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edith-is-a-cat · 8 months

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Edie's Moots!!!

The ones I've interacted with (alphabetically organized)

💕@angelhairpastawithherbs - Mx. Rose Moth!! - HAS THE SAME MOTHMAN SHIRT AS ME AND THATS HOW WE BECAME MUTUALS SO LOVELY (thats why you are called Rose Moth in my head!!) #mx. rose moth!! 💕

🐙@azulashengrottospiano - Ms. Auburn!! - DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON IS MY MUTUAL GUYS /j, Seriously so very lovely love dropping art in there inbox. *Silently foaming at the mouth with their writing* Literally feels like a celeb followed me back. Tumblr mom/oldest sister skjdnbvkjerfl ily /p and thank you for being so nice to me #ms. auburn!! 🐙

💫@bloody-puppets - My child!! - HIIIIIIII *spins you around like a hula hoop* Yes his tag may have been "father" but those are lies this is my child. Acc snatched up and will help u around tumblr bc you are child. please ill make a terrarium you you goobers #my child!! 💫

@ - Mr. !! - OMG TELLS YOU ABOUT EVERYTHING IM EXCITED FOR YOU WELCOME IN!!!

#mr. !!

🎩@dapperceature - Mx. Dapper!! - EHEHEH IVE MISSED YOU UNDERTALE FANDOM AND ITS SO COOL THAT I HAVE AN UNDERTALE MOOT ILY MWAH /p #mx. dapper!! 🎩

🍬@ferris-the-wheel - Ms. Ferris!! YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE AND BE RLLY NICE AND SUPPORTIVE FOR NO OTHER REASON THAN MY BLOG BEING VERY BLUE, why thank you the rolls will be done in a bit. (ALSO PICKED ME UP BY THE SCRUFF AND ADOPTED ME?) My favorite moot to chew on #ms. ferris!! 🍬

🦀@fryofthefrench - real person. WALKING NONBINARY PRIDE FLAG 🫵 #mx. samsung!! 🦀🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫵

🐍@l7k-a - Mr. Haru!! - I THINK I LOOKED AT UR PROFILE ONE TIME AND THOUGHT ABOUT FOLLOWING YOU THEN I CHICKENED OUT-- NOT TODAY and u like Basil freaking spinning and shaking. U r like my dad... you have asked me to sleep and isn't late several times. love u sm #mr. haru!! 🐍

🪻@h2llish - Mr. Devil!! I have a fourty bucks, and hopefully the ability to drive soon, wanna grab food?? #mr. devil!! 🪻

💪@i-like-forgs - Mr. Ryoko!! - reads your posts like I read the newspaper, making dramatic gasps ever now and then. I love being to see a little bit of your life. Rattles the bars of my cage, I'm so happy to see you. #mr. ryoko!! 💪

🐎@jangletam - Junior!! - Ken irl -- carefully fits you with a lovely cowboy hat and matching pair of boots #robin jr!! 🐎

✨@officialdaydreamer00 - Mx. Irene!! Picked me up off the side of the road after I reblogged one of his things an unholy amount of times (it was so cute tho I plan to read more when I have time :3!!) #mx. irene!! ✨

💤@vntey - Mx. Leo!! - Ur cool i like you goober #mx. leo!! 💤

🌸@sakka-kyuu - Ms. Sakkakuu!! - PLEASE PLEASE you are so cute and sweet and im a seal plushie to you omg my heart <////3 /pos thank you for existing here bpufvbehbtvhrbtvhbrv you are so neato #ms. sakkakuu!! 🌸

🎀 @shinysparklesapphires - Ms. Sapphire!! - HSHVJKDNVJERVHJBERHD PRETTY MAGICAL GIRL SO COOL HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-- u r so neat I would love to hand feed you (edible) glitter #ms. sapphire!! 🎀

🪷@twistwonderlanddevotee - Ms. Sofia!! - THE WAY I STOOD UP AND RAN AROUND WHEN I SAW U REBLOG THE THING WITH THE PRETTIES WALLPAPER EVER-- I hope you get so much pretty stickers get you arts and crafts supplies and gives you stationary cause i feel u would like it (btw DO NOT WORRY ABOUT TAKING LONG BUT THAT WAS JUST SO SWEET AND I HOPE YOU DID SUPER WELL ON UR FINALS!!!!) #ms. sofia!! 🪷

🐇@twst-om-lover - Mx. Nightmare!! - spins you like a basketball #mx. nightmare!! 🐇

🐇✨@vivislosingitagain - Mx. Vivi!! Can we turn the ocean into tea together??? And then have a tea party if ocean tea doesn't taste weird! (I decided the second emoji for you hope you don't mind!!) #mx. vivi!! 🐇✨

🐈‍⬛@v-anrouge - Mr. Aster!! - You can have some of my blood if you want, fun fact, my blood type is ab so it's not really too useful if I donate it. I would love to bake you something and sit you down to watch a ghibli movie. I really like scrolling through your blog its very neat and i wanna put stickers and sparkles on it. Internet dad. do i have to say more? #mr. aster!! 🐈‍⬛

⭐🐍@weskers-husband - Mr. Miles!! - Hi gremlin boy I'm very glad you are here, post your art right fucking now.. Cool dude please talk to him and be cool to him, if you are mean to him I'm taking your keratin (also check out his poetry account @poems-husband >:D) #mr. miles!! ⭐🐍

🦈@whspermy-name - Mr. Minty!! - *gives you a 10 pound bag of gummy sharks and BOOKS IT for the hills* #mr. minty!! 🦈

🐀@xen-blank - Mx. Xen!! - IM INVITED TO YOUR WEDDING??? GIGGLES AND SHAKES YOU LIKE A JAR OF PICKLES glitters you glitters you glitters you glitters you glitters you glitters you glitters you glitters you (EHEHE U R SO NEATO) #mx. xen!! 🐀 You are welcome to ask to be mutuals! I will usually become moots with you on my own if I find you interesting or we just interact a ton!!

