#thats what’s most productive at the end of the day imo!

[rockanroller]

i wanna see you look at blitz turnaround sheet tbh :3 his design is one of the more interesting and better ones from either show, and my only real issue is the eyes on his gloves, his ripped up suit cape thing, and his feet being literal high heel boots. like if he takes his shoes off, his feet are high heeled shaped. octavia actually has the same problem! thats not related but just another iconic vivziepop design trait i hate personally lol

ty for askin, i understand your thoughts. from what i've seen so far, blitzo's the one that seems the most clean/consistent. but i still found inconsistencies that bothered me when i looked closer.

disclaimers; --this will be an analysis of the character model's consistency, not their general design. --model sheets can feature intentional stylization for a character whether or not it makes real-world sense, so something that feels like an inconsistency to me might not to someone else. i certainly wouldn't give two shits if someone disagreed with how i stylized something unless i felt they had a good point. --obv we can't know for sure but we can assume the animators have gotten along ok enough with what they've been given, and/or they might have better more exact guides by now on the production, as the turnaround i'm analyzing is from around 2019.

at the end of the day this is just for fun. if you agree with some things i say here, awesome, but please don't treat my opinions as facts. all that said, this is my personal analysis.

let's go top to bottom starting with the horns.

onto the head...

another disclaimer is that i understand squash & stretch is a thing, personally i feel if you are going to show how a character's face squashes and stretches it should be on a separate sheet like for expressions because putting it on a turnaround makes it look as if the face looks vastly different at different angles, it creates confusion. onto the torso area...

onto the coat...

onto the tail... (mainly issues with inconsistent markings)

one of my biggest issues with having detailed designs like this for hand-drawn animation is if you do not organize them well then you/your team will have difficulty drawing them consistently. i would expect to see inconsistencies like these between scenes or between differing animators bc that is just something that happens... but for them to be on *the* turnaround is frustrating to me bc imo a turnaround should act as your baseline so your team can draw your character as consistently as possible. but if you're handing them an inconsistent turnaround you're more likely to wind up with even more, possibly worse, errors/inconsistencies. if that's something you don't mind in your animations, more power to you. and with that i'll close this analysis off on some inconsistencies that i felt were more personal grievances.

and that's that! this, again, is my personal critique of an image from 2019 that i'm doing bc it's like a fun study for me. it is not meant to be an attack. ty for giving me this suggestion anon.

#vivziepop critical #helluva boss critical #spindlehorse critical #anon ask #analysis

[jack-kellys]

west end question: i obviously love my brooklyn girls and would die for them all, but is it bad that it’s taken away the sprace dynamic for me? like i’m still 100% on board with a nowhere near canon ship and it shouldn’t affect me they’ve decided to have spot be a girl, but it lowkey has? and i feel kinda guilty about it? idk i love my proshot boys. but i am 100% here for all the uk newsies cast they are amazing and so talented and it’s definitely my favourite production by far!! idk if i’m making sense

ok part of me feels a litle baited actually because like. i feel like... im vocal abt mlm musical sprace not being a big vibe for me in the first place. so im a funny person to ask if you were looking for relief lmao. anyway here's my thesis below.

wait also if ur a white newsie fan a read-thru+rb of this would be much appreciated thank youuu (also yall have been eating up my character analyses anyway sooooo!)

TL;DR THESIS: if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that.

followers, if you've been with me long enough, you know that i have quite strong opinions about how this show gets treated when it comes to interpretations and fandom/fanon. mostly, this is because i literally work in theater, and it's extremely backwards in my brain personally when shows get treated more like a movie or tv show than a performance piece.

im also one of the only ppl in this fandom that ever seems to dare speak on race (not the damn character smh). and anon, buddy, kiddo, this does have to do with race, gender, and sexuality.

firstly, what i think needs to be understood about newsies, is that it is theater, which means it is meant to be mutable. there is no one way. there should never be one way. it does not exist. secondly, theater does not exist in a fandom vacuum. its live every night, conceptually. theater is a live performance art.

interpretations change- it's the nature of theater. so i think asks like these really do illuminate the difference between fans of the show's content or fans of... i guess the show's culture's content.

this is a culture content ask.

one thing i really, truly, deeply need you all to understand: from an objective, script- and staging-based perspective, proshot sprace does not exist. they do not speak. they barely see each other. race does not even volunteer to go to brooklyn. the ship originates from the 1992 movie, where they do actually interact, which is why the ship has prevailed through the 90s to today. they're from the movie, not the musical.

of course, this doesn't bash the ship- it has history, and naturally fans want to create new history when they get a new source material (the musical). it's true for like every newsie ship lowkey (but also not lowkey because all the manhattan newsies do interact and sprace literally does not but thats a different post!!), which is something i do admire about the fandom- we do a lot of our own legwork here, we invent relationships and backgrounds from one-liners that could be given to tbh any frickin newsie. i respect the 30 years we have invented ships.

however.

when a huge, publicized, consistently sold out production comes along with spot conlon as not only a woman, but a woman of color (specifically black rn!) as the leader of the most feared group on stage, there becomes something much more important than a "sprace dynamic", which does not canonically exist in the musical anyway bro. you can't miss something that isn't there imo. often the story and casting within a story comes first, and goddamn if this isn't one of those times. lillie-pearl's spot brings bravado, swagger, confidence, and intimidation that is literally....fine maybe i'm being personal but it is slash gen incredible to see in technically a period piece! a black woman in leadership with that kind of assuredness! in such a popular musical! how is that not– automatically surpassing an often obsessed-over (yes i am. hinting at something here, straight girl fans) mlm ship?

and while i'm on the topic of the over-obsessiveness of mlm musical sprace, let me talk about uksies sprace. because what's also wack abt this ask is that sprace is not a hopeless case in this production- it literally has about as much 'evidence' as the proshot imo!!!!!

i got to hop over to 2nd row brooklyn seating for act 2 so i saw once and for all really close up, right. there's a moment when race is upstage letting the newsies in/down from the stairs. spot comes down and she does, in fact, share a look with him. race gives spot a nod and she keeps moving.

and like im gonna see the show again (every day i am counting my mf blessings fr), so if i'm wrong or they don't do it every time i'll correct myself, but that's what i saw with my own dang eyes on saturday. they do acknowledge each other in uksies.

and since they do, i really like. i have to ask. what is bothersome/unpopular abt uksies sprace, other than oh idk.... its not white/white mlm with a twink/manly bf trope? why can't race still love who spot is as a character, this strong and fearless ruler of brooklyn, in uksies? because tbh josh's racer...nahhhh because. this is such a side note now but they'd be so good together oh jesus am i gonna ship uk sprace. and it's not like they're 'taking away' from a queer ship because a) you can headcanon spot as a queer girl and race being trans is consistently popular and b) newsies has ten billion gayass ships bro we've been eatin for literal decades.

anon, i'm sure you didn't mean harm by this ask. i'm sure, honestly, that a lot of fans are feeling the same way as you and weren't quite sure how to put it in words. but, i'm also not surprised you sent an ask like this on anonymous specifically.

should you feel guilty about it? i don't think guilt is the right word. but i believe you should think more about how newsies is not.....static. it does not exist in one form, and it never will. if you're feeling genuinely let down that your ship did not see the light of day and a black girlsie spot conlon got to instead, then yes, you should reevaluate that. in theater, you should always question why something impacted you the way it did- a major point of theater is to discuss and think about it when you leave! i know this because ive spent three years literally studying it, to back up my thesis credentials.

thank you for reading this, newsies fandom. i do honestly say all this with love, and i hope it made u think !! ♥️

#i just. damn dude. im tired #sprace #race x spot #racetrack higgins #spot conlon #newsies #sprace newsies #newsies uk #uksies #newsies the musical #newsies live #livesies #west endsies #west end newsies #race higgins #race newsies #spot newsies #anyway josh's race would fall ridiculously in love with lillie-pearl's spot. like goddamn #i believe in them and you should too!! uk sprace!!!!

