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Trust your friends, push your limits, and fight the good fight - three things Dragon Ball taught me growing up. Three incredibly profound things that greatly influenced me as a writer, as an artist, and as a person. Toriyama wasn’t just a mangaka, he was a teacher.

Toriyama changed me. Changed all of us in different ways. I wanted to write and draw comics for the longest time. When my own limits intimidated me, I decided to share prewritten stories instead and took up History in college. But I didn’t like the field’s somewhat rigid system and moved on. My superiors wanted me to acclimate to the system, and I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. Staying within my limits is the last thing I wanted. And I realized I wanted to entertain, not educate, so I jumped ship and practically married into pop culture. After 7 years of cleverly retelling stories, I wrote my first screenplay and was told I was quite good. Not decent, good. Even brilliant, which I still can’t fully acknowledge. So I went from writing about stories to creating my own. Screenwriting became the love of my life.

And it all started with Akira Toriyama and Dragon Ball.

I’ve been disengaging from social media since my uncle (who also was changed by DB) forwarded me the news of Toriyama’s sudden passing. I was in shock and didn’t know how to react. But today it hit me… A punch to the gut. Dragon Ball set the standard for every shōnen anime to come. All of us (including lifelong professionals in the industry) made career decisions that were in some way influenced by Toriyama.

He was a pillar taken far too soon. He could’ve done more. Yet he lives on in all of us.

RIP LEGEND AND THANK YOU

#rip legend #akira toriyama #dragon ball #anime and manga #thank you

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So fucking sick

Nintendo Characters in Traditional Japanese Art Style made by Ukiyo-e Heroes

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Hal Jordan appreciation

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“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”

— Plato

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If Disney (or Netflix) is serious about remaking Narnia for modern audiences, I hope they get Gwendoline Christie to play the White Witch! I can’t imagine a more apt successor to Tilda Swinton than Gwen, who actually looks up to Tilda. They both have the same ethereal, regal air about them.

#gwendoline christie #tilda swinton #white witch #Narnia #the chronicles of narnia #cs lewis #Disney #Netflix #remake #adaptation #movies #film #tv #television #cinema #got #game of thrones #sandman #wednesday #brienne of tarth #lucifer morningstar #queen jadis #jadis the white witch #jadis #Aslan #larissa weems #principal weems #addams family #neil gaiman #song of ice and fire

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Animal Crossing Artwork made by Sofalein

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Someone asked me this morning “so what do you actually do” and it gives me such great pleasure to finally be able to respond with, “oh I used to write about movies and TV, but now I write movies and TV.” The jump from journalism to screenwriting has never felt more rewarding.

And this time it’s actually founded, ‘cause I’m not just writing screenplays in my own time like a hobby, almost; I’m doing paid work developing commissions for preexisting productions scheduled to film.

This year I became a working screenwriter. Not too bad considering how I started!

#work #milestones #journalism #screenwriting #film #movies #cinema #tv #television

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Tehee! ^^

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Tried Midjourney and I gotta say, there’s still no replacing the keen intuition of a human illustrator no matter how smart the AI is. My protag’s nose looks like a tomato smashed into mush. What people forget to tell ya is a lot can go wrong if you don’t know the right keywords. I figured I’d use my trial account to help visualize key elements and characters in my screenplays and yet this is the best I’ve been able to get out of it. Presenting the flooded streets of Manila during a key chase scene in my (self-proclaimed) magnum opus.

P.S. I did wonder for a second if Midjourney was actually doing its research. At first glance, everything seemed sus. For one thing, the foreground looks distinctly East Asian. Then I saw the looming cathedral in the back and went, oooh yeah, no doubt this is Manila.

#midjourney #film visuals #cinematic #concept art

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Lol, what a loveable goof