#The original is perfect story telling

[mollymarymarie]

Someone come scream at me in ask box about the avatar live action series. As someone who ADORES the original, I have thoughts (mostly negative lol)

#I mean #The original is perfect story telling #Genuinely #The live action is... Okay #If you know nothing about the original #But for fans of the original #It just ain't it man #I'll still watch it if they continue #Lots of things I did like about it #My problems mostly were with characterization #It's who I am as a fanfic author and reader lol

[beybuniki]

one thing i noticed (form personal experience and by observing other artists) is that the longer you draw and create, the more boring it gets to simply replicate references, especially when it comes to characers' fashion choices.

with bnha, i keep mine pretty simple and basic because teens ARE very trend-loyal, but mainly im just lazy lol, but when i AM motivated, i love to think about characters' personal style, what could influence them, but also more trivial things such as budget into account, which is why i love to draw Deku in basic tees or clothes provided by his school (while bakugo gets to wear ed hardy and shoto wears arcteryx). i also love to limit the items like its just more realistic to me when someone as ordinary as deku wears the same 5 crewnecks all the time

which brings me to my actual point, namely that the more frequently you draw, the more you learn to do research andto combine your findings into sth new rather than staying faithful to one reference, and i think that's what makes good art so good, being able to draw inspiratioin from all kinds of niches and creating something that feels very authentic and suspends the spectator's disbelief. sometimes i see art and i know exactly which fashion editorial or which kpop idol was referenced, and I'm not insinuating these are bad things i do that too (less frequently now but i sure did!), my point is it's kind of nice to see how ALL artist start out with rather derivative art but eventually move on to create more authentic art that is less about drawing beautiful and perfect people and more about trying to individualize them and that ALSO means giving them weird clothes, scars, asymmetric eyes, a receding hairline etc. like drawing the same beautiful character 200 times gets so boring and it's just more fun to try and make them a bit more human

#i do have a lot of fashion headcanons but i rarely actually draw like that im so lazy #and again im also still stikcing to references and sometimes pretty closely #but this is an observation that i like to think about #as i said i just love artists that draw from a big and diverse source of references and inspirations #and the same applies to other forms of art as well ofc #just because you enjoy one genre and want to write in that genre doesnt mean you should limit your knowledge and inspiration to that genre #its pretty detrimental like you have to read ALL kinds of things #otherwise it's hard NOT to create a derivative work #and you see that with a lot of mangas #like you can kinda tell which battle shonen mangkas are only into other battle shonen and which ones are well read overall #SORRY #or when people who only read fics write their first original story and its an apposition of tropes #my point is its important to dabble in all kinds of niches #dont aim for perfect skills in one niche i think its more fun and beneficial to give everything a try

[formosusiniquis]

rewatching the leverage pilot, again, and noticed another fun detail. doubt it was intentional but i think it works for endgame regardless.

they show parker jumping off the roof before the count ends which is a great way of illustration that this pilot episode "i only work alone" Parker is a loose cannon, completely unreliable. "five pounds of crazy in a ten pound bag." but Nate restarted the count

Nate starts a count down and restarts it because Hardison and Eliot were arguing over top of him on the coms. the show routinely shows that Parker is most likely to follow her first given direction and sometimes fixates on it to the point of answering a question minutes after it's been asked. (her figuring out the math of how far the car would have gone in the runway job, for example)

so parker hears the count start, keeps the tempo of it in her own head, while she gets more and more excited about her jump. the jump is parker's favorite part, she loves jumping off of buildings almost more than she likes stealing. of course she misses the count start over, i guarantee she stopped listening the second the boys started arguing over nothing.

like parker is amazing at timing when she wants to be, that's why she's the new mastermind (or she's who season 5 sets up as the mastermind anyway). parker is the best among them at figuring out all the moving pieces and keeping track of the time ticking down. she jumps when the original count would have hit one. intentional or not, it's a great character detail

#leverage #parker #parker leverage #the nigerian job #leverage pilot #ive said it once and ill say it a thousand more times #the original leverage run is an absolute masterclass in character building and development #not every episode is perfect #but it tells a tight story and their arcs are magic

[rist-ix]

https://www.tumblr.com/rist-ix/749015401700229120 not you reblogging this when you ship bloom with the man who murdered her family 😭

