#pretty heckin cool

[bluu3berry]

*Mom says i have to normalize being nice So I agree, because im forced to ::: - Blueberry

[cbmagus49]

AAAAA JUST BARELY SQUEEZING IN AT THE LAST SECOND HERE BUT

HERE’S MY FORDUARY STUFF Y’ALL ALL IN ONE GO LET’S GO WOOO

WEEK 1: FAMILY

WEEK 2: ANOMALIES

WEEK 3: INSOMNIA

WEEK 4: SWITCHING IDENTITIES

Whooo, that was a lot! I only got properly started on these like a week ago; I’ve been back at school for the first time in like 3 years which is really eating up my executive function, and with all the crap that happened in Jan/Feb on top of that I wasn’t even sure I was gonna do Forduary at all ^^’ Not half bad for a very very very last minute mad rush to get something out before the late entry cutoff deadline :D

(I am so tired T^T)

I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to do for the prompts this time around, and eventually ended up making two sketches for each prompt! ...buuuut I absolutely did not have time to do all of them with how late I left it so I just picked my favourite for each week to polish up. I’m probably not gonna finish the others, but I liked how the rough blocking was turning out and I thought the progression of all of them together looked pretty cool, so since I didn’t wanna just not post them I’ve put all the thumbnail sketches under the cut so you can see ‘em ^^

[tvrningout]

yuma vc: didn't do much today. went to class, meditated a lil bit, and looked cute as hell!!

[stormwaterwitch]

Nice~♥

It’s hard to believe I’d ever get this many people interested in this account~♥

Thanks for sticking with me throughout the years :>

[mentalmeles]

Just watched 'Your Name' for the first time!!

[drchucktingle]

BOOKTUMBLR

love that my queer horror novels do well and get preorders and most authors would be like 'well i have a big audience on BOOKTOK' because thats all anybody talks about these days with publishing success is dang booktok

but for old chuck tingle i really dont have much of a following on tiktok

what i DO have is my TUMBLR BUCKAROOS

tumblr out here proving love is real for art you like and support. pretty heckin cool

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Dune: Prophecy episode 1 thoughts, tried to keep it vague to avoid major spoilers:

Wow there is a lot of exposition. Like a LOT of exposition, especially in the first 10-15 minutes when we're not invested in any of the characters yet. I hope this is a first episode problem.

Ah they went the coward's route and used "Great Machine War" instead of "Butlerian Jihad."

There's an interesting "history is written by the victors" thread there right from the beginning that I hope they pull on some more.

I love how they did the Voice, which appears early in the episode, because both the actor's performance and the sound design of it are slightly different from the films. It really feels/sounds like the character using it is straining to access a new and unfamiliar power, in contrast to the effortless, overwhelming assertion of control it comes across as in the films.

Salusa Secundus looks so green and lush in comparison to how it looks at the time of the films.

I realize this is probably an unfair complaint for something made on a TV budget (even an HBO TV budget), but imo the production design doesn't quite measure up to the films. I think the best work is on the props. The key to the genetic index room, the little slides that Valya and Tula are looking at with students' info on them, the Emperor's projection table--those all look great and have that feeling of "future filtered through the past" that I think is key to the Dune aesthetic. Many of the location exteriors are gorgeous, too. Some of the interior sets are quite striking and others are underwhelming. The costumes are...mid imo; there are some beautiful elements and others that look too identifiably modern. Including Princess Ynez's red gown unfortunately which looks like a department store prom dress. I realize it's a high bar--the films were really really good at making everything look both futuristic and ancient, layered and textured--but you do notice the difference.

So! Many! Women! Pretty racially diverse casting too. But also omg so many characters and I already forget half their names. I'm gonna need Dune: Facebook for the next episode.

Emily Watson and Olivia Williams are already very compelling, even if you don't quite know their characters' full agendas yet. Heckin ready for some Machiavellian women scheming.

Love some of the more fucked up shit that just slides by and the information it gives you about the world. Adult (? idk maybe she's supposed to be in her late teens) woman getting engaged to a 9-year-old. Practicing Truthsaying on prisoners, some of whom have fresh bruises on their faces.

