#i'm learning to draw faster for this specific reason

[cy-cyborg]

Writing and drawing amputee characters: Not every amputee wears prosthetics (and that's ok)

Not every amputee wears prosthetics, and not doing so is not a sign that they've "given up".

It's a bit of a trope that I've noticed that when an amputee, leg amputees in particular, don't wear prosthetics in media its often used as a sign that they've given up hope/stopped trying/ are depressed etc. If/when they start feeling better, they'll start wearing their prosthetics again, usually accompanied by triumphant or inspiring music (if it's a movie). The most famous example of this is in Forest Gump, Where Dan spends most of the movie after loosing his legs wishing he'd died instead. He does eventually come around, and him finally moving from his wheelchair to prosthetics is meant to highlight this.

The thing is, it's not that it's unrealistic - in fact my last major mental health spiral was started because one of my prosthetics was being a shit and wouldn't go on properly, despite fitting perfectly at the prosthetist's the day before. I'm not going to use my legs when I'm not in a good headspace, but the problem is, this is the only time non-prosthetic using amputees ever get representation: to show how sad they are. Even if that's not what the creator/writer necessarily intended, audiences will often make that assumption on their own unless you're very careful and intentional about how you frame it, because it's what existing media has taught them to expect.

But there are lots of reasons why someone might not use prosthetics:

they might not need them: this is more common in arm amputees because of how difficult it can be to use arm prosthetic, especially above-elbow prosthetics. Most folks learn how to get on without them pretty well. In fact, most of the arm amputees I know don't have prosthetics, or only have them for specific tasks (e.g. I knew a girl who had a prosthetic hand made specifically for rowing, but that's all she used it for).

Other mobility aids just work better for them: for me, I'm faster, more manoeuvrable and can be out for longer when I'm in my wheelchair than I ever could on my prosthetics. Youtube/tik tok creator Josh Sundquist has said the same thing about his crutches, he just feels better using them than his prosthetic. This isn't the case for everyone of course, but it is for some of us. Especially people with above-knee prosthetics, in my experience.

Other disabilities make them harder to use: Some people are unable to use prosthetics due to other disabilities, or even other amputations. Yeah, as it turns out, a lot of prosthetics are only really designed for single-limb amputees. While they're usable for multi-limb amps, they're much harder to use or they might not be able to access every feature. For example, the prosthetic knee I have has the ability to monitor the walk cycle of the other leg and match it as close as possible - but that only works if you have a full leg on the other side. Likewise, my nan didn't like using her prosthetic, as she had limited movement in her shoulders that meant she physically couldn't move her arms in the right way to get her leg on without help.

Prosthetics are expensive in some parts of the world: not everyone can afford a prosthetic. My left prosthetic costs around $5,000 Australian dollars, but my right one (the above knee) cost $125,000AUD. It's the most expensive thing I own that I only got because my country pays for medical equipment for disabled folks. Some places subsidise the cost, but paying 10% of $125,000 is still $12,500. Then in some places, if you don't have insurance, you have to pay for that all by yourself. Even with insurance you still have to pay some of it depending on your cover. Arm prosthetics are even more expensive. Sure, both arms and legs do have cheaper options available, but they're often extremely difficult to use. You get what you pay for.

they aren't suitable for every type of environment: Prosthetics can be finicky and modern ones can be kind of sensitive to the elements. My home town was in a coastal lowland - this means lots of beaches and lots of swamp filled with salty/brackish water. The metals used in prosthetics don't hold up well in those conditions, and so they would rust quicker, I needed to clean them more, I needed to empty sand out of my foot ALL THE TIME (there always seemed to be more. It was like a bag of holding but it was just sand). Some prosthetics can't get wet at all. There were a few amputees who moved to the area when I was older who just didn't bother lol. It wasn't worth the extra effort needed for the maintenance.

People have allergies to the prosthetic material: This is less of a problem in the modern day, but some people are allergic to the materials their prosthetics are made from. You can usually find an alternative but depending on the type of allergy, some people are allergic to the replacements too.

Some people just don't like them.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to go without a prosthetic. There's nothing wrong with deciding they aren't for you. It doesn't make you a failure or sad or anything else. Using or not using prosthetics is a completely morally neutral thing.

Please, if you're writing amputees, consider if a prosthetic really is the best mobility aid for your character and consider having your characters go without, or at least mix it up a bit.

For example, Xari, one of the main characters in my comic, uses prosthetics unsupported and with crutches, and uses a wheelchair. They alternate between them throughout the story.

[sexhaver]

are you a fan/supporter of AI-generated art, and if so, why? i've frankly never understood why people like it and i'm trying to wrap my head around it. thanks :)

asking if im a "fan" of AI art is like asking if im a "fan" of Photoshop. it's a tool that has the potential to be used for shitty things (i.e. photoshopping pictures of someone to make them look bad, or training an AI model specifically on one artist and then undercutting that artist on commissions), but it's also a really fucking powerful tool that has the potential to push art in directions it could never feasibly go before. like, how do you read "people without an artistic bone in their body will be able to spin up dozens of pictures of whatever arbitrary thing they want" and jump straight to the ethics of sourcing the datasets and "robbing artists" and supporting draconian IP law without even admitting that, at a base level, that's a really cool and useful piece of technology to have.

part of the reason i keep posting about it is because i work in warehouse automation. ive spent the last decade learning how to automate shitty tasks that nobody in their right mind would want to do for free, and people STILL get upset that robotics are inherently "stealing their jobs". this is literally only a problem because of capitalism; in any sane world, a machine that can do shitty jobs would be a godsend. but when you need to work for a living, these robots become competition instead of tools to make your life better. and yet people will still direct their outrage at the robots themselves and not their bosses or capitalism as a whole

the same thing is happening with AI art. without capitalism forcing artists to draw for survival, the ability for non-artists to create art at a whim would be a tool with a wide range of applications. under capitalism, however, these tools become competition. and yet again, people are directing their rage at the people making this good-in-a-vacuum technology instead of capitalism, or even more specifically, the miniscule percentage of AI artists who use the tech to financially harm artists by undercutting them on commissions.

of course, there's the added twist that, unlike stacking heavy cardboard boxes, art is something that a lot of people actually do enjoy intrinsically and would do for free. this has spawned an entirely separate branch of arguments against AI art based on ethics and philosophy instead of laws and finance. this branch argues that AI art is not just bad because it can directly financially harm artists who don't use it, but that it's actively eroding the concept of "art" itself. this is the branch that spawns soundbites like "AI art just copies from humans", "that's not art because it's soulless", and "what's even the point in making art when a robot can do it faster and better?"

i'm going to be blunt: this branch, just like any other train of thought that hinges on an unspecified definition of "true art" that ebbs and flows at the speaker's whim, is complete horseshit at best and outright reactionary at worst. unfortunately, it has also infected most of the anti-AI-art crowd to the point where it's almost impossible to find any arguments against AI art that don't eventually fall back on it

tl;dr: AI art is a powerful tool with the potential to benefit humanity at large, and desperately trying to stuff that genie back into the bottle [by donating to Disney's IP lawyers] because it scares you is not going to work

[meanbossart]

A long over-due ask compilation (Art & Music)

It's vaguely based on a short story from the book "The Consumer" by Michael Gira, specifically "The Boss". I think it came up in conversation with a friend or something when I was picking a new username, so that's how we arrived at it - this was almost a decade ago so, my memory on it is a little hazy!

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HAHA thank you so much!!! Glad you enjoy what I do 😎🍻

I BELIEVE this little guide I put together over here might be helpful to you, also! I touched on pretty much everything you brought up.

As for reference material when it comes to facial expressions, I have a mirror next to my desk which I glance at often and make weird faces at LOL and for consistency, it's really a matter of learning to dissect and remember facial structure. It's just something you end up developing an eye for when you've done it for long enough! Naturally, if we're talking about drawing existing characters, it's always helpful to just look at some pictures of their mugs and take a minute to define what features about them make their faces recognizable - I touch on this at the link above as well!

I do plan on making a "drowstarion" (love that, by the way LOL) playlist eventually, life's just been kicking my ass and I hardly have the time 😭and when I do, I just wanna draw.

Otherwise I don't have any other playlists floating around at the moment, BUT the one my boyfriend made for his Vellioth comic can be found here, and it might scratch a similar itch!

Thank you! I believe this was in reference to this post. Something like that takes me about... An hour??? If we're talking just the colors, at least. Though that's a really rough estimate because I take a lot of breaks, so my sense of time when I work ends up pretty skewed. Even if the application of the colors themselves took less than 20 minutes I probably spent 2 hours just staring at it LOL.

