#imaginarysliceoflife

[manfrommars2049]

Space Station Worker (@Novelance) via ImaginarySliceOfLife

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Quick doodle cuz not much time

[eggshellsareneat]

Incidentally does anyone know good blogs to follow to replicate the imaginary network on Reddit? I'm definitely missing those subs quite a bit.

(Imaginary network is a network of subreddits for high-quality art, organized by content. If you wanted art of skyscapes, for instance, you'd use r/imaginaryskyscapes. The subreddits mostly consisted curated of artstation/pixiv/twitter/DA crossposts)

[sunwardscity]

[this-existence]

(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/810436895457248694/) (https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/comments/eh6zgo/winter_by_me/)

[quinnies-world]

Picture by @r/ImaginarySliceOfLife

It's absolutely hard trying to push forward in the deafening silence alone.

The unbelievable thought of functioning with your own thoughts hoping no one sees past the curtain of doubt.

The treacherous fears that roam about.

Keeping your human realities from finding out your future that you made out.

And still you're pushing through the trenches though the chains lie heavy

There is no sweeter victory than the marks that made you carry the unsteady.

-Almdgrl

[blag-fidray]

[achiayewniandisposition]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginarySliceOfLife/comments/zhjj4m/ghost_rider_forget_jpeg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[imaginarysliceoflife]

Summer Garden [Artist is BF.]

Top comment: “Artwork and artist pixiv and artist twitter. The artist BF. has beautiful art, please check them out!”

[manfrommars2049]

Unwilling Undead by Yako (OC) via ImaginarySliceOfLife

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Traffic (original art)

[io-est]

Inktober Day 11 - Snow

[templeoftales]

Night Out with Big Sis 🌃 #hongkong #illustration #cheongsam #nightmarket #streetfood #oldhongkong #procreate #tanghulu #digitalpainting #imaginarysliceoflife https://www.instagram.com/p/B0-a4cwAOmr/?igshid=hu8zmmv199ij

[dirtreally]

Extremely funny type of content is art that aspires to abandon voyeurism and display something in the vein of authenticity or a grounding in daily life but in doing so ends up becoming voyeuristic in its own presentation but just in a slightly more crowded and obfuscated way

[siryouarebeingmocked]

mitchels vs machines (spoilers)

didn’t like it

I wanted to watch it when it came out, because I heard the name ‘miller and lord’, the guys who did Spider-Verse and other cool stuff. Then I saw the main character had a Pride pin on her shirt, and I was worried it would be woke.

But I gave it a shot anyway.

Take a look at the main character, Katie. What do you think her core character concept is?

>Ironically post-grunge teen hipster?

Good guess, but no. Here’s a hint; she’s about to leave for art school. Combine that with the Pride pin.

>Her design concept is stereotypical college lesbian?

So I assume.

But okay, it’s a cartoon, they deal in broad archetypes. Whatever. You know what also bugs me about the movie? Much more? As a character designer?

The eyes.

Look at them.

The bodies are mostly realistic, with stylized proportions, but the eyes are just tiny dots in an oval of almost-flat white like a psycho Korean webcomic character. All that’s missing is the fisheye overhead lens.

There’s probably ways to make those work in 3D, but the animators used precisely none of them. They’re barely even 3D.

Okay, okay, I’m kidding. Let’s scale it back. To that horrible Squirrel Girl art.

I browse /r/ImaginarySliceOfLife. There’s a lot of pictures there with a realistically drawn setting, a realistic character/s, and then the face is basically standard flat anime cel-shading. MvstM’s art direction reminds me of that.

Let’s get back to Katie. While she’s chatting with her pals on Zoom or whatever, one of them tries to sell her on the school because it has “diversity”. No backspin or depth, the statement just lays there. This is foreshadowing for the reveal that she’s gay/bi at the end, when she reaches the school and the girl we thought was her friend was actually her girlfriend! What a tweest!

Oh, wait, no, I’m not sure why we’re actually supposed to care about that. It’s not some shocking twist. Is it trying to improve gay acceptance by making us like the character and then revealing she was gay? Because it wasn’t exactly subtle. Or well-written. I don’t see how it recontextualized her character in any significant way. It just feels extremely token. 

...California should’ve been a hint.

Writing-wise, what’s the lie the protagonists believe? The Dad thinks tech is bad. The mom keeps using her phone to compare herself to the perfect Joneses, played by John Legend and Chrissy Teigen basically playing themselves. 

The son is obsessed with dinosaurs and also he thinks the Joneses’ daughter is cute and he’s socially awkward. Katie...well, she feels her small town doesn’t appreciate her and her tastes and her ironic, 30ish-writer’s idea of what the kids like these days, (which is apparently Youtube poops) - and want to go to art school.

Oddly enough, I should empathize with her. I went off to art school. I didn’t fit in at home. We both wear glasses. Heck, she’s even part black, and I’m entirely black. I’m from the Caribbean, so I think that makes me, like, 120% black.

But her story still bores me.

Ostensibly, the idea is “she learns to appreciate her family and her new friends by working together to save the world from the Metaphors.” The mom should learn that the other family isn’t perfect and she needs to accept her own family’s flaws and stop comparing herself to the Joneses’ idealized image. Dad learns tech isn’t all bad. Little brother learns how to accept himself and take his shot and of course it turns out the Joneses’ daughter actually likes to hear him talk about dinos.

Did I mention that I’ve also been writing regularly for over a decade now? On top of being a bibliophile?

These are all good arcs, on paper - I’ve written about and struggled with some of them myself - but I just wasn’t feeling it. I think the script needed more time in the oven.

I stopped watching in one scene where the tech-company-AI’s rogue robots are hunting all humans - yes, I know, the metaphor is very nuanced - and the tech-hating dad takes their phones and gleefully stomps them to pieces, a gigantic smile on his face, insisting he’s not enjoying it.

Then he hands the little pieces back to the son, who thanks him. 

And that’s the joke.

It’s not actually funny to me. It’s just awkward and cringy. Maybe that’s because I spend most of my waking hours looking at a screen, but all I could think of was the hundreds of bucks of electronics he was cheerfully destroying.

Maybe it would’ve been funnier on Fairly Oddparents, in 2D. Maybe it would’ve been funnier without the other three family members watching him in shock and horror.

Now that I’m typing this maybe it reminded me - somewhere deep down - of my own abusive mother, who once destroyed a book I was reading in similar fashion.

Maybe that’s my real problem with the movie.

TEAL DEAR: Movie’s not woke, IMO, just mediocre.