#really enthusiastic for a moment there

[fipindustries]

i probably shouldnt generalize or take this too far but animation really is just one of the most rewarding things to do. not just because by the end of it you will have, you know, an animation (which you will! im sorry, i know im leaving the sentence hanging but seriously, lets really pause and appreciate this. a moving drawing! a drawing that moves! it might as well be alive! it might as well be real! and YOU created it! wowzers!!!) BUT ALSO-

its just reawrding on a moment to moment execution. you get to draw the most fun thing of all to draw, people moving, emoting, body language. AND, if you are inbetweening right and you know what you are doing, you get this visceral satisfaction of drawing something in just the right place. every step is you completing a pattern with the most satisfying conclusion. i really enjoy inbetweening. i love calculating in my minds eye the exact middle point between two poses and drawing it, like i can almost visualize it. i see the empty spot between two keyframes and is like "here, right here, right on this spot, if you put the drawing good in this right precise spot you will hear the most satisfying click in your mind" and it always clicks!

think of this! a lot of times i hear from artists that they love art because of the end product that it gives you but that the process itself its a grueling effort that one must push through to get their reward of the finished piece. but (at least in my case) the journey is very much the reward itself, a lot of times i will spend hours animating something and the end product will suck but ill be perfectly satisfied because i enjoyed myself doing it.

also if you are really good and you really know what you are doing you can do so much with so little. forget about animating on ones, we are not disney here. you can animate on threes, on fours, fuck it animate on fives if you really want to. you can just do five drawings and get the coolest, cutest, neatest, most satisfying little loop to entertain your heart and soul.

animation really brings out an appreciation for the small pleasures of life and when i say small i really do mean the tiniest. the smallest, most mundane of gestures suddenly become signature moves. suddenly give so much charm and character and personality. just by the way you make someone do a simple double take or even simply blink suddenly you can give someone so much sheer charisma.

but you can go even smaller than that! more inconsequential! you develop a taste for tiny little occurences, small happenstances that would be completly invisible to normal people otherwise. the way hair flicks when someone turns their head, the way a drop slides down a surface, the way a car bounces and sinks a little when people get into it or out of it. if you can succesfully capture those things it will ground your work so much. the tiniest most indetectable of details suddenly turns curves and lines into an object with weight and corporeality.

much like music, animation is one of those arts where even the most simple, most basic of excercises, just pure, boring, highly technical executions made simply for the purpose of learning the bare bones of a technique, will still come out looking great and you will feel great for having done it. with music you can doodle something incredibly coarse, maybe you just want to learn some basic chords, you are practicing arpeggios or you are just fucking around with scales and it will still come out as music, it wont come out as rough sketches or purely skeletical, empty building blocks. it will come as a piece of music that is pleasant to hear.

same with animation, you can just be trying to rotate a character to figure out their design or have a bag of flour fall to the ground, or you are trying to figure out their walking cycle. there is no story or punchline or idea being conveyed here, is just a basic "getting the handle of your tools" excercise and yet it will still be an animation, a beautiful piece of art that is cool to look at regardless of what its doing.

and if its true that an image conveys more than a thousand words then nothing can beat the sheer density of information contained in moving images. in just three seconds of action i can lay out so many complex, hard to put into words, ideas, so many vague and ambiguous emotions can be clearly comunicated.

and god, the expresivity of it all. we are social creatures, huge portions of our brain are designed to parse language, both verbal and in terms of gestures and expressions. animation is a direct superstimulus for those sections of the brain, you can make your characters so much more expressive that a human could be, and they can be expressive in such perfect, choreographed, synthetized, crystalized, bold ways. isnt that amazing? that we can give the caloric rich, sugar refined version of body language to our brain?

i have been doing animations since i was 7. i started with a mouse, ms paint and power point. you can tell i must have really loved doing it that i was willing to put up with that just to get it done. i started because i was a child who loved cartoons, who loved animated shows and animation. it was mindblowing that such a thing even existed in the first place. it was literally magic. to see any random animated show like powerpuff girls or dexter's lab or hey arnold. it was a proof that wonders existed in this world. the magic was real.

now that i am 30 i can do that, i can make those things too! is not even that hard! i can make magic!

magic is real!

#animation #whew i got uh #really enthusiastic for a moment there #whatever im really proud of my hobby

[exaltior-a]

Having to physically and mentally restrain myself from going insane when someone says they don't like dirkjake because JAKE was mean to Dirk. THEIR RELATIONSHIP FAILED BECAUSE THEY BOTH WERE FUCKED UP.

