#even more edits haha

[atlemist]

femstars fine

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[blanc-ci]

Dental checkup, that’s one of the captain’s responsibilities right? No? Well…

[turtleblogatlast]

Tiny little guys

(That comic of mine is on its way - wanted to share the little ones from the current wip haha - EDIT: no longer wip!)

[m0thwinged]

I decided to edit Roger into the new normal album :)

[marshmallowgoop]

ShinRan Week 2023: Day 4 | Black Knight and Princess

[flowerprintundies]

acrylic charm design work in progress

[hitachiincest]

"PICK UP THE PHONE, F*CKER." (-'Bury Me In Black')

an edit of the Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge album cover but with adashu! using panels from the official p4 manga by shuji sogabe ^^ 🩸

[daily-xisuma]

[025] I memorized the enochian characters for use as a cipher :-)

[rileys-battlecats]

i spent 8 hours working on a 13 second stretch of animatic. what's wrong with me

[vaguely-concerned]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak Characters: Elim Garak, Julian Bashir Additional Tags: Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Pre-Relationship, Pining, Character Study, Story: A Stitch in Time - Andrew Robinson, The Little Julian Bashir Who Lives In Garak's Head, This is basically just Garak’s poor brain cells going, ‘if you can no longer have drug-induced vivid breaks from reality home-made is fine’ Summary:

“Your kindness haunts my life like nothing else. I don’t understand how I could ever pay you back.”

“That’s fine. You don’t have to. It was freely given.”

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I have never lived with despair, Doctor, the way I live with it now, Garak writes, and with that is for once telling nothing but the truth

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hey look I wrote a thing!

[kheprriverse]

No art today coz I’m working on some dragon refs for an infodump post which won’t be going up until they’re all done. So here’s wips of said dragons!

One of them is already done and took me nearly the entire day to finish lol. I have a complete mess of layers for her coloring because I kept not liking it then liking it then deciding on smth else and… I think she looks good now 👍

The second one isn’t colored yet but I did stay up later than usual trying to finish his scales, which were the pain this time. I may end up redoing a section tbh 💀

[solaestial]

SOOOO i wrote a chrissell fanfic!!

it is... a very self-indulgent little one shot and my first attempt on a fic ever.... :> 

they kiss kiss 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

[turtleblogatlast]

“Triple Baka” but it’s Leo, Mikey, and Donnie whenever Raph is forced to be the voice of reason

[vinnyandthephenomena]

the fact marble hornets would not work in 2024 is something that resonates with me & how vastly different the internet was & honestly just the whole stigma around args and the whole “found footage” type of genre that wasn’t super popular. & in these recent years i just feel like it wouldn’t work as well as it did then..

[marshmallowgoop]

About Lip Flap...

So, Ending 72 of Detective Conan got me thinking about lip flap:

What do I mean by that? Well, in some circles of the AMV-making world, it's maybe viewed as a "sin" to leave lip flaps unedited when there are no audible words. You either cut out the movements entirely, or you sync up the movements to match the lyrics of the song. Lip flap is distracting and immersion breaking.

Yet... this Detective Conan ending—mixing anime and music just like an AMV!—has lots of lip flap. Characters are talking and living and spouting out conversations, and there's no effort at all to hide or remove that. In fact, this sequence was deliberately animated that way.

And it's far from the only Detective Conan example in this vein. Which brings me to my next thought: early episodes of Detective Conan include instances of montages or characters otherwise moving their mouths without sound, but the FUNimation English dub seemingly found this so uncomfortable that words were added in:

Sometimes, I really love this choice! Conan's voice fading into Shinichi's in Episode 39 is one of my all-time favorite moments in the dub. Similarly, Conan's added little "but"s in Episode 32 are adorable.

But I feel like the montage in Episode 37 is weakened by the added dialogue because we didn't need any words to understand the story, and while Episode 42 might be argued to be more compelling and "show don't tell" without Conan's narration, we do miss a fair amount of information from that narration.

Overall, though, I think the changes indicate a cultural difference. Lip flap without audible words is fine for Japanese audiences, but overseas, it's seen as awkward and jarring.

So, is it a "sin" to include unedited lip flap in your AMVs? Well, it probably depends on who you ask!

But personally, my mindset has changed to not at all. I think there are moments where the indication of words can be quite powerful, just like in Detective Conan Ending 72 or the montage in Episode 37. While I mostly try to remove or sync lip flap in my own AMVs, there are also definitely times where I leave it. What's wrong with showing that there was a conversation?

That said... I gotta come clean. One of my first reactions to Ending 72 was to almost cringe at all the lip flap! But then I thought about it some more. While I'm rather inexperienced with making MMVs (Manga Music Videos), ever since I started, I've been a fan of leaving the speech bubbles unedited, text and all—despite the fact that this, similarly, seems to be somewhat of a "sin." I liked providing context, I liked that there were creative things you could do with the dialogue... and hey, is that really so different from leaving in some lip flap from time to time?

In the end, AMV editing is very subjective. Everyone has their own preferences and styles that speak to them, and that's part of what makes the art form so beautiful to me. But Ending 72 made me step back and reconsider some of the "rules" that I'd drilled into my head. Maybe what I've become so used to seeing as a "flaw" can actually be quite powerful in its own right!