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demadogs · 2 years

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the color coding thing you talked about is so interesting! what courses do u recommend to learn more abt it and other subtext stuff?

im a film major and photo minor so ive taken a lot of college courses on camera and film techniques but i also think ive just always been pretty observant with stuff like that in film. i find myself being surprised whenever someone is impressed if i point out color pallets or lighting in different scenes and how they correlate to the story and characters. its just something ive always loved to analyze.

since most of what ive learned is through my college classes i cant think of any specific accessible course to direct you to but i can tell you some fun things ive learned in my classes and the movies we talked about and you can watch them too to get a better understanding of some things if you want.

so my favorite class ive taken was media aesthetics and that class focused a lot on color coding, lighting, framing and set design. for colors we talked a lot about wes anderson films. if youre really interested in color alone hes probably the best director to watch. im sure theres some good interviews out there of him talking about his color choices. he LOVES pastels. a lot of times he themes characters with specific colors its really interesting. the movies of his that we watched in that class were the grand budapest hotel and moonrise kingdom. for budapest he used lots of pinks and light blues and moonrise is mostly yellow. he also has some fun cinematic choices with cool fast panning shots. lots of movement in his frames but not to the point where its distracting. hes definitely got a very specific style.

other movies we watched in that class were the virgin suicides, get out, and ex machina (i think…, that mightve been a different class taught by the same professor its been a while). and i also did a whole paper on the color techniques in dead poets society! my professor didnt think that would be a great film to anaylze aesthetically and i was like “homie i literally already have a list in my notes app of super cool shit that this movie does THERES A LOT” and i got an A 😎. i went in so deep on the colors in that movie god i love that movie.

another show outside of the class that i personally have noticed do a lot of cool shit with color is defending jacob. this is my favorite murder story of all time (and that is SAYING something i fricken love murder stories). the show follows a 14 year old boys murder trial after his finger print is found on his classmates body. his dad is an assistant district attorney and he was originally on the case but they took him off when his son was arrested. almost the entire thing has a subtle but still very blue tint and every shot is overcast, never sunny. the first time you see a sunny day is when the characters think things are looking up and getting better. then one fantastic scene brings them back down again and that scene might be the bluest scene in the whole show. the shows very grim and the family is just deteriorating into insanity. the mom is losing trust in believing her son but the dad never doubts him. having the mood and lighting and color be so dark and cool was such a good move. and something really cool that they did was when there were flashbacks of events that happened before the victim was killed, those shots werent blue!! and then it would cut to present day and itd go back to being blue and dark. i loved that. i highly recommend that show just for the story alone but the film exacution was fantastic. lots of cool drone shots too.

i could keep going if you want. i didnt even touched on cinematography and lighting. i could probably do a more in depth analysis on stranger things alone and focus on their colors and lighting but i definitely think the biggest color choices theyve made that correlate with the story are the mileven break up and byler fight. let me know if youd wanna see that. thanks for letting me nerd out on film shit for a sec lmao.

#idk what to tag this as i barely mentioned stranger things #watch defending jacob #eden answers

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cheylouwho · 3 years

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irt what one anon just said, and like i kinda hold a diff opinion than you on some of this but not in such an extreme way i’d like fight u on it lmao just Would Like To Discuss/throw in my two cents for consideration, but i feel like framing matters a lot in these arguments about content. most (can’t say all as there are definitely exceptions) people aren’t saying its a direct like ‘see someone in movie kill people -> im gonna kill people now hehe’ influence when people talk about how media effects reality. its more about like why propoganda has been effective, where when you frame things as good/desirable/okay in subtle ways and that normalizes them as ideas. if a narrative is framing something as bad (ie how south park is satire and often shows lots of bad stuff but usually makes an attempt to point at how the bad stuff is Still Bad And Stupid) and just exploring the topic (such as with like. abusive/toxic/problematic ships, i dont think its fair to be like ‘none of that at all!’ bc there are interesting dynamics to explore and analyze that don’t romanticize it, and like thats totally cool!) like i have never had a problem with that. that doesn’t fall under the ‘media effects reality’ the same way because the point of that media isn’t to encourage that behaviour.

