#i'm very thankful for the studios

[simonsquest]

[hi-im-kaybee]

long-overdue comm for a very patient friend

[wanderingibon]

inquisitor's rage

what if, in moments of strong emotion, remnants of the anchor's magic causes the inquisitor's eyes to glow a bright green? magic that coursed through their veins, although long gone, still makes itself known in its wake. a reminder that the inquisitor has been forever changed, and there is no going back.

[sunnywalnut]

Can anybody tell me where I can find the anime "Wolf Children" ?

I saw a preview for it once when I was a kid on one of my DVDs and was just memorized by the art style and the idea of a human mother deliberately trying to wrangle up her seemingly human children all while they turn into wolves and run laps around her.

I remember one scene in the preview very vividly. One of the kids was climbing on a dresser for some reason or another and it just collapsed on top of them and while the mother dove to save them, they were already bolting out the door in their wolf form having the time of their lives

I really would love to watch it in full since I've already watched Howl's Moving Castle(though admittedly through separate parts on TikTok) and now I'm just wondering on if this anime can be found anywhere or if it was just an indie film bound to be cast away to the wind(I hope not. Because it looked EXTREMELY entertaining and I would love to continue to find animes like this and Ponyo and all the classics in order to fuel my inner child)

Thank you!

[darkandwholesome]

i need to talk about this somewhere so it might as well be Tumblr

okay so like for the longest fucking time I was in heavy fucking denial about what was happening in MCU with Peter, alright? Like heavy fucking denial. Like it got to the point where I started avoiding everything Marvel because no what the fuck there's no fucking way all that happened to my poor precious boy

and then I forgot about it and decided to watch Deadpool 1&2 and Venom 1&2 to catch myself up before Deadpool 3 and Venom 3

and then the sneak peek scene in Venom 2 happens

and my brains like "oh motherfuckers they really fuckin did do that to my poor precious boy Peter"

and now I'm going through all fiv fucking stages of grief over this fictional character, like I have genuinely been going through all the God damn stages (because I jump back and forth between them all don't question it its probably the autism)

I was in denial for literal years

I am currently so fucking angry I want to fight every God damn person who worked on the story for the last two Spiderman movies

I desperately want to bargain with them to PLEASE FUCKING FIX THIS AND GIVE HIM A HAPPY ENDING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

AND THIS WHOLE THING GENUINELY GAVE ME A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE

LIKE HOW DARE THEY PUT EVERYONE THROUGH ALL THAT TROUBLE, AND ALL THAT TIME TRAVEL NONSENSE, HOW DARE THEY FUCKING KILL TONY, WHO PURELY DID ALL OF THIS FOR PETER SPECIFICALLY, ONLY TO RIP IT AWAY FROM HIM AND MAKE EVERYONE FORGET ABOUT HIM, ALL THE AVENGERS, ALL HIS CLOSE FRIENDS, THE ONLY BIOLOGICAL FAMILY HE HAS IS DEAD, BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE DECIDED TO SPEAK HIS NAME AFTER MANIPULATING HIM INTO LOOKING UP TO HIM

AND I SHOULD CLARIFY, I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THE MOST RECENT MOVIE BECAUSE I KNOW ID GET WAY TOO GOD DAMN EMOTIONAL

thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[magpie-trinkets]

Thank you for the new "Looking Very Hard At Pictures" episodes!! :D

Thank YOU!! I hope you are enjoying the new season!!

[averlym]

a word to the wise sometimes the only true rest is looking beyond what you thought was success

so true! adamandi is full of wise advice such as this, including: "and you'll never feel better if you - fucking die- you stupid ass!"

[srah-the-violist]

Hey! Thanks for tagging me in the ask game yesterday. I’ve gotta get around to that haha. For yours, I’d love to hear more about the music WIPs you mentioned! Dealer’s choice, whichever one you’d rather share about haha. Love your music! You’re a fantastic violist!!

Hi, thanks so much for the ask! And you're welcome! :D

First of all, I'm so sorry that it took me pretty much a whole week to get around to this! School's been keeping me pretty busy lately, and it sometimes takes a lot of brain cells to think of words

Second, thank you so much for listening to my music! I'm so glad you love it, and your comment made my day! 💜💜💜

As far as my music WIPS go, the one I'm most excited about is the studio version of the Zelda suite! I've mentioned a little bit about it already, but I'm getting the ensemble that played with me on my recital last month to join me again this summer/fall and create a studio recording of the Zelda suite. I'm currently working on getting click tracks set up for it so that I'll be ready to record everyone when the time comes. I can't wait to share it once it's ready!

