#copied from someone else

[plasmara]

It gets to a point,,,

[canmom]

just learned about this (via Awayfarer), feel like it may be of interest re the 'ghibli and reluctance to address jp imperialism' question.

turns out, in the late 80s, Takahata planned a followup to Grave of the Fireflies that would very directly address Japanese imperialism in Korea and China, adapting a Japanese novel about a Japanese boy in occupied Korea who is tortured by the Japanese army for association with a Mongolian friend, and then defects to side with China. Much like Fireflies, a large part of the purpose of the work was didactic:

But the project was cancelled after Tiananmen Square:

Although Takahata finished a full outline by April 17, 1989, the film was cancelled before production could start following the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square Protests in the following June. Public sentiment in Japan had turned against China, and Ghibli's distributor felt a film partially set there was too risky. It is not known how much of the film had been worked on at this point, or if any concept art even exists. Takahata later published the full outline in his autobiography Thoughts While Making Movies. Ultimately, the cancellation of Border 1939 directly led to Takahata working on Only Yesterday, a project he had previously turned down.[4]

Only Yesterday, a small-scale character-focused story set in Japan, proved to be influential in establishing a space for drama stories targeting adults in anime, which became increasingly prevalent in the 90s. A current that could definitely be argued to play a large role in the international popularity of anime? I don't want to be like there's a direct chain of dominoes from the suppression of Tiananmen Square through popular exported dramatic anime films like Ghost in the Shell or the works of Satoshi Kon, up to the present universal influence of anime. Something similar would probably have happened anyway. Still, funny to consider the counterfactual timeline where Border 1939 actually got made.

Another interesting bit from Awayfarer relating more to the AI discourse that provoked all this is digging up a comment from Miyazaki on cel animation as a process of industrial standardisation, originally quoted in AniObsessive's article about the history of cel animation:

[jon-sedai]

And remember kids, the next time someone tells you, "George R. R. Martin wouldn't make Jon Snow the typical fantasy hero because that's cliche".....

Oh yes he would!

One viewer wants to know what character would you play (on the show)? GRRM: If I could magically clap my hands and become a different person, it would be cool to play Jon Snow who's much more of the classic hero. Everybody wants to be the classic hero! ABC Interview, 2014

GRRM: And the character I’d want to be? Well who wouldn’t want to be Jon Snow — the brooding, Byronic, romantic hero whom all the girls love. Meduza Interview, 2017

In fact he already has ☺️

[necromycologist]

thinking about it as i was flicking thru nightfall it really grinds my gears that sophie hates the gorgodon in canon. she gets grossed out pretty easily sure but like. she adopted iggy. shes the ultimate horse girl. she can transmit to animals. its literally an animal that had no say in its creation she should be projecting her angst about being a unique genetically engineered monster with a set purpose that she's failing at onto that thanggggg!!!!!!!!!

[taw-k]

Hc: Loki's Nordic runes are really good, he writes them like they're stamped on, but his English is the most incomprehensible ancient calligraphy you've ever seen and his math is even worse.

He writes like this

And his math looks like this

He insists it's completely normal and entirely readable.

[jenna-louise-jamie]

alex rider + text posts pt 3

[otoalbum]

＃219 : today's emu is pushing nene on the swings !!

[maladaptivewriting]

being on marauders tumblr has made me realize that a lot of people would actually share anne rice's (terrible) opinion about fanfiction if they didn't write fanfic themselves.

[yenntrash]

Clair Obscure and Free Will (Ending spoilers)

Huge Expedition 33 spoilers below the cut

A great point of discussion when it comes to the endings is just how real the people of the painting truly are. Are they just mindlessly doing what their creators want them to? Are they nothing but slightly more complex sims? Or are they more than that? Are they just as "real" as the painters themselves?

The deciding factor for many people generally seems to be: "Do they possess free will"?

It is a very interesting discussion, but it also seems to me like it is one of the few for which the game actually gives a clear answer to. It is simply overlooked, perhaps because act 3 focuses so much on Maëlle and Verso at the expense of the rest of the world.

The White Nevrons.

This game-long sidequest, to me, has for sole purpose to make it clear: Yes, the painting's beings have free will. They are able to make their own choices. They are able to break their programming.

The White Nevrons aren't the only one to show unusual behavior either, they are simply the most damning example. For the humans of Lumière, it is clear right away. Aline created a civilization, and no matter how much she may or may not have decided of every detail herself initially, said civilization has grown. The ones we see at the start of the game are no more slaves of their upbringing than Aline herself.

Same goes for the Gestrals. They have been created to naturally love combat, but we do meet a few that do not fit that criteria, much to the dismay of their peers.

But the Nevrons stay the most damning example, simply because of who created them, and why.

We know that the Nevrons have been created by Clea, and Clea, no matter in which light you see her, makes one thing very clear: She could not care less for the painted beings. Unlike Verso and Renoir, who can be understood as having some manner of remorse for their actions, Clea shows no empathy for that world. By all means, each of her actions in the painting is shown as being cruel and destructive, all in the name of kicking Aline out. Whether or not this is justified is discussed in lengh in every ending discussion, so I'll keep from it here. What matters is that if she once cared for the painting (as her old friendship with François might suggest), seeing what she did to Simon and her painted self, it is clear that such feelings have now left her.

Unlike the Lumerians and the Gestrals, the Nevrons have not been created with the idea of a community in mind. They are supposed to be monsters, sharing a single goal: To kill and "freeze" chroma in order to weaken the Paintress. There is no reason why Clea would have created them with any other goal in their mind. They are tools, not beings.

