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myonmukyuu · 29 days
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markers #21
Happy Birthday, Ayumu! 🥳🥳
While I was in in Tokyo earlier this year, I passed by a crafts store and found lots of pretty paper flowers. I thought they'd make really pretty shikishis... 😊
I've been drawing Nijigasaki for 4 years and this would be the 3rd Ayumu birthday I've drawn for... Wow! 😅😅
Ayumu's my favourite by far - so much that it's kind of hard to word why but I'd hope that adoration comes across in my art. There was originally a comic I was making for her, but I couldn't finish it in time. I hope I can make one in time next year!
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fionnaskyborn · 2 months
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Was tagged by @oceancamp to post my current five favorite songs! (They should invent a stages-of-grief-esque model that encompasses and accurately describes both types of anguish I had to go through making this list - the one of limiting myself to only five songs, and the one of trying to put as little videogame music on here as possible so that I don't end up looking like an absolute goddamn geek, which... I am... Oh well!)
Thank you so much for tagging me - here are the songs!
Heaven Pierce Her - War Without Reason
Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Space
This specific arrangement of Death And Republic + Meet Again
Winger - Junkyard Dog (Tears On Stone)
The Protomen - Light Up The Night
Is it courtesy to tag other people after you've been tagged in a post like this? If that's the case, I'll tag @spiralled-fury, @solradguy, @swamppossum, @five-by-five, @northstarring, @ineedmoredragons and @tbonechessor!
#logs#ya don't have to participate if you don't want to‚ from what i've gathered - it's all just for fun anyway :]#The link to Yamashita's song is actually a link to a website that hosts city pop songs‚ since those keep getting taken down on YouTube due#to the strictness of Japan's copyright laws with regards to music. Uploads of Yamashita's songs in particular get taken down quite#frequently... The rest are either Bandcamp or YouTube (in case of Junkyard Dog) links#Very out-of-character of me not to put a Кино song on here‚ haha#I had a hard time deciding whether to put HOLD BACK THE NIGHT or Light Up The Night here‚ but ultimately decided on Light Up The Night#because... hoo boy#okay storytime. i've known of the protomen since somewhere around 2021. got The Good Doctor in my recommended feed‚ clicked on it because#i thought the album cover was cool + the title was appealing‚ but i never really listened to anything theirs beyond that song after that.#fast forward to 2022. be me‚ watching the greatest videoessay on planet earth (Steak Bentley's Metal Gear Solid 4 Was A Mistake).#the fucking MONTAGE comes on‚ and I fall in love with my second Protomen song. second fast forward to 2023 going into 2024‚ finally got#around to playing the Violence update. i learn of the name of level 7-2. the widest‚ most mischievous grin appears on my face.#i enter the level‚ proclaim ''ULTRAKlLL IS NOW A STEAK BENTLEY REFERENCE'' and blast the song as i get my ass beat by every single thing in#that level.#and let me tell you. getting mollywhopped ten thousand times by the FUCKING GUTTERTANK TRIO AT THE END OF THE LEVEL WAS. not a pleasant#experience. but the song made it better. :) (i played the level before the balance patch came out and uh let's just say i had more deaths on#that level than on 2gabe and 1gabe. SEVENTY-FOUR. FUCKING. RESTARTS. JESUS /CHRIST/.#goodness how i yearn to make a 3d animation of v1 going through 7-4 with that song in the background as a tribute to the man himself but#alas i am a student who has everything in the world but time#thanks for the tag again!! ^^
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n7punk · 2 months
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for all the None people who follow me and care about Trace Memory/Another Code (spoiler free I promise): if you're interested in the remaster, I recommend you only get it if you're getting it for the sequel that was never released in America. they changed a lot in Trace Memory (Another Code 1) and this isn't a "new is bad" thing (usually I prefer remasters), this is a "they cut puzzles, 'streamlined' the game, and reworked/removed the best scene in the entire game" kind of thing. the game undoubtedly looks better, but it's also missing some of the hand-drawn art that really added to its story. there are some improvements (the new voice acting is cool to have, especially having it be optional, and the way they implemented the autoplay feature for that is clever. there are some improved scenes they could rework with the benefit of 3D graphics and voice acting), but I don't think it should be your first Trace Memory experience.
