#also background is a stock image btw!

[grumfield]

happy father’s day to bisexual mediums whose hobbies include gaslighting your six year old son and also sleeping with your dead wife’s sister. Juan is truly the dad of all time

[dotpyenji]

mercury at IKEA

[phoenixyfriend]

I know I'm a nerd because the amount of time I've spent obsessing over the Vojvodina dress is. Way too much.

This dress doesn't actually have a name (probably), but it's from late 19th century Vojvodina, and I kind of obsessed over it when I was at the Serbian Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade (main site is available only in Serbian).

(Unfortunately, I'm trying to work within the tumblr image limit, but here's a google drive!)

BTW, if you enjoy this post, please consider leaving a tip! I spent more time than is reasonable putting this together.

Also, due to tumblr being Odd, you may want to open this in a new tab to avoid having the posts expand to full; the dashboard view only lets there be one image per line, for some reason. If you open in a new tab, they are much more neatly organized into sets, and quicker to scroll past.

Due to the fact that I can't really describe these photos in a way that means anything to readers unless they have a large technical vocabulary or background in Balkan fashion history, and there being so many pictures, I will not be including image descriptions. However, my commentary on those photos throughout the latter half of the post should hopefully give you a solid summary on what the photos contain, even if it's not going into details for most.

Here is the general shape of what you see in 19th century Serbia (incl. Kosovo), Montenegro, Bosnia&Herzegovina, and Croatia:

You can see a few throughlines, even with the variety from one region to the next. Certain types of fabric are more common, especially that heavy plain-weave white fiber (I think usually cotton, nowadays, but probably historically flax) with the small knots; my grandmother's apartment is still stocked with that as the default bed linen! You see it all through the exhibit, most frequently in the skirts, but often for blouses or chemises, too.

There are a lot of hand-woven fabrics, which you can see on display best with the aprons, and a very specific style of applique trimmings on the cropped vest. The arm's eyes and necklines have similar proportions. The lengths are similar. Most things are cut on the rectangular, or not cut at all. Hems are often tassled, for complex weaves, or simply folded under for the white base fabrics; plain, non-white fabrics tend to get a textured applique at the hems. Lace is usually eyelet.

There are exceptions, of course. I'd love to know more about that mint green cardigan(?) from Montenegro, with the gored pieces. I think it's made of doeskin (the tight wool weave, not the leather), and I wish I could get more information on the history. Most of the larger green dyes, not counting floral motifs or minor elements of a multicolored weave, are from the Bosnian section of the display (wide stripes along the collar, for instance), presumably due to Ottoman influence leaving a large Muslim population. And then there's this mint green cardigan from Montenegro made of a fabric I'm not seeing on any other garments? Tell me more, please.

(Also, in the close-ups, you can see that the hook and eye closure has released rust stains onto the blouse!)

There are so many more pictures, but unfortunately, I have a thirty-image max and really want to talk about this one specific dress:

The image description on the floor below describes this as:

Woman's festive dress with a zlatara cap, Banat, Vojvodina, late 19th century

(I have minimal commentary on the hat. It's a traditionally Serbian vestment, but there's nothing too unusual about it.)

So, here are a few things to note at first glance:

The arm's eye on the vest is wide. It dips further in towards the neck than most vests, and swoops further down towards the ribs. Most of the traditional vests have a much tighter arm's eye.

Relatedly, the straps are much thinner than most of the vests, maybe half as wide. This is partly the arm's eye, and partly the width of the neckline to start!

The vest comes down in a slightly pointed oval ending at the swell of the bust, rather than curving back up or being a rounded shape a few inches higher. It's also finished with these little satin triangles?

The vest is laced at front, rather than hook and eye closure.

The bottom edge has tabs!

The hems on those tabs are chain stitched in yellow, and then the hem is wrapped in a thin orange ribbon that I would hesitantly say is satin? Plus all the other yellow embroidery, which to my eye looks really different from the embroidery you see on various aprons, and also different from the metallic appliques you see on most vests!

That bottom edge also appears to be straight across (most of the vests curve up slightly at front), and is very tight to the body. While some of the vests are tight, those are generally the shorter ones. Longer vests are much looser than this one, which cuts off and cinches at the waist, right where it meets the skirt.

The fabric itself! I'll get back to this but it seems to be a satin jacquard??? A jacquard that matches (in thread, not in pattern) to the skirt? Insane.

[Disclaimer: Some of these deviations, such as the arm's eye size or the dropped shoulder hem, could be a matter of the mannequin being the wrong size for the clothing. Unfortunately, I don't have enough background information to be sure. It could be just the right size. It could be far too small. I only have these photos and the most basic of background information to go off of.]

Okay moving on to the blouse:

It's not completely unique to be sheer, but it's definitely uncommon!

The chest is not pintucked or a flat weave, but rather the sheer fabric has thin stripes of more opaque weave? I don't actually remember what that's called but it's definitely cool to see.

We also see a net lace at the cuffs, which is similarly uncommon; most of the fashions I saw had eyelet lace instead (which we can see at the collar of the blouse).

The dropped shoulder! The shoulder seam sits much higher on most of the pieces I saw (there are a few exceptions, but mostly from regions nearby). In fact, most of the examples had the shoulder seam hidden, between the higher seam and the width of the vest; it's both the dropped seam and the thin straps of the vest that let us see this here!

That metallic embroidery. Again, most of the embroidery we see on the other pieces is cross stitch or done with a much thicker thread; sometimes, you get lineart, but not filled in in this manner. This kind of thin-thread embroidery that fills the space between the lines isn't common in the other pieces!

I don't think I can actually say much about the sleeve length? I feel like most of the pieces have sleeves that are full or bracelet length, while this one is a three-quarter, but I'm not 100% on that actually being true. It's a bit hard to tell in some cases. Might just be summer clothes?

The skirt:

SATIN JACQUARD

BOX PLEATS

SLIGHT OVAL HEM

SATIN RIBBON TRIM

I'm gonna be honest this was a huge part of why I began to obsess over this dress let me just. Whoo!

This fabric is, as far as I can tell, a satin jacquard, very probably machine-woven. It is very different from basically every other fabric we see in this exhibit. This is not a plain weave, and it is not a hand-woven design. This is a meticulously, mechanically repetitive pattern done using satin-weave manipulation to adjust which sections have shine and which don't. Given the time period, it's probably silk. (Take a look at this portion of a video on silk by Nicole Rudolph to understand what I mean by jacquard. If you want to know more about satin weave, you can watch the full video.)

I'd guess that the vest is made of the same type of fabric, even the same threads, just in a different pattern.

The pleating! If you take a look at the other photos, the general pattern is 'put together some rectangles, gather at top, and you have a dress. Cover with a hand-woven apron in front and possibly in back.' There are, again, some exceptions, but this dress has both the box pleating and the satin jacquard. The structure of this skirt is completely different from 90% of this exhibit.

In conjunction with the pleating, the skirt had a very slight oval shape around the bottom. I didn't get a good photo of that part, but it's typical of 1890s dresses in Western Europe to have a sort of egg-shaped hem if you look at them from above, through use of pleating, strategic panel shapes, and bum pads or petticoats. In short, the dress is just slightly longer at back without being a full-on train. Most of the other pieces, due to the rectangles and gathers, are a much simpler circle shape around bottom.

Length! Part of why the egg-shaped hem is happening is because this dress actually brushes the floor. Ankle-length is the default across the exhibit, even for formal wear.

Simple satin ribbons for decorative trim, rather than something textured, shaped, or multicolor!

Then, the actual hem of the skirt: a center-pleated green ribbon. This is, again, really different from most of the hems. Most of the skirts don't reach the ground, and aren't made of a fancy fabric. Those white dresses/skirts that form the base of most looks are easily washed and have hems that don't drag on the ground. If they aren't left to just the selvage, they're very simply hemmed; I think what I saw most frequently was a double-folded hem. The pieces that have more decorative hems, like blouses and vests and aprons, aren't pieces that get the same form of wear. However, since this dress does reach the ground, it needs a centimeter or so of additional fabric to take some of that wear to protect the fancier skirt fabric, like hem braid, which the easily-replaced ribbon could conceal for this skirt since it's a festival item.

I think that might also be part of why there's a seam about twenty centimeters up from the bottom edge; it's a replaceable section in case it needs replacement, or the seam is for a protective layer inside. However, it could also be a seam used for a stiff inner lining meant to help the skirt flare out just a touch, like this.

Now, finally, why is all this even a thing, and why do I care?

Vojvodina, the region this outfit is from, was under Austro-Hungarian control during the latter half of the 19th century; whether it was officially Hungarian, Austrian, or both changed from one decade to the next, but it was definitely under that sphere of influence for a very long time. Despite this, it was and is culturally Serbian, and is majority Serbian in terms of population; it was even back then! However, the 19th century saw a large number of ethnic Hungarians and ethnic Germans in the region as well, and the cultural impact from Vienna was not to be underestimated.

This dress is a great example of how a culturally Serbian individual would have clothing that integrated those foreign influences. For most of the Balkans, the greatest influence was the Ottomans, due to five centuries of imperial rule, but this dress is a great contrast due to Hungarian occupation, and then Austrian. It contains elements of the culture that birthed it, yes, but the influence of the West is so very, very clear.

(I wish I could talk more about the Pannonian elements in general, but I'm still learning.)

I hope you enjoyed this rambling deep dive into a single outfit from the Serbian Ethnographic Museum. Visit it if you get a chance!

And if you've read this whole thing and feel like dropping a tip, you can do so on this blog, post, or over on ko-fi. You could even join my Patreon!

