#whatever they paid these people

[thisisahyperfixationnow]

Okay so I saw atsv recently and while I love reading everyone’s takes on the art styles, I have to bring up the music

I’m a pretty basic music nerd with minimal theory study, but I’ve taken to just playing the soundtrack. (I’m referencing specifically the Metro soundtrack, I prefer songs with lyrics, but I’m positive this will apply to the other soundtrack too, the crew of spider verse are that amazing) And in doing so, I just need to bring up how carefully these songs are constructed??

See, backing track songs need to be subtle. That’s what (in my experience) can make them boring or difficult to compose - how do you make something interesting but able to blend in? But these people, they’ve just - pulled back layers?? And spread them out???? Rarely is there more than about 3 things happening at any one point in the songs, and it means they can pack so much into them. And more than that, it gives them room to give every song a style, a reference and a character to link them to!

Take ‘Hummingbird’, for example: it’s the song that plays when Gwen opens the portal above Miles’ bed. Then compare it to ‘Sunflower’, from the original movie. The artists are completely different, the tone of the movie has changed entirely, but the songs mirror each other!! The way the vocals have a little flick (flick? Reach??) at the end, the bass and trap in the background, heck, even the emotions they convey! Miles, in each instance, is at a turning point, whether he is aware of it or not.

But the composers haven’t just decided to mimic Miles’ song from the original song - they’ve dampened it to fit the tone of the movie. The trap beat and pulses are muted, and the vocals are slightly subdued. And of course, the lyrics are very different. They are both about love, but one is optimistic, and one is resigned. GOD these people!!

And it’s like this with basically every song I’ve come across! While a lot of the characters have less (or nothing) to compare to, the composers have put bits and pieces in to make the characterisations and emotions peak through. Just look at the percussion in ‘Link Up’ (a mixture of the clicking from ‘Self-Love, which kinda was Gwen’s theme in the album, and the percussion from ‘Silk & Cologne’, which I think is supposed to be Miles’ family and their party (?)) which I took as showing Miles’ split between Gwen and the Spiders, and his family.

Just, this soundtrack has som much care and love stuffed into it. I don’t know how much this makes sense (It’s 3 AM), but I didn’t see anyone talking about it and that is a CRIME

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[kcrabb88]

I feel like we really lost something when we started looking at writing as a reader-centric product meant to appeal to the desires of a specific audience rather than a writer-centric approach of someone writes whatever particular thing particular compels them/whatever weird thing the demons in their head want to talk about, and people out there who are also compelled, and/or relate, find that writing. A lot of discussions of writing really center around what readers want rather than a writer's exploration. Sometimes as a reader I don't know what I want. I click on a fic or pick up a book I'm not sure about but that looks interesting, and I love it. Reading what I expect to get is it's own joy, but we always need to expand our horizons and not get mad at creators for not always writing what we want/expect.

[gingerswagfreckles]

After 16 months I just had a conversation with a gentile who expressed support/sympathy for Hamas just immediately changed their mind after being informed that their stated goal is the murder/ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Levant and that they committed the Oct 7th terrorist attacks. Miracles do happen.

[deoidesign]

I'm so mad that post was misinformation because there is actually an EXTREMELY important conversation to have about the production schedules artists are forced into. There's no need for exaggeration, the conditions are bad.

I work for webtoon. My publication schedule is weekly. While publishing I'm required 10-15 pages a week. Fully colored.

This means I'm finishing a 150 page fully colored graphic novel every 10-15 weeks.

When my comic is not updating, I am not getting paid. Any time writing, editing, or off is out of my own pocket. I don't get healthcare. They do not provide any assistants. They expect me to promote myself; they chose to deprioritize me before I even launched and gave me an end date half a year in. I never had a chance.

And this is the industry standard! Every company has artists forced into crunch hours, overtime, and burnout. Artists are literally dying early due to it. So many of my friends can't afford to go to the doctor.

It's unsustainable and untenable, and it's also the expectation our audiences have.

If we want to have this conversation, there's plenty of conversation to be had with the realities of the situation. It's bad as is.

