#even if this isn't a masterpiece

[theguffbin]

The collector's edition for Eastward came with a fun little cd soundtrack and there's like three bonus tracks included. These bonus tracks are absolutely no where online except in-game and in this collector's cd and like, for two of them its not a huge issue for me...

But like this one track is missing and its literally my favorite track in the whole fucking game.

It's just an alternate version of "Strange Quest" that plays during gameplay but it deviates from the main track in such a blissfully emotional way that it just makes me so goddamn happy I can't explain it. The fact it's not online and no one can look it up made me sad and now I have to fix that :'D For reference I'll put the main track below that's in the official digital release, cause it's still really fantastic y'all like this soundtrack is just full of fucking bangers mate aaaaaaaaaaaaa

#eastward #eastward game #eastward soundtrack #eastward ost #joel corelitz #pixpil #chucklefish #game soundtrack #game ost #collectors edition #cd #bonus track #seriously hope the video stays up like I just want people to hear this masterpiece please #if yall like it please support the official release #even if this isn't in it #its still fucking godly #hope you all enjoy :'D #Youtube #SoundCloud

[elv-arts]

Redraw time! Nearly a decade between these.

The first one is the first art I posted on the internet, as soon as my parents let me make a deviantart account. I was thirteen and used to draw this kind of thing a lot.

The second I drew last night at 2am because I wanted to make 13yr old me happy and also i got possessed by the sleepy art demon.

[ID: Image 1 - a coloured pencil drawing of an "anime style" girl taking a selfie with takanuva from bionicle. The girl has pale freckled skin, long brown hair in a low ponytail, and a slim green vest top. One arm holds up the camera, and the girl and takanuva each have one arm around the other's back. They're smiling with their eyes closed and the background is a sunny view of the sea and a beach with a sand castle. There's some sun glare in the corner of the picture, wispy clouds, and the sea has sparkles on it.

Image 2 - a digital drawing of a person taking a selfie with takanuva. The person has pale freckled skin, an underbite, long brown hair with growing out buzzed sides tied in a ponytail, and a black tshirt with the sleeves cut off. They have chipped black nails, an ear cuff and a couple bracelets including a rainbow one. They are grinning and are making a peace sign. Takanuva's eyes are making a happy expression and he is also making a peace sign (or perhaps failed bunny ears) behind the person. The background is a blue sky with wispy clouds and a beach. End ID]

My art has changed a lot, and I've grown so much, but some things have certainly stayed the same lol

#bionicle #redraw #takanuva #kid me put so much effort into figuring out drawing bionicle #I think they'd be so happy to see how I draw them now #not to get too deep on silly bonkle selfie drawing #but kid me couldn't picture how i could ever be me and an adult #I didn't know i was allowed to be like any of the things i am now #i couldn't imagine being a woman and i'm not #i couldn't imagine growing out of the things i adored and i haven't #i couldn't imagine myself being happy as an adult and even though a lot of things do suck I am #idk man looking at them side by side experiencing feelings i wanna give that kid a hug #life is fleeting and ever changing but bonkles are forever lol #anyway yeah this isn't a masterpiece or anything i just figured it'd be nice to put it here #please excuse text mistakes i am very tired as usual

[youareinlove]

all too well is the song of all time. like. something about it felt like home somehow. your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze. you almost ran the red cause you were looking over at me. wind in my hair i was there. you taught me about your past thinking your future was me. we're dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light. so casually cruel in the name of being honest. i remember it all. i'd like to be my old self again but i'm still trying to find it. you lost the one real thing you've ever known. you remember it all. you were there. you remember it all. i was there. i remember it all. if you even care

#this isn't even about ten minute version this is about micro #because like obviously all10well is the masterpiece of all time but THIS #.txtpost

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

You know, I'm glad that some of us take the step to embrace things that we like even if they're "cringe" or "objectively bad"

But perhaps we could take the next step forward and embrace the idea of reading into books/shows/movies/etc even if they don't seem deep. Perhaps we could understand that the two kinds of media aren't either "shallow and meaningless so you're weird and brainrotted to read into it" or "incredibly and profoundly deep in every way so if you don't analyze every single angle of the thing then you're brainrotted". Some media is deeper than others, but all I propose is that no matter how deep it seems it's acceptable to dig into the thing and take the media seriously instead of just assuming that because of ____ thing (such as target audience or how cringe it is) the media not deep and will never be deep and everything good about it happened on accident.

