#creator/sony post

[heavens-gatekeeper]

The mod should kys ngl

(Oh..)

[wisdomful-angel]

I look over your art of Uriel, why is one of his eye a void?

(Its actually a torn eye, Roo did that to him :3)

[heavens-hope-giver]

(Funfact: Remiel has uneven hair and a feather crow tail :3)

[heavenly-mercy]

Zadkiel funfact??

(She was made to replace Lucifer after the fall and she doesnt know abt lucifer yet)

[heavens-gatekeeper]

(Off topic)

[heavens-hope-giver]

Is Remiel's kid wings white if yes why are they black??

(To show how ruin he is :P)

[justepilepsy]

I'm so sorry that people are once again missing the point of your spiderverse posts. You do not deserve to be called mean things for pointing out the inherent ableism in the art direction of those films. Thanks for your posts!

Aww thank you for your kind words!!!! I will say, I usually do not put these posts out there, unless I am willing and able to deal with people like this. I understand feeling adverse and riled up by reading "fuck your favourite movie that has brought you a lot of joy" as part of the first sentence, but also I think the rest of my post was fairly nuanced given it's opening line. Fun fact: I will also admit... I woke up, saturday morning and had angry eyebrows and thought "I wanna start shit" and I was fully ready to just post "fuck spiderverse because it has ableist art direction" - but as always re-reading the post I figured adding nuance and context may be more helpful to the conversation... so honestly, I think the post is mostly a calm statement with an attention-seeking Opening line. Thank you again for your kind words and support! Maybe i should do these posts on LinkedIn instead of tumblr, in the hopes that anyone at Sony may actually see this... Rest assured - i am more amazed and amused by people threatening me over an opinion on art and what makes a good consumer oriented product.

[heavens-gatekeeper]

(New drawing idea)

Cursed cat Saint Peter :3

(I'm so autistic for him)

[rodspurethoughts]

Sony's Ci Media Cloud Enhances Functionality and Expands Integrations for Streamlined Post-Production Workflows

Sony's Ci Media Cloud has recently announced several integrations and enhanced functionality to better serve creators.

Sony’s Ci Media Cloud has recently announced several integrations and enhanced functionality to better serve creators. Ci Media Cloud is a cloud-based solution that allows users to capture, backup, review, transform, and run streamlined post-production workflows without moving or copying content. With these new updates, Ci provides even more flexible and robust functionality and collaboration,…

[foone]

AAA games? Pfft. Indie games? Double pfft.

I only play games from the alternate history where Hillary Clinton was elected in 2008 and banned all video games. You can only imagine how weird their underground gaming scene is. People like to call unlicensed games "bootlegs" but they've got actual bootlegged games! I've played games about helping your grandmother in hospice care realize she's a lesbian by reading Sappho to her, at 2am in a speakeasy in Baltimore. The cops raided it the next night, hundreds of Gamers were arrested. They posted pictures all over Friendster of the Baltimore PD destroying the arcades with axes.

I nearly got busted once because I was imaging old disks from a 386 and someone tipped off the gaming cops that there was a copy of Commander Keen in there. I had to prove that I didn't know it, I was imaging the disks blind and then indexing them later, and I would of course turn over any contraband to the proper authorities.

I was already on a watch list because I'd been known to have some gamedev-related activities pre-ban. They can't arrest me for making games back in 2007 when it was still legal, but they do want to keep an eye on me since I have the skills to break the law.

Anyway that universe's bootlegs are mainly PC games. Can't really have console games if there hasn't been a console release since the Wii/PS3/360 era. At one point Nintendo threatened to release the Wii SDK so game devs in the US could make unlicensed games, but that didn't happen as there were quickly no functional Wiis left in the US, except for very rare holdouts that never move. PC games are easy to distribute samizdat and hide on a USB stick or CD-R labeled "nickelback".

Japan's games industry is still going, so the later Nintendo and Sony consoles still exist, but Microsoft got out of the business of course. They sold the franchise to Sega who were hoping to release the 360 successor (the Xbox One in our universe) as the Sega Phoenix but it never materialized, either through their own financial incompetence or because of pressure from the US. There's a lot of international treaties that the US has pushed "and this aid only goes through if you ban games" clauses into. That would have been an official UN resolution if the USSR hadn't vetoed it. For once, thank God for the security council, eh?

I mainly get my gaming news through Japanese gaming sites (through a set of VPNs, since they're blocked at the border firewall), and some tor onion site run by a weird guy in Minnesota who is obsessed with documenting all the underground US games.

