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happy birthday to the best boy, yuji!🐯🌸
Tomorrow.
There’s a common criticism of Modulo that I’ve been stewing over, in regards to how it makes the actions of the original series characters feel pointless, and how Jujutsu Society has remained the same. And I feel like it’s A) Important to recognise this is a tragedy, and also B) understand that what’s happening in Modulo is very reflective of real history, and how humans tend to behave. I’d argue without a doubt that this is intentional writing, because Gege has, in my opinion, shown an exceptional understanding of religious conflicts and how complex they are, as well as the number of ways our biases can present, and how they impact our decision making, especially in the writing of Modulo.
At the start of Modulo, we do see improvements in how Jujutsu Society functions. To compare it to real life, you’ll often see people of the older generation commenting on how ‘fragile’ those of the younger generations are, particularly on regards to how we are about our mental health, and how therapy is more of a common resource nowadays. It’s, to simplify it, a good change! We’ve come a long way in terms of mental health. But others, especially older folk, might see it differently, and view it as us getting weaker. As it being a problem. Even though it was their generation that helped pave the way for these changes.
We also see this in JJK, it’s half the point of the Culling Games, showing the difference between the past and the present, if modern sorcerers are weaker now because society has changed and grown. And Is it better to be stronger individually but suffer, or is it better to rely on others and be stronger together?
Modulo continues this dichotomy between the past and the present. Sorcerers are viewed as weaker than the past generation, just like the sorcerers of JJK were viewed as weaker in comparison to the Heian era. Younger sorcerers are, at first glance, in less danger of death, because there are more precautions in place. It seems like society has learned, and that the actions of our previous characters, like Maki and Yuta for example, did change things! It wasn’t all meaningless!
However, the problem with this, is exactly what some people have pointed out. The cracks of the older generation still linger. There’s still a heavy emphasis on strength, and later down the line, we see the same mistakes of the adults’ problems being placed upon the younger generation repeated.
I don’t see this as a criticism though.
JJK and Modulo have always had elements of the tragedy genre in them, and something being tragic doesn’t equate to it being bad writing?
To go back to one of my original points, about how it reflects real history.
To simplify it the best I can, most of the characters we knew from the original JJK are dead. The ones who fought for the change, who tried to remake Jujutsu Society to be better than it was before, are gone. The ones who lived through the Culling Games, save for a few, are gone.
And, unfortunately , a lot of the newer generation are, if unintentionally, repeating those past mistakes, as I said, putting the problems of adults onto children, sending a child to die. There’s a lot of newer sorcerers that idolise the past, and the strongest of sorcerers.
That’s why Yuji’s characters important. He lived through that past generation and has to see the newer one repeat exactly what had been done before. But he can’t intervene, because doing so would further those ideas of the past — he is similar to Gojo, a strong, individual sorcerer that people become far too reliant on. He’s no longer a person, but an idea.
If he intervened, it wouldn’t fix the cracks showing. It would only be a temporary fix.
It’s the same with Gojo — it’s why he was content to die! He didn’t want the new generation of sorcerers to rely on him, he wanted them to pave their own way.
Mino confronting Yuji reflects this! He understands making Yuka fight is wrong, and he really does care about her, but he puts the blame on Yuji instead, that he somehow should have intervened and fixed everything for them. Such is the burden of the strongest, I suppose.
The point is, we as humans often fall back on old ways, idolise them, and forget why our predecessors fought for the change they did.
Modulo I think handles these very complicated ideas well!
This isn’t even getting into the Simurians either, which, the handling of that conflict is also very well done. You’d be surprised at how the unwillingness to communicate and biases can completely tear something apart. If the story is making you feel ‘it’s such an easy fix, if they had just done this’, then I believe that’s point, because Gege is using fiction and aliens to parallel real conflicts happening in the world, and if humans just did all the right things, then we wouldn’t have these conflicts at all.
“We choose to believe in Ma’at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.” -Jaz Anderson, The Serpent’s Shadow
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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 The Culling Game Part 1 opening visuals art references
1. Dead Mother by Egon Schiele
2. Two Sleeping Children by Peter Paul Rubens
3. Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil by Claude Monet
4. Ophelia by John Everett Millais
5. Scream by Edvard Munch
6. "Der Kuss" / The Kiss by Gustav Klimt (1908)
Art References in Jujutsu Kaisen s3 opening: The Kiss - Gustav Klimt // The Scream - Edvard Munch // Ophelia - John Everett Millais // Dead mother l - Egon Schiele // Two Sleeping Children - Peter Paul Rubens // Camille Monet and a Child in the Artist's Garden in Argenteuil - Claude Monet
one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)
I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.
something quick I did while I go crazy waiting for the next episode lol
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Mini percy meets older percy
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i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!
Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!
Gotta work on my bounce light 💪
My good friends this is called using a
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James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!
I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.
Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.
While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.
An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!
Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl
Art dump ig?
Just started playing a new DnD campaign, so of course I drew everyone and made portraits for our character sheets:)
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when I'm so lonely that I start hallucinating about my best friend with whom I had a co-dependent homosexual relationship 😔
yall ever think abt how yuji spent so long making and preserving as many memories as possible as a teenager because he didnt know how many he'd get only to grow up and have to run from them?
everyone deserves a lifechanging lesbian experience. not a woman? simply have a lifechanging experience with a lesbian. im thinking a noble quest or hiding a body together or something.