#you KNOW thats- not- thats not analogue!!

[falinscloaca]

i think i’ve said this before but its really funny how analogue horror became this huge new beginner-media-creation accessible horror trend because outta any fucking subgenre of horror it takes arguably some of the MOST trialsome artistic standards to get “right”. the amount of energy that goes into setting up an immersively “real”-feeling mixed media faux nonfiction broadcast type thingy dealy PROPERLY is like, wow no wonder the genre cliche is “psas over a monochrome background with the occasional still image of a face or diagram drawn by a child” lmfao

#like. come on half of these things use illustrations in places where photographs of ‘real’ people would go #you KNOW thats- not- thats not analogue!! #i dont think its NECESSARILY a bad artistic decision but like you made a cartoon world doing that! #thalasin plus you dont have to worry honeysweetybaby your illustrated faces work great its a prescription ad those tend to have #that kinda thing #it serves a good purpose don’t worry its about how people read emotions into faces and how ‘unrealistic’ distortions of faces would imply #inconcievable emotions & ergo lived experiences for the poor saps taking ‘em. it isn’t necessarily literal even. yer great sweetie pie #its all those other posers who are wrong #*cough* ANYWAY

[fiendishartist2]

the bar for "revolutionary" webhorror is so low. what happened

#god lord im so sick of itttttttt ToT #if you dont know analogue horror is on is deathbed and now ppl are onto ''digital horror'' #which is the same thing except using digital mediums instead of analogue (like the internet instead of vhs) #and i do mean the same thing lol nothing has changed #not the conventions of storytelling not the limitations of the medium not the types of scares it presents #the only thing that has changed is the aesthetic. and that is unbelievably sad #if youre going to do a horror series based in the internet then why not.... actually use the medium of the internet for horror #theres so many scary things about the internet (esp early internet!!!!!) and yet no one is using that for their series #just the same old ''missing children's spirit communicating through tape oops i mean the website :)'' like cmon man.... :( #why not use things like viruses or the sudden connection to any and everyone through the internet or early hoaxes/creepy ads #lack of regulation on the early internet or the isolating/uncanny aesthetics of old hardware (kid me was so scared of computers lol) #or literally anything else that is DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE MEDIUM YOUR SERIES IS BASED ON #does anyone else on earth care about this or am i just picky??? hello??? #i just want smth that leaves a genuine impact. i just want a series that feels like smth thats never been done before #i just want webhorror that knows what it wants to be and fits neatly into the confines of its medium #petscop felt like a real videogame. it felt like smth i could see in an ''obscure ps1 games youve never heard about!!'' video #it had a will they wont they about whether or not the game was actually talking to paul (through ghosts or other users etc) #but it was never in your face and it was left just vague enough that instead of breaking immersion it sucked you in even more #paul felt like a real person playing a real game and experiencing genuine fear and obsession alongside the audience #there was never a point where the screen started turning red and pauls voice became distorted and ''scary'' while creepy imagery popped up #bc petscop works entirely within the limitations of a man playing a videogame. no more no less #thats the kind of dedication to the medium that i want!!!!!! #i only critique webhorror so much bc its my favourite type of horror and i want it to improve

[gumjester]

@eremorte for some reason i could not post my answer to this ask???? but i love it and have thoughts so we're answering this analogue version!!!! MY ANSWERS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

WHATS CHASE DOIN!!!!! showing him anywhere, doing anything, letting my poor boy come 2 eah and be at peace with friends.. it makes sense for him to transfer!! or the webisode could be him running away from his bint mother n being discovered in ever after by the wonderlandians after maddie heard he crossed thru the portal or something :( i want him to wear normal clothes and hav a nice cup of tea

^^ i suppose thats already quite self indulgent but i could go 4 another one!!!!! i always loved maddie's diary entry where she chases the sound of giles' knock all around the school by herself and wouldnt that be a fun thing to make into a little webisode!!!! a flashback to the days of summer, empty school, eerie atmosphere, maddie-focused episode…. they'd never make it. thats why it would be so good"!!!!!!

i kno this is grand expectations for . an eah webisode. but i would have liked to see the ramifications of thronecoming.... like its fair enough that the student population puts their frets aside 4 the Big Dance because why wouldnt you!!!!! god knows ur not having fun any other time!! but afterwards the storybook is still missing and as far as anyone's concerned, could b anywhere!! scary stuff. i wanted to see briar sweat a little bit. they RLLY sidelined her after her single act of agency in thronecoming and i needed to see that mounting tension!!!!!! maybe a scene with her and apple, the growing schism between them.. her and ashlynn, ashlynn suspecting but saying nothing, their new rebellious camaraderie....we could hav had it all

AFTERMATH!!!!!!! LIKE WHA?????? the storybook has just been destroyed!!! isn't this like the pillar of your society or whatever???? why is nobody flipping out and hoarding cans of kelpie steaks in their fortified basement?? you could even make it funny [?] by having some people take on full doomsday prepper mode after finding out the storybook has been destroyed instead of jus . moving decently and calmly with their lives, deflating all and any influence and tension the storybook plot held. JUST A THOUGHT 👍

