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autumnsup · 9 months

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An Autograph's Tale

Or How My Obsession with Ewan McGregor Evolved and then Resolved Itself

(Be warned, this is not a short post. It does however contain a photo of possible interest toward the end).

The first thing you should know is that I am not really an autograph person. I’ve encountered a fair amount of people who might be considered celebrities, mostly after theater performances and at art events, but I can count on one hand the number of people whose autograph I actually sought. The main one being, of course, Ewan McGregor’s.

I’m pretty sure I can pinpoint the moment my obsession began. It was my first year of high school, and while I’d been crushing on boys left and right, I’d never had an honest-to-goodness movie star crush. That changed after I saw Moulin Rouge! in the theater, with one of my best friends. She managed to score a promotional poster for me afterward, and throughout the rest of high school and into college, I would keep the poster of Ewan pinned to my bedroom door.

My feelings about him were a bit complicated. I didn’t have sexual feelings, exactly, because he was older than me and shared a birthday with a relative. I would dream about him occasionally, but the context was usually theater, or performance, and not anything that might be interpreted as “real life.” I would kiss the poster occasionally, more out of curiosity than lust, and I listened to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack CD on repeat while I was studying, memorizing all of the lyrics and teaching them to my other friend who was equally obsessed with the music. I didn’t think Ewan had the greatest voice, but he was so earnest, so joyful, and so broken-hearted and raw by the end, that I couldn’t help but empathize with him and his character’s plight.

I suppose this primed me for the next level of obsession, which was triggered by the discovery of Velvet Goldmine. A relative had told me about the movie, and since I knew I already liked Ewan, I gave it a watch, and immediately felt a sense of Oh, these are my people. Just how much I identified with some of them, I wouldn’t realize for a while yet. I also didn’t realize right away that the movie and its characters were only loosely based on what had actually happened during the glam rock era, and I would assume that Brian Slade was in fact meant to be an accurate representation of David Bowie for an embarrassingly long time. I also didn’t realize how much of a patchwork quilt the soundtrack was, although I would love it to death and memorize many of the lyrics like I did with Moulin Rouge before (which was even more of a patchwork job, ironically enough).

In the meantime, Ewan’s career began to take off with the continued Star Wars franchise, which I had been watching since I was a middle-schooler. I wasn’t a huge fan of the movies, but once I’d started to obsess over Ewan, I watched them with renewed interest, until the day I happened to be in New York City during the one of the premieres. I can’t remember which one it was (maybe the third movie?) or which theater the premiere was being held at (Google? I don’t know it). But what I do remember was the incredible flood of excitement and adrenaline I felt at the thought that my chance to see Ewan in person and get his autograph was at hand.

It wasn’t the first time I’d tried. At some point (again, I’m very spotty on the timeline), I’d drawn a small portrait of Ewan and mailed it to a US address I’d found somewhere on the internet, asking for his autograph on a photo I’d torn from a magazine. I never heard back from his agent, and had contented myself with watching and collecting his earlier movies and various memorabilia like the Velvet Goldmine script. Which was why the thought of actually getting to meet him in person came as such a thrill when it seemed like a possibility.

Because I was a teenager with very little money saved up, there was no way in hell I could buy a ticket to attend the premiere, so I made it my mission to show up outside the theater as early as possible. The weather was overcast but not miserable, and I had fun watching all sorts of cosplaying fans arrive while the event staff set up the red carpet and barriers on the street side to keep passersby at bay. They didn’t block off the other side of the red carpet though, which I thought was rather strange, but I parked myself there so I could be among the first row of people to see the actors entering the theater.

Finally, the procession began, up a red carpet now surrounded by a sea of people and Storm Troopers. The first actor I recognized was Liam Neeson, dressed in a white suit. I was a fan of his too, after having seen Love Actually, and when he came our way to sign a few autographs, I almost died.

I didn’t ask him for one, preferring to let others take the lead while I furiously snapped photos with my camera, most of which turned out terribly once I'd finally developed them (yes, this was before digital cameras and cell phones with lenses were a widespread thing). From a distance, I could see Samuel L. Jackson strolling down the red carpet, plus a few other younger actors who followed Liam’s lead in approaching fans to offer autographs, but alas, no Ewan.

I would find out later that he’d attended an overseas premiere instead, which was disappointing but made sense, given that he was from Scotland and his wife was French and they had young children. To assuage the disappointment, I went to the Museum of Television & Radio and binge-watched Lipstick On Your Collar, which was very hard to find at the time. And that was that, I thought.

Sophomore year of college, I made the impromptu decision to study abroad in France. There were many reasons behind the decision, one of them being a crush I’d developed on a female classmate who was also studying abroad that year, but that’s neither here nor there. What ended up happening was that while I was living with a host family in France, I took it upon myself to write to Ewan again, this time through his agent’s office in London.

I kept it simple this time – no hand-drawn portraits, no glitter stickers, no magazine pages or anything besides a single sheet of paper and a heartfelt message, and of course a self-stamped self-addressed envelope. I wrote it, partially in French to acknowledge his wife and daughters, sent it, and forgot about it for most of the school year.

Until the day that my envelope returned in the post, and inside, much to my surprise and delight, was this:

It was a simple gesture, and while it didn’t come with the thrills and prestige I’d hoped to experience a few years earlier, it warmed my heart. Ewan is no longer my main man, so to speak, but I will always remember that breathless moment in France with a smile. 🤩

(Tagging some fellow VG fans here, but if anyone else has a celebrity autograph or crush story to tell, I'd love to hear it!)

@moonage-xx-daydream @silverfactory @mangle-my-mind

#ewan mcgregor #celebrity obsession #velvet goldmine #moulin rouge #autographs #general teenage madness #fan mail #tldr

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invisibilicose · 1 year

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Lord Voldemort and The White Thin Duke

I know probably no one cares about this, but since I was very young, I’ve always had this curiosity about the looks of the Dark Lord during the First Wizarding War. Especially, I was intrigued by his depiction in the Half Blood Prince when, already graduated from Hogwarts, he started working at Borgin and Burkes. It is written that he speaks with a soft voice, that he wears his hair longer than it had been at Hogwarts, that he is thin with hollowed cheeks and – shockingly – that he doesn’t wear wizard’s robes but a black suit.

This is all very interesting to me, since I have this weird obsession of looking for cues about his personality, even in these scarce descriptions about his appearance and of course I get mad because of how difficult it is. The fact that he wears his hair long could be both a sign of vanity or a way of communicating his lack of interest about his looks – leading to him being a handsome man anyways. Of course, we know that he does not crave for being considered beautiful, since a few lines ahead we come to know that he altered his features forever, during his permanence in Albania:

His features were not those Harry had seen emerge from the great stone cauldron almost two years ago: They were not as snake-like, the eyes were not yet scarlet, the face not yet masklike, and yet he was no longer handsome Tom Riddle. It was as though his features had been burned and blurred; they were waxy and oddly distorted, and the whites of the eyes now had a permanently bloody look, though the pupils were not yet the slits that Harry knew they would become. He was wearing a long black cloak, and his face was as pale as the snow glistening on his shoulders.

- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Chapter 20.

Can’t blame a young emo girl like me for falling in love with this man 10 years ago. Now, of course, my love remains unchanged, and I still have hard feelings for not have seen young Lord Voldemrot on the big screen, when I was a teenager (will the up coming series remedy to this? We don’t know).

So, my mind has wandered for a long time, searching for someone – made of blood and bones – that could resemble the description of First Wizarding War Voldemort that we are left with.

Conscious of the fact that no one is going to share my opinion, I think I’ve found an original solution to the problem and I’m going to stick with this till death.

In fact, while my literary heart is reserved for Lord Voldemort, my musical taste brought me to The Think White Duke, David Bowie. I know, it sounds crazy, but I believe that this amazing – and very missed – genius shares a lot of physical traits with young Lord Voldemort, during this mysterious years in the books.

So, I want to share with you this interview, hoping deep down that you’ll find the same similarities that I found some time ago and that never cease to warm my heart.

First, his voice: he speaks softly but fast – and with a wonderful British accent that, of course, he shares with Londoner Tom Riddle. He is polite but also elusive. He keeps all the attention on him and his words in the exact same way I imagine young Voldemort would do.

Second, his appearance: he is thin, almost skeletal and has something feminine in him that I personally find devastatingly attractive. He has the hollow cheeks and the thin lips with a crooked smile that – my personal point of view here – he could share with our young Lord Voldemort. He has long thin hands with slim fingers.

Now, imagine him with black hair – with the same haircut – and reddened eyes and I think we have it.

Also, I wanted to post here this picture, because I’m confident that this is the best representation we’ll ever have of what the Dark Lord should’ve looked like in the movies (I know I’m a minority here on this topic, but I absolutely dislike how Ralph Fiennes managed to act him in the movies, so disappointing).

Let me know what you think about this and please be kind with your words, since of course, this is a topic I care a lot about.

Yours,

Mathildis.

#lord voldemort #lord voldemort fancast #the dark lord #david bowie #people will think i'm mad #but what is life without risk?#tom riddle #tom marvolo riddle #first wizarding war

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leelei1980 · 10 months

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Holy shit, It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted my fanfic on here! There is a link in my bio with my fanfic masterlist if you want to start from the very beginning! Thanks for reading!

🛑 MATURE 18+SMUT MINORS DNI🛑

Made for You🌶️ - part 7

A day in the life

Eddie

Living with Veronica has been absolutely incredible, I'm not lying when I say that these last couple weeks ,they have been the best in my life. It sounds cheesy but this domesticated lifestyle suits me. Who knew that grocery shopping and doing dishes could be so fun? Seriously though, this is what a normal life is supposed to be like, this is the normal life that I always dreamed of having when I was a kid. I know Wayne did his best raising me, and that was no easy task because I was a little shit, but there was no normalcy, I spent a lot of time alone, fending for myself because Wayne had to work multiple jobs to pay the bills and take care of us. I would never in a million years hold that against him, he's a good man, taking me in when he could have shipped me off or put me in a home. I always wanted a family life, sitting down and eating a home cooked dinner together, watching tv as a family, doing chores as a family. That is what I have now. Veronica and I have a nice little life together, a cozy little apartment and love, so much love.

