#i also do not know how to take photos

[yuviur]

Shot by Carol, on one fateful Saturday morning

#the bumper sticker made me cringe so hard but ya'll can't tell me he doesn't have it smh #darryl is so stiff in photos.. you just know he has no idea what to do with his hands #also Carol originally wanted to take a pic of Grant but you know he really hates it... she couldn't convince him to come out of the car #not me spending hours on the Honda website staring at pictures of Honda Odyssey 2018 model from every possible angle #and one last thing - how tf did carol let darryl get away with buying a $40k 7 seat car when they're a family of 3?? Only Matt knows I gues #aaaand if you read all this already - can you spot the Charleston Chew? >:3 #darryl wilson #grant wilson #even though it's mostly his shoes lol #my art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dnddaddies #dndads s1

[mistykaru]

i got stuff from the csp asset store and i wanted to play with it so this is a mess but i did have fun and i kinda dig the vibes

#andreil #aftg #the foxhole court #all for the game #i just thought the lil computer window borders were so cute #also okay listen my vision: #lmao i just wrote college au and completely forgot the canon story is in college pls #but like alt where neil does the photos bc he gets a camera #art majors???? #idk what's going on my vision is gone i am blind now #it was like a we pass each other on campus and a double take with warning signs is happening #i just thought the warning signs looked kinda cool #i also wanted the wavey thing to be a heartbeat w a skippy in it but i didnt know how to make it look nice it wasn't cooperating #and honestly i was getting tired of trying to figure out what should go in the space #i am not an aesthetic person idk how people do the fancy lil edits all the time #i draw i dont do graphic design i dont have the frog within necessary #myart #anyway im running away now bc idk how i feel about this bye

[clouffy]

would anyone be interested in commissioning me for a tiny painting. like a standard 3 x 3 inch square base that could be modified like so to be bigger or smaller or whatever. I specialize in glitter

#from the clouds #i might make an etsy but ive heard things about how theywork i dont like. i dont know many alternatives though #i just still dont have a computer but still want to do commissions for money to repair it #i could also send it to you #i can do bigger paintings too but i dont have any finishedones atm since obviously those take longer. but i have 3 nearing completion #i can work off photos as the first on is based on a photo

[icewindandboringhorror]

Just curious what the average level of personal investment in these sorts of things is. Like, how much do people usually get into silly stuff like this their friends ask of them? etc. etc. Which I know, only surveying a small sample on a very specific website means I'm not getting an exact average idea lol, but.. curious nonetheless .. Maybe reblog for bigger sample size but also this is not very serious at all/not worth a call to action gbhjbhjb

#which I know this could be context dependent like.. maybe you'd normally dress up but on a week that #you feel sick you wouldn't or etc. etc. - but I mean.. GENERALLY. in the most general average scenario #where you have the average amount of health and free time that you always do. etc. just based on your personality #and level of investment in these things - what on AVERAGE are you most inclined to do #also of course assume they communicate with you ahead of time and are not like planning a part last minute #like 'throw together costume in 5 hours and show up tonight randomly' or etc. I would hope that if we're going with the #AVERAGE of things - most people's friends have better communication skills than springing entire parties #on people last minute lol #assume you have like.. a few days-a week or so to prepare. however ealrly people usually start talking about #birthdays. In my experience it's usually one or two weeks ahead of time. Like 'oh next weekend' or 'oh two weeks from now' etc. #ANYWAY.. feeling a little Sick again of course but still trying to get some photos or something posted #AGAIN i promise I am not going to exlcusively post polls and ntohing else forever hgkjgnekj #I just really really love the ability to post polls and have always my whole life been obsessed with surveying people #I used to think I wanted to do that as a career somehow like.. be one of the people that does psychological interviews #or produce interview asessments for a company or etc. etc. I am always the one friend in the group thats giving out custom made #surveys or asking for other simialr stuff (did you ever take an mbti quiz? how about enneagra #m?? oh yeah I know they're not really scientifically valid or antyhing but like... DID you take them?? huh?? did you??please?? ghjj) #I simply cannot resist.. posting a little poll every once in a while.. as a treat #whilst I still fall behind on like actual content and costumes and stuff gbjhbjh #New poll adventure should be not as much of a wait as the last one was though since I already have the writing #for it really. I just have to do the ms paint sketch. hopefully no unexpected other health issues will get in the way #*** *** *** #< (anytime I do these three star patterns it is an ocd compulsion not me bleeping out words or something just ignore it lol) #(it means something secret in my evil brain just pretend you do not see it. significant only to me) #BUT YEAH.. ... poll... what type of costume party atendee are you? #:0c

