#the new animatic is going to fix everything

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

#ok ok let me see if i have the timeline correctly: #1) s8 begins in June and so does the new update announcement #2) months go by with no issue (that they’re aware of) #3) it’s in November when they realize the moon has been growing #4) does the moon crash in January??? #but gawddam #that is one apocalypse story if I’ve heard of one #also fitting bc i think it was 2021 where we were getting a LOT of asteroid/moon fall movies #idk what was in the air (possibly the pandemic that led to unforced isolation & ppl coped with apocalypse stories) #and somehow that bled through to a Minecraft server???? somehow????? #wild #this also reminds me of an apocalypse movie i watched with a friend called ‘3 Días’ #very good movie btw #highly recommend (it is a Spanish only film which i don’t think will be an issue bc subtitles) #anyway #asks #smp 101 with gumy #hermitcraft edition!

[trayzen-the-infinite]

Winter King thoughts

I’ve been thinking of Winter King for a while trying to organize my thoughts. I think Winter King is tragic in a new way. The Crown does more than turn you into a knock off of Urgence Evergreen, with every mind that wears the crown their consciousness is stored in its memory which stacks with every new person which inevitably created the insanity we know now. Ice King at some point managed to get rid of the Insanity and put it somewhere else. Simon was more than likely already insane when he did that and when he came to his senses and realized what he did, he did his best to ignore it and shrug it off. Simon is very good at rationalizing his actions to himself and he’d rather die than be Ice King, so he decided to play ignorant to his misdeeds. At the same time he’s still wearing the crown and his attitude is far more charming and charismatic than Simon himself which leads me to believe that while he’s not insane anymore he’s still not Simon either. Evergreen was a selfish man who much like Simon is good at convincing himself of his own actions and likely it’s a case that Winter King still has all the collective personalities stored in the crown minus the insanity. He’s still a cursed man, it’s just not as apparent. To cope with everything he’s done and refuses to confront he created a kingdom of lies around himself. He made a clone of Marcy to keep him company, he surrounded himself with his own creations who all loved him, he doesn’t try to hurt anyone and just lives in his picture perfect world to hide from a much more terrible reality.

I saw an animatic on YouTube using a fan song called “I’m Sane” and I highly recommend it because it fits winter king perfectly and I just want to share a few lines that work so well for him “I wonder night and day what it’d be like, if all we made could spring to life. Grant it a brain? That’d be crazy. Slay the obtained? How could you blame me? Impending doom, seek no freedom. Don’t interfere with the rhythm. Endure the pain! Preventing me from going insane” and “it’s not bad, I swear. If you close your eyes it’s not there”

Ignorance is bliss as they say and he’d rather be ignorant to everything, because the alternative is to go insane. Winter King is a good result for Simon while Ice King is his hell. It’s a hard choice and even if it’s because of willful ignorance Winter King is far happier than Ice King or Simon. If he wasn’t accidentally killed, I wonder if Winter King would have tried to fix thing eventually and repair everything he broke. He’s absolutely more in his right mind to consider stuff like that.

#adventure time #winter king #simon petrikov #ice king #adventure time fionna #fiona and cake #fionna and cake #adventure time theory #princess bubblegum #candy queen

[adversity-twins-simp-blog]

*i skitter like a rat out of the sewer at 3am*

happy new year!! i made another animatic :D

idk man this one just had such a vibe, it's messy and rough as hell because i got really tired at the end and also had to rescale EVERYTHING last second cause the drawing-to-screen ratio was fucked up BUT i finished it and that's all that matters

definitely forgot some details that i see in hindsight but it's almost 3:30am i'm not fixing it rn ;-;

maybe i'll go back one day and make it nicer but i am quite lazy so who knows

#total drama #total drama au #wawanakwa university au #total drama presents: the ridonculous race #tdrr #adversity twins #td jay #td mickey #td noah #td owen #td emma #td kitty #td jacques #td josee #td don #total drama animatic #animatic #fan animatic #td fanart #my art

[autisticlalna]

and i am just the NEW INVENTION - a Twitch SMP VikingPilot & Rubyco fanmix

[ listen on Spotify! ]

TRACKLIST: tally hall - Ruler of Everything // oingo boingo - Gratitude // hi i'm case - Monsters Nearby // IDKHOW - New Invention // forrest day - Sleepwalk // jubyphonic, circus-p - Hello, Again // big data - Put Me to Work // chase petra - Reliable Narrator // enter shikari - Crossing the Rubicon // the mountain goats - Younger // rare americans - Up, Up & Away // 65daysofstatic - Aren't We All Running // set it off - Hourglass // USS - Hydrogenuine // agosti - Triangles // becko - HOME // area 11 - Everybody Gets A Piece // panic! at the disco - Crazy = Genius // enter shikari - No Sleep Tonight // fall out boy - The Last Of The Real Ones // i fight dragons - The Devil You Know

(warning: contains strong language)

reasoning behind songs under the cut!

these are a bit of a mess and are anywhere from "viking" to "ruby" to "navigator" to "kinda sapphire-ish??" to "one's feelings about the other" to "both of them" to "general vibe". there's also a few songs that got cut but still kinda hit the vibe that i might talk abt some other time??? i dunno man this playlist was a catastrophe to make. ANYWAY

Ruler Of Everything: "you understand mechanical hands are the ruler of everything, ruler of everything, i'm the ruler of everything in the end" // Viking. i don't really need to elaborate here, it's just Viking.

Gratitude: "but when i think of you, and what you've done to me, you took away my hope, you took away my fantasy, i once had lots of pride, the world was in my hands, i lived way at the top in castles made of sand" // gestures in the vague direction of Viking and Ruby. man i don't even know what's happening over there. this is a bit of a Recency Bias song bc i first heard it like right before lore really kicked off so it was fresh in my mind

Monsters Nearby: "only get so far putting off those dreams of yours [..] thinking of all these strange things when you should rest, it's hard to sleep like this when there's monsters nearby" // Ruby! and, like, of course i'm going to add the song that keeps making me think of the "You cannot sleep, there are monsters nearby" message. "And that voice behind the polarized advice can be the same" is about Viking, though.

New Invention: "oh i can't say no, i'm losing control! i'm having bad dreams, and nothing you can do will keep the bad dreams away from me until i fall asleep. bad dreams! despite your good intentions, that girl is like an architect and i am just the new invention!" // Ruby and Viking! if i did an animatic to any song off this playlist it would be New Invention. goddamn. (also, tViking's design reminds me a bit of eFalse, and roenais's Empires animation to this song lives in my head rent-free)

Sleepwalk: "bad thoughts give me bad dreams and my bad dreams make me get up and walk. bad thoughts give me bad dreams and my bad dreams make me sleepwalk." // oh my god Ruby and Sapphire. the ominous mood encapsulates everything about Sapphire to me, especially before we knew who Saph actually is and she was just "Ruby sleepwalks and leaves ominous signs". it's dark and foreboding and i love it.

Hello, Again: "find a mechanist, a mechanism, working one-by-one! with a busted up database, i'm losing the chase, but i'll say hello again, hello, just who have i become?" // the whole conversation about fixing things, and how that's become a reoccurring theme with Sapphire as well - switching from Ruby being the broken one to Viking being the one needing to be fixed. plus the whole "Ruby and Viking meeting across loops" thing - hello again, hello, just who can i become?

Put Me to Work: "set me off, see what i'm worth! turn me on, i go berserk! i don't care if i get hurt! no, i don't care, just put me to work! [..] i will replace you, replace you, replace you [..] and i won't care when they get hurt, no i don't care, just put me to work!" // Viking is, uh. a lot. hyperfocused to the point of self-destruction. this does bleed over to Ruby too, though, what with zir being desperate to be something Viking won't throw away when he stops seeing zir as useful and Navigator's warning of "don't let him break you". i guess the real question is: would Viking care if they get hurt?

Reliable Narrator: "did you forget that i am not a pacifist? the scar we'll earn from that will be well worth it. did you-- hypnosis, bring roses, don't blow this [..] the bruising will be worth the freedom i have earned from letting everything burn!" // basically every Ruby song on here is "Ruby is going through it". there's a tension here. very fun to have this song on here though considering Sapphire sign "I am a unreliable narrator, am I not?"