There's a lot being worked on, but it's always a tricky trade off. Too much attention and the police might be able to track down the creators, and it's basically impossible to fund underground games, as the VISA/PayPal etc funds get seized immediately. There's a whole task force for that.

Anyway one of the weirdest differences between our two time lines is that they've gone back and edited out gaming from a bunch of movies. Those that they can, of course. War games was just banned because they couldn't remove the tic tac toe ending. The Net just removed the scene at the beginning where she's playing Wolfenstein 3D, by recording some new screen footage and a new voice over. She's fixing a spreadsheet in the new edition.

(Yes, I've seen The Net from this alternate timeline. On Laserdisc, of course. I'm just that kind of person!)

They even edited Star Wars. You know that scene where R2-D2 is playing holochess with Chewie? They edited it to be a board game instead of holograms, because that made it too "video gamey".

Technically it's not illegal to show gaming in a movie, but it needs to be an 18+ film and you have to show the deleterious effects of gaming and/or the gamesters coming to a bad end.

This has affected films less than you'd think, to be honest. They were never great about showing video games even before they banned them.

Anyway, go have fun playing your AAA games with hundred-million-dollar budgets. I only play indie games made by people under a constant threat of arrest for their art.

[heavens-gatekeeper]

*throws a turtle plushie at you*

[[*and throws a turtle plushie at mod because you deserve it*]]

(We like it)

[ahappydnp]

i tried to compile the stats for trends/conclusions in the 'dnp saying i love you to their audience' spreadsheet. it's a bit off since phil doesn't have enough data to properly plot alone BUT here are some findings (under the cut)

-the highest year was while they were on tour (2018) meeting fans

-this year (2024) is in a tie for second highest, noted as this is post hiatus and post dan meeting fans at wad **NOTE** dan saying it to the audience at WAD not included in data as it was live/not recorded

-2013 is in a tie for the second highest. dates do not correlate with any major fan event, but were said when dan and phil won the sony award via fan vote. also important to note the culture of youtuber/fan relationships during this era as it was common practice for creators

-phil's log december 2015 was added after a vote on tumblr (x)

**DISCLAIMER** this is all just for fun and doesn't mean anything do not read into it!! i literally started this spreadsheet to help with edits after the whole ~dan and phil totally hate their audience~ thing but the tism brain took over and i had to make graphs for fun

[heavens-hope-giver]

Remiel looks like the type to be "i will never be like you!" Then be like them and also seems like those younger siblings who would protect their siblings even if it causes them to die

(Thats what i base him off.. 👍)

[hawkogurl]

Hi! 😊 I saw you post something saying it was clear to you that raimi harry Osborn was schizophrenic do you think you could please explain that a bit? (If you've already made a post about it and I've just missed it I apologise) Have a nice day!

Probably won’t be the best worded so I’ll be happy to elaborate further. Also feel compelled to state that I probably view that constitutes canon pretty differently than most people. What I mean by the idea that Harry having some sort of psychotic disorder in the raimiverse is at least semi-canon is generally pretty complicated so bear with me.

A lot of what has brought me to this conclusion is pretty doylist. It’s not a plot hole that Harry’s hallucinating in the second movie, the way the first two movies are written in this regard before Sony decided to fuck with things in the third is too deliberate. Raimi’s history as a horror directors shows in a lot of areas, but it never really feels like he’s throwing elements in for the hell of it, whenever something feels horrorish, it’s pretty deliberate. All this to say that Harry’s not hallucinating for the hell of it.

When it comes to specifically raimiverse based interpretation, there’s generally four things I see a lot. The first and in my opinion weakest being the idea that it’s happening as a result of the serum in the nearby hidden room leaking. I understand how this is seen as appealing or interesting, especially in any case where someone might think it doesn’t make sense for Harry not to have developed a goblin persona like Norman had. In the past I’ve gone into how I believe that’s also a pretty deliberate narrative choice, so putting all that aside, I don’t think it makes sense for this to be intended by the creators. From a writing standpoint, if that’s what we were supposed to think, you’d be shown shots to indicate things like that. Additionally, the serum itself is always shown to be stored in a liquid form, only gas when it’s applied to a person, a process that consistently requires quite a bit of machinery. I understand the appeal of the theory, but if I’m looking at what I think is most likely to be the thought in the creators heads, I don’t think this is likely.

