Just released this as a print! It was the cover for After Death, Life Again, a Disco Elysium fan-made zine. It sold out but now you can have the cover on your wall.
Not tagging anyone but if you want to post wips you can say I tagged you.
LEFT “He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.” Matthew 3:12, ticket to heaven
RIGHT lesbian raysand cig lighting…
NOT PICTURED lesbian thk headcanon fashion lineup
NOT PICTURED fadelstyle comic containing style wearing a pizza delivery costume breaking into his own house thru the window
When you get food with a friend in a lib town and the waitress quickly calculates who they think the top/bottom is and only addresses the top about the menu/bill
I kinda view THK as a lighter and softer... response? counterpoint? modest proposal? to Kinnporsche, and in this light it is very amusing to think that big bad scary dom Vegas' cannonical reaction to his appetites was "omg I'm a freak and I'll never find love" while sweet little baby dom Bison was, presumably, to google something like "Tattooed Sailor Chained To The Mast And Whipped" while making this :3 exact face.
The purpose of google search recipe result page is to lead you astray. It’s like foraging for berries where many may be poisonous. For instance, you may search for tomato and pesto grilled cheese sandwiches, only to be met with wicked dogs of the earth that call for an American cheese and provolone mix. Please stay safe .
i think my final diagnosis for bisons art style bc he is one of the characters whose canon art style I respectfully disagree with (see daotok FY, praew GR) is bison makes really scratchy and thin ink lines (largely just black but sometimes red pen he isnt really interested in blue and charcoal and oil pastel in books pisses him off) in his little sketchbooks and he has a mix of really concerning drawings and cats and some normal ones. He’s not the most patient and forward-thinking guy but even so I disagree w the iPad. when he tries hard on big pieces of printer paper he uses charcoal and oil pastel but he cant really save every drawing cause he moves a lot. the aurora lights are drawn w oil pastel. like me if he puts charcoal to newsprint he will tear it.
@callmewhenyoukan as promised here's some more thoughts on what I like about Shasha's writing! It got very very long, but I had a lot to say.
What I mean by elegant is that it is simple in a way that still allows for depth and discovery. To compare it to a drawing: how much can you create with as little strokes as possible? Shasha is made of few strokes, but they're enough to create an interesting picture.
(an aside: this is far from the only way to write a character well, and not necessarily what I look for in character writing - but it's still very pleasant to observe)
Let's start with her introductory scene. Shasha, who is modeling, is asked by Gorya to open her jacket (which would reveal her bra), but inisists that Gorya does it herself - and gets her way, leaning seductively while Gorya does her job. Just a bit later, she notices that an intern is taking pictures of her, and gets up in the middle of the shoot to slap the phone out of the intern's hand , chews the intern and then Min out about the unauthorized pictures, and leaves in huff, claiming:
Everything in this scene works to paint Shasha as capricious and entitled. Because of her interaction with Gorya (where she is making Gorya's job more difficult at least in part for her own pleasure), we're primed to read what happen next in the same way: yes the intern's behaviour isn't appropriate, but not only does Shasha interrupt the shooting instead of simply requesting that the intern stops, but she's physically agressive, breaks a phone accesory, continues berating the intern even though the girl is her fan and looks genuinely sorry and pitiful, and her taking a break forces everyone else to do overtime. So this is our first impression of Shasha: cocky, rude, self-centered and used to getting her way. Conveniently, this is also Prim and Gorya's initial opinion of her.
This scene gets reframed three times during the course of the show.
The first one flew completely over my head: it's the one in the same episode, where Shasha sees a man filming Gorya without her knowledge and intervenes. I did not like that scene on first watch. I thought it was clumsy and did not serve any purpose beside making Shasha look better in a very cheap way (she might use your job to force you to undress her, but hey! at least she's not taking secret vids of women!). But rewatching it for this post, it's clear that Shasha is very agitated during that scene, and that she gets deeply uncomfortable when Gorya grumbles that she wasn't even wearing something revealing, before she manages to retort that it's not about the clothes. So viewers more observant than I are already thinking "ok. Shasha was rude in that first scene, but taking picture of someone without their consent is clearly a hot button issue for her, and after all, it's true that that intern was out of line." And thet might start to wonder why, exactly, this is a sensitive subject for her, and if it could have anything to do with her being a model (after all, getting her picture taken is her job - but I'll get back to that later).
Second time the scene is reframed is when we get the flashback of Shasha seeing Gorya for the first time. In it, we see Gorya standing up for herself and leaving a shoot because she is not being respected, which inspires Shasha to do the same thing. With it, Shasha taking a break in that first scene feels less like a capricious diva throwing a tantrum, and more like someone very unused to drawing boundaries attempting to do so in the only way she's been shown how. And that (along with other Shasha scenes. i can't describe them all) implies a degree of social awkwardness that also incites us to view some of her more questionable lines or actions as more maladapted than malicious (not that it absolve her of everything she says or does - but it's not trying to).
