a straw is going to stop me?' 'I'll follow him to hell if i have to'. even just his goals, morphing into 'i don't want to achieve my dream without you.' bc at the end of the day, zoro has 'loving luffy' ingrained on his heart
Not to be the Usopp Defense Guy again, but whenever people complain about his more childlike or immature tendencies I'm like. Do you think the guy that was forced to grow up and raise himself when he was like seven or whatever, might have a reason to cling onto whimsy and childhood.
Do you think the the guy that was orphaned and forced to take care of himself and his survival and his house and his livelihood at an extremely young age, with barely any adults around, might have had a) trouble maturing properly and b) a desire to keep with him what was taken away by such an experience. Let him be whimsical. Let him laugh at immature jokes he's literally 17 pre-timeskip that's a kid. A kid that somehow self-taught himself the basics of engineering without a formal education, even. Don't let his playfulness distract you from how intelligent he is. Defending Usopp on the internet isn't enough I need a hammer. Potentially the inflatable fake type that can fool my enemies into thinking it's real.
Fem!moshang at 18K, story rapidly unravelling from simple smutty one-shot to idfk. Obviously the solution is to introduce OCs.
Snippet on some of SQHs hand-picked disciples
More demons than Tianlang-jun have found humans appealing, and more humans than Su Xiyan have got their freak on (or been deceived by clever disguises). But her son is by thousands of li the most successful mix out of the bunch, and most of the others have some form of disability from either human or demon perspective. Disciple Wei, for example, while strong as a bear, has cultivation so poor she would never have made it onto any other peak. Hell, she might not have made it onto the testing grounds at all, if she’d taken that route. Her demonic energy is practically non-existent.
Bo Li, advised to change his name from 薄利 to 薄力, is completely blind but can sense everything around him the way a shark does (which, now that Shang Qinghua has seen it in real life, seems to kind of suck). His cultivation, too, is weak, but not quite as weak as his demonic energy. Bo Li was written to be a badass blind warrior type of enemy, jealous and angry about the success of another half-breed (yes this was a trend in her work and no Shang Qinghua does not want to talk about it). Instead, he favours heavy, insulating clothes and works diligently deep in the quiet caves of An Ding, keeping stock of the cold storage and maintaining the various little hideaways of the peak.
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