#im so thorough with stuff like i have to be specific and right about every detail or else i literally die i dont know why

[satogumis]

this is only a 3-4 minute mv please get real with me

[miikpal]

Heya, Milk! You got any advice for somebody who wants to start taking commissions but doesnt know where to start? I been drawing for a while (about 10 years), but I never tried selling my art before. It's kinda scary. I don't need a lot of money right now, so it's not urgent, ive just heard people say it's good experience. Is it worth trying at all rn? Sorry if you answered something like this before

no worries!! i dont think anyones asked me about this stuff before tbh... im in a similiar boat where i dont really do these out of necessity lol its definitely worth it!! if u thought about it even briefly its worth it to try

its been a hot minute since ive first started taking comms but i guess these would do for starters:

- your following might affect comm interest - i would only get very sporadic ones for the longest time unless i undersold (DO NOT DO THIS GET UR MONEYS WORTH) so dont get discouraged at first is what im saying. get ur pals to promo the announcement posts and put urself out there and eventually someone will get interested

- you can start small and lowkey. if u wanna just dip your toes in the commissions water before doing full blown pieces its absolutely ok to start with doodle or sketch comms. they tend to be cheaper and attract client bases that way anyway - so its a win win! low stakes and you can slowly figure out what works for you

- for the love of god make a TOS. having a document of things that are and arent allowed that u can point at whenever somebody tries to pull a fast one on you is a lifesaver. mines really thorough but i like to cover all the bases

- pretty much at every step where youd think 'going back to fix something after this part would be a pain in the ass' stop and send the progress to ur client and ask if anythings off or needs fixing before you keep going. better safe than sorry. in general be communicative and upfront about any info with ur commissioner - its a nice thing to do and will make both of ur lives easier!

- make sure ur comm post includes clear examples of the kind of art u can offer - this is gonna be the forefront that attracts ppls attention! they should know what theyll be getting

- set up a comm only email or a google form for taking in comms its. much easier to keep track of things this way. actual communication can go somewhere else but its good to have a single place just for the actual initial inquiries etc.

I RAN MY MOUTH LOL. if u have other specific questions feel free to ask for a follow up i suppose!! these are just the ones i wish i thought of when i first started. i hope ur commissions journey goes well, im rooting for ya !!!!!!!

[1d1195]

I feel like it has gone by quickly?? But at the same time THE CONCEPT OF TIME IS SO WEIRD TO ME I SERIOUSLY DONT KNOW ANYMORE LOL and Friday I was a bit busy :( it was a friends birthday so I out! But trust me I was ITCHING to pull up tumblr, read and talk to you! You know I love your book recs! And honestly that book sounds creepy! But you’re right I probably would end up reading it and liking it! Definitely added to my list! But I am surprised that you read it solely because you like “easy reads” , things that basically aren’t too stressful! Glad it wasn’t horrible though lol

I SERIOUSLY CANT LOOK THAT MAN IN THE EYES😭 when i turned in my exam to him my heart was beating out of my chest! And UGH IM A SUCKER FOR A HEIGHT DIFFERENCE LIKE MY BRAIN GOES CRAZY!! And idk he’s such a hot DILF lol and YES I DID SEE THOSE HARRY PICS AND I SWEAR I FELT LIKE DROPPING ON MY KNEES FOR THAT MAN😵‍💫😩 he looks so good it makes my head all fuzzy lol

Trust me I WAS CRAZY TOO!! All I wore were band t shirts and merch during my emo phase like I had no normal clothes or clothes that weren’t from hot topic bahaha and honestly I see why you were team Edward! I FINALLY saw the Twilight movies this past summer for the first time! I was never drawn to it when it was popular or the books BUTTTTT if I did have to chose I would have been team Edward lol there was no competition in the first place lol and yes I knew ALL the emo bands lore and stuff! Specifically twenty one pilots’s lore which is all lot lol but taht was like when i was 11 lol now i simply CANNOT due to lack of brain power lol

ANOTHER COUPLE MIGHT BE GETTING ENGAGED?! HELLO?! IM GONNA CRY FOR SURE!! And I’m sure part 4 will be great! You’re really great with coming with such detailed and unique! And you take such classic tropes and give your spin on it! I genuinely think you’re so talented Sam!

What’s crazy is that in my head I call you “ Samantha” when you literally do something crazy in your stories or like make me giddy?? Like “omg SAMANTHA!!!?” Idk if any of that made sense lol anyways Noah would have been cute! But Kyle is definitely more of a frat boy name lol and yeah I know about icebreaker never read it but I’ve definitely seen the girlies go crazy over it lol

My Kyle is literally so sweet! I met him at my schools IT services thing and he helped me out! Then I saw him again and he’s very nice!

