#clarenecessities

[hollis-exe]

in honor of the Blorbius post hitting 100k, i have decided to finally release the entirety of the Blorbius cut. you can enjoy it here. prank your friends. do it.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

Do you have any recommendations on where to learn some like, very late Middle Irish? I’m trying to translate a 16th century poem but I only have modern resources and I worry my guesswork is muddying the waters. Is there a dictionary or a primer or something that you consider reputable?

you are firmly in the early modern zone with that one by a long way by the sixteenth century, especially if it's poetry! I recommend léamh.org for that. tumblr won't let me put a link bc it hates fadas (the gaeltacht vampire is glaring at them from donegal...) but give it a look

early modern irish starts from much earlier than you expect (13th century) and in poetry you'll be in what they call classical modern irish which is a whole beast of its own with very formalised metrical rules and specific grammar

i hate translating poetry so frankly can't help much but léamh is your one for that era. alternatively my usual method is crying into a dictionary. this may also work. dil.ie is your historical dictionary. eDIL my beloved. léamh has a glossary for the early modern terms tho which may be helpful

[n7punk]

okay APPARENTLY they sent those figurines out to select bloggers & it was indeed to promote season 4. and by select i mean "mommy bloggers". Like, people called shescribes, mommysblockparty, onemommasavingmoney... literally who was behind the marketing for this?? not even distributed to tumblrinas. in the year of our lord 2019. smh

this is such an obvious nerd collectible to be put in a glass case for ten years and they sent them to MOMMY BLOGGERS?? they should have sent them the fashion dolls with exclusive season four outfits or some shit! the sword that said the catchphrase! not ultra limited statuettes HUH??? if they were going to insist on distributing something like this, if anything it should have gone to nerd news outlets or something where people who cared about displaying things would end up with them

[rileydrawesandwrites]

I threw out a grilled cheese argument and you threw out pain lmao

You know I gotta ask for a snippet from Perfect

well, you asked for it!

Catra didn’t stir as Adora pulled her up into her arms, aside from a flicker of her eyelids.  

Her breathing was shallow, faint and rasping, her fur was tacky with blood and cool to the touch. Adora cradled her with one arm, resting her other hand over the wound, careful not to exacerbate it  instinctively trying to apply pressure, despite the sword in her hand. Definitely in shock. And based on how sluggish the bleeding was becoming…

Hordak was saying something, people were still shouting, but it was all static in Adora’s ears. 

She concentrated only on the memory of future-Adora’s healing lesson, the steady hand that had wrapped around her own to gentle her grip. 

Don’t force it, she’d said, smiling so gently it made her face look like a stranger’s, if you’re angry you’re going to be punching rainbows. Just breathe.

Catra was fading, and all she was doing was sitting there holding the hilt of her sword to the wound. Frustrated tears welled up in her eyes, and she squeezed them shut, trying to breathe evenly.

[tippenfunkaport]

Official Dreamworks Digital SPOP Releases

I put a bunch of these in other posts I've posted before or things I queued up to post later when i was archiving everything form the Twitter account but since we were talking about this I might as well collect them all in one post...

The She-Ra Page on the Dreamworks activity center links to many (some of the links are broken) of the official digital merch they made.

There are Zoom backgrounds, watch along bingo cards, recipies, and some printable paper craft things like the mini-figs from Roll With It, the She-Ra Sword, and the valentines (which also include a papercraft model of Bow's arrow).

The She-Ra virtual reality room which is kinda boring but props to them for trying, I guess.

For use with VR set ups, obvs, but you can view it in a browser as well.

Want something really random? Scholastic had a math handout they did as part of their newsletter for schools featuring Marcus Scribner as Bow. Brand synergy is a mysterious thing.

The text version is here if you prefer to read

Lastly, there was a handout on how to read First Ones language also done by Scholastic to cross promote the books...

There was also a paper hand out they had at the Scholastic booth at cons and I actually own that but I don't have time to find / scan it at the moment.

There was an official She-Ra Instagram filter (beloved of my children) which is alas no more but you can see their IG story about it here (assuming that link works?)

And, of course, there is the sticker app which is still available in an app store near you and I uploaded most of the stickers from it to Tumblr a while ago as well.

