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daedalusdavinci · 5 months

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spell homestuck

GOD. THIS IS SO MUCH LONGER THAN TWO FACE. i typed too much and theres too many qs so under the cut it goes

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or....... i guess comics, these days, but i HATE READING COMICS they juST HAVE MORE COMPELLING FANDOMS. book fandoms are PUNY nad everyone is STUPID. youd think actual literary fandoms would have reading comprehension and understanding of literary critique but no!!!!!!!!!!!!! its literally my eternal fuckign struggle. somehow comic fandoms hit the perfect medium between compelling, readable content and the enthusiasm of cartoon fans without the childishness of cartoon fans

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

this isnt really a thing i do. the only time i associate characters w songs is my own ocs. barbies theme is miltons tower from the what remains of edith finch soundtrack!

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

i have also never really been one to project myself into stories. its just not how i consume media. i think sollux and rose already closely resemble the kinds of friends i make, so maybe them?

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

(freddy fazbear vc) vanessa.... ive done things, im not proud of.

i dont even know if i want to answer this question bc its so fucking humiliating LKJSNDLFSDNFSDF the truth is yes. i am solely responsible for. a lot. particularly in the pjo fandom. i created several crackships ground up all on my own way back in 2014 and developed a following for them and i. dont wantto tell you what those ships were. LSKJDFNSLDJNSDFSDDF ive also pioneered many ship tags for other fandoms and i ship a lot of rarepairs and stuff but i dont think im RESPONSIBLE for them?? in that some ppl already were into them/talking abotu them or tht theyre still not popular (augh. to the ones that became popular) but i AM liTERALLY responsible for some crack shit in the pjo fandom and its. it haunts me sometimes. i dont want to talk about it. IF YOU REMEMBER WHAT I DID NO YOU DONT

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

this is so vague. my headcanons are shifting and nebulous and aus are my constant companion in everything, but uhhhhhhghhusjkdjnsdg i think. roxy writes the same way dave draws comics. its extremely memey and meta and self aware and largely just for the personal lolz, and were all doing her a disservice by pretending her writing looks like roses, when in reality dirk is probably the one whod make comics the way rose makes books (which is probably why he doesnt make comics). its more of that thing where roxy and dave are the same and rose and dirk are the same ykwim. well YOU dont corvus but im sure someone else does

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

jason takes after bruce in terms of like. adopting entirely too many kids. he broods

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

harvey is a heartwrenching character when written well, with a complicated view of morality, heartbreaking ties to our main hero, and a lot of internal conflict. something about such a hopeful character deadset on making a different in the system becoming a victim of it, and the potential he has as a vehicle for critiquing the law.

percy is my favorite character from pjo bc it was the very first time in my life i ever read a book and saw myself in it. hes aggressive, impulsive, and rebellious, he fidgets and has a hard time standing still, he acts on emotion without always thinking it through, he gets in trouble in school and hands his mom a murder weapon to kill his stepdad, hes just... hes a lot of the things ive always gotten in trouble for, things i couldnt help being, and hes a hero. he means everything to me.

vriska, i will maintain until the day i die, is one of the best homestuck characters- maybe just characters?- ever written. shes dramatic, shes impulsive, shes manipulative and mean and creative, and shes just so messy about it. shes a mean girl in a way that feels real, where her trauma impacts and shapes her as a person, and shes complex, with warring wants, and people she cares about, and dreams, and shes so messy. shes rough and rude and shes doing what SHE wants to, being a version of herself that feels right to HER, rather than some caricature of the hot badass evil lady. shes thirteen!! and she FEELS thirteen. shes a thirteen year old weird girl who is kind of an asshole, and she means literally fucking everything to me. shes a pirate!!!!! shes a swashbuckling badass dressing up in her larping outfit and yelling at her friends on the playground to swab the deck and she is the bestest ever, the end.

i didnt mean for each one of these to be longer than the last but here we are.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

i hate jdedave peace and love it just feels weird as hell to me. dave, for the most part, is hyper respectful of other peoples choices and boundaries but when it comes to jade hes always trying to mke choices for her, to protect her, and it gets to the point where even jade points out how much it bugs her. jades crush on dave also seems to come from a place of misunderstanding to me, admiring a lot of the parts of himself that he exaggerates and pretends to care about as a result of trauma. it always felt like a kid crush that they shouldve grown out of with time. dave also just sort of seems to... go along with whatever romantic relationships people push him into at that age, rolling with whoever flirts with him jsut bc hes trying to maintain the image of a player, so its really hard to take him seriously any time he hits on someone?

that is just my interpretation of it tho

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

well. i havent finished my reread of homestuck, so that feels difficult to comment on just yet, bc im sure ill have a different opinion when i do finish it. no one in dc gets character arc bc theyre all just undone immediately, so thats like. yeah. and in pjo the arcs are pretty weak bc 1) kids books and 2) RICK UNDOES THEM ALL. AUGH. regardless of all of this, i am going to say jason grace. he had a lot of development in like the last two hoo books, or maybe just like.... hints of how he couldve developed? promise? which rick immediately set fire to in toa when he killed him, but fUCKING WHATEVER. UGH.

anyway actually tho eleanor from the good place. bisexual icon. queen. probably one of the best character arcs of all time. the episode w her mom has some of the most powerful fucking dialogue ever and i think about it. all the time. i should rewatch the good place.....