[wildstar25]

terribly sorry to bother, but I've been loving your screenshots since I stumbled on your blog, and like 100% genuinely: how do you get them to look like that? Is it all done in game or is it some combo of mods & shaders? Cause every time I see a cool pose I'm just left wondering how you did it. Obviously I wouldn't ask you to make a massive tutorial just for me, but if there are any resources or general things you'd be willing to share, I'd be eternally grateful!

Hi there! Thank you for enjoying my gposes, and you're not a bother; my ask box is open to get asks after all haha

To answer your question: My gposes are not a product of the vanilla game alone. I'm slapping my explanations under a read more since it's a bit long:

Firstly, I am running reshade, an open source post-processing injector. It's a program that can (in the simplest terms) run various visual filters over a video game in real time. Most everyone I know made the jump from Gshade to reshade last year, so if you look up "reshade for ffxiv" you should be able to find a handful of tutorials. When it comes to finding presets, there are a lot of independent shader devs for ffxiv and generally a quick google search should bring you to a few. Most of the presets I use are outdated holdovers from the GShade days, and I don't know if they are available anymore; so unfortunately I can't recommend any directly, sorry!

In general, I lean towards shaders that enhance the overall brightness and vibrancy of the (imo muddy looking) default graphics. Arsay can quickly get over exposed by the in game 3 point lighting, so putting a shader that boosts the brightness overall really helps preventing that. I set up my lights in gpose at 2, put the character lighting to 100, pick a shader with a LUT that gives me the colours and brightness I want and thats usually enough. sometimes I'll hit the manual brightness in game and mess with that too. I often go into the preset of the shader and muck about with the Depth of field settings depending on what I want. An important note regarding the use of reshade: While reshade does not directly effect in game files or gameplay and it's technically not against TOS (as far as I have read), it is still highly encouraged that screenshots taken with shaders on do not have the ffxiv screenshot watermark visible. Reshade has it's own screenshot button that you can map to any key of your liking that will capture the game and the applied shaders without any watermarks. If you have an nvidia graphics card, I believe you should also have access to the geforce post-process correction tools, and could use that as well to enhance the game visuals. However, I am under the impression it's solely corrective settings (brightness/contrast, vibrancy, saturation, etc.) and you do not have the ability to adjust the depth of field setting, apply LUTs, mess with ambient occlusion, etc. Aka the more in depth rendering stuff that would make your graphic card fan go brrr. I've personally never tried the nvidia filter system so maybe that's incorrect information. Best to do independent research on that!

As well, on the occasion I will bring some screenshots into photoshop and do further, fine tuned, tonal corrections there. Generally this is only when I'm trying to achieve a look that I can't get in game and I try to keep it to a minimum. When I'm working on big photosets or comics, I'll end up doing more corrections just to make sure colours/tones/shading are consistent through out.

On to the second part of the question: the posing. I do all my posing with this tool. It is a tos crime, however it's client-side only and completely undetectable to other players. It gives you full access to character rigs and allows you to not only build your own poses, but export and import poses, outfits, props used by npcs or seen in cut scenes, and character data as well. Tons of people will upload pose files on the various mod archives for others to use, so even people who don't want to mess around with rigs can have fun with their characters. I personally love posing, and it's something I'm very comfortable doing since I have a background in 3D modelling and animation. I do believe in working smarter and not harder though, so what I tend to do is apply an in game animation cycle to my character in question that has a frame or key pose close enough to what I need, pause the animation, turn on posing, and start rotating bones. I never really looked up any tutorials myself tbh, I kinda just messed around with things and figured the tool out as I went along. That said, there are tutorials on youtube if you search for them. "Anamnesis ffxiv guide" or something along those lines should bring up good results.

Anam also gives you further camera control than what is available in game, allowing you to fine tune its position to the .001 degree. You can increase the FOV and zoom range past the typical amount. Bring your character and camera pretty much anywhere on the map too. And you can export your camera setting to use between gpose settings! It's a really great tool, though it has some quirks and can in specific instances crash your game (never change a character while fishing lol)

That's pretty much it! I know this wasn't really much of a guide, so sorry about that. Most of my gposes are a product of seeing a fuzzy image/concept in my head and messing around with various compositions, locations, lighting conditions, ect. until I bring that idea into clarity. It's hard to explain that process in ways beyond "fucking around and finding out (positive)" I suppose to anyone else reading this has specific references in mind, please pass them along to sailor-artemis ! I know being told "just google it lol" isn't super helpful but I really just tend to figure things out on my own ^^;

#sorry if all this is incomprehensible too #im not always the best at explaining

[chamoemileclown]

saw someone else post about this and i really agree i think it just wasnt the right time for purgatory, the stakes were there but the vibe and the point in roleplay development for individual characters just.. wasnt it for me. I dont know what they have planned for the future so i cant say it shouldve happened later, but i think because of all the trips and vidcon the charas had just gotten to a point where they had started healing from their kids going missing only to be thrown into this, which can be a good point narratively but theres also a couple other things that kinda just didnt let it work out for me tbh

a lot of it was just the rules and events were weird? that probably makes no sense. but like from a viewer pov it felt like the characters were beta testers for this and the rules have been constantly changing, so its hard to get comfortable in. Like when theres a set of consistent rules teams are able to more accurately strategize and such and they couldnt really do that? so it just felt like weird improv the whole time which theyre very good at but it was just.. like idk unbalanced? thats a dif point that contributed

like etoiles pointed this out that they balanced the teams (not really imo) in game but not fandom-wise, like certain teams had a very large fanbase and certain others had a very small one, etc etc. And like for example blue team had much less people on consistently but by the time they realized that it was probably too late to change teams without an event like the one recently splitting green. I feel like the admins tried to mix up the players outside of their usual friend groups but it just kinda cut the ints in half? i know cellbit didnt wanna kill roier, bad was very isolated from all his regular friends and therefore nobody wanted to talk to him (he wasnt on their team), tubbo was kinda suffering because he couldnt use create. Red team was overwhelmingly loud, blue was crushingly quiet, green was... tbh not on a lot of the time. Not good to watch from most POVs

i could be wrong about a couple things but like this is my general feeling on it, odd timing and weird balancing combined with toxic fandoms caused by competitiveness within the streams kinda ruined it for me, you can only curate ur experience so much

I really like how you put the first part because it was also something that I had felt about the event but I couldn’t really pinpoint why? I’m sure that a lot of the planning came down to a lot of stuff we can’t see behind the scenes like trying to be mindful of the ccs/ admins schedules but scheduling purgatory so far out from the disappearance really changed a lot. Like I just got used to not having the eggs and being fine with that and a lot of the ccs did sort of move on/ adapt to it. Obviously most people want the eggs back safe but I think some novelty has worn off after being away from them for so long. I think purgatory would’ve had more of an effect if the wound was more fresh when purgatory took place it would’ve made the stakes higher and I don’t think as many people would be saying “oh I don’t care if the eggs die at this point just end purgatory.”

