it was @phoenixpearl-ashes turn to play signalis while i watched and unhelpfully ate a hot pocket the whole time. so i made a reversed version of their awesome drawing of us playing last time!
i'm trying to get back into physical art since i picked up some ohuhu lining markers which were on sale, but i'm still coloring digitally.
this one goes out to all my fellow sss warriorcats fans!
I've been rewatching it and had to try my hand at the style. the cats are from clangen, @phoenixpearl-ashes and I got strangely similar cats so I'm headcannoning them as sisters. the names are a mouthful though! midnightfreckle is on the left, and bluebellfur is on the right.
seeing people say “sometimes i wish i was a guy but i still want to be a girl too” or vice versa and it’s like YOU CAN!!! YOU CAN DO THAT!!!! TAKE MY HAND
So sad seeing people say they didn't know this was an option or that this was 'allowed'. Firstly, there are no rules always do what makes you happy, but also this has always been one of the more common ways of being nonbinary/genderqueer its just forgotten in the "neither a man or woman" slogan. But nonbinary can also mean being both! You can be 100% both, or a 50/50 mix of both, or 30/70, or it can fluctuate, or you can be both a man and woman and third or fourth thing too, you can sometimes be a man and sometimes a woman, you can be a woman and something else but not a man, or a man and something else but not a woman! All of this can be bigender or a related label! Wanting to be something is often a sign that it is something you are, and you can be whatever you want! Be free!
“in practice” i’m a bigender person who’s used she/him pronouns for years now. my brother, my partner, and my friends (both irl and online, cis and trans) respect my identity and take care to alternate whenever they can. nobody’s had a problem with it. my brother (who’s cis and doesn’t know much abt trans/nby stuff) even asked how often he should use one or the other for me.
like, man, these tags are really disheartening. i’m genuinely really sorry you had to go through that. i can promise that’s far from true for everyone. they’re not at all difficult to understand or use — if people are bitching about it being too much of a pain, then that’s on them and not you!
I discovered the term bigender a little over a year now, and I cannot tell you how much it instantly clicked and brought me joy that there was a word for what I am. I have a complicated at best relationship with my gender but I know it is not just one thing. I also know that it isn’t like a changing from day to day for me, I’m always all these things. I’m a man and a woman and something not quite either and that’s just how it is. It’s not easy or fun that people almost exclusively use one set of pronouns for me, but I know that’s not a failure of mine. I’ll work on getting better at making myself clear, pushing for that recognition of my identity, but if they refuse to acknowledge me that changes nothing about what I am.
In much the same as my asexuality, I knew what I was before I had a label, it’s just nice to have a shorthand to explain it when I don’t have the energy or time to really get into it. It’s me and it’s mine but it’s also shared with many others and that’s a comfort.
@phoenixpearl-ashes and I put together pokemon teams for some of the Disco Elysium characters for shits and giggles, but it ended up being such a fun idea that I drew them! They might drop the explanations/full teams for these guys and other side characters I didn't have time for, so shuffle on over there.
Kim with his Staraptor and Harry with his Feebas, Herdier, and Glameow. I wonder why he's looking so sadly at Glameow? :)
(more below)
Cindy, feeling so much like a member of team skull (name and all, lol), was the inspiration for this in the first place. Obstagoon, Snubbull, and Qwilfish suit her so well.
Couldn't help myself with this one, she would just fuck off on a Lapras when the going got rough.
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Last but not least, one of the coolest things we did: A parallel team for Dora Ingurland and Dolores Dei.
Because Harry would absolutely deify anything associated with her.
Sawsbuck, Pyroar, Fearow, Musharna, Staryu, and Cottonee
Xerneas, Solgaleo, Jarachi, and Shaymin (Land Form)
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Highly recommend trying something like this, it really was a blast figuring out thematically appropriate, materially realistic, and occasionally funny pokemon pairings for these characters.
Hello, it's me the co-conspirator! And here's the notes I had from when we made these (along with some other teams that didn't get drawn).