HM......... something with duchess and sparrow i think! they really shine as antagonists but i feel like true hearts day wasnt as far as they could spread their wings <- bird pun. maybe the special could b focused on figuring out wht the fuck exactly was up with duchess' white/black swan dissonance!!!! why did she turn into a black swan when she transformed 🤷‍♀️ what is up with that. what is up with duchess. mattel please answer my voicemails!!!!!! sparrow could help out nd be comic relief and also we could see them be friends because i love them. THERE'S NO LOSING

THIS WAS ALL DEEPLY DISJOINTED BUT SO MUCH FUN TO THINK ABOUT 💜 I LOVE AIRING GRIEVANCES

#ask #eah #ever after high #gum talk #chase redford #maddie hatter #madeline hatter #briar beauty #duchess swan

[catofoldstones]

j0ns@ isnt 100% to me but stans disbelieving in the ashford tourney interpretations now because it didnt fit what they wanted makes me lol now its invalid by having robert arryn when its not supposed to be a 100% recreation, harrold harryn is too much coincidence that it signals sans@'s suitors ,saying the final targaryen suitor died is coping because like Valarr Targaryen, jon also just died the difference is he'll get resurrected

my favourite excuse is "well nobody married lady ashford" well duh its a tourney,it might not even happen in a romantic light more for desperate political reasons the denial is hysterical

Hi anon,

I understand their need to constantly be “debunking” the theory because how dare Sansa have a parallel in another book and thereby be an important character in the series as a whole😤

I don’t think Robert Arryn is the chink in the armour they think he is. With all of Sansa’s previous suitors & Harry, there have been concrete plots to get her married to them. She was officially betrothed to Joffrey (the Baratheon suitor) before the Tyrells brought in Willas (the Tyrell suitor) and were actively planning to spirit her away to Highgarden right under the Lannisters’ noses, only for them to catch wind of the plan (if it can even be put that way) and forcefully get Sansa married to Tyrion (the Lannister suitor). As for Harry, Baelish’s northern plan comes into play which rests on the heels of Sansa getting married to Harry. Not to mention Hardyng is a pretty unknown House to just throw in, dontcha think?

Lysa brings up Sweetrobin in passing, with no plan or even an actual intention to marry them. This is literally never brought up again when Lysa is alive, or even after. The only one repeating any similar sentiment is Sweetrobin himself, who has a crush on Sansa but clearly doesn’t know what it means. So should we take Sweetrobin as a valid suitor? I mean, do crushes count? Because then why not include a whole legion of other Westerosi men who are interested in Sansa and make it a watertight argument. Baelish absolutely wants to marry Sansa, he even asked Cersei for Sansa’s hand in marriage, why isn’t he included? “Because…” yeah you’re there. My point is, the arguments against Baelish & SR are both strong but take a step back to what they have in common, Sansa’s story is leading somewhere else and thematically neither of them fit. One is less serious than the other & thats SR. Be fr with your SR arguments jesus.

Moreover, the Ashford theory and Sansa’s suitors don’t have to be perfect analogues of each other. Hell, we know nothing about Lady Ashford except that she’s 13 and involved in a tourney that was disrupted, and that Sansa is 13 and involved in a tourney that will be disrupted. Man, does this girl have to be named Pansa Ptark now for it to be a valid parallel? Why does George even bother naming his books, he should start calling them the war of the roses and be done with it. Why are we even reading political fiction, let’s just open today’s newspaper. Tf.

And I don’t think I can add anything to the Jon - Targaryen suitor theories that hasn’t been proposed + your points too. We consider R + L = J to be true, first and foremost. The “white guardian”, “dark hair” “the Targaryen suitor being dead” etc etc. In the same vein as the argument above, does he need to be named Jonnel/Jonos now to be taken seriously? Well, he is in another parallel but even that is “reaching” so what can I say? 🤷‍♀️ They’re not going to see what they don’t want to see, but, like you said, watching them jump through hoops and perform mental gymnastics and open a whole circus in the process is truly hilarious lol.

You do bring up an excellent argument, anon, that all of Sansa’s previous suitors have been for her claim to the North, so her marriage with Jon might also be for political reasons. However, the slight exception of Joffrey who was a King in his own right (lmao) exists; which again sort of foils Jon and his actual claim to the iron throne. So I feel that while a political marriage is totally on the cards (solves one too many problems for my liking 😤), Sansa might marry him out of love considering her theme of independence and not-marrying-for-claim. But who am I to say 🤷‍♂️

Lastly, nobody crowned Lady Ashford the queen of love and beauty so Sansa isn’t marrying anyone is sort of funny. Well, Loras gave Sansa a red rose amongst all the young maidens present there, are they a foreshadowed endgame pairing now? Also, how does one come up with Sansa is gonna end up as Lady of the Vale by marrying HH and Sansa is going to end up alone in the same breath?

