#i am not an animator LMFAO

[cozylittleartblog]

random note about king on that animation, i got really lucky with how simple his animation was and how clean my sketches were to begin with that i was able to do very minimal cleanup on what i had sketched (and add back. his horn. it's supposed to take place just after echoes of the past, Oops) and call it done that way instead of having to redraw the entire thing like i had to on his dad

first sketch > line cleanup > nearly final animation (i'd added slight eye movements last-second but otherwise that's the final)

#toh #the owl house #animation #gif #king clawthorne #the lineart slightly flickers on his one paw where i had to erase the tag and i thought it would bother me a lot more #but most people seem to use the internet on their phones - coupled with the darker palette and color of his fur #it basically completely hides it #based on feedback i don't think a lot of people realize i made that and it's not a gif from the show lmfao #BUT ITS STILL REALLY NICE THAT PEOPLE THINK IT IS!!!! I AM NOT AN ANIMATOR I AM JUST A HOBBYIST... #i animate like once a year... shits hard man.... but apparently when i do animate. its extremely good :) proud of that #even if i have an extremely unhinged way of animating #i don't have an animation program i draw everything individually frame by frame in photoshop #each character had their own psd file with the same background and every frame was its own group. twice. one for sketch one for colors #i do test takes with gifcam (there are literally 55 WIP gifs in my documents folder rn) by switching between layers and taking a 'frame' #and i compile in blender's video editor and to move things separately i save each character's frame in its own .png 'cel' #so luz was her own 'cel'. king was his own 'cel.' etc. and then i have to manually slide the lengths of the frames around #to match the right framerate. traditionally animation is animated at 24 FPS on 2's - so 12 frames a second. i go on 3s. 4 to slow down #anime-ass framerate. i'm insane apparently but its what i like to do #i dont understand real animation programs they have too many pieces but i DO understand photoshop and my funny brushes #imagine having Digital Programs and Still basically doing ye olde traditional animation method just in the computer #if im Just making a gif then i only use gifcam and switch between layers. like digital stop motion. somethings wrong with me

[tradingjack]

having fun with colors for once :P

thanks @creepycoffins for the awesome dtiys :D

#creepycoffinsdtiys #trigun #millions knives #vash the stampede #i haven't drawn nearly enough knives. posted him even less #him and vash are so fun to draw :P ik they have the same face but it's like. fun to experiment with how different i can make them look yk #also admittedly. did most of this at work during downtime so if it looks funky..... my bad #the lighting isn't the greatest aight?? it's night shift and there's no windows but they do dim the lights #i did do the limited coloring i did at home lol. wasnt gon bring more art supplies to work #trying to get back into the swing of things with my drawing. i got myself a huion display for my birthday this year! #on top of my traditional i wanna do more animated stuff #primarily animated bc honestly i don't really wanna learn digital painting or whatever. im not interested in that and i like my harsh style #i'd also like to do more original work. i think last year was literally just trigun fanart lmfaoo #we'll see how things turn out ig #i'm not really holding myself to doing anything bc i don't see that turning out well. i am applying myself to more fan projects at the leas #tho those i'm applying more as a writer lmfao #well anyway. enough about me. i actually really like the drawing this was based off of! i didn't include the full body designs #and tbh vash's design is almost entirely cut out just cuz how the pose worked out :( #so i would highly suggest checking out the original art by the person i tagged! #and their other art's pretty banging as well :D

[skeletoninthemelonland]

top five movies

Whispers Of The Heart (1995)

The Prince Of Egypt (1998)

Coraline (2009)

Wall-E (2008)

Alice In Wonderland (2010)

#i swear i have to watch more movies. how can 4 of the top 5 be all animated lmfao #I MEAN ALICE IN WONDERLAND WAS JUST PLAIN GREEN SCREEN AND ANIMATED EFFECTS WHO AM I KIDDING #anyway. #im not gonna lie about this so here it is ha #inbox

[deus-ex-mona]

remember the countdown live? no? me neither~!!

Charming fans with his powerful performances!

