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kato-neimoidia · 3 months

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15 questions for 15 friends

Thanks @willameena and @somethingsteff for the tags!

1. Are you named after anyone?

2. When was the last time you cried?

About an hour ago! Just a little cry, my parents and brother have been visiting me over the weekend as it's my birthday soon and they'd just left so I'm back to being here on my own!

3. Do you have kids?

No, and I don't see that in my future, but am honorary auntie to my friends children

4. What sports do you play/ have you played?

Currently playing field hockey. I've been playing for 11 years now. I absolutely love it, playing in defense and in goal, and also coach and umpire (umpiring only when they reeeeally need me to though!).

Have played - would be easier to list what I haven't 😂 I've played football, cricket, basketball, netball, volleyball, to name a few.

While being able bodied myself, a friend of mine who works with local charities for disabilities organised some wheelchair basketball tournaments that I'd been invited to play in. Quite an experience! Don't think I embarrassed myself too much, but a bunch of us from my hockey team put a team together, and we had fun and a laugh with the other teams involved.

5. Do you use sarcasm?

Yes, to my detriment. I once sarcastically agreed to be a hockey team captain one year, the sarcasm wasn't picked up and a couple of months later I see a facebook post advertising me as one of the captains :| I followed through and did the year, but never again!

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Eyes, mouth, facial expression, gauging their interest in the current situation

7. What's your eye colour?

Blue and brown - brown around the pupils, kinda starbursting out into blue towards the edges (central heterochromia o.O)

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Scary movies usually, I'm a bit cynical and like it when there's a twist at the end where the bad guy wins!

9. Any talents?

Not especially, I'm reasonably good at as sports and crafty things. My 'weird' talent would be that my fingers are hypermobile, so my fingers bend a bit backwards at the knuckles, and I can bent the finger tip joints while keeping the rest of the finger straight

10. Where were you born?

Oxfordshire, UK. Moved to Bedfordshire/Hertfordshire area before I was 1 and have stayed here since

11. What are your hobbies?

Playing hockey, video games, reading, crafting and making little things, such as reconfiguring and painting funko pops, and recently made myself a Sabine Wren mando armour costume for halloween

12. Do you have any pets?

13. How tall are you?

5' 1.5"

14. Favourite subject in school?

I was quite partial to maths, biology, and PE

15. Dream job?

Not really sure.. I was always interested in computing and ended up with a job in the IT industry, but it's more in the 'business' side than computing. I've gone vegan and got an electric car over the last 2 years, and have been trying to be more 'green' in general. So it would be cool to be able to do something in that realm, making steps in that direction more accessible and financially viable for businesses and the general public. If money wasn't an object I used to want to work in Game or HMV so I could just play games all day and mess about with merch, while somehow not getting fired

No pressure tags (sorry if you've already been tagged, but enjoy another if so!) @briliantlymad, @isthisfree, @lesbianakins, @underacalicosky, @grapenehifics, @starwalkertales, @piecesofeden11, @trannakinskywalker, @sashkalive, @billowypantss, @mars-attacking, @bolshoiromanova, @vaderborn, @veloursdor, @tideswept

And anyone else who fancies doing this, open invite!

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cakesexuality · 2 years

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do you have any goal you want to accomplish by the end of the summer?

I didn't really have any goals in mind before receiving this Ask, but now you've got me thinking!!

I need to work on my sewing because I have a few projects in mind right now and a lot of materials taking up space!! I also wanna get through those projects so I can work up to making clothes for adult humans... we went to Fabricland yesterday and my mom offered to buy me a dress form since they were 50% off but I said no since I'm at the stage of making small crafty things, although that would maybe be motivation to start making bigger, more complex things, especially since I lowkey offered to make stuff for a local queen a little while back

