#hippo reblogs

[thievinghippo]

oh no

which ao3 tag are you?

[littlemut]

[the-great-tiger-of-mumbai]

//Other things you can headcanon around your favorite boxers besides their favorite cereals, video games, shoe sizes, trans and gender, ships, Pokemon, etc:

Their favorite places to go within their birth cities.

Their favorite locally made movies (as in made in their country).

Their favorite local celebrities (from their own countries).

Their favorite local dishes (from their own countries).

The foreign country they want to go and why.

What other languages they can speak (that is not English or the featured language in the game).

Yes, there is a pattern here.

Part of why I absolutely love Punch-Out!! as a game series is how the boxers are internationally represented, even through national stereotypes. But national stereotypes can be fun and even embraced--as a Californian, I embrace Super Macho Man with all my heart. And you can indulge in stereotypes WITHOUT being racist.

I love Great Tiger in particular of all the Punch-Out!! boxers is because his stats and character themes suggest a very interesting background--no Hindu or Vedic imagery, even WITH clones (no multi-heads or arms imagery; the closest you get is Tiger connecting with nature and space), the building he was floating out of appears to be a gurdwara, the composer of his music is Punjabi, and though he comes from Mumbai, he speaks Hindi (when he could have spoken Marathi or Punjabi instead). Not to mention in the NES, Doc Louis has told Little Mac that Tiger's father was a magician. So there is SO much material to work with beyond just his clones.

I know folks are not willing to go the extra mile to do their research, or that research bores them to tears, but I still recommend going that extra mile on your headcanons of your favorite boxers. Glass Joe is not a 15 year old American high schooler, he's a 38 year old Frenchman. Von Kaiser is 42 and from Berlin. Soda is 35 and from Moscow. The headcanons are there, waiting, open for the filling.

It's an invitation to explore, not to avoid. It may feel like much, but trust me on this. Consider this your excuse to visit Madrid with Don Flamenco, who'll be more than happy to take you to other parts of Spain like Zaragoza, Sevilla, Pamplona, and Barcelona. Let Glass Joe talk your ears off on the beautiful fields of Province. Take in the sobering experiences of Von Kaiser living in post-WWII/Cold War Berlin.

If this doesn't help you fall more in love with your favorite boxers, then.... I don't know. You do you. You make your own fun. I'm just sad and lonely in my old people corner, lmao.

[datshitrandom]

The best part of making gifs is that I can gif any video/scene I want. The worst part of making gifs is spending almost 2 hours making that gif i wanted and get 2 reblogs. So many hours, so little reward, and no respect. Reposters don't even leave a like on your fucking gifset but they'll save your gifs to repost later, they don't see us as people doing something we love as a hobby, they see us as content suppliers.

... and yet here we are.

[thievinghippo]

Is this a pre-order I see before me?!

It is! Coming December 5th, the fourth of the Saint of Steel books!

You can pre-order now wherever fine ebooks are sold*, and paperback orders are available from Argyll Productions! And Patreon patrons get it free, probably a few hours before midnight my time on the 4th.

This is Shane and Marguerite’s book, and it’s a chonker at 130k. There may even be a few more tidbits about the death of the god, in amid the adventure, romance, demons, and semi-accidental destabilization of the world economy!

*UK readers, you may have some glitches—OrbitUK is taking over the distribution there and we’re still ironing out transferring territorial rights—if the pre-order gets canceled, just re-order, it’s not you, it’s not even me, it’s the vast machinery of international commerce. But you also will get a snazzy paperback printing of all four books next year, which will not require ruinous shipping to the UK!

[animalbabypolls]

So tiny will be so big

[jewishbarbies]

I think it’s interesting I just saw a large leftist tiktok account saying that nobody is “calling it what it is” when talking about the attack on women in sydney, “which is a terrorist attack”, but that same account said what hamas did to women in israel was fighting against an oppressor and “revolution”. very interesting.

[thievinghippo]

I'm going through my old dragon age posts for reasons and came across this picture of Bethroot. Too good not to share again!

So I followed this video and found the Ardant Blossom Crown.

And if you think Bethroot is ever taking it off, you are wrong. 