#silly little bear's friends :]

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bloomz-page · 11 months

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What's a girls gonna do? a diamond's gotta shine! 𔓘 ⋆ ﾟ

knock, knock . . . who's there? oh, my dear buddies, it's lovely to meet you! allow me to share some facts about myself . . . ☆

📜 hello, dearest friends! the name is lavender mist minèrva, i go by that pretty name as my pseudonym in this virtual realm. it'll be lovely if you addres me as lavender, lave, minè, or kathya (my old nickname), but I'm totally okay with any nickname you prefer! ♡

i already reach my legal age (20). a proud enfj with aquarius sun scorpio moon and taurus rising as my zodiac. oh, and the type of my account is unlabeled!

i tweet primarily about my daily activities and occasionally publish my photo dump. i enjoy discussing my current interests and occasionally sharing screenshots from those interests, such as webcomics, book pages, or movie sequences. this is not a spoiler-free account! 🪄

☆ My music preferences and interests 𓇼 ⋆｡˚

perhaps, our tastes are similiar.

spotify is my 24/7 buddy! 🎧 for me, there's no day without music. I'm listening to kpop a lot, especially 4th gen k-pop . . . but my ultimates are boynextdoor, enhypen and a lot of girl groups! (current favorite: tripleS, newjeans, ive, kiss of life, illit). my favorites soloist are taylor swift, NIKI, laufey, mitski, olivia rodrigo, and conan gray! I listen to them a lot. i listen to japanese pop as well, such as aimer, yoasobi, fujii kaze, and CHiCO with HoneyWorks! wave to earth, AKMU, lucy, and yerin baek are my favorites k-bands. indonesian songs i often listen to are from nadin amizah and tulus! last but not least, i looooove listening to sudio ghibli's soundtrack!

i love watching movies 📽, especially anime! studio ghibli and anime movies take up the biggest part of my movie interest. here are some of my favorites anime movies: The Secret World Of Arietty, When Marnie Was There, Whisper Of The Heart, Nausicaä Of The Valley of The Wind, Howl Moving Castle, Suzume, The Garden Of Words, Your Name, A Silent Voice, Summer Ghost, and Belle. My favorite anime series all the time: Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, To Your Eternity, Fruits Basket, Noragami, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun, and Haikyuu!!

lately, i've been interested in watching k-drama! my favorite k-drama all the time: Twenty-Five Twenty-One, 20th Century Girl, A-Teen, Class Of Lies, School 2017, Weak Hero Class, and Wightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo.

of course, don't forget about this one! series and western films. honestly, I can say that I'm not really into western movies . . . but in this past year, after i finished the Harry Potter series, i decided to watch western movies more often! 🪄✋🏻 and let me tell you my current favorites: Harry Potter, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Gilmore Girls, Princess Diaries, Enola Holmes, and Miss Perigrine's Home For Peculiar Children. 🎞

books, books! 📚 i love reading books as well, especially fiction and self-improvement! for fiction, i don't have any specific genres . . . i can say that i'm flexible to all genres as long as i'm interested in the story line. but, maybe romance will take the biggest part! ◡̈ ༘ *

do you have any recommendations for webtoons or manga? pleaseeee tell me! i love reading webcomics, but it's hard for me to find webcomic that match my interest . . . maybe your favorite can be my favorite too! *wink* but here's my favorite webtoon all the time: Tweening & Knitting Room! 🧣🧤

last but not least, I love writing fiction and studying about self-improvement & self-love. i can label myself as a lifelong learner, or maybe i'm just trying to be a lifelong learner (?) well, both are okay! i love watching TikTok or Youtube videos that talking about self-improvement and self-love ·ᴗ· my current favorite Youtubers are Thewizardliz, Tam Kaur, and Firlyn!

A note, note . . 📄

i'm using Indonesian and broken English as my daily tweets ·ᴗ· i use a lot of kaomoji! m y account is safe for minors, but under 15, please dni. islamphobia, homophobic, lgbtphobic please don't ever interact with my account. i rarely use content warnings for food pictures or real-life pictures! let me know if i made a mistake or my tweets accidentally hurt your feelings, through private messaging, i would gladly fix my attitude. last but not least, my dm is always open! i love having a chit-chat with my precious mutual, so feel free to knock on my door.

dear buddies, thank you for reading my not so greeting paragraph! i hope we can be a good friends, have a lovely day! ♡

lots of love, lavender. ☆

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rattusn0rvegicus · 2 years

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Tag Game! I was tagged by @georgekirrin!

