#I’m sure that’s the point

[mortyinc]

Guys, I love the atmospheric and heavy art of the last episode but I just can’t take it seriously. I really want to because I genuinely never thought I would never see Rick go to therapy or try to understand his enemies, but all my little lizard brain does is:

Hehehheheh… 𝙋𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧.

#I’m sure that’s the point #and obviously as one who enjoys seeing the old guy suffer a bit #I feel like I wanna draw something too #bc I’m a sucker for this heavy symbolism #and this episode had so much of that #but guys.. #pissmaster #king of shit #rick and morty #is it just me? #season 6 #spoilers #rick sanchez #analyze piss #text post

[thestuffedalligator]

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

#the truman show #i’m sure this is a point that’s been made before #by people more clever than me #but goddammit this interests me #10k #20k #30k

[sabertoothwalrus]

so I’ve been gaining a lot of insight into the animation industry recently, especially in regards to pitching & the creation of new shows. There’s a few ways to go about it.

First, there’s pitching to a studio. When you pitch, it has to be SHORT and CONCISE. You may write a lovingly detailed pitch bible that perfectly breaks down episodes and characterizations, and it might barely even get read. First impressions, first impressions, first impressions!

Most peoples’ first projects don’t get picked up. I’ve heard a few stories from directors that said they tried pitching a story they’d had for years, which got rejected, to then spend a week or even several hours in their car coming up with a new idea, only for that to get greenlit.

But that’s not the end of it. Just because a show gets greenlit, doesn’t mean it will ever get finished. There’s lots of things that can happen. Sometimes, unexpected major world events (like… a global pandemic) can cause projects to get chopped. Sometimes, a CEO change or studio merge means a single person can decide a project “no longer fits with the company’s brand.” Sometimes, the one producer that was rooting for your project gets laid off, and no one else cares enough, so it gets shelved. Sometimes, a streaming service decides to create an animation department, and then they decide they don’t want it anymore. Sometimes, the studio will be simultaneously be developing another project that was too similar to yours and they just didn’t think to tell you until they decide yours is the one with less potential.

On top of that, almost everyone in the industry is saying that “studios just don’t pick up original content anymore.” Studios want something they can franchise, something that will bring in money. New content is risky. Established fanbases are safer.

However! Studios can still be a very good thing. They can be unionized. They can provide better benefits and resources. They can have connections and infrastructure and a larger volume of workers. At a studio, you can divide the labor and produce more in less time. Longer episodes, longer seasons, more consistency in quality.

But this comes with all of the disadvantages of having more in the kitchen.

The alternative is indie animation.

With indie animation, you have total freedom. Full artistic control. It doesn’t even matter if your idea sucks ass, because there’s no one to tell you you can’t make it. You could make it anyway, and you can make it whatever you wanted.

The thing is, making animation is hard. In my production class last semester, the average maximum animation one person could make in that timeframe was 30-60 seconds, and that’s not even counting background design, sound design, or cleanup/color. To make a 5 minute animated short, you should probably have at least 5 people.

And it is CRUCIAL you have a production manager. Ideally someone who’s not already doing art for the project. Most projects without a production manager will fall apart pretty quickly. Once the adrenaline and impulse-fueled motivation wears off, you need someone to hold you accountable and enforce deadlines and proper time management.

Speaking of time, that’s also hard to get. The more people you have, the more likely schedules won’t line up. Most people will have school, or other jobs.

And it costs MONEY!!!!!! You either have everyone work for free and volunteer their time & energy, or you establish a business as a proper indie studio, with people who may or may not have experience on how to handle paying someone else’s salary. And the money has to come from somewhere, so you have to rely on crowdfunding like patreon or kickstarter. (This, by the way, is why I could never fault an indie animation for releasing merch with their pilot.)

And like, maybe you wanna do a series, and all your friends agree to volunteer their labor and time to make the first episode, but it was unanimously not sustainable. Deciding not to produce a second episode until you can raise enough money is not being suddenly greedy, it’s attempting to compensate people rather than expecting them to be continuously taken advantage of.

