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getvalentined · 8 months

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Went through the FF7Rb demo and all I've gotta say is that I'm really proud of how I write pre-Nibelheim Sephiroth.

#specifically in #fic: smoke and mirrors #I am once again entirely confident in my rendition of his characterization #he even does something in the demo #that I had him do in smoke and mirrors #which is wild #it's a body language thing #but it's overt and exact #and I am over the moon

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 10 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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razzafrazzle · 11 days

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literally my favorite aspect of sock opera is bill calmly but repeatedly failing to buckle his seatbelt. like its funny enough that Bill Cipher of all people is putting on a seatbelt but its so funny that he keeps fucking it up. but he's still just smiling like a dumbass the entire time

#from a storyboarding angle i get it #because in the next shot he turns towards dipper in a pretty cool looking way and theres the thing with the reflection #so they had to keep him looking the other way Somehow #but its really funny that the way they went about it was This Grown Man Can't Buckle A Seatbelt #like. i love the quiet sound effects too. its really funny to me in a way i cant describe #sock opera is good because we get to see a lot of bill's body language and the crew did a very good job in showing the physical differences #-between bill and dipper #this also goes for carpet diem. the gf crew is rlly good at body language #doc talks #gravity falls #undescribed

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factual-fantasy · 5 months

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ITS FINALLY DONE!! :DD

I started this comic back at the start of April, back when I made this other comic! It took an unfortunate amount of time to complete thanks to my condition.. but that's ok! All the lovely responses from the last comic kept me motivated! XDD (Thank you everyone!!🥰💞💞)

This time around I went with a more serious tone and put a bit more story in there! :00 With this comic I wanted to experiment with Bonnie and Gloria's relationship. And more importantly, Gloria as a character.

I've thought of her as the groups leader, some may even say she's a mother of sorts. She is always so calm in the face of danger.. She always knows exactly what to do and she does it perfectly. How is she so strong? How does she deal with the stress of it all?? Does she even feel stressed to begin with?? Well as its turns out.. she kind'a doesn't feel anything at all.. and she wishes she was stronger..

#do not tag as ship!#pokemon scarlet and violet #gardevior #ampharos #gengar #kricketot #sylveon #meowscarada #my ocs #pokemon #tw injury #tw body gore #this comic was a great big experiment XDD #experimenting with the colorful emotions..#trying to keep all the pokemon on model-#dialogue.. body language..#I think all the things I was experimenting with came out pretty good! :}#Also with the relationship I've build for Grim and V up to this point-#it was fun to draw all the body language between them in the background XD

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meamiiikiii · 3 months

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silly comic based on a time i struggled to read live on stream :thumbsup:

context clip compilation below ASDASDFASA

(cw for brief mention of hospitals/strokes)

#in stars and time #isat #isat odile #isat siffrin #isat spoilers #<- not big ones but the convo this stems from occurs on 3rd floor before king act 2 so #cw hospital #cw stroke #<- brief stroke talk in the clip thats why #odile i am so sorry for making u deal with the fact that i cant read #or just input words?? where there arent any??? i dont know why i do that????#these streams have made me realize i sometimes just autofill words when reading SAFADDA #also random side headcanon i was thinking of while drawing this #is odile speaks alot with her hands?#idk why i just think its fun?#and kinda makes sense as someone who has travelled a lot thru different countries?#personal observation but you can convey/tell a lot without knowing a much of a different language via body language #as someone who grew up with family who spoke a different language that i do not speak LMAO #especially hands!! those say a lot!!#reading body langauge/tone helped me a lot when guessing if what was being talked about a good thing or not #tho tone to a lesser extent since uh it can be hard to tell at times i think ASDFDA #so it makes sense to me???#the art of pointing in general location is a universal skill i think?? yea #to a lesser extent i think siffrin might do this? but more subdued/under the cloak so #the cloak ends up getting in the way 90% of the time so no one can actually see that lmao #okay tag talk over #no stream time today because weather boooooo storms

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flickering-nightfall · 10 months

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Experiments with pupils and mouths that devolved into shenanigans :)

#you can really tell I was having a normal one when I drew these #I like many of the pupil experiments but don't really like mouths on my iterators #i've seen some people do mouths on itties well though #...really enjoyed noisy cat spearmaster with a mouth tbh #no plans on changing how i usually draw things rn. this was just for fun #Sometimes I miss having pupils and mouths to work with (on slugcats and itties)#Not having either on iterators can be a unique challenge that forces me to practice my body language more #which I like drawing anyways so it works out #antennae are suuuper fun to use for expressions too #rain world #flickerdoodles #art #group pic

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theminecraftbee · 3 months

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you know the excellent quadruple life fan comic has me thinking about double life again. and MAN. thinking about the soul bonds mechanically. like, before I get into my meta-analysis it’s worth noting that non-diagetically the soulbond mechanic being based on how many hearts someone has is basically the only way I can think to do it in minecraft that’s sensible, but diagetically…

so do you ever think about how the marker of what made people soulmates in double life was pain?

