#Unnamed Kirin

[everf-redesign]

Burnt Umber Kirin!

I've been calling this one Rowan Crackle, and I'd like to think she works as like, a kirin librarian or something. Either librarian or cafe owner.

She's very gentle and shy, tending to keep to herself.

[xdraonarts]

Was testing a mod combo on a brand new save and eventually tried to make my sona the MC of that run. The sona CAN canonically shapeshift but I think there just being a horse on the nautiloid for indiscernible cephaloreasons is very amusing too.

here's the horse in-game btw. Idk how I feel about her face but it was REALLY late and I wanted to test a thing (the thing worked btw, gif is too big for tunglr tho)

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Giraffe Girumble - Preliminary D

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Unnamed Giraffe propaganda:

the main character's wish was to ride a giraffe! and then she finally gets to in the epilogue! this is the giraffe who helps that dream come true while surrounded by her family!

Cube Kirin propaganda:

Can literally become a bazooka and his cube form looks like the ! Block from super Mario

[ponyartistbrainiac]

some limited palette kirins I drew today might make them Peppers family idk

[flagwars]

Video Game Flag Wars: Round 1

Now that the National Pride Fusion Flag Wars has ended, we can return to the Video Game Flag Wars! The prelims decided which flag would represent each series, so now the tournament contains one flag per series. This does not include mods and fangames, as there are multiple flags from Hearts of Iron mods and Roblox games in the tournament. As there are so many flags even after the prelims, there will be 32 polls in the first round rather than the usual 16. Let me know what flag you want to win! See the brackets below.

Round 1:

1. Crimson Cult Banner (Thaumcraft) vs. Flag (Roblox BedWars) vs. Salmon Run Flag (Splatoon)

2. Unnamed Flag (Lego City Undercover) vs. Atlantic Federation (Valkyria Chronicles) vs. Homestead Banner (Palia)

3. Middle Eastern Alliance (Squad) vs. Shadowkin (Raid: Shadow Legends) vs Bilge Rat Adventures Flag (Sea of Thieves)

4. Saker’s Flag (Fable) vs. Novistrana (Republic: The Revolution) vs. Arstotzka (Papers, Please)

5. San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) vs. Kirin Tor Offensive Banner (World of Warcraft) vs. Alliance of Galactic Travelers (No Man’s Sky)

6. Black Revolt (Kaiserredux) vs. Aquileian Republic (Supremacy) (Equestria at War) vs. Rescue Corps Flag (Pikmin 4)

7. Tropico (Tropico) vs. Sons of Liberty (Metal Gear Solid 2) vs. Commune of Revachol (Disco Elysium)

8. Mawkin Flag (Metroid: Dread) vs. Calchaqui (Europa Universalis 4) vs. Kazan Military Okrug (Thousand-Week Reich)

9. King Dedede’s Flag (Kirby: Triple Deluxe) vs. Meat Flag (Slime Rancher) vs. Flag of the Crown (Cult of the Lamb)

10. Communist Australia (Victoria II) vs. Delian League (Imperator: Rome) vs. Ominous Banner/Illager Banner (Minecraft)

11. Patagonian Worker’s Front (Kaiserreich) vs. Castle Siege (Super Smash Bros.) vs. Yara (Far Cry 6)

12. Stag Beetle Flag (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) vs. Fortnite (Fortnite) vs. Livonia (Arma)

13. Gaul Úr (Red Flood) vs. Strong Badia (Homestar Runner) vs. Super Earth (Helldivers)

14. Alam Melayu (Rise of Nations (Roblox)) vs. Tiki Tak Tribe (Donkey Kong Country Returns) vs. Sea Slide Galaxy (Super Mario Galaxy)

15. Great Lakes Government (Kalterkrieg: Shadow of the Weltkrieg) vs. Principality of Kemerovo (The New Order: Last Days of Europe) vs. Joker Banner (Balatro)