You have to consider your output as well. There are some outliers like Worthikids, who afaik does all his animation himself, and afaik can work on it full-time thanks to his patreon subscribers. And he still has only produced a total of 30 minutes of animation (for Big Top Burger specifically) in the past 4 years. This is an IMPRESSIVE feat and this is with using a lot of 3D as part of his pipeline!!

Indie animation also has the complication of being more accessible for fandoms. When you’re posting your Official Canon Content on youtube, it doesn’t look a lot different than the fandom-created video essay in the sidebar next to it. What’s canon vs what’s fanon becomes less distinguishable. The boundaries are blurrier. When the creator is just some guy you follow on twitter, it’s easier to prod them for info regarding ships and theories and word-of-god confirmation. They don’t have a PR team or entire international tv networks to appeal to. And this is when creators get frustrated that their fans snowball and turn their creation into something they don’t recognize (and no longer enjoy) anymore.

So it’s tricky.

Thankfully, the threshold to learn animation is fairly low nowadays!! There are TONS of resources online to learn it on your own without forking over a couple hundred thousand to a private art college. There are conventions and discord servers and events where you can network, if you know where to look.

I know it can seem discouraging in the face of capitalism, but I think that’s all the more reason why it’s so important to BE DETERMINED about animation!! We’re already starting to see the beginning of an indie animation boom, and I think it’s a testament to humanity’s desire to tell stories and create art. Even if there’s no financial gain, we do whatever it takes to tell our stories anyway.

#animation #2d animation #indie animation #long post #not 100% sure why I made this post #all this to say: I’m still not sure what direction I want to go towards for my own show #ngl!! i think im confident i could get people to like my show. i think I could find an audience #i have some experience at this point getting people to like my ocs #its just a matter of MAKING the damn thing

[wherewolf]

the responses i’ve seen to shiv’s ending seem very quick to write her off as just another sad victim of the cycle, which isn’t without truth BUT!!! that is not even remotely the summation of shiv’s story.

i don’t think she votes yes to “save kendall” or to try to finally set her brothers free. and i don’t think her main concern was that ken was becoming their dad. she absolutely noticed and didn’t love it, but that was not her motivation in betraying him. she was thinking about herself.

it’s tempting to make a martyr out of her as she is the only female child and we see her suffer the onslaught of misogyny that comes with that. but to make her into a saintlike figure who got beat takes away the power and intelligence behind her decision.

at this point she’s stuck between two non ideal choices, but she recognizes that they have accidentally made her the single most important player in the game. because while she can’t have the outcome she’d prefer, she has the power to decide the fates of everyone else. the written off lone woman now holds in her hands the fate of every man in her life.

so she thinks about the long term benefits of both options and realizes that one side leaves her completely without any leverage.

her brothers have proven to her multiple times in the last few days alone that they will cut her out and walk all over her the first chance they get. siding with them leaves her nothing to bargain with. she would just have to hope that ken would actually take care of her. and that level of vulnerability is not only unacceptable to her, it’s stupid. and shiv fuckin roy is not stupid.

so she thinks about the other side and about what she actually wants for her life. and against her better judgment, it’s becomes unfortunately clear that she wants tom. the way she wants him is not altogether loving or even good but it is necessary to her. she sees relationships as having winners and losers and she chose this man specifically so that she could be confident in her ability to win. except now he’s grown some balls and made himself unavailable to her.

she may not like the way her husband is evolving but she already placed her bets on him, so she’s sure as hell not losing to him now. there’s also a part of her that feels intrigued by this new man she’s married to. it’s interesting to have a sparring partner in him instead of having to looking for excitement outside of their marriage.

so for maybe the first time ever, she processes what tom has said to her and thinks about what he actually wants.

he needs her to prove that she cares. he needs to know that she is capable of sacrifice. if she can’t find it within herself to do this for him, then she will lose him, and by extension, she will lose.

siding with tom gives her the opportunity to once and for all make a grand-stand gesture of love, but more importantly, it creates leverage for her. never again will he be able to hold the moral high ground over her head. never again can he say she doesn’t love him. never again can he call her selfish or uncaring. above all, he can never betray her again, because she just removed all of his moral justification for turning on her. he doesn’t realize it yet, but she’s just taken back all the power in their relationship. just in a more subtle way than she’s used to operating.