[adragonsfriend]

This might be a result of reading too much of @husborth‘s Vader (absolutely recommend it btw), but you know how lots of European monarchs have, like, obsessions with small dogs? I’m thinking of english Queen Victoria and collies or Elizabeth II and corgis. I think it would be really funny if as Emperor, Sidious had a little pug that followed him around and sat beside his throne. I think that would be great. No reason. No reason at all.

(Vader art by https://twitter.com/sirmitchell)

[Image ID: The first image is a stock photo of a pug's head and neck on a white background, in profile, facing right. The second image is of Vader's head and neck on a red background, also in profile and facing to the right. There is a remarkable similarity in the shape of Vader's mask and the pug's head. End ID.]

[tillman]

ok sure! I wouldn't mind seeing the chibis you've got so far that are in low resolution/blurry! :D I agree that it's such a shame these things ARE lost media at this point unless you invest hundreds of dollars buying all merch of them on ebay or something

alright so heres ABOUT what ive got. heres the image from the fight stick promo stuff that has a majority of the smaller quality ones. the issue is i have sources from so many desperate areas of the web its a bit hard to compile them all but heres my best attempt

this is where i first saw there was a full set of these things and got kinda obsessed. heres where to buy the few that are still in stock btw.

from there they did a lot of charms and pins with these designs, so its kinda easy to find them with this style of background out there. a few ive only seen in decent quality from this kind of thing. not like. amazing but a way better look at a few of em than the buttons.

from this website i managed to extract these images of a couple of them. which are really cute but so funny. the sol and ky are similarly cropped so i wont bother posting them. just silly to include. this site also has some other cool merch its neat to poke through. (particularly it has some images of the halloween merch which is SO cute)

joel also found this image and i have no clue where. but some decent looks at a few of em too.

anyways from THERE we finally get to the ones i ripped from the old website- heres about the best quality ive gotten out of any of these chibis besides teh 3 i have in full quality. (though theres a surprise i have) no i have no clue why the johnny is higher quality.

anyways . the only charms with saved pages were millia venom and axl. AND APPARENTLY JACKO? I JUST FOUND OUT . so bonus: heres jack-os full quality transparent chibi!

also on there are raven ky and leo but the only save of them were sold out so theyre cropped oddly, i have the images but . shrugs.

anyways if you ever want a certain characters xrd chibi, theres a good chance i know a pic of merch with the chibi on it for you to get a better look :-) YAY

and well i wish buying them on ebay was even an option. these for some reason barely EVER go up for sale from what i see. ive seen a few but only ever in the 80+ dollar range including shipping... cruel... they are so cute...

[donnietheterrapin]

Lets see, what will the bitches like today? I know!

More Splintskirt :D also i feel the need to say that the background isn't mine, its just a stock image from ibis paint lol

(im bitches btw)

[maxwellpaws]

Creatures for the PSX OST review

okay so today I'm going to go in a little bit more in depth with this topic because even among fans of this series this seems to be quite obscure.

Creatures is a series of video games of the pet simulator genre were you take care of Norns and makes sure they don't die.

If that description raises your curiosity here's video that goes a bit more depth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxtKrVb0m0&t=58s

Now at some point in time someone got the bright idea to make a "port" of it that turned into a entirely different game that's weird like the environments are mashup of landscapes from the first three game that range from something that could pass as a mockup for an environment to cursed images, and from what I've seen the game (and it's sequel) looks tedious and unfun.

(here’s a playlist of the console game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swxtKrVb0m0&t=58s)

and because it's a game it has more traditional background music compared to the the other games (technically the first game doesn't really have a sound track)

and that's why were here today: Is the creatures PS/PSX "port" soundtrack good despite the games quality is it just as bad as the game?

Let's find out!

(note because I’m lazy here’s a playlist of the whole OST instead each title having an individual link. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZyFjGv7qIjmll7noNNuAP7hj-gUJch0R)

Track 01:

Yes that's what it's called, none of them have names.

So I'm going to give them one this one's name is Phil, anyways this is the logo song.

It's okay and does it's job.

5.5/10

Track 02: Julie

Okay this is anything personal, but I don't really like Julie, She's kinda tedious.

and it doesn't help that according to the playthourgh I watched this plays 95% of the time!

It's not a bad song I quite like parts of it, like the chimes and it's feeling of finally on a warm summer's evening and I like the strings and chimes, and while writing this I realized this song isn't that bad when you're doing something else so I guess it's not THAT bad but not something I'd return to any time soon.

7.5/10

Track 03: Joey

Joey is great he's peppy, I like the clapping sound and guitars, and while listening to this all I can think of are cowboy norns in the west, and lucky for me songs like this are present throughout the album!

best part about this is the accordion.

7.5/10

Track 04: Jenny

Jenny is like Joey's more somber sibling.

I like the slow plucking of the guitar and the other strings,

it gives off the vibe of a town practically destroyed by a gang an a lone guitarist is free styling alone and is slowing getting into it, as it slowly cuts to a scene of the hero running through the field.

9./10

Track 05: Goober

Okay so I believe this the track for one of the minigames in the game Pac norns

(BTW having a biome dedicated to arcade game parodies feels like something I'd do to poke fun at how creature fans like to mod the games especially the third one in any way they can)

but if that isn't the case than this is the most unfitting track in the game and the person posting all this is probably right about this being stock music.

back on track I like this song especially the main two synths and the chimes and the final boss energy, also it's nice and short but not something that could get annoying on multiple replays.

10/10

Track 06: Timothy

I like Timothy even tough all I can think of while listening to him is maybe the opening of RPG involving dragons he's probably the closet to a creatures song.

(that's not saying much tough)

7/10

Track 07 Nicki

Nicki is very similar to Julie with their feeling of closure and finality but less tedious.

and I really like the recorder used in this.

7.5/10

Track 8: Jeremy

Jeremy is okay it's kinda plain.

It makes me think of that one Nick jr. browser game that was like those old PC games (the playroom types) but it was with Dora.

Hey did you guys know that at some point later on in the show they gave her two younger siblings?

I don't think I ever saw any episodes with them in it, mostly because I didn't watch Dora much my mom didn't like the show.

3/10

Track 09: I'm running out of names, so I'm going to call you Mc fucker.

Mc fucker is a nice song, love the whoop thing.

7/10

Track 10: Milo

Milo is good.

I like the guitar, sounds like a journey is happening and any minute now we'll hear the main character's mother sing hoping for there kid's return.

also I like the flute.

8/10

Track 11: Cofee cup

Coffee cup is one of the songs that is more aligned with what the series has to offer when it comes to OSTs.

(even more so than Timothy)

I quite like it, and the ascension is neat.

7/10

Track 12: Ned

Ned sounds a lot like Jeremy but more fleshed out like the long guitarist really got into it and made it into a son expressing it's sorrow about the destruction of his town.

10/10

Track 13: Suzanne

Suzanne is very skycore, jk jk.

Sounds very uplifting, The synths that accompanied the guitar is nice, and the ending melody is great.

So far this is my favorite track.

9.5/10

Track 14: James

James is some nice stereotypical eastern sounding stuff with a hip-hop beat.

All I can imagine is some norns rapping, and then they get sued because of the sample they used or something.

this is my second favorite.

7/10

track 15: Teddy

Teddy sounds exactly like a mashup of Julie and a minecraft song. which I quite like, honestly I'm quite floored with how this sounds like minecraft music BEFORE minecraft was a thing.

Also cool reverb.

7/10

Track 16: Nemo

Nemo is another single noise song that just plays in a loop for longer than it should...and it's not even as long.

From what I've seen from playthourghs I'd say this sums up the experience.

but hey at least it was only two minutes.

1/10

Track 17: Jake

Jake is very energetic sounding like marching music and it sounds quite nice despite it being a single beat for only a minute.

7.9/10

Track 18: Lou ann

I love this one.

the long synths the choir that just drones on and and the bass

and from the sounds of it I assume it plays during whatever that games has close to a graveyard (if it has one)

I also enjoy how the droning slowly fades away to reveal a guitar that plays along.

and the lone synth at the very end playing a simple melody is the cherry on top.

THIS IS THE BEST SONG THIS GAME HAS TO OFFER.

10/10

Tack 19: South

It's fine.... sounds like a wiggles song.

Can't really say anything about it beyond that.

6/10

Track 20: Leroy

This song is cool. cool riff.

BUT CAN LEROY BEAT THE ROCK SONG FROM THE FIRST GAME?

Track 21: N

N is the intro cut scene song that explains what were supposed to do in game and why, but not why the game is a bizarre mash up of assets of assets from previous games or unique one or if whether or not the unique ones are from a previous build of the PC games.

Or if this is the untold origin story of the creatures adventures feather thing because it's the same character but it looks different.

uh anyways the song exists.

5/10

Track 22: Jean

The beginning is very muffled compared to the rest of the song and I don't know why.

this also feels like something from a DS game but this time a LPS one.

it sounds okay but I feel like it went on longer than it should.

8.5/10

Track 23: Nya

I like Nya?

I think it sounds like something I'd hear in a breakcore so-

OH NO I'M TURNING INTO THAT MEME!

4/10

Track 24: Taffy.

Back to the topic of songs from this game that sound like songs from games that didn't exist till a decade or so later this sounds like the Core from Undertale.

it's okay.

5.5/10

Track 25: Flute

I like flute sounds like a companion piece to hip-hop thing I covered earlier and hey it appears were out of the kinda boring short song slump!

8/10

Track 26: Shitty porno

There's a reason why had this be the title card music for Melvil and Minestro enter the Webtoon boyfreinds omegaverse.

4/10

track 27: Cool villain song

Before the drop it sounds like the song for a villain in one of those animated movies like the "were back dinosaur's tale" were you (at least me) keep thinking it's a Don bluth film but it's not.

but after the drops sounds like DVD menu music for some generic cowboy film from the early 70s.

