#like you're present in the scene

[eirene]

In a boudoir, 1885 Leon Wyczółkowski

#Leon Wyczółkowski #polish art #art #painting #art history #fashion #portrait #black #red #1880s #19th century #realism #colors #his pieces always seem so intimate #like you're present in the scene

[einaudis]

ALL OF US STRANGERS (2023) dir. ANDREW HAIGH

#filmedit #filmgifs #movieedit #moviegifs #All of Us Strangers #aousedit #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #cinemapix #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #mine* #mygifs #movies* #I can't believe this is done. and you won't believe how long it took me to make it. insane... because it's just a scene #I didn't even use different fonts. or a cool template. or transitions... it was a single scene... but look... I made captures for 10 gifs #and things kept happening and I kept finding little gestures and beautiful things and I just couldn't keep them out the gifs #I mean look at Harry and that slow realization. please look at the glow around his shoulders at the beginning #and how ethereal and out of this world he already is AND THEN when Adam says 'I found you' he becomes more... real and present! #and those eyes and the intensity of that 'you're here' and their eyes and faces and smiles and how Harry's desperate but Adam calms him dow #and his voice when he asks 'how come no one found me?' the realization that people didn't care to check on him. it screamed to my soul #I haven't stopped thinking about that scene since the moment I first watched it #honestly... I wish I could live in this scene forever #now this is a super long post and I know it won't get many notes and it was surely made before... but I needed to make this for myself... #so here it is :) I'm tired but I love it #GOD the way Harry goes full baby when Adam caresses his cheek and he SMILES LIKE THAT! AHHHHHHH! #*runs down the hill screaming*

[francy-sketches]

#got #this is about tommen but could apply to both of them here tbh. cersei's outfits arent that bad tho theyre just kinda. bland #esp s4-6 where she only wears black. s7-8 are straight up atrocious tho. specifically *that one* you know the one #what is wrong with him why is he always in brown-grey. at his own wedding too girl are you allergic to serving. wear black at least #you cant really see it here but i swear the texture on this fabric looks like a hairshirt #ig it would make sense if he started dressing like that after the whole crusty pope thing but no this is his default state #do you think he was like 'i swear i'll never be like my evil brother 😤' and that included the drip #also what's with that like. black turtleneck he's always wearing. i swear he has it in every scene #when you're holding court at 7 but have to present the new iphone at 8

[ozonecologne]

Writing OCs question

has anybody ever had the experience while writing/outlining that you don't really like one of your main characters? i get that not all of your characters have to start out as good or likable people -- narratively that's fun, even -- but i'm talking more about being disinterested in them despite the purpose they serve the narrative. just not really being invested in them or connecting with them even though you know they're important.

is this unusual? is this a sign of bad writing or that you need to do more work on the character, or that this character needs to "cook" longer? i'm just wondering about peoples' experience with their OCs that's all!

also feel free to infodump all about your unlikable OCs, i'd love to get to know them.

#this guy is giving me some trouble #i know i need him to tell the story i want to tell #i just... don't really connect with him? #and i'm wondering if that's a sign that there's something wrong with the story #or that other readers won't connect with him either #how do i humanize an already very human character? #to be clear: he's not a Bad person and he does have exciting likable moments later on (he grows!) #i just don't get as excited about him as i do about the other main characters #which is a problem because he's so present throughout the entire story #so when i write scenes for him i'm just kind of like. meh. here he is. That Man. #sorry if this is uninteresting to you all but you're the only writers i know!!!!! #text #not spn

[frecklystars]

i love that both barbies pull ken's shirt over his chest or try to just touch his shoulder through the shirt bc they wanna be respectful and not touch ryan's bare chest

#ITS SO RESPECTFUL #they were like dw ryan gosling we will NOT touch your tits!!!!!!!! #the girl on the right acted like her fingers would be burned she hesitated so much at first #its so cute #also the fact that when he falls to the ground at first his shirt IS over his chest #but then they cut to the barbies and kens running in panic #and when they show him on the ground again his shirt is open and his arms are in a different position SLIGHTLY #i love noticing when scenes are shot multiple times #the small subtle differences #sinking my teeth into every single scene ken is present #pausing every moment to look at him in the bg or study others expressions #god i love being in love again!!!!!!! #love notes #💕 I'll fight for you!! - ̗̀🐎🏖️✨ ̖́- #💕♫♪ ♡ You're the pink in my cheeks 🎀🌸✨♡