#ashford tourney #sansa stark #jon snow #jonsa #asoiaf #hedge knight #also how are y’all a-ok with Sansa marrying SR but not Jon because eww incest #she’s equally related to both of them #long post #lol #can I ever shut up? #anon asks t

[nightdrawz]

you are my favorite artist!! i really admire your coloring style, and how soft the lighting makes it feel despite being on-model. you have any tips? on the topic of lighting, i also ADORE your shading!! :3

You have no idea how happy this made me (ﾉω･､)

You are such a sweet heart

(≧◡≦) ♡

I tried my best explaining and understanding the question!

(My english isn’t the best)

A heads up: i explained more than i needed to!

First i wanted to show how i color

There are 4 simple steps

Base

Shadows

Light

Details

Before i color i decide where the light is coming from, so I’d know what im doing with light and shadows

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Now with the actual shading and lighting

It’s actually just 2 easy steps, for me atleast

I’d say my shading&lighting is kinda lazy..

I know it hard to see it, so how about we actually use it on a model or two

Examples:

I used blue and yellow as an example to show what it looks like with warm and cool colors :p

You can see how it changes when you add shading and lighting (tho you cant see the light that much…)

For blue i gave him for shading analogues colors that means the colors are neighbors on the color wheel, the same with yellow.

Its good to know a bit of color theory! It can help! (Im also learning)

-

Next lighting&shading refrences

How they look when the light source moves

(Ignore the laziness…)

Its good to have a real reference to help you

You can see how it can changes green depending where the light source is coming from, it can change a mood.

And thats it!

This is how i shade and do lighting! (Plus color)

Thank you for reading me ramble about colors ( ˙▿˙ )

#its 3am and i finally finished it #me rambling #im not an expert #i will slumber now #goodnight! #alan becker #animation vs animator #animation vs minecraft #ava fanart #avm fanart #lighting and shading #tutorial #procreate #art #my art #artists on tumblr #asks #here you go anon #nightdrawz

[cgtg]

do you have any tips on writing karkat dialogue? im trying to get a better feel for it

honestly... i dont know how to do it

like. i do it but i dont know *how*. idont even know how i got here

uh... 2 me all the trolls ring true as analogues of weird people youd meet on a forum.

you gotta imagine the kinda guy that goes on a forum n like. says shit about how important and busy he is irl, and highkey constantly wants admin so hard he like, enforces the forums questionable rulez himself,over dumb shit. tries to impress users he finds cool and authoritative. and all the staff find him annoying.

then add a layer of "overly candid teenage boy who doesnt get out much and cries all da time irl, unabashedly loves his friendz but cant say it with his mouth&eyes directly". the hopeful romanticism is crucial. he loves love. hes pathetic maybe. hes a fuckin guy. great at painting nose-wrinkling mental images.

i think the most important part of writing karkat is knowing when 2 be brief and when to write 1k words of rant. karkat knows how to listen and he also knows how to chew ur ear out.

also knowing the right amount of cusses to sprinkle in. you gotta get creative with the vocab, have fun with it yknow. dont just have him say fuck and stuff. its just too easy

im genuinely sorry i cannot give more meaningful advice than that. i hope thats... anything

#i have no clue what im doing #i couldnt describe it if i sat down in front of paper for 12 hours

[horus-unofficial]

Hey, are you guys the ones who leaked the Enkidu’s source code on the omninet? All the timestamps on it put it back all the way to the Hercynian Crisis but somehow one of my lancemates and her weird NHP got ahold of one and now we’ve got this thing sitting in the mechbay and twitching whenever you aren’t looking at it and the techs and I are getting really nervous

the enkidu codebase was rediscovered on hercynia a hundred or so years after the revolution wasnt it?

anyway thats seccomm tech buddy we cant help you, wed say ask @harrison-armory-official cos tokugawas the closest modern analogue to that frame but that doesnt mean they know anything theyre willing to share

#lancerrpg #lancer rpg #lancer ttrpg #lancer enkidu

[sometimes-love-is-enough]

AAAAAAA ur reading house of leaves??? im buying that next week thats so cool! do u have any book recs? or recs in general shows movies etc

I AM!! I'm several chapters in and super enjoying it, although reading it alone in a tiny hotel room in the middle of nowhere was a Distinct Mistake.

As for recs! I'm going to specifically go for stuff that isn't super mainstream, in the hopes that I'll recommend you something you have never heard of before. Here's some stuff for you!

Podcasts

Dreamboy - one-season podcast from Night Vale Presents, definitely one of their less-known ones. Explicit in places, what I would describe as AO3 M-rated sex scenes. A worn-out musician ends up embroiled in inexplicable events in a small town, and also there's a murderous zebra and fossils that want to fuck. It's a musical cinematic podcast masterpiece, I'll always be sad there's only one season.

Apocrypals - nonfiction. Two non-believers read through the Bible and try not to be jerks about it. If you're interested in theology and apocryphal texts but have no idea where to start, this is such a good place. The hosts are delightful, and have a really nice way of taking you through all the various layers of Biblical scholarly nonsense. Considerable backlog of episodes, but worth listening through from the beginning. Weirdly, there's continuity.

Til Death Do Us Blart - five poor fools watch Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 every Thanksgiving from now until the end of eternity, and report back yearly on their mental state. You may think to yourself 'wow, that doesn't sound like a good time'. It isn't, to the hosts. To anyone listening along, it's fucking hilarious. Nine episodes so far, and it's a single episode per year, so plenty of time to catch up.

