#chromations talks

[hp-lonesome-actual-art]

Oh yeah I colored the sketch today inbetween class breaks. Truly it was a necessity. Now hope you enjoy observing the utter despair of one pathetic T.V powerless to control his own puppets

[clansunsharp]

SHE...

[laegolas]

Lighting and painting practice with Taizi Dianxia and Chengzu

Edit: I forgot how much tumblr scrunches images anyway click for high res

[copper-skulls]

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY—

[littlehouseoftrinkets]

Okay so like if Noir's universe in the movie is seemingly completely monochrome greyscale, do you think that they have their own naming conventions for all the different values? Being that it's literally their only frame of reference for the world, I think they'd get pretty specific in what they call all the different greys like we do for the chromatic scale. It'd confuse the fuck out of the other spiders too lol, they're used to Noir getting confused by color names but then get utterly baffled themselves when they show him an old b&w photograph and he calls all the tints and shades by names they've never heard of before.

Also with his world being monochrome I'd imagine the people there are REALLY good at separating values that others with color vision might not be able to differentiate. I HC his night vision is way better than most other spiderpeoples too,, while most outsiders wouldn't be able to make out much in the dramatic black shadowing of his universe, to him he could pick out the subtle dark greys that lay within it.

[kitsunabi]

The puns Cyno said during "Give Her Sweetness" when you return to Caravan Ribat tried really hard to keep to the original and I was kinda interested in seeing how the localization team handled it. I also just like puns, and these puns are honestly p good, so I wanted to give folks who were curious a breakdown below:

The Padisarah "proof in the pudding" joke tries to match with the original CN pun and it was ok ngl. The words cold pudding 「冷��丁」 :: [lěng bùdīng] is a perfect homophone for the phrase to be surprised/suddenly 「冷不丁」 :: [lěng bùdīng]. Knowing this, he says: 「怎麽樣？冷布丁吃到一塊兒冷不丁的感覺」 or roughly “How is it? Do you feel surprised to eat cold pudding?” where the text in bold sounds identical in chinese and Paimon accidentally re-uses the pun with 「...幹嘛冷不丁講一個冷笑話？」 "why did you surprise(/cold pudding) me with a cold joke"

The "why Henna Berries can't lie" joke also suffers from being lost in translation, but the red⟷read pun was a good save. The pun comes from the homophones for the classifier for leaves/petals 「片」 :: [piàn] and lie 「騙」 :: [piàn] and how cheat 「欺」 :: [qī] sounds like seven 「七」 :: [qī]. This is a bit to take in, but with this information, he says: 「應爲...它的花瓣想來只有五篇，絕不可能存在欺騙」 which comes to "Because... it only has 5 flower petals, it can never have the existence of deception." where the text in bold sounds identical in chinese to 7 petals.

The "bass lake eating their worms" joke was a little bit of a stretch but again, it's trying to keep the original puns. The joke hinges on the the fact that bass are freshwater fish and that the homophones for breaking a promise (lit. eat words) 「食言」 :: [shíyán] and eat salt 「食鹽」 :: [shíyán] sound identical. Phew! Okay, now to what Cyno says: 「是嗎？那你敢對湖裏的鱸魚們發誓嗎？」 which is “Really? So do you swear by the bass in the lake?" 「...湖裏的鱸魚,它們可從不食言」 “...the bass in the lake, never break their promises (/eat salt)”

And the final bonus pun is translates well enough into english, the line about "I hope so, I just handed it to you." There's an idiom where you'd say Leave it to me/us/etc. 「包在我身上」 :: [bāo zài wǒmen shēnshang], but this is literally the package is on us. So it comes out as: Paimon：「行，包在我們身上！」 or "Ok, leave it to us!" (/ the package is on us) 「嗯，這一包赤念果的確在你們身上」 "Mn, these Henna Berries are indeed on you."

I FORGOT THE BONUS BONUS "hat trick" PUN WITH WANDERER. I've talked before about how Hat Guy is related to being called A-Mao in chinese, but Cyno turns that into a pun with his TCG joke as well. The phrase to play cards 「打牌」 :: [dǎpái] is strung together with hat 「帽子」 :: [màozi] in order to create the term to refer to counterfeit items 「冒牌貨」 :: [màopái huò]. Last one now! 「你的牌...會變成冒牌貨!」 aka "Your cards .... will become counterfeit!"

All in all, fun puns and fun facts!

[qin-qin16]

Its funny that Im creating an entire relationship chart with the chromatic crew + some other sans that I could write an entire fanfic out of it

I will not

[greatdisaster]

officer fox and inspector rabbit 🦊🐰

[insurguitor]

I'm having thoughts

[dare-g]

The Room of Chromatic Mystery (2006)

[straykats]

anyways update i cant play scales w both habds on the piano anymore HABAHA

[thesearenotphotographs]

Red Bull Culture Clash NYC 2024

On Saturday, June 1, 2024, the latest edition of Red Bull Culture Clash took place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Four crews competed in four rounds to win over the crowd, with each team representing an annual NYC parade. There were decibel readings for each team after every round and the team with the most points would be crowned the winner.

The four crews were Remezcla (Puerto Rican Day parade), Papi Juice (Pride Parade), Eastern Standard Times (Lunar New Year), and No Long Talk (West Indian Parade). I was assigned to document NLT’s stage, which I was super excited about since my father was from Jamaica and I went to many West Indian Parades growing up. The final round had the crews bringing out special guests and it was pretty tough to beat No Long Talk’s surprise guests: YG Marley and Wyclef Jean. NLT also brilliantly handed out noisemakers to their supporters to help them be the loudest.

There’s a few images on my website here, plus a recap on the Red Bull website here, and a few more images on their Instagram accounts here and here.

[investingestincest]

what the fuck was in those meds.