Acting like Dirk was 100% a victim of Jake in their relationship is abysmal reading comprehension. They both fucked up. Do you hear me. It was both of their faults. Jake's got the very on brand "if I ignore my problems they'll go away" and therefore he failed to communicate to Dirk that he wanted more alone time, all while complaining to Jane all the time. Dirk was desperate for a relationship with Jake, and pushed for them to be into a relationship that they both were not ready for because he was and is incredibly lonely. Idk idk acting like Jake is more at fault or completely at fault for their breakup is kind of silly.

They're 16 year old, maladjusted, lonely children who had to raise themselves and developed vastly different ways to cope with that loneliness. They love each other but lack the skills to express it in a healthy way, both putting up a facade in fear that the friends they love so much will no longer want them if they showed their true selves, because they're messy and raw and care too much

Dirk thinks he's a monster who has to hold himself back otherwise hes bound to hurt people that he loves, and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy- he hurts someone and takes it as confirmation that he's evil, while Jake is terrified of disappointing people to the point that he refuses to acknowledge when there are problems in fear of being blamed, not wanting to bare responsibility for /anything/ both good and bad in case people expect too much of him and dislike him when he fails to measure up. This is bound to go wrong since neither of them can actually effectively communicate their needs.

#dirkjake #homestuck #to me theyre very much right person- wrong time #theyre not ready for a relationship when theyre in their teens. they haven't even really learned how to be around other people #they shouldn't have immediately gotten together when they first met in person #also people talk about how jake wasn't as enthusiastic about dirk as dirk was for him?? where #jake had an imaginary version of dirk living in his brain #that tended to show up around when their was a woman interested in him. and be a little bit of a nuisance. #idk that seeeems a bit gay to be #princess bride quote scene nonwithstanding #also iirc jake literally talks to jane about pursuing dirk with 0 input from shades boy himself #jake english homo homo gay moments!!!! #meta #homestuck meta #dirkjake meta #please stop woobifying the striders amen #and stop himbofying jake too while you're at it

[egnogginbits]

im on my soft hours rn 😭 like it would really mean everything to me to see polin just nerding it out and being the absolute friends yknow. for sure i would love whatever i could get from my otp but i would actually die to see the in between of those big plot points. like the eye contacts, the subtle conversations through their faces, the playful/teasing nudges, THE plant puns, gossiping together, reading to each other?? and analyzing that together oh boy. i really do see why i love them, they just radiate ComfortTM

#polin #penelope x colin #at the core of it all theyre besties that REALLY do enjoy each other's company and thats so endearing to me #i could imagine one of the two going on a roll with the jokes or just being so enthusiastic about something and the other will just take #a moment and JUST look at them with the most CONTENTED look ever. SO in love and so at home #to colin penelope is the anchor that would ground him whenever the insecurity gets too much #to penelope colin is the solace that meant she could just be herself #and theyre home to each other

[abigail]

bakery last week !

#very funny and sweet moment with the girlie working the till #she said the cinnabon buns have been v popular that day and i said how they’re my favourite #and whenever i go somewhere with them i always always have to get one so i requested one of them #and she said how they’re also her fave and she said bias aside the ones they sell are really good #and then she said ‘i hope the cinnamon bun specialist enjoys hehe’ like <3 me a specialist ? no no simple enthusiast #anyway love her and LOVED the cinnamon bun :-) yay #a #lots of typos going on here but ok

[no-brain-just-akutagawa]

[ID: An edited "you vs the guy meme". The text reads "you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about". Below on the right there's a very low-quality picture of vampire Akutagawa from season 5. On the right there's a picture of Akutagawa looking etheral from Wan. End ID]

#season 5 has been so mean to ryuu and for what #bsd #bsd memes #bungou stray dogs #bsd original #posts with ids #bsd akutagawa #I have no words guys #I understand fedya fu- enthusiasts now #this season is such a let down when it comes to things like this #we're speedrunning the plot (for a second I thought I was watching it on 2x speed) missing crucial character moments leaving scenes out #left and right and that's no fair #it feels so watered down #there are some scenes that look awesome but overall this season feels very off #it's as though the heart of the series is missing and that makes me really sad because I'm not a bones hater by any means #but ever since the skyfall arc began it stopped feeling like the same story #it's bsd abridged version instead of bsd adaptation

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

I can’t believe that Rick canonically had a slap fight with an old man because he was jealous that Summer wanted to spend time with him

