#The mod speaks

[randomitemdrop]

your opinion on ai is so refreshing. god i am so tired of 'ai good' and 'ai bad'

I appreciate that! I've seen a lot of arguments for and against and I've seen both sides make good points and bad points. Like a lot of copyright stuff, I think it's just really hard to come up with a set of rules (ethical or legal) that can apply both to the smallest indie creator and to the biggest international legacy-IP corporation.

One BIG point I forgot to mention is that with some of the generators you can actually use a specific image set instead of letting it figure sources out for itself, which bypasses a lot of the worrisome aspects of it. Check out @therobotmonster's This Toy Should Not Exist series using nothing but photos of real action figures to generate randomized yet familiar-feeling retro toys, like this guy:

[psycho-net2000]

Some warm up/thumbnail sketches that ended up not being warm up/thumbnail sketches (that's why some little details are missing)

[incorrect-toriko-quotes]

hey so like. i normally don't do shipping on this blog but this has bothered me all my life.

is it just me or have the toriko fandom ships... never really had names that took off? so here's my question:

i think 90% of the ones i've seen are just their names. occasionally the overlapping/joint name thing, if their names start/end with similar letters? Like I think I saw people call them 'Torikomatsu' but that was YEARS ago. Like, 2014-2016, maybe?

I doubt anything's changed but I'm curious.

[asksgtnormallen]

Ah yes the banner... I forgot about this

Why in Fuckin hell is that the banner?

Erm don't worry about that Norm -Bryce (mod also uses just b)

[iheartpeppino]

According to ANTONBLAST, Anton's home of Boiler City is apparently in Florida. Which would make Anton a Florida man, very fitting.

I wonder where Pizza Tower takes place...? I know Peppino was originally planned to be from New York City at one point... It's definitely somewhere in the USA, right?

What's really funny to me about all of this is that I'm originally from NYC and I'm currently living in Florida...

[blood-and-pizza]

Hey, everyone. I haven't been feeling great lately, not just due to personal issues, but due to the results of the recent U.S. election. I am a genderfluid trans person living in a southern state. While I'm not currently seeking gender-affirming care, I know my life is in just as much danger as any other queer person living in this country. I'm terrified. But I'm not going to stop being myself.

I know there's others in the fandom who are like me, living in the U.S. and unsure of what to do now. The answer is simple: SURVIVE. STAY ALIVE AT ALL COSTS. Do it to spite people like Trump and his supporters. Do it to spite all people who use fear and hatred to control the masses. If you give up now, you are letting the bad guys, those literal fascists, win.

I have been alive for almost 40 years, and I've had many experiences that made me want to give up life entirely. Do you all wanna know why I'm still here? Because if I give up now, after all the fighting I did to stay alive, it would be a huge waste. And the same applies to ALL of you, you hear me!? DON'T GIVE UP! NEVER GIVE UP!

Also: PLEASE do not be afraid to help others who are affected by Trump and Project 2025. That means queer people (INCLUDING trans people), people of color, and people with uteruses (cis women, trans men, and anyone else who can get pregnant). Do not be afraid to reach out and help others... IF YOU CAN. Do not be hard on yourself if you can't; it's understandable if things are too tough. Just remember we're all in this together and unity against hatred is more important than anything else right now.

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE. NEVER GIVE UP HOPE. And remember: you are always welcome here on this blog. Yes, it's a FNAF blog, but it's also a safe space for queer folks like me. And if anyone's got a problem with that, YOU CAN SUCK MY NUTS!

[dearlybelovedhonoredguests]

So…you and Abel? Are you two dating now? ((Or is that just for the RP))?

''Oh, Abel and I are... in a unique situation. While he is stuck in Hell, I'll be making every effort possible to pursue my relationship with him, even if I have to keep it a secret.''

Mod here. St. Peter and Abel are in a relationship, but only in this specific rp, which I consider an alternate universe to my main rp's.

