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h0wdyydee · 1 year
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Pretty boy Alucard
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ratzmatazz · 6 months
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Welcome to my Studio Ghibli food rant (slash why you keep fucking up trying to recreate it in other anime)
people talk abt how studio ghibli animates food perfectly, but every attempt to recreate that style falls flat imo. and I feel like the reason is because people get too caught up on the "perfect" part and forget the fact its still food????
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Like. ok. Howl's eggs and bacon are iconic, but actually look at them for a second. The bacon bubbles with grease. The eggs are wobbly imperfect circles that overlap and slide to the side of the pan. It's the platonic ideal of food, but it also looks like real food you could actually put in your mouth. It's better for its imperfections because it reminds you of the flavor of the real, actual bacon you've eaten, then coupled with the amazing art and animation. Studio Ghibli paints the mundane as beautiful and it makes the magic hit even harder. It's not even particularly detailed bacon and eggs either in terms of the actual food, but the details around it give it that extra flair.
I think the colors are really important as well and honestly could be their own post- the bacon is just slightly warmer than actual bacon, the eggs are just a tiny bit whiter/more opaque. That's where the fantasy part comes in and brings out the charm. A lot of the food in Studio Ghibli is just a liiittle bit warmer in tone than it is in real life, which also helps it come across as cozy and good feeling.
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Kiki's herring pie is another example of this too !! Look at the slightly burnt edges, the way the fish has changed shape with the baking and how the edges are a tiny bit uneven. It's just realistic enough to remind you of what herring pie tastes like, but then brings it up another level with the subtle ways the food is exemplified, like the rich color of the brown and tan of the crevices. It's really subtle but effective.
But then when we look at other foods people like to call "anime food porn" (hate that phrase but whatever), it looks,,, kind of off???
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I think the reason stuff like the images above fail to capture the same effect is because they think all the love is in how you animate the food itself and not the details around it. Like yeah that's some super well rendered bacon, but it doesn't sit on the plate quite right. The tomatoes are so shiny and red they actually stop looking like tomatoes and just become weird. It looks posed and staged, and it reminds me more of an advertisement than something a real person would make. It's also really apparent when you look closer that most of this food is almost unidentifiable??? Genuinely I have no idea what the yellow and golden blobs are supposed to be besides maybe home fries and eggs???? maybe mashed potatoes?????? The same and more can be said about the second image, I feel like my point is pretty clear here.
Like I said, the actual food isn't always *that* detailed in Studio Ghibli (excluding Kiki's pie honestly bc goddamn), but it's the way it feels so real and at the same time like the platonic ideal of food. Trying to recreate Ghibli food by only caring about the food loses the forest for the trees.
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ant-diary · 5 months
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I like to try to adhere to the belief of do what you want forever but if you have never drank before and you are related to alcoholics I do not recommend drinking, don’t even risk falling into that dark hole. Just become straight edge immediately. You’ll be cooler by not doing what everyone else does.
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noonaishere · 1 year
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Music shows be like "time for the dance break!" And then the dance break looks like this:
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#man I fucking love this new group of actual ants#like how did they train them? are they a boy group or girl group? how does the queen feel?#will they be allowed to go back to the anthill? or will they live in dorms?#do any of them know english/korean or will their lyrics be in ant language?#is it just Workers or also Soldiers?#this is the dance break for Guerrilla btw#so it's ateez#or at least#I think it is *squints* they're in there somewhere#this was almost the entirety of the dance break btw#the camerawork was so BAD omg#ruined several parts of New World since they kept doing top down shots#and the whole beginning needs to be be seen from the front#otherwise you're not looking at anything#so bad#like I know you spent all that money making a nice stage#but I am not here to look at architecture#I am here to see people sing and dance#you have no need for a stage if if you don't have performers#get your head out of your ass music shows#show us the stage in incidental shots going to or coming back from commercials#or when we go back to the hosts or when you show the audience cheering before or after performances#my god#not DURING the performance#sorry for ranting on main-- it just annoys me#and Guerrilla has such a wild and fun dance break#and I couldn't see any of it between the cameras and all the pyrotechnics and smoke in the way#I'll just go back and watch other stages of it; thanks#also: it's hilarious that sbs did All I Want for Christmas Is You two years in a row lol#but didn't have anyone sing it this year
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knifewieldingenby · 1 year
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"Well Vico is a Spaniard so they don't get to talk about racism"
"Wow they're the only valid Spaniard tbh"
"I know Vico is a spaniard but I still love them"
"They're basically white, so..."
Foes.....they're Puerto Rican. "But they probably have some spaniard in them" yeah that's been known to happen with colonization, but that doesn't make them spaniard. They're Puerto Rican, they're a person of color, they deal with racism, they're allowed to talk about it, and if you "love them" so much you need to shut the fuck up and listen.
