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enabledarmy · 4 years

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I'm kinda new to tumblr but since being here I've noticed a lot of love for British TV shows, especially BBC drama

The main ones I've seen mentioned are Sherlock, Merlin and Doctor Who and although those are great shows I wondered if there might be some others that non-natives (idk if that's the right phrase I'm tired) might not have heard about or had the opportunity to discover so here you go

List will be staggered because there's too much for one post so here's part 1

Dancing on the Edge (BBC, 2013)

I'd recommend for Merlin fans, because Angel Coulby and Anthony Head, and from what I remember Tom Hughes as Julian was quite Merlin-like or at least in a similar vein

It did have a crime/mystery element to it too so if you liked that about Sherlock give this a go

Anyway he was adorable

I watched it when it first came out because Angel Coulby and was disappointed with how much she is actually in it (forewarning- not much at all) but I enjoyed the story and the characters and the sets/costumes were great and now that I think about it I'm still kinda attatched to Julian what how did this happen it's been 7 years send help-

Chiwetel Ejiofor is very cool of course as Louis and his performance is generally great, as much as I love the more side characters like Julian, Carla and Stanley he really is what centres everything and makes it work I think

Also Carla bb you are amazing please stop doubting yourself ok someone hug her (and while you're at it give Wunmi Mosaku more roles why are you sleeping on her)

I remember the music being good too and there was one bit where they played in a bar (it's about Jazz btw) and it was really cool, can't remember why but will need to rewatch soon I think

I completely forgot Jenna Coleman was in this but I'm sure she was good so yeah there's that

Bonus: Matthew Goode (probably your new crush if you have a thing for British drama guys who look vaguely like Tom Hiddleston as quite a few people here seem to)

Atlantis (BBC, 2013)

Another 2013 drama but this one less of an intelligent serious historical drama vibe and more a magic, sword fighting and running around the woods in ineffective armour from weird CGI creatures vibe.

If that sounds like Merlin to you, well it did to us too when it first came out so everyone was kinda salty especially since it was the first 'big' drama to fill Merlin's primetime family spot which basically signalled it as a Merlin replacement trying to appeal to the same audience by doing a very similar thing but not as well

Like when the adverts came out people were like how dare you try to fill the Merlin-shaped hole in the schedule and also in my heart with this

Bring back Colin and Bradley you cowards

That said it wasn't a bad series at all, not amazing but mostly good, just not on the same level character and story wise as Merlin, in my opinion anyway

I mean I still watched every episode and was upset when it ended but c'mon it was just getting good

There are a couple of episodes I rewatch sort of regularly because they were pretty cool

If you liked Merlin I would recommend giving it a go, it has a kind of similar feel, magic, fun costumes and of course a lot of bromance. You don't have to think a lot when watching it (at least not until near the end I'm pretty sure) which can be nice when you just want to switch off and watch people run around in totally inappropriate sandals

Honestly it was good but I would have loved more focus on other characters, I didn't like Jason as much as I did Medusa or Medea (spinoff series please BBC they both deserved better)

Highlights:

Pythagoras. Just him. Doing Pythagoras stuff. Also won't spoil but his (slightly rushed) eventual romance was sweet and quite unusual at the time on a show like that (on BBC one at prime family viewing time) and I need to know more about that because we spent too much on Jason angst and not enough time on this small boi getting the love he deserves so if we could get some new fans in to do fanart or something that would be great I need closure

Ariadne's costumes, sass and eyebrows:

The force is strong with this one

I'm sure she was a great character but looking back I mainly remember her blue dresses and strong brows they just owned the scenes ok they should have been credited in the cast list

For real tho I hadn't seen Aiysha Hart in anything before but she was a strong lead

Amy Manson's Medea:

Seriously when she joined in season 2 things really kicked up a notch, hard to describe it but you'll see

I would watch a whole series about her

She's amazing

I only want good things for Medea

And Amy Manson

Medusa (played by Jemima Rooper) was also amazing and lovely and I found it quite a touching and different take on her story (to past me anyway). Again, I would have liked more focus and development on that instead of Jason's eughhh it's so hard to be a protagonist wait lemme punch a Minotaur in the face real quick but we can't have everything

