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iknowwhereyousleepatnight · 6 months

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I LOVE YOUR ART SO MUCH!!!! WIANRKWJEJW Gosh I'm just IN LOVEEEE with the way you draw omg

Like, your line art??? GOSH I LOVE YOUR LINE ART SO MUCH AAAAAAA LIKE, THE THICK LINES??? THE LITTLE TO NO LINE WEIGHT??? GOSH ITS SO BEAUTIFUL WJAHJEEJJE

Also I LOVEEEE your colors omg. EEEE LIKE GOSH I LOVE YOUR USE OF COLORS SO MUCH!!! ESPECIALLY YOUR SATURATED COLORS!!! THEY SCRATCH THIS ITCH IN MY BRAIN AND IT'S VERY PLEASANT!!!

Also I LOVEEEE the way you stylise faces :'D The way you draw eyes... I can't get over it omg. ALSO the way you draw hair and noses and mouths and GOSH I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT

Also, I LOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW FOLDS!!! Honestly I just love everything about your art <333 IT' S SO PRETTY AND GORGEOUS AND I WANT TO STEAL YOUR ART STYLE SOOOOOO BADLY

Omg, also your more detailed drawings??? Chef's kiss man. LIKE OMG THAT DRAWING YOU DID OF MIKAMI WHERE YOU TRIED TO DO TWO DIFFERENT ART STYLES??? GOSH I LOVED IT EEEEEEEEEEEE GOSH I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU MAKE

Also I LOVE YOUR LINELESS ART A LOT WUQNDJEJ Gosh I love lineless art <333 Everything you make is BEAUTIFUL and gosh I just love your art so SOOOOO much

Sorry if my compliments are repetitive, I am not the best with words. Your art makes my brain go "WIAJSKKE WAAAA PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY EIAHRIENDKJE PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY WUSBEJEJEJEJ EEEEEEEEEE" so my thoughts aren't very coherent 😭

But gosh I love your art so much... Was scrolling through your art tag and kicking and giggling and ranting to my wall about how pretty it is. I have been thinking about your art for like, the past hour and a half? Gosh it's so good man (update! It has been like 2 and a half hours 😭)

I'm not a big fan of blood, but you make it look so pretty <3 Honestly it's kinda making me want to try to draw some bloody pieces (but I'm too scared to look for references)

EEEEEE GOSH I LOVE YOUR ART STYLE SO MUCH LIKE THE COLORS AND THE LINEART AND THE WAY YOU STYLISE EVERYTHING AND WAAAAA THE COLORS GOD THEY MAKE ME GO EEEEEEEE CANT GET OVER YOUR COLORS AND YOUR LINES AND EVERYTHING OK SORRY ITS SO GOOD

Your art makes me want to cry... You made lawmane art and it was SOOOO pretty I was smiling so much and giggling at how pretty the colors are and YOUR LINEEEEEES GOD I CANT GET OVER THEM EEEEEEEEEEE and it's just so pretty it put tears in my eyes (FOR REAL) and gosh your art is just super duper pretty it's like one of the best things ever (GOSH I WISH I COULD PROPERLY DESCRIBE HOW GOOD YOUR ART IS IM SO SORRY FOR BEING POOR WITH WORDS YOUR ART DESERVES BETTER PRAISES!!!) I'm not even a fan of lawmane but omg your art is just the prettiest

Your art is everything it's so pretty omg gosh I wish I could draw like you, your art is super duper pretty it's the prettiest of all the pretties it's very color and EEEEEE GOSH I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU MAKE GOING CRAZY OVER YOUR ART EEEEEEEE PRETTY PRETTY WIAJRJEJWJEJ EEEEE

I actually tried to make a drawing in your style! I failed lol. I can't draw lines and color the way you do (GOSH YOURE AWESOME AT IT) but it was super fun omg gosh I love your art style so so SOOOO much omg (sucks that I failed at copying your art style, it'd be funny if I could imitate both the way you draw and talk, but I guess it's a good thing for you haha) I want to try drawing like you more because your art style is so pretty but if it makes you uncomfy because that's like stealing your art style I will stop BUT GOSH ITS SO PRETTYYYY 😭

Sorry for the super long rant! I want to go on longer but this is getting too long I guess I'll continue ranting to the wall but I'm at a bday party rn so I can't rant to the wall but omg gosh your art is so so pretty I wish I could properly describe how gorgeous it is ok this is getting WAYYYY too long ok bye

ANYWAYS!!! Your art is PRETTY and I hope you have a good day and good sleep!!! Thank you so much for existing! Your art provides me with so much happiness gosh I can't believe you follow me like OMG KNOWING AN ARTIST LIKE YOU FOLLOWS ME BACK IS MAKING ME SO GIDDY AND HAPPY LIKE GOSH YOURE AN ART GOD AND OK THIS IS WAY TOO LONG BYE BYE HAVE A GOOD DAY!!!! YOUR ART IS GORGEOUS!!!!!