Until they are.

The game makes it clear that she sees the white Nevrons as failures. She wants them gone. Blanche tells us that she's been tasked with killing the other "failed" Nevrons, her white peers, if memory serves.

Even Clea, stated to be the most skilled painter in the family, cannot stop it from happening. The painted beings have free will. I'd even argue that this isn't exeptional. The Dessendre do not seem chocked by it. This is simply how their art works, this is what makes it special, more than the ability to enter the canvas. The power to create living, breathing world, just as real as any.

[hibernating-stag]

Thinking about how Venom and Robo-Ky started out as two deeply lonely individuals that ended up fitting together so well that they became two halves of a whole and getting emotional about it. Getting weepy. Misty eyed even.

[dailydamnation]

Time Is a Flat Stepping Disc Part 36a The Illyana Rasputin timeline issue by issue

New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga TPB, exclusive frontispiece art Illyana poses casually for a school photo, but there might have been something on the lense

Is it available on Marvel Unlimited: No Has it been reprinted in an Epic Collection: yes

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

i need digital artists to know that its okay to get inspo on artstyle/technique or learn from other artists u like. (this applies to trad too tbh but mainly aiming self taught digital)

this is literally how you learn how to draw how YOU want to draw, that is how you find your style!!!!!!!!!!!!! if i didnt look at like 726362626 different artists or artworks ive liked over the years and took little diff things i liked from them then i would not have the style i have !!!!!

students would literally learn how to paint better and paint how THEY wanted to by recreating master's paintings!!!! i have done so many studies like that over my time learning art in school and learning from other artists and developing on it has been one of the best way to develop my style and see what i like and how i wanna represent it!!!!!

u can ask the artist if u like, that is actually quite nice, give them some credit if an artwork ure posting was heavily influenced by theirs, or even giving credit if it was just an inspo

but it really isnt copying as long as u don't copy their whole artstyle without any credit and/or when they're uncomfortable with their artstyle being used, inspo =/= copying

SO GO STUDY THAT ARTWORK THAT U REALLY LIKE AND FIGURE OUT SOME TECHNIQUES ON HOW TO ACHIEVE THE EFFECT U WANT AND EXPERIMENT WITH THEM, PUT UR OWN TWIST ON THEM OR NOT AND SEE HOW U CAN APPLY THEM IN UR ART!!!!! and also do not be scared to change ur art style whenever u want, its fun to try new things and see ur art change

[tubapun]

Hello All!! As you might have seen, I have spent this last week compiling all the monsters listed in the Scooby-Doo Encyclopedia (which covers every series from Where Are You through 13 Ghosts) into a spreadsheet, categorizing them by type, realness, and series. This is an ongoing project, but I wanted to be able to share what I have so far in terms of data!! Let's begin with a breakdown of Monster Types!!

This first pie chart details the breakdown by pure monster type, meaning monsters that are only one sort of monster. This may seem arbitrary, but as you can see, a whopping 25.98% of all monsters across the series included are some sort of combination monster. That's the largest category overall, but the largest specific category is Ghosts, with 19.61% of the 204 listed monsters being just a pure ghost. Some are sheets and some are just glowing translucent dudes, but either way they're haunting the gang intensely.

The only sort of monster that never appears outside of a combination is the Pirate. I almost excluded that category for this reason, but enough pirates existed in combination (always with ghostliness) that i didn't feel right dropping them.

This chart is much like the first one, but counts the combination monsters in with each type they contain. Because of this overlap, the percentages technically add up to 138.92%. but that's fine, cause they're still taken out of the 204 monsters. Now we can see that 37.44% of these monsters are some sort of Ghost, with Magic Users and non-anthro Animals being the next largest categories. For those counting, that's 76 instances of a Ghost type monster, most of which are combined with some other monster type!! Speaking of which...

These two charts detail the combinations, with the first one being about the sort of combos we get and how often they occur, and the second being about the instances of each type in the totality of the "multiple" category (total of 53 monsters for those of you who want the numbers from the percentages).

Notably, 69% of combination monsters are Ghosts. Nice.

Some monster types never get combined, however, with Skeletons, Robots, Cavemen, Greek Myths, Mummies, European Legends, Dragons, and Evil Humans always occurring as just themselves with no extra modifiers. But now you get to imagine a Dragon Skeleton Mummy, or any such combination and boom. Scooby-Doo Monster OC. You're welcome.

This concludes the data I currently have analyzed/available. I hope to have more soon, either a dive into which sort of monster is most often real or a dive into type percentages per Series (most of the real ones seems to be the ones from the Scrappy series, so I bet that will overlap the two categories). If you have any requests on data or even just want to see the actual main sheet these charts are pulling data from, please let me know, this has become a passion project in a very real sense.

Edit on 9/8: Here is the Breakdown of Monster Definitions with bonus stats on common Motives and Realness

Edit on 9/7: Fixed the first two charts to reflect an update in the data. I had initially placed Greek onster in the general European section, which caused their percentages to be flipped.

Another Edit on 9/7: Somehow missed that a character named "Ghost of" was in fact a ghost/magic user and not just a ghost. this has been fixed and the charts updated (thankfully the % of combos that are ghosts is still 69. nice)

Edit 9/8: I missed a monster somehow. This has been fixed in the charts and percents and numbers listed.

[naradreamt]

If I had a dollar for every time this one user on the X Japan subreddit openly admitted to hoarding content and is "willing to trade" it, I'd be rich as fuck by now

[youling-the-ghost]

I'M CRYING LUKE WHAT THE HELL

(from a review of old comedy duo)

[statementlou]

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