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sparklyeyedhimbo · 4 months

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every month of 2023

i got tagged by @i-got-the-feels @itsallaboutbl and @smileytharn

thank you all for the tag..this was pretty fun hahah

i am tagging @bunnakit @petrichoraline @gabrielokun @supanuts @heretherebedork @firstmix @guzhu-furen

okay lets go lets see my gif journey of 2023

(i am nice and put a read more here hahah)

JANUARY: i was still on my gaymer boyfriend agenda but i also did the the eclipse but it's a comedy. But my favorite gif out of that month is 100% this:

which also was the last gif i did for this series i had started LUL

FEBRUARY: bed friend and my school president was omi-present in this month. I also started more to experiment with adding stuff to my gifs. My favorite out of that month is this one:

this gif is always a mood okay

MARCH: this was the month of midnight museum and my mike in a boss and a babe gifs. This is where doki doki kali style was born (funny because this is also my birth month..so it's fecking fitting ahjsdhasjkd) so my favorite gif of that month is hands down this:

look at all the sporkle (I EVEN POSTED THIS ON MY BIRTHDAY)

APRIL: april was the same as march with some bed friend gif sprinkled in. but mostly midnight museum and me making fun of khatha. but for this month i will go with a whole gifset as my favorite. it's my khatha matching the artifacts in every episode gifset.

my old, pathetic and very stylish idiot

MAY: in may be my favorite joined the ranks of shows i going to make iconic gifsets for. And i was still doing the mike in our skyy gifsets. I think that was the only time i really was crunching out a gifset like on a specific time. Loved it but also it was very stressful hahaha. My favorite gif of this month is this one:

babymode!puen was one of the best things out of their our skyy episodes..and well them as DADS.

JUNE: be my favorite was in the main focus in that month but i also squeezes in my pan-coded bl people gifsets (looking back i did all of this while working FULLtime..idk what i was on) My favorite gif out of that one is this:

the birth of the excessive animated fronts hahaha

JULY: hidden agenda and be my favorite where the gifsets i did on the regular in that month. And i dipped my toes in working with "more then one gif in one gif" thing and i started to animate my own things i added on my gifs. My favorite out of that month is:

this whole set i enjoyed doing so much hahaha

AUGUST: only friends and dangerous romance mayor things i gifed that month. I also started to do so much extra work for my gifs..like create a whole ass dialog wheel for my only friends gifs hahaha. Only friends really was just so mass effect/dragon age coded that i had to. With some of these decisions these idiots did hahah. My favorite out of that month is:

nawin..it will always be nawin

SEPTEMBER: in september i really got in a low of gifing..you could say i was starting the burn out. (because my mental health finally catched up on me and well...) I only gifed 6 gifsets in that month and my favorite out of all of these gif was this one because it was the easiest to do at that time:

look it's ray

OCTOBER: ohh spooky-tober was a treat, i fell into the kiseki: dear to me hole and i think came up with one of the most fun gifsets i have ever made at this point *playboyy looms over my shoulder*. my favorite out of this month has to be this one

tHE YOINKENING!!!

NOVEMBER: November came and brought me playboyy and pitbabe and boy did these show change my brand. A stupid brainfart idea about adding peach emojis on gifs turned into well the fruity bunch and me condition people into thinking about playboyy when they see fruit. i can't really say what was my favorite gif for this month because all of them i love them dearly (even the evil gifset i had to make for @kayatoasted) but to not post yet another version of shell with a fruit penis i am going with this one:

pavel doing the fanficton sniff

DECEMBER: ohh december..my i sleep 50% of the day away and don't get shit done..but i somehow made 3 gifsets THREE..but are they iconic? because two of them are the sign gifsets? And both of them involve jellyfish? maybe? yes? but my fav of all of the gifs i DID is this one

the gif i made for @bunnakit of yai our beloved himbo and first phayatharn shipper!

one thing for sure i let go in 2023..i didn't give a shit about what size my gifs where as long as they where 540 wide i was game hahahah.

#kali talks #mygifs #my gif journey 2023 #tagged in <3

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connie-rubirosa · 1 year

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Hi. I only started followig you (and your lawandordersource blog) very recently, but I just wanted to thank you for gifing the OG series. Thank you so much.

Hey!! Oh my goodness, thank you so much for these incredibly kind words!!! I know the fandom on tumblr is smaller than it has been in the past, but it's literally my fave show of all time so I'm glad that other people have been enjoying the content too (btw I always love reading your tags on your reblogs! :) ).