And you know I love your long responses and I love you!!!-💜

HAHAHAHAHA I TALK TO MYSELF ALL THE TIME. I CONSTANTLY say “get it together Samantha.” That’s hilarious. I love that! If you’re inclined you gotta let me know which part/line in particular you do that for every once in a while 😭😂💕 please do not apologize for having friends and plans and being social. I’m glad you went out! That sounds like fun! My best friend and I are November birthdays so we celebrate the whole month of our births (our significant others LOVE it almost as much as we do, obviously).

The book was SO CREEPY. Stress level 12/10. So OBVIOUSLY I know the deeper meaning behind “don’t judge a book by its cover” but I’ve literally never picked up a book without judging its cover. Or at the very least the back cover. I’m pretty close with my sister so I often give books about sisters a thorough twice over. ALL THIS TO SAY I had no idea what it was going to be about when I picked it up hehehehe

Omg I could cry. Height difference, DILF, unable to look him in the eyes ughhhh I will also cry. I’m swooning just thinking about it 😭 I gotta write a professor/TA situation one of these days 😍😍😍

I don’t think I had an emo phase. A pseudo emo phase for sure. I never got into bands the way I was supposed to (but if I hear Fall For You I turn into a puddle). I’m obsessed with the image. I am spiraling at the idea you only saw Twilight last summer. I went to the midnight premieres I’m CRYING 😂

I have a lot of ideas in my head but they all boil down to happily ever after, marriage, 2.5 kids, and a white picket fence. I feel bad yall gotta keep reading the same story over and over 😂

Okay Kyle def is more of a frat name that was also what I thought when I switched it over. Noah was too cute I think hehehe maybe another story.

OBSESSED WITH YOUR KYLE MEET CUTE. CAN’T WAIT TO WRITE ABOUT IT 😍���

Have a lovely start to your week bestie! 💕💕

Xoxo

P.s. Don’t read my update tomorrow if you’re having a good day lol I have been struggling with seasonal depression (I think it’s just regular depression actually at this point. But ya know) I am being dramatic honestly. Please don’t worry about me but regardless I’m probs going through an emo phase NOW hahahahahaha so it’s a little bit of a tear jerker imo

[moonstandardtime]

i went on a whole ramble abt tgp lore in the tags. not the point. im not worldbuilding im worldcrossing. im trying to connect duplo blocks and legos and those offbrand lego brick statue things together.

goepgraphy - tgp is just ace attorney earth. so irl earth with an extra country and also california is an island because i said so. witgt is a hyrule i put together + some other stuff. [wip] is isat world just modernized.

magic? - tgp has spirit mediums and somewhat debatable magic. witgt has time travel, dimension warping, and other miscellaneous supernatural things, but its all weird and nobody knows till it happens to them. or even after. [wip] has isat craft (including wish craft (and time craft)).

fic gimmicks, because this is important to how things function - tgp's reality is actively falling apart. witgt is solid and normal, theres just some time and dimension fuckery. u know how it is with the butterfly effect. [wip] also just has time (and sort of dimension?) fuckery, but in a different flavor. both witgt and [wip] involve time loops, just very different meanings of the term--in witgt its a grandfather paradox type situation. in [wip] its. ig its like the 2hats fight specifically.

if you dont think too hard about geography nothing really conflicts too much? besides tgp's whole reality-is-an-ikea-showroom thing. which may or may not be a (minor) thing in [wip], i havent decided yet. witgt and [wip] mesh best bc theyre just generally more similar in concept; theyre both fleshed out Modern Aus, while tgp is purposefully *not* fleshed out and the au/world is made more with the intent of it being a chatfic than it housing a story. (also. tgp is a high school au specifically, which affects the slice of life vibe i go for with chatfics quite a bit.) witgt's gimmick is that its overly thorough and detailed for a chatfic, tgp's hinges a good bit on the fact that its as detailed as you would expect for a high school au chatfic.

side note, the progression of the gimmicks and how i approach them and the aus is fun i think. tgp is like. overly simple. i wanted to write a chatfic, i wanted to make it Interesting (i figured i probably would have more fun if there was something particularly unique abt it that i could play with. i was right), and i wanted to be silly. i hadnt written a chatfic that was. purely chatfic. before. only ever normal longfics with chatfic sections. so i ended up going the route of deconstructing what a "chatfic" entails--they exist almost entirely for the purpose of humor, occasionally (a specific brand of) angst, and character interaction. they dont typically have much substance beyond surface level daily life. i do this with witgt too, but in tgp i played more with how the lack of substance might interact with how life works; the characters can feel it and they notice it. the fourth wall is a sheet of paper. the stage is an ikea showroom.

