Hellbound and Proud

Broken Diamond - The Fool's Gamble

Second 'issue' as it were is done! Or as done as my amateur ass can make it. I'm pretty happy with how this came out in a few ways, particularly the effects on the fists and the speed lines for the movement of the fists/weapons. Big thank you to my friend @harleyshellhole for helping me figure out the effects and giving me some great tips I'll be using moving forward.

I'll be posting these in this format now, I think. One continous line seems to work best to display it, and Tumblr should auto-shorten the thing for anyone who isn't interested in the whole thing

I wanted to show through the effects on his fists as well as how it appears when José is hit with the bat that his ability both helps attack AND defend. Alas, even spooky supernatural abilities can only help so much when you're being attacked by multiple trained thugs, and they knew the numbers game was in their favour

"WAIT MABEL- the transparent background isnt real you cant just-"

"........Uh......"

"Hey, there's still chunks of fake transparent background on me!"

"Yes, well-... Unfortunately for you, Stanley, your current file size causes some issues that impede my ability to effectively address your situation. I have yet to find a cure for your........... lack of resolution. Consequently, you must remain at your diminutive dimensions of 192 by 152 until a suitable remedy is found."

"Don't worry, Mr. Pines! With the power of Autografixᴹᵀ, upscaling artifacts are a thing of the past! And of the future. Check it out!"

"Well, that's great, Soos, but what about--"

"Now that's pretty good, but we can do better. We can do bester. We gotta make it epic."

"Wh-"

"Let's put in a background!"

"What the- Soos! How did I get--"

"Now you can both max and relax! ...Oh! And there can be tigers!"

"Tigers? Wh--"

I've ranted in the tags of this post before but I just want to show off the most radicalizing display of how evil golf courses are I've ever seen!! This is in Tucson, Arizona. One of the biggest public parks in town, which contains baseball fields and a rose garden and a public pool and the ENTIRE zoo is HALF THE SIZE OF THE GOLF COURSE NEXT DOOR. Ignoring the fact that we live in a Fucking Desert and are constantly being reminded by the government to conserve water while this fucking MONSTROCITY is allowed to exist, I just cannot get over how goddamn evil it is that the people in this city are given one half the space the golf course is.

And the park is crowded, btw!! There are ALWAYS hundreds of people there having birthday parties and taking quinceañera and prom photos, the zoo is really popular, Tucson Pride usually sets up at the park, and there's an outdoor amphitheater and a baseball field and a huge dog park and several playgrounds and two beautiful ponds, but nah rather than prioritize all that a golf course that probably sees a fraction of the traffic is allowed to take up SO MUCH SPACE. And actually, recently the Tucson Zoo wanted to expand--which is understandable, it's a VERY small zoo--but rather than try to target the golf course the city almost decided to give like a fourth of THE PARK to them because we should just fuck over the thousands of people who use this beloved public space daily rather than for a single second consider that the golf course is a fucking unethical waste of space and water that should not be allowed to exist.

Golf is a fucking plague and I would do anything to see this space converted into anything else. It's so big you could expand the park, the zoo, AND probably build a bunch of affordable housing no problem. But no, sorry the rich fucks in this town have to waste loads of water keeping a bunch of GRASS alive in the SONORAN DESERT so they can fuck around all day while the rest of us have to be happy with what space we're allowed all the while living in fear that the city will just decide to give a bunch of it away.