Web Series

The Monument Mythos - Several seasons. surreal analogue horror alternate history of America told through a series of videos of varying format. Brilliantly absurd, fucked up, and horrifying by turns (sometimes all at once).

No Evil - ongoing animated series, made mostly by a single person. Please don't immediately wave it off because of the colorful anthropormorphic animals. The mythology is amazing, the animation is sublime, and the music is haunting. The pacing is a bit strange at first, and you may be confused at the way the plot moves, but you have to understand that it's all part of its charm. I think about No Evil way too much.

Dances Moving - you may know Brian David Gilbert from his work at Polygon, and his more recent absurdist Youtube ventures. This is from way before that! It's a fun and gradually heartwrenching musical exploration of a local dance group and what it means to move away from home. Seven short episodes.

ENA - this one is a bit more mainstream, so you may know it already. Who knows what's going on in the world of ENA? Definitely not me. Absurdism at its finest. Bizarre architecture, strange characters, if it's a metaphor I don't know what it's about, but the vibes are immaculate. Three actual episodes of varying length, apparently there's a video game set to come out soon-ish?

An Unauthorized Fan Treatise - serialized story. If you're a fan of internet drama a la Msscribe, you're going to adore it. It's a fiction story about a fictional fandom, and one massively messed up person who decides that two of the lead actors in her favorite show are secretly dating and sets out to prove it with a cited multi-chapter essay. And then it gets wild.

Comics

The Property of Hate - a wonderfully dynamic and colorful webcomic about a young girl getting chosen to become a make-believe world's Hero. Puns and wordplay galore. Absolutely delightful characters and worldbuilding. Ongoing.

Eat the Rich - a young woman goes to meet her boyfriend's extremely rich family, and learns their horrifying secret. Warning: cannibalism. 5 issues, complete.

Beanworld - impossible to describe, but I'll try. An absurdist semiabstract musing on the nature of life and cycles and community, set in a world where the rules are weirdly two-dimensional and you as a reader get weirdly invested in the routines and cycles that the inhabitants follow. And all of the main characters are cute lil bean guys. If you read anything on this list, do this one. (Linked is the only online version I could find, and it's not up-to-date. I own all the omnibuses in print. If you liked what you read here, I recommend tracking them down too.)

Short Stories (in no particular order, and certainly not all my favorites - just the ones I had bookmarked and on hand)

Bride, Knife, Flaming Horse - a young Indian woman looks for marriage in the fantastical, and finds several suitors

Fish (in 13 sections) - an obsessive unpacks a bewildering insult. Just, really fun.

Fandom For Robots - a robot discovers anime, and definitely doesn't have big feelings about it

Informed Consent Logs From The Soul-Swap Clinic - two people decide to swap bodies, for somewhat murky reasons.

The Magician's Apprentice - a young girl learns magic from her mentor. This one's about grooming. But not like that. But also a lot like that. But also it's so much more fucked up than that. (This one is a MEGA favorite, it's by Tamsyn Muir. Who you may recognize as the author of the Locked Tomb series - I'd rec that too here, if it wasn't definitely too mainstream for what I'm going for. Read this. And also read the Locked Tomb.)

The Tale of the Foolish King Who Banished Music - it's a snippet of a longer Doctor Who audio drama, but stands so nicely on its own. Unnerving little fairy tale.

The Spider - 1908 horror story about a man trying to figure out why so many men have spontaneously committed suicide in a specific hotel room. It's basically a TMA statement, in more ways than one.

Video Games

What Did Veronica Dream Of? - strange little rpgmaker puzzle game. Obtuse and weird, and I adore it. I wish I could explain why.

Secret Little Haven - point-and-click about being a trans girl on the internet in 1999. Completely nails the tone it's going for. Period-typical homo- and transphobia.

Linelith - a short (1-hour) puzzle game with no plot and no characters, and yet it contains one of the greatest plot-twists of all time. I'm begging you to play it immediately.

Lingo - puzzle game about linguistics, words, non-Euclidean goemetry, and figuring out an endless series of rules in a constantly expanding world. RIDICULOUSLY clever and good, and I've been playing it almost continuously for the last few months. It's got so much content for such a reasonable price, and the community-made maps add even more content (and are also excellent). If English isn't your first language, you may struggle, but otherwise - grab a bunch of friends and stream it. It's better with friends helping you out, I can guarantee it.

For A Change - a 1999 interactive fiction game about raising the sun in a world where words do not mean what you think they mean. If you're familiar with old text-based games, go ahead and play it - otherwise, you may want to read this transcript of a group of people playing it together instead.

Other Things

Carmilla - the classic 1800s lesbian vampire novella. I read it very recently, and it's extremely good. Absolutely delivers on the lesbian vampire premise in full gory detail, although do be aware that it was written in the context of homophobic fear.

Alberio - very fun light musical about two siren brothers reconnecting under less-than-ideal circumstances.

