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the GazettE: full albums and their PVs (2002-present)

#gzt #gifs #albums #aoi #kai #reita #ruki #uruha #i redid it because i was so unhappy with the one i made using GIMP previously #the stark difference in quality is astounding

lovvecherrymotion

being the first person in the world to notice jan didn't draw nace and ask him about it (with @me-sploh-rada-imas) was not on my 2025 bingo card but here we are

he said he'd apologize to him. also that he was supposed to be fishing with bojan

marmalade-chainsaws

reblogging with this addition 😭😭😭

#joker out #jan peteh #nace jordan #jance

largishcat

fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person

jesncin

my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters". And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point they feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

jesncin

a couple of people are misunderstanding me saying "extensions of the author's beliefs" by interpreting this very literally. I don't mean that a character's beliefs are always one to one with their author (and therefore the character's actions are being condoned). I mean this in a far more general sense.

A character could represent the dynamic opposite of a writer's beliefs and the writer could either make the story prove the character wrong, or make a narrative where a villainous character gets away with their crime as a tragedy. Characters can be utilized in so many ways outside of "obvious mouthpiece for the author's beliefs". That is still an extension of the author's expression and beliefs.

#the HR fandom in particular is a cesspool when it comes to this

mommyziemniak

#joker out #jan peteh #nace jordan #jance #i'm alive. i had a minor surgical procedure about a month ago #but i'm okay!

bunniboiz

"it's ok to show (x) in fiction as long as the bad guy gets punished!" the bad guy doesn't have to get punished. in fact the bad guy can win altogether. the bad guy can entirely get away with it. hope this helps

bunniboiz

and this part might make some people's head explode but: characters can be written to forgive things you personally wouldn't ever forgive. not everything is written as what you'd perceive to be the right choice. not everything is a self-insert & protagonists don't have to be relatable.

#HR fandom being hell when people conflate fictional with real life

maidenvault

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

dinomoder

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

#project hail mary

luluxa

Happy Birthday Nacko! 🥰

#joker out #nace jordan #jan peteh #jance #pino the dog

ozempicofficial

#stop it #i see my flag here and i don't like it

hockeylvr42

Out of all the cool stuff that mythbusters ever shot on high speed camera, shooting a soccer ball at 60mph out of a truck traveling 60mph is one of my favorites

Just look at it. It is the most perfect visual representation of Newton’s 2nd law of physics I’ve ever seen. The ball, which was shot out of a CANNON, drops straight down. Two equal and opposite velocities completely canceling each other out, leaving the soccer ball to drop to the earth with a net velocity of 0. Sir issac newton would be proud to tears of this gif.

And yet this “myth” is nothing more than basic physics at work. A 10 year old with an interest in science could have told us this is possible. 60mph in one direction minus 60mph the exact opposite direction is 0. Basic.

But what makes this so frieken cool is the fact that they went through all the trouble to actually demonstrate the invisible laws that govern the way our universe works. To get this shot both the soccer ball and the truck had to be moving at the exact same speed. Real world variables make that extremely difficult to pull off. It took them hundreds of attempts to get it right. They went through all that trouble to “prove” something we have known as fact for hundreds of years. And we get this amazing gif to watch as a result.

Mythbusters is incredible. Science is incredible. And the fact that this experiment in physics can be used in science classes for years and years to come to help children learn about physics is incredible.