– Praise the living daylights out of a show and shove its greatness in everyone’s face
– 2 years later, pick it apart violently and insult everyone who still enjoys it in as edgy a way as possible because negativity is cool
!!!
uhh maybe marginalized ppl were excited at the possibility of a show (such as su) representing them, only to be rightfully angry when the show ends up racist, homophobic etc. anyway, super bad post all around
I feel like a lot of hardcore accusations of problematic and offensive content that get thrown at media that was previously lauded as progressive come from a few sources; first, the creators are often a lot more accessible than the creators of mainstream media. you can message rebecca sugar on twitter personally to call her a racist bitch, but you can’t do the same to, say, jj abrhams or another large-scale creator. likewise, you can’t stand on a streetcorner and scream at people until they agree to stop watching law and order, but you can certainly bully large groups of people online until they stop supporting an independent creator.
second, the fandoms that tend to form around progressive media tend to be younger, more volatile, looking to media and fandom as forms of activism. mainstream media they can write off as garbage, but progressive niche media that makes a sincere attempt to represent marginalized folks must be Absolutely Perfect. the idea that a piece of media can have good parts and bad parts, that it can try and only partially succeed, but that that partial success is still worth something, is completely lost on many young fans. either its irredeemable garbage or its the literal messiah, there’s no in-between. so if a show falls short of perfect, as is inevitable, then it goes straight into the “total garbage” pile and must be condemned by the masses.
genuinely trying to represent certain groups and making a few missteps is not the same thing as being ignorant or malicious. making a sincere effort to mean something to folks who don’t get a lot of things made for them is something to be proud of. would you rather go back to the times when fucking nothing got made for us? when the only characters we saw that we could relate to were only there to be made fun of? you’re spoiled by a rush of new creators who took “go make your own thing then” to heart and set out to make content for people like them, you have the gall to look at what they’re trying to do and spit on it for not being better. no creator owes you shit, no creator has to bow to a bunch of teenage bullies who do nothing but demand and harass, that’s all there is to it.
Dear lord can everyone please read this post because it’s so relevant
YES. Yes, please read this. This has pissed me off for a while now.
As an independent content creator, you have to be fucking perfect. And if you mess up just a little bit, be sure that hate groups are going to get to you.
The same is not true for big, mainstream media products. They’ll be forgiven, no matter what they do, cause people do not expect them to be progressive anyway.
And YES we have to criticize when people mess up – it makes us better and people can learn from that. But PLEASE stop harassing independent content creators. You’re just making people stop creating the progressive content you consume. It’ll be your loss anyway.
yo here’s a useful tip from your fellow art ho cynellis… use google sketchup to create a model of the room/building/town you’re trying to draw… then take a screenshot & use it as a reference! It’s simple & fun!
Sketchup is incredibly helpful. I can’t recommend it enough.
There’s a 3D model warehouse where you can download all kinds of stuff so you don’t have to build everything from scratch.
reblog to save a life
This is an incomplete tutorial, and it drives me crazy every
time I see it come around.
We live in a pretty great digital age and we have access to
a ton of amazing tools that artists in past generations couldn’t even dream of,
but a lot of people look at a cool trick and only learn half of the process of
using it.
Here’s the missing part of this tutorial:
How do you populate your backgrounds?
Well, here’s the answer:
If the focus is the environment, you must show a person in relation to
that environment.
The examples above are great because they show how to use the
software itself, but each one just kind of “plops” the character in front of
their finished product with no regard of the person’s relation to their
environment.
How do you fix this?
Well, here’s the simplest solution:
This is a popular trick used by professional storyboard and
comic artists alike when they’re quickly planning compositions. It’s simple and
it requires you to do some planning before you sit down to crank out that
polished, final version of your work, but it will be the difference between a background
and an environment.
Even if your draftsmanship isn’t that great (like mine),
people can be more immersed in the story you tell if you just make it feel like
there is a world that exists completely separate from the one in which they
currently reside – not just making a backdrop the characters stand in front of.
Your creations live in a unique world, and it is as much a character as
any other member of the cast. Make it as believable as they are.
Great comments and tutorials!
I’m a 3d artist and have been exploring the possibilities of using 3d as reference for 2d poses. I want to add a couple of tips and things!
Sketchup is very useful for environment references, and I assume it’s reasonably easy to learn. If you’re interested in going above and beyond, I highly recommend learning a proper 3d modeling program to help with art, especially because you can very easily populate a scene or location with characters!
Using 3ds Max I can pretty quickly construct an environment for reference. But going beyond that, I can also pose a pretty simple ‘CAT’ armature (known in 3d as a rig) straight into the scene, which can be totally customized, from various limbs, tails, wings, whatever, to proportions, and also can be modeled onto and expanded upon (for an example, you could 3d sculpt a head reference for your character and then attach it to the CAT rig, so you have a reference for complex face angles!)
The armature can also be posed incredibly easily. I know programs exist for stuff like this – Manga Studio, Design Doll – but posing characters in these programs is always an exercise in frustration and very fiddly imo. A simple 3d rig is impossibly easy to pose.