if you can't get your hands on the DS line and an emulator isn't working for the puzzles (something I can see - some of them did actually need to be cut just for being janky or more difficult than they needed to be) and this is the only way you can ever experience the first game, I recommend it over not playing the game, I'm just saying it's not the original. from what I can tell they normed the style of the first game with the second, so it's brighter and all the dialogue and non-flashback cutscenes are rendered in game, which loses some of the impact of the stylistic comic panels. I never thought I'd prefer flat art to rendered cut scenes but in a game like this the hand-drawn, kinda gritty art did a LOT and the brightly-rendered 3D models just don't lend themselves to the mystery of all these people's deaths. I am excited to play the second game since, changes or not, this is the only way to experience it in America (like I said, I still recommend Another Code: Recollection if it's the only way you can experience Trace Memory), but I would say the remaster is mostly worth buying for the sequel if you like the original game.
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emiett · 5 months
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What’s screentone?
Screentone is a transparent patterned sticker traditionally used to make the gray tones and sometimes effects in manga! They come in big sheets. You can see part of the sheet I used for Harrow's veil in the bottom right of the photo showing my materials.
Here's a vid of one of my favorite mangaka using it! You cut out a bit and lay it on your drawing. It doesn't stick right away, so you can cut the shape you want with a knife right on top of your drawing and then press the sticker down. I used a hard and porous eraser made for screentones to lighten the screentone over Harrow's face and doubled up on it for the parts of the veil that overlap.
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eightyone-fortyfour · 5 months
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gonna rewatch qualis and races oscar did well in to make myself feel better lol
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sabakos · 2 days
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My dad wanted to plan a trip to Japan with me for my 30th birthday, which never happened because I repeatedly sabotaged it. But I remember that the planning was roughly around the time ChatGPT was first announced and he had tried to use it to plan an itinerary, which looked good until you realized it was sending you to the same shrine four different times.
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betterbemeta · 11 months
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I once saw an eye opening breakdown of how different navigating an urban or suburban area is for a child that's half an adult's height, how much less they can see due to the height and configuration of the environment. The presentation was about safety, how a child might find an environment not designed for them dangerous, but it also made me think about how we all must have memories about 'normal' places that are stored from that alternate perspective:
distances are twice as far
the point of view is too short to see over obscuring barriers, making even mundane environments maze-like
features or conveniences we don't use as children are alien
we are often skipped without logic between destinations as adults 'take us places' without telling us why
Many environments have few to no ways for children to interact with them so they seem barren,
environments that children DO interact with (jungle gyms, play structures, gardens or parks, swimming pools, etc.) are extremely vivid to the exclusion of their surroundings,
Some environments are seen only from the seat of a car and are viewed quickly and in a mass sample without context (unfamiliar neighbourhoods, streets with houses, stores on avenues you never will visit yourself)
rooms are much taller and more empty because we measure space in reference to ourselves and we're physically smaller
When unsupervised, children must pay attention to areas that guardians would have carried them or led them through, calling attention to many of these features even more
Uncertainty about intentions of adult people/entities with more agency than you in these spaces, outside of routines familiar to children
these map 1:1 to emotions conveyed by the Backrooms. Many people remember being a much smaller, more confused explorer.
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hillbilly---man · 4 months
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so there's this coworker of mine who makes me feel like daniel
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It's like meeting the alternate universe version of yourself where you were cool in high school and managed to get your life together a little sooner
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nordic-language-love · 3 months
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@ocs-and-chapters is this for the holidays?
Me returning to the UK? Yeah, I'm heading back to Japan after the new year
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kimtaegis · 10 months
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I’m sorry the live stream tickets cost how much?
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iingeniums · 11 months
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Reblogged a post on my main about how fandom sometimes forgets what’s a headcanon and what’s actually canon and it got me thinking about Aizawa’s characterization, specifically in relation to Class 1-A and how “dadzawa” just gets on my fucking nerves.
