#cus yanno......computer

[liauditore]

if u r doing the ship bingo still, then any bigb ship u like + scott/bigb pls?

ofc anon!! any excuse to ramble more abt ships lol

Before I go on I feel I should mention that my Bigb at least is like.. somewhat aspec? i honestly don't really know where that headcanon came from but it just kinda stuck lol so that plays into how I see Bigb ships a little bit. Idk I just can't see him specifically really being Attracted to anyone.

(i rarely share my sexuality headcanons cus all of them are fragile and very very easily changed with time and sometimes i contradict my own headcanons so yanno. but they are definitely there in the back of my mind. taunting me)

Scott/Bigb

Uhh I haven't really seen this one before at all? The only interactions I can remember are the ones from limlife when Bigb jumped in between of Scott and Pearl after he hits her (my heart went brr) and when they killed eachother in the finale and scotts computer had a fit lol.

but yeah I suppose you could make a hateship out of this?? or if you think they could be best friends then you'd have to do some explaining and put them in situations for it to work methinks.

Grian/Bigb

This one's just not talked about enough imo. I love angsty grian headcanons to death and like.. Idk I think it's sweet how even though he doesn't really associate super hard with Bigb, he still goes running to him when times to tough. I like to think it's cus Bigb's just this really kind figure who Grian knows he can go to for comfort when the chaos of everything else gets to be a bit too much.

He also kind of tries to pull Bigb into that chaos but it never works cus Bigb's got the personality of one of those soft warm towels they give you at hotels. He has his share of mischief in him but he's not going to be going around murdering people with tnt minecarts anytime soon.

It's like whenever Grian gets to the point of "I don't want to play the game anymore!" he goes to Bigb to sulk and thats very cute to me.

It was super hard btw to choose just one ship for this omg but uhh lightning round Bigb is also Pearl's (new) bestie, Lizzie's bestie, Ren's bitch wife and Cleo thinks they had a really bad break up while Bigb didn't realise they were supposed to be dating.

#asks #ask games #trafficshipping #grib #grian/bigb #scott/bigb #but yeah in general i think i pref platonic pairings w/ him #or situations where the other person Thinks they have a thing and he's just like What #not that I think he's entirely aroace or clueless he just. doesn't think abt ppl like that i reckon. #the thought simply does not cross his mind #grians too proud to ask but if he did confess then bigb would be like “oh cool ily2” and itd be chill

[writingsbychlo]

Have you ever written when you were high? If not u gotta try it cus it is the weird shit ever and if you are able to write one semtence, i will be surprised af

I only ever really smoke at parties, yanno? so I’m not around my computer to write and of course if I’m going to, then I smoke at the beginning of the night and then drink so it’s usually work off and left me just drunk by the time I get home.

[emilygcaplan]

AN INTERVIEW WITH // Liam Blunden

1. So you’ve just finished uni, how does it feel to be a graduate?! 

Feels pretty good yeah, its better than being at uni because its pretty chilled out. But yeah it feels good to go out to actually do real work, so its quite nice! 

2. So are you actually doing ‘real work’ at the moment?

I’m doing a masters, and I’m freelancing and I’m doing work for another design studio at the moment, and I’m working with a gaming company too. I like to keep busy or you tend to slow down.

3. You just briefly mentioned there that you were doing a masters, can you tell me a little bit about that?

You should only really do a masters if you have an ‘area’, but a specific ‘area’ in mind. So I’ve done graphic design for a while now, and I’m not bored of it but its hard to continuously get excited about the stuff that you do. So, well for me its still amazing because you see incredible stuff, but I’m going to go into user interface and user experience, and I’m gonna try and push it to go into UI and gaming. ‘Cus after I did the mixed reality project last I year I was sort of like I can’t go back to editorial now!

4. What would you say was your biggest achievement while being at uni? I know you’ve had your fair few mega moments, what would you say was the highlight?

Uhmm biggest achievement – that’s a toughie man! I think probably a little thing was being in Computer Arts maybe. That wasn’t a very big thing, but to me it was pretty cool. They only knew about it because I went to LIFE agency with my swatch portfolio, then they handed that in, and Luke, from the agency, gave it to them because they wanted to a sort of do a promo issue. Then they emailed me when I was on my way back from the dentist (after having a tooth out!), forgot about it, then a couple of days later it actually sunk in. And maybe the other thing was probably going to Hong Kong, helping out there with the letterpress workshops and stuff there.

