#now that THIS is done i can keep working on my amv…

[ririabeam]

Danganronpa V3 Animatic

Might finish it into a full animation (not anytime soon)

IT'S DONE, I'M SO EXCITED THAT I FINISHED IT AS FAST AS I CAN I felt like I was having a Danganronpa V3 open book exam as I kept rewatching certain scenes to figure out what to draw ejfnend

I once said that my dream is to make a long animation one day- I feel I'm one step closer to that dream! 🥺💖

I'm really happy with how this turned out, I'm posting to mark my improvement from Kaemugi animatic (which had too many close ups)

I've been studying animations I like and some anime scenes frame by frame to improve-

I'm not good at storyboarding, I actually tried and gave up- So I just jumped directly into making the animatic

I feel I planned really hard scenes to do for final as there are a lot of dynamic and perspective poses ekfjejd ESP THE FIGHT SCENE that part is my favourite wkfjd I RILLY LOVE ACTION IN ANIMES I didn't think I could pull it off, it looks really cool in the end! I feel I'm not able to do those hard poses now, but maybe in the future? >:3

Just gotta keep working hard and be patient and one day I'd reach my goal!

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Ending: After getting crushed by a rock, Tsumugi reflects in her final moments about everything that happened

The mirror flashes back to her pregame self where she is forgotten by everyone for being too plain, all she has is Danganronpa to keep her going

It changes to Junko to show how Tsumugi was so lost in fiction that she copied Junko completely and forgot about herself

The mirror then changes to Tsumugi herself in her current state to show that Tsumugi finally accepts reality

The reality is she is herself and the fact that the killings were all real so she doesnt smile and dies together with her regret

^I know this is not a popular fandom view but if I'm going to pour my heart into something that could possibly take years to do, I'm going to do something that I truly want for myself and not just what is most popular and most welcomed I hope there will still be people who enjoy this though, thank you for all the support!🥰💖

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Thoughts:

-I want Tsumugi to lipsync the lyrics "I designed this rhyme" as it feels fitting of her role, the mastermind

-Himiko pulling down her hat before revealing she is crying is to symbolise how much she had repressed her feelings till now

This was inspired by a Warrior Cats animation btw! It's called "Swiftpaw AMV - In The End" by NekoVocalNote

I came up with all the scenes in this animatic myself (which I'm proud of akdjdj) but I was inspired by that Swiftpaw animation's action and how one can finish a full animation- I used the same song as it! My final is a bit similar to the ending of the Swiftpaw animation too!

[attleboy]

Why do u draw?

oooooooo [rubs hands together] a fun one that probably isn't that deep but i'm going to take way too seriously!

so the short answer is fun, but i can never just say one sentence and be done with it soooo i elaborated and wrote a whole essay below. sorry not sorry

anyway if you didn't want my origin story no shame in that, it's not gonna be on the quiz, just keep scrolling :P

to cover all my bases let me start from the beginning and work my way forward...

i think pretty much all kids draw at least a little just because they can, but the thing that really inspired me to take art seriously was the great abundance of cat animations on youtube in the early 2010s... warrior cats amvs mostly, but also artists like bani the kitty and splashkittyartist! you can really see these inspirations in my early digital art hehehe (see below by attle b. age 8)

from then until about age 14 art was just... my thing? i did it pretty much everyday, probably couldn't have imagined life without it... i think back then my motivations were more inline with your typical social media artist motivations... get better, be seen, and maybe make a career out of it? never made it that far though because ehhhh life has different plans i guess

i fell into an art slump in the middle of high school for a variety of personal reasons i won't get into, and as such i had to give up my dreams of creating art as a job

as sad as that was in the moment, it forced me to change my outlook on the whole ordeal in a way that i think was ultimately healthier for me.

that brought me to where i am now! since i have no goals beyond keeping at it as a hobby, i do it simply because i enjoy the process, the product, and i feel like it lets me connect with my interests in a way i otherwise couldn't.

it's a fun way to express love for the things i care about, and while i still enjoy honing my skills i don't feel the same pressure to be perfect that i used to which is really freeing!!

so in that sense it's intrinsic motivation that makes me draw what i draw... however, the amount of art i put out and the polish i give it is definitely motivated by the eyes i have on me... while i'd still be drawing the same things if no one was watching, i would not be putting nearly as much effort into it, nor would i be doing it as regularly, so i do thank you guys for keeping me on track there <3

that's it i think? i could get into the philosophy of it, but i'll spare you that... okay thank you for letting me yap!!! ^-^

[greatsylveon2007]

"Kids with passion to play make-believe;

Will become young adults with the will to achieve"

Alright, so I figured I wanted to make this eventually. I finally finished my part for the Guaraná MAP a few months ago after like, almost two years of having it lmao, and those two years were wild and included a bunch of different versions of the part which would never see the light of day outside of the map server, so I figured I should put them all here :)

Here is the finished part which I am very happy with honestly, love some Hollyleaf angst

So now let me tell you about how the part used to be IWKFOLSPS

To get the part I actually had to fist fight a friend because it was one of the few really simple interesting parts and we both wanted it pretty badly

When I eventually got the part I made two storyboards for it, and my idea was for it to be very limited animation with mostly tweening, as, in my head, it would make my life easier

The first storyboard I was not happy with so I threw it out the window and made another soon after

This one I was way happier with and is the storyboard I used for most of these two years, here you can see a little light/shadow behind Hollyleaf that, while I liked, was really out of place so I didn't keep it in the end :(

What followed was multiple months of me chipping away at this part and telling myself every time that it would be easy to do because it was pmv, I got pretty far with this, making the assets for all of the cats and only needing to shade Hollyleaf, finish the backgrounds and guaraná plants and edit

At that point however, despite being almost done, I really couldn't bring myself to work on this part anymore, I'm not sure what exactly it was, but messing around with all the assets and tweening and all that just wasn't fun for me at that point and I just began stalling to avoid having to open the file again

Eventually in February a light shone upon me, if I wasn't having fun with PMV then screw it AMV was my new best friend

In a few hours I made a new sketch, skipped the rought animation stage and finished Holly's entire animation (don't do this ever, don't be like me)

I had also started on Lion but I was struggling on what to do with him because of how I animated Holly lol

I don't remember the exact plan but originally the character acting was:

Holly and Lion are looking up, Jay is a little frustrated. Holly talks to him to cheer him up and he looks at her, feeling a bit more encouraged. Then she would look at Lion, he would reassure her, and they'd all end up happy

Somehow though, while animating Holly, I ditched the plan and made her be surprised by Lion and look at him, so I struggled a bit trying to figure out what Lionpaw could do to get her attention, and spent a good while trying to figure out the solution to a problem that I created in a few hours of not following a simple plan ISMOCKSKKDS If you plan something, preferably follow it, don't be like me²

I could have just remade her animation so that would have been solved but I liked her animation I didn't want to redo it :(

Anyway, eventually I figured he could say something stupid to help cheer up Jay or something and I like his and Jay's new movements so it all worked out :)

After making the first shot, I caved in to something I wanted to do for a while which was a transition between the shots, instead of having it cut to the second shot or move the characters around a little bit.

