#Have fun in hell y'all

[blindmagdalena]

oh my god YES

he’s been stalking her and finds out she goes to church every sunday so what else is there to do? become a priest obviously how hard can it be?

GOD AND THE SINS READER CONFESSES

she confesses to be feeling lustful and vulgar things about a certain blonde priest and he just EATS IT UP

i'm dizzy thinking about his lips at your ear, his hands pressed to either side of the wood behind you, his body radiating such heat that you're warmed by him without him ever touching you.

you swallow dryly and choke out, "Forgive me." he caught you staring at him, thinking of him, lusting for him. you think he must have been able to read your mind, all those wicked thoughts.

"How can I forgive you," he laughs softly, his breath ghosting on your skin. goosebumps erupt down your neck. "Before you confess to me?"

#priest au #y'all fuckin me up with this istg #i thought i was out of priest kink hell and y'all DRAGGIN ME BACK IN #jk ilu #homelander x reader #darling anon #ask and you shall receive #profaning the holy #that might have to be my tag actually it's more fun

[chaos0pikachu]

So @doyou000me sent me an ask about the film making of Love for Love's Sake (which I have learned is based on a novel and now I'm very interested in reading it lol) so having watched the currently available episodes the big thing I noticed was the shows use of Aspect Ratio.

"In simple terms, the aspect ratio of a movie is how wide the frame of the movie is versus how tall it is, usually expressed as a ratio. For example, most TVs and computer monitors are 1.77:1 (more often expressed on consumer packaging as 16:9), which means the screen itself is 1.77 times as wide as it is tall. The higher the first number in this ratio is, the wider the screen will be." (source)

I know, nerd math.

Basically you know those black bars you sometimes see on the top and bottom of the screen when watching a film or tv show? That's a director filming in a specific aspect ratio:

(source)

Film makers use aspect ratios in a ton of ways, there's a lot of examples out there from Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino), and Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) where the former used aspect ratio to invoke the film making style of old westerns, while Nolan used a taller aspect ratio for fight/action scenes to give the scene more physical impact.

A recent example that I've seen that I think applies really well to Love for Love's Sake is Marry My Husband:

See how the first scene has black bars above and below? The director is using a different aspect ratio than in the second shot (these are both taken from ep01). What does this signify in the story?

Flashbacks. Flashbacks in Marry My Husband are always filmed in a different aspect ratio than scenes in the "present" storyline of the show. Perfect Marriage Revenge also uses aspect ratios this way.

Love for Love's Sake does something similar but instead of flashbacks it uses aspect ratio to denote between "worlds".

The game world is filmed in a longer aspect ratio than the "real" world which is filed in a different ratio (not a standard full screen but it does have a taller ratio than the game world):

This, so far, has been consistent in the four episodes that are out. We have another return to the "real" world in I believe ep03 and we see this same aspect ratio dynamic.

Another thing I noticed is the "real" world's color saturation is much higher and warmer than the "game" world, but it's also (ironically) much more enclosed - this could honestly be a story choice or a budget issue - and boxed in. Something I don't see discussed a lot in terms of cinematography in BL is the use of Lines and Shapes in film and how they add to the composition of a shot.

I really like this video on the subject though it focuses mostly on animation it's still relevant:

Now if you look at the "real" world scene in Love for Love's Sake we see that the protagonist, before we even know who he is, or anything about him, is in a highly saturated room, warmly lit, but also boxed in:

The warmer saturation denotes a sense of intimacy, which makes sense in a bar setting, but the boxed in frame around him gives us a sense of tightness, tension even, maybe a sense that he feels trapped. We later learn through dialogue he's unhappy with his life and unhappy with the way the novel story he read has played out.

Then, when the scene transitions into the "game" world, the protagonist is in a different aspect ratio, the color grading is now more desaturated and has a higher blue hue to it, the character is also in an open space and filmed front forward facing instead of from behind:

This all works well because the audience knows, even before the character does, they are in another "world" and its very different from their own. It creates to specific aesthetics which help set the worlds apart from one another.

