hi! i’m lia (she/her) and i’m into too many fandoms asdlk but mostly it’s tears of themis (marirosa my loves), honkai star rail (mostly yanqing + dan heng <3), and marionetta!
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hi! i’m lia (she/her) and i’m into too many fandoms asdlk but mostly it’s tears of themis (marirosa my loves), honkai star rail (mostly yanqing + dan heng <3), and marionetta!
check out my art!
new blade bp icon that will live in my head rent free
help segment 8 wanting to do experiments on aranara but his older segments throwing out his notebook
IM CRYING this medical record for pantalone is so freaking funny
8 year old dottore berating pantalone for not wearing his glasses HAHA
// spoilers for truth amongst the pages of purana
HE'S SO CUTE. his big eyes... ashjdfj
watching that cutscene made me so emotional... this trio has come so far and im so happy with how their arcs have resolved :')) feels like the end of an era...
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// spoilers for truth amongst the pages of purana
the scaralumi interactions this quest have been SO FREAKING GOOD. im crying theyve come so far since the last time these two were here...
that scara even thought about sacrificing himself for the traveller is insane and lumine refusing to let him do so... AUGH my lovely pairing
// spoilers for truth amongst the pages of purana
anyone remember how jealous we were of haypasia at the time ahjskdjf
jokes aside, i really liked this exchange bc it contrasts so starkly to how their relationship was in the past! before, haypasia was just a follower bc scara made her that way, but now, he's genuinely asking her questions and getting to know her as a person. he's forming connections naturally now instead of forcing them.
// spoilers for truth amongst the pages of purana
oh my god this lil moment was so cute... scara *coincidentally* appearing on the rooftop and traveller saying she feels more relaxed with his presence...
scaralumi is so real guys!!
// spoilers for truth amongst the pages of purana
this paimon and scara and moment was so unexpected but SO lovely!! paimon talking about her insecurities makes her feel more fleshed out and less like just a floating mouthpiece...
…and scara's the perfect person to ask because he's done both--giving up and changing. i like that he doesn't explicitly tell paimon what to do; if she does decide to change, then it needs to come from within.
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help as a skz fan HOW IS THIS SO FITTING??
The following rant is from today at about 2AM.
I learnt a LOT about comic-making reading Marionetta and my falling asleep brain kept going over what I'd learnt and focused on a specific teaching that I'd like to put into words.
I'm unsure if this happens earlier in the comic - just checked! It does happen - but whenever Míriam wants to surprise us or create a lot of tension in one scene, she does it by slowing down the pace of the scene. And how does she do that? By making panels significantly longer than they'd usually be.
Think about the scene in which Jathar gets shot. Remember how sudden and unexpected the "BANG" of the shot comes across? You couldn't see that coming, because you LITERALLY couldn't SEE it coming, because it came after a long panel that took up your entire screen.
Want a more recent example? Let's revisit this scene (Episode 86, Panels 36-42):
The build up here is INCREDIBLE. Most panels here are long and take up all of the space in your device's screen, regardless of where you're reading the comic from. Consequently, it takes you longer to get from one panel to another. There's a pause between each text balloon. And that pause works WONDERS to build tension here. It works WONDERS to scare the readers.
It took me about a minute to move on from this panel on my first read. My heart dropped to my feet. Because the panel composition here works perfectly. It is meant to scare you. To make you pause. To worry you. And it DOES. And notice how the balloon that says "cut off his arms" is separated from the panel it comes from and kind of acts as its own panel? Not only does that move the time forward, but it also causes you to stare at it. The words sink deeper, because there is no image to distract you from them. And so, the thought swarm begins! The composition is so damn good ohmygosh <33 It causes you to linger on it.
What's even better, the following panels are ALSO long. One is silent, the following two are extremely loud. By the time you get to the scene's release, your mind is already swarming with thoughts. You've already anticipated what's gonna happen. You've accepted Sahed will be armless from now on. You've accepted the scientists have won, they've got his seals, and they're gonna use them to their advantage. And Sahed's done for. You've lost.
Then, Míriam hits you with this:
The composition here is AMAZING too!!! Because it keeps the tension up. What do your eyes see first? Sahed's fearful text balloons. Followed by the machete (I think) his arms will be cut off with. AND THEN YOU READ AMALIA'S LAUGHTER and the tension wears off.
But yeah that's it!!! I think it's neat that the length of a panel can determine how long it'll take you to get to the next panel, thus giving the story a sense of time. Shorter panels will be read faster, longer panels will make you pause.
I've been trying to imagine it on paper though and it doesn't have the same impact, since printed comics show you two pages at once. They aren't read at the same pace as webcomics are read and neither do they follow the same techniques, so I wonder how Míriam will translate the Jathar and Sahed scenes to paper once Marionetta gets printed.
I know the first volume will be out considerably soon, so she's probably either already translated the pages into paper or in the process of doing so. I'm pretty eager to see what solution she's come up with!!
But yeah that's it!! :D comics are fascinating!!
ABOUT THE PHYSICAL RELEASE ACTUALLY some pages has been shown and it will supposedly formatted like this!!!! It will be more squished-together as far as I understood
WHAT WE’RE GETTING A PHYSICAL COPY??? omfgg it looks beautifulll, the page layout is so freaking creative
hopefully the panels don’t end up getting super condensed like the physical hooky books! it’s like my only gripe—i think Miriam / her team were trying to make it a trilogy, so a lot of the panels were made tiny and compressed when allowing them the space to breathe would have made Miriam’s art and story shine more
fingers crossed marionetta isn’t getting the same treatment, esp since it’s still coming out. also the initial analysis was so fun to read! vertical scrolling allows for so much creative fun and storytelling, and im excited to see how it’ll translate horizontally …
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got really into reading item descriptions on this playthrough. anyway did you know the silent princess is one of the only raw materials with a cooking effect to not explicitly list that effect in its description
if anyone cares i finally finished making skz in tomodachi... they look pretty good if i do say so myself
tomodachi is freakishly accurate wdym my mii crushed on han within their first two meetings and confessed only for her confession to get derailed by felix AND minho???
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beyond infuriated that the pitt s2 is not measuring up to s1 and has in fact been lackluster bc of the robbie focus like the balance of the other characters has not been great at all. tell me why al-hashimi has barely appeared in the past few episodes for instance? and don’t even get me started on supriya ganesh leaving the pitt when she is genuinely one of the most compelling characters on there; the way they treated her in s2 as a prop for robbie cannot be the way she leaves the show. i also cannot believe that the writers / noah wyle did not realize how misogynistic they wrote robbie, and i refuse to let this slide like there’s no way he gets to talk down to mohan and javadi and immediately zero in and interrogate al-hashimi on the few seconds she hesitated without that being tied into his mother leaving him and thus his ensuing biases. absolutely no way. but am i no longer surprised? yes. one of the most realistic parts of the show rn being its unintentionally biased writing and casting decisions is actually so ironic to me.
im acc gna cry this is so lee know