#but i don't question the shape

[priskeys]

thank you all for voting in the poll! as promised:

✨🍄 Mushroom Greenhouses 🍄✨

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#go see my last post for the full breakdown! #minecraft #mineblr #minecraft build #but i don't question the shape #complementary reimagined #complementary shaders #youtube

[scribefindegil]

As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.

#imperial radch #also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon #if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting #and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question #that's AWESOME #but it's not the only way to do it #it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form #everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you #but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands #(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs) #and i think that's really cool as well-- #how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music #it's all been filtered #and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented #makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is #it's good #ann leckie i love you

[starflungwaddledee]

I did not mean any offense with my last ask I just wanted to know how good of a friend you are to Starflung Bandana. Is she a Kirby level friend?

hmm, i'll step in. starflung here (not starstruck, who we'll leave outta this one) but bandee can't answer this because he'd never consider categorising his friends this way. his relationships with each of his friends and loved ones are unique and individual and resonate with him in a way that is incomparable to each other; every one is irreplaceable and inimitable!

that said.... absolutely not. kirby is utterly singular to everybody who knows him. nobody is a kirby-level friend; not to bandee, not to anyone.

#also bandee is clearly in love with kirby next question #(platonic. mostly. hate having to put this but too many folks just don't get it. if you're aroace and get it you can say they're in love.) #anyway i think everybody has a mental illness shaped like kirby of the stars. he is The Guy of all time. #bandee and starstruck are close but it's just not the same. nobody could ever be like kirby for anyone but *especially* for bandee #not even if bandee were paired 'romantically' with someone else. it's still kirby number 1 at the end of the day. am i getting this across. #*starstruck* on the other hand... #my art #bandana waddle dee #asks

[chubs-deuce]

I bring more Raph/Mona propaganda bc brainrot got me by the throat ✨

once again, this lovely version of Mona was designed by @miicycle

#woops #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise raphael #rise raph #rise mona lisa #raphmona #ramona #send help #digital fanart #digital art #fanart #art #my art #also I can't believe this needs to be said but she's essentially an OC so please don't like. Assign your own headcanons unprompted #you may ask questions or make suggestions but she's not yours to shape and mold - just make your own version :(

[liddlediddy]

@aquaspiderart 's Pokecémber Day 5: Favorite Fire Type

#pokemon #pokecember #victini #okay i know this one is very questionable but it took me over a dozen tries to get this right #i started over from scratch twice and kept adjusting the head shape over and over #no matter what i do he still looks like a weird alien. why is victini so hard to draw?!!!! #anyways this isn't my fav fire type. more like 2nd or 3rd but i don't want any repeats & the others will be other types 😋 #my art

[metanarrates]

watched a majora's mask analysis earlier today with my fiancee. my verdict is that I actually really enjoyed the op's interpretations, but that I wished that they talked more about mm's literal level and what one can get from it, rather than talking about those events as if they are strictly metaphor. yes, of course the metaphorical layer of the game is rich to dig into, but it's also such an open-ended and surreal game that it's difficult to nail down every single distinct metaphor that can be derived from its events. which is why I consider it necessary to discuss the way the literal layer presents itself and what sort of motifs and ideas exist there as a baseline before you begin looking at it as metaphor

#narrates #zelda #^ longwinded way of saying that i think that both the impeding inevitability of death #the way the characters react to it #and the question of whether or not termina is even 'real' or can be saved are all intensely interesting aspects of the game #regardless of metaphor. you are existing in a world where you empirically cannot change anything permanently until your very last cycle #and in a world that is potentially not real or is doomed in other ways. but your task is still to help these people and save it #which is interesting even before you get into the symbolic spiritual and metaphorical reads of the game #again thats not to say those reads are bad. i think those reads are what people find the MOST meaningful about mm #most of mm's strength lies in its atmosphere and its ability to convey all these overlapping ideas #its surrealism and the richness of its ideas is what allows for an audience to draw all sorts of meanings out of it #it's just also very meaningful in its LITERAL events and I enjoy that quite a lot! #also... I feel like you heavily have to acknowledge death of the author when dealing with mm #you cannot rely on what you think the author intended. because thats both unclear and does a disservice to the games open endedness #which means that your analysis tends to be far more meaningful when you discuss how IDEAS are embedded in the game #and how you personally constructed meaning out of that #rather than relying on your ability to convince me that your specific read was completely what the devs were thinking #idc about the devs tell me about YOU! #this video was way better than most at doing that but I just prefer mm analysis that is heavier on death of the author #edit: i don't mean you should discount cultural context. thats part of the ideas embedded in ths game #i just mean that I don't like arguments that rely on the idea that the devs INTENDED that cultural context to shape the games metaphors

