#also i love oversaturated colours

[mspaint-flower]

Eyestrain flower. Use some wacky oversaturated colors

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[creepylittlelady]

wait, I don't understand why fanon Masky is so hated?? /genq (I was never really that interested in him tbh so I only know shit about him.)

OKAY, I can answer this one!

I'm happy that the whole fandom turned around on Fanon Masky recently (at least, I believe it must have been recently considering Cheesecake Masky was a thing before I 'left' the fandom), since that version of him is a bit problematic lol

If you've watched Marble Hornets, then you'll know that Masky and Hoody are REALLY scary (seriously, I had nightmares about Masky for absolute weeks), and work against the Operator. However 'fanon' Masky is a loyal employee of Slenderman/The Operator (I'm gonna make a post addressing the differences one day), and isn't really all that scary?? From what I remember, he was mainly joked about as being the 'Sensible one' of the Proxy trio (Him, Hoody and Toby), who was basically the dude always tired of their bullshit. Not only is this the complete opposite of how Masky is, as he would NEVER work FOR his enemy, who literally ruined his life from childhood, but it also sort of flanderised him and no longer made him scary, which is something the Creepypasta fandom tends to do a lot lmao

Another thing is his sudden change of character design. A lot of old Creepypasta fanart depicting him from 2013-2017 show him with lighter brown hair and a yellow jacket, which isn't what he looks like at all?? Actual Masky has much darker hair and I don't think he's ever seen with that ugly ass highlighter coloured jacket.

There's also the complete change in his body type, definitely one of the most controversial things about Fanon Masky. Let me first say that I do not believe that Tim Sutton (Masky's original actor) is fat, I'm not sure WHERE the old Creepypasta fandom got that idea from. Fandom in general, especially the Creepypasta fandom, is quite 'fatphobic' from my experience. What this basically means is that if you're not a skinny twink you will be body shamed in every way possible. The Creepypasta character market has always been oversaturated with men who basically were twinks, with slim and pale bodies, such as Jeff the Killer.

I believe that making Masky so thin came from the fact that when the Creepypasta fandom really took off around 2013-ish, a lot of Creepypasta fans looked for content and eventually I believe that a lot of them must have stumbled across Marble Hornets. Upon seeing Masky and Hoody, two characters that could have passed off as Creepypasta characters (as most of the other characters in Marble Hornets looked like ordinary people), the fandom probably adopted them and adapted them to 'their tastes', no matter how good they were or not. It might have also been a game of telephone too, as maybe a Creepypasta fan's friend of a friend told them some info about Masky and they misunderstood and instead of who Masky actually was, saw him more as the silly goofy masked guy. And to be honest, I don't think the Creepypasta fandom has ever really been known for actually doing their research, so that misconstrued version of him just became canon in everyones minds.

Not that it was always that innocent though...

One titular thing about fanon Masky was his strange love of Cheesecake. I myself saw a lot of it in 2016 sewed into every bit of content for his character, and was confused on where it came from. Then, I found out that it was meant to be a joke SHAMING him for 'being fat'. I originally stumbled across this for the first time in a satire comic, where one of the panels is Hoody chastising Masky for eating cheesecake, stating that Masky will become fat. The cheesecake joke is one I've seen in some fandoms before, albeit in different ways and with different foods. For the life of me I cannot figure out why everyone decided to associate him with Cheesecake, but everyone just did.

Fanon Masky is a perfect example on how fandoms can flanderise characters to the point where they're unrecognisable; pull up a picture of Masky in the Marble Hornets and then a Masky fanart from 2015. The difference is STAGGERING. The Creepypasta fandom is very much infamous for flanderising characters, such as making Jeff a misunderstood bad boy, Toby a waffles-obsessed manchild, and Masky a Slenderman-loving, Crayons and Paper-having, Toby-hating, Cheesecake-eating twink.

TL;DR: Fanon Masky was made as a shitty misconstrued fat joke.

[mark-the-snark]

Limited colour pallette? I hardly know her 😎

Anywho, the story behind this was - what if turtle and hare but it's a marathon and they work... ✨together✨

Honestly i don't actually hate it but also it do be hurtin my eyes a lil. I may have oversaturated them a lil. In my defence i love me some neon 😔

Also read the tags

Anyway love u ❤ byeeeeee

[thenarddogmeister]

Everything Everywhere All At Once. The Daniels. 2022.

