#psycology of colors

[shivsolutionenterprises]

The Psychology of Colors in Marketing

[littlegeecko]

(rolls into your inbox while draped dramatically on top of a piano)

So interesting how Scarab started out red, but his 2D form is blue, to contrast Prismo's pink form, only Prismo's not just pink, he has blue eyes, coincidence? I think not!

(continues rolling through your inbox and right out the window, flinging handfuls of alfalfa to attract the plot bunnies as I go)

ITS CALLED COLOR THEORY YOU UNCULTURED S-

[narizdefreza]

DAY 12 - UNCANNY

[louissatturi]

So this fanfic idea is consuming me so I will probably Write it

So it's a fic where cumplane reincarnate as qijiu kids and whare Born during the time yqy (how did he birthed this kids as a teenager? Is he a omega? Trans? Affected with a weird fuck or die plant? Idk bro i also didn’t figured this out) in the lingxi caves, they ware Sadly Born prematurely but that didn’t affect them too much since they are transmigrators and stuff

So the premise is basicly twin cumplane being raised by a teen version of Yue qingyuan and trying to Change his fate of being killed in the end by luo binghe (since it's their dad lol)

Their plane consistes in Airplane becoming the next sect leader and shen yuan becoming his bff so the sect isn’t all ruined yk? (Yeah in this fic Airplane is not a an ding peak disciple but he gets the same amount of overwork don't worry)

Shen QingQiu is going insane and foaming at the mouth because there is 2 little clones of him and qi-ge as kids in the kids have some of the others features, his relationship with the kids is interesting (especially because he dosen't know that they are his kids) shen yuan looks almost identical to him if not for the color of the eyes and his nose that are 2 things that he was obssessed in his qi-ge, shen qingqiu just dosen't kill him on sight because that is the sect leader kid so that would be VERY stupid so they just torture each other in psycological warfear because sy hates his guts, his relationship with Airplane is interesting because he kinda indulges in his wish of being kind and tender with qi-ge thru him since he looks like his dad (Airplane is VERY scared and weirdout by it but since he wrote it he kinda just allows it to heppen)

Bingqiu and Moshang Would also heppen in this fic by the simple hilarity of Yue Qingyuan just looks at his kids boyfriends being literal demons and just giving a disapointing sigh but just aproving it because his baby's are happy

The other thing about this au is that the names of cumplane are not "shen yuan" and "shang qinghua" for abvious reasons and I gave them new names!

A little disclamer, i am HORRENDOUS with names like worst then Airplane and my mandarin knowledge is basicly a big and round 0 so please if you think the names are very ugly use your suspension of disbelif because the dad was like 17 give him a break! (But the names are passible to Change, don't worry to much)

I will start with Airplane, his name is Yue Cangshu (岳仓鼠), yes it's because of hamsters and I just think is really cute yqy taking a good look at him and going "omg he is so small and round... just like a rat... his name is rat now"

Shen yuan names Change was harder for me because before hand I was just going to call him "Yue Yuan' but since his twin got a longer name I decide to make one for him as well, his name is Yue YuanChun (岳垣春), his name is like these because of shen Qingqiu, since the qiu(秋) character means autmmun I was like "huuum yuan means wall... his name being "spring wall" would be really cute" so this is why he is called "YuanChun" now lol

I am obssessed with this au

[annabelle-creart]

Analysis of the color on Trollhunters

An essay (not really)

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As we all know, color is a fundamental part of the characters development AND design, is a way to tell the audience what to expect of said characters, it can tell us how much they evolved or for them to stick in our mind! For example, Roxxane in Megamind, at first, uses red, but with pass of time and her relationship evolves with Megamind, she starts using purple, and then blue, or in Star Wars, by the color of the sabers, we can see that blue is for the good guys, the red for the siths, purple for Samuel L. Jackson because he asked for it or green for Luke during his character development, and in Trollhunters is the same, but it is not as explicit as the other stories, for example, Jim uses blue, blue is the color of the good guys, but why does then characters like Usurna use blue? To hide her real intentions? No, because if it was for that, then, why would Gunmar have blue on his design? Claire uses purple, purple is the color of avaricy and malice, but she's not from the bad guys, and the wizard who controls Claire, Morgana, uses mostly golden and green on her desing, on the other hand we have Angor, which colors are pale ones, but he also has a magenta type of color when using magic, not just golden, and to end with the questions, why would Toby be mostly represented with orange, yellow and red if he's of the good guys and red mostly represents evil?

Simply, because the colors in Trollhunters don't depend on the character's intentions, but on their environment

More below

When I talk about environment, I'm refering that the characters colors depend on how they live, where do they live and their tastes most than their phylosophy or psycology of color, yes, it has a psycology behind but it's not as explicit as psycology of color. Blue is the color most used on the cast, we have Jim, Blinky, Gunmar, Usurna, Draal, even variety of derivated from blue, like green for Aarrrgh and purple for Claire, even far away from the Trollhunter cast as the main color or Akiridion-5 and the 3-below cast, or even Skrael and Doxie from wizards, but why blue? Is not because of its meaning. Blue can mean sadness, wisdom, freedom, intuition or serenity (and we already know that part of the cast is not one of those meanings) but what do we know?

