#I've got a YouTube channel

[amlettmarshmallow]

Can we recognize the people who love to read but just read really flipping slowly?

Stereotypical bookworms are always like "I started this book yesterday and I only have like one chapter left."

But here I am, I started this book a month ago and I'm two thirds of the way through. And I'm having a great time, okay?!

#booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookaddict #book lover #bookworm problems #slow reader #let me read in peace #honestly like how do ya'll do it?? do you just read all day?! do you have nothing else to do?? #especially y'all in school. like how. I'm homeschooled even and I don't got the time #i probably just have too many interests. I'm doing literally everything #I'm a writer #im an artist #im an actor #I'm in 4-h #i sew stuff #I've got a YouTube channel #how does anyone get anything done ever #theres too many things to do #and too many hobbies I wanna have #it's overwhelming #helppppp #anyywhoooo #long story short I have too much going on in my life.

[astral-vampire-productions]

I HAVE CREATED A YOUTUBE CHANNEL

It is called @AstralVampireOfficial. If all goes to plan, it'll stay up, unlike my other two attempts at a Youtube channel.

#i've got a youtube channel #youtube #youtube channel

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

Käärijä really doesn't miss does he. Oops all bangers so to speak.

Also Erika Vikman has a great voice.

#käärijä #i just watched ruoska #and dang what a song #erika vikman #i could listen to her all day #also there's a youtube channel called käärijä dash corn and i misread it as dash con #god i really should download some käärijä songs and then my mom's boyfriend can't say all i listen to is japanese music #i actually don't i've got english songs too

[marshmallowgoop]

2023 AMV Review

[2022]

After posting my first DaVinci Resolve AMV in April 2022, video editing quickly became one of my favorite hobbies, and this new life development actively characterized my 2023. Be it working on a project to mix the HD, remastered footage of Detective Conan with the old FUNimation English dub or piecing together AMVs, much of my free time throughout the year was devoted to video editing.

A broken computer for several weeks in the summer meant that I couldn't edit as many videos as I would have wanted, but I still progressed and learned a lot. I mixed 70 episodes of HD English dub, I made a YouTube channel, I participated in video collaborations (3! Here, here, and here!), and I tried so many new things as an editor, including but not limited to:

🎬 Glitching VHS effects (seen in "Mohan Kaitou" and "Poison Tree" above, and helped by my acquisition of a VCR, which allowed me to digitize my Detective Conan VHS tapes)

🎬 Karaoke subtitle files that can be toggled on and off on YouTube, created with the help of YTSubConverter (Would anyone be interested in a process post?)

🎬 3D camera typography (the "so alone" in "Corridors of Time")

🎬Follower text (the "we'd never known" in "Corridors of Time")

🎬 Solid color transitions ("I Wish That I Could Tell You")

🎬 Circle animations ("Corridors of Time")

🎬 Masked transitions ("Mohan Kaitou," "Poison Tree")

🎬 Eye zoom transitions ("Mohan Kaitou," "Child," "Monsters," "Poison Tree")

🎬 Ink splats ("Corridors of Time," "Head Above Water")

🎬 Selective red coloring ("Poison Tree")

🎬 More thoughtful compositions, and fudging sizing and placement for compositional reasons (the handkerchief transition in "Child," the movement of the scenes behind Ran in "Monsters," the liquid flowing in "Poison Tree")

🎬Changing the color of something (the red eyes in "Poison Tree")

🎬 Static masks ("Poison Tree")

🎬 Masking out objects (any [adult swim] logos from VHS footage that didn't come from my Japanese VHS tapes in "Poison Tree")

🎬And though it's not depicted in the snippet above, a CRT and curved TV screen effect for the TV at the end of the full "Poison Tree"

While I was only able to complete 9 AMVs (and the "Messed Up" AMV sadly isn't included in the snippets above, as it remains incomplete), I'm so excited to make more in 2024 with all the new tools in my toolbox!

#ramblings #long post #video #eye strain #blood #injury #amv #i really really wish i got more videos done (so sad i missed coai week because of my broken computer!) #but i feel like i made a lot of progress! #i can't believe i only started doing some of these things (like the karaoke subs) this year #because it feels like i've been doing them for forever #i also really super benefited from the video collabs #my youtube channel was made almost entirely because i wanted to participate in video collabs so i'm so so happy that i got to be part of 3! #the feedback i received in those collabs helped me *immensely* and i'm so grateful for the patience of the other editors 🙏 #looking forward to editing more in 2024! thank you for all the support as i figure this video editing thing out! #detective conan

[britneyshakespeare]

people with lots of siblings are fascinating and by that i mean me and the davies brothers

