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gentle psa to new comic artists about a problem i also suffered from: slow quiet pacing is totally fine BUT if that's not what you're deliberately going for, you CAN fit more Story Progression on the page. no, more than that. more than that even. i promise if you don't want it to a single action doesn't need to take a whole page to illustrate each of its steps, a lot of connecting magic happens in the gutters i /promise/ if you draw someone pulling up in a car then skip to them walking in the door with groceries we will Understand that they unloaded the car and unlocked the house you feel me

shinesurge

#I am not a comic artist#but I had a similar problem when I was in film school#I call it “the door problem”#in my thesis film I had written that two characters walk out the back of the club into the alley behind the club#and my club location did not have a back alley but did have a side room that we used as the door#but that door opened in#and the location I used for the alley had a back door but that door opened outwards#and I knew it looked weird#I struggled framing the shots#and blocking the actors#and I got really really caught in my own head about how to make this door work#because to me it was really important that you saw every step from club to outside#because even though we had learned in school that you could transition it didn't feel right because it didn't feel like a new scene to me#(this being one of the struggles with a short film. It can all feel like one scene if your script is short!)#AND THEN#when we got into the editing room we just...cut the door transition entirely#initially not on purpose#what happened was that we decided to tighten up the timing by cutting non-linearly to the custom music I had commissioned#which made it much more experimental especially in comparison to my fellow classmates#however it showed me that the story still absolutely worked without needing to show how they got into the alley#the audience can infer the door#so now anytime I can feel myself getting stuck on something when I'm filming I think#“Is this a Door Problem?”#as a storyteller it's always a question of what is the absolute bare minimum you need to convey what you're trying to say#and sometimes that means you just need to already be outside the club

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Exactly! Film and comics are VERY similar mediums in this way, I love this. We should always be considering Door Problems

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wild-west-wind

Going to try to get out to a waterfall that, as far as I can find, hasn't been visited since 2001, or at the very least is not named on the Internet anywhere.

(my friend Joanne named it, and when she took a group of Kiowa elders out there after they identified it as being important to their history, she tried to ask them for their name to rename it and they said "oh yeah, no, you pretty much got it in one, that's a good English translation for what we call it.")

wild-west-wind

After a six hour schwacxperience (bushwhacking experience) I can confirm, still there 👆

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inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

#dad bought it for me at pennsic #reblog

i-like-eyes

pls stop calling your art “slop” its just another way of saying its “cringe” and look. I understand being young and feeling self conscious about your artwork, but your drawing of a kids next door au for an obscure plants vs zombies character that’s basically your own oc at this point wearing an outfit you wish you owned is so unique and so you and therefore so human. Dont you dare conflate it with slop and dont you dare stop making your art

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

icantspellthings

Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun

televisionenjoyer

Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄

audliminal

Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!

salarta

Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent

inthewaytoamultilinguallife

Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference

You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"

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luntfontanne

everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds

1xtralmillz-deactivated20250209

I have to reblog this when it comes back around.

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whiteheartlight

I am interested in the idea of Toa having different "specialties" or just ways of using their elemental powers even if they are all the same element. Like Tahu kind of inherently being prone to a lot more actual flame and blazing fire, but Vakama tending to express a lot more pure heat without as much flame (possibly related to having been a welder). Tahu could set a whole forest alight by spitting, but Vakama would find it easier to pick something up and make it molten in his hand without ever setting anything alight. and Jaller has gotten very good at boiling, for obvious reasons, and summoning a lot of concentrated power very quickly. Nokama can make it rain so hard you can't see through it in about two seconds, Gali can always bring water seemingly from nowhere no matter what quantity she needs, and Hahli has strong control of waves, tides, and currents. Takanuva uses a lot of beams of light and light-based attacks, but if someone like Solek or Tanma became a Toa, maybe they would be very skilled at illusions and disguises. Just Toa of the same element having a lot of variety in their expression of their powers based on their personality, experiences, and what seems to come easiest to them, the same way they could all specialize in different weapons. And then they get together, see other Toa using their power, and go "you HAVE to teach me that"

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ploobytumbls

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

ploobytumbls

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.

mouse-fischer

This happened to me once during COVID and I wanted to marry that driver. The person tried to play ignorant, and half the other passengers started yelling at him because the driver refused to move and they were all going to be late to work. God bless America.

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elektra-pop

Stop telling disabled people that you'd kill yourself if you were in our shoes. It's not the compliment you think it is. You might as well be saying "I'm surprised you haven't killed yourself yet. Why are you alive?"

It's a fucking disgusting thing to say.

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dozydawn

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a CRITTER? Carrying a BERRY?? Across a BRAMBLE VINE?????

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lifeafterpsychiatry

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

ratbugs

also can we talk about the demonization of ‘laziness’ in the first place?

we as a society really don’t even actively have a good definition of what being lazy is.

like what the hell even is laziness? why do we treat laziness as an unforgivable moral failing when most people couldn’t even accurately describe to you what laziness is.

i can’t think of a single depiction of ‘laziness’ that i would every classify as bad or wrong

laziness is constantly weaponized against people and the fact that we even continue to make judgements of a person’s character based on ‘laziness’ is fucking crazy.

casperwyomingxer

Strongly agree here. Laziness is a vague and useless term that should be discarded.

Laziness usually just means a persistent failure in meeting a certain expectation or target and paint this as an inherently bad thing rather than simply neutral.

There are so many ways that can make a person fails to meet your standards. They might have unaddressed or not fully resolved physical/mental/social/executive disabilities. They might be struggling in another way, like a changing environment, changing timetable and pace of work/life. Or maybe they have limited or poor quality resources to deal with work and other stuff, whether time, physical/mental/social energy, money or people. Or they struggle to find the motivation to do the work because they don't recognize the relevance and importance of it like you do and so have other priorities instead.

Lazy is when a person with more power decides to put the blame on a person struggling, instead of working with them on how to solve the problems behind their performance. The person needs understanding, help and accomodations. Not an insult. No problem has been solved by just calling someone lazy. In fact, it usually worsens the issue by affecting the person's self perception and by worsening the relationship between you two. Both will eventually affect work performance.

Lazy is when a person is, dare I say, too lazy to go to problem solving mode with the target and decides to push all the blame and responsibility on the target. It is an insult more than a personality adjective.

Discipline is probably the solution side of the same coin. What a person needs is something way more specific than a vague term. Like, how can this person maintain a daily structure that is suitable for them? What can help this person to stick to the structure? There are so many other solutions that are more relevant to different problems as well. A good leader should try and understand and address the problems behind someone's performance rather than insulting them and thinking they will be better afterwards.

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prokopetz

I can't get over how hilariously on-the-nose Malice and Mayhem are as names for a villainous duo. In legal jargon, "malice" is the intent to do harm, and "mayhem" is the act of doing harm. You don't need to ask which one is the brains and which is the brawn because they're labelled.

hellenhighwater

this was a very confusing post for me personally

hellenhighwater

Mayhem and Malice. They are robot cat girls but I don't think they're the ones you mean

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deepshitpostsnine

Not exactly an episode title I just think it would be neat

Title card generator: https://trek.epicrandomness.com made by @beans525.bsky.social

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shubbabang

dark-wizard-guy-fieri

context (via @mellorocket)

chimthecappy

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay