#your arm is really cool!

[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

[commander-gloryforge]

fellow guild wars 2 enjoyers that arent popular and part of the cool kids and have ocs that everyone knows/loves and create banger fanart and post really good fics and all that

fellow guild wars 2 enjoyers that are just kinda there and kinda average

lets band together. and maybe kiss.

#dios wisdom #i was uh thinking about how hard its been to make “meaningful” connections in fandoms lately #because the fandoms im in are very oc/creation heavy and its kind of like you have to perform a certain way #or make something valuable before really being able to properly find your place in the community #idk its a silly thought and ive been a bit mentally ill lately so thats that #but. if you are one of the besties that doesnt really belong to the cool kids tm #come into my arms. we will scream loudly.

[jellydragons]

gripping the bathroom sink and haggardly gazing into the mirror, only instead of my reflection there’s just a picture of docm77 that’s been poorly printed off and taped up

anyways trying to work out my design for him and having an utterly normal one about it

Close ups:

i am shaking this man like a ragdoll girl what do you LOOK likeeee

#my posts #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #docm77 #docm77 fanart #hermitblr #was doodling these while catching up on his s10 eps and just sitting there like ‘fluffy? sleek? Some Guy?’ #how is his skin so cool and so hard to design #tell me your secrets creeper man. what are you hiding #but yeah i think the fluffy one is my favourite but i really like how the arm turned out on the middle one #still trying to work out how i feel about hair being technically accurate to the skin #i am fully just gonna cherry pick design aspects i like until i’m satisfied lol #ok i keep falling asleep instead of clicking post so bye bye g’night

[mishapen-dear]

look at them having a completely normal non-manipulative friendship what good friends they all are. look at those happy smiles and ignore the red lines im sure the red has no symbolism at all hahaha

#mishapen draws #qsmp #jaiden fanart #took a few days to figure out exactly what i wanted to do with this and im really happy with where it turned out :] #i normally dont put so much effort into a piece but i wanted a cool new banner #my fave detail is absolutely the little bits of red though #if you look very closely there's a little bit of red in the cucus smiles and eyes #(and a little bit of red on the arm behind cucurucho's back- hiding evidence) #and the red that emphasizes jaiden's smile is extra bright red #enjoy the island etc etc #i dont normally use texture backgrounds or leaf brushes but i totally get why people do holy crap they're SICK #the perfect lil bit of background noise hehe #i had a lot of trouble with the colours until i put a greyscale filter on everything and realized that jaiden's values blended her into #the bg. it got a whole lot easier when i paused to figure out the values and then added the colour #overall i think im happiest with jaiden's face though she just. she looks so happy #but that fucking red..... #okay tag ramble over godspeed nerds remember that if your colours look fucked up you may just need to experiment with the values

[neproxrezi]

today's very bad idea has been trying to fit bespoke decals onto the flat bits of an AC! i'm saving drawing in them yet for when i'm satisfied with how many i've placed, but here's the progress

honestly the hardest part was picking out a mech made of flat parts i liked, i was really considering going full melander but the wrecker legs and verill head won me over when i started imagining putting stained glass on these (and using a heavier build for once that doesn't stagger)

#dibi #armored core #i'm thinking either stained glass or like a variety of landscape scenes #they have to invert to fit on both legs / arms (you have a hard limit of 20 unique images to place on your mech so i have to flip em) #so i can't put text in them #also while doing this i only just found out now #that you can set decals to only appear on the main or sub parts of your paint job #which i'm gonna have to experiment with some time #i forsee a really fucking cool gradient mech with that

[therealnotta]

ok i thought about it and actually, the wildest thing in the wizard of oz series (to me) was when the tin man, scarecrow, and A Random Child whose name I can't remember all went to find the tin man's ex. and they stop at tin man's buddy's house, to see if he knows where said ex is these days, and buddy isn't there, so they go inside to wait for him

and the house???? is full of severed body parts?????? just everywhere, they're in a barrel by the door, they're on the table, just chunks of clearly human flesh and a mess of limbs and whatnot, tin man thinks this is fine, scarecrow is really creeped out, scarecrow opens a cabinet and finds a severed human head

tin man runs on over and is like "what the f- oh that's me lol" and it's??? HIS old severed head??? so the scarecrow is just barely recovered from this, tin man is explaining the situation of how he became tin again, etc. etc.

