#film tools

[toonwreck]

Quick doodle with some other style thingy, idk

[animatedjen]

hey Jen how's Traitor Inquisito— I'm making my own cutscenes help

[nadianova]

how would you rate my grip on that thang

[ladesertrose]

Lawrence of Arabia behind the scenes

[meinqiwu]

there is nothing in the desert

[hisirdouxcasperan]

“Ah, Man in Moon! Sandy, why didn't you say something?”

Bonus:

[delyth88]

I'm fascinated with how movie-verse!Charles must have discovered and experimented with his abilities. I imagine he must have started off scared and nervous and then rapidly swung to being cocky and confident when he realises just how much control he has over everyone. He can make them do whatever he wants. He can make them like him, he can make them give him good marks in school when he didn't bother to try, he can make them be nice to Raven.

And then I wonder how long it took for this heady feeling to pass and for him to understand the humanity in each person and realise that he doesn't really want to control anyone after all.

And how easily it could have gone a different way.

[squirrelstone]

me watching the Spider-Man franchise become a metaphor for determinism in direct conversation with the original concept

[ophanimlover]

Quickie drawing I just finished of EVE from WALL·E!

Full resolution drawing, progress pictures and Paint Tool SAI file

[toonwreck]

[backofthetoolshed]

Actually peak final girl design that i’ve only seen done like twice and have no idea what to call it. if there are any pieces of horror media with characters like this let me know IMMEDIATELY its genuinely so raw.

(Art by Martin Walls)

[asexualbookbird]

Whoo boy. Lots of things going on here, many of them Not Good, so I threw myself into video games and reading. Played a whole bunch of Project Sekai, so much Project Sekai I have to now force myself to take a break from Project Sekai because my hands hurt so much. I was absolutely SPOILED by my friends on my birthday. I look at my little Miku figure everyday and it brings me SO much joy!! Got an embroidery machine and I already have a couple jobs lined up so hopefully I can make a little bit of Fun Money. At the very least I'm hoping to make enough to upgrade the program so I can make my own freehand designs! I read SIX (6) books this month and I annotated in the margins for the first time! It was fun, but I think it was only fun because I was leaving notes for a friend. I don't think it's something I would enjoy on my own so I won't be making a habit of it. Still! Fun and new and exciting!

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- Okay Initially I rated this four stars, but sitting on it for a month I ADORED this. It left so many good feelings. Fun and silly and gross, I want more like this.

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - A reread! Still love it! I'd forgotten so much it was nice to revisit and about halfway through I remembered the ending which was fun. Opted for the audio this time which was absolutely delightfully done.

Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch ⭐⭐⭐ - Not my favorite, but still fun. I find it a Choice that the use of outdated slurs was a hint at a plot point. Peter made a promise to a child, so there's no way that will come back to bite him!

The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai ⭐⭐- I listened to the audiobook and I think that didn't help my enjoyment of this. I switched to a hard copy in the last 20% and found my opinions of the two main characters switching. I didn't like Nehal's narrator, so I didn't like Nehal. But reading it myself she was more tolerable. Aside from Giorgina having an abortion, this could have easily been a young adult novel, and even then it wouldn't necessarily have been out of place. The writing didn't feel like an adult novel, which I hate saying but I know of no other way to voice my feelings on this.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- PERFECT. WONDERFUL. LOVED EVERY BIT! I know I just complained about a book reading like YA, but listen. Elatsoe was SO good. The love Elatsoe has for her family and her family for her is so refreshing. She's ace. Her loved ones love her. She loves them. And she's ace. It's not about Being Ace, but still! There she is! The audio was so easy and pleasant to listen to. I want my own copy because I KNOW I want to read this again. Absolutely delightful.

Whispers Underground by Ben Aaronovitch ⭐⭐⭐- didn't enjoy it as much as the first, but enjoyed it more than the second. Typing the title out made a lightbulb go off and I Got It. The buried alive chapter had me squirming. Abigail returned. There are an awful lot of guns in this series for being set in London and here they still had to poke fun at the American being trigger happy (she was). I'm a little burnt out on this series for now, but I'll return to it in the future.

