#but it was so interesting bcs there were a lot of concepts in it that are so visible in his later films

[mossflower]

finished homestuck!! and adding it to my ever growing list of ‘media near-universally labelled as cringe that actually kinda slaps’

#like i won’t lie parts of it? terrible. i can’t even begin to piece together half of the lord english plot #but i think a lot more of it was actually really really good. especially act 4 and act 5 they were my favourite hands down #act 6 not so much. like separately? i loved the alpha kids and the dancestors and the concept of the cherubs was really interesting #but somewhere the execution fell short. it’s gonna annoy me cause i can’t figure out why #i think it might be the retcon. which i didn’t hate as an idea!! but it occurred closer to the end than i thought it would #i feel like if they’d explored the impact of the retcon more it might have flowed better?? idk #idk. act six as a whole i’m split on. i either loved what it did or was massively confused and exasperated by what it did #it’s like half of the comic and i got through it in about a week when it took me like a month to do acts 1-5 #and it doesn’t feel like that much happened it’s weird #but yknow. it is the act that sold me on vriska!! like i liked her before but i really liked her ghosting it up in this act #the bit where ghost vriska and ghost terezi found each other nearly had me in tears #vrisrezi as a whole. what a concept. easily one of the best dynamics in the entire thing #i really hope terezi finds vriska post-canon. however i’m not sure if i want to read the epilogues and homestuck 2 or not yet #ooh ooh also!! john fulfilling his quest slapped!! that’s probably one of my favourite bits in homestuck ngl #and omg. did not see davekat coming i won’t lie but i was v happy about it #k ill stop now bc i will end up listing half the characters and my favourite bits about them. and as fun as that would be #i really need to sleep haha #homestuck

[skitskatdacat63]

Christopher Nolan making movies: I'm gonna make a film that is so confusing and non-linear

#just watched memento :DDDDD #which i think would be his first bigger movie? #but it was so interesting bcs there were a lot of concepts in it that are so visible in his later films #like watching that after watching almost all of his most recent films was such an 'aha!' moment #lthe whole black&white vs in-color to delineate which part of the story we're in #in memento: black and white is the beginning of the story and then in-color is the rest of the story going backwards #and then he uses that concept again in oppenheimer but b&w is the current events and color is everything leading up to that and after #like yeah its really confusing first time around because you dont know that fully yet but then at the end its like OH!!!!! #and then both also have other stuff interspersed btwn those two sections that you only reallly understand by the end #and then with the plot going backwards. that was the same as tenet right? #like starting with the end of the story and them ending with the beginning of the story #i cant remember inception well enough atm but im sure it has traits of memento as well #his movies are like puzzles ig! like you really have to keep track of all the details and what takes place when #i think theyre really fun bcs more and more becomes clear to you #im not sure what the most confusing nolan movie is hmmmm probably tenet or inception right? #oppenheimer: much more clear in general since its following literal historical events but just in a non linear manner #the only real reason i found it a bit confusing is bcs i didnt know a lot of the characters and also was trying to figure out the timeline #and then interstellar is more just confusing in concept bcs it has to do with time in the 4th dimension and all that #but i think the story is pretty understandable its just hard to wrap your head around the different time/dimension concepts #then again....ive watched it probably more than 4 times by now! ITS ONE OF MY FAV MOVIES EVER #cant say much abt the batman movies bcs they have nolan concepts but arent really like his other stuff #haha someones said he did those movies so he could make absolute bank and then have a blank check to do whatever movies he wants #and someone also said that oppenheimer felt like memento and thats so so so true!!! #its cool that he can make the movies he wants. bcs as i said watching memento really outlines very well what concepts he likes #watching it was weird bcs im like oh yeah this is *so* christopher nolan and then realize this is literally only his second film #i need to rewatch inception and dunkirk and see if i can spot inspo from Memento in them #anyways: yay film!!! yay cinema!!!!!! movies are so fun!!!!!! #catie.rambling.txt

[ban-joey]

sending laser beams to my professor with my mind. kenneth you said midterm grades would b up by this afternoon. it is officially TONIGHT and guess what? kenneth i would love to not be clenching my teeth in my sleep tonight. kenneth i will be sending you a bill in the mail. yes i know its probably a TAs responsibility but i blame you personally. i hate school

