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thepastisalreadywritten · 2 years

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You can’t keep a good dog down, Charlie Brown.

When NASA launched a mission to the moon last week, the unmanned cabin included a stuffed Snoopy in an orange flight suit.

The space beagle was among the small items that serve as “zero gravity indicators,” which visually signal that the capsule has reached “the weightlessness of microgravity.”

Turns out, the agency couldn’t have picked a better pop culture symbol:

For seven decades, Snoopy and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang have defied the forces of time, freed from the gravitational pull of trends.

The globally beloved cartoon characters still pop up daily in comic strips, books and gift shops, as well as in animated specials, both new ones and the classic holiday programs such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that now stream on Apple TV Plus.

“Peanuts” is in the ether as surely as the jazzy Vince Guaraldi Trio riffs that bounce along the airwaves once Christmastime is here.

This year, the headquarters of Team Peanuts in Santa Rosa, California, has another reason to hold gatherings at its museum and library and ceremonies at its ice rink:

It’s the centennial of the birth of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz, who was born 26 November 1922 and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schulz died in February 2000, the same weekend that his final original strip was published.

Yet what he launched into the zeitgeist in 1950 remains a cultural touchstone. On Saturday, many syndicated cartoonists will mark the centennial in their strips.

So why does “Peanuts” endure so strongly — remaining so firmly woven into the fabric of popular culture — when so many aspects of mass entertainment all but disappear?

Jeannie Schulz, widow of the cartoonist and president of the Charles M. Schulz Museum’s board of directors, puts it concisely:

“Sparky tapped into a universal humanity and translated it into simple lines with a subtle humor.”

Those elegant, poignant, slyly simple lines curled and curved their way into religion and sports and war and mental health and love unrequited.

To mark the centennial, The Washington Post asked celebrities from various areas of achievement what Schulz’s creation has meant to them.

‘As good as anything ever’

Producer Lee Mendelson approached Schulz in the mid-’60s with an idea: Coca-Cola was interested in a TV project.

Out of that seed grew one of the two greatest animated Christmas shows to emerge from that decade: a classic that, like “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” melded the genius of artistic minds.

Schulz teamed with animator Bill Melendez and, working under a deadline of mere months, the three men created “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a masterpiece that daringly led with its heart.

Charlie Brown battled seasonal depression, Snoopy engaged in flights of fancy and Linus Van Pelt delivered the biblical monologue that, out of the mouths of a babe, still moves viewers regardless of age or faith.

“Over the course of my life, I’ve probably watched ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ more times than any single episode of television,” late-night host Jimmy Kimmel says. “It’s one of the main reasons I decided to have more kids.”

Kimmel thinks that special reflects the larger excellence of what a boy from Minnesota ultimately gave to the world.

“As soon as our daughter Jane learned to read, I bought her all the ‘Peanuts’ anthologies,” the comedian says. “I bought an original drawing of Snoopy by Charles Schulz that may very well be a forgery. I cherish it even if it is.

“The best of Peanuts is as good as anything ever. For me, it’s one of the greatest achievements in American art and literature.”

Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, director of such films as “Inside Out” and “Up,” says that brilliance was firmly rooted in the comic strip, which launched in fewer than a dozen newspapers before eventually being syndicated to thousands, becoming one of the most widely read strips in the world.

“Schulz was brave enough to talk about human, adult, often non-funny things in his strip,” Docter says. “He featured kids dealing with anxiety, insecurity, jealousy, unrequited love, which gave ‘Peanuts’ a real weight and importance.”

Growing up in Minnesota himself, Docter was drawn into a world that stays with him today.

“As a kid, I was totally hooked by Snoopy and the escapist fun and humor of that character,” he says.

“But whether Schulz was conscious of it or not, it was those deeper emotional things that made me continue to read into adulthood. Those deceptively simply drawn characters have real complexity and depth."

“And besides, they’re still funny 70 years later. How many comic strips can claim that?”

Bay Area author Gene Luen Yang considers how Schulz’s comic evolved from revelation to quiet revolution.

Says Yang, author of such graphic novels as “American Born Chinese”:

“He is so influential that pretty much every strip-format comic today, whether in the newspaper or on the web, has borrowed a bit of that innovation.”

‘We stayed close’

Ever the athlete, Schulz embraced baseball, golf and hockey from a young age. He grew to love sports like tennis and these passions regularly found their way into his strip.

Before he befriended some professional athletes well into his career, though, Schulz could not have known how much he buoyed them.

“As a young skater growing up, it was always fun to see the comic strip and celebrate everything we experienced at the rink,” says figure skater Scott Hamilton, who won Olympic gold in 1984.

“To see the ‘Peanuts’ [characters] come alive on the ice made it seem like what we were doing was more than just skating. We had a place in popular culture.”

Schulz relocated to Northern California in the late ’50s, but you couldn’t take the Minnesota boyhood out of the man.

In Santa Rosa, he built the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, also known as Snoopy’s Home Ice, in 1969. And there, in the early ’80s, Hamilton began working with Schulz on ice shows.