16. Shadow Isles Clash Banner (League of Legends) vs. Rebel Corps, Phantom Thieves Version (Persona 5 Tactica) vs. Antarctica (3D Atlas (1996))

17. Generic Flag (Roblox) vs. Standing Flag (Dragon Blade RPG (Roblox)) vs. Zhu Xi's Legacy (Age of Empires 4)

18. Kitakami (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet) vs. South California (Cyberpunk 2077) vs. Watchers (Overwatch)

19. Avalar (Spyro the Dragon) vs. Union of American People's Republics (Red World) vs. Grey Warden Heraldry (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

20. Eusan Nation (Signalis) vs. Aurelia (Ace Combat) vs. Outer Wilds Ventures (Outer Wilds)

21. Columbia (Bioshock Infinite) vs. Sickle Moon Flag (Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) vs. Eggmanland (Sonic Unleashed)

22. The Allied Nations (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3) vs. The Rebellion (Just Cause 3) vs. Federation of the Americas (Call of Duty: Ghosts)

23. Great Lake Revolutionary Council (Extremis Ultimis) vs. Courland (Empire: Total War) vs. Columbia (Crimson Skies)

24. Pontiac Province (Judgement Day: Aftermath of the Red Flood) vs. Communist Iberia (Hearts of Iron IV) vs. International Workers' Armed Forces (Krasnacht: Twilight of the Gods)

25. New California Republic (Fallout) vs. Deep Hollow Valley (Night in the Woods) vs. Victory Flag (Fall Guys)

26. Zheng Fa (Ace Attorney) vs. Golden Deer Banner (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) vs. Warbanner (Risk of Rain 2)

27. Blue Flag (Halo: Combat Evolved) vs. Wario’s House (WarioWare) vs. American Collective (Twilight of the Anthropocene)

28. Niflheim (Final Fantasy XV) vs. Republic of America (Dustborn) vs. American Empire (Pax Britannica)

29. Corvus (Dead Ahead (Roblox)) vs. Banner of the First Fleet (Monster Hunter)

30. Fillydelphia Contingent (Balefire Blues) vs. Federation of Anrakan Isles (Suzerain)

31. Yartar (Baldur’s Gate 3) vs. Hurons (American Conquest)

32. Falkreath Hold (Skyrim) vs. Assassin Jolly Roger (Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag)

[writereleaserepeat]

Original Fiction and Prompt Responses Masterlist

Organized by approximate word count. Content and trigger warnings are listed at the beginning of each individual story.

Rescue and Reprieve (~10,000)

Kirin awakes to find himself in the hands of the only person more terrifying than his former captor. With his spirit all but defeated, and his body broken, he prepares to fight for his survival in the only way he knows how. But admist his terror, and despite his life hanging in the balance, Kirin finds small mercies in the most unexpected place.

(Original Version with unnamed characters and much less development)

Frostbitten (~4500)

Roman went too far this time, and his personal whumpee is teetering on the brink of death. Roman goes to the only person they think they can trust - Sylvester. When Sylvester is faced with the horror his friend has wrought, he makes the choice to save the victim that was dropped at his feet, even if it means risking his own safety.

Peanut Butter (~3500)

Devin has a peanut allergy. Adrian, while more than willing to torture Devin until he breaks, has the decency to keep his home peanut-free - or so Devin thought. Is death the only freedom Devin can bear to dream of?

Abducted (~2250)

A human wakes in an alien's laboratory, strapped to a table, unable to move. But it's not stereotypical medical experimentation that awaits them... (explicit smut and dubcon)

Memories (~1700)

Lev doesn't remember his rescue. Mason, his rescuer and caretaker, does remember. Mason thinks that perhaps, this is for the best.

Homeward Bound (~1500)

Silas and Poppy have been held prisoner together. When rescue finally arrives, they mistake Silas for Poppy's captor, and treat him accordingly.

Is This Kindness? (~1000)

Gideon is alive. Being in the enemy's hands, however, he's not sure this is a mercy. As his panic ebbs and flows, he begins to realize just how helpless he is at his captor's hands.