#i dont im having a lot of fun (genuinely) but it is often pretty stressful #did find out there are a few folks adjacent to my program doing zoonoses & climate change research so im very excited to chat w them next w #possibly directing my thesis towards one health. social epi gradually becoming less interesting #plus i think my strengths do lie in applying epi to biological concepts so. one health works there #my brain continually trying to get back to lyme disease :( sometimes i really do miss the east coast tbh! #not lying actually i think the number one thing i miss is the amt of vector borne disease research LMFAO #i do unfortunately kind of have a crush on a classmate so that's fine but whatever. grad school. men are nice to me and i lose my mind ig #need to go make out w a hot trans person i think that would solve my problems rn #but also it's nice to be so excited about someone deciding to sit next to me in every class :) #like wow how isolated have i been the last 3 years to be so delighted by like. active signs i have Officially Made Friends. #even if he does live like a block away from my dad and jokes every goddamn day like 'so i saw your dad yesterday' no you DIDNT shut UP #idk yesterday he sat right next to me in a class he usually sits w other people in and it sort of sent my brain off the edge and now im jus #yeah. sitting with this one. it's fine like it's normal. but wowie i do think it's my first time having a Big Ol Crush since (redacted) #a little scary for my animal brain i think but it's okay! #im 25 in like 3 ish weeks and i still get embarrassed about this stuff somehow? stupid. #he's just really nice and always really fun to talk to! i think i had to officially Sit With Myself today bc epi is doing a holiday party #and there's a baking contest and we were talking abt it in class and i was indecisive abt whether i want to participate #and he like fully cut me off and was like oh you should bake something so i can have some :) #and. well fuck now i have to lmao. IM SO EASY IT'S SO EMBARRASSING #good evening everyone. guess this is my journal now. anyway ken rice you owe me twenty dollars and i aim to COLLECT

[myname-isnia]

Honestly I’d really like to make some kind of MLP AU or redesign/rewrite or whatever else of the sort because MLP was essentially my first fandom and it’s extremely nostalgic to me, but I’ve seen so many people do it already and have found myself physically incapable of producing something that isn’t blatantly copying what other people have done :/

#and yeah yeah I know that nothing in the world is truly original and everyone’s inspired by something #but I want to make smth that isn’t rehashing what I’ve already seen #and it’s hard bc redesigns and aus are kinda all the rage right now #and no I’m not talking about those infection aus bc while those are really cool and I’m not interested in making my own #I’m a really squeamish person. to the point I even avoid sick fics most of the time #so while I enjoy seeing a lot of those aus because I too had a creepypasta phase and it reminds me of cupcakes and rainbow factory vibe-wise #I’d probably throw up if I had to draw smth like that myself 😅 #anyway. what I meant is some kind of rewrite where I’d get to explore themes that interest me more #maybe dig a little deeper than the earlier seasons of the show could afford in certain places #like coming up with a clearer reason for aj’s parents’ deaths. for instance #and also making next gens is basically my modus operandi at this point so while I’m not really interested in making kids for the mane 6 #I’d like to redesign them + their families to get to play with genetics a little. #but again. I’ve seen a lot of redesigns over the years and I’m afraid they would influence me too much for my liking #only reason I’m so worried is because last year I did doodle some ideas a little. for the CMCs in particular #and suddenly realised they were basically the grand galloping 20s au designs poorly drawn from memory in my style #and any ideas re: redesigning the actual pony species are essentially ripped off from skyscraper gods #as are some concepts about becoming an alicorn/gaining immortality and all hat #so… yeah. no #idk. I’ll think about it some more and maybe I can come up with some cool ideas that I can string together in some way #it might be really fun and would also give me a chance to let my sotrl hyperfixation rest a little #don’t get me wrong. I love the universe Kat and I created and my OCs and everything. but I’ve been going at it non stop for almost 4 years #sooner or later it’ll burn me out and I won’t be able to come up with anything for it anymore #and I literally don’t draw anything BUT sotrl #so it’d be nice to branch out a little. maybe I’ll finally feel less like I’m screaming into the void with my incredibly niche OCs #again. I don’t know. we’ll see if I’m struck with inspiration or smth #also coming up with ideas is like half of the problem lmao. horses are really hard to draw #even cartoon ones 😭😭 I was hyperfixated on mlp for most of my childhood and still never mastered it #I can barely draw humans lower than shoulder level let alone horses. but I’ll figure it out if I get a concrete au idea #okay I’ve been rambling for like half an hour. rant over I’m done

