#hit me with it - Mono

[aroace-polyshow]

i love friends bc sometimes they love a character in a way that makes you love them even more or at least have a newfound appreciation for them bc of how happy they make ur friend

[teastarfall]

haven’t posted any art in a hot minute. lemme fix that

[monoisbored]

i wanted to work on one of my "scary" art piece (yuki stabbed by a fork, about to be eaten) in the train, when i realised a little girl was watching me draw so i ended up with rough sketches of flora and apple white

[monos-monologue]

[nervigg]

Being creative is so incredibly hard once you fall out of the habit of drawing every day. Once you stop your habit of drawing for even one day, you realize how much fun other things are as you consider making art less and less every day. I'm not gonna pretend I love making art atm and I'm not gonna come on here to apologize for that either, but this burnout has followed me for a couple of years now and art is just no fun for me currently.

I don't draw because I want to draw, I draw because it's become a habit so all my art ends up lackluster and unfinished because i have no passion to create anymore and I'm afraid until I find that passion again you won't see much of me on this account.

Sorry to anyone I still owe art to, be it commissions or trades I promise I haven't forgotten and i will not abandon these projects! I just always second guess myself and I'm more stressed about art than I ever have in my entire life.

I think it's time to give it a rest.

[wyllzel]

meemaw saw me smooch alistair and said NOT ON MY WATCH!! >:(

that conversation was actually anxiety-inducing tho hahaha i want to impress meemaw but alistair... ;_;💓 i am so curious about wynne's lore tho... she said something in the fade (i finished poor connor's quest) and she still hasn't told me why she had a fainting spell... (hopefully she'll tell me soon and i didn't miss a trigger ? oop LOL)

[mybiasisexo]

[w1lmutt]

Head full brain overworked I'm thinking about the flesh in ln2 again

[mono-blogs-art]

Btw I FINALLY got to watch Inu-Oh on the big screen today, after I've missed it at every single festival I've been to in the last 2 years lol.

Absolutely fan-fucking-tastic movie.

"Oohhhh the RevStar blogger likes the movie about performing that is about celebrating art and the joy of creating something new that morphs into basically a musical movie in the second half" I know!!!! I know this isn't a surprise to anyone but like WOW!!!!!

[blondeaxolotl]

BREAKING NEWS

Mono breaks tumblrs and their own just because of tumblrs booping!

(Breaking news more like breaking pages 💔)

I'm still mad at tumblr cause it logged me out 3 times during my booping session

[aroace-polyshow]

you ever put way too much effort into a shitpost

[sabbatiq]

i've always preferred the single version of mienai mono to the album version up until now; the album version feels more desperate, closed off, opressive..the single version had this promise that kept me listening to it over and over again

but now, the six nine lyrics are demolishing me

/

And here I am with my friends

While we go mad and sing our songs

Dance into infinity

It's a night so full of joy

Yeah I think I'm going mad

While a person stays alive

Always he's wishing that he could cry

Only when a person dies

Does he laugh, does he learn the way to smile

[sad-boy-mono]

Thinking about the short, gruff, blue collared, middle aged man I saw at an all age drag show that walked up to the stage to give each king and queen a tip each song

[monocotyledons]

what do you MEAN the pi day lunar eclipse isn't available in my country 😭😭😭

[turnaboutfix]

So for today's Maya May I will talk about Phoenix's introduction to the title "Mystic Maya" in Japanese. Yes, it involves honorifics!

"Aa. ....Aata* ga, ano."

"Aaah. ...You must be... that person."

(English Localization: "Oh… You must be that good sir…")

"("Aata*" tte... boku no koto ka?)"

"("You"... does she mean me?)"

(EL: "("Good sir"…? Is she talking about me?)")

*Real quick, "ああた"/"Aata" is interesting. It's a way of saying "あなた"/"Anata" which means "you". However, it sounds like "あーた"/"Aata", which is a way wives address their husbands and is a more common word out of the two (I had to find a pretty advanced dictionary to even find the "ああた" spelling). It's quite possible that's why Phoenix was confused here.

"Aata, bengoshi de go zaamasho?"

"You're a lawyer, right?"

(EL: "You are a lawyer, are you not, good sir?")

"Mayoi-sama kara ukagatte orimasu wa yo."

"I have heard about you from Mayoi-sama."

(EL: "I have heard much about you from Mystic Maya.")

Naruhodo/Phoenix:

"Sore wa doumo. (Mayoi "sama"....?)"

"Is that so? (Mayoi "sama"...?)" ("Sama" here is written in katakana, which gives the vibe that Phoenix is saying it funny, like he's not sure about it. It's sort of like how we use italics: "Mayoi-sama....?")

(EL: "Is that so? ("Mystic" Maya…?)")

So, Phoenix has spent an entire game calling her Mayoi-chan, with "-chan" being a casual honorific which, in this case, he's using to describe his close friendship with her (it can also be used toward young children, pets, and lovers).

Now, he's suddenly hit with someone calling her "Mayoi-sama", "-sama" being the most respectful honorific and reserved for people in positions of power and even gods (it's also used for customers and guests in a business setting).

Naruhodo/Phoenix:

"Mayoi-chan, "-sama" dzuke de yoba reru hodo erai ndesu ka?"

"Is Mayoi-chan so important that she's to be called "-sama"?"

(EL: "So why do you add "Mystic" to Maya's name. Isn't that a little… strange?")

