batty

@batty.bsky.social

da casual zone. maybe WIPs and stuff. a lot of posts about movies and books i like. the real account is https://bsky.app/profile/batshaped.bsky.social btw

i am a fair soul so i will speak words of praise for patreon: they DID fix their bulk tagging tool. so i finally took it upon myself to tag everything appropriately. i'm still using Collections for some categories. don't know if ANYONE uses tags on the user side tbh but i like things organized

i know they have true believers but i can't be tricked into thinking there's anything juicy about judy/nick tbh the infamous comic already did more than canon could ever live up to anyway

watching ouran for some reason. anything i knew about this show from its fandom never clued me in whatsoever to the fact that it's a balls to the wall ridiculous parody and not a straight-up shoujo. i think the parody angle is pretty fun. i wish the show was in the cartoony style from the OP instead

webtoon is fascinating, you'll go on there and see 900 comics that no one who doesn't go on webtoon has ever heard of even once and each one has over a million readers. you close the browser tab and you will never see the title of that comic again. it's like another dimension

"never draw/format/write xyz way when making comics" never reach ur hand across the heavens and free yourself in any way you want via the most variable, inventive, and experimentally-friendly narrative art form? suit yourself

old doodles of my main from the MMO i used to play when i was a kid and still think about sometimes. she was kind of like if mars and achilles were fused into the same person lol

MMO monkMMO monkMMO monk

surprised at how much a built-in petticoat actually does i had forgotten... dress from my EGL phase no one kill me for trying it on without a blouse/petti/socks or even tying the sash ok. this was the first one i ever bought and the only EGL i kept when i sold the rest back in high school

biological lifeform in egl

i feel like books/literature and music are some of the only art media where sex/sex scenes/sexual themes are gamely absorbed by nearly the entire audience as an inherently valuable part of the art and not a gratuitous add-on. maybe visual media is too much for people to handle or something

still obsessionposting sorry can't stop. i really like how basically all the symbols/themes/implications are pretty simple and easy to grasp once you look at them, but the move doesn't hand them to you. like nikki standing in the shadow of a dark room. obviously there once you see it. it's neato

duel was also a totally crazy movie. emasculation themes aside it’s kinda nuts how rarely a movie truly capitalizes on how terrifying a motor vehicle as a weapon can truly be, considering the daily latent threat for almost everyone. you’d think he’d run out of ways to keep making it scary but nah

dunno if it’s strange to say the “wish nikki” entity in obsession was also a tragic victim character and imo relatably so. cursed to be obsessed with fulfilling a purpose you’re not even very good at, and everyone can tell you’re failing at what you really want to succeed in. in pain because of it

sitting out the fan panic over mlp g6 because if lauren faust is going to both sdcc and efnw she's probably involved, and that leaked art doesn't look like something she'd come back for. it's either outdated or there's 2 shows and that art is not for the one she's doing. just my asspulled prediction

i'm patient with it because it does sound surface-logical but i kinda laugh whenever people say "characters in xyz should just communicate, all problems would be solved!" communication IS a problem you have to solve. it is hard to do! do you communicate irl the way you propose these characters do?

finally got around to witch hat episode 1; only read the first 3 volumes of the manga but watching the anime gave me the feeling that sometimes things are already in their ideal form. WHA will probably always be at its best in its manga form, so i should probably read instead of watch it

the problem with modern fandom is everyone got so used to having direct access to every creator of everything and lost the evolutionary ability to simply write a fanfic about things you don't know canonically or wish had happened

the writer: aw man, that guy's curtains are way bluer than mine the audience: holy shit! that probably doesn't mean anything

there are moments i really miss the old style but this entire comic is about how your intended creation evolves with you, alongside you, and away from who you used to be, so i had to let it go where it would. and it's hard to imagine doing stuff like this in the old style, too

sketchy styletighter styletighter styletighter style

btw i talk about story stuff a lot but it's just my opinion. i don't think there's a right or wrong way, i just know what i like.if there ever was a subjective topic this is it. my only real hot (it's lukewarm lol) take is stop consuming things you know you dislike and make/consume stuff you do like