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Noss National Nature Reserve, Isle of Noss, Bressay, Shetland, Scotland

#haunts

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So I tried out Realistic Paint Studio a while back, instantly bought the full version. It’s a really cool traditional art simulator. Here’s a floral study with the oil paint set up that I finally finished.

#art

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"What gunpla would you use if you were in Build Fighters?"

Here's my entry for this theme, for a local group build event - A kitbash with HG Exia, HG Farsia, and some RG Exia spare parts. The cat ears are made with pla plate and putty.

I call her "Heaven's Gardener"

#oh she's gorgeous. well done!!! #gunpla

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sounds pretty based to me

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#kept tags: #chalkydri

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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…

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#yakuza

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I had a dream that I went to a video rental store (???) and they had a gundam manga where everything was the same except the entire cast was cambrian creatures (?????)

#ideal world. #gundam

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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This wouldn't happen to me if i were a huge dragon

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forgot that the most important thing you can do as an adult is wear silly accessories because small kids will think youre cool. a little dude with his mom stopped me on the way home because he liked my umbreon hat and this interaction reminded me of how when i too was a little dude on a trip to dublin with my parents we met some guy in an umbreon hoodie and i thought it was the coolest shit ever. always be silly.

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save me white girl

#ace attorney #dgs

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Asheville, North Carolina | Photo by @aroundq

#haunts

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This might end up being part of a larger project, but I will die if I don't share it

#VVVVVVSWEEP #spiritsongs