"Aata!!"

"You!"

(EL: "Good sir!")

"Mayoi-sama ni mukatte, nante narenareshii!"

"How over-familiar you are toward Mayoi-sama!"

(EL: "How dare you be so rude and disrespectful towards Mystic Maya!)

""Mayoi-sama" to o yobi nasaimashi!"

"You are to address her as "Mayoi-sama"!"

(EL: "She must be addressed by her proper title, good sir. You must call her "Mystic Maya"!")

Naruhodo/Phoenix:

"A, ano. ...Sono, Mayoi-sama‥‥ no kotodesukedo?"

"Ah, um. ...So, Mayoi-sama... what is it about her?"

(EL: "Um, uh… So, about Mystic Maya… Uh…")

And like struggling to call Maya "Mystic Maya" in the localization, Phoenix has to be constantly corrected into calling her "Mayoi-sama".

And Pearl, like in the localization, has something to say about it:

"Futsuunara, Mayoi-sama wo "-chan" dzuke de yoba reru no wo kiku dake de, watakushi, hippataite shimau tokoro desu."

"Normally, if I hear someone address Mayoi-sama as "-chan", I slap them."

(EL: "Usually when people don't use Mystic Maya's title, I get mad.")

"Demo, Naruhodo-kun wa iino desu."

"But it's okay if Naruhodo-kun does."

(EL: "But if it's you, Mr. Nick, then it's OK.")

"Datte.... Mayoi-sama no.... omoware bito desu mono ne."

"After all... you're Mayoi-sama's... beloved, aren't you?"

(EL: Because… Because… you're "special" to her.")

Naruhodo/Phoenix:

"(Dakara, nande sou naru ndaa‥‥)"

"(Why would that be the case...)"

(EL: "(Where in the world did she get an idea like that??)")

Well buddy, your familiar language toward Maya isn't helping this sheltered child's impressions. Lmao.

[polarity-disturbed]

Ok no, I have to get it out of my system, Conrad is bad at podcasting. And just recording anything in general.

The sound padding is doing absolutely nothing. Sure, they’ve got it slapped on the walls, but it’s off to the side. Not behind them. Not in front of them. Just... chilling. Which is useless. You want that padding facing the source of the sound so it can catch the waves before they start bouncing all over the place.

Since both Ruby and Conrad are facing forward with the padding off to the side, her voice is bouncing off the wall behind him and hitting his mic again a split second later. That would be making the audio sound muddy and hollow. Having the foam off to the side like that is like putting a bandage next to your cut and wondering why you’re still bleeding.

Right now, the foam is just there for vibes. Bad vibes.

And who told this man to record in a glass box? Glass is terrible for audio. Everything bounces. Nothing gets absorbed. It turns your voice into a pinball machine. You could have a thousand-dollar mic and it would still sound like you’re talking inside a fishbowl. Plus, that room looks like it’s in the middle of an office space? Why, Conrad, you amoeba-brained sycophant, would you record anything there ever?? The background noise alone would be hell on Earth to try to edit out.

Pop filter and foam windscreen (mic cover)??? Both are designed to reduce plosive sounds—like "p" and "b"—by dispersing the air before it hits the microphone diaphragm. While it’s not wrong to use both, it’s redundant unless you're outdoors or in a particularly plosive-heavy environment. Stacking them can even dull the audio a bit.

Your mic doesn’t need two hats. Calm down.

Not an audio note but a soft box light in the shot?? No. Just no. They should be behind the camera, pointing at you. Or at least off to the side, not pointing directly down the middle. And what really gets me? There are windows. Real, working windows with actual sunlight. And what did Conrad do? He covered them with that useless sound padding. So now it’s badly lit and echoey.

He blocked out free, natural light to keep in the bad sound.

"But what if the sun’s there right when he’s trying to record?" some might say. That’s why curtains exist. And the soft box would still be in a bad spot.

Also, his camera audio is peaking like crazy. Even if he's not using the camera mic for the final cut, it’s still useless to record it like this. You know that Xbox early Halo/COD mic sound? That’s what this would sound like.

This happens when the input gain is too high, causing the audio to clip. Basically, the mic can’t handle it and the sound gets distorted. Ideally, you want your audio levels to peak in the yellow zone, around -12 dB to -6 dB. Not constantly slamming into the red at 0 dB. That’s reserved for 13-year-old prepubescents cursing you out for ruining their kill streak. And that’s it.

On top of that, both the left and right channels on the camera audio look identical, meaning the audio’s been merged into a single mono track. Which isn’t wrong for speech, but it kills any sense of space or direction. For dynamic audio, especially in a two-person setup, you don’t want everything crammed into one lane. (OR they’re both just peaking at the same time continuously, even when they’re not talking, which means it’s picking up background noise at a level so loud it’s pushing the mic into clipping.)

And to make things worse, the little "LIVE" tag in the bottom corner implies this is a livestream. But there doesn’t seem to be any livestream software open on his laptop, so I’m assuming there’s either a second offscreen computer handling the stream, or it’s hooked up to broadcast natively.

Either way, unless those mics are also connected to the camera or that other computer, that peaky, crunchy camera audio is what people are actually hearing.

Finally... it really helps if you hit the record button. He’s just playing back audio. I think that’s more of a “show” thing, but still.

(look I got a fancy degree in this stuff and I have to use it somehow)