Also the rules changing I noticed too was really jarring from day to day. I feel like a lot of the qsmp is like this and it’s a product of the admins being quick to respond to complaints in general and changing things accordingly. In my ideal world where the admin team could’ve just run the event with a test group to almost like stress test the rules? but i doubt that’s a very viable option. It would’ve been nice to see teams strategize more than play off the cuff in the limited time frame they have I feel like that only really rewards people with spontaneous playstyles

I think a lot of the problems with balancing fanbases revolves around people not knowing how to act online. The qsmp has long stretches where there isn’t much character conflict so that’s attracted a lot of people who feel really attracted to one pov and just don’t know how to handle conflict. We’ve seen this stuff outside of purgatory like during the entirety of the elections arc and when characters have an insignificant argument in rp. I don’t think you could balance viewers while also balancing skill but its definitely a problem that exists and doesn’t really have a clean solution. Also I do think the division of teams was to encourage different people to interact or possibly drive more in rp angst but it did fall flat in ways that were unintended.

Overall I think a lot of purgatory was trying to cater to a lot of people at once but thats just not working. I enjoyed the event from the standpoint that no matter what the admins want a good audience experience and they wouldn’t intentionally let us down. This seems more like a fundamental flaw in the server maybe? That it’s just not structured to be doing competitive game in this format at the very least.

#i deleted the og post asking people for feedback bc i was worried id get ate alive in the rbs #i think i covered everything i agree with most of this a lot does need to be adjust at the very least. #i also think my enjoyment came from the competiton so i understand why you wouldn’t like it for that anon #thank you for having rhis discussion with me btw i appreciate it i found it interesting to see it from the other side. #qsmp discourse #qsmp discussion #qsmp purgatory

[thatbitchsimone]

I agree, the idol does not deserve the shit it’s getting. Like wtf why are we sooo sensitive to art these days. Art is supposed to bring up intense feelings and address difficult subjects. That’s literally it’s purpose! Just watched ep 2 and it was amazing. I think it depicts female trauma in such a raw, brutal and beautiful way. Lily is so good. Rachel sennott is too. Rlly excited to see where it goes.

havent watched ep 2 yet but like i do get why a lot of ppl might not like it like there are plenty of fair criticism of it imo like i get why ppl think its pretentious (it is) and i get why ppl think its lowkey annoying and cringy and tryhard to jam in as much nudity as possible just for some sort of edgyness factor (it is) and i totally get that ppl are getting sick of sam levinson and his style (we all have a bit of euphoria fatigue at this point lol) so like ofc i think there are very fair reasons behind thinking its trash. like ofc it wont be everyones cup of tea. and yeah sam levinson gives off sleazy pretentious asshole vibes. hes a man. in the film industry. duh. ofc we wont like him as a person lol but he can still make interesting shows

i just think the moral outrage is bizarre. like i dont understand the controversy. i dont understand how its more controversial and offensive then most other shows on HBO. like really what is the big deal like whats the actual issue? i rly feel like ive missed something tbh bc i cant figure it out. maybe theres been some inside drama within the production? idc about that tho as long as theres no abuse going on bc i know what its like to work with a crew and be part of film productions and the dynamics (nowhere near this huge level tho lol on a waaay smaller scale ofc since i was just a film student in school making school productions) and there is always head butting and conflict and stress and some disagreements like thats natural like ive had screaming matches with dudes in my class during filming for stupid little differences in how to go about certain scenes and shots etc but thats nothing imo as long as it works out in the end and no one gets harmed. but as a viewer i just focus on the end product aka the show/movie in itself not the production side of it like that very rarely plays a role in how i form an opinion on a show or movie or my enjoyment of it

also i have a huge crush on rachel sennott and i had no idea she was in the cast so i was very pleasantly surprised when i saw her lol like even if the show turns out to suck ill still watch just to get me some rachel time sorry not sorry

#also agree with u that art should make u feel things including disturbed and uncomfortable #like thats the kind of art and media i am into and seek out #but ofc i understand why some ppl prefer to avoid it but i dont even think the idol is anywhere near extreme #at least not from what ive seen #maybe its a cultural difference? like im european so maybe i just dont get it #i know americans tend to be slightly more shocked by sex and nudity but idk

[blorbologist]

Is an engineer not considered a scientist in the realm of science? Why?

Anon, I'm not sure how familiar you are with modern academia, and how science works today! Long gone are the days of lone (+ their wives and uncited apprentices) scientists cooking up discoveries in a lab, appearing to change the world, and shutting themselves back in. Maybe Percy would be considered a scientist in Exandria, by their standards, and he'd be perfectly smug about that distinction, but he absolutely would not vibe with what's required of a scientist today.

It's more like... hrm.

When I'm approaching scientist, I'm meaning someone like my grandfather or I: researchers, academics. People asking questions that take a long time to answer.

Percy is like my father: curious and loves making things, but first and foremost he solves problems first, asks questions second (though! They do have some insane questions! But they're more in the vein of 'what if Bigger, or Better', at risk of oversimplifying). Most engineers are in this camp. It's more immediately practical.

I do not think Percy would like academia.

When all is said and done he doesn't want to hurt people, he wants to make clocks, he just wants to quietly work on making things better. And you need to be constantly running to stay in place in research - I don’t think he would enjoy feeling forced to stay up to date, to find the next big thing, to publish to keep his funding - and, down the line, managing a lab, grad students, teaching. It's not all making things go boom, you know.

My dad is not a scientist: he works in computer engineering but the work environment, schedule and vibes are completely different to a scientist's. It's a complicated, high-stakes desk job. You have projects and deadlines and you solve them and it’s more closely tied to business, if that makes sense? Many, imo *most* engineers end up in similar boats: engineering is a STEM degree, but they don't end up in academia. Like how you wouldn’t call a doctor a scientist - it's got a similar education to start, but a different higher education and application. His job is definitely time consuming and requires skill, but it’s not his life or his personality.

Contrast this with research. You can't quite put deadlines on 'discover a new thing that's helpful in x y z way'. You're not proposing solutions, you're asking questions to which the answers could be solutions (or new problems). You get grants or get paid by a business to Figure Stuff Out, stuff that's ideally of interest/use to the party funding you. For most it's a lot of writing: you publish your findings, you apply for grants and funding. You're a little entity of knowledge production and discovery-finding. Your research history and academic credentials are everything. Going to conferences, often teaching too, having bitter decades-long feuds with someone who dismissed your findings and you’re sure they're fabricating data. There are engineers in academia, but they're a minority compared to those graduating and then going to work, and I don’t hear much about research from them?

Percy very much has a Thing about control: I can't see him working under someone else in their lab for more than a stint (say, while completing his PhD, mayyyybe as a postdoc), but he wants to poke at His ideas and His plans and follow His whims, and most PIs would squint at that given young man thats their funding. On the other hand, you can't be a student or postdoc forever, and he'd absolutely hate how the parts of science he'd enjoy the least would increase tenfold when in charge, with even less time for what he wants. And it never ends. When you are a scientist, You Are a Scientist. The things you're researching are a passion, they're integral to who you are, so everything is just... so personal.

Meanwhile, with an engineering job he can just... fix things. Start a project and see it to the end. Make things Work. Get the satisfaction of things coming out Right and As Expected.

And at the end of the day, he can put it all away and tinker with a clock.

This got rambly, apologies: there's a lot of ideas here and they're hard to formulate coherently.

Tldr: most engineers end up with stable jobs, ones with deadlines and clear things to fix and do, vs the very different, very... idk, throwing your heart and soul into the grinder work environment you see in research/academia. Percy would loathe so much of how academia functions, and the mindset it would require of him, he'd 100% get whatever degrees he thought he needed and get out.

(Now Caleb, Caleb I could see returning to academia, to pair with his teaching, though research would be a distant second priority. But it's a very Specific sort of environment that I think Percy would want to distance himself from.)

(Take this all with a grain of salt: I'm a Masters student in Bio who hopes to continue in research, and I haven’t had the hope beat out of me yet... but I did listen to my grandfather, and to my labmates, and mostly going off personal experience and the experiences to those close to me. Thus this has a focus on STEM, not on other facets of academia such as history.)