I love this film and have watched it three times so far so it’s about time I wrote this review.

First of all, I think the main themes I see being explored in this film are the different outlooks/ philosophies a person can use to live in a world like this. Everything Everywhere is a daunting film to write about because it’s postmodern to the maximum, there’s so much to talk about. Firstly, the absolute hybrid of genres and intertextual references (ranging from Disney’s Ratatouille to Wong kar-wai’s In The Mood For Love) makes this a staple of post-modernism and reflects the chaos of the world we live in today. We have access to everything and we can see so many things (especially with the rise of social media) and just like this film proves, it can provide beauty but it can also cause chaos and destruction. The movie is beautiful in its variety of colours, creative costumes, and allowing Evelyn (Joy’s mother) to understand her daughter’s sexuality better by jumping to a universe where she is in a relationship with Jamie Lee Curtis’s Deadre. However, it is also immensely destructive as by having a surplus of meanings and universes, Joy finds that she feels now, nothing has any meaning and she can’t trust anything she sees because she has seen everything. To use a perfect quote from the film, “She no longer believes in an objective truth.”

The Daniels like to draw contradictions in the film to highlight this distrust we feel in our modern culture due to having access to so many juxtaposing “truths.” For example, they comically use phallic and yonic imagery to reinforce the binary opposite drawn between nihilism (nothing matters) and absurdism (represented by Waymond’s whimsy throughout the film). This imagery is funny when we see Joy fighting with large dildos but it also allows us fresh perspectives when Evelyn and Joy put their hands together to create a vaginal-like shape, allowing Evelyn to see what Joy sees. This juxtaposition of humour and deep understanding supports the theme throughout the film that in this culture of media oversaturation, we cannot find an objective truth or an objective way of living anymore. It’s all about choice. This is also inferred as Evelyn is seen at the beginning of the film choosing to either stick to her laundry and taxes or go into the mysterious janitor’s closet - at one point, the screen even explicitly cracks into two perspectives to anchor this idea of choice. 

Another part of the film that I love, is the soundtrack/score, which also expertly contributes to the point of the film, that we are all confused and scared in this overstimulating postmodern world. Clair de Lune is used as a musical motif throughout the film, which perfectly sums up the point the Daniels are trying to make. This is an old, classical song used in possibly the least classical movie ever, showing how we have access to content spanning over literal centuries (due to streaming platforms like spotify I can listen to the 1905’s Clair de Lune and seconds later listen to the 80’s She Goes Down by Motley Crue). This overwhelming level of choice can be beautiful as we can watch Everything Everywhere All At Once and hear the magnetic and majestic Clair de Lune but it can also create so much disillusionment and confusion as how do we decide what is true and how we should live when there are million and millions of contradicting answers to those questions out there. 

The last thing that needs to be mentioned is the motif of the Bagel. The bagel represents Joy’s nihilism. It sucks everything in and leaves nothing in its wake. Moreover, it is black which is what you get when you mix all the colours together, surplus resulting in nothingness. However, the room we see the bagel in is overwhelmingly white, which is what you get when all the colours of light are added  together. White has happier connotations like heaven and purity, adding to this idea that the same situation (all the colours added together) can be interpreted positively by us or negatively. Will we see the black-hole bagel or the googly eyes that Waymond leaves around the house? 

Lastly, I love the match cut at the end where Joy and Evelyn share a mother-daughter hug, which then transitions ,through this match cut, into planets colliding. It really anchors this point that we can either focus on the massive destruction in this world (planets colliding) or the intimate moments of love (the hug). And each is powerful. 

The theme of this movie is so masterfully explored in the film’s editing, sound, cinematography, genres, imagery etc and so in my opinion it might be a perfect film.

[spikebit]

thank you for tagging me @ungratefulbeyotchhotline !!!

i will tag uhh @sykoyo @buriedwithoutceremony @acidbathcat @menthe-venimeuse @pennysmell and anyone else who sees this :3

Do you make your bed? only at night before i get in!

What's your favorite number? 13... tomorrow is my day babie!!