(The skater will host “Sparky’s Ice Spectacular” at the venue on Saturday to mark the centennial.)

“Sparky was very hands-on in everything he did,” Hamilton says.

“In one of the productions I did for him, he had this dream of doing a cocktail party where I got to play the host of the party.

That character was interested in a girl at the party, but she gets swept off her feet by another guest, kind of like his stories of the Little Red-Haired Girl in the comic strip. Just when it seems he lost the girl, she comes back after all the other guests had left.”

Adds Hamilton, “To see how much Sparky loved that production made it one of my all-time favorite skating memories.”

Schulz also became a strong supporter of equality in sports, which included joining the board of trustees of the Women’s Sports Foundation, founded in 1974 by tennis icon and civil rights activist Billie Jean King, to “advance the lives of women and girls through sports and physical activity.”

Schulz would not only draw Snoopy serving aces. He would also reference his friend King.

“Sparky was actually very shy, and his comic strips were a great source of inspiration and comfort for me, especially as I traveled the world during my tennis career,” King says.

“I knew if he added my name to a ‘Peanuts’ strip, he was checking in on me and wanted to have a chat.

“We stayed close until he passed, and I will always cherish that.”

’A perfect pairing’

Mendelson, who died in 2019, believed in creative serendipity. He once told The Post that the first time he heard the music of Vince Guaraldi — while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge — he thought he might use it someday.

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds views Guaraldi’s music as inseparable from the classic “Peanuts” animation it accompanied.

“When you match the music with ‘Peanuts’ and the era and what it was doing and saying, then it starts to hit like Beethoven Piano Sonata time,” Folds says of Guaraldi’s sunny West Coast sound that “distilled jazz into something popular.”

Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” songs and the animated specials were “a perfect pairing,” he says, adding that the music “just gets the vibe.”

That “loomed large” when Folds was asked to write theme music for the recent streaming Peanuts special, “It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown.”

He meditated on Guaraldi’s music rather than trying to imitate it: “I didn’t try to drop riffs. I just went with the color.”

‘Pursue their dream’

This month, “Jump Start” creator Robb Armstrong appeared on a Schulz Museum panel with other celebrated cartoonists to share personal stories about the Sparky they knew.

As he sat onstage, Armstrong appreciated that Schulz “made other budding artists either realize their dream, pursue their dream or smooth the road on their journey.”

“He was one of the most grand-hearted human beings I’ve ever encountered,” Armstrong says.

A 6-year-old Armstrong was inspired by “Peanuts” in the summer of 1968, when Schulz integrated the strip by introducing a Black character: Franklin.

Armstrong’s reaction: “I’m in this strip.”

(About a quarter-century later, Schulz gave Franklin the last name of “Armstrong” in a salute to his friend and syndicated colleague, an honor the “Jump Start” creator calls “otherworldly.”)

Barbara Brandon-Croft, the trailblazing creator of the comic “Where I’m Coming From,” also responded strongly in 1968.

“I was excited to see a Black character in ‘Peanuts.’ Even if Franklin’s presence was only that — a Black kid amongst the group — it absolutely made a difference,” she says."

“When you grow up as an ‘other,’ which is what this country laid out for us, when you see yourself represented, it gives you a sense of belonging.”

‘The cool astronaut’

Schulz, a World War II Army veteran, was long fascinated with aviation.

NASA and “Peanuts” have a long relationship that includes the Silver Snoopy Award, which is bestowed upon outstanding NASA contractors and employees.

In 1969, Schulz appeared in public alongside the Apollo 10 astronauts who rode in the module called “Charlie Brown.”

That was also the year that a future astronaut was inspired by Snoopy and space.

“In 1969, the Mets won the World Series, [astronauts] landed on the moon and I went to see ‘A Boy Named Charlie Brown,’ the new animated feature, at Radio City Music Hall, says Mike Massimino, an engineering professor and space adviser.

“It all happened within a few months of each other, and it kind of set up the passions for the rest of my life.”

That year, Massimino received a stuffed Snoopy astronaut toy as a gift.

In 2009, on his second NASA space mission, Massimino took that same Snoopy toy into space, a symbol of his lasting attachment to “Peanuts.”

Noting that his attempts to become an astronaut failed three times before he was accepted, Massimino says he admires Charlie Brown’s spirit of optimistic resilience.

“Charlie Brown is the friend and person I wanted to be, and Snoopy is the cool astronaut I wanted to be,” Massimino says.

Adds the astronaut, “I think it’s the greatest comic strip and characters ever created.”

#Snoopy #Peanuts #Charlie Brown #Charles Schulz #Charles M. Schulz Museum #Snoopy’s Home Ice

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mermaidmelodyedits · 2 years

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Melody's Beginning Ch.1

Author Notes: This fanfic is a SEQUEL to my Return to the Sea AU Fanfic where Melody is 19 instead of 12. This story is a retelling of The Little Mermaid 3 with Melody as the protagonist. Previous story has 24 chapters and a prologue.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THIS SEQUEL!