Bloom's into ppl who slay! Hope this helps :3

#alright snark and ship wars aside i get where you’re coming from tho #if you're genuinely interested in my thought process here i would love to elaborate #which is exactly what I’ll do! #first of all! the post you linked is about headcanons #which my brain kinda wants to put into a whole different category than ships — fandom ships in particular! — but i can leave that aside #because there IS an argument to be made that relationships are an extension of characterization and personality traits #if you wanna go that route i would wanna explain that Bloom's and/or Valtor's interest in the other is in fact based on canon #(even though I don’t really think ships need to be established in the source material. make shit up that’s what fandom is for #1) the Andros episode speaks for itself. Valtor specifically tells the Trix to back off because HE wants to be the one to fight bloom #2) the episode before that he asks questions about her (and only her; even though he has more powerful enemies to worry about) #demonstrating curiosity about and interest in her #3) that same episode (or the one before; can’t remember) is their infamous first meeting #where time LITERALLY slows down as the pass each other on the stairs #they get IMPACT FRAMES #the whole color palette changes!!! #idk about u but I eat that shit up. love the drama of it all no one does it like them #I’m gonna skip all the instances where Valtor is spying on Bloom through his little scrying spell because oh god who has the time #let’s go straight to Bloom #if I had a week I would not be able to collect all the moments where she growls his name in pure fury and single-minded determination #she gets a little bit obsessed with him over the course of the season and I personally think that’s very sexy of her #Bloom is known for her tunnel vision when it comes to her past and origins and Valtor's existence fits PERFECTLY into that #it ties in neatly with her overarching story of the past 2 seasons #literally PERFECT foils #which always makes for the juiciest stories #4) she singles him out for a duel in the museum episode #5) she can literally feel his presence #6) the mere mention of his name sends her into her weird faux enchantix #of course there’s no romance in canon but there’s TENSION AND CHEMISTRY which is all u really need for a ship #all their animosity and bad blood is what makes it so INTERESTING to wonder how they COULD work. it’s the spice that makes for good fanfic!

[the-bensolos]

I wanted to give the live action atla a fair shot but good god it’s such a slog to get through and I’ve only watched the first 2 episodes. The characters feel like set pieces and not living breathing people, they talk in sweeping general statements and platitudes. It feels like there is no heart which is such a bummer. They are trying to speed rush the connections which just doesn’t work there is a reason you need 18-22 episodes to tell a character driven story, 8 is simply not enough.

#atla netflix #netflix avatar the last airbender #atla spoilers #negativity #so much telling not nearly enough showing the characters are bland and dull and lesser #adaptations should add to the source material not change the fundamentals of the story come on now #and like I’m not a purist but when the original is pretty damn near perfect it’s not hard to find ways to enhance the story

[uranium-city]

guys i really hate to say it but Abe's kind of been the highlight of the last two episodes for me & feels most in character to his S1 counterpart when compared to the other main characters 😭

ALSO him & Joan had more genuine chemistry in the one hospital scene than JFK & Joan have had all season & as a member of the JoanFK nation i am frustrated

#also why has his relationship with cleo not been mentioned once this season at all #i'm assuming they just?? broke up off screen?? but you're telling me Cleo wouldn't flip over her nerdy unpopular bf leaving her for JOAN?? #there's so much story potential there do the writers just hate Cleo or something why is she getting sidelined so hard #like is this just never gonna be addressed it was such a huge plot point in season 1 i feel like i'm going mad #& also for clarification i'm not trying to act like Abe & Joan's first scene at the hospital was inherently romantic in anyway all Im sayin #is that the two actually had a genuinely sweet & heartfelt one on one moment where Joan & JFK have pretty much just been “haha sex” “hahaha #open mouth kissing haha" & surface level cutesy flirting this entire season 😭. Like the reason i liked S1 JoanFK so much was because of the #genuinely heartfelt moment they had at the end of the season like where is that why has their relationship been watered down to #open mouth kissing & “look at how perfect & cute & happy they are hahaa they also make out a lot” it feels so forced imo 😭 #also also does anyone else feel like JFK has been pretty out of character this season #sorry if it seems like I'm being unfair I'm only being so harsh because I really really like this show & I want S2 to live up the the #original so bad & I KNOW it has the potential to do so. it's just a lot of decisions being made so far... I'm not really a fan #clone high

