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Rewatch got me thinking of how she wouldve seen all the yap in there
#trying to find the science only to be met with viktor talis written over and over with hearts#so so many of you are gay. why?#jinx#arcane#league of legends#implied#jayvik#my art
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Ancient hero’s mask, pt. 2
(1-2)
Sure sucks that there’s no Song of Healing in TOTK huh? Maybe he’ll find the Ocarina of Time somewhere in the Depths before Purah manages to convince him to let her poke around at his internal organs with a scalpel. Eh, Link can trust her, she’s a doctor!
Purah seems like she’d be such a fun character to expand upon. Their chaotic friendship potential is unparalleled. Both respected pillars of their community but they also are huge nerds with polar opposite hyperfixations.
Maybe I’ll do a little comic with an original storyline about breaking the Hero’s Aspect Mask’s curse. Could be fun!
These games should have been called The Legend of Zelda: Breadth of the Wildlife Photography Opportunities. The Link I play would kill Ganon thrice more for added album space to fill with pictographs of his horse in scenic locations.
#totk spoilers#totk#totk link#totk purah#ancient hero's aspect#totk fanart#loz fanart#the legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#for science!#buddy comedy of aspect Link and Purah scrambling about in the Depths finding ancient artifacts#except they all have niche uses that only serve to inconvenience them#(Purah in a Yzma voice) Wave the magic staff Link!#(The Cane of Pacci upends their hot air balloon and yeets them off a cliff screaming) Wrong staff!!
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the proposal was *checks entry 17* not accepted he definitely isn't soliciting the government for resources to build a portal gun for funsies, no sir
referencing this amazing photoset of weird al (thank you @thefloatingstone for putting this on my dash)
#can't spell funding without fun or ding#i'll see myself out#undertale#gaster#leafs gaster bros#wingdings#sans#alphys#grillby#science#undertale fanart#undertale art#ut#utdr#fan art#my art#weird al#weird al yankovic#the legend
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Save me yi nine sols
(You should play nine sols it’s very very fun)
#nine sols#a break from your regularly scheduled op stuff to bring you this doodle#catboy brainrot hours. yi is such a guy#absolutely obsessed with his design and animations ngl#I’m not very good at the game lmao.#but hey that’s what story mode is for!#honestly so in love with the aesthetic of the game in general…..#I have a lot of thoughts on how modernization of Chinese and other East Asian cultures in design usually just means westernization#this is why I just. on principle. have not watched legend of Korra yet#this game just combines science fiction aesthetic with Chinese design patterns so incredibly well
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As promised, welcome to
Fun biology in TOTK’s designs
I'll keep this post updated as I go through the game. I'm going to skip the more general identifiable things like apples (they're based on apples!) because there are tons of more unusual species to talk about.
Overall, the really interesting thing I've noticed is that many of the more unique Earth-based lifeforms in TOTK are super ancient, like predating dinosaurs ancient, which is a really cool tie-in to the overall time-hopping plotline of TOTK. Specifically, they're found in the new areas (caves, depths) while the surface remains a bit more normal.
(There will be no plot spoilers in this post, and also I've barely gotten into the plot because I'm spending all my time wandering, so shhh no spoilers in the tags for like a month please.)
Most recent additions: More lilies, irises, wild ginger, spiny bones, pigeon extravaganza, plus added some more real photo comparisons to old stuff.
PLANTS
Bryophytes my beloved. Bryophytes are among the earliest land plants, waaaay predating flowers and even seeds. In our world, they’re small by necessity—they lack vascular systems to help move water around like other plants, so they have to stay small and moist (hence their frequency in caves in TOTK—though they do need some light in real life.)
In TOTK they’re quite large and I think that’s very sexy and art directors should give us big bryophytes more often
Anyway, there are three types of bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First image pair is a moss, second is a liverwort. Those red-brown and palm-tree-like structures, respectively, are their reproductive structures.
