#swsa

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Ok ok, second fav clip from the SWSA Intro Animatic I made. Full animatic HERE. Base on the amazing fic HERE

@paramountpictures @nickelodeon

[psychologicalwarclaire]

Amazing art by @bubbles-and-puddles ! Thank you for the incredible Christmas present, my love <3

Based off my fic Spider's Web with Strings Attached

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[iobsesswaytoomuch1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BELOVED, CHERISHED, WONDERFUL FRIEND @psychologicalwarclaire!!!!!!

Spider’s Web With Strings Attached is THE best fanfic in the world and I will stand by that

I spent two days of practically non-stop drawing on this :)

Version without the lighting stuff

[theavianlady]

...tw? Tw.

TW: Gore, Blood, Injury, uh...Pain and Sadness-

@psychologicalwarclaire

Ha ha! Tis I! I was the anon!

(Cue dramatic exclamations of disbelief)

Ahem. Tis the anniversary of Spider's Web with Strings Attached, and I wanted to make something! Go and read the fic if you haven't already; it's incredible.

Lots of ramblings and other versions under the cut (if anyone wants to see any other parts with or without different lighting and stuff that I didn't include, just let me know; I'm happy to share).

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This is the first (almost) completely original thing I've drawn digitally! Poses are really hard for me, so I'm super proud of this. No tracing, only references!

...so. Many. References.

Except for the bricks, which I'm not counting, because bricks are scary. And the chains. I used a brush. Chains are scary too.

I started July 28th, and then spent almost 40 hours across various canvases planning, experimenting, and actually working on this. Not including research. It took me absolutely forever, but I regret nothing.

Except for the fact that I spent over 6 hours just shading bricks. I didn't even draw them! I took a pattern for the grooves from google and filled it with black, (rotated and edited for some variance in their cells), and then did the red lighting and some shadows you can't even really see. For 6 hours.

I tried to draw their spider brooches many times, but I could not get them to look right (especially from a side angle), so I gave up. Let's all just pretend they're there until I come back later. Eventually. Maybe. Oh, and Leo's chains. At the time of posting, I really just want to get this up and posted, so they're not shaded, but again, I might do it later.

I wanted to have this set when they're both in their separate cells, right after Viper was, uh...in the cell with Leo. So, Donnie is all stitched up and healing, while Leo is...not doing great (not certain about the timeline, because I'm paranoid about everything, so it's probably fine). But, I wanted to convey what happened to Donnie, so I drew that weird glowing spine thing to indicate some kind of mystic healing something. I don't even know.

It didn't turn out as well as I wanted it too, but I'm probably biased. Because there was so much gore on Leo's side, Donnie's looked boring. I couldn't figure out how to do the lighting. The values could be better. It could do with more time spent on the shadows. Etc, etc. I'm a perfectionist.

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Uh, in order of posting, behold!

1. Big version.

2. Big version without lighting (except on the bricks) or Japanese characters.

3. Close up of magic spine representation thing because I'm proud of it.

4. Close up of gore-covered-Leo because I'm also proud of that. I have never drawn such...messy gore before.

Fun fact, the group of layers all of that was on is called "Bad Stuff".

5. Close up of Donnie's shell stitches without the spine thing, because I worked hard on those. It was also pretty tricky, because I couldn't find any references for large stitched wounds. Only open ones. If anyone knows any good places for references like that, t'would be greatly appreciated.

Also, they don't usually stitch puncture wounds, because it could trap infection, but I feel like with something so large and deep as dragon teeth it would be necessary? So I tried to include those.

But also, would they just stitch the skin in such deep wounds? Is there still a gaping hole under the skin? Do they also stitch muscles with the dissolvable sutures or something? I'm like, going to go to med-school just so I can draw more accurate wounds and stitches and stuff.

6. Close up of Leo without the gore because he's pretty and I'm really proud of the plastron. And the right forearm armour piece. I couldn't get the other ones to look as nice, much to my dismay.

