#midterm crits

[katisconfused]

We have literally had people run as democrats, spend their whole term playing devils advocate for the GOP and sabotaging dem policy, and then change their affilation to independent. A local democrat I voted in in like 2023 endorsed RFK in 2024.

You can be mad at individual voters for not showing up, but the fact there is SIGNIFICANTLY more ire for uneducated, unelected people being targeted by psyops than the politicians who prioritize their careers over democracy does nothing but validate the people saying that supporting the "lesser evil" is a waste of energy.

There are people (all of whom live online) who demand more accountability and compliance from random social media posters than elected Democrats, I don't think it's really possible to have a dialogue with them.

[nelsonwoodlane]

oh my god i just logged into my ao3 account for the first time in years to find that the last thing i posted was a great british bake off au featuring the philosophers we studied in my lit crit class in college that i turned in for a midterm and have absolutely no memory of writing

[joannaliangart]

Here; (is the only place) (2025) 2 x 10.5” (closed), 16.5 x 10.5” (fully open), 1.375 x 16.5” (pop-out accordion segment) 16 page accordion-fold book (+23 page pop-out accordion). Risograph-printed, ink and coloured pencil illustrations and poetry.

Here; (is the only place) features riso-printed ink illustrations and poems. The book connects childhood grief with climate grief through their shared experience of losing home and being swept into a future that threatens unbelonging. Depending on how the book is held, the openings cut into the pages become doorways to frame the past (pages) or only empty space— regardless, something has disappeared.

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My last crit at ECU was for this piece!! im graduating this May my god it still hasn't really sunken in yet

I got a lot of positive feedback for this work and my live reading of it and the colours turned out even better than I could’ve hoped :']

I’ve applied to a few zine fairs including VABF, so hopefully I’ll be able to sell these there! Otherwise I’ll look into maybe an online store or smth like that (spooky but exciting)

Oughh I don't know about new favourite (There Are Good Things Yet To Bury still pops off to me lol) BUT I think it's definitely been one of my favs to work on!! in terms of process n all that C: BECAUSE!! I got to try out my new dip pens and finally use those acrylic inks (that i got in 1st year cause they were on the class materials list and then we never fuckin used em. rip but hey now here we are full circle) and do some traditional illustration!!! New territory for me and it was really fun!!

I usually stick with digital illustration for all my finished illustration work (vs my traditional sketchbook is only rlly for studies or sketches/thumbnails) but oughhh my god this might change me. this might do it LOL

Maquettes / Ideation phase

I knew I wanted to do more cool stuff with windows after TAGTYTB + at the time I recently had a dream about my childhood home again. It's something I noticed a long time ago, and all poetic metaphor aside I do literally just. only really dream about my childhood house lol, or rather do sometimes dream of other imaginary places but I NEVER dream of the current house I live in (maybe like 1-2 times that I can remember in the 8+ years I've been living here). I also wanted to do a long skinny accordion fold guy. No particular reason than it was an idea that kept sticking to me lol; + I hadn't done anything with accordion fold+windows and AH there's so much potential there because of how every single page overlaps each other with that folding method!!!

So! That was the basis for my concept, and I started to fold n scribble on scrap paper to make these maquettes. I also started numbering them which was SO helpful thank god because I think I ended up with TWENTY OR MORE maquettes by the end wagh!! But oh my god these were so helpful to make so many of I really hit on something with this one below, 1 big rectangle and 2 circle windows... It wasn't even intentional, I just cut them into the paper and then started drawing/writing, and once I reached the flipside realized that you could see the words "this is my home" on one page, above the drawing of the house which was on ANOTHER page. WHAT!! literally so cool I'm so happy that happened it literally dazzled me:

Midterm / printed maquettes aka poem writing in affinity publisher

In my final crit, one of my profs asked if 'this is what I saw in my head the whole time' in a 'wow I can't believe it looks this good congrats' kind of way LOL which is like so oof but so fair because this is what my midterm presentation looked like LMAO:

I have a LOT of analysis-type notes I wrote down in my google doc so I can remember in the future all my intentions with the poems and its a pretty LONG list. One of the main ones is how the semicolon ; operates as the symbol of being inbetween a continuation, barrier, threshold, stop, doorway... ALSO it kinda looks like a lock+door handle (!!)

