#and yes. i do feel old.

[catmask]

sometimes while i think about that while a lot of adults did not treat me very well as a kid i also get a lot of 'in hindsight this person was so good to me and i didnt even realize it until now' as an adult. today i was thinking about how the first anime convention i ever went to was when i was 10 and i asked the man working the manga cafe what manga was/what a good place to start was (because the con was very overstimulating for me and i had gotten lost) and he asked how old i was before recommending yotsuba and asking if i wanted any water or something to eat. its really simple but theres a lot of bad things that couldve happened or he could've been careless in his recommendation, but instead yotsuba has remained one of my favorite manga for years, and probably a large portion of why i continue to read manga as an adult... i think adults who try to involve kids in the world safely/kindly even in little ways make so much more of a difference than they ever really know.

[fox-guardian]

[ID: Digital drawings of the OIAR staff from The Magnus Protocol as anthropomorphic cats on a gray background. They are all full body drawings. Sam is a black and white tuxedo cat, Alice is an orange and white cat with a bob tail, Celia is a Cornish Rex with a purple and white mottled "salty licorice" coat. Teddy is a brown British shorthair, Colin is a light brown Lykoi, Gwen is a fluffy diluted calico, and Lena is a shorthaired grey tabby with a bob tail.

The first image shows Sam, Alice, and Celia. Sam is shorter and fat, and he has curly black hair, and he is smiling with his hand held in front of him lightly touching. He is wearing a cream mockneck shirt, dark brown cardigan, and dark red trousers. Alice is tall and lanky, and she has shaggy light brown hair with faded pink tips, two pairs of silver earrings and snakebites, and she is wearing a burgundy bra, a patchwork skirt made of flannels in shades of gray, brown, and pink, a few bracelets, and pink cat-eye glasses and pink painted claws. She is slouching slightly with one arm crossed over the other, smiling and waving. Celia is slightly less tall and slim, and has short black hair, gold industrial piercings, X-shaped earrings and snakebite studs. She is wearing a light green button-down, purple vest with gold buttons, dark green trousers, a black cuff on her wrist, and rectangular glasses. She is standing and facing slightly to the side, with one hand around her back holding her other arm while that hand fidgets.

The second image is of Teddy and Colin. Teddy is fat and has a goatee and mustache, and small gold hoop earrings. He is wearing a gold and brown argyle sweater vest, a pale yellow button-down, a gold tie, and brown belt and trousers. He is smiling and waving with his other hand holding onto the side of his belt. Colin is skinny with pale skin visible through patches of fur, and he has a mustache, large cat whiskers, blue eyes, and small silver earrings. He is wearing a yellow t-shirt under a blue button-down and light brown hoodie, blue jeans with brown knee patches, a couple bracelets, and rectangular glasses with yellow lenses. He is snarling and hunched with his ears back and claws bared, looking furious.

The third image shows Gwen and Lena. Gwen is shorter and mid-sized with long blonde hair in a ponytail, and she is wearing a white button-down, gray sweater, and black pencil skirt. Her hands are balled into fists at her sides and looks annoyed at the viewer. Lena is taller and slim, with light brown hair in a bun, and silver oval glasses on a chain. She is wearing a red button-down, a brown belt, and white trousers. She has a neutral expression and one arm crossed over the other while the free hand lifted and fidgeting with her claws.

The fourth image is a lineup of all of them. In order: Sam, Alice, Celia, Gwen, Colin, Teddy, Lena. end ID]

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the magnyas protocol. protocat. catocol. catnus protocol. k. kitties <3

[fear-no-mort]

favourite thing: his new habit of saying uhuh/mhm and also this

[spookygibberish]

How do socotna pairings work?

Also do headless and unbodied ever resent their positions? As in lack on autonomy and respective dissolving of lower body lol, I guess since it's a huge spiritual and cultural deal it varies

In Socotna marriages two sets of same sex siblings are required. Here we have the brothers Unbodied Tasapnu and Headless Lasu of House Mitoca, and the sisters Unbodied Heniya and Headless Batab of House Dedēsne, at the ages they would have betrothed. Heniya-Lasu and Tasapnu-Batab would have been Throned in a dual ceremony after coming of age (about a decade older than this art depicts) and then married immediately. Socotna Throne-weddings are probably the most intense non-festival occasions in Hegemonic culture. It’s something I still need to work out the details of.

Throne candidates are trained from a very young age to accept and even anticipate the prospect of being Throned as an ultimate privilege, but that doesn’t mean that they all have the same feelings about it. Ultimately a candidate who is overly reluctant may be reconsidered or passed over for fear they’ll fail as a Throne, so it isn’t impossible to reject the position, though it does leave a stain and can at worst lead to ostracism. In the case of these two, their Thronings and their marriage are something that was preordained for more or less their entire lives, in absentia of any consent. It’s a common situation for Thrones and it’s inevitable some resent it, but many accept it as a necessity and try and make the best of the situation, especially considering the power and privilege of grants. How much a Throne regrets their Throning is something that depends immensely on the hand they happen to be dealt.