Aizo: An active idol from LIPxLIP who is great at dance performances due to his athleticism. His real name is Shibasaki Aizo. He is cheerful, friendly, and popular.

Captivating fans with his sweet singing♡

Yujiro: An active idol from LIPxLIP.  A cool boy who is well-mannered at all times. His real name of Someya Yujiro gives away the fact that he is actually the eldest son of the prestigious Someya Kabuki family.

Yujiro X Aizo

An Exclusive Interview After the Countdown Live

You guys did great during your performance at the “Best Artiste Countdown Live”! Please tell us your thoughts on the concert.

Yujiro: Thank you very much. I had a lot of fun out there. We had taken lessons and made preparations for the sake of today’s concert, so I’m really happy that we were able to show off the fruits of our labour.

Aizo: Just as Yujiro said, we had made tons of preparations for the “Best Artiste Countdown Live”, so I’m really, extremely, happy that we were able to deliver our performance to our Julieta. Of course, we couldn’t have done it all on our own. The support of our staff, as well as the cheers of our Julieta, made it possible for us to have stood on that stage today. So now… I’m wondering if we’ll even be able to express just how thankful we are to everyone for your support!

Please tell us what your most memorable moment from the concert was.

Aizo: I was super happy when I saw that the venue was completely filled with our, LIPxLIP’s, image colours! We hadn’t even started to perform yet, but I almost cried up there (laughs).

Yujiro: It’s true… The venue, coloured in nothing but blue and yellow, was such a spectacular sight that I found myself feeling glad that I had worked so hard for this concert. I totally understand why Aizo cried (laughs).

Aizo: No, I almost cried. I can’t cry in front of our brilliantly smiling Julieta!

Did you talk to your fellow performers from Full Throttle4 (FT4) before or after your performance?

Aizo: All the guys from Full Throttle4 had emcee duties to attend to, and they had to talk to all of the other performing artistes as well. But we, too, were more pumped up after they had said a few words to us!

Yujiro: After our performance, we passed by FT4, who were headed for the stage, as we were walking backstage. Then, RIO told us “That was a great performance.”... I was really happy to hear that from him.

Aizo: Even YUI told us “There’s love in your performance.” too.

Yujiro: I was really happy to see the smiles of all our Julieta, but the words of our seniors made the realisation that we had put on a great performance truly hit home for me!

You have achieved one of your major goals after having performed at the “Best Artiste Countdown Live”. Please tell us what your goals and dreams for the future are.

Yujiro: First of all, I want to continue to bring smiles to our ever supportive Julieta. Of course, there are things that I want to do, as well as goals that I want to achieve, but I’d like to share them with Aizo and bring them to fruition together, one goal at a time.

Aizo: I’d like to do all kinds of tricks to make our Julieta smile, so please continue to give us your support!

What kinds of tricks are you planning on doing?!

Aizo: That’s a secret for now! If I say it here, we won’t be able to see the joy on our Julietas’ faces during the great reveal♡

Lastly, LIPxLIP, please give a message to your fans who support you!

Yujiro: Hey Julieta, please continue to support us, okay?!

Aizo: Please wait patiently and look forward to the surprise from us, LIPxLIP!

Secretly Eavesdropping ☆ LIPxLIP’s Post-Interview Conversation!

Aizo: This thought came to mind during the interview, but we sure put on an amazing show today, didn’t we?

Yujiro: Yeah, we did. Though, I get the feeling that the interview had helped us to straighten out our goals for the future.

Aizo: For sure. We gotta think of more tricks to bring joy to our Julieta!

Yujiro: We want to keep seeing our Julieta smiling radiantly as they wave their penlights for us, don’t we?

Aizo: That blue and yellow world of penlights we saw from the stage sure was a spectacular sight, huh…

Yujiro: So we have to give it our best efforts if we want to continue to see that world again!

Aizo: You’ve got that right. So we’ve gotta put on a performance that’ll make our Julieta happy, just like the venue-rousing shows that FT4 put on.

Yujiro: You have a point… We can’t lose to them.

LIPxLIP’s Fanservice Advisory!!

Q1: Please tell us the type of fanservice that you’re good at.

