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For all its flaws, I genuinely think there are few works out there quite like Touhou, which isn’t just a fantasy work but is a work about the meaning of fantasy, and folklore, and how people and societies derive meaning from the mythical and fantastical
Only other obvious example would be Discworld, which I still need to read someday
#touhou#discworld#with the current knowledge I have#I wouldn’t call Touhou a particularly ‘deep’ take on the fantastical#but ZUN puts out some genuinely thoughtful ideas sometimes#Symposium of Post-Mysticism is still his finest exposé on his views#just that he’s both extremely drunk and doesn’t *want* Touhou to be too deep#which is fine#it doesn’t have to be#especially not if he wants to preserve that old doujinshi feel the series’ always had#like a fun safe harbor for people to just enjoy something creative without pressure#which in many respects is the perfect metaphor for what Touhou so often talks about#of Gensokyo being that safe harbor of the weird and the mythical against a modernizing world
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so guess who's never getting over what jack says here!
it's a line that's devastating on it's own. it's heartbreaking, because jack feels so terribly betrayed by joke all over again, even though all joke was trying to do is save him.
but it's not just that. it's worse, because that's what the whole show's been about this entire time.
in english, the title we've been given is "Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart!" which is the most darling, lighthearted little play on words ever.
but the thai title? it's "Jack & Joker: ทำไมต้องเป็นเธอทุกที," which (according to MyDramaList) translates to "Jack & Joker: Why Does it Always Have to Be You?"
and isn't that exactly what jack's asking now? of everything that had to happen, of everyone that is to blame, why does have to be joke that is at fault again?
from the beginning, this entire show was meant to be about how it's almost inevitable that these two will hurt each other in some way or another. their lives have been entwined since that first moment 5 years ago, and regardless of whose fault it is, both of them are bound to be hurt because of just how much they want to save each other. ultimately, jack and joke are – quite literally – doomed by the narrative that they're in.
and all they can do is find a way to break this cycle that viciously dictates their lives – both in the world they're in and in the grand scheme of the show itself.
#errorkey.exe#jack and joker#jack & joker: u steal my heart!#jackjoke#currently very emotional so i have no clue if any of this makes sense#might come back and edit things to make it a little more coherent#but yeah it's just . i guess we should've all seen it coming huh#btw @ anyone w real knowledge about thai: feel free to fact-check me on the title stuff because i'm not fully certain how accurate it is
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me, for the BRIEFEST second after Brennan introduces Ashley's PC's kids: oh, kids! :) how cu-
me, rapidly remembering this is CR DOWNFALL, remembering what happened when Brennan was playing a PC's kids in calamity: -ah, shit. fuck. balls even.
me, watching Ashley's PC leave her kids and husband behind: oh. y...... yay....??
#critical role#cr spoilers#cr downfall#me cursed with knowledge of the genre that the characters dont have: kids. yes. your mother IS leaving you. this is good tho. trust me.#cr liveblogging#c3e99#hm . so. current events are kind of wild rn. i am opting to. focus even harder on watching this for rn but i guess this might be#a distracted liveblog for a bit
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MiniGale 2.0
Finished.
And of course you can have a size comparison with 1.0! They’re both at a con with me, I couldn’t resist bringing the littlest guy.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#MiniGale 2.0#MiniGale#miniature painting#I’m so proud of this he’s my current best work for sure#and no I don’t know how I did any of that#I have no knowledge of technique or anything I’m just vibing#going to give 2.0 to Tim Downie if he’s accepting gifts at this con#I think that’s a fitting place for the lil guy to end up
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JONATHAN PRICE » BRAVO SIX cr: John Price
GAZ ✖︎ GHOST ✖︎ SOAP ✖︎ BRAVO SIX
#captain john price#john price#blog resources#i am ranting in my tags now#thank art school for this#idk man when i look into jp's character#wanted to portray the anger he has#bc he is a very angry man barely hidden with his bold confidence and swagger#like he walks a tight rope always one second away from snapping. its brimming under the surface#and when he does finally snap those under his ire suffer the consequences#like i see#ghost as a frigid glacier#gaz a crystalline lake#soap the rapids#but John is a riptide. under current#they always warn you about them and you never listen (blinded by warm waters and the prospect of riding the waves)#until youre dragged out to the open sea#algid. acrimonious. all-encompassing. you should have known better than to play him and now you're left with nothing#but the knowledge that your time has coming
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I desperately want to know more about the batfamily lore bc I love them already but it’s??? So complicated???
