#corn plating

[cartoonico]

Sorry for talking about something nobody else probably gives a shit about but I find it kind of funny how the Squid Sisters originally had stylized upper eyelashes that were signified by points sticking out of their masks but were later given actual 3D modeled upper eyelashes in Splatoon 3.

Meanwhile, Marina still has the stylized lashes.

I wonder why. Maybe they just didn't look that good on her. Or maybe she was never meant to have lashes at all and those points are just part of her eye mask.

I'm not bothered by them or anything but I kind of think the visible lashes look a little weird on the Sisters and are kind of pointless since you can barely make them out at all due to them being the exact same color as their masks but that's just me.

[thiccspicecc]

I have recently learnt of the new term "corn-plating" and I have a few thoughts on its utility.

The criticism that has been done of this post is accurate and the term that spawned when used to describe when someone's critic is finding symbolism in places where it isn't present is often times valid.

However, it has very quickly become a tool to denounce any sort of insightful analysis of a story that isn't direct symbolism or a detail that pertains to the story. I feel a lot of the use of corn-plating is directed misguidedly or at valid analysis.

I believe people need to understand the merits of the different sorts of symbolism and media exploration, because not every detail brought needs to relate to the story at hand. There could have been an argument that looked at that plate of corn that would have been insightful rather than a grasp at straws. Of course, all of this discourse is not too dissimilar to the argument in literary analysis that the curtains are just blue, arising from the view that English teachers derive meaning from ordinary descriptions.

I think people need to understand when people are talking about environmental/ aesthetic symbology/ details and not grasping at straws to find character/ thematic/ narrative symbology/ details. To corn-plate blue curtains someone might say, 'In this scene there was put up blue curtains', connoting that there is a meaning as to why that was done, people in response will assume that they are referring to the blueness representing sadness, often a reflection of the character, many times that would be blatantly stated by whom is corn-plating. But many times people attribute the moniker of corn-plating to those talking about the mood or tone created by mundane objects, or environmental reasoning of why something is there. For blue curtains, and since this argument is often times without context, blue curtains being called in attention in a work may be there to set a calm or maybe a dower mood. For Encato someone could have prefaced that the inclusion of roast corn rather than any other food is symbolic of the situation of the cast, in how historically corn has been a stable food for many native south and central American peoples and how in Colombia the newer colonial society integrated corn into their diet, and how with the village of Encato being isolated, corn is their most readily available food.

For example in my novel a similar detail is that the secondary protagonist's great-grandfather has in his home a pot of lavender tea, it is fairly insignificant, but I wrote him having it because it represents the warm, calm, inviting atmosphere his cottage has. And, an example where the environmental detail is reflective of narrative symbology would be the black shadows of the antagonist sorcerer's dungeon being representative of the death his regime will bring. Something you would corn-plate if you mentioned it is that the secondary protagonist owns an orange teddy bear, it's a meaningless detail though it does represent the fact that she is a child.

You can find meaning in pretty much anything in a story, and corn-plating should be a term to denote (though I hope mostly in self-awareness rather than in defaming) if there was in fact clear intent in there being a narrative, character, or thematic importance behind a detail. The things we can draw out of the most mundane inclusions however is the beauty and importance of environmental symbols and mood. There are too many people putting down others for over analysing works they enjoy and not enough discourse on how pointing out how someone is finding meaning in places that aren't meaningful isn't itself media literacy. People need to be careful with the term corn-plating because not everything is desperately grasping at straws when finding details in a story, sometimes they're talking about something else unrelated to the story when pointing out a detail.

