#click for more frames

[stan-joe]

pspsps link click fans these are two different cars (and probably two different road trips):

First car ↑

Recent car ↓

#also very different backgrounds between the two sets #not sure if this is being talked about elsewhere bc i really only use tumblr but I haven't seen anyone saying anything here #thought i'd make a note of it #link click #the 2023 art with CXS leaning on the yellow car is also a different car but it's more detailed so idk maybe it's also meant to be car 1 #similar looking to a point but definitely different cars #but what do i know #could i ID these cars? probably. but im bad at IDing drawn cars. show me a live action car and i gotchu. once it's stylised im out. #btw does anyone think the recent car shots look distinctly different (in terms of composition/framing) than the typical style #distinctly might not be the right word there. there's just something about them that vibes different. it's 1am i don't wanna think about it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Collection of edits from this comic with Disco Elysium dialogue.

#What do I even tag this #mdzs #mdzs disco elysium au #There are so many line that work very well for them. Alas I was constrained by the panels I had. #So many hbd and kim conversations fit the wangxian dynamic its unreal. #Once again I am politely holding out Disco Elysium as a recommendation: So long as you are aware of it's content and warnings. #It is truly one of the most hopeful games about trauma and despair. It is hilarious in a way that frames the tragedy perfectly. #Be warned that it is a dark and heavy read. But it is truly a life changing experience. #It helped my get out of a bad place in realizing how much I was hurting myself by trying to hold onto the past and regrets. #Go in as blind as you can. If you are ready for it - you will not regret playing this game. #In other news...yeah okay so I meant to spend the rest of my saturday drawing more pd-mdzs #Then I started watching Link Click.... oops where did the time go? #Permit me another day of stalling and I will have comics coming soon. Might sprinkle some LC doodles in the mix too.

[muninnhuginn]

just generally musing to myself what makes thematic and plot sense for the link clink ending after reading some other people's takes the past few days. no real conclusions here, just some thoughts tied together with a string.

I've seen arguments that what needs to happen is that Lu Guang needs to accept Cheng Xiaoshi's fate and move on without regrets. This idea that the past has to remain as-is and you have to move on is a thread that the show has played with quite a few times. It's written into the very rules underlying the dives. The most obvious instance being the earthquake arc, where Cheng Xiaoshi was unable to save Chen Xiao's mum, but he *was* able to deliver the messages and thereby help CX gain closure. It's laid out by Lu Guang that it *was* worth it to deliver the words, and Cheng Xiaoshi takes this conclusion with him when he confronts Emma. (Of course, the fact this lesson was given by *Lu Guang* casts a different shade over the whole affair. I don't think it can be entirely discarded, given LG even admits he's going against his own rules, but it reads more like something he's trying and failing to convince himself of.)

So, the past has to stay as it is. We see a few different approaches to this idea in s2 - of people refusing to move on and trying to change the past. Qian Jin wants to force his wife "not to cheat"; he wants to alter her behaviour because she didn't act as he wanted. Li Tianchen wanted to change how *he* acted back then, even if indirectly, because he sees himself as his mother's killer, and thinks this is the point at which his tragedy was locked into place. They both thought their 'tragedies' were down to a single event. It's not that simple.

Lu Guang wants to personally protect Cheng Xiaoshi by controlling all scenarios. Not exactly taking his will, but limiting his choices. There's probably a whole post to be made on how QJ/LTC/LG each approach the agency of the ones they want to protect, but that's not for now.

Anyway, Li Tianchen as the foil to Lu Guang. At the end of s2, he has in theory let go of Li Tianxi but in practice he's just burying himself deeper by following Liu Xiao. Trying to entirely shun the past so he can believe that he still has some element of control. Both LTC and LG are at the extreme ends of clinging on vs letting go and that means the correct answer has to lie somewhere in the middle. Not shunning the past, but accepting it, and using that resolve to move forward.

So, Liu Xiao. We don't have much on him but what we do have is his belief that uncertainties should become certainties. He's deterministic and set explicitly as the counter to Lu Guang, whose own aim is to change events rather than lock them into place. They both want to *control* all aspects, but for differing reasons. In fate vs free will, it makes sense that our protagonist is on the side of free will, but it's interesting that he's presented himself so much as the opposite previously. He and CXS haven't exactly switched places, but to the audience, they've definitely taken on traits of the other.