What is your job? in theory i am an artist/creator and i work part-time retail for (unspecified major gaming company). in practice i'm a basically a NEET failwife lol

If you could go back to school, would you? probably yes!! depends on the schooling... i would really like to go to art school (soon). if i'm interested in it and there's no pressure i would love to

Can you parallel park? i cannot drive so. no. in my heart though i'm really good at it

A job you had that would surprise people? mannn idk i don't think any of my jobs were really surprising or out of character... people seem mildly shocked when i tell them i work for (unspecified major gaming company) but that's usually just because they didn't know they had retail-level employees

Do you think aliens are real? undoubtedly, there's no way life only exists on earth. sounds like a creationist myth

Can you drive a manual car? UMMM see above... trying to learn how to operate a clutch has been my biggest barrier to getting my license so far rip

What's your guilty pleasure? none, i refuse to feel guilty about things i enjoy. actually maybe i do feel guilty about picking at pimples (as i should)

Tattoos? none :( i thought i would have a bunch by now but i just haven't pulled the trigger yet

Favorite color? this specific oversaturated lime green/yellow is myyyy colour #c5ff00

Favorite type of music? i love weird house+techno and like emo music... also really enjoy prog metal and jazz and deep dubstep. anything i can just vibe to or musically complex but still enjoyable. a few artists/bands i really like are dance gavin dance, jafu, origami button, moderat, fm-84, jamiroquai, loathe, minor sine project

Do you like puzzles? depends, i like video game puzzles but i'm not really a big puzzle person. my family does a big jigsaw puzzle at xmas every year and i'm not very good at them bc i tend to focus on one piece instead of the whole puzzle. call me if u need to pack though that's my kind of puzzle

Any phobias? genuinely don't know. i don't really like crowds. also i get gross vertigo so i'm not great with high places but idk if i would call it a phobia

Favorite childhood sport? none lol i played soccer for a few years and haaaaated it. i am not a very physical person but i respect people who do sports.

Do you talk to yourself? sometimes. mostly i talk to my dog

What movies do you adore? a goofy movie is the best animated musical of all time and i will die on this hill

Coffee or Tea? coffee. kind of a hard choice cuz i love my yerba mate but nothing hits like coffee with milk in the morning

First thing you wanted to be when you grew up? idk lol probably a wolf

[illusionlock]

STEALING THIS IDEA FROM A MUTUAL. HI FAUST. RATING PLUSHIE DREADFULS THAT RELATE TO MY IDENTITY...

Bisexual Bunny - OOOOOOH YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG WITH BISEXUAL COLOURS. ALWAYS SO BEAUTIFUL. DIFFICULT TO FUCK THIS ONE UP

Gender Dysphoria Rabbit - ALSO HARD TO FUCK UP BECAUSE THE TRANS FLAG COLOURS ARE SO PRETTY. I LIKE THIS ONE A LOT TOO. I LOVE THE BANDS OF COLOUR IT FEELS KIND OF MESSY JUST LIKE DYSPHORIA

PCOS Rabbit - NO THIS ONE SUCKS. BYE. ITS FUCKING UGLYYYYYY. WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THIS. I HATE THE BLUE AND THE YELLOW AND THE FACE. WHY ARE THE EYES LIKE THAT.

Endometriosis Rabbit - THANK FUCK THIS ONE IS CUTE THOUGH. I LOVE IT. NOT THE BIGGEST FAN OF YELLOW BUT THE HEARTS ARE SO CUTE AND I LOVE THE EYES. SO CUTES BUNNY

PTSD Rabbit - YOU CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF THIS ONE SUCKS. AND IT WOULD SUCK TO HOLD

OCD Rabbit - WHY.

DID Rabbit - NOT THE BIGGEST FAN OF THE RANDOM STUFF ON THE ACTUAL BODY OFT HE RABBIT BUT I DO LIKE THE EAR BUNNIES...

ADHD Rabbit - I ACTUALLY LIKE THIS ONE QUITE A LOT. THE COLOUR SCHEME IS WEIRD AND MESSY BUT THATS FUN AND IT FITS ADHD. CUTE EYES TOO.

