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Woke up this morning to find this incredible surprise!
Maquenda surprised me with this truly beautiful picture to commemorate my departure to Africa (coming up on Monday... Yikes!). Her art is always stunning, and this picture is certainly no exception. Plus, the image couldn't be more perfect... I have no idea what is waiting for me over the horizon, and to say that I'm all sorts of excited and nervous as shit about it is an extreme understatement.. but I do know that it's where I have to go, and I'm happy for that. Till we find our place, right?
Fantastically beautiful artwork © Maquenda
Apprehensive but excited lion © Me
Maquenda surprised me with this truly beautiful picture to commemorate my departure to Africa (coming up on Monday... Yikes!). Her art is always stunning, and this picture is certainly no exception. Plus, the image couldn't be more perfect... I have no idea what is waiting for me over the horizon, and to say that I'm all sorts of excited and nervous as shit about it is an extreme understatement.. but I do know that it's where I have to go, and I'm happy for that. Till we find our place, right?Fantastically beautiful artwork ©
MaquendaApprehensive but excited lion © Me
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Lion
Size 910 x 703px
File Size 894.2 kB
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That is a wonderful and absolutely perfect send-off--both based on your love of lions and Lion King, and on your specific situation.
Wow, Monday already. Well, good luck, Kiwa...we'll be rooting for you, missing you until you can check in again, and eager to hear how things go with you.
A beautiful piece indeed.
Wow, Monday already. Well, good luck, Kiwa...we'll be rooting for you, missing you until you can check in again, and eager to hear how things go with you.
A beautiful piece indeed.
We didn't get to see Mufasa rule long enough to see what sort of monarch he was. His role in the story was to be the rightful king who was murdered.That role went underdeveloped in favor of having someone (anyone) sing at the drop of a hat. Simba was a mystical, magical, "hakuna matada" milquetoast who by some miracle of transubstantiation learns how to be a "real" lion in the last reel of the film after never having spent the majority of his life in and around real lions.
In the second picture, Kovu was a much better and deeper character than Simba ever was, but because of what I call the "Cult of Simba", every time Kovu and Simba are together on screen, Kovu, who is the deeper, stronger, and more empathetic character is upstaged by the milquetoast. Kovu is effectively wasted whenever Simba is anywhere nearby.It's Kovu and not the milquetoast who was supposed to be the lead male character of the second film, yet everyone looks to Simba for a yes/no, and in the end its Simba who completes the major arc of change in the story rather than Kovu. So Kovu in the end becomes as much of a "prop" as Mufasa was. But just like the milquetoast dancing across the log in the first picture, we get gypped out of watching Kovu grow up into this (supposedly) big mean Simba destroying machine, which in turn takes away the arc of change (along with Kiara's love) in Kovu that is supposed to make him more worthy to be Simba's successor.
If by some happy animated happenstance a gust of wind had blown the milquetoast, the monkey, and the meerkat off of Pride Rock at the end of the second picture, and Kovu had stepped up, we would probably still be waiting for TLKVIII 1/2
In the second picture, Kovu was a much better and deeper character than Simba ever was, but because of what I call the "Cult of Simba", every time Kovu and Simba are together on screen, Kovu, who is the deeper, stronger, and more empathetic character is upstaged by the milquetoast. Kovu is effectively wasted whenever Simba is anywhere nearby.It's Kovu and not the milquetoast who was supposed to be the lead male character of the second film, yet everyone looks to Simba for a yes/no, and in the end its Simba who completes the major arc of change in the story rather than Kovu. So Kovu in the end becomes as much of a "prop" as Mufasa was. But just like the milquetoast dancing across the log in the first picture, we get gypped out of watching Kovu grow up into this (supposedly) big mean Simba destroying machine, which in turn takes away the arc of change (along with Kiara's love) in Kovu that is supposed to make him more worthy to be Simba's successor.
If by some happy animated happenstance a gust of wind had blown the milquetoast, the monkey, and the meerkat off of Pride Rock at the end of the second picture, and Kovu had stepped up, we would probably still be waiting for TLKVIII 1/2
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