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Murmur, Cameron Barnett

#oc stuff

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WRITE IT!!! WRITE THAT SELF INDULGENT SHIT!!!

#DO IT COWARD #me @ myself

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Hey now, you’re an all star

listen to what I orchestrated

SoundCloud

#oh HELL yeah #smash mouth #all star #orchestration #music

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The Knight of the Flowers (1894)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

#painting #illustration

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you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

#im a ducklett! #and my partner’s a clobbopus! #idk that sounds p cute so far #team stream (water types) go

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#illustration

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

#holy fuck #theater #film #narratology #little shop of horrors

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....,,can I give you a media recommendation?

Hey man go for it

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NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

#that’s space baby #you ever wanna be humbled just listen to space #space #black holes #perseus #nasa #sound waves #solar winds #perseus galaxy cluster #Saturn #oc reference #space OC story

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Eating monsters with friends ✨🍄🗡️

#HELL YEAHHHHHH #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi

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want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

#nails this to the church doors

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dancing!! 🌈

#oh my god #gorgeous

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#y u p

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no other anime woman can compare to hana. it was love at first sight for me...

#a woman who can fix me #tokyo godfathers

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wire tutorial for a friend

#oh hell yeah #illustration #tutorial

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lesbian rpg ocs (each one looking for gf)

#omg #lesbian #illustration #character design #what if… they kissed each other…?

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I just wanna- 🪲💥🗞️

#OHHHHHHHHHH HE IS SHAPED #beetlejuice fanart #beeltejuice