#medium takes

[judas-redeemed]

if tumblr loves anything, it's bitches who are doomed by the narrative. in this uquiz, find out what role are you in the tragic play?

#pls pls pls take it #ive been working on this for forever and a half #judas talks #medium uquiz #uquiz link #my uquiz #uquizzes #uquiz meme #uquiz #my quiz #personality quizzes #personality quiz #quizzes #quiz link #uquiz quiz #quiz #doomed by the narrative #tragedy #tragic

[freshydip]

hey you. watching the game awards. wondering “why did the cast of alan wake 2 do a full on fucking musical number?”. go play/watch someone play alan wake 2 immediately. this is not a request this is an urgent command

#tga #the game awards #alan wake 2 #this game takes advantage of the Video Game Medium in ways i’ve never seen before and #more people should know and appreciate it #and also the musical cutaways rule. but that’s secondary

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[rynliadon]

the scene in the rwrb movie where alex is on the phone with henry which manifests itself AS henry in the flesh on his bed, but his voice switches from sounding like it’s coming from a human in the room to sounding like a phone speaker as he says “i’m hanging up now” … immersing you in the conversation as alex is immersed in the conversation and the reminder pulls you out of that by changing his voice …. exemplifying the distance between them and how henry feels like he could be both right next to alex and an ocean away ….. that was so fucking cool.

#i am a world class complainer but there are a lot of stylistic & directing choices i genuinely loved #i love love love it when a movie takes advantage of the medium and plays into the unreality #red white and royal blue

[raccoonskoodilypoopdungeon]

#chainsaw man #bocchi the rock #makima #hiroi kikuri #edit: y'all got a lot of bad takes #anime makima just isn't hot the same way manga makima is #anime makima is clearly straight hot but manga makima is clearly queer hot #i hope this helps #kikuri is hot in all mediums

[skitpost]

continuing my self-indulgent effort to turn the cast of TMA into D&D characters, i present to you: tim and sasha! explanation under the cut.

sorlock jon and paladin martin

sasha: sasha is absolutely an actual wizard. high INT for sure, though my hot take is that she doesn't have very high WIS. i went for chronurgy because 1. it focuses more on strategy, battlefield control and preparation rather than pure firepower, which i think lines up well with sasha and 2. it slaps. to be completely honest, i did not have very strong thoughts on what race she would be, i just went with drow because i think they're pretty and i have a soft spot for drow wizards

tim: i know tim would be an obvious choice for a bard but hear me out ok. swashbuckler excels in the open rather than in the shadows, turning combat into a fun little dance. it's about confidence propelling you forward, and the key subclass feature is literally called "rakish audacity" like come on. that's so tim. of course, however, he is also the perfect candidate for a vengeance pally. tim is a bit of a performer but he is also a dedicate protector of his people - very paladin of him! in my mind, he was originally a flashy swordsman (rogue) and started taking paladin levels after danny disappeared, eventually swearing oath of vengeance as a promise to avenge his brother. i considered going swords or valor bard instead of swashbuckler, but (and this is very nit-picky of me, i'm sorry) i just can't imagine a world in which tim was ever a support caster. he's definitely got the jack-of-all-trades thing going on though, so i made him a half-elf. high DEX, high CHA, lots of skills, dancing around the battlefield with a dashing smile and a smite stacked on top of a sneak attack.

thanks for reading my ramble! as always, i'd love to hear if you have thoughts.

#tma #the magnus archives #tim stoker #sasha james #dnd #dungeons and dragons #note that tim has a rapier for the sneak attack! i imagine him taking the dueling fighting style #also a nice breastplate rather than clunky armor. ideally medium armor he could add his full dex mod to but oh well #and yes if it wasn't obvious. sasha is a drow because i picked chronurgy wiz and went “haha just like essek...wait a second” #im sorry. any time we talk dnd im thinking about him (essek thelyss) #my art

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: found footage

#sorry if i missed some #found footage #horror #horror movies #the blair witch project #rec #paranormal activity #lake mungo #cloverfield #gonjiam haunted asylum #as above so below #creep #hell house llc #noroi the curse #one cut of the dead #the taking of deborah logon #troll hunter #behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon #what we do in the shadows #ghostwatch #all hallow's eve #the last exorcism #deadstream #host #the poughkeepsie tapes #afflicted #dabbe the posessesion #the medium #incantation #the bay

[beescake]

are you secretly the CEO of solkat

solkat r the ceos of me. actually

#am but a fresh minnow in this decade old aquarium i dont feel worthy of this title #as a chaser of the trail left by the established reigning fish i say‚ #the yaoi game of the og slkts are insane!11 i cannot hope to come close #also i think solkat might b more than tumblr.? #there are bubbles of slkts living in other ecosystems that we tumblrinas are not privy to for sure :o #ask #anon #homestuck #2024 #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #vioart #ok as candidate-in-training my slkt take of the day is that they have a startup tgt ☝️🤓 #worst bosses ever btw these two grind so fucking hard #if u dont keep up w them whoopee youre booted off for killing the team spirit so dead even the mediums wont absolve u #their company culture bonds over shitting on ex-employees :(

[intotheelliwoods]

them. Take them. The sillies

#2 arms left #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise leo #leonardo hamato #god im so excited to start drawing these guys #“ell how could you do this to us” #theres character potential here #theres potential for my tender happy moments im good at to get even MORE somber oh I am going to pull on many hearts with these two #yes not the og duo #but big leo still lives on in memory and everything he taught medium leo #weeps #cries #im emotional over them #very much #take this as compensation ig

