#so I regret it? Nope

[bazookaboi]

Idk just some studies I did at school with no refs whatsoever so a few may be slightly anatomically incorrect.

(Take into account that this is only my opinion, draw however you want. These are only observations. And I did minimal research due to this being a small side project mainly done at school, so if you would like a more detailed explanation of this [I can definitely rant more in detail on this lol] or you think something is wrong please do notify me!) (I also know this has been done before but eh)

Ok, so over all my years of seeing digitigrade legs on bipeds, I have wondered countless times of how some could keep themselves upright without being very uncomfortable…

Here is the most common one that I see that is quite confusing for me:

I… really don’t get how this could be effective. Even with stronger tendons and musculature, they would always be tensed, and therefore the organism would get tired quite quickly due to the constant strain. I assume walking would be quite difficult as well.

Here are a few more variations of confusing digi-legs that I see:

(out of all of them I think I] would be the best, although still not really efficient). as for number two… please. No. Poor leg T-T.

Ok, so. Time to provide ideas for alternatives… but first of all, we must understand the structure of a digitigrade leg:

(Human-dog comparison) As seen in this drawing, digitigrade, like its name suggests, means that only the digits of the foot touch the ground in a regular stance.

A human is plantigrade creature, meaning that they walk on the sole of their foot, with their heel touching the ground. In short, all of the foot.

Surely most of you already know that though, so I don’t think I need to explain any further on that part (unless you want me to. As in like, why.)

Ok- now onto alternatives. with a digitigrade leg slightly modified for an upright biped, I present you with this:

minimal strain is ensured by this more upright leg design. As you can observe, I also use this straighter version with my own semi-bipedal original genus.

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Ok… apart from this, here are two more speculative builds:

I] Velociraptor-esque build/stance

(Yes I know that the running blade has no joints but I just want to compare that they would both be quite springy and fast.)

II] Ostrich/bird-esque build

I assume this could be a very speedy design. The digits would also be very mildly elevated, but not enough to be unguligrade. (I drew it slightly too long in the drawing though) uaaa I am too tired to write a description separate from the stuff written in the drawing but I wanted to post this today goddamnit.

aaaaaaaaaauuuuuugh exams gotta study aooooooooooo T-T when am I ever going to need to use a sintagma nominal in real life bro what is this.

No. I must restrain myself from whining online. That is not productive in the slightest. Better to work on a solution. >:(.

[*falls upon bed and melts to become one with the sheets*]

[mynonah]

Kurt and Blaine were getting ready for Rachel's New Year's Eve party, when Blaine asked Kurt for one last dance of the year, in case their friends kept them talking and they didn't get to do it before midnight. The first dance was followed by another, then another… until they found themselves dancing in the middle of their living room at midnight. Of course, they didn't regret it one bit :)

Happy New Year!

Fun things are born when you are literally too lazy to figure out how to draw acceptable pants… and when you somehow manage to draw quite decent feet.

[randomnameless]

"#also can we talk about how lorenz is apparently looking for a bride and how#his dad hasn't arranged a wedding since he was 4 to a noble heiress or something?#the barbarians had that with Ingrid and Glenn" I was thinking how weird that is since the empire also does it (Ferd with Bern) but iirc there was that shadow text about someone from Daphnel being in an arranged marriage so I guess House Gloucester is a "the person chooses who to marry not the parents"? Then I thought about (1/2)

Greg's deal with Ludwig to marry their heirs was interesting on paper, but cancelled due to Bernie being, well, Bernie.

You can interpret kid!Emile meeting kid!Constance as Baron Bartels wanting to secure a wedding between his son and the elusive House Nuvelle's heir... but that's only conjecture.

But let's be serious a moment, doylist wise, we couldn't have too many arranged marriages, because the player is supposed to be able to ship whoever they want and even have Billy marry everyone - even the disembodied gremlin in their head :(

There was nothing taboo, or said to be taboo in Nopes, about Matthias snagging an Adrestian to Barbarian Land (tm), or House Gautier frowning because Lady Gautier 1 was an Adrestian - if she was a noble... it opens another can of worms, can you imagine Miklan being Caspar's cousin, if Lady Gautier 1 was, idk, a noble daughter from House Bergliez? Let say she was, Miklan couldn't inherit Gautier because no crust, but what about his stance/role/title in Bergliez? Could he just roll over Caspar's older bro (never named) if he had more muhrit or something like that, and become Leopold's heir - even if he's part Faerghan?

