#repost from main account

[artsartblog]

I don't currently have any new art, but I have some old art I can pass along here. I don't believe I reblogged any of this from my main account, if I did I don't remember, but here it is. It's art of my tmnt oc (specifically the rise era) featuring Leo and April.

So the first drawing is of Emlyn and April just hanging out at Em's place (specifically her bedroom). I know the colors on April aren't particularly accurate to her show counterpart, but I was kinda eyeballing the colors instead of outright color picking them because I didn't think to do that at the time. The conversation the two are having is probably school or turtle related, though it could really be anything.

The second image is just a bunch of sketches put together of Emlyn. Top left is her at 5 years old in a ninja suit similar to that seen on the foot clan because she had learned to be a ninja like her sister, Cassandra, but decided she wanted to do something else instead (to let Cas have something for herself). Top right is Leo patching Em up after she failed to pull off a skateboarding trick she had tried learning to impress the turtles (mostly Leo) while Leo is telling her that she should've been more careful since she's a lot softer than the turtles. Middle left is a drawing of what Emlyn thinks of how Leo would look like as a human, taking a more likeness to Splinter than the others, which was done out of pure fun for her. At the bottom is a drawing of Em dressed up as Heather Chandler for Halloween, having convinced April and Sunita to be Duke and McNamara.

The third image is a what if kind of drawing. It's a mutated Emlyn, her as an otter (or water chipmunk as I kept calling it when I was drawing it). If Emlyn were to ever be mutated, she'd probably end up as a mutant otter.

The fourth image is from Pride Month a while back. I reused the pose from the second image of Emlyn as Heather Chandler and gave her a cute outfit with her flag colors (Pansexual). With Happy Pride Month written above her.

The last image is a drawing of Emlyn ice skating, which is set during the winter episodes. It's one of the few times I've drawn a background. Also, it originally was going to be a full-on comic of her ice skating, but I didn't have the patience or energy at the time to do that, so I changed it to that. I was going to add the turtles in the foreground without obscuring Em, but I decided against it and just have it be understood that the group found her and are watching her skate. (Actually, I struggled to pick out colors for her costume, but settled on blues because of winter then was like, "Ha, blue because of Leo lol.")

[nonbinoclard]

EVERYBODY GET READY FOR A NUCLEAR BASS DROP!!! YEAAAG💥💣💥💥🌫☁️

[spark-gt]

This is my first gt oc Ella, and this is her story

Description:

Ella Cooper is a young girl from the city of Nexopolis who, at first glance, looks as if she's a normal girl. Well, she was a normal girl until a few days after her birthday, and she randomly gained the ability to change her own size. When they first activated, Ella was so scared at what was happening to her that she began to shrink. She called out to her brother, and he arrived just in time before Ella shrank into a very smaller size. She was very grateful that her brother saved her just time , and suddenly, she was starting to grow back to her original size. At first, she was happy to be herself again, but she then grew again, but only to be as tall as her brother. It was then that they realized that Ella's powers sort of activate depending on her emotions. If she gets scared or shy, she shrinks, but if she gets happy or angry, she grows. Despite still learning how to control her size-shifting powers, she's still friendly towards people but very, very shy around new people or strangers she has never met. In conclusion, though, Ella's a friendly little girl who can change her size but is really friendly and shy when you get to know her.

(If you've seen this art before, I'm reposting my character from my art account to this account)

[nat-seal-well]

Anyway if you want to read the 1920’s Nat/Ava fic in times new roman and reformatted all nice, you can find it here!

[angelliclamb]

pastels

[roses-for-julia]

とばーりん / tobalin @tobalin_

[ophiliaclement]

warmup throné for the soul

[klauuyt]

Terminator oc fanart by AnonYamato

[fatspamton]

In the SKY! 🌥️

[morninkim]

heyyy folks my main twitter @/morninkim got suspended for impersonation because of my april fool's joke, i'm appealing it now, but if you were following me over there and wanna continue doing that you can follow my art account [link] if you're not already

[turtles-n--cats]

Warriors AU: 2012 gang pt1

We’re starting with 2012 because they’re the ones i have the most fleshed out appearance/story-wise, and will also be the initial focus of the AU

keep in mind two things as you look through these pictures: -ONE!!! i know very little about cat genetics, so im mostly ignoring it much the actual warrior cats series does. -TWO!!! imma end up mentioning a few cats who won’t be shared in this post. I’ll get to them in a later post.

edit: art is all done. Credit for the bases used goes to Rockyspotted on deviantART

this one’s gunna be a bit of a long post, so info below the cut!!!