Crossing the Rubicon: "fill me out a prescription for this existential dread, i woke up into a nightmare and i'm hoping that you'll take me back to bed [..] fill me out a prescription, can you free me from this curse? i woke up inside your compass and you're navigating us from east to worst [..] something's got to give, we've gone too far to turn back" // this has been a Viking song for ages but never made it onto my dViking playlist for some reason. it works better here, i think. there's going to be a tipping point where you cross the point of no return.

Younger: "try not to lose sight of the mission! it never hurts to give thanks to the broken bones you had to use to build your ladder. moment close at hand, half of you will never understand, and it doesn't really matter. [..] it never hurts to give thanks to the navigator, even when he's spitting out random numbers." // Certified Navigator Moment as suggested by Charm!! this is one of the songs i can't put into words the emotions i have about it but it's just... a lot. "It never hurts to give thanks to the broken bones" is about everybody Viking is going to burn through to get to his goal, and that kinda ties into Navigator trying to intercept i guess??? i dunno man i don't work here <- literally made this playlist

Up, Up & Away: "how many lives can a guy buy? [..] can't erase or save face, what will they think when they hear my voice on the tapes? skies open, wheels in motion, no going back, no, i've chosen!" // Viking!! aaaauughhhhhhhhh. what will you do to get to where you need to go? once again linking into the we've gone too far to turn back thing from Crossing the Rubicon. y'know, in case you can't tell that i think Viking's going to do something awful to reach his ambitions.

Asking For It: "power through the point of no return, famously deranged, all the same hope you change, if the worm is gonna turn, it's none of my concern" // somebody absolutely rips into Viking. probably Ruby. "if the worm is gonna turn it's none of my concern" is said by Viking in this context though. famous last words before Ruby (or Sapphire?) decks him. fun fact: this was one of the first songs i associated with tViking specifically, back during the first lore scene, but i went "ehhh???" on it. then we got to see a bit more of him and... yeah. this guy is asking for it.

Aren't We All Running: [instrumental] // there's a couple instrumentals on here because of talking to Solar about how character playlists rarely have instrumentals and i wanted to have a couple of rest points. i love the slow build here and the overall mood. montage music.

Hourglass: "i can't fix it, is this where i give in? i'm falling through the hourglass, and i don't think i'll ever make it back [..] turn the page, look back at what you wrote, do you still feel the same?" // shoutouts to Rubyco Themself for namechecking this song! it's real good. someone let Ruby out of his BOX he needs HELP

Hydrogenuine: "11 is the number i seem assigned to, inversions of an opposite truth aligns you, directions like the back of your hand will guide you, i am simply here to assist and remind you" // this is kindasorta a Navigator song, kindasorta just The Situation. i cannot properly explain this one, it just Is. what if we kept running into each other in different universes and timelines but something broke this time and now we're trying to fix it

Triangles: [instrumental] // iiii wanna animaaaate to this sooooongggg hope this heeeeelps

HOME: "every road leads back to where i belong! and i can see, when i'm on my own it's the place i can call home! my mind creates a new world that is so disordered, i proclaim myself king and pope! DID, we are in 3 but we're getting along well, i'm glad to be the leader of the wolf pack!" // Viking is so incredibly not okay. just, like, in general. had fun with the DID lyric though considering Viking and Ruby's plotlines are "other versions of themselves are hijacking their bodies" lmao. love unconventional plurality.

Everybody Gets A Piece: "did you honestly think it might've been, might've been me? and all this while, did you think of me? you know, all this while we were pure potential energy dreaming [..] don't ask, you'll never get! you never asked, so you never got nothing! did you get all you wanted from me?" // this one's a bit looser but the vibes are there. the "don't ask, you'll never get" bit is Viking and Sapphire constantly talking in circles mixed with Viking using everybody as tools and that potentially including Ruby. UM. ALSO MAYBE A NAVIGATOR SONG NOW TBH. I MADE THIS BEFORE TONIGHT'S STREAM.

Crazy = Genius: "and i said: if crazy equals genius, if crazy equals genius! then i'm a fucking arsonist, i'm a rocket scientist! if crazy equals genius! you can set yourself on fire, but you're never gonna burn, burn, burn! you can set yourself on fire, but you're never gonna learn, learn, learn, hey!" // peak Viking. LOOK WE'VE EVEN GOT THE FIRE THEME IN HERE! we love an unhinged inventor with an obsession with fire metaphors

No Sleep Tonight: "and from that height we'll leak the lies, and unveil the damaged skies, 'cause we can't quite stomach this! [..] i still can't comprehend a beginning or an end, no i can't quite stomach this! all i'm trying to say is: you're not getting any sleep tonight!" // more hypothetical Future Speculation stuff mixing in with how generally Screwed reality is for Viking/Navigator and Ruby/Sapphire. also the sleepless theming that's clinging to Ruby through all of this.

The Last Of The Real Ones: "you were too good to be true, gold plated - but what's inside you, but what's inside you? [..] i will protect you, i will protect you, just tell me tell me tell me i- i am the only one, even if it's not true, even if it's not true" // WHAT IF YOU WERE SIBLINGS AND KEPT FINDING EACH OTHER IN EVERY UNIVERSE BUT THINGS KEPT GOING WRONG

The Devil You Know: "nobody knows you better than your demons, so, dance with the devil you know or go home."

#leo.txt #twitch smp #vikingpilot #rubyco #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #[inhales] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #bell noises! #tsmp #I FORGOT MY TAG FOR THESE. APOLGIEIS. EXPLODE FOREVRR #clock noises! #leo.mp3

[anima-virtuosa]

i might as well paste some of the art-idea-descriptions collecting dust in my notes, because there is at least a trace of beauty in that?

long post below

Idk if anyone will read these but if you do actually try to follow along with my ridiculous mania brain scramble adventure, I do appreciate that. i'm so used to being isolated that part of my brain still doesn't recognize that like.. i exist in the minds of other people ._. and they look at my art.

i don't have any life whatsoever IRL aside from sometimes going & walking in circles and so my whole life instead is about flying thru these magical alien fractal dimensions with my cute living airplanes and so on. if i could just finish them i would be content but still working on that.

revisiting these months later i see just how absolutely over the top nonsensical they are but that was part of the fun so yeah. if i was less disabled then these all would be done already but, maybe someday. there are still those rare ones that did happen.

some of these about illustration scenes, others about story plans, a few game ideas. a lot of these were reworked/refactored a dozen times or are still WIP. like 1% of the total ideas

I imagine someone trying to read these and just getting a Darkest Dungeon +22 sanity damage popup over your head

(first one got a sketch)

alright im going to bed(just kidding this post took 4 days)

(after i made this post i came across even more files that i just forgot existed. like i will just hyperfixate and write down an entire elaborate new coherent worldbuilding subsetting & plots involved. and just completely forget about it until 3 whole years later. some day this may be reconciled into a semblance of sanity)

i realized a lot of important things lately reworking my entire art-habit; most importantly that i need to be focusing more on efficient manners of communication. and not trying to make everything in hyperdetailed scenes with professional-level gesture and designs and anatomy and environments and effects --

..yeah just making 'readable colored sketch' would be okay enough i think. it isn't easy because the moment i see something isn't master-level perfect i want to spend weeks reworking it or doing anatomy studies or whatever; and ironically that ended up reducing my art quality because i would do so few finished pieces overall.

i have the exact same problem with writing actually - like focusing only on my most quixotic ideas, wanting to tie everything together in this massive overcomplex network of overlapping stories and subsettings (and like 4 animatics), and no surprise that also resulted in nothing presentable. but i actually do have nice short story scenes and will finally focus on that more.

i had another realization writing this post that i actually just overcomplicate everything because i have 9 windows open with a bunch of my scene-paintings and my 100k words of art ideas and 10+ tumblr drafts and my eldritch monstrosity nightmare of a PureRef file. honestly amazed my brain has not exploded physically at this point.

someone please banish me to the forest and make me draw with rocks on the ground for a month to fix me

🥲

#auri rambles #i still want to make the roblox game #and From the Depths livingmachine ocs #and 20 animatics #and the multilayered multiplayer minecraft meta music video thing #and um #an elaborate multiplayer PvPvE creature roguelike game idea that hasnt been posted but will totally happen #science based dragon mmo moment #screma #scream #cry #A #give me my 9 dimensional ravelight harmonyweaver body pls i dont like this one

[candyvenombites]

Bugsnax x Madoka Magica

⚠️Spoilers for both ahead⚠️

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So I know it would be better if I had art, but I suck at drawing almost everything so I’m just gonna explain it!