I didn't know if I wanted to do a transition with stars or with the fire scene, until eventually I figured that the fire scene and Ashfur's... thing was what really affected the siblings, especially Hollyleaf. The part also follows a sequence of Hollyleaf feeling guilty for what she did so in general I thought that Ashfur would transition well

You may also notice that I hadn't splattered blood all across Holly's face in the second shot and that was because I forgot she was supposed to have blood on her until I read the script again for some reason and realized I forgot ISNKCKAKDLSL

So, what did we learn? PMV sucks, animate it all at 24 fps in one sitting instead/JOKE

This is all I have about the Guaraná part, it was pretty fun to work on and I loved joining a map about my country, this map lives in a little part of my brain rent free <3

Might do this for other parts that have a bunch of wips or something I'll think about that, it's kind of fun to just lay out your process like this, would recommend 10/10

[peppermint-moss]

13, 19, 22, 25, 32! :)

13. talk about a wip you like! wink wonk needletail amv!!!!!!!!! I'm determined to get him done by end of summer before uni starts again AUGH its gonna happen im gonna do it i SWEAR here's some thoughts

I was like 'why is this video taking so long' n then realized most of my amvs are 3 min tops and this one is 5 MINUTES WITH BACKGROUNDS like yea bud its gonna take a while afjskdlhg

I'm trying da vinci resolve again and with a new faster computer it's actually been going alright!! I hate. the gaussian blur it's doing weird things but I don't want to figure out how to use fusion to workaround it and it's not a huge issue so... just gonna leave it be

i hatee backgrounds and they're just kind of. im doing them out of necessity and shortcutting the hell out of them lol dont look at the backgrounds too closely when the video comes out LMAO

video itself is going good!! there's a lotta scenes im v excited to see come into its final stage and im v excited C: !!! sneak peak be upon ye!!

19. where do you find inspiration? I have an 'art ref' tag on my main blog that I usually just kind of scroll through so its mostly a collection of art/photos/colours etc i find on tumblr c:

22. do you have a favorite color palette to work with? I love warmer toned like soft brown-tinted pieces but I've never actually drawn with that i don't think.. Cooler tones I think are trickier for me (I keep ending up with pink in there but I don't think I should be??? idk lol) but i Looove when I can add a pop of like cold piercing cyan to a warm piece hehe

25. what size canvas/paper do you use? I used to draw somewhere in the 3000x2000 px range, BUT my friends were like thats so small!! and they draw on like 5000x5000 px which sounded WILD to me but I gave 5000px a shot and WOW i do like it... i can get more detail in with my lil brush.. yea so I'm transitioning over to using bigger canvases now lol

32. have you done a lot of collabs? No not besides the occasional map part (which I only really stick to doing just my part anyways!) I prefer to work individually waay more which is like a strength and a weakness cause I don't think I'm very receptive to collaborative work lol (i have less patience for it and am less likely to voice my thoughts orz.. I'd like to be better at collaboration but because its smth I avoid my brain's like well no need to improve that then afjdsklgh) BUT im p baller at getting things done on my own

Something i DID do a while back is the art collab meme with some friends which I actually really loved how they all turned out!! C: (Jo is me btw lol) (idk if there's an originator for this meme ? closest i could find was this but lemme know if there's someone else to credit)

ask game questions here

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

BACK WITH ANOTHER KNOX REACTS

Well the last one was just beautiful and enjoyable so ONTO PT 3/EP 13 RIP AND TEAR

THAT DOESNT’ SOUND OMINOUS AT ALL

MAN I’M HAVING SUHCJ AN EXPERIENCE WITH THIS SPECIAL

(lmk s4 special spoilers ahead)

I keep looking at the theme song closely to see if anything changed hglsjfweo;fm

PENG’S LAUGH PLEASEJGSDJD

WHEEZING

WOW PENG IS JUST

FIXATED ON MACAQUE HUH

THIS IS SO FREAKING FUNNY

I’M TELLING YA MAN

THEY JUST THINK A LITTLE TOO MUCH ABOUT MACAQUE AND ARE ALSO SIMILARILY DRAMATIC

…

HEADCANON MACAQUE HUNG OUT WITH PENG AFTER MONKEY KING STARTED TO LEAVE MORE AND AFTER THE MOUNTAIN HE WENT AND LIVED WITH THEM AT CAMEL RIDGE BUT SPICIFICALLY WITH PENG AND THAT’S WHERE HE GOT HIS DRAMATIC FLARE FROM THAT WE SEE IN EP 9 BECASUE THEY ARE ACTUALLY SO SIMILAR

SILLY GOOFY THOUGHTS

THIS SEEMS SO CHILL FOR THE SPECIAL

OH THAT SLIDE INTO THE SHADOW

NICELY DONE

OKAY

OKAY LOOK

DUDE

I

YOU CAN’T

LOOK ME IN THE EYE

AND TELL ME PENG ISN’T FIXATED ON MACAQUE

“IS THERE ANYTHING WUKONG CAN DO THAT WILL BREAK HIS HOLD OVER YOU” PARDON???

EXCUSE ME???

HELLO??

A WEIRD SORTA JELLY??

YOU WANT MACAQUE TO LOOK UP TO YOU AND NOT WUKONG IS IT?? OR TO WANNA HANG OUT WITH YOU?? HECKING?? 