#fandom wank #i just be ramblin #I'm not putting this in any tags #I'm just frustrated that Sonic Prime is going to be remembered by the bulk of its fanbase/people who watched it as a shallow stupid badly #written kid's show where the only thing good about it that we can even consider was created on purpose and is deep is Sonadow #I'm frustrated that when people learned that sometimes the death note creators did things because it was cool and not because they were #planning for it to be some great symbolism that so many people jumped from 'death note is a masterpiece and every bit of it is meticulously #thought out the curtains are never blue' to 'pack it up guys! the curtains are just blue! Everything good about death note like that #profound relationship I like and the neat symbolism completely happened by accident and Ohba sucks as a writer otherwise' #I'm frustrated when I see people talk about 'a kid's show' as if it's not gonna be deep at all or written well *because #it's a kid's show and then turn around and complain that said show sucks and isn't deep at all (even if that's how they're choosing to look #at it and they could see the care put into the story if they didn't go into it assuming that it will be lesser and shallow and dumb based on #what it is) #I guess it's also just getting me on this random Wednesday the idea that the bulk of one's viewers determine the legacy of a piece of media‚ #no matter how close or far away they are from painting the media as it actually is or tries to bw #It's also just bleak (especially from a manga/anime standpoint) that if your work is considered profound and intellectual‚ then any reveal #of something not being deep is grounds for people to completely swap how they think of your work and how they see you as a writer #And any work that's considered 'not actually that deep' from the getgo ends up with people only engaging with it seriously saying stuff like #'I know nothing about it is purposeful or deep but I like it' #and just ends up with prevailing opinion putting down anything percieved as 'good' or 'profound' about the work as a complete fluke

[mirasays]

[antonymph lyric]

#this is the most detail i will ever put into a masterpiece ever (and it isn't even that much detail) #simplified for My convenience #jamblr #animal jam masterpiece #antonymph #vylet pony #fluttershy #mlp

[the-gateway-to-madness]

I kinda wish (no pun intended) that people would stop getting on disney's case for being "safe"

I don't care if a movie is "safe". My bed is safe. Drawing is "safe" because it's something I know I'm good at. Singing alone in the shower but not wanting to be a performer is "safe". There's nothing intrinsically wrong with "safe" as long as you're trying to genuinely make something good.

Society has gotten so obsessed with the idea that everything has to be groundbreaking that we forget humans and technology both have limits, that every story has been told before in other ways and other patterns, and that excellence and groundbreaking-ness only exist when surrounded by "average" content. I'd prefer that average be "watchably good" over "completely awful".

I don't care if something is considered "average" or "safe" because society has the attention span of a squirrel now and needs something new every other second to get any serotonin out of something. I'll take a little formulaic, a little predictable, if characters or a world or a story have enough care and new-ness in them, by virtue of the fact that every story is just clichés arranged in new orders. I don't think a story should have to be groundbreaking to be good.

Also, Spider-Man: ITSV was dripping with cliché, what made it "groundbreaking" was the artistry and presentation. Take any excellent movie off its pedestal and you have a flawed work of art made by flawed people who run flawed companies. Stop holding art and corporations to standards the individuals they're made of can't meet.

#Obviously you shouldn't excuse laziness or corruption #But I feel like a lot of genuinely good things get dismissed as lazy now #When a decade or two ago it just would have been a Good Movie or Good Story. #If Rise of the Guardians had been released today it would have been dismissed as “lazy” #How to Train Your Dragon #Tons of beloved childhood stories would be forgotten now #And now we're so hypercritical of everyone and everything and every teeny flaw #We aren't even letting the next generation make good memories with the movies they're getting #Shooting down every new piece of media that isn't a “subversive masterpiece” #I just want to be able to go to the theaters without being politically and morally wrong for doing so-

[dangerous-advantage]

i refuse to believe mxtx has not listened to at least one or both of the songs 'viva la vida' by coldplay, and 'pompeii' by bastille. i refuse

#this isn't even me like vaguely connecting lyrics to characters like i love to do (see 'third eye' and 'third eye (demo)' for hua cheng) #like istg i could make a full analysis post about how these two songs (especially the latter) #relate to xie lian and bai wuxiang respectively #i could do it right now #and NO this post was not brought about by my ardent desire to have an actually GOOD mash-up of those two songs #that combines elements of both while keeping a fair balance between both songs. #like come on PLEASE i *need* to listen to a mash-up where the person doing it confidently puts together the respective bridges #it CAN be done and if you do everything else at least semi-well and it sounds smooth then you WILL have created a masterpiece #i would do it myself but i have neither the means nor ability #anyway. didn't mean to ramble off on that tangent. #jk i totally did lmaoooo #this post is about tgcf btw. if you didn't pick up on that. lmao #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #bai wuxiang #this post is so vague i feel bad tagging anyone else lmao #hob #heaven official's blessing

[sariels-world-ella]

A short low effort comic based off a conversation I heard in real life

Undertale by Toby Fox

#even if Frisk isn't actually asian #i'm pretty sure Chara's white and Frisk isn't #I don't think any POC (I assume Asians are poc too but that opinion seems to be very mixed) wants to be called white honestly #undertale #undertale by toby fox #undertale fan art #frisk undertale #undertale frisk #undertale chara #undertale asriel #short comic #i know Asriel's hand/arm is a bit off this isn't supposed to be a masterpiece at all

[zingaplanet]

I don't do fic recs usually but this one must be the quirkiest, craziest, most beautiful, most heartbreaking one I've ever read. The plot finds Paul McCartney waking up again and again on the same day, December 8th, 1980, the day John Lennon was murdered. It explores every single possibility of how the event would've played out and tackles questions of time, history, inevitability and existence brilliantly. Most of all, it's a story of grief and closure, of second chances, of saying what you want to say before it's too late, of saying goodbye.

