I see and whole heartedly agree with the criticisms with AI art, but both sides have people acting like it's the end of human made art, and it's like,,,,,,, no.
Ya got any tips for writing dialog for the sillies?
i wish i could come up w anything deeply helpful irt this but i just kinda "feel it" & it "happens", generally in a way i find hard 2 explain to people... i will give it a go though
i made a post abt the kind of mindset i have when i write karkat dialogue here https://www.tumblr.com/cgtg/739174575193112576/do-you-have-any-tips-on-writing-karkat-dialogue a while back though🙂
for dave i think id have an even harder time explaining it, but my dave is rly heavily influenced by post-irony & ytp. whenever i write dave i just kinda follow a stream of consciousness that is dubious about shit and loves to laugh i guess? i rlly don't know how to describe it. i tend to reread canon dialogue particlarly from act3-6 for inspo, sometimes i'm straight up using my own brain with some kind of dave-filter
when i write them together i like 2 live in the beautiful world where they both agreed to be earnest with each other, probably my best example of that is "candid detail". i don't do that all the time bc i also like to write em with their guards up e.g. "bad mouther hole master", theres a lot of points in their relationship that have rly fun dynamics 2 me.
i guess i also do them kinda silly. ive been told my dk is quite silly. i like 2 imagine they know how to make each other laugh. they also learn a lot from each others perspectives on things, like insecurities or bad experiences or even just what they like / what art is to them, stuff like that. in my interp they do rly end up having a lot of things in common ideologically bc they're both at their cores very soft people.
it's all abt big long sentences with an undertone of quiet empathy. it can also be about aggressively bumping shoulders w their own egos too because that's fun
fundamentally though, i write them 2 be genuinely interested in what the other has to say. like, curious about each other. it gives u rly fun back & forth that isn't too mean-spirited & is more playful/genuine... i think it's rlly easy to write them totally discrediting each other's viewpoints which i do sometimes too (again, FUN !) but if u do it in the wrong context it just comes off as needlessly sardonic & harshes the vibe. i mention that bc i have a hard time balancing their egos & genuity myself sometimes
also very important to know when to have them run their mouths & when to have them sit their asses down & LISTEN. i tend to have them run their mouths a lot in scripts i havent finished/posted, just bc i have so much fun doing it, but it makes the dialogue so long-winded that i can't turn it into a comic... yeah definitely part of it is remembering they both know how to be succinct when they need/wanna be and aren't ALWAYS flapping their mouths. sometimes i realise a script is going in a direction that could be a whole other convo & that's when i tend 2 nip it in the bud
i really dont kno if any of this is helpful but i hope it is a little 4 my kinda... process i guess 🙂
thank u 4 asking me abt it ! if i think of better ways 2 explain it i will share in da future i hope u r having a good day
Yall I was working on a kuroshitsuji YTP directors cut extended edition version 2.0 and part of this involved cutting up bits of the Ciel in Wonderland OVA, and folks lemme tell ya… I did not like what I saw 😂 and no I’m not just talking about the Ran Mao mushroom though that was upsetting, I’m talking about the potential foreshadowing in this OVA.
At the end when Ciel Alice is on trial Madame Red along with the jury, comprised of people such as Lizzy, Soma, and the Phantomhive servants, accuse OCiel of the crime of “being born” and “taking Ciel away from them.” Knowing what we know now from later manga chapters it’s kind of awful? I felt really bad for him! It screams survivor’s guilt. And then Sebastian comes to save him from being beheaded and tells him some shit about it doesn’t matter what happened or who he is or whatever the fuck because he’s Sebastian’s commander.
And then we see that Sebastian was telling this “bedtime story” to Ciel’s dead body the whole time. WTF?!
Now I dunno if it’s meant to be an in between of season one and season two when Ciel’s soul was “stolen” or if this is some kind of weird foreshadowing. Hard for me to tell because the anime has done that before where despite being so off-canon it actually also manages to drop hints at future manga developments way before they’re printed?
