This was just shared on stream so I’m sharing it here too! Here are the official designs for all of Giovanni’s boys out of uniform that I did for the upcoming book (not including Fred, who already had a design). Hope yall have lots of fun with them! Enjoy!! :D
Yuko and Mitaka are red and blue. Yuko and Mitaka are one likes olives and the other doesn’t. Yuko and Mitaka are different sides of the same coin. Mitaka shys from people and resolves to live selfishly. Yuko is extroverted and wants to enact justice on every person around her. Yuko took her contract gladly. Mitaka didn’t have a choice.
They want to save each other.
Yuko and Mitaka are meant to be. Yuko and Mitaka.
cons4eva’s name is “symbols.”
let me explain.
in this panel, he introduces himself by name. of course, it’s written in a font that looks alien. but i came across the dwarven font in the dungeons and dragons player handbook and recognized it from this panel. i immediately had to translate his name because i was insanely curious and wanted to know for writing and roleplaying purposes (i had a short-lived cons4eva rp blog). so i went in search of the font.
i found the font, called davek, available here, installed it on my computer, and went about figuring out cons4eva’s name. i noted that the name in the panel was upside down, compared to the original font and made the changes necessary.
so, once all the flips were made so the font was the right direction, i put the font to a regular font and got “.slobmys” as a result. period included because it’s included in the original text as well.
HOWEVER.
because i had done all that flipping, including the fact that the name was now “backwards” for the original name, we can put “.slobmys” backwards and get the name “symbols.”
whether this was intentional from either jro or the letterer, chris mowry, i don’t know, i’ve never asked, but i thought it was kind of cool that cons4eva’s name could be translated to an actual word and not nonsense, like some other times i’ve “translated” other text from primal vernacular. this was, as i said, mostly done for curiosity’s sake and fun, i just thought i’d share this little tidbit.
OOHH, it’s Shattered Glass time!! Glad to be finally sharing this 👀
My piece for Fractured: A Transformers Shattered Glass Fanzine featuring my favorite boys
You forgot the biggest of the Abyss men
If y’all find any fanfics about them please let me know I’m down horrendous
This is the vibes of the ship, yes
Professional hating
"every major baddie problem in the lmk universe is caused by SWK not dealing with his shit properly"
exept he dealt with all the shit and i'm tired of people ignoring it to paint him as an ignorant, uncaring bastard.
(very very minor s4 spoilers, so the cut)
Demon Bull King? Got his ass whooped and was sealed away for however long years it took for an entire ass megapolis to be built literally on top of him, causing absolutely no trouble to anyone whatsoever. Oh, and what sealed DBK? The staff. And if you'd care to know SWK outside of the LEGOverse, you'd realize how strong was SWK's resolve to seal DBK - keep him relatively safe, one might say - by using his trusty staff. The guy would literally die seven times over than let go of this thing.
Also people like, ignore the fact that canonically SWK stuck around the area (for the most part to stalk MK, but still), so he was literally there to deal with the DBK family if something went southwards? He didn't, because MK was able to hold the staff and the legend of the Monkie Kid then began.
(also zero antagonistic feelings towards DBK from SWK, like, whatsoever. i bet the dude actually wanted DBK to be free, cuz he felt bad abt it)
Macaque? In a morally gray manner, still very dealt with. SWK killed the dude. He was literally as dealt with as it can be. Or what, should SWK have predicted that after thousand upon thousand of years later a spirit (he dealt with too) would pull Mac out of Diyu? Yeah, I'd like to see that thought process.
SWK isn't omnipotent, he isn't even that far-thinking. Never was, actually. So holding that against him is like, very stupid. Especially because you don't do it to any other character in the show.
Spider Queen? Wouldja look at that, also pretty much dealt with. We don't really know how exactly, but we know that she lost literally every ounce of power she had and had to resort to living in the sewers, prolly never to cause troubles ever again because, well, we never even heard of her until the special. SQ was pulled onto the scene by the Lady Bone Demon.
Which is, again, something SWK couldn't predict even if he tried.
And now into the fun part.
Lady Bone Demon? Was sealed away by Tripitaka and also didn't cause any trouble until DBK decided to use this freaky coffin he knew literally zero things about for his plans.
"But he should've killed LBD!!!"
He tried. Believe him he tried. This decision just wasn't his, and if you hold it against him and not Tripitaka, shame on you.
"He should have told the crew about LBD!"
He really couldn't have.
And people thinking that are blatantly ignoring SWK's character. Not that obnoxious fan favorite uncaring bastard one.
SWK deals with things on his own. That is just how he is, how he always was and he never learned to do it the other way around. If that's a fight, he'll do it, because he's damn strong. If it's to scout the mountain, he'll do it, because Bajie is a lazy ass motherfucker. If it's to find food for Trip, he'll do it, cuz he's fast and his eyes are awesome.
Same applies here.
LBD? Tried to kill her and Trip didn't let me -> Basically I didn't do the job right -> WTF I always do my job right, I am Sun Wukong hello???
It was, dare I say, a question to his pride, and SWK will forever be prideful. And when he acts on his pride, he does it with style and flare, in the most stupid way possible.
Hence all of the s2 off-screen investigation arc.
"Well, he should've told about the Samadhi rings!"
It would've endangered Mei, questioned his at this point in time very shaky authority and ability to handle shit, and prolly would've fucked Mei up a very whole lot.
You don't go and say to a person that they are a part of the most dangerous seal in the world and could die and destroy everything they love because you fucked up long time ago (again, very much jabbing at his mentality of 'Sun Wukong can do no bad job, and if he does he'll better fucking die trying to make it right').
Was his plan a shitty one? Obviously. Like, no question asked, it was a shit show of a plan. Very in character, though (SWK handles all the shit because he thinks he can).
And this little character arc of SWK not learning a damn thing results in him, oh golly you would not believe it, running off to do things on his own because he thinks he can handle it, because he's THE Sun Wukong who already handled this in the past.
Who woulda thought.
MINOR S4 SPOILERS START HERE
And the new addition to the baddie group, Azure Lion. Won't be addressing all 'SWK is a betraying bitch' because the show refuses to give us SWK's perspective and I hate it.
But you already know what I will say, because you know the truth. He was dealt with. Got his ass whooped and sealed away in the inky scroll. To be pulled back onto the scene by a third party that Wukong literally couldn't have known about.
See a pattern?
SWK deals with the shit, some unknown variable meddles in it, suddenly SWK is an incapable asshole who left the problems for the poor lmk crew to deal with.
MINOR S4 SPOILERS END HERE
Wukong did his job. Someone fucked him over by undoing his job. He tried to deal with it again the only way he knows how, but the solo play doesn't fly anymore, so he made it kinda worse.
He's not an unbearable, incapable asshole because of it.
And I'm tired of people not seeing this.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I am Sun Wukong Apologist till the day I die.
Have a nice day!
i’m rewatching the mandroid fight and after the base goes howl’s moving castle these three arachnamechs find each other and fall together and the last thing they do before the camera cuts is grab hold of each other and i’m not ok???
The Strongest Florist
By Hyun Hoo Joo/ Kumtata
I went and found this, so her throat is messed up, but we wouldn't hear her voice often.
anyways as a butch falin truther i think her voice should get deeper after fusing with the dragon
I would love this.
In honor of Chainsaw Man’s anime release being announced
Giriko (Soul Eater)
VS
Denji
two Chainsaw Men going at it