Real liverwort photo © Graham Calow, NatureSpotUK
Not yet spotted: Hornworts! Did they forget the third bryophyte sister :(
I think these next guys are probably lycopods (specifically club moss, which is not a true bryophyte moss, thanks science.) Very old, but vascular, so they're a bit more evolutionarily recent than bryophytes.
Real photo © Gloria Hanley Schoenholtz, virginiawildflowers
All the enormous curly-topped trees in the depths: Ferns! They curl like that until they unfurl. Another very old plant, though younger than bryophytes and lycopods.
Real photo via The Cosmonaut, Wikipedia
Brightblooms and some of the other giant plants in the depths: Possibly based on a cycad? Again, a very ancient plant lineage. At this point, evolutionarily, they've developed seeds—that giant cone in the center is called a strobilus, and that's the seed structure.
These next few plants are angiosperms, meaning they produce flowers. Angiosperms are a more recent evolutionary lineage—still many millions of years old, but it took a while to develop flowers as a reproductive tactic.
Sundelions (left) are a fun recolor of a lily. There are also some scenery lilies (right) in various places—there are yellow ones that spring up when you turn on a lightroot (which gives them literal and thematic connection to the surface) and several other varieties, including tiger lilies, throughout Hyrule. Fun note, the sundelions appear to only have 5 stamen, while other lilies in the game (correctly) have 6. Seems to be an intentional decision to make it a more distinct fantasy species.
These next ones are Peruvian lilies/Alstroemeria, just used as a scenery plant but a very fun inclusion. Fun fact, not true lilies, so they're not deadly to cats like true lilies are.
Real photo © Dick Culbert, Wikipedia
Plum trees: These are also called out as plum trees in game! There's a journal in Kakariko that refers to the plum orchards.
Okay I'm a little proud of figuring this one out. Bomb flowers blend a few botanical references. Superficially, the fruit resembles a type of seed pod called a capsule—specifically it's very similar to a poppy capsule. The little red thing in the center is a nice addition to resemble both a flower stigma (reproductive part that leads to the ovary) and a bomb fuse. Now, poppy capsules disperse their seeds via wind, but there are other plants who do explode their seeds outwards as a dispersal tactic! This is called explosive dehiscence.
There is one tree in particular called the sandbox tree, AKA monkey-no-climb or dynamite tree (yes, really.) Their capsules look more like little pumpkins, but are known for violently exploding when ripe—they can launch seeds at 150 miles per hour (250 km/h) and spread them roughly 200 feet (60 m) away. The photo comparison is a poppy capsule but you should def go look up dynamite tree videos.
Real photo © PommeGrenade, pixabay
Fire fruits (and the other elemental fruits) grow on the same generic plant that looks kind of like it has grape leaves. Fire fruits resemble a specific botanical thing too though—the black netting is a papery calyx (part of the flower) seen in a nightshade genus, Physalis (golden berries, tomatillos, etc.)
Real photo © Helene Rogers, Alamy
I think this stuff is an Asarum, AKA wild ginger. I was actually puzzling over it until I walked past some today and went HEY
Not sure of the exact species but they're very green and heart-shaped and love being dense and low to the ground.
Real photo via David Stang, Wikipedia
Irises: Love irises, one of my favorite flowers and words, very happy to see them in game.
MISCELLANEA
Cup lichen! Lichen is not a plant, but a symbiotic structure of an algae + a fungi. Cup lichen is just a type of lichen formation that has a kind of vertical cup-like structure.
Real photo via Bernard Spragg
Geology crossover! Go look carefully at some of the whiter walls in the depths—they look like they have fossils of coral and other undersea hard-structured animals in them.
ANIMALS
Sticky lizards: Based on Diplocaulus, a very early (now extinct) amphibian! Their skulls are wacky. We're not sure whether the long sides stood out separately or were smoothly connected to the body by skin flaps, but the separate arrow-like shape is the most popular rendition.