Also this might've been before my midterm, but I went back to my childhood home area and ough. I'm glad I did cause I got inspiration for the illustration imagery when I saw how big the trees had gotten. I literally said out loud "oh!" aough my god. I don't know I just hadn't expected it... I think I had even noticed it a few years ago when I visited but forgot and I just. augh. Included the experience in one of the poems in this book "I looked for my grief / I looked / for disappointment [...] and still i was / startled / by the / bigness of the / trees [...] it's just such a relief / to know that something grew / up with me"

ILLUSTRATION TIME BABEY

this whole process was FULL of stress but like GOOD stress. I was on my fuckin grind dude All my text/poems/windows layout was all formatted in affinity publisher, and then I printed that out (at staples, I was gonna use the library but they couldn't print tabloid size paper rip) and just pencil sketched right on those. I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS DIGITALLY I DON'T THINK. Because it involved cutting out the windows so I could PHYSICALLY take the paper and see where the images would line up on other side. which was fun as hell

Then I took to staples again and made photocopies (so I didn't fuck up the original pencil sketch), and then traced the tabloid size + windows onto my nice paper. Also look at my setup !! We have this glass table in my house, and I had the kickass idea to put a bright light underneath as a DIY lightbox yippee!! It is however a very low table and while I had a lil stool it prob wasn't great for my back or legs lol (sidenote why are lightboxes so expensive its just a box with a light in it man)

inking time! dip pens ouh my goodness... Still trying to get used to them but they give such nice results.. I'm surprised at how much I like how the illustrations turned out tbh but I am really enjoying this kind of weaving, vignette/snapshot/overlapping almost collagey kind of vibe it has, especially with the text. Similar to the poems I also have a list of all my illustration symbolism/analysis kind of thoughts. it's a shorter list, but one of the main things on there is how I kinda in the moment ended up creating these visual rhymes: The door hinge = rollerskate wheels = moth (plucked wing) = pine cone scale; representing how things follow you from past to present in different forms, things changing but into what? I did separate layers for lines and colour, main book and pop-out accordion. The colours were fun because the acrylic inks came with a dropper and I'd drip bits of ink from real high up to get a lovely splatter !! and also used a straw to blow wet ink around all around a good time I used a sheet of plastic to protect the paper with the lineart on it from the wet ink/water going onto the colours layer. The lightbox was good but defo less effective with the colours layer because the water would warp the paper and lift it away from the table surface (so I couldn't see the lines below rip) Oh my gosh and I used pencil crayons for more texture!! forgot about that lol but it really really helped, and I did some frottage of my childhood house's key+traced its outline; I really wanted the key to be as "real"/"connected to reality" as possible (+yes once again that is a truth in the poems, I do still have it because before it was sold someone broke in and completely destroyed the door handle/lock. we assume with a crowbar.)

also my cat would sit behind me on the couch while I worked sweet creature... (ouh and I know there's Himi Gouache in that one image but I didn't use gouache lol I was considering it but didn't) I worked on the illustration every day of reading week from morning to night to get it done in time for risograph printing hoowheeee

Scanning and Prepping for Risograph Printing

I scanned my lineart and colours with my school's fancy scanner (which I'm gonna miss once i graduate augh it scans soo nicely staples scanners dont do shit for detailed scans)

I knew how to do it in photoshop already, but Managed to figure out how to split my colours so I had files for just blue, just yellow, etc. Ended up with SO MANY FILES!! i love you risograph printer even if I had to prep and print 16 files and redo 2 masters lol

I checked how all the colours looked digitally but you really can't exactly predict how risograph will look until you print it, and I was trying to extrapolate and imagine how the prints would look based on these digital mockups lol.

Lucky for me, they actually turned out BETTER and brighter than I was imagining!! Except for pop-out accordion side A, which looked wayy too busy and forest-green for my liking lol. So I had to redo the master and ended up doing NO blue colours, only blue lines which I think turned out ooo yummy tasty speaking of redoing masters, I also had to re-do the teal in the main book too because it was WAY darker than I was expecting and making the text too hard to read waaagh but I'm so very glad I fixed it because it made a world of difference in legibility. In total ended having to buy 4 new masters to redo orz

Trimming folding binding

This was kinda irritating lol .. I didn't realize I guess the stack cutter in the comd studio cuts at a bit of an angle or smth cause the size was slightly smaller than I wanted. which is a problem because I need my windows and folds to line up as precisely as possible and the slight size difference kinda fucked that up :(( but ah well. it doesn't get super in the way of experiencing the work but I'm a little miffed lol I also had to score and trim all the pop-out accordions one by one waghhhh Look at this pile orz