[junkie-virus]

evolution of my narrator designs ! (─‿‿─)ノ” ✧

close-ups & doodle dump below !! (+ sum stanleys that r tbd…)

#tsp fanart #tspud fanart #tsp narrator #tspud narrator #the narrator #tspud stanley #tsp stanley #tsp #tspud #the stanley parable #stannarrator #stanarrator #which way do yall spell that ? either im taking it #my art #euaheawa i dont know how to tag……. #i post like once a yr solely bc i cant be assed 2 gather all the art i do but also bc tagging sux….. #i actually have more art w Them #including lovebug design !!! #but the stupid tumblr photo limit >:( #so for now this. #ill probably post more #maybe #(itd be rlly cool 2 have an auto tagger of sorts… like examining similar posts n what they tag n using em. that probably exists & i do that #like… manually. but it would be cool. or maybe i shld just join one of those group accs w one main person postin n accessing it. i #certainly post enough 2b the mod that shows up once in a blue moon & who ppl r like ‘oh so u arent dead’. #cursed thought. anyway)

[th1rt33n]

not usually the type of art i do but! i've been getting into working with clay and have been playing a lot of half-life recently so i made a funny little headcrab pot and i'm pretty proud of how she turned out :o)

#hl #hl2 #hla #half life #half life 2 #half life alyx #headcrab #half life lamarr #lamarr the headcrab #she's supposed to be lamarr but i guess u can't really tell that lol #i am aware that i do not know how to take good photos #god cursed me by having a badly lit room and having no knowledge of how to counter this #but i think she came out pretty well #also i'm fairly new to clay and stuff so if it looks off it's bc this is like the second clay thing i've made ever lmao #my art #sculpture #ceramic art

[geminibookbinding]

Alright it's time for the first photo dump of Binderary 2024!

Started off by making some author copies of a collab that happened in 2022 (I've had this project in the works since then.... we're not going to talk about it :x ). All fics were named after songs and the idea was to make a 'mixtape.

All books have similar yet different pink covers and I got to use a foil quill for the first time with... mixed success. (To be fair, I opened it and went 'yeah I can do this' with limited practice so that's on me)

AND I got to use Church paper (warm white, I don't think I'm ready for cream yet) and let me say I am obsessed with it now!

As for the works themselves and the creative titles, we have:

Wet Dreamz by kweenkatsuki, now kweenkatsuki-fics

One of Them Will Destroy the Other by kingkatsuki

A WHOLE FOUR PART SERIES by katsukikitten Hills Have Eyes E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE She's a God Dark Red

If you look closely, each cassette has ABCD for which part it is

And Demons, and Dancing on my Own, by bakugotrashpanda

And finally, the main title art

I tried to keep all the art in the same style to keep the cohesion.

The two things I'm most excited about this year is getting to use the new finishing press I made (is that what they're called?) where I got the CLEANEST edges to date

and @rat-juicee gifted me a new stamp for my books! I have been WAITING for February so that I can make everything in my to be bound pile and use this!

(Completed: 2/3/2024)

#binderary 2024 #book binding #bookbinding #do i know what pictures to take? no. do i know how to make the pictures i do take look nice? also no. #it doesn't help that I like the actual text to be the same every time with 11pt garamond so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #alright tumblr. please post this and keep all the links and photos as they are. please.

