Kind Of Had A Moment When I Didn't Know What To Do So I Asked My Sister. And Being The One That Introduced

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This was supposed to be the last of 2023 but… I forgot, since the first thing of 2023 (that’s still up) was also Thor so “tie it all together”. But here he is.

Another one of my “One off Pin-ups” for whenever I just want to draw some Marvel without any deeper meaning and if you have a character you want to see, or one you think I have to update, let me know :D maybe I can dare to look at comments or just send a message.

No clue why I have written “don’t touch” on my schedule. The episode aired sometime in March, the show started in Oct, ended in March, what made me put this post just this date and tell myself not to move it?

Kenobiiii

I don't know if I love or hate how much I can relate to this

I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

So. Earlier this year we lost James Earl Jones who in his long career was probably most known as the voice of Mufasa as well as Darth Vader.

As I was busy with my Marvel 85 Anniversary, I took a day and stressed out a tribute to him as well as to Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse but now with actual time on my hand, I wanted to draw my favourite Vader-scene and what he gave to this character.

My favourite scene is the small hallway scene from Ep. 6 where Luke retreats to Vader. It’s the same character from the previous films, the same suit, same voice and all but none of that fear that came along. It’s no longer the monster slaughtering in hunt of the Death Star-plans, choking left and right over the smallest errors. It’s not the man who cut the hand of his own son in rage. It’s a father talking to his son.

It’s Anakin Skywalker, a master engineer admiring his son’s work on his lightsaber. It’s Anakin warning Luke of the dark side. Same mask, same voice, now portrayed as a slave more than a fist. It’s Anakin thinking back on Obi-Wan and the mistakes of his life and the prison he put himself in.

It’s Anakin saying it’s too late, son.

Well, a lot is of course the passivity of David Prowse’s performance and Mark Hamill leading the conversation but James Earl Jones gave the final push to make Vader more man than machine in his final hour of privacy, before the two entered the Death Star.

This moment between the two is important to strengthen Luke to yell out to his father in pain, to Vader to finally turn after all this time and for them to get a moment to say goodbye and Luke to attend his father’s funeral in the midst of a celebrating galaxy. Without this, Luke would probably still have hope, but now he has evidence of the light side in him.

Or I’m just overthinking. But damn, James Earl Jones was brilliant as Darth Vader and the AI hasn't been close to replicating what he gave to this character.

Originally had another Newt-related post for today… or maybe Wednesday? Well, this was planned for Wednesday but moved to today cause apparently, it is Newt’s birthday. Or was. Dependent on when you see this. Moved things around a lot trying to make my schedule work. But it was Newt and Tina but needed a pause on the couples-thing so here’s Newt with his other true love… Beasts!

Happy Birthday mr. Scamander!

My absolute favorite thing with the X-Men TAS is that they never explained Banshee's powers.

You just suddently see him in a bright costume and he starts screaming and also he's flying. It's not even like a sonic sound effect I'm used to, like Canary's cry for example, it's just a basic scream... and kids where just supposted to connect that one action supported the other.

Like! I knew this character from before. I knew his power-set. And I still needed a sec to realize what was going on

HE JUST STARTED SCREAMING AND NOBODY POINTED IT OUT AND I'M CRYING

There's so much in X-Men TAS that just goes unexplained and I love it for it. This was a show for comic-readers and if you didn't read any, well good freaking luck keeping up.

This MIGHT be 99% pre-downloaded brushes that came with Photoshop that might also not work well together BUT I saw this cat a while ago sitting on a well and looking over her home and I did not have time to pick up my camera SO here’s a ruff concept of what it looked like.

Magnificent.