I also see it generally get dismissed as ghosts a lot, which also feels strange to me. The only other instance of something happening that could be seen as similarly supernatural would also be in this movie, being the scene where Peter, conflicted about how being Spider-Man effects his life, has a conversation with Ben, who is also dead, in the car from the first movie in the middle of a white void. This scene occurs in an ambiguous white background using imagery from the last conversation Peter had with Ben before he died and also draws on how that conversation has affected Peter’s worldview. This scene ends by cutting to Peter, who’s sitting in bed with his eyes open as he comes to the conclusion he can’t keep being Spider-Man. Because of the framing of it in a space that isn’t recognizable as the normal physical world and the fact we’re shown Peter in the physical world after it, we’re not meant to be taking this scene literally. This scene is a metaphorical expression of Peter’s internal conflict, not a literal event that’s physically happening in any sort of meaningful capacity. It’s a visual expression of a non physical story element. This isn’t all that important for my point, but I find it important to state for later comparison.

This leaves Harry’s interactions with Norman after he’s died as the only remaining event that can be simply explained with the supernatural. That being said, it doesn’t really make internal sense for this to be the case. Though fantastical, every superhuman element of this story has been at least connected to some sort of scientific idea that grounds it in reality, never something more fantastical. The Green Goblin is the result of a performance enhancing drug created for the military. Doc Ock is the result of malfunctioning AI and his most dangerous goals rely on using nuclear fusion to create energy. Sandman was created by the writer’s rather incorrect idea of what a particle accelerator is. Venom is an alien, but still connected pretty blatantly to real life biology ideas of real word symbiotes. It’s all rather fantastical and implausible, but it’s all still connected to real world familiar scientific ideas. To randomly bring the supernatural into it for scenes it could be easily replaced with something else to accomplish the same end results and never elaborating on the idea that apparently ghosts are real would be a really bizarre world building choice.

But going back to the scene with Peter, unlike that this scene is not framed to be metaphorical. It’s happening in the real world right before and after real physical events with Harry and has physical results on the world and the characters. In some capacity, what’s happening here is literal—but I don’t think that means some piece of Norman is physically there. The audience is viewing this alongside Harry and from his perspective, there’s never any other character who’s present for scenes where Harry experiences things like this. The events are literal and intended to be something physically happening, but only from Harry’s perspective. There’s no other set of eyes to establish the reality of this from beyond Harry’s sole perspective.

Among the common theories I see, I probably like the idea that it’s alcohol induced the second most. I don’t really like to demean it because I think it’s very likely that this idea is important to people in the same way it being psychological is important to me. That being said, I don’t know how much I think it holds up to scrutiny. Yes, Harry’s shown to be drinking pretty heavily around this period, but in the moment he first experiences his hallucinations, he’s not shown to be drinking. He at least appears to be somewhat sober. In the second instance, he is shown to drink, but only in the literal seconds before he hallucinates. If this is intended to be the actual cause, the creators would more likely put more emphasis on him drinking in relation to the hallucinations or similar. That being said, I have reasons I think it was kept more vague that I’ll get into.

If I’m looking at what was likely intended, the most likely doylist explanation for why these scenes exist, the idea it’s psychological for him is the only thing that’s going to consistently check out. For one thing, in the comics, Harry is schizophrenic! That’s outright the word used to describe what he has going on, he is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Additionally, in a lot of comics with Harry at the time, he’s hallucinating Norman as an expression of a lot of his internal conflicts, similarly to what we see here. In the comics that Raimi Harry most closely follows the broader beats of, he has persecutory hallucinations of his father as an expression of his internal conflict, hallucinations that target the things that he feels make him weak and drive him towards his worst behaviors while also being specifically schizophrenic. In the raimi trilogy, Harry develops persecutory hallucinations of his father that particularly target the idea that he feels weak and drive him towards his worst behaviors. From that alone, it’s not irrational to conclude that it’s at least something of a reference towards his schizophrenia in the comics.

What’s more, in the novelizations it appears to be rather explicit. While interviews and Reddit AMAs have made it somewhat clear that Peter David, their author, did have quite a bit of freedom, they also made it clear he was still obligated to follow the scripts he was given rather closely and his writing still had to be approved. The novels were primarily only allowed elaboration, not outright reimagining. In the novelizations, Harry is written to hallucinate much more frequently. He’s often paranoid of the world. His behavior is more erratic. He experiences moments of Cotard’s delusion. His behavior through the third movie goes from likely being inspired by or intended to reference and imply Harry’s comic-canon schizophrenia to, in the novels, being outright written to resemble and follow the symptoms of schizophrenia far more closely. While they very much aren’t the movies, the fact that they were being written from the scripts at the time of the movies release and a lot of the information we have on how they were written does point me towards the idea that while you can’t exactly treat them as above the movies in terms of what’s canon, you can treat them very fairly as auxiliary information in terms of interpreting the intended story.

