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skitskatdacat63 · 26 days ago

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Finally finished this drawing that has been holding my hostage for a few weeks 😭😭 I still really like it, but my god, it kept me from drawing anything else

#when you get stuck on like one detail #and you feel like sisyphus the amnt of times you come back to it #and cant draw it 😭😭#randomly today i managed to 🙏🙏#neck ruff my behated beloved #i love it but my god. most impossible thing to draw #catie.art.#lol hopefully now i can make other things ive wanted to draw

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thegirlsinthecity · 1 year ago

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This one is for the lovely @kalevalakryze ! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your amazing fics!

This idea is once again pulled from their fic Mine over on AO3 :)

#star wars #ahsoka #wolfwren #sabine wren #shin hati #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #sabine wren x shin hati #star wars fanart #my art #thegirlsinthecity #okay when I read this scene it stuck in my head for days #(i had to get the dyeing image out of my brain first to be able to work on this one but once it was done? I immediately started this one #It’s such a good fic and a very cute scene!!#i hope you like it :)#i’m actually pretty proud of myself on this one #still lots to learn but i am improving i feel like #the lighting is what took me the longest because no matter how many videos i watched about light i still don’t get it #i also tried really hard to make the faces a focal point by rendering that area more than the rest. i originally had more detail on the rest #but it distracted from what should be the focus #also i am a perfectionist and often lose sight of the bigger image… note to self it doesn’t matter if something is rotated 37 vs 38 degrees.#no one will notice you don’t have to waste an hour deciding on if a single pixel should be added or not #also note to self phone will crash multiple times as soon as more than 30 layers are involved #also note to self overlay is your best friend #but yeah probably the first time i’ve looked at something i’ve made and been like ‘holy fuck i did a good job’#also you know what? i will be shameless and put my own damn art in my favourites tag if i want to because i’m so proud of myself #favourites #tumblr is compressing my image quality >:( it actually looks so much crisper in my camera roll #adhd rambling sorry got off track here

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tooies · 4 months ago

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listen as someone who has actually fired a real gun before i can tell you that it is not actually very easy to hit a small target from far away. it is conspiracy theorizing to think that the fact that the shooter just grazed his ear rather than hitting him directly means that it's more likely that it was staged to get people (who were already going to vote for him) to vote for him than it is that the shooter just fucking missed because real life is not actually videogames and aiming a gun is actually very hard

#to go into more detail: aiming a gun is not a matter of just getting something in the crosshairs and then pulling the trigger #you have to make sure your posture is right and your hold on the gun is right and that you're looking through the sights correctly #and then when it comes time to pull the trigger (this is important and very difficult for people with little experience such as me)#it has to be a smooth steady motion because if you pull it too fast it can move the gun slightly fucking up your aim #combine this with the fact that the shooter was far away and that the target wasn't a piece of paper stuck to a still metal frame #but actually a real live human being that moves around and the fact that they only have one shot before hell breaks loose #it is way more likely that one of the millions of people who want this guy dead (for good reason) missed their singular shot #than that the republican party coordinated an effort to almost but not quite shoot their main guy square in the head #and thought this was a reasonable risk to take in order to get the people who were already going to vote for him anyways to vote for him

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tangents-within-tangents · 4 months ago

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Sigh I swear the bar is so low with writing sometimes.

I’ve just been remembering how much it bothers me when there’s no lasting consequences or acknowledgement for things. When everything resets like nothing ever happened at the start of the next episode, or even the next scene sometimes. How cool and rare it was that Wally’s arm was in a cast for a whole 5 episodes of Young Justice. How relieved/excited I was when Mulder actually still had bandages on his fingers the episode after he broke them because FINALLY something carried over! Or when Hook was leaning on someone for support in the background after the fight scene in Pan. How impressed I was to see Katniss still crying hysterically for Rue a few scenes after her death. How surprised I was to actually see a hint of the effect of Echo’s extremely traumatic experience when he panicked in the medbay. How my heart soared when he insisted on rescuing Gregor because omg he’s acting in a way that makes sense for his character! Clinging to every small scrap we get to see of clones showing real emotion when so often they seemingly never bat an eye at their losses and never mention their fallen brothers again.