Make a new post and copy the text from this post and fill out the questions with your answers. Then tag fie or ore people you want to get to know better. Have fun!!!

1. Favorite color(s): Green, purple, brown, and black

2. Currently reading: Technically I Never Promised You a Rose Garden but idk if I'm going to get through this one lol. I have a bunch of other books I want to read tho

3. Last song you listened to: Uhh honestly I have no idea, it might have been something by Green Day but Body by Mother Mother is playing in my head rn

4. Last thing you watched: Apparently some dumb CollegeHumor video, I am the height of intellectualism

5. In school? Kind of! I'm doing an arborist apprenticeship which means I'm getting paid to learn. It's pretty sweet. I also want to go back to college and maybe get a BS in psychology or something and maybe grad school idk. But that's for me far in the future lmao

6. Thing you're looking forward to: I'M TABLING IN THE DEALER'S DEN FOR THE FIRST TIME AT A FURRY CONVENTION IN A COUPLE WEEKS!!!! literally SO excited lmao

7. Thing you're working on right now? Well I'm literally sitting in the work van driving back to the yard right now (I'm a passenger dw 😂) but my main thing I'm working on right now is just getting ready for the dealer's den and finishing up a few paintings and items to sell :3

8. Can you cook or bake? I love cooking and people tell me I'm really good at it! I'm quite picky with my spices and roasting and marinating and shit lol. Baking on the other hand... I can make box brownies and some pretty yummy chocolate chip cookies (but they never LOOK pretty lmfao) but that's about it 😁

9. Piece of media you'd recommend to anyone: Well that's a hard one. Idk if I'd recommend it to ANYONE but I've really been wanting to do a rewatch of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away lately and I really love the movie The Secret of NIMH. I also talk about The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks a lot, but I would definitely recommend that book too.

Tagging @reticent-artificer @toddycats @astriiformes @hooded-and-cloaked @sherokutakari @gieryton

And anyone else who wants to do it 💚

#tag game #about me

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codenamesailordarillium · 2 months

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do you watched anime series and ghibli films?

Oh dear, Aparna I am so very sorry I didn't notice you sent this ask over a month ago. 😭

In terms of anime I used to watch lots more frequently back when I was in high school. A lot of the shows I watched were an obvious escape. In adult life tho, I haven't really watched as much anime as I used to back when I was a teenager.

I really enjoyed My Happy Marriage when it was coming out last year (is it primarily because it heavily reinforced my fangirl crush on the English voice actor for Lurd Kudou who I mainly know for being a Youtube funny boi .. maybe lol).

I believe that was also when I finally got caught up with s3 of SM Crystal + the Eternal movies. Honestly I'd done that in anticipation for the Cosmos movies but they don't seem to have gone straight to N/etflix internationally the way the Eternal movies did back when there were still some semblance of C*vid restrictions. I technically have a VPN I could probably use to see if it's available elsewhere, but my experience with VPNs in the time I've tried them has been a lil bit lackluster, so idk, we'll see what I'll do about that eventually. 🤷‍♀️

My best friend got me interested in watching RGU as well, but I kind of fell off my initial watch thru .. which I'm realizing was also sometimes early last year. I have been thinking about getting back into it lately tho, so hopefully I can carve out some time for that eventually. I want to see the entire series first and then the movie to see where they differ, I've been informed the endings are very different. From what I can tell I'll probably prefer the movie ending. 🤔

I also only recently noticed that there was a Violet Evergarden movie released back in 2k20 that I didn't know about, so I definitely want to watch that eventually as well.

You can probably see a pattern with a lot of what I watch lol. I think over the years it's become apparent I'm drawn to pretty shoujo/magical girl/romantic aesthetic anime more than the types of anime that get super popular, which tend to be shounen action-y stuff. I guess the one exception (sort of) was that I watched the live action OP last year. The anime was literally my favorite back in high school, I'm telling you I was watching like 6-8 episodes per day back then, maybe? Just to get caught up with where the anime was at the time lol. I don't have much enthusiasm about getting back into the anime, but the live action version definitely reignited my love for the series so I'm looking forward to the next season.

As for Ghibli movies, I always preferred Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle over everything else. I haven't really watched any of them in a long time either tho. 😅

#aparnasworld

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funkymbtifiction · 2 years

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7 instant reframing - aka The Olaf nose syndrom

Even though I relate to enneagram nine a lot, I relate just as much to enneagram seven. The reason why I don't consider it is because I'm not highly energetic or social.

Your recent post about the re-framing describes me to a T. It's a quality I like about myself because whenever I'm faced with an unfortunate situation, and with the help of my Ne, my mind instantly presents me with an alternative way to look at it and challenges me to why it isn't just as valid or even more valid than the original perspective.

I'll give you a very recent example and then ask you a question. It was my birthday a couple of days ago. It started 'wrong' with me waking up super late and losing the precious morning hours. I was feeling extremely tired and my body ached. I couldn't catch the movie I wanted to watch at the cinema, and the bigger, newer mall I was planning to go to was already busy (I only go to early movie screenings and only go shopping right after stores open because I enjoy it more). I was waiting for my late birthday lunch order and the reframing happened.