[cannibalisticskittles]

saw a post referencing a specific scene i had gotten like an hour before stopping last night and thought oh hey, might as well look at dev notes

was stopped in my tracks upon reading that he fucking says "i love you" during that convo because he did NOT when i played it, so i went back and chose a diff dialogue option and yeah, he Sure Fucking Does

he also Sure Doesn't Fucking Mean It but now it's like. okay. well. i am going to have to go back an hour of progress. which is mostly the goddamn GRYM fight which i HATE, for this convo???

not even just so that line is canonically heard but because this line you can choose leading up to it is one of the most amity lines so far

can't fuckin believe this. i'll fucking do it but it's rotten work. christ alive.

#amity: haha you're silly :) #[AMITY WILL NOW DIE FOR YOU] #but also! i want her. to hear this. #it makes her realize 'oh. uh. shit. has he been. trying to be manipulative this whole time.' #joke's on you astarion you presented this like a fun casual thing so amity took you at your word and never assumed it was anything else #it's not TOO weird bc he laughs and admits he's lying no matter what #+ if you ask if he's having fun w/ this he said it's hard not to with you #but the next morning when they get to the forge and grym rushes out #amity thinks 'oh thank god a chance to work out some weird feelings through aggression. let's beat the shit out of this robot.' #but now i the player have to try to beat the shit out of this robot again #:( #bg3 spoilers #bg3 blogging #also yes he IS absolutely drenched in blood this whole scene

[conchfritters]

i need to get less ashamed of talking about my interests on my 0 follower tumblr blog because if i don't point out that despite having one of the most interesting concepts ever presented in a genshin event, shadows amidst snowstorms was not actually well written, and was in fact pretty Poorly written, then who else will. Who else will.

#seashell resonance #Anyway amber hasn't shown up in any content since 1.0 where she wasn't optional or thrown out entirely in favor of standing as an #advertisement for euIa. case in point in the scene in shadows amidst snowstorms where you're waiting outside the cave for albedo the last #person joel was left with was amber. when euIa confronts albedo about the fake trying to lead joel away...there's no mention ever of the #fact that amber...was With Joel. Amber who is an Outrider trained to Notice Danger. Either left joel with fakebedo without noticing anythin #or the actual explanation: hoyo didn't care enough to write her because. well. Amber Bad #the next time we see her is when she shows up with bennett #amber used to have a lot of fire to her and this sort of unique not quite cockiness but like. easy way to tell she used to be the difficult #kid we hear about in her character stories and teapot dialogue #she serves no purpose in shadows amidst snowstorms #an event that easily could've capitalized on the Horror aspect of being trapped with a doppelganger of one of your coworkers and shown off #ALL the characters (because get this. You can make people wanna spend on characters who aren't meta by making them Like Them.) #but amber? no value in any event she's ever been in. she talks about good hunter and sticky honey roast. she gets flustered. euIa pays for #her meal. Remember how she was in Almost All of razor's story quest and then when they needed a knight to give him a gift in weinlessefest #they chose...SUCROSE AND NOELLE? #remember how collei has had more on screen interactions with fucking euIa and sucrose than AMBER #how amber and collei's reunion was what people wanted to see and instead it happens off screen and amber simply isn't relevant during #windblume? how amber didn't get a skin with lisa and kaeya? how amber has no appearance in kaeya's hangout event despite their dynamic in #the webtoon and her being suspicious of him presenting so much room to work with? #her tcg dialogue has a meta joke in it. Because amber bad and amber doesn't exist outside of euIa and connecting collei to euIa #and i could go on. about the writing for cyno. about collei. about the way they write kokomi or any genius character. about albedo even. #about all my Other gripes with euIa because they go to about every single aspect of her character except her Basic personality #which is to say the personality we see in most of her voicelines. she could've literally been a saving grace for the cast if she weren't on #of the like top 3 worst written characters #i could talk about like almost any character's decay but that's not the point. Not the point. Nobody look atme. #i tried to replace the L in euIa's name with a capital i to make this post not show up in front of her enjoyers somehow but if it does #sorry about that! no problems with you it's hoyoverse who has my ire #i have so much more to say even just about amber specifically since she is. Unfortunately my fav and unfortunately almost the only characte #i care about whenever my enjoyment of genshin even Slightly wanes #but nobody will ever see it because that essay i write in my head seven times a day is for Me. I'll die before i crack open google docs

[hussyknee]

The OCD urge to convince everyone that you're not a good person really.