[bluesey-182]

my bookclubs' inability to understand nuance and to either misinterpret or completely ignore things blatantly stated in the text continues to drive me up the wall and yet i keep going because im desperate to get out of the house and make connections with people, especially people who also read. but after this last bookclub, where im still angry and frustrated a whole 24 hours later, im wondering if i should just stop because it doesn't get better and maybe i need to accept that it's not going to

#we read we were villains and i got so angry at how many times the text was completely ignored that i would've left if it wasn't so packed #i couldn't leave without it causing a scene so i sat there so frustrated i wanted to cry. especially since no one would let me speak #text post #don't mind me just late night venting #it didn't help that I've considered if we were villains one of my favorite books for years now. and i still stand by that after my reread #but it's not just this book. every book I've read and gone expecting to have im depth convos about everything but instead #all the difficult and interesting concepts seem to go over so many people's heads #and it's all so fucking black and white with them. and this time they really proved the can't handle morally grey characters #like what the fuck man? #and they're all adults older than me. so i get i sound like a pretentious little asshole but if you were there you'd see im nlt exaggeratin #someone really said 'only children don't develop empathy' and everyone just nodded like that's an actual thing? #i also had to explain that the reason a characters limbs were all fucked up after an overdose is bc overdoses can causes seizures #a fucking nurse was there!!! and i was the one that had to explain that! and several people went 'ohhhhhh' #AND THE CHARACTER EVEN HAD A FUCKING SEIZURE IN THE BOOK AFTER THE OVERDOSE #there's literally so much venting i could do but I've already done a lot so I'll leave it alone now

[sanstropfremir]

Have you checked out the xikers debut? I'm curious about them since they seem to be tricksters in their concept I think? What do you think? 👀

LOVED the xikers debut!!!! the styling is a bit on the uninspired side imo, but i don't really have too many gripes with it because they are meant to be mischevious teenage trickster types and it doesn't not fit. the mv is soooooooo good though, it's super well produced and has a really fun concept with a simple and clear narrative + audience stand in. i think kq really honed what makes a good debut with them; they took a lot of the things they've learned with ateez over the years and applied them with a new spin to xikers, which makes me look forward to see where the group goes, bc i think they'll interesting to watch, if anything at least to see how their concept plays out.

#best debut this year so far imo. there have not actually been that many i dont think...two other bgs that i can remember? #it will take a lot for anyone to surpass ateez imo and xikers has just too many boys to do that #but it is interesting to see where the ateez influence stems off into something else #like to me it reads very typical younger brother group that will eventually grow into their own #not that i think theyre too much like ateez bc i dont think they are. its just that you can see the influence #i have a burner ateez twt and the STROP that some fans were in over hongjoong having credits on their album was sooooooo fucking annoying #like shut up. just shut up none of you understand how kpop groups WORK #xikers #xikers w #text #answers #the concept of tricksters has always been fascinating to me and i love hearing diff folklore versions of them #esp as someone who grew up hearing raven stories all the time #so very interested in this ghost-trickster-pseudo digital concept? really fun combo right out of the gate

[roobylavender]

in my little damian canon divergence thingy i have this idea that when talia manages to finesse damian out of the league and bring him back to the manor bruce suggests the two of them go into hiding and that she refuses to do so not only bc she already feels guilty enough of having robbed him of a life with damian but also bc she knows from experience if she refuses to leave the manor ra’s won’t stage an attack bc he refuses to harm her specifically.. and so she kinda damns herself to that patron saint of batman role bc the only person in the manor she actually knows deeply is bruce with whom she is on unsteady terms given everything and then to everyone else she’s essentially an outsider. but as people in bruce’s circle come together to help with damian and figure out how to stop ra’s and the lazarus pits for good she gets to know them one by one and slowly the manor changes from her self-made prison into a semblance of something she could actually call a home.. and she finds herself fighting for all of these people to know just how much bruce cares about them bc for all of her problems with him the one thing she can never deny him is his love. but in the path of all of it she comes to be loved and cared for as well yknow so that when things are over and she leaves to live her own life it’s not like she’s leaving to be completely isolated anymore. she can talk to people and have friends and embrace affection again where it almost felt lost 