#critical role #percival de rolo #cr percy #cr meta #i guess??? #not sure how well I explained this but look. yall remember Essek committing treason bc his research wasnt approved? #percy + gradschool would be a similar sort of 'oh of course this went badly' #also i cant look at this another minute because SIKE GUESS WHAT. I GOT DATA TO CODE

[wooahaes]

I’ve felt like my sfw Seventeen fics have been getting very little interaction too, while my nsfw fics get a lot of track, but I’ve noticed that the people who interact with both fics are very different audiences? People who like me for my sfw fics are really committed to my works and will say I’m their favorite even if the story got like 23 notes, so while it’s not as rewarding in some ways I think, in my experience, sfw readers are a bit more… personal? And i really like that. That’s just my experience though. It is really annoying to work really hard on a story and it get no interaction when you know if you had maybe added one smut scene it could’ve been more popular

oh yeah i 100% get that! livvie and i have talked about the same thing before on how nsfw fics will get more notes but sfw fics will get more personal responses. i just wish there was a better balance for both, y'know? nsfw writers deserve to get good feedback and comments (writing good smut is fucking hard btw, it's so easy to fall into a trap of getting too zeroed in on the mechanics while forgetting about the passion n emotions n whatnot. ppl who can write good smut deserve SO much love), sfw writers deserve to have more engagement and to still have their work seen.

i hope none of this has come off as me not appreciating my readers who call me their faves or compliment my writing--because i genuinely do appreciate them a lot! this was all me just kind of venting since other people have noticed the same stuff going on, and i genuinely really enjoy having this conversation with people. it's good to know people are mature enough to discuss experiences, y'know? in other fandoms, i have little doubt that people would just kind of blindly assume i'm hating on one side over the other (but also: i was 17-19 when i wrote for other fandom and most ppl were close to that age, so... not exactly the age you'd expect a ton of mature convo from all the time).

i do like the feedback i get as a sfw writer. i tend to read back through my tags a lot on my writing whenever i'm feeling down, and it makes me feel good again as a writer. fanfic is a hobby for me, but writing is a passion and i genuinely hope to write stories and get published one day. anything after that is just a dream (like movie deals or whatever lmao i think most writers would love to see their products properly handled for stuff like that), but being published feels like something more tangible.

but yeah, i get that entirely! while i'm a sfw writer, i do sometimes like... make implications in a fic of sexual content (usually up for audience interpretation like with the end of a few UtS parts, or imo easily ignored). sometimes i do wonder how much more popular some of my writing would be if i added smut into it.

but thats what the sideblog is for lol catch my ass writing some stuff w plot at some point!! bc i cannot stop i have too much fun w plot ksdfhsdkhf

thanks for chiming in, anon! <3 you do raise some important points on audiences and i'm def glad to talk about that since it is genuinely two different worlds

#wooahaes.ask #asks.anon

[jnqher]

Everything is going great now im happy i got back to 90 well its 90,5 but i believe thats just water

It was worth it waiting for the star that my teacher previously forgot to give me (basically smth written from the teacher to you) and ppl in my class had like „nice that you are in the class“ and mine read “dear ——, stay the way you are! I think it's great that you're in the class.”

I know my points and other things are good and i try to justify everyone and not side, but i feel like i can always better myself anf thats a never ending experience.

Life has been a roller coaster. Im more motivated, i dont listen to sad songs anymore which helps me feeling like i am monday felt like shit but now im back.

I do my skin care hair care manifest and other things that kept me being productive. I found out i like dancing maybe that will help me lose more weight but ig time is the thing i need right now.

My weight has been weird but i can handle it if i lose 30 kg in 3months i will be amazed. Again im thinking of water fasting maybe ill start today idk yet. But everytime i do it the second day just fucks me cus i cant stand migraines and yea i binge eat when im stressed and things.

I look good imo but i want to look good for everyone to be that “hallway crush” as silly as it sounds i do want that i want people to look at me for my beauty and understanding some day i will achieve that dream.

Ive never been called ugly on purpose it was more like what do i look like most answears were hamsters or oder rodents and a guy thats ironic most of the time he said ugly but still i look average. A guy said that im ugly but cute still a compliment from a christian homophobic person.

[lucyandthepen]

“Because I want you to like me. Just me.” NAHHH THATS A HUGE RED FLAG JENO NEEDS TO BE GONE! No but seriously that is kinda of (very) weird of him to say especially after he just told her he knows she likes him and instead of confirming his feelings he just tells her to keep on liking him without any other comment, he’s fr gonna lead her on like this, I feel bad for mc 😭

ALSO I’m sorry but I’m rooting for jaemin and her 🤭 the funny part is that they barely interact in the story but I still want them to end up together cos jaemin is all I could ask for in a guy. He’s nice funny and not a trouble maker AND he’s smart too like that’s so hot plus he knows how to have fun and respect other’s boundaries like I’m so in love with him (this may or may not be due to my own personal bias towards him in general lmaoo💀) the only problem is that his actions are not clear to assume whether he likes her as more than a friend or not 😒

AND POOR RENJUN I FEEL SO BAD FOR HIM. I was definitely on his side when he called Jeno out cos what jeno did WAS a dick move and i support him, though I understand how embarrassing it must’ve been. mc fr is too into jeno to the point all she thinks about is him but I can’t blame her as she is still in a honeymoon phase.

CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT PART COS EVERYTHING UP TO THIS POINT WAS AMAZING 🤩🤩🤩

<3 anon

i actually woke up to this message and i gotta tell you this was a TRIP i kinda feel like i went on a roller coaster BUT I AM DETERMINED TO ANSWER EVERYTHING SO cracks knuckles let's get down to business !!! i absolutely think that there's an issue with how jeno says things and i am not even hiding or denying the fact that it's lowkey problematic SJBIFJBSIJB like i said i think he is a somewhat selfish person that can't tell the difference between genuinely expressing interest and simply reinforcing someone's interest in him ............... but that really isn't a product of malice imo he just a lil Not It and probably can't see anything in a more empathetic way (like idt he really thinks about what a person would want to hear from him in a situation like this) as for jaemin........... I THINK MANY PEOPLE R ON THIS MC/JAEMIN BOAT AND YOU KNOW WHAT? i always think that's valid?? to be completely honest w you i perceive jaemin as the kind of person who figures out what he wants very quickly (in comparison to jeno who always seems to sit in the field of ambiguity) but what he does about it is a totally different story? there's definitely no wrong intention about how he acts and there's also nothing calculated about it IDK IF THAT MAKES SENSE ??? this jaemin is pretty honest but he also doesn't overtly do anything or force a situation even if his feelings are plain as day BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE !!! he's also not a one punch roll over kinda guy and i think that is very important............ in the future :^)

renjun has many rights in this fic and his perception is like 85% correct most of the time BUT his execution is VERY bad. my writing could be very POOR in this regard but there are very weak hints that renjun likes mc, but the question is also why (ik this sounds bad but there's a logical reason) SJFISDJf i don't think renjun is unjustified AT ALL in what he thinks because (1) he's a slightly more objective party when regarding jeno even though there's a slight tint of ew and (2) mc is a little too blinded and as a friend, i feel like it's normal to get annoyed at that kind of behavior because she literally talks like if jeno asked her to woof in the hallway she would get on all fours and do it and JFBIFJBSJIBJBJ like i just feel like that's upsetting to see as a friend because you know that two people should be on equal footing in a relationship if that's where it's headed? so i feel like him constantly trying to knock some sense into her is not a problem BUT i feel like there's also a time and place to do it especially if you know the other person is not in a good place (i.e. she won't listen to you because of her blinded behavior).

and there was no real point about this but i'd also like to add that mc is ................................................. easily one of the most unreliable narrators which is a pleasure to write but frustrating to deal with in context because all of her ideas are very skewed. you have someone who might lose a friendship and still be on the crush's side (which, again, is normal if you're blinded) and who literally views herself as someone lesser than jeno (again, contextually normal but not great) yet believes that this is how the world should be despite being told it's really not ... but you also can't blame her completely because if you're that into something / someone, you tend to have tunnel vision and dont notice what you're doing wrong until it's way too late. in this case, you make a lot of mistakes you don't notice and people don't know how to blame you for, which means she doesn't really know that she has anything to apologize for either. :^( this is a problem that's going to keep coming up until she opens her eyes a bit more :(

anyWAYS THANK YOU FOR THE LONG MESSAGE AND I APOLOGIZE FOR MY LONG RESPONSE i just had Much to get out there because i love discussing this (and other) fics but have NO friends to do so with (my writing life is a big ol secret) so THIS WAS GREAT AND I HOPE YOU KEEP ENJOYING MWAHH!

