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somacruising · 2 years ago

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Tales of the Rays: Advent of Yggdrasil (English Translation)

This is my attempt at translating one of the Tales of the Rays events so that more people can enjoy it. Though, I do have to admit that I do not speak Japanese and relied on multiple machine translations to do this.

I have a document on Google Drive with all the Japanese script written out, too. If anyone wants to take a look at that and correct smth, go ahead and message me :>

Despite the fancy name, this event is primary about Luke and Mithos going on a sight-seeing road trip lmao. Screenshots to accompany the script are taken from TimeFactor on YouTube.

SCENE 1

Martel: Hmm, I'm in trouble...

[ Luke and Tear enter ]

Luke: Hmm? Isn't that Mithos and Martel? What are you guys doing?

Martel: Oh. Luke and Tear. Hello. Hehe, it’s nice to see you two coming here together.

Tear: Wh-what? Martel, you’ve misunderstood...

Luke: Y-yeah! We both got hungry at the same time by chance! Besides, didn’t the two of you come to eat, too?

Martel: No... I was just talking to Mithos about Yuan.

Luke: Yuan? Is something going on with him?

Martel: No, nothing’s happened with Yuan himself. Yuan and I were talking about going out somewhere together.

Martel: But, when I asked everyone at the hideout for recommendations, I ended up with a lot of suggestions. I couldn't narrow it down to just one because they all sounded beautiful.

Mithos: So my sister came to consult me about it. I'm saying that Yuan should go wherever she wants to go.

Martel: That would take us all over Tir Na Nog. But, Yuan and I can’t be away for such a long time...

Mithos: Sister, I’ll go out and check everything for you. Use that as a reference to decide.

Mithos: It won't take long if I just look around a little bit, and Yuan won't complain if it's a place you’ve chosen, right?

Martel: I'm happy you would do that, but I'm worried about you going out alone. It's a big deal if monsters appear on the road or if you get lost, right? At the very least, it would be nice if someone was with you...

Mithos: I’m not a child, so don't worry. But sure... Genis is out, so I have to think of someone else...

Mithos: All right. Well then, Luke, can you come with me?

Luke: Huh, me!?

Mithos: It's not like you have something to do after this, right? So, can you hang out with me for a little while?

Luke: Well, I don't mind, but... Fine, then Tear, let's go with him!

Tear: Yes. If Luke is going—

Mithos: ……….

Tear: —No, I should stay behind. If the number of people in a group increases too much, it will be difficult to act. So, why not just you two go this time?

Luke: …Okay. Well, if that’s what she thinks, I shouldn’t force her...

Mithos: Absolutely. Well then, I'll go get ready.

Luke: What, hey—wait! Damn... I thought I’d at least get to eat some rice. Guess it can't be helped. Well, Tear, I'm going too.

Tear: All right, be careful.

[ Luke and Mithos leave ]

Martel: I'm sorry, Tear. You turned Luke’s invitation down because you thought Mithos didn’t approve of you going, right?

Tear: Please, don't worry about it. I understand that Mithos hates the human race. But even so, he makes a lot of concessions for us.

Martel: Thank you, Tear. It’s not that Mithos hates the people here, though. I suppose that he’s still afraid to open up.

SCENE 2

Luke: Heehehehe! This is the place I’d pick!

Mithos: It’s a bad idea to make a statue of a living person... but this is pretty bad in a different way.

Luke: Eh!? But Lloyd and the others also have statues.

Mithos: That sucks too. Except for Raine’s. ……I mean, you don't think Jade deserves one, right?

Luke: I doubt Jade would ever cover for me. He's a real piece of work. But, that's part of what makes Jade such a great friend.

Mithos: Hmm….

Luke: Anyway, this is what Daath looks like. Think we should move on to the next place soon?

Mithos: No, I want to observe things a little longer. Luke, go talk to the townspeople.

Luke: About what? Imperial soldiers rarely come around here. Didn’t you already know that?

Mithos: I’ve thoroughly read the documents from Karol’s Research Division.

Mithos: No, what I want to know is if there’s any trouble in the city. Even if it's something trivial, I have to check it.

Luke: Why are you so worried? Well, it’d be dangerous if a monster appeared, but Martel and Yuan aren't worried about that, right?

Mithos: I'm not worried about monsters, either. But, if something happens to my sister on his watch, I will kill Yuan. I will erase him so that not even a single piece of meat remains.

Luke: …Hey, hey, that’s nasty. Did you pick up Jade’s sense of humor?

Mithos: I’m not joking. Also, can you stop talking about that necromancer?

Mithos: It's my sister's nature... She always sticks her nose into things, so if there’s trouble she’ll definitely find it.

Mithos: It would be nice if Yuan stopped her, but regardless of when we first met, he's now determined to do whatever my sister wants.

Luke: Uh... I can't imagine looking at the two of them as normal. Martel knows about the hideout, so she’s avoiding Leia and Agria’s newspaper fights. (?)

Mithos: Right. I don't want a human to ruin my sister's precious time. I’ll thoroughly crush the buds of trouble at the first sight.

Luke: Well, okay. I didn’t expect you to be this good of a person.

Mithos: Are your ears broken?

Luke: It’s amazing that you're doing all this for your sister. I've never had that.

Mithos: It's natural because we're family.

Luke: Yeah. I don't have that kind of family...

Mithos: …Right. You’re a replica.

Luke: But, even so, I want to do my best for my mother, so I guess it’s just more complicated for me.

Luke: Alright then, let's do our best for Martel and Yuan!

Mithos: You’re a kind person, Luke... Thank you. Sorry for the trouble.

SCENE 3

Luke: Daath, Altamira, Arena, South Island...We’ve been traveling for a while, but this forest is the last place.

Luke: I thought there’d be monsters here, but it's surprisingly quiet.

Mithos: Yes. I think my sister can relax here.

Luke: So, have the candidates been narrowed down?

Mithos: Mostly. But, in the end, I don’t know which one my sister will pick.

Luke: All right. …Hey, Mithos. Can I ask you about something I’ve been wondering?

Mithos: What?

Luke: Why did you ask me to come with you? Even if I was the first person you saw, you would have been fine with someone else, right?

Luke: Besides, you could have convinced Martel to let you come without someone in the first place...

Mithos: Yes, I’m sure I could have persuaded her, but I'm sure she'd worry about me anyway, so I just thought it would be easier to go with an honest idiot.

Luke: If you wanted an honest idiot, you could have asked Lloyd.

Mithos: He's just stupid. He's not as honest as you think he is.

Luke: Even if that’s true, he’s still a good guy.

Mithos: You sound like Genis...

Luke: It can't be helped. I’m an “honest idiot". But I think you’re a nice guy, too.

Mithos: Me? You sure say some funny things. You know what I did in my original world.

Luke: I do. But, I'm responsible for some truly terrible things too...

Luke: Ah, it's not like I'm trying to ignore what I did in my old world. I’m trying to look at both the bad and the good...

Mithos: …I see. Putting Lloyd's evaluation aside, I can accept your words. Thank you.

Luke: I actually want to thank you too. People… don’t usually rely on me for things, so being asked to come with you today made me a little happy.

Mithos: …Luke, let me give you some advice. If you stay this honest, bad people may try to use you someday.

Luke: Uh, yeah. You have a record for that so I should be careful around you.

Mithos: Fufu……. Well, Luke, if anyone from this world takes advantage of you, I’ll take care of them.

Luke: Seriously!? Then Jade’ll be the first to go. All right!

Luke: Hey, Mithos. If you ever need help again like today, give me a call. Let's go somewhere together again!

Mithos: …Yes. I'll give it some thought.

Mithos: Oh, that’s right. I owe you something for your help today, so if there's anything I can do for you, I'll lend you my strength.

Luke: Eh? I can really ask for anything?

Mithos: Well, if I can—Hey, Luke. Look over there.

Luke: !!

LAST SCENE

Martel: Welcome back, Mithos. And thank you, Luke, for going with Mithos.

Luke: No, no. I didn't do much and it was Mithos who did his best...

Tear: Luke, what's wrong? Your face is kind of red.

Luke: Beh, nothing! Anyway, Mithos has something to give Martel.

Martel: Eh, Mithos?

Mithos: —Take this, Martel.

Martel: My! What beautiful white flowers. It reminds me of fandalia flowers. Where did you get these?

Mithos: We found them in the woods where we last stopped. I picked a few because I thought they would look good on you.

Martel: Thank you, Mithos. I’ll cherish them. I'll put them in a vase and place it in my room right away.

Tear: If I'm not mistaken, Sophie and the others had a vase that looked good with these flowers. I’ll ask if you can borrow it.

Luke: Oh! Tear, wait a minute!

