#So watch out for that

[lunareel]

Wanted to give a heads up that next week I should be able to start posting the prologue to The Phantom!

I haven't decided which day to start posting yet, as I want to get as many pages completely done before I start sharing. Currently I'll be posting one page a week and when the chapter is completely done and reviewed I will shift gears to posting twice a week.

Just realized I'm gonna need to make a new master post/pinned post to record all the page links.

[haalyle-psychonauts-fan]

Alright, well, I've uploaded it to GameBanana if y'all want to use it for yourself. I've written about some problems in the mods' description, but I'm done with it for now.

There's a 'readme' file to help anyone who hasn't used mods for Psychonauts 2 before. (Or really, most Unreal Engine 4 games).

Time to go back to the Psychonauts 1 Randomizer.

[temporaltourguide]

those two times while i was screencapping where the music i was listening to lined up

first song is: Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill

second song is: It's Crazy It's Party (feat. Tommy Cash) - Käärijä

[lakesbian]

serial experiments lain liveblog: world's first brown-eyed person to be the "jesus christ put some contacts on that beast" meme

[joe-spookyy]

if i don’t start to feel normal in about thirty seconds i’m going to BLOW SOMEBODIES PENIS OFF!

[sunflwr-ted]

Hello tumblr heres my incredibly sad oc Matt !! For some context here, him and his boyfriend (Rio) met in the late 70s, they raised Rios biological daughter together but he was killed by his ex wife (under suspicious circumstances ooooo👻👻) in 1988 before they ever saw any hope of legalising their marriage. Now matts 51 and its 1995 and he misses him like a part of his heart is missing. Also shoutout to hozier.

[pixel-axel]

sorry for the crunchy screenshot, but here’s one last purpled drawing on my current tablet before i get a new tablet :D

[meandmyfandoms1230]

Inazuma eleven/detective conan AU where Handa Shinichi is actually Kudo Shinichi (like they call him kudo the entire time, there's a bit of confusion s3 for obvious reasons) and when he gets shrunk he still uses (probably changes/added for fun thematic and plot reasons) his hisatsus.

Detective work obviously takes away from soccer stuff, hence why he didn't make inazuma Japan and so on.

Basic plot would include the Detective Boys getting invited to a high school soccer camp type thing for whatever reason and conan does histasus and hits em with a "Shinichi-neechan taught me" which gets Kidou suspicious, shenanigans ensue from there.

[wawek]

The thing about me is i can literally smell you

[shizukateal]

What do you think about Eternal Sailor Moon? What would you change to improve her design?

It sucks. I'm sorry, I wish I could give the single most famous and influential magical girl ever a more tactful sentence but I can't. It sucks. The layered skirt and it's color scheme sucks, the thin belt ribbon sucks, the excessive pearl adornments on the hair and gloves suck, the lack of proper contrast for the white wings of the eternal moon article sucks, and those goddamn pink bubblegum sleeves especially suck.

Ok, I got that out of my system, I can be respectful now. Buckle up anon, you're getting more than you asked for.

Let's analyze first why Takeuchi-sensei might have made some of these choices. The pink bubblegum sleeves? She probably realized that there was too much white around her torso already and there was a need for a color break. The ugly 3 layering? Takeuchi-sensei likes figure skating, which is why in the manga and Sailor Moon Crystal the skirts are not stiff at all. So she gave Usagi something that would work in a figure skating costume, not realizing that every other element of the torso and gloves is too stiff to pull that off. The thin belts and ribbons? She probably wanted a swallowtail butterfly effect with the wings, but she realized that a big ribbon behind would compete with the wings so the put those thin strands and then realized that the usual belt is too thick for them so she changed that too, again, under the assumption that it would work in the same way for a figure skating costume.

And the excessive accesorization? Well, how else are you supposed to "upgrade" a base as concise and short as the og uniform? You can't even enlarge the skirt all that much without a jenga cascade of new problems, that's why all of the variations within the senshis are so subtle. So Takeuchi-sensei resorted to just add "more" stuff to give the outfit more importance. And she kinda had to, because she had already kneecapped herself with the Moon Crisis outfit:

Now, not all of the choices of this outfit are bad. Changing the skirt to white is subtle but powerful enough, and when the yellow and blue stripes aren't an ugly ombre that doesn't work on plates that stiff they actually look ok. Adding more lines to the collar is also good. However the pearls in the hair compete with the rest of the head accessories. The pale pink of the ribbon comes out of nowhere, and so do the translucent, pointy, three-layered sleeves. Aaaaaaand I hate that the brooch gets repeated on her crotch of all places.

But because Naoko chose to go with this, she set up the expectations a certain way. Essentially this outfit claims that an "evolved" Sailor Moon is a Sailor Moon with more accessories, cohesion be damned, so what else was she going to do when she had to out-perform this?

Which takes us to the second part of your question. If I want to change the Eternal transformation, I need to change the Moon Crisis transformation first so that the contrast between each other becomes a conversation that makes them stand out more. Luckily, DollDivine's Senshi Maker is miraculously still alive, so I don't have to give you an exceptionally shitty illustration of my own.