I’M TELLING YOU MAN

OO SOME REUSED ANIMATION FOR A SECOND THERE

AW

“You know what Peng, straight up, i have never liked you” PLEASEEEEEE

Look dude i’m just saying, almost every time Peng has opened their mouth it’s been about macaque, keeps bringing him up even tho Azure never really asks about him, and goes straight to fight Macaque during the battle goading him exactly like how Macaque goads Wukong in ep 9 or very similar too it

ITS LIKE

KAY ITS KINDA LIKE

EITHER

JEALOUS, OR WANTS TO BE LIKE AZURE, OH, AZURE HAS MONKEY? I WANT MONKEY TOO, MACAQUE’S THE LEFTOVER ONE, I’M CLEARLY COOLER THAN WUKONG WHY DON’T YOU BE MY BEST FRIEND??? OR HECKING?? I DUNNNO SOMETHING SOMETHING IT SURE IS SOMETHIGN AND I’M STARING AT IT

things i wanna write for

Tang Monk and Wukong’s relationship

Ao Lie and Wukong’s relationship

Azure and Wukong’s relationship

Peng and Macaque’s relationship

OKAY BACK TO IT

SNEAK ATTACK MEIIIIII

Macaque does seem so much softer

AWWW WAIT

“you little brat”

you referring to Mei or Macaque- /j /j /j /j just seems kinda interesting Macaque seems to take after Peng and Wukong seems to take after Azure, like the bigger older friends with their younger fiends they call dibs on in an unhealthy way or something I’M NOT MAKING SENSE BUT ITS SO SPECIFIC

BUT MEI AND MACAQUE TEAMING UP IS SO HEKCING GOOD

PENG IS PRETTY POWERFUL

HEY RUDE

HER GRANDPA’S COOL

WATCH UR MOUTH PENG

OH THEY’RE FIGHTING YELLOW TUSK

THIS IS HOW THEY GET THEIR WEAPONS BACK

SANDY IS THE TALKER YES

COME ON SANDY DO YOUR THING

SCREAMS

NOTHING IS WORHT THAT PRICE

OOP

OOP

SAIVING

YELLOW TUSK

WOW HE

REALLY

REALLY WANTS WUKONG DEAD HUH

HIS PAST FAILURE AT GROOMING A HERO

UHUH

WUKONG GETTING UNDER HIS SKIN

I’M CHOKINGDS;LFKMS

THIS IS

PLEASE

RUNNING OVER AND STRIAHGT UP HUGGING HIS MENTOR “NEVER” AND THEN BLEP STICKING HIS TONGUE OUT AT HIM PLEASEL;KMASDFOAWEF

AZURE IS SO STRANGE

HE LITERALLY BASICALLY SHAPED WUKONG TO BE WHAT HE IS MORE OR LESS TO TRY AND GET WHAT HE WANTED, AND NOW HE’S TRYING OT ERASE THAT FAILED PROJECT, BUT SEES MK AS HOW WUKONG WAS BEFORE HE MESSED HIM OVER?? BUT HE THINKS HE’S IN THE RIGHT WITH IT ALL AND ITS WILD

I LOVE MK AND WUKONG SM

THEYRE’ FIGHITN GETHER OH MY GODS

THEY BOTH HAVE CLOUD

LOO KAT THIS

LOOK AT THIS FIGHT SCENE

LOOK AT THIS AMV CONTENT

OOK AT THAT BOSSIBLE TRANSITION

OH WOW HE WAS REALLY COMING IN FOR THE KILL

MONKEY TIME?

NO TINY GUY TIME

OKAY

TEAMWORRRKKK

HEKCIKMNGMSDFN;AWEFMSDKLFSD

LOOK AT THEM GO

TWO LITTLE CHEEKY MONKESY

MK PLEASE

ONE UNCOMFIRMED

OH WOW CALLING WUKONG IMBICILE NOW

WHEEZING

POINTS AND LAUGHS

OH HE CAUGHT THAT

MK AND WUKONG WORKING TOGETHER IS SO GOOD

PLEASEEEE

THE MONKEYS HELPING GATHERING STUFF UP

I’M CRYING

THATS MY CUE

THE WYA THAT LINE WAS DELIVERED

NGL GETTING A LITTLE TIRED

SOMETHIGN BIG AND PREFERABLY REALLY ANNNOYING

THEY’RE SOO GOOD

AZURE UR HILARIOUS

HE’S HAVING SUCH A TIME

OH

OH HELLO

LOOK AT THAT ANIMATION

LOOK AT THAT DESIGN

OH WOW HE JUST GOT BIG

TINY DUDE IS BIG NOW

HE’S BIG NOW

THE HAIR LONGER

WOW LOOK AT THAT POSE

DANG Mk

MK PLS

THE JUST STANDING THERE

THIS ID IS POWERFUL MY GOSH

MONKEY MECHHHHH

OOP

TORN APART EASY

PORRYYYYYYYYYYYYY

HELPNG;LSDKMF;AOWEFM

WHERE’D THE CARBOARD CUTOUT COME FROM

HELP

THEIR SILLY FACES TO DISTRACT HIM MK PLEASE

PORTYYYYY

PORTY LION

THIS IS SO FUN

HELP???

BANANA PEEL??

HELPGL;SDKMA;WE

THAT WAS SUCH A HUGE EXPLOSION

YEAH WHO’D’VE THUNK

OH MEI’S PLAN

LETS GO

SHE’S LEARNIGN

SHE LEARNED THE LESSON FROM SHIFU

SCREAMING

OH

MEI ILY

THIS IS SO GOOD

YEAAAH BOIII

INCREDIBLE

A TEAM IS MEI AND MACAQUE I LOVE THAT

NICE NICE NICE NICE

OOP

UH

OH HECK

WUKONG

THAT’S NOT GOOD

OH

MK

MK BUDDY NO HECK UUUUUUU AZURE

LEAVE HIS TUDI ALLOOOONEE

PLS DUDE HALF OF WHAT HAPPEND TO THE MONKEY IS YOUR FUALT APPARANTLY QUIT BLAMING HIM FOR ALL YOUR POBLEMS LOSER

THERE HE IS STARTING TO SOUND LIKE THE OLD MACAQUE

WUKONG WHACKING HIM AWAY WITH A PUNCH ACTUALLY DEAR GOSH

MK HAVING A HARD TIME

WELP

MONKEY IS SO HCING PWOERFUL HOW WHY?????

EVERYBODY WORRIED ABOUT MK INSTANTLY

OH BOY

hang on tho so like, who wants this part of mk out? like

kay so hear me out, it feels like somebody wants mk to be at his most powerful, so they’re throwing bit by bit at him to get him real powered up and pull this monkey part out of him

.

season 5 you’re scaring me

OH THE WYA HE SAYS KID THIS TIME

PELASE BE OKAY WITH UR MONKEY PART OF YOURSELF MK

OH WOW

NIMATION REALLY

OH WOW

OH

OH OHOHOHOHGFFS;KA;WWE

OH

OH HOLY WHATBSLD;KF HOLY CRAP WAIT

HOLD UP

ONE

WAIT

ONE SECOND WAIT WAIT ANIMATION??

MONKEY?? HOLD UP??

WELL ARIGHT THEN?? THE EYE?? THE SAME EYE FROM THE SES 3 FINALLY WITH LBD WITH THE YOU CAN’T JUSDGE PEOPLE OFF THEIR WORST TRAITS OR WHATEVER

THE ALMOST SCARY SMILE?? HOLY CRAP MK?? MY LAD???