Liu Xiao's whole spiel about how all options will eventually lead to the same outcomes, with him set *against* Lu Guang, very much seems like it's a setup for a "defeat fate" type plotline though. It's hammered in that there is no escape, no other option. Are we expected to accept this? It doesn't seem so. It's something I'm struggling to reconcile somewhat with the earlier messages about accepting the past, but maybe that's not quite it. Maybe it's about control vs freedom?

Trust fall. Every dive with LG and CXS is an act of mutual trust where they need to act in tandem. Dives go astray when one party acts without the other. For CXS, this is about him acting against LG's instructions (texting Emma's parents, staying in the earthquake dive). For LG, this is about him withholding info because he doesn't trust how CXS will react.

Lu Guang needs to put his trust in CXS before his withholding of information creates an unresolvable rift. He needs to stop trying to control CXS in order to keep him safe. We saw how that spun out for Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi. LG needs to put the choice into Cheng Xiaoshi's hands and let him decide his own fate. It reminds me of how Cheng Xiaoshi laid everything out for Emma and let her decide whether to live. It was only outside interference that prevented her, but she did make the choice to survive. And she did it by remembering those small moments. By accepting that tragedy happens but there are still people that make it worth it.

For LG and CXS, they need to mutually trust each other and that's how they'll find their way through.

#also something about how nodes are always framed as yes/no this happens or it doesn't #when in reality they're the culmination of numerous decisions to get to any one place. #and so it'd be neat to see any 'fixes' take that into account though idk how deeply it'll go into that. #link click #link click spoilers #shiguang daili ren spoilers #also also. noodle ladies. I have thoughts on their resolution + how it ties into the 'there is no single answer' bc the rift wasn't actuall #about the secret ingredient. the secret ingredient was more a representation of yu xia forgetting their history. #but that's stuff still locked in my other drafts ig #edit: but also it's like. if you try to save/fix someone by controlling them that universally doesn't work out. #noodle lesbians and emma (pre-interference) were able to work things out because there was communication not control. #chen xiao communicated his wishes and that's how he got his closure. xss and dong yi's whole story was about communicating #and how the lack of it was actively inhibiting them

[chubphoe-linkclick]

Rare moment of Qian Jin looking over his two pink hatchlings as they rest in the nest together

His paternal instincts tell him to get them some McDonalds on the way home

#link click #link click season 2 #link click spoilers #world's worst found family #I couldn't even find a nice stil frame to PRETEND he was looking lovingly over at them #link click analysis #because i watched a few more minutes of the episode and if HAD been looking over them then he WOULD have seen Xixi's distress sooner #i'd say something like “and stopped her from running away” but if he gave a flying fuck about them then SHE WOUDLN'T BE WANTING TO RUN AWAY

[theworstcreature]

GUYS I JUST GOT AJR CDS HOLY SHIT I CAN FINALLY CONTINUE MY AJR WALL ‼️‼️‼️

I got OKO, Neotheater, and Click Deluxe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#gonna get more frames and paint em so that they’re displayed ✨fancily✨ #just a couple more and I’ll have ALL the CDs #and by a couple I mean what everyone’s thinking the regular click and maybe living room but that one’s damn near impossible #and I guess I could get the things from before living room but that’s also in the realm of damn near impossible to come across on eBay #ajr #ajr brothers

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

Hit FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has genuinely compelled me to read and appreciate classic literature more than any of my many former years of school. I look at the silly rat show and am like I get it now, I'm gonna read Shakespeare, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, etc. and analyze the world for funsies, my grades 7-11 English teachers could NEVER.

