Lots Of Thoughts Recently. Everything Feels Plastic.

I’m so GODDAMNED FRUSTRATED at the state of Irish poetry.

I’m not talking about poems in English by Irish poets, I’m talking about poems in Irish by Irish poets! Especially ones you learn in Junior Cycle Irish. Stuff like ‘Stadeolaiocht’ and others. Want to know the premise of Stadeolaiocht???

a man is waiting at the bus stop

he goes to check the bus app on his phone to see when the bus will arrive

as he’s looking up, the bus is driving past him, bus driver staring him down.

that’s it. That’s the poem. The poem they want us to write a couple of paragraphs explaining the themes of. This is what we have to work with. Another one: Jeaic ar Scoil (Jack in School). This poem entails a mother whose son, Jeaic, is walking to the bus stop for his first day of school in junior infants (4-5 year olds). This poem supposedly signifies a mother’s love and a child growing up. While this is true, it’s all fine until you see what we’re studying in common level English.

In English we are learning and studying poems such as After The Titanic by Derek Mahon, a poem which details the degrading mental state of the manager of the White Star line, Bruce Ismay, after he got away from the sinking titanic and how he felt that he died that night with the sunken. This is a beautiful and complex poem MADE BY AN IRISH POET!!!

Ireland is known for our incredible poets and beautiful language! What I don’t understand is why poems as gaeilge do not have the same emotion and meaning as the poems in english! Could it be that the Department of Education is so desperate for Irish poetry that they will take any of the poetry as gaeilge that they can get! 

PROBABLY!

THIS WILL BE THE SUBJECT FOR MY CBA2 IN ENGLISH THANK YOU.

rant over return to sane tumblr

STORYBOARD/ANIMATIC TIPS

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I made these for my friends, but I thought that might be helpful for yall as well! hehe! Now whenever someone asks for storyboard tips I can throw this at them!

Examples of storyboards I made for fun:

Words cannot describe the pure excitement that I am experiencing for the demos. The Mystery of Love demo is beyond beautiful, it’s divine. I relate to Mystery of Love because I too, think that white noise is an awful sound.

Argh I can’t wait!!

feeling very sad rn because my school Lino print is pretty shit

I will buy your fish little cat :3

so I’ve actually started making the tma animatic lol. Whether it’ll ever see the light of day is the question lmao. Here’s a wip

‘The Only Thing’ by Sufjan Stevens is S4 Jmart’s song. This represents them perfectly, in my opinion. You should check it out seriously.

I might make an animatic to that song for them soon :3

holy shit the death with dignity demo is just

ugh it’s beautiful

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I actually started it!!! >:3 ‘The Only Thing’ jmart animatic is a go! I’m not great at editing and I’m worried it’s out of sync and rushed but it’ll be fine! Hopefully! Microsoft clip champ is underrated tbh

the pic is bad quality cuz it’s a screenshot of a screenshot, that’s the most likely explanation lol

I don’t ship Jonathan Sims and Oliver Banks, but I feel that their perfect ship name would be ‘Death Glare’ or something along those lines. Just a thought.

idk if people use this already and I’m just slow or if someone else has said this before also.

So yeah, this is how I found out that my sexuality had its own day. AND I MISSED IT D:

Happy (very) belated Ace Day!