We only went into Fabricland for A zipper!! I got a new heating pad a couple months ago and it's bigger than the one I already had but I hate the covers that come with them, so I made a new cover only to realise that out of ALL the zippers I have in my stash, none would be appropriate for the project, so I needed a SINGULAR pink, plastic, 12-inch zipper to be able to close the cover... now I've got one and can finally check that off my list very soon!! I know that the zipper is a different pink than the spots in the fabric, but I figured I'd rather have the wrong pink or the wrong blue and have it look like a style choice than to get the wrong white and have it look like a mistake

While we were there, I went to look at the quilting cottons, because I was hoping they'd have this purple and pink medical print since I already have some but it's so cute that I'm scared to use it, and then I stumbled upon this sprinkle print which I went for because a) I love things with a sprinkle design because it reminds me of cakes and cupcakes, and b) just earlier that day, I'd been watching a video of Crystal Methyd opening her mail and she got gloves with a similar print, so it felt meant to be. (Fabricland has a lot of photorealistic food prints in their quilting cottons and I live for it. Get you some photorealistic potatoes on your quilt.) The medical print was $27/metre and the sprinkle print was $29/metre so I only got a little bit of each 🥲 but I plan on making scrunchies and masks with them.

I also found this Barbie panel yesterday. I don't know what it's meant for since it only has the two designs on it, but I figured I'd make it into a tote bag, and I'm now realising it could be for a throw pillow. This was on clearance, so luckily it was only $5/panel. (There were more Barbie fabrics, but they weren't on sale and cost $35/metre, forget about it lol)

While I was getting those cut, my mom wandered off and found this fabric in a remnants bin. The label says it's made of unknown material, but it feels like a lighter version of canvas and is one of those home decor fabrics, so she wants me to make it into curtains for the kitchen. The photo is me holding it up like that to compare to the wall colour. My mom said something about "finding a pattern" and I didn't really know what she meant until a while after, when I realised she meant a pattern to cut and sew from, but... they're curtains... the pattern is a rectangle...

And since I mentioned Barbie earlier, I've had this fabric at home for probably 3 years now, and I bought it for making into a skirt but haven't gotten any fabrics to go with it so I can do the lining, waistband, etc. I tend to mumble to myself about the project in question while I get my fabrics cut, so when I got this one cut, I must've said something about the length down the leg or something, because the employee asked if I was making a child's dress and I had to tell her it was a skirt for myself lol

My great-aunt went into a nursing home a few months ago and she was a very crafty lady up until she stopped being able to do so (like, I've inherited what seems to be an Anne of Green Gables costume she made herself for teaching elementary school), so I've ended up with a lot of her sewing stuff as her sister, my mom, and their cousins have been working to clear out my great-aunt's belongings. Some of it is half-finished projects, some of it is leftover materials, and some of it is materials that are completely unused. We came across a dinosaur plushie that is nearly done, all she needed to do was close the seams, attach the limbs to the body, and add a face, so I wanna do that!! There's also these train engine buttons still in the complete set and my cousin works with trains, so I don't know whether to make something for him or for his young son, but maybe a lunch bag or something.

🧵 ✨ Lots of things to do ✨ 🧵

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themanthemyththeverite · 2 years

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A few days late, but what were some of your favorite smuts from 2021? Yours or other writers’.

A few more days late couldn't hurt, could it?

My personal favorite to write in 2021 was definitely Reasons, and I still think that piece is probably one of my better ones to date, though my collab with @worldsover was also kind of insane and surprising given how much trouble I had coordinating with friends back in the day when I used to write with them all the time (i.e. writing style, tone, diction, humor, brainstorming). We meshed pretty well, (especially on the procrastination) and it was really, really fun.

But enough about me. For other authors:

Set Dressing by @nsfwflint

Duh, I've kinda been harping on this one all year. It's good. It's great. You won't read anything else for the next two weeks. One yay for Sua, one yay for Seungyeon, and three yays for the sexy, sexy writing.

Queen of Hearts by @lockefanfic

Also duh, mentioned this one before already about how satisfying the writing is and how much I love Seulgi. So sweet, so innocent, yet so coy, so crafty.