[thebirdandhersong]

I think the problem. the problem is that I have always been afraid of not being invited into the inner circle. and am always wanting to be part of the inner circle. inner circle being the circle of love and companionship and communion. of course being a TCK and a bit of a sheltered homeschooled oddball child has nudged this further along over the years. but I didn't realise how STRONG that desire still burned. to actually be wanted.

#in other words today has been an oddly sad day! discovering that the friends you've made have their own group chats #that are separate from the general group chat (that no one ever talks on) that you aren't a part of is......... i don't know #i KNOW i'm liked by them and i KNOW they love me but do they WANT me around? #like. i know i'm not UNpleasant to have around. i am a good listener and a good conversationalist. #i work very hard at it because it doesn't come naturally to me. #but clearly that's not enough to be added to exclusive group chats! clearly that's not enough to be part of inner core circles #i don't know this just came out of nowhere and i feel as if i've been slapped in the face #sitting at a table where people are talking about the thing someone sent to the group chat #or the photo or quote or reel someone sent to someone else is....... bizarre. #i am trying not to be so hurt by it! i am trying not to take it so personally #it happens. i know it happens. i know it will keep happening. it is just that i thought this was a place where i wouldn't be lonely #and this is the dorm community i've invested so much of my time and energy and love into since last year. #so i think i'm justified in being a little upset! #i'm not crying about it but that's because i'm not about to cry with other people sitting here in the study lounge! #the math is probably really wrong here but i thought that if i poured love in for the sake of pouring love in #somehow somewhere along the line i would also receive love. that i would actually be a part of this community. #anyway that's not going to change how i live here! i committed myself to doing my best this last year #because i don't want anyone to feel left out or unwanted or lonely. i already made the decision #to do everything i can to love the people here. #i'm not trying to toot my horn this is just what i actually want to and have decided to do! #i have birthday cards planned! i have midterm snacks planned! #i've just worked out how i can print christmas and easter cards and stickers! #i'm GOING to love darn it all i'm GOING to pour love in #i think it hurts especially because there's the boy problem going on too #of not being wanted in an area that i DIDN'T expect to be wanted in #and then learning that there is a collective not being wanted in this whole community #it is a Lot and it is very hard and i don't know what to do with it! #i have had this lie (that i'm inherently unloveable and undesirable) in my head since childhood #and i've worked SO HARD to shut that voice up. and it is so so hard to not believe it right now

[fairyroses]

She was the only thing I was living for. I’m sorry for your loss, sir, but right now we need to get you airborne. Police will be here any minute. I’m well aware of that. I’m turning myself in.

— SMALLVILLE, “Bizarro” (7.01)

#it's wild how they were actually doing some interesting character work with lex in the beginning of s7 #('I wasn't miraculously saved so I could run away from my demons. I was brought back to face them' etc etc) #only for them to just go 'nah' midway through and toss out all nuance and complexity in favor of a million veritas-related retcons 🙃 #not sure if that's because of the writers strike or just this show's usual incompetence but it's a real shame either way #anyway I really liked this plot/scene #lex didn't kill lana but he knows he fucked up in a multitude of other ways in his relationship with her #so he's willing to be punished for a crime he didn't commit bc he doesn't know how else to make up for what he's done #(also him keeping the cute photo of them folded up in his pocket is so heart-achingly sweet I actually can't take it) #smallville #smallvilleedit #svedit #lex luthor #lexana #dcmultiverse #sv 7x01 #my gifs #god this gifset has been languishing in my drafts since *checks* FEBRUARY?!?! jfc... #I guess it's a good thing I have so many unposted sets saved since I don't actually have time to make new gifs for the next few months #but still. lol

[oifaaa]

So a genuine question. I'm somewhat new to DC comics (was on the edge looking into the fandom for most of my life but only recently started reading the comics) and I thought the "Tim stalked Batman and Robin with a camera" was a canon thing? I can't remember the first time I saw it, but I feel like it was mid 2010s, so earlier then what I thought was the start of the Tim Angst Era of fanfic. Like I know I've seen fanart of it from people who said they don't really read fanfiction, so I assumed it was a canon thing. Do you have any idea what might have started it? In my experience fanon stuff starts with a grain of truth somewhere, even if by the end it's lost that grain.