#mostly this is me trying to come up with an excuse for her to talk to and befriend dick but the self-made prison concept is sooo cool to me #bc i see people come up with fics and hcs where she's the batmom figure and it's like! she knows none of these people! #i truly think one of the biggest things that keeps her from leaving with bruce after tower of babel is not only her own dignity #but the fact that she knows she would be a complete outsider within those walls and it would suffocate her #she's well beyond the point of wanting to play house with bruce those were girlhood dreams and this is NOW! #she knows there's more to it than that and so she consigns herself to solitude bc it would be better than feeling like she didn't belong #so the idea of her taking on the role of outsider willingly years later to protect bruce from her father's destruction #bc she has the power to make that stand against ra's now where she didn't before #is really interesting to me. and if the other bat kids get to know who she really is under all of the put on appearances and secret missions #that they were rarely (dick's case) or never privy to. then that's a nice development #and i think that could strengthen her in a lot of ways. not only in terms of support but in terms of her knowing she could matter to people #and that she could be understood for the sincerity of her own actions rather than the repercussions of her father's #to be deleted

[darkclouds-rainsounds]

More of this

The first image was moreso supposed to depict a slightly pissed off Volo whose only tell that he's angry is the minute waver of his illusion, hence the ends of his hair being faded and the part that sticks out of his bun is wispy. Alas, I effectively failed in portraying that both in terms of expression and because I have little skill in drawing side-profiles. Also the first image is him topless because I don't really know how to draw clothing on a side profile and have barely enough knowledge of anatomy to go 'fuck it ┐( ˘_˘)┌'.

Second Image I tried to do what I failed in the first and I guess??? it turned out okay??

H.Zoroark!Volo aside, the first image is also just how I headcanon him to look in terms of body type and being more scarred.

#【𝙿 𝚁 𝙸 𝚂 𝙼】 #i have difficulty fathoming how some ppl look at volo and not see him as muscular in some manner??? #like‚ some ppl do draw him thin or w/ an average body type but it doesn't click that it also means they perceive him as not physically #strong. bc in so many medias a character is basically your average joe but is strong af so there's dissonance in my brain that carries #across several different kinds of media. it's only when i undoubtedly see someone portray him as not that strong i go ?????? #to me‚ personally‚ i /cannot/ perceive him as anything other than muscular given 1. he lugs that heavy ass backpack around /everywhere/ #sure‚ he may or may not have it always stocked with supplies since he we only ever see him /actually/ do his job once ever but every time #we see him he's carrying that thing that if it isn't filled with stock‚ is filled with supplies for himself and his growing team of pokemon #which i would think wouldn't exactly lead to a light weight. (+ there's the spooky plate which itself doesn't weigh that much but it's #still weight) 2. he travels all of hisui by foot at least most of the time. we see that there are carts(?) that the guild members can ride #in that are pulled by pokemon so they don't have to walk those long distances all the time. volo is a loner within the guild somewhat #he's usually seen doing his own thing and checking out ruins and other things of his interest and only halfheartedly attends to his job as #a merchant. in order for him to do that period he would have to act alone and travel of his own accord bc the guild certainly wouldn't #allow it. you can also explicitly see in his concept art of him in his arceus outfit that he has /really/ big thighs which‚ like‚ no duh #and 3. THIS IS /HISUI/. these are times still long in the past! it'd be a miracle for any adult to be scarless given how dangerous those #times were. and again i reiterate: volo travels mostly /on his own/ he at least a lot of the time has no one but himself and his pokemon #to defend him and at the time we meet him a he has but only a single baby togepi! i honestly just have the firm belief of gamefreak being #a coward. i wouldn't really think that if gaeric and fucking /irida/ didn't look like twigs despite living in a place that has constant sub #zero temperatures. WHERE IS THEIR FAT? WHY DO THEY LOOK LEAN? GAMEFREAK HAS SHOWN THAT THEY CAN MAKE FAT/BUFF CHARACTERS. WHAT HAPPENED #you: it's literally pokemon‚ my guy. me: ←struggles to have a suspension of disbelief bc i have a hard time comprehending things that don't #make sense #edit: first mention of stocked w/ supplies i meant selling stock not personal

[rubberbandballqueen]