Autism Rabbit - CUTE BUT ALMOST TOO CUTE. I LIKE THE COLOURS BUT THE YELLOW IS A LITTLE OVERSATURATED... THE AUTISM INFINITY SYMBOL IS SO ADORABLE THOUGH

[dandelionjack]

the cinematography and score in this show is fucking gorgeous but i don’t think it has enough heart for me to truly love it? like yeah the mystery is fascinating but it’s a bit too cerebral and detached for me. violent too and not in a fun way — when there’s SO MUCH senseless murder it almost desensitises you, becomes difficult to empathise. maybe i’m kidbrained… also i understand that the oversaturated colours are a deliberate visual choice designed to emulate comic book illustrations, but it’s quite tiring on the eyes. not a huge fan of the Evil Russians stereotype in full play here either, come on

[nikofortuna]

The Legend of the White Snake (2019) First Impression

I would like to preface this with the information that I am only somewhat familiar with the original tale and the only other retelling I have experienced thus far was the White Snake animated movie of 2019. For this series I’ll be going off of the English subtitles from Netflix. Additionally I am a queer individual, so expect some queer reading on my part. Mild spoiler warning for the first twelve episodes of the series!

In light of Netflix removing the series soon I have decided to sit down to watch it before then and ended up binging the first twelve episodes in one day. Needless to say I really enjoyed it and would like to get my thoughts and appreciation out here.

To briefly touch on the visuals before getting into the characters and story, the overall vibe I got is comfortable. Like it is colourful but not oversaturated. The costumes are pretty but not over the top, similarly the makeup is clearly there but looks simple enough to not be distracting to me.

The CGI is stylized. It doesn’t try to bend over backwards to be photorealistic and I personally like that. It work for me, it’s, again, comfortable to watch.

Continuing with the characters, the one that stood out to me right away and who I grew to like very quickly is Xiao Qing.

She reads very queer to me starting off with her cultivation of a male human form for so long despite being afab. Now this was due to a desire to protect her mother and attempting to follow established gender roles thusly in a way, though she also had no apparent personal issue with it other than the transformation being a little more difficult, likely because it is a bigger change.

Then she basically flipped to a female human form on a dime out of convenience, so she could accompany Bai Suzhen. Her gender non-conformity persist in that form and all this combined to me paints a picture of her not quite caring about her own gender as such. Nevertheless I wouldn’t put any specific label on her, both because it would not be my place to do so and because I don’t see any for her other than maybe gender non-conform in a general sense.

However you cannot tell me she doesn't have a small crush on Bai Suzhen at least in the beginning.

Aside those things, the small quirk of her enjoying food is very adorable too. So far she has undergone some good character development as well becoming a better person and learning from her elders while still being true to her personality, I quite like that. One would think she’d be an annoying character at first, but she grows into a solid and likeable person.

Now to actually start from the top in terms of characters, beginning with the strong female lead Bai Suzhen.

Not only kind and compassionate, she gained enlightenment through the presence of Guanyin go figure how that might have factored into this, she is also very educated and skilled in martial arts. She is kind but not a pushover, strong willed but not obnoxious. Both a healer and a fighter depending on what is needed at the moment. Capable of handling herself, but not rejecting help when offered. All in all she’s just a great person and a highly likeable protagonist in my eyes.

The supporting ladies like Xu Jiaorong are wonderful as well when they come up, being very helpful where they can.

The male protagonists are nothing to sneeze at either! Of course our male lead Xu Xian is a kind and caring physician already making him quite likeable.

Additionally he falls in love with Bai Suzhen specifically because she is his equal and shares his values. Seeing them work together and help each other as physicians is so cute and really makes you root for them.

He is not without flaw however, much like the rest of the cast, and I am not just referring to his health troubles. While not being a particularly big character arc so far he does grow as a person and his past thus also his past growth is revealed, making his a well rounded character.

Then we have Li Gongfu.

He might not be quite as bright as our leads but is still capable in his job. He is also aware of his own shortcomings and accepts help and advice. And of course he is very loyal to his wife and clearly loves her, which is just so nice to see.

And the four immortals, which are initially with Qing and then Bai Suzhen as well, are great support characters. Funny, caring and useful! The one fight scene where they displayed the abilities of their animal forms was particularly enjoyable to watch.