Deep firefly: Might be a stretch because it could just be a multi-winged fantasy critter, but I think the "wings" and antennae are very reminiscent of Anomalocaris, an ancient aquatic arthropod.
Update: Other folks in the notes/tags have pointed out that they're probably based on a cryptid that's especially popular in Japan: skyfish AKA rods! They show up in photos and people think they're an alien lifeform. In reality, they're an optical blur created when a lower quality video captures intermittent flaps of an insect's wings, leaving sort of a many-winged smear in the photo. Thanks to all who left info!
Little frox: Another stretch because it totally could just be a Hinox-like frog, but every time I see the little ones I can't help but think of like...Ichthyostega, Mastodonsaurus, Eryops, and other early amphibians. They were pretty hefty—little frox size or bigger—and had with little waddling legs. This is less "I think it's definitely this" and more "it makes me happy when I picture frox as primitive amphibians."
I haven't detailed many of the scenery animals around Hyrule because most are identifiable with the camera function—it'll tell you that a certain animal is a heron or porgy, for example, and those groups are real, even though the exact species is made up. But I think the pigeons are fun because they're all crested pigeons. Pink-necked green pigeons may have also been the inspiration for the color palettes on the wood and rainbow pigeons.
Both pigeon photos via JJ Harrison, Wikipedia
Spiny bones: Not a specific critter, but those spiny bones that you can find lying around Eldin Canyon are vertebrae—possibly from the same thing that left those big rib cages around? The top spike is the spinous process where muscles attach, the littler spikes on the side are the transverse and articular processes. The dark O in the center is the spinal cord.
Also I made a friend who finally recognizes my purpose in Hyrule.
That's all I've got for now! Will add more as I keep playing.
#tears of the kingdom#totk#legend of zelda#loz#science fun#biology#lizard#plant#botany#image heavy#long post
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IDK of you're bogged down with requests, but I'd love to see LoA Frost in your style.
(Also something about the way you draw legs and thighs is just so incredibly satisfying. You're inspiring me to practice anatomy more.)
I haven’t drawn Frosty enough it’s actually criminal
I love the silly little cat man who is not at all little and is actually canonically 6 foot something
Also thank you so much! I love drawing legs they are one of my favourite features to draw. I’m so happy I could be inspiring I’m very honoured :’)
#legends of avantris#legends of avantris fanart#once upon a witchlight#ouaw fanart#morning frost#morning frost ouaw#he’s so babygirl#socially inept silly little guy you have my heart#tiger faces are so hard to draw I’ll get it down to a science one day trust
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Oppenheimer Girlfriend and Barbie Boyfriend
(they’d do the double feature but they each have a clear favorite)
#I think Zelda would appreciate a lot of the messages in the Barbie movie#but I also seeing her vocalizing every thought she has on the science and ethics in Oppenheimer#Link listens patiently of course#zelink#legend of zelda#link#zelda#tears of the kingdom#ToTK#barbenheimer
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A Really Cool Detail About Might Crystals in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
The first time I encountered a Might Crystal was maybe ~an hour into the game. I think I found it in a chest or something in Suthorn Forest and the first thing that I thought was "Huh...that looks kind of like bismuth." But, as I was so early on in the story that I didn't know much about what the Might Crystals were, I didn't think much more of it.
Well here I am with 46 additional hours worth of playtime in Echoes of Wisdom, and I'm here to say that there is a very cool reason that Might Crystals resemble bismuth crystals!
Before we get into bismuth, I need to talk about what is going on in Echoes of Wisdom. This WILL contain mid-to-late game spoilers, so do be warned.
Long before Creation there was nothing more than a void—a vast empty oblivion. Occasionally, bits of matter would spark to life in this nothingness. Nothing substantial, just small clumps of reality managing to form only for a moment. Only a moment, for anything that managed to flicker to life was devoured by the one who dwelt within this void:
Null.
Null is the main antagonist of Echoes of Wisdom. It is an ancient, incomprehensible lifeform that thrives in the absoluteness of zero. Nothingness personified.
