#i haven't even seen the video yet

[chaosxcrushed]

There's a certain CCCC summary video that we really, really like. We think it is a great video for people if they want to grasp the story more clearly, if they're confused, or if they're listening to the album for the first time.

That video being Chonny Jash and the Weight of the Mind on Youtube by W3tBl@nk3t. We think they cover it really well.

However, I'm sharing this for a different reason; they say few certain things that really struck with us until now, that I'd like to share with the fandom. Sometimes, we see people really just.. Miss the point of CCCC entirely, and I'd like to shine a light on what was said here. If you'd like to hear this for yourself on video, the timestamp is 35:57-36:45.

“..I bet we all could relate to that, they are the prime example of the side of you that suffers and the side of you that hates yourself for suffering:

The side of you that just wants to slow down and feel everything even to the unhealthy extent of not being able to do anything else(1), but also the side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it(2).

Sure, laying in bed all day every day to rot isn't healthy, but neither is boiling things down and invalidating your own emotions. Both are paths to inevitable disaster, and that's what Chonny is doing here. Keep in mind that the idea behind this album is being whole, and that means neither of these sides are entirely in the right or the wrong; this album is about inner compromise and acceptance(3).”

1.) The side of you that suffers; Heart. He is representative of Whole's emotions, he holds them. Your emotions can go haywire, especially when one's mentally ill and has no way of their feelings being validated. An emotional person like Heart suffers under the weight of crushing, devastating feelings. He wants to feel things out, have time to just process everything, even if it takes them days or weeks to get over it. It's not healthy, but feeling is what he does, and he wants to help because he knows he has importance. Solely focusing on just your emotions isn't the best thing to do, however.

2.) The side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it; Mind. Many people have been there, have wanted themselves to stop wallowing in their own emotions and just do something else, even to the point where you think feeling things out is unnecessary. This is also unhealthy, but not intentionally. Like Heart, Mind just wants to help, everything he does is in best interest. This is what he thinks will get them to move on the quickest; to leave behind emotions and focus on anything BUT that. Also not the best thing to do.

3.) This album is about inner compromise and acceptance; About being whole. Neither of Heart and Mind are right nor wrong. They have their own ways of doing things, of what they think will help their whole self out the most, but both are unhealthy despite the good intentions. They fight over who's wrong or right, when they shouldn't even be doing so in the first place. It's your thoughts against your emotions, basically; your feelings contradict your thoughts, and it leads to an inner war of sorts. This won't make things better, which is why you can't have Mind over Heart or vice versa; you'll need both of them. In the album, they are only able to be whole when they get along. They harmonize, they 'combine', they see eye to eye with each other and work together instead of fighting over and over. Inner compromise is achieved with this, and acceptance can lead them away from any disaster that there's to come.

What we're trying to say is that mental health is a large thing tackled within CCCC, and yet we see a lot of people who overlook it; thus, end up missing the point of the whole album. We see a lot of people believe Mind's perspective a little too much and treat Heart quite harshly, or the other way where people demonize Mind and say that Heart is perfect, when it's not really that in the slightest.

This is not a hate post towards people's interpretations of CCCC or how they view characters, I'm just saying that people can tend to overlook what's in the very narrative, and we see a concerning amount of people do such.

Anyways. Stream CCCC and put your Hearts and Minds in the get along shirt. Have a nice day.

#chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cccc #cccc heart #cj heart #cccc mind #cj mind #mind chonny jash #heart chonny jash #I did not mention Soul once in this post. I am so sorry to all of the Soul enjoyers #whole was technically mentioned but this is not about him. so sorry to the Whole enjoyers as well #we rreally really really like this CCCC video #a lot #it does a great job at explaining things and is fairly good for an unbiased telling of the story #to reiterate though this is not a hate post #it's just a bit frustrating to see how many people say that mind is right or heart is right #but no.. that is not the point of cccc #and it's even in tse as well. the line 'neither is right yet neither is wrong' #personally we are big fans of heart and will defend him since he gets so mischaracterized #but we know and acknowledge that he isn't 100% correct and can be wrong for what he wants to do and has done #we love Heart but he did not have to pull that gun. #also. more justice for characters who make mistakes but aren't automatically super evil because they're just human. #we've seen how people lack that understanding in the fandom </3 #hmsw are so incredibly flawed in a relatable way with such good writing #we feel like people overlook that so much #this post was scary to make but #we're doing it #here goes #CxC rambling and yapping #we haven't posted purely text posts in a while please don't come for our heads c4 fandom