But a problem comes in when people romanticize that type of content and perpetuate bad stuff as being okay, and i’m not even saying censorship is the best answer, but if theres gonna be no censorship then there need to be a lot more safeguards to keep content like that away from kids on sites like ao3 which do also host pg content. if it was like an exclusively explicit/adult site then sure go buckwild my dudes, but when they have all ages content it really should be stricter about tagging requirements. because man i have seen so much untagged incest porn come up when looking for pg stuff not related to that AT ALL even with tags filtered (and not even for sp, ive been involved with other fandoms more recently and the one im talking about here is not even an adult-oriented series like sp is), and like I’m an adult who can deal with it but that shit is damaging for kids to be exposed to. like i still support ao3 as a website in general but i absolutely don’t think they’re beyond criticism, ya know?

Ok anon I really do respect and appreciate you come in here very calmly and opening a discussion and I will absolutely love to open a dialogue.

I will agree with you on the first part, yes it’s not black and white in any sense. I’m really fired up so I’m going to the other extreme but I do recognize that it’s not that simple. There absolutely is areas where it does become gray and it’s not as easy to say “all or nothing”. I wouldn’t say fiction Doesnt affect reality because there are aspects that do, but you are right that a lot of the time that statement is taken to the extreme and people completely equate it 1:1. Honestly I believe that as long as no real life person is being hurt and those safeguards are in place (proper tagging and warnings) like go wild. “Romanticizing” is a very opinion based statement too so it really does depend on the person on their interpretation of a work.

Ao3 does have policy about tagging works and using the proper rating system, so that is not a problem with Ao3 themselves but with the people misusing the platform. I agree, works need to be tagged properly or at least using the “chose not to use archive warnings” tag so people know things inside the fic are freegame. Ao3 *does* have the way to keep kids out, in the same way a porn site would- there is the warning about explicit content right before you click into a fic. If you click that button you are either Lying about your age or agreeing that you are okay to seeing the content. (also again my library argument, published books dont have that luxury). I don’t think it’s beyond criticism either and there are improvements being made all the time (again, it’s run by a team of dedicated volunteers) but ultimately calling for something to end that can be really truly avoided by not even looking at the website is the ultimate beef I have. I am all for improving the site and making that content easier to hide, or harder for minors to get into, but ultimately again a kid could go to the library, grab a book and read just about anything. I think in some ways ao3 is *better* in that sense. Not perfect, but something worth protecting.

