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did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #eternity float #eternity float of the coral sea #surprise! my art actually CAN look worse!#but i just love these fancy lads so much #like i was initially kinda 'CORAL S -- aw no merforms? :('#but i figure they're probably saving a proper underwater event for azul so whatever it's time for HYPE #especially because it looks like it might be WEDDING-THEMED(!!!)#and/or kiss the girl(!!!!!!!)#and honestly for both of those jade is actually the funniest possible ssr choice #sorry leona we found the one event that...no he would still be hilarious. dangit.#honestly though these are top-tier choices all around #if i was going to walk around a beach while jade talks endlessly at me about the legend of the mermaid princess with big sleeves #i could ask for nothing better than riddle malleus and rook to be standing there tossing flower petals at me the whole time #i know it's probably all ~algorithm-based~ or whatever they have that tells them what characters to use #but there is legit a little something i think in doing a kiss the girl theme with those three #the three guys who have some of the most trouble properly expressing themselves #and also jade who i assume just thinks they're all prime sources for hilarity #he will 100% be looking for opportunities to 'accidentally' push someone overboard #bonus points if there's a very fancy cake that they can fall into on the way down #i don't know anything about what the story will be yet but i know that much is true

Broke: Po3 rewrite where Hollyleaf goes full evil

Woke: Po3 rewrite where it looks like Hollyleaf is going down the path of evil, but actually she gets her redemption and LIONBLAZE is the one to fall to evil

Bespoke: Po3 rewrite where, having realized that StarClan is the villain and that his mothers and siblings are in direct danger from them, JAYFEATHER goes evil and destroys StarClan, and therefore never has his stupid fucking heel-turn into being a diligent little church boy mocking Mothwing for not bowing and scraping to them. He becomes the new Rock and re-shapes the Clans' whole religion, putting every fuck-ass ghost in their place and giving agency back to the living

#po3 rewrite #warrior cats #jayfeather #hollyleaf #lionblaze #Firestar and the living Journey Cats become akin to saints #The med cat kits rule is abolished #Lionblaze uses his invincibility and empties the Dark Forest #Hollyleaf should have some kind of power. I think she should get the power of suggestion‚ but that's just me #actually. you know what. For better or worse every living leader at the moment is canonized. not just firestar.#The StarClan cats who remain after Jayfeather deposes them now work more like Sisters ghosts. they wander the earth #until eventually deciding to fade away.#they have no power over the living anymore.#the Three re-weave the power of StarClan into something new. something brighter.#something kinder.#also. The most crucial detail.#THE THREE FIND OUT THAT STARCLAN DIRECTLY STRONG-ARMED THEIR MOTHERS INTO DOING THE BIG BABY MAMA SWAP.#They're angry and upset AT THE RIGHT PEOPLE for what happened to them #and Jayfeather doesn't say fuck-ass shit like calling them ''conspiring vixens''

Getting more comfortable sketching on the new tab!

#I actually did the 'put hands behind to avoid drawing them' technique lol #Didn't notice I flipped my canvas when I wrote text on this 😅.#Middle Steven there is a sketch redraw. Just to see if I can depict age better (or worse). At least sketch-wise. And yeah. I do think there #is an improvement. 😁 This is on Future timeline and he actually looks like a teenager instead of a child this time. Lol #And hopefully I'm not jinxing myself by being smug about it #xp-pen magic notepad exploration: pen/nib #xp-pen magic notepad exploration #The felt nib really does improve the drawing experience. With sketches at least and so far.#These are all on Sketchbook though. Hadn't tried it on Hipaint.#my shiz #connverse #Connie Maheswaran #Steven Quartz Universe #Steven Universe #SU #Steven Universe Future #SU fanart #mid commission doodle break #Midcommission doodle break Because hoooboiiiiii .......I was drawing fur for a commission. And. Like. I can't find a brush that makes #drawing fur faster. So I manually painted them. And like. I rendered them glazing style. I spent SO LONG on that fur render.......#Only realize that the shading was on a blatantly wrong angle. ⁠(⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠┻⁠┻#Of course I cried but you know what. My tears moisturized my dry screen-stressed eyes. So that's something at least.#Anyway. The premium is not actually that bad. 170 PhP one time purchase is doable.#They're not letting me buy though. I mean. I keep getting a prompt that their system is busy.#This could be a sign from the universe or something. 🤔 Maybe I'm not meant to buy the premium version. I got Hipaint for free afterall.#But the textured brushes are so good though. 😔 Tattoo inker and signature ink brushes my beloved. 🥺#And they got that tapered airbrush that I keep seeing around.#Why can't I buy it??? Take my money please. 😭

