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OMG you people can do some things and struggle with others like all human beings who've ever lived
reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.
take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.
a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.
GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!
Don't shy away from chatting with staff and curators either!!! Please!!! They love it when people come to them with questions or a desire to learn further!! Get involved, see if they take volunteers, as local museums often struggle to receive the funding to be staffed properly, and public assistance helps greatly. Museums, as institutions, are flawed, but many, many folks involved with them do want to make them better, and the way they get better is by diverse bodies, voices, and people engaging with them!! PLEASE go be a nerd.
hi :) I want to get into animating, but I have no clue where to start. What app do you use? And do you have any tips for beginners? Your dracula video was really cool!
Thank you! I'm very much a beginner myself (in fact I didn't even consider my video "animation" but then my art prof jokingly shoulder tapped me so I guess it is), so not good for advice, but I'll link some of the stuff I've referenced so far :) Actual animators, please feel free to chime in!
For my Dracula Daily 2025 video, I used Medibang Paint for illustration and Shotcut for video editing. Medibang isn't the best, but I'm too used to its textbased interface (dislike memorising icons). Meanwhile I'd HIGHLY recommend Shotcut, it's my favourite out of all the vid-editing softwares I've tried (Wondershare Filmora, Kdenlive, Openshot, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve). Premiere Pro was incomprehensible to me (I still haven't learned it), and my almost 5-year old laptop struggles to run DaVinci. Adobe After Effects is popular as well but I've not tried & it's again difficult (for me). Capcut's popular for with beginners for vid-editing, but I've not tried.
Shotcut's learnable for me, and it's opensource! It even has a forum where users can get questions answered! I might make a behind-the-scenes on how I made my DD2025 vid, just so that I don't forget my process. In the end, what you use depends on your needs—Shotcut is sufficient for my current purposes of editing clips + adding very basic effects. I'll probably have ambitions that necessitate more advanced software, but with limited hardware I've no choice but to brute force a workaround elsewhere.
As for tips, I'd say just do things step by step. I understand the ambition to Be Perfect, but remember that there's a learning process, that the 1st project, or even the next 100 projects, would probably be ass to mid. And that's fine! If I was aiming to be a fulltime professional, that's another matter, but right now I'm just learning.
It's also important to have a plan—my DD2025 vid was done mainly to figure out a workflow for Dracula Reanimated. I've settled on "storyboard→ colour thumbnail/storybeats/visdev→rough animation→clean(er) lineart→base colours→lighting and shading→compositing with effects/postproduction", but aha. I need to learn Opentoonz/literally any animation software before trying anything. I've tried Flipaclip, but it's not ideal for me (quite intuitive though, good for making short practice clips like below):
If you've not tried it before, I'd recc doing a storyboard animatic to familiarise yourself with shot composition and vid-editing! My DD2025 vid doesn't really follow convention, but my DD2023 one does, and it was a great learning experience. I still followed a "rough storyboard-> colour/grayscale thumbnails->final renderings->vid-editing" process for DD2025, as seen below (click for higher resolution):
1) Alex Grigg tutorials for animation learning
2) HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ANIMATED SHOW (every video Gabby Caldera makes is amazing. I found this AFTER I'd finished my DD2025 vid, but was amazed I'd basically followed the same process as him)
3) I Studied Character Design - Here's (almost) EVERYTHING I know.
4) Biggering fan Storyboard (top tier storyboard to me)
5) Let it Go fan storyboard (just great)
6) How I Animate by Myself — Full Process explained!
7) Transformers IDW AMV "Till All Are One" (also top tier animatic, great example for what vid-editing can do without necessarily having to use an animation program)
8) Transformers Megatron AMV (by same person as above, also incredible)
9) Infinite Surface with Jesse Thompson youtube channel—just all around good channel, has a great video on Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein that still has 3 more parts coming!!)
10) The Animator's Survival Kit by Richard Williams (haven't read this but I really should)
This is a non exhaustive list, there's an (almost intimidatingly) endless amt of resources out there.
Most important of all, take breaks, rest your eyes, and don't be too hard on yourself. Good things take time.
my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing
when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly
(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )
which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces
This kinda required my brain a bit
not to be pretentious, but a lot of stuff you guys complain is being ruined by capitalism/the algorithm/whatever can be solved by consuming something else than the most basic mainstream stuff that's thrown in your lap. "songs nowadays are getting shorter to fit entire tiktoks and it's ruining music" have you tried listening to something else than Spotify's Top 100 my dude? "fanfiction-to-publishing pipeline is churning out mediocre books and it's ruining literature" have you tried reading something outside the NYT bestseller list my dude? This is not a post about how algorithm based industries give visibility to the lowest common denominator art at the expense of actually creative and meaningful art that struggles to make itself known, which is a valid discussion for another time, this is about people actively not giving this kind of art their visibility because they won't get out of their way to discover stuff outside the mainstream radar and prefer to be passively fed what to consume while bitching that is not up to their tastes.
Google doodle on Halloween 1999
You can still see the first O underneath....
can we get 36 hours a day? not for any productive purposes i just want to finish my to watch & to read list in this lifetime . also probably get enough sleep
tragedy protagonist categories:
yknow what yeah I think that's just about how anyone would react in this situation. fair enough.
alright this isn't how just Anyone would behave in this situation but I'm humble enough to admit that there have been times in my life when I was doing badly enough that I'd probably also fumble it like this
babygirl what the hell are you even doing
thank you hamlet prince of denmark for being the character ever for the 437th year in a row
> steam sends me an email
> game you wishlisted is on sale!
> wow, 30% off!
> $50
I can wait. You'll be 80% off one of these days. I'll outlast you.
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i actually think being staunchly against rpf out of respect for celebrities that don’t know you is more parasocial than shipping them #darkwoke
call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support
and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?