Jim is a simple boy, so, he uses simple colors on his jacket, also, most of his house is blue, he's quiet, he likes quietness and blue is common for quietness, also his mom as doctor dresses mostly in a pastel bluish-greenish and her eyes are also blue. Blue, for Jim, means quietness, means calm and means comfort, like his mom and his house

And then BOOM, TrollMarket, Bular's eyes, Strickler, all have colors that fight a lot with blue. As we saw, TrollMarket is mostly orange thanks to the HeartStone, which is warm, it means home, but for Jim is strange, and is not his home, it means he's in a place that is incredibly far away of his comfort, and that is comfirmed with the blue crystal stairs, it is blue, it is calm, it means comfort but then most of everything are colors that are not blue, he passes from the comfort of the stairs to this strange place that he doesn't consider yet his home

On the other hand we have Toby, which main colors are red, orange and yellow. He's vivid, he likes to be a teen, he's way more mundane than Jim (as a way to say it) he wants to hang out with girls, he wants to be popular, he's the exact opposite of Jim, even in color and clothes, Jim is simple, Toby wants to be extravagant, and also, Toby likes rocks, when he passes the comfort of the stairs he finds a world that he actually likes, he's unsure at first but he learns to love TrollMarket quicklier than Jim, and most of TrollMarket has colors that matches with his like orange, and rocks which he loves and recognizes easily, dude, even the gnomes!

On the other hand, we have Claire, which lives in a regular house with regular colors and then goes to a world where everything is shiny and brilliant and has lot of color, and then the void. Claire is kind of rock-punk, and she fits in the darkness of the shadow realm, nonetheless, in the surface, she lives in a place where she fits but decides not to fit (her house) but also has at her own mercy a stuff that can send her to a place where she fits, despite she doesn't like it that much (the dark realm), she's purple because she doesn't want to fit in the mold

Now, Aarrrgh, which is the reason I made this post in first place, is green, but everything around him is Blue or red, so, why green? Simple: compared to Claire he is, but he doesn't fit. Aarrrgh is a krubera, which main color is blue, but was taken by Gumn-gumns, which main colors wer blue and black, or sometimes golden thanks to Morgana, but Aarrgh is a color that doesn't fit with any of that, then he goes to TrollMarket, but is almost impossible to see any surrounding with the green color, except Florida when they visit the Quagawumps, which were all isolated from the exterior world until the team came. Aarrrgh is troll of few words that prefers hiding his pain to not be a burden, he isolated himself from the rest when the creeper sun's venom was expanding, the only one that knew was Vendel because he thought he would do something and yet kept it as secret until Usurna came with the gossip. Aarrrgh is a troll which you can trust but is also a troll that will not trust in you to keep something because he knows that pain and wants to evade it. Now, coming in Wizards (which I don't consider 100% canon but just to mention), Aarrrgh was left completely alone by his own, and prefered one thousand times to die on a cell than accept Blinky's help or compassion, and he didn't open up himself until Blinky did it first. Aarrrgh is green and green is a color that doesn't appear on the series much, except in Nari and in nature, and well, Nari grew bitter towards the world but then helped Merlin, but where was she during Merlin's sleep? Probably isolated from the world, so, the Arcane Order wouldn't reach her, and Merlin? Also isolated, sleep on a cavern with magic that now barely works and who prefered to fight against Morgana ALONE, and Morgana? Also isolated, treated as the villain (which she is) and closed up in a cell made by Merlin barely working in people's minds, including Claire, and yet her main color isn't green but golden

And if you ask, what about Strickler and NotEnrique? They're changelings, "impures" they're treated as scum and yet have to work even double than any other human or troll to feel worthy, I think the rest explains itself

So, yeah, Aarrrgh is green because he is part od something and yet doesn't fit in anything that he qas part of. Didn't fit with Gumn-gumns, didn't fit with kruberas, at first didn't fit in Toby's house, doesn't fit is anything and yet stays because that's his family.................

Holy shit- I'm doing the same that I did with Heatwave and Boulder from Rescue Bots-

For Blinky I have nothing to say, sorry.

[officeobject]

About me being Lithuanian (perhaps only on my passport), addiction, cities, and more! Not originally written for Tumblr so yes, there's questions and stuff.

"tell me, what is Lithuanian culture about, and what is BEING Lithaunian? Because so far, I cannot relate, even when my DNA says it - and sure, it hurts - I have no culture, no community, not even a place I feel at home/a place that represents me, but I'm more than used to not fitting in everywhere and feeling alone, which I guess ties into my addiction …"

(After getting some examples or something):

"Lithuanian language? Mostly forgotten by me. Wasn't passionate about learning nor re-learning beyond wanting to be able to communicate + nostalgia + not wanting to make people upset - even hated learning grammar stuff ... oh, and the religion? Nah, I'm a Christian who has no idea what is happening, so life is pretty chill in regards to that. Folk stuff? About as fun for me as a midievel festival - I like it, but it's not me, and I would not SURVIVE, having MY HAIR in traditional Lithuanian braids! Patriotism? Hard when my lack of ties make me hate myself. Connection to land? I'm so much against climate change, but psycologically, a TOTAL plastic-wrapper - totally citybitch divadog nature-fearing person, who can merely find nature pretty, while bright colored skyscraper cities feel like home! Cultural resilience? Well THAT crumbled, huh?

