#megaphone-a

[veggie-dailies]

In light of the horrific AI animation Kingstone has been doing for VeggieTales, I'd like to say a huge thank-you to the human animators, storyboard artists, background painters, VX effects, modelers, riggers, and so many more who brought VeggieTales to life for thirty years. (Yes, this includes the Netflix show. Even though the designs were... questionable, at least they were made by a human being.)

If you care about the state of animation, please support your favorite indie projects, as well as fandom creators, that put real talent and effort into everything they do. It makes more of a difference than you may think.

And please show some kindness to Phil and Mike. They didn't ask for this, and they didn't deserve this.

[cpunkhobie]

Being non-binary is like instead of having an angel and a demon on ur shoulder u have a faggot and a dyke

[mildeleef]

Pops them in my mouth like skittles

[thistlerock]

Biggest fandom pet peeve is when people just "ball" Riz,,,he's not just ball. Or a ball. He's THE Ball. Put some respect on his name. It doesn't matter if it makes no grammatical sense. It's not an article anymore that's PART of the nickname. Does that mean you have to make Fabian sound insane? Yes. He already sounds insane have you listened to him. "Thank you The Ball," he says, "oh wow that haircut suits you better The Ball," he says, "my dearest The Ball please come over to my house again and help me find my crystal charger I already cast Enhance Ability on myself Fox's Cunning isn't enough. Save me The Ball, save me!" and you just have to deal with that. Also this one's even more personal and specific but capitalise it!! Capitalise The Ball!! It's a name, I think it should be capitalised. My autocorrect already does and I think that's really funny. Read this post lightheartedly please I don't actually care

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[crabussy]

thinking about how megapon is sentient and can straight up just say whatever she wants apparently

my art account is @beastwhimsy! nothing I post there is showing up in the tags so I'm posting from my main.

[mersei47]

"It's nothing personal" they said

surely they won't end up kissing after this

[t00thpasteface]

my brother just walked into my room at 9pm and said "hey. i need your forgiveness." and i said What Did You Do. and he walked into my room holding a brand-new megaphone

[shitpostingkats]

*head in my hands* Man. Cloud Strife and his insane cocktail of mental illnesses just continues to be handled so much better than you would expect out of a AAA video game.

Remake and Rebirth are really writing down and circling and underlining the sentence "CLOUD STRIFE IS UNWELL. CLOUD STRIFE EXPERIENCES HALLUCINATIONS AND BREAKS IN REALITY THAT NEGATIVELY IMPACT HIS ABILITY TO INTERACT WITH THE WORLD." That by itself is so huge.

We're getting better about depicting psychosis and related disorders in video games outside of ableist set-dressing in horror games, and there's some great work happening in that sphere of representation. But most of the time, if a game's protagonist experiences hallucinations, it is the capital P Point of the story. This is going to be a narrative about living with this condition, and a main focus of the story. Again, super super awesome. FFVII is not a story about having psychosis. It's a game about throwing hands with a corporate middle manager with unresolved mommy issues and an angel complex. And also the main character has hallucinations.

The player itself is not able to cleanly see the lines between real and not-real, either. You're not viewing Cloud's reality breaks as an impassive observer, sometimes they are treated by the game as genuine threats that can hurt you. And if you've played the game and have a level of meta knowledge, you still can't easily disregard the randomly appearing Sephiroths, because some of them are actually real. The player and Cloud are operating in pretty much the same level of buy-in to the hallucinations, in that you both know this is a thing that happens and will usually assume the hallucination is not physically present unless another character also comments on it. But you can never be sure.

And the way the other party members act about it. The remakes are hammering home "No, it's not that the other characters are polite, or oblivious. Cloud is not subtle. Everyone gradually pieces together that this is a thing that happens to him, and they are deeply concerned, but that can't really do anything to help." I so expected, the first time Cloud has a big obvious break in reality, for the rest of the team to question if he was alright, or if he was even fit to be on this journey. Cloud goes tearing off away from the group, chasing a specter none of the rest of them saw, and it's just a quiet conversation of 'hey, no one else saw what he saw, right?' And then they go and get their guy because he probably shouldn't be alone right now. They never attack him for it, or tell him he's going insane.