I love these shows I swear, but it just gets so frustrating! Like I’ll literally be so nervous no one will be affected realistically, or react like a human, or behave in-character and then I get so excited on the rare occasions they do. And then I realize wow the bar is so low, shouldn't that just be, you know, writing 101?

Like I remember some episode of some show (the Seeker? Or something idk) where a character was captured and tortured and not ten minutes after being rescued his friend was like “hmm you sure are quiet today” like YEAH I SURE HOPE HE IS?!

#is it really too much to ask for??#lol is it any wonder we turn to fan fiction to fill in all the gaps?#clones wars/bad batch just in general needs so many more hugs and tears imho #sometimes i’m so grateful for omega bc it’s like the writers think she is allowed to react like a real human just bc she’s a kid #she and wrecker seem to be the only ones “allowed” to initiate hugs #they basically dedicated a whole episode to her dealing with echo’s departure and that was amazing!#echo reacted when cut mentioned rex #gooood #but when rex actually showed up? when he mentioned FIVES?! Not so much!#and isn’t the whole point of tcw that the clones AREN’T expendable?#That they aren’t emotionless interchangeable droids and their lives aren’t meaningless #So how come the writers so often treat them like they are? Narratively at least #and i get if they’re trying to keep things less intense by skimming over grief stuff #but like stop killing people then? Lol yeah these shows haven’t been for kids in a loooong time #like did you see the s7 finale? Don’t act like you don’t know how emotions work filoni et al #this applies to so many shows and things obvs but you know what’s been at the forefront of my mind lately lolll #venting #small rant #pet peeves #writing #writing pet peeves #x files #young justice #the hunger games #tbb #the bad batch #the clone wars #tbb echo #Pan 2015 #i know literally no one cares about that movie but that detail stuck out to me lol

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elvisqueso · 11 months ago

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I am on some bullshit right now, bruh

#just re-watched pocahontas for the first time in many many years and dawg #the character animation in that film is so gorgeous #like they went so hard on ACTING through the animation #im getting obsessed again like i was when i was little #like u gotta understand: the disney pocahontas character (a truly fictional character inspired by real events let's get that straight)#i was like in love with her. i wanted to be her like oh my god #and the way they animated john smith was such a departure from their other disney LI's up til then (as *i* recall)#so detailed!! the expressions!!! the fucking YEARNING!!!!!!#best love story out of all the disney flicks imho. as a Story it's so powerful #I'm gonna think about the symbolism of them having to part #after grandmother willow had told them 'only when the fighting stops can you be together'#implying that the fighting isn't over and probably never will be #fuxking painfuslfjk #i know i know: c'est ~~problématique~~#but look. I'm from a racially diverse family okay?#my dad's side especially. nobody over there stuck to their own race/ethnic group #my parents are a mixed couple. i know how hard it is to make that work.#most interracial couples I'd seen on tv until that point were very...chaste?#mostly played for laughs (oh haha the cultural dissonance is so cute and funny!) or worse: to play up racial sterotypes #but to see one depicted as a straight-forward romance- as two people deeply in love and not played for a gag? AND as the core of the story?#mannnn that means a lot to me even all these years later #so yeah im deep in the 'hunting down feel-good fix-it fics' phase wish me luck

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cathalbravecog · 1 year ago

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i'm the antonymph of the internet

