But fuckit, whatever. I didn't sleep. I'm a little wired tonight so I went out for breakfast, laptop and tablet came with me, and fanart happened.
I have seriously been debating with myself who is better/more desirable: Princess Bubblegum, or Marceline the Vampire Queen, both from Adventure Time. All goddamn week my brain's idle processes keep drifting back to that question. And really, I havent been able to come up with an answer yet. They both have their positives and negatives, like both of them would help better yourself, with PB you would most likely learn something new and unexpected, and with Marceline you would probably do something new and unexpected.
PB is intelligent and proper, but coming from royalty may hold it against you for being not quite proper enough, not to mention her royal duties probably being a higher priority than anything else she has going on. She's a master of languages and sciences, most of which you've probably never heard of. Her days must be so planned out with all she wants to do crammed around her duties that she doesn't seem like she'd have much time for a relationship. But she seems like the type that once she has the time, and once she's sure what she wants then her choice is made and she will do anything she can to make it hers.
Marceline on the other hand has nothing but time. She's over a millennia old, she's immortal, she's seen the fall of one world at it's own hands and the rise of the one that replaced it. She's seen everything, done everything, been everywhere, she could tell you of things long gone that you probably couldn't even dream up, but having seen everything and done everything... what excites her? What could you offer up to her that she hasn't already had hundreds of times, what can you do with her that she didn't conceivably do first? To me she gives off a vibe like anything around her is little more than a timely pleasant distraction from the centuries that must undoubtedly be starting to blur together for her. Any time spent with her no matter how long it was to you would eventually be nothing more than a blink of the eye for her and then she's on to the next distraction.
I have seriously put way too much thought into this.
Anyways, I did some fanarts of the two of them, it's a shot from the third season episode "What was missing?" during the song near the end of the ep "My best friends in the world". Finn the human is singing his feelings which starts to make the door of the doorlords react and open. PB and Marceline chime in with backup vocals. The two songs in this ep (I'm just your problem, and My best friends in the world) are IMO the best in the series and thusly this episode is my absolute favorite from all three seasons.
And now for the picture. I don't always do fan art, but when I do it is done hastily and kinda messy.
I should have drawn in some music notes or something.
I've watched the episode about 6 times now, and listened to the songs themselves countless times, both the episode versions and the pre-production demo versions done by Rebecca Sugar (tumblr, post mortal folly) (posterous, pre mortal folly) a story board artist for the series who writes the songs for the episodes she works on. On her pages there that I linked to there are bits and pieces of her own art, some AT sketches, promotional art for the episodes she's worked on, and the demo tracks for the songs. Go check out her stuff, there's a lot more non AT examples of her work on her posterous page but the two songs from the ep in question are on her tumblr. Go, look, love her work. I know I do. It's sooooo flowy and shizz. And the songs punch me right in the emotions.
NOW I NEED TO GO DO THINGS THAT AREN'T SIT AT A TRUCK STOP GULPING DOWN CUPS OF COFFEE BECAUSE I COULDN'T FALL ASLEEP.
-Rab