Aizo: The type of fanservice we’re good at, huh? Yujiro’s would be his winks, maybe?

Yujiro: Agreed. I’ve always been able to wink beautifully, you know? As for Aizo, he’s really athletic and he’s good at acrobatic moves, so I think the fanservice he gives after successfully pulling off an acrobatic move is pretty cool.

Aizo: For real?! …Did you guys hear that?! Yujiro just praised me (laughs).

Q2: Have any of the hand fans that you’ve seen your fans hold left a strong impression on you?

Aizo: My heart still pounds a little whenever I see a fan with “Aizo LOVE” etched into it.

Yujiro: Yeah… To this day, I still get a little embarrassed whenever I see a fan with my name written on it.

Aizo: From our spots on the stage, we can see each and every one of the goods that our Julieta have made by hand to cheer us on.

Yujiro: We look at all of them properly! It really encourages us. Thank you all very much!

Q3: Please tell us if there are any fanservice requests on your fans’ hand fans that you have a little trouble with.

Yujiro: I don’t think there’s anything in particular that I can’t handle. I’m willing to do anything if it’ll bring joy to our Julieta♡

Aizo: Same for me. I was nervous back when we first started, but now I’m fine with anything… Ah, there was a request to “Do the Moonwalk!” the other day, right?

Yujiro: Yeah, there was!

Aizo: I couldn’t do it, so I was all like “Oh man, I gotta practice”... and such.

Yujiro: As a precaution, please tell me in advance if you are going to moonwalk when we’re performing. I’d be very surprised if you just started to do it without any warning, you know?

Q4: What do your “Julieta” mean to you?

Aizo: They’re really important people who support us.

Yujiro: We’re able to be here all thanks to the support of our Julieta.

Aizo: We’ll repay the kindness that our Julieta have shown us as much as we possibly can!

Yujiro: Please continue to cheer us on and support us, okay?♡

#queuing this up at like 3.45 in the am gnnnnnnn #will prolly edit this later at a more reasonable hour lmfao i gotta sleeeeeep #some of the wordings and stuff may seem a 'little' off bc it's been forever since the [redacted] anime aired #and im n o t rewatching it to sort out the facts. no. no thanks. no way. i choose to pretend that it doesn't exist for the most part #anyways there's 2 more lxl exclusive animedia features and im gonna try to tl them in time for their birthday #wish me luck s o b s s s s s s #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME— #lxl tl things

[essektheylyss]

I know you said you need to stop screaming first but I am EAGERLY awaiting your thoughts on Essek in the teaser

OKAY OKAY HERE GOES.

The thing is, there's no real reason to include him.

Yes, he's very popular, but he has never historically been included as a default, validly! He occupies a very interesting space mechanically and narratively, but he is still not a PC. Yes, he's part of the Mighty Nein as a group, per canon, but not until the end, which in theory would be well beyond the first season, and so is Cad, who is not present in this teaser—presumably to preserve the mystery around [INSERT MAJOR SPOILER WARNING HERE].

I would imagine that Cad is not present because having Taliesin's voice twice is too much of a tipoff for anyone watching LoVM but not the campaigns, whereas simply having Matt voice someone is not.

HOWEVER.

There are a decent number of lines that you could choose for Essek that are about the Nein—personally, my favorite, that I've thought previously would make a really stellar trailer line, is from 124: "You certainly carve a unique destiny, don't you?" Everything down to the way Matt delivers it (which you can see here) would make it a really viable option.

But the line they went with isn't about the Nein—it's very much a line about Essek himself. "I want to unlock these mysteries. I want to dive as deep as I can into that ocean of the unknown and see what is possible." It's a line that is very specific to Essek and his actions and goals, even beyond his involvement with the Nein.

And it's placed in the middle of the pack, which frames him on the same level as the rest of the Nein! Someone who is not familiar with the campaign would hear that as simply another protagonist. But of course, he's not—unless there is some serious restructuring (more even than the restructuring present in LoVM, which, aside from introducing a few of the initial less plot-bearing aspects later, like the Slayer's Take, it's thus far structured in order), he won't come into the show for quite some time, and almost certainly not in the first season.