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Chapter 1: Nightmares

Tomorrow was a very special and important day, perhaps the most important in the entire ocean, and everything, everything, had to be utterly perfect. The king would not tolerate imperfections in any regard when it came to his beloved and revered wife Queen Athena.

It had been a long day of preparations for the events to come tomorrow, and now it was getting late. King Triton was exhausted, but nothing could stop him from being there to tuck his seven blessed daughters into bed every night.

“Oh the waves roll low… and the waves roll high…”

A siren’s call entranced him, he could never possess the will power to resist following it. As he pulled back the flowery seaweed tapestry entrance, he saw the most special sight in the world. Each of his little princesses scattered around the royal nursery, cuddling plush toys, brushing their hair, settling into their abalone shell beds to dream until morning.

“And so it goes, and so it goes, under a bright blue endless sky…”

On the other end of the room was a mostly open wall giving the most fantastical view of the golden city sprawled out for miles below. Athena perched herself on the open window sill, a perfect painting of a Queen with her whole king down behind her. Her melodic voice carrying on the tides and lulling her precious treasures to sleep.

“Waves try to measure, the days that we treasure…”

Athena glided to tiny baby Ariel, kissing her forehead. Her kind husband joined her tucking in their youngest, making sure she was perfectly swaddled in her flower woven blankets.

“Wave hello…and wave good bye.”

The king took his lover’s hand, and together they floated to the entrance.

“Under a bright endless sky…”

Each of their children had slipped asleep, and arm in arm the Queen and King left.

“Good night girls.”

The royal couples wedding anniversary was the grandest holiday of the year, and no expense or luxury was spared. King Triton had personally planned every detail, for no one knew what his wife would love the way he did. It was to take place at the mermaid lagoon, a beautiful island cove Athena had spent much of her youth and was her favorite place. She had grown up a bay mermaid, not a city one, and at times the Queen couldn’t help but be homesick. Her husband knew it, no matter how much she hide and denied it.

But it wasn’t just the location that was special, he had ensured a spectacular show of magic and music. For his wife had been a passionate scholar of the enchantments and the arts her whole life, before becoming Queen she had even been planning to go study magic under the sirens. A race of octopus like merfolk, known for having an ancient and powerful control of magic.

Of course everyone knew magic and art went hand in hand, to the point that many argued there was no difference between the two. Yet it wouldn’t be the king’s royal orchestral court that would play today, Athena could listen to them any time they want. How would that be special? No, he had secretly enlisted the finest local musician of the isles and bays famous for their completely unique jazzy and snappy music. Far too informal for the courts of Atlantica, but it was the music Athena grew up with, the kind she loved. It’s originality attributed to its origin in the bay mermaids combining the human sailor style of song with their own aquatic traditions, embued with a bit of special bay merfolk branded enchantments.

“Ok my love, you can open your eyes now.”

The Queen’s emerald eyes sparkled at the sight, the melodies swelled, rainbows and and rain of sparkles being woven by the most talented illusionaries in the ocean. All the flowers surrounding the lagoon burst into full bloom, with a little help from the expert botanists of the city leading up to the event. Their beautiful daughters in their laughing and playing in the calmer tides of the cove.

King Triton took his wife’s hand, and with the other he presented her with his anniversary gift. She took the gold and cerulean shell in her hand, and with her delicate hands she unhatched the locket.

Instantly a golden radiance appeared and inside of the clam locket she saw her and her husband, dancing in each other’s arms, their song playing as they twirled. With a small gasp she put her slender fingers to her rosy lips.

King Triton cradled her face in his strong hand, and sang softly to her. “Under an endless sky.”

She giggled, “Our song.”

He put his hand under her chin, tilting her hand towards him ever so slightly. As he leaned in for a kiss, they were interrupted by a chorus of giggles.

The couple snickered, and Triton playfully shushed Athena. Then in an instant he was in the water, scooping up their girls and tossing them into the air as they laughed and dove back into the water.

Then as quickly as it had began, it had to end. The light illusions vanished instantly, and the clouds being held at bay started to roll in. The merfolk looked around in instant dread and fear, and with gasps and screams they saw a ship heading towards them.

Yet this wasn’t any ship, it wasn’t merchants, or sea faring men who go about the oceans thinking merfolk are nothing but fairy tales in their sailor songs. No, this was a ship know to all merfolk, and especially known by those who lived among the isles. A pirate ship famous for raiding the coast for their favorite loot, the otherworldly magical kind that came from the depths below.

There was a panic, and everyone dove in different directions trying get as far below the surface as they could. Athena looked to her daughters, terror and confusion written all over their innocent faces. King Tritin got to them first, but only fast enough to grab their youngest. Athena rushed to her children, but not before the stampede slammed into the rest with complete disregard. Sending them either crashing into rocks or below the surface. The Queen dove below the water, long enough to count five of her kids get away with others into the darkness of the waves. Her husband had Ariel, which meant someone was missing.

