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bratniadusza · 1 year

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Briefly coming back from the dead to share this beast of a project I’ve been working on as an illustration assignment, incredibly proud of it, probably best thing I’ll ever do in life, enjoy!

Part of an illustration assignment we've had - an infographic with an abstract anatomy of an object. Did a bit of messing around and came up with a cross-section of a human body with a haunted house inside (the rooms represent different phobias connected with the parts of the body they're in)

+ little close-ups, as it’s poster sized and kinda big :DD

#haunted house #ghosts #your own internal haunted house #digital art #csp #clip studio paint #infographic #phobias #oc #original character #artwork #my art #the amount of hours i've pulled into this bc i wanted details is way too much #but man oh man it paid off :')#also this was my biggest and most time consuming project yet #so hoping to get a bit more time to doodle a bit for myself&relax #going ghost for now :>#see you with some new artworks :>

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humberg · 10 months

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WIP Wednesday!

Thank you for the tag @elvenbeard! As always I loved seeing what you are up to, and now I wanna show what I've been up to behind the scenes of the past week ^-^ CUSTOM POSE PACK

I'm not going to lie when I say that I've been struggling to find any drive or motivation for the past couple of weeks. A handful of you have been very supportive in checking in on me (thank you <333) and the biggest challenge has been to not force the work much to my own frustration. BUT! We have made progress with my little bouts of inspiration! :D

(This image looks dodgy as fuck 😂 But I am currently away from my gaming PC and this is the only screenshot I have saved in my drafts ;-; )

I started working on lying down snuggling poses today! :D I had been holding off from lying down poses as they're a bit more complex to create than a standing pose. This is pose 10, and it is almost done! Just got a few tweaks/little details to work on for it to be finished. In fact, all of the poses so far have little details I need to correct, with each new pose I learn something new which I've then been able to apply to the previous to correct. It's all a learning curve which I am loving :3

I still don't have a rough plan to how many poses I am going to do, maybe 12/13 poses. After that I have to go back and check each of the poses to make sure all the little details are perfect, pack it into an AMM format for me to test as well as send it out to testers to test for themselves. If that all comes back okay, I should then be able to release it publically. BUT! I have no idea to when this will be as everything is a bit up in the air at the moment...

VP PROJECT

Another thing I also started today (took advantage of the motivation!) is a VP project that has been in the back of my head for a very long time. I'm going to try my best and keep this one a secret as I am so excited to share it with you all when it's finished.

A terribly blurred version of the first VP that I finished today :D Possibly going to be one of my most ambitious projects yet as I am planning to include a few custom poses. And I hope to make potentially 4 VP's to release at once. The plan is to hopefully have them released at some point next month as I know it is going to be a very time-consuming project.

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And there we are! :D Not a lot going on in terms of WIPs but they are both quite complex projects to be working on so I haven't helped myself :') If you are reading this and have your own WIP's at the moment I would love to see them! :D Hope you are all having a pleasant Wednesday <333

#wrote more than I thought I was going to #bit of a rambler sometimes :')#wip wednesday #oc: vincent ronin #kerry eurodyne

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tripodmaximum · 6 months

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Hey guys. I love the tripod and spent my whole Sunday listening to you guys. I have been a fan for a long time yet you had a lot of new interesting info I didn't know yet. Great job and professionally done!

can you make an episode about "fanons" (fan headcanons) that are big in the fandom, or the bigolasdickolas incident, or more about what you think will happen in the final season predictions?

Also can you discuss the biggest mysteries like Wolfwoods age, Vash's and Knives gender, Vash's love interest

Can you compare the endings of trimax and 98 and predict how stampede will end

and how the human vs plant conflict could possibly be solved?

also who are you fav characters, ships and scenes in the anime/manga?

Hello dear nonny,

We are so grateful for your support & ecstatic you are enjoying the podcast!!!

Excellent suggestions!!! We have lots in store for future episodes, and rest assured suggestions like yours are pulled into consideration! In the meantime, here’s an answer for your last question:

Favorite Character / Ship / Scene

@aubielikey: Fav character is Vash!! He is Everything to me.

I enjoy lots of ships…fav to write/draw is VashMeryl, but fav overall might be VashWood???

Fav scene is hard to choose, but I think…Trimax Vash approaching his final conflict (Vol 12 Ch 1). The panels are gorgeous, and it is so, so poignant.

@chaoticbuka: Wolfwood is really interesting to me right now. Milly has been my ride or die since 2003.

I am genuinely Multiship. Currently participating in the VW big bang while simultaneously up to my nose in MerylWood brain rot.

As far as favorite scenes? Anything related to project seeds flashbacks; I love the lore.

@museqmeg: Vash my beloved. (He was my first anime crush back in the day!)

I adore both vashmeryl & vashwood. They’re the most canon to the story and I’m a canon girly. I create for vashmeryl but consume so much vashwood. I just love to see Vash love and be loved.

My favorite scene in Trimax is a bit of a silly one, but I adore the end when Vash “accidentally” admits his feelings (platonic/romantic-pick your poison) for Meryl by saying “We’re good together, aren’t we?” The panels after that are adorable. The surprised faces on Milly and Meryl with Vash blushing at them get me everytime. I love them all dearly.

@tombiwidgeon: I almost feel like I have to put Vash aside to pick a fav char because he's a given xD I'm going to go with Meryl in her new expanded role in Tristamp. She gets to play a much bigger part in the story, and in fact drives much of it forward. Her impetus to find the truth of the humanoid typhoon, who she only ever saw as a man even before meeting him, catapults her to right where she needs, and wants to be, to make a difference, especially in Ju Lai.

I multiship most everyone, though VashMeryl is my OTP.

Favorite scene was the hardest. I finally landed on Vash running to the sound of Meryl's/Rem's voice in S1 Ep12. The way Orange animated his desperation, including him wiping his hand across his face, just touched me so deeply. They are masters of their craft.

Love and peace!!!

#tripod maximum #trigun #trigun podcast #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #answers

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maintitle · 11 months

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I’m a big fan of the dialogue option in Inquisition where you talk about Orsino with Varric.

Inquisitor: “In the book, you say that First Enchanter Orsino turned himself into a giant monster made of corpses. How? Why?”

Varric: “Do I look like an expert on magical weirdness to you?”

VARRIC SLIGHTLY DISAPROVES.

Now, this could be read in a few ways by Varric himself, but I don’t see it like that at all. It’s always felt like the writers tilting their head toward the camera and staring directly into the lens. At the time people were entirely confused by Orsino’s actions, forcing a confrontation with the guy you’re siding with for what can be amounted to as no reason.

Now, granted, there is in fact an in-game letter that can be found during your chase after your Mother that infer’s Orsino is dabbling in more than he lets on.