[prismatoxic]

i do think calling for the boycott of a whole zoo without all the available information is stupid, and certainly the situation has much nuance and some people are focusing on the wrong things. the enclosure seems to be better than originally thought, for example, and thus should be less of a central pillar of the argument. but at the end of the day i really don't give a shit how good the zoo is or how good the enclosure is because the videos of the baby hippo clearly show harassment, encouraging dangerous behaviors, and stress responses from the animal.

like THAT'S my issue. i'm the guy who gets really frustrated when people reblog memes of animals in distress to my dash, because that shit always upsets me. and post after post by people in the zookeeping business have demonstrated that harassing these animals is NOT necessary for "desensitization".

if people are saying "of course a thai zoo is shit", then yes, that's racist. however critiquing the poor handling and sensationalizing of an animal in this zoo's care isn't racism, and the biggest people i've seen making points about the whole situation are very much focused on the behavior of the handler and aren't shy about critiquing western zoos who do similar awful things. i don't understand how "this animal is being mistreated on camera by a handler who seems to do these things to a lot of animals under his care" is an offensive statement.

anyway, if you're desperate for proof that the moo deng situation is okay because you like the cute hippo videos and want a clear conscience, you are prioritizing your own comfort over the realities of animal welfare, and i do not like you. i unfollowed someone a while back for repeatedly responding to concerned asks with "it's just a funny video" about a video that showed a cat displaying pained behavior in a situation where it was very likely that it was, in fact, in pain. this is not a topic i treat lightly and i will probably start blocking people over it.

like, not knowing is one thing. god knows i didn't use to recognize distress behavior in various animals the way i do now. but if you're willfully choosing to ignore distressed behavior or trying to justify it to make yourself feel better, you kinda suck! rethink your priorities.

[acearohippo]

The way I see it, there are only two options for a Tang Xuan skin.

Option 1) Lillithgames revisits the Harley Quinn!Tang Mei concept art and reimagines it for Tang Xuan's skin.

This concept art:

Option 2: Doll him up like they did his bro but with a peach (the fruit) palette/theme

[thievinghippo]

Decided to celebrate finishing a Logan/Builder fic by getting some artwork of them. This is Enid, one of my many, many Sandrock builders. And the outlaw she falls for.

For @thievinghippo🤍

[queen-daya]

Song of the Day-NoTheme Thursday (3/30/23)

“Hippopotamus Song” by Oscar Isaacs

Reblog or Comment if you listened to it

[i-drop-art-in-your-asks]

Old asf art of mine

The Hippo is named Harry the Homopotomos

The heart... Regrettably has no name...

[saint-augustines-pears]

Please reblog with violent opinions

[thievinghippo]

LOOK AT THEM!

Once I finished writing my 'of a mingled yarn' series, I decided I needed art to celebrate!

This is from the game My Time at Portia, which I absolutely adore. The gal is my builder, Lettie, who marries Aadit (the gentleman in black) for him only to leave her and disappear

Later on, she ends up falling in love with Django, who is the gentleman in the checkered tabard.

If you've never played the game, it's fantastic! It's a post-apocalyptic building sim in the Stardew Valley tradition. It features knights and robots and is just a lot of fun

And this is reminding me that I haven't posted the last fic in the series yet. I really need to get on that!

two commissions for @thievinghippo, thank you for being so patient and wonderful!!

[nakajimeow]

VOCABULARY RESOURCES FOR WRITERS

I want to share these websites in order to avoid using redundancy of words and also to widen our vocabulary range.

FOR SEARCHING WORD MEANINGS:

Merriam-Webster

Dictionary

Thesaurus

VOCABULARY TRAINER:

Vocabulary

RHYME WORDS:

RhymeZone

FINDING SYNONYMS/ANTONYMS:

Power Thesaurus (my personal favorite)

Word Hippo

OTHERS:

Just The Word - Type a word and it will provide common words it collocates with and it will give example sentences.

Words to Use - Helps with describing and negating, phrases, quotes, nouns, and verbs for words. Great use of reference if you cannot find the right word for your writing.

reblog to help other writers !!