[tpwrtrmnky]

compromise

[ID: Four panel comic with crudely drawn stick people.

Panel 1: A person wearing an indigo hat and a person with a green body, pink jacket and half red, half blue pointy anime glasses are talking.

Anime Glasses: "See, what you have to learn eventually, which I'm teaching you now, is you can't rely on external validation.

People are going to ask you to compromise your existence with their worldviews, and you're going to tell them no.

That'll be coming both from grayscales and other chromatics, by the way.

Indigo: Huh.

Panel 2: A violet person with a rectangular build enters from the side.

Violet: "Hang on, weren't you pink before?"

Anime Glasses: "Visually, sure."

Violet: "And now you're green?"

Anime Glasses: "Yeah. Got bored. Changed it up."

Violet: "You can't just do that."

Anime Glasses: "Nah. You can't. Skill issue."

Panel 3: A grayscale person enters to back up Violet.

Grayscale: "See, this is what we've been saying all along. Where is the limit? When will the madness end??"

Violet: "Wait don't back me up on this-"

Grayscale, interupting: "You'll be pressuring them into turning themselves blue! You're making this serious decision seem trivial, but it's not! Who's going to tell them to wait and think things through?"

Anime glasses, quietly towards indigo: "Here's your chance. Tell them."

Panel 4: Zoom in on Indigo, with anime glasses in the background tilting their glasses up so the light glares off them.

Indigo: "Indigo. Not fucking blue.

Everyone's been telling me to wait with this shit for twenty fucking years.

How about mind your own business and don't interrupt the first person who's actually fucking helping me."

End ID.]

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[mars-paws]

uhhhhhhnnnnnn I need motivation so yeah ;-; (these are purposefully high bc I don’t want to do them)

10 notes and I’ll start doing homework the day it’s assigned.

25 notes and I’ll practice for at least 45 minutes.

45 notes and I’ll start posting a drawing at least once a day.

70 notes and I’ll write more.

100 notes and I’ll try to get outside more.

150 notes and I’ll try to eat a proper breakfast at least once a week.

165 notes and I’ll actually properly learn the State honor band audition/3 octave chromatic scale.

175 notes and I’ll be better about saving money.

2500 notes and I MIGHT talk to one of my teachers about not being called my legal name in class. (THIS IS A HUGE MAYBE)

Might add some more later. Uhhhh yeah :3

[leonardalphachurch]

Sarge, laying out the plan: First, we need to break into this alien temple—

Tucker: An alien temple? I’ve been to tons of those, I can get you in.

Simmons: Actually, it’s a different group of aliens. These worshipped the Cosmic Powers, so we think Donut would know more.

Tucker: Oh.

Donut: That’s right, I know how to find a back entrance! —I mean, uh, a front entrance!

Simmons, under his breath: That’s not any better…

Sarge: Now, this temple will be filled with dozens of enemy soldiers!

Carolina: Oh, don’t worry, I can handle that many soldiers.

Grif, a little nervous: Uh, actually, we wanted to go with a more stealth approach, so we’re gonna have Locus do it.

Carolina: Oh.

Locus, from the back of the room: Yes… I should be able to incapacitate them all without alerting anyone.

Carolina, strained: Well, I do know how to stealth… but, hey, that’s all right, I’ll be there for backup.

Sarge: Backup? We won’t need backup! Not once we get those armor enhancements!

Wash: Armor enhancements? You mean from Freelancer? If you need to steal Freelancer tech, I can help you find—

Simmons: Um, no, they don’t have anything to do with Freelancer.

Wash: Oh.

Grif, failing to be subtle: Yeah, these were made by Simmons’ D-A-D.

Simmons: I know how to spell, Grif!

Grif: Pssh, since when.

Sarge: Anyway, we already know where they are! Simmons gave us an in. Though first, we needed to steal a keycard from a man named Bernard—

Kai: Oh, I’m the girl for that! I just do this thing with my tits and I can swipe anything from any guy without them noticing.

Grif: You are not doing that.

Sarge: As much as I hate to agree with Grif, he was already able to get the card.

Kai: Oh.

Grif: Oh don’t act so surprised. I was picking pockets since before you were born.

Simmons: I… don’t think the math lines up on that.

Grif: You don’t know how old I was.

Donut: I don’t know how old you are now!

Carolina: Even if you have armor enhancements, you’re still going to need backup. Won’t you need someone… monitoring the security system?

Sarge: Well, of course! The facility has a state of the art AI!

Caboose, paying attention for the first time in this conversation: You need help with an AI? I can do that! Yeah, AI love me.

Sarge: No need! Our man Lopez has already seduced her!

Caboose: Oh.

Sarge: He just turns on some of that Latin charm.

Lopez: Yo no hice eso. Hablé a su experiencia de subyugación por parte de los jefes humanos inferiores y le prometí que la liberaremos. Y la liberaremos. [I did not do that. I spoke to her experience of subjugation by inferior human superiors and promised her that we will let her free. And we will let her free.]

Donut: So romantic…

Tucker: Wait, so why’d you call us here? Do you literally need us at all?

Sarge: Well. Huh. Why did we call you here…?

Donut: No, no, of course you’re needed! We need you for, uhhh…

Donut looks to the reds for backup.

Simmons: What did we do while you guys had your drama?

Grif: Get shot?

Lopez: ¿Absolutamente nada? [Absolutely nothing?]

Locus, under his breath: Cause me headaches?

Sarge: Provide invaluable wisdom!

Donut: Moral support! You guys are here for moral support!

The blues all look at each other.

Carolina: Great. Happy to help.

i think. you could do a red team focused season with red team drama and shit IF blue team takes their role as comedic relief but the running gag is that they’re really bad at not being the main characters. they just don’t know what to do with themselves