[hecatesbroom]

Some quick sketches of Bea Arthur because I came across her rendition of Down in the Depths on youtube today and was a little star-struck

#she's so!! #i should've picked up drawing so much sooner because nothing beats this as an excuse to stare at a hot woman #also why is it so hard to get a good angle on traditional drawings?? they always feel *slightly* distorted when i take a picture #anyway i highly recommend that video if you haven't seen it yet (or even if you have. who am i kidding here) #her voice and her delivery are SO amazing ugh #my art #bea arthur

[sleepytyrtle]

He's gone

#guys I can't #i have so much to catch up on #i haven't even wtached the video yet but i've seen animations and my heart is broken #please let one good thing happen for these brothers! #also i apologize for these awful doodles I just pumped out #the last few weeks of college have been kicking my ass #sams #sun and moon show #the sun and moon show

[perilegs]

let's have some fun

#flashing lights #bg3 #astarion #my edits tag #bg3 edit #i haven't seen a SINGLE astarion edit with this voice clip and audio yet??? i've been thinking about this ever since i slept with him in my #first playthrough but assumed this had been done a billion times already. i still assume that but i haven't seen any so i decided it's #time for me to finally edit this #this was so fun to make even tho i had to learn how video encoding works to not have the sparkles sparkle at the full concentrated #power of the sun... they're still way brighter than in the editing preview thing but ah well #also. astarion stop being shirtless in your cutscenes challenge. i want clips with motion so i need to use clips from his romance and quest #but my god put a shirt on my boy!

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Me last night: Oh, how fun, Youtube's recommended me another Twisted animatic. Let's see what scene they-

Me:

Me: This is the entire musical. This is an animatic of the entire musical.

#Hayley Speaks #Starkid #Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier #Videos #ANYWAY I just finished watching it a few seconds ago; it's SO well done #Obviously the art style is very unpolished but also this was literally made by one person and it's a two-hour musical #For what it is? It's INCREDIBLE #Basically an animated movie-version of the musical in the original Aladdin art style #If you like the original or just like Starkid musicals in general and have yet to actually watch this one; highly recommend it! #Also if you haven't seen the original; go watch it #It's one of my favorite musicals of all time #Just give this kid some well-deserved love for their hard work; it kills me that they haven't even hit 10k views- #-in the 8 months this has been up

[lukmarc10]

i felt like this response was too hilarious to not share with the world

#side note: i haven't even seen bluey yet (im planning on watching it soon) #but youtube recommended me a video talking about this shameless ass ripoff #and the fact that ben shitpiro is involved in it is just so 💀😭 #chip chilla #bluey #character ai #anti ben shapiro

[james-stark-the-writer]

was just rewatching Jack Saint and Patricia Taxxon's video on Mauler (it's called "Long Critique Is Not Deep Critique" and it's like actually so fucking good) and was so taken aback by hearing Twin Peaks music in there now that i've actually seen Twin Peaks lmao, that Laura Palmer theme is so fucking good, Angelo Badlamenti is just truly on another level, i already wanna rewatch the show now (S02 is good, y'all are just cowards).

#james talks #twin peaks #i saw both seasons last year back when i was still on twitter #and haven't seen The Return yet. might do a full rewatch just to be able to watch The Return properly. #plus i wanna rewatch now that i've actually seen Fire Walk With Me which i was pretty disappointed by the first time #and The Missing Pieces really helped me get over some of that disappointment #i miss Log Lady. i hope The Return also has her introducing the episodes like the original show does. #anyway the video itself is very good #love coming back to it every year or so to plumb its depth and remind myself to reign in my desires to keep getting my work longer #like i'd like to think even my longest critiques on letterboxd like my 8000 word CA: Civil War review is pretty substantive #i don't do summary at all really so it's just my opinions about stuff and what worked and didn’t work for me and why and stuff #and a bunch of criticism with mild praise #but anyway love the video #it's really good #go watch it if you haven't #also if you're curious about my thoughts on all of Twin Peaks that i've seen: they're all in my FWWM review on letterboxd. link in bio. #jack saint #patricia taxxon #mauler