Seeing the way these sparks of existence were so quickly extinguished, the three Golden Goddesses—Din, the Goddess of Power; Nayru, the Goddess of Wisdom; and Farore, the Goddess of Courage—descended from the heavens and forced Creation. Together, the three built the world itself and everything that makes up reality with Null imprisoned and contained at its center.
The Golden Goddess then departed back to the heavens, leaving behind the Triforce, the Secret Stones (though they aren't relevant for this, just thought I'd throw them in since we know they were created around this time), and the Tris. The Triforce and the Tris served as the glue keeping reality together; the Tris specifically being created to maintain the structure of the world, as even though Null was imprisoned that didn't stop it from consuming and returning the world to nothingness.
From the point of Creation onward, Null and the Tris were locked in a delicate balancing act of destruction and recreation. Null ate away at the world, creating rifts that tore through reality. And in turn, the Tris constantly patched up these rifts, quickly restoring what was lost.
This return to nothingness is a major part of the themes of Echoes of Wisdom, and why Might Crystals likely were inspired by bismuth.
Might Crystals—as well as the energy they produce—are some of the only things capable of withstanding Null and the void. When everything else is lost, these crystals remain. But what does this have to do with Bismuth?
Well visually both Might Crystals and Bismuth share the iconic stairstep spiral growth structure, but the main reason I believe bismuth to be the inspiration for the Might Crystals is the Bismuth-209 isotope.
Bismuth was previously thought to be the heaviest stable element, with only one stable isotope (Bismuth-209). I say previously because in 2003, a research team at the IAS (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, a research institute in France) came to the realization that the Bismuth-209 isotope is actually undergoing alpha decay at an incredibly slow rate. How slow? Well it was determined that Bismuth-209 has a half life of approximately...
2.01x10^19 years. Or about 20,100,000,000,000,000,000 years (20 quintillion if you don't know/don't want to count out the zeroes).
For reference, that is billions of years longer than the current estimated age of the universe.
It is because of this inconceivably long half-life that it is said that bismuth will be among the last elements to disintegrate. And it is that bit of information that I believe inspired Might Crystals. If you need to come up with a crystal that can withstand nothingness itself and outlive matter in a void that consumes endlessly, what better choice to base it off of than the element that decays so slow that we used to think that it was stable?
I just thought that it was a cool detail. This is a bit different from my other Zelda posts—as this isn't me talking about the lore and story, but rather me talking about a possible irl inspiration for something in the series—but I thought this was really cool and I wanted to share my thoughts.
#maybe I'll make more science posts too#echoes of wisdom is incredible. i wasn't expecting the absolutely INSANE lore that it revealed#i will be making posts about it. i just need to think and process it all#echoes of wisdom#the legend of zelda: echoes of wisdom#tloz eow#eow#loz eow#tloz#loz#echoes of wisdom spoilers#eow spoilers#tloz eow spoilers#Null#Might Crystals#bismuth#the legend of zelda#legend of zelda
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"Here we go! It's all about these runes. They form some kind of math-y, magic-y gateway. To the realm of heebie-jeebies. And this… Turns it on. So… here goes."
#jinx#arcane#arcaneedit#jinx arcane#arcane jinx#jinx league of legends#jinx lol#league of legends#arcane league of legends#league of legends arcane#why did i choose another dark gif to color lol#at least this one ended up okay bc the orig scene's lighting was good lmao#look her being all science-y#cant believe she cracked everything in like day#lil tiny evil genius off to destroy the city yes get it girl#media: arcane#type: gif#s1 ep5
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"öyle uzun uzun cümleler kurup anlatamam. tarif edemeyeceğim bir his bu."
#legend of zelda#artists on tumblr#gravity falls#science#drawtober#halloween#deltarune#the owl house
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Poor Link was so cutely intrigued and paying attention to the foraging lesson just to get Pranked.
I bet Ms. Scientist does this all the time now that she knows The Hero of Hyrule is fairly easy to jumpscare.
