#all jm all the time

[starrymarii]

Sum attack on titan friends :0

#snk #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #aot #mikasa ackerman #jean kirschtein #marco bodt #krista lenz #historia reiss #ymir #ymir fritz #jeanmarco #yumikuri #holy shit its been 483754397943 years since i used those tags #it feels good #i still love all these guys #my snk phase was a rough time for me artistically #i was always unhappy with my art then #i remember having a hard time especially with the guys because i only ever drew girls otherwise #drawing jm art felt like rocket science #also i was obsessed with everything having to be pastel colors #which is ridiculous trying to make that work with snk stuff #where everything is like brown/black/red/dark colors #good times #here we are now

[jimimn]

his smile got bigger and bigger 🥺

#btsgif #park jimin #jimin #bts #userbangtan #btsedit #weverse live #* #*jm #i have so many things left to gif i wish i could make a comp for the live yest. but i can'trn and we already have new things dropping today. #i'll gif what i want to but haven't giffed yet after all his promotions are done hihi<3 i'll have time then <3.

[udonli]

happy pookie day

return of poorly drawn piastri for his birthday!! 🧡

#can we all pretend like i didnt post this 3 times #this is old art #jm so sorry i spent all day drawing max im sorry for my crimes #poorly drawn piastri #GOOD LUCK TO OSCAR FOR THE RACE #oscar piastri #op81 #formula one #f1 #udon art

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

#the entire time I kept thinking jk should just hug jm and keep him in his arms #all the constant touching #like just go for it yk? #jikook #m thoughts

[pisssalamander]

SPOILERS FOR DRDT CH2!!!!!!!!

So, uhhh. I'm rewatching some of the second chapter, and i feel like everyone is so suspicious. It kinda feels like there's evil stuff going on behind the scenes that Teruko ended up missing because of how little she interacted with the others this chapter.

I haven't seen many people talk about the whole Hu and David thing? Like sure, they both went to make sure Nico was okay, but the way Hu acted when David started his villain arc was. strange? to say the least?

Also there is DEFINITELY more going on with Nico trying to kill Ace.

At first, i was SO convinced that Whit was the culprit because of the inevitable bonding that would happen between Charles and Teruko if he died, (Charles feeling like he can't trust anyone the way Teruko does after someone he befriended commits murder) but like.

J is suspicious.

Hu is suspicious.

Eden is suspicious.

Levi is suspicious.

At this point, im inclined to believe that they used the power of friendship and worked together to kill her or something. There mighta been people who were so out of the loop that they didn't know Arei was going through her redemption arc. Or they did know and were like,'i dont care, you still suck'.

Basically, I don't think anyone is going to walk away from this trial without being the slightest bit guilty.

(ALSO SIDE NOTE, SOMEONE PROBABLY LIED ABOUT NOT GETTING THEIR OWN SECRET!!!! I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHAT IT'S BUILDING UP TO. I THINK IT MIGHT BE HU, WHICH IS WHY SHE DOESN'T WANT TO REVEAL WHAT SECRET SHE HAS. NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE SHE'S AFRAID OF THE OTHERS KNOWING WHAT IT IS (which probably also played a part in it tbh.), BUT LIKE BECAUSE SHE WANTS THE OTHERS TO TRUST HER. I DONT THINK SHE MEANT TO LIE BUT SHE WAS TO SCARED TO SPEAK UP ABOUT IT OR SOMETHING.)

Btw Veronika needs to fess up about what secret she has. The trial is probably going to depend on what secret she has, and she's going to be so damn stubborn about revealing what it is.

#if all the secrets dont end up getting spilled #jm gonna flip #nah not really i just. NEED TO KNOW. #drdt #drdt spoilers #danganronpa despair time

[sparky-is-spiders]

There’s something so compelling to me about Jon being isolated completely… not even in the “ostracized and hated” sense (which is also delicious to be clear) but in the “no human contact ever” kind of way. And I want someone to do this to him deliberately also. I want Jon to work in the archives without assistants ever. Completely alone because Elias put him there and didn’t give him assistants. I want to put him in a box and poke tiny holes in the lid and then put the box on a very high shelf where nobody can reach and see what happens to him.

