I write poetry sometimes

some writing I guess. Ao3 account under the same name.

[milkywaydrinker]

The new Otherside Picnic LN has reactivated my brainworms so bad.

Sorawo is just like me fr.

[milkywaydrinker]

I wish I was any good at drawing because this just screams Noelle to me.

[marichild]

agott arklaum the tsundere of all time

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[pixeljade]

i am a SUCKER for characters who start out as copies of other characters but eventually become their own people, their own identities, completely different from who they once reflected

[sapphiresaphics]

I wonder how many people understand that these are two separate things happening in different times. One is Caine coming more and more into existence and discovering the obsolete unused brain scans, and the other is Caine gaining access to the random WiFi hotspot that just appeared temporarily (as they often do) nearby. They’re both moments of self discovery which is why we cut back and forth between them, but they are undoubtedly not happening at the same time.

I worry people might think these are congruent events and be confused why Scratch suddenly appears in the circus but is never seen again afterwards. That was them showing how Caine used his powers to figure out how to use the brain scans. It was a flashback. And it’s juxtaposed to him using his powers to learn more about the outside world and about the remaining circus members.

[greeds]

[milkywaydrinker]

Personally with Amphibia in my eyes, I also feel that Cutting out seeing Sasha and Marcy’s parents in the show was kind of a mistake (and especially Sasha, my favorite of the 3 even though we know the least about her family other than they’re divorced) since it would’ve benefited on knowing why they are the way they are.

Matt believes that they weren’t necessary for their character arcs but I would argue sort of the opposite. I mean most troubled characters like Amity, Pacifica Northwest, and even Andrea got to see their dysfunctional families on screen and it explains much about them and yet Andrias gets this treatment while Sasha and Marcy don’t. It always felt like a double standard

Oh, Amphibia, the show I love-hate.

Indeed, I think I touched on this subject in some of the older asks. The girls are painted as "In the Wrong" for opposing their parents and acting out. They never even do much outside of rowdy teen shenanigans and Sasha being "the worst" out of them gives an odd vibe (for example her tagging buildings with spray paint is an weird choice despite her being white).

Stuff like shoplifting, shopping cart racing, skipping school... Idk it's Normal. Teenagers do that shit and to paint it as somehow uniquely Bad Kid behavior shows a conservative lean I don't think many people examine seriously while talking about kids. It operates in a very Parental Obedience and School Performance frame of what makes a Good Kid. Not showing their home lives and their relationships with their parents harms this framing.

I also already mentioned how Andrias and his backstory works against the moral lesson the girls are supposed to learn. For him, being Good would mean disobeying the society he was brought up in. If he disobeyed his father and his ancestors, did everything a Bad Kid does, that would've been Good.

The double standard and inconsistent signaling are the weakest parts of the show's writing.

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[sycamorality]

op disabled reblogs but i really wanted this post on my blog again

[milkywaydrinker]

I think the core problem we have in our current media landscape is that people don't really know how to interact with personal stories.

There are only products to be consumed and judged by how smoothly they went down the gullet.

[im-mender]

[demilypyro]

Digital circus' biggest problem is that it was written to be a niche show aimed at weird analytical queers with actual media literacy and it accidentally blew tf up and hit the mainstream and a bunch of people who have never had a second thought about anything got into it

[demilypyro]

This show isn't for people who watch marvel movies it's for the people doing 3 hour video essays about Utena or some shit

[demilypyro]

Digital circus: hey let's discuss existentialism, what makes someone human, how to cope with loss and regret, and the hedgehog's dilemma. you've all read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, right?

Digital circus audience: what

[milkywaydrinker]

Holy shit they released the sex DLC

[vesperosy]

this tweet has been fucking killing me

[lobodecasa]

i don't need the whole world to see