#tales from diana #text post #the kinks #no but i do find sibling networks to be fascinating to hear people talk about and it's so little-discussed in general #especially as i've gotten older i find the way sibling dynamics change throughout life. fascinating! #also the rossettis. i feel like they have a lot in common with my own clan #two boys two girls and all with vastly different lifestyles lol #but all of them were pretty close-knit considering things #not as true for the davies brothers but well what can you do #i did see they took a picture together when they saw each other over the weekend #i got a youtube notification for it. lol #bc im subscribed to their channel #i love the kinks always and forever. dave davies is one of the most influential men to ever pick up a guitar #you cant change my mind on this im right

[welcometogrouchland]

See, it's less about whether or not Willow is the braincell, and more about the fact that Willow likes taking care of her friends and looking out for them. It's both a source of self esteem and worth for her (she feels useful and competent if she's helping others) AND it's her main way of expressing her gratitude and affection for her friends presence in her life. They make her happy so she's gonna keep them safe and out of harms way. Plus most of her friends (sans hunter) have a history of looking out for her that, as much as she appreciates, she'd rather not return to. She likes her independence and she likes her new role in the friend group, she doesn't want to take steps back.

Sometimes this Need To Help manifests as magical outbursts that may not be great strategic moves (when she thinks Hunters been kidnapped in coth). Sometimes it manifests as scolding and steering in the right direction (her with Gus in something ventured) but ultimately letting them make their own choices. Ultimately Willows the sort of person to do whatever she thinks is right in the given situation for the people around her. When she can summon it, she has a lot of wisdom for her age (seen in the scene w/ her getting everyone to share food on the airship in king's tide). And if she can't summon it, she'll still try and do whatever seems right in the moment (gives hunter the pic of flapjack) and just problem solve as the day goes on until someone feels better, goddamit! <- this is the kinda moment that leads to rash decisions, bottling her feelings and burning out bc she really doesn't wanna fail due to her history and self esteem issues. It's why Hunter comforting her works so well in ftf and completely shifts their dynamic. She finally has confirmation that someone who loves her won't love her any less when she fucks up, but I digress.

Willows always looking out for others, and sometimes she's dumb about it, sometimes she's smart about it! It depends on who she's helping, why they need help and what kind of day she's had/where she is. Thanks to Them showed Willow in a pretty stable situation, hence there's extra room for silliness. For the future was following extremely distressing events and put even more stresses on Willow herself. Hence she bottles things up and struggles to make the good decisions she was once able to. It's not like she became a worse leader or friend since asias or king's tide (episodes that take time to include small moments of her playing to people's strengths, doing good strategy, making sure no one's left behind, etc). She's just having a really garbage fucking day.

She's probably only gonna get 1 Moment™ or so in the finale bc she had her day in ftf and I'm content with that, but I was rewatching asias where she DOES take on a responsible leadership role (while still maintaining her whole "blossoming wallflower/crouching underdog hidden badass" thing) and it reminded me of the small contained debate that happened around thanks to thems airing. Because yes, Willow and Gus were Goofy™ that ep, but a) they were literally comic relief in season 1 + 2A, it kinda has precedent and b) Willow is only as sensible as the situation calls for her and as her environment allows. She's nuanced like that!

#the owl house #toh #ramblings of a lunatic #willow park #this doesn't necessarily feel like anything that hasn't been said before but like. idc man it's a free market and i love willow #I'm still really sad abt the finale but i finally got time to draw today and I'm feeling A Little Better #still can't get over how sad i am that the show isn't fully getting to end on it's own terms and there's no promise of continuation #despite the obvious fan demand and like. #the hope that we were given with that interview that said the yt releases made execs realize how popular the show was #even the watching and dreaming trailer has a TON of views on the youtube page for disney channel #ftf is currently at 6 MILLION views and reached that number in less time than it took for thanks to them to his 5.8 million #i just #the unfairness of it all is Bugging me and it's making it hard for me to be fully excited for the end the way I've been with shows before #I'm really hoping for spin-off comics- even though i know there'd probably be AT LEAST a year between the show ending and the comics #if they ever happened #that's just how these things work and dana desperately needs a break #but still. it'd keep me going to a certain extent #AUGHhhhh i hate u modern state of television and animation i hate you cannibalistic entertainment industry i hate u disney corporation #anyway. i love asias i need to stop watching it so much

[salty-software-engineer]

I love letting other people watch things first and then give feedback about it so I can gauge whether or not I want to spend time on it. Truly could not give fewer fucks about spoilers. If the story is good I will still have a fantastic time.

