october november december. they pass by so fast but its heavily decorated with joy and pleasant moments. i love to look forward to them because of all the things they have in them, but once we reach january the first month goes away in looking back to these months and wishing i could go back and have the same kind of fun again
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this is gonna be an insane thing to talk about to but one of the things that makes bmj so enjoyable to watch even as a very obviously limited animation kids show from the early 2000s is that it often surprises me in how colorful it is. one of the most consistent artistic elements of the show is the delicate mix of saturated nature tones combined with the often duller mechanical/alien ones, which bring to life a kind of washed, cel-like feeling to even some of the most mundane shots. see below
This is a kind of color grading and production quality that wasn’t even seen in a lot of more elaborate, higher budget productions in the 2000s. the transition to “digipaint” anime (aka digital animation over cel animation) often left many anime with drab, flat, and what I can only describe as “sun-bleached” colors in their final masters, which while probably deliberate for some productions, rarely looked good and resulted in a homogeneity of digital production stuck in the transition to new technology
Note the muted palettes, the lack of saturation in the skin, the grey shadows, the sometimes weird green color grading, etc.
I’m aware that this kind of groddy digital look has a place in anime history and also in the nostalgia and fondness of many people who watched anime in the early digipaint era. it can look good after all when the artists are more aware of color theory and how to properly utilize a more “degraded” color palette, such as the iconic soul eater:
But bringing this back to BMJ it’s just another of those subtle notches of effort in the show that peels back the love the artists put into the production. It gives a life life feeling to the characters and the lens through which the audience views the entire scene of events, a narrative steeped in automatic identities facing off against autonomy becoming itself and moving not just past grief but through it.
also it just looks nicer than 80% of the shows in the early 2000s and I think it deserves its chops
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5 in the morning;2nd sleep deprived rant on the sheer fact that in bg3 we can kill children and rule the world by controlling a giant pulsing worm infected mama brain and yet…we can’t ROMANCE Nere nor Kar’niss. Cowards the lot of ya 😤 let me climb the drow.
LOOK AT THEM! 😤🛐
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While we're on the subject of pre episode 28 intraparty apologies, three cheers to one of my favorite early M9 scenes, the Beau/Caleb coached apology, which includes the highlights of:
- *Guest PC suspicicion (haaaa)
- An in character argument dicey enough that it got its own fandom name (Bowlgate was really something)
- Socially inept monk taking socializing lessons from a half orc (who happens to be using a fake accent and is bluffing So Hard All The Time, but its fine don't worry about it). She's learning how to people!!! Its going- okay. Its going okay. Shes doing her best!
- Socially inept wizard just so full of guilt and trauma, taking social cues from Extremely Awkward And Introverted Barbarian, who is ALSO full of guilt and trauma. They bonded while she shaved him with her sword. They both look up to each other for socializing tips.
- The scene itself being an overwhelmingly awkward apology in which said monk struggles out a (very sincere) apology to the wizard, they stare at each other for forty seconds, monk keeps asking the half orc if they're doing fine or not. In lieu of a verbal answer the wizard pulls the monk into the most awkward hug known to man. It lasts way too long. "I don't know what I'm doing, just go with it."
- Both the wizard and the monk looking over their shoulders at their respective teachers on How To Hug
- Both teachers pantomiming proper hug procedures for their pupils
- They're not doing great but they're doing their best.
- Everyone else in the party politely applauds when they release
- This includes the kenku child the party is carting around with them at the time.
- "Welcome to the Mighty Nein!" indeed.
- Ah, I miss them.
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SO IT TURNS OUT IF YOU DON'T LONG REST ENOUGH IN ACT 1 YOU MAY BE ABLE TO POTENTIALLY FUCK YOURSELF OUT OF ROMANCES WITH THE ORIGIN CHARACTERS AND GUESS WHO MADE THE GAME AND ROMANCING HARDER FOR THEMSELVES BC I TOLD EVERYONE TO JUST WALK IT THE FUCK OFF, CANTRIPS ARE FINE
thankfully it seems i have rerailed the train to fucksville by going BACK to the act 1 area and sleeping there...
sopping wet filthy lil horny bitch
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"Ninjago, it seemed like just another kids show meant to sell toys for little kids, one or two seasons to tell their story and make some money... but what if I told you... Ninjago held... a dark secret... (camera zooms into a group shot of the ninja + Wu and their colors are slowly inverted)"
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dandelion: bisexual roll call, let’s go
dandelion (answering his own prompt, muttering and checking a piece of paper with charcoal): *present and accounted for…*
cahir: you can count me, as well
geralt: what is this
dandelion: i’m taking inventory of how many of us are bisexual
geralt: why
dandelion: just curious
geralt: alright. present.
dandelion: thank youuu. regis?
regis (uncharacteristically grave): i do not define myself by these terms. and, to be honest, it’s really a very interesting and complicated topic requiring discussion—
dandelion: —ohhhkay. milva?
milva: no.
dandelion: uhh… do you mean… no to…?
milva: [gets up and leaves]
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Im between staying up all night watching Pokemon Journeys again or working on Ruggie's birthday art too early
what to dooooo
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