I feel so alone, man - like, I feel like shit because I don't know Lithuanian - I've been wanting a DNA test and got one, and turns out I only got one that accounted for country, even though I wanted a DNA test to see who I'm related to and whatnot, and I got SO MAD, that some strangers got my DNA, only to tell me which irrelevant pieces of land that my ancestored fucked in (especially as an apothiaroace), yet everyone (WHO COULDN'T EXPLAIN WHY), kept telling me it's interesting, and kept asking (when they weren't one of the people there), which countries I turned out to have DNA from - and I'm so USED, to feeling like I don't fit in - AND GUESS WHAT! THAT PROBABLY FUCKING DROVE MY ADDICTION! And my mom blames herself for not keeping the language alive, or not engaging in the culture, and I disagree with that, and I think it's MY fault - and man, we grew up in not-Lithuania, and I met people from all kinds of countries, and yeah we DID bond over how funny this country is, and not feeling a part of it, but even THEN I was kinda alien, because I wasn't from the nearby countries, but ALSO I was white, but I wasn't from the country I lived in either, and people said I fitted in better than them but I was just hyper-lexic or something, and didn't have a culture and/or didn't have a culture that would clash too much with THIS one, and also was autistic so I saw the constructs, and perhaps it was because I "looked" like a part of this country, but, like, I didn't, and whoever thought that was foolish or something - it's something about my face and stuff, and at the very least, my eyes, that I think don't make me look like a part of this place (also turns out my grandma is at least partially a part of some ethnic group which traveled and/or originated in Asia or something - explains why I thought my eyes were so pretty and different and less round and more like Rarity or Cadence from MLP or whatever). But yeah, everyone can just embrace their culture, while I have NO CULTURE, and the only thing I can turn to, is the city, which people MOCK, or see as superficial and stuff, instead of the place full of emotions and care, that I see it as - oh, and I can't even survive in fecking COPENHAGEN, so it's not like I can live in a big city anyway ...

Man, I don't feel at home with being disabled, because my autism is my personality, I don't feel ABLED, because I'm autistic, I don't relate to my DNA nor the place I grew up, I have no culture, no home, nothing, no one - not even *A Person I Mentioned*, soon enough, huh? And I sure can't call myself "American", because burgers, jeans, t-shirts, office stuff, skycrapers, lanyards, bright colored lights, phones, and all those weird city structures typically made out of glass, IS my culture, but I'm not American (no I don't know if those things are American either - I appear to feel the same way towards those things as others appear to feel towards their culture though) - well,*A Person I Mentioned*, might relate - do you think so too?

It's just that *A Person I Mentioned* seems like they have the same "culture" too! Also no my "culture" doesn't make any sense, as I did in fact NOT grow up in a big city, and even in the city/town I DID grow up in, it was some place not within the city, which was common for kids in my school to grow up in - like, especially us foreigners, people who struggle with jobs, lower income people, etc - oh and for some reason it was ALLEGEDLY officially classified as a "ghetto" - oh and also, I'm so pale that I can quite literally classify as "white" - like, am I having normal experiences here, or?

No but like, was I having normal white-person experiences? Like, wow, sometimes I write about my life, and I REALLY seem disconnected from many things - like, at 12, I DID think about suicide and stuff, but I've never had a concept of death (I don't know if I would have if I experienced death personally for the first time), so I wasn't suicidal, but I wasn't NOT suicidal, you know?

I still feel "suicidal" at times LOL. Oh and also some might say I've experienced things that are trauma or whatever, but I doubt it, and feel disconnected from trauma-survivors as well. I ALSO have a weird way of experiencing friendship - very weird and uncommon and intense, so I also have a disconnect THERE - there's also the addiction-related stuff, if you remember - and I ALSO feel disconnected from anti-AI people, because I need AI as a tool (emotionally) and have some addiction(s) related to SOME/SOME PARTS OF AI, but there's all the ethical stuff I'm against, but I'm also against all the hatred and judgement towards AI-users, even towards those with AI boyfriends. I'm also a queer Christian, who is confused about Christianity, but can't stop believeing either - over all, I'm LUCKY when I can feel like home - though I might be losing one of the people I've felt connected to the most (*A Person I Mentioned*), but I wonder if you think I'm losing them."

