#glupshitto

[my-little-hyperfixation]

does anyone like genuinely love daisyjo, is anyone "daisyjo's number one fan". I like her a lot but mostly as a joke. she's in almost every fucking G3 special and has no lines, but she's in every background shot. Even Core 7 she's in the background of Core 7 and twinkle wish adventure like, someone must have really liked her at Hasbro or really did not care about character design sheets being recycled

[r0semultiverse]

I feel like the open arms acceptance of BlueSky as a platform despite multiple people being like hey this doesn’t look good is just... Idk are people being secretly paid to promote this thing? Why is this your new shiny toy? Why choose this thing?

[galianbeast]

i wanna draw t'laqa

[levityleviathan]

"JUMP IT, ■■■■■■■■■■- I'LL COVER YOUR BACK..."

[wulfums]

If I ever made an Allan + Whatwulf fankid Id name it Glupshitto

[fehtism]

reminder that even old units can still be good with the right skills and enough dragon flowers

here's my legendary eirika that i got as a forma a few months back. i use her in arena when she's the bonus legendary.

here's her doubling a brave robin in arena!

and for context or for those who don't know, legendary eirika is a legendary unit from 2018. she is downright geriatric by feh standards.

but yeah slam enough skills and dragon flowers and YOUR glupshitto can be good too

[cryptidowl]

I love it when random side characters get blown out of proportion in a fandom.

It’s either “this is glupshitto he has 3 seconds of screentime and he is our lord and savior”

Or “this is cuntkenzie he is only mentioned in passing and everyone wants to crucify him and stomp on his shallow grave”

[5mind]

(( friends from other zones awake and now we're fucking losing it over the glupshitto montage trigger x transformers short mv anyways if i squint hard enough and fucking BELIEVE these are guyhawk and hellbat i think

[inactivedweeb]

Sorry, my glupshitto got off its leash

can you watch me while the light leaves my eyes

[obsessivefangirl]

🎆 popmusic-queen Follow

🎶My boy only breaks his favorite toys🎶

#love her slayyyy #Taylor Swift

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🧿 goncharovfrommyshows Follow

Taylor Swift poured her heart into this album and I am LOVING it 💖💖

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🌌 glupshitto Follow

Who let her cook 💀

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🎀 girliepop Follow

If someone is showing their emotional side, you tearing them down to mock them is disgusting. Period.

#The Tortured Poet

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🚬 oldmanyuri Follow

Since when did we sympathize with billionaires??? Taylor was always trash tbh how did she get this far

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[dogrocks]

remember those cinema sins rip offs of cartoons that were like ‘it’s scientifically impossible for the trees to move as glupshitto shouts into the microphone (ding)’

[isle-faction-guild]

This, this is just peak spec bio glupshitto into the world of MH and I love every bit of this

The Ground-Bound Yian Kut-Ku, or: I just took down one of these and, after closely examining its corpse, have some observations to share.

Let’s look at the bone structure first. Yian Kut-Ku’s wings seem to have a basic “frame” formed by the humerus, radius and ulna, metacarpals, and the last phalanx. (For those who don’t know dem bones, that’d be the upper arm, forearm, palm, and finger bones.) You can see the other phalanges (”fingers”) at the top of the wings.

Using the final phalanx as wing support is not something seen–so far as I know–in extant species. However, one extinct group very famously exhibited that trait:

Pterosaurs.

Originally, pterosaurs were believed to have been weak gliders, but evidence now suggests that they were, in fact, capable of true flight. I’ve had Yian Kut-Ku take off into the sky and rob me of a kill enough times to vouch that it, too, is capable of true flight. But I have to wonder how it possibly could, as it appears to be lacking several adaptations.

The first is the propatagium. All vetebrate species capable of flight have a membranous structure in their flying limbs called the patagium, which helps give shape to the wing and therefore makes flight possible. Many flying vertebrates also have a propatagium, which is a membrane that extends from the shoulder to the wrist and forms the front edge of the wing.

In the diagram comparing bone structure, you can see the outline of some propatagia, but here’s another one. The propatagium is the triangular area running from the top of the humerus to the end of the radius and ulna:

Notice how the propatagium gives the wing a more streamlined shape? Rather than being all crooked angles and bony joints, the leading edge of the wing becomes a smooth surface.

My knowledge of physics is too scant to be able to say for sure if that smoother shape contributes to lift or reduces drag, but I can give you a working example. Say you’re driving down the highway and stick your hand out the car window. If you stick your hand out flat, with your thumb tucked in and your palm facing the road, you’ll find you can make it rise or fall by shifting your wrist and tilting your palm; one direction, and it seems to catch the wind and rise on it–another direction, and it seems the wind is only pushing you back. Now imagine trying that, but with your thumb sticking out to create an angled gap. The air won’t flow nearly as well over that uneven surface, and that is why other flying creatures have a propatagium: to smooth out their wing shape.

Yian Kut-Ku has no propatagium, however, and thus has poor wing aerodynamics. While I am no expert in these matters, I’m fairly sure that this monster is probably totally incapable of gliding, and must flap at a near constant rate to achieve and sustain flight.

That constant flapping, however, would rely on powerful wing and breast muscles, and here is where my next concern comes in: its unnervingly flat chest.

The sternum, or breastbone, is an important piece of vertebrate anatomy. In most species, the sternum is flat, vaguely necktie-shaped, and usually made up of several different bones; in humans, it’s made up of three: the manubrium, the body, and the xyphoid process. The sternum serves as an attachment point for the ribs, which helps to form the ribcage and offer better protection to the heart, lungs, and other thoracic squishy bits.