Arrakis is...the same. This one is honestly fucking me up. I know time scales in Dune are absurd and really kind of incomprehensible in comparison to real Earth history but can you imagine your home being passed around various imperialist powers for resource extraction for ten thousand years?? FOUR HUNDRED GENERATIONS. 80 years of Harkonnen rule seems like nothing. We're talking about whole eras of colonial control and resistance here. Like damn. No wonder so many Fremen have come to believe that only a messiah can save them. Imagine being someone like Chani and feeling the legacy of not decades or even centuries but millennia of struggle on your shoulders. It is gonna take me a while to fully absorb this one. Holy fuck.

Travis Fimmel's character has an...ability that we haven't seen in the Dune universe before and I'm super curious to see where they're gonna go with that.

Overall it feels like this episode was mostly setup but there's a lot of potential? Like there are a lot of potential threads that could develop into something cool and twisty and interesting. I'm not sure where any of it is going yet but I'm ready to find out.

[herpsandbirds]

I'm having a really good day! i got to see an osprey while at work, and from pretty close up! i usually only see them way up high, or way out over the water, but this was flying ahead of me, and maybe 10-15m away for about a minute or so. so heckin cool!

such a good day, i hope your day is good, too!

I used to survey osprey nests on the coast of Long Island, NY. Great birds!

Osprey aka Sea Hawk (Pandion haliaetus) snagging 2 sunfish at once!, family Pandionidae, order Accipitriformes, NE coast of the U.S.

photograph by James C Sengul 

[yukipri]

So I've been trying out the new Star Wars Hunters game that came out on Mobile & Switch recently!

I haven't played many brawling type games like this so I wasn't expecting much, but I've actually been really enjoying it so far! I've probably put too many hours into playing (especially since I was super sick around launch and didn't have much else I could do), and I hit max level 50 and Kyber in ranked a while ago... (yeah, playing too much, I know...)

Thought I'd share my initial thoughts though, since I've put in the time!

Note: Some folks have apparently been playing the beta version for a while, but I've only started playing since the public release.

Stuff I like about it so far:

-The really creative and fun SW universe characters is the best part. A blind Miraluka sniper? (Diago) An Ugnaught driving a Droideka? (Slingshot) Literally two Jawas in a trench coat??? (Utooni) They're fun and have great personality, you can read their blurbs here. I like how they're all voiced and also all have their own theme songs (which are honestly heckin catchy)!

-Controls are very intuitive. Again, I am not much of a gamer and have very little experience with these kinds of games, but I picked it up quick. I play on my iPhone and it's great.

-The graphics are GORGEOUS. It looks beautiful, everything moves stunningly smoothly. Honestly it's hard to believe this is a ftp game.

-So far it's very much ftp friendly! Most of the money locked stuff are just cosmetics, and even then there are tons of free ones. One of the characters, Aran Tal, is currently behind a not-too-expensive paywall, but he'll apparently be available for free soon as well.

-The skins for the characters are fun and creative! Imara Vex has one that looks like Durge, and Zaina has one that kinda gives me adult Omega vibes. The store has an active rotation of skins that you can buy with either irl money or in game currency, and apparently old event skins eventually end up in the circulation too. Here are just a couple of my favorites:

-I love the locations! Each one is very Star Wars vibes and has lots of cool lil in-universe elements, like pod racers going through Mos Espa (they can run you over). The time period is New Republic era, so everything is relatively plausible for that time period in universe.

-There's a bunch of different game types, so you don't get bored, and they each have different challenges, and different characters who shine in them. It's unfortunately a bit addicting.

-The events aren't too grindy or tedious (so far).

-I really appreciate the different modes you can play on! The main two modes are casual and ranked, so it's possible to play low stakes and just level up your characters in casual, or try to challenge yourself more in ranked. I appreciate how the limited time events that sometimes throw you into random characters you might not be experienced with are never ranked, so it's okay to suck. Character leveling is the same in both casual and ranked. And I appreciate the Training mode too, where you can try out all of the characters so you're never in a "wtf does this do" in a PVP environment. I get so anxious during PVP if I don't know what I'm doing.

