#tagging those just in case

[dean-winchesters-clit]

Gods, can I gush about the CGI in the Percy Jackson show for just a minute??

All of it is so fucking good!

The work was gone by ILM or Industrial Light and Magic, who are an incredible effects house and also one of the oldest effects houses there is. ILM was founded in the 1970s by George fucking Lucas to make the effects for the original Star Wars trilogy. They are the reason the original Jurassic Park had CGI in the first place! They worked with Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal and Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist, which has sone crazy awesome effects if you've never seen it. A part of ILM broke off in the 1990s and became fucking PIXAR!!

And Percy Jackson has had just the best looking effects I've seen in a long time. The creature work alone is worth so many awards. The minotaur was amazing.

And the illusion of Chiron is never broken, it's just seamless and perfect.

And don't get me started on Medusa's snakes. They're PERFECT. THEY ACT LIKE REAL SNAKES!!!

And the chimera was beautiful. I loved the decision to give it a cobra's frill.

Also, water is a notoriously difficult effect to do and all the water looks amazing in this show. I bet they pulled some people from the Avatar sequel to help with it.

And Grover's legs never look bad. They're always perfect. I love the decision to keep them exposed the whole time, it adds to the magical feeling of the world while also showcasing how powerful the Mist really is.

And one of my favorite effects HAS to be the way Mrs. Dodds' coat turned into her wings. I saw that and had an out of body experience.

But this most recent episode just blew me away. Specifically with this (these next gifs are by @stevenrogered) :

So, if you didn't know, tracking an effect onto someone's body is incredibly difficult. It's so difficult that CGI artists will often replace someone's body with a 3D model in order to make it easier. That could be what happens here in part, but they can't fake Walker's face.

Props to Walker for sitting as still as humanly possible during this incredibly emotional scene. Him sitting still helps make the tracking of the effect easier since the artists don't have to adjust the effect every frame to account for the slightest movements. Which brings me to the face.

It is so hard to animate human faces and not fall into the uncanny valley, and yes this effect applies to that. Look at the way the gold conforms to the shape of his mouth as he speaks. Look at how it follows the movement of his chin, his cheeks. It's PERFECT. This is an incredibly impressive effect and I wanna just worship whichever overworked and underpaid VFX artist spent hours of their life working on it.

Okay, that's all, rants over, everyone go home!

#pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy jackson show #ilm #industrial light and magic #star wars #george lucas #tagging those just in case #pixar #disney #disney+ #cgi #vfx #visual effects #movie nerd #film buff #i went to film school #i have a bachelors degree #not a flex im just that much of a nerd about film

[guckies]

everytime I see q!bbh trying to claim he’s close to Leo all I remember is when foolish told Leo to pretend to know nothing around others, when he told Leo she needs to protect herself since he won’t be able to, when Leo willingly started to hang around roier and cellbit, to when bad kept saying complex english words around Leo and foolish had to tell him to knock it off and he still didn’t, to when bad tried looking for Leo to take care of her but Leo was already with roier, to bad badmouthing and setting up foolish whenever he could, to

Now bad offering Leo’s room to bagi who leo has never met and who foolish does not fully trust which I think started from bad convincing bagi on her first day (I think) that cellbits castle was foolishs unprompted which sewed seeds of wariness from the get go

Kinda sad that Leo speaking spanish rather than english has made others not look at her as an individual but rather an extension of foolish when she started the hat trends, coloured signs and even item display on the backpack

At this point I’m glad Leo and foolish found people who they could rely on because I’m sick of them constantly being mistreated even when their absent, also just Chayanne Dapper Ramon being treated as not Spanish eggs just cause they’re fluent in english-

((Sorry for the rant, ur post just lit a flame Ive had))

I see I’m influencing the masses now but you’ve pretty much covered everything I feel too. Like Leo is the it girl/egg of the qsmp just no one seems to realise it.

With Bad just offering up Leo’s room, despite the memory loss and other stuff, I genuinely do think that Bad sees Leo as an extension of Foolish than rather being just Leo. Which is so irritating because let the eggs be themselves and not just extension of their parent.

This isn’t to say that Bad doesn’t love Leo but I don’t think he has or will have the same connection with her as he does with the rest of the eggs. Then again I don’t think that Leo will ever trust anyone as much as she does Foolish and her immediate Family.

Also yes I wish the eggs would go back to teaching their parents more Spanish!!! Leolingo is literally one of my favourite things ever and it feels like she’s the only one who does speak spanish now when most of them are bilingual!! Side note - Leo and Roier are the best when it comes to speaking spanish because they will force you to understand, like why should they give up speaking their native language for you and i love them for that!

