#sootball

[snewdraws]

shes just a little guy

#sootball #tabaxi #dungeons & dragons #snewdraws

[maevesweirdart]

hmmm…

i think I’ll start posting art more frequently on this blog

here is a picture of a little dude

look at him

he’s just a lil guy

(can’t remember if i posted this painting already but oh well… if i did, here it is again lol)

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[thenotsoamazinggrace]

Throwback to when I made these Spirited Away Magnets!! They’re so cute! #Etsy #EtsyShop #CabunocCreations #handmade #woodenmagnets #Anime #SpiritedAway #NoFace #Sootball #NoFaceMagnets #SootballMagnets #NoFacePins #SootballPins #NoFaceEarrings #SootballEarrings #SpiritedAwayMagnets #SpiritedAwayPins #SpiritedAwayEarrings #art #arches #monochrome #rainbow #explorepage #shopsmall #smallbusiness #supportsmallbusinesses Check out my shop!! ETSY:: www.etsy.com/shop/CabunocCreations FACEBOOK:: www.facebook.com/CabunocCreations TWITTER:: cabunoccreation (at Caldwell, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoBoMYdLbJM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[microplasticpear]

happy easter !!!

#sootballs #studio ghibli #spirited away #howls moving castle #easter #pastel #cottagecore #soft aesthetic #early 2000s

[a-casual-egg]

Hi! For the character bingo: Silas Flint and Edie Valentine, please ^_^

Hiii Sootball!

Silas Flint

Edie Valentine

I love these two sm

#asks #ask games #curious-sootball #thx for the ask!

[amaurotine]

rewatching spirited away and looking at the lil sootballs... what if hyth's spider familiars ate little aetheric sprinkles...

#🧋 — spillin' on ur dash. #yeah his familiars r more inspired by tsuchigomo (spider yokai) but. #and YES ik arcane creations Don't Eat in the lore but the caveat is that it isn't like real sugar sprinkles... #just raw aether in the shape of sprinkles which he uses when the spiders' aether needs to be replenished or smth #and yeah i think what the sootballs eat is actually konpeito but.

[curious-sootball]

Just made some banging homemade noodle soup. A bit too salty and spicy, but by gods it was good. May or may not be back in a few hours because I just polished off my portion and i'm going right into food coma

#sootball rambles #that was some really good soup

[hausofsaturn]

Spirited Away [2001]

#spirited away #haku spirited away #zeniba #yubaba #sootballs #haku dragon

[thegreatcrowdragon]

Said I'd write something for The Arachnid and then just fucking. Didn't. So here’s some stuff since I'm thinking of her again 

-Got chased out of shaded by scavs, so naturally she dislikes them (not on Arti’s level though)

-Can spit venom, originally I was going to give her noticeable cheek glands but decided it looked too Pikachu-esqe 

-Very agile, can scale walls when needed (she's a spider, duh) 

-Purposed organism, though what for exactly is unknown. Presumably to manufacture high quality silk.

-Adopts a slugpup at the end of her campaign (if you don't go for void)

-Very puffy, looks like a ball of soot 

-Extra pair of arms and eyes, has more but they’re hidden (translation: Don’t want to draw them)

-Weird hivemind thing with the other spiders, she can give them orders and they’ll listen (Coalascipide stuff) 

-Very sensitive to light, it takes her longer to adjust to bright lights than other slugcats (Pebbles thought she was dead or something because she just laid there blinking for so long)

-Sometimes makes small harmonious vocalizations, aka “singing” but rarely and only to things she considers pups/when trying to soothe something (namely Moon when she accidentally ate one of her neurons), this is NOT the same as purring (which she can still do) 

Extra addition: I kinda ship her with Survivor now! Bit hypocritical of me considering how I say how much I dislike oc x canon but eh-

#rainworld #rainworld downpour #slugcat #should I start tagging these with their names #I call her Arachna sometimes but most of the time she is sootball

[snewdraws]

yearning for her mother’s embrace

#snewdraws #sootball

[mothxart]

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY ON TUMBLR

It’s been 1 year now, and boy that was a rough start, ik I said I wouldn’t post but heh it gives me a little time :]

#1 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #mothxart #meih mothxart #meih’s art #ghibli sootballs #sootballs #ghibli fanart #meih mothxart talks

[dimorphodon-x]

Happy birthday :D

Thanks!