#insane and horrible things are constantly happening to Jon 24/7 in my brain #this is all an act of love btw #I want him to suffer because I love him soso much #I think making him completely alone would be fun and interesting #I don’t want to put characters I hate in the torture chamber because I don’t care to think about them #the purpose of putting a character through hell is to rotate your suffering blorbo like the pretzel #jonhate is not welcome here but jonsuffering always is. is the point #anyway maintagging my mental illness this time #tma #the magnus archives #jon sims #jonathan sims #edited to change the six months bit #it was a random span of time but also not enough actually #also i would prefer to avoid mentions of jm on this post. it’s not a judgements it’s just very much Not My Thing

[nyupuun]

Won Top 4 at locals for the Age of Overlord Sneak Peek (this made me so happy I have to share it everywhere.)

Also, another person really liked the anime (specifically 5Ds) so now we're writing with one another and I don't think I've done anything harder than trying to act normal and allistic about Yugioh. Someone at Locals also said they liked how 'excited' I was about it, and I know it probably wasn't even meant in a mean way but I still felt a bit bad cause I don't even know how to be normal!!!!!

#i should make a locals tag #for when I go to locals and failflop (BUT JTS SO OK I LOVE YUGIOH) #Also i won like. all my matches EXCEPT THE LAST ONE. but its so fine and cool cause it was the person that liked the animes too #so it was really fun. also i was gonna win the second game and they said 'heart of the cards is gonna topdeck crazy' #and then they DID. (the horus spell forgot its name (fakefan)) #so i went 4-1 and im glad because it truly was my personal best so far :) #also not to rant in. tags BUT. we were talking about the anjme right? and then another person says they only like early yugioh #we talk and I say yugi is my favourite character from it (like. little yugi not yy) #and then they go 'cause hes a noob that cant do anything' #my smile dropped so hard. :( #someone should study the way yugioh players watch the anime because its not even the first time people think YUGI is bad at the game #like. ????????????????? ok #sorry small rant i love talking about yugioh and the anime and everything ruaaa #might delete later #random ramble #long tags #yugioh #sorry jm kinda embarrassing

[wormsdyke]

transitioning from mind blowing shoegaze bands that make 17 minute songs into equally mind blowing punk bands that make 1:30 minute songs sucks man where’s the rest of the song. pretty please can all songs be longer so i can vibe to them continuously

#joyce manor i am coming for your throat #<- no one is allowed to fight me on if jm is punk. i’m just some guy i can’t debate this #anyways. constant headache is an all time favorite and it always ranks so high on my spotify wrapped #but that’s also bc it’s such a short song that if i listen on repeat i get a LOT of plays in #just keep grooving!! #orating!

[lokisasylum]

Hmmm....

#lmao they really think we're gonna forgive and forget just because they posted a cake pic 6 months later #a cake pic won't change all the wrong doings they did to JM during his time. #a cake pic won't bring back all those sales they deleted without an explanation #a cake pic won't erase all those PAID malicious articles they created to defame him #a cake pic won't stop spotify from continuously erasing our streams #ya'll are no better than sheep if you accept that

[edgymcgoth]

Whoever allowed me to think i could draw should be executed i believe

#like yall..... #no one was going to be like yobbestie cut it out??? #i had to see it for myself?????? ok #ignore me jm just going through something #like i have all of this stuff to do some ugly lifeless portraits when there are real artists out there that probably dont have them #feels like a waste to me #i know i enjoy it but when i go back and see it #it just breaks a part of me to know ill never be good enough #and i feel that every single time #i dont wanna go there rn but this js not what i signed up for #depression really is doing numbers on me and not being good enough on the only thing im supposed to be good at #is very close to being my 13th reason

[ufonaut]

It’s not the same as it was with your parents, Helen. He won’t leave you. He’ll never leave you.

The Phantom Stranger in The Spectre (2001) #12

(J.M. DeMatteis, Ryan Sook)

#the phantom stranger #phantom stranger #helen jordan #the spectre 2001 #jm dematteis #ryan sook #dc #dc comics #dcedit #comicedit #comicsedit #u can reblog #STRANGER ONLY EVENT #at this point i could make a compilation of all the times strangers babysat

[lord-shitbox]

part 2 of this ask

📝Process for hurt mezu drawing 

here are the steps i dug out of an art server's wips channel lol

1. initial sketch

2. refine sketch. thats lines now babey. (omitted "the sleeves are KILLING ME WAHHH" stage that led to this)

3. grayscale, to use with gradient map (this is a more polished grayscale than I started with, i dug the working file out to get better images)

4. find nice gradient map (ended up being the same one I'd used for the piece i made right before. the goal is to make what's essentially an underpainting, not to color the whole thing with one map)

5. tweak and add colors that arent in the map with hard light layers & also sneak in a layer for special effect and atmospheric/ scenic perspective while you're at it