My friend, I have no idea. I'm in a constant battle between "I want to draw more realistically" and "I want to simplify my art so I can draw more/faster". What you see is the result of that ongoing brain-tug-of-war.

Also, just the way I assume everyone else develops theirs - they see stuff they like and emulate it until their art is Frankensteinish enough to be it's own unique thing!

I'm far from a Type O Negative buff, BUT I'm happy to share some of my favorites with you! They're quite scattered across a couple of their albums so I'm not sure I have a favorite, but I would say October Rust is a good starting point.

In no particular order, these are my most listened tracks of theirs: -Love You to Death -Black N.01 -Haunted -She Burned Me Down -Can't Lose You -I Don't Wanna Be Me -Be My Druidess -September Sun -Tripping A Blind Man

Alas, I was one of those people who was already drawing in kindergarten 😅 though I would say I only started taking it seriously when I was around 15-16 years old. As someone who has tried their hand at several other hobbies since reaching adulthood, I get what you're saying that it can kinda feel like... You missed the wagon? I've felt that way about all kind of things lol

That said, I've seen adults managing to develop their art skills extremely fast and effectively before. Understanding where and how you need to improve, and how to follow lessons/guides best is something that is vastly improved by maturity and knowing how to best hone your time, attention, and resources - and those are skills we completely lack as children. So, I sincerely believe that as long as you commit yourself, you can definitely get to a point that you're happy with in a couple of years if not less.

JUST DO IT BUDDY we are all just people looking through a screen and you won't ever see, talk, or meet 99% of the folks who ever clap eyes on what you post. Whenever you start getting nervous about sharing something, take a minute to ask yourself why you're nervous, and if none of the reasons have any genuine substance besides being afraid of what people "might think", just go ahead and post it. You're no mind-reader after all, and if you are, I doubt you can hear what a guy from Argentina or wherever is thinking about the art you made.

Point is, nobody online can touch you 🤷and if someone doesn't like what you do, they can simply choose to not interact with it, and if they do you can block and move on. There are zero reasons for you to feel "bad" about putting up a doodle when our experiences on the web are so easily curated nowadays.

[batsplat]

bat splat thank youuu for saying the pecco jorge rivalry is just for pecco as opposed to having the specter of Vale hanging over it. I want to ask tho, I have been seeing people say the only reason pecco wins the race is because he copies jorge's setup throughout friday/saturday/Sprint. Wanted your opinion on this because I have also heard that Pecco gives decent engineering input and builds his race slowly over the weekend. Was just confused about how much data sharing can actually help, and how much does it help with the ducati specifically!! Have a nice day, love your posts

have a good day too, anon!! and I will gladly spread the pecco narrative independence agenda!! it's something I really do like about the rivalry - expanded a bit in the comments under this, but it's neat to have something that really is Just Pecco's. from inception it's very much his own rivalry, his own narrative... idk, this sport is too reliant on valentino to provide any kind of narrative tension, and it's just sort of refreshing to see this multi-year narrative play out that has fuck all to do with that guy. enough

on the set-up copying, obviously that is bullshit. I mean, to be clear, I'm sure pecco absolutely copies the set-ups of other ducati riders, but that's very much a mutual process - it's something that benefits all the ducati riders, and they've all openly spoken about this. it's very helpful to be able to see the data from seven other riders!! that's a big part of why ducati has been so bloody good!! the main difference is that jorge tends to be faster from the start of the weekend, whereas pecco tends to take time to reach his level. which I suppose makes some people draw the conclusion that pecco is only fast once he's copied someone's set-up. again, this isn't the case - it is just a difference in approaches. points come... well, unfortunately, not just on sunday anymore, but they certainly do not come on a friday. pecco knows this, which is also why sometimes he's not even trying to top an fp1 session - this year there have been quite a few instances of jorge but not pecco throwing on a fresh set of tyres towards the end of fp1 and setting a particularly impressive lap time. there's also nothing wrong with THAT approach, jorge is playing to his strengths, but at a certain point we're just talking different run plans

(there is also a very obvious logical fallacy with this line of reasoning. if you are copying someone's set-up, then by definition you have the same set-up as them. and if you beat someone with the same set-up, then it stands to reason that you were riding better than them. sure, you can argue the success is less earned because your team... idk, just lazed around all weekend, but at the end of the day surely you still cannot be a bad rider if you are getting more out of another rider's set-up than they themselves are able to manage)

and yeah, pecco is known for giving good feedback! just being a good learner in general. here, actually, a little throwback from start of 2019 where pecco's crew chief gabarrini (who also ofc has worked with casey, lorenzo and briefly with marc) compared pecco and marc:

"A driver - all of them do this - starts at a certain level and ends the day at a higher level. What makes the difference is starting again where you were. Few have this quality: it often happens that a driver sets good times - without knowing why, without being aware of how he got there. The 'good' ones, on the other hand, have this characteristic: they achieve a result and know why they did it," explained the chief technician. Gabarrini even goes so far as to compare the MotoGP rookie with the current world champion: "I saw this quality in Márquez: I was with him when he made his debut in the MotoGP World Championship. His ability to not forget what he had learned impressed me. Once he had understood an aspect of the riding style, the set-up or any other thing to be faster, he had it in him forever. Pecco also has this quality." "In Valencia we started with a base similar to the one Lorenzo used: on paper it suited Bagnaia, based on what you could understand when you saw him riding a Moto2 bike. From then on, the normal changes to the set-up were made so that he could ride the bike as he liked. In the meantime, Pecco has worked enormously to adapt his style to the Ducati."

and there you have it - pecco's good at progressively getting better at stuff, including over the course of the weekend. as for the set-up copying thing, partly it's just typical competitive paranoia (even though it feels like the fans are currently doing it more than the riders). back in the day, valentino and jorge used to have the world's dumbest arguments about this every other week. led to one of my all time fave messy jb moments:

god I miss that guy so badly. they don't do ride-or-die like that anymore

the point is that both sides were engaging in pretty silly mudslinging, just kind of for the vibes of it. valentino/jb trying to get under jorge's skin and jorge a bit more earnestly aggrieved. as ever, if you want to read more about how that particular era of jorge/valentino unfolded, see here. this is just to say, this kind of faffing about is a tale as old as time and it's always a bit silly... you had jorge say that it was impossible for them anyway to copy each other's data in the very same answer as he accused valentino of copying his set-up. like, I'm sorry, I am not going to take this seriously. a lot of sports is about having dumb arguments

and yeah, again, pecco does gradually build up his level over the weekend. more of a valentino than a casey, it's fair to say. and that'll hurt him in the sprint format - which I talked about a bit recently while going through casey's latest interview about how sprints are satan's providence:

so yeah, casey thinks that if anything there isn't enough time to work on set-up, and mat oxley thinks it's rubbish to say pecco relies on sprint data to be better on sunday. (as I said in that post, I do find it fun if unsurprising that casey is so virulently anti-sprints, because you'd think a lot of aspects of the format - including less time for everyone for working on set-ups - really would have suited him. keeping it real.) so on the whole... y'know. maybe he just gets better over the course of the weekend. it's been known to happen. there's actually some pretty significant ways in which the current version of the sport isn't all that pecco-friendly, from the shitty michelin front tyre we're keeping for another year to the sprint format we appear to be stuck with. it's just that he also happens to be on the best bike - and the fact that he's winning a lot but simultaneously isn't highly rated by fans makes people want to believe that the current series is 100% ideal for him

a lot of fans are loathe to admit pecco might actually be a good rider so they'll find basically everything to justify that prior. including getting into increasingly conspiratorial territory. but my actual take is this - if pecco has been gaming the system so expertly that he is somehow the only guy able to take full advantage of everyone else's data, so shrewd and cunning that he can spread magic dust on his bike so that he suddenly leaps ahead of jorge, such a dastardly operator that he can steal the set-up that poor jorge perfected on friday morning to fix his bike five minutes before the sunday race, then... good. I support it. I hope he's cheating. the more unearned the success is, the better in my books. long live corporate espionage and foul play

[just-animaxiz]

Fuck it - I'm gonna make these guys into reoccurring characters into RC9GN because they're underrated (Especially the leader)

Starting off with lore bits for:

Spike

He is the leader of not only the Punk Bots, but also the leader of Scrap City. Ever since he failed to defeat the ninja and thus scrapped away, he gained enough sentience to start rebelling against McFist and Viceroy, shouting out the way they mistreated the robots like that.