I think in general Aizawa isn’t someone who’s willing to step outside the bounds of a proper student-teacher relationship, he’s much more likely to remain aloof with a strict no-nonsense teaching style like what was seen in the first few U.A. arcs. I think it was simply external circumstance and the fact that Class 1-A is a bunch of bonkers wild high schoolers that made him take a step up from his usual style and offer more emotional support to the kids later down the line. He’s trained as a Pro Hero and a teacher, two jobs which require both mental fortitude and compassion for others, and Class 1-A just happens to be a group of students he meshed well with in the beginning, and as the series went along and things became more intense he recognized when those kids needed emotional support as well, but I don’t think it ever really crossed the line from how a teacher or hero would care for them vs how a parent would. I’m also willing to bet most of the kids whose families we haven’t seen are already fairly emotionally supportive. I don’t think very many of them are actively looking for a pseudo-parental replacement in Aizawa to begin with.
This isn’t to say I think all “dadzawa” fics or headcanons should be razed to the ground I just think people sometimes read an adult genuinely caring about a child under their care and protection and turn off their brains and close their eyes and slap the “dad/mom” label onto them far too often. Aizawa has Eri and while I think her story was also dropped too soon for as much emotional weight and narrative potential she has, I like to think she was his first real step into fully taking care of a kid who looks to him for support in all aspects of her life that he can’t just keep at arm’s length or be his normally-strict and coldly logical personality around.
You can add nuance to character relationships and personalities while also not straying from their core principles it doesn’t hurt I promise
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aprilblossomgirl · 4 months
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this might be too early but i really like the first episode of cherry magic thailand it makes me so giddy
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immediatebreakfast · 1 year
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anime would be also awesome at making changes that aren't a complete diversion of the characters. like they could make dracula explicitly bite jonathan instead of implicitly, give him the ability to summon the dead as ghouls to hinder the heroes in his escape, they could give mina more than the psychic ability after her baptism, make renfield and john have a closer bond, make van helsing have backstory with dracula… but still keep the majority especially parts that get cut off, like the marriage, berserker, jonathan's corruption arc, all the character quirks like john's phonograph love and uncoolness around ladies…
EXACTLY! Keep the core parts of the book, and add stuff to round them! A lot of these sound really awesome, specifically giving Van Helsing a good backstory after the little bits that we read in the book in the format of flashbacks, and making Mina's transformation more ominous through her appearance. The scene sequences that could capture the dread and the terror of many moments in the book like Lucy's last entry, Mina's reunion with Jonathan, Mina and Jonathan working on the investigation, or Van Helsing's first appearance, so many moments that need the drama that animation could give.
Imagine poor Lucy alone in her room terrified and agitated, the wind at full force entering through her broken window giving her room a dark blue hue, her mother laying dead on her bed with a single hand outside of the sheet. Lucy locked the door yet something keeps knocking, and she keeps thinking she doesn't know what to do until her eyes catch her diary on the floor. One thought simply repeats in her mind... "Write", she throws herself to grab the diary, and her pencil while the knocking on the door gets more aggressive by the second. Lucy then hides behind her bed, and immediately starts to write her last letter to the world. She starts writing, writing, and writing while her hand trembles, we see Lucy struggle and cross out words yet even if her face is wet with tears her determination is unbreakable. There is no knocking anymore, but now someone is trying to force the door open, and Lucy just keeps writing. I imagine at the end of her letter when she writes her name she does the most dramatic hand action to write and sign her full name one last time, in bold jet black. Then the door finally clicks open... Lucy quickly rips the page off and hides it, she grabs her mother's hand and stars to pray and cry silently, and the angle of the scene goes slowly from her to the now open door to reveal a completely dark background save for two blood red eyes that look directly into the "camera".
It would be so good.
On the other hand... let's say that I'm not too fond on the idea that Renfield and Jack need a "closer bond" because I think that Jack was one of the core factors that pushed Renfield to wrongly give his service to Dracula. My humble opinion is that the best thing that Seward could have done for Renfield before his death was to finally let him go. Just let him leave the asylum since it was clear that Renfield got tired of suffering under Seward's "care".
Said treatment made Renfield seek another person who could give him a semblance of power over something, over anything really, and Dracula was right there to manipulate him and use him. Seward got so deep in his own ableist perspective of Renfield that he didn't notice all the signals around him. Renfield was so traumatized thanks to his time in the asylum that while he was in his death bed he begged Seward to take away the restraining jacket, not knowing that Dracula paralyzed him. The way Jack pushed Renfield to a breaking point again and again was horrible.