Tear: What is it, Luke?

Luke: Oh... Um...This is for you, Tear!

Tear: What? This flower... you picked one for me too...?

Luke: This... It looks a bit like the flowers in Tataroo Valley, doesn't it? That's why... I brought it back with me...

Tear: Luke...! Yes, it looks like a Selenia flower. Thank you, I’ll take good care of it.

Martel: Good for you, Tear. And Luke... fufu, you're a kind boy, too. You wanted Tear to be happy.

Luke: N-no, ah, I said we should go home after Mithos finished picking flowers and that, I mean, since I was already waiting and it was right there... Uhhh... um...

Luke: Right, a-anyway! Mithos! You owe me that favor, remember!?

Mithos: I remember, are you sure about using me for this?

Luke: Oh, I'm sure!

Mithos: …Sword practice, right? I don't mind, but I was taught by a strict teacher. It’s alright if I don’t hold back, right?

Luke: Yeah! I don’t mind at all!

Mithos: Then Martel, I'm going to spend a bit of time beating up Luke.

Luke: Haa!? You think you’re the only one not holding back!? Tear, I’ll see you later!

[ Luke and Mithos depart ]

Tear: Luke... I'm glad you had fun. At the very least, I want you to stay healthy and enjoy your time here...

Martel: Well... I hope that Mithos will gradually regain his old smile. Even if the world doesn't allow it, I...

Martel: Let's keep watching over them, Tear.

Tear: Yes. I made a promise to him. I promised that I would always watch over Luke.

#tales of the rays #tales of the abyss #tales of symphonia #luke fon fabre #mithos yggdrasil #martel yggdrasill #tear grants #if anyone has any corrections pls pls let me know and i'll change this so fast #im not gonna pretend a machine translation is anywhere close to being as good as someone who actually knows japanese #but i still really wanted to share this with more people cuz #it's so cute #anyway this whole event is basically #Mithos: i've known luke for 5 minutes and if anything happens to him i'll kill everyone in this room #nix translates

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miekasa · 4 years ago

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random boyfriend eren hcs (modern/college au)

↯ pairing: eren jaeger x (fem) reader

↯ genres and warnings: modern/college au, himbo eren supremacy as per usual, but can you imagine eren, armin, and jean living together in one house bye

↯ notes: this is me once again trying out this headcanon format, also because i have lots of thoughts about eren (being normal) and going to college lmao

↯ more notes: sorry i have to repost this again tumblr is being dumb ://

Not a frat boy, but definitely lives by the mantra “work hard, party harder.”

Likes going out to frat parties and keggers first year, but calms down as time goes on. Sophomore year is more house parties and occasionally going downtown to clubs. By the time junior year rolls around tho, he and Jean are thee party hosts. Homecoming, Halloween, Pre-Thanksgiving break, you name it, those two have a reason to throw a party for it

But party doesn’t always mean absolute rager. Sometimes it’s just drinking with your friends, playing pong, and absolutely crushing Jean at uno.

At parties with lots of other people, Eren really doesn’t let people fuck around with you, or any of his friends really. Once almost got into a fight because he watched a guy out his hands on yours and Mikasa’s waists to “move around you.” As if.

Wears his key necklace around all the time, obviously. So he gives you a necklace with a lock on it, with both of your initials engraved on the back.

Nobody really notices it at first, since the chains are long and the necklaces are you usually tucked inside your shirts. But one day, ever the observant one, Armin catches a glimpse of yours resting on top of your shirt. Cue squinted eyes looking back and forth between you and Eren before—eureka! “You and Eren have matching necklaces!!!”

Plays sports, not for a scholarship but just for fun. Gets very pouty when you can’t make it to his games; and gets extra pouty if you show up, but you’re not wearing his jersey.

On the flip side, gets very giddy when he sees you in the stands with his jersey on and very ostentatiously scoops you up into a hug after the game is over.

Literally does not know where the library is until you show it to him. Any of them. Help him.

The worst person to study with if he doesn’t have any actual work to do. Will bother you and prefer to gossip than to let you do your work in peace. If you need an actual study buddy, you should try Mikasa.

Drunkenly hits on you a lot. Scratch that, he hits on you regardless, drunk or sober, despite the fact that you’re literally dating him already.

Literally reserves at least two nights of the week to have dinner with Armin bye and you couldn’t even interrupt them if you tried.

Waits for you outside of your classroom if you’ve had an important presentation or something. Not always with anything cheesy or loud, but just to be able to cheer you on and congratulate you after.

Hates the act of going grocery shopping, but loves going with you. Also because you force him to buy things other than Anytizers and Kraft Mac and Cheese.

Steals your hair ties and scrunchies to put his hair up. Does not fucking give them back, and denies having them, even if they’re piling up on his wrist.

Will drive you anywhere and everywhere. He is your personal Uber. Even if you don’t want him to be, he would rather die than let you get into an actual Uber—and if it’s late at night? Forget it, Eren doesn’t care if you’re 45 mins away, he’ll come get you.

After you stabbed him with your pen for drawing in your notebook (with your very pristine notes), he started leaving sticky notes inside of them instead.

They’re all super random, usually incoherent, and sometimes just drawings, and you’d never tell him, but you keep every single one.

Cuts class a lot, but not to the point where he’s failing. Just when he feels like it’s deserved, you know? Like, if he attended lecture for a class all week, he deserved to skip Friday’s lecture. As a treat.

He’s embarrassing. Endearing, but so embarrassing. Like, singing in the middle of the street embarrassing. Asking you to do a TikTok in public embarrassing. Why do you even love him.

Moves off-campus during junior year and rooms with Jean and Armin in three-bedroom house. So, he’s never actually lonely, but he’s a little crybaby and will whine to get to you to come over.

LOVES sleeping over at your place, though. Because you live with Annie and Mikasa, so your place is always clean and always smells good. Plus Mikasa and Annie are usually busy, which means you get more privacy at your place.

Mikasa honestly just starts making breakfast for Eren in the mornings when he does sleep over, and Annie is so unfazed by his presence.

Jumps at the opportunity to join in on your girls wine-night or skincare-routine night. So what if it’s him and three other girls drinking red wine with face masks on and talking about Anne Hathaway movies while playing Monopoly Deal? It leaves him pleasantly buzzed and his skin is absolutely glowing, suck his dick, Connie.

Likely doesn’t understand a thing about your major/program but listens enthusiastically when you talk about it anyways.

His lock screen is the only selfie he’s ever convinced you to take with him. (That’s okay because he has many screenshots of your snaps for safekeeping and blackmailing).

Tries to get you to exercise with him. If you’re into that, then great. If you’re not, it’s okay, he always has time to stop and take a mid-workout thirst trap to send your way. Because he’s annoying like that.

Once accidentally replied to the whole class instead of just the professor on an email asking him to be a g and bump his 89.9 to a 90. Embarrassing. (The prof did raise in the end tho, so maybe he really does have some charm to him).

Has to wear reading glasses when studying for a long time/or at his computer for a long time, and even though he doesn’t like them, you think he looks super cute in them; so he wears them more often than usual.

Calls you asking for the most obscure school supplies/stationary. “Babe, hey, you wouldn’t happen to have a spare 4x8 poster board laying around now would you?”

Mind you this is at, like, 3am, 12 hours before the poster board in question is due.

Speaking of stationary, is an absolute little shit and steals your good pens. He’s partial to the sparkly ones, if he’s being honest. They make his notes look better, fuck you, Jean.

“Eren, give me back my purple 0.4mm pen.” “I don’t know what that is, sorry.” “Eren, I can see it in your hand!”

Brings you snacks while you’re studying. If you’re really trying to crack down and be serious, he won’t even bother you. Just bring the snacks, bring you water and boba, kiss your little forehead and be on his way.

Has a polaroid camera he got as a birthday gift, and uses it to sneak pictures of you whenever you’re not looking. He keeps the good ones hung up on a sponge board in his room.

He has a few.... riskier ones too, but those are for his eyes only.

Loves to pick out your nail color when you get your nails done. Honestly gets a little pouty when you don’t ask him lmaoo

Purposely leaves his clothes around so you can wear them. Isn’t subtle about it in the slightest. Sometimes leaves them with a note: “Please wear this, you’d look cute as fuck. Thank you. —Management.”

(slightly nsfw below)

Is not too proud to ask you for risqué snaps. Not necessarily full nudes, thought he doesn’t object to those.

Will literally give you hickeys out of boredom. Will pull you onto his lap and start kissing your neck because he has nothing better to do. Also because it leads to sex 7/10 times. The other 3 times, it’s because he falls asleep with his head in your neck lmaoo

Might have once fucked you with one of his lectures playing in the background, but you’ll never tell.