He is the least scrapped Punk Bot out there, and that is due to his self-taught experience with mechanical repairs. He then began to take whatever parts out there and used them to fix the other bots, gaining their respect for him and vice versa.

Spike, as designed, is a punk, so he fonds over Punk music and guitar - Fortunately, McFist dumped other materials such as magazines, old guitars, and other items into Scrap City. In the middle of the heap is an untouched shiny red guitar. Spike claimed it as his and named it, "Ruby Bolt.

During their imprisonment, Spike realized the heaps of cars and vehicles stacked up like ladders. To test his theory, he created a rope out of cable and started to climb the stack. It took him 12 tries before he finally made it on the wall. Looking down, Spike found himself at the edge of a long fall, so he lasso'ed the cable to a glued object, like an impaled stick or heavy pole, and climbed down.

Once he made it, he learned that no one came after him. He's free... But then he looked up at his mates and realized they're still trapped and too many escaping can lead to getting caught. So Spike devised a plan. He talked this out with the group, and using hacking skills and convincing, they pulled in outside help into it. At a precise time, Spike and his punk bots leave Scrap City. Then when the humans are occupied (At a grand party or very busy), the Punk Bots trashed down a McFist establishment.

While they trashed the area, Spike stole a few items for personal reasons, and when they came back to Scrap City, Spike used them as upgrades.

He made upgrades on himself - making him faster, stronger, and more agile than ever. Additionally, he made personal upgrades like having sharp teeth, a tongue piercing, and a cool new torso.

He also had stolen photos of not only Mcfist and Viceroy, but the Ninja too. He kept drawing personal threats for his revenge.

As much as everyone agreed to vandalize at a specific time, Spike would sometimes go out on his own to take a breather. Wearing long sleeves and a hood over his head, he hides himself from interacting with humans... Or McFist.

A person caught his eye - A young bright boy with purple hair and a red shirt, like his. He's enjoying a night out with his family, meeting up with his best friend, and talking about the girl he has a crush on... Spike wished he could've been that boy, instead of being a scrappy mistake.

Thorn

Thorn is the yellow punk bot, and personality-wise, he's the "I may be sweet but I'm not merciful" type.

He is Spike's Right Hand Man and he always inform Spike about upcoming events or news from the outside.

Thorn may not be as scary or threatening as his brothers, but he can be with his words alone. Spike taught him that!

When McFist dumped random trash into Scrap City, Thorn found an abandoned set of manga. That caused him to be addicted in different types like Shojo, Isekai, and Shonen. He would spend all night reading, learning small Japanese words.

It was until Skewer, the green Punk Bot, gave him a book he found about Japanese culture and their language. Thorn thanked Skewer for the gift and dedicated into learning about his interests.

Before Spike fixed him, Thorn used to be the most damaged. He lost his head a dozen of times, cannot run as fast, and he had a squeaky arm. Even after he's repaired, the squeak's still there. It made him feel like a repaired doll but they still have cracks on their face.

When Thorn joined his brothers out to vandalize McFist stores, he would sometimes steal manga, figurines, or Japanese books to fulfill his interests. He even made theories about Yokai and think they're real, so he showed respect whenever he passed by small statues or paintings.

He's not the type who just sees Japanese as a trend or media thing, but he truly respects their culture and wished to travel to Japan just to learn more and appreciate its beauty. He wondered if they would accept a broken doll like him over there.

When Thorn learns that the Ninja came from Japan, he wished to meet them during a fight so that he could ask them questions about their occupation, wanting to learn their moves and their history.

He would be the type to punch a jerk if they disrespect his interests or even embodies humiliation towards it. Like I said, he's sweet but not merciful.

Skewer

The scariest Punk Bot. Every bot, except for his brothers, feared him.

It's not his fault though; Skewer was made with the scary face by Viceroy and McFist, which made others back away whenever they felt like he's glaring at them.

Despite this, he's also the smartest. He helped Spike set up the upgrades and hacking. This is due because of the dumped items in the heap.

Skewer found a guide to hack and a manual to repair and rebuild. He also find trashed books from Math and science (Thanks Bash) and took them in for his research.

There, his intelligence became stronger than ever, storing data after data and using them for important tasks.

The data also led him to his fond of chess and checkers, which annoyed a specific chess-obsessed robot.

Even though he's smart, he still lives up to the scary bit - He's the frontman, the bulldozer, and the brute of the pack. Someone messes with him or his people, and they'll be skewered.

Bots cannot even tell what mood he's in, questioning if he gave them compliments or subtle threats.

When he and his brothers vandalized McFist Industries, Skewer made observant notes of everything. He noticed how Thorn would stare at a store with Ancient Japanese antiques, or how Spike gaze at a happy boy before he soberly looked away. Other times, Skewer made notes of seeing a red light on a camera, or hearing an annoying voice from a distance.

If they needed time, Skewer would purposely cause a destruction somewhere else as a diversion and make an escape route to go back to his brothers in time.

Skewer questions the Ninja's existence and purpose. He learned that they had been in Norrisville for several years, which is impossible for humans. (Wink) And he discovered from articles that the Ninja came in different forms, wondering if there's a deeper reason behind it.

He also wondered why McFist would go out of his way to built world-destructive robots just to destroy one Ninja. It doesn't make sense in his way.

Hope you enjoy some lore bits I made for them!

[scribz-ag24]

I have a question, have you ever thought about Dusknoir lashing out to partner specifically if met with extreme hostility after they explain what happened in SE5 to hero and partner?

In my mind the reason Dusknoir resonated so much with Groovyle speech was not only because of guilt (he feels a lot of that wuefhihwe) but also because they basically were in the same situation, and knew in his heart that in the way they approached the future, Groovyle was doing the right thing.

On the other hand, for someone like partner who in Dusknoir eyes has nothing to loose by stopping the planet paralysis, would make it feel disingeneous in some way to just point a finger to find a "culprit", and even though Dusknoir knows hes in the wrong, considering hes not the best at controlling his emotions when under stress, at one point he would at least snap back i think.

anon i love love LOVE this idea and i hope i can draw sth like it one day!! It's truly marvelous!

Dusknoir being angry that partner is pretending to act like a judge of character, like they're offended they should forgive dusknoir after what he did, ignoring the fact that their own life was NEVER endangered by grovyle's plan, unlike dusknoir's life. That they were an outsider to this conflict and little else than a side-attachment to Hero, dusknoir's actual target. (It is prettu funny how Partner gets dragged along into the conflict for no reason lol, all they did was liking their rock and their best friend and dusknoir almost killed them for it)

Dusknoir will gladly take the blame and accept the consequences of his violence towards hero and partner, but he will not GROVEL to them, not when he was only ever fighting to keep himself alive. He will move on and be better, he will awkwardly make amends as best as he can, but he's not always gonna lay down and take all the berating without snapping back a bit. Especially not when it comes from one of the people who was most fooled by his facade, who had the weakest will of them all and would have succumbed to the darkness faster than anyone if left alone.

Partner grows a lot throughout the story, and I think by the end of postgame they have enough self esteem and will that they've outgrowned dusknoir, in a way. They're no longer led by what others say, and they are sure they deserve to exist in this world. So facing Dusknoir again and having to face their most embarrasing lapse of judgement must bring a lot of bad memories. I think in a normal conversation Partner would be calmer. However, maybe if Dusknoir presses in the right way, they could even be demoralized, some of that old respect could come back and make them more susceptible to dusknoir's judgement.

Both Partner and Dusknoir are cowards in a way. Partner starts as a timid person with no ability to even approach the guild, and incapable of standing up for themselves. Dusknoir has nothing in his life, only a slightly-less-literally-unhinged impulse for self preservation than the mad god he serves. And even then, at least Dusknoir was fighting for something, even if it was something as meaningless as his empty doomed existence.

I think it would be fun for Dusknoir to realize that similarity with partner and bring up the conversation in the old ruins that partner never heard. The one where Hero learned their unfortunate fate were the planet to be saved. He could mention how if Partner had known he could have sided with the very same person they are reprimanding right now. That they would either fail to live up to the mission once their will was tested with hero's imminent disappearance, or they would have betrayed their so-called friends because of their selfish wish to never lose hero.

I believe it could really hurt partner to hear that Hero refusing to tell them until the last moment was only proof that not even them trusted that partner could make that sacrifice.

