#completely misses the mark

[simplyscarlet]

“Swing your razor wide, Toga, see how well it flits - as it floats across the throats of hypocrites.”

I just think the ending could have done some things a little different.

[bixels]

It's crazy how Dungeon Meshi's manga can feel more cinematic and emotional than the anime to me, even when they're practically the same. Compared to the anime, this moment is such a heartbreaking gut-drop. The way Kui uses negative space and flat compositions to create a sense of horrific stillness is so key.

The way the text (Senshi's monologue) is sequestered to an empty corner of a panel or huddled away from the edge of its text box is not only a great way of showing Senshi's headspace (fearful, isolated, dissociating), but creates a visual representation of pause, as if you hold your breathe after each line. The first panel puts us directly in Senshi's perspective too (compared to in the anime, which puts us as an outside observer over Senshi's shoulder). The detail of the door and bricks so effectively implies that he stared at it for so long, waiting and hoping, that its image is burned in his memory. The wood grain, the brick arch, the number of rivets. The lack of dialogue in the second panel shows a moment of realization too –– "he's dead" (also a great example of the Kuleshov effect). And it's that pause that creates a beat and sets a great rhythm to his headspace, like a music rest: "He never came back." (oh god.) "I'm all alone." Finally, the third panel's negative space, cropping Senshi, shows how truly alone he feels. Without his family, the world ceases to exists. Under shock, he traps himself in a 1-foot radius, too scared to even perceive a world outside its boundaries; a world that can hurt him, kill him, make him disappear with it. There is only his body, the stone beneath his feet and against his back, his thoughts, and that awful bowl of soup.

Even though they're a series of flat images, there's an implicit reading of silence in Senshi's realization and horror. Kui influences your experience to slow down and take your time.

Compare this to the anime, which fills every shot with dialogue. The pacing is fast; we never get to sit in silence like we do with the manga. The horizontal frame allowed the boarders to add Senshi, turning the composition into an over-the-shoulder shot, which takes us out of Senshi's POV. They also added a zoom-out in shot one, which adds unnecessary energy to a very somber scene. The tightening on Senshi as a close-up reaction shot also dulls the moment. In the original panel, Senshi stares ahead at the empty space to his left as a shadow surrounds his mind. It not only shows how Senshi's senses are dulling and his world is shrinking (setting up panel three), but shows how terrified Senshi is of what's in front of him, how the air itself becomes pitch black and opaque, how Senshi is surrendering himself to fear. The pacing is understandable and necessary; this episode packed a lot of story content together. It's just a shame because it really (imo) deflated one of the most nauseating moments in Dungeon Meshi.

[buggachat]

Part 178 of my bakery “enemies” au!

baking montage!

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Kofi

[helenofsparta2]

R.I.P. the version of Percy Jackson, who spoke competently in front of the senate, fairly easily ridiculed Octavian, and managed to sway the romans to his side simply by providing good arguments and being a natural born leader in Son of Neptune, you will always be famous to me

[ohnoitsz1m]

Halflife ponies. Btw.

A warning to any MLP enjoyers: if this ends up on derpibooru or any similar site I'll gnaw you into splinters like a cheap plastic dog toy. I'm on the DNP lists under animatorfun and I'll request a new link for this blog specifically if I havw to. Please stop reuploading my shit 💀

Edit: i forgot to reenable the layer with Gordon's glasses it's so over. I was wondering why she looked weird oughhgggh

Edit2: fixed gordon <3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Broken Roofs and Fixed Perspectives

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[anxiousapplepie]

Serious question: Which Siffrin is the most powerful in terms of "unintentional, oblivious flirting"? ie Fighter Frin's posing. And would they become more or less powerful should they becone aware of it?

A very serious question. I will answer this seriously: Fighter!Siffrin is the most powerful in unintentional flirting when they are not aware of it. Housemaiden!Siffrin would be the most powerful in flirting when they ARE aware of it.

[420technoblazeit]

so fucking stupid that they made join the hunt the tagline for late show supernatural btw. hunting being a metaphor for the military is pretty explicit, it's not even close to subtle. dean's constantly referred to as a soldier by other characters, a lot of young hunters we see talk about how they only got into the life because of their family, most of them at least in the early seasons are strongly prejudiced towards monsters and have a very us against them mentality, the main thing that cas and dean initially bond over is the fact that theyve been taught to view their sense of self worth in the context of their capacity for violence and following orders. a LOT of the characterization of hunters in the first couple of seasons centers around their desensitization of violence towards non-human beings and prejudice against them actually. i mean for god's sake sam and dean call their own father 'sir'

so much of dean's narrative is about how being groomed to be a hunter has ruined his life and sense of self-worth and made him feel really dehumanized. the show is pretty up front about it being the root of his problems with toxic masculinity, anger issues, and inability to be emotionally vulnerable. he is the POSTER CHILD for why no one should ever get into hunting so how the fuck did the late show writers miss the key themes so badly. this is the anti-war show idiots maybe think for a second before you make that your tagline

[clotpolesonly]

Blue Lily, Lily Blue ch 20 // Mister Impossible ch 25

[darling-solaire]

I will preface this post by saying I haven’t rewatched the non canon freelancer/ lasko videos since they got taken down so it has been a while since my memory of them might be a little fuzzy but I saw someone say this in the tags on my previous post and I agree with it whole heartedly that when freelancer encountered laskos apprehension a lot of the time their response was to simply kiss them and while yes that is cute I think it kinda parallels the stuff with Geordi and cutie because ya in the moment it might be a sweet gesture but as we’ve seen that cannot be the response for someone’s insecurities or fears about different situations because the person who has to constantly push their boundaries aside will build up resentment which is also a big reason why I’m really glad they aren’t a canon couple because when you compare freelancers reactions to the coworker we can see how the different reactions push lasko in very different directions because while freelancer was often able to push lasko to do these different daring things laskos confidence didn’t really improve overall however with the coworker we can see that he’s becoming more sure of himself at his own pace rather than at others insistence

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 British Grand Prix - Qualifying - Oscar Piastri(ft. Mark Webber, Jenson Button, Max Verstappen & Lando Norris)

[thatsamonkey]

barely 3 weeks into school and i already have an f in 2 classes i think my only choice is to revolutionize the world

[rainbowsandwhumperflies]

“I can’t do it. I just can’t.”