EXTRA FLOOF

HIS SMILE?? BLASTING CLOSE??

HELLO???

HE TAPPED HIM HE TAPPED HIM WITH HIS TAIL

WHAT IS HE??

WHAT IS MK????

THIS IS LIKE

POWER ON PAR WITH THE JADE EMPEROR????????

MK??????????

MY STUFF

WUKONG CHEERING HIM ON

YEAH WHAT IS HE

HOLY

CRAP

WHAT IS HAPENIGN

WHAT IS MK

WE HAVE’T EVEN SEEN WUKONG PULL SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHAT IS THIS KID??

OKAY

OKAY MK’S ACTUALLY TERRIFYING ME RN

HE SEEMS CRAZED BUT HE’S NOT

LOOK WHAT HE’S DONE TO YOU?

HECK U AZURE

HOLY THAT SMILE?? THIS ALMOST DOESN’T FEEL LIKE MK

OH THERE’S NOTHING MINDLESS BAOUT ME FRIEND

WHAT IS THIS NAIMATOIN

MY GODS

WHAT IS HAPPENING

MONKEY KINGS’S JUST BEING SILLY AND UH

THAT’S

THAT’S NOT GOOD

MK HAS SOME

BUILD UP

OOP

MK HAS SOME BUILD UP

OH WOW HOH

OH MY OSH OGH MY GOS H SHUT UP SHU THUSPDFGABH;IOFWAEBF;OAWNGA;OWIMFLS;ADMFDSFAOIWEHNSALKFMS

SCREAMS

SCREMS SCREMSA

MK HAS SOME BUILD UP MK IS A GIANT WAR FORM MK HAS THE FORM MK SUPER PWOERFUL MK INSANE MK MONKEY MK DOING THE CATCH SWORD WITH FOREHEAD THING MONKEY KING DOES HE DOESN’T EVEN BOTEHR TO BLOCK IT BACK THE FRICK UP HOLY CRAP II’M CONVINCED WUKONG DOESN’T HAVE THE POWER HE USED TO BECAUSE MK IS HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP

THERE IT IS

WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT A WAR FORM FOR HIM FOR SO LONG AND HE ACTUALLY HJAS IT???

AZURE BUD YOU’RE SCREWED

WHAT IS THIS KID??

HOLY WHAT THE CRAP

YOU PUT UR HAND IN THE MONKEY CAGE AND EXPECT TO GET BIT S O N

I THINK

MK HAS A LOT OF PENT UP FEELINGS

MK IS JUST USING

HIS HEAD

MK ARE YOU OKAY

YOU’RE KINDA

WAILING ON THIS GUY

OOP

THAT’S NOT GOOD

THE UNIVERSE IS GETTING BUSTED

FIGHTS OVER GENTS

MIGHT WANNA GO CHECK ON THAT

WHO’S DEALING WITHTHIS

MK IS HAVING SUCH A MOMENT

UH OH

MK MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE

OR AZURE MIGHT BE

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

OKAY SHUT UP NO BREAK HECK BREAKS I’M GOING ONTO THE NEXT ONE I’LL PROCESS ALL THE MONKEY KING FROM THE OG CLASSIC MK JUST PULLED OUT THAT WE’VE NEVER SEEN WUKONG DO LATER

KNOX OUT

[amelias-zelda-calamity-quintet]

Would love a director's commentary of any/all your fics 🙏

AH! I wasn't expecting an answer so fast! And they're so massive where do I even start? Like my biggest thoughts right now are all MoaH, which I have some things queued over the next few days, but everything else I'd wanna say...it's all spoilers. I'm not trying to avoid the ask, it's just a very big question with all of them. I guess I'll throw out a bunch of factoids and feel free to ask me more specifics.

To condense the star ask as well since this is gonna be a random chapter grab, and since the first chapter of the final battle is out tomorrow for GoS, I've had this arc planned since basically 2012. There was one major change on which individual would be the target of a particular stage of the fight, but other than that, it's been this fight since 2012. And the whole thing can get played to the 25th anniversary medley. I have a note somewhere where I wrote down the chapter time stamps to it for the AMV in my head (which maybe I'll put out after GoS is all done). It was the same song that is the reason Endeavor plays violin as well.

I have never been huge about idol groups, but the Earth Sages in GoS are my absolute favorite. I knew I wanted the dungeon to be musically themed and so the boy band idea was an early decision with that. I wanted their names to be musically themed too, so all of the Earth Sages actually have names based off Japanese music scales, which fit with the Keaton. Do Re Mi names might have been too obvious. Following that, Dominus is probably my favorite Sage.

Same dungeon had a prime opportunity for a triple inspired boss name. The Earth Temple's boss, Dungeon Master, has three inspirations. One, it follows franchise convention on most powerful versions of enemies, so Wallmaster/Floormaster -> Dungeon Master. Two, it's a nod to the TTRPG role, as this boss occupies the literal fourth wall of a theater, which is fitting to compare to a DM. And three, this fight was the first time Ganondorf made an appearance in the story, and I was trying to invoke a bit of Mr. Mercer's performance for a lack of ability to convey an actual voice via some pop culture osmosis.

Princess has a Muppets reference after the dungeon once she drops the idea of marrying Link, Zeal mentions it. It may help to circle back on Princess being a pig moblin leaning Blin who is also a diva.

Admittedly a lot of GoS before that is a bit fuzzy cause of the whole nap in the Temple of Time I did on it. From starting up edits, I can say that Bruce's horse, The Wind, is a personal reference. Any time I'd convince my dad to play a Zelda game, he's always name himself A.Stud and in the case of TP, he named Epona The Wind. When I started writing, that was a recent in joke for me.

One of the reasons the Dark Portal gets mentioned so early was because Minecraft was just getting big when I started writing GoS and I had the unrealistic idea that I'd build GoS's Hyrule in it. The Dark Portal would have been a Nether portal. I never went anywhere with that idea, but it's the reason the GoS map sketch I have is divided on a grid. That was theoretically gonna be chunks (highly ambitious plan there, no what it would have fit).

I have actually no idea how much time takes place between the start and end of GoS. Loosely, it's from the beginning of summer to the end of autumn. Whatever time skips make that work are canon in my head. And it's one of the reasons I have been so serious about keeping track of time in MoaH. The rapid pace of GoS though does fit. GoS Link really did get woken up in a dream by some stranger and then harassed by a bird until he did it what they said, so. No rest.

My favorite Sage dragon design is the Forest Sage's, all though the Soul Sage's dragon is pretty good too. That's an easy second. I'm a plants person, what can I say? Though the Earth Sage and Fire Sage dragons have good chonky boi personalities that I love too.