My dear friend, I have obtained the books you requested. I'll leave them at our usual hiding spot. Please collect them as soon as possible. I would hate to see them in the wrong hands! Your last letter was fascinating! You have proven me wrong, once again, by doing the impossible. I shouldn't have doubted your resolve, and I hope you will keep me apprised of further progress. Your friend and colleague, O

This is a Codex found just before the confrontation with Quinton in Act 2, one that’s overshadowed by the horror Hawke goes through in that quest. I, personally, feel like it was an afterthought put into the game in order to explain why the seemingly straight arrow First Enchanter is suddenly using necromancy to make a person meat shield.

The biggest thing that makes me think this is the Inquisition writing team acknowledging this, however, is Mark Darrah’s wrap-up video on his memories and the lessons he learned leading the project.

Mark Darrah: “We’ve talked about the level reuse, which I think is probably one of the weakest things in Dragon Age 2. The thing that actually makes me feel the most regret for Dragon Age 2 is the way that the endings go. So, I guess spoilers... but you get to the end of Dragon Age 2, and you have to deal with the mages and the Templars, there’s the whole question of the mages and the Templars. But regardless of the choice that you make there, you end up fighting both Orsino and Meredith and the mages end up going all crazy regardless. You’ve made a different choice, you’ve come down on this decision in a very different way... and yet the game has you play through basically the same content, in a slightly different order, but it’s basically the same content. I think that’s a mistake... I mean, I’m pretty sure that was my decision, but I think that’s a mistake because it undercut the mage/templar question quite a bit.”

Mark Darrah: “Now the reason why it is that way in Dragon Age II is that the games under incredibly tight constraints. Orsino isn’t worthy of being an end boss all on his own, so the decision is that you gotta fight Meredith no matter what. Okay. So... that’s actually, I think, defensible, you could say. Meredith has been corrupted by red lyrium, you gotta fight her no matter what. You can still make the choice. I think the place where Dragon Age 2 crosses the line is that we also make you fight Orsino no matter what, and I think that’s the mistake. And the reason we do that is, it’s content, we want players to consume as much of our content as we can, because it feels like waste if we have content that isn’t seen by a player. And I think that is a mistake, and I think that’s a lesson that maybe video game studios are just waking up to now, that actually it’s NOT waste, content that isn’t consumed by the player ISN’T a problem, that actually you should WANT that.”

Now, that summarization to me covers a lot of DA2, and I’m glad he’s had that reflection, even as the man that pulled the trigger. DA2 deserves a bit of grace considering they had to take an idea for an Origins DLC and make it a full game because EA demanded it, and I’ve certainly been far more forgiving of the game as time has passed. But that’s STILL a decision that drives me bonkers.

Now, that leaves us back at where we began. It’s a FASCINATING moment with the writers, when we get that disapproval at the question. It almost feels defensive. Had they learned the lesson Mark Darrah later learned at that point, or where they still a bit upset by how badly that fight was received by folks who sided with the mages? I’m really not sure, but I love it just because it has such sass attached to it. It’s a moment in Inquisition where Varric once again becomes the voice of the writers, telling the plot of their previous game in a really defensive manner. It’s a unique little moment that stands out so much to me.

#Orsino #varric tethras #DA2 #Dragon Age 2 #Hawke #Dragon Age: Inquisition #DA2 spoilers #Dragon Age 2 Spoilers #Mages #Templars #Meredith

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citrusgothic · 5 months

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For the ao3 wrapped (can't believe i missed that post until now) 19, 26, 30! 💞

ao3 wrapped 19. What's one pairing you want to explore next year? I got into Pride & Prejudice this year, so it would be fun to write some Elizabeth/Darcy fic. However, their canon relationship is already so satisfying that I might have trouble coming up with anything inventive ;) I've also written Chris Noel/Ginny Danburry fics before, but I wanna dig a little deeper by writing something longer. I already have two works in the works, it's just... I keep putting them on the back burner to work on other projects. (Wow, the word "work" works in a lot of contexts!) But I really just gotta get on it because one of these fics is half done and has been waiting for me to finish it for over a year. I used to be so disciplined about consistently working on one thing until it was done but I've gotten to be all over the place! 26. What's your most common category?

There's a few different ways this question could be interpreted, but my knee-jerk reaction was to think about rating. I would've figured it was Mature because when I'm 50/50 on what to rate a fic, I have a "just in case" mentality, but I've literally only rated ONE of my fics M. The vast majority are Teen but there's a lot of General Audiences stuff in the mix too. 30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

I surprised myself with how lenient I was regarding consistency. For context, I am someone who has to make habits out of things or else I won't do them with any regularity. So, for about five years, I've been writing every day, usually trying to hit the same word count goal. This year, that wasn't as sustainable for a few different reasons. One of them being stress. Now, every year has its stressors. I usually turn to writing as a coping mechanism, but I'd burned myself out a bit. So I've given myself time away, but I'm about ready to get back in the ring. Another issue is that I have a lot—and I mean a LOT—of drafted fics that I haven't edited and posted yet. This used to not bother me but the mountain of stuff I need to revise has gotten taunting. I also need to finish posting my long fic because I've been revising it for way too long and I feel bad for my readers! But all of these things I need to accomplish pull me in different directions to the point where I can't buckle down and focus on one thing at a time. I do have a plan to tackle this; I just needed some space to think this all out because forcing myself to keep pushing forward wasn't cutting it anymore. At the end of the day, I'm too hard on myself. I still posted six stories this year, along with two chapters of my long fic. I gotta be kinder to lil ol me. Writing is time-consuming and takes a lot of energy! Thank you for the ask <3

#ask box #sweetmilkbread

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rataltouille · 2 years

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BLOG REINTRO

notice how i said blog and not writeblr 🤔 that's cause this isn't just a writeblr anymore! i draw a lot [im literally going to attend a design college] and my current consuming-all-my-thoughts ideas are all webcomics so this blog will now be a mix of both writing and art stuff [just like a webtoon fr fr]

ANYWAY HI!! im al, they/them, tamil, and ive done this like seven times now im very tired guys. you might have seen me on here as @/alicewestwater before i changed it to fit my rat cook movie obsession. my biggest hobby is stalking around the house whispering to myself about my ocs while my family watches in horror and confusion. stuff im doing rn [other than your mom rofl rofl]:

gonna start my first year of college! ill be living in a new city and rooming with friends but most importantly i will be taking at least three of my stuffed animals along with me

love love love orange. there isn't a better colour. i will gladly fight anyone on this.

you know how you often have that one song stuck in your head? well, i have this oc pairing called luniper and they have been living rent-free in my head for years now can someone kick them out please 🙂

queer as hell!! i’m aromantic and trans and you will find that every single one of my wips has a short feral character who’s either aro or trans or both because #projecting

my biggest flaw as a person is that i use the 🤔 emoji so often i don't even know if it's ironic or not anymore

also my sense of humour is akin to that of a 12-year-old white boy, sorry in advance

i am currently going through my sad bitch phase so if you see me whisking up another coming-of-age young adult novel about kids in their last year of high school just look in the other direction please.