There was nothing like walking in after work and seeing her sitting Indian style in the chair, glasses perched on her nose, schoolbooks in her lap, a look of concentration on her face. The way her face lights up when I walk in and she runs and gives me hug and I pick her up and swing her around. I get greeted like this every single day. If she cooks dinner I do the dishes, sometimes we make dinner together. I secretly love going grocery shopping. Making the list, strolling up and down the aisles with my baby at my side. People smiling at us because we are young and in love and talking about casseroles.

Tonight was Friday night, movie night, something's didn't change. Tonight's movie was Labyrinth, I think it is a chick movie but David Bowie is in it so it could be cool. I stopped and picked up the movie on the way home. It was weird, renting a movie from someone other than Steve. I was just about to unlock the door when I paused and smiled to myself. I could hear Ronnie singing her heart out on the other side of the door. I carefully opened the door and snuck in.

My Sweet girl had her Walkman on and was singing to the top of her lungs, completely oblivious to the world. She had no idea that I was even there. She was making dinner, I think it was some kind of pasta dish, her back towards me, dancing away. She was belting out a Heart song, Magic Man, and her voice was actually amazing when she wanted it to be. " Try ,try ,try to understand, he's a Magic Man, oh,and he's got Magic hands." Most of the time she sang loud and obnoxious because she knew it made me crack up but listening to her now, she really was quite good. I just stood back and watched her,smile plastered on my face. She was shaking her sweet ass putting on a complete performance for me and she had no fucking idea. The song ended and I watched her stir the sauce, grab the sponge from the sink and wipe at a small splash on the counter. I snuck around again so that I was behind her. I watched as her as she air drummed, then belted out." Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses," she was rocking the fuck out to Black Sabbath's War Pigs. God if I didn't already love her more than everything I would at this moment. I leaned back against the island, arms crossed infront of my chest until she got to the chorus then I went up behind her and slid my arms around her waist. She screamed and whipped around so fast, hand at her chest.

" Edward fucking Munson you scared the shit out of me!!!! Jesus fucking Christ! How long have you been standing there like a fucking creeper ?"

I threw my head back and laughed." I have only been watching you shake your ass for one and a half songs."

" Really? That long? And I didn't have any idea."

" You were putting on quite a performance, Sweetheart." I backed her up and pinned her against the counter. " You were pretty fucking sexy. You were really belting it out too, you sounded amazing."

" That's because I thought no one was around!"

" Do you do this all the time when I am not around?"

" Yup." She she playfully tried to push me away." Don't think that you can just push me up against the counter and try to seduce after violating my privacy Eddie Munson."

" You think I am trying to seduce you?" I put my hands on the counter on each side of her and smirked.

" Don't give me that look. You know your my fucking kryptonite. " I could see her trying to hide her smile.

I pushed up against her a little harder, I looked into her eyes then at her mouth ,then leaned closer so that my lips were close to hers but not touching." This is what I would do if I was trying to seduce you."

She leaned forward and lightly nibbled at my lip, then started to unbutton her shirt. She looked up at me with those big dark brown eyes and bit her lip. She leaned forward and whispered, " This is what I would do to seduce you." She spread her shirt open exposing her amazing tits in a lacy bra.

" Fuck. You win, you fucking win."

Ronnie smiled up at me." If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen." She grabbed my ass and gave it a squeeze then leaned forward and kissed me. We heard a splashing noise and pulled apart, the pasta water was boiling over." Oh Shit!!"

I reached over and turned down the burner." Ok, no more foreplay in the kitchen from now on. I'm afraid we will burn the fucking place down."

" It was your fault, you started it."

"No, you were the one shaking your ass."

Her jaw dropped ." You were the one that backed me up against the counter. You know our history with counters."

" Countertops, Chairs, couches, walls, showers, baby we are not safe on any surface.You're a fucking handful. "

She took my hands and put them on her breasts " Uh, more than a handful thank you very much."

I gave them a squeeze." Your definitely more than a handful."

I felt her hand travel down the front of my pants." Yup, definitely more than a handful."

I tipped my head back and let out a deep breath and she kissed my neck. "Your fucking killing me Princess, do you know that?"

She laughed then stood on her tippy toes and whispered." I can't help it, I just love to fuck you."

" God Damn it baby." I brought a hand up to the back of her neck and pulled her in for a kiss. Her lips were so full and soft and they tasted like cherries . I parted her lips with my tongue, deepening the kiss then untucked her shirt and finished unbuttoning it. I slid my hands up her rib cage, her breasts and up to her shoulders to slide her shirt off. I was working on the clasps of her bra when a timer went off and made us both jump.

" Oh shit my Penne!" Ronnie pulled away and ran over to the stove. She turned off the burner and grabbed the strainer and the pot holders. I took them out of her hands.

" Sweetheart let me do it, your not wearing a shirt and I don't want you to get splashed and burned." I slid the potholders onto my hands and drained the noodles in the strainer in the sink.

" My hero." Veronica stirred the sauce and turned off the burner. " There, dinners ready."

" After dinner we are picking up where we left off Darling." I smiled at her.

" We fucking better." She looked at me an smirked." Oh, and by the way, I love you. "

I smiled at her." Not as much as I love you." I leaned over and kissed the top of her head. I picked up her shirt and handed it to her then fixed us both a plate. She didn't bother to button her shirt, she just tied both sides together in a knot.

" So Honeybunny how was your day?" She took her plate and went over and sat at our newly acquired small kitchen table. I never knew how exciting it would be to pick out and purchase a fucking table. Welcome to adulthood.

" It was wonderful Sweetcheeks. How was your day?" I grabbed my plate and sat down across from her.

" It was good. These next couple of weeks are going to be fucking chaotic before the holidays but I'll make it through. Just a heads up, I have two lessons here next week, one violin and one Cello. Thank Richard for the referral for me."

" Will do." I took a big bite and chewed it. " Are you sure that doing the lessons now isn't going to be too much Baby? This pasta is delicious by the way."

" Thanks Baby. The lessons will be fine, it will be nice to have some extra money with Christmas coming up. I am so thankful that you are here Eddie, I am much more grounded with you around. I promise I will do my best to keep my anxiety in check. And please call me out if I'm acting like a Bitch."

I reached under the table and rubbed her knee." I have never seen you act like a bitch."

" In all seriousness please let me know. , I don't want to scare you away."

" Impossible." I took another bite." This is really fucking good."

" Glad you like it. I will have to add it into the dinner rotation. Remember the other day when you asked me what I wanted for Christmas? Cookbooks."

" That doesn't seem like a great gift Sweetheart ."

" I never thought I would get psyched about buying a table either but here we are." She laughed. " I am serious. I would love cookbooks, one for soups, stews, desserts, casseroles, everything. Oh! Did the guys like the cookies I made for them?"

" They loved them! They agree that you are the best girlfriend ever. Oh, It's official baby, we are playing a gig!" I smiled.

" You waited all this time to tell me! That is so awesome! When?"

" New year's Eve."

" They must have really liked you, New Year's Eve is a big deal. "

The owner of the club comes into the store all the time to shoot the shit, he knows Rob. He came to one of our practices and was impressed."

" I am so fucking proud of you Eddie! We need to invite Robin and Steve!"

" I'm sure Steve will be here with Melissa anyway. They seem to be doing pretty well."

" She is so smitten. She is good for him, and I think he really likes her."

" Thank Fucking God, maybe I won't have to worry about him making a move on you all the time now."

" I can't believe my first date was with Steve Harrington. And I can't believe that you threatened him before our date."

" You know about that?"

" Drunk Steve didn't hold back any secrets. If you hadn't said anything to him I could've gotten lucky that night." She laughed.

I cringed. " Don't even joke about that! The thought of him and you in the back of his car, it's disturbing."

Veronica laughed again. " I had his tongue in my mouth-"

I put my fingers in my ear. " La-la-la, I really can't think about that Sweetheart."

She pulled my fingers out of my ears." I have only had 4 tongues in my mouth, how many have you had Edward?"

I furrowed my brows, trying to avoid the question ." Four? I thought only three. Jake, Steve and I."

" Robin."

" I forgot about that, how the fuck did I forget about that! I didn't realize that she slipped you the tongue."

" It was very delicate, it was a nice kiss." She smiled then turned her eyes back to me." How many Eddie?"

" The point is that yours will be the last tongue to ever go in my mouth, because you are it for me."

" The two of us forever, and ever-"

" And ever and even after that baby."

" Even after living with me now for a little while?"

I took her hand and squeezed it. "Especially after living with you. This is what I want forever, only it will get better. Someday we will have kids and we can all sit around the table together and talk about our days."

" So you still want to marry me and make babies with me someday?" She gave me a heart melting smile.

" Sweetheart I would marry you tomorrow if I could." I was absolutely one hundred percent serious.We could Elope tomorrow and I would be the happiest man in the world. " But Darling, you deserve the big beautiful wedding that you have probably always dreamed of. I am pretty sure Lucy would hate me if she didn't get to plan some elaborate wedding."

Veronica laughed." Probably, since I am her only daughter." She leaned across the table and kissed my lips. " Being Veronica Munson is my dream, it doesn't matter to me how it happens, just as long as it does." She smiled and sat back in her chair.

" It will baby, I promise."

" I know." She swirled her promise ring around on her finger." Someday."

We finished up our dinner and put it away, did dishes and sat on the couch snuggled together. I was in a complete food coma. I swear we put on the movie, I wrapped my arm around her, grabbed her boob and fell asleep two minutes later.

I felt warm lips kissing my neck,"Eddie, baby , wake up, the movie is over." She whispered in my ear. I slow blinked my eyes open. " Hey sleepy head." She smiled softly at me and slowly kissed my lips."I didn't think you were ever going to wake up. "

" Sorry sweetheart, I was so comfy, I passed right out."

" It's ok Eds, you must have been tired." She sighed, dramatically," I just sat here and watched David Bowie sing and dance around in tight pants all by myself."

" Sounds rough."

" I managed." She crawled onto my lap." You know what I would rather see?" She slid her hands under my shirt and slid it over my head. She ran her hands over my chest and smirked. "Ahh, that is better."

I smiled at her and un tied the knot that she tied in the front of her shirt earlier and slid it off." Now that's better." I slid my finger under the lace of her bra." I didn't forget Dollface." I reached around and unclasped the hooks. The straps slid down her shoulders, and she dropped it to the floor. Jesus Christ.

I slid my hands along her rib cage until I reached her breast, I cupped them in my hands running my thumbs over her nipples and felt them get hard. I leaned forward and licked one, then lightly sucked the other, I heard her breathing quicken, then I felt her unbuttoning my pants, unzipping the fly and reaching her hand down inside my boxers. She wrapped her hand around my cock and stroked it. I closed my eyes an moaned.