The Medarda arc of s2 struggled to be good, because the plot viciously smothered it. You can argue that Arcane was never about politics but you cannot say the Medardas were never explicitly a family defined by politics. So when the show shifted it's priorities from a drama steeped in political conflict where even though the setting was fantastical the stakes were grounded to a shift where magic is the end all be all threat to humanity, the Medardas are rendered largely irrelevant.

In s2 Mel's agency over her own story is both largely stripped from her and poorly communicated. Arcane has Mel abducted from the plot to be the Black Rose's captive. Even when Mel manages to free herself it's not through the traits the audience understands are her strengths, her cunning and social intelligence, it's through an innate instinct that natural to her and indecipherable to the audience.

Ambessa as a character is more or less a villain of convenience, which would be fine if she wasn't immediately following Silco's act. Once Mel is removed from the story Ambessa is largely disconnected from any emotional tension fuels conflict between the characters and previously drove the plot in s1. She's there to play the worse bad guy for Caitlyn and then give Viktor the man power for the Glorious Evolution.

It's frustrating to see the Medardas used the way they are in s2 because when they're together I can see how it could be good. When they're together Mel forces emotion out of Ambessa. In Act 1, Ambessa proved she could do circles around Piltover's court, which could actually put Mel in a tight spot.

Their final scene on paper sounds like a good idea where the true resolution to Mel and Ambessa's story was that Ambessa saw Mel's own ruthless behavior as she not only betrayed Ambessa to the Black Rose, but used her as BAIT to double cross LeBlanc. Ambessa died proud that her daughter killed her the way she did, and that's so cool and tragic, but the execution was a flop.

One, their final fight is completely unimportant to the actual Glorious Evolution, Mel's grief can't even be a highlight because it's interrupted by Viktor's mind trap. Two, their fight didn't rely on any of Mel's actual strengths, just magic and the poorly explained MacGuffin LeBlanc gave her. How did Mel even know it would do that?

It's like the writers had the bones for a great story for the Medardas, but then they're like the world's worst archeologists and fit those bones together in the worst way possible because they were convinced the bones made a stegasaurus instead of a T-rex or something.

#the black rose also doesn't really do anything except kidnap Mel #they know there's an end of the world level problem but they just sit on it for no real reason #arcane critical #mel medarda #ambessa medarda #s2's priorities are mostly incompatible with the kind of characters the medardas were set up as in s1 #and frankly didn't want to engage with what made them special #personally i think it's connected to how the showrunners were suprised at Silco's popularity bcuz the stuff that makes silco interesting #is the same stuff that makes mel and ambessa interesting #which is what makes it worse bcuz the blueprint was there for the medardas to shine in s2 #but the plot literally ran away from them so they're both largely devices in other people's stories mel less so #you could edit mel out of the last episode and nothing would change in the end #that's how irrelevant she was to the story #actually you could do that to ambessa too they're just there to pad out the numbers to include noxian soldiers #why did mel need to be stuck in the occulorum for the black rose arc to function #they could have easily had more agents in piltover like they did with amara #and they try to ingratiate themselves with her as ambessa further alienates her o #position of power in piltover and mel doesn’t know who to trust except herself and accepts that her methods were always #as ruthless as her mother's wothout any direct bloodshed #or something like that I'm just spitballing #did anyone else notice mel and ambessa didn’t get a songle song durong the show #no blood sweat and tears doesn’t count bcuz it wasn't in the actual show #compare Ambessa's death to Silco's or even Cassandra's who had more weight and time given to it?#it's just above Heimerdinger's own “death”#that's how relevant the Medardas are to this story they're heimerdinger level

That causes Dande’s resolve to soften somewhat...