6. shading & more finishing effects. pretty much all of the shading was done with hard light layers! the only non-hard light layers I used for the shading were the particle effect layers & like one faint glow layer to fix some values. blood was done with linear burn

✨Inspiration for hurt mezu drawing 

the coloring method (grayscale -> saturated gradient map underpainting -> additive color adjustments) is something I tried out with the piece i'd made right before (the one where gozu is holding mezu from behind) & turned out really well, so I wanted to keep going with it

I also wanted to draw them angstily again because it'd been a very long time. like half a year at least. angsting them is very enriching for my soul so I try to do it regularly, this one was overdue

subconsciously referenced the poses in the initial sketch from this old thing (feb 2021). i love doing this. all my for-fun works recycle old elements in some way. my favorite game is "what old art reminds me of what im doing rn" im so good at digging stuff out of my archives for it. everyone loves when i do this

the gangi-kozou panel also

i went through a "shade in bold red-orange & dark blue with hard light layers" phase in like..april/may of 2021. i still like that stuff a lot so I wanted to revisit it

💚Things you like about hurt mezu drawing

repasting the link there but the sixth image in the process is essentially the final so you can just look at that

the colors are nice!! I'm real happy with using more saturated colors n I think the warm vs cool balance works really well

the sleeves (man being dramatic on the sand meme)

no like fr look at the 2021 piece's kimono sleeves vs the one I just did 2.5 years later. so satisfying

Gozu's expression came out nice

i think the claws and flash lines successfully added Emphasis to Gozu's expression & the piece overall

the poses … the drama …. the brush textures are also good

⏳Things you’d do differently with hurt mezu drawing

add in a liiitle more contrast...aka use a wider range of values. Some lighter lights and darker darks. I miss my 2021 hard neon lighting

a bit more distinction between the characters and the background also

the composition isn't bad but it could be better. Should've thought more about the way the eye would flow around the image in the drafting stage (solid b&w color block thumbnails are good for this)

Moar Sparkles. (I put a solid amount of large & low opacity light bubbles in there & some finer brighter dots especially around the claw stems, but I think more clusters of tiny bright lights on the characters themselves would've gone hard)

💌Some favourite feedback on art

as the wise man Austin Kleon once said: keep a "praise file" of all the positive feedback you get (if you've never read "Steal Like an Artist," you must). so. i am prepared for this question hold on

tastes like sugar glass

multiple people have told me my art is soft & dreamlike

jayce you reblogged my touchstarved art with nice tags on april 10th ive got that saved love uou

umm theres a lot...anytime someone keysmashes or feels emotional because of my art i get happy ,,, lys messaged me about the hurt mezu piece that made me happy also,,,,,there is so much joy in the world

#shitboxposting #asks #shitbox drawn #JM SORRY I FEEL LIKE THE FORMATTING ISNT EASY TO READ NO MATTER WHAT I DO....AUGH #all my class work with actual conecptual meaning is monochrome what am i doing...man....... #i need to post more art and i also need to make more art. aghhh. boots up ultrakill and magical drop again #im actually Not sure how im going to afford the next few years of my life 😭😭 a bitch gotta have time to do fuck all but i need money..!!!! #whatever its fine. i have time to do fuck all right Now and thats what matters

[deadqueernoldor]

TW eating disorder, ED

Mum, wondering where my fucking anorexia during adolescence until I moved out came from

Also my mum: yeah so I will scold you for cooking food in the evening, I will not cook lunch or dinner at all on Saturdays bc we will eat well on sunday and will scold you if you mess up my order in the kitchen, I will make dinner plans but then in the end not do them so you can see what to eat when its 10pm and you've not eaten bc I have not been hungry and already went to sleep, oh and istg if you eat what I have designated to use for your father's packed work lunch tomorrow even tho I havent told you what he will need fir it, I will also scold you.

#that woman is the OG almond mum but in all the worst ways #girl doesnt know jm autistic bc ✨autism isnt real and it only affrects cookoo people who are weak and dumb✨ so she also never has any #of my safe foods at home anywhere so i cant even make myself some fucking pasta with pesto bc she only has cheesy pesto that makes me gag #i could eat scrambled eggs but she has scolded me for eating the eggs she had in her mind designated for my father's dinner many times :) #yay to being home :) totally great :) that woman will end up in the nursing home istg i wont care my bro will get the house anyway #personal rant

[mariocki]

James Maxwell, in various stages of fake facial hair, as Joseph, part of a gang of German art thieves, in The Saint: The Art Collectors (5.18, ITC, 1967)