[ignatius-pennyfeather-ix]

since ofmd season is coming up here’s a little edit that i’ve never posted on here :)

#idk man first and only time i’ve done an edit #but i love it #made on imovie lmaoa #sorry if it’s bad quality #i actually originally posted this on insta & if you knew me there…ur a real one #lollll #but yeah everyone would always talk abt how never love an anchor was the perfect song for the show #but i never saw any edits so i had just decided to make one #i honestly was originally gonna do it from stede’s percy #but this was more fun for me #esp bc it kind of deviates from how it actually happens #so i can kind of tell that story #it could also be interpreted as how ed views it in retrospect #bc when you think of it yeah stede was the one who left #but ed rlly blamed himself so i that’s kind of what this edit it reflecting #(i’m pretending this is a short film and i’m being interviewed by a magazine.) #(also hi if you’re actually reading this 😭😭😭) #ofmd #our flag means death #our flag means gay #ofmd edit #ofmd ed teach #edward teach #edward teach born on a beach #ofmd blackbeard #ofmd s2 #ed x stede #gentlebeard #ofmd stede #stede bonnet

[sideblogdotjpeg]

im possibly thinking about parallels between the stepmother and the blue fairy with regards to the concept of narrative.... the blue fairy demands obedience, she promises conditional humanity and safety - a rigid definition of what a "real boy" is (someone who doesnt lie, someone who doesnt cuss). and ultimately who will callously and cruelly take away that humanity when those arbitrary rules are broken. - i think the stepmother might serve as the twisted inverse to this... like the extension of the core ideology of pinocchio's fairytale beyond his happily ever after. like the blue fairy, she promises to make pinocchio a real boy in exchange for his obedience and servitude. and when he fails, he is coldly, cruelly and unjustly punished....

i think it all links back to the meta ideas of control and narrative!! like: who is writing your story, who controls what is good and bad and what deserves to be punished. do you have autonomy in your own story? its so fitting for pinocchio to be a marionette, manipulated exploited and puppeteered as he is by these two fairies that dangle his own personhood just out of reach.

#dimension 20 #neverafter #pinocchio #pinocchio neverafter #turquina #the stepmother neverafter #yes im having pinocchio thoughts again #any. ultimately i think neverafter is abt stories; who writes them and who controls the narratives they tell #and characters inside the story gaining their own control and autonomy over their own endings and meaning #and pinocchio is just such the .. PERFECT character #like. that his original story was already so DARK. that his humanity was always so conditional #like you had to be on your best behaviour for the PRIVELIGE of being a person. #fucked up how he is manipulated by the people he has to put his trust in! #ramble tag

[jojotier]

how do you write a story where the protagonist dies?

not one where the protagonist is fighting you every step of the way- not one where she is begging you to spare her life. I feel like that's easier, because you just set fate in motion, and hey, for the story you want, you can't interfere. it was always going to end like this. like yes I'm mourning you, but the laws of this world I've built dictate that your death is inevitable. Sorry. It will be over soon. Then we can rest.

but what do you do when your protagonist wants to die?

not because of suicidal ideation, because that, too, would be easier to deal with. you show her that life is still worth living. you show her kindness, and love, and even if she still constantly wants to die at least she can see that she might need to work on that, and you can at least promise her that things will be okay. it got better for me, so it's really just common decency to make sure it gets better for you.

but what if your protagonist has lived too long? What if there isn't any getting better because this is better, this is as good as it's going to get, and to live is to repeat a thousand years of illness and stasis?

The win state's long since been reached. She's loved and lost and longs only to go home to the place her mother and her mother's mother and her grandmother's mother has died.

how cruel am I, then, that my first instinct is to deny her?