Oh, also? There are Spaniards of color! They don't deserve to be erased and told that they don't get to talk about the racism they face.
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themountainsays · 2 years
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Ik we said that in Black Moth, Bruno would be leaving like in canon and all but... but if I may suggest... I really like the idea of him staying and Mirabel sorta becoming part of his family specifically, under his branch in the family rather than Julieta's, even though they are both her parents. It's not a sudden change and no one decides that's what had to happen, but she found Bruno's refuge in the walls one day, and now they kinda hang out there whenever Alma is mad. At some point, she may get into her head the idea that her mother would be better off without her. She already feels excluded by her half sisters - particularly by Isabela, and when they refer to Agustín as "my dad" instead of "dad", she comes to understand she can't be part of his family either. It's not that she severs her relationship with Julieta entirely - she loves her, but she becomes distant with time, and since she's so much like Bruno and Bruno was pretty much forced to stay out of a responsability towards his daughter and sister, she ends up gravitating towards him. She feels like her mother wouldn't understand some things, or that her advice always leans a bit too much on putting on a smile and trying to appease her grandmother, while Bruno is more like... "oh I hate myself too, kid, cheers to that". At some point, Julieta starts finding it harder and harder to connect with Mirabel, and she kinda stops trying to force her. It breaks her heart, but her baby barely spends any time with her or her family. However, she seems to be right at home with her dad.
But she's not Bruno's daughter in a depressing sort of way - in fact, there IS a sudden decision to be made, and it's when Mira is still 5, not even a year after her failed ceremony, when Bruno realizes shit's fucked, the situation is bad, this is his daughter and she's alone. Now, he never planned to have a daughter, but now he has one, it looks like she's gonna suffer just as much as him, and she suddenly doesn't have a dad in Agustín anymore. She's gonna need one. So he stops wallowing in self-loathing and sadness and decides he's going to be an actual dad. He crafts her toys, plays with her, teaches her to read and write, gets her an accordion when she shows an interest in music, defends her from Alma whenever he can, talks to her classmates' parents when the kids are mean to her, makes himself clean and presentable because he wants to be a good example, gets out of the walls and decides to somehow turn his room into an actual liveable place so she van visit whenever she wants... his participation in her life is a great source if comfort, and they actually end up becoming best friends. They're silly, weird and artsy together. He respects her opinion and trusts her judgment, and she knows she always has a responsible adult to rely on whenever she needs help. They also have a surprising amount of fun together, coming up with stories and handicrafts and music. He calls him Papá. Pa for short. She wears a green shawl around her shoulders, or a green scarf tying her hair, or green skirts. She learns how to raise rats. Everyone in town still believes she's Agustín's daughter, but they know she's more Bruno's that she's his. They don't know she's his daughter, but she's clearly his kid. She becomes optimistic again. He becomes a happy man. His love for her inspired him to love himself.
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isfjmel-phleg · 2 years
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There was some co-worker frustration nonsense today but we started working on a 1000 piece puzzle shortly before closing this afternoon and after everyone else left, three of us stayed and finished it all
and then I had to pull more of that wretched western horse nettle tonight but after that was over I put on the Music Man soundtrack and belted everything (to make up for not being able to sing along with headphone music at work all week) while making a lemon cake which I will presently stab all over with a wooden spoon and pour lemon curd on for the study tour reunion tomorrow
and of course there will be dishes, there are always dishes, but it’s Friday and I’m grateful for some free (and alone) time.
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godoftoads · 1 year
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all this romanticizing of the gremlin lifestyle has done wonders for my self image
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siflshonen · 1 year
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I’ve realized that I equate being sanctimonious or even unnecessarily picky about spelling rules (North American versus the UK) with someone being over the age of 20 and being a picky eater
Oh wait! The picky eater is more valid.
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away-from-anthills · 2 years
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i’m not sure if i’ll ever get back to writing afa (and if i will it’ll probably be in a different form and no longer affiliated with warrior cats, as i’ve been sorta moving away from the series given (gestures) Everything) so. would you like the rest of how this would have gone to be spoiled for you? if so read on
remember: where we last left off, antstar has killed stoatslink to cover up sparkthistle's murder, shadowclan is going insane bc their leader is an adulterer (and worse a code violator), and thunderclan riverclan and skyclan are spinning in the corner.
- eventually, shadowclan's situation culminates in a full-on revolt led by the older shadowclan cats against currantstar and his philosophies of rejecting traditional shadowclan culture in favor of facades and mass appeal. it's left unclear what happens to currantstar; antstar thinks he sees him in the window of a twoleg house, but it could be his mind playing tricks on him. when asked, currantstar's sister simply says she 'never had a brother'. sleekstar, currantstar's former mate, is the one who becomes the next leader. antstar is terrified of the implication, especially as he had previously thought of currantstar as hope for his situation
- so naturally when talonscar, an elder of windclan, starts to idolize the revolution of shadowclan, whitetooth and antstar scheme to starve talonscar to death, subtly, in such a way that nobody notices the elder slip out from underneath them. this is really the moment where antstar's killings turn from reactive to proactive- no longer is he killing those that clue into his crimes, but those who -could-. 