He really likes phone sex. He’s shit at being quiet, so he can only really do it when Jean and Armin are out of the house, but there’s something about only being able to hear your moans to get off that really does it for him.

He’s kind of goofy and absentminded sometimes, so sometimes you’ll be mid-sex and he’ll look at you like “Hey, did you finish your assignment, it’s due tomorrow right?”

And honestly, you kinda wanna be upset, but then you start thinking—“Did I finish my assignment?” And then you realize you did and nod and he’s like “Ok, cool,” kisses your forehead and resumes where you left off.

#aot x reader #snk x reader #eren x reader #eren jaeger x reader #aot imagines #snk imagines #eren smut #eren fluff #levi x reader

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yakumtsaki · 4 years ago

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Cyneswith rolls the want to dine out with her Methuselahian boy-toy and I’m hoping we can knock this love out during this date so we never have to see him again. Naturally the road to 20 simultaneous lovers is gonna have some duds, but did we really have to start with one?? Between Cyn’s gray hair turn on and Shajar’s fitness/fatness ones the chemistry mechanic is ruining my life this generation.

Yea that’s great, CADP, here’s an even more appropriate green face: 🤢🤢🤢

-I don’t get paid enough for this shit.

Random Waiter sweetie, I’m so sorry. I’m sorry we’re romancing this old bitch in front of you, oh my god.

Mercifully CADP wastes no time falling in love with Cyneswith after this public woohoo witnessed by every townie within a 20 mile radius, and the date is a stunning success:

LMAO. Watch Cyneswith become a pillar of the community thanks to publicly banging the elderly, she truly can do no wrong. No wonder she’s the only child Jojo acknowledges.

Beyond over for Don.

Cyneswith returns home in the glowing triumph of her platinum plumbob. She literally hasn’t even made it to the front door yet-

-and CADP calls to ask her out again! Man, these drama professors are relentless, remember how half-alien prof stalked Gunther? Did this guy even go home or is he calling us right from the diner where we left him?? Whatever the case, hardest ‘Stay Here’ ever pressed, grandpa.

-But I wanna go out with him again! 🌸

Yea well we don’t have time to be systematically dating these flops, Cyn, if you wanted in depth affairs you should have rolled a different LTW.

NICE. Another fine addition to our yard of wonders! We’re still not dating you, CADP, but when we’re throwing ragers on this thing, we’ll be thinking of you with some nostalgia and a lot of disgust.

With Cyneswith platinum for the foreseeable future, I take a look at how everyone else is doing to ensure there aren’t any aspiration failures lurking. Ti-Ning and Frances are ultra-loved up and doing great-

-Angel rolls the want to get engaged to Wulf as well as the want TO INVITE OVER GUNTHER AKA HER TEENAGE FLING FROM 30 YEARS AGO, FFS ANGEL-

-and Don.. well he’s seen better days. The sad ‘go on a date’ want is killing me, I’ve considered it a given so far that he’s endgame for Cyn but they haven’t been interacting much lately, we’ll see how it goes, it might legit be over him.

The semester ends and with it Sophie’s insane 0 studying A+ streak, which is understandable since she literally almost died. Proud of Wulf and Don for bringing their grades up since they were both doing terribly, Don especially was flirting with academic probation last semester. I guess once your gf is no longer distracting you because she’s too busy cheating on you, you start hitting the books.

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life.. and Sophie autonomously goes to gossip with Shajar!!! I was so shocked I unironically took a screenshot of the little action queue window, but whatever, it’s a big deal!

-Hey Shajar, you know who’s an even bigger turbocuck than you?? Ti-Ning! God I can’t stand that loser.

-Haha couldn’t agree more, Sophie! 🖤 Not like I’d agree with anything you say, I have my own personality and opinions and everything!! Why are we talking about him like he’s not right here? I’m not questioning you, just curious! 🖤

-It’s my new bullying tactic!

-It’s great!

-Congratulations on your ever-evolving bullying techniques, Sophie! 🖤

-Congratulations on idolizing me! Maybe you’re only a cuck and not a turbocuck after all.

AAAAAAA THEY’RE PLAYING RED HANDS OMG OMG IS THIS FINALLY GONNA HAPPEN????

-Haha great punch, Sophie! I actually felt the nerve damage as it happened!

-Thanks, ever since my post-workout coma I’m stronger than ever!

OMG THEY FINALLY BECAME FRIENDS. Bro I still cannot believe Cyneswith not only befriended Sophie first but is LITERALLY BFFS WITH HER. UN.REAL. ANYWAY there’s only so much blue balling I can take from these two, it’s time to find out if there’s something there once and for all. But first, we need a slight adjustment so let’s head to the nearest mirror..

-OH BROTHER.

In the name of love, Shaj, come on!

-So, Sophie.. As I’m sure you can see, I’m blonde now. And I had to sign a contract promising I won’t sue for how terrible it makes me look, so I’m legally blonde. Now that that’s out of the way..

-..it’s Ti-Ning trashing time!

GODDAMMIT SHAJAR NO. NO MORE TI-NING TRASHING, NO MORE USELESS PLATONIC INTERACTIONS, IT’S GO TIME. Check her out, and let the chips fall where they may!!!

F I N A L L Y I L N L A A L N L I Y L L A N I F

OK. SO NOW WE KNOW. What you do from now on is up to you, first and last time I’m intervening but these two were driving me insane.

-And so after careful consideration, it became clear that blonde is truly my color!

-Are you sure, Shaj? Because when I saw you upstairs you were sobbing and doing vomiting motions in front of the mirror.

-Aw Angel, that’s not a very nice thing to say! Don’t worry sis, I love your new look! In fact, I’m so proud of the way you look I want you right there next to me when I meet potential lovers! 💗

NOW THAT’S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE. I mean I wish I wasn’t seeing Shajar’s terrible blonde hair but Sophie’s blondeness turn on forced my hand. But the rest of this pic is what I like to see!

Despite recent developments, Sophie remains elusive af but I’m not butting in anymore, I’m returning to my go with the flow playstyle. So Sophie once again leaves us dick in hand and goes inside to.. you guessed it, socialize with Cyneswith. Shajar follows suit.. and..

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SHAJAR. YOU FINALLY STEPPED UP. I guess there’s only so much cucking from Cyneswith one person can take!!! If Sophie rejects this I’m literally gonna die-

-HELL YES OMG FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

CYNESWITH ARE YOU KIDDING ME. BRO. LITERALLY THE BIGGEST COCKBLOCK TO EVER LIVE

And Shajar is now in love with Sophie, whereas Sophie isn’t even best friends with her yet, oh Shaj.. Well whatever, you’ll get there (I hope). ACR gets right down to business, let’s ignore Sophie thinking of Cyneswith, istg..

Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean we literally went from first kiss ever to woohoo with 0 other interactions in between but after all those years of incelitude who can blame Shajar.

And it’s official!!! ❤️ I’ve been convinced these two belong together ever since they were teens but I was also convinced Gunther belonged with Melody/Daniel belonged with Brittany/Jojo belonged with Frances and we remember how all 3 of those went so only time will tell.

In the meantime let’s marvel at how uneven this burgeoning relationship is thanks to Shajar unilaterally obsessing over Sophie for half her teenhood. But she finally got her! An inspirational tale about never giving up on your dreams even when your dreams prefer your sister.

#gen 2 #ts2

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skinks · 4 years ago

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hi!!! what are your favourite movies? like actually good ones but also any trashy comfort movies? is IT (2017) one of them?

Hello!! IT (2017) IS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THEM oh man, thank you for this, I love talking about movies!!!! This is possibly the most difficult question you could have asked me. Apologies for how absolutely off the rails this got, I just... love movies so much lmao

I’ve said this before, but opening night of IT ch1 was the best cinema experience I’ve ever had, I’m so glad I got to see it with a fully packed audience who were all laughing and screaming together the whole way through. I’m a huge fan of... everything ch1 was doing, the 80s nostalgia, the summer-coming-of-age themes, the solid ghost train funhouse JOY of the Pennywise performance and scares, the washed-out cinematography, the tiny background details to make everything that much more eerie, the kids’ ACTING?!

Like, a lot of the time I find child actors can be really awkward and stilted to watch, but I remember leaving the cinema really impressed by JDG and Sophia Lillis in particular. I liked that they were all allowed to be little shitheads with potty mouths, it felt like a callback to 80s movies like The Lost Boys or Stand By Me. The whole thing worked to make me really care about what happened to the kids (even if I do still have issues with how they handled Mike. I understand even ch1 had limitations with juggling so many characters, but still). I saw it another 2 times in the cinema and have rewatched it at least, I dunno, 7-10 more times since then?