#how many tributes to this song will i make in my life #MANY ! it literally changed my life and means a lot to me. i love antonymph and vylet pony's music is worth checking out - please do.#unsupervised internet access as a queer neurodivergent kid anthem !!#i chose to do misty since we all know i like drawing her in experimental pieces and putting her in outfits. she also has art in a gir hoodi #from the clash team in treasure trove!! :D #this is also experimental/stylistic as well!! had fun!! nice to just draw something in one day and not worry. leaves me tired but...#haven't done a nice piece like so in one day in a while!!! i'm very proud :] it's a fun one #anyways... both a little tribute to the song and misty as a character #ihave so many thoughts about misty even if i dont talk publicly on them. shes a very interesting character to me and i care about her so #much. i compared her to fluttershy in the past - and realized that if i liked ttcc as a kid she would've been my favorite.#fluttershy on her own meant a lot to me as a child. including mlp itself as it's one of the core things that got me into drawing art online #a lot of my analysis on misty and headcanons at least on the more emotional scale do come from a bit of projecting but...it makes it more #fun to me when i can put myself into the shoes of a character like her who i already relate to. rrghh too bad im scared to talk about her #too much in nuanced detail in public since some people are... not so nice about her. though i know the tumblr audience is nice and unders #standing!!#anyways from me just having fun being me #i let misty have a little bit of fun... something i think she would possibly enjoy? i do see her as someone who gets nostalgic #and is stuck in more childish things and matters. she wants to play ip dip with you...its very sweet to me. letting myself and her be #confident through a song that means so much to me is kind of powerful to me. i had a lot of fun making this drawing.#anyways. love this song. love ttcc. love mity /p. be swag and be self indulgent and have fun. you can do anything u want forevah #toontown #toontown corporate clash #antonymph #guz art #rainmaker

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itspileofgoodthings · 10 months ago

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what I’m trying to say is that I need to trust that when I’m really doing something I care about and I have the right end/aim in mind a lot of the structural stuff, the how’s and the how-to’s will take care of themselves, or at least are better left to my more subconscious brain and that it’s good when I let myself go and overflow

#this is about teaching. but also maybe friendship #and maybe one day writing #I can get hung up on A Detail like nobody’s business. like something in my mind —SNAGS #but I am meant to move quickly and largely intuitively #and I think I can be neater and more precise in that method than I give myself credit for #because my brain is catching a lot of stuff and registering things away and fixing in motion/as I go #but if I try to slow all the way down to quote unquote really focus #and ‘do things carefully’#read: ‘perfectly’#it will be disaster and misery #my brain isn’t nice to myself a lot of the time #but I think it’s mean about the wrong stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#ANYWAY. anyway thank you for listening #it’s like I get stuck a lot of the time and then I get UNstuck and it flows #I think I am meant to flow. to seek motion.#for so long my internal narrative has just been ‘you are so scatterbrained and stupid and you never finish ANYTHING’#but tbh my real faults are when I get stuck in the mud. when I wallow. when I turn inward. when I fuss fuss fuss fuss FUSS #anyway thanks for listening I already said that SORRY

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todayisafridaynight · 2 months ago

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Since you mentioned it, what did you think of Speak No Evil? I was thinking of watching it myself :0

i really liked it ............ my friend scoffed at me when i told her i was watchin it so take my opinion with a grain of salt tho </3

#snap chats #SHE DIDNT EVEN WATCH IT BUT W/E SPOILER FREE QUICK REVIEW DOWN HERE HIIII <3<3<3<3 #ive been made aware my tastes are. Questionable so proceed with caution vlklvjv im so sorry if i convince you to see it and you dont like i #moving on I Have. done nothing but listen to Eternal Flame for the past week its been stuck in my head ever since #BUT FR as i said I Really Liked It. i heard that theres another/original version so i wanna watch that at some point #if i care to remember and find it vjaelkjeakl but as This Movie On Its Own i had a swell time !!!#it does a really good job of teetering that line of #'this is just a quaint little sometimes-awkward get-together' and 'this is so stressful i just might throw up'#it did a good job of keeping me invested and on my toes i guess- it bitters innocuous scenarios really well which i like #like i wasnt sure WHEN whatever scene i was watching would turn sour but i always had that feeling it /would/- that lingering feeling #the horror in this is more psychological than violent- it only gets crazy by the last quarter honestly #which isnt bad! i like psych horror and Christ. the amount of times i was just grimacing in my seat like Suspense Is The Word #like imagine a dinner party where people only say controversial things and you dont want to blow up the situation #so you just try to be really polite about pivoting from the topic. but they keep going. thats basically the horror of this movie at its cor #i do have SOME comments about some bits but i wanna rewatch the movie at some point to be thorough on my comments jglejlakj #yk do a rewatch where im. NOT jokin bout with my brother- THO TBF DESPITE THAT I was still invested #like its premise is so. simple? in concept imo. but 'simple' isnt automatically bad in my eyes and i really liked how it played out #i dont watch movies much tho so maybe its been done different but there is ONE thing tht definitely made me like. HUH #but its nothing super major i dont htink? I MEAN IT WAS KINDA BIG BUT there were signs to it being revealed. still it made me vjLJ like god #i cant explain tho cause SPOILERS but ... Yeah. its not that crazy it just definitely took me by surprise for how quick the reveal was #tldr: if you ever wanted to watch an awkward dinner party where you couldnt do anything about it this is the movie to watch #and i like that. i like that because i hate myself apparently jVLAEKJVAEKLJ #coupled with horror it was also funny at times which i felt did help with that underlying 'when will this be tainted' horror #i really liked that ... when normalcy or the feeling of safety can be taken away in an instant #if you watch it and wanna talk bout it more in depth ill prob have rewatched it by then and id like to give a more. Detailed review #OR AT LEAST ONE NOT SO RAMBLY VELKAVJEALKJ im not good at reviewing things .... i just know when i like or dont like somethin ..#ive only had my bro to talk bout this with and he doesnt really. Give his thoughts or opinions too much like i do #so id be happy to talk bout it and get your perspective !!!! but only if you want Again if you dont like it im so sorry erlakjaekl #god theres so much more i want to say but im just rambling and i wanna be brief for you my friend vlakjlakvlkj #anyway yeah. those are my quick thoughts. i was Very Normal about james mcavoy for most of this movie ty for reading

