OH MY GOD GUYS??!

AND FROM A CAR PARK OF ALL PLACES

Another stimboard for my 11-months-straight hyperfixation character Rocky Rickaby! I think some of the gags and action he has in the comic are based on Buster Keaton, who was a famous 1920s stunt actor. The 1920s were a wild time, you could go to prison for SELLING someone a drink of alcohol, but drunk driving was fine. Children could work in dangerous factories all day but women couldn’t show their bare knees. Flabbergasting time period.

Another stimboard for my 11-months-straight hyperfixation character Rocky Rickaby! I think some of the gags and action he has in the comic are based on Buster Keaton, who was a famous 1920s stunt actor. The 1920s were a wild time, you could go to prison for SELLING someone a drink of alcohol, but drunk driving was fine. Children could work in dangerous factories all day but women couldn’t show their bare knees. Flabbergasting time period.

A sample from a much bigger compilation of Mordecai turnarounds, clothing changes, and design notes we worked up for Season 1. (Contains art by Kayla Stith, L. Frostad, Fable Siegel, and me, with prior concepts by Corvidmonster.) -----------------

The full collection is on Patreon! I share a lot of production design and animation previews there.

Source: poeticalphotos

she's teaching him how to glare

[via @catboygirljoker ]

he's learning something from both of them

its the nature of spec bio worldbuilding for this thing to eventually show up

Viktor and Elsa

A secret passion?

Viktor Vasko and Elsa Bastion (formerly Arbogast) clearly share a connection. This has been clear since the Defiance flashback

This perhaps shouldn't be that much of a surprise. They are both veterans of the Great War, they have both experienced and still bear the inner scars that come with the tragedy and brutality of war and the suffering it brings.

Elsa in her capacity as a nurse, who no doubt saw all manner of mangled and broken men, and Viktor the muddy, bloody, living hell that was the front line of the trenches. It only makes sense that such people would be able to understand each other in ways others wouldn't.

Elsa has no doubt spent plenty of time treating wounded soldiers and seen the emotional anguish, and so would be able to see through that sour intimidating facade that keeps most people at arms length. While Viktor could find reassurance in the company of a kind and compasionate woman like Elsa

But many fans have found themselves wondering if there could be more to it than that.

Viktor spent some time staying at the arbogast household, and it seems in that time Elsa got to know Viktor very well, learning more about his life than even Ivy, someone that can approach Viktor much easier than most as a stand in daughter to him, and even to the extent she knows Viktor would never have agreed to let her put herself in danger

Viktor for his part may also feel more than just friendly towards her, if the face he makes when she is finally able to get through to him by phone to inform him about Ivy putting herself in danger is anything to go by.

Having been in a pit of deep despair over the memory of his far away daughter, plus the poor state of his health with compromised knees and a hole in his chest, hearing from her seems to make that normally scowling face soften

But before we all jump on that bandwagon and "Viktor x Elsa" become our new Lackadaisy otp, we have to consider the jolly British elephant in the room.

Bobby Bastion

Bobby is another war veteran and it was though their service that they met just after the war and later married.

He appears to be a very jolly and affable chap (relative to most bootleggers anyway), which may well be what drew Elsa to him in the first place. Someone who could counter her melancholy from the dark times they went through

He seems to be very aware and considerate of his wife's relative melancholy, by Elsa's own admission leaving a very lucrative funeral trade in the big city to move too a small quiet community that offered little business but gave Elsa the peace and quiet she needed (like Viktor it seems she hates "noise, noise, noise" thanks to the war).

Their involvement in bootlegging in the first place it seems was to compensate for this and provide the income to sustain this relative isolation

But despite this, perhaps their diffent mindset has become more of a barrier between them rather than something that compliments each other?

As the family illustration suggests, Bobby is relatively content and able to smell the flowers, while Elsa remains haunted. Bobby's humour also seems to have little effect on Elas's mood

Could it be that Elsa would be drawn to someone like Viktor, someone who suffers from the same trauma as her and may be more willing to admit to the pain, than a husband who despite the best of intentions is trying to just smooth over the problem? Quite possible

But even with that strong connection and bond between them, even if there is a mutual spark, does that suggest an actual affair? That's the big question here.

While arguably not handling his wife's troubles in the best way, Bobby seems to be a loving husband doing his best for his wife who he cares for deeply. Is Elsa the type of person who would cheat on her kind husband for helping in the "wrong way"?

Plus Bobby not only shows no sign of concern about Viktor staying with them and being around his wife, but, (despite his brother in laws interuption) mentions that he was very grateful for Viktor's help and actually saw him as almost "part of the family"

Is this a case of "ignorance is bliss"? Does he simply blindly trust his wife so much that the possibility doesn't even occur to him, or does he know her well enough to be certain that infidelity is something she simply would not do?

