#this is just a side blog cos

[charmac]

what’s ur main

It's @rainbat I don't really use it much, just occasional reblogs of things I like or find funny that aren't Sunny! It turns 10 next month which makes me feel very old, bc I've been on Tumblr for even longer than that

#ask #this is just a side blog cos #i didnt know how many minors were still following me #cos i had a significant amount of followers i knew were minors in 2017/18 #but then I wasnt in an active fandom on tumblr for like 3-4 years #so i kindaaa wish i had just said fuck it and made sunny my main but i didnt so oh well #its kinda nice cos when i see something non sunny i can chuck it there #but it kinda sucks cos ive never side blogged before #so my main is kinda like a journey through all my fandoms over the years #and now sunny is sticking out alone #but also means i dont have to tag everything sunny #since this is all sunny so #yk #win some you lose some

[safrev]

some sketches i did recently

#frev #french revolution #saint just #art tag #maximillien robespierre #side profile is mirabeau btw lol #referenced from his bust in the louvre #maybe i should post my photos of my paris trip here #active blog era #i was gonna write dialogue for the last drawing but just imagine that max is shit talking his co workers to sj

[nightweb]

dick bringing slade as his date to bruce’s birthday party that the family arranges and slade, who loves fuckin with bruce and riling him up, says “i remember my 44th birthday. been years.”

#sladick #sladin #this was a banger tweet and a banger post so i’m reposting again in the side blog cos i’m an idiot who can’t figure out tumblr #slade would call bruce “sport” just to see his eye twitch

[abrideofdrogons]

i think u can 100% call out cruel/rude behavior from other stans when they call ur irl faves ugly but calling ppl ne0 na/zis because of a fandom war has got to be the most brain rotted thing i've ever seen in my entire life

& then JUST TAGGING??? IT??? NOT EVEN USING ANTI TAGS??? uhhhhh here's the attention u wanted i guess lol

#anti green stans #anti greens #i guess you can argue it's for proper tagging on someone's blog but uh #im not linking the blog or showing ss's from who did it cos they just want attention but #targnation #once we start bringing out accusations like this it goes beyond fandom wars & starts getting into some heavily side-eye territory #house targaryen #asoiaf #hotd wank

[alexiethymia]

a concept: Lockwood was as jealous of the Skull as Lucy was of Holly during The Hollow Boy

#lockwood and co #lockwood & co #locklyle #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #this is not actually a lockwood and co blog #I say as I rush to post something after once again deciding to reread #but anyway perhaps it's something a bit more complex than jealousy #a cocktail of emotions at knowing lucy was getting drawn more toward the side of the dead than the living #there's that added layer of the tv series in that in the first season lucy helps him with his recklessness #and now she's the one engaging in that sort of behavior in THB #but the thing is the nature of their recklessness if different in that #lockwood's is reckless because of his unresolved issues #while lucy becomes reckless because she wants to help the dead she can speak to #which again must complicate things for lockwood #because those that lucy sees as victims #lockwood just sees as evil causes of his sister's death #their talents play into this to #because lucy can hear them she can empathize with them #because lockwood doesn't hear them well or at and because of his exceptional sight #he only sees the ugliest of the Visitors and it's easy for him to forget they were once alive #so there's that 'jealousy' that lucy is spending more on more time on the entities who killed his sister #which causes her to put her own life in more danger as a result #resulting in lockwood getting angrier at her especially when he thinks she's missing the point by focusing on holly #and it's just a never ending cycle of them being angry at each other without fully understanding the other person's reasons #and irony of ironies #when (not if) we get a season 2 #lockwood will feel the full force of what lucy felt this season because of his jump of a cliff tendencies #books #tv

[blue-ravens]

so perhaps i have a sideblog that i may just post a whole bunch of dos content, just because i can? please feel free to follow and submit pics and vids and articles and whatever else you got, i'm here to share the love <3

#i don't normally do fandom-specific side blogs but #it came to me in a dream so i had to do it #you know how it is #i don't know exactly how it'll work but i'm just gonna post so much of the content i've got saved cos i'm awesome #follow or don't i'm not your mum <3 #david ogden stiers #mash #mash 4077 #charles emerson winchester iii

[kermit-coded]

sad that ashely johnson supports israel. guess i wont be finishing critical role after all.

