#this is awesome!! thanks for sharing!

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[ao3-shenanigans]

Every time I get a comment on a fic, I try SO HARD to play it cool in the reply when I'm literally over here giggling and kicking my feet like a madwoman 😂 someone just commented on the part I was worried wouldn't make sense and I actually cried

!!!! That’s the best!!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

species medley ft. gorgug and riz

[ominous-signs]

Hello again! It's me, the one who made the object show ominous sign lol

I just wanna show you this little animation I did of them trying to do the Hot to go dance thingy

I hope ya like it hehehehehege (I'm not that good at animating)

AKSHUQSHQYGSYQGSQSYQBQ

[loupy-mongoose]

So... I've been kinda really into @ann-chovi's stuff for the past couple days. (That's the artist I was talking about in my last post. ^^)

Their art is so very yummy, please go check it out! It's chock full of awesome expressions and designs, gorgeous colors, and wonderful writing! And I adore the relationship between Mari and Ingo~<3

And I found it particularly hilarious how many similarities there are (/will be) between their character, Mari, and my girl, Jamie.

Just as a... little context for you, Ann, if/when you see this...

Jamie is somewhere in her very late 20s or 30s when she's accidentally sent back to Hisui. Like Mari, she ends up with a Quilava (eventual Typhlosion) and an Umbreon as partners. Although unlike Mari, Jamie is meant to fill the protagonist role, going out and doing all the dangerous survey stuff done in the game. X3 It feels extremely possible that they could meet from time to time!

Oh, and I've seen that Mari is about 5 feet (or five-foot-one when not leaning, lol)--Jamie is an inch shorter, at 4'11"!

Also I hope I'm right that Mari made the cane. It appeared that way on a chapter cover. ^^; Jamie can appreciate good woodcarvings, since her husband carves as well. :3

Anyway, I hope I did your girl and her pals justice! I thought the similarities were too fun, I hope you don't mind! ^w^

Background was traced over a pic of the game lol

[jibberjibbsart]

CHEWING ON UR ART hi i commented on tiktok like an hour ago lmao dean is my favorite guy to draw so i drew him first but i will get to my beloveds from the power hour. ANYWAY i drew dean emulating ur style bc i think ur so cool for posting ur fun crossover :D

i forgot if i had a question RAAHHH 😋

OHHHHHHH MY GOOOOOOOD ITS HIM!!!! DEAN!!!!! I'm gonna eat YOUR art!!!! I'm so honored you were inspired by my style I'm gonna go cry now thank you :')

[elitadream]

Idk if you’re doing it for this purpose at all but “Mario’s” eyes in the body swap art are so intense with the shading, they look so sunken and hollow. I just imagine Bowser is doing absolutely nothing to maintain the health of Mario’s body. They’re gonna swap back and Mario is gonna feel so exhausted and hungry bc Bowser didn’t bother with any of that, he had more important things to do (like be a total creep)

Oh I'm so happy that someone has pointed this out! :D Okay, so here's a direct comparison:

One thing I did right away to give Bowser a more evil gaze was make the pupils a lot smaller. That's where a good portion of the intensity comes from. The size of the pupils and irises always plays a huge part in a character's overall friendliness, and it applies for both extremes.

As for the shadows and wrinkles, they make the white areas of the eyes stand out more, which tends to further accentuate that intensity. Even when he's relaxed, my Bowser indeed has those visible creases, but that's mostly because he squints a lot. He's got that typical "evil glare", if you will! 😆 Though I gotta say I love your interpretation of Bowser also neglecting Mario's body to the point where it shows! 👀 I'm definitely keeping that! 👏

[pushing500]

Wondering if they’ll be going bionic hand or POWER CLAW. do you have any Extra Prosthetic Mods installed? I think they all deserve a painstopper at lEAST.

Kwahu absolutely keeps Mechi awake at night, gushing about what replacement part would be the coolest. He doesn't need a power claw because he's mostly a long-range fighter, he doesn't need a drill arm or a field hand because we have mechanoids to do all the mining and gardening, so he'll probably end up with a regular bionic arm.

Still, it's fun to imagine all the awesome things he could end up with! Fun for Kwahu, that is. Mechi probably just wants to go to sleep (and might be a teeny bit jealous that there aren't as many options for leg replacements).

