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Laughing at the rough thumbnail for this panel in my comic VS the actual panel:

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#Silver & Iron #it's still not 100% finished I generally go back and do another pass to build up lines and add tone/fix mistakes #but the bulk of it is done #full transparency for those who would like to do similarly: the car is drawn over a model by fvrenbld on SketchFab #which is released under a creative commons license which allows me to use it this way #the house I built myself in The Sims 2 after. much research into the architecture I wanted etc #since I plan on continuing to use it as a set for other scenes so it's actually like. fully built and laid out #but the details are all different so the sims build itself is basically just a bunch of 3D shapes #to help with proportion and perspective #nothing is identifiable as copyrighted to the Sims any more. it's just shapes now #I took screenshots of both the house and the car model at the right angles/perspectives that I wanted #tweaked those screenshots together a little further until they had the right 'look'#then drew over them in this panel. the rest of the elements (steps/garage/landscaping etc) I drew myself #with some reference to google street view but nothing to the degree of the car and house #you can find lots of 3D models with licenses that will allow you to modify them #(in this case with accreditation) and then you can use them in this way in your own comic!#so long as you have the right to use the resources you use: go ahead and use them #professional comics artists have assistants to help with backgrounds and props and inking etc #and this is a way you can assist yourself as a lone artist #I don't personally use 3D models for figure drawing but they exist too #there are lots of free or affordable resources out there to help you make your comic! you don't have to be able to do everything yourself!!

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#linked universe #Lu four #I like the hc that Four is something of a loner so this is my interpretation of it #I think that Four is just… used to doing things on his own and it never even occurs to him that he could be doing it with other people #Shopping? If he ever needs more hands he’ll just spilt! Cooking? Same thing! It’s great for making sure everything is ready on time #any task that might potentially need other people is just not something he has to ever really consider #meanwhile those little moments- exploring shopping cooking- those are when the rest of the chain all bonds with each other #meanwhile Four is doing whoever knows what #it’s not intentional! I would definitely like to clarify I don’t think he’d do it intentionally #I think it’s just sort of. happens.#I don’t think he’d consciously realize what hes doing till someone else figures it out and explains it to him. For (four) as smart as Vio #and Red can be sometimes you just need an outside perspective #as always I have a lot of thoughts on this but only managed to properly communicate like 60% of them #wow I love this character :3 send them to the isolation torment box #even in a group of others you still manage to be someone on the outside. how horrible is that #also can we talk about how Four has like no friends. no iconic duo. He’s got Twi and Wild (sort of) but those two also are way closer with #each other so does it really count #Four is third-wheeling their friendship #completely unrelated but I love seeing fics where it’s some iconic LU duo and then Four is also there. It makes me laugh

hi syn! love the anti tlg posts yayy i really agree so hard about how it feels like being gaslit by an entire fandom. regarding hollanov playing on the same team, i have a question for you as someone who knows way more about hockey than i do!! i totally agree putting them on different lines is very unsatisfying for a lot of reasons, but what about the all stars 2017 setup (move one of them to the other's wing)? how realistic and feasible would that be? or would it still be a downgrade for whichever takes the move bc it's not his usual position?

Generally no, but it kind of depends on how you look at it.

It’s not unheard of for players to change positions. Hall of Fame player Sergei Federov switched from center to defense. Claude Giroux went from center and right winger and he did that switch as the captain for the Flyers. Like it’s rare to change positions but it very much does happen, and I’ve never seen it be perceived as a mark against the player who makes the switch. Like, it usually means that there’s a weakness on the team that they’re trying to account for and that the player who made the move is skilled enough to succeed in both positions.

That being said, center is typically perceived as the position that is more difficult and controls more of the play.

To be clear, being center does not mean that you are the team’s best player. Quinn Hughes is widely considered to be one of the best players on the planet and he’s not even a forward, let alone the center. Being center is not per se considered an indication of a player’s of skill level. It just means that you’re playing a role that is generally considered to be more demanding and in control of more of the play. That being said, there are plenty of teams that have wingers (the position Ilya plays in the All Star game) as their best player, with a big example being my favorite player, Jason Robertson. I personally think he’s the best player on the Stars and he plays left winger. So moving one or the other of them to winger wouldn’t be publicly viewed as a downgrade, and it wouldn’t be a downgrade to their game play as long as they were happy and fulfilled and successful in that position.

To be clear, it’s not unheard of to have a top of the line player on second line.

The first line is traditionally comprised of the best offensive players on the team. But sometimes you put a top offensive player on the second line for more depth. The other team doesn’t get as much of a break and the scoring happens more regularly. It can be strategic and usually happens if you’ve got two top tier players who play the same position.

That being said, I do personally think putting Shane on second line is still a downgrade to his career, especially on a team like the Centaurs.

The second line is traditionally comprised of worse players, and hockey is very much a team sport. The Centaurs are doing better by the end of the long game but they’re still struggling. Shane is going to go from being the first line of the best team in the division to being linemates with some of the worse players of one of the worst teams in the division, including most likely Tanner Dillon, who gets demoted from first line and replaced by Troy Barrett for fucking sucking at his job. I can’t remember if he’s ever explicitly stated to be second line now, but that’s most likely where he is. So Shane’s not going to be able to do well if the rest of the line doesn’t get their shit together and learn how to pass to him. You can only do so much as a single player.

