Still not the Alpha-Twin

If I post an open starter, and you want to respond to it,

                                           DO THE THING!

❝ But the starter has already been replied too by someone else! ❞

                                           I don’t care, do the thing.

❝ But you posted it hours/days/weeks months ago! ❞

                                          Do. The. Thing.

❝ But I don’t know if I can… ❞

                                         This is your permission.                                          Do the thing.

❝ But you’re so quality, and I’m not! ❞

                                          I don’t care, do the thing.

Look, there’s nothing more depressing than making a starter, big or small, and having no one reply to it. It just sits there, empty, unused, unloved. If it happens enough the role player will stop posting open starters all together, defaulting instead to people who they know will answer them for sure. Or in some extreme cases leave the community. 

Open starters are open for a reason. Any one of my followers can answer them hours, days, weeks, heck even months after they’ve been posted. That’s why they’re tagged open.

So please, if you ever, ever, see a starter post tagged open that looks interesting to you RESPOND TO IT! 

Well I saw it. I wish I could say it was everything I expected it to be but it was worse. To summarize everything in one fluent and well-arranged thesis is too daunting a task because there’s simply too much to say about this blaspheme and so little time to properly convey it all. so here’s the main points on everything you need to know about this film

-i thought the Wreck It Ralph comparisons were bad enough but we find out Jailbreak was formerly a princess emoji but she rejected her status in favor of something more spunky and rebellious like holy shit they’re just unabashed in ripping off the beats of a superior movie. -Sony hates millenials despite the fact that this movie was tailor-made to pander to them in the worst ways possible. Case in point, at one point the main human contemplates texting his crush and his frind tells him to only use emojis before saying in the most dude-bro way “words aren’t COOL”  at one point the teacher is talking about hieroglyphs and has to liken them to “the original emojis” because the students don’t want to learn any other way! they’re too obsessed with their phones! they have no attention spans! get it? GET IT? -ADDING ONTO THAT! what is the message of this film? it doesn’t have one! there’s a scene where we see the main human deleted an email of lyrics/poetry he wrote for his crush but he deleted it because as his friends say WORDS AREN’T COOL. and you think “oh. the message will be that teens need to actually talk to each other more and express their feelings whatever” but oh no no no this is THE EMOJI MOVIE we’re talking about and the climax of the film is resolved by Gene (the main emoji) using his multiple faces to make the first emoji composed of multiple feelings back to back and gets sent to the crush who says “wow! I loved your emoji! it’s so nice to see a guy who’s willing to express his feelings” WHAT THE HELL? SO YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE FUN OF YOUTH FOR USING EMOJIS BUT ULTIMATELY EMOJIS SAVE THE DAY? -ALSO THE HUMAN IS A FUCKING NERD WHO DECIDES TO TAKE HIS PHONE TO THE TECH STORE TO DELETE EVERYTHING JUST BECAUSE ONE EMOJI DOESN’T WORK -There’s a stupid subplot about Gene’s meh parents having a falling out but it’s okay because they reconcile inside Instagram by hijacking a romantic photo and using the right filter -TJ Miller touted the film as having a feminist positive message and let me tell you this is what it is. In Candy Crush, Gene finished one of Jailbreak’s sentences when she has an idea and out of nowhere Jailbreak yells “MEN ARE ALWAYS GETTING CREDIT FOR WOMEN’S IDEAS AND I’M SICK OF IT!” it comes immediately and ends abruptly. Gene doesn’t respond to it and Jailbreak doesn’t build onto that. the subject ends there. 10 minutes later Jailbreak says out of nowhere that in the early days emoji women only had the choice to be “princesses or brides” but that in the cloud she can be whatever she wants to be. again, this is never brought further or built upon. it feels so tacked on and barely even surface level like fuck they patted themselves on the back for this progressive-ass movie -speaking of progressive, an internet troll calls the Just Dance lady a g***y. so yeah, add a slur usage to the list of offenses -they go to Dropbox? Becuase kids love using Dropbox???? -Gene creates a new dance. The Emoji Bop. yes there is a dance party ending.  -Someone tells Poop that he’s going soft. Patrick Stewart had to say the following line. “Not too soft, I hope”  -Jailbreak in her princess form whistles and summons a twitter bird -they go into youtube which has viral videos that are in live action and it’s super disorienting -because this is a Sony movie, everyone uses Sony smart phones -the 15 year old human has one of those fake-out apps that looks like a dictionary to his parents but it’s meant to hide like porn and illegal downloads so yeah fun for the whole family  -if there’s one and I mean ONE good thing about the film it’s short. like barely 70 minutes. and yet that still feels like too long

Send “STOP PRETENDING TO BE OKAY” for my muse to respond. // Accepting

Max’s heart stopped for a split second, his whole ‘Nothing Scares Me’ and ‘I don’t feel emotions’ act had been found out, by this random ass fucker that he didn’t even know… and yet he felt terrified. Terrified that someone knew.

Should he give them a response? Should he lie and say he was fine? He wasn’t fine. Not at all. His whole life was filled with misery at home and it changed his outlook on how he sees the world. 

Painful, lonely, and uncaring.

One saying said in the past circled his thoughts, the one thing he yelled at David. 

“God. It’s like you live in this stupid make-believe world where “everything’s great!”. The universe doesn’t work that way, idiot. Just look around, it’s what I’ve been trying to show you since day one. Life sucks, and we live in a world of desensitized, apathetic assholes. Why don’t you just get with the program and stop giving a shit!”

Was it really true? Was any of that stuff really true that he said? Well yes it was, but David proved him wrong, time and time again. That even if life sucked, there’s still good in it that we should all harbor and keep. Is that why he helped David? Is that why he… secretly cared about David and the campers of this dumb ass camp? Did he have friends here that he cared about? Maybe… But the question really here was, did he want to leave?

To go back home to uncaring and apathetic parents who could care less about him and shove a baby sitter onto him to go do what they want to do. To go to a school where he’s an outcast, alone with barely anyone to talk to; No friends to hang with, to have to wait for the summer to see these guys again. Yeah they could be friends on Facebook, but that’s not the same.

Tears began to drift down Max’s cheeks as he thought about all of this. Goddammit… maybe David or the other campers weren’t near so they didn’t see him break down. 

here’s a WIP of my animatic because its been awhile since i posted anything on youtube.

I was introduced to Over The Garden Wall in 2015 by Jin, and I loved it. It’s become one of my favorite cartoons. Never did I imagine that years later, I’d be doing a cover for the official comic by BOOM! Studios. It will be released this September. The solicitation may be found here: http://www.cbr.com/boom-studios-september-2017-solicitations/

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