So far the antagonists have been well balanced usually through an antagonist lady being paired up with antagonist men and both taking equal part in causing trouble. They have also been fleshed out rather nicely with motivations and goals as well as personal grievances.

Plus some were even somewhat sympathetic, particularly the mother who yes has done very bad things undeniably so, but has been pushed to a degree to act like that to begin with. Really a more tragic character than outright evil in my opinion.

Then we have Jin Ruyi of course, who is the classic jealous love rival.

Rather early on I developed hopes for her undergoing character development. Not necessarily in the direction of outright getting along with Bai Suzhen, but maturing, learning to see Xu Xian as his own person and subsequently letting those two be even if she might not like it. And I was pleased to see such an arc beginning towards the later end of the first twelve episodes.

She is not quite where I would like to see her yet, but she clearly has undergone development becoming less spoiled after tragedy struck her. And she can’t be blamed entirely for still being stuck to Xu Xian given how she has been strung along for a scheme by the Hu Kexin.

When speaking about character development we cannot forget about the monk Fahai.

In previous iterations he has been mostly an antagonistic force, but this time around he is here to learn! With a kind master to start him on his journey he still had to make the decision to follow his instructions of not harming the demons if his cane does not deem it necessary. Thusly he is gradually unlearning his prejudice and seeing the nuance in the world more instead of viewing it purely in black and white.

Jingsong, oh Jingsong, he messed up and he messed up big time, a supporting character turned antagonist in my eyes.

If he had decided to help with Xu Xian’s poisoning, like I believed for a moment he might, I could have seen him getting redeemed. But now that he is still so stuck in his ways and completely disregarding Bai Suzhen’s agency, no matter how ‘well meaning’ he might be, he has lost me. His mouse form is still funny though.

Last but not least shout out to Guanyin, my favourite bodhisattva, always happy to see her.

On the story overall there is not much miscommunication being the cause of problems, it is mainly other people deliberately trying to keep our two leads apart. However the two physicians have clearly growing wise to this and do not trust other peoples’ words about each other so easily anymore.

The theme of nuance is woven throughout those first twelve episodes and I am expecting this to continue. The protagonists have their flaws, some technically good people are shown to do bad things for one reason or another and some antagonists aren’t all bad either and generally have a motivation behind their actions.

In summary while it is mainly a romance drama, there are also plenty of funny moments, intrigue and suspense. I would definitely recommend giving this series a try if one has even a modicum of interest in it.

[they-them-that]

Monster High: Monster Ball Thoughts

Clawdeen

Love the suit. Even if G3 Clawdeen is worlds apart from G1, it's nice to see they decided to maintain her nonconformity. I don't like the stripe down the side of the pants though, it makes it look like track pants. I also would've liked to have her glasses here, I think it'd be the cherry on top since the whole look feels very 70's.

Cleo

I think Cleo looks gorgeous! The hair is very Nefra but it still works for me. If I had to change anything, I think this look could be elevated with dark lipstick, even an indigo or black! But otherwise, she's divine.

Draculaura

To die for, she is so adorable. I especially love the giant bow in her hair and around her dress! I would've liked if the bow was a hot pink instead and the shoes' colours were inverted so their primary colour is black. The earrings don't really fit the outfit either. Still, she's absolutely lovely!

Lagoona

I love her hair style and the shoes are probably my favourite of all of them! Her dark lipstick suits her surprisingly well too and the coral pattern on her frills look super nice. Despite that, the colour palette looks haphazard and oversaturated with a lot of conflicting pieces.

It's hard to tell if Lagoona's dress is slim-fitting because the top ruffles obscure her entire torso. It makes the dress look baggy even though I don't actually think it is. I wish her right shoulder was strapless instead and I'm not sure if it's a hem on the top frill but it adds to the cheapness of the look. I also think the scale outline should've been a light colour other than black so the scale pattern is more subtle and textured looking. There's a black hem before the bottom frill starts that we could've done without as well.

I understand Lagoona's outfit motif is always nautical but I wish they had a more specific theme here than just any random sea thing. Her necklace and earrings are octopuses which is an interesting idea but then her bag is a shell and her hair accessory and shoes are lilies? I wish they stuck to one thing and had that exist throughout the outfit instead.

