#it was pretty fun though

[faunshark]

I had a dream that me and Finn Wolfhard became best friends like

?????

I haven't been interested in anything related to him since Stranger Things season four???? Why's he here???? In my dream we went to an aquarium and we were like wow fish!!! That's so cool!!! HELP????

#dreams #finn wolfhard #UHHH??? #LIKE WHERE DID THAT COME FROM #it was pretty fun though #he was nice

[trapperskeeper]

I'm a nerd, so let's talk about QB cadences.

Most know this, but the the QB's cadence is simply what the QB says to request the ball. Usually, it's a color and number repeated twice along with the phrase "set hut."

So for example, the most common QB cadence is probably "White 80, White 80, set hut."

But if you listen closely, most of the time the cadence doesn't really sound like that anymore lol. Whether for timing purposes or to simply expedite the process, along the way it's kind of gotten shortened. Nowadays the "hut" is pretty much gone from most cadences, and while you can usually hear the first "White 80" pretty clearly, the second one is usually squished together with the "set" in dramatic fashion making it "WhiteeightySet." Sometimes they don't even bother with the second "80" anymore and just simply say "White 80, White Set."

Of course, White 80 isn't the only QB cadence. You probably know that Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers use Green 18/19. Mahomes uses White 80 and Blue 80. Drew Brees used Blue 80 and Yellow 80. Josh Allen uses White 20 sometimes times. A lot of the time Matt Stafford just says Turbo set. Oddly enough, Jacoby Brissett inverts it and says "Set, White 80" sometimes.

Anyway, I bring it up because Tua changed his cadence this season, and that got me thinking about QB mentors and proteges and their QB cadence lineages.

Often times if a guy is drafted to an organization with an established system and they sit behind a veteran quarterback for awhile, they'll take on the QB cadence of the QB mentoring them.

An obvious example would be Aaron Rodgers who sat behind Brett Farve who used Blue 58, Green 18/19, and sometimes Green 80. Now Rodgers primary cadence is Green 19 and Blue 58.

Mahomes sat behind Alex Smith who used White 80 as his primary cadence, and now Mahomes uses that along with Blue 80.

Stuff like that.

Tua was mentored by Ryan Fitzpatrick, and for his first two years he used White 80 because that was what Fitzy used, so I was a bit shocked when I was listening closely for his cadence at the start of the season and discovered he'd switched to White 18 (Poor Fitz lol).

Now White 18 is a pretty interesting variation.

It's pretty new on the scene and seldom used in comparison to other more common cadences. As far as I can tell the only quarterbacks that use it are Tua Tagovailoa, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, and Jimmy Garoppolo.

So when I noticed Tua changed his cadence to this fairly obscure variation that he seemingly had no connection to, I wondered why.

And it turns out this really is just a giant QB cadence lineage!

As far as I can tell, it all started with Jimmy G being drafted to New England in 2014. Of course, he sat behind Tom Brady, and at the time, Tom Brady's primary cadence was White 80. But around 2015 he switched cadences to Green 18 (which Brady says he stole from Rodgers lol).

Jimmy was in New England from 2014-2017, so he would have been there while Brady was switching cadences and most likely used both cadences during that time.

Then Jimmy was traded to San Francisco to be Kyle Shanahan's QB in the Shanahan offense, and he bought his cadences with him.

The previous QB there was CJ Bethard, who also used White 80, so the precedent was there for Jimmy to just stick with the basic cadence instead of Green 18, but for whatever reason, instead of picking one or the other, I believe he combined the cadences, and thus White 18 was born!

QB cadence evolution in real time!

It makes sense because you're essentially combining the best attributes of two of the most classic and iconic cadences. 18 is snappier, less harsh on your voice, and has the advantage of being interchangeable with 19 when audibling in and out of plays while attempting to fool the defense. And White is just the most classic cadence color and easily recognizable to any player from any system.

So Jimmy created a new cadence, and when Trey Lance was drafted, Jimmy of course passed it onto him.

Okay that makes sense. Proteges usually inherit cadences from their mentors. So where do Wilson and Tua come in? Jimmy didn't have a hand in bringing them up...

Or did he?

And that's the interesting thing. Somehow Jimmy didn't just develop a new cadence, he embedded it into the modern Shanahan offense itself.

Because when the Jets hired Robert Saleh off of the 49ers staff, he bought Mike LaFleur with him to be his OC and the Shanahan offense came to New York. When they drafted Zach Wilson, Jimmy's cadence was passed to him though Mike LaFleur and the Shanahan offense.