[god-is-queerer]

you are enough. just because they tried to bake a cake in a thimble doesn't make the ingredients wrong.

[probablyqueerrpgideas]

Friendly reminder that it's always morally correct to pirate D&D core books

[oprarepairweek]

And that’s a wrap!

Thank you all so SO much for participating in the first official One Piece Rarepair Week! We’ve seen a lot of wonderful content and I’m so grateful to everyone who contributed, through art, fics, or just interaction in general! 💕

Didn’t get your piece done in time? No worries! We’ll be checking the tag for the next few weeks to reblog any last minute entries! Make sure to tag the blog (@oprarepairweek) or just tag the event (#oprarepairweek) so we can see it.

If you’ve got any questions, or just want to chat about your favorite rarepairs, feel free to send an ask! We’ll be answering questions as well, so don’t be shy.

Again, thank you so much for joining, and we hope to see you next year! 💖

[jfashion-confessions]

not posting any more confessions that boil down to "I hate jirai kei", it's getting a bit repetitive at this point.

[randomitemdrop]

you've posted a few ai generated images as items lately, and i'm wondering if that's intentional or not?

Short answer: no, it wasn't. Aside from a few I made when the generators first became publicly available and all the images were gooey messes, they've all been reader-submitted, although I'll admit I didn't catch the snail-boots. Personally I think AI image generators are a more nuanced situation than a lot of opinions I've seen on Tumblr, but given that they can be used so evilly, I'm steering away from them, if only to avoid the Wrath of the Disk Horse.

Long answer, and this is just my take, if you want to really get into it you'll have a much more interesting conversation with the people with devoted AI art blogs instead of me occasionally sharing things people submit:

There have been some major cases of unethical uses for it, but I think it's important to remember why AI image generators are such an issue; data scraping and regurgitating uncredited indie art is bad, but in the case of the snail-boots, it was just a fusion of one dataset of "product photos of boots" and another of "nature photos of snails", which I would say is not depriving anyone of credit or recognition for their work (MAYBE photographers, if you're a professional nature photographer or really attached to a picture you took of a snail one time?) I get the potential misuses of it, but when Photoshop made it easy to manipulate photos, the response was "hmm let's try and use this ethically" instead of "let's ban photo editing software". Like, I'd feel pretty unethical prompting it with "[character name] as illustrated by [Tumblr illustrator desperate for commissions]" or even "[character name] in DeviantArt style", but I'd have a hard time feeling bad for prompting with "product photo of a Transformer toy that turns into the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile". I know there's the question of "normalizing" the services but I think that overestimates how much the techbros running these things care about how everyday consumers use their free products, preferring to put their effort towards convincing companies to hire them to generate images for them, and in that case they respond way better to "here are some ways to change your product so that I would be willing to use it" than to "I will never use your product". For example here's one I just made of "the holy relic department at Big Lots", fusing corporate retail photos and museum storage rooms.

TL/DR: on the one hand I understand the hate that AI gets and it's not something I'm planning on using for any of my creative projects, but on the other hand I think it's overly simplistic to say it's inherently bad and should never be used ever. On the third hand, I really hate participating in arguments over complex ethical philosophy, so I'm just gonna steer clear entirely.

[helluvaimagination]

sinners rejoice! requests are open!

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[incorrect-toriko-quotes]

Do you think the reason that Starjun mimics Midora's hair is similar to children imitating their dad ?

Welp. I ended up going WAY more into this than I thought while looking for image references for this so I'll give ya the TLDR of my original headcanon and if you (or anyone reading this) wants to crawl down the rabbit hole with me, feel free!

TLDR; I (originally) thought Starjun's hair was similar to Midora's out of respect/admiration/possible sucking-up. (Because Midora's self-centered, Starjun could've been copying to win brownie points like how Setsuno makes Toriko wear his hair like Jirou, or Starjun did it unconsciously because he wanted to be more like Midora). And you could attribute that to a father-son sort of thing (y'know, 'child see, child do'). If that's what you mean?

