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atbashback · 3 months ago
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some oc stuff based off of vassalord illustrations by nanae chrono.
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kingofthewilderwest · 8 months ago
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We need to start questioning the conflation of "maturity" with "increased stakes."
It's not to say higher stakes is always a bad choice. The first half of the How to Train Your Dragon book series has an endearingly whimsical, child-like feel. Hiccup's issues in the first half of book one are an obnoxious, cat-sized Toothless pooping in his helmet. The movie adaptation might have made the book and its counterpart distant cousins, but it was a thoughtful move to alter concepts to the appropriately theatrical: books and movies aren't the same medium. Hiccup riding alone on Toothless, exchanging fire blasts with a mountain-sized dragon, and losing his leg came off as well-done storytelling.
Hiccup staring at a prosthetic never happened in the book. He didn't lose his leg in his encounter with the Green Death. It was, as the creative powers behind the movie said, a result of the increased stakes. They didn't do this just to be more dramatic; they did it because it seemed that, based on how their narrative was going, this made sense. And this was a soft, quiet, shocking, breath-taking scene that instilled how good the movie handled its stakes. It gave us a reflective reaction to consequences that audiences might not have expected. This movie understood timing, pauses, quietness, narrative arc, poignance, reflection, emotion, love, and heart.
We know about the conflation of live action as "more mature" than animation. But a medium doesn't change maturity levels. We all know that's bogus, and many analyses have been given on that. Disney live actions add extraneous gunk, down to Gaston having a past relationship with war (so I've heard, from the people who actually watched the movie), and Disney giving us the sad scoop on why Belle's mom isn't around. Furthermore, lots of times, when I see the conversion of animation to live action, I notice creators feel a need to "raise the stakes" -- in line with the erroneous view of "giving maturity."
But "higher stakes" often means inserting action in place of mindful interaction. I feel today's Hollywood movies, in their treatment of "action," don't let movies pause and breathe anymore - ergo, they don't let us think. Isn't it more juvenile to actively avoid thought in favor of "hey look I made the building go boom"? There may be less "stakes" in introspection and mindful dialogue, but that's what gives it its maturity. That's how we went from Iron Man 1, with its grounded treatment of war and abuse, to the mindless high spectacle MCU is today.
Snappy one-liners or moments that clap at contemporary issues don't substitute for maturity. What can make a story mature is characters grappling with issues in a natural narrative through-line. A snappy one-liner is its own form of speedy spectacle.
We know about the conflation of "gore and sex" with "mature audiences." I believe they're right that graphic sex and gore is designed for adults. But that doesn't make it mature, and that doesn't make it the only way to target a medium for adults.
"Realisticness" isn't maturity. Per above regarding animation: realistic visuals are nothing. And if you think that putting more Debbie Downer material into your adaptation makes it more adult, you have to ask yourself why the themes that spoke to people's souls got muddled in its midst. We weren't mature enough to interact with the most subtle, nuanced, and impacting voice of the story. But hey! Look! There's more corpses, I guess!
It's not the visuals, it's not the events. It's not the "things." It's not the basic insertion of the external. Get past the superficial, get past the top layer of presentation. It's the mind. It's the ability to think. It's the ability to be still. It's the ability to be interested and attentive when something is slow or quotidian, because we can understand why that is important for narrative growth or arcs or themes or commentary on the human condition. It's the ability to know when and when not to include something. It's the ability to make resonant impact. It's the ability to be deep with your emotions or your themes. It's the ability to take what you have and grow it in a way by which we can derive something deeper.
Maturity is critical thought and well-conducted, appropriate responses to content of any kind.
As DeBlois tells Empire, the move to live-action brings a different emphasis to How To Train Your Dragon; a new heft, both physically and emotionally. “It’s so dialed-up in terms of stakes — having a fully credible, photo-real dragon stomping around trying to kill him,” the director says.
And maybe that DeBlois quote is taken out of context. Maybe there's more going on than that one sentence conveys. Maybe Empire is making their own erroneous assumptions. But "so dialed-up in terms of stakes," isn't, on its own, a good appeal. The animated movie already dialed things up - and knew when to include or not include something. A live-action that imitates the visuals of the animated movie exactly, as if no independent thought has been done to its unique adaptation, to the pros and cons of the medium, to what a independently-presented story needs and doesn't need... It has to make you wonder: how many conflations of "maturity" are going on?
How long are we going to keep making our own conflations?
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spagheddiesquash · 5 months ago
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i tried doing a cool thing where like oooo theyre covered in all different kinds of blood bc yknow. blood from different alien species and idk i feel like it backfired and i just made it look liek they were doing paintball or something </3 but anyway the emos
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hope u guys enjoy this new art of jawfizz/gaydiation (the other ship name i came up with for them bc theyre gay plague walkers)….. i hope to make more art posthaste!! at least if i get the time….
