#and this is a key example of that
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I still feel like I’m going insane WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE MOST WATCHED MOST EXPLICIT MOST TECHNICALLY IMPRESSIVE LESBIAN SEX SCENE IN A BIG WESTERN ANIMATION IS TWO HORNY FREAKS FROM LEAGUE OF LEGENDS GOING AT IT IN A JAIL CELL??? 😭😭
#like woah okay i gotta salute the absolute balls of steel the writers had to do that#also before anyone points out other examples note the key clarifying clause “in a *big western animation*”#league of legends arcane#netflix arcane#arcane#piltovers finest#caitvi#caitlyn kiramman#arcane caitlyn#arcane vi#arcane spoilers
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I have a LOTT of sketches I could post rn but these 2 are recent and I'm fond of them <3 Steph costume ideas and Tim/Damian cringe bickering inspired by Batman: Brave and the Bold #18!
#dc comics#dc#damian wayne#stephanie brown#tim drake#been drawing more self indulgent doodles lately which is nice#these r sort of a part of that lol#i drew the tim and damian one back when that stort actually came out it's. definitely interesting#if only for portraying Tim and Damian as equally flawed individuals (contrasted to the zdarsky batman for example)#AND unintentionally highlighted how low-key embarrassing it is that Tim is still robin. it's got a part two coming out sometime this month#and the Steph doodle was inspired by me rereading her batgirl run since the trade came out! and remembering how hard Lee Garbetts art slayed#but yeah while i figure out what to post and how- have this#the tim and damian one got like 3 likes on the bird app meanwhile the Steph one is at 1.3k w 93 bookmarks#say what you will about the bird app but when you get the right ppls attention that place does NOT have to be batboy centric#(or soley batboy centric. i like them a lot (damian mainly) but the variety is nice compared to here)
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i love big budget film and tv projects where like almost every creative understands the assignment like. casting? born for the role. camerawork? out of the park bro. costume? fabric wizardry. make-up and hair? lush. locations, props and set design? it's literally like i am there babe. lighting? nice... why does the gaffer call you his best boy btw 😳? effects and creature design (if they have beasts)? out of this world. guy who gets the coffee? everyone seems extremely well caffeinated. sound design and score? goosebumps inducing.
and then the writers room will be fighting for its life to survive. oh god the studio is switching off life supprt.... very special and beloathed&beloved phenomenon to me
#director & assistant directors are running that set like the fucking navy but doing 3 keys a day with the screenwriters#many such cases but recently hotd2 and alien romulus get this because they are at the forefront of my brain to me#dracula 1992 gets a special mention because she is the example of this of all time
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There is a lot of focus put on Subaru's willingness to sacrifice himself for the people he cares about. What a lot less focus is put on is the fact that he isn't actually that big of an outlier when it comes to having a self-sacrificing attitude. Lots of characters in Re:Zero have people that they are willing to sacrifice anything to protect.
In fact, one of the best examples of this are the people closest to Subaru, the Emilia camp:
Beatrice would die for Subaru.
Rem would die for her sister or for Subaru.
Ram would die for her sister, and thought she likely would never admit it, she would put her life at risk for most, if not all, of the rest of the Emilia camp as well.
Garfiel would die for the Emilia camp, because he's the shield, and shields are meant to stop other people from getting hurt.
Otto would die for the Emilia camp, because they're the first people that aren't his family and beast that are actually close to him.
Emilia would die for Subaru, the Emilia camp, and most people that she knows, due to a combination of her kindness and all of the negative feelings she holds toward herself.
Everyone in the Emilia camp simultaneously cares for their friends so much and has too low of an opinion of themselves, making them all very willing to help each other even if it is at great personal cost to themselves.