[girderednerve]

all these leftists casually like "we won't have plastic after the revolution" okay i get it & i endorse this set of priorities but just consider how entrenched plastics are in vital industries. i've seen acknowledgment that some medical devices are plastic & will still be needed but what about my squishable realistic packer. what about my dick, guys

#dont even get me STARTED on the one shaped like a bug or whatever. that's a medical device okay juice those dinosaurs. for HEALTH #i am joking extremely here but i am serious about how wildly & frighteningly entrenched plastics are in every industry #& how complex some of these competing imperatives & priorities are. i don't think a leftist vision which is genuinely responsive #to climate emergency need answer these questions ftr! there is no 'after the revolution' only the continual product of our actions. imho. #anyway how's your tuesday night #tmi but we are all friends here & we love jokes :) #fake transing for clout

[friezaglasiencold]

hey Frieza, i was wondering how Yamcha's doing? also idk if this has been asked already but what's his relationship with Kuriza?

((hi i was wondering if you could give me some tips on starting my own character ask blog? if that's alright))

He's fine... actually, we had ourselves a little get-together last night. Saw a movie. Played some word games.

(Among other activities.)

He's taken on a very active role with Kuriza, which I do appreciate. Most strapping bachelors of his ilk don't take as well to their dates having children as he has. The boy adores him, too.

It's a dangerous situation for me to be in, however, to allow my child to become so attached to someone I might well leave by the wayside. I wouldn't want to obligate myself into a relationship for his sake. Still, we have fun, and Yamcha plays the role of babysitter quite well.

#text response #((As for making an askblog... really just have fun with it!! Don't force yourself to adhere to a canon you don't enjoy)) #((It's a writing exercise more than anything so do whatever stimulates your creativity!)) #((And remember you're under no obligation to answer questions that make you uncomfortable)) #((The moment it feels like homework #That's when you need to step back)) #((I will say though that blogs with elements of follower interactivity tend to last longer)) #((Playing games with followers and having continuity and letting them shape the narrative a bit can be fun))

[artemislosthunter]

also no more outing myself directly to my friends, you will find out about pronoun and name change through the wonders of instagram stories where you talk abt yourself /hj

#I mean ... I love my friends I really do. but they're cis and ... idk sometimes you can tell #like not transphobic (obviously otherwise they wouldnt be my friends) but just ... cis #never had any doubts about their gender identity. they feel perfectly fine in this little label and never had any doubts #and that is great for them!! Genuinely!! but I also know that none of my gender feelings will make sense to them #I have tried trust me. they are supportive but also ... just confused and lost #bringing the questioning up to them feels like they expect you to have an answer or to help you discover the answer with simple quetsions #that you yourself had asked yourself a thousand times with no clear answer and they somehow expect it to work this time #I know they mean well!! I love that they're trying but also ... it usually just ends up making me feel frustrated and them slightly frustra #frustrated bcs it feels like I am being uncooperative when all they are trying to do is help #so yeah idk how to bring it up #bcs Idk what I am #I just know I don't like being refered to as a girl #I am either indifferent by it as in 'not really but also not really NOT so I guess that works fine' or 'I mentally recoiled' #which is ... not really clear #I might be vaguely ''girl shaped'' on some days #and on some days I am not #but that does not really explain what I am does it #am I male? idk I feel like maybe sometimes I am vaguely ''male shaped'' more so than girl shaped atm I think #but in the end it's always something else entirely I think. it might briefly resemble it but never for long and never entirely #yes I have been debating if 15 y/o me had it all down when they said 'biromantic-asexual genderfluid' #bcs ... yeah I've come to notice ace was actually pretty correct I am definitely somewhere on that spectrum #I am ... very unhorny and genuinely came to realize I do not find people 'hot'. I find them aesthetically nice to look at and that's it #bi ... yeah I had a few phases of doubts but by now I really can't deny that anymore #so 15 y/o me MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN RIGHT ABT IT ALL #but I am not sure yet #and until I'm sure I'll ... just not say anything bcs I know it'll just end with confusion and awkwardness

[kkujo]

JOJOLANDS

#no i don't think you understand. i'm obsessed #jojolands #ok i have questions. so like. is it set in 2017 if so that's really funny actually #but that means it couldn't be like gappy & yasuho's child bc. unless they're like 6 years old which would be stupid . #soooo joseph affair child maybe?? #also why does their collar say november. also so like is the ponytail just on 1 side?? #i feel like having it on 2 sides would look cute. but #ALSO also. what's the earring on the other side?? it kinda looks like a fishing hook?? or is it just Shape

[thefirstknife]

I saw some confusion among people thinking that Eramis' appearance was random and that she had no business being on the station with access to the Warsats. I'd like to try and clarify some stuff about that.