[piglii]

I think the reason most video game to movie adaptations (and book adaptations, too) suck is that most people in charge of making movies just do not give a shit about video games as a medium and literally see it as a 1:1 conversion of money. like, “hey that hot new mario or zelda game came out this year and made $800 million dollars! if we make that into a movie, surely it will make the same amount or even more!” because most literally just see other forms of media as crude oil waiting to be made into gas. like it’s crazy to me that it seems really hard to understand the appeal in engaging with a piece of media personally yourself (or like with friends in multiplayer) as opposed to just watching it play out on a screen.

#my posts #and it's crazy because I think most video games and books and whatever else are reasonably adaptable if enough people care #you just have to have care about how you're adapting it and recognize what makes for good film over what makes for a good book or game #or whatever else you know #aside from more niche cases like I can not imagine House of Leaves being adapted into a movie without losing a major component of how it's #interacting with the audience as you literally hold the book #I guess you could try and replicate that the best you could but that would probably be a fundamentally different experience #anyways idk why I'm ranting about this I'm just being irritable today for no reason #this isn't even anything approaching a controversial opinion I think it's just annoying seeing so many milquetoast ass movies in waiting #shoutout to spiderverse for being an excellent adaptation of a comic to screen though they nailed that one. haven't seen the second one yet #you can be free from my tags now

[variuss-petals]

Does anyone else feel too anxious to watch a new music video or listen to a new song when it comes out so you just avoid it for as long as possible? Even if you really, really like the band and have faith in their abilities to make music or videos you like?

#idk why i haven't watched them or listened to them yet #i seriously genuinely have no idea why i'm so anxious or nervous about it #haven't watched Flatline yet even though i like all the pictures and gifs i've seen #still haven't watched MIW's werewolf music video #Electric Callboy just released a video for Tekkno Train and that's one of my fave newer songs of theirs and well i have not watched that eit #like i WANT to watch them and listen to them so why am i scared of it? #blind channel #electric callboy #motionless in white #music #my post #mypost #i really should sort out which ''my post'' i intend to use from now on

[autumnsup]

Source: Rolling Stone India Sep 3 2019. Photo: Alexandra Gavillet.

Guess who just got tickets to see this guy for the first time live in concert? 🤩 I'm already planning what to wear and the concert isn't until next spring. 😂 Rainbow pants, mismatched patterns, and animal ears I can do, but I draw the line at Crocs. 🫠

#so excited! #Jacob Collier is one of those people who I look at and think HOW #ARE YOU A HUMAN BEING RIGHT NOW ON PLANET EARTH #AND NOT SOME EXTRATERRESTRIAL SENT TO BLESS US WITH YOUR VIBES #if y'all haven't heard Little Blue from his latest album you should listen right now because it's lovely #the funny thing is I haven't yet listened to all of his Djesse albums but based on videos I've seen his live concerts are an EXPERIENCE #hope I'm not jinxing myself with this one (I've had so many concerts canceled on me since 2020 it's not even funny) #Jacob Collier! #live in concert!

[howthesleeplesswander]

((listen y'all i know i missed sinday but lordy

i have been listening to/watching this on loop for the last few days and the song is such a childe anthem, not to mention that the combat animations are 👌👌👌

needless to say this has resulted in childe being 10000% FERAL in my headspace asdflkjdsf he wants to absolutely destroy somebody so goddamn badly, he's losing his mind guys askfjsd

and he's not picky, either—he'd happily take "destroying" someone in the "screaming in agony" way OR the "screaming in pleasure" way (preferably both tbh)

so uh

y e a h

that's it that's the post asddlfkds i just had to share this idiot's Ultra-Unhinged(TM) mood with you guys 😔💦🔥 please carry on and have a nice day))

