#but that wouldn't quite be true

[doedipus]

merry jazz

I could probably argue that this is the album that got me into it all in the first place

credits under break

the usual sources didn't have the musicians listed but thankfully I had the actual CD itself within arm's reach for once. per the insert:

Vince Guaraldi - piano

Monty Budwig - bass

Colin Bailey - drums

George Horn - mastering

[ozonecologne]

.

[bonefall]

Tbh I could see squirrel/rat incisors used as an implement to remove ticks

A mouse skull could be a good basis for a rudimentary tweezer, but the cats do have teeth made for grooming. With a little education they could learn to just nuzzle in and bite the head of the tick to lift it out

It would be stupid easy to make a little tick-twister though. MUCH easier than the cotton swab they make out of a moss and a stick (like, how is this moss staying on? Is there a string?). It's just a twisted stick you carve a little notch in.

(Tw picture of a tick being removed from skin)

You could make this out of a curvy twig if you wanted to, or even a prey's femur. Flip the femur upside-down and use the neck and head as the "hook" with a little carved notch taken out.

Super easy.

[suddencolds]

.~

[shannonsketches]

like why did they change where Vegeta was when Cell announced the cell games in the anime

why did they make this vegeta starting shit with yamcha instead of chillin in the lab with his family? why did they take Bulma out of the lab? Why'd they say she was Out while Dr Brief was repairing 16? Why did they change Bulma working on advanced robotics to running in late with her baby?

it's the same scene except: - Bulma's actively at work being a scientist - Vegeta's not being rude to her (or anyone else!) - Vegeta waits for Trunks instead of leaving the room - Cell interrupted the airwaves, which means Trunks and Vegeta were just hanging out with Bulma and Dr B while they were working

Those are all Great Character Details!! That the anime rails against!!

[geth-consensus]

If I had to identify one core issue with Veilguard's writing, it would be the word subtly. Or rather, the lack thereof.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Dark Era Akutagawa embroidered shirt my beloved

[ninjagirlstar5]

Star, stop changing Tamami's design challenge (impossible).

No, for real, I think this is the fifth redesign I've done of her character. I don't know why but the past designs I've made for her just weren't satisfying to me for some reason. Some of the designs I decided were just bad or didn't suit her while the others were similar but I just didn't like how it looked (tank top, large sweater, scarf, the rainbow bracelet and a long skirt). But I...think I've finally landed on a design that I liked the most out of all the ones I've made so far. (Please let it be the last. Please, my brain and heart. I would like to settle on a design and move on!)

