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[propagandacreative]

Propaganda was tasked with creating a marketing style guide that built on and added to an already existing brand for e-vergent, who offers top-notch internet and voice services in the upper Midwest.

This expansion included additional colors, creating a type hierarchy, patterns, and taglines while sourcing imagery that more clearly reflected the personality of e-vergent.

If you like what you see, we'd love to help you expand on your existing brand! https://propagandacreative.com

[themetalhiro]

Someone else can deal with that.

[jesncin]

"Redraw of your favorite Superman cover" prompt for DC Gotcha for Gaza! Thank you so much to @thrakaboom for donating! Requests are closed now, but I'm so happy I got to grab this prompt. This is a redraw of Jamal Campbell's Superman '78 variant cover for issue #5. Here's my version, with my takes on the characters.

[wandixx]

I've seen a lot of different takes on Fear Toxin/other fear causing stuff (Yellow Lanterns Ring or something)(later just called Fear Toxin cause I'm lazy) but here is another one.

Danny seems like he isn't affected by Fear Toxin because his biggest fear is that his accident changed him so much he is no longer human, he can no longer truly experience human things.

So when he gets lungful of fear Toxin, he feels normal. He was antsy before, because c'mon, it's a rogue attack but it's not worse. Or so he thought. Because the anxiety lingers. Not enough to register as abnormal just this slight hypervigilance that makes you see things about yourself and your surroundings that you'd never realize otherwise. He'd realize he doesn't blink as often. He'd realize that if he doesn't consciously focus, he sometimes seems to not touch the ground. Forgets to breathe. He can't feel his own pulse at time. He'd realize people will miss him when he's walking down the street as if he was invisible (people just don't care about everyone they pass by). When he'd look straight into his reflection, he'd look slightly to the left. Not enough to actually name anything that was wrong but just stretched enough to fall on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. If he just caught his reflection in the peripheral vision, it'd be vaguely shadowy creature with glowing green eyes and white smoke instead of hair. Overall he'd be just wrong enough to be distinctly not human.

For everyone else, he'd be just a dude. Literally couldn't find more normal dude than this dude. Will pass as absolutely normal human unless someone is specifically looking for ecto-ghost stuff. Even most magic users wouldn't clock him at the glance

Tldr: Fear Toxin makes Danny perceive himself as some sort of eldritch horror but not enough to make him believe he'd actually be affected, while from outside perspective he's Just A Dude™

[majorproblems77]

Metamorphosis snipit :D

“You know. From how sky speaks of you. You are very informative.” The man in question laughed, sending a firm pat to the captains back as he did. “I admit I was a bit of a jerk growing up.” His eyes turned back in the direction they'd came. “After the whole ordeal with Zelda being taken by that creep and everything else. I had a bunch of growing up to do.” Groose laughed. “I spend a lot of my time now looking into our past. It sobers a guy.” “You look into Skyloft’s past?” The captain looked towards him. An eyebrow raised. “I do. Granny taught me so much that I felt I owe it to her really. Theres some really amazing stories. Like the story of the emerald blade. The crimson flame. The era of land. I think the War of time is my favourite. Most of what we know is lost but from what we do know it was quite the war. Theres so much we lost and so much more to learn.”

[marshmallowgoop]

I combined footage from my Detektiv Conan Blu-ray with audio from my Case Closed FUNimation DVD and made an HD English dub clip compilation for Episodes 57-58, "The Holmes Freak Murder Case."

[poppybros-jr]

Sorry I’m late! I worked very hard last round and made myself tired. But I’m back now, so it’s time for a…

SURPRISE PROPAGANDA ATTACK!

I’m doing something different this round! I’ve mostly been cheering on people I’m good friends with, but this round I want to cheer for some people who I think are cool but I don’t know them very well yet! And my first target is none other than Life herself!

- Life is… well, Life! When I joined this tournament I didn’t expect there to be someone here who was actually life! I’m still a little confused about it, but I think she seems really nice!

- I dunno about you, but I love being alive! Supporting Life in the tournament is a good way to show appreciation for how great life is, right?

- Life is everywhere! She’s part of everyone and everything, no matter how big or small! It sounds like a lot of work existing everywhere at once. Pretty awesome, though!

- I like her cool rainbow cloak thing! And she always has butterflies with her! I think they’re her children? I love butterflies! I love all bugs, really!

Vote for Life!

Life belongs to @shippyo

@kirbyoctournament

[isa-ah]

Self-shippin and lighthearted stuff like that seems fine to me, but I think the word pro-shipper kinda talks about like incest and pedo behavior more than anything else

and what I'm telling you is that it is not your place to vet the content other people are making to align with what you think is acceptable. no one has any right to tell anyone else what they can and can't make. if it's fictional, then no real life people are being hurt. if you want to prioritize the safety of real life people, then get involved in your community. if it gives you the ick, hit the bricks, it's not anyone else's job to pander to what you're comfortable seeing and it's a BASIC skill to understand any of this.

people have reasons for making the shit they make. your ick dark topic is someone else's exploration of their trauma, or pushing horrible things that happen in real life to their logical extremes, or honestly even just "wouldn't it be fucked up if this happened?" yeah, it would be! but it was entertaining to watch.

the act of creating or ingesting victimless fictional content does not equate to real life violence or morals someone might hold. game of thrones was huge in mainstream media and it's full of incest, rape, murder, etc. how do you with your narrow world view of "okay" content justify that? or the walking dead, or breaking bad? car crash compilations or guro fanart?

sometimes just the act of creating something dark and entertaining is enough. people have been doing this as long as we've been telling stories. get over it.