By creating an environment and dropping my character rig into it, I have an excellent point of reference when it comes to drawing the scene!
Not only that, but I can also view the scene from whatever angle I could ever want or need, including the character and their pose/position relative to the environment.
We can even quickly and easily expand this scene to include more characters!
Proper 3d modeling software is immensely powerful, and if you wanted to, you could model a complex environment that occurs regularly in your comic or illustration work (say, a castle interior, or an outdoor forest environment) and populate the scene with as many perspective-grounded characters as you need!
i was talking to some friends about wonder woman today and one of them said how she didn’t like steve, bc wonder woman didn’t need a man, it was supposed to be an empowering film about women and not men
and here’s the thing, we live in a patriarchal society, yet we’re told by women and feminists everywhere that a woman doesn’t need a man, and that’s is entirely true. women don’t need men! but loving a man doesn’t make a woman weak! it doesn’t make wonder woman any less empowering for loving steve! the problem is that female characters are so often lost in the ‘love interest’ trope that they aren’t empowering characters, and are hardly characters at all outside the relationship. but wonder woman, and many more films and tv shows today, aren’t like that anymore! so let’s stop aligning powerful women as not having a man, and non-powerful women as having a man!
a woman loving a man doesn’t make her any less powerful and independant, and we need to stop portraying and seeing it in that light
Since once in a blue moon I actually discover a decent rule for adulting, and since I know I have followers a few years younger than me who are just entering the workforce, I want to tell you about a very important phrase.
“I won’t be available.”
Imagine you’re at work and your boss asks you to come in on Saturday. Saturday is usually your day off–coming in Saturdays is not an obligation to keep your job. Maybe you were going to watch a movie with a friend, or maybe you were just going to lie in bed and eat ice cream for eight hours, but either way you really, really don’t want to give up your day off.
If you consider yourself a millennial you’ve probably been raised to believe you need to justify not being constantly at work. And if you’re a gen-Z kid you’re likely getting the same toxic messages that we did. So in a situation like that, you might be inclined to do one of three things:
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Cave when they pressure you to come in anyway, since you’re not doing anything important.
Tell your boss you’d rather not give up your day off. Over-apologize and worry that you looked bad/unprofessional.
Lie and say you’ve got a doctor’s appointment or some other activity that feels like an adequate justification for not working.
The fact is, it doesn’t matter to your boss whether you’re having open heart surgery or watching anime in your underwear on Saturday. The only thing that affects them is the fact that you won’t be at work. So telling them why you won’t be at work only gives them reason to try and pressure you to come in anyway.
If you say “I won’t be available,” giving no further information, you’d be surprised how often that’s enough. Be polite and sympathetic in your tone, maybe even say “sorry, but I won’t be available.” But don’t make an excuse. If your boss is a professional individual, they’ll accept that as a ‘no’ and try to find someone else.
But bosses aren’t always professional. Sometimes they’re whiny little tyrants. So, what if they pressure you further? The answer is–politely and sympathetically give them no further information.
“Are you sure you’re not available?” “Sorry, but yes.”
“Why won’t you be available?” “I have a prior commitment.” (Which you do, even if it’s only to yourself.)
“What’s your prior commitment?” “Sorry, but that’s kind of personal.”
“Can you reschedule it?” “I’m afraid not. Maybe someone else can come in?”
If you don’t give them anything to work with, they can’t pressure you into going beyond your obligations as an employee. And when they realize that, they’ll also realize they have to find someone else to come in and move on.
I know it sucks we have to talk about this but in light of the fact that Black Panther is coming out this weekend I think it needs to be addressed. The possibility of a shooting happening at a Black Panther screening is very real, seeing as there will be very high populations of people of color going to see this movie.
Here are some tips I learned in school for surviving a shooting, modified a bit to match the setting.
1. TAKE NOTE OF YOUR EXITS. Your first instinct should be to GET OUT if at all possible. If you are near an exit, GET TO IT and run. Call the police and get somewhere safe. Remember, shooters have tunnel vision. If you are lucky enough to be within a shooter’s peripheral vision, you have a good chance of being able to escape.
2. If you are unable to exit the theater, HIDE. Get down under your seats, crawl underneath chairs to get to an exit, whatever. If necessary, smear yourself with blood and cover yourself with a dead body and play dead. I know it’s gross and horrible, but this is something that can save lives. Many shooters are not going to go around shooting dead bodies; their goal is to kill as many people as possible. If you look dead, there’s a chance they won’t shoot you.
3. If you cannot hide and you cannot escape, AMBUSH THE SHOOTER. You need to get a group of people to do this, and I’m not sure how that would work–if you’re going with a group of people you could all agree to jump the shooter if you were near him, or someone could shout “JUMP HIM” in the theater and a group of people would jump him.
This is very effective. A single person WILL NOT be able to withstand a group of four or more people bringing him down, especially if you distract him beforehand by throwing WHATEVER YOU CAN at him.
That means food, popcorn buckets, sodas, purses, bags, WHATEVER. Like I mentioned before, shooters have tunnel vision and will not be expecting objects being thrown at them.