[sivsii]

How did you go from drawing animals to drawing humans? How did you adapt? I'm having a hard time doing it...

Honestly I really struggled with it for a long time, too. I spent like 2 or 3 years trying to practice human anatomy and very occasionally doing the odd piece of fanart here and there, but it was hard for me to translate anything I was learning into casual art and gain actual mileage until I got into critical role and was motivated to be drawing every week. Being able to separate myself from that “practice practice practice” mindset and become less analytical while I drew meant that any practice/study I was doing was less “I’m practicing aimlessly with no clear end-result to motivate me” and more “I wanna draw a thing I like > I don’t know how to draw this particular thing > I’m going to problem-solve until I figure it out > I drew a thing I like!” and then repeat. Basically, practice as a problem-solving means to an enjoyable end, rather than the end itself. It’s still hard, and time-consuming and frustrating for a while, but in my experience it was a far more productive way of learning than trying to separate practicing and drawing into two different things.

That all said, tho:

Tracing is your best friend when you’re trying to draw something new. Find some reference photos, trace them in a way that breaks them down into simple shapes, and then reference those tracings and redraw the pose. This does two things: the tracing helps build muscle-memory and familiarize yourself with the body without having to do a ton of thinking - a pretty relaxing/mindless and quick exercise to do as warm-ups. And then referencing that tracing can (again) help build muscle-memory through repetition, but also gives you a more more simplified form to recreate without getting lost in details. I do this both as occasional practice sessions and when I want references for actual drawings I’m doing, which is actually pretty often still

As a slightly more intensive version of this exercise: you can also look at (artistic) references of musculature, and then look at reference photos to try and to identify where the most recognizable muscles are and how they work in action.

That all said, the human body is squishy as fuck. Like seriously, knowing skeletal/muscle landmarks is fine and all, but my art really improved once I started recognizing how mailable and inconsistent most forms are. To help with that, an exercise I like is to doodle lumpy shapes either as general warm-up, or when I’m tracing/referencing a photo like in the aforementioned exercises. It helps with line confidence and comfortability.

One of the things I struggled with was style consistency. Knowing that I had something established in one area of drawing but not in another really tripped me up, but the sooner I got out of my own head about trying to manufacture a style, the sooner I was productively learning. A style will develop naturally as a result of personal influence and developing your own shorthand, and will eventually merge with or existing styles.

Watch how other people do things. Borrow their stylistic quicks and shorthands and try them out for yourself. Tutorials and walk-throughs of people explaining their processes is something I like having on in the background, and it can be surprising what you absorb through them.

It might just be because I’m an absolute nerd, but I could pour over anatomy/art books all day, and I’m certain that they’ve positively influenced my art in the last few years even tho I never actually read through them. I’ll reblog with a list of recs, but books on either art anatomy or books of concept/development art are both super valuable to at least browse through.

I wish I was better at offering advice, but really all I can close out with is how important I think it is for you to find something you enjoy drawing. Practice sessions are good, but it’s really valuable to problem-solve as a means of learning, and not get caught in the mindset of “drawing and practicing are separate things, and I need to practice X amount of times before I can start drawing things I like” really just go for it and try to enjoy yourself. There are so many ways to practice, and no chronological way of going about it. It’s kinda just a process of bouncing around, finding what works and when, and learning as you go. It’s gonna be frustrating and hard at first, but you gotta push through and eventually you’ll see progress.

#sivsi speaks #asks #art tips #art stuff #this is an unhelpful mess I’m sure #It’s hard when there isn’t really a set method for improvement #it’s all a lot of “fuck around and find out” tbh and the most helpful is to try and get to a place where you enjoy what you do #thats what’s most productive at the end of the day imo! #but it can be frustrating to go from something u feel skilled in to something that makes you feel like you’ve undone #years of artistic progress #the starting point always sucks and it sucks even more when you know you’re capable of better

[protagonistheavy]

One of the most memorable episodes of Total Drama Island imo was the stay-up-athon or whatever they called it. I think it's just the third episode in, so I'm sure a lot of us as kids caught it at one point or another when the series was still fresh. There's a lot to like about this episode and it could have been my favorite. I really love the simplistic nature of it and how it gives so much potential to show off the cast and their quirks in a sleepover-like setting; Courtney constantly moves around to keep herself awake, Duncan falls asleep on the toilet, Gwen and Trent bond romantically in a way that is so sappy that it flips around to being cute lol. Idk Im not even a big fan of these two as a couple, Trent in particular legitimately feels like a robot at times, but as a kid I was fond of this shipping.

But anyway fuck all that. This episode sucks because for some insane reason... they just fucked up the time of the episode. Th-They messed it up completely.

The episode begins specifically at 7 am, where the campers are woken up right out of beds, made to go on a long run, and then given a big meal -- all intended to tire them out in the build-up to the challenge. At which point, it's noon, and Chris insists that it's been twelve hours since they woke up. Obviously that just isn't right, but it gets so much worse.

Clearly, if you watch this episode play out, everything happens in the span of a night. It begins in the middle of the day, it quickly transitions to night when the first campers start dropping, and then it NEVER shows them in daytime again. But the show insists that days are going by. It will cut to transitions where the sun and day swap out, but when it goes back to the campers, it's ALWAYS night time, and Chris specifically keeps saying that it's been "48 hours" or "almost 72 hours" and shit like this...

Whyyyyyyyy? This infuriates me so much lmao. Did they decide too late into production that it SHOULD take multiple days before everyone falls asleep? Because wow, tbh I dont think thats necessary, I think its very believable and normal that these kids would only last one full day before having to nod off. Clearly it was all animated to just be one day, so why try to wedge it in that it's more time than it actually is? Some kids drop out during "night one," assumed to go away to go to sleep, but at the marshmallow ceremony, everyone is equally exhausted -- implying that it was ONLY ONE NIGHT and that only the daytime has gone by since the challenge ended. It's soooo mind-boggling, what was the purpose??? So, so strange. I just had to bring it up because I so remembered hating this as a kid too, just wondering why the heck they dubbed it like this. Tarnishes a totally good episode in a series that really needs as many of them as it can have.

[arysthaeniru]

aAAA the joy of seeing an update on your current favorite fanfic is just aAAA

I always felt that kiwami 1s Nishiki was just a bit too,, I dont know how to describe it; but essentially he just felt off, granted yakuza 1 is a product of its time and therefore the plot is a bit dated and whack as all hell

The way you write Nishiki just feels so much better and realistic; in the original he just seems so uncaring towards Kiryu? which just feels kinda OOC? You'd think he still cares about Kiryu despite it all, especially when you take Yakuza 0 into consideration; and i feel like you portray Nishiki much more accurately

I never thought much about Yumi, because honestly, in the original she was kinda just, there? You actually made her a very interesting person! like I'm actually invested in her in your story! (side note you ever think about her clone who got tortued and died? yeah who WAS that???? thats never brought up is it??)

