#we dont need remakes at all

[scarlct-vvitch]

if i start talking shit abt how bad that little mermaid remake looks pls know its not about ariel herself and instead the fact that all of these remakes look like soulless bullshit

[thesapphocinephile]

I already rewrote Queen Christina as a lesbian political drama in my head...and now I can't can't get the idea of a queer golden age of cinema out of my head.

[hermitcraftx]

just got a dm abt one of my posts and y'all please don't try and show the hermits (or any minecraft youtuber or content creator for that matter) my posts, i'm uncomfortable with it and don't want any of my posts shown to a cc. if they stumble upon it naturally that's unfortunate but i can live with it since i do maintag a lot (something i REALLY need to stop doing tbh i already know i need to make a tagging system just for my blog that wont clog results) but going out of ur way to show a cc is entirely different and something i am not comfortable with.

no hate to the person at all but even if i wasn't a little silly and weird with it sometimes i wouldn't be comfortable with it, i want my blog to be a purely fandom only space with none of the creators involved <3 please respect this

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Hi urgent question, what does it mean when the friend that left you five years ago remakes the playlist she made you for your eighteenth birthday with the description, "For all that which I needed to leave behind. Tall tales (which was the name of the playlist she made for your birthday), great mistakes, and the time of my life." And another playlist with the description, "My life as it is! Taller tales than ever before." And posts them both to the Spotify she knows you can see? What does it mean? Hello what does this mean??!? I need someone to please present the correct answer because I don't know what to think or feel but I can't stop looking at the playlists and crying, and I'm at work so that's not great, so I just need an answer please.

[bmpmp3]

yesterday in vocal synth news

[pianapplez]

I'm so tired of shows that absolutely ignore the source material and feel like they straight up don't understand what's important about it, just make a different show why even bother at this point.

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

my biggest dissonance is how robert de niro in once upon a time in america actually looks like young carlo (but more handsome than carlo) but noodles character is nothing like him like max is a certifed carlo core. he would do everything max did

[surpriserose]

My hottest goofiest most tumblr brain take is that genuinely most if not all media would be better if it was animated

[bmcblr-remake]

ALL AUDITIONS OPEN JUNE 10TH REGARDLESS OF IF YOU GET CONDUCTING VIDEOS WE'RE ALMOST THERE YALL

[claitea]

instead of bw remakes or bw3 what about a game set between 1 and 2 where you play as N travelling around after running away. get some insight on what he was doing for 2 years. fly around on the legendary dragon like koraidon/miraidon

[ohmydais]

Idc how much it’s hated so far just from the trailer I still wanna watch the Mean Girls movie-musical when it comes out

[verflares]

a little more than halfway through it by now so heres some (long) more persona 3 thoughts. not spoiler-free btw

i'm having a pretty good time with it, though i am a little disappointed that all the 'new' stuff pretty much goes as far as new hangouts with the guys and a couple of new scenes and mechanics introduced for gameplay purposes. it's not as if these new things are bad, far from it! i've pretty much enjoyed every new hangout, especially shinjiro's and ken's.

but it's also so.... Weird . i don't know how to explain it, but stuff like this feels designed for people who played the og game. i feel like part of what made shinjiros circumstances in the og so shocking was Not knowing he was going to die, no matter what - and even then, i feel like p3 places a pretty heavy emphasis on why giving up on yourself and the idea that things will never get better Isn't the right thing. i liked all of shinjiros little hangouts + the little september questline for him, but it also feels so. heavy-handed LMAO, i guess you could argue the og made no secrets of it either, especially if you were playing femc in p3p (though i would also argue femc was for people who'd already played the game), but idk.....

i guess there's an expectation in video games these days that remakes are just as much for the og fans as well as the new ones, but i can't help but wonder how much i would enjoy some of this content had i not already been so familiar with the game... this is smth that bothers me abt other games as well, especially ff7r since i like the og ff7 so much, and it's smth i havent really been able to totally decide on how to feel. i guess the original will always be there for that reason but... graaaaaa its mostly preferential and something best saved for a totally different and unrelated post

anyway despite gripes like this, gameplay-wise its still fun. i've mostly knocked out most of the Bad/mid slinks so i can focus more on the ones that actually Hit, and the dungeon-crawling itself has always been fun, even moreso now with all the innovations they've made in 15 years LMAO

this is basically what i expected so i can't be too mad i guess, og persona 3 is good so of course the remake would be solid if nothing else. but still, with something as successful as this series and how long this remake has been anticipated, i guess i can't help but wish there was a bit more here. its the same areas, its the same slinks (minus improvements like not automatically dating the girls. lmao), its the same story. if nothing else, its a Good story, but. ah well