Ok that was Pt.1

Will do a Pt.2 if anyone cares and also if I remember 😂

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sometimesrosy · 5 years

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I'm having a stupid dilemma. There's this girl on tumblr that makes super cool gifs of games and some tv shows. She has this kind of "technique" where she grabs a gif and cuts it in two, in the middle, and so the character of the game shows up on one of the sides and the rest of the scenery shows in the other. I don't recall if I saw anybody else do this, but yesterday I was editing some game footage and ended up doing that. It's really pretty and I'm proud of it, BUT I feel like I'm copying +

+ her. I was thinking of sending her an ask to know if it’s ok to use the same layout, and if yes if she wants me to credit her, etc. Problem is, we have the same tumblr theme! I’ll be honest, I saw the theme for the first time on her tumblr, but the themes are public (other people have it too) and I had mine in black so it was different. But now I came back to tumblr and put it in white… it’s equal to hers. I’ve been trying to change themes but I don’t like any, I love this one to death. +

+ What do I do? Do I send her the message anyways and ignore the fact that the tumblr theme is the same? (I feel like that way I’m copying her too much, and yesterday I sent her an ask on public about another thing so she probably saw the theme.) Do I not send a message and post the edited gif anyway? (She doesn’t follow me so she’ll only see if she searches for the tags, or if someone she is following reblogs it, or if someone sends it to her.) Or do I remake the edit with a different layout?

Tricky problem. Tricky.

It is not, however, unusual. Part of being a creator is being open to how art is being done around you. None of us are islands who create without being influenced by the others. And nothing new is created under the sun. We’re all doing different versions of the same stories and have been for millennia. Now you’ve got yourself a new medium, but that medium is built on the visual language that comes before it, so it’s still not “new.”

Being an artist means you are always being inspired by things and people and creators around you. And they are in turn inspired back. Sometimes, people in the same community, who are consuming the same kind of content, start having the same sort of ideas at that same time. They have the same tastes and preferences because it is, kind of a sign of the times. The zeitgeist has similar ideas popping up all over the place at the same time. You coincidentally having the same theme sounds like that. You share the same taste, you are using the same platform and preferred the same available theme. That’s not a problem.

Plagiarizing is taking what someone did and saying it’s yours. You don’t seem to be doing that. Good. Because that’s a no no. Don’t steal.

Copying is taking what someone did, and repeating it, doing what they did on another project, using their style or their techniques. Your theme isn’t copying, but your gifs might be. Now, copying isn’t actually necessarily a bad thing. It’s kind of how we learn and grow and develop. Taking techniques or styles we appreciate and then trying to reproduce them with our own work. It’s how we learn facility with the medium we use and ALSO how we develop our own style. ONLY copying her might be questionable, but taking the technique of one gif and using it to develop your own style, is not a bad thing imo.

This is moving into “inspiration.” Her work inspires you to create your own work, and ideally, expand beyond what she did into your own original creativity. This is part of the creative process and not a problem.

OR it might be part of that zeitgeist I was talking about. OR perhaps you’re both in the same school of thought about gifsets. You’re both working with the same material, right? Seeing the same things. Inspired by the same content.

However, there is something I can’t speak to and that’s the culture of your creative community. Every community has their own culture around etiquette and what is expected and the way you treat each other. And I just don’t know what that is with your gifmakers and such. I do know that tumblr creators can be very sensitive and possessive about their content. I remember a big fandom argument when one person said she’d started the discussion of a show’s allusion to a greek myth, and then some other blogger came out of nowhere offended that that HER idea of this greek myth allusion had been stolen. Everyone yapping about stolen ideas, and I was over here going, “none of y’all invented this greek myth and if the show is actually USING this allusion, then it’s the actual show creators who came up with it and noticing it is not any of our ideas, but just analysis of a text. but okay go off on how you ‘own’ an idea in someone else’s content because you pointed out their use of it.” *

So, your use of her style might be fair use, but because of personality or culture, it might feel like an offense to her. There’s really no way to know, so I’d talk to her directly about it. Send a message and see what she thinks and if she’s sensitive about it, then I’d be more careful and I would try to come up with my OWN version of this thing you see as similar to hers. Take it farther. Make it your own.