Like it 100% sounds like the sort of thing we would make up for a funny post on here but nope… canon

Edit: for some reason the order of the pictures is a bit fucked up but I can’t be bothered to fix it lol, sorry

#rick and morty #rnm #rick sanchez #summer smith #mr needful #rick is such a petty and dramatic manchild and i love it #honestly as much as s1 has its bad moments (such as the r word conversation in this very episode 😬) i love the way it portrays rick #like it’s very apparent that he’s jealous and needy and just bullshitting his way through life #he feels much more… human? if that makes sense #like yeah there’s a lot of fun stuff with the whole ‘smartest man in the universe’/god complex stuff #but it’s also nice when he’s just a man who’s very good at science and a massive dumbass in all other areas of life #honestly he’s much more emotionally vulnerable to the audience #like we see him here being insecure and needing summer’s approval #and later on in the episode when he’s very clearly lonely and bored alone in the house #and greets morty too enthusiastically and then corrects himself to try and seem cool #again i was really struck by how… nice he was in meeseeks and destroy after morty shouted at him #even before he realised what had happened to morty #(i know he was an asshole before that but still) #plus the citadel episode has him crying over his memories of morty #i think i just have a mental image of s1 based on the ‘anti-pc’ jokes and dudebro perceptions of it #so i forget what it’s actually like #i mean don’t get me wrong there are definitely a lot of extremely cringeworthy ‘anti-pc’ jokes #but rick is actually much more human in s1 #also i find it so funny in this episode that at the end rick and summer actually work out #rather than rick just using some sort of technology to make them jacked #like i know they use steroids #but the fact that they actually went to all that effort cracks me up #also i would say this is the first episode where rick and summer start to actually develop their own interesting dynamic #which i love

[faggyangel]

okay i get it but i also think its important to acknowledge that there is a difference between knowing from an audience standpoint that a character should be queer VS it firmly being acknowledged verbally within the narrative as a solid aspect of that character's identity irrefutably

#this reminds me of keeley jones from ted lasso like i get it shes “always” been bisexual but its so hard to tell if the writer is being #sincere in their representation or not #people joke about queerness bc haha lol look a gay person or look hot super model slept with woman #in keeley's case it was literally a joke intended to shock rebecca like that is not confirmation that is a joke the writer is making #it needs to be said or expressed in a way that is outside of a throwaway haha gotcha joke #the doctor has been kissed by men and kissed men in moments of celebration and theyve been laughed off #hes made comments that the audience is SUPPOSED TO think are jokes. queer audiences just see past that and straight audiences dont #its important that it was not only said but talked about even if it was in passing. it wasnt a punchline or the set up for a joke #donna comments that a man is hot > the doctor agrees enthusiastically that the man was really hot > #they both acknowledge the doctors attraction to men and his openness about it > donna says it was always obvious #its not about creating his queerness its always been there its about finally being in a place to say it out loud #from a narrative standpoint you could say now he's the kind of person who talks openly about his attraction and feelings #from an audience standpoint i hope we can acknowledge that its bc they couldnt outright say he was bisexual/lesbian/queer/trans/nombinary #now they can #thats the difference i think #doctor who

[korixae]

my sister’s trying to finish doctor who before november 25th right and she’s fucking power watching, like she was literally on s10 LAST WEEK and tonight she’s just started s13. she’s been getting up at 6:30 everyday to watch it before school and then stealing the tv from the moment she gets home to the moment she goes to sleep. i haven’t seen her or the sofa in months

#i am enthusiastically encouraging her ofc #she expressed to me today how she doesn’t know what she’s going to do once she’s finished. she doesn’t know how to return to a normal life #where every waking moment isn’t consumed with doctor who #i’ll have to introduce her to the spin-offs and eu content #is 10 too young to watch torchwood? i’ll set her off on sja #actaully she turns 11 the day after the last special airs #she asked my mum if we had plans on the 9th and my mum was like NO you can’t have friends to sleep for ur birthday and we were just no no m #ther ofc that’s not what she’s asking we need that night free for the 60th you fiend #it’s been really convenient for me too bcs i’ve got a nice little recap #sooo lucky for her tho thats she’s timed it just right so she can finish it the day new content comes out #we watched the timeless children tonight and she was all ‘>:( the masters so evil’ while i was kicking my feet and going aww arent they so #cute so in love hehehe la la la #she’s deeply invested in thasmin #i cant wait for her to watch s13 cus damn she’s gonna love the thasmin-ness of it all #really just typed this all out on tumblr bcs i have no dw friends irl :( apart from her #i’ve really got her with dw she’s forcing her friends to watch it and for world book day they’re going as rose and the doctor #they’ve started a role play where they write letters as rose and ten to each other across universes #she made tea stained paper and everything #anyways stopping myself here goodnight 🫡 #doctor who #kori shitposts #loubatania

