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#finally have the HD screenshots lol
sidsinning · 2 years
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Princess
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Everytime Mari puts her hair down he's
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Stops dead in his tracks
As he should
As anyone would
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amphibia-a-day · 2 years
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Hi guys! Soo, I didn't expect to be making a post like this, but I've seen a few other people make posts after the finale, so I figured I'd throw my thoughts into the mix too (under a read more cause well, you guys are probably here for screenshots, not for my ramblings)
I only started watching Amphibia a year ago, May 1st 2021 while procrastinating during finals week last year to be exact, and May 17th was when I was fully caught up before True Colors. I had been in the TOH fandom for a while (still am, just don't have a sideblog for that lol) so I saw a bunch of my mutuals from there post Amphibia things, and I don't know why it took me so long to watch Amphibia, I love it! I've loved cartoons for so long, and this little frog show squirmed it's way into my heart so fast.... I didn't expect to make this account, it just kind of happened after True Colors aired, and I'm glad I did, because over a year later... I'm still just as in love with the show, if not more. Have I missed a few days of posting sometimes? Yeah, sometimes college got busy and I ran out of posts in the queue, but for the most part I tried to always have a post ready. I love the interaction I've gotten from this account, and I love all the people I've been mutuals with on my main account, even if I haven't really talked to most of them. I wanted to give a special shout out to @maritasdump, who was honestly one of the people who got me to watch this loveable frog show. They also make great piano covers, so check her out!!
Oh also - shoutout to the amphibiapocalypse server, I’m not very active in there all the time but I love being in it :) love all you guys so much
Anyway, rambling aside, this past year of watching Amphibia has been an amazing year, and I've loved every experience I've had running this blog. It started as a way to count down from the season 2 finale to season 3, and I'm so happy I decided to keep it going after it started, and I'm going to continue to post on here for a long time! (trust me, I have plenty of screenshots, I could run this for a few more years)
Thank you Amphibia, Amphibia fandom, and the crew of Amphibia who I'm sure will never see this, this has been an amazing show, and an amazing journey. Can't wait to binge watch the show again this summer and cry :)
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mihyyu · 2 months
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jjk streamer bf! with inumaki, gojo, geto, yuji
warnings: swearing, maybe suggestive?? (gojo)
requests r open!! (masterlist)
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inumaki:
his handle on everything is @/silentbutdeadly or @/silentbutdeadly2
he mostly plays valorant, but streams random indie horror most of the time (the other 10% is fortnite)
LMFAO ok hear me out rq…..his facecam edits would be so funny becos that’s all his fans can really go on?!?! bro can’t talk
there would probably be so many edits/screenshots on tiktok and twitter of him making the most god awful faces when something happens in his game
OR on the flip side there would be some very good thirst trap edits of him actually trying to look decent for the camera/random clips of him fixing his hair in his facecam or something
he never really announced you to his channel? he just kinda….tweeted about u 😭
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(there are thirst traps of you too)
LOL but chat goes actually insane when it comes to flaming him about how much better you could do
“yujitadoru: y/n get AWAY from him!!!! HE PLAYS VALORANT!!!!!”
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gojo:
as much as i really. Dislike. gojo he would be such a loved streamer
he always (and pretty much only) plays trending games on stream, unless he’s with you—then he only plays games he knows you’re good at/you like when you join him
his usernames always have something to do with your name/anniversary, but his twitch is @/gyattoru
LMFAO IMAGINE: he doesn’t have a facecam at first because he’s only posting once a month-ish and only streams for fun, but when he gets more time to stream he finally buys one and his fans go WILD
the buildup would be crazy too like all his fans post anime boy headcanons ab what he looks like😭 he thinks it’s the funniest thing when people think he has black hair and orange eyes or something
^^^ he shows you all of them and reposts the funny ones on his private twitter
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his hardcore stannies actually live and breathe to hate you at this point
but whenever you’re on live with satoru he always MURDERS his meat riders in 4k HD quality like he will go off no hesitation!!! no one embarrasses his baby but him!!!
even if it’s just someone saying something meaningless like “ew lol she has a pimple”
he WILL go on a constitutional length rant about how broke they are, how their mother is kicking them out, how gorgeous you are, and anything he can think of that will make them feel stupid for messing with you
scary (blue eyed) guard dog i guess
he’s very mad he’s not verified on twitter but refuses to pay $10 a month for that shit
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geto:
MY MANANANAN
his username on everything is just…his name…. (@/sugeto) BORRINNNGG!!!!
he only streams on youtube though because he says “twitch is for cheeto-fingered, 27-year-old men” (he means gojo)
^^^ it’s really just becos he doesn’t understand twitch layouts LOL
games he usually frequents are fnaf, blinding of issac, fran bow (DNI IF YOU DONT LIKE FRAN BOW!!! ((joking…))), and really any horror game he sees popping up in his feed
does not post on twt. ever. unless its you or stream updates you won’t catch him even opening the app bro
the only other social medias he has are youtube and instagram (which is full of you & him together)😭
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he always says that his fans love you more than him (it’s true), because he never really jumps at horror games LOL sugu’s reaction is always just a gasp and MAYBE he flinches if it was really unexpected
but you?? if you’re anything like me your eyes will be covered the whole time and you’ll be SHIVERING IN YOUR BOOTS
his viewers think the stark difference between you two is so funny so they always come back to watch you guys play together
when he’s in a funk but still needs to stream he doesn’t play horror, he always plays your favorite game with you and lets you teach him all the mechanics and controls of the game
HIS FANS CALL YOU MAMA AND HIM PAPA (like the tiktok!!! they edit y’all to it all the time when you kiss on stream its so cute)
FNAF:VR WITH HIM WOULD BE SO FUNNY OH MY GOD
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itadori:
you guys got shipped together A LOT before you got together, no matter what you do (like influencing, streaming, modeling, etc)
once he got asked his type on stream and he did a really serious face before saying “maybe girls like y/n? she’s super pretty” such a cutie pie
when you guys announced that you got together after a couple months, both your fanbases collided and you became one big family
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your shared streams would be so cute :( whether they’re on instagram live and you just talk to fans or he teaches you how to play league of legends (he’s such a league guy. you can rip that out of my cold, dead hands)
your fans post you guys on your anniversaries every month/year it’s so sweet
yuji tweets every 5 seconds and floods his fans’ (and your) timelines with cryptic ass messages like “sigh.” “missing it” or something and you automatically know to go to his house before he sulks the whole day😭
i feel like he wouldn’t only game on his streams, and that’s why i haven’t mentioned it
^^ sometimes he does mukbangs with you or megumi, and others he just sits at his desk and talks to his fans for hours and hours
YUJI MAKES SUCH CUTE TIKTOKS ABOUT/WITH YOU
sturnolio type videos on your shared youtube (the yujy/n vlog) where you just fuck around and be silly with eachother without the fear of saying something wrong or messing up; you can always be yourself around him and that’s what you appreciate most in the relationship
itadori farted on stream once and his fans edited it for weeks (speeding it up, slowing it down, reverbing it, etc)
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THIS IS SOFUNNY IM CRYING. i hope u guys r giggling as much as i am rn — reminder to request smthing!! just read my rules be4 :))
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meysims · 1 year
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Your photos are always so bright and HD! What graphics card do you use and what are your in game settings if you don’t mind me asking?? Could you also give some tips for somebody starting out to take photos in the sims 4 🪐😚
Thank you ♡
I have a low end laptop lol. But i use few tools and tips that help me take some good quality photos. I’ll share them in details so this is going to be a long read !! Sorry ahead and bear with me please 🥰
Let’s start with few things to enhance your in game quality first :
If you don't use HQ mod i recommend you check it out HERE !