#Leo is a very complex egg I just don’t think people realise it as much because they connect her with foolish and foolish very carefree #when leo wants to have fun feel pretty and be heard #but also she can be complex and have big emotions like the day before she was taken was so heart wrenching for her #qsmp #qsmp leonarda #bbh critical #bbh neg #tagging those just in case

[lifeof-pink]

when i first learned about how the fourth wall worked (making him view reality as a novel) the first thing i said was “…so he’s mentally ill. duh.”

because like????? “everything is awful and i am in terrible physical and mental anguish. i know how to make this better!” *enters derealization but like. magical*

#omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #orv spoilers #??? #i think thats pretty early in the series but idk #derealization #dereality #tagging those just in case #im probably fundamentally misunderstanding how the fourth wall works but like. #??????? #insert ‘all trauma is serious’ panel here #i have it saved to my phone actually #somewhere #that whole arc was really interesting because it began to show us behind the curtain of dokja’s past #or at least im fairly sure that that’s when they began to expose that? #they mightve showed it way earlier but that i think was the first time I realized that the story was going in a very different direction #than i thought it would #like oh shit this isnt just some guy who likes web novels this is a man who has been deeply suffering his whole life and has latched onto #fiction as a coping mechanism

[afterartist]

I’ve been seeing a lot more people posting about this so,

To the friends that have to step being the others as they walk down the footpath together, I love you

To the friends that have to text first otherwise no one will talk to them, I love you

To the friends that are spoken over and messages brushed off, I love you

To the therapist friends that are always there but know deep down no one will offer them the same, I love you

To the friends slowly realising these people don’t care for you as deeply as you do for them, I love you

To the friends that have to sit out in group projects, I love you

To the friends that have their friends jump to negative conclusions about you no matter what, I love you

To the friends that understand loneliness in a full room intrinsically, I love you

To the friends that don’t have friends of their own, I love you, I love you so so much

Please remember you’re treasured and important,

I love you, you’re beautiful and amazing, I’m so sorry for everything that’s happened to you

Please don’t give up hope

The wind, rain and stars hold your hands, the trees kiss you goodnight and the rivers sing praises of your name, even if you can’t see it, you’re loved

To my friends that I don’t know the face or name of, the friends I’ve never met, the friends reading this, I love you

#vent #vent post #tw vent #tagging those just in case #please be kind to yourself

[coleisunderrated]

Just like Tears of the Kingdom, Dragons Rising takes place some time after the ninja's last adventure. Everything is fine for a while but then a huge event happens that changes their worlds and a new generation of heroes rise up and take the helm. Also there's Geo, the master of fusion and fusing things is one of the new abilities Link has in Tears of the Kingdom.

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising #ninjago spoilers #dragons rising spoilers #tagging those just in case

[the-good-ol-art-corner]

Something Something Guy named Henry trapped in some form of cycle with nightmarish toons something-

Reblogs > Likes, thank you! <3

#Bendy and the dark revival #Oblitus Casa #Henry Stein #Henry miller #Henry miller fnati #Five nights at treasure island #Fnati #Bendy and the ink machine #batim #Batdr spoilers #Oblitus casa spoilers #tagging those just in case #aritists on tumblr #reblogs > likes #Undying fnati #Is that also a tag I should use?? cause like he WAS undying for a bit so-

[bluerose5]

What was your favourite dragon age game? Are you looking forward to dreadwolf or nah bc of the EA Issues™️?

I'd say DA:Origins and DA2 are probably tied for me. Some days, I like one more than the other, but they're ones I always feel an urge to return to. DA:I holds a special place in my heart because it was the first Dragon Age game I played if I remember right, but the game doesn't hold the same magic for me as the others. After playing them all, I feel like a lot of the mature, complex, and darker elements were watered down. They try to pass a lot of Inquisition's story & lore elements off as "nuance", but most of it just doesn't sit right with me. Ex. Trying to make the mage/templar conflict seem as if it's more than a war between the oppressed and the oppressors just because they showcase some good Templars here and there. The whole reveal about the ancient Elvhen being no better than the current Tevinter Imperium. A lot of elements like that, which just come across as more meh to me than anything. Not the worst route I could see them going, but not the best either.

