Miraculous S5E4 - Jubilation . Well, Between I Saw This Episode And Made This Drawing, Like 2 More Came

Were they ever really that different?

“I want my stuff to have thought and meaning behind it” Shut up past me, sometimes I just want to admire Parisian architecture and this time I wanted to draw their crowned street posts… and the crown itself quickly disappeared when I had to draw feet over it.

Can’t say the weekend at Comic Con was the best weekend of my life but it had its moments. One highlight was seeing all the cosplay. Got a photo with some fellow Hufflepuffs, got a selfie with my favourite Doctor, stood behind a Newt in line and never saw him again so sadly no photo there. But I also saw a lot of young girls dressed up as Rey. These dedicated homemade costumes.

I’m not really the biggest Sequel-fan but after years of hate and negativity and toxicity online, it was fresh to see in person that these new films have their own fans. These films which for so long have been associated with such negativity and conflict is given some love as well.

Vigilante OC 2019 v. 2024

Late upload, lost the internet-connection yesterday

Another school-project revisited! Got to create my own superhero, probably got ready with another task early so did this to spend the rest of the class.

The original was traced over a Batman-promo and I did a full body suit cause I find that kind of suit and mask fun, like Spider-Man and Deadpool. Simpler the mask, the better the body language.

Wanted him to be some vigilante so dark colours to smelt in and with his own toned down utility belt. I ignored a logo for the same reasons, if you don’t want to stick out, you have no need for a brand.

I liked the name of Nightcrawler but didn’t have much of a personality figured out yet. Reworking on this, I kind of felt a joking relaxed personality could work, it would be fun that the one in any scene with the worst experiences and jobs would have the coolest attitude.

A talk at Comic Con Nordics reminded me of the importance of the silhouette. A body tight suit doesn’t have many unique elements so instead of drastically changing the costume, I made the ropes loose and fly in the wind, drawing more attention to a potential martial arts or boxing-background.

So! Finished Double Exposure!

Well, I liked it. I really enjoyed it! It was super fun to play as Max again and I plan to play again and hunt for all achievements.

But damn, I don’t want to sit and complain and make it out that I hate this and “they ruined Max” “they ruined Life is Strange” but it felt like too little, too late.

I had such an emotional journey playing the first game and well, I was heartbroken afterwards. Cause well, the first game is about Max reconnecting with her childhood friend as they investigate together. And you get to learn Chloe alongside Max as they spend time together. Stuff like, hanging out in her room, break into the school and mess around in the junkyard. So when the final decision arrives, it becomes more personal and feels emotional and intentional that you have to choose between two awful options for this town you have come to know or the girl you come to know.

And after that, I needed closure, which I found throughout the comics. Double Exposure could have been that… if it came out sooner.

Double Exposure feels smaller. You spend all the time at any of the buildings around Campus and you get to know Safi in the same chapter that she dies. The rest of the game is more of a detective story on how she will actually die but when that moment comes, I know more about her and the context, but I don’t actually feel that much closer to her cause an amount of that time between, you never get to meet her and when you do, she’s pissed at you.

I wasn’t as invested in Max’s, Safi’s and Maya’s story. I didn’t get to spend time with Safi until they worked together to expose Lucas which wasn’t satisfying as it was for… a handful of students. "No, my career is over!" Is it tho...?

The stories felt similar in yeah, you help Safi get revenge for Maya the same way as Chloe and Rachel but it felt that Rachel’s disappearance had more of an effect. You learned what she meant to Chloe an you saw her reaction to finding the body as well as Max going through the same torture. Here it felt more like, you’re told what happened to Maya, you kind of saw how people felt but it was so long before Max arrived so they have calmed down about it and I never got dragged into the emotional pull of it.

Well, you understand it was wrong, Lucas stole her work and got famous and she ended herself which is really dark, mature and grounded but when the story wraps up, the end-result ends up being of something that happened without you around so it just felt like Max was an outsider all the time solving other people’s problems.

Max was an outsider in the first one as well but she was closer in the sense as Rachel became this replacement for her and she learns how her appsense hurt Chloe and she works to make up for that lost time during the game. She’s an outsider to everyone except Chloe, where she instead got pushed out of her life and slowly tries to get back in and I was curious on how the relationship would change once they found Rachel.

It didn’t feel Max had anything to lose in this story. She was at the right place at the right time and the right skills to fix it. She also had the maturity of a 28-year old instead of an 18-year old so the climax wasn’t the same emotional rollercoaster. She met her friends, she discovered how to help and crossed them off her to-do-list.

It was fun, I will play it again, I will draw it alot and curious on Max’s next adventure but my opinion in the end can, once again, get summarised in “too little, too late”

”There’s no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid” - Harry Potter . #restinpeace #robbiecoltrane #tribute #hagrid #rubeushagrid #harrypotter #wizardingworld (på/i Diagon Alley) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjxO0qRso6z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The official sequel to that one post. It got very popular and I thought I would share the "answer" I found to my original "question".

The original comic is about growing up aneurotypical (specifically I have autism and ADHD among other things, e.g. being LGBT) in a world not made for that, and my profound feelings of alienation as a result.

Whether you share those specific problems or not, I am sincerely happy if it resonated with you and humbled that it meant something to so many people.

A popular addition to the post was "you will find your people". I think it is absolutely true that you can and will find people willing to support you and love you for who you are - I have, and their support made much of my growth possible (as well as therapy). I am grateful to the artist that made that addition and think it is important.

But I wanted to make this because to me, it was important to learn the message that you are allowed to exist as yourself, even if you were to never find a single other person who accepts you. You do not need the validation of others. Even if you feel like you were somehow made wrong, or will never fit in with anyone else, you have the right to exist.

Live authentically for yourself, and not for others. Pursue your passions.

It is intentional that the person in the comic never fully regains their color. I will never be the untraumatized child I once was. But that doesn't mean life is not worth living.

I love you, and I hope you try to live as you are.

Requested by my sister

For the moment, requests are mostly exclusive to private family and friends but if you have an idea, feel free to send a DM