MY WIPS

LITTLE BY LITTLE: queer south indian coming of age webcomic! follows siblings sameera and anbu being disasters and dealing with really good-looking rivals, rekindled childhood friendships and b*ard exams.

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BORNE: ya novel about three best friends in their last year of high school. follows vincent, the sleep-deprived art kid stressing out over college, madhavan, the popular guy who has no idea what he’s doing in life and rivers, the laidback resident Cool Kid who’s still reeling from a loss of family. idk what the plot is yet but the characters are spicy

A MILLION HOMES AND NONE OF THEM IS YOURS: litfic novella about a mother-daughter duo who find themselves in a dangerous, magical world after a fight and are forced to sort out their tumultuous relationship in order to find their way back before the mother’s pregnancy is due.

also final note i love stories about queer people of colour in either wholesome contemporary settings or insane off-the-charts morally grey fantasy worlds so if that sounds like something you’re writing let’s chat!

#🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️#also i decided to be an extra bitch and animated a banner just for this post #writeblr #writeblr intro #announcements

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20dollarlolita · 1 year

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Howdy! Hope you're doing alright, all things considered.

I was wondering, I've got a 4x4 Babylock Sofia 2 A-line - do you know if I'd be able to use the spring action hoops on it? I'm having a lot of trouble finding them to begin with (and not just standard machine hoops and spring-loaded hand sewing hoops), let alone what's compatible with my ol' gal 😮‍💨

I appreciate your help either way!

PS. Do you think a tutorial for the execution of larger files with smaller hoops may ever happen? I've tried to read up on it but it hasn't quite clicked enough to try it and I'd love to see how you would do it (not to be a kiss ass but your tutorials have made so much more sense and helped me more than 99% of other media consumed on the same subjects).

For repositionable hoops for the Sofia (and this also goes for people who own the Baby Lock Verve and Aurora, as well as most Brother 4x4 machines), I recommend the DIME Snap Hoop Monster. It's a magnetic hoop.

There's three kinds of Brother/Baby Lock hoop attachments, so make sure you're buying the right kind. There's the slide-in one that you see on most machines 6x10 or larger, there's the one where the pins are on the hoop, and the ones where the pins are on the embroidery arm. Nothing like getting your shiny new hoop home and finding that it doesn't fit your machine.

If you have software, the first thing that I'd do is check to see if it has design splitting built in.

When I'm making something bigger than my biggest hoop, I make a custom hoop that's the size of my finished product, and I split it after.

This automatically tries to find the best place to split, calculates how much overlap I need between hoopings, and places alignment stitches at the start and end of each block. Sometimes it makes decisions that it doesn't handle very well, like how it deletes stop commands if it has to split an applique. However, it's pretty okay for things like this, where it's able to split between motifs most of the time.

I'm using the Mega Endless Hoop here, which has its own problems. Notably, it doesn't grip particularly tightly, which can lead to puckering and other problems. It requires fusible or sticky stabilizer applied to the entire piece before you hoop, and all I had was Power Mesh, which is intended for much lower stitch counts. I might get some small and powerful magnets and use them to increase clamping power on the hoop, but I haven't tried it yet.

Having a way of telling the machine where it's sewing in reality (viking calls it Design Positioning, Pfaff calls it Precise Positioning, Bernina calls it Perfect Placement, and I can't for the life of me remember what Brother and Baby Lock call it) really helps. It means that my alignment markers have to be in roughly the correct position, but that I have some wiggle room to adjust to get my needle to be right on my marker.

If your machine doesn't have the ability to tilt the design (mine doesn't) then you need to get the piece in the hoop as straight as possible. What I do for that is to get one marker lined up, and then sink the needle. With the needle down, you can pivot the fabric without losing your placement. This is also the only time that I find those clear plastic hoop alignment guides to be any use at all. If you've lost yours, like I have, you can stretch a rubber band across the hoop and make sure that it's even, and then line up with the rubber band. On a long project like this, I will also iron in a crease across the length of the design, to be a marker. You can also use a pen or chalk to mark that. My hoop has center marks molded into it, so if I can line my center line up with my center marks, then I know my piece is straight enough, and I just have to match the corner marks.

I definitely recommend doing a test run, which will let you spot trouble areas and make some overall design adjustments. It'll also give you experience with how the multiple hoopings work. Especially if you're just using a 4x4 hoop, there's a learnign curve to doing this. Doing a test run means that you won't be in a situation where the first hoopings are bad and the last hoopings are really good. You'll be more even across the board.

This piece here has taught me a lot of things. When I have a chance, I'm going to go through all of it in my software and fix things. Most of that fixing is just adjusting the size of things or how close they are to each other, but there's some some changes to fills and lines and density as well. I need to change how the gold squares are built to try to cut down on the puckering. Because I was watching as this stitched out, I noticed that the piece was much flatter before the line was stitched out. I think that changing that line will reduce puckering. Being able to sit with the physical copy in my hand while I go through the project on the computer is very helpful.

I'll also probably be layering some stabilizer in this. If I do fusible cut-away instead of fusible mesh, the designs will be better supported, but the piece will hang differently. It's all about balancing the pieces with each other.

The corner markers can be easily removed, or incorporated into the seam allowance and hidden.

If you have very detailed pieces to build, you can also do what a lot of Kimberbell pieces do, and just stitch out the whole piece with overlapping edges. You'll build a seam allowance that has part of the design, and then you can sew the finished pieces together and perfectly match the seams. This is probably a long easier, but does mean that you'll have seams all over your piece.

But I'd definitely start with either a piece that's pre-split by the maker, or one that's split by a machine and that adds the markers for you, before you try to yolo one on your own.

And, for what it's worth, if you have an applique that has to stretch over two hoopings, it's a really good idea to pre-cut that if at all possible. You can do it where you just hold the fabric off to the side on each side, or where you cut the fabric and splice it together, but pre-cut is the way to go. On the final one, I'm probably going to export the applique shapes on my Cricut, because having the fabric fused to the piece will make re-hooping a lot easier.

#machine embroidery #i'm getting a lot of questions for that today

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voteformightyclocks · 2 years

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Thor 4: The Good, The Bad, And The Theory

So, Thor: Love And Thunder. The fourth installment in Thor’s story. Easily one of my least anticipated Marvel projects, alongside Ms. Marvel. Let’s discuss it, starting with...

THE GOOD

Thor 4 was a BLAST. Every moment had energy and emotion, the action was fantastic, Gorr’s weakness and cunning was a great foil to Thor’s fear and strength, and despite how we literally saw a god fight a normal guy, it was incredibly balanced thanks Gorr’s magic weapon, the Necrosword. I think that’s what it was called.

This movie is bright, colorful, impactful, and it knows how to drive home the main story beats and keep you invested. That’s all the good stuff. Let’s move on to...

