It's about time I make a pinned post. It's been years now, it has to happen.
Hello! I'm Crossy and I like to draw for fun. I'm I'm agender, aro/ace, Canadian, in a lot of fandoms, and visibly unmedicated.
I currently have an ongoing webcomic, [YN] Observation Diary, about Cthulu self-inserting into an ordinary office in Korea, and the beautiful man with serious psychiatric disturbances who is the only one who can see it for what it truly is.
Find a reading platform here!
My Tumblr Post™️Greatest Hits
How To Draw Fat Simple - A popular tutorial of mine that helps beginners stylize fat features.
Ghost Story Work Visual Guide - A powerpoint presentation and visualizer for Even If You Got Dropped in a Ghost Story You Still Go To Work, a webnovel by Baek Deoksoo about being isekai'd into an SCP-esque horror wiki.
Is Miku AI - An explainer that describes how deep-learning vocal synths work, and how they differ from corporate datacentre-based generative AI despite the similar technology (slightly out of date in that Miku is, in fact, AI now).
RPG Maker Is On Sale - One of these days I need to make a price-agnostic version of this post because RM gets cheaper every sale... The RPG Maker engine is an old special interest and in this post I review the pros and cons of every single one of them (as well as useful packs to buy), plus some other engines I've dabbled with. Always buy RPG Maker during a sale.
She's Just Like Me FR (Genshin Fancomic) - Beloved 6-part fancomic about Kaeya projecting his sibling hangups onto Lumine. Apparently this one got most of its fame on Pinterest.
Broadcast from Erid (20 days transit):
🎵Moon project underway. We found a human. Description matches human, at least. Our new human is very ill. Thank you for biology files, we can provide treatment. Dome is not ready, however.
-
A very sick Simon is discovered on Erid’s moon as the Hail Mary makes its way home.
I used to have that exact strainer. It was in a box of hand-me-down kitchen things from my grandmother when I got my first apartment in 1996. It broke last year.
This is the best strainer in the world and i check the housewares aisle in every thrift store I visit hoping to find another one. No strainer has ever been able to live up to this icon, this superstar, this vision of grace and elegance.
It’s the two-quart Tupperware colander. The handle is large and sturdy but still comfortable to hold in your hand. The ridge on the end helps it fit on any size pot you need to rest it over. The little feet at the bottom let you drain directly into the sink without leaving the contents sitting in a puddle. It’s got a spout on both sides so you can pour comfortably from the left or right hand, towards or away from yourself as needed. The holes are at the bottom so you can control where strained liquids flow, large enough to drain quickly, small enough to keep from losing bits of food through them. The bright yellow colour is easy to spot in the back of a cupboard or dishwasher.
I am passionate about this specific strainer in a way that I am not passionate about anything else in my life. I would run back into a burning building to rescue this strainer. This strainer is my go-to wedding or housewarming gift. This strainer is my beloved family member. I have shared more meals with this strainer than I have with anyone else in my life. This strainer has never, ever let me down. It is the most perfectly designed item I have ever seen or handled in my life. Every aspect of this strainer is made to maximize convenience and functionality. It is flawless, a form of complete and total perfection. If you told me this strainer was the face of God, recreated on Earth in Their image, I would believe you.
Anyway, this is the best painting I’ve ever seen and they should take down the Mona Lisa so there’s an appropriate space to hang it in the Louvre.
Thank you for that eloquent review to go along with this impressive painting!
If anyone else is inspired to look up the two-quart Tupperware colander, I'll save you a few keystrokes. Amazon has in stock (in several colors, no less). I imagine some other stores do as well.
Anyways, I already have two metal colanders that make a horrible mess every time they're used, and I'm gonna buy myself a blue one of these. Thanks!
my least favorite literary smut turn of phrase is when a guy is like “im gonna ruin this pussy” “im gonna wreck this pussy for anyone else” like stop.. thats not yours…!
my thoughts (general ruminations and then light spoilers):
This finale and the clarity of its themes is proof that Gooseworx is not a hack she is just bad at writing dialogue and story transitions. many such cases. 7/10
Opening introduction with the low-res fish made the whole theatre laugh
It feels soooo good to see how Jax and Caine became such stark foils to one another...They are both antagonists but they represent different yet entwined perspectives that spiral into a point aimed at Pomni and her beliefs. As a thematic conclusion this was pitch-perfect
Surprisingly little reliance on Lore. It's fully dedicated to its characters and how they act as vessels for the themes
Wonderful direction. A lot of beautiful experimental animation, cool symbolic language, and despite the show constantly suffering from just narrating The Point to the camera (which has always bothered me about TADC) there is a shocking amount of stuff simply Implied by the directing choices that I found really compelling.