But this is all speculation at this point. What do you think?

Is poor Bobby blind to what happened under his own roof? Is it a matter of two people feeling an attraction but tragically unable to act on it due to circumstances? Or is it just an innocent matter of two wounded souls with shells and screams still ringing in their ears recognizing the scars on each other and offering some understanding?

Thanks to @ursiday whose Viktor and Elsa art got my over analysing brain juices flowing again ;)

I truly do think Viktor had some feelings for Elsa but it's kinda the same "feelings" he has for Ivy. Viktor wants a family.

He wishes he still had his connections with his biological daughter and his ex wife.

All of that was stripped away when the riots happened, and Atlas bailed him out of jail under the condition he worked for Atlas doing criminal jobs. Such as more killing and blood shed. Viktor HATED this! But he did it to pay back his debt to Atlas for saving him.

A man who can't ever escape the war.

He longs for a family.

Elsa probably gave him some sort of comfort he needed. A kind of comfort only a wife could give.

It is possible they had an affair with each other.

Ivy is Viktor's surrogant daughter that whom Elsa knew about. Implies Viktor told Elsa about Ivy and how HE felt twoeds Ivy. Elsa understood Viktor's pain and why he seeks Ivy to fill in that painful missing gap in his heart. A daughter. Elsa is filling the "wife" part.

Viktor knows what he has lost he can never get back. It's why looking and reading his biological daughter's letters and seeing her pictures it pained him enough where he poured most of the liquid pain poison into his glass.

He is trapped.

Ivy's blow before she stormed out of his home after calling him a monster was a gut punch. Viktor knows he's messed up. He already sees himself as a monster. He lost connection with his biological daughter and is now with Ivy.

His facial expression when he hears Elsa's voice is reassuring because he loves Elsa and does bring him comfort.

This leads me to wonder if kneecapping Viktor wasn't just to force retirement on him but to prevent people like Ivy and Elsa from getting involved and to prevent Viktor from being harmed and killed. As these people are connected with Viktor. Mordecai met Elsa, whom Viktor had to have told Mordecai about. She was able to help with his arm after the cabin raid. Mordecai knows how close and important Elsa had to be to Viktor, same with Ivy.

Viktor could be retired, Ivy would just hang with him, and Elsa wouldn't worry about him being harmed. Mordecai would just have the task to focus on knowing Viktor would hate him, but he would be safe, Ivy would be safe, and Elsa too.

That the bound between Elsa and Viktor is stronger than just friendship. Yes, men can be friends with women without it being a love affair.

Like how we see some of our own friends as family. That's their bond.

Not brother and sister, but a bond that minds the still weeping wound in Viktors' heart just enough to bring the big guy some ease and comfort.

Viktor just desperately trying to fill the gaps in his life left by his wife and daughter leaving...damn

Also Mordecai's kneecapping is again both selfish and selfless at the same time.

Selfish because he is harming Viktor so he won't (he thinks) have to worry about him getting hurt worse later, or the risk of being ordered to attack him by a Marigold keen to finish off its old rival.

Selfless because it means VIktor, his only ever real friend (who may well have meant more to him than that) will hate him, and Mordecai will be all alone without either him or Atlas. But if all goes according to plan, and Viktor retires, he would still have Ivy and Elsa who he could spend time with without endangering them. Maybe he would finally respond to his daughters letters now that he no longer lives that life?

In Mordecai's mind maybe Viktor still has people in his life that can make him truly happy. Mordecai feels he must avenge Atlas, something he knows may be a suicide mission, but Viktor still has a chance. Mordecai has lost everyone except Viktor, but he is willing to lose him too if it gives Viktor a way out.

interesting thoughts!

I remember when I first watched this show, I played this part at least 5 times

Narrator: “Water. Unlike other cats, long-haired Persians need regular baths to keep their luxurious coats healthy and fluffy. Reginald doesn’t care if he has a prize-winning coat. He just wants the ordeal to be over.”

Reginald: *meows in distress*

Narrator: Unfortunately for Reggie, there’s one last step. He’s about to learn that getting wet is nothing – compared to getting dry.”

♫ TRIUMPHANT FANTASY MUSIC ♪

@captioned-vines​

I sent this to my mother and- and out of context this is fucking amazing.

frozen yogurt 🍦

Yes Man but his face bounces around his screen like a windows screensaver

there he goes 

Hey everyone! There's a preview clip of Lackadaisy Episode 1 up on YouTube today! Rocky and Viktor have a heart-to-heart. Or something like that.

Watch the full thing here!

What emotion does this image make you feel?

makes me imagine bugs bunny-esque shenaniganry of rocky getting into trouble and putting on a disguise