Splinter, aka “Magnoliaclaw“: his name is symbolic and a reference to his clan name “Hamato”, which according to the brief google search i did, means “Noble”. Magnolia’s are symbolic of nobilty, as well as purity and perfection. He’s a brown classic tabby

he was born into Nightclan, and in this au is the actual brother of 2012 shredder (formerly Poppystrike before taking the title of Shredderstar) he left to join Sunclan after a falling out with Poppystrike when they were young warriors, and took Spiritpond (Tang Shen) with him. In this au, Leo/Raph/Mikey/Donnie are all his bio kids in edition to Karai. Karai is still stolen, raised by Shredder, and believed to be dead, though it plays out differently than the show (a given XD)

Leo, aka “Bravepaw”: I’ve mentioned in a previous post that the rise gang is the youngest, all apprenticed aged at the start of the au. Leo’s name is a referance to his nickname “fearless”. He’s a lynx-point spotted tabby (like his mom uwu) with blue eyes

I’ve got a warrior name picked out for him (and all his siblings actually) but those get to stay a secret for now. He was stolen along with Karai as a kit, though Splinter managed to get him back (barely).  His mentor is his dad, 2012 Splinter/Magnoliaclaw

Raph, aka ���Pricklepaw”: he’s got a bit of a prickly personality at first glance. Raph looks the most like their dad, also a brown classic tabby with green eyes

Because of how closely he resembles his father, the two are often compared. Raph’s got a bit of a complex about it because nothing he does ever seems to live up to expectations. His mentor is 03 Casey, Eagleheart

Donnie, aka “Tallpaw”: Him and Mikey both got physical descriptor names, while Raph and Leo got personality descriptors. He’s a silver classic tabby with orangish-brownish eyes

Second youngest but easily the tallest of of his siblings. He’s a clever apprentice, but has a tendency to get frustrated when things don’t come easily to him. His mentor is Bayverse Donnie, aka “Whisperwatcher”

Mikey, aka “Frecklepaw”: there was no way i wasn’t giving 2012 Mikey a way to keep his freckles. He’s an orange spotted tabby with greenish-blue eyes, and white on his lower muzzle

A quick study, Mikey excels in his training, often to the frustration of his brothers. He gets along pretty well with most of his clanmates, tho he has a penchant for trying to befriend any rogues or loners he comes across. His mentor is Rise April, aka “Sunflowerpounce” (and she’s also the first of the Rise gang to be made a mentor XD)

[theofaron]

Sacrificial Participant is such an Aiden song

[notedchampagne]

will u ever post the dyke drama sketch on insta so i can quote/repost whatever its called on my story im so srs

you see my instagram is the place i redirect my nosy relatives + prying college classmates to, so anything i post on there remains ambiguously homosexual for plausible deniability. its a huge 50/50 on whether i even remember to post stuff there but if you wanna repost it i have no problem with that as long as you tag me

[ai-art-thieves]

It's Time To Investigate SevenArt.ai

sevenart.ai is a website that uses ai to generate images.

Except, that's not all it can do.

It can also overlay ai filters onto images to create the illusion that the algorithm created these images.

And its primary image source is Tumblr.

It scrapes through the site for recent images that are at least 10 days old and has some notes attached to it, as well as copying the tags to make the unsuspecting user think that the post was from a genuine user.

No image is safe. Art, photography, screenshots, you name it.

Initially I thought that these are bots that just repost images from their site as well as bastardizations of pictures across tumblr, until a user by the name of @nataliedecorsair discovered that these "bots" can also block users and restrict replies.

Not only that, but these bots do not procreate and multiply like most bots do. Or at least, they have.