So I’m just saying it’s concerning to me that this is the second anime related production where we have Sebastian doing tasks for a dead Ciel. The other one is a VA event where everything’s really silly and then at the end they slap everyone in the face with Sebastian outside the ruins of the manor with a birthday cake for Ciel who’s extremely dead. I get this bad feeling like the end of the manga he’s going to be keeping Ciel’s dead body around and butlering to it until it decays entirely because he doesn’t know how to grieve and cope with Ciel being dead.
Fuck!!! Yana don’t, girl please do not. (She’s gonna isn’t she)
Ah god what if he kills the rest of the servants too omfg and he puppets all of them to pretend like life is still the same that’s scary as shit what the fuck!!!
My brain skips letters like I’m sentence mixing a YTP. My hands cramp after about 5 minutes of frantic writing, due to me having, UNDENIABLY, the worst pencil grip known to man (images attached below, I am willing to challenge ANYONE on this fact). If I were any less sane, there is no doubt in my mind that I would have bitten off my fingers by now for betraying me so.
“Now we write the H.”
“but… we are writing the word ‘what’…. W comes first….”
“YOU WILL WRITE H, AND YOU WILL ERASE IT. SUFFER BY YOUR OWN HAND.”
Colorized footage attached for proof. I made a new letter. I call it double H. It’s H, but you expel all the air in your lungs each time you pronounce it.
And pen… pen is my MORTAL enemy. If it isn’t Frixion, and I need to write more than 3 words, call it the Grinch because I’m not touching it with a 39.5 ft pole. I would rather eat toenails without any milk.
“ah, I’m so sorry, do you have a pencil I could borrow??”
“um, does pen work?”
no STACEY, pen does NOT work. I have the brain of a dog chasing a squirrel and the pencil grip of a goblin that bends my thumb at a 90° angle. I would rather drown in an actual fountain than use a fountain pen. I would rather have a gun pointed at my nonexistent balls than use a ballpoint pen.
Also, a message to any teacher who requires a blue or black ink pen: I hope your future generations fail you the way that your teaching failed me. I wish you a fraction of the hell my monkey hands go through trying to precisely write your horrid work, ultimately STILL getting it wrong. I hope you know torment, for I am well acquainted.
No clue if it’s an ADHD thing, autism thing, or just my silly little brain working too fast. But it is hell on earth. If I reach eternal torment downstairs and writing on a timed exam with pen is my torment? I would completely understand.
Here is my pencil grip. In my 21 years of life, I have never met someone with one worse than mine. I challenge this entire site to find anyone that holds their pencil worse than me. My parents bought fancy pencil grips to teach me to write correctly as a child, and I defied them like a self righteous baboon flinging poop at a wall. Now here is my punishment. My handwriting gets the job done, but in the absolute worst way possible. And it is agony.
Honestly I don't think I'm gonna keep shei's whole thing with shapeshifting being inherently painful and like the painkiller addiction n stuff. I'd imagine it's still painful if he has to do it a lot or something especially taxing, just to represent exhaustion/overworking. But like I think they can do it casually and it's even comforting.
Instead I think it's gonna be maintaining human form that's going to be difficult for them. Imagine it's been a long day for him, tired as fuck. Overstimulated as fuck. At the edge of his rope, trying to make it home so he can decompress without causing a scene. Hoping nobody notices that he's given up trying to make a realistic face entirely and the audible bone snapping as his body reflexively tries to force its way out of his disguise. He finally gets home and practically explodes out of his skin. An hour later Vidri gets off of work and sees Shei sorta growing/crawling halfway up the wall with just an arm and head formed sipping a juice box and watching future-ytps and is just like
Molly’s future mishaps is a webcomic about time traveling sea slugs!