#james maxwell #fave spotting #the saint #the art collectors #itc #1967 #i am in no doubt whatsoever that @thisbluespirit must have vastly superior quality images of this ep and this guest spot #perhaps even moving images in gif form! #but nevertheless #i was frankly so charmed by JM in this silly little part in this silly little episode that i felt duty bound to make a post #joseph is... well actually Joseph is a former German soldier who helped to loot art treasures in WW2.. wisely the episode doesn't linger #over that plot aspect for too long. now he's after those same paintings and will go to any lengths‚ even disguising himself as a frenchman‚ #to get them. and not just any frenchman! lovely Geoffrey Bayldon no less! with the quick application of a fake beard and moustache and tada #they're uh... identical? #in what could almost be a commentary on JM's experiences with fake facial hair on old tv‚ he very roughly has his beard torn off by Simon #producing some incredible faces in the process (not least when Simon threatens to tear off his real hair as well) #he then gets sheepishly locked up in the cellar he'd been keeping poor Geoffrey in.. but gets to have another go at the paintings later #it's fun! a pretty silly one. but a good time all told

[yamikawaii]

i wanna go home i wanna be with yoomiee

#im rlly sleepy and just thinking #theres nowhere thats ever rlly felt like ''home'' to me even the house i lived in for the first 18 years of my life even the one i do now #ig bc in both of them and in any other place ive been i was never rlly a priority i was just.someone existing there #ive never rlly been anyones Equal.may be an inferiority complex but it feels like sinking and ive never known what its like to not feel it #i just feel the inherent knowledge that im below everyone else at all times idk #but i like to imagine me and yoomtah as Equal no matter what kinda actual enhancements she has as a cyborg we're on the same level #bc i think the only way i'll feel ''home'' is by being acknowledged as something that is Not inferior #as something that deserves a place to exist comfortably without feeling entirely alienated and lost #and i can kinda imagine what itd feel like when i envision her and i together #with the exact same love and respect for each other just being comfortable together feeling At Home with each other #its warm and comforting but it doesnt feel like much more than an idea bc ive never rlly had it for real #also im aware that irl me wouldnt be equal to her at all bc she can do Everything and iiiiiiii Cant do anything ever #but my si aka realer-than-irl me has cool magical girl powers and has killed for her multiple times so its fineeeeeeeeeee #i would be unstoppable if this vessel i was placed in could shoot heart shaped lasers but alas #does any of this even make any sense jm rlly tired and just rambling abt yoomtah As usual #i want to go home i want her to take me home

[xcziel]

this has been sitting in my drafts as a response to some ideas that were circulating online a week or two ago due to that bang sihyuk interview, and it's clumsily worded but i still feel like it's a valid take so i'm just posting anyway. i'm not a music professional or connected to the industry, so if i'm far wrong just ignore this random post. i just get frustrated that for all the talk of strategy etc. everyone seems to act like bts (and by extension jk) are an established *western* act while either still promoting like a kpop act in sk schedule-wise or like a beyonce/tswift level act (which ... yeah duh) with vast u.s. name recognition (not so much) - and then wondering what's not clicking

idk about this "crisis" but i know one thing has struck me about the kpop and sk press and kpop stans in general

i touched on it back when i was talking in my tags about like crazy getting traction in the us

and what i meant was that those involved in kpop are too blinded by the industry cycle and too used to that cycle's accelerated evaluation by stans and press alike

like no one in the us who is not already a fan is waiting on the day of release to listen stream and buy. it is NOT like sk with weekly shows, several comebacks per year, etc etc

and most especially it's not this thing of: create song, choreo, mv, do a spate of music shows, see what hits if anything, maybe leverage concert dates if it does - but if not then done! next concept! move on and keep it moving - got to fill those music shows and if you don't constantly have new pieces to show you could lose attention and traction

but the general public in the u.s. is NOT socialized to all tune in to check out what's new at a certain time each week or whatever

only some check the charts and even that is mostly just to see where their personal fave is

what gp recognition goes by is repetition (that's one reason why radio is weighted so heavily in ratings- not fairly, but it's true): have we heard a song before? was it in the car on the way? was it in the club? was it in the music in the background at a store, at a party, on a friend's playlist?