like i said, witgt also deconstructs that? or rather. it constructs it. i went the complete other direction from tgp--i developed the world way more than chatfics ever do. even typical modern aus. witgt has a Lot of notes. tgp has one notes app note and a username guide doc. witgt has a notes app note, a google doc, a readers guide (more info than just usernames), and a notion page. the notion page has 10 sections, including a timeline that goes from 1986-may 2024 and a worldbuilding section with subsections for geography and religion. yeah i wrote notes on how religion works in my chatfic au. theres also a characters spreadsheet with info for every character; its only fully filled out for the 9 main characters and a couple others, but theres 45 characters in total. theres also indepth backstories for each of the 9 mcs, hence the timeline. also the time travel i mentioned earlier.

[wip] is. it settles somewhere in between? its less about deconstructing the chatfic format or whatever and more about telling a story like witgt does. itll probably get away from me similarly to witgt but atm since its existed for like two weeks its only got the one notes app note. i think itll end up being more focused on how the chatfic format affects how a story is told, since not all conversations happen over text or over a call. witgt definitely plays with that limited information, but it does have prose chapters for backstory, and the characters are mostly all long distance friends and thus only a couple of them are able to have conversations that arent over text or call. in [wip], theyre all in the same city and interact with each other directly pretty often. theres also more Life Stuff happening in the present than witgt--most of witgt's story is in the past (see: the timeline) aside from a few specific events/characters.

ok analysis of my motivations when making chatfic aus over. back to the silly playing with dolls.

i think the most fun part of this is like. how would things overlap. and the specific Things i have in mind are mostly the slices of lives. theyre all obviously in entirely different places but theres a bit in witgt about how like half of the mcs have true crime youtube documentaries about them so. the internet is a feasible way for paths to cross.

i like to imagine that all my chatfics are in the same extended universe. what this implies im not sure

[elytrafemme]

hello. me again. BWJSHSKSHD

i apologize if this isn't as well written or thorough as the other things ive said about cough syrup - i was out almost all of today, got home and still had to do things, and right after i send this i must Continue to do things and prepare for school tomorrow (🤢🤮) BUT AGAIN. DUDE. the latest chapter was so. INCREDIBLE ?

your words flow as amazingly and smoothly as ever and so does your dialogue, and, well, Everything, but i especially LOVE so much the ways you're slowly weaving more about the mysteries you've set up into the story as well - c!quackity and c!tubbos past, what happened with c!q and c!techno, c!ranboos Everything, you're SO so good at giving the reader just enough information to have a growing understanding of what happened while still being intriguingly vague enough to WANT those answers. and sure, even though one could kinda infer some things based on already existing canon, like who's c!tommys abuser, who is it that seemingly hurt c!quackity and c!tubbo, etc, it's still written so INTERESTINGLY that you want to know it ALL no matter what!! and the little details you write into c!tubbos internal monologue - like how he's skilled in sneaking around (if i recall the line correctly), the palpable panic he felt when c!q tapped his shoulder, it feels so Realistic and just. SO so good

speaking of c!q and you knew this was coming i am already obsessed he seems like such a Fucking Bastard and i Love him. this passage in particular, as well as the paragraph after it: "Because Quackity doesn’t apologize for things anymore, and Tubbo knows that, because he’s one of the only people who saw the days where Quackity would, always and all the time.", actually made me have to stop reading for a second to process it because. Holy Shit (/POS) Y'KNOW? and that leads back to what i said about you being great with setting up mysteries just - MAN!!!!!! i also must legally thank you for the Crumbs and i don't even have to clarify which at this point do i. i am feasting on them like a starving rabid raccoon. girl this is literally a c!beeduo fic i don't know why i am so obsessed with your c!tntduo Already when the fic Isn't Even About THEM I. i think there's something wrong with me. that's ok though ☺

LORD. Sorry about The Everything here and dumping all this in your askbox when tbh i should've just written this as a comment 😭 TL;DR. I HAVE CTNTDUO DISEASE ALWAYS AND FOREVER, COUGH SYRUP AMAZING, YOU'RE VERY TALENTED, I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER, I HOPE EVERYTHING IS WELL :D!!

