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Monster, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Sartle of Giant hill, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Lucifer (human form), Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Tiamet leaders, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Dragon, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Balrog, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Rafael Howler, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Uriel, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Dr. Magaret Garcia, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh, Todono

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Gabriel, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Dragoon army, Daemon Hunters, Seiuchiroh Todono

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Michael, Daemon Hunters by Seiuchiroh Todono.

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Because I’m an utter trash for Seiuchiroh Todono, y’all are going to be treated with a whole bunch of posts with just my scans of Daemon Hunters. If you’re not interested, just block the guy’s name in the tag for a while. Or ignore me. I won’t be around long, so that works, too.

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My Turin armour headcanon

I’m temporarily breaking haitus because I remember mentioning to you guys that my headcanon for Turin’s dragon helm is in Seiuchiroh Todono’s Daemon Hunters. Guess what, I’m at my parents’ house, and they still have my copy of Daemon Hunters! So y’all are treated to a gratuitous post of dragon armours that no one asks for -- because I love Seiuchiroh Todono’s artwork, and I just need to share this with y’all. This is going to be image heavy, but here we go.

First off, let’s start with my all time favourite, the Dragoon armour in full.

There are actually two-horned and one-horned helms as far as I can tell. I’ve always imagined Turin wearing the two-horned one, but the one-horned one is also badass, and I mean...

... he looks mean, doesn’t he? (And he is mean, if you must know.) For a closer look at the two-horned version of the armour (I’m not sure what exactly is the difference -- perhaps rank or specialization), let us look at the commander of the Dragoon army.

*drools over the detail like it’s no body’s business*

And here is the back.

The red cross is referring to the in-universe church. Not sure exactly what the religion is (artistically inspired by the Roman-Catholic church for sure, although there has never been a mention of a messiah or anything of the like, so I don’t think the influence goes any further than the wardrobe).

There is also another, special version of the dragon armour in this universe worn only by one of the four ‘gods’, who also happens to be the said Commander’s adopted son. The kid is kind of an in-universe Turin who doesn’t realize his own tragedy until it basically destroys his beloved adoptive family and he goes demoniacal. So let’s just say seeing him wearing his ‘father’ symbol even after he’s gone berserk breaks my very heart.

But can I say this? I hate that helm.

Why the dome shape?! Why that black horns?! Seiuchiroh, WTH!!

Okay, that helm aside, I love that armour to bits. I mean, look at that waist line, the elegance.

Probably not practical for sword fighting at all, but who are we kidding here. We’re standing in front of a god for god’s sake, and he’s going to cut you the eff down, corseted or not.

Okay, another thing I don’t really like about the Dragoon’s getup is the sword. I mean, I get it. It’s supposed to look manufactured and impressive -- these are soldiers funded by the richest and most powerful organization in-universe after all. But Gurthang is supposed to be unique and -- in my very biased opinion -- badass. And I like a big crossguard, so it turns out that I like this baby better.

The sword, not the huge guy holding it.

I know, I know, it looks too... undead... to be forged by elves, but I think the overall look works. You just need to change the design on the crossguard to something else.

You know, like a dragon.

I mean, this one is pretty elegant, right?

(Am I over-dragoning things? Probably. Do I regret it? Not at all.)

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Prolonged haitus

Okay, so I have hit my limit with tumblr and its policies on nsfw and how that has affected people who are doing good work on sex, sexuality, and the female bodies. And frankly, I can’t stand it anymore. I don’t normally post anything that violates the guideline, but the guideline is clearly bullshit, and a place that takes away the freedom of expression from positive and decent people while letting the hate groups run free is not a free space for me or, in my opinion, for anyone. So as much as I love the people here and as much as the Purge seems to have brought us closer together, I have to go. I thought I might go to another platform, but I’m not even thinking about that anymore. Right now I just need to go because I no longer want to give them any business. That being said, this blog will still be up because there is no way to lock the url down so bots can’t use it. I mean, at this point the bots are even taking existing blogs so clearly this platform is too broken to even deal with its actual issues. But I’ll leave this post as a reminder of why this place sucks, and a thank you to the users who have made this year a good one.

UdeM out.

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I don’t contribute anymore, but yes?

Is the Tolkien fandom dead?

Reblog if you are a fan!

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Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror