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#this one is very easy to get strange angles with. because it's just got so many weird shapes on it#porygon#bald#even the original front-facing angle was strange and you could barely tell it's front-facing#hell‚ this angle you can at least tell what it's supposed to be#if you remember the realpokemon post. you remember#this thing also got like banned from the anime or some shit because of an episode that featured it giving kids seizures#fucking did i almost just type “seasures”?? hello?? where am i#even though it was pikachu who initiated the explosion that caused the seizures. and iirc it wasn't even that many seizures#it was like the galaxy note7. where only like 20 or so phones actually exploded but it still got banned from planes#or maybe i'm remembering Every tidbit of information here incorrectly!#y'see folks. this is why i am not a reliable source of information#because i will not be fact checking any of this and instead i'll end off the post with “but idk lol”#edit: it was a lot of seizures. and yes this justifies taking the episode off the air but i don’t feel like the pokémon itself#deserves to be banned from the anime is my point. plenty of folks still like this pokémon#hmm. i wonder if i maybe shouldn’t be spreading middle school rumors on the middle school rumors website
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Sketching
#me when idk what to draw: what if adam stabbed steve again#what if i drew my guys 3/4 facing left again#i love them#this brush hurts my hand though#gotta press too hard. gotta mess with it#looks nice though. probably entirely unnecessary and I'll go back to my beloved hard round#ol reliable#anyways back to sleep for me and then back to work#4 episodes through book 4#7 to go#and then thays a HUGE thing off my list#im just going ham on it#cause then i just have packages and episodes and commissions and patreons#all of which are like. episodes 90% and everything else fits clean in the 10%#this rn is like 50/40/10#very split between my things#and for my next comic im hoping for more like 70/30#sketches#ok bye my arms and hands hurt#just using posts recently to update where im at#I think we're on track to return oct 21 still#5 weeks ish#thats enough time for the book and 3 eps#can not wait to finally not have my attention split...#books take so much energy and time sobs
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You know what. Why do we as a touhou fandom not talk about the fact the pc98 songs are canon. They exist. In canon. Akyuu has them documented and has probably heard them. Someone within touhou's universe wrote them. Reimu could probably actually listen to her own theme. Were the songs actually written about the events of those games?? Was eternal shrine maiden written about reimu?? Was love colored magic written about marisa?? I'm going insane
#i could rant for hours about the fact there is a band in universe that apparently wrote them#thats mentioned in akyuus untouched score and pmiss#i might make a longer post about this eventually im just. obsessed with this fact#ive been rotating this in my brain for over a year i have so many thoughts about it augghhh#im just. honestly not super confident talking about my interpretations of obscure touhou lore#since im kinda worried that ill be wildly misinterpreting something#especially considering i cannot read japanese and translations arent always reliable#but god. i havent seen almost anyone talk about this and i think the implications are very very interesting..#touhou#touhou project
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i wanna post my yaps abt how the stickler-empire alliance is upheld by hopperclock and dualities friendships alone simply bc the empire only recognizes the sticklers as allies bc of minute and mapiccs individual alliances w jumper and ro—
like even that is tenuous at best bc mapicc doesnt care much for rek or jumper at all to the point that i think that theres most definitely a world where he kills them for a heart or smt if anything if he was caught while crashing tf out
while minute seems to mainly trust and want to work w jumper when given the chance while kind of seeing rek and ro be allies by proxy of them being her teammates. like even w ro offering to take pentars interest in him to help kill mane, minute still sees it as him helping mapicc SPECIFICALLY and not as him helping the empire as a whole (which is most likely true, in his defense!)
but like i cant articulate all of my thoughts and opinions in a satisfying way to MYSELF bc i have much to say and a few examples to help explain what i mean but the yap braincell isnt yap braincelling so all i can do is post this which is like...basically my yaps but on sale. discounted. not at full value.