[marz-planet]

INTRO POST:

I just got the ✨motivation✨ to do this so I’ma finish it before it’s gone: speedrunning🏃🏽‍➡️

Name: Marz

(Full name: Marz Planet) (Nichardname: Marzipan) (Nickname: the person who helped Co-create Dianthus)

Pronouns: anything? All of them. Whatever you feel like. The ~vibes~

Interests currently:

Fandom:

EPIC the Musical

The Stormlight archives (on Oathbringer currently)

Cookie Run Kingdom

Welcome to Nightvale

Psycology in general

Spiderman [mostly into the spider-verse franchise(?) but-]

Stories from Styx

Dungeons and Dragons

Generation Loss

Helluva Boss

The Owl House

Pokemon (cards, and shows/movies)

Minecraft

Spontaneous World shifting

Spicy Mints

tbd

Hobbies (that doesn’t look like it’s spelled correctly..?):

art - painting, drawing, digital drawing, coloring(different from drawing)

crochet

Lego

I make chainmail now :D

making ✨personalized gifts✨

Music:

Madilyn Mei <-<-<-<-

Rio Romeo

Cranewives<-<-

Cavetown

Noahfince<-

Beetlebug<-

Ghost<-<-<-

Leanna Firestone

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me

Naethan Apollo<-<-

Lemon Demon<-

Set It Off<-

Bear Ghost <-<-<-<-

Milk In the Microwave<-<-<-

That Handsome Devil

Kimya Dawson <-<-

Not My Fandom (technically?) but will happily talk about:

OCS - PLEASE. I ADORE THE LITTLE DETAILS. GO TO MY DMS, DONT EVEN HAVE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF, AND YOU DONT HAVE TO INTERACT AFTER, OR DO, FUN EITHER WAY

Houseplant Lore (My co-oc)

The SHOW (My cocococo-world)

My Little Pony I used to wonder what friendship could be~

Gravity Falls

Amphibia

Pokemon games

Percy Jackson

Kane Chronicles

most Glitch productions

SCP foundation

cooking

flower language

etc. (There’s more but the motivation is starting to decline)

I will post occasionally with art under #Houseplant lore for my co-oc 🪴Dianthus🩼and their world I made with @stormcloudsarepretty (existence’s best person with soup-like art). I will also occasionally share the inside thoughts in the void that is ✨tumblr✨. I have 4 cats, a dog, and I adore my mutuals. I hope everyone who even glanced at this has a lovely day, and if not, a better tomorrow.

[finalctutorg]

pls explain the characters personalities!

well, im assuming u want to know ALL so here is a basic explanation of all them: Dyce: sensitive in the sence that he cries alot due to overthinking stuff, problems at socializing with other people due to being insecure about some things and his occupation and style of life, he tends to be "childish" sometimes like having touyuyis on his bedroom, also lots of plushies that are his company, also because he loves coloring books and others but is a side almost nobody manages to see, also very responsible and careful Minesock: common student I fear, analitical! very social when u become his friend since he loves to yap about stuff he likes, he also has some secret tastes or just stuff he prefers to hide from his family or people in general Ethel: crazy but also kind of innocent, very good at doing plans and always tries to give his best, also has a very paternal instint due to having his minions which leads to be responsible after all, also very obsessive over stuff, EVEN MORE obsessive when is about people he likes, basically he guides himself in almost all the cases by the passion or just feelings Brayan: nothing I gotta say, innocent and cute girly from the outside, evil and genuinelly menacing on the inside, but the secret is that she does everything evil she does with a little bit of innocence Traz: doesnt think anything, he just wants to be comfortable and in peace all the time, doesnt have anything to say, before becoming a "zombie" he was a skater dude, a cool one, but now, after all, there is a void inside his heart Elyak: silly but at the same time is curious abut everything but they make sure to punish people psycologically when they do bad things I hope this explanation is good for u!

[redhoodforreal]

Red flag in gotham. Be aware, don't be the hostage in my next mission:

Clown of everysorts

Very beautiful women alone in dangerous place (70% they would kich your ass so bad you have bo idea)

Cosplayer

Genius

Psycology major

Colorful people

The wayne (rich pople are way to wild)

Everyone who say they never brake the law

People with amnesia

Metropolian (they're not dangerous, they're just lil optimistic shit who don't deserve you)

[smallbigworld]

Hello G/t community. I've had a terrible month so far and apologize for the delay in my stories. Before I post anything, I want to introduce everyone to the Norman-verse. (I'm workshopping the name.)

World building is my favorite part of creating stories. It brings life and detail into normal stories. This universe has been formulating in my head for years and I finally get to share it with others. I will be adding to this lore as time progresses.

In this universe the two main inhabitants are humans and Normen(the giants)

There will be a main world, but it's a universe with lots of worlds, and maybe some things could be different in different worlds.

The Normen and humans have a lot of aspects that make them unique from each other.

*Physical differences

*Cultural and religious differences

*Anatomical differences

*Environmental differences

*Social differences

*Psycological differences

Today I want to start with Physical differences. Also I would love for anyone to make suggestions on what they think some of it could be.

Physical differences & attributes

*Height: 50-70 feet average.

The average child is between 50-60 feet.

Adults can range anywhere from 60 to 75 feet tall.

*They have thick & dense skin

*They build muscle easier and have stronger builds.