And there's absolutely so much to say about MoaH and like. I can say basically none of it because y'all only have the current 23 chapters and I'm writing the 65th? chapter now. MoaH's first book will be written before its updates are out, that's for sure. It'll likely hit about 250k words, compared to GoS's current 410k. So. There's a lot to say about MoaH. I guess the few that I've got for MoaH, uh...

Rephi x Rudoe is my favorite couple, hands down, those two are amazing NPCs and criminally under used. I need to find an excuse to go back to Deku's Shelf to write them again. I picture Rudoe's voice now like the Luma in the Mario movie.

I know all of my Links talk in my fics, largely for the purpose of medium. Writing a mute Link I think is a lot harder in fic over comics, and it's a little outside my wheelhouse with my limited skill in sign. That said, of all my Links, MoaH Link is the one I think most fits being a talking Link. And I even have some in text response to that later on in the story.

I know a lot of people don't like Zelda presently in MoaH (kinda the point), but I absolutely adore her and Link's dynamic. It really starts coming out in the Nayru's Temple act of book 1, but this man has a massive blind spot for this woman and I love writing it even though the secondhand embarrassment causes me like actual physical pain.

In general, I adore writing MoaH Link. The balance between exceptionally competent fighter and likeable male protagonist is a difficult but very fun line to walk. I think because of the mercenary comment, a lot of people expected a Geralt or a John Wick or some other machismo personality for Link when I originally started MoaH and that has never been franchise characterization of Link and it's not true about MoaH Link. He is a lovable idiot. GoS Link has this very humble, almost bashful personality to me (mostly cause of then teen angst) while MoaH Link gets to be this absolute dork and it is a joy to write. And also seeing how different they are as incarnations of the same character is a lot of fun, particularly for spoiler reasons. But man, that contrast between awkward, fumbling, kinda impulsive guy into combat where he gets to be efficient. Mmmmm, that's some good shit.

I cannot wait for y'all to get more time with Floan. I love her and Link's relationship. It is a bit of a polished sibling relationship, I'll admit that, mostly because I don't know how to handle an age gap as big as theirs (MoaH Link being 27 at the start of the fic and Floan being 10, which not impossible for siblings, but a wide gap) as accurately as my two year age gap with my younger sister, but they are the best. I have a chapter coming up that's just them getting loads of interaction time and it's so goddamn cute.

And I'm getting into spoiler territory, not to mention an essay, so I'll cap it there for now. Please let me know if there's anything else, I have a lot of thoughts on all of this.

[guentzel]

q & a for fic writers

tagged by @cuprun ! tysm lovely!!

How many wips do you have currently?

this. is a dangerous question aksjdfh i am an au and wip disaster. and theres the fact theres hrpf+brpf to consider.

brpf: 24

hrpf: 20🫠

i am desperately trying to finish them but every time i start something i get distracted by another fic and just. can never finish anything (ntm theres the melancholy and self-doubt but thats beside the point!!)

Which one are you finding the hardest to finish?

hrpf: there's two: gilded blackbird and dirty, dirty boy. gb is taking forever because i have to rewrite it (thanks) bc the original plot/storyline did not work (why me thinking figure skating geno being injured in the usa and being abandoned by his company in the states would work narratively is beyond me) and then. ddb is smutty abo kyle dubas/tanger/geno with voyeur sid and i just. i get so close to finishing it but then feel terrible about my smut skills, and i think where i stopped writing last time is just. atrocious. and im too distracted by baseball rn to actually go through and fix it.

brpf: im not gonna be a loser and say the smut prompts (even though i am. in agony) so right now i would say rebury me. writing a fic where someone (or multiple someones) were forcibly outed bc a pornographic video they filmed with their bf got leaked is very compelling, but realizing that its going to be a long(er) fic (around 10k) makes me pause. because i want to actually do this right and good, and i kindve. seize up at the thought.

What does it usually look like when inspiration strikes for you?

lots of fics published in a short amount of time! or even me mentioning a fic idea i like and then said fic being published shortly after, but mainly the former. when im inspired it produces a lot of short fics in a short amount of time. in july i published six fics which was a very good time for me personally. i also started a lot of fics in that time, so thats another indicator, but thats also more like... an internal indicator

Do you curate playlists for each fic or is your process different?

no playlists for specific fics! i do have playlists that are purely for "daydreaming" said fics and trying to figure out what i want and how to get it to work. it means a lot of the same songs are used over and over again for different scenarios, but i like molding the "amv" to what i want it to be.

Do you go balls to the wall and write as you go or are you more organized?

the only time im organized when it comes to writing in any aspect is when im writing original work. mainly because i have rewritten the same novel 5x now and im sick of looking at it and im sick of having to do this, and being organized like this keeps it from happening in the future. with fics i go balls to the wall, basically just write what i want and leave it for a week after its done then proofread. the idea of working it like an original novel makes me nauseous, bc i wanna write what makes me happy, and just hope that it makes others happy, too.

tagging: @theflirtmeister @barkovsasha @hischiersjohnston @hughesquinn and anyone else who'd like to participate

[kitkatopinions]

I know I made a post about this recently, but I really can't take it seriously when people say that rwde posters just hate RWBY and have always hated RWBY and we're looking for things to complain about and we only watch/watched RWBY to hate on it.

And I don't remember now who said this, but one time I saw an anti-rwde poster say that you couldn't like something and think it's bad at the same time, so I think some of it stems from that sort of mentality. That people genuinely think that people can only find enjoyment from something they think is undeserving of criticism, that people can't have a good time with something that they think is objectively not very well done. Which is just wrong tbh. And I aldo feel like there's this mentality I've seen a lot where people think nobody enjoys the act of analyzing media, that nobody enjoys criticizing things despite the fact that there are whole shows for food critics, and that nobody enjoys being a hater. So the only thing they can think of when they see criticism is that we must be like, hurting ourselves and making ourselves miserable and the only reason they can think of for us doing that is we must HATE RWBY and want it to die.

And meanwhile I just walked to work today while listening to RWBY music so I could think about the RWBY AMVs I have in my head and reflected on how much I loved these characters and how I wanted to defend one of the characters who I think gets unnecessary hate, but how the character IS flawed and how I'd explore those flaws with more nuance if I ever get around to making a giant RWBY reboot I'm at this time only making plans for, but I'm too busy thinking about the massive unpublished crossover AU that heavily features the RWBY characters that branched off of the unpublished RWBY AU my sister and I spent like a year at least writing. And people think I have no love for RWBY.