*head in hands* i straight up do not know how kindergarten teachers accomplish anything

#picking up that shift today has solidified my opinion of 'i can't rlly work w/kids younger than third grade' #thank god i was just filling in for the day. holy fuck. i got a fuck ton of candy tho so that makes up for it #little kids are people too!! absolutely 100%!!!! but holy shit i cannot do that every day i would go insane #they're also hard to work with bc some kids just patently do not listen. also i don't know how to talk to them #they lack understanding of too many concepts i rely on when talking to teenagers/other adults n also just don't know many words #it's not their fault or anything but i'm Really not that interested in like. dealing with them. #also i think i should get like. earplugs for kids one of these days. a lot of Problem Kids get rlly upset when it's rlly loud #honestly disciplining kids w/o traumatizing them is hard; but at the same time they need to learn that like #society is a communal space. if they have to behave in a way that makes for a healthy community #that means sharing! asking before borrowing things! respecting people's boundaries! being considerate of others when acting!! #listening to experts when they tell you to do things a certain way!! safety rules were written in blood etc etc #the worm speaks #and that means that if you touch the beans when we tell you not to touch the beans... you don't get to play the game we set up!!!

[rhpsdys]

y’all ever write a character except ur like wow i know nothing about you

#bc that’s me with raine #and this is not a self-deprecating thing btw this is genuinely me being like #I’m not in their head enough #they’re a little too prominent of a character for me to make up everything about them #but they’re minor enough to not give me a lot to work with #there are people who say raine is boring and like I get where they’re coming from tbh #I don’t think they’re boring and even if they were I still love them but they kinda exist as a concept/plot device more than a character #at the moment. #there’s not a whole lot of depth to them in canon and they don’t have a detailed backstory or heavy angst or personal issues that we know of #we know raine is eda’s ex we know they’re kinda nerdy we know they love music we know they have stage fright #we know they broke up with eda because she was lying and keeping secrets #we know they taught for the bard coven and uncovered some hard truths/secrets #we know they’re powerful enough to become head bard and we know they’re a spy and a traitor against the throne #eda says they’re the coolest person ever but we don’t get a lot of proof so we kinda have to rely on her word #what I think makes raine interesting is that they’re an older trans person but that’s not something canon goes in depth on #(because it’s not the point) #anyway I just ? #I think I would have an easier time if I got to write raine interacting with more people their age #but for the most part I’ve been writing them in a mentor role only and that is really hard for character development #I don’t think they need some crazy tragic backstory or heavy angst to propel their story forward and I find their simplicity really nice #but it makes rp hard !!!!!! #also I do not know how they talk #like general voice / mannerisms / phrasing / etc #(watching eda’s requiem on loop to try and get a sense of their speech patterns tbh ) #out of.

[spiritofjustice]

every time i see John Garrideb i feel so bad for the fella. they rly portray his wife physically abusing him as funny and lighthearted. frankly i don't think a woman hitting, throwing things (including a KNIFE), and pouring scalding tea on her husband who has done nothing wrong is very funny personally!

#psy's no punctuation posts #aa tag #also even if he DID do anything wrong he still wouldn't deserve it. i'm just saying he did fucking NOTHING wrong #him and Joan are close to being an endearing old married couple but bro. come on. #it's fucking CREEPY i'm sorry it's creepy #i just don't find it funny #i find it interesting how their dynamic actually plays out- that John loves her a lot and that never changes despite what she does #because i think it's one of those instances where it's like 'when it's good it's really good' and he knows she loves him despite everything #obviously because the narrative itself is an apologist for the harm Joan does but i still find that concept very interesting to explore #and tbh. makes sense for the time. i think there's something interesting there it's just not touched upon because the abuse is a Joke #but like. in those days. shit i know John wouldn't divorce her. they'd stick to gether the way a lot of older married couples do #even if it's not okay yknow. my parents. not to bring them up again RKFK but they're also like that #-looks at my parents- KRKF #i think of them bcs my mom has thrown a knife at my dad at least once before. this probably dates back 30 years now #they're still together and things are a lot better but in an ideal world they would've divorced before either my sister or i were born lol #but thats the way of a lot of married couples. so i think the Garridebs are quite interesting

[neofelis----nebulosa]