So basically one day I was sitting in my room doing nothing when I came across this little Bugsnax animation on YouTube

Made by https://mayyak.tumblr.com/

(Go follow! She makes great art and the credit for this idea goes to her! This animatic inspired Filbo wish and abilities so all credit for that goes to her)

After watching it got me thinking “This is a lot like Homura Akemis powers except with memory loss” which lead me to make this:

(For those who don’t know Madoka Magica, A person can make a contract with a creature named Kyubey where he grants any wish you want, but there’s a price. Once the persons wish gets granted they become a magical girl and have to fight witches.)

It made me really happy to take two interests of mine and then combine them into one! So then I started making character sheets for each character in my AU. (If you’d like to see those just let me know)

The plot is very much in its infancy but here’s what I got:

Lizbert was out hunting when she gets badly injured and trapped underneath some rocks. She tries everything she can to escape but soon realizes that she will most likely die. She starts sobbing before a weird looking Bugsnax approaches her. She thinks nothing of it until it starts speaking to her (I imagine it to look like the cappucceetle). It tells her that it can grant her any wish but only if she makes a contract to become a magical girl. She agrees and makes her wish to be saved. She soon discovers her new found powers and returns home to tell everyone of what just happened and over time the mysterious Bugsnax makes contracts with everyone on the island…well almost everyone. Filbo is the only one that didn’t make a contract which lead to a ton of backlash from the rest of the team, but he really didn’t know what to wish for. Until something happened…

The witches and bugsnaxs become too much for everyone to handle and 12 of the 13 strong perish in the long battle. Filbo is the only survivor and is left horrified at what he’s seen. It was at this moment that the mysterious Bugsnax appears to him, and he finally knows what to wish for: To go back and do it over again. The Bugsnax agrees but notices that Filbo didn’t want to remember the horrible things he’s seen on the island so this Bugsnax makes it so that after every reset Filbo doesn’t remember the carnage that will happen. Now Filbo has to keep everyone together with no memory of what will happen if he doesn’t.

Filbo has gone back 9 times and he’s failed at protecting everyone everytime. He’s has tried countless times to keep everyone together through each of these timelines because it was when they all fell apart that they perished in battle. In his 10th timeline he’s managed to keep everyone together just long enough for a certain Journalist to show up, and finally break the cycle.

Now this can get a bit confusing so let me explain some key details:

Every timeline is different. They don’t all fall apart at the same time. Sometimes they fall apart sooner sometimes later, thus changing the outcome. They’ve fallen apart in every timeline so far one way or another.

In the previous timelines they fell apart before the journalist was able to get there. It’s only in the 10th timeline where they stay together long enough for The Journalist to show up and fix everything.

The Journalist is the key to stopping them all from perishing. After falling apart and not getting together again in the other timelines they can’t work together to take down the Bugsnax and Witches, but with The Journalist coming along it changes everything

In the original Madoka Magica, only girls can make contracts. Here that has been changed for obvious reasons

The powers and weapons that they all get are not only based of the wish they make, but also the Bugsnax they eat.

Filbo remembers everything up until the point where everyone dies. He remembers everyone splitting up but he doesn’t remember what happens when everyone splits up.

Filbo also remembers making the wish but he is unsure of what caused him to make the wish. He only remembers that he wished ‘To do it all over again’

I am still debating on if The Journalsit should get powers or not

I hope you enjoyed this! I will most likely post more about this later on, but let me know what you’d like to see if you enjoyed it!

💕🍬Stay Sweet🍬💕

#bugsnax #bugsnax au #bugsnax filbo #floofty fizzlebean #filbo fiddlepie #bugsnax floofty #bugsnax wiggle #bugsnax snorpy #bugsnax gramble #bugsnax chandlo #bugsnax wambus #Madoka Magica AU #magical #Bugsnax x Madoka Magic AU #Maji Bugsnax

[yzafre]

45 of 45 parts complete for my animatic! Only cleanup is left, which can easily be done tomorrow.

But I, uh... learned something that did make that a bit more complicated.

So my WIPs all had audio hiccups where one part joined to the next. I planned to fix that by just muting that track and placing an audio track with the full song underneath, but I never really thought through.... why the hiccups were happening.

Well, when I put in the full audio.... the longer the song went on, the more it became un-synced. Trying to figure out what was going on, I went back into some of my clip studio files to take a look. And when I zoomed in reaaaal close on my timeline, I found it:

The audio ends partway through the frame. That's not going to have much of an effect for one or two clips, but 30 clips in... apparently, it adds up.

So the timing will have to manually be fixed. I'm going to put every-other frame on a new track, and find the shots that have strong cuts on-beat and make sure they're lined up. From there, I should be able to nudge all the clips around them until everything's flowing right again. Not hard but, man, what a pain...

#wip #ahhhh how annoying #but it's part of the learning process I suppose #tomorrow I can make sure all the timings are right #and fix a few of the shots that need edits #thankfully no pose changes #but things like shading and fill

[mi6015marcie]

Final Thoughts

Working on this project has been a year long journey with many challenges that needed to be faced and problems to fix. In this essay I will talk about the experience of working on this film, the new knowledge I gained and where I will go from here. I will not mention to much information regrading the first part of this semester, seeing as this is mostly a reflection on the realization of my concept and not the production process.

Starting off, after I finished working on my animatic and handed in the first part of the project, I immediately came across some problems. First, looking at my animatic, I noticed quite a few scenes would repeat themselves, with camera angles that were very similar and not as creative as I would prefer. This was the first problem I started working on, as I wanted to push myself to be more ambitious so that I would creative a film that I could be proud off, and that would summarize my three-year long journey in university in a good light. To fix this repetitiveness, I tried adding new scenes, especially in the sequence where my character is falling of the sky and making sure those scenes had weirder and more unique angles. Moving on from there, the next major problem I faced was time management.

Managing my time while working on my assignments has been an issue I have been struggling with since I began my course. However, this time it was significantly worse, since I had two major trips aboard ahead of me. To counter this, I created a schedule which included some personal deadlines, so that I could manage to finish both of my assignments in time. To do this I would have to finish most of my Professional creative production module before April, so I could focus on creating the line art for my final project during April and do all of the colouring and editing during May. Although not everything went exactly to plan regarding these personal deadlines, I was prepared to face this possibility, by using some animation techniques that would allow me to save time, and in the end helped me finish the whole animation process a day early, which was greatly beneficial, since it gave me more time to work on my presentation document.

While working on this film, I also realized that after university is over and I graduate, I will begin looking for a job in production. For a long time, one of my career goals has been to become an animation director. This is a role that requires a lot of experience, which I was mostly planning to acquire through working in the animation department, while also creating and directing my own personal projects. However, working on my final project, allowed me to see that working in production, designing characters and story boards, and then seeing those ideas and concept realized in the completed films, is a process that I enjoy quite a bit, and it will be very helpful in gaining experience to become a director.

Overall, while the actual realization and animating of this project wasn’t necessarily difficult, It was quite educating, as it assisted in sharpening some skills that will come in great use in the near and far future. I am very proud of my film, as it represents some themes regarding separation anxiety that is a topic rarely covered by the media, and its quite personal, representing a lot of private feelings and ideas. In conclusion, I feel that this film is a great summary to this long journey I have been through at Northumbria University.

[proudfreakmetarusonniku]

Hey hey, what if you take a break?

I love your takes and i love the fandom, but if its causing you actual harm, please step down a little.