Neither Here Nor There by @worldsover

All I can say is Winter is definitely in the top 10 for me; she gives off such sweet energy. Her straight face is so, so, so cool though, like it's simultaneously cute and like "damn girl", like how the fuck does the camera not melt when she looks at it like that I mean—okay, I'm done rambling. Great piece, excellent writing, and Karina and Winter are a perfect pairing.

Idol Club (Part 1?) by @banananutsmuthie

Yiren is not someone I've ever taken an interest to before, but I loved this to the moon and back. Very interesting cyborg concept, and definitely cool (personally would love some sociopolitical shading but hey, I grew up writing about how much I hated authority with my friends, so call me a crazy person I guess).

Ring Ring by @ggidolsmuts

Leave it to Ddeun to draw my intrigue to another idol I've never thought of before: Treva Queen. Really liked the use of the costume and the outfit, and while at first glance I admit, I was skeptical, I was definitely convinced of its (high?) quality after I read it.

Late Night Ride by @writerpeach

Another one I've mentioned before, and it should come as no surprise given my appreciation for Hayoung. She's great and Peach is an insanely talented writer, so the fusion of the two could only be one of catastrophic, reality-bending proportions. My expectations were not let down.

And that's all I have the energy to find right now, but make sure to check all the writers out there, including the ones I might not have listed. This community is so much bigger than it was when I started, which is kind of a shock since I've only been here for a year. Anyways, everyone's style is different, so swing by all the masterlists with some New Year's resolution-esque vigor!

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flufffysocks · 3 years

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let's talk about andi mack's worldbuilding

sorry this took forever to make! i've been pretty busy with school stuff and i kind of lost my inspiration for a bit, but i ultimately really enjoyed writing it! i wish i could've included more pics (tumblr has a max of 10 per post), and it kinda turned from less of a mini analysis to more of an extremely long rant... but i hope it's still a fun read!

i've been rewatching the show over the past few weeks (thanks again to @disneymack for the link!), and i’ve been noticing a lot that i never did the first time around. this is really the first time i’ve watched the show from start to finish since it aired, and it honestly feels so different this time - probably a combination of the fact that i’m not as focused on plot and can appreciate the show as a whole, and also that the fandom is much, much smaller now, so there’s a lot less noise. so the way i’m consuming this show feels super different than it did the first time, but the show itself doesn’t - it’s just as warm and comforting to me as it was the first time around, if not more so.

i think a lot of that can be attributed to andi mack’s “worldbuilding”. i’m not quite sure that this is the right word in this context, to be honest, because i mostly see it used in reference to fantasy and sci-fi universes, but it just sort of feels right to me for andi mack, because you can really tell how much love and care went into constructing this universe. for clarity, worldbuilding is “the process of creating an imaginary world” in its simplest sense. there’s two main types: hard worldbuilding, which involves inventing entire universes, languages, people, cultures, places, foods, etc. from scratch (think “lord of the rings” or “dune”), and soft worldbuilding, in which the creators don’t explicitly state or explain much about the fictional universe, but rather let it’s nature reveal itself as the story progresses (think studio ghibli films). andi mack to me falls in the soft worldbuilding category. even though it takes place in a realistic fiction universe, there’s a lot of aspects to it that are inexplicably novel in really subtle ways.

so watching the show now, i’ve noticed that the worldbuilding comes primarily from two things - setting and props, and oftentimes the both of them in tandem (because a big part of setting in filmmaking does depend on the props placed in it!).

one of the most obvious examples is the spoon. it really is a sort of quintessential, tropic setting in that it's the main gang's "spot", which automatically gives it a warm and homey feel to it. and its set design only amplifies this:

the choice to make it a very traditional 50s-style diner creates a very nostalgic, retro feel to it, which is something that's really consistent throughout the show, as you'll see. from the round stools at the bar, to the booths, to the staff uniforms, this is very obvious. the thing that i found especially interesting about it though is the choice of color. the typical 50s diner is outfitted with metallic surfaces and red accented furnishings, but the spoon is very distinctly not this.