*They have sharp teeth & fangs that helps them bite through anything with ease.

*They have large, pointy ears that are sensitive to hearing

* They have unique patterns over their skin. Patterns and shapes vary from Norman to Norman.

*Skin, eye and hair colors includes more colors

Let's talk about it

Skin colors: It's normal for Normen to have the same skin colors as humans but at least 20% of the Normen population get born with colors such as pink, purple, green and blue.

Eye colors: Any eye color is possible but the normal human colors brown, green and blue are rare in Normen.

Hair colors: Once again, any color is possible but the normal human colors especially blonde and ginger are rare in Normen.

* They have tails resembling those of lizards and this helps them stay balanced.

*They have retractable claws that helps them hunt larger animals.

In my next post, I'll be focusing on every vore fan's favorite part. The Anatomical Differences.

If you actually read all this, thanks. I don't really expect people to get into the world building yet when there aren't stories yet but I want people to be able to understand more things about this universe.

[violetziegler]

Taking Pictures, a bit of what I learned

A small post with some "tips" that i sent on Twitter condensed on a single post here on Tumblr. i think with the organization here will be better for sharing later on ^^

Framing

Picturing (pun intended) what you are trying to show beforehand helps a lot on keeping a clear vision of the final image. The famous rule of thirds its super important to make pleasant and cohesive pics, This is more focused for scenery shots, but works to close ups as well, having natural "frames" within your subject makes it popout more! it can be trees around your character, a window, a door, a fountain arching over, a light beam, anything really works. What you are trying to tell through your pictures?

Playing with Angles

This is the most fun part i must admit, i always loved playing with angles to make my pics unique, but what i learned is that sometimes the simplest is the best, but always experiment with new things!

Negative Space

Negative space is a concept of filling the picture with "nothing", meaning, your background although important for the picture it doesn't draw too much attention to it, it greatly helps keeping what you want to show up in focus.

Leading Lines

Well, this one is rather complicated to achieve, i can find examples of it but can't replicate it the way i wanted ingame. The idea behind the concept its to use geometry and light to direct your eyes to the focus of the image. Exemples of that would be a flow of a river, nature growing in a single direction, light beams and many, many more!

Color Theory

Ah yes, color theory its the thing a lot of people talk about but never goes in-depth, reason being its subjective, but also very defined. Here some psycology of the colors. White - purity, innocence, cleanliness, sense of space, neutrality

Black - authority, power, strength, evil, intelligence

Gray, neutral, timeless, practical, boring

Red - love, romance, gentle, warmth, comfort

Orange - happy, energetic, excitement, enthusiasm, warmth

Yellow - happiness, laughter, cheery, warmth, optimism

Green - natural, cool, growth, money, health

Blue - calmness, serenity, cold, uncaring, wisdom

Purple - royalty, wealth, sophistication, wisdom, exotic

Brown - reliability, stability, friendship, sadness, warmth

Pink - romance, love, gentle, calming, agitation

Complementary colors are the most common way to make it stand out due to contrast, speaking of which.

Contrast

There is a bunch of ways to make contrast happens. Light and Dark, Nature and Buildings, Opposite Colors and many, many more, but as the other topics i talked about the idea its to draw attention to the focus point, natural light can make it even better

Visual Hierarchy

Framing, Colors, Contrast, and Spacing, you have to think all of that before you take the picture, The idea is to use the whole canvas to tell the story of your picture.

Analyse

Not really a lesson, but more a suggestion, try new things, even your older shots can be remade into something stunning if you aproach it from a different angle, me and my gf did a shot a while back, but we were thinking on what we could improve, and we did improve it a lot!

Style

Developing a style comes with time i guess, i don't even know mine at the time of writing this post, but im sure i'll find it and so do you who was reading until now. Wish all the people who did the best of luck!

Don't forget to smile!

Kisses - Angela

[foxymoxynoona]

Rant anon here- yes! Thats exactly what I meant. About the attitude that a lot of people in the fandom seem to have whenever the members mess up. It feels gross and it feels like they’d let them get away with murder. It feels like they treat them more like objects or dolls than humans that have flaws and can make bad choices. It feels like the more the fandom tells the company that “it’s ok!!! They shouldn’t have to respond to hate!!” It will keep pushing the boundaries of what they do and do not take seriously enough to formulate a response. The group has mentioned, ad nauseam, their morals and what they want to do in this industry. It feels like they’ve stopped caring and that’s what I feel like grossed me out (other than the weird attitude towards the group I mean).

It just feels like they’re too old and too seasoned to be making these mistakes. They should know better- or at least know that when you hurt people the best thing to do is apologize- regardless of whether or not you felt you did something wrong. At the end of the day you hurt someone (this is all the metaphorical “you”) regardless of intention and that, a lot of times, is enough for some to step back and reevaluate the situation.