7/10

Track 28: Fred

Fred I'm pretty sure is Shittporno's brother.

But this time he mostly works as transition music as we go to the house to the beach.

this is slightly better.

8/10

Song 29: Bun

Bun is totally related to Shitty porno and Fred in some way.

but she's a lot more eurodance-y and is a more pleasant experience on the ears.

9/10

Track 30: qwertyyterwwqwertyu

Orchestra. I like it I guess? it exists.

5/10

Track 31: Dingo

HOLY SHITE! WERE AT THE END!!!!

Let's see what masterpiece awaits us at....

*this music plays*

Most of the animals are sooooo stupid.

7/10.

Final thoughts! Even if this is just a collection of stock music I'd say for the most part it's a very good collection of stock music and in fact I quite like it, i totally recommend listening to this at some point.

but for the game itself not sure I might play it (and it's sequel) some day....Probably for some sort of milestone.

Tune in next time were maybe I’ll talk about the OST for the other games maybe.

(spoilers Creatures 2 OST is actually pretty good and Creatures 3 dying music should be a meme)

final score is 8.9/10

[tigerlyla-of-metinna]

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

1, 5, 20, 21, 26 please ~ 😆

Wow, that is a lot 😁😁😁

1. Art programs you have but don’t use.

Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw continues to gather pixel dust on my desktop. A co-worker taught me how to make vectors and product labels on Illustrator but my brain couldn't retain the info. Same with Corel. They are still there but never picked up again.

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself.

If I could, I'd post them all, including the weirdly stunted human attempts I did in my childhood XD. That's because I don't have a cellphone with a working camera! So all the ones I created digitally are online for the world to see. My pencil drawings, inkpen stippling, and oil pastel disasters stays in a manila envelope inside my closet, underneath my folded towels XD.

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy.

Common stumbling block for a lot of artist I know: drawing hands. I still sometimes find it daunting to draw them, but I do enjoy making them and found stock images of different hand positions very helpful in managing that block. BTW, if you see any hands included in my portraits, those are actually mine 😁.

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways.

Anyone who can make background layouts, concept arts, medieval style arts in somber colors that fit right in in artbooks (like the Witcher artbook), my work is a far cry from those masters and I looooove them immensely. There are some artists here whose works I admire: Morkorney, alexineskiba, a lot! Even yours, @mintmerlot :)))

26. What’s a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended.

XD. I created a nine headed serpent called Orochi and people who saw it mistook it for the Hydra :D. It was one of my early SAI art and I got crazy with the tools in photoshop (also my first attempt at that software. This one:

Thank you for my trip to memory lane @mintmerlot :D.

[nazumichi]

front and back! got a massive headache while making them. homophobia is so real :( if these were real i would splatter them with glue in random places and throw golden glitter on top!! hope you like them <3

image id: A badly made fake wedding invitation. There is two version: the front and the back. The background is purple with teal water effects. For both, the rainbow text at the top reads: "you are invited to raii nazumichi's and vee littlespoonsokka's wedding!!!1!" and there are stock gay couple wedding photos with visible watermarks, with profile pictures of Sokka from atla and Marie from bna edited instead of the faces. They are also covered in golden glitter effects in random places. The text on the first picture reads: "we are celebrating the unity of two tumblrinas (also known as marriage) for the second time (which doesn't make it any less special btw), we're partially doing this to speed up the passing of queen liz, it will be blorbo themed! and nothing dramatic (like death) is going to happen. at all :)". On the second one it reads: "you should come because we have fun and interesting things like: - music - and other things, please come. or else something bad might happen :)", in smaller text below: "(you will miss the wedding)". end id.

HOLY SHIT THESE ARE SO……… OBSESSED OMG OLLIEEEE!!!!

yes there will be no death at all, at this blorbo-themed event where none of the blorbos have ever died ever :) the worst thing that will happen if you don’t show is that you’ll miss it :) you will love our other things :)

@littlespoonsokka marriage moment !!

[mikuedits]

mod rin’s handy-dandy websites list!!

ive been doing this whole kin aesthetic thing for a while now, and i figure ive got some resources to share!! so heres a list of websites that are useful for this type of thing.

i hope these help!! if you use em could you please reblog to share? i wanna make sure these get around tumblr a bit if they’re actually useful.

remove.bg : removes backgrounds from images!! the algorithm works insanely well, big recommend from me.

www8.lunapic.com/editor/ : too many options to list here. an extremely useful tool for all sorts of things!!

pinetools.com/invert-image-colors : inverts colors!! i dont think it works on gifs, but ive got another website for that stuff. i used this cuz i couldnt find a white 3x3 grid anywhere,,,

resizeimage.net : the url says it all. instructions are laid out on the website so just follow those and viola!

ezgif.com : all sorts of fun features for editing gifs!! it mutes the colors a bit but for simple edits it works wonders.

photomosh.com : glitch effects!! its fun its easy and its free.

pixabay.com : stock images!!! great for aesthetics n stuff. im fine with using google images myself, but i know some people arent. its also just a good website to look around if ur out of ideas!!

coolsymbol.com/cool-fancy-text-generator.html : fonts!! its exactly what it says on the tin. a few popups every once and a while but nothing virus-y and not frequently enough to get annoying.

alt-codes.net : copy/paste symbols!! works for stimboard credits, plain aesthetic text, and pretty much everything in between. from what i can tell these show up on most devices. there are TONS of em so check it out!!

aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki : very helpful if you’re out of requests. hit random page and find an aesthetic to work off of!!

tineye.com : find the source of images/gifs/whatever. i especially recommend this if you want to find the source for fanart you found online!!!

incontrolclothing.com : FASHION SETS!!!! new clothes added every week and old ones constantly restocked, so your selection is fresh for whenever you need it!! plus its just super cute if you want something for yourself too.

bonuses!

piccollage.com : this is an app btw!! it sounds informal and it usually is but hear me out... tbh, its a great place to start. hell i use it for the majority of my requests, and they look no different than the photoshop ones!! long as u use the freestyle thing and make ur edit juuuust above the watermark so u can crop it out. only annoying thing is the shadows but thats easy to work around.

picrew.me : need ideas for editing tricks and add-ons? new artists to check out? a base for fashion sets? then i suggest checking out picrew!! not only is it a super fun character creator website, but its also a goldmine for inspiration!! ngl ive made 1350 of these and saved them all to my phone,,

some helpful images that can be hard to find,

... and thats about it!! i hope you find these helpful. feel free to add on with your own resources!! ill check em out and other people could benefit from em too.

- mod rin

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 270: Harry Potter Rules

Previously on BnHA: Present Mic punched Ujiko in the face! It was awesome. I’m thinking about getting a tattoo of it. Meanwhile Endeavor saved Mirko’s life by setting her on fire (reason #15 why I will never become a superhero), and Aizawa did some sexy Spider-Man poses for our viewing pleasure while fighting the rest of these Noumus which are still annoyingly refusing to die. Anyway but back to Present Mic, the undisputed MVP of this chapter. Because you see, in addition to the punching, he also used his Loud Voice attack (literally the actual attack name; Horikoshi will steal all of my jokes and leave me with nothing) to smash open Tomura’s Noumutank! Which I really thought was going to immediately lead to Everyone Dying, but apparently I was wrong! Anyways so yeah, right now Tomura’s just lying down all heart-stopped and not-breathing. Which seems very anticlimactic, BUT I JUST HAVE THE CRAZIEST FEELING that maybe, just maybe, the super powerful villain lad who just spent the last three arcs slowly upgrading his bad self just in time to wage war on the world as the story reaches its climax, might not actually be dead though.

Today on BnHA: DON’T MIND THAT OMINOUS ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND, IT’S NOTHING, IGNORE IT. Ahem. So first of all, as some of the bolder among us dared to speculate, Tomura is not, in fact, dead. He’s still very much kicking it with his nipple-less pecs and truffula tree hair, putzing around in his mental landscape filled with crumbled buildings and disembodied Theatrical Gesture Hands. For some reason he doesn’t have shoes or a shirt in his mental landscape, which was a very interesting choice on Horikoshi’s part, but we will speak no more of it. Anyway so to sum things up, Tomura’s family is all “TENKO WE LOVE YOU” and he’s all “oh hey” and then AFO fucking appears and he’s all “COME HERE MY BOY” which is exactly as creepy as you would expect, and for some fucking reason TOMURA ACTUALLY DOES COME HERE. And lol it turns out Ujiko gave him AFO. Like the quirk. Yes, that quirk. So long story short, Tomura is about to be possessed by AFO’s evil soul or some shit, and to put the cherry on top, fucking Deku out of fucking nowhere, MILES AWAY, is all “HE’S COMING.” Because of course he can sense it, because AFOFA IS REAL, AND FUCK ME THIS IS ALL HAPPENING TOO FAST, FUCK.

