Do You Think The Rift In EMA Will Drive Armin And Mikasa Apart Too? Going By This Last Chapter Where

and by the way, I love the style colors (it’s look hard to paint for me) and the felling, will you share the progress you made this? and what program you use to line and color-paint this?

This beast is finally done o(-( 

we were supposed to animate a page from a children’s storybook for class, and like a chump I chose the highly complex illustrations of Beatrix Potter;;;;;;

Anyways, I actually really like how this came out, especially for how much time I had (a week) and how little experience i have with this program :0

Amazing and Magical

photos by seventeen year old swiss photographer etienne francey, who has been taking pictures of the natural world around his home since he was nine. 

Nathaaaaaannn aaaaaarrggg! 

Mr. Jefferson…is coming for me now

nice :D

A little bit about Victoria and Taylor’s relationship

First impressions of their relationship is that Taylor just another mean girl within Victoria’s click. A slave to Victoria as her room slate suggests. However the more we see of them the more apparent it is that they are actually pretty close, far more so than say Courtney or other vortex club members.

They’re both hanging out together in Victoria room Tuesday morning while Courtney is sent away to finish Victoria’s homework, indicating that Courtney has a more lackey status than Taylor within their click. Victoria is harsh with Taylor in shower room after finding paint still on her face but this is likely her lashing out due to being witnessed in an embarrassing situation. It’s similar to how even if Max is nice to Victoria and they share a pleasant moment, she will still default to her antagonistic tones the next day at school.

Max’s first conversation with Taylor gives some insight on their relationship from Taylor’s perspective. She’s aware of Victoria’s bossy nature but points out that she supported her while her mother was ill. Throughout all interactions with Taylor she’s very loyal to Victoria, often defending her and giving Victoria a much more human face than the one she presents to Blackwell. Victoria also emails Taylor a few times throughout the game, one reveals Victoria calling Taylor ‘Sweet-T’ which is both cute and super dorky. Taylor is also one of the only characters to use a nickname for Victoria, calling her Vic at the party in episode 4.

So while the public face of their relationship has Victoria in a more dominant role, mostly due to her status at Blackwell, we see and hear that they are actually more equal to each other in private.

Yeah

I’m back with my crappy phone pics of my sketches! (^o^)/ This is how a full Naruto`s family looks like. NS and SK with all their kids. Hanami and Karasu belongs to naepyon Arashi to kirabook Susumi (the baby) to mideila

Saw this on warrens wiki page and thought it was neat

Reflection on Attack on Titan: how the narrative failed its premise

I apologize for dwelling so much on something I no longer like with Attack on Titan, it’s just such a fascinating trainwreck, even though I hopped off the train just in time I have to look back at it periodically and be horrified yet morbidly reflective. I do find it disturbing people are denying the imperialist subtext here because it barely qualifies as subtext anymore at this point, so I do think noting it is valuable as long as fandom continues to be denial.

I just keep wondering at myself why I was drawn to AOT in the first place and HOW I didn’t see this coming- I think reflecting on that is valuable so I’ll see the warning signs earlier with other media.

It also helps me consider what makes a good narrative and what elements can appear compelling only to be squandered.

Because honestly, there WAS so much potential there, and though it’s a struggle, I CAN remember what excited me about it. There was a good horror concept here. It really did make me feel what the terror would be, to have this unknowable, ravenous threat that could so easily wipe out everything, to have to trap yourself to avoid it. The huge walls, the striking visuals, the displays of human weakness and terror, the visceral aspect of it all- it was compelling stuff. And also importantly, it kind of rode that line where it was very easy to laugh at as well- the memes involving the titans were a TON of fun in the heyday of AOT, the bizarre way the various ones were drawn were so funny, the peak melodrama of the situation was so absurd it almost made fun of itself, especially with all the exaggerated expressions- the fandom had a lot of fun with it.

And the concept COULD have gone somewhere that was compelling, rather than boring fascist nonsense. While the components of fascist narrative were present from the beginning- a grotesque invading threat the military, the protags, as heroes, must fight- there was potential in the premise for all that to be subverted, for it to ultimately go somewhere not fascist. The Titans turning out to be fellow humans, even your former loved ones, could have been more than a footnote. 

The titans actually being people only ended up mattering in the sense of “this shows us the REAL threat is this other race that trapped us here and in fact we must use the titans to defeat them”. It didn’t ultimately change the characters or their ideals, it just made them change enemies (to a much, much more boring threat and narrative). But it COULD have been a game changer that shook the characters to their core. A very natural place for this revelation to lead would have been “it turns out there is no clear enemy. We’ve been fighting ourselves this whole time. We thought we were killing something monstrous, but it wasn’t, it was the people we love. We were used. Now what do we do?”  It could have been a story of the characters struggling to answer that question. How can they seek freedom now? 

And if you really want a “dismantle the corrupt government” plotline, it would be a much simpler and stronger narrative if it was simply about the government pushing for Titan extermination despite the revelation, because they prioritized their own safety above all else and also wanted to erase past mistakes.

What if the Titans had simply been the result of horrific human experimentation done in the past and the government just wanted to cover it up? That’s it. no other countries, no emphasis on royal bloodlines or magic amnesia or any other convoluted bullshit. The reason people responded to Attack on Titan was NOT because they love convoluted royal drama or covoluted wars between opposing countries, that was not even a factor in the beginning…it was because it touched on this very simple, visceral thrill, so the story needed to keep being simple and visceral.

 The final struggle of the narrative, the key to freedom, could have been the characters having the re-evaluate their worldviews and the character having to struggle to find an alternate method to deal with the titans while society goes against them for doing so. 

The survey corps is disbanded. Eren, who could only deal with his grief by focusing on obliterating a clear enemy, now doesn’t have that and is forced to actually grow as a character. He has to actually confront his guilt and the fact his desire to construct an inhuman opponent he could fight was all so he didn’t have to deal with survivors guilt, because he wanted something that was black and white with no messy emotions attached. but it turns out nothing ever is that simple.

Or hey, maybe there’s something more compelling and less predictable you could do to subvert the fascist elements. I’m only doing this off the top of my head, there are probably a million ways the story could go in a more interesting direction than the shitstorm we got if someone actually focused and creative puts their mind to it.

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Clem: I’ve been dropping them the most subtle hints for like two weeks now. No response.

Louis: Wow. They sound stupid.

Clem: Not stupid. Just dense.

Louis: Maybe you need to be more obvious. Like, I don’t know, “hey! I like like you.”

Clem: I guess you’re right.

Clem: Hey Louis, I like like you.

Louis: See! Just say that!

Violet: Holy fucking shit.

Louis: If that flies over their head, they’re too stupid for you Clem.

Violet: Louis. Seriously.

When their Uzumakis get hurt,they get mad

Omg...this fanart is so good xD

You’re a diamond I can’t buy               You’re a sin I can forgive And when you sink into the dark                Know that I am there with you