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Will you ever make more YTPs your Batman Forever one was really funny thanks
THANK You I'm glad you think so.. im not real sure though tbh i have pretty high standards for myself when it comes to being funny (if you can believe it) and i made edward problems when i was on an ungodly amount of caffeine so i was giggling at like everything. Ive had a mlp ytp sitting in my files for maybe a week or so now that i have about a minute and a half of editing done for but idk if itll get finished. Id like to make another sometime though hopefully iuts a lot of fun when the circumstances are right + the payoff is nice but its most likely not gonna happen anytime in the near near future
total obama island: prompt: “give up haggling with fate, friend / this transaction’s at an end”
Eidan Pucci, Ultimate Astrologist | Pulled By The Stars [BOT]: [him vibes! he’s just stopped trying to fight fate, given up on ambition if all of it is both a) fated to fall apart and b) just going to hurt people in the process. Bargining with your future’s a dead end, and the world around him’s just full of such transactions trying to delay the inevitable.]
Xiuliang Guang, Ult. Graffiti Artist | Paint This Town Red [BOT]:[Needs to sleep in the pitch dark. She can’t sleep if there’s light anymore.][She used to be able to sleep literally anywhere: Couple weeks being a political prisoner and having bright lights on 24/7 does that to a bitch.]
Annabel ‘Anna’ LePoint, Ultimate Weapons Expert | Standby, Sell, Survive [BOT]: [Luckily, she also likes the pitch dark.]
total obama island: [replying to Eidan Pucci] this is a very good response but now I get to tell you that the prompt is from a YTP where morshu is spamton from deltarune
#<- but boss how does the use of tense plug in to the desire readings [about the past+present+future tense of bashir being closeted in the 23rd century post]
ghkjshfg o77777 👍 [buckles in] (no particular thesis just a playing in the space)
okay so the unanchor from time exist-in-every-tense-at-once is about Experiencing desire. being the Lover reaching out to a Beloved. so bashir until he experiences closeted gay desire is not the subject here it is the viewer. and helpfully shes already had a Ton of chapters about how texts that deal with desire are also making love to the reader/the reader is being seduced by (is IN the act of desiring) the text
ie the author is doing, ideally, all the moves that PROLONG and sustain erotic desire (keeping the lovers apart despite their wishes and the readers' thru plot complications that, ideally, uses lots of triangulating moves to let them ALMOST connect or connect indirectly but never consummate)
and the reader as the lover is reaching for something [framework review->] that they lack, that they identify would make them a more complete them, but attempts to integrate that into themself only encounter paradox - in a 'wholeness is unreachable' sense but also, kind of paradoxically in itself, in a 'freed from singular identity by the impossible heights the triangulation of metaphor can let u experience'. sense. ie: feeling fully that u exist in all tenses at once (usually wishing viscerally to prolong the present togetherness youre in or to already be in the togethered future you're kept from being in presently)
SO. here. we can backfill that the viewer (general viewer i will take closeted bashir as a universal truth lol) wants and reaches for the erotic connection of the text's acknowledgement of their reality, the textual reading of gay bashir. the viewer would be fulfilled by gay bashir. the viewer never achieves gay bashir. the viewer reaches thru time to find gay bashir and cannot find him. the viewer reaches thru the fourth wall back into their own world to find the various ways that mr siddig has played gay bashir and ensures gay bashir lives on outside the text but that still doesnt give them gay bashir. still to the various real-world forces that kept a mainstream 90s show from manifesting a gay bashir that explain the lack but, yet, does not give gay bashir. he is within reach: one can construct triangulating texts called Fanfics and YTP Edits that give an illusion of gay bashir or a canon-compliant explanation for closeted bashir but still... we cannot approach textually gay bashir but by the uncloseable distance of zeno's arrow (classic citation she uses).
the question of why was/is/will bashir (be) closeted (dude its fine you can relax) itself raises the tension that the character is cannot ease: he, as posited, yearns for something (to be gay) he cannot reach, sustained forever in erotic desire (for men) he cannot have.
and the lack reflects the real-world present/past experience of being closeted and the (given by the text, futile; given by the nebulous post-canon of mr siddig et al and many viewers, reachable) hope that the future wouldn't have that barrier to one's desire: we exist in the hopeful future. we exist in a bifurcated present, the reality of the lack of gay bashir and the indirect sense in which we have him: he is closeted.
we exist in a mimic of the imperfect tense that carries past actions into the present and makes closeted bashir eternal: he was closeted when created, he is closeted when we remember experiencing him, and he will be closeted every time we revisit the text.