More super-fast, for-the-heck-of-it doodling (though a lot more sketchy than yesterday’s Mami); this time, it’s Gravity Falls!
6 years agoAugust 28, 2012 84 notes Reblog
So, those who follow me may have noticed two extremely long posts on my end detailing what I can only describe as “defensive character analysis” (it makes more sense in context, I swear). The conversation seemed to have stopped with my second post, as the original user did not decide to continue the debate, which is fine, I guess.
But while I’m by no means upset with myself for writing those responses, the entire affair left me feeling uneasy. So, while I haven’t deleted the responses (it would be wrong of me to delete them, I think, and I feel that the points I made about audiences and unreliable narrators, Dipper or otherwise, are worth keeping around), I have put them under Read More tags, which seem to work on my tumblr’s main page but not my dashboard? Not sure why, really. Probably because reblogging doesn’t have a Read More tag button and I had to manually add the coding. Or something like that.
Either way, I felt it was unfair to subject you all to those posts. This isn’t a social justice blog, and never will be, so I tend to keep those sorts of posts to a minimum. But in this case I responded because I was so, honestly irked, and I promise I’ll try harder to resist should the urge ever strike me again.
6 years agoAugust 20, 2012 2 notes Reblog
parrotbeak:
nonakani:
parrotbeak:
alphabetas:
parrotbeak:
And in light of my post earlier today, Gravity Falls can now suck it…
…
I didn’t think the focus was on how Robby was unfairly treated- he’s not the main character, not someone I have any reason to care about…
I’ll make sure to remember to keep away from you for the rest of my life. You’re too self-centered for my taste.
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empathizing with the protagonist is (unless subverted) highly imperative. It’s not a matter of personal taste but rather form and function: if the audience cannot empathize with the protagonist, our hearts are not with them, we cannot understand their actions and comprehend both their merits and faults, and the magic is gone…
As far as I can tell, I am the audience as much as anyone else…
6 years agoAugust 19, 2012 16 notes Reblog
parrotbeak:
alphabetas:
parrotbeak:
And in light of my post earlier today, Gravity Falls can now suck it…
…
I didn’t think the focus was on how Robby was unfairly treated- he’s not the main character, not someone I have any reason to care about…
I’ll make sure to remember to keep away from you for the rest of my life. You’re too self-centered for my taste.
6 years agoAugust 19, 2012 16 notes Reblog
gravity-feels:
“Not H.G. Wells Approved”
for those of you who don’t know H.G. Wells was an author who wrote “The Time Machine”. it was about a man who builds a time machine. his girlfriend gets killed on a date so he goes back in time to stop her from getting killed. she ends up dieing no matter how many times he goes back. then he travels into the future, shit happens, his time machine ends up getting destroyed.
No
Nonononono wrong
I’m sorry to nitpick and I must sound like a total jerk but that is not the plot of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.
The romantic motivation is entirely a device of the (bad) modern adaptation of the film. In the novella (and the first movie adaptation), the protagonist’s motivation is nothing more than scientific curiosity, rather than a throng of time travel clichés like in the newest film.
This has been a lit nerd public service announcement *ollies out*
(Source: junkirat)
6 years agoAugust 19, 2012 15 notes Reblog
gravity-falls-conspiracies:
“I don’t know if anyone has noticed this, but often the hints to an episode’s ending are given in the earlier parts of the episode…
That’s…less easter eggs and more just plain good writing? In a closed story arc (particularly for short stories, and you can consider each episode of a show like Gravity Falls to be its own short story), the ending is generally supposed to be reasonable, but at least somewhat unexpected. Or, it can be predicted (and hinted at), and you might guess the ending correctly, but it’s not a certainty (and there’s always exceptions to any rule, and not being structured like this doesn’t necessarily mean something is bad, but I digress). So all those instances are foreshadowing, really, and it’s a testament to how good the writing in Gravity Falls is.
6 years agoAugust 10, 2012 36 notes Reblog
Symbols.com - A collection of symbols (mostly western, and both ancient and modern) with a great search function.
The Alchemy Web Site - specifically, their “Graphic signs for alchemical substances, processes, and equipment” subpage.
Symbols in Books of Alchemy - A comprehensive reference collected from a few alchemical texts. I believe there’s a crappy scan on Wikipedia with information that this page shows in far greater detail.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project - While not necessarily about alchemy, it is mentioned several times, and Diderot’s name comes up several times in symbols.com searches as a “definer of terms,” so to speak, on what some symbols represent. Either way, an awesome and comprehensive reference.
Steganographia, by Johannes Trithemius - A happy accident found during a scavenger hunt for the early “Irrational Treasure” OnDemand release, Trithemius is famous for writing the trilogy of books called the Steganographia, which on the surface is about magic and spirits, but also contains extremely detailed cryptography; the similarities, for those who know the premise of the show, are uncanny. While there is no direct translation available that I could find (there used to be a partial translation, apparently, but it’s now unavailable), there are several symbols scattered throughout the transcriptions of the trilogy, especially the first book, which might be useful to keep around in case this happy accident ends up being more than just that.
6 years agoAugust 10, 2012 145 notes Reblog
Something less sketchy.
(I swear I have not forsaken you, Mother fandom! I just have lots of feels.)
6 years agoAugust 8, 2012 65 notes Reblog
This is actually a serious problem with my work - I mean, the Commander and the pigmasks in SaB are almost the same height most of the time, for goodness’ sake!
6 years agoAugust 6, 2012 19 notes Reblog
I accidentally reference-less ultra-sloppy Gravity Falls sketch. Still trying to figure out how to draw these two, and I have no idea how I could manage the other characters in my drawing style, if it ever came to that.
See what you made me do internet this is all your fault
6 years agoAugust 6, 2012 17 notes Reblog
