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We’re proud to celebrate one of our favorite LGBTQ couples this Pride Month, Korrasami!
Art by Irene Koh (aka @prom-knight), the talented artist behind the Legend of Korra graphic novel.
Korra and Asami made their TV debut in Book 1 of The Legend of Korra when the show (created by @michaeldantedimartino & @bryankonietzko) first aired back in April 2012. Their adventure (and romance) continues in the @darkhorsecomics graphic novels today!
Korrasami! <3
So stoked to share this preview of my illustration for “JUST THE TWO OF US” a Korrasami fan zine, celebrating the relationship between Korra and Asami.
Thanks to @catstealers-zines for letting me be a part of this awesome thing. There are so many fantastic artists in the line up, check them out here (x) It’s INSANE! Pre-order begins on the 1st of August*
*Legends say that if you pre-order on that day, there’s a 48% chance that the illustrations on the book that you’ll receive will move like this gif. So watch out for that!
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Sin by wlop
4k wallpaper, original file, brush set and painting process video will be provided to supporters on my Patreon:www.patreon.com/wlop
Finished mermaid piece in time for Mermay! It’s Mermaya~ ✨🌊💖🐠
Art and Video Games: Ayami Kojima
Ayami Kojima is a Japanese artist who started out as an illustrator for various novels before moving into the field of conceptual video game design. In the west, she is best known for her work as a character designer in the Castlevania series. For her paintings, Kojima mainly uses a mix of traditional mediums such as Conté crayons, India ink, acrylics, etc. Her art style is mostly characterized by dark surreal imagery, incorporating contrasting values and color tones reminiscent of the Baroque style.
Reminder that Cheetos’ entire plan is to prematurely re-awaken a nuke monster that can only be ‘killed’ temporarily, and then to kill it again, temporarily
but yeah, the mass murder and enslaving and all that shit was worth it, go off I guess
Oh I gotta expand on this (late I know, it lingered in my drafts) cause this gets at how they tried to use Bahamut as an excuse, when by its own verse, that’s not Charioce’s sole motivation.
First : even if it wasn’t temporarily, it still wouldn’t be worth it.
With the exception of stealing Dromos, his had nothing to do with any strategy for “permanently sealing Bahamut” (as that one episode description put it). The argument of necessary evil could not apply here, and it doesn’t even make for a cool motive because it doesn’t make sense.
The show briefly suggests that he is …
…. in need of funds for potential wars that he could avoid by telling people about Bahamut’s looming threat and …
… keeping Bahamut’s rift stable/closed. Bahamut ruined the kingdom a decade ago, but if he can’t fix his economy without slavery, he’s an incompetent king. He launched a costly invasion into another realm where none of his soldiers had experience, two years after he’d already captured the tools to face Bahamut, rather than simply build up defenses against the demons and inform the gods that Bahamut’s coming back way sooner (if we’re assuming he isn’t the reason it’s coming back sooner) and occupy said gods with keeping it sealed till he’s done building Dromos. His adviser even points out the gods are the better option after they observe their human workers barely manage to seal the rift :
He rejects it. He has the option of completely free of charge barrier maintenance and doesn’t use it, at the expense of his own people. This is not a rational choice, and it does not match the “pure gentle heart” we’re supposed to believe is the real him.
Likewise, the way he installed slavery doesn’t actually benefit the kingdom much either, it’s first geared at inducing suffering. The botched open wound amputations mean that a whole lot of otherwise healthy slaves die, not to be sold. The lack of wings means any advantage they have in construction is a moot point; the collars work at a distance (or Azazel would’ve just flown out of the arena) so there is no need for wing amputations to restrain anyone. This is not rational, it is cruel.
He does not use any demons to build Dromos, human slaves are used for that, so there isn’t even any relation between abducting and enslaving demons, and the economic excuse doesn’t hold because it’s not done economically at all.
The death fights in the arena kill off all the strongest demons or they are absorbed into the armies to be cannon fodder. That’s the closest use he got out of it, and even that is only marginally related to building Dromos in that it somewhat preserves troops/assuming he owns the arena it gets him some money. But again, there are far more constructive ways to use powerful demons, so this doesn’t work as economic excuse either.
In the end the show acknowledges that the winged and large demons would be useful for construction. Putting all other jobs aside, having the entire city constructed like his castle would surely help once he brings Bahamut in raining destruction. At least the welfare of his own people is supposed to matter to him, right?
They shouldn’t be excusing slavery with economy to begin with, but the way they did it doesn’t even hold water.