As the merfolk fled the pirates plundered, grabbing all the treasures the merfolk left behind in the panic. Sharp hooks thrown over board, harpoons threatening themselves from the sides of the ship, men hooping and hollering as they drew their blades.

Athena rushed back to the surface, frantically searching for her missing child. Her husband still cradled Ariel, hesitating to rush below the surface without his entire family in tow.

Attina had been thrown into the rocks in the chaos, one landing directly on her tail fin. Pinning her to the outcropping and drawing blood, her face instantly twisting into pain.

The mother’s heart twisted, instantly recognizing the cries of her first born baby. She rushed to her child, adrenaline fueling her entire body as she lifted to massive rubble off her daughter. She could lift it just barely, but it was just enough for Triton to snatch her eldest away.

Athena screamed at her husband, “Go!” And he knew better than to question her.

“Close your eyes girls, don’t look.”

Athena had listened to her father, but Ariel hadn’t.

Their mother couldn’t get away in time, the ship didn’t stop, the bow slamming into her back at full speed. The water turning red…

There was a lightning strike and suddenly it wasn’t her mother. Her hair turned black, her wide green eyes turning sky blue, eyebrows like her father’s. All of suddenly it wasn’t her mother she was watching die, it was her daughter, it was her sweet baby Melody.

Ariel screamed herself awake, her skin cold and clammy, her body trembling. Eric wrapped his arms around her instantly, and with an understanding silence he cradled his wife to his chest.

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classiccinemadelights · 1 year

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#Betty Boop - Is My Palm Read? (1933) | Classic Cartoon Short

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ednajoness · 1 year

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#Edna Jones

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tagohd · 1 year

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May 2023

Even though I'm not starting my Patreon yet, I still think it would be a good idea to put out monthly progress reports, at least for my own records. So, here's a look at what I got done this month:

TL;DR

Finished one song that is now in the process of being published

Expanded on the lore behind my songs

Made progress on rewriting a song I first wrote in 2020 and began rewriting last June

Added to a song I thought was already finished

Started 3 new WIPs

Rhapsody for a Dying City

I began writing this song near the end of February, and I was stuck on it for some time. Initially titled simply "Jazzy Thing", I thought it could work as the theme for a city, so I changed the name to "City" until I could come up with something better. Eventually, the song evolved into something of a rhapsody with 5 distinct sections (A-E) spanning multiple genres, so I finally settled on the title "Rhapsody for a Dying City". What city it was and why it was dying would be decided later (more on that in a bit).

By the beginning of the month, I had the main idea for the song mostly completed. I still needed to write a saxophone solo, so I ended up hiring a professional, Brian Campbell, to improvise one for me. Since he also plays the clarinet, I hired him for that as well. On 5 May, after he sent back the recordings, of which there were five, I had to decide which ones to use, which was not an easy task. While listening to the entire song, I ended up deciding it would sound better if the sax came in a few measures earlier. This also allowed me to use more of the solos he recorded; the final version is actually a combination of four different recordings.

At the same time, I made some other changes to the song. I added a bass line throughout the song (prior to this, the piano was the main source of bass), a rhythm guitar part and a piano part in Section D, and a violin part and a pad in Section E. I also changed the bass line in Section E to be more active.

Then I began playing with the mixing. I decided to double track the guitars to give them a larger stereo presence: the lead guitar is panned completely to the left, and I added a delay that's panned completely to the right. I then did the same thing to the rhythm guitar, but in the opposite direction. I also added some effects and automation. You can hear some of this in the sample I uploaded: the reverb, saturation, and stereo width on the saxophone are gradually increased, giving it a psychedelic sound.

By 12 May, once I was satisfied with the mix, it was time for mastering. While I do have software that can essentially master for me (iZotope Ozone 9), I wasn't satisfied with the results. Because the song spans multiple genres and Ozone's Mastering Assistant only listens to one section of the song, I felt it would be better to hire a professional to do the mastering for me. As an added bonus, the mastering engineer I hired, Andres Mayo, also gave me some tips on how to improve my mix. A week later, and the song was mastered.

MONO

Of course, even though the song was finished, it still wasn't ready to be published. It needed album art. For that, I turned to my beloved mutual @lunathrix, who also made the album art for my first EP, A Losing Proposition, which is available for streaming or purchase on pretty much any platform. But what was he supposed to draw? That's where MONO comes in.

MONO is essentially the world for which my songs are the soundtrack. Conceived as a video game based on the hero's journey, I really hadn't done much with the story since I first had the idea in late 2020. But in order to ensure the album art remained (mostly) consistent with the story, @lunathrix had the idea to compile all of the lore into one place instead of leaving it scattered across a few Google Docs and our 3 years of DMs. I initially attempted to create a blog (@mono-lore) for holding all of it, but that quickly became untenable due to the scope of the project, so we switched to Obsidian with the "vault" maintained as a repository on GitHub. (I also briefly considered Scrivener, but Obsidian is free instead of $50, so it had a pretty large advantage.)

