wow someone finally wrote a book on clock fetishes
it’s about fucking time
you know the first time i reblogged this i hadnt actually noticed the pun. like i just thought that… someone had actually genuinely irl written a book about clock fetishes, and OP was expressing a sort of…. sarcastic the-world-sure-is-full-of-humans type sentiment?? i reblogged it with this assumption in complete sincerity. i realised it was a pun like the fourth time it came on my dash. i dont know whether im more disappointed in myself for being such a fool or in the world for my perception of it having been incorrect
Keith: ok black lion Im not bonding with you becouse I think shiro should be piloting you Black lion: yeaaah no were bonding Keith: NO black lion: what do you mean no were having a bonding moment! Im cradling you in my mouth!
Hey, I just stumbled upon your meta posts and I love all your thoughts and analyses! I was wondering, though: in season 3 especially, Keith really does seem to make a lot of poor leadership choices, and the writers almost seem to go out of their ways to highlight his bad judgement. But looking back after reading your posts, I feel like I might've been biased, so I was wondering if you could elaborate. What moments (particularly in season 3) convinced you that Keith has leadership potential?
It’s not season 3 that convinced me of that haha. It was mostly what I saw in season 1 and 2. But season 3 really didn’t change my mind.
Even tho at the beginning of the season Keith is a terrible leader.
And I complained non stop about Keith’s extreme reaction and odd decisions even before I saw the first two episodes, just after hearing the sdcc spoilers haha. But now after watching season 3 I understand why it had to be like that and how it all fits. No complains.
And what I feel they are trying to shows you, is not his bad leadership skills, but just his love for Shiro.
Like they weren’t kiddin when they said Shiro was the only thing that could calm him down and keep him in check haha
And I really didn’t expect Keith to fall apart like that, it seemed really out of character for him, just from what I’ve seen in Keith in seasons 1 and 2, I expected him to hurt but to step up and take command just like Shiro wanted him to.
Because he kinda always did that before… Like watch how fast he is to take control of a situation when Shiro is out of commission or a bit lost or away or even in actual danger.
Keith knows what he’s doing and he’s good at giving instructions even and knows how to command a team and knows when to hold back (Don’t forget he was the one against going to save Allura because he knew it was too risky).
And then Shiro is gone, and suddenly all that is out of the window, suddenly it’s What team? What mission? Shiro is the only thing that matters.
And I didn’t like that because of how it made Keith’s character be all about Shiro, but now that they’ve drawn this parallel between him and Zarkon (with how he betrayed everyone and basically screwed the universe for the person he loved) I’m totally fine with it because I see it’s actually going somewhere.
And “Shiro or the universe”, is something I saw them going for already, just didn’t expect them to put so much focus on it and so early on.
Now ok, this is how I explain Keith’s shaky start as team leader there:
He doesn’t want to do this.
That’s basically it.
You kno like when someone asks you to wash the dishes, so you wash em badly, so that they won’t ask you to do that again haha.
I’m not saying he didn’t struggle a bit with the new lion and the new position
(although I dun remember him having any problems with the different controls when he was saving Shiro in “Across the Universe”, but because it was a quick deal I’ll leave him the benefit of a doubt..)
He’s just not really into it.
And at first I was like, he wouldn’t go that far as actually putting his teammates in danger over this, right?
But then with how emotional he’s been acting in the first two episodes all “SCREW EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE, SHIRO IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO ME”, I dunno if I should put it out of the equation…
Basically what I feel he’s doing in the first 3 episodes is being “Oh no look what I did!! I acted like a crazy impulsive loner and messed things up, maybe we need Shiro after all…hmm I guess we should just keep looking for him.”
And I’m saying it because of this:
Here Allura says
For Keith it seems like it’s true when it comes to Allura (as he had no problem leaving her behind in season 1) but apparently not when it comes to Shiro haha.
And Keith agrees with her there.
But look what he does on that Gas planet, Allura takes a hit and he leaves Allura behind and Lance has to yell at him to stop.
And then Allura apologizes and then Lance is like:
“We’re a team. We stick together. Isn’t that right, Keith?”
And Keith goes:
“It’s not about the team.
We have a mission that’s more important than any one of us.
We need to find Lotor and stop him, and I plan on doing that right now.”
So I feel like in a way he just goes “Oh yeah Allura? It’s bigger than any one person? So I guess I’m just gonna leave you behind for this mission, actually I have no problem leaving any of you behind JUST LIKE YOU’RE LEAVING SHIRO BEHIND”
I think he’s kinda being passive aggressive about them forcing him to pilot the black lion haha.
Also I think he just wants to get rid of Lotor so fast not because he really wants to put an end to the Galra empire thing, because well, he didn’t care about that just awhile ago, but because he’s in the way of them looking for Shiro.
Seriously, listen to him in this scene, he sounds so fake here…
”This is all my fault. I followed him right into this trap. Everyone warned me, but I didn’t listen. I put the entire team in jeopardy.”