*actually i was on the outside of this argument and i don’t remember if it was greek or biblical, but i’ve heard other arguments, too, in the same vein as people start to get possessive of entire media or identities or characters. Like, once it was someone who analyzed music who got offended that someone else analyzed music and decided they’d stolen the analysis from them. IDK. How do you own music you didn’t write? How do you own an idea so no one else can think it or build on the thoughts? IDK. So you do have to navigate the social landscape of the social media and recognize that even if you are being ethical, other people may not understand the full scope of the ethics and STILL think you’re copying, evil, or ignorant. The internet is like the wild west and someone might always challenge you to a gunslinging duel at sundown. It seems to be the nature of the beast.

#the creative process #inspiration #social media #ethics

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buttonspushingthemselves · 2 years

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I'm watching Soul Eater because its on Hulu and it's been ages and every time Stein appears on screen, including and especially the opening credits, I reflexively go "Baby boy. Baby." I am not sorry.

8 notes • Posted 2021-09-19 00:01:16 GMT

I’m reading a Past Doctor Adventures novel with Five and Turlough and the author clearly wishes they were writing Eight and Fitz. I mean:

‘He’s OK on planning this sort of theoretical stuff, but he relies on me for the practical things. I mean when we get into the citadel I’ll have to spend half my time watching him to see he doesn’t wander off, or something. You know these cerebral types. Yes, I’ll be pretty well running things then.’

...is a thing we’re expected to believe Vislor “I’m sixty-five shades of Done with this entire fucking universe” Turlough would say about Five and himself. To the scantily-clad warrior woman he fancies suddenly. Who is secretly a monster.

I see you, Christopher Bulis. I fucking see you.

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Speaking of RP from Anne McCaffrey works (the Pern-and-Valdemar post just came up on my dash [I am not in the middle of the Venn diagram but I see how it works]), I've always sort of wished the Talents series had developed RP-ward. Like you can sort of get a similar structure to Pern games with the Tower functioning like the Weyr as a central hub for activity, hierarchal BS with T-ratings instead of colors, wacky terraformed planets/moons to dick around on and instant travel to other wacky terraformed planets/moons or like space stations or whatever. Politics, aliens, and oh yeah bonkers psychic powers. Tweak some setting rules to allow for morally dubious Talents if you want more conflict.

IDK I'd just really like to vibe with that at some point. Also RIP to that massive Pern/Talents crossover fic that got nuked by the author, that was catnip for me.

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By the end of this scene in the upcoming episode of @prodigalsonfox, none of the scenery you see here remained. @catherinezetajones #michaelsheen and I had eaten it all. True story. Fun fact.

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toomanysubjectstudyblr-blog · 7 years

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Hiya 😁 I really want to be more productive and start doing better in school, taking better notes, studying better, etc. but honestly I'm the most unmotivated person ever and I don't want studying/school to take up my whole life. However, I'm in high school next year which means I really have to try hard. ☹️ What things can I do to be more productive and be better at school? Is there steps I can do to build up to getting into a normal routine rather than changing it all right now? Thanks 🤔

Hello! (Sometimes I get carried away and talk too much — most times? — anyways, there is this thing about motivation and my personal view on it and below it there is a bulleted list with actual tips. I wrote it all for a reason, so I’d recommend for you to read it all? Oops!)

Structure of it all (under the cut): Introduction // Part I - Components of the Routine // Part II - Productivity // Part III - The Routine Itself // Part IV - Whatever Else That Needs To Be Said

PS: It ended up much longer than what I expected? Hope it’s not a problem…

PSS: If anyone knows the sources to any of those things that I mention I saw somewhere on tumblr, please let me know to put it here, thank you!

I didn’t mean to star this harsh on anything but it might be taken — mistakenly — such as… Hm, I’ve seen this quote around my dashboard sometime in the past few days and I couldn’t deny that it had a lot of reason within it — I don’t have exact source right now, but it goes something like: motivation gets you nowhere, discipline does (also don’t know who to credit for, sorry).

Yes, motivation makes everything easier in some ways, but it’s definitely not everything. With motivation and no discipline you’ll barely accomplish anything. On the other hand, if what you lack is motivation then you can accomplish great deals with discipline.

Like I said, this isn’t supposed to be a harsh message — its purpose was to give some hope. You don’t need to be the most motivated person ever to accomplish your goals, you need to have them set clearly (even if they change every few days) and a lot of discipline. Motivation would help? Yes, of course it would. But, don’t worry about it, when you’ve broken the starting inertia, have your goals defined and start seeing progress and getting closer to them, this is the kind of feeling I like to call motivation.