" I love hearing you moan baby, it turns me on." She moved her hand faster.

" I want to fuck you ." I growled into her neck, kissing her collarbone, lightly biting her shoulder. She gasped. I held her and laid her back on the couch, her hands frantically pulling down my pants, my hands quickly pulling at hers and throwing them to the floor. I leaned down kissing her lips, her neck, her breast while she spread her legs for me. She was ready. I slowly entered her, pulled out then buried my self inside her. This time she groaned. She felt so fucking good. I was going to go slow even if it killed me, I wanted to make it last. I wanted her to tell me exactly what she wanted. I continued going slowly until she grabbed my ass and pulled me in deeper." Tell me what you want Princess, " I whispered into her ear.

She looked up at me, eye filled with lust." Just don't fucking stop until I'm screaming your name."

" Alright Angel." I leaned down and kissed her. I buried myself deeper again, and again going at the pace she set as raised her hips to mine. I would give her whatever she needed, however she wanted it, I had to concentrate on lasting as long as she needed me to, which wasn't easy because it felt so goddamn good. I felt her body shudder beneath me, her fingers lightly scratching my back, that nearly sent me over the edge.

" Oh, Eddie!" I watched her face as climaxed and she was absolutely beautiful, head thrown back, cheeks flush, lips red and full. I couldn't hold back any longer and I let myself go, in a long powerful orgasm. I collapsed onto her , face buried in her neck. She ran her fingers through my hair, brushed it off my face and neck gently. I picked up my head and looked down at her gorgeous, satisfied face. I couldn't help but smile. I kissed her forehead, the tip of her nose then her lips.

Veronica took my face in her hands, ran her thumbs across my cheeks and smiled. " I love the way you love me baby. Thank you."

" Thank you for what?" I ran my finger down her cheek.

" For this. For your sweet and gentle caresses .Your so patient , and you know exactly what I want, and if you don't your not afraid to ask. You love me so completely and so perfectly."

I leaned down and softly but greedily kissed her lips. When I pulled away I murmured," Its because your mine."against her lips.

" Always and forever Eddie, and even longer than that.”

#eddie munson #eddie munson smut #eddie fanfic #eddie stranger things #eddie munson fanfic

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huntedlives-a · 1 year

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name: hope

nicknames: hope actually is a nickname because it’s my middle name! my first name is lauren. i’m also known as ziggy because of my intense love for anything david bowie or labyrinth related.

pronouns: she / her

preference of communication: tumblr im or discord

most active muses: honestly? it changes daily! my utmost most active are the ones with their own blogs, denny & lucille, but genuinely . . . i love all my babies. supernatural wise, right at this exact time, i would say : adam milligan, bela talbot, ellen harvelle, john winchester, lee webb & kelly kline.

experience / how many years: listen . . . i’ve been roleplaying since we used to make freewebs pages & try to advertise on neopets without getting blocked. if you know, you know. if you don’t, then let’s just go with 15 + years.

platforms you use: these days it’s only tumblr and occasionally discord.

best experience: roleplaying has literally given me so many experiences. i’ve been bridesmaid twice at two separate weddings to people i met through roleplaying. i’ve met my sister, who came to live with me for a month, through roleplaying. i was given a cameo from ruby modine by a long term roleplaying pal just this christmas eve. for me, the best experience about writing is the people you meet and the friends you make.

rp pet peeves: i run a lot of multi - muse blogs, so i think my biggest pet peeve is when one particular muse is favoured over everyone else. don’t get me wrong. a part of me loves the hype, but it can be super disheartening to realise someone only followed you for the one person when you have so many others available. i’m also really not a big fan of call-outs / psa type posts overwhelming my dash. it triggers anxiety.

fluff, angst or smut: give me all three. i’ll never pick a favourite. it’s like asking arthur weasley to pick his favourite child.

long or short replies: write whatever you’ve got the inspiration for. i’m not the kind of writer who thinks we have to match. i think we should write whatever comes to mind and work with it! sometimes when i do a starter call, i’ll keep them to one - liners . . . but then i’ll gradually build them into paragraphs when i reply.

best time to write: whenever the muse hits, my dude. don’t force that shit. let it flow naturally.

are you like your muses: i wish i was a super cool badass hunter saving the world, but sadly no.

tagged by: @lilyspaintedred

tagging: you!

#⸻ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑: ABOUT THE MUN.

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queerofdenial · 2 years

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rules: tag ppl you want to get to know. i played fast and loose with the categories here, it’s 2 am and i am on so much melatonin rn

tagged by: @nakedmonkey, @softdeb, @trying-to-get-somewhere-real

favorite time of year: autumn! not only is it my birthday szn (narcissist) but the weather is perfect, i look GREAT in warm tones, and it means that ski season is right around the corner and i no longer sweat profusely all day every day

comfort food: right now it’s yaki udon, but i suspect that’ll change soon…solid runners up are dumplings, life cereal, and a fried chicken sandwich from the ghost kitchen near my apartment.

do you collect something: i had MASSIVE funko pop vinyl and snow globe collections as a kid that are now stashed away in my parents basement. currently it’s shot glasses and postcards of the places i’ve traveled to since moving out.

favorite drink: for a long time it’s been kentucky mules with jack honey, but i’ve had some banging paloma’s recently (my local dive makes them into slushies) and that might just top the list.

favorite song: of all time? as the world falls down (david bowie) from the labyrinth soundtrack, inspired my first real tattoo. close second is raspberry beret (prince) bc that was my mom’s go-to hype number when we would have dance parties growing up.

favorite song (currently): i’ve been slowly working on a public concept playlist for an avadeb sweet home alabama AU for a while now, and a couple of the songs on that im obsessed with — specifically mansion of misery (miniature tigers) and pears (weston estate) which have both hit especially hard since s2 started. they’re both about hiding behind your walls and watching your heart crumble while waiting for them to just let you back in and promise to be better. ouch.

fave fics: i was gonna do all hacks but decided i couldn’t pick and also everyone else’s posted all of them and i’m not about to sit here picking favorites like they’re my CHILDREN don’t make me do that so here’s some fics from Not Hacks:

a fine line - hunnyfresh; the ice is getting thinner - @nakedmonkey (you wrote this ficlet literally a decade ago pal i STILL go back to it at regular intervals) ; most like a marsh-fire - quickyoke ; the secret’s in the telling - pyrophoric ; to this day the best thing i’ve ever read is that one hp femslash epic that hasn’t updated in six years, iykyk.

tagging: (this is a lot less than 9, i’m so late to the game and simply too lazy to remember all of y’all who’ve done it so whoops if you have i ain’t searching thru a hundred blogs) @actualhumancryptid @electric-eccentricity @damelucyjo @drpinkky @sarahstreep7 @niche-escort

#riss speaks #tag asks

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tolbachik · 3 months

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Hi! This is Cube/🎲! This is my main blog, but I mostly post on @junecast-moonfast nowadays :D

Don’t worry about the delay, this is a very busy time of year! I hope you had a good Christmas ^^

The main universities I’m applying to are Rutgers, Syracuse, and Drexel! I’m also just thinking of just applying all over (as long as the application fees aren’t too high) to see if any schools give me scholarship money lol

Conlangs have always been super interesting to me! I’ve considered trying my hand at making one, but I think I’d need to get a better grasp on linguistics before I do that. Are there any conlangs in particular you’d be interested in taking up? ^^

Pieeogis are great! My mom and I were supposed to homemake them for Christmas, but unfortunately we didn’t get around to it. We still have the filling, so we might make them some time this week :]

Swedish seems like such an interesting language! Also, your reason for learning it is so sweet. It must be a lot of fun to be able to learn a language with a friend who’s a native speaker :D

Arabic is also a fascinating language! The place where I grew up has a pretty large arabic population, so a lot of my friends growing up spoke it. Unfortunately though, I never picked up on any of it.

The math class I got to miss because of choir was applied math, so it was all word problems. In hindsight, it might’ve been an interesting class, but also I know that middle school me would’ve hated it haha

I looked up the erhu, and the sound is so pretty! I imagine that it sounded especially beautiful live, I feel like sometimes music just cannot be entirely captured through video. You can’t really go wrong with string instruments, they all sound so nice :]

I’ll be honest, I never realized how weird our focus on Mars is until you pointed it out! You’re totally right though, focusing on Mars seems entirely arbitrary considering that other planets were also candidates for being habitable in the past. It seems like sometimes in science, we get stuck focusing so hard on one discovery that we lose sight of the bigger picture!

Yeah! I tend to be a bit of a pessimist, but you’re right that a better future is possible if we work together for it! It’s sad to think about what could’ve been, but we also have the chance to make change now!

If I could see any dead musicians live, I think I’d have to go with ELP (Carl Palmer is still alive, but unfortunately the other two members have passed), David Bowie, or David Berman. Keith Emerson was a wonderful showman, and a wonderful musician! Same for David Bowie. David Berman’s music is just so beautiful and hard hitting that I imagine it would’ve been an amazing experience to see him perform live. As for living musicians, I would’ve loved to see Eno on the recent tour he went on, but unfortunately the timing just wasn’t right.

One thing that I found particularly funny about Caligula is that when he invaded Britain he had his soldiers collect sea shells. There was some logic behind why he did this, but I’ve since forgotten it. It’s just a little silly to imagine Roman soldiers just frolicking on the shore and grabbing sea shells haha

Another nautical Caligula fun fact is that he was rumored to have declared war on Poseidon. Assuming the Greco-Roman gods are real, this would’ve been a particularly bad move considering that when Odysseus pissed off Poseidon, it didn’t turn out particularly well for him lol

I’m in a similar boat to you in regards to religion. I haven’t moved out yet, but I’d still consider myself agnostic or an atheist. However, I still celebrate Christmas.