Stuff I hope they improve on:

-Playing with people + party invites are kind of a pain. The invites disappear really quickly, so it's really hard to time it so you can actually play with your friends. It's also hard to know whether the party is going to be playing ranked or casual, and if ranked you can't see the ranks of the folks in your party before agreeing to join, which is a little nerve wracking.

-This is less a complaint, and more just general frustration, but ranking up is pretty tedious near the top, which is to be expected I suppose. Through Aurodium, it was generous because you earn so many more points when you win than when you lose, but in Kyber, you win/lose the same amount. You are judged by your team score, so losses bring down everyone's rank, and it feels like you have to take three steps back for every one. Kyber players are comparatively more competent, but I've been in some...unfortunate matchups before. (As of writing this, I'm in Kyber III, but I've been bouncing between Beskar II~Kyber II for the past two weeks...will I ever make it to Kyber I cries)

-I think they started with a decent batch of characters, and I know this game just came out of beta and the team said they'll be expanding on them! So this isn't really a complaint either. But in the future, I hope they add more female characters (currently only 4 female characters out of 13 total, which feels a little skewed), as well as more support characters, who always feel lacking.

I'd love a few more "popular" iconic Star Wars species to have characters in support. Maybe a Togruta apothecary? A Nautolan water medic? A Pantoran doctor? And personally, I'd love a super buff Twi'lek lady as a tank! Either way, lots of possibilities to look forward to, especially given how much I love the characters so far!

So far, I've been playing on my iPhone and it works pretty smoothly, though I've heard of some Switch users having trouble with lagging/connecting. I think I've only been booted out once, and even when I'm forced to pop out of the app for a moment (last night, I got an Amber alert that paused my screen), I was able to continue playing with barely any pause, which is honesty impressive. I've heard controls are easier on Switch, but I think I've been doing okay on mobile.

Have you tried this game out??

Here's the launch trailer if you're interested, it's Pretty:

And a self plug!

Feel free to add me, I'm Akaz!

I main Skora (Rodian support) and prefer to play her in ranked, but also have Aran Tal (Mando, he's my baby boi), Sentinel (Stormtrooper tank), and Diago (Miraluka sniper) also at max level. Working on leveling up the others in casual mode!

I'm very happy to play casual mode with anyone! (and I play casual mode a lot to level up my less-used characters, and recommend spending some time there for new folks before diving into ranked)

I'm also happy to play ranked!

(but be warned, you'll kinda want to know what you're doing, or they will slaughter you in Kyber)

I might type up a follow up review giving my thoughts on each individual character and maybe some general tips idk

[bluu3berry]

NEW BANNER!!

i r ally liked the posing on this and I colored it in AND WEEEEOOO!! LOOKS HECKIN COOL !!:33 love the eyes and the color tbh be very very pretty!!

Don't repost, reblogs encouraged

@anon-coke @scramble-eg @michaelsboring @thelunarsystemwrites @the-second-reason

[phightinghottakes]

Hello fellow phighters, I have a hot take.

Gonna be yapping a bit in this one

We should stop being overly critical about the dev team when it comes to their game.

I know fighting games need balancing, good models, good script etc. However I am pretty sure these guys are just teenagers trying to have fun.

I get the criticism about Soda and whatever she does with her lore but it’s Boggio’s passion project.

They don’t need to make a comic, they don’t need to give us lore, they don’t need to give us cool MVP animations. I think players forget that this isn’t some triple A gaming corp or even those giant Roblox groups.

I also think it’s good to remember that you can stop playing if you don’t like it. It’s not that deep, it’s just roblox.

I’m not saying that all criticism is bad, I just think a lot of it comes from a bad place and doesn’t consider the fact that they are all trying their best or having their own lives.

Healthy Fandom and Creator communication and junk.

Hot take out!!

— Jetpack Anon

(If that one is taken, my bad. Didn’t check before I posted.)

This is honestly the most realest hot take ever.

