polivanova art blog

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yo I’m new to transformers

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Lady Une and her Treize plush

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Spent all day procrastinating and trying to figure out these two in my style… heavy burden of 7 years at arts academy kills any remaining anime… also Lady Une is ready to kill this man with paperwork

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these two got me in a chokehold

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Treize Khushrenada after getting fired from OZ in the middle of the war while everybody go insane:

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Finishing watching gundam wing today probably…. I’m going batshit insane for 13x11 and 6x9

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Oh dude did I watch gundam wing

Evil women deserve to be happy

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at this point you can kinda guess my le favourites

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me a month ago: hmmm I want to rewatch some obscure titles from my childhood

me now at 3 am chewing on my table because all I have in my brain are them

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Behold my fellow last exile enjoyers, here comes the wet cat man himself! And of course his himbo friend nemesis

had spent way more time on this piece than planned but nevertheless enjoyed the details (and rewatching the 11th episode three times in a row hehe)

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I have zero apologies

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Alex Row is so lucky his show is from 2003. Today tumblr would wash him with dish soap in the kitchen sink.

Meanwhile I'm here revisiting a teenage obsession series and wondering how the dude manages to be simultaneously an edgelord, a sopping wet rag of depression and genuinely cool.

He is both the most and the least character ever. He's a soldier, he's a pirate, he's fighting global tyranny, he only wants revenge, he's a philosopher, he doesn't give a shit, his ship has the reputation of being cursed, he runs the loosest ship in the skies.

The Silvana turns into a daycare for teenagers he has second hand emotional ties to and he just lets the buggers get on and off as they please. The children of his dead best friends? Flying his vanship? Eh, shoot them down, let them stay, who cares. His nemesis' shithead little brother? Eh, he can hang out, enlist him in the vanship fleet.

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Get you a blorbo that can do it all!

He's a fascinating balance of unrepentantly scrungly, very depressed, tactically brilliant, and reckless enough to make it hurt. At what cost to him? He doesn't care. (Alex, please take several naps.)

He's got enough of a sense of showmanship to maintain and use that fearsome reputation, too. Silvana gets in deep trouble a few times, and it's often half real action and half show that resolves it. Alex's willingness to make it cost the enemy more than it costs him is a fearsome trait, and his ability to make them think it'll cost so high contributes.

I'm of the opinion that Alex has collected a group of astonishingly successful mid leadership (Sophia, Gale, Tatiana when she's not in jealousy-based failure mode) and largely lets them do their thing. The Silvana may be shambling onward on spite and teenage competition, but the coordination of everyone we don't get to focus on makes it work.

The Silvana crew runs smooth when they need it most, and that's as much a testament to good leadership as it is to good relations between the people aboard.

The reclusive, vengeful captain is only a small part of that.

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I’m wheezing

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In 1944 a kitten named George (short for General Electric) was saved from drowning by a U.S. Navy crew member. George was then photographed and given a liberty card and detailed health record. Source.

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Finished bingewatching fam and I can’t stop laughing on how these two idiots differently handle Alvis being on their ship

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Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

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And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser

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world heritage post

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had a hard nostalgic kick for last exile series, and now on a daily basis all I think of is how underrated Vince/Sophia relationship is that’s so unfair SO I HAD TO MAKE SOME GOOD FANART 👹

my precious knight boy and his queen I’m so dead for their dynamic I mean Vince was always so sweet and protective to Sophia excuse me but him>>>Alex

(I dunno who will find this post in 2023 but I hope at least someone??)