Eramis was a constant presence this season; more so than Xivu Arath. It has been explained that Xivu Arath cannot invade with her army until the specifics of a ritual are fulfilled and that moving her army through the ascendant plane takes an extraordinary amount of energy and resources.

Some of Xivu's forces were here and acting on her behalf, yes, but largely the main enemy this season was Eramis. Eramis is already in the system and was very explicitly used by the Witness as the one who would act often and faster. The Witness spent a lot of time turning Eramis' friends and soldiers into Scorn for this purpose.

These Scorn are the ones that had the Seraph Station under constant siege. Every time we attack Seraph Station, it's canon because Scorn come back to life so every time we clear it, we have to do it anew. They've been digging in the Station for months, trying to gain access to the Warsat network and preparing for the final assault.

Eramis was not randomly on the Seraph Station; she was there because she's been trying to get there for months. We were fighting their attempts by uploading a virus into the network each time we're there, but that's never been a certain way of stopping Eramis and the Scorn army from wrestling control over the network away. Which is the point of us having to do it multiple times.

I know the Seraph's Shield mission only played dialogue once so if anyone needs a refresher:

Elsie Bray: I've gained remote access to the launch facility's subsystems, but someone is already in here. House Salvation Splicers are hacking the launch mainframe.

Eramis had splicers working on hacking into the station. As a matter of fact, they gained access to the station first.

Ana Bray: She's here? Of course. That must be how Xivu Arath plans of co-opting the Warsat network. The Hive can't do it on their own, so the Witness sends Eramis and her Splicers in to assist.

Ana explaining how Eramis being there makes sense because Xivu cannot gain access to the Warsats on her own, she needs Eramis to assist.

The whole seasonal story hinges on Eramis hacking the station to get to the Warsats and the Seraph's Shield mission was explicitly about us trying to stop her week by week. It just so happens that she succeeded hacking it at the end, before Rasputin was fully operational and ready to be uploaded without negative consequences.

Is the setup a little bit clunky? I think so, yeah, because the whole season is doomed from the start. We have to stop our enemies but it's the nature of the end-of-the-year story for enemies to win in some capacity. I also think that we didn't really have to kill Rasputin for the same effect and for the enemies to somehow get the upper hand; I think it would've been fine if Rasputin simply had to destroy the Warmind stuff but that he could've remained with us as an Exo.

But Eramis having access to Seraph Station and the Warsat network is not random or out of nowhere nor is it nonsensical. That was her entire plan the whole season. Actually her first big win, possibly also saved her life. Not sure how many failures from Eramis the Witness would've tolerated.

I guess the issue is that with the current seasonal structure, we expect the seasonal goal to be fulfilled and for us to walk happily into the sunset until the next season because that's how it worked so far. It can feel like we've been fighting our enemies for 3 months for nothing given that we've essentially failed and it almost caused a catastrophe. But I'm not sure how else to create a story (seasonal or otherwise) where things don't go as planned or where we fail.

There were multiple fronts to fight on this season and there's one where we dodged a massive bullet; Xivu Arath. We lost to Eramis because we had to think about the bigger picture and that is Xivu's invasion. Our loss to Eramis also took the Warsats out of the equation now so that's also a loss to Xivu. It's what we needed; a stalemate. It's not flashy or happy, but it's better than the alternative which is Xivu Arath's portal over Earth. So in that regard we succeeded. We lost the Warsats and Rasputin and almost the Traveler, but all of that was to prevent Xivu Arath from invading which we managed. For now.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of the seraph spoilers #long post #eramis #xivu arath #it's really weird to me that people keep asking for bungie to give us a loss and then they do and people are mad about it #this season put us in an impossible situation #xivu arath waiting for a portal. her army swarming us everywhere. eramis and house salvation. half of house salvation is scorn #given that xivu arath did not invade us we got of good imo #i know it's awkward that this season was about rebuilding rasputin and his network and then we lose rasputin and his network #not a huge fan of having to kill rasputin for this to work #but also how do we get a loss if we're not ready to. you know. lose sometimes #also there was never any chance that we would see xivu personally this season. out of the question from the start #i don't know if people thought that would happen but that was very obviously never on the menu #if anything then the meta reason: they're not making a model for such a big player for the final season of the year which will be vaulted #we'll see xivu next year most likely. or maybe in final shape #eramis was always the core player to engage with us this season outside of like. kelgorath #xivu has a lot of players in the system that work for her but she physically cannot show up yet #eramis spent 3 months hacking the station and she made it. congrats. one W in the cringefail life of eramis