1. I woke up late yes, but isn't it wonderful that my body got more rest today!? (I'm an insomniac and rarely get a good night sleep)

2. My body ached and I wasn't feeling my physical best yes, but it's because I've been going on walks since the new year as it's one of my goals to be more fit in 2022. Isn't it wonderful that I stuck to that January habit so far? And the aches mean something is starting to shift in my body, and what better birthday gift to give myself than a proof that I am starting to take care of myself? In fact, there's no better way to honor the start of a new decade of my life!

3. I missed the movie screening yes, but now I get to watch it in my bedroom that I've decorated myself the night before, with my favorite homemade snacks that won't cost me a fortune, wearing comfy pajamas, and not feeling dehydrated because I don't have to skip liquids to avoid public toilets!

4. I went to the smaller mall instead of the bigger one to avoid crowds yes, but it's because I did, that I found a studio Ghibli book I've been wanting for a while in a store that only has a branch in that mall!

5. This isn't the lunch I had in mind or the time I wanted to have it, but my god isn't it so wonderful that it was a spur of the moment thing? like a surprise? A birthday surprise! Now I can have a lighter dinner like chicken ramen soup to keep warm in this cold weather.

Then my Ne went on and on about how maybe my thirtieth birthday was never supposed to be planned by me, because someone, somewhere had other plans in mind. and that maybe it was a metaphor about life and fate - How we're not always given what we want but always what we need, and that it's something we should trust and have faith in because we'll never understand the inner works of it. And I also started thinking that that someone somewhere was teaching me a lesson. I'm very idealistic overall and though I've worked though it, it is still keeping me stuck in some areas of life because I'm not willing to compromise. I thought maybe what happened that day is showing me that whichever way things go, even if it ended up in the route that's faaaaar away from where I was expecting it to be, things will be just fine in the end and I won't be sad about it at all. Maybe all this time I just believed that I will be sad but I have no proof that I will. Because let me tell you, I did 5% of what I wanted to do that birthday, but I went to bed feeling extremely lucky and grateful regardless.

My question to you is: Do some people around you get annoyed by your tendency to be positive about things and think you're acting like a child who can't face reality? And do you overall avoid people who are more realistic and not as positive as you are because you feel like they dim your life by constantly reminding you of the negatives?

P.s: I called it the Olaf nose syndrome because he loved the tiny little nose he was originally given, then when the carrot was pushed further in he loved it even more, and I bet whatever changes was made to it he would've thought it was the best things ever lol

LOL, the Olaf thing is cute.

I am not as good at re-framing as you are, because I'm a core 6, so it's a constant daily battle with me to bounce between negativity and optimism, expecting the worst and telling myself it'll all be fine; but I do overall maintain an optimistic, give-people-the-benefit-of-the-doubt attitude. I caught myself re-framing this morning when I told my parents someone I tried to connect to as a friend hadn't worked out, but that it was fine -- I can learn to be by myself, and be stronger for it without having friends my own age to hang out with. It's all good, I don't need human companionship at all. ;) If anything, I tend to head down the road of negativity and then swerve back into the optimism lane because I can't stand excessive negativity.

YES, I find it EXTREMELY hard to be around negative people. They try to bring me down and that annoys me, and being a 6, I then have to be the opposite of whatever they are -- so if they're negative, I look for the bright side, and if they're too irrational / focused on unrealistic things, I try to bring them back down to earth with 'realism.' I like to be around fun people who help me see the bright side, because socializing for me is meant to be positive experience (my 7 wing just wants to have a good time); I hate socializing that turns negative, pessimistic, or bleak, that focuses on what's wrong in the world, etc., because that's not what I signed up for when I agreed to lunch.

I would say for me personally, those around me get annoyed by my pessimism more than my optimism, and my "mood swings." :P I've never been called a child who can't face reality; just a person who doesn't want to face its hardships and horrors.

#question #enneagram #enneagram 7 #enneagram 6 #enneagram 9

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not-poignant · 2 years

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Hi Pia! Are you watching anything cool or playing any cool video games lately? I'm kind of curious to know what you do in your downtime!

Hallo!

Oooo, I don't know if any of this stuff is cool lmao, but I can definitely answer.

I've been watching a lot of Law & Order: SVU lately even though it's total copaganda, it's still one of my comfort shows when I'm doing a lot of artwork and stuff, because they tell you everything that's happening so you rarely need to look up, lol.

I'm also rewatching Blue Period and Buzzfeed Unsolved with my roommate, which has been fun. We do that like once or twice a week at the moment, since a lot of the time I'm working at night, or we're both doing our own thing.

I've also been rewatching a lot of Studio Ghibli films! It started by accident because I wanted to watch My Neighbour Totoro with my mum, and then I just watched a bunch more, and I finished Ponyo on a Cliff only yesterday (which I think is a very underrated Ghibli film).

I'm going to be starting Heartstopper soon, as well as Vox Machina, and I need to catch up on Demon Slayer and some other things. But believe it or not, writing actually eats up so much of my time that I rarely have the energy to watch new shows or movies, or play new games. It's one of those catch 22s that writing means I barely have time to read or engage in this stuff.

In terms of video games, I've been playing Cozy Grove, which is a really lovely game and nice to chill to. And I've been playing Elden Grove, which is not at all nice to chill to, and I mostly just die a lot and then try and over-level and then die a lot more. (Don't ask me how far I am, I'm not out of Limgrave yet.) I play an astrologer, because I tried initially playing a warrior and that was hilariously terrifying. At least the game isn't crashing my computer anymore (they patched through a fix).