#it feels unreal to me that it's not obvious to people what a five alarm trashfire the inside of my head is #it's a fucking warzone in here. people are dying. blood everywhere. things on fire #this ends up presenting itself in seething passive aggression‚ virulent rants at the drop of a hat and randomly exploding at people #but most of it happens at home or with disparate people and places #so a casual observer who isn't targeted and doesn't disagree merely thinks Im being snippy #instead of acting like bear caught in a trap #people see your highlight reel not the behind the scenes footage #so when they still like you despite how toxic you know yourself to be #it feels like you're being disingenuous somehow #the baseline ocd existence is believing you're the reason for humanity's downfall and a plague on the earth #and desperately hoping that nobody finds out but also that people do find out so that you can stop being terrified of being discovered #actually ocd #ocd #scrupulosity #knee of huss #mental illness #mental health

[dilfsuzanneyk]

if one more person tells me to "just use chatgpt" for an essay or a creative writing assignment i'm going to get very violent

#im going to become the fucking joker and i am not kidding. #“just use chatgpt it's so easy” do you want me to knock the lights out of you #you'd THINK being in an art school would mean the students understand the negative impact shit like OpenAI has on the arts scene. #i've done multiple presentations on this. i've written countless essays about this. #at some point you're just ignorant and fucking stupid #vex rambles

[capricornsicle]

Teen Wolf 6x01 "Memory Lost" — This could be our best date yet.

+ bonus:

I'm taking gifset requests! Send an ask for any characters, ships, themes, etc. and I will do my best to fulfill your request or refer to someone else. I'll take any request except those involving Stiles, Derek, or Peter, since they already have so much content for this fandom.

#they're in love your honor #if you're looking for missing scenes. these ones #whomsoever writes these missing scenes and presents it to me will win my favor forever #teen wolf #twedit #teenwolfedit #teen wolf gifs #my gifs #liam dunbar #hayden romero #layden #sorry for low quality I've been working on understanding gif compression and I do not do that #gif making is surprisingly difficult. + it's very dark and I didn't feel like making it brighter #my opinion of darkness of shows is skewed by me making these with only my desk light on in the dark #bright enough for me #rip 60s television where you could see everything #you couldn't see anything good but you sure could see #why do we need 10k shirtless man scenes but no layden bad dates? tbf I do not think this show should do more shipping #but I would have liked to see these even as a montage. it's not cringe to have a montage if it's cute

[fortune-maiden]

I went back to rewatch the Brotherhood scenes and grab some screencaps, and honestly I was quite surprised that this line was from Quirin! I had misremembered it as one of Hector’s

I love it though. Quirin’s role in the Brotherhood is criminally underutilized a little bit of a mixed one between Hector’s stark loyalty and Adira’s dissatisfaction with the current state. On the one hand, Quirin has by all signs seeming left the Brotherhood - he’s settled down in another kingdom, started a family, is happily living a farmer’s life.

But at the same time - he has been doing his duty behind the scenes. He’s the one who finds the Sundrop and while he seemingly breaks his oath to warn Frederic about removing it, for all we know he never mentions the Moonstone or the DK - just that removing the flower is a Bad Idea because this scroll says so. (and given that both the scroll & Corona’s ties to Demanitus, I wonder if that’s what led him there)

He probably chose to settle in Old Corona because the flower was removed to keep an eye on things. Probably lots of regrets about the Sundrop being real all along, only for it to be immediately lost. (I wonder if he told Adira)

Then all is quiet for 18 years. And then a year before BEA, the rocks suddenly appear where the flower was (really wonder what the catalyst for this is). Then 6 months later, the lost princess appears. Then 6 more months later her magic hair is back. And the rocks are spreading.

He’s the first one aware of it and.... he does nothing. Says nothing to anyone, just asks for more land when the situation gets bad enough. I think there’s a combination of things preventing him from speaking, but I’d like to think that at least one is him being lawful stupid - He is a knight of the Brotherhood. He will not reveal anything about the Moonstone ever.