I know this chapter has been out since like 1pm, but I’m not getting to read it until 5 hours later because for once in my life I was trying to be responsible and actually get some work done on a Friday. I thought this might lead to less oh-god-I-still-have-to-get-that-done anxiety hovering over my weekend, but instead it just led to oh-god-I-have-to-get-the-chapter-recap-done anxiety hovering over my now! anyways so this might be a bit rushed lol

(ETA: yeah turns out this wasn’t exactly the kind of chapter you could just read quickly and get on with your life lmao. so, then!)

what a nice panel of Present Mic taking out the trash

you heard ‘em fellas. the doctor is secured. good job everyone we did it, manga over, congratulations. now to cut away to a two-page spread of Dark Shadow comically smothering Dabi’s flames with a giant stock pot lid, and that’ll be that! what a wonderful, extremely short and strangely underwhelming arc in which we haven’t even seen the actual main characters do anything yet. but I guess we don’t need them since the main bad guy is lying dead on the floor! everything is just so fucking dead and secured!! do you think if I keep repeating it enough Horikoshi will finally be like “okay geez I get it” and reveal his hand already

Mic is now ordering Ujiko to power down the Noumu, which again, I’m sure he will definitely do without a fuss since after all the good guys have clearly won the day

OH SHIT OH FUCK

rip X-Less. gonna just take a moment here to imprint your beautiful face onto my memory before it turns into a pile of ash. your face, I mean. not my memory. well my memory more or less already is a pile of ash but that’s neither here nor there ANYWAYS

:’)

what are these little sound effects. I think that’s supposed to be a buzzing noise?? anyways whatever it is PLEASE STOP IT, I AM NOT HAVING A NICE TIME SO STOP

ffff Horikoshi sure has done an excellent job of setting the mood in such a way that all of these panels of X-Less doing incredibly mild things are sending my stress levels through the roof. like is anyone else reading his lines more or less like “WELP, TIME FOR ME TO DIE, ANY SECOND NOW, WE’RE REALLY DOING THIS, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, HERE IT COMES”

(ETA: when is this poor sweet innocent man going to fucking die already.)

LET’S CUT BACK TO MIC ESCAPING THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY

I have the clearest mental image of Horikoshi standing by with a walkie talkie in one hand and one of those remote bomb detonation clicky switch thingies in the other, patiently waiting to receive the go-ahead once all of the important characters have gotten to safety

anyway so now Ujiko is talking again

no fear everyone this is just the beginning of his verbal noumu deactivation sequence. nothing to worry about. everything is fine

yes for some reason his code phrase to put all the noumus back to sleep involves going into rambling detail about his work researching quirk singularities and shit. it’s fine. it’s not a big deal. code phrases are just like that sometimes all right

just ignore the increasingly panicked look in Mic’s eye as he slowly realizes he was way too fucking keen to just leave the “dead” Tomura back there with his laser-eyed hero buddy. anyway so let’s continue learning all about the Quirk Illuminati or whatever the fuck

okay so... he faked his own death? 70 years ago, at age 50 or thereabouts? I mean, that’s interesting and all I guess. not saying I wouldn’t be thrilled to spend the rest of this chapter learning all about Ujiko’s boring evil life. I don’t need to say it because it’s implied on account of Ujiko sucks and is the worst. so yeah can we get a move on though

oh shit?!?

WHOSE NARRATION IS THAT IN THE BOXES TOMURA IS THAT YOU OH GOD OH GOD

also, comparing AFO’s smile to a buddha’s really sent an actual shudder of disgust down my spine for some reason lmao. I personally would have steered that comparison in a different area, maybe less to buddhas and more to Norman Bates from Psycho, but to each their own

oh shit wait up

okay but this is actually a pretty big revelation though, isn’t it? because it’s been hinted for a while now that AFO and Ujiko had some method of duplicating quirks (the fact that all the Noumu share the same regeneration quirk was the biggest clue, but there was also John-chan’s quirk, as well as Hood’s Muscular-esque quirk), but as far as I can recall, this is the first time we’ve had it confirmed. though to be fair I wasn’t joking when I said my memory really has been shit lately sob

anyway so for real though, can you really call it a BnHA chapter if you’re not spending a good chunk of it being hopelessly confused over the ownership of some ambiguous thought bubbles. WHO IS THIS. I do seriously feel like it’s Tomura, because he’s the wrathful one, but another hallmark of a typical BnHA chapter is me constantly questioning everything I know as I muddle my way through

(ETA: yeah I’m pretty sure it was him. still impressive how vague it is though! it could also potentially be Ujiko, Mic, or even Deku. hopefully Caleb’s translation on Sunday can shed some more light on this. though he wasn’t really helpful last time this happened lol.)

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON

didn’t... you just... say that “preservation” was your quirk?? what do you mean that you wanted it?? CAN YOU JUST FINISH YOUR SENTENCES LIKE A NORMAL PERSON

anyway so here’s a summary of this chapter thus far

present mic: okay goodbye forever x-less

x-less: what a strange thing to say! :) also is it just me or is this machine fucking staring at me

present mic: turn the noumu off please

ujiko: seventy years ago... society... singularity... he’d be 120 years old now...

??: [REPULSIVE FEELING EW WHO’S TOUCHING ME]

ujiko: all for one has the smile of an angel...

??: [SON OF A BITCH I’M SO FUCKING WRATHFUL]

ujiko: my quirk... preservation... the truth is... my quirk... preservation... the truth is... my quirk...

all caught up?? grand. also btw is anyone else super disturbed by the fact that Ujiko recognizes Mic as being “Kurogiri’s friend”, like holy shit though? how would he know that. I can’t think of any implications of this that aren’t super disturbing tbh

anyways back to -- LOL WHAT THE

Horikoshi Kouhei: [furiously scribbling notes to himself at 3am] BUT WHAT IF THE FOLDING CITY FROM “INCEPTION” HAD MORE GIANT HANDS

jesus christ. is this like some mental representation of what shit is currently like in Tomura’s mind? lots of crumbly destruction and traffic lights and the house his father built (isn’t it? I feel like it looks familiar), and SO MANY HANDS, HE JUST LOVES HIS HANDS

anyway so at this point it’s a coin toss whether or not anything in this fucking chapter is ever going to make any kind of fucking sense! but here I am voluntarily along for the ride while Gene Wilder sings that creepy boat song right in my ear!

DSFKLDSJ

ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN FLOATING IN A JAR FOR THREE MONTHS TBH. that is some luscious quarantine hair

SDFLKJSDLFKJSLKFDHLKSDJFLKJLKSDJL:FKJSDL:KJ

(ETA: that Tomura in the top left may be my new favorite panel. look at him. all he is is a nose and chin and ~*~HAIR~*~.)

HANAAAAAA AHHHHHH OH MY LORD OH MY LORD! OKAY I’M FINALLY PAYING ATTENTION NOW FOR REAL! NO MORE JOKES! EVERYBODY SHHHH!!!

FFFFFFFFFF

“LOOK AT ME I’M A MAIN CHARACTER I CAN HAVE STRANGE VISIONS AND TALK TO DEAD PEOPLE IN MY DREAMS, SOUND LIKE ANYBODY ELSE YOU KNOW?” TOMURA SHUT UP I DON’T HAVE TIME TO ANALYZE THIS SCENE THEMATICALLY RIGHT NOW I’M TOO BUSY BEING SAD ABOUT YOUR DEAD SISTER WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY CALCULATING THE ODDS OF THIS SOMEHOW BEING FORESHADOWING FOR HER NOT REALLY BEING DEAD. OH GOD, OH FUCK YOU GUYS, I’M FREAKING OUT

WHAT KIND OF YOUNGER BROTHER DOESN’T CALL HIS OLDER SISTER “NEECHAN” TOMURA WHAT KIND OF ANIME CHARACTER ARE YOU

AT THIS POINT HIS HAIR IS ITS OWN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER WITH THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS WOW

HORIKOSHI PLEASE STOP SHAKING THIS CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE OF SIBLING FEELS SO VIGOROUSLY I AM SO TERRIBLY AFRAID OH GOD

“BY THE WAY TENKO I JUST HAVE TO SAY, YOUR MAN BOOBS ARE SERIOUSLY IMPRESSIVE AND YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD.” YES HANA I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY. HOW ASTUTE OF YOU TO POINT THAT OUT. BOY HAS BEEN HITTING THAT BOWFLEX

WTAF IS HIS HAIR THOUGH SERIOUSLY??!

IS IT JUST ME OR IS THIS DIALOGUE BUBBLE ACTUALLY COMING FROM THE HAIR ITSELF. TOMURA. TOMURA BLINK TWICE IF YOU ARE IN DANGER

SJJKJSKJSW

TENKO IT’S ME YOUR GIANT MOM I’M BEHIND YOU HONEY TURN AROUND AND LOOK HELLO HI I LOVE YOU DO YOU STILL WANT TO BE A HERO

ffff why is he so pretty all the time lately

you are very handsome with your billowy hair and ken doll abs, you. sure are having a lot of trippy visions for a dead guy too there

HEY!!!!

WHO SAID YOU WERE ALLOWED -- DO YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST -- ffffffffff I need to be alone with my thoughts for a few minutes fuck

okay well. but since it is getting late I guess we’ll just pack these feelings up real quick and put them inside a box and neatly label it “feelings I have about Tomura having a vision of his mom and immediately turning back into his innocent little boy self in said vision as soon as he sees her.” not too sure about the contents of this box yet but I will have to explore them thoroughly at a later date

oh hey it’s this asshole

“THAT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO, DAD.” jesus Kotaro. get over it

and also guess what, if you go and get Tomura all riled up so he wakes up grumpy and disintegrates the first hapless guy he sees, I will hold you solely responsible for that poor man’s death. I’m just warning you now

oh my

I remember this conversation going a bit differently the last time, but hey

LOOOOOOL

HIGH FIVE. PUT ‘ER THERE

WHY WOULD YOU LOOK SO SURPRISED LOL DID YOU NOT JUST TURN TOWARDS HIM WITH A SINISTER MURDER FACE LIKE TWO SECONDS AGO. LIKE WTF DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN

OH NO OH SHIT

FUCK ME, GUESS IT WOULDN’T BE A DRAMATIC BNHA DREAM SEQUENCE IF THIS ASSHOLE DIDN’T MAKE AN APPEARANCE AT SOME POINT OR OTHER NOW WOULD IT

-- HOLY SHIT?!

