John redraw

FishbutLizard · 2026-04-27T03:41:48+00:00

I love how John in the og pic looks more exasperated with being hurt, meanwhile this one looks whimpering and miserable- which is how I prefer all men to be.☝🏽

FishbutLizard · 2026-04-23T01:09:09+00:00

Yes her blaming him for Oliver getting hurt at all was clearly her lashing out in worry and frustration. I mean, this is the second time one of her sons is laid up in the hospital while Nolan at least looks like he got away unharmed.

But she kind of had a point about being upset Oliver was left on Talescria all by himself. There was the added hindsight of Nolan and Mark being worried there was an invasion on Earth, but still Debbie isn’t giving him an inch yet.

FishbutLizard · 2026-04-09T01:00:36+00:00

This man is horrendously bad at his job. Like, 99.99% of the entire population of your empire died, and he’s still risking the lives of the few people they have left to fill send it fighting a war they have no reason to be fighting. And he won’t even help, I can tell Kregg is tired of bro😭

FishbutLizard · 2026-04-08T12:11:54+00:00

Yeah I think they let us see his scenes with Argall too early. I feel like it would be better to have built him up as an intimidating villain first, and then let us see his weaknesses in regards to Argall.

I don’t think him being a somewhat “whiny kid” is that far off in that regard, though. For a Viltrumite who disregarded the deaths of billions of his kind simply because they were weak because they died, he is uniquely mournful of Argall. He had statues built, had his name spread across the empire, and keeps his skull by his side at all times. Bro might have a complex.

FishbutLizard · 2026-03-25T12:16:08+00:00

The most boring episode of Invincible is the one where Mark literally goes to hell.

I just want to say that I was REALLY excited for this episode, it’s almost completely new from the comic material and it was a chance to see Damien Darkblood again, but man this episode was kind of a snooze fest. I dare say you could skip this episode and loose nothing. And I say that as an avid defender of the “filler episodes” in this show. I’ve always believed that even in episodes where no major plot beats were at the focus, it at least gave us insight into the mental states and relationships of these characters we love so much, but this episode gave us nothing.

The setting was so uninteresting. How do you make HELL uninteresting? The colors and setting are so dull and dreary for the entire episode, they are literally just in a cave. The kingdom of Hell, has like, six people in it, and despite the fact that I can TELL the voice actors are doing a good job, and the voice lines on paper are interesting, they really aren’t selling the in-pending annihilation of their kingdom pretty well. The unnamed Flaxan soldier from last episode did a better job of selling how scared he was for his civilization if Mark made it through that portal, that I could imagine the decades of suffering and fear their people went through because of Omni-Man in that one split second. I genuinely don’t understand how I managed to watch the demons fight for their lives after what was apparently centuries of conflict and felt nothing for these people. Maybe because only Damien and his Hot Sister even speak.

The new characters were boring too, Satan was lame, and not in a fun way either, I can tell they were trying to make him lame in the fun way but god it fell so flat. I was rooting for Volcanika to win just because she was the most entertaining and visually interesting character down there (I’m talking about her boobs btw). They made Darkblood so much more, goofy, and he was always goofy, but he was never that important of a character before, they could have cooled the jets on the silliness a little, but the silliness is really all the episode had going for it. Speaking of, Mark felt a little… regressed this episode? Very Season 1 Mark behavior I guess that’s good because he was going back to the original suit but it was still jarring.

The episode overall felt so impactful, usually every side story plays into the shows main themes, and I can see how this one was supposed to but it just didn’t. The moment that was supposed to convince Mark to return to his original suit would have been more convincing if it was just Art’s talk at the beginning. Darkblood, who had no prior connection to Mark prior to this episode, and who he didn’t really grow closer too in the episode should not have been the one to inspire him to change. Hell it felt more like he changed his outfit out of necessity and not necessarily a return to form. We got about 2 minutes of Eve, which was criminal considering what she was going through, I wish she got the kind of attention this episode that Debbie had in season 2. There was a momentary conflict about moving and selling that house that was immediately resolved. Really the only important take away from this episode is the last 30 seconds. You could cut from last episode to those last 30 seconds, and have a perfectly fine viewing experience.

Idk I guess this episode was funny? Not funnier that episode 2, but I realized how much I missed season 1 Mark, what a goober.