Theres so much more to talk about but in short; This is the best fix it/rewrite of a game plot I have read to date and it brings me joy in my current stressful school life. and no I will not stop praising it or the author, because this work has made me very happy. ;)

I just have a gift for picking favorites that end up dying,,aand another favorite of mine is Mine

imo theres a lack of soft, reassuring Minedai, i just feel like he'd need a reminder that people love him as a person and not just for the money he can provide, even if its obvious

I'd love to see how you'd write them, but I understand if theres more interesting/appealing drabble requests!

- Carp

CARP, thank you for this <3 this is so sweet!!!!! I’m so happy you enjoy my Nishiki! I had fun playing with what Yakuza 0/the Kiwami additions gave us about Nishiki’s personality and outlook on the world, and trying to reconcile that with the plot that Yakuza 1 initially had. Ultimately, I fell on the side that you did: even if Nishiki’s ambition took him down a monstrous path, I don’t think he’s the sort of person who neglects to pay back his debts. And he’s aware of the huge debt he owes Kiryu. Not to mention, their bonds of trust and love vanishing completely because of jealousy felt unreal to me. Their relationship becoming twisted or strange? Yes, but vanishing entirely felt unsatsifying to me. 

And Yumi!! I had so much fun excavating her character from the clues we get of her in canon. I worry sometimes, that she’s unrecognizable, because you know, I’ve given her a college education, and a whole bunch of interests beyond hostessing alone, but people seem to like it and like her, which is great!! I hate fridging women characters, so keeping her and Reina alive was important to me, hahaha. (RE: fake!Mizuki, there’s this substory in Kiwami that actually addresses who she was, BUT IT’S EVEN MORE HORRIFYING. So that’s why Yumi in my fic is the one captured and tortured by Nishiki’s men, because the thought of this poor innocent woman getting dragged into the mess was just untenable to me.)  

Anyway, thank you for your support and kind words, and I hope you’ll continue to read and that my fic can continue to relieve stress. I--tried to write this about Mine, but Daigo kind of stole the spotlight a little??? I hope you still like it--if not, I will try a ficlet from Mine’s perspective too. I enjoy minedai a lot, but I haven’t had room to think out their dynamic yet, so this took me a while. 

Daigo’s no stranger to being desired. He’s attractive, he knows this—his mother’s beauty lives in his veins, and he’s always had the money to look after himself. Fancy soaps to wash his face, the invisible retainers to keep his teeth straight, fancy suits and skin-tight shirts to show off his frame. For all that Kiryu insists his charisma is something that comes from the soul, Daigo knows it wouldn’t be able to draw the sort of attention he does without being attractive.

Which is to say that Daigo’s not especially thrown off by the intensity of Mine’s gaze. It’s happened before, and it’ll happen again. The thing that surprises him is how much he relishes in being seen by Mine.

Maybe it’s because Mine’s an island in a stormy sea, one of the only yakuza his age who’s sensible and level-headed enough to make it big. Maybe it’s because Mine’s gaze is always so reserved, polite, never overly lusty or overstaying its welcome, and Daigo has so rarely been desired so quietly. Or maybe it’s because Majima and Kashiwagi so clearly disapprove of him—Daigo’s always been something of a rebel, and he hasn’t shaken that off, even now he’s in his thirties and is the arbiter of rules for the Tojo Clan.

Daigo can’t quite put a pin on why he’s so comfortable with Mine’s yearning looks, but he’s never been one to hold back when he wants to indulge in something good. Not exactly a hedonist, not by yakuza standards, but Daigo has never kept himself from enjoying life, in the name of some dubious ‘honour.’

Which is why, in an after-hours meeting with Mine, as they eat cheap takeout sushi together, Daigo takes his chance. A momentary slip, the slightest hint of wasabi left at the corners of Mine’s lips and Daigo swoops in, rubs a thumb over the corner of Mine’s lips. Mine stutters to a stop, mid-sentence through a rundown of the real-estate that the Hakuho Clan’s been purchasing up, and stares at Daigo, eyes bewildered.

“Sixth Chairman?” he asks, his voice still remarkably composed.

“Wasabi.” Daigo says, nonchalantly, as if it’s nothing, and sticks his thumb into his mouth, slowly licking it off with a lingering lave of his tongue. He feels a sharp stab of satisfaction as Mine’s eyes turn darker, and his gaze follows Daigo’s hand down.  

Daigo straightens up, languidly, and cracks his neck, casually. At this point in the day, he’s untucked his shirt, and he knows that a slight strip of his stomach will be visible when he stretches out his arms towards the ceiling. And as predictably as clockwork, Mine’s gaze darts downwards, to that pale expanse, to catch that brief second of skin. Daigo can’t help but feel warm. Something about being watched by Mine is exhilarating.

“Smoke?” offers Daigo, but as usual, Mine refuses, with a polite shake of his head.

Daigo knows from hearsay that Mine’s something a health-freak, so he’s not entirely surprised. It’s already too late for Daigo to preserve his health—he knows that his liver’s already been pretty ruined from long nights of binge-drinking as a youth, and this job’s too stressful to withhold from vices like smoking and drinking, without an optimal end-goal. So he walks over to the window, cracks it open a little, and lights up.

The breath of nicotine curls over his body, a tender caress, and Daigo feels his shoulders drop, as the relaxation hits. He pulls off his cufflinks, tosses them into his pockets and rolls up his sleeves. He takes it slow, runs his fingers over his skin a little more than strictly necessary. Surreptitiously checking the reflection in the window, Daigo watches Mine watch him, and smirks at how intense that gaze is, how Mine’s mouth has opened, and Daigo can just see the soft pink of his tongue.

“Dojima’s just fine, you know. When it’s just us two.” Daigo says, turning over his shoulder. He smiles, one of those charming smiles that had always gotten him whatever he wanted as a child, “We’re same-aged friends, after all.”

“Dojima-san.” Mine acknowledges, after a brief pause.

Daigo turns around, to properly look at Mine and lifts an eyebrow. “Dojima. Or Daigo, preferably. Dojima-san’s always my father in my head.”

Mine nods, face impassive. Daigo can’t read him like this. Maybe that’s why he likes when Mine stares at him, filled with longing. At least then, Daigo feels like he knows him. In moments like these, his implacable gazes might as well be a brick wall. “Right. Your Father was also in the Tojo Clan.”

Daigo smiles, wryly, and blows out a puff of smoke. “One of the most horrible men I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting—and I had to call him Father. But damn if he wasn’t good at the job.” He sighs and stubs the cigarette out against the ashtray. “...sometimes feel like I’m competing with his dead spirit. Everybody’s looking at me and wondering if this is what my Father would do. Or what Kiryu-san would do.”

“You’re doing better than any of them.” Mine says, immediately, with a vicious ferocity that Daigo wasn’t expecting. He can’t quite stop his eyebrows rising in surprise, and Mine straightens upwards, looking self-conscious immediately. Daigo regrets his instinctual reaction, immediately. “That is to say, Dojima, that I think that you’ve pulled this Clan into somewhere far more respectable. From what I’ve heard of your Father, he didn’t have the temperament to do proper business on this level—too insistent on formal obeisance and unable to be flexible as the times require. And Kiryu-san might be very honourable, but we are yakuza. There are certain things you have to do as a Chairman, that he couldn’t bring himself to do. But you are practical and do what is necessary, while also not overstepping into excessive violence. You are uniquely suited for this job, Dojima.”