I'm SO glad I scored all the fold lines for these though that was so smart of me thank god because I could not have folded them without those guides holy shit it would've gotten so misaligned. AND it made it soooo satisfying to fold along a score line, like with the gentlest pressure it folds perfectly right where you need ouh chefs kiss cutting the windows is tedious sigh but!! I'm very happy with the circle cutter I bought just for this project (and for future window cutting in future projects ofc). I actually bought 2 circle cutters but the first kinda fuckin sucked when I tested it out rip. You can't see where you're cutting and it's fine for Cutting A Circle but not for when you need to cut a circle in a SPECIFIC spot like I do lol. Olfa Compass Circle Cutter for the win babey (not sponsored. is that even a thing on tumblr posts. lol) also when you grab a handful of the folded pop-out accordions it makes me feel like I'm grabbin a bunch o fun caterpillars C:

Final crit!

I was really strugling with figuring out where or how to install this thing, but thankfully my profs had booked a space that once I took a look (I'd never been in that room before lol there's still so many rooms I probably don't even know exist at ECU) ended up working really well ! I borrowed a blanket/tablecloth from my supervisor at my workplace when I was talking about my project and wanting to find a fitting tablecloth, and the pic they showed me of it was p much perfect very colourful !! yaaay thank goodness I was able to haul a plinth over to the room and set it up by the window C: natural light and near the rooftop garden, very good! And set up a bunch o chairs so people could sit while I did my reading.

The reading went very well!! I actually lol its soo funny I had practiced a bit at home and had always held the book out to my right, but on the day of I held the book to my left n as I started reading realized "oh no. unexpected flip I can't see some of the words as good" LOL but once I got to the pop-out accordion I kinda had an excuse to switch to holding it out to my right haha and it went smooth The class really liked my performance and the work overall which I'm awaughhh :'] like TAGTYTB people were really into the "choreography/architecture" of the windows, as one person described which is SUCH a good word for it o my goodness

And 5 people bought a copy!!!!!! oh my god!! tbh I thought maybe 1 or 2 ppl might but 5!! I'm not particularly close with any of them either, I'd consider like 2-3 I'm more familiar with but even then oh my gosh. awaa ;;w;; was so so lovely and gave me a lot of confidence in the piece I printed 100 copies! don't know if i should print more or not seeing as it was so successful... my energy is pretty spent now and I wanna take a while to recover lol now that the semester is winding down. But I'm gonna lose studio access to the comd risograph printer soon so i dunno... ah sigh

Now the grad show is my next big thing. my application is submitted and the due dates gone n passed, but this crit gave me the confidence n idea to do a reading of the book(s) I'm showing...... I sent an email if there's any way I could add some kind of scheduled event to my application but idk it's been a week since the due date so it might be too late to make changes rip

other fun stuff

It's now in the ECU artist book collection!!! I was so spooked by it but my profs recommended I look into it and the process was way easier and the person I emailed had the vibe like they did this all the time lol???

🎶 Music I was listening to while writing the poems to try and catch the vibes I needed:

Virgina - Boys Go To Jupiter

Claw Machine - Sloppy Jane ft. Phoebe Bridgers

Death Throes Of A Struggling Romance - (formerly Maryknoll)

Copacabana - Harvard Dn & Tonics acapella with Soloists Elio Kennedy-Yoon and Andrew Courtney

No More Birthdays - Sophie May

Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl - yeule

wish u were here - Boys Go To Jupiter

Lovers Always Lose - Boys Go To Jupiter

Ankles - Lucy Dacus

+like the whole Meet Me After Practice album - Boys Go To Jupiter LOL i love it soooooo fuckin much

[jewishbarbies]

T*ylor had 10 fucking years to stop tell her fans to stop "shipping" her & her friends and be a true ally to the lgbt community, she only says it now cause her popularity has skyrocketed with the release of her rerecorded albums

imo it’s the eras tour that really brought her back into the public eye so annoyingly, bc the rereleases haven’t been doing too well. red tv was fine and fearless tv was okay but speak now tv bombed and people are complaining about 1989 tv.

she only speaks about things when it starts to affect her album sales. especially this year, she hasn’t responded to or done anything fans suggested until it started to slow down sales (ex. the “don’t harass my ex” attempt, “I always post about midterms!!”, and so on). there’s always a correlation there, so maybe it’s the crit of 1989 tv that’s pushing her to say things she should’ve said over a decade ago.