Uhhh why aren’t the furious 5 in the king fu panda 4 trailer

#what’s going on #trailer looks awful but I’m not too scared bc dreamworks always makes their trailers super juvenile #and they’ve done this franchise especially dirty #I go into them more assessing if the concepts are interesting and I think they are #and I like the design of the new wolf/fox character idk what kind of canid she is #the shapeshifting villain seems really cool and I like the layer of having to take over the characters she is able to transform into #it does seem a bit too similar to the jade zombies from the last movie so I hope they make an effort to thematically differentiate them #if that makes any sense #overall the animation is obviously great but it’s not that much of a step up from the last one #like the quality of the CGI is about the same #I can see a lot of potential for visual spectacle with the villain #and really playing with the animation style #bc one of my favorite thing about the kfp movies is how they do that #like with the 2nd one how they used different art styles to represent different levels of reality?? (ig that’s they best way I could put it) #like the present reality would be in the typical 3d textured animation style #and the dreams were in the 2d style #and the stories were in shadowpuppetry #so yeah overall I’m not to thrilled about them making a 4th bc the og trilogy works so well thematically as a trilogy #with the whole body mind spirit thing #but overall it looks like there’s some promising concepts #but like please don’t push tigress to the background she deserves so much better

[skrunksthatwunk]

had a dream that i was both watching and in a 130 minute flash gordon movie musical about...? baking and rising the corporate ladder (it was also hadestown and l?? had inexplicable scary claymation sequences where you have to fight a bunch of enemies and whatever). it was from 2014 and it was bad, but i couldn't stop watching it. I made it halfway through the third watch before I woke up. there was also irl stuff like cleaning out a science club room of my paperwork so I could save the yakuza doodles in the margins and letting one of my many (in-dream) housemates back inside after he got locked out

#it was a weirdly in depth and interesting dream #i almost never dream these days but this was cool. theyre actually usually vague indie horror game concepts which is cool except idk how to #make them happen so like. :/ ok #anyway #cannot stress enough that a flash gordon movie musical with both rudolph the red nosed reindeer and rgg 2007 vibes is. insane. #im actually really sad this doesnt exist bc i would be watching it now #kryu and majimer and mak0to and tachibanner were all characters in it too. they were tryna save the latter from injuries or whatever #it was a lot

[yuridovewing]

sorry yall ik this is a controversial opinion that plenty of my friends disagree with (or at least a few). but i do not care about skyclan at all

#i have both firestars quest and skyclans destiny and ngl i cant tell you most of what happened #the most interesting aspect is the daylight warriors but even those are treated as a flaw of skyclan that is to be shamed and ditched #they have funny names which is cool…. i do like that. #but i hear about the individual characters and im like ‘’oh yeah….. sharpclaw…… that guy…. uh huh’’ #i think part of why i dropped around avos was bc it involved them and i was like ‘’ok why though’’ #i think moving them to the lake is a bad decision on concept for a lot of reasons tbh but once we get there lets see #(mostly its the bloat for me. and getting rid of the few interesting things about it) #like youd think a clan that suffered so much because of starclan and the other clans #who were cast out and forgotten by history and who’s current cats are largely former kittypets and rogues #would be….. at least a little less xenophobic and hardass about the code? #yes they allow the daylight warriors but theyre constantly treated like dogshit and even get blamed for the darktail loss #they dont do much with the fact that theyre an isolated clan that can make their own rules

[darabeatha]

@ardenssolis​ replied ; It's so interesting how cultures are so similar with their underworlds like in Ancient Egypt, you have to pass tests and whatnot and travel through surreal / scary environments just to get to the test where the Judges ask you questions about your life and then the weighting of the heart test.

/  ITS SO SO VERY INTERESTING FRFR!! I love learning about new cultures and finding that ‘hey, i heard something like this in somewhere!’ the fact that death is a journey on its own, filled with tests and dangerous obstscles both in ancient Egypt and with the Maya; and not only that but there are a lot of other points that both cultures share not just about the underworld but in general like as an example;  the creation story. How in both cultures, the earth as we know it starts completely blank, and only a sea of water is all that exists from which afterwards, earth raises from. How nature manifests as different gods, whom curiously they share traits with animals (such as heads, feet, etc etc. + human bodies), the symbolism of spit as a means of creation; as in from the side of ancient Egypt Atum creating the God Shu and Goddess Tenfnut by spit), and on the side on ancient Maya culture in the myth of creation in the Popol Vuh, with One Hunahpu’s hanged head spitting on the hand of Blood moon who later becomes pregnant and from whom afterwards, the twin heroes Hunahpu and Ixbalanque are born from. The offering of food and/or objects to help the deceased in their journey to the underword; etc etc.