I've stuck with RWBY for nine seasons, I'm still watching because I love the characters, I love the show, I'm invested, I want to see how it ends. Friends, I stopped watching Doctor freaking Who during season eight because the writing got too bad and they made the eighth doctor so unlikable that even though I still loved seasons 1-6 (and tolerated season 7,) my enthusiasm was killed. But I'm still watching RWBY, not because I think it's good, but because I just love RWBY so much that I feel like I want to keep going with it and keep giving it a chance. But no, people can only pretend me and everyone else must just have no love for RWBY or its characters.

[vergess]

So, have you watched the new Doctor Who episodes? What do you think of them if yes?

Yes

I LOVED IT ALL SO MUCH

Hugely relieved that the nostalgia tour is now over; I don't think my neurons could tolerate much more of it

I think my favourite is still The Star Beast because I enjoy when Doctor Who gets all hamfisted about social issues. I'm a sucker for that!!

But oh man, oh man, the Giggles!!! The music sequence! The ending!!! AHHHHH

And then the fucking. The direction on Wild Blue Yonder, fuuuuck. Like, I expected the actors to be amazing; it's Tennant and Tate. To describe them as "good actors" does not capture the skill that they have specifically in working together.

But I was blown away by how well it was directed!! The fucking scenes where you as an audience member are realizing "wait, that's not how the Doctor talks to Donna normally.... WAIT THAT'S NOT THE DOCTOR AT ALL" just. Delicious. Perfectly done. Which is extra wild to me when looking at the dirctero's other credits which are ummm. Not that good, shall we say.

And THEN you find out that the torso-and-head framing of each camera shot was So On Purpose and it just!!!

It was all so good.

Oh man, I know I'm the specific target demographic being pandered to (queer millennials who loved Eccleston, obsessed over Tennant, enjoyed Smith, wandered off during Capaldi, and bounced off Whittaker).

I was always going to love it. It's designed to make me love it!

it's designed to bait with nostalgia. I know that. I recognize it.

But the thing is? Oh my god, the thing is, instead of a nasty little trap, the bait was just to get you SO HYPE for Gatwa.

And it worked. I'm so much more excited for his run than I was beforehand. Like. WAY more hype.

I was excited enough for him that I knew I would watch his Christmas special and probably the first 1-3 episodes of his run.

Now? Just from the little sample we got of the way Gatwa will be carrying this role, in the context of the more child-friendly* approach that earmarks Davies as a Doctor Who showrunner?

I'm SO fucking COMMITTED. I wanna see where they take him. I have always preferred the... the times when DW is like... Cringe? But earnestly cringe? Hamfisted social messages. Monsters that sound absurd until you see then. Monsters that stay absurd even as you're hooked. AMVs as threats.

All that shit is MADE to please me specifically.

AND BUDDY!!!!!!!!!! I AM PLEASED!!!!!!!!!!

I cannot WAIT to see the Situations they're going to put Gatwa's doctor in and watch him get out of them. He has the perfect level of charismatic charm and genuine emotion.

Normally I need to see the Doctor and his Companion interact before I can get a sense of the pathos the actor will bring to the role and how they work off the writing and direction.

But shiiiiiiit, Gatwa came out swinging and I already have SUCH high hopes.

And this hasn't even gotten to how fuckin' diverse the backgrounders were in these specials. They really said, "okay, we have filled these scenes out with too many unmarked people, we need to dial that down." And I know, I know, packing your background with diverse actors (race, gender, ability, etc) while you foreground two white, abled actors that were brought in specifically to be nostalgia bait is, like, on paper it's a bad look.

But they gave those backgrounders each a lot more charm and character in their writing than I was expecting. Everything from Sgt Singh's suspicion loosening to military obedience and Shirley saying "don't make me the problem just go" to Rose reframing her mother's tic into a statement of her own independent power.

(Yes I know Davies has a thing about how he writes moms but listen I'm going to let him have that one)

And fuuuuuuck meeeeee, but they just KEEP saying trans rights, even after The Star Beast ended.

I just really, really enjoyed all 3 so much.

*Child-friendly isn't the right term, but I've gotten through the whole post and I can't figure out better phrasing. What I mean is, under Moffat and Chibnall, Doctor Who was not for children. The show didn't go out of its way to exclude them, but it certainly didn't try to provide education, entertainment or even engagement for them.

Doctor Who is not "a kids show" but critically, it shouldn't be "an adult show" either. It functions at its best as a family show. Something you can watch with your parents and your kids both on the same couch, and everyone enjoy it. This is an absurdly difficult line to walk. It's why Disney had so many years of failure before the renaissance.

And one of the ways people fail to walk that line is by treating children as an afterthought (Chibnall), or not at all (Moffat). Meanwhile, Davies's previous stint as Showrunner did a phenomenal job of bringing up The Horrors in ways that would put adults on edge while letting Children also enjoy the ride.

And the same is true of these 3 episodes.

I think "can kids get really into it too" is an extremely important benchmark for this type of scifi (and, I think it's part of why many modern Star Trek properties are so fucking tedious).

[ryxkenkxgami]

for the "fic I won't write" game: joshneku + "dearest enemy" because your AMV lives in my head rent-free

alright.................cracks knuckles. been a hot minute since i've wrriten some jn, let's get to it

joshua pov fic. this is after his "sacrifice" in the second week, so while he's lying low and watching beat & neku get through week three to the end of the game. it's all about joshua's complicated feelings on neku, and what happened during the single week they worked together as partners. what that change means.

obviously, in the reaper's game, things are different. it's not a normal week where you'd spend time getting to know each other; neku was fighting for his life. he'd just gone through a tragedy of losing a person he started to care about, and was stuck in a game of joshua's own design. but with joshua as his partner, things weren't like week one, and they got to... talk a lot more. hang out.

joshua got to feel like a real teenager again. got to chat with someone, do stupid shit like try on clothes, eat ramen. feel like a normal kid. to neku, even despite his suspicions, he was just that normal teenager. a normal guy who really got it. who really got the way that he thought.

problem is, he was changing that mindset. his first week in the game had done what joshua had always hoped it would accomplished - it was changing him. he'd just never expected to accomplish that with neku, and now, he was struggling with that realization.

so he watches. he watches as neku and beat stumble through the week, and he watches as neku fully realizes he loves shibuya. it feels like a disconnect. it feels almost wrong. joshua didn't want this, he wanted to die. he wanted neku to keep wanting everyone to go away, because that would at least mean he was right. that he - shibuya - shouldn't be there anymore. that they weren't worth it.

part of him almost resents neku for being able to change. for being willing to try and learn and grow. for so long, joshua has felt stagnant. as the composer, as a person. and here's his proxy - someone who is supposed to mirror him, inside and out, to prove his point - running around wanting to save shibuya. it's so laughable it makes him sick to his stomach. joshua's angry, but not the seething kind of anger. it's almost disappointment.

so when they make it to the room of reckoning, when joshua hands neku the gun, he wants neku to take the shot. he's ready. suicide by someone else's trigger, but suicide nonetheless. he's made neku cry. he's made sure that if neku really wanted to change, he'd have to kill joshua for it, so at least at the end, joshua would still get what he wanted. shibuya can stay, but he sure as hell doesn't want to be around to see it anymore.

and when neku doesn't shoot?

joshua isn't ready to admit what that means. about shibuya, about neku, and about himself.