#curious sootball

[sanctus-ingenium]

i answer your asks vol... 6?

This one made me actually consider how they balance the humours beyond just a simply "they scour it out". Because sometimes a holy beast gets 'sick' and it's not necessarily related to any sort of tissue growth, it's more often a mechanical fault and because the beast is considered to be alive, he is then therefore 'sick'. So how do we deal with this? An enginesmith will make the necessary repairs, but sometimes the sickness is related to environmental conditions. The four humours are arranged on a scale like this:

A mechanical fault associated with being too hot and dry could be something like a lack of lubrication on moving machine parts. So this would be considered the reason for a production of yellow bile (excess of yellow bile, btw, was what Pantera was diagnosed with on his last outing). Whether or not the bile is literal or more symbolic depends on the case. Anyway this was the reason Pantera is associated with fire (originally, when I was designing them all) and Leun, diametrically opposite, is associated with phlegm, water, acid, etc.

But anyway, the way to fix these imbalances in hot/cold/wet/dry is to simply reduce whichever one is excessive. In practice, keeping holy beasts maintained even when they're not out on a crusade is a full time job for an army of workers, where the atmospheric conditions need to be as neutral as possible. Too wet and you've got rust, too dry and the metal fatigues, to hot and it might warp and break, too cold and the joints won't fit properly, etc etc. Although the enginesmiths view this through a lens of The Four Humours, it's also just good practice to try to keep things balanced.

Btw while they do cure an excess of blood by bleeding the holy beast, they don't make leeches big enough :'(

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There are illustrated representations of dragons that are pretty traditionally dragony (typically a winged serpent with many tails representing the stinging tendrils). These are added to drawings and art as a catch-all symbol for a conscious and targeted Evil. The laity, which is very devout, is unlikely to associate dragons with resistance - dragons cause a lot of damage too, and those stinging barbs will kill you just from the trauma of the impalement before the venom even has a chance to (unless you just get grazed, in which case.. the venom will paralyse you. then kill you)

So active rebellions/civil wars/wars of succession have occurred many times. The subjugated Midaean nation/territory (depending on who you ask) rallies around their beloved Saint Lycaon, a wolf. Flags and signs depicting a wolf devouring a crocodile/a lion/whatever holy beast currently tops the hierarchy of the church would be more likely. Rebellion itself is rarely black and white and as neat as picking a symbol the church hates. It is more likely people would pick a symbol that they love. Outside of Midea, the Mezian empire might not be at its peak but it also has not given its own citizens and laity a reason to take up arms against it.

at the start of the story, at least

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awesome questions thank you @curious-sootball !

So the nerve cords inside the vertebrae are artificial, but they still perform the same physiological function as a real spinal column. They interface with a knight's dialogue. This produces an incredible amount of heat - this is why the spines are often exposed, even though that might be a point of vulnerability. The spinous processes in particular are very effective heat sinks.

But the tail? In most cases we don't need the tail, really. The spinal column ends at the base of the pelvis. The tail is cropped for most beasts on purpose - we don't need this thing dangling around and becoming entangled, and it has no machinery around it to act as replacement muscles so it couldn't move even if they wanted it to. Krokodilos's tail is the exception and it's just extremely heavy for not much pay off. That's a lot of additional engines we gotta maintain.

So the tail tends to be abandoned. The bones are kept of course but not mounted on the chassis where they're not needed. With no nerve cord running through them they don't run hot either so they won't disperse heat all that well.

Now for replacing bones... they don't. The bones that exist in the chassis are the bare minimum needed to perform the required functions - basic movement. They don't have ribs, they often don't have phalanges. A skull is there to complete the nerve cord - but all you need of that skull is the occipital bone. Nothing more.

If they break a leg, it might be repaired using screw and plate fixation. The bone may deign to knit together (enginesmiths swear that they don't allow tissue growth ever.. but sometimes you need some periosteum. Don't tell the bishops). But if it gets crushed? That's the holy beast done, scrap heap time. The majority of all holy beasts that have ever existed have already broken down and been decommissioned at the start of this story - we only have seven left (eight if you count krokodilos). Krokodilos is an unusual case because he is not dead, so they can't just hold a state funeral and add his heart engine block to the big hall of old hearts in the cathedral. He's sleeping.