Happy holidays! It was great to be your Santa this year, I’m so glad that we got paired up! I wish you well for the coming year ahead. Take care! :D

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Hi!! So, so sorry for how late this. I appreciate your patience! I hope you had a lovely holiday season, and a great start to the new year as well. I hope that this year goes exactly how you want it to! Wow, that's quite the list!! Which one are you hoping to get into the most? Sounds like a real exciting time, I really hope you can get a nice scholarship!! I get that! What sort of conlang do you think you'd try to make, if you had the time and resources to do so? Hmmm... I'm not sure, there are a lot of options out there! I'll have to do a little shopping around, I think. I do kind of have one main for my story, but it's very... Nebulous. I just kind of make it up as I go along, really! Aww, I'm sorry that you guys didn't get to it! Did you end up getting to them, or nah? I hope you did, it sounds like a lot of fun! I think I tried myself once years ago, but I don't think it ended up going very well lol Aww, thank you! I haven't really talked to her much in Swedish, as my grasp is still very tenuous, but it's a fun little goal to work towards! I think I already said it, but I really love how similar it is to English. Language history is always so neat! I agree, Arabic is really neat! Ahh, I get that though. It can be hard keeping track of that sort of stuff sometimes! I had a friend who's mother was Russian growing up, but I couldn't ever remember what any of the words she said meant 😭 Ahh, that's fair! I guess singing really was the best bet then, huh? I hope you were able to enjoy it then, at least! I'm glad you enjoyed it! If you want, I think I might've actually recorded her performance. It was a bit ago, so I'll have to dig through my files to find it, but I can try to share it with you then if you'd like! It was very small; it was just her, a few people from her class, and some of their friends and family. Maybe like, 20 people total! It's a shame; there's so much more out there we could explore! But, such is life. At least we're doing anything at all up there, I gotta count my blessings for that! Thankfully, other space agencies seem to be picking up the slack, and there's been a bit of a shift in our own space agency as well it seems. Here's to hoping for more widespread exploration!

I get that, it's hard looking on the bright side sometimes. There's a lot of pain and suffering in our world, it's not something one can really ignore. But, there are tons of like-minded people out there! We'll get there someday!

That's a great list! I'm sorry you didn't get to see Eno though 😭 Maybe if he tours again you could catch him that time? Either way, I hope you can get to see him & all your other favorites, if possible!

Oh wow, that really is quite the mental image lol I wonder what the reason was? Was it for trading, or perhaps for a source of minerals? Either way, I'd love to see a painting of it; sounds like such a silly thing to do lol

Man, they really did just do anything when it came to it back then, huh? I guess, comparing then to now, we do stuff they might have considered silly or weird as well. Something something constant in human history lol Ahh, I gotcha. Religion can be such a personal thing, so thank you for sharing! If you don't mind me asking, what lead you to where you are today with that? Thank you for being my secret santa, I had such a great time talking with you! So sorry again for the delay with this reply, here. I really appreciate your patience! I hope you've been enjoying your 2024 so far! :)

#asks #srs23 #cube #🎲

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alwayscraftynight · 10 months

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Salutations it is I, Jacob Hopkins redemption fic writer person.

Even though I don’t follow you I still regularly look at your tumblr for Jacob Cringefailloserman Hopkins content (your art’s very good by the way). To respond to the post you made about me, I’m not at all disappointed with your response and it’s been really helpful with characterizing a character with a total of 5 minutes of screen time in the show, and whose only purpose is to make plot happen and to make fun of conspiracy theorists.

The reason that I don’t follow you, remain anonymous, and didn’t initially respond to your response is as you have guessed because I am uncomfortable with the proshipping. It’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while and I’ve come to the conclusion that as long as it’s kept to a fictional space and it’s not taken to an extreme it’s something I can tolerate and I’m fine interacting with people who do partake in it. I promise to not harass, insult, or be nasty in general to you or anyone else in the pro ship community, and will go by the golden rule of don’t like don’t interact. Still gonna keep things anonymous though.

With that being said, progress on the fic has been slow. It’s my first time writing outside of a school setting and I’m not that good at it to boot. Putting my thoughts and ideas into words is like pulling teeth, and I have gained a tremendous respect for people who write regularly either professionally or as a hobby.

I’ve rewritten the first scene five times now (though the one I’ve most recently came up with I’m pretty sure I’m going to stick with), and I’ve only got a good four or so chapters planned out definitively. But mark my words I’m getting this written.

This man has been in my brain since November 2021 when I thought it would be funny if he was in dead cells because both Jacob and Dead Cells person use traps. Eventually in December 2022 I decided to start writing a fic about Jacob getting a redemption where he’d go on the infinity train but that was scrapped pretty quickly. Then it was about his experience in prison, but I don’t have the write something as nuanced as that and I’d need to study the hell out of prisons. Then finally after the owl house finished and the human realm was never made aware of the demon realm’s existence, the fic that I’m writing now started to take shape.

What I write will have its problems because of my inexperience. There will be plot points that are confusing, dialogue that sounds artificial, descriptions that are bland, and a number of other problems that I don’t even know I’ll face. But I promise you this, I’m going to put my fucking soul into this thing.

People who forgot about Jacob entirely, who are neutral about him, or hold animosity towards him will read my fic and they will feel a fraction of the emotions that I feel about this middle aged cartoon man. And it will be glorious. And we will no longer be so alone.

I can’t promise that the fic will be released anytime soon as I want to get at least an outline of the whole plot completed as well as a sizeable number of chapters before I do so, but I’m going to promise to work on it every day (as long as daydreaming is included in the definition of working).

Good luck on making your AU, other drawings, and whatever else it is you’ll pursue. I’ll make sure to link you to the fic whenever I get the first chapter out.

Cheers

To repay the seratonin you have given me by making content about Jacob that doesn’t make me reenact the homelander in hallway scene, here are a list of songs I’ve put in a Spotify playlist that reflect either themes of the fic, the general vibes of it, or both.

Love I need / My Ordinary Life : The living tombstone

The main character / Against the kitchen floor / …well better than the alternative : Will Wood

Coffee : Jack Stauber

Le festin : Camille, Michael Giacchino

Under pressure : Queen, David Bowie

World’s smallest violin : AJR

The mind electric : Miracle Musical

Once in a lifetime : Talking Heads

Gats : Susumu Hirasawa

Space song : Beach House

Undertale : Toby Fox

I'm a bit tired and I keep putting off my needed break so this probably won't be as long and comprehensible as it could be I apologize 😭

Hello anon, it's cool seeing you again! I wanted to clarify I didn't mean to come across as rude if I did in my post, it's completely understandable to stay anonymous if that's what you feel more comfortable doing, and thank you for being civil about my weird opinions lol.

It's so easy to get stuck on the beginning of stuff, I'm also in the rewriting stage if that makes you feel any better. I'm not experienced in writing specifically but I can share some advice I've heard if that helps. Writing and making stories in general requires a lot of brainstorming, so don't feel like your writing is inadequate for going through a lot of rough drafts. I like to save my drafts to add to other projects later (most of which take place entirely inside my brain but I digress)

Just remember that this stuff is supposed to take time and to just be patient with yourself y'know? I hope you're happy with what you decide to stick with and you can achieve what you want to achieve with your fic 👍

Also LOVE the music I definitely get the feel you're going for! I know quite a few of the songs already but I'll be sure to check out the ones I haven't heard :]

Cheers! And good luck!

#i reallt hope this is comprehensible im running on doctor pepper and 2 hours of sleep

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Eminem, Dolly Parton, Judas Priest, Lionel Richie Party ‘All Night Long’ at Rock Hall Induction

Olivia Rodrigo, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Steven Tyler, and Ed Sheeran joined the inductees for a very special night of music and speeches in Los Angeles

Andy GreeneNovember 6, 2022

Olivia Rodrigo, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Steven Tyler, and Ed Sheeran joined the inductees for a very special night of music and speeches in Los Angeles

When Dolly Parton learned she was going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her first reaction was to tell her supporters not to vote for her since she saw herself as strictly a country artist. But when she walked onstage near the end of the induction ceremony Saturday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, after witnessing an incredible evening of music by artists as diverse as Eminem, Judas Priest, Lionel Richie, and Duran Duran, a beaming Parton had a very different take on the situation.

“I’m a rock star now!” she said. “Back when they said they were going to induct me into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I didn’t really think that I’d done enough to deserve that. I didn’t understand at the time. But this is a very, very special night for me.”

It was also a very special night for the roughly 7,000 people in the audience since, in a break from Hall of Fame tradition, the names of most presenters and guest performers weren’t announced ahead of time. This led to audible gasps when Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Dre, Steven Tyler, Pink, The Edge, Alice Cooper, Brandi Carlile, Olivia Rodrigo, and Ed Sheeran came out. Not all of them create music that fits a very narrow definition of “rock and roll,” but the Hall of Fame has proven for years that this music is about so much more than just loud drums, guitars, and bass. “Rock and roll is not a color,” Richie said during his speech. “It is a feeling. It’s a vibe.”

The vibe started when Robert Downey Jr. — looking like a cross between Michael Keaton and The Office‘s Creed Bratton — came on to induct Duran Duran. “I adore this band,” he said. “They’ve grown and changed and aged out of one mode and embraced the next. High among the many surreal moments I’ve witnessed in my life shall remain my 50th birthday party. They played a short set and, I shit you not, halfway through ‘Rio,’ the wife of a prominent Hollywood director tore off her bra and tossed it onto the stage.”

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The theater was packed with hardcore Duranies, and they’d been promised a reunionwith former guitarists Andy Taylor and Warren Cuccurullo ever since the band learned they were getting inducted back in May. Tragically, just as the group took the stage, Andy Taylor posted a letter revealing he was battling stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer and wouldn’t be at the show. Cuccurullo was also MIA for reasons that weren’t explained.

Duran Duran soldiered on without them and banged through a medley of “Girls on Film” and “Hungry Like The Wolf” before finishing off their mini-set with a moving “Ordinary World.” “Music nourished us and gave us identities,” bassist John Taylor said during his speech. “We would not be here without the influence of the Beatles, David Bowie and Mick Ronson, T-Rex, the Sex Pistols and the Clash… Siouxsie Sioux and Patti Smith…These and so many others were all at one time parents, mentors, and spirit guides. Without them and their music, we might never have found each other.”

Janet Jackson came out next to induct her longtime collaborators, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. “I feel like we broke through the music industry together,” she said. “They taught me so much, and I learned their lessons well. When I went to work on what became Controlin their hometown of Minneapolis, there was pressure. We felt like we were kids in a sandbox…We talked and laughed so much that sometimes it didn’t even feel like we were making a record.”

The Eighties theme continued with the induction of Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo by Sheryl Crow, who began her speech by holding up the duo’s 1980 Rolling Stone cover. “I was 18 when this Rolling Stone magazine came out,” she said. “I had just graduated high school in my little town of Kennett, Missouri. I headed off to college to study classical piano and voice, but what I really wanted to be was Pat Benatar.”