Just getting everything together and organized was a pretty large task in and of itself. In order to get all of our DMs, I ended up exporting the entirety of my main blog. (I found a tool that purported to extract just the DMs via Tumblr's API, but I couldn't get it to work.) After waiting almost an entire day, my blog was finally downloadable as an 80 GB(!!) ZIP file. I still don't know how big it is when uncompressed; I only wanted the DMs, so that's all I extracted. Anyway, once everything was in Obsidian, the lore quickly expanded, especially since I could now build off ideas I'd forgotten about.

This update has already gone on long enough, and I'm still not done, so I won't get too detailed, but here's a summary of some of the changes we've made:

New characters, including a secondary antagonist and a lesbian dragon who pines for the protagonist's horse

New information about existing characters, e.g. age, appearance, last names

The towns now have actual names instead of just being "Hometown/Boringsville", "Snowy Village", and "City". They are now Genton, Plata, and Rhapsody, respectively. (Yes, I know that technically makes the song "Rhapsody for Rhapsody". Maybe I'll come up with a better name later, but that's still better than just calling it "City".)

As it relates to "Rhapsody for a Dying City" and its album art, we decided the song was about the protagonist, Luke Campbell (no relation to Brian), having to go to Rhapsody to retrieve a legendary artifact known as "CURSED AL'S CURSED ORB". Other highlights include: Luke being an idiot and accidentally grabbing a chocolate orange instead, and one of the new characters, Case Weston, fighting him for THE ORB before he eventually joins Luke's side (but it's not because he likes Luke or anything, baka).

(Note to self: just realized that "Case Weston" sounds like "Case Western". That was unintentional, though it may have been subconscious. Not sure how to feel about that.)

Snowy, Pt. 1 (Rewrite)

(Okay, I'm almost done, I promise.) Although "Rhapsody" was my main project for this month, I did work on a couple other things as well, including a rewrite of one of my first songs, "Snowy, Pt. 1".

Last year, I started rewriting the songs on my first EP because they don't meet my current standards. For instance, I always intended for "Snowy, Pt. 1" to be a bit dissonant, but not as dissonant as it actually is. I had already fixed the piano part last year, but this month I finished writing the new flute part. I still need to fix the strings and the drums, though. I also still need to work on rewriting the other songs from A Losing Proposition.

Boringsville

Inspired by the sax on "Rhapsody", I added a sax part to "Boringsville", essentially giving it a new melody. Also had an idea to combine the "chiptune" version with the version featuring more realistic instruments.

When I first wrote "Boringsville" in August of last year, I actually wrote a second version that I envisioned would play when you're walking around the village at night. This month I added drums to it. I still need to fix them because I forgot that the night version isn't swung.

New WIPs

"Crystalline" - Not sure yet where this would play. Kinda too similar to the "Area Zero" theme from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

"Power" - A song that might play when you acquire/are in the vicinity of THE ORB and/or a chocolate orange (THE ORBNGE?)

"Untitled" - An idea I had for a song that either plays when you're on Luke's farm or when you're at the abandoned mine in Plata (or possibly both). I haven't written it down yet because every time I try to play it, I end up playing The Ink Spots instead.

All in all, this felt like an unusually productive month. Next month's update might not be as long.

#normal alan #update #monthly #may 2023 #music production

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strxnger-jxzzy · 2 years

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It took me awhile to color this and I'm rlly proud on how this turned out!!

#digital art #drawing #art #fanart #jazzy's drawings #the owl house fanart #toh fanart #the owl house #toh #owl house fanart #toh raine #raine whispers #raine whispers fanart #owl house #raine my beloved

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soupontheside · 3 years

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whats good gamers! guess who's jumpin from cartoon to cartoon!

this one goes out to @sunnquy-lavendrr 💜💛💙 enjoy this lil guy and his lil bug

#tentomon n izzy mine beloveds #also as i was making this my sibling accused me of using the promare colours. this one goes out to vale 🥊🥊🥊/hj #anyway here u go jazzy <3 boy and his bug #jackson draws #my art #digimon #tentomon #izzy izumi

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toonjazzy · 2 years

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Princess Rosalie (Or just Rosie), Ivy’s older sister

#jazzy’s art #my beloved <3

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pen-emue · 4 years

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Underappreciated Dream SMP animatics recommendations

So I was re-watching my favorite dreamsmps in a vague order playlist as I sometimes do, and I decided to make a post to promote the videos from the list that are CRIMINALLY underrated. I don’t personally have much of a reach, but I figured as long as I show a couple people new favourites, I’ll be happy.

There are so many talented artists in the community, but animations in this playlist are my all-time favourites. It contains all the big boys like SAD-ist and the like, but this post will be for those with <100k views at time of posting.

Dream SMP War Animation // The Fine Print - Survivian

Do you wish there were more animatics about early L’manburg / the first war? Well do I have a treat for you. The animation is so colourful and fluid, and it tells the story of that arc in such a fun jazzy way. I love it so much!