Add to all of that the retroactive CANON R+E baby pining subplot? I just love it, as if that wasn’t obvious by now given my Whole Blog. It’s a really special movie to me!

Anyway!! Ok, the main handful of movies I rewatch all the fucking time are:

Back to the Future, The Lost Boys, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Jaws, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Ocean’s 11, POTC 1, The Dark Knight, Inception, Die Hard, LOTR trilogy, Snatch, The Nice Guys, Logan Lucky, Mad Max Fury Road, Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Billy Elliot, Dirty Dancing, Tomb Raider (2018)...

Those are the easily consumable ones that I’ve seen so many times I don’t really have to concentrate or think about them, but I really love them and unfortunately often KEEP rewatching them instead of new stuff. It would take too long to go into why I love all these movies so much because I could write the same amount as I already did for ITCH1, and everyone already knows why those movies are good, so, lol.

I think I’m gonna have to subdivide and categorise this whole post because there are too many separate criteria for... goOD MOVIES, AUUHH 😩

Okay so first off, HORROR MOVIES? I’m especially in love with Re-Animator (1985) and its sequel Bride of Re-Animator, they’re such good examples of camp and batshit 80s practical effects, and also EXTREMELY funny. I’m actually just gonna post my list of my fave horror movies that I do actually keep on my phone at all times lmao. These are in no particular order:

Wholeheartedly recommend every one of these. I’ve never been so scared in my life as I was watching Hereditary in the cinema, hoo boy. Mother! by Aronofsky is one of the strangest experiences I’ve ever had (and I actually saw it on the same day I saw IT ch1 for the first time!! That was a fun day)

Psycho (1960) and The Fly from 1986 should also be on there but I couldn’t fit them in the screenshot.

I’m a HUGE fan of a ton of martial arts movies too, like Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Ip Man, The Raid movies, John Wick 3 is my fave of the trilogy, Drive from 1997 with Mark Dacascos is incredible, SPL 2, Ong-Bak, Operation Condor, Project A, Iron Monkey, and Zatoichi (2003) are some favourites.

My favourite Tarantino is Reservoir Dogs, fave Coen brothers are Raising Arizona, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and O Brother Where Art Thou. Love some old-timey colour correction and weird offbeat dialogue. I also love Goodfellas!!! And Donnie Brasco! And The Firm, I’m so easy for any good crime/law/gangster/heist procedural like that, especially if they’re from the 80s or 90s in a super dated way.

Fave Disney movie is Tarzan, favourite Ghibli movies are Spirited Away and Lupin III. I remember watching Spirited Away during a thunderstorm one time and it being.... god! Transcendent! Favourite Pixar movie is The Incredibles (the first one. ALSO the documentary “The Pixar Story” is great and well worth a watch, it’s very comforting for some reason) and my favourite Dreamworks movies are HTTYD1 and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron.

I tend to watch more anime movies than tv shows, so stuff like Akira, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Journey to Agartha, and my ultimate fave anime is Sword of the Stranger (2008). The climactic fight in that movie is fucking stunning and should be counted in “bests fights” lists right alongside anything live action

Also if we’re talking animated movies another hearty favourite is Rango, and a Belgian stop-motion (which at one time I considered my favourite movie ever) called Panique Au Village (2009) which is one of the funniest movies ever made imo.

As for TRASHY movies, I’m not sure if that’s the right word for how I feel about these ones but.. dumb/silly/slightly guilty pleasure movies? Ones that I feel need some kind of justification lmfao

Troy - something u must know about me is that I’m a giant slut for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, so if a movie smashes historical and mythological nonsense together with fun costumes and sword fights, I’m gonna enjoy myself. Even if they should have made Achilles and Patroclus gay. Other movies in this vein are King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, and Immortals (2011)

Gods of Egypt - I know all the reasons this movie is whitewashed bullshit. But it was already bullshit with giant Anubis mecha and giant snakes and bad acting and ridiculous CGI and frankly I had a blast at the cinema (my friend who I forced to come with me did not have a blast. Sorry H***)

Avatar - yes, the one with the big blue people. This movie gets a lot of flack nowadays but I really do enjoy it just for the spectacle. The full CGI world technology was so new at the time and I love to wallow in the visuals and daydream about riding a cool dragon around in the jungle

George of the Jungle - I’ll defend this movie to the death ok this movie shaped me as a person, it is fucking hilarious and Brendan Fraser is the himbo to end all himbos. It’s perfect. The song Dela is perfect. I still want to write a reddie AU about it. It’s one of the best movies ever made and I’m not being ironic

Set It Up - I KNOW this is a dumb Netflix original romcom but consider this; it was funny and the leads had great chemistry. I got butterflies. I once watched it and then literally immediately set it back to the start so I could watch it again

The Brady Bunch Movie - when people talk about great satires or parodies you will see them bring up the same movies over and over again, Blazing Saddles, This Is Spinal Tap etc, but they never talk about The Brady Bunch Movie from 1995 for some reason, which they should. It is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen and every time i watch it somehow it gets funnier

Some more general favourites that I do still love but don’t rewatch as often, and don’t wanna go into more detail about are:

Moon (2009), Crna Mačka Beli Mačor, The Sixth Sense, Parasite, The Handmaiden, Tremors, Wet Hot American Summer, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, What We Do In The Shadows, Hunt For the Wilderpeople, The Secret of My Success (I love kitschy 80s movies, is that obvious by now), The Green Mile, When Harry Met Sally, Rear Window, The Odd Couple, Breaking Away, Pan’s Labyrinth, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Eagle, Gladiator, The Artist, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, Call Me By Your Name, Master and Commander, Pacific Rim, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Legend (1985), Emma. (2020), Flash Gordon, Trolljegeren, Hross í Oss, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, WarGames, District 9, Ajeossi (2010), Tracks (2013), Sightseers, Mud (2012), Pitch Black, Four Lions, Shaun of the Dead, Starship Troopers, The Truman Show, Withnail & I....... Jesus Christ ok I need to stop

NOTABLE EXTREME FAVOURITES that I didn’t include in the regular rewatch list because they’re too heavy/not as well known/require more attention.:

Thin Red Line (1998), Badlands (1973) both dir. Terrence Malick

Malick’s brand of dreamy impressionistic filmmaking is something I find really appealing, both of these movies are gorgeous and unusual and poignant and, in the case of Thin Red Line at least, have a lot of things to say about a lot of rough subjects. I don’t totally understand all those things sometimes, but a theme with a lot of my favourite movies is that I’ll be more likely to love something long-term if it raises unanswered questions, or is surreal/esoteric etc. Plus the cinematography is incredible, and I wish there was a way to get Jim Caviezel’s narration from The Thin Red Line as an audiobook because it’s very poetic and soothing.

Let the Bullets Fly (2010) dir. Jiang Wen

This movie is WILD, it’s so much fun. It’s sprawling and intricate and epic and smart and really fucking funny, it! Has! Everything! A gang of very tolerant outlaws!! Jiang Wen’s beautiful broad chest!!! Chow Yun Fat absolutely DECIMATING the scenery, and the two of them outsmarting each other in order to gain control of a small Chinese town!!! Plus it’s long, but it packs so much nonsense and intrigue that it goes by really fast. Wow what a flick

A Field in England (2013) dir. Ben Wheatley

I know I included this in my horror list but aaaaahhh ahhhh Wheatley is one of my favourite directors (he also made Sightseers, and is directing the Tomb Raider sequel which makes me absolutely rabid.) This is a surreal black-and-white psychological horror black comedy set in the English Civil War about some deserters who may or may not meet the Devil in a field. People eat mushrooms. It’s bonkers. I love being blasted in the face with imagery that I don’t understand

Mandy (2018) dir. Panos Cosmatos

Speaking of being blasted in the face!!!!! This movie... I saw it in the cinema and I can’t even begin to explain the experience, but I’ll try. My favourite review site described it like this:

“...somewhere between a prog album cover come to life and a metal album cover come to life, and subscribes to both genre's artistic tendency towards maximalism: what it ends up being is basically naught else but two glorious hours of being pounded by bold colors...”