[thtupidity]

Ariana being homophobic but it's okay because I'd be too if these were the gay people I had to deal with.

my handwriting so ugly yall just have to deal im sorry

[vnknownmc]

I haven't made it to the point where they go to the human world yet so maybe I'm totally wrong (and even then, perhaps I like my version better)

but, all the obey me fanfics I read treat the brothers and demons as a whole as this like, Secretive thing people aren't supposed to know about- stuff like MC lying about where they were for a year, hiding the fact they know demons ect ect when it's like... All the realms know about the partnership,,, right?

Like devildom and the celestial realm also sent 4 of their own exchange students to the human realm, too. The major government bodies communicated with Lord diavolo and like, Micheal to get this all figured out? Everyone knows about the 2 angels and 2 demons living on earth for a year just as much as everyone in devildom knew about the 2 humans and 2 angels students. I feel like I'm going crazy- the entire point of the exchange is for the three realms to get along better and come to an understanding. What does hiding the existence of the 2 other realms do to further that idea?

[backfliips]

Someone totaled my car today and I do not like being in insurance limbo

[goneinsecondsxo]

i really think rich people ought to feel embarrassed more often

[zayns-beer-can-gainz]

it’s fun yet bittersweet to imagine how modern day 1d interviews would go if they indeed decided on a good, proper time to reunite. i doubt they would still hold the same amount of chaos as back in the early days. even if they were to come back, their peak was undeniable and such peak sadly can never, ever be replicated. it’s just impossible in that sense. idk how better to explain it. but yeah. you just had to be there to experience it. i think modern day 1d interviews would be a lot more introspective and looking within themselves, seeing how the boys themselves have matured enough to have the right conversations with one another and regarding their own personal journeys and their lives. really, they would no longer be interviewed as a group but rather, as a individual people who have branched off well enough to hold their own and speak in a sort of autobiographical sense. respectfully, im not sure how that would even work if we’re talking how much time would get spent on all of them. because now, each interview with each individual member lasts longer than any 1d interview did. but man oh man… to get a 1 hour long 1d interview, with the language and the conversation fitting enough to be on a podcast rather than a meme compilation vid… i’m sorry, i too have matured and grown along with them. i have to act the part of a responsible adult who now can comprehensively wrap their brain around what they’re even saying, and proudly, i would love to see it happen one day!

feel free to sound in the comments.

[headfullof-ideas]

Okay, hear me out: Ruffnut and Tuffnut would be backpackers/super intense world travelers in a Modern AU. In the show, they show a passion for cuisine from other parts of the world that they can’t make on Berk (hyena gizzards from the Defenders of the Wing), they love to learn all about all sorts of random things from different cultures (explaining to Snotlout the roots of the deity Mother Nature in whichever episode it was, I don’t remember) they know more than one other language, and then there’s that whole travel/resort guide they wrote for Vanahheim (i do not believe I spelled that right, but we’re rolling with it before I go to bed).

Ruffnut and Tuffnut would be that Instagram and TikTok famous pair almost everyone somehow knows or has heard of that go on super extensive trips to various locations around the world, from super iconic locations to the smack-dab middle of butt-nowhere literally no-one has ever heard of. No one knows how they fund their trips, no one knows where they find the time to get to and from anywhere, and no one that doesn’t know them knows if they even have a permanent living residence. And everyone back at their home doesn’t know how they’re able to do all of that, and still spend an insane amount of time in their teeny-tiny smack-dab in the middle of where-are-we town that they come from in order to hang out with the rest of the gang and get arrested every once in a while for speeding, before skipping off to freaking who knows where until they post a reel of their latest exploration expedition.

I also believe they’d have a shared tumblr account that is also super popular as well, filled with a strange combination of memes and strangely philosophical quotes. Nobody knows that this account belongs to the backpacking idiots that everyone is at least mildly jealous of. There’s a betting ring amongst the gang on if or when someone connects the dots and blows up the internet trying to prove it to everyone else.

[evecallum]

POV: You’re the guard stationed outside of the former high mages prison who is responsible for the deaths of possibly thousands and he starts just absolutely wigging out screaming “You can’t use me anymore! I’m free of you! You won’t ever use me again!!!” And like… you’re not gonna tell the head crownguard who is…ya know…his son. And you’re probably not even gonna gossip about this later with the other guards, because, once again, Soren might end up hearing about it. So you just sit there. Terrified out of your mind..in the dark.