For more on color theory, this is one of my favorite videos on the topic which has more to do with like, hue and saturation rather than "the blue curtains mean xyz" which is a singular and narrative heavy way to focus on color theory instead of how color adds to the tone, emotion, and world building of a piece of media.

I think the first episode of Love for Love's Sake is the best filmed of the episodes so far, the budget starts to chip away in other episodes but I do want to give them their roses b/c they do work within their budget well. There's a lot of interesting visuals used especially with the game pop ups that I really like, and some nice camera work. The editing is a bit weak at times but there's been some good choices too.

I also really liked the scene with Yeo Woon running and how his feet lit up and how that aligned with his affection points going up. The editing for that was well done.

So yeah, those are my film making thoughts on the show for now lol

Check out other posts in the series:

Film Making? In My BL? - The Sign ep01 Edition | Aspect Ratio in Love for Love's Sake | Cinematography in My BL - Our Skyy2 vs kinnporsche, 2gether vs semantic error, 1000 Stars vs The Sign | How The Sign Uses CGI

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#love for love's sake #kbl #chaos pikachu speaks #spot my kofi some coins if y'all like these posts lmao #also love for loves sake is cute as hell I'm into it #its a bit slow but last episode picked up and it's very charming #chaos pikachu metas #also if you wanna have a fun time watch any video on transformers the last knight and learn how to NOT use aspect ratios lmao #god that was such a frustrating thing to witness #Youtube #pikachu's bl film series

[flurry-of-beaus-pop-pop]

Bells Hells: *all agree to do whatever it takes to stop Predathos*

Orym: *does whatever it takes*

Fans:

#critical role #orym of the air ashari #bells hells #like they have all agreed #about 100 times #that this is basically a suicide mission #yet y'all acting like they're planning a fun night out

[rotisseries]

inspired by elli's poll lol cause this seems fun actually but if you guys have bad answers I'll kill myself on your doorstep or smth

#“rori all of these are your faves how can there be a bad answer” well I still have an internal ranking on some of these #and if all of you pick an option that I think pales in comparison to the others. well. hm #I know what's gonna sweep though because two of these are niche as hell and 4 maybe 5 of these are things you people don't follow me for #fun fact I actually had to scrape my brain to make sure I couldn't come up with any more #I am unintentionally very picky on what is a favorite apparentlyyyy #I also just don't watch/read enough stuff these days so there's that #AND I NEED LONG TERM EXPOSURE TO KNOW THEY'RE STICKING AROUND #so like. I have some options but I don't KNOWWW if they're sticking yet #but this feels like such a small poll lmao #also no sapphics on here this is actually cause I hate women- #NO. JOKING. zelink is here. I almost put gideon and harrow but I'm in a perpetual state of not having finished tlt #and I couldn't put nebetta and darya I was drawing the line at 2 tbos ships. well. actually. changed my mind #not editing these tags actually you guys can see my thought process #WAIT AND SAYMARI. FUCK. I LITERALLY MADE A PLAYLIST FOR THEM I LOVE THEMMM #ok. is 4 tbos ships too many. hmm #I said 2 of these are niche now four of these are niche it's really the “which tbos pairing is your fave” poll #THIS POLL IS SO FUNNY IT'S SO SELF INDULGENT I HAVE TO TAKE OUT AT LEAST ONE TBOS SHIP #I should add one more general one... #cause I do actually want genuine and varied answers I gotta give y'all options so they don't all pool at the first two #I also almost put ellie and abby on here.. that would've been so funny four popular 1 rarepair 3 super niche ships #ellie and abby are soooo interesting to me though so of course the thought of them having something horrible going on together compels me #and they are one of my 3 favorited ao3 tags... they deserve a place... #ok well while I debate on that I'm putting akutagawa and atsushi on here I admittedly have only had like two months of exposure to them #but it is enough I can tell they are so crazy to me #the way my tags are just me overthinking everything on what is supposed to be a fun and silly poll... no one does it like me I'm afraid

