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[indilaras]

My emotional support girlfailure <3 I hope we see her again someday....

ID: Idiya from Genshin Impact drawn in various poses and expressions. At the bottom-right is a close up of her grinning face, the only drawing in full color. Behind her is a 'banner' with her name on it, and above that are smaller Idiya drawings in blue. She has her hands on her head with her tongue out; she is waving at the viewer with a smile; she is freaking out and screaming, in tears; she is looking bored and saying, "Uh. Are you all done talking now?"; she has her back to the viewer, holding one arm; and she is in her Oceanid form, facing sideways. End ID.

[wormthing]

Attacks 18 & 19!

Coud-E for Billy_Ayazzz, and Delia for @tubecheese !

[chill-vibes-but-rainbow-panic]

(Here's the blank template. Though I did change 'friends' to 'mutuals', just 'cause it's the term I'm most comfortable using atm; it doesn't have anything to do with you guys, specifically :) )

A gift for my mutuals! Though I'm not sure I have a specific 'style' yet, so everyone got Mii-ified

Ren belongs to @labratgurlz

Lumi belongs to @you4-l0cal-1d10t-ar1

Nova belongs to @idiot-mage-cloudie

[cherryblossomshadow]

@levymcgarden55

That first one is wild geese by Mary Oliver. The whole poem is definitely worth a read.

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University of New Mexico | Reddit

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

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Apparently, "the best way out is always through," is from Robert Frost's poem, "A Servant to Servants."

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Image descriptions below the cut:

[Image 1 ID: Excerpt from the poem, "wild geese" by Mary Oliver:

You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

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[Image 2 ID: Picture of barefeet barely submerged in a puddle/lakeshore with flowers floating on the water. Text reads:

The Best Way OuT iS Always Through iT No Matter How Hard iT is

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[Image 3 ID: A comment left by robin that reads:

it gets better, i think. maybe just for a day. maybe just for a song. but there's something there to hold on to.

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[Image 4 ID: Picture of worn brown shoes. Text reads:

fuck nihilism all my homies confront the meaninglessness of life as an opportunity for something wonderful and believe in the beauty of creating meaning yourself through relationships and sticking your hands in the dirt

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[Image 5 ID and source: Screenshot of tumblr post by @noonwalkdiary reading:

i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

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[Image 6 ID: Screenshot of a WhatsApp message. Someone texted the user a sunset photo of a coast. Beneath, text reads:

Did u get my vibes man? im thinking we are all going to be okay

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[Image 7 ID and source: Screenshot of a tumblr post from @wuntrum reading:

pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it

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Did u get my vibes man?

[fishareglorious]

website discord is gonna make me throw up from laughing too hard at the screenshots there

[permanently-sprained-ankle]

Ways to describe pain

Because when someone asks “what kind of pain”, sometimes idk how to answer.

Dull vs sharp or stabbing

Shooting, “like electricity”

Hot, burning, searing

Cold, frozen

Pins and needles

Vibrating

Pulsing

Sore

Bruised (you can use this even if you’re not actually bruised!)

Shallow vs deep

Persistent vs wavering (“comes in waves”)

Itchy or scratchy

Stinging

Examples:

A paper cut could be described as sharp and shallow

A bug bite could be decribed at hot, persistent, and potentially stinging

A sprained ankle might be described as dull, bruised, deep, and pulsing

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[sastielsmanuscript-draft]

Sastiel Take:

-(more like sam take but i’ll include cas too) Sam is more Pink Pony Club coded 😭 not dean. actually-scratch that, the rise n fall of a midwest princess is literally Sam. After Midnight being a late night drunk bisexual realization? yes. Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl being him on multiple dates and realizing he wants to have fun? Yes. Casual being unrequited sastiel? YES. Picture You being Sam pining for Cas, wanting his divine gaze-the same one Cas gives to Dean-on him, even for a split second. YES! I could name a lot more perspectives about each song, not only being sad unrequitedness. Red Wine Supernove being a full on confession to Cas is my favorite daydream. But in all, I feel like both Sam and Cas relate to Pink Pony Club. The feeling of not fitting in your family’s image of you and not fitting into certain norms of the society is a quality they both share. To feel indifferent in a place where everybody is the same. But you want to feel like star! To show everybody what you’re made of and not just being evil reincarnated or an angel that needs to follow orders.