this is the loveliest thing to receive right before i go to sleep :D

im so so glad u liked it seriously dude it means the world to me. this is so so sweet

im genuinely super happy to hear that because, due to like, as u said, pre-existing canon, and the fact that cough syrup is based off of the characters, it is kind of hard to build a mystery up because you can already guess some of the character relations. i tried to make some of them unique and all, but even the ones that come up later in the story still have some tie to the DSMP plot. it's important to me that the characters in CS are very clearly inspired off of the DSMP characters, but it's also good to know that the story isn't too predictable

hearing that it's realistic too means literally everything because, like. that's my main goal. if i write a piece of work and every part of it is bad except its realism, i will still take it as a win. because that's the thing i find most fascinating and fun about fic writing, and especially in terms of the topics that i am not too acquainted with, it's good to know that i'm realistic there :]

i will pat myself on the back here and say that the quackity line you quoted is one of my favorite lines i've written thus far. the other line i like a LOT, you'll see it in chapter 7, also has to do with him so. we can be very sane together :)

NO HONESTLY LIKE. i love c!tntduo and idk when i will get around to writing fics specifically dedicated to them, though it's In My Plans Of Stuff To Do, so i mostly want to explore them here. it's only really gonna be seen through tubbo and maybe ranboo's lens, but still. they're important to me. and there's a lot of stuff about their characters in this fic that make them both click well together and absolutely not work out. it's interesting to write :D

thank you so so so much again it means so much that u keep reading it, i hope u have a nice night

[jellyseul-archive]

Hello! Could you share some psds, our tips etc that you use to edit? :0 Thanks in advance!

hi!! i’d be happy to share some tips!! this might be a bit long, i think i went a bit overboard…… i hope it helps a bit though… !!! also im assuming you have access to a program that can open psd files. and i use photoshop so i’m not sure this will be very helpful unless you have access to it or a program with similar capabilities..

i’ve made up a few examples (using the so what mv bc i just edited that) of how i usually go about editing, you can find the file here but i’ll explain a bit here as well!

0 : psd & general stuff

i feel kinda weird about this but i’ve included my psd in the attached file... if you’re going to use it i dont mind but please don’t say that you made it yourself, and a credit would be nice but i guess it’s not strictly necessary.

first of all, i pretty much always use the same psd with very minor adjustments. i do this to try to maintain a similar look to all of my edits & because i like this psd (i’ve been evolving it with minor adjustments every so often for years…). i always edit below the psd (as in the psd is applied over all the layers of my editing) and i usually edit with the psd on (i used to edit and then put the psd on after and that took so much longer because i couldnt see how the psd was affecting the way the image looked as i was working..)

this is basically how all of the psd files for my graphics look (usually with more descriptive names rather than numbers though), where each of the numbered groups is a graphic panel...

1 : colour correction 

i basically start off by trying to normalise(?) the image as much as possible (trying to return the colours to what they would be naturally, without colour correction/filtering…)

first i use curves!!! curves are a lifesaver for me. most images/screencaps will have some kind of colour correction / filtering, i use curves to (somewhat) remove those effects. if you go here, i use the method described as “remove colour cast using auto colour” (except i basically ignore the steps 4/5)! sometimes this works, sometimes it doesnt… if the result isnt quite right i lower the opacity on the curves layer until it looks right to my eye.

if the image is still too bright/dark i add another curves layer with auto set to enhance brightness and contrast! and i again use opacity to make this look more natural!

if the image is still looking unnatural (usually this occurs on especially dark images, and the problem areas are usually on faces…) i use colour fill layers set to soft light or colour balance layers to adjust the colours until the image looks more natural? you can see this in group 8. yves face has a blue discolouration on it (if you untick the colour fill & balance layers you should see what im talking about), to counteract this i added a yellow/red layer and set it to soft light & then added a colour balance layer to make the image a bit more yellow/green. overall the image doesnt look exactly natural, but the colours are more smooth and i’d probably lean into the yellow/green tinge if i was making a graphic with this image!

2 : selecting subjects

there are so so so many ways to extract people or objects from images. i vary the method i use depending on the image in question and the effect im going for. i’m not going to explain every method because you can google “how to cut out an image in photoshop” and get some pretty good tutorials on how to do it in lots of different ways.

recently i’ve been using “select subject” (described here). you’ll likely have to clean up the selection using other tools such as lasso & selection tools, and it helps if you cut out a smaller square/area around the subject before trying to use the select subject tool. theres an example of this in group 9.

another method i use is selecting a range of colours from an image using “colour range” (described here). i use this to both change colours in an image and to remove backgrounds that are of a (relatively) uniform colour. you can see an example of this in group 10, i isolated the fire from the dark background by selecting the shadows & then inverting the selection but because olivia hye was also quite dark i had to select her separately.

theres no real easy or quick way to cut out things, it takes time and effort if you want it to look neat. but it really depends on how you want it to look and basically just practicing is the most important thing… over time it will get more straightforward and you will understand how to cut out different things depending on the image..

