May I ask why so few of your animations make it to your Youtube channel? It would seem like a better way to archive your work, and the things you make are brilliant to behold. /positive
Because uh... um... I literally make them in a day or less and if you look closer they have a lot of mistakes, they are short. The longer ones or more polished make their way to there, or at least ones where I put proper credits to, I want to make at least proper credits for both Marble sky animations to get them on there...
Did you know that credits is the most complicated part in animations for me pshogpfpfp
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mmm somethings been rattling around inside my brain about queerness in xenofiction (warrior cats centric cause that's obviously mostly what people are talking about in my internet circles) and I know around here I am preaching to the choir but w/e. I feel like i may have made this post before but i’ll do it again until i feel like i’ve crafted all of my thoughts correctly
everyone knows there’s always like. some shmuck on twitter or youtube comment sections, complaining about how gay cats just don’t make sense ~realistically~
and the common argument back is always something along the lines of “these cats have complex society and religion and talk to ghosts and sometimes have magic powers, and being gay is where you draw the line? it doesn’t have to be realistic”
and something just rubs me the wrong way about that argument, not that it’s WRONG, it’s not wrong, xenofiction by definition is all super super unrealistic. I think it’s more like, it oversimplifies it. because honestly when I make critiques about the warriors world building not making sense, I don’t tend to like the argument beginning and ending at “well it doesn’t have to be realistic” because no it doesn’t but it’s still supposed to feel believable.
i think i don’t like that the argument seems to imply that gay animal characters are at all on par with other fantasy things like talking to ghosts and having powers or complex religion. I also don’t like it when people who are being fake-supportive can condescendingly say “well the gay couple may be completely absurd and unrealistic but I guess it’s ok because its just a silly fantasy :) ” cause like. Like its not unrealistic tho. i don’t like the implication that it’s uniquely unrealistic, if this was a grounded story with no magic or religion and the cat social groups were more inspired by real feral cats, it would still be illogical for some queer cats not to exist.
I feel like it is a more effective argument to point out that straight cats are just as unrealistic, in fact more unrealistic and silly
“cats lovingly and monogamously married-for-life and raising kids together” is the absurdity it should be compared to, rather then the magic elements. Because then the complainers have to contend with the fact that they aren’t bothered by unrealistic relationships between cat characters, they are just uniquely bothered by gay ones.
I mean...not to get tmi but it seems obvious to me this knee jerk reaction people have to rolling their eyes and scoffing when “gay” and “animal character” are placed in the same sentence is based on their insistence on equating the breeding behavior of animals to the romantic relationships of humans. Y'know, they're assuming that when people talk about romantic couples between anthro characters, that that is the sort of thing they are drawing from. When, certainly when it comes to cats, that is a very very poor equivalent. Cat mating behaviors are not affectionate or long lasting--they actually seem quite stressful, and then the father runs off to find more girls and probably never calls his one-night-stand again.
this is why I am really not fond of “mate” being used at the go-to replacement for husband/wife in xenofiction. Consider just coming up with a brand new word for your animal character’s version of romance! maybe they have types of relationships and words for them that humans don’t even have! but “mate” feels like. an action, nothing more. It doesn’t inherently imply love. frankly I think more people should be anthropomorphizing mates as simply Business Partnerships where the business is in desiring offspring, as opposed to husband/wife.
Just like....ok if you’re going to use the real behavior of animals as at least the loose inspiration for your anthropomorphic character’s behavior, surely pair bonding would be a smoother translation to what we view as a romantic couple?? not mating?? because pair bonded animals are the ones having consistent pleasant interactions, and being physically affectionate, and working together in life, sometimes even raising each others kids together.
And keeping that in mind, frankly you could argue that gay-coded cats should be the norm. (not that I think pair bonded creatures should always be interpreted as a romantic coded relationship, you could interpret some as platonic or familial or simply allies needing to survive. The point is no matter what route you go, you are projecting some human experience onto animals who’s minds and feelings we cannot ever actually understand. So to make it coded as a gay romance is just as reasonable as making it an adopted found-family sort of affection. You can go any route and be the same amount of unrealistic.)
If these losers actually want reasonable cat fiction, no one should have romantic affection for anyone! and if two cats have kittens together, it should be treated more like a short-lived antagonistic business partnership where you part ways immediately after. If you only criticize one type of romance for being “unbelievable and silly because these are CATS for crying out loud 🙄” but you don't feel “distracted” or “taken out of the story” about the other type of romance, then this aint about realism my guy, sounds like you just have some baggage to unpack.
