#visual document

[maxsix]

#documenting these visuals for prosperity #seonghwa #park seonghwa #it is kind of crazy that ateez had both Bouncy and Crazy Form in the SAME year #legendary behaviour

[tswwwit]

I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way but i recently reread the entire familiar au (its as amazing as always!) and its so impressive to see how far you have come as a writer especially compared to the new cult au its honestly pretty inspiring

Thank you! It's truly nice to hear that I've made progress. I mean, obviously - hopefully - I would have after all this time, but sometimes the improvement is hard to see when you're so close to it.

#answers #I've been tempted at times to just take down some of my really old stuff #Because I am very 😬 when I reread it #But I think it stands as a nice relic/testament to how I've grown as a writer #In that I only roll around in agony about 90% of the time reading current writing now as opposed 575% with the old stuff #It feels like I don't know what I'm doing at any given time #But presumably I've learned SOMETHING #And my writing is not The Worst™ #Funny how the baseline changes as skill changes because it's hard to remember sometimes that yes #Skill has improved!! #I say as I stare at this document with severe doubts and worry and agony #Nothing like looking at a 5k doc and going 'yeah this is only halfway to the end at BEST' #There is so much more yet to complete #Also super nice to hear that the cult thing is good to read #It's got a lot more visuals than my usual so I'm pushing my comfort zone #I am Not A Visual Person so that takes some Effort #All of these tags have been very navelgazing so here's a fun fact #If *I* can get better at writing by doing it for a long time #YOU can do it TOO and BETTER #It just takes - again - a lot of writing to get there

[greyias]

Some wild stuff happening in the BG3 hotfix/patch notes today

#i'm sorry you fixed gale's WHAT? #and my god i hope someone has visual documentation of the first two gameplay bugs #because that sounds hilarious #grey's bg3 tag

[luchsyy]

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE UNIVERSITY BTW.... kind of. i am very happy about it

#talks #i just sent them my documents and they'll have to review those before i'm fully accepted #BUT :D i won't have to take another gap year against my will!!! yippiee!!!!!!!!!!! #i'm studying visual communication btw!!!!!! so excited

[lucalicatteart]

-- Poorly Constructed Enchanted Tool --

A small tool carved from a fruit tree seed. Energy to power the enchantment has seemingly run-out long ago, and the method of recharging is unknown - but, based on the appearance, it's very likely that this was once used for detecting magic. Usually, looking through the glass center would highlight areas of higher magical energy concentration present in the viewer's environment, even if they were otherwise obscured to the naked eye. While this form of enchantment itself is highly advanced, the craftsmanship of the item is far less neat or complex than what might be typically seen in similar devices. It may have been made as part of training/practice, or as a hasty replacement for a previous tool that had broken.

#written from the perspective of some fantasy traveler who checks all of the local thrift-stores and lost & found places for every #town they visit - looking for interesting items and documenting them or something #In reality - just another one of my goofy little avocado pit carvings lol. Still working on inlaying little stones in them and stuff #I don't really have the tools to make super intricate stuff but doing little plain swirly patterns is still fine enough lol. #WORKING ON NEW POLL ADVENTURE also I know I know it's been months.. I have been Busy and struck by the evils of summer #But like I mentioned in the previous one I do want to at LEAST finish the quest with the egg lol #ANYWAY. #Things like this would plausibly exist in Nanyevimi (my fantasy world) but wouldn't be very common as - like mentioned- this would be an #extremely advanced enchantment. REALLY advanced mages could sense magic around them (to varying degrees of pinpoint accuracy of location #) without even having to use any external device. But for a majority of people there's really no way to know someone is using magic near #you unless you either see visual proof or if it's strong enough to feel effects from it (since magic is kind of like radiation in that the #higher energy/more of it youre exposed to the more it damages you/can make you sick/etc.) and even then most people would just be like #'hmm why do I feel so nauseous and bad out of nowhere?' likely wouldn't directly think to link it to magic. Thus the only really reliable w #way isto just hone your senses over like 500 years as you become an expert mage - OR use enchantments like these. But a 'sense magic' encha #ntment is not as common as a just 'magic is not allowed here' enchantment. If you wanted to prevent magic from being usedin a space #it's easier to just put up a broad barrier enchantment around that space than to have some sort of Magic Sensor to pick out if it's being #done and then handle each individual case of it . etc. etc. These sort of things can have their uses (especially for people investigating #things or trying to be secretive about detecting something etc.) but are less common - especially in this form (where visuals are used. itd #be more likely to jsut have like 'piece of metal that gets warm or cool depending on magic nearby'.) ANWAY so this is why it's a notable #object. Though a majority of the realm is not very magic literate - if you were a researcher or a mage and found this at a pawn shop you'd #definitely be like 'oohhh!! :0 inch resting... ' if not you might just be like 'oh cool necklace!' lol #also love the quick 2min ''costume'' for the image of it being used. literally just 'wrap yourself in scarves from the waist up' and slap o #a wig and ears lol #on this blog I guess since it's worldbuilding related and technically art.. maybe more like crafting? I should have a crafts tag lol.. hmm

[teaandsmut]

WIP Wednesday

Here's another bit from my WIP chapter 22 of Tactical Disadvantage, this time with an emphasis on the 'in progress' part of 'WIP'.