Here are pictures without and with HQ mod ( click for better quality )
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Do you notice the HUGE improvement in details like eyebrows, skin, eyes and clothes, pretty much everything lol!!
I use HQ Mod Switch to turn HQ mod on and off as i wish. Be aware that HQ mod slows your game !! you can simply turn it on just when you need to take screenshots.
I use This Gentle Cas Lighting ( IT’S A MUST!!)
Now, there are two ways to take good quality pictures that i know of and use :
OPTION 1 :
If you want something quick but does the job then this is your go to :
- SRWE :
Download the zip file and unzip it.
Run The Sims 4 game.
when you are ready to take screenshots whether in cas or in game ( i take mine in cas ) go to settings and change display type to windowed. Here are my in game settings.
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Open the SRWE file you downloaded earlier and run the app. ( Make sure you unzipped it 1st )
Click on Select running Application and choose TS4 game then Click open.
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in the Window position and size you adjust the width and height to your liking. Be experimental with it till you are satisfied. These are my settings :
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When you go to the game you will notice the change in resolution. Here it’s tricky a little because if you make the resolution too big, you might not be able to see everything on the screen, here is an example
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You can move around by clicking on the options in Align Window.
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It helps you navigate around the screen. I always go for Left + Top which displays this as a result :
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When it's set this way i get to see Traits properly to pose my sims before i take a screenshot .
Please bear in mind that my screen resolution is 1366x768. If your screen resolution is higher you dont have to use same settings as mine !!
FINALLY, you hit C on your keyboard to take screenshots. And you are done.
Tip : If you liked your SRWE settings and want to save them, click on Save Profile then name it so you can load it the next time you use SRWE, without having to type everything all over again. As you can save many profiles with different settings !! feel free
Ps : As you noticed from the previous last two pictures, using SRWE will display part of the screen and not all of it because the resolution is bigger now!! in this case i recommend you go to the screenshots folder of your game and check how the screenshots turned out while you are still running the game so you can decide if you like them enough or not before closing the game!
Here are pictures taken without and with SRWE ( using HQ mod in both )
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OPTION 2 :
If you have the patience and time, you should try rendering in Blender.
There are so many tutorials on youtube that can help you learn how to render. I’ll link you the one i liked best HERE !
TIPS :
This is my resolution settings for pictures in blender ( you click on Output Properties to set it )
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I dont use any lightning in blender, i use World Properties instead by clicking on color then setting the value to 1.000. If you want some cool effects you can have fun trying some lightning options ( watch the video to see how to do it ! )
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You can add a background in blender and change its color to your liking. I use transparent background beacuse it's easier to edit the image that way. To get an image with transparent background in Blender go to Render Properties>Film>Transparent
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I use Eevee to render my images. It is recommended to use Cycles for better/higher quality but it takes longer time and it can crash if your PC doesn’t support it ! So be aware please!!
HOW I EDIT MY PHOTOS TO LOOK BRIGHT!
I use Photoshop to edit my photos. I don't do much to be honest. i resize images when it's needed and adjust brightness/contrast, tone and color ( 70% of the time i just go for Auto Tone ) which you will find in Image.
Tips : you have some cool options in PS that can give you that bright effect, such as :
Inner Glow : You can find it in Layer>Layer Style. And here are the settings i use ( they are still adjustable depending on the clothes, hair and skin color of my sims ) :
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Outer Glow : you can find it in Layer Style as well. I dont have specific settings for this one. It totally depends on the picture and type of edit i’m going for. I dont always use it unless i want some really bright effect around my sims like In my Fairy post HERE.
You can get creative with other options in Blending Options, which you can find in Layer Style.
For the Glow effect to work properly you have to have a transparent background, or delete the background yourself ! it should look like this !
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after adding the Inner Glow + Outer Glow effect it will give you this !
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When i add a background (in a new layer) i dont make it 100% white! i go for this color to make the Glow effect pop a little !! and these are the color settings :
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ET VOILÀ LE RÉSULTAT.
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Lastly, if you made it till here thank you for taking the time to read all that ♡
I hope it was helpful a little. If my explanation was ambiguous or you have any more other questions, don’t hesitate to ask please!
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sandplague · 1 year
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Hello! Sorry to bother (and for refollowing? I accidentally clicked unfollow instead of the inbox button the first time ;-; ) - I was wondering whether you had any tips for patho classic beginners! I'm planning to Finally start my first playthrough over the holidays, but I'm so bad at keeping track of multiple things at once + easily anxious that I'm not sure where to look first. I do have my mind made up to play and will be looking at multiple guides (empty brain vs. story completionist tendencies... Fight!) but any small tips would be much appreciated! If not, no worries!
hey that's fine I honestly just skim the notes this blog gets once in a while anyway so most of the time I don't notice if people unfollow or follow me lol. If you're going to be looking at guides you should be fine honestly, when I replay it to chill whenever I have a gap of time I will look at that old guide translated by theLxR occasionally and it's pretty thorough. So I'll try to add here more personal tips which won't be main walkthrough type things...
When the day starts I check the things that need to be done (main day's quest, sides, etc) plan what order they need to be done in and map out the route where I can pick up the most garbage/fill up the most water bottles/engage in trading(extremely important)/pick herbs etc. Never forget to check the garbage cans or to fill up your water bottles, it's easy to get lazy about it but the water is gold for trading with drunks for bandages. If you see any kids check what they're trading. At night if I had free time & good enough health I usually would kill bandits for money and loot. Stockpile everything. You can survive on kinda shitty sleep and food if you need the money. In Pathologic 2 I would absolutely not advise to buy the gun, just keep your knife sharp, but in Patho HD the guns are not as bad. I'm advising this because of some of the quests you have to do and also because the bandits can literally throw their damn knives at you in this game. Klara she's fine straight up killing with her hands most of the time which is very economical. Make sure you keep your weapon in shape, save often (seriously), buy the infected map every day. I would have a map you can mark up or an already marked up one of where all the shops are and for the haruspex and changeling scenarios make sure to get the herb map. If you want to fuck around and fly to see some nice views of the town you can use console commands, I would suggest trying to see the Theater performance every night...Take screenshots and write down some thoughts during each character scenario so you can compare what you were thinking each time when you finish all 3 maybe? I can't really think of anything else that wouldn't already be in a guide... I hope it's helpful!
