#i'm just thinking aloud

[muzzlemouths]

hey. hey. has anybody made a They Are Just Animatronics au. like......... theme park/disneyland/state fair adjacent but they don't walk around the park. they stand at positions in rides and say lines or make poses as the ride goes past and then when the ride closes they just do whatever. has anybody done that yet. they're literally animatronics. Hello. is this thing on—

[victorie552]

You know what's funny? Finwe was one of the first 3 elves in Valinor, and he did The Great Journey with Orome (which apparently took whole generations to complete). He saw a lot, he discovered a lot, he had a lot of stories to tell.

And then we have Feanor, who has wanderer's spirit - who definitely walked all over Aman but feels like there's nothing to Really discover - if you wanted to know what's over there, you can just ask the Valar.

It's just, you have a The Original WandererTM, and expect his kids to be happy to stay in one place forever.

[south-sea]

the worst part is i put in all the effort for how and why that form would exist and what it would look like, only to realize shadow would probably be in a coin-flip state between anti-super and going full demon alien hybrid on his captors

like if you corner an animal and piss it off it's going to go feral. but this cornered animal has also had seven whole emeralds stashed for days by this point. so which side wins: the emeralds, or the black arms blood in him that would basically just put him into a berserk state?

either way that whole place is getting demolished. it's just a matter of how much inner turmoil the aftermath would later cause him

[such-a-fellow]

complicated feelings on go2 because I think the show was a very fun take on the book in its own right and stands alone decently and all that but I just don't think I personally can enjoy good omens minus terry pratchett's direct involvement like I'm ambivalent on gaiman, I don't think he's the absolute devil OR the most incredible author ever to live and I like some of his stuff but good omens being a collab feels like such a time capsule that I think I wouldn't actually like it without that as a more direct element

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[hadescavedish]

Thinking about his books because you know, the queerness versus magic comparison was what they did in Dragon Age 2. And he does play video games yknow.

[vladdyissues]

February will be here before we know it, and I was thinking

Pompep Daily Kiss Challenge?

Just... daily kiss drawings. I need the practice, and what better month than February? It's only 28 days. Doesn't have to be fully rendered artwork. Maybe even extend this to other DP characters and ships? Like College Trio, Bitterly Broken, Cheese Melt, etc. Any kind of kisses: forehead kisses, cheek kisses, thigh kisses, parental kisses, chef's kisses, just—kisses. 𝒫𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓁'𝒶𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓇.

[k3n-dyll]

Also something something...y'all never have that same energy for artists that make Sevika bigger or more masculine than she is...something something...it's perfectly fine to make women of color more masculine but people seem to get super up in arms about the white butch who canonically binds her titties being drawn a little bigger/more narrow...

[ssleeping-in-a-coffin]

Vampire Math: How Many Bats Can Fit in Dracula?

We’ve all seen Dracula pull his epic "poof into bats" move. But let’s get real: how many bats would that actually take? Time to crunch the numbers, vampire-style!

The Data:

Dracula’s Stats: Bat Stats (folded):

Height: 1.93 m Size: 5 cm × 3 cm × 3 cm

Weight: 90 kg. Weight: 30 grams

I don't know Dracula's exact height or weight. But I found this exact information somewhere on the internet. I apologize if it's incorrect

Part 1: Volume Calculation

1. Dracula’s Volume = Weight / Density

V= 90kg/1000kg/m³ =0.09m³

2. One Bat’s Volume = Length × Width × Height

Vbat = 0,05×0,03×0,03 = 0.000045m³

3. Number of Bats = Dracula’s Volume / Bat’s Volume

0,09/0.000045 = 2000 bats

Verdict: Dracula turns into 2,000 bats, enough to have a hell of a flash mob in your living room.

P.S. Density is the bridge between “how heavy” and “how much space”. If Dracula were made of air, he’d fill a whole room. If he were gold? He’d fit in a backpack. But since he’s human-like (and humans ≈ water), we use water’s density (1000 kg/m³). It makes calculations easier and doesn't make physicists cry

Part 2: Weight Calculation

If Dracula’s weight stays the same (90 kg), bats gotta add up!

Number of Bats = Dracula’s Weight / Bat’s Weight

90kg/0,03kg = 3000 bats

Oops! 3000 bats would need 3000×0.000045=0.135m³ — 1.5x Dracula’s volume!

Verdict: Dracula would have to break the laws of physics to hold so many mice. Or... they have to be super dense.

Part 3: How do you combine volume and weight?

To match both weight and volume, bats need Dracula’s density (1000 kg/m³).