And similarly, when Mike McDaniel came to Miami and bought the Shanahan offense with him, he passed Jimmy's cadence onto Tua.

A giant QB cadence family tree!

I'm sure Jimmy is a proud papa that his cadence lineage is so prolific and varied lol.

Not only did he invent a new cadence and get to to pass it onto his protege in Trey Lance, but his cadence is also being used to bring up quarterbacks he doesn't even have a direct hand in raising, and his cadence is now seemingly a fundamental part of one of the most prolific and storied offenses in the NFL in the Shanahan offense, which in and of itself is a descendant of the West Coast Offense.

Sure only four QBs use it right now, but the Shanahan Offense is becoming more and more popular nowadays, and for good reason. Who knows, maybe White 18 will supplant White 80 as the default QB cadence soon, and all because Jimmy didn't want to pick a cadence lol.

I'm quite sure I'm literally the only one that cares about QB cadences enough to make an ancestry chart about them, but the fact that you can trace Tua's cadence all the way back to Brett Farve is interesting as hell to me, and I thought it was cool, so...

Fins Up! 🐬

#this blog is just a trash dump for my manic football brain at this point #seriously why did I do this? #it was pretty fun though #miami dolphins #nfl #tua tagovailoa

[egophiliac]

another one that I'm not super happy with, but continuing to mess with it isn't going to help! so here he is! 🦇 there was a lot I was trying to get across in this one, so uhhhhh hopefully it reads.

we're almost out of unique magics now...just Ace (and maybe Grim?) left!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #unique magic posters #drawing lilia slightly more on-model than i usually do feels so wrong #i just want to draw the tallest spikes #lilia: (writing down his height) 5'6“...5'2” in a hat #(actually i'm pretty sure he would just write 'fun-size' but i digress) #anyway lilia. hey lilia. your magic is not cradle-specific so WHY is it called that #did it come in like 'so in like 500-ish years we're going to have a significant moment with a cradle. just trust me bro.' #'in the meantime enjoy having the weirdest magic name ever' #probably came in useful for raising kids though #don't put that in your mouth don't you know where it's BEEN #because i do #(long stare off into middle distance) i know where it's been

[dragondawdles]

did a piece in the LU server's gift exchange ! something of survival and reunions and smug little shadowguys

#LU5thGiftX #linked universe #lu #shadow lu #four lu #vio lu #green lu #wolfie lu #twilight lu #warriors lu #wild lu #legend lu #blue lu #red lu #wind lu #hyrule lu #sky lu #time lu #dragon doodles #I really hope my giftee ends up liking it! this was my first exchange and I was somewhat stressed but I'm pretty happy with the end result #ended up doing several art things I haven't done in ages AND tried several new art things. was a pretty good experience! :D #why did I decide to manually cel-shade those patterned blankets though. something's wrong with me LOL #next day bonus fun fact this was initially conceptualized as an animated short. this obviously didn't work out xD but the heart's there

[keferon]

Well...I have to say I know nothing about canon Combaticons and their gestalt, but I read The Combiner Quirks of the Combaticons by Gayrob0t today and this is so so good odktjfjfmfn I just had to draw at least one scene from it

#transformers #maccadam #Combaticons #Bruticus #First aid #tf first aid #LISTEN #this fic is f u n n y #I love those idiots even though I know nothing about them #First Aid having...a time.. #just imagine being a part of a gestalt #and then the whole other gestalt is getting a crush on you #what kind of rainbow mess is this #ahahahah #anyway #size difference is fun #the denial all Combaticons are boiling in is also fun #this fic is in progress #so it's not my usual 50-100k words hahah #it is pretty short and absolutely hilarious rigkjfkgm #fic fanart

[ricky-mortis]

Time Bastard trapped in Tinky’s blorbo box

#golly this was a lot to draw #seems like it came out pretty good though #I love this rat man #and the eldiritch god obsessed with him #favs #goats are hard to draw #and hands #and cubes #luckily I have the maze cube so I could take my own reference pictures #(btw I’m obsessed with this dumbass cube- I can now do the maze in 16 seconds) #(it’s so much fun tho) #doing the lighting for this one was a journey #hard but fun #anyways yeah have this #hatchetfield #team starkid #time bastard #nightmare time #ted spankoffski #Tinky #tnoy karaxis #joey richter #cw bright colors #cw horror #my art #:)

[mossy-paws]

they’ve been cooked…. (PHIGHTING!)