3 : colours & textures

probably my favourite part of editing! the fun bit!! 

i’m not going to explain much of this right now bc i’m exhausted & i’m not sure how detailed this should be. but if you have specific questions i’ll be happy to try to answer them!!

anyway here are some basic notes on my editing style:

if i’m editing a music video i try to use other caps as textures, you can see this in groups 11, 14 & 15.

i like to layer different caps as seen in group 12

i use colour fill layers set to different blending modes (i mainly use soft light, color/hue, screen and multiply) as seen in basically all of the examples

i havent really put in any examples of this here but i use selective colour & hue/saturation adjustment layers to change/enhance specific colours

i have this one texture that i put on basically all of my edits, i’m not sure why but i like the way it looks... its in the “PSD + TXT” folder and its set to soft light & i put it on top of the psd bc otherwise the psd messes with the smoothness of the texture

(fyi,,, i shrunk the image size just so the file size wouldnt be too big and so the sitting kimlip is bigger than the cap it came from bc of that; the mv was in 4k so the caps were HUGE)

4 : other tips/notes......?

don’t get discouraged if you find it difficult at first

i’ve been editing for years and i’m still not that great and i find it hard sometimes but i do it for fun. i make probably 3 times as many things as i end up posting because i enjoy it and because i use it as an artistic outlet.

i hope someone found this useful? i think i went way overboard but i thought it was better to be thorough !! anyway i hope you have fun editing ! its always great to have more creators in the tumblr community!

[corvidcall]

okay!!! (rubs my hands together like im making an evil little scheme) (because i am)

first off, im gonna suggest Sagan Hawkes, who does retrospectives on indie horror stuff. my personal fave videos are There Will Never Be Another Petscop (which is about two projects that started as Petscop knock offs but developed into really interesting art in their own right) and Diminish: The Rage Game Lets Play About Loss (about an unfiction series where a man is playing a game his late twin sister made for him).

next, Jacob Geller has a voice that i think is really unique in the video essay scene. A lot of his videos are really... idk how to describe it. Poetic? Lyrical? Artistic in their own right? They seem very reminiscent of the way people write personal essays, which imo sets him apart from his peers (who seem to lean more towards a less personal, more documentarian style). I've recommended one of his videos on my fallen london blog before!! The Golem and the Jewish Superhero is really good, as is Who's Afraid of Modern Art. and his video Fear of Depths is great if you wanna think too hard about dying in a cave and then get oh so scared

in the opposite stylistic direction (imo) is Dan Olson, who makes really thorough and compelling videos about movies and culture, and has recently been focusing a lot on debunking the tech hype cycle. His video about crypto and NFTs, Line Goes Up, may have quite possibly influenced the crash in the NFT market?? But Line Goes Up is pretty dry, so I would probably suggest A Lukewarm Defense of Fifty Shades of Grey (this is actually part 1 of a series where he talks about all the 50 shades movies and the books, and theyre all great. the videos i mean. 50 shades is pretty bad) or That Time Geocentrists Tricked A Bunch of Physicists (which is about a documentary that featured a bunch of physicists seeming to say that heliocentrism is wrong and the sun actually orbits the earth, and about some really crazy tradcaths). In Search of Flat Earth is really good, too, but its kind of a bummer because its about Qanon

Big Joel is also one of my faves (both for his videos, and because i think its very funny that his youtube channel is named "big joel" even though he isnt big and his name is not joel). Trash Disney Remakes is fun, and you might also enjoy A Reality TV Dystopia: I Wanna Marry Harry

...oh my god this post is already way too long and ive only suggested three people. i am so sorry. god made me wrong as a joke. lets do the rest of these much faster or your flight will have landed by the time im done talking. speed round.