The songs were so fucking loud. It was never a problem during dialogue but I distinctly remembered thinking "oh this movie is kind of quiet" when they were talking at the start and then the whole theatre rumbled during the purely music segments. It's like they only master the audio against whatever is playing alongside it and if there's no sound effects or dialogue they just leave it as-is. Only production issue I saw
spoiler thoughts:
I'm talking about specific scenes here but I'm not going to outright state what the events are fwiw
x
x
x
Made me laugh that the reveal of how the circus works wasn't even a reveal literally everyone went "yeah... I figured ages ago... but I really hoped that wasn't the case ... :(" like lmfao that makes sense yeah. The unspoken nature of it does give a little more clarity into their quirks.
Jax displacing his guilt by yelling at Kinger was also pretty funny. Awww so Kinger can never be forgiven for hurting people and must become the villain in their time of strife ????? That succkkksssss
The entire first act I keep thinking of Crying Breakfast Friends even though every single instance of crying is perfectly understandable. Like it gets to a point
I like ragatha/pomni now. Thank you everyone it's been a good run of not having any ships for this show
I wish that Jax being a trans woman was a bit more explicit (preferably in that final shot) but literally every single scene there is a bit of writing that clearly states that Jax being gay or a trans woman are the only two functioning conclusions. And even being gay kind of fits awkwardly in there due to the Kind of emotional incest he experienced. I think Jax's "accept who you are or let yourself rot" subplot is a foundational part of why this episode was so at risk for censorship.
On that note [Guy who's really into the existential dread of enmeshment voice] the choice of Jax being the result of hostile emotional incest was very good and it really compliments Caine's half of the antagonistic pressure.
I was also really shook by how frank and human and realistic Jax sounded during his sequence. Eerie!!!
Ribbit was haunting the SHIT out of this narrative when I saw the mirror to the gun episode I gasped
Love that this extended Ragatha scene finally unpacks what she represents in the story; terror of succumbing to the forces against her, essentially the fear of Becoming Ribbit, and letting that fear render her inert. It colours so much of her previous scenes and her actual importance to the story; fans used to assume Jax and Ragatha were the devil and angel on Pomni's shoulders and thus it was weird the plot didn't circle around Ragatha much, but in the end it was Jax and Pomni on Ragatha's shoulders, and she was acting as witness to a philosophical conflict! Neat!
SOOO happy that Gangle was given room to process her frustration multiple times; she probably had the most interesting outlook on stagnation out of the whole cast.
I like how Zooble is such a strong centre to the cast scenes, it's perfect for their character and their values. Zooble actually works as a great foil to Ragatha, very alike yet total opposites. This is a really tight and well-balanced cast.
Caine is my wifey and this is exactly what I wanted to happen to him but I think just talking into the camera was such a fucking hack way to get there. Spent more time narrating his motivations than processing why [new reveal] was so important. I can extrapolate that's what was going on but the film doesn't let you chew on it, it just jumps to him explaining what that subtle symbolic language was doing like the viewer is an idiot. The only time in the finale I went "ohhh that is not good writing..."
There's a flashback during that shot that's meant to contrast two instances of Caine's hacking skills, and the way its shot makes it so it's only this very moment as I type this that I understood it was even an extended flashback sequence in the first place. I thought it was just 1 shot that was a flashback [badly edited]. Am I stupid
^ Understanding what's happening in that scene only makes it more beautiful and fucking awesome but it doesn't really change that the dialogue scene that followed was very flat and crude
{this one is the most explicit spoiler so bring yonder eyes to the image below if you're not excited to see that} SO NO ABEL?
