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Jyoo C Thoughts 43: Pre Hurricane Thoughts
8 years ago
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So apparently this is supposed to get a bit hairy! I've spent all of today moving, lifting, and shoring up everything on the property. I've cut through glue and carried an entire greenhouse from the backyard all the way to the front and into the garage. I'm still working to try to have my latest commission completed by Monday when it is due, however if the weather gets too heavy or I lose power, the status of all commissions will be paused and will not be counted towards the week limit. As I'm sure you'll understand, a hurricane which people keep saying is supposed to be the worst in the state's history tends to take priority. Rest assured though, I will continue working until I cannot, the weather is not an excuse for laze.
That said, despite everything, I'm still in pretty good spirits. I've actually been putting a lot of thought into things I'd like to do for all of you. I know I'm not the greatest artist out there, I know I need to put in a lot more work before I can find that next bar to climb to, and I know eventually I'll not have the time I do now as life always presses onward and forward. But in my eyes, that makes each and every one of you more precious and special to me!! I've earned every one of you by way of merit alone, never from hype or some for other means: either you like my story ideas, or you like my characters, my art has slowly become good enough to warrant attention, or you just thought I was a nice or decent enough fellow to watch, but no matter the reason, you've all stuck around for me: and I'd rather have that then a million people who just watch me for the novelty of popularity. You're all amazing, and I love you all.
CONTEST:
I actually, for the first time I can recall, broke 200 watchers! Over on my FA! It's amazing to think that there's 200 people out there who enjoy what I do and the things I upload! Because of this, I'll be holding a raffle that anyone whose watching me can enter where I'll offer a full colored drawing or 10 pages of a story of their choosing (pending approval) as a prize! Second place will receive a small single colored character or a 5 page story, and third will be a bust or 1 to 2 pages of a story should they want it. IF I can get to 220 watchers by the 25th of this week, all the top three places will get their choice of a full colored scene and character OR a 10 page story, with 4th and 5th place getting what was previously offered for 2nd and 3rd. Once I hit 200 watchers on DA, I'll hold a similar raffle! All you have to do is be a watcher of mine, and say you want to enter for your chance at the raffle! Simple as that! Though if you're just going to watch me, then unwatch me afterwards, you will be barred from any future contest.
PROJECTS:
As for projects, I'd like to be more active on Youtube so I've been working on a few video ideas and if I can I'd like to get into the habit of doing at least a video a week until I hit my stride. I've been mulling over an idea for a comic I may try to tackle in the future if I can find the time for it! Keep on the look out for that one! I'm going to try to have my novel of 13 years done by the end of this year and start taking the steps to publish it and get copies in stores! Once I'm happy with everything, I'll upload a preview of the first chapter for everyone to see! Speaking of Infinity Quest, I'm going to try to use my increased skills to retroactively go back over some of my older drawings I've uploaded to DA and bring them up to code for everyone to enjoy. I have a new contest coming up that'd be pretty cool I think, once I can get the logistics of that worked out and some money put aside for a cash prize. Then finally, when I can manage, I'm probably going to do a few fanfics on the side that I've been meaning to do.
FAN FICTIONS:
HALO: Okay, so long story short, I passionately hate the works of 343 Industry and their hamfisted bumbling through a beloved series. The art style is wildly off, the narrative is confused at best and completely disconnected from the lore and repelling at worst, the care for the characters non-existant, and the portrayal of the upper brass of the UNSC ranges from comically over the top, to insultingly incompetent. I've been talking with friends off and on about how the series after 3 could've continued better. I'll more than likely end up rebooting my universe and starting over if I have time, AND I fully intent to do a video on youtube detailing how I personally would've presented HALO 4 if it were in my lap. I'll need a Master Chief, Cortana, and maybe Covenant voice actors in order to realize that one though.