On that note, I'm kind of on the fence about Dreadwolf. Like, with Mass Effect: Andromeda, I was excited. I was there for it. I had it on pre-order, and I enjoyed the hell out of it so much that I can confidently say that I got my money's worth of entertainment from it. With Dreadwolf, the more it drags on and the more bullshit pops up on the business/company/EA side of things (such as the layoffs), the more I'm just not feeling it? I mean, I'm excited to an extent, but more so in a "I'm gonna probably wait on this one til I see some reviews or it goes on sale so that I can see where they take the end of this journey and all the lore" kind of way.

#bluerose answers #dragon age #bioware critical #dragon age inquisition critical #dai critical #ea critical #tagging those just in case

[sawbloopers2004]

i had to help moving something heavy yesterday and apparently bruised the fuck outta my wrist???

#it doesn't really hurt now #but it did yesterday #at least it looks cool #bruise #scars #self harm scars #tagging those just in case #idk #is it polite??? #oc

[fanstuffrantings]

Rwby rambles/opinions on changes I feel like they should've made to the earlier seasons. Putting them under the cut because it might be long.

I need at least 3 seasons with team rwby/jnpr training in school before we get the fall of beacon. This specifically is because we simply didn't get enough time with some characters to flesh them out before everything went south (looking at you pyrrha).

Tying in to the previous point: give team rwby school friends outside of the main group. Show Yang being a social butterfly that knows half the school, have Weiss interacting with other wealthy kids she might have met as a child, have ruby trying to befriend every outcast she meets, and then give us Blake self isolating and exploring the school which can lead to her finding more secluded places (one of which can be used for the scene where yang talks to her about being saved by Qrow)

More focus on SSSN before the fall of beacon. I'm never not going to be upset that they teased us with and never showed the team SSSN/JNPR sleepover. I need those dynamics.

Remove the faunus racism plot. I think including the faunus is interesting, especially if they used them to amplify the world building by having different kingdoms have different faunus types. But the white fang plotline has been so mishandled since the start that every time it would cut to Blake in season 4 I would get angry.

Get rid of the season 1 and 2 romance subplots that ultimately lead nowhere/take up time that could be used for friendship building between the teams. Honestly this ties into the team SSSN note because those guys were so shafted by the story.

Have a different opening monolog for episode 1 because the focus on dust made it seem way more important than it ended up being, especially with them retconning magic.

Either give hints about Blake having living parents (such as someone like Ozpin alluding to them when he speaks to her one on one) or simply make them related by being her extended family. The entire show up until that point almost felt like it was intending for her to be an orphan.

It's been a few years since I rewatched the first few seasons (1-3. I did watch 4 and part of 5) and I have only second hand information on the later ones. So my notes are slim and this list might grow later.

#rwde #rwby critical #tagging those just in case #i should note: i consider season 3 the best season of the show #i simply wish it had been season 4 instead of season 3 so we got more world building beforehand

[ink-asunder]

So we all know Kid can't get sick and is immune to chemicals because he's a Grim Reaper. He heals basically instantly, and his limbs can reattach. But I'm having a bad pain day and projecting, so does anyone else consider if Reapers can get, like... body-generated diseases, for lack of a better term? Appendicitis, asthma, autoimmune diseases, etc? It wouldn’t technically contradict canon, as it's not caused by germs or anything. I also have a headcanon that while most medicines don't work, high concentrations of chemicals found naturally in the body do. (Adrenaline, for example, probably administered through an epipen or something. Salicylic acid, which is the main ingredient in aspirin, might also exist in the body, but I'm not sure. Also, self-care is his friend.)

Idk, I think the old adage of "the only thing strong enough to kick my own ass is me" is a perfect framing device for a Kid sickfic. Not to mention the REAL angsty shit. Chronic pain from anxiety? Stomach ulcers from stress? Everpresent body aches from sensing the entire world all around him all the time when he finally becomes a full Reaper?

#also recovering from a procedure. recovering well! but i don't have the spoons for this #soul eater #death the kid #medical tw #chronic illness #tagging those just in case

[icarianiscariot]

idk uhhh body horror type warning ?? //

thinking if it was physically possible I would like to show affection via sticking my hand through someone's torso and gently holding onto their intestines like one of those kindergartner ropes. just tethered like that while we sit next to each other doing nothing. yk??

#body horror #gore #tagging those just in case #personal #poetry

[shark-smuggler]

its so funny when transphobic people wildly misunderstand trans ppl. like yeah its really bad and harmful but you also get them CONFIDENTLY telling you "trans men do NOT belong in women's sports" like they completely owned you. (real thing that happened to me last week)

#shark smuggler alert 🚨 #transphobia tw #tw transphobia #tagging those just in case

[set-wingedwarrior]

I know it's been 3 years, but the lockdown really did a number on me.