1. Bat’s Volume = Bat’s Weight / Density

Vmagic bat = 0,03/1000 = 0.00003m³

2. Number of Bats = Dracula’s Volume / Bat’s Volume

0,09/0.00003 = 3000 bats

Verdict: If the bats are 5cm x 2cm x 3cm in size, they will fill both volume and weight perfectly. But these mice will look like mini bricks - not great for vampire transformation.

Final Showdown

According to science: Dracula can become 2,000 mice, but their weight will only be 60 kg (where did the other 30 kg go? Maybe it's a raincoat?)

Magically, 3,000 brick mice that will keep weight but raise questions among physicists

Moral of the Story: Vampires better not turn into mice in front of witnesses, or they'll have to explain where a third of their mass has gone

[suudonym]

stream of consciousness thoughts about jp>en translation as it pertains to closeness in demon society, etc.

it's no mystery that when iruma asks azz and clara if he can think of them as friends, the word he uses is 友達/tomodachi. it's a casual word that denotes... you know, a friend. someone you like to spend time with. very straightforward.

there's also a more formal word for friend, 友人/yuujin, but to the best of my knowledge this one doesn't get used in mairuma, and this may be because it seems to strictly avoid using the 人 kanji (hito/jin/nin/person). it's often said that the way 人 is written makes it look like the two strokes are supporting one another, implying that people are things that live with the support of others. to my understanding this isn't the actual origin of the glyph, but it is a fairly common saying - and so it fits the worldbuilding nicely that the highly egocentric demons don't have 人 in their language. they do use the word "hito" sometimes, but I can't recall seeing it written in kanji

speaking of words demons do have, we see 仲間/nakama quite a bit, but while there are plenty of situations where it's valid to translate nakama to "friend," you don't actually have to like someone to consider them thus. someone is your "nakama" when you're united under the same banner, so to speak. it could be a classmate or a teammate or a coworker - anyone you share circumstances and goals with. the fact that this is one of the most friend-adjacent words demons have is also very like them.

demons also have 仲良し/nakayoshi and 仲が良い/naka ga ii, both of which describe getting along with and having a good relationship with someone. so demons do clearly have the concept of friendship, even if they don't have the word for it.

anyway, soulmates. the word iruma uses to describe what azz is to him is 親友/shinyuu, which is... I mean, it's really hard to translate this as anything but "best friend." it's a very close friend and/or someone you've been friends with for a long time. however, there's two reasons it's hard to translate 親友 to "best friend" specifically in the context of mairuma, both of which are summed up in this exchange:

it's a word that azz doesn't recognize. demons have the word "best" and azz knows the word "friend," so why would he have to ask what a "best friend" is? shinyuu sounds completely unlike tomodachi, so to have the same effect, the english word used to translate it also has to sound completely unlike "friend"

iruma's kind of embarrassed about it. "best friend" is usually a rather light term in english and not one we'd typically get flustered talking about. your best friend might just be the person you like spending time with more than anyone else. you could be talking about the past and say someone "was your best friend back then" and it doesn't necessarily suggest that you had a falling out or anything, you might have just kind of drifted apart or met someone else you got even closer to or something similar. I don't know if I'm explaining this completely accurately but from what I gather, "shinyuu" is more of an intimate, time-tested friendship. there seems to be a certain level of emotional vulnerability associated with it that "best friend" doesn't always convey by default.

if absolutely pressed for an alternative translation, I might posit "kindred spirit," but that doesn't quite feel like as natural a thing to say as "soulmate." I do think it's a shame that it has that automatic romantic connotation, but honestly that's society's failure. embrace the concept of platonic soulmates, you cowards.

anyway, them's the thoughts.

[ratcandy]

collection of moth things i never posted all of varying quality and age

[pinkysberg]

something that could mean nothing, but noticing that in the brief showing we have w sevika in act 2, she isn't wearing a cape. typically, she is always disguising her prosthetic arm - or lack of. but once she has jinx's arm attached, the cape is gone. perhaps that's in part because it was made so large that the cape wouldn't even disguise it anyway, forcing her to show her cards. but more significantly to me, even when the arm is gone and she's left with her one natural arm, she doesn't opt to cover up again. in fact, she is wearing the least amount of armour she has in the entire series too. not a fleshed out thought. but something i noticed.

[phonecall-fromgod]

chat i think my friends might be gay

[buckleysdee]

if I say part of why buck will be upset about this breakup up is because he was using tommy to ignore....other feelings....

[shotmrmiller]

#they need to be real so i can give em the sloppy gawk gawk hand twist 3000

TONI????

ITS THE TRUTH

me ASF

[i3utterflyeffect]

Do you think untitled-3 would ever confess to user!Alan "I am you"? It would probably take a lot for that to happen though.

depending on what happens in ava 6? i think it could.......... maybe.........