Block the tags, block people. You dont own people anything.

Read a good fic, watch cool animatics or find a new show on the meantime (like a dumb show you dont need to put a lot of thinking)

Please, if the discourse is harming ypu dont interact

I think the issue is more to do with my own mental health than this fandom, and my intrusive thoughts making me blame myself for everything. I feel like I have a responsibility to fix all the problems in the world and that’s not going to go away even if I leave behind something that gives me comfort.

[jonathanreuss]

LONELY

We were told to come up with a tittle of a movie that individually we had to animate. The animated movie was supposed to be two minutes long. The title i picked was LONELY and was based off the script I written. It was really had coming up with a storyline because it was all new to me and the aspect of imagining things and making them come true is a bit hard. I sat down and thought about what i really wanted to express. I learnt that emotional movies get peoples attention more than funny movies and this is because its really hard to make people laugh more so in a movie. So this encouraged me to go for an emotional movie. At this point i really had nothing but the moment i started writing down whatever came to my mind, I started putting the pieces together. I scripted down the story and picked the names of my characters but i was still not so sure about the title. My lecturer told me not to worry about the title because you can always get the name as you perfect your script. My script was about a girl and a bird. As the movie goes on you would see how both of them were lonely and the emotional bond that grew between them. I then went a head to draw a few sketches of how my  characters would look like. I had decided that i was going to do my animated movie in 3D\ CGI. So I did a lot of research on 3D character modals to get a clear example.

 To be honest i was scared that I was doing this animation in 3D because i had never modelled a human character before.

 So i sketched out my characters and took them to Maya to start the modeling process. While i was doing the modeling, I was also referring to tutorials on YouTube and this really helped a lot. Of course i encounter a lot of unfamiliar things while doing the modeling but eventually i came up with a model that i liked. 

I modelled both the human character who i named Yasmin and also the bird. I didn't put no feathers on the bird because that would slow down my computer processor more during the rendering of the scenes. while i was doing my character modals, I was creating my visual storyboard that would act as the animatic which would show visually as what i going to do for my final animation. I drew a couple of scenes and put dialogue just to show what exactly was happening in that particular scene. After the storyboard and the animatic i then presented it to my lecturer and then researching on 3D environments. I drew a few environments that included a city park which i had no idea how it was going to look like. I started modelling the environments in different Maya projects and this was helpful because it made my scenes look organized.

 Back to the character modals, I started rigging the modals but i used the human IK rig. This rig is already inbuilt in Maya and you just apply it to your model. I used this rig because i was running out of time and it was going to take me some good time to build my own rigs. Again i used tutorials online to learn how to use this rig and eventually i got a hang of it. 

Then I created blend shapes for both my characters and these were to help to show there mood during the animation. I created blend shapes smile, frown, blinks, raising eyebrows. Blend shapes are very crucial because they add a lot character into your modal when animating. After that I exported my two characters into a folder which would make it easier for me to import them in any scene i was about to animate. I then started animating but during this process i faced a number of problems like my blend shapes were not working as they were suppose to and this really put me down because most the scenes needed facial expressions. I tried finding a solution with my lecturer but he was also unfamiliar with the human IK rig. We couldn't find the possible way to fix this and so i had to keep on animating without using the blend shapes. The second problem i faced was the crushing of the software while i was key framing. This was so annoying because every time it crushed I lost everything I was animating but I solved this by saving every time. After animating all the scenes, i then started rendering them out. The rendering process took so long since the scenes were long and for this reason i only rendered out a few scenes to show how the rendered videos looked like. The rest of the scenes that i didn't render out, I just play blasted them because it was the quickest way.

Then i took the rendered videos into After Effects. Due to lack of time i was able to add effects like lighting, So I just added them to the render que and exported them. After that I imported all  the videos including the play blats into premiere pro for sound editing. I arranged all the scenes together in premiere and added the necessary sounds and finally exported out the final clip. 

[lunaartgallery]

3/9/2022 [Updates]

TLDR: Mental Health Babble and new start.

I’m going to try to keep this short, hopefully my story can help others going through the same creative drought as me. The start of this year has been rough for me. Career wise, I’m doing great! I’m employed and will be for the rest of the year, financially I’m not struggling either.

So why did I have the worst mental break of my life last month?

Well I had a realization that came outta nowhere and hit my like a ton of bricks. I’m a pretty bottled up person, stubborn as mule. So I’m not surprised I did this to myself, but it still hurts. That realization was that I had lost passion for my stories, and thus had completely neglected my artistic soul in favor of my career for 1.5 years. As you guys know at the end of 2020 I suffered through an extensive burnout that took up the beginning months of 2021. Overworking, stress and exhaustion left a mark on me. And in 2021 I thought I had fixed it! Well...sort of. I got my career stuff in order, and managed the business side really well and dandy. Compared to 2020, I had my shit together. But I completely neglected my creative personal side, my stories, concepts and creativity. It wasn’t an artblock per say, I still drew a lot, but I drew for my DND campaign, which at the time I used heavily as a crutch for emotional mental support. In a sense I took the burden of having to be creative and dumped it on someone else, and just rode the wave. I couldn’t be bothered to be creative myself, not anymore.

That combine with working/sleeping/eating in an enclosed space for months on end, and not being able to go out due to covid, made everything just blur together in a grey mush. To be frank, I don’t remember 2021 at all, and the whole year just seems like a blur of time and work.

So what happened? I’ve been mentioning non-stop that I’m working on my storyboard portfolio and animatic for SKZ etc. In 2021 I had skillfully grown as an artist, so I knew this would be easy. I already know how to do it just had to actually do it....but I couldn’t. Everyday felt like a slog, things that would be easy and simple were taking forever. I restarted the animatic like 3 different times, nothing felt right. I had no motivation to be at my desk after hours. I didn’t have any ideas, and I hadn’t actually given thought to my stuff in a very long time. I found myself wondering what happened to the passion and drive I had not too long ago for my old portfolio in college. And it spiraled from there as I realized I had completely lost it, I had no more ideas left, I hadn’t actually written anything in a long time.

The artist soul is like a well, you take water out and then the rain replenishes the well. My well had completely dried out, It hadn’t rained in forever and I just kept taking water out till nothing was left. This combined with the other event going on Twitter with overworked storyboard artists all over the country crying in outrage for their mistreatment, going through extensive creative drought for years. This is a field I wanted to get into, and in the end the dream looked like a nightmare. I completely broke in a fit of rage and deep sadness. In the end I’ve never felt so hollow in my life. My friend likened it to heartbreak, I’ve never experienced heartbreak, but this must be what it felt like. I went through wicked mood-swings, and other irrational behavior.

So what now?

In general, I’m done. I’ve cancelled the animatic and portfolio plans. There’s no point in trying to scrap the bottom of the well. I’m going through self-therapy. I know what I need to do to get better, it’s going to take months. I’ve been through a similar journey when I first entered college, but damn does it feel like a tough and endless road is ahead of me. I have to go through everything all over again! I’m not giving up on SKZ, quite the opposite actually. But I’m taking things back to the writing room. I can safely say my other projects are done though, CHL and CUPP were always suppose to be one-shots, they have served me well. Bonafide is going to be a more a casual fun thing rather than my main focus. I want to start separating myself from DND and putting my own creative projects first. That being said HA, I have a shit ton of DND work from 2021 in my queue so yeah you guys won’t see much of a difference on a surface level. I need to start posting more! I’ve started to replenish my well by re-watching the things that have inspired me. I have gotten writing journals, and a new sketchbook to start doodling stuff again. I’m letting loose, and letting the “business” chains on my personal work go. I used to worry a lot about marketing, views and audience tastes, eh not anymore. I’m just going to be doing whatever I like, as long as it makes me happy.

Thanks for reading <3

#personal #updates

[someone1348]

CLINGYDUO!!! ahhhh! Okay! Okay! I'll be quiet now! I love them so much!!

Thank you @kasey-writes-stuff for helping me choose the fic and Lee! For this one! You're the best Kasey woop woop! Hehe /p /gen /pos

People in this!: Lee!Tubbo, Ler!Tommy ( a small Lani moment too!)