It takes a shooter a certain amount of time to go through the mental process of finding a person, locking that person as a target, aiming, and shooting. Anything you can do to disrupt that process causes that person to start it all over again. DISRUPT THAT PROCESS BY THROWING WHATEVER SHIT YOU CAN FIND AT HIM. In the seconds he has to go through that mental process again, ambush him, get him on the ground, kick his weapon away, and call 911.
If you have any more tips, please feel free to add on. Keep your friends and family close. Stay smart. Stay safe.
The fact that people feel the need to post and share this is so damn sad
It is sad but I think its better to be safe then sorry. It has happened before….
I hate that this is something that people need to worry about, but it needs to be shared.
Reblogging since a shooting happened this week. (I like the ambush idea since that could really prevent more deaths)
Okay, because I’m getting so many anons accusing me of “Ambushing is not a good idea!!” or “Are you even qualified!?!!?” I’m going to link the program that my school is requiring my student body to do. This is a REAL program that (for us, anyways) is taught by our police department, SWAT team members, and our school security guards. The program explains that while attacking the shooter should always be a last resort, it’s effective when used.
I think what people dont realize is that Snape is a complex well-written character, who has a 3 dimensional personality, the depth of which cannot be encompassed by a singular word like
‘good’ or
‘asshole’
, the latter of which is mostly used by tumblr to completely disregard everything else regarding his character
First of all, Snape WAS brave, you can try to deny that, you can argue with me over that but you cannot deny the fact that he had the guts to lie to Voldemort’s face, to go behind his back.You can also not deny the fact that the man played a pivotal role in Harry’s protection and in winning the war.He was a man who knew that he wasn’t going to make it out alive, but he came to terms with that and put himself in grave danger for the sake of the greater good
Secondly, people seem to confuse
‘being a caring teacher’ with
’ being a good teacher’ ,and though Snape wasnt caring or loving, he was a good teacher. He taught his students properly, prepared them for their examinations and passed on his knowledge and he was fair. People seem to quote him taking away points from gryffindor for no reason, but at no point did he unjustly did so, I mean my teachers reprimand me from answering without being called on, doesn’t mean they are assholes.Also if I remember correctly he wasn’t the one who gave his fave house just enough points at the eleventh hour to make them conveniently win the house cup.
third, no matter what you say his dislike for Remus and Sirius was justified, they put his life in danger ffs, not to mention the continuous bullying they subjected him to even before he called lily a mudblood. i donot however agree with him revealing Remus’s secret but i will discuss that further down
Fourth, please stop using his actions as a student in your arguments against him, when you oh-so-readily wave of the mauraderer’s actions because they were
‘kids’. Yes Snape was a little shit, but he was a child moreover he was a child who had not only never had the best family life but he was constantly being bullied by his peers *cough*jamesandsirius*cough*, not only that but his own house alienated him because of his friendliness towards lily, he didn’t belong anywhere, he didn’t fit in and he was scared and young, he made bad decisions but if you can forgive Draco you can give him the benefit of doubt.
with that being said, I dislike the man deeply but he wasn’t inherently bad just childish. His treatment of Harry was out of petty, his hatred for Neville was a product of him not being able to deal with his own loss and wanting to be able to blame someone else, and his treatment of Lupin and Sirius was a childhood grudge held which he held onto for too long because he had nothing else to grasp to.He was jealous of what others had around him, when he himself had noone to call his own, which is why i believe he held onto Lily till the very end because she was the only one who had been familiar to him
so yes, he might have been an asshole, he was definitely a bit (a lot) pathetic but at the same time he was so much more
This scene is exactly why I hate the HD remake apart from the blatant removal of Saïx’s boss fight because this is literally my favorite scene in the entire game.
Saïx: You cannot help your comrade. Xion will not wake up.
[Roxas looks down and shakes his head.]
Roxas: That’s not the point! I should still be with her.
[He tries to run again.]
Saïx: What do you care? The creature is broken. Defective.
[Roxas stops and turns around.]
Roxas: Don’t call her that!
Saïx: I’ll call that thing whatever I want. How we deal with Xion is no concern of yours.
Roxas: I didn’t ask you if it was!
Saïx: Look at you, Roxas. Up in arms over a nobody.
Roxas: We’re all Nobodies!
Saïx: Settle down. Xion’s failings won’t affect your standing with us. You’ve nothing to worry about.
Roxas: Won’t affect my— What is WRONG with you? Look, I’ll do my mission—later.
dis scene. dis fucking scene is a giant insight into the differences in their psychology and how warped Saïx has become, and even Roxas calls him out on it.
He cannot understand how Roxas can be concerned for someone who has no use and why simply being there for them means anything. If you are useless, you are nothing.
He thinks it’s entirely illogical to be at Xion’s side because her uselessness won’t affect Roxas negatively unless he puts off his work for her sake and there’s nothing Roxas can do to help her so why waste the effort; it wouldn’t make any sense.
His thinking is completely self-centered and “logical" while Roxas is being entirely selfless and human.
Saïx got all his scenes with Axel, but in return, all the scenes with Roxas that were skipped over ruin the remake for me since those two really develop each other and define each other as characters. imo.
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