For me, motivation doesn’t come first. Motivation is build up on objectives and goals, it is shaped by the path that takes you to your final destination, it keeps growing bigger and stronger the closer you get, the cleaner you see the next steps you need to take, the more possible and close to your reality it all seems. Being motivated is a process — that is acquired during a much longer process, one that requires discipline — through the path that takes you to your goals.

PART I — The Parts of The Routine

Ok, I suck at giving titles but this is basically about what will be a part of your routine (let’s leave how to arrange this for later). Just to show that it doesn’t have to have only school related stuff and that a normal routine can be pretty productive.

Good news: studying/school doesn’t have to take up your whole life, neither it should. First off, overdosing yourself with mental work (studying, for example) will kill an expressive amount of your productivity and in a long term (combined with not varying your activities) it might cause you a burnout (what will kill of most of your productivity). So…

Allow yourself some “me-time” — in this context I mean time spent doing absolutely nothing, thinking about life, thinking about nothing, not actually doing anything — in a regular basis, but don’t let it rule. What do I mean by that? Well, physics tells us that breaking inertia is equally hard one way or another — starting movement or quitting it — but, this is only true in vacuum, with no friction. Seems to me that working and trying to be productive is the activity with the most friction ever, seriously. Ok, let’s quit talking about physics — I don’t even know why I started, tbh. What I mean is: starting to work and to be productive is extremely hard, on the other hand, letting it all go to hell is so easy. Allow yourself “me-time” but limit it, otherwise it will easily take over and start the no-productivity world domination — the little voice of “it’s better to let it go and not do anything for a while, just a little bit more, you don’t need to get back right now, you have plenty time to do what you have to do later, let’s just do nothing a little longer, just give up already” can be pretty convincing. Trust me. Respect yourself and your timing but don’t abuse, don’t make excuses — or at least, don’t listen to the excuses you make.

Hobbies. Save some time on the week for your hobbies, go to classes or courses about it, practice on your own, I don’t know… Just spend some time doing something you love. The difference between doing some activity you love from outside school and doing nothing? Even if it has absolutely nothing to do with academics, by practicing a hobby you will be productive, you’ll be developing skills, getting to know yourself better, enjoying your time and not being idle (not lazy, idle).

Free time. Another important thing to keep space for in your week is some free time, doing some activity — so it’s not “me-time” — that doesn’t really develop a skill — depending on your hobbies they might, but usually they don’t. Save some time to read, watch netflix, watch a movie, television, surf on the internet, check social media, do something random you choose to do.

Spend time with people/Go out. Go out with your friends, go to parties, go to the movies, the theater, go shopping (but please be reasonable with your spendings), bring people home… Idk, there are many possibilities. Being social seems to boost extroverts’ energy, if you are introvert do what you feel up to (it can be just a few people — or one—, in quiet places). You can also not spend time with people — sort of — just go have a walk on your own, animals can be great company as well, do some people watching somewhere, once again, there are many possibilities.

Study. Seems to me like this is actually your goal, the objective of this ask. Yes, it plays an important role in our society and, since you’ll be starting high school soon, it gets you into a college (if that’s what you want, we’ll get to that later). Yes, since it’s the whole purpose of this, you have to save some time to study… I don’t think I have to explain why.

Part II — ProductivityHow to make your work be effective? Simply tips to be more productive, as well as time management — this is important, trust me.

The Pomodoro Technic: there are many apps to help you with that, just search for “pomodoro” and you’ll be filled up with lots of options, just choose one. The basics of this is working for 25 minutes and then take a 5 minute break, after a few cycles (usually four) you take a longer break — around 15 minutes.

The 60/20 Technic: Basically the same thing as the above, but the cycles are made of one hour of work and twenty minutes breaks between them. I’ve never really seen any apps for this but you can still count on your own, everything is not lost.

There is also this one that says that you should work during 90 minutes sessions with a 20 minute break cycles, it’s said to be based on the ultradian rhythm — it seems like it the body rhythm through the day.