But we don't really have any idea how this show will be structured. There are different comments on the beginning from different sources; notably, Gizmodo mentions Calianna being present in some way initially, while no one else does. The logline most outlets are reporting revolves the Nein "prevent[ing] the kingdom from plunging into chaos when an arcane artifact capable of reshaping reality falls into the wrong hands," presumably the beacon (my beloved).

So it makes sense to mention Essek, for, you know, the obvious reasons, as comment on the beacon itself. (I'm going to guess they're simplifying it to one beacon, per the press release, for ease lol.) But this line, while about dunamancy as a whole and the powers of the beacon, is not about it directly. It's still about Essek's interest in it. It is an excellent line, and on its face, it has nothing to do with the Nein or the plot of the first fifty episodes of the campaign.

There's plenty of speculation to be done about how this might be structured, and I'm sure I'll do plenty of it because, let's be honest, I do not shut up about adaptation and translating stories between formats, it is one of my absolute favorite subjects, and this is the Nein, babey!!!

So my point here being: I think there is a lot of room with the nature of Wildemount politics to get a little wild with structure in the translation from D&D game to TV show that, while not impossible in LoVM, wouldn't really have added anything to the story, and honestly, might've taken away from it. Because the point is to watch Vox Machina become the big damn heroes! We do see tidbits of Brimscythe and the Briarwoods beyond the purview of the heroes, but mostly in ways that feel very '80s cartoon villain cameo' which fits the feel of the show perfectly.

But there are a lot of political players and forces in Wildemount that the Nein navigate whether they're aware of them or not, one of whom of course becomes a member of their party, and that's part of what makes their story so interesting. The Nein are the heroes that no one knows, who are always playing within and against the system and are hyper aware of that, and I think expanding how much of that we get to see now that the format allows for it (not necessarily a lot, not to the point of adding whole plotlines, but at least some of it) would only add to the tension and stakes, and Essek's presence in the trailer makes me wonder if they will.

#not pictured: me sitting at my computer hollering while I power through writing both this and my fucking work emails #the work emails are uhhhh going fine. I'm being so productive. don't even worry about it. #(I am actually staying on top of things to be clear lmfao I also write very quickly) #critical role #mighty nein animated #cr spoilers #I gUESS??? #cr meta #long post #anyway now someone ask me about how much I am chinhands kicking my heels thinking about the TONE of this show and lovm #I mean do not get me started. nope don't have time for it. BUT I'M FASCINATED ALREADY #sorry I didn't put it under a cut #I forgot I mentioned I was gonna while tagging

[sophiethewitch1]

Show us 👀

you know what? sure. i dont think tumblr will like this post but if it stays it stays idc. below is a very messy and bad pixel art wip that's barely been coloured of two homies fucking so 18+ or whatever.

#sophie speaks #sophie answers #sophie arts #tw nsft #me rising from the grave: i want to make a degrees of lewdity and monster girl/boy encyclopedia inspired game where you fuck monsters and- #add them to your party and beat the game by fucking the demon king and adding him to your harem. and everything is animated too #and of course theyre yandere too so you have to also deal with that #its called teratoquest and it is one of my dumber ideas but i want to practice making a game anyway #might as well #i want to bug yun about this i think he'd love the idea lmfao #i always said i have the best ideas. i just need to get better at executing them #horrifying truth is that i am literally just like my father in that aspect

[hyper-cryptic]

eepy mouse dooble

#i am very eepy and i SHOULD NOT have used a mouse when my wrist is literally GONE lmfao #but oh well enjoy the feral animals in a qpr #my art #sonadow #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #heart of chaos au

[lylahammar]

gripping all my followers tightly by the shoulders and looking deep into ur eyes. if u have seen my dungeon meshi reblogs and don't know what it is but think it looks cool please look it up please look it up please read dungeon meshi please read it read it read dungeon meshi please im begging