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tostada-turtle · 2 years
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Hey my sketchy movie website finally has New Era in HD which is horrifically ironic considering I saw it in theaters today lol, but I had more fun eating popcorn than I wouldve had with my laptop ANYWAYS
semi spoilery screenshots down below :) they're mostly thomas
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Theres something about this goddamn swimsuit he looks so silly lmaoo
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LIP BITE
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Comfortable in what way Mr Dexter (homosexual sexual activity)
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I hope someone has told mr. Collier he has a nice smile :)
Overall I would've loved to see guy/Thomas convos like we got Ellis/Thomas convos but alas I'll have to settle for "come be my boytoy in California" which is honestly pretty good aswell
I would've included more screenshots but when I saw the HD version was available my mind immediately went to "must get some Thomas pics" so yes
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ampersandra · 2 years
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im wondering whether the first few riders in the 2000s were shot on digital or film so im looking this up again lol. okay edit, i did in fact find out, at least for kuuga, which basically answered the others even if its not exactly the same answer i bet.
bc like. in general, its honestly weird that we have these tv shows filmed in the early 2000s in HD today, at least compared to how shows were typically filmed in the us. japan had analog hd broadcasting starting in the late 80s but that doesnt mean it was standard, & the switch to fully digital broadcasting happened in mainly 2011-2012, although itd been around since 2003? but i think most of tv asahi's stations were still on analog broadcasting until the countrywide switch. things couldve still been filmed digitally & broadcast analog tho. kuuga & agito are both listed as being ntsc/analog format on wikipedia, but that does just relate to broadcast standards & not necessarily how they were shot. things broadcast in 1080i in countries that used ntsc like japan would have 60 fields per second, which would make the actual frame rate 30fps. itd have to be de-interlaced to become 1080p/30fps & viewable on a progressive scan screen instead of a crt one. the ryuki & blade blu ray listings mentions that, although its in hd, its been converted & upscaled from the standard definition original videos (which isn't mentioned on the blu ray listing for agito, faiz, & hibiki) & its also 1080i, or interlaced, which would make it 60i instead of 30fps & means they havent already de-interlaced it for modern screens. which could mean the "broadcast" version is the highest quality version they have of the masters, unless that IS how it was originally shot. oh my god. wait. okay holy shit i shouldve just checked the kuuga blu ray listing first bc it just answered my question, for at least that specific season.
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i also put it thru deepl but i cant screenshot that as well on mobile. for one, kuuga was shot in digital almost for certain, or at least the blu ray listing says it was filmed with an HD compatible camera, which was probably digital given the time & the fact that the masters for the episodes were produced in D-2 format, which is a videocassette that stores digital composite video & was used for regular analog tv broadcasting bc it being composite video made it easier to convert than other digital formats. besides the difficulties of filming a tv shown with 16mm film, itd be even worse to convert it to digital to edit & then back to analog to broadcast. So, the masters were in SD, interlaced, & letterboxed (the black bars on the top & bottom to make it the right aspect ratio for tv) since it couldn't actually be broadcast in HD. which is at least sorta what i expected, but also lol i dont exactly have enough experience comparing analog to digital to tell with just my eyes, & there were some little things with the lighting on the early shows that made me wonder in the first place.
anyway, kuuga was originally shot in hd, but the final edited product was never "saved" in hd. its a bit odd that agito & faiz don't mention the upscaling though, because if they had hd masters then its weird for ryuki & blade to need upscaling since they came after, unless something happened to their hd masters, or agito & faiz also had to be upscaled but its just not mentioned. honestly its a miracle we have hd versions at all, even the upscaled ones, bc of how lossy magnetic tapes are. hibiki's blu ray listing mentions its 1080i, which is to be expected & puts it in the same boat as agito & faiz, but surprisingly kabuto's official blu ray listing is for 1080p, so im guessing its the first one they either de-interlaced or had an HD version of the master saved separate from a broadcast version, bc this is the first one in a while that has a format listed on its wikipedia page too, where it says 1080i (hdtv). like i said, the only previous ones were kuuga & agito, where it said ntsc. actually, in a pdf i found related to tv asahi, it did mention april 2006 being when they launched "digital terrestrial broadcasting to mobile systems" so it's probably related to that, or other changes they made to broadcasting in general around that time since there's another broadcasting related milestone at the same time.
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all the shows after this point have the same 1080i format on wikipedia & 1080p official release from what i can tell, altho i dont think any after the switch to digital would be broadcast only in 1080i, especially not the more recent ones, & wikipedia doesnt have a source for that claim lol. i can understand hdtv in general, but thatd include broadcasting in 1080p which would make more sense than 1080i at this point.
the seemingly back & forth levels of quality from kuuga to hibiki is intriguing but i really cant spend more time on this right now. ive used far too much effort considering i need to be writing a paper thats due today but. at least i solved one mystery lmao
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slackerartist · 4 months
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Back in October of 2023, I had this idea of mine and doing the unthinkable on playing through the entire Kingdom Hearts series from the HD collections (1.5+2.5 and 2.8) and then landing onto Kingdom Hearts 3 before the end of this year (I will get to Melody of Memory later on, so I will be updating this post later on) and yes I have also watched the remastered cutscenes from the two DS games in the HD 1.5 and 2.5 collection
And well... I actually finally did my goal, so I'm going to be showing off the screenshots I have taken during my long KH journey that I have put down from my Backlog account, so I can take a heavy breather lol
Please note that I have played these games at a easier difficulty (aka Beginner Mode) and may have used Cheat Engine to get through the games at a much quicker pace (I'm looking at you Re:Chain of Memories)
Kingdom Hearts - Played from November 3rd - November 10th
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Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories - Played from November 10th (Sora's Story) - November 11th (Riku's Story) (I regret playing this game because I should've just watched the cutscenes instead lmao)
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Kingdom Hearts 2 - Played from November 13th - November 20th
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Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep - Played from November 20th - November 28th (Yes I know I didn't get the Final Episode because I didn't even unlock the required items to get it)
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Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Played from November 28th - December 1st
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Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Played on December 1st
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Kingdom Hearts 3 - Played from December 3rd - December 7th
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But overall I'm really happy that I finally have gotten into the series as a whole, and I'm really damn proud that I have actually done it
So now I can finally rest... until Kingdom Hearts 4 in a few years that is lmao
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thelegendofstella · 3 years
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Sephiroth’s true eye color (among other things)
Ever since I got into FF7 stuff I’ve wondered about Sephiroth’s rather inconsistent eye color over the media he’s appeared in (which is a lot), and I think I finally have an answer for it, as well as answers for other slightly unexplained phenomena. Warning you now, this will be fairly long and full of spoilers for multiple games in the series, yet hopefully informative.
Sephiroth is best known for his green, cat-pupiled eyes, among other things, and that’s generally the accepted eye color for him in fan works and such. But his eyes are actually light blue, and not just mainly in spinoffs. There will be a TL;DR in about the middle of the post for one interesting point, and another at the end for the whole post in general.
Disclaimer: This isn't intended to be a "this is the right way to portray Sephiroth's eye color" gatekeeping thing, this is just an analysis of an element of character design that went way too deep and is breaking Tumblr as we speak hfsdgyfudgfsd
Evidence, theories and such under cut-- all 63 images (yes, you heard me, be warned) either come from various wikis as official art/screenshots/etc. or are my own screenshots:
In Final Fantasy 7, where this mess all started, his iconic official art has green eyes:
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But in all other art, models, etc. for the game, even the Ultimania scan, his eyes are light blue (or some sort of blue in general):
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Of course, you could argue that Sephiroth’s official art also has blue eyes if you stare at it hard enough, but at first glance it’s more green than blue, and with the amount of green-eyed art I’ve seen, I’m sure many people have just accepted that his eyes are green and nothing more.
Several other games in the main series also portray Sephiroth’s eyes as light blue, sometimes borderline colorless depending on the lighting:
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I particularly curse Advent Children for it’s washed-out aesthetic because in the darker scenes it completely masks Sephiroth’s real eye color. Thank the gods for HD screenshots.
