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Child of divorce, stuck in the desert

@sasmeo-bisaster

I call me princey or calypso I an italian baby who's a bit of a mess l 23 l she/they l pfp by @its-ya-boy-cade, header screen from my bro's blog @alchemist-shizun I professional unreliable narrator l Don't repost anything from me but reblogs are very welcome

CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

This is the closest gif that can really capture the utter chaotic energy that is released when people hear this song

CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING

EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY

CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST

NEED YOU BY MY SIDE

This is the closest gif that can really capture the utter chaotic energy that is released when people hear this song

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How I think I’m writing: Using eye contact, or lack thereof, to display emotions such as intimacy, shock, denial, or nervousness. 

How I’m actually writing: She looked at me, and I looked away. I tried to look back, but she was already looking at the sky. “Look,” she sighs, looking back at me for a split second. “I don’t know how to say this.” We looked at each other and time stopped, but then she looked her lookers at something else to look at, looking tired. 

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.

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actually you know what fuck it i'm breaking gimmick some of y'all have pissed me off

genuinely why are you following a gimmick blog if you don't like gimmick blogs. if you're going to complain about having to remove the little silent bit, just don't fucking follow me. like i don't need to hear about how annoying you find it. that's not my problem. you do not need to follow me or reblog from me

i'm not giving y'all a separate blog that i reblog things on without the gimmick because i don't have one. my main is mainly just original posts and maybe the occasional reblog of some art my friends made. i stopped reblogging on there as often after i made this blog since most of my mutuals also follow this one

so just shut up. please. before i have to start blocking anons

Requesting you not be rude and please just leave if you hate gimmick blogs

Requesting you not

be rude and please just leave if

you hate gimmick blogs

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

>be me

>16 year old billionaire

>classmates grandpa has really rare card

>duel him for it

>win

>destroy card because im the only one allowed to have them

>classmate duels me for hospitalizing his grandpa in a childrens card game

>easy win

>lose, he pulls the most bs instawin ever

>humiliation.jpg

>twink raises his hand

>brain.exe stops working

>see actual hell and pass out

>realize im gay

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.

Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for "being difficult". They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because "you have it so good".

my day in beautiful serendipitous interactions:

  • at the library, the woman in front of me in line for the printer was struggling with using the scanner, so I showed her how to position paper on the scanning bed. after I printed my things I had to make a change to something that didn't come out right so I went to the PC again, then when I came back to the printer there was another person struggling with the scanner, and the person I had just helped showed them how to position the paper and said how she had just learned earlier, then saw me and pointed and smiled
  • I ran into a friend I don't talk to heaps at a book store and they remembered the last time I saw them. it was a sweet interaction. they were exchanging the books they got for christmas for ones they liked more. I also knew the person working at the book store. that interaction was shorter and more awkward but still sweet.
  • I finished all the admin I needed to do in preparation for an appointment well before the appointment time but not long enough before to go home, so I lingered around town in the rain searching maps for somewhere interesting to stand or sit. on my way to something that seemed vaguely interesting I stumbled across a "gallery", that turned out to be a shop selling anything. they had racks of clothes in one room, books stacked on the floor, tapes, CDs, random electronics in the back room. I picked up Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and the older man who owned the shop started talking to me about it. when I bought it he gave me incense for free (the book already was only $8), for coming out in the lousy weather.
  • I had an appointment with an agency known for being annoying to clients but I got a really lovely woman who was so happy to help and everything went so perfectly better than I had imagined. Now I'm going to university debt-free which is, as they say, pretty good. She even let me use the staff bathroom part-way through as I was sitting then shaking like an anxious dog but really I just needed to pee so bad.

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