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@woozletania
Hey guys!! I made 22 Rocket themed tarot cards!🦝
I’m not super well versed in the world of tarot, so forgive me if any of my interpretations of these themes is slightly off in some way! But I hope you enjoy😄❤️
TW - blood , trauma , abuse , alcohol , death
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Only Rocket art brings tears to my eyes so easily. This is an impressive achievement, the whole Major Arcana featuring Rocket.
hate when people say "oh actually that's not a dragon that's a wyvern" a wyvern is literally a type of dragon. it's like saying "oh that's not a bird that's a pigeon"
Wyverns are a flavor of heraldic dragon. Dragons can have no legs, no wings, six legs (Agip gas company) or an arbitrary number of legs or wings. Thus, all wyverns are dragons, but not all dragons are wyverns.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
More of the "Rocket is forced to work for Thanos" story. This ran into a big delay due to lack of motivation, but chapters 6-11 are now up thanks to a bunch of writing on a plane flight and some more at a family get together.
Something I noticed from GOTG Vol.1 ; At the very beginning of the film, little Peter is talking to his mother about getting into a fight with some other kids because they squashed a frog. He’s always been empathetic towards animals, I like how that characteristic plays into Vol.3’s themes of animal cruelty. It’s a brief detail, but it adds a layer to Peter’s character and the type of hero he is, and apart of what makes his friendship with Rocket so great.
Peter starts to warm to Rocket in volume 1 when a guard kicks Rocket into the room with him and Pete sees the terrible scars on his back. He sees that this little aninal guy has been abused and strikes up a friendship with him shortly thereafter.
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How do you draw animals? Mine always come out wrong, a first grader could probably make better animals than I can 💀 If y'all have any tips please share 🙏 is there some secret trick I do not know?
Draw from references. I have two folders full of collages of various animals and character references I bring to every con. Practice. And get a couple of instructional books. I recommend How to Draw Animals by Jack Hamm (known as the Yellow Book or sometimes The Bible among furry artists) and Drawing Animals by J. C. Amberlyn.
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Rocket has a choice. Trust that Thanos will free his friends when the work is done, or do it himself, no matter what it costs. Needless to say, he doesn't go with "trust".
Should Deadpool join the Guardians of the Galaxy?
Yes
No
Not a chance in hell. We don't need this psychopath laughing as he "accidentally" gets the team murdered.
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Thanos of Titan has Rocket firmly under his thumb. This is not a situation Rocket tolerates well.
As traumatic and painful Rocket’s modifications were in most incarnations of his backstory, he should probably count his blessings that the beings who “made” him at least gave him a relatively simple humanoid body plan. Somewhere out there in the multiverse there’s gotta be at least one Rocket who was experimented on by cephalopod or insectoid aliens and, based on their own image, modified Rocket into something significantly less raccoon like...
The Rocket we see for a moment in What If season 2 has cybernetic legs, one cybernetic arm and eye, and a tail that looks too long to be a raccoon's. He might be a Hellspawn or just heavily modified due to injuries but he's not as cute and fuzzy as MCU Rocket.
Sharing the excellent answers from my friend @practically-an-x-man from when I had multiple questions about Rocket
Me: I've been thinking about this for a few days, but if Rocket got sick, do you think he would need to see a vet or a regular doctor? Or someone else entirely? Do you think he can get sick? (Obviously, he can get injured, we saw, but that's different) do you think he's had to self-teach how to get over sicknesses? Do you think there are foods he couldn't eat? Or maybe because he's enhanced his diet would be more similar to a humanoid? Practically-an-x-man: Hm… let me think about this for a minute Raccoons are already omnivores, so I don't think his diet would be too different from a human/humanoid. He might have to consume more protein and fewer carbohydrates, so probably more meat and stuff than bread or pasta, but overall it would be similar He's a scientifically-enhanced raccoon, not an alien species, so my gut says vet. But on the other hand, doctors in space are probably used to dealing with various aliens with different physiology, so they could probably treat him anyway. There are probably different doctors specializing in humanoid, animalistic, or even mineral aliens like Korg, the same way Earth doctors have specializations for kids, elderly people, or specific conditions/body systems He probably still has taught himself to get over sicknesses, but I'd imagine that's more because he'd be uncomfortable with doctors than because those doctors couldn't treat him
To my mind Rocket is probably terrified of any sort of doctor. This is borne out by the fact his "kill switch" makes it unsafe to operate on him and he never mentioned this, which makes me think he has never been treated by a doctor. I did a story where the crew finds him operating on his own leg and that sort of behavior seems likely.
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Thanos has Rocket’s best interests at heart, if by that you mean "I won’t be able to squeeze good work out of you if you neglect your health."
It has taken Rocket a lifetime to grow from an abused laboratory animal to a respected, well-loved member of a community with friends and a family. There was even talk, recently, of children, and he couldn't ask for a better life than he has now. It is a sad truth, though, that the more you have, the more you have to lose.
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Thanks for everything, Mark Merlino
It's hard to believe he is gone. I have an image of him fixed in my head from the last time I talked to him just a few months ago. We talked quite a lot at the PS party.
perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night
this is what i mean
Via @bulbaderp
To be clear, THIS is how nights of the future should be lit
This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.
orange and especially white lights deter bats and prevent them from reaching feeding grounds at nighttime. Please if you can, write to your local council and encourage red street lights!!!!
When I was a kid we had green mercury vapor street lights. When you came through the pass into the valley it was all Christmasey. I've never liked the yellow ones. White are okay but visually dull.
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I wonder if the floating building was moved during the process of dropping in the fox, then the artist forgot about it when they posted the pic.
A sci-fi race I created, that tends to form extremely close lifelong bonds between partners, has something called the "solitary dance" where the surviving member of the couple does a couples dance without the missing partner. This is very recognizable as it's clearly half of a pair dancing and usually means they are heartbroken and missing their lover.
