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whenever i hear people talking about tian guan ci fu it’s all stuff like “the greatest love story ever told 🥺” “xie lian suffered so much but he’s still so infinitely kind 🥺” which is how my mom talks about the bible. and i’m sure it’s a fine book, but there’s just not enough gravy in the pitch for me to invest in something of that scale. after all, there are so many greatest love stories ever told, but very few stories have, for instance, whatever the hell guan yu and cao cao had going on
#part of it is just optics obviously#everything i heard about erha before i started was like ‘i love a classic tale of love at sixth or seventh car crash. maybe eighth.’#which got my interest AND my attention#but part of it is just that tgcf seems to primarily resonate with people who interact with literature very differently from me#and have different priorities in a story#which suggests that it shall not resonate as much with me#which is a shame because it’s one of very few chinese books at my local library#ryddles
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INVENT ANIMATE - Without A Whisper [2023]
dir. Chris Klumpp
#invent animate#marcus vik#keaton goldwire#trey celeya#caleb sherradan#bandedit#musicedit#kiran.gif#the recolouring is strong with this one i love how its turned out#also: this video is a crime against keaton this was his longest shot and it was so short#i literally checked the playthrough vid but the backdrop is too different#also: as you can tell i love doing the gradient text lol#ok so i've started immolation of night but i also need to finish framegrabbing and also i need to plan it#becuase it's a story one innit and i need to watch the image limit and have shots of the band too#i think otherwise i'm mostly done with the mvs i downloaded a while ago for the sole purpose of giffing#my next priority is the concrete jungle visuals which ive done the four so far but gotta wait for the release now#metalcore#progressive metalcore
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[bolts upright in the shower] i need to reorganize my bookshelves
#my showerhead is really low so i am always slouching in there#anyway currently my fiction is kind of vaguely by genre. but this is nonsense. i should be organizing it by what it's doing for me#a) mainly blorbos. or maybe the worldbuilding is really cool or the plot is really absorbing. comfort reads.#b) it's less about the story than it is about the way in which the story is told (though it can also be about the story)#b would be austen; woolf; ishiguro; moby-dick; the name of the rose; if on a winter's night a traveler; their eyes were watching god#but also definitely imperial radch; broken earth trilogy; the raven tower; green bone saga. and poetry by definition#a would be six of crows; graceling realm; some childhood favorites; possibly the dispossessed but i would have to reread to confirm#also the goblin emperor! and maybe babel. maybe connecticut yankee in king arthur's court?? i would have to reread#twain (and dickens) in general would be difficult because they are so fun to read so definitely comfort reads. but also! that satire!#everything i never told you (which i just reread) would go in a. i suspect i claudius would as well but would have to reread#my two favorite short story writers might go in different places? ken liu is definitely b but ted chiang might be a#i don't currently own piranesi because i gave my copy to my sister to give to our impossible-to-shop-for sister for christmas#but reacquiring it is a priority. and when i have it where will it go? oh goodness. that's really hard#with tmbd it would just be which shelf has room for all of them. bc they are doing everything & fit in all categories#i think battle of the linguist mages (which is not even one of my favorite books but it's just so batshit that i have to respect#how batshit it is. and therefore can never get rid of it)#could go in either bc i do really like the worldbuilding but also the main thing it is doing for me is just being really wild#and uncategorizable. and reminding me of how fun it was to discuss it with my sister#books#my posts#i guess if i started mixing in the french books instead of keeping them on their own special shelf i'd be putting dumas in a#and maupassant in b. sartre and queneau in b. ionesco obviously b. the dictionary in b.#verne in a. hugo probably also in a though i respect the grind. really not sure where to put valérie perrin. or colette#this is making me realize i can get rid of some french books because i'm looking at them now and i wouldn't put them in either#because i didn't really get that much out of them. so why am i keeping them?#wow maybe this will help me get rid of more books...the real endgoal. if it's not sparking joy then it's outta here#i could take this further and do it for the nonfiction too. roget's and le robert de poche would definitely be in b
