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The jayvik to meljayvik to melvik pipeline

Definitely for Jayce's sake...

...and maybe because she's one of the councillors most likely to be sympathetic to the undercity...

(not much competition there, considering most of the other councillors are bastards)

...but ALSO because I think he's be both nice enough to just want to do so and hubristic enough to think he could.

He is a scientist, after all.

So here's how Mel can survive. The bomb definitely gonna hit her, right? She basically has a target on her back. But hear me out:

Gold prosthetics.

We've got Finn's jaw thing, which I dunno if it's even a prosthetic but it's a big gold thing integrated with his body, and we've got two councillors with large gold parts of their body: that woman with the giant rings, which I think is just meant to be an accessory based on the ndebele people's neck rings, but the thing is about those rings irl is they may not TECHNICALLY be a prosthetic but they do deform the body of the wearer over time and I imagine they're hard as fuck to remove, so the line between them and the body is thin - and then there's the councillor whose entire body is just gold prosthetics to the point where you can't even tell what race he is under there!

So, yeah, there's precedent for gold prosthetics already, and Mel is absolutely COVERED in gold. It's an incredibly obvious visual motif - and not only is it obvious, but the parts where the gold ends and she starts are actually incredibly unclear already.

Like, what's going on with her shoulders and neck? How are those gold plates staying on there if they're not embedded into her skin? She's literally sleeping and they're still in there. You're telling me this isn't foreshadowing that she's gonna get gold prosthetics later on? Maybe something on her shoulders and back, where the bomb is definitely going to blow her the fuck up?

The arcane is a show absolutely full of prosthetics, to the point where if anyone loses any part of themselves at any point, however small, you can guarantee it'll come back as a prosthetic at some point (even Jayce's mum's fingers are visibly frostbitten in his flashback and in the future she has finger prosthetics!), so if they're injuring this woman who they've also very intentionally SMOTHERED in gold, there's no way she isn't gonna become some sort of gold cyborg.

And who's gonna do it to her? Mr. Glorious Evolution, of course. That or Jayce, but... I dunno, if I was to take bets on who's gonna make her a goldborg I'd go for mr. transhumanism.

The prophecy

This is gonna sound weird but I had a very vivid fever-induced dream about Pangur. I was standing in a lake surrounded my forests and mountains at night. The moon was so bright but there were no stars. And then Pangur came over the mountain but she was so long like Falkor Neverending Story and she had so many legs and big sad eyes downturned like a 20s movie star and big purple eyelashes.

She was circling around me in the sky like some majestic sky worm and said in a voice that sounded like Helen Mirren “it’s 20% off on Wednesday”. I kept asking her what was 20% off but she kept saying things like “it’s a good deal for a Wednesday” and “you should take the offer while it’s hot”.

So anyway I’m taking that as a sign to buy something stupid that’s 20% off on Wednesday thanks Pangur

this seems like an elaborate way of getting me to do a 20% off sale but okay, I'll bite!

Pangur says "use the code 'GoodDeal' at greerstothers.shop"

Do u guys think it's okay to reuse poses? I've got two drawings, one of an OC and one of a character from a show, and they're in the same pose because I thought it suited both of them - like, basically, I drew my oc, thought 'hey, this pose has a lot of anxious energy and would work really well for crona from soul eater', and then just traced right over my own drawing, but I'm worried doing this might be seen as cheap somehow. It would also be nice to be able to use the same pose for two drawings because as much as I like drawing my own characters, fanart gets more notes, so this way I get to draw my character but then also use all the effort I just put in to make something that'll actually get a little attention.

I think abt this sandwich so often. They made biting this sandwich look sooo satisfying. And the actual thing itself is like the platonic ideal of a sandwich. I crave it. I want to teleport into the arcane universe just so I can eat this one sandwich

The most random detail from AtLA that stuck with me is how much more comfortable Zuko always seemed using his swords compared to his bending. Firebending is such a big deal in the fire nation; even if if he isn't as good with it as Azula (which no doubt contributes to his discomfort), having it is such a big privilege, and yet... Sometimes the gifts we're born with aren't the ones we're meant to use.

god i know im just drawing the same scene literally everyone else is in my basic af style but i wanted to put together a print of the boys because i am unwell :') so here's one more meager addition to the pile. godspeed jayvik nation.

My star trek OC, Mephistopheles, and his boyfriend Allan (belonging to @joenasx), plus their cowboy AU versions, courtesy of tahoyakiii!

The thing about modern mascot/cartoon animal design is you could never create another scooby doo. They would tell you to smooth him out and give him bigger eyes and simplify his design so he's easier to turn into a marketable plushie

i'm glad people like bayker but i cannot get past the concept of a baker who snuffles and sniffs all over my pastries