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crowleys-bentley-and-plants · 3 months

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Okay fuck it let's do this. ive seen this going around and i think i could use the encouragement

10 notes and i'll drink some water

20 notes and i'll clean my room

50 notes and i'll try to take care of myself more often with small things

100 notes and i'll finally stop putting off editing my fic

250 notes and i'll start drawing in my sketch book everyday again

500 notes and i'll post the first chapter of said fic

1k notes and i'll start studying for my exams

2k notes and i'll continue planning and writing my other fic

5k notes and i'll try to eat three meals a day again

8k notes and i'll start learning how to animate properly

10k notes and i'll commit to learning Italian

im gonna give this one till april

#most of these things wont take that much time but ughh ive been in a bad place these past few weeks so please force me to make improvementss #notes goal #ramble gamble

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pftones3482 · 1 year

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I want to be excited for the live action Little Mermaid so badly

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie. Anyone who knows me knows I'm obsessed with mermaids as a whole and will watch any media that has them. Hell, I own my own tails and monofins. But every time I see a gif or a video for the new Little Mermaid, I cringe

(btw, this is NOT because of the casting. If you're against this movie because Ariel is black, you're a racist piece of shit and this post isn't for you)

My issue lies with the CGI. It just looks so FAKE. We've seen through the course of movies and TV shows that use it that CGI does not age well, and that's because technology is constantly improving. What was impressive in 2005 is not impressive in 2023 (Just look at Aquamarine, another movie about mermaids). And the CGI on Ariel and her sisters already looks fake and the movie isn't even out yet!

Compare this image from the trailer

To this screenshot from H20: Just Add Water (a TV show that came out in 2006):

You can see the details of the scales in the second image

The first image is flat. Sure, it's colorful, but it's flat. It's fake. Halle herself is the most beautiful and alive part of the image, because everything else is fake

The difference?

H20 had costume designers, ones specifically trained in mermaid tail making, HAND CRAFT every tail on the show. All of the scales were hand laid, all the tails molded to fit the actors/actresses perfectly, painted by hand

Let's even look at someone with no affiliation to TV or movies:

This is Mermaid Linden, a very well known (in the mermaid community) professional mermaid. You can tell her tail is not as high quality as the ones made for H20 (though it's still a VERY expensive tail) - but it still looks like it's a part of her. You can still see the details. Because professional mermaid tails are also all handmade and molded to fit each person. Even if they don't lay every individual scale, good professional mermaid tail makers are very meticulous about what they do.

This is what happens when Disney refuses to pay practical effects artists. We could have had beautiful, handmade tails that would look real on screen for decades to come and could be reused for promotional purposes - instead, they're underpaying and overworking their non-unionized employees to make CGI tails that don't even look real now.

(to be clear, I'm not shitting on the artists. As I said, they're being underpaid and overworked. This is not their fault)

And before anyone comes and says "But swimming in those is difficult!" Absolutely it is. You should never swim in a professional level tail (or even just fabric tails) without practice and training. Which Disney could have given the cast if they were willing to PAY people (the cast of H20 [a TV SHOW] literally learned how to be mermaids on set. It's been done before)

Disney's "Live Action" needs to be rebranded as "CGI with some real people tossed in" because that's all any of these remakes have been, and it's exhausting when I look at what we could have had.

#tlm #the little mermaid #h20 #disney #mermaids #professional mermaids #also trust me when i say i think all cgi mermaid tails look bad #but for some reason these ones just look so much worse #we saw the same thing happen with the 'live action' lion king #the lions looked SO BAD #but then you look at like???? aslan from chronicle of narnia????? which was made YEARS before the lion king #and he looked more realistic #and its disneys fault bc they WONT PAY PEOPLE

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mblue-art · 1 month

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this man. ..

(inspo) (og meme)

#lv20 cross #cross!sans #self insert #mblue art #[ og lv20c is made by withtheworms !! ]#( but this purple lv20c i draw on my blog is usually based on soothingespione's yandere interp )#(bc i hv nt bn th sme snce rdng tht fc) (everytime i think of him i immediately want to [REDACTED] uh do things to him)#(a little violence. as a treat</3)#(probably the only skel/variant i simp for that i wont feel immediately bad doing such to) (maybe)#god i want to [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]--#a fun(?)(🤨) dynamic to explore personally when im reminded of it #oourgh he makes me feel SOOO conflicted 💢💢💢 (/pos but also /flustrd grrr) shoutout to op thanks for writing him i am so . |||OTL #not linking the fic if any1 asks. it has spicy content #idiot idiot man. love-hate for u. bonks u. (i do like the possessive/obssessive that comes with yanderes tho)#cm

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tomatoart · 11 months

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too much

#noctis lucis caelum #final fantasy 15 #ffxv #final fantasy xv #the way this is a special intrest that i dont even like to talk abt bc the game makes me so devastated at the wasted potential. anyways HAI #do yall remember when id post ffxv a lot. dont look it was bad #UGHHH i wont lie. 'too much is never enough' is such an insane thing to come from this game. i think abt that phrase sm #UGHG IT QUEUED THE WRONG TIME AGAIN. I’m sick.