[lotusmoonbunni]

Unnamed Kirin oc

[govindhtech]

Huawei’s 7nm Chip: A Fortress of Security

According to TechInsights, a significant semiconductor research firm, Huawei’s Kirin 9000S system-on-chip, which powers Huawei’s new Mate 60 Pro smartphone, is rumored to be made by China-based SMIC using its 2nd generation 7nm-class fabrication process and stacking. This information comes from a report by the South China Morning Post, which cites a report by TechInsights. In addition to this, reports indicate that the SoC includes a CPU and GPU with microarchitectures that were created in-house. In the meantime, each and every piece of information on the Kirin 9000S is entirely unofficial.

Applications of Huawei 7nm Chip

Based on screenshots provided by Huawei Central, the HiSilicon Kirin 9000S appears to be a fairly complicated system-on-a-chip (SoC) that contains four high-performance cores (one at up to 2.62 GHz and two at up to 2150 MHz) and four energy-efficient cores (up to 1530 MHz). These cores are based on the company’s own TaiShan microarchitecture, which still appears to be found on the Armv8a ISA. When compared to the frequencies of Arm’s cores included in earlier generations of HiSilicon’s SoCs, the clock speeds of the CPU and GPU cores used in these chips are rather low.

However, low frequencies can be explained by the fact that SMIC manufactures the new SoC on its unnamed 2nd generation 7nm fabrication method. This technology has the potential to be a game-changer for SMIC, Huawei, and China’s high-tech industry as a whole. TechInsights refers to this manufacturing technology as SMIC’s second generation production node; nevertheless, the state-controlled Global Times asserts that China’s foundry champion use its 5nm-class manufacturing technology to produce the SoC. However, it seems that both of these designations refer to the same entity, which was once referred to as SMIC’s N+2.

SMIC made a passing reference to its N+2 manufacturing technique around the year 2020. At the time, it appeared to be an evolutionary step of its N+1, which had previously been referred to as a low-cost alternative to TSMC’s N7 (a fabrication process that is in the 7nm-class). Around the same time a year ago, Chinese analysts identified N+2 as SMIC’s 5nm-class production node in another article that was published by Global Times.

Features of Huawei 7nm Chip

SMIC has never provided any evidence to support the claim that it manufactures chips on the 7 and 5 nm class nodes. However, there are separate findings from TechInsights indicating that SMIC built Bitcoin mining ASICs using their 7nm-class N+1 technology. These proofs come from MinerVa Semiconductor.

In the meantime, since SMIC’s Twinscan NXT:2000i deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography scanners are capable of producing chips using both 7nm and 5nm technologies, the business may have created a manufacturing technique that is suitable for 5nm-class technologies. SMIC must heavily use multi-patterning, which is an expensive technology that affects yields and costs, in order to print outstanding features on a 5nm-class node or a refined 7nm-class process technology. As a result, the economic efficiency of SMIC’s 5nm-class technology is likely to be considerably lower than that of market leaders Intel, TSMC, and Samsung Foundry. There is an essential detail, however.

Huawei Chip Performance

According to Global Times, one of the noteworthy aspects of the Kirin 9000S is that it supposedly makes use of stacking technology. However, the publication does not clarify on how it makes use of stacking. It’s possible that the Kirin 9000S disaggregates certain circuitry in order to ease manufacture, or that it saves space on the motherboard by stacking the modem IC on top of the CPU+GPU IC. Both of these possibilities are possibilities. In any event, the superior packaging technology that SMIC and/or Huawei’s HiSilicon have developed represents a significant step forward.

The most successful chip designer in China is Huawei’s HiSilicon, which has leveraged TSMC’s cutting-edge fabrication capabilities in order to achieve its success. It is thought that the parent business assisted SMIC in advancing its fabrication techniques after Huawei was denied access to American technologies in the year 2020. This prevented HiSilicon from continuing to collaborate with the world’s largest contract maker of chips. In this scenario, the Kirin 9000S would be the first product of the partnership between the two companies.