-The whole album is sastiel coded with too many coincidental ties that is somewhat canon and not at all. Like how both are essentially the black sheep of the “family.” Were created to fit in a mold made by their “fathers.”

-This is just to say, I agree with yall under my “Sam listening to Chappel Roan” post 😭. Dean has so many songs that describe him, but I don’t see much for Sam (or Cas). That might be me. Though Roan’s fun but somber album is a great mixture of wanting freedom and releasing inner emotions! Perfect way to also decribe Sam!

[chevvy-ryder]

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⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my art here or to any other platform, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated. Rogue cyberspace jacket by @pinkyjulien. The Witch pose pack by @busyvampire.

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For a long long while I've wanted to shoot pics of how I see Vijay as a netrunner in cyberspace or how I imagine a Cyberpunk 2077 cyberspace interface in his style could look.

More under the cut. Beware you may read how my head breaks into pieces as I try hard to understand Cyberpunk's netrunning world lore. I copy pasted some texts from lore books about netrunning because I lack in explainging by myself — so if you're interested, there you go:

First I thought about making the background black, like how it's in the game when you stand in front of the blackwall or talk to Alt. But somehow that isn't it for me.

I've read a while ago netrunners can program their cyberdecks I-G interfaces with a so called 'CREATOR' program that makes netspace like the netrunner wants or has to imagine it.

"There are two other programs on a cyberdeck. One is the Operating System: a program that listens to the instructions the Netrunner thinks to it and obeys his commends. The other is the CREATOR virtual reality system, which is really a complex drawing program that tells the I-G that “when you get this signal from the Net, show the guy this image instead of the one he normally would see.” Our small and stupid computer also has a capacious memory; it can store and run various programs (as directed by its owner), and it also has a huge library of images that both CREATOR and the I-G interface draw upon to interpret what the Netrunner sees while in Netspace. […] By activating the Creator drawing program hardwired into his cyberdeck, the runner is basically modifying the deck‘s basic I-G interface program. First, a background is selected from a huge database of backgrounds, then modified by using simple controls to adjust color, shading and texture. Then the 3-D objects are selected from another database of objects scanned from real life, then stored in a compressed, high-resolution form. The objects can be decompressed and “assembled” into virtual reality on four different levels of resolution. When a runner saves a program, he is saving all the instructions for redrawing the virtual reality he’s created. Anyone entering the Virtual (either where it is stored on the runner’s cyberdeck or in another system) automatically activates the picture and causes the cyberdeck or computer to reconstruct it."

— Rache Bartmoss' Guide to the Net – The Cyberpunk Sourcebook for the Global Computer Net

I'm honest, I'm having a hard time to understand the netrunning world as decribed in the lorebooks. Somehow it always ends same for me like when I watch documentations about the universe expansion, dark matter and supermassive black holes for too long: my head hurts, I have too many questions and I think I'm the dumbest being on the planet. lol

But this gave me basically the idea to make it look like it looks now in the pics, so I imagined maybe Vijay programs it so that it looks like how he wants it. But if he enters other parts of cyberspace he may not have an influence on it as it changes into a different interface if I understood it right.

Anyways, I took a behind the scenes shot this time if you are interested how my 'set' looked. It was very experimental. Who needs a photostudio? x)

By the Way:

The glowing balls visibly in his hands or next to him stand for an anti-system program named 'Cascade II' Vijay uses. Lorebook says this:

"Cascade is not a daemon, bearing more in common with Virazz and Viral 15. lt can only be used against a system CPU. When used, it overwrites system code, causing the CPU to switch programs at random. Every turn there's a 2 in 10 chance that whatever program the runner has encountered will change to something else at random-files might switch to ICE, ICE to system controllers, etc. Anything is possible! lf used against a cyberdeck, the deck chooses a new program at random to run each turn. Cascade can only be stopped by preventing it from reaching the CPU, or by dumping the system code and reloading it ICON: A floating ball of energy."