[whereserpentswalk]

Enjoy some fictional propaganda posters from my campaign (earth is currently being invaded by Olympus Mons).

[lyss-butterscotch]

Hi im rambling about nine sols again, but ya know how usually later bosses are harder and more epic than the last and thats usually the gameplay loop

I can very much very happily forgive breaking that gameplay loop i can forgive bosses being less harder than previous bosses and shit if it means taking creative liberty in their presentation

If more video games did things because 'it looks cool teehee' i would very much love that im slurping every aspect of this game forever i think thanks

[knightstones]

Hi, I’m Adam! You may have seen my main blog @asm5129 😊. Im a young creator looking to tell a story that’s been growing and evolving in my mind for the last 19 years—most of my life.

Gem Knights is a story about history, revolution, relationships, family, love, trust, power and what it really means to be a hero. This story challenges a lot of traditional ideas of how stories are expected to go in the age of blockbusters and spectacle, especially stories about heroes.

This is a longtime passion project for me and I’m incredibly excited to bring it to life as an audio drama—though for now we’re just focusing on the pilot episode.

However, one of the most important parts of this process to me is to pay everyone fairly and overall produce this project ethically, something talent of all sorts experience far too rarely, and that’s what this gofundme is for—so please, help me pay these incredible people what they’re worth!

[propagandacreative]

Propaganda recently got to work with Unlock on a brand from the ground up along with several accompanying assets. Unlock is revolutionizing executive search and consulting by integrating clients, candidates, and community members into a powerful network. Their holistic approach redefines industry norms, providing transformative onboarding, comprehensive reports, and ongoing support. Unlock empowers executives and organizations to thrive by recognizing their unique qualities and potential, enabling them to build exceptional teams, optimize businesses, and support individual growth and leadership capabilities. https://propagandacreative.com

[narutocharacterpolls]

For some reason I can’t reply to the ask that sent me the link directly but:

THIS IS SO COOL ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE ART! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING ME THIS I HAD NOT SEEN IT! HAHAHAAAA THIS IS SO GREAT, ABSOLUTELY GETTING A KICK OUT OF THIS AND IT’S SO GORGEOUS! I hope both Tenten lovers and Sasuke lovers will get a kick out of this, I think it’s so clever and very funny. Once again always feel free to send me the link to any arts or writing I may have missed created for this poll! My notifications get crazy so I certainly miss some of them, and I thank everyone that has sent me the link when I missed theirs!

[blurred-honey]

It would be very interesting to write a book or something that is told entirely in newspapers. Like, I’m interested in if it would work, cause you kinda defy many writing tools like having a main character, and a large part of every newspaper issue would be unimportant to the plot, but it would build out the world and create vibes.

I think the story would have the newspaper go from actually reporting on the terrible things that happened or are happening, to having all those story’s get squashed out by happier things. At some point the reader would need to realize that the world didn’t get better, but the newspaper got much worse, and probably accepted bribe money. The actual stories in the newspaper would be the happiest during the climax of whatever else is going on in the world.

I’m a sucker for secondary plots, so wouldn’t it be so cool if something else was happening that the viewer can see even less of? Like the reading experience I feel should be less reading the newspaper and more looking for clues as to what is real and what is going on behind the flaps of paper.

My thoughts for secondary plots have two different strands rn.

1. The writers or the newspaper company are actively trying to help the readers understand what is happening, but are being forced to cover it all up, so there is subliminal messaging telling the actual stories within stories of baking shows and lost cats.

2. The people getting the newspaper are actively going through their own plot™️. Maybe they are part of the revolution, maybe they are silently communicating with the writers at the news house, maybe they are just going through a nasty divorce. Probably not that one lol. But in any case, the way this would show is through writing on the newspaper itself. I’m also a sucker for nontraditional writing, so the newspaper is shown as an actual newspaper, but maybe some days it has rips. Some days coffee is spilled on it. Some days a whole article is carefully cut out. Some days the newspaper got especially wrinkled from rereading. But quite a lot there is red ink that circles important messages, or jots down a quick note, or writes questions that are similar to what the audience should be asking like “where did the real stories go?”

Idk, I think a nontraditional story like this could be really cool

[majorproblems77]

happy birthday! have some cake: 🍰

Perhaps a Wild and Callouses snippet to celebrate?

:) have a lovely birthday!

Yay cake! We can share! :D

Thank you very much!

Wild and Callouses

All the heroes had hardened callouses across their hands. Continuous use of a sword over years of adventures will do that to a person.

Each hero dealt with the painful experience in a different way. Some dealt with them as they came, some had creams and some... Just ignored them

Wild was one of those heroes.