THE BAD

Thor 4 was rushed. It didn’t give itself enough time to tell the story. But even then, that pales in comparison to it’s biggest issue: “Tell, Don’t Show”. Gorr killed so many gods! ...okay, am I supposed to care? That’s very vague and disconnected. Gorr’s in the Shadow Realm! Except...let’s just explain it all at once. This was consistent throughout the film, but it was notably most prevalent in regards to Gorr himself. And it’s annoying. If I wanted to be told the story of Thor 4, I’d read a book. But this is an MCU film, so I want to watch it. SHOW, don’t TELL. But Marvel must not have gotten the memo

Also did it strike anyone else as odd that...oh yeah, Heimdel had a son??? Like, I didn’t take him for the romantic type, so Idk who he got together with or why, or why she’s suspiciously absent from the central story, but...like...Idk. I guess I kinda wish this was a predictable reveal? It feels way too out-of-the-blue lol. But now, let’s discuss my biggest and most pressing Thor 4 theory...

THE THEORY

Y’all might expect a theory about Zeus or Hercules, or maybe Valhalla, or perhaps Korg or, Idk, anything connected to the movie and it’s main characters, but I’m focused on a singular ability shown in the film: Jane’s transformation ability

One thing we have seen a million times already is Thor grabbing Mjolnir and immediately and magically transforming into his armor. Loki has a similar ability, too. Vision and Steve Rogers, however, are two people who wielded Mjolnir yet didn’t transform. I believe we have confirmation that Steve gained access to all of Thor’s powers in that moment (combination of interviews as well as Odin’s “Whosoever wields this hammer, should he be worthy, shall wield the power of Thor”, as well as the crucial moment where Steve Rogers actually magically calls Mjolnir to him, and him using lightning), however never once did we see a transformation. And I wondered...why...

So I wrote it off as “Oh, that’s not one of Thor’s abilities, then, maybe it’s just an Asgardian thing

And then Jane Foster transforms. And it’s like, “Oh...”

Now here’s where my theory starts spiraling. So, Thor’s powers include transformation, so we know for a fact Steve Rogers was capable of it; Vision, maybe not, as he’s technically not an organic being, but Steve Rogers for sure could transform if he wanted to. But he didn’t. He also used some of Thor’s powers like his lightning, but he abandoned others; he doesn’t seem any stronger than usual. The hammer hits with a boatload of force because of it’s enchantments, but the hammer is weightless to those who are worthy, and how Steve Rogers uses his shield while holding the hammer doesn’t change, meaning Thor’s strength isn’t being used. But why?

My theory is this: the power of the gods would kill any human regardless.

Jane Foster died fast because she was fighting cancer, and her mortal body had no energy while she was in Thor form...but this implies her mortal body wouldn’t have any energy anytime regardless, meaning she would slowly be draining/killing herself anyways, regardless of her health. Furthermore, Red Skull tells Captain America in The First Avenger, “You could have the power of the gods!” And then the very power Red Skull was trying to control consumed him, essentially. Furthermore, Jane Foster was slowly dying when she had the Aether inside of her.

Humans. Cannot. Wield. These. Powers. Not naturally, anyways

I suspect Captain America realized this. He saw what the Tesseract did to Red Skull. He doesn’t crave power, and he very-much-so knows it’s destructive. He only used Thor’s abilities when they were crucial to be used, otherwise he relied on physical attacks against Thanos, even after grabbing Mjolnir. So my theory is this very radical, very unlikely idea:

Zeus will destroy humanity by bestowing lightning powers to humans, under the guise of Thor. He will make everyone worship Thor, but then these powers will destroy the humans because their bodies cannot handle it. This will result in humans hating Thor, humiliating the god and turning everything against him before he faces off against Zeus, and falls from the sky.

Okay, obviously, he’ll win, but that’s what I think Zeus’ plan is, and I think Hercules is a distraction to us and to Thor regarding this plan. Hercules was a hero on occasion in the comics; what could turn him against Zeus better than finding out he was being used as distraction? That his entire quest was meaningless?

And if you need more compelling evidence, think about everything Thor has lost. His family. His home. His love. He lost his weapon, his friends (the Guardians), the Avengers, he’s lost nearly everything. But he’s always had his people, and he’s always had the trust and support of Earth, who practically worships him...what if Zeus’ plan is to take away what little Thor has left?

Thank you for sticking with me through this wild Clock Talk! Adios!

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animatedaf · 1 year

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It’s that time of year again, time to look over the last twelve months of creative productivity! This was my busiest year for freelance animation EVER, with six projects all pretty much one after the other, some of which lasted several months! For the first time in over ten years animation actually felt like my main job! Read on for full details on each month (with links to things in bold)!

January:

I kickstarted the year with an attempt to keep myself busy (haha) by coming up with weekly personal illustrations to work on while livestreaming. This included a couple based on childhood toys, followed by fan art of games I was playing at the time.

I also started my first freelance gig of the year about visiting a recycling center for Love Essex, which was finished and released in early Feb.

February:

I continued the weekly art streams (though I did skip one week while I was wrapping up the animation work) that included more Balan Wonderworld fan art and another nostalgia trip based around old TV game show Fun House which was seen and approved by Pat Sharp himself!

I also made some Valentine’s day silliness for CherryT and with her help also created this ridiculous Art Data-Blast video featuring all of my art over the years with a 90′s TV inspired intro.

March:

A big turning point for my livestreams arrived here when I decided to create a PNGTuber using Veadotube Mini! I livestreamed the majority of my experimentation and process and the cutdown videos about it became some of my biggest hits on YouTube yet! Going forward I would now use this animated avatar instead of a webcam, though this would actually end up being the last month of the year that I’d have any time to livestream because...

April:

..April would be the start of one of the biggest projects: six one-minute animated shorts for the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit about the dangers of loan sharks. This month was spent mostly storyboarding most of the films and completing the first one.

At the same time concepts were being developed for another six-minute piece of animation that I would need to juggle alongside the above project over the coming months!

I should also mention here life-wise I changed my daily job from working in a cinema to...working in a smaller, closer to home cinema!

May:

This month was mostly spent storyboarding for the second big project and waiting around for approval while the Loan Shark project was put on hold, so while I had a bit of spare time I gave my website a new lick of paint (including some new art of old characters) and made several illustrations including my favorite Eurovision 2022 act (now my most popular Tumblr post ever for some reason!), joining in on the Catoon Network CMYK art fad, and fan art of a fellow PNGTuber. I was also commissioned by Jadypie to create some cute animal Twitch emotes!

June:

After two pieces of quick art including another obscure game character and another excuse to draw Amy Rose, me and CherryT took a couple days away to visit the theme park Alton Towers, which I made a travel vlog about!

The 2nd film for the Stop Loan Sharks series was completed this month and this was when the 2nd big project was given the official go ahead! The six-and a half minute long film has yet to be released and might end up staying in the private sector but it was a pre-birth social work training video for Essex County Council with a similar subject matter and art style to the Annabelle’s Journey film I made last year. Clips of it can be seen in my latest showreel.