(so sorry for the rant and incoherent mess!)

i'm like. literally speechless. wow

(cue me speaking in the tags bc they make more sense to me)

#i'm really really glad you like my art!!!!!!!!! i've had issues liking my own art so i'm glad someone likes it lol #and dw even keysmash about my art makes me so so happy!!!#don't call me an art god though it'll go straight to my massive ego lmao #and i like your art too!! i love the pixel art and the ms paint drawings are very nostalgic and funny #but feel free to copy my style i really don't care. art is all about stealing from other people it would be hypocritical to tell you no lol #if it makes you happy then feel free to go at it #tho if you can copy my art and my way of speaking we'll have to fight to the death i hope you understand. there can only be one #if you ever want to talk about art i'm happy to btw. i love talking w other artists about art!!#ty for the ask!!!!!!! it makes me happy in ways i cannot express in words #ask

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jjuzoir · 3 years

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graduation gift [o. tooru]

summary: on your last day as oikawa and [name] aka that one couple from class 3-B, you both realize something.

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a/n: bark bark horimiya has completely destroyed me i am in love with both izumi and kyoko someone help 💕 i’m now projecting their relationship everywhere thank you 🙇‍♀️ catch me writing for them too >:( anyway! take this as a thank you for sticking around my shitty schedule (TT)

“And with that, let’s say goodbye to our third years!” The voice cheered into the crowd, and just like that – you were done; you had graduated.

If you’d been at the ceremony with the rest of your classmates, you probably would be tearing up by now as you hugged your close friends and bid farewell to those not so, but you weren’t hugging your friends or bidding farewells because you weren’t at the ceremony. You weren’t in the chair that had your last name labeling it as your own, you weren’t even near the gym. Instead, you were running with your high school diploma on one hand and Oikawa’s hand on the other, – where off to? Neither of you knew.

The sun was bright, painting your surroundings in saturated colors, the smell of spring and new beginnings on the tip of your tongue. You could feel the wind dancing over you two as you made your way down the empty streets, most people were in the ceremony or attending their kins own, and into wherever your feet led you.

“So, Tooru, any idea where we’re going?” You ask, throwing him a curious look from in front of him.

“Nope.” The brunet laughs at the confused double look you send his way, “What? You’re the one who dragged me out.”

“And you haven’t stopped to ask me why or where we’re going, have you?” You roll your eyes but never once do either of your steps falter, you’re both going forward – not sure where, “Is there seriously nowhere you wanna go?”

“I don’t think so?”

“You don’t think so?” You laugh, “We’ll be running forever if you don’t tell me to stop.”

“But we’ll be together, right?” He asks, his grip on your hand suddenly feels a little tighter.

“Yeah.”

“Then I wouldn’t mind.” He concludes, causing heat to rush to your ears and cheeks like a flood.

“Haha, very funny, Tooru.” You look forward once

more in an attempt to hide the way your cheeks felt like they were about to burst.

“I’m serious, [Name],” he whines but you can hear the playfulness in his tone, “I wouldn’t mind doing anything if I got to be with you.”

“...” Your heart is beating too fast for the casual tone in which he spoke, but how could it not? The guy you liked, the one you’d been dating for a little over a year and thought about getting married to more than once, just insinuated he’d like to spend the rest of his life with you, what were you meant to do? “Geez, you’re so cheesy, Oikawa.”

“Ah? Very rich coming from the person who stole me away from the graduation ceremony to spend one last day with me!”

“Don’t act like you didn’t like it.” You huff, you try to sound annoyed but Tooru can still hear the smile in your voice, “Ah, ‘m getting hungry… ‘Kawa, wanna go eat something?”

You start slowing down into a steady until you’re both standing under the shade of a tree and he follows, he takes in your surroundings as you continue talking – you weren’t running but you were still moving, just slower.

“Like what?” He asks.

“Something sweet!” You decide, catching your breath – you hadn’t willingly ran so much in a long time.

“Something sweet, huh?” He repeats, tapping away some unknown melody into your knuckles.

Neither of you say anything, Oikawa was busy thinking of a place to take you out and you were suddenly overtaken by the memories and realization of what exactly was happening today.

From this day onwards, you weren’t a high schooler anymore. So many things had happened from your first year to today, it felt like you’d lived a lifetime and a half. It was weird, so weird to think that this was the end. But you’re weren’t alone –, you think as you look down to the hand still gripping yours. You felt a pain in your chest, you’d have thousands of memories from your time at Seijoh and your classmates but you’d never get to relive these days again, you’d need to make every memory count so that when you’re older you can relax knowing you lived your youth well beside the boy you’d grown to love, right?