And if these guys look familiar, it’s because they’re Masminet’s parents as children.

[twobrokenwyngs]

yes I will admit publicly that tonight I went to go see an oasis tribute band. and you know what?

from now on, if youre not gonna method act, LARP, channel and otherwise embody the very spirit of the person you're paying tribute to, don't even bother. bc what I witnessed tonight... the bar cannot get any higher

anyway. overdramatic and overly-detailed accounting under the cut.

for the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe, this highly-regarded tribute band from Toronto called Supersonic, (who have not done any shows in some time,) decided to do a somewhat sporadic North American tour this year. their first stop? Chicago.

I was on the fence about going because, y'know, the idea of a tribute band is corny af but at the same time I knew it'd be amazing to hear oasis' music live, in a concert environment. not like I'm ever gonna get a stab at the real thing, right? in hindsight I can't believe I even considered not going to this.

before the show started, the two screens on the stage were flipping through a slideshow of band photos and promotional images for their 1994 singles. reminders of oasis in their heyday were ever-present throughout the whole show: whenever possible, these screens played oasis' music videos or live performance footage in tandem with the band, and for the rest of the songs they displayed lyric videos (for all those deep cuts and sleeper hits people might not have known the words to.)

we were there pretty early so they were still setting up. it was shockingly obvious who fake!Liam was - I mean, the man was walking around in a parka. note that he didn't even wear it during the show. this was just for him, I guess. or maybe it helped him get into character? METHOD. (idk the other guy in this picture. sorry, guy.)

anyway, the show itself was... amazing. they recreated Oasis' 1994 performance at the Metro in Chicago, doing the same set list, which included every song on the first album, plus I Am the Walrus, and the B-side Fade Away.

for the encore, they did D'you Know What I Mean?, Wonderwall, Don't Look Back in Anger, Champagne Supernova, and What's the Story (Morning Glory).

and yes, it was absolutely incredible to be washed in sound, tucked in a crowd who seemed to love all these songs as much as I do, to feel the music in your bones and to feed off the energy. and it was indeed such a dream to hear these songs live, as I thought it would be. BUT.

what really fucking sold it was the unbelievable authenticity, the specificity in their impression. these are people who have studied this band, who KNOW the lore, and who probably do some sort of cursed voodoo ritual before the show to bring the spirit of this band back from the dead because my god?

within moments of it starting, the tambourine was in fake!Liam's mouth. he was wearing THE striped sweater from their first tour that liam and noel famously shared back and forth. he maintained the stance, but did the little step away move, giving the tambourine a lil shimmy every time. during solos, he wandered and meandered around the stage. he took a seat. he stood at the front of the stage and stared the audience down from behind his sunglasses. he did the dumb little duckface. he balanced the tambourine on his head. he mumbled interjections into the mic and announced the titles before each song. he drank - in fact, the whole band drank on stage. and most importantly of all - his VOICE. it was uncanny. he sounded just like liam, with the same tone to his voice, the same whine, strong and clear. like, close your eyes and you could easily be fooled. for a couple hours, this man WAS liam gallagher. he was feeling the fantasy and so were we.

pictures don't really do it justice, lol. after all, they're Just Some Guys.

one pretty spectacular moment was when they played a clip from oasis' 2006 Lock the Box interview where noel explains how the line "so Sally can wait" came to be (incidentally it was liam's brain noise) and right after that, fake!Noel sang Don't Look Back in Anger. I cannot tell you, particularly as an american where this never happens, how powerful it was to be in a room full of oasis fans belting this song at the top of their lungs. every bro in the room absolutely ascended. it was a sea of booming voices. so fucking cool. (also! at the end of the song, fake!Noel and the other guitarist edged the crowd so hard on those closing “don’t look back in anger”s, plucking at their guitars and drawing out the moment as long as possible before giving the last lines to us. chef’s kiss.)

afterwards, I went to the "merch" table, such as it was lmao, where they had a single box full of t-shirts with only two sizes available, and I told them what I thought. that I was completely bought in to the fantasy; that I was blown away by the degree of detail. that it was obvious that they respect and love this band immensely, to which they nodded vehemently and offered their drinks up for a cheers. they told me they have put so much time into trying to get it right, and I told them it showed. I complimented fake!Liam's sweater and he was delighted that I noticed - it cost him over $100 lmao. they were such nice guys who seemed really grateful for the feedback. were it not for the short line behind me, I definitely would've chatted with them more, because they just... got it.