On my phone, I've been playing Zen Koi 2, after like years of not playing it at all??? I kept it on my phone because I thought 'what the hell I might pick it up again' in like 2018, and now here I am in 2022 after four years, playing it again. It's an extremely chill game where you level up koi into dragons, and you earn different patterned koi, and there are seasonal koi. You can't die or be injured, and you mostly swim around a pond eating little bugs. I love it. Phone games are hugely underrated I find (please check out Boba Story!)

#asks and answers #personal #inadvertent recs #i've also been slowly making my way through #Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern #i'm sure i spelled that wrong #i have mixed feelings about the novel tbh #and i've been reading some manwha #but i don't know the names of any of those because they're all pretty pulpy #though i'm quite enjoying Even If You Don't Love Me by Pando

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gayregis · 3 years

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right away sorry if this gets too ranty I've just been Thinking lately and i feel like twn is such a good example of like. this idea that Real and Good film and television can only be made by Hollywood i guess? like there's even this polish saying that roughly translates to "you praise the foreign and don't know your own" which gets made fun of a lot but also. it's very true imo. like i still wonder what could've been if actual good polish filmmakers were entrusted with making a new witcher (1/?

and it would've been such a good opportunity for like. one showcasing that there Can be good art and entertainment made locally and two some genuine cultural exchange. like i know its too big of an idea for Capitalism™ but if there was a well made polish-language show on international Netflix like. idk i feel like maybe that could spark some interest in like broadening peoples horizons and changing their views on what fantasy looks like etc and its just frustrating that there wasnt even a chance

i really agree. i have been dreaming recently about what my ideal "visual adaptation" of the witcher would look like, and what i've come up with essentially is something like the polish audiodramas set to 2D animation by fans of the witcher. subs, not dubs, i guess?

audiodramas

gilthoniel1173 on youtube has uploaded many select clips of the audiodramas, translated them and set them to pictures. amazing work and i highly recommend this.

i really value the majority of sapkowski's prose, though there are faults with the witcher, his prose really has a marvelous quality to it and i am trying to think of a way to keep this intact. something like the audiodramas in which there are narration may be the best way to go, with subtitles so that

animation

it's the sort of thing i think about like, hey, if i had netflix's budget (approx. $70 to $80 million, [dies]), how would i make the witcher adaptation?

disclaimer: i hesitated to @ artists because i feel like it sends the message that i am saying, "hey you, specifically, should do this idea for free, also btw, i only see you as a witcher fanartist and nothing more :)" this is not my intention, what i want to do here is just want to bring light to these artists in the community and the work they have done, both witcher-related and original work (and i hope that i am in no way defining them as 'only-witcher' artists). additionally, this is in no way suggesting that i don't want to involve any artists i did not mention or that i do not adore the work of other artists in the witcher fandom, these are just the immediate two i think of when i think of animating the witcher.

i imagine it in the style of @paticmak , @astrolunos , @johix because they have done just such gorgeous art of the witcher... <3 (i hope everyone reading knows of these artists already, but if you do not, please check out their work and support!)

paticmak's cherry vodka, an original animation which you should watch: [x]

paticmak's witcher fanart: [x]

astrolunos' animations, including geralt and ciri from sword of destiny and yennefer and ciri from blood of elves: [x]

astrolunos' witcher fanart: [x]

johix's jadýrko, an original interactive story which you should check out: [x] [x]

johix's art (some ship and ns/fw): [x]

specific witcher pieces from these artists that i think about:

[paticmak / "The witcher drawings redraws and sketches"]

[astrolunos / slavic-inspired outfits]

[astrolunos / "yen and ciri’s room, ellander"]

[johix / geralt and dandelion at beltane (ship)]

other major inspirations in my dreams of this:

studio ghibli movies (spirited away and howl's moving castle)

independent animators like felix colgrave (double king)

laika studio animations (kubo and the two strings)

gobelins studio (sundown)

embracing the roots, introducing diversity

my main point in this section is that i believe the polish & eastern european culture of the witcher is essential to it, at the same time i also value diversity and uplifting people of color. i do not believe that these two concepts are in conflict with one another! a discussion simply needs to be held, which is something that netflix did not do because it had few eastern european voices on the set, and kept the voices of color it did have down.

something netflix failed to do is acknowledge the witcher's cultural origins... at all. really, at all. in the writing, in the dialogue, in the set design, in the character and fashion design... and they had the opportunity to do this. this is massively disappointing and thoughtless.

my goal would be to bring polish & other eastern european writers who are fans of the witcher to work through the prose to tell the story. i would also like to have female and lgbt voices in this because the witcher has some elements that are...! disconcerting, let's just say. as we saw with lauren, having a woman in charge doesn't immediately make things not misogynist anymore, somehow she added to the misogyny of the witcher. but i think this is still a step in the right direction. additionally, this writing process would NOT look like writing fanfiction. it would really be going through and working with the artists and translating the prose, deciding what should be kept and what should be left out (some things like forest gramps should be left out, wouldn't you agree?).

new scenes could be added, but they would just have to be done for a reason. i believe the 2002 hexer did this somewhat-successfully in scenes such as this one, in which they develop relationships between characters just that little bit more and add to the pathos of the witcher (which is quite direct and does not "loiter" upon many things!)