The following are the list of bots that have been found on this very site. Brace yourself. It's gonna be a long one:

@giannaaziz1998blog

@kennedyvietor1978blog

@nikb0mh6bl

@z4uu8shm37

@xguniedhmn

@katherinrubino1958blog

@3neonnightlifenostalgiablog

@cyberneticcreations58blog

@neomasteinbrink1971blog

@etharetherford1958blog

@punxajfqz1

@camicranfill1967blog

@1stellarluminousechoblog

@whwsd1wrof

@bnlvi0rsmj

@steampunkstarshipsafari90blog

@surrealistictechtales17blog

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@krispycrowntree

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@2mplexltw6

@sz1uwxthzi

@laurenesmock1972blog

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@chereesteinkirchner1950blog

@malindamadaras1996blog

@1cyberneticdreamscapehubblog

@neomasteinbrink1971blog

@neonfuturecityblog

@olindagunner1986blog

@neonnomadnirvanablog

@digitalcyborgquestblog

@freespiritfusionblog

@piacarriveau1990blog

@3technoartisticvisionsblog

@wanderlustwineblissblog

@oyqjfwb9nz

@maryannamarkus1983blog

@lashelldowhower2000blog

@ovibigrqrw

@3neonnightlifenostalgiablog

@ywldujyr6b

@giannaaziz1998blog

@yudacquel1961blog

@neotechcreationsblog

@wildernesswonderquest87blog

@cybertroncosmicflow93blog

@emeldaplessner1996blog

@neuralnetworkgallery78blog

@dunstanrohrich1957blog

@juanitazunino1965blog

@natoshaereaux1970blog

@aienhancedaestheticsblog

@techtrendytreks48blog

@cgvlrktikf

@digitaldimensiondioramablog

@pixelpaintedpanorama91blog

@futuristiccowboyshark

@digitaldreamscapevisionsblog

@janishoppin1950blog

The oldest ones have been created in March, started scraping in June/July, and later additions to the family have been created in July.

So, I have come to the conclusion that these accounts might be run by a combination of bot and human. Cyborg, if you will.

But it still doesn't answer my main question:

Who is running the whole operation?

The site itself gave us zero answers to work with.

No copyright, no link to the engine where the site is being used on, except for the sign in thingy (which I did.)

I gave the site a fake email and a shitty password.

Turns out it doesn't function like most sites that ask for an email and password.

Didn't check the burner email, the password isn't fully dotted and available for the whole world to see, and, and this is the important thing...

My browser didn't detect that this was an email and password thingy.

And there was no log off feature.

This could mean two things.

Either we have a site that doesn't have a functioning email and password database, or that we have a bunch of gullible people throwing their email and password in for people to potentially steal.

I can't confirm or deny these facts, because, again, the site has little to work with.

The code? Generic as all hell.

Tried searching for more information about this site, like the server it's on, or who owned the site, or something. ANYTHING.

Multiple sites pulled me in different directions. One site said it originates in Iceland. Others say its in California or Canada.

Luckily, the server it used was the same. Its powered by Cloudflare.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with any of this information.

If you have any further information about this site, let me know.

Until there is a clear answer, we need to keep doing what we are doing.

Spread the word and report about these cretins.

If they want attention, then they are gonna get the worst attention.

[scuddisher]

girl I feel u, the gap between my last two focus is six months. SIX. also atp my blog is a joke bcs I haven't simped for s kpop man in almost a year🥲🥲 I'm desperately holding on by a string here

the Steve fic sits at 3k + no smut yet oopsies. I think I'm gna post it for someone else tho, just seeing the lack of traction on Steve fics gives me a headache.

i used to write for kpop boy groups but not a single cell in my brain has the executive function to get that into irl people anymore lmao. character fixations are my shit rn. rip bearseokie and bearseungmin (my kpop blogs) may you live until the day tumblr dies.