I actually was on a giffing/content hiatus for a couple of years (i got distracted with college stuff and then the world exploded and for some reason i went to grad school ????) and only recently have i found the work/life balance to return to it, but i remember in my early giffing days i'd be so concerned about note count and how many followers i had and blah blah blah blah, all stuff that really doesn't matter.

giffing for l&o (since it's a smaller fandom on tumblr) has taught me to gif because i love something and not because it will get attention or reblogs or whatever, and that's the true beauty of making this stuff! now i make it because i like it and enjoy doing it, and if it makes at least one person happy, then it's worth it.

so truly, this comment means the world to me, because it means that the stuff i make does make at least somebody out there smile a little (whether that's our eyeroll queen abbie carmichael, detective cutie patootie ed green, or poor little meow meow mike cutter), and that really does make it all worth it.

you probably didn't want that whole rambling response, but i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate this comment. thanks for being here, and i'm always down to chat l&o! :)

#valenshawke #asks #lovely humans!

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crimsonblackrose · 2 years

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I think I kind of get something but it’s still sort of vague. So sometimes there’s monsters/creatures/beings in different lore, like Atlas who want someone else to take over their mantle and are looking for someone else to do it.

And it’s fascinating to watch villains do this. Legacy or passing on their job to someone else. Corrupting good. Like sometimes they have a point, and if you tilt your head enough you get it. But sometimes it’s just flat out murdery dark. Like Hannibal or the Hitcher or hell even Terry Silver from TKK3. They’re a specific string of violent and they read two ways to me. One a tired being wanting to finally rest looking for a replacement that they have to destroy and remold so that it in fact kills them and they can no longer do anything. Which reads to me like this idea that for balance in the universe evil must in fact exist in a very specific way and that if you have to get rid of an evil you need to replace it with something or else the void will destroy everything. (See a lot of Darren Shan’s YA series or even not in evil but for the universal balance: the Hogfather)

Or a desire to not be alone and to have someone else in the world understand them and their darkness. It’s all some older (perceived) darkness corrupting something younger. And every single one of these dark (as in dead dove do not eat dark) romances (if you tilt your head) are absolutely fascinating. Like I know horror is a lens through which a lot is explored, but this reoccurring theme is something I kind of want to poke at and read up on. And it makes me wonder why when remade (Looking specifically at the Hitcher) is that initial story lost whenever a sequel or remake is created.

Like it feels impossible to miss that it’s a queer story. That just scrolling through the tag for five seconds and reading about interviews with creators and seeing parts gifed that I didn’t fully grasp when watching it, that it’s impossible to miss. (even if the censors did miss it) Yet for some reason every recreation swaps the boy out for a girl and turns it into something we have millions of in real life and fiction. And while final girls are great, it feels like just the idea of it kind of destroys the whole point. And it’s not like they stopped making queer coded horror after the 80s. I suppose it’s just a curiosity, a disappointing realization that you can watch something, learn that there’s a sequel and a remake and then go look at a Wikipedia article about them and realize the point was missed by what feels like a football field. And that Daniel LaRusso never got the scene he was meant to with the character he was meant to for this specific string of horror. A line delivered to another character should’ve been given to him if they were going to utter it at all. Although that conversation is a different one and I see why they went the way they did, even if I do believe Daniel was the one that phrase was meant for. I don’t know if this trope would be evil is always looking for an apprentice, or evil is looking for ‘love’ but it feels a bit like both.

#mumblings #I think I'm still in a scardy cat phase #but I've learned that if I watch scary movies with people then talking about it makes it easier to watch #that if it's from the 80s then it's not a problem to watch it #which bodes well for this spooky season

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princessstabbity · 4 years

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#batman the telltale series #batman #the joker #gamingedit #batmanedit #telltale john doe #not gifing the whole fight scene lol the end part is good enough #just wanted the john/joker part

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lyannas-loves · 5 years

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Idk why people still insist d*ny isn’t a bad guy burning the Lannister food and men when Ramsay and his boys did the very same thing to Stannis in season 5

#got rewatch #rewatching the whole series has been eye opening #its been really reinforcing that d*ny is not the hero she or her stans think she is #rewatching has got me vibing with pol!jon #and a lot of stuff tywin said in the earlier seasons has really got me feeling team stark and a possible jonsa ending #should i write a longer post on this #idk #but hey guys im alive #i need to start gifing again #i got so many gif ideas from rewatching got