[elias-rights]

ma’am I have midterms next week you can’t be reblogging jm crit + jonah analysis unless you want me to sit here rotating the s3/4 everyone succumbs to their entities au that lives in my head and actually outline it. by which i mean please go hogwild so i can procrastinate. fr tho you have such good takes on jonah/elias which i guess i should expect from your user lol thank you for sharing them!

Thank you for reading them! And if it helps my "Instead of brain there is Jonah" problem is getting so strong it took me hours yesterday to finally sit down and study my lines. The Jonah Magnus Rennaissance of 2025 is real...

[danituiran]

Week 6? Midterm Critique

Hello my wonderful tumblr blog!!!!!!

This week we had our midterm crit where we showed three main factors:

Our topic

2-3 sources/findings/experiments

POV Statement + Surface ideas

I was SOOOO ready to go with my presentation but at the same time I was not feeling too sure with my surface ideas. At this moment, I had chosen two to present: the blog and the expansion of BrandNewMe.com (both ideas shown in last week's post).

Both fun ideas! I won't lie, but I didn't really feel drawn to them as a Capstone project, so I went and took a step back and looked at my POV statement, and thought about.. DECISIONS!!! (and still parallel universes)

So when I also went back through my collection and notes and all my research I had remembered Black Mirror's Bandersnatch, an interactive film where the viewer actually makes the choices for the main protagonist. That's cool.

That mixed with my other sources made me think that I can create a sort of interactive experience, and then remembered that YouTube lets you create interactive short films by adding unlisted videos at the end, and I thought that was such a cool idea!!!! And I decided to pitch that as my surface idea.

Also finally turned one of my questions from last week into an actual statement:

THE FEELING OF LOSS FOR A PERSON WE NEVER WERE MAY COME FROM UNFULFILLED DESIRES OR DREAMS WE'VE ENVISIONED BUT NEVER PURSUED.

I found a whole channel full of these videos, if you wanna check it out. Right here.

Also I JUST realized how to add color to text. Yay ❤️ .

I got amazing feedback during the crit, one being that of course the narrative would be very important, so I am going to start brainstorming on possible ideas.

I was also introduced to Twine, which is an open source tool for making stories which I haven't heard of. Definitely will use it this week for my prototype.

Not sure if the narrative in this upcoming week's prototype will be THE narrative, mainly because I just want to experiment with twine first.

Okay I think that is all good bye lovely people on the internet.

[nihiltism]

hi I have a lit crit midterm and for humanities stuff it's usually pretty easy to just BS it but I'm not as prepped as I should be so I could still use a ruffle or two

its such a shame that the gay people in my computer cant reach their hands out of the screen and ruffle my hair when i need it

[dandelionandkrindle]

[elee-thesis]

Midterm Crit Feedback

Overall, it sounds like my project is on the right track and is both making sense to my critics and also seemed to provoke some excitement (?) I'm really looking forward to continuing with my thesis making now. From the sound of my feedback, it seems that I need to work on trying to work the "why" into my pitch a little bit better. While my paper strongly addresses this "why" and roots my project in anti-capitalism, I didn't necessarily try and heavily introduce that in my 10-minute presentation. This was mostly because of the way that my first mock presentation was received and also, of course, because of the time limit. I *believe* my paper really does delve more deeply into this question, but that's also something I need to confirm. Secondly, Kyle seemed to think my work might function interestingly as a series of "mini games". I'm not sure if that feels quite right, or if it might push down the original intent of the project, but again something I need to start thinking about. Thirdly, I think it's important that at some point (maybe not immediately) I need to think about how to convey my core thesis question through my prototypes. Though this is of course essential, I think I can let myself continue to make for now, and think more about that later.

Questions that still need to be answered:

* Do I want to focus solely on the internet?

* Perhaps I can shift to queering HCI (though my research hasn’t really focused yet on that)?

* Do I want to continue to make smaller experiences for my 7-in-7 or should I work to answer another series of questions over the course of the next week?

* How might games fit into the form of my project? Play seems to be the ultimate non-utilitarian behavior and therefore would make sense in the context of my project, but do I want to also mix my project up in the world of games as well? 

Regarding the last question: I applied to speak at QGCon 2020 in the summer with what I think will be my thesis project. My project doesn’t exactly discuss games, but I did talk about the importance of incorporating play as a methodology. I suppose if my application is accepted then perhaps that is telling...