- some time later and antstar and his deputy/former friend, russetfoot, begin more and more to disagree on things, eventually culminating with a long argument in the rain in which russet accuses ant of being a horrible leader. ant thinks he sees whitetooth lunge in to kill the cat, and so antstar follows through, and after a long close fight antstar manages to kill his deputy... only to realize that whitetooth never jumped in and simply watched the whole thing from the sidelines, and that for the first time antstar has committed murder completely on his own accord.
- the two return to camp with russet's body, swearing an attacker got to all three and killed russetfoot. and it's fine, the clan believes antstar once again even though some of them do find it strange. antstar takes all of this completely fine (Lie. He has 97 mental illnesses)
- time passes, and antstar’s paranoia begins to die down a bit. whitetooth never refers to the murders, and antstar wonders if they even really happened. he begins to really grow into a leader, leading his clan in a defense against shadowclan and establishing further trade routes et al with riverclan. toadpool is appointed in russetfoot’s place, and toad is fine, if passive and lacking real leadership
- pigeonstar however is still PISSED antstar, yknow, gave the order to kill pigeon’s son (even if it was not completely intentional). so are pigeon’s other two children, the volatile nettlebark and the detached birchtail. nettlebark sets out on a revenge quest to get antstar back in revenge, but his attempts are unsuccessful, and he ends up being killed by a windclan patrol in retaliation. pigeonstar is taking the ‘btw your son was killed by the same clan that killed your other son when he tried to get revenge for your other son’ thing as well as you’d think
- riverclan, in addition, is also becoming more demanding. they continue to fare poorly and windclan is being driven a little up the wall by how they’re treating them. antstar wants to help riverclan and keep his allies there, but his own clan is unwilling, and the threat of public opinion is enough for antstar to revoke all help to riverclan and leave them alone. 
- naturally, at the next gathering tulipstar does not come, instead replaced by squirrelstar. thunderclan finally got their chance to claim sunningrocks from riverclan, in the process killing off the last of tulipstar’s lives. she died alone on the battlefield. squirrelstar is naturally sorta pissed at antstar; it was a battle antstar amplified that cost squirrelstar’s mother her life and now tulipstar has been killed because antstar didn’t offer support. (confusing? yes, as clan politics are). windclan and riverclan relations cool and eventually freeze over; neither are outright hostile but they are no longer friends.
- terrified now that he has no ‘real’ allies, antstar starts becoming genuinely frightening in public and not just Some Wimp That Is Scary After Dark. he becomes a cold leader, not harsh on his clan but harsh on others, becoming the very image of the stoic clan leader he initially feared so much at his first gathering. the other original leaders bow out also. tatteredstar passes away in her sleep after so many years. pigeonstar’s daughter and last remaining kin, birchtail, disowns her father and moves to shadowclan. lost, tired, and alone in all the world, pigeonstar escapes his clan in the night, and it’s mentioned his pawsteps led to nowhere and no cat knew what became of him. with fear- and a coil of pride- antstar realizes he’s the last of the leaders he once knew, and the one who’s been leader the longest. - windclan changes as well. toadpool passes and antstar makes spiderfoot, his old apprentice, his deputy. some cats become more and more close to antstar, others seem simply passive towards him. whitetooth remains windclan’s medic, although marblepaw- marbleface, now- is becoming the more physically capable of the medics as she is now an adult in her prime. she still, however, is terrified of her mentor for the murders she witnessed all those seasons ago.
- antstar himself has come to want children, and he and houndnose have them together. there is no romance between the two, he seems to see it as a kindness because she has never had a surviving litter before. (this is not presented as a good view of things.) there are four kits, antstar names two of them mudkit and tulipkit while houndnose names the other two acornkit… and talonkit, after talonscar, unaware the father of her litter murdered them. 
- antstar is as scared about this as you’d think. while he is very close with his sole daughter tulippaw, he is very neglectful of his son talonpaw out of the fear of what that name means to him. whitetooth suggests antstar show his neglected son affection- and, more importantly, keep his paws on windclan leadership- by making talonpaw marbleface’s apprentice, but antstar has to think about it. - windclan meanwhile is like ‘hey we never did catch the murderer of sparkthistle, stoatslink, and russetfoot’. antstar panics and blames it on birchshine, some random Guy in the clan, who is then exiled and killed by his own former friends under the assumption birch is a windclan threat.