It is also the attachment site of the pectoralis muscles (yes, the pecs), which–despite being located on the chest–are critical for the movement of the shoulder joint. One of the primary functions of the pectoralis major is to adduct the humerus. Hold your arm out to the side, then bring it back against your body; you just used your pectoral muscle there.

As you might well imagine, birds, bats, and other winged creatures have large pectoral muscles, as these would control the flapping of their wings. Well, you’d be right. They do, and these large muscles require a strong attachment point, which they have in the sternum.

This is a human sternum:

This is an avian sternum:

That terrifying ridge rises up at the front of the bird’s chest, but you would never know it because their breast muscles are that thick. A quick way to see if a bird is underweight or unhealthy is actually to feel around its sternum, which is also called the keel due to its shape. If the muscle on either side is level with the keel, the bird is probably at a healthy weight; if the muscle extends beyond the keel, birdy needs a diet, and if the keel juts out above the muscle, the bird should probably gain some weight.

Most of the musculature needed for flight is found in the pectorals; very little of it is actually in the wings themselves. This is why two chicken breasts can feed a family of four, while two chicken wings can feed, like, a child… if they aren’t too hungry. Also because domestic poultry has been selectively bred to have large breast muscle, but the point remains.

By the way, bats also have a keeled sternum, although it’s somewhat less dramatic:

Given that Yian Kut-Ku must flap constantly in order to sustain flight, you would expect it to compensate by having a bulky chest with powerful pectoral muscles attached to a keeled sternum–but it doesn’t. Oklahoma has more exciting topography than Yian Kut-Ku’s chest. My chest has more exciting topography than Yian Kut-Ku’s chest, and in case that reference means nothing to you, let’s just say that I’m 23 and still shop in the junior’s department.

So how, then, does this wonky wyvern take to the skies? Since I don’t like saying “fuck if I know” when I’m in a scientific mood, I’m going to go with my next best answer, which is: its legs.

Yian Kut-Ku appears to have rather powerful legs, which I’ll admit would be a very necessary adaptation. With how foxed up its wings are and how weak its chest is, it’s probably dependent on jumping to get airborne. In-game, we see that this monster is capable of leaping rather high to reposition itself on the field of battle, with its wings giving it a little bit of a boost. We also see that it makes very heavy landings, and that bulky musculature would help absorb the shock of its feet hitting the ground.

It also has a rather long, heavy tail which would very much work against it in flight. If you’re trying to push yourself forward through the air–as a flying creature does–you want there to be as little of you to push as possible, and anything that you have to push should serve a purpose. The tails of bats and pterosaurs are downright vestigial. The tail feathers of bird function like a rudder, helping the bird steer itself in flight. Flying squirrels do have a rather big, bushy tail, but they use it to slow themselves down; additionally, they are not true flyers, bur instead glide–something Yian Kut-Ku is most likely incapable of. Yian Kut-Ku’s tail, then, serves no purpose in flight, and would actually be a hindrance. More on that in a bit.

Most winged monsters in the world of Monster Hunter (or at least, most winged monsters in the world of MH4U up until you take on Gore Magala at the Ancestral Steppe, because 4U is my first game in the series, and that’s where I am right now) will have what I refer to as the “hover phase” in their fight. They flap in place just barely close enough to the ground to be reached with Sword and Shield, and unless there’s a convenient piece of raised terrain nearby, you’ll only be able to chip away at their toes and tail.

Despite having wings and apparently being capable of true flight, Yian Kut-Ku doesn’t have a hover phase in its fights. It spends the fight on the ground, horking up fireballs and pecking at your face and sprinting a few strides only to fall splat on its bizarrely flat chest. This is likely because it simply cannot fly for extended periods of time. Attempting a hover phase would likely exhaust it. Its inefficient, and doubtlessly tiring, flight is probably the reason why we only ever see Yian Kut-Ku take to the air to flee, or to quickly leap back and change its position on the battlefield.

So what conclusion does this lead me to?

Despite having wings and being capable of flight, Yian Kut-Ku is, first and foremost, a terrestrial species.

We see several things in its in-game behavior that suggest this as well. After sustaining enough damage, Yian Kut-Ku begins rooting around underground for Konchu to eat. Its keen sense of hearing would allow it to pinpoint its subterranean prey with ease, and its heavy beak–which would weigh it down tremendously in flight–is perfectly adapted for crushing their solid shells. But there’s one more tell.

When first encountered in an area, this monster is walking around, its wings folded against its body. It walks with slow, heavy struts, its head stretched out in front, its tail bobbing slightly from side to side behind. Then it spots you and rushes in, its neck flailing, its tail swishing in counterpoint. Wait…

That’s what the tail is for.

Yian Kut-Ku’s heavy, muscular tail–a slap from which can send a hunter sprawling–serves as a counter-balance for its long neck and bulky head, and enables it to make better maneuvers on the ground.

Conclusion: Yian Kut-Ku, despite being classified as a Flying Wyvern, is really more of a big ol’ lizard who occasionally flails its way into the sky.

[thevillageidi0t]

Me when 

[magurosnacks]

kirisame marisa my son she has every disease

[slaysicle]

I left for 10 seconds and now the whole site is plinkoing and blorboing and glupshittoing and scrungloing

what the fuck is this, eeby deeby?