there’s a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician’s style of music to the other’s
A guide to the culture surrounding face-paint in Sunagakure for my Naruto fic, Fade to Black! It should be noted that face-paint is not only limited to puppeteers— anyone and everyone can paint their face, including civilians! It's a form of self-expression, after all.
Originally, face-paint was simply stage makeup for kabuki theatre, but puppeteers adopted it onto their puppets for the recognizability of various characters, in that they can re-use a base puppet for another character in a different play without making an entirely new puppet simply by changing its paint.
Some people wear a Face for the artistry. Others, to nonverbally express a phase/event/period of their life that they're going through. Some people wear it in honor of a deceased loved one who wore the same Face. Usually, the younger a person is, the more often they will change their Face.
Shout-out to @greenekangaroo for a lot of the inspiration and "original" Faces!
Also, this is the first time I've drawn my OCs Rooster and Dragon! Kishimoto-sensei was a coward. If he was going to incorporate aspects of middle eastern culture, he could have given us more middle-eastern representation other than a single councilor. Maybe Baki was coded that way? I actually forgot about his face paint until just now as I write this lol, but if I drew him then he would go on the "Custom Faces" page right next to Rooster because Baki has a two-claw pattern on one cheek.
That's all for now, I think. Ask box is always open if anyone has any questions; I'm always happy to ramble!
I love when Arthur completely disregards information. Like the episode in season three when he's getting the fisher kings trident or whatever. And he gets told "you can't do this alone, you'll need Strength and 𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈" and he's just like, "cool, anyways". Then his best bud Merlin and this fucking guy he's chummy with show up and he also just like, "cool, anyways" albeit a little more whiny abt his quest getting "messed up".
I'm so amazed by his ability to Worry About That Later.™️.
He also just. Doesn't seem to notice a difference in his physical health in this episode. Not even a "man why am I so tired". He's fit. He's used to journies like this. Merlin and Gwaine got through the same portion he did and weren't even phased, but apparently it was completely logical for him to be having to have a quick nap (read: damsel faint) every couple of hours. Or whatever the fuck the time span of that was.
Love when my Boy Thang servant shows up and the grip of death I hadn't noticed until now is suddenly gone.
that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing
Welcome to my usual metas where we hyperfixate over Arthur Pendragon’s love for Merlin. Today’s episode features this scene right here:
To remind you of the context, it was s03e12 when Camelot was besieged and Arthur just ordered Gaius, Gwaine, and Elyan to go find shelter in the woods. A second later, he looks at Merlin, diverts his eyes, and tells him, “Merlin, you should go with them.”
Which btw translates, in Arthur Pendragon's dictionary, to: Merlin, I want you safe, I want you away from harm’s way, but Merlin, Oh Merlin, don’t leave me. I really don’t want you to leave me. I sustain my strength from you. You’re the bravest man I have ever met. I keep going because I know you’re there. Don’t go and leave me. I am urging you to go, but please don’t believe me.
I really just can’t. Because you guys, Arthur isn’t scared to go fight an entire army of the dead. He’s not scared that he is limping and injured and definitely won’t make it. He’s just scared to do it without Merlin.
And when Merlin looks at him and says, “Nah, I’ve seen the woods already”, Arthur knows Merlin had heard it all, and chose the kindest response possible that doesn’t spot on his worry and fear.