and just like that, she has the ceo of a multi billion dollar company in her pocket, while situating herself as the only descendant of logan roy to still be playing the game, having removed her brothers from the equation permanently. she may still be far from the top but she’s creating a path for herself to climb.

so yes, she’ll let tom play king for a day, and she’ll have his baby and say “congratulations,” and play the gracious wife, but tomorrow is a new day with lots of room to maneuver. and when her husband puts out his hand, she’ll place her own on top. but she won’t grasp it because she doesn’t need to.

#🐺 #shivy’s gonna be just fine #okay this ended up being a very long post but #i feel like someone needed to point out her wins #also i’m fully aware that remaining in the toxic world of the family business is not a win rly but #i think her ending is being interpreted as powerlessness #which it is NOT #she chose her spot. she’s calling shots #she may not have won today but she sure as hell didn’t lose #let’s not work so hard to sanctify her that we remove everything about her that makes her such a brilliant character #succession #shiv roy #siobhan roy #scn #tv

[lazycranberrydoodles]

getting back into the untamed and i had a thought. / follow for more yllz babygirlism

#i saw someone a while ago talking about how wwx always has good intentions…. #his personal road to hell was paved with good intentions yes but i’m not sure where making a guy eat his own legs fits #it is so funny to me how the tiger tally/yin iron influences wei wuxian differently in each adaptation #i remember making a sliding scale of how ‘culpable’ wwx is from adaptation to adaptation #based on how they portray the mental effects of the iron #but for the life of me i cannot find it :( #wwx really said ‘if i had a cursed amulet i simply wouldnt be corrupted🙄🙄’ #that’s basically what he tells lan zhan in this episode…. if necromancy was having ill effects i would notice #and you know. at this point he is lying about everything. but i do wonder how much he actually believes that 👁️👁️ #how much of his mind is resigned to doing whatever needs to be done to exact revenge regardless of harm to himself #and how much genuinely believes that he’s smart and competent enough to make it through whole #the answer of course is BOTH!! bisexual pride #mdzs #art #mdzs spoilers #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wangxian #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic arts #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #my art #the grandmaster of diabolism #cql #the untamed #魔道祖师 #陈情令 #mdzs meme #doodle #lmao

[rubikor]

would you hold my face softly and tell me it will be alright?

#genshin impact #scaramouche #wanderer #furina #in my head they are already domesticated #very much in a romantic sense #i don’t see why people need to comment besties/siblings so badly #rant time #like you don’t need to ship them but this is my art and i very much ship it #so if you don’t see them that way you can interpret my art that way and go on your merry way #at this point it’s just annoying bc i could never imagine someone commenting siblings on my yantao art #i don’t mind if you see them as best friends i can also see them like that #but you don’t need to announce it #as if your integrity is in danger #im sad i can’t tag the ship bc it’s a rarepair and i’m not sure what the name even is #welp if anyone read this you can totally forget about it now i'm over it #sad scararina hours letsgoo

[bloobydabloob]

Kanaya things. I love pasta did you know

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #hs fanart #kanaya maryam #I’m pretty sure that Hijabi Kanaya is actually a pretty big headcanon (?) #and I’m a fan of it. #She would most definitely find more exciting ways to style her hijab than this but I’m not capable of coming up with those ideas #Need to draw actual rosemary at some point. #Only ever doodled them. Whoops #Should also clarify that first photo is not hijab #Just a neck scarf thing. I drew the knot and everything but it kind of got covered by the flowers

[ibtisams]

ibtisam did u know the word ojalá in spanish (which means "i hope/i wish") comes from "inshallah" and el-andalus? i just learned that :0) ojalá palestina sea libre durante nuestra vida <33

That is the coolest fact ever?? I love that inshallah influences other languages!! 🤍 lo ojalá también 🇵🇸

#my spanish is not great but I’m sure you get the point #<3

[totopopopo]

Anyone else up thinking about the implications of thanergy and thalergy in tlt with respect to their names ….. like thanergy is obvious, it comes from the Greek θανατος, which means death, and yeah ofc that tracks, it’s death energy. But thalergy is the opposite and is used to mean living energy/life energy, but.. as near as I can tell it comes from the Greek θαλασσα (in Homeric, or θαλαττα in attic) which DOESNT mean life, it means OCEAN ……… what does it MEEAAANNNNN………. Why did she do that ..

