#kikis delivery service headers

[staincastle]

⠀⠀⠀ ★ rina's message is here! minimalist headers

[iosaku]

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[thpeach]

[hakuwaii]

꒰ㅤㅤ𑄽୧ㅤㅤ۪ㅤㅤരㅤ 📽️ 1989 ㅤ꒱

[lorlita]

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[zipstidbits]

hello and welcome to my studyblr + its intro post :)))

don't forget to do your daily clicks for Palestine!!!

a bit about me:

name: zip

pronouns: they/them

age: early 20s

languages: english (native), spanish (beginner)

academics: i'll be starting my astrophysics PhD in the fall :)

other: autism + adhd, depression + anxiety, silly + goofy

a bit about this blog:

my intention/goal is to document my life (like a journal) while holding myself accountable

i also want to connect with other folks in the studyblr community :))))

please always feel free to dm, drop in my ask box, and interact with me! i am so happy to chat and make friends!!!!

productivity vs. wellness

while my goal is to be productive, i hope to never sacrifice my well-being to achieve that

i would advise taking everything on this blog with a grain of salt (what's realistic for me might not be for someone else, while i try to be open my posts will likely never show the full story of my day, ect.)

i am trying to reblog positive posts/advice/self-care stuff to balance all the hustle culture out o7

tag directory:

#habitica

#advice

#backgrounds

#dividers

#kds - kiki's delivery service

#mnt - my neighbor totoro

#purple aesthetic

#q

#reference

#reminder - positivity etc.

#studio ghibli

#zip's tid bits - my original studyblr posts

#zip quips - original posts that aren't related to studyblr

sometimes the posts i reblog/make include gifs or flashing dividers. if they do i tag them as:

#gif

#eyestrain

if there's another tag i should use or if you want me to tag for something else, please don't hesitate to let me know!!!

other blogs:

zipquips - main blog

kick-a-droid - star wars

huevo-rojo - spanish langblr

i have a bunch more but they're mostly inactive, whoopsies

other places to find me:

ao3

neocities

habitica - username: zipquips

credit:

header/image in this post

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thanks so much for making it to the end!!! have a wonderful day <3

[groggydog]

The Familiar: Post-Mortem for a Crow

(originally posted here, on the IntFic forums)

Hi all. I wasn’t originally going to do this, but I got an itch and just wanted to have a final send-off for my beloved bird, Fran, and the world of Gennemont.

The Familiar was always intended to be an emotional piece, first and foremost. To that end, I believe that I was successful. But I have plenty of other thoughts about the game’s core pieces.

On Mechanics

From the start, I decided that I would take a more rudimentary approach to the puzzles with the full knowledge that it would almost certainly appeal less to the more experienced members of the IF community. That was fine by me. I wanted to share this with my parents, my nephews, my friends - none of whom actively play IF games. And I think I threaded things well enough that people were satisfied even if they viewed the puzzles as very easy.

Perhaps the best advice I received in terms of puzzle-making was when I was stuck on the final ingredient puzzle, and someone from the interact-if Discord recommended I follow the old Aesop fable about the crow and the stone, and it felt like such a duh moment to me that I just had to include it in my game.

(More on art and characters after the jump)

For the rest, I tried to have either multiple solutions to everything or enough interactivity (like with the letter-writing sequence which I think was really well-received) that it didn’t matter so much.

I believe that limiting the vocabulary to just a few words (TAKE, DROP, CAW, LOOK, PECK) was absolutely the correct path, even if it ended up limiting me in many very real ways. I think most of the critical feedback stemmed from that decision and the puzzles. There was always going to be a low upper limit on my puzzles’ complexity after I did that, but I think it’s just silly enough that it works overall. If I were a better coder, I might have done it in a more interesting way. But I’m not, and so I’ll take what I can get.

My code is a mess. It will never see the light of day. But if you have questions just DM me!

On Art

I spent so much time on that dang art, y’all. I needed six months to knock out 30+ pixel-art headers and even then it felt like a stretch. But again, this was important to me: I knew that pixel art would both play into Adventuron’s nature and heighten the emotional nature of the story. To that end, again, I think I was successful.

For all of you had said it felt like a Ghibli story - I could not have received higher praise. The background details of the story were certainly inspired by Ghibli, but much of the art was as well. I referenced heavily scenes from Howl’s Moving Castle and one my personal favorites, Kiki’s Delivery Service, to capture a specific tone and mood.

I used a combination of MS Paint and Aesprite to make my scenes. Aesprite was particularly useful for scenes where I needed to reference perspective lines and could change the opacity of layers. I would highly recommend purchasing it if you’re hoping to do something similar. Some things I cheesed, like using the “thought bubble” tool in MS Paint (translated, flipped, skewed) to make trees and blood/attack effects throughout the game. Adventuron also worked really well for this. I just made the images at 192x64px and the game engine happily scaled things up for me with no interpolation needed.

The piece I’m most proud of, however, is the owl. This thing took me at least a dozen hours of hard work. I know it’s silly to ramble on about art on an IF forum, but I do think these things elevated my game a lot.

There are some art pieces that I wish I could have had more time with: the Opera House in particular was challenging to me. But overall, I was quite pleased with the final portfolio for this game.

On Characters & Story

I am extraordinarily competitive by nature, and so of course a large part of me was hoping I might still squeak into Best of Show even as it became evident just how good my competition was.

But now, after all the ribbons have been awarded, what I feel is mostly just happiness that the stories and characters seemed to connect with people. Most of the praise for my game had to do with either the art or the characters, and it warms my heart to no small degree to hear that. I wanted everyone you interacted with in Gennemont (except, perhaps, the dapper man) to feel like they had a real depth to them. I think I managed to do that.