— Rache Bartmoss' Brainware Blowout – The Hardware and Software Compendium for Cyberpunk

Most of the netrunning stuff will stay a mysterium forever for me and I get why netrunning in the game is made that simple as it is. You simply cannot transfer this massive cyberspace stuff into a videogame. I imagine that e.g. Night City would have to be entirely rebuilt as cyberspace with changing interface virtual realities – everything needs an icon, has code gates, data walls, all kinds of watch dog programs and so on. There's like terrabites of programs runners use. From what I undestood is the quickhacks used in the game do invade other runner's and machine's MicroNets and we basically see it only happen in the real world because we do not see a runners cyberspace window. They are described like this:

"While The Net is a global community exploring everything fit for man and beast, a microNet is a pinched-off part of cyberspace all to itself with very small scope and very defined purpose. MicroNets are in things like: your own cyberwear, your smartgun, that AV-4 you were chased by last night or the hot little red Audi convertible of that girl you’ve been trying to find an excuse to get to know."

— Rache Bartmoss' Brainware Blowout – The Hardware and Software Compendium for Cyberpunk

MicroNets can be accessed through connection from outside (like these kind of data points or when you got real world access to it so you can simply jack in as we know in the game) or 'microNetrun' via a runner's c-deck. And I think ingame quickhacks such as "Synapse Burnout" as we gamers know them are in reality more Anti-Personnel programs called "Brainwipe" "Zombie" or "Lich". Last two are the evolution of Brainwipe what is describet like this:

Brainwipe is the simplest of a series of black programs, all of which are designed to attack the Netrunner instead of his programs. All black programs can be carried by an intruding Netrunner and used to attack other 'runners encountered in the Net. Brainwipe tracks the victim down, fries his forebrain with a jolt of current, and reduces him to a drooling vegetable <1D6 each turn to INTI. The screaming Netrunner feels his mind melt away, until his INT is reduced to O and he dies. Lost I NT cannot be regained.

This surely is a program Jaysen will definitely make use of. Vijay could but doesn't since he doesn't want to kill people anymore (he used it in his early runner days with a drugged mind as well).

Okay, okay I need to stop or it gets worse.

[evendimmer]

For the sapphic asks! 6, 10, 19 and, 29 :)

Beta 🐟 !!!! It's always so good to have u in my ask box, thank you for the questions 🫶

6. Are you good at picking up on when people are flirting with you, or do you tend to be more oblivious?

HAHAHAHAHAHhahahhahhahahhahahaHAHAHhahah *slamps desk* aha ha hah ha aha ha ha ha h—

No. 😔

I'm terrible at it. I can't tell if you're just being nice or flirting. My wee brain is not enough to process that buT IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO GIVE ME A LESSON ON THAT YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO PLEASE TEACH ME??? And teach me how to flirt as well bc I can't flirt to save my life?

10. Did you do anything gay as a kid that makes sense when you look back on your childhood?

I was so. fucking. into. Miss Honey. as a kid.

Oh Jennifer Honey they can never make me hate you

Ever since I've read that book??? I think it was in primary/elementary school, I've always DREAMED of (and fantasize about) moving in with my teacher???

My dream and life goals illustrated right here (I'm Matilda).

I didn't understand why I was soooo attracted to the idea but now I'm like

It's all finally making sense.

19. Decribe your fashion sense. Do you "dress gayly"?

In one picture:

Image taken from web not by me

I have 0 fashion sense if it helps. But if I have to describe it in one word it would be uh

Like I shit thee not 90% of my wardrobe is from there.