#listen it's going to be a mega popular anime soon #and I am giving you this once in a lifetime offer of getting in on the ground floor and liking it before it's cool #imagine the bragging rights!!! #u can say I read dungeon meshi as a manga before it got swallowed up by the studio trigger anime fanboys on twitter #anyways it's really queer and progressive and beautifully drawn #and as much as I'm excited for the anime and as amazing as studio trigger is #it simply isn't possible to achieve the level of gorgeous detail that Ryoko Kui's art achieves in a long form animated show #well I mean it *is* possible but it would take decades probably lmfao #listen the art is just really good okay and so is the writing and the characters and you will fall in love with it #just read it read itread it read dungeon meshi please read it read dungeon meshi pleas #e #dungeon meshi #read it #lyla's talking again

[teethands]

i think i have finally created what i think is a decent system for knapping. right clicking with a new item called a leg guard in hand will open up an interface where the knapping process can begin, which can be used repeatedly to shape pieces of (currently) flint and obsidian into tools. flint is the easiest and most widely available material here so i am thinking about adding some other stones or the ability to hit peices of certain stone off of blocks and use those in knapping. a sort of progression to work up towards stronger materials as you find deposits of different stone. the GUI is done though i need to add flare .... working on flint tools now that the system is working and bug-free. ive kind of started shifting my focus away from ecology and focusing more on technology again. i want to get a few more interesting systems out before i release 1.0.0. however most animals are done and fully animated and their taming mechanics are mostly bug-free

#for the taming mechanics the idea is that you hold a food they like in your main hand and hold on to them with your off hand while they #try to kick you off. thinking about adding an additional minigame style of mechanic that involves either button mashing or sort of... #quicktime events #one thing is for sure and its that i am most likely not going to release it this week but that is just because i am kind of loving working #on this and i keep adding things LMFAO #after all of the knapping recipes and tools are added i will move on to one or two other armor sets #then bug squashing #then cleaning up some textures and choppy animations #THEN maybe 1.0.0 will be ready #cenozoicraft

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[cws: psychiatric abuse, torture, homophobia, ableism, sanism, racism, pictures of taxidermy. boy this show is a lot sometimes lmfao]

-

so something @thecottageinthedark noticed recently that i'm still fucked up about is that pericles' cage in the asylum isn't actually a bird cage.

it's a bell jar.

for those who don't know what a bell jar is, it's a type of taxidermy display for preserving delicate specimens, most often birds. it's easy for their feathers to get dusty or disintegrate over time if they're left out in the open; a bell jar not only keeps off dirt and keeps people from touching them, but it's made to create a vacuum inside to keep everything where it is.

another layer to this reference is that the book The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a retelling of her own experiences with mental illness and the attempts made to treat it at the time. notably, one of the major themes of the book is psychiatric abuse.

pericles is also not only a gay man forcefully committed to an asylum in what is most likely intended to be the 70s, but a very obvious and already horribly handled fantasy metaphor for both physically disabled people and POC. (in particular the talking animals' role in the worldbuilding heavily mirrors Black americans irl, which holy shit there is so much to unpack there all by itself. there is So Much)

(fun little bonus on the side: he's kept in a cell with extremely bright blue/white light 24/7, at an angle where it'd be even more difficult to block it out than if it were overhead. this would make it impossible to get any decent fucking sleep, which is widely recognized as one of the worst forms of torture to exist. they did this to him for 20 years straight.)

so, to recap: gay man and analogue for disabled people/POC, who is also portrayed as an ~evil crazy malicious psychopath,~ is kept in not only a display case for scientific specimens, but one specifically made--in-universe and out--to recreate something that is done to his demographic as a metaphorical disabled person/POC.

and not only that, and not only do people talk about him--in front of him, like he's not even there--as a specimen while gawking at him in this position, but he is being displayed like the stuffed and mounted corpse of a disabled person/POC.

he is said to belong on that display for 'the rest of his miserable [disabled/POC] life.' no one disagrees with this. he's painted as smugly bullying the violent abusive guard. in general he's portrayed as Scary and Evil Now for having been in this situation. and when he escapes, it kicks off what end up being the most heavy-duty problems for the protagonists, which result in the Bad Ending for the nibiru timeline; if he had stayed there, continued to be objectified and tortured with homophobic/racist/ableist violence for the rest of his life, the timeline almost certainly wouldn't have been doomed.