WOLF CHILDREN: Where oh where to I begin with this one? I ADORE this film to an absolutely astonishingly degree. In my years growing up, I'd lost my taste for anime around 14: with a few off and on again exceptions. But last weekend my friend Colby wanted to watch this film with me, so I gave it a chance and dove in completely blind and got my mental backside handed to me!! If you've not seen this (in my opinion) MASTERPIECE of a film yet, go buy a copy of it and brace yourself for a great move that hits your feels with a military force!!
===========SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS!!!!=======
So as the movie opened slowly I had time to want to meet it with my usual comedic teasing and playful ribbing, unaware that I was provoking a force that was just waiting to feed me back my every last joke and leave my LITERALLY DEPRESSED all of these week! The ending put me to ruins as each of the kids go their separate way, leaving their mother alone in that house after spending the movie watching these kids grow to 13 and 10 respectfully. This movie makes you love Ame, Yuki, and Hana so dearly as you watch this single mother try over and over and over again to tackle things she doesn't know and hardships all for the good of her abnormal but wonderfully precious wolf children! They're MORE than just characters to you by the end of the film! That's one of the reasons I think Ame's departure at the end, and even Yuki's development at the end sting so! Yuki decides to walk the road of a human and Ame rejects human life to live as a wolf in the mountains. But they're more than that though! And the subject matter this movie tackles is an emotional thrill ride!!
A parent should want of their kids to have more chances to succeed than they had and provide for them as many opportunities to do so as possible. Hana is a wonderful supportive mom, working with what little she had and putting her life on hold in order to devote all her time to her children. They were 13 years of her life!! But her role is not done, nor are her kids done learning from her! At least, in my opinion they're not.
Growing up means making your own path in life, living, but it doesn't mean cutting your family out of your life and going at it alone. It doesn't mean you have to be the lighting rod for all the worst life can throw at you. If they do a sequel it should be about Hana encouraging them to go on as they deal with the hardships of their choices respectively and learn how to accept and use their dual nature to help them in their lives: to be who they are inside, not what life seems to demand them to be. IE conforming to an idea of normal that makes you resent something that's a part of you (in the case of Yuki who went from this carefree child in tune with both of her natures who becomes what I can only see as fearful and resenting of anything that would make her different from anyone else), or living in isolation self imposed and giving up on everything else in your life because you don't see the immediate value of it or how it connects to you, or out of fear of having to live in a cage your whole life around people that you're different than (such as Ame). And I can't just accept it because these kids DID NOT get the Ash Ketchum treatment where they're thrown out into the woods at 10 and told to call if they feel like it. Hana is a shining example of humanity and put her everything into these kids. And you root for her in the movie, my god do you root for them in the movie! People like seeing a good human being succeed, they understand that in life there is suffering, but at the end of it they like seeing that person come out on top; not suffering without reason. It helps us, comforts us by showing us that there's justice in the world. The fact I scream for justice for fictional characters should be a testimony alone that Mamoru Hosoda is a brilliant writer who makes a movie that is complex in its simplicity and simple in its complexity!!
This movie is beautiful, it is a work of art, and I can't stress enough that you should watch it!! And it's because I love the movie so much, that Mamoru Hosoda made characters who are so lovable and real that they put actors in higher budget live action movies to shame, that I want to showcase how much this world, that this amazing man created mean to me by writing a story that is worthy to be associated even by proxy to this film and to the best of my abilities give these characters a happier note to end on! I think what made it more of a complete experience to me was the fact that these fictional characters and their world was treated so respectfully and realistically, and by the time of the storm in the film, the threat of Irma had become more of a pressing matter. It just made the experience all the more immersive. I'd best stop here though before I go on a longer rant. I could go on about this film for ages!!