RECORD SCRATCH, FREEZE FRAME??

holy shit. holy shit. holy shit. holy shit. holy shit. holy shit

holy shit. fuck

...okay so

is this implying that AFO has been Noumufied? but that doesn’t make any sense, does it? he already had multiple quirks. what other advantages could there be to him becoming a Noumu. well whatever I’m just typing out all of my thoughts real fast for the time being and I’ll try to make sense of them later

or is it because he sees Kurogiri as a father figure? and AFO also?

or is he using Kurogiri’s quirk????? IS HE SOMEHOW WARPING INTO TOMURA’S DREAMS

because that third one, to me, is what this panel most looks like? Tomura says he looks like Kuro, but he doesn’t though. Kuro has a very distinctive face which this is very much lacking. instead it looks to me much more like one of Kurogiri’s portals, with AFO’s buddhaesque smile sticking out. so yeah. I got nothin’. except, again, fuck

(ETA: yeah I obviously have more thoughts about this now, but we’ll get to those in a bit.)

...

.......

-- !!!!!!!!!!LKJLK!JLKJ

oh shit oh shit oh shit 

OH SHIT

NO BABY NO DON’T DO IT

GASP

THEY’RE TRYING TO SAVE HIM AHHHH

I HAVE LIKE TEN THOUSAND THOUGHTS IN MY BRAIN RIGHT NOW YET SOMEHOW MY MIND IS ALSO STRANGELY BLANK?? I DON’T EVEN KNOW?? I’LL JUST KEEP READING

KOTARO ARE YOU TRYING TO HELP HIM OR ARE YOU PULLING HIM TOWARD AFO??

OH HE’S PUSHING HIM BACK!! OH SHIT IT’S A WHOLE FAMILY EFFORT

THEY’RE TRYING TO SAVE HIM AFO IS GOING TO TAKE HIM OVER AND THEY’RE TRYING TO PROTECT HIM OH GOD OH JESUS

BABY TENKO EYES OH MY GOD HE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE DEKU THAT I THOUGHT IT WAS DEKU FOR A MOMENT

NO TENKO!!!

FUCK -- DOES HE NOT CARE? HE ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDS WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN BUT HE DOESN’T CARE?? IS HE TRULY SO PROFOUNDLY MISERABLE THAT HE’D GO AHEAD AND ACCEPT THIS FATE WILLINGLY

NO SOUNDS. NO WORDS. YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP IN MY ROOM RIGHT NOW

except that I have the most incredible, chilling, disturbing, electrifying feeling that my mental soundtrack is about to start blaring AFO’s theme from the anime on full blast...!

LOOOOOL SOB OH FUCKK

THE MOST TERRIFYING, DRAMATIC KIP UP YOU’VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE!! THIS IS IT, IT’S BEEN REAL FRIENDS, THIS IS WHERE WE DIE

-- ARE YOU REALLY, TRULY, GENUINELY SHITTING ME RIGHT NOW

NOW OF ALL TIMES IS WHEN WE FINALLY CUT TO THE TRIO, I’M CAN’T, I’M FUCK

AND THAT’S THE END AHHHHH

holy shit holy shit holy shit. wow

okay so. I don’t really have any sort of neat and tidy way to wrap up this hot mess of a recap lol. so, just... have a whole mess of all of my stupid whirling thoughts

those first four pages really did nothing to brace me at all lol

okay, so. here’s my understanding of all this, I guess. basically we’re going full Harry Potter rules here. AFO horcruxed his quirk, and from the looks of it, a piece of his soul (perhaps even the main piece) along with it. he then passed it on to Ujiko to implant into Tomura

horcrux!AFO then wakes up, and takes over Tomura. so then my understanding is that he’s going to be possessed by him. and I also got the impression that he’s fully aware of that, but just doesn’t care at this point. he knew his family was trying to warn him, but he didn’t care. and that look in his eyes when he disintegrated them just seemed so fucking resigned to me, though. jesus

but now the more interesting thing! so we can liken Tomura to the resurrected Voldemort from book 5 and onward, reborn after transferring his power into a new vessel. which would go a long way toward explaining how AFO was able to sense what was happening from all the way in Tartarus; because if we liken it to Voldemort and his horcruxes, it would mean that he still has a connection to them (similar to the connection between Voldemort’s mind and Harry’s)

but so now comes the really interesting thing -- what does this then imply about the connection between AFO and Deku? because you’ll recall that AFO alluded to a similar mental connection back when Deku first activated SIXQUIRKS. and now we have Deku somehow being magically aware of AFO’s sudden resurgent presence in this chapter. but why?? if the reason AFO and Tomura share a psychic link is because of a shared quirk, why would Deku also be experiencing the same link? the answer is, he wouldn’t -- unless he, too, had the same shared quirk

in other words, I think All for One for All is fucking confirmed you guys. I can’t think of any explanation for this other than that OFA is also a horcrux quirk. a little piece of AFO broken off and embedded in his brother, and then passed along through the generations. and now residing within Deku

anyway. so that’s a hell of a lot to ponder lol. I guess we can at least be grateful for the fact that we’re not waiting two weeks for chapter 271 like Hori originally planned. can you fucking imagine. what a fucking asshole lol

[meowolfe]

Slifer the Sky Dragon 🐉 My favorite of the three Egyptian God Cards 😌!! As a kid when I first saw Slifer in the movie I was like holy shit, that is the coolest design ever, that thing has two mouths!! btw Slifer's anatomy was kind of a nightmare to sketch haha. Also, I had to go through countless stock images of Egyptian hieroglyphics references for the background but nevertheless it was a whole new experience drawing something so different. Looking back now, yugioh was a really huge part of my childhood and I can't help but to reminisce about those days.

[skunky2]

Top 11 Worst Cartoons of the 2010′s!!

We had so many great cartoons introduced in this decade and while I haven't seen every last one I can say this decade was one of the best for animation in general! Sadly for every good animated show produced in this era there are also some bad apples in the bunch the following cartoons are some of the worst I have seen but please remember this is only my opinion if you like any of these shows then that's great continue to enjoy them don't let me stop you!!! 

        Now let's get this list started!!!

11. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs the series         (2017-2018) 

Ok before we talk about the show I want to make one thing clear I don't hate the films in fact I actually find them enjoyable even going as far as calling them guilty pleasures the show on the other hand is a huge flop compared to the movies were the films had creativity and fun humor the show lacks that in fact this is by far the most boring show to be based on a freaking film about an invention that makes it rain food!! The other problem I have with this show is it's set before the events of the films so Flint hasn't even become an inventor yet but instead it's about him in high school and apparently him and Sam knew each other already did they even watch their first film!? Also the mayor is the principle because why not seriously this has got to be the worst show based on a hit animated film it's so painfully unfunny that I question how kids found it entertaining to begin with!!!! Not every movie needs a tv series and this one proves it!

10.  Total Dramarama (2018-ongoing) 

Oh the pain to see the Total Drama series downgraded to this especially since the original Total Drama Island took a ton of risk for a show aimed at kids also how did we go from a series that spoofed reality  shows to a bad Muppet Babies rip-off!! What's really sad is that creators have no desire to produce a new Total Drama series they just want to work on this. On the plus side it's still not as bad as other shows your going to see later on the list. 

9. Super Noobs (2015-ongoing) 

Other then the "how do you do fellow kids" title I wasn't expecting this show to wow me considering it was brought to you by the same dude that brought us Johnny Test aka the original most hated cartoon of all time I got the DA pics to back me up! The worst part is this show has a very interesting concept but it's ruined due to the bad humor and characters. The show is about a group of outcast middle schoolers who receive super powers in the form of power balls from aliens who then become their mentors and how they must save the world from an evil virus that threatens the world sounds like an awesome plot too bad it's not pushed further. 

8. Almost Naked Animals (2011-2013)

Yes this is a children's cartoon not a title for an X rated film. All I can say about this show is why? Why would anyone greenlight a show about an animal nudist hotel not only is it disgusting but those character designs yikes!!!! They look so ugly looking no one wants to see something that looks this hideous!!  Not to mention the humor is just as terrible as the art design. 

7. Breadwinners (2014-2016) 

You know when you feature twerking in your show you automatically fail. The best way I can describe this cartoon is it's just awful first off the two idiot main characters who I'm not going to refer by name since they are some of the most stupidest names for characters seriously  SwaySway and Buhdeuce!? Anyway the show is about these two "ducks" I say ducks like that since they look nothing like ducks they look like frogs or aliens or something. Try to make your character if they are an animal try to look as close as possible as the species they're supposed to be so it will make it easier for you audience to identify them. Well they fly around in a rocket car or something I really don't care and deliver bread to stock-image ducks which brings me to another problem they can't even draw background characters they just go on Google find a duck photo and photoshop cartoon eyes and whatever on it how lazy a can you be!! Also I found out a long time ago your actually not supposed to give ducks bread yeah it can use malnutrition and illness to them so this cartoon is spreading the wrong message to kids. 