#asks #redactedcrow

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glompcat · 6 years

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B and U

B - A pairing–platonic, romantic or sexual–that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

Juri and Wakaba!

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

Full disclaimer before I start answering this: I am not sober. I am going to try to explain why my faves are my faves, and I am in an altered state. Sober me, when you see this tomorrow, I am sorry.

Anthy Himemiya - The “why” behind my love for Anthy is too complex and expansive to ever fully describe. The way the narrative of Utena reveals Anthy’s story is sheer brilliance. The story itself is massive and difficult and hurts and is so real and yet so fantastical and I could go on all day listing words and phrases I connect to it, her story just makes me feel so much. There are so many layers and levels to everything Anthy does. Anthy has always been and will always be my very most favorite fictional person ever. For all that I said above and because she is a messy survivor. Someone who at the end of the day did save herself. At the end of a story about trying to rescue her, she saves herself. Yes, she was drawing on strength and lessons from her time with Utena, but Utena did not set her free she set herself free, Utena was simply the vehicle who helped her do so (lol), and wow do I love that. I love her. I could go on all day about why so I am going to stop here, but just…. Anthy is the best. She really is.

Garnet - Garnet has been my favorite since the start of the show, and yet as the show goes on and on the reasons why change drastically. Still she remains my favorite. I could say any number of really heartfelt things about Garnet as a character on the show, about who she is and the role she plays. But at the end of the day I know that ever since Jail Break anything I say like that is bs. We all know the real reasons she is such an eternal fave. Garnet, by her very being, represents a romantic relationship between two women. She by her very being represents their communication with each other, their understanding, their stability, and their love. Every chance the show has, they reinforce the messages Garnet is about, remind us that she is a healthy relationship, that she is a romantic ideal to live up to. On a kids show. On Cartoon Network. Two women. Front and center. Together always. Married. I… how do you even begin to explain how powerful that is? How fucking impossible that seemed just a few years ago. If you told me five years ago we’d have this on Cartoon Network I’d have laughed in your face. I really would have. Even a subtextual relationship would have sounded impossible to me. Garnet? Shit. No way a show could ever have someone like her. Yet here we are. In a world that has Garnet in it. How lucky are we all to get to experience her love?

Leia Organa - At its core the OT of Star Wars is a fairy tale where the knight saves the day with compassion and forgiveness and the princess is vengeful and brave. Lucas, when he talks about A New Hope, always points out that the actual plot is centered on Leia, that Luke is in a lot of ways just this incidental character drawn into her story by chance. As canon fleshes out more and more it keeps returning to that, over and over establishing Leia as a powerhouse of a political player and military leader. Someone the entire galaxy knows, the big name hero of the galaxy, the champion who stands against fascism. Beyond that I love that she is allowed to be socially awkward - she’s someone with few friends, someone who struggles to connect with people, and yet at the same time she is terribly charismatic - able to play the game for a cause but not for herself. She is someone we see shoulder trauma after trauma and hold up because the galaxy needs her (and because the narrative didn’t really care her enough until only recently). She is messy and angry and defined by her job in ways women in the media are very rarely allowed, and I am going to cut myself off here.

#elle-lavender #long post #Revolutionary Girl Utena #Star Wars #Steven Universe

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meliorn · 7 years

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for the gif meme: 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 19, 25, 32, 34, 40

1. What are your top 3 favorite sets you’ve made

idk if these are my Ultimate faves but i rly like these ones: this, this & this

4. A set that flopped but deserved better

this one!!!!!!

7. Who are your top 3 gif makers

this sucks because there’s so many and it’s impossible to pick only 3??? so i will pick 3 but.... i will suffer. @rrahl @amorverus @lukemagnus + im gonna rebel and say a 4th one which is u obviously

8. What gif trend do you hate

idk if i hate any particular trend?? i mean. if you call whitewashing a trend, then that. otherwise idk

9. What/who inspired you to start making gifs

oh man i don’t know. i don’t remember a particular person who inspired me when i first started bc that was back in the dark days when i was in the glee fandom... so bc i can’t answer that, shoutout to @kimyuygeom who taught me color correction/how to work with blues in curves layers which....changed my life tbh. i don’t color like that anymore but it changed the way i colored & just laid a rly good base for me to experiment & find ~my own path~ so. eternally thankful for that tbh

19. What is your gifting process like

import video frames to layers, crop, sharpen, color, save.