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bandomgay · 5 years

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There's this fic I reading currently and I wanna make a gifset/edit for it so bad it's so good dude fuck

#im definitely making a favorite fan fiction gifing series #James talks #and i got no school for a whole week bro i betta finish this fic so i can #make these edits

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save-the-data · 2 years

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NAN HAN THE SERIES | s01e04

EP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Don’t normally watch many straight romance dramas, so I might actually start GIFing the whole episode since I like the whole cast and not just these two, but for the moment here are Kay and Tiemai.

Also Max and Tul guest star in the next episode.

#Nah Han the Series #Frank Thanatsaran #New Chunnawan #Romance #Youth #Isan #Drama #Gay Character #Seconday Gay Couple #Asian Drama #Thai #Web Drama #NHTS EP GIF

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of-wounds-and-woes · 2 years

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Can you make gif set for absentia season 3?

Oooh I’m intrigued, can you tell me which episode exactly?

Update: Okay just googled and I remembered the series! So good! So good to the point that my question earlier on “what episode” is pretty useless because Nick was whump’d pretty much throughout the whole season ha!

I remember someone here already GIFing this and I spent the last 30 mins trying to figure out who but to no avail argh! Anyone have a clue?

#Absentia #Patrick Heusinger #whump #you know who you are #plz make yourself known 😅

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hickeys-dickey · 3 years

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Pls share your thoughts about the gays in THAT scene… I would love to read them!

Ahh you are too kind, I am but a little swiss cheese brain but I'll try my best to sum up my thoughts, I have too many! I wanted a chance to grab some screenshots too! I'm going to put a read more because this is a long one buckle up lads.

So obviously the whole punishment for Hickey is designed to humiliate him (I would imagine this is one of the reasons his punishment isn't explained to him, because if Hickey truly was a naval petty officer he would know, and I think it's another way for Crozier to essentially say "I see you" and not in a good way). The fact we're not shown the other whippings shows the importance lies in the scene with Hickey.

I've seen a bit of discussion about his charge of "dirtiness", which isn't listed initially when we see him being questioned by the Captains, and whether or not it alludes to homosexuality but on a quick cursory search it does seem to have been used as a euphemism where an outright accusation of sodomy would mean a death sentence. The way Crozier throws it out there, no doubt to heap the humiliation onto Hickey and add crimes to the list to cover the fact he added lashes on to the punishment essentially for a bruised ego (but that's another matter), suggests a whole lot of venom to the accusation. Hickey's pointed look at Irving and Irving's quick shift of his gaze down suggests they both know exactly why Crozier has listed this among Hickey's list of crimes, and Hickey looks furious for it.

But I think this is also ultimately where the panic begins to set in. Again, there are far greater minds than me who have made excellent posts about queer coded characters in the terror, and I think it's no surprise that most of them are the faces that are focused on in this scence. It is clear long before this moment that Crozier's leadership is lacking, and people have already begun to voice concerns fairly loudly. Tozer for one is livid in the wake of Heather being injured, and the marines have clearly started distancing themselves from both the officers and the men. I feel like this scene, for a lot of characters is a point of major shift in either allegiences or character.

Tozer and the Captains are the first faces that are panned to in this scene and I think the expressions speak for themselves.

Tozer is visibly upset/concerned after the first lash. I do think guilt probably has a part to play, in that is was him whole told Hickey where Silna was, and presumably approved enough of the plan to not rat him out to anyone. Again, very probably part of Tozer's anger at Heather being injured due to what he sees is Crozier's poor management. Fitzjames is stoney faced, but is also the only one looking. As a man who many have noted pushes himself to pick emotional scabs, I think it would make sense for someone who is also notably queer coded and stuggles with trauma to make himself look directly at someone being whipped for a crime he himself might commit. Crozier isn't even looking, whether out of suddenly doubting his harshness or simply triggering something in his own memory it's not clear. I think the end of this shot also speaks for itself.

(Fig 1. Three Concerned (very likely not straight) men contemplate)

The lads at the back behind Mr. Johnson are all looking Directly At the whipping as it is taking place. Interestingly none of the men at the front near the table are looking. This is the stewards, officers, and marines. Whether out of respect or also Concern at their own skins (I think every one of these characters has been addressed as being queer coded at some point, minus the marines who are all, except Tozer, fairly nameless characters).