&&& 3K LMAOOOOO you said i got an idea... full fic. i'm obsessed tho and i hope it's all worked out and you get to post it tho! i get not posting it for specific characters/celebs bc the interaction lacks sm. it's heartbreaking but sometimes you gotta do it. also fiction is bendable and you can do whatever the fuck you want lmao

[jadevine]

Preindustrial travel, and long explanations on why different distances are like that

Update March 1, 2024: Hey there folks, here's yet another update! I reposted Part 2a (the "medieval warhorses" tangent) to my writing blog, and I went down MORE of the horse-knowledge rabbit hole! https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/741423906984951808/my-post-got-cut-off-so-i-added-the-rest-of-it Update Jan 30, 2024: Hey folks, I've posted the updated version of this post on my blog, so I don't have to keep frantically telling everyone "hey, that's the old version of this post!" https://thebalangay.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/preindustrial-travel-times-part-1/

I should get the posts about army travel times and camp followers reformatted and posted to my blog around the end of the week, so I'll filter through my extremely tangled thread for them.

Part 2 - Preindustrial ARMY travel times: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/739342239113871360/now-for-a-key-aspect-that-many-people-often-ask

Part 2a - How realistic warhorses look and act, because the myth of "all knights were mounted on huge clunky draft horses" just refuses to die: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/732043691180605440/helpful-things-for-action-writers-to-remember

Part 3 - Additional note about camp followers being regular workers AND sex-workers: https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/740604203134828544/reblogging-the-time-looped-version-of-my

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I saw a post on my main blog about how hiking groups need to keep pace with their slowest member, but many hikers mistakenly think that the point of hiking is "get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible" instead of "spending time outdoors in nature with friends," and then they complain that a new/less-experienced/sick/disabled hiker is spoiling their time-frame by constantly needing breaks, or huffing and puffing to catch up.

I run into a related question of "how long does it take to travel from Point A to Point B on horseback?" a lot, as a fantasy writer who wants to be SEMI-realistic; in the Western world at least, our post-industrial minds have largely forgotten what it's like to travel, both on our own feet and in groups.

People ask the new writer, "well, who in your cast is traveling? Is getting to Point B an emergency or not? What time of year is it?", and the newbies often get confused as to why they need so much information for "travel times." Maybe new writers see lists of "preindustrial travel times" like a primitive version of Google Maps, where all you need to do is plug in Point A and Point B.

But see, Google Maps DOES account for traveling delays, like different routes, constructions, accidents, and weather; you as the person will also need to figure in whether you're driving a car versus taking a bus/train, and so you'll need to figure out parking time or waiting time for the bus/train to actually GET THERE.

The difference between us and preindustrial travelers is that 1) we can outsource the calculations now, 2) we often travel for FUN instead of necessity.

The general rule of thumb for preindustrial times is that a healthy and prime-aged adult on foot, or a rider/horse pair of fit and prime-aged adults, can usually make 20-30 miles per day, in fair weather and on good terrain.

Why is this so specific? Because not everyone in preindustrial times was fit, not everyone was healthy, not everyone was between the ages of 20-35ish, and not everyone had nice clear skies and good terrain to travel on.

If you are too far below 18 years old or too far past 40, at best you will need either a slower pace or more frequent breaks to cover the same distance, and at worst you'll cut the travel distance in half to 10 or so miles. Too much walking is VERY BAD on too-young/old knees, and teenagers or very short adults may just have short legs even if they're fine with 8-10 hours of actual walking. Young children may get sick of walking and pitch a fit because THEY'RE TIREDDDDDDDDDD, and then you might need to stay put while they cry it out, or an adult may sigh and haul them over their shoulder (and therefore be weighed down by about 50lbs of Angry Child).

Heavy forests, wetlands and rocky hills/mountains are also going to be a much shorter "distance" per day. For forests or wetlands, you have to account for a lot of villagers going "who's gonna cut down acres of trees for one road? NOT ME," or "who's gonna drain acres of swamp for one road? NOT ME." Mountainous regions have their traveling time eaten by going UP, or finding a safer path that goes AROUND, so by the time you're done slogging through drier patches of wetlands or squeezing through trees, a deceptively short 10-15 miles in rough terrain might take you a whole day to walk instead of the usual half-day.