Yea Twitter really liked these ones lmao, anyways the first one was for a trend and the second one is just a silly follow up to it LMAO

#I actually had a lot of fun with these #I’m trying out a bit more of a “clean” style (specifically for chibis and such) and I honestly really really like it #It’s much easier to do stuff like gradients plus it’s pretty simple and nice! #I’m also working on a bunch of mermaid au chibis as well so those should be out soon! #I am kind of tied in with comms though so it may be a bit before I get to them #but hopefully they shouldn’t take too long :3! #Anyways enjoy the SFOTH eggrolls and icedagger soup #You can purchase them for 2944838482939 bux at catshots Café :3c #art #artists on tumblr #phighting fanart #phighting! #digital art #roblox phighting #phighting roblox #phighting #phighting art #roblox #PHIGHTING #phighting icedagger #icedagger #icedagger phighting #darkheart phighting #venomshank #illumina #phighting darkheart #illumina phighting #darkheart #ghostwalker phighting #ghostwalker

[teethkid67]

PAYDAY

aka a valentine for the lovely @itsnotmystic / @corvids-calling - fanart for stars fic of the same name, which you can read here !!! i really enjoyed this concept and wanted to do some art for it :3 hope you like it because i REALLY loved your work & i hope this shows that !!! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY !!!!

this is also a loose love-letter to the wonderful @arginnit 's crazy background-drawing-ability and style/skill at portraying environments . wadds your stuff is insane and i love it

happy @mcyt-valentines exchange !!!!

#mcyt-valentines #things i make #c!wilbur #wilbur soot #wilbur soot fanart #dsmp wilbur #blah blah blah WHO CARES. I LOVE YOUR WRITING #i read your little um um superhero slash las nevadas Theft fic as well it was so fun :3 #AND I okay maybe this is creepy idk i backscrolled ur blog to hell and back lmfao #UR PAINTING OF TECHNOS CABIN IS SO SWEET AND CALM AND PRETTY i was originally going to do something with ctechno but the art just wouldnt c #come to me #i did get one (1) ctechno design/doodle out of it though its my most recent post before this one in my things i make tag #idk i hope youre having a good day you seem super cool and. ya #AND TO WADDS. idk i love your art so much . i think about some of your pieces literally all the time #your um. backrooms drawing with tommy & charlie & ranboo i love the warped perspective i tried to reflect that in this #your painting style anddddd yeah. your composition your everything its so good #happy valentines dayyyy

[flickering-nightfall]

#in the game files the last image of hunter's ascension ending - the one with nsh - is named “embrace” #as a side note #i typically as i like to interpret slugcats as... #intelligent of course as they can draw and sign in downpour lore... #but in a different way from humans. in a different way from iterators. #that's just how i like to interpret them though - if you like to interpret slugcats in a more anthropomorphized/humanized fashion #i'm glad for you and i'm glad you're having fun too :) #anyways i wrote this comic the way i did because i felt like it was the best and most succinct way #to get the message i was trying to express across #so hunter's thoughts are pretty straightforwardly written despite the more complex concepts behind them #i mean they are also made and raised by an iterator so that could come into play #maybe i could have thought of a different way but eh i already drew the comic #rain world #rw hunter #no significant harassment #flickerdoodles #comic #long post #rw spoilers #art

[cosmichearter]

~Back on the Annabelle Grind!!~

[Image ID: The drawing depicts Annabelle Cane, a black woman and web avatar with short blonde hair. She's dress in an antique dress with lace over a purple button-up shirt. There is a stitch on her right temple. Behind her, there is a web and crudely cute paper eyes, all staring at her. There are also lyrics, saying "The devil made me do it... but I also kinda wanted to". There are crude paper sparkles around the lyrics.]

#tma #the magnus archives #annabelle cane #reqs still open but ill be rather slow with them #lyrics are from 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun goodbye) #heart shaped #oftheheart #so uh it's been a hot sec #I kinda lost interest in tma for a while but suddenly Annabelle cane struck again #i was pretty busy with artfight #I think my artstyle changed? maybe not though #anyways annabelle my beloved hearteyes

[littlenimart]

right side of my spread for @kazumajizine ! (see left side here)

y0-era real estate agent!Kiryu and 80's!Goromi at The Grand. it's no secret that I love Goromi, and the idea for the dual images came from me being assigned y0 and not being able to choose between drawing "regular" Majima and my favorite of his alter egos~

below is the back that I whipped up for the physical prints- the mods had the fun idea to print them playing card sized and 2-sided and I tried my best to model something like a Bicycle card deck.

i am by no means a graphic designer, but i had a lot of fun executing this concept and am still so happy with the way this turned out :^]