Sometimes I manage to forget, but the truth is that all I went through during that time still has an impact on me, more specifically on how stress manifests in me, and how it can trigger sudden stronger emotions that I struggle to keep in check. Sometimes they slip through.

I've never been good with emotions to begin with, but I was never that... Explosive? I don't know how to explain. I just know it doesn't feel good.

My perceptions, my reactions, a lot has changed since before the lockdown. I got better sure, but I haven't fully healed yet. Sometimes I'm afraid I never will. I hope I'm wrong.

This is hard.

#Elo stuff #Personal stuff #lockdown #covid #Tagging those just in case

[dragonsareawesome123]

The EW's out here spoiling the His Dark Materials Season 3 teaser trailer that has yet to be released askajklasjas

#his dark materials #hdm #surprised they spoiled the return of that guy in the teaser #i mean as someone who's read the books it's not surprising to me #but i am surprised they letting ppl who've only seen the show know #right off the bat #his dark materials spoilers #hdm spoilers #tagging those just in case

[onestepbackwards]

Ok what just happened? I step away from Tumblr for a bit and when I came back I'm hearing something about a hate mail incident! Can I get the rundown of what happened?!

I’ll just kinda paraphrase everything here so I don’t have to keep explaining for those who missed what had happened. Putting it under a read more too since it’s kinda long

There was an anon named Ace Anon who distinctly talked about not liking sexual content. Which is fine! I still post fluff every now and again. They don’t have to read my smut. It was kinda odd to say to a primarily nsfw blog though But then they really got into sending smut content themselves?? Featuring Warden Ingo usually doing dubious things to Ace anon, and them being blissfully unaware. Some of it I admit I would be into writing, but the fact they were sending it in, and using words like it was happening to them themselves, was just kinda off putting. I felt like I was walking on eggshells around them because they stated more than once they hated sexual content. It felt like they also wanted me to respond to everything they sent, and build off of it, which was hard to do because I didn’t want to write more off of it since they claimed to hate such content. Then I had to put my foot down once, because they were sending like 3-5 things a day. They backed off a bit. Then there was the whole Kidnapped Writer Au that started as a joke, and kinda got out of hand. This is when their friend started sending in asks too. Eventually I got fed up with the AU since people were kinda?? Sending things in about ME and ACE specifically, instead of a Reader and Ingo’s Darling. Their friend even sent in some things about us both running away together romantically to spite Ingo in this au, and doubled down when I tried to push the idea away. Safe to say, I didn’t like the hate people sent about Ace over the AU itself, and how people were writing me getting hurt (And sending stuff against the rules), and several other things, like getting shipped with another person. Their friend got really mad, and Ace Anon panicked. Both thought I was talking about them. (Though I made it INCREDIBLY clear it wasn’t Ace I was upset with at the time, and that MULTIPLE anons had sent it stuff I wasn’t comfortable with. Not just Ace and their friend) But their friend took it personally and sent this whole thing in (In the ask i answered, thats what they are referring to when they said I probably wouldn’t respond to that ask either.) It was long, and creepy, malicious, entitled, and obsessive. I didn’t answer it because I wanted to take the high road and not stir up more drama. I just screenshotted it, blocked em, and moved on. I even took a break after all of it from how overwhelmed I was. (Not to mention I got that first ask on the day before my birthday, so that was fun to wake up to.) During that Hiatus, Ace anon actually reached out to the blogs I have named on my introduction post, which was... Kinda weird. Like, it was those two specifically they sent asks to. And again, mentioned how much they hated sexual content, but liked the writing. To two primarily nsfw blogs. I let both know about the situation though, just in case. Not long before i open the inbox again, I get a DM from Ace, who made a blog i think to chat with me. (I won’t be naming it here.) And a friend I told about it mentioned that half of it was memes, and the other half was just my content. Not like, illegal or anything, but weird. They were nice, but I kept them at an arms distance. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt they were unaware of what their friend sent, but I also didn’t want to get close or involved. I didn’t initiate any conversations, only occasionally responding. Well, exactly 2 months later after closing asks, I open asks for chatting again. Ace sent in a few things, but it started getting rough again when it became No Nut November. They sent in an ask talking about how no one could be horny anymore, and to wait for Destroy Dick December. I get it could be a joke, but it seemed kinda in bad taste, given how it was sent, and I’m a primarily nsfw blog. So I kinda responded a bit curt, and how the month was a meme, and no one said anything about writing/reading smut, and being horny. Just couldn’t nut and all that. Their next ask started with “But my Ace month :(” And they explained how they thought it was a real month, and thought in school how the jokes were real and it made them feel safer around people because they thought people had to be like them for a month. They then explained they thought that way because they were autistic. (Though I can’t remember if they said that in THAT ask, or another ask which i had deleted after wards) Which, I mean I am on the spectrum too, but this is still a nsfw blog. No need to cry tears about it to me, or double down on your reasoning. THAT is what kinda put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. THEN their friend showed up in my ask box again, saying that Ace had them read my stuff again, and that they wanted to improve their writing. However, Ace apparently had ‘problems’ with my writing, but was too scared to tell me themselves, thinking I would get upset. These problems were that my Readers lacked empathy for the people their yandere boyfriends killed (When I had only written about a reader knowing their bf killed someone ONCE, and it was an abusive ex that Warden Ingo had killed.) Everything else was hypothetical. All stuff that usually involved the other party doing something bad to the reader in the first place. Then they insulted me bc in a literal fever dream, I pushed James from Silent Hill into a monster and ran. They said ‘What good person does that?? James did some shit, but really?’ Which, it was a dream, and James murdered his sick wife in the game so i mean?? I guess they genuinely think actions in dreams determine if you are a good person or not. Then they called my Reader inserts selfish, and had no redeeming qualities. Which I don’t think is true. This proved they either picked and chose what they read, or lacked reading comprehension. Several fics put the smut second, firstly focusing on another issue. Such as the Reader caring for the hero of Hisui like a parent fic, or the android submas fic, where the reader show worry and compassion for the androids after they had been injured. Then they tried to cover all this, saying it was ‘criticism.’ It was not criticism. They never gave any advice how to improve my writing. They just wanted a wall to hide behind after knowingly being awful. But funnily enough, they acknowledge that everything I had written was fiction, but then?? Said it could be better?? And mentioned how I don’t even write an appearance, just had everyone assume the Reader was pretty?? So that’s a whole thing. Which is even funnier too given this is a reader insert blog. I can’t write descriptions unless someone specifically requests it, because it would alienate other readers. Then they said how I probably wouldn’t respond, and ‘Hopefully’ i wouldn’t leave for months again, because it stressed Ace Anon out. Again, as harsh as it sounds, I’m not responsible for other people’s stress and feelings. If they get upset over something on my blog, when everything is properly tagged, they shouldn’t be here. Nor is it my responsibility to watch out for a stranger, and cater around their feelings and stress. When I didn’t even know Ace Anon’s name. Here is a link to the whole post, and my full response. After I responded, I blocked them both, and that kinda sums it up. Everyone has been very kind though, and very supportive. I’m very lucky to have such support (❁´◡`❁) This isn’t everything, but I hope it clears things up a bit to the whole situation, and how messy it has been. Hopefully after this, I can kinda just put it all behind me.