#dnd art #dnd character #comic #sketch #dnd #very rough but i needed it out of my system #dandelion treehollow #jalester silvermane #lionmane #dande was trying to get jalester to agree not to go to the feywild #where the party needs to go to fix dande's mistake/betrayal #but dande doesn't want them to go because he thinks they're gonna die. or something worse.#he's still freaked out from his few minutes back Home (with his hag mom)#anyway he was trying to have a serious conversation but his resolve was melted away by jalester saying a few quite nice things #dande is so easily emotionally distracted lol #“I feel like we don't wanna have the same conversation.”#links in the text are just to other drawings i did while ruminating on this scene #ugh this is so rough but i have actual work i need to do BOOOOO

Hey Merchant, I hope you're doing okay after that! Just remember we're all human, don't beat yourself up for it! It's amazing that you actually clicked and had the time to apologize and write a whole paragraph about it, tho tbh to me specifically I didn't think you need to do it? But reading it made me click too!

Hope ur doing well now, here have an old BurningCheese doodle of them bickering hehe

Aww it's fine. Don't worry about me. I just woke up today suddenly feeling different about things and I felt like I had to say something about it. I've been quite rude in a couple of posts and replies the past couple of days and that was wrong of me. I owe everyone an apology for that, that's all there is to it. I appreciate your concern though, that means a lot to me

And thank you for the doodle ❤️ it's so Them, I love it. Tell him what's what, queen!!! Y'all will start making out soon anyway lolololololol

Your art style is really adorable and charming ❤️ idk how often you post your art but if it isn't common, then I encourage you to reconsider! And thank you again for reaching out, I'm touched you took the time to do so. Especially right now, because I don't really feel like I deserve it haha

#funny thing about this is #i paused while i was writing that apology post to do something else #and then when i came back i started peeking at other blogs for a minute just out of random curiosity #and an artist i really like/admire made a post about this whole thing and their feelings about it. and it made me feel 1000x worse haha #they were so upset and i honestly felt even guiltier than i already did. because I'm guilty of the behaviors they talked about #and what hit me hardest was when they said there are blogs they want to follow but don't because they're so annoying about shipping #blogs they otherwise like because the users have cool thoughts/ideas #it might be a little self-absorbed of me but i read that and thought “... is this me? are they referring to me?”#and the thought of someone whose work i really enjoy thinking that of me stung so bad that i actually felt my stomach drop haha #i actually wanted to cry reading through that post. i still kind of do several hours later haha. i feel like trash #I've been trash recently and i really do feel like i ought to apologize for it #none of this is worth getting so uppity about and i hate that i lost sight of that for a bit #i hope you can all forgive me for being such a petty jerk. i want to go back to Silly Merchant Hours #cookie run kingdom #burningcheese #goldenspice #merchant asks

cracking open the [is the waving through a window book shelved with the score music on purpose?] plastering it closed