Everyone takes to it with so much. Grace. Hello, this is our party leader, he's an excellent swordsman and a good friend. Oh yeah, sometimes he sees things that aren't that there or goes into a weird coma state where he chants about reunion and doesn't seem to notice the world around him, so much so that one time he went into shutdown and tried to throw himself off a cliff. That's just. A thing they accept about him.

And especially with the fact that Remake chooses to drop the truth bomb extremely early that, even with his remarkable grip on his mental faculties, Cloud is dying. Couple years, maybe more, maybe less, but. Tifa and Barret (and possibly Aerith?) know that he is not expected to live long. And they still treat him with humanity and they don't try to stop him from going on a jrpg adventure and they don't tiptoe around him like he's fragile. They don't stop loving him, even as he starts to deteriorate.

It's just. Cloud Strife, man.

[buttercupdemise]

him <3

[veggie-dailies]

This is going to be a very rare non-Veggie post here, but I need to speak up.

Now, as my pinned post says, Christians are more than welcome to follow this blog and interact. I do believe that Christians, like almost everyone, have the capability of being kind, compassionate people of integrity, even if I don't identify as Christian myself anymore.

I was raised as a pastor's kid, so I'm not unfamiliar with Christian beliefs and theology. I could get into a discussion about how Christianity is seen as the successor to Judaism by several major denominations, how Messianic Jews make many Jewish people uncomfortable, about the colonialist attitude of modern Israel itself... I'm still learning about those things myself...

What I'm going to say is, Palestine is going through a genocide and illegal occupation by Israel. This is a non-negotiable fact. Whether you're pro- or anti-Zionist, whether you believe that the modern state of Israel is necessary for the second coming prophesied in the Bible, whether you believe that Hamas are terrorists or not, you should be horrified by how many innocent people have been starved, shot, bombed, and murdered by the IDF.

If you believe that every life has value, that includes Islams- who, by the way, are also Abrahamic, and find comfort in the stories you do, and believe in a God who made them special and loves them very much.

I don't know if there is a god. But some of you believe in a god, and I need you to think about Palestine deeply and seriously. Consider the other side of this situation. Watch videos. Hear their stories. Learn about their culture.

If you decide, after all that, that'd you'd still rather be complicit with genocide, then unfollow this blog, or block me.

- Mint 🦋

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I had a really old megaphone, but it was an electric one that talked back to you (like “Press this button to ___” type thing). It kept speaking to me in the voice of the narrator from Stanley Parable and it was having some sort of existential crisis while I was trying to rob a house. It kept saying, “Is this what it really means to die?” while I was sneaking up the stairs.

[snipesnbuns]

Boys boys boys!

Anyways, hey guys, I'm fixating on them, so you MIGHT see me draw more of QuadHats or Finn McCool..

Look at them! And I know Deleter isn't part of his gang, but he looked so out of place being in the temple? So, I just headcanon him being kicked out of the group, then he begged Finn to let him back because he realized how much he missed them

Also. Yeah. It's fun sparring with him.. 2 times solo, by the way. The first fight was a squad, and it was harder than it should.. but we won the first try!

[cat09tailsonline]

These are some slides I made for a noise comedy performance/powerpoint presentation in 2018 called "Becoming Your Own Catgirl: Full Actualization of Being A Catgirl" by Coach Waters

I turned everyone in the noise scene into a catgirl that night eoowwww

[thistlerock]

Zac Oyama; devious creature

Blease do tell me if he does this more it's so funny to me I need. Screenshots.

[bugstung]

I remembered that drawing on paper fucks severly, so here's me trying to figure out Rose's akumatized design and some more