[queer-reader-07]

it is some kind of cruel joke that i have to study for my calculus quiz this afternoon when i could be reading a silly little t4t romance or rewatching one of my silly little gay shows

#i did this to myself when i decided to go and be a stem major #me: science is fun! i like science! #also me: fuck wait i have to do math what the hell #also also me: i'm not even doing poorly i just find it tedious #anyway i just did the same problem 3 times before i realized i was solving for the wrong fucking derivative and i hate everything #i just want to read my silly little gay romance book but noooo i have homework to do #bet y'all weren't expecting the stem major shit posting when you decided to follow my blog #random #this is a shitpost #calculus might very well be the death of me

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: drugging, SA and SA apologia, fantasy racism/ableism, forced institutionalization.]

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i know i never shut up about it but god i am still just. So Salty about how the show handles the dynamic between mayor jones and pericles for many reasons, and one of the biggest is that there are really strong overtones here of sexual assault.

a character who already brings to mind the Slimy, Shady Cis White Guy with Buried Allegations archetype:

takes advantage of the trust of someone who's doing something with him in secret--

(which will get that person in a disproportionate amount of trouble compared to him, if they're discovered)

--to catch him off guard so he can grab him, drug him, and do violent things to his body while he's unconscious; scars him for life in a way that is disabling and should cause a lot of ongoing suffering, which, like many other things that should have a strong negative impact on him physically or psychologically, the writers ignore; and dumps him there alone to discover what's been done to him when he wakes up.

specifically, he does this to someone from a marginalized group that's highly unlikely to be believed if they tell anyone what he did--and going by the fact that mayor jones never got in any trouble until present day, he wasn't.

goes out of the way to ruin the life of the victim and discredit him as thoroughly as possible, because he's a loose end and he needs to shut him up.

flees the scene and gets away scot free with this for twenty years, has a successful privileged career and is considered a pillar of the community in the meantime.

when his dirty secret, which he's been paranoid about finally facing consequences for after the victim has recently become a risk again, is discovered, it's a huge career-ending scandal.

is redeemed by the end, while his victim goes on to be the Monstrous Irredeemable Pure Evil Main Villain and also sexually abuse someone himself, which is played as horrific and traumatizing (as it should be).

more specifically, is portrayed as showing redeeming, heroic anti-villain qualities by backhanding the victim into a wall as hard as he can in present day.

me: hm. yeah fuck this

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #professor pericles #fred jones sr. #SDMItag #SDMIcrit tag #the crit files #cws in post #like. jesus christ dude. #i'm guessing there's probably been You Can't Like Mayor Jones He's Abusive discourse before; i don't want to contribute to it or anything #no shade to mayor jones enjoyers y'all have fun #but holy shit i do not like this man lmfao #this isn't even getting into the fact that it is extremely easy to read pericles as a victim of *other* SA both metaphorical and literal #(metaphorical: the entity groomed him his entire life) #(literal: the creators intentionally made reference with him; onscreen; to Inappropriate Handling that happens to parrots in real life) #(he comes from a world where people assume there is zero difference between him and an animal; and would probably touch him the same way) #(no one would have *recognized* it was inappropriate and there is not a chance in hell he would have been allowed to say stop) #(many many MANY things about his character immediately make sense with that reading whether the writers thought it through that far or not) #(which i have a Whole Post planned to go into; but this bit was enough of a detour that i felt like it should just be its own post lmao) #also re: scarred for life and ongoing suffering + disability as a result: on a literal level a scar like that would hurt like a *bitch* #especially with the complete lack of medical care it seems to have gotten; going by how it looks. it would be a huge source of chronic pain #on a not-literal level: boy howdy what a metaphor! #anyway yeah i would say this is roughly equivalent to if they'd had ricky finally get free from the snakes after twenty years #had him go into a Scary Evil Villain Spiral after while completely ignoring how horrifying it was or the trauma it'd have caused him #had pericles gloat about having pulled off injecting the snakes; and say he should have lived 'the rest of his miserable life' that way #and not only had no one go 'wtf' at any of that but given him a Redeeming Moment where he incapacitates ricky with venom again #and also tried to frame ricky as deserving the snakes/having done it to himself because he Did Bad Things while looking for the treasure #and also had him abuse someone partly in reaction to them mocking him over the snakes; and saying that being tortured and abused with them #for twenty years makes him unfit to be anything but subordinate. on a watsonian level ricky's standing up for himself against abuse but jfc #don't get me wrong there are definitely still differences in their dynamics but yeah i am not happy about it lmfao

[bamboorocket]

So uh... remember that Lancer crossover I was working on for Spookami? And how I put this tag on the original post?