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#inspired when i saw an ad on youtube for wizard101#where it said “come play for free and explore 16 different worlds!!!” and i was like okay thats a fucking lie#you cant even get all the way through the FIRST world#personally i think its stupid and inconvenient to have to pay to play the MAIN QUESTLINE#for the people who dont have time to grind the set amount of time you pay for membership or those who dont have money#you either pay for a year and are pressured to do as much as you can before time runs out#or you're stuck doing nothing. there's very little you can do without membership#like the main selling point of the game is so you can finish the story. thats what we download the game for in the first place#it gives you the impression that the priority here is your money and not the consumer's enjoyment and comfort#like there are plenty of games who make the entire game free and still are well off#we pay like 40-50 dollars on bundles and even more than that on crowns. that should be more than enough#there are other games where if you dont have membership it barely affects your gameplay experience overall#or games that have no membership function but still can make decent money#imo having to pay to just actually play the game doesnt make it free. like yeah you can do other stuff like fish and duel each other-#and thats it. you walk around the commons and talk ig#thats like the biggest reason i dropped the game its just wayy too expensive and inconvenient to play it#wizard101#w101#wiz101#polls
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I am once again reminding everyone that
"I think that character will regret that decision; I can see the bad consequences coming, and if they were a real person I would yell at them." (you were engaged enough with the characters that they feel like real people capable of making their own choices)
"I would have liked the story better if the character had made a different decision" (a matter of personal preference with no bearing on the quality of the writing itself, or even whether you agree with the decision that was made in-universe)
and "Given what we've seen from this character previously, the writer having them make that decision broke my immersion" (an actual critique)
are all different statements and do not mean the same thing, even if they can all be phrased as "I don't like that the character made that decision"
#scenario: two characters have a misunderstanding and break up#statement 1: 'no you idiot he loves you! go back to him!'#statement 2: 'contrived misunderstandings annoy me. i wish the author hadn't included this subplot.'#statement 3: 'wait why does he even care about that? hes never cared about this kind of thing before why is he mad now?'#heck you can think that a character making the Mature and Logical Choice is out of character#(the 'he would not fucking say that' effect)#'given precedent he wouldn't say 'i understand where youre coming from' he would throw a chair and start screaming'#or that its not out of character but is kind of boring#and you personally would prefer seeing the fallout of the character making the 'wrong' choice and having to fix things after#disagreeing with the characters means the story is engaging#disagreeing with the writing can mean something isnt clicking and couldve been set up better (or that you missed something)#disagreeing with the author means that you and the author are different people with different opinions and priorities#theyre not the same thing
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hm.
#if you find yourself worried that growing in faith will remove parts of your personality becayde you might suddenly lose interest in#what makes you you#thats something you really have to like Investigate. deep down. because in the end even if you change a bit you will be Better. l#like you will be where God wants you to be#the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked etc#like i GET IT but also . growing in faith doesnt make you a Totally Different Person it doesnt take away all your interests#maybe it changes how you interact with them and the importance you place on them but like#me being more spiritually mature than i was a year ago doesn't mean that im not interested in poetry anymore or i dont like all the media#im invested in anymore#EVEN when i felt called to stop listening to secular music#i was like oh well ill just be boring now#no girl theres worlds out there of good music by christian artists you just gotta find it#anyways. this is rambly#i cant really make this concise#but really like. sometimes you gotta reconsider your priorities#God created you as you are WITH your personaliyy#sure we were born in sin etc but your personality being sanctified does not mean that you will lose it#yk#anyways#reminds me of this story abt a guy asking an older brother about if he should be listening to secular music#and the brother was like . ok well first off answer me this#if God told you to only listen to ska music for the rest of your life would you listen#and the guy was like ?? what??? no???#and the brother was like well then you still place your preferences higher than Gods#kind of silly and i do still think theres nuance in the music thing#but like. Yk. The Basic Idea
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my piece for the @lupiniiirecipezine!! :^D
an illustration for Squid's "Multi-Fruit Tart" recipe! try it with blueberries, apples, peaches, and more! 🎉🎉🎉
#lupin iii#lupin's gourmet world#fanart#zine#MY VERY FIRST ZINE..... ART PRINTED........ SO EXCITING!!!#after receiving the book i actually got to bake this blueberry tart myself and it was delicious HEHEHE#long story short i wanted to try something different for this piece and i'm super happy with how it came out!!!!! :^]]#(LINELESS IS WILD HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DO IT 😭)#scrapped ideas included eating on the hood of the fiat.... summer roadtrip picnic with fiat.....#tart display with hiroshi nagai-style poolside and fiat in the back.....#........eventually realized my priorities may have been slightly off LKJGLKJFGF
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There are many reasons my interests are more geared towards mediaeval Scotland than mediaeval England, but at least one of them has to be the fact that I am completely incapable of Being Normal about the Lion in Winter and Shakespeare's second tetralogy.
