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Guy who lacks desire (as we find out the results of trauma) featuring a being made entirely of desire and longing and theoretically never being able to be satisfied. Also he is a birdman. OF COURSE I LOVE ANKHEIJI

Although if you want to be technical my MAIN thing for this show is an OOOT3 featuring.... well uh you see Ankh is possessing Some Dude and Some Dude has a Sister I absolutely ot3 them with they are important to me

THEY! HOLD! HANDS! also she has unexplained super strength

Sooo I was initially trying to draw at least once a month this year, and then I dropped the ball on that, hard, over summer.

send me a ship and a number and i'll tell you

...I'll tell you i actually don't have fully formed thoughts about rio/vector 😅 rio/vector for me is typically a plot device or background element in stories focusing other ships, or it's something i'm passively enjoying in fic or art without enough investment to create anything myself for it, or i'm appreciating the insane noncon vibes in their duel (which also circles back to using it as a plot device to hurt some combination of her, durbe and nasch/ryouga).

Gonna allow myself to ramble and answer with two vids thanks to this double jeopardy lol

Vid you're the proudest of?

I consider Spring Awakening to be my most polished/some of my best editing yet. Not only did I really start to nail some techniques like light leaks and color correction, but I think it has a good balance of tight sync and thought-out structure.

Beyond just a romance vid, I wanted to make sure it was clearly a vid about a queer awakening, which did involve me having to bend Bloom Into You a bit (not bc it isn't that, but everyone's self discovery journey is a bit more complicated than a 3 minute vid can visually capture) but it was so satisfying when others picked up the whole flowers/nature vs. train/mechanical symbolism I had going on. I worked really hard to build up to Yuu and Touko getting "together" with verse 1 showing Yuu mostly alone and pining, verse 2 about being close but still no touch yet, until we get Yuu actually reaching out in the bridge, before the final chorus is like a victory lap of them being happy on a date and self-actualized

Then this has new vid freshness to it and new breakthroughs in mediums, but I am also pretty proud of To Have Without Holding, 2023 I really got interested in mmvs and I never expected to be able to put out a 3 minute one within a year's time. If you have been paying attention to this blog at all, you know I am obsessed with the series Aono-kun, so it was really great to edit out those feelings and convince a few more folks to give the series a read

Hardest vid to edit?

Due to the difference in medium, it is pretty clearly To Have Without Holding probably makes sense as a clear contender. But aside from mmvs just being slower bc of the composition work and masking that has to go into it, I would also say The Storyteller's Burden is up there as well

Rakugo Shinjuu is not the most visually interesting show to look at, and the song both has a lot of intense musical cues but each verse takes forever to say a complete idea, so I had to really stretch out every scrap of footage I could. The fact the song is so specific and I only watched 3/4th of s1 of the show added to the pain. Ultimately it is a vid that lives and dies by its storytelling, and there is still a lot I am unsatisfied about it, but I am glad I at least got it out the door and out of my head

How would you describe your vidding style?

A fellow editor describing their philosophy said that song is queen, and I totally picked that up as well. My first goal is to maximize as much sync as I can in any section, then I want to make sure the lyrics and overall themes of the song line up with the visuals as much as possible. For the length of the song I am dedicated to making sure these two sources feel literally made for each other, and I want to make sure it all flows together seamlessly enough the viewer never feels pulled to click away

4.What they do on date night

They are 100% nerd enough that it's probably Duel Monsters related. Be it dueling each other, deck building, checking out a new card shop, going TO a match etc...

6. How they decorated their bedroom

that’s fair & thank you 🫶🏻 i finished the art course at the academy yesterday (finally) and since then he grew on me a lot more (hassel too)

Hello @merryfortune! I’m your gifting partner for @precuresecretexchange!

Since you like Nozomi/Urara, I’ve got a double dose for you... civilian and Cure!

Ryoken’s Little Ponies by @merryfortune​ via @ygobigbang

Dr Kogami is certain of the actuality that there are other worlds. Other dimensions.

An artefact in his possession allures the curiosity of his young son, Ryoken. Using it, Ryoken was able to cross from the Human World into a bright, colourful world of Unicorns and Pegasi and talking horses. There, he makes friends with a small group of colts (and one filly) and cherishes the few hours he was able to spend with them but when he returns home, he finds that his father is on the brink of death. The cause unapparent and at just eight years old, Ryoken's life changes. As he gets older, he becomes more certain that those memories were just dreams and the mundane guess that the paramedics made regarding his father's comatose stasis must be true.

Or at least true enough.

That is, until, he hears a voice call out for him and beg that he return to the magical realm of the Pony World: his friends need him as there is a horrible monster assailing their beloved city, stealing the magic from Ponies. They need him and his Rainbow of Divinity to help them, they're sure of it but Ryoken doesn't know what to think as he tries to return to that magical world again.

I love getting a chance to work with magical girl and my little pony and @merryfortune​ gave me an opportunity for both aaa. I also did some background illustration of King Bohman’s fancy home in chapter 5!