However, there is a very interesting phenomenon that only seems to happen in Last Order, the 25-minute animated retelling of the Nibelheim Incident and Zack and Cloud’s escape 5 years after. No one seems to have noticed this yet, to my knowledge, so I’ll go through this as clearly as I can.
When Zack confronts Sephiroth in the reactor, the latter’s eyes are light blue:
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It isn’t very obvious due to the mako glow tint and his face being in shadow, but I’d think green eyes would look different here, so they are light blue. They stay light blue for a while after this, until Zack begins to fight him and parries him onto the ceiling (anime physics...), resulting in this peculiar scene:
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Light blue into green. Literally, you can see it happening in the actual video. This happens a second time when Sephiroth has Cloud skewed on Masamune, just more subtly:
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Again, light blue into green(er). Definitely something funky going on here. It goes back to light blue when Cloud tosses him away, though:
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And speaking of Cloud... he, too, shows very obvious eye color change directly after this scene, as seen below:
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In the video they are visibly, animatedly glowing, it’s not just me discerning between two different flat shades of color. Keep in mind this is before he gets mako poisoned and Jenova-celled and whatnot, so this isn’t due to SOLDIER enhancements. What gives?
Here’s my take: it’s the Lifestream. People are made of Lifestream like everything else in in the FF7 universe, and it’s common knowledge that Lifestream/mako can do some pretty weird shenanigans. SOLDIERs are literally pumped full of the stuff and have seemingly superhuman abilities, and that’s just the lower-ranking ones. But the series has also placed a lot of emphasis on willpower, which Cloud post-experimentation struggles with due to the J-cells and stuff. A lot of people with particularly bright or “glowing” eyes have expressed an incredible amount of willpower, some of which include Cloud, Sephiroth (unsurprising), and Aerith:
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Aerith’s eyes have always been incredibly bright in the series, regardless of which game you reference. Remake especially makes this obvious, as it seems like every close-up shot of her makes her eyes the centerpiece regardless of lighting, setting, etc.:
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Like, seriously, they almost seem to glow they’re so bright. But here’s the kicker: Aerith is a Cetra, and the Cetra, obviously, communicate with the Planet... or, in other words, have an incredibly strong willpower that influences things. It’s been stated before by various people and media that Sephiroth and Aerith are two sides of the same coin, but not quite like this, I think. Cloud shows a similar phenomenon in his close-up shots as well, though the artificial SOLDIER glow is most likely contributing to most of it:
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Compare these to younger Cloud in the Nibelheim flashback, when he was more innocent and had no need for incredible willpower, artificial or not:
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Going back to Cloud in Last Order, the point we can make about him in particular is that when he was stabbed, literally at death’s door, he drew on his inner Lifestream for the strength to toss Sephiroth away. People have wondered for years about how this moment was even possible besides Protagonist Syndrome, and this may be the answer.
If this is the case, then this could apply to anyone: Aerith, Sephiroth, Zack, hell even Tifa seems to have slightly glowing eyes in the Remake sometimes-- and sure, it may be just the game engine making sure we can actually see their eyes in key cutscenes... but it ties into canon lore and actually makes sense, so I’m sticking with that. It’s also not a coincidence that Aerith specifically has green eyes, too, since the Lifestream in general is green-colored and whatnot.
Midpoint TL;DR: people with lots of inner willpower can call on their own Lifestream to give them strength, resulting in “glowing” or even color-changing eyes depending on how much Lifestream/mako they have in them. SOLDIERs, for example, would fall in the latter category... the most extreme being Sephiroth.
Now that's we're back at Sephiroth, another interesting point is that his eye color in Remake is consistently light blue, or some blue variation depending on the lighting, with green centers, as seen below:
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Cloud obviously shares the same eye color pattern by this point because it's implied that he has the same if not slightly more mako in him than Sephiroth, which very conveniently also equates to him having the same if not slightly more willpower than Sephiroth.
An honorable mention goes to the Remnants, since they, too, follow the light blue with green centers pattern, appearing to fluctuate between the two colors at certain times:
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With all of that said and done, I’ll wrap this up by going through Sephiroth’s appearances in side games and other franchises as quickly as I can:
1) The Dissidia series (Dissidia, 012/Duodecim, NT, Opera Omnia) almost always portrays Sephiroth with light blue eyes in art, renders, and models, occasionally with a hint of green in them:
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A very interesting exception is NT Sephiroth's Safer Sephiroth costume, which has completely white eyes in all three of its alts. Yes, it's basically just a cosmetic costume, but it's still worthy to note for comprehensive purposes:
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2) World of Final Fantasy’s Sephiroth has light blue eyes:
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3) Record Keeper Sephiroth’s sprites are very obviously based on the original FF7 official art where he has green eyes (yes, I checked the colors by hand, they're all in the greener sections of the color wheel):
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4) The Kingdom Hearts series is particularly unique because it features a blue-eyed Sephiroth but with an explicit reason for it. Kingdom Hearts 1 simply says that Sephiroth is part of Cloud’s past, but Kingdom Hearts 2 literally has Cloud saying “I'll get him. This time we settle it. Me, and the one who embodies all the darkness in me.”, and then explicitly clarifying that it’s Sephiroth he’s talking about. Sephiroth even shares Cloud’s facial shape, which is particularly obvious in KH2 renders:
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All other Sephiroth appearances in the KH series also feature him with blue eyes, except for any usage of material from other media.
5) Itadaki Street games feature Sephiroth with green eyes:
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6) Puzzles and Dragons features a rare teal-eyed Sephiroth:
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And finally 7) All other Sephiroth appearances in spinoffs and other media feature him with light blue, blue, or rare teal eyes, except for sprites, which are (most likely) reused from Record Keeper:
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And that’s FINALLY a wrap. All my evidence for Sephiroth’s actual eye color in one place, and even a theory on why it can potentially fluctuate between that and the iconic green.
Actual TL;DR: Sephiroth’s eyes are actually light blue in 90% of his appearances, and the remaining 10% either comes from temporary green-ness or partial green-ness thanks to mako/Lifestream stuff, or spinoffs.
There is one small point I’d like to make at the end of this, and that is the remaining mystery of why Sephiroth’s pupils are even slitted and cat-like in the first place. That... is far more ambiguous in terms of evidence than the eye color. Some series, particularly the Kingdom Hearts series, have them as regular round pupils, while others sometimes if not most of the time give him the cat-like ones. I may make another in-depth analysis post trying to figure it all out, but for now I’ll say that it may just simply be a result of the Jenova cells he has or something along those lines.
If you made it this far down and didn’t just instantly scroll past my massive log of images and sundry, thank you so much for reading all of this! If you did just instantly scroll past, I don't blame you. I guess I'm in proper Sephiroth hell now, lol.
I hope you have a great day and that things turn out well for you fhjksdgfyhughuhyudfs
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So I finished LOM HD!
Man, what a blast. The absolute chills when you see this quest start screen...and the music for the final dungeon and boss fight? They went so hard! It took me a while to like the rearranged soundtrack since the original is already stellar, but for the more dramatic tracks they gave it extra oomph that just makes it more powerful.
Some spoiler talk and pics below:
I'm quite surprised by the Mana Goddess's AI for the boss fight - she seems much more difficult than in the base difficulty of the original. She actually turned around to target my Rabite with her ST, and she was very aggressive at fighting, always attacking. I can't remember if you weren't allowed to spam the normal attack on her in the original, but on the HD version you're definitely not allowed to do that lol. She moves quickly after being attacked and I'm guessing it's not possible to stun her. But since I'm on regular difficulty I still pretty much gave her a curbstomp lol.