Additionally, I think they provide a pretty interesting piece of information that also sort of solidifies the idea for me that what Harry’s experiencing is some form of psychosis. Harry only develops these issues after learning Peter is Spider-Man. Not after taking the serum, specifically immediately after learning Peter is Spider-Man. At this point in the story, Peter is Harry’s closest friend and arguably the most important person in Harry’s life. I don’t need to explain that Spider-Man is the exact opposite. It’s likely rather shattering to how Harry perceives reality to realize the most important person in his life is the person he hates the most, and that he’s been lying to him after in Harry’s perception killing his father for multiple years. Psychosis is specifically a break in someone’s grasp on reality. I don’t think it’s that hard for me to believe that a revelation that shattered how Harry perceived reality that severely might risk causing a psychotic episode of some form.

Additionally, it’s the most consistent with how the world and writing of these movies work internally. It’s never really about the fantastical elements narratively—these movies are about people. The internal, human elements of these characters lives are the most emphasized, the supernatural elements are almost always allegorically connected to some aspect of humanity or very human flaws. That’s always what’s emphasized. Narratively, the goblin is representative of Norman’s greed and ego, his conviction that he is superior to others and entitled to power and control. Otto isn’t about the arms, not really, it’s about selfishly motivated ambition even with the best of intentions and turning those motivations into selfless ones. Flint being Sandman is secondary to how poverty has fucked him over, how he’s been forced into crime in his desperation to help his ill daughter. Eddie wasn’t really corrupted by Venom, he was a selfish and self centered man with a massive sense of entitlement to what he wanted who was given the power to do what he wanted. By extension, it makes the most sense that Harry, who’s already defined by trauma, cycles of abuse and identity would be far more connected to the very human idea of mental illness than something far less poignant like inexplicable supernatural elements.

All this to say that when I, guy who’s always going to feel compelled to take doylism and authorial intent into account when doing my analysis, look at all the information that I have, I think it’s very likely that Harry’s comics schizophrenia or hallucinations were on the writer’s minds when they were planning out or writing the scenes I am referring to. I don’t think that was ever likely to end up explicit—it’s not practical for a movie with its demographic, with a studio prone to intervention, especially with how messy SM3’s development was. It’s not practical for it to be super explicit in a movie of its demographic in 2007, but I think it’s very likely to be on the writers minds when it was written.

[heavens-gatekeeper]

(*devours and runs away*)

@heavens-gatekeeper

Here ya go buddy! Your oc in my style.

HELP HE DEADASS LOOKS LIKE MY BOYFRIEND IRLL 😭😭😭😭

[isabelly-smelly]

ellie williams & dina woodward in sims 4

I recently made two new sims that I'm really proud of. Ellie Williams and Dina Woodward (or Dina No-last-name) are characters from "The Last of Us Part Two," a game owned by Naughty Dog and published by Sony. I made their characters months ago but kept them private. I just recently "fixed" their characters to make them look more like their characters. I used a lot of CC to make these characters and also used items from a few Sims 4 packs, but not having those packs probably won't affect their appearances much because, again, I mostly used CC.

download under the cutoff!!

download tray files & cc used here (they are in the same zipped folder - it is a Sim File Share link so no adfly or paywall).

not working?? make sure to extract the zipped file before using it!! tray files (everything not under the "mods" folder) go into your tray folder and cc goes into your mods folder.

I recommend using @zerbu's unlimited likes and dislikes mod (found here) and thepancake1 / @MizoreYukii's "More Traits in CAS" mod (found here on their Patreon).

list of cc creators used to make these sims (note: Tumblr has a limit to the amount of accounts that can be mentioned so, because I could not mention all accounts, I just listed their names)

Aladdin The Simmer

arethabee

greenllamas

helgatisha

imvikai

jius sims

nooboo-sims

northerns siberia winds

xiuminuwu

adrienpastel

casteru

emmi bouquet

GoppoIsMe

jellymoo

joliebean

kijiko

lamatisse

lutessasims

luumia

madlen

merulasnydes

miiko

nolan sims

obscurus

Sammi XOX

sentate

serenity

simancholy

blue ancolia

trillyke

twistedcat

urban sims

list of slider creators (not necessary unless you want to edit sims)

bloodmoon cc

CmarNYT🕊️

obscurus

pirumxsim

teanmoon

Note to any cc and/or slider creators

Send me a DM or comment under this post if you would like your content to be removed from the zip file download (no content that has to be accessed through a paywall was used). I will remove the current zip file and "fix" it so that your content is no longer included. I will try to reply and fix the zipped file asap!!

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THE FILE IS BROKEN OR IF I SPELLED A CREATOR'S NAME WRONG!! this is my first own tumblr post, so please be understanding!! this is currently my only tumblr blog.