The HiSilicon Kirin 9000S is rumored to use SMIC’s 5nm-class process technology, but Huawei has not commented on the topic, and even the state-run Global Times does not state unequivocally that this is the case. Instead, they choose to refer to the information as a rumor.

[vindith]

May I interest you in my OCs ?

So the first dude is Nevra, a son of a unicorn lady and pony-dragon hybrid, a huscarl of a king of country A. The second one is unnamed (I had a huge time skip in RP and haven't found a time and inspiration to name him), a son of kirin lady and the same pony-dragon hybrid (at the moment back then fully transformed into dragon), an emperor of a country B.

They don't know they're brothers, their countries are rivals but they both hate their dad. Unnamed doesn't even know who is his dad but still. I'm ready to make some huge plot twists in this RP session ngl ☺️

[puppetmaster13u]

While it'd be up to the writer, well, I do have some ideas for each of them :) Of course some are too small to ride, but I'd still like to think they have them!

Danny: Barioth Ukanlos Morudomunto Velkhana

Tucker: Sand Barioth Nef-Garmet Ahtal-Kal Espinas

Sam: Mosswine Green Nargacuga Duramboros Namielle

Valerie: Deviljho Valstrax Lunagaron Bazelgeuse

Dash: Tigrex (Probably a Brute Tigrex specifically) Diablos Glavenus

Kwan: Canyne (Give this boi a doggo) Barroth Banbaro

Dale: Brachydios Lagombi

Paulina: Melynx (Probably a couple actually) Oroshi Kirin Gowngoat

Star: Kirin Jaggia Anjanath

Rebecca: Altaroth Gastodon Almudron

Brittany: Anteka Teostra

Kyle: Royal Ludroth Volvidon Somnacanth

Wes: Lagiacrus Zinogre Kulu-Ya-Ku

Sarah: Inagami Gastodon Wiggler Queen

Tiffanie: Zamtrios Rathalos

Hannah: Mizutsune Kecha-Wacha

Mia: Pink Rathian Rathalos

Nate: Maccao (Probably a trio) Paolumu

Nathan: Nakarkos Pukei-Pukei

Mr Lancer: Malfestio Najarala Malzeno

BONUS

Ellie: Legiana Vaal Hazak Dodogama Seregios

Dan: Ebony Odogaron Magnamalo Nergigante Fatalis Shagaru Magala

Which isn't even starting on the like, 15+ unnamed students who might have been dragged into this situation too lol

Prompt 63

Danny is honestly having fun. Sure his friends and him have gotten thrown into this world with a bunch of monsters and giant creatures, but it’s fun! He’s going to make friends with all of them- even if they do try to eat him in human form most of the time. They all seem pretty confused by them when they smell like ecto though, which uh, wow wasn’t how they wanted to learn the whole class has become liminal. Oh well, it’s just them and Mr Lancer on an entire island to themselves! And he can’t be the only one to want to pet and befriend a dragon, like, c’mon! It’s a dragon! And Star is already eyeing a giant lightning unicorn so he definitely isn’t the only one down to go feral! Hey, at least there’s no GIW here or ghost attacks, and seeing as he doesn’t know how to make portals like Wulf, it’ll take a while to make a ghost portal to the zone. So feral island children it is! 

Bonus DCxDP crossover is if a hero of group of heroes also get thrown into the world onto the island. To them it’s almost like a peter pan situation only the children have a single adult whose given up on controlling the chaos. Oh yeah, they also all have powers and ride giant mythical beasts. Did they mention none of the group trusts any of them either? Yeaaah, this is going to be a long trip home…

[everf-redesign]

Our first Kirin! Lovely Aquamarine Kirin- AKA Unnamed Kirin #6!

She gets her name from the mobile game where we learn she "likes walking on roofs when nobody is watching". So I'd like to think she works as a carpenter!

