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hello! i'm memo! she/her // adult // amateur artist // nostalgia bait enthusiast

[578memorylane]

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[teomodo]

art books on the internet archive for you

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney

be free

[cannonpenis]

Guy's London production is getting a digital ticket!!!!

[578memorylane]

not sure what the game engine update did but i was running md and selecting an ego from the menu shot static straight into my headphones and then froze the game for half a second so that was fun

[weirdvoids]

Oh its not just me.. not sure if that makes it better or worse

Its a very awful noise I really need it to stop

[578memorylane]

it was making me hesitant to use ego so honestly i think i might just wait for it to get hotfixed before i play more

reminds me of ye olden days when ego had a 50/50 chance to crash the game…good times

[weirdvoids]

yeah its making an already frustrating fight (yinglong) complete hell for me, should probably stop as as well

[578memorylane]

i think the stutters were already listed in the known issues so hopefully it will get fixed soon!!

also good luck with railway i havent tried it yet but i heard yinglong is. a time

[578memorylane]

not sure what the game engine update did but i was running md and selecting an ego from the menu shot static straight into my headphones and then froze the game for half a second so that was fun

[weirdvoids]

Oh its not just me.. not sure if that makes it better or worse

Its a very awful noise I really need it to stop

[578memorylane]

it was making me hesitant to use ego so honestly i think i might just wait for it to get hotfixed before i play more

reminds me of ye olden days when ego had a 50/50 chance to crash the game…good times

[578memorylane]

not sure what the game engine update did but i was running md and selecting an ego from the menu shot static straight into my headphones and then froze the game for half a second so that was fun

[578memorylane]

what would everyone think if i was to, instead of making full profiles for the remainder of my captain ocs, i make smaller profiles with their references just so they're out there and not in limbo forever

i guess that this is technically what i did way before and nobody asked for me to make the full toyhouse profiles that was just a me thing. but i have a feeling if i wait to refine all of my other profiles and references i'll never get past them...

[578memorylane]

i can't believe of all the things to get this blog back into multifandom, it was starkid. starkid tenderly took me by the hand and guided me out of the pit of endless project moon posting. but alas! it was a trick! a mirage! for in my blind relief, i did not realize they were guiding me into another pit - the pit of endless hatchetfield posting.

[kunaigirl]

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Full eyestrain AF page link

"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"

I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

[rightdownright]

by the way this is medical. this could save somebody from a migraine all the way to a seizure. this has always been serious. treat this seriously.

[578memorylane]

oh hello new people. i did not expect to get this far uhhhhhhhhh

should i like…liveblog nightmare time or something?

[578memorylane]

I WANT TO HEAR EVERYTHING YOU THINK ABOUT LET IT OUT PLEASE i yearn for it... i thought it was so incredible i want to hear all your thoughts

I’M SO HAPPY YOU ASKED…

(I want you to know I watched the song like a hundred times over gathering everything for this post and now I can really feel the apotheosis taking root in my mind. Am I crazy? Maybe I’ve always been…)

For those who don't know, this is about the reprised version, so, big big spoilers for the remount, including images!!!

Paul seems to feel the infection even before he starts dancing. You can see it in the first verse, when Nora sings “Just let it out / There’s a voice inside of you / On the edge of coming through / What’s it about?” At the start of the line, Paul’s body relaxes (you can visibly see his shoulders slump). Then, when Nora grabs him by the shoulders and moves him to the music, he just…accepts it. The way his head sways back and forth is almost lifeless. And the moment after, he recoils, like he's only just processed what happened.

In the next line, while Professor Hidgens is singing, he’s also backing Paul up against the meteor. Besides creating a very cool lighting effect, this is also where Paul would be breathing in the most spores.

A note on spotlights. The reprise makes frequent use of spotlights, usually to highlight focal characters during their numbers. Sam and Charlotte get a spotlight in You Tied Up My Heart, Alice and Bill get a spotlight in Not Your Seed, etc.

I’d love to be all dramatic and tell you that this is the first time Paul gets a spotlight, but that’s not true. He gets a spotlight in What Do You Want, Paul. But that does make sense. WDYWP is a song about Paul, even if he’s not the one singing.

But in Let It Out, the spotlight doesn’t shine on Paul until after he starts singing. In the proshot and digital ticket, you can actually see the spotlight fall onto him.

(before and after comparison)

(Speaking of, the lighting team really deserves their flowers. That spotlight is always DEAD-ON accurate. It's really impressive.)

This is probably reading too much into it, but the spotlight could be a symbol for the hive’s influence. The spotlight is a way to draw attention, and now the hive’s attention is solely on him, their leading man, their “star of the show”. It follows him everywhere, unrelenting, even when he falls to the ground. And it only fades at the end of the song, just before he throws the grenade – like it’s his last moment of resistance.

