Joined Jul 2018 Canada
SupportHello and please, call me Mary.
I picked up drawing since I was four and have not stopped since. My favourite art style is cartoon and my favourite genres are comedy, romance, fantasy and sci-fi. My favourite thing to draw are monsters/fictional races.
My fanworks account is here: https://tapas.io/mkfanbird
Tools
My imagination and anything on hand
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For Father's Day, we have homemade wings slathered in homemade barbecue sauce that were cooked in the oven using a family secret for crisping without breading or battering. Just wings and sauce.
Wings to me are like fried charcoal for Ironhide
Ha!
looks good nicely done
Happy Birthday to me! I made myself a Twix cake! Fun fact, chocolate bars and mainstream candies make great edible decorations.
Happy late birthday!
Thanks and it was!
The film brilliantally brings to our attention to not just toxic false masculinity, but also how we should not fear authentic masculinity. And also captures He-Man goofy and playful gentle soul perfectly.
https://youtu.be/ixu6VvERcJ4
https://youtu.be/ixu6VvERcJ4
As a birthday present for myself, I did a design of Rodimus/Hotrod as a Maximal! His beast mode is a Chinese macaque monkey and his bot mode is heavily inspired by the Monkey King from Chinese mythos which I think fits his personality very well and makes him match with his dad (Optimus) who is designed to be like a samurai. His quarter staff can come apart to become batons and when he swings them, the tips shoot laser arcs. Rodimus is an expert hand-to-hand combat expert though he cannot fly. I designed him to also look very human as a nod to how even in G1, he was very human and in a good way. Like Optimus, he still has "ape" hands. As for his personality, he is playful yet headstrong with a strong sense of justice. He is also liberal in the sense that he doesn't believe that being a Predacon makes you bad which is why initially, he was welcoming to Dinobot until he found out that he wanted to challenge his father to a duel. Roddy is stubborn, but diplomatic and next in line to be leader.
In my AU, he manages to save and reform Quickstrike. Sort of. He never becomes a Maximal, but is a Predacon who is not actually evil and that becomes relevant in the Beast Machines arc. He is immune against the hate plague and saves everyone. Also, due to him being a Predacon, he is "invisible" to Vehicons.
Rodimus is best buds with Cheetor initially, but after the first death of Optimus, Rodimus gets very traumatized and that marks the beginning of their rift which only became bigger. Things come to a head in the hate plague incident. It is revealed that Rodimus never got over almost losing his father for good and by extension, doesn't want to lose anyone else hence why he became fanatical about staying safe and stopping the violence. As for Cheetor, he became incredibly jealous of Rodimus at how by default, he would inherit everything because he's the "born" one whether he earned it or not, and he felt that Roddy replaced him with Quickstrike.
In my AU, he manages to save and reform Quickstrike. Sort of. He never becomes a Maximal, but is a Predacon who is not actually evil and that becomes relevant in the Beast Machines arc. He is immune against the hate plague and saves everyone. Also, due to him being a Predacon, he is "invisible" to Vehicons.
Rodimus is best buds with Cheetor initially, but after the first death of Optimus, Rodimus gets very traumatized and that marks the beginning of their rift which only became bigger. Things come to a head in the hate plague incident. It is revealed that Rodimus never got over almost losing his father for good and by extension, doesn't want to lose anyone else hence why he became fanatical about staying safe and stopping the violence. As for Cheetor, he became incredibly jealous of Rodimus at how by default, he would inherit everything because he's the "born" one whether he earned it or not, and he felt that Roddy replaced him with Quickstrike.
The Beast Wars Transformers were the best transformers. I said what I said.
We owe a lot to it.
So, I saw the Masters of the Universe and everything it said about it being silly and insulting to He-Man is a LIE. A terrible lie. My only criticism is that two times, they cracked jokes at the wrong time, but overall, it was a great movie and I don't call many movies "great" these days. I think Hollywood is healing itself.
Nothing like home made ice cream to cheer oneself up. Homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream made with six finely chopped After Eight bars and a cup of raw honey as well as half a teaspoon of salt so it's not too sweet.
This is the last thing I will say about the Odyssey... I think that as Greek person myself, I have every right to have an opinion on Christopher Nolan's take and even feel slightly hurt especially since he was able to respect the historical period and setting in his Dunkirk movie.
On top of that, I do NOT suddenly hate the man and never begrudged the actors. I still love the guy and I think actors are amazing. I can't hate him and I hope he never crosses a line that makes me hate him, but yes... I admit it. I'm offended as a Greek by his take on the Odyssey.
To me, it looks ridiculous. Like it should have been a spoof of which if it was, I would have been cool with it because I make satires myself and I can take a joke. However, this is supposed to be taken seriously and be high quality, but so far, it doesn't look like either to me.
And I don't think I'm a bad girl for wanting my culture and of my culture's most beloved tales presented right. The events of Troy were not pure fiction either.
You get me?
On top of that, I do NOT suddenly hate the man and never begrudged the actors. I still love the guy and I think actors are amazing. I can't hate him and I hope he never crosses a line that makes me hate him, but yes... I admit it. I'm offended as a Greek by his take on the Odyssey.
To me, it looks ridiculous. Like it should have been a spoof of which if it was, I would have been cool with it because I make satires myself and I can take a joke. However, this is supposed to be taken seriously and be high quality, but so far, it doesn't look like either to me.
And I don't think I'm a bad girl for wanting my culture and of my culture's most beloved tales presented right. The events of Troy were not pure fiction either.
You get me?
I think I can understand what you mean, madam. As I am sure you know, before I published on Tapas, and just before the pandemic, I was a Classics student - just in case you are unaware, that is a field of study dedicated to the Graeco-Roman world, NOT literary classics, although some overlap exists. It used to be a popular field of study in the good old days, in Europe and America, before it was declared obsolete in the '60s. I studied the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid at university. I was similarly offended, therefore, by Disney's Herakles film, because of the many inaccuracies it took when it came to the Twelve Labours, and, once, when the Classics Department of Kings College London got together to watch it, I refused, because I hated it so much. I was also upset to find that the only time the Aeneid was ever filmed in English was as an episode of Wishbone. At one point recently, I wrote a piece discussing the decline of Classical scholarship. Mind you, I've had similar grievances with other adaptations of said mythology - GastroPhobia, Lore Olympus, Xanadu (the one from the '80s, not the Coleridge poem).
I am forgiving Disney, Lore Olympus and even the obscure cartoon Class of the Titans because it is myth and it's for kids. So... I am not rigid and I can let it slide, but what Nolan did looks almost like he's making fun of Odyssey especially with the rap music. Also, like I mentioned before, what happened in Troy is NOT a fairy tale. It actually happened. And like I said before, he has no excuse for this because he was able to respect the historical accuracy and setting of Dunkirk.
June's art of the month is Astra enjoying a day out while coming across a cute wild hoppatiel. I love dressing Astra in fashionable clothes. Sometimes, I wish I owned them.
