#kinda miffed

[lovebuck]

me: *excited to finally read heated rivalry whump fics*

me: *searches tag i like*

me: this one looks promising! i love this trope.

me: *reading*

me: hmm

me: *reading*

me: this can’t be…

me:

me: i fear they stole my story

[iwishitwasmay]

BLOOD AND GORE KILL EVERYONE FOREVET

[n2y88]

Am gonna show you a process of how from idealisation, it starts to turn awkward thanks to clients' demand.

1. Initial sketch. Was okayed.

2. Blocked out in colour. Client says too impersonal, make him turn back

3. Turns him about 90 degrees, client still says no, cross his hands

4. I turn him WAY more, since he has to cross hands. Turn his face Client says, "I can't see the other arm".

Logic in anatomy is, YOU CAN'T see the other arm. But nope, insists.

So.

5. All hail the awkward pose and I have to properly shade this, will be published and people are gonna think I donno anatomy.

[pixel-sylveon]

i got summoner to level 70 and then proceeded to die immediately while running to the next msq spot

and i got transported back to limsa

[endless-shipper-shipping-things]

kinda mad @dramafever bc they put two of my shows for premium >.> come on im broke

[darksidekelz]

Ranting about the new ‘Hasbro Universe’ under the cut

You know what I loved about IDW Transformers?  

Ease of access.

I’ve spent years trying to get into American comics.  But every time I picked one up, I felt hopelessly lost.  The first American comic I read was Runaways, and I was enjoying it just fine, and then suddenly Captain America shows up out of nowhere, and I’m immediately thrown from the story, because what the heck is this nonsense?  This isn’t his story!  What is he doing here?  The characters I had come to know and love, and their struggles were all thrown out of whack by deus ex guy-I-had-no-reason-to-care-about.  

And it was like that every time.  

You can’t just start X-Men from the beginning and read it through to the end and be fully aware of who everyone is, where they came from, and what their motivations are.  You wind up with X-23 babysitting for Mr. Fantastic and I don’t even know who Mr. Fantastic IS, but the writers expect me to, so I guess my choices are: go pick up some series I’m not interested in reading, or sit here confused and frustrated, because I don’t know why Spiderman’s a member of the Fantastic Four suddenly, or where these kids came from, or what’s going on, and it’s all really distracting but I have to grit my teeth and accept that I’m not going to understand half of the story because there is no context for me.

Because context is important.  Crossovers tend to work on the assumption that you are already familiar with the pre-established characters/universes, so there is no need to really introduce them to you again.  And it can work.  But it is so VERY easy to get it wrong, to trivialize your characters’ conflicts, to throw off the tone, to let storytelling suffer for a cool idea, and to completely lose your readers.

And now the point.

I loved Transformers because it was self-contained.  I picked up that first IDW collection, and blazed straight through until I ran out of IDW collections.  Then it split into MTMTE and RID (and later Windblade), but that was still fine.  Maybe it would be different if I hadn’t read the earlier comics first, or come from the cartoons, but to me, IDW Transformers has been the most accessible American comic I’ve ever come across.

And then Revolution happened.

IDW has decided it really wants to adopt everything I hated about Marvel and DC.  I don’t WANT to see Optimus Prime ‘battle the forces of Baron Karza.’  I don’t even know who Baron Karza is, but I know that I’ll be treated like I’m expected to, because I should’ve been reading whatever series HE’S in too.  I don’t want to read stories about characters I don’t care about just so I have context for when they show up in my series.  

Reading that afterword in TaaO tonight was a big slap in the face.  And there’s nothing I can do about it.  It’s done.  We’re now in crossover-land where nothing will make sense anymore and I’ll have to grit my teeth every time a GI Joe character forces itself into the main TF storyline and hope against hope that they won’t stick around too long.

So yeah.

Thanks for that.

[darcymariaphoster]

So, I saw this post about Xiaolin Showdown on FB and I was all, “I wonder if Netflix has this.” I went looking and found “Xiaolin Chronicles” and about shat myself. The last episode of Xiaolin Showdown aired on Cartoon Network when I was fucking thirteen and I was so upset that they weren’t bringing it back for a final season after they basically LEFT IT ON A CLIFFHANGER. 

Come to find out, ten years later, that they did. I get to go back and spazz over this childhood show. But WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT THEY BROUGHT IT BACK!? D: 

[spitfireriott]

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Whoa!!! It suddenly got rly shady