#excellent storytelling

[kryptonian-in-winterfell]

Yes, I was simping for Mizu the entire season- very sexy how they were always covered in blood and filled with an unquenchable rage.

But, you know what really brought me to my knees??

Akemi, standing tall, chin raised, silhouetted by the burning palace filled with soldiers slowing dying because she trapped them inside, saying “I want to be great”

MA’AM. HOT DAMN

#blue eye samurai #yes I finally got around to watching it #beautiful #excellent storytelling #gay #perfect show

[revginapond]

Has a great cast for a low budget sci fi: Mira Furlan (!!), Bruce Boxlietner, Bill Mumy, and Doug Jones!

#scifi #star trek #babylon 5 #awesomeness #low budget #excellent storytelling #storytelling #scien fiction #Youtube

[nimthirielrinon]

My goodness astray is such a good game!!!

#stray 2022 #stray game #i love it so much #excellent storytelling #just beautiful #cute af #omg feelings

[novelconcepts]

The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.

#the sandman #paper girls #some of the hot takes on Twitter are breaking me #‘why don’t we know the whole story? it’s bad writing if you don’t have a complete story in the first season’ girl WHAT since WHEN #how many excellent shows were weak as fuck in S1?? and here we’re getting shows with incredible first seasons fighting for their lives #like fuckin Christ dude the idea of long form storytelling is allowing your story time and space to spread out #otherwise we would only make movies #i am so sick of this edge of my seat fear that any new show I fall in love with will get axed because the higher powers don’t care about art #this has to be a bubble right? this has to pop at some point and go back to shows valued on what they are #and don’t even get me started on creators having to beg for good reviews to balance out review-bombing from shitheads #if every one star review is clearly bigoted from the comments? why is anyone taking them into account?? #why is there no way to manage this shit aside from creators being like ‘please help us”’

[otaku553]

Other than ASL, which characters do you like in One Piece? Whether it’s design, story role, personality etc.

I have SO many favorites in one piece it’s kind of difficult to choose lmao

Storytelling wise, outside of ASL and the main crew, I’ve really enjoyed Bonney and Law! Bonney especially with the recent arc in the manga :’) she’s so loved…….

(We don’t talk about Bonney’s canonical design. Or, at least, I won’t. Also whoops I forgot law’s other knuckle tats,,,, ignore that)

Otherwise I also really enjoy Robin (but I’ve drawn her already for another ask hehe) and Koala? But completely for story reasons. I would say there’s probably not a single female character in one piece whose design I fully enjoy just because at times I am convinced that Oda has never actually seen a woman before. But their stories are so incredibly compelling,,,,,,

Visual design wise I kind of enjoy Koby and Helmeppo and how they’ve changed over time! And I absolutely adore Jinbei and Brook and Chopper! Design wise I actually probably most enjoy brook and jinbei, and maybe post time skip zoro? I just think they’re really neat,,,

OH. AMD GEAR 5TH LUFFY. I CANNOT BELIEVE I ALMOST FORGOT GEAR 5TH LUFFY. that is just. Chefs kiss. EXCELLENT DESIGN

I think probably part of the reason I enjoy sabo so much is that he’s the only character design that just like. Fully appeals to me. Like I love his character design soooo much it is unreal. But also because he’s such a unique design among the characters (being about the only character with as much screentime as he has that dresses up as a noble) it’s difficult for me to find other characters that I enjoy so much visually. As reprehensible as nobles are in the story of one piece, I tend to especially enjoy characters that are more formally dressed,,,, honestly if they extended that sort of aesthetic to the entirety of the revolutionary army I would probably have a lot more favorite characters lmao

#one piece #jewelry bonney #trafalgar law #oh boy I have so many thoughts about the character design in one piece. #oda is such an excellent storyteller. and yet. AND YET. #so many times I have been told by people that they don’t want to get into one piece because of the female character designs and honestly!! #yeah!! that was really off putting to me as well!! I honestly have no clue how Oda is able to write such amazing characters and then #give them the worst designs known to mankind in some scenarios #I still at some point really want to go through and redraw a bunch of the female characters in one piece #but also I feel like that’s rather iffy territory to step into and if I get even a single negative message I will absolutely crumble