You know that really cool bit of choreography where Paul lines up with the rest of the ensemble? Well, on closer look, you can see it’s not JUST a line. Each person is holding a pose from a different step in the dance. For example, Greenpeace Girl is standing to the side with her hands up in the air, while Nora is facing forward with her hands behind her head. You can see Paul copy each of them as he passes by.

I’m pretty sure that Jon and Mariah are the only ones singing that new vocal part, which means even in the reprise, Greenpeace Girl gets a duet with Paul.

One of the spectacular things about this number is how convincing Jon’s acting is when it comes to losing control over his body. He does that really well in the original, but I think the physicality of it is more pronounced in the reprise. I noticed it most often with his arms – how he jerks them around back and forth, like there’s an invisible puppeteer dragging him around.

One example of this is right at the start of the second verse, when Paul sings “Am I finally coming around to a rhymin’ scheme?” As he sings, he puts both hands out, mirroring the ensemble next to him. The moment he notices himself doing this, he draws one hand back, staring at it in horror, and then quickly grabs his other outstretched hand.

My favorite example is in that sick new vocal part. His right arm shoots out and he literally claws at it with his left trying to pull it back down. Only this time, he fails to regain control and his left arm goes out too. When he finally does snap out of it, he's so shaken he immediately falls to his knees.

One more example: After Paul sings "Is my integrity worth anything at all?" he casts his head down. Then, his hand reaches out on its own to drag his head back up.

The reason this is so cool (and creepy) is that Paul has to physically fight for control. Grabbing and pulling at his limbs, like he's prying them free from someone else's hands. It's so freaky! How does Jon do it so well??

As I said in my last post, Paul sings the entire first part of his soliloquy in his normal voice. This is different from the original, where he switches between his normal and “infected” voices. This is the sole moment where Paul sings, as himself, without interruption from the hive. And it’s the line where he considers if this is all there is – if submitting to the mindless singing and dancing will give him the happiness he craves. The infection taking his autonomy is terrifying enough! But him accepting it is just as scary. It doesn’t take, but he still thinks about it!

And I mean, isn’t that the hive’s plan? There are many instances where they could have killed Paul, if they really wanted to. They could have done it right here, while Paul is right in the blast zone and struggling to stave off the infection. But they don’t. They want him to be the one to break. He's their leading man, after all! He has to ACCEPT the call, like any good hero.

That's all of my notes for right now. I can't tell if this is too much or not enough... Feel free to add on if you notice anything! I love catching all the small details and reading up on theories...

10 likes and I'll do an Inevitable analysis. Just kidding...unless somebody wants that. Do you want that? I've been lost in here for a week thinking about this show, there's no escape, let me out let me out let me out let me out LET ME OUT

[578memorylane]

in which i proceed to scream to no one about the guy who didn't like musicals: reprised proshot and digital ticket (part 2)

See part 1 here.

Hiiiiiiiiii, fellow hive members, are you ready for more rambling? No?? Too bad!!!!

As with the last post,

SPOILERS for TGWDLM:R proshot and digital ticket INCLUDING images

alright. starting off with not your seed. im ok. im ok. im ok. im ok. im

haha just kidding this song destroyed me

bill reaching out to alice several times...bill cradling alice in his arms...the teens placing the gun in his hands.

plus...mariah's acting? the way she can effortlessly switch from cold, cruel hive to anguished, lonely daughter. the face changes gave me CHILLS!!! you really don't know if that's alice peeking through, or if it's the hive using her thoughts (or bill's insecurities) to torment him. possibly both!

and when bill dies paul catches him. thats SO cool!im going to die

you know what's even worse? when the teens turn on him, paul doesn't even LOOK. he spends a good while focused on bill, trying to get him to wake up.

starkid who hurt you

"Butthere'sonethingyoubetterhurryupand knooow about me, Paul"

know what i want? a nightmare time peip backstory episode. multiple even. give me their case files

showstopping number is incredible. obviously. you can tell will is having the time of his life

i still think jeff is my personal favorite hidgens but will definitely makes the character his own and it's a joy to watch

RING RING OH

The phone call is even gayer. Somehow

it amuses me to no end that the Boys just. blatantly act out the wrong sports. and professor hidgens is like. yes. those Are my Boys.

after ted abandons paul and emma there is this prolonged scene where he gets caught in some vines and repeats "it's in my mouth" over and over...i assume it's meant to be funny but with the discordant music it was kind of unsettling. like things are just. unraveling. and then ted gets shot

america is great again. timeless as always (unfortunately)...

