#meet up at the movies

[chloesimaginationthings]

Everyone “hates” Mike in the FNAF movie..

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

[theloniousbach]

GRATEFUL DEAD: MEET UP AT THE MOVIES 2022: Tivoli Theater, Copenhagen, 17 April 1972, aired 1 November 2022

This excerpt of an iconic Grateful Dead moment, right in the middle of my favorite period where they were at the height of their powers, is so familiar and yet was rendered absolutely fresh.

They’re cramped on the stage all around the same level and they are having fun (yes there are the Bolos/Bozos clown masks) and are so young (well, Pigpen—so few times to see him perform certainly at this length—is haunted) and the songs are fresh (He’s Gone is at a quick pace, Jack Straw has only Weir singing both parts of the story).

This is the band I fell for and we are within two weeks of the 50th anniversary of those Memorial Hall shows where the bus came by for me to get on. This is all the stuff of legend and, again, the time machine almost stripped away the distortions of myth. I am simultaneously listening to the Revolver box set and the outtakes from those mythic performances. They are OUTtakes and the recordings are iconic and fixed. But for a moment they’re just songs that are growing. Dead tunes never stopped growing/decaying.

Europe 72 are a pinnacle and yet, as important a period as it is, that past is slippery in large part because they never were fixed.

Yes the best moments are the jams, Truckin’ and the China>Rider transition, but there’s an excitement and fun in their discovery. Garcia is amused and excited, also thin and energetic; I suppose I still resent that he started slipping away well before he actually died. But here he established lots of social capital.

Lesh is far from the grand man that he has become after 1995 as he stepped up to maintain precisely this legacy. But in those moments, he’s a nerdy goof, only occasionally turning on the magic. Still the juju is irrepresibly there. I am struck how often he’s the high harmony singer (Jack Straw, Ramble On Rose).

Pig too is a revelation. There isn’t a Good Lovin’/Midnight Hour/Lovelight rave nor Caution; he seems too fragile for that. But he sings It Hurts Me Too, Chinatown Shuffle, and Next Time You See Me poignantly with some nice harp work. But he played lots of organ too—and it matters on the songs (Ramble On Rose, He’s Gone) and jams (Truckin’). Similarly, it takes seeing to remember what Keith Godchaux added. He’s often down in the mix but he really contributes (El Paso, Chinatown Shuffle) with actual solos as part of the electric Dixieland that is the Dead

At this point Weir really is just the kid, coming into his own with songs like Jack Straw. Like Lesh not being quite the constant Scott LaFaro soloist he is now, he isn’t the full blown C-A-G-E-D chord fragment master of the fretboard (though it’s there). Both are even conventional, even though they are collectively blowing the paint off the walls in this period. And then Garcia is both enjoying being the charismatic leader which too quickly became a burden to hide from in a haze of Persian and just a member of the band. The range and energy of his playing is breathtaking, but he’s also not just soloing all the time. I haven’t mentioned Billy Kreutzmann but I also preferred him as the only drummer and there’s power and swing throughout.

Good old Grateful Dead but somehow new, like I was when this was coming down.

[choochooboss]

Arrival at the destination~ [Festival of Family 4/8] Check here for Part 1 , Part 2 & Part 3!

WIPs under the cut!

Another piece that's been under works for over a year, but I'm happy enough with it to finally post it and move on. The composition was the greatest challenge yet again, struggled with it for a long while. This diamond shape clicked at some point, while the greenery & subtle asymmetry livened up the scene just enough. Another challenge was to shade Emmet without the uniform getting too dark or too light or too similar value with the BG middle part! Notable: The rest of this set of pieces WON'T be as detailed or rendered as this one! It wasn't my intention to go this far in the first place, but I got carried away fiddling with things for wayyy too long with the first half of the set. I don't think I can put as much effort into the rest, but I want to finish the story & maybe learn new things on the go.

(Probably) a tough question: which Disney feature film opening scene I used as a reference? (At first I didn't realise it but a friend who saw the WIP pointed it out how this had quite similar vibes so I decided to use it to my advantage hehe!)

[novantinuum]

somewhere up above the stars the wreckage of a Universe floats past

an AU ancient lonely god Steven I have. his moniker is Astra and I am obsessed with him right now.

[yuepants]

who's a babygirl

anyway

lesbian maxley 🥰

the other sapphic maxley posts: this and this

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I really like is that April’s constant stream of odd jobs she goes through is somewhat reflected in the boys as well. Like, you have April working at random pizza places or getting a crane license or being fully willing to apply for a job at a place clearly made out of cardboard. Then you have the boys as well who do anything from working as a basketball mascot, building a massive dog park, being waiters, getting a whole band gig at a theme park, etc, etc-

Main difference is that April actively applies for these jobs (and is hopefully paid for the short time she’s in them) whereas for the bros the jobs usually find them (and they practically never get paid.) It doesn’t even stop at jobs either, they just seem to casually amass skills in general.

I don’t know, I like how both April and the turtles are just so ready and willing to do things. Sure, they’re not always good at these things, but they do them readily! In a way, being heroes is just another job (well, more like volunteer work/vigilantism/another fun activity) that they initially took on because of their general sense of “why not?”

They’re very willing and open to trying out new things despite their tendency to revert back to what they enjoy (and how commonly trying new things ends up going wrong), and I think that adaptational interest of theirs really helps them be well rounded in multiple regards.

[horror-aesthete]

Van Helsing, 2004, dir. Stephen Sommers

[swordmaid]

bhaal’s bride 🔪🩸

my durge yves before the lobotomy 🥳

[snoopybutch]

This just in folks: being a fat, loud, and opinionated butch lesbian is recommended by medical professionals the world over.

[chloesimaginationthings]

William Afton into the FNAF-verse

[egophiliac]

Kamen Rider Card Game, take 4!

so excited for cardcaptor rider!

[k-wame]

ROBERT DE NIRO & HARVEY KEITEL Mean Streets (1973) · dir. Martin Scorsese

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

You think maul is jealous of vader?

Not because he’s palpy’s apprentice,

But because Obi-Wan actually cares about Vader at the level that Maul cares about Obi-Wan

[captainjonnitkessler]

Guy at my union meeting tonight got pissed off that the union endorsed Biden and made a motion that nobody be allowed to talk about politics at any of the meetings. His reasoning was that he didn't want the meetings to be derailed with long-winded discussions or fights about politics. He is the only person to have brought up politics the whole meeting, he got into a ten-minute fight with the business manager about it, and he was wearing a "Biden is a communist sell-out" t-shirt the whole time.