In case you weren’t aware, sting rays are basically puppies.
oh hey I know these guys! they’re in a little tide pool at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and they’re super sweet. If they see you standing next to the pool they’ll jump up out of the water and splash you until you pet them
Despite everything, Nero would probably be a pretty good asset for the Ironworks, mostly because you can probably get him to do literally any task, no matter how inane or tiresome, so long as you tell him Cid’s trying to do the same thing. e.g.;
“So, Garlond thinks he can sharpen 2000 pencils within one hour? Tsk. That is so like him. Never mind that goit—I can sharpen twice that in half the time, Jessie. Where’s the crate?”
(Pictured: Tiny Nero, helpfully lending a hammer)
Meanwhile, Cid’s malms and malms away, loitering around a couch somewhere on the Prima Vista, trying to explain to Jenomis exactly how you fish for primals using an airship and a chunk of rock floating around in the Sea of Clouds (while carefully skirting any disclosure of expenses, debts incurred, colorful language employed by the deputy president in related memos, etc.).
And Jessie’s like
“I can’t believe I got Nero to MacGyver up some machine that can sharpen 4000 pencils in half an hour. Which is yet another way of saying I can’t believe someone can be that smart and that stupid at the same time.”
Emily: I knew you had a secret. But when you were little you were so carefree. But these last few years more and more it’s almost like I can feel you holding your breath. I wanted to ask you about it, but I didn’t want to pry. Maybe I made a mistake.
Simon: No. No mom, you didn’t make a mistake.
Emily: Being gay is your thing. There are parts of it you have to go through alone. I hate that. As soon as you came out you said, “Mom, I’m still me.” I need you to hear this: You are still you, Simon. You are still the same son who I love to tease and who your father depends on for just about everything. And your the same brother who always compliments his sister on her food, even when it sucks. You get to exhale now, Simon. You get to be more you than you have been in, in a very long time. You deserve everything you want.
Best. Scene. Ever.
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The head writer and a director of Avatar: The Last Airbender are making a new Netflix Original animated series
Aaron Ehasz, the head writer of ATLA, has started a new production company called Wonderstorm that is producing a new, original animated series for Netflix in conjunction with a AAA video game in the same universe, unrelated to the Avatar universe.
He is being joined by Giancarlo Volpe (Twitter, Tumblr), one of ATLA’s main directors who has also worked on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
At the moment, Wonderstorm looks like a team of ten, among them: it was co-founded with Justin Richmond (an Uncharted director) and Justin Santistevan from Riot Games, where Ehasz worked from 2012-2015 as a creative director for League of Legends (and Volpe worked as a director for animated content). Aaron Ehasz has also been a writer on Futurama.
This résumé of worldbuilding-heavy TV series and video games looks like it’s the crux of what Wonderstorm’s goals are all about: creating a new fictional world (or worlds?) with deep and broad lore and building a franchise from that across different forms of media, integrated with one another more than you might typically see. Currently it sounds like they’re working on one main original scifi or fantasy universe, with a video game and Netflix Original animated series on the way, and it sounds like from the ground-up they’re focusing on having the show and game coexist meaningfully. Pretty cool!
A naked, neon SPIDER-MAN? What! You’re not on drugs, but this is pretty psychedelic! Share it with your friends if you want to see more web slinging! ;)
Another day of art! Hello fans of my body paintings. Recently I worked with a client (and dear friend) for my Heroes & Villains series. Currently I’m going through and editing everyone in the series (which is no small task, as there were 55 models in it).
Brendan stars as Aqua in this project, from the Kingdom Hearts series. I also included a head shot i did of him a couple of months ago, so you can see what he looks like without all of the makeup (still handsome)!
Please share this with your friends if you love Kingdom Hearts, and are excited about the new game coming!