Mosquitoes - stage play about life and families and physics (theoretical and practical both). Very heavy topics, pulls no punches. The Boson's final monologue always wrecks me.

Ghost Quartet - musical/song cycle/experience about love, death, alcohol, and (of course) ghosts. Lots of cyclical stories and time travel weirdness. All of the songs are incredible.

Yankee and the Foreigners - music group that performs delightful upbeat covers of songs in animal onesies. Their Bare Necessities cover is a favorite of mine.

I'm sure there's lots more things I could rec (not a lot of books or movies here, huh? sorry about that. I immediately forgot everything I've ever read and watched) but these were the things that came to mind when I sat down and wrote this list, so hopefully there's something new and good for you in here!

#not tss #recs #asks #if any of these scratched your brain good Let Me Know!! i like to know i have good taste #also [grabs your shoulders] go read gideon the ninth. please. #it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

[divinecomedyproductions]

"Disengage the fandom and curate your interaction!" - It's not that simple.

One thing I've told about my woes about fandom is "disengage from the fandom" and not to "hyperbolize" or not "open floodgates", and be "rational" and just accept not being "serious storytelling" or else it comes of as "fragility" or I guess would be "breaking from fragility"and being "defensive" and "not touching grass"

And I know this comes from a good place and I know these people mean well...

The problem is that advice doesn't work when it comes to certain fandoms who use these labels and also hyperbolize and "floodgate", the escalation of interaction, and the "consequences" of that. At least in my past experience

The problem is when you try to "disengage with the fandom" requires you to drop social media entirely. And when it comes to pop culture and creativity and start with projects, most of that stuff now requires social media and the internet.

If you "disengage" your often just left with people you know at work who might have no idea what you're talking about and can't help you in any way.

Michael of RetroBlasting of YouTube his Unplugged Video about " 'Ignoring it' and doing nothing"

It isn't the analogue world anymore, you don't just leave a comic book shop full of jackasses and go to another one and continue your business. And toxic fandoms know this too.

In fact this video explains this kind of stuff best

And what toxic fandoms do, is they set you up into a conundrum.

In the game of The Toxic Fandom, if whatever your doing that takes elements of what you liked of safe franchise, especially out of disagreement and disappointment gets big enough, they invade your space and harass you and often resort to their own brand hyperbolizing and "floodgating" first and assume the worst reasons of what makes you happy and what you want.

If you stay composed and rational and use milder words like "disheartened" and "bummed out", accept your ideas being labeled as "not seriously storytelling", and "disengage" from where if your you put stuff out and find another platform.

They see you as a wimp and keep pushing you back because "oh he's just disheartened guys, he'll get over it, so we can keep pushing him around. What's he gonna do? Be Mildly annoyed? LOL!"

and use the fact stayed "this label" instead of changing to "that label" to screw you over because "we need to make room for real storytelling, thats the consequences sorry!" for whatever reason

And if you do anything aggressive or assertive back;

which might involve hyperbolizing and flooding gates, or at the very least get more aggressive with your tone

If you defend yourself from labels and explain why you wanted what you wanted and why it makes you happy, which is not necessarily being 'defensive'

If you do anything that isn't passive...

You "Broke" from "fragility" your being "defensive", your "not being the bigger person" and "not accepting reality"

and you need to "touch grass"

So the fandoms won't let you win

So in this context, you keep being passive and keep on "disengaging" and keep accepting these labels, the fandom will become more bold and invasive and even actively sabotage you by slandering you such as LilithFairen, KnightOfBalance, or Canonseeker does with AUs and ReWrites of RWBY and they might even falsely report too.

So instead of things getting hypothetically better in the long run, the damage gets exponentially worse

Now of course the argument can be made "well there's always gonna be haters no matter what." Of course there will be, so you might as well fight back to stop the unnecessary bleeding.

Now of course there's cases where it is the case where the person is overreacting and need to step back, but the problem is in my experience there's outsiders who don't bother to take the time time and figure out what's going on before making their judgement call because they think they can just assess the situation by just looking at it and make an assumption because they know so much.

Because the think they’re doing this

when in reality their doing this is getting in the way

Another example I can think off is the success of Kamen America which is an active disagreement with what was done with the idea of Captain Marvel, combined with other elements of course so its not a blatant rip off.

Once it got big enough, Captain Marvel fanatics began shrieking its nothing but a "Porn Captain Marvel Rip-Off" and try to reputation assassinate it, which ComicsGate tried to jump in because the "leader" has a personal beef with the creators

And these are the same people who cheer on evil superman clones like Omni-Man and Homelander or cheer on "His Dark Materials Trilogy" which was made by an author who had a big beef with The Chronicles of Narnia and CS Lewis

Because supervision/inversion is awesome when it subverts/inverts things they don't like I guess

So once again, the fans like myself had to step in and say something and fight back so those out of the loop knew what was actually going on.

Once Fandoms become invasive and are policing social media and creativity to a certain magnitude and try to throw what makes us happy to the dogs when the opportunity hits, being passive and rational might not be an option.

Sometimes it is. But sometimes it's not.

