Hi hello. If it wasn’t clear my current chosen name is Aze.
(I’ll probably forget to change it when I go through my next identity crisis) but that’s besides the point.
Welcome to my main blog it’s been around since I was in high school when I forgot the password to my first blog and my first twitter and I didn’t know how the whole forget password thing worked.
If it also wasn’t clear from certain terms I use, I am sadly an American. I didn’t ask to be here my mom made me come and I can’t back out of this life contract.
If you want a very niche thing from me you are in the wrong saloon cowboy. This blog right here is a dumping ground, I want some one to see something I’ll post it here. Any activist post? Your place. Anything appealing to me without reason? Here.
Want art and possibly my art when I get my computer working? Art things here. (I do know that it looks like hot garbage right now I’m considering fixing it, eventually)
You want to see what I read from time to time when I’m not telling myself that I need to go outside more? Welcome to my field of flowers
Want to read what I’ve written or see what I will write? Come to my notes eventually there will be an update.
Want a few hot takes and mostly a deposit for my thoughts and negativity? My rants might be your forte. (Iykyk what my link means and what I am)
Want ship content that I’m not adding anything to possibly ever? Crackships might be your place
Alright kitten listen up cause mommy needs your help here okay. Pause the game, ok-PAUSE the game for mommy okay I need your eyes up here, kitten. I’m putting these onions in this pan okay and im gonna walk out the door yes, that’s right mommy’s gotta go right now mommy’s gotta go for 8 hours but she needs these onions caramelized by the time she gets bac-STOP LOOKING AT THE COMPUTER mommy needs you to caramelized these onions for her okay kitten mommy needs all 5 pounds perfectly caramelized and cooked down till they’re all evenly brown and sweet and YES it does need to take the whole 8 hours mommy needs you to babysit these fucking carmies okay kitten I SAID TURN THE FUCKING GAME OFF
I think about Sun and Moon’s original versions a LOT, and I don’t get why people say they’re not expressive!
Or perhaps, I do, and I just wanna ramble. Anyways! Big ol warning for lots of talking, some fursuit gifs and analyzation of body movement.
So, they have flat, immobile faceplates, right? Technically, yes!some argue that this makes them immediately inert and expressionless and opt to enhance their expressions. And this is a-okay! Do what you like!
But as someone who used to be a costumer, and wears a fursuit on occasion,
BUT! When in a mascot costume, fursuit, or any other costume with a mask over one’s face, the performer has to learn how to move in order to portray the emotions necessary for character engagement with the audience! Whether it’s exaggerated head bobs, using your hands to talk, or making everything a bit of a spectacle, even the way you tilt your FACE can affect how you look.
Even MUPPETS do this with their limited range of expression. And we can easily draw those conclusions of how the boys were programmed to act in canon!
Take Sun’s default animation in the daycare, just standing there.
It’s very obvious here what he’s trying to portray, and who his programmed audience is- little children! When costuming around little kids, you wanna use big gestures, and get on their level because you can seem HUGE AND SCARY to them! You wanna get down towards the ground, make big sweeping cartoon motions, and make sure all your movements are ROUNDED- not jabbing, sharp, or sudden- so that the kid isn’t ever surprised, but rather delighted by your performance as a costumer. I’ll show you an example by the amazing performer, Temba the Bat! (Made by Toxicoon, I believe.)
Big sweeping motions, slow without being too spooky, and generally friendly motions while swaying the head! Looks kinda similar right?
Another point is, though, these exaggerated motions don’t really… turn off when feeling other things. Sun and Moon don’t have a customer service mode, and that’s WILD to me that their programming requires them to act like this all the time. Exhibit B: Sun’s pain in the transformation scene.
He’s making such exaggerated motions and movements to INDICATE he is in pain or holding something back. He’s gripping his face like something is trying to come out of it, and even dramatically falls backwards to indicate a loss of control in his body. Whether the way the fall looks so cartoonist was intentionally programmed in, I couldn’t tell you.
This is SO cartoon villain sequel, isn’t it? The hands tapping delicately on the surface, the exaggerated head tilt, all of it is so wildly exaggerated in such a smooth way to let you know “Ah! I’m in danger! Great!”
And yet… he still is low to the ground. Still in that pose of going after someone SMALL. Performing for someone small. His evilness is almost completely exaggerated and, dare I say, fabricated by his programming. Of course, the virus probably had something to do with it but LIKE! Look at that range of motion!
Idk what the point of all this is, I just wanna say: it’s totally understandable to make the boys super duper expressive in the artistic, flat 2d styles i see a lot!
But man I do hope someone draws them biblically accurate while expressing something else because that would be hilarious to see Sun throwing a temper tantrum by banging his fists on the ground and flailing while his face is just
new gender idea: guy who is super masculine and uses he/him pronouns, but every time someone acknowledges his gender or asks about it he switches to feminine presentation and she/her pronouns and refuses to acknowledge the change
sorry. *girl who is super feminine and uses she/her but everytime someone asks she switches to masc and he/him and refuses to acknowledge the change
twitter limiting the amount of tweets you get to read per day is ridiculous but if tiktok limited the amount of videos people got to see per day it would be the biggest win for mental health since ssris
