MERMAIDEN AWAKENING
by Iren Horrors
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (1987) Dir. By Shinji Aramaki Animated By: Hideaki Anno & Kōji Akimoto
Legendary Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno was only in his mid to late 20s and Kōji Akimoto being only 14 when he helped designed and animated Metal Skin Panic a mecha cyberpunk anime film.
Anno was known in the industry for his mechanical and effects animation before he went into direction. something dramatised in this one clip from Blue Blazes...
Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)
achlles
Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca
John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)
astrailhads
“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong
letters from Medea, salma deera
The scarlet bloom flowers once more (2 pics are slightly diffierent with colors)
8 of Swords - Minor Arcana
Eight of Swords; self-imposed restriction, negative thoughts, inner critic
A long flowing cloth emerges from their headpiece; it constricts their arms behind their back and wraps around their body before the excess pools at their feet, symbolizing that constraint comes from their own head. Their headpiece covers their real eyes but many are carved upon the metal; they are attentive to all the wrong things and blind to reality. Sharp teeth emerge from their lower helmet but their edge is pointed inward, for they are their worst critic towards themselves. Any of their swords could cut them free but they too are wrapped in the visual representation of overthinking. Even the swords themselves seem to cage them in. The cloth around their arms is loose, however, signifying they can still move.
This is attention to details man
Ganon holds a bow straight while Link holds it at an angle.
Ganon also draws the bow like a samurai, (since this Ganon is more samurai like) he positions/aim the bow then draws.
(Not shown here) Even if Link uses a long bow like Ganon he will still aim at an angle since he is a soldier. He positions/aim the bow and draws at the same time.
The bow Ganon uses will recoil meaning this is a heavy bow. (They didnt need to add that detail in, but they did man)
Ooh, I’m about to be very normal about this. Okay so one of the first things I noticed with BotW is that Link uses a reverse-Mediterranean draw. It’s your basic 3-finger grip on the string except with the palm facing outward. I mostly see this style used in pop culture when you want to seem exotic (the Na’vi from Avatar draw this way). As far as this grip’s use in history I remember seeing some pottery art of a Scythian warrior drawing palm-out, but can’t confirm if that’s accurate or typical for them. The advantage of this draw is that you can go from loading an arrow to drawing the bow in one fluid motion. That makes for quick and snappy gameplay. Perhaps all Hyrule soldiers are taught to shoot this way, but to me it seems so unusual I always read it as Link being self-taught. Ganon absolutely shoots like he’s doing Kyudo. Kyudo focuses on form and ritual, where nocking and drawing are just as important and deliberate actions as shooting. It’s more of a meditative exercise. I don’t think the little flourish at the end is so much recoil as it is part of that proper form. Kyudo has a thing called Yugaeri where you turn your wrist outward at the end of your shot, causing the bow to turn in your hand. I’m not as familiar with Japanese archery, but Persian archery has a similar motion called Khatra, and it helps reduce the effects of the archer’s paradox, where the energy is sending the arrow directly into the bow, forcing the arrow to curve around it and redirecting its path at an angle. When you turn the bow as you shoot, the arrow is sent past the riser instead of directly into it, allowing for a straighter shot. These choices are absolutely dripping with characterization. Link’s style is focused on results; throw enough pointy sticks downrange until the enemy stops moving, whereas Ganon clearly has training and shoots like it’s a ceremony. When I looked up Kyudo to write this, the article suggested that the bow turn at the end is mainly used for ceremony or competition shooting, and battlefield archers would hold the bow more securely to follow up with subsequent shots easier. What does this say about Ganon? Maybe he remains relaxed in a fight because he doesn’t perceive Link as a threat, and would rather focus on his perfect form. Maybe Nintendo wanted his motions to be slow and clear so the player knows when to raise their shield. Maybe the animator just happened to be familiar with Japanese archery and didn’t care to match it with Link’s animation that was imported from the previous game.
the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube
That photo makes Felicia’s work seem much more recent than it is. Here’s a picture of the world’s smallest particle physicist herself.
They didn’t stop because she shit in the tube - she had a diaper on because they knew poop would obstruct the particles as well. She eventually stopped running through the tubes because they became too long for her. At that point she was retired and became a pet!
I love her
working weasel
hey guys unpopular opinion but you’re not a bad person if you don’t care about every bad thing happening in the world all the time, or if you do care but you’re not constantly reblogging posts spreading awareness and information
it’s okay if you’re just on tumblr to have fun and reblog things you like or that make you happy.
humans aren’t made to process trauma and suffering on a worldwide scale without any breaks whatsoever & the internet has created an unprecedented access to bad news so please never feel guilty for scrolling past it because you can’t process it! and you’re not doing anything wrong & there’s no need to feel guilty
“It’s okay if you thought you were over it but it hits you all over again.
It’s okay to fall apart even after you had it under control.
You are not weak. Healing is messy. And there is no timeline for healing.”
low self esteem can set your entire life back. it’ll cause you to miss opportunities. avoid taking risks. stay in situations longer than you should. seek validation instead of trusting your instincts. etc. you shouldn’t underestimate the power of having confidence or high self esteem with one’s self.
This is random but I absolutely hate how people assume that having something as a special interest (or hyperfixation) means that you have extensive in-depth knowledge about it. Especially since it’s mostly neurotypical people guilty of this (though I’ve seen plenty of nd do it as well.) We’ve been told an annoying amount of times that “you don’t actually have a special interest in x, you hardly know anything about it” by people who have a lot of background in the subject. Like no where in any description of a special interest does it say it makes you an expert in the subject. Some people only fixate on the idea or aesthetic of their special interest. Some only on a surface level knowledge of it. Some people just simply aren’t compelled to dig deeper. I’ve never had the urge to look much into learning more about most of my spins, and when I’ve forced myself to I end up bored and don’t pay attention to whatever I’m researching.
I just need people to understand that having a spin doesn’t require substantial knowledge in the area to be valid. We just want to casually talk about what we already know and maybe learn little tidbits from others without being told “educate yourself” or that we’re invalid.
"After they found each other, they never spent another second apart"
Zelink hug doodles from my AU where Zelda turns back from her dragon form cause I just need them to be happy :')
Drawing ferrets without a reference, purely from what I remember/from vibes alone
boys with glasses and fluffy hair >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
i feel like all my issues would be solved if i had a spiderman suit. and a boyfriend.