OK but in all seriousness I dress like this almost every day now:

Now you tell me if I'm gay enough or not 😔

29. How about a non-canon sapphic ship?

There's only one 1 ☝️ 1️⃣ 一個 occupying my head now...

is that right? @riovidalharkness 😏

Feat. @riovidalharkness's fave gif 👆 and mine 👇

I MEAN SERIOUSLY 1) HOW ARE THEY NOT CANON AND 2) HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE THEM

"I love you" "iloveyoutoo" uuughgghhghg my heart

LETS HEAR IT FOR ANN PERKINS THE BEAUTIFUL LESBIAN TROPICAL FISH AND APRIL LUDGATE THE BEAUTIFUL ANGRY CAT BISEXUAL

Now tell me YOUR favourite non-canon sapphic ship 🫵

[lordofhoard]

my name is ENIGMA or RANDAL. a more anonymous online signature would be R. SLUG. i am 23 (07/16) and use HE pronouns (close friends feel free to use SHE pronouns💞)

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[soleilevant]

Help submit video evidence of genocide in Gaza

(Image: Liberation Requires Resistance by Jessica Duling)

Here's how you can help stopping genocide in Palestine: submit video evidence of genocide in Gaza.

Download video of Israel's crimes from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. It's easier to download through https://israel-massacres.com/

Submit the video on https://otplink.icc-cpi.int/submission

Decribe what happened in the video and write this article for the Factual Summary part:

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998

Article 6 - Genocide Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

You can submit anonymously but listing your contact strengthen your evidence for ICC.

It takes less than 15 minutes of your time. Let's stop this genocide.

[aspirationatwork]

How do you decide for yourself if you should just decribe an image yourself or ask the OP to do it?

To be completely honest with you, it's a combination of how much energy I have and how motivated I feel.

So it's totally random, basically.

[quetzalpapalotl]

There's a trend of infantilization in TGCF that kinda makes me uncomfortable. And like, to some degree I understand, it's funny and hell, even I call LQQ and QYZ "my sons". It's to be expected, even, in a setting were age is such a hierarchical thing. Hell, Mei Nianqin's whole thing is that he treats everyone like children, even gods, because he is the oldest character and I don't think that means the book things everyone else is a kid. So in a sense, it's to be expected that the gods treat Lang Qianqiu and Quan Yizhen like children, they're 300 and 200 years old.

But also Yin Yu is that same age and he doesn't get treated like that. But okay, YY has limited interactions and ofc he doesn't feel as young when he's presented in the context of being Hua Cheng's right hand man and QYZ's shixiong.

Plus, Lang Qianqiu was our main character's student, so it's not weird that Xie Lian would be paternalistic towards him the same way MNQ is towards Xie Lian himself. But this child-like image is also supported by Lang Qianqiu being portrayed as naive in his honesty and good disposition. BUT this is also part of his arc, since we can argue that by hiding the truth from him, Xie Lian lowkey restrained his growth byt not letting LQQ confront his ideals against the reality of the world (which HC is even more explicit about in the revised). After Qi Rong's lair, Lang Qianqiu becomes bitter and acts unlike himself, but in the end he manages to retain the core of his good person, much like Xie Lian, so we can say that he has finally matured.

But then there's Quan Yizhen and like, I get it to some degree, but he has things like how children's clotes feel an affinity to him and it's uncomfortable when you remember that, be it deliberate or not, Quan Yizhen displays many autistic traits.

But honestly the worst for me is Lang Ying (ghost) because like he is straight up treated like a child and given a child's role even though he is decribed to look around 16 and has been dead for like 800 years. He's basically on the same boat as Xie Lian and Hua Cheng themselves so seriously what????? (guess that's one of the many weird things that led to his character being removed altogether, or at least makes his removal better for me)

anyway, I don't have a conclusion

[plaexus]

Not sure where mj came from as that doesn’t really describe mj at all especially considering her push and pull friendship with jm. nn even says that mj acts younger than her now and mj has said that she isnt direct and has never confessed to someone first before in a fan call. I’m all for them being friends but that doesn’t decribe mj at all. I hope that they can be friends as well but wy keeps her circle of friends very small. The personality that she used to show in iz*one is different and now that she is matured she has said realizes that she has a certain image to uphold so her true personality is rarely see. I am fans of both groups so I was confused when people started looping mj and jm in, and every other idols for that matter tbh.