So, prog and metal are my two favourite genres of music. This movie opens with the quote “When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, put some headphones on my head and rock and roll me when I'm dead.” and then a King Crimson song, it is SURREAL to the nth degree, it’s violent and bizarre and Nic Cage forges a giant silver axe to destroy demonic bikers and there is a CHAINSAW DUEL. A galaxy swirls above a quarry. Multiple animated horror nightmare sequences. At one point a man says “you exude a cosmic darkness” and releases a live tiger. At another point Cage says, in a digitally deepened voice, “The psychotic drowns where the mystic swims. You’re drowning. I’m swimming.” and I haven’t stopped thinking about it for two years

Paper Moon (1973) dir. Peter Bogdanovich

Really fantastic movie set in the Great Depression (and also in black & white) about a conman and a little kid who may or may not be his daughter, running cons across the Midwest. It’s beautifully shot, so sharp and sweet and the progression of their dynamic is really well done because they’re played by an IRL father and daughter. Tatum O’Neal was NINE YEARS OLD and she’s so amazing in this movie she’s actually the youngest person to win a competitive category Oscar. I keep trying to get people to watch this fbdjfjdbf it’s wonderful

Alpha (2018) dir. Albert Hughes

THIS MOVIE IS A VICTIM OF BAD MARKETING ok, the trailers made it look like some twee crappy sentimental Boy And His Dog Adventure, plus it had voiceovers in American-accented english? That’s a total disservice to one of the coolest things about this film; the fact that they got a linguist to construct an entirely original Neolithic language that all the characters speak for the entire runtime. And yes, it is eventually a Boy And His Wolf adventure, but it’s COOL and fairly brutal, and it has some really incredible cinematography. The landscapes are so strange and barren and alien, you really get the sense that this is an ancient world we no longer have any connection to. And it’s also about like, the birth of dog & human companionship sooo it’s perfect.

Free Solo (2018) dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

The Free Climbing Documentary. I loved climbing as a kid, I love outdoor sports, and I love movies that elicit a physical reaction in me, whether that’s horny, scared, real laughter, overwhelming shivers, or in the case of Free Solo - HORRIBLE SWEATING TENSION. Like, I knew about Alex Honnold beforehand because of this adventure film festival I go to every year and I followed him on IG so obviously I knew he lived, but the actual climb itself was torture. My hands sweat every time I see it!! It’s incredible, such a cool look into generally what the human body can do, and more specifically, why Honnold’s psychology and life means he’s so well suited to free soloing. It’s such an exercise in getting to know an individual and get invested in them, before they attempt something very potentially fatal.

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

I can’t even talk about this. When I was around 13 I snuck downstairs to watch this on TV at 11pm in secret, and my life was forever changed. I wouldn’t be who I am if I hadn’t seen Brokeback at the age I did. I seriously can’t talk about this or I’ll write an even longer essay than this already is

God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee

The antidote to Brokeback Mountain, I’m so glad I managed to see this one in the cinema too. It makes me cry every time, as someone who’s spent years working on a cold British farm with sheep it was very realistic, which is expected since Lee grew up on a farm in Yorkshire. I love that this movie isn’t really about being closeted, but about being so emotionally repressed and self-loathing that the main character finds it so hard to accept love. Or that he deserves to be loved. The cinnamontographies.... lordt... but also the intimacy and sex scenes are fucking searing wow who hasn’t seen this movie by now. 10 stars. 20 stars!!!

Tomboy (2011) dir. Céline Sciamma

I saw this years ago but I’ve never forgotten it, it cut so deep. It’s from the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and it’s about a gnc kid struggling with gender and misogyny and homophobia in a really raw, scrappy way, it reminded me very much of my own... childhood... ahh the central performance is amazing for such a young age. I haven’t seen Portrait yet but I feel like if you went nuts for that, you should definitely check this out, it’s lovely.

Donnie Darko (2001) dir. Richard Kelly

EVERY TIME I WATCH THIS MOVIE I UNDERSTAND LESS AND LESS and that’s what I love so much about it. I love surreal movies, I love time-fuckery and stuff about altered perception etc etc and Donnie Darko scratches all my itches. I wish I could find a way to figure out an IT AU for it, because I know it would work! Somehow! Plus it’s got the subdued 80s nostalgia and I found it at an age when I was really starting to explore movies and music and the soundtrack FUCKS.

Offside (2006) dir. Jafar Panahi

I wish more people knew about this!!! It’s an Iranian film about a disparate group of women and girls who are football fans and want to watch Iran’s qualifying match for the World Cup, but women aren’t allowed into the stadium, so they all get thrown into the Stadium Jail together? They don’t know each other beforehand, but it’s about their changing relationships with each other and the guards and just, their defiance alongside hearing the match from the outside and WOW it’s so lively. Great dialogue and very funny, and such a different kind of story from anything you usually see from Hollywood.

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

This movie... I guess it’s the ideal. This is the platonic ideal of a film for me, it has fantasy, magical realism, glorious visuals, amazing score and costumes and production design and a really interesting, heartbreaking relationship at the core of it. I don’t know why so many of my favourite films feature incredibly raw performances by child actors but this is another one, Catinca Untaru barely knew any English and improvised so much because of that, and it’s fascinating to watch! Also the dynamic with Lee Pace is one of my favourites, where a kid forms a friendship with a guardian figure who isn’t their parent, but the guardian grows to really care for them by the end. It’s like Paper Moon in that sense. What is there to even say about this movie, it’s pure magic joy tempered and countered by genuine gutwrenching emotional conflict in the real world, it’s also ABOUT old moviemaking, in a way, and it’s stunning to look at!

Mad Max Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

I know I included this in my “most rewatched” section but it deserves its own thing. We all know why this movie is fucking incredible. I remember clutching my armrests in the cinema and feeling like my skeleton was being blasted back into the seat behind me and tbh that is the high I’m constantly chasing when I go to see any movie. What a fucking gift this film is

Théo et Hugo dans le Même Bateau (2016) dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau

I only found this movie last year and it became an instant favourite. Initially I was just curious because I’d never seen a movie with unsimulated sex before, but it’s so much more than the 18 minute gay sex club orgy it opens with. No, not more than, AS WELL AS. The orgy is important because this movie is so candid and frank about sex and HIV treatment in the modern day, it was eye-opening. Another thing that really got me is that I’d never seen a real-time film before. It’s literally an hour and a half in the lives of these two men, their intense connection and conversation and conflict in the middle of the night in Paris, with some really nice night photography and just!!! Wow!!! AMAZING CHEMISTRY between the actors. This is such a gem if you’re comfortable with explicit sexual content.

Ok. This is already over 3k but film is obviously one of my ridiculous passions and I can and do talk about it for hours. I’ve been reading magazines about it for years, listening to podcasts and reading review blogs and recently, watching video essays on YouTube because the whole process is so interesting to me and I want to learn more!!

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of valuing form over narrative. The idea that story can often come second to the deeper physical experience and emotional reaction that’s created by using ALL the elements of filmmaking and not just The Story, y’know? Whether that’s editing, shot composition, colour, the sound mix, the actors, how it should all be used to heighten the emotional state the script wants you to feel. And so, I think for a few years now this approach has been influencing the types of films I really, really love.

I think I love surreality and mind-bending magical realism in films specifically because the filmmakers have to use all those different tools to convey things that can be way too metaphysical for just... a script? I’m always chasing that physical response; if a movie can make me stop thinking “I wonder what it was like to set up that shot” and instead overwhelm that suspension of disbelief, if I can be terrified or woozy or crying for whatever reason, that’s what I’m looking for. That’s why I watch so many fuckin movies, and why I’ll always remember nights like seeing IT (2017) for giving me another favourite.

Thank you again for this question, I didn’t mean to go so overboard. Also there’s no way to do a readmore on tumblr mobile so apologies to anyone’s dashboard 😬

#long post #films #this is like bill hader being asked to pick his fave comedies and he gives a 4 page list #he has such good taste though ahhahbfhfhfhh lemme talk with him nonstop about movies while i ride him. thank you

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shock777archive · 6 years ago

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I got this question on deviantart, and I felt like reposting my answer here, in case anyone is interested :P

THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG REPLY BUT BEAR WITH ME LOL When I first started drawing/am I self taught : I've been drawing since kindergarten. Anime specifically, since I was about 8 years old. so that's been uh...18 years since I've started drawing in the anime-esque style? I am self taught on these areas. I picked up a digital artist tablet at the age of 13 or so, (it was a wacom Graphire 4 4x5 in) so it's been 13 years of digital art practice i've gotten in. I have picked up several how to draw books over the years until i surpassed some of them. But even now i'm constantly referencing tutorials and poses, looking for ideas and color palettes, etc. I have taken some schooling in college for art. I took beginner's drawing and color theory and maybe a little of art history but that's about it before i quit lmao What inspired me to draw in the first place/what I first drew: The thing that inspired me to draw in the first place was my favorite cartoons. from a very young age i knew that cartoons weren't real, but it fascinated me that actual people could create almost living people. I related to cartoons, and even though they were fake characters, I just loved the idea of creating a whole world of my own. So I took up drawing in kindergarten. First things I drew were flowers, rainbows, trees, etc. But My first biggest undertaking was powerpuffgirls. lol This was the series that started it all. Began drawing tons of powerpuffgirls stories and oc's. For the next few years I would watch different things like all the standard cartoon network shows. But I watched yugioh and dbz and other anime things too. What also got me into anime art style was the online game neopets lol Their faeries designs ( http://images.neopets.com/games/pages/icons/screenshots/586/4.jpg ) kind of had an anime resemblance, so I started drawing those for a while. When I was 8 or 9 years old my father bought me my first how to draw manga book (this one in particular: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Drawing-Manga-Ben-Krefta/dp/1841931713 ) looking back on it, this book is terrible and the anime in it is so ugly looking lol. However, i used that thing religiously and began making my own characters like a blue elf girl and a human friend of hers. ( in fact, here's the post. i tried redrawing them recently lol: https://shock777.tumblr.com/post/145898896143/finding-old-art-is-the-best-cause-you-can-redraw ) ...Then the real transformation began once I started watching Teen Titans when it aired in 2003. I was 10 at the time. That show started my love for japan. The language interested me and I began researching Japanese songs and trying to sing along to them. I didn't know what the words meant, but the artistic style and meshing of western cartoons and anime of the show really piqued my interest. My earliest drawings of them suckedddd XD; As Teen Titans drew to a close near 2006-2007 ish, I picked up Naruto and then it was all over since then lol my anime style and weeb days really came into full force lol I thank naruto though. I learned how to draw more realistic anatomy as opposed to cartoony anatomy. It was a very wild ride, but it's all documented here on my deviantart page as I got this exact account around the same time! I started posting my work in 2008, so you can go back far enough into my gallery and see the progress XD; I keep the old cringe up because it just motivates me and hopefully others, to keep drawing and keep going farther! :) PHEW lol long history there XD I do have some of my old art!!! If you wanna see some, I've posted a little here: https://shock777.tumblr.com/tagged/old-art plus I already said there's a few still on my dA gallery haha Tips I can give to you: 1. And I think this is most important, JUST KEEP GOING. It's soooo tempting to quit drawing when things aren't going right and when you're not happy with how your art looks. Trust me, every artist I've ever known including myself have gone through this. It's so easy to compare your work to someone else's. The thing is, we're all in this together. No one expects a newborn to be able to file taxes or drive a car lol. We all have to evolve and change, and that change comes from consistent work. Art isn't an inherent talent, it is hard work that is honed over several years of blood, sweat and tears lmao JUST KEEP GOING. as I've mentioned, my old cringe art is still on my dA page. Back then when I was younger I was less concerned with things being perfect and I spam posted almost every doodle. And I began a "fanbase" i guess because of those days and my consistent posting. I've had this freaking deviantart page for 11 freakin years. If I had stopped drawing whenever I felt my art was imperfect or not good enough, I would have stopped posting around 2009. so...just keep going. And I'd even dare you to post your "shitty doodles" that you think aren't that great. Because you never know what someone else will see in it that you don't. Be confident, and never give up! 2. Soak up any tutorial and really focus on studying your favorite artist's styles. If there's something you want to replicate in your art that someone else is drawing, try to see how they do it. sometimes artists have tutorials posted and sometimes they don't. I have a few posted on my youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRB9xQBsGpfetNJbmXWZ1fL9d5IlqQs1w ) and some in my gallery. Don't exactly copy some things stroke for stroke, but try to add your little spin to something. Like sometimes I will see art senpai drawing a specific eye style I wanna replicate, but I don't like one part of the process. So sometimes I'll just add my own little addition, or just omit that process completely. Usually though, if the art style isn't necessarily super unique, you can copy a lot of mainstream styles without anyone really griping saying "oh you're just copying so and so's art style". It's important to look up to art senpais i think. They make me want to try harder lol 3. Take an art class if you're able. Color theory really helped me grasp things that I never had before. LIKE REFLECTIVE LIGHT FOR INSTANCE. I never drew that shit but now I do because DUH it's so freaking obvious lol It also helps to learn what colors neutralize others, complementary colors, analogous ones, etc. It's nice to have an eye for what matches together and to know the principles of art. I still have a lot of work to do when it comes to perspective, which we did cover a little in class lol but work on your own pace. If your college near you offers a class for beginners, take it if you're able. it will help you view things differently. 4. Copy realistically. Like, I'm talking look at a freaking object in your room and try to draw it. Once you can draw it semi realistically, you can then add your own little stylistic choices to it. Like so many artists who draw chibis or cartoony things, they more than likely know the proper proportions of people and anatomy. But they draw the proportions all whacky and it creates their own style. However it does help to know how they work in reality lol 5. TRACE OVER POSES. Sometimes I do this. I'm not saying to trace someone's art, but if you see some kind of pose on say a google image, or a stock photo, try sketching over it to get a feel for where the joints connect if you're working on anatomy. It reaaaallly helps you memorize where the arm would end, or where the torso connects to the hips. 6. Take advice and criticism well. If someone sees something you don't about your art, they may be on to something. It's not wrong if someone gives you a heads up that a proportion seems lacking or something seems too big or out of place. It will actually help you to see what others see. Sometimes we get in the habit of drawing something a certain way and it's hard to break that habit especially if you've drawn the same thing several hundred times. It will help you in the long run to just accept that you're always going to be improving. You'll never be perfect at drawing, so what do you have to lose? Just keep walking forward and learn what you can. 7. Flip the canvas. This is more or less a digital art tip, but please flip the canvas to make sure the proportions are not off. lol A lot of professionals have to flip the canvas until they get a feel for where things are placed. Another good tip is to use a stabilizer of some kind to draw straight lines. Paint tool sai has one at the very top of the window. It helps tremendously. 8. Draw what you like and don't feel bad for not drawing everything everyone else likes. Don't sacrifice your morals or your personal desires for something everyone else likes. If you're paid to draw something you don't like, thats another thing. but don't let people pressure you to draw stuff that you don't want to. You'll be much happier, and build an audience that is much like-minded to you. Be considerate of what your audience likes, sure, but remember at the end of the day, art is something to express one's self. Art is not and should not be a job. Even if you get paid money to draw or design things, it's important to take a break and draw something for yourself every once in a while. Be self indulgent, and treat yo self from time to time :) And uhhh...that's all I can think of for the time being. :') let me know if you have any further questions or if I need to clarify anything :) Thanks again!

#me #my art #art tips #long post

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owly-sims · 8 years ago

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I’m so annoyed! I worked on a document for like four hours last night, saved it to my Google Drive, and then printed it at work today. BUT it hadn’t synced so I printed an old version THEN I saved it, thus undoing all of my work. And the document was for a meeting so I looked like a real jackass (luckily it was a one-on-one with my sympathetic boss). So now I have a bunch of work to redo. I just wanted to vent.

Anyway, some replies to my random legacy stuff. I have two weeks of legacy gameplay queued, so I hope you enjoy it! (if not, you can block “Bee Legacy”)

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset“Nikolas got arrested! And look, that alien UFO he failed to steal is...”

Richie Rich Haha!!! I remember when I was that age and going to see The Dark Crystal - we queued for hours and got to the entrance to be told "It's full sorry!" So we went to Mcdonalds instead :D OK day 5/10 :D

Omg, The Dark Crystal—I saw that when I was about six and it made me cry. XD Still a good movie. And McDonald’s is the next best thing to a movie (as a kid, of course).

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset“Whilst out on a jog, Nikolas notices an unsecured police cruiser. And...”

Let's hope he doesn't try and make a get-away in it; he'd be faster on a cycle :3

Seriously! I’m imagining one of those bicycle cops easily overtaking him and then beating him (because I live in the US).

simblu replied to your photoset“Whilst out on a jog, Nikolas notices an unsecured police cruiser. And...”

This may be WAAY to personal, but I have a relative whole stole a police car once..maybe he could give your guy lessons? *snicker*

simblu replied to your photoset“Whilst out on a jog, Nikolas notices an unsecured police cruiser. And...”

TOO, not "to"..I know me some gramma and spelin.

Wow, I’m torn between “wow, that’s crazy!” and “wow, that’s badass!” Honestly I don’t think it’d be TOO hard to steal a police car, because I’ve noticed several times that officers have left them running or unlocked.

Not that I’ve ever thought about stealing a police car…

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset“When an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object! Damn, they pathed...”

The smell of sweet running success!! :D

But I didn’t want success! I wanted them to run into each other!

declarations-of-drama replied to your photo“Idk why, but I LOVE this little fist pump thing sims do when they...”