If you think it's more of a familial thing, I would say there's definitely some foreshadowing hidden in the hair symbolism. (Details/spoilers below the cut because while I was responding to this I dug myself down a helluva rabbit hole).

ALRIGHT BUCKLE UP BECAUSE MOD CHEF HAS REALISED SOMETHING TRULY AWFUL ONCE AGAIN

I'm gonna start by pointing out that in the Toriko universe, although genetics is kinda played with loosely, it's established that people will copy the hairstyles of their relatives more than their mentors/role models.

The easy thing to do would be to say "look at how none of the Kings have even remotely similar hair to Ichiryu", but we also have no reference for the Kings' predecessors (other than Toriko, but we'll unpack that later).

Instead, let's take a look at one of the only actual genetic relationships shown on screen: Jirou and Teppei.

We already know that Jirou and Teppei are biologically related, but more than that, we know that Jirou and Teppei went down completely different paths. Sure, Teppei clearly respects Jirou, but it's because Jirou took him Gourmet Hunting that Teppei decided not to become a Gourmet Hunter.

They went two completely different routes, Teppei not mimicking Jirou, and yet how do they style their hair?

The exact same way.

This is what I realised that sent me down the rabbit hole.

(Before anyone mentions it: Yes I know Acacia and Ichiryuu had similar hair but that was only temporary because Acacia had gotten a power-up. For the most part Acacia's hair was in that very, very long ponytail.)

We all know Toriko's family tree is a wreath. Let's take a look at Acacia's weird family, namely I want to look at Midora and Starjun, since that's what you're asking about.

Obviously pretty similar: They both have long, choppy black hair that sorta hangs in tendrils.

But you may notice something kinda interesting: Midora's hair has a much messier cut and some of it hangs into his face. It's not like the other disciples, but it's definitely familiar...

Hm... where have we seen a character with messy black hair that hangs into their face?

We know that Midora isn't Froese's biological son, but obviously there's some sort of parallel to be drawn here. And once you make that connection, it's easier to then realise how Starjun is part of this backwards family. Especially once you consider how Starjun's rank in Gourmet Corp is officially a 'Sous Chef'. And Froese was a chef.

And not just any chef! She could perform God Cooking. Let's take a look at what her God Cooking looks like...

Hmm... where else have we seen that?

HMM...

Maybe I'm cherry-picking for what I want to see, but doesn't Starjun's hair look a lot more like Froese's? Froese's hair is everywhere but it's got a flow, the ends are wavy, but smooth. Clumps flow in similar directions, and are generally pretty thick. Notice how Midora's hair has much finer clumps going in other directions? Even Starjun's face is shaded like Froese's. Perhaps there's an argument to be made that Midora's similarities to Froese are something of a red herring, with the real foreshadowing coming from Starjun? Maybe that Midora's design is almost a mockery of Froese's -- similar, but almost more tentacle-like, more visually threatening? Or perhaps that Midora's similarities are an attempt to copy her, but not getting it quite right?

Admittedly, it's more likely that Shimabu decided that "Evil Villains with Bug-Like or Tentacle-Like Motifs = Long Black Tentacle-Like Hair" was an easy design, but I would say it's not a stretch to assume he made Starjun's hair similar to Midora's in order to solidify that Starjun is the Important one with some sort of connection to Midora (especially since Starjun is the only non-bug-themed Sous Chef).

You can't ignore Occam's Razor. And the simplest explanation is that Shimabu drew inspiration from Dragon Ball and decided that more power = more hair. But where's the fun in that?

[psycho-net2000]

Was starting to work on a height chart for some characters so I don't have to keep "eyeballing it" and Jesus christ- Raz is huge

[iheartpeppino]

I said yes. And yes, that is a real engagement ring. I am the queen of cringe, but I have never been happier.