i would also really value the voices of set designers, fashion historians, food historians, and cultural anthropologists who are from + study poland & eastern europe because i believe the history and culture should be integrated into the witcher and appreciated, demonstrated in a positive and celebratory light to the world, without doing so in a cultural appropriation-like manner (in which elements are just taken without any knowledge of where they are from and what context they hold). also, yes, the witcher is not a historical fantasy - but its setting is inspired by history and it would be rewarding to see a visual fantasy universe that is not based in english culture!

i think the witcher community is really vast and holds many opinions... this is both a good and bad thing, because "the witcher fandom" includes both people of color and like, white supremacists. i will say that i wouldn't want the latter working on the project, just saying. i would like to see designs of color for the cast of the witcher (i have done a few but hesitated to post them, lol) and sensitivity readings, NOT just diversity for views like netflix performed, but diversity that empowers, makes sense, and isn't "people of color are in this, they are either white-passing or just there to support the white characters." ... i also would like to think about how we approach diversity, as in, designs/casting of color should not be relegated to insignificant or evil characters, the good protagonists could be people of color. i would also like to think about and avoid problematic tropes such as when white characters in a media teach and "civilize" a young person of color, or when "monsters" or non-human characters are cast as people of color... i think people of color should be given roles in which they are in control, powerful, desirable, and good. we need to think about the message we send. in the end, my goal would be "genuine cultural exchange" as you said.

additionally: i think involving jewish and indigenous (broad terms, but i mean them to be broad) voices specifically in conversations about writing would be significant because sapkowski made some decisions in the witcher which can come off as offensive to these groups in particular (regarding the parts of the story about elves, dwarves, gnomes, dryads, and specific characters such as yennefer and regis).

music

honestly, not many thoughts here! can we really get any better than the soundtrack of the witcher 3? cdpr has many faults, but their music is not one of them in my opinion.

afterthoughts

i was displeased to learn that alik sakharov left twn because of not being appreciated and instead being fought on his writing, but i feel a project like this would actually value input like his instead of kicking him out and citing "creative differences"

what is really the most significant thing to me is good writing and ciri's relationship with her parents, because i believe these being taken away is one of the things which was most painful about netflix's "adaptation."

#ask #anon #the witcher #sorry if this is a big post but ive just been dreaming for a while. lol #long post /

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hematomes · 3 years

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hi hi soup anon here! it's been some time but it's finally Saturday! and i finally have time to clean my room! (btw I'll have grilled fish for lunch! wbu?)

and! it's one of the extremely rare sundays when i don't have any exams so tonight im finally getting out of the house jejsjf won't be wearing any witchy garments unfortunately but I've got an outfit in mind and it's🥵 do you have any plans for today?? you know, other than freezing your ass tryna get cigarettes. WHICH REMINDS ME i actually reached out bc i saw that post bc i also smoke and idk i keep finding small similarities between us and it's so funny jshjsjjs

(and godDAMN do i get you i hate it so much when people you barely even know are like You Know This Will Kill You Right like sweetie it says right there on the tin trust me im aware. i do appreciate when friends remind me not to overdo it but some people really need to mind their own business)

hi there bub!!! sorry im late zkskz i was Tired

ANYWAY how was the grilled fish?? 👀 i had instant noodles yesterday for lunch it was GOOD and chicken flavored so obviously i thought abt you 😌

and woo!!!!! ok but 1. you can't leave me hanging with having an outfit in mind and not describing it like </3 pls tell me. also how was it!!!! hope you had a great time bub aaaa

i actually went to a friend's b-day party but it wasn't really a party lmao we were like 3 and we drank some cocktails and ate pancakes while watching a ghibli movie tho so GREAT NIGHT but my social battery ran out mid-way so i gotta say i was happy to get home this morning ekdkzkd

HHHH we are one and the same damn..... but yeah it's!!! exactly how i think. like my friends (both irl and online btw) telling me to like be careful and shit is super sweet but if im smoking like in the street or at a bus stop (and i make a point to be careful like far away from ppl bc i don't want to make them inhale it yk) and someone makes a POINT to come close and tell me hmmMMM you know you can die from this 🤨🤨🤨 yeah susan i a aware it's like written in big white letters on the packs i buy lol i really don't see the point like now i think all smokers know what it does and if we decide to smoke anyway LEAVE US ziwjzjd i am Not an example to follow im just living my life 😭

#soup anon! 🤍#tw smoking #im still gonna leave the tw just in case bc i know it can be a sensitive issue altogether but yeah

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Little late getting to these -- that's fully the fault of a class project I spent all of Monday/Tuesday and most of Wednesday working on -- but I finished my project and wrote up some long replies to these!

(Apologies for any funny formatting -- I'm trying out the beta for the new post editor!)

Absolutely not.

Nope! There are a few people who do know (other guides Andrew's met before, the Dryad, and I'd imagine the Witch Doctor knows something's up even if he doesn't know why), but none of them live in Purity Town proper, and the Dryad and Witch Doctor aren't the kind to participate in rumors or spread what isn't theirs to share. The old man is also aware just because he and Andrew have talked about their curses, but he's 1) not currently in town and 2) not going to share even if he were.