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I didn't manage to see one of her forms, the one with a big sword. But I appreciate seeing her clearly now. And yeah, I waited to see her full moon blast attack thing just to screenshot her Terra Branford Esper form-esque look. It's a funny coincidence as I always named the LOM Heroine Terra, and turns out the Mana Goddess is also Terra :b
If I feel like it I will eventually make a quest by quest commentary with all the LOM HD screenshots I have, just not sure if I should continue the original game's commentary first.
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papers4me · 4 years
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Fruits Basket, SE02, Ep24
This is a buildup ep for the finale. looks like furuba’s tradition for awkward buildup eps continues as this ep is clearly divided into two parts: machi & zodiac banquet.
-Killing the Vibe (furuba style):
Usually when writers buildup an emotional moment, they either go with it right away or if it is not its time, they slowly dissolve it or gradually redirect the story somewhere else. But the most important thing is that you hold on to the feeling they worked so hard to build but know that it will be dealt with later. Usually this is done with minor visuals such as quick flashback to the main event & the character taking deep breath ignoring it. But it is acknowledged that now it is not the time. Furuba doesn’t do that. If they build high moment & decide it is not the time to continue with it, they drop it abruptly, using the ending ost as a closing sign....which is odd cuz this is not episodic eps but continuing plot. They did it twice now: (a) tohru’s nightmare ep 19. it was treated as cliffhanger, but the next, we opened with yuki’s narrative where we see tohru normal. I know tohru’s issues will be dealt with later, perhaps season 3. But the nightmare moment was left hanging weirdly!! we never saw tohru deciding not to focus on it or anything! then (b) the kyo/tohru moment on stage & the symbolic tearing image ep23. Big moment which I  know will be focused on later. But it is so freakin odd that we see them so normal in their daily activities..as if nothing happened. Not a slight visual hint that either one is troubled... I praised how in ep, 23, they showed tohru face worrying abt bits & pieces here & there. These visual hints connects the plot.. For a moment I thought Cinderella play is a filler!! but I don’t think so, since 3 major things happened (Tohru’s near confession, machi’s opinion of yuki, arisa’s recorded outburst) two of which dealt with this ep. I know they want the focus to be on yuki, seeing that his plotline is moving smoothly without awkward breaks, but why not smooth out the other’s plotline with minor visuals without the jarring jumps. Ending ost is not automatic shifts in continued plot. Oh well, it is a minor thing I felt, no big deal.
-Machi pov is here!:
I never expected to see machi today! nice surprise! So machi is not only lonely, she lives alone! that’s odd & tragic! how can a junior high school student live alone? since when was she living alone? & her mom calling to check on her or insult her or scold her! I never wanted a phone call to end this fast. Machi’s monologue was amazingly done. Rather than describing her feelings to us or stating what we are already seeing, the words came cold.. automatic.. slow.. without much emotions. Exactly imitating how machi feels abt herself. DULL. She never thought abt things such as fave color or fave place. never thought abt anything that requires personality or preferences. The imagery they used while she was walking in the street is epic! It explained her mentality! honestly even if she said nothing around that time while she was walking, the image would’ve done enough! Machi was able to see the change in yuki cuz she was able to sense that yuki too was dull/boring or felt he felt so. Now he laughs, jokes, interacts, & joins outside school activities. Negating the dull persona. Now, it is only her. machi questions if she can do the same but her question comes out loaded with her negativity. Instead of can I do the same? it is “ why Am i here? Her bad habits are pulling her back & resisting the change.
- Since they’re deciding to embark into the romantic aspect of mach/yuki & to further add contrast to his interaction with tohru, machi is shown so struck by yuki’s presence, she falls. Typical romantic moment that I appreciate for machi who thinks she isn’t typical girl. but dull girl. Yuki finding the leaf & being happy that she treasures it adds to his self-esteem as it tells him that he is worthy to be treasured. I love machi’s indecisive responses! It gives her personality! as she is reluctant between denying or telling the truth. She was never in such situation, so she doesn’t know what to do!! blushing red like her leaf, machi didn’t only go with friends, she also learned her fave color! yuki, developing the future boyfriend detective sense like kyo, guessed it that machi likes red. You remember things abt ppl you find interesting! Machi felt that perhaps to yuki she is not dull, but interesting enough to want to learn things abt her!
-Tohru is a grown woman!!!
trust me to take 5sec interaction that involves my girl & write a deep analytic paragraph! Call it building sandcastles out of nothing but I don’t care! XD. tohru deserves some spotlight! I’m a bit disappointed that the scene is shown form a far to include yuki & shiggure..(WHY???. They can have their moment later! let my girl have a screenshot for a change!!) & the art quality is the lowest in the ep, lol & but whatever~~~ let’s focus on the positive side! my tohru bought sth for herself!! tohru who spent her hard earned money on buying candy ingredients for the filthy rich sohma’s instead of paying her tuition fees?!! tohru who wore a worn out swimsuit for school & didn’t see the value in buying new one ?! tohru whose school bag have seen better days as hiro said?!! tohru bough herself a scarf with pompom!!& she’s PROUD!! & she goes & shows kyo!!!! cuz she loves him & cuz in SE01 he was mad she doesn't buy herself stuff & cuz she knows he’ll be proud of her & cuz she want show off her cuteness & get his attention & cuz she wanna tease him!! Did you see my girl deliberately hit him with the pompom??? my girl is feisty!! She teases!! Tohru has this feisty, forward personality that she hides but peeks in certain instances!! Like when she teased kyo that he’s still scared of the stain on the wall..like when she calls him cute later this ep!! I’m so happy for every tiny teeny moment of tohru where she is herself & not the worrying mom or friend, when she is focused abt what she shows & what she wants & right now she wants kyo to notice her! GIRL HE ALREADY DOES! you are killing him already tohru..he’d be dead by now if he wasn’t a cat with 9 souls! XD.
-Yuki is leaving Akito’s side:
coming to the big moment in this ep. Akito is loosing yuki. Not only yuki decided by himself to attend the banquet that he avoided last year, he also talked to akito & forgave him for everything before. Yuki is letting go of the past. Forgiveness is a cure ppl! it’s the hardest achieved cure. it cuts the ties to negativity & free the person from the painful feelings. Akito knows she’ll be loosing a zodiac member soon! she reacts the same way she did with hatori! violently resisting change, violently making a statement that I’m the ruler of you. However, unlike when it was hatori, no one came to her. Kureno stopped her. but the rest went to yuki, to the rebel, to the one who caused her pain & rage. Akito is not only loosing yuki...she is slowly loosing all of them.
- Yuki continues the next step in his growth & frees hatori from his sins. By allowing himself to accept that he is not a helpless victim, yuki was able to see the others plain as well. Before, in his mind, he was the only one suffering, others are cruel, but now, he sees the criminal who erased his friends memories was also suffering all along. Perhaps yuki thinks that akito is suffering too? That’s why chose to forgive her & tell her that I don’t hate you anymore or hold grudge.
Side Notes:
I’m so glad kakeru had so little to do with machi & yuki interaction here. He is a character that demands spotlight & if his role was bigger, machi would disappear, it will be another yuki/kakeru moment. Also, since machi/kakeru parallel aya/yuki, you bet kakeru will be more involved between them in order to get closer to his sister & fix the gap like aya did, so I appreciate the moment of only yuki/machi now as it is unique moment without any parallels involved.
