Sometimes you need to read something twice to get it. You might need to watch a movie three times to understand it. You might have to have that album on repeat for a week until the lyrics make any sense. You're allowed to engage with it and can keep engaging with it until it means something to you. People will see a painting at a museum and laugh about not getting what the big deal is but like you can come back, you can see it at another time, and maybe that next time it'll be different for you. I'm of the belief the "media literacy crisis" would solve itself if more people just sat down and did it again. Watched, read, played, listened, etc like I don't think people are getting more ignorant necessarily I just think we're not glorifying personally replaying things nearly as much as we should be.
I finally got round to buying Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom, NOW I NEED TO ACTUALLY READ THEM.
But yes, Kanej.
Okay, first post of 2025, better make it a good one…
✨kanej✨
I think one of the worst things for a cat to be is mysteriously wet.
Here's the actual link to YouTube if you'd rather watch there
To all the levihan enjoyers I highly recommend watching this even if you don't know the au ;) tho of course you're welcome to look it up here on my blog first if you're so inclined
Never in my life have I finished an animatic this fast, I started it thursday night and finished this morning, which as I said on my side acc was the result of self inflicted crunch time and quite a few all nighters too but I had so much fun I regret nothing >:) just don't expect this level of speed of me ever again lmao
It's funny like I had the idea when I was going through my playlists for songs that remind me of this au (I have a whole playlist for it too lmao) and this one just hit in such a way that I just immediately sat down and started drawing.
Some translation notes: Pettäjä in the song's context actually means cheater but it can be translated as betrayer and with the blessing of my friend I changed it into traitor even tho it's a tiny bit of a reach (traitor would be petturi) XD but close enough and it has better flow. Also the "this is how we sit" part references a children's game but in the song's context it's like here I sit in indecision about this choice I have to make, thought that might be a little unclear if you're not finnish idk. Also "kämppä" means place in the way a flat means a place, like an apartment xD but let's just ignore that.
Kudos to Sanni also, she's a very nostalgic and dear artist to me since hers are the first two live gigs I ever went to and I've had the luxury to see her many times after those too by chance. :')
For every trick you’ve seen, I know a thousand more
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately....
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau | Dead Poets Society
😢 oh, Neil
I'm gonna act!
Summary:
Hange is an aspiring astronomer travelling to Marley.
Levi is the merman who happened to save her.
[aka the merman Levi AU
Not a new story, but here for whoever is interested because I never posted it here on Tumblr :)]