#Like I simply could not remain unbiased#Not in a 'taking sides' kind of way but more in a 'the real Henry II did not entirely resemble this fictional adaptation'#I refuse to accept it and I don't really want to#I could try very hard to research and write about Henry II sensibly- and I often do when he (or Hotspur later on) impinge on Scottish histo#But fundamentally my image of Henry II is the image of the character from the Lion in Winter#It's horrible to have to admit I'm like one of those unhinged Braveheart or Philippa Gregory people but for twelfth century England#Although with all due respect the Lion in Winter and Henry IV Part 1 are obviously twenty times better than Braveheart#There are other reasons#I kind of feel England has enough people interested in it already#I like to dip in occasionally and it's interesting to read about (and often necessary from a Scottish perspective)#But yeah for many reasons mediaeval England- though fascinating- is not my number one priority#One of the pretty big reasons is though my unfortunate fan behaviour the minute Richard II sits himself down on the ground#To tell sad stories of the death of kings#And you know what that's valid and probably acts as a useful research tool for many people#Just not for me#It's weird though because other than Shakespeare and the Lion in Winter there aren't many period dramas I particularly care for#Not only am I incredibly picky about my historical media when it comes to the Middle Ages (less so for the 20th century)#But I never really understood why people assume when you say 'I like history' you mean 'I like period dramas'#To me these are two separate unrelated activities/hobbies#Not necessarily better than each other just different
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fully back in another ‘consuming animated media and intaking irl people content not pertaining to one direction’ era and gawd it feels so good
#alex talks#truly been hard for me to gaf about Them for awhile now#so in terms of fic iiiii’m not sure when i’ll be writing again bc i really only write for specific interests i have#and i don’t feel compelled to do so for anime dramas or kpop#(for a few different reasons)#like yes i’m still intending to finish stuff! but it’s not my priority at all rn just want to be transparent with anyone still curious#i’ve been wanting to draw again so above all else that is my prerogative#i’ve been reworking some characters i retired awhile ago + finally have a proper story for them!#+ there’s some random fanart i wanna do too i’m just very rusty… all around so i gotta get back into the swing of things#ik i’m mostly just talking to myself here but still. just wanted to give a heads up in case anyone is like woah alex. whats going on here
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Woe that I had a team of researchers to help me make my period drama fanfiction as accurate as possible, but alas all I have is duck duck go, some old photos claiming to be from the right time period, and Wikipedia
#fanfic#look#if you’re an expert on 1800’s Colombia call me#I’m not saying I would sell out to ask some experts some super specific questions but!#if I had been Stephanie Meyer and somebody came to me offering to turn my Buffy fanfiction into a best selling novel…#that whole werewolf story line would have been super different#I would have been asking so many questions I would have had to list whoever answered them as a co-author#I know that seems way out of the left field to say but#but I’m just thinking about how the American writers of Encanto spent time in Colombia asking questions and experiencing the culture#and leaned heavily on the experiences of their Latin American team members#in order to write a story that garnered a lot of praise for its respectful representation#vs the stories we get when researching the cultures the story is supposed to be about is not a priority#and like sometimes it’s because the writer is one person with limited time and resources who is doing their best#but sometimes it’s just cause the people writing the story don’t actually care that much#I’m sorta just sitting here stewing over the fact that I can’t find the specific information I want and I know it must be out there#and I can’t imagine being handed the resources I would need to go find that info and being like Nah
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but on a more serious note, I do hate when any adaptation--but especially this one!--decides to change the nature of specific uncomfortable or antagonistic character interactions to something softer or sweeter, or even just decided to give two characters that don't get along or interact much at all A Moment™. That really is not always the right call!