#Civil discussion Yes yes yes #Anonymous

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bloopbyoop · 3 years

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ayo. ive read my scheduled email and its time for freewriting shit again. lmao. I want this post to be like a small light from a lit match stick inside a very hollow, icy, and numbing cave. (sounds cartoonish right? I know. Im obsessed with Adventure Time.) I want all people to be genuinely happy. Spiritually, emotionally, and physically. Upon reaching my 24th anniversary in this world, I finally learned how to truly embrace all my emotions. Some are more overwhelming than the other, but we have to heed in our treacherous yet perplexing minds that everything is fleeting and we are in control. The feeling of extreme sadness fades, but so does joyful states. Everything can change in a matter of minutes or years. You are in control of all your emotions. You are in control of all your life choices. Your actions. Your words. Your perspective. It feels weird to actually write about it. I've wanted to talk about it. I never wanted help from anyone as I firmly believed that I was alone. Sure, I have a family and friends, but it is hard to see that when your head is clouded with negativity. I've even come to the point where I was too overwhelmed, I found being physically hurt less painful. The pain I felt distracted me from what I was thinking. My mind tended to go bonkers. lmao. But bro, I was so good at concealing my bonkers mind. It's easy to fake any emotion that you have. Slap anything sunshine-y or happy to anything and people would believe you. It went on for years. Long story short, thousands of bracelets collected, it became worse. The physical pain could no longer withhold the emotional pain. Couldn't sleep. Couldn't stop thinking. And voila! I found a good amount of self help books (from tumblr) and novels. Novels that brought me to different places. Self-help books that made me understand what I feel and what to do. I've read that taking the easy way out will leave everyone sad. AND IN THE FIRST PLACEEEEEE, I NEVER WANT THATTTTTTT. I want everyone to be happy. I would act foolish and do dumb shit to make everyone happy in a heartbeat. So, that idea made me push a few more years. Later on, the crippling shit came crawling back again to my head, sooooooo I needed new shit to keep me distracted again. Films, series, music, and short clips from YouTube helped me out a lot. Every single time that my mind is going to think like anything that can think of, even to the point that I was just going to think that I might be hungry, I'd watch something. There's just something about silence for me. Because of this new habit of mine, I've learned more about myself. I love different types of things. I like horror. I like thriller. I like comedy. I like romance. I love all types of films, but there is something about the horror genre that interests me. I still can't point out what, but I love watching horror films. With regards to music, I've learned that I love Indie, Punk Rock, Rap, and Pop. We all can't like a specific genre. It's stupid to ask "what genre of music do you like?". It's not actually stupid-stupid, it's just stupid. Ya know? Anyway, passing this phase, I needed to find something again because it's not doing the shit that it was supposed to, I tried investing more time on video games. By investing more, I mean a whole shit lot. I love video games since I was young cuz.... u know.... they keep u... try to guess it! oh yeah. you got that right! distracted! I love the aggressive plays and trashtalks that my friends and I make. The short stories we tell one another. The rants. The lame jokes. The late night we sound drunk but we are not drunk jokes. The roleplays. The lame jokes. The memes. And once again, The lame jokes. Something about lame jokes and the laughs and curses after that always gets me every single time. Oh shoot. Yup Yup. Few years later, I finally noticed the pattern that my sadness is temporary. I got over it one way or the other (or another. depends on how you wanna read it. i dont wanna say another cause i might write about one direction like what im doing now so-). Happiness is temporary as well. But, we are the ones who are actually in control of our emotions. If you wanna feel sad, be sad for a while. You're getting too sad? Try hanging out with your funny friends. Can't do that? Find an alternative. Watch a movie, knit a sweater. Anything your mind could think of as long as it will keep you mentally distracted from being physically and mentally hurt. I do have a few notes though. We cannot and should never assume what people are going through. It may be petty for you, but it may be very crucial to them. So never everrrr say things like: -Some people have it worse than you -At least you have ..... These sheetsss are annoying as heckkk and could really down someone. I know it is not your intention to annoy but people react differently. alsooooooo, it is not okay or normal to hate on things for bandwagon. that is just plainly crazy and stupid. let people enjoy things. anddddddd never suppress your emotions. admit what you feel inside and try to think of a way to resolve ittttt. keeping it to yourself will just make it worseeeeee. find your own outlettttttttt. hihihi ️ alsooooo. being more spiritually full with God's words and ideas really help me to be spiritually happy. ps. im christian but i dont discredit other religion and even applaud other religion's ideas and beliefs. this is a really long, selfish post so i might as well recommend some things I like : Songs with their lyrics that made me go through life. “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” -All These Things That I've Done, The Killers “It's not too late, I'm still right here” -Breaking Your Own Heart, Kelly Clarkson "And the salt in my wounds / Isn't burning any more than it used to / It's not that I don't feel the pain / It's just I'm not afraid of hurting anymore / And the blood in these veins / Isn't pumping any less than it ever has / And that's the hope I have / The only thing I know that's keeping me alive" -Last Hope, Paramore “There is not a single word in the whole world / That could describe the hurt / The dullest knife just sawing back and forth / And ripping through the softest skin there ever was / How were you to know?” -Hate to See Your Heartbreak, Paramore "It's holding on, though the road's long / And seeing light in the darkest things And when you stare at your reflection / Finally knowing who it is / I know that you'll thank God you did" -1800, Logic "Did some things you can't speak of / But at night you live it all again / You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now / If only you had seen what you know now then" -Innocent, Taylor Swift (My bb) "10 months sober, I must admit / Just because you're clean don't mean you don't miss it / 10 months older, I won't give in / Now that I'm clean I'm never gonna risk it // Rain came pouring down when I was drowning / That's when I could finally breathe / And by morning gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean" -Clean, Taylor Swift “I guess I always knew / That I had all the strength to make it through.” -Believe in Me, Demi Lovato "I'm addicted to the madness / I'm a daughter of the sadness / I've been here too many times before / Been abandoned and I'm scared now / I can't handle another fallout / I am fragile, just washed upon the shore / They forget me, don't see me / When they love me, they leave me" -I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me, Demi Lovato “I'm overwhelmed / I need a voice to echo / I need a light to take me home / I need a star to follow / I don't know” -Nightingale, Demi Lovato "I'm a walking travesty / But I'm smiling at everything. // Arrogant boy, Love yourself so no one has to." -Therapy, All Time Low "I tried it once before but I didn't get too far / I felt a lot of pain but it didn't stop my heart. / But maybe I'm alive 'cause I didn't really wanna die / But nothing very special ever happens in my life / Take the blade away from me I am a freak, I am afraid that / All the blood escaping me won't end the pain / And I'll be haunting all the lives that cared for me / I died to be the white ghost / Of the man that I was meant to be" -Ghost, Badflower "Are the pieces of you / In the pieces of me? / I'm just so scared / You're who I'll be / When I erupt / Just like you do / They look at me / Like I look at you" -DNA, Lia Marie Johnson Movies and series to try : -The Perks of Being a Wallflower (The book is bomb af. if yall havent tried, ur missing out) -The Kings of Summer -Never Let Me Go -The Art of Getting By -Silver Linings Playbook -Winter’s Bone -The Lovely Bones (The script. The words) -Me and Earl and the Dying Girl -American Horror Story -Black Swan