[creaturefeaster]

I was wondering about the cq guys, did they have jobs before the disaster??, Personally, I see Rachel working in a beauty salon or doing nails in a salon. And what if mimes could have professional careers?,Could REDE be a mathematics teacher who likes to torment his students? What do you think about that?

A good chunk of them did have jobs, yes! And I think there are definitely some jobs the mimes would love/excell at, too, were they ever to need to work.

I'll go into depth about some of these jobs :3...

Hannah had a lot of commissioners for her robotics expertise, would be funded by various organizations of the state to help develop robotic aids or other useful things of the sort-- she was a busy gal before the Fault!

Gary had a middle man, or a plug of sorts, through which he would occasionally offload personal art through to sell locally within a farmer's market. He did this less than occasionally because he preferred to maintain his solitude.

Lauren sells single-use spells and other magical tools and compounds (They had other people help distribute these goods). They also taught classes on historic magic, when they had the spare time.

Elliot worked as a bookstore clerk, organizing books and other goods. He additionally found work through Lauren to help manufacture her products alongside her, through which he eventually became her apprentice, and gained many more tasks as a result.

Tanner was a hunter, partially for town game and partially to defend against opportunistic predators. You'd find him stationed out around the outskirts of town often, chilling with a gun and a drink.

April would help with hunting occasionally, but primarily worked as a nurse for Lystrike's very small, very dinky hospital.

Leon was not working at the time, but he did occasionally play solo gigs for the bar and other venues in Lystrike.

Rachel was actually a royal medic at the time of the Fault. As in, technically within the Dominion's higher military, but not a fighter. She was not on duty when it hit, but immediately went into the front lines anyways to try and help people with her healing oriented magic.

Samantha was a tailor typically selling her custom clothes remotely, though she didn't have much success in pulling customers in. Debbie advocated vocally for her on several occasions though.

Michael was about to get his first job just before the Fault, working at a comic shop, a position he lucked into by being at the store at the right time. (Then got lucked out of, due to the world ending 💔 )

~☆~

As for the mimes...

TyV would be a journalist. Ching is already an actor. Foxglove would enjoy a bartender position, for the wrong reasons I think. El Ganso is technically a bounty hunter of sorts and takes pride in it. Rede probably wouldn't be the best teacher, he'd get too frustrated with people who don't understand right away, but he would be an excellent astrophysicist. Holly would thrive as a model, Twiddle would just want to be the boss of anybody, Chickenstab would be great in any field involving animals. Atrox would be most content as a quiet maid. Jarna would love to be in a band, and Uppsulka I think would be a great counselor. Calamea would be the town nuisance.

These are just what I think would work for them, not necessarily what they'd end up doing if they did have to get jobs. Like, Rede would be great in astrophysics but he'd get stuck as like. A clerk or something that'd drive him up the wall.

[russilton]

Not to be autistic in the room right now— and do not mistake this as me calling ANY driver ASD—

but it does actually piss me off a lot that you can both be criticised for being flat and too focused on your work, and then when you flip it on its head and try to play into the jokes, you are criticised for trying to make people like you.

I’ve experienced both and it drives me mad the way people try to pick apart someone’s personality and accuse them of lying for acceptance— so fucking what— should we not be considering the state of society that people feel like they’ll only get a break from criticism if they try to make everyone like them?

Also the guy who regularly has to go back on his word bc Twitter informs him what he’s said is fucked up is kinda full of it

[starscelly]

shining star ✧˖°.

dal@chi 01.13.24

[caraianellisande]

Not to sound like an Orion Acaba apologist, because he did do some legitimately bad things, but like, why are there so many videos about his behavior on critical role?

Out of everything we know he did, plus what was alleged, being a bad DnD player while going through cancer and drug addiction is really not that big a deal. And remember, the actual cast of critical role, the people actually hurt by his behavior, his friends, they've let this go. He wasn't even kicked out, he left.

I don't understand this obsession with dissecting his shitty but mostly harmless actions during a really low period of his life.

These videos aren't even about the actual bad shit he did. He raised money for charity and then kept it instead of donating. A former partner has alleged he was abusive. This pales in comparison to being a problem player.

And even if people were discussing those actual bad things, what good would it do?

It's been a decade. The man is barely a public figure anymore. His behaviour cost him his spot in a multi million dollar enterprise.

Let this thing rest.