From this video of Soda’s interview, it’s clear that they had NO IDEA that Phighting was going to expand into the thing it is today. No creation is perfect and perfectly planned and executed with the most beautifully crafted lore and explanations for everything. Nothing will.

They clearly hadn’t thought into about stuff like sexual organs, creating a new heckin species, the biology and politics of the Inpherno, and whatever when they first came up with it. And that’s ok. They didn’t need to anyways at that point (also who brought up sexual organs for a KIDS’ GAME I’m actual going to fight them).

Yes, you can expand upon what’s been giving and look for explanations yourself, but you still have to be respectful of both the base content and the creators (and their intentions/wishes!).

If you don’t like it, just go elsewhere, or at least, don’t make a huge problem out of it.

[townlizzardposts]

PEOPLE!!!!

I JUST REALIZED WE HAVE HIT 10 FOLLOWERS!!!!

THX YALL!!

I figure its time to introduce myself properly:)

Hi!

Im Theo, they/them pronoun enjoyer but you can call me just about anything I dont mind.

I love love biology and chemistry, and I actually research currently (cancer-treatment research, based on Paul Ehrlich’s magick bullet theory, if anyone was interested; also I get synthetise peptides and stuff so thats pretty cool, if anyone has any questions or just interested please let me know, I would love to chat about it:3) , despite being in high school. Other things that I like are musicals (Beetlejuice, Hamilton, Heathers and so on), theatre and writing in general (I act a lot, and have recently done a play on the lord of the flies) and also Good Omens. I heckin love good omens maan. And undertale was my childhood.

I got invested in dungeon meshi because of the anime but after a few episodes I got so excited I decided to read the manga. My favourite characters are Laios and Mithrun but honestly I love everyone in the story from the bottom of my heart.

(Also funfact this was supposed to be a sideblog for my main (citygeckoposts) and was originally intended to be scott pilgrim themed but then quickly got repurposed)

Anyways, thank you all again for being here and listening to me yap about silly characters! Also if anyone has any idea about what kind of posts they would want me to make, please let me know!! (I have a few headcanon ones cooking on the grill right now but who knows where we might escalate)

The real ones:

[sbg-loving-pierog]

Hunger Games (Simulator)

X

✨️ School Bus Graveyard ✨️

Part 2! (For part 1 go ✨️HERE✨️)

First of all, Summary of the first part:

Wait, when did Lily die, I didn't notice that 😭😭

All Banners are alive so far 😳 that's pretty cool

NIGHT 3:

Nooo Emma, I jinxed it 😭 and the tree did its thing

THE FEAST:

Wooo!! The avenged her! They avenged Emma!

DAY 4:

It's suprisingly peaceful

The banners still have the chance!!

NIGHT 4:

OKAY I'LL SHUT UP NOW

Also thank you centipede phantom :)

DAY 5:

Noooo Mike!! 😭

🎵Juuust the 3 of us🎵

NIGHT 5:

Well that was quick 😀 Ashlyn heckin girlbossed through it!

So glad that Ashlyn is the one to win, not some goofy ahh ceiling or something 😭

Also not her and the tree having the highest kill count 😭😭

[fictional-library-tournament]

Prelims round 1, poll 19

Propaganda

Scarlet Devil Mansion Library, Touhou:

It's said to have books of all kind, in thousands of different languages, and about countless different things. Some of the books were written by the librarian herself, Patchouli Knowledge. The was also probably one of the first recognizable set pieces in the windows touhou games, being the fourth stage in it's introductory game.

The Lines Between, Dimension 20: Neverafter:

Contains all versions of every story ever written, told, or imagined - free existential horror with every checkout!

"You're nothing more than scratches of ink on someone else's piece of paper."

The Lines Between is a massive place between stories, and staffed by diverse and deific librarians who are just doing their best, such as Glossary, Key, Legend and Index. The library is physically made of books, scrolls, and parchment. Its areas include the Hall of Stories, the Canonade, the Tower of Tales, and perhaps most remarkably: a brilliant view of the Auroratory. It is a beautiful aurora borealis of voices, preserving auratory stories that aren't necessarily written down. It is possible to swim up and into the Auroratory.