#its a shame cos i love the series but augh... not great #soda speaks #free palestine #however alley beardsely supporting palestine means that i will deffo be switching to d20 #and fucking rick riordan's blog post talking about both sides... #idk he seems more on the fence to me... maybe just uninformed #sucks to see someone ive idolized since childhood even being neutral

[biillys]

yes i know we all hate karen here but heres the thing. i got a crush on cara from her part in person of interest and i refuse to let the duffer brothers shitty storylines and fucked up attempts at romance take her character away from me. anyway EYE get to pick and choose what the characters i like would actually do and u know what? she would not do that shit. thanku

#'that shit' being fuck a teenager #karen wheeler / #ive said it once and ill say it again!!!! au where instead of going Sexy Mode karen goes Mum Mode when billy knocks on the wheelers door #in s2!!!! i know everyone favours joyce to adopt billy but like. i think the karen version could be fun. #actually body swap au with billy and karen #billy waking up at the wheelers and being like what the actual fuck #mike and nancy not noticing anything out of the norm cos even when they're home? theyre not rly home #holly definitely noticing cos billy lets her have icecream for breakfast but also. #she gets ice cream for breakfast. shes not about to complain. #he slides the bowl of ice cream over to her like 'fuckin eat up kid. we got shit to do today.' #holly fucking LOVES this new side of her mum #ted???? don't even get billy started on ted #first thing billy says to karen when they finally meet up is 'you fuckin MARRIED that ?????? i thought my mum had bad taste but holy shit. #at least my dad's got personality. shitty ass personality but still. it's Something.' #and karens like 'yeah i got a close and personal experience with his personality this morning.' #cue the crushing realisation that oh Fuck theyve switched Bodies theyve switched Lives #karens getting a first hand look at the Billy & Neil Show etc #idk. just thinking thoughts thankyou for listening #okay BACK to regular scheduled blogging. i was just in her tag to procrastinate going out

[garoujo]

Hi emmie !!

This is super random, but I’m wondering if you wanna become mooties ⁉️💕

hiiii saffi !!! omg i think we are already !!! altho this is just my writing side blog so you’ll probably see my main @nyagis in ur followers / notifs ! but i follow u already i swear ଘ(੭˃ᴗ˂)੭ <333

#ʚ ₊˚ 💭 �� moots. #ֹ ��˚ ✰` ꒱ — saffi. #sob i know it’s so confusing cos i’m like i follow u !!! then u can’t see garoujo THIS IS JUST MY SIDE BLOG :3 #i followed u a few weeks ago i remember ! cause i was like ueueue hewo <333

[smirk47]

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#extremely upsetting that my dissertation has not magically finished itself #and that bouncing back from burnout will continue to require actual effort and discipline on my part #and that time is real and continues to pass even when I get distracted or caught up in other stuff #really just rude and unfair to me personally #dissertation blogging #(side note: if any mutuals ever feel like trying some co-working or goal-setting/accountability sessions or days with me for writing #or any other sort of work let me know! I've found it shockingly helpful more often than not!)

[ajournalingtrex]

sometimes you sit and just stare. maybe you’re somewhere, maybe you’re listening to music, but your perpetual state of motion has ceased for a few minutes. and there’s something at the top of your chest and just below your throat.

it’s not a piece, not yet, but it’s a feeling. it’s heavy. dark but not in a menacing way. a lot of the time, it’s green or purple.

the heavy feeling hasn’t risen up and blanketed your brain yet. it hasn’t forced the words out onto a google doc or a blank note page until your brain’s weight evens itself out into something light and airy and then you’re back to just sitting with thoughts hastily typed all over the page.

i like this part better than after it’s written, i think. sure it’s lopsided and i hate the feeling, but i know why it’s lopsided, which is somewhat liberating. it’s a promising kind of feeling. like once it’s here there’s no turning back. something Will happen with this

