Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva

Feanorian Week Day 1: Maedhros, the Hanged Man 

For @feanorianweek​ I’ve decided to do my takes on seven of the major arcana, and so I’m glad it’s starting off with maedhros (coughcoughbestboycoughcough)! I would have liked to emulate the actual tarot depictions of the hanged man by putting him upside down, but I just couldn’t find a way to depict nelyo that way that i wouldve been happy with… i hope that’s alright! 

Behind the scenes bonus: (aka my excuse for not drawing him upside down)

hoo boy… one day down and six more to go! 💃 

Thank you to everyone who has been sending such kind messages, I promise I really do read them all, even if I can't reply, but while these messages are wonderful (and really. I mean it. just the nicest and most heartfelt things I've ever seen) the sad fact is they don't change my situation. But you can change it. You can help me.

If you know my situation, if you want to help me, please write to Glitch Productions. They are the only people who can, and I believe, might, be able and willing to save me. SMG4 has ignored me, even through a legal letter. I have no hope that they will do otherwise, but Glitch are a different case and I think they just genuinely don't know I exist. I have sent them a message, to no reply, but more messages means more of a chance they will notice. IF you are on twitter please message that way, I closed my account there years ago, and please be polite: I am not asking for hate, even if I've received it.

1) TIMELINE RGB was created long before, over a decade before Mr. Puzzles first debuted. (*RGB's first appearance may have been 2011, was a little iffy on that)

2) UNDENIABLY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE The number of traits, some uniquely specific to and representative of RGB's design, that are copied in Mr. Puzzles design are too many to be chalked up to 'just a coincidence'

Especially when you look at the designs of all of the other TV head characters out there - I collected as many as I could find (though I'm sure there's more) and none of them come even close to sharing the number of similarities that these two do.

3) TV MODEL AND DESIGN CHOICES While looking up references for older TVs, I found that for the exact TV they're based on (small retro box TV with knobs in the upper right of the TV and an antenna) most of the references didn't have a vent on the side of them like RGB and Mr. Puzzles do.

I looked up 4 different reference terms, and still had to scroll a while before I found one that matched exactly (above collection just a general sample/example of types of TVs I found). Unless my browsers are wigging out, either the pictures that would come up for these kinds of TVs were different in 2023, or this exact combination of features are just not very common for this style of TV. If that's the case, it may be a bit strange to design a character with those features together.

Here's where that distinction is important: Mr. Puzzles as a character doesn't have much of a reason to go with this design over other styles of similar TVs. But RGB does. The vents on the sides of RGB's head aren't just an aesthetic choice - they're included as a legitimately integral part of the story-line (Negative RGB). The same can be said for a number of other choices Modmad has made, down to individual items of clothing, that show just how much thought and intention and consideration went into every aspect of RGB's design.

Which makes it that much more frustrating to see him get plagiarized in such a careless manner by people who don't even seem to put much care into their own character (common criticism I've read that SMG4 fans have had about Mr. Puzzles and his 'arc').

4) OTHER PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THE SITUATION FROM MOD, NOTICED This has been noted by fans of both series since Mr. Puzzles first came out.

Source:

What if there’s just another slightly smaller beaky helmet in there

I kid

Here you go

"Oh, can't you spare just a day for the weeping?"

a 2:30-minute-long brick, kissed with love.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

I made my own airplane seat chart except I have made it so the seating actually fucking sucks. Pick one

Scaled to an assumed height of 7’8”, even the shortest sword that Turgon reasonably could have wielded would have been nearly as tall as Thorin — which isn’t completely implausible. There are historical examples of swords that are as tall as their wielders (claymores, etc), but crucially, those swords had to be wielded in two hands. That isn’t impossible here either, but I tend to think that Thorin Oakenshield probably fought with a shield, and therefore used a much shorter one-handed sword, probably much like the “short broad sword […] and a roundshield” setup of his dwarven allies from the Iron Hills at the Battle of the Five Armies. In that case, Orcrist would have to be very short indeed for Thorin to have picked it out of the troll-hoard, probably much shorter than would be reasonable for someone of Turgon’s stature.