But he's the exception. Take Saint Guinefort - dead as a doornail. He had a full funeral, his heart was put in the hall and his body was [redacted] like they do with all dead holy beasts. And then he was [redacted] and now our pal "Sir Victory" with the metal arm uses him as Nosewyse. Circle of life.

I think sidecar motorcycle is a pretty apt way of looking at him lmao. You don't wanna know how many people he's cooked.

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Hey there! So I know I've mentioned they are similar to pterosaurs but they are not related to them at all. In fact they are cetaceans :) Later art I did of them plays up the mammal traits a bit more. Check out these nipples

However it is a fact that they are not closely related to modern cetaceans - as in, they did not evolve from modern whales and dolphins, but belong to a side branch that diverged relatively early, around the same time dragons were leaving the water for the skies. That art is quite old too, from before I kind of nailed it all down, so if I drew them now I would remove the more derived traits (i.e the single blowhole, the tail flukes, etc) and tidy it up a little. They diverged from the lineage that would become modern whales before the pelvic limbs were lost. I originally depict them having the crowbar-like claws on their feet to lever skin parasites off the dragon, but i think they are more likely to not use their feet much at all, and are more likely to use their single huge beak-like tooth to do the job instead. They cannot walk on flat surfaces.

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Only insects and, specifically, winged insects :) I know it would be really cool to have various other giant arthropods but milennia ago, when they crossed into Thera for the first time, insects were the only fliers. And there is no other way to get over the mountain range quickly enough for it not to kill you. The mountain range in which the endless city sits is completely and 100% devoid of life. A journey on foot for a tiny bug would be next to impossible - they are more likely to starve or simply turn around and go back to where the food is.

The winged insects, otoh, can cross the range in a day or less, if the breeze is flowing right. And they would find plants already there in Thera - also solely wind-dispersed species from the previous time the mountains arrived and linked the world with Earth. The insects didn't really come by choice, sometimes the wind just blows the wrong way, but they definitely got lucky.

There are wingless insects in Thera today but only because they lost that trait over time (like ants or larviform female beetles). They have managed to colonise every reasonable habitat, including the sea (though the sea is not very salty) and have developed into a lot of very strange forms which might be unrecognisable to us. But a lot of them just got bigger and smarter.

This time round, in the period of time the story is set (early 1900s on earth), the mountains appeared and new animals crossed over who were not insects. Birds have become invasive in Thera, happily taking advantage of the smaller insect species who are completely unprepared for this new threat. There are also some wind-dispersed spiders hanging out now.

EDIT: oh i forgor the parasites on the flying insects that first colonised thera... yes they would have mites and horsehair worms and things of that nature

#setting: mez #setting: thera #i wrote so much <3 read it

[a-casual-egg]

Hi! For the ask game, I , please ^_^

Hi!

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

That's hard, I don't know if there's any really like guilty ones. I wouldn't know what would constitute a guilty pleasure in what I write and read due to the fact that a lot of the stuff I read and write is just silly fluff. Does Iris count? Like original characters in fanfics. I enjoyed writing Iris in Silas and the Sheriff. I know some people don't like original characters in fanfics, but I think it's an interesting peak into how the characters would interact with people who aren't the people they've interacted with in canon. I haven't seen it often with fanfics I've read, but it's also nice to see how a writer of fanfiction would write an original character.

#asks #ask games #curious-sootball

[hedgehog-moss]

Someone told me to delete these pictures of Pandolf as he is underexposed and looks like a Spirited Away sootball but I treasure them for the same reason.

#crawling along

[curious-sootball]

A Thing i just thought about:

How durable is an acrylic art?

As in "art made with acrylic paint on a store-bought gesso canvas"?

I have plenty of gesso canvases and acrylic paints on my hands. I could paint a portrait of my grandma or one of my friends or family aquiantances, and assuming it doesn't get purposefully destroyed or fatally neglected, how long will it last?

Will an art historian 200 years into the future pick it up and look at it the same way I looked at the exhibition of The Itinerants pieces when i was 17? The one after them, let's say 270 years. What would they think about modern schools of art based on art that survived that long? From what I've heard, even mid-tier modern acrylics are pretty durable, so, whatever gets commited to acrylic and good canvas gets to survive a decently long time(assuming humanity won't tear itself apart too soon).

Conclusion: I probably need to commit to more of my ideas. I don't want my silksong companion art to get separated for god knows how long before being discovered as a companion pieces. Too bad I don't have enough tiny canvaces for that.

#sootball rambles