((PLATONIC ONLYYYYY!))

An Irl fic today! I can't wait!

Tw: some cursing, other than that none!

With all that being said enjoyyyy! :]

___________~☆°♡°☆°♡°☆~______________

Intresting Reaction

Today was the day!!! After years of knowing each other and months of being on the Dream smp together Tommy was finally going to meet his best mate Tubbo! In real life!! He was bouncing off the walls, this last minute plan was the best decision anyone could have ever made ever!

Now the trip there wasn't too far but it was still long, So for the remainder of the time in the car Tommy filmed a bit for his video, that he was most definitely going to upload as soon as he got back! And couldn't stop his leg from bouncing up and down with excitement when the GPS stated that they were nearing his final destination. He was going to meet Tubbo and Wilbur! This was the best day ever!!

Once Tommy had arrived the two shared a quick hug and many high fives. Tommy got a tour of the Tub House! And said hello to his siblings while the parents talked, It was already alot of fun but the fun had only just begun!

The two took off to the beach once they got the go ahead. Tommy filmed their sea adventure as the blonde tried to stand up on the paddle board ultimately making the two of them fall over into the water.

"I survived guys, I'm alive" Tommy stated as he pointed the camera towards himself. The two had some great laughs and genuinely enjoyed the well needed company.

As Tubbo tried to get back on the board to sail them back to land Tommy splashed the bee boy with some of the sea water as Tubbo scolded him for it, splashing the blonde back, the two kept pushing each other off and were having a great time, once the two settled a bit Tubbo let Tommy sit on the end of the board watching the sea life beneath them as Tubbo paddled them both back to shore.

"Beautiful isn't it?" Tubbo said with a gentle smile as Tommy hummed with a smile in response watching the fish go by

"You've got a great place and area man! Im jealous!" He joked as Tubbo giggled with him

"You're welcomed here anytime big man"

Tommy's smile grew wider before the board hit the rocks, "Alrighty, off my ship!"

"Pfft!" Tommy laughed, getting off and helping Tubbo carry the board back to his place.

After getting told off in a loving and joking way for entering the house soaking wet from swimming around in the ocean the two changed into some dry clothes chilling in Tubbo's room before Tommy's big brain sparked an idea

"You wanna stream? Chat wouldn't ever suspect a thing, I'll stream from your account! Please! It'll be so cool!"

Tubbo laughed and got out of his chair for Tommy to sit and get everything ready, "sounds good to me!"

Thus started the Tommyinit tradition of streaming on everyone's account that he met up with with their set up and things!

"HELLO?!"

Tommy shouted as the starting soon screen turned to Tommy's face in Tubbo's room on his account

"Sup Stream!"

The chat was going nuts! It was great!

"Im with, im with Bitch boy"

Tubbo made a face at him before they logged onto the dream smp to hang out, maybe do some pranks, it was going great!

"'This is wholesome', no its not!" Tommy said reading out some of the chat as Tubbo's character walked along prime path.

It was perfect, they were watching animatics and having a great time until Tommy got too excited and accidentally kicked Tubbo's pc which accidentally ended the stream, oops!

"Im so sorry Tubbo!"

"It's all good mate!"

It was fixed in no time but they didn't feel like starting a new stream, they both just wanted to enjoy time together so that's exactly what they did

The two went back to the beach, just to walk it this time. They walked and talked about all sorts of things from serious to silly they were really enjoying every minute!

"Look at this one Tubs!" Tommy had picked up a beautiful dusted ruby colored rock, the color was perfect faint enough and shined beautifully with the sun

"Oooo" the pair admired it before Tubbo showed the blonde a beautiful faint yellow one he found

"That ones huge! I love it!"

"Wanna throw it?"

"Hell yeah!!"

Shoving some seaglass into their pockets as well the two decided to head back before it got too late, the sun was slowly getting ready to fall with the moon patiently awaiting their performance in the sky.

"Lani?!" The blonde called out to his best friends younger sister as she walked over to the pair

"Here you go!" Tommy smiled handing her the ruby rock as she smiled and thanked him, heading to her room to put it on her desk.

"You gave it to Lani?" Tubbo giggled a bit rasing his eyebrow

"What!? I thought she'd like it! Buzz off man" Tommy giggled pushing Tubbo in the process

"Im messing with you that was lovely of you Toms" the brunette ruffled the youngers hair as Tommy grumbled before they walked back to Tubbo's room.

Tubbo was his best friend, his family was like his second family so that's why he wanted to give Lani the rock. Both boys knew that and Tubbo agreed that Tommy was family and that Tommy's parents were his second family too! And he couldn't be more happy about that fact.

So happy in fact that Tubbo gave Tommy a hug out of nowhere, his actions were of course returned by the blonde but still he questioned the brunette anyway

"Whahat was that for?"

"Felt like it"

Tubbo answered as the blonde giggled once more, the two went out to move their TV party to the living room couch when Tubbo's parents announced they were going to head out with Tubbo's siblings for a bit.

Throwing back on their favorite show the pair smiled in this shared comfortable scilence, just them and the tv, no cameras in their face or people to interact with, a bit of peace if you will,

Short-lived peace if anything. In the scilence Tubbo had shifted his head down onto Tommy's shoulder the blonde looking at him smiling with his eyebrow raised before turning his attention back to the TV.

"what happened to not being good with physical affection big man?” Tommy stated, his eyes still glued to the tv as Tubbo audibly growled jokingly, his peace disrupted by this question,

"Comfy" Tubbo said with a jokingly annoyed tone making Tommy giggle

"Im comfy?"

"Yes"

"Good to know, but this isn't all man, you've been extra touchy and Clingy today, I thought that stuff bothered you?" Tommy was still being lighthearted but it was a genuine question, he didn't want to make Tubbo uncomfortable is all, that's why he asked too

Tubbo pushed and practically headbutted his head further into Tommy's shoulder as the blonde giggled a bit louder

"Ahahalright I'll drop it" Both smiling wide things were going good, except soon Half-way through this one episode Tommy needed to move but he didn't want to disturb Tubbo so he bounced his leg until he stated to the brunette

"Tubs I love ya pal and I love this platonic affection that's going on but I gotta move so either you get your head off my shoulder or you get removed by force" he half jokingly stated giggling a bit as Tubbo smirked and shook his head 'no'

"You can't evict me from my house Tommy, your shoulder is my house now and I'm not leaving weather you like it or not!" The brunette joined in the fun giggling a bit too before Tommy smiled

"Suit yourself" the taller of the two had begun to push at the smaller's head but alas he wouldn't budge! That's when he decided to move down and push his side to get him off.

The noise Tubbo made shocked not only Tommy but himself as well

"Tubbooo~ what was thatt?~"

"Nothing!" He was quick to respond scrambling away from his former "house" as he moved down the couch, Tommy followed with a smirk until he his back hit the end of the couch

"T-tommy! Let's talk about this!"

His smirk only grew as he lowly chuckled at his right hand man "Excellent! We will talk about it! Answer me this then since you really want to talk about it, Are you Ticklish Tubbo?~"

"Whaaaat! ME! Never! How dare you suspect such a thing!"

Tommy laughed a little while wiggling his fingers teasingly at the other "oh yeah? You're not ticklish? Mind if we test that theory out mate?"

"N-noho need! Bossman heheh!" Tubbo was practically in a ball at this point at the end of the couch as he watched Tommy's wiggling fingers got closer and closer to him getting ready to attack at any moment!

"What's wrong Tubs? You seem nervous, afraid that my wiggly fingers are gonna tickle tickle tickle all over your tickle spots? I thought you didn't have any? Tubbo! Don't tell me you lied to me now?~"

A hue of crimson circled Tubbo's face before he blurted out his hands in front of him for protection

"Wahait! Tohohoms! I didn't mean to-"

"Do you know what happens to people that lie to me Tubbo?"

"W-what?"

"They get,,,,Tickled!!" And with that Tommy's quick hand wiggled all ten tickly fingers into the smaller's sides as Tubbo kicked his legs out rolling from side to side to try and escape Tommy's tickly wrath.