#lifesteal#lifesteal spoilers#the sticklers#the empire#the clip where they reveal that ro offered to help kill mane is what inspired this train of thought#bc mapicc calling ro THEIR teammate (who isnt their teammate) (yet)#while MINUTE calls him an inside man and says#'ro is always doing things to help mapicc'#which shows he sees ros offer to help as him helping mapicc and not the empire as a whole#also mapicc did nawt say not their teammate yet BUT it just most certainly seemed like the yet was implied LMFAO#esp bc later that day when zam is laughing bc he thinks ro has joined the empire#its minute who says he hasnt officially joined while mapicc immediately defends him bc rek and jumper dont login#asking WHERE ros team is after zam says he thought ro would stay loyal to his team this time#which is funny bc rek and jumper just do very much login more than ro#like ro only has things BC rek and jumper have gotten it for him nd continued to consider him w everything they do#but like#thats part of my point LOL#mapicc doesnt gaf abt jumper or rek at all bc they arent. empire or zam.#they arent even active enough to be considered reliable teammates for/of ro to mapicc even tho theyre on more than him#duality duo#hopperclock#ig theyre like the main focus of this post LOL#but yeah its such an interesting alliance bc it truly is only upheld bc of two personal friendships#mapicc#minutetech#roshambogames#jumperwho#rip rek tho like he truly is the odd man out LMFAO#at least chief recognizes him as an ally bc hes a stickler#ToT
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The thing about Prowl is I don't really think canon was ever trying to frame him as a "necessary evil" or anything along the lines of "he's a shitty person but his work was necessary" like mmm.... That feels very much like something Prowl wants to believe about himself, not something that's actually factually true in reality.
I can't really make a good argument about it because I only remember like a handful of standout Prowl Moments in IDW1 but like... Prowl dropping a bomb on a neutral city and blaming it on the Decepticons is not "a necessary evil," that's a war crime. Prowl trying to destroy the space bridge to Caminus to keep Starscream from getting power over it, dooming the entire planet and its inhabitants to extinction by starvation, is not "a necessary evil," it's a fucking war crime. I feel like trying to frame such drastic measures as him "doing the dirty work of the Autobots" feels way too much like an excuse for actions that actually aren't justifiable. Especially since Prowl himself is far from being the 100% rational guy he thinks he is, considering how often he bases his decisions on things like his anti-Decepticon bias and his general refusal to follow any orders that contradict what he thinks is The Right Thing To Do (TM).
But also I think this is kind of the fault of the narrative of IDW1, since very few Autobots besides Prowl are given the chance to actually be morally gray even when the worldbuilding implicates them in some very morally gray things. Like, for example, JRO adding in the existence of MTOs which implies that the normally squeaky-clean leader Optimus was willing to approve the creation of new soldiers just to throw them into combat (and even the attempts to humanize the MTOs by giving them "an education" were eventually cut down to nothing but combat optimizations). And there's also the fact that Optimus knows about the Wreckers and has been known to call them on missions at least once (Stormbringer), meaning he's very much aware of the Wreckers and their tactics and is willing to call them in for fights when it's necessary.
I don't think you need to use Prowl as a crutch to make the Autobots morally gray. I think the Autobot leadership (or at least, Optimus, since few people besides him or Prowl seem to have major tactical command over the army as a whole) is plenty morally gray enough on its own, because the nature of war is inherently morally gray no matter how righteous your cause is. Reducing the lives of your own people into numbers on maps, harvesting resources, bringing MTOs to life just to die in a war they practically have no stake in, those things are enough.
And tbh it kind of bothers me when people try to saddle Prowl with the "dirty work of the Autobots", not just because it frames Prowl's blatantly evil actions as some sort of savior act taking the blame from the rest of the Autobots (which isn't even accurate, because the blame for war crimes falls on the entire army as an institution rather than one person), but because it downplays the moral grayness of the Autobots and pretends that no Autobot BESIDES Prowl ever participated in morally gray actions, which simply isn't true.
TLDR: Prowl isn't as much of a hero as he thinks he is because committing atrocities in the name of your cause doesn't change the fact that they're atrocities (and may not have even been justified). However, painting Prowl as the "token evil teammate" of sorts also places too much blame for the atrocities of war on him in particular, when in reality that's a burden shared by Optimus Prime and any other members of the Autobot military command structure.
#squiggposting#meta#prowl feels like one of those characters where people trust what he says at face value when like. he's very much not a reliable narrator#prowl SAYS that he does the dirty work no one else is willing to do but. is it really dirty work?#or is it just him authorizing dirty work and hiding it on his own and justifying it in the name of 'it's for the autobots'?#to draw on an old fandom of mine: 'what is the difference between you and the decepticons now?'#'isn't it obvious prime? i serve the autobots'#but also this is kind of the fault of JRO because like he's the main idw writer that explores what things were like during the war#while still being unwilling to part from the ideal of OP as the best prime and the all good and loving leader#barber gets into morally gray OP but it almost entirely concerns post war stuff so i wouldnt really count it
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I never cared about albums until bears in trees. keep me safe especially, i only listen to those songs in order for maximum effect. plus I want to feel chaotic followed by keep me safe. so good. and everybody else smiled back. best album of all time.
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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh
#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh#AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game#(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random#townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can#browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around#and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho#Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly#i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol#I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T#Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things#But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense#That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length#text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres#visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol#Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered#boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world#and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY#more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL#Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool#idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh#the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope#''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months#learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have#a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that#and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY
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thinking about how buddy is inherently more durable than its crew. they are humans (presumably), soft and killable. but buddy is not its body, but a mask, which is very hard to break. it can get burned, shot, dismembered, poisoned, and blown up six ways from sunday, and its mask will be fine. thinking about how the crew settles into that mindset that buddy is innately more expendable whether they want to or not
it can travel in front. if there is a bracken, it will follow last. it is first to cross the gap to determine if the jump is worth the risk. it loves to do this because it keeps its crew, significantly more vulnerable than itself, safe. it serves as bait for a spider and laughs when it is numbed with venom and collapses, laughs knowing it just had to get the thing to turn around, to leave itself open to be killed by someone else. fifteen teleports it for the seventh time and grows numb to seeing what a thumper does to a body, watching the host stop moving in the ship. it shoves five out of a nutcracker's line of sight and gets shot and still twitches and laughs as it bleeds its energy out, to keep its attention on it rather than anyone else. how readily it will split from the others and serve itself on a silver platter to anything and everything, just to keep them alive.
its crew don't like it, how it has formed some odd complex about it. it never gets downright reckless with itself, because getting a body is a pain kept to a minimum, but that doesn't stop that looming knowledge of how it can be used. a useful ability to have, leaving it and its team assured that there is a fail-safe. that it's okay for someone to lag behind or march into danger, because they can always get it another body. it is the perfect sacrificial lamb.
it gets a little scared when the baboon hawks rip it apart, seeking for things to swallow whole, and wrap their maws around its skull. turretfire or a nutcracker could hit its mask. a pack of dogs fighting over it could (and eventually do) crack its mask. but it does it anyways, no matter how it disturbs itself or its team, because that is the role it has embraced; it is happy to die for them. it can afford to get eaten alive, so why wouldn't it place itself between a dog and its beloved crew? it is simultaneously ready to die and terrified of death
#thoughts#lethal company posting#oc: buddy#I have a lot of thoughts about how it thinks of itself in relation to a team dynamic#it's such a weird masked. it's very robust in health (reliable supply of hosts; rarely dormant) and each host should last a long time--#--but due to constant unimaginable physical and mental stressors no average masked experiences it wears down quickly#mentally it's also odd; it doesn't turn its crew and attacks other masked. EATS other masked at least once. which is unheard of#it has the stolen memories of greener grass but it has truly known nothing else. it is an employee. it has never known peace.#it cannot afford to rest. it is perpetually exhausted. masked do not typically sleep but it is so. so tired.#masked are hedonistic and stationary things. buddy cracks in a very special and unique way
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The Death of the Virgin - Unknown artistmaker - Illustrated Vita Christi, with devotional supplements
#this is probably 12th century based on what i could find for it#originally wasn't going to post this one bc couldnt find reliably when it's from?#but the expressions on the people here were too good not to theyre very haunting
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Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) // The Devil's Backbone (2001)
#shoujo kakumei utena#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#the devil's backbone#el espinazo del diablo#very reliable posts#watch the devil's backbone YES YOU THE GIRL READING THIS!#rgu spoilers