Fort Maria Library, Star Sable Online:

(All images come from ssoblr users)

So this is not necessarily a public library and it was abandoned for a long time (as far as we know) but the druids have it up again recently in game. It was built as part of Fort Maria centuries ago by the time of the game, and holds books from all those eras.

It is a gorgeous and expansive place with secret passageways, rare tomes, fluffy seats, old abandoned research, a lot of study areas, old relics, a moving bookcase to a portal cavern and even its very own library ghost!

It is, in my opinion, one of the most atmospheric places in the game. Even without sound on it is gorgeous and bring across its intention incredibly well, and with the sound on it is incredibly eerie. The music here is very limited and quiet, and the player’s footsteps echo through the library.

I feel like whatever you’re researching, you will find something on it in here. It feels like a place you could spend your whole life reading in, and still only have read a tiny fraction of the books there.

the citizens of jorvik (fictional star stable online island) keep all the witchcraft books in there and all their super secret and cool magic books, it was closed for years and it's very mysterious. one of the coolest characters (mrs. holdsworth) in the whole game hangs out there a lot, and it's home to a cute little capran named beatrix and she took her name from her favorite book. the only way you get in the library is by feeding her snacks and reading her books and she's also one of the coolest characters in the game (imo). also beatrix is friends with one of the horses in the game and she often is seen playing with the horse so :) OH and also there's a full heckin portal room in the lower floor!!! with a little pond and a portal that at some point the main characters (the "soul riders") get kicked in by the evil guys (the "dark riders") into this place called devil's gap (despite the name there's just one witch basically vibing in the gap potentially helping out the evil guys but we haven't figured that out yet). and it's gorgeous, if you're worrying about looks. the inside is all wooden and home-y and the portal room is also very pretty eye candy, it's very glow-y.

Bookholm, The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

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[spectralgecko]

On the less infuriating side of things...

Uh, got anything you want to ramble about?

Uhhhh

gosh, I dunno if anyone's actually asked me that without a specific prompt before.

Wanna hear about Pompeii?

Cuz back uh.... actually back during darn near the middle of Covid (2021-2022) I had the immense pleasure of going to Europe for two weeks with my high school class to actually visit some of the places we'd studied.

And part of that was taking an entire day to go up and walk through Pompeii. (Our tour guide was Gaetano by the way, 1000% percent recommend him as a guide if you ever find yourself looking for a Pompeii tour guide for some reason. He's incredible.)

And Pompeii is SO INCREDIBLY COOL and boy howdy were the Romans smarter than we give them credit for 90% of the time.

There's fast food stalls. FAST FOOD. These little kitchens on the corners at intersections that would've been open to the street, and you could've gotten fast, hot food - a more apt comparison might be street food, but for them it was adjacent to fast food in many ways.

And most of the intersections had this same structure: food stop, wine bar, and drinking well. All across town.

Oh, and those wells? Genius. They had it running out and stopping at a couple levels - upper section for people to drink from, runs into a basin for your horses/cattle, and then it drains out onto the street.

But why would they do that? What's with the wet streets?

Cleaning system.

They had raised sidewalks off the road so that pedestrians stayed dry, and then the actual road way had water running in it, because lets be honest the horses and cows and all the critters will just... take a dump. So rather than letting it get stinky constantly and also having to always pick up after em, the running water washed stuff out of the road.

And then they had stepping stones for crossing, so that no one had to step in the water. They also doubled as lane dividers. On two-way roads, there were three across the road, leaving four tracks for wagon wheels. Then on one-way streets, they only had one stepping stone. They also had stones periodically on the edges of the road that functioned as bumper guards to keep the wagons and animals from going up onto the sidewalk.

Oh, and at night? Visibility gets rough and nobody wants to be stepping in the road water, so they used white quartz/white stones that were reflective and showed up well under the moonlight. They'd put those white rock bits in at the edge of the sidewalk and around the crosswalks so you could sorta see where the edge was, like our little road reflectors.

And structurally, all of their buildings had balconies and terraces. These provided shade on those sidewalks.