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monster-noises · 3 months ago

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OOF it's been a while since I've had a nightmare visceral enough to wake me up from a dead sleep into straight terror... But I guess I shouldn't have underestimated how much my brain would pick up from a podcast Teirlisting Horror Games. .....

(I go on to describe the dream in the tags so watch out if you don't want to hear descriptions of the horrors my brain can cook up.. cw Body Horror mostly)

#monster noises #I thought it would be Fine because they weren't Playing the Games or Experiencing the Narrative #but i guess they were talking about Enough details and things my brain already knew that the Terror Machine that runs my sleep was like #OHOHOHO..... Ingredience #the Idea was i was playing a video game level but i was In the POV #and at first it was just a creepy apartment #but then weird ghost kids started showing up and i had to get them all #which was more annoying than scary until one of them dislocated several joints and started Yelling #and the quickly the lights were out and i had a flashlight and I had to hide from this monster called 'The Granny'#and it mechanically it was one of those things that can't see but Can hear but it also had like Seeking Tendrils #and I was attempting to hide under a table but i couldn t get under fast enough without making a bunch of noise #and the tendrils coming in way too close #and then it Screamed and started after me but i was stuck under the table and had to try and blindly back up to the door #while crouch-carrying the table #and the tension and fear of that experience was so high i shot awake in complete fear with my heart Pounding #and it's still not back to like.. level #but like truly this thing was Awful #very well could have been an official silent hill creature #the opposite of when you wake up in terror from a dream and the thing you were afraid of was actually pretty ridiculous #you wake up from seeing this thing and go 'alright yeah okay that's fair i'm Fully also afraid of that'#it's like #.. a desecated large human head #on the end of neck like a snake's body #but it's just bones and bits of driedout flesh #and it's body a jumbled mass of bones and sinews with long distinct skinless dried out limbs coming out of it #that it pawed along low to the ground with #the whole thing was drapped in a filthy shroud and coloured this dark dark tan #like Mummy Colour #i'm sure you know what I mean #but it was Awful

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mainfaggot · 3 months ago

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the last time i felt emotionally fulfilled in a friendship was when i was 15, and before that when i was 13. im turning 21 next month

