Hi. Um. Would you object to someone else writing Trucy-in-the-trilogy fic? I enjoyed your take on it a great deal, but it's such a good idea that it seems a shame to have only one fic series I've found that deals with the idea. (I promise to avoid plagiarising your take on it as far as possible.)

Sorry for the late reply, I don’t mind at all!

concept: ghibli moomin

i think about this scene all the time

An anime manga theme park aimed at getting white weeaboos to come spend money in Japan that displaces and desecrates indigenous Ainu territory...

Y’all blog about Japanese people and culture all day please boost this.

Apparently hard to swallow pill: sexualizing children is never ok

Muppet Show posters for Disney+

Can I talk for a moment about visual storytelling, cause, I feel like it’s something that a lot of adaptations forget about in lieu of trying to replicate their source material.

It’s a problem you see most often in anime derived from manga or light novels, but it’s also present in movies based on YA novels, and you gotta know what I’m talking about, start on black, opening narration, fade in as the main character explains the world and environment. This works in a book since the reader can’t see anything, they need the specifics of the world explained, but it feels like the movies are just like “well it worked for the book, it’ll work for us right?

I’d say it’s worse in anime, where characters will go on long internal soliloquies trying to explain their thought processes and complex emotions, which again, works for the manga, in a manga movement is very expensive, every single motion requires it’s own panel, which takes up the artist’s time, printed space, and a moment in the narrative, so it’s important to only show what absolutely needs to be shown. But animation is different, it’s all movement and the details are what sells it more than the dialogue.

The reason I wanted to make this post is because of one scene in One Punch Man that perfectly exemplifies how to translate a written thought process into visual storytelling. After getting punched to the moon (err, spoilers), Saitama has this thought process

and it’d be easy to translate that entirely literally in the anime, Saitama crouches, has an internal monologue as he tries to figure out how much force he needs to put into his jump, and then he launches. Instead though, the scene is done completely silently, to sell the fact that he’s in space, but the thought process isn’t removed, it’s just show visually.

He throws a bit of moon rock to gauge the moon’s gravity, then launches, it’s a much more thoughtful approach to the scene and the audience’s ability to interpret visual information.

I just, really wish more adaptations realized the inherent strength of the visual medium instead of relying entirely on the source material’s structure and reliance on its own medium.

My mom is in Houston and she just told me she’s being forced to go to work tomorrow and she has no choice but to Uber to and from work since she has no car. She cannot afford that obviously so until the buses are fully functional I would appreciate any help 😄

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look at me and tell me these earrings aren’t clip-ons

because I’ve seen multiple people reblog it:

that post about Amazon’s ‘fanfic site’ (KindleWorlds) is 7 years old

^^^screenshot of the original post

Amazon shut the platform down in August of 2018 and according to Wikipedia it was for specifically licensed properties

so.

yup.

Don’t use a gas oven to heat your home or run your car in the garage

Carbon monoxide kills you so quick. Please all do not do this. 

Drip both hot and cold on all faucets + open the cupboards that house the pipes because if you don’t your pipes will burst and you’ll have massive flooding.

I forget because I’ve lived up north but most texans haven’t had a reason to know these things til now. 

For those that are making jokes about “wimpy southerners” it’s been 8 degrees at night and literally half of Austin is going on the second night without heat. It is dire. I have power for now but at the press conference they said there is the possibility that they may have to shed more, and they are at their limit, which means some emergency services would be cut. The roads are too icy to drive and we’re getting more ice tonight. 

Me: Can I get you anything else?

Customer: Yeah, a smile would be nice

Me:

i just made a really good meme!

advice for my younger self