#iasip #text #anmmbposts #it's about tracing back+understanding the source of influences+underlying connections that intertwine+remain inherently part of us today #it's about the beauty and horror of a universal idea and experience that perpetuates beyond time and setting #and you know much more whatever *kicks ten impulse purchased books under the bed* #it's about the tragicomic structure and the inevitability of a story's end and and and #oh that made me think of something else #ignore me! i'm just losing/expanding my mind over here #like i was good in english i did the analysis i got 90s and all but i never really “got” or liked most of the things they made us read #i didn't have real world experience or frames of reference to understand and teachers are... not the best at teaching #but there's just something in sunny that helped my perception grow up immediately something real and tangible and like #yeah it's paired w/ time that's passed i'm older now but also idk there's just something there that made the entire world click into place #okay dost*yevsky im picking up for other reasons but still branched off from sunny!

[thousandth-island]

It’s terrible to feel like you’re the reason someone you care for is miserable

#splatoon #agent 8 #captain 3 #callie #marie #i was being fr serious with this post but the silhouette in the first frame kills me #its like 🧍‍♀️ #i wanted to try hatching more digitally bc usually i dont when i sketch #agent 8 guilting about the captain’s sanitization…i cant stop thinking about it #click for higher quality 💀 #my doods #33

[enchanting-grom-fright]

did u know

#i don’t know when i but i’m taller it must be something in the water #i grew up here til it all went up in flames except the notches in the door frame #my recurring dream i’m at the movies i don’t remember what i’m seeing the screen turns into a tidal wave #when the speed kicks in i go to the store for nothing #the house where u lived with snow white i wonder if she ever though the storybook tiles on the roof were too much #the drugstores r open all night the only real reason i moved to the east side #and here everyone knows ur the way to my heart hear so many stories of u at the bar #either i’m careless or i wanna get caught #i can’t open and forget how to talk bcs even if i could wouldn’t know where to start wouldn’t know where to stop #close my eyes fantisize three clicks and i’m home #when i get back i’ll lay around then i’ll get up and lay back down #i know i know i know #like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore not even the burnouts r out here anymore #either way we’re not alone i’ll find a new place to be from a haunted house with a picket fence to float around and ghost my #friends no i’m not afraid to disappear the billboard said the end is here i turned around there was nothing there yea ig the end is here #and now my feet can’t touch the bottom of u #of somebody who loves u more #so i will wait for the next time u want me like a dog with a bird at ur door #and there’s something i’m supposed to say but i can’t remember what it is #and if and if i could give u the moon i would give u the moon #u r sick and ur married and u might be dying #i would do anything for u i would do anything i will do anything #laying down on the lawn i’m tired of trying to get in the house i’m thinking out loud #i’ve been playing dead my whole life #i hate ur mom i hate it when she opens her mouth it’s amazing to me how much u can say when u don’t know what ur talking abt #i feel something when i see u #bcs i don’t know what i want until a fuck it up #i’ll climb through the window again but rn it feels good not to stand #day off in kyoto got bored at the temple looked around at the 711 the band took the speed train to the arcade i wanted to go but i didnt #called me from a pay phone they still got pay phones it cost a dollar a minute

[alwayshappyhoursomewhere]

Cup of China 2023 - Adam Siao Him Fa and Shoma Uno during the men’s victory ceremony

#this photo is everything to me I want to frame it put it on my wall stare at it forever #i’ve been lowkey hoping for something like this the whole off season watching adam’s ig and following him posting about his training #I love this boy and I love that he’s the kind of person who keeps quiet and works hard to get what he wants (like shoma) #and I do love his skating - his two programs were my favorite last season after shoma’s #but he really clicked for me at worlds on that first monday of practice (ik I will never shut up about this sorry) #was it the last group of men? it was pretty late and adam went in the group after shoma #and I was already shaky after seeing shoma practice with my very eyes #the way shoma practices is really like a machine - relentless and single-minded and unstoppable #and that night he was really hitting it (and popping a lot of jumps but he was still not holding back) #I think it was the night shoma did more jumping passes than the rest of the other men put together #and then adam’s group came out #and I ended up being unable to look away from adam because I saw much of the same qualities in him #and it went through my mind that of all the guys I’d seen there he was the one that reminded me the most of shoma #(lol it’s always shoma in the end isn’t it) #(and I love that shoma had already recognized his qualities too) #(I was so devastated when worlds went the way they did for adam sdghjkk) #but last season he still didn’t have what it took to fight at the same level with the guys at the top - or the consistency #that’s why this win feels so precious and meaningful #adam kept it together and delivered once more - it wasn’t just another one-time win in france #and to do it like that! tired from back to back assignments jetlagged and with boot issues!! On bad ice!!! #he knew that if shoma went clean it would have been hard or impossible for him to win #but he went for it with all he had and fought hard - i teared up towards the end because I was so worried he’d let his sp mistake get to hi #can’t wait for gpf but no matter how adam does there I’m so proud of him 😭 #this was hard for me to watch because I also wanted shoma to win but I think Adam needed it more and it ended up being a deserved win #and I think it will motivate shoma for nhk and I’m so here for it! or literally: will be so there for it afsghjjfghgdh aaaaaaaaahhh #adam siao him fa #shoma uno