I mean, I think she's innocent here. But post Botw? Zelda would mess with him, I just know it.
#his little “eeugh”#man can face down a lynel but purah's science grabbers had him panicking#it just makes me think#i love when link gets startled#and zelda probably does too#and she is a menace#link is so sweet and wide-eyed i just think he would fall for her little pranks all the time#legend of zelda#breath of the wild#zelink
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I know the Zelda Timeline is hardly the most popular thing out there, but for me, it's always been endlessly fascinating. Everything is the same. It's all different. It's linear. It's cyclical. It branches and twists and comes back together. It disregards its predecessors. It can't let them go. It thrashes against change. It can't stay the same.
Every game is a reboot.
But they're also not.
I think the story of The Legend of Zelda is the epitome of narrative doublethink. In order to truly buy in, you must accept the simultaneous facets that none of the games matter to one another and that they all do. They're the same story. They're absolutely not.
The thing about the timeline, to me, by being both codified and nebulous, is what ties this cow tools of a narrative together. It's a puzzle without a box. It's total fucking nonsense, but so is reality. Things won't ever truly make sense, but what if they did. What if we took it from a new angle and... hmm. No. That won't work
Or maybe...
Ultimately, the Zelda Timeline is quite simply a farcical creative writing prompt. A dare. A challenge. To take these pieces not designed to fit together and give them order. Do the writers themselves care? Absolutely not. I do, though. So fuck it.
#zelda#the legend of zelda#tloz#loz#legend of zelda#ocarina of time#oot#breath of the wild#botw#a link to the past#alttp#tears of the kingdom#totk#like honestly its not really that confusing for me at large but patching up the holes is half the fun#no other series really has that ''everything is the exact same and also completely different''#it scratches the parts of my brain that likes to piece together stories and worldbuilding#and also the part that likes to piece together science#like call this pretentious but real life is fucking nonsense too#this one is just a controlled environment
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Here we are, like mites on a plum. And the plum is this little planet and it goes around an insignificant local star, the sun.
And that star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary galaxy, the milky way, which contains 400 billion other stars.
And this galaxy is just one of something like 100 billion other galaxies that make up the universe.
And it is now beginning to look, this universe is one of an enormous number, maybe even an infinite number, of other closed off universes.
So the idea that we are central, that we are the reason there is a universe is… pathetic.
We have to simply come to grips with the real universe that we really live in. And if some of our myth and some of our religion is inconsistent with it, it's time to change the myth and the religion.
#Carl Sagan#science#infinite universe#human arrogance#Sun#Earth#Milky Way#universe#religion#mythology#myths and legends#religion is a mental illness
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[A silent watcher]
Of the many legends told by the spationauts of the Eternal Warden, the story of the dragons is the most famous. It says : there are beings in the void between the stars, older than the oldest planets in the star cluster. The spationaut who catches their gaze will see their deepest wishes come true. Many crews were lost searching for traces of the existence of these creatures, all in vain. Yet, when one finds themselves alone in space, one can't help but feel watched, by thousands upon thousands of unblinking eyes.
#space dragon#sci fi story#space opera#science fantasy#digital art#artist on tumblr#the artowl#radio isotope#space dragons!!!! did you know they were a thing in the radio isotope universe?#well more or less they're just a legend#I love drawing them they're just long noodles with eyes#tw scopophobia#cw scopophobia
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Jayce and Viktor are literally soulmates. They complete each other. They are halves of the same being. They shared the same goals, the same regrets. They are always there for the other. They saved each other from suicide. At their lowest moments, through loss of life, they still found a way to connect and attempt to do good one last time. They realized there dream was helpless yet they still found the strength to try nonetheless through each other.
If that isn’t true love I don’t know what is
#jayce talis#viktor arcane#jayvik#arcane#league of legends#I love science yaoi#brother my ass#I saw those looks you were giving one another#he wanted that cookie so bad#this isn’t my bedroom
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