Dreamon Hunters op [Dream SMP Animatic] - Ballesta

Currently unlisted, so I almost didn’t put it here, but there was nothing in the description to indicate the artist hates it or doesn’t want it shown. (I actually removed another animatic from the playlist for this reason.) Even if they think it’s scuffed, I refuse to stop loving it. I don’t know if it’s the colours, or the way they draw Dream, or the fact that arc is way too underrated for how fun it was, but I always find myself re-watching this animatic.

Vow of Nonviolence || Technoblade ft. Ph1lza || Dream SMP Animatic - tinkruwu

Good animation of an iconic scene. Cool anime style. If you watch the playlist it’s obvious I have a thing for animatics that are just animated versions of scenes I like, and this is one of those. Manages to be both badass and hilarious, just like Techno himself.

DREAM SMP: Bad Decisions [ANIMATIC] - skywerse

You know how I mentioned that I love animated version of my favourite scenes? Well, let me introduce you to skywerse my beloved. I think they’re going to show up a few times on this list, and that fills me with deep rage. (Though I relish to opportunity to gush about them.) They do these awesome, movie-scene versions of all the best scenes. After their Techno vs Quackity one blew up I was hoping they’d be less underrated, but alas. Not only is their animation amazing but their sound design is always top tier.

"Forever Lost" | Doomsday war (Dream smp animation) - MIRU

As of posting this masterpiece has less than 10k. I am genuinely upset by this. If you watch one animatic from this list let it be this one!!! For an animatic with full colour, smooth animation, and impeccable sound design to be this underrated... it makes me want to yell. Also, there are way too few animatics about Doomsday compared to other events, and this is my favourite that I’ve seen by far.

The Eggpire - (dsmp Animatic) - Jak

A little more storyboard than others on this list, but I wanted more Eggpire on the playlist, and I love the sound design and the bit where Bad changes costume is so good. Also I love when Bad monologues to chat like he’s in a Shakespeare play.

Thus Always To Tyrants [Dream SMP Finale] [Animatic] - NA [Redacted]

To be fair, this one is pretty new. But it still has wayyyy too few views! It’s my favourite animatic of the disc war finale I’ve found so far. It’s beautiful and heartbreaking, and tells the story of the finale so well.

DREAM SMP: Easy to Forget [ANIMATIC] - skywerse

Another banger from skywerse, the icon. Relive an awesam scene in all its animated glory. Sam and Ranboo are two of my favourite role players, so any scene they’re in together tends to be a fav of mine.

The Egg Speaks to Ranboo [Dream SMP Animation] - Rusty_Courage

I know I go on about sound design a lot, but no other animatic on the playlist shows how important it is like this one. What the artist has done makes an already good scene 10000x times better. Just trust me and watch it.

DREAM SMP: Prison Visit [ANIMATIC] - skywerse

Having trouble properly visualizing the brutal child murder? Well, as always, skywerse has you covered. No but seriously. Dream and Tommy crushed it in that scene, as always, and the animation makes it even better.

Ranboo Confronts Sam [Dream SMP Animation] - Rusty_Courage

Hey, another one from Rusty_Courage. They might be a new favourite of mine. Did I mention how much I love Ranboo and Sam? Because I love Ranboo and Sam. Watch to cry.

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I don’t have that many followers, and you probably don’t either. But I still want to do what I normally never would and ask you to reblog. Giving less known artists even a tiny bit of extra exposure is good for everyone. It encourages them to make more great art for the community, and it takes the pressure off well known artists to always keep up with the happenings. So give them a watch and a nice comment.

#dream smp #dreamsmp #mcyt #mcyt animatic #dreamsmp animatic #not even sure if links will show in the tags but here goes nothing

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REALLY LONG CHARACTER SURVEY. RULES. repost , don’t reblog ! tag 10 ! good luck ! TAGGED. I took this from Minnie’s archived Bioshock blog. I’ve been looking for this meme all this month. TAGGING. @hammurabicomplex. @bluuxriising. @ Me - for Sal on @bulletsoverbensonhurst. @immaterialed (charlie) @soypeor (bella) @svmmercmance. @mrflayed. and you!

BASICS. FULL NAME : Eve Delores Littlejohn NICKNAME : Evie, Little Evie (by her maternal side of the family), Delores, Didi NAME MEANING / S Eve is from the ancient Hebrew name חַוָּה (Chawwah), which was derived from the Hebrew word חָוָה (chawah) meaning "to breathe" or the related word חָיָה (chayah) meaning "to live". Delores is a variant of Dolores, meaning "sorrows", taken from the Spanish title of the Virgin Mary María de los Dolores, meaning "Mary of Sorrows." Littlejohn is a surname that has historically been found in England and Scotland. With potential origins being either ‘to distinguish a beloved child that was not the eldest.’ Or, ‘a contradictory nickname for a large man.’ HISTORICAL CONNECTION? : She’s named after her grandmother, Evelyn Hollins.