Of course I'm sure Dusknoir would regret going that far and losing his temper, and I'm not sure if he could be so articulate in a moment of high emotion, since with grovyle in se5 he kind of sputters a bit while he tries to deny the goodness Grovyle claims to see in him. But I think he could hurt partner deeply once more and make their breach even worse. Plus it would make Partner feel like they haven't grown at all since the last time Dusknoir played them like a fiddle.

Tbh i think the only good ending here is if they throw hands hard. and partner wins. not for any thematic reason but just bc dusknoir should get his ass kicked more often

anyways anon i love the idea its so good!!

[koduflower2000]

"It's time to think outside the box 🤔🧐"

Hi! I'm Kevin, but you can also call me Kodu, if you prefer. I'm the actual guy from Twitter (X).

Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (any of these is fine)

Age: 19 years

Nationality: Sri Lankan

Timezone: Indian Standard Time (IST) (GMT+5:30)

A straight guy who supports the LGBTQ+ community (more specifically, I'm a straight cisgender ally)

A silly child at heart

Open talker (yes, you can be friends with me if you want)

Draws art just by using a mouse.

Speed variation of me drawing is frequent (sometimes I draw faster, other times I draw slowly)

I'm currently learning Russian BTW. Я не знаю что я делаю. 😔

Also I'm learning Spanish, and a little bit of German and French for entertainment. I hope to learn Ukrainian, Arabic and Danish any time soon.

I do music (it's actually one of my favorite things to do)

I do programming sometimes (I haven't uploaded a single cool project in here at all, as I remember) (another one of my favorites to do)

I mostly don't swear, except when I feel intense emotions. (if you're comfortable with reading my posts with swear words, go ahead. I won't judge)

I reblog a lot, so if you really wanna see what I've been working on, here are some tags in which you can look around.

#koduflower2000 art - art by me

#koduflower2000 projects - will be a tag in which i present my art and music projects.

#koduflower2000 talks - mostly something i wanna say

#koduflower2000 answers - a tag in which i answer to tumblr asks in my ask box

Interests

BFDI:TPOT (Battle For Dream Island: The Power Of Two)

BFB (Battle for BFDI)

BFDI (Battle For Dream Island)

III (Inanimate Insanity Invitational)

AvA (Animation vs Animator) series

AvM (Animation vs Minecraft) series

Bluey series from ABC Australia

Chickn Nuggit (i'm sorry i didn't tell you earlier)

Minecraft

Saw and Gaty (totally okay with those ships actually)

Airy and Popcorn from HFJONE (totally okay with those ships as well)

Fanfictions (started writing one btw)

Rhythm Games

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DNI list:

Basic (you already know it)

Ableists

Anti-semitic people

Racists

Homophobic people (basically homophobes)

Pedophiles (basically MAPs)

Sexists

Xenophobic people (including islamophobes)

Transphobic people (basically transphobes)

TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, in other words, transphobic people who spread their gender opinions which are considered to be uncomfortable to trans people)

Advanced

Extreme NSFW accounts (a.k.a. the accounts with >=90% of the posts which are NSFW)

Pro-Israel people (I support Palestine, and no one can stop me)

People neutral with Palestine and the Palestinian people (Palestinian people are the best and they're considered innocent. Period.)

Zionists (If you try to interact with my account, I would like to fight you and block you.)

Proshippers (problematic ships, not professional ships)

Comshippers

People who spread misinformation against me

On thin ice

People who harass me or any of my moots.

People who think they're superior than everyone for no reason. (the only reason why i put it there is because i want people to talk with me instead of harassing me, because i already had a lot of traumatic experiences on twitter)

Blog Landmarks

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me too (a tribute to all my previous moots who have been disappeared from the internet)

kinda the reason why i don't interact in here as much as i wanna

the most important thing in tumblr that hits you hard like a high speed train

elements of the intro are subject to changes which occur periodically

[izzymaekgaem]

IzzyCraft - Devlog 0

First off, let's start with an introduction.

Hey! Name's Isabel. I'm a Comp Sci student in her 20s living in Portugal. I've wanted to try making a Minecraft mod for a while now, and I decided that right now's a good a time as any to start. I wanna keep track of my progress by making one of these every now and then. I'm gonna try to keep this something that I do… every two weeks maybe? But I'm not gonna hold myself to any specific posting schedule for now. Keeps me from going insane.

So, what's this about?

This blog will be a development log of my attempt at making a Minecraft mod. It's something I've always been curious about trying, and I figured I could start learning instead of just sitting on my ass wondering what it's like. I have decided to try the Fabric API out, because it's the one I've spent the most time actually playing on, and I've never really had many stability issues with it. Since this is Minecraft, I will also have to learn more Java, which, coming from someone who learned Python first… is gonna take some getting used to.

I want this development log to serve as practice for any potential attempts at game development in the future, hence the blog name. I guess you could say that everyone reading this is part of my little experiment.

Basic Idea for the mod

The working title is "IzzyCraft", for no other reason than I think it rolls off the tongue well.

The end goal of the mod is to introduce a fantasy rpg flair to minecraft by adding a bunch of your traditional fantasy species to the game. They will replace villagers in their respective biomes, and the player will also be able to chose what species to play as, similar to the origins mod, but with more mechanical balance tailored for online play.

So far, these are my concepts for playable species:

Underground (Found in Cave biomes in the Overworld)

Dwarf:

Darkvision: You see better in the dark.

Size: You are noticeably shorter than the base game model, and can fit through 1.5 block tall gaps without crouching.

Unshakeable Stance: Knockback has less effect on you.

Sky sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping with a roof over your head, you will become Skysick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Sky sickness, you must sleep with a roof over your head.

Dark Elf

Darkvision: You see better in the dark.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Iron stomach: consumables with harmful effects (poison potions, suspicious stew, rotten flesh, etc.) have a reduced effect on you. You can eat raw mushrooms, including nether wart.

Sky sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping with a roof over your head, you will become Skysick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Sky sickness, you must sleep with a roof over your head.

Surface (Found in the surface of the Overworld)

Human:

Base player.

Wood Elf (Found in Jungles and Old Growth Taiga biomes):

Nimble: Weapons and tools have a slightly faster draw speed. You have a higher sprint speed.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Bark skin: Negative effects on throwable and lingering potions, as well as potion tipped arrows, have a reduced effect on you.

Fast metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster.

High Elf (Found in Flower and Birch Forests):

Arcane: Level caps on the enchanter are lowered (can make higher enchants with less bookshelves).

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.4 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Ward: Enchanted weapons deal slightly less damage to you.

Slow learner: Killed creatures drop less experience.

Catfolk (Found in Deserts and Mesas):

Agile: You have a higher jump height, and a faster sprint speed. You take less fall damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Claws: Unarmed attacks deal slightly more damage.

Fast metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster.

Halfling (Found in the Plains Biomes):

Sneaky: Weapons and tools have a slightly faster draw speed. You can walk without triggering skulk sensors.

Size: You are noticeably shorter than the base game model, and can fit through 1.5 block tall gaps without crouching.

Lucky: Your critical hits have a chance of dealing double damage.

Light build: You have less health.

Minotaur (Found in Savannas):

Charge: Your critical hits deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.5 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Bulky: you have slightly more health.

Horns: You can't wear helmets.

Nether

Piglin (Found in Crimson Forests and Nether Wastes):

Netherspawn: You spawn in the Nether.

Charge: Your critical hits deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Piglin Reputation: You do not need to wear gold to keep other piglins from attacking you. Piglin brutes are not hostile to you, unless you attack them first.

Overworld sickness: If you spend more than one day without sleeping in the Nether you will become sick. Weapons and tools will take longer to draw, and you will restore health slower. To cure Overworld sickness, you must sleep in the Nether.

Tiefling (Found in Warped Forests and Basalt Deltas):

Netherspawn: You spawn in the Nether.

Borne of Fire: Fire enchantments deal slightly more damage.

Size: You are the same size as the regular player.

Lava skin: You are immune to fire damage (swimming in lava still damages you). You can stand on magma blocks without taking damage.

Nether Metabolism: Your hunger bar decays faster. You can eat nether wart, as well as crimson and warped fungus.

The End

Enderfolk (Found in the End Islands):

Enderman Reputation: You can stare at an Enderman without angering them. They are still hostile if you attack them.

Teleport: You can Teleport short distances without needing to use an ender pearl.

Size: You are noticeably taller than the base game model, and need spaces to be 2.5 blocks tall to be able to fit without crouching.

Silky hands: You can collect grass and leaf blocks without special tools.

