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I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!
I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!
Here’s links to my commissions and projects! Commissions Animal Crossing Commissions Animal Crossing Tarot Cards Tarot Readings Seth In Space
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
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A teifling druid - the first of my new commission queue!
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Widogast’s Nascent Nein-Sided Tower!
or, I can’t believe that “Caleb makes the magnificent mansion and gives everyone beautiful rooms but treats himself like shit” is canon.
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I don’t care what news I get I just want this stupid potato dog on my dash
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
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[images are 8 paintings of big cats with fantasy elemental motifs: a dark brown lion with stylized flames in place of its mane; a blue snow leopard with snowflake patterns in its coat and icicles forming on its fur; a clouded leopard shrouded in grey stormclouds; a cougar perched on some striated rocks, with geodes dotting its fur; a tiger prowling with bright green vegetation sprouting from its stripes; a winking cheetah with a bright arc of lightning running along the length of its body; a blue jaguar, floating serenely with a ring of water splashing around it; and a purple-tinged panther prowling, with bright pink cracks of arcane energy creeping up from its paws and tailtip. bright diamond sparks float around it.]
In Your Hands Now | Saza Another spt ych for @moonlifter but this time of her tiefling, Saza! c: I really really love this piece. It’s one of my all time faves! ( Thank you so much for your continued support ; v ; <3 )
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Are they SURE they meant to write the word “ruined” instead of “liberated film from the stranglehold of?” Maybe their hand slipped??????????????????
Oh some of you missed it, okay, so this movie was set to hit theaters exactly when all theaters were shut down for the quarantine and rather than delay it they took a chance at releasing it direct to home streaming from day one, the first time a major studio has ever done so, and yeah the numbers can be chalked up heavily to families stuck at home with nothing to do but they still weren’t expecting it to make 100 million dollars in just a couple weeks, especially not when the whole family just has to pay for it once instead of a bunch of tickets. It was such a STAGGERING success that it opened up discussion over whether movies actually need theaters anymore, whether the profits are only being held back by how much time, energy and money it takes for consumers to arrange a whole trip out to see a new release, and pretty much the only real conclusion being drawn is a resounding “yes, and that should have been patently obvious.” It had more studios rush to put things out for streaming and they continue to be making more money than they ever imagined, even factoring in all that collective cabin fever. It also has the Academy Awards changing their rules this year to include non-theatrical releases for the first time. Trolls World Tour might go down as one of the most important, most industry-shattering works in cinematic history, albeit not necessarily for its actual content (which is cute by the way, worth seeing).
(Forewarning, I’m biased because I’m in the film industry. And also just prefer seeing movies at the theater)
This IS actually gonna ruin the movie theater industry. What Universal (and other movie studios, U is just the most vocal about it) wants to do is simultaneously release movies to theater and digitally. They want to have their cake and eat it too– get the profits from the cinematic experience of the theater while raking in the digital rentals. The exception they would make to this is blockbusters, which they would only release in theaters.
Now why is this a problem? It fucks over the movie theater, and thereby the movie theater consumer.
Movie theaters cannot exist on blockbusters alone. They need the steady stream of butts in seats throughout the year to keep going. As most of us have experienced, the prices of tickets and concessions have been climbing to keep theaters open in the face of digital streaming. The dual release would make those prices skyrocket. We’re talking $25+ a ticket. $100+ for a family of four, before tax or concessions.
“Well I won’t go to the movies, I’ll just stream from home.”
1. Not everyone can do that. Plenty of people don’t have reliable internet access and streaming/downloading isn’t an option for them.
2. We are teetering on the edge of another film industry oligarchy. In the old days of Hollywood, banks would buy up studios and movie theaters both, and shut out the indie competitor from showing their films at all. They then were able to hike up the price of a ticket because only certain theaters were connected to certain studios. So Studio “A” would only send their films to “A” Theaters, creating a false scarcity that drove up the price for the consumer. Also hella illegal. The film industry got monopoly busted hard, and now the studio and theater are purposefully kept separate.