(likes <<< REBLOGS)
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sporesgalaxy · 1 year ago
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OPTION TO SEE REBLOGS (with content additions in the body) IN SITEWIDE TAG SEARCHES NOW. TWISTED. FRIGHTENING
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AND THE DEFAULT STATE IS ALLOWING REBLOGS IN THE TAG......I DONT WANNA SEE THAT THATS SOMEONES PERSONAL BUSINESS
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orykorioart · 1 year ago
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Here's an incredibly self-indulgent piece of my fave dragon boys (and Leon) in áo dài since its Lunar New Year and Year of the Dragon 🐉!!
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mewvore · 2 years ago
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Hella thick thighs?
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I'm out of drawings, heres an irl
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buryam-soul · 1 year ago
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Predictably, I am immediately fond of the cat duo
Bonus:
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bacchuschucklefuck · 3 months ago
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LIVING for your ponytail Yugi he’s so cute 😭💖
thank u! i hold dear in my heart the way yuugi is like a little plushie that wants nothing more than to die a noble death
#not art#ask#probably why i also refuse to draw yami taller or with the chiseled jawline he gets in canon#thats a child none of us get to forget thats a child#there kind of is a sense of like. swimming through the currents of mythos to reach real life? in the original ygo manga#(mostly talking abt manga bc that's truly like the only ygo media I actually look at and feel a kinship with lol. idk shit abt the anime)#a lot of the story is told with a heightened sensibility a la sailor moon. exaggerated characteristics colloquialized events etc#it fits the way teenagers feel emotions yes but it is also Convenient. like the way kaiba drops the cuff key into the harbor#and it falls directly into jou's field of vision. that's not how that works in real life#it's kinda drag-like in tone. essential steps with spectacles as the mortar and emotional arcs as the throughline#yuugi's wish for kinship and understanding and appreciation is realized within this framework and then the framework like#packs itself up and exits stage left. it's a year-and-a-half-long dream. you only bring into real life what you think of to bring#and that like. kinda fits with how yuugi reads in the manga for me. where he's always reaching to be A Character while not being able#to stop being just a teen in some city at the same time right. listen i have pdfs worth of chatlog with friends abt gender reading#and all of the stuff with the cute little things whose specialty is being cannon fodder or sacrificial lambs and the dialectics etc in ygo#the toy is the actual character while the fantasy and you holding it is in fact the messy reality of you#would like to say ''yuugi looking cute as hells is important to all of that'' but tbh thatd be a lie lol#i do just think the star shaped ponytail is a good idea i wanna keep drawing. but also yeah softening takahashi's style is kinda#a shame but I do think for the purpose of my own art at least it is kinda somewhat intended as commentary? in a sense#big ups to my guy rest in peace you were doing all that straight lines and circles and chrome in ink in the year of our lord two thousand#it is INSANE that ygo ended looking like that. at that point in time. not my preference but neither is caving or deep sea diving#he and his assistants were doing that shit By Hand. do you know how fucked up that is#but yeah due to the art style being that kind of clean and geometrical and processed there is. not a lot of greeblies#as well as a lot more risk of tangents and things reading not super clear due to line uniformity etc#and I like my greeblies and am from the fuckass school of french language comic so. here we end up#one thing i pride myself on in my own art is doing my damn best to get across the texture and weight of subjects with just ink so#i do think i make yuugi extra squishy lmao. like if u ragdoll him at a wall itd make a thwack#and <3 i categorically refuse to make atem/yami any more solid <3#thank u for coming to my tedtalk sorry this happened under ur ask. actually not sorry its my house. welcome to my house
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writingraccoon · 4 months ago
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Ik I've been vagueing on posts a lot about jayvik shippers not being open to qprs and I'd like to formally say that I'm going to continue doing this until I see jayvik shippers admit that preferring their white mlm ship as a qpr is not homophobic and also maybe when they apologize for being dicks about Mel
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nn-senpai · 4 months ago
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Semi-realism(????) sketch of mt friend's oc who I've been obsessing over for years now.....
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drlancaster · 5 months ago
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Whiteboard is really fun. Especially when you beat up your friend on there. Rampant fistfights
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koipepo · 1 year ago
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Woodkid: 2022 (first design) vs 2024 (current design)
looking at the comparison i can see that i erased way too much of the wooden, bark textures from the old design.
it was always a struggle to draw him consistently since the textures are quite complicated and he doesn't have any real facial features for me to anchor when i draw him in different angles so.. i gave him a nose. a herbivore looking nose but still a nose.
but the more i draw the newer design, the weirder it feels. it doesn't sit right with me. the new design doesn't solve my problem, in fact it creates entirely new one because i swung too far to the opposite side: he now looks way too simple and too cartoonish! the textures are wiped clean and his mouth-less, lower face looks way too jarring bc of this oversimplification. his features looks like sticker being painted on top of smooth wooden mask, and that's not the kind of design i want.
so, the journey of re-designing Woodkid continues... 😂
hopefully i can marry the old and new designs and arrive at something satisfactory and easy to draw frequently
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burningcomputerpersona · 5 months ago
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the way spaces end up getting casually gendered is so weird. i normally try to get to my classes a bit early so i can choose where to sit and it's fascinating to watch how ppl will gravitate towards a certain spot depending on the gender of the ppl sitting nearby. by the time the lecture starts the classroom almost always has a visible distinction between the 'guys' section and the 'girls' section. and it happens individually too even when there's not a huge friend group clustering around the same place.