- whitetooth is like ‘hey thats a dumb decision LOL do better you idiot’ and someone walks in on antstar and whitetooth discussing this. antstar panics, says he found whitetooth confessing to being an accomplice, and whitetooth is similarly exiled. whitetooth refuses to answer why they did anything that they did, and when they’re exiled, they just seem to disappear- not even their scent remains on the territory a day later.
- antstar is like. Ok. Thank fuck that’s done. but he gets signs from starclan- signs to beware spiderfoot, and that she will be the one to ultimately kill him. naturally he panics and exiles spiderfoot for no clear reason, and becomes even more authoritarian- now any cat who speaks out against him may be exiled, too. some cats leave with spiderfoot, and antstar continues to panic. spiderfoot is, after all, one of the few cats he couldn’t bring himself to kill.
- spiderfoot and co. nestle in riverclan, and squirrelstar is sympathetic to their plight. antstar, feeling as though he has no other options, chooses to attack riverclan for no reason in the witching hours, hoping his forces- and not him- will drive off spiderfoot. it has to be done, hasn’t it? but riverclan has thrived under squirrelstar’s leadership, and they- and spiderfoot and co.- fight windclan back. windclan’s warriors, who fail to understand why antstar has chosen to attack riverclan, quickly turn on their leader; antstar’s loyalists are killed or driven out and antstar himself is chased away. some cats finally put two and two together and think antstar is exiling all these cats because he himself has murders to hide. marbleface, in her sole line of dialogue in the entire story, confirms this
- some suggest to spiderfoot she leave antstar alone, now that he’s on his own and has fled windclan. spiderfoot however responds she’s not done- she needs some sort of closure. and so, she follows antstar’s scent trail, along the gorge, until she finds him there- broken, wounded, alone.
- antstar is on his last life. the old tom can sense that even now spiderfoot doesn’t want to kill her old mentor, despite everything; and he doesn’t want to kill her. he could, of course- he’s injured but still capable enough, and they’re right by the gorge so he could throw her in easily. but… but for once he declines. he knows he’s on his way out anyway. at least now… at least now he should stop trying to outrun the world, and face the inevitable punishment lying after his death with dignity
- antstar backs from spiderfoot, offers his apologies that he couldn’t resolve everything neatly for her and wishes her luck, and leaps backwards, into the gorge, following all his victims before him. as he falls he thinks of his entire life, all the mistakes he made. and yet… he feels more peaceful, more peaceful than he’s felt in years, more peaceful than he was ever since the story began. he looks out at the sunrise. it’s the most beautiful thing he ever sees- and then, as he hits the rocks below- everything goes black.
- spiderfoot watches the waves carry antstar’s body away. he didn’t appoint another deputy after her, and as windclan has let her back in, she has now inherited leadership. the story ends on her, alone, walking through the grass back to camp, preparing herself to become windclan’s next leader- and, perhaps, in spite of everything- stop the cycle once and for all.
(will she, though? the narrative does not seem confident.)
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h0wdyydee · 1 year
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POORLY DRAWN GROGU EVERYDAY UNTIL 2022 ENDS: DAY 281
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Happy thanksgiving! Din and grogu went over to tattooine for the holidays
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ratzmatazz · 6 months
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if I were immortal I would spend ten thousand years removing every parasite from every whale just so they could experience some respite, even if only for a moment
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ant-diary · 5 months
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Alcoholism is so dumb, I'm like, at the perfect level of drunk, in a nice comfortable position and my brain is like, "hm but this isn't going to last so you need to drink more." Please.
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lilylauk · 1 year
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You know, I think true cosmic horror a la Lovecraft isn’t the undefinable features of some otherworldly being, nor the immensity of their power in relation to us. The true cosmic horror of realizing you’re an infinitesimally smaller and weaker and more insignificant creature than some behemoth leviathan that can traverse the void of space and speak words that would make your ears and eyes bleed, isn’t any of that.
The true fear of being an ant, is by the very nature of being one, the higher cosmic being cannot ask you to move your mound; nor could you comprehend or comply if asked. True cosmic horror is knowing if we’re in the way: in their yard, their home, eating their crumbs- someday we may be exterminated. And an ant cannot fight an exterminator any better than it can comprehend one.
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icedmetaltea · 2 years
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I had a longass nap and was having some horror, squid-games + saw type dream (ft. my old house because of course it did) cause I've been watching too many scary movies lately. Sun made a cameo in it but he was decomissioned and like, strewn over some kind of ledge, and jesus fucking christ dream-me legitimately started crying bc shortass me seeing something that tall in HD quality at night while being hunted battle royale style by blood-thirsty teens was enough to send me reeling. Y/n may have balls of steel BUT THIS BITCH IS RUNNIN
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lexalovesbooks · 23 days
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Maybe I just spend less time in big fields lately but actually I feel like I don’t see ant hills as much anymore? What’s this about
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