[primordyalsoul]

one thing about me is that i'll never be over episode 23.

especially because the first time i watched it, I was confused about who was saying what in the interaction between Rei and the angel. But I think it doesn't really matter, because all of it is reflective of Rei's inner feelings, as she's essentially having her own mini instrumentality here, a dialogue with herself.

angel: i'll share what's in my heart with you. see? doesn't your heart hurt?

rei: hurt? no, this is...loneliness?

angel: loneliness? i don't understand.

rei: you don't want to be alone. we are many, but you are not. you hate it, don't you? that is loneliness.

angel: that is what's inside your heart. that is your own heart, overflowing with sorrow.

#ooc; onion girl enthusiast #((god idk every time i think about it or rewatch it it just...gets me)) #((''we are many but you are not'' could be about both humans and angels; two beings that seem very different but the similarities are #alluded to throughout the show. and rei is both angel and human but she is also something else entirely)) #((She doesnt identify as an angel but she never calls herself human either)) #((she can sympathise with both yet she also struggles to understand both and feels alienated from both)) #((so she doesnt really understand herself until this moment)) #((which makes me wish she and k.aworu had more interactions bc he's the only one who's like her in that sense)) #((but at the same time its interesting bc even tho the way rei - and k.aworu- came to be is very unique)) #((and the things she feels are very individual to her at the same time she's (not!!) alone in it all)) #((because almost every character feels this deep loneliness too and every character also feels as though nobody understand it)) #((augh my head)) #((idk where i was going with this im just thinkin thoughts. but still i shall tag)) #study.

[nerdish-nostalgia-revived]

"You know, in the theatre we have to examine the internal logic of all our actions."

Sir Charles Cartwright playing detective.

#sir charles cartwright #martin shaw #three act tragedy #my gifs #I could watch him do this all day #he is so animated and enthusiastic about his skills #I just love the way he moves #and so many scenes - not only in this part but throughout his performance in this episode #aren't even talking parts but just him 'talking' with his face - and it's just so damn good and captivating #he is so expressive - and it doesn't hurt that his face is so beautiful and makes it a joy to watch! #he shouldn't be that ridiculously cute at his age #and I want to touch his hair so bad! it's so glossy and looks so soft! #the lighting in this scene was really complicated and made things grainy #also I slowed down the pace and he STILL turned around too fast in that writing gif #but that was a moment I wanted to gif for a long time #so now I have - and I'm willing to share too #I only wish Egg could have been there to see her loved one perform #she probably would have been just as smitten as myself

[sir-squibbly]

Just my thoughts on monster design. I consistently do both of these.

#tw body horror #monster art #monster design #i really really like monsters so i thought it’d be worth (barely) discussing #certified monster enthusiast moment #just silly things

[candycryptids]

“The lake is so beautiful. I never noticed how clearly the sky is reflected in its surface.” - Sylphie

#Ffxiv Sylphie #FFXIV WoL #ffxiv Au ra #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv #ffxiv Mochi #Mochiie Kaisuri #that line got me really in my feelings so I did an all out gpose. #posing Sylphie was really hard but it was really worth it. also the lake is deeper than I realized. #I just wanted to capture that moment of wonder and Mochi enthusiastically insisting she take off her shoes #and get into the lake with him to feel the elements :/ #this is not a ship btw this is AT BEST classmates/friends/mentor/student #WHM questline #this is actually technically the conjurer quests still but I didn’t wanna nitpick

[true-blue-sonic]

Phew honestly I'm glad to see I may not the only one whose first thought seeing the solicitations for those next issues was something like "oh god, please not this shit again" lmao

Although I think there are at least a few reasons to be a bit more hopeful this time around

Like it kind of makes more sense in this case he'd be looking for problems given his restlessness at being stuck in the past with no directive, he will hopefully at least partially be vindicated by the time Mimic is revealed, and of course it's not gonna get him completely ostracized by the rest of the cast

And yet, I still find that the most optimistic thought of all is like 'at least if they get it out of the way now, there'll be less temptation to do this yet again for future stories'