In streaming services, we have an echo of that model. Studios are creating their own streaming services and vice versa (Disney+, Amazon Studios etc). One of the few things keeping them in check is the movie theater industry, which acts as an equalizer– all tickets cost the same, regardless if it comes from an indie studio or the Big Five. The second we lose theaters, the streaming services are going to jump in price, I guarantee it.
3. The theater isn’t just about the movie. It’s about the communal experience of going out with friends, family, strangers. Making a night out of sitting in a cool, dark room. Staring up at a giant screen, enraptured by the film for those 90 minutes. You don’t get that experience at home.
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So what are the movie theaters doing? AMC, movie theater monopoly and my immortal enemy, has fired back at Universal– if they want to dual release, no AMC theater will show Universal films. Ever.
Universal has of course backtracked and said that they have no concrete plans to implement the dual release, they’re just thinking out loud, blah blah blah.
As much as it pains me, I’m on AMC’s side on this one. Because AMC is the only theater chain big enough to make good on that threat and hold off studios. Because we all go to the theater at least a couple times a year, and it shouldn’t cost the price of a grocery trip to do so. Because the theater, as flawed as it can be, makes cinematic experience accessible to the masses.
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And I’ve seen people calling AMC “petty” for basically saying, “We’re not going to import your product when you’ve just set us up to ultimately LOSE money on showings of it.”
Theatres might well be dying, but AMC at least is not going to let Universal leech off of them while they’re taking their last breaths.
Theatres are literally being fucked to death by distributors without lube and you’re cheering from the sidelines.
Hot ticket films like say Avengers Endgame have distribution fees up to 90 percent. That mean the studio keeps 90% of the ticket intake. 90 fucking percent. This drops down over time, as demand is perceived to drop (how gracious of them!) so we usually peg it around 60-70%. Why are there so many ads?? why is the concessions stand so expensive??? Because the distributors aren’t paying cinema staff. They’re not paying to run the projectors, or the players, or the media libraries, or scheduling, or anything else required for a cinema to actually run, but by god they will take that 90% ticket cut.
Theatres are not a parasitic entity riding off distributors. But gee, the distros have sure done a good job convincing you they are.
Christ, finally some people with brain cells to rub together.
Worth noting that those of us deemed in possession of brain cells also work very heavily in the cinema industry (or know people who do that rant a lot.) So, you know, we kinda know whereof the fuck we speak rather than kneejerking bullshit for random internet points like OP up there.
I also worked in the cinema industry for five years, and nearly lost my job when I was a lowly box office girl because I employee-ticketed a family in for Jurassic World because they bought tickets at the wrong location. And the studio emailed and raised hell. I also had to personally cancel tickets that were erroneously rung in under passes for star wars and exchange them for paid tickets which my boss paid for, because if we missed even one, Disney would take 95% instead of 85% and we would risk losing any Disney movies going forward. I know the legal shit behind production companies that also own projection companies, meaning that x cinema in small-town usa can never show a movie from y production company because they’re a competitor of z production company, who owns the projectors. But of course, the theaters are the bad guys for not screening culturally important films in those neighborhoods, and nobody wants to hear differently.
Hey steven, have you discovered any new powers recently, if so what are they?
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I was going to rewatch 1931 Dracula again tonight and just as I turned it on a BAT started flying around at my window and wouldn’t go away and I’ve never seen a bat at my house before and let me tell you I’ve been so gay touched starved this quarantine I was about ready to risk letting a wild bat in my room if it meant it could possibly be one tall, Sexy vampire
Ah rabies
But what if the bat was from my secret gay vampire admirer
Sokka: Aang y'know how you took away Ozai’s firebending?
Aang: I recall yes
Sokka: can I have it
Aang: …what?
Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes
Aang: what no
Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko
Aang:
Aang:
Aang: okay five minutes
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none of them were briefed on the joke, they’re just Like That™
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long overdue witchy post, more witchy designs on the way!
I can’t believe this actually worked
Gotta do it
I don’t care what news I get I just want this stupid potato dog on my dash