=============SPOILERS END HERE!!============================
And I think that's about it! I've spilled everything on my mind, my content, my plans, and gotten my two cents in before the Hurricane hit! So yeah! In closing I'd like to make a shoutout to https://starkyoujo.deviantart.com/ who is a monstrously talented writer from what I have read who deserves far more attention and support! As of writing this, she's only had 2 pageviews today which is a terrible shame as she deserved a good number more! If you have the chance to experience the words she's lovingly crafted into stories that you'll not doubt enjoy, consider popping over, reading a story or two, and giving her a comment!! Here's to hoping I don't get blown away in gale force winds!!!
That said, despite everything, I'm still in pretty good spirits. I've actually been putting a lot of thought into things I'd like to do for all of you. I know I'm not the greatest artist out there, I know I need to put in a lot more work before I can find that next bar to climb to, and I know eventually I'll not have the time I do now as life always presses onward and forward. But in my eyes, that makes each and every one of you more precious and special to me!! I've earned every one of you by way of merit alone, never from hype or some for other means: either you like my story ideas, or you like my characters, my art has slowly become good enough to warrant attention, or you just thought I was a nice or decent enough fellow to watch, but no matter the reason, you've all stuck around for me: and I'd rather have that then a million people who just watch me for the novelty of popularity. You're all amazing, and I love you all.
CONTEST:
I actually, for the first time I can recall, broke 200 watchers! Over on my FA! It's amazing to think that there's 200 people out there who enjoy what I do and the things I upload! Because of this, I'll be holding a raffle that anyone whose watching me can enter where I'll offer a full colored drawing or 10 pages of a story of their choosing (pending approval) as a prize! Second place will receive a small single colored character or a 5 page story, and third will be a bust or 1 to 2 pages of a story should they want it. IF I can get to 220 watchers by the 25th of this week, all the top three places will get their choice of a full colored scene and character OR a 10 page story, with 4th and 5th place getting what was previously offered for 2nd and 3rd. Once I hit 200 watchers on DA, I'll hold a similar raffle! All you have to do is be a watcher of mine, and say you want to enter for your chance at the raffle! Simple as that! Though if you're just going to watch me, then unwatch me afterwards, you will be barred from any future contest.
PROJECTS:
As for projects, I'd like to be more active on Youtube so I've been working on a few video ideas and if I can I'd like to get into the habit of doing at least a video a week until I hit my stride. I've been mulling over an idea for a comic I may try to tackle in the future if I can find the time for it! Keep on the look out for that one! I'm going to try to have my novel of 13 years done by the end of this year and start taking the steps to publish it and get copies in stores! Once I'm happy with everything, I'll upload a preview of the first chapter for everyone to see! Speaking of Infinity Quest, I'm going to try to use my increased skills to retroactively go back over some of my older drawings I've uploaded to DA and bring them up to code for everyone to enjoy. I have a new contest coming up that'd be pretty cool I think, once I can get the logistics of that worked out and some money put aside for a cash prize. Then finally, when I can manage, I'm probably going to do a few fanfics on the side that I've been meaning to do.
FAN FICTIONS:
HALO: Okay, so long story short, I passionately hate the works of 343 Industry and their hamfisted bumbling through a beloved series. The art style is wildly off, the narrative is confused at best and completely disconnected from the lore and repelling at worst, the care for the characters non-existant, and the portrayal of the upper brass of the UNSC ranges from comically over the top, to insultingly incompetent. I've been talking with friends off and on about how the series after 3 could've continued better. I'll more than likely end up rebooting my universe and starting over if I have time, AND I fully intent to do a video on youtube detailing how I personally would've presented HALO 4 if it were in my lap. I'll need a Master Chief, Cortana, and maybe Covenant voice actors in order to realize that one though.
WOLF CHILDREN: Where oh where to I begin with this one? I ADORE this film to an absolutely astonishingly degree. In my years growing up, I'd lost my taste for anime around 14: with a few off and on again exceptions. But last weekend my friend Colby wanted to watch this film with me, so I gave it a chance and dove in completely blind and got my mental backside handed to me!! If you've not seen this (in my opinion) MASTERPIECE of a film yet, go buy a copy of it and brace yourself for a great move that hits your feels with a military force!!