ANYWAYS, I used Teruya's DRA sprite as a base for Tamami since, well, she is his mom and she's about as short as DRA!Teruya (or maybe shorter, I don't know, the wiki gave me two heights for his DRA self. I decided she's about 4'8'' to 5''). So it made sense to use this sprite for her, even when I made slight adjustments to her eyes and nose by making the eyes a little wider and bigger and the nose a bit more pronounced as DRA!Teruya's nose is very small. Out of three of the five designs I've made, I kept this short hairstyle of hers with a large ahoge as I loved this style the most and didn't want to change it. I based her bangs off of SDRA2!Teruya's length and style and the back of her hair like DRA!Teruya's, but I changed the way the strands looked so that it'd look more like her own hairstyle but you can still see the resemblance between the two of them. The ahoge, though, is very much real, unlike Kojiro's and Teruya's (they canonically style their hair like that on purpose), and she cannot fix it no matter how hard she tries. So she just gave up and let it be. Tamami got stuck with the protagonist trait, even though she died before the events of Danganronpa, lol. I've never been a fan of fictional kids looking like carbon copies of their parents. Like, you have the meta-power to design these kids anyway you like and you just make them look exactly like one of their parents? Unless their look-alike appearance is plot relevant, it's just weird for them to look so much like one parent that they can easily be mistaken as siblings and has zero resemblance to the other. And that's saying a lot coming from me who looks a lot more like my Irish dad from skin tone alone, but even then people can tell that I'm at least Asian because of my facial structure and even asked as such, tying my appearance to my Filipino mom. I don't know, I just like seeing a mix of traits for the kids to have inherited from their parents, you know? So, since Kojiro already has a design with green hair and green eyes, I decided to have Tamami have a different hair color, gray and green, but she also has green eyes, just a different shade. Teruya inherited his mother's eyes while getting his father's hair. Since I headcanon Teruya to have freckles, Tamami has freckles as well and as I mentioned before in this post, I adjusted her skin tone to be more obviously tanned instead of dusty from my older drawings of her. And then there's the outfit, which is a dark gray tank top, a long denim(?) skirt, dark reddish-brown boots, a blue handkerchief scarf to match with Kojiro, and a big fluffy yellow sweater with a checkerboard pattern that is tucked into her skirt, and long puffy sleeves that hangs off of her shoulders. The rainbow stripes on her skirt and the rainbow bracelet ties her design to Teruya's as he wears a rainbow as well, and I thought it'd be a neat idea for them to have a similar love for rainbows even though they've never met (cause she died via childbirth). The thought of Teruya still inheriting some of his mom's mannerisms and traits even though they never officially met scratches my brain in a good, angsty way. I wonder what Kojiro thinks whenever he recognizes parts of Tamami in Teruya...And that's it for Tamami's design! Hopefully it'll stay this way.

Tiny characters that can beat the shit out of an enemy that's much taller than them will always be peak character design, you can't change my mind on that.

[journey-to-the-attic]

@ the Mephisto ask.

2 questions

1. Would Asmo want to get in on that? Either as also wife or "this is my wife Solomon, and his wife/husband Mephisto :)"

2. Family outing with Mephisto, his wife Solomon and their two kids IK and Luke

1 - i don't think asmo would have any genuine desire to be in the relationship, BUT i think the three of them would end up in the sort of dynamic where mephisto will start jokingly referring to asmo as 'the mistress', but whose mistress he is changes depending on whichever is funnier in the current situation

and 2 - the joke runs DEEPER! now luke is a stepchild - simeon of course being his singular legal parent. when asked about the logic of this mephisto shrugs and goes "he osmosed him" (he heard the scientific term 'osmosis' from ik and has no idea what it means, but ik is supporting him in his incorrect usage of it regardless)

ik is of course already lucifer's child/daughter/all those other terms, so mephisto refers to her as their son instead. ik loves it

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Does anyone else have issues with beetles flying into their hair? I have short hair, and went on a walk with four relatives who all have longer hair today. None of them had any beetles even attempt to fly into their hair. I had three beetles hit my head at high speed (for a beetle). The last beetle I brushed out of my hair with my hand and let it crawl on my hand so I could show my niece a cool beetle, and the darn thing bit me! It didn’t do any damage or even hurt very much but still! The audacity! lol Idk if it’s the hair length or the fact that my shampoo has lemon juice in it* but uh. I am very confused. These are like 1/2 to 3/4″ long beetles. I would like them to stop attempting to merge with my scalp.  *citrus is one of the few smells I can usually tolerate with my asthma and it smells nice

[thesmokinpossum]

In other news, I'm officially a week weedless and feeling quite good atm! I need to stop the otc sleeping pills tho as they're making me feel sluggish as hell and if that means a sleepless night or two than so be it

[oakwolves]

Random hc but when Rosalyn was little she couldn't pronounce Roscoe's name so she kept calling him "Rocky" and it kind of stuck.

On the football team he was nicknamed "Rocky-Road"

[shredsandpatches]

This is a really good article (I have mentioned it a few times before) but also, the final sentence of this abstract simultaneously gives me feelings AND makes me giggle at the author for giving the impression that he was definitely thinking of Doctor Who when he wrote it. Look, I know what that kind of person is like.