and then the eyes open

and long story short the tin man's soul transferred to his new tin body, but it takes more than having your soul removed to kill you in oz... so his old body is still alive, but without its memories and completely confused and disoriented

the friend comes back and casually mentions how it took a bit for the transferring to finish, and after that the head just didn't remember anything. that means there was a bit there where this head DID have all of the tin man's memories still, and as far as he knew his friend had just left him without a body in a cabinet, unable to move, while the rest of his body just... walked off without him. literally horrific and the tin man is just like "haha! how quirky!" and honestly it's not the worst thing to have happened to him so i can't fault him for that but like. i'd be a little worried if one of my oldest friends told me that they'd totally leave me in a cabinet while my soul slowly left my body and wouldn't even feel bad.

#yeaaaah im gonna be honest #you really should've told your ex that you didn't die :/ #wizard of oz #tin man #tw dismemberment #it was so wild #the poor kid who DIDNT go on the original adventure #and DOESNT know that this is just how the tin man is?? wild #the friend was highkey so troubling #long story short not all of the body parts were from this tin man #someone else had become tin #and this friend had taken pieces from both of them and just. glued it together. literally used glue #and intended to use the resulting person as a servant #but the person had just kinda. left #i literally can't imagine #it's like being besties with mr. victor frankenstein #and then when you're a ghost you look and. hey. why're you sewing my old arm onto someone else's torso victor #victor i know i said id donate my body to science but this is weird now #VICTOR WHY IS MY OLD ARM ATTACHED TO A NEW PERSON AND DOING THINGS VICTOR #HEY VICTOR MY OLD ARM JUST KILLED SOMEONE. YOU MADE ME A MURDERER AFTER I DIED. REAL COOL VICTOR WHAT WAS THE PLAN HERE. #except in this case the resulting person #this isn't a joke #the resulting person went out. and married the tin man's ex #it was the wildest scene #him and the other guy who got turned into tin had #as it turned out #both been engaged to this girl #so they show up #and find out that she married both of their corpses basically #but the corpse was alive and just. pissed off all the time

[vynnyal]

Ever since I learned that you had to actually teach your kids how to do stuff, it's been so much fun having them around. It's very cute to watch them play with something they've never seen before, or only do something after they see me do it first. Idk how much is code and how much is coincidence, but they're undoubtedly better at living now. And their personalities are so unique!

#rain world #art #slugpups #I love my kids sm. I play survivor just to be with them #Love is stored in the slugcat bruh #I really want to know how slugpups work. I haven't seen a dissection of their code anywhere yet #So far all I can tell is that they must be roaming freely before they pick up on anything. It doesn't seem to work if they're on your back #Anyways I installed the colorful slugpups mod which is why the names are weird #Caramel was very pale and algae was more green #Now caramel looks like a banana lmao #Here's a fun thing that happened: while exploring subterranean (after quickly escaping outer expanse aka Worm Grass Hell) #Ironically subterranean is safer than what's supposed to be utopia... but I digress #I was exploring blindly for the first time in forever (usually I look at a map) and we found a stowaway #THOSE THINGS ARE SO COOL I was so excited to mess with it #Turns out theyre scarier than they look. And they look pretty scary #So here's the situation: I pissed it off using the body of a lizard #And it reacted and grabbed the lizard #And also me #And also algae #They have three arms and each arm grabs things independently by STABBING THEM djvdjshfkifj #Anyways algae somehow grabs a spear and frees himself #Caramel throws a rock and frees me #Lizard body... Not so lucky #Later on I stupidly got myself eaten by it #And when you die the slugpups mourn you by laying down as close to your body or point of death was #Which was. Under the stowaway #But get this. As algae is being taken away- keep in mind you're basically stabbed by these tentacles-- he somehow manages to nail the thing #And save caramel from being eaten too #Auuughghgh #I have more interesting stories that aren't contrived via my irresponsible curiosity but I've run out of tags. Till next time lol!