6. Brickleberry (2012-2015)

You know why I despise most adult cartoons because most of them are either trying way to hard to be quote on quote "adult" with overuse of swearing, gore, shock humor, and sex jokes and guess what this show is full of this!! Not only is the animation similar to that to Family Guy it's just as disgusting and offensive!!! The show revolves around these park rangers and their everyday lives at their jobs and the characters aren't very good either they are pretty much all assholes, stereotypes of usual characters you see in adult animation, and your typical characters that are just there to offend you! In fact the little bear cub character is pretty much the shows answer to Brain from Family Guy with the personality  of Cartman from South Park. Now I haven't seen this show in a long time but I just remember it wasn't a pleasant experience if you want to check it out just be warned it's not for the faint of heart.  Also the creators of this show produced another show for Netflix that is just a carbon copy with cops instead of rangers and I though that Seth McFarlane was lazy when it came to plots!! It's called Paradise P.D. btw 

5. Teen Titians Go!  (2013-Ongoing) 

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah you've heard it all before this show is garbage, a disgrace to DC comics, stupid etc. The animation community has tore this show apart so there really isn't much to say that already hasn't been said but I will say this I never intended to hate this show as much as I do in fact I was fine with it when it fist came out I mean the original Teen Titians cartoon from 2003 will always be better then this show in every possible way but I wasn't one of the fans to jump on the hate wagon when this was announced I mean I had nothing wrong with it just focusing on comedy if you remember correctly the original had eps that were just as silly and bizarre. The main reasons why this show is so high up on this list is for the following reasons the first is I've never seen a show like this disrespect a fan base this much  it's like the creators have it out for the original fans and they get joy out of mocking them with all these pathetic critic call out eps they do it also shows that they can't take criticism at all!!!! Second is how the creators view their show and animation in general they literally came out in an interview and said the reason why they made the show so stupid is because it's for children you do know kids aren't stupid right guys they deserve shows that don't try to talk down to them!!!! But the main reason for my anger towards this show is how they made an episode awhile were the moral literally was that cartoons are only for kids and told the original fans to grow up!! Mainly the creators themselves have this warped mindset that I honestly wish would just die out that only children should be allowed to watch cartoons and that their show should be immune to all the hate since it's for kids so they use the "just for kids" excuse for their show being like it is. It's hard to believe they would even have a mindset like that when they are adults themselves making an animated cartoon show. I didn't mean to rant this long but I mainly hate everything this show stands for and sadly it's going onto to get 300+ eps. Personality I really think it's time for this show to officially Go not because I don't like it's mainly because it's showing signs it's on it's last legs and with that Sixth Titian thing they pulled this summer and repeating episode plots is starting to show that the writers are becoming burned out this show was never good but I think it's time it ended. There are tons of other reasons this show is bad but I rather not go into them this has gone on long enough already. 

4. PPG 2016 (2016-Ongoing) 

Well TTG isn't the worst reboot/spinoff Cartoon Network produced in this decade the honor has to go to this piece of trash Powerpuff Girls 2016!! Why was this made simple CN wanted more money so they made this show to sell toys yes that was the only purpose of this reboot to sell merchandise too bad the show sucked so hard that the target demo along with the fans of the original Powerpuff Girls hated it! There are tons of problems with this reboot that have already been explained such as god awful animation errors, bad writing, and let's not forget the memes those outdated memes. Not to mention they removed the character Ms. Bellum since the creator thought that having a beautiful, warm-hearted, motherly, intelligent and strong-willed woman on the show was offensive to the new generation! Not to mention they got rid of breast but they did allow the girls to twerk tho!!! Yes because having an intelligent good-looking woman with boobs is bad but kindergarteners doing a sexually explicate dance is fine!! Seriously I feel so bad for Craig McCracken it was bad enough he was screwed over by Disney but to have his show turned into this!! 

3. The Problem Solverz (2011-2013) 

If you want to know my opinion for the worst animated show Cartoon Network has ever made it would be this one! Not only is the show ugly to look at but it uses enough bright colors to make your eyes bleed. The show is about these detectives who solve problems in their home town too bad they cause 90% of the problems they need to solve. These characters are so nasty to look out we got this ugly fish-like man, some robot, and a big nosed hideous lipped Domo wannabe. It was cancelled from tv but ran it's final season on Netflix. I still feel pain for any child that had to sit though this. 

2. Pickle and Peanut (2015-2018) 

Ugh this show!!!! If you've never seen it you may guess this would be something on Adult Swims line up since they're more known for wired shows like this but no it's not from Adult Swim in fact you'll never believe who made this Disney!!! Yes Disney Television Animation produced this the very same company that bought us shows like Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb, Star Vs. and so on made this garbage. There are several problems with this show first off the animation remember when I said that Breadwinners was lazy for using stock-images as background characters well this is the same damn thing but in reverse they couldn't even animate a pickle and a gosh darn peanut this is a peeve I have with most modern cartoons if it's not for a joke then why use stock-images it just makes your show look lazy! Second the humor it sucks it's mainly is "trying" to be Regular Show since both characters are slackers and get into bizarre adventures. Also this show loves to show gross-out shots like the ones in Spongebob for example but unlike Spongebob these are not funny and just plain disgusting like how is this show fun for kids to watch I mean I can understand why kids love cartoons like TTG but I can't see any child liking a show like this!!! Finally we have to talk about the god awful theme song it's not even a theme song but a random robot voice listing off things adults think that children are into so pretty much they're trying way too hard to appeal to kids just like with PPG 2016. There really isn't much more to say about this show it's just awful and it's still hard to believe Disney had a part in making this.

Now it's time for the cartoon from the 2010's that I believe disserves the crown as the worst show from this decade. Out of all the shows I've seen this year none of them of completely  disgusted me more then this one it pretty much has everything  I despise in modern adult animation it makes Brickleberry look tame in comparison!!! It comes to us from our friends at Adult Swim may I present to you the cartoon that I consider the worst!

1. Mr. Pickles (2013-Ungoing) 

I honestly don't know where to start on this one it's just god awful!! First it's got all the things I despise in adult animation shock humor, sex jokes, violence for the sake of it, and ugly character designs!! The show is about a family who owns a dog who is either the devil himself or one of his loyal followers and the dog does extremely messed up things to people stuff I rather not try to remember let's just say this show is MA for reason. If you have a faint heart please stay away from this show at all cost!!!

So there it is my opinions for the worst shows from this decade I hope you all enjoy it since I worked really hard on it.

I didn’t include Big Mouth or Paradise P.D. because I’ve never seen them but yeah I know they’re bad. 

[saleintothe90s]

390. Fire at 30 Rock and how Conan handled it (October 10 & 11th, 1996)

I kind of wanted to commemorate Conan’s 10th anniversary of being the short-lived host of The Tonight Show here somehow, and this is the butt-backwards day I’m doing it. 

In October of 1996, fire broke out at Rockefeller Center, where most of the news and talk programs at NBC have their studios. I vaguely remember this being reported on television that morning and tuning into the Today show to see how they were handling it, because you know, you can’t run a repeat of the Today show. I seem to remember Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric outside? I can’t find clips of it anywhere online, because back then people didn’t record out of the ordinary things like this. Nobody really records the Today show unless someone they like is on there that day.

''This is my office today,'' said Jeffrey A. Zucker, executive producer of ''Today,'' leaning on a Fire Department car on 49th Street, where Ms. Couric and Matt Lauer, filling in for Bryant Gumbel, were broadcasting.

The program's set is normally a windowed studio on 49th Street. But Mr. Zucker could not use graphics, commercials and other tapes stored at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and the program moved into the street in an act of solidarity with displaced colleagues. The horde of tourists who usually line the ''Today'' windows were behind barriers a block away, where they waved and held up signs.

The studioless ''Rosie O'Donnell'' and ''Maureen O'Boyle'' talk shows were canceled, disappointing hundreds of ticket-waving fans. Network programs for 215 NBC affiliates were broadcast from Burbank, Calif. ''The NBC Nightly News'' with Tom Brokaw was shifted to Washington.

Executives of ''Dateline NBC,'' a news magazine broadcast three days a week, held staff meetings in the street, as did executives of NBC Sports, who were planning a weekend of coverage that included Yankee-Oriole games, football games and other events. Beepers and cellular phones were highly visible. 1

(The Internet Archive also has these eps as well on this playlist, look for 10/10/1996 and 10/11/1996)

The October 10th episode (part 1, part 2, part 3,  part 4 )  start with this extreme close-up of Conan. 

“We could put together a new show, but ten e wouldn’t be able to maintain our unusually high standards of broadcasting excellence. So instead folks, please enjoy this rerun.”

[His producer whispers in Conan’s ear]

“...WHAT. WE DON’T GET PAID UNLESS WE DO A SHOW?! ALRIGHT, LET’S THROW TOGETHER ANY OL’ CRAP. WE’LL DO IT ON THE STREET. WHO CARES. COME ON PEOPLE, LET’S GO.” 

I died laughing when instead of Conan’s usual theme, we saw just news footage of the firetrucks at 30 Rock at 4am that morning, and other stock footage of fires. 

Apparently all of Conan’s suits were locked in the studio, because he went casual tonight. But yet his furniture and his Eisenhower Mug made it downstairs. 

I’m a little podunk who lives out in the middle of nowhere in Virginia. I only know this part of Rockefeller Center from when the NBC Nightly News with Lester zooms out at the end of the show during the winter and you see the skaters skating near the gold statue? Yeah, I’m one of those people who don’t know squat about NYC. 

Conan’s audience looks like it was people just strolling by on their way home from work. They’re pretty dressed up to see Late Night. Conan compares them to a crowd of bystanders at an accident. Whenever he showed a clip, the audience couldn’t see it because there’s no TVs, so the audience watched Conan & Andy show a clip of O.J. Simpson from The Towering Inferno but they had no clue what they were clapping about.  At one point in part 3, two people randomly walk behind Conan and Andy headed to dinner. 

Conan even managed to find a place for Max Weinberg and his band too. I think they’re sitting on folding chairs. They play fire themed songs!  I miss Max. Has he ever been on Conan’s TBS show? *YouTube search intensifies* Yes! Yes he has! 