pps. remember that every one has their own pace and point of view. don’t push yourself too hard, and don’t overthink. give yourself time, and respect all your emotions. analyze them but not more than like 5 minutes as anything beyond that might cause you to overthink and be sadder. and sad is not rad. hehe. you got this. you got you. self love is the best even though it can be tricky to do. nobody else is like you. you’re the only one of you (i just remembered me.......... i might have hummed it while typing it mid sentence). consider other people’s opinion but do not let it cloud your own judgement as you know yourself best. dont let other comment’s define you. spread love. vibe people you vibe with. ayeeee lets go!!!

ppps this is my last post bc im happier now and know myself better. i no longer limit myself on the age that I want. I want to live as long as how God wants me to be. hehe.

x :D

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macklives · 4 years

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session 81 end

wow, okay, first things first

AC!!!!!

shes so fucking cute holy shit i love her so much i dont even know where to begin??

i mean i guess its because im so used to troll snark and the way they just? banter constantly? seeing someone who is a literal ray of sunshine is so refreshing and wholesome and pure. god she’s great. shes a cat, she knows her stuff. she’s strong and theres also this guys???? who shes scared of?? and tells her what to do??? yeah no, idk who it is but let her make her own decisions lol

maybe its just over exaggeration or whatnot, and hes not bad but first impressions do a lot to me and right now the only thing i know about this guy is that AC needs his approval for everything. i guess ill see where that takes us. hopefully nowhere bad. but AC seems like she can take care of herself and knows how to be a good decent troll and i love her for that. wow it literally took me one dialogue to like her. damn, that was fast. jesus.

you know who else is great?

terezi.

yeah i know right. and that whole trial thing, which yeah i guess half the time i was confused by what the fuck is going on since i still cant grasp the idea of how alternia works, but i enjoyed myself with lemonsnout and how terezi roleplays and how much she gets into it. seeing a character that passionate about something is so sweet and nice.

god this was just a nice overall session

which i say, while i completely forgot about the banter TA and karkat got into

right, that happened. oh my god. they both literally stomped all over each other, dissed one another, still made up in the end because apparently thats their friendship and i guess it just works like that. depends on the friends you have, i guess.

its funny though, not gonna lie

and karkat as of now is just being a prick and honestly?

like more than usual, which i guess is weird to say but i mean from present time to beginning of hivebent karkat. not that its uncommon for him to be a prick, he is, but seeing him go through the non-linear pattern with john is mmmmh interesting to say the least. though we havent seen his first trolling, just him constantly going “oh god what did i say, i was dumb” u know, not in those words but thats basically what he means.

ooh im gonna analyze, i feel like analyzing right now my fingers have already typed so much as it is MIGHT AS WELL

and our candidate will be *drum rollll* karkat wow predictable (its below the cut because this is literally irrelevant now to the session)

okay, lets lay out the shit we have already. as i said before, the way he talks presently to john (meaning in the future) is so different than how he speaks to everyone now. of course the “i hate the world” personality is still there, and hes still just regular karkat, but karkat talking with john is patient to some extent and tells him what he needs to know for the game, lowkey kinda chills out once they started talking about movies or growing up as huh, didnt he say larvae or smth?

okay that whole grub thing makes sense now as i just wrote that but i am still confused as to what the FUCK that is implying because i dont think it crossed my mind this much, im repressing it for now until it comes up later.