[eternal-reverie]

so this is kinda extra but for my fic notes binder I decided to make covers for each section and this is what I came up with this past weekend when I should’ve been compiling the actual notes for printing OTL

and soon I need to come up with cover sheets for these last two sections. For the inspiration one maybe something light related or a key? tbh I’m tempted to just put a picture of Brain for that last section.

#click clack #revving up for camp nanowrimo next month #the specter one took long because I really wanted to use that flower frame and forced my hand to practice cross hatching #thank goodness for kind ppl posting cross hatching brushes online #it’s from the concept art btw that’s floating around online. extracting workable lineart was a whole thing #I could’ve made original art but it would’ve taken longer and would’ve been more nitpicky about it #fic notes #literally these are my fic notes haha #umm oh yeah if anyone’s interested in what my kh fic is about here’s the tag: #puppetplanaufic #the whole concept is explained at the bottom on my blog #I need to come up with a better tag name but that’s a future me problem

[resssistance]

Kateřina Mrázková and Daniel Mrázek / RD A Evaristo Carriego; España cañí Junior Grand Prix Final 2022 photo by Marco Mantovani   

#i decided to catch up on jgpf after gpf is over but i see pretty swishy skirt i click #mrazkova/mrazek #figure skating #katerina mrazkova #daniel mrazek #jgpf 2022 #ice dance #fsphoto #speaking of that skirt did daniel really tripped on it?😰 #i went frame by frame to see if that's true how unfortunate #but the skirt looked amazing throughout so that's the price ig #and another fall in the free what a nightmare #but i really loved them #which is why it's such a shame #their skating looks so good #and they're fast #rd is fire! katerina is incredible there #imagine when they will have even more snap oof #(not to sour things but katerina reminded me of boikova the same kind of fierce energy but katerina seems to have more range overall) #the itch to giiiiif

[orcelito]

Some1 trying to debate with me in the comments of my fucked up akechi character study one shot like. Literally why did you even click on this in the first place???

#speculation nation #me at work just squinting at the mile long comment of bad faith takes & just. wow. #like 'i am LITERALLY at work.' #but it died down so i took the time to reply and just. Geeze #they literally said goro tried to kill sae and frame the pts for it AND that wakaba was supposed to be an example of a #'rare saintly single mother in japan' like WHAT???? #literally what are you even talking about lmfao #im waiting for whether theyll reply to my reply. #if it's just more bad faith takes im just gonna delete the thread and block them lmao. geeze #who clicks on a fic with tags like That and get up in arms about ppl sympathizing with akechi #plus it's literally tagged as akeshu?? if ur not into that pairing then dont read it??? come on dude #anyways hi im at work. i hope normal people have enjoyed my quick lil one shot that was written just for the fun of it #& not to be a fuckin Statement Of Morality or whatever the fuck they took on it. geeze.

[kibibarel]

ok i just started the Area Zero part so don’t tell me anything but it is SO COOL SO FAR HOLY SHIT?????

#sv spoilers #the setup is so fun and the music is SO GOOD and atmospheric #the banter between the kids is also very natural and cute and is actually make me like them all more 😭 #also DON'T ACTUALLY TELL ME but is Sada literally a robot hologram or something........ #i was clicking on random stuff around the lighthouse lab and the shelf has children's books and an empty picture frame #what does it mean........what does it all mean.....?