“Please, Whumpee, just try. I know-”

“No, you don’t! You don’t know anything! Stop trying to make it feel as if I wasn’t completely alone in there!”

[rinbylin]

okay... idk at all if this has been discussed or that I'm just stating the obvious. I'm posting any way to get more feedback.

so. can we be sure that the last boat scene even happened (in the way we saw it at least)

yeah the letter was delivered to the intended recipients. the letter also did say 李相夷绝笔 lit. the final writing by li xiangyi. there's a brief exchange between him and the assumed "boatman" asking him where he was going. and we see he spat blood while writing yeah but:

llh/lxy's eyesight had been failing for some time.

Professional Letter Writers are a thing in the past in service to people who can't write their own letters (idk enough to verify the historical accuracy in this specific context though)

what has been bugging me since forever is the manner of speech of the letter. yeah it's different from their everyday speech, but that's actually perfectly fine since this is A Letter so I'm good with it being more formal. but... there's something I just can't quite pinpoint. especially with the use of the 君 jun pronoun by llh/lxy to refer to dfs when there could be other pronouns with less connotations of intimacy (and scholarly/imperial court system) implied and still conveyed cordiality, marking a shift in their relationship. (I'm not well versed with wuxia as a genre enough to know what are the conventions. someone else who does can say something though.)

whatever these put together means (eg. he may not have written the letter personally, or he wrote it in a different situation from what we saw, etc etc.) alongside:

this scene existed only as part of a visualisation as the letter content is revealed to the audience (or assumed to be fdb reading the letter to dfs & guests of the wedding spectators of the duel)

the boat lxy/llh jumped on is not the same as the one he was writing the letter on - the boatman is also not on it despite the conversation at the beginning, but lxy/llh's dressing and hairpin are the same as the ones before he jumped. (the boatman delivered the letter so he's real though.)

also as @wonderfulnonsense happened to have just pointed out in the tags left in my other post: it's in fact the same boat he took to go fight dfs at donghai 10 years ago. (edit: or maybe it isn't? as pointed out by anon.)

if we viewed whatever we perceived in this scene as imaginary (not what actually happened), then the reading of it being a metaphor for lxy/llh being on his way to enlightenment just makes sense. (the boat being a carrier on his spiritual transformations.) especially when you consider that 彼岸 the other shore is another concept in buddhism to represent enlightenment, alongside the motif of lotuses. (credits to @markiafc for the buddhism reading - edit: mark's meta here) and then, consider the beach ending... yeah.

[sneefsnorf]

something about how the puzzler is depicted with a cane. something about how the only main actors of colour are cast as rats. something about how the queer identities of actors are erased, except for a gay man who is ridiculed for his sexuality. something about how showfall media treats its marginalised cast. something about how generation loss so horrifically reflects the stereotypes and ropes assigned to the queer and disabled and racially marginalised in past films and series. something about how we are still facing bias and discrimination in the modern live streaming industry

[antihibikase-archive]

It is incredibly isolating to navigate through fandom as an aromantic person. Aro experiences are so varied, and there is no definite aro experience that encapsulates the alienation that fandom spaces cause for certain people.

Fandom is mostly built and structured on shipping. And if not, the blorbofication of characters, which tends to go down the shipping pipeline; where does that leave the romance repulsed aro person who genuinely does not want to see any form of shipping? Platonic dynamics, right?

Yeah, sure. But by platonic dynamics, it's only "best friends" or "family" right? Where does that leave the aro folks with undefined labels? No, qprs aren't a get-out-of-jail card.

And qprs- they have no rules or standards set upon them by society, not even having a clear definition for what it is, because not all qprs are the same. Yet, for some reason, it ended up becoming the "nonbinary" option to a lot of people- not romantic or "regular" platonic? Qpr it is, right?

But where does that leave the aro folk who don't want a qpr? Who don't wish to see characters depicted in pairs or trios or so forth- who embrace the lack of a partner?

And these concepts presented; when aro folk talk about them, do you care? And if you do, do you understand? Do you try to?

If you aren't aro, but wish to be supportive, are you a genuine ally? Do you raise the concerns of aro folk you share the space with?

Or do you take a look at these concepts- and decide you understand them "well" enough? Do you decide to speak for aro folks instead?

Do you depict relationships outside of romance because you believe in the importance of platonic relationships? Will you accept the fact that not all platonic interactions will be familial or "best friends"?

Can you accept depictions of qprs outside of "more than friends, less than lovers"? Are you willing to accept it is not just "best friends" or "romance lite"? Will you accept that nothing is inherently romantic- and characters in a qpr may fall under your standards of lovers?

Can you resist the urge to put every character in a pair or trio or group? Are you comfortable with the notion of characters finding more joy in being by themselves, outside of all those lenses you see them in?

It's good if you can.

And if you can't, at the very least, do you understand why some aro folk in your space are upset? Embittered by your favorite ships? Starving for representation?

Did you depict these characters with these concepts with the knowledge that aromanticism is fluid?