I also drew these guys for some reason.

July:

This month was almost exclusively knuckling down to get the un-released film fully animated. Much like the Annabelle film this was a massive amount of hand-drawn animation squeezed into just over one month! I also made time to do this commission for PCWzrd.

August:

With that long, time-consuming project out of the way it was time to jump back into the Loan Shark films. Two were completed in April and June but I still had four to go, so this month and most of September was day-to-day animating again!

September:

I was getting these Loan Shark films done at a rate of roughly 10 days per film, though the last one took a little longer as it was yet to be storyboarded until now. This project was finally complete midway through the month and released near the end!

Somewhere in the middle of all this I managed to fit in some livestreams of the Sonic Fan Games Expo and some reactions to some gaming events.

In the last week of the month I worked on a pretty exciting commission that I need to stay tight-lipped about for now!

October:

This month was started by wrapping up the above commission and jumping into another, thankfully much shorter 1 minute animation for the English Stop Loan Sharks company that has also not yet seen the light of day, but you can see a short clip of it in my latest showreel. As soon as that was done another big project approached!

November:

This freelance gig started at the end of October and lasted all through November and up until the middle of December! This one has released in January 2023, a short film called What a Waste!

There was a break at the end of November when me and CherryT went to Birmingham for a few days to finally go to a concert we booked back in early 2020 that kept getting delayed!

Mid-month I also quickly doodled up my OC a couple times.

Above: the moment I finished an 8-week long non-stop project on a to do list!

December:

What a Waste ended up taking longer than I anticipated at around seven or eight weeks total, most likely because it’s quite unlike anything I have done before. After what felt like roughly nine months of almost non-stop animating the last half-month of the year was spent last-minute Christmas shopping and finally chilling out a bit, including going to a local video games expo for the weekend! The last piece of art I did this year was for the Newgrounds Secret Santa.

That was an intense year! I can’t wait till you get to see the stuff that’s not out there yet and in terms of 2023 I do already have a couple things queued up for January so we’ll see how it goes I guess!

Previous years: 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016

#summary of creativity

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A3Day Extended Commentary: Girls' Generation "Forever 1" (2022)

DISCLAIMER - An Album a Day is my exploration into the Korean music scene. This blog, just like my podcast, will cover mainstream, indie and some underground artists within the scene and provide both factual and opinionated commentary. The biggest benefit to sharing my thoughts this way is that it will hopefully expose you to more great music and exploration of your own.

SM Entertainment's Girls' Generation (Korean: 소녀시대; Romanization: Sonyeo Sidae), also known as SNSD (look at the romanization again lol) returned with their seventh full-length album on August 8, 2022, entitled Forever 1.

It is the first full project by the group in five years, and releasing it when they did had many of their longtime fans beaming: 8 women, on the 8th day of the 8th month, and 8/8 equals 1.

Girls' Generation's history is easily traceable and their influences are widely known, so I won’t travel down that path. And because of their history, I can't simply say, "Yo, this is SNSD so you got to listen!" Personal interests must not diminish assessment. Instead, we will traverse this latest addition to their legacy track by track.

Forever One - anthemic, energetic, and quintessential SNSD

If there's one word to describe this track, then it's "comfortable." When you've been in the industry for as long as SNSD and make a comeback that needs to sit atop some charts, then this is the route to take. Nothing new, nothing overtly unexpected, yet right on target. And this is what they set out to do anyway, as they aren't trying to compete with the current generation of artists. The title track and lead single will have a summer's-energy to it forevermore and the ladies deliver on what consumers expect. If nothing else, the nostalgia of them, and the chorus immediately declaring "I love all of you, my everything," can pull on the heartstrings a bit.

Lucky Like That - the "Yes, we did it!" retrospective track

If you seek a song from your faves that addresses their realization that you're part of their success story, then this is it. The music is upbeat, fun, and compliments the women telling themselves and fans alike that they know they're lucky. The song is mostly memorable for non-Korean speakers because of the English refrain in the chorus.

Seventeen - the B-side that shines without the group

This is the first true example of the music performing beyond what the vocals give because the production on this track is impressive. Starting with a piano, finger snaps, and mild effects that sound like audio distortions, it’s reminiscent of New Jack Swing.

By definition, New Jack is Black at its core and one of its pioneers, Teddy Riley, has worked with SNSD before as well as established an act that's now in it Swan song.

it’s a nod that SME might not’ve anticipated they’re giving by acknowledging with one of their most acclaimed groups, on one of their best comeback tracks, where the influence comes from.

I credit Deekay members Obi and his wife Charli for this more than anyone, as the production and songwriting team’s catalog runs the gauntlet. And Charli knows her girls, as she’s worked on SNSD projects since 2013. Needless to say, there wasn’t a Black American nor Black British influence on the track, but an influence on the production style and a solid delivery.

I challenge you to find an instrumental of the song with the backing vocals only and realize that SNSD’s vocals are simply accents. The track lives and breathes without them, so much so that label mates Red Velvet or BoA could've bodied this as well.

Villan - fun, dark, but not believable for SNSD

If some of the members took this song on as a solo, I'd believe it more than it belonging to them as a collective group. It's not the first time they've boasted about how untouchable/cool/dope/icy in the veins they are but given the circumstances that it sounds like it would be more suitable for their younger label mates Aespa, it doesn't seem like a solid "character fit."

This is the second song with lyrics arranged by members Sooyoung and Tiffany (with "Seventeen" being the first) and Tiffany had a hand in the music.

You Better Run - the track that you HAVE to hear to believe

You don't have to like SNSD but you have to clutch a pearl or two at this amazing track! This is the only track where it sounds like they were having a damn blast, right down to their ad libs. The production is stank-face inducing in some areas, with very little beyond a synth, distorted guitar and oddly triplicated beat. It's vicious in all the right ways, down to the revenger-tinged lyrics, and placed perfectly within the overall album.

Closer - right for the times and your private playlist

I forgot about this track until the ninth listen. When reviewing an album you're bound to forget something, but I do wonder why it took so long to stand out for me. After all, the production style is disco and we're experiencing a global revitalization of the genre at this time. It isn't a bad song whatsoever, but I wouldn't be shocked if you skip over it.

Mood Lamp - flirtatious and loud

If you look on some social media sites, many are applauding this song more than most. For the average listener, I can't challenge that! For those in music, however, this is where the album's production quality starts to become questionable.

The track is R&B and well produced but the vocal engineering at some points seems inconsistent. Backing vocals and harmonies sit within the music, adding lovely accent moments that enhance the production. The volume of the chorus, comparatively, is loud as hell. If I'm supposed to be feeling smooth and sexy, telling a potential lover that "I would fit you well," then why am I yelling it? Or why are we starting the first verse off with the volume a bit too low? The guitar is drowning out the women as they sing in an octave we don't always get to hear from them.