...he’s taken aback a little, he can’t deny it. Daigo wonders if his cheeks are colouring, wonders if his obvious shock is offputting, wonders if this is how Mine feels every time Daigo teases him lightly about his obvious attraction. A startling warmth spreads through his chest, and Daigo can’t stop the slight smile that touches his face. Has anybody ever said something so unreservedly kind and measured about Daigo before?

Maybe this is the difference between everybody else’s gazes on him, and Mine’s gaze. It’s based on something more than desire alone. Respect.

Daigo runs a hand over his slicked-back hair and ruffles it free, with a rueful smile, a smile that he couldn’t take away from his face, even if he tried. “I appreciate that. You know I couldn’t do it without you, right?”

He’d never really believed himself capable of attraction to a man like Mine. All of his previous childhood crushes had been on bright, cheerful conversational, pure-hearted people. Daigo had always figured they would balance out his sardonic cynicism. He’d never thought someone as reserved and principled as Mine would ever make his heart flutter. But then, there was something about that deep hunger and passion that Daigo craved. Perhaps it was because he was no longer the gloomy punk of his youth. Maybe his tastes have changed towards tall, dark and handsome. Maybe Mine’s just that special.

“Dojima—” Mine says, clearly trying to refute it, but Daigo cuts him off.

“I mean it. Everybody in this fucking Clan wants me to do something or be somebody else. Kashiwagi-san wants me to be my mother. Majima-san wants me to be Kiryu-san. Everybody else expects my Father. But not you. You deal with me honestly, and with candour, and never hold any expectations against me except success. I appreciate your faith in me.” Daigo takes a couple of steps forward, until his shoes almost brush up against Mine’s own. He leans down over Mine’s chair. “I could not do this without your backing and help. Truly. I don’t think I’ve ever had someone like you in my life. A true friend.”

Mine tilts his chin up to meet Daigo’s gaze, a hungry devotion in his eyes, and Daigo, for a moment, wonders if this is wrong. If he should hold back, like Kiryu would. But Daigo is Daigo, and Mine clearly wants him anyway, so he leans down and kisses him.

Mine’s mouth is velvety smooth and wet and hot and it is oh-so satisfying a feeling to put his hand against Mine’s broad neck and feel his warmth up against Daigo. He pulls back, with a satisfied sigh, and feels the burn of wasabi across his lips, a final parting kick.

#minedai #mine yoshitaka #dojima daigo #spiraling downhill fic tag #yakuza #rgg

[mishkakagehishka]

Hello, I was researching for ways to play twst and their pros and cons, and I saw you mentioning that the vpn method was unsafe and the apk was better. Do you mind if I ask you why? Arent they both technically 3rd party ? Feel free to answer it on private or by DMs if you prefer, or if it is a topic you would rather not talk about, thats alright too! Thank you for your time and hope you have a good day

A disclaimer!! I'm no professional computer-person, I don't get a lot about VPNs myself, but I am paranoid af so I scoured the internet for any and every detail about VPNs before even thinking about using one lol

So, using a VPN is unsafe only if you use untrustworthy VPNs, most often the free ones. To put it simply, a lot of VPNs advertised as completely free will just end up stealing your data and sabotaging your online safety :( maintaining servers costs money, after all, and as the saying goes, "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product". tbh for a really short region change, you'll probably be fine, but you'd have to change it back for every app update is the problem, but only if you're the type to go, "Oh, what a hassle" (I know I am). If you want to use a VPN to download Twisted Wonderland, imo, it's best to go for a paid one, like NordVPN, or use ProtonVPN (made by a very trustworthy Switzerland-based team, they also do proton mail) which has a free plan that offers servers in Japan and the USA (so both versions of twst should be available to you).

Essentially, it's not that it's unsafe to download using a VPN because of third party business, rather because of data-selling, and various other problems that come with a free VPN trying to make a profit without charging you actual money. A lot of articles will go more in-depth about both the dangers of free VPNs and regarding which country you should make sure your VPNs have as a base (there's a data-sharing agreement between certain countries, I'm not too knowledgeable on that part, but I remember Switzerland being a safe choice altho tbh i don't think that even matters for our convo as much - it's not like playing mobage is an activity that should be hidden from the government lmao). Although if you do have a trustworthy VPN, it is better to download from your phone's app store than from a third party app. Also I'd recommend looking at VPN reviews on forums like Reddit, or from websites unaffiliated with the VPN you're researching.

To give my own advice, if you have android, downloading QooApp as an apk from their website should fix all your mobage problems and is just. The far simpler solution. I downloaded, among others, twst jp through it, and plan to download twst en as well. You don't need a VPN for it and you can update the apps easily through it, too. It's a trustworthy third party app, as far as my experience goes. I can't really advise on Apple, since I don't know much about it in general, but I'm p sure you can change the region of your Apple ID fairly easily (just add an adress of a restaurant or other public place as your place of residence - is what I heard people say).

Imo QooApp is the way to go purely because of how much easier it is, but if you don't have it, alternatives like apks from other third party websites (provided you do a thorough check on said websites beforehand!!! there are some that can give you viruses) or using a VPN to change your google play region, or Apple ID should be fine too, as long as you double check everything. But I'd err on the side of caution with VPNs, tbh.

Have a lovely day! Hope you'll be able to get your hands on twst soon🤝

(I'm encouraging people who know more to correct me if I got anything ab VPNs wrong btw)

#twisted wonderland #asks

[cadykeus-clay]

please tell me more about your dance major!

ohhhh ok!!!! ive been doin hw most of the day so i missed this notif but i’m happy to answer now!!! so i’m currently doing two majors, one of which is in dance. in all honesty, i have it a lot easier than many college dancers for several reasons:

for one, I’m getting a BA rather than a BFA, which means the program is far less rigorous wrt hours. Most BFA programs I looked at when applying to college require daily class, whereas I have technique only 3 days a week, and they also have a much stricter performance requirement. 

Most dancers would be in either multiple pieces per show, or multiple shows, depending on the departments rehearsal schedule. We are not *required* to perform at all (though everyone does lol) and we are only in one piece per semester (usually) as undergraduates. 

So my hours are a lot less than a lot of programs, even more so due to covid slashing our rehearsal space (our actual studio doesn’t have central AC and so isn’t approved for use AT ALL, and we’re in our second semester of taking class out of an orchestral performance hall instead)

for another, I’m doing a performing arts major at a tech school. I won’t say which one cause internet privacy, but we’re mostly known for our med school and engineering programs. so, the department knows I’m not at this school to dance, i’m there to dance and do something else (in my case math on an eventual education cert track). so our classes and stuff are structured around all the dance majors having another major as well. 

just as me, i’ve been dancing for ..... 16? 17? years now. from when I started through the end of high school, I trained heavily in ballet, modern dance (specifically graham and humphrey techniques) and jazz, with little bits of dabbling in more other styles than I can name between guest artists and short intensives and the like. the college I’m at offers only ballet and modern classes, which are supposedly in graham style (that’s why I came here) but imo they’re a fucking joke if they actually call themselves graham technique classes. they’re graham-based at best. 

however, our main focus is on producing choreographers and teachers rather than performers. a handful of our undergrads go on to join major companies as performers, but (esp because of the tech school thing) most of us go on to do teaching or choregraphing gigs outside of our day job, and our grad program gets you a MFA in contemporary choreography.

which i actually think is pretty cool conceptually! now i kinda fucking hate the way our dept head teaches choreo and have been avoiding it like the devil but thats a me problem. because of that, though, we also take a couple classes on like ... dance pedagogy, and stage production, and we have to work several performances worth of stage crew which i think is really neat behind the scenes experience that not a lot of colleges will offer!

