Hello, I go by Mystic, Midas, and Eden! I use any pronouns including neos, as I don't have much preference. Get creative with referring to me! I am 18.
I draw a lot & sometimes write, and I talk about my OCs frequently. I also have... a lot... of rp/muse blogs for my characters.
I am also on Artfight, and have a straw.page!
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Notable blog tags include;
Mystic's Art -- my art tag
Mystic Writes -- short stories and world info posts
Mystic's Asks & Answers -- asks i answer
ocs / oc things -- tags i add to posts about any/all OCs & most world lore
all of the tags i use for my ocs
Current Spotlight Character Blogs: @the--jellyfish--song [twst] @ferral-fangs ~ Frederick Asyrr/Ashenbough [vsmp]
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Hey y’all film crew member here. For those of you asking, they’re running like that to stay out of the shot. For us crew we TRY OUR HARDEST TO NOT GET FILMED. IT’S IMPORTANT. It’s like playing the floor is lava but with a side of “you’re fired” if you lose too many times. We’ll do anythING to not be seen. Duck around corners, dive under tables, jump in the bushes, assume fetal position on the floor, climb trees, get in the robot, hide in the trojan horse, become a vampire, you fuckin name it. My fav game while watching a movie is “guess where the crew is hiding in this shot” it’s great fun you should try it. The only problem in this particular shot is there is nowhere to hide except behind the camera which IS MOVING REALLY FAST. Why they didn’t just leave the room I have no idea. it could be any number of reasons. Time, lack of proper equipment, need to supervise/direct, etc. The real question is how the hell did Gaga not fucking lose it seeing a herd of film nerds scamper desperately in circles behind the camera
For some further information, it looks like they’re shooting on an ARRI 435 camera, on film. (It says 5219 on the mag, which is Kodak’s VISION3 500T stock). Looking at the aspect ratio, it’s more than likely a spherical lens on a Super 35 gate.
Because it’s being shot on film, the crew needs to have a reliable form of monitoring on set- typically we do this with playback operators but film is not digital and cannot be played back until its downloaded, processed, scanned and sent back to the production office in the form of dailies. Since you can’t reliably review footage on the day, we often rely on video tap cameras that capture light refracted off of the spinning shutter inside the camera- Guess what? video tap playback sucks. It’s barely capable of providing a standard definition image and the sensitivity of the video tap has to be cranked insanely high.
and so follows that you need to have a certain amount of people watching the take as it unfolds to ensure that the director’s vision is being communicated. Obviously there’s the camera operator, who’s eye is glued to the eyepiece- if they were to take their eye away from the eyepiece, light would come in and double-expose the film. But in the room there’s also the focus puller, the second assistant, the dolly grip, the assistant director, the script supervisor, the director, the director of photography, a producer, and likely a stylist as well. All these people need a reliable feed on what’s going on, so rather than risk wireless transmission issues, it’s best to just go with a reliable monitor cabled directly out of the video tap. It’s not important for seconds to watch the take, but shooting on film, you don’t want to waste footage letting them escape the room.
In most cases, when you’re shooting digital, you don’t need to worry about a lot of this stuff- takes can be reviewed and played back immediately on set, wireless transmission is HD, digital footage doesn’t cost anything, etc. so this sort of wild goose chase happens less and less these days as digital cameras have risen to the point of being workable cameras in our industry.
However, the limits of digital in a creative form still pale in comparison to the academy (4-perf) format of 35 millimetre film- Not only does film boast a 26-30 stop dynamic range in exposure latitude (Depending on the stock) vs. Digital’s 17, Digital cameras on set are only shooting 3.2k-8k resolution (which is great, i guess) but 35 millimetre film shot with optically perfect lenses at a 2.0 T-stop will resolve an image up to 20k resolution. IMAX 65 millimetre film is an entirely different ballpark (aka why Christopher Nolan films look so fucking good)
It had to do with Japanese cuisine. For example, green onions/scallions are used in a lot of dishes (while not one-to-one, the best comparison that comes to mind is herbs like parsley and basil in a lot of western cuisines)
The original quote might make a bit more sense for some: “[Kunikida’s] ranting adds spice to my days…they’re like condiments. Like the scallions on top of your ramen…that’s what he is. A scallion”
Personally, I’ve always taken it as Kunikida’s ranting/anger makes Dazai’s days more interesting/not bland (but Atsushi can be a substitute if Kunikida’s away)
(For some more fun facts, this chapter (chapter 53)’s title is translated as “Dazai-san in a Stew” for the official manga translation)
1920 c. Just before the emergence of Art Deco, here is a last gasp of Art Nouveau design in this bracelet by Luis Masriera. It’s made of gold, colored glass, diamonds and cameo. From Art Deco, FB.
aaaaa ‘colored glass’ doesn’t even come CLOSE, my friend. This is not like leadlighting. That is plique-a-jour (light-of-day) enamelling, on a curve, with multiple colors, in tiny ‘cells’ made out of gold wire no thicker than your fingernail (which in and of themselves would have been a stone cold bitch to make aaa they are so tiny and those joints are so perfect HOW DID HE DO THAT).