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Benatar may be just one year shy of her 70th birthday, but she looks about 20 years younger. Her voice was also in stunning form for a set that included “All Fired Up,” “Love is a Battlefield,” and “Heartbreaker.” She’s had to wait a long time for this night, and she was passed over on many prior ballots. “First, I want to say that all is forgiven,” she said when it was her turn at the podium. “I want to thank all our fans for graciously joining us on this 43-year journey. It has been an incredible ride.”

Judas Priest are another act that have been waiting a very long time to get inducted. And since the voters appear biased towards heavy metal acts, the Hall of Fame backdoored them this year by giving them the Musical Excellence Award. But it was a distinction without any difference at the ceremony. They took the stage with estranged guitarist K.K. Downing, who left the band in 2011, Seventies drummer Les Binks, and guitarist Glenn Tipton, who has been sidelined from their recent tours due to health issues. It was glorious to watch the band make peace and rip through “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’,” “Breaking The Law,” and “Living After Midnight” with members past and present.

“I’m the gay guy in the band,” said frontman Rob Halford. “We call ourselves the heavy metal community, which is all-inclusive, no matter what your sexual identity is, what you look like, or what you believe in or don’t believe in. Everybody’s welcome.”

There were 14 acts brought into the Hall of Fame this year, a steep rise from the six they inducted back in 2016. That meant they had to take some shortcuts to avoid a ten-hour ceremony, so Sylvia Robinson, Harry Belafonte, and Elizabeth Cotten were all welcome in via quick video packages.

Carly Simon was originally supposed to be in the house, but her sisters Joanna and Lucy died of cancer just one day apart from each other in late October. Sara Bareilles delivered her induction speech and then led the house band through Simon’s 1977 James Bond theme “Nobody Does It Better.” Word came out a few days earlier that Olivia Rodrigo was going to sing “You’re So Vain” as a duet with Alanis Morissette, but Morissette must have been at an undisclosed location somewhere besides Warren Cuccurullo. Rodrigo is no stranger to bitter breakup singers, and she absolutely crushed it on her own.

Bruce Springsteen has been close with Intesrcope founder Jimmy Iovine since the Born To Run sessions back in 1975, and he came out to present him with the Ahmet Ertegun Award. “Jimmy is brave and smart,” said Springsteen.“He turned his relationship with the great Dr. Dre into one of the greatest and most valuable partnerships in the music business. He trusted Dre’s vision and he recognized the power of hip-hop and its ability to conquer the culture.”

Most people in the audience probably only vaguely knew the name of attorney Allen Grubman, but video testimonials by Bono, Sting, Springsteen, and Mariah Carey about his tireless advocacy on behalf of artists showed why he’s the first lawyer to ever enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was inducted by his longtime friend John Mellencamp. “Everyone knows in this room knows that the music business is full of colorful people,” he said. “But I’m not talking about the bat-eating, shit-talking, funny haircuts, or any silly things someone might do to get the audience’s attention. I’m venturing behind the scenes tonight. I’m talking about a very special person in the business who isn’t afraid to tell the truth, often in an offensive and profane way.”

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Near the end of his speech, Mellencamp pivoted to address antisemitism in the entertainment industry. He didn’t mention Kanye West or Kyrie Irving — the two men who have made headlines as of late for spreading hate speech — by name, but it was clear he was responding to their recent statements about Jews. “I’m an artist and a gentile whose life has been enriched greatly by my friendship and association with countless Jewish people,” he said. “I cannot tell you how fuckin’ important it is to speak out if you’re an artist against antisemitism and all forms of bigotry and hatred…We’re all human beings. I don’t give a fuck if you’re Jewish, Black, tooty-fruity, I don’t care.”

We don’t know exactly what he meant by tooty-fruity, but Lenny Kravitz is those two other things. He was there to induct Lionel Richie. “He has remained that down-home brotha from Tuskegee, Alabama,” Kravitz said. “The man doesn’t have a pretentious bone in his body. Lionel also happens to be the funniest person I’ve ever met. I never laugh as hard as I do when I’m with him. It’s the kind of laugh that comes from the soul. When Lionel shows up, everyone gets happy.”

Richie proved that by kicking off his set with “Hello,” bringing out Dave Grohl for the Commodores classic “Easy,” and then wrapping up with a euphoric “All Night Long” that had everyone in the theater singing “Tam bo li de say de moi ya/Hey Jambo Jumbo.”

The party continued when Eurythmics, who have been almost completely inactive these past two decades besides the very occasional one-off, reformed to deliver blistering renditions of “Would I Lie To You?,” “Missionary Man,” and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This).” They were introduced by U2’s The Edge. He spoke about their long, difficult road that eventually lead them to record “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This).” “It was passed over a single because RCA didn’t think it had a chorus,” he said. “The track got so much radio play that it eventually was released, aided by one of the most iconic music videos of the whole MTV era. And it was a smash hit all over the world. Their sweet dreams finally met reality.”

As the night began winding down, Dr. Dre appeared on the stage to induct Eminem. He explained that he signed him back in the Nineties even though many of his associates didn’t want a white rapper on the label. “He was able to hold a mirror up to white America while also expressing pain through poverty,” he said. “Eminem brought hip-hop to Middle America and offered kids who looked like him a way to connect to it. Hip-hop wasn’t just for Black kids in desperate inner-city circumstances anymore.”

Eminem began his set with a little bit of “My Name Is” before kicking into a ferocious “Rap God.” Steven Tyler then appeared out of seemingly nowhere to deliver a live sample of “Dream On” for “Sing for the Moment,” a move that echoed Aerosmith’s 1986 “Walk This Way” collaboration with Run DMC. Just as the crowd was coming down from that high of the shock of seeing Tyler, Ed Sheeran walked out to sing the “Dido” parts on “Stan” and join in on guitar. Em closed out with “Forever” and “Not Afraid.”

When he walked to the side of the stage to deliver his speech, he seemed genuinely moved, even if he couldn’t avoid cracking a joke about a very serious time in his life. “I almost died from an overdose in 2007,” he said before telling his daughter Hailie to cover her ears. “Because drugs were fuckin’ delicious. I thought we had a good thing going, but I had to go and fuck it all up.”

He also noted that he’s one of a handful of rappers in the Hall of Fame, and he devoted a majority of his speech to reading a long list of his rap heroes in alphabetical order that included everyone from DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Biz Markie to 2 Live Crew, Tupac Shakur, the Notorious BIG, the Roots, and the Beastie Boys. Some of them have been inducted, but the vast majority of them are not. It was a very gracious move to give them all a moment in the hopes they’ll one day join him in the Hall of Fame.

They wisely saved Dolly Parton until the very end. Pink and Brandi Carlile sang “Coat of Many Colors,” and Zac Brown and Sheryl Crow duetted on “9 to 5,” giving Parton enough time to put on a snazzy Elvis-like jumpsuit she wore to deliver a brand new rock song written just for the occasion. “Here I am on the stage, you all know my name,” she sang. “With many country accolades, and country is in my veins/But since I head the big beat/I ain’t never been the same/Because they’ve done put me in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”

She then called out many performers of the night — including Simon Le Bon, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, Pink, Brandi Carlile, Pat Benatar, and Rob Halford — to join her on “Jolene.” At one point, the Judas Priest frontman put his arm around Dolly as they gleefully locked voices on the chorus. Where else but the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would such a beautiful thing even be possible?

It was well past midnight by this point, and it truly seemed like the end as most of the artists walked off the stage. But then Bruce Springsteen came out with John Mellencamp to send everyone home with a medley of Jerry Lee Lewis songs as a tribute to The Killer. They were backed by members of the Zac Brown Band and E Street Band keyboardist Roy Bittan.

Jerry Lee Lewis was the last survivor of the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 1986. Back then, nobody could have imagined the institution still going strong 36 years down the line. They certainly wouldn’t have foreseen the day that Dolly Parton and Judas Priest would be accepted on the same night. But the Hall of Fame has come a long way over the years. If they keep ushering in exciting and diverse classes like this one, it could easily last another four decades and beyond.

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Roxy Music 50th Anniversary Concert. Chase Center. September 26, 2022

This will be cross-posted to both Facebook and LJ.

I could write a straight-up review. Tell you I had the usual mixture of anticipation to see and hear Bryan, but also the fear and anxiety that it wouldn’t be everything I wanted, that something would go wrong, that my “date” wouldn’t be as into it as I was. Or just the fact that I always build up such a head of steam that nothing could ever be quite enough, but that just seeing Bryan Ferry is an amazing experience.

So for the “just the facts, maam” bit, The Chase Center was the closest to my front door venue since the Warfield on the Frantic tour back in 2002. Following a lovely light dinner at Limon, Lord David and I were able to hop the 22 Fillmore and be dropped off directly in front of the venue. Lord David was if possible, more into some parts of the early Roxy repertoire that I was. (The Bogus Man has never been my favorite song.) They hit all the expected high-lights starting with Re-Make, ReModel and finishing with Do The Strand. I was surprised and a little disappointed not to get Virginia Plain or Jealous Guy as the penultimate songs and disappointed, but not at all surprised that we didn’t get Street Life or Same Old Scene. (I’m sure the feeling is that Dance Away sort of makes Same Old Scene superfluous, ditto Editions of You for Street life.)

It was a thril to see Andy McKay and Phil Manzanera rocking out, taking solos and getting the crowd’s adoration. Bryan’s usual sax player on his solo tours, Jorja Chalmers was also present, but if she was giving Andy any back-up, it was unobtrusive. The Great Paul Thompson on drums with (look up) as a secondary percussionist gave us a pretty good roar, although not quite the power of the High Road Tour (at least as it came across on the VHS that I nearly killed myself to get on a rainy night in Totawa, NJ in 1983 or so. I’m not sure the guard rail I hit on Route 46 ever recovered.)

The vibe at the Chase Center was very much a love fest for the band and their history, even though it was a huge venue compared to every other place I’ve seen Bryan or Roxy. The 2000 Reunion tour played the freakin’ Concord Pavilion.

The seats weren’t terrible by stadium standards and the screens gave us access to close-ups of Bryan, Phil and Andy at key moments along with various imagery including older videos, animations, clips of relevant old movies and just an approximation of an older light. Not as intensely done as the ones in the Bowie documentary, “Moonage Daydream,” which I saw four days afterwards. Very effective during my personal highlight, “In Every Dream Home A Heartache,” which mixed and matched the creepy clips with the close-ups of Bryan singing and you could really feel the tension building up until the big audience participation release of “But you blew my mind!” (Slight quibble: note to all montagists going for creepy, can we have a moratorium on Un Chien Andalou? If I have to see that blade going for the eyeball one more time… It’s like using the opening of “Gimme shelter” to say “something bad is about to happen. Yeah, I get it!)