[r-aindr0p]

I love your OCs so much

Please his face is just lmfao /pos

Ahh thanks ! I'm having fun imagining twst ocs it's so fun honestly ! (I have an idea for an octavinelle student atm because merfolks are always fun to draw ) But I should draw all of them more ofthen alltogether tbh, Jean is very cringefail, being disciplined at heartslabyul is tough for him but he'll eventually manage. (I hope so at least) Given the original character there's no way I'd draw him with a normal resting face and cool hair lmao

[sunshades]

MC Heath's chatter line about being able to move his arms weirdly while he sounds genuinely happy makes me sick he is so dear to me

LET'S ALL APPRECIATE THIS LINE HE IS SO ANNOYING GOD BLESS

there rly is something so bittersweet about this ID... that little self-esteem moment about his career in uptie chatter 2, then this one with that pride he shows at times about his body & strength... and at the same time that feeling that it's all for naught. the second of hesitation when he thinks abt what in his mind could POSSIBLY be worth returning to... you need someone to share it with. even if the person who loves you isn't here you can at least show your manager who has been trying to be your friend... argh!!

[waywardstation]

hello!! the giveaway shaker keychains arrived and I just wanted to say thank you so much again!!!! they're super duper cute and I love them very much :3 also, a question if you please don't mind! have you ever cosplayed as emmet or ingo at an anime convention? i met a pair a couple years ago, and the emmet very kindly gave me some goodies. one of them was a keychain that I recognized is in your store!! its the double sided ingo/emmet one with the rails!

Hello hello!! I’m so glad they reached you safely, and that you enjoy them!! Makes me so happy to hear that!! :)

AND REALLY?? OHH OH OK SO only thing I can think of; I wasn’t cosplaying (I was wearing @cecilioque ‘s Ingo jacket though!), but at the beginning of this year, I did go to an anime expo with other friends who DID cosplay the submas boys all in a group together!!

I had ordered a bunch of the double-sided keychains to take to the expo (they are much smaller than the ones up in my store) and I handed them out to anyone who talked with us and said they liked submas!!

YOU WERE PROBABLY ONE OF THE PEOPLE WE TALKED TO THAT IS WILD!! WOW

[ghost-bxrd]

I got inspired by the mockup posted earlier and made my own version! hope that's okay. the player is already an established vigilante in this one. hopefully the link works:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1045571157

HARDCORE SCREAMING INTO THE VOID OMG

LOOK PEOPLE!!!! ANOTHER MASTER PIECE OF A GAME DEMO 😭💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

I’m crying we could work on this masterpiece and make it a whole game. ALAS… 😭😭😭😭

[iztea]

I love your art!! It's one of my biggest inspirations right now as a beginner artist. And every time I scroll through your account I find something that makes me laugh. You just overall seem like a fun person. Hope you're doing well, take care. 🫶🫶 (Sorry if this is weird or my English isn't good)

you know, i was about to answer how i finally beat the angsty allegations thanks to your ask and then 3 minutes later i get this in my inbox

so can you pretty please tell user konbupie how my account makes you laugh and how i seem like a fun person in general?~ ^ ^ <3 preferably in an open mic 1v1 battle scenario

[leverage-ot3]

not going to give the blog any attention or time of day but this is your reminder that the leverage crew would never be zionists or support israel whatsoever

I wasn't going to engage with it because I value my mental health but yeah. absolutely fucking NOT

y'all really think that this group of people that actively go out of their way to go against the rich and powerful, who make it their goal to help people that are oppressed, devalued by society and taken advantage by those more powerful would at all EVER align themselves with israel? bffrrn

I'm going to go off for a few paragraphs about why this is such a horrendously ridiculous and delusional idea, but I'm not going to clog up your dash so it's going under the cut. I want to respect people who already participate in activism and need fandom space for lighter things

tw for discussion of the atrocities and war crimes happening in palestine

over 25 THOUSAND innocent people have died as a result of israeli terror the last few months alone. over 10 thousand children. entire family lines have been erased from the world forever- grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren all martyred, often together as they are sheltering from bombs and bullets until they are murdered by soldiers that laugh as they shoot and detonate bombs.

you really think that eliot 'I adopt every child I see' spencer would support a regime that let a child stay trapped in a car where her family members were martyred, not let paramedics in for days and then when they finally let the paramedics approach they kill both her AND the EMS? you think he would stand with the government that arrests children as young as 6 years old for *checks hand* being terrorists (because what fucking 6 year old is a terrorist let alone any kind of national threat. they're fucking SIX). that snipes children for throwing rocks at tanks and their apartheid walls

he and all of them would weep at the picture released the other day of the little girl handing from rubble with her legs blown off.