The Japanese characters write out to Omae wa hitoribocchi da, which translates to You are alone. I think. Google Translate says it's You are all alone, but translation services that I trust slightly more, like Reverso.net and ChatGPT (the most reliable of sources, I know) just say You are alone.

Omae is the equivalent of anata, for those familiar with Anata wa hitori janai. They both mean you, but omae is more...condescending, from what I can tell. Informal and rough, often used to express disdain or superiority.

Wa indicates that anata or omae are the subject of the sentence.

Hitori is present in both, meaning alone, though from what I can see, hitoribocchi is more...desolate and painful. It's a more emotional term for being alone.

Janai kind of means is not, or are not, while da is just like...closing the sentence. A firm, declarative ending particle.

I tried to paste the actual Japanese characters from different translation services (I am not fighting with using a keyboard from another language), but Tumblr wouldn't let me. Boo. So, you can all suffer with my English-Japanese. Also, don't trust anything I say. I'm learning Japanese on Duolingo, but I've only just started and it gets way more complicated. So, pretty much anything I just said could be wrong. I just did a lot of research.

If anyone does speak Japanese, and knows a better way to convey this, please tell me. I crave knowledge and accuracy.

I should get like, a personal human translator. No AI or program can truly understand a language like its people. Especially comparing Japanese and English. From what I've learned, there are a lot of words that could be translated many ways, depending on exact feel. It's complicated, and I'm scared to get farther into Duolingo's course.

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I also just discovered yesterday that today is also the anniversary of the Rise Movie, so yay! Happy Anniversary to the movie that literally changed my life. And Curly, you're awesome. It's authors like you keeping this fandom alive, so thank you!

[fisheatingorca]

Kyuquot rubs with a toy in his mouth! (Source)

[apoeticwasteoofspace]

All That Will Ever Remain (a SWSA poem)

Um… hi @psychologicalwarclaire! I hope it’s okay that I’m tagging you. I’ve been wanting to write a poem for spider’s web with strings attached for forever and I finally finished it! Hope you like it :)

I am the face man

No longer

Now only a broken, shattered show

I am Leonardo

No longer

Only Astros will remain

A scarlet portrait wrought of pain, and shame, and strain

I wanted this

Haven’t I always wished to fall

Into the abyss?

A lion with its mane clipped

And the world completely flipped

My mask has been taken away

By talons a thousand rusty shades of gray

And the darkness is now here to stay

A broken, bloody smile

Now past its peak and begun to wane

Is all that will ever remain

…

I am the inventor

No longer

The first to have lost his center

Bound by the never-ending ticking, ticking, ticking

As a broken cog that won’t stop clicking

I am Donatello

No longer

Time is slipping away

As I’m dragged deeper into the fray

I can’t remember my brothers’ faces

And I watch each memory the crowd erases

Warm red or a heinous green?

My mind’s a mirror that has lost its sheen

And left behind a monster

Who exists only to wander

Tyrian is only a shade of purple, is it not?

I am only a color

An engine that has now been shot

Only a fractured, broken, web-riddled brain

Is all that will ever remain

[danger-noodle4]

I know I’m two weeks early, but I made something for the swsanniversary

I loved the designs for the masks worn during the “Legendary Labyrinth Lollapalooza” by @drsmer (which you can find here) so I wanted to make them for myself

I kept the eyes separate from the clay so you can move them around, and it would’ve been a crime for me not to make them glow in the dark.

I was going to wait until the actual anniversary to post this, but I’m impatient. So instead I’m just going to tell you to go read Spider’s Web With Strings Attached while you still have time before the 1 year anniversary. If words were paint, @psychologicalwarclaire would be Michelangelo.

This was my second attempt at making them and I had to repaint them so many times that I gave up on making them perfect. So if you can see all the bits I messed up with the paint or the uneven parts of the clay… no you can’t :]

[riseleon]

What's one fanfic you think everyone should get to experience reading at least once?

Uhhh

Idk

I like @psychologicalwarclaire SWSA