[gunsatthaphan]

💀💀💀

#neo trai #firstkhao #firstkhaotung #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #gmmtv #gmmtv live house #neomark #mark pakin #LMAOOO #just spent 7 minutes laughing at this dkjhgkjdf 😭 #FK in their bully era HHHHH #why can I picture this though 😭😭😭😭😭 #ur friends arent ur friends if they dont laugh at ur haircut 💀 #this was such a rollercoaster though im screaming #starting with the fact that he cut his hair bc mark made a comment lmao #neo is an excellent storyteller #actually not a big fan of this hair either lol #but still I would cry for 3 months if I was him jdkhfkd #my subs

[aroacehanzawa]

the thing is dazai can't die because that would simply be bad storytelling

#i may be the outlier here but i'm fairly indifferent about this chapter #..........as i've been about the past 20+ chapters too #sigma reading fyodor's memories/information was good tho. that scene was excellent #so if sigma actually dies for real that would be even WORSE from a storytelling perspective #bsd

[gelljc]

chidori my love

#persona 3 #persona 3 reload #chidori yoshino #persona 3 chidori #my art #i only just finished my first playthrough of p3p recently (with feMC) and it is now one of my favorite games #it already had excellent storytelling!! but i’m excited for strega to get more fleshed out in p3re #now to patiently wait for the next p3re trailer

[ennaih]

Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

12. Good Grief (2023)

#good grief #good grief (2023) #2024filmgifs #my gifs #queer film #i didn't love that as much as i thought i would #but i liked it a whole lot #every character was so rich and had their own life #which i wanted especially for our friends of colour #and i knew Dan would be conscious of that #and he was #Himesh Patel's performance was so wonderful #i need to see him in more stuff #and of course Ruth Negga was excellent #the grief stuff didn't feel particularly profound #but i did like the brain as a muscle thing #and i remember when Redmond died #how shocked and distressed i was for Dan #i hope he makes more films #and i know he'll evolve as a storyteller #he's so dear to me #i recognise so much of myself in him #it's such an odd thing #i FELT that paint alone line so much #like yes same i want the same thing for me

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

look Taylor swift is a secular woman with secular values as a product of living in a secular culture, but maybe we should be asking what it is about her that appeals to multiple generations of women and girls because I guarantee you it’s not that she’s unmarried with cats

#Like not to exaggerate but #She is an excellent storyteller #With a way of making both fiction and her personal experiences relate universally #Like Taylor makes the interior lives of women valuable and that is just…super neat??? #Do people even listen to her????

[aparticularbandit]

this entire meta is basically summed up in that opening scene.

lionel, claire, birdie, and duke working together to play miles’s game and needing each other to get through all of his puzzles to the prize at the center (the prize being more of miles) vs. andi (helen) saying enough is enough and breaking all of his puzzles with force because she’s fucking tired of playing his games.

that’s the entire movie in one scene.  that’s the entire fam in one scene.

and the most important part is that miles isn’t even there.

(and also that his gifts are an obvious and blatant distraction from their actual lived in lives - claire’s on zoom for her campaign, and she’s distracted; lionel’s meeting with alpha scientists, and he’s distracted; birdie’s hosting a party (and peg’s trying to keep up with all of her shenanigans), and they’re distracted; duke’s trying to stream for twitch, and he’s distracted.  it’s showing how miles literally just drops something in their lives and drags them away from what they are actually doing, their actual passions, and forces them to center their lives on him.  even when he isn’t there with them.

you can even get into this with his first interaction with birdie that we see - buying that guitar to show it off for her and then literally throwing it away once the impressive moment is over and birdie running after it.

something doesn’t stop being valuable just because the moment you have use for it is over.  it still has value.  these people still have value, and you can’t just throw them away.  you can’t just throw andi away.)