i feel like there's still a lot to discover about mj, so we can't really say she's this way and not the inverse, unless she says so herself. it would be nice to see her interact with other people, we've seen her with a lot of unnies and not too many dongsaengs. so if ever she feels comfortable to spend time with other people like that, i'm sure she'd get to show her more nurturing and forward side too

yeah, i do get that impression from jwy, how she really had to mature quickly through the years and given everything she had to experience. she's very wise, but keeps a lot close to the vest

[deardiaryofmotiyani]

Reader :

Benjamin, W., 1968. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. In: H. Arendt, ed. Illuminations. Translated by H. Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, pp. 217–251. Available at : https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf

Benjamin talks about aura in a manner which decribes it as a way to talk about the artwork's unique presence and authenticity which is more often then not is tied to its historical and cultural context. He believes that mechanical reproduction takes away the aura of art by making it available for public, specially when it comes to photograph and film. Original works have experience unique only to them which is taken away when it is available in many places, thereby taking away the unique time and place of it. Benjamin highlights both the positive and negative aspect of the diminishing aura, while the traditional values are lost, access to the public makes it more democratic. Instead of art being a more ritualistic experience, it can also be used for political and social reasons.

2. Doane, M. A. (2002). The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. Harvard University Press. Chapter 3, pp. 55-72; Chapter 5, pp. 102-123. Available at: https://monoskop.org/images/c/c7/Doane_Mary_Ann_The_Emergence_of_Cinematic_Time_Modernity_Contingency_the_Archive.pdf

Doane talks about how the rise of digital media has a direct impact on the cinematic time, she believes that time and memory have traditional setups that are being disturbed by the modern media. She talks about how media in general but particularly film and animation build time in a manner where it shows the changes in technology and new media formats. This breakdown tells me that the way at which a film is paced at is directly proportional to evolution in the digital world. Time is both, an important factor in pacing and tool in the technological world, particularly in 2D animated works since animators dictate the message they want to convey, the story they want to tell and keep viewers engaged through the manipulation of timing of their animation.

3. Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. MIT Press. Chapter 2, pp. 25-47; Chapter 7, pp. 145-165. Available at: https://dss-edit.com/plu/Manovich-Lev_The_Language_of_the_New_Media.pdf

Manovich's book talks about visual media including animation is changing due to digital technologies, he researches how software, aesthetics and cultural practices interact and blend with each other. We see a new concept being introduced by him which is the "Remixability" of media and how softwares play an integral role in making new forms of art. For a 2d animator like me, this set of info opens up many different avenues when it comes to the iterations of animated works and their transformations made available through the use of digital tools. It also raises the idea to the creators of art to look at their works as a part of big collaborative community of digital culture, thereby also challenging the norms of authorship and originality.

4. Mulvey, L. (1989). Visual and Other Pleasures. Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1, pp. 1-10; Chapter 5, pp. 89-105. Available at: https://www.are.na/block/9469279

Mulvey critiques through her work on the "male gaze" how visual narratives, specially when it comes to film and animation, help in cementing the gender power structures. She makes a strong case how the patriarchal view that objectifies females is used to portray traditional women in our visual world. Understanding her view on this topic, personally makes me a more aware and a better artist. Makes me think how i can use my own work to challenge these stereotypes and empower diverse representations. Media has a direct impact on the audience, so artists being aware of these choices helps in educating the audience too.

5. Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. Routledge. Chapter 2, pp. 28-45; Chapter 7, pp. 135-155. Available at: https://cdn.glitch.me/05cf2253-657b-4ca7-a4fe-293daf3e7498%2Fkress%20and%20van%20leeuwen%20-%20reading%20images%20the%20grammar%20of%20visual%20design%202.pdf

A semiotic analysis of how visual grammar is used convey meaning through pictures can be seen in Kress and Van Leeuwen's work. When different factors in design, composition, colour and shape blend together they can convey an in depth emotional message. This book encourages me to grow the way i tell a story especially visually in the 2D world. In order to convey a message in the animated world, it is not one element that comes into play, you need to use every single visual element if you hope to connect with your audience. This can be seen in great detail in movies like Spider-Man : Into the spider-verse.