And before you know it, you’re walking once again – pulling a surprised Oikawa behind you. This was your last day together as high schoolers, your last day as Oikawa and [Name], the couple from class 3-B, and you wanted to savor it – so you could look back on it with him and laugh.

“Thank you, for being with me,” you smile, as you continue walking, your boyfriend could feel you growing tired from having run around, even he was getting worn down – but not once did he think of stopping you, you turn around and face him properly, still holding his hand, “and for loving me, Oikawa.”

“I wouldn’t have done it any other way,” he laughs, “If I could go back in time, I think I’d do it all again.”

To Oikawa, you were amazing, a force to be reckoned with. He couldn’t help but watch in awe the way you carried yourself, the way you walked and talked – the way you lived life enamoured him and had him wrapped between your fingers in ways you didn’t know.

If only he could gift you the way you made him feel, warm as if the sun was in his hands, loved and comforted in ways he’d only wished possible back when he was younger and lonelier. You had shown him the sun, you had taught him to find joy in the summer breeze and fun in the spring rains. Whenever he felt his thoughts drift into the unknown, you were there to hold his hand and lead them back down, back home – back into your arms. All the things he’d envied those around him for knowing, all the memories and emotions he’d long since decided he wasn’t getting, he now had a map for — he had you.

But as he looks at the hand intertwined with his he knows you’d probably prefer cake, the type they sold in the bakery at the corner of the road before his house. And he was happy to give you that too.

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jennrypan · 3 years

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Part 2

Why is marinette there again?? WAit this is career day! I remembered.

And oh Ice cream man lore, neatio, more lore than we'll get off the miraculous' HA-

Also Luka you seriel killer mf- it woulda be hilarious if she flipped him like she did chat- like a gag of dont sneak up on Marinette cuz you'll get the big yeet-

But bruh he mad scary tf but hes so bright blue. Am i seein shrimp colors now??

Also chocolate chips!!! Chat noir idc. She loves him as chat bye

As Luka terrifies me his eyes will haunt me until I die. Save me. Also. Making ..of string instruments?? Isnt there a w o r d for that?? Luka himbo supremacy confirmed??

And aight he goes to another school but. I liked him being a year older idk. Also marinettes preetty.

And alec why tf- dont bully children- and are people just gonna read alec and make him rethink his life choices?? I woulda slapped tf outta his hand if he started roastin my job tbh. Good on paris for bein nonviolent people

Also what Luka what? What the fuck is with the wind. Is god giving him the power to play any music?? Apollo? No hes not the god of music, ..i forgot who is. Anyways!

What the fuck Luka, are you a god? Also. Push him in the water marinette itll be funny, but dont cuz hes also a good friend!

And ADRIEN BOY I LOVE YOU PLEASE ILL KICK GABRIELS FUCKING ASS. Hes a loser. Hes ugly and hes a loser and he sucks and he has no purpose and hes a big bitch ass hoe.

Also they spoke at the same time that means theyre soulmates. Adrien has TWO hands. They alll have two hands

Also Luka please get eyeliner..or eyelashes also STRING INSTRUMENT MAKER?? THERES A WORD ISNT THERE?!

Also. Marinette chatting with Adrien!!!! Normally and relating!! Amd Luka is a really good therapist. Hes a god- hes magically-

Also he just said "Adrien i can hear the depression inside you bruh but youre still kind but you and Marinette are blind as shit."

Also. Yall can date each other.

Also. Butler Jean?? He has ambitions? That sounds terrible-

Also awe. Alec now 😭 i love your long hair!! Why is this makin me mad emotional. Alec im sorry for callin you baald.

Also. "A man who made bad choices because of the pressure of others" sounds uh..kinda..uh. Foreshadowy for my cat son?? Or like. A hit. A hint to what not to do. I have several points but i cant make them

Also. Gabriel lookin ugly as shit today and why is it..orange- are the colors Saturday? Saturated, thats why everyones bright?

Also. Wishmaker is the prettiest akuma, idc. No one can change my mind and also cuz i dont remember what the akumas looked like

Also lmao hi Santa also hi deadbeat british man! Youre a Scalie. Its okay Jagged,also. Does Luka already know?? Cuz god damn he came in clutch for coincidentally- nevermind- hes just really smart-

Also why is robot man tryna kill everyone what the hell-

And awesome ok they got lucaaa

And haha "savin the world with a stuffed animal" i like you

Also. "I didnt have any" GABRIEL POST UP RIGHT NOW. I JUST WANNA TALK 🔪 YOU BITCH

Also. Hhhh bad bad bad-

Also. Marinette looks cute and weird as thebfairy nitter

Also. Lukas close ups scare me-

Also. Lukas basically Flash- ALSO. WHY ARE THE PARENTS DIFFERENT?? PLEASE.

