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Wh… why was she making that… ( ´⊙ω⊙`)

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These voice actors wildin’

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KNUCKLES! 

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so my mom got me a sonic capsule toy. I had no idea what character would be inside this ominous blue ball…. pretty exciting right????

I opened it up and…

wait..

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Do you know if Sonic and his friends are characterized differently in English and Japanese?

- The Japanese pronoun that Sonic, Knuckles, Metal Sonic, Silver, Vector and Jet use in speech is “Ore”, which is masculine and informal. In Sonic’s case, he uses “Ore” in all of his forms i.e Darkspine, Werehog etc. Jet and Knuckles are a touch more arrogant as they also use “Ore-sama”. Which indicates a large degree of self-reverence.

- The Japanese pronoun that Tails, Shadow, Big, Mephiles and Charmy use is “Boku”. Which is masculine. Lacks the “bluntness”of “Ore”.

- Amy, Wave and Rouge use the pronoun “Atashi”. Which is feminine and casual.

- Dr Eggman uses the pronoun “Washi”. Which is often used by old men.

- Cream, Blaze, Eggman Nega, Princess Elise, Shahra as well as Omega use “Watashi”. Which is gender-neutral and polite.

- Gamma is notable in that he’s the only Sonic character I know of whose pronoun changes. He used “Watashi” before his rebellion, “Boku” after.

- Emerl is unique in that he picks-up the pronouns of the characters who “raise” him. Which lends a sort of dimension to his character growth. Obviously lost in the English translation.

- Whenever Amy get lovey-dovey, JP!Sonic tends to act along the lines of being somewhat weirded-out and “Oh no here we go again” in an exasperated way. There is a huge tonal difference between the JP version of this cutscene and the English one - ENG!Sonic talks to Amy rather contemptuously, asking how she got there, JP!Sonic is not.

- JP!Sonic is sort of a nicknamer. Often refers to people in a casual sort of way. For instance, he calls Knuckles “Nakko” occasionally and refers to King Solomon in SatSR as “Old man”/”Gramps”. Neither of these are present in the English scripts.

- JP!Sonic is a Engrish-speaker. Obviously, ENG!Sonic does not exhibit this quirk.

- JP!Sonic in Colors doesn’t feel anywhere near as Flanderized and “dudebro” as ENG!Colors Sonic.

- One of the traits that Amy finds so appealing about Sonic is his heroic fighting spirit (”Kiai”). To my knowledge, this isn’t mentioned in English scripts or profiles.

…This is what comes to mind at the mo.

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Rest In Peace, Knuckles

This might be something of a word vomit, but my oldest dog, at 17, died in his sleep at some point in the night. I stayed up with him until 4 am, because his health had gotten pretty bad over the month. He was getting very skinny, he had lost his eyesight, and was losing his balance, so I knew it was about that time. I woke up at 8 am to find that he really passed away.

His name is Knuckles, and yes, he was named after the Sonic character (I was 6…). He’s a Bichon Frise, I still remember picking him out as a puppy when I was only 6 years old. We picked him out because my parents thought I might have been allergic to dog fur at the time, and Bichons are known to be among the few acceptions for those with allergies.

We grew up together, and yet he went through his entire life while I’ve only lived a fraction of mine. That’s just a part of having a pet. But knowing that doesn’t make this any easier. For an old dog, he was really tough, how he held himself together over the years really betrayed his age. I remember the first real scare that we might have to put him down was when he was 8, and it turned out he had over fifteen kidney stones that needed to be surgically removed.

Despite the reputation tiny dogs have for being snappy little brats, which I can attest to being not just a stereotype, but Knuckles was and still is one of the nicest, friendliest dogs I’ve ever met. He’s never once been mean to anyone he’s ever met, but that didn’t make him spineless. I think my second dog, Nestle, a 10 year old large Golden/Labrador Retriever mix, kept Knuckles’ spark going throughout the years by making him feel young when they played together.

As corny as it probably sounds, losing Knuckles today is like losing the last piece of my childhood, and one of my oldest friends. I’m so lucky that I got as many years as I did with him, he’s outlived many other dogs I’ve known throughout my life. I’m almost relieved that he doesn’t have to suffer anymore.

He was a lil’ fighter until the end, so I guess his name really was appropriate for him after all.

I’ll miss you, Knuckie. Love you always.

Rest In Peace

2001 — 2019

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Thank you, for nine amazing years.

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In other news, spoiled brats whining that they’re not getting LGBT representation in every single show they watch... again.