#musings #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #i have so many and too many thoughts #i want to go see it again i want to analyze i want to parse through #THIS is excellent storytelling #THAT is an excellent opening #because it tells us the entire story #from the beginning #and then plays it out for us again on a larger scale #and asks us whether this family is going to be able to stop playing his games or not #they can even be FUN games #but in the end they're. still. games #and miles doesn't really think they're worth anything

[poetlcs]

albums listened to in 2024 ➝ the rise and fall of a midwest princess by chappell roan

My mama said, "Nothing good happens When it's late and you're dancing alone" She's in my head saying, "It's not attractive Wearing that dress and red lipstick"

#the rise and fall of a midwest princess #chappell roan #music #albums #music24 #mine #WOW great album! #love the rise and falls literally in the songs and storytelling #reminds me of melodrama in that sense #excellent

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

the episode of heartslabyul — the contradiction of cater diamond

The Episode of Heartslabyul chapter 21 scanlations is credited to Octopotscans!

The comparison shot comes from turtlesoupscans!

Maybe it’s just me, but the manga adaptation does a great job of demonstrating how alone Cater is without explicitly drawing attention to it. A lot of the lines characters speak are directly carried over from the game, but the use of space and framing in various panels helps to convey a sense of emptiness. It’s purely visual storytelling, done and implying more without spelling it out with words.

Chapter 21 covers the period following Riddle’s Overblot; there’s lots of emphasis on reconciliation between the dorm leader and other characters: Riddle and Trey; Riddle and Yuuken, Riddle and Ace, etc. Then you also have interactions between Ace, Deuce, Yuuken, and Grim—just some good ol’ bickering between the main group of idiots 😂

For context, Cater suggests that Trey and the headmaster see Riddle to the infirmary (which explains their absence in the pages below). Then Cater says to himself that he’s thankful that Yuuken and co. stepped in to save their dorm leader, but is quick to deny that he said anything at all when asked about it. This also happens in the game, BUT LOOK AT HOW THAT SAME SCENE IS CONVEYED IN THE MANGA 😭

The “camera” pulls out to show the distance between Cater and the gang, which is actually a lot more than I thought it was when I saw the scene in the game. This distance shows us that he doesn’t feel like a part of their “group”, and neither does he feel like a part of the group that took Riddle to the infirmary earlier.

Trey and Riddle have the connection of being childhood friends, and Yuu is closer with Grim and Adeuce than they are to Cater. And yet, curiously, it was Cater himself who told Trey to go with Riddle rather than stay behind and help him clean up the aftermath of the OB attack. But despite staying behind with Yuuken and co., Cater doesn’t seem to make an effort to join in their banter when Grim eats the OB stone. Cater makes one passing comment, but for the most part he just… watches. He doesn’t get actively involved with the group, unlike Ace and Deuce who continue to loudly freak out over Grim putting things in his mouth.

Not only that, but look at how we, the audience, are seeing Cater—from the back, his face away from us, not unlike this pose from chapter 7 (after Cater throws Yuuken and co. out using his clones):

Cater’s dispersed of all his clones, turning them into a storm of playing cards. He stands alone in a garden of roses, having sent the freshmen out of Heartslabyul. Here, Cater is literally pushing people away for the purposes of the plot, but it still lines up thematically with metaphorically distancing himself from others, just as he mimics this pose in chapter 21.

Interestingly, Cater apologizes to Yuuken and co. before ejecting them. It’s nothing personal, it’s just the rules set by the dorm. Extrapolating this to chapter 21, Cater pushing everyone away from him isn’t personal or specifically discriminatory to Yuuken/Ace/Deuce/Grim either—it is Cater that is having trouble accepting others into his life, because he has yet to come to terms with himself.

What’s a little different between Cater in 7 vs 21 is that though we, the readers, are viewing Cater from the back both times, the other characters actually see him differently in 7 vs 21. In the former, the “camera” seems to imply that Cater’s back it TO Yuuken, Ace, and Deuce. He is dismissing them, telling them “bye-bye”. Cater is acting much colder towards them, even though he wears a smile as he’s banishing them from his sight. However, in chapter 21, Cater is FACING the freshmen. It’s a small but subtle difference in framing—and it indicates that, no matter how little of an improvement it may be, Cater is slowly warming up to them.