#I don’t even know how many of them there are#like#there’s#dick grayson#who is also nightwing?#then there’s#jason todd#what tf happened to this man#hes redhood right? I think so#then my fav#tim drake#funnily enough he is my favorite but he’s the one I know the least#like?? he’s Red Robin but also?? not anymore?? what does that even mean#I just know he’s MESSY lmao#oh and then there’s#damian wayne#who’s the current Robin#but he’s also a child assassin??#thats nice#and there’s a girl who is The Oracle and she seems very cool but I can’t remember her name#thats basically all the knowledge about them i have yeah#is there something a can watch/read to acculturate myself?#like… a few fundamental comics or something#there’s a lot of them#a lot#batfam#batfamily
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signing documents for the HOA and becoming everyone's worst nightmare by actually reading them first
#me: hey I see you want me to confirm we don't have this material on the property#to my knowledge we don't have it but I can't verify that 100%. is that ok#agent: yes I just need you to confirm it's not there!#me: I can't do that. I can say to my knowledge but I'm not comfortable signing saying it's a sure thing#agent: oh it won't be there based on the age of construction. you just have to sign it as a formality#me: ok if you're sure *saves a pdf of this email exchange just in case*#currently halfway through signing a different doc bc there's a minor error and I'm waiting to hear back from the manager#on whether that's ok or not
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The way dreams have like, real places looking or functioning completely different than in real life yet always stay the same in the dream world makes me believe in alternative universes
#i have this one where there's an ceramics shop in the middle of a street in my hometown that has never existed to my knowledge#yet is beloved in the dreams#and there's this apartment building that in my dreams got a small mall or whatever on the bottom floor of all my dreams#which isn't true to real life at all and rarely if ever have impact on the dreams but it's always there#and an alternative fashion store/club thing that shows up where there's a bank in real life and always has been#not to mention what my work looks like#well this is rationally probably just my memory of a past dream influencing my current dream but STILL#fruktstund
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tbh it does feel like the early setup for Bells Hells was a cool experiment but ultimately had some ongoing drawbacks because I do agree with Matt here that there has been time for watch conversations - there were plenty of opportunities for that or for just regular conversations in Whitestone, the Shattered Teeth, the Feywild, and their most recent long rest - but it's just not something the party got into the habit of doing because of the early pacing. It's just not a party that naturally falls into easy conversation with each other for the most part, and I think because he's never had to do this in prior campaigns, particularly this late in the game, Matt hasn't been very obviously laying out "anyone want to have a scene now, during downtime" the way one might with newer players.
#i'm actually thinking about this bc like. i moved to where i currently live shortly pre-pandemic#and as a result i keep having to like. forcibly tell myself it's ok you do not have the knowledge of someone who's been here 4-5 years#like it feels like that; delayed for valid reasons but also even with an opportunity to catch up there's a weird barrier psychologically#cr tag#this isn't a bad thing incidentally; i think that organically developed found family stories are good but not every story has to be that
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I think perhaps I would have done better in an academic program where you can say I Think This Because I Think It more often
#news from the cupola#also because I have arrived at situations where I am not at all Confident in my background knowledge and yet still have to Write It#man. Should have been a studio art major.#and/or english lit.#well what this is teaching me is that I am definitely not going to go to history grad school. lmao even.#what if I start looking into apprenticeships. or jobs akin to my current one that would potentially be closer to full-time.