#《⭒✩⭒ || the sleepless speaks (ooc) 》 #《⭒✩⭒ || musings: child of the abyss (childe) 》 #tagging this as a musing so that I can save this vid as hardcore childe vibes #i HIGHLY recommend watching the music video if you haven't seen it yet!! #it's such a bop and the animation is so fire #I know nothing about LoL but I will forever adore K/DA and all their other music videos #BUT YEAH moral of the story: childe is going ape-shit and I just had to share #if i have to suffer this idiot being even more feral than usual then so do you YOU'RE WELCOME X'D

[next-semester]

feeling super normal and sane rn

#i haven't even watched any videos yet but from what ive seen on twitter....oh boy 🥴 #gonna be thinking about this for at LEAST the next few weeks what the fuck... #m

[that-banana-headed-bovine]

rescue rangerzz

okok.  wasn’t gonna post this because I’m not usually the person who finds Easter eggs in movies, and I didn’t even find this one myself it was in a commentary video lol, but I haven’t seen the KR fandom talking about it much on Tumblr (Although, I’ve been informed that it was discovered and presented in the Discord server by @electricjoy272​ !!!) so.

Babby Chip has a Knight Rider lunchbox!!!

#Knight Rider #maybe this is circulating already and I just missed it #probably honestly I'm. always late to everything lol #I haven't even seen the movie yet LMBO just commentary videos

[cagedchoice]

listen i don’t necessarily have any ideas for how i would do a star wars verse right now but that will not stop me from wanting to eventually write it anyway

#* i’m an underachiever / ooc. #full disclosure i have not seen all of k.enobi yet so no spoilers but i. am looking #if i could just. WRITE #i still haven't seen chapter 5 yet bc i decided to watch it together with my whole family #but then we haven't all been in the same room together at the same time in a little over 2 weeks #also our internet has been aggravatingly spotty for over 2 months now so every time it cuts out too many times when i'm trying to do smth #i just give up and start playing video games offline instead #so i've been playing a lot of skyrim and a little oblivion too #i felt tempted to try playing fallout 3 again too but i get way too stressed with the fallout series #the only one i even sorta managed to get anywhere with was fallout 4 bc i installed a mod that made me and dogmeat invincible #otherwise i would've died instantly on my way to diamond city

[ghosts-cyphera]

pornstar!ghost defo gets millions of views because of the way he makes his favourite costar cum on his cock🥴 i don't make the rules🤷🏻‍♀️

"oh, bloody hell."

ghost blew out a breath, his thumb moving to run across his lips. for the past hour his phone had been buzzing so loud in the metallic locker of the gym dressing-room that the front-desk assistant had eventually been forced to come ask him to turn it off.

yet not for a moment had he prepared for—for this.

whatever the fuck it was.

his social media was flooded. twitter, instagram, even his goddamn fucking tiktok account that his coworkers had forced him to create during a drunken night out a couple of weeks ago.

and it was all because of you.

well, because of the most recent video the two of you had shot together.

apparently it was—ghost's brows furrowed, as he read through the comments flooding his posts—relationship goals. apparently it was all that a girl could ever want. apparently the two of you were now... being shipped.

his fingers working fast, he looked up your name from his contacts and brought his phone to his ear. not two rings later you answered the call, a touch of amusement to your voice.

"you've seen it, haven't you?"

he could hear the laughter in your voice—the warmth of it making him feel more grounded as he shook his head. "fuckin' A, love. not sure I should be shitting my pants or feel fuckin' flattered. they're saying that we'll be—shipped."

"that we'll—" your laugh was bright. "oh, they're shipping us now, are they? no it's—they want us to be—together."

together?

"they've already seen me railing the shit out of you in front of—," ghost's words died down on his lips.

oh.

oh.

"well I'll be fuckin' damned." the widest of grins tugged at the corners of his lips as he nodded his head, slow. "all because of the way I fuck you, eh?"

"something about the way you look at me when you do." he could hear the smile on your lips as you spoke. "price is reworking next week's schedules to see if he can fit more of us in."

"weren't we already scheduled for—," ghost bit down the rest of his sentence.