anyways, back to what i was saying. he was so DIFFERENT than the way he’s acting now which is bitch and moan and like? stfu karkat lmfao. i mean, its not THAT big of a difference in character, because i know he’s still his grumpy old self, and theres a lot of potential.. for growth? not sure if we’ll get it but i like to assume we will get character growth from these characters with fucking 8000 pages talking about them. but a story needs that growth and with karkat being just a straight up angry dude, in MY EYES, he should.. have growth, no? idk HOW he will grow, but im basically just taking what i have right now which isnt much but i analyze things for fun sometimes so let me be.

that being said, because its so early on, im not sure where homestuck is gonna go and i dont have much to go on but being in the psychology course shit happens when you have limited information and you gotta pin point what makes a person a person and how do they cope with things to grow further into life. many of my assignments involve limited info so honestly, not that hard.

but it is something that ive noticed, the way karkat is different as he grows which possibly means the whole veil thing happens later later on in his life and we havent yet seen that small growth become patience and not whining every time he doesnt get what he wants. but growth is common and it mostly likely happens to everyone, so its not like wow this is a surprise and a plot twist, more of something that i just wanna write for the sake of writing it. i hope that makes sense? i dont exactly know where im going with this. i just mean that im basically going to analyse karkat a tiny bit so idk how to otherwise explain it but you’ll get where im going with this as i type more lmao.

anyways, so karkat literally said “pretend i dont think highly of my friend’s talents” as if he’s visibly trying to force himself from all emotions and bash on those who do (reference: “stop being sensitive, its repugnant” or whatever tf he said while TA replied with “hypocrite”) i take that as a key word. so honestly, while that was the smallest thing ive gotten from this session, its the thing im most curious about actually and i actually havent mentioned lol. because what ive learned in psych, which this is just common knowledge but i did an assignment on it so like?? could be useful?? is that people who hold off their emotions tend to hold off others as well, so there is no chance of mirroring each other. in other words, if someone is happy and starts to laugh and goof around with another, the emotions will mirror that other person subconsciously. like an addictive laugh. theres also another way to show mirroring, which is to mimic another person's actions, allowing another to establish a sense of empathy and thus begin to understand another person's emotions. in this case, im using TA and karkat as example. people who suppress emotions tend to see emotions as a bad sign and if somebody else portrayed any sign of it as well, they’ll basically say “gross what are you doing” because theyre so used to concealing it away, that they dont want others to think theyre into the whole mushy shit. so they pretend to hate it, pretend to not even be slightly affected by general sensitivity..

which basically means karkat is a softie, and even if he’s a prick right now, meeee thinks john, from earlier convos, is growing on him because john himself knows how emotions work and while i dont think troll culture does know much about it, considering the BLOOD AND CARNAGE thing, he is in fact growing and even if thats obvious, and you all know it, i am new to homestuck and am trying to see that for myself. its noticeable to some degree. he may always still be a jerk, but i am waiting to see how he slowly starts to accept things around him and to finally show what hes hiding inside. even if its just going up by a few percentages, i see its there and im hoping VERY HOPING he has the biggest character growth!

in other words, why else do i think this?? well nobody who watches romcoms can be that fucking aggressive. you need some sap in you to like it.

on that note, ill probably analyze alternia’s system and rules in another post later throughout these next few sessions because i feel it needs to be talked about and the way everything just.. is so different and doesnt seem right, you know?

thats it for now goodnight

#homestuck #homestuck liveblog #hs81 #hs81 end #tfw you get so into the analysis simple shit doesnt come to mind like tagging or putting a title

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serenedash · 5 years

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With kh3 I’ve been forced to look back at all of the foreteller content I’ve made these past 2-ish years so here’s me reflecting on it all and explaining why I love these dorks so much. It’s lengthy I’m sorry but what else do you expect from someone who’s been stanning a fucking mobile game since it’s release. There’s some early art of the foretellers I did at the end too!

There’s kh3 spoilers you’ve been warned!

So upon starting KHUX you get a little intro that talks about the MoM’s 6 apprentices and how 5 of them were given books of prophecy. Immediately I was drawn to the mysterious 6th apprentice cause my dumb ass has always loved minor characters and my dumb ass also gets WAY too invested in shit. So time passes I kinda forgot about it until plot started to pick up in the game and I remembered Mysterious 6th Apprentice and I also learned KHX existed so of course I binged those sweet sweet cut scenes (at that point global was up to Ephemera clock tower shenanigans and JP hadn’t moved past where X had ended yet).