#my current close friends are really great but my depression gets in the way and it's really hard to tell them about my feelings lol #so i basically make my chronic loneliness worse by distancing myself and isolating etc #they still like me though... weirdly #well probably bc we're all mentally and emotionally unwell! we get one another's issues #but i cant bring myself to say a lot of things i would otherwise want to... since i feel so misunderstood #even when i have tried to talk about things they just dont process them the way im hoping they will #and it's not their fault!!! it's my fault for expecting someone to understand exactly what im saying when i say it #i almost always find words for things. i describe them in detail. and i think thats where things get too unique and too confusing actually #so they cant personally understand #like i said. not their fault!#i just miss this one friend i had briefly in 8th grade #i was getting outcasted from everyone in my own class. she was in the classroom next door #i don't remember how we crossed paths but we did and she was so smart and so understanding #and we just clicked #i remember running in a field with her. she was so.. everything #i miss her #and when i was 15 i remember talking about all of my mental issues with this classmate and we immediately saw each other as mirror images #it was crazy... we also had a lot of interests in common and we looked out for each other #she's doing a lot better nowadays which is why we're no longer in contact probably #it's hard to be friends when one of you is stuck in one place so i dont really blame her #we drifted apart anyway. i bet if i asked she'd still make time for me a few times a year #i just didnt ask because it felt like the mutual understanding we had ended #shes a different person now. and for the better too! i shouldn't interfere in her happiness #z.post

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rationalisms · 2 years ago

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been thinking a lot about this specific phenomenon that's hard to put into words (so bear with me) where the technological limitations of the medium at the time a work of art was created are sometimes exactly the thing that helps lend it the atmosphere that makes it so compelling. and how sometimes superior technology is, despite the progress that's been made in so many ways, entirely unable to capture that same atmosphere for a multitude of reasons.

like, there's that brian eno quote ("whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature") that gets at some of what i mean, but not all of it.

i'm thinking about video games in particular, the way the forward march of technology does open new avenues but at the same time it inherently disappears older technologies and their aesthetics in the process, which is so tragic to me. and of course there's always nostalgia-driven attempts to recreate them, but those recreations inherently can't ever be entirely faithful to the specific charm of those older technologies and their drawbacks. (pixel art is a good example because sure, there's pixel art games being made now, but on modern LCDs they just won't ever look the same as they did on fuzzy CRTs; the fuzziness of the image made the pixel art come alive in a way modern TVs just can't.)

and this is extra amplified if games are set in a specific real world period or trying to emulate a specific real world aesthetic. because there's a little golden window of time where a game's technical limitations and the resulting art direction, and the period of time the game is meant to be set in, can perfectly compliment each other, like some sort of time prism. and any games made after that point can still do a good job at capturing the aesthetic of the era, but they won't ever be able to harness the inherent authenticity and atmosphere that e.g. noughties games and their 5 polygons can lend to a game set in the noughties.

there's no real solution to this and i'm obviously not advocating that we should be stopping any and all technological progress in favour of preserving certain aesthetics in amber, but it's still really melancholy that this is all so transitory. but i guess on the other hand we do get to enjoy those moments when technology and art/narrative can converge in the exact way they need to.

anyway, this was all just a really longwinded way to say that persona 4 is actually the best video game of all time. sorry if you thought this was about literally anything else

#genuinely have SO many thoughts abt the art direction in p4 #the specific flavour of rural late 90s early noughties bleakness it manages to capture SO faithfully #these towns that seem to be perpetually stuck backward in time even if the rest of the world moves on around them #the immense amounts of detail and thought that clearly went into every single part of the environmental design #from the little details on every single set and backdrop to the specific textures they ysed #the contrast between the two incredibly different styles of retro that the game goes for between inaba and the tv world #where inaba is a very earnest straightforward portrayal and the tv world is an exaggerated one #like e.g. the tv world tvs being 'typical' 60s tvs bc that's what most ppl think of when u say retro #whereas you have the clunky 90s CRT version in the protagonist's room in the real world #and how all of this detail and care and forethought just oh so perfectly collides with the ps2 graphics #could write a whole dissertation on this alone fr #and that's just the art style!!!! that's not even getting into the deliberateness and interconnectedness of the writing!!!!!#anyway. don't play p4 it's really bad sorry. like yea its the best video game of all time i did say that it's just also rly rly bad #txt

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digirainebow · 1 year ago

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i didn't think jacob would be arguing with olivia, wanting it almost as much as her. what the hell. i expected the self defeated, taking one for the team attitude but actively needing it like her? when he had been trying to stop her all night? i feel like i've been blasted by a buckshot