Second line also typically gets less ice time. Shane will likely be playing less hockey because he’s on the second line, which I think is going to hurt him. He likes every second he spends on the ice.

I think the biggest reason why having Shane on second line would be a downgrade is optics. Shane’s just taken a cataclysmic career hit. People are likely going to laugh at him for being second line on a bad team now and treat it as a sign that he is a worse player in a way that they wouldn’t if you just move one of them to first line winger. And you can say “who cares what people think” but I frankly would care. Like. I think it would take some remarkably thick skin to just ignore the level of life-ruining public vitriol that is directed as Shane at the end of the long game. People have committed suicide over that kind of public backlash. It is so far from a minor thing.

And I think the biggest reason to have them both of the first line is because they legitimately like to play together, and they simply won’t get to do that anymore if they’re on different lines. One will tag out when the other tags in. I think it would drive them fucking nuts. At least if they’re on the same line, they get to play together.

And it would also mean that both of them are played out to maximum effect. If you put either one of them on second line, their efficacy will be crippled by their linemates, who, again, just aren’t very good. Putting them on the same line means that you’re getting maximum impact out of two generational talents. Spreading them across two lines means that your scoring is going to be more evenly distributed, but one of them is going to be much less effective than he otherwise could be because his linemates are fucking ass.

I personally think the best option is to have them both on first line delivering maximum damage together when Shane joins the Centaurs. It wouldn’t be perceived as an insult to either of them, and neither one of them would be handicapped by having shit linemates. Down the line, they can always explore putting one of them on the second line to better distribute the scoring, especially once they improve the players on the second line. There would be more distance and insulation from the backlash of the trip so it would be treated less like a career demotion and more like a strategic decision in the eyes of the public. And, again, putting one of them on the second line only helps distribute scoring if their linemates aren’t totally useless. I think until you improve the second line players on the Centaurs you’re more likely to decrease how much Shane can score rather than meaningfully increasing scoring on the second line. It’s going to make Shane’s career worse more than it improves the team.

I’m far from a hockey expert, so a lot of people may disagree with this assessment, but that’s my take on it.

#whenever I see people like ‘it’s not a demotion to have Shane on the second line’ I’m like. awesome. Ilya can do it then #from the bottom of my heart he needs to try to do ANYTHING to alleviate the hit Shane suffers from the trip other than offer to fuck him #better. like I’m talking from a ‘being a good partner perspective’ I would be moving heaven and earth to make that easier on my partner in #any possible way. all Ilya does is mock what happened and offer to fuck the self esteem back into Shane and it’s so fucking insulting #their team would have unbeatable depth with them on different lines IF THE OTHER PLAYERS ARENT USELESS #like it is such a team support that you can really have the best player on the planet crippled by fucking useless linemates #improve the rest of the players first if you want to have them on different lines #right now you’re just handicapping one of them by having them on the second line #which is not a great move if your reputation just took a MASSIVE HIT and suddenly your scoring goes way down through no fault of your own

on a more emotional note, my personal total exclusion from society is much more based on my disability than it is on my sexuality or gender (or lack thereof) and when I read people's escapist queernorm fantasies wherein there are no disabled people present, all I feel is a flat gray knowledge that a majority of queer people really don't mind the fact that I am effectively locked out of society. this is a fact that I already knew but seeing it reflected in something that people are touting as cozy and escapist just hurts a little bit more, you know?

#I'm not sure that I've ever encountered any cozy escapist fiction that did not contain some sort of... poison. is the thing.#if people would just stop claiming that that is what they are doing it would honestly do at least 50% of the heavy lifting #of my personal loathing for this genre of fiction #escapist fiction in which disabled people are sort of occasionally mentioned in a token capacity is no better #in my opinion. because what they are saying to me is that it's not important to them to think about why #people like me suffer socially? like. it's not important to even think about. what would need to happen #in order for that not to be the case.#which is quite offensive to me. also.#these are my personal feelings! :)#and people are always like oh so you think that we should always have to do all of the labor of deconstructing societal oppression #just to tell a fun story??? and like the answer to this is obviously no #no I don't think anyone should have to do that. but I do think that you should maybe.#give a non-zero amount of thought to how your own perspective influences what you see as cozy and escapist.

To be honest my perspective is almost always "it doesn't matter which survivors would make most sense, we got the survivors we got and that's who we have and now we deal with it".