#avatar the last airbender #it's really not looking like it's worth it #like it's high production value #but the complaints are about things that are really dealbreakers to me #they broke the plot and character development in bad ways that make them very different characters and events #the clips i've seen are visually stunning but have a marvelesque feeling of lackluster meaningless platitudes #oh yes we should definitely fight the evil and resist it and save the weak by getting stronger! #it's like someone watched/read some shonen or generic YA dystopian action and missed the entire point #maybe altogether it would be better but the way suki and sokka move in their training clips lacks weight #like they do not move like they know how to fight #no offense to the actors but i think this show really needed heavy martial arts training for all involved #and maybe they got it but they needed to really internalize the weight shifts and the way you put force behind strikes #that and seeing all the breakdowns of sokka and aangs modified arca is just disheartening #anyhow #on the other hand #heaven officals blessing #has been very worth #also i wish i could watch the donghua for #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #but i need to download the chinese spyware app or pay extra extra money on youtube to sub to the tencent channel #i think i am nust fond of the stuff mxtx writes #i should learn mandarin to read the og #i wonder if i would talk like a fanfic if i did that #like someone would hear it and be like i Know where you learned that and i sham't say it #mo xiang tong xiu

[light-dark-survive-all97]

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!

Oh. My. God. Let me just start by saying the over 10+ years of having Tumblr, I neeeever would've thought that I would have over 1,000 followers, LET ALONE 5 FOLLOWERS THAT WEREN'T MY FRIENDS! This is such a huge accomplishment, especially since I took a small break from Tumblr for a couple years for school & all & being back with sooo many things that's improved (for the most part) & just kind of casually being back has been super nice! So I did also say I had a surprise if I hit 1,000 followers, so here it is! I got a second account here!

It's called @celestialiron, where I'll start posting my YouTube channel/any other content I'm going to start posting again (hopefully sooner than later). I'm super excited to be sharing what I've been doing & will continue to do on my channel & content here too! On another note too, I am officially opening up to do any music commission works again! I still have to set up a few things for the payments of commissions, but overall I'm excited to where the future of content will take us!

Again, with all the love from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much!

#grateful to all of you! #cannot wait to start sharing everything I've got going on #& will try my best to keep up with both accounts #support from tumblr #music #music writing #tumblr #content creator #video game music #youtuber #youtube channel #youtube content creator

[chloecorvid]

Love thinking I was about to have regular work on this Portfolio Day only to find it was going to always be an "as needed" job. Meaning I'm unemployed officially right now.

I don't have much to show at this exact moment but will be making a post/belated post about my available freelance animation services soon.

... and if any studio-hired mutuals have any remote intermediate positions for art/animation/after effects compositing available i would greatly appreciate them to be thrown my way. better to be pelted with options than no options at all haha!

#i am but a tired clown performing in a silent circus that is the early-career animation jobscape right now #i'm super grateful for every opportunity i've had even if they haven't fully panned out for me #i've got to do some cool projects for one of my go-to clients and i can now say i have a new one for a youtube channel #but the work is in a drought rn haha #anyway yeah i'm working on my official job services page and will be back later with that #non-animation commissions will be listed as well so it'll be an easy catalogue to navigate instead of having multi-links

[electrosquash]

Sometimes i feel like there's no good new music available and other times i don't even know where to catch up with all the new music in my backlog. And right now it's the latter 😩

#all the blogs usually post when i'm at work and can't listen so those are in the queue #then i got almost half a discography waiting for me (love you forever <3) #and then i've bought a few records at the concerts i attended #and now bomb rush cyberfunk is threatening to yank me back into shibuya kei AGAIN even though it isn't even shibuya kei #(also shibuya kei isn't a video game aesthetic. ô.o) #and the youtube channels i follow just dropped “bands that sound like depeche mode” compilation ... #where do i start WHERE DO I START #anyway this is why there is very little goth here rn. i'm overwhelmed @.@ (in a good way)

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

friends! guidance please?

my daisy jones spiral and @actuallylukedanes being generally awesome has reminded me how much i miss writing songs, and how much i used to want to learn to play guitar--and my best friend suggested a guitar could be my birthday gift this year. (i'm not used to asking for 'frivolous' or dreamy gifts any more, so it's become a really nice idea.)

november is still a long way off, but there seem to be a lot of used guitars floating around that i'll be able to choose from when it's time. i don't think i need anything fancy or special since i'll be such a beginner, just something acoustic that's cheap and also pretty if possible (they come in colors! i love that).

but i've realized that when it comes to buying from someone local, a method that worked really well for me the last time i needed furniture...i have no idea if there's anything i should know or look for when it's a guitar. because i don't yet play guitar! is there some way for me to know i'm buying one that works?

this feels like a dumb or obvious question, but since the choosing/arranging will be up to me, i don't want to be the reason my family buys me a birthday gift that turns out to be, like, broken or something. i'm not always the most possessing of what could be considered common sense. so, for those who might know: is it really obvious when a guitar is broken, off, nonfuctional? do i need to worry?