Through out this all it feels like there’s a lack of the accountability that we hold more western artists to (this is a research topic in its own right and far more intelligent people than I have written about it and produced wonderful articles and video essays on the subject. I am not one of those people and it’s 4 in the morning where I am and I don’t feel like delving into why we infantilize East Asian pop stars at this hour). Not that the accountability we have here is great, but at least it’s more talked about than suppressed (this can be seen with the growing number of Taylor swift defectors after her recent cease and desist letters)

Hm, it's interesting to talk about cross section between infantalizing and model minority racism overlapping with celebrity halo effect. TBH now that it's no longer directly my job, I don't spend much time paying close attention to music artists unless it's something really within my interest or it crosses into more mainstream attention --so I'm sure about the Taylor Swift controversy you're talking about, and I only have knowledge about a handful of Asian-artist controveries so definitely not enough to talk about that cycle or compare it with western artists in any real way other than to say this is such a rich and complex topic to dig into from the fan side, the consumer side, the partnerships side.

I'm certainly not going to explain away anyone's mistakes, people can answer for their own, I will only say we are never too old to fuck up haha, but yes then you do the learning, growing, and repair process.

Definitely agree that criticism or calling out incorrect behavior isn't hate, it can in fact be a demonstration of love and respect --and also that it's completely and entirely reasonable to take a step away from supporting an artist or group becasue you are not comfortable with their behavior! Not only because it's a way of putting your money and time where you want to endorse but, for the other types of folks you're talking about who see everything with rose-colored glasses, it can help create some space and ability to not only see humans as complex and likely to make mistakes, but also disrupts a hard part of hero-worship that i think may come into play too psycologically: I love this artist and believe they are good so if they screw up, I can't admit that they made a mistake because what does that say about me?

Anyway, I know you probably already know this 1000x over but protect yourself and your heart and your peace. It's ok to need to take a break from things or groups of people or whatever when they are filling you with rage, especially if you feel unable to really fix or change what you're seeing. <3 <3 <3 I'll always be here too!

[misty-wisp]

I ront know your oc but your new art popped up on the p5 tag and scratches my brain right, it might be the composition but its giving me "She is gonna make the 3rd semester even more psycological horror :)" energy, loving her hair color too

Also, about your Kasumi's post, i don't deny that Atlus tropped the ball about Sumire's arc at some point but I think Kasumi was a good sister, but also flawed. She probably had more pressure on her shoulders for being the 'oldest one' due japanese's standards, despite being just some minutes older than Sumi, so she probably also wore a mask of perfection to trick society she was what they wanted. Plus instead of just being insensitive, i read her last moment more as her being one of those people coping with humor 'my sister is sad im gonna say a joke to cheer her up :)' and it went BAD. And when Sumi belives to be her sister, she is not a 1:1 copy of the real Kasumi, she is Sumire's own cognition of Kasumi.

Tldr: i think both twins loved eachother deeply but there was a huge lack of comunication a bit due the fact they were 14 at the time and a bit due japanese norms. Also sorry for the ramble 😅

hey!!! first off i am so sorry for answering so late, i've been going through it a little as of recent😭

secondly EEEE TYYYYY i'm really normal about my oc and i can and will talk about her a LOT!!! if you're interested it should be really easy to get a good grasp on her character if you check out her ref and my many posts abt her chronicled in this tag

okok onto the sumi thing--gonna put that under the cut bc of royal spoilers

i think a lot of projection went into my post talking about the sumis tbh bc i have a LOT of issues regarding jealousy and self worth and hoo boy do i project all that onto sumi. so i end up going "grrr everyone better than me is actually awful grrr" as like this weird but natural reaction.

i do think kasumi really did love her sister!! she was just caught up in both fame, praise, and possibly expectations like you suggested. and abt her treating sumire in an insensitive way, while i'm sure she didn't intend anything malicious behind any of her actions, i'd still read what she said as fairly insensitive, albeit unintentionally. she knows sumire's got issues with self worth comparing herself to her but doesn't really try to listen and understand--sumire even points that out.

and while i also think sumire did love her sister, i still stand by my opinion that she should've bore some kind of anger or grudge toward her out of jealousy. and naturally, because she thinks kasumi's so perfect (and out of love), she'd internalize that grudge onto herself just to further her own self loathing. but even with that, i think it's okay if she did harbor that grudge--it only makes sense for you to be mad at someone you constantly compare yourself to, even if you love them with all your heart. it's really something else for her to work through and feel emotions about, bc i really don't think ATLUS let her be emotional enough in third sem.

tl;dr, i'm sure both sisters did love each other very much, one's just unaware of how to handle someone with a crumbling mental health and the other has jealousy issues she internalizes as self-loathing

[dnrue]

Trigger warning for scary stuff. (Trauma, horror, murdering robots, random anecdotes) Also this is a long rant.

I have a love-hate relationship with the horror genre.

Cause on one hand, I love Invader Zim, Coraline, and 9. I guess those fall more under psycological horror?