I Debunked Every "Body Language Expert" on Youtube by münecat

European History is Not White History by Shaun

MyHouse.Wad - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod by Power Pak

Why Is Conservative Comedy So… Not Very Good? by Some More News

also, i cant recommend any specific videos, but you might enjoy PhilosophyTube (talks about philosophy, obviously) and Well There's Your Problem (a "podcast with slides" about engineering disasters)

to round out my excessively long list, theres a bunch of commentary youtubers who arent doing video essays qua video essays, as their videos are more focused on being funny and less on being informative, but i think theyre sister genres, and i enjoy them very much, so heres some good ones if you want a chuckle:

I followed a bunch of tutorials on how to get taller by Drew Gooden (the guy from the road work ahead vine)

I Tried Ghost Hunting To See If It's Fake by Danny Gonzalez

Alpha Tips & Tricks by Chad Chad

The Worst Talk Show Is Still On The Air (Maury) by Jarvis Johnson

I Drove to Every Rainforest Cafe in North America by Ted Nivison

I ate at every Rainforest Cafe in the County by Eddy Burback

anyway. uh. sorry about all this lol. i almost exclusively watch youtube every day all day and i have many thoughts and opinions. this isnt even everyone i watch and enjoy. this was me attempting to curate my recommendations.

I have a 4 hour flight this weekend so if anyone has any video essay recommendations for me to download on my phone feel free to tell me

[bi-dazai]

2000 words on soukoku romance-coding in episode 26

i’ve talked a lot on here about how there’s a lot of romance-coding in the canon content featuring dazai and chuuya. here’s a rundown of my base theories here

i didnt add this in my original above post, but ill say now that diegetically chuuya and dazai are usually quite levelheaded and manipulative - both are the two youngest port mafia executives in history. even when dazai is annoyed with other characters (such as kunikida or atsushi) it is clear that he is play-acting. chuuya, meanwhile, is extremely level-headed and doesnt get upset at all - even when yosano and kenji appeared heavily armed. dazai is only slightly upset by shibusawa and dostoyevsky. the only person to genuinely get a rise out of both chuuya and dazai are each other. even so, their arguing has, from the beginning, been petty on the surface, yet upon reading into dialogue and animated/written/illustrated facial expressions show deep hurt at each others actions, particularly on their 4 year separation and dazai covering up his loyalty to chuuya by betraying his trust in episode 21.

i have two more points to add on concerning their non-diegetic relationship. firstly, that official merchandise and posters almost always depict chuuya and dazai either ogling each other (theres a trend of dazai ogling chuuya’s ass in particular) or doing something romantic together (for example there’s a poster where they are depicted hanging around together with no other characters near a christmas tree - christmas is considered a romantic holiday in japan. the same coding is given to many canon fictional couples in japan, and to another studio bones production pairing in bnha kiribaku, which has a similar level of gaycoding).

the second non-diegetic point you should understand about soukoku: it’s one of the most popular ships in japan, and japan’s anime industry tends to be a lot more open about showing same-sex relationships/gay-coding than the west is.

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and for a note on my authorship - i admit that i do ship soukoku, and that this gives me a bias. i am also bisexual and am much more sensitive to noticing homoeroticism than many straight audiences. however, to counter this point id like to clarify that it takes a lot to make me believe a same-sex ship has even the slightest chance of being canon. also, id like to say that i am an author in my second year of a creative writing degree and my first year of a film studies minor. these degrees both involve analysing text within production and authorial context (a lot...). in my free time i read a lot of papers and articles on the production context and general views of lgbt representation in different countries’ media, in particular the usa, australia, and japan. i consume every piece of media i view with an intensely critical eye and i specialise in connected diegetic elements with non-diegetic elements in terms of production, authorial, and social context

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*NOTE* im going to be doing things out of order here for no other reason than that i realised them in that order as i thought about the episode analytically

today i want to talk about something extremely specific that came up in episode 26, and it has to do with the use of symbolism and shot composition. it’s just a short, short sequence but to me it speaks volumes, both for their canon relationship and their coded romantic relationship.

specifically this sequence. this is just one shot and to me it portrays soukoku’s dynamic as explicitly romantic in a mise-en-scene sense.

before we like to go in, id like to clarify that the dialogue doesnt matter - it’s mainly expository stuff.

the first sc is the first shot we see of dazai and chuuya ‘alone’ in this scene. it’s unclear where mori is exactly. even though mori is clearly orchestrating the two of them and this entire scene’s dialogue, he isn’t in this shot until the very end. this defines the soukoku relationship, as well as their first meeting being entirely incidental, as being something that was supposedly orchestrated by mori but on a deeper level something they created and grow themselves. it is their relationship from the beginning, not mori’s. even though we know that mori is orchestrating this, we are told that this story will be about chuuya and dazai, not mori’s plans. along with that, it’s also the first shot of open sky we get in this scene, and it’s with just chuuya and dazai looking at each other, silent. it’s open and refreshing and new, but there’s something there already - which i will discuss now.