[floralcrematorium]

11, 12, 13, 40

Thanks for the ask! Adding a cut to this post because I go OFF and unhinged when it comes to #13 (it's about music)

11. What book gets you daydreaming about Hetalia?

I will be real with you, I haven't picked up a real physical book since before I got back into Hetalia. I really need to dig into my complete collection of Poe stories, but I think that would really do it for me. I'm a hoe for Poe (sorry. SORRY.)

The last book I actually read was Caitlin Doughty's memoir Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From The Crematory. That was back in March, though. Same week I bought my Poe and Bram stoker collections.

12. What film gets you daydreaming about Hetalia?

I uh. Do not watch many movies. Been wanting to rewatch some Ghibli movies recently, specifically The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. An amazing movie, truly. I do think The Secret Life of Arietty could be applicable for a Hetalia AU,,,,

13. What song gets you daydreaming about Hetalia?

Okay, NOW you've done it. I am a very music oriented person (even though I listen to music wrong (i.e. I rarely pay attention to the lyrics and focus entirely on how it sounds as a Whole)). Prepare for me to just. Go OFF. I'm that dweeb who was posting all of the character playlists a while back (I need to finish them, I promised I'd post Denmark's and then never did). You can find all of the playlists I've done through my masterpost! The links take you to Spotify, but I have Youtube alternatives and will tag this post with my music tag. Here's a quick link: Link

Been prepping a fic for Heta Horror Week using Mitski's Brand New City. I'm not sure if I should actually release it though because it deals with some Sensitive Topics that I'm using in the narrative to work out some,,, unresolved trauma. I'm looking for someone who might be willing to read this and give me some feedback on whether I should post it or not, so if you want some very dark and heavy NA Bros/FACE fam content I guess?? DM me mid October or something? Cough ANYWAY

Life is Beautiful by Sixx:A.M. and Blackbird by Alter Bridge to me are The Ultimate songs for Prussia

Demolition Lovers by My Chemical Romance is the most romantic song to me, ever, and I will NOT elaborate

Diet Soda Society by The Maine is The LietPol song to me. I can't really explain why

Maps by Maroon 5 has Hetalia AMV potential (I have thought this since the day the song came out in 2014)

24 by Jem is THE HetaOni song to me. I wanna write a Hetaoni fic or make art for it SO BAD because?????? I used to be able to write Italy's monologue from the Pianodream version on my middle school agenda over and over. I was,,,, unhealthily obsessed with HetaOni

The Horror and the Wild by The Amazing Devil reminds me so much of Norway and I couldn't tell you why. Most of that album does.

Fall Out Boy is SO Alfred coded and I. I will never back down on that

Help Is On The Way by The Rise Against is also America coded for me

I will stop myself with the music now

40. Fun fact about yourself?

I have a Princess Diana shrine in my bedroom. It was a joke because of a hyperfixation I had on her specifically and my friends and I were like "hey what if we made a Diana shrine" because I made a Princess Diana furby for my storyboarding class,,,, so now I have a really fucked up Princess Diana shrine that is so. so so so bad. I'm staring at it right now as I type this. I don't know what to do with the shrine. I can't just????? Get rid of it? But also keeping it is. AGH

Hetalia Asks

[daredevilexchange]

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What’s your fannish ID? Udekai! Friends call me Stu. Stu came from the first OC I ever had- which was essentially just a blue scribble with a bowler hat.

What types of fanworks do you create? I've done mostly art throughout my whole campaign, but fic has become a bigger and bigger thing over the years. I've always been good with literature, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. The only reason art got so big was because it's easier to doodle on the margins of your schoolwork than brainstorm a story. That turned into dabbling in animation; I only have the energy for a couple of those a year, but I feel like I've gotten pretty good at it!

What are your favourite types of fanworks, when you’re not creating? Nothing- and I mean nothing- beats a good AMV. Fics are a close second, but something about seeing something move in time with the beat of a good song is just beautiful.

What do you like in particular about this fandom? I definitely should have watched Daredevil sooner. I've been keeping up with the MCU since the first avenger and my cousin said "watch Daredevil." I said I love angst and my cousin said "please watch Daredevil. I started kickboxing as a means to cope with stress, and my cousin fell to his knees and begged me to watch Daredevil. I didn't actually watch it until I was reading Deadpool fics after reading all his comics, and found Team Red. I was enamored immediately. I came for the show and stayed for the people. So far, everyone I've met is an absolute peach. Everyone's extremely accepting, mature, and communicative. I'm partial to Mattfoggy as a ship, with some dabbling in Kastle. Best friends to lovers has always been my favorite trope, followed closely by hurt/comfort, so there's no wonder why that one spoke to me.

Do you like participating in fan events? I do! I didn't use to, because deadlines intimidate me, but that is a great motivator to actually. Yknow. Finish things, which I can have a little bit of trouble with. They've been teaching me to be okay with publishing things that I haven't had the chance to pick apart and overthink. I'm also making way more than I would be without somebody offering ideas and schedules to work on. I've never done a con, nor do I really see myself doing one in the future, just because I get so flustered when fawn over my work.

What about your creating process? It's a different story every time! I live in a kind of chaotic environment that I have very little control over, so I tend to opt for headphones to keep out noisy distractions. Sometimes, though, even that's a little much to work around, and I have to go find somewhere quiet. My process with fics would make every literature teacher I've ever met weep. There's a fic I have right now that's 250k words, and the planning document reads like I just scrawled it on the walls of my living room. It helps with writer's block sometimes to just type out a stream of consciousness, all of the "uhms" and "no that doesn't make sense" included. As for inspiration, half the time I start out with a single scene in my head and build around it. That goes for fics, animations, and art. I like to get heavy with parallels between canon and whatever I'm doing, and by the end, I can almost guarantee me brain's a massive cobweb of ideas. I find being comfortable is also really important. And I mean physically comfortable. I steal the computer chair to write at the kitchen table for its back support, because when I create, I do it for literally days on end. I try not to begrudge myself the 20 minute scrolling breaks; pressure to work on something always has a way of taking away the enjoyment, and by extension, my ability to actually think creatively. And coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.

