(aka I saw this post and took some time to make some silly guesstimated height calculations.)
tl;dr: In that one official art with Klint, eleven year-old Barok measures an adorable height of about 107.5cm (3"6', according to a converter) which is more than 10cm (3.9in) smaller than ten year-old Iris (canon height: 120cm, or 3"11').
How did I get there?
1. Barok's canon height is 192cm (6"4'). Pretty damn tall (and probably too tall for his era, you can find some interesting and entertaining re-calculations in this post), and officially confirmed.
2. To estimate Klint's height, I aligned Barok's face in the photograph (still so happy and innocent, sigh...) with that of his full body art and tried my best to determine where Klint's head might end, his pose isn't all too convenient.
3. Having determined Klint's height to be about 196cm (6"5'), I could scale the artwork featuring him and his tiny baby brother to fit to Klint's height. Barok (baby) is not fully standing on the 0cm line though, so I drew a line at his feet and at his head, guessing where it might end under all that floofy hair...
4. ...set that to the 0cm line et voilà! The little darling of the Van Zieks family is about 107.5cm (3"6') tall!
Legolas: *goes to imlardis officially to announce that gollum has escaped, unofficialy to spy on the other elven haven now that they’ve gotten word via the trees that the ring has been found and a council called bc Akami knows those elves will conveniently forget to inform the silvans until sauron is at their front door* *sends a letter back to greenwood that reads: lmao brb; gotta go on a secret mission to destroy the ring so that we can kill Sauron once and for all, don’t wait up. Ps. If someone can do my paperwork that’d be great! Consider it a reward for going on such a dangerous quest 😁*
His siblings: that little shit, getting out of a year’s worth of paperwork!
ALWAYS AN ANGEL NEVER A GOD................ALWAYS AN ANGEL NEVER A GOD…………….ALWAYS AN ANGEL NEVER A GOD…………….ALWAYS AN ANGEL NEVER A GOD…………….ALWAYS AN ANGEL NEVER A GOD…………….
The university protests are the result of so many complex socio-political and economic factors, and I genuinely don't want to minimize the presence of other influences
But at the same time, it is REALLY hard not to look at the liberal and republican response to college students exercising their First Amendment rights and hear the sound of decades of authoritarian parenting standing over you and yelling "look what you made me do!"
I would like to hear thoughts about Forklift Certified. (Did she ever get an actual name? Even if she did, she will always be Forklift Certified in my heart.)
oh my god I can't believe this was buried in my inbox for MONTHS I'm so sorry it took me til now to see it!! Forklift Certified did indeed get a name (Sakaki!) but I have to be real I think in all her like, paperwork and IDs and such on the surface she's Forklift Certified forever. She didn't speak surface Inkling well enough to give her name properly and they put "Forklift Certified" on everything based on her answer and like. SURELY if she goes back to change it they will SUSPECT HER and EXPLODE HER WITH BEAMS or SOMETHING. side note: Forklift Certified is so paranoid and scared all the time with absolutely zero basis for this. every day she is going around like
[Image ID: A black-and-white digital ink drawing of Puzz's Splatoon OC, Sakaki AKA Forklift Certified. She is a female Octoling with the short undercut-style hairstyle. She is wearing a baggy top, tights and heeled boots, and is holding Little Buddy in her arms, walking with an anxious expression and thinking "OH GOD THEY ALL KNOW I'M A DESERTER THEY'RE GONNA GET ME". In the background are two Inklings, one thinking about shoes and the other thinking about shrimp, both of whom are happily oblivious to Sakaki's entire presence. End ID.]
thinking about scarecrow as a lecturer and borrowing traits from Psychology Lecturers I Have Known TM, I can imagine him playing audio before the lecture starts, only rather than music it's something like the screams of dying rabbits