AGE : 42 BIRTHDAY : June 2 ETHNIC GROUP : Black-American. Meaning she’s mixed with a lot (Some of her relatives are respectively Creole and Italian) but uses Black as a catch-all term. NATIONALITY : American LANGUAGE / S : English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, some French SEXUAL ORIENTATION : Bisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : Biromantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Verse dependent, usually married -or connected- to Salvatore Scozzari in some way. CLASS : Upper-Class HOME TOWN / AREA : Brooklyn. Spent time between Bedford-Stuyvesant - with her paternal grandfather and Park Slope - with her maternal grandparents. CURRENT HOME : In her childhood home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. PROFESSION : Ballet Instructor. Former Professional Ballerina. ( Other verses see her as a professional thief. )

PHYSICAL. HAIR : Black. In terms of her natural hair, Eve has springy, 3C hair she seldom shows off because she was raised in a family where straightened hair was deemed presentable and professional. EYES : Thin almond eyes. Dark brown. NOSE : Straight and small. FACE : She has a prominent, high forehead, that’s accented with high cheekbones and a pointy chin. LIPS : Full. COMPLEXION : She has a light brown (tawny) complexion. SCARS : None major. TATTOOS : None. HEIGHT : 5′4″ BUILD : Eve has a slender build. One of those people who have been small and petite since childhood. Despite this, she also stays skinny because she is obsessively conscious of the food she consumes. The older she gets the more she weighs, however. USUAL HAIR STYLE : Her hair is cut short. Reaching her shoulders in a neat, even bob. She either curls it in a retro fashion or curls the tips. For work she wears it in a traditional, pinned bun. USUAL FACE LOOK : In public, she appears stoic for the most part. Any emotion shown (such as the length of a smile) is carefully calculated. She has to seem perfect. USUAL CLOTHING : Form fitting dresses. Incredibly chic and fashionable for the time. Shoes include heels - never open-toed, unless she has on stockings. Extravagant earrings. Jewelry that can include either necklaces, crosses, pearls, or dainty rings. Prone to wearing black sunglasses in public.

PSYCHOLOGY. FEAR / S : Thunderstorms, airplanes, creatures like weasels, snakes and ferrets, break-ins, men she doesn’t know, harm coming to her children ASPIRATION / S : Formerly wanted to become a major [black] ballerina in the elite world of ballet, now she just wants to expose more [inner city children] to dance through her job. Personally, she wants her children to change the world in some form or fashion, too. Eve also has good ideas on improving the community, but at the moment has no idea how to go about these ideas. POSITIVE TRAITS : Generous, compassionate, patient, protective NEGATIVE TRAITS : Strict, sullen, hard to read, represses her emotions, secretive MBTI : Advocate - INFJ-T ZODIAC : Cancer TEMPERAMENT : Melancholic ANIMALS : Lioness VICE / S : Pride & Lust FAITH : Christian. Grew up Baptist, but Catholic influences have been around her since childhood. Attended a Catholic High School in Park Slope, her grandmother Evelyn was also a practicing Catholic. GHOSTS ? : Yes and no. She feels that objects formerly owned by the deceased posses the essence of their previous owners and that they essentially live on through these pieces of property. AFTERLIFE ? : Yes. REINCARNATION ? : No, but it’s a romantic concept. ALIENS ? : No. POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : Democratic ECONOMIC PREFERENCE : She likes being where she’s at now. But honestly, being upper class is all she’s ever known. SOCIOPOLITICAL POSITION : Bourgeoisie, basically. The Littlejohn’s represent The Historical Black Elite. EDUCATION LEVEL : College level. FAMILY.

FATHER : William ‘Bill’ Littlejohn MOTHER : Linda Littlejohn ( nee Hollins ) SIBLINGS : None EXTENDED FAMILY : Amos Littlejohn (paternal grandfather) Liza Littlejohn (paternal grandmother) Evelyn Hollins (maternal grandmother) Giuseppe D’Aietti (maternal grandfather) and a wide host of cousins, aunts and uncles.

FAVOURITES. BOOK : Night Song by Beverly Jenkins. The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Some sort of old, French erotic novel that was published before she was born. MOVIE : Eve watches films along the lines of...Waiting to Exhale, Beaches, The First Wives Club and Fatal Attraction. She loves Made-For-TV movies from the time period. In regards to plays, her favorite one is Sunday In The Park With George. 5 SONGS : Meet Me On The Moon / Essence of Sapphire / No One In The World / People / The First Time I Saw Your Face DEITY : Persephone HOLIDAY : New Years Eve, Christmas, Thanksgiving. Major holidays during the colder season. MONTH : October SEASON : Autumn PLACE : The dance studio she works at. WEATHER : Sunny, but cool. SOUND : The voices of Anita Baker and Sarah Vaughn. A skilled hand running over piano keys. Soft trumpets. Running water. Cats making chipper little meows. SCENT / S : Perfume, floral scented lotions, her partner’s cologne TASTE / S : Caramel, the tang of dark chocolate, strawberries coated with either chocolate, or sprinkles of white sugar. Light Vinegar. FEEL / S : Performing in front of an audience. Hot water engulfing your skin after a long day. Satin - whether it be the fabric of her clothes or sheets, your fingers tightly intertwined with another’s, feeling your significant other’s chest raise and lower against your skin with each breath they take. ANIMAL / S : Cocker Spaniels, Afghan Hounds, Cats, Birds - she loves all ( well, a majority ) of animals. NUMBER : Doesn’t have one. COLOR : White, Pink, Gold.