and they used a real person's autobiography about their experiences with psychiatric abuse for this. and to position them in the role of someone it should have not only happened to, but been even more horrifically dehumanizing and cruel.

yeah. i..... yeah.

the creators of this show are genuinely really good at putting together layered references like this, some more obscure than others, which are rewarding to discover and add depth when you do, and it is a crying fucking shame that they like to use it for shit like this. god damn lmao

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #professor pericles #cws in post #SDMItag #this is also why i very firmly believe that Other Parrot Behaviors of his were completely intentional #and i will be linking back to this post in future as evidence for that lmfao #anyway yeah jesus fucking christ i am defensive of pericles for A Few Reasons if You Can't Tell #do nooootttt get me started on the racism #uppity runaway slave who objects to being considered subordinate; inferior; an animal; and someone else's property #will get violent revenge on his oppressors the moment he embraces that objection and escapes imprisonment #and is only unhappy with being property because he's been driven crazy with Doesn't Want to Be Owned by Other People Syndrome #in the Good Timeline he does not have this syndrome; and he actively embraces exactly the degrading dehumanizing role he hated #and refused to accept and dedicated his life to breaking out of in the Bad Timeline where he's evil and crazy #this is used by other people to publicly humiliate him for profit; which he's Totally Not Humiliated by He's Happy Like This You Guys #sure cool great why not #love it #SDMIcrit tag #the crit files #thecottageinthedark

[obihoe]

wait the simpsons are doing a death note parody ... they should do a naruto one too i think it'd be funny

#the animation looks kind of good actually sgsgdgds #it would be funny to see how they would do naruto lolll #lisa would be .. sakura #bart would be obt? lol #bart is a loser and a troublemaker. that fits #but who would be mdr ... mr. burns?? lmfao #smithers would be kuro zetsu except that his devotion is just to pretend #or maybe he's orochimaru but orochimaru isnt that old #and he's not the main villain #not at the end #marge is kks? sgsfsgsgs #she is maternal and caring just like kks 😌 #i am just spitballing here #flanders is gai for some reason #thinking abt that scene where homer thinks of 'stupid sexy flanders' in his tight fucking ski outfit and he cringes #ADSFGSGS #like thats gai #but who is homer .. someone help me out here #(the hounds are the bijuus btw. mdr uses the bijuus to attack everyone just like mr. burns uses the hounds 😌) #posts #naruto #the simpsons

[duck-era-lexi]

#kimi ni todoke #i am thinking about re-reading kimi ni todoke for kazehaya but i possibly might watch the anime? #i'd only watch the anime so i can hear yuichi nakamura as ryu lmfao i dont rly like anyone elses voices #but it's so funny bcuz gojo

[gncrezan]

@ladamebrunette IT’S ME!!!!! I WAS YOUR WAYFARER EXCHANGE PARTNER!!!!!!!!! thank you so much for posting so much about cass cause it was such a goldmine of symbolism to use for this piece <3 i hope you like it, and thank you again to the @wayfarer-exchange mods for hosting 💕

#cassander inteus #wayfarer game #wayfarer #my art #the only thing i wish i could have done are some treats #i just was not able to get anything out cause of uni . because i am a director this year OTL #studying animation will make you want to eat glass #ANYWAYS THANK YOU FOR ALL THE REFS FOR THIS IT WAS SO FUN TO WORK ON!!!!!! #based off how u said cass would be the page of cups #and the water falling is in the shape of the coast (IM FORGETTING THE EXACT PLACE) from his backstory/origin #i believe its vodena and the coast around it? and the river that leads to the delta ?? #and how that water feeds the fire lillies at the bottom and flame rises from that as well!! #and the background was kinda gutting me but its fine i think it turned out alright!!! #again such a fucking blast to include details like that ! #queue #and being a bit cheeky and timing this for hong kong timezones cause i know i'll forget in the future #ive got a dissertation due LMFAO #anyways MWAHH!!!! ENJOY!!!!

[lieximhuman]

Uhmmm… can someone tell me why I’ve been getting mental illness bungo stray dogs content on my reels?