#toxic fandom #toxic fanbase #toxic fndm #rwde #insert fandom here #social media #social networks #kamen america #chronicles of narnia

[biteghost]

Maybe I missed it, was it ever explained how the crew knows about earth stuff? Does Keyes and Earth have back and forth cultural communication? Is it only one way? Is it just a cute way to show off the gangs interests without needing to make up a whole level of Keyes brand anime?

Ignore me if this isnt answered but you plan on doing so in future chapters, if thats the case Ill find out eventually

It's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B! This is not terribly important to the story at large, so here are some thoughts about it:

Keyes and Earth have some interplanetary communication, though travel between them is difficult and only available to the very wealthy.

However, due to the Bearcat's nature, Agnes's people can pop on over to Earth if they want to with no problem! (As long as they have their pins to get back, that is!)

I thought it would be funnier to have Billy be a bit of an 'earthaboo' and directly reference anime that I personally found to be formative in my early life (like Dragon Ball Z). (Agnes is also a bit of an earthaboo, considering her interest in the 1920s-30s aesthetics.)

Making up my own brand of Keyes anime comes with the worldbuilding issue that is "wait, so is there a Keyes equivalent of Japan in this comic?" I did not want to make fictional analogues for real-life persons and places, because that can get sketchy/questionable really quickly if you're not careful, and BACKLASH is not about that, haha. BACKLASH takes place on a fictional planet with Earth-like touchstones for reader accessibility and also rule of funny. Some things are different, and others are the same! Those differences will come up in the comic but there's nothing too extreme.

The worldbuilding is a little loose and messy (which I apologize for) but this is my first comic and also a comic I've been making for almost 10 years so. You know. It's gonna be like that a little bit. D-don't think about it too hard, haha,,

#asktime #not art #BACKLASH #kitsunesfire

[clementine-writes-things]

Get To Know Me

General Things to know!

I have autism (ASD)

I struggle with social/emotional communication

ADHD

Shey/They pronouns (they preferred)

AFAB

Gender queer? Idek at this point.

Feminine

Brown eyes

Strawberry blonde <3

Lots of freckles!

19 (as of typing this)

Queer

Pisces ♓ (Pisces in sun, Leo in moon, Aries rising)

Special Interests:

Resident Evil

Assassins Creed

Fallout

The Walking Dead

Gotham

Stranger Things

DC universe

Harry Potter

Pokemon

Tarot cards

Nature

The 80's and 50's

TLOTR

Hobbit

The Backrooms

Analogue Horror

Five Nights at Freddy's

My Little Pony (pinkie pie is my spirit animal)

Writing/reading

Lana Del Rey

Poetry

Junji Ito

American horror story

The Office

Horror movies/shows/books

Banned books (screw our government for banning books)

Plenty more things I might be spacing on

My Aesthetics I Like:

Cottage core/ fairy core/ americana (in a non-patriotic way lol I just love 50's vibez)/kidcore (love bright colors yippee!)/dressing up like a homeless person core :D /weirdcore

Random Facts About Me:

I have coulrophobia (fear of clowns)

I also have a very specific fear that I cannot find a definitive explanation of. I get extremely uneasy and unsettled in points between two places (think the backrooms). Basically liminal spaces terrify me. But, oddly enough, I'm fascinated with them.

I forage for wild food/plants/herbs/etc.

I will always and forever be obsessed with the Riddler. Always.

I listen to music a lot. Not just as a hobby, it genuinely helps me think. I listen to music when I write a lot and use specific songs to help write what I have an idea of. I listen to those songs on loop. If you have noticed how I always list the music I listen to, then you will know what I mean lol. But basically, music helps me connect things.

I self-insert a lot into my writings. Sometimes I will make the reader autistic/obsessed with music/etc.

I pride myself on writing things that are fun and entertaining, but also keeping it realistic. I write awkward conversations, I write people mispronouncing words, I write realistic scenarios (unless its something thats hard to make realistic like superpowers ykwim) because I find that not a lot of people do that. When people write they exaggerate and make it over the top and appeal to one specific audience (especially smut). But I want to write as if the scenario I am writing actually happened. I want to write a whole paragraph about how this person says hello. I want to write an entire paragraph about how y/n thinks coffee tastes. YKWIM? I love details and realistic writing.

I'm always open to making friends! DM me if you would like! <3

Gifs To Match My Aesthetic:

#writers #writers of tumblr #fanfic writer #fanfic #about me #get to know me #weirdcore #kidcore #cottagecore #hypercore #dc universe #autistic #actually autistic #nuerodivergent

[sleepy-seal]

Welcome back to another episode of: TMAGP & Treats!!!

This week's treat is........ brownies!!! Just plain baking mix brownies.

sorry for the lackluster treat! i'm currently recovering from a wisdom teeth removal surgery and wanted something easy to make while listening.

- got lucky that we have another box of baking mix because energy is low today after yesterday's surgery

- pan is greased

- COLIN?