#suicide mention #death mention #writing #my writing #original writing #or really just woes of writeblr i guess jbhkjnl #backburner projects #idk how to describe it its like #there's a hidden violence to even a true utopia #and like i don't mean a fake 'utopia' trying to hide a dystopia i mean a true blue Utopia #where humans have reached the apex of kindness and compassion and civilization and strive to tell stories #and because of how perfect everything is #people must therefore shy away from when struggles become Imperfect #when the sick and dying snap and snarl and push you away #when the illness makes them see shadows in the corner. when they stop being so easily ''''pitiable'''' bc they no longer are #the picture perfect Good Patient #because to be human is to be angry and bitter and vindictive too just as much as it is to be good #and im tired of pretending that morally good characters arent allowed to snap and be irrational #but also god i wish i could help

[shidoukanae]

Did a study of a panel i like for a manga with absolutely my favorite female character i've seen yet and thought i'd post it here too in the hopes of eventually finding fans of this series when they inevitably, like me, look for more content of this story :'D

I could gush about this funny, lovestarved, absolutely downright sympathetic and villainous lady who absolutely deserves to be family with the protag for so many hours if you let me she is literally so perfect and everything I have ever wanted from female characters before.

I've gone from going "ooooo she's such a cool antagonist who is such a funny little mystery i LOVE her" to "yeah she's kind of on the insane spectrum but tbf who wouldn't be fucked up in her situation TwT" to "i WILL cry over her and she is completely in the right for doing what she's doing and i can't believe i ever believed she wasn't the heroine she's supposed to be :'D"

#the mighty extra: one girl changes the world #helene de belliana #my love #i found the raws but haven't found if there's a fandom for this manga #if it exists it's probs overseas but idk how to find said fandom then bc searching by title is useless fghjgfhj #the manga itself isn't perfect but my god does it have a lot of heart put into it #i can tell the creator adores Helene because there's no fucking way they don't at this point #just woke up to read chapter 72 and i am #melting #for baby Helene and hopefully getting to know more about her relationship with the original Lyla #because that last panel of her looking uncertain is so adorbs #but also im not used to seeing Helene with long hair and for once i prefer short hair to long hair #literally Helene is such a cool character how do i write a character as cool as her #and the fact that she has a love interest (debatably) who is is on manipulative terms with atm is so interesting #esp because he's the only one she's showing her true nature to atm and im !!! at the implications of that #her being mischievous towards Paris (even if she's meanly funny about it) and the fact she used to be mischievous as a kid... #waaah i wanna see her and Paris develop a relationship together beyond their current sarcastic partnership #especially because there's something so neat about the funny self-interested dragon man obeying her without reason to #at least the narrative hasn't addressed why he would bother??? bc she's neither offered him the fragment nor is he completely amiable to he #but also i can't help but think there was some omitting going on after their second to last scene together... #damn this manga gives so much food for thought and for that alone this story is instantly in my top 10 rankings #For Helene alone it's probably close to my number 2 spot lmao #anyways yes i stan Helene and at this point i think im her number 1 fan and defender until (hopefully) proven otherwise~ #bc god do i need more content for her waaaah

[constant-and-immovable]

Either the 2003 live action was originally a Disney property, or those guys were BOLD...As part of ongoing "I'm going to watch/read/listen to every adaptation ever written to be sure everything I'm doing is either new or taken right from Barrie," I'm watching all the behind the scenes details from the 1953 one....and the 2003 parrot was a cut character from the animated one. Some of the props are identical: the skull-headed vial of poison stood out in particular.

#hi WHERE did they find the floral frock coat they put hans conreid in for reference shots and WHY didn't they use that in the final i'm #obsessed with it #i want one #it was like a vaguely 1740s frock coat with FLOWERS along the trim!!!!!! #how perfect????? #I'm soooooo #sooooooooooooo annoyed by walt though #''a story of boyhood!" excuse me???? #MR. JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE DIDN'T CALL IT PETER AND WENDY FOR YOU TO CALL IT ABOUT BOYHOOOD #anyway #ANYWAY. #peter pan #however I'm very attached to just how DARK it was in early drafts? #peter just deciding to kidnap wendy BECAUSE SHE WAS PRETTY to tell the lost boys stories???? #what the everloving /hell/ #deleted plot of wendy having a book about never land though is charming but I think that might have been better suited to a story about jan #or even margaret since...the original story is also about wendy

[duodusk]

since today is the 2 year anniversary of Your City Gave Me Asthma, i thought i'd post the thumbnails i made for my YCGMA set from earlier this year to celebrate! :]

