@mineapple it’s been nearly 2 weeks and i still can’t stop thinking about the “adam!!!” and “hi welcome to chilis” guys being twins you’ve actually ruined me
if your favorite kid was dave strider when you first started homestuck, youre probably a trans guy. if its rose lalonde, youre probably a lesbian. jade harley? youre a furry. john egbert? you still love him with all your heart and you are very vocal about it.
Do you ever think about how supermarkets have no clear indicator of time passing visually? Like if u go into a supermarket in the morning or midnight it would look the same, same harsh white lighting. Time isn’t real. Nothing is real. Avocados are half off
Oh btw I know many artists are having quite some trouble with the RCDART drama it’s going around, so I want to remind you all:
Exaggeration can be done well
You don’t need a realistic style to be a good artist
Is ok if your art is soft and round
It’s ok if your art isn’t incredibly detailed
The issue people have with RCDART and the reason why we laugh at them is their transphobia, trans fetishization and racism under a poor excuse of “my style”, and how this issue morphed their style into a bad example of exaggeration and cartoon-like style.
Current annoyance: I keep clicking kudos button on AO3 and then that fucker announces:
I don’t care. Some things just deserve more kudos.
Comments are also effective…
I just thought of something.
A lot of people say they don’t leave comments because they can’t think of anything to say other than “I liked this” and they think it’s dumb or something.
So how about… You leave a comment that says “This is an extra kudos” because you can leave as many comments as you like, but you can only leave a max of two kudos (one logged in, one logged out). You can do this on every chapter if you want! “Extra kudos in comment form!” You get to express your extra love in an introvert-friendly way! :D
This is an amazing idea, and this post needs ten thousand notes.
there’s something that’s just so special about keith, who’s arguably the roughest and most impulsive one on the team, the first to be reckless or attack an enemy, the one who uses his fists and fights his way out with his teeth bared, being one of the most gentle out of team voltron. the one who’s so calculated and soft with his touches and fond looks that you can tell surprise him and overwhelms him at the same time.
keith’s someone who’s been hurt and left behind by people, and he chooses very specific soft touches or moments of intimacy to try to be comforting, to give something he rarely got before being in team voltron. you can tell he’s so careful not to hurt his teammates because he knows what it’s like to be hurt, and when he gives his affection, it’s keith’s attempt at stepping out of his comfort zone and finally letting people in from the wall he’s got around himself to protect himself
I was asking myself just now why they have “16 and pregnant” but not “16 and impregnated a girl” but I realized it would be pretty boring to watch a 16 year old boy play video games and go to school and live life as normal
people think i’m joking when i say we need to stop california’s dominance of animation. it’s a problem.
the key to major success lately seems to be: be born in california or nearby, go to calarts, get into the industry. other options come when you can afford to move to california. the industry is VERY quiet in every other part of the country. i live in new york city, possibly the most famous city in the country, and there is next to no work to be found here. yeah there are outliers like Natasha Allegri and Rebecca Sugar, but the majority are from CA.
Pen Ward? CalArts. Craig McCracken? CalArts. Alex Hirsch? CalArts. Lauren Faust? CalArts. Thurop van Orman. Patrick McHale. Paul Rudish. Chris Buck. Aaron Springer. Butch Hartmann. John Lasseter. Jorge Gutierrez. Pete Browngardt. Arlene Klasky. Genndy Tartakovsy. Rob Renzetti. Tim Burton. JG Quintel.
ALL Calarts alumni.
To make a further point:just about EVERY SINGLE ORIGINAL SHOW running on Cartoon Network right now has a CalArts alum as the showrunner, the only exceptions being Steven Universe and Gumball. Now you might be asking: why’s this a problem?? these people are brilliant. they make great shows, they’re creative geniuses. and i agree. and that’s part of the problem.
we got to see their work out of sheer luck. the luck that they could be born in california OR uproot themselves to move there, that they could afford to go to calarts, where the tuition is over 40,000 a year and growing. that they had friends who could offer them work in california.
consider all the people we’re missing out on. i haven’t even graduated yet and i’m already seeing TONS of my colleagues and peers who had starry eyed dreams of just being a PART of the animation process–doing inbetweens, storyboarding, designing characters–give up when they realized they couldnt get to california.