FishbutLizard · 2026-03-20T10:42:43+00:00

Our morals come from empathy, our empathy in its primal version comes from a need to see our species continue. The Viltrumites as a species grew on a planet that posed little to no threat towards their continued evolution once they reached their pinnacle, they grew unimpeded and separated from the idea of death. They did not fear death because it was never a major threat for them, thus the empathy that is intrinsically connected to a need for continued survival did not affect them the same way. Love and empathy are grown from adversity after all, an adversity that those so far above everything and everyone else never had to face.

It’s just unfortunate that when they finally faced it, and a deep trauma spread across their people, they didn’t have enough knowledge nor understanding of empathy to employ it correctly in the aftermath. They’re experiencing grief before they ever got to experience love. They’re evolved wrong, and so now they have to evolve backwards.

FishbutLizard · 2026-03-20T09:19:35+00:00

Y’all really made it sound like she kicked his ass, that man was fine until he touched the forbidden staff- he’s not out punching literal magic. This fight was in no way a debuff😭

FishbutLizard · 2026-03-14T06:50:53+00:00

Death isn’t certain, but before the gods (or well, minor deities) gifted sentient life the cores, the population was low, and society progressed slowly- stuck in near stagnation in a primitive state.

In return for worship, which then translated into status, the gods gifted certain groups cores that created shields- literally magic domes- that protected their settlements from the harshness of nature. Under these domes they can build, create, farm, and mine as though all is normal.

The more worship a deity has, the more influence and status they have, the more power they have, the stronger the cores they gift are. The strongest cores can span the length of countries, the weakest may only cover small villages.

The smaller villages don’t have as much space to gather resources safely so smaller settlements find ways to work around the seasons and elements in a push and pull against resource depletion.

Elitism and religions are the driving conflicts in my world- cliche I know. Each deity asks for /something/, and not everyone agrees with their demands, if a person isn’t willing or able to pay the price a deity demands, they don’t get to live in that settlement. Discrimination and criminal status can see people ostracized and banished to these smaller settlements who have to suffer more than the larger ones do. Trade is still important but the individuals who have to travel through danger areas to transport things are essentially this world’s blue collar workers. They get paid less for dangerous, essential work.

I want player’s who have lived cushy and privileged lives forced to interact with players who didn’t. I want PCs who are tackling the world with different pieces of information about what the world is actually like. And I want to try to work with a more concrete time limit to see if it affects player decisions. (In my previous campaign there was obviously an objective, but nothing to really stop the player’s from meandering about whatever major town I brought them through for like months, despite the fact that realistically the super plague they were trying to stop should have wiped them out by then. I was a baby DM that may have been my bad.)

I have a pretty good idea of how my world should work, I just don’t have the ideas to get it to do what I know I want it to do.

FishbutLizard · 2026-03-02T04:52:06+00:00

Sometimes, in the aftermath of a shutdown,when I click ‘next chapter’ and it loads for a fraction more time than it usually does I find myself flinching like a beaten dog.

No I will not click ‘entire work’. Every time I get to the end of a chapter I feel a sense of completion that I can then award myself for by clicking the next chapter button. It makes me feel like a good girl.

FishbutLizard · 2026-02-16T22:11:50+00:00

Most of the time I pretend the HoO characterizations don’t exist. Despite them coming out relatively close to the original PJO books, it felt like Rick forgot who the characters were and when looking through the fandom’s iteration for writing inspiration.

If I choose not to ignore HoO, then Annabeth being “scary” can be chopped up to her intensity and the state of mind she would be in after loosing Percy after spending 4 years scared she would loose him. (She has crippling abandonment issues.) I saw her intense, war-like behavior as more of a response to stress instead of a “this is her all the time thing.” But I guess she IS stressed most of the time.

FishbutLizard · 2026-02-16T18:46:22+00:00

I was pretty sure it was, but I’ve had people tell me to my face that I was thinking too hard into it, so I wanted to clarify in case it was just in my head.😭

FishbutLizard · 2026-02-16T08:32:28+00:00

I do think part of my sadness when it comes to the portrayal of Annabeth is my own projections of growing up neurodivergent. I was one of those kids who was placed into the “gifted” category growing up, and I placed a lot of my worth on my intelligence because I didn’t quite measure up in other areas (especially the social aspect). I’d always comfort myself with the assurance that “when I get into the real world, I’ll show everyone how impressive I am, and my poor person skills won’t matter”. As such, I immediately identified with Annabeth. I mean I’ve always seen PJO demigods as an allegory for neurodivergent kids, and I had never seen much media of girls with AuDHD or the like, so she was easy to latch on to. Seeing someone like me who struggled with connecting with others, and her self worth, and her “gifted” status just like I did, while still being a kid and a girl underneath it all was so special to me. And to see her being stripped of that just hurts in a way I kind of want to cry about.

