Little Creativity

More Reverse!AU! (inspired, as always, by @eeveelinktions’ prompt on imaginefourswords)

I like to imagine the Dark World Links having Shadow’s usual powers divided up between them, or at least having one area where they each excel beyond the others. They can all do the floaty thing, but besides that:

- Red has a knack for explosives (and also the closest friendship with their dragon)

- Blue is the only one who can get the Dark Mirror to work reliably (he’s like a tech guy who makes computers work just by standing near them xD)

- Green has the stretchy dodging nonsense

- Vio has the shape-shifting disguise abilities

I also really liked Red’s pose in particular, and thought it was a shame he was partially obscured, so here’s a close-up of just Red:

The Pragmatist’s Tetra !

She’s a good gal ! Strong and very dependable pirate leader who gets super frustrated about being called Zelda . She doesn’t quite like the name keeps coming back to bite her.

Say hello to the Pragmatist’s Link ! 

A generally cooky, bright boy, he’s a touch short for most other kids his age. Selectively mute, he prefers to speak with his hands or his actions. 

Looking at actually doing my fanfiction into a fancomic. 

So, first things first !! Designs.

The Pragmatist’s Linebeck ! His design hasn’t changed too much. Darker toned skin, shifted his boots color, and turned his fancy gentlemanly thing into a scarf.

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my version of sheik from LOZ ?  Damn, I forgot about this boy .

did this anime waifu just tear down the edgy pretentious pseudointellectual facades we construct for ourselves as an obfuscating substitute for actual worth of character and accuse us of being so wrapped up in our own insular self-validating atrophied emotional comfort zones that we can only relate to others through pop culture allusions and mental dominance contests instead of a genuine emotional connection between two human beings

That’s exactly what the character was telling her counterpart to knock off. Big words. Big words with the assumption that everybody listening or reading will understand or have the energy and means to research what they don’t. Big words that communicate a big ego and little consideration for others.

She’s telling him to come off his pedestal and talk to her as himself, with his own words - words she can understand, because no, she’s not a walking dictionary or thesaurus or history book or anything like that, and unlike him she also doesn’t pretend to be, even though she’s arguably just as “exposed” to all these things by way of his presence in her life as he is by way of his presence on the internet.

What is “obfuscating”? What is “insular”? What is “pseudointellectual”? Fine that you seem to know their definitions, but you aren’t addressing an audience that can or should be expected to know those things. For god’s sake, I do know those things and I still had to keep stopping to figure out what the hell was being said.

She doesn’t understand these things because he never tries to help her understand. She doesn’t understand why he thinks he’s educated and edgy just because he talks about blood and knows a little bit about this religion and that world issue. She very clearly wants to understand, but he’s so busy being clever that all she gets out of him is, “It’s really cool, but you wouldn’t understand it.”

So no, that… big jumble of words up there is not what’s going on. What’s going on is that an anime character just called the internet age on its bullshit.

this right here is so fucking important. As someone with ADHD, I struggled with having to decipher this bullcrap in my Liberal Arts classes or any time I needed to read shit for essays and it felt like pulling teeth. I would always think. “DUDE you’re talking about art!! Fuck off with the big words and just tell why I should give a shit about this damn painting!!” I’m not saying if you use big words fuck you I’m saying if you ONLY use big words fuck you. Especially when you’re to talking down to me about something I should understand. It’s a social wall that will leave you feeling cold and lonely up on your high horse. and If you do this and want to knock it off: 

Don't always say: pseudointellectual 

Try to say: pretentious or full-of-it 

Don’t always say: insular

Try to say: ignorant or  a don’t know don’t care attitude 

Don’t always say: obfuscating

Try to say: Confusing or messed up