[ketavinsky]

here we’ll dance, in this dark place...

oop, here’s my first venture into painting my gods in all their weird glory. it’ll be a long time before i can accurately depict any of the eldritch maximalist nonsense that day and night have got going on, but anyways: here’s sublime, the eldest of the new divinities, your local sleazy club promoter, that one fucking guy, etc. a bit of writing + some rambling under the cut!

sublime is the eldest son of night, and was modelled in night’s image. as night Himself is afflicted by the same inability to create anything of any originality, same as all the other old gods, sublime is almost a carbon copy of night in His youth. (think around the ming dynasty, during the perihelion phase of Their rule.)

after night’s marriage to dawn, and prompt divorce, night experiences a great deal of something that we’ll call shame and totally renounces all His creations prior to His marriage. 

His second son, scherzo, is modelled in dawn’s perfect image -- or, you know, as a caricature of dawn -- and sublime is shunned and eventually exiled. the sons of night do not get along: sublime is the prodigal eldest who is suddenly being denied his father’s empire, and scherzo is the over-spoilt youngest. 

sublime claims that scherzo is a glorified puppet sculpted by a lovestruck idiot; scherzo claims that sublime is a puddle of dark that their holy father accidentally spat onto.

missing word here, if you’ve ever... 

sublime now has no contact with his father or the nocturne, but he’s fond of his sisters, and will check up on them frequently. scherzo is very ‘i don’t give a fuck about humans, why should i, i am the flawless fucking machine, the eidolon, the hiemal almighty’ sigma bro hashtag grindset but sublime loves humans and is constantly making pacts with them even though he does very literally drive them nuts and distort them and uhh completely fuck up their lives. i’ve been really enjoying filling up his pinterest board hehe bc i really dig that oversaturated neon vibe where everything is a little too bright and vibrant to be entirely real + psychedelic nightmare surrealist clusterfuck etc etc. 

think coloured lights so bright they wash out the expression and the humanity out of the people you see, a warehouse packed full of bodies, your throat dry and pulsing with panic, sensory overload, a shape in the fog machines moving towards you, eyes like flashlights. sublime is very much a horror-oriented character mostly inspired by the struggle of clinging onto reality when you’re not entirely sure what you’ve taken.

he also loves cults and setting up cults, it’s like a hobby for him. he’s very much the black sheep of all the young gods, even considering the Exquisite Distillation, who is very much a mass murderer, but it’s, you know, well deserved. sublime is a slimy dude.

^^ above and below are from an oooold draft. im still trying to get the hang of how sublime interacts with scherzo. the sons of night are not strictly brothers due to the nature of how He creates things, but they certainly do not like each other. sublime cannot stand his successor even though he is forced to admit that scherzo is a flawless new god in both design and ability

it’s worth mentioning here that scherzo loves to lord his status over sublime. scherzo protects night’s great labyrinthine library and thus has unfiltered access to most of the well of human knowledge, as well as surveillance over most human individuals. sublime trades secrets, and puts a little piece of himself into every person he makes a pact with. they are both constantly going apeshit nuts that the other has something they don’t. 

anyways i hope to draw them more as i get a little bit more comfortable with more abstract stuff and then maybe i can even shift to painting the old gods someday. for now i struggle to plan out their character arcs

also they have fucking typing quirks for their weird i am everywhere and everything voices. i will never everrr escape homestuck unfortunately . ah well

im also playing with this idea where each of the new gods represent the inevitability of a great catastrophe (and the continuation of the cosmic cycle) in some way. still playing with this but minuet is the catalyst, sublime is the premonition of it, scherzo is the consequence and the rubble in the aftermath, ofluxe/the exquisite distillation is of course the huge fuckoff problem.

some minuet pov below because she is as of this current draft hellbent on dragging him into a family that embraces him. minuet is a total garbage fire shipwreck car crash of a functional goddess, but she has an iron conviction in the sanctity of family. this will of course obliterate her later.

sublime’s love for his sisters and his wife is probably his only redeeming characteristic, at least until minuet’s POV starts narrating the majority of the shitshow. dare i say misandrist icon. 