First up, Kim- The only one drawn here is his staraptor, a pokemon with sense of fastidiousness and poise similar to the lieutenant. The rest of his team is comprised of Zangoose, Galvantula, Flygon, Jolteon, and Scizor. Flygon...maybe used to belong to someone else. Zangoose is always spoiling for a fight (relating to Kim's itchy trigger finger). Scizor is there for aesthetic and intimidation, as appearance matters so much to him. Jolteon is the pokemon most commonly out, something of a sight assistance and one of the less intimidating team members to give s good first impression. Galvantula is the friendliest, and can have a fondness for a particular member of Harry's team if you get enough Kim points.
Harry- Harry also has a full team but it's almost all depressing, which really what else did you expect? His shown members are Glameow, Herdier, and Feebas, with the additional members of Grubbin, Banette, and Rotom. Herdier is his only truly competent pokemon, and was RCM issued as a patrol dog. It being unevolved is something Jean never lets him live down. Glameow was a gift from Dora, and is kind of a bitch. Tends to claw Harry if he so much as looks at it wrong. Feebas was not a direct gift from Dora, but he got it because Dora had a milotic. His failure to evolve this one haunts him too. Banette is a literal manifestation of his past haunting him. Rotom is a menace, and only very loosely under Harry's control. Has a tendency to possess important equipment at the whilring-in-rags, making Garte even less patient with Harry. The Grubbin is the newest acquisition, quite literally found on the side of the road. He carries it around a lot, and it loves him very very much. This is the one that Kim's Galvantula can come to care for quite a bit.
Okay I'm putting a read more here because this is getting LONG.
Side note before we continue that most characters don't get a full team. Between the state of Revachol on the whole and the way even people in the pokemon universe often only have a couple of them it felt reasonable.
Dora and Dolores Dei- These two get one entry, because their teams directly parallel each other. No one really knows the actual team of the historical Dolores Dei, but in Harry's mind her pokemon are the legendary mirror of those of the Dora he remembers. Sawsbuck (spring) & Xerneas like life itself. Pyroar (male) & Solgaleo bright as the sun. Fearow & Ho-Oh bright as the sun. Musharna used for headache relief and sleep & Cresselia who brings the most perfect sleep and dreams. Staryu & Jarachi who makes wishes real. Cottonee & Shaymin.
Cindy- As mentioned above, her team-skull resemblance was pretty present in her team's vibe. Obstagoon is the intimidation factor. Touch her art and you will die by this thing's hand. Snubbul is both intimidating and cute in its own way and she seems the type to have a soft spot for it. Hisuian Qwilfish is both colorful and dangerous.
Joyce- Being the Wild Pines representative, Joyce has one of the larger teams composed of Wigglytuff, Lapras, Beedrill, Venusaur, Vileplume, and Venomoth. Wigglytuff serves as the public face, kind and soft, and is the pokemon usually out at her side. Her Lapras serves as an emergency getaway, and she very much uses that beast to peace out when things get rough. The rest of her team is poison type, because by the time she would have to send them out things would be serious and there would be no more need for charade.
Annette-Snom Little snow bug friend. Would like to keep Annette warm but can only make it colder :(
Bird’s nest Roy-Slowpoke (Galarian) Everyone in this store is high on drugs or high on the madness inside their tiny beast skull.
Cuno -Raticate
Dice maker-Sableye Taste tests all the dice materials. It creeping around in the abandoned building is part of why people think it’s haunted
Dros- Glalie, ice cold. Duskull, Haunted.
The Drunks-Croagunk Definitely poisoning them actively. They asked for it.
Evrart -Liepard -Azumarill -Bibarel
Fuck the World -Basculin (Blue)
Garte- Pidgey -Klefki Tracks down key rings from guests who don’t return them.
Gaston -Bounsweet
Gary-Gumshoos Annoying beast for an annoying person
Jean -Stoutland -Mudsdale -Watchog
Judit -Bidoof -Burmy (Sand cloak) -Numel -Drilbur #1 sad beige team in all of revachol.