It's a skip for me.

완벽한 장면 (Summer Night) - a karaoke-worthy song

Continuing on with tracks I'd skip, I forgot about this and the one that follows, despite a dozen listens to this album. It sounds far younger than 30-something women should deliver. Nonetheless, it will resonate with the appropriate audience and be a wonderful karaoke track on chimaek nights. It is fun, but played extremely safe.

Freedom - feels good and belongs on your workout playlist

Again, I forgot about this track. And I'm embarrassed about this one more than the others I've said I'd skip or had forgotten because it's perfectly placed in the album. You want to have that last surge of energy before a send-off, you know?

This is your strut-on-the-treadmill track and perfectly paced for exercise! It's so sassy and they sound wonderful (vocals are well placed, melody plays over the track) and you'll find yourself humming along. The ad libs at the end are soulful, too. This is my second favorite track on the entire album!

종이비행기 (Paper Plane) - *sigh* I'm the problem, not them.

I must get this out of the way now. At the end of the song, 3:12 to be exact, an audio scrub is needed on Taeyeon’s audio.

You can hear her vocal fray and track overlay come into the “oh” which sounds like the audio wasn’t clipped correctly in that brief moment. If you listen to the instrumental of the song, it’s not there. I understand that it’s easily missed by the average ear, I do! However, as a producer, how the hell did they allow that?!?! IT DRIVES ME NUTS. And if you test this out, you’ll be unable to hear it and want to fight me for it. I’m sorry.

The song is wonderful, everyone had a moment to shine, and then that happens. Fucks it up for me entirely! We’re s’posed to be cruising into the close of a triumph!

MY OFFICIAL RANKING

K-pop fans, on a scale of 1 to 5 where 5′s essential listening and 1′s not worth mentioning, the A3Day ranking on SNSD's seventh album is 4.5. It feels like more than one album, functions like a karaoke experience, but is still a win and one of their strongest albums in their discography. Pitchfork contributor Joshua Minsoo Kim said it best with his review, quoted below.

"If Girls' Generation don't have a particular musical identity on Forever 1, it might be because they're from an era before SM tried specific sonic qualities to their groups. It often felt like Girls' Generation were constantly adapting to new sounds... they're having enough fun that it goes down easy."

Time might substantially pass before we hear from Girls' Generation again, but Forever 1 is a good reminder that what they represent in the industry is eternal. Job well done, ladies.

#a3day blog #a3day extended commentary #SNSD #girls' generation #forever 1 #k-pop #music review

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we're doomed - Media Blog Post #6

In the first 2 years of my college education, what I would consider one of the most useful pieces of information would be that when working within my career, I am not and am almost never what is considered the “target audience.”

Specifically in regard to being a marketing major, you have to understand that you are not trying to make yourself understood but an outside audience that is not you. I believe this is something everyone needs to have drilled into them because in both our media landscape and everyday life there's a lack of knowing that you are not the center and there are many dialogues.

TikTok humanizes and puts every creator at the center, when you scroll onto a video it is their “art” and online existence that you are witnessing in real time. And I think the trends that have emerged from TikTok show that these people are using their online existence as a means of survival.

Just last month, the trend to livestream you repeating the same five words over and over again was having people receive thousands of dollars within minutes.

The crazy thing is everyone accepted it and began participating.

This NPC streaming started off within TikToker PinkyDoll repeating the same words over and over again based on the gifts being sent. However, this essential went viral overnight and every day people and well known influencers were following suit. One of the most famous being the Miles Morales NPC where he repeats different catch phrases and even stays in character when questioned and eventually running from the cops.

Which is why the ability to trend on tik tok is unreliable unless you are consistently trying every trend.

Personally, an aspect of TikTok that I find really interesting is scrolling through livestreams. Outside of the bizarre NPC streams, there is no consistency or algorithm to livestreams. You can find one that has 5,000 people watching and the one directly below it is 5 people.

As someone who is essentially justifying their media addiction under the major of marketing, I do think TikTok is dystopian. But not only that all social media is dystopian and it is insane to assume otherwise.

Our society is undeniably suffering from the developments that we have had from social media. We constantly refer to the fact that Gen-Z is the loneliness generation, but also it's the generation that has free access and will (most likely in some capacity) continue to have this free access to social media for the rest of their life. We have not yet seen the long lasting effects of becoming people who are able to exist solely online.

I wrote a research paper on just how affected younger generation are especially within depression, suicide, body dismorphia, and grooming. These are aspects I believe if you asked, without a doubt someone has seen a post, made a post, or even experienced it themselves. And it is insane that we now take this into the norm.

I don’t have a solution, and when considering how TikTok exists I can not explain how it operates, what its intentions are, and if there is a way to indicate if its a good or an evil.

In a space where you can essentially reach a mass audience, project your thoughts onto a young and impressionable audience, and it keeps going around and around, even rhetoric that doesn’t seem harmful is especially when there are no age restrictions and lies are constantly constructed with the only intent of going viral.

However, my biggest problem with TikTok hate is parents being able to use it as an excuse for bad parenting. While the fact that the site is far from being child safe is obvious. We are always looking at things that are corrupting children's minds whether it's the video games they consume or Dungeons and Dragons, but parents have still yet to find a way around it.

People who don’t get access to media are ostracized from their peers because of how integrated media is within teenage culture, and it affects their ability to relate, but are they better off?

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Consumer Guide / No.127 / Joe Williams of MODERN AGE BAND, with Mark Watkins.

MW: Tell me about the band - the name, the members, the sound you make...

JW: MODERN AGE BAND consists of - Joe Williams (19) (me!) : vocals + guitar, Charlie Holden (18) : vocals + bass, Corey Pitt (18) : vocals + guitar and David Vine (17) : drums

We started back in 2019, with me, Charlie, David and Jamie Cartwright who is no longer in the band but has his own great solo project going on. Corey joined at the beginning of 2022 after Jamie’s departure and that’s when we started taking on the clubs in Liverpool, playing sets of all of our own material, which compared to playing covers in pubs for a few years was a real joy for us.

Now 2 years on we’ve got a loyal fan base starting to brew.

The sound we make, to narrow it down, consists of some psychedelic rock, mixed with blues, Americana and Indie, just to name a few. We like to have a lot of different sounds with our songs as we think it’s important as a band to keep fresh ideas coming. For example, some songs that might inspire us to write a song could range from an old hidden folk gem that we’ve found on Spotify, to a hip hop track that has a cool bass line. That’s why it’s hard for us to put just one genre on our music because each song is it’s own vibe in a way.

MW: What do you currently like about "the modern age"?

JW: We’re big fans of the footy, me and David supporting Liverpool and Charlie supporting Everton, Corey doesn’t care much for the football.

And of course we’re big fans of going to gigs, we’ve all got a few coming up this year, Corey and David are seeing King Gizzard in Liverpool in May and I’m seeing Paul Weller in July, just to name a couple.

