Somewhat better look at the colored character models, including Shiny Chariot’s.
I just saw the animated short for this and why isn’t it a series yet and if it is where can I see it aaahhhh~
http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Abdomination-How-to-draw-beef-132538271 < Source
I may have rebloged this before…i’m not sure….
i still like it c:so hard :(
So, here we have a second design for Obsidian the Observer, who I posted up about a week ago. I’m diggin’ this design a lot more than the other one. Mostly, the gloves say “scientist” a lot more than his other outfit’s did.
As a bonus, I’ve arranged the pic that the image is in as a kind of “Galactic Info Panel” image, as if one were to look him up on the intergalactic Internet.
The second image are redesigns for his sensor wand and star blade, and a close up of his pendant. I’m much keener on this version of the wand and blade hilt.
Anyways, I’ll probably have the sketchwork I have for the rooms of the Ascension up tomorrow, as well as a sketch of Hyperia-Maxia itself.
Edit: Ugh Tumblr is being a butt and doing something funny with the second image’s preview, blah.
that’s… the point…
folks who can’t grasp that alternian culture is meant to be fucked up… should maybe not be reading homestuck. it will just upset them.
yeah, you know, a lot of people try to find ways to make caliginous romance not awful, and maybe in Beforus it involved a completely different set of behaviors and feelings, but the Alternian version of it is just a big fat pile of no.
If any of the troll characters right now are going to engage in it, it’s going to need revisions.
Also, it’s kind of weird that someone is trying to apply human psychological and romantic standards to a bizarre made-up alien culture.
I mean, that’s kind of another point here: they’re aliens. Almost every major detail about them, even if it has a passing resemblance to something we’re familiar with, is going to be wildly different and derived from completely different societal constructs.
Within the constructs of the Alternian Troll culture, this is a normal, albeit terrible, thing.
But the only reason I, as well as others, think it’s terrible, is because I’m still applying my own human standards to it.
It’s not even that engaging in a caliginous quadrant needs revisions now or anything; to do so changes the entire idea of the thing, and makes it something else.
It’s that, the few remaining living trolls can’t afford to engage in caliginous relationships simply because they may wind up killing each other (which they really aren’t supposed to do, if you remember the specifics of this quadrant). It simply isn’t prudent to do so, and there aren’t enough trolls to go around for them to all properly adhere to the checks and balances that their romantic rituals require.
They may have to suck it up and start to just… be more human about these things.
TL;DR: Troll romance is weird and terrible.
no, the thing is that Alternian culture as a whole is an UTTERLY SADISTIC and ENTIRELY ARTIFICIAL construct by Doc Scratch, and its explicit purpose was to facilitate LE’s entry and subsequent dominion, ensure the trolls would play as they did, plant traumas and hangups that would trigger the responses they needed for their plans, and also punish them for existing - because as you remember Caliborn has a special hatred of his sister’s favored race.
Therefore whenever you try and apply “alien mentality” as a justification to anything Alternian, the mentality you’re dealing with is actually Lord English’s.
… and Lord English is…. an alien? So really, I actually can still apply alien mentality to it.
And just because it is a poor justification, doesn’t make it any less so.
Believe me, I am keenly aware that the Alternian troll culture is one of manufactured violence and hatred and bigotry. It was formed for very specific reasons, over the course of a long history of time, yes, but-
That doesn’t make it any less so a culture, even if it happens to be artificial in nature.
And frankly, if there are people trying to downplay the sheer awfulness of the black quadrant, then really, they’re just kidding themselves. I’d like to inform you that I am not one of those people.
I can be objective about analyzing this without actually liking the thought of it. Which, if I may reiterate, I don’t.
that’s… the point…
folks who can’t grasp that alternian culture is meant to be fucked up… should maybe not be reading homestuck. it will just upset them.
yeah, you know, a lot of people try to find ways to make caliginous romance not awful, and maybe in Beforus it involved a completely different set of behaviors and feelings, but the Alternian version of it is just a big fat pile of no.
If any of the troll characters right now are going to engage in it, it’s going to need revisions.
Also, it’s kind of weird that someone is trying to apply human psychological and romantic standards to a bizarre made-up alien culture.
I mean, that’s kind of another point here: they’re aliens. Almost every major detail about them, even if it has a passing resemblance to something we’re familiar with, is going to be wildly different and derived from completely different societal constructs.
Within the constructs of the Alternian Troll culture, this is a normal, albeit terrible, thing.
But the only reason I, as well as others, think it’s terrible, is because I’m still applying my own human standards to it.
It’s not even that engaging in a caliginous quadrant needs revisions now or anything; to do so changes the entire idea of the thing, and makes it something else.
It’s that, the few remaining living trolls can’t afford to engage in caliginous relationships simply because they may wind up killing each other (which they really aren’t supposed to do, if you remember the specifics of this quadrant). It simply isn’t prudent to do so, and there aren’t enough trolls to go around for them to all properly adhere to the checks and balances that their romantic rituals require.
They may have to suck it up and start to just… be more human about these things.
TL;DR: Troll romance is weird and terrible.
Japanator Associate Editor Elliot Gay (aka RyougaSaotome) got a hold of the PLvsAA art book, and the results, are…
Well, pretty spectacular.
According to Elliot, the team considered creating ‘dark’ versions of Phoenix and Layton that would be residents of Labyrinth City, as well as having Edgeworth and Larry brought into the city as well. Also pictured is early art for Jeeken, and an unused NPC who carried a variety of masks.
Reblogging for obvious reasons, but also coughing so hard at Jeeken’s hair…
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