all i have to say is. this shot:

my paulkins heart was screaming

time for let it out WOOOO YEAHHHH uhhh i mean ohhhhhhh nooooooo

to me this may be the song with the most improvements. let it out just hits different. ESPECIALLY on first watch

it's a little hard to tell with the camera angles but it looks like the hive is SO TOTALLY PSYCHED when paul finally sings. greenpeace girl is like " yesssssss >:DDDDDD"

they should btw, because jon's voice is AMAZING. the original was already great but you can really hear the improvements in reprised. its so impressive

shoutout to the people in the audience who screamed at the new vocal part because me too

and the choreo? seeing paul slip in and out of the hive's synchronized dancing, fighting (and sometimes failing!) for control of his body...the hive weaving around him, pushing him around and assimilating his movements into their own. its so good?????? its peak????????

one thing i noticed is that in the original, when paul sings the first few lines of his soliloquy (up until "is my integrity worth anything at all?"), he swaps between his deep normal voice and shrill 'infected' voice. but in reprised, paul sings up to the same point exclusively in his normal voice. it's really interesting because it suggests that, even without the hive's influence, he's thinking about giving up. it makes sense considering it's really the first time in the play he's vulnerable with himself and his unhappinessi'M GOING TO LOSE MY MIND

i could go on and on about this. i wont for the sake of brevity but. tell me if you want more. i can go on

hearing people cheer when paul reunites with emma. oh you poor souls

so fun fact: inevitable was my favorite song from the original. the reprised version hit me like a ton of bricks

inevitable is the torment emma power hour. people have said this before, but in the original, infected paul was at least a little gentler with emma. he wanted her to trust him. to see he is happy, this is "what he wants", doesn't she want to be happy too?

but in the reprised choreo he is so much more aggressive. he's grabbing her, shoving her, puppeteering her to the dance moves. all while she has an injured leg btw

and no matter what she does, she cannot escape him. there are at least two scenes where she's trying to get away from the rest of the ensemble and stumbles right back into paul's open arms. imagine being emma. imagine your loved one's embrace being twisted into something unrecognizable. im ok

the scariest part for me is probably during the not your seed reprise. emma is boxed in on all sides by the hive and is desperately looking for a way out. all while paul just. WALKS towards her. no flourishes, no dance moves. just sloooowly closing in on her. it's horrifying

also this shot:

also THIS shot:

and it all culminates during the showstopping number reprise with a PERFECTLY TIMED spotlight on emma. blinding her and also making her aware of the set, the crew, the AUDIENCE. causing her to scream in fear. it's so good. and by that i mean i'm going to have nightmares

it really feels like pokey's victory lap. he's already assured of his victory now that he's got paul - maybe even more so, if he's already ran the "performance" a thousand times - and is just playing with his food. making emma suffer for the fun of it. possibly making her (and everyone else but ESPECIALLY her) suffer forever and ever?

pain i am in PAIN I am IN PAIN

by the way during the last "it was inevitable", even when the rest of the ensemble closes in on emma, paul continues to stare RIGHT into the camera

...he can't see me right. hey guys. can he see us? ...can he also see the audience? are we in danger? am i in danger??????

Overall, to say I enjoyed it was an understatement, lol. There were some things I missed, and some things that took a few watches to grow on me. But to me, it is an improvement in just about every way.

There's a (kind-of implied) theory that the reprise is a continued loop of the original show. I think it's a fascinating theory, and it's caused me to rewatch the show several times trying to catch hints. And in doing so, I can really feel the amount of effort and love put into this production. Every rewatch makes me a little bit happier because everyone looks like they're having so much fun. (Because of the acting. Not because of the. The horrific all-consuming alien hivemind.)

There is a simplicity in the original that will always be timeless, I think. And I can understand why it doesn’t mesh with some people - the original already got it SO right, you know? For me it’s like a two cakes situation, I love them both equally.

ALSO IN THE TIME IT TOOK ME TO WRITE THIS THEY ANNOUNCED A FOURTH HATCHETFIELD MUSICAL WHHHHHAAAAAAATTTT

[578memorylane]

hey starkid tumblr!!! graciously asking your opinion on something

so i am planning on introducing a friend to the hatchetfield series. and as you know from my last post, i did buy the tgwdlm:r proshot early

what i can’t decide is if i want to show them the original tgwdlm first or the reprise. i suppose we will watch both EVENTUALLY, either now or when the proshot comes out publicly in july, but i’m just stuck on what to watch FIRST

thoughts???

[578memorylane]

hey did you know i liked starkid? no? did you want to hear me ramble about the tgwdlm:r proshot and digital ticket? also no? ...please? (part 1)

The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals was my favorite Starkid show for a loooong time and the Reprised proshot just became available to purchase a couple days ago. I bought it, watched it. Now I am obsessively watching both the proshot and digital ticket trying to absorb all the new choreography. It is becoming a problem. Help me. Help. Help. Help m

ANYWAYS no one in my friend circle has seen this musical (yet) which means you, my lovely, captive audience of like 30 people, get to hear about it instead. Sorry.