#yakuza #rgg #kazumaji #goromi #yakuza 0 #while i prefer the way the left turned out composition-wise i'm still pretty happy with this one! the grand color scheme was lots of fun :3 #the details were a bEAST though.. holy hell i had to sacrifice some but i think i got all the necessary rendering done

[ruporas]

special operatives (silly interaction beneath read more)

[ID: Digital Art in color of Trigun Maximum, characters included are Wolfwood, Elendira, and Legato in a casual meeting situation. The piece consists of orangey yellow lighting and purple shadows. Wolfwood sits on the left side, facing Elendira who’s on the right. He’s seated on a plain wooden chair with one knee up and he’s holding the strap to his Punisher in his left hand while his right sits against his thigh, He has an irritated expression as he speaks to Elendira. Elendira is sitting in a fancier seat, her right arm rests against Wolfwood’s propped up knee, her left hand holds her suitcase. She’s sitting cross legged with an amused expression. Legato can be seen in the back at the center of the image in his mobile body case, one of his eyes shown to be glaring at Wolfwood. End ID]

[ID: Sketch, uncolored comic. Elendira says to Wolfwood, “I’m not telling you to dedicate yourself to him, but just accept the situation at hand. We could get along better if we were on the same page.” Wolfwood responds, “Don’t peg me me for an optimist. I’m not dumb. But, I’m also not going to just live in resignation. Plus, I don’t have any interest in getting along with ya.” Elendira coos, “Aw, you sure? I have a wonderful shoulder to cry on when the weak people you’re trying to protect eventually dies in the coming months. Though, I guess it’s fine. Someone like you might just die before then anyway...” She snickers in her hand while Wolfwood is speechless and just glares. Legato is faintly drawn in the back, glaring at Wolfwood, muttering “worthless” repetitively. End ID]

#trigun #trigun maximum #nicholas d wolfwood #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #YES they were together in scene canonically for only 1 Measly chapter. Yes legato dipped like 2 seconds later but listen #trigun has such a fun cast and such a vague sense of time that i love to just throw in whatever Chances of the gung hos meeting outside of #canonic time... i mentioned before but i do think ww just runs into them on occasion from town to town #this illust would have to take place after the remembrance of july though ofc since that was when ww first saw elendira... which is still #the funniest ww ever bc he was so Shocked. LIKE AGHAST... BC IT WAS ELENDIRA THE CRIMSONAIL. he was starstruckk it was so cute #elendira of all people deserve that kind of reaction though im glad that they hyped it up with ww of all people. bc its like wow even ww is #kind of intimidated! even though he gained his grips like 5 seconds later to talk back to her. which is why i think theyd have a funny #dynamic. and legato is just there. he does not care about them but he also hates them and it's fun to think about how that'd extend to #wolfwood after knives specifically left the gung hos up to him and then explicitly didnt say shit after giving ww a special little mission #it also is just like. legato is pretty passive in trimax until someone is actively betraying knives or when its vash #and ww also does not give a shit about legato bc he also is like. vaguely aware he'd lose in a fight. so all i make them do is stare at each #other passive aggressively. TRISTAMP on the otherhand is ridiculously insane for making legato genuinely hold enough aggression towards ww #to literally activate his character arc in the season sgmkdsgm cannot wait for final phase where legato not only deeply detest vash but also #bears a similar aggression towards ww. actually im not sure whether i should be Excited for that or not but it would be an interesting #ruporas art

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

warlock wizard Wally scribbles... Thinkings! oh and a bonus bard-ish Barnabys in the corner for flavor

outfit ramblings:

first of all that is a Terrible rendition of what Home looks like in my head. i just needed to fill empty space </3

the staff was the toughest part honestly. bc it Had to be paintbrush-themed, but then halfway through scribbling i was like "oh shit. there are only so many ways to draw a paintbrush-wizard-staff and Weevmo already hit it out of the park." so if you're seeing similarities! you're right! i tried to make it as different as i could! there is Inspiration from their marvelous design, however accidental or subconscious! Apologies!

he gets a pointed hood instead of a hat because a) it looks great on him! and b) it has less of a chance of messing up his hair! also c) it helps muddle the difference between Wizard and Warlock. typically hoods have evil/duplicitous connotation - blur the lines! i want his long gloves and forearm wraps to have the same vibe. his neckerchief is a big help in hiding Home's seal!

his layered (loosely apple-themed) capelet (which the hood is attached to) has a nice high collar & hides the details of his loose shirt - eye embroidery! and some flowers on the shoulders but yk, mostly eyes. on one side of the shirt buttons has open eyes, the other side they're closed! there's also one big eye on his back!

