#what else do I tag?

[meatwab]

Guess my favorite aqua teen

[muskmelon-enjoyer-199x]

[echogracebeloved]

a snippet of RRR fic

A post-movie moment with minimal context - I imagine it's a mirror of the Edward/Nizam advisor scene, but I don't have any further details. Yet. For @enigma-the-mysterious (Hope I'm doing this right).

“You’ve heard what he did. In Delhi.” The wild-haired man leans forward, but the Protector raises a hand, holding him back; his eyes narrow instead. “Perhaps you were there to see it. Lucky bastard.” His head cocks. “Do you really want to test him, see what he’d do to you?”

“I’m sorry, who are you again?” the Nizam’s advisor says, attempting a haughty air.

The wild-haired man just smirks. “If you need to learn my name, you will regret it.”

“Enough,” the Protector says, standing. “If our actions have not made it abundantly clear, I shall reiterate: We of the Gond do not abandon our people to slavery. Of any kind.” He bares his teeth. “Try to steal my ‘sheep’ again, and you will have wolves snapping at your hands. Understood?”

“Wolves and tigers and bears –”

“Hush, you,” the Protector says. Firm, but clearly amused. The wild man bares his teeth as well. They walk out side-by-side without being dismissed, and the men they leave behind are grateful for it.

[shellomantic]

aaaaaa sorry for the lack of activity yall... school is getting me really really busy, havent drawn much fandom stuff but i did make a redraw of an art i made 4 years ago in 2020 so

close up

her name's ava !! one of my oldest ocs ever, just a bird girl who likes to fly

[doctorsharkieorsmth]

an excuse to draw muscle anyways here's susie

Yehaaa

and actually since I drew so many details I'm proud of in the body sketch I'll leave that here

[whateverthought]

I wonder, whats the consensus on the Ice Dragons and Sea Dragons? Both in the various books and in the fandom(s), is it cringe? Is anyone interested? Does anyone care? Whats George R.R. Martin said?

[jmflowers]

Pls talk abt the diffs between st19 and GA. Would love to read your TV production nerd language!

Well, only took me 10 days to finally find time to get to this… my apologies, anon! I hope you're still interested.

I took notes during episodes 20x02 and 7x02 of Grey's Anatomy and Station 19 respectively to formulate my answer to this, but I should disclose that I have not been an avid watcher of Grey's Anatomy in about a decade. Despite my education in technical film and television production, anything stated here is my own opinion. Art is subjective and I absolutely do not have all the answers.

Let's start with Grey's…

So, from when Grey's first premiered in 2005 until the 10th season, the show was shot on film. That fact lends a lot to the stylistic formula of the show, which is not something you ever really want to change. (Fans arrive for a certain feel, thus a production bible is created that is adhered to for - hopefully - the entirety of a piece of work.)

I think it's most obvious in the coverage of scenes; shots are long and flowing, often moving around subjects as they converse with each other. By shooting this way, they would've protected themselves from needing to reset as frequently and it makes the editing process a lot more seamless. Also, in my experience, it just makes it easier to translate a director’s vision from set into the editing room.

(In film school, a lot of people will take a million different angles of a scene, all in little snippets, because it guarantees you'll have what you need for an interesting edit. However, if you work a bunch of continuous shots of the scene, actors get the opportunity to really immerse themselves in it - resulting in better performance - and the final edit has fewer possible iterations of what it could look like. Why don't students do this? Firstly, it's harder - more risk of having something in the background that will screw things up, more challenging to cut together if you have to remove a singular moment, harder to keep steady if you're not comfortable with stabilizing equipment or don't have any. Secondly, professors don't often encourage it because a lot of people are really terrible at camera operation if they're not trained properly.)

Anyways, all that to stay is Grey’s has this really fluid style to how they shoot. Nearly every shot is moving in some way, whether it’s a dolly, a pan, a tilt, etc. Let it be said that they are really, really good at this formula.

Another component of this is wider angle shots so that the characters can be continuously moving – think of those classic hallway walking scenes as a prime example. Allowing the actors to really move in a space helps to build tension without needing a bunch of little cuts and camera angles. This means there are some scenes in the show that only have one camera angle present before it moves onto the next scene, which isn’t super common in my experience.

Not to say that they don’t utilize closeups – Grey’s is a drama so it’d be kind of weird to not make use of closeup shots for the showing of emotion. However, the closeups seem to predominantly occur in the OR. My guess as to why that is would be in helping the audience differentiate who is who (as well as what they’re feeling), since part of their faces have to be covered during operations, but that’s pure speculation on my part.

And beyond all of that, Grey’s is visually still a drama. A lot of moments occur at night. Scenes are often darker, with more focus on backlighting than clear illumination of character faces. I find their blacks a lot stronger, which is probably something to do with their colouring.

There’s also just fewer action-packed moments, since the story often takes place with people just talking, so there doesn’t appear to be as much of an editing technique called “cutting on the action”. Which, honestly, makes sense if they’re filming longer takes. (Shoutout to my prof who constantly gave triple-take homework and made me completely ridiculous about cutting. on. action. You broke me, my dude.)