Well that's actually happening for real now, because our GM is not only running a oneshot separate from our main campaign this weekend, but also very encouraging of letting us pull expy nonsense. Joke's on him if he think I'm not committing to the bit, though, so have the portrait I drew for the "Pilot" section of my character sheet.

Most refer to Waka in this AU by his callsign "Onmyōji". Those that don't usually just call him a pain in the ass.

#Bamboo's Art #Okami #Lancer (TTRPG) #Crossover #Waka (Okami) #What's funny is I'm not even the only expy in this party nor did I pick the weirdest source to pull a blorbo for a mech pilot #The mech frame I picked is even striker melee with a focus on using swords and agility -hell yeah- I'm gonna do that have you SEEN this guy #(for those lurking the Lancer tag: were at LL3 and I'm going full Mourning Cloak baby I'm about to become a fucking -nightmare-) #I got into such a groove when I hit the shading part that I was up until 3 AM last night finishing this. Worth it tho. #Drawing all of those moon-tribe-esque patterns was a gd nightmare though shading them was a lot more fun than I anticipated #Also to the anon who asked what color I paint Waka's eyes when it's not the middle of the night here's your answer: they're dark brown! #I should probably make a full ref sheet for this design at some point but for now y'all get portrait #Callsign: Onmyoji

[thehealingsystem]

another day another reminder that twitter still very much actively hates queer people with unconventional identities

#can y'all like leave us the hell alone for TWO SECONDS #idk much about what regretevator even is but yes this is about that #banning mentions of us in your discord spreading hate against us then later deleting it because you're a coward about it #I think it'll be a long while till I go back to using sites like twitter and discord and engaging with fandom communities #because you people do shit like this #I literally felt constantly unsafe trying to just have fun with people who share my interests #and I thought we were finally starting to get better about this #nope still mass bullying towards fucking. teenage trans people calling themselves lesboys or some shit #get a grip #regretevator #tw queerphobia #tw exclusionism #lesboy

[angelkittycore]

maybe forming an entire pride movement behind self diagnosing and highly controversial disorders that can land people in prison or on the sex offender registry is where society started to go wrong.

#i'm pro self dx but you can just self dx with autism did bpd and etc instead of saying you have a transid lol #you make me wanna disengage from the queer community #there has got to be a line where self determinism and personal expression goes way way way too far #like no actually it isn't progressive and transformative as a white person to claim you're transblack or transkorean #nor is it progressive and transformative to proudly flaunt that you think about fucking children dogs or your family members online #you are QUITE LITERALLY PART OF THE PROBLEM of conservatives correlating queerness with predation #im sorry you dont wanna hear it but its true! #you guys are the thing they say we are and you are making it hell for us to champion against it #co-opting the acceptance movement for objectums for your pedozoomurderincest shit... y'all disgustme #this isn't even bait and shouldnt be taken as such bc i dont want to debate or argue #fucking block me if you think responding to me would be fun #its my own damn opinion on my own damn blog #learn how to block people

[sassenach082]

this is probably a giant spoiler but given how richly u populated ice's family life and backstory, i'm curious what you've got for jake, if you do?