I'm not a gifmaker which is unfortunate for this section, though this is what is gifed in the beautiful gifset by sashneeka I reblogged (x). Tommy is also visibly upset, whether because he knows Tozer was involved in the plot to kidnap Silna and is concerned for him and any of the rest of the crew who had assisted in someway or voiced support. Billy interestingly does look briefly, and sets his jaw after in a way that suggests he's trying to fight the guilt of being the one to tell Irving about the whole affair with Hickey to paint himself in a better light. It could just as easily be Billy there on that table being lashed, but he somehow rationalises it in his head (probably because Hickey is a little bastard) that he was right in what he did. He does look down fairly guiltily after this, so maybe he hasn't quite settled on an opinion. Jopson also looks incredibly concerned/unsettled, and interestingly looks at Hickey right up until the whip hits where he flinches, and not for the only time in this scene. From what we know about Jopson's past, though not at this point, it may well be he is remembering similar punishment/mistreatment and like Fitzjames looks enough to pick the scab open and flinch from his own trauma.

The closeup of Hickey shows the full extent of his rage and humiliation building, and as I think Adam himself said, they whipped something out of Hickey that day and let him reach this potential that lay inside him (to become an even bigger bastard). He's fully severed all ties and feelings of loyalty after this and it becomes full on train to manipulation station from this point. I have a lot of Thoughts about Hickey also (which I am sure you are all aware of) but I think there was some semblance of Hickey attempting to start afresh on this journey, or at the very least keep his head down and go unnoticed. The trouble is, he notices Crozier as a flawed man, and one not from the upper classes like himself, and his ego can't help but think we're not so different, that could be me with the right connections. Well surprise lads, its murder time now and he's gonna make this old man pay for not recognising initiative but punishing it. I do wonder if Crozier wasn't booze sick and rattled from losing even more men under his command, would he not have come down so harshly for someone clearly defying the Articles to do what he thinks is right and save the men (a la Crozier and his fuck you I'm directly contradicting an order and leading this rescue party myself).

Tozer gets another wee closeup here and again looks like he has resolved something in his head too. Most likely that he thinks Crozier an unfit leader, and admiring Hickey for having the balls to do what he did (Hickey also never reveals anyone else who came with him, and when he talks about Hartnell and Mason's part in taking Silna it highlights their skill and bravery and (he thinks) commends them to the Captain. It's probably the only time we see him building up and applauding others). He looks dead ahead here and seems to have a very steely gaze, like yep fuck it looks like I'm going it alone now. It is interesting that Tozer goes from this to notably disliking Hickey (both at the start and when they are packing up - "you've just given me an excuse to give a big shove". This might be anger at Hickey having caused all the issues with Silna after the fact when Heather gets killed at Carnivale), but still follows him in the end. Hickey has the ability to kill, manipulate, steal, basically do whatever needed for their group to get ahead, which means Tozer can be part of the group and not have to dirty his own hands. I think Tozer probably has a complicated relationship with Hickey, but he does fall for the charm hook, line, and sinker, and the fact he seems concerned for him here suggests how easily he is sympathetic to those he sees as being wronged.

Gibby getting Hickey's blood on his hand (ayy) seems to visibly make him blanch, and I do find it interesting that the shot then pans to Tommy as though they are looking at each other when they are stood side by side. The similarities between them maybe? (I've seen and reblogged a lot of discourse about Tommy loving Tozer, maybe another nod to no one being so different to the man on the table?) Irving doesn't get much of a close up in the rest of this scene but bless him he looks equal parts terrified and guilty (another man who has been noted as having a list of many things to distract from the Gay Thoughts like why do you need to distract from Gay Thoughts Irving?). He also has the Far Off Look of trauma about him, probably because he too could just as easily be on that table.

I have many many thoughts about the way Hickey turns to look (and fucking smile???) at Crozier next, which is when Crozier is looking directly at him and Fitzjames looks at him. Like if I were Crozier I think my fucking blood would chill, look at this man. Being humiliated and lashed still hasn't broken him, if anything he has just become fully unhinged and looks at Crozier as though to say "did you really think this would work?". I would also say, this man has fairly quite for someone who is at this stage something like 22 lashes in? Like what the actual fuck Hickey?? I fully belive Hickey to be a psycopath, and most of what he does in the beginning of the series is an attempt to stay hidden until they get to Hawaii and he can ditch the crew, but I think it is fairly safe to say he isn't hiding it any more.