[chiquilines]

Horikoshi pick up the phone i just wanna talk peacefully about Momo's costume design

#sorry the og is just atrocious #she does not need that much skin #she cannot possibly need to produce that many large things simultaneously #just give her the back the arms and the thighs #most important bits #the stomach is practical so I'll allow it #but come one give her SOME protection #ive focused on the chest for obvious reasons #and the legs #cause fucking up your shins hurts a LOT #its personal #and the neck!!! #idk why i have some paranoia about neck injuries #i mean you can really fuck youreslf up #the cape btw is cause when she made it at USJ i thought cool thats useful #but its wasting so many resources every time to make it #so I just gave her one period #anyways thats that #im thinking of making this a series ive got uraraka and mina lined up #im probably gonna be fully off grid for a couple weeks thats why im posting so much btw lol #momo yaoyorozu #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #chiquilines draws

[eomerofrohan]

when I was 13 and I fell in love with Tolkien for the first time, people thought it was cute, but I could tell they also thought I was gonna grow out of it. "oh she's into Elves and stuff. that's adorable. well, she is young. eventually she'll have an adult job and responsibilities and she'll forget about the silly Elves"

jokes on them. I am 31 now and I have an ""adult job"" (whatever that means) and I daydream regularly about getting isekai'd into Middle Earth. and I have absolutely zero plans for "growing out of it."

#I have a tattoo in Elvish on my arm #and the people at my adult job think it's really cool #be weird. live your truth. #tolkien #my posts #my life

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Hey Wifi ! 🫧 anon here ! I hope you’re doing well.

I was wondering if you got my little brainrot about FL with a blind reader ? I sent it a few days ago, but I have a feeling this app doesn’t like me and sent it to oblivion, again, just like with the very first ask I sent, the one where I was rambling about Foul Legacy and the reader visiting Liyue at night and him making our worries go away with cuddles and chirps under the stars.

Anyway, love your little headcanons, especially the last one with puppet!reader. The idea of a very fragile, porcelain being being cared for and loved by a tough, armored yet oh so soft Abyss Creature is so endearing to me, this is just an open door to Fluffland and Wholesome City !

See you soon ! 🫧

hi hi my dear! not to worry, i got it safe and sound!! it's adorable and i love it and i'm thinking of the best way to respond to it, i promise <33

hehe thank you, i'm currently very attached to puppet reader so forgive me for rambling a bit here- you're a bit more fragile than the Raiden Shogun puppet and Scaramouche because your body was a prototype, so while they're more human-like, the texture of your skin really does resemble porcelain or delicate pottery, which makes Foul Legacy extremely protective of you. he always slows his walking pace so you can keep up without running, even carrying you when he wants to move faster, and when you're sleeping he's careful to curl himself around you, resting your head in the lilac fluff around his shoulders. he frets over the small, spiderweb cracks that appear on your body, only calmed by your pets and gentle reassurance

sometimes he worries that he isn't a good match for you, the sharp structure of his armor often brushing against your delicate skin, and yet while he worries about accidentally hurting you, you seemingly delight in gently tapping your fist against his shoulder, laughing at the echoing sound it makes. you don't fear injuries or pain, merely experiencing them with immense curiosity, the same way you see the rest of the world. so when Foul Legacy shies away from your touch, you embrace him with open arms, and eventually, he hugs you back with a soothing, rumbling purr of contentment