and that's what I was thinking about when I walked away. it just kinda hit me, all at once, as my adrenaline was simultaneously dropping. like... how much they cared? how much love and attention was poured into that show, because they care and they get it. I thought of that, and I thought about the passion of the crowd around me, and how even though it was just a teeny tiny infinitesimal taste of what the real thing would've been like, it still felt like magic because the love was there the whole time. anyway, reader, I cried a little bit, lmao. it's fine. it was a release.

my main regret was that my partners in this catastrophe couldn't be there with me. bal, trill. (and mimi! and sooj, too!) what I would've given to be able to look over at someone who I knew was catching everything I was, who was feeling it the way I was feeling it. but nevertheless, I befriended the couple who'd been singing their hearts out right next to me - they welcomed me with open arms. just this little community of people doing what they can to relive the blissful days of 90's britpop glory. together.

the best time to get into oasis would’ve been 1994. the second best time is right now

[hguhie]

really wanted ransom to have a silly jab at brad for that thing hes growing on his face

[kyonshi-8610]

more than one week i will be gone

translations and img descriptions in alt thing

[equill]

Reuniting with a distorted past.

Extra:(New personality tested gone wrong)

wanted to play with rin living in the aftermath aus aswell and had these drawings laying around to share so yay

Panel 1: Was buried alive.

Comic 1: Who are you supposed to be?

new friends

Comic 2: Misguided protection.

obito still sensing the warning signs of rin losing her temper. anyways they proceeded to be dragged into the ocean by rin like some sea monster

Comic 3: Finding out (Now what will you do?)

obito is harshly brought back from his delusions because now its not just kushina but rin too who he needs to ripped out the tail beast from

[strategicjazzhands]

*Shakes them like a snow globe*

[kukopelli]

The Weight of an alchemist love fanart bc i like seeing them cry and a big Naturals ramus bc i like making myself cry

[mblue-art]

late halloweeen dooodleee

[skitskatdacat63]

Thank you @pinesolprincess for the inspo :)

[somnimagus]

did some vesperia chibis, i always forget how happy i get drawing these guys. i love them dearly

[id in alt text]

[stealingyourbones]

Working on the twitch streamer Tucker animatic and I decided to cave and switch from animating in Photoshop to Adobe Animate and oh bOY are the controls confusing

Oh and update on it all, I have completed the script, storyboard, and Tucker’s emotes. Next is voice acting and animation.

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Thinking about how if Shermy Pines. And like, if he is the baby, he’d be born in the 1970s and be 40 by 2012 and he’s already a grandad. He had to be a teen dad in the 80s (after a severe economic recession) and then his kid ended up being a teen parent by 1999 (Which is 8 years before ANOTHER SEVERE ECONOMIC RECESSION LOL)

Also he was born into a pretty broken family, probably rarely if ever saw his brothers. Do you think he ever saw Stanley before he had to start pretending to be Ford? Do you think Ford visited from college??? Because he didn’t seem confident facing his father until he made millions, so like???

And, like, do you think Filbrick and Caryn changed as parents by the time they raised Shermy? Because it seems like a trend that as parents get older they mellow out a bit, so Shermy probably has a completely different experience with their parents then Stan and Ford, and talking to them is just “is this seriously the same parents???” (Imagine the silent resentment that’d cause 😭😭😭)

Personally I headcannon that Shermy had a daughter (Mabel and Dipper’s mom) and not a son like it says on the wiki because c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. Idk why this is important to me but… c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. It just feels right to me.

[thatonecrookedsmile]

"I..C...U"

-Projection-

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It's been ages since I last drew the Projectionist. It's been ages since I last drew many characters, actually. But the Projectionist is the one that applies most to this sentence.

You see, the idea was that I wanted to finish this one in August so that I could say that I did at least 7 prompts in August. But thanks to me falling a little under the weather and my brain being unfocused on Bendy for a few days, the drive to finish this prompt temporarily disappeared. I finished the normal drawing on the 31st, but even then, there was no way I could post the finished result on the same day/night. Sooooo 6 prompts in August, I guess.

Norman is projecting onto Henry. (Literally.) And Henry is going blind by the second. (Norman is a very bright man. Again, literally.)

Also featuring my fanon design of Henry. It's also been a while since I drew him, so I decided to use him here instead of the canon design. I'm still inconsistent about his attire, especially the tie. Plus the inconsistency of how his attire changes as the game progresses. I'll have to do a ref sheet of him someday. I remember seeing someone, a long time ago (late 2018-early 2019), do a ref sheet of their Henry design with the differences in his appearance in each chapter of the first game. I always thought that idea was really cool, and I'd like to do something similar, both for my design and with the canon design.