#the Emilia camp is the best example but there are countless other characters who are would be motivated to sacrifice themselves#for the sake of those close to them#but people can sometimes disregard that#because we see most of the story from Subaru's perspective we get the most insight into what he thinks#one of the main recurring themes is re:zero is bonds and devotion#and a key questions regarding this theme is how much should a person be willing to sacrifice for in the name of those bonds and devotion#there is a whole loop in arc 6 which is just people sacrificing themselves#in the hopes that it buys the people who are left just a little more time#also the Emilia camp is cool and they care about each other and sometimes people seem to forget that#re:zero#rezero#beatrice#rem rezero#ram rezero#garfiel tinsel#otto suwen#emilia re:zero#subaru natsuki
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death, taxes, and leo looking pissy on the bench
#they key to getting the best out of leo is not system changes position changes etc etc etc…get that man ANGRY and he will get you a goal#pissy little man. oh I love you 🥰#another prime example of this is the west ham away match last season when he missed about 5 decent chances and then went NUTS when he scored#leandro trossard#arsenal fc
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Today's Anti-Kawaii Character of The Day is Cyn from Murder Drones! In her "worker drone" form, she wears maid-themed Girly Kei, as "Cynessa" her outfit is more akin to Dark Girly Kei! In her fused and Eldritch forms, she fits into Gurokawa imagery!
This character was requested by @saplingheaven and anonymous!
#murder drones#md cyn#md cynessa#cyn murder drones#dark girly kei#girly kei#girly kei fashion#gurokawa#gurokawaii#(though cyn is more “guro” than most examples)
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I’d do anything for her
#art#digital art#character art#dnd#dnd art#dnd character#tiefling#wizard#dnd tiefling#chronurgy wizard#artists on tumblr#dnd stuff#original art#my art#Eryth#told myself I’d finish this today and now its almost 3 am#needed a new piece for my commission sheet and who better to draw than Eryth#its become tradition for her to be my commission sheet example at this point#wouldnt have it any other way#my ocs#my dnd characters#campaign: key to the apocalypse
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i truly do find it kinda silly when ppl dont grasp that u cannot act like the narcissistic and self-absorbed behavior thats present in lannisters contradicts deeply rooted and intense self-hatred or low self-esteem. like the former doesnt at all dispute the latter lol it showcases it more than anything honestly
#ppl do it with all three and it was esp present with cersei a lot#we are talking about tywin’s children here#like yeah they have an awful relationship with the self and fail to love themselves#intense obsession with how people perceive u is also a key example of how there is clearly something wrong with your relationship w the sel#like most of the time thats their own voice of loathing in there ingrained by not only their society but tywin’s rearing#like them overdosing on copium is not at all evidence of the contrary#ig its bc they are all pretty psychologically complex but i do believe all of this is hard to miss#i do think this is what grrm excels at#jaime lannister#cersei lannister#tyrion lannister#like writing a realistic character dealing with stuff like this is not gonna be them going just ‘i hate myself i suck so had’ on loop#i dont want to take this the pop psych direction however im not psychiatrist lol
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Sonic is not an indecisive character, by any means. He'll mull over something sometimes, but once he makes up his mind, it’s very hard to sway him because he lives by his way (his own way). If there is something he doesn’t agree with or doesn’t want to do, he straight up won’t do it.
That said, a huge part of Sonic’s character is acquiescence.
Sonic is good to go with the flow. He doesn’t always need to be in charge. He doesn’t always need things to go his way or according to a plan. And most importantly, as a character who talks a lot to avoid actually saying anything, his actions really do speak louder than words.
So, what’s important to understand is that Sonic goes along with things—even things that don't always come naturally to him—not because he feels obligated, forced, or pressured, but because he’s a more willing participant than he wants to let on.
Why? Because it’s easier to let the water flow when someone else opens the floodgates.
#and more examples I can’t remember off the top of my head!#why initiate when he can simply experience without having to be vulnerable#the key is understanding the difference between sonic running away from Amy and sonic RUNNING AWAY from Amy#because he has done both for different reasons#and in one he’s playing with her and in the other he doesn’t want some spell cast on him lol#sonic gives into Amy not because she bullies him but because he actually doesn’t hate being around her#also sonic and Chris are friends yall are just mean#sonic the hedgehog#amy rose#sonamy#sth#sonic#idw sonic#sonic X#Japanese sonic X#chris thorndyke#amy rose the hedgehog#character analysis#sonic characterization#sonic character analysis#sonic characters
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“not the worst saw trap” WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS IN SAW THEN
ppl die mostly lol
series gets crazier as the movies go on so like 'walk around in glass with a candle while covered in a flammable substance while looking for numbers in a dark room' is exponentially better than being put in a brazen bull, gettin clapped by bigass ice cubes ,or having your ribcage turned into angel wings.