"NAHAHA THOHOohohoMY!!!"

"Yes Tubbo? That's my name!" He quickly skittered over the exposed skin on his sides that was created from all of the rolling,

"EEE! NOHohOHoT FaHaHaiR!" Tubbo continued to giggle away grabbing at Tommy's hands in the process to try and push them away, nothing worked but honestly he wasn't complaining.

"Oh I think this is plenty fair Tubso seeing as you lied to me" he continued this bit he was doing, smiling brightly as he skittered up Tubbo's ribs, towards his underarms.

"Tickletickletickletickletickle!" Tommy giggled saying the word tickle on repeat in a baby voice as he skittered up and down and back up Tubbo's ribs making sure to get the in between areas of his ribcage as well leaving no spot untickled

"TOHOhoOHMMY!!!" Tubbo's legs softly pounded the couch behind the pair as Tommy evilly giggled "IhIhiHiM SOHOhohorryy!! HEHE!"

Tommy smirked "good! Im glad you have admitted to your mistakes now laugh for me bee boy!" He giggled wiggling his fingers into Tubbo's underarms as they shot down to his sides with ease and speed.

"HAHAhahaha!!" Tubbo wiggled a bit before letting his body fall fate to the tickles

Tommy sat smiling wider, seeing his best friend happy was all he ever needed.

"You've trapped my hands Tubbo! What am I supposed to do now!" He stopped wiggling them for a minute while Tubbo got his breathy giggles out,

"Gehehet them ouhuHAHA-OUT! THOHOHOMMYY!! HEHE!" Wiggling his fingers once again Tommy laughed along with him

"You've gotta release my hands Tubs!"

"TOhHoMmY! PLEheAse!"

"Okay okahay!" Tommy got his hands out from Tubbo's underarms rasing them up to quickly move them only inches away from the brunettes stomach.

"T-Thohohommy! Please don't!"

"Don't what Tubbo?"

"Tihickle me! WAIT!-"

"Tickle you? I'd be happy too! Tickletickletickletickle I gotcha now Tubbo!"

"TOHOHOOHMMY HAHAHAHA NAHAHAHAHA PLEAHAHAHASE!"

"Hey Tubs do you like raspberries? Because I think they're delicious!" He took a deep breath in before blowing the biggest raspberry ever on the center of Tubbo's stomach shaking his golden locks around with it to make it tickle more.

"AH! HAHAHAHAHAHA TOHOHOMMY! MEHEHERCY! HEHEHE!"

"Hahaha ahahalright! Im all done big man!" He rubbed away the ghost tickles before helping him sit back up, the tv still going with a show that's now long forgotten by the pair as Tubbo continued giggling with his breath and placing himself right back on to Tommy's shoulder.

"Im glad you liked it Tubs"

"WHA-?!"

"It was obvious but don't worry I won't tell or say anything to anyone, and between you and me I don't mind it either but that's for another day"

"Pfft, lee!"

"I am not! If anything you're the lee here bee boy! More like lee boy!"

The two joked before Tubbo poked Tommy's face "shush, sleep time"

"Sounds good king, sleep well my friend!"

"You too Tommy you too"

It wasn't long before Tommy did eventually fall asleep along with him, Tubbo's parents putting a blanket over them letting them sleep in peace, they deserved it, it was so great to see the pair finally meet in person, it was a day and night they would never forget!

--------------------------------------------------

I hope you all enjoyedd! I added a small headcannon in of my own for this one but I had so much fun writing it! There is more to come but feel free to send in a prompt in the asks for me to write! I would love to write them! Treat yourselves, drink water, take care of yourselves and have a great day my friends! :]

-K <3

#k writes tk things #ler!tommy #ler!tommyinnit #lee!tubbo #the clingy duo my beloved /p /pos #dreamsmpticklefic #dream smp tickle fic #dream smp tickle #mcyt tickle fic #mcyt tickle

[oceantail-oceantail]

badboyhalo appreciation pt. 2 <3

(part 1 here!! one post isn’t enough to appreciate bbh) 

-Scolded Dream for not taking George’s colorblindness into account during MCC 6 Buildmart and promised George he would take account his needs if they ever played a color-based game together (later, when playing scribble.io on stream he did exactly that)

-Built PCs for Dream and Ponk

-Used to be a teacher for kids with special needs; coached a dodgeball tournament and his kids won 

-Sang “You Are My Sunshine” for a person whose mom passed away (i don’t like when people treat streamers like therapists, but it was still very sweet regardless)

-Skeppy said he was lucky to meet Bad when he did because he was feeling lonely at that time; Bad said it was the nicest thing anyone has ever said about him

-Gave away most of the 72 pizzas Skeppy bought him to homeless people and people who needed food

-Skeppy said he would drop everything to meet Bad

-Quackity described Bad as “an inherently good person” 

-BoomerNA was the one who introduced Ponk to Bad and Ponk says that Bad had a huge impact on his life and that he’s glad he met him

-Told a story of a time he gave money to his server at a restaurant because she was going through a rough time, but he only told the story to tell his fans that he wouldn't be able to do that if not for them. And also said he doesn’t want to tell stories like that, because it would seem like bragging

-Always willing to give actual tech support to friends on streams; gave advice to Puffy when she was talking about buying a new computer; walked Skeppy through how to fix the lag on his stream

-Calls his reflex of randomly saying “quack” a “quackflex”; also, the reason he started saying “quack” was because Skeppy used to say it a lot before

-Gives genuine relationship/life advice on stream to his audience and fellow streamers (this one is my favorite)

-Always prefaces his advice by saying he's just a streamer and he doesn't want people to take his advice as an absolute must

-Always (lovingly) yells at chat for gifting lots of subs or donating a lot <3

-Spent one whole year building a Minecraft server dedicated to Skeppy (with help from other builders); with that comes the implication that he was so sure that he and Skeppy would still be best friends long into the future

-Grinded hours for netherite/armor/tools/enchantments for Skeppy on the SMP

-Once paid an artist $200 for art to use, but never ended up asking them to draw anything so they just… got the $200

-Comments on lots of animatics and fan songs on YouTube and occasionally promotes them on Twitter; similarly, constantly likes fanart on Twitter 

-Talks in his Discord vc fairly often and interacts with fans 

-Once was incredibly sick and exhausted post-stream, but still spent half an hour vetting the small creators chat was suggesting to raid just so he could still send them viewers (both of them were very excited, and one of them cried)

-Makes a clear separation of lore and non-lore streams; on lore streams he always has a non-lore section after so people and unwind from the lore

-Just….such a genuinely good person

#badboyhalo #slightly shorter than last time #bc i didnt think bad would stream again so soon #but i promised #but i posted it bc im not a liar like him /j /lh #skeppy #a couple came from @spaceysp god bless

[loaffofbred]

A Sanders Sides story that is somewhat? not really thought out "series" of mine (Masterpost)

Part 1 (Crossing The Line) (2020)

This is part 1, where it starts off on Logan having an argument with Patton. Patton has noticed Logan's distant behaviour and passive aggressiveness, and tries confronting the problem.

"This has to stop now! Whatever it is that youre going through, we can fix it together me and you, just like we've always done!"

Logan counters this, and starts arguing with Patton but also starts walking away. Patton tries stopping him but Logan pushes him away.

Patton again tries by telling Logan to wait, and that it takes time for Thomas to listen and maybe apply what Logans been saying.

Logans eyes flicker orange

Part 2 (Crossing The Line) (2020)

Part 2 of this is where Logan sets off on his own after hearing that from Patton and starts trying to calm down. But as he slowly tries to do this, he inevitably felt useless and unwanted. With no purpose and pushed aside. Because of this, he thought the pulling urge of going to the other side of the door (dark side basically) would help him find his purpose. Opening that door, he immediately felt free, angry, yet relieved. He felt contradicting emotions but he wasnt paying attention to that at all. He felt like he had a new purpose, and finally doing this he ran and happily looked around the void as if it was just a friend of his.