So like my whole thing with this was why wasn’t anyone talking about Luxu?!?!? Or even the foretellers for that matter!! Everyone seemed focused on Ephemera and Skuld at that point. And my dumb bitch ass was like “well if no one will care IM GONNA CARE AND I’LL MAKE THE CONTENT MYSELF” cause I’m very much “if you want something done, do it yourself” which is honestly the TL;DR of all of this.

So then I got to work on drawing my appearance head canons for the foretellers; KHUX had been out globally for about a year now and 2.8 was about to drop. I still remember when we first had Luxu speak in a trailer, hearing him say “but what about the others?” fucking GOT ME SO DAMN GOOD I WAS HEAD OVER HEELS FOR THIS BOY not romantically, like in a “I stan u and want to protect u” sorta way because it felt like all this mystery kinda just melted away and here was this kid forced to do something shady we knew nothing about.

So 2.8 drops in Japan, people hack the game for the english audio and the second that shit is on youtube I was watching it. Lemme tell you I have rewatched that damn movie so many times its not even funny and there are certain scenes that make me scream every time. Case of Luxu tho will always get me good of course and even in such a short scene I felt like there was so much about Luxu that was shown. He cares about the others, he’s a bit of a silly kid (I died when he yelled EW and also at the fact he legit thought the keyblade was called no name when mom was just like “idk it has no name”), he’s unsure of what to do and how well he can do it, but he’s dedicated to what he’s been told to do. I mean obviously between then and KH3 a lot has happened to him that’s definitely changed him but that makes me love him more but I already wrote a post about that.

I care about all the foretellers individually and have a lot of feelings on each of them but Luxu will always be the first one I was obsessed with. We knew so little about him and it was so interesting to me and since KHUX released I’ve been trying to read between the lines and figure it all out myself; creating content where there was none before. I could write an essay on like each foreteller and my interpretations of them but like idk who’d read that LOL I just really love them all!!!! I can’t really rank them in who I love most to least cause it’s basically like Luxu and then everyone else. Like I love writing fics with Ava, Aced’s character is fun to explore, Invi and Gula are like Made for shitposts I love them so much, and ngl I project onto Ira a lot I latched onto him for personal reasons oops

I guess in the end all there is to it is just I’m a sucker for minor characters and mysteries. When I talk about Luxu to non KHUX fans I always describe him as “the minorist of minor characters in a minor game.” I just love taking what little information we have and analyzing it over and over again, trying to figure out what it all means. My love for him hasn’t changed and I’m more excited than ever to see what happens next!!! Cause yknow its like sure there’s so much art and fics and whatnot for big major characters, but what about those other characters??? SOMEONE’S gotta love them!!! Someone out there finished kh3 and is like “huh I guess there’s people out here who like Luxu/the foretellers and they must be really happy” and THEY’D BE RIGHT

tbh I was totally convinced after the keyblade war in KHUX we were never gonna see the foretellers again and I was a little resigned afterwards but now I’m REALLY EXCITED cause I thought they were just like characters written to die and be forgotten about bUT SIKE THERES MORE TO BE DONE

ANYWAY HAVE SOME OLD ASS ART

^^^Luxu and Gula!! They were the first ones I drew :V I was high key invested in Gula at first because I love his personality. I call this phase of my art “I have no idea how NOT to draw bangs” rip in fucking pieces that old luxu hair (this is almost 3 years old maybe??) fun fact Luxu’s design is based off of one of the hairstyles in game for the male avatar

^^^My first full sheet of the foretellers!! As you can see Gula and Luxu look better and more like how I draw them now dsgfdhgfhgh I did this like right after back cover dropped. I should go back to drawing Invi with the swirly hair over the shoulder look tbh

^^^The first time I attempted drawing all of them digitally but I was very new to digital art :V I never finished this oops. I actually ended up finishing half of these I think but for the sake of uniformity I left all the hair blank for this post. I remember thinking Ava here was like the Height of my artistic talent

