Paradust

Hi, expert in feeling sad. Will write things that I'll regret. They/them

[ninja-weapons]

This gif is outrageous

[headlesssamurai]

 ■ The so-called “blood explosion” which punctuates the conclusion of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie Sanjuro remains one of the most memorable and influential special effects in film history. Production designer Yoshiro Muraki would later recall this scene was filmed in a single take. No such effect had ever been attempted before, as movies of the time rarely showed violence with graphic detail. Filled with uncertainty, Muraki worried the blood spray he’d rigged up wouldn’t impress Kurosawa, so he added an extra 30 pounds of pressure to the fluid pump. At the moment the pump was activated, the additional pressure caused the compressor hose attached to actor Tatsuya Nakadai to blow a coupling which created a slight, unintentional delay before the fake blood began to spray, and caused a much larger gush of fluid than planned. It sprayed so powerfully Nakadai claimed it almost lifted him off the ground. His heart sinking, as he believed the delay and over-pressure had ruined the effect, Muraki nervously glanced at director Akira Kurosawa, but Kurosawa only nodded in approval.

[trilllizard666]

“oh god i fucked this up”

“yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO”

[kineticpenguin]

And to think this is so iconic that “two dudes clash, there’s a beat, then one dies incredibly violently” is just a must-have for action in anime

[webbut]

Its crazy to think that this iconic visual that has been so ubiquitous in pop culture for so long despite that the source material barely being known by people all came from actors staying in character thru an FX malfunction.

[estrogenized-valerie]

Sanjuro and its predecessor, Yojimbo, are both available FOR FREE on The Internet Archive! They’re KICK ASS movies and you should watch them!! You have no reason not to!!!

If you like anime, if you like Westerns, if you like samurai or cowboy tropes at all, you should really really watch some of Akira Kurosawa’s films! Rashomon is also very good and has had a really profound impact on modern film and storytelling!!

[haitham-20]

Please everyone pay attention ❗️

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PLEASE DONT IGNORE !!!!

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@emperorpalpatittay

@a-shade-of-blue

[midwinterhunt]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[macaronijail06]

[thecollectibles]

Fairy Collection by Romain MAZEVET

[thecollectibles]

Fairy Collection by Romain MAZEVET

[publiclyprismatic]

issa samb (1945-2017), senegalese painter, sculptor, performance artist, playwright, and poet, in patterned clothing

mod reaux

[itscolossal]

In Theatrical Murals and Dioramas by Aryz, Dramatic Scenarios Unfold in Vivid Color

[gayjokes]

huge day for football fans

[shencomix]

Public U. Art Club #19 - Repurpose

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[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[furbearingbrick]

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screenshots

[spooner7308]

The legendary post!

[prokopetz]

More favourite stupid video game tropes, Hallowe’en edition:

Games where you start out playing as a character who’s presented as a totally plausible protagonist, but then they’re horribly killed and the actual player character is someone different  

Tutorials that describe the basic mechanics from an in-character perspective in a way that seems like a silly fourth-wall-breaking joke, then much later this casual blurring of the fourth wall is revealed to have horrifying narrative implications  

Fakeouts where it looks like you messed up and died, but really it’s a puzzle and you have to do something during the fake gameover screen to “solve” it  

Reality-warping powers being represented as the ability to fuck with the game-mechanical substrate; e.g., teleportation in a 2D action game being represented by letting the player screen-wrap  

Brainfuck segments where you’re suddenly playing as the monster and you have to have a boss fight against your own player character or something  

Puzzles where the obstacles are the appendages of some unfathomably huge unseen creature, and you have to, like, poke its tentacles in the correct order to get them to move out of the way  

Subtly impossible level layouts, like a corridor that makes four or five left turns in a row without intersecting itself  

When a game whose narrative has heretofore acknowledged no diegetic separation between the player and the player character suddenly breaks its own rules and addresses the player directly  

When you’re in a suspiciously calm and peaceful area, then something happens to alter your perceptions and it’s revealed that it was all an illusion and the Happy Shiny People were secretly zombie demon ghosts all along, and they all turn to face the camera and go “EEEEEEEE”  

When there’s a guy with a detachable head

[prokopetz]

“Well actually most of these aren’t common enough to be considered tropes” tell me you never play indie horror games without telling me you never play indie horror games.

[para-dust]

What is it like to stay because you know you're wanted

And it's fun, everything's fun, but you know you've never belonged, so why should you now

[1995lahaine]

don’t make me tap the jen silverman essay!!!!

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Their essay in full.

[para-dust]

An exercise in girliness

Clip a sparkly pink pin to your hair.

Feel cute. Feel cool. Feel edgy.

Go to school forgetting that it's there. That people can see. That there's a stimuli-process-reaction firing through the neurons from the eyes-brain-and back, that thoughts generate upon a shade of color, a visual of a pattern.

Or maybe not. Most people's heads are empty.

Go home to your sister. She asks why you're wearing the girly pin.

Look her in the eyes like you would look at you, fourteen, and say:

I like it. It looks good on me.

[thursdayin94]

Dropped a small potato n started crying how’s everyone else doin tonight

[potato]

am on floor

[yr-tiktok-mom]

[para-dust]

Love is the name of

The knife you stab me with

It's also the reason why

I haven't bitten your head off

I offer you meat on a platter but you're more of a DIY guy

So you reach into my ribs and snag a handful out

Stop the bleeding. Stop the bleeding. Stop the bleeding

I pull out the knife and hand it to you again

I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

You think for a bit and choose to plunge it in me again