Lastly, a lot more of the printable crafts they did can be found on @dreamworksshera which is the official tumblr of the show. There's a pattern to make Bow's shirt, Spinnerella themed pinwheels, a Sea Hawk flag, Netossa net and Mermista smoothie that I remember off the top of my head. Unfortunately, whoever ran that account did not understand tagging at all so they are very hard to find but such is life!

cc-ing @n7punk and @clarenecessities just since this conversation is all over the place and confusing as hell

[hypnag0g]

doodlin my houseplants. top sketches are me desperately trying to figure out how to capture my older raven zz's resilience + my Corkscrew Albuca's dormancy/active states. not sold on the scientist vibes just yet, but we're still in the early stages. bottom image is my beloved Bogos Binted, the first raven zz i ever got (via the lovely and generous @clarenecessities )

[rileydrawesandwrites]

@clarenecessities post about 80s She-Ra reminded me of this for some reason

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

via @clarenecessities

there's still a week left for the funniest possible thing to happen (charles dying before the coronation) like to charge reblog to cast or whatever

[bazsilisk]

LICHENTHROPE for @clarenecessities <3

[catulhu333]

Inspirations for Bow's design in SPOP

Another part in my series, here we focus on Bow.

Bow himself, aside from his Filmation/classic counterpart's design, seems to take inspiration from the Filmation concept art, including parts of his clothing/armor, dark hair, lack of cape and being clean shaven:

Here, like Bow in SPOP, the 2 latter proto-Filmation versions of Bow wear a single shoulder pad (most similar in the second concept art).

Bow being described as dark haired in the Filmation series bible.

This probably inspired Bow's design in UK comics - were he had the Filmation cartoon design, but with black hair:

He arguably also has some elements from Justine Dantzer's very original design for Bow (great, I mean gigantic thanks to @clarenecessities for finding the links to these on he-man.org), most notably the single vambrace on his left arm:

(the bow being collapsible and having a equine head at one end, is something directly from the final/cartoon Filmation design)

Though in Justine Dantzer's concept, the vambrace was actually a prosthetic, as Bow lost his arm.

The original toy also had one gauntlet on his left arm:

The same design was used in minicomics, though with bracers:

While Bow being dressed in Filmation counterpart's clothes in his battle plan/fantasy in "Roll with It" is well known, it's notable his armor in "The Battle for Bright Moon" closely resembles his Filmation costume too:

Though the armor also reminds me of Bow' design in MOTUC:

The design of the toy's bow, might be also an inspiration it's SPOP counterpart.

BUUT the armor, and Bow's overall design in SPOP, also resemble the design of him used in the Filmation made She-Ra Princess Of Power Books commercial.

[turtle-ly]

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[hollis-exe]

got tagged by @baysee for the top 7 songs on my spotify on repeat playlist!!

caveat: i rarely use spotify, i use it to listen to like. birdsong and wind and bugs sounds to fall asleep. so i'm going to be excluding things that are obvious sleep music LOL (links lead out to youtube)

#3 - Aphex Twin

2. Spinning in a Dream - Lorn

wait what do you mean they stop at 25. are you kidding me. i'm not fucking around when i say all 23 other songs on here are just. ambient. bird sfx. that i use to sleep. uhhh. fuck okay hold on there's like, sort by numbers of plays right. hold on what do you mean there's no sort by number of plays. okay. okay. i can do this.

3. Werewolf Gimmick - The Mountain Goats

4. Something Else - Childish Japes & Dave Vives

5. Space Cowboys - Disco Street Machine

6. Brutus - The Buttress

7. A New World - Code Elektro

disaster. disaster. disaster. i'm tagging @hungry-bug @rdhndrd @clarenecessities @synthaphone @dayvan @x-unnamedgraves-x @orebat and anyone else who wants to do this

[n7punk]

i see SOMEONE changed their blog title

and i stand by it. how dare they make me excited. every bioware fan knows better than to trust bioware

[interruptingkau]

i engaged w those & you're right to feel superior. i envy you deeply

You needn't envy me, homestuck has a grip on my heart even now.

[flightyfinch]

Hey did you test out the magnifying glass/sun thing on Your Own Arm?

of course not! i tested it on a leaf. THEN i wondered what it would do to human flesh

[wintermoth]

@clarenecessities

gurl?