rough concept for the intro; escaping from reawakened ganondorf
(totk rewritten project)
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my dad gave me a book to read about the Dust Bowl so that, in his words, i would stop missing oklahoma, and jfc is it grim. like i did know it was an environmental catastrophe of almost unimaginable magnitude but all the policies that led up to it are so strikingly and blatantly stupid and also just a blisteringly clear indictment of imperialist and capitalist views of land coming home to roost in spectacularly awful fashion. the way that grasslands were framed as empty desert needing to be civilized through farming - the last gasp of the frontier, and a "make the desert bloom" narrative par excellence - and the urgency of the federal government to get settlers into every conceivable area, and the eagerness of the railroads and land speculators to invent promises to lure people out there, and the delight in the wholesale destruction of an ecosystem and the absolute confidence that people could conquer and remake a landscape as they wished, and that land would forever be an inexhaustible resource... i remember watching the ken burns documentary and being struck by the horror of the dust bowl back then too, but it really needs to be put into context as fallout specifically generated by imperialism and by capitalist & extractivist & white supremacist views of land that were not at all unique to this one catastrophe, and while it was a perfect storm of several terrible courses colliding, it can't be seen as a one-off fluke horror. it's just the extreme end result of the same kinds of reckless rolls of the dice that we're still doing ecologically on a massive scale, with industrial agriculture and with extractivism as a whole
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ty dellandrea on the lack of dallas penalties — EDM vs DAL; off day — 05.26.24
[seems like there’s a lot of emphasis with you guys of not taking penalties against the oilers because of just how good their power play is, i suppose. uh, how is that, i guess, being communicated from pete and his staff and, uh — what precisely goes into that?] yeah. um, i think we’ve been working on it a lot, we have — we’ve played some great power plays – you know, vegas, colorado – a lot of top end skill. and edmonton’s just another level of that with some elite skill, so. they have a great play and we know that. um, you know, it’s a part of the playoffs, is staying out of the box, you know, checking with your legs, and, you know, making smart decisions in those battles and, uh — you know, not having opportunities where they can call stuff. so, you’ve gotta stay out of the box in the playoffs and play smart and i think we’ve done a good job of that stuff thus far.
[do you feel like refs are a little bit more lenient, uh, allowing you guys to do more, a little bit? do you kind of walk that fine line [more] than the regular season? nowadays?] uh, yes and no. um, it’s the playoffs … um, it’s the way playoffs is, and has been for a while. um, you know, it’s hard, it’s another level of heavy and hard and physical, and so, it’s the way the playoffs is.
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do you do any studies on faces? if so, what kind of faces and what do you like to focus on?
i wouldnt say i do studies since i would get too bored, but i do reference real humans' features when designing ocs! i like runway models especially because theyre allowed to look interesting, and sometimes actors though i dont like when the end result is recognizable as any 1 actual person
i think if u dont use feature refs its very easy to end up with faces that average out your mental library/what you find appealing & what you find easy to draw especially 🤔 nothing wrong w that really, but if u feel like the variety is important for your work collect those pics of ppl with good noses, unusual eye shapes, cute ears and teeth & collage them together fjdnfnf
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