when americans say they heard a song "everywhere" it means literally you could not escape it - and for that kind of feeling or environment to exist, it has to happen over *t i m e*

true, yes, sometimes a song takes off and gallops out of control like a wildfire catching but that is the exception not something that can be planned for or marketed into existence

and once you are a big enough name and have enough fans (us population @ 330 million so ... a lot more fans than it take to equal the same percentage of sales in sk ... so only a sliver of a percentage of that can mean a #1 bb hot 100) you CAN get that immediate-drop chart push

but most of the time, u.s. artists need to build up name recognition with the folks who wouldn't know a music chart if it popped up in their excel spreadsheets. that's why you get youtube reactors or even music business professionals months after release going oh i didn't know they even had an album/track/mv out

the larger a group, the longer it takes for things to disseminate past the early adopters and the media who watch them and the industry (nobody wants to be left behind, so journalists/talking heads are always like pets when you walk into the kitchen: heads on swivels in case it turns out relevant, and will write things just to be on top of a possible trend)

and this is where, i think, after watching hybe and its american arm try their push on jk, the kpop focalists are veering astray in their plans and projections: not seeing immediate huge success (or not *sustained* huge success) they think there is some kind of crisis rather than understanding that a u.s. or even just western gp fandom cannot be a top-down thing - it will take time

bts are huge (and yes a triumph for bts IS NOT and SHOULD not be lumped in as "a win" for kpop in general as has been pointed out is too often the case) but in the first days of jk's album release, *2 months* after seven had debuted, the huge nationwide retailer where i work couldn't even get his name spelled correctly in the point-of-sale database, so

the u.s. music industry is a big machine and busy on its own, many listeners only stay in their own bubbles and don't pay attention to anything outside that, because just keeping up with the output of one scene or genre can take as much effort as watching the kpop industry as a whole

to break wide you need to be either insanely ubiquitous and not just on social media (which runs the risk of people getting sick of you just as fast) or you need the slower groundswell of people going from "oh *that's* them? i heard of them but i didn't know that was their song" to "omg that's my song!! turn it up!"

there's just too much out there today to catch people's attention and the media cycle turns ever faster - used to, a song could be out and getting steady radio play and it still wouldn't hit the consciousness of the national public for like 3 or 4 months sometimes. sometimes it could take a year or more.

so this thing of short promotion periods for kpop acts - even bts! - is just not viable as a way to attract a wide gp following in the states. being on late night tv shows is a good step, but since the advent of streaming the influence of shows like that has waned considerably since the days of ed sullivan or johnny carson.

jk's run of promoting *was* the right kind of thing to do in fact - it simply should have been much more spread out over time. you can see all his album collab artists have things coming out *now* ... and there's no way to really take advantage of that with the curtailed promo.

and yes, obviously jk did get probably the second longest promo period of all of bts chapter 2 solos efforts (i think yg's tour ran longer?) and it was cut off for very valid reason! but!

i think bangpd et al. taking the fact that they couldn't make jk a household name in the u.s. nor nab him a grammy nom (nor any other kpop groups) within the 5-6 months of their fairly blatant push for us recognition as indicating a "crisis" is just not looking at the long game.

they didn't get all the accolades right away, so it seems they've decided 'that didn't work we need to make some big changes' instead of continuing what they'd been doing in support of the artists

it's this attitude of welp they didn't give us a grammy we were entitled to even though it's the first time we played ball in this particular way, so now we're worried bc we don't know how to shop kpop beyond people who aren't primed for it

like, they are looking at the business of it, and likely accurately, but not at the audience itself

it's not that the observations bang is making are wrong i just think he is basing them off premature information - songs in the u.s. DO benefit from purchase power, but they ALSO rely a lot on word of mouth. not for charts positions necessarily, but for longterm growth, support, and more importantly demand, you cannot beat a fandom that grows on its own.

the paid promotions at the end of the day serve the same purpose as bts's early days vlogs in the current western music climate - getting the artist and songs in front of as many eyes and ears as possible. but then you have to allow time for that wave to spread - and the bigger the pond, the more time it may take

#this is just me rambling #but the thought wouldn't leave me alone #it just seems too quick #kpop moves fast and on the surface it may seem like the american industry does too #but it is not the same at all and you can't expect the results to be in that fast #you'd think the man who rode the bts train would understand but i think he's looking at metrics not audiences #and expecting the kind of results he'd get in sk or the kind of results he's told american acts of similar stature to bts would get #either that or it's all a long game and he's going through steps in a script #which i would not put it past him to have some plan behind these moves #but really this post is me being a bit irtitated at the fact that they *coukd* have made jk or jm american household names #if they'd just *sustained* the promotions over time - i really believe this #and this seeming expectation that they can run a 'global popstar' campaign on an sk comeback timetable kinda bugs me