Yes I do it actually did start in canon basically Tim does take pictures of Batman but its after jason dies since it's bc batman is killing himself and he needs evidence to prove to Dick that Bruce is killing himself so that dick will want to become robin again (it doesn't work but he tried) and he does stalk dick and the titans a bit since after the titans come back from space dick decides to leave them for a wee while so tim has to stalk them to figure out where dick is

#ask #anon #so yeah people take the tim took photos of bruce one time #and turn it into a he was actually somehow doing it for years #even tho when you think about the logic of how baby tim was somehow following around these two heros #and how dangerous it would have been considering you know gotham #it is silly #like baby tim has the Internet #theres other safer ways for him to keep up with batman and robin #but yeah Ive also said before #that i enjoy the idea that the reason why tim was able to get the photos of batman #was bc he was being reckless after jason died

[sarcasmchandlerbing]

Some Leafs players collages

#fuck i can't do any other collages/players/teams anymore cos the app i did the thing was taking too much storage/space on my phone 😭🤬😟 #toronto maple leafs #tml #maple leafs #leafs #nhl #collages #mitch marner #matthew knies #auston matthews #tyler bertuzzi #ryan reaves #william nylander #nicholas robertson #john tavares #nick robertson #mitchell marner #my edit #sarcasmchandlerbing #hockey #ice hockey #sports #tried to do mark giordano and timothy liljegren also but then phone/gallery was starting to act up too much and then i had no choice but to #delete the app or whatever. it was fun making these while it lasted 😭 wanted to make much more of these but whatever! no fun for me then! #idc if people ignore these because yes i know these are not very... how would you say... professional? awesome? cool? these are easy to make #not so greatly done and i just use others photos (from google duh - but they are some others photos) - but i want to make badly made things #okay idk what am i saying anymore but if anyone is reading this (no they're not!) have a very nice day! 😊 #hockey players #nhl players

[kreftropod]

saw an albino slug yesterday

effervescent

#couldn't stop thinking about that one twilight effervescent snail post so I had to #sadly didn't take any photo as there were people visiting but carefully moved it off of the walking path at least #just a regular black slug but white/almost transparent in color instead #and a fully grown adult so it was doing pretty well for one standing out that much #if I happen upon it again I will take pictures #also don't know how to tell albinism and leucism apart in slugs so I'll just call it albino. not like the slug cares #kreft rambles

[c-kiddo]

i need 2 go into critical role universe and show caduceus movie on a laptop in bed (with extremely comfy back support pillow) and also ibuprofen and fidget spinner and ricecooker and taking photos of bug and moss on a phone . .. . ..

#kiddo say #like how my granny takes photos of lichen n sends them 2 me :') #was going to try n be cool n casual and just post unfinished sketch but im scared so i shouldnt force myeslf #but also itd be nice to be able to post art more casually .. . i do not know

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

im going to move them so they arent overlappyng. but i need you to see them forever. featuring the return of tablet pressure

#as king of the pillheaded boys im... still at a loss as to how to make him look good. #theyre trying to take nice school photos. larry and blaines parents will kill them if they dont send home a nice pic of them in uniform #but spader can do whatever he wants of course. also hes gonna die so i let him do anything he wants :) #(like tell jokes and ruin larry and blaines cute school picture)(its okay HIS mom will LOVE it. look how cute HE is.) #wip #you wouldnt know it but this is not just going to be a photo of these kids. but theyre obv the spotlight as usual to me #digital