Gabriel close up feels me with rage. Hes fucking ugly as shit. Kill him, he doesnt pass the vibe check

Also. Ladybug didnt hear or see adrien?- huh-

Also. He looks traumatized- and lmao he gets hugged and defeated- thats so cute-

Hawkmoth how you feel knowin you were defeated by a dino stuffie? You LOSER.

And Banana man was the cucumber. I know he was, banana man was your lore? Banana man I wanna know you-

#j.p speaks #ml spoilers #wishmaker spoilers

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framing-visualculture · 4 years

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Garden by Meiting Song

Hello everyone, welcome to Framing Visual Culture. I am Yi Jing Fly. Today’s guest is Meiting Song, a graphic design and motion graphics artist based in New York and Beijing. Her works exude the fun and exciting energy of early 2000s Asian pop culture and embraces girlishness in their character designs and color palettes. She is currently finishing her final semester at School of Visual Arts (SVA) in NYC.

Meiting talks about how she developed a simple aesthetic for her digital designs through the process of silkscreen printing, finding the relationship between colors blocks. She also shares her influences looking back on the nostalgia of 90s and y2k aesthetic shared between her Asian friends, where the common language of communication is English but the visual language of shared pop cultural knowledge transcends words. Meiting ponders why no one aspires to design the branding of feminine hygiene products, and hopes to one day work on such a project herself, where she gets to design a fun and lovable brand image for such a ubiquitous and important product.

I saw that one of your illustration has been translated to a t-shirt design on Animal Crossing?

Haha, yes. In the beginning I tried to make a pixel art design in Adobe Illustrator, but there is some difficulty as the squared corners become rounded in the game drawing tool. It’s hard to come up with original designs as I have to do a lot of drafts, so what I do more now is to turn clothes already available in stores or others’ designs into digital versions in the game. There are also many accounts (like Nook Street Market) dedicated to making designer fashion and luxury items into Animal Crossing outfits. It also feels great when I can wear a luxury brand I really really like without spending any real money!

What is the situation like for young artists and art students now in NYC with Covid-19? Do you feel less affected since most of your works are digital?

For students in the digital art department it’s pretty much the same, we are used to working remotely on our laptops. But I’m taking a risograph course this semester and I can’t access the studios to work on my prints.

The grad show is also affected, as we usually have a huge event at SVA where we get to present our works to industry experts and network with them. I would say our career prospects are definitely jeopardized.

I especially love the animation series and gifs you’ve been working on lately. They remind me of Chinese paper-cut animation enlivened with simple Internet aesthetic. Can you tell us more about how you developed this aesthetic over time?

When I first started out doing graphic design in college I was making a lot of minimal and clichéd designs. We were all inspired by Apple’s aesthetic, but the minimal things I made in the beginning were more unfinished, and I realized I can’t keep doing that.

For the whole of last year I took silkscreen printing classes, and that was where I really challenged myself to think about the relationship between color blocks and each layer I’m making; eventually I learnt the skill of simplifying a very complicated thing. A lot of people like to make complex prints with silkscreen, but that’s not meaningful for me personally. At the time I also looked at a lot of art involving color blocks, and Taiwanese graphic designer Wang Zhihong’s works especially inspired me.

There are strong elements of 90s and Y2K Asian pop-culture in your works, are they from your own nostalgic references?

When I was little I didn’t pay particular attention to the pop-culture I was consuming. It was actually after growing up and meeting many Asian people from other parts of Asia that I noticed these things more. In fact, my inspiration comes more from other people’s sense of nostalgia. For me I watched a lot of Card Captor Sakura, Crayon Shin-Chan, Doraemon, and Hannah Montana. Hannah Montana was actually my fashion icon as a kid. Now I am searching for the songs that were super popular in my childhood, like Jay Chou’s songs, and trying to recall the streets and scenes where I heard them. It brings me a lot of joy doing that.

Another interesting thing I found is that, with my Asian friends, even though we communicate in English, we actually know the celebrity or show we’re talking about, we just don’t know the name in the other language. Communicating this shared cultural experience in English and reaching that moment of connection beyond language is really great!

Fashion and art are very interrelated. Oftentimes we find artists expressing themselves in both their art and fashion, and the aesthetics of both are usually aligned. What kind of clothes are you into right now, and how do they reflect or inspire your creative process?

Right now I’m really into the clothes by designer Rui Zhou (a recent Parsons MFA graduate). I especially like the sinuous lines in her garments, the flow of the curves, as I like round edges. The pearl/ bead element that holds the delicate knitwear together is my favorite part, it almost looks like an exclamation mark! I probably wouldn’t wear the whole look directly over my body, but it’d nice to just wear a piece of the ensemble as an accessory. There are also a lot of singers and celebrities in America that are wearing her clothes in their MVs or photoshoots. I find it interesting that what is indie or non-mainstream is the mainstream in New York.