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Pink Diamond’s a bitch ass motherfucker

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As per request (thanks, singingrabbitskull!), I did a half-tutorial, half-sporadic notes on how I generally render basic expressions.

There’s already a lot of cool tutorials that exist on how to do expressions, so I tried to just look at a lot of really minor details that I’ve used but haven’t seen commonly passed down.

required disclaimer: this is just how I go about it, feel free to ignore bits, steal bits, do whatever you want with them. Hope this helps, and if you have any questions scream at my inbox!

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Bronycon N’ Stuff 2019

So here we are: the final @bronycon loot post I’ll be making. First off, I had a lot of fun. Tears were shed by the end, but it made me incredibly happy to see that this was the largest year Bronycon has ever had. Makes me confident that this fandom will be around for a long time!

One last merch and photo dump, and this is gonna be a long one, so here we goooo!

Firstly, an exclusive BC poster I got for the last year:

Next up, bought some prints from my friend @marikazemus34 (twitter), who I hung out with for a few days at the con. We’ve known each other since about 2012 now, but this was the first time meeting in person.

Didn’t buy a whole lot from @lil-mizz-jay this year, but that’s namely because I bought a ton from him last year and had just about every print lol. But here’s a cute femmy Shining:

Neeext up, Skoon! His old Berry Punch ask blog was one of the first blogs I ever followed on tumblr years ago, so it was cool seeing them for the first time, real cool guy too. 

Now we have @shonuff44 (twitter) who I bought a bunch from, he had really cool prints and an art book I bought from him:

And speaking of books, I visited the Fallout Equestria booth and bought myself a hardcover book of the OG Fallout Equestria! I never ended up finishing this fic back in the day, but I really wanna do it now and this was the perfect opportunity! 

Now semi FO:E related, but I bought a mystery box from artworktee.com booth that was pretty damn cheap for what I got: three shirts, some prints (one of which was FO:E related, and other little trinkets. The art for the prints is by Torben and Freeedon

So, while @clinkorz couldn’t come to Bronycon, someone she knew went on her behalf to see for her. A couple years back in 2014 I think, I bought an Umbreon keychain of her art, so this year I decided to buy the print of that art!

And speaking of Umbreon, there was a Youmacon booth where I bought this really cool leather Umbreon journal. And it’s me, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity with that, so:

Bought this really nice Celestia (and Philomena) art by viwrastupr, one of the best paintings of Celestia I’ve ever seen:

I went to the legendary Sonic artist ChibiJenHen’s booth too and bought these really nice prints:

And I bought these two from Harwick’s booth, really phenomenal little prints!

And last but certainly not least for the art prints, we’ve got a print from the lovely @braeburnedart (twitter)! He was super nice! He only had one final print left by the time I got there, so I snagged this:

Now, on to more miscellaneous stuff, I bought these limited edition mugs from the Wild Bill’s Soda stand based on the three mascots of Bronycon! 

Drank them with Birch Beer and Sarsaparilla, really wish those were more accessible sodas around where I live... 

Anyway, so I did something I haven’t done in ages, but I took videos of some bits of Bronypalooza that I wanted to save! During Black Gryphon/Michelle Creber/Bassik and the Wonderbolts’ sets! I’m not used to recording on my phone...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tesxhpqfflne7sy/Gonna%20Get%20Better%20by%20Black%20Gryphon%20%26%20Bassik.mov?raw=1 (Got pretty mesmerized by that dude’s shirt for a bit, lol)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmi5i76a6kay74j/Beat%20It%20by%20Michelle%20Creber%20%26%20Black%20Gryph0n.mov?raw=1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/011d4po8mxzo1po/2019-08-03%2022.44.42.mov?raw=1

And lastly, I wanna show the pics I took of the Bronycon Memorial spot. Was a little shrine some people made by one of the pillars to show their sadness for Bronycon’s final year, and it was getting bigger and bigger by the day. Was honestly pretty heartwarming.

So yeah, that just about covers every picture I took.

All in all, this was an amazing 4 days that I’ll always treasure. Hell, the last seven years I’ve been going to this convention are moments I’ll keep with my forever. But this isn’t the end for pony conventions, I’m gonna be headed straight to Everfree Northwest next year, so I’ll probably post about that next year!

RIP Bronycon: 2011—2019, and thank you to all the staff and attendees that made it possible, you’ve earned your rest.

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Tumblr’s really leveled up in common sense over the past year, wow

100% agree though

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

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me watching the aggretsuko season 2 trailer

me after actually watching season 2

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this guy is from an alternate timeline

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Gentle reminder that Avatar started like this

And ended like this