#i like writing #its so rarely poetry bc i’m shit at it #but they’re little somethings. #there are only two (finished) pieces i’ve written that i actually like #which i think is my preseason piece and a piece on my side blog about one of my friends #i like my conditional love one but i think i have more to say #i just haven’t been struck with what that is yet #i could sit down and yank it out of myself but that’s less fun #anyway i’m on the beach i really like the beach i went on a nice walkies and then my dad (who was following) caught up with me #nice shells. shells. shells <3333 #in my head there’s me and then there’s nicknamed me and i don’t know how to explain one without making the other sound bad #they struggle with co existing everywhere except the beach #i think they could co-exist normally someday? i’d like them to. #maybe that’s the new beginning of this year. #anyway go to the beach listen to “stay gold” by first aid kit and feel purple highly recommend

[swampjawn]

Time to talk an unnecessary amount about floors!

Episode 6 of Dungeon Meshi was produced in collaboration with a smaller studio, Enishiya - and it went way harder than I expected, for being made up of two relatively simple and self contained stories focusing on one character each.

And you can really see how those extra resources meant the animators could give full focus to both halves of the episode. Let's take a look at one piece that stole the show.

The first half was handled primarily by episode director/storyboard artist Keita Nagahara and co-animation director Hirotoshi (or Hiroaki? [1]) Arai. It's actually kinda insane how much of this section can be attributed to these two.

But the real star of the show is the second half, Chilchuck vs the mimic, led by co-animation director Toya Ooshima in his first animation director role for TV anime!

And the biggest aspect that knocked my dang boots off was something that's very consistent with Ooshima's style: background animation!

By animating the backgrounds rather than using painted still images, Ooshima and the team of other similarly skilled animators are able to create these beautiful dynamic camera movements that wouldn't be possible otherwise. Like these cuts by Takeshi Maenami where the camera becomes an expressive part of the scene, zipping forward and backward, and tilting to emphasize the speed of this murderous hermit crab. (Maenami's style is also very recognizable here - snappy timing and quick camera movements)

Or this cut by the incredible Kaito Tomioka which cleverly combines a traditional background for the walls with a fully animated floor. The level of detail in these tiles is just completely insane, and used to great effect with this wide, diagonal angle, and the way the camera tentatively drifts forward before reversing direction, and the tiles blur out as it speeds up.

I don't think I'm the only one caught off guard by how much they full-assed this little side story, but it was a pleasant surprise!

I broke down the entire episode in this video here. A lot of research went into this one, and I think it's the best one of these videos I've made so far, so if you're at all interested in more of this type of analysis in video form, I would really appreciate it if you checked it out, or re-blogged this post! Thanks

[1] It's listed as Hirotoshi on Anime News Network, but Hiroaki on a key frame that Studio Trigger shared on Twitter, so I'm not sure which one is wrong.

#dungeon meshi #animation analysis #studio trigger #laios touden #chilchuck #video #original #mini essay #Youtube

[jtownraindancer]

had a momentary obsession that i shall ramble about in the tags

#doing research on this old abandoned bridge that my younger brother's airsoft team used to cross for their campaigns #just on the edge of a nearby town and literally falling apart #and anyway found out some really interesting things today! #there is only one resident remaining on the other side of the bridge; he actually fell through the thing about 5 years ago #he caught himself though so he didn't land in the VERY deep and COLD mountain creek below #he doesn't qualify for any kind of land/property/fire insurance because literally no one can reach his trailer from the other side #the bridge was built in 1917 and there were at least 10 other homes on the other side & a town dump further along the road #(i explored a little over there once with sky; i got the 'grand tour' with him & said sole resident [sky & co's friend]) #the same town used to have at least five different train routes #the same town had TROLLEYS?!? #i knew they had a canal system (i've explored some of that before) and only half the train tracks are abandoned but like #TROLLEYs?!?!? #they were there as late as the tail end of the 1950s WHY did you GET RID of THEM?! #i found a lot of local history blogs and just- #it was all so pretty and there were more bridges across the three rivers i'm- #i'm so sad because we had all this beautiful public transit and it's just Gone now #anyway~ #i got my answers as to WHY the bridge went into disrepair anyway: the town shut down the dump (not quite sure yet why)- #and put most of the land- and the connecting bridge- up for sale #sky's buddy mike did NOT sell his property but all others had either passed on or moved away #the lawyer who bought the parcel- one of those local families that thinks they're hot shit because they're wealthy- decided to neglect it #cue several really intense floods in the early-to mid 2000s and the base of the bridge is basically shambles #the trellises are still there but literally it barely supports any weight these days; mike had it patched up with ramshackle wood beams #and some plywood; i remember crossing it around... 2018-ish? and there were just whole patches where there was nothing at all between #you and the water. skyler led the way across; the airsoft team had spraypainted the spots where the wood was safest to cross #but yeah in case anyone's curious what ace did today during their downtime at work now you know #history shit #shut up ace