(This what my fics/chapters sometimes look like if I haven't fully figured out the emotional thread and I'm starting to get lost. This chapter has half a dozen pairs of red and blue text marking prompts and responses in significant emotional shifts to help me try to make sense of it. Plus blanks I haven't filled in and things I haven't decided yet.)

***

She waited for Catra to take the bait, unsure if they were flirting. She gave a tiny smile for reassurance when Catra glanced sideways.

Catra’s expression clouded in response. She dropped Glimmer’s hand.

“Is everyone in position?” asked Catra, pointedly changing the subject as she fixed her gaze on the ship.

Glimmer stared at her. [Need an extra beat between dropping her hand and the next sentence, where her emotional state/thoughts stall before starting to rise.] She was torn between begging Catra to explain [demanding that Catra explain?] herself and shoving her with exasperation. “Uh, yeah,” she managed. “It shouldn’t be long now.”

[Catra says something professional-sounding.]

#glitra #spop #wip wednesday #the colours are less visually straining in the actual draft document but these are all that tumblr has to offer

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: trying to solve my narrative issues by spending a fuckton of time mapping them out

#purple are scenes. red are themes. blue are… don’t worry about blue it was just for me to track some motifs #a nice way to visualize which scenes are actually worth finishing & which ones might need to get scrapped if i can’t find the juice #procrastination takes many forms! #this is a true wip unlike most of my other wip wednesdays. Peeling back the curtains here. #welcome to my twisted mind #this will not be my only post of the day bc it is a little lackluster lmao #i am afraid to finish writing it because then i will have written it and it will be finished if that makes sense #then i will have said everything i wanted to say about ice & mav and i will have nothing left to say #actually… ive already written all that. what isn’t written is all the connective tissue ‘character moves from A to B’ stuff #boring stuff #I’ve already written everything i wanted to say about ice and mav. that’s a little terrifying. #it’s all in this document.

[gayroman]

RELEASE THE AUGUST CUT!!!! (tbhc doc)

OKAY SO the document has some incredibly embarrassing notes and ideas + its linked to my email with my full name so i'm not gonna share a link to it BUT here are some screenshots from it + pictures and stuff

re-reading some of these, i have no idea what the fuck i was talking about

i have no idea when these photos are from but they are sooooo tbhc the frontman #To Me

i liked the idea of the frontman coming with his band to the moon and being the in-house lounge band, (hence part one being "lounge singer shimmer") and playing there for a while. the part in star treatment about being a little too wild in the 70s, i think, could be imagined as the frontman is now a little past his peak - or at least, this is how the public/audience sees him. which i say because i think that a lot what builds up the character is the perception of how they are viewed by the people who consume the product, in this case, the art and the singer. i was reading annotations of tbhc songs on genius.com and i found this one for the lyric "maybe i was a little too wild in the 70s" that i wanted to use a bit as a background for the character: Alex Turner himself could never have been too wild in the 1970s; he was born in 1986. As such, here he is most likely playing the role of an aging rock star whose career peaked in the 70s and is now forced to get by as the resident singer at the futuristic Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino on the moon. This narrator crops up a number times across the record and is used to draw parallels between his form of isolation and that of Turner.

i didn't want to see it as "forced" to take the job as the lounge singer, but instead as a way to seperate from earth, and who the singer was in the 70s - too wild. to be able to become a more refined artist (for lack of a better word). it might've been a post from you, or from a mutual or something, that talked about how alex turner will sing about the melacholia of achiving your dreams and the sadness that can come with that. i can't find the post but i do think this idea is very interesting, and can lend into the characterization of the frontman, and what drives his emotions. genius says this about star treatment: Turner personifies a washed up lead of the fictional band The Martini Police, and crafts a rich metaphor for how idolized celebrities are never seen except from a distance, similar to the light of a star. i think that the frontman should feel very disconnected to the people around him, less so to his band, but especially the guests at the hotel. just like how the monkeys went from am to tbhc, i wanted to add that a bit to the plot. the frontman, now sliding away from the 70s persona he had, wants to branch out and try something new. but sex sells! even though he no longer wants to be that guy, or play that role, he still wants to make something people will love. so its a bit about deciding to just do your own thing and create the art that you want to create without the worry of what the consumers will think. art, not a product.

i hope this makes sense. please tell me to shut up if it doesn't.

i also wanted to play a bit into the idea of double lives, and personas and playing character, although i haven't quite worked that out yet fully. that's why i called part seven i think it was??? "i suppose a singer must die." i also considered using "what a death i died."

i think also themes from the car can also be pulled into this, because i think, more than any other two am albums, the car and tbhc are a little connected. with mr schwartz and how he, the actor mr schwartz, is connected very much to the people working on the set, who help him get into character. big ideas with coming up with something new and being excited about it. "your horrible new sound" lyric in sculptures of anything goes. the lyric about keeping on the costume to use as a writing tool in body paint. themes of being a performer rather than being a lover and being in love. but idk man, maybe this makes no sense at all. but the car and tbhc are sister albums To Me because they are my two favourite am albums and they will always be loved by me. ALSO pretty visitors and the look into fame at such a young age. also the dream synopsis and the bourne identity by tlsp.