^^^And for comparison my latest drawings of the bunch I did about a year ago :D tbh tho I wanna redo this cause I’ve definitely started drawing them a bit differently (just a bit) also this was when I was still figuring out digital art and now I know what I’m doing lol I did these over the span of a few months and I did Aced last bc I wasn’t really satisfied with his design-- I tried SO MANY hairstyles for him before I was like “fuck it you know what he’s the kinda guy that doesn’t do shit to his hair he just ties it up and forgets about it there’s nothing cool with his hair.” And I’ll always LOVE how invi came out here she looks gorgeous. Also fun fact is that I always imagined Ava being like everyone’s baby sibling so in her design I tried to incorporate some stuff from the others, mainly being same earrings as Ira and a braid like Gula. I’ve actually put a lot of thought into Ava’s design tbh?? Like she has the shortest hair out of everyone; as an apprentice she had long hair but when she became a master she cut it short to feel more “adult” in her view.

[This is a mini rant] Also something interesting is that I’ve gotten a lot of shit about Ava’s design specifically? Like yall REALLY hate brown skinned people and girls with short hair huh??? People really don’t like me making the majority of the foretellers not white (cause Gula is the only one I headcanon as being white) but I guess because Ava is the most popular people REALLY don’t like it when I do it with her. Tbh since then I’ve purposefully made her skin and hair darker out of spite cause I do actually have a faceclaim for her (Laurie Hernandez) so like take that racists

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macbookpro-hard-drive · 5 years

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Tell me about ur research paper

OK SO uhh my overall topic was just “female protagonist of 2010 novels” because like. while its a bit broad its pretty precise when it comes to what my overall theme is with whatever books i discuss

and uhhh i think im gonna zero in on autonomy and appearance when it comes to these books. mainly bc i read a really interesting article about how, in books from 1975-1999, weight had a link to someones sexual identity n shit and how being thin was extremely glamorized and like

if ur thin and sexually confident ur fine but if ur fat and sexually confident ur just stupid and could be doing more with ur life rather than finding sexual gratification so fuck you. essentially. its a rly interesting article and its where im drawing a fair amount of info from since its pretty relevant to books today as well - which. frustrates me to no end.

and something else im looking for is when a character’s weight is noted bc in the books from 75-99 a characters weight was only mentioned when they were chubby or fat and thin was expected as the default - and i realized a lot of that still rings true today with books (and other media) thats often marketed as having a fat protagonist as a huge point because of how rare that seems to be tbh? and i started working through one of the novels im referencing last night and i saw how a character was noted to be “curvy” and im absolutely expecting that to mean she has a bigger chest rather than having chub to her - but im not gonna pass judgment until i find out for sure. (she has been noted to have a big chest tho) so like... while there isnt an emphasis in being thin (in this book at least), there is an emphasis in more modern times in women being thin but having a large chest (and ass tbh) but not having a tummy at all which is Literally Impossible (naturally, at least).

and like... on the autonomy part - initiating sex is one part of it. there are definitely novels where a characters been like “my feet start moving on their own” which takes away the urgency from the character and i wanna pull from that. if a character isnt doing something because she chose to do so, its taking the autonomy away from her which is Dumb and i hate it.

so far uhhh the novels im pulling from are fangirl by rainbow rowell (which i should be receiving tomorrow since my dad sent it yesterday) and the infinite moment of us by lauren myracle (which i have as an ebook) and im hoping to find another book to pull from. some of the ones ive been considering were the cursed fif/ty shad/es because of how christian takes away ana’s autonomy, af/ter by an/na to/dd (because we’re not getting into those tags today, lads) because of also the sexual confidence mattering Only within one characters realm and slut-shaming others (and also because of the movie adaptation coming out next month, its pretty relative right now), and if i absolutely fucking have to, th/e fau/lt i/n ou/r sta/rs by jo/hn gr/e/en because of the fact we have a male author writing a female perspective (which, in my experience, never goes well).

or i can scrap all of those and go with to all the boys i’ve loved before by jenny han because i have it as a pdf and i feel it’ll be a pretty good example.

however if i can also bring in relational aggression that’s being portrayed in novels, i think that’d be fun to analyze the shit out of

also if anyone has any of the novels i mentioned and wants to get rid of it, just hmu if you know it’ll get to me within the next two-three weeks

tl;dr: its about the autonomy and appearances (and potentially female relationships and the aggression of them) of modern female literary protagonists, specifically within 2010-2019. because we’ve taken a few steps forward and also like fifty steps back.

#THANK U im rly excited abt this research paper #kingofsantafe #asks

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