[baekuras]

Anyhow I need a whole separate DLC or game of just the shooting range mini game including characters sitting at the barrel & giving commentary (bonus points if there can be multiple so there is also extra banter in the background as I lose my mind trying to switch between weapons and finding the ONE pirate I kept missing APPARENTLY)

[scoganz]

tlou2 ps5 native version fucking WHEN.

[honeytonedhottie]

the victim mentality⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🧁

this is a remake of one of my older posts in a newer style + added points and sections, a REVAMP if u will about what the victim mentality is and how to get OUT of it…💬🎀

if u find urself creating obstacles, and getting in the way of ur own success you probably have a tendency to fall into the victim mentality. and its not like its hard to fall into, but it never serves u.

WHAT IS THE VICTIM MENTALITY ;

the victim mentality is the belief that the world is against you. that u can never succeed because (insert excuses) and from a quick google search the cause of the victim mentality is as a coping mechanism that can influence and determine the way in which a person interacts with the world.

WHY THE VICTIM MENTALITY IS TOXIC ;

the victim mentality perpetuates negativity and as we all know what u focus on is what manifests so if ur perpetuating negativity you'll reap negativity. you reap what you sow.

it acts as a blockage for personal growth AND limits opportunities because by focusing on perceived injustices you'll fail to see when an opportunity to improve urself + ur life presents itself.

GIRL AREN'T U TIRED?? ;

aren't you tired of looking for everything and everyone to blame BUT yourself? aren't u tired of not being able to take responsibility for urself and putting urself in shit situations because ur too lazy to get up and take accountability for urself??

LOA PIECE ;

dont put ur desire on the pedestal, look inward and the rest WILL change. manifestation is guaranteed to be easy, the easiest thing in the world, in fact, its so easy that you've been doing it subconsciously since birth. if u keep on stating that it doesn't work, or you'll have obstacles, or it'll be difficult, thats literally whats gonna happen. at the end of the day it all boils down to urself

aren't u tired of being a victim in ur reality? you already have the tools. the only tool u need to create is ur MIND. you have a mind, and u know about the law of assumption, so WHAT exactly is stopping u from manifesting the life of ur dreams?? the answer is you.

[kosmicdream]

Hello. After drawing webcomics for 10 years and making about 10,000 pages of comics, here are some things i have learned/observed in that experience..

1) making comics does not get easier.. Not really

Making comics is a tedious and slow process and with so many different facets of the experience to learn - you’ll never run out of stuff to learn or weaknesses to work on. I’m not saying this to discourage but to just give the frank reality that it really takes a lifetime to understand. Be patient with yourself and try to set healthy expectations. 

2) Read your own comics after making them.

I don’t know if this is as important to other people as it is to me, but I do think that sometimes its easy to not re-read your own work and just go from your own memory of it, or maybe you’re tired of looking at it because of all the flaws. I don’t personally get sucked into the “rewrite/remake” cycle that I know is common with comics, as I sort of just accept things as they are, but re-reading my work does help me see where I have come from and where I need to go to next. I personally don’t like to lose sight of that, and I think re-reading helps ground me in the planning process of my work and gives me a better perspective on all aspects.

3) A lot of comic advice should be taken with a grain of salt, because its the person talking to themselves. (including this)

I see a lot of advice that never would have worked for me, or just simply wasn’t something I was ever going to follow. “Dont start with your big epic long stories”! Is a common one. I don’t think that’s bad advice exactly, but how many young artists are going to listen, especially if they’ve never told a story in the first place? Yes, the advice to start small and build yourself up with experience sounds great, I’m sure people do it, but if you’re an artist you’re probably not gonna be that responsible. And for me, when i tried to do this with eggshells, my house burnt down and i kinda gave up comics for a while because i lost a lot of work. 