The slideshow intro was also badly written. You know what it was kind of like this
Caine is still wifey though. Dont get it twisted
CANONIZING THE BEST SHIP IN A ONE-OFF CREDITS GAG IS FUCKING BONKERS. The theatre went INSANE
Overall I'm glad I saw it in theatres so I didn't have people in my ear hating just to hate especially with TADC's weird combination of hammer-on-the-head obvious juvenile middle grade tell-don't-show dialogue and nuanced but well-defined unspoken motifs. The internet is going to be unbearable when this drops but I know my heart. 7/10 holds. Maybe a 6/10 on writing alone but the directing and VA work really is just so well done.
Also one other thing i didnt notice that I saw someone else point out (another explicit spoiler):
insanely funny that Jax fantasizes about becoming GNC [ironically] and completely replacing Zooble, which in her mind means seducing gangle. Combined with the 3rd fantasy, she fantasizes about mogging zooble twice. Amazing. I may start supporting jax/zooble over this
unofficial english translation (by fluff) (I apologize in advance if there's any errors, please let me know if there is!!)
Please read here on kakaopage !!
And please do not re-upload the webtoon illegally to other sites!
EP 0(prologue):
EP 2: (will add link when finished)
--
(note: will use "||" to denote DER excerpts)
*click* *click*
(text: Recommended
Daydream_NewHireOT_PPT_Final(2).pptx
Admin)
*BO-ING!*
What kind of company is Daydream Incorporated?
-fox: Isn't it that company that sells ridiculously effective hair-loss pills?
-not HORSING around, it'll make your hair grow like a mane! (*note: kr wordplay: 말 = both word and horse)
-dragon: I heard it's a pharmaceutical company that specializes in making cures for skin disease?
-I ain't DRAGON it out, all the medicine works like a charm! (*note: kr wordplay; 용 = both dragon & use)
#100%effective (+other hashtags praising)
*di-yong~*
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!
*BA-BAM!*
WE OFFER ANY MEDICINE* YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED! (*약 = medicine, drug, pill, potion)
*BAM!*
WE ARE A MAGIC COMPANY THAT CAN CREATE MAGICAL POTIONS!
*ddi-ring~*
Daydream | Inc.
See ya at Daydream!
-And...
-YOU ALL ARE THE CHOSEN SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS!!
*wa-aaaa*
Daydream Incorporated.
It's a familiar name.
- ...
*waa--*
It's a magical pharmaceutical company that can create anything.
And--
-Even among all our new recruits, only the most special of you have been led to this very spot.
-Congratulations!
-You have all been assigned to the Field Exploration Team.
(text: Field Exploration Team)
?!
*bzzt bzzt*
| [Field Exploration Team]
(Daydream Inc.)
A significant force that appears in <DER>, and one of the 5 teams under the control of Daydream Inc's Development Department.
An unlucky team better known as the death squad(/suicide squad). |
-Field Exploration Team?
*whisper whisper*
-I've never heard of such a team.
-Me neither.
-A pharmaceutical company had a team like that..?
*BZZT BZZT*
| An insane department that, right from start of company orientation, forces the new hires into a Death Survival Match to determine who will become full-time employees-|
-(I have to get out of here!)
*tap-*
-But, before we can officially hire you!
*ta da da(dashing footsteps)*
-what the?
-ah,
-There's a brief probationary period, you see!
*SLAM!*
-We will proceed after assessing your practical aptitude through an absolute evaluation.
-Of course, in order to properly evaluate each and every person,
-Everyone's active/full participation is absolutely essential!
*whish*
*SNAP!*
-We will uncover any and all freeloaders!
-?!
-a power outage?
-Why did they close the doors earlier?
-Shh, they're probably gonna show us another powerpoint.
-Ah, sorry.
*cla-clack*(sound of going over metal tracks)
-But don't you hear something?
*cla-clack*
*CLA-CLACK*
----...?!
*CLA-
CLACK*
*BBA-AA-AANG(roar of train?)*
-[Dear passengers, thank you for using Abyss Metro(/Transpo) again today...
Our train will not stop.]
-[For a pleasant journey to your final destination, please listen closely to the guiding announcements.]
-W, what's going on?
(sign: This station; ?!&?&$:◾️
next station: ??:%%€◽️◽️
kskjkdkdkjcjkdjfkskjsjdjdjsndjdjsjdjsj)
-A subway? Is this VR or something?
-Did we really get transported?
*chatter*
-The doors, uh, the doors aren't opening..?
-Is this some kind of new technology?
Nope, this is not a kind of new technology.
*suruk*(not sure how to tl)
Nor is it an escape room.