[hide-your-bugs-away]

“...It was 2 o’clock in the morning and we’d been working pretty hard. Mickie Most behind the desk, looking like a fresh-faced high school kid, wasn’t ready to give up. As long as the band wanted to record, he’d be there, pencil in the mouth, sitting in the producer’s chair, feet up on the console. Relaxed. Over the intercom, into the main room, he spoke. It was the voice of God, the producer. ‘OK, if you guys feel you’ve got something else to come up with, we need a B side for the new single. Have you got anything?' In the middle of the room AP sat behind the red-topped Vox Continental, his feet nervously tapping out a fast gospel-type rhythm, his fingers skating up and down the keyboard surrounded by baffling and studio blankets.

He was playing fast, uptempo, hot and nasty gospel. I was in the isolation booth, headphones clamped on my head. Pricey opened, swirling through the changes.” - Eric Burdon, I Used to Be an Animal, but I’m All Right Now, 1986 (p. 132).

[anghraine]

Nothing like being super into something highly visual to make me mourn my lack of artistic skills ;_;

[sophieswundergarten]

uno reverse! do you have any favorite fun facts/infodumps you would like to share? :D

Hoo boy, an open invitation to ramble about something that gets my brain excited? I hope you won't regret this. (Also, thank you, Milk :>)

Today we're going to be talking about Deb Cook!!!

Deborah Cook, as she is usually credited in films, is the head of LAIKA's costume department. She has worked on every LAIKA film that has been made, from Coraline (2009) to the upcoming Wildwood (2025).

The thing about stop-motion animation is that there is a massive amount of planning that needs to be worked out before the actual filming process even starts. Part of this is the costume designs for all the puppets, so that they fit into the world and can be used as vessels for a cohesive story.

Cook does a lot of research into historical elements that can be used in costumes, as well as using computers and collaborating with other people in the art department to create her own version of textiles that are perfect for the character. She takes her job very seriously, and works to consider what each character's personality is so she can create a fitting look for them.

But, the!! The thing is, these puppets are generally about eight to twelve inches tall!! So you can't just go to a craft store and buy any old fabric, because the weave might be too rough, or when a camera is focussed on a piece of clothing so small the colors are distorted. So there is a necessary level of detail that must be adhered to, otherwise the final product will be kind of disastrous. You can't just make tiny jeans out of regular denim, you have to find a fabric that looks like denim, but is light enough that it'll be flexible when placed on a tiny puppet.

Now, there are a lot of insanely talented people who create all sorts of miniatures and have come up with ingenious solutions to this that can be pointed out. HOWEVER, a great deal of these are because of how much work LAIKA has put into that field of art in the last seventeen years.

In Coraline, some of the costumes were made out of a child's sock. A sock. And it worked because Deb Cook is a fantastic and dedicated artist who works really hard to do her best in literally everything. But, now that LAIKA has had over a decade of experience and accolades and new highly clever artists joining them, they have come up with many new ways to use technology to help.

But Deb Cook is an artist and she will go out of her way to make something look as authentic as possible. For the iconic beetle crest on Kubo's clothing in Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), she dyed rice paste, painted the fabric, and then carefully washed it off to leave the image.

So, after all of that, and the meticulous attention given to every thread, you must remember that they have to animate all this. That means rigging in skirts and weighted sleeves and armature in capes. Each and every piece of clothing, in addition to needing to be replicated or else durable enough to be used for the two or so years required to make a stop-motion film, must be controlled down to the tiniest motion. In addition, the costume department she manages has to be able to make repairs or tiny alterations when something is damaged or an animator needs to get at the inner workings of a puppet.

There are so many more things that need to be considered in stop-motion versus live action, since the majority of the materials and designs are made from scratch in the studio.

And yet, despite all this, the woman hasn't won any awards

SO. That was my insane, unpolished rant about how much I love Deb Cook. Sorry and/or thank you if you made it this far, and if you want to learn more here are some resources:

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[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[let-me-iiiiiiiin]

when the player character starts making out with the cannibal serial killer who "lives in the middle of nowhere" and "butchers pigs" and keeps saying he could "eat you up"

[asteraceaye]

I am so stressed

[nadjasantipaxos]

Emmy Predictions

COMEDY

Best Lead Actor - Jason Sudeikis

Lead Actress - Quinta Brunson (could see Jenna Ortega pull an upset though)

Supporting Actor - Brett Goldstein

Supporting Actress - Hannah Waddingham

Writing - Ted Lasso

Series - Ted Lasso

DRAMA

Lead Actor - Pedro Pascal

Lead Actress - Sarah Snook not taking any questions tyvm

Supporting Actor - Matthew MacFadyen

Supporting Actress - Jennifer Coolidge

Writing - Succession

Series - Succession