Part 3 (All I Ever Wanted Was) (2021)

This part is quite different, this one is a time skip. Logan in this part, never wanted to be 'orange', he just wanted everything, only little bits of it. He just wanted a purpose, and 'being orange' seemed like purpose for him. His eyes starts glowing orange, because he knew it was a part of himself. But in the end, he'll just have to keep it inside.

the gap in between of part 2 and 3 is for your own interpretation, this is just a fun little fanfic turned animatic series i wanted to make

Part 4 (Who Is He?) (2021)

This is where he starts confusing himself of his true purpose, and who he truly is. Is he the cynical , angry , defensive orange? Or was he the logical , rational , and reasoning blue? Wasnt he the emotionless, analytical, and truthful logic? Why does his emotions feel as if its not part of himself?

This is where he realized that the dark side room only really made him orange is because, first time going in, it amplifies emotions, specifically negative ones. Its as if its an echo chamber, full of your thoughts, fears, and motivations. It only really pushed him to the right direction, almost like a guide. But, did that mean HE was orange?

He questions himself more and more, questioning his own identity as a side. What was his true purpose, and was it even a role that was played in this theatrical psychological show that he was casted? He felt as if his emotions were entirely separated to him as a side, assuming that Logic has no emotions and feelings. He felt as if everything he believed in, his serious demeanor and his sight for falsehoods, were all just a blur.

Blinded by his own madness

i guess he was some mad scientist hah

#sanders sides #thomas sanders #sanders sides fanart #logan sanders #logan angst #ts logan #orange side #sanders sides animatic #ts orange side #Youtube

[doomstypewriter]

The submersion | Intrulogical Mermaid AU

Future intrulogical.

Follow up on this animatic. | AO3

Words: 1728.

Summary: Remus has fun in his submarine. A giant barracuda disagrees.

CW: Dark humour, skeletal remains of a rat, drowning, deep ocean (if there's anything else do tell), death, sexual innuendo.

The submersion

It was cloudy.

And cold.

But that was to be expected when one’s in the middle of the Atlantic.

“Remus Prince, you dunce, how are you dressed like that?”

Remus turned around to see Ella Da Villa, the captain of the ship he was on, and an old friend. Her short afro was stuffed inside of a beanie, she held onto her sides through her huge puffer coat.

“I know you’d just rather I take it all off, but, honey, I need to at least wear something”.

She laughed.

“What you need is to make sure you don’t get drenched or--”

“First of all, I look amazing all wet. But if that’s what you’re so worried about, hey, I took care of that” he answered pointing at his green rain boots.

The crew looked at them in amusement as they moved the equipment, preparing everything for the submersion.

Ella took off one of her gloves and smacked Remus’ head with it.

“Ow! I thought you were against violence!”

“I never said that. But I am against animal abuse, that’s why I didn’t hit you hard. Now go and put on a coat, you dumbass”.

“Sure thing mommy, you know how to be commanding” he winked.

“It’s captain for you, now go!”

His boots squeaked against the flooring of the deck as he ran to get into the guts of the ship. He managed to hear Ella swearing under her breath.

“How did he even graduate? Going out in short sleeves…”

Ella was a funny one, Remus thought. It was easy to get under her skin, she also liked to play along which made it even better.

One of the people going up the metal stairs almost tripped against him, there wasn’t that much room, after all. Remus jumped over the railing and fell onto the lower level without a scratch.

“Oh my god! Are you okay?!” said someone.

A younger guy with spectacular hair held onto his forearm to check on him. Oh, this was the newbie.

“Don’t worry, I don’t have any lungs”.

“Wha…” he looked half perplexed and half horrified.

“You know, we all get it done since we’re going to end up sleeping with the fish anyway”.

He stood up quickly and mutely apologised. Remus enjoyed the view of his ass going upstairs as fast as possible. New meat was always hilarious.

When he entered the room his cupboard was already open. He liked to leave the sliding doors that way so he could see what was inside, otherwise, he’d forget about it. In a ship, that meant ending up with all of one’s clothes on the floor, but as long as Remus could see where they were he wouldn’t misplace anything. Object permanence was a bitch.

Messy floors did have an advantage, the coat on top of the pile was good enough to satisfy Ella and easy enough to grab quickly.

The backswing of the glove against his shoulder caught him off-guard.

“Ow! What did I do now?! This coat is fine!”

“The coat is fine, yes, but the new guy is shaking like a leaf. What did you tell him? He keeps saying stuff about drowning”.

“Hey, I’d never mention drowning when I’m about to get into a submarine”.

“Yes, that’d be very poor taste, sadly, you have it worse so you must have said something terrible. I expect you to fix this, or we’ll have to arrange you drowning”.

“You know I love choking on wet things”.

“Then your last moments will be pleasant. Consider me the best friend one could have”.

The new guy was holding onto the railing of the ship, staring at the water in concentration. Probably about to throw up or something.

“Hey!”

“Ah!” he screamed.

“Do you have a name?”

“Uh… yes… um…”

“Great! I have one too, it’s Remus” he introduced himself with half a bow.

“I’m Nathan… sorry… I’m just anxious… it’s the first time I go on one of those” he gestured at the submersible held by the crane of the ship.

“First times are always awkward, don’t worry”.

Finally, Nathan let out a laugh, it was a nervous one but it would suffice.

“You know what I said earlier was a joke, right?”

“Oh, yeah, it just caught me by surprise. You’re the head biologist here, right?”

“Yup. Guess you could say I’m the dom of this study”.

“Darn it, here I was expecting to be more active”.

Remus smiled in surprise. It was always nice when people had similar humour to his.

“Oh, you’ll have to be. I expect it”.

“You wouldn’t expect we could go for some coffee after we get into…” the date proposition vanished into a look of fear at the submersible.

Remus put a hand over his shoulders. The drowning jokes would have to wait until they were emerging.

“Don’t worry, my thicc ass has been there tons of times! It’s just a lot of water”.

“While it’s true he’s been there more than you, he’s overplaying his own ass. It’s kind of droopy” a heavily accented voice said

“Who are you calling droopy?”

They turned to see a tall blond woman smiling smugly. Erika Engström, oceanographer and the operator of the submersible.

“You, obviously, do you have water in your ears?”

“Not yet, but we’ll see if…”

Nathan held his breath.

“Nah, I don’t”.

“He either thinks you’re cute or he’s afraid the captain will throw him off-board if he keeps bullying you”, Erika told Nathan.

“I wasn’t bullying anyone”.

“Sorry to break it to you, but you’re always bullying people, you don’t know how else to flirt”.

“Then I would be flirting with everyone”.

“Aren’t you?”

“Okay, yeah”.

“Come on, I have to set up things. Give me a hand, rat skull”.

“At least give me a knife or something”.

“You can chew it through”.

One last look at Nathan before following her.

“Well, I’ll leave you to stress out, if I don’t help her we’ll dro…” oh right, no drowning jokes. “We’ll…”

“Flirt with me when we’re back at the surface”.

Remus smiled.

“Will do!”

-----

The light was beginning to fade out. The flickering of the few rays coming through a swirl of silvery fish would be their last glimpses at natural lighting for a while.

It was wonderful.

How the underwater landscape changed, morphing into something out of a nightmare. Never ceases to amaze him. People would say it was all just blue getting darker and darker, and it was! But it was also a thick fog from which anything could come out. He always looked forward to seeing the weirdest fish appear.

There wasn’t much room behind the giant acrylic viewport. Despite being stuck so closely together, Remus could feel a chill as the air within got cooled by the deep water. His coat lay forgotten at the back of his chair still.

Once the lights of the submersible switched on, a delicate dance of white dust shined just like it would on a sunny day. This was no room dust. But there was just as much beauty in seeing the marine snow surrounding them. Teensy tiny pieces of dead fish falling all around, making the nicest shapes.

“It’s so quiet” Nathan observed.

“Wait until you hear a whale. The first time I did I thought my skull would pop”.

“Which one?” Erika kept her eyes on the water, but he could see the reflection of a smile curving onto the surface of the acrylic.

“Well, the small one. I know you’d hate to have to scrape my brains off your console”.

“If you had any I would”.

“There would still be plenty of blood”.

The ship carried on with the descend, soon, they’d be at twenty thousand feet. Nathan leaned in.

