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i really enjoyed watching black mirror!! it has very obvious flaws and i wouldn't recommend it to most people (too much s*x‼️) but it has a tone of horror that is weirdly refreshing for me, as someone that hasn't consumed a ton of horror content until recently. one of the most fascinating things to me is reading wikipedia's critic reviews (along with my peeks at other website rankings), because my opinion aligned with very few of them, so i wanted to see how my opinions compared to others'.

anyway i'll start with my thoughts on every episode, obvious spoiler warning.

usually when i speak to non-artists their first thought about color theory is "opposite colors go well together, right?" because they probably heard it somewhere a long time ago in passing, which is definitely where i heard it as a kid too. this was bizarre to me even as a kid because it... didn't seem to actually work?

i have a pretty informal understanding of color theory, so i'm bringing this up because i wanted to know other people's opinions (and because this color theory thing has just been bothering me for a while). based on my experience as an artist, the whole "opposite color" thing has a pretty obvious consequence -- opposite colors create CONTRAST. this contrast can be great depending on what you're going for (it's why many cartoony character designs go for opposite colors, because they want to pop out and look bold), but if you're looking for colors that "go well together," then pink and green is PROBABLY not what you're looking for.

in my opinion, it's usually analogous colors (colors that are next to each other) that will basically ALWAYS look good together. the other piece of advice i'd give is that desaturated colors will basically always look good together, because saturation will also make colors bold. once someone has an idea of what analogous/desaturated colors work together, THEN they can start having an idea of how more bold color combinations can be introduced.

thoughts? i want to write a short article on color theory and don't want to put out blatant misinformation lol

feeling the need to ramble about this cuz this word has been living in my head rent-free! as someone who's still learning toki pona this word immediately stuck out to me, for the obvious reason (lol it's really long) and because the definition loosely extends to include red pandas (that's me!). but i also can't get over how good of an inherent joke it is.

there's a funny phenomenon i've been thinking about where people become/are REALLY REALLY good at this one thing but take it completely for granted, and when it's pointed out by someone else they're shocked that it's even considered a "talent." i've been on both sides of this multiple times, and i guess it's weird to think about how we often seem almost hard-wired to have difficulty being able to identify our own strengths. that being said, we also seem hard-wired to be able to identify others' strengths, which can be used for better or worse.