But the moody colors, plot, character dynamics, and clear thought put into worldbuilding is so cool. I read a book with (pretty sure this is the wrong word) but melancholy theming with stars and purple tears and roses and I thought it was neat. If my obsession with my little pony and cute characters didn’t win over i’d probably be goth (is that the right grammar? Anyway)

On the other hand. I was traumatized as a kid from FNAF. I still can’t stand it today. I hate those roblox horror games. I hate that scps, creepypastas, and other scary stuff typically has no warning and is advertised to children. Just the concept of a monster with no morality or soul that will mercilessly hunt you down and kill you and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

And i can perfectly understand that a lot of people like that stuff! It’s fun to come up with stories, and I myself have tried to do horror characters (i’m not very good at it and i stopped cause it makes me remember all of the above). But it still bothers me. Years later. Like years ago I accidentally clicked on quite a few youtube videos, not really knowing the extent of how horrifying it really is, with no clarification if it’s even real, cause sometimes its hard to tell. And i still get this today! I like listening to iceberg videos because of the facts and for background noise, when all of a sudden at the bottom there’s a fact about dead puppies or something and im like .. what?? And then i think about it for weeks and I have no rest- And the horror stuff can very easily change the way you think about things and it takes you years to realize. I thought I was going to be eaten alive when I was asleep when I was loosely EIGHT. I developed a weird thing with eye contact cause I hated when my dolls were looking at me. I probably had a couple extra years of playing ahead of me that got cut short because I was scared. I went out of my way to design a line of dolls that had blindfolds. I still have the concept in my digital art folder somewhere. Every once in a while I have a weird thought or strong aversion to something random that later I realise stemmed from the whole thing. Half the time I don’t even like to bring it up and I just mention it vaguely. (It’s hard cause my bff’s little brother keeps trying to show us videos of whatever bloody monster is recommended to him) (ive been trying not to overstep but it feels like i have an oppurtunity to save baby me from the same fate when i know its not like that at all.)

And another facet to the whole thing is that I have an interest in robotics.. like I still flinch when the halloween robots at sam’s make eye contact with me. Yet I love ye olde robot entertainment restaurants for the characters and electronics and engineering, and even down to the vibe of the red curtains. How is it even possible to love something that scares you to your core?? I think i’m mostly over that part but I still wonder about it. Also the Rockafire Explosion is great and I have a headcanon that Mitzi broke the rear axle of her boyfriend’s car. Mini’s line delivery in the version of the song adds to the headcanon that she’s innocent but Mitzi is just like that (tm)

Experimentally I made a game exploring the concept of robot mascots in disrepair that DONT want to kill you but are a hazard because they’ve been abandoned. And this was in coding class in high school, where we used Alice for some reason. Anyway the game wasn’t very good but I failed in my point because litterally the five other people in the class were teasing me that it was fnaf when that was not the point.

(One person really liked my game though, and he came up with speedrunning categories like Void% [there was a fog effect] and CatsHead% because there was a glitch where if you stood behind the cat character at the right angle, the head deforms in a way that isnt possible using just code [the game engine was Alice, ther version we used was the 2004 one lol] and it crashes the game. It was kind of funny and I kept crashing the game cause I was having a hard time with the whole thing (exposure therapy I guess?) and it was the only thing that stopped my fingers from going cold. Anyway it was really cool that he liked my game even though it was glitchy and half finished)

So um I rambled a lot but my point is that the brain is a weird thing and people should not advertise horror to children. Also please be kind and give proper trigger warnings please, other than (This is scary! If youre a wimp turn back now!). Also i proofread this like ten times but im worried something bad will happen? Why brain do that?? Is this an ominous warning or because i just dont like talking about this stuff??

[annabelle-creart]

Boulder the Dino-bot shenanigans. Part 8

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Boulder and Heatwave were recharging on the floor as usual, Boulder transformed on its dino form while Heatwave was in bot mod, as if Boulder was a pillow, they had been sleeping like this since Boulder asked so, it was way more comfy, and it felt like home... but sometimes is not enough

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Boulder: hmmm... Dent get out

Heatwave: AUCH! Ah-

Boulder kicked Heatwave, by pure accident, both were recharging, the weird thing was that Boulder was talking while recharging, Heatwave didn't paid attention and just reclined again on Boulder to recharge

Boulder: Dent... come here

Now that was weird, the same name two times, and Boulder's vents started to work faster

Was Boulder having a nightmare?

Heatwave: Boulder? *he shaked Boulder's nose horn a bit to wake Boulder up* are you okay-

Boulder: AHG!

Heatwave: hey! Is just me... is everything okay?

Boulder: sorry

Heatwave: don't be

Boulder: Did Boulder wake you up?

Heatwave: don't worry about that... can I ask something?

Boulder: what?

Heatwave: what were you meaning with Dent?

Boulder: ...

Boulder: Heatwave, promise nobody will know about this

Heatwave: why?

Boulder: is a secret, just... promise it

Heatwave: you have a lot of secrets, eh, big guy?

Boulder: Boulder already knows that

Boulder reclined entirely on the floor and hugged Heatwave with its tail

Boulder: Dent was a friend

Heatwave: Like Crimson?

Boulder: yes. But Dent was dumb. We told Dent not to get on that room but didn't cared, Dent believed it would made it look like if Dent was brave but there was something else on that room and none of the group could break the glass on time...