- thats actually kind of nice sam is worried for him

- cameras huh? almost like he's afraid of being watched

- uh ohhhh sam's a bit agitated

- SAM

- SAM STOP FUCKING AROUND AND FINDING OUT YOU'RE LITERALLY GOING TO DIE THIS WAY

- WELCOME TO MY TWISTED MIND????? LMAO

- 2000's ass blog post

- "Bye! ^_^"

- this is a bit interesting though. the blog owner states that they're keeping the blog for posterity, but a good chunk of the posts have since been deleted

- voyeur huh? sounds like that entails a lot of watching

- A KOFI TOO OH MY GOD

- CINEPHOBIAAAAAAA LMAO

- GIRL RUN

- HOW IS THEM MANAGING TO FIND YOUR ADDRESS WITHOUT YOU INPUTTING IT NOT RAISING ANY RED FLAGS

- it looks dilapidated on the outside?????? run???????

- since i can't eat the brownies due to Surgery Reasons i'm opting to eat the batter instead (as carefully as possble)

- eating all the popcorn before the movie starts? relatable

- okay so before the Scary Part starts i'm going to guess it's a detailed version of the writer's life story but from a 3rd person's perspective

- okay i was a bit off. but i was right in spirit

- that is a bit interesting though. it's like the movie is a disease that keeps spreading. someone sees it, makes a blog post about it with the same exact words, someone else sees the blog post, that someone else sees it, and so on and so forth

- OKAY. INTERESTING

FINAL THOUGHTS:

okay firstly, this episode was pretty interesting! it was a bit shorter than the previous episodes but still something substantial. i'm nevertheless intrigued and still curious as to how things will develop.

but more importantly, COLIN!!!!! i know he was in episode 3 but i miss him already. it's interesting though that sam notes how weird colin's been acting lately. he is very intentionally going analogue. and to be honest i can't really blame him. he knows that the programs inside the computers are watching them, and will use practically anything digital to connect from one aspect to another and spy on people (remember how they managed to connect to alice's phone in the first episode??? literally no device is safe.) him doing literally everything he can to distance himself from the electronics is not going unnoticed. while we're on the topic of IT's, i'm wondering why gwen was so interested in them all of a sudden. does it have to do with the video she saw? could klaus be the german IT guy? what happened to him? perhaps he knew too much, and it was getting in the way of his work. and the fact he's german. could he be the one who wrote the code for the system? it doesn't explain things, but it definitely something to keep in mind. it seems like gwen is onto something, and she's starting her own little investigation.

i am also keeping an eye on sam. he's a bit better at this than jon, in the sense that he's not being overtly obsessive about it Yet, but something is up with him. he's a bit irrate and making incredibly bad decisions, but to be honest, who doesn't when they're in a bad mood? i do appreciate him trying to bring up colin's current state and offering some kind of solution, rather than pushing him away. i think he genuinely wants to help.

also alice is so confused. i feel so bad for her. "why is everyone acting so weird?" honestly i do not blame you. alice get behind me everybody is going to make you look like the weird suspicious person for trying to stay sane.

sorry for the delay guys!!!! the pain is bearable but i've just been having a hard time getting my thoughts together. this episode has given me a lot but also not very much. overall, i think everybody is acting weird and i know this is bad because my guys :( my little sillies. anyways, that's all for now! goodbye!

#tmagp spoilers #tmagp speculation #tmagp #TMAGP & Treats

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

hmm how to phrase this-do dizzy and finn stay together after she becomes an animal again? oh and can she still talk to her kids, or is it like, to them at least, talking to a stranger?

eeeeeh yes and no - Finn still loves Cat-Dizzy, and does like, cat-loving things like groom her and cuddle her, but theyre not sexually or romantically involved anymore if thats what you mean.

She can still communicate anything a non-sentient cat can - which is to say, not much, but not nothing. She is very fond of Finn and their children, grooming them and such, and can express basic needs like hunger or discomfort to them (which they do their best to either accommodate or communicate to the humans, which is more difficult now that Dizzy and Roman can't translate)

If I had to compare it to a real life analogue, I might compare it to living with a family member with severe and late-stage alzheimers. Very little communication, and only glimpses of the person she used to be. Cat-Dizzy knows these other cats and people are her friends and she loves them as all cats can love a person or another cat, but she doesn't understand things like "marriage" or "these are my grown children" or "niblings."

#ask #anonymous #laoft dizzy #love and other fairytales ask

[trans-girl-uchiha-itachi]

bestie im cyberbullying you into talking abt the tam lin au >:3

OH WOW... WHAT A MYSTERIOUS ANON... I DEFINITELY DONT KNOW WHO THIS IS. i definitely did not watch over your shoulder as you sent me this ask

anyway. yeah. the tam lin au. it's a non-massacre au where hinata never leaves otogakure, instead teaming up with karin + kabuto to kill orochimaru and take over oto, and at some point konoha starts getting REALLY worried that none of the people they send to investigate wtf is going on in oto ever. come back?

(i forbid ye, maidens all // that wear gold in your hair // to go down to carterhaugh // for young tam lin is there...)

and so eventually they send itachi to take An Peep (sadly i dont think he would be caught dead in a kirtle green OR tie it above the knee), and he discovers that the reason none of the other konoha-nin came back is that hinata paralyzes them with senbon and hauls them back to the lab ("hey, free spare parts!")