Discipline. Yeah, we got back there… Whatever routine you choose to follow, keep up with it — that doesn’t mean you can’t change your mind later on. Don’t give up. Doing things randomly is dangerous — not that it never works — it gives you not consistency and doesn’t make any habits. Habits are powerful, it takes around 21 days to form them and 66 to become automatic — take it into account while making your routine and struggling to start it, in a few days it’ll be just the natural thing to do. Thank you google.

Find out what type of learner you are. There are visual learners, kinesthetic learners, auditory learners, among other categories. Each type gets along better with different kinds of study techniques, use the ones recommended for you type(s) instead of insisting in what is conventional but might not be fit to the way your brain processes it all. Here are some links to tests and technics.

Cut distractions. At least while you’re working, try to keep your phone and internet away, they are truly a temptation and totally mess up with your productivity. Set up a study space that helps you concentrate.

Set priorities. There are really nice tables of priorities — the time square or something — around Tumblr, here is a good post that talks about it as week as many other useful things.

The five minute rule (is that how it’s called?). Once again, I saw it somewhere in Tumblr, no credit for me, but I don’t know where it comes from to put a source here. Basically, you should do all the tasks that will take you 5 minutes, at most. Knowing that each of them will not take that long to finish, you’ll be more willing to start and probably accomplish a lot.

At school itself: if you have the possibility of choosing your subjects, choose the ones that you care/are passionate about. What if there is nothing? Pick something close to your interests, or something that is the path to something that you actually like. It’s easier to get motivated if you’re studying about what you’re interested in.

Part III — The Routine Itself

Balance it all, the way it feels better for you. I’ll leave it up for you to do, since you said that you want a “normal routine”, but I’m going to give some suggestions about the studying time.

Do a bit everyday. It seems like most of this part will be explained on this topic. Anyways, revise your materials the same day (rewrite your notes, read the textbook if you haven’t already, do some exercises, watch video classes, sum everything up). Do your homework the day you get it, as much as you can, this way you won’t have a bunch of stuff to do the day before.

Revise. Revise. Revise. It will take you least time every time you do it, first revision might take you half an hour, the second maybe half of the time, the next? possibly five minutes. Let’s say you get home and rewrite your notes the same day, the next day you define the important topics, the next you sum everything up, the other you make a flash card and from there on you just have to read a tiny piece of paper. This way you’ll fix the content in your mind and won’t have to kill yourself studying the days before the exam.

Visit the material before the class, if possible. It’ll save you some work afterwards, trust me. Even if you just run through it, not giving all you can, you at least know in what ground you’ll be during class. Reading the titles and defining the topics covered is already something, it helps.

Practice. Do exercises to test your knowledge, this way you’ll know where to focus instead of trying to study everything at once for the exam. Besides, practice makes perfect, right?

How much time to save each day? That’s up to you, balance all the activities in a way that doesn’t get you overwhelmed, make it comfortable. You can also have different approaches for different classes, so you don’t have to save the same amount of time for every subject. A good shoot for me, personally, would be two hours of diary study and a bit more on the weekends around 3 or 4 hours, but this is just what worked best for me, just an option.

Part IV - Whatever Else Needs to Be Said

Those are just suggestions and they are pretty general, I’d recommend you to adapt it to your own needs, wants and reality. Also, somethings might seem pretty simple at a first glance but turn out hard when you actually get to do it, take your time.

Don’t give up, it takes time. You can make a gradual change in your routine if it looks like too much, or even just take part of it, something is more than nothing. Also, you don’t have to wait until next year to start adapting yourself to the new lifestyle you want to have.

Remember, I know our society puts a lot of importance in academics, it might seem like an academic career is the only path to follow but remember that it isn’t the right choice for everyone — even if the pressure from everyone around you tells you the opposite. This is just me talking, before making any decision consider your environment and your family — sometimes it can be pretty hard, I know.

If you fall out of track, just know that it’s never too late to do what’s right for you, ok?

Find study buddies to help you keep in track and be the motivation you might lack sometimes.

Everyone is its own individual, there are certain ways of doing stuff that are so normalized that seem like it’s the only option available. When the patterns doesn’t fit to our beings, our function, when it’s not the best option for us individually, it feels like we can’t fit and it sorta kills out our motivation. This is just a friendly reminder that there are a bunch of ways to do the same thing and none are the right choice as well as none is the wrong one, do what’s best for you.

I hope it helped, if you need anything else just let me know and I’ll do what I can to help. Anything at all.

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