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crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington · 1 year

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resident evil village but ethan actually has rose with him this time and its a game changer

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estrellium · 9 months

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This tiktok was so incredibly aster core I had to redraw it

#h.heyyyyy um niche fandom moment #nu carnival #ive been fixating hard on this game fellas its Bad. dont look through the tag for my sake plea #minors PLEASEEE dont look through the tag #anyways my bad for the lazy username i could Not think of somethign funny #morvay and aster kissed after this (real)#asters twink death form fit this more than his original. also i just wanted to draw it #i hate this stupid game its so SILLY #this wont be my last nucani drawing i fear. my bad followers who only followed me for one thing

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clownsuu · 1 year

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Howdy My Beloved

(I’m so down bad for him it’s horrifying)

LMAOOO mostly mutual howdy love

speaking of howdy iv been seein cowboy/Wild West aus for welcome home and I decided to dip my toes in it a lil while I was hyper KXHDGDH

cw poorly drawn guns and messy sketches

I was just gunna make Home a sheriff’s buildin’, but I thought it would be cooler if he was a big bad spooki

also howdy’s lil bugdega is both a convenient store and a restaurant/bar (same building, all shopping stuff at the front while the restaurant is in the back) howdy can make a mean beef n cheddar KDHHFH

#Welcome home #welcome home howdy #welcome home wally #welcome home barnaby #welcome home home #howdy pillar #wally darling #barnaby b beagle #yeehaw #Also Funfact #Iv been gettin a lot of people asking me how I draw so much in such lil time #It happened last year and now this year JDHDHDJ #But I have a thing where if I get extremely hyper focused on something I basically draw-stim #It’s a huge itch that I gotta draw SOMETHING #And if I don’t it plagues me #Up side to it I consistently post like twice a day with multiple doodles and I don’t get bored by it #Downside I wanna play monster hunter so bAD BUT MY BRAIN WONT L E T M E #Thankfully my sketching has gotten a lot faster throughout the years so I’m able to put all my dum lil ideas down #And still have time to play games I wanna play and get stuff done

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smolbean-17 · 2 months

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First Hello & Last Goodbye

#I’m SO SORRY #BUT #if I get it out of my system before it happens #AND HOPEFULLY IT WONT HAPPEN #I might survive #this is the saddest thing I’ve ever drawn #ALSO CAN HUNTER PLEASE GET SOME ARMOR OVER HIS ABDOMEN #IT IS SO BLATENTLY EXPOSED #the bad batch #star wars #clone wars #sw tbb #tbb #star wars tbb #hunter the bad batch #omega the bad batch #the bad batch fanart

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snekdood · 4 months

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"if we make america worse and more of a dictatorship that will be even harder to unravel and make it the way we want the country to be, maybe then everyone will join our Glorious Revolution!" bb girl you cant even be in the same room with someone who thinks you should vote, how in tf do you think you're gonna unite people to fight in The Revolution with you? it's gonna be you and your 5 friends, i hate to break it to you.

#i dont think you realize how repelling you and your politics are to everyone else #you get all of your validation for how Smart You Are from your friends and ignore any kind of feedback that suggests you should #change or do something differently. thats the only reason you're so convinced average people will go along with you bc you keep getting #affirmation from the people who ALREADY agree with you- but you have NO IDEA how to bridge the gap between people who agree #with you and disagree with you. you're horrible at convincing people of your side of things outside of straight up guilt tripping them #or bullying them like a highschooler. im sorry but the tools you learned to survive with as a kid aren't gonna help you in this situation.#the ONLY THING you can come up with to bridge that gap is a bloody revolution. thats how bad you are at this.#and you're also so bad at this and unimaginative that you dont even realize how THAT might not even be enough.#you cant imagine ANY kind of avenue to getting people to change AT ALL outside of blood and fire. and thats why people call you #an authoritarian.#i'll be honest- i really do think the world would be a better place if we did incremental change under a democratic president who wont #set the world on fire vs the godkingemperor republican WHO WONT EVEN LISTEN TO YOU AT ALL EVER AND MIGHT KILL YOU #FOR PUTTING UP A STINK. idk if you noticed but if that evil fuck gets into office we are severely outnumbered if he gets police #n shit to go after his own citizens. letting trump win is making this battle so much harder than it needs to be.#you are choosing trying to fix the world while its exploding vs trying to fix it before it explodes at all.#what is this like a procrastination thing? you wanna wait till the last minute to try? idfgi. wtf is wrong with you #throwing minority lives away to prove a point. and then you try to tell me you care. gtfoh.#accelerationists should never be taken seriously.

