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i feel like so many ppl are gonna be so disappointed when iori isn't a recurring "trio" character. theyre gonna be like God kagurabachi actually is having some problems like why would they do this to me? why would they build her up only for her to not show up anymore?? what about our trio?? when like, kagurabachi hasn't indicated it's a Trio Manga at all... hakuri isn't even here. 😭like iori is cute but i keep seeing so many ppl saying "omg finally, our trio!!" which is what they said when hiyuki was here... and like... there's no hyooki now. they also thought mr inazuma was going to be a load bearing plot character. we thought char was going to be longstanding. we thought hinao was going to be like. Relevant At All

dude one of the most impactful things kgb does in its first arc is show you a big squad of cool elite sorcerers, introduce them to the mc, set up a cool training arc, and then Immediately Kills Them Forever except two who haven't shown up since

i just! don't think kgb is the type of manga to "have trios" and "FINALLY our squad is here!!!" and i dont know why ppl keep expecting it to happen! like yeah, shounen jump tropes, but damn not every battle shounen has to be the same 😭

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Ritual Magic makes a lot more sense when you understand that its basically live historical improv theater. It can be profound, cathartic, deeply important. And like most forms of live theater, it can be kinda cringe even if you're really good at it.

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when u think about his soulful brown eyes…

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I fucked the character

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i had a vision that i needed to make real

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spotted at a local metal festival

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romeo is crazy as a guy’s name bcuz it’s famously one of the most well known love stories between a man and a woman in history but if i were to meet a dude named romeo id probably assume he’s gay

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This is unrelated to anything else with the silly “Dire Wolf” controversy but them putting these images in all the articles give me the weirdest uncanny valley discomfort. Like it is hard for me to take these photos seriously. Do you know why?

Wolf pups just do not look like that. Because wolves typically have their pups in underground dens, it is an evolutionary advantage for the vulnerable pups to blend in with the dark earth of the den. If they were born white, they’d be sharply contrasted and easier for predators to spot. Even arctic wolves are born dark and gain their typical white coat a little later (though not all arctic wolves are white either).

Fun fact in Game of Thrones they used domestic dogs to play the dire wolf pups; puppy Ghost is cute but he’s clearly no wolf!

Giving birth to pups that are darkly colored is a pretty basic adaptation in a lot of canids that litter underground. Red foxes and arctic foxes are also born a very nondescript shade of dirt. Exceptions exist, but this is just a thing that a lot of wild canines do. Here are various canids (red fox, Ethiopian wolf, maned wolf, and African wild dog) that do this

I don’t know if we have any proof that dire wolves had their pups in dens but it would be kind of weird if they didn’t. So even if the dire wolf had a light coat as an adult they would likely still be born with a darker color to act as camouflage.

So when I keep getting this image

blasted on all my feeds you can understand why my brain has trouble registering it even as a gray wolf pup. It’s just weird. It looks like what chat gpt would spit out if you requested an arctic wolf pup. That thing would stand out like crazy in an underground den. You can make something look like something else all you want but the evolutionary history of a species is too complicated for us to ever faithfully recreate from scratch.

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happy yuri night everybody

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Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it

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one problem of wanting to use old old yaoi manga for art reference is that my art reference is 250 x 350px. And extremely crunchy

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I call this the create a new problem technique

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i think its cute if apollo trying to catch datz in a lie just reminds datz of dhurkes "dragon snapping the truth in its jaws" tactics and instead of making him tell the truth he just gets sad about dhurke

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everyone make sure to set out cheese & crackers for neil tonight <3