like, soulmates share injuries/pain! that’s the whole premise! like, to the point that day one people were making up elaborate ways to hurt themselves so they could test for their soulmates! you met your (very romantic-coded) partner and confirmed they were the person you were looking for by hitting each other, generally!

being a soulmate in the double life universe isn’t about being compatible, it’s about literally sharing pain, and it’s just… I think about how for some pairs, they share the burden between each other, and it brings them closer. for some pairs, though, the only way they know how to communicate is by hurting one another. and the thing is, this isn’t just a literal thing. like, mechanically, the thing soulmates do is share pain and communicate with pain, but metaphorically, can you say desert duo doesn’t have trouble communicating because half of how they know how to exist is either sharing in pain or causing it for each other? can you say that ranchers’ strength wasn’t a pair of people who understood each other’s pain and desperation to be better than they’ve been before? can you say that divorce quartet isn’t, well—

so pearl wins after scott hurts them one last time don’t you ever think about that,

#trafficblr #double life smp #abuse tw #SO. NOT… REALLY.#although a solid argument can be made about this so I’m including the tag since this is a post all about physically hurting your partner #it’s just that in-universe this isn’t normally framed as abuse.#(which I think counts for a lot here because it is in fact In A Video Game punching is normal mc body language)#but. so I KNOW shared injuries is already a stock soulmate trope and normally a whump one #but the thing is that none of those fics are normally as weird about it as whatever divorce quartet was doing #or impulse and Bdubs for that matter I didn’t put them in this post as to keep it short but #something something. Don’t you think THEIR problem was IGNORING pain until the very end #I am NOT ENOUGH OF A BOAT BOYS PERSON TO ECTEND IT TO THAT #anyway and bigb and ren were willing to surface-level share pain but weren’t either really willing to do it on a deeper level #anyway. it is nearly midnight idk if I am making sense but #sometimes I Think about things

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boojangs · 7 months

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How she looks at her when she isn't looking:

How she looks at her:

How she looks at her when she isn't looking:

How she looks at her:

Building Trust:

Coming Home:

#how am i not supposed to be obsessed with them when they're out there looking at each other like that #when day one Wednesday is looking like a lovesick puppy and just following Enid around #when Enid ran into the woods in her human body because all that mattered was Wednesday #when Wednesday said she missed Enid through Thing and Enid spoke her language and set it back #when Enid packed Wednesday's clothes for her because that is their level of intimacy now #when Enid didn't force a goodbye hug even though she thought that would be the last time she saw Wednesday #when Wednesday realized being alone wasn't fun anymore because being with Enid was better #when Wednesday always did what Enid asked without ever questioning why #when Enid said she wouldn't apologize for being herself and Wednesday respected that #when Enid Sinclair sprinted to Wednesday Addams and tackled her in a hug.#and Wednesday Addams pulled Enid Sinclair back into her arms and closed her eyes in relief.#when they are each other's home.#wenclair #Wednesday Addams #Enid Sinclair

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rassebers · 2 years

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So, who's paying?

#mp100 #my rart #shigeo kageyama #reigen arataka #mob psycho 100 #i love tumblr tags now I can talk abt this a lil bit #i rlly really wanted to try a back and forth panelling parallel thing to emphasize their body language #and I imagine mob is more comfortable with his emotions and expressing himself as he gets older #so as reigen & mob become closer friends I think they tease eachother more #hence. mob starts purposefully copying reigen #also small optional detail #i Imagine when mob says you're moving apartments right it's bc serizawa n reigen found. an apartment together #because every night I look up at the sky and it's full of stars and the world is beautiful #no matter how old mob gets #reigen will always insist that hes the one with the paycheck #so obviously *he* should be the one paying!#Reigen never gets out of the habit of calling mob kiddo either #thanks for listening #mob pays in the end btw

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arcticclimes · 9 days

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#the terror #the terror amc #james fitzjames #my posts #my gifs #I've gotta finish giffing the other scene but #everyone's reactions in this scene are so interesting #but as usual on my tumblr it's jfj posting hours #he's not doing the stare yet here (though he does later)#but his body language this scene is really telling #he's holding his hand so tightly #I love crozier and his whole arc but #he's so scary in this scene and the surrounding ones #and I remember reading some great meta #about how this whole thing isn't just a punishment #for the three who are being lashed #but for everyone who had to witness it #and it does come across not just as a valid punishment #but a message to everyone present #not to cross crozier or question his orders #and although fitzjames hasn't outright challenged crozier much #he is the one who does so the most and in the most personal ways #this is the same episode with the whole conversation about sophia #in fact was it even the same day?#okay this is enough tags but #I have many terror-brained thoughts

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brainrotcharacters · 17 days

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bitch rewatch it let me help you focus: Logan's body language was (haha) in sync with Wade seconds after that first fight in the Void