In any case, like this, there are a lot of similirities (as well as differences of course) but its very interesting how despite being so far away and from different times, some matters are interpreted in similar ways by us humans all over the world and all over different cultures, it really makes one think that despite the distance of time, some things are universal to us as humans, like curiosity, wanting to find the meaning in things, questioning our surroundings and origins, the experience of love in all its ways and forms, the mystery of death, it really gives us all a lil thread that connects us with one another and I think that’s super neat

#ardenssolis #;ooc #ooc #SO VERY POG #THERE'S A LOT MORE; but it would make it super long so #U VERY RIGHT;; it's really interesting #all the diff underworlds have their own things #in christianity; the underworld is mostly seen as hell; a place to repent and suffer and so on so forth #so its also curious how different the concept of -a place existing underground where you go to when you die- differs #bc par example; with the maya; the underworld -was- filled with tests and dangerous obstacles however #it was not seen as a place where you go out of punishment; it was a journey; and a necesary part of life #death being just another part of life; illness and death were just another parts of the human existence; a cycle #or another thing thats super curious to me; the underworld (irkalla) in ancient mesopotamia being a dry dark place #(whom people also offered food and drinks to the deceased bc they only had dust to eat; one more similarity) #but in the maya culture; xibalba was kind of like life on earth; as in the lords of the underworld had wives and children and played games #and had businesses #like; still it was the underworld and probably dark as well since u enter through caves but #not to mention the entrances were v dangerous #but its very interesting how the underworld itself is described in diff cultures

[sanstropfremir]

hii i love reading your kpop asks it makes some things click in my head!! idk if you know them that well but do you have any opinions on verivery's dancing? i feel their dance line is pretty strong in the realm of idol dancers/choreo goes 😊 like for me there's something about hoyoung's dancing that's so pleasing to watch lol idk if it's his body control or lines but i think he balances out the rigid nature of idol choreo really nicely without losing the sharpness of the dance

hello! i am somewhat familiar with verivery although i don't follow them that closely. they do have a very strong performance line, although that isn't really enough nowadays to be a group's signature anymore. verivery falls into the same trap that a lot of fourth gen boy groups do, and that is that they haven't quite found a thing that makes stand out from the glut of other fourth gen bgs of the 7+ member variety. i think they're maybe getting a bit closer to establishing something with their cbs this year, which i've found to be the most compelling work they've done (other than photo from rtk), but obviously it depends on if they keep up that theme or not as they carry forward.

i do think hoyoung is one of their stronger dancers; he has pretty good control, but personally i don't think verivery's choreo generally is that interesting to me, so i don't usually have a particular draw to watching them.

#kpop questions #verivery w #i say all that but undercover is making a quite high entry on my top stylings list for this year actually #ACTUALLY i also like lay back. that one is fun and the mv+choreo is pretty good #i do like the undercover choreo but i'm not enamoured with it yanno? #its not just verivery tho almost every post x1 bg has the same problem and that is that there's just too darn many of them! #there's a few groups that have managed to make kind of a niche but there's waaaay more that are struggling #bc concepts can been pigeonholed for a while. its only like this year that we've seen more visual diversity with bgs #i literally forgot about all their cbs from 2021 bc they were too '4th gen' #and im not talking about like sound or whatever here: i'm talking about styling/making distinct visual choices per cb #a lot of bgs have trouble making unique styling choices that separate one era from another #and a lot of them follow the same trends so it can become hard to tell them apart #i don't remember ANY of the styling from their prev cbs but i very clearly remember all the styling from undercover #bc it took a very specific niche of 90s revival that nobody had done yet and extrapolated on it #we want the unique ideas baby!! #obvs this rule isnt always true bc oneus just got a bunch of wins for same scent even though it has their least interesting styling #but there's no accounting for stans' taste i suppose #(the wins are deserved tho) #text #answers #their weird lore thing about doubles is kinda interesting though ngl. i think they should beat each other up more tho