so. let’s talk about the vapour trail. the vapour trail has no real relationship to the scene or story at all. it would be perfectly logical to just place clouds here, or even place the vapour trail somewhere else. but this vapour trail is very specifically placed to form an arrow to comes from dazai’s heart and reaches towards chuuya, passing over mori’s head narrowly. mori watches the trail, dazai and chuuya watch each other. mori knows the middle part - that they will be tied together to be a device of violence of his own making. but at the other ends dazai and chuuya are tied together in a way that goes above and below mori’s knowledge. this symbolises their future together, and indicates a subtextual level to their dynamic.

the choice i want to focus on here, however, is the choice to have this arrow reach from dazai’s heart. as a writer, if i was trying to symbolise the general strategic soukoku dynamic i would have this arrow go from dazai’s head (the brains) to chuuya (the recipient and conductor of dazai’s plans). in fact, i have a dynamic im writing right now that is similar to this, in which one is defense and one is agility. however, these two also end up in a same-sex romantic relationship together later on. in order to code and foreshadow this, as well as add romantic subtext, often when using symbology i adjust my symbols to fit a romantic context subtly. as an author myself, this shot is a clear hint of adjusted symbolism in order to code dazai’s feelings for chuuya.

and if i’m to read further, i would even say that the fact that the arrow flies over chuuya’s head suggests that dazai currently has romantic feelings for chuuya that chuuya does not yet return (but comes to, something that i have discussed in my linked post above).

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secondly, tumblr user @cream-and-punishment made a fun joke post about dazai and chuuya “exchanging wedding vows” at their first meeting. firstly, it’s funny as fuck and when i first saw the post my reaction was just “haha it does sound like that!”. however, i keep looking at that post, keep returning to the script and that scene, and my reaction is now “wow. it does sound like that. like. exactly what soukoku wedding vows sound like. huh.”

for the lazy here’s the script (translated by the funimation subtitle team):

Dazai: You’re a cocky, overconfident child. You’re the kind of person I hate the most.

Chuuya: And I hate condescending pricks like you more than anything in this world.

and because im thorough, i ignored my english subs and listened the original japanese script as well (with my limited japanese to basically check for anything that could be translated differently or means something in japanese that is culturally untranslatable). what i found was that the english subs are right, and capture the original lines quite well.

dialogue can function as a tool for multiple results. in this two-line exchange, neither of the lines are meant as views into the character’s true interiors. instead, the purpose of this interchange is meant to be foreshadowing, specifically into the fact that this is how chuuya and dazai spend the rest of their relationship (up until the current point in the canon manga plot) expressing their opinion towards each other. it mirrors the kind of dialogue we see in episode 10 in which dazai and chuuya’s dialogue works as exposition for their past and their base dynamic, and here it is used to foreshadow what is considered backstory in the main plot (if that makes any sense?).

however, chuuya’s response to dazai is where im interested. im gonna pull my writer’s card here and say that if i was, again, just foreshadowing hatred and frustration as well as cooperation, i would cut chuuya’s line to something like this:

Chuuya: And I hate condescending pricks like you the most/just as much/etc.

“more than anything in this world”, of course, could just be incidental. but considering how a lot of soukoku’s dialogue is clearly double-entendre (read my original post linked above), it makes me consider a second option: that we are already putting that romantic double-entendre into their dynamic. if we refer to the future soukoku dynamic, in particular in episode 21, we are shown multiple times that chuuya genuinely cares for dazai’s well-being (secondary to rimbaud’s hat of course hahaha). chuuya would be genuinely upset if dazai died, and its implied (though still up to interpretation as opposed to the explicitness of chuuya’s shown feelings, however i would argue that dead apple is fairly explicit in dazai’s trust and feelings) the vice versa is also true.

going off that, often how both of them express concern for each other is by making ‘hateful’ comments towards each other. in episode 9, it’s clear there is uncomfortable tension in the room. there is 4 years of unspoken confusion lingering and chuuya is clearly, clearly upset. so dazai, in referencing an unchanging nature of what makes them them, calls back to one of his first mocking entries - how short chuuya is. it’s funny and it’s mocking, but the blows they trade are familiar and even when theyre brawling, despite being on opposite sides they take genuine pleasure in each others company. considering both of their personalities and histories as well as their trauma, both of them tend to struggle with interpersonal relationships and opening up. but chuuya and dazai canonically feel comfortable with each other, and know how to read each other well enough to both bounce off each other while also understanding what lies beneath.