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imaybe5tupid · 18 days

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Traveling alone is quite dangerous for a girl.

(my toshiro overcompensating trans man hc)

bonus 1

bonus 2 ft. toshiyuki (middle brother) grown up a little but still a menace

#toshiro nakamoto #shuro dungeon meshi #my comics #i feel like when he announced himself everyone in the household was really excited his dad especially #1) now there’s an heir 2) cause he finally thought his kid was starting to be interesting and for a short time it was kind of novel #he thought it was so cool and edgy to have a son like that but then that quickly wore off #since toshiro didn’t start becoming like him or stop being a boring person to him #and lowkey the little inheritance competition where toshiros peers are like. a bratty 14yo and an 8yo.#is his way to walk it back that he should be the heir #even though he already got acknowledged and everything #meanwhile hien trying to be a woke affirming queen and just feeding his insecurities unintentionally “you’re a man aren’t you”#their friendship changes and they try to slot each other more into their gendered expectations and drift apart #toshiro compulsively works out and trains and carries himself and acts in certain ways #to be masculine in this very conventional way to affirm himself as a man and as the heir of a samurai family #and as a counterpoint to his wastrel layabout father #he becomes the kind of stealth trans guy who lives in constant state of fear and stress. to the point his little brothers have no idea #-> creates that distance emotionally from them #dungeon meshi #i think his relationship with his dad is absolutely horrendous hes a scummy guy through and through #but i personally enjoy bad relationships in fiction where there was something good to lose in the first place #and despite everything he does still care like in the first comic hes genuinely trying to be mindful #in his own condescending thoughtless way which like confirms all of toshiros worst fears about how his father sees him #like he really got assigned the retainers who are 1) 2 teenage girls one who wants to escape the other whos lowkey scared of him #3) his ex childhood best friend who things are weird with currently 4) random woman whos never even met him ONCE before #5) his smothering nanny/teacher ALL OF WHOM dont really respect him as a leader at all or have a professional rapport with him even😭#in his dads pov he was like okay ill assign women retainers so he won’t hide from them (wrong). also ones who wont intimidate him (wrong)#damn im smart! meanwhile toshiro having a breakdown over it

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randomminty · 11 months

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Opened paint tool sai for the first time in 5 years immediately drew yuri

#couldnt for the life of me draw shizukus face jeezus. turned out ok #I LOVE SAIS BRUSHES I MISSED THEM!!!!!! BRUSH TOOL MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!#art tag #prsk #pjsk #read all main stories reading through the early events rn. fun #might skip to the recent niigo events tho bc that looks crazy #wont be as good without the build up of the other events but....... mafuyu........#wannna do that thing thats like fav character from each group for prsk.... and maybe bandori/enstars/twst too. but prob not.#aneeway. these two. wehehhehehwhehehw #shizuku hinomori #airi momoi #project sekai #shizuai #almost didnt tag their ship my bad #okie this tagging this is so hard theres so many. can we decide on if its prsk or pjsk #uhm thays all. gootbye #going back to hiding in my literal closet to record audio for an assignment #OH DONT LOOK AT AIRIS HAND I FORGOT TO FIX IT EHHE. MY BAD. UGH

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wabblebees · 11 months

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((please rb if you vote! obv this is just silly but im curious+wanna see ppls opinions<3))

#considered including cigarette butts and 'random green goop puddle' and a few other things but ultimately decided against it #so absolutely tell me if that was a mistake #ive never made a poll before! just thot itd be fun:]#garbage repeats as a gag across all kindsa media is SO funny to me for some reason #point+click games... childrens cartoons... comics of all kinds... so much dumpster diving #smth gets tossed & clangs+clatters a ruckus. smth else is yote+squeaks like a rubber duck. smth else flies by+makes an unseen cat caterwaul #how many people are throwing away perfectly intact fish skeletons in all these worlds across time & space #whats up with that #lmao #anyway. i desperately need to sleep but Cant so made this instead. cant tell if its funny or no but #who can tell! and hopefully if i typoed or anyth it wont be too bad when i look back at this lmao #ok byeeeee. mwah #bee speaks #polls #OMG JUST REALIZED I FORGOT TO INCLUDE CDs....... well pretend i left it out on purpose ig. bc obv EVERYONE would vote for cds if they could

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camgirlkaminari · 2 years

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shy guy on the phone: yeah hey toad? there's a guy...yeah. yeah with a mustache. no the other one. haha yeah, no i know. anyway can you send someone over? this guy's gotta get rescued soon before the.. yeah haha before the koopas start crying. yeah. oh uhhh... does now work? no like NOW now. it's kind of an emergency. haha thanks. see you soon. love you