In terms of pacing, I’d have cut the LONG solos on Tara and My Only Love (Sorry Phil and Andy) which just felt like filler, but may also have a chance for rest of the band or the lead singer to lay out a bit. Which brings us to….

So, the Main Thing. The reason I go to these concerts, the man I bombard all my social media with pictures of, the guy I’ve have this yearning, burning, burning feeling inside (no cranberry juice jokes, please) for all these years.

Mr. Bryan Ferry CBE.

I love him with every fiber of my fangirl being. He’s still a great singer and a great showman. The charm and presence are still there. However, the man is now 77 (as of Monday) and he no longer looks like the pictures I post and the voice is not the same either. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s OK, sometimes it’s great….and sometimes it’s just sad. During particular songs, Fonzi Thornton and the two female back-ups are doing a lot of work to make up for the sound (especially on the songs from Avalon and “My Only Love.”) The only time I felt it was really hard for Bryan to sing and for me to listen to was “To Turn You On,” where his voice was barely audible and I felt like it was pitched way too low, compared to the original.

This is where my musings turned to late period Sinatra and how much this presentation was a deliberate choice by Mr. Ferry, who is known for many things, but not being an especially spontaneous performer. For example, he made one reference to it being his birthday, but there was no break for a mass sing of Happy Birthday or anything. On one hand, it was the next to last show of the US leg of the tour and they’d played a lot of back-to-back dates across North America, so it’s possible his voice was just that tired and he just decided to roll with it. But keeping the song in a lower key and not having the back-up singers sweetening the mix struck me as very deliberate.

“To Turn You On” isn’t a ballad, but it is a gorgeous mid-tempo song of longing and passion, both to the human subject that Bryan might be addressing and to the city of New York, as it might have been romanticized by Bryan growing up in 50’s England (clips of Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse from the Dancing In The Dark number from The Bandwagon) and the New York of the late 70’s/early 80’s with all the decadence and glamor that would entail. It’s not impossible to imagine the same Sinatra who released Trilogy in 1980 and recorded “A Man Alone” with lyrics by Rod McKuen in 1969, giving it a go.

(I’m not going to get into a “Golden Throats” argument about the merits of Sinatra and others of that era taking on the works of the rock-era singer-songwriters. Perry Como’s “And I Love Her So” speaks for itself.)

Frank Sinatra was 63 when I saw him at Carnegie Hall on June 14, 1980. New York, New York was a huge hit, Trilogy was on the Album charts, and the energy in the room was amazing. I was 15. I had no idea who Bryan Ferry was, but I was heavily in love with Frank Sinatra. (This is where a whole other essay is in the making.) My father took me to the show, and it stands as one of the most amazing live performance experiences of my life.

Mr. Sinatra was still very much the Chairman of the Board, but the voice was not that of the Big Band era, or the Capital Years or even the mid-60's. It was the voice of a man who had (as a song he apparently didn’t particularly like the lyrics of said) “lived a life that’s full.” It was the voice of a smoker and a drinker, but it didn’t matter. He had the showmanship, the technique, the passion. If he never wanted to hear or sing My Way again, none of it came through in the performance, and when he did “New York, New York” as the encore, you expected the actual roof to come off. The excitement, the connection between performer and audience, the love and the willingness of Mr. Sinatra to be vocally vulnerable on some of the ballads, such as “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry,” was a reminder of why he had been the bobbysoxer’s heart throb of the 40’s before assuming the brash persona of the later eras.

It was the only time I saw him live. He went on performing until 1995. Clips I’ve heard from later concerts underscore the same points. A diminished instrument, but a consummate professional in control of everything to the extent that the diminishment is part of the performance and I believe there’s an element of this is in Bryan’s performances now. Hence, I’m willing to wager that the way I heard “To Turn You On” on Monday night is precisely what Mr. Ferry had in mind.

Especially because from there on Bryan’s voice sounded fine (possibly with the assistance of the back-up team) and the energy kicked into overdrive with “Dance Away,” “More Than This,” “Avalon,” Love Is The Drug,” “Editions of You,” and “Do The Strand.” All superbly done and as satisfying and ending to the evening as could be imagined. (I never really saw the point of ending with “Jealous Guy.”)

If he chooses to call it quits after this and I don’t get to see him live again, I’ll be ok with it. On the other hand, if he does another solo tour (and it doesn’t require getting to Bum Fuck Egypt a/k/a Saratoga) I’m there….while my heart is still beating.

#bryan ferry #roxy music #frank sinatra #concert review #musings #personal #journal

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Caprikid Theory

Whoa, part three after all these years? Executive dysfunction has been kicking my butt, but lately I’ve started getting paranoid that these hero episodes are actually getting closer and closer, so that motivated me to sit down and write this. Below are links to the Minotaurox and Coq Courage theories respectively. Only one left after this.

https://ct-multifandom.tumblr.com/post/656811441319526400/minotaurox-theory

https://ct-multifandom.tumblr.com/post/656909625308938240/coq-courage-theory

As usual, the first question is: what inspired this hero? The most obvious hint would be the name of the goat kwami, Ziggy. Their name is a reference to Ziggy Stardust, one of David Bowie’s characters/personas. What does that have to do with goats? I don’t know. But I think it’ll at least show in his design.

Here are Alladin Sane and Ziggy Stardust, two of Bowie’s most famous characters. At first, when I saw Caprikid’s silhouette I was a bit confused by how round? I guess? His head was, like there’s no indication of hair texture and it almost looks like he’s wearing a helmet. Then, I realized that without his little hair poof thing, his head is pretty round anyways. I think the hairstyle he has as a superhero might be similar to Bowie’s typical haircut.

Also, I’ve seen people theorize that he might have long hair because that fur or whatever on his chest looks like it might be long hair behind him, but that’s impossible because they can’t animate long hair well in scenes with a lot of movement. For example, when Juleka moves around, her hair behaves in a really stiff and unrealistic way, and all the other superheroes have short hair or their hair put up for this reason. The miraculous itself are hair clips, after all.

I also feel like he might have makeup/face paint instead of a mask to mix things up and represent a glam rock influence, but maybe I’m getting into What I Would Do territory. The last part of his design I’ll talk about are his hands. At first, I thought he was holding his hand over his tool and had some sort of fur on his wrist, but now I realize that if he’s holding the tool from underneath that could just be his thumb and the pole’s shape.

Here’s Reverser concept art which shows how round his head is. More importantly, I’m not giving up on deriving possible hero powers from villain powers because even if there’s no obvious surface level connection or polar opposite theme, just about all of them still have something there.

When theorizing, I tried starting with traits associated with goats. Earlier this year, my idea for the goat power was something related to telekinesis, and the best word I could come up with was “assertion” which fits with goats. My idea was inspired by the theory that his tool is a shepherd’s cane, which would just be super neat, but also the goat on the zodiac is sometimes represented by a sheep or ram, and considering that the clips are shaped like ram horns, not goat horns, I don’t think this is too far of a stretch.

My more recent idea is something related to balance, something goats are really good at. The best word I could come up with for this is “moderation”, maybe “mediation”. I’m not thinking physical balance, but metaphorical. Kind of like how the monkey uses the power of derision to mess up everything around them, this power would be used to “balance” out blatantly unfair situations or strong emotions. I like this idea because it plays well into Reverser and Marc’s development (if you can even call 15 seconds of screen time that) since.

Reverser sees the world in “black and white”, hence his monokuma-like coloration. If he doesn’t like something about someone, he forces them to be the polar opposite. Afterwards, Marc realizes that things are more complicated than that, and that “babe, you’re really not looking like the idealized version of you I have in my head rn” isn’t a valid motive to threaten the city with trash missiles.

I think the goat power being the opposite of Reverser’s power, as in finding a grey area, would be a good continuation of this theme. I think the goat color scheme also being black and white could support this connection because whenever all the miraculous or kwamis are represented by one color, the goat is grey, and the black and white on Ziggy and the clips are more mixed together and balanced rather than one side vs the other.

I think the last thing I’ll talk about is the tool. I’ve seen a lot of people guess that it’s a brush of some sort that functions similarly to Furious Fu’s calligraphy brush. Honestly, I’m not a huge fan of this idea because, once again, it’s already been done, and also that thing is huge. Like imagine trying to paint with such a giant brush. Not efficient. I think this theory originated when Nath was the most common candidate for the goat, but it doesn’t make sense to me.

My first reaction to the tool was that that “brush” shape was a decorative back end on it, and that Caprikid was holding it tilted down, not up, making the head of the tool cut out of the silhouette to avoid spoilers. The “brush” on the tail end actually kind of reminds me of Ziggy’s tail now that I think about it. I mentioned earlier that I like the shepherd’s cane theory a lot, and I don’t have much outside of that, but if it’s not a hooked cane then I hope it’s something unique and imaginative because three other users already have staffs/canes as their tools. I think the cane would check out with the pattern of hero tools typically not being actual weapons, but things that could be used in a fun way in a fight to move around and act defensively.

Side note: I’m expelling this from my drafts for obvious reasons (paranoid about him just showing up unannounced) and will start on the last post, Traquemoiselle’s, in 3-50 business days. Happy less-than-two-hours until Ephemeral.

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When the Timeline Split

2016 was a crazy year.

My perspective on it, like anyone else’s, is colored and clouded by my own experiences, like the personal tragedy of an unexpected job loss. Things had been strange and bad in the world before, of course, an ebb and flow of tragedy. But four years ago, somehow the world shifted cataclysmically, irrevocably, into a dark new timeline.

I remember early in the election assuming that the race would come between Hilary Clinton and Jeb Bush. I was not thrilled at the prospect. I was researching other candidates, taking the quiz I have relied on for previous elections, and discovered Bernie Sanders -- someone whose ideals aligned almost perfectly with my own, something I’d never seen before in a candidate. I didn’t know that “Democratic Socialist” was an option, but that sure as hell described me.

And for a brief while, it looked like he might win.

I remember the Idaho caucus. I remember the, “Holy shit, this could actually happen!” feeling. I indulged myself in imagining a future where all of the things I cared about were addressed -- socialized healthcare, student debt forgiveness and free education, green new deal, tax on the wealthy.

