#jane talks

[eyelessfaces]

I don't think we, as a society, talk enough about how long oscar's bottom lashes are

look look the light hits just right under his eye and WHAT THE FUCK

[juniperjane]

my mind is a salad spinner and i'm whizzing my thoughts at high velocity while my blorbos hold on for dear life

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Today I learned that my tea bags have literary quotes on them, and I am ashamed that I have thrown several away without knowing this

[janearts]

Hi! I think you’ve probably answered this question before, but it’s been a bit so I can’t quite remember... I wanted to double check your stance on people studying your art/style and if that was something you were comfortable with or not! The way you break down shapes/have fun character designs while still maintaining a level of realism is something I have always admired in your work and I want to get better at it myself! Thank you in advance 🙇

The word "studying" makes me uncomfortable only because there are so many anatomical errors in what I draw. 😂 My concern would be that people might not spot—and therefore fail to correct—them and would end up adopting my foibles. I'm really not great with perspective/foreshortening and proportions and if you copy me, neither will you!

So, I'm uncomfortable with people directly copying my art stroke for stroke, but if you want to approach art like I approach art, well, I can actually help you with that. I have a tutorial tag that would be worth checking out and, if there's something you'd like me to cover but don't see in the tag, just shoot me an ask and I can either help you directly or I can draw out a tutorial if I can think of one.

So in sum, stuff like this gives me the warm fuzzies. Stuff like this or this makes me see red.

[camp-idwb-intern]

Help, how do I tell this guy he can’t sigh his lobster children up for abstinence camp just so they can bug the councilors?

[eddie-kasalivich]

I treasure Eddie Kasalivich with an admiration and fondness that time can never dampen

[dergenflergen]

I honestly can't decide which ending I like more. Reveal yourself as a villain and Ortega smuggles you out. Or keep the villain part to yourself and the rangers smuggle you to tia Elena's ranch.

[brown-eyes-and-beskar]

Today’s episode is a mixed reaction from me, because yes I am writing the fic with the reader insert who worked with Dr. Pershing and we got to see lots of worldbuilding about his character and how the post-Empire laboratory world works and that will help my fic

but also I LOVE DIN DJARIN AND WANTED TO SEE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING

[underoosstark]

man oh man this sinus sure can infection

[dearperalta]

found out about the devastating news while in university, and i am devastated. the first thing i wanted to do after hearing about it was to go back to this site and check up on the community here.

andre braugher is a great actor and an important pillar to brooklyn nine nine. i am forever grateful to him for portraying one of the best characters in television. may he rest in peace.

[eyelessfaces]

just thinking about oscar isaac and his ginger co stars you know

[marjcrie]

oi gente! passando aqui pra dizer que não morri, mas que de fato nesse último mês dei uma afastada do tumblr por conta de algumas demandas pessoais, mas também por causa dessa atualização horrivel kkkkkkk juro, simplesmente entro aqui e não lembro onde fica nada, esqueço de responder os chats (uó). to reorganizando minha rotina e como esse semestre vou precisar qualificar meu projeto de mestrado, vou precisar ficar mais off pra me dedicar à escrita acadêmica :') mas tbm vou tentar dar sinal de vida e alimentar o muse de outra formas quando não conseguir responder as inters em si (pinterest, musing, hcs, asks, etc). espero que entendam e que ninguém tenha desistido de mim, sdds 🥹🧡

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Okay, friends, I’ll be home alone tonight and I’m going to watch two movies I’ve never seen before. I’ve narrowed it down to these. Y’all pick for me.

[juniperjane]

On Consuming Media

I’ve been seeing so many posts about people longing for the days when TV show episodes were released once a week, how we used to be able to enjoy a show without the stress of “missing out” on the conversation. You would watch an episode, the next day sitting around with your friends or family completely enraptured by what just happened, discussing everything that happened from the overarching plot to the finest details, throwing back and forth ideas of what will happen in the next week’s episode.

We would have seasons with 30-45 minute episodes, 20+ episodes a season, all rich with story and character development. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like there was less to watch as well. Most likely because we only had three major channels on free-to-air TV that showed a good majority of the popular culture, and it was a battle between them to gain your viewership. But even if times didn’t overlap and you enjoyed multiple shows, it didn’t feel overwhelming. Sure, we had to sit through advertisements which took up a lot of a channel’s viewing time, but there is fun in that little bit of nostalgia too; running for the bathroom or snacks, trying to make it back before the show began again.

And there was excitement for the show. With the pacing being an episode a night or week depending on what you were watching, you had time to be excited for something to come out. Again, this may be just me, but with the posts I’ve been seeing circulating, I figure it’s not. Nowadays, I’m excited for things to come out, but it’s overshadowed by the dread of knowing I will have to binge the series, something I have very little time to do, just so I don’t miss out on the wave of everyone talking about it, before the next new thing comes out.

Before you say, “but Jane, you can watch it at your own pace, you don’t have to keep up with everyone else!”, I know this. But, despite that size of the community, we all love to be a part of something where we can share enjoyment with one another, on most levels of our lives. Even something like sitting down to share a meal, the context of “I made this, not just for myself, but to share, please join me and take part.” We are social creatures and, I feel, especially when it comes to our leisure time, it’s nice to share and inspire others with the things we enjoy.

Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not judging anyone for binge-watching or reading. I love having something that holds my attention and wanting to read or watch things all the way through in a sitting when I’m able. The excitement is real and it’s fun to be able to talk to people about things in real time. But I feel like, because the way everything is a hustle and a grind, it’s just expected that even our hobbies and entertainment have to all be consumed this way. I remember reading books like Harry Potter, getting through it in one sitting and then screaming with my friends about it who did the same the following day. But there were also books that I took my time with, reading at my own pace and just savouring, enjoying it in little bits. There was time, and breathing room, even with reading a book over the course of one day.

With content coming out so rapidly, and so much at once, it’s so hard to keep up and makes leisure a chore. We’re all responsible for ourselves and what we choose to do with our time and money, but we cannot deny that media and advertising do have a great affect on our choices. Even down to how we consume; audiobooks, e-books, physical. Hardbacks or paperbacks. An aesthetic library that looks wonderful but maybe, deep down a lot of the books I don’t actually want to read, but bought because I wanted to be a part of the community, having people to engage with.

My main point it, I think we miss out on more when things are so fast-paced, than when things were slower. Maybe being bookish isn’t having a giant library where I’m in debt because I need to have every book that’s on trend to keep up and be relevant. Maybe it’s just having your favourites that you read over and over, a few new books thrown in that take your interest. Maybe it’s a mixture of physical books, e-books, audiobooks. Maybe it’s only older books, or only newer books. Maybe the community we need to be invested in is something a little smaller, like book clubs of old. Whatever fits into your lifestyle, not something unrealistic.

[foolishhitt]

i bought a bullet journal to try and keep tabs on my emotions/feelings cause i’m not doing too hot rn but i didn’t want to ‘ruin’ it by writing in it so i went to buy another one but they didn’t have one with the same cover but i bought it anyway thinking i could keep one nice and write in the other one so anyway now i have two bullet journals i don’t want to ‘ruin’ by using them for their purpose :)

[eddie-kasalivich]

Sorry to bother you, but do you remember what Eddie was studying in college?

No bother at all! I don't think the movie mentions it specifically, but it seems likely that his degree would have been in mechanical engineering or something similar!