instead, it's dressed in vibrant teal and orange, giving it a very fresh and modern take on a classic look. so it still maintains that feeling of being funky and retro, but that doesn't retract from the fact that the show is set distinctly in modern times.

of course, this could just be a one-off quirky set piece, but this idea of modernizing and novelizing "retro" things is a really common motif throughout the show. take red rooster records. i mean, it's a record shop - need i say more? it's obviously a very prominent store in shadyside, at least for the main characters, but there's no apparent reason why it is (until season 2 when bowie starts working there, and jonah starts performing there). a lot of the time, though, it functions solely as a record shop. vinyl obviously isn't the most practical or convenient way of listening to music, but it's had its resurgence in pop culture even in the real world, mostly due to its aesthetic value, so it's safe to say that it serves the same purpose in the andi mack universe.

the fringe seems to be nostalgic of a different era, specifically the Y2K/early 2000s period (because it's meant to be bex's territory and symbolic of who she used to be, and its later transformation into cloud 10 is representative of her character arc, but that's beside the point). to be honest, exactly what this store was supposed to be always confused me. it was kind of a combination party store/clothing store/makeup store/beauty parlor? i think that's sort of the point of it though, it's supposed to feel very grunge-y and chaotic (within the confines of a relatively mellow-toned show, of course), and it's supposed to act as a sort of treasure chest of little curios that both make the place interesting and allow the characters to interact with it.

and, of course, there's andi shack. this is really the cherry on top of all of andi mack's sets, just because it's so distinctly andi. it serves such amazing narrative purpose for her (ex. the storyline where cece and ham were going to move - i really loved this because it highlights its place in the andi mack universe so well, and i'm a sucker for the paper cranes shot + i'm still salty that sadie's cranes didn't make it into the finale) and it's the perfect reflection of andi's character development because of how dynamic it is (the crafts and art supplies can get moved around or switched out, and there's always new creations visible).

going back to the nostalgia motif though, the "shack" aspect of it always struck me as very treehouse-like. personally, whenever i think of treehouses, there's this very golden sheen of childhood about it, if that makes sense. i've always seen treehouses in media as a sort of shelter for characters' youthful innocence and idealistic memories. for example, the episode "up a tree" from good luck charlie, the episode "treehouse" from modern family, and "to all the boys 2" all use a treehouse setting as a device to explore the character's desire to hold onto their perfect image of their childhood (side note: this exact theme is actually explored in andi mack in the episode "perfect day 2.0"!). andi shack is no exception to this, but it harnesses this childhood idealism in the same way that it captures the nostalgia of the 50s in the spoon, or the early 2000s in the fringe. it's not some image of a distant past being reflected through that setting; it's very present, and very alive, because it reflects andi as she is in the given moment.

some honorable mentions of more one-off settings include the ferris wheel (from "the snorpion"), the alley art gallery (from "a walker to remember"), SAVA, the color factory (from "it's a dilemna"), and my personal favorite, the cake shop (from "that syncing feeling").

[every time i watch this episode i want to eat those cakes so bad]

these settings have less of a distinctly nostalgic feel (especially the color factory, which is a very late 2010s, instagram era setting), but they all definitely have an aura of perfection about them. andi mack is all about bright, colorful visuals, and these settings really play to that, making the andi mack universe seem really fun and inviting, and frankly very instagrammable (literally so, when it comes to the color factory!).

props, on the other hand, are probably a much less obvious tool of worldbuilding. they definitely take up less space in the frame and are generally not as noticeable (i'm sure i'll have missed a bunch that will be great examples, but i'm kind of coming up with all of this off the top of my head), but they really tie everything together.

for example, bex's box, bex's polaroid, and the old tv at the mack apartment (the tv is usually only visible in the periphery of some shots, so you might not catch it at first glance) all complement that very retro aesthetic established through the settings (especially the polaroid and the tv, because there's really no good reason that the characters would otherwise be using these).