#this is about charlotte and lizzy#and to a lesser extent lizzy and mrs. bennet#i was talking to @ihaveonlymydreams the other day about Lizzy and Charlotte! and the thing is:#they were never truly friends#not on the deepest level. it's a friendship of convenience and a friendship built around judgy gossip#for the most part#charlotte marrying collins doesn't suddenly change their dynamic so Lizzy can never see her the same way again.#it reveals the truth that was there all along: that she and Charlotte do have wildly different priorities and values#and those differing values make them pretty incompatible#as anything more than acquaintances#and it's so uncomfortable for lizzy to face that#and there's no fixing it because das just who Charlotte IS#but now she can see it. and so she comes to visit and she writes letters for the sake of what was as Austen tells us#and because lizzy iS loyal#but that is truly not a moment where it's about lizzy being too harsh on charlotte and then having to be like 'we still love each other'#and i do kind of hate when stories do that in general. just flatten everything into something feel-good#sometimes things are bad and disappointing and flat and that's just the truth#I feel this with Mrs Bennet a little bit less because it's smaller but again. it's like. how much pathos do we need to feel for her#also she just doesn't like lizzy! never has. least favorite daughter#anyway a million more thoughts but yeah. one of the things about P&P is that Lizzy doesn't actually learn what friendship is#until after Darcy.#it's such a true growing up story. in the sense of: she thinks she's done and she's not#anyway anyway many more thoughts on how charlotte's decision to marry collins is framed too#too sympathetically tbh#it's not just fear. charlotte just also doesn't give a damn about romance asdlfas;fasfsafsaflkasl;fsjafsafsafsf#she said i want a home and i want a parlor and if i have a fool of a husband that's okay with ME#and it's not even about (for the moment) judging the choice. it's just seeing it clearly for what it actually is#2005 liveblog
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not for nothing that roger and jeff are wearing completely identical suits for vicki's wedding down to the same pearl stick pin and it's roger that is distinguished with the accessory and the visual emphasis. that roger wears the pocket square and jeff goes plain without one, without a boutonnière (as feels the most probable and appropriate; they both wear boutonnières in roger's prophetic dream of the wedding). that not only is he wearing the handkerchief, but it's folded in such a way as so take as much space as possible – straying from accepted formality of a neat TV fold, occupying more room on the screen, drawing more attention, pointing among other things to his heart in bright white.
#i wrote about this in the tags of that gifset but i thought i should accompany commentary with images.#i've... for sure mentioned this scene before but i've read enough tonight that i feel more confident speaking on it more#than only – omg roger is wearing the same clothes. they could switch places. i wish they would switch places.#625.#it's a category of ds analysis where i do hesitate before ascribing importance but it's not going to stop me entirely.#a) davis could have just not put on the pin he was supposed to and that's the end of that story. not unlikely. but b)#the details *matter* in menswear – dark shadows costumes (in the present day) rely heavily on contemporary codes of fashion‚ class‚ leisure#many Many of the male characters mostly or only wear suits – the subtle differences in those suits (between characters; between days#and arcs) are responsible for communicating a great deal to us about who these people are – their place in the structure of things#and what they want right now.#and in costume design – when two characters are wearing an identical costume (a uniform; a wedding suit) the distinguishing features#take on the role of communicating details of character.#in american weddings the groom is dressed much more like his groomsmen than the bride and the bridal party – this is something#the costume team is going to be aware of and be purposeful about. even if they weren't purposeful: assume a 60's viewer who knows the rules#of suits‚ of weddings‚ of pocket squares (who knows much more than i do)#roger and jeff are dressed so much alike for vicki's wedding as to be nigh indistinguishable – it could have‚#had things played out differently‚ been roger in jeff's place.#both the script and the players elide the two in vicki's perspective (''why hasn't roger come back?'' ''you mean jeff don't you?'')#this being a wedding that he tried to stop – one in which he sensed disaster – one in which you already have the notion that maybe he does#wish it was *him* instead‚ though he won't say that. but his first and foremost priority in 625 and 626 is her happiness.#he takes the responsibility (and the shame) from vicki's shoulders of telling the guests that jeff left and there's no wedding.#he chases jeff down to the cemetary‚ to try to stop him from digging up a grave‚ and *implores* him to focus on offering vicki a life.#he has a large role in these eps perhaps especially because he's the one that had the premonition against the wedding; but also because#vicki is one of the few people he cares about – and he says as much. all this to say. roger is grabbing attention with his extravagant#pocket square – he's pulling focus visually; narratively; from the groom (in terms of vicki/the wedding – jeff has more to do with eve/#the graveyard/peter) vicki is spending as much time thinking about roger as she does jeff. and the moment where roger comes up to her room#to see her is .... well. there's more shared in the way they look at each other than all v/j's professions of love between them.#(and it's a distant echo of her first night in the house: roger at her bedroom door)#in the ds in my head (my beloved ds in my head) this is where the paths ought to have diverged. that vicki – no matter how much she loves#the past‚ how dearly she remembers the 18th century and peter and their ill-fated jail cell‚ has to choose now. not the grave‚ life.
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i’ll be honest my child self reading pjo for the first time spared zero thoughts for the traitor. none at all. fully vibing with the power of swords and friendship.