Ruizhou SS19

I do think that she is one of the designers creating entirely original designs and pushing the boundaries of fashion. You recently did a collab with clothing brand Unif and photographer Monimogi, can you tell us the concept behind that collab?

It began with Moni following me on Instagram, and she liked the Sunrise Mart zine that I made and wanted to collab on something similar for Unif. Sunrise Mart had more of a Shōwa era advertorial aesthetic, with the nostalgic design elements stemming from that time, but for the Unif zine I wanted to make something with a Y2K aesthetic.

A page from Sunrise Mart

A page from Unif zine

I wanted to make something very “Tai” (corny Taiwanese subcultural style), hence the blings and saturated colors, and the use of Traditional Chinese chracters. They are quite characteristic of early 2000s teenage girls magazines as well. In those magazines you will often find horoscope readings or personality quizzes, and I incorporated that into the Unif zine, by making a quiz for “finding your perfect shoes.” I previously made a quiz for finding out what type of drink you are in Sunrise Mart and my friends told me it was pretty accurate lol.

I also made a series of stickers to go with the zine, adding many elements that I have designed on my own. I also slid in a picture of a glass dildo with a heart shape on the top, and I thought no one would find out since its quite inconspicuous, but Unif side found out immediately and exposed me. But they kept it anyway because they thought it was funny. They’re pretty chill about things.

It took quite a while to make this, from the photoshoot in February to layout design of the zine in March. The Covid-19 situation was worsening at this time, and I had to focus my mind on making this really cute and fun zine when in reality I was being super anxious.

#framing visual culture #meiting song #mad.lizzard #artist interview #chinese culture #asian #graphic design #graphic art #motion graphics #unif #fashion #nostalgic #y2k #showa #90s

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seasonofmylife · 7 years

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My Nyssa of Being a Mountain Climber

It was last week. During this time, 10 am in the morning, I was preparing my pack and my body and soul to start my first step (it's my name! NYSSA - first step) to conquer Mt. Papandayan. I felt a little afraid while thinking what was going to happen after the first, second and numerous steps ahead. "Am I gonna make it?" my heart questioned me again and again. I remembered my previous journey to a village named "Baduy Dalam". It gave me a sip of courage that by walking each steps, I will reach the end of my journey. I believe, the happy and beautiful ending will take all of my pains and tiredness. I remembered, a friend of mine was saying, while we were doing the journey to Baduy Dalam, "When you feel about to giving up on the hard track, don't look up to the end of it. Just set your eyes on your foot, take the step one by one, relax your breathing, and keep going." Ah, when I was losing my energy, she offered me her weapon, a small block of traditional brown sugar. It worked! I did it, we did it, almost 10 hours journey with ups and downs extreme, slippery, rocky track. We enjoyed the nature view, misty mountains, the green forest that was being a perfect place for some beautiful yellow butterflies dancing around. Breathtaking! I was enjoying the best coconut ever there, during my journey back from Baduy Dalam, it took my thirst, hunger, everything out of my tired body. By stepping out the gate, it gave me a big big smile of self-accomplishment. I wanted to feel it again. I wanted to experience something new in this journey. It is 10.40 am now and during this time, I had passed my first step, continued to my not-counted steps and of course with uncountable scene that I took along. The scene that took my breath away and made my heart excitedly beaten really fast. The rocky track with small river stream, dancing around some little green bushes was the first scene came to my eyes. On the top of them, the view and the sound of steamy craters, made me imagine a kitchen with a super mom inside, busy of preparing the meal. I was not too afraid anymore as before. My friends in this group tour have a really excessive hobby of taking pictures. The journey was not that tiring because a lot of breaks and rests for posing around. It was really helpful for me as a beginner. Then, it came to the hard part of this journey. We were facing a foresty track after our second break with the sky was not as bright as before. I was not very sure if it is a thick fog or a grey and saturated cloud that was going to pour us with a fresh yet wet rain. It created a sense of higher tense compare to my relax and easy steps behind. We started to walk faster but still took and posed for a lot of pictures. Haha.. Here comes, harder part of the foresty track, it was going up, higher and trickier with rocky and slippery brown carpet underneath our feet. Our big and heavy backpack put more burden to our body. I was carrying 2 kg of water and a lot of stuff that wasn't counted for how heavy they are. "Will I stop here? Is it the time to give up? Will I finish this journey?" Those kind of pesimistic whispers was arguing with a lot more optimistic thoughts inside my mind. I remembered to look straight to the step right in front of my foot and not to look up then got overwhelmed by the height of the track. I stopped when my body told me to and continued when my heart was getting stronger than the pain I felt in my muscle. The obstacle didn't stop there. The rain poured us while we were taking a few more steps to the camping ground. Thankfully, it is only a few more so then we could enjoy some gorengan while waiting for the rain to stop. A warm tent, a bowl of perfectly made warm Indomie and a group of new friends enjoying the free time were the great prize after that. It felt great and cool to spend our weekend as a city people at the mountain not the (boring, for me, sometimes) shopping malls. Unfortunately, this unpredictable rainy season sent us its continous rain through the evening. We had a little interest of going around in a wet rain coat. Some of us do, as I and my sister too, but then instantly they went back to the warm sleeping bag, meanwhile I and my sister preferred to do cooking with Pak Budi and Aki, our cool senior mountain climbers from Vertical Adventurer. This was also a rare experience for me, to find an enjoyable thing in cooking. The night was not that cold. Eventhough, there was some encounters from the wild boars that made us yelling like the Indians to frighten them away. Funny! As always, I can easily fall asleep soon after entering the sleeping bag. During the darkest hours (somebody says it for 3-5 am), while the sun was preparing to break dawn, my toes was freezing cold. It was also the hard part for me. "Am I going to get hyppthermia?" Haha.. As the time's gone, breaking the dawn, it was been very bright already. I realized and felt a little bit dissapointed of missing the early morning "summit attack". It was intended for us to catch the sunrise view. When we were ready to leave our tent to the spot for sunrise, the sun was already there, so high and bright. Ok, we were just going around, taking enormous pictures at the Hutan Mati. It was also a great place with a very unique scene that we couldn't find easily everywhere. Another not-too-great feeling also came from not visiting Tegal Alun. Eventhough, Mas Ari said that it was not worth that much to visit it during this season, I still had an eager to experience it. Anyway, I was still happy enough to enjoy everything in this journey. This is the power of phlegmatic person, isn't it? Going back down, it was wet and cold. Thankfully, we were able to finished cooking, cleaning out, and preraration before the rain got heavier. The track back down was hard on the first part. We went through the Hutan Mati once again. The view was amazing. Mysterious misty forest. Sadly, my not-waterproof-smartphone was not be able to take any pictures along the journey back. I am just hoping that I can keep the memory inside my mind for a lifetime. The misty mountains, hutan mati, busy craters and the stairway back home, also the friends with colorful plastic rain coat. It was really a great feeling to step out the track and feel that I had finished the journey. To look back and saw the welcoming gate that was first shaken my heart. It was then made me even stronger and firm that someday I would be very happy to do this journey again. As Mas Ari said, "There are a lot of summit to be conquered." Close the eyes. Take a deep breath. Walk in to the first step. There will be a lot of wonderful things waiting in front of you. Just be brave. Thanks God.