6. Dyer, R. (1997). White: Essays on Race and Culture. Routledge. Chapter 4, pp. 101-120; Chapter 6, pp. 151-170. Available at: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315003603/white-richard-dyer

Whiteness is looked at as a normal regular occurring theme in cultural representations and this is something that Dyer talks about in his work when he explores the topic of race in media. He emphasises that many forms of media require a more diverse depiction of race and also an accurate one. It challenges the way i think about race and how it is represented in animated works. Inspiring me to make works that contribute in making the animation industry a more inclusive and diverse one, since there is more freedom to the characters that can be represented in this industry there also needs to be more thought and authenticity.

7. Hayles, N. K. (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press. Chapter 2, pp. 45-70; Chapter 6, pp. 135-155. Available at: https://monoskop.org/images/5/50/Hayles_N_Katherine_How_We_Became_Posthuman_Virtual_Bodies_in_Cybernetics_Literature_and_Informatics.pdf

Hayles's discusses how in digital media within the virtual and cybernetic worlds the way bodies are portrayed, in his research about idea of posthuman. He also talks about new ways of embodiment and interactions in the digital place is created through media. With innovations like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), it really makes us develop a new perspective on we see body and media in these innovations. With the technological part of media pushing boundaries it is time the artistic side does too.

8. Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Columbia University Press. Chapter 1, pp. 1-24; Chapter 4, pp. 102-125. Available at: https://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/Zombies/Powers%20of%20Horror.pdf

Kristeva talks about how grotesque visually or the confrontation of the "other" has a emotional and psychological impact and what that is in her work on abjection. How abjection is visually represented plays a direct role in stirring discomfort and horror within the audience and how it can do it. What are the visual elements that us artist can use to evoke strong, unsettling, highly emotional reactions within the audience. It lays a foundation on how to engage the viewers through a disturbing visual narrative which pushed the normal boundaries.

9. Praveen CK, Srinivasan K. Psychological Impact and Influence of Animation on Viewer's Visual Attention and Cognition: A Systematic Literature Review, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions. Comput Math Methods Med. 2022 Aug 31;2022:8802542. doi: 10.1155/2022/8802542. PMID: 36092789; PMCID: PMC9453061. Available at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36092789/

This article reviews the literature on the psychological impact of animation, takin its attention on visual attention and cognition. The emotion response, attention span and cognitive processes are all affected when the viewers watch animated content. The article tells us that the parameters used to study animation are not full proof and need more study in how they can be used more effectively in contexts like education. It does not only factor in the industry of animation but also talks about the blending of animation with psychology and cognitive science, providing valuable insights for academic as well as artist interested in the psychological part of animation.

10. Pichayapinyo, P., Sompopcharoen, M., Thiangtham, W. et al. Perceptions of the 2D short animated videos for literacy against chronic diseases among adults with diabetes and/or hypertension: a qualitative study in primary care clinics. BMC Prim. Care 25, 374 (2024) Available at: https://bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-024-02621-z

The authors research how literacy for chronic diseases is promoted through 2D animated shorts, specially when it comes to diabetes and hypertension, with the audience for the research being adults in primary care clinics. The emphasis of the study is to find out if the animated video where helping the target audience understand and manage their condition. Even in detail personal experience was taken into account through interviews to get idea of impact on health literacy. In the end the studies worked out in the favour of animated videos, where the increased literacy and worked better than traditional material used to spread awareness.

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99 Abstract Paintings for Imagination without Limits

In Italian “Ecco” means “Look!” “Behold”: This deck of 99 abstract cards was painted by John David Ellis to invite us to look carefully at colours, forms, patterns. There are no titles, and no correct meanings. Each of us sees something different. The ECCO cards are a challenge for the imagination, a springboard into art, a magic carpet into the world of fantasy.

Create your own exhibitions, decribe the images as landscapes or a dream. Like all the picture decks, ECCO cards combine well with the OH word cards, or with paintings from other decks of the genre.