[clownsalot]

ok so anyway double first impressions and observations!! idk if ill be repeating any points other people have already brought up since im typing this without having looked through the milgram tag. and this probably won't be all that organized despite my attempt of neatening it up but ah well. i tried grouping my observations by point at least, but they're not in an order that follows the sequence of the mv.

also id like to preface this that firstly a) i don't have any personal experience with DID whether it be in myself or with people i know so please be patient with me if i say something wrong and b) for now please assume im going with the 2koto theory? not because i dont believe in the trikoto theory but because i haven't really dug that deep into it and so id be bad at spotting evidence of it myself

also im mostly going off of what i see visually in the mv since i haven't gotten to analyzing the lyrics yet

for now im referring to host mikoto and alter mikoto as bokuto and orekoto respectively.

the rest of the post under the cut!!

1. magazine/print(?) texture

the first thing i took note of was the magazine/print(?)(there's definitely a better term for this because just saying 'paper' doesn't fit. someone please help) texture that shows up when the mv kind of fragments. there's a lot of text that shows up like printed letters on a newspaper/print(?) that floats around.

how i find this interesting is actually in contra:st to the magazine texture on cat and the magazine/scrapbook format of this is how to be in love with you:

whereas kazui and mahiru center more on the clean perfect 'advertising' feel of magazines, mikoto's texturing in double feels more like the kind of crinkled old magazines you rip and mess up for collages in primary school.

it's kind of interesting, actually: with kazui and mahiru, it's their portrayals of the idealized romanticized forms of love and romance they're being sold. so with mikoto, is it the shreds of the idealized 9-5 grind he's been sold? since it seems to be implied in double and also one of the shots in undercover that mikoto is pushing himself too far for the sake of his work, and it's well known that the work grind in japan is crushingly brutal and overtime is not only expected but actively encouraged (i may be reaching with this one though? i dunno man).

2. the eye imagery

the next thing i noticed was that double has a lot of eye imagery. it's really interesting because it's like it's carrying over the feeling of surveillance from MeMe by replacing the camera povs that feel like spying on mikoto with more straightforward eyes on him.

what else is interesting to me though is the way the eyes watching mikoto in double contrast with the eyes watching fuuta in backdraft. as far as i can tell mikoto and fuuta are the only ones in milgram with eye imagery? but there's a difference in that while fuuta's eyes are disturbing partly because of the fact that they're semirealistic, mikoto's in contrast are a lot more abstracted in comparison. i wonder what exactly the eyes in double are supposed ro represent, since fuuta's are meant to represent judgement. given the stylistic differences between them im really curious as to what the similarities and differences would be between how they both view being watched? i can't come up with anything concrete at the moment though.

3. across the train carriage

i think throughout double there's a kind of shot composition/framing that shows up a few times, and it's that orekoto and bokuto seem to be across the train carriage from each other.

in the first image, it looks like bokuto is being reflected in the window behind orekoto, meaning he'd have to be sitting across from him in the train carriage. in the second, an identical pair of hands are overlapping orekoto's image, and since i doubt there'd be a mirror cutting right through the middle of the carriage in front of the doors, it'd have to mean that they're mirroring each other's actions from across the train carriage.

(you'll have to forgive me for it being in still images, i wish i could get it in motion but i am. not a gif maker. it's at roughly 2:16 though for anyone who needs it)

it also shows up in this scene which i like a lot!!! where the camera starts from a mikoto leaning haggardly against the train door looking at something behind the camera, who im assuming to be bokuto, before it pans up towards the ceiling and down again to the mikoto holding onto the bloody bat, who im assuming to be orekoto.

the Across the Train Carriage framing is really really really cool in and of itself and i love it!! but that panning shot has me rolling it's so good and i love it so much. the way it pans back down to orekoto so he's upside down makes it so disorienting and difficult to process especially with the scribbly effects over it. this could be reflective of how bokuto feels about this whole thing himself, but i donthave much of an analysis for this point, i just wanted to point it out because i think the directing of it is really really really damn cool

4. phone call home

yea i don't have an analysis for this part either, i also just find this sequence of events really really cool. just—the calmness of the phone call over the flashes of orekoto violently 'taking care of' the things troubling them!!!! it's the juxtaposition of the mikoto who calmly tells his mom that everything is alright and he's fine vs the mikoto that takes care of things for him that allows that kind of calmness to exist in the first place. it tickles my brain

although there is the thing of: if people are right that the mv visually distinguishes between bokuto and orekoto through the presence of eyebags, it is a little odd that the mikoto on the phone also has eyebags, implying that the him on the phone is also not bokuto. and i don't know what that's supposed to signify, but it's a little interesting to think about.