Hydrophobic: Touching water damages you. This also applies to rain (but not snow)

next: IzzyCraft - Devlog 1 - Doing the Thing

[ifievertoldyou]

The Quackitification™

little analyses + bonus pictures under the cut :D

mediums: #2 pencil, standard 8.5x11 copy paper, royal purple crayola colored pencil

analysis time

references analysis

pre-thaw!q is intended to be q at the meetup with phil (minus the beanie) so i referenced those meetup pictures a lot when drawing him, and just really wanted him to contrast with the other qs in how carefree and happy he looks. to make it seem as though, well, he's from another world than them.

i referenced a lot of different quackity pictures with the middle 3 qs, so those ones weren't really based on any specific picture. they were all just mixes of different cc!q pictures, just like how q is kind of a mix of cc!q and c!quackity during these times, though the amount of each that he has varies depending on when in the story you're looking.

current q was heavily referenced off of that one photo of the LN!quackity photoshoot that cc!quackity did a while back, because at this point, q is his dsmp character, mentally, and now, physically. i just wanted there to be such a contrast between the first drawing being referenced off of a picture of cc!q being a cc, and the last drawing being referenced off of cc!q dressing up as his dsmp character. only it isn't really dress-up for poor q anymore.

okok now eye direction analysis time

i very intentionally drew each q looking in a different direction, so now i'm going to talk about my reasoning for that

the q from before the events of thaw has his eyes closed because he doesn't yet know the awful truth that the fun story he wrote actually happened somewhere. he looks so joyous, but at the same time, it's mostly because his eyes are still closed to the reality that he will have to grapple with throughout this story.

next we have beginning/desert!q. he doesn't have his blessing yet, and his eyes are wide with fear. he's looking to the right to indicate that the cc is still in there. after all, in q's world, he preferred using his right hand when writing, but he had to change that as he began adapting to this world, so as to not blow his cover. but desert!q hasn't yet had to do that, he's still the cc, just more scared and.. lost than usual. he's still currently abiding by the same rules and worldview that he had in his original world, so he's looking to the right, to what he knew in his original world.

then we've got post-bet!q. he's got the magic eye now, and he has to deal with way more issues than before, as he learns more about how fucked up this world is, and how horribly twisted his storytelling became here. he's looking down because now he's not just scared now, he's guilty, he blames himself for all the bad things that happened to quackity and he blames himself for all the bad things that happened to him too. he no longer has that optimistic outlook about the world, and has begun losing his old identity much faster than before. this is also where he starts adapting more to this world, and, eventually, learns to write with his left hand. there's a shift towards behavior that is more like manberg/pogtopia!quackity that's beginning in him now. he's started to look away from his old morals from before he got here and has begun doing and thinking things that he would have never done/thought before this story took place.

butcher!q is looking to the left. this is for several reasons. one, to signify how, kinda like how charlie put it, it'd be hard to tell the two gamblers apart if it wasn't for the blessed eye, because their ways of seeing the world have become so similar now. and two, it's set up for q's eye getting blinded, since it's his left eye that he loses, and that's where he was looking (at least i'm Assuming, since we haven't actually gotten a description of his blind eye from the outside pov yet) when he got blinded.

and then we have thaw!q as we know him after chapter 66. his blind eye is stuck looking to the left, and his seeing eye is looking forward, with his expression carefully neutral. he looks more like quackity than he ever did before. and he looks more like the quackity he always used to imagine than he ever did before. more importantly though, he Acts more like thaw!quackity than he ever did before, even though he has been progressively acting more and more like him all throughout the story. he's purposefully looking forward to show a sense of confidence. no longer will he allow himself to have downcast eyes or show such visible emotions (or emotions that aren't anger, at least). now he will look ahead confidently, with his best poker face, trying to seem unbothered, but deep down, the experiences and worldview of quackity will always weigh on him without him meaning to, just like his blind eye will look to the left.

misc notes

i made the hair slightly longer with the latter three qs, to show that he's been there for longer

i also made his hair longer to make him resemble my thaw!quackity design a little more (though it still isn't quite as long as my quackity's is, just because that would take some Insanely fast growing hair to get there in a month)

i initially wanted to give q some of his beauty spots, but i quickly found that it was very difficult to keep their placement consistent enough, which bugged me, so i cut that idea out

i struggled a bit with q's scar, since we haven't seen a *whole* lot of descriptions of it yet, especially not of when it's been completely healed over, as it's still currently fresh in thaw. but ultimately i settled with this design, though it took me a couple hours to figure out how i wanted it to look

i used a duller pencil when i drew pre-thaw!q, and at first this wasn't intentional, but i decided to sharpen it after i finished him, so cc!q's lines look a lot softer and duller than the other qs. but i decided halfway through this project that i'll Make it intentional, as a way to comment on how q used to be so soft before coming to this world, and he progressively got sharper and more put-together, just like his linework (though post-bet!q's linework is a bit messier and all over the place, since he's kind of going through it and hasn't quite perfected that mask of anger just yet. though, if i could've, i probably would've made his linework ever so slightly less dull than pre-thaw!q's but not nearly as sharp as the other qs. unfortunately, i can't really accurately control the dullness of my pencil at will, so that didn't happen-) but yeah, happy little accidents ^^

fun fact: i drew the first 4 qs on the same paper, and drew current q on his own separate page. he is also about 4x the size of the other qs, and is significantly more detailed

i thought about fully coloring everyone, but decided that i'd probably never get this thing done if i did that. though maybe one day i'll revist this and color them all, who knows?

now for some bonus pictures

this was my initial q design before i decided that actually, his scar looked way too much like quackity's and wasn't neat or straight enough for my liking. so uh, yeah, here's thaw!q if his scar was more thaw!quackity-ish! one of the many casualties during the great q design war™

a couple of wips, as a treat for making it all the way down here

okay that's all, thank you for making it all the way to the end of this post ^^

as always, reblogs are very much appreciated, and also make sure to check out the original fic by @alexanderwesker that i've been talking about throughout this post, if you haven't already! ^D^

[bekandrew]

Laptop Necromancy

I'm running my whole art portfolio through Glaze. If you don't know, it's a program build by a group of uni students that's won awards and is designed to basically prevent AI libraries from being able to meaningfully "learn" anything from your art. It can be found here for free. It wouldn't run on my actually functional laptop (it tried rendering for 2 days straight and then got to something like "Time remaining: -200 minutes" and still never spat out anything completed). So, while waiting for the seemingly endless rendering to stop and a reply for access to their Web option, I decided to try something a little off the wall.

I ended up taking my largely non-functional old laptop (8+ yr old Dell Latitude i7) I hadn't figured out how to safely dispose of yet and see if I could give it new life. It was a mid-tier "gaming" laptop when I purchased it, though I needed the specs for heavy graphics work for work as an artist and as I was, for a time, still in uni for engineering before switching majors. It currently won't run most of the programs I need for work - it abjectly refuses to open Krita no mater what I do, and throws a fit and crashes with even GIMP sometimes. I even have to be careful with internet browsers now with that one. Its hard drive is pretty toast, hence why I needed to suck it up and get a new laptop. Something is damaged in a way I couldn't make a proper clone of the drive and something's fucked with the BIOS is fucked in a way I couldn't even run a recovery usb and it has no disk drive. It makes frightening noises from frequently trying to run its HDD at 100%. The casing itself is held together with duct tape and spite. This laptop survived several moves and homelessness before finally being too finicky to put up with after wife and I were rehoused. It literally requires support at all times to not be torn further apart by the weight of its own screen. It also needs to be elevated in a way to give the fans a little help. It's a technological senior citizen. Despite the hard drive being largely toast, the OS still works pretty fine. The RAM isn't high as I'd like, but it's not bad, either. It's main draw for this very specific purpose is the dual GPUs. There's a version of Glaze that you can force to run off a GPU instead of the CPU and make it go MUCH, MUCH (from my experience, literally 5-10 times or more faster).

I had a Solid State Drive lying around from when I'd attempted to keep the old laptop alive longer, so I stuck it in my external dock, installed Glaze on it, and filled it up with a folder of art to be Glazed. It then proceeded to take about a day and a half of fussing with graphics drivers - including uninstalling the one the uni students recommended and going back to my old one because the one they recommended was technically compatible but was borking things for some reason, and manually changing settings to force the computer to use the correct beefier GPU for the program. I also had to uninstall a ton of shit that was slowing my computer down and sometimes making it lock up entirely - things I used to need when I used that laptop for normal purposes but no longer needed there (things like Steam, Discord, Grammarly, etc).