we also do a lot of dance science stuff - so like studying nutrition, physiology, medicine, and even psychology with the specific intent of working w/ dancers. a lot like sports medicine, but for dancers rather than athletes. every semester (except for covid lmao) we do this little fitness test thing that gauges our natural abilities and makes it easier for us/our teachers to pinpoint our strengths and weaknesses and it’s actually overall really cool.

just as a personal example, and i have no idea if you’re a dancer and will know what this means anon, but for those who are: my turnout on the left has always been way more shit than it is on the right. absolutely no idea why. and i’ve been hounded about it for Decades. I came to this school and took my first little physical exam and was told “well no wonder. your right hip has 20 more degrees of movement in it than your left”. that’s nothing to do with my posture, or my muscle strength. my left femur head is literally just larger and gets in the way quicker and unless i get surgery to shave it down there’s no fixing it, so instead i could focus my time on trying to retrain equal stability in both sides rather than trying to force left turnout that literally didn’t exist. 

overall there’s a lot of really nice things about this program, and it’s by no means a setup for me to go into a professional performance career, but that’s not what i wanted anyways. i like my school and i like this program and i like .... enough of the people in it (dept chair and assistant chair do NOT interact i’m talking to my cool queer professor with blue hair who just started publicly using they/them pronouns) to stick around and keep my inherent need to dance satisfied!!! 

#long post #asks #sorry for the absolute Essay anon im sure this was way more than you wanted sjdlkfjdsafsadfsad

[lunatens]

HI LUNA I'M SO SORRY I'VE BEEN MIA BUT IM BACK NOW EHEHEHE lksjdflksd i love spelling it's just so interesting how words,,, come together?? like what? who ever thought? why not add those extra u's in there? THANK YOU I WROTE ONE ESSAY PER DAY SO NOT THE MOST PRODUCTIVE BUT LIKE I GOT THEM DONE AND THEY'RE PRETTY OKAY IMO SO YAY!!! slkdjfkds i read that as "you're too young" and i was like '??? okey dokey' but it's true!! i could never art haha i mean obv practice but,,, i'll stick to ++

NO WORRIES AT ALL BB IT IS A-OKAY 😎😎 BUT WELCOME BACK HEHE 💖💘💘💓💓

woAH an essay a day :o listen that sounds pretty productive to me and u know what doing something every day is better than nothing!!! 😌😌😌 which is what i did oops haha the new semester starts monday and i haven’t finished my final film backgrounds yet aaaaa i’m pROUD !! u wrote those essays!!!!!! best writer ever i think 🤩🤩

SLFKDKSJ YES ITS SO TRUE like ah yes,, gotta,,, study their personalities and stuff mhm yes homework it’s important 😌 aND YES TBZ = WOWOWOWOW 🥺🥺 such amazing boys (or..boyz hehe)

AND YES UR ASKS LITERALLT MAKE ME SO HAPPYYYYYY 😭😭😭 i love them so much ok it’s always so fuN to come on here and be like ohohoho what does 🌻 have to say today!!!! you’re always so sweet and so funny i 😭💖💘💘💘💓

oh yes it’s bang chan lol!!! too many chans 😳 but yeah idk why he just gave me chan vibes so i was like i dub thee chan and that was like two years ago i think? so then i was like well gotta name them all after idols now ig 🥴 but yeah it’s not something i like go out and tell people really so we good 😌😌

LOL as you can see it was not on anon but yes that’s ok!!! i’ve seen u in my notifs hehehe and now i know it’s you!! 🤩🤩 now we can be moots hehe alsO UR NAME IS STORM THATS SO COOL :O

ALSO OKAY Y/N IS 🧠🤏SMALL BRAIN OK don’t ask me why in sm!aus i always gotta make y/n be ✨extremely stoopid✨ at least to some degree glsksk but grrRRR tbh girl needs to have some sense knocked back into her 😤😤dw dw it’ll all be ok in the end or will it?👀

OFMGKSK HOME RUN ON THE LATE LATE SHOW 😭😭😭😭 THEY DID SUCH A GOOD JOB i loved the concept omg 🥺 also dw it’s okay i’ve watched the performance on youtube like a million times (my dad walked in and was like they have a lot of backup dancers and i was like No That’s Just Them)

i’m glad you’ve been doing well!! i’m so sorry things there have been so bad though, i hope you’re doing ok with all that pls you can always talk to me as much as you want about it!!!!!! gosh what a week indeed, i hope things will start to get better soon even if it’s just a little bit at a time 🥺💖 it will be okay!

DLGKJS YOURE SO SWEET I CANT—i’m feeling good though and eating and drinking water and sleeping and all that jazz!! i’m..not being as productive as i should but it’s so hard to motivate myself to do school stuff when i’m at home on break 😔 i’m going back up north tomorrow though! which i’m a lil not looking forward too skfjdjsj mostly because i don’t wanna go back to school where i have like basically no free time at all 😭😭 oh well in 4 months i’ll be done forever 😼😼

ANYWAYS that was so sweet of u like my heart is 💗💗💗💗 omg 🥺🥺 also all those questions back at you how are yOU are you taking care of yourself??? getting outside and stuff?? 🔫 i hope you’ve had a lovely day/night too!!!! forever sending u all the love 😌💖💝💝💕💞💗💓💘💖

#also yes pls send me entire essays i LOVE IT #ask #🌻 anon

[appsa]

I enjoyed reading all of your previous answers, so I'll leave you with this... thoughts on fantasy stories, romance, friendship and art?

Fantasy stories!! Aaa i love stories with all that magical bullshit and different kinds of creatures like. Its about the WONDER and the POSSIBILITIES those worlds generate!!! U say ur series has a young protag who has to learn magic to overcome challenges?? Sign the fuck up i am THERE. But also-- if at its core the magic isnt coming from the power of friendship?? Lmao not interested in anything u have to say honey. Get cheesy and cliche or else get out of my sight. Fuck u.

Romance in stories? Tbh for the longest time i was NOT a fan lmao. Couldnt stand it, everytime i watch some idiot couple get married at the end of the movie I'd cringe. It took me a while and some exposure to different kinds of stories (queer stories) to realise that i actually don't hate romance?? I just hate the heterosexual kind cause they're also deeply entrenched in the traditional gender roles. Man goes out to work whereas woman gives up her interesting job and personality to stay home and look after kids. So much of it is dependent on this... rly narrow vision of what the world should be, but it assumes that its universal. Thats what bugs me the most abt it.

Like,,, its such a constant in media and you get sick of seeing it. Queer creators on the other hand smash through every "traditional" expectation (ex: noelle forgoing an epilogue in she ra because she wanted it to be free for interpretation) and it just makes their work so much more refreshing imo.

Friendship?? Always amazing, always grateful for well written friendships. Romance is great and all but theres smth so comforting about having a grp of people u can trust rather than just The One. Healthier too lmao

Tbh the day het romances improve will only come the day they realise that ur s/o should be ur best friend

Opinion on art hm.... tbh for the longest time i thought that a lot of art tended to come from ppl who had endured pain like... maybe being in pain was essential to producing art?? Like it was part and parcel of being an artist but thats simply not true yknow??

Like yes some of the most powerful works of art came from pain but actually?? No. Pain has a way of completely paralysing u from being productive. Sometimes u just cant work because its so huge. Its terrifying to confront it, much less translate it into art yknow?

Powerful works of art dont come from pain. They came from people who were able to sit down with their pain and articulate it. Zjsjjx Idk its just been something ive been thinking about a LOT these days haha

Anyway thank u I'll stop rambling now lmao

#ask #my mom once joked that the thing about me is that i never voluntarily talk to ppl #but when i do i dont shut the hell up #jzjkzjzk shes right 😂😂😂 #thank u for the ask!!! its so nice to hear someone actually liked what i had to say xjshxj #i have a 1000 heart emojis reserved just for u anon