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B'Elanna, Neelix, Tuvok and Chakotay needed to star in an episode where they just talked about their different beliefs and approaches to spirituality/religion. Paired off and all together. I need to gain more insight. I need characterization and I need it to be messy.
#B'Elanna's difficulty with Klingon myths and religion (especially due to her internalized racism)#Chakotay's current strong belief in his own spirituality despite his initial complete rejection of it (and how B'Elanna seems to admire#and have talked with Chakotay about it extensively in the past given how many specifics she's aware of)#Neelix's belief in an afterlife being the only thing that comforted him after his entire family was killed - the knowledge that he would be#able to reunite with them again and that knowledge being ripped away from him#Does he still believe? Are there other aspects of his previous spiritual beliefs that are thrown into question?#Just because it isn't 'real' does it make it unimportant? How do we even know whether or not it's 'real'?#He died and doesn't remember reaching that tree and seeing his family - does that mean it didn't happen?#Tuvok's line in 'Innocence' about how he's begun to have doubts about whether or not a katra exists and what happens after someone dies#and his firm ties to Vulcan spirituality and ritual#ALL SO INTERESTING!!!!!!!!#star trek voyager#I don't think it'd be a calm or healthy conversation either - they're not therapists and I don't think anyone but Chakotay#would be particularly careful with his words#and before you say Tuvok's a Vulcan so he would be let me remind you that Tuvok told B'Elanna to her face that he thought Klingons#were basically savages - he is INDELICATE to say the least#Neelix is careful with his words bc he's a people pleaser for survival but also he has a tendency to bother people and be overly pushy#and I think he'd do a lot of research and be the one leading the conversation/the reason they get on the topic and continue on it#B'Elanna wouldn't want to talk about it. She wants to talk about it the least. But she must!!!! Bc the episode demands it!!#st voy
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♪───O(≧∇≦)O────♪
[Fansprite] Casual pose Leon (Vali) Dislyte .
#dislyte#dislyte Leon#dislyte fanart#Leon dislyte#digital art#art#digital artist#original art#fanart#character art#sprites#charactersprite#as far as current knowledge of this post goes—#we don’t have official Leon casual pose sprite so I made one myself#procreate art
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I get that people want an enemy in every situation but idk why it's so hard to just accept that people like jk rowling will see anything and find a way to make it about their vitriolic ideology. People cry after losing olympic challenges all the time. Carini in particular was crying because in losing she failed to keep a promise to her recently deceased father and also because she had been hit in the nose, which will make literally anyone on planet earth tear up (a totally legal hit afaik. just one that produces an unavoidable reaction). She admitted she had been wrong in not shaking khelifs hand and apologized. She said that if she were to see her again she would give her a hug. Like I don't know I feel like there are more productive targets to focus on. Yeah she acted shitty and unsportsmanlike in a single emotional moment; this was coopted and her words were mistranslated without her knowledge. Something can have bad consequences without it being a deliberately calculated evil mastermind move. In the meanwhile at the Olympics: did you know that the netherlands sent a man convicted of raping a 12 year old to compete? That's fucking insane to me but I guess it does make sense. They allowed Israel to compete after all
#eureka moment#this whole situation is a fucking travesty.#khelif has an instagram so if you have an account there maybe leave a supportive comment for her!#it seems like shes doing well in her current bouts despite the insane emotional toll this must have taken-#-and that shes got a huge section cheering for her which makes me really happy. she deserves it#sidenote the more i read about her the more amazing she gets#did you know she collected and sold scrap metal as a kid to pay for bus fare to take boxing lessons without her fathers knowledge?
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Alright I need the very niche few of you who have these overlapping interests to aide me here.
I want, very badly, to make Disco Elysium Kim and Harry doll customs. Of course I’m running into a huge problem with this which is: their tragically unique face shapes and stylized proportions. Both face and body.
Typically when I do male doll repaints I use BTS dolls (bc I like their slightly larger than Barbie proportions) or the new Disney ILY dolls, and on occasion make minor sculpting edits to feminine face sculpts to suit my needs. This works for most of what I’ve done (ocs, the mandalorian, stuff like that) but I’m in a corner here. I have several options but none are great.