Oh yeah, I do, buckle up buttercups, his family is even crazier than Tom's

#sassy answers asks #i'll ride au #i love all the “jake comes from a terrible family” takes #especially because i can see it and i read the fics too and they are glorious #but my jake is loved like hell #he's just Like That he doesn't have Trauma(TM) #at least not family trauma #my jake is a middle child #and it shows #also fun fact y'all have already met someone in his family tree

[chayscribbles]

got myself to go through two (2) AR feedback docs today so now i can focus on the important things (thinking of hypothetical AR merch)

#it feels silly to think about merch for a book that isn't even out yet but let me have my fun okay #what kind of merch would people hypothetically want to see 👀 #more importantly would y'all actually buy merch if i made it kjgfkjdfkj #chay's shenanigans #ar editing hell

[queeraliensposts]

Cis people who respond to transphobia with other forms of bigotry are the epitome of performative allyship. Like caring about trans people means caring about

Trans POC

Trans women

Neurodivergent trans people

Working class trans people

Fat trans people

Diabled trans people

Trans immigrants

Trans gay people

Jewish trans people

Muslim trans people

Latine trans people

You either care about all of us or none of us

#trans #lgbtqia #trans men #trans women #Trans men of color #trans woc #disabled #neurodivergent #working class #Writing this because of two people #A guy who called a transphobe trailer trash and another asshole who made fun of a transphobe for having a mlp pfp #Cringe culture is ableist #The autistic community has been saying that forever #But y'all just want to gaslight us #This is why I feel unsafe in my own community as an autistic latino trans man #Cis people will get defensive as hell if you call them out on this shit lol #This is also goes to all the people that make fun of conservatives by putting on a southern accent #If you actually looked up southern history you'll see the irony of that #classism #ableism #performative allyship

[saunteringvaguelydownwards]

****

Motherfucker, y'all got me writing again, what the fuck?

#nah it's cool #i just banged out 1200 words one night then made myself cry with my own writing the next night #good. great. awesome. love that for me. #i haven't written fic in 10 years #what the actual fucking fuck #also #i'm just out here trying to get to the one scene i wanted to write that started this whole mess but now there's fucking PLOT? #i'm 2900 words in and it's gonna take at least twice that long to get where i wanna go #maybe #if i'm lucky #and why does a bitch need to understand fake science from a fictional world? #fucking hell #i refuse to deal with reya and the holy war #i am not taking it that far #that entire prospect is fucking exhausting and many better writers than me have already gone there #i mean fuck i'm already worried that i've read so much WN fic that i'm subconsciously cribbing story elements #y'all do this for fun? on the regular? #props to the fic writers #i was already a fan but damn i had forgotten how hard this shit is #warrior nun #fanfic

[signalhill-if]

You have to understand how much fun im having with the mc. Like "being hot is my talent" while wearing nothing but leather pants and a fur coat with fucking CROCS, flirting with anyone and anything, being bonked in the head, getting the pinky chopped off and my mc is, as stated before, flirting, this is chaos and i love it.

You are the target audience, dear reader. You get me

#that fit sounds sick as hell btw. you picked perfectly #do y'all get why i spent so much time on that clothing system now?? 'it's not necessary' NO. it IS necessary #this kind of chaotic energy is exactly what i had in mind while writing haha i'm glad you're having fun with it! #ask #anonymous #player characters

[pocketsizepunk]

(ID in alt)

@layclaireweek day 7 - free day

it seems like claire is hyping herself up for something...

#last day! this event was so fun :) #it's always nice to have something motivating me to draw #because otherwise i just. don't. #something something hell brain. y'all get it #layclaireweek23 #professor layton #layclaire #hershel layton #claire foley #chase draws

[iti-iskuna]

listen. i've had this idea for a botw/totk zelink au fic, but i seriously do not have the time or energy to write it, so i'm giving to y'all for free:

the locked tomb AU zelink

#mo speaks #zelink #botw #botw link #botw zelda #totk zelink #totk link #totk zelda #have fun with this thought y'all! #god i have so many ideas on how absolutely fucked up it would be #i have been rotating this in my brain for WEEKS #but ik i have too many other projects rn and cannot fully dedicate myself to it #so if anyone else wants to write it please do #also i feel like i absolutely could not do justice to tamsyn muir's intricate storytelling #so i will just plant this seed in the hell site and see what grows