#actuallylukedanes #i have the best best friend #daisy jones and the six #i love music so much though #fun fact: i have a side blog where i started trying to post the lyrics of every song i've written #(it's an overstuffed folder collection at this point and i got distracted quickly and never finished) #but i was so jealous when the friend i grew up 'performing' with was given a guitar as a teen #by our youth pastor at that time #and she started playing it and recording herself with a handheld camera #and now we live in a world with youtube #and as much as i have changed and grown over the years the performer i have basically been since birth #is still just as with me as ever so i have every suspicion that what used to be singing for kids on our street #or at open mic nights or on the bus #could be very gratifying in a 'youtube channel' format #i'd say 'tiktok' too because i know how popular it is...but i still have no interest in that world yet

[weeb-cheese]

So I do have the first volume containing the book of murder arc, so I’m scheduling in starting the next deep dive! (still having to wait until I can get volume 10 to actually finish the arc) I”m very excited, but also mostly curious as to how scatter brained I’ll get while working on 2-3 videos at a time. 

#i've got the one about kuromyu that i'll still be scripting and working on this weekendand next week #while also starting the BOM deep dive #and i've got a fun project i'm working on with null #and this count doesn't include videos i'm working on for my minecraft channel #i'm really out here putting all my energy into youtube huh?

[thatonewierdo]

#so yeah I got informed I won a full scholarship at an university I've been working very hard to get into #however #i am very tired and stressed #had no energy left to be excited over it #but autism went: #there is always energy for your current hyperfixation! #so now im here #watching free cartoons on yt #shoutout #to #tmnt 2003 #and of course to the youtube channel who made this possible #CartoonGo #go check em out if you like #teenage mutant ninja turtles

[deepsixsquid]

Is more than just low level, is about the ~community~ (´•ω•｀)

Ooooh? Maybe someday I'll take a closer look, then!

I've always kinda been in my own small circle when it come to community stuff so, who knows? Might venture out a little bit if it's cool!

#Like community wise people are most likely to catch me either here or on twitter #just doin my own stuff for the most part #I've also got a youtube channel where I post just about everything I make #and stream vods and cool replays #Thinkin of branching out and workin with people eventually

[solradguy]

Saw the patch for "Mechina" on your battle vest, and have never heard of them before, but the name reminds me of giant robots so... Any suggestions of where to start with them?

I'm really behind on their newer releases tbh... But they're like high scifi symphonic metal? Super unique sound, imo. Their older stuff is mostly the male vocalist doing growly vocals but the last albums I listened to they had started branching out with some clean vocals from mostly a female vocalist but there was some stuff with a dude too.

They post their work on Bandcamp so you can listen to their albums for a free a few times. Progenitor might be my favorite by Mechina, but Acheron is really good too. Their albums tell a story about a setting made up by the founding member of the band but for the life of me I couldn't tell you anything about it haha

Hope you enjoy it! They're a little different than most metal bands out there so if they end up not being your cup of tea then that's alright.

#asks #I've been listening to them since 2011 because of a track that ended up in one of my melodic death metal radios on Last.FM #Back when they still had a bitchin radio player... The track isn't actually on Mechina's Bandcamp page anywhere!! #It's Andromeda and they've got it on their Youtube channel at least #I'll post it on its own after publishing this ask. Andromeda is wonderfully atmospheric. I played Minecraft so much to this song

[sanstropfremir]

OH DANG KANGTA COMEBACK? I NEED TO CHECK IT OUT

YES KANGTA COMEBACK FULL ALBUM AND I NEED EVERYONE TO KNOW IT'S A DEM JOINTZ TRACK!!!!!!! please watch his midlife crisis 90s it boy stage on mcountdown:

#the mv styling is not like this at all i have NO idea who made this choice here but i am obsessed with it #this mf hasnt been on a music show since probably the 2000s #he rocks up like the original 90s it boy he is and despite being 42 he looks better than every wannabe y2k 4th gen boy #most natural midlife crisis look i've ever seen #also the ending fairy pls. pls #i'd also recommend watching the mv for eyes on you bc the lighting design is very nice #also the mv for slow dance! that came out in like jan or something but it's also really nice #the album is so good btw literally could not have asked for anything better AND we finally got love song!!!!!! #kangta #text #answers #i literally just realized eyes on you is a dem jointz track i can't believe this #no fucking wonder i've been mainlining it directly into my system for the last three days like a goddamn lunatic #kangta has actually been releasing singles for the last year and change but he doesn't promote them at all #all he does is just post his lil music production vlogs on his youtube channel skdlfjsdfsfl