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#something is very obviously different about these two compared to my normal images on this blog. i acknowledge this#also the sv model is Really good. and since they always stare straight at the camera anyway… and no one pays attention to the background…#and the only high-quality phantump model i could find was so horribly shiny that its eyes were just white voids#in my defense‚ phantump always just stare straight at you in game#the lighting is different‚ yeah. that's probably the dead giveaway. beyond the background. but like. i'm the only being on the planet who#really likes phantump anyway. i feel like it's a generally forgettable pokémon to most folks#phantump#HELLO this one is a weird one. i have some explaining to do. so when i did this one i didn't know how to edit models really at all#and when i got the models for these‚ the xy models were super shiny. shiny to the point that it made their eyes fuckin invisible#and i decided that since you could barely tell it was phantump‚ i needed a different way to get these images#i remembered that in the SV dlc‚ every time you find a wild phantump‚ it just fucking. stares. at you. and i was like. aha#i kinda remembered because of the test stream that i did. tumblr user alligayytorr (am i getting the right amount of Ys) said#“haha i am getting a sneak peek” when i zoomed the camera in on a phantump. and i remembered that. and i was like. i can utilize this#and ended up using just an in-game screenshot of SV in replacement of the regular content. later on‚ after that#once we got into gen 7 and it became less and less reliable to find models‚ i had to learn how to edit them manually to remove the shine#i am a software dev. not a 3d modeler. this ended up coming down to editing the code of the models directly (which i ended up writing a#script to automate). now‚ today‚ january 22nd (the day of me writing these tags and updating this post)‚ i remembered this post was in the#queue and was not normal. so i went back‚ ran the script on the phantump and trevenant models‚ and unshinified them#then edited these two posts to be normal. i have left the original pictures i took under the cut for reference and as bonuses#because i really enjoy phantump. so that's why those images are there‚ and that's why these tags are here#just for posterity's sake‚ the folks who come here mostly for my commentary‚ i've left the ORIGINAL tags of the post when i initially#made it with the SV pictures up at the top (i wanted to rearrange them‚ but tumblr makes that Very difficult‚ so i left them as-is)#so if these tags are confusing to read i Apologize. but i hope now that you're at the bottom you understand what happened#i'm gonna go edit the trevenant post now
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I dont even know which blog to post to anymore ✨
✨Treat me✨
#So i shall post to both until i know which is most... Reliable??? This one is a sideblog i could control from my old and new one#Gotta gather some coin for visiting my beloved besties next week ✨ i cant believe its happening tbh#Im amazed and terrified! And very excited of course ✨#Satans knitwear#Alt pinup#Pinup girl#Pretty lingerie#Any tips or treats would be massively appreciated right now 💕#Floral stockings#Lace top stockings#Strappy lingerie#Pasties
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I'm reading my second Sherrilyn Kenyon book and it's giving me lots of thoughts I'll be sure to blog about next time I want to fire a rent-lowering gunshot.
(Not the highest priority but the one that communicates the most flavor in one sentence: "She really took the coward's way out by not letting the hero's trauma give him ED.")
#it's very much a 14-year-old's first whump fic (not derogatory tho not entirely complimentary either)#and I am once again time-travelling to beg Kenyon's publishers to let/encourage/help her write second drafts#(re: my comment in the body of the post: Book 2 of the WIP! I am many things but not that sort of coward!)#Also - speaking as an author who constantly second-guesses my own sense of scale: this is a book with no sense of scale#the homophobia in this one is interesting (not entirely derogatory because I think Kenyon's heart is in the right place)#(a lot depends on how reliable I'm supposed to think the heroine's narration is. a second draft could have helped here!)
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Phoenixposting..... they're shaped
#they're the only character i feel comfortable drawing....people r so scary to me because i'm a warrior cats fan in rehab#as you can probably tell by my kitty phoenix..#AUGH drawing people is so scary and UNCOMFORTABLE#it doesn't help that I can't use myself as a reliable model for some things because im hypermobile and my body does odd things#the thing is i know LOTS but I have very little confidence in my own ability because it's NEW and SCARY#I've tried so many times and always defaulted back to cats and i know i can only get better by keeping at it but the horrors persist.#i expect you to die#ieytd#[agent moose's art]#agent phoenix#ughshshdh I'll get there eventually i just get so anxious#posting helps a bit because this fandom...so kind...so gentle ....#+ i look up to a lot of artists here including ny two friends
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It's just as irresponsible to take Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad at their word as it is to take the IDF and US intelligence agents their word. Just FYI.
#israel#palestine#israel palestine conflict#israel palestine war#i/p#i/p conflict#i/p war#like it is very believable that the Israeli gov bombed a hospital and is now lying about it to avoid international backlash#its also just as believable that two literal terrorist groups fired a rocket that landed to soon and now theyre lying about it??#they arent fucking reliable either lol#god the speed at which everything will call something thay challenges their YA novel narratives#propaganda#without actually reading the news reports theyre so quick to lambast to actually find out what they say#is so fucking scary lol#hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are terrorist groups!!!!! they arent reliable either!!!!!#jfc#this is all im posting about this until the UN or some neutral party does an investigation#gaza hospital#gaza#gaza strip
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