He’s annihilating the two tribes that kept Bahamut at bay ten years ago. Dromos has no inherent shields and only one shot. He shouldn’t be bringing Bahamut to the capital and he shouldn’t be weakening the only entities that could create massive shield (without turning to black blobs). He has had choices between cruelty and what is good for his kingdom, and yet chooses cruelty.
The choices Charioce made how slavery is handled in his kingdom are geared at weakening the demons tribe first and foremost. This makes no sense for defeating Bahamut, but in his own words, that’s not his only goal :
He wants the human tribe to come out on top, to continue to prosper in the future without fearing demons or bowing to the gods.
The way the disagreement between Kaisar and Charioce was phrased wasn’t really about good and evil, but about what methods would benefit the humans the most. Even in scenes when Kaisar doesn’t have to restrain his opinions, he just describes Charioce’s methods as too extreme, rather than his crimes being pointless altogether and utterly reprehensible. They consider whether coexistence was possible, not whether slavery and genocide is evil.
Charioce got exactly what he wanted in the end. No need for redemption before the narrative presents him a pure hero, it’s the victims who are pressed to change their opinion, who must learn their lesson, who we are to think were wrong for defying him.
No need for Charioce to have any kind of consequence either. Dromos vanishes before he woke up so he doesn’t even have to deal with blow back from his own people for taking away their slaves. The benefits of the new coexistence all fall to the humans, who now have a bunch of underpaid supernatural workers at their disposal who conveniently do not want to go to their homeland and rebuild that. The gods act as visitors rather than deities now, laying the foundation for unraveling the religion as well.
All Charioce had to do to keep reaping benefits off of his victims was realize that huh, maybe he doesn’t need to go quite that far to get what he wants. There’s this whole undercurrent that the god and demon tribes needed to be beaten low, even the innocent citizens, to stop being evil or arrogant.
They wouldn’t even change the painting to include the gods and demons that protected Anatae from Charioce’s theatrical decision to have the fight with Bahamut right on top of the capital. The victims should be satisfied with the barest decency after all their suffering, all the glory belongs to Charioce.
Presenting a real world evil such as slavery, genocide and dictatorship in the form of a “misunderstood” woobie who just went a little too extreme but ultimately made the world better by committing atrocities, while his victims rising and uniting as equals is demonized and had to recognize what a good guy their oppressor really is, that is at the root of what makes this story so offensive.
— say your prayers now || m.a.w
#legit though this gifset perfectly sums up why she’s my fave #she’s such an unusual character #she’s definitely one of the ‘good guys’ #but she’s also unapologetically ambitious #utterly ruthless #uncompromising#never pointlessly cruel but 100% willing to hurt and kill people to achieve her ends #but she’s also incredibly loyal and fair to the men under her command and has their absolute trust and respect #and she would give her life to protect the innocent people of her country without a second thought #she’s a very complicated character who *seems* very simple at first glance #she’s a good person…but she’s not a nice person #at all (via enigmaticagentalice)
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kept getting requests for gryphons so heres a bunch of them At Once
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みなさん・みんな・みんなさん
It seems like every time I log on to HelloTalk recently someone has made a post on this topic, so evidently they’re seeing this mistake a lot and it’s probably worth covering. Keep in mind that depending on the context there are other words that could be used to mean ‘everyone,’ but these are the generic words that can be used in phrases like ‘good morning everybody’
So to make this a quick overview:
みなさん which can also be written as 皆さん is the polite form of the word ‘everyone/everybody.’ If ‘everyone’ addresses a group in which you’re not familiar with many of the people then みなさん is generally the appropriate word.
みんな is the more casual way of saying みなさん this would generally be used to to address a group of people you know relatively well or that you’re not concerned about being too polite with (friends, classmates, random strangers on the internet etc)
みんなさん is the entire reason for this post. There are a good amount of learners using this word, which makes sense because when you go to Jisho or any other JMdict based dictionaries it does show up as an option. But it’s not a word that natives use. Like ever.
And that’s basically the entire point here. To say ‘everyone’ you can say みなさん or みんな but avoid みんなさん because for all intents and purposes it’s not a word.
First drawing of the year ~(‾▿‾~)
All right, I’ll stop shitting on Virgin Soul now. Just needed to get this out of my system after watching Genesis again recently.
Moses, hear what I say. I have been a slave all my life, and God has never answered my prayers until now. God saved you from the river, He saved you in all your wanderings, and even now, He saves you from the wrath of Pharaoh. God will not abandon you. So don’t you abandon us.