I think what a good adaptation would do is give Renfield a happy ending where he keeps on living, away from the asylum and Seward, with a new page to start his life again. If they want to portray his death to be accurate to the book, at least give Renfield a more humane and dignified death than leaving him alone to slowly die in pain.
... wow, que setimientos tan fuertes, mira esos párrafos.
It's 1:33 AM btw.
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neon-moon-beam · 1 year
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I’m noticing Joltik showing up a lot more in official Pokemon merch. I’m wondering are they aware of Joltik’s growing popularity thanks to Submas? Are they subtly working their way up to Gen 5 merch (Gen 5 is next for revisiting, as well as next for the Sitting Cuties plush line)? All of these would be good, but the cherry on the cake would be if they confirmed Ingo went back home (or PLA was not canon or something) and gave us more Submas merch!
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evafaithharding · 7 months
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F**k it, Dude. Let's go bowling.
Femme excursion #16 - 11 days of boymode left
Do you remember when you were a kid, and you were waiting for Christmas to arrive with wild expectation? That feeling of excitement, when you were so charged up and buzzing that you couldnt get to sleep the night before, and then when you finally did you woke up so early your parents shouted at you to go back to bed? But the presents were there, waiting for you under the tree, hidden within their brightly colored shrouds. You hoped and prayed there'd be something you'd love - but would it really turn out to be the case? There were big, promising boxes, but there were also things that felt like they might be socks off your aunt - again. But maybe the boxes would be enough. So finally the all clear sounded and you sprinted downstairs in your pajamas to find Santa had brought you… what?
I've been feeling a bit like a kid with Christmas approaching of late. Two of my favorite people, a lovely couple I met years ago by chance on a plane, were coming to visit, and they knew I was trans and were completely cool with it. Unicorns in human form. I should add that they're both entirely straight and cisgender, but 100% accepting. How on earth did I luck out meeting them? So take a bow, Tadahiko and Mina. You're absolute stars, and I love that you're in my life.
We'd decided to meet up at one of those large entertainment complexes that Japan does so well. Games, bowling, billiards, darts, karaoke etc. all under one roof. It was a blazing hot day, and they'd already gone inside by the time I arrived, so Eva braved the sun (long skirts are hot! But it was too adorable not to wear) and rolled into the entrance heated and nervous. I mean, they knew what I was becoming, but seeing it is a different matter 😏 But Eva was looking cute, and they were firm allies. It went beautifully. Surprise, compliments, learning, and acceptance. All a girl could possibly want from friends. But they've got a 10 year-old kid, and I'm not going to lie I was a little worried about how he'd react. But my friends had talked to him a lot about what was going on, and he was super sweet. Although the little scamp did continually keep saying I looked like his dad's mistress, which was absolutely hilarious. 😂
So, introductions out of the way. Friends engaged and understanding. But I was still standing in an absolutely packed entertainment complex on a Sunday, surrounded by hundreds of people who didn't know me. Gulp. Eva's confident, but still… 😱
First up was bowling. I like bowling, and used to go a lot with my best friend. Anyway, all the lanes were full, which meant I was on show every time I stepped up. So naturally I went and picked myself a bright pink Kitty Chan bowling ball so I didn't stand out 👧🏻🎳 I'd trimmed all the nails on my right hand which hurt my soul 😥 (maybe it'll come in handy if I get lucky, haha) and I kicked off with a strike, but then over the next two rolls DISASTER struck! Oh my God, it was awful. Broken thumbnail. Too damned long. 😭😭😭 So I trimmed it back, found a different Kitty Chan ball with bigger holes (what do you mean your bowling alley doesn't have a selection?) and got back to work, but the damage was done. Eva came second. 😥
But nobody in the bowling alley was clocking me. We were on a central lane and I was keeping tabs on the surrounding conversations, and visually on distant patrons, and nothing was going on. Oh, I'm sure they were interested in the foreign part, but nothing else. I saw none of the "WTF is going on here?" so familiar to all of us when we're getting scrutinized. Eva is blending in beautifully. So I'm on the lanes, long skirt and all, just doing my thing and enjoying it. I got back into my stride for the second game and won it by a mile, making bowling yet another sport that transwomen will probably be banned from for being just too damned good 🙄 I'm so sorry 😥
Then it's time for lunch. Off to the kaiten sushi! Damn, I haven't been for sushi in ages. In we go, mask on, mask off, Eva's passing like a mad thing, apparently. Ah, that was a nice meal. Fun conversation, lovely friends, great food. What more could you ask for?