I recall being super excited a few months ago when we heard that Silver was going to be featured a lot more in upcoming stories.... and then that all just kind of went the Oh No Not Like This route when we got the solicits for #63 and 64, like you describe😅😅 I would agree that the whole "Silver is actively looking for problems and therefore leaps onto anything that seems the slightest bit odd" directive you describe makes sense, but it kind of already starts with the fact he is in a situation I feel he should not be in to begin with. Silver is simply not the kind of person who gets in the way of others' training, and especially not because he is oogling at and being starstruck about Whisper. Even more egregious because he could work with her just fine at the end of the Metal Virus saga! So then why is he suddenly back to being all amazed by Whisper when he is far more powerful than she is, has seen both her good and bad sides when it comes to her fighting style and personal life, and is on clear friendly terms with her? I'm not saying that you can't be inspired by friends, but the whole mysterious angle of the unknown Guardian Angel protecting him from afar in a war is all but gone now. Not even mentioning the fact that Silver is quite confident and smug about himself and his own abilities? And furthermore, since Duo appears on later covers, we know Silver is not going to be believed, in all various ways the others can tell that to him. So all that together is making it quite difficult for me to really get engaged in the plot of him accusing Duo and the resulting fallout to begin with. And the fact that the solicits literally say said fallout is going to be awkward... It makes me not look forward to the story at all, basically. I don't like seeing my favourite character be ridiculed due to him being highly OoC and said ridicule then not even leading to anything until much later. And as for whether he'll be vindicated, I am not getting my hopes up much. Indeed, the most optimistic scenario I can get from it all is the fact it'll be one-and-done now and therefore likely won't return, but I truly would rather it wouldn't be done to begin with.

#I know there is a whole debate about Silver and his personality in IDW and I am firmly on the “he gets uwu-fied too much on occasion” side #he's got quite a few moments where he is great and you really see just how powerful and driven to protect he is!! #but sadly there's just as many‚ if not more‚ moments where he's far too much bby cutie cinnamon roll enthusiastic silly boyo #an IC Silver simply would not go *literally* starry-eyed with a beaming smile and enthusiastically-clenched fists when a means to collect- #-the Emeralds to stop the Metal Virus gets revealed #I simply don't want Silver to be a cringe-worthy failure who doesn't get taken seriously by anyone else when we KNOW he is right #yes he jumps to conclusions but I dread the way the comic is going to present that and the way it's going to have the other characters reac #we'll see when issue 63 and 64 get released I guess... #silver the hedgehog

[ampuru]

You know when you talk to a person on the internet and you can feel them visibly start to get bored of you and you can do nothing to stop it even though you kinda like them and it sucks that they're probably gonna stop responding at one point and you feel like shit cause you're never gonna be enough? Yeah? Yeah.

#i hate myself #bpd #self deprecation #one of those moments again #people #relationships #internet #friendship #dating #its so hard man #i just wanna talk to someone who's as enthusiastic as i am with them #like im really trying #or maybe the problem is that im trying too hard or smth #but if i dont try enough ill be boring #so basically im just bad at maintaining relationships #i just wanna be liked the right amount #vent #mental illness #being borderline #borderline personality disorder

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

me, realizing that i do actually now actively id as trans: fuck, yeah i am trans *a beat of silence* me: FUCK YEAH I AM TRANS!!

#it went from a sudden realization to enthusiasm #like yes it took me a while to actually id as trans yknow. even tho it technically fit me for like a year now #i mean it also took me that long to really fully lose connection to my former gender #but now im like. yeah im trans #and yknow what. im HAPPY to be trans. im excited to be trans. im enthusiastic to be trans #theres so much transphobia going on at the moment but i choose to use 'trans' and i choose to be happy about it #fuck your transphobia im proud im loud im myself im TRANS HELL YEAH #a biscuit's rambles

[vegancas]

WHAT do i have to do to convince you all to watch Warrior!? i wouldn't call much of what i watch on tv good but this show is a masterpiece!! literally one of the best things on television right now!!! amazing fight scenes, cinematography, story lines, characters!! like it's got it all!!!!! not to mention a stellar cast of asian actors!! PLEASE i'm begging you all to watch it!!!

#did i use enough exclamation points to convince you lol i'm just enthusiastic every ep of this show gets me soooo hyped!!!! #and yes there are queer characters too but i wouldn't really say they're main characters but they're not inconsequential either #a warning that the violence is quite graphic but like it only bothers me a little? some of it i think is pretty sick tho lol #i should make gifs but well giffing is not a priority at the moment so i'll hope this is convincing enough for now :3