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One of the pieces influencing my songwriting/conception of “The Wolf Song” for my animation novel musical adaption. Only the finest quality of ingredients for my passion project… 😌🫶✨

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“Opera for Dummies: Queen of the Night aria” a dramatic rendition.

I love that opera sits in this limbo where it's extremely well-known but not really beyond a surface level recognition, so you get commercials for makeup or whatever to the tune of the I Hate Women So Much It's Unreal aria

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My character Evan if he were in Clair Obscur: Expedition 13. Given the circumstances (of being an animator in his own canon), he’d definitely be a Painter in Clair Obscur…

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Places in the Czechia and my drawings of these places

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Thanks @kaelang12 for tagging me ☺️. And tagging anyone who’s interested… 💛!

Rules: List 5 of your favorite films in a poll and have people vote on which is their favorite.

Saw this tag game and wanted to do it myself!

@emometalhead @reefer-keifer @lord-of-the-weird @dreamcastgirl99 @bettergobackoutandfindher @leviathanlazarus @vancruejovi and anyone else who wants to do this!

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I am the nerd who goes ten minutes (drive/bus) up the road from my workplace to an old part of town with a castle, to take my exercise/a walk, and then do a mental jig going “I’m Henry of Skalitz 🎶 our hero Henry”; I’m either a humble peasant from medieval Europe or a video game character, one of the two…

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A MOUSE BAR DURING PROHIBITION WOULD BE CALLED A SQUEAKEASY!!!

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(Thinking about Hans Capon courtesy of this excellent essay on Bsky by thistlearts).

Hear me out: Hansry modern au where Hans and Henry meet early in life in the little town where Henry has lived all his life, and Hans is there because his uncle/guardian wants to go hunting in the adjoining Czech countryside. Perhaps it’s even back and forth in this story between modern Stříbrná Skalice and Rataje nad Sázavou, I’d just need to scrutinize the logistics before settling on that… but Hanush leaves Hans to piddle around in town to find children to play with. And the reason that Hans is a bit awkward, somehow too forward and friendly but always finds the way to say things in a slightly obnoxious way, but he’s also well-meaning and straightforward, and exceedingly kind, but also has these strange ideas about social mores that he’s frankly kind of a bit rigid about, almost behaving fearfully so about them, but eventually has to learn how to be more flexible with them if he wants to get anywhere in life; and why he freaks out a bit if things go against his expectations; and also sometimes he’s too trusting, has difficulty lying, a bit gullible about people’s words; and uses stories to explain things in the world—the reason for all of this in modern Hansry au is because Hans is autistic. And he feels a bit alienated because of this, and latches onto Henry because Henry pays no mind to all these qualities and actually seems to like being around him even…

I don’t think Hans is autistic in canon. I definitely think he’s the way he is in canon because of the society and circumstances that he lived in. Feudalism and the 3 states of man and growing up a bit isolated and all that.

But I think foregoing all that, giving him this alternative circumstance in which to become a similar person, is quite interesting to me. He even gets to keep a special interest of being in nature and hunting because it’s calming/lower sensory stimulation for him.

(You must also understand I’ve written au fic of Steve Rogers as autistic, and Finn from Star Wars as autistic, changing the particulars of their story while also retaining core themes as a kind of comparative exercise, and golly I’ll do it again).

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I’ve been thinking about pen names again.

Would Pearl T. Le be way too ridiculous or, you know. 🧋✨ My mind is turning over the possibility of having a silly wordplay like “pearl t sounds like pearl tea, which evokes one of the slightly fancier sounding monickers of bubble/boba...

You know, I don’t even drink bubble tea that much! But I’ve grown up with and always liked the whimsy of Asian desserts/drinks that are a bit more like a sweet soup, with beans and fruit and jellies and pudding and seaweed and dessert pearls swimming in coconut milk or syrups or teas, like treasure troves to be dug through with a spoon… hmm…. what was I talking about again….

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The little secretary in charge of memories in the back of my head: remember when you were in preschool and wanted to be an animator? And then when you were in elementary school and wanted to be an author-illustrator? And then scribbled here and there, but really focused more on writing and pretty much stopped drawing after college for over a decade? How’s that going for you?

Me, staring pensively at art files on my tablet, wondering how my life got to this point: look let’s not talk about this right now

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Hans, from How to Survive this Fairytale by @smhallow

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I’m watching Chaplin’s Modern Times. The acting is so clear and easy to read???! The facial expressions, gestures, body language, posing, timing, economy of movement…. This is… amazing…

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Contemplating mixing in silent film style inter titles with my original animation material until I solve the problem of voice acting. I’m using my own voice to time dialogue at the moment. But I think the really fun part about how I like to animate dialogue is I tend to do full mouth animation instead of limited, so for me there’s an effect of at least partly being able to “read the characters lips,” especially when I already know what the dialogue is. So it’d be fun if I set up the dialogue in an inter title, and viewers then might be able to go: Hey! That character actually said it in the animation….

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the thing about everything is that it all gets easier with practice, so be careful what you practice 

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Me, clutching my stylus dramatically: is it not enough learning how to draw, now I must learn acting and timing too??? Smh

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