#tangled the series #tts quirin #i feel like the effect is slightly weakened by this not being edmund's *dying* wish #since edmund was there to send them off #there's just a certain poignancy to thinking you're fulfilling your duty to the dead while the living in front of you suffer #i feel like i can talk about quirin forever. i feel like he is the brotherhood blorbo i've latched onto the most #these rambles are probably incoherent but i had a lot of thoughts to sort through xD #between this scene and realizing that quirin had a cameo in BEA #on a side note this rewatch has also me notice a couple of things #one being that hector says adira will be a traitor if she leaves the dark kingdom - they haven't been forced to leave yet #so that must stung a lot for him later. i'd like to imagine hector was especially adamant about not leaving #and when he couldn't sway edmund that was when he went into overdrive in his loyalty #since edmund doesn't want anyone in the DK he'll make sure no one gets past him to the DK #and the other thing... Quirin and Adira were both present when Edmund tried to destroy the stone and nearly died. Hector was not :D #no clue where he was but that must have been a hell of a thing to come home to! :D

[eirene]

“I have seen once” – scene by the piano, 1884 Leon Wyczółkowski

#Leon Wyczółkowski #polish art #art #painting #art history #fashion #portrait #1880s #19th century #realism #colors #his pieces always seem so intimate #like you're present in the scene #happiness

[chirpsythismorning]

Seeing every theory from the GA about Suzie's house, including how Suzie's sister choking was foreshadowing Eddie's death, with no mention of El at Surfer boy... Like that almost infuriates me more than byler denial because like... are you serious?

#stranger things #byler #no but fr why do ga and redditors insist the show isn't that good when you present byler evidence... #it's like they hope it sucks #it's like their homophobia leads them to making really shit analysis for the show all around bc they're unwilling to dig deeper #they know they wont like what theyll find #and the scenes at Suzie's house are the best example of this #they HATE that it means suzie's brother's comment about suzie's dad 'almost' sounding genuine means that mike might not have been genuine.. #why else rule out the parallels between mike's monologue and the scene at suzies house?? #WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE RADIO ABOVE BOTH OF THEM AND WILL DIRECTING IN THE BACKGROUND? #like it's just..?. #if you're a hardcore fan and theorist #yet you deny mike's monologue paralleling the scene at suzies house better than eddie's death #after being confronted with the obvious evidence supporting that #you are doomed my friend #no but fr why is youtube filled with reels of theories about suzies house with dudes just being like wow that foreshaddowed eddies death.. #you guys are so out of the loop i don't know what to do w you

[yuelun]

A semblance of a ghost's caress was the only other sign of life aside herself amidst these ruins of a home, their home, that had long since been lost, perished, and abandoned. And it had been the second time that she'd succumbed to it, this— chill that claimed her spine as it did. Was it the echo of the life that once built the paths and buildings that once surrounded her where she stood, that caused the ache that resonated so vehemently within her chest? Memories of a sigh at a day's end, and memories of a smile at the next's beginning. Memories, they were memories, and so little more than that now.

The leaves beneath her feet, bare still as they were so long ago, crunched as she kneeled amidst them as if she were no less than a kindred spirit. And when the tips of her fingers brushed them aside, and touched the soil beneath— perhaps only the most attentive of mortal gazes, or an eye much too divine, could perceive the flecks that seemed to hover and sink into her skin one by one, as if in an instinct ever innate, dust and ash beckoned to return to where, and to who, they always belonged. The sigh it had drawn from her was bare, and unlikely mortal in its sound when it escaped the lips that were so far from any such human concepts, as it existed within a smile, one much too bittersweet.

@maquiscursed (Xiao) // Starter call 🤍

#[ ic. ] had you not decided to search for that mystery adeptus; perhaps these stories too; would have been lost to the sands of time. #[ v: present. ] all wrapped up in a city that has existed for so many moons to date. all these things: they are why people chase the moon. #maquiscursed #[ hey uhm ven-- i got a little sad. ] #[ i also left it /very/ open-ended and mostly just described the scene for you /amidst/ the guili assembly. ] #[ ........ or well the guili plains now 😭] #[ but yes. i figured this way xiao could witness something if you wanted him to. ] #[ i'm casually sad. it's okay. pls tell me you're okay if i hold your hand because pls let's go through this together. ] #[ i hope this is okay! lemme know if it's not. ] #[ also I'M SORRY THIS SHOULD'VE BEEN DONE like 2 weeks ago. pls forgive me and love me still. ] #[ i'll make it up to you i swear! ]