[waitineedaname]

I've come to some conclusions about where space westerns fall when it comes to "more space" and "more western"

#star wars #cowboy bebop #high noon over camelot #trigun #firefly #I love space westerns <3 my favorite genre <3 #hnoc is the perfect space western in my taste bc it is the perfect medium #between space and western #I could see cowboy bebop and trigun getting scooched around #but star wars and firefly are definitely the end poles #this is just my silly little takes

[bbq-potato-chip]

Ah yes. Me. My girlfriend. And her thousands of frogs that breached containment from her latest experiment (I support her experiments and can’t wait to see what she’ll do next <3)

#Anyway. More frogpocalypse for yall #my art #botw #Totk #loz #zelink #this is kinda stupid but whatever #I was gonna do it digitally but since the comic is traditional medium i decided to stay with that so it’d be all together. Consistent styl! #I had the actual paper just sitting around before i got to take a picture of it so its been done for a while i just. forgor. u know how its #zelda #link #botw zelda #botw link #totk link #totk zelda #totk fanart #also crying because i can't find the comic on paper...where did i put it ...the woes of a traditional artist

[courfee]

now if they're watching people to gossip or watching them to pine a little is up to your own interpretation

#At some point i will actually post the full drawing with the background as well #its just scary and idk how to go about art #its definitely not my main medium of creativity #it takes me forever to finish a drawing and i feel unsure of everything #from the first sketch to how tf you go about posting things i dont know the norms #marauders #marauders fanart #james potter #sirius black #james potter fanart #sirius black fanart #the marauders #prongsfoot #padfoot #prongs #marauders era #padfoot and prongs #hp #mine #my art

[untitled-deactivated20010911]

Something about change and Kristen Applebees and Ally Beardsley. Riz the goblin, Fabian the half-elf, Adaine the high-elf, Gorgug the half-orc, and Fig the tiefling, these 5 actors and performers saw D&D and made something so inherently engaged with the fantasy of not being yourself. Ally Beardsley, now nearly 6 years ago, looked at this system and said yeah I'll be a human girl who believes in God. And it is the most interesting one to me. Because where the other 5 play a character who more and more diverges from the self (never completely though) Ally continues to have Kristen grow and change and yet remain a human girl who believes in something. Maybe it's not always God anymore but it's god or gods or YES! or YES? and on and on, but it's a human girl who will not stop believing. And Kristen stays mostly the same. In that place, though, Ally changes. Ally goes from she/her to they/them, Ally starts T, Ally gets top surgery. The way this character interacts with and lives with change contrasts Ally the actor so incredibly.

#it's captain america to me #it is making something and saying this is me taking things out of me knowingly and getting to examine them in this space and when #everything about the medium demands change I do it myself because this character is me and also all the things I'm not #but maybe used to be or maybe I used to think I was #fantasy high sophomore year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #ally beardsley

[ink-the-artist]

I love your artwork so much! Your colors are so vibrant and none of the white speckles in the paper ever shows, its so impressive and I really dig it! I was wondering if you use any sort of blending medium? Like baby oil or anything? Either way, I really enjoy looking at your artwork and I'm always excited to see whatever you'll make next

I use a colorless blender (prismacolor, which is wax-based so baby oil probably wouldnt work) but my scanner is also rly bad about picking up white specks in a way photographing the art with my phone isnt, so I usually have to do some digital editing to get rid of them as well.

I do this by duplicating the layer, setting the one on top to "darken," and using the mixer brush to blend out the white spots + just use the eyedropper tool to select the color of that area (needs to be a slightly lighter shade of it) and color over the white spots with the brush tool

i edited a small bit of the original scan to show what i mean

original:

with the edited layer:

heres how it looks set to normal instead of darken, I used both the mixing brush and regular brush just to demo it

#explanation is under the cut. post got a bit too long #u prob have to click the image for full resolution to rly see what i mean about the white specks showing up #i think its bc the scanner is meant to scan documents. so it picks up the white specks of paper very brightly #how much editing is done varies from piece to piece #ive thought abt listing 'digital art' as one of the mediums in tags for the more heavily edited art #where it looks significantly different than the physical drawing in front of me #but i feel like that might be confusing #art where i set out to do some mix of traditional and digital is tagged this way but im not rly sure where to draw the line tbh #the hunger wasnt edited in a way where it looks significantly different from the original (just a bit darker) #the scan is just dull and light bc my scanner is like that lol #so with editing that one i was mostly just trying to make it look like the physical drawing in front of me #u can tell by the 'layer 44' in the screenshot these take a lot of editing lmao #art help

[filmnoirsbian]

#i love that they used daryl dixon as the bg lmao #anyways! this has been a long time coming. the positives abt social media have been starting to stop outweighing the negatives for me #and rather than offering the connection to others it once did it has begun to feel very disconnecting to me in a way i do not like #i will still pop in occasionally i think if only just to post poetry or answer asks. but i will no longer be opening this app daily or #uploading my queue so when whatever's in there now runs out that's it! #I'll still be active on patreon. slightly less active on substack and medium. and wolfgang and i will still be doing the podcast. #but i need to take my time back tbh and this will help me do that hopefully. hope ur all as well as can be <3 #tcp

[fattylime]

plates from last semester celebrating my 5th year out as trans <3

#i fell in love with ceramics when i was taking that class but it's such an expensive medium #wanna try and make pins from air dry clay eventually dunno yet #majolica #majolica glaze #ceramics #pottery #transjoy #lgbt #trans art #plates #ceramic plates #fattylime #lime made art