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All in the pursuit of science

I'm crying of laughter form all the "Kamala almost called him a motherfucker, and she should've" posts

kamala's facial expressions tonight made me think that she was going to jump over that podium and cuss his ass out

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just like old times

Pairing: Bill Cipher/Ford Pines

Fandom: Gravity Falls

Summary: Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. There’s more than one way to torment a man and Bill knows Ford just a little too well, no matter what anyone else thinks is happening.

Rating: Explicit

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, coming sort of untouched, Bitter Exes, Chains, Triangle Bill Cipher, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot

Word count: 1755

Link: just like old times

Excerpt:

“Stop,” he gasps again. “Say the magic word,” Bill singsongs. “Please,” Ford says through gritted teeth. “Not that.” Bill wags an extra arm at him. “The equation, I want the equation. Let me back inside you.” Bill did not have to phrase it like that and Ford glares at him weakly.

Oh

So. Does Bill just have a thing for people with large amounts of fingers

You tell me.

Fav detail about elves I didn't fully register until I saw that one summer colour page - elves look rosy when they're light-skinned, but get slightly greyer as their skin darkens.

It looks like a creative decision that was made a little later, though, around the time of introducing the black-skinned elves, which makes sense - in order for them to be pure black, something other than melanin had to be happening there.

Idk if that's really an active choice or just bad coloring on Kui's part ngl.... unfortunately making darker skin ashy is a common mistake by artists, especially if they tend to draw light skinned characters more often, they might pick a light skin tone and just make it darker which turns them ashy. Dark skin is often neglected when people study painting skin color (you know how it is with racism and colorism being ingrained in society and the reflections of it showing up where you wouldn't expect)

Kui also wildly changes the colors she uses so it's hard to take any of it meaningfully in small details, If you look at art of Thistle or Kabru you can see their skin colors change both hue and darkness between art. Even his hair keeps changing how intense the yellow is and sometimes is fully white.

In this case there's also the scan differences but you can see how much Cithis skin changes art to art too

It really doesn't have much consistency in undertones, I imagine some of it might be traditional art (copic markers or watercolor?) but even between her digital art the undertones keep changing, sometimes she's greyish sometimes yellowish sometimes more redish and in the swimsuit one she even looks kinda purple to me

Kui is a great artist but based on how she has also painted Kabru and the twins greyish (the worst one under this paragraph) I can't say the greyish tone of the darker elves is any sort of intentional choice but rather mistakes.

She does it to some extent to her lighter skinned characters too, but I think it's especially obvious in the darker skinned ones (here's Senshi getting slightly paler/grayer between different art)

At least now we have the anime with more set on stone colors/darkness, and I'm overall happy that the dark skinned characters got officially darker overall (although some of the skin tones still look a little off to me)

Anyway, other than the obsidian skin elves I don't think there's any indication the greyish tone was intentional.

Sorry for the long winded response, it's just something I wanted to acknowledge since sometimes I see people discussing skin colors in my notes