He was preparing dinner, the steady chopping of the knife into the board as he chopped a carrot. His hand was playing up today so he had to place it down every so often.

"Wild, that can't be comfortable." The champion raised his head from his chopping board to see the captain stood in front of him. He looked down in concern.

"what chopping carrots?"

"No, your hands. Those look painful, I've got something that can help." The captain reached into his pocket and pulled out a small pot of cream. "give me your hand." He offered out his own for Wild to lay his into.

"What is that?"

"It's cream, which helps soften your hands, I make it on the road with specific herbs and some water to make a paste. Helps on the tough days when my hands are soaked in pain."

"I always thought that was burn cream."

"It softens hardened skin. Might make it a little more comfortable to hold a knife or a sword." He took a small bit of the cream and put it into his own hands to demonstrate. "If I make it I know it's safe."

"What's in it?"

"Water, and a few healing herbs. A soldier during the war, a good friend of mine told me about it." The captain chuckled. "It was From his home deep in the forest. It's what they used."

"Sounds like quite the friend. Does he live in your time somewhere? I'd love to talk plants with him." wild inspected the pot before taking a small amount of cream and massaging it into his hands.

"you could say that." The captain's gaze turned to the side. Where Time and Four were sitting on a log discussing something.

"Thanks, captain." Wild smiled, "But I should be getting back to these. You'll have to tell me about your friend later."

"No problem." the captain smiled before placing the pot of cream on the log next to Wilds work station. "Keep that, I can make more." He turned before Wild could comment and walked away into the camp.

[irenespring]

Rewatching Bones and the season 1 writing is sure something. There are a lot of scenes where I notice writing...areas for improvement...similar to the ones I find in my own writing, which is weird to see in a professional show.

And s1e21 is so interesting to me. At first I thought it was actually very brave/progressive to have the plot twist be that the tragically suffering Brave Soldier Team assassinated a family of civilians. It was especially surprising because after most of the dialogue around the war could have been pulled by from a DoD press release. Hodgins, a conspiracy theorist, is the only firm anti-war perspective. He states his straw-man arguments and his big Character Building Moment is when he "finally" shuts up about the injustices of the war. So having Hodgins validated by the soldier team's big hero action being a war crime seemed very brave.

But then as the episode went on I got the impression that using the war crime plot twist actually made the episode an especially clever piece of propaganda. By including the war crime, the show can't be accused of ignoring civilian casualties. They get points from the liberals in the audience, while still using every trick they have to exonerate the soldier who killed the civilians and the US military as a whole.

Charlie, the young soldier who killed the family and was later killed by friendly fire is portrayed as: young, inexperienced, panicky, undertrained, and arrogant. His actions are waved away as just a mistake by a freaked out kid. Surely, a proper soldier who received complete military training and knew not to charge forward and instead wait for a command from his superior would never have killed those civilians, right? So in that way, the civilian deaths were not the military's fault. The military's image takes a hit for not properly training the kid, but they couldn't have been expected to correct his temperament, of course. War is war, it isn't the US' fault. It's frankly an extraordinary writing feat given that Charlie was literally wearing a uniform, killing the family with his government-assigned weapon, and acting in a United States military operation. Just in case you weren't convinced, the writing moves on VERY quickly from the deaths of the family. They have like five minutes of mention, tops. After that the show goes back to the REAL problem here, who is killing Americans to cover up this unfortunate accident.

Additionally, the military is seen as a wonderful force for justice. An ally to those looking to expose its dirty secrets. You know---the opposite of what would actually happen. Based on real events, the United States would classify any information the Jeffersonian team reveal and demand their secrecy. But when Booth shows up to arrest a high-ranking officer in a civilian court, the central military authority figure says "we are cooperating fully with Agent Booth, [the officer] will not disgrace us." It's a line so stilted and unrealistic that I almost laughed. The line gets a lot of emphasis in the scene, for good reason. It's the big propaganda message distilled: the United States military is an ethical force that makes mistakes but is always acting in the service of truth and justice (as they say in Chernobyl: "our goal is the happiness of all mankind"....in that show it's meant to be an ironic statement about government failure and cover-up, but in this episode I could imagine it being said earnestly, word-for-word). Thus, people who go against Truth and Justice---by killing civilians or covering up those civilian murders---are either outliers or traitors.

It creates a separation between the tragedies of war and the US government. The final theme is what I imagine the US military desperately wanted liberals to pivot to: war bad, US military good. As long as you don't think too hard about why the war started and was happening, you too can oppose the war but still fall in line and stay the fuck out of our way! Therefore the seemingly subversive plot-line ends up fusing nicely with the earlier rhetoric about the Iraq war being justified and any protest against it being disrespectful to the troops.

So in the end, s1e21 pulls of a very impressive stunt: they use a fictional war crime committed by the US military as a propaganda tool for the US military. It works because the whole episode is built to divide the reality of an action from the perpetrators of said action. Really a shining example of taking the concept of passive voice and running with it. Kudos to the writing team, a very interesting example of poli sci cognitive dissonance in the early-mid 2000s.