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Hi. Um. Would you object to someone else writing Trucy-in-the-trilogy fic? I enjoyed your take on it a great deal, but it's such a good idea that it seems a shame to have only one fic series I've found that deals with the idea. (I promise to avoid plagiarising your take on it as far as possible.)
Sorry for the late reply, I don’t mind at all!
An anime manga theme park aimed at getting white weeaboos to come spend money in Japan that displaces and desecrates indigenous Ainu territory...
Y’all blog about Japanese people and culture all day please boost this.
Can I talk for a moment about visual storytelling, cause, I feel like it’s something that a lot of adaptations forget about in lieu of trying to replicate their source material.
It’s a problem you see most often in anime derived from manga or light novels, but it’s also present in movies based on YA novels, and you gotta know what I’m talking about, start on black, opening narration, fade in as the main character explains the world and environment. This works in a book since the reader can’t see anything, they need the specifics of the world explained, but it feels like the movies are just like “well it worked for the book, it’ll work for us right?
I’d say it’s worse in anime, where characters will go on long internal soliloquies trying to explain their thought processes and complex emotions, which again, works for the manga, in a manga movement is very expensive, every single motion requires it’s own panel, which takes up the artist’s time, printed space, and a moment in the narrative, so it’s important to only show what absolutely needs to be shown. But animation is different, it’s all movement and the details are what sells it more than the dialogue.
The reason I wanted to make this post is because of one scene in One Punch Man that perfectly exemplifies how to translate a written thought process into visual storytelling. After getting punched to the moon (err, spoilers), Saitama has this thought process
and it’d be easy to translate that entirely literally in the anime, Saitama crouches, has an internal monologue as he tries to figure out how much force he needs to put into his jump, and then he launches. Instead though, the scene is done completely silently, to sell the fact that he’s in space, but the thought process isn’t removed, it’s just show visually.
He throws a bit of moon rock to gauge the moon’s gravity, then launches, it’s a much more thoughtful approach to the scene and the audience’s ability to interpret visual information.
I just, really wish more adaptations realized the inherent strength of the visual medium instead of relying entirely on the source material’s structure and reliance on its own medium.
My mom is in Houston and she just told me she’s being forced to go to work tomorrow and she has no choice but to Uber to and from work since she has no car. She cannot afford that obviously so until the buses are fully functional I would appreciate any help 😄
look at me and tell me these earrings aren’t clip-ons
these ones are stickers and he’s using magic to make the dangly pieces float
because I’ve seen multiple people reblog it:
that post about Amazon’s ‘fanfic site’ (KindleWorlds) is 7 years old
^^^screenshot of the original post
Amazon shut the platform down in August of 2018 and according to Wikipedia it was for specifically licensed properties
so.
yup.
LOL
We need HOAs or some idiots will paint their house purple or put tractor tires in their front yard. If you want tractor tires, don’t move to a HOA neighborhood.
I couldn’t even fathom how horrifying it must be to live somewhere there are...purple houses and and yucky stuff in people’s yards. Thank God I don’t have any real problems like that.
listen my Nonna and Nonno live right by a purple house (it’s a nice lilac) and as a kid I was fucking obsessed with it because purple is my favorite color. I’d go nuts whenever we passed by it. Also it had a purple mailbox to match and it blew my mind.
No more HOAs. More purple houses.
imagine trying to control what someone else can do with or on their own property just because you don't agree with their taste in decor
NO MORE HOAs MORE PURPLE HOUSES
Related, becuase I just had to move: “just don’t move into an HOA” Do you know what a PAIN IN THE ASS it is to find NON-HOA Housing? Very nearly everything in the CO front range that isn’t a rental has an HOA these days!
Short list of the Shit the HOA at my pervious house tried to pull:
HOAs are invasive, bigoted, corrupt and cruel institutions that should never have been allowed to be created. If you live in and HOA area, showing up at the meetings to tell people what the fuck is wrong with them, Joining your HOA board to protect your neighbors and possibly organize the dissolution of the HOA is one of the best things you can do to protect the marginalized members of your community.
FUCK HOAs AND LONG LIVE THE PURPLE HOUSES AND TRACTOR-TIRE GARDENS OF THE WORLD.
Are y'all telling me this shit is actually LEGAL?
Here’s how to get an HOA to leave you and your purple house tf alone
cant stop thinking about this post. 😔
direct action
I swear to god if i want to stick a giant wizard tower on my house and the county OKs it my neighbors the Humphboltfreyersons cannot stop me. God themselves cannot stop me.
Carbon monoxide kills you so quick. Please all do not do this.
Drip both hot and cold on all faucets + open the cupboards that house the pipes because if you don’t your pipes will burst and you’ll have massive flooding.
I forget because I’ve lived up north but most texans haven’t had a reason to know these things til now.
For those that are making jokes about “wimpy southerners” it’s been 8 degrees at night and literally half of Austin is going on the second night without heat. It is dire. I have power for now but at the press conference they said there is the possibility that they may have to shed more, and they are at their limit, which means some emergency services would be cut. The roads are too icy to drive and we’re getting more ice tonight.
Me: Can I get you anything else?
Customer: Yeah, a smile would be nice
Me:
i just made a really good meme!
advice for my younger self
This is really great advice! Especially because hobbies with tactile elements are also often hobbies that produce a tangible product that you can hold in your hand when you’re done - something you can show off and be proud of!
Here’s a list of hobbies with a tactile element
-flower arranging
-gardening and bonsai
-cooking and baking
-origami, card making, collage, paper mache, and other paper crafts
-knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, and other fiber/textile crafts.
-calligraphy, painting, and other visual arts
-wood and metalworking
-playing an instrument!
-photography: both taking and developing photos if you can get access to a darkroom!
-walking/hiking, sports, or attending a gym. Remember to engage all those muscles!
A great thing about having tactile hobbies when you have ADHD is that it can help fulfill a need to fidget as well!
[ID: the “everyone’s dying, bitch” meme. the caption reads: “everyone’s dying, bitch. let’s get you a hobby with a tactile element so you feel more grounded in the world.” end ID]
Little quick and light kimono tutorial because I’m noticing a trend of weird things non-Japanese people do with them.
Bathrobes =/= Kimonos
Kimonos aren’t sacred. They’re for everyone. Just practice drawing them, use tons of refs, be respectful, and have fun. There’s also tons of other types of traditional clothes you can mess around with. Research is your best friend
hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)
there is delaware (state) and delaware (river)
both are equally strange
the state is a tiny little cryptid thing
the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.
the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.
THATS TUPPERWARE
i thought delaware was a place in ohio? why are there so many things named delaware?
delaware is too powerful
what the fuck
Wait what? I thought Delaware was a store with building supplies. Like paint, wood, nails and stuff?
I know home depot, but dude I don't know anything about America mad have never been there. Are you sure there is not a some sort of store called something close to Delaware!?!
.....ace hardware....?
this post has only been around for a few hours but could very well be a world heritage post
but at what cost
This post launched at 8am PST on 12 Feb 2021. The above conversation has happened in 3 hours.
HOW DO I REBLOG THIS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE
THAT’S NOT EVEN THE FULL POST. Wonder why they cut out this part:
