this reminds me of a... speedrunner!

oh hey sorry I’ve been distant lately…. I’ve been really busy having a brain that is bad

And if you push yourself too hard and hit warp 10 you’d turn into an amphibian.

Y’know those evil personas that Youtubers had back in like 2017 or so? I love the idea of those. I think we should bring back using opposite names as like our 'evil persona'. I'll go first, hello everyone, my name is InformallyCertain! Awful to meet you, now I'm off to kick a puppy, or whatever it is evil people do!!

I’ve been obsessed with this tiktok for days now

[id; a tweet by nathan bernhardt @jonberhardt: "why do marvel movies do so much stuff in CGI surely they could have just had wardrobe-" makeup and wardrobe is a union crew. the CGI animation sweatshop is not. it really is that simple. end id/]

This is probably why Cats was a CGI nightmare. Rather than higher a costume designer to re-imagine the leggings and fur hats for a modern audience. Which would have required hiring union work people to make the hundreds of costumes they'd have needed they just CGI ed some cat fur onto their actors.

Did the CGI team do their best and give it their all, probably. But they shouldn't have been hired. They shouldn't have been put in a position of making costumes and worlds and extras, and, and, and. They should have been hired for what CGI is best at, special effects when physical special effects aren't possible and the rest should've been left to physical craftspeople.

There's nothing wrong with CGI when used sparingly and married with physical effects and costumes to enhance the realness of the world but when you plop some actors in morph suits on a green screen set and just replace everything with CGI your movie sucks.

Compare the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and you'll understand what I mean.

CGI people deserve a union, deserve respect, and deserve not to be treated as an isnta movie factory. They deserve to be allowed to hone their craft and dedicate time and energy to creating the kind of world-building effects we all know and love.

This is the national dance of the Philippines, called Tinikling

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Can confirm. This is an Iban (Orang Asli) dance from Sarawak. The Dance is the Magunatip.

@cramzydays is another Malaysian voice that can point this out.

i love you green. i love you forests. i love you smell of damp earth. i love you feeling before the storm breaks. i love you moss. i love you rivers. i love you streams. i love you thunderstorms. i love you sunlight shining through leaves.

surpassing their parents irresponsibility to become bilingual is an amazing power move

I love the use of the phrase 'some strange alchemy' as a descriptor for a process you don't understand.

'Through some strange alchemy(crochet) they turned a bundle of yarn into a stuffed giraffe'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad cooking) they turned a perfectly marinated steak into a charcoal briquet'

'Through some strange alchemy(good cooking) they turned a pile of slop into the fluffiest bread loaf I'd ever seen'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad reading comprehension) they took my polite statement and turned into a disgusting act against the poor'

and so on

Going to a local burger joint is like entering a weird comedy sketch on its own.

Congrats on being in Nichijou, OP

Also instead of “problem behaviour” call it “distressed behaviour” for a more accurate picture of what the person is actually facing

I can’t reblog this enough, I will do it every damn time I see it from now to death.

When someone frames your mental health issues as attention seeking behavior, problem behavior, or any other negatively-coded context, it creates an environment that makes you feel guilty, wrong, and selfish for struggling with things outside of your control. As a result, serious issues are allowed to arise in the absence of support.

occasionally u will have a transfem friend in vc who says smth like "i might not unmute much i don't rlly like my voice :c" and then she unmutes and u feel as though u have heard the first chirpings of a chickadee and coos of mourning doves in green spring after a dark and desolate winter

Motivational Skizz.

FYI Ben is gender fluid and uses they/them pronouns. Their tiktok is a delight!

Context.

Skizzleshrine