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umbel-weed · 7 years

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thoughts on 12x15

(wow this got long, I’m so sorry, I didn’t think I had that much to say)

the YAS

CROWLEY. Oh my god this is like the best Crowley stuff we’ve had in ages. I have a friend who’s a Crowley girl and that just seems like such a rough time? It’s like being a Cas girl except that rather than his plotlines being inconsistently good, they are consistently terrible. I adore early-show Crowley, but he’s been so painful for me to watch since the trials that I’ve been starting to wish they’d just wind this up and give him a decent death?

But this, this storyline has me sitting up in my seat. This is something for Crowley to do other than ennui, and something for Lucifer to do other than aimless tantrums. You know the s10 finale when Sam tried to kill Crowley and Crowley went all badass on him? It fell flat for me because right from the start it didn’t seem to have any momentum - Crowley might want to be a badass, but he was still headed back to the exact same dead-end Hell situation. This, though, feels like it could last, and I really hope it does. I want a season or two/rest of the show of Crowley-Lucifer chess matches, Crowley flirting with the promise of tragedy and Lucifer gaining a grudging respect for this ridiculous demon before Lucifer finally manages to beat him.

And bonus, Crowley finally gets a proper thank you from the boys (both of them, even more remarkable) - tacit acknowledgement that the nature of their relationship has fundamentally changed in the last few years, and that treating him like a straightforward enemy is getting both unproductive and grating.

CAS. If I have time and nobody beats me to it I’m gonna make a post and/or gifset about Davy Perez and Cas and family, because no way is it coincidence that Cas tells the Winchesters “you’re my family” and then angels show up saying “we’re your family, your real family.” I think this is why I’m thrilled about this development rather than dismayed that we’re falling right back into the same depressingly repetitive storyline. They’ve actually got me believing they’ve reopened it in order to give it a conclusive resolution.

JOSHUA. I spent a good chunk of the rest of this scene flailing at my screen and screeching JOSHUAAAAAAAAA, I am so excited for this development. Just like, don’t kill him please. He honestly seems like the most plausible candidate for endgame angel leader - an isolationist caretaker who’d encourage the angels to stay upstairs and focus on Heaven running smoothly.

the MEH

The SLEDGEHAMMER to the face that is the Sam-directed subtext in this episode. It’s just, there is no subtlety at all. (I may also be a little tetchy because I appreciated the story behind Grace and her boyfriend, but gaslighting “for your own good” is pretty much the only trigger I’ve got, and it makes absolutely zero sense to me that they even tried it. You’d think Sam would be sensitive to somebody doubting their own perceptions, not... actively trying to make them do so.)