June is bringing a birthday tea party for my mom, finishing a knit hat for my mom, making a homebound sketchbook for my friend, and whatever books I feel in the mood for. I'd say throw suggestions at me, but the instant someone says YOU MUST READ THIS my brain goes hm. No uwu. I think I want to make Monthly Reading Goals photos again, that was fun! Only book set in stone this month is The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi which I've already started and am enjoying a lot so far. Good omens and good vibes for June, I am speaking that into existence.

[igotsnothing]

Nothatanyonecaresintheleast, BUT! I DID THE THING!

Here's the final tally of the Update versus My Sanity:

Game loaded but lashes were broken and some custom wallpapers were busted! It's OK! I was PREPARED! I reverted back to DX9 and updated all my beautiful Kijiko lashes because Sasha's personality is basically his eyelashes, so I am eternally grateful to @kijiko-sims (やあ！アップデートありがとう！さいこうです！🥰それに、かんじがわかりません。😅)

UPDATE 0 - ME 1

Went to check out Ciudad Enamorada. There were duplicate worlds, so I exited without saving, removed my mods folder, and ran repair in my game.

UPDATE 0 - ME 2!

BUT THEN! When I removed my mods folder to my desktop, my system told me I already had such a folder and I merely x-fered new files to the pre-existing folder and then my 'puter deleted the mods folder from the game instead of recycling because it's such a honking large folder. When I opened the game, the duplicate problem was solved but then the world wouldn't even load and I had a million exception alerts and I thought I had screwed myself over and was going to shit a brick.

INCOMPETENT ME 100- ME 2

Thankfully, I realized the old folder still had some outdated versions of big mods alongside the updated ones. I deleted them and now everything seems to work. Everyone looks right and hopefully that's it.

UPDATE 0 - ME 3 (As of right now. Hopefully, there will be no further developments affecting this tally, omg pleasepleaseplease)

Thank you for coming to this riveting account of updating my game.

[ladesertrose]

Omar Sharif on his friendship with Peter O’Toole. They really did love each other 🥺

[behaemoth]

I’m only 3 episodes in but I really love what they’re doing with cooper’s accent or speech mannerisms how every you wanna phrase it. The fact that in the past behind the scenes he has a completely average American accent but in character he has the dumb cowboy voice & centuries later as the ghoul any trace of that cooper voice is gone. Like he’s lost in this role or has become it for real or any trace of the human cooper are dead and gone. Idk!!!! I’m interested to see what else comes of it in the next episodes but it’s a very cool detail

[mibibosartblog]

Some more merman!Jim for Mermay, but mostly Cassandra from a bootleg/rip-off Little Mermaid cartoon from Golden Films / Good Times Entertainment. This all came about from a dream, and I kinda love the idea of her being involved now. Whoops?

You can see her original form in the top right, and some slightly varying redesigns. I still haven't decided on what her bottom half is supposed to be yet :'D In the cartoon she's an eel, but I'm considering shark fins or something angler-fish like, though that might be a little too stereotypical?

The plot so far is under the cut.

Jim is trying to figure out a way to get on land to reclaim a relic that was stolen by divers, and with no other merfolk willing to help him, he seeks out the help of Cassandra. She minces no words about the dangers of the above world, but promises to help him get back at the thieving humans. She takes his voice as "collateral," because humans won't listen to reason anyway, and if he's going to do anything, he must lay low and keep quiet.

Jim gets on land, and soon meets humans. The humans theorize he's lived on a ship for most of his life, and never learned to read or write. They're uncertain whether he's non-verbal from before, or if it's a result of the shipwreck trauma, but they try their best to get him accustomed to life on land. Jim's surprised to be treated with kindness when he's only ever known them as invaders, and quickly realizes he's been duped by Cassandra. In the following days, Jim tries to figure out a way to communicate the importance of the relic to the people below the waters, and what will happen if he doesn't return with it.