I kept her mostly the same, just brightening up her palette, and giving her a more unique mane style. Also freckle scales. Those are definitely the peak of kirin redesign lol

I've taken to calling her Briar Spark, but if you have any other name suggestions feel free to share!

[xdraonarts]

and a champion form for my digimon'd!sona. This one was actually pretty inspired by armor digivolutions (mainly pegasusmon and raidramon)

Also water and data type, probably vicious defenders of their favorite body of water.

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Giraffe Girumble - Initial Roster + Preliminaries

Hello, and thank you all for waiting! We're going for a 32 Giraffe tournament, and we got 45 valid submissions (44 if we take into account the recent Girafarig/Farigiraf decision). With that in mind, here are the giraffes that received enough nominations to qualify!

Kaku (One Piece)

Girafarig/Farigiraf (Pokemon)

Geoffrey the Giraffe (Toys R Us)

The Giraffe/Kirin (Revue Starlight)

Melman (Madagascar)

I'M A GIRAFFE guy / Scriberat (Vine)

Giraffes (The Owl House)

GG the Giraffe (Steam Powered Giraffe)

Miyushi Kazunari (A3)

Hamlet (One Piece)

Longrack (Transformers: Beast Wars NEO)

Gracie (Animal Crossing)

Durpleton (Centaur World)

Additionally, 2 autoqualified giraffes that I had hidden to gain propaganda (the others got some, but they didn't) include:

Wattgiraffe (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Giraffes (...like real ones. I'm surprised no one nominated them)

The other 2 that got propaganda were Kaku and Farigiraf. Since Farigiraf is split with Girafarig (and because we're 1 away from 16 qualifiers), I'm also adding one more auto-qualifier:

Agent G (Short Giraffe)

So, we've got 16 spots left and 28 giraffes remaining. Next week, we'll have 14 randomly-sorted autoqualifiers to fill out the spots, and then divide the remaining 14 randomly into 2 more polls to determine the last 2. These random qualifiers are...

Giraffes (r/nosleep) vs Queer Giraffes (Gladiator)

LPS Giraffe 1488 (Littlest Pet Shop) vs The Giraffe Height Chart in Boo's Room (Monster's Inc.)

Chirinmon (Digimon) vs Box Art Giraffe (Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure)

Unnamed Giraffe (The Promised Neverland) vs Cube Giraffe (Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger / Super Sentai)

Patty's Giraffe (Soul Eater) vs Abigail (Wonka)

Giraffe Wildzord (Power Rangers Wild Force) vs The Dangiraffe (Phineas and Ferb)

Satoshi Nagashima (Oddtaxi) vs Jemmy/Jeremiah (The White Giraffe)

Tallneck (Horizon Zero Dawn) vs Raging Bolt (Pokemon)

Getup (The Animal Shelf) vs The Giraffes from The Circle of Life (The Lion King)

Giraffes (Un Lun Dun) vs Giraffe (Giraffe Town)

Gerald (Giraffes Can't Dance) vs Valkyraffe (Mega Man ZX)

Kipekee (Real Life) vs Twigs (Beanie Babies)

Giraffe (Melissa and Doug) vs The Giraffe (Loranga, Masarin, and Dartanjang)

Giraffe Prototype (Heaven's Design) vs Tiptop the Giraffe (TY Pluffies)

[ponyartistbrainiac]

This concludes your random sunday morning art dump

[zenaquaria]

One last shipkid combo, out of Greta the griffon and one of the unnamed male Kirin. This is the sort of experiment I was wanting to do last week. lol

This sort of combo is what I term a Kirifon; a hippogriff-like hybrid, but instead of horse, Kirin.

[octahedral-chaos]

Me, deleting Genshin Impact due to losing motivation to play it: Yeah, I wouldn't come back to this game. Too much fandom drama and grinding for my liking.

Also me, staring at my ocs: But you can stay, because y'all are my ocs and they're my emotional support characters