#darkcrystal

[anonymous-moon]

Day 278-

I can no longer hide it, I ship them. *evil laughter*

[moos-hues]

some twat cracked the crystal

[skekla]

More Dark Crystal art! This time we're in for a treat with a "reversed" pair of counterparts I drew as a commission for @thomas_keith4525 on IG: a proud, imposing and bejeweled urRu, and his humble, crouching and gentle Skeksis half.

How do you think this reverse division would turn out?

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[knightscanfeeltoo]

I Really can't Stop Thinking about what Skekung's Former Title was before he became New General... A Warrior, Commander or a Spy Master...

(I miss the Age of Resistance Show so much...)

[reikiajakoiranruohoja]

Dark Crystal comic rant

I have now read nearly every AOR and dark Crystal comic there is, and especially with the AOR ones, there is a massive issue. The way the skeksis are written is beyond lazy. While the Ordon and Hup comics avoid it by having the skeksis show up briefly, the rest suffer from the writers basically doing zero research on the skeksis.

For example, let's look at the skekGra comic. Before it, the common fanon theory was that skekGra was punished by the skeksis court as a whole and that is why he has the nail in his head. This theory makes sense, since we saw in AOR proper that the skeksis punishments can be brutal and wanting unity would result in a pretty bad punishment and exile. Instead, the comic has skekTek shove that thing into Gra's head during a fight. Then leaving Gra lying there and to wander off on his own.

Not only does that action make very little sense for Tek to do (he might argue with Sil and give Var a scratch, but Tek is not typically violent with other skeksis) but it also creates an unfortunate implication to Gra's goodness. While he already was nice to the twin gelfling, the nail as the catalyst for him joining with urGoh hints that he only became good because he got brain damage. Nevermind a bigger issue; The skeksis do not just randomly maul each other. The death of a skeksis is a huge deal and every skeksis is somewhat afraid of death and reminders of it. It is why the Dousan cannot be Castle guards. Giving Gra brain damage and just leaving him to bleed with no one checking on him? That goes counter to the way the skeksis were written in the movie and in AOR.

It feels like the writer wanted to have the nailing happen as soon as possible, so they could focus on the gelfling storylines. Indeed, even in a comic supposedly about a skeksis and an urru, the gelfling are the viewpoint characters. Now, I don't mind an outsider viewpoint storyline, but it is clear they are there for the audience to get attached to. Even though people are as or even more attached to the skeksis we already know. Rather than a new stock of gelfling characters. I have already addressed this topic years back, but it bears repeating; It seems the writers are just copying skekSil's most known traits for any skeksis appearing. In a comic that is supposedly about how skekGra and urGoh became outsiders, the lack of other skeksis or urry getting involved beyond Tek's oocness is ignoring the established canon and the numerous skeksis/urru fans.

[thecontrarianlibrarian]

Gentle Deet

From the new Netflix dark crystal show. She's so cute. A quick watercolour warm up.

Sep 15 2019

[candythemew]

Commission for an irl bestie of mine :3c I love how UrEnn's design turned out. (Just as a fun aside, personality wise this guy is essentially the Diogenes of the UrRu.)

[warhammer-painter81]

Finished this diorama from Jim Henson's 'The Dark Crystal'. Awesome mini to paint!