After learning of Shigure’s correct line, I can now see how things would’ve been better for akito, if she learned from yuki’s rebellion. loosing one is less painful than loosing them all, which she will. Shigure was eager for her to be spared the pain. or he might be eager for sth else entirely! but he wants this to end.
Shigure sure wasn’t himself this ep! he was restless & his jokes were all over the place, he nearly caused a misunderstanding between hatori & Mayko. I think shigure is hearing the curse breaking!!!!!
Rin & kyo!!!! I never knew I needed this!!! like last ep, I was celebrating hana & kyo, & the return of kyo & haru!! but rin & kyo is unique duo since it is not a teasing dynamics! it is a we-are-too-similar dynamics! XD
Kazuma is luv!! ugh!! my heart! what a man!! so caring & kind & ever so gentle! look at him going to rin to invite her! no kid should be alone in new years! look at him teasing his son!! look at him out polite tohru! just look at him!!!
I appreciate that the boys (kyo,yuki.haru,momiji) have different body types from each other. however, since kyo’s body changing is mentioned in the story many times, they focused on showing him growing since the 2nd ep of season 2 & more so in the beach arc & they steadily continued ever since!!! this ep, even with the low quality they showed his Adam’s apple & he is taller next to shishio. Also his baggy clothes help defy the lanky art style. With yuki, since his beauty is mentioned in the story, they’ve been focused on his face, giving him HD quality beauty all the time, but not much when it comes to his body. but today, he looked a lil bit older in machi’s scene? I duno if it is the new clothes or they’re finally allowing his body to grow?! I hope so. They are still making him so lanky as his legs were only a bit meatier than machi’s in the fight scene, but hey lankiness is the show’s art style, just look at hatori </3. They focused on making Momiji baby as it is mentioned in the story that he doesn’t look like a highschooler at all, but I swear he looks a bit older this ep!! right???
Speaking of hatori, hello there~ doc~ I never knew I needed hatori in Japanese clothes this much! It hid the lankiness & gave him the adult manly look he deserves!! so hot!!! I heard his grunt in my heart as he took his clothes off! XD. Soyou’re attached to the school sensie now~~ a lit bit worried your filthy buddy is putting hands on her..huh? oh!, if only you knew that your goofy pal is the master mind behind your new love story! I think he knows tho~
I never expected machi to be that cute!!! machi/yuki is so cute!
Rin sleeps sitting...like a horse? rin didn’t feel haru? i thought horses are as jumpy as cats! lol
Tohru & kyo are having quality flirting time with no interference from either shigure or yuki. lol.. shishio is amazing! XD
Kureno has the DVD now..let the war begins!!!
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yumeka36 · 4 years
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I just got home from the Frozen 2 advanced screening at Disney Studios (as pictured above, got more swag than I thought I would). Gonna give my immediate thoughts and comments, with a more coherent post at a later date. Obviously, if you don’t want to be spoiled, don’t read below:
WARNING! MAJOR FROZEN 2 SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
-I’ve been listening to “Show Yourself” non stop since the soundtrack came out and it was gorgeous seeing the accompanying animation. The song starts as Elsa is riding Nokk towards Ahtohallan and continues as she makes her way through the cave. What was also unexpected for me is that she transforms into her “final form” at the end of the song, so she’s wearing that outfit throughout a good portion of the movie, not just the epilogue, so I hope that means there will be more merchandise for it!
-After that, she wanders through Ahtohallan which is made up of moving “sculptures” made of snow/ice that show memories: she sees some of herself and Anna when they were young playing with Olaf, various people in Arendelle, and of Iduna and Agnarr (I believe Iduna was saying something about being afraid to reveal what she really is, a Northuldra). Some funny parts, Elsa walks by a memory of herself at the end of “Let It Go” and makes a face like “yeah, I was silly back then” XD But the best part was when she walks by a scene of Anna and Hans about to dance at the coronation. She gives it a cold look and then breaks the Hans sculpture, lol.
-The important memory she finds is that King Runeard was using the dam against the Northuldra - something about cutting off their resources so they’d be forced to trade with Arendelle, or something like that, I don’t remember exactly. A poignant part was when Elsa first sees the memory of Runeard and he’s talking about how he hates and doesn’t trust anyone who uses magic, to which she says angrily that his fear is blinding him. And again, Elsa is wearing her final outfit during all this, so there was so much time to ogle it XD
-The “gone too far” part is when she follows the memory of Runeard as it fades down into a deep abyss. He was talking about something suspicious regarding the Northuldra, so she decided to jump down into the depths to find out even though she remembers the song’s warning. She sees that Runeard attacked (and likely killed) the Northuldra leader. She begins freezing as she’s down there and before she gets completely frozen, she sends a burst of magic up above, calling out to Anna (and the fact that Elsa “dies” here is proof that she’s not immortal even after becoming the fifth spirit). Her magic reaches Anna and Olaf in the cave and shows them what happened. They realize they have to destroy the dam but Olaf starts to “flurry” - pieces of snowflakes peel off him and drift away, and he tells Anna that Elsa isn’t okay. Anna pulls Olaf into her lap and holds him there as he fades away. He doesn’t melt exactly and we don’t see the full process: we see his flurries gently flow out of the cave and land in a pile somewhere else. Bruhni watches sadly from a ledge below.
-The saddest thing to me was that, after the aforementioned scene of Olaf’s “death,” the scene fades to black, then opens up again overlooking the same cave but it looks like a different time of day, then cuts to Anna crying inside - so she was literally crying alone in the cave for what could have been hours! I thought right after Olaf melts is when she’d start singing The Next Right Thing, but she spends who knows how long grieving. That is just too sad 8_8 Before she starts singing, she says “Olaf...Elsa...what do I do?” My heart shattered then. Another part that shattered it more was when Anna confronts Matthias and the soldiers as they try to prevent her from approaching the dam. When they ask her why it has to be destroyed, she tells them and says “My sister gave her life for the truth, we can’t lose anyone else.”
-Oh my gosh, the reunion at the end was my favorite part and so sweet~ After the mist around the forest fades, Anna and Kristoff approach the pillars with Anna looking like she’s ready to burst into tears...until some snow crystals flutter around her and then behind to where the shore is (not sure if it’s the shore of the Dark Sea since it’s daylight at this time, or it could just be a nearby beach). She sees Elsa riding Nokk - she starts running toward her but then stops because she’s still not sure it’s really Elsa. When Elsa says her name and holds out her arms, she runs to her and they share a beautiful hug (while Anna is sobbing). Honestly I can’t remember exactly what was said because I was an emotional wreck at that point, but Elsa tells Anna that she’s the fifth spirit, that Anna saved her, and that the bridge has two sides: herself here and Anna in Arendelle, and they’d fix the past wrongs together. And I also loved the fact that Kristoff comes over and is relieved that Elsa’s okay: he says “Elsa, you’re alright!” and gives her a hug, then (humorously) says “ you look different...did you cut your hair?” She also gives Sven a little pet. I’m so glad they included this part as it shows that Kristoff doesn’t just see Elsa as a cockblock to Anna, lol. Kristoff proposes to Anna here as well (Sven tears up a little seeing it XD)
-As for Olaf’s revival, Elsa tells Anna “I have a question for you” “What is it?” “Do you want to build a snowman?” She then concentrates and we see the pile of Olaf’s “flurries” come flying down from the cave to become Olaf again. Elsa says it’s a good thing water has memory, implying that he still remembers everything despite being “resurrected.” The epilogue just had so many cute moments - Anna and Elsa share another hug as they walk back to the stone pillars, Elsa wipes away a tear on Anna’s face, they put there foreheads together at one point when they’re talking, Elsa takes Anna’s hand and leads her to one of the now tamed earth giants and they both gently touch his giant nose, and Frohana share a warm hug. I cannot wait to get HD screenshots of it all!
