Catholic pilgrim. Artist and 2D Animator whose films can be viewed on my YouTube channel. Alt: @acorn_golden
Chicago, IL
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KELLY'S ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO DEBUT IS NOW HERE! The song is “These Words” by Natasha Bedingfield!
Watch it below! 👇 (1/2)
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As Zoomer who grew up with Nick, Cartoon Network, and Nintendo, I can't ever fully tell any artist or writer here to "grow up".
But once you read stuff like The King of Elfland's Daughter and Phantastes, your imagination will be hit differently.
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People tend to be vindictive towards "normies" but the reason they act like "cattle" is because society basically rewards them not to read. There's more money and immediate connection over news headlines and TikTok than Hopkins or Chesterton.
No close reward? No acton.
A huge factor in the collapse of our collective mental health is that people have stopped reading. Reading lessens loneliness, builds community, sharpens the mind. It brings joy. There is a darkness gathering over the world and voracious reading is how you fight it.
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#Castlevania repost
Old artwork (originally posted under a different username)
Richter belmont x Annette
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Although when you're in a spiritual enough state of mind you listen to Pet Sounds and start thinking "...this really isn't about a girl, is it?"
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Growing up as a Zoomer is surreal because you see writers mocking the "Knight saves princess from dragon" trope but the only popular non-Sleeping Beauty story that plays it straight is the legend of St. George.
Not even Beowulf or most Arthurian stories fit that criteria.
People keep talking about how they're sick of generic fantasy stories where the knight saves the princess and slays the dragon but I haven't seen a movie where that actually happened since Sleeping Beauty
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Professionally, I haven't done a "knight saves princess from dragon" story but I would absolutely love to work towards that if I got the support.
I'm a 2D animator and artist. You can support my fancy-filled mind by checking out my work!
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They resent the truth. You go through all that work just to get to the same rehashed story beats over and over, it's just corporatized fanfiction. Manga crushes. New stories. New ideas. Simple as.
Every time I say this comic nerds get really mad at me but the reason manga took off so hard and American comics are dying is because a manga series starts at vol 1 and goes to vol 2 and then vol 3
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So... are people gonna do anything about this?
We talk about 1984, Black Mirror, and such. Are you guys gonna do anything or will you keep your head down, perhaps vote, and hope some loner ruins his life by LARPing as Ted K. and Ledger's Joker against data centers?
this video was made in 2018. kind of sad to watch this and see how many of these things are normal now
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In my years of watching film critics and exploring non-fiction, I've never heard of anyone saying "This story has too many dark castles, women holding candles, monsters, mysteries, and hallways. I wish this was about a depressed druggie in an apartment."
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life is fucking beautiful, bro. stop letting the internet convince you that everything is doomed. go outside. take care of yourself. smile at strangers. tell people you appreciate them. build something you’re proud of. take risks. fall in love with the process. you have no idea how many incredible things can happen when you stop expecting the worst and start actually living. you get one shot at this shit. make it count.
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I get that people are complicated...
But who exactly benefits by constantly telling the audience that there are no villians or that everything is basically gray in terms of morality?
Executive producer and head writer Sehaj Sethi discusses her deliberate storytelling approach for Avatar: Seven Havens.
"I think what I really wanted to bring to this was this idea that there's so much gray area to everything, to every storyline, to everything that you see.
I remember telling them in the first meeting, 'I want people to finish an episode and look at each other and argue two different sides. Like, hey, this is why I believe this person is right,' and the other person can be like, 'No, you're wrong. This is why I believe entirely a different thing.'
There's no villains in this story. There are protagonists and antagonists. Everyone has a side, everyone has a point of view. And I wanted to show the complexity of different ways of looking at things. Especially in a world that's completely recreated."
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>a medium of art offers stories about heroism, adventures, and/or comfiness without a bazillion iterations/timelines to discern from or post-Watchmen depression episodes
Wow, really makes you wonder why American kids are reading manga instead of their own comics.
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