Writing short stories is still something I struggle with, its just not easy for me. I have gotten better at it but i don’t think that makes me less of a comic artist because I haven’t gotten good at that particular format, or that I jump around on my projects. Is it more impressive to have more completed work under your belt, sure. But I also think that.. Idk.. what is the advice actually saying, because with that one it sort of feels (often times) as a warning that you’re setting yourself up for failure/embarrassment by attempting a comic like that. I don’t know how to tell you this, but comics are gonna be embarrassing no matter what you do and there’s no guarantee you’ll be more successful/not experience failure by avoiding your passions. Something to think about anyway. 

4) Don’t draw every leaf. Unless you really want to.

I’m the kind of comic artist that kind of doesn’t care about the art as much as the whole package of the comic. When i see a very impressively drawn panel/page, with laborious detail that is well drawn and maybe even colored ect.. That usually is kind of, I guess, a turn off for me as part of the reading experience. The thing is, when i encounter that, it usually signals to me that someone has poor planning skills for comics. It says to me that comic is probably not going to see its end or that artist is overworking themselves in an unnecessary way, that ends up concerning me about how they’re doing. Because i know how hard it is to draw comics. When an artist phones things in a bit, or has a limit on how much they work on a page, its a relief for me to see! because I understand they have healthier boundaries and expectations, and the art itself usually is less stiff too. This is all an overgeneralization, but I think with a lot of webcomic artists we are usually drawing a comic for the first time ever, so it makes sense we want to do our best and try as hard as possible - that just usually isn’t the smartest plan to put all the stock in the visual department. This also kinda frustrates me to see because most comics (professional or not) will also (generally) not reel the art in ever or make a more simple style. Generally I see it always trying to outdo itself, which leads to burn out. I personally only work about 1hr on each page i draw, that hasn’t changed in the 10 years I have been drawing comics, but i used to spend hundreds of hours drawing detailed lineart for eggshells and it didn’t even read well and i’d be disappointed with the results, feeling more lost with my goals than ever. PLEASe.. Just draw worse, its usually better looking in the end too. (because you wont have the experience to judge visual clarity until you’ve been drawing comics for a while imo..)

5) Don’t draw ahead, draw those inbetweenies.

“Inbetweenies” are the pages for the “boring” ones. They are also usually the most common KIND of page. Its the pages that are necessary, but “inbetween” the action. The impact moments in a scene, ect. You gotta draw them. They’re always gonna be there. They’re the pages where maybe, the character is walking somewhere, thinking, ect. The after impact from an action.. There’s a million examples, but hopefully you’ll understand what I mean when I say they’re both necessary pages/panels, sometimes so mundane/redundant, but also required for telling the story.. As a comic is a sequence of images. This is why, the previous advice is also important IMO- because if you really want to “draw every leaf” - maybe you should save that energy and effort for those impact moments that you want to impress the reader with.. And not for the inbetweenies, which are the foundational support, but also not the most important moments. If you conserve your energy a bit, the contrast OF that effort will also pop more. I personally find it funny when I put more effort into a page and end up tricking my readers into thinking I got better at drawing, when really i just have been able to draw better and only save it for moments like this instead of always.

Also, when I say don’t draw ahead.. I mean I draw each page at a time before going to the next one. I have no idea if this is an unusual practice or not, and I know a lot of people will draw their chapters/episodes/whatever in sections like sketch/ink/color/ect.. But I personally draw and finish page by page, unless its the thumb/sketch stage. Even then, i don’t go ahead much. I think that you can control flow/pacing better by doing chapters all at once of course, I see that as a benefit. But i also think that makes things very overwhelming and can also result in a lack of flexibility if something isn’t working. No matter HOW much planning you do- comics are always going to have an aspect of IMPROVISATION with the result you get in the end. There are way too many factors in play to be in complete control of all of them and always know the result of the reading experience. SO for me, this technique is easier and has been something that continues to get me to working effectively. Plus, rumiko takahashi said that’s what she does. And i think she has some of the best visual flow/compositions in comics. So that’s what I do.

I could write more personal advice or rules that i follow..but I think those are the ones I find are the most important to me anyway. Of course, comics are a strange medium and not everything that works for me will work for you. That’s all for now.. Bye bye…! 

Oh by the way, my comics are here: feastforaking.com nastyreddogs.com https://kosmic.itch.io/ Support me on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/kosmic