[bookwyrminspiration]

OH ALSO, QUIL! heading off to class in a bit but i wanted to ask you real quick how was it to play around with tense with your tamarelliana fic and what was your intent with it? i LOVE a good technical writing question i would like to offer you this (<- person who tense-switches constantly when writing and has to fix it all the time so cannot tell when it happens with other people's writing 😭)

(the fic in question)

OKAY! Messing with tense is a relatively new thing I've been trying out, because we're always told stay in the same tense don't mix up your tenses--and for good reason! It can be very confusing if we don't follow the rules! BUT! another thing writers are told is that you learn a skill so you can skillfully break it at times for artistic effect. enter tense switches

The way I've been utilizing it is switching to present from past tense for highly emotional/intense moments. This intends to mirror how it feels to experience intense emotion, how visceral and rooted to the moment you are--e.g. a panic attack where all you can think of is right now and everything blurs around you like through a fog and you're so in the present and in yourself it's like your whole perception of the world briefly changes (based on my limited experience).

Most of the present tense scenes in your fic are the shadowflux dreams--which then become like waking dreams. The flux in being written in a different tense is then characterized as something distinctly other, powerful, overwhelming. It is so different from these characters that it cannot even be written in the same way--which then means we can also track how Tam fluctuates between being like the others and being other. The narrative itself treats him differently when he gives in, because now he and the shadowflux are in the same tense--he now has this power, this presence, this disconnect and fog separating him from everything. He's part of a different story and in doing it, losing part of the him that fits with Biana and Marella--until they bring him back to himself.

The intention was to add emphasis to that surrender. The very way he existed (as he only exists in writing), was altered by the tense switch and associated comparisons. And in a less symbolic way, it's intended to just highlight what's happening right then. In past tense everything has already happened, even though you're reading about it for the first time in the present; in present tense, it is happening as you are reading about it, which can shift perspective to heighten drama and intensity when directly juxtaposed against something distant in past tense before it. Tam wasn't lost to the flux, he is lost. Currently. Right now, as you're reading it, he is dreaming and reaching for more. Which is different in tone and immediacy compared to Marella and Biana, who were stealing each others clothes and kissing.

I don't know how much sense this makes, but this is the general thought process. Both to heighten emotion by making you more in the moment--which has more oomph when juxtaposed against past tense rather than writing the whole thing in present--and by creating a distinction between Them and Other that can be used to track Tam's fluctuation between the two. At least that was the intention/theory behind it--who knows if it actually landed/was interpreted that way :)

#kotlc #quil's queries #soryasongsaa #first fic I did it in was my tam and fitz one #simply because for some reason I could not explain I kept starting to write this one scene in present? #i think it was the kiss on the couch #which was so odd because i'd never written in present before #and yet?? i KEPT reverting to it #to the point I was like fuck it fine i'll fix it later #since you're not supposed to switch tenses #and then I went wait a minute...if this scene feels more natural in present. why not keep just this scene in present? #to show the fluctuating emotion #the rules aren't absolutes they're generals #so I tried it. liked it #and have been plagued by the need to do it all the time since #to the point i now mess up tense sometimes #and when editing i'm like okay. did I do this one on purpose or was this one an accident #quite tedious

[sapphixxx]

well. 5 Centimeters per Second still makes me cry my eyes out.

#In reverse order now though #From the first second I'm a fucking mess #Literally hit play and I'm already sobbing #Genuinelyyy doesn't get enough credit for making such good use of withholding closure or gratification #The scene from their childhood is the emotional peak #So you're waiting for the part of the climax that matches it or makes it all make sense #And you just have to sit there with Tono in accepting that it's not gonna happen #You the audience want to go back to that beautiful moment and so does he and you just can't #And the more you try the more empty you become and the more you fail to see in the present #Which honestly makes me sad that Shinkai ended up making his career in making the exact opposite type of movie . _. #He's good at evoking the crushing sadness that accompanies happy moments in realizing they won't last #Like the hotel scene in weathering with you was basically the only part that really stuck with me for that reason #For them all to end with But Love Finds A Way ((((: just kinda kneecaps them #By limiting where they can go and what they can do with the writing #God voices of a distant star and she and her cat too are so goodddddd toooooo #Shinkai buddy what happened