#asks#anon#those examples might all have been inescapable (cause that was a thing) if im remembering right but there were bad escapable ones too#for example the infamous reverse bear trap#or just anything that was timed or was a teamwork challenge#ive never actually watched saw but ive seen all the dead meat vids except for like...the most recent movies#drowning in pig guts and the pendulum were p memorable ones#theres one where u have to look thru used needles in a toilet to find a key for some kinda murder device. that ones not too bad i guess
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Do you conlang? I was wondering if you had naming languages (or possibly even more developed ones) for pulling the words you use. I tried to search your blog but didn't find anything, wouldn't be surprised if the feature is just busted tho. Your worldbuilding is wonderful and I particularly enjoy the anthropological and linguistic elements.
Ok the thing is I had kind of decided I was not going to do any conlanging because I don't feel like I'm equipped to do a good job of it, like was fully like "I'm just going to do JUST enough that it doesn't fail an immediate sniff test and is more thoughtful than just keysmashing and putting in vowels". And then have kinda been conlanging anyway (though not to a very deep and serious extent. I maybe have like....an above average comprehension of how language construction works via willingness to research, but that's not saying much, also I can never remember the meanings of most linguistic terms like 'frictives' or etc off the top of my head. I'm just kinda raw dogging it with a vague conceptualization of what these things mean)
I do at least have a naming language for Wardi (and more basic rules for other established languages) but the rudimentary forms of it were devised with methods much shakier and less linguistically viable than even the most basic naming language schemes, and I only went back over it LONG after I had already made a bunch of words so there's some inconsistencies with consonant presence and usage. (This can at least be justified because it IS a language that would have a lot of loanwords and would be heavily influenced by other language groups- Burri being by far the most significant, Highland-Finnic and Yuroma-Lowlands also being large contributors)
The 'method' I used was:
-Skip basic construction elements and fully move into devising necessary name words, with at least a Vibe of what consonants are going to be common and how pronunciation works -Identify some roots out of the established words and their meanings. Establish an ongoing glossary of known roots/words. -Construct new words based in root words, or as obvious extensions/variants of established words. -Get really involved in how the literal meanings of some words might not translate properly to english, mostly use this to produce a glossary of in-universe slang. -Realize that I probably should have at least some very basic internal consistency at this point. -Google search tutorials on writing a naming language. -Reverse engineer a naming language out of established words, and ascribe all remaining inconsistencies to being loanwords or just the mysteries of life or whatever.
I do at least have some strongly established pronunciation rules and a sense of broad regional dialect/accents.
-'ai' words are almost always pronounced with a long 'aye' sound.
-There is no 'Z' or 'X' sound, a Wardi speaker pronouncing 'zebra' would go for 'tsee-brah', and would attempt 'xylophone' as 'ssye-lohp-hon'
-'V' sounds are nearly absent and occur only in loanwords, and tend to be pronounced with a 'W' sound. 'Virsum' is a Highland word (pronounced 'veer-soom') denoting ancestry, a Wardi speaker would go 'weer-sum'.
-'Ch' spellings almost always imply a soft 'chuh' sound when appearing after an E, I, or O (pelatoche= pel-ah-toh-chey), but a hard 'kh' sound after an A or U (odomache= oh-doh-mah-khe). When at the start of a word, it's usually a soft 'ch' unless followed by an 'i' sound (chin (dog) is pronounced with a hard K 'khiin', cholem (salt) is pronounced with a soft Ch 'cho-lehm')
-Western Wardin has strong Burri cultural and linguistic influence, and a distinct accent- one of the most pronounced differences is use of the ñ sound in 'nn' words. The western city of Ephennos is pronounced 'ey-fey-nyos' by most residents, the southeastern city of Erubinnos is pronounced 'eh-roo-been-nos' by most residents. Palo's surname 'Apolynnon' is pronounced 'A-puh-lee-nyon' in the Burri and western Wardi dialects (which is the 'proper' pronunciation, given that it's a Kos name), but will generally be spoken as 'Ah-poh-leen-non' in the south and east.