So long as I don't run much of anything off of the internal HDD outside a couple Windows Explorer windows for viewing files and Task Manager to keep an eye on hardware status, it mostly stays nice and quiet now other than a few spikes here and there with low % usage. Glaze runs smoothly off the external SSD, the CPU and RAM usage remain pretty stable and manageable during rendering, with the GPU usage only at a little over half the computer's total capability. Despite being bested by much simpler daily usage, this old shell of a laptop now renders a resource-intensive program over in a corner and I can just check it every couple hours to see how it's doing.

[delightfuldevin]

I am staring SO hard yes bestie give me EVERYTHING on your Mario S/I. I'm so fascinated by the part Shine Sprite part, reminds me of the Peach is a Super Star (Grand Star? Star Spirit??) reborn theory from forever ago. Would LOVE to delve more into the lore ramifications of that.

I hope it's okay I ask more like. Specific questions?? Sorry if this is a little annoying I just love to learn other people's S/I lore...

Like, what's his timeline? How old are the main characters compared to him? How old are the Koopalings when he meets them? HOW did he almost die to the Odyssey Dragon (another game I haven't PLAYED but have seen playthroughs of)? What's with Wingman King boo? What's he do in-game style? What's his opinion on Peach? E. Gadd?? Gooigi??

And also could I, when I get my bones together, draw him because he is very cool and I would love to doodle him some if that's okay

I’M GONNA RUN OUT OF HEART EMOJIS TO THROW AT YOU SOON

So yeah, cut again cause I just love talking a lot and giving copious amounts of information dhbcbjhhsdshcjvsxh

So, I don’t have an idea of ages for anyone, except Bowser Jr who is somewhere around 6 or 7? Ludwig is actually close to my age I think, and I imagine that he probably calls me by name rather than the same parental term the others call me (Ven or Venny). Though, I think he’d use Ven sometimes. I like to go by the SMB3 order for the Koopalings’ ages, so youngest to oldest is Larry, Morton, Wendy, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, and Ludwig. Larry is older than 12. That’s all I can really say on that jbcjxncjshc

There is an age gap between Bowser and I, but I’m not sure exactly how much. I think Dragon-Koopas age differently than even regular Koopas, let alone humans, so I’m not too sure on his age. Cause in the games when everyone is babies (Partners in Time, Yoshi’s Island, etc) Baby Bowser can speak full coherent sentences and walk while the bros and Peach are just making baby noises and crawling. Sure, maybe he’s just a lot older than them, but I like to think they are somewhat close in age chronologically and his species just matures faster mentally. I like to think the bros and Peach are either the same age as me or within a year or two of me.

(When I was a kid, I thought every media made for kids only had kid or teen characters. So yes, I thought the bros and Peach were teenagers, even with the bros’ thick impressive ‘staches. The only, and I mean only, reason I knew Bowser was an adult was because he had kids. After learning about the Yoshi’s Island games, which I also have never actually played, I realized they all had to be adults since they were all babies at the same time.)

King Boo is my bestie!! First time I saw him was actually in Mario Kart DS in the mission where you play as Peach and collect coins and he steals them from you. At the time, all I knew about him was that he was a king and he liked stealing my coins. Next time I saw him was in Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games for DS. At that point, I knew he had some history with Luigi, but I didn’t know the context. Now, he didn’t really stand out to me all that much, until Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon came out and I FELL IN LOVE. I thought he was sooo cool!! When I reached the end of the game and he said to Luigi “Remember that time you trapped me in a painting for all eternity? Good times” that’s when I realized that this had happened before! There was another Luigi’s Mansion game before that one! Needless to say, I was very excited to learn that.

My S/I meets King Boo in a Mario Kart tournament. They don’t even know each other, but for some reason, they feel compelled to target each other specifically. After the game and everyone splits ways, they mostly forget about each other… until my S/I accidentally stumbles into Boo Woods. Now, I’m sure you’ve noticed that my favorite color is green and it’s what I like to wear. Well, who else wears a lot of green? Luigi. And that’s who KB thinks I am when he sees me again. He jumps out to scare my S/I and my S/I throws fireballs at him in response. A couple misunderstandings resolved later, and boom! New bestie!

The whole targeting each other in Mario Kart thing remains a big part of our dynamic. If we’re on opposite teams, we usually go after each other. But if we’re on the same team, everyone else better watch out. We also throw a joint Halloween party every year! Also fun fact: my S/I initially only called him King Boo, but picked up the nickname KB from Bowser. It stands for Kool Bro.

Now, I have a headcanon that Bowser and KB are also best friends, *coughcough*and later queerplatonic partners*coughcough*, so when KB discovers Bowser and I are mutually pining for each other, he takes it upon himself to help get us together to make fun of us because he’s a good friend. He enjoyed teasing us in the early stages of our relationship cause our feelings were so painfully obvious to literally everyone but us.

As for Gadd, well, my S/I doesn’t care for him to say the least dhgfsjhbcs. My dude is faaaar too invested in his paintings that are just prisons for actual sentient beings rather than the safety and sanity of my little brother. Plus, those ghosts in LM1 weren’t even causing trouble! Just living their afterlife in a nice big house and then all of a sudden some lil onion man comes and shoves them into a painting forever. Definitely siding with KB on this one and agreeing that little onion man deserves a taste of his own medicine in his own special painting. Maybe not for eternity, but at least until he gets his shit together.

Peach is also my bestie!! It’s a bit complicated for obvious reasons dhbcsjhbdc. On one hand, my S/I enjoys being villainous with his husband and invading the Mushroom Kingdom. On the other hand, sometimes he just wants to hang out at Peach’s Castle and have tea parties and get little kissies on his cheek,, Listen, Mario canon is weird. If Bowser can be the scourge of the kingdom one minute, then get invited to go karting and sports the next, then so can I,,

In terms of actual in-game stuff, I most easily imagine my S/I as being part of a dual final boss with Bowser ala New Super Mario Bros style! That, or a penultimate boss that would happen right before Bowser. Thing is, because I’m Mario, I can’t imagine interacting with him since how do I interact with myself??? But since he’s the main character, it’s kinda hard to get around that cshbvddhh. I can imagine fighting him, but not much else. I also can’t really fit myself well into any story driven game like the rpgs cause those are actually the games that give me the biggest kin feels haha. The most I can do is that I like to imagine being a secret boss in the challenge mode (if you’ve played the M&L series, I’m talking about the boss blitz modes in Bowser’s Inside Story, Dream Team, and Paper Jam). So yeah, if not a final or penultimate boss, then definitely a secret boss cause that’s just really cool to me. Maybe even like, the boss of World 9 in the New series!!

Okay so now the Odyssey Dragon! (I know you asked this, so you obviously want to know all this, but I can’t help but feel like I am talking waaay too much shcbsjhj)

My S/I spent a lot of time being in the forest due to it being the most familiar since that’s where he first arrived. He was caught out in the forest during a really bad storm and only realized too late that the storm was being caused by a dragon passing overhead. He was struck by the dragon’s lightning and blacked out. He woke up in the clinic in the forest Toad Village a few days later with a nasty scar, cloudy vision in his left eye, and wicked lightning powers. (Fun fact: I based the eye injury on the fact that I actually do have really bad vision only in my left eye. My right eye can see great, the left one not so much).

Now, this is one of few things that only I know and my S/I doesn’t. See, in universe, he has no idea how he ended up in the Toad Clinic and absolutely thinks that he should have died in the forest. But it was actually Bowser who brought him there! At the time, Bowser would stalk him come check up on him in secret sometimes, since this was back before he started liking Bowser. One of those times happened to be during that storm. Bowser brought him to the clinic and hung around outside until he got better, then left. Bowser still has never told my S/I this because he’s (Bowser) afraid to admit that he (my S/I) could’ve really died that day ;-;

Thank you so so much for continuing to let me yell about my S/I!! I can’t tell you enough how happy it makes me that you’re so interested!! And ABSOLUTELY you can draw him whenever you want!!! I will BURY YOU in heart emojis

ALSO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR S/I SOME TIME I WANT OUR S/IS TO BE FRIENDSSSSS

[becomestorm]

i’m running out of energy real fast, so have this. ( wip. )

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

Madara is (still) Kaguya's vessel

Boruto speculations

I feel it coming... I really feel it coming... 😬😬😬

I think Madara or at least his body as a cyborg version is going to make a come back in Boruto, they send little hint and I'm scared to be right...I really don't want to see him back like this. Its not his era, he already had been resurrected so many time, but commercially speaking, let's be honest, it will attract so much people to the show.