Ha! Have you seen the way they do those moves with different traits like dramatic and stuff - so funny

I haven’t! I honestly haven’t played that many traits. I need to make some sims with traits I’ve never used (dramatic is one of them).

twinsimskeletons replied to your photo“Idk why, but I LOVE this little fist pump thing sims do when they...”

"rad" yes that is what I, and the kids, say these days

twinsimskeletons replied to your photo“Idk why, but I LOVE this little fist pump thing sims do when they...”

I'm joking i have no idea what the kids say these days.

Um, I teach 18 year olds so I’m fairly certain they say “rad.” Also, “tubular,” “cowabunga,” and “gnarly.” /nod.

twinsimskeletons replied to your photo“You’re supposed to throw the dart at the board, Nikolas, not at your...”

Imagine how much that would hurt though

I know! He’s takin’ it like a champ tho.

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset“Lark’s income roll for her generation is mixologist, which I wouldn’t...”

Oh dear! Didn't know that could happen!

I think it was actually old age that did her in, because her ghost was gray.

acquiresimoleons replied to your photoset“Lark’s income roll for her generation is mixologist, which I wouldn’t...”

Lmao she literally died waiting for a drink to arrive

I imagine her saying “c’mon missy, I ain’t getting’ any younger!” And then she croaked.

declarations-of-drama replied to your photo“TAG YOU’RE IT”

Hahahaha!!!

blythelyre replied to your photo“TAG YOU’RE IT”

oh, hell no!

What, you don’t wanna play tag with the grim reaper?? :D

grumpysimmies replied to your photoset“All the poses I’ve made so far, minus some of the variations. I’m...”

It looks to me like the expressions are pretty... expressive? (Sorry I couldn't think of anything xD) like the emotions are pretty well displayed in most? (The couples do look a bit shocked or something haha) overalls you did an awesome job!

Thanks! The surprised an sad expressions look okay imo, it’s just the happy ones. I’m hoping to release them soonish.

simblu replied to your photoset“All the poses I’ve made so far, minus some of the variations. I’m...”

I never use poses myself but I'm sure others will love them

I hope so! I use poses all the time, but I rarely use the ones I make so I hope other people get a lot of use out of them.

futurecarrie replied to your photoset“All the poses I’ve made so far, minus some of the variations. I’m...”

I get that it's happy in the last one ^-^. It looks like she was expecting a negative but it's positive and she can't believe what she's seeing *nods*

futurecarrie replied to your photoset“All the poses I’ve made so far, minus some of the variations. I’m...”

Oh! Couples pose! Oh I read it as "you couldn't tell the last one was happy". This is why poorly me shouldn't be allowed the internet xD

Ha, I was a little confused for a second. I’m gonna work on that last one too because she needs to look absolutely STOKED imo.

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset“All the poses I’ve made so far, minus some of the variations. I’m...”

These are really fantastic - and can be used for more than just pregnancy testing; letters, a ring, a baby hamster :p all of these could fit with these poses. Nice job!

Oh wow, a ring could possibly work with some of them…I’ll need to test it out. A baby hamster would probably be a little squished, though.

sims3hasstoppedworking replied to your post“I’m getting close to 150 followers, so I want to start working on a...”

Honestly I always feel like there's almost 0 Ambitions EP tattoos

I actually have some AMB tattoos in my projects folder, so I’ll work on those next!

sims3hasstoppedworking replied to your photoset“A few screenshots from the beginning of gen 2 of my random legacy....”

ALWAYS STEAL THE MOST PRECIOUS GOODS

Seriously, NOT garlic! He should have at least gone for avocados. Those are way more expensive.

twinsimskeletons replied to your link“2.4. What If?”

YAY MORE!... I promise I'll use it as a reward for work again :3

Thank you! You’re such a good student. :D

simblu replied to your post“Late Replies Pt. 1”

Nice hair color

Thanks! It doesn’t look that nice in real life! :D

declarations-of-drama replied to your post“Late Replies Pt. 2”

Nice new Avi! It's you but it's not you! :D

I just needed a digital change, you know? My digital look was getting so passe.

hyperkaos replied to your post“Late Replies Pt. 2”

pods don't have cockles *ahem*

Um, how do you know so much about my anatomy?? ;D

#replies #hyperkaos #simblu #declarations-of-drama #twinsimskeletons #sims3hasstoppedworking #grumpysimmies #futurecarrie #acquiresimoleons

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gastricpierrot · 8 years ago

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An analysis of Hide and Kaneki’s relationship, choices, and reasons PT.II

AKA the sequel to this post I made some time ago, sparked by a certain discussion I had on twitter.

Before anything else, I’d like to declare that I’m not here to make a stand or anything, but rather just to lay out some brain vomit things to consider when thinking about HideKane. You’re free to come to your own conclusions because tbvh I’m a terrible judge of relationships unless there’s extremities involved. Heck, maybe it’s just me, but I feel like the lines are intentionally blurred when it comes to these two and the more I keep pondering over them the more upset I get _(:D

Anyways. In my previous post I pointed out Kaneki’s possible reasons for doing what he did and leaving Hide behind, and while I’m going to touch a bit on that again here, I’ll also blabber a bit on Hide’s reasons this time. I mentioned how I feel the lines are blurred when it comes to their relationship, and half-asleep me managed to conclude that it’s partly due to a few main external factors that might’ve steered them towards the routes they took.

*As I’m not the most informed when it comes to mental illnesses, note that my analysis might also miss out points that may involve the role of it. As I mentioned before, this is basically more of a brain vomit than an argument I’m trying to put out.

Also this contains a hella ton of spoilers. Be warned.

Right. So the first factor is, as I’ve mentioned in my first post, the fact that they have limited choices over what could be done. What else could Kaneki have done? Was the question that haunted me a good portion of the night, and let me tell you, I still don’t know. If I were in his shoes that time, I’d be too panicked to think past my own internal screaming. I mean, suddenly I can’t eat my comfort food anymore and everyone around me is killing everoyone and holy jesus there’s blood everywhere what the fu- you get the picture. I tried coming up with some alternatives, and tbh none of them sounds appealing. Well, perhaps they could be a tad bit better depending on how you see it, but from how I view it most of them wouldn’t end.. nicely??

I’d be bringing this up again a few times along the bs I’m spouting but let me begin with the most basic Route B, and that’s where Kaneki finds the courage to sit down and actually communicate with Hide about his situation and explain why he needs to stay away. Say that happens, and Kaneki makes it clear: okay, Hide, I’ve been turned into a ghoul and we’re surrounded by scary people you need to stay back or else you might have your ass handed to you again by someone even more violent than Nishio-senpai and you might die and that’s not good. Great. Fantastic. There’s communication and the main source of all angst has been eliminated. He can properly dash Hide’s hopes before he could even think of chasing after him.

But would Hide listen?

Here comes in the second factor, which is the feeling of guilt. Pls excuse me as I take a quick break from being a Kaneki apologist and focus a bit on Hide. As a fanfic author I’ve done my best to understand his character from the bits of him here and there we’re given in the manga; mainly his personality and drives. Despite how he looks and acts, Hide is incredibly smart, and is able to remain scarily calm in dangerous situations, as seen in the scene where he admits to have stolen clothes off the corpse of a ghoul before approaching Yamori, and the time where he knew how to fend off Cain before leaving the finishing blow to the Doves in the first novel. Basically what I’m trying to say is, this boy can think. He’s rational. He would at the very least be able to guess why Kaneki would suddenly disappear. He should also know full well how much danger he’d be plunging ass first into if he decided to chase after Kaneki. But he still did anyway.

And here’s where interpretations come in. A lot of fans—myself included, tbh—believe that his main driving force for this was his pure loyalty towards Kaneki. And I understand that it’s not exactly the healthiest thing in a relationship for one to be willing to literally throw away everything for the other. There has to be line drawn somewhere and goddamnit Hideyoshi why. But it also occurred to me yesterday that guilt might also have influenced his decision. It’s like I said before, Hide would be aware of the shit he’s getting himself into if he stepped into the world of ghouls. Even if it’s Kaneki, there could’ve been an instance where he did hesitate. He could’ve realized that he’s too powerless in the face of danger to be of help and perhaps it really would be the best to keep their distance.