#ah i can't even- #honestly there are fics that transcend fandoms or pairings and are just a literary masterpiece #i'm genuinely out of words on how to describe it #please read this isn't just about the beatles anymore #it's about history and grief and love #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #music #history #lennon mccartney #mclennon #grief #death

[lambjock]

my locked trait is that i literally can't get behind hoa or it's popularity </3 tragic i know

#my posts. #like it'll always rub me the wrong way hoa was beloved purely for it's action packed gameplay & 'real' monsters #even the popularity of j/alim feels very. weird to me? #that ship isn't anymore canon then con/brad or dan/drew or even john/drew. there isn't any special hints that these other pairs don't have #ever since man of m/edan's creation people have just demanded an un/til d.awn 2 and then they got it! with hoa and the qu/a.rry #maybe i'm just a hater but those games are also heavily flawed and to see them treated as masterpieces while lh and m.o.m gets shit on is .. #irritating! to say the least! #what even was hoa's plot where was the twist. was the twist the monsters being vampire aliens??? #this isn't even mentioning the other glaring issues but tbh that's all i'll say rn i'm just. blegh #don't even get me wrong like. i bought hoa i played it. i think it's fine! #and i love ud and the q/ua.rry! #but ... little hope's bad rep never ceases to make me viscerally pissed imma be honest <3

[maddy-ferguson]

before i watched barbie i saw people say stuff like if i was someone who didn't know anything about feminism gloria's monologue would've been great but alas i do know things about feminism so i was unimpressed and i thought the same thing because. i do know about feminism but seeing gifs of it recently because a good quality file has hit the internet and gifmakers reminded me of america ferrera saying that meryl streep had said she would've loved to deliver that monologue and i'm like. i hope one of you is lying. you can't be serious.

#so i wasn't disappointed by the level of feminism in barbie because i knew what to expect #and it's like...there's women and girls who don't know feminism 101 so good for them and i do think the movie as a whole is a great take on #puberty and becoming a teenager and for girls that age like i did see myself in it but it's weird to see people talk about it like it's a #feminist masterpiece is every movie about women a feminist masterpiece? yes art is political and conservatives hate the movie so it's doing #SOMETHING and at least it wasn't choice feminism-y like people predicted it would be but it's also because the feminism in it isn't nuanced #enough not to be lmao which is fine for what happens in it it's dolls discovering feminism but the way people talk about it is like. we are #not dolls why are you gagged by the 2013 feminism monologue. but yes whatever #the monologue was literally the worst part of the movie😭 #well i didn't love everything about the kens but like a singular moment i disliked the most like i was rolling my eyes so hard...because it #was cringe like even if i can see why it's in there couldn't they have made it better. i dont know how but yeah. #anyway #i also hate some of the critiques but i also hate how the general response is it's not that serious lmao #i don't know if greta thought she was making a feminist masterpiece but just because there's comedy in the movie doesn't mean you're not #supposed to take it seriously like it's pretty obvious that you are supposed to take it seriously #and like i say: brf slt

[anothermonikan]

Why am I getting fucking Chris-chan videos in my recs again. I don't care, the people who are like, obsessed with documenting every little she's done and every detail about her life are weird and gross. Sorry

#yes I know Chris-Chan has done some some shit #but you can just tell that the only reason people get so fixated on her is because she's an 'acceptable'- #autistic trans woman to make fun off. she's an easy fucking target so people just go full mask off about it #i tried to watch a video once because I had no idea what was going on and just...the blatant misgendering and the throwing around of slurs #put me right off. idc how problematic someone is it's fucking weird to make an iceberg video about a real life person. #it's even fucking weirder to map out her family tree as if that's anyones fucking business #people reviewing sonichu as if it's supposed to be some literacal masterpiece and not just a thing she made for fun #you guys are gross and weird. please get a hobby that isn't that #android.txt