Again, drawing inspiration from Ghibli, I wanted to inspire both a little bit of sadness and a little bit of happiness throughout the game. There were the really silly bits like helping Cecile write her letter (which came to me as a random thought and I coded in a frenzy immediately), but I also think the direness of Fran and even Hazel the Dormouse’s situations came through without being overbearing.

I was also pleased that I seemed to have dialed in the intensity appropriately. You cannot lose the final encounter with Hunleff, of course, but I think it’s just scary enough that the thought enters your mind.

Especially [here] on Tumblr, Fran seems to have struck a chord. She’s plucky and brash in a way I never could be, and she just sort of sprung to life all on her own. It’s rare and so enjoyable to have a protagonist - especially in an IF game! - who does that. I have a new love and appreciation for crows as a result of researching for her. I also had a great time coding in things like the nearly three dozen types of CAW responses you could get. When the ribbons came in, I was tempted to just choose the “Sweetest Bird” one and be done with it. Fran made this game what it is.

The emotional heart of this story was always going to be Fran and her adventure, and despite the game’s other shortcomings I feel intensely proud with what I accomplished on that front. It’s hard to do it in a parser game, and I learned a lot in pursuit of that goal.

[ferret-propaganda]

People I'd like to know better tag!

Tagged by @the-casbah-way hiii!!!

Last song: as I type this I'm listening to "elevator man" by oingo of boingo. Otherwise I listen to a LOT of blur.

Favourite colour: probably yellow, but black is also good.

Last book: the last book I finished was "Blood, Bullets and Blue Stratos", the first in the terrible Life on Mars book series sequel to the TV series, written by the brother of one of the original writers. It was, uh, not good. The last normal book I finished was "The Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst, which is about a gay man in the 80s who rents a room in the house of a member of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet. It was significantly better. I'm currently reading about 5 books, but the ones I'm reading the most at the moment are "Very Good, Jeeves" by P.G. Wodehouse (fiction, comedy. Third in the Jeeves series) and "Servants of the People" by Andrew Rawnsley (non-fiction. Contemporary history of New Labour).

Last movie: the last thing I logged on Letterboxd was "Lee and Herring Live", which was a much worse stage version of the Fist of Fun TV and radio show. If we skip the Stewart Lee stand-up specials and the New Labour documentaries (are you starting to sense a pattern here) then the last normal films I watched were "Kiki's Delivery Service", which I watched with friends, and "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", which I watched on my own.

Last TV show: I'm currently part-way through over 20 shows due to an inability to ever finish things, but also this tag game has come at an extremely unfortunate time because, in a continuation of a common theme here, the TV show I'm most actively watching at the moment is "This Morning with Richard Not Judy", and the last show I finished was "Fist of Fun". Both star Stewart Lee. Help. Other than that the last show I watched was the (excellent) Soviet adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (with friends) and "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K" (on my own).

Sweet/spicy/savoury: Savoury. I have an embarrassingly low spice tolerance and otherwise I just prefer savoury stuff. I am probably the only person in the world whose parents have told them off for not eating enough sweets.

Relationship status: I refer you to my blog header + description.

Last thing I googled: "TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting psycopg2". A glimpse for you all into the exciting life of a computer science student.

Current obsession: I think that it is fairly easy to deduce this by reading through my previous answers. I believe in you. (It's Stewart Lee (the comedian) and New Labour (the version of a UK political party that existed 1994-2010)). Otherwise my longest-lasting interests are Life on Mars (which is why I'm subjecting myself to the books), Dan and Phil and Jack and Dean (youtubers all get quarantined in my youtuber sideblog which is why followers of this blog rarely/never see me posting about them).

Looking forward to: Dan and Phil show in January! Also handing in my fucking mid-project report. I'm sick of it already and I haven't even started on the 5000-word written part (😭😭😭)

Tagging: This is my least favourite part of tag games and has put me off participating in the past because I'm scared of it but I'm being very brave and tagging @chironsbug @sandwichsapphic @yeah-thats-probably-it @you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be and also anyone else who sees this. Hello.

[the-travelling-witch]

My gosh that heading is so cute

i love kiki’s delivery service so much and it’s a screenshot i love using for headers/aesthetics a lot

[ryutarotakedown]

[ID: The header is the words "Final Round" in flaming capitals. The pictures show Shoe and Wagahai from Ace Attorney on one side, and Jiji from Kiki's Delivery Service on the other. End ID]

Shoe + Wagahai (Ace Attorney) vs Jiji (Kiki's Delivery Service)

[pillarboxed]

Welcome to Pillarboxed!

I’m Alisha: a Muslimah, mixed kid, and third culture kid. My favourite films include Pacific Rim (2013), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), and Riverside Mukolitta (2021).

Some keywords to give you an idea of the films I'm interested in reviewing:

Japanese, Singaporean

Malay

Drama, animation

Rated PG-13/12A or lower

The "languages" I mention at the start of my reviews refer to how I watched the films—it isn't necessarily the only way you can watch them.

Though I don't write reviews for everything watch, I do log and rate a lot of them on my Letterboxd. Pillarboxed is also on WordPress, if you like using that! You can also find me on Instagram :)

My header image is a photo I took in Singapore. My background is a photo I took in the Lake District.

My rating system

5: Basically perfect

4: Really good

3: Good

2: Hmm

1: Bad

I also give half stars between these whole numbers, e.g. 3.5 stars.

Last updated: Oct 27, 2024

[elizabugz]

[vampp1e]

i've lost all ambition for worldly acclaim, i just want to be the one you love ♡

[hakuwaii]

𑄽୧ The moon always looks after you. 🔭 𖦹 ₊˚

[teenytraveler]

Reposting my oldie from 2020 cause i made some tiny tweaks and 2 years later this Kiki fanart is still a fave of mine :”) 

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