Karaoke, that's what. Now you have to understand something about Eva. Osaka is the home of karaoke, and karaoke is kind of my thing. I've been to karaoke boxes with friends in the past for eight hour sessions, and by the time 5am rolled by it was only Eva still standing, belting away. Give me a mic and I'm happy. In fact, I suspect if I do end up in a trans-friendly bar here at some point, their karaoke machine will be how I leave with company. 😉 Of course they have scoring on the machines here, and in all the countless times I've taken friends to karaoke I've never lost, although admittedly I did have a tie once with a woman who'd been trained as a singer. 😥 Anyway, Eva can hold a tune, so off we went for a three hour extravaganza. But before we went in I did have a moment of panic: they wanted us to register as members with ID - i.e. my Japanese driver's license. Oops. Luckily it only needed one member for the group, and we'd been there before so my friends were still in the system, but it did cause a bit of worry. 😐 I mean, you look at me, and you look at the license picture, and it's a definite nope. Anyway, off we went, and it was as fun as always. I'd taken my meds to show them, which proved a good idea. Lots of interest in what I was doing and how. God, they're lovely people. So we had a good sing, and enjoyed some karaoke box desserts and snacks, and a great time was had by all.
And if you want to know what Eva's current favorite song to sing is, it's Hanamizuki (search ハナミズキ 一青窈 on YouTube). People do not expect a foreigner to sing it like Eva haha. If they ban transwomen from karaoke as an event then that's it, I'm rioting. 😋
Then it was on to… darts? God, darts in Japan are awful. I like darts, but they've got to be pointy metal things that'll put your eye out. In Japan they have an aversion to anything pointy, so they're these hideous plastic-nosed things that suuuuuuck. But the young kid wanted to try them, so off we went. It's like throwing winged bananas at the stupid holey plastic dartboards. I do hope this nonsense hasn't spread across the world while I wasn't looking. Anyway, I did that, and patrons were coming in and out nearby, and Eva was just blending in again. Damn it felt wonderful, just existing as myself. 😊
Then Eva did something new and important.
The toilets in this place were very much binary gendered, so with my female friend keeping watch it was the first time in the ladies for Eva. My God, it's full of stars! 😲 Actually, it was pretty normal, but I think they had better decor? But I can't ever go back into the gents to compare haha 😁 But it did feel wonderful for my gender identity to go in there, and although it was such a minor thing it made me stupidly happy. 😊
Finally it was off to the game center for some video game fun, which was where the day kind of fell apart. All the games we wanted to play (like an Initial D racing one) were being camped out by (let's be honest here) otaku types, including one guy whose shirt was so sweaty I would have paid not to sit down in the same seat after him 😐 So the video games were a no-go, although we did see some more gamers filming themselves on a rhythm game desperate to get a perfect score on camera. Failed 😋. They were good, though. Anyway, apparently all the obsessive arcade gamer types lurk there on a Sunday. Who knew?
Then the day was over, and it was time to leave. Six hours together with my amazing friends, totally open, just acceptance and love. And no clocking issues, or anything really. What a wonderful, life-affirming day.
Eva is kicking her transition's ass. If I can keep going like this, in a few months I'm going to look amazing. But even now it's remarkable what's going on. I no longer feel nervous or apprehensive going out, and in fact the only times I do are when I'm coming back home and nearing people who know me. But as we know the clock is ticking on that one, and I've got to be honest it still worries me a little. But hey, I guess a little worry never hurt anyone. 😏
I left the entertainment complex with a lighter heart and really feeling the love off my friends. On the way home I called in at a supermarket to buy some stuff and I wasn't even thinking about my trans self. Quick check in the mirror? Cute. Off we go. A day without problems, and full of wonder and happiness.
Possibly one of my best days ever. 😊
Love you all, and I hope we can eventually exist in a world where we never have to worry about showing our true selves, and where love and happiness is the default, not a rarity.
Eva ❤
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fuck are you looking at. bitch.
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