[cuttlefishkitch]

Finally settled on some colors, went for the gold cause it contrasted nicely with the silvery-white of the unicorn. lil’ buddy still needs a name, so feel free to make suggestions

[bdor1995]

[goes feral] art is hard

[sundancedyke]

1/3 american lit essays DONE

[luvxiem]

i hate webflow

[mybeautifulreina]

My World

Author's note: I'm still alive guys! (Sad sheep noises) Anyway! I'm still busy with my uni life BUT the midterm exam is finally over. So I'm back! Congratufuckinglation to myself. Please enjoy my comeback post. I will do the request slowly but surely…..

Mc: Humans go to space to take the 'world picture'. I can take that picture without going into space at all.

Your fav brother: How?

-snap your fav brother's picture-

Lucifer

~congratulation, you make him blush a bit

~his blush exists for a few seconds

~he will smirk, and his eyes bed…

~"You sure are a bold one, Mc,"

~put you on his lap

~need some counter back

~he can't fall for this silly trick

~feel proud when he makes you blush

~Ohhh, how the table turns

Mammon

~"Oi human!"

~blushing mess

~heart attack

~why do you need to be this cute, Mc

~someone please, call the ambulance

~no

~do some CPR on him- Asmo, DON'T PLAY THAT REMIX

Leviathan

~kdfjvbkdlgkfdvbisgvfb

~10000 crits on him

~0 HP

~Leviathan exe has stopped working, please reboot him again

~did you claim him as your world?

~you're his besto friendo, Henry, Player 2 for him, Mc

Satan

~Did he lives in 'y/n' moment?

~he needs some counter back

~all romantic novels will scatter around his room floor

~"Will Mc like this one or this one?"

~will practice all romantic scenes that make your heart melt

Asmodeus

~want to see his picture

~make sure you take it at the right angle

~ohhh, don't forget that few sides of his face that make him more beautiful

~suddenly, it becomes a photoshoot session

Beelzebub

~he hungry over you, my dear Mc~

~he thinks that he doesn't deserve you

~you're too kind for a demon like him

~what a cinnamon roll (sigh)

~don't take it in the wrong way Mc, Beel still loves you :>

Belphegor

~the flash from the camera/D.D.D wakes him up from the bed

~"Mc, what did you do just now?"

~"You take my picture?"

~laugh adorably

~like this kind of attention

~suddenly you guys have a tickling fight since he is touch starved

[r-ene]

April 2023, week 2

back from my 18 day break due to chickenpox and holy week and... i wouldn't say this week's tiring much since i just had a long break and i'm surprisingly efficient this week ?? and i love it, haha.

if you're interested, i have a week recap below the cut, haha

studygram

as week recap, personal:

had 3 blood works done in a week (antigen and antibody test for hepa b and a fasting blood screening) and grateful all of them got good results - meaning i can also save up the supposed $11-45 (Php 600-2500) for my hepa b booster + my sugar levels are still good (my family on both sides has type 2 diabetes, so got to watch that as someone w a sweet tooth + unable to workout & always sleep deprived).

also on the 5th picture on the left side, that day i was soooo gratefully full. i spent the afternoon at my uncle's cafe, had lunch and studied there and aside from the chicken pesto i ordered for lunch, he bought me grilled cheese w fries as study snack probs felt bad from how i was falling asleep doing my readings for one of my reports.

...dyed my hair last week into rlly dark copper and now i bleach washed this friday and i have a reverse ombre of orange to brown ... wasn't aware it was the opposite w bleaching (ends to roots then dyeing from roots to ends) and i got all panick-y but now i like it but will balance it out as soon as my order comes

concluded i'd much rather leave for uni at 5am than later even for a 9am class, the commute was more tiring + slower

i was feeding only one cat outside our house and now... they're four 🥹

academic recap:

hehe aced my mechanical ventilator return demonstration on tuesday, submitted a 13-page summary for the same class on 3 chapters (had a skin tear from writing too much)

have 3 reports lined up for may, one for a minor and 2 major (hemodynamics and critical care) and so far i'm done with the content of my parts for both hemo and crit care

lecs on crit care and pedia then had online classes for both friday and sat due to inclement weather, allowing me to get my fbs blood work on sat bc it... it didn't rain at all hahaha

then my make up exam for hemodynamics for midterms also got pushed to tuesday since my prof didn't want to give it to me online even when proctored, understandable tho.

[witchofthewild]

Art midterm crit today wish me luck lads 🙏