"thursday, yeah. but apparently his golden couple takes priority. he's—oh, hold up."

the line fell quiet for a moment, and ghost allowed himself to wet his lips with the deepest chuckle. if he hadn't know himself any better, he would've thought that the sudden heat playing on his cheeks was brought there by you, and not by the workout he had just finished.

it was definitely from the workout.

"ghost?"

your warm call only brightened his smile, and he nodded his head. "yeah, darlin'?"

"I'll see you next week on—," you laughed, "four days."

four fuckin' days.

"alright," he managed out a chuckle. "yeah, alright. I'll—err—I'll see you then, yeah? tell price I said—" thank you. "tell him I said hi."

"I will," you hummed. "ghost?"

"yeah, love?"

"I'm looking forward to next week."

fuckin' hell.

he bit down his smile, for nothing. for there was nothing he could do to control the sudden flutter at the pit of his stomach: to hide the warmth of his voice as he nodded his head.

"me too, darlin'. me too.”

a/n: this is not even smut anymore. this is just—it's just fluff. I'm falling for them so goddamn hard, lmao. / pornstar!ghost masterlist / my inbox is so, so open for all your thoughts about him. 💌

#simon ghost riley x reader #simon riley x reader #simon ghost riley x you #simon riley x you

[were--ralph]

why exactly do you dislike generative art so much? i know its been misused by some folks, but like, why blame a tool because it gets used by shitty people? Why not just... blame the people who are shitty? I mean this in genuinely good faith, you seem like a pretty nice guy normally, but i guess it just makes me confused how... severe? your reactions are sometimes to it. There's a lot of nuance to conversation about it, and by folks a lot smarter than I (I suggest checking out the Are We Art Yet or "AWAY" group! They've got a lot on their page about the ethical use of Image generation software by individuals, and it really helped explain some things I was confused about). I know on my end, it made me think about why I personally was so reactive about Who was allowed to make art and How/Why. Again, all this in good faith, and I'm not asking you to like, Explain yourself or anything- If you just read this and decide to delete it instead of answering, all good! I just hope maybe you'll look into *why* some people advocate for generative software as strongly as they do, and listen to what they have to say about things -🦜

if Ai genuinely generated its own content I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it, however what Ai currently does is scrape other people's art, collect it, and then build something based off of others stolen works without crediting them. It's like. stealing other peoples art, mashing it together, then saying "this is mine i can not only profit of it but i can use it to cut costs in other industries.

this is more evident by people not "making" art but instead using prompts. Its like going to McDonalds and saying "Burger. Big, Juicy, etc, etc" then instead of a worker making the burger it uses an algorithm to build a burger based off of several restaurant's recepies.

example

the left is AI art, the right is one of the artists (Lindong) who it pulled the art style from. it's literally mass producing someone's artstyle by taking their art then using an algorithm to rebuild it in any context. this is even more apparent when you see ai art also tries to recreate artists watermarks and generally blends them together making it unintelligible.

Aside from that theres a lot of other ethical problems with it including generating pretty awful content, including but not limited to cp. It also uses a lot of processing power and apparently water? I haven't caught up on the newer developements i've been depressed about it tbh

Then aside from those, studios are leaning towards Ai generation to replace having to pay people. I've seen professional voice actors complain on twitter that they haven't gotten as much work since ai voice generation started, artists are being cut down and replaced by ai art then having the remaining artists fix any errors in the ai art.

Even beyond those things are the potential for misinformation. Here's an experiment: Which of these two are ai generated?

ready?

These two are both entirely ai generated. I have no idea if they're real people, but in a few months you could ai generate a Biden sex scandal, you could generate politics in whatever situation you want, you can generate popular streamers nude, whatever. and worse yet is ai generated video is already being developed and it doesn't look bad.

I posted on this already but as of right now it only needs one clear frame of a body and it can generate motion. yeah there are issues but it's been like two years since ai development started being taken seriously and we've gotten to this point already. within another two years it'll be close to perfected. There was even tests done with tiktokers and it works. it just fucking works.

There is genuinely not one upside to ai art. at all. it's theft, it's harming peoples lives, its harming the environment, its cutting jobs back and hurting the economy, it's invading peoples privacy, its making pedophilia accessible, and more. it's a plague and there's no vaccine for it. And all because people don't want to take a year to learn anatomy.