SPOILERS FOR BOTH THE PROSHOT AND DIGITAL TICKET, INCLUDING IMAGES + A LOT OF UNWARRANTED, UNNECESSARILY DETAILED RAMBLING ABOUT THINGS THAT DONT MATTER

some general stuff first. as someone who rewatched the original tgwdlm to death...i do miss some of the original line deliveries, and some of the (probably improv'd?) jokes that were cut. (rip general macnamara's "would you like to do some light reading on the subject?") the original deliveries are etched into my soul with fluorescent blue marker so some reads feels a little more "off", by comparison. but there's so much i like in the remount that it isn't a huge deal

for example: the lighting!!! the lighting is SO incredibly good. the bright reds and blues are so striking, and the hive uses a glow-in-the-dark paint for their blue blood so it glows under the light, and when i tell you it is so sick

there is some funky audio in the proshot, specifically when the meteor hits, and in the helicopter. the sound gets all muffled. the audio is fine in the digital ticket so i'm not sure what happened, hopefully they have it fixed for the public release

fun thing about the end of the title number: when they wheel paul in, he's completely limp. his head is slumped to one side, his face is blank. and then when the song ends, he just snaps awake. the contrast is really freaky, especially when everyone else is moving and singing and smiling. i dont like. the implications.

charlotte disassociates throughout the whole first scene i feel u girl

melissa is hardcore crushing on paul. she's practically shoving the clipboard at him without actually handing it over. then, when he says no, she hugs it close to her chest

ted's entrance is so funny he just SWINGS into view

paul looks like he wants to die for the entire conversation

"There's a line" (No one else is there) "And people are working" (No one else is working)

the way that paul leaves the greenpeace girl mid-conversation and then rushes back just to keep complaining is. paul matthews the man that you are. you would be a menace at a parent-teacher conference

oh how joyful paul sounded when he heard about peanuts on the radio. he will never be this happy again

paul's reactions to the first few songs are even more pronounced. he looks SO uncomfortable, like he is seconds away from breaking down on the floor crying. throughout all of lah dee dah dah day he is in this constant state of "please don't touch me. please don't touch me. please dont touch me. ple

how do we feel about touch averse paul matthews headcanon. anyone

he also seems really noise sensitive. he's constantly flinching at the clapping in lah dee dah dah day. and later on in act 2 when the three teens are harmonizing at him he's covering his ears. maybe im projecting because im also noise sensitive. but i thought it was neat. anyway

paul is so zoned out while entering the office he walks right up to ted and scares the crap out of him

i didn't think they could make what do you want paul even more unhinged but they did. mr davidson is all over paul. he pulls him by the tie on the line "something to pine for". hello hr??? HELLO??? YOU HAVE A WIFE

and then he chokes paul with the telephone cord

the original "HELLO? HELLO? PLEASE GOD, I JUST WANT A BLACK COFFEE" is iconic and uncontested, but i gotta say, i do really enjoy paul tearfully begging for coffee while cradling the register like it's a long-lost friend he hasn't met in ten years

beanies continues to forget poor pete's hot chocolate and so he has to drink from rudolph's cup instead

ALLEY CAT PAUL???

"Well I mean hey, it's 2018. I'm sure the job market's gonna be REALLY good for a LONG time"

the choreo in show me your hands is top tier. they pretend to be huddled in a cop car, complete with slamming the breaks, lurching forward, and hitting their heads against the seats. so good

will's professor hidgens is so incredibly doc brown-coded

"They left me here to DIEEEE. On-ly-you-can-helpmeChar-lotte"

joey's acting for ted is insane. you can tell he is legitimately broken up by charlotte's death. when he calls her name, his voice wavers. he reaches out for her when she gets shot. he continues looking at her for like the whole scene. he sits right next to her.

during join us and die charlotte plays guitar with her intestines (while sam plays guitar with bill's...leg?)

charlotte and sam fist bump <3

paul still knows the most of the beginning of moana, and i think that's lovely

all of corey's acting as bill is amazing. but that phone call?? broke me. the way his voice shakes?? the "i love you, too"??? YOU'RE KILLING ME

every nightmare time leitmotif put me on alert and then they sucker punch combo'd me into the nerdy prudes must die leitmotif

and would you look at that, this is WAY too long. I guess I'm going to have to put Act 2 in another post. Can you tell this show has affected me at an irreparable level. I am not ok. anyways see you in part 2

[578memorylane]

This is what 99% of their conversations are like

[578memorylane]

WHAT DID SHE DO TO MY FLAVOR TEXT

[megalomari]

this is so true im so sorry

[archivist-the-knight]

[id: a twitter post made by "[yellow heart emoji] reubn || evil hiatus" or reeubii on twitter. the tweet reads "all of your favorite artists aren't posting anything because they are all stuck playing tomodachi life" /end id]