[sincerelyandyourstruly]

hello! just popped over from one of your xiaoven fics (which was amazing, 10/10 btw). i was just wondering which genshin server you're in? i'm kinda lonely and want more genshin friends haha

hi hiiii :3

i'm actually not really active in any genshin servers bc i tend to be really shy abt interacting w/them, though literally just a few days ago i met this guy in co op mode who mentioned a ganqing server, and upon further discussion we realized we were both in it, which was very surprising bc there are like literally 30 people in there. so i Have been thinking abt becoming active in there, but i suspect you are not looking to enter the gq scene ahaha

anyway, in regards to a xv server, According To My Research(tm), there used to be one a long time ago! i was never in it, obviously, but i went server hopping a while back to try to find it at a friend's request, and from what i have gathered (by searching up "xiaoven" in various tangentially related genshin ship servers), what happened is that it got really toxic and insular and then eventually imploded/got deleted sometime in... march or april of this year, i wanna say?

and then due to various factors the xv community just never really recovered from that so what i've been saying we should do-- *gets crushed by a cork board covered in red strings before i can continue*

ahem SO ANYWAY yeah i totally understand the "isolated fan" feeling/experience, but if you want, i could direct you to some of my tumblr mutuals if you wanna kinda lurk in my circle for a bit before joining in!! you'll probably just be like "this is the most random collection of people i've ever seen in my life" but i mean like,,, that's kind of how every community ever has started?? so might as well give it a shot :D

#asks #Anonymous #i was actually kind of surprised that you chose to contact me via tumblr askbox instead of the neocities askbox since i thought that i #updated the links in all my notes to the neocities but i guess i never did that lmao so i did that just now #*adds a tally mark to list that says 'moments that make quietly maintaining this blog on the side worth it'* #bc this is possibly fairly obvious but this is not my usual fandom blog ahaha idk if some of my mutuals have like #made the connection btwn This blog n my namespace fandom blog lolol #that said my ideal plans would be to form some kind of xv-gq shipping alliance bc [has not actually finished writing this essay yet] #(but trust me it would make perfect sense) which was part of why it was so delightful to meet a gq writer in co op the other day #(the other part being that i enjoy gq a Lot and so it was nice to get a good grade in gq) #but anyway if you want MY discord then if you poke around my neocities long enough you Should find my namespace blog #(you can technically also find it from the desktop version of this blog which is how one of my friends found me lol) #you'll know me when you find me since i maintain links from namespace --> anonspace but not the other way around #but otherwise good luck have fun with making friends !!! i believe in u

[ilivedandilearned]

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#the entitlement some people show about this whole thing is just mindboggling #like wow sorry people dare speak their minds on their own fucking blogs #obviously there’s no excuse for going to OTHER people’s blogs to harass them #but we should be able #to say what we want #about whatever #on our own. silly little. blogs. #some or most of us have legit reasons for feeling the way we feel #and no amount of policing and silencing and belittling will do anyone any good #ps if you’re reading this and thinking ‘i’ve never done any of this’ #then good!! #this post isnt about you then!! #it’s like no matter what t does or says there are always extreme voices on two sides overreacting the hell out of it #and it becomes impossible to hold a nuanced conversation #breaking news: different opinions can co-exist!!!