#ask #theartvampire2015 #zed.talks #long post #smut mention #nsft #spicy stuff🔥 #tagging those just in case #but no actual smut or anything

[journeysfable]

Emptober Day 5: Sing

The Evermoore is full of lost spirits. Anything from foreign trees (yes, trees) to unlucky settlers have been gotten lost in The Fog and now wander the swamp endlessly. 

Except on one night, the spirits of The Fog can leave. 

Shelby initially believed she was dreaming when she heard the song. A mix of mourning and joyful vocalizations, both human and animal. But it persisted.

She stood up, focusing on the softness of her carpet, to be sure she wasn’t dreaming. 

She climbed up to the attic to grab a torch and went back down to the bottom floor. She looked out the kitchen window and began to reconsider. There was definitely something out there, she could tell from the barely visible outlines through her window.

Just a peek couldn’t hurt.

She creaked open the door, shivering at the night air, and held up the torch. A gasp escaped her lips. There were hundreds of things out there.

The Evermoore had never been so full. One was right in front of her door. The lost soul reminded her of wilting flowers, shrinkwrapped and limping, with holes and a distorted face. She almost mistook it for a zombie if it weren’t for the transparency.

She gently closed her door, barricading it just to be sure.

Shelby feared the fog more than ever.

The souls limped around and held there heads up high, singing into the night that bittersweet melody. They could be seen and heard now, but it didn’t change a thing. They would never leave The Evermoore.

But on that special night they could make it everyone else’s problem. 

#shubble #the evermoore #Emptober 2022 #ghosts #slight gore #? #slight body horror #tagging those just in case #from the fable