[priskeys]

✨🍄 the big babygirl is done! 🍄✨

1 2 giant mushroom greenhouses (not counting the many other farms built into this)

this took so long, I'm glad to finally be able to show the results

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more pictures and drawings below the cut!

this was such a blast to do, it turned out better than I ever expected

it even has a functional light-well running down the center!

i'm very proud of this and am looking forward to doing another build soon!

massing model:

bonus oddity: the sun setting during a thunderstorm sends beams of light across the valley

#but i don't question the shape #minecraft farm #minecraft #mineblr #minecraft build #complementary shaders #complementary reimagined #youtube #comfycraft #bdbu

[raveartts]

this was cooler in my head 😭

#raveartts #hazbin hotel #alastor #well #he is a on a leash #and that's inherently amazing already #but ugh #why'd i use that thick ass line art #don't question the background btw i love drawing random shapes #i redrew his expression about ten times and i'm still not happy with it in the slightest -_- #dear god i hope someone else likes it because i certainly don't #i need to work on my angry expressions-

[art3you]

(ID : 2 Tiger designs. The first has little diamond eyes with an upside down heart shaped muzzle and she looks surprised with high eyebrows. Next to her is a simpler/faster one. Below is a tiger who also looks like a bear, with his forehead stripes where one connects his eyes, that have wide pupils, like glasses. He has a big collar on his shirt with his hands behind his head. He says "Harry, sit down, won't you" end ID.)

The union doesn't have time to make fursonas trust me Harry this is the genuine article the real deal the cat's pajamas

#Aw I think Joyce said cats pajamas #disco elysium #BEASTARS #these aren't traced though #I didn't mean to give him human teeth he was going to just be the nerd emoji the glasses was my cool innovation #now the question: why do they looks like bears #the tracings don't. maybe the fur or probably the heart shape needs to be more angular

[tiddie-taylor]

I've always had a question about bing bong, and the question is what are his ears???

#they don't look very elephant like to me #the last time I checked elephant ears are not shaped like that #they look more like dog ears imo #idk maybe it's just stylization or something #I always question stupid things lol #inside out #inside out fandom

[bylertruther]

hate 2 say it as someone tht hates time travel plots, but season five is 100% going to include it (or more likely some form of time manipulation) because there's waaaay too many references to time, the passage of it, clocks, confirmation from the duffers that "the upside down is stuck in time" on the day will went missing, will having always described himself as feeling "stuck" or "frozen", and it's the one final thing that the hawkins lab was studying (as mentioned in the stranger things bible) that we've yet to see in the show sooooo i gotta say that math really is mathing 🧐📝

#i don't think will's powers are related to time exactly -- i think it's more in the vein of like what joyce said #that emotions can make time move really fast or really slow and when will got to the upside down he was obviously terrified out of his mind #which goes hand in hand with him shaping the upside down. vecna manifested his powers and so did will bc he was scared n wanted to go home. #i think that's what's more important/fascinating bc it wasn't hawkins when vecna got there #it only became so when will got there and it's STILL stuck in the shape that he made it at the time that he made it #and vecna hasn't ever changed it so clearly that's not a power he possesses #but i wonder what else comes with his powers... and why didn't vecna kill him to absorb them? #why did he preserve him? what was the reason.... #has time stopped because will is still feeling the same emotions he felt that day? is the upside down stuck because will's stuck? #did will have powers before and that's why vecna stalked him? or was he supposed to open a gate like in s4 but then will's fear #unearthed his powers and suddenly that changed everything for them all? where much like with max - will fighting back is precisely #what damned him and sealed his fate? #i have so many questions how did he create an entire world what is it about him that vecna needed him alive for TELL ME DUFFERS TELL MEEEEE #anyway. time 2 take a quiz byeeee #mine