HELL is sort of an ongoing issue I have with the show, not so much Davy’s writing here because technical constraints and he’s basically just following everyone else’s lead. I love getting a peek at the weird and/or horrifying nuts and bolts of running Hell. I love the “which I think we can all agree isn’t enough babies for a decent meal,” and the tort reform, and the idea of demon deals big enough to require the king’s stamp of approval.

But also this stuff is like bringing a suburban lawn dispute to the President of the United States. Even more so, because Hell is huge. Hell is every damned soul since Cain, minus the couple hundred or so killed since season 2. There’s gotta be some sort of hierarchy in place - for Crossroads if nothing else, because it has to appear organized and reliable - and Crowley is both a crossroads demon and a businessman. How the hell has he not learned how to delegate?

The only thing I can think of is that all of Crowley’s reliable middle management people are dead and he hates his job so much he puts less and less effort into finding effective replacements (and is then validated when they turn out to be borderline incompetent scheming backstabbers, perpetuating the spiral).

KELVIN. I am v intrigued by this guy and hoping he doesn’t immediately die, but like... what the fuck kind of angel name is Kelvin. “These are my associates, Barachiel, Raziel, and Celsius.”

I always appreciate WINGPRINTS but it seems odd to have them given the visuals of their actual death? ‘Cause like, wingprints I assume are caused by the angel burning out and searing their afterimage onto the nearest surface, but these angels got poofed and yet their wings kept structural integrity long enough to burn out? …Why? (answer: because Cas needed to know it was angels so he’d check it out :/ )

(also I hate that we get all these visuals of sad broken wings again and then Lucifer gets such a nice shiny old-school wingspan. But y’know. Hate as in “this is killing me, make it stopp”)

Less organized thoughts about siren guts, Beyonce, and a disappointing lack of demon smooches below the cut:

Thinking about it, the bunker scene would have been equally/more funny if Sam was the one covered in monster guts just like *shrug* and Dean was the one being like “jesus christ jesus freaking christ if you touch any of our nice clean things like that I will buy a freaking bathtub just so I can drown you in it.”

(Sam’s hair is of course perpetually perfect, and Dean swears he’s gonna salt and burn Sam’s hairbrush because there were actual siren brain bits in it, seriously, Sam, did I raise you in a barn)

aghhhh creature cam. This isn’t an absolutely terrible example of it - the coloring is fitting, but the edge distortion drives me friggin’ nuts, like I know it’s a convenient visual cue for the camera being monster POV, but every creature cam gives the monster weird shitty vision - including ones who are predators, including ones you’d think would rely heavily on vision. There’s gotta be some way to do it where you can tell the monster has heightened senses rather than spectacularly poor ones. More saturated colors, or particular colors popping? A low-light scene that’s suddenly bright as can be?

I mean at least Solange appears to be a real last name. But like, Cas. Beyonce and Beyonce’s sister? Please, please tell me we get footage of him driving down the road listening to music at some point. Or getting into the Impala and being like, “hello I HAVE BROUGHT TAPES”

Poor Cas has no fucking clue how to deal with this guy. None of the human/hunter scripts he’s learned have prepared him for this. He knows it’s angels and he should be coaxing more evidence out of him, but he just loses his nerve entirely and is like GOODBYE SIR I CANNOT

guy: NO WAIT I HAVE PROOF

cas: *sags with utter despair at ever being allowed to rejoin the land of the sane*

*whispers* they said it. they said the name of the show. I thought there was a rule against this? No seriously, there definitely was at one point, it was on one of the DVD commentaries.

Bless this girl for standing up to two male FBI agents a foot and a half taller than her and twice her age and kicking them the fuck out of her house when they tried to gaslight her. Bless the shit out of this girl.

And bless Davy Perez for managing to put a gloss on Buckleming’s terrible OTT Lucifer-Crowley scene, because now in retrospect it can absolutely be Crowley being OTT and playing all the tropes on purpose. Lucifer hates losing, but he’s gotta hate it even more when he thinks he’s losing to a second-rate comic book villain who just hangs around and monologues at him.

The door to Lucifer’s room just says FACILITIES. Crowley’s keeping him in the facilities. Who did this. Get out.

Uh. Demon knife kills hellhounds? Didn’t they have that at the end of s3 when Dean’s deal was due?

*Dean rolls his eyes and makes a ‘blah blah blah’ gesture while Crowley’s ordering executions*

Winchesters meet Gwen: “your boyfriend was killed by a bear, definitely 100% a normal visible bear, invisible dogs are not a thing”

One hour later: “The devil? oh haha yeah don’t worry about him, we put him back in the box.”

