#i have a lot of thoughts about that

[class1akids]

It's kind of wild that we got this animated in the same week as the manga revealing that this is Japan's current No 1 ass hero

[receivemymajesty]

Me personally I don't like the idea of bi-regeneration - or at the very least, I don't like how it's been done here.

I think the idea of the Doctor splitting off into two very different contrasting personas could be a great narrative gimmick, but in this case what we have is "next Doctor" and "fan favourite". Not be cynical but I genuinely think this has been done from a marketing angle. I think the rumours of a Tennant spin-off likely have merit.

To me, the idea of regeneration represents the very human experience of changing as we grow. We never stay static. We become different people throughout our lives and to me regeneration has always been a metaphor for that. Sometimes we revisit our old selves, that's fine! But they're not who we are now. We change and move on.

With bi-regeneration it poses lots of questions, who IS the Doctor now? What is his narrative arc? How will he grow and change when he's two completely different people on the same timeline? What happens when either of them regenerate? Are they two halves of a whole, or two completely seperate beings? Will we get two different timelines of the Doctor? How does that work from a story standpoint?

Obviously I'll watch and wait, but so far I'm really not certain what direction this show is being taken.

[worms-go-here]

you too can make this logo if you have a minute and basically any program. Illustrator, Word, Slides, Canva, Paint, all super doable if you're familiar enough with the software to be able to make a square, change the color and have the font Futura Bold on your computer (if not you can download it in another minute easily from google search) and can kern it in on top of the square. Here's a gif of me making it in 53 seconds from start to finish:

Why did they do this?

Because they're launching a debit card. They wanted a new look for their brand because they're "ushering a new customer experience" (according to the verge). Which is fine, a company's rebrands should have a reason; they shouldn't update just to update. Paypal felt this was a significant enough change for them to want to change their identity with it. And maybe it will be; they're moving into the physical wallets alongside our digital wallets.

Is this a good logo?

I don't think that being my being able to recreate it in 1 minute makes it a bad logo. I don't think that it being simple or flat makes it a bad logo. But. I do think it's a bad logo.

It is not interesting to look at, being just a fairly common font on a blue background (apparently it is a font based off of futura, according to the designers, but it looks pretty damn the same to me, like just horizontal scale it to 90 and kern it in to -50 and there you go).

It also strips the double P logo from the identity, which Paypal has built up as a well known icon since that logo's launch in 2014, ten years ago. The double P logo was clever, as it was two P's for the name as well as being symbolically representational of Paypal's function: two people (the two P's) sending money (the overlap of the letters) to each other. The wordmark also had motion to it with the letters sheered to the left, showing the idea of Sending the money.

This new logo was designed by Pentagram, a hugely popular and successful design firm responsible for countless logos and logo redesigns for huge companies (citi bank, DC comics, to name a few). Their work is usually good, but this smacks of laziness and justification to me.

Like, lets be honest, that is futura, that is not a “new bespoke brand typeface, PayPal Pro.” And if it is, they should have focused more on making the letters used in the logo be more easily differentiated from its parent font. And I've got no issues with wordmarks as standalones - not all of them need symbols with them! But the wordmark should still be interesting to look at! Hell, look at venmo:

Venmo is a great example of a competitor having everything the paypal rebrand was going for but successfully. It's a simple flat wordmark, but that is a custom type treatment, not a boxed font, and it has motion and interest.

This brings up a good point about application. Venmo uses the V from their wordmark as their app symbol; what will the new Paypal logo use for theirs? Their new logo has no symbol and is a horizontal layout, which is not suited to being crammed into a square. What do you want to bet they'll keep using the old overlapped P's? This is another reason why the rebrand is crap: If you're going to do it, do it right. Clear everything out, and make sure your new logo fits into as many uses as possible, ESPECIALLY the one that most people use, i.e., THEIR APP.

So I do think that some designer at Pentagram crapped this out in a few minutes, probably tired after coming up with 12 other logos that were more interesting, retconned some reasoning behind it, and pitched it and it got in (for every logo you see there are tens of better and more interesting logos that the client put into the trash).

This happens because the people who run companies aren't designers and have been swept away in the current of companies updating their logos to flat and simple logos (I can go into that somewhere else, thats a whole other rant but I'll TLDR it and say that its not always bad and its done for a reason) and the unfortunate need to be constantly on the cutting edge of trends, and not necessarily because designers are bad at their jobs. However I won't discount that, as I think the Pentagram team should have stopped this logo from going far enough in the design process to even get pitched. Never pitch something you don't like to the client! Because they'll always pick that one. Like I pity the fool who had to try to develop this into a full identity after it got picked (here's the full project, it's motion design focused, which is cool, but it's nothing we haven't all seen before).

TLDR

I'm a graphic designer and I agree that this logo is bad because it lacks visual interest, strips the brand of any real identity, and feels poorly developed. (though I don't think the "stripping down" of logos going on for the past 10 years is necessarily bad)

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[mintaii]

death of the magician

[twinliches]

I think if a fairy showed up at my house like yeah they are not real but there is narrative precedent for that. a fairy, if it existed, would show up at a house. i just need to suspend one disbelief everything else tracks. it's a big surprise, but a singular one. i would know how to get with the programm pretty quick.

if a walrus knocked at my door there would be many more fucking questions than one. a walrus showing up at my house? knowing that knocking is the required social etiquette? having reasons to knock on my door and somehow the ability to do that despite having no arms? said walrus coming to me of all people?? a walrus being real is the least of my concerns at that point why the fuck does it need my help what kind of problem can I solve that a socially aware and apparently findextrous walrus fucking can't

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[jeanivere]

arthur morgan tiddies and tummy thats all im gonna say

[artsymeeshee]

Random idea I got this morning thinking about how small little things (mostly about missing important moments of the past) make the boys emotional and sorrowful.

[evercelle]

but the show must go on

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Into the pit? More like into the daddy issues

[actuallyjustabiscuit]

OK OK OK SO

The second I saw this scene I instantly remembered this moment from episode 1

Back then I thought the brightening of the lights was meant to make the moment more intense and to emphasize how scary Kaufmo looks. He even looks like he was trying to overcome his madness for a sec.

But, no!

It’s his reaction to the lights. The hallway was too bright for him!

I bet Caine is fully aware of this fact with the abstracted humans, and that’s why he keeps them all in the cellar where it’s dark.

When Kaufmo was loose in the Tent, he just attacked anything in his path, his many eyes darting all over the place. Contrast this with (who I’m assuming is) Queenie in the soft darkness of Kinger’s pillow fort, all of her eyes trained on him and much more focused.

The Circus is overstimulation for the abstracted. That’s what makes them so aggressive.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Soup solves everything.

[peachebo]

I remember I had a concept about alternative ending of sl where michael brings ennard home and jus lives very normal life with a killing machine...

also here's ennard with da cat