#just something I've always kinda been aware of but was never able to fully put into words until now#i never really look at ppl so it's been interesting actually observing the way people choose their seats#i normally check out the room beforehand or arrive early to figure out where the best spot to sit would be#and i always sit there bc it's the best spot in the classroom (based on my priorities anyway)#and i didn't rlly know how other ppl chose which spot to sit in and i didn't rlly care either bc i had my own perfect lil system#but now you're telling me they just do it based off of GENDER?????#like. guys will sit near other guys and girls will sit near other girls and idk if they're even doing it on purpose or if it's subconscious#just. this is something that has never occured to me to even think about when choosing which seat to sit in#so this has been a mind boggling revelation#at least now i know why everywhere i go ppl always seem to congregate based on gender#and it's like. nobody's enforcing this?? nobody is telling you you Have to sit near ppl of the same gender they just do it by themselves#and it becomes very obvious when you randomly pick a seat and end up being the only person whose gender does not match everyone else nearby#idk. if this was what ppl used to categorize gender then i guess mine would just be Autism#but anyway i would love to hear from other ppl abt this bc i never even realized this was a thing ppl actively did until like super recently#like ik im nonbinary but cmonnnnnn#gender#trans#nonbinary#mine
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spiribia · 1 year ago
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i have a room in wobbledogs exclusively for teeth. whenever dogs drop their baby teeth i send the teeth down the chute to to the teeth room. it's because they have a potential effect on dogs when eaten (shifts their hue toward white and increases their glow) that is cool but not quite desirable for every dog out there, and because teeth are so small, they get easily lost in nooks of rooms and also get eaten by dogs you didn't want to eat them, and when you have a dog you want to make eat teeth it's sometimes a pain to find enough. someday i will unleash dogs in here to eat teeth
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pangyham · 1 year ago
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GAH LONG POST..
xingqiu and chongyun have insanely good potential for angst my god. xingqiu in particular is so fun to think about in the context of chongyun. what do YOU know about chivalry boy
thinking about how he and hu tao kinda operate on similar notions of justice and all that shmick except hu tao is more strictly averse to disrupting the Natural Order (incredibly vague and generalized concept rn sorry) whilst xingqiu sets his principles more arbitrarily. chongyun's presence somehow foils a lot of his notable character traits. gestures hands vaguely in the air but sth sth hu tao would not approve of xq's moral infractions
perhaps im just reading too deep into this but shrugs ill admit something's changed in Me the last 2 years and coming back to xq and cy has me like. scratches head now hold on im not entirely sure if i even like the way xq treats cy. its kinda one of the main points of their dynamic- the whole.. pranking this oblivious guy who i really adore etc. but its deeper implications leave me a little unsatisfied and a little troubled (?).. in the long run i personally dont really see anything substantially appealing about their (leaning towards romantic in this context) relationship other than like ?? the tropes that mhy imposed upon them. they were created as a compatible Duo ykwim. they reference each other a lot in their lore and even in-game but.. idk maybe i just view them separately instead of a joint unit that anaylzing them individually revealed a lot of crevices and cracks in their ship that's built upon their mainstream appeal
but anyway i've thought a lot about them as a duo and is it nuts to say i like them as a romantic ship but if they were unrequited. i can see them working out but it necessitates a complete subversion and reconstruction of xingqiu (chara development basically LOL) on my part that i would totally invest myself in but im not entirely sure how to execute it
i like xingqiu a LOT as a flawed character. i wouldnt go as far as to say hes toxic, just very conflicted and insecure. hes a fun character to think about. re: the hu tao bit i mentioned above, i think they would have a really fun, witty, and transformative friendship
but anyway. yes i like xq and i still like xy. theyre just a bit more complicated now aha. im still capable of enjoying fluffy ship dynamics but lately ive been in a Character Study Mood ... mmm.. ive yet to organize my chongming thoughts
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mapsbytfb · 1 year ago
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i think it’s funny that they put roy in that dumb sleeveless hospital gown situation and then didn’t even give him like. thick arms or anything. obviously the bigger crime is not giving riza thick arms but i couldn’t expect such a treat to begin with
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