And Lance is just: “Yeah, you kinda did. But now we gotta fix it.”
Like yeah sure Keith, I bet he knew it was a trap from the start. (but also that it was nothing that he couldn’t get them out of easily if he wanted to)
So I think Keith tried to convince them he sucks but then he realized it’s not working and they still want him to lead, so he finally takes this seriously.
And it think you can immediately see the switch in his attitude. They form Voltron right away. He knows exactly what to do. He even says “No, we need to wait and not fight Lotor”
That seems like too fast of a character growth haha
Like what, Lance tells him one line? And suddenly he’s a good leader?
I don’t think so. I think he was just faking it so they won’t give up on Shiro.
Also notice that from that point on he doesn’t make any more stupid mistakes.
Like here, who was the one who said “Hey guys… it’s a trap!”
“Hey, Allura, maybe you should not help these guys get that rock”
And guess who didn’t listen and fucked everything up???
And then Shiro, mr “I really need to feel valuable and appreciated rn” comes back and is making stink faces at Keith for taking his position as leader (even though he totally gave it to him before) just cause he can’t face the thought of him being useless.
And again, no one listens to Keith! Even though he’s right!
Keith realizes that Lotor is probably smarter than all of them, but at this point he might not be stronger.
And they already messed up like 2 times with him and gave him an advantage.
Keith knows that if they give Lotor time to think and plan, he will most likely have the upper hand soon.
So yeah, they had to go for him at that very second, because at that point they have a ship with a teleduv and Voltron, Lotor just has some scaultrite and a ship with an inexperienced pilot in it. They had a good chance taking him down at that moment.
And yeah, I think they could have taken down the meteor ship and also got the cargo, but if they had to chose then taking down the ship would be the better choice, because it’s the more dangerous thing to let Lotor have.
Shiro is…. I dunno what he’s thinking.. But he’s obviously wrong and Allura is all “Shiro is right! Yay Shiro you perfect leader you!”
( For Allura’s defense tho Keith kinda left her to die twice already, so I understand why she has a bias for Shiro haha)
But yeah, they screwed up big time there by not listening to Keith.
And like Keith and Shiro are so different in their leading style, and they are kinda set up to complete eachother eventually.
Shiro is very team focused, and he usually strives to avoid conflict and is incredibly soft and I’d say even passive.
And as someone who thinks like Keith most of the time, it’s annoying me till no end haha. But I know the power of his way of leadership, and I know that it’s needed sometimes. So I’m not looking down on that.
Keith is the opposite of that!
Keith’s mind is “progress progress progress now now now” he sees an opportunity and he takes it, like they just learned about Lotor’s existence and Keith already has a tracker on him and is on the way to beat him up haha.
He thinks and operates so fast.
Shiro likes playing it safe. (and slow)
I kinda spoken about this before already, how Shiro is trying to survive and Keith is trying to win. And they need to balance it out or it won’t work.
Which is what’s going to happen in season 4.
Because we see Shiro being all “Our top priority is the coalition!” which is not a bad idea at all. Just not at that time.
And Keith’s like “Nooo we need to get Lotor he’s gonna fuck us all up if we don’t go after him now!!”
And guess who’s right, and guess who’s finally gonna run out of luck (hopefully) and suffer the consequences of their poor decision making?
the absolute funniest thing in madoka magica to me is that all of the girls have magical weapons that they summon from their soul gems, right? so madoka has her bow, sayaka has a sword, mami has musket rifles, and kyouko has a chain spear thing.
but homura doesn’t have a “weapon” persay, she has a shield, so she just fucking. steals military grade weaponry from the yakuza and cooks her own pipe bombs. you see her obtain these things on camera. this anime magical girl is running around with realistic military weapons and she’s the ONLY character to do so and that’s fucking hysterical to me
What makes this better is that Mami’s main weapon isn’t the rifles, it’s her ribbons. She had to study how rifles work to learn how to conjure them out of ribbons, which meant she studied rifles for countless hours.
i know!!! the stupid liberal government has decided on the plebiscite and even tho it’s a waste of money….. please vote!! IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE 18 BEFORE NOVEMBER 25 ENROLL TO VOTE!!! PLEASE DO NOT THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO ME AND SO MANY OTHERS!!!!!!! PLEASE VOTE YES ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY!!!!!! WE CAN DO THIS!!!!
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Start off with a crappy scanned/phone taken picture like so
Mess around with the SAI Filters, I usually go color deepen all the way to the left then mess with brightness and contrast until I find a good balance I like, then to top it off with a copied layer on multiply to make the lines darker
Click what I boxed off and the magic has already happened you now are left with a clean lineart layer that you can color underneath to your liking : 0 Hell you can even color your lines however you want as well for a colored lineart
ok i wasn’t going to reblog this first but honestly this is such a life/time saver. you can get a neat lineart in minutes instead of using a hour (or more) on ‘copying’ the lineart digitally. share this as much as you can. especially since it’s on sai which is what most aspiring artists on this site use…