It was the last time I have felt true and genuine hope. More than four years ago, today, was the last time I thought about the future and imagined it could be good.

Donald Trump seemed like a joke candidate at first. Good for a laugh. Good for a meme.

I remember the exact moment that changed for me. I was at the gym, a 6am workout before my commute. The news was on, the television above the treadmill, some morning show where they were talking ad nauseum about whatever new impropriety Trump had done. I thought: Holy shit, the media is going to hand this man the election. They cannot help themselves. He’s like catnip to them. They’re giving him all the free publicity in the world and he’s going to win because of it.

And, of course, that’s exactly what happened.

A rash of celebrities died in 2016: Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Gene Wilder, Prince, Ron Glass, Glen Frey -- many others besides.

It became something of a dark joke. When Glen Frey died, everyone was posting "Hotel California" on social media in tribute. I was irritated (couldn't they have used one of the Eagles songs that Frey actually sang? "Take It Easy"? "Tequila Sunrise"? Come ON!). My best friend and coworker, who shared two hours of commute with me every day, decided that "Hotel California" was simply The Song You Played when a celebrity died. We played it with gentle irony for every celebrity death, even Fidel Castro.

The celebrity deaths set a strange, grim tone for the year. We joked: They’re leaving before things get any worse. Eventually, we started to believe it.

Mass shootings were reported seemingly every week, but all of them were dwarfed by then-record-breaking 49 deaths in Pulse Night Club, a hate crime of unfathomable size.

But perhaps more than anything, 2016 was weird.

Pepe the Frog, a cartoonish internet meme, became a Nazi dogwhistle.

Bernie Sanders became an unwitting meme lord, probably with the help of 4chan trolls and Russian hackers.

People reported sightings of scary clowns all over the country.

Liberal friends started fighting each other out in the open on social media, and sometimes in person, during the most divisive primary election I’ve ever witnessed.

The internet filled with conspiracy theories about Russia and Iran and inevitable war.

“This is Fine Dog” became the rallying symbol of the year for many -- a dog cheerfully ignoring the room on fire around him.

On May 28, 2016, a silverback gorilla named Harambe was fatally shot in a zoo after a child got into his enclosure. There was a brief ripple of genuine controversy surrounding the zookeeper’s decision. Some misanthropes wondered whether the life of a human was, necessarily, always more valuable than the life of an endangered gorilla. Fueled almost certainly by racism and the ironic edgelord culture of the internet, Harambe became a meme -- Justice for Harambe! Dicks out for Harambe!

Given the backdrop of Black Lives Matter protests that had already been taking place across the country, and the ongoing murder of black people by police, it seems self-evident that the Harambe meme was a racist dogwhistle. Not everyone who shared it was probably aware of that -- but it had a meanness there at its center, a cruelty, the hint of a dark equivocation between a 17-year-old gorilla and, say, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

In hindsight, for me, I think Harambe’s death was the moment when something in the fabric of our social reality snapped.

Nothing so fully encapsulates the exact tenor of modern discourse -- irreverent, nihilistic, performative, and absurd.

Of course the society that joked about a dead gorilla would elect Donald Trump as president.

Today is May 28, 2020. Four years to the day since Harambe.

Today is the third day of nationwide riots and looting as black communities protest the death of George Floyd, who was pinned by the neck to the ground for seven minutes by a police officer, while other officers looked on. Floyd’s abuse and death were captured on video, but the police have not been charged with any crime.

Years of peaceful protest have amounted to nothing, and so things have reached a fever pitch. As we speak, a police precinct in Minneapolis is on fire.

It is May 28, 2020, and 100,000 Americans have died from a global pandemic. 40 million people are out of work. The country was brought to a halt, shutting down helter-skelter in an attempt to keep people safe, and no long-term plan was enacted during that period for re-opening. People return to work now, putting themselves in danger.

The president refuses to acknowledge these deaths in any meaningful way. He complains, instead, that this pandemic is unfairly hurting his campaign. He claims that no one has been treated more unfairly.

Black people make up 13% of the population but represent 25% of deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Today is May 28, 2020, in the midst of the deadliest pandemic in a century, with nationwide protests and riots, and President Donald Trump signed an executive order to threaten social media, because Twitter put a “fact check” link beneath one of his tweets.

#thoughts #wtf news #personal #musings #for my memoir one day #ha ha #recollections #politics #long post

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disappointing how you've distanced yourself from the self-insert skeleton porn but I understand 😔

Come onnnnnn, I haven't distanced myself, I just don't have anything new to say about it. I finished writing it like five years ago! But for what it's worth, since I pick up new followers way too regularly for a blog that's inactive for two weeks and then dumps several dozen VERY LONG posts about my weird esoteric interests over the course of a few hours:

Hi new followers. We don't know each other very well yet, but I think you're cool, and you obviously think I’m worth following... so, in the interest of full disclosure, you should really know that I, tumblr user TST (née TotalSkeletonTrash), started this blog in late 2015 in order to promote Chill or Be Chilled, a 484,012 word (occasionally) explicit Undertale fanfiction, which has (as of right now) 11180 kudos, which, per my calculations, means that it is still the 659th most kudos-ed work of all time on Archive of Our Own.

And while 659th place isn't that impressive as a general rule, when you consider that there are 7,333,763 fics on Archive of Our Own, coming in at 659 on the most liked fics is still this weird point of pride that I can't tell any of my colleagues about for fear of getting fired on account of I wrote a fanfiction where the reader character has sex with Sans "The Skeleton" The Skeleton.

Also, my OC Peter Capra, a 38 year-old, pansexual, extremely wealthy, cis-male CEO of a small renewable energy corporation who just shows up in the story out of the blue in like chapter 60 (and somehow manages to be an obvious self-insert even though I'm exactly none of the above things) - yeah, a solid portion of CoBC involves him being upset about falling in love with Mettaton, who is, for those of you who have not played Undertale, a robot ghost David Bowie/Freddie Mercury.

In spite of all that, even though I’m my own harshest critic and there is a LOT in CoBC that is objectively ridiculous, I can sincerely promise that it’s actually pretty good.

If you are of age, intrigued by that terrible sales pitch, and don't mind the first chunk just being extreme fluff until I got tired of writing what I thought people wanted to read and started writing what I wanted to read - an incredibly elaborate sci-fi/time travel/vaguely-Lovecraftian-horrors-but-minus-the-racism story - you can check Chill or Be Chilled out here. If it’s just too long to attempt, here’s the gist:

Also, if you don't want to read anything remotely related to CoBC because it sounds ridiculous and it is, you can also read the first chapter of High Fantasy, an original novel I've been chipping away at with an absolutely glacial pace for the past few years. I will CW that there are illegal substances involved in this chapter, but I really can't tell you anything else without ruining it. You can find the first chapter of High Fantasy here.

#Anonymous #writing #cobc

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“It’s Over Isn’t It” Reanimation progress

Honestly one of my favourite parts about animating is posting the WIPs online. Here’s the step-by-step of how I went about doing my reanimation for the end section of “It’s Over Isn’t It” from the Steven Universe episode Mr. Greg.

1) Idea and Prep

I was flicking through Steven Universe: Art & Origins. I think at the time I must’ve been between jobs or bored or something, because it came into my head to do a bit of animation based on the pilot style SU. I’ve always been quite fond of the pilot style, especially Pearl’s David Bowie / LaRoux look. The little tux design by Hellen Jo was quite snazzy as well, so I decided to have a go at doing a segment of “It’s Over Isn’t It”, using these designs.

I traced the turnaround from the book in Clip Studio Paint and approximated Jo’s design to it. At first I had the colour turnaround, but did the low-colour turnaround with the heads to give me a better idea of where the lines are and proportions of the body. I also get a clip of “It’s Over Isn’t It” and trim it down to the section I want to do.

This is a long one so strap in.

2) Sketch Pass

I’ll be using gifs that show the first 100-130 frames of the animation, because the full segment is 22 seconds long.

Very very loose animation of what I’m going to be doing with this segment, done in Adobe Animate. I have a video of the real segment in the corner of the stage and audio in the timeline, and closely reference them for layout and acting.

I’ve decided I want to go really nuts with the animation. Lots of angles on her face, smooth movement, secondary animation / follow-through on her various clothing elements. Technically her earring’s supposed to be on the other side but I want to animate that flailing around dangit, so I change it so it faces the camera.

3) Rough Pass

I tidy up the rough I did somewhat. It’s still very rough, but Pearl is better proportioned and the motion is more complete. I get a better idea of how she moves by focusing on drawing keys (the most important drawings) and breakdowns (drawings that help you figure out the motion a little bit, without full animation). I have Pearl, her suit, ruffles and earring on separate layers so I can turn things on and off or lower their opacity as needed.

4) Tiedowns

At some point between the rough and tie-down phase I realized that I’d been animating at 30fps instead of 25fps like I’d meant to, so I had to end up shifting all the roughs I’d been doing. Bad news: having to wrestle with getting the timings I’d so carefully planned out in the rough to still look good. Good news: I have to animate and clean up 5 fewer frames per second, so that’s 110 fewer drawings to worry about. Yussssss. For reference, the above clip has now gone from 132 frames to 107.

During the tiedown phase, I go over the roughs and more carefully try to match the proportions in the turnaround. I keep a flattened version of the first frame of animation to use as reference thoughout to prevent morphing. Sometimes when you’re animating, things will get bigger or small as you re-draw them, so it’s good to have a base drawing to refer back to and make the sizes stay consistent.

At this point I’m way more aware of reasons behind the big design change for Pearl between the pilot and the show. She’s so dang skinny and tall with that extra poof of hair up top that she’s really annoying to frame up. If you want to keep all of her in the frame, there’s going to be tons of empty space.

I also find that my turnaround isn’t enough reference for Pearl’s awkwardly-shaped head. I snap me a bunch of screenshots of pearl’s head from different angles and collate them into a big sheet.

5) Inbetweening

Inbetweening, aka filling out all the gaps in the timeline between the keys and breakdowns. If you’ve done your keys and BD’s well, inbetweening can be a pretty straight-forward.

But I’ve got like a million bits of secondary animation to content with, which means this still takes a significant amount of time. The hair and ruffles have to move a little later than the rest of the body, and some parts of the ruffles have to move at a different rate from the rest. I’m trying to animate like there’s wind since Pearl’s on top of a tall building. I keep animating until it feels good enough.

This is what my timeline and stage look like in Animate by this point. The animation is mostly on 2s, with some 1s, 3s and 4s thrown in when needed.