And he knows this is going to make the men doubt Crozier - I can't do a proper search because I am using my work laptop atm, but I seem to remember reading that a punishment greater than 12 lashes required a court martial (probably why Little steps in to say so when Crozier orders his punishment as well as them technically being lost at sea), which would be another strike against him as a Captain. Not only that, but Crozier does seem to grant him some mercy in letting him only be lashed I think 23 or so times? Probably because the tension is fucking palpable in this whole scene and Crozier can either choose to claw back some sense of control on the matter, or deal with the consequences of many people admiring Hickey for what he has done for the crew and start a mutiny. I think this is the first time Fitzjames sees the damage Crozier is doing to himself with his choices as Captain, and is probably just as concerned at the look Hickey is giving him. He knows this has unleashed something in this tiny rat bastard too, and that he will become the physical manifestation of Crozier's self-destructive tendancies. Crozier perpetually comes to everything just a fraction too late to change anything - he never saves any of the men, only comforts them as they die, and a lot of this has to do with his own ego and bad decision making, and I think this is the first example here of the fact his actions are having an effect on others to the point it will be his downfall.

Anyway, to round it off, I think this scene really epitomises the notion that Hickey is a mirror to the rest of the men, and they see their flaws in him. Those who have questioned Crozier's captaincy look concernced knowing they too could be being lashed. They too would have tried to get Silna to stop the Tuunbaq hunting them. Those who are queer or queer coded know they too could be being lashed for it. Crozier himself sees his unwillingness to follow the Articles in him, sees his own insubordination, and feels what Sir John meant when he said his position afforded him deference. Hickey may as well be a metaphor for all the men being lashed, theres not one among them who haven't voiced wanting to do what he has done. Let them without sin and all that. This is make or break for who holds loyalty to the Captain, and the turning point for who is going where. I think everyone except Jopson, Irving and Fitzjames ends up in the mutineers camp, and Irving ends up killed and mutilated by Hickey and Fitzjames is scavanged by them. Theres not one of them that isn't haunted by what happened in this scene, and Hickey would end up being the death of every single one of them. The only one who remains loyal after this is Jopson, who thinks his care and duty to the Captain can outweigh his other sins. Fitzjames and Crozier have a stronger relationship once he recovers from his withdrawal, yes, but Fitzjames also keeps him in check now (I'm thinking of Edward Little being threatened with flogging again because of course I am), and it is another step too late for Crozier's self-destruction. I've seen a Hickey/Fitzjames Christ analogy on here before too, so I hope you'll forgive me in comparing them, but Hickey in this scene really does get punished for everyone else's crimes in this scene, and becomes a sort of Christ-like figure, reborn as a complete version of the worst of himself from the pain of being lashed. They whipped something out of him!! Anyway, that about sums it up!

#long post #thank you for asking I could talk about the nuances of the terror for days #hickey thoughts

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canmom · 3 years

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Animation Night 62: early Yoshinori Kanada

Hello friends! It’s that time of the week.

This week it’s time to go a little oldschool, shine our spotlight on someone who is widely hailed as the most influential Japanese animator in the whole history of our medium: Yoshinori Kanada! (Apologies anyone who wanted a weeb break. I’ll try and give you one next week.)

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Kanada was born in 1953, and rose to prominence in the 70s as one of the first animators to get an individual reputation as a distinctive ‘charisma animator’, earning him magazine interviews and inspiring fans to seek out his cuts across different productions.

(For this post I’m going to be leaning heavily on the research of Matteo Watzky, who just concluded a long series on Kanada and his successors. Big thanks to that guy!)

But he didn’t come out of nowhere. One of his major influences is the work of A Pro, one of the first major offshoots of Toei Animation back in the 1960s led by Daikichirō Kusube and Yasuo Otsuka. In contrast to Toei, who at the time tended to emphasise realism on films like Horus: Prince of the Sun, Otsuka’s style emphasised energetic comedy, doing everything they could to overcome the restrictions of limited animation with secondary action, irregular rhythms and strong poses. You can read about the details here...