Indeed, I don't think anyone could have predicted this.
That right after getting hired, they'd be thrown into an insane scenario like this.
(sign: Daydream Inc.
first half of 20XX
open recruitment
recruitment schedule: X/XX ~ X/XX
recruitment personnel: 00
recruitment field/sphere: field exploration team, research team, administrative support team
"We await you on the field of dreams that turns miracles into reality")
Daydream Incorporated.
(sign: The ONLY miracle hair loss cure in Korea: Daydream __Pill)
(id card: Daydream | Inc.
Field Exploration Team
Kim Soleum
employee)
Field Exploration Team.
And Death Survival Match.
-[This stop is "Sadness",
"Sadness Station".]
Right now, I...
*creak-*
...have entered inside of a Ghost Story.
*ddururururu*-- (is this the rumbling of a train..?)
(Title Card: GSGW)
*bzzt*
| Welcome to Abyss Metro_ |
*bzzt..*
|The tiring way home.
Today of all days, you're especially exhausted.|
*wobble wobble*
-(I'm gonna go right to sleep when I get home...)
-(Ah, I have to turn on the washing machine though...)
-*Haa...*
|After drowsily nodding off and awakening,|
*cla-clack cla-clack*
|You find yourself inside of a subway.|
|It looked like your usual way home, but...|
-(Where am I..?)
*cla-clack cla-clack*
|...Something's strange...|
*BZZT*
STRANGE...
*BZZT*
KSE: (In any case, it looks like the company...)
Will be using this ghost story to "cull" the new hires.
*bzz-zz-zt (chi-ji-jik jik)*
-[This stop is "Sadness."
"Sadness Station."]
-[The passengers whose final destination is Sadness Station,
Please get off in accordance with the announcements.]
*cre-eak*
-[The screen doors are opening.]
-[The entrance doors will close after 30 seconds.
-We will not be returning to this station again.(/it is impossible to turn back again.) ]
*gooo...(ominous sfx)(?)*
(sign: Sadness (3 lang))
-"Sadness" Station?
-It just seems like a regular subway station though...
-Can't we just get off like this?
-They said they're going to close the door soon, so shouldn't we get off quickly before they do?
-KSE: (...Damnit/This is bad.)
-Well except for the station name being a bit weird, it's normal isn't it?
-I think it would be better if you didn't get off.
*jolt/startle*
-KSE: You heard them call it "Sadness Station" just now, didn't you?
-Is there a station like that in Korea?
-Well, that's true but...
-If we don't get off and suffer harm, are you going to take responsibility?
-Excuse me,
-I think what this person is saying is right.
I think it would be better to observe the situation a bit more...
-[the entrance doors are closing.]
!!
-Hey, the doors are closing!
-Let's just get off!!
*WHAP*
-ACK!!
-Ah...!
*KWANG!*
-..I couldn't get off. Ah, f*ck.
-Ah, f*ck.
All because of someone...
I understand.
You must feel like just leaving your brain behind and making a run for it.
my thoughts (general ruminations and then light spoilers):
This finale and the clarity of its themes is proof that Gooseworx is not a hack she is just bad at writing dialogue and story transitions. many such cases. 7/10
Opening introduction with the low-res fish made the whole theatre laugh
It feels soooo good to see how Jax and Caine became such stark foils to one another...They are both antagonists but they represent different yet entwined perspectives that spiral into a point aimed at Pomni and her beliefs. As a thematic conclusion this was pitch-perfect
Surprisingly little reliance on Lore. It's fully dedicated to its characters and how they act as vessels for the themes
Wonderful direction. A lot of beautiful experimental animation, cool symbolic language, and despite the show constantly suffering from just narrating The Point to the camera (which has always bothered me about TADC) there is a shocking amount of stuff simply Implied by the directing choices that I found really compelling.
The songs were so fucking loud. It was never a problem during dialogue but I distinctly remembered thinking "oh this movie is kind of quiet" when they were talking at the start and then the whole theatre rumbled during the purely music segments. It's like they only master the audio against whatever is playing alongside it and if there's no sound effects or dialogue they just leave it as-is. Only production issue I saw
spoiler thoughts:
I'm talking about specific scenes here but I'm not going to outright state what the events are fwiw
x
x
x
Made me laugh that the reveal of how the circus works wasn't even a reveal literally everyone went "yeah... I figured ages ago... but I really hoped that wasn't the case ... :(" like lmfao that makes sense yeah. The unspoken nature of it does give a little more clarity into their quirks.
