#lung

[fimbry]

Sometimes you just gotta draw a classic!

[consvlivl1e]

How the fandom would react diferently to the bb gang leaders(kaiser, lung, coil and etc) if they were woman? I need unserious and/or serious answers

[heural]

Gold Morning abridged!

For the intended viewing experience watch the music video for' Once in a Lifetime' by The Talking heads. Link below so you can't not do it .

This was a fun little project to test my drawing tablet and learn what every button does in krita.

You can see me immediately regret drawing Sophia's cloak and full black costume (Aisha too, but I like her too much to complain :P). I did *not* know what to do to not make her just a silhouette.

I was going to do another Khepri scene, but I saw David Byrne do the hand chopping motion and I just couldn't resist. The Guernica mashup/remix is Eden's corpse. Sveta was just me experimenting (lmao) with brushes; she came out better than I expected. Also,she's having a miserable time.

Canary's wearing sandals because I think the image of everyone in the birdcage wearing them is funny. I don't care about Doormaker and Clarivoyant, but they're really important for Khepri's plan to work, so they're here (clairvoyant's wearing a spare shirt from the Number Man,btw). Imp... uh, what? The fly I drew as a joke, but she looked too cute to kill, so she stays.

Scion and Taylor getting domed I did in two hours because I really wanted to finish this, and they came out surprisingly decent. I'd drawn Taylor's full arm, before remembering she'd lost it. I'm pretty salty about having to erase it, the hand looked really good. Contessa being out of frame is really important for her path, so I can't do much about that.

100 notes for the Cuff post is really crazy, so thank you everyone <3.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)

[bodegadulac]

When your goat is washed

[worms-in-my-head]

Started working on this a while ago but now I want to pick it back up again

This is the WIP of the recap so far, I hope to lock in and finish the rest eventually

[artbyblastweave]

Thought has been percolating in my mind. Lung as a hero. Living embodiment of the Godzilla threshold. Banned from end-bringer battles and the one time he let loose caused the sinking of Kyushu. All villain activity in his city is forced to go non-violent or very fast as once lung arrives then he has won.

And you can totally see the exact point of divergence where it would have happened too:

Lung's interlude is one of my favorites in the book. There's a lot of dots about his one-note "boss monster" characterization in the first six arcs getting connected; why such an obviously powerful villain was so bizarrely unambitious, why the incongruous Pan-Asianism in his gang, why the comparative lack of powered subordinates, arguably even why he's specifically vulnerable to chemical attack. He had actual friends once, all of whom died due to their lack of caution, and he gets a power that necessitates not only an abundance of caution and timing, but witnesses, a retinue of the kind he lost during his trigger event and very pointedly never seems to attempt to build again. The entire interlude consists of him rebuking any attempt at genuine connection with anyone- The Yellow Sentai he saves during the Levithan fight, Bakuda, Marquis. Lung's characterization in this interlude is a major part of why I think Jack wasn't bullshitting about Oni Lee being functionally brain dead- who else would Lung, as characterized in this interlude, keep around as a henchman if not a blank slate who's nearly impossible to permanently kill?

The other thing I like about this interlude is that it's a brief foray into Doing Genre outside the American Superhero context; While I'm not very well versed in it, I strongly suspect that Lung's trigger event is intended to be a homage to the heroic bloodshed genre. With much more confidence I think that the Leviathan fight is an extended pastiche of both the Sentai and kaiju genres, and the deconstructive twist on both is an accelerated microcosm of what the book has to say about crisis crossovers; Japan gets (as far as we know) exactly one giant monster attack of the kind that it's casually known to receive in the American pulp fiction imagination, and the result is the functional collapse of the country, the cultural and geopolitical ramifications of which are present at the margins in the rest of the book; among other things, it's a major element of how Lung ended up relocating to America to get into it with Skitter at the start of the story. Even after all that it's still a very cool fight, though. The beat wouldn't work it it wasn't.