Let me explains what leads me to this undesired theory, based on the information we got up to what we know from now : end of Jigen arc and beginning of Code arc. Below the line is going to be full spoiler so slide down on your own risk!

Learning more about the Otsutsukis thanks to Amado's revelations, made me rethink back what happened during the 4th Shinobi War when Kaguya took over Madara's body. The Karma works like an parasite taking over slowly someone else body. With this logic in mind, do you think Black Zetsu had implant Kaguya's karma on Madara ? Which made him, her permanent receptacle even if he's dead ? I'll explain why I say permanent later.

Black Zetsu is the will of Kaguya, an agent with the mission to resurrect her at her prime. In the same way before being defeated by Kawaki, Isshiki entrusted Code with his will (is it the same will than Kaguya's one? We don't know yet)

To my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong, receptacles are chosen with specific criteria by Isshiki. It's always among poor children having a very hard life, mistreated by their family. Isshiki insists a lot how empty is Kawaki's heart and that's the reason why he is a perfect candidate.

"Despise that emptiness within you. You, yourself...deny your own worth...there's an empty hole in your heart" Jigen/Isshiki

The strength of the future receptacle is as well important. Jigen was a desperate choice made by Isshiki out of survival and therefore not physically fit to contain his power. Both Kawaki and Boruto are strong and healthy fighters.

Momoshiki however seems to have chosen Boruto, not for his background. Boruto is loved by his family and friend and have a confident personality. Rather he was chosen for his bloodline. He is half Uzumaki (Hagoromo ascendant) and half Hyuga (Hamura ascendant), genetically the closest to an Otsutsuki like Kaguya. and apparently that work in his favour since the Kama is working faster on him. Up to 80% of Momoshiki's power and/or conscience are by now on Boruto.

Madara in a way was a bit of all criterias above: his physical abilities doesn't need to be prove. After becoming the second sage of 6 paths he was half close in DNA to Kaguya by being from Hagoromo bloodline through Indra and Ashura, and by implanting into himself Senju cells. He was just missing Hamura's bloodline cells.

I said in an other post here already that his life have some similarities with Kawaki. Both of them are discovered by the reader as ruthless and trusting no one. Kawaki's POV on his traumatic past made us empathise with him. Something which is difficult for a lot of people with Madara by the very absence of POV. Despise that, through second/third-hand viewers (Itachi, Obito, Hashirama), we guess the same traumatic path : being naturally a pessimist character, being born in time of constant war, after loosing one after an other his entire family, his reputation, his clan respect and betray by his best friend. The Valley of the End left him like an empty shell. Black Zetsu puts a lot of hope in him not only he was empty and isolated enough to be a perfect receptacle for Kaguya resurrection. But he as the long term determination to activate the Mungen tsukuyomi and thus giving her back her full power. Not just as a an diminished version as was Isshiki inside Jigen.

Knowing those Informations. Can we draw a parallel between Boruto and Kawaki transformation into Otsutsuki to what happened to Madara in the end of the war? is that correct to think Black Zetsu fix the karma on Madara in the moment he was stabbing him. but contrary to Boruto and Kawaki because he was already a powerful shinobi, the transformation into Kaguya was immediate and didn't take weeks. Or he put the kama earlier in his life and wait that all files are extract into him. But this last theory is strange how come he didn't notice that he was slowly transforming into an alien woman (imagine him chilling in his cave and all of the sudden you start to hear a woman talking in your head).

Amado is a character I can't wait to know better, He strikes me by his knowledge on every single people in Konoha. He always call people by their full name to implicitly say that he had many steps ahead of everyone, putting even Shikamaru in difficulty. Amado is observing Otsutsukis for a long time. As meticulous as he is, there is absolutely NO WAY he didn't study thoroughly how Kaguya resurrects through Madara, 15 years ago.

And let's not forget Madara's body is still there, probably somewhere in a Konoha's fridge. But if Amado can find Jiraya DNA in the depths of ocean, accessing Madara's body should be an easy task to him.

When he revealed how to use the karma he said :

Momoshiki adds as well an extremely valued information :

And oh convenient! Amado is working on a new cyborg able to protect Konoha in collaboration with Katasuke (who literally have the keys to Madara's fridge lol) :

All dots connecting, there is technically only one known person who had been a complete vessel to an otsutsuki, with a body still accessible, containing permanently 100% Otsutsuki's data, who can either resurrect again Kaguya (who is not dead by the way just sealed) or to only use his body as a cyborg able to use Ostustuki's power. : Uchiha Madara. Surely his soul won't come back anymore. But his body is just there ready to be use... And that will be a perfect tension to the story : how the 5 villages who lost half of their effective because of that single guy, will accept that the number one enemy is now going to be Konoha's saviour? The irony...

But I just don't want to see that. I hope my intuition is totally wrong.

See also my other speculations : Did Madara & Jigen ever met during the Warring States Era?

[mysticdoodles]

Hi! It’s totally ok if you don’t want to answer this but I’m interested in marine life and choosing a college major and I was wondering what your path was to becoming an aquarist/ marine biologist was since that’s what i want to do :) I’m thinking of majoring in marine biology, but I’m curious if you had to go to grad school, what your career path was like etc to get where you are. once again no pressure it’s just all a bit confusing and you seem like a good person to ask!

Hi! Sorry I took so long to respond- I've been super busy up until now xc

I'm happy to answer! Bear in mind, though, that as I stated the last time I answered a question like this, my path in life might be VERY different from the one you ultimately decide to take, or what ends up being most comfortable for you. Take my advice with a grain of salt, because I am only human and I do make mistakes |D

I'll put this under a readmore so I don't just regurgitate text all over ya'lls dashboards xD

For starters, I chose a college that had a very strong background in marine biology, along with dedicated facilities for marine biology and oceanography etc. (I'd say which one specifically but I'd rather not doxx myself lol). I did, however, double-major. I love the ocean a whole lot, but I also really love art, so I have degrees in both marine biology and fine arts (with a drawing/painting focus). You do not have to double-major, I just did that because I wanted to study and build my skill portfolio in both areas at an organized institutional level. This was also one of the big deciding factors in picking the college that I did- it was the ONLY campus that told me directly "Yes you CAN pursue these two wildly different fields of study" and took it a step further by providing me with an action plan on the spot for how I could accomplish this in 4 years.

I did NOT go to grad school. That doesn't mean I won't EVER go to grad school, but while I entertained the idea, I decided at the time that I needed a break from institutional learning and I would further build my skills in the actual field. You are more than welcome to decide to go to grad school; I've had recent colleagues leave our facilities to go to back to grad school, it's certainly not frowned upon by marine bio employers.

Now, this can happen during college, during grad school, or when you're between employment, but- TAKE INTERNSHIPS. I took a LOT of internships, paid and unpaid. Wherever you can find a good learning experience in the field, coupled with a livable housing situation, go for it. All the book-learning in college can only help you so much; going to assist with studies for other students, or even volunteering with NOAA, will help you learn what it's like to actually do the work WAY faster and more effectively. I tagged salmon with NOAA for two semesters during college, they're a great starting organization and super willing to work around your schedule, especially when you're still a student. Internships will also give you insight into what physical aspect of the job you enjoy most!

In the meantime, before you get your first job really doing what you enjoy or studying what animal/plant/environment/science gobbledygook you find most fascinating, take another job if possible to pay the bills. Preferably doing some sort of fish care if you can manage it. There's no shame in it, and marine bio is a super competitive field. I had to work at Petco as the sole member of the entire fish department for a whole year before I got the first job I really wanted elsewhere. Paid experience means a lot to employers and researchers in the field, for some reason- I'm guessing it's some kind of trust factor? -shrug-

Hope this helps! <3

~Myst

[just-a-little-silly]

I'M SO SORRY IT'S BEEN SO LONG so much has been going on lmaooo😭

Anywaysss I’m so interested in Aidma’s family! All the details seem very well thought out, I love it^^ and I also love how the twins would perceive her. Was there a specific event that led them to form those opinions of her? I am also curious as to how Hiro’s family perceive her considering how close the Tachibana family are to the Brundles? So, how do Kureha and Hiro’s parents feel about Aidma as an addition to the family?

Kajal has two elder siblings and two younger siblings. Fun side note: her eldest sister, the second oldest of the Ayyadurai household, Arundhati, ends up marrying Klaus (it’s an arranged marriage). She works at the ministry and is a prolific mage in her own right. Her eldest sibling Ranga is…definitely a character. He’s also a legendary mage and his powers are linked directly to the sun (quite overpowered frankly), people know him as the “Prince of the Sun”.