Do you interact a lot with other fans? I do! I've always been in a lot of discords, but now almost half of them are Daredevil related. I've got my beloved mutuals on Tumblr, and all these people who participate in events. I'm not exactly wanting for company, but anyone who knows me can vouch that I'm a little bit of a social butterfly.

Is there any particular piece you'd like to showcase for this post? That 250k fic I mentioned earlier: Incarnate. I mention it because it's my pride and joy and because I need to finish it.

Do you have other fandoms you'd like to talk about? I tend to do one fandom at a time. They take up my entire headspace. No vacancy.

Where can your fanworks be found? I can be found at Udekai on Ao3 and Tumblr! https://archiveofourown.org/users/Udekai/works I only post fics on Ao3, but you can find art of mine under #my art!

Thank you, @udekai !

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[alex-procrastinates]

so in my little intro post, i said i was working on some art and fanfic writing. it's still nowhere near finished, but i thought now would be a good time to share my progress on possibly the biggest project i've ever done: a pmv of asgore using the song viva la vida by coldplay.

it would be an amv, but i have no idea how to animate and i'm not sure that's within my drawing program's capabilities. so instead i'll be doing at least one drawing per line of lyrics in the song, as well as the parts without lyrics. it's going to require over 60 fully lined, coloured and shaded drawings, which will take a while to finish. my goal is to get it done in time for undertale's 8th birthday in september.

i am currently about 70% finished sketching out every drawing i plan to do. i still need to finish choruses 2 and 3 and properly organise all the instrumental drawings, and then i'll be able to start finishing each drawing. here are some of the sketches i've done so far:

(the lyrics written in most of these are just there for me to quickly see which drawing is for what, i'm not sure if they'll be in the final project and if they are they'll be much neater 😅)

i'm definitely motivated to do this, but my life is about to get a lot busier, so i only hope i can keep working on it and posting progress updates regularly. if you have any constructive criticism about my art or the story i'm trying to show through this pmv, i'd love to hear it - i'm always looking to improve! :)

[cleocatrablossy]

I made a New Years resolution thing last year so let’s see how well I did:

-To not die ✅

-Further improve in art ✅

-Work on world building and creature design ✅

-Get at least three chapters of The First Line Drawn done! ❌ (I’m stepping away from TFLD for some time, I love the characters and all but they just feel… tainted sorta and I want to forget why that is before I do anything with that story)

-Finish plotting out Quazet and start production on the pilot episode! ❌ (i have reimagined Quazet at least 5 times now and finally settled on something a month or two ago so no.)

-Start River’s Run(reboot of Opaled Rivers) ✅

-Finish at least two PMV/AMVs ✅ (small sketch things but still!)

-Join less MAPs so I don’t die nor fail to deliver in full ✅

-Try to further claw my way out of a pit of emotional emptiness in a way other than having crushed on people because I can’t be reliant on another person for my emotions ❌ (I’m now using art. An improvement but not success)

-Start Cider’s Log! ❌ (I’m doing some character work first since she didn’t have a strong personality before)

-Get outside more and try to talk with neighbors so I stop being a hermit in my spare time ✅

-Get at least one part of my Warriors AU project out! ❌ (it’s probably canceled or I’m gonna rework it in a good long while)

-Do at least two animation memes ✅

-Work harder on school stuff ✅ (still absolute garbage but I’m trying!)

-Work on stamina so the mile stops killing me ✅ (I mean I can’t sprint the whole thing but as long as my leg isn’t being funny I can do it no problem)

-Generally try to better myself emotionally ✅(slowly but steadily getting there!)

-Get over at least one of my fears(it will not be needles) ✅(loosing friends, sometimes it’s good to drop assholes)

-Make Opal a better dragon ✅

-Work on doing cuter more light hearted drawings that make me feel good ✅

-Work on music!(It’s something I’ve been interested in for a while and I have editing programs so why not?) ✅ (haven’t done much but I have been trying to teach myself guitar)

-Be more in touch with my family and friends ✅ (still not great with keeping in touch with family but have been improving!)

So 16/21, not the worst but could be better lol

[emilococo]

Huh, this recent video of mine doesn't seem to be getting many views. Typical, I try something new with a video, using a popular show from the last decade and it gets little notice. Might as well post it here, maybe that'll help.

I made this in honour of gaining 100 subscribers. It took me a decade but I've done it. While it is a milestone in and of itself, I know of other YouTubers that have achieved that goal in one year let alone 10. I don't know if it's me, or if people are just not interested. But I've never gone out of my way to please all the people all the time, nor have I tried any tactics or gimmicks to appeal to the masses. But rather, I've been more concerned with keeping my work consistent in their quality. And I have to thank anyone who has watched and followed me for all these years, it really has lifted my spirits whenever I felt ignored. Now I've achieved this goal, I should do a special project to honour it. It should be something different, that I've not done before.

For all this time, I've made videos using footage of cartoons I've watched in my youth, but some of you may be wondering if they're any recent animated shows I like. Of all the animated shows to come out in the past decade, my favourite one would have to be Adventure Time. You can keep your 'Steven Universe' and 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic', but this show about a young boy and his magic talking dog in a fantasy world really opened my eyes. After an era where children's cartoons weren't as talked about as they used to, and Cartoon Network became a shadow of what it once was, here comes this show to bring hope and justice to the medium. With its simple but cute designs, strange humour, memorable characters, deep lore and complex themes, Adventure Time managed to become a phenomenon among viewers of all ages, by pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in children's entertainment. This show has managed to win it's way into my list of favourite cartoons, as it showed me that modern animation can still achieve great things. It put me out of the notion that cartoons weren't as good as the ones I watched in my youth.

One of the aspects that makes Adventure Time stick out among other cartoons from the 2010s, is that it has episodes that are animated in a different art style. And I don't mean segments in a single episode, I mean full 10-minute episodes directed by guest animators. One of these experimental episodes (and the most well-known of them) is 'Food Chain'. Directed by Japanese animator Masaaki Yuasa, this is an episode has Finn and Jake explore the food chain. I decided to put each sequence in the chronological order of the chain into an AMV. It should make sense for an out-of-the-ordinary episode should be the subject of a video that's out of the ordinary. Anyway, I like to thank you for helping this channel reach such a stage. I hope to reach 100 more, so this channel will keep getting stronger (lord knows it's the one thing I need to support me). You people are all mathematical!

Adventure Time belongs to its respective owners and creators.

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Happy five years of hiveswap!!