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Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

Oh! I actually know what made these look so iconic!

The backgrounds for the entire series were done on black paper, a first for any animated show. It's Batman, which means everything is at night and incredibly dark. So, the majority of the backgrounds were going to be black anyways and using black paper would cut down on the time it took to create all of the backgrounds. Adding color over the black paper instead of the traditional method gave it a much more stylized look that helped make it iconic.

It also forced some other creative choices, such as using an airbrush to do all of the background art. During the early testing, they found that using an airbrush was easier to apply paint with than a paintbrush and that it looked better. Airbrushing let them be more experimental with painting techniques, such as the spattery fades you can see in the "Bane" and "Deep Freeze" title cards above or the soft, deeply shadowed face on "the Last Laugh." The overall effect of airbrushing on a black background is a much darker, moodier vibe than could be achieved with a traditional approach.

They cared very deeply about the art of the show and how they were going to create it. It wasn't just about the story or the character. In the words of co-creator Eric Radomski: "As opposed to making shows just to sell toys, we've made quality films."

The Good Omens Dating Sim

No, hear me out.

Aziraphale’s the protagonist, and it’s set in idk some cutesy version of Soho with different locations to visit, like the Bakery and the Record Store and the Florist etc. There are multiple love interests to choose from.

But they’re all Crowley. And they are in-universe all Crowley.

They all have different costumes but their names are all variations on “Anthony” and he runs out of good ideas pretty quickly once he’s used up Tony, Annie, and A.J. (which is how he ends up also as Ant, Honey, Ny, and Thon). Aziraphale’s first encounters with every character except the first one he meets are an escalating series of “you look… very familiar…..???” conversations in which Crowley enthusiastically insists they’ve never met, reads some character traits off a flashcard he’s got in his pocket, and in one notable and unfortunate case (oh Thon, no) attempts An Accent.

Then as the game progresses, Crowley gets increasingly flustered from running around switching costumes and characters. You’ll get a conversation with Honey wearing Annie’s earrings, or Aziraphale will walk into the record store expecting A.J. and find Tony, who will have to try desperately to come up with a story about how he’s covering A.J.’s shift.

And then it becomes apparent gradually that Aziraphale is well aware that this is going on. He never thinks about it in narration, but it starts to become obvious from the dialogue options and choices.

“Why don’t we go to the park and feed the ducks?” “Er, yes, that sounds lovely–” “And we can invite my friend Ny as well! I think you’d get on so well!” (snakey panic ensues)

There is exactly one (1) NPC romance option who is not Crowley, and any time Aziraphale gets more than a sentence into a conversation with them, Something Mysteriously Happens to put a stop to it, until the NPC starts avoiding Aziraphale because they’re pretty sure he’s put a curse on them or something.

The game will not actually allow you to romance any of the Crowleys beyond hand-holding and nice dates because if you try, the Crowley in question will suffer an emotional bluescreen and turn into a snake and you get the “bad ending” of Aziraphale laughing himself into a heap on the floor.

The True Ending is to get all Crowleys to the highest friendship level without tipping over into romance, then Aziraphale declares he’s going to hold a party and invite ALL HIS FRIENDS and he’s SO EXCITED because THIS TIME it’s going to be different and EVERYONE WILL TURN UP and it won’t be like ALL THE OTHER PARTIES WHERE NO-ONE CAME and Crowley is realising with increasing horror that ALL OF HIS CHARACTERS (plus that one NPC) have been invited to the bookshop for tea at the same time.

Which of course means Crowley diving in and out of doors, frantically changing clothes, getting the accent mixed up so that Thon migrates rapidly from Sweden to South Africa to New Jersey, forgetting which gender he’s supposed to be, and finally having a small breakdown surrounded by clothing and accessories flung onto every available surface in the bookshop bathroom until Aziraphale politely knocks on the door and asks him if he’s had enough fun playing dress up yet and would he like to just come and sit down for a bit?

(The NPC did not turn up, having wisely decided that moving to Alaska was a better option for their health and safety.)

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Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

happy Women’s History Month I really think the impact of misogyny on dress history as a field of study cannot be overstated

the Met Gala exists because the Met Costume Institute is the only branch of the museum that has to provide its own funding independent of the Met proper. gee, I wonder why?

how many of the dress history myths floating around today boil down to “women are stupid and will do anything for fashion/male approval?”

the earliest foundations of the field in the 20th century were a few(mostly) men going on at length about the follies and foibles of Silly Vain/Coquettish/Prudish/Parsimonious/Spendthrift Women [mix and match according to your interpretive whims]- while one of the first solo female dress historians was the only one to actually MEASURE what a 17″ waist would look like, examine extant 19th-century women’s garments, and say “this was not remotely widespread, guys”

and of course, it’s only recently begun to be taken seriously as an academic field at all- because clothing is frivolous and unimportant, of course, and just coincidentally happens to be strongly associated with women. no link there, though, right? </s>

(T*RFs, fuck off)

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

he shlorp

He just obliterated those worms out of existence 

I’d murder for a succ this good

i never thought i’d have to say this but pls do not sexualize my eel

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everyone saying "art doesn't need to be perfect" hasn't taken into account the art monster, the monster that comes and kills you if art doesn't look exactly like it did in your head

knuckle tats that say GODS PEED

So my little brother and I are not allowed to be on the same team for family game night when we play games like Taboo, because most of the time we share a brain cell and the rest of the family has decided it's an unfair advantage. Today, I was trying to remember the word hummus but completely blanked, so what I said was: "Cabbage. No, hermitage" And my brother guessed "Brussels sprouts?" "No, it's a brown goo" I said, but my brother heard "it's a round goo" "Hummus!" he said "that explains the green from cabbage" "It was hummus, but hummus isn't green????" "Oh I was thinking of guacamole" So like. Even when he and I are thinking of totally different things we can still come up with the same word lol

The whole “how the hell does this predatory creature get enough sustenance” thing that plagues fantasy and sci-fi occasionally gets so absurd it loops around into being funny, like the scene in Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon is flying through an asteroid field and gets swallowed by a worm.