“Hey, what did she mean by which one?” he said in a hushed voice.

“Oh! Right”

He pulled on the string of his necklace to get it from under his shirt. Remus held it in front of Nathan’s face.

It turned, revealing the empty sockets and the front of what used to be a snout.

“I have this rat skull as a necklace! Erika teases me because that’s how she copes with the fact that she hates it!”

“Anyone would hate it. You wear that thing everywhere. It’s creepy” Erika pointed out.

“Where did you get it?” Nathan asked.

In the dim light, Remus’s smile cast shadows, giving him a grim vibe.

“I used to have a pet rat. When it died it sucked, my brother and I buried it in the backyard. It was there until three years later when we got a heavy storm. The bones peeked through the mud. So I just yanked a bit on the spine and got it. The skull was already defleshed anyway, so, aside from cleaning it a bit, I didn’t have to do any of the work. I really like this necklace. I got into marine biology because I began looking at fish skulls and I wanted to see more”.

“That’s…” Nathan began to say.

Suddenly, the submersible turned violently.

“What was that?”

“I don’t know, I couldn’t take a good look”, said Erika.

Her frown told Remus something was seriously wrong.

“Guys, we’re picking up really weird signals from here. Are you all okay?” the sound of Ella’s voice through the radio distracted him from his train of thought.

“It’s all under control, but I am going to begin ascending” Erika replied.

“We haven’t taken all the samples”, Nathan said.

“We’ll have another chance. Right now I’m worried that---”

Erika did not have time to finish talking.

Its needle-like teeth loomed over the viewport. This creature was unlike anything he’d ever seen. Part of him felt excited at how terrifying it all was. Sadly, he had the feeling they were all about to die. This fish looked like a giant barracuda and an angry one.

The creature snapped its jaw closed, cracking the viewport.

Seemingly, it didn’t find it tasty enough and it swam away even moodier than before. The very least it could have done was eat them.

If you’re going to kill them might as well finish the job.

Remus’ body floated into the dark abyss as he struggled to breathe. Covering his ears tightly, he screamed in pain. The pressure was unlike anything.

Well, it had been fun.

<< Previous | Next >>

The continuation will feature Logan and another animatic!

Taglist: @lemonyscented , @emsiemaefander , @sunflower-avo-tea , @nadiestar , @amber-da-toon , @gabseliblack , @everythingisstardust

@trash-bastard , @under-the-blue-moonlight , @willowaudreykeyes

@queerly-a-hisssstory-momster​

@theyluna-womoon , @subterfugespecialist

#intrulogical #remus sanders #ts remus #sanders sides #remus centric #mermaid au #sanders sides fanfiction #doomstypewriter #doomywrites

[mcmoth]

So... I just found the song Theseus by The oh hellos, which... really surprised I hadn't found it sooner, being both a dsmp and the oh hellos fan, but oh well. Anyways, I just wanted to ramble about how this song fits c!Tommy, cause my god... the animatic I could make with this,,,

Oh, and this was originally a YouTube comment, btw, so it's maybe less expansive or personal than my usual rambles here would be. I just thought to actually rather post this on tumblr and delete the comment as to not add to the pile of dsmp comments cluttering the original song's feedback ^^ here y'all go:

At the edges of my fingers

Never quite closing round it

Oh, that peace like a river

Always going, but never getting

- How c!Tommy is constantly on the move, always preparing the next plan, always striving for some closure, how his two main priorities right now are safety and honesty - peace - and he tries so hard to get it, always, but in the end, never seems to succeed.

Seems like maybe it's not all that much a place

As it is a way

And ways don't ever seem to want to

Stay too still for too long

- Reminds me heavy of L'manburg. At the start of it, Wilbur did say that L'manburg wasn't a place, it was it's people, it's ideals. Words over violence, fighting back against oppressive authority, and seeking a family. And that's still what c!Tommy holds close to this day. But... as we all know. L'manburg, as it stood, didn't last long in these idealistic hopes.

Isn't that what it's all about?

The slow trickling thaw that sets the banks in half

The sweet melody it makes when the canyons crack

I wanna give it all I've got, and I want nothing

I want nothing back

-The "I wanna give it all i've got, and I want nothing, I want nothing back" makes me envision the season 1 finale, when Tommy tried so hard to fight for L'manburg, against all odds. And as Techno shouted at him to give up on being a hero, he just yelled back that he never wanted to be one, didn't want to be anything, rather "just wanted L'manburg back". For all of them.

Also, the first 3 lines give off cool imagery - the division between the dsmp and L'manburg, the war, the split sides after the election for the "trickling thaw that sets the banks in half", and Wilbur's words and symphony, once hopeful, turned miserable, as it echoes against Pogtopia's walls for "melody it makes when the canyons crack".

Whatever kingdom come, it probably won't come quick

No mighty clarion to announce it

No single use ark to discard in an instant

Like Theseus's ship, we'll fix the busted bits

- makes me think of new L'manburg, of everyone trying to rebuild after the destruction - constructing on top of the remains. Integrating the losses into their future. The creation comes slow, and without fanfare - the healthy bit of it, at least. But that's what's important about it - being able to take something slow for once, and just... working towards something again.

'Til it's both nothing like and everything

It's always been

It's a wonder we expect a thing to

Stay the same at all

- Theseus' ship is a metaphor for how, if you take something apart, one by one, gradually changing it's parts 'till it's all replaced, is the ship still the same ship? Or is it something entirely different now? And I feel like that's an interesting way to view c!Tommy - so much has happened to him, all lives lost. He's lost his spark, he's regained it again, different now. He's lost his friends, he's regained them again, different now. He's lost his brother, he regained him again, different now. So many labels have been assigned to him - hero, liability, toy... is he even Tommy anymore, misaligned pieces of what used to be a full puzzle? Or... is it that, after everything, it's still just him...

Maybe that's what it's all about

We keep fixing what we know is only bound to break

What's worth saving is never worth letting go to waste

I want to mend what I've got, instead of throwing away

- This is so relevant for c!Tommy. Whatever is important to him, he refuses to throw away. The discs, his relationship with Tubbo, trying to reconcile with Techno, not giving up on Wilbur... His whole speech to Foolish, that one stream, highlights this well. If he loves someone, he will never let go. It's worth trying to mend, in his eyes, even if there's no guarantee it won't just break again. Just like his home, rebuilt dozens and dozens of times after all the griefs and opportunities to leave it. He always returns to what is close to him.

Ain't nothing come easy

No, nothing comes quick

It's gonna hurt like hell to become well

But if we set the bone straight

It'll mend It'll fix

And we'll be well

- c!Tommy's whole story has been painful. He gets beat down, more often than not. He goes to get closure in prison, and he returns undead. His bones shattered, feeling reality altered. But he still tries. Still tries to figure out what to do next, what to save next, even as he's tired to the bone. And there's something to say, about that - about how he tried, despite the pain. His healing process is such a mess, but it's a healing process all the same.

Ain't nothing come easy

No, nothing comes quick

But I want for you this, that you are well

I want for us this, that we are well

- That's what c!Tommy wants, in the end. For everyone to be safe from torment, and to have fun. For everyone to be well. It isn't easy, and he's not perfect, and his edges are sharp enough to cut, but he wishes nonetheless. He tends to the server, he asks c!Dream why he doesn't hurt after leaving everything, he preserves Ranboo's flowers; he just wants everything to be okay.

We are well, we are well

We are well, we are well

We are well

- And they will be, I hope. Because if there's one thing that c!Tommy's story has shown, after all the fighting, abuse, arguments, death and grief - it's that he's still alive, and hanging onto hope... And though things are bleak, I'm hoping one day, the whole server, not just c!Tommy, will be able to say "we are well", too.

So... Yeah. Check out the oh hellos if y'all haven't already, their music is wonderful <3

#dream smp #tommyinnit #the oh hellos #theseus the oh hellos #meta #character analysis #song analysis #ramble #music #song #my own post #i have no idea ehat's even happening at any current time #i just continue to imagine this silly little fictional character and all his past events andcry about him #l'manburg