You could argue that it’s his unhealthy dedication that primarily drove him to go so far and I’m not going to counter that, but I also think guilt might’ve given him the push to follow him. Hide tried to discourage Kaneki from going on his date with Rize, but not hard enough. He already sensed something not right about her, why didn’t he insist for Kaneki to not go at all? If only he hadn’t doubted his intuition that one time, then perhaps it wouldn’t have ended up like this. Those sorts of thoughts would’ve haunted him. I’m almost confident that if the victim of the incident had been anyone besides Kaneki, Hide would’ve been able to turn away. He’d be able to accept that well, how could he have known that a date with a beautiful lady would lead to a change of species? But it’s Kaneki who’s involved, his best friend for more than ten years. Emotions no doubt came into the equation and Hide.. can’t just abandon him, can he? I know there’s a number of people who suspects Hide will pull a betrayal sometime in the future, but Hide’s affection towards Kaneki could very well be the real deal. To spare you from an even lengthier post, I’ll just direct you to the fourth point of bloodycarnation’s Hide analysis (which I love until this time and day, bless you for writing it). Besides, there’s also a chance that Hide wanted to be able to actually do something, rather than just acting as support from the sidelines like he did when Kaneki was still with his aunt.

And basically what I’m getting at here is: his affection towards Kaneki could’ve given him a sense of responsibility, and that sense of responsibility could’ve led to a sense of guilt that made him willing to sacrifice even his own life if that’s what it meant to make up for what he thought was his fault. Hide’s motivation might not have been blind loyalty alone.

I also notice that the main fault that a number of people hold against Kaneki is the fact that he went on with life as if Hide no longer existed until he needed him to keep him grounded while Hide was practically throwing away everything for him. I’ve babbled some bit about this in my first post, so I’ll just add on to it here and say that.. it might be a little unfair to come to that conclusion based on what’s explicitly shown in canon. We were only given glimpses of what, several hours and days out of the many months Kaneki was with Banjou and the gang? And out of all of them, he’s shown to be caught up in something or another most of the time. It’s natural that we’re not shown any thoughts about Hide when his mind should be occupied with his plans and goals and all that jazz. In fact, almost every glimpse of Kaneki’s thoughts we’re shown are about him assessing their situation, or about his hallucinations.

But there’s one relatively leisurely instance (which I rmb anyways) where we’re shown Kaneki’s thoughts, and that’s during the mention of Eto’s book-signing even. And who came up in his mind?

TG Ch.108, pg.9

It’s.. Hide(‘s voice I guess but you get the point).

Also there’s this panel during the torture scene in Ch.61 which I somehow forgot and really, I think the screenshot speaks for itself.

Now let’s take things up a notch and fast forward a bit and take a look at this certain page in :re that sent me hurtling in tears down the void:

TG:RE Ch.75, pg.17

The crucial thing I want to point out before elaborating further is how Kaneki has a tendency to put on a mask and keep his feelings to himself, even in front of Hide. So to end up like this, in tears and admitting that he’s lonely to Hide’s face, even if he is a product of his imagination—it speaks volumes. The emotions seems to have built up to the point that even he can’t hold them in anymore. And who can say how long had he been shutting the feelings away? Who’s to say he hadn’t thought of him time and again but simply forced him out of his mind because he can’t afford to crumble? I know I keep defending Kaneki for his mistakes but I just think it’s a little harsh to criticize him for not caring simply because we weren’t shown much in the narration. Post-torture Kaneki no doubt had the most fragile mental state throughout the entire TG timeline, and forcing himself to focus on his mission might very well have been a sort of coping mechanism as well. Of course, you can argue as well that he might only have felt this painfully lonely after he regained his memories and all so really, it’s up to your own interpretations. Just trying to give some food for thought, if that’s how you put the phrase lmao-

And yes, I suppose some of us would also think hey, he could at least mention Hide to his new gang and all so yknow, he could show he still remembers him. Heck I would like that too because I would give $5 to see Hinami pointing out how Kaneki seems brighter when he talks about Hide //clenches fists. But there’s always a but, and it’s that there are possible instances of violent interrogations and Kaneki might not want to take the risk. By speaking of Hide even to his own allies, he’d create the slimmest possibility of dragging him into the world he’d tried to push him away from. What I’m saying is yes, there could be issues of trust going on here too because Kaneki is a very flawed character (which you can read a bit more about in my first analysis). I think it’s also a little interesting to point out how Kaneki does mention Hide to those who already know him before things went to shit (mainly Touka, as seen here and here, but also Rize in his mind in Ch.62) but never to those whom he only met when he was deeper in that mess of the latter TG timeline.

It occurred to me that things could have been different, though. That is, only if Kaneki’s hadn’t received Rize’s kakuhou of all people, and did not have the terrible luck of a true tragic protag. If it hadn’t been for those two factors, Kaneki might—and I’m saying might—have been able to open up to Hide eventually. If he’d been able to meet Nishiki and Kimi on better terms, heard Ikuma’s story of being raised by humans, not attracted Tsukiyama’s gourmet attention, and if he had not basically received a hugeass slap of what the fuck across the face so soon and in such short intervals since his entire world changed—things could’ve proceeded differently. He might have been able to realize that there is a possibility for him to quietly live on as a ghoul while still being with Hide. But the ghouls did not give him much of a great first impression, did they?

Hypothetically speaking, it would’ve been the most merciful for both Hide and Kaneki if Kaneki had simply been one of Rize’s many snacks. Kaneki would die on the spot and… Hide might’ve ended up the protag?? Or maybe Ishida could’ve just panned the focus elsewhere and we’d be reading Osaka Ghoul now, who knows. But noo bad luck had to strike again and Furuta had to choose that exact night to vent his salt and drop those steel beams. Furuta himself mentions how he hadn’t been targeting Kaneki specifically, so yeah. Plain hecked up luck.

All jokes aside tho, Rize’s existence is a heavy plot point in the manga, and I feel that possessing her kakuhou alone has significantly limited the possible outcomes of any alternative routes Kaneki might’ve taken. Case in point, let’s say Route C is where Kaneki’s able to feel safe enough to trust and tell Hide about his transformation. Hide tells him okay, he’ll keep his secret safe, he’ll help cover for him if he needs him. They go on with life as usual. Or, Hide could propose something else: running away. He’s never heard of violent ghoul incidents in Gunma, Kanagawa, etc so let’s go there and start over! (again, the thing about throwing everything away for him). I’ve already touched on how the CCG takes the action of not reporting ghouls a crime punishable by death, and it takes very little for a stranger to suspect and report them both. And as for how Rize’s kagune plays into this.. well we see that her kakuhou brings all the ghouls to the yard and somehow or another word would’ve spread and they’d eventually find themselves in some very unpleasant situations regardless. And even if Kaneki has learnt how to fight by then, there’s still a chance that he might be overpowered (e.g by sheer numbers alone) and what would happen then? Hide would try to defend him and get himself rekt. Probably.

And here’s the thing: from my own understanding, one of the bases of a healthy relationship is an equal amount of give and take. And there should be limits even for that. One of the reasons why Hide and Kaneki’s relationship can be seen as unhealthy is not how Hide holds Kaneki so dear that he’s willing to put his own wellbeing at risk just to find him again even after being so coldly left behind, but also how Kaneki depends on Hide’s existence so much that he’s willing to give up his own life the moment he thought he was dead (for reference, see pg.15-17 of :RE Ch.68). It kinda gives the quote “his existence is something I depend on as much as my heart” a more literal meaning, doesn’t it-

I’m going to pose a question here because I myself am unsure, but were there other motivations for him to attempt sacrifice his life that point in time? There could have been other ways to save Hinami and escape, but was anything mentioned? Because if not, there are two (and maybe more) possible ways to interpret the scene in Ch.68, and that’s 1) he thinks Hide is dead and he didn’t think he could live in a world without him knowing he might very well have been the one to kill him, and 2) he used Hide’s death as a “excuse” for his own long-awaited suicide (I do apologize if this sounds ableist or offending, but it’s the only way I can think of putting it accurate atm). I’ll leave it to you guys to digest this yourselves.

Long story short, I can see where the notion of their relationship being toxic stems from and really, thinking about this gave me plenty of dreadful realizations as well. They’re both willing to give too much for the other about sums it up I guess? But it’s as I said earlier, it does seem a little unreasonable to peg Kaneki as the sole source of all their bond’s bad aspects. Hide, too, made his choice by his own will. They followed what they judged as the best course of action. Also, one of the incredible things about Ishida-sensei’s narration is how he’s able to weave everything into one complex web of interactions, and surrounding circumstances they did not have control over could’ve influenced their decisions as well.

And before I roll away back into my cave, allow me to state that I don’t think their relationship’s beyond saving. Kaneki’s shown to be growing as time passes, and he’s learning. I believe there’s still hope in :RE for him to finally learn about his mistakes, and with sensei’s blessings they can meet up and argue and cry and forgive and I can bang my head repeatedly against the wall in more tears.

#tokyo ghoul #kaneki ken #nagachika hideyoshi #tg analysis #why am i so invested in these two i need help #i tried to pry off my shipping goggles this time and take a more neutral perspective but..#i did not exactly stick to it didnt i...#i can't believe i spent an entire night thinking again wow

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