I could complain about that, but I could also conclude that the supply of reckless space pilots flying into asteroid fields has been consistent enough for the past few million years for animals to evolve to prey upon them.

Who knows. Maybe there are enough adventuring parties roaming about the Forest of Doom to increase the available biomass at their trophic level in order to sustain tertiary consumers like giant spiderwolves...

“You’re going into the Catacombs? No one survives the Catacombs! Many an adventurer has tried!”

“Uh, how many have tried?”

“Enough to form an entire ecological niche for species specialized to prey upon them!”

“Oh. That, uhh, that is a lot.”

“Right? It’s pretty fascinating actually. I’m writing my thesis on it right now.”

Dungeon Meshi (2014 - present), Kui Ryouko

If you genuinely, truly, absolutely, cannot bring yourself to vote for the president of the united states, please just show up for elections anyway and vote for your congresspeople and local representatives.

Please.

Just.

If you cannot bring yourself to vote for the president because he's so disgusting of a candidate you morally cannot bring yourself to cross that line, then PLEASE vote for your congresspeople and local representatives who can block, defend, or present new bills, actions, acts, etc.

These are the people who can actually confirm or deny or impede horrendous acts when they happen.

Like. This is the bare minimum. If you cannot vote for the President, please just still vote for someone.

Change doesn't happen if you don't vote for the people willing to enact change.

The "smaller" elections often have the biggest impact on your actual life. Everything starts local and works its way outward, not the other way around. Every time a judge lets a cop off the hook for killing an unarmed person? You can vote those judges out. Those anti-queer laws in your home state? You can vote out the governor. Hate seeing your taxes raised for the sake of more cops while the schools and the roads go to shit? You can vote on those tax bills. "Blue" states aren't safer just because of who they vote for as president. It's because they voted for better governors, better judges, better laws.

You gotta do it, because fuckhead old conservatives are doing it. They've got bad ideas and they're willing to make them your problem. Your single vote might not count for much in the presidential election, but it absolutely has an impact on who is in charge in your particular town.

Your vote in a schoolboard election can mean the difference between electing someone who thinks public schools are good versus someone who reps Moms For Liberty and not so secretly wants to burn books that make them feel icky.

#States rights are more powerful than the federal government

#if you want your state to be safe for marginalized people

#then you need to vote progressive and tell everyone you know to vote progressive

Part of why the regressive bigots of the right wing have had their way is because they work at the local level, and have traditionally seen minimal actual pushback because so much attention is placed on the highest offices. There's actually so few of them, they literally ship the same handful of people across state lines for their shitty little bigot cry-fests, and more and more we're seeing that they shrivel and run away at any show of opposing numbers in local school boards and parents' meetings.

There's more of us than there are of them. Time to remind them of that on a fundamental level.

"arent you hungry" in reaction to unthinking self-deprevation response to trauma is going to haunt me forever actually.

something about suppressing your needs to feel safe and in control. something about someone not admiring the endurance or self-control but instead asking "aren't you hungry," a question which you are entirely unequipped to answer. "Aren't you hungry?" Aren't you impressed I can tune it out? I worked hard for that, for everyone else's sake, don't you get it? "Aren't you hungry?" I don't know, stop asking me questions I can't answer, why is answering so easy for you? "Aren't you hungry?" All I'm any good at figuring out is how much longer I can go without eating, and I thought that was the same, but it's not, is it?

Oh, tumblr recommending me this post was serendipitous. I'm glad other people are feeling this way because I seriously haven't stopped thinking about that moment and Kabru's shocked reaction since I first read it. He really is unequipped.

I only alluded to this idea in my original post (frankly I was self conscious about how long it was feeling), but what I see as one of the core themes about food in Dungeon Meshi is the idea that eating is a declaration to the world that you deserve to be in it. When we kill and consume another living thing to survive, we are making an active choice to take up space. We're saying I want to be here. This is important for Laios, who has spent most of his life running from the world or being rejected by it in small ways. It's through his journey as an active participant in the dungeon's food chain that he comes into his own and asserts his right to belong in the world, with all its mundane heartaches and joys, enough that he can step up to become king by the end.

So when Laios asked Kabru Aren't you hungry? It felt like the narrative speaking to Kabru directly. Kabru, aren't you hungry? Aren't you a creature with needs? Don't you want to be here too? Don't you deserve to live?

And the answer to all of these is No. Yes. It's complicated.

To me, this is even more of a turning point for Kabru than his cooking efforts in the dungeon. He was willing to deal with monster food in order to help another person who couldn't help themselves, and to stay alive for his ultimate goal, but it still made him miserable.

This is the second time Laios offers to feed him, and the first time in the story that anyone offers to feed Kabru in a way that won't end up hurting him. Laios wanting to share a real meal with him but willing to compromise to respect Kabru's desires clearly means a lot to him. It's Laios saying Come eat with me and Kabru saying Yes.