I am beating people over the head with a very big sign that reads “Whether you’re writing about cats or birds or aliens or fantasy people or whatever, you cannot grant any creature the ability to love without all the variety and complexity that **naturally** goes hand in hand with those messy emotions. If the creatures can fall in love at all, then there must exist the possibility for some of them to be queer about it. And if you view queerness as unnatural, then we don’t have a writing disagreement, we have a fundamental moral disagreement about life. And I can’t help you there, that’s your problem! But I refuse to let people benignly hide behind a “simple desire for more realistic-feeling fiction uwu” as a defense!! (gay people are real. It’s true! I checked!!)”
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tomorrow the EP of the german hamilton cast recording drops (not a full album, I think they're doing less than half the songs lol) and they posted a professional recording of german Satisfied!
this is the best song in the whole production. it literally doesn't get better than this–so um. keep that in mind ❤️
no idea why they went for this weird rpf angle tho. I'm guessing they FOR REAL didn't make a recording of the show in line of og hamilton on disney plus, which. very bad sign.
but yeah. if you're curious about the german version, this is the only song you really need to listen to!
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Current Time: 9:13 PM (±00:00 GMT)
Current activity: Curled up on the sofa next to my wife @kinnbig doing parallel play (she's drawing, I'm typing this post) :)
Currently thinking about: Watering the houseplants.
Current favourite song: Pretty Please || Jackson Wang - I mostly love it because whenever I hear it I think about THIS iconicccc Barcode Tinnasit performance from the KP tour and it just gives me an insane amount of serotonin.
Currently reading: "Where the Wildflowers Grow" by Leif Bersweden which is just, the loveliest little affectionate ramble through a bunch of really really cool british plant species!
Currently watching: Just finished an episode of The Great British Bakeoff.
Recently Watched: Only Friends (ending was a mess but it was fun overall), Planet Earth III (next episode tomorrow yippee! more cool creechures 4 me)
Current WIP: Nearly Nearly Nearly done with the edit of the FighterTutor Supercut!!! Theyre one of my favourite pairings of all time but (unfortunately) the rest of the show isn't very compelling to me. SO! I learned premiere in a day and am MAKING! IT! ABOUT! THEM!!!!
Writing wise: A KimChay epilogue to the KimBig wip, which explores grief and compartmentalisation and the blurry lines in perception that occur when you have untreated ptsd <3 basically hurt-comfort, emphasis on the hurt.
Tags: No pressure as always! <3 @thewholedamnboulangerie @divorcedmalewife @kimchaybrainrot @prismatic-witch @cytharat
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Omg! OMG! OMG!!! 🤩🤩
DCEU? Pffft!
MCU? Tsk tsk...
Wait for the Bonelli Cinematic Universe blasting its way with Dampyr in October! 🤩
Dampyr is an italian production with a budget of over 15 million dollars based on the comic series "Dampyr" published by Sergio Bonelli Editore and tells the story of Harlan Draka: an half-vampire (a dhampir) who hunts down vampires and undeads. The story's set in the SFR Yugoslavia in 1992 during the Yugoslav Wars and adapts the first two issues of the series that came out in 2000.
Dampyr's been shot in Romania and entirely in english with an international cast, starring Wade Briggs as Harlan Draka and David Morrissey as the antagonist Gorka among others, and it's gonna be the first of a number of movies and tv shows based on Bonelli's legendary characters!
The movie's gonna premiere on 28th October during Lucca Comics and Games 2022. Still no news of an international release but I'm pretty sure there's gonna be one (of course there's gonna be, I don't think the producers have any expectations for a movie like this to do good in Italy 😒).
I'll most definetely be in cinema for Dampyr. Even though I don't read the comic (not because I don't like it, I've read some issues and it's great, it's just I'd need two lives to read everything! 😅), but everytime someone has the balls to do something different in Italy they must be supported at all costs!!! And by the trailer, it looks great!
If Bonelli put the same care in this movie they put in comics, than the Bonelli Cinematic Universe has a bright future ahead!! 😃
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Saw the patch for "Mechina" on your battle vest, and have never heard of them before, but the name reminds me of giant robots so... Any suggestions of where to start with them?
I'm really behind on their newer releases tbh... But they're like high scifi symphonic metal? Super unique sound, imo. Their older stuff is mostly the male vocalist doing growly vocals but the last albums I listened to they had started branching out with some clean vocals from mostly a female vocalist but there was some stuff with a dude too.
They post their work on Bandcamp so you can listen to their albums for a free a few times. Progenitor might be my favorite by Mechina, but Acheron is really good too. Their albums tell a story about a setting made up by the founding member of the band but for the life of me I couldn't tell you anything about it haha
Hope you enjoy it! They're a little different than most metal bands out there so if they end up not being your cup of tea then that's alright.
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