-R's are rolled in Highland-Finnic words. Rolling R's is common in far northern rural Wardi dialects but no others. Most urban Wardi speakers consider rolling R's sort of a hick thing, and often think it sounds stupid or at least uneducated. (Brakul's name should be pronounced with a brief rolled 'r', short 'ah' and long 'uul', but is generally being pronounced by his south-southeastern compatriots with a long unrolled 'Brah' sound).
Anyway not really a sturdy construction that will hold up to the scrutiny of someone well equipped for linguistics but not pure bullshit either.
#I actually did just make a post about this on my sideblog LOL I think in spite of my deciding not to conlang this is going to go full#full conlanging at some point#The main issue is that the narrative/dialogue is being written as an english 'translation' (IE the characters are speaking in their actual#tongues and it's being translated to english with accurate meaning but non-literal treatment)#Which you might say like 'Uh Yeah No Shit' but I think approaching it with that mindset at the forefront does have a different effect than#just fully writing in english. Like there's some mindfulness to what they actually might be saying and what literal meanings should be#retained to form a better understanding of the culture and what should be 'translated' non-literally but with accurate meaning#(And what should be not translated at all)#But yeah there's very little motivation for conlanging besides Pure Fun because VERY few Wardi words beyond animal/people/place names#will make it into the actual text. Like the only things I leave 'untranslated' are very key or untranslatable concepts that will be#better understood through implication than attempts to convey the meaning in english#Like the epithet 'ganmachen' is used to compliment positive traits associated with the ox zodiac sign or affectionately tease#negative ones. This idea can be established pretty naturally without exposition dumps because the zodiac signs are of cultural#importance and will come up frequently. The meaning can get across to the reader pretty well if properly set up.#So like leaving it as 'ganmachen' you can get 'oh this is an affectionate reference to an auspicious zodiac sign' but translating#it as the actual meaning of 'ox-faced' is inevitably going to come across as 'you look like a cow' regardless of any zodiac angle#^(pretty much retyped tags from other post)#Another aspect is there's a few characters that have Wardi as a second language and some of whom don't have a solid grasp on it#And I want to convey this in dialogue (which is being written in english) but I don't want it to just be like. Random '''broken''' english#like I want there to be an internal consistency to what parts of the language they have difficulties with (which then has implications for#how each language's grammar/conjugation/etc works). Like Brakul is fairly fluent in Wardi at the time of the story but still struggles#with some of the conjugation (which is inflectional in Wardi) especially future/preterite tense. So he'll sometimes just use the#verb unconjugated or inappropriately in present tense. Though this doesn't come across as starkly in text because it's#written in english. Like his future tense Wardi is depicted as like 'I am to talk with him later' instead of 'I'll talk with him later'#Which sounds unnatural but not like fully incorrect#But it would sound much more Off in Wardi. Spanish might be a better example like it would be like him approaching it with#'Voy a hablar con él más tarde' or maybe 'Hablo con él más tarde' instead of 'Hablaré con él más tarde'#(I THINK. I'm not a fluent spanish speaker sorry if the latter has anything wrong with it too)
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with the way things are going with Jinx's redemption arc I know it'll end in a way that's plenty unfair to Caitlyn. most of y’all don't even process grief and having closest family life cut short because of unjustified murder.
Cassandra was always trying to do her best to make things better for Zaun and give them a better life and she very well planted the same mindset in Caitlyn since her earlier days but her payback? getting blasted just because jinx was angry and going through a meltdown.
also it isn't the tragedy Olympics. one person losing three or four family members doesn't have it worse than another who just lost one or two. humans don't work this way ffs it's always the most wrenching feeling in the world and the very maddening one, some ppl straight-up take their own lives after losing a beloved because they can't process it that's what grief and mourning is.
I get everything Caitlyn went through in act1 and despite all she still tried to the end to be in control and not let grief consume all of her unlike other characters, namely jinx, who went on for years hunting and killing hundreds because grief was the one very much in control of her.
