OP Warm Ups From Twitter

I got distracted and forgot but here's a Medusa sketch

My collab with @pastanoodles22 it was so fun to draw with them, I enjoyed finally drawing aketchi, been going back and playing all the persona games, they are so good

dick grayson is so important to me. he’s kind, he’s so kind, he’s the safety net of the multiverse but he’s so angry. his parents are dead. his brother died and came back all wrong and he couldn’t do anything about it. he had to play the father role to a spoiled angry homicidal ten year old and yeah he loves damian so so much now but it was so hard in the beginning, on top of trying to be there for tim. he has to watch bruce act the way he does and his friends keep dying and he’s so so angry and he’s so tired but he isn’t allowed to be angry because angry dick is scary and angry dick is wrong but he’s so angry but he has to be kind because other people need him and-

If we don’t get kh4 news soon I’m gonna start drawing fanart of the trailers that play inside my mind

and nothing bad ever happened to them ever <3 (zoom + ref under the cut)

come back to me

Spiderverse really said "Your grief was not necessary. It served no purpose. It did not make you better or kinder or wiser. It did not make the world better. You did not need to suffer to do good. You should never have had to suffer the way you did. Grief is so strong and so painful that you had to justify it to yourself in order to accept it. You convinced yourself you are better because of it. That the good things you do are because of your grief, instead of in spite of it. You needed to believe it in order to move past the pain. But the moment you believe your suffering was necessary, you begin to believe the suffering of others is necessary. And when you believe the suffering of others is necessary, you begin to be complicit in it and eventually begin actively and purposefully causing it."

and it was so real for that.

Here is text with it as well-

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I have thoughts about IT Chapter 2 (2019).

I had watched the IT miniseries and then about a year later I watched IT Chapters 1 & 2. I loved Chapter 1 (and still do). I really enjoyed Chapter 2 when I first watched it, and there are still parts that I really like. I have since watched both movies and the miniseries several times, and read the book. And I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t like Chapter 2 as an interpretation of the story.

As a one-to-one adaptation of the book, the miniseries is better than the movies. That’s an indisputable fact, and also not necessarily what the movies were trying to do. The change in setting (1950’s to 1980’s) does change the way that the characters are presented. I actually really like this, and will almost certainly make a separate post about it someday. The way that Bill Denbrough is presented in the movies, however, is just inconsistent with his character. In the book, he is the leader of the Losers. They all look up to him and respect him. They all genuinely love him and he genuinely loves them back. Every single Loser almost worships Bill, to the point that the book even comments that he’s the only person Ben wouldn’t be jealous of if Beverly dated. And Bill is aware of his friends, even if he is still asking them to do dangerous things. Still his characterization in Chapter 1, while off, doesn't ruin things nearly as much as the mess that Chapter 2 becomes.

So IT is a beast of a book to read. It’s long and the dual story structure is written concurrently, meaning that it jumps from kids to adults randomly. The miniseries keeps this to an extent. I think separating the two stories is smart, but having the two run concurrently does allow the reader to see that though the structure seems circular the characters have grown. They are adults the second time they face Pennywise, and have different priorities and fears. And they have to figure out how to defeat Pennywise as these new versions of themselves. And, yes, Chapter 2 does this, for everyone except Bill. Because in the book, Bill actually cares about his wife, Audra, who follows him to Derry and gets abducted by It. In the book, Bill is a rational adult who chooses to go into the sewers, leading and with the support of his friends. He grows throughout the book, coming to realizations about what parts of him need to revert back to his childhood self versus which parts of his adult self are needed to win (the cheating bit). Which is really what each of the Losers has to do in Derry before they can defeat It.

So I am so annoyed by the choices made for Bill Denbrough in IT Chapter 2. The inclusion of a random stand-in Georgie child completely erases any capacity that Bill has for growth in the story. It keeps him in the mentality of his traumatized 13 year old self, and he acts like it. He is supposed to be the beloved leader. The Losers are supposed to rally around him, because he is everyone’s big brother/first crush. Why is he going rogue in the sewers? Why did they take the responsible leader and make him a manic loner? Why did they do Bill Denbrough so dirty? It completely ruins the integrity of the movie as an adaptation of IT.