[viulus]

Games that I like and how they handle racism

Virgin Great Ace Attorney Chronicles vs CHAD Disco Elysium

#vu's posts #tgaa #disco elysium #i've been thinking about this for a while lol #my fixation before de was tgaa so. i'm bound to make comparisons #it helps that they're both VNs/point and clicks where you solve murders and such. it's hard not to compare em really #no but yeah i adore tgaa but WOW is the handling of the racism just. terrible #it's literally a shallow 'oh we're all people at the end of the day' thing. it's literally so insulting tbh #it's more frustrating since the writing is otherwise incredible imo! #also frustrating since it plagues my favorite character grrrrr #(and yes i mean van zieks <3) #he's so well written and it's just this one aspect of his character that's just so terribly done! #they could've just made him racist because of his time period or w/e. but as is his racism is tied to his trauma?? #plus he NEVER faces consequences for his racism. hell KAZUMA never even calls him out on it and he HATES bvz like? #also doesn't help that ryuu (the victim of most of the racism) kinda just... lets it slide for the most part #esp once he finds out why van zieks is racist he's just like 'oh that's understandable actually. ur racism is justified here' like no! #meanwhile disco handles the topic with the nuance that it needs to be given yknow? #also it very clearly frames the constant racism that kim puts up with as something that Affects Him #and plus he doesn't just take it! he's a super composed guy but you can clearly tell how uncomfortable he is- #when ppl around him are throwing around racist bs #and plus despite being a very composed person he DOES snap at someone at least once in canon over it #(e.g. the ''don't you welcome to revachol' me' bit... which btw i will never be normal about <3) #(honorable mention to his 'i feel less bad for breaking in here now' bit when you go into the cryptofascist guy's apartment- #after he sees the racist mugs. he was so right for that fr) #ALSO back to my earlier point about it clearly affecting him. i feel like he does have some like. idk internalized racism? #like his whole thing with being proud to be a native to revachol and being proud that he never met his seolite grandparents #like MAYBE you could read that as him just really caring about his home city. but it also reads like internalized racism to me #ANYWAYS there's more i could say here but you get the point #tgaa racism themes are badly written while de racism themes are well written #va4 rambles in the tags

[didntaskforfrozenyoghurt]

love that css cursors also show up on my phone if i plug a mouse in <3

#o-ver-pow-ered. that spells op #might consider making more states of cursor for this blog. i have a full set on my desktop but they're all kermit and/or kind of unideal #my 'you wanna click this' cursor on my computer is a sparkle animation that has an empty frame. good enough for me but not a web override! #apparently my animated one on youni's blogs isn't properly calibrated on android. could be the nonstandard point position. #also a more fun effect on my android test: ven seemingly only walks while the cursor moves. if that were a codable thing i wouldve done it #but android probably only updates the cursor at all when it receives new movement info! it *does* fade it from existence after a bit.

[usodeshou]

tumblr's music player somehow isn't working for me anymore and i'm so sad 🥺

i wanna listen to the songs that people put on my dash and it doesn't let me and i'm just sadly tapping the player with zero reaction 😔

why am i being music-blocked? why does tumblr not want me to know my mutuals?? 🥺

#just me rambling #tumblr tumblring #it's been too many days of this I don't like it 😔 #I don't know what they did to all of their media-related stuff but it sucks #music not playing #gifs occasionally just turning into permanent freeze-frames when clicking on them to zoom in #or being unable to zoom in #that weird thing where you see a blurry version of the pic/gif in the background which is very visually displeasing #the fact that swiping up/down when in the pic/video viewer leads me to different frickin' videos/picture sets #like wth is this #I'm trying to view a set and don't swipe horizontally enough and suddenly I'm somewhere else entirely #I don't like it #it also feels like things get laggy a lot more quickly than before #I'm used to some lagginess on mobile every now and then but this is annoying #and then I don't even get to listen to songs anymore #yes I could write down the title and look it up on yt or something but it's not the same and also not how it's supposed to work #I want to be able to disable the swiping thing at least #the same say you can toggle whether or not you wanna be able to swipe to switch between dashes #which I hated because I kept accidentally doing it #please give me a toggle option tumblr before I go insane #and give me my music back 🥺 #the app is completely up-to-date too #but that may actually be part of the problem lol