25. Old dimensions or new dimensions and why

old!!!! bc i’m a creature of habit and also bc i feel like the new dimensions means bigger sized gifs and i’m already struggling with keeping my gifs small enough lol

32. What is your favorite tool/adjustment layer in Photoshop

selective colors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a life saver

34. A set that took you a long time/was really hard but you’re really proud of how it came out

even tho it didn’t work out like i originally planned i still really like it and i spent like. a full fucking day on it so it was really satisfactory to get it done lmao

40. Why do you make gifs

bc it’s a really nice feeling when u see something that started out in ur head and then u can like. see it with ur own two eyes. also for the attention, like ngl attention is great. also to participate in fandom & since i can’t draw, i gif lmao. yea!!! lots of reasons tbh

#ask #mutuals #ask games #magsbanes

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md3artjournal · 7 years

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Just my usual "art style crisis" venting. Don't mind me.

Ever since art college, people have told me that I have a very "graphic" art style. Since I'm so bad at 3-dimensionality, I take it my drawings all look 2-dimensional. And I've been trying to think of a way to use that to my advantage, in the meantime, while I build up my 3D skill, just so I don't feel completely hopeless about my abilities. But what exactly does "flat art style" mean?!? I feel like a fish trying to describe water---without fully realizing I've been swimming in water! It's just other people who have told me! ....Ug. I can't explain something I've been doing naturally, without thinking. How can I explain a blind spot? It's my blind spot.

Whenever I'm around Downtown Disney, I always visit the Wonder Ground Gallery. There are a lot of artists there who take Disney characters and put them into flat art styles. It's a lot easier to see the differences in styles, when Disney is so well known. I always take notes of artists' names, look up their websites, then sit outside the gallery and jot notes about what I think makes the are I just saw "flat" (but stylish and endearing). Back on 11/15/2014, I wrote all these notes about "minimal lines", unrealistic (2D more than 3D) lighting across shapes, backgrounds that coincidentally correspond with organic subjects (as is unnatural in real life), and adding frames (perhaps to push the unrealism of the art).

Last night, I drew some fan-art of Persona 5, which treated these unrealistc graphic shapes as actual objects, and it seemed to bring my more believable subject into an unreal context. Even though it was drawn just as well (or badly) as my previous, recent human figure using figurines as reference sources, last night's drawing seemed much more successful. Even though I sketch from 3D figures, my drawings still look so unrealistic and flat by the time I'm done. ;_; I've always felt bad about the eternal struggle I can see this becoming, unless I learn to use my disadvantage as my advantage. But how do I turn "flat" into "my art style" when I'm not completely sure what "flat art style" means?

Or maybe this isn't about me not comprehending the aspects which create a "flat art style". Maybe this again returns to my complete lack of skill. ;_; My drawing has been like this for a few decades now. Even when I can look back at my old work and feel proud of my current work, I still know that my "flat art" just can't compete against others' art. Which wouldn't be an actual problem, if I wasn't trying to sell my art and make a living in artist alley. Thankfully, I have crafting, sculpting, and blockprinting to fall back on. But I want to be a better illustrator too. But every time I return to this inescapable flatness in my art, I feel like I Just keep running around in circles. ;_;

Like, I know I "real life drawing" is the most commonly prescribed solution. But it just doesn't seem to work for me. First of all, I have a lot of social anxiety. I can barely look people in the face, I've never been like other girls who've plastered their walls with photographs of real people, and for a decade or so, I couldn't even look at myself in mirrors or any reflective surfaces. I can't stare at people for my drawing models. Realism is scary and unsettling for me. Fortunately, I can spend my time watching animated movies or drawn comics. Unfortunately, my fandom fervor compels me to draw my favorite characters...who tend to be human...which demand I use real life (photos) as drawing reference. x____x; See? Just running around in circles.

Not that I can't draw from real life reference (photographs) at all. I draw animals all the time. But is it really my art when I'm just copying someone else's photo? And I can't just go to the zoo whenever I want to draw. That's $20 per day! I can't even afford outsourcing prints and acrylic charms for artist alley! ;o;! Plus, self-consciousness, social anxiety, and remembering all those stories of artists being bothered by voyeurs over their shoulder whenever they draw in public. o~o!!! But I do draw from real life photos. And everyone is always amazed at how different my "drawing from reference" is, compared to drawing from my imagination. I thought I could transfer that to drawing my favorite characters, simply by drawing foundations built on the real life references of posing figurines in front of me. But somehow, even with that real life reference, my favorite characters fan-art, still ends up looking flat, when I'm done. Nothing like the level of quality when I'm simply copying someone else's photo. Does it just not transfer?!? ;o; It's certainly gotten easier for me to draw, but if my results are still "bad", then...how hopeless is this? ;~;

I think that's why I keep returning to trying to turn my flat art into an "art style". I know it's out there. A lot of my favorite art is "flat", compared to realistic renderings. Not just the anime characters. I love how Brom's paintings line-up backgrounds with subjects, like they're all just shapes on a 2D plane, vs something real happening in real life. I love the symbol-ridden religious/mystical art on ancient monuments and structures. I love how cute art like Sanrio and San-X, and all things chibi, just simplify the hell out of any character and just make it all so aggressively cute! >u< But I can never seem to do it, because all my lines and forms always end up sharp and non-pudgey. ;___;

Ug...What am I doing? x_x;

#venting #please ignore my idiocy #art style #flat stylization #stylized #progression #artistic progress #finding my art style #artist angst and self-doubt

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