his belt buckle is two halves of an apple! he wears tall thigh-high boots w/ low heels to feel Taller! he has a book-holster hooked to the back of his belt, which holds his grimoire! and he has a lil thigh-bag that has been magicked to be Bottomless and warps size! he can fit pretty much anything in there! canvases! paint! apples!

his half-skirt thing (idk what the word for it is!) is really plush, like a quilt - his capelet is the same fabric. soft, cozy. sometimes he'll use the skirt thing as a blanket in a pinch, or as a picnic placemat!

is his outfit a little Complicated? is it annoying to replicate? yes and yes. but im a maximalist at heart and Nothing But The Best for the blorbo <3 layers my beloved <3

#i know ive said it before but whenever i make an au its essentially an Exploration in a sense #and this fantasy au ~Bog Edition~ is basically me going #'so wally and his house huh. whats up with that' #and maybe im taking it a bit to the extremes #since home is pretty much warlock wally's god??? sorta? loosely?? #well it literally gave wally life and a body. so. #and it also literally took the place of his heart - wally Cannot live without home #they have a fun 'we cant exist without each other now' codependent very devoted kinda unhealthy relationship #wally sometimes has to do terrible things for home #and home will do terrible things in return for wally. even when wally doesnt want them to #and they both love each other very much <3 what kind of love is it <3 fuck if i know! theyre Weird About It though #its the only dynamic an ancient lovecraftian horror & the puppet they gave life & tethered itself to can have!!! #wally wisely keeps home & his 'warlock' status a secret from his friends for as long as he can #they just dont understand his & home's bond smh #scribble salad #welcome home #wh fantasy au #gonna have to workshop barns.... #i need to balance the fantasy + hes a distinguished fella + bard #hence the hat. the hat stays. #gotta find the right vest... #and then everyone else if i feel like it.... #outfit design is so Grueling but i refuse to keep it simple #there have to be LAYERS it has to be IN CHARACTER i have to put ALL THE EFFORT INTO IT

[shimmershy]

Chara Week Day 5: Ghost

Every time I see that machine in the True Lab, I wonder if it could possibly be Chara's soul in there? Probably unlikely, but not impossible... It's interesting to think about what the implications of that would be.

A version with no text and then a version with just the machine, because I think it looks pretty cool and ominous alone as well.....

#chara week #chara week 2023 #undertale #safeutdr #chara dreemurr #my art #chara #undertale chara #chara undertale #true lab #I'm just thinking that. while it's possible that their soul shattered when they and Asriel died. we don't actually KNOW what happened #and human souls persist for a little while after death..... idk I'm bad at coming up with theories but I'm Thinking about it #and I will continue thinking about it even though it's probably not significant at all #ANYWAY it gave me a cool art idea so here you go. and hrm. yes technically I got that line from the Stay Calm fnaf fansong. specifically. #i don't like fnaf but the song is cool........... I'm pretty sure it gave me the idea for this drawing when i sketched it last may #btw yeah that's why i did this drawing specifically for this prompt. i had the sketch lying around and thought it would be fun to finish #ALSO I'm realizing that the dark ominous backgrounds of the True Lab are soooo fun to draw. especially with red glowy effects #AUGH oh no....... my habit of rambling excessively in the tags is returning........ I'll stop now lol

[aeymii]

Sometimes, you just gotta sit back and draw this a-hole✨

#oh no I GAVE HIM SIX FINGERS?!?! #AUGHHHH PLEASE IGNORE THAT :')) #I both hate him but absolutely love him at the same time lol #Like no #YOU DON'T JUST TRICK GONTA AND GET AWAY WITH IT #I MEAN GONTA!! BEST BOI LIL CINNAMON ROLL #WHO DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG WHATSOEVER #but like hes still funny and antagonistic so I guess he's my favourite hehe #currently finished chapter 5 by da way #AGHHH I LOVE THIS SERIES SO FRICKING MUCH- #kokichi ouma #drv3 kokichi #danganronpa killing harmony #ndrv3 #killing harmony #danganronpa #art #rendering is actually pretty fun though #i don't know what possessed me to make this #also I SPENT AN EMBARRASSINGLY LONG TIME ON HIS HAIR AGHH #But I somehow managed to figure it out yass

[calista-222]

I love Splatoon 3 but Splatoon 3 doesn't love me...

#my art #splatoon #splatoon 3 #like is it me or is it getting worse lately? #Between that and players who just don't want to play the game at all and are just goofing off in a corner of the map‚ #It's getting pretty hard to have fun playing Turf War... #I still love this game though #pretty excited for the new season and the wave 2 of the dlc!!