I don’t know how the hell these demons think they’re gonna make a binding contract with Lucifer. He’s not a demon. He’s not bound by Hell’s rules. Even Hell isn’t bound by Hell’s rules - the only thing that makes Hell honor its contracts is the knowledge that breaking them will keep humans from making more contracts.

…gdi WE COULD’VE HAD DEMON 1 negotiating a contract hell-style like a throwback to Crowley and Dick, and Lucifer playing along because if he doesn’t they won’t let him out, and then Demon 1 sealing it with a kiss, and letting Lucifer out, and Lucifer being like “Yeah about that, you just forgot one thing: I’m not a demon” and exploding him.

WE COULD HAVE HAD DEMON 1 MAKING OUT WITH LUCIFER

#supernatural #12x15 #crowley #castiel #long post for ts #u

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hello all! here’s a quick reflection post on this blog in 2018 and more!

STATS

max milestone reached for followers: 500

max milestone reached for notes: 9000

MY TOP 5 POSTS

1. x 9452 notes; lol i definitely cracked myself up a lot while making this. also this post is a rare example of moments when i know how to caption

2. x 4012 notes; another one that cracked me up a lot. i just love him, man. and it’s hard not to notice such strange parallels when you’re watching all his shows on constant repeat for “self care”

3. x 3541 notes; so i see a trend with posts that make me laugh a lot. these three are pure idiots and that’s all i can say

4. x 2710 notes; the COLORS in this one. hoooo boy im in lOVE (although my eyes at night aren’t)

5. x 2534 notes; this one was my first bold text/type of set like this. really REALLy liked making it haha

MY TOP 5 POSTS I LOVED THE MOST

1. x 246 notes THIS ONE! THIS ONE IS ART! IM SO SURPRISED I MADE THIS! there was a LOT OF layering and collaging and OH MY!

2. x 4 notes (dudes wtf?) THIS ONE????? I LOVE THE WHOLE OLD PIC THEME BC IT’S MY CHILDREN THE GUARDIANS AND THAT’S THEIR BRAND AND THEY WERE TREATED IN A WAY THEY DIDNT DESERVE IN IN FINITY WAR AND NOW IM EMOTIONAL AGAIN

3. x 71 notes this one was v funny and it was the first time i played with saturation and one prominent color. idk kinda wished it got around more

4. x 69 notes guys? this one is REALLY pretty

5. x 32 notes i worked VERY VERY hard to fix THE COLORS of this damn MOVIE and i understand it was made that way for a certain reason but still it was a NIGHTMARE and this came out VERY NICELY plz give it more LOVE

POSTS THAT DESERVED BETTER; or, in other words, posts that didn’t get the traction that i had wished that they would get

1. literally all of the ones mentioned in the “posts that i loved” section

2. x x x x x literally all of my 5sos posts :( although, i do understand that at the time i was posting them, i was p new in the new face of the 5sos tumblr fandom lol rip. hopefully next year i’ll be able to interact more with my fellow 5sosfam (rip ill cringe that was v 2013)

3. x x x x x literally all of my gotg posts :( this i do not understand :( although i am felling a little of an exaggeration of what i should fell but lol gotg are my ultimates so fight me

4. x x the few pvris posts :( again, same thing with the 5sos fandom, only i think the pvris fandom is quite small on tumblr? so that kinda made it hard to find people to tag for the gifs :(

4a. x this gifset was of a collab pvris did with tonight alive and it was v pretty :(

5. x x x my few fantastic beasts gifs lol rip i think i just giffed them too late in relation to the waves of gifs created from the trailer for fantastic beasts 2

CONCLUSION

overall, i think it was a fairly good year. at least, it was a fairly good first half in terms of productivity and whatnot with a vacant second half of the year. i’m terribly sorry for that. college and mental health were my priorities and unfortunately tumblr fell short of being integrating in my routine. i’m working on it now, and hopefully we’ll see some results soon!

in terms of gifs/edits, i improved A LOT given the fact that i started end of last year. as you saw above, i had a lot of good ones i’m proud of. with that come gifs that i’m not too happy with, mainly because of the amount of time i spent on them (too much) ( x x x x x ) and their end result. i have a PLETHORA of gif ideas (even some from last year) that i have to get to. some of them are certain time commitments, and that has definitely waned my enthusiasm to make them.

never fear however, for 2019 is a new year! i hope to come back with a bang with better gifs, MUCH BETTER CAPTIONS, and hopefully a lot more interacting with y’all. thank you for an amazing first “official” year of making gifs (i’ve been on this site with this blog for over 4 years and have just started contributing to this mess)

once again, happy new year!

#end of 2018 posts #2018 reflect #a spork psa #she speaks #thank you all!

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