so when chuuya says something like “i hate you more than anything in this world” we are pulled back to the present (in the plot), where chuuya says these things but moments later is concerned or worried for dazai’s wellbeing. chuuya in this line prioritises dazai as the foremost person in his life within minutes of meeting each other. diegetically (to the characters) we know this is them exchanging tense negotiation. non-diegetically (to what we know of the script and their future, as well as this entire exchange being mostly foreshadowing), we are clearly meant to interpret this to mean that chuuya will, eventually, hold dazai to be incredibly important to him, and vice versa. 

of course, we also have the fact that the phrase “more than anything in this world” is yet another soukoku romantic double-entendre. as i mentioned with things such as “the silent treatment” and mentioning drinking heavily when someone abruptly leaves you, it’s clear that these are used almost entirely as romantic tropes. i’ve discussed this before so i wont get too much into it, but just say that this scene adds yet another line to that long list of soukoku double-entendres.

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considering at least the first 3 episodes will be related to exploring the soukoku backstory, ill be trying to post an analytic of soukoku for each episode of the 15 adaptation. furthermore, these posts won’t be explicitly about the potential of canon romantic chuuya/dazai, but will analyse soukoku scenes in a focus that i see fit for each episode. whether this is examining it like this post again, or examining it for foreshadowing or cinematographic details etc, will be decided once i watch each episode.

anyway lol! yet another rambling analytical of something nobody cares about haha

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February RvB Rec Day!!

i was planning on not having a lot of recs this month because irl work is busy but!!!!! you fuckers are so good at this fandom thing!!!!! so here’s a giant list of great fics for rvb rec day @rvbficwars

your ex-lover is dead by @strangestquiet - after chorus, locus winds up in trouble in his mission to bring malcolm hargrove to justice, and reaches out to siris for help—the problem being that siris has become a crime lord since they’ve parted ways. 1) this version of siris and the events that broke up the mercenary trio are vivid and thorough in dragging locus thru confronting old consequences and the people he’s hurt during his days with felix, 2) fic has such beautiful insight as to felix and locus’s relationship pre-chorus and the specific ways they needed each other, and 3) fic does a fantastic job of portraying a locus who’s only just barely on his feet post-felix. it’s beautiful and digs right into messy material with precision. im ALL ABOUT this fic, go read it and give it the love it deserves!!

we’ll consecrate this messy love by @cinaed - ULTIMATE ORIGINAL FLAVOR GRIMMONS WEDDING NIGHT. this fic reads like an actual episode from the show, except now grimmons is 100% more canon. every character gets something because basically the whole cast attends, and that’s also so much fun and so true to these characters and all the good and bad junk they’ve been thru to get to this particular moment. absolutely hilarious and sweet. kai and tucker are a blessing in this fic. ive been meaning to read the rest of cinaed’s stuff for a while and i just never had the time, but i’d rec that u check out their other rvb stuff because the premises look exciting!!

please wake me up (nsfw) by @primtheamazing - yeah this one was from the rvb reverse big bang (aka FOREVER ago), but i didnt do recs in january so we’re doing it now!! psychological horror is my secret favorite thing forever, so all that, plus grif dealing w moonbase junk, plus schmoopy grimmons all at once is my JAM. we’re all craving a proper resolution to moonbase!grif, so this is a great addition to the post-season 15 fics.

the lost and the loco by @riathedreamer - team spanish takes a road trip and they accidentally wind up on grif’s massacred colony and it’s paragraphs and paragraphs of grif falling over himself trying to be ok while wearing a giant neon sign on his forehead that he’s NOT OKAY, all in the presence of lopez, who hates his entire life at all times, and locus, who has literally no idea what to do with the hot orange disaster except stand there awkwardly and pretend that all That Nonsense isn’t happening. grif’s barely keeping himself together and somehow, it’s both touching and HILARIOUS.

the sacrifice by hinn_raven - HIGH. QUALITY. WHUMP. ON EVERY LEVEL. PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL. locus makes a deal with felix, who’s come back from the dead to get even with locus, to save the reds and blues. fic pulls out all the whump stops in a way that feels like a fantastically fucked-up homage to the remains of the lolix partnership and locus’s attempts to move on from that. the reds and blues are painfully caught in the middle when it comes to their newest friend. i am in a constant state of crying for someone to rescue this poor man from felix’s torture chamber while also ADORING how well the author brings out every detail of these relationships for maximum pain. read the tags/warnings, of course.

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