[onesidedradiostatic]

I'm thinking about the stupid fucking parasocial dynamic between sir pentious and alastor. I have questions

the fact that sir pentious says "again" in the pilot and him saying they'd done battle "like 20 times" in episode 2, was this just like. a regular thing he did even prior to alastor's disappearance. where he would just come in every other week to attack alastor while he was casually doing stuff and alastor just forgot each and every time.

also keep in mind sir pentious is from the VICTORIAN ERA, he arrived in hell before alastor. how. how long has he known him. how long had he been DOING this.

sir pentious being one of the chronologically oldest major characters really makes you think about how much he has seen or knows about LMAO

also the fact that he says "for when I've slain you the almighty vees will finally acknowledge me as their equal" was he just thinking of alastor just being generally powerful that it'd be cool if he defeated him or did he know the specific significance of alastor in the context of the vees. I also find it funny that he found out about alastor's return BEFORE vox, yeah if he delivered a dead alastor to the vees after 7 years I'm sure that would've been one fucking hell of a shock

[sparrowseagles]

the way Art’s name is spilling over the gap to Patrick’s side on the board... dare i say it...foreshadowing..

[munchboxart]

Something I just realized while looking over Seita Inoue's works (Splat art director) and models in game, the mouths are actually shaped like a V. I guess it's to make them look more like a beak which I think is neat

[blood-starved-beast]

Interesting detail is how Melinoe's red eye doesn't have a distinct pupil (it's red like her iris) whereas Zagreus has two black pupils. Even with having Hades's eye Zagreus still a little bit more like his mom.

[kybelles]

ios; damen’s home

[xialing-gf]

tell me why my heart actually shattered. tell me why edwin writing niko down as a closed case is actually making me sob and scream and cry

[opera-ghost]

did you know… the phantom’s alias in phantom of the opera, the phantom of the opera, is a reference to the fact that he is a phantom living under the opera (the phantom of the opera).

[backwardsuwu]

Peepaw digging into this donut 😏

[thegreatcrowdragon]

So did he just have that fucking jester getup in the back of his closet because that is SUCH a transformation like what happened to him

[apostleoforder]

hell night in cosmo's davinci resolve. entire video thinking aloud about acht's animations and gestures in and other things in side order. ijm normal and in love and

[nickpeppermint]

So, i'm drawing a little something for OTGW, and i saw in the description that Wirt is wearing mismatched shoes

I never noticed that before, but it seems that one shoe is black while the other one is grey

A detail so subtle, i never seen it in any fanart!

[allyriadayne]

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? Or, all the times Aegon and Aemond look at each other like there's no one else in the room 2/?

[thejugheadparadox]

60s70s jughead did not start a comics company that only hires twinks never get married even once and have those sideburns for people to say that gayhead isn't real. don't worry mr jones i saw your chanel boots

[sentoind]

Something I really love about both Kotetsu and Barnaby that I don’t think anyone has talked about is their Tiger and Rabbit motifs that are very much present throughout things they do and their character designs as well.

While there is the obvious detail that has been talked about and (some) mentioned in the show about how Barnaby’s hero suit has ears that resemble a rabbit’s (which leads into him getting the infamous nickname ‘Bunny’ which also comes from the fact that Barnaby’s nickname comes from his name in JP being pronounced like ‘Baa-naby’ -> ‘Baa-ni’) and also that when Kotetsu’s hero suit opens up to show his face his beard and eye mask help it in resembling a tiger opening its mouth up to bare its teeth at you.

Another detail I liked and noticed that adds onto their tiger and rabbit motifs is that their mouths also play into it! Kotetsu has a more downward mouth with small curves / his mouth looks more like :3 like how a cats would! (Also the fact that while his beard is taken from / inspired by Mr legend’s beard it can also look like cats too LOL), barnaby meanwhile has a more upward mouth that looks more like :< which looks like a rabbit’s mouth

Another final detail I liked and noticed was their body movement that shows up when they’re in action! While Kotetsu relies moreso on his upper body strength and on his instinct, Barnaby relies more on his lower body strength and relies on logic. (I could not get another video to show Kotetsu running to show this because tumblr has its limits you see.) Kotetsu uses his arms more to run and is more slow and clunky kind of like how tigers use and rely on their front paws to pounce and attack first, meanwhile Barnaby’s legs are more in use and are higher up when he runs in a bouncing way like how rabbits are when they run away as they rely more on their back legs to run away.