- I could use one of the two that I usually do and make some large alterations and pray for the best. If I choose to do that I’m going to have to find decent base dolls which I don’t doubt I can do. Pros are it’s within my comfort level, cons are it’s very limited.
- Monster/Ever after high. They have very stylized sculpts but their proportions are just a bit *too* much in terms of my preference. So I could shrink some monster high high heads and go from there. Pros are it’s also familiar and closer to the stylization I need, cons are shrunken heads are more difficult to work with and risk breaking to achieve the size I want.
- Third option is to sculpt and print/cast unique face molds, which is not a prospect I’m excited about but is something I am feasibly capable of. Pros is I can guarantee the most accuracy with the least need to make alterations, cons are I have very minimal experience with this so I have to fucking LEARN shit while also asking for a favor to print/mold/cast/whatever the final results.
-secret fourth option where someone smarter than me knows a doll that would make the perfect base
TL:DR I want to make Kim and Harry dolls but I need ideas on what base to use. If anyone knows some specific doll brands or characters that work well for the characters or have any advice/input on the matter pls hmu! I am unfortunately dedicated to this project.
#my art#disco elysium#Current possibilities include BTS monster high Encanto and hand sculpted prints#encanto dolls seem surprisingly viable for this#de#doll help#dolls#doll custom#doll casting#Ooak doll community#art doll community#idk just sticking some limbs out here#any doll AND disco fans out there please find me I need you#someone with wider encyclopedic knowledge than I#i realize no matter what I do I’m gonna have to destroy someone’s chin for Kim and I’m okay with that
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KILL!!!!!!!!!
#my post#this is so mean. why did i make this#but also....... the gun is in your hands now#i'll admit that it's my fault for putting the gun in your hand... however i've no say in what you choose to do with it#will you pull the trigger and accept whatever happens from now on? will you give yourself into the role forced upon you?#no one will know anything if you don't say anything. there will be no consequences or repercussions to this choice#but you will know. and you will need to live with that knowledge for the rest of your life#a gun not fired is like an itch not stratched#in the end i have no control over what you do... but free will is a funny thing#the brain is very susceptible to suggestion... everything we see and experience will remain with us in some way#if that's the case then how much control do we really have in our lives? how do we separate what we really want vs what we're told to want?#things like hunger... desire... they're all things the body asks for. but are they things that we truly want?#or are they merely a mechanism built into us for the sake of survival?#everything blends into everything. your past actions will inform your current actions. you're the only one who's ever lived your life#you're the only one who will ever live your life#little variables and experiences we all share... but the order varies greatly from person to person. everything is just a series of events#the way i see the world is different than the way you see it regardless of how similar they are#what choice will you make now? and how does it differ from the choice you would've made a week ago? a month? a year? does it differ at all?#does free will truly exist? i think it does... but not in the way most people think it exists#you and i... we might differ on that thought. or we might not.#regardless of whatever i've been rambling about right now... refusing to make a choice is still a choice you make. life is ironic like that#does one of them really have to go? that's for you to decide now#i've merely chosen to put the gun in your hand. to make you aware of the possibilities#so i hope you realize what power your choices have#dca fandom#daycare attendant#yeah sometimes i just say things that i think are deep but they're really not#i hope the choices i make have an effect on others. even if it's just one person...#if i can make even just one person think about something they wouldn't have normally thought about then isn't that a win?#life is a series of choices... ''it'd be great if you could see a figure of light by the time you die'' ♡
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i think my brother might be going to see sonic 3 in theaters and if he is im going to fucking throttle him
#to be fair i have not confirmed this my dad just came in and asked why im not going too#chat idek if i can dissuade him he does not give a shit about palestine or israel or any boycotts ever#and also because i am a child he discounts any knowledge of current events i have bc im a little baby who doesn't understand the world
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