Oh man, I forgot about Oldy Oldeson! I also forgot about the illustrated jokes the show used to do back then: 

Conan and Andy walk mere steps over to Brookstone(s) to find a gift for tonight’s guest, Samuel L. Jackson. Remember Brookstone? Such a throwing-around-money-in-the-late-90s store. I had to Google it to see if they were still around. No more stores in malls, but they still have airport stores. Huh.

btw, Samuel loved the chair.  He said that Andy was wearing “Crippled People Shoes”. This also happened:

Tomari the ostrich delivered Conan an egg with the guests for tomorrow night’s show inside. Boy, I thought they had retired her by that point. 

Chris Kattan came by and talked about his character I love so much, Kippy Strug, Kerri Strug’s brother. They couldn’t show that clip, but I’m sure if it was a normal show they would have. Chris did an impression of his dad watching Splash.

There was an giant owl there too that didn’t want any meat. Maybe he was scared by Tomari. 

The following day, the show (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) started with the same extreme closeup of Conan. Joel announces the show as, “From next door from the burned out hulk of Rockefeller Center, it’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien!”��

omg, Getty Images have these great press photos of Conan and baby Andy in their little sweater vests on the Today set: 

That’s Conan’s longtime producer, Jeff __ .  

Andy looks like a toddler.

 I kept hearing a baby in the background and was thinking it was some sort of joke, that all they could get for an audience was a baby due to the slap-dash nature, and I was kinda right: 

Conan brought in a family to watch the show from inside the studio. 

Oldy is back tonight with the news.

Eric Idle comes by on his way to the airport. “They said I would be out of here by now, Conan.” He also sings a song about shopping, with is 100% accurate. 

More news with Oldy.

Dang, Oldy sitting in Matt Lauer’s old chair, foretelling the future. You go, Oldy. 

They snoop on Bryant Gumbel’s locker. Is that a joke on how bland he was? 

Also voodoo dolls because never forget he’s a jerk who hates everybody.

Aw, Conan fed Oldy some bread.

I just realized. My icon this month (if you’re on Tumblr dash and its still June 2019 look to your left)  is Lorne Michals rescuing Jon Lovitz from a fictional fire at 30 Rock during the 1986 season finale of SNL. I didn’t plan it that way I swear. 

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1. McFadden, Robert, “Fire at 30 Rockefeller Plaza Sends NBC Programs to 49th St. Sidewalk, New York Times, October 11, 1996.  https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/11/nyregion/fire-at-30-rockefeller-plaza-sends-nbc-programs-to-49th-st-sidewalk.html?login=google

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Eighteenth Bottle of Mike’s: Apocrypha

The true ending of Radiant Historia is one of the only works of fiction that's ever legitimately made me cry.

I've played it enough times that it doesn't anymore.

In a happier universe, where PC didn't suck on toast, the addition of voice-acting might have changed that, but between the crappy art and the unfortunate association I have developed between the voice acting- which, I want to note again, is legitimately decent- and PC's bad writing and characterization, I doubt that's going to be the case, even before the Nemesia stuff swoops in and undermines all of it.

Final boss time.

One last benchmark comparison, for old times' sake:

When I reached the final boss in my modded playthrough where I killed everything once but had no combo bonuses, when I hit the final boss, Stocke was level 64, Aht was level 61, Raynie, Marco and Rosch were 59, Gafka was 58, and Eruca was 54.

In PC right now, I have Aht at level 73, Raynie at level 69, Marc at 67, Rosch at 66, Eruca and Gafka at 65, and Stocke at level 84.

I think most of the difference is from Vault of Grinding and the Shadow Stocke boss, though the popemobile and Tudeforce boss fights might also have contributed a bit.

Theoretically I could kill the superboss with the ear-hurting sound effects in the Vault of Grinding before I did this for completionism's sake, but with those level numbers already, I don't want to make this fight any more of a joke, so it can wait.

As usual, everyone enters the room in a glitchy huddle, and oh my god I only just noticed they changed the color on Gafka's hat in his sprite to be very slightly redder, why.

Why was this changed? 493

Great budget priorities: 23

Sips++

What the hell, NO, don't read "We shouldn't exist here" like it's a badass threatening line, oh my god.

Sips++++

...aaaaand Heiss's "......!" in response is read as a weird grunting noise with a neutralface. Of course.

Sips++

Aaaaaand there's the return of that godawful evil grin on Heiss that pretty much always appears on lines where there is no way in hell he'd be grinning.

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 133

Sips++++

"I can help too!" Marco says, and S.Scans the first phase of the final boss. Thanks, Marc, I'm pretty sure we guessed the final boss was going to be immune to status effects and have no weaknesses, that's the least useful thing you could have done.

Stocke is doing a downright embarrassing amount of phys damage now; he's taking 2/3 of the HP off the Shadows with one attack, which is pretty inconvenient in this fight where you need them alive so you have things to push into the book so you can kill it.

Anyway I had Eruca slap the Black Chronicle to death just to spite PC's total lack of respect for her.

(I still think this first phase would work much better if it had a scripted ending and didn't go into the victory screen, BTW.)

Heiss's line: "Hesitation...? What on earth are you talking about!?" Heiss's voice: Weirdly flat Heiss's face: >8D

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 134

Sips++++

Stocke's VA is reading his dialogue here gentle and sad, but the expressions are all neutralface. It would work either sad or blunt and matter-of-fact, but sad voice with matter-of-fact expression doesn't particularly.

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 135

Sips++++

Aaand when Heiss makes the crystals on the edges of the room start glowing black, the glow effect is now behind the clearly-visible ones in front instead of in front of them, so it looks less like the crystals are glowing and more like there are just black spots in the empty space on the edges of the room.

Oops: 110

Sips++

Another

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 136

for another use of the godawful >8D face on "I must commune with the other Sacrifices once more..."

Sips++

...so apparently PC decided to put in a cut-in image of the Black Chronicle just kinda on a blank background.

I don't think I complained about this way back when they did the White Chronicle cut-in, but I should have: the lack of background is lazy as hell, especially here, during the INTRO TO THE FINAL BOSS. The text they added here of Heiss yelling to the Black Chronicle would honestly be a lot more effective on a black screen, not slapped over concept art; as with many of the CG splash images, it's very apparent they put it in just because they had it, not because it actually serves any purpose or makes the game better in any way.

Sips++

what the hell was that sound effect on the book opening. Why do so many PC magic sound effects sound like they got mixed up with the sound effects from a sci-fi game and no one noticed.

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 137

Sips++

"Ah, I feel their martyrdom!" Martyrdom is kind of the opposite of the feeling Heiss was aiming for here. Martyrdom is dying for a cause; Heiss wants resentment and anger at the fact that they had to die.

Sips++++

Anyway, I can't blame them for trying to make it a little more explicit exactly why/how Heiss turned into a witch from Madoka/a chicken made of stairs, even if I'm not 100% behind some of the phrasing, so

Changes I Don’t Hate: 228

anyway.

oh my god Marco you S-Scanned the final boss AGAIN? Seriously?

oh my god please don't tell me I'm going to be listening to that same weird distorted yelling noise every time Apocrypha attacks

Annoying Sound Effects: 46

Sips++++

...Why did a Dancing Death'd Punishment only do 900 damage. I could top that with a G-Frost. Did they buff Apocrypha's magic resist, or nerf Punishment way more than I thought they did?

anyway I'm blowing Dead Fencer on the second phase just so I can maybe have an actual fight on the last phase, because my party is so much faster than the poor stair monster and Stocke is doing so much damage that a combo for 3500 damage is completely trivial.

"CAN YOU WITHSTAND THIS?!", last-phase Heiss yells, and I have Tudeforce flashbacks. PC's battle voice clip writing really is godawful.

(I am also having Tudeforce flashbacks because he keeps using full-party status skills that don't do anything because I have Polaris up.)

On the subject of bad voice clips, I will never understand why PC made Eruca's clip on Death Penalty "Kneel before me!', but her clip on Punishment "You're going down!" I mean, obviously a lot of it comes down to not understanding Eruca and another part of it comes from the US translators being shockingly bad at character voice and formality register, but still, you'd think they would have put the much more dramatic line on her ultimate, not her second Mana Burst.

(I'd write a selection of new battle dialogue for every character in an interlude out of sheer spite, except that that's a type of writing I'm not particularly good at.)

oh my god Rosch stop using AOE supports when there is ONE ENEMY. Depending on the algorithms, I think it might actually have been to my advantage not to teach him a bunch of his supports in case that makes him use Lethal Rush (i.e. the only one I usually CARE about) more often.

And Apocrypha goes down like a chump without even getting to use Dark Matter.

There's a terrible part of me that wants to make a hack of RH where every boss's HP total is doubled except some of the spiders, just so you actually have to see more of the mechanics.

Heiss's VA is reading the dialogue where he's offscreen in Historia in this really weird spacey distant tone in exactly the same way Noah's VA read his dialogue in the ghost scene in the Popemobile quest, so I think we can safely blame this on the voice director. It's an awful decision, especially here: Heiss's dialogue here is really emotional, and absolutely does not benefit from being read in an Obi-Wan's-Force-ghost-like tone of vague mysticism.

Original: "I used the Chronicle and saw hope for the future... But you used it to see the ugliness of the past." PC: "I used my Chronicle and saw hope for the future... But from yours, you could only see the regret and despair of the past." I hate this.

This implies that the problem here is the Black Chronicle's capabilities. This puts the onus of Heiss's fall on what book he had, instead of on him and his decisions and how he chose to interpret the world around him.

And that is just factually wrong: he had the White Chronicle first, and switched after killing Victor and stealing his. Even if the Black Chronicle has a different focus and that ended up making Heiss worse, he'd started down this path before he had it.