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mwagneto · 6 months

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a thing about rtd's era that i really really love seeing again is how he will usually wrap up the plot 10 or even 20 minutes before the episode ends and then the rest of that time is just dedicated to the characters talking to each other and dealing with their emotions and situations. like instead of a last minute win and a two minute goodbye they always get these massive spans of time to really get into everything emotionally and it always makes the episodes hit even harder

#this is rly on my mind since i just finished rewatching s3 too and like. the end of the #world plot wraps up in like 30 minutes the rest is just the characters talking to each other it's so good. houghhdgdgh #like they always leave so much time for everyone to just. HAVE CONVERSATIONS. and every #character has so many little things they do like for example martha calling up the ppl she #met during the year that never was.. like. you could say those scenes weren't necessary coz they #dont add anything to the plot and they really dont! we coulda spent that time on the Big Bad Villain. and yet it's a #much better use of that time because it makes everything feel so much more real #yes these ppl wont even remember meeting martha but here they are. they're okay and she cares abt them so much #same with the new ep like the plot ends at like minute 40 the rest is just them hanging out😭😭😭 it's so good....#doctor who #14th doctor #10th doctor #15th doctor #rtd #the giggle

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puppyeared · 6 days

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i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

#im reading that post that says artists are directors of audience reaction and not its dictator:#'you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying t make them react. a good artist knows that this is what #allows work to breath. by definition you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table ... this is why you have to let go of #the urge to plainly state in text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted ... its better to be misinterpreted sometimes than #to talk down to your audience. you wont even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do #im thinking abt this again cuz i was thinking maybe the thing that lets adventure time work so well the way it does is cuz it doesnt #take itself too seriously that it gives the audience enough room to fuck with subtext and then fuck with them back yknow. i think it was #mentioned somewhere that they werent even planning to run with the postapocalyptic elements that are hinted in the show but changed their #mind after the one off with the frozen businessmen and dominoed into marcy and simons backstory. on the other side there are stories that #explain too much to let the story speak for itself and i think it ends up having to do more with the crew trying to lead ppl in a certain #direction than expand on what they have and i see a lot of this with miraculous. like when interviews and tweets are used as word of god in #arguments and it becomes a little stifling to play around with it knowing the creator can just interject. u can say its the crews effort to #engage with its audience but it feels more like micromanaging. and none of this is to say there ISNT room for stories that spell things out #theyre just suited for different things. if sesame street tried abstract approaches to themes and nuance itd be counterproductive #a lot of things fly over my head so i need help picking things apart to get it- but it doesnt have to be from the story itself. ive picked #picked up or built on my own interpretations listening to other ppl share their thoughts which creates conversation around the same thing #sometimes stories will spell things out for you without being so obvious abt it that it feels like its woven into the text. my fav example #for this might be ATLA using younger characters as its main cast but instead of feeling like its dumbed down for kids to understand why war #is bad its framed from a childs point of view so younger audiences can pick up on it by relating to the characters. maybe an 8 year old #wont get how geopolitics works but at least they get 'hey the world is a little more complicated than everyone vs. fire nation'. same for #steven universe bc its like theyre trying to describe and put feelings into words that kids might not have so they have smth to start with #especially with the metaphors around relationships bc even if it looks unfamiliar as a kid now maybe the hope is for it to be smth you can #look back to. thats why it feels like these shows grew up with me.. instead of saving difficult topics for 'when im ready for it'#as if its preparing me for high school it gave me smth to turn in my hands and revisit again and again as i grow. stories that never #treated u as dumb all along. just someone who could learn and come back to it as many times as u need to. i loved SU for the longest time #but i felt guilty for enjoying it hearing the way ppl bash it. bc i was a kid and thought other ppl understood it better than me and made #feel bad for leaning into the message of paying forward kindness and not questioning why steven didnt punish the diamonds or hold them #accountable. but im rewatching it now and going oh. i still love this show and what it was trying to teach me #yapping #diary

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lilac-hecox · 20 days

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I saw a post discussing how a person had their smosh membership banned on the discord and the youtube live because they shared clips and was reported by a fellow fan to smoshcord mods who in turn reported them. Long story short, the person canceled their membership.

So, in your duty to 'protect' smosh you're actively losing them money. Sharing simple clips from bts or streams is no big deal and often acts as an incentive.

Fans should not be reporting and turning in fellow fans for sharing clips. Good God, it is not that deep and again you're actively making Smosh lose money because the person will then choose to cancel their membership that they would have otherwise kept???

It just smacks of like gate-keeping fandom. It's so annoying.

#this is often the hill i die on i know #but i stand behind it #sharing clips is not a bad thing #smosh #smoshblr #and again #don't tell anyone what your youtube name is on your clip sharing don't give them a way to connect you #ian hecox #anthony padilla #smosh games #smosh pit #i will be going to sleep and then work in the morning so if shit pops off i wont be around until much later #smosh membership

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