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #foul legacy #foul legacy childe #genshin tartagalia #genshin childe #genshin tartaglia #chit chat #🫧 anon #not to worry anon!! i got your lovely brainrot #i just take a bit to answer stuff since i want to give my best!! #puppet reader really has a 'ooo what's that!!' personality and i love it #i think thin cracks heal on their own but large cracks including entire pieces breaking off have to be repaired #probably with gold!! because it looks cool :> #also if your arm or something ever breaks off foul legacy PANICS #short scenario #puppet au #good evening :)

[bmpmp3]

thank god for indie devs making like tiny little maximum 10 megabyte freeware games on itchio keeping the art of filesize optimization alive. ASSET REUSE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#im watching a video about wario land music -> 'the bizarre music and sound design of wario land 4' by geno7 #good video so far! i like this guys stuff. he talked a bit about how they did some of the sound effects for warios voice #a very like. chopped and remixed sample style of doing his vocal lines. which is very cool 1) because it saves a bit of #precious space on that gba cartridge BUT ALSO 2) it just sounds cool and interesting stylistically #and man sometimes trying to keep a file size down really does give way for some really interesting stuff #on my own personal interests in games i ADORE rpg makers rtp and how people can find creative uses for it #i love that a bunch of games can draw from the same asset pool as one install on ur computer #no bloating your hardrive with a bunch of copies of the same assets - its just already here! #and from a developers perspective i love when they reuse old assets from other games in new weird ways #some small visual novel companies will reuse backgrounds and other assets #altho i dont mind a bit of bloat with VNs since a big draw can be the big pretty images and big pretty sounds #but its still cool when people find ways to get creative with space saving. and from a players perspective its also nice #space is cheap nowadays. but its not Free. we can swallow terabytes whole with micro sds and everything #but a lot of players dont get the chance or ability to upgrade their internal memory that often. so i think being considerate of filesize i #very important. and thats not even getting into the download bandwidth limits - a lot of people all across north america can only get like #internet from 1 provider and that 1 provider often likes to upcharge and limit shit because they can #we might live in a future where a lot of powerful technology exists. but access to that tech is another story #so remember the filesize. remember the filesize. #dies in your arms

[nazumichi]

when will I be appreciated as the strong one of my friend group and also just general vicinity… when when when

#raii talks a lot #a little ironic considering I can’t keep my arms suspended for even a few seconds without them aching but no #friend of mine tripped today and almost crashed into a wall and my arm shot out to bracket his chest without a second thought and instead o #“wow raii that was really cool your fast reflexes and strength was really sick just now epic bestie” i get “?? the wall would’ve caught me” #I did say the sentence “well you are very light and I am very strong” to defend myself and he laughed at me next time he’ll eat wall #who among ye would let me catch you from crashing into a wall in a show of epic cool friendship? 😔 speak up please sniff sniff

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Even 6 years after botw, and 3 months after totk's release, I have to admit: They're good games, though lacking in story, but they're honestly not good "Legend of Zelda games." Totk being less so than botw. It's not about the shrines, puzzles or temples, or lack of them; the games are just kinda missing that LoZ feeling. I think an anon had a good take: LoZ refers to Zelda's story from a historians perspective, but is actually the story of Link and his adventure for us players. Botw is missing that, and in totk that's completely gone, with everything focusing on Zelda.

Hey, thank you!

I think I try to stray away from what makes a good Zelda game (or a Zelda game altogether) because I think that there is nothing more Zelda-core than fighting about what makes the essence of Zelda, and everybody being convinced they're extremely right about it (not excluding myself AT ALL btw, it's just... for some reason it's impossible to talk about Zelda and what you care about in the series without taking it to weird absolutes and being semi-toxic about it, which ??? it's so strange that it's a nearly-universal thing, why is it such a thing) and it's ultimately very personal. Obviously they kind of lost me with TotK in terms of player values, but I completely relate to seeing this thing you love drifting away from you.

I think what I miss the most is the bittersweetness, this idea that for any act of bravery to become a legend, you have to part with something meaningful and let it rest behind. At the heart of every single one of your adventures, there is this sacrifice that you have to make: be it a relationship, a sense of innocence, a person, an entire world... I often hear that Zelda only cares for happy endings, and I don't think it's that true? Like of course things are good by the end, the baddie is dead or sealed away, you are triumphant, the world is no longer in disarray... But there's always a cost.