Most folks don't know much about Andrew in general; Becca probably knows the most out of the townsfolk, knowing a little bit about his family and where he's from (he has some pretty specific skills as a hunter that betray this, but he doesn't talk about his exact town of birth), but no specifics and certainly not time periods.

Andrew is good at keeping things quiet; he has to be.

I would actually appreciate if you didn't post to Pinterest -- usually I'm fine with people reposting with credit (several of the things I've posted to my DeviantArt have found their way to Instagram, for example) but Pinterest has something of a reputation for stolen art (things being reposted from another Pinterest post without credit this time, or credit being hard to view for users not logged in or just viewing through Google). So reposting elsewhere is fine (though if you repost to Reddit or Instagram, tag me at u/Ariibees or @Ariibees)! I'd just prefer my works stay off of Pinterest.

The terminology related to The Guide/Andrew/The Guardian/The World’s Core/The WoF is all confusing because on some level, they’re all the same being. Kind of like trying to talk about Jekyll and Hyde -- same guy, different looks/actions, haha.

For all intents and purposes, references to the WoF being the barrier/core/whatever behind or within which the spirits of light and dark are contained is equivalent to saying “these spirits are held trapped by the magic of the Guardian, who when summoned appears as the WoF.” I do break slightly from the official lore in how the WoF/Guardian/thing holding back these spirits works (mostly because I don’t really like the idea that the Hallow is a “temporary guardian” or whatever), but the basic concept of “these are trapped by [thing that makes up the WoF]” remains unchanged.

If “loony cultist” is a reference to something, I’m so sorry, but I’m lost on it. If you’re just talking about the lunatic cultist in a funny way, then yes, they’re in here as a very plot-significant character!

I had to google what meme you were talking about, but it did make me laugh.

Andrew’s most annoyed by the nickname because people do like to call him Guide, and for someone who’s dedicated his whole life to his role, it can get tiring. He doesn’t really *mind* being called Guide -- it’s fine, that’s what he is and as long as people are respectful of his job he’ll take what he can get -- but at the same time, he’d like for people to stop thinking “Aah! Monster!” or “Weird academic know-it-all” and just...treat him like a normal person sometimes. So he fights to be called Andrew. And...Malik comes along and gives him a nickname that he doesn’t like and doesn’t allow others to use, save for maybe a small group of people of which Malik is not a part. So, not cool, man!

People love to overcomplicate explaining shading/lighting, and if you wanted to you could certainly go on and on about reflections of light off the ground and shading colors and all sorts of things, but as I’m writing this at 1 AM I don’t really care to.

If you really want to get into shading, I see nice ones on DeviantArt or Tumblr from time to time, or you can always watch a YouTube video on it. Really, though, just keep at it, think about how the shadows should look and work, and you'll get better at it eventually and pick up new ideas on how it all works. (And this is coming from someone who is new to making comics and actually started as a painter.)

Purity Town’s shading comes down to this: simplicity. As much as I’d love to spend hours and hours redrawing the panels I don’t like and carefully shading every fold of fabric and painting detailed backgrounds, I’m a full-time college student and will be working full-time over the summer -- I don’t have the time. So, I cut corners: I reuse backgrounds or use brushes (see: bricks, trees, clouds) that make certain details easier, and I try not to obsess too much over panels I’m not fully happy with. Shadows go where they feel right, and light on the opposite side.

For shading, this comes down to making things quick and easy. For these last few pages, character shading/lighting has only been five layers. One hard light layer for the bluer soft shadows, one overlay layer for darker soft shadows, one linear burn layer for hard shadows, one soft light layer for soft lighting, and one overlay layer for hard lighting. I’ll often also make use of glow dodge layers for lighting, or change the color balance or add more hard/soft light layers if there’s a very heavy color filter on the scene (such as a celestial event, blood moon, or outdoors at night).

Using all the different layer types is essentially a cheat code to fancier lighting -- don’t want to use flat black? Boom, hard light or overlay or burn will give you colored shadows. Want to make your light brighter? Glow dodge will make it burn your retinas.

Sorry that this isn’t a very comprehensive guide, but in my mind, shading and lighting is really something that you pick up over time and it’s hard to sit down and write a guide for it without making it into a massive essay on art theory that I don't even know proper terminology for because I'm not an art student. Of course with some googling you’ll find *proper* guides for this sort of thing from art majors and the likes, and those can be super helpful and technical! But for Purity Town, I just sort of go with what feels right and what's easy to replicate.

Firstly, I’m happy to hear you’re liking the comic!

Secondly, those buttons are actually there due to the theme! (For those on mobile who can’t see it, I have the theme set to only display on desktop as I prefer the current mobile layout on phone.) I’m using the simple webcomic theme (a quick Google should tell you how to install it for yourself) -- except I’m not actually using it for the webcomic features; rather, it’s a case of “this is the most simple, nice-looking non-default theme I could find.”

The previous/next buttons are added by the theme with the intent that the blog is being used as a typical webcomic website, with nothing but comic pages being posted. However, I post asks and other art here too, and I do so with the intent that people looking at #Terraria or their dashboards in general will see it. So...I use html formatting to make the first/previous/next/last links, along with an index and chapter-by-chapter viewing (using /tagged/chapter##/chrono) so that no matter where you’re coming from, you can still navigate just the pages!