[florbelles]

old woman yells at clouds moment but i really don’t understand why everyone has become so averse to seeing writing as an art form like any other? like there’s this kind of bizarre mentality that i fully believe is well-intentioned but ultimately plays into the notion that you must view something as a skill at which you either excel or should not do which essentially says “you are automatically an incredible writer and everyone is inherently and immediately a masterful storyteller and no one is any better or worse at it!!!!” when that is just. fundamentally untrue. not everyone is necessarily an incredible writer just like everyone is not necessarily an incredible painter or musician or whatever other creative field you want to mention, and that’s fine. everyone comes into their own voice eventually just as everyone comes into their own style, their own method, what have you, but the notion that “you are as good now as anyone has ever been and you will ever be” is actually kind of the opposite of encouraging, in my opinion. of course you will improve. of course you will. but that’s not even the point. you don’t need to improve to love writing, you don’t need to write with the aim of improvement, because ultimately when it’s something that you’re doing out of love the objective quality is irrelevant. not non-existent, just irrelevant. you don’t have to be a literary genius to love and share your work. you don’t have to be a literary genius for others to love and share your work.

i don’t know, i just don’t think that “everyone is masterful” is the solution to the crippling issue of debating whether or not something is “good enough” because that’s not necessarily something that everyone is going to be capable of believing of themselves, and constantly being inundated with the message “it doesn’t matter because everything written by everyone is groundbreaking and brilliant!!!!” leaves the door open for “but what if mine isn’t?”

the reality is it doesn’t matter if it’s groundbreaking or brilliant. a lot of misery comes from the concept that something must be groundbreaking or brilliant. maybe it isn’t. doesn’t matter. it’s okay to love the process and love where you are and love writing and storytelling and creating without needing to tell yourself that this is a masterpiece — that still ultimately burdens you with the idea that this must be a masterpiece.

tl;dr celebrating unique voices and perspectives and writing journeys does not have to be synonymous with necessitating that everything is a masterpiece. a lot of my favorite pieces are not my best, and that does not make them objectively good, and that’s perfectly fine. i just think we should celebrate creating for the sake of it. leave quality out of it. it doesn’t need to prove its validity.

#this is unnecessarily long but idk. it's something i think about often #FOR THE RECORD I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT CAN'T ALSO BE GOOD #I'M SAYING IT SHOULDN'T NEED TO BE IN ORDER TO BE VALID #my relationship with writing is different because i've done it all my life/work in that field #but i guess a good example that made me think more of this is art #like i am not an incredible artist. i am not even good yet. but i have a lot of fun sketching and learning and that's part of the process #i don't see why writing needs to be different? #like i do not need to tell myself 'everything i draw is uniquely mine and therefore it is a masterpiece that is objectively good!!!' bc uh #it isn't. #it doesn't need to be. #i am not a professional artist i am not making a living off of art #it can be as bad as it wants to be i'm still gonna post it i'm still gonna have fun

[babblingfishes]

god i don't normally give a shit about the oscars, but seeing Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep it...🥺

#when i saw eeaao's first trailer in the theater i was like ''oh my god #an action movie starring someone who isn't young or white #and it looks batshit. this is going to be SO good'' #and then i looked it up afterward remembering evelyn's name and everything and i couldn't even find it because it was so new and small #and then i finally got to see it and it was more than i could've asked for #and i found behind the scenes stuff and the cast and crew were all having the time of their lives #it's just good #i'm so glad this masterpiece is getting the recognition it deserves #fish babblings

[imwritesometimes]

I've seen like maybe 20 mins of Centurion (2010) and it's so obviously just a cheap, less eloquent, less beautiful, more cheesy gorey version of The Eagle which is wild considering The Egale came out a year later........

#this is what happens when my brother is in charge of the remote lmao #idk man like it's just...... like a super super MALE CENTRIC view is the only way I'd describe it #Gladiator will always be the Top Tier Undefeated roman Centurion film obv #but even it has an epic story and sweeping visuals and characters you connect with and it's just great #and the Eagle (let's be real) it's not a masterpiece but it also IS good #esp when considering it gives the flip side of the story a bit whch often isn't considered in the 'gladiator' genre #idk The Eagle is the better film.... #like tbh I think Troy (2004) wasn't like AWFUL idk this isn't either but it's just. not as good as the eagle....... #erin explains it all #like bro I cannot stress how overly cheesy violent it is like. Gladiator didn't feel this gratuitous

[caelin-ismycity]

Bruh, Engage is kinda mid. It’s a fun game, but it’ll age like milk in like 5 years. Still, NOTHING is as bad as Fates or FE5, NOTHING

i cant verify nor deny how mid engage is, but hell if you're at least having fun now it's gotta be worth it a bit at least

#snap chats #could be miserable out the gate ykwis💀 #i dont think every game has to be a masterpiece for it to be good or enjoyable or whatnot #if you can get any joy from it i say its a win #for example. everyone hates yakuza 3 but i love it immensely #i can say the same bout shadow the hedgehog tbh #basically im hoping that even if engage isn't technically a good or perfect game i hope it still draws people into the series #i hope there are people who'll be able to enjoy it and love it