Also, terracotta was basically their "plastic" - the trash item when an everyday tool broke, and so they'd recycle it to pave the sidewalks.

And they're architectural savvy is just... all over the place. Like in the bath houses?

The shower room of the baths had a whole lotta steam that would rise to the top, condense as it cooled, and drip down as hot water. So for the ceiling, instead of using their usual mosaic decor, they decorate it with these little arcing channels that the water could just run down and off to the side, just to make it more pleasant.

And they had plumbing too - lead pipes, except because of the constantly flowing water, there was this mineral residue over the lead that kept them from getting lead poisoning. (Also the well water in Rome is spectacular, it tastes Very Good.)

Oo, and the paintings they used to decorate everything? Those paintings use a very specific technique to keep their color so long. They'd apply the pigment to the plaster while it was still damp, so that i just... cemented into the plaster. Oh, and they often mixed their paint with marble dust to make it sparkly and shiny.

And oh my stars the paintings were so pretty, everything was so colorful? And there was a heckin "beware of dog" mosaic as a "doormat" to one of the houses. ("Cave canem" for anyone interested.)

Also columns everywhere. Columns always supported a roof. But most or all buildings had a sky light in the middle. Besides giving light, that space also helped to lessen noise by giving it somewhere to go.

Also, because actual marble is so difficult to transport, columns were often carved from another stone, and later brick, then covered in plaster mixed with marble dust and then scorched to look like marble. So ,"fake marble."

But, until later (and even then), faux marble was not in the town square with the basilica. That was all real marble, because to them, justice was incredibly important. For things of value, you used real marble.

Also worth noting, basically everything was covered in marble or the faux marble, so at the time it was hard to tell what stuff was actually made of.

Oo, and the Forum is really cool. These people are very social, and the forum had most of the entertainment, and where you could talk with the sailors and hear stories and such (it was also pretty common to invite them in for dinner to hear what they had to say). And structurally, the floors of the forum were slightly slanted sea-wards so that on rainy days all the water would drain towards the ocean instead of piling up.

Ashgsjhs the architecture in Pompeii is SO COOL HELP- I would desperately like to go back and spend more time there, because there's just... so much.

[kyri45]

DUUUUDE OH MY GOODNESS!! I can't even begin to like- as someone who played Sky very early on and had a bunch of periods of playing for a while and stopping and etc etc, not only is it so wonderful to see someone awaken or help others start sky anew with amazing art and a heckin ISAT AU!!!! BUT ALSO?? LIKE your art is so AWESOME and it's like really well done how you draw the group and convey them so well?? And it's so cool seeing how well like, you've merged the two so well??? But anyway like!! Your art is awesome, your comics are so cute, I love the headcanons and the ideas and the fact that it's been so inspiring for not just me but also like so many people?? To pick sky up again or even play for the first time it's just!!! YOURE SO COOOOL ANYWAY hope this isn't too much I've just loved your art and the story and I can't wait to continue to follow things as they go :D!!

(PS audino if you're still accepting sky kids but this is my fella Arven (whom I have yet to figure out how to draw well lmao)!! Following your headcanons n my own nerdness I think they follow in the Forest elder steps in creating and having fun (they have a whole bunch of instruments that they hardly know how to play, but enjoy messing around and making little tunes or learning tunes from other skykids) but have also enjoyed hanging around the valley elders when given the chance, though they're not super athletic so they usually stand to the side and cheer on others or end up lookin silly n tripping/slipping when trying to keep up lmao like definitely starts tumbling at the start of the valley pretty often during the big sliding segment)

Again tho, thank you for being so awesome and such an inspiration!!!! I hope that sometime we (or anyone else inspired by your comics and whatnot) cross paths in sky sometime! ^^ hope ur having a good day/night n all that ❤️

OMG THANK YOU??? I HUST WOKE UP THIS MESSAGE MADE MY DAY???

I started playing Sky just a year ago, but it helped me sooo much memtally, it became my life. It's so crazy to see people getting back to it bc of my silly comic.

I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOUR SKY KID I SWEAR!

Also I hipe so as well!!