[doyoulikethis-vocaloid-song]

Song 103 is: COMFORT ZONE by Ferry

Comfort Zone's MV focuses on Dmitry, a mutant who was previously trapped in a government facility along with another character, Katya. Dmitry was actually a prominent presence in a previous song called Punch It, Punk! (Which got really popular at some point, actually, because the thumbnail picture features a very eye-catching dynamic pose and his girlfriend's energy is extremely charismatic.)

The lyrics detail a very clear image of systematic medical abuse along with the focal character's superiority complex, combined with an even more artificial sound that marches on at a fast pace. No time for breaks, no time to stop against the rhythm of the system pushing you on. The language used is also very dehumanising, yet cheery?

'Oh it's noble to serve as means to meet an end / (means to meet an end) / So sentiments aside why don't you take pride / In being an important asset / For our experiment' and 'The only use for a motor not meant to start / is to become an expendable part' and after the bridge of fast-paced unaccompanied beats there's 'They just don't understand you're too precious to waste'

The song only starts properly referring to people in between this kind of language in the final chorus as the worldview portrayed starts breaking down. It's a REALLY fun way of setting the tone.

and just. AHHHHHH. There's more but at this point this message is already getting too long, so I will spare you. But Ferry's lyrics…. They've been getting increasingly spectacular and I love it.

One last thing; I tried focusing mainly on the music itself, but the MVs are legitimately spectacular. Ferry draws all of it him or her or themself, and they've been making each song more impactful as they start to emphasise the themes. The Mill strips colour from the characters as soon as they enter the Zone, Comfort Zone comes in either dull monochrome or oversaturated 'warning sign' colours on a TV screen (not to mention making the MV the size of an old-timey TV screen for most of it…) and 100 Epitaphs laying it on thick with the biblical/holy imagery in the midst of anime opening-style visuals. Feast your eyes. They are gorgeous :D

(description submitted by anonymous, cut by me. full, unedited version posted as replies. thank you!)

💚 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll closes, so check back for results! Until then, please don't mention the song title in reblogs! (Guesses about everything else are fine and encouraged though; have fun!) 💚

[pharawee]

For the bl ask game 🏆 💭

Thank you! 😊💜

🏆 a recent release you enjoyed

I mean, other than I Feel You Linger in the Air? 🤣 I loved Laws of Attraction. I'm really into BL that veers into lakorn territory. I need things to be tropey and clichéd and over the top sometimes, and I hope One31 never stops doing that - if not with JamFilm, then with other acting pairs (PearlSee anyone??).

💭 something that you find annoying in BLs

I'm not sure if this is on purpose (but it doesn't really happen in other Thai dramas or lakorns) but sometimes the pauses between the dialogue in some Thai BLs are so awkwardly drawn out and, personally, I'm not a big fan. Low Frequency loved doing it and now Venus in the Sky is doing it too. I usually love meaningful, drawn out glances but these pauses add nothing to the scene imo and it's just puzzling to me. Sometimes it's definitely due to the editing, sometimes it seems to be a deliberate directing choice but, nope, don't like it. Also, the colour grading. I don't even know what I like worse: the desaturated pinks and yellows or the oversaturated blues? And don't get me started on domundi's love afair with filters. Just no. Your actors are literally perfect. Even their blemishes are perfect. Let them be!

BL ask box meme 📬

[anosci]

(76-90 albums etc that I’ve listened to this year, copied from twitter) (now with art. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7])

names and thoughts below cut

76/ Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible (2001) one of the more explicitly pro-toke albums ive heard in a minute. but this includes dub and psy elements. good times, though not my fav shpongle showing i think… weirdly i hear mazedude in this. i suspect hes a fan.

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77/ Gescom - Skull Snap EP (2011) like hip hop fed through turn of the century ukidm like taffy. crunchy mechanical taffy. engrossing.

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78/ Sword of the Far East - 序章 (2011) p sure sam rec'd this to me AGES ago. well im finally listening and: hot damn that's some slappy violin "長い雨" standout personal fav hgoly shit

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79/ Long Arm - Organic (2011) delicious triphop texture. chillhop? idk. great for today's rainy afternoon.