i also thought a bit about how the hotel might look. the taquería - "the information action ratio", a lounge, obviously, where they will perform, a pool, a spa, all that stuff. so its most like a resort than a hotel. and i thought the line "everybody's on a barge /floating down the endless stream of great tv" and the idea of giving the hotel a little movie theater called "the barge" as a little nod to the lyric. visually, 2001: a space odyssey is, of course, a huge inspiration in terms of looks. i don't know if you've seen 2001 but there's this spot on a space station where its all very white and blank except for massive, bright red chairs. i like the idea of decor like that, maybe even a spot just like that, to pay homage to the film. i think also "retro realism" is a good jumping point. how people from 50 years ago imagined what the future would be like. blade runner, that sort of thing.

i think also "retro realism" is a good jumping point. how people from 50 years ago imagined what the future would be like. blade runner, that sort of thing. 1950s astropunk. taking inspiration from older science fiction movies rather than newer ones. also vintage interiors and hotels that look like the one in the shining.

i did also think about the idea of leaning more into a horror, like psychological, but i think it should be more of a study in character. a tbhc horror film would still be cool though.

so yeah. idk if any of this makes sense and maybe i'm off my rocker and don't understand the album at all. but it's a little fun to think about.

#do with it what you will #friend who got me into am is for sure regretting it because i have since become the most annoying person alive #did not mean to make this so long omg #my tbhc tag is essentially inspiration for it visually and all that stuff #i also wanted to play a bit with a romance since alex aludes a lot to a love he lost or someone he longs for still #but more on that another time! #i also made a playlist for it but its a little silly and all over the place #tbhc #gonna have to add all this stuff to the document actually since i kinda went off book #but anyways yeah hope you like it #asks

[bookwyrminspiration]

i love writing in other languages. I love when the doc thinks every single word is wrong it’s actually how i prefer to write. I wish it did that all the time

#shitpost #language learning #95% of the words on this document have an underline #which is exactly what's expected it's just funny #a little annoying visually but still funny #if you saw the version where I spelled that word wrong no you didn't

[fjordfolk]

once again fighting the urge to shave down troj just to see if there's any dog in there

#/j but i do miss being around dogs #where you could visualize and document progress vs #having to go by fingertips and memory

[wiiwarechronicles]

the photo album annotation thing reminded me of something they did in my kindergarten: whenever we drew something they'd ask us what the drawing was and then they'd just write anything we said, weird phrasing and incorrect grammar included, on the side of the drawing. it's VERY funny to read back on and seems like something eret would do with drawings yogurt makes for them :)

That is such a cute idea and definitely something I think Eret would do.. when yogurt is older they sometimes go through the drawings together I think <3

#it’s very embarrassing to yogurt HDBWHD #eret #yogurt dsmp #dsmp #softiestyx #anon #maidsmop #thank you very much anon I’m JDBSJ!! I THINK ITS A REALLY REALLY CUTE VISUAL AUGGG #the idea of Eret holding onto all the kids’s stuff with the same care they have for historical documents is so funny and sweet

[spilladabalia]

From BODIES IN URBAN SPACES, a series by WILLI DORNER

© Willi Dorner, 2007-present.

The photographic documentation of Lisa Rastl about Willi Dorner’s project is available as a photo book by Hatje Cantz Verlag.

(Sources: www.ciewdorner.at/ instagram.com/ciewillidorner/)

#willi dorner #bodies in urban spaces #body art #visual art #photography #photo series #photo project #exhibition #lisa rastl #photo documentation #hatje cantz verlag #photobook #2007 #2020

[fortunatelyfresco]

constantly torn between hating the pathologization of the Syndromes i have that are named, and hating the lack of resources for the Symptoms i have that aren't

#waiting for a brain MRI that may or may not provide any answers about my visual processing deficits #and if it doesn't then i'm just basically fucked #i might be able to at least take my last neuropsych results to someone who has more experience with NVLD and get that diagnosis reinstated #which like. might help with documentation but not much else

[starscelly]

if i could get my grubby little hands on footage of miro and roope taking their rookie lap together it would be Over For You Bitches. And Also For Me.

#why are these things not well documented dot com #i need it so bad #i know its soo boring and unimportant visually but NARRATIVELY it is EVERYTHING #yap yap yapping

[lettersfrombeachhead]

tss.asenheim.org is a website that makes retro PC-98 visual novel games playable in your browser. super fun if you like old (16bit+) game graphics and visual novels, or are just curious about video game archival projects. i found it once, searched in vain for the link for weeks, and JUST found it again so i decided to post it here in case i lost it again.

#found documents #visual novel #anime

[mattiasdrawings]

Drawing to remember / understand / take notes / document / stay awake

More drawings, zines, projects ---> mattiasg.se

Instagram: @mattiasgunnarsson

#drawing #line drawing #journal #art journal #illustration #art #sketch #sketchbook #notes #notebook #bw #ink #visual notes #graphic #figurative #documentation