Conversely, Station 19 has a very different formula…

As an action drama, that was never shot on film, S19 adheres to a completely different bible. One that they rewrote after season 2 (I think? When did the voiceover intros stop?), you’ll probably notice, when they decided to veer a little further away from their identity as a Grey’s Anatomy spinoff.

The first thing I always notice is that a lot more of S19 scenes happen during the day, since the unspoken law of most episodes is that they begin as the team is coming onto their shift first thing in the morning and then stretches through their 24-hour. Scenes are just brighter and more illuminated – more of the sunlight streaming in windows and less of the visible nighttime cityscape you’ll notice in Grey’s. I also really love that they usually begin this time period with the characters at home, whereas Grey’s seems to have episodes finish with that.

Light is also obvious in how things are coloured on S19. Their blacks don’t seem as dark in the final colouring, which may have something to do with the navy blue of their uniforms. It also just feels like there’s more white present on their sets? But that can’t possibly be true because Grey’s literally takes place in a hospital.

Anyways, S19 fully subscribes to the shooting and editing style of an action production. Scenes have lots of coverage (they utilize over-the-shoulder shots which don’t happen as often in Grey’s), there are lots of quick cuts in the edit, and their shots are overall steadier or static with less of the flowy movement that Grey’s has. They also use a lot more closeup and tighter framing, focusing on cowboy and up – unlike the Grey’s formula of a full-body shot. (A cowboy shot covers from the middle of the thigh to the top of the head, ie. you would be able to see the cowboy’s gun in its holster… anything above that is a tighter framing.)

And S19 loves a montage. I can’t say for certain whether Grey’s still uses those, or if they ever really did, but S19 leans into a zero-dialogue montage edit for storytelling. Which I don’t find super common, as I think some people believe it’s a little too artsy or stylistic, but I think is a really effective way to get a plot point across sometimes. Do we really need to know exactly what they said or is it enough to see that they were smiling when it happened? Film and television are visual medias and fanfic writers everywhere are grateful for the gaps in the story that they get to fill in with their own headcanons. (I said what I said.)

I’m sure there’s lots more things I could probably point out on why Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 complement each other while looking like they could be from completely different universes, but that’s all I wrote down while watching them both live. Hopefully my film theory professor and my screenwriting professor are proud of me for this analysis.

Thanks for the question, anon! Always here to answer and talk nerdy if anyone ever has any more.

[ryugetsu]

I made some Splatoon fonts for my friend a while ago, so I thought I'd throw them out here, too. I don't play splatoon - all of this comes from Inkipedia. All fonts here are completely free to use.

Mediafire - DaFont (Coming Soon?)

[raindropren]

as much as I wish i had some life series art to post because I've been talking almost entirely about that on here but I'm way too proud of this piece for me not to post it everywhere i can LOL

anyways :D Eliza!!!

Outfit Practice with Eliza!!! yippeee!!

I love this art so much Aaaaaaaaaaaa <3

I showed my father the one on the Right yesterday and He said She would look good holding an axe and i meannn

he's kinda right

She's a badass I love her :D

soo

She's part of my Burning Peak Story, Alot of Her story deals with like, Trauma recovery? almost. and Conflict between Her and Nolan, cause they hate eachother during year 1 and 2, they become really good friends in year 3 tho

This would be in Year 4 probably!! lol

I'm still making alot of her story but i liikkkee heerrr :D eeee

[massivebadonker]

Because @pympke requested 🤔

[stellarluck]

New love language acquired: Bonking

[waraueuphoria]

a quick, sweet transgirl malleus for you guys too

[quibbs126]

In a sense its good that Disney couldn't get their mitts on it. The entire thing would have been deep fried in the good sanitation of a story representing the author's own journey of gender identity and how it resonates with young queers struggling in a world that hates them. It was important for it to exist. To show that it's a story that deserves to be told and fought tooth n nail to be as intended

There is the super cool comic so the explanation could be there!

((Tho the wall prolly represents something like how confined the society was and keeping out "undesirables" ))

Yeah it probably is for the best things turned out as they did

I haven’t read the comic but I imagine there might be some explanation, though I’m not sure how close the comic and movie are in terms of accuracy. I imagine they’re similar but from what I understand there’s also differences. But yeah, the comic is probably worth a read

Yeah that’s probably what the wall is. To be honest, I kind of can’t see things deeper than face value, so metaphors tend to be lost on me, at least until someone else explains it to me. Maybe that’s the reason I don’t really like Spirited Away, since the plot just didn’t make sense to me. But also maybe the wall should have been touched on a little more? Though thinking again, maybe it was touched on enough. I just feel like it was introduced a bit late for it to really feel significant. But that’s just my own opinion

[punsaulanvecy]

Someone help. I want to find the original post, but I don't know where to begin.

[mr-andy-a-person]

Cary and the MYVERYOWNTEARDROP game

Any and all bfdi fans please play that game it is so sigma