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80/ 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs (2023) fun! i think my fav tracks already appeared on youtube except 1mil dollars, which is "simpler" but fun!

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81/ Antagonist - Rites EP (2023) dark night, hazy lights. a lovely soundscape to envelop me.

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82/ DJ Girl - Hellworld (2023) revisiting all the cool vibes that i felt when discovering juke. i think the opening track is my fav. get down!

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83/ Culprate - 5 Star EP (2011) man i love this sound design. wheres that italian emoji……. 🤌

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84/ Bomb Strikes - Into Battle EP Volume 3 (2011) i think ive sort of oversaturated myself with these. but yet, sometimes… the funk still hits just right. im calling out the AA side specifically.

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85/ VA - Boys Noize Pres. Super Acid (2011) acid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to varying degrees. highlight: "Death Suite (Erol Alkan Edit)"!!!! "Uranus" also.

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86/ Culprate - Colours (2011) for some reason this doesnt hit me as hard as culprate usually does..? despite that, it's still filled with really fun sound design. it feels like culprate's take on psytrance sans trance. a journey. always feel sus when i like the last track most :I

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87/ IJO - The Easy Listener (2011) soft jungle jazz. or rather, it has a lot of empty space. just enough to hear the ice melt in your glass between the notes. (im saying this is nice) leans into squarepusher timbre. gotta put it next to him and Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combo

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88/ The Black Dog - Liber Dogma (2011) deep dark tech no. more deep than bleep, oddly enough. (BD seems to be spearheading a bleep revival.) its been perfect for me as ive been slowly knocking out some work these past few days

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89/ Big Bud - Kool Beans (2011) (ive decided to be extra harsh against dnb) for the most part this almost vibes with me but… eh. the last few tracks drift away from dnb, which i enjoy more. especially the almost future-garage-esque "Righteous Dub"

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90/ BLÆRG - Everything Was Altered (2011) i had an itch for some twitchy perc breakcore and this hit the spot. of course, there's much more than that. a smoothness. it's good.

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@tooindecisivetopickaurl ask and you shall recieve

1. I think actually the most interesting thing about this distinction is that within the actual show the uniforms are neither of the colours we see here. You can see the real colour well in this shot (August jump scare warning):

It's definitely not as red as we see on this seasons poster, and the purple undertone is there for sure, but I would argue that it is more red than purple when all is said and done, especially where the light hits them. In general I'd call this a question of mood lighting - the first two seasons, as you point out, have this sort of moody quality to the posters and I think that's pretty well reflected within the respective seasons. In this new poster they've gone outside literally, as well as figuratively being more visible/less hidden than before. Also, at least as we pick up from where season 2 left off, they are starting in a happier, healthier place, so they've moved on from that moody lighting into something more bright and natural. I hope they can carry that through the whole season <3

2. As far as the oversaturation goes, and the reason I got so excited to respond to these tags: red is a super neat colour both in general colour theory and within Young Royals (I've made a post about it before, in fact!)

To sum it up in brief, red is super weird because it's heavily associated with multiple opposing feelings - mainly anger and love. When I made my original post about colour theory in season 1 of the show I loved the use of red specifically because Wille experienced both of those so strongly throughout, and what ends up happening is that we see red appear not around one or the other but around conflict - specifically in moments when Wille is forced to choose between Simon and other things, generally around duty. If we're going off of this, we can expect to see more conflict in Wille surrounding Simon and the Crown. My guess, and I think what a lot of people have already assumed about season 3, is that the conflict is going to be in the effect that being together publicly, and having expectations placed on him by the Crown, is going to have on Simon, and the guilt that Wille might feel around that new pressure.

3. As kind of an aside, I do think it's interesting that they lean purple in the first two, given that's the In Love™ colour, but I wouldn't worry too much about that shift just given how distinct the sort of lavender/lilac colour used within the show is from the deep purple in the posters. Not all purple's created equal or something like that.

THE TRINITY IS FINALLY COMPLETE

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“Ardently”

Silver and Madi (from Black Sails) at the beach on the Maroon Island or somewhere around Nassau, getting to know each other :)

Another gazing-at-your-loved-one(s) art... oops, but so what! I love that xD Alternative title was “I think I’m falling in love with you” (thought by both).

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