-And for Anna’s coronation? To be honest, it didn’t seem like a coronation to me - it literally just had Kai announcing Anna as she walks outside (onto a stage I think? Don’t remember exactly) but right after that she’s out in the streets with Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven, who are dressed up. So it must have been some kind of event, but wouldn’t the coronation have a party in the castle and a ceremony, like Elsa had? We then see Matthias outside with another Arendelle citizen (he’s discovering the new technology of photograph, lol) - wouldn’t they be part of the ceremony if there was a coronation, and not just out in the streets doing whatever. It just didn’t seem like a major event was happening, I’ll have to see the movie again. Regardless, they reveal statues of young Iduna and Agnarr (they should have had statues of Anna and Elsa too!) and Anna notices Gale flying about and asks if he/she (does Gale have a gender?) to deliver a letter to Elsa. Gale carries it over to the forest and Elsa reads it. As we know, it’s a reminder about charades. Anna ends the letter saying “I love you” to which Elsa says “I love you too, sis” (that’s where this line that we heard in one of the teasers came from - pretty crazy they’d use a line from the very end of the movie, knowing we wouldn’t figure it out!)
-I mostly talked about the ending here but I’ll say a few things that stood out in the rest of the movie to me: Some Things Never Change was adorable. Anna and Elsa share a sweet hug at the end, during the “holding on tight to you” lines. And I absolutely cracked up during Kristoff’s verse when he’s doing Sven’s voice and telling him about getting down on one knee with the ring - some nearby townspeople see him and it looks like he’s proposing to Sven and they get the most awkward looks on their faces XD The scene in their parents’ ship was really emotional: Anna and Elsa clinging to each other with tears in their eyes as they see the memory of their parents take shape...my heart was breaking. The ensuing scene where Elsa’s overcome with guilt and runs outside with Anna telling her she’s not responsible for their actions, and she believes in her more than anything, etc., More was said between them here and I’m having trouble remembering it exactly but it was deep.
-Oh, and the post-credits scene was hilarious: it’s Olaf telling the events of the story to Marshmallow and the Snowgies (Frozen Fever is canon!) just like he does earlier when he describes the first Frozen to Matthias and the others (”it began with two sisters...”) The funniest part was his dramatizing lines of the latter part of the story - ”Elsa is dead,” “Olaf is dead,” “Anna’s crying alone” - it’s hard to describe, it’s funnier when you see it.
Later I’ll write a post with more coherent thoughts about the movie itself and not just a spoiler list - I might do that soon or wait until I see it again this weekend. But I will say that I loved it - having seen it for myself, I truly believe there’s no “tragic separation” that we’ve been fearing. There’s really nothing bittersweet about it, nothing like Anna saying “will I ever see you again?” because it’s a given that they can still be a family and nothing is keeping them from seeing each other whenever they want. At this point, it’s not that I dislike the ending as it is “I want to see what happens next!” It left me even hungrier for more Frozen, like a short reassuring us that they’re still a family by having another charades scene or something like that. Or another movie is always welcome! There was also some lore/plot-wise things I’m a little confused about, but that’ll be for another post. It’s 1am here and I need to decide if I can sleep or not, lol. If you have any questions, please send them via direct message. I’ll either answer them right away, or tomorrow if I do manage to sleep tonight.
The shock of finally seeing this movie after six years of pining hasn’t sunk in yet but it will soon.
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kumoriyami-xiuzhen · 3 years
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Well... my break was pretty good. was finally able to download the clean fresh live version of the cxm secret mission that i had my eye on since i ranked up, saw the 1984 wonder woman movie (it was okay and I could write an essay on what didn’t sit well with me as a fan of the comics [im kinda of a comic book purist when it comes to the way characters think and their behaviour] but I really liked Lynda Carter’s cameo).... made a lot of progress on one of the hakumyu piano arrangements i’m working on (have now probably listened to certain parts of that song over a hundred times now), watched a bunch of the original hakuoki musicals in hd.... and I finally got my dad to play Batman: Arkham Asylum. My bro and I have been trying to get that to happen for years lol... especially since it has Conroy and Hamill doing the Batman and Joker voices (the animated series is the best!). super steep learning curve tho since it’s being played on the ps3 and the last console he used was the Nintendo Gamecube.    
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stock up on translations as much as I would have liked to during this time on account of my hardware seriously acting up... to the point that I needed to send my laptop in for repairs and get a new one. Aside from how unresponsive my keyboard was and how hot it got, the laptop itself had become quite slow... though that might have been because my passport [external storage drive] took a bad fall which made a lot of my files harder to access since it was barely able to handle files being accessed/copied/moved off of it (this is after diagnosing it and repairing it via command prompt chkdsk x: / r), with the latter being what I spent most of my break waiting for as i avoided using my laptop since the majority of my drama rips and game capture videos were on it... To give you an idea of how long this took (and how long it is still taking), I went from being able to transfer my 50mb of files in a few seconds... to sometimes taking more than a day (tho other times i’d be able to get 4gb moved in >24 hours, making the timing super inconsistent. also i don’t have access to a cd drive now so i can’t just re-rip things)... which is why I haven’t been able to work on any videos since my last post (I have more than 1.3TB of stuff to move, so my new laptop isn’t exactly at its best right now and won’t be for a long while since I’m not going to be using a recovery service as waiting out the transfers for everything out will definitely be cheaper... the ballpark estimate I got was being anywhere from $500-2000, which is money that i am not exactly eager to part from just for the sake of saving time)... meaning I also probably won’t get to videos for a while since subtitling requires accurate timing and im not fond of things freezing on me while working on videos... ugh. i still have to do an insane amount of grinding later in warframe once my current batch of files finishes transferring... 
Anyway, below is a list of what I’ve mostly managed to schedule (anything with a “?” is something that I haven’t committed to) and a list of what I’d like to get done this year (can’t make any guarantees... however, im probably going to try and translate some things with souma this year cuz of hakumyu), while the stuff in bold text is on my shortlist of things I intend to prioritize (Saito’s Ginsei no Shou chapters and Shinsengumi Oni-tan are still being worked on though not as actively since they’re a lot longer...). 
Also, aside from December, the month that CNY falls on (February this year) and March (bday) will be the only foreseeable times when I put out less translations tho I’ll probably be playing video catch-up during that time this year since i’m not sure what i’ll be able to get done as i wait for my files to get moved.
oh well. I’m still aiming towards posting stuff on a weekly basis for the rest of the year... here’s hoping that it’s less volatile.... tho i unfortunately have non-existent expectations given what made the news yesterday. just glad i don’t live there.
YAISA!
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January
Yuugiroku 3 Saito Fall story today!