besides this, andi's artistic nature provides the perfect excuse for plenty of colorful, crafty props to amplify the visuals and the tone. obviously, as i discussed before, andi shack is the best example of this because it's filled with interesting props. but you also see bits of andi's (and other people's) crafts popping up throughout the show (ex. the tape on the fridge in the mack apartment, andi's and libby's headbands in "the new girls", walker's shoes, andi's phone case, and of course, the bracelet). not only does doing this really solidify this talent as an essential tenet of andi's character, but it also just makes the entirety of shadyside feel like an extension of andi shack. the whole town is a canvas for her crafts (or art, depending on how you want to look at it. i say it's both), and it immensely adds to shadyside's idealism. because who wouldn't want to live in a world made of andi mack's creations?

and, while it's not exactly a prop, the characters' wardrobe is undoubtedly a major influence on the show's worldbuilding. true to it's nature as a disney channel show, all of the characters are always dressed in exceptionally curated outfits of whatever the current trends are, making the show that much more visually appealing. i won't elaborate too much on this, because i could honestly write a whole other analysis on andi mack's fashion (my favorites are andi's and bex's outfits! and kudos to the costume designer(s) for creating such wonderful and in-character wardrobes!). but, i think it's a really really important aspect of how the show's universe is perceived, so it had to be touched upon.

[^ some of my favorite outfits from the show! i am so obsessed with andi's jacket in the finale, and i aspire to be at bex's level of being a leather jacket bisexual]

and lastly, phones. this is a bit of an interesting case (pun intended), because the way they're used fluctuates a bit throughout the show, but i definitely noticed that at least in the first season terri minsky tried to avoid using them altogether. these efforts at distancing from modern tech really grounds the show in it's idealist, nostalgia-heavy roots, so even when the characters start using their phones more later in the show, they don't alter the viewer's impression of the andi mack universe very much.

so, what does all of this have to do with worldbuilding? in andi mack's case, because it's set in a realistic universe and not a fantasy one, a lot of what sets it apart from the real world comes down to tone. because, as much as this world is based on our own, it really does feel separate from it, like an alternate reality that's just slightly more perfect than ours, which makes all the difference. it's the idealism in color and composition in andi mack's settings that makes it so unmistakably andi mack. even the weather is always sunny and perfect (which is incredibly ironic because the town is called shadyside - yes, i am very proud of that observation).

the andi mack universe resides somewhere in this perfect medium that makes it feel like a small town in the middle of nowhere (almost like hill valley in 1955 from "back to the future"), but at the same time like an enclave within a big city (because of its proximity to so many modern, unique, and honestly very classy looking establishments). it is, essentially, an unattainable dream land that tricks you into believing it is attainable because it's just real enough.

all this to say, andi mack does an amazing job of creating of polished, perfect world for its characters. this is pretty common among disney channel and nickelodeon shows, but because most other shows tend to be filmed in a studio with three-wall sets, andi mack is really set apart from them in that it automatically feels more real and tangible. it has its quintessential recurring locations, but it has far more of them (most disney/nick shows usually only have 3-4 recurring settings), and it has a lot more one-off locations. it's also a lot more considerate when it comes to its props, so rather than the show just looking garish and aggressively trendy, it has a distinctive style that's actually appropriate to the characters and the story. overall this creates the effect of expanding the universe, making shadyside feel like it really is a part of a wider world, rather than an artificial bubble. it's idealism is, first and foremost, grounded in reality, and that provides a basis for its brilliant, creative, and relatable storytelling.

tl;dr: andi mack's sets and props give it a very retro and nostalgic tone which makes its whole universe seem super perfect and i want to live there so bad!!

#andi mack #buffy driscoll #cyrus goodman #jonah beck #tj kippen #tyrus #ambi #bex mack #analysis #film analysis #disney channel

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