Klaasje -Roserade -Garchomp -Gorebyss -Salazzle -Scolipede -Froslass Something of femme fatale team here.
Kortenaer -Lairon -Aggron (After Lely dies)
Lena -Lurantis -Munna
Lilienne -Dewott -Floatzel
Lizzie -Breloom -Bewear
Lely -Aggron
Morel -Parasect
Paledriver -Ninetails (Alolan)
PissF****** -Basculin (Red)
Plaisance -Illumise It’s the hair
Pryce -Braviary -Arcanine -Kommo’o Noble team for the noble captain. Three strong and tight knit over a team of six.
Rene -Honedge
Ruby -Weavile -Nickit
Ruud -Haxorus
Smoker on the Balcony -Meowstic (Male) Gay little cat.
Soona -Porygon
Titus -Gabite -Houndour -Lycanroc (Midnight) -Krokorok
OKAY LOOK, I haven't seen the minecraft movie and I NEVER WILL, because even ignoring the terrible visuals and half-cocked isekai plot and everything else I knew from the first trailer that I would hate it.
Because it has ZERO respect for the game it rides on the world and success of! Just on sheer worldbuilding it falls apart immediately! Piglin's can't leave the nether without zombifying within minutes, not to mention that they have no inherent quarrel with overworlders. The only ones that still attack you when you're wearing gold are Brutes, and you literally have to enter THEIR buildings to encounter those!
But even from a non-nitpicky lore perspective, what is the point of this? It's played for laughs with manufactured issues and manufactured laughs and none of the sincerity that makes the game what it is. The overwhelming lack of sincere engagement is exhausting, and I see it so much with adaptations. It's why I wish francises would just be allowed to die. Let things have meaning, let them tell their story how they do, and then when it comes time, let them end. Stop trying to make everything adapt to every medium. Some things work because of how they are made. Not everything has to make every fucking cent it can.
In my weak defense I’m in a lot of smaller or old fandoms and you take what you get. Also i don’t usually use the exclude option and i love when the crack is treated seriously.
Deeply sad that Ghostwire:Tokyo does not have more of a fandom that I can find. I want SO badly to hear people’s long rambling thoughts. It’s such an interesting game for so very many reasons. It’s far from perfect of course but like…it’s enjoyable and interesting and isn’t that good enough? Maybe I’ll post some rambles later.
I will do my best to pick ONE OF EACH without my heart breaking.
Favorite Companion: Halsin, best pep talker to ever druid.
Favorite Act: Act 2. The design of the Shadow-Cursed Lands makes me weep. The amount of meat this place has with environmental storytelling, main plot mixed with other side stories and the fantastic monster/npc designs. I need more. (it has NOTHING to do with Halsin having his hottest moment and Kar'niss existing, nu-uh)
Favorite Class: Druid, Circle of Spores
Favorite Storyline: Lae'zel. Extremely tasty fish out of water that has to deal with three existential crises a day throughout the whole thing. Gods, mysteries, dragons, looking for meaning, severing the attachment to toxic mother figures. What else can you want?
Favorite NPC: LET. ZEVLOR. REST. I love this guilt ridden paladin and I really wish Larian gave him more to do in Act3.
Favorite Villain: It's actually pretty hard to pick this one. Each and every villain had something of theirs that I liked. The most fun and satisfying to me was dealing with Auntie Ethel.
Favorite Romance: Obvious choice for me. Right next to the intrigue around the whole main plot and Emperor's backstory, just the idea of having a despised monster on your side and slowly getting closer to them and making them trust you is just... hngggg... so good. Also I do love a mastermind lover. Evil or not.
Favorite Animal: Squire! Not only it has a super cool undead design but it's also a DOG. And you can pet him if you ask nicely - 11/10
No tagging - any mutual who wants to join in, please do! I am rabid to know MORE about people's thots on those matters.
Me and @lemon-grenades played Signalis this week. (when I say we played Signalis I mean she played Signalis while I watched and recited useless trivia from the wiki and occasionally was an INCREDIBLE navigator (got us even more lost/killed))
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