#time wave zero

[thetoxicvault]

BLOOD INCANTION

Timewave Zero (2022)

Century Media

Denver / Colorado / U.S.A. 🇺🇲

Excellent music to chill out to, it's like floating into space... 🧘‍♂️💫

Favorite track:

[lotus-pear]

regret

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

sympathy for the outcasts <3

[syn4k]

every so often i am reminded of the fact that we are tumblr mutuals with quinn hills, who is the sister of joe hills tsd (of hermitcraft fame). i don't have anything to add to this post i just thought id share it

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <33

[raksh-writes]

Oh to write a line that is such an emotional punch to the gut you have to take a break and maybe even go on a walk, like oof

[kingbcwser]

//I love that even though Bowser is truly chaotic I, as the mun, am currently keysmashing mentally because cool blogs keeps fINDING ME

[impossible-rat-babies]

again. thinking about post-EW again and turning it into my own playground. it’s the first this time tho <3

[novemberthewriter]

when will ppl learn that no one is """required""" to reblog anything omg

[psychoticwillgraham]

sis came by to drop off mom’s flowers and my candy and apparently she’s taking us all out to the fanciest restaurant in town for dinner?? sometime’s having a nurse for a sister is good

[heartvisor]

if i had to say, ultra zero fight is probably the most extremely necessary "context here" sort of thing for geed

the zero movies and stuff sure if you want to see his and belial's origins (as well as the ultimate force zero team), but i think ultra zero fight as a singular pick gives you a pretty okay demonstration of the two as adversaries while introducing what becomes the thematic core for the direction pursued for belial in geed (the whole "aren't you an ultraman too?" thing) 💭

[hshouse]

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[sonofsin]

maybe I'm just being a hypochondriac, but I think I might have a deviated septum and that's why breathing through my nose is so fucked. a few weeks ago I stumbled on a screenshot of my most recent dental xray (2018?) and because I've never seen it before, I was looking at it closely and noticed my septum looks? quite off?? and I compared it to images of xrays of deviated septums taken at the same angle. at the very least, it doesn't look like the "normal" septum. idk what I'd do with this information or if it's even something I could get fixed. it's not like I have a family doctor.

[mirmidones]

developed a deep parasocial bond with random girl going through the museum at the same time and pace as me <3 should we get married <3

[foldingfittedsheets]

For reasons known only to adolescent girls my friend Kate and I started communicating with extremely loud calls of, “Ka-kaw!” at some point during high school.

When trying to locate each other on the quad in lieu of cell phones we made do with good old fashioned screeching. The first call was always a lower tone. When one of us heard the cry we’d immediately echo it back at a higher pitch like dinosaurs playing Marco Polo.

This was probably obnoxious for all our classmates but man did we zero in on each other right quick. It was great. I never had to look for her in a huge crowd I just had to unleash my lack of social decorum in sonic waves. My only defense was that we only used it for out of doors. We weren’t monsters.

It served us extremely well the one time we went skiing together. She was a newer skier and got off the ski lift before I did after a stroke of bad luck and poor planning on our parts. By the time I had my skis on the snow I couldn’t see her. Worried, I took off down the mountain, not spotting her.

I planted my skis when I realized I must have passed her somehow. She couldn’t have made the same time as me. I threw my head back and shrieked, “Ka-kaw!!”

The sound cut across the cold thin air, sharp and carrying. To my delight and the surprise of several snowboarders going past me there was an answering “Ka-kaw!!!” from further up the mountain, reverberating joyously.

I’ve had this turkey post pinged several times, I can only say that I’m glad my friend and I aren’t the only bird girls out there.

[yupuffin]

There's just something about villains.

Namely: Kagami Naoto from Donten ni Warau (A.K.A. Laughing Under the Clouds), Griss from Fire Emblem: Engage, and Scar from Wuthering Waves, among others.

I'm not attracted to them, necessarily, like I'm attracted to my favorite characters -- probably because I find them intimidating, which, for an antagonist that's meant to pose a threat to the protagonists, is a good thing! -- but when their character design elements come together in a certain way, it gives them a distinct magnetism that scratches an itch in my brain, so to speak.

Maybe not all of it, but I think part of it comes from less pressure on villains' character designs to look beautiful or attractive. In the case of a protagonist, ideally, from the outset, an audience will like them as a character, or at least trust or empathize with them to a certain degree; therefore, a protagonist's design must leave a positive impression. When it comes to a conventional anime-type art style, then, which typically centers on idealization, with clean lines and visually appealing features, I think there can be a tendency towards a certain degree of sameness; some visual patterns will be more aesthetically appealing than others, so protagonists' designs will tend to repeatedly utilize these specific patterns within and across media.

On the other hand, while villains can be attractive and leave a positive first impression, it's not, by necessity, a function of their character, so their designs have a lot more flexibility and variation; they can utilize features and patterns that, by convention, aren't as readily available to protagonists.

(Why this is the case is its whole own separate post, so I won't go into that in-depth here. If it were solely my choice, I'd love for characters all across the protagonist-antagonist spectrum to have all sorts of physical features. 😛)

I can't help but think of one interview with Karakara Kemuri, the mangaka behind Donten, I read a few years ago. In said interview, they talked about which of their characters they found most difficult to draw and which they found easiest to draw.

Now, the art style they use for Donten is beautiful, and is the primary reason I got into the manga; they mentioned that their main characters are most difficult to draw because they have to focus on ensuring that they look beautiful.

Conversely, they cited a few characters, among which Kagami was one, that they found easiest to draw precisely because they didn't have to worry about making them look beautiful -- and the characters they mentioned were the very same ones whose designs stuck out to me because they were different from those of the other characters, and that made them interesting.

I mean, yeah, I love a beautiful protagonist, but when the main characters all kind of look the same or at least similar by virtue of having to look attractive, personally speaking, I'm much more liable to notice and remember the gremlin in the corner who's got wild-looking eyes and sharp teeth and doesn't stand up quite straight all the time (that's Kagami), or the shirtless guy covered in tattoos and piercings with a certain punch to his movements (Griss), or the guy with such a bright red hue he's in all likelihood both poisonous and venomous and whose range of facial expressions makes it look like he's constantly trying to perform to the back row of a theatre (Scar).

Those characters are distinctive, and I think the uniqueness of their designs, while not necessarily considered conventionally beautiful, gives them something analogous to attractiveness, or perhaps a different, unconventional form of attractiveness.

Like I said, if it were my choice, I'd give so many protagonists this kind of magnetism, too, but in the meantime, this can be my post where I appreciate villains.