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I present you, telamon.

i'm working on a full gifset of the trailer rn but i just needed to highlight this shot for a second.

i'm a violinist, so i can't come from a cellist's perspective, but i can come from a string instrument perspective.

this is probably the best faking of a string instrument i've ever seen? maybe my view is skewed because i love him and his acting, but when i heard about him playing a cellist, i planned on going into this with a more critical eye than a lot of others probably did.

the bow hold is REALLY good. he's actually using his wrist instead of his shoulder. he's got great back posture (!!), and his left hand is doing REALLY well. the little bit of vibrato with his pinky at the end is insane

and the fact that his bow strokes are matching up with the notes he looks to be playing?? he's on the right strings at the right time??

this is going to be my entire personality until december jfc

great work, bb

she's not in legend of korra (not even by name), she's not in 90% of promo and merch content of the gaang, when she IS included she's either in her prisoner uniform or her kyoshi warrior uniform - never just in regular clothing like everyone else. she is constantly shoved to the side and forgotten by the fandom, with people bringing up yue more than her in regards to sokka (when he is actively dating suki). there's no information on their relationship after the show's end aside from a few moments in the comics. and she was not in the new movie at all, when she absolutely could have been included very easily. it's sad and embarrassing and it really makes no sense at all.

As yall may know from past posts, I've been dealing with a lot of health shit, and late last year decided to go on medical leave / sabbatical to recover and focus on healing.

It took a lot longer to get there than I hoped / planned, because health complications kept complicating. Eventually we found out the reason my health crashed so badly is because the brutal flu I caught over Christmas left me, in turn, with a brutal post-viral syndrome. So....good thing I was already planning to take a sabbatical tbh.

(Note: Get your vaccines!!! For the flu and COVID, because post-viral syndromes fucking suck, and COVID is still a huge health threat!!!)

My health has been really stressful and intermittently quite scary, but things are (....hopefully) stable again, and I'm safe. That's the important part <3

(Sidenote: I've been recovering from brain fog and pain when focusing mostly by playing a ton of Hades II, actually with an amount of success that really surprised me. If you're struggling with executive function shit and think you might like it, I would really recommend trying it or something similar as a way to work on rebuilding those mental muscles that doesn't Completely Suck)

I'm mostly resting and working on health shit, and blogging as a hobby (this is why reasonsforhope is just reblogging other ppl's shit lately lol), so you'll see me in and out occasionally, but mostly I'm trying to focus on my health

Speaking of which: I am very, very lucky that I'm safe, and specifically, that my housing and ability to access affordable medical care are stable and taken care of. I am able to do this in large part due to the Affordable Care Act / Obamacare. Universal healthcare now!!

So, having established that I am not in financial distress or need right now, luckily: If you do want to support me, my work, and my recovery, reminder that I have a ko-fi!

I don't always have time or spoons to respond, but I read every note, and I very much appreciate and <3 the people who have been helping support me and my work thus far

I will still be transitioning from here to having my own newsletter (which I plan to set to automatically repost here and on my bluesky accounts, probably using an RSS feed, so you will still be able to follow me on here, but the blog may just run off automation.)

Obv that's been on total hold for months now, but I did create a signup and landing page for it, so you can sign up there if you want to start getting the newsletter as soon as it starts coming out (hugely dependent on my health, quite probably at least 6 months)

Hope you're all doing as well as you can be <3

Keep on keeping on, and wish me luck with medical stuff! (Send me strength lmao, gods know healthcare bureaucracy has already made me need it)