Jax displacing his guilt by yelling at Kinger was also pretty funny. Awww so Kinger can never be forgiven for hurting people and must become the villain in their time of strife ????? That succkkksssss
The entire first act I keep thinking of Crying Breakfast Friends even though every single instance of crying is perfectly understandable. Like it gets to a point
I like ragatha/pomni now. Thank you everyone it's been a good run of not having any ships for this show
I wish that Jax being a trans woman was a bit more explicit (preferably in that final shot) but literally every single scene there is a bit of writing that clearly states that Jax being gay or a trans woman are the only two functioning conclusions. And even being gay kind of fits awkwardly in there due to the Kind of emotional incest he experienced. I think Jax's "accept who you are or let yourself rot" subplot is a foundational part of why this episode was so at risk for censorship.
On that note [Guy who's really into the existential dread of enmeshment voice] the choice of Jax being the result of hostile emotional incest was very good and it really compliments Caine's half of the antagonistic pressure.
I was also really shook by how frank and human and realistic Jax sounded during his sequence. Eerie!!!
Ribbit was haunting the SHIT out of this narrative when I saw the mirror to the gun episode I gasped
Love that this extended Ragatha scene finally unpacks what she represents in the story; terror of succumbing to the forces against her, essentially the fear of Becoming Ribbit, and letting that fear render her inert. It colours so much of her previous scenes and her actual importance to the story; fans used to assume Jax and Ragatha were the devil and angel on Pomni's shoulders and thus it was weird the plot didn't circle around Ragatha much, but in the end it was Jax and Pomni on Ragatha's shoulders, and she was acting as witness to a philosophical conflict! Neat!
SOOO happy that Gangle was given room to process her frustration multiple times; she probably had the most interesting outlook on stagnation out of the whole cast.
I like how Zooble is such a strong centre to the cast scenes, it's perfect for their character and their values. Zooble actually works as a great foil to Ragatha, very alike yet total opposites. This is a really tight and well-balanced cast.
Caine is my wifey and this is exactly what I wanted to happen to him but I think just talking into the camera was such a fucking hack way to get there. Spent more time narrating his motivations than processing why [new reveal] was so important. I can extrapolate that's what was going on but the film doesn't let you chew on it, it just jumps to him explaining what that subtle symbolic language was doing like the viewer is an idiot. The only time in the finale I went "ohhh that is not good writing..."
There's a flashback during that shot that's meant to contrast two instances of Caine's hacking skills, and the way its shot makes it so it's only this very moment as I type this that I understood it was even an extended flashback sequence in the first place. I thought it was just 1 shot that was a flashback [badly edited]. Am I stupid
^ Understanding what's happening in that scene only makes it more beautiful and fucking awesome but it doesn't really change that the dialogue scene that followed was very flat and crude
{this one is the most explicit spoiler so bring yonder eyes to the image below if you're not excited to see that} SO NO ABEL?
The slideshow intro was also badly written. You know what it was kind of like this
Caine is still wifey though. Dont get it twisted
CANONIZING THE BEST SHIP IN A ONE-OFF CREDITS GAG IS FUCKING BONKERS. The theatre went INSANE
Overall I'm glad I saw it in theatres so I didn't have people in my ear hating just to hate especially with TADC's weird combination of hammer-on-the-head obvious juvenile middle grade tell-don't-show dialogue and nuanced but well-defined unspoken motifs. The internet is going to be unbearable when this drops but I know my heart. 7/10 holds. Maybe a 6/10 on writing alone but the directing and VA work really is just so well done.
aged into liking age gap yaoi but cursed that everyone else who likes age gap yaoi gets really into the taboo of their age difference when the younger partner was a child
It's not like I can't tolerate really young adult/much older partner but it's usually just tolerating. "Just getting settled into adult life/Getting ground down by adult life" is the best gap...We don't need the fantasy about "what if an older man didn't realize he had crazy UST with a kid until the taboo was overcome" to be the only way. Please
aged into liking age gap yaoi but cursed that everyone else who likes age gap yaoi gets really into the taboo of their age difference when the younger partner was a child