5. How did you get into going to Hong Kong, was it offered to you by uni or was it off your own back?

Fun story actually, while I was doing my undergrad I was treating it as a fulltime job whenever I wasn’t actually working, or I didn’t have other stuff on. I was in over summer always working on something and trying to improve myself. I started this art group called the 21 Pilots, and it got a bit big so gaming companies were contacting us asking if we could do this and that, but it was all unofficial so I just ran it. And then one day I was just talking to Andrew who knew about it because he had been to one of my shows, and was saying I was going to try and push for a show in Hong Kong, then Nathan walked past and was like “did you just say Hong Kong”?! Then got talking and eventually he was like yeah you should go to Hong Kong and help these guys and get some more artists in and do a show over there. I got TONNES from doing that, but bit wounded I didn’t get to go to Disneyland.

6.  From all of your accomplishments, what would you say has helped define you as a practitioner to help you progress into the ‘real world’?

 The swatch portfolio. I was interviewed two weeks ago for BCU Marketing because they had seen it, and they wanted to show perspective college students portfolios and things like that. And I still get emails about it, I mean I’ve refined it now so its quite cool, but every studio I handed it into was like this is wicked! (E: Luke Tonge even remembered it from when he came in to give us a chat). Yeah that was the first version of it! I remember giving it to Luke because he came in to do a talk to us as well. That’s the biggest thing that got me around, the guys that I worked with at this design studio called Fluid, they actually redesigned it for them to give it away which was pretty cool. I mean I gave them permission to do it so they didn’t steal it or anything, and they still give it out at the licensing awards which is a big deal, and when they go and meet gaming studios they give out this swatch that I designed basically.

7. Where do you aspire to be in say, 5 years’ time?

Oh, 5 years? Well there’s these games called the ‘triple A’ games which are the big games, then there’s ‘indie games’ which are like the little ones. So I’d like to be working in a triple A studio as a user face designer and 5 years maybe gets to the point when I’d even maybe consider being a producer? I mean that would probably take more like 10 years, but yeah that’s what I’d like to be doing. Freelancing is good and I do like it but I like being able to go to places sink my teeth into it and not worry about the money. I always freelance on the side anyway.

8. Anywhere in the country you would like to be based, or are you not bothered?

Most of the studios are in Leamington Spa. (Oh so you wanna stay local?), yeah I wanna stay pretty local but the one I’ve been talking to that is pretty good is just outside of London, which is about 3 hours away. I don’t want to live in London at all though, I have no desire to live in London. I turned down two jobs because of it! I don’t see the point in being a small part of a massive thing, when I could be a big part of a small thing instead. I mean I guess if I was on a massive wage as a director of something then I’d probably move there. I know people that have moved there now after uni, probably 80% of them hate it and wanna move back. Which is controversial yanno, everyone’s different.

9. Let’s talk inspiration. Are there any go-to inspirational people out there that inspire you? Or do you stick to the whole ‘inspirational is everywhere’ mantra?

I don’t think about it. I don’t look for inspiration. I think that if you go out looking for inspiration then you end up regretting ideas. I think you should just go places and do things, and not go to think oh I’m going to get inspired. Just go and do things and do stuff. I’ve been inspired by stuff like typography from amines, colour theory from like women’s magazines. Just random things, just don’t get narrow minded, look everywhere! The only guy I met who I really wanted to meet, and thought was really cool, was Vince Frost. And he signed my book and in it he told Pentagram to give me a job…who knows! I don’t think many people inspire me, they tend to be non-designers, so non-designers are the best inspiration because half the design world is just auto pilots. It’s the same as any job, you just sort of do your job then just go home…I dunno, it’s a complicated issue. 

10. Do you have any words of wisdom to pass on to us budding graphic design students?

Uhmm, well graphic design is such a blanket subject so I will keep it kind of blanket. I would say listen to peoples advice but don’t just act on their advice. Like think is this actually good advice or is this person just trying to look cool? Which a lot of the time they are! And I would say learn additional skills that are outside of your practice. So there was this guy last year called Liam Roberts, he was branding and he knew he was branding, but he was in the mixed reality project for a while, he did a 360 video before that, he learnt motion graphics and he also dabbles in 3D. And now he works in a really good studio down in London actually. But yeah I think have additional skills, you need them! You won’t stand out if you don’t.

11. Are there any regrets you had while at university?

Oooo, while I was at uni? Hmmm, probably chasing the grade, especially first year. Definitely shouldn’t have done that, because design generally you don’t have to go to uni to succeed, you just have to have a good eye, good portfolio skills that kind of stuff. Also not finding out what I want to go into sooner, I want to go into UI and UX but I didn’t discover that until the last two months of uni, so then that’s why I’ve gone on to do my masters to give myself a bit of time. Fuck it! Just do what you want and do it well.

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