#Extremely Par For The Course Language / Concepts but doesn't mean it's Extremely Chill #Literally Normal™! doesn't mean anything about how it's Good & Chill. just Normal. which i would say is not good or chill #being A Victim (Of Anything; Implicitly) isn't about matter-of-fact contexts of events & power in systems #it's a demeaning status which individuals can Prove They Don't Deserve (the whole point is conceded unless already nobody deserves to be #treated by any standards not applied to any person existing) & when you think about it something's wrong w ppl who Let themselves be #victims of anything (i wouldn't! guess im different! Better. Stronger Smarter Sexier) &/or; same diff; being a victim of something corrupts #ppl & makes them Wronger / Worse than other people & less of a Person too. so yknow indeed Successfully Avoid being a victim of anything or #you deserved it. victim blaming Is Normal that is the Normal Stance as is that hierarchies are merited & go unquestioned / supported &#to respect & be concerned w accommodating anyone / boundaries & consent Is In Fact Weird™ & disruptive to the norm #just try being Strong & choosing not to be A Victim even if you're a victim of something. that was beneath you.#you can/should/must appeal to the normate & prove you Deserve to be seen as Legitimate; Unlike Other People #ppl doing elegies for like. ppl dedicating their lives to advocacy like They Refused To Be / Weren't JUST A Victim. oh whew.#god forbid. the nameless unelegied victims who Deserve The Obscurity i guess #which reminding me of like. another elegy for an individual indeed given some Obscure [various terms for Unknown Unassetted Grave] site #found like oh you think they're Just Another Dead [Dismissive Somewhat Derogatory Term] well they were impressive talented attractive #intelligent singular beloved actually so. like oh great but yknow again. the Appeal To The Oppressive System & Its Adherents.#which cedes the ground of principles like that Nobody Deserves Xyz Treatment. rip to other dead randos in basically unmarked graves who #Aren't being defended/argued as Deserving Better bc they were Exceptional. unlike the illegimate unexceptions.#anyway. not like you expect too much from a) anything Official / Promotional when you get to the stage of having a coffee table book even #though also it's official deh vids that actually e.g. point out info about jared's role for once in a lifetime water flowing underground or #semi official novelizations pretty much just doing whatever connor is a ghost now or b) i really don't assume this book has too much info #of interest though ig i'd read it. i was looking for the floyd collins score again. c) i also just don't think any of the ideas about The #Murphys incl zoe unforch is of interest to me. the parents would be helped by going on dates & Not getting divorced. connor getting all #this attention from his parents by killing himself god as usual!!!#zoe wishes they Were more like the brady bunch & her realest self is all about Pleasant Uneventfulness where it was Bad that she could get #upset abt her life & outwardly angry & same re: evan so once they Almost connect over dropping politeness & prickling at each other it's #Pleasant Uneventful Façade times forever which is real & meaningful. not letting ourselves be victims bc we're Resilient like that

sunny thesis statement btw

#i genuinely fucking hate his ass lol #anyway yeah like. this and his appearance in the s2 finale #it's really funny because i think he can easily be seen as an unquestionably normal Good Guy who has every right to be against them #but in reality he's a self righteous piece of shit who has no interest in helping his kids at all #he wants to ~teach them a lesson~ but the reason that dennis and dee are this way is not because of frank #(highkey funny as hell that he would blame him when the twins are so obviously carbon copies of barbara right in front of him)#the reason they are this way is because people like bruce paint them as evil unrepentant monsters who *contribute nothing to society*#which is a key point of course #it's about punishment rather than reformation #he rescinded all support the second he realized they weren't perfect angels who took after him #animals. monsters.#he sees them as being inherently Less Than human. they're lost causes and he can't possibly fix them #the show is unsympathetic to bruce in several moments where you'd expect it to be an audience catharsis moment of karmic justice #the reasons spelled out for why dennis and dee run back to frank and even barbara questioning bruce's motivations aren't just dismissed #he's no better than the gang and he stoops to worse and weirder lows to Prove a Point #ironically he's doing the same shit frank did to the twins growing up. teaching them a lesson about greed by giving them something #and then taking it away #when i talk about this show i am always thinking about these times when i find myself siding with the gang Against people like this #you start to see why they're all sticking together in the first place #it's not simply because they enjoy doing bad things. most of the time that isn't even their intention #it's that same attitude people get toward misbehaved children #dennis and dee only ran back to frank after they were rejected for being themselves #monstrous and unsavory and unacceptable by bruce's standards.#for dennis and dee who have experienced nothing but transactional relationships and know no other way to live #what they actually need is security and unconditional support #that is effectively what the gang provides in its own weird fucked up way #no matter what they do to each other it's almost never Too Far and they don't have to pretend to be humanitarians lol #anyway horrifically low bar to surpass frank not cleared. truly incredible. gee dennis and dee how come you get THREE shit parents?#ada speaks #i'm too tired for this to be coherent

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