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drawing the lesbian fairytale of my dreams <3

She saw her moment and got glossed up for it

Sharing the number one trick for a good composition that I always use in illustrations :3

Thinking about the anime cutscenes from Pachislot Gyakuten Saiban. It would be so cool if we got an OVA like this.

Captured from this. More footage here but it’s footage of the machine. 

I have made a pay-what-you-want zine about... How To Make Zines!

I go over my entire process, so you too can learn how to supplement your income with zines. Please give it a look, and share if you find it helpful!

thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes

reasons for this:

basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.

like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.

here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.

TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.

Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”

all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that

I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.

But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.

In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.

On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”

like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not

i came across that one tweet which said long haired Edgeworth would look like that one Pegasus dude from Yu-gi-oh! so yeah here you go. Bratworth for no particular reason tho.

anyway i read Pegasus' wiki and apparently they are both overly formal grown ass men who hyperfixate on supposedly kid shows???

Y’all just setting Tony up to get his ass beat (x)

Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it. 

DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(

Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!

the strongest

James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy in BECOMING JANE (2007)

[DON’T REPOST, TAKE+USE!]

X-Men Remix 2022

It’s time again to check in with fandom on interest this year for X-Men Remix. There will not be a main Remix Exchange this year (unless I get overwhelming response to this post :D) and instead we will be focusing on just Remix Madness for a longer duration (4 weeks instead of 3). 

Please specify which timing works best if you are interested in Remix Madness. Your feedback is greatly appreciated:

May 15-June 15

June 1-June 30

For those unfamiliar with this Fandom Challenge, please visit last year’s X-Men Remix Madness 2021 page for more information.

Please signal boost thanks!

We Don't Talk to Magneto

(An Encanto We don't talk about Bruno cherik parody)

Green- Charles

Blue- Hank

Orange- Logan

Pink- Pietro

Basically the Brotherhood of Mutants are coming to the mansion for a talk and Pietro starts asking questions.

We don't talk to Magneto, no, no, no!

We don't talk to Magneto... but

It was a rainy day

After his graduation day

We were in Florida, and there wasn't a doubt in my mind

A drought of doubt in his mind

Magneto walks in with a shark's sharpiest grin-

Love!!

You telling this story, or am I?

I'm sorry, Professor, go on

Magneto says, "the mutants plight"

Why did he tell us?

I argue that we must unite

Mutants, chose a side

Love gone in an awful fight

What a terrible day... but anyway

We don't talk to Magneto, no, no, no!

We don't talk to Magneto!

Hey! Grew to live in fear of Magneto glowering and grumbling

I could always see him hovering and rumbling

I see him as metal that cannot bend, ch-ch-ch

It's a heavy lift, with a gift so humbling

Always left Professor and the family fumbling

Grappling with politics and perspectives they could not make amends

Do you comprehend?

A six-foot frame

Numbers on his wrist

When he calls your name

It ends with a fist

Yeah, he sees your fears

And brings you to tears (hey!)

We don't talk to Magneto, no, no, no! (We don't talk to Magneto, no, no, no!)

We don't talk to Magneto (we don't talk to Magneto!)

He promised the Senator would die

The next day: dead! (No, No!)

He told me I was soft!

And just like he said... (no, no!)

He stressed all my hair to disappear, now look at my head (no, no! Hey!)

My fate was sealed, when I let him in my bed!

He told me that the life of my dreams was not to be, and would never be mine

He told me that my power would grow, thanks to to the bullet lodged in my spine

Eh, Brotherhood's on the way

He told me that the girl of my dreams would be just out of reach

Betrothed to another

It's like I hear him now

Hey Beast, I want not a sound out of you (it's like I can hear him now)

I can hear him now

Um, Magneto...

Yeah, about that Magneto...

I really need to know about Magneto...

Gimmie the truth and the whole truth, Magneto

(Professor, your boyfriend's here)

Time for dinner!

A six-foot frame (it was a rainy day, after his graduation day)

Numbers upon his wrist (we were in Florida)

When he calls your name (and there wasn't doubt in my mind)

It ends with a fist ( A drought of doubt in his mind!)

Yeah, he sees your fears (Magneto walks in with a shark's sharpiest grin-)

And feasts on your fears (love!)

You telling this story, or am I?

I'm sorry, Professor, go on (Eh, Brotherhoods on the way)

Magneto says, "the mutants plight" (a six-foot frame, numbers on his wrist)

I argue that we must unite

Love gone in an awful fight

They're here!

Don't talk about Magneto, no! (Why did I talk about Magneto?)

Not a word about Magneto

I never should've brought up Magneto!

#welp there you go

his wig reminds me of Elrond

and yes the it looks like crap

I can help you. I can help you so that you never have to break things ever again.

X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX (2019)

classifying cherik scenes into "i cant believe this scene exists" and "how did they get away with this" and "the only way anything that is being done in this scene makes sense is if you assume theyre in love"

JAMES MCAVOY as Simon Balcairn/Mr Chatterbox in BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS (2003). Dir. Stephen Fry

I keep seeing posts about how fandoms are weird and bad and cringe and im like. I sure hope so? do you guys know what a subculture is? especially one made mostly of teens and eccentric adults who dont care what you think

Smug, smugger, smuggest.

Erik at the end of First Class: “Fuck you Charles, you can’t tell me what to do.”

Erik at the end of Days of Future Past: “Fuck you Charles, you could tell me what to do.”

Erik at the end of XMA: “Fuck me Charles; tell me what to do.”

Hellooooo! I made a uquiz, hehe. What cherik fic are you? Let's see what you'll get

okay i usually don’t like these kinds of posts but i was having a discussion with some friends from different part of the country/world sooo….. 

reblog and put in the tags where you’re from/whether or not you consider the tap water clean enough to drink I am actually genuinely curious. I’m from florida and i’ve been told that it’s usually unsafe to drink unfiltered. 

hi everyone!!! so i made a uquiz!!! what would happen to you in the x-men universe???