#just like the writers of SU

[follychromatic]

ANOTHER STORYBOARD: DONE

Script / Outline: COMPLETE! Scenes storyboarded: 3/12 (Technically less but I split the scenes when they started getting long in my notes) Scenes animated: 0/12 Songs written: 0/2 OSTs written: 0/???

Overall progress: very little tbh bro we JUST started.

But hey! I am officially further than I was 2 years ago! And, my motivation is still intact! Gonna keep pushing forward!

I'm probably not going to update after EVERY scene is boarded, just the important ones or when I finish the boarding process entirely and move on to digitizing the boards (which should not take long), then FINALLY to the animation itself!

It's 4 AM and I'm going to bed but PROGRESS IS PROGRESS!

[sevenines]

i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.

two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

i know a lot of people criticized steven universe’s portrayal of war and while i agree that there were some parts that were handled badly, most of it was pretty well-written.

unlike spop, they don’t act like war only affects the heroes and the villains, we see various characters like lapis, the cluster, the humans in the human zoo, etc. who were not part of the war in any way but were still horribly traumatized by it. similarly, all the characters treat war with the seriousness that it deserves (i believe there was a quote by greg that was something like “there’s nothing good about a war” when steven points out that rose won). it doesn’t use war as an aesthetic backdrop that only matters when one specific character is affected by it.

i don’t understand people who criticize su for its portrayal of war, then praise spop for writing a “tragic story where two lovers were separated by war”.

[bardicious]

"Two months ago we opened up the gate.." this is an insane line of logic honestly. And I'm wondering if it's just an insane leap of logic that the writers made regarding the situation, rather than just Dean and Sam's guilt complexes.

[angeleccstasy]

the hannibal franchise fucking sucks <- is enjoying the hannibal franchise quite a bit actually <- is just very mad that clannibal is a thing that exists

[bahoreal]

lol i knew the fucking xiaoyu/xiaobao thing was in the book i still just dont understand it like. thats his sister. what the fuck

[artedelunas]

I HATE GEGE AKUTAMI

[nodominion]

I need Daniel's 'assistant' to be Jesse.

[wilcze-kudly]

Hsyeeh i wanna write like a rant about the Beifongs and their family dynamics because they're just so interesting to me and lowkey fucked up and also like criminally underdeveloped. But I know if i start writing it's gonna look like this:

Blame my therapist for reading my weilin famfic and psychoanalising me.

[angiestown]

as a fan of both shows it's so funny watching analysis videos for steven universe and my little pony back to back. like they both take their respective shows equally seriously, but one has some of the best characters, story telling, symbolism, emotional beats, music & musical motifs in the entire genre of older kids cartoons, and you can keep digging for years and still find new things to appreciate that were done fully intentionally by the crew, while the other is a toy commercial with fun characters and songs and somewhat rule-of-cool approach to world building. like I love ponies but it really isn't that deep lmao

[demodraws0606]

I do want to say that even if Whit dies or becomes a culprit, I will still think he is the mastermind. This boy cannot escape my allegations even in death.

[sometipsygnostalgic]

glimmadora remnants stop complaining about the show challenge: impossible

[tiredfoxtf]

Oh I fucking hate this person who snitched ao3 to my government. Like sincerely fuck you.

[sonknuxadow]

honestly i dont even think its inherently unreasonable of penders to want legal ownership of his characters and stories. it feels like he gets a lot of hate just for that when the real problem is his behavior and certain things he tries to claim ownership of. and im not defending him it just feels like people hate him for the wrong reasons sometimes

[weedle-testaburger]

unpopular opinion but actually i love when heroes refuse to kill their enemies and no one is gonna make me not love it

[badolmen]

Hate scifi-fantasy magic/energy dichotomies where they talk all about balance but use genocide one side or the other to achieve it. Buddy breaking the scale doesn’t make it balanced. What the fuck do you mean the dark ones are all evil? They have an evil ideology? Okay yeah I see where that can be taken as evil but - NO it’s not balance if the only thing left is the light! You’re telling me there’s never been an evil light user? Oh there has? Then why the fuck has there never been good dark users??? (Answer: author doesn’t care about representing balance they just want easily coded good guys and bad guys).