#mediocrity in media

[witchrealms]

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[catcherwrites]

TDP, as we all know, stands for:

✨Trauma Doesn’t Pass✨

[notbecauseofvictories]

sometimes I think they put some sort of...aural drug in mediocre movies. If I played all these thoroughly middling movies in reverse, would I hear a satanic message telling me, YOU WILL BE TEMPTED BEYOND ALL REASON TO WRITE FANFIC ABOUT---YES, THE MOVIE YOU HALF-WATCHED WHILE COOKING AND ANSWERING EMAILS. YES. YES, I---YES, I'M SERIOUS. YES, THIS MOVIE. THE CHARACTERIZATION OR LACK THEREOF MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. UH HUH. MHM. YEP. LOOK, I DON'T MAKE THE RULES, I JUST WORK HERE OKAY?

[stargirl230]

pickleball OCs 🥒🏓

Last artwork before the year ends! I sketched this back in summer and really wanted to preserve the linework so i tried to keep the rendering to a minimum (more difficult than anticipated…)

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated!)

[slutforpringles]

looooool

[ckret2]

Hey listen. I heard you were wanting to watch unfandomizable slop so I figured I would offer strange movies ive watched or heard of that really were cheesy or boring but might be an easy way to waste an hour doing something.

Sharknado and all its sequels:

It’s so stupid. It’s so so so stupid and bad and cheesy. It has some blood in it but god it’s just stupid. The sharks??? Get put in tornado??? And in one they get sent back in time??? It’s just. Stupid. Never got attached to any of the characters and could not follow the plot for the life of me so I’m hoping you feel the same.

Birdemic:

Ive only seen this one talked about in the history books of bad movies but OH GOD the clips I’ve seen look horrid.

Little shop of horrors:

This one’s a bit risky. It’s a fun movie but is a bit cheesy. This one’s veering on good since I actually like this one so if you don’t wanna take the risk I understand. Also feed me Seymour ate for some reason.

Snakes on a plane:

I don’t even know what this one is but I have a hint to what it could be. Haven’t watched it but SNL did a skit and my dad said it was bad so I’m assuming it’s bad.

There! A few things Ive watched or heard of that kinda suck. Hope you enjoy or actually I hope you don’t enjoy because these movies are supposed to suck.

You slander little shop of horrors? You say it's merely VEERING on good?! Kinda sucks, you say?! Gasp. Shock. Unbelievable. How could you insult Twoey like this.

yeah I'm familiar with these. I've seen little shop and at least a couple sharknados. I remember when snakes on a plane was a meme.

I see your Sharknado and i raise you Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws, the best bad movie I've ever seen. You can also watch ghost shark 1 but i don't think it's actually related to ghost shark 2 at all and it isn't NEARLY as campy.

[cilil]

Alright hear me out for a second -

"It's ok to enjoy and find meaning in flawed media because art is subjective and human creation is never perfect" and "We need to arm ourselves with media literacy, criticize media and not fall prey to blind consumerism that big companies want to lure us into" are statements that can and should co-exist.

[porcelainvino]

freestyling mercedes with some cheap watercolor my art teacher gave me for free

[sunlit-mess]

How did you get so good at animating and drawing? Aside from practice, what techniques do you use? What software do you use?

I only know the basics/fundamentals of both drawing and animation.

For drawing, I've carried out lessons about the Elements and principles of design, the history of graphics design, traditional drawing techniques, color theory, anatomy, character design, blah blah blah. Lots of info I still do my best to practice/put in my art. If y'all notice me animating gifs then it's bc I have time to do so... ( I'm in term break until late July ) They're likely short, but it's through animation blocking, timing, and incorporating both in-betweens and tweening.

I've used Adobe Animate/After Effects for school projects, sometimes for doodles only, I currently use Clip Studio Paint bc it's where I'm more comfy with ^^ Maybe someday I'll be able to afford Toon Boom hehe.

[divorceblogger]

I’m earnest about everything idgaf

[deadlysoupy]

i cannot express just how grateful i am that the devs decided to make rook so unique, in almost all areas of the game

like, obviously it's not da origins level, because that was a miracle in of itself and might never be repeated, but it's still so commendable, especially if we fairly compare it to inquisition

because think about it. we get like, what, six or seven faction backgrounds that you get to choose, and then you get a special relationship with people inside that faction? are you fucking kidding me that's awesome. not only that, but we also get a background, we get to know what our rook did before the events of the game, and we can decide how they react to it. do they feel remorse? regret? freedom? sure, you may need to add a little bit of context yourself for some factions, but that's the fun part! you get to make a little guy and develop them in your head! you're building them in-game

not to mention the combat and skill system of the game. there're seven companions and they all have their classes, and you can pick between two styles of fighting (except for rogue i guess, kind of) and your spec ties into a faction. you feel very unique because you can just be whatever and no other companion will repeat after you (or you repeat after them)! isn't that neat!

compare that to inquisition. who tf is your inquisitor. they're literally just a Guy (gender neutral). when you pick a spec they're all the same as your companions. how is this in any way making my inquisitor stand out. they're just a vessel, an empty plot device. they walked into a room and people pushed them into being a religious leader. it literally could have been anyone else. the only interesting choice i remember from inquisition that actually made me remember that they're a person is when you talk with casssandra about whether or not you believe in god. that's it

you become a symbol in 1/3 of the game. you aren't a person, your decisions matter to the whole world now, and you can't be biased about it. the game wants you to be analytical, but it doesn't want me to act like my character, i'm basically playing a Build Your Own Empire simulator

so don't you even start telling me rook isn't interesting, or that they're nobody. they have a story, a pre-existing one, but a story nonetheless. just like hawke does. we're roleplaying a specific character, and if the game does most of the work - that's fine by me, i'll just fill in the gaps and make my rook feel richer and have interesting dynamics with the veilguard. if you can't imagine your rook in Situations, i'm so sorry for you, because i'm having so much fun with them

[gent-ly]

lmao reading some thamepo takes…… i just don’t know about some of y’all i just don’t know y’all enjoy the most bland repetitive nonsense and then shit on this show likeeeee huh ?

[andy-the-8th]

I may or may not be coalescing ideas for "what if I wrote a season 4 for H2O: Just Add Water" as a future longform project

[sciderman]

I just read a few of the 2017 spiderman and Deadpool comics and.

Its god awful. #12 is where I stopped. The quips feel dry, this isn’t who Wade is this isn’t Peter please kill me

i sm so sorry you had to see that chief

[fraddit]

I legitimately cannot conceive of Buck putting in for a transfer in the finale as making any kind of narrative sense or being connected everything that came before it. It's so out of nowhere for me. It truly seems like they just put it there to prop up what they wanted Chimney's ending speech to say.

On top of the that, they didn't even do anything with it. Honestly, the whole fractured team thing, in the finale at least, felt largely manufactured. Which, all fiction is manufactured, but it's not supposed to feel like it. And really aside from the Athena/Chimney beef and the already partly or fully resolved Buck/Eddie beef, the team wasn't shown to be actually fractured. Chim and Hen were still tight. Eddie and Hen. Hen was worried about Buck. Etc. Like, the team was teaming pretty well, all things considered.

[snae-b]

Just one question: how are you all so good at this?

Wow am I bad at Tumblr or what. Sorry for the late reply and the lame answer, but 🤷