===========SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS!!!!=======
So as the movie opened slowly I had time to want to meet it with my usual comedic teasing and playful ribbing, unaware that I was provoking a force that was just waiting to feed me back my every last joke and leave my LITERALLY DEPRESSED all of these week! The ending put me to ruins as each of the kids go their separate way, leaving their mother alone in that house after spending the movie watching these kids grow to 13 and 10 respectfully. This movie makes you love Ame, Yuki, and Hana so dearly as you watch this single mother try over and over and over again to tackle things she doesn't know and hardships all for the good of her abnormal but wonderfully precious wolf children! They're MORE than just characters to you by the end of the film! That's one of the reasons I think Ame's departure at the end, and even Yuki's development at the end sting so! Yuki decides to walk the road of a human and Ame rejects human life to live as a wolf in the mountains. But they're more than that though! And the subject matter this movie tackles is an emotional thrill ride!!
A parent should want of their kids to have more chances to succeed than they had and provide for them as many opportunities to do so as possible. Hana is a wonderful supportive mom, working with what little she had and putting her life on hold in order to devote all her time to her children. They were 13 years of her life!! But her role is not done, nor are her kids done learning from her! At least, in my opinion they're not.
Growing up means making your own path in life, living, but it doesn't mean cutting your family out of your life and going at it alone. It doesn't mean you have to be the lighting rod for all the worst life can throw at you. If they do a sequel it should be about Hana encouraging them to go on as they deal with the hardships of their choices respectively and learn how to accept and use their dual nature to help them in their lives: to be who they are inside, not what life seems to demand them to be. IE conforming to an idea of normal that makes you resent something that's a part of you (in the case of Yuki who went from this carefree child in tune with both of her natures who becomes what I can only see as fearful and resenting of anything that would make her different from anyone else), or living in isolation self imposed and giving up on everything else in your life because you don't see the immediate value of it or how it connects to you, or out of fear of having to live in a cage your whole life around people that you're different than (such as Ame). And I can't just accept it because these kids DID NOT get the Ash Ketchum treatment where they're thrown out into the woods at 10 and told to call if they feel like it. Hana is a shining example of humanity and put her everything into these kids. And you root for her in the movie, my god do you root for them in the movie! People like seeing a good human being succeed, they understand that in life there is suffering, but at the end of it they like seeing that person come out on top; not suffering without reason. It helps us, comforts us by showing us that there's justice in the world. The fact I scream for justice for fictional characters should be a testimony alone that Mamoru Hosoda is a brilliant writer who makes a movie that is complex in its simplicity and simple in its complexity!!
This movie is beautiful, it is a work of art, and I can't stress enough that you should watch it!! And it's because I love the movie so much, that Mamoru Hosoda made characters who are so lovable and real that they put actors in higher budget live action movies to shame, that I want to showcase how much this world, that this amazing man created mean to me by writing a story that is worthy to be associated even by proxy to this film and to the best of my abilities give these characters a happier note to end on! I think what made it more of a complete experience to me was the fact that these fictional characters and their world was treated so respectfully and realistically, and by the time of the storm in the film, the threat of Irma had become more of a pressing matter. It just made the experience all the more immersive. I'd best stop here though before I go on a longer rant. I could go on about this film for ages!!
=============SPOILERS END HERE!!============================
And I think that's about it! I've spilled everything on my mind, my content, my plans, and gotten my two cents in before the Hurricane hit! So yeah! In closing I'd like to make a shoutout to https://starkyoujo.deviantart.com/ who is a monstrously talented writer from what I have read who deserves far more attention and support! As of writing this, she's only had 2 pageviews today which is a terrible shame as she deserved a good number more! If you have the chance to experience the words she's lovingly crafted into stories that you'll not doubt enjoy, consider popping over, reading a story or two, and giving her a comment!! Here's to hoping I don't get blown away in gale force winds!!!
V.