#I think its more in line with the games.. not saying its a more right perspective but I think that's why its my stance #These ppl survived because. That's survival i guess. Doesn't always make sense #I do like to think about what IF someone else had to deal with the aftermath of All That and what dynamic would they bring #But as soon as a team survives then that's the survivors that make sense to me. I guess?#Also might just be me going 'I do not know any better than canon and do not accept responsibility' lol #I mean. im almost entirely about SDR2 survivors. No notes on THH bc aoi made it. I did not super like magic girl for drv3 and that's all #But im also thinking about a dnd team and other fandoms. You got who you got because that's what you gotta work with.#Its like....PART of the story to leave only these people. Or to be stuck with these people who are not ideal.#Yeah its gonna be tough! D E A L W I T H I T #And that's my thoughts lol #not an art #Idk i like having constraints i think. Like I like shuichi/kaito but I think the canon ending just grounds it more.#Every what-if will always only be what-if. And it gives it more flavour. I like tragedy did you know

Hey. Pitt writers. You can't explore how a character's suicidal ideation causes him to disregard others by having the show itself disregard them.

This season felt like a lot of navel gazing from Robby, not because of what he himself did (centering his own perspective, being abrasive to his colleagues, etc.--which WOULD be interesting to explore!) but because of how the show on a meta level did the exact same thing. Samira's last spoken scene was her apologizing to Robby; we didn't get to see her decide on her future plans, or even privately process her emotions about her future/how Robby treated her, which makes her apology feel less like evidence that she's been beaten down and more like the narrative forgiving Robby's treatment of her. Baran's last spoken scene was Robby threatening her career, and then her call to her husband, which would have explored HER, and the effects Robby/the job had on her, was cut. Langdon's last scene was telling Robby that he needed to get help, rather than expressing his own feelings or getting closure--or even choosing to let go because Robby (in his current state) isn't healthy for him to interact with. Abbot and Duke and Dana and Cassie and Caleb all pretty much only existed to express how much they cared about Robby; Cassie and Dana get almost no resolution for the arcs they do have. (Not to mention those who aren't connected with him, like Digby or the man who died in chairs, being used as tone-deaf attempts at comedic relief.)

The final scene literally has Robby holding an abandoned baby and saying he wishes someone would swaddle him--the show being seemingly unaware that he has in fact been swaddled all season. It could be interesting if they had critiqued his perceived abandonment--and even drawn a parallel with Trinity!--but instead this moment of further self-pity and self-centeredness is framed as a genuinely touching resolution that parallels Robby with the baby (like, I'm sorry, but this 50-year-old man who's been horrible to people all season is not the equivalent of an innocent abandoned infant). But the show doesn't remotely feel that this connection is too much, because it overly identifies itself with Robby, leaving an unbalanced and poorly paced story that feels saturated with pity for an extremely flawed main character. And that's just not something you can write a season around.

#the pitt #the pitt spoilers #the pitt season 2 #the pitt critical #michael robinavitch #meta #my meta posts #i have more thoughts on the show and i certainly don't think it was irredeemably bad but it was a frustrating finale in particular #this season it became the dr. robby show and that's not what we're here for #particularly because the only piece of robby's perspective the show was interested in critiquing was his belief that he should die #like. you can't spend a whole season showing this character being a jerk to other characters and not include anything in the narrative...#that calls that out in a meaningful way. i'm not saying robby had to become self-aware‚ that wouldn't be realistic for the time frame #but you could include other characters (remember those?) sharing their feelings about how they've been treated #or heck abbot could have called out robby for yelling at al-hashimi. something to have the narrative acknowledge he's in the wrong #the closest we came all season was dana calling him out and his response was 'my mom abandoned me'#and the show let that stand as if it was enough! again i'm not saying everything has to be explicitly condemned #but when the show identifies itself so much with its main character it's hard to believe that there is any implied criticism of his actions #like you can read that into the show if you want to maybe. but there's not any meaningful space given to disagreeing with robby #it's just kind of around the edges. except about him being suicidal‚ then everyone has nothing better to do than disagree #and i say this as somebody who actually really liked robby's character in season 1 #and was very willing to accept his problematic tendencies because we can handle complex and flavorful characters in this house #but come on. the halo framing in the last shots?? you're literally deifying this character. 'oh he's so righteous' no he's not!!!#and i thought you knew that...which is why i liked him. but now you like him too much and he's just kind of annoying because of it #ugh idk how to get all the nuance acrossssss i KNOW they have plans for the character but like!! s3 being where he hits rock bottom??#i really don't need to see his suffering/martyr complex get uplifted *again*! i'd like to see him get better OR get consequences (or both!!)#kay has a party in the tags #kay can i just catch my breath for a second

I have so many mixed feelings on the last ep of tvl. on one hand, I loved the tone of the season, the humor and the music and visuals were right up my alley, but on the other hand I just kept waiting for something to tie everything together and explain odd writing choices at the end and it just never came. every character felt like almost a parody of themselves except for lestat who was given a lot of depth. and like yeah, sure, you could say that since the season was told from lestat's perspective maybe he's just that self-absorbed and unable to look at the depth and complexity of others. but if that was the case, why didn't the writers hammer that in at the end? if the last episode was supposed to contextualize the whole season, why didn't it take the time to take us out of lestat's perspective and put us back in the real world, where we could see how skewed his perspective really was? when it ends in the way it ended, it just gives me the impression that this isn't really lestat's perspective, it's the writers'. and in that case idk man……. that really sucks.