This is also why I'm not giving them credit for distinguishing between the fact that they're using different Chronicles now. Heiss had the same Chronicle when he went off the rails that Stocke has now. And Stocke knows that: Eruca told him that the Black Chronicle was stolen when Victor was killed, and he knows the White Chronicle is the one given to the Sacrifice.

Why was this changed? 494

Sips++++++

Stocke's VA is... really not selling this speech as well as I would like. Like, I don't think he's doing anything wrong, but it's... generic, and it doesn't make the writing of the lines sound natural, and it's not helped at all by the bland neutralface through all of it.

Original: "And I won't ever forget that." PC: "I won't ever forget that." I think the original flows better.

Why was this changed? 495

Sips++

Original: "Huh? Where's the queen?" PC: "But where's the queen?" I'm going to run out of opportunities to say this soon, so: What was the point of this?

Why was this changed? 496

Sips++

Aht's cheeks-puffed angryface is a pretty bizarre choice for "has just spotted Eruca."

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 138

Sips++

...well, okay, I say that, and then I see Eruca's long-haired floating sprite. Yeah, angryface is a pretty appropriate response to that. Since the allegedly-floating hair doesn’t move and only fans out at the bottom, it looks more like she grew wings.

How Do I Art: 84

Sips++++++

Original: "Stocke... There's no need for you to sacrifice yourself!" PC: "Stocke... There is no need for you to sacrifice yourself!" 1) Why are they putting a weird echo voice filter on her when she's right there 2) Why is her voice acting so unemotional 3) What was the point of this.

Why was this changed? 497

Sips++

WHY WOULD YOU USE NEUTRALFACE ON "I must play my part"

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 139

Sips++++

Original: "Me three!" PC: "Me too!"

FUCK YOU AND THE HELL SPIDER YOU RODE IN ON: 35

Why was this changed? 498

Sips++++++

Original: "And I am... Ernst is already dead." PC: "And I am- rather, Ernst is- already dead." Siiiiiiiiiiiigh. And god dammit, Xander Mobus, that line could have been about a dozen times more heartbreaking. I was really expecting you to come through better at the end here than you have been.

Why was this changed? 499

Sips++

Original: "My journey will go on, just like I traveled with all of you." PC: "As you continue your journeys, I'll be in your hearts." ...Either the Japanese has been changed, or one of these is a very inaccurate translation. The original works a lot better re: everyone’s reactions and the normal ending, though.

Original: "Me too... I'll wait! <br> I mean, we're friends!" PC: "Me too... <br> I'll be waiting for you, Stocke!" I think this mostly got changed because they used the stupid blushface on the second line, but I'm giving it a point anyway for being less jarring if you've hit AJE.

Changes I Don’t Hate: 229

Original: "...You were the best friends I could have hoped for." PC: "Everyone... you were the best friends I could ever have hoped for." "...Except you, Marco." </Simmering Fury joke> "...And you, Gafka." </Gafka’s lack of characterization joke>

Why was this changed? 500

Sips++

Did you have to pull out Rosch's incredibly stupid-looking smile face RIGHT before the ending? Like, really? "Someday, somewhere!" isn't even a line that particularly makes sense on, especially with how it's read.

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 140

Sips++

...And they're doing it with Aht's :D face too. You know, the person in the room who's probably least okay with this.

What the hell.

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 141

Sips++++

Original: "...Looks like they succeeded." PC: "...Looks like they did it." It would have been so nice to end this update with a nice round number.

Why was this changed? 501

Sips++

Oh, right, I forgot when I was facepalming about that stupid "where only royal blood may set foot" thing last quest that Eruca walks into that room with three random guards.

Sips++

Anyway.

True end scenes next time.

Tally:

Why was this changed? 501

Changes I Don’t Hate: 229

Poor choice of expressions/voice clips/sound effects: 141

Oops: 110

How Do I Art: 84

Nyarlamesia: 64

Annoying Sound Effects: 46

FUCK YOU AND THE HELL SPIDER YOU RODE IN ON: 35

Handy-dandy gameplay changes: 31

Great budget priorities: 23

The monkey's paw is flipping me off: 17

Let Stocke Say Ass: 14

Save Me From Fanservice: 9

[westsemiteblues]

This guy is a professor at Rutgers. This is Jasbir Puar’s coworker, BTW. Untangle the threads of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism here, I dare ya. 

A Rutgers University professor has published multiple social media posts containing antisemitic canards and caricatures, including blaming the Armenian genocide on Jews, describing Judaism as “the most racist religion in the world,” and calling Israel a “terrorist country.”

As first reported by the Israellycool blog, Michael Chikindas — a microbiology professor at Rutgers’ department of food science and director of the school’s Center for Digestive Health — promoted dozens of anti-Jewish conspiracies and comments on his Facebook page this past May, among them references to “international fat Jewish pockets,” and descriptions of “orthodox Judaism” and Zionism as “the best of two forms of racism.”

In one post, Chikindas claimed, “Israel is the terrorist country aimed at genocidal extermination of the land’s native population, Palestinians,” and added: “we must not forget that the Armenian Genocide was orchestrated by the Turkish Jews who pretended to be the Turks.”

He argued that Israel was failing in this attempted “extermination” mainly “because of the number of the Jews of ‘alternative’ sexual orientation (25% of the Tel Aviv inhabitants are gay/lesbians and Israel has more of these than the Netherlands).”

In an earlier post, Chikindas wrote “that Israel, the country of the Jews and for the Jews, has one of the highest percentage of gays in the world.”

The professor also called Judaism “the most racist religion in the world” and shared an interview with Christopher Bollyn, a conspiracy theorist who has claimed American Jews and Israel orchestrated the 9/11 attacks.

Chikindas’ Facebook timeline is filled with images depicting classic antisemitic libels, including a graphicsuggesting Jews — portrayed by the Happy Merchant, a caricature of a hook-nosed Jewish male with a kippah — control the Federal Reserve, Hollywood, the “cancer industry,” “pornography,” “wars for Israel,” and “sex-trafficking,” among other things.

Another image featured the Jewish caricature — representing Israel — being carried by American soldiers and saying, “I am God’s chosen people, you filthy goyim.” A third cartoon showed a Jewish man with a large, hooked nose and a yellow “Jude” star on his suit jacket stealing money from a hungry American boy, and exclaiming, “be a patriot, goy! Somebody’s got to pay 10 billion to Israel.”

Other images depicted an Israeli flag overlaying the White House; accused Zionists of playing “the Anti-Semitism Card”; quoted former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters leveling charges of “apartheid” against Israel; and expressed supportfor the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.

Chikindas also published multiple posts referring to women — including Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev, First Lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump — as “b**ches” and in some cases “sl*ts.”

After sharing an article claiming to expose the “global elite,” he wrote, “These jewish motherf*****s do not control me. They can go and f**k each other in their fat a***s — you see, I really do not have anything to loose (sic), hence nothing to be controlled.”

In an interview with The Algemeiner on Tuesday, Chikindas rejected accusations of antisemitism, indicating that he was once married to and had a child with a Jewish woman, and had some 25 percent Ashkenazi Jewish lineage himself.

When read comments he made about Judaism, Chikindas pointed to the Talmud — a text containing Jewish law and tradition — which he claimed features racist and supremacist passages, as well as to “extremely degrading racist messages” he said he received on YouTube from accounts with Hebrew-language handles.

These messages — written in Russian, sent from “Jews who were originally from Russia,” and containing vulgar, personal insults, according to Chikindas — were provided as further evidence of the religion’s supposed racism.

Chikindas also said that he was open to having a “civilized” discussion on these issues, and claimed that his postings did not violate any of Facebook’s policies.

Neal Buccino, a spokesperson for Rutgers, told The Algemeiner that “Professor Michael Chikindas’ comments and posts on social media are antithetical to our university’s principles and values of respect for people of all backgrounds, including, among other groups, our large and vibrant Jewish community. Such comments do not represent the position of the University.”

He added that while Rutgers respects the free speech rights of its faculty members, it also seeks to “foster an environment free from discrimination, as articulated in our policy prohibiting discrimination.”

“The university is reviewing this matter to determine if actions taken in the context of his role as a faculty member at Rutgers may have violated that policy,” Buccino added.

This is not the first time that a professor at Rutgers — New Jersey’s largest publicly-funded research university — was caught making comments that were criticized for being antisemitic.

Jasbir Puar, an associate professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers, has come under fire for comments she made at a 2016 faculty-sponsored event at Vassar College, where she repeated allegations that the bodies of “young Palestinian men … were mined for organs for scientific research,” according to a transcript of the talk provided by the Vassar alumni group Fairness To Israel.

She asserted at the time that Israel’s actions could be called a “genocide in slow motion,” and said, “We need [the boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement] as part of organized resistance and armed resistance in Palestine as well.”

In a 2015 essay, Puar also wrote that “Palestinian trauma is overshadowed” because “Israel in particular and Jewish populations in general have thoroughly hijacked the discourse of trauma through exceptionalizing Holocaust victimization.”

Mark G. Yudof, former president of the University of California and current chairman of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), and Kenneth Waltzer, executive director of AEN, wrote in response to Puar’s 2016 comments, “Wild charges against Israel have often been aired on U.S. campuses over the past several years, and their moral perversity pointed out. But Ms. Puar’s calumnies reached a new low.”

“Characterizing Israel and Zionism in ways that anti-Semites formerly characterized Jews has become a stock in trade among anti-Israeli activists on college campuses,” they added.

Puar is set to publish a new book through Duke University Press next month, which argues that Israel seeks to injure and maintain “Palestinian populations as perpetually debilitated, and yet alive, in order to control them.”

The article has been updated to reflect comments by Neal Buccino, a spokesperson for Rutgers University.