all of them would be horrified of the bombardment that has murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians, women, children, men, elderly alike with no fucking care. that shoots people with their hands up waving white flags. that bulldozes graveyards and digs up bodies and probably steals organs from they dying and deceased. that bombs hospitals, governmental and archival buildings, mosques, churches, holy sites, schools and universities. whose soldiers have a trend where they go through women's underwear drawers and make lewd comments about their lingerie and how kinky they must be. who make tiktoks of them playing in decimated playgrounds and signing their children's names on bombs. who force parents to collect pieces of their children in plastic bags because they have been blown apart by relentless bombing. who shoot a grandmother holding a child's hand. who murdered a woman that dared say that she was older than the 'state' of israel.

the fact that you're posting this as israel relentlessly bombs rafa, the place they were told would be the only safe place to be, where 1.6 million people are living in tents living off animal feed because no sufficient humanitarian aid (if any) has been let through

these people that advocate for comeuppance and exposing wrongs would not support a regime that actively targets and murders journalists and their entire families.

you really think any of them would actively support a genocidal sociopathic government? fucking delusional

to a certain extent, I know that people want to keep fandom and advocacy spaces separate and I acknowledge and relate to that- when we are logged on every moment of the day we sometimes need to take breaks and engage with something else for our mental health. I need that too. and there is a very thin line when you try to apply fandom to current events because in all honesty, making headcanons about how your faves would react to X horrendous event can come off as extremely tone-deaf. I get you love your blorbos (I do too!), but actual people are suffering and it can come off as disingenuous to a lot of folks when you try to talk about your characters instead of the very real harm that is going on. HOWEVER, the other account posted in the leverage tag that the crew would be zionists and started that discourse and since it was already out there in our space I wanted to make sure that people know that this blog does not support that whatsoever.

and before this gets misconstrued: antizionism is not antisemitism. I have a lot of love for my jewish friends and followers, but saying that we can't be critical of war crimes and incessant aggression because it is a jewish state is fucking ridiculous. we should be able to hold any and all governments accountable when they do bad things (this absolutely also means I think we should hold the US accountable for enabling them and I live here. every country that is complicit needs to face consequences). saying that israel is exempt from criticism because jewish people deserve a right to a homeland isn't a great take. I completely understand fear of antisemitism and discrimination, but at some point we have to think critically and acknowledge that people are dying by the thousands and standing up for that and calling out atrocities takes precedence. jewish voices for peace has some really good content about this topic

anyways there's a random blog out there posting about how your faves are zionists splattering their rancid sponge and I want to make sure my stance on this subject is very clear: fuck israel, free palestine, and no one is free until everyone is free

[therentyoupay]

Hello, Kris! I think I might’ve already gotten the gist of it, but it’s been some time. What exactly IS Academia Mode? Are you still in school, or is this your actual job, and it just happens to be involved in the education system?

Many thanks!

hahah no worries!!! that is a good question 🤣😭😭🙏 for me, academia mode is currently finishing the 5th and final year of my doctoral program and includes (but is not limited to lol):

data collection, analysis, write-ups

writing python programs to support my data cleaning, data coding, stats, and data analysis/visualizations

applying for GRANT MONEYYYY

submitting abstract proposals to conferences (and applying for MORE GRANT MONEYYYY)

reporting research findings (writing journal article manuscripts, preparing conference slides)

writing my actual dissertation manuscript lol

supporting and instructing my research assistants

sharing my research with mainstream public audiences

writing my non-fiction book based on my ongoing dissertation research

teaching classes, grading papers, holding office hours, fielding emails, writing letters of recommendation for all sorts of students' fellowships/grad admissions/grant applications, teaching students how to strategize their personal statements, grant purpose letters, and other aspects of apps, etc.

peer-reviewing others' journal manuscripts, providing feedback to colleagues (blind review or not)

assisting with my advisor's research and textbook manuscripts (proofreading, copy-editing, internet sleuthing, finding more up-to-date citations, occasionally writing rough drafts)

writing chapters for edited volumes on various topics

READING. all the time. reading new literature and research articles constantly. ALL THE TIME. writing 1-pagers and mini-annotated bibs for future lit review use, etc.

WRITING. all the time. professional-speak, academic-speak, insructor-speak.

getting paid to travel to conferences to present my research (GRANT MONEYYYYYY)

by may 2025, i'll be a Ph.D.!!!!!! [screams]

academia mode! ✨🤣🤣🤣😭🤣💕 every day, i think about how lucky i am that i get paid to do what i do 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 hope you are having a magnificent day, and thank you for the ask!!

[dinosaurwithablog]

You gotta love a guy with a Scooby Doo baseball bat!!! ⚾️ I like Gunnar Henderson because he uses a Scooby Doo bat!! That's freaking awesome 😊😍 very cool, Gunnar!! 😊