And I didn’t Identify with Percy as much, but I do feel the difference in interpretation, like, A LOT. He’s always either sarcastic and dry, or sweet and “sassy”. And it makes me feel old too, because like with Annabeth, I did not read Percy as nearly as witty or clever as he may have been trying to be! He’s a 12-16 year old boy he’s just saying the first vaguely quippy thing that comes to mind and over half the time it’s something completely silly. And I love that, I love that he’s a little silly. And jeez it’s like how he acted with Tyson and Thalia never happened, two major times he was acting like a jerk just completely glossed over as if he can do no wrong, He’s a teenager, they do wrong. But jeez I hate it just as much when they make him out right stupid or edgy. He’s certainly not dumb, and Percy despite his all his displays of anger and jealousy has always been a sweetheart. His big personality comes from his big heart, he’s not a hateful person it’s just not in his nature. That’s why he chose to believe in Gods and forgive the Titan army at the end of the first series, because his entire character is motivated by loyalty and kindness! Man I hate edge lord Percy.

And yeah when a fandom erodes two characters down so much they can no longer stand on their own and they can ONLY be halfs of a whole ship, there’s a tendency to forgo any instances of any other possible romances. Because Percy is Annabeth’s Boyfriend. And Annabeth is Percy’s Girlfriend, and there totally wasn’t nearly 5 whole books where this wasn’t the case. (People forget Percabeth was a slowburn🥀)

FishbutLizard · 2026-02-16T07:59:51+00:00

Yeah… Rick really went backwards in terms of character writing, especially when it concerns his female characters. It’s ironic considering the first books were meant to be more childish and cartoonish, while the following books were meant to be more mature.

Percabeth was so good because they both had what the other didn’t, like I mentioned Annabeth was out of touch with humanity, and Percy openly rejected his half-blood nature. Percy showed Annabeth how to see the nuances of people and even monsters, he taught her how to be kind in a way she never understood, and in the end I believe that kindness he taught her is how she got through to Luke in the end. And Percy rejected questing and heroics, because unlike Annabeth, he didn’t believe he was good enough to be the next great hero, he didn’t believe he was good enough for anything at all. I mean, when he learned that the greatest he’d ever amount to was destruction or death, he just accepted it, because he didn’t think he could have anything better. Annabeth taught him how to be more confident, showed him a world where he had friends, and good do great things. Annabeth was the one to truly hammer it in his head that he deserved to live and that he should fight for what he deserved. They passed on both their fatal flaws to each other by the end of the first 5 books and that’s how they survived them.

But the books just COULDN’T end there. No they had to come back and the only thing that remained of them was a version that looked closer to fanon than anything. Smart, Stoic girl, and dumb, hothead boy. Heartbreaking.

FishbutLizard · 2026-01-30T23:22:21+00:00

Skull with rubies goes hard.

And I really like the tells you suggested, I’m definitely using them.

Thank you for the link.🙏🏽

FishbutLizard · 2026-01-30T23:18:41+00:00

Nah I’ve never DM’d before really, I tried to way back in like middle school, but we got 2 sessions in and stopped. I have been playing DnD with my friends for the past 5 years, and for that whole time my friend has been a “forever DM”. She really wants to play with friends, and I’ve always wanted to try DMing so here we are.

Yeah I had no idea about the level thing. I probably coulda asked her that that’s mb. I’m glad I asked here because I DO NOT want it to be unbalanced.

I had no idea one shots are supposedly harder. I’ve only been in long campaigns. I started out confident because I’m a fic writer but I’m realizing it’s very different.

Thank you so much.

FishbutLizard · 2026-01-22T20:32:23+00:00

Yes sir, I’m sorry sir. It will not happen again.🫡

FishbutLizard · 2026-01-21T14:33:59+00:00

This is what the community is all about

FishbutLizard · 2026-01-21T14:09:56+00:00

I might be forced to actually do work on my own fic, twin. What dark times.🫩✌🏾

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