I don’t watch bungo stray dogs.

[no one cares about you

- Yellow September

Suicide prevention month]

Who is this man. Why does he want me to end myself???

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #osamu dazai #-> apparently that’s him #(I hope I’m right lmfao) #tw #tw suicide #suicide mention #mental illness #like I get it that my reels know how fucked up my mind is #but #what’s going on in this anime??? #bruhhh #dazai #why am I wasting my time tagging this #god I hope this reaches the right audience im so confused

[thegreenhordes]

Twilight's Notes: Diary Writings, Unfortunate Development.

Well, I'm not entirely sure how to feel about what happened today. I suppose only time will tell. The Type 3 subject escaped containment while I was in the lab. Because of my spell that dampened the noise it made I didn't hear it smashing through the glass of its' room. It was only moments later that the now incredibly hostile 'Mimic' as they're now being called bit me in the neck. If it hadn't been for my split-second spellcasting I fear I would be dead. She's dead now, though she writhed on the floor for an hour before her body went limp. Nopony could go near the body until then for fear of infection. I was quarantined almost immediately and had to just watch from behind a pane of thick glass. May Nurse Redheart finally be at peace, if there was anything of her mind left in there.

The Girls are still sat outside the room, they haven't left my side since they heard what happened- I tried telling them that they needed to be strong and focus on their duties for now but they won't hear it. I suppose I'm grateful... I am, just a tiny bit, afraid. The incubation period for infected is always around the same- 1-2 weeks, with two being more common. But I was bitten on the neck, and as far as we know I'm the first pony to survive being bitten there, where I could have easily had arteries torn. Will I turn faster? Maybe, maybe not. But frankly I'm not certain what to expect. It's been nearly twelve hours, it's almost midnight, and I haven't developed a fever yet. I need to ask the Girls to get Spike back to bed, he hasn't stopped crying for hours and he needs more rest these days. I hope I last long enough to share my research with my colleague in the field. I haven't heard from him in over a week however, I hope he's alright.

I will write updates on my condition until I either recover or turn

#Twilight's Research Notes #mlp infection au #the glow #Drama Drama #not art #Don't worry shes fiiiine #shes fiiine! #her research colleague is Null btw #Making progress on the animated comic pages btw #I am in pain lmfao

[coredrill]

all the speculation of bravern being 2-cour/split-cour is so interesting to me. cause like it all seems to be based on the idea that we’ve got 6-7 enemies left to defeat whereas i feel like everything else in the story really is fitting for a halfway point? like. i could be very very wrong ofc but i really struggle to think that this show, with all its loving genre subversions, is suddenly gonna go monster-of-the-week and play that trope straight so that it runs for two dozen episodes? like yeah we still don’t know bravern’s or lulu’s deals yet nor what arael is doing in the OP but from a plot perspective i think it’s totally fair to assume that if we do face all the deathdrives, the fights don’t all have to be one-on-one………….thematically we’ve already set up a contrast between the deathdrives purpose as it relates to death and ep5’s conflict boiling down to isami and smith understanding each other’s willingness to self-sacrifice but also not wanting the other to die………..which works from a character perspective along with the rule of 3 being maybe set up in 2 different potentially emotionally charged ways (with smith now having lost fights twice and also the “baby bird” thing)…………..so like!!! idk i feel like 12 eps could be perfectly satisfying if that is what they are going for!!!

#FUCK the post got long again. apologies lmao #anyways i cant wait to revisit it in 2 (arbitrary number) weeks when i am inevitably proven wrong on all counts 🥰 #i am also very biased in this in that i just love me some efficient writing #like as much as i adore the 50-ep mecha anime Of Old TM a number that large scares me LMAO #sorry i’m so insane abt this show. i’ll be back to normal maybe eventually #or perhaps it will fundamentally change me forever #i just cant believe that like. i was like haha real robot fans got tricked into liking super robot! (lighthearted) #and now i am experiencing the same thing. super robot fan tricked into liking a love triangle #LMFAO #a: bravern #bravern spoilers #t.bbbb