Heatwave: what happened?

Boulder stayed in silence for a moment, it felt like if it was yesterday

Boulder: something killed Dent on that room just because Dent was there. No one had the right to enter that room but that day we understood why

Heatwave: you were remembering that day

Boulder: once, Crimson heard that the processor made us remember moments when we recharge so we don't forget what we have learnt, but Boulder still haven't learned anything from it, and yet is what Boulder remembers the most

Heatwave: ...maybe this time it wasn't to remember something you learned, but to remember your friend

Boulder pressed itself against Heatwave and he surrounded Boulder with one arm like a half-hug, seeking comfort

Heatwave: I'm sorry

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Heatwave: watcha' doing?

Boulder: Hi! Graham gave Boulder new paints

Heatwave: I thought you ended them up all

Boulder: in past, now Boulder has new ones

Heatwave: pfft

Boulder: What?

Heatwave: you really like to use your fingers more than brushes

Boulder: brushes are useful to make or imitate certain textures but fingers are easier to use for simple things

Heatwave: I see... why all those bots green? Not to judge

Boulder: ...Boulder knows no one on the batch will see this but yet... they would like to be remembered. Boulder knows they all would have liked Earth, except Mirror, Mirror didn't liked anything

Heatwave: pfft hehehe, if they're all like you, yes, I'm sure too. But, what a coincidence they're all green

Boulder: not sure, but some bots of other batches had different colors, maybe it was to difference from which batch was each bot, but most of them were jerks

Heatwave: It was that bad?

Boulder: the bots of the blue batch were boring, and the ones of the yellow batch were mean, but the worst ones were from the orange batch, there was no way to talk with that batch without wanting to punch them

Heatwave: they sound kind aggresive

Heatwave: ah... never heard of it, I think

Boulder: they were...

Boulder: wait a sec- how much Heatwave knows about color theory?

Boulder: Color psycology?

Heatwave: ah... no

Boulder: now that Boulder notices, blue is a calm color, kind of sad, while orange is near red, almost aggresive

Heatwave: and that means...

Boulder: the batches were separated through aggresiveness levels, not through colors

Heatwave: and... sorry, I got lost, is that important?

Boulder: ...

Heatwave: is something wrong? You seem sad

Boulder: it... it isn't important anymore

Boulder: it isn't finished yet

Heatwave: I see...

Heatwave: it looks good this far

Heatwave: I can't wait to see the result

Maybe Boulder didn't liked what Boulder just figured, but Heatwave's kind smile was a good little hope

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Frankie: and then the x moves here... are you paying attention?

Cody: sorry, it's just, equations are kind of boring, and the bots are having so much fun outside

Frankie: yeah, but it's still homework, how will we finish it if we don't do it?

Boulder: Boulder can do it

Cody: really?

Frankie: no! Boulder, thanks for helping, but doing Cody's homework is not the solution

Cody: awmmm

Boulder: why don't you try making it backwards?

Cody: ...hey, you're right!

Frankie: finally! But talking about the bots, what are they playing?

Cody: they're playing cube

Frankie: what's that?

Cody: is like football with basketball, Chase said is something rescue bots used to play a lot

Frankie: I see, Boulder, how does it work?

Boulder: sorry? Ah, Boulder doesn't know how it does

Frankie: but, you're a rescue bot

Boulder: yes...

Frankie: ok...

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Heatwave: Boulder?

Heatwave shaked Boulder's horn a bit to wake it up. It was late in the night

Boulder: wha- something's wrong?

Heatwave: I'm asking the same, are you okay? You're crying

Boulder: Boulder's not- just confused

Heatwave: ...wrong question

Boulder: hm?

Heatwave: usually, nobody replies honestly to "are you okay" so, I'm changing the question. What do you feel?

Boulder: Boulder's fine

Heatwave: that's not what I asked

Boulder remained silent, still in dino-bot mode

Heatwave: do you want a hug? Or something?

It was obvious, Boulder was sad, and yes it wanted one. Boulder put its head on Heatwave's lap as he surrounded him like hugging a puppy... a big one

Boulder: promise you will not tell anyone, please?

Heatwave: I promise...

Boulder: this time was about Crimson

Heatwave: the owl?

Boulder: my friend back at the batch. Crimson was taken for investigation... but when Crimson came back it wasn't the same, and then died time later

Boulder's optics flooded as its voice box started to crash, Heatwave couldn't do much except hugging Boulder more, even if its antlers didn't let him do much

Boulder: none of we did anything to save Crimson, we should!

Heatwave: I know I wasn't there but Boulder, I don't think there was actually something you could have done... I'm sorry

Boulder: But we could... Crimson wasn't alright and we knew that!

Heatwave: oh, Boulder...

It was indeed true, Boulder couldn't do much, but it still drove Boulder mad each time to think about it, Boulder couldn't hate that feeling more

Boulder wanted to save Crimson but didn't, and yet Boulder was supposed to be a rescue bot, but who could Boulder fool? Boulder was a soldier, an experiment, not a savior...