Every. single. cell, has to be ‘hand-filled’ with wet enamel, which has a texture very much like watercolor paint, allowed to set, refilled until the surface tension holds, and then fired in a kiln at a very precise temperature and time, which is different for each color. And then the enamel shrinks back to the edges of the cell so you have to let it cool, refill, and then fire again. I’ve had to refill a single cell as many as four times to get color fill.
Blues and greens are the easiest, so you do them first. You take the kiln to a slightly higher temperature, have a few more seconds of leeway before they go horribly discolored on you. Oh, and this is using a modern kiln with a precise, digital temperature controller, not whatever this dude had back in the 1920s which would have involved a lot of guesswork and standing by the kiln counting under his breath because enamel fires in SECONDS.
Guess which colors are the hardest? That’s right, REDS. The colors this stunning bracelet is full of. I LOATHE working with reds. Ten seconds too long, five degrees too hot, and they’re ugly, black-flecked disasters that have to be dissolved out with acid, not incidentally trashing the other colours you’d spent forever on too. Yay.
And when you’ve finally finished, having spend probably hundreds of hours getting all those tiny cells fired and filled? Time to sit down with a bowl of water and a hard grinding stone and grind every single one of them flat, my friend, because the enamel when properly filled actually domes up slightly. Yes, this part is still best done by hand, even today.
Don’t forget to repolish your gold, making sure to get out all the scratches left by your glass-polishing stone, and set all those diamonds and the cameo!
What’s that, you say? One of your glass cells fractured because you used a tiny bit too much pressure setting a diamond?
Dear me. Time to UN-set all those stones and go back to the kiln again. Have a lovely time!
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Hanahaki disease is a psychosomatic illness. It's a thing that your body does in response to stress over constantly repressing/concealing your feelings in settings with high background magic. It's like you've been ignoring pain for a long time and suddenly your vision starts going dark, because your affected body is just YANKING on random alerts trying to get you to PAY ATTENTION there is a PROBLEM. Yes the flowers do really exist. So do non-magical psychosomatic symptoms. The flowers aren't special.
This does of course open up the trope to options for non-romantic concealed feelings. Which I think is great. There is something viscerally satisfying about the person who seems so outwardly chipper coughing and hacking and spitting up Depression Flowers so now everyone has to know they're hurting. Isn't there?
Hanahaki but it’s your body desperately needing you to love and care for it while your mind is trapped in the body that doesn’t fit, that’s wrong as it destroys you from the inside out the longer you aren’t able to get help to make your body feel like you
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
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hello allo person in a fandom. let’s play a game. in front of you are two characters. your challenge is to okay and you’ve already started shipping them. well the crusher machine is going to activate now goodbye.
hello self proclaimed multishipper on tumblr. let's play a game. in front of you is an aro person venting understandable frustration about how 99% of fanworks and fan discussions in every single fandom always center around romance, regardless of whether or not the character in question would realistically want to date anyone. your challenge is to okay and you've already started calling op a violent anti. well the crusher machine-
he's functionally fairly similar to Zelura, its their personality & tactics thatre different. Zelura likes mystery & intimidation and controlling from the background, Castor's dramatic and flamboyant and is more hands-on
Castor sees everyThing as a "preformance" and everyOne as "actors" serving as both food[emotions] and entertainment
& as such 'un-interesting' people & those without 'stories' are very simply useless to him, and he'd happily kill off anyone if he thinks their death would make a "plot" more interesting. no hard feelings, just .. 'you dont benefit my stories'.
The only reason he let [the second head of] Era run free is bc the Third Head of Era pointed out that 2nd Head is still young & can Become a fun story. ... and then Castor let Eternus execute the Third Head cuz ppl who've been Watchers as long as the 3rd Head has are Very uninteresting. lol
He'd find Sidera pretty fun bc Sid's story is very Fascinating and Long, plus sidera themself has a fun personality
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he's functionally fairly similar to Zelura, its their personality & tactics thatre different. Zelura likes mystery & intimidation and controlling from the background, Castor's dramatic and flamboyant and is more hands-on
Castor sees everyThing as a "preformance" and everyOne as "actors" serving as both food[emotions] and entertainment
& as such 'un-interesting' people & those without 'stories' are very simply useless to him, and he'd happily kill off anyone if he thinks their death would make a "plot" more interesting. no hard feelings, just .. 'you dont benefit my stories'.
The only reason he let [the second head of] Era run free is bc the Third Head of Era pointed out that 2nd Head is still young & can Become a fun story. ... and then Castor let Eternus execute the Third Head cuz ppl who've been Watchers as long as the 3rd Head has are Very uninteresting. lol
He'd find Sidera pretty fun bc Sid's story is very Fascinating and Long, plus sidera themself has a fun personality
