#Define the Great Line

[silens-oro]

I’ve rediscovered Underoath’s Define the Great Line album and I

[posevr]

Current Car CD

[modern-wolf-hair]

It's all worth reaching for

The hand to pull you out

Underoath - In Regards to Myself

[hualianisms]

i love how fanghua are so danmei coded. fang duobing as the protective nianxia ml whose life was so monumentally changed and shaped by a shifu he met only once when he was younger but whose small act of kindness moved him so deeply that he spent most of his life trying to get stronger, working hard to finally be able to catch up to and be worthy of that glorious shifu that he so admired.

except he finally meets that shifu again years later as an adult and he's finally caught up to him but now their positions are reversed - li lianhua is now the sickly one, and fallen from grace; fdb is now the (physically) stronger one, the young hero, and he becomes friends with and falls for llh who he now no. longer wants to be the disciple of. instead, he now wants to protect and care for li lianhua like one protects and cares for a lover.

[vimbry]

oh hello shoe I've been waiting to see drop. sorta hoped you never would.

[switch]

>if the short is well received it will be made into an anime

quit yanking our fucking dicks toei. your stupid self-aggrandizing glorified toy commercial of an alleged doremi movie already performed well and won an award it super did not deserve. you’re moving goalposts at that point. you have been doing this shit for 15 years. either commit or quit dangling carrots over everyone’s heads again.

[snakeguy999]

i gotta tell you more abt my ocs sometime. smiles widely

Ooo la la...what did i do to deserve such an honour?

[cherrysnax]

when I was a kid I was rlly upset that art teachers didn’t like anime-inspired art, and then I realized it wasn’t the anime aspect. jumping into highly stylized art without knowing the fundamentals AND with a refusal to learn them is a bad combo

[leenesomewhatdraws]

Novembmas, Day 29: Home / Fears/Worries !

Reunion group hug :DD <3 ! I could have messed it up more, this'll do.

The best way not to come uncoupled is to hold each other's wrist

And yeah, the tunnels still need to be inspected, even if you watched your brother disappear/you got eeby-deebied in those very tunnels

[hostilecityshowdown]

i am very sad about droz passing away

[endless-nightshift]

Milo and (masc) Sweetheart

Soft Mornings and Quiet Routines

[athetos]

I never would have guessed 15 years ago that The Devil Wears Prada, Underoath, Bring Me the Horizon, ArchitectsUK and Parkway Drive would wind up on hard rock radio, and it’s still something weird for me to process.

[minarcana]

🌻+Lex!!!!!

LET ME GIVE U WORDS // accepting

If he but sigh since my loss befell him Straight to his side I go. Tell him a faithful one is doing All that love can do. -- The Haunter, Thomas Hardy

And in his eyes he took the nameless dead, he stored them, so that someday I might know and love them in his glance- so that I would not die in horror, as they all had done. He filled his eyes with them, and yet in vain: to all my wars, unwilling. I must go. -- yehuda amichai

Come with me, let’s spend a night in the country, my friend, you intimate of heaven’s stars, for winter’s finally over– you can hear the doves and swallows chattering. We’ll lounge beneath the pomegranate trees, plum trees, apple trees, everything lovely and leafy. -- Solomon ibn Gabirol

Imagine you’re drowning. Imagine for just a second that you’re able to lift your head above water, see the light, take a gulp of air, and feel your hands touch something, so you grab ahold and cling to it. So, you can imagine all your life you are drowning – and that’s certainly nothing but the truth – then love is what helps you keep your head above water. -- Hermit and Six-Toes, Victor Pelevin

[swallowsakurane]

“It must be nice. To be so sure of who you are. It wasn’t like that for me at first.”

“Here, you can choose so much about what you want to do, who you want to be... and the city just accepts you, no matter what.”

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[kiss2012]

rewatched the first three episodes of s3 and im never going to recover

[swampjawn]

Dungeon Meshi Episode 7 was super interesting from an adaptation standpoint - this'll be a little different from what I usually write about (though I do still talk about the animation in the full video).

Studio Trigger have never done a straight-up manga adaptation before - and led by Yoshihiro Miyajima, a big fan of the manga who pushed hard for the adaptation to get made, and who has never directed a full series before, it was unclear if they'd be able to find the right balance between a simple panel-for-panel recreation and making something that's completely different.

And in the first few episodes, you could really feel the tension between the influence of a cautious young creative with great respect for the source material, and a studio with a unique established visual style. It kinda seemed like they were ping-ponging willy-nillily between the two sides of that spectrum.

But this episode showed that Miyajima (and series writer Kimiko Ueno) can take 3 chapters, slice them up and rearrange them into a cohesive-feeling episode while taking into account the differences between screen and page, and using them to their advantage.

Starting with the way the water looks. This line from the manga describes a faint magical glow to the water in this lake and you can see that the cavern fades into darkness above, but Kui's illustration style doesn't really define lighting and shadows very much compared to the cel-drawing style of animation. So the animators took the opportunity to use the water as the light source, and make a whole episode that's lit almost entirely from below. It really gives an otherworldly feeling to this area.

Particularly when the Kelpie shows up, that under-lighting works wonders to define its anatomy within the relatively simple line art.

What do you do when you can't show the immense fuck-off scale of a monster with a beautiful full-page spread like this?

Well you use what you do have: the ability to move the camera instead. This is such a great way to communicate the scale of this thing, AND such a great way to show some of Senshi's anime-original butt-cheeks!

This is one of my favorite shots from this episode - this whole sequence is super hectic, cutting quickly from character to character, but they use tricks like this to keep you from getting confused. This is framed much like it is in the manga, but with the moving image, they're able to use the trajectory of the fish head in the background to lead your eye directly from Chilchuck, right to the point where Senshi pops up in the foreground and transition seamlessly from one character to another!

Now, it's not all good - I am a bit disappointed that they removed Marcille's own Senshi-style soap-making montage, which was the perfect visual representation of the culmination of the character development and understanding built between Senshi and Marcille.

It's a shame to see it go.

I get more into that, what else was cut, and much more in this video where I broke down the entire episode!

Check it out if you feel like it. If you don't, jump in a ditch, cover yourself in leaves and jump out at people as they walk by.

Thanks for reading!