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let's try this again.

in no way is this an original idea, but i've seen a bunch of people do a toku watchlist. feel free to send writing requests in for shows i've indicated i can write for when they're open! at the moment, writing requests are [CLOSED]. feel free to ask me about other things all the time! (think of it as a permanent ask me anything.)

my talking tag (and the tag where i answer asks) is #greenie hut jr.'s. if you want to scroll through and find stuff i've written, you can, with the #fanfic tag.

i watch other shows, too! feel free to talk to me about those, or ask if i've watched one.

now, for the actual watchlist:

#greenie hut jr.'s

catsdelightful-deactivated20240

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

misslunarose

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

obi-mom-kenobi

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

obi-mom-kenobi

jamiegeode

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

#useful things

threedollarsdotcom

okay fine well if you dont wanna play dissection or mind control then what else is there

sailatina3

I like characters who are women and they suck and are bad people. Bonus points if she never really faces consequences.

ju5t777

Early concept art for Jack in the new toy line for Ultraman: Super Fighter Legends

#return of ultraman #ultraman jack

ju5t777

Early concept art for Ultraman in the new toy line for Ultraman: Super Fighter Legends

#ultraman

ju5t777

Early concept art for Ace in the new toy line for Ultraman: Super Fighter Legends

#ultraman ace

knzk8739

no thought head empty only this blue meow meow

#ultra teo #mitsuishi ibuki #ultraman teo #so cute!

peterkothe

HAPPY ULTRAMAN DAY 2026!

Here’s the man himself giving Red King the Atomic Elbow! (Pigmon better get outta the way!)

A piece to celebrating 60th anniversary of Japan’s timeless giant monster-fighting hero!!

#ultraman

chacerider

Reach out to the universe, and the universe reaches out to you. 🌌🫴🫲

60 years ago, 'Ultraman' was born. 11 years ago, I started watching Ultraman. Watching this show from afar, I've gone on adventures across time and space, and made so many friends.

Thank you, Ultraman. Please keep watching over our little planet, as we struggle towards a brighter future. 💖

#ultraman

ju5t777

Art piece selected for an official Ultraman campaign

#ultraman

briannyssey

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

briannyssey

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

#useful things

somereaderinblue

Watching Ultraman Teo, and this shot hits so hard because it happens in a cafeteria right after a guy flat out tells him he shouldn't have come to this college if he's here to make friends, and then a girl who's set up to become his first friend right then & there is instead immediately turning her attention towards another longer known friend.

Then the frame purposely narrows down to him only. He's not human, this isn't his home. He's that alone.

Barely 7 minutes in & already, the inherent isolation he feels is established in such a painfully relatable way in spite of the setting and prior humorous tone.

#ultra teo #ultraman teo #mitsuishi ibuki #these scene really got me for the same reasons #especially since his first reaction to hearing pucchi was to reassure it that it wasn't alone

mukubirdy

hey, teo.

#ultraman #ultraman teo #this is hilarious

chacerider

12 more hours until our NEW BOY ✨🙏

#ultra teo #ultraman teo #so cute

heavensickness

there is not a single day i don't think about this quote in relation to tragedies

araekniarchive

Aeschylus, The Oresteia

onlyloverleft

Richard Siken, Planet of Love

listentothepages

The Lumineers, Cleopatra

pigeondyke

the novelisation of The Revenge of the Sith (via @nonbinarydin)

postarcadian

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

some-stars

i've been thinking a lot the last few days about how so many people, even when they think they're defending art, automatically adopt the position of the STORY being the most important part of all fiction. the plot, the character arc, the worldbuilding, but it's always about moving something forward and building a narrative idea. and like....yes, fine, but sometimes i read books because i like the way the author puts words together! sometimes i watch movies because the images and sounds give me an ineffable human experience! not all art can be experienced via synopsis!!!!!!!!!!!

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