But while reframing one and two gently nudged you into nuancing your first impression, reframing three makes sure you will never see Shasha's first scene the same way again: I am of course talking about the flashback of her being made to strip in front of that man to further her carreer. Suddenly, her intense dislike of not having a say in who takes her picture, her insistence that the outfit you wear has nothing to do with men's behaviour, and her extreme reaction in that introductory scene brutaly align. She was not reacting like a spoiled diva, she was reacting like someone triggered. She genuinely needed time to calm down.
(I would even go further, and argue that we're encouraged to see the moment before she notices the intern taking pictures differently as well. Because Gorya asking her to open her jacket now echoes something else:
and so maybe -maybe!- Shasha's reply of do it yourself could paradoxically be another way for her to reclaim some agency)
The reveal of Shasha's trauma doesn't come out of nowhere - aside from the pictures-without-consent moments listed above, the scene in episode 2 where she tells Gorya that "everyone does things they don't like to get what they want" had many of us raising eyebrows, and wondering if she meant her job or something else - but the build up to it is sufficiently discreet, often in scenes where we're encouraged to focus on Gorya's perspective and feelings, that at no point did I feel like I was clobbered over the head with it. Sturdy but light: elegant.
I would say the same thing about the reveal that Shasha doesn't like modeling. She only voices that thought in the second half of the show, but we've been building toward it from the very begining. Yes it was softlaunched with the line "everyone does things they don't like to get what they want," or with Shasha looking tense/upset every time Gorya talked about Shasha's career/models having it easy (in their first "date" at Shasha's condo, at breakfast after their first night, during their first real date buying clothes...), but it was also implied through visuals from episode 1.
With the exception of her very first work outfit (which is in her introductory scene and, I'd argue, was designed to look closer to what she'd enjoy wearing), there is a huge different between what Shasha wears as part of her job and what she wears on her down time. As an exemple look at the last outfit she wore for that first shoot - a form-fitting dress so difficult to unzip that Gorya struggles to do it for her - and her party outfit in the same episode: a slightly oversized suit jacket, a simple white top and what looks like comfortable pants.
In contrast with the other leads, who dress pretty much the same at work and outside of it, we're already establishing a discrepency between Shasha-at-work and "true" Shasha.
But of course, Shasha's job is literally to wear clothes for brands. So how does the show drive home that she feels shackled to her job and finds it constricting? Well as @fadelgender pointed out in the tags of this post (the reblog of which I will repeat a little) all the clothes she has to wear for work from ep1 to 4 -that very first photoshoot aside- include elements that have to be tightened and tied:
By contrast, all of her down-time clothes tend to prioritize comfort and freedom of movement (or at least look like they do).
So that's one way Shasha is characterized through visuals. But interestingly, Shasha's clothes are also used to characterize another character, her love interest Gorya. As I mentioned in the post I already linked, as soon as Gorya learns that Shasha's favourite color is black, she includes it in the outfit Shasha wears on the runway. And when she has to throw an outfit for Shasha with very little time? Well as @purplelilies said here, she goes for this:
(and lets note how loosely she ties the tie)
And when she's in charge of booking Shasha gigs, she searches for some where Shasha can look like this:
And so we pick up, without the show needing to explicitely say it, that Gorya cares for Shasha's tastes, comfort and well-being, and that once she get to know her, she gets her like few people do.
But I've been dancing around the elephant in the room, which is gender presentation. Because until Gorya steps-up as her manager, the clothes Shasha wears at works are distinctly more feminine than the ones she picks for herself, and it's hard not to think this might be a factor in her dislike of the job, again, long before we get to the scene of her mother insisting that Shasha needs to look more feminine (and Gorya finally states, one episode before the finale, that Shasha is obviously not comfortable in too feminine garments). Shasha's mom is more Gorya's antagonist than Shasha's, but the question of gender presentation was part of Shasha's character from day one, just in an understated way, and seeing it being part of the final obstacle she (and Gorya) have to overcome on their road to happiness feels right and satisfying - I'm very curious to see how they'll tie that part of her arc.
also I just want to bring to your attention the point @akkpipitphattana made here, because it's such a good example of the neat choices the costuming team made on this show: the outfit Shasha's mom choose for her manages to be both more revealing and to look more constricting than the one Gorya had picked.
There is more that I could talk about (swimming with a T-shirt is pretty common in South-East Asia, but Gorya not wearing one while Shasha does, right as she explains she's never be proud of her body, feels significant - is she wearing one to be comfortable, or because as a model she has to be particularly careful with her skin? and can the two truly be separated?), but it is past midnight, and that post is long enough. If you read this far, thank you, I hope I managed to make it interesting! I love talking character writing, and characterization through clothes, when done well, is really fun to analyze. :)
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