#my green salt thing……….. salt water …… ocean water …….. thalergy……….. what does it all mean…… #I’m SURE other people have pointed this out #cause it’s just ODD #like idk what do u think #the locked tomb

[sableeira]

bro really has one strategy up his sleeve: getting himself caught on purpose

#first ace… then meursault… now bram… #like I’m not kink shaming but surely this has to be a pattern at this point #bungou stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd #bsd 113 #bsd fyodor #bsd bram

[wigglebox]

Personal space? [x]

#spn fanart #spn art #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #spnfanart #wiggleart #I love this mating dance #the joke here is ladies and gentleman and all in between that dean complains at that point about personal space but in the end they wind #up so literally infused into one another they’re always so close lmao #after 1518 I’m sure Dean mourned any indication of wanting personal space even a decade prior #Sorry sad thoughts I’m done I promise

[rachelfc-art]

Link Click Season 1 Recap (accurate)

#link click #link click fanart #umm first time posting on tumblr #all I know about tumble is that everyone speaks through tags #I’m pretty sure the arrow warning about spoilers should be pointing down for tumblr but idk I’m an instagram main I’m not changing it srry #ok um #yea #I’m excited for season 2

[binomaly]

I’m ngl y’all I feel so bad for Cassandra. Imagine having your image entirely remade and reborn and being so eager to help and the cleric who literally reshaped you wants absolutely nothing to do with you. I’d be sick

#I’m certain this is gonna be a plot point and I’m pretty sure Ally mentioned part of Kristen’s story #is dealing with the consequences of dumb mistakes you made when you were younger #but like still I hope they get justice lmao #fantasy high #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #fhjy spoilers

[iceicewifey]

💜 happy intl women’s day to queer women, trans women, black women, indigenous women, asian women, latin women, jewish women, muslim women, women of mixed faiths, non religious women, fat women, underweight women & women struggling with body image, women struggling with addiction, women that have a complicated relationship with gender and the word ‘woman’, gender nonconforming women, women that use pronouns other than she/her, women that are unhoused or displaced, women that self ship, women that draw, women that write, women that create, and women that struggle to find their creative outlet.

happy intl women’s day to women in palestine, in sudan, in yemen, in the congo, and everywhere else in the world.

happy intl womens days to all women.

#international women's day #haven’t seen a post like this today and i’m sure there’s one floating out there somewhere but wanted to make my own :x #i’ve undoubtedly missed something but my point still stands #i love you women!!! #spankz chat #edited to add some i’m embarrassed about forgetting

[urhoneycombwitch]

can we talk about how smart Steve actually is. like… putting the pieces together in the mall based off of connecting sound melodies. using himself as a distraction time and time again so the Party/kids don’t get caught in the crossfire.

I feel like at some point the writing behind his character focused on the “unintelligent” side of himbo w/free reign for everyone else to make fun of him

#Steve Harrington you’re not dumb. I promise #I’m sure this point has been made before I know I’m not the first to think ab it! #Steve Harrington

[andhumanslovedstories]

Time to do a Little a Brag? Yes. I had a patient admitted for a major major pain crisis last night and I hit them with everything I had and more and documented the ineffectiveness of current regiment and tried to get new things added. Pain meds eventually got titrated up. I happen to be on the same floor tonight and asked the patient how they were doing. They said they woke up crying, and I was like “oh no that’s the opposite of what I wanted” and they were like “no I woke up crying because of how little pain I was in for the first time in weeks” and I said that I was very pleased to hear that, and then went out into the hallway to fuckin karate chop the air in wild success

#nursing tag #then I went back and made the patient learn about the opium wars which I’m not sure why I did that #lost the plot at that point