If you are traveling in freezing winters or during a rainstorm (and this inherently means you HAVE NO CHOICE, because nobody in preindustrial times would travel in bad weather if they could help it), you run the high risk of losing your way and then dying of exposure or slipping and breaking your neck, just a few miles out of the town/village.

Traveling in TOO-HOT weather is just as bad, because pushing yourself too hard and getting dehydrated at noon in the tropics will literally kill you. It's called heat-STROKE, not "heat-PARTY."

And now for the upper range of "traveling on horseback!"

Fully mounted groups can usually make 30-40 miles per day between Point A and Point B, but I find there are two unspoken requirements: "Point B must have enough food for all those people and horses," and "the mounted party DOESN'T need to keep pace with foot soldiers, camp followers, or supply wagons."

This means your mounted party would be traveling to 1) a rendezvous point like an ally's camp or a noble's castle, or 2) a town/city with plenty of inns. Maybe they're not literally going 30-40 miles in one trip, but they're scouting the area for 15-20 miles and then returning to their main group. Perhaps they'd be going to an allied village, but even a relatively small group of 10-20 warhorses will need 10-20 pounds of grain EACH and 20-30 pounds of hay EACH. 100-400 pounds of grain and 200-600 pounds of hay for the horses alone means that you need to stash supplies at the village beforehand, or the village needs to be a very large/prosperous one to have a guaranteed large surplus of food.

A dead sprint of 50-60 miles per day is possible for a preindustrial mounted pair, IF YOU REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO. Moreover, that is for ONE day. Many articles agree that 40 miles per day is already a hard ride, so 50-60 miles is REALLY pushing the envelope on horse and rider limits.

NOTE: While modern-day endurance rides routinely go for 50-100 miles in one day, remember that a preindustrial rider will not have the medical/logistical support that a modern endurance rider and their horse does.

If you say "they went fifty miles in a day" in most preindustrial times, the horse and rider's bodies will get wrecked. Either the person, their horse, or both, risk dying of exhaustion or getting disabled from the strain.

Whether you and your horse are fit enough to handle it and "only" have several days of defenselessness from severe pain/fatigue (and thus rely on family/friends to help you out), or you die as a heroic sacrifice, or you aren't QUITE fit enough and become disabled, or you get flat-out saved by magic or another rider who volunteers to go the other half, going past 40 miles in a day is a "Gondor Calls For Aid" level of emergency.

As a writer, I feel this kind of feat should be placed VERY carefully in a story: Either at the beginning to kick the plot off, at the climax to turn the tide, or at the end.

Preindustrial people were people--some treated their horses as tools/vehicles, and didn't care if they were killed or disabled by pushing them to their limits, but others very much cared for their horses. They needed to keep them in working condition for about 15-20 years, and they would not dream of doing this without a VERY good reason.

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UPDATE January 13: Several people have gotten curious and looked at maps, to find out how a lot of cities are indeed spread out at a nice distance of 20-30 miles apart! I love getting people interested in my hyperfixations, lol.

But remember that this is the space between CITIES AND TOWNS. There should never be a 20-mile stretch of empty wilderness between City A and Town B, unless your world explains why folks are able to build a city in the middle of nowhere, or if something has specifically gone wrong to wipe out its supporting villages!

Period pieces often portray a shining city rising from a sea of picturesque empty land, without a single grain field or cow pasture in sight, but that city would starve to death very quickly in preindustrial times.

Why? Because as Bret Devereaux mentions in his “Lonely Cities” article (https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-part-i-the-ideal-city/), preindustrial cities and towns must have nearby villages (and even smaller towns, if large and prosperous enough!) to grow their food for them.

The settlements around a city will usually be scattered a few miles apart from each other, usually clustered along the roads to the city gates. Those villages and towns at the halfway point between cities (say 10-15 miles) are going to be essential stops for older/sick folks, merchants with cargo, and large groups like noble’s retinues and army forces.

Preindustrial armies and large noble retinues usually can’t make it far past 10-12 miles per day, as denoted in my addition to this post. (https://www.tumblr.com/jadevine/739342239113871360/now-for-a-key-aspect-that-many-people-often-ask )