#caitvi#random thoughts abt Caitlyn#all over the place low-key but if you get you get it#fuck all the caitlyn hate it's sf stupid and speak so loud of zero human understanding let alone any media literacy#jinx only mentioned for example I've nothing against her#I want the three of them back as family ngl#arcane
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okay your ship is cool but can it do THIS
#renjing#honkai: star rail#honkai star rail#hsr blade#jing yuan#i'm unpracticed at mixing music btw i'm just insane so forgive any oddities#i do have an analysis on why their themes do have some differences#for example blade transposed up a full key when he lost his mind to mara and fought imbibitor lunae#and i had to pitch correct him back down to jing yuan's#and also blade starts a little slower than jing yuan but then later he picks up faster#but hello 😭 hello 😭 same leitmotifs and tempo and everything wtf they're simply canon
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no one cares but a character dying is not the same as a character haunting the narrative. dying is a plot point, while haunting must be structural redefinition of the entire piece's form. it's why haunting of hill house begins and ends with the same line. it's why cassandra tells the audience of the oresteia exactly what is going to happen. they are defined by their endings- something that not all deaths lead to
#the foxhole court#lake mungo#the oresteia#jet atla#haunting the narrative#literary theory#haunting of hill house#like id argue that seth from tfc and jet are key examples of characters who die but like. dont necessarily matter to the STRUCTURE#the overall story does not differ whether they live or not#n mary hatford impacts the story through grief but it doesnt change the actual structural form of the narrative#doesnt mean they arent impactful deaths; just that haunting is different#the latter of which caused this thought#narratology
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my own personal take on what makes a miku
#roach talk#the fact that polar is technically more of a miku than teto is feels so wrong#but i stand by my criteria and the criteria says it's the case#btw aoki lapis is a pure miku according to this#kaito and cirno also are mikus in the same tiers as rion and entrapta respectively#but to me the twintails are more important so it just happened to be all three examples had multicolored twintails#neru is in a secret 10th square between teto and defoko because i feel like having a single ponytail is like. honorary mention at least#because miku if is still a miku even if she doesnt have twintails. nobody would argue otherwise#being illustrated by kei makes your miku points automatically go up#i really really wanted to put dave strider in the lumina square btw. but decided against it#they still have to "feel'' like miku to me if that makes any sense.#and while dave is funny meme music guy he doesnt have any miku type outfits like rin and defoko and he isnt an AI like lumina. oh fuck wait#AR is a miku. okay i have to stop talking now bye
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The thing that kills me about the Star Wars prequel trilogy and why I will die on my hill that my problem is not that Star Wars is a tragedy, its that its a badly written tragedy, is that Anakin Skywalker was at his closest to being a good Jedi when he was ten years old.
#im not an anakin apologist by any means because I get the point of his character and Im not pro or anti jedi#my only real opinion on all of it is similar to what I was saying about Peter and Tony and the MCU yesterday#its badly written. its EVERYONE being contorted into shapes that dont make a ton of sense in service to#getting characters to where they need to end up for certain things to occur#my opinion is not that Anakin is inherently bad or good or that the Jedi are inherently bad or good#its that their entire conflict was set in motion by forcing the Jedi to act in ways that felt massively OOC when they were#first interviewing him as a kid and like.....I ACCEPT that the Jedi are supposed to be for the most part kindhearted and empathetic and all#of that which is why its so noteworthy in my opinion that this does not match with how they were FORCIBLY portrayed in those early movies#in order to ENGINEER the idea that this kid in desperate need of support but already with a lot of good instincts and positive traits#came to the order of kindly supportive literal empaths and everything went downhill from there#like kindly supportive literal empaths would not in my opinion look at a kid trying his best to be brave & stoic in completely intimidating#circumstances and surroundings and be judgmental and fairly dismissive about it as though theyve never met a kid before let alone a#traumatized one and the fact that thats kinda what happened is in contrast to how a lot of pro anakin people frame that NOT proof#that the Jedi order are inherently bad its that in that key scene and multiple others#the Jedi order were BADLY WRITTEN in pursuit of one pre-determined outcome that mattered more to the script/Lucas than#being true to their core conceit and characterizations. and thats just one example out of dozens I could list and the same holds true for#anakin's side of things so thats why I always steer far away from SW discourse#because Im like the problem with the characters in terms of the most iconic arc is not really any of the characters so much#as the plots refusal to let them actually consistently BE characters rather than just fixed and contrived stepping stones on the way to#the desired endpoint
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