EXTRA. TALENTS : Dance, Eve is trained in ballet when it comes to her main verse. She has attended ballet classes since the age of eight and ever since then she placed all of her focus into it. Similarly, Eve has always had the makings of a good artist - as a child she enjoyed drawing and had informal art lessons with a man who lived in the basement of her grandfather’s brownstone, but she never invested into that half of her. BAD AT : Singing, Being interviewed, Public Speaking (as in Speech Giving), Decision Making TURN ONS : Charisma, Leadership Skills, Temperature Play, Phone Sex, Heavy Kissing, Light Roleplay TURN OFFS : Public Sex, Tearing [ Her ] Clothes, Threesomes, Cruelty, Senseless Violence HOBBIES : viewing plays & some musicals, reading romance novels, shopping, working out (she was into the whole celebrity VHS tape exercise trend), playing tennis, decorating AESTHETIC : Vintage Black Glamour, Black Ballerinas, Champagne and Wine Glasses, Paintings by Melinda Byers and Edward 'Clay' Wright QUOTES : "I'm bad with words, I hope you're good in reading eyes." / "There are truths I haven't even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys."

FC INFO. MAIN FC / S : Lynn Whitfield ( A Thin Line Between Love & Hate ) ALT FC / S : Kylie Bunbury ( Twisted ) OLDER FC / S : Lynn Whitfield ( Greenleaf ) YOUNGER FC / S : N/A VOICE CLAIM / S : Lynn Whitfield

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 : if you could write your character your way in their own movie , what would it be called , what style would it be filmed in , and what would it be about ? A1 : Recently I decided that if/when I try to write anything serious about Eve again, it’ll center on her being a jewel thief because it presents me more fun, and emotionally diverse, opportunities. That and I have a very specific cover image in my mind. Ideally, her adventures would be a series of books. I have no title in mind, no idea about how ‘it would be filmed’ ( although a style replicating 90s films would be excellent, film grain and all. ) but, I do have a bunch of plots in mind that I really don’t feel like typing out here.

Q2 : what would their soundtrack / score sound like ? A2 : Her score would have a vintage sound (or a jazzy Spike Lee sound, if you will) with instrumentals by Dorothy Ashby (a Jazz Harpist) the Ahmad Jamal Trio, Pharaoh Sanders, Yusef Lateef and Tarika Blue. For music with lyrics, the soundtrack would include the likes of Julie London, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dionne Warwick.

Q3 : why did you start writing this character ? + Q4 : what first attracted you to this character ? A3 : Whenever I make NPCs for my character’s lives I actually can’t just let them just be NPCs. I start thinking about them too much. Developing them too much. And then I’m like, ‘wow! I really like this character!’ Eve was a different character when I began writing her, and likely wouldn’t be considered the same character as she was previously, if I told someone in real life who knows about my writing (like my grandma) about all the changes she has undergone. Originally Delores was a university professor, because I thought it could lead to interesting interactions with college-age muses. And her previous history with the mafia was also something interesting to tap in. But then I started thinking about what was realistic, what wasn’t realistic, what did I feel comfortable/interested writing? What didn’t I feel comfortable/interested in writing? So as time went on, things would alter about this character. And the new things I came up with attracted me more.

Q5 : describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse. A5 : I have a love/hate relationship with Eve’s quiet demeanor. On one hand, I think quieter characters need love and the ability to be fully dimensional but on the other hand, writing louder characters has always been more fun for me. But really, Eve’s guarded behavior makes writing her stressful in some cases with others because sometimes...if I’m going to be honest...people don’t know how to carry a thread and interact with someone of her demeanor effectively.

Q6 : what do you have in common with your muse ? A6 : We’re both black, we’re both into art (although our exact interests and aesthetics with art differ)

Q7 : how does your muse feel about you ? A7 : Realistically she would think I need to take better care of myself.

Q8 : what characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ? A8 : We skippin’ this question.

Q9 : what gives you inspiration to write your muse ? A9 : Films such as, “Waiting to Exhale,” “The Kitchen” and “Widows.” Books by Alice Walker, like “The Third Life of Grange Copeland” as well as her short story, “Roselily.” The historical mob figure Stephanie St. Clair.

Q10 : how long did this take you to complete ? A10 : A few hours.

#long post #dash games.#headcanons.

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