If you want to add just the previous/next buttons, I can’t really help you -- web development is not my area of study in the slightest. But you can check out the theme that they come from and if you want to install only them, you can surely find a tutorial on it somewhere!

(As a side note, the comments section is not from the theme, it’s from a site called Disqus. I don’t expect many people, if anyone, to leave comments, but since I link back to this site a lot and many folks don’t have Tumblr accounts, it’s an option I like to make available.)

Hiya! My hike was pretty nice; it was a short and easy one, but that was quite appreciated as the trail is unmaintained from November to April, and the trail was covered in fallen trees and quite rocky. Still had fun, though!

And for backgrounds, it depends! For indoors scenes (or outdoors scenes with buildings) I don’t tend to use references, outside of looking up things like “which side of a door is the handle on.” I will, however, integrate real-life textures (see: the quilt and rug in Guide’s house, the wood walls on the building in the background of this week’s page), and paint over paintings from the Terraria wiki.

For outdoors scenes, for simple backgrounds (such as foliage-heavy) ones, I typically don’t need references. I like the difference between detailed, lined indoor/man-made object scenes vs. painted, messy outdoor scenes. But for things like mountains, I do sometimes look up references to help with color choices and the likes.

The town’s layout is a bit strange in that depending on the scene, the background could be drastically different. One side of town faces more mountainside, one side faces the orchards/open hillside, and the other two sides face various degrees of open space and more mountainside/forest. References taken on top of mountains are helpful to get an idea of what degree of foliage I should include between the characters and the sky.

Though this is very specific to the town of Purity -- other towns/villages will have significantly different-looking backgrounds, even the foliage-heavy ones.

That said, what's even more helpful than looking at photos is looking at paintings. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is really good for getting an idea of how to draw grasslands and distant mountains, plus Studio Ghibli movies in general!

#purity town #pt asks #terraria #not an update

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hai io~! 🦋 ahh yea im.. not really big on films either hdhfh i just like to watch bad movies to laugh at w my friends hehe we watched the after series a couple of weeks ago and had so much fun dhfhd i never thought i'd say this but we're actually genuinely excited for the next movie to come out lmao studio ghibli is wonderful tho~! my favorites are spirited away and howl's moving castle but totoro is really beautiful too <3

ah our trip is actually planned for this upcoming saturday so we havent been yet ^^ last time we were in moscow we visited all the big touristy places tho so this trip will be less sightseeing and more about spending time w family i guess~ do you like to travel tho? i actually dont know if its summer where you live, but if it is, do you have any plans for the summer? ^^

"like meeting old friends after a long time" aww but thats actually so cute hdhfh <33 i have a somewhat similar story in the sense that i randomly discovered them around their debut, but at the time wasnt into kpop at all (i was in the middle of my punk rock phase back then dhdjfj). i just looked up the members and stuff cause i was curious, but then completely forgot about them until my sister introduced me to kpop around clap era and i looked up svt again, this time i was hooked <33 i remember it felt kinda funny cause i didnt know them but at the same time i kinda ?? did ??? so it was like Oh yea i remember this and this guy ! and yea i know this and this random fact about the group lol

youre so valid for biasing all the members ! theyre all incredibly lovely and talented <33 my bias... ah idek if u follow me but im scared to reveal too much and ruin the fun dbfjfn i will say that vocal unit is my favorite unit and my bias may or may not be in it (hint: he is) 👀

anyway sorry for babbling so much i'll try to keep my messages shorter next time hdhfh oh and yea the butterfly emoji is super cute, its perfect 🦋 <33 have a lovely day io~ ^^

hiii it's good to see u again 💜 i'll answer under the cut ~

first of all: please talk as much as you want, i love reading long messages and i’m curious about what u have to say! it really doesn't bother me at all <3

oh i don’t think i’ve heard of the after series actually 👀 watching bad movies can be so much fun ~ what's the trashiest (in the funny way) movie you've seen? oh omg yes spirited away and howl's moving castle are incredible ✨

i see <3 that sounds really nice too, you’ll have to tell me about it later then 🥰 yes i really love traveling ~ i haven’t been able to lately bc of the pandemic and my uni/work schedule but i really love exploring new places 💖

and yeah it's summer for me too hehe and no i don't have any super big plans... later this month i'm going abroad for a few days to meet family... and i really wanna go to the mountains, but i’m not sure if that’ll work out. wbu, any other plans for your lazy summer except for the trip?

wowww are stories really are similar then :o what a coincidence ✨ and don’t take this the wrong way but it’s funny to me that you found svt in the middle of your punk rock phase lmao like debut era svt... the vibes are complete opposite fdghjk it’s interesting tho that they still managed to catch your eye even when you weren’t into kpop! it must be fate ~ and clap was soooo good omg no wonder they won you over again! do you have a favorite era? or title track?

ah it's ok you don't have to tell me <3 if i ask smth that might give you away, you don’t have to answer ofc. i've seen other people do this too, so how about in the end of the event i try to guess your bias just based on your vibes? vocal unit 👀 noted ! 📝✍️ my fav unit is performance btw but vocal is a close second <3

hope you’re having an amazing day/night, stay safe 💗🌼

#ask #🦋 anon #caratanonevent3

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