I think it's really the heart of why I failed to connect with TotK's themes at the end of the day, if I try to de-intellectualize and take it in a more emotional way (and then of course it resonates with all of the reasons why I'm bothered with depicting any kingdom as worth preserving as is, without questioning anything about it)

#asks #thoughts #totk #totk critical #tloz #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #thanks for the ask!! #yeah I can think of something we the player personally lose in any other game I've played #but totk it's... yeah... #I suppose the zonais count? #but even their civilization and monuments seem to be staying there when the game end? so it's not even a case of “the past fading away” #which would have been cool and also emotionally compelling #and thematically stronger #like “you have dealt with the past's weird hangups now go and make your own future” #but here it just... freezes everything in time #I suppose Rauru Sonia and Mineru count?? but like you have no relationship with them #it was zelda's loss not the player's #I guess you lose your arm?? but really you're just restoring what was before the game started #and it's portrayed as a good thing too not like parting with a strong newfound part of your identity you will learn to live without

[belligerentbagel]

more artfight ✨

Glitch (s.helly_art)

Ambrose Pierce Taylor (@caniicular)

Averie "Avi" Guerra (@artseuki)

Alexandria Rosenburg (spectralsoupz)

#artfight #draws #learns 'contrapposto' once and it lives inside her for the next two decades >:( #it is ALMOST FUNNY how three of these have the left arm lifted but. aaaahhhhgh. #(huffs @ self; it's okay because at least you're doing compositions with variety!) #(but you should ALSO cool down with some headshots & less intensive concepts because you've run into the 'personal arms race' of - #- continually trying to one-up the self-perceived arbitrary nonexistent sum of your previous pieces) (oops) #i also landed a new painting process during glitch (the redhead) with an overall effect & method that i REALLY liked #it almost feels like lightning in a bottle BUT the fact that i did it once means It Is Inside Me and i *can* do it again #hup hup hup #we'll see if i manage any more! six was my first goal; then eight (where i am); and now ten would be nice to aim for

[perkeleen-lavellan]

The Herald of Andraste became a recluse after the disbanding of the Inquisition. It was rumored he returned to his magical studies, now protected by the Amaranthine Wardens and funded by the Divine Victoria. Sometimes, if one was lucky, one might catch sight of the Herald in a certain Kirkwall restaurant, where he would always be accompanied by the one-eyed mercenary captain Iron Bull.

#your honor they're married #sacha of ostwick #iron bull #sachabull #iron bull x inquisitor #iron bull x male inquisitor #bullavellan #iron bull x lavellan #but not really sacha is a custom inquistor i just want the visibility :p #couldn't be assed to draw bull's tats sorry #dragon age inquisition #dai #dragon age #look at that cool prosthetic it's actually attached to his nerves #they had to remove the elbow joint because sacha got gangria the first time dagna attached the arm #jasko draws

[ezlo-x]

Was rewatching some aoc cutscenes cause this game is kinda a blur to me (which is funny cause this game the reason why my au exist) and I completely forgot how mean spirited the wrote Revali to be in this game. And Daruk MY GOD DARUK……

#i feel like the most consistent champion was maybe Urbosa?? but honestly she took more of a parental role w zelda which…..sure… #mipha- poor mipha she really fell hard on the girl likes boy but boy has no interest trope #tbf botw was already establishing that w her in her diary #like they just amplified their personalities to their wordt honestly #andDARUK MY GOD…OK..I get it…he became the comedic relief for this game BUT MAN #he can be the comedy relief without being dumb down jeez #also very cool to know they forgot that he is viewed as a leader to the other champions very cool im bitting your arm off wiitendo #txt #IM SORRY IM RAMBLING I JUST DONT REMEMBER IT BEING THAT BAD