#very unique and iconic

[8uny]

Ordered an ice coffee and received Sludge.

[harriertail]

i wish we got more stuff on leaders struggling to come up with names and clans reacting to them; firestars first two warriors were thornclaw and brambleclaw thunderclan must have thought he was unoriginal as hell

[dragontummy]

Sleep deprived thought but in light of the dragon this blog is named after having been dormant for months and will probably continue to be for some time what if we re-themed this blog around pixies since our current primary fronter is one

[srirachaz]

how do voice actors feel about chris pratt? (and by extension other celebrity voice actors) like imagine spending years honing your craft and learning how to do crazy things with your voice only for major blockbuster roles to go to a guy that can’t be bothered to even pitch his voice differently or add any kind of inflection that’s different from how he usually speaks

[starswallowingsea]

Half of the tag is Shu birthday and the other half is "MITSURU'S VA GOT ARRESTED FOR FRAUD" so thats how enstarries are doing today

[azrantimes]

I love how everyone in & Juliet including the ensemble has these amazing costumes and then there's Frankie who's basically wearing a tracksuit most of the time

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Moon Warrior,” Marvel 85th Anniversary Special (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer and artist: Yuji Kaku; Special thanks to Ken Kunito

[mariocki]

Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Letters (1.3, WGN-TV, 1952)

"Mr. Mullins, I have in my possession sixty-eight letters, none of which has begun to outlive its usefulness. I'm quite prepared to admit that blackmail is risky, but then murder has its disadvantages too - that is why I gave up murder."

[axvwriter]

Tsum-Tsums Design Observations

So I looked through the Tsums fandom page for the tsum mobile game. I did this as I wanted to look at all the different type of tsums to see what the general rules are for how tsums look.

There does seem to be some rough guidelines, some ignored for stylistic choice. Some of the rules that sometimes aren't followed, I can't really tell why. Perhaps it's just the artist behind the design.

Like one common rule seems to be that eyes are just dots. The exception is sometimes stylistic like when it's a major part of the character's design like Pleakly from Lilo and Stitch or like Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. Part of Perry's look when not an agent is to look in opposite directions which is a bit difficult to show with no whites of the eyes, the sclera. Some that I don't understand is Timon from Lion King. I don't think the sclera is that big of a major identifying detail about Timon and the Pumba tsum has the usual dot eyes.

There is at least one tsum that has normal eyes, The White Queen from Alice in Wonderland (Live-action Tim Burton directed one). It just feels cursed compared to all the other tsums. There's also Mushu from Mulan who has cartoony eyes going on which seems weird as his eyes weren't drawn like that in the movie. That just seems like a random design detail randomly thrown onto him. It's like the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons eye shape. Which works for the Cars tsums and for Goofy since the originals have similar shapes. So the exception to dot eyes seems to be if the original has an iconic look associated to that part, though sometimes it's broken for no clear reason? I can only guess artistic choice.

Another common rule seems to be that tsums don't have mouths. The only ones that break that exception and make sense to me are ones with beaks, Pacman, and that one dog from the Coco movie. I haven't seen the movie (though I do intend to watch it some day) but I recall from the trailers it always has its tongue sticking out. So that tsum having a tongue makes sense.

If the character has buck-teeth then they're given mouths. Or if they're like Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie, both from The Nightmare Before Christmas, then that also makes sense as they do have unique mouths as well. The ones that don't really make sense to me is when there's a random smile? Judy Hopps, Zootopia, has a smile while Nick Wilde, also from Zootopia, has no mouth. I don't usually think of smiling as a unique character identification trait unless it's perhaps that the character can only smile.

Another common rule seems to be a round dot for the nose. Yet this is rather flexible, usually changing for animals. Some characters get a bit more shape to their noses. Though I have noticed that if the original design of a character has a sharp-pointed nose, that's rounded out. At least, that's the case for Pinocchio. Of course some have no noses like the fish tsums.

Hair and other details seem rather free. Just make it look like felt. They can have hats, glasses, earrings, and they do have ears. Usually very small and tiny unless the character's original design doesn't have usual human ears. Heck they even take into account if the character has hearing aids. Carl from Up had what I thought was a dark hole on his ear, but then I realized that wasn't depth design but a hearing aid since his other ear doesn't match. A few rare tsums will even hold an item. Like Maleficient from Sleeping Beauty holds a small staff.

The main major rules seem to be that they must look like they're made of felt and have a round pill-shape.

Oh and have a photo of some of the most unusual tsums I spotted and put together in ms paint.

The top left is the Pixar Lamp. I know Yzma's, from Emperor's New Groove, eyelashes are a big detail, but couldn't they still work with dot eyes? I don't know what's going on with Sully, Monster's Inc, as he looks a bit badly patch-worked? Interesting that the Mirror of Darkness from Snow White has a tsum. That basically breaks the common shape. The crab from Moana is the biggest violation of breaking the usual shapes. That red guy on the top right is Sebastian from The Little Mermaid. Need I say more?

The pink one is one of the little oysters from Alice in Wonderland (animated) movie. The one with the regular human eyes is The White Queen from Alice in Wonderland (live-action) movie.

I might redraw some of these in what I view as the rough guidelines from tsums just to see if I can understand the reasoning of why they're so different.

Have a screenshot of the most botched tsum.

This is supposed to be Wall-E. Wall-E isn't yellow. Like they didn't even try to get the details on his body, like perhaps the top part of his square body could be what's seen behind his head-eyes. I would think brown for a main color, not emoji yellow. Just isn't right.

[scattered-winter]

ask me about a celebrity and i will have no idea who tf you're talking about but ask me my opinions on movie score composers and i will be pulling up my powerpoint

[babygirlwolverine]

having a mini identity crisis is made just a lil bit easier when I have @passengerseatcas by my side 💜

[emile-hides]

Did they remove the icons of people on the dashboard or am I experiencing a glitch? I sent a message to Tumblr support and they are still ignoring my emails, and at this point it's impossible to tell if it's a "quality of life improvement" or something's actually wrong @staff @support

[undead-potatoes]

It’s really a testament to how good the Muppet version of A Christmas Carol is, that whenever I watch another production of ACC, I can barely even focus on the movie bc all I can think about is how much I’d rather be watching the Muppet version lmao

[thisultraviolet]

YOU VOTED FOR SPEAK NOW.....

NOT EVEN THE KENDRICK VERSION YOU HAD TO PICK THE BAD ONE AGDKAGJ

[queerfandommiscellany]

Or if that doesn't appeal to you, or still isn't enough structure, or you just want to make your own for whatever reason but don't feel like you can run rp as well as you'd like/your players are not comfortable enough with rp for 5e to be fun:

Other systems exist!

Many of which have more in-depth rp systems and simpler rules overall!

Op disabled rbs but they’re right and more people need to read this a few times over

[bbbigforehead]

they LOVE that morrigan design