5. glitching Next Station screens

it's interesting to note that as the mv progresses the screens that show the train route and what the next station is get glitchier and glitchier. do any of the train station names correspond with actual train stations on the japanese train system? do they mean something else? im really curious, but my japanese isn't great and consists of only the 2 duolingo units i did like years ago, so could anyone please give me a hand with translating or point me to someone who has already translated it?

the constant appearances of trains in both MeMe and double is really interesting to me and i wonder what exactly it could be representing or what the significance of it is, especially since mikoto apparently bikes to work and doesn't commute on public transport

anyways, that's about it for all the things i took note of upon watching double the first two times, and i haven't done any especially deep analysis or anything. i haven't touched on all the mannequins either, mostly because im not reslly sure what they're supposed to represent and so don't really have much to say about them.

also hanae natsuki delivers a banger vocal performance once again!! ive never heard him miss in any of the roles ive seen him in, but he once again knocks it out of the park with mikoto. i haven't listened to mikoto's t2 voice drama neoplasma yet, but im sure hanae natsuki did amazing work on that once again, so im really excited to give it a listen!!

as for now though, i think ill have to look at everyone else's analyses of double to understand mikoto better, since even though i love him as a character and i like doing analysis im not as great at theorizing

#uhhhh first of all if the photos are kind of badly edited that's because im doing the best i can with the collage function in my phone's #gallery app;;;; so sorry about that #also if this is super messy and kind of hard to follow im also sorry about that!! i didn't really know how to organize the jumble of #thoughts about double so i ended up deciding rhat grouping them by point would be best #milgram #mikoto kayano #oh yea also sorry that allllll of my screenshots have rhe lyric captions still in them even though i focused on the visuals #i was taking the screenshots as i watched and was too lazy to go back and retake all of them hsbdbsbfjsd

[theygender]

The management at my old apartment stole my fucking bike

#apparently theyve been mass 'confiscating' bikes off peoples porches without telling anyone that theyre taking them #i dont know how long mine has been gone bc i didnt notice it was missing until i went to load it into my car to move it #but if its been more than (i think) 30 days then it would be considered forfeit and they would have already sold/claimed/trashed it by now #my gf and i saw a whole pile of 20+ confiscated bikes near the maintenance building but it doesnt look like mine was in it #i called them today to ask about it and they told me that for them to look for it i would need to provide a photo to prove its mine?? #its MY bike! you stole it off my porch. how tf was i supposed to know that i needed to take a picture of it beforehand #they told us we can go check out the pile so me and my gf are gonna go look more thoroughly now that we're officially allowed #but if its IN the maintenance building we wont be able to find it #and if they already sold it or took it home with them or threw it away then it also wont be there #and i cant even ask them to confirm when they took it / if its already gone #bc it looks like theyve been doing this with dozens of bikes over the past few months so how would they even remember one specific one #what the fuck #rambling #also to be clear: they arent being confiscated BECAUSE theyre on the porches #the bikes are supposed to be under the stairwell and thats where mine was #my neighbors who leave their kids bikes piled on their side in the yard got to keep theirs #theyve been doing unscheduled porch painting without any sort of warning or notice on and off since like december tho #so my only guess is that they decided since they werent giving us any notice to move our stuff off the porch ahead of time #they decided to just move straight into confiscating everything off of the porches and hoping no one would call them out on it #which is fucking bullshit