I adore exploring Kajal’s relationship with Zeus and Hiro!! The main difference if I keep them separate is that Kajal and Hiro’s relationship is WAYYY more angsty which is honestly really fun to play around with.

I’m so glad you think so! I try my best to make Kajal interesting :DD

Evil Eye is a spell Kajal crafted that not only deflects an opponent’s attack back onto them but additionally allows Kajal to temporarily use the other’s magic and whatever special abilities they might have rendering her opponent magicless. The spell is INSANELY taxing and if she uses it for too long she runs the risk of fatally harming herself.

I really should draw her wings one day!! I’d love to get the design down somewhere but alas it might have to wait a bit😞

Admittedly…Zues doesn’t love it when she pulls strings and she does do it less when she gets with him but at the same time he understands why she does so. Kajal isn’t a malicious, cruel person- he knows that about her and while he doesn’t appreciate her methods 100% of the time, he does understand why she does what she does and admires how far she’s willing to go for those she loves. And yes, he does notice that she at times makes exceptions for him and appreciates that too.

And you’re right!! Yessenia and Kajal were practically raised with each other. In my lore, fae and nymphs typically get along quite well and Kajal and Yessenia’s family have supported each other for centuries. As for Kajal, Mei Ling and Abena- they took a while to get along. See, Mei Ling and Kajal got into arguments quite a lot. Mei Ling is strong-willed, steadfast in her values and she didn’t like Kajal’s tendencies to manipulate situations from afar and yet, Kajal at that point was incredibly stubborn and absolutely refused to change. And while that was happening, Abena was aloof, distant and detached, allowing neither of them too close. However, with time, Mei Ling saw that Kajal’s actions weren’t random and Kajal began to appreciate Mei Ling’s insight and Abena began to connect with the two of them as well. It just took time. Meanwhile, Lynn and Safiya took a while too but became close way faster.

At first, Kajal was stunned. She’d never been caught before and it actually really caught her off guard. She was about to cast a spell to send them off to sleep and then dig into their pasts but Yessenia stops her, quickly explaining the situation to Lynn and Safiya. She met Safiya and Lynn as they stayed in the same dorm ( think of Yessenia as an RA :>> ) and she was one of the student’s who gave them a tour of the academy when they first arrived.

Yeah, I’d say the girls get more mature together. They each teach each other things. For example, Safiya learns how to be more self-confident thanks to Kajal, Lynn learns to open up a bit more thanks to Yessenia, Mei Ling is the voice of reason for the girls- she keeps them mindful and so on. They’re definitely fun to explore, especially since they all bring something so unique to the group, something that affects how the others see the world around them.

The argument between Yessenia and Viggo was about how they got caught😭Viggo and Kajal know of each other, one might even call them friends and it started off w/ him making fun of her by telling her he never thought he’d see the day she gets in trouble for his schemes but then Yessenia (whose already not in a great mood) gets swept up into it and they sit and argue (I think he’d liked how spirited she can be)

As for Hiro and Kajal….they start off absolutely despising each other in their first but eventually but after a whilee they catch feelings and it gets quite messy💀😭

Lynn is soo😭😭 I absolutely love writing her.

I’m so glad you think so, it means the world🥹

Oohhh rainfall!! I love that so much!

I also adore Najlynn’s friend group, they seem like so fun :3 also Najlynn dating Hiro is soo interesting!! I’d love to hear more about what that relationship was like in depth and what it was like after it eneded. I think Adima would make a wonderful head of house Brundle💛✨ I wonder how the twins would react to her return? And how does Najlynn feel about Adima’s relationship with Zeus?

notes on safiya (one of my WH / multifandom oc)!!

anywaysss im answering a few questions i got from @eye-cri (eeeee bc im so happy to :3)

okie so yes!! safiya is a prefect (she becomes one around the same time as liz (so, after rem) when her friends convince her to try for it. honestly, she kinda is like joel TT. safiya is so fun bc she says whats on her mind and will sometimes manage to do it in the most unbelievably tactless way possible but shes rarely ever intending to be flat out rude. like she just says things sometimes, its great. she, like liz, got an acceptance letter, started off as a provisional student and then got her place at the academy (she and liz pretty much have the same starting tbh, they’re both from villages tho safiya’s family is still very much alive). also she’s pretty good friends with joel, luca, amelia, scarlett and augustus- she and liz get along but they tend to argue from time to time.

also about the boots omg what was i thinking looking back at it, it rly is smthn but honestly its so very safiya in a way i can’t fully articulate rn TT

additionally, i’ve decided i may ship her w/ elias :DD idk just think that’d be a cute pairing-

(also note: some of my oc lore does change from time to time depending on the characters and whatnot tbh but usually it doesnt- unless i forget stuff HELP-💀)

[dragonclaude]

Hello! Do you have any tips on animation? I think you make some beautiful ones and I wanted to know how. Does it take a lot of time? and do you enjoy it?

Oh, sure I do, and thank you! Though keep in mind what I'm about to say just applies to frame-by-frame traditional animation as 3D and Puppeting animation are their own beasts. I also assume you at least know the principles and some exercises as Im going to call them by name here. If not there’s a ton of videos out there that can tell you like this one!

While I leave it at 3 bullet points, I still think this is a hefty amount of writing soooo long post below!

There are three major tips I can give to an animator:

1) Learn how to simplify the body into a series of shapes.

If you want to animate figures,(human or animal!) I think this is probably the most important idea for you to practice. Animation is about movement, and if you’re focused on minute details from the beginning, you will spend too much time erasing and fixing them to get your motion right. If you start with simpler shapes instead, it will help you, both, draw faster and have an easier time understanding how the body parts look from different perspectives straight away. Here’s the “skeleton” I use for my art and animation as an example of what I mean:

To me the chest is an egg with an arc on the front, the forearms/shins are teardrop shapes, the head is an oval with another egg behind it, the collarbone is just a cupid bow shape, hands are a gumdrop shape with sticks. And you should find ways to understand it too! I've seen people that understand the body with blocky shapes, purely with arcs or just circles too.

And also, here's a quick example I whipped up. This is how I use them for the early stages of animation:

Everyone's idea of a “skeleton” will be a little different, but it should serve the same purpose! Use different colors, stick figures, or whatever makes sense to you as long as you can draw it loosely and it keeps you in the flow.

2) Exercises are important for fundamentals but you will learn way more when you apply them to personal projects.

Yes, do the bouncing ball, pendulum swing, walk cycle, and floursack exercise but also don’t let that be the only thing you do! If you use these ideas and apply them to bigger projects, you will also have to solve smaller, specific problems you wouldn’t face if you stuck to exercises all the time. This could be “how do I do that with this program?” or “how does this specific thing look in this angle?” and being able to solve them makes you a stronger animator! (Animation forums and Google will always be there for you I promise. Search up your problems.)

For example: Take the timing you learned from doing the bouncing ball but then try to make the ball a round, little creature. More than that, put it in an environment and give it a reason for it to be bouncing like that. If you do this, you would learn how to change the features of this creature when it squashes and stretches, how to keep its details consistent, how to affect the environment, and possibly character acting if it has a reaction in the end. Waaaay more than if it was just a circle and a line.

You are creative, there's practically an infinite amount of things you can do. Animate things you enjoy!

3) Don't be afraid to use yourself or videos online as a reference.

It’s absolutely not cheating! And reference will be essential for lots of animations; you're not going to know what everything in the world moves like in the beginning. In an era where Youtube, TikTok, Twitter, whatever, exists and everyone has a video camera practically at their fingertips, I think it’s easy to find a way around things you don't know how to animate at first. Take the video, skim through it a few frames at a time and draw the pose you see. I like to do every 4 frames personally but going on 8s, 10s or even 2s is not too bad either, especially if the motion happens really fast. You can always tweak your poses or add more frames in-between later!

As for your next questions, sure it takes a lot of time but it gets easier the more you're in the flow. I consider myself a quick drawer. I can hyperfocus and bang out several rough animation shots in a day but it all depends on my motivation to start it in the first place. It likes to fluctuate a lot so, that’s really the deciding factor to how much time it takes ^^; Though yes, since it is animation, it will naturally take a while to complete no matter who you are, unfortunately. But I still enjoy it regardless! No matter what I still live for seeing the whole thing come together when I hit play. When characters come to life and I'm like wow! I did that! I made life!! That's the thing that keeps me going and what I love about doing animation.

Finally, I also want to plug Toniko Pantoja who makes great animation tutorials and lessons as well!