6) Cleanup and Colour

I did the cleanup in Toon Boom Harmony. As a program, I like it was more than Animate, even though it isn’t without it’s flaws. But it’s also really dang expensive. Fortunately, by this point I’d been working on the upcoming Deadendia series for Netflix. What with the pandemic, we were working from home and the studio gave me a license for Toon Boom. So I exported my frames from Animate, put ‘em in TB and started cleaning up.

I’ve found that cleanup is something that’s often offloaded to new or less experienced artists at studios because blah it’s just tracing the rough animation. But you’ve got good cleanup and bad cleanup, and a good cleanup artist will compensate for flaws in volume and have a good, clear and natural line.

I’m not terribly fond of doing cleanup myself. I feel I tend to end up rushing, which leads to sloppy work. I tried really hard to keep up a standard here.

7) Comping

a.k.a. Compositing, the final layering of the various elements before exporting a film. Another stage I don’t quite care for because of its nuances. Also drawing backgrounds.

I admit that I’m not very good at drawing backgrounds or environments. I tried to do the one for the second shot of this animation, since it was acutally really important. In shots 1 and 3, you don’t really see the ground or even the railing that Pearl is leaning on, but 2 is a wide shot. My first attempts at it were unfortunate. Fortunately my husband @joe-sparrow is both good at backgrounds and good at imitating the style and colour palette of the show. He volunteered to do the BGs and I accepted. See mine vs. his:

So yeah, get me some nice backgrounds, put the animation on top, then fiddle with a couple of elements in the comp to give things a little bit more depth. During this stage, errors that had happened during the animation progress that I hoped would just go away became annoyingly obvious, so there was a fair bit of going back to fix them.

So that’s how I done made this animation. I started April 2018 and posted in on January 1st 2021, so that’s over 1.5 years it took me to do these 22 seconds of animation. However, I wasn’t working on it continuously through that time. Sometimes I’d be working on it every day, other times I’d not touch it for weeks or months at a time. It really depended on how busy or whatever I was at the time. I think if I’d been working on it non-stop, it still would’ve taken me at least like 2-3 months to finish it.

If you made it to the end of this post, I hope you found all this information interesting.

Happy drawing.

It’s over, isn’t it.

#animation #wip #art #Flash #toon boom #fanart #steven universe #pearl

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JJBA-sona Time!!

Okay so I’ve posted my digimon adventure sona here before but I think it’s time that I post about my JJBA-sona! Though I’ll be altering some stuff here since this is for my self-shipping lore and all ;w;

Name: Paella ‘Ella’ Visconti

Birth Name: Eunice Flores

Known Aliases: Elvis (by Guido Mista and Formaggio), En (by Bruno Bucciarati, Leone Abbacchio, Trish Una, Giorno and Bria Giovanna [@mrsgiovanna ], Narancia Ghirga, Guido Mista, Pannacotta Fugo and Josuke Higashikata), tigrotta mia (by Risotto Nero, Leone Abbacchio and Bruno Bucciarati)

Namesake:

Paella or Paelya (a Spanish rice-dish from Valencia)

Luchino Visconti (Italian Theatre Director)

Stand: Heroes

PROFILE:

Age: 22

D.O.B.: 02/08/1999

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Chinese Zodiac: Tiger

Height: 161.1 cm

Hair Color: Black dyed Brown

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Ethnicity: Filipino

Occupation: Student (Formerly), Bucciarati’s Subordinate (Current)

FAVORITES:

Food: Kare-Kare, Tteok-Bokki, Pizza, Cheeseburgers, Fries, Pasta and desserts

Movie: Stay Alive (2006), Moulin Rouge (2001), Mamma Mia! (2008), Mulan (1998), Les Miserables (2012)

Novel: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Musician: Too many to count or list but is found mostly listening to Doja Cat, Lil Nas X, David Bowie, Mitski, and many other musicians as well.

Album: Red (2013) by Taylor Swift, Be the Cowboy (2018) by Mitski, Planet Her (2021) by Doja Cat

TV Show: Digimon, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Sailor Moon, Super Drags

OTHER INFORMATION:

Dislikes: Fried Chicken that has too much oil in it or repeatedly being served, the weather being way too hot, creeps, misplacing or losing her items, people who chew loudly, sewer rats, stepping on things with her bare feet, certain conspiracy theories, lying and people who deceive her, any type of abuse, harrassment or violations against someone's consent, animal abuse.

ABOUT THE USER:

Eunice also called as En is a natural born stand user born and raised in the Philippines and a close friend and ally of Josuke Higashikata whom she met online. Initially unaware of her abilities as a stand user and has been subconsciously using its abilities from the start, En's stand managed to manifest itself physically at the age of 16, triggered by her intense emotions during her days as a junior high student. Now 22 and working under Bruno Bucciarati and by extension---Passione as well---works as the Capo's personal assistant of sorts and occasionally to Don Giovanna and his family.

She is currently assigned by Bucciarati as Italy's pop-sensation singer, Trish Una's personal bodyguard along with Narancia Ghirga and Shiela E.

She is also in a relationship with Pannacotta Fugo.

ABOUT THE STAND :

Name: Heroes

Namesake:

Type: Long-Range/Short-Range, Natural Humanoid

Stats:

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Heroes is the stand of Eunice Flores. A powerful stand whose known for their spectacular speed that trumps over King Crimson and Star Platinum's own speed. They posses the ability that grants their user to be able to control the atmosphere, similar to Weather Report but completely different. It is mainly characterized by its gold, blue and silver motif and golden ombre hair and winged helm.

ABILITIES:

Heroes is a highly versatile stand possessing the ability to control the weather. Though Heroes' ability may be near similar to Weather Report's, it's not the same. Unlike Weather Report, Heroes can manipulate certain elements such as thunder and lighting and be able to create weapons out from the elements that they can control.

One of Heroes' featured abilities are giving its user the ability to fly and glide in the air, breath healing, controlling the atmosphere and the weather, aerokinetic invisibility, air attacks, and weather weaponry.

It can also have control over any form of precipitation and storms and grant the user a banshee-like physiology.

#en speaks #en's confessions #🍓strawberries and cigarettes-fugo and en🍓#f/o stuff #self-shipping #f/o x s/i #jjba sona #jjba part 5 #jjba part 4 #jjba sona lore #Spotify

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that-homoerotic-blouse · 3 years

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30 Questions Meme

I was tagged by @goodtobealunatic and it made me so happy! It’s been a while since I filled one of these. Thank you!

Rules: Answer these 30 questions then tag 20 people you wanna get to know better.

1. Name/Nickname: Em

2. Gender: Error 404

3. Star Sign: Capricorn/Aquarius (look, I’m tired, I don’t care for horoscopes and all I know is that in some places the 20th is considered a Capricorn and in others it’s considered Aquarius, so to hell with it I’m both)

4. Height: 5’7”

5. Time: 23:25 pm

6. Birthday: 20/01

7. Favorite Band: uhhh gonna say Queen, cause their vibe and the stylistic variety of their music is simply dazzling, but I must confess I’m not one for bands, I usually listen to soundtracks or instrumental music mainly

8. Favorite Solo Artist: umm David Bowie, I guess? Again, his vibe and his style are majestic and he’s got a lot of songs about space :)

9. Song currently stuck in your head: none and THANK GOD FOR THAT

10. Last movie watched: The Prince of Egypt (1998) because it’s a visual masterpiece and the music makes me cry :’)

11. Last show watched: Doctor Who (I’m halfway through my season 4 rewatch heheh)

12. When I created this blog: May 2014

13. What I post: mostly RTD era Doctor Who stuff (which remains one of my longest hyperfixations to date), things to do with David Tennant, Much Ado, Good Omens, my favorite films and other random stuff, but also activism, intersectional feminism, lgbtq+ and gender related stuff

14. Last thing I googled: Gävle Goat (because my adhd brain suddenly went WAIT IS THIS THE GOAT THAT BURNS EVERY YEAR at 1am)

15. Other blogs of yours: nope! No sideblogs no nothing, this baby here is my personal dumpster, a true clusterfuck of stuff

16. Following: 250

17. Do you get asks?: Sometimes? More like rarely, but I love answering them anyway so please don’t be shy ;)

18. Why you chose your URL: skdjjfhjfvkfndvk to be completely honest I’m not sure, I’ve had the same URL since I first logged onto this site in the ancient year of our Lord 2014 and haven’t changed it (although I’m considering it). I suppose what my baby teen self wanted to convey was that I was an overly dramatic flamboyant little gay, which still stands true as of today ;)

19. Lucky number: none I guess? When I was younger though I used to believe that the number my name occupied on the school class list gave me luck, which was at first 9 and then 12 in high school, but I gave that up a long time ago

20. Followers: 821

21. Average hours of sleep: 7 or 8 almost every night, because I’m basically glued to the sheets if I get any less. However it takes me an awful long time to fall asleep (lmao) so it could be between 6 and 7

22. Play any instruments: oohhhohoh no definitely not, it’s been a long time since I abandoned learning music and decided to simply enjoy it (but I used to play the violin when I was little)

23. What’re you wearing: grey sweatpants, black V-neck t-shirt and my favorite socks :3

24. Dream job: ideally, something related to acting or in the creative industry

25. Favorite food: POTATOES, POTATOES IN ALL THEIR SHAPES AND FORMS ARE EXQUISITE ... or alternatively, something with cheese and tomato, like pasta or pizza

26. Nationality: European (lol) that’s all you need to know

27. Favorite song: aaaaaa but that’s an impossible question! It’s like counting drops in the ocean! I can tell you one I’ve been listening to recently because of nostalgia though, We go Where No one Goes by Jonsi

28. Last song you listened to: Run Boy Run by Woodkid

29. Last book you read: hmmmm I haven’t read anything properly in ages (*ashamed screech*), but for academic purposes the last one I read was Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, and I’m also just starting Beautiful Chaos, which is a DoctorDonna novel and it looks great so far :)

30. 3 fictional universes you’d love to live in: kjdskcdhcbkds this is the question that provides me with all the daydream scenarios. But just three? Okay let’s see: Doctor Who!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (YES PLEASE) !!!!!!!!!!!!!, How to Train your Dragon (DRAGONNNSS) and perhaps ATLA because I’ve always wanted to waterbend ^^

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#thank you for tagging me!#love these thingies #btw I stole your gender error 404 because honestly #mood #my gender is a frog in a party hat at best #and internet explorer at worst #that's it

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