#characters!

[flippythegodzilla]

i always wondered, were there set designs for characters like Twyla, Lillianna, Rocco, Nazrat, etc, or are we supposed to use our imagination for what they look like?

So for Twyla she would look like Rapunzel but with silver wolf ears and tail and green and brown eyes wearing a green cloak

Lilianna is base off a white Maine coon!

Rocco a silver tabby bob tail!

And Nazrat a combination of the collector and Vatti from the legends of Zelda

[my-dontstarve-draw]

Bro how do you draw the dst survivors and match the ds style so well…

Seriously I need to know (I wanna draw them so bad but I have no idea how)

Ahh Thank you!!! It takes time to get used to the style>:0! Infact, if you look at my oldest work youll notice a major difference from then and now!

I say the key ingredient is getting their basic shapes down before their iconic features! And dont worry about getting the style right, Its always nice to have them in your own style! Hehe

[elbowreveal]

hero forge DSMP pt.2!

SAM:

SCHLATT:

NIKI:

[Part 1]

[mattikitku]

I've just finished Arcane and hasvhvgdhahahdfdgfdshgfdf

THIS SHOW YOU GUYSSSSS

[ivyprism]

My Gasters (Undertale, Underfell, Fellswap Red, Underswap.)

W.D/Gaster: He is a very calm person! He is a devoted father who is constantly concerned about his two sons. He admits he was not an amazing or perfect father, but he tried and treasured the little moments he had with his sons before falling into the Core. He tries his hardest to make up for lost time with his sons after being dragged back! He is involved in their lives and frequently offers to spend time with them. (He keeps up with both of them, and his sons both adore him.) He makes sure to be there for his sons as often and as much as he possibly can!

Salamander: He's strict and a little cold. He, like W.D, is a devoted father who is concerned about his sons. In the world they came from, he showed them as much love as he could. He has the highest LV of his sons and can be cruel when his family is threatened. He also has a commanding and demanding demeanor. He can get anyone to listen to him by slightly raising or lowering his voice to dangerously calm levels. Every weekend, he makes up for lost time with his sons by having tea with them. He makes an effort to mend any broken bonds they may have, and his sons adore him. He refuses to speak of his time in the void.

Coral: He is the father of Stretch and Blue! He is, without a doubt, an oddball! He is widely regarded as a bright and cheerful individual. He adores his sons and expresses concern for them whenever possible. But don't underestimate him! Coral is a fierce and protective father to his sons, and he will drop any cutesy persona he puts on to deal with the problem. He, like the other Gasters, is extremely intelligent and dangerous. He, too, fell into the void and is attempting to make up for lost time with his sons. He tends to become defensive and protective over his sons and he's working on it. He would do anything for his sons!

Sirius (named after the hound Sirius Black): He is the father of Ebony and Hound. He is a strict and cold person with his own eccentricities. Despite his temper and coldness, he is a devoted father who adores his sons. He would go to any length to protect his boys, as evidenced by his LV. He retains his astute and dangerous personality, as does Coral, but he is terrible at concealing it. He can't act, so he avoids trying to be cheerful and kind. He is always kind to his sons and spends as much time as he can with them. He is also a great source of comfort for his sons.

[0rosenstern0]

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[badbookopinions]

A Deadly Education - The  Scholomance #1, Naomi Novik

A+: this was a delight. Fun, a little horrifying, and great dynamics between characters. 

In the Scholomance, there are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El has astonishing destructive powers but no allies - until she forms an unlikely friendship with God’s gift to humanity, Orion Lake. (adapted from the Goodreads page)

This book has been called racist. I personally don’t think it deserves all the flak it’s getting - I explain my feelings on the matter below the cut. The mistakes Novik made were few (throwaway sentences, not plot points) and they were due to being misguided rather than being malicious.

I had such a good time with this, and can’t wait to see where the series goes next. It’s the sort of story where things get better as they go on, I think, which is one of my favourite types. Grumpy, antisocial El collects friends against her will in this book, and I can’t wait to see what those friends do in the next.

This is the one school story I’ve read that feels like how high school feels for me - which sounds like an exaggeration, with the amount of death going on here. But the constant stress, working at every second, exclusively talking to your friends about schoolwork, and worrying at every second about final exams or what you’re going to do once you get out there into the world and have to deal with real-world problems, which are somehow worse? That’s what high school is like, and I did not anticipate the story to get it right would be one in which characters are routinely killed by monsters.

While El spends a little too much time narrating the way the school and the world works and a little too little time on action, she’s such a charismatic protagonist and Novik has made such an enjoyable world that I almost didn’t mind.

Also, Orion and El’s relationship? A joy to read. It was definitely a departure from the mature, balancing-of-power-dynamics of Uprooted and Spinning Silver. It’s the perfect hero and a loser who really enjoys being mean to him, and it’s entertaining and teenage and a little bit adorable.

Plot: surprisingly little of it, but it worked well. It isn’t exaggerating to say El spends more than half of the book just explaining the world to the audience. Since the whole plot takes place in just a couple weeks, though, it works better than I was expecting it to. 

Characters: excellent. El - Galadriel Higgins, a half-Indian girl raised by her hippie white mother in a peace-and-love commune, foretold as someone who will destroy worlds. I adore her. And while Orion, God’s perfect moster-killing himbo, and their relationship is pretty great, what I really loved was El making friends with two other girls. Aadhaya and Liu, who I’d love to see more of in later books because they were charming and intriguing. 

Setting: this was great. And I’m not just saying that because Novik specifically mentions Toronto as home to an excellent enclave (aka small community of wizards) and I’m biased to anyone who’s kind to my home city. You can tell that Novik took inspiration from Harry Potter, but she’s made something entirely new out of it. A fully realized and slightly horrifying school, plus thinking about how the magical world works outside the school. 

Prose: El talks SO MUCH. Seriously, my one problem with this book was that there’s SO much introspection. Since I liked El, I had no issues with it. Also, props for this banger of a first sentence: “I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.”

Diversity report: so there are two main concerns against this book - an Indian protagonist who’s divorced from her heritage, and a paragraph about dreadlocks in which El was talking about the danger of monsters nesting in long hair and called out dreadlocks specifically. The paragraph about dreadlocks was actually removed from the version I read, so I found out about it later - it’s not my place to talk about whether this was inexcusable or not, though Novik has apologized. However, I am Indian, and I don’t think that El was bad South Asian representation. First, her father’s Marathi family was described respectfully and kindly. Secondly, Aadhaya is South Asian and is connected to her culture, and El is making attempts to connect to her culture through studying languages and history. Thirdly, Novik got the microaggressions that come with being brown right - every time El mentions some white person discussing yoga with her it was very familiar. I think that Novik could very easily have made an all-white story and wouldn’t have been cancelled, but that she chose to strive for representation in her works, and was held to a ridiculously high standard because of that. She would have benefitted from her sensitivity reader giving it another once-over, but that doesn’t mean this book isn’t still a great read. And this is a fantasy series with a South Asian main character - this is still incredibly rare, and I was delighted when I found out.