Random generator pokemon with Gen 2 colour palette.
Randomizer really favored gen 9 and no limbs.
How would the map of Japan with its prefectures look if you translated each kanji into English?
As you may already know, one of the things I fell in love with the Japanese language was kanji. When I studied the map of japan for the first time, I always wondered how would it look translated into English. You could guess some of them like Tokyo meaning “East Capital” or Hiroshima meaning “Wide Island”. But what about the other ones?
Well I finally made a map achieving that. My favorite one was “Love Princess”
God How? River
Toponyms are extra weird in Japanese. You have toponyms whose kanji spellings are the literal meaning of the name like "Hiroshima," but also:
>toponyms whose kanji spellings look like the literal meaning of the name but aren't like "Toyama," which probably originally meant "outer mountains" and only had its spelling standardized as "wealth mountains" during the warring states period because it wasn't elegant enough I guess. >toponyms whose kanji spellings are the literal meaning of the name but the words mean different things now like "Aomori," which Old Japanese speakers would probably not have understood as meaning the forest was the exact same color as the ocean or the sky. >toponyms whose kanji spellings are completely phonetic like "Nara," which probably meant "flatland." (this of course is how you get the God How River)
Anonymous asked:
I hate how much that Sayaka emo looks like me circa 2008 🤢 lmao
Haha. Hey, at least it's an ethos. In 2008, I had no sense of fashion good or bad.
working on a series of drawing all the puella magi as different genres of emo!
The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:
- the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
- That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
- oh, that hurt
- I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
- the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
- on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
- I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
- The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
- God.
- for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
- it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”
So the French are like that to each other, too
Anonymous asked:
I honestly don't know what the deal was, I just knew it was a shitshow that was fun to watch in a trainwreck sort of way. Egos and teenagers etc I guess. I totally forgot about Bleh though lol
Yeah, plenty of that to go around.
Anonymous asked:
Actually, squadron drama wasn't the best thing to come out of ACS. Signature drama was!
Oh god. Yeah, the signature folder was basically it's own thing, wasn't it? iirc the mods basically decided not to go there and let Bleh do whatever the fuck she wanted with the place. Apparently Zaku even knew her IRL. Frankly idgi, from the outside she was always being a jackass with a tacky sense of aesthetics to boot. But then, we are talking about basically a bunch of teenagers at that point.
idk anon, you probably know that history better than I do. What was the deal with sig drama? Most of it was happening during a time when I wasn't lurking ACS much and wasn't checking the sig threads even when I was.
when I got there their was some drama about signature size limits and how some squadrons got grandfathered in. I never knew Bleh well, I think she was from Florida or something. Zaku knew her better, I never made any effort. I’m curious what the story is.
lol yeah, the size thing I do remember. What was it, 450x150? I sized all mine within 350x125.
I refreshed myself when I got the anon and yeah, idk if Bleh's from Florida but that's where she was as of a few years ago. She's a used car salesman apparently.
Anonymous asked:
Actually, squadron drama wasn't the best thing to come out of ACS. Signature drama was!
Oh god. Yeah, the signature folder was basically it's own thing, wasn't it? iirc the mods basically decided not to go there and let Bleh do whatever the fuck she wanted with the place. Apparently Zaku even knew her IRL. Frankly idgi, from the outside she was always being a jackass with a tacky sense of aesthetics to boot. But then, we are talking about basically a bunch of teenagers at that point.
idk anon, you probably know that history better than I do. What was the deal with sig drama? Most of it was happening during a time when I wasn't lurking ACS much and wasn't checking the sig threads even when I was.
Anonymous asked:
REIMU BOING
It's a little known fact that in the first Touhou game, Reimu moved around by bouncing on top of the yin yang orb
