batty

when he says "metaphorical IS textual"..... i could kiss him (metaphorically).

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

just lots of bitching about how audiences dismiss symbolism and metaphor in favor of literal plot events too often. don't even bother reading these just watch the video i linked it's better

i know im always beating a dead horse about this. in fact, i won't beat it again. i'll just post other times i beat it. this video gets at what im always trying to express when im on some kinda tear about the value of symbolism and metaphor.

YouTube video by Folding Ideas Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor

btw, one of the best things about watching the film adaptation of Annihilation was it led me to this video. i think all consumers of media should watch this video. you don't have to have watched Annihilation to get the message i think though it does contain spoilers www.youtube.com/watch?v=URo6...

i watched the film adaptation (also great, in a different way from the books) and read the first novel some time ago, and assumed the film only concerns itself with book 1. so it's also been cool to discover that it actually pulled in a good amount from book 2 (and 3.. ?? we'll find out) too!

actually i have a singular intelligent thought about El Chorizo, being that he’s an outdoor cat my knee jerk response was “dude, hasn’t this particular slice of Florida already undergone enough environmental change?” before realizing perhaps that is the point

anyway too much keeps happening to distract me from the books i’m
trying to read. very close to decimating Authority. in lieu of anything smart i’d like to say that the govt-appointed spy director of the Southern Reach having a cat named El Chorizo that he calls Chorry Chorrykins is gap moe of him

and i get it the site needs to make money. i can turn somewhat of a blind eye to the new premium-shilling links on every page. but why you have to sand down the weird stuff that makes it shine to accomplish this? this is too dumb to bitch about on main but neopets was such a survivor. hate to see it

like i just don’t get it. no one was bugging them to make Content for fucking gadgadsbogen. it was just a weird little annual holiday with a few passive perks attached. nothing you have to keep up with, just some fun weird flavor that fills out the bizarre worle. that’s what i LIKE about neopets

i took a year off neopets to play TCG pocket and coming back i feel pretty sad about where the site is now and not wanting to continue playing much :( today is gadgadsbogen and i was so confused why there was nothing for it on the site. they removed the holiday (???) to prioritize site income (???)

show me that a room in a miyazaki film is technically drawn like it's 12 feet wide in one shot and 16 feet in another. you know

im not talking "calvin's house is never drawn the same way twice in calvin and hobbes" im talking a work where they actually TRIED to make it consistent and it just never works that way because art is art and 2D drawings are fluid and that's what makes it good and interesting actually

what i need is an exhaustive powerpoint showing when and how BGs and spaces are drawn inconsistently in variously celebrated media how it doesn't fucking matter at all and no one is going to notice. i need someone to take a scalpel to every animated masterpiece to prove to me that it doesn't matter

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

and it’s also nice from the other end. i don’t get the sense that my audience worries too much about what they’re “allowed” to say, feel, draw, write about my thing. we’re both secure in the knowledge that i get to make it and you get to feel things about it without anyone being punished.

i don’t personally run into this issue much because i think i’ve made my stance clear and i have a very respectful and intelligent audience for my comic. i understand that being very small time helps with that, and that’s a pretty nice thing about making something passionate but niche.

it’s important to be appreciative to those who support you and kind to everyone you can be kind to but i see that as different from, as artist, doing anything “for” your audience… i am doing it for me and letting you watch and i think most audiences actually like for an artist to do that!

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it)

chobits and Evil Chobits (sorry i never read it) (she doesn't look very evil in this one)

i think a good full time job for me would be if some mysterious entity paid me to draw chloe and clair like those classic CLAMP illustrations all day

when i think of the amount i'm able to do in HFHH in a single year for completely free, on my own, with no help from anyone, so that i can provide it, also for free, twice a week on average, it does make me wish more story-hungry people were willing to read as well as watch

i think the average person would be shocked to find out what the monetary and time expense is to create even 11 minutes of animation. episodes (expensive) are layered in a pipeline so you can do multiple at once—but that requires a full paid crew and each episode still takes ~a year to complete

it was even better this time

oops i accidentally read all of Kasane again

editorializing on my thumbnails lately

i’m also not willing to compromise my time at the expense of new comics so i have to find a way to do it alongside continuing my 100 updates a year streak. i’m trying to schedule for it, we’ll see how that pans out…

it’s something i’m vaguely planning for at this point. i would like to release the first 500 comics in two volumes. self marketing isn’t my natural strength though i would need to gather everything in my resolve to make a kickstarter lmao

seems like any time something is good, the ultimate compliment from well meaning fans is “this should get an indie pilot! i’d watch this as a show!” which, maybe i’m the odd one out in thinking it’d be more of a compliment to enjoy it as it currently exists, as good enough already.

animation is actually pretty limiting to get into because it is so expensive and time consuming to produce. if you care about an auteur vision (which not all works have to be ofc) animation doesn’t allow fully for that. and you have major time constraints on a story when you’re animating it too.

as someone who loves animation with all my heart, enough to pursue the borderline crazy choice of making it my career: i’m actually pretty sick of everyone always acting like the final form of any idea should be animation. sometimes a comic or prose or illustration series is already in its best form

there's barely money in this shit to begin with, trust me.

would be cool to be currently employed by the industry i still appear to be a part of.

fucking rent is fucking going up too much and im pissed off maybe ill try to blast through $900 worth of comms to cover the increase for the rest of the year so i won't be so pissed off. fuck it dammit man fuck damn it bro fuck