the beast who'll set the world aflame!

i do know of one person - im not sure if they follow me, but im going to vaguepost about them regardless, because i'm not really all that pleased with what they did - who stayed in there for like, over a year, legitimately befriending those people under false pretenses. that's shitty. like as much as i believe conservatism is tantamount to evil, that it flies in the face of our freedoms as people and as creatures and as artists, i think everyone, especially people who are self-admittedly vulnerable, and without much sway in the real world, deserves to be treated with an element of kindness. because that's how we change minds, right? be firm, be blunt, but be kind. and idk, i don't think that manipulation is kind. i do wonder if there was any minds to be changed, sometimes - was all that we accomplished reinforcing the idea that leftists are a hate mob? but i remember engaging in polite discussion while i was there and getting nowhere.

ive stalked a couple of the blogs, they're still on that christian transphobe shit, but maybe there's a timeline where they're not. idk. i feel a sense of regret for how we went about the whole thing.

it has its advantages - the world is already established, i did a lot of the storyboard work at my first attempt at creating it, there's a lot of material i can still use as a base if i were to remake it.

but the disadvantage is that it's easily a multi-year project for a single person. if were animated, i'd want it to be animated lavishly, with detailed painterly backgrounds of huge cityscapes and impressive vfx that supports the story of accepting self-discovery but god if i cannot do that alone in 9 months, especially with my base art style that's more suited to one-off illustrations than 9 month films you create alone. it might be POSSIBLE but it wouldn't be feasible considering i work best on things when i'm able to take adequate time to decompress, to not work on something for a day or two. Liminal as I imagine it, would not let me do that. i'm not going to delude myself anymore about being the sort of person to spend 12 hours a day on a single task or project, that's not me no matter how much i would LIKE it to be, i need variety or i go insane and abandon projects.

i also think i could show liminal to.. whoever. it's anime, it's about a ghost, it's relatively broad in its appeal, which my lecturer even pointed out when grading my inital pitch for it. i wanna use the free time at uni to create something unabashedly niche and fucking weird.

my current idea is.. the ending of pom poko. where the little raccoon guy is desperately struggling to remain human and it looks physically difficult. and also fabulous beasts. that's really all i have currently. just.. something that portrays how difficult it is to remain human when you're not, with the cutesy, tactile and probably much easier style to animate in of fabulous beasts.

its got the same level of "waffles and pancakes" discourse brainrot except everyone here thinks they're better than the people doing that on other sites. it's an awful holier than thou attitude that's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Got this absolutely awesome commission working my fursona Vex into the cover of Patricia Taxxon's album "Yes, And".

Go follow the artist, their commissions are currently open!

i like what it represents, crowley's last ditch effort to keep aziraphale around, copying something he's probably seen in a human romance movie. the trouble is that aziraphale, relapsing because of the metatron's appearance and his undying belief that heaven is the good place filled with bad guys, sees it as a manipulation attempt.

but like? on a personal level, i dislike that this is the general audience's "confirmation" of something deeper than friendship between the two. crowley and aziraphale's relationship to me always represented an unconventional relationship, and that included not kissing. i'm in a committed relationship, but i'm aroace, and both me and my partner find mouth-kissing icky, so we don't.