All Kinds Of Yes

All kinds of yes

Been on a Billford kick lately. The smut is a fun time. (Not a romantic ship This is a toxic abusive pairing. Bill is an irredeemable monster. I'm just here to watch Sixer suffer.) That said I got the idea to design a Bill for my own purposes that's less goofy than his cannon design but not full pretty boy twink like most human Bill designs. Not that I don't enjoy pretty boy Bill as much as the next person but I think it'd be fun to lean into the monster fucker energy.

Full nsfw sketch below the cut

THE AO3 TAGS 😭

All in the pursuit of science

I hate them so much I need them

My initial post about Bill still wanting to Fuck That Old Man™ is nearly at 10K notes so I figured I'd make another one.

In Season 2, Episode 19, "Dreamscaparers", AKA Bill's debut episode, he states near the end that he hates synth music in response to Mabel summoning Xyler and Craz.

However...

In the lost pages of Ford's journal, we learn that Bill made a cozy little space in Ford's living room, as you can see here:

He made tea, set up some chess, lit up the fire place, and for ambience music, he chose...

Sweet Dreams, by the Eurythmics.

A synth song. For the ambience, he chose a synth song.

Conclusion:

Bill's hatred of synth doesn't come from his personal tastes in music, but rather because it reminds him of his and Ford's breakup.

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

Hmm which one do I like best..

The fact that that one speck of Bill's dimension that was in his hat is MIA is haunting me. Do you think he's even processed the fact that it's gone?

So the possibilities as I see them:

the speck was left somewhere else during the events of Weirdmageddon (in the Quadrangle of Qonfusion? somewhere in the Fearamid?) and is still there

the speck isn't actually stored in Bill's hat but is something Bill can manifest and unmanifest at will

the speck got got when Ford quantum destabilized Bill's hat

the speck was accidentally left behind in Stan's brain

the speck got scattered with the rest of Bill's soul when Stan socked him

the speck is still inside Bill's corpse's stone hat

the speck came with Bill into the afterlife; the Axolotl took custody

the speck got confiscated when Bill entered Theraprism

the speck was left with Bill in Theraprism just like his hat and bow tie were

We don't know that it is gone.

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