Robin's flashback scenes in Not Again would have been funnier if his hair had been impeccably neat, like really well groomed, same with his fellow cavemen, and his tribe happened to have quite good hair care somehow for the time. And the only reason it was always messy and sticking up now was because he was struck by lightning.
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feelings on the smiling critters cartoon?
Bro I fucking love it
I swear Amberluvsbugs did a PHENOMENAL job on making it, I literally can’t get over it. RRRR I aspire to be that cool.
They’re literally one of my favorite artists out there of all time, I giggle and kick my legs when I see a new post honest to god. Even better when I see an ANIMATION by them I get giddy.. then rewatch it like 30 times.. I’m not joking I watched the Melanie Martinez contortionist mommy long legs one like 30 something times fawning over the talent they have.
I’m so normal about their work I swear.
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FIDDLEFORD PSA!!!!!!
OKAY, THIS HAS BEEN DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY BONKERS FOR A WHILE NOW.
Dear Fiddleford McGucket fanartists:
First of all: draw how you want. The following is not intended to be judgmental, just educational. <3
On to business:
Here is how you fingerpick a banjo.
This is three-finger. There are more styles, but this is how I play. (I did not include fingerpicks because Fidds doesn't use them in the show and they're a pain to draw; you can also play just fine without them, although they are useful.)
Fingerpicking is usually done on a five-string banjo. Old Man McGucket's theme sounds like it's fingerpicked to me. Please note that your pinky and ring finger are planted on the banjo itself, next to the strings.
The first two images are to show posture, the third image is what it would look like to draw:
When I'm just holding my banjo and not playing it, my pinky and ring finger just naturally rest this way because it's comfy.
Here is how you play clawhammer style.
This is just an approximation; I almost never play clawhammer. The big thing is that your fingers curl in in a "claw" and you pick with your thumb.
Here are the tuning pegs on a five-string banjo.
In the show, Fiddleford has a four-string banjo, not five-string. (We see two banjos; they are both four-string.) Honestly, that surprised me. I'm not sure what the folk scene looked like in the 80s, but most players you see today have five-strings, so I think they were just streamlining the design.
A four-string banjo has four tuning pegs at the top, like any other instrument. The fifth tuning peg is about a third of the way down the neck.
BONUS:
Nobody gets into this much detail, but clever eyes will notice that the string widths look funny. If you have played a bass or guitar, you're used to the top string being lowest and thickest, the bottom string - which is the "first" string - being highest and thinnest. A four string banjo is tuned like this, but with a five-string banjo, the fifth string is the same diameter as the first.
Anyway, there are plenty of great banjo video and image tutorials on the internet if you want to get into the weeds, but I got the impression that a lot of you have literally never seen a banjo being played often enough to even realize how different it is from a guitar. Some people absolutely do strum banjos like guitars - in fact, I think that's more common with four-strings - but the McGucket music we hear is very obviously not being strummed.
There! Now you may freely choose to draw his hand however you want to, and it won't be from a place of ignorance. <3
(Oh, one last thing: that round thing that comprises the body of the banjo is literally just a drum. Drumming it is fun. You can and should draw Fiddleford tapping his banjo with the tips of his fingers like I do.)
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I like how in rwby, how serious people take you is based on your fighting skills. Like they'll look down on you if you're young cause young means less experience.
No one really cares about your gender, skin, height, or outfit. They're racist towards the faunus, but in the grand scheme of things they're really grateful towards hunters.
This is just a really complicated way to describe that I think when Jaune first stated beacon, and team JNPR and RWBY were chilling in the dorm. They brought up initiation and Nora or maybe even one of RWY, pointed at him and said "THIS MOTHERFUCKER AIN'T GOT A LANDING STRATEGY!" like they were back in a middle school classroom and you wanted to playfully rag on your friend who can't do a handstand.
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It's 3:00 am and I have new AU idea
AU where all the animatronics see themselves and the world around them like their cartoon versions of the posters and cutouts and are living their lives believing they are alive and living in this perfect wholesome fantasy land that's actually fake (duh).
And one day something goes off and slowly realizes that they have been robots meant for child entertainment this whole time and that their lives are fake.
Idk if I'm going to draw this, probably not, maybe I'll sketch something
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