There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.
I think it’s great that Pumpkins (and other squash) were only introduced to Europe around 1600 and the Serbs wasted absolutely no time blaming them for their problems.
This is a clear attempt to distract from calls to boycott because of their funding of the genocide of Palestine. Please make sure no one you know falls for this bullshit either.
Oh my god some of these Belos fans are so annoying just shut the fuck up already. You people wonder why you get blocked left and right, it’s bc you never shut up about your beloved uwu white old cishet man and how ‘he’s actually a victim’ or ‘not canonically a bigot’ like 1. Nobody gaf he’s a victim, look at all the atrocities he caused and tried to commit. Being a victim doesn’t excuse any of his actions. 2. He is a bigot, you know who tries to genocide entire groups of people? Bigots. Sorry you can’t cope with the fact normal people understand he’s a villain and hate him for what he’s done and tried to do and are uncomfortable with those of you who try to defend him or some shit.
Is he a well-written villain and are people allowed to like him as a character without approving of his actions? Absolutely, but some of you try to bend over backwards claiming you’re victims for being bigots and supportive of his bigotry and actions yourselves, and every time one of you does that I think Belos should be killed again. You’re basically massacring his actual character anyway, yet claim to be fans. I’m glad the show is over if only bc eventually that part of his ‘fanbase’ will lose interest and move on to be nuisances somewhere else.
We don’t support his violence against witches at all. I cannot speak for everyone?m, but almost every fan I know enjoys the horror elements of him and the complexity of how someone can go from being a victim to a perpetrator and continue the cycle of violence that’s induced by expectations to conform from a young age and taught that being different is wrong.
We don’t use his situation as a victim of cult indoctrination, trauma, and being abandoned by his only family as an excuse or an absolution for his crimes. He’s a heinous person, and I wish he had suffered more (and truly broken) before he died.
Most of us who like his character and the cisgender, heterosexual people you stereotype us as, and it’s highly incorrect to assume that we’re racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted against people. That’s harmful and unnecessarily toxic.
And people who like Philip haven’t been victimized? Have you seen the whole reason for the “BelosFansTakeover” tag? We are getting bullied, harassed, threatened, and more. I’ve seen people get called Nazis, bigots, supporters of IRL genocide, and more. People have told us we’re horrible or that the world would be better off without people like us. Because we like a fictional character. I think that’s good enough to count as being victimized and attacked.
Also, we’re ruining a character? Oh, yes, pardon us for trying to find out more on the mental state of a man who cut parts of his ears off, carved glyphs into his arms, mutilated his body with magic when he absolutely detests it, and said “I just need to live long enough to see this through” when physically injured. It’s not as if that description alone exposes a lot of traits that can be studied, analyzed, and recorded. It’s not as if that suggests an iceberg of depth in characterization at not only Philip’s determination but also his lack of care for his own health.
No, no. We’re totally seeing things when there’s nothing there.
Sorry for being an asshole, but I have had a rough month am getting sick of seeing these takes made by people that only serve to alienate a large part of the fandom, ruin the series for others, and completely ignore the show’s whole theme of it’s okay to be weird and like different things. You know, “Nobody should be punished for being who they are?” Or does that just apply to people who who fit your exact image of what a weirdo should be?
This fandom is full of toxic hypocrites, and I’ve interacted with more people who are fans of “controversial” ships or characters that are nicer than the supposed good guys here. People need to get off their high horses and realize that bullying is bullying. People who do that aren’t the heroes here. They’re just assholes.
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.
Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.
So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.
if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge
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as for the style guide, i am far from an expert at replicating art styles, but having a neo-UPA inspired art style really made this easier for me, even if i did struggle on getting used to some design choices.
DISCLAIMER: I do not condone tracing over other people’s artwork to claim as your own final product. I only trace the shapes from the total drama characters to break down and analyze the art style for educational purposes.
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IN GENERAL
total drama’s art style is heavily stylized and takes inspiration from clone high and many UPA-inspired cartoons in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. it uses very thick and bold outlines to define its characters and their individual shape language. a lot of designs use a variety of sharp angles, straight lines, and curved arcs to achieve a balanced character design that works in the total drama universe.
because the shape language is very geometric and simple, it’s surprisingly easy to recreate the total drama art style & reimagine some of your favorite characters in the universe!
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BODY TYPES: THE “TYPICAL” WOMAN
a lot of the women in the show follow this base, even more than the “typical” male body type. compared to the men, the women of total drama have cat-like eyes, stylized lips, skinny necks, an hour-glass figure, longer and thicker legs, and pointy fingers. head shapes & features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity. not all women in the show look like this, though! there’s a decent handful of women with very unique body types, such as beth, macarthur, & emma from the 2023 reboot! it also helps to reference characters from different seasons to get a better idea of the shape language in the show’s universe!
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BODY TYPES: THE “TYPICAL” MAN
the “typical” body type for men isn’t as well defined as it is for the “typical” woman, so there aren’t as many examples of what defines the “typical” male body type. However, based on the handful of characters we collected, we can determine that the “typical” male body type in total drama is top-heavy. compared to the women, many of the men have broad chests and shoulders, thicker and longer arms, thicker necks, thinner waists and hips, and shorter, thinner legs. they have flatter, more boxy fingers comoared to the pointy fingers the women have. head shapes and features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity.
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BODY TYPES: THE PLUS SIZED WOMAN
plus-sized women follow some of the same rules & principles as the “typical” woman does, from more cat-like eyes to sharper fingers however, in contrast to the more common body type, these woman have much thicker body proportions and use rounder, smoother lines to emphasize either fat or muscle. head shapes and other features may vary depending on the character and/or ethnicity.
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BODY TYPES: THE PLUS SIZED MAN
there’s a pretty good variety when it comes to drawing plus-sized men. while some of them, like ripper, follow some similar principles to the “typical” man, others offer a new, unique design base to work with. their features are generally rounder and wider to emphasize their weight. head shapes & other features may vary depending on character and/or ethnicity.
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BODY TYPES: THE LANKY MAN
unlike the “typical” man, the lankier men don’t usually have the same broad shoulders and chest. their limbs are much thinner, & they sometimes don’t have any pronounced calves. it’s more common for the lankier men to have their feet facing in the same direction as opposed to the other, though the latter isn’t an uncommon design desicion either. head shapes and other festures vary depending on the character and/or ethnicity.
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BODY TYPES: THE BEEFY MAN
Of all the body types presented to the male characters, this one is the closest and most similar to the “typical” male body type. the difference is that the broadness of the shoulders and chest are exaggerated more, and the shape of the arms can vary between being wider to having more lumps. head shapes and other features may vary depending in character and/or ethnicity.
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HAIR STYLES
a hairstyle can tell people a lot about a character. theres a lot of different ways to draw hair on characters, though in general, the appeal to total drama’s art style would be the simplicity and angularity in its shape language and character designs, so you don’t have to give your character thousands of spiky hair strands to make them appealing.
im not good at explaining how i replicate art styles so i really hope these help!!! also im sorry this ask took forever to compile lol i just wanted an excuse to study the shows art style more. heres another helpful video to help understand the process of character design !!
i also recommend checking out harry gold’s channel. he does a lot of art style replication videos & this one explains art style replication exceptionally well!