(it's me, hi, I'm that kind of person, it's me)

[gideonisms]

And it's also like. if you have no internal sense of your own gender, and you're just gnc sometimes because traditionally feminine stuff is simply harder to do. At what point do you just flip to a different gender in the minds of everyone around you and then if you've basically outsourced your gender to everyone else does it just change? if I started acting feminine would it change back? is it different on different days? how is a person supposed to form a coherent identity in this world

[braceletofteeth]

tag someone you want to know and/or some of your besties.

I was tagged by @fourth-quartet 😊 Thank you!!

favourite colour: Gray but I'm currently in a brown phase

last song: I've got recently reacquainted with Beginner by AKB48 😄

last series: The Kidnapping Day. It was a lot more wholesome than the name suggests.

last movie: Saw X (surprisingly also a lot more wholesome than you'd expect????)

sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet :3

currently watching:

Koisenu Futari

Chains of Heart

The Golden Girls (season 1)

Love in the Air (2nd rewatch)

other stuff I watched this year: Not listing all of it here (I've never watched so much stuff as I did in 2023), but I'll mention the ones that I enjoyed watching the most from each month so far (*not including rewatches):

JAN: Wednesday

FEB: GAP

MAR: Not Me

APR: Tick, Tick... Boom!

MAY: Utsukushii Kare

JUN: Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938

JUL: Takin' Over The Asylum

AUG: Marry My Dead Body

SEP: Utsukushii Kare: Eternal

OCT: The Sandman

shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: I barely remember the ones I watched till the very end 🤡 But ok, let me see...

Eve (dropped after one episode; Rich People and their Rich People Problems™, I think was the reason)

A few straight GMMTV shows that I didn't really catch the name (I. Well. I just. I just couldn't make myself give a fuck, ok 😔)

+ Currently deliberating whether or not I should drop Chains of Heart. All the subtitles I've found are lacking in terms of coherence, and the story itself is already not the most straightforward, so I can only hope I'm understanding what's going on at all? 😀 And I'm also not feeling the main couple from either the present nor the past (? I suspect they are the same (but I may never know))... HOWEVER, I like the acting of the main, and the Thai scenario that is not Bangkok for once. That's always refreshing. And sometimes the cinematography is pretty too... Decisions, decisions...

currently listening to: Back for More by TXT & Anitta (I went after the link for it and distractedly searched for "banger" instead of the title 😆)

currently reading: Codename Villanelle (it's a small book but I'm. ..struggle)

current obsession: I'm not obsessing over anything at the moment 😟☹😫 Have been too busy with mundane adult life problems (therefore, as you can imagine, I'm just about going up the walls here :))

tagging: @eatprayworm @thisautistic @hyp-no-tic @visualtaehyun hi 👋

[yngai]

we are winning at levels never before thought possible it seems, after making the wrong choice of becoming an ada wong fan & having to subsist off the crumbs of characterization given to me in in-game files, supplemental material & scant lines of dialog it seems capcom is truly going to give me everything i have ever wanted :

probably giving ada the best DLC in the franchise, a meaningful relationship with a character that isn't leon that seems to take precedent in her story over her few chance encounters with leon in RE4R ( i have a feeling her & luis' history gives their dynamic far more meaning than his little rollercoaster ride with leon ), cool sci-fi contacts replacing the glasses she never really used in the original, integrating her grapple hook in her combat when it was sadly only ever used for traversal, actual content specifically designed for her campaign & not just reused arenas from the main game ( some of these are from the original carried over to ada but i think her performing the coolest thing leon does in the original, dodging the lasers, is sick ), finally positioning wesker as an antagonist in ada's story directly rather than him hanging over her like a school headmaster trying to play mindgames .

it's honestly so personally rewarding to see capcom go to such lengths for a character they have otherwise neglected, even in a game like re6 where she carries the emotional core of the story ( in specific her developing relationship with carla as she learns she is more than just some lab-made doppelganger, which was sadly undercooked - like most of the game, despite the explosions )