it is, to say the least, hard to uproot yourself and move across the country with 50,000 dollars in student loans on your back and no job that pays more than minimum wage, with no guaranteed apartment waiting for you.
the most talented animation visionary in the world could be giving up right now, because they were born in pennsylvania and their household makes less than 40,000 a year. CalArts is not the problem. But the fact that CalArts seems to be the ONLY school you can hope to go to make it–and every other option being outliers or exceptions—is a BIG problem. we’re losing tons of potential talent like this and its an issue. the industry needs to branch out, it needs to learn to accomodate people who dont live in LA.
this probably sounds whiny, but i’m tired of seeing amazingly talented people with brilliant ideas give up because they cant move away from everything they know, up to their ears in debt, hoping for the small chance of getting to draw keyframes for nickelodeon.
we need to do better tbh.
i’m going to add something a little extra terrifying to this, because i agree entirely.
i saw that image when it was new, and i felt my dreams dying. i was VERY lucky to have not only the money but also the ambition to give up everything i knew in new jersey and move to san francisco, california - a state to which i had never before been - in order to rekindle my passion and dream of being in the animation industry with the academy of art because HAHAHA as if i could get into calarts (i told myself). and i had done that a year before this image came out.
i have no idea what makes calarts SO GOOD that its alumni dominate the animation industry, and have a significant impact on film in general (tim burton, anyone?). i know it’s “the school that disney built” and that it’s good, but i don’t know why. and it’s so unfair. i know and see talented and hard working people in the art school i attended in the past, the art school i attend now, and the people i follow and admire online.
can you make it as a freelancer working remotely from wherever you are? sure. is it even more difficult? yes. companies are going to hire someone who can work there in person, eliminating a lot of the hurdles that would be extra to keep up with someone working from who knows how far away. and what do you have to offer that someone in person doesn’t? you have to be super special to make them willing to accommodate that.
something needs to change. i don’t know what, but. calarts is not the only art school of merit out there.
When I interned at the network of cartoons I had the pleasure of meeting a few showrunners, one of which was creating season one of AT, so it was a pretty big deal for me at the time. Now, I barely got this internship, I applied for art but wound up in the recording studio, which was a magnificently squandered experience that is a different story. basically, showrunners had higher priorities than chatting with me, but my ‘manager’ of sorts arranged for me to talk to a couple of them.
I was a wreck in every way back then, so when I met Penn I was nervous as hell. He was super nice though!! Asked me about my background, where did I go to school again? CalArts?
I told him no, I went to LCAD. ‘Never heard of it.’ And that was the end of the conversation. It was like I was invisible. I have never experienced anything like that before.
I’m not saying this was a universal experience amongst the interns. Quite a few of us came from different schools, and two others besides me were from LCAD as well. And another showrunner I met (a lovely person finishing up Flapjack) was kinder to me than I think I even deserved. I’ll never forget that experience.
But I’m gonna have to agree that there’s a really fucked up attitude going around about the exclusive merit of CalArts alumni.
The aid I just spoke with for my Republican Rep was really nice and asked if I had any comments to pass along to her
EMPHASIZE THE FCC SHOULD NOT SET THE PRECEDENT THAT THEY CAN JUST DO WHAT THEY WANT WITH NO OVERSIGHT
I know you guys don’t wanna talk to people, god knows I didn’t want to either but for the good of us all, CALL THEM
BE HEARD
They can’t say ‘these are fake’ the way the FCC did
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#BOOST THIS
i dont live in the USA but i have friends that do so i’ll reblog the shit out of this for you guys
IF YOU DON’T LIVE IN THE USA AND YOU STILL HAVE NET NEUTRALITY THIS AFFECTS YOU TOO.
IF THE USA REPEALS NET NEUTRAILY THE COMPANIES IN YOUR COUNTRY WILL LIKELY WANT TO FOLLOW SUIT AND SAY “IF AMERICA CAN CHARGE FOR CONTROLLING THE INTERNET, WHY SHOULDNT WE?”
SO EVEN IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF AMERICA REBLOG FOR YOUR AMERICAN FOLLOWERS TO CALL THEIR REPS!!!