#they step forward with the same foot #they turn their head the same moment the same direction #we're not gonna talk about how logan understood wade's cue without much physical or verbal tells during cassandra's lair???????#Logan attunes to Wade's body language HELLA QUICKLY it's so #stfu all his life he'd trained his physical tells and stayed in survival mode that he was SEAMLESS #FLAWLESS in analyzing wade's physical tells believe me #I'M SO UPSET LOGAN IS ACTUALLY SO STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL #AAAAAAAA #deadpool and wolverine #deadpool #wolverine #deadpool 3 #logan howlett #wade wilson #poolverine #deadclaws #deadpool 2024 #adamantium gays #I HATE HOW MUCH MORE INTIMATE THINGS ARE WITH PHYSICALITY

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canisalbus · 29 days

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The way you draw bodies, especially the way you draw hands, is so genuine. It's so nice to look at because it looks so natural, graceful even. The body language and expressions of your characters say so much without them having to say anything at all, it's masterful work.

Thank you! Body language and believably expressive hand gestures are really high on my list of priorities and I put a lot of effort in trying to get them right. So it's really encouraging to hear people notice them!

#one thing I could do better at is coming up with impactful dialogue #I actually tried to think what kind of berating lecture Giordano could be delivering in that latest piece #but I felt like including it in speech bubbles would've watered down the effect #and maybe it's more effective just watching puppy Machete tense up and shrink into himself under the out-of-frame castigation #body language is such an instinctive and visceral thing #answered #jaydenknight

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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 3 months

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the body language. the fucking body language ?????

#it speaks louder than words ever could #like yeah the coachella kiss and the cleveland insanity say a lot #but this kind of thing??#this instinctive way of being around each other???#it's just SO much more revealing imo #the intimacy and the sheer fucking FLIRTING #and yes of course things are open to interpretation #but this kind of body language???#well #it's very hard to imagine what else its communicating 🫠#milex #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #miles kane #alex turner #my gifs #lulu posts

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thefloatingstone · 4 months

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"Do you need another hug?"

"I don't think that will help this time."

#BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #bg3 tav #tav x the emperor #bg3 emperor #artists on tumblr #Art #I need a better art tag #Glazed #The scene with this conversation lives rent free in my mind at all times #I could write a 500 page essay about how this game uses body language #And how much is said in how the characters physically react to the things Tav says to them #It's fucking insane #Squidposting #As usual Glaze eats the quality so click for details

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minubell · 4 months

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More Nyannatar sketches (The eye and/or crown are obviously not visible to anyone they're just fun to draw)

Celebrimbor: "Aww he's so cute!" Literally Everyone Else: "I'm scared to sleep near him."

#silmarillion #Sauron #Mairon #Annatar #Nyannatar AU #Nyannatar #Art #Sauron doesn't have cat instincts just because he turned into one.#Meaning he's got this very off putting vibe for any elf that has ever interacted with a real cat #His body language is just not right #And he does not do traditional cat things #and he just STARES at you without blinking #Celebrimbor for some reason loves him anyway

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vaguely-concerned · 5 months

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patented 'not that I care that much or anything so there's no need to dwell on it too too much ahaha *sweats nervously* but tain would you pls consider not murdering my mom (and the mother of your child) for absolutely no reason whatsoever? no pressure tho of course you know best! :)' smile

(it's so dark but also so funny that when tain keeps on Hinting Ominously, garak's reaction seems... slightly exasperated? more than anything, under all the tension fsdjafsl. this exact conversation has definitely happened multiple times over the last thirty years, lending horror an edge of 'oh this again huh' ennui and hilarity. 'I should have killed your mother before you were born'/'so you've told me, many times'. I think it's the turnaround time from 'I've missed you, Elim' to this that drives it from straightforward psychological horror sneaking dread to still that but also kind of hilarious. it really took tain less than five minutes to go there didn't it. wow. well, actually. I think maybe the real horror part is that garak still loves him and doesn't know how to stop. somewhere in there is a five year old whose heart is a desperate stupid little moth and his father is a ruinous forest fire in the night, brighter and closer than any star. of course it burns you to touch it that's just what love is, right. *spots a smiling julian bashir in the loading bay holding a box of chocolates out of the corner of his mind and experiences something harrowing and existential he simply cannot unpack right in this moment thank you* right???)

#the tain household is a very very dark comedy if you squint at it just right. also a tragedy and a horror of course #star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #elim garak #garashir #yeah it got in there I just can't help myself. in my defense that's all right there in the ep lol #his expressions and body language in this whole scene. a gold mine #he's so still and controlled most of the time (in the 'don't eat me' way) and there are moments where he suddenly looks much much younger #you just know he looked at tain exactly like this when he was five when he was fifteen when he was twenty five #and also the half light half dark lighting across his face doing its thing -- man what a good two parter this is

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