This is the contradiction of Cater Diamond, a tale told to us via visual storytelling: he wants to have deep and meaningful friendships, but stops short of putting forth the effort to obtain them. Cater mentions wishing he had a childhood friend like Trey on a few occasions. Cater implies how lonely he was as a child, never staying in one place for long enough to make any real connections. Yet Cater is seemingly ashamed of his loneliness, hiding it under a sparkly guise and clever acting. He denies his true self to his peers (Labwear vignettes) and letting embarrassment peek through when people are able to pick up on his lies (ie Trey pointing out Cater doesn’t like sweets). He won’t let himself be vulnerable to others, and he’s too scared to reach out to them himself—but surely he is capable of changing, of finally facing others.

It’s amazing that things like this are capable of being conveyed without words 😭

#Riddle Rosehearts #Cater Diamond #twst manga #Heartslabyul #twisted wonderland manga #spoilers #notes from the writing raven #Ace Trappola #Dire Crowley #Deuce Spade #Grim #Yuuken Enma #Trey Clover #Chenya #Che’nya #twst analysis #twisted wonderland analysis #twst character analysis #twisted wonderland character analysis #the manga honestly has TONS of examples of excellent visual storytelling #I’m just using this one scene as an example #episode of heartslabyul manga #episode of heartslabyul

[mushiemadarame]

and that's what i call Character Development! ⇢ Man Trisanu Soranun as Jeng Kittiphong Atthachiranon (Step by Step, 2023, EP04&06)

#step by step the series #step by step #jeng kittiphong atthachiranon #jeng kittiphong #man trisanu soranun #man trisanu #jengpat #jeng x pat #bibidi bobidi bu #hello i'm completely normal about this show character and man #he went from rude and tactless to respecting personal boundaries in the span of two episodes we stan #i have so many thoughts about this episode i don't understand people who said it was too long and full of unnecessary things #this was actually excellent storytelling. the way they introduced a lot of subtle themes and then solved them in a way that really shows #their rapport growing as their relationship and the way they relate to each other changes and evolves #i'm gonna go scream in an empty parking lot for a bit

[cpericardium]

Commissioned by k800 for her fic Soliloquy. An AU recursive fic of Chartic's Severed, where Taylor is recruited by the S9, Soliloquy is about her reckoning with this decision through the only person who might understand: herself.

#wormblr #my art #wormwebserial #parahumans #wildbow #worm fanfic #wormfic #fic art #ao3 #taylor hebert #definitely go check it out #k800's an excellent storyteller

[fictionadventurer]

Interesting thing about Lincoln.

As a person and a politician, he was defined by his way with words. He was a lawyer, which involves speaking in courtrooms and appealing to audiences. He rose to national prominence because of how well he did in a series of public debates. He wrote speeches that have lasted through the ages because of their concise yet vivid phrasing.

He understood the world through the lens of storytelling. He had anecdotes for every situation, and constantly used them to provide metaphors explaining his stances or his strategy or his view of an issue.

As president during a Civil War, a huge part of his job was crafting the narrative explaining what they were fighting for. The Gettysburg Address reframed the national narrative so the founding moment of the country wasn't the ratification of the Constitution--as the South claimed--but the Declaration of Independence that listed the ideals that all the states should be held to. Of course, the South was doing the same thing, so that the conflict was not only a battle of muskets and cannons--it was a war of stories.

And he was killed by an actor.

In a theater.

He was struck down by an opposing storyteller in a palace of artifice. An actress made a point of cradling his dying head in her lap so she could have a part in the drama. He lived by stories and died as the center of one, in a place made for telling such stories.

It's poetic and tragic and so shockingly fitting that the war of stories claimed him as its central victim.

#presidential talk #history is awesome #this has been brewing since i listened to the lincoln podcast episode #they centered it around his words and storytelling #which was an excellent angle to take #i thought for sure they were leading up to the irony of the 'killed by an actor in a theater' thing #and they didn't even mention it #which felt like a huge missed opportunity #and i just listened to a short kid's audiobook about the hunt for booth #it was not great i don't recommend it #but it did bring this subject back to mind so now i have to inflict it on you and pretend it means something outside my own head