"Is that a leaf?" *Cue The Weekend* Played around with textures and a limited color palette for this one :3 and I had to paint this scene, fell in love with the music from this episode!

you can (not) be Sonic's friend

love hiiimmm, go crazy little guy

Into The Spiderverse // Across The Spiderverse

Duality 💥

This was a drawing from 2 months ago that I never finished due to exams, it feels good to draw again ^^

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

“I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through me, or that sometimes I just wanna let ‘em.”

Easily the most heartbreaking line in Nimona’s entire film. Captures all the pent up existential self loathing they are going through. Like, I shed some tears at it.

A line I don’t think gets talked about enough:

“He didn’t cut off my arm. He was disarming a weapon. It’s how we were trained.”

The Institute took young kids and turned them into weapons. The Knights were trained to view themselves and their bodies as weapons.

Ambrosius cutting off Ballister’s arm was ingrained instinct. You can see in his face that he doesn’t realize what he’s doing until it’s too late, until the blade is already too far along in it’s swing. And after, he drops his sword like he didn’t realize how it got into his hand in the first place. He looks at Ballister with a dawning horror of what he’s just done, on instinct.

And then, the big fight. There’s a reason Ballister was top of the class. When fighting the guards he isn’t touched. In the middle of fighting Ambrosius, he cloths-lines a guard behind him WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING. Ambrosius doesn’t even look surprised that Ballister won, as if it’s normal, as if Ballister had always won their duels before.

I just. I have a lot of thoughts about this and I don’t have the words to express them. I just want other people to see what I see and talk about it too. To think about the implications of that line and how it’s delivered in a matter-of-fact way.

So

An interesting thing about how they handled revealing this... They only revealed it to us, the audience.

When Ballister apologized to Nimona and realized he was wrong for not trusting her, it's based on the time they spent together and he had genuinely grown to care for her. Like...

This

To

When confronting Nimona, he knew by that point that she hated being called a monster. Instead of waiting for her to try explaining herself, he gave in to Ambrosius' own conclusion that she was a monster even while he kept telling him "No, she's not" at the time. So, when he apologized to Nimona, he focused on the wrong thing he did. He didn't need to know the backstory to realize he was wrong.

With or without the backstory, he already cared a lot about her. And that's enough reason for him to apologize for hurting someone he loves.

I’ve seen people complain about Gwen saying to her dad “you’re a good cop” but I don’t think they understand what that scene actually means. Gwen’s dad is supposed to represent the “good cop”. It’s like Gwen says: he puts on that badge everyday so someone worse than him doesn’t. Pre Gwen’s reveal, he SEEMS like a good person, advocating for bringing peter’s killer to justice. But then he finds out, and in that moment, values the law over his teenage daughter. He even shows it in their reconciliation scene, even after not seeing his daughter for MONTHS, by arguing against Gwen being a vigilante despite the all the good shes done. When Gwen says “you’re a good cop,” she’s not saying “youre a good person” or “youre a good dad”. She’s saying “youre a BAD person. You’re a BAD dad. you value the law over my life, no matter what I do. You’re willing to sacrifice me for what you assume is the greater good, but it’s not even that.”

So he decides not be a good cop anymore.

every "I can do both" in across the spider-verse:

a world of our own

Still thinking about the art during Gwen’s talks with her dad. It’s like. When he’s being a cop or they’re fighting the background is clear. But when they’re having a heart to heart it changes. It gets more abstract. The art styles of the characters change a little, too. Because it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter where they are or what they look like, Gwen loves her dad and he loves her. And the art shows that. They could be anywhere, anytime, and they love each other.

The way they both think the other one would love what they have back home, but with Nine focusing on the location while Sonic focuses on the people... I am unwell

Imagine being Nine.

Your spend your whole life being bullied and beaten just for being different. Years pass and no one comes to you rescue, you're on your own. You realize the only person you can count on is yourself.

Then out of nowhere this stranger shows up. He compliments the things others berated you for and speaks of adventures that never happened. But you listen to him anyway because you wish they did.

Against your better judgement you decide to help the stranger. He shows concern for your wellbeing, showers you with constant praise for no apparent reason. You don't know how to respond, deep down you knew he's confusing you for someone else, but you soon start to like it. You start to like him.

You find a way to finally leave that horrible place behind and start over, but for the first time in forever you don't want to be alone. You offer to share that paradise with the one person you trust, your only friend.

But he rejects you. He breaks your heart. You try going back to isolation but it's no paradise without him. Against your better judgement, you go back to help your friend, hopeful that he will change his mind. In the end, that costs you your freedom.

Time passes. He comes back to save you, just like you knew he would. Together you fix the prism, your head is so filled with hopes of a new future together than you fail to realize he has something else in mind.

So you once again offer him the chance to create a new world, just the two of you. A world where those adventures can be real and neither of you has to be alone anymore. Once again he rejects you. No matter what you do, all he wants is his old world, his old Tails.

He never once thought about what you wanted. never considered what was going to happen to you, because you were never real to him. You finally realize all those words of praise that had meant so much to you were meant for someone else. You were just too caught up on the euphoria of being loved to see it.

The one person you opened your heart to, never cared about the real you. You will never be enough for him because you're not his real brother, you're just Nine. Nothing will ever change that.

You realize the only person you can count on is yourself

I cant believe people complain about prime Sonic being a hugger, I would give Sega EVERYTHING I have if we could get more moments like this

Today at 9: Local, angsty child genius has had enough and chosen VIOLENCE as his method of attack. It was proven very effective and looked totally awesome.