As you noticed, we had instances of arranged marriages with the shadow note about House Daphnel - are we really supposed to believe the traditional House Gloucester, who puts much emphasis on its lineage and what not, would have let Lorenz pick anyone (even if he has his own criteria!) while Erwin wouldn't have arranged anything at his birth??

Jugdral wise we could have some "doomed by inheritance" pairings in the second gen, where Patty would have to return to Jungby as its Duchess if her bro Faval inherits something else (or died),even if she married, say, Ced who's staying as the King of Silesse.

But for all of its supposed "Jugdral inspiration", Fodlan didn't go there, so we will never know what happens with international marriages and their potential consequences.

Fodlan HC : Ionius's great-grandmother (who was a concubine!) was a scion of House Blaiddyd so Gertrude, Supreme Leader's second oldest sister, popped up a minor crust of Blaiddyd at birth.

Of course tensions arose between Gertrude's mom and Ionius (because the relationships between Faerghus and Adrestia were soured since Lambert beat Ludwig during the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion during their year together at GM) and she was exiled. Gertrude was designed to be the first kid to be "experimented upon".

[lying-on-floors]

15 dollars in my bank account...HELL YEAH!

Love being a young adult :D✌🏻

(I am suffering) 👉🏻😎👉🏻

[neverendingford]

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[the-way-astray]

i must be the only (kind of) unironic aldella shipper in this entire fandom . . .

[dani-says-stuff]

crying, screaming, and rolling on the floor bc im pretty sure i just found my little sisters secret ao3 account and she chose a prettier online pseudonym than i did 😔

edit 1: SHIT GUYS SHES ON HERE TOO— WHY AM IM AFRAID TO POST NOW

and it’s def confirmed and i no longer feel weird stalking accounts of some poor random person

edit 2: TRIPLE CONFIRMED BC TELL ME WHY THIS STUPID BITCH (with love) POSTED A LINK TO HER PERSONAL SPOTIFY W HER REAL NAME AS THE USERNAME-

edit 3: yk what? nvm. pull up to my blog. we’re fighting now babe. tell me why this bitch is making fun of me irl for the things i say just to turn around and post it to her tumblr- give me my words back you mongrel. this is fraud. a modern day scandal if you will.

[pagetbewbster]

been away from here long enough to not mention that I just got back from working + living in Lithuania for a month and might end up moving there after meeting the love of my life. So, that’s what’s up with this unhinged binch

[lotsa-cats-in-a-trenchcoat]

Sometimes I remember that practically all the characters in Outer Wilds are nonbinary and I have a Moment.

Happy pride moths

[confusedkittensposts]

I love this fandom and have found really amazing bolgs here but you know hoe to make a Cas and Misha stan feel absolutly unwelcomed.

There so much entitlement in this fandom, especially when it comes to misha, it hasn't ceased to surprise me in over an year.

If you can't be happy about his projects, if you can't like him for himself and if you think he owes you everything he says or does, respectfully stop pretending to be his fan.

I mean it so funny to say Misha owed us to wait out The winchesters and reprise his role as Castiel, after he got done so dirty ny SPN

and the most intresting excuse was misha couldn't br there because jared wasn't, well Sam did get a mention, why couldn't cas?

and the Dean is still processing so we can't have Cas makes me want to really hit someone, you are denying a character his agency and credit becasue of your inability to see him as anything but a prop for a ship

and now that we know there was no Cas because of Misha's schedule, everyone is happy to pile up on him rather than respect his decision and in case you forgot it was jensen who convinced him to take up the role.

Maybe support him for once.

[pollenallergie]

ignore everything i said back in late may/early june. i was hypomanic and, consequently, unreasonably angry for most of that time. 👍👍👍

[theultracharmingladynoire]

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[lunaetis]

@maquiscursed replied to your post :

10/10 would jump 10 feet in the air and look at her like 'wtf are you doing you weirdo' because he's a loser

─「エデン」─  golden hues met his accusing gaze with a look that said ' biting is stress-relief. ' was she still biting on his arm as she met his eyes straight on ? yes.

[makkaroon]

I can’t listen to hadestown for a while after I’m done with this paper else it’s going to just trigger a Pavlovian response of anxiety orz

[eshtaresht]

hit 12k words on the current fic... which sounds cool unless you know there's not a single finished chapter out of 6 and 60% of these words are from the last chapter which is growing out of proportion like a tumor. I'll actually have to split it up in two parts for readability's sake it's just so damn long...... but I'm also almost finished with the first chapter and hope to release it in the next few days

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i just read that sanremo ends at 3 am tonight. lol.