MW: What are you reading, watching and listening to at the moment?

JW: At the moment I’m reading Robbie Robertson’s autobiography “Testimony”. It’s a really good insight into what it was like to go out on the road as a band non stop through the 50s, 60s and 70s. It’s a great read, some amazing stories - would definitely recommend it if you're a fan of The Band or just music in general.

As for TV, I’ve just finished a series called “The Serpent” about serial killer Charles Sobhraj, which was a dark but interesting watch - would also recommend.

I’m currently listening to a lot of different music, but these are some I’ve had on repeat a lot lately:

Queens Of The Stone Age, The Verve, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Band and MF DOOM.

MW: Have you ever found anything good in a charity shop?

JW: The best thing I’ve found in a charity shop is an original 1976 pressing of “Wings Over America” for £2 in Ormskirk, I was made up.

MW: Is having a Mayor of Liverpool worthwhile? How does your Mayor compare to the one in Manchester?

JW: To be completely honest, as we’re only young lads we don’t pay a huge amount of attention to what’s going on with mayors, however I still think that it’s definitely worthwhile to have someone in that role for the city to keep things in line.

MW: Are you more CASH than CARD when paying for goods and services?

JW: On the whole, I am definitely more card than cash. However, when going to a pub or restaurant I like to pay cash so I can tip the workers. But I do use card most of the time as it’s just a lot easier.

MW: You can only choose one Easter Egg - what is it?!

JW: I’d 100% go with a Thornton’s egg, they just wipe every other brand out in my opinion.

MW: What are Modern Age Band's plans for Easter and beyond?

JW: Over Easter and the next couple of months we’ve got plenty of gigs planned which we’re waiting to announce, and also another big announcement for a new single release soon. We’ve also got our biggest gig yet at the 02 Academy Liverpool, supporting our good pals Headfeeder and Firehead.

We also intend on delivering much more music as the year goes on, we can’t wait to share what we’ve been perfecting for years with everyone!

Modern Age (@modernageband_) • Instagram photos and videos

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leashade · 4 months

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about degrading content

I told it multiple times before and will say it again here: I don't like where the content is going these days. It feels like it turned into a giant stream of stuff, which nobody asked for or cares about.

On one hand we have YouTube, which can be used by anyone, so it kinda turns into an endless well of content and knowledge (this is also why any YouTube competitors are doomed to fail and why any attempts to block and censor it won't go well: it might work, but the losses will be much MUCH bigger). This, combined with algorithms creates a situation when a user gets overwhelmed by content, which you can't even consume in a lifetime. Every single person and their dog has a channel, podcast, show or whatever.

But if it would be just YT it would be fine. The platform is diverse enough and content is made by people. It balances itself.

The problems start when big corporations start to do the same.

We have Netflix, a very successful streaming platform. But to keep it at the top they "have" to pump out a lot of exclusive content and lure people in -- offer something of value so it would make sense to pay.

Content costs money, and creating content all the time burns through your money rather quickly, so you have to get rid of expensive stuff and stuff that didn't perform too well.

But even better approach is to just create an endless stream of shit which people will watch once and forget it ever existed. You can even play with modern trends or whatever, make a nice looking preview, etc.

And platforms like YT and Netflix had a giant advantage: they didn't have competitors, not really. YT doesn't really have a real replacement, and Netflix was the first successful streaming service (to the point when people would use the name as a verb meaning "watch something on TV"). You could find a giant supply of great shows using just one subscription.

But now every big studio has their own streaming service, and this kind of defeats the whole purpose, why Netflix became so popular in the first place.

Now you have 10 streaming services with their own exclusive content, and nobody wants to pay for every single subscription at once. But they all still want to stay afloat -- and it's really expensive.

So we have Disney+. The Mouse has their own streaming and started releasing a lot of unnecessary and empty content in big batches, one after another. Marvel Cinematic Universe movies turned from important cultural events to yet another shitty thing, overwhelming people and oversaturating the market with low quality content. It becomes too much, you can't watch all these shows, and most of them are not even worth it. All the nostalgia baits, remakes, reshoots and reuses of the old franchises are all there too.

And all this subscription system turned into the giant evil monster which makes this problem even worse. I wrote about movies and shows, but it applies to podcasts, videos, books and videogames too.

The biggest problem: important cultural events and modern classics just blend in with the endless conveyor of stuff. Today you get something new and forget whatever was yesterday, then you get another tomorrow. Social discussion about a project ends without even starting. You just get so many things coming out that they lose all their importance and meaning.

"Classics" and "cultural phenomenons" didn't really disappear, but they just get lost with whatever is out there, the "classics" just becomes a part of this content soup.

Why am I saying all this and what's my suggestion? Dude, I don't know, absolutely no idea. But I really don't like it.

#ranting-about-things

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sturrpz-hme-weekly · 8 months

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Week 3 - Project: Bloom

I had a song in mind the moment I experienced Pharos, which was Bloom by IHF. This song gave me such an indescribable sublime feeling. It was more of a personal expression I think, because I found this song on New Year’s Eve, which was spring in my country. It’s so refreshing seeing flowers and plants blooming again, and it left such a deep impression in my mind.

It annoyed me how the left and right sides of Capitol were asymmetrical. I had such a painful time trying to figure out how to make both sides symmetrical just to fail.

After this week’s Pharos session, I found out that the brightness of the colours were not that significant, unless the colour was extremely dark or extremely bright.

The ceiling lights were extremely bright, and the incorporation of the whole ceiling with the side lights didn’t work because the change was so drastic that it was uncomfortable. I felt the need to create as many varieties of light combinations as possible, however, it ended up making the room too bright, and ‘deafened’ the feeling of sublime.

I had so many ideas when it came to my project. I was ambitious and really wanted to give myself a challenge. I figured a long project consisting of only lights might be boring, especially when they were low-tempo, slow-paced songs. I decided to incorporate some animations into my project, probably a ballerina dancing, because ballerinas were like the epitome of gracefulness. The biggest and most exciting challenge would be creating my own music. I’m scared because I have no experience, but let’s see how it goes.

Black on black - Eugene Thacker

And so we get a "colour" that is not really a colour – a colour that either negates or consumes all colours. And we get a square that is not really a square, a box meant to indicate boundlessness. The viewer must understand the square as formlessness and the black inside as neither a fullness nor an emptiness. For every un-universe, then, an un-philosophy that must also negate itself. Does black designate a "colour" that does not reflect light (and if so, why label it a colour?), or does black designate the "colour" that results in the total absence of light? Without light, no colour, and without colour, there is only black – and yet black is not a colour. [...] black and white function more as logical necessities, forming the absolute poles of colour perception; that is, black and white are never actually seen, and yet they determine the perception of colour. black is simply the physiological state of "retinal inactivity." The eye without sight – or without vision. [...] the strange status of black: at once present and absent, at once a fullness and an emptiness, at once the absorption of all light and the total absence of light. Black is at once the foundation of all colour and, in its absence or emptiness, it is also what undermines the substantiality of all colour.