#pjo#tv watchers have different priorities#which I guess makes sense#the types and styles of stories#are very different between the two#it’s still hilarious the assumptions they make tho
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I don't remember why but I dreamed about looking up the common religions in different regions of Thailand last night
#in addition to like. more regular dreams where someone kidnapped part of our camping/hiking group and I needed to use my knowledge of#dog/wolf behavior to appease a wolf that we needed to pass by to get between two forest clearings and also since my character was a#clean-freak / germaphobe he had the power to have bugs not bother him in the woods and then that all happened twice because ofc we needed to#keep to the story script when it restarted and I had to keep everything on the rails but this time two other wolves also came up and they#all decided I was chill and we left each other alone even while I was de-escalating the kidnapping situation but then the kidnappers started#running away and I was like 'you know what would make them think again? three wolves chasing them' so I got the wolves' attention and#started running and they thought it was some kind of chase game and eventually after a couple times of them catching up with me and thinking#that was it they realized someone ahead of us was also running so THEY were the target and we finally started chasing down the kidnappers#and by this point I was considered part of the pack and also we were in a school gymnasium but right after some sort of fair or assembly so#we had to dodge chairs and tables and stacks of equipment and occasionally children but they mostly kept out of the way#oh and I think after the reset but before the kidnapping there was also a part where one of the other characters (I feel like one of my#siblings was playing this one) insisted that our top priority should be finding clothes and I was like 'wait are you NAKED?' and they were#like 'yeah we all are???' and I was like 'WHAT no I'm fully dressed. my character is wearing a suit and tie! and a hat even!' yeah yeah and#then the kidnappers/bullies came up and one of them was a blond lady with a bolo tie.#btw the reason I'm saying stuff like 'my character'/'was playing a character' is because in this dream it was explicitly characters we were#playing in some sort of game where the focus wasn't roleplay but it had a roleplay-y aspect where the different characters had different#strengths and abilities; such as Betrayal at House on the Hill or Western Legends or Dead of Winter#anyway. IDK why dream-me thought thailand was one of the most religiously diverse places on earth. in real life it's over 90% buddhist.#ThornShadow.said
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definition : a character who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent and murderous means to maintain an exclusive bond.
this came up in a conversation with my friend and it’s stupid but im curious what other people think
#as much as I want to say yes becuase specifically goromi would be such an appealing yandere type like… aesthetically.#and in terms of Vibes#I don’t think he is#it’s more like he’s just… well he’s obsessive and hardcore dedicated to kiryu but. he’s not really that possessive if you think about it#I mean he never interferes with other love interests/others kiryu cares about let alone going out of his way to eliminate them#and when kiryu goes places majima doesn’t follow him unless he has a reason- he’s generally got his own shit going on and kiryu- though#massively important to him- isn’t like. his only priority or focus in life#but yeah so like. he’d gladly fight off an army. get maimed mutilated killed etc for kiryu. etc. but he genuinely loves him in#such a way where he doesn’t want to take away from his happiness generally- if that means leaving him be and casting himself to the side#considering himself not as important to kiryu as kiryu is to him and so on– then so be it. he won’t bother those who make kiryu happy#unless he has a strong– usually unrelated reason#I mean I’d kinda LIKE to see him a little more unhinged on this front but#yeah#his ‘only I can have him’ behavior seems pretty much assigned to just like. fighting/killing him and whatnot#not so much romantically. I think if kiryu was ever really genuinely invested in someone else long term majima wouldnt lash out about it hed#probably just get really depressed#NOW MINE ON THE OTHER HAND. DIFFERENT STORY#I think HE is a prime candidate for Male Yandere Representation#majima#kazumaji#goro majima#yakuza#rgg#polls#rambling
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as part of an experiment today, i decided to try cutting out rian's POV chapters from the beginning of the story. the pacing ended up feeling very odd, so the experiment might have turned out to be a bust. but hey, i tried, at least
#em dashes#aphelion#also as part of my research i watched some similar shows#i'm watching Believe (the show)#and i found that i really don't like it when a story like this (ie superpower kid getting hunted by government) don't focus on. you know.#the kid.#i kind of don't care that tate is secretly bo's dad but the show feels that this is important so there's a bigger focus on that#anyway that's not a fault with the show per se. it just has different priorities than i do#so with that and with this experiment i have come to the decision that yeah. i can't just cut out rian's pov for more suspense#the suspense and pacing actually requires rian to be there
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