![]() ![]() The camerawork is stunning, framing little drawn moments and bits of dialogue with impeccable timing, both for emotional conveyance and for clarity. The comic book presentation style that blew me away in My Pal Foot Foot has been refined here - it’s not as chaotic and rough as Know Thy Self, but the linear nature of My Pal Foot Foot has been replaced with a meandering traversal that uses the moments when Bosh reverses direction to linger on visual moments. The secondary red color - loud and angry in My Pal Foot Foot, dark and bloody in Know Thy Self - has faded into a soft pastel pink, and expanded into an even larger presence than the black in on a day like this one. The track is integrated with the drawings in beautiful, thematic ways, such as riding writing on a piece of paper, or bouncing off a phone as her mom calls. We get a small but important taste of the healing process - September writes down the reasons she blames herself for what happened to her and throws the pages into the sea, decides she needs to set better boundaries with her mom, and finally opens the last box to re-attach her head.Īll of this is communicated with astonishing elegance. The exorcism she underwent to try to stop being trans haunts her as a nightmare, she plays guitar and sings on her own terms, and her mother calls her on the phone and makes her cry. on a day like this one sees her having transitioned, now in a safe and supportive environment with a loving partner and a cat of her own, slowly putting herself back together. At the end of Know Thy Self, our main character, September, has been disowned by her abusive parents, and subsequently dismembered, after coming out as transgender. On a day like this one is a direct sequel to Ava’s January release My Pal Foot Foot and April release Know Thy Self, completing what Ava calls The September Trilogy. on a day like this one, however, captures what it is like to truly heal in ways that 2016 me could never have imagined. For years afterward, I struggled with the feeling that this had been a fluke. When I made Broken in 2016, a minimalist piece about depression and healing, I haphazardly stumbled into the emotional themes by accident while experimenting with alternative movement sync. □ = not recommended on a day like this one - Ava Hofmann ![]() It’s good - if a little uncomfortable - for me to be reminded that my perspective is highly subjective!Ĭlick here for a playlist of all videos in this roundup (in order). Their work is greatly appreciated, even when we see Line Rider works from completely different perspectives. ![]() Thanks as always to my guest reviewers - Ethan Li, Ava Hofmann, and Fern (from the channel Branches). I’ve definitely gotten a lot better at writing them - there are plenty that I look back on with no small amount of cringe - and of course I have no way of knowing how much this shift had to do with these roundups, but I hope this trend continues of people making whatever they enjoy and finding their unique artistic voice. It really feels like we’ve come a long way, as a community, from when I first started these. It’s been another slower month, but I really appreciate how every release in this roundup is wildly different from the others. ![]()
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