Shitposts, But Sailor Themed

Blog for my unreasonable hyperfixation on the sailors from the 2011 Tintin movie

[magicandwizards]

At Sea ♒︎

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Shadow, shorts and a t shirt, laughing: How could anyone hate the rain?

Allan, fully trench-coated up and having spent way too much time near Shadow's Gen Z ass: On gods they tryin to drown me in this hoe. I cannot see!

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"Why do you always call Movie!Tom a puppy?"

Mans spends the movie looking like this in 90% of scenes, what ELSE am I supposed to refer to him as?

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For the AU I'm writing in, I'm blending elements from the comics and movie together. One such development is a "Legacy Chain".

Ivan served as Rasty's mentor into organized crime. He's where Rasty's underlying megalomanic tendacies got cranked up to 11, though he takes no credit for Rasty engaging in "dirty" crime like drugs or guns as Ivan sticks to antiques and art. Both carry the same ruthlessness, however.

Rasty took Allan on as his personal portege right at the start when the young mariner began to slip into the criminal underworld before eventually casting him aside when this version of Allan (who served in this reality's WWI analogue as a stretcher bearer alongside Tom before they were both transferred to recon/scout via a Army Tranfers Act of 1915-analogue) refused to throw his close crew to the side.

Allan then eventually takes on Shadow as his own apprentice (with help from Tom) both to fulfill a legacy desire (no blood kids) but also to hopefully use the isekai'd Gen Z'er to take out Rasty (Darth Maul style). Less awful than his canon counterpart, instead truly caring for his fellow "men in the mud" and harboring secret guilt for keeping Haddock drunk (he believes if Haddock takes the helm, the whole ship could be in danger), Allan still enables the more morally grey aspects of Shadow and employs manipulation to keep Shadow loyal to him personally. After all, when it comes to their current job, there are no second place prizes.

The amount of thoughts I have about this AU cannot be overstated, but do I write any of it? No, I stare at the page and expect this damn story to write itself.

Given what was a single story when I started has mutated into two mini-series and four full length books... I shall be staring for a bit

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Another dts style pose test with Tom and Shadow

Shadow isnt tall, Tom is short. But despite having about 40lbs on Shadow his sweaters still fit her

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Working on crew designs

Again

Trying to quit making all my guys "conventionally Hollywood attractive" tho no sure I succeeded here

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Been a hot minute since I drew them

Still janky but enjoyable ✨

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An Allan, or at least an Adventures!AU one. Probably around 41 in this one. Joints still somewhat work, though crawling through no man's land as a teen didnt do his knees any favors

Highlights of my mutterings during the drawing process:

"Sketchy sketchy sketchy"

"Silco is close enough for gov work for a nose ref, you're both backstabbers anyway"

"Pointy"

*realizing the head is too big* "Sorry buddy gotta lobotomize you for a minute" (personal fav)

"Pointy pointy everywhere"

"FUCKIN HATS IMMA CRASH OUT" *gives up and deletes hat*

"Don't forget the lines, he's old"

"Nah, ain't no way that undershirt is white anymore. Let's go off-white"

"He probably has them discount cigarettes. Half the price, twice the lung cancer"

"Fuckin SHOULDERS"

*upon completion* "There. One grouchy rat-bastard man done"

[weirdlandtv]

As I was browsing concept art for the TINTIN movie, I came across these—concepts by Lu Yang for the accompanying game. Love the first one especially.

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I just think he's neat

I still DESPISE THAT HAT

Gonna try to do a few more of the main crew to keep myself out of same face syndrome *glances at my clone tooper sketches*

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Get Farmer's Tanned idiot

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I just think he's neat

I still DESPISE THAT HAT

Gonna try to do a few more of the main crew to keep myself out of same face syndrome *glances at my clone tooper sketches*

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Why do I do this to myself?

Either way, trying to get a group shot for some of the sailors. Tintin's there too at this point in the story, though he's not happy about it. Can't say I blame him, no one likes family pictures anyway.

Four kids, four dads. Two bio, to adoptive.

Not sure which I hate more; hats or perspective

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I cant draw hands and by Talos, I aint about to start now

Im too busy thinking up the most convoluted relation map

Harry is the brother of Neil's mother's sister's husband. Neil decided Shadow was his new little sister whether she wanted to be or not. Shadow is friends with Tintin (who only marginally signed up for this). Shadow is the subject of a onesided crush from Nicky. Nicky is Tom's biological son, but isn't aware as Tom and his mom had a one night stand. Tom is technically married to Allan thanks to weed and vegas. Allan decided that the feral martial artist who bites (Shadow) is his problem now. Tom and Allan both are adoptive uncles of sorts to Neil. Then there's Vinny with his son Tony, who (even though I forgot to add it) is a pseudo-brother to Nicky who is the adoptive son of Vinny (given Tom left the night after none-the-wiser he'd be haunted 18 years later).

Messy messy messy

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Why do I do this to myself?

Either way, trying to get a group shot for some of the sailors. Tintin's there too at this point in the story, though he's not happy about it. Can't say I blame him, no one likes family pictures anyway.

Four kids, four dads. Two bio, to adoptive.

Not sure which I hate more; hats or perspective

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I literally just realized I have NEVER drawn Tintin himself. Shameful.

So I tried from memory for a quick 20 min. He DOES appear in my fic, and is friends with my MC (though he cant exactly remember how they met which drives him half mad)

Their hair? Wack. Their clothes? Wack. Their anatomy? Wack. Their pose? Wack.

Me? Im stressed as FUCK

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Allan's turn after Tom

Still needs some work, I dont like it as much as Tom's, but that's life as an artist baby 👉👉

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Another try at Tom, and his fuckass hat that I can never draw right

Currently adding elements of Clint Walker to his facial structure (Clint's got a nice heavy skull) while keeping the canon nose (tried the boxer bridge aka he's gotten clocked once or twice) and Jack Palance cheekbones.

Couldn't figure out why my guys always looked younger, but I discovered it had to do with the way I was drawing chins lol (or not drawing them).

In other news, adding elements of Clint to his design was a wrong move. I mean Im having the time of my life looking at ref images but the amount of dopamine is concerning ✨ Y'all know that man was walking around at 6'6" in the 50s? Ridiculous

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Where TF does Tintin live?????

I got my dad theorizing with me now, this time about where tf Tintin lives

Based on most clues, it's Brussels. But the frequency at the ports suggests maybe Antwerp. Hmmm

Chat how we feel about an alternate history where Antwerp and Brussels got hit harder in WWI (destroying many rail lines, forcing trade to be more reliant on road and water) which caused the capital and main port to be moved to Bruges and Ostend, respectively?

Will be pestering my Belgian friend to lock down a good site for Tintin.

All this, of course, for the sole purpose of working out the best alley to place my character in to get hit by a truck (and send Allan's bloodpressure through the roof).

(And give Neil a heart attack)

(And haunt Tom's nightmares for weeks/months to come because he was driving and meant to hit Barnaby but hit my character by accident when they decided to become a human battering ram and bodyslam the FBI agent)

(Sorry guys)