Chapter 7 of Saito’s route from Ginsei no Shou + 4-koma
Hakuoki Kyoka-Roku Kazama CG Character Perspective [no vid. havent beaten this game and im not sure when i’ll feel like speed running through it]
Hakuo Gakuen Q & A
February 
Stellaworth Hana no Shou After Story - Harada
Chapter 1 of Saito’s route from Ginsei no Shou
Web drama 8
March
Yuugiroku 3 - Short Episode #8 (Kazama/Amagiri/Shiranui) [still need to get video and screenshots] 
Yuugiroku Drama CD Thumb Sized Samurai Track 1-4 (4 is WIP)?
Char monologue?
April
2017 Otomate Hakuoki SSL April Fool’s Day
薄桜鬼 遊戯録 隊士達の大宴会 店铺特典「教えてください山崎さん!」 (completed yesterday)
Yuugiroku 3 - Short Episode #6 “Yukimura the page’s secret”?
char perspective?
Other
Hijikata Biyori (cuz these are short) 
Yuugiroku 3 Short Episodes (these are longer than the ssl cross and daily stories)
Kyoka Roku Conversation in the Rain - Okita/Toudou/Kazama
Kyoka-Roku CG perspectives
2013 Otomate Party Hakuoki drama “Ideal place for a disagreement”
Saito Ginsei no Shou Chapters
Shinsengumi Oni-tan
Stellaworth Hana no Shou After Stories - Souji, Heisuke (THIS YEAR FOR SURE DAMMIT!)
2011 Hakuoki Reimeiroku Otomate Party drama
Stellaworth Nightshade Kuroyuki CD
薄桜鬼 遊戯録弐 祭囃子と隊士達 A店特典「あなた好みの想いの形」
薄桜鬼 真改 ~風華大全~ 特典「稽古の痛み」
2016 Otomate Party Code:Realize drama* (this is almost 30 min so i will probably translate less that month if i get to it)
2019 ????????????? Halloween SS?*
????????????? Stellaworth Vocal CD (8 tracks)*
*have to check these 3 since I don’t actively follow these fandoms/tags tho im pretty sure no one has translated anything from the fandom for the last 2 items.
also, re:patreon goal - i am currently not able to access the files for the drama i am looking to get a translation commissioned for as it is in the process of being moved off of my damaged passport. 29gb  remains as part of that transfer, which is the result of me trying to move all 865 files from where i keep the majority of the hakuoki dramas i’ve saved all at once... ended up doing that because every time I access that hard drive, each time i open up a folder, and every time I highlight a file to move, the file explorer goes “not responding” for an uncertain amount of time, and have instead opted in doing something that would hopefully reduce the likelihood of something crashing.
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v-mundi · 3 years
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Mushamon’s art fix went through several “final” renders before I got one I liked properly. The old art is just someone’s screenshot of a low-fidelity version of its DMO (Digimon Masters Online) model. First in this pic list is the actual final I think I’m going with, but it was a journey to get there. Second is the same render as the final but blown up more and without the aura effect. Third is my unused render which I figured was good.
So this model has problems. Toei problems. Again. Long (and repetitive) story short: Digimon models are usually based on Toei art, not Bandai, and Toei is an animation company that makes washed-out color drawings of the original designs using short stubby limbs and huge extremities. Works for animation. Bad for model posing. REALLY bad. It makes posing them an absolute nightmare as things clip around and never quite make the distances I need to use weapons especially. This model was actually rigged incorrectly. See that chest dent in the third image? That’s from someone during the chain of ripping or rigging messing up the weight paints so that the central purple foxtail thingies would stay still while the model deforms, causing a chest cave-in. How did I fix that in the other two images? I moved the entire model and perspective at once, instead of the waist...it was really difficult and annoying. In fact, I could only make those renders because I knew how to pose the model already from having done the third.
At first, I used a reference of a sprite from the Wonderswan games since it was the best pose. Unfortunately, sprites are bad at conveying 3D space so I borked it up pretty bad. The chest is facing the wrong direction, the sword angle never worked, and everything is pretty much just wrong and off. Eventually, I found the Bandai card the sprite was based on and realized my error. Good thing too, since I would’ve gone with that ugly third render. It already took a long time to clean up the artifacted and washed-out texture, blow it up to HD, make color corrections for accuracy, and find a good material to replace the ugly clay matte look of the default model.
The final render used the card art as a pose reference and I got everything right (as much as possible) finally. Interestingly, the model uses a falchion sword instead of a thick katana or thick shamshir—whatever that thing Mushamon has is supposed to be. Not sure why they did, but I love me some falchions. Either way, the sword won’t be as curved as the original no matter what and I’m good with that.
I was just about to use that second image as my final card art when I remembered Zanbamon and the sicc looking aura. I took that effect that I had created and applied it to Mushamon due to his draining sword attack glowing. I found out it’s also violet but I didn’t want to reuse the color so I dipped the aura into blue. I also scaled it down because after not looking at it for a while, I realized such a huge image was actually hard to make out if you didn’t know what all the details were before seeing it. And players wouldn’t. So now it’s good, visible, and has cool post-processing effects and color grading! :D yay. I love the final version. Maybe if other people don’t, I can go back to the huge, blown up version lol.
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shythalia · 4 years
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I finally finished these requests from @kayleighsimmonsxo. haha Sorry it took me this long. lol Hope you like these!
I have no idea why I try to color it accurately. lol I tried. I may not be very satisfied with these but I am proud of myself at least. I’m not pro.
The first one is from the music video of Meredith O’Connor’s song “Guardian Angel”. Kayleigh specifically requested for that frame in particular. The black silhouette is the mother’s son holding flowers, just like in the mv except I decided to put that there because I don’t want to try to draw those messy domino things & the flowers in the pot. lol
The second one is from the music video of Meredith O’Connor’s song “Just The Thing”. She again requested for that particular frame. I got too lazy to even try to draw every individual detail on the lockers. lol
The screenshots are blurry because that’s how shit YouTube be when you got slow internet, even when the internet speed is decent. It rarely ever gets HD.
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walks-the-ages · 4 years
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I’ll have to take some hd screenshots of Gwen in countrycide to make the cover for this fic.
while being posessed, she had lined, red markings appear on the (facing us) right side of her face (her left) that was a circle under her eye and a crescent moon behind it towards her ear. 
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At some point when Owen wasn’t looking, Gwen turned her head and the markings brielfly turned into an ET-eque alien’s eye and ear morhping out of her face grotesquly, before reverting back to just the markings when Owen turned back around. Gwen had no idea what was going on other than ‘waking up’ in the woods with Owen pushing her in a wheelchair (dont ask me where he got it from) and wearing a floral bonnet (??) to avoid suspicion from hikers. like. obviously those random parts aren’t going to be in the fic but it was still funny to see her in a random old-timey dress while Owen tried so hard to push a wheelchair up a leaf-strewn forest cliff.
The dream was NOT in chronological order, as they were at the TOP of the little cliff/hill when she first got posessed, so I guess she ran back down it to stand in the middle of the disused road. oh well. 
Things got...........interesting when they finally reached the mansion, right as the storm was rolling in. 
My brain has weird ways of realizing i’ve overslept and that instead of sleeping I should be in the shower, so Gwen after trying to get changed in the bathroom just walked right out into the foyer completely topless to find Owen so she could get clothes from the suitcase, thinking to herself “it’s not like he hwasn’t seen anything before” which was hilarious. 
Its like those sterotypical dreams where people are trying to give a speech naked but instead of being embarrssing its just weird and confusing as you’re looking everywhere for your bra because you have no idea where it went lol.
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