#how to have more productive meetings

[luannudell]

PLEASE. WE'RE ADULTS. We Know How to Read!

I don’t know how to present this post today without offending some people, but I have to. I attended a committee meeting awhile ago, where we were welcoming new people, meeting up with them, and sharing insights and suggestions for their best outcome. We were given a print-out of all the suggestions needed for our event. We were supposed to have to time go through the suggestions, then meet up…

[tea-cat-arts]

I simply think this fandom doesn't give Wei Wuxian enough credit for the various ways in which he saved Lan Wangji

[sk-yay-sk]

I don't like any of the maps I've seen for HTTYD so i'm playing a puzzle game w all the locations. This is the 3rd version so far

[un-pearable]

as true as the jokes about “everyone wants to rewrite ninjago” are i feel like smthn people forget when complaining about the inconsistencies of the show is that…. it wasn’t planned? it’s not like most other animated shows lately - it didn’t start with a deeply fleshed out world or a meticulously designed pitch bible with grandiose plans for a long-term story or character arcs. the ninja don’t originally get their powers from heredity because they weren’t hereditary powers yet. the magic system doesn’t make sense bc they literally just made it up as they went! they go back and forth on stuff like whether non-elementals can learn spinjitzu bc it’s a collaborative piece of media made by people with vastly different levels of control over the story, the animation, the sets, etc. that varied over the course of the series. it’s totally understandable and exciting to see so many people reworking the early stuff with the lore and logic later seasons introduced but i personally feel that… if you’re doing that. you need to understand why the show is like that instead of writing it off as being bad and shitty. it was working with what it had. it’s only what it is now because of that awkward troubleshooting phase, not in spite of it

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[helenawa-art]

Without fail everytime I tell anyone that I draw and I graduated in illustration art they tell me and where do you post your art?!?!? Then I have to take a deep breath and tell them I mostly don't use social media because how the algorithm treats artists and how that for a long time stressed me enough to not enjoy fully the process. Then they go ?!!!?!?! But you HAVE to post your art somewhere???? How else are you gonna be someone in the industry??? Then I tell them I'm okay like this and they go on and on about how i should do it anyway

[saph-yells-into-the-void]

still thinking abt the bllk s2 trailer bc makes me so upset. not bc its horrible, but bc of all the ways it COULDVE looked good.

s1 had sliding frames like those that were shown in the trailer, but you could tell that effort was put in to create the illusion of movement: the swaying of the hair, the limbs moving slightly, the subtle movement of other characters--there wasn't not much animation but at least they tried to compensate for it. and that was with all the production issues they had.

the s2 trailer didnt even have that. the characters slided across the screen with zero animation, several shots had only one character moving while the rest stayed frozen in a pose that was clearly in motion.

Theres this one scene where it showed a close-up of isagi's feet running (3d but well-done imo) and then isagi passing the ball to rin. And this looked good! the movement felt natural and it flowed well! and then they fucking ruined it by cutting to rin sliding behind another player.

there was a shot of hiori passing the ball, except instead of showing at the very least subtle movement of his leg, they cut to a still frame. that shot of chigiri receiving the ball? no hair swaying, no movement of his limbs-just a png photo moving across the screen.

it makes the characters feel so lifeless and stiff, and takes away the high intensity of the scenes. and they thought these were the best scenes to include in the TRAILER?

i cant tell if this lack of attempt to at least create the illusion of movement is due to the complicated designs or just pure laziness on 8bit's part, but ever since that leak abt s2, the latter is starting to appear more plausible. it just makes me so angry that a trailer that had many good things going for it was ruined by the poor decisions for the actual animation itself.

[memento-morri-writes]

It's been well over a week now (maybe two??) but I'm still plugging away (ever-so-slowly) at this vignette about Zara and Rook. Zara's POV is a lot of fun to write, now that I have a better sense of her character. Writing this has really solidified in my mind the kind of person she is and how she acted when she was Rook's captain and mentor. She's very calm and collected in comparison to Rook, even when under a lot of stress.

Anyways, have a little snippet that I'm proud of from today, featuring the origins of the coin trick!

Pacing back and forth across her cabin floor, she rolled the coin back and forth over her knuckles again and again. The motion was easy, almost mindless, more muscle memory than real intent. The coin trick had been her favorite way to soothe her nerves for years now. She’d picked it up out of idle curiosity after watching a street performer dining in a tavern in Bon Largo, who had chatted with her for over an hour as she fretted about something mundane, never once dropping the coin from their fingers. The same performer had later tried to steal her coin purse and ended up with nothing but a new scar for their trouble, but Zara had learned two important things from the encounter: Not to trust a warm smile and a pretty face, and that keeping her hands moving kept her mind from dwelling too much on worrisome things.

one-time tagging @space-writes because they commented on my tags about Rook learning the coin trick from Zara in one of my other snippets from this piece.

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Me: I should probably clean my room, unpack, find my laptop and finish the work tasks that were due yesterday

Also me: I think I'm going to hot glue flowers, vines, and ribbons to a basket instead :)

[seekingthestars]

i bought this moisturizer + serum that was kind of expensive bc it came in a gift set and was cheaper than it normally would have been and i'm actually sorta mad that i think it's actually working and helping my skin bc now that means i'm gonna wanna buy more when i run out but it'll be full price and that is 😭😭😭

[pepprs]

mutuals i got myself into a situation so sticky i don’t even know how to describe it (edit: *describes it* lol). please send thoughts of successful escape my way lol

[peapod20001]

I actually do have very complex thoughts about many different things, it’s just a bit challenging to connect the inner voice to the outer voice sometimes </3

[tropical-lazor-beams]

[image description: black and white sketch. dangeresque, further in the background, points his nunchuck-gun forward in a wide stance. dangeresque too, in the foreground, leans back on his feet & points his own gun in the air. they both look seriously to the right at an unseen target. at the left are some crates in the background. the caption is red, blocky & curvy text, reading "you take the big guy". end image description]

i honest to god put more stock into the relationship between these double-fictional characters than sb & hs themselves sometimes

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[passive-poet]

I genuinely want to know how Chick-fil-a is actively “grossly against the lgbt” besides the claims of donating to anti-lgbt groups in the past (exodus I totally understand being upset about but salvation army?)

It’s always been clear that CFA holds traditional Christian values — ones that don’t line up with queer values. I mean they advertise their religious programs pretty openly.

Sonic? Do I want to starve in 10 days or die of grease in 3 days??

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Every so often I get glimpses into the workings of the Disaster Group and... They are allowed less freedom than I was at my previous group as a data entry peon? They are supposed to work by the book and nothing else, including the parts that are currently impossible. Someone, somewhere, added invisible rules to the book.

I just got a case transferred to me that's earmarked for supervisor approval because it's got a psych diagnosis on it and might be in-patient psychotherapy.

Fam, they were delivered to the ER in an ambulance, too medically delirious to let anyone figure out what the cause was. This is for a local hospital in bum fucking nowhere. What part of it makes you think this is a pre-planned, voluntary 3 month stint of group therapy.

You are being paid 5k a month. Please use your brain accordingly.