Let's start with Moon Crisis:

As you can see, my changes from the first transformation are pretty subtle, but I think they work well enough. Without the pearls in the hair the other accessories from head to neck still work as well as ever, only the choker stands out a little bit more and the difference in the hair accessories may be slightly more noticeable. Between those, the longer gloves, and the white boots I figured the amount of surface space for the color white had increased enough to make this version seem more ethereal, so I put one last touch of it on the outer edge of the skirt and made the belt red for further contrast. Keeping the ribbon red as well means it no longer clashes with the rest, and the Crisis Moon Compact can still be the nice touch of pink to tie it all up with the Kaleidomoon Scope (which, btw, should also be a fucking sword instead of a rod with a handle).

Then, finally, we can get to the Eternal Moon redesign:

So! I made 3 different versions distinguished by color scheme. Two work with the usual combination of white + primary colors and the other is white + pink and gold. I made the pink one first because I wanted to match it to the eternal tiare, and I figured that since white is the more important color it didn't matter much if I left out the rest. And while I still like it and I think it would match the show and be a proper evolution, I get why some would find it too disjointed from her original outfits without the red and blue. So I experimented with those colors instead and those are the results. I find them comparatively tackier than the pink and gold, but no more than the original eternal costume, and all in all they work well enough. Maybe I'll do a poll later so you can choose which version you like best.

Now with that out of the way I should go into the shape of the outfit, since I did make some radical changes. Believe me I don't like taking the "sailor" out of Sailor Moon anymore than you do, but in my defense the options of the flash game are limited, so hear my reasoning before you chew me out:

First and foremost, the wings present a problem. Because they are white and spring from above her shoulders they were always going to compete with the bubble sleeves, since both elements fundamentally alter the silhouette. Ergo, I chose to get rid of the sleeves, since the wings are a more powerful symbol. I chose the sweetheart neckline because it was what was available and I think it looks good, but there might have been other options if the game had more variety (which is saying a lot because the thing has a lot of options). Before you ask, no the sleeveless approach Ami has on her costume doesn't look good on her and no way no how am I doing the Shadow Galactica Senshi thing of unattached collars. Fuck that nonsense. I also left the pearls without the hair bun accessories because, again, they competed too much with everything else.

So we go with a white mini dress. I put a ruffled underskirt to give the outfit a bit more volume and looseness without fundamentally unbalancing the silhouette and since it's pale yellow and translucent it gives the idea of a halo of moonlight with the main white skirt. Without the sleeves and collar the mini dress looks more like something a figure skater would wear, so the string-y belts actually work well here. I kept the back ribbon short so that it wouldn't compete with the wings, and I put another one under the wings of the eternal moon article to balance the excess white. This leaves us with the boots. Trust me, she looks better with these than her usual ones. With a strapless and short dress like this either you go short and blocky with the footwear or go long and skin tight. Anything in the middle will look awkward. I will admit however that they need a band of color on top, but that wasn't an option in the game. Or rather there was an option and it didn't look good so I didn't take it.

In any case, I said before that the reason for re-making both outfits is so that the contrast between them makes a design throughline. So there you have it. We have the second evolution, which is a more elongated version of the first one without changing or accessorizing it too much and then our final version goes the opposite way, being more sparse and ethereal, even fairy-like as it fits an ascended, mythical figure. I hope the redesigns satisfy you, but who knows! Maybe when I get better at drawing I can come up with something else. Or not. After all, if you, like me, don't like the original eternal outfit you're always welcome to redesign it yourself. The world is our oyster 💖🌙

[touch-starved-lurker]

im so excited

today im going on a road trip to look at some ROCKS

rocks yeeeeeeeeeeeeee

love rocks

[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

How is your writing so good??

Beyond 15+ years of practice, I do a lot of close reading, or looking at the construction of different media. Technical things like sentence structure, word choice, paragraph flow, plot pacing, etc.; and Thematic things like characterization, worldbuilding, message, implication. Both influence one another bath and forth. You focus on the parts both within and without the context of the whole to understand how they work. Like analyzing why a certain line made you feel a certain way, and the tools the author used to create that sensation. How could you hope to emulate your favorite writers if you don’t first understand what makes them so good/why you like them in the first place? And when you understand the techniques, you can use them yourself.

It’s also great to use this when reading bad stuff, which i do recommend trying every now and then. Negative examples of what not to do are helpful as well. If you only ever read the same stuff you know you’ll like, your writing will almost certainly drift towards copying those; bad books give you ideas of what to avoid, making your path towards developing your own style a little clearer. It’s also a little easier to get the hang of close reading. Why does this dialogue feel so stifled? The narrator told us this character is lovable, but why don’t I love them? Why am I halfway through this book but it feels like only two plot points have happened so far?

Then you get into the next level: how do would I rewrite thing thing i don’t like into something i do with as few changes as possible? A lot of my stories, fic and original, were born from this thought exercise.

There is a lot more than just this, but in short: be pretentious, be a hater

[mag-agent-fuffy-posting]

This time of year is always...interesting in the tower. This place is strange and the holiday season just brings it out even more.

[egginfroggin]

In a way being friends with someone over the internet could be better for discussions because the chances of them whipping out hand-scrawled flashcards in a fit of sleep deprivation during a car ride and making you grill them on what the stages of placental abruptions/what human chorionic gonadotropin is/the disease process of diabetes/the acid-base balance is with nowhere to go is significantly reduced

[mortiscausa]

also hope to be posting some art again soon! been on a bit of a break plus i'm job hunting at the moment but i'm getting back into things

[fellowplasticeater]

Forgot To Post This Heeere

I Will Combust