Matteo writes:

it’s important to note that Kanada could be considered one of their students: it’s on (partly) A Pro shows like Akado Suzunosuke (1972-1974), Dokonjô Gaeru (1972-1974) and Kôya no Shônen Isamu (1973-1974) that he did some of his first in-betweening work, and even some key animation.

but he advised me on Twitter that Kanada didn’t actually work directly at A Pro, so my bad there!

Another major influence on Kanada can be traced to late 60s gekiga anime aimed at a slightly older audience like Star of the Giants, Ashita no Joe and Tiger Mask, whose animators started experimenting with photocopying drawings directly onto cels to create a much more rough, textured look, and layouts emphasising 3D motion and complex camerawork. Both would become a hallmark of Kanada’s style, and the recognition of their distinctive creators like Shingo Araki and Keiichirō Kimura helped lay the groundwork for the role of ‘charisma animator’.

So what of Kanada himself? He started, like pretty much all animators of the time, as an inbetweener (dougaman), drawing the final lineart and inbetweens prior to colouring. Apparently he despised this work, finding it tedious and repetitive, and part of the reason for his idiosyncratic timings when he became a key animator was to spare his inbetweeners the same fate.

Kanada’s early work was considered unremarkable and even unskilled by his peers like Takuo Noda, but he very rapidly rose to prominence around 1974, marked by his animation on a half-episode of Cutie Honey in which most of his stylistic flairs were present, at least in early form.

(stealing this image from Matteo since nobody seems to have gifed any of it)

So what is this Kanada style, or Kanada school? It’s hard to describe a graphic style in words, but if you wanted to point to a few elements associated with Kanada...

extreme poses, designed more for drama than naturalistic motion

highly varied frame timings, combined with big changes of pose to create really sharp, snappy movements

impact frames and speed lines

elaborate background animation sequences where the camera flies along tunnels or corridors

shiny surfaces with complex specular highlight shapes

bright lens flares

complex fire effects with ropes and coils of flame (especially in the signature Kanada dragon, since homaged by of animators)

Of course, these didn’t appear as a package of course, but took time to develop. Kanada was not yet the star of the industry in 74 - that took a few more years, during which time Kanada worked at Toei, and then went to their major subcontractor No. 1 along with others in the aftermath of the strike, before finally founding his own studio Z2 with Shin’ya Sadamitsu and Kazuo Tomizawa in 1977. Z2 quickly gave way to Z3, and then that too folded Kanada returned to No. 1. Somewhere in this time, he did some of his definitive work on Galaxy Express 999, defining those ‘liquid fire’ explosions and creating all kinds of characterful mecha animation.

These years are notable mostly for the rapid evolution in the ‘Kanada school’ style. By this point this was not just one animator’s idiosyncratic style, but increasingly a movement of other ambitious young animators who’d been influenced by Kanada such as Masahito Yamashita, as they animated projects like Urusei Yatsura...

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By the 80s, Kanada and a number of his proteges once again formed a studio of their own in the form of Kaname Pro, and it’s here that one of Kanada’s best known works, the Birth OVA, was made. Combining some absolutely astonishing animation with a chaotic, hard to understand sci-fi story about a girl on a hovering platform in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (notably very little of the writing on Birth bothers to say what it’s about!), it was very much an animator-first project... which means, however flawed, it should be a fascinating and unique artefact.

And... I’m out of time! Very frustrating; there are a million more things to say about Kanada’s later career and the million people he influenced since (not just in anime: he was also one of the inspirations for the superflat art movement), but the hour is upon us, so let’s get on and watch some films. Tonight our main features are going to be Birth and Galaxy Express 999, which showcase some of Kanada’s best known animation. If we end up with a surplus of time, I might yet put in some other Kanada stuff, we’ll play it a bit by ear.

Animation Night 62 will start very shortly, so hop on into twitch.tv/canmom and we’ll check out some 70s-80s classics from one of the greatest animators. And I’ll add finishing this post to the big list of ongoing projects ><

#animation night

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sheikah · 3 years

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i get real bummed when people shit on mal because listen... i get it. i do. his character isn’t perfect but!!! the show is supposedly tweaking him (in a way thats Leigh Approved) and archie is the cutest lil dude. so i’m worried people won’t even give him a chance which is Big Time Dumb. also i am just as excited that ben barnes, THE prince caspian of narnia, is on the show but... how many times is the universe gonna give us a woman of color in the lead only to have the internet only receive and fawn over the white dude :\

I agree with everything you stated here and I'm thrilled with Jessie's casting. She has already become the character for me and I can't imagine anyone else in this role. She is Alina and Alina is Jessie 🥺 I also agree that the series is likely going to positively change and favor Mal and that Archie should be protected! I won't be hating on Mal at all and will continue sharing content of the character from time to time, too. I also share your concerns about people praising a white dude more than more diverse members of the cast. But I'm going to be fawning over both Jessie Mei Li AND Ben Barnes. I really love Ben as an actor, and have loved these characters since before casting decisions were made, so I guess I'm going to be contributing to your disappointment a bit 🥲 Ben as the Darkling has been and will likely continue to be the main source of my personal hype 🤷‍♀️ I've been enthusiastically indulging in and gifing and fangirling over all his work for the last year and loved the Darkling as a character well before that, and that will continue. I still love and will be posting about everyone else, of course. But my url is what it is for a reason. I like my problematic emo wizard boy 🖤

But I don't think it's the case that the fandom as a whole will favor only him. I've seen more edits of Alina than the Darkling and more edits of the 3 seconds of the Dregs than the TGT characters haha. And that's a good thing! Everyone has their faves and I think there is going to be a healthy balance of content overall.

#i just love him #but yes i adore jessie as well and will be hyping her as alina every chance i get #answered

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Hi! i just got a tumblr account very recently (but i’ve been reading stuff in the vikings fandom basically since the beginning of covid lockdown last year when i started the show, but anyways lol). i really love your writing and i was wondering if you had any tips about starting up a page or anything? i love writing but i’m much more used to the wattpad layout, and i also love editing photos/videos but i’ve always been on insta for that. on both of thsoe platforms there isnt really much of a fandom for vikings though, which is the main reason i joined/got into tumblr. i’ve never worked on here before so i just wanted to ask if you have any advice for me. thanks so much for your time! sorry this is so long!

Hey love!

First of all, welcome!! The series may be over, but the fandom is super active! And we love new members!

Tips for Tumblr? Let me see...

Well, first of all always save your drafts away from Tumblr. You can have them saved on Word or use Google Drive for saving your documents, but do not trust Tumblr drafts to keep your work and do not write directly on Tumblr post editor to avoid losing your time and effort if the site updates all of a sudden!

For editing and gifing, take note of the size limits for Tumblr images. Some images and gifs can be rejected if not inside these limits and the editor won’t always say what’s the real problem haha.

About mobile and web apps, take note that their codification is different which means, posts edited in Mobile sometimes won’t be possibly editable on the web and vice versa. So, choose your favorite version and stick to it (I love the web, more features available, fewer errors...)

Over anything, ignore the haters. They’re not numerous in our fandom and the few who exist are nothing but attention whores: ignore them, they’ll search for attention somewhere else XD

If you already have a Wattpad profile active, feel free to link it for us! Shout your work out, love! There are lots of Wattpad readers around that will love to know you’re here too!

Tag your work and respect warnings, This one is always good to remember cause tagging your work will help it to spread around (the first 5 hashtags you put on every work will settle it on the searches for those tags helping you to appear around) and the warnings are super important to avoid people from being surprised by triggering content in our fictions. Since we don’t have a block exclusively for warnings - like Wattpad offers - it’s always good to remember to place these warnings before your work starts. :)

If you chose the web version of the platform, remember to use the “keep reading” bar whenever is possible! The web posts can be very long and believe me, in the mobile version, the longer posts become a real nightmare for the users who’ll have to scroll down a lot of touches before reaching the end of our posts. The “Keep Reading” bar feature adds a cut on your post that allows the user to jump your post easier since it appears like a small post on their dashboard and the ones who want to read you will be redirected to your post by clicking on the bar allowing them to have clean access to your content without the many other things their cellphone has to load to read on their dashboard.

Ah! Important one! Prepare a Masterlist post! Whenever you post a new piece of work, put the link for it on your masterlist and save your masterlist as a link on your blog’s subtitle so it will be easier to reach it! New readers will search for your masterlist whenever they like your work, trying to reach more of your fiction without having to scroll down through your whole blog. And also, it helps recurrent readers to find that particular work of yours they love so they can read again or reblog or even show the links and recommend you to their mutuals! Here is mine, as a sample, if you need :) (LINK)

Count on me s2 If there is anything I can do to help, feel free to contact me! It will be a pleasure to answer your questions and help you integrate into this amazing community we have here!

All the love!

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