My thoughts

This essay gave me such a novel point of view on the colour black that I had never thought of before. I had always had the impression that black represents absence, nothingness, and while in a sense that is true, black is so full in the way it absorbs everything and every colour. While working with Pharos, I often thought darkness would be unappealing, and often felt the need to add a variety of light placements and colours. My project ended up being too bright and no longer invoked the feelings it was supposed to, instead it felt like I was just sitting in a room again. I then realized darkness didn't mean absence, on the contrary, it added so much more depth into my work and worked really well to portray gracefulness. The excessive amount of light proves to be overwhelming, and the addition of darkness makes the project a lot softer and calmer.

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fun fact. every time y'all tell me how to act or think, i delete the post you reblogged and change my username cos fuck off.

i KNOW it's not my fault, it's greedy companies fault. it's not my problem? you're right, this only affects something that is my lifelong hobby and content. and even if it WASN'T something i was that into, pardon me for having empathy for all the people it does affect who is now scrambling to figure out how to save their projects, their livelihoods, wondering what to do with their blemished resumes (as someone posted saying they're about to graduate school who had hopes of immigrating for job opportunities that their skills in a game engine would have brought, that is now no longer a reputable thing to have).

just because I'M not a game dev myself does not mean that i don't get to feel upset and mad for all the people who ARE affected, who now have to try and fight a stupid giant company to either get them to fucking change this completely back to something more similar to what they were offering before while they also decide if they want to move their stuff away from the engine and spend many man hours retraining people on different engine/s and doing the move while also wondering if bigger companies are gonna step in and actually do what they should to move this back or just pay it bc they can.

AND NO DUH. PEOPLE AREN'T EXPECTED TO BUY AND NEVER INSTALL. I'M SAYING THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE ALL THESE BIG EXEC PEOPLE EXPECT IS JUST PEOPLE TO DUMP MONEY INTO THEIR POCKETS AND NOT CONSUME CONTENT. DISNEY'S DELETING EVERYTHING IF PEOPLE DON'T WATCH IT FAST ENOUGH, NETFLIX DOESN'T RENEW SOMETHING IF IT DOESN'T DO WELL IMMEDIATELY, GAME ENGINES ARE GONNA CAUSE LOTS OF GAME TO BE LOST AND POTENTIAL COMPANIES TO SHUT DOWN. IT'S AS IF, THEY DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO CONSUME CONTENT.

'don't make up guilt' what the fuck does that even mean. gosh sorry i would feel guilt for potentially being a cause of inconvenience for someone. i'll just put away my trauma trained people pleasing bc you felt i shouldn't feel some type of way about yet another fucking bullshit thing to happen this year.

and yes, the unity thing will most likely not end well for them, they will most likely put something else in place that is not what they have out right now. but we don't know that currently. we thought the same things about twitter. surely he won't do this or that but he has and is actively ruining one of the biggest social hot spots not only for socialization but people's jobs are tied into and now are less certain of where their next paycheck is gonna come from because he's changed how people maintain business as a whole on there.

again. stop telling people how to feel. i am not you. my brain DOES catastrophisize and i'm not necessarily in crisis mode over this, i'm just SPECULATING how other people with emotional disorders, like myself, feel because I am sensitive to feeling some type of way about things and also knowing how exhausted i feel after 3 years of pandemic, personal trauma, platforms being destroyed and changed, media getting deleted or stolen left and right, capitalism getting worse and worse,..

i already don't like subtle change as it is and having to wake up every fucking day to this or that platform nuking itself, that one stealing art of every form with gen ai shit, this streaming platform deleting 20 movies and shows forever with no physical media to preserve it.. etcetcetc

don't fucking tell me how to feel. SORRY I CARE ABOUT THINGS PEOPLE WORK HARD ON AND FOR AND ARE CONSTANTLY BEING PUT IN JEOPARDY BY DUMB RICH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SQUEEZE EVERY DIME FROM EVERY PERSON THEY CAN AND MAKE CREATIVES OBSOLETE.

#was gonna be nicer #but i'm so fucking tired of people saying how i feel is invalid or 'too emotional'#hashtag trying to live life as an autistic and the NTs don't like how i feel i guess #also catching me on day 3 or 4 i have no idea of fucked up insomniatic sleep and i'm fucking tired and cranky.#get over yourself

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devilsurvivor-2-recordbreaker · 2 years

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I feel that compared to other forms of horror, horror created on the internet (creepy pasta, analouge horror, tall tales of spooky shocker websites, etc.) are far much more intimate about their content and subjects.

Like the rings of the internet horror form by people consistently keeping them alive purely out of a sort of love for it and the medium they come from.

I realize that such works like Petscop and Don't Hug Me I'm Scared are so visceral because of the many layers which they build upon from.

Petscop could be associated and linked to the internet users fascination with lost media, or lost content history forgot in the waves of time. And DHMIS being linked to the sort of episodic format for horror that thrives on such platforms like YouTube because of how they as well present such things as the passage of time as a part of the narrative.

(I didn't realize this but on the DHMIS YouTube page, the kickstarter videos have all the characters tied up and held hostage for money which I believe plays into the story somehow but I'm not sure cause I've yet to properly analyze both web-series and the recent TV show.)

Example being like how such horror shows like Alan Tutorial were effective because of the long distances between video releases, drawing out the sort of tension a 'next week on xyz' or cliffhanger couldn't do justice cause you are already on that cliff and your barely hanging on to begin with.

Returning to my thesis statement, I believe such horror created on the internet has such intimacy and closely emotional connection because it is made by people, genuine artist who want to express their passion. This is not to say that larger scale projects made by studios can't also be genuine with their art or that 'something made with big money is inherently bad or not real art,' no that isn't the case. What I do feat is that within the past decade we have seen the sort of degrading of expression as art turns less into interaction and more into consumption for hungry consumers by companies trying to make the most money while selling you the most marketable and least threating stuff imaginable made by artist who themselves go under appreciated and under cut by the industry they sought to create in and are stopped because art from the soul cost too much and doesn't make the biggest bucks.

Such art (horror) then can be well made and be allowed to express without such restraints because artist have much more freedom than an industry would ever allow. Art to me is meant to be weird and uncanny and sometimes confrontational about its subject matters and be allowed to get nasty, just like humans, and just like humanity art no matter how cookie cutter or 'normal' you try to make it will still have some kind of soul to it, even if in the faintest of places or ideas or themes. Art like this is so tethered to the human experience that a sort of light in all the darkness of reality shines through it. This form of nature essentially immortal on the internet and forever changing people who have witnessed it, even after it's taken down or removed or just go entirely without a trace, its phantom wounds can still be felt in the hearts its touched and I think that's wonderful.

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