#tonal shift

[boneofrath54]

Here it is, my very first animatic! It’s clunky, it’s jank, but it is ALIVE. I remember coming up with this meme in my head and knowing the perfect lines to use, so when I finally got to make it a reality I was very proud of myself.

[write-it-motherfuckers]

Person A: “....Well that was unexpected. Talk about a tonal shift.”

Person B: “I think I have whiplash....”

[linksvorne]

3. TONAL SHIFT. 2025-01-16 @ Akademie der bildenden Künste, Schillerplatz (w/ Love Embassy)

[clairedelune-13]

I just realized that the very first choice you’re given - to either start a barfight or be diplomatic - is the only time this game lets you be a “jerk”.

Weirdly enough, after the prologue ends, Rook feels like a completely different person.

I like this game, but the prologue feels completely separate from the rest.

[czhybrid]

So I'm at In-N-Out, and I was looking around, mildly surprised by the amount of fellow white guys in baseball caps I saw here. Then, just as I'm thinking that, I see two punk kids with emo hair walking up. The tonal shift alone was enough to eject me from reality for a second, which ended up letting a couple napkins flying out with the breeze

Side note, this isn't a dig at punk or emo kiddos, yall are awesome, I was boggled by your sheer presence for sec. Which now that I think about it, is probably the point...

[christaline]

[glowing-disciple]

Like all things on this good Earth, my rewatch of Golden Girls has finally come to it’s inevitable conclusion.

… Next, I think I’ll check out this “Death Note” show I keep hearing so much about.

[abizarreyodelingincident]

Pet Peeve of the day

Stories that are interpersonal drama being resolved by action climaxes.

You know the one. The story where characters have been hurting each other in hundred little ways, make the wrong decisions, say things they never mean, things that build up over time like a slowburn of fracturing relationships. Where characters just refuse to work on themselves, to sit down and talk.

And then one of them is kidnapped. Is shot. It involved in a car crash.

And the climax is one character running toward the other, and they heroically save their loved one’s life.

And that’s it. That’s the way things are resolved.

One big gesture that somehow erases every other thing that have been done before. It’s a bit like that story about lovers that argue and argue and one of them cheats and then they, I dunno, buy their ex the deed for their new studio and give it to them, and oops, forgiven.

I mean, I get it. It’s a lot more neat and easier to say this one great deed makes everything else meaningless than to actually show the characters make the decision to approach healing and communication, then struggle to get it right but still TRY. It’s not a climatic thing, not in the way people think of climaxes in stories, but it can ABSOLUTELY be a really powerful thing, a lot more than a confusing action scene where someone shoots a mobster or someone wallows in a hospital.

Like, please, tonal shifts are difficult things to nail. Going from a mess of interpersonal relationship to a action-adventure jumping out of a train is...

It’s not what I came here FOR.