I finally finished my fursona ref after working on it for a year and a half. I already posted it over on Twitter, but I figure I should post it here too! I hope you like me as much as I like me! Art by me! Ref design by @switchbit !
The only "bara metric pressure" I'm interested in is a fat muscle bear lying directly on top of me am I right fellas
ADHD
2016
Zhou Wendou
regenderate
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doES ANYONE ELSE REALIZE THAT WE’RE LIKE, THE FIRST GENERATION ON TUMBLR
GIVE IT 10-15 YEARS AND WE’LL ALL BE GROWN UP AND AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF KIDS WILL BE ON HERE BLOGGING ABOUT COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOWS AND BANDS AND MOVIES AND BOOKS
THE ONLY THING THEY’LL STILL BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SAME AS WE WERE IS DOCTOR WHO
HOPEFULLY
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We’ll probably all be blogging about Sherlock season 4.
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maybe
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7/22/2013
*making out with you* *stops* i think someone just split the timelines
Saw a Reddit post asking for "wrong but useful" mathematical concepts and someone replied "proof by contradiction". Unbelievably based
serks with my beautiful wife the polyline tool
"Blue Milk And The Droids You're Looking For" is an original acrylic 10x20 painting of a bottle of Blue Milk from Star Wars, with Luke's speeder racing along, driven by C3PO under the twin sun's of Tatooine. It is available. Dm me for details and the link, or to start a commission!
me designing OCs: "okay this one's a monster because she was born that way and doesn't know any other way to be. and this one's a monster because of circumstances out of his control and a lack of skills with which to cope. and this one's a monster because of her blind dedication to an unjust cause. and this one's a monster because she was complacent to a loved one's suffering. and th
One of the most fun implications to come from the Book of the Dead is just how hard it is to create undead that are good aligned because of how, exactly, negative energy works once it’s been shaped into a pseudo-soul.
It IS entropy and decay, stagnation and emptiness, destruction and death. It exists to destroy, to the point that creatures that are powered by it HAVE to destroy, or they begin to fall apart like a living creature would if it were starved. The author of the BotD goes as far as to say even non-sapient undead possess this urge and express it in simple ways; skeletons forced to plow fields or construct buildings actually decay to uselessness significantly faster than ones who reap those same fields or demolish structures instead. Undead used as tools to create experience more ‘glitches’ or sudden bouts of hostility than ones used to destroy. Undead, even mindless undead guided by nothing but dim instinct, that do anything to increase the overall amount of entropy in the world, no matter how small, can remain intact and active decades past when they should have crumbled to dust.
How many undead beasts have you read about that possess some meaningless hunger or cruel hatred for the living? How many seem to exist solely to destroy and despoil? It’s because their very essence is sustained by it. Much like a creature of positive energy will become overtaken with despair and boredom if left without the ability to create something, creatures of negative energy feel the exact same despair and boredom if they cannot destroy. This doesn’t directly explain the lengthy torpor that undead can enter if left bereft of stimulation, but my preferred explanation is that the polar-opposites theme goes even further; that positive energy wants to change all the time do everything, but negative energy’s ultimate desire is to have nothing to do. If you locked a living creature in a featureless, pitch-black room, they would swiftly go insane from lack of stimulation, but an undead becomes peaceful as they bask in an environment where change and growth is no longer possible.
Because most forms of ‘life’ sustained by negative energy are undead that were once mortals, their new cravings are translated by their minds into sensations they can understand. Hatred, hunger, hostility; things that force destructive change and entropy. “You’re not you when you’re hungry” taken to unimaginably nightmarish levels because your hunger isn’t physical, it’s in your very essence. Imagine, if you will, waking up one day changed, and finding out that the only things that bring you any sense of joy, peace, or fulfillment involve causing death, destruction, and chaos! This is why Good-aligned undead are so damn hard to create; it’s hard to remain fully good when faced with the fact that making the world flourish and grow around you becomes gruelingly, frustratingly boring, or even painful to your new existence.
✨Taako, you know, from TV!✨
This is my, by now pretty old, Taako costume! I designed it back in 2018 and finished sewing and crafting it in early 2019. Wore this one so many times to cons and shoots and still love it so much. I have the making off of this costume still on my story highlights on my insta, it anyone fancies to know more. I remember building the whole design around the blue and brown shifting taffeta I found in a fabric store close to my old university. There's actually a corresponding Lup design I did for @erl.cos but we unfortunately couldn't shoot these two together since first illness and then the panini came in the way. The umbrastaff was inspires by this artwork by @electeocereal
Costume made, designed and worn by me
I have way more detail shots of this costume if there's interest I can add them later. Also little reminder that I studied costume design and worked in the field, so if people have questions about my design process or anything I'm happy to answer!
people tend to have really backwards ideas about how centralisation works. like, the whole 'cops can handle one ten-thousand person protest, but ten one-thousand person protests would sink them' is a massive argument *for* centralisation - it requires an incredible amount of organisation and coordination to carry out ten simultaneous, synchronised protests; whereas one big one kinda just happens on its own when people agglomerate to it without leadership. that's the trend, and it carries in general - secret insurgent cells of only a few people require absurdly more blind deference to authority than a regular army does, a hundred small workshops coordinating are more disenfranchising than a single factory, etc. the level of organisation needed to coordinate many small units is something that needs to be built up, and people seem to imagine that it's actually very simple, practically, to Just Decentralise It. it's not. both the bottom-up and top-down aspects of organisation are integral.
the reason protestors can be herded and controlled by police with absolute ease - 'kettling' being an omnipresent threat, while also being such an utterly simple tactic that sheepdogs can carry it out - is because the police are organised and the protestors are not. thousands upon thousands of people, all acting independently, all end up still subordinated to a dominating control, but one that is purely blind and reactive. when people startle and begin to stampede, there is about as much individual freedom for any of them to affect the group's path as for a conscripted soldier to question orders.
it's easy to suggest a dozen theoretical ways to get around this, but, fundamentally, it is absolutely impossible in practice to shape the way emergent authority will behave without already having direct authority. decentralisation is an *advanced* form of organisation, one that needs to be built to. it is impossible to skip directly to it. police and militaries are able to field a multitude of small, independently-reacting units only once they have built up such a strong level of communications, command, and control to support it. it is political infrastructure that must be *constructed*, not simply declared and willed into existence.
One of my favorite things about rotj Luke is how morbid he is. We don’t talk about it enough. He walks up to Jabba’s palace in Vader’s best cloak and not-so-subtly threatens Jabba with death, which Leia delivers. When Luke says goodbye to Leia, thinking that he’s leaving to die, he tells her she’s the only hope for the Alliance. To Palpatine, he says “You’re gravely mistaken,” and, “Soon I’ll be dead, and you with me.”
"Trust the Force as it trusts you to know when to strike."
Jedi Master Mace Windu and Padawan Depa Billaba 🤺