#my art #wilbur soot #ycgma #your city gave me asthma #i gushed about this album already on the original post's tags but like.. it really does mean so much to me #these are my 'final' thumbnails but i spent such a long time trying to get this set how i wanted it #because i wanted to do some justice to this music that impacted me so much #i wanted to use red as a recurring symbol of stressors and/or the things he's blaming for his problems at the time #until he turns it inward #though in the final ones i shifted the palette to tell a bit more of a story rather than sticking strictly to the album's palette #anyway! some of these are pretty weak but others i still want to make into like.. idk. secondary versions of the final ones i decided on #i tried to have each one pretty clearly reference the song either through tone or lyrics or place in the story #struggled quite a bit with losing face surprisingly but also boris was a hard one #because my prof wanted it to serve as a perfect conclusion full circle for the album but he's still so conflicted in it #i think it works as a set though i tried to make it bookend with jubilee line #experimenting with posting mcyt related art on here and then reblogging it to my art blog instead idkkkkkk #these are gonna look so blurry on mobile im sorry LMAO #anyway love u byee

[nathandrakeisabottom]

guys i love writing so much i am WRIIIIIITING

mmmm writing!!!!!!!

IM SO HAPPYYYYYYY

#tend baby!!! #she's back in action!!!!!! #i mean it's midnight and i still have 2 vo auditions to record and edit #BUUUUT #also yall thoughts #the prelude is like 140 pages long (but that's not the point) #originally i wanted to finish the WHOLE thing and have it be 100% perfect altogether as a complete story before posting #(and remember the PRELUDE is 140 pages) #the prelude to the prelude before the 8 year time skip #anyway my point is. do i fix that and then say fuck it and just start posting #with the understanding that it'll take like six months a chapter #or is this just something that people 10 years from now will get to fully properly experience with actually correct pacing #yall tell me #it's 2024 do people read fanfic when there's no reader and no sex (yet!!) #uncharted #nathan drake x oc

[kasarian]

i think people should learn how to enjoy adaptations more actually.

#just cuz its an adaptation doesnt need it to be perfect *shrugs* #it only needs to tell the story right. #you can observe the changes and compare them to the original #but sometimes the changes are interesting y'know? #adaptations can be fun. #its not gonna be right EXACTLY by the book or comic or whatever #also yes this is slightly abt the p//j/o tv series #i cant tell if the people complaining are children or adults i just block because their stream of thoughts are an echo chamber instead #blocked most of em.

[apawture]

something else i have been doing behind the scenes is more generic story planning, leaving most details up in the air but just getting basic "team goes here does this these things happen" etc written down for the chapters so it can stop being a vague mush of different separate events that need connecting and only exist inside my head. and i have the first two and a half chapters planned! chapter 3 is nearly done but i need to make adjustments to it still

#i have been mostly figuring it out as i go so far #and while that has been working it wont last me forever #not if i want to make something i can really be proud of #the reason i started without it being fully planned is that ALL of my projects are stagnant in the planning stage #i want to work on stardust as a fully original comic about foxes #i want to tell the story of rayna the pmd protag who joins team meanies #but i have been so focused on wanting them to be perfectly planned out #and have the art style and such be consistent from start to finish #so as a result nothing was ever getting DONE #second chance is me learning by doing #thats also why this first chapter is so experimental. im trying to figure out what the hell my process even IS and streamline it #i feel frustrated with myself for not having started this kinda shit years ago #i started drawing years ago. but every gap has what i learned drifting away #i just have to keep telling myself. done is better than perfect

[antirepurp]

getting Excited about 3d as a workflow element in art now i just have to model more shit and take the skin and bones of a story that i maybe have together and flesh it out nbd

#soda offers you a can #i've been pushing around a boulder about Original the Project this month and i actually wanna do something with it #me? wanting to tell a wholly original story? it's more likely than you think #and now that i've tested things out im pretty sure i could use 3d renders as a part of comic making progress #to skip the part about it that always stuns me (making something out of my lovingly crafted thumbnails) #nothing like shoving aside your perfectionism by spending months learning an entirely different medium and creating assets in it #instead of accepting that things don't always have to look perfect :)