(none that go by carterhaugh // but they leave him a pledge --)

hinata, out of boredom/idle curiosity, hangs out chatting with itachi a lot (oto is not long on people who can, realistically, keep him contained), but i haven't gotten too far into writing this part ("what makes you come to carterhaugh // without the leave of me?")

from here it starts to diverge somewhat further from the plot of tam lin; hinata does (mostly against her will) get Attached to itachi and lets him go eventually, but i don't think there's an obvious analogue to the faerie queen here since orochimaru is already dead?

wait, oh my god, i can combine this with the eyeball marriage worldbuilding!! spiritual equivalent to janet coming back visibly gregnant is itachi coming back with one of his eyes swapped out for a byakugan and Not answering any questions about this. thats perfect i love it

#the trashcan speaks #in the tam lin timeline of the confusing time travel fic hinata is from an OG timeline where itachi retired and transed her gender #and hinata has had a sufficiently harrowing time the past few timelines that she's lost all sense of normal or moral behavior #(insofar as she had any to begin with) #and kidnaps + force-fems egg itachi #which to be perfectly honest is not really a tam lin retelling anymore #the og tam lin au came first though so now its just my like. shorthand? for when hinata stays in oto #(and subsequently kidnaps itachi for deranged reasons) #my fic

[satirn]

Can you like.... Elaborate on the Dib - Mother Mary association?

Like you're making visual connections with the color blue and Gir calls Dib Mary once in an unaired episode but other than that I'm not sure I understand your point? What does Dib himself have to do with motherhood or like... Purity..? Bringing Christ or a Christ analogue.?

(I'm assuming you're looking at this through like a Catholic lens?)

I'm sorry if this comes off as like mean or combative that is NOT my intention at all :(

I just think it's an interesting premise and would like to hear more and possibly discuss.

of course !!

i am not catholic or religious but i do have expirence with church & the bible (because i read it) (also because my grandfather was a preacher and let me come to services[i didnt pay attention because i was 4 😎]).

looking at the og post again i realize i forgot to add these mesages to it so heres these ones.

transcription: [ "i think especially cus like, dib, at least in the show, like represents earth itself i think. and earth is typically related to like, womenhood i guess, i dont know. i guess thats why like, genderbent dib AUs i guess, work so well at least for me, i think. I dont know, it just calls back to that... womanhood-esque thing he has with mother mary stuff.

this is also why in my (AU), she'll appear soon but, the "ultimate dib" I guess is actually just a genderbent dib, called mary. cus, i dont know I find that imagry neat. it also calls back to adam & eve -esque type stuff, i dont know.

i find religion interesting, if you cant tell. its just, ive grown up with it like, around me all the time. I dont know, its just found its way into my worldview, i guess. not really but you know what i mean.

we constantly have like, dibs that just absolutely hate the world. and that is canon-compliant and yes that is good. but like, I rarely ever see a Dib thats like, truely like, in ーokay this is not the right term but likeー in love with the world, i guess. like, i never see a Dib that just likes earth, like truely. cus earth can be so beautiful and like, poetic i guess. i need a Dib thats like, into poetry, yeah, thatd be cool.

its just it makes me sad you know. i know nihilism is a thing that will always be engraved into Zim and zims whole series, but like, I dont know. something different would be nice. i want hope, i guess, i dont know.

its just that, dib acts as a guardian for humanity, for earth. but like, for everything, a guardian acts like an embodiment of the thing that theyre protecting. so with dib representing like, humanity, him having connections with like, "mother mary" or womanhood, stuff like that, birth i guess, the womb, would be fitting, i think." ]

or to translate my cough syrup addled brain here, Mother mary calls back to dib's connection/ symbolism of earth. Its less "the birth of christ/the messiah" but more the aspect of creation and life that comes with Mary's symbolism. its a extension of his role as the "guardian of earth"

now i mentioned/alluded to the adam and eve paralells between zim and dib but yall aint ready for that conversation.

#sorry this took so long. the illness made me stupid #i think im finally becoming not sick ? my coughs still here though :[ #there was more i wanted to say but i forget. ill probably add onto this later lol #invader zim #dib membrane #not art #religion #tw religion #tw religious themes #religious themes #hm is it the fanfiction ??? i distinctly rememebr gir calling dib mary alot . hmg #:shrug: ig

[burnt-pizza-lolz]

Some good series are vita carnis (analogue horror), lacey's games (flash horror) and the june archive and restoration project (flipnote horror w/ arg elements)

The creators of all of these series are normal people (as far as I know)

!!!i love vita carnis!!! So mucj!! GOD thats such a good series i cannot wait till season 2 the WORLDBUILDING IS AWESOMESAUCE

ive seen a bit of laceys flash games! Had to skip tjrough some oarts becaude. The horrors. It genuinly scared me haha it did such a good job though!!

i still need to watch smthn on the june archives soon, i heard awesome things about it! But thank you for thinking of recommending these to me :))

#Its really nice that you thought if that :) even though you dont know me that well #But these series are amazing and everyone should check them out rught now pleasepleaseoleade (especially vita carnid)