#started gathering references

[quesadilla-day]

ding-a-ling-a-ling! worthless insect... (first insp / second insp)

[lyoneve]

May I offer you some fluffy Stede/Ed that I put off finishing for two years?

[deppartesuoh]

wanted to try my hand at redesigning the s1 gala dresses and i think they turned out okay!!

[czqy]

好哥哥，你什么时候回家呢？

link click season 2 broke me. li tianxi deserves all the happiness in the entire world.

(text + translations in alt text and below the cut)

Side 1

Panel 1: 好哥哥… (good older brother…)

Panel 2: 我终于回家了。 (I have finally returned home.)

Panel 3: 妈妈也在这里。我们每天都很开心。 (mum is also here. we are happy every day.)

Side 2

Panel 1: 好哥哥 (good older brother)

Panel 2: 你什么时候 (when are you)

Panel 3: 回家呢？ (coming home?)

[crunchyraccoon]

Luminous Revelry - Oreo

There she is!! I finally did a proper reference ♥ I would've loved to free-hand the entire font for her name but I'm not that skilled 💀 so I ended up scrolling through dozens of fonts and mashed together three of them. Definitely an improvement to her first reference picture I did haha

[r0semultiverse]

Happy 4/13, here's the Deltritan or Satyr Equivalent to Dragon Ball for their species and civilization.

[kaurwreck]

do you have a favorite literary ref in bsd or is that a cruel question to ask

This is so hard! I like lots and lots of them, for different reasons. If I had to choose only one, and if I were to be sincere, Gin might be my favorite literary reference. I really love how much her namesake short story reframes Akutagawa's character, especially when comparing his Beast iteration against the version of him in bsd's main timeline. O-Gin also just really neatly and cleanly encapsulates what I love about Akutagawa's Kirishitan mono, including his affection for the Holy Fool trope.

To be more silly, I really love when Atsushi tell Tanzō Tonan that he has to feed his chameleon to escape the conversation with Tonan upon realizing Tonan wasn't being forthright (just ahead of the Decay of Angels framing the Agency). There are two references here that I adore (1) the reference to Chamelon Diary, in which Nakajima Atsushi semi-autobiographically recounts receiving a chameleon from a student and also his epiphany on how to live absent objective existential meaning; and (2) the reference to Tonan-sensei, a short story by Nakajima Atsushi about his beloved uncle, whom I also adore.

Rather than attempt to write an essay on Tonan-sensei and his influence on Nakajima Atsushi, I'll simply include a roughly translated version of the short story's Wikipedia synopsis:

The story depicts the protagonist, who secretly harbors self-loathing resentment towards his uncle because he shares similar mental characteristics with himself, but through his interactions with his uncle as he faces death, he gradually sorts out his critical view of the coexistence of love and hate and comes to realize the deep love he has for his uncle that lies dormant within him.

I will also include below a snippet about Tonan (referred to also as "Tan") from Nakajima Atsushi: His Life and Work, a dissertation submitted to the University of Hawaii by Nobuko Miyama Ochner in May 1984 (the date is relevant, because Ochner-sensei was able to speak to some of Atsushi's then-living family and friends to piece together his biography):

[Nakajima Atsushi's grandfather's] second eldest son, Tan, was also a scholar of Chinese. A bright boy, he was able to read the Chinese classics at the age of six and compose poetry and prose in Chinese at thirteen, according to the Japanese system of reckoning age. He was a proud, uncompromising, and impatient man, who never married, and who seemed to be always pursuing the impossible. In a short piece entitled "Tonan Sensei" (Tonan was Tan's pen name), Atsushi describes his uncle as having the virgin's beautifully clear, pure eyes— "the eyes of a man who is always dreaming an impossible dream." Tan, who revered General Nogi Maresuke (1849-1912), was an "amalgam of fervent patriotism and the temperament of a traditional Confucian scholar." He was greatly concerned about the future of Japan and China, as well as of Asia in general, confronted with the onslaught of the Western colonial powers.

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In his articles he laments the ignorance of Chinese culture and tradition on the part of the Japanese diplomats in China, and criticizes their excessive reliance upon Western sources of news information. He felt that the peoples of Japan and China must unite in their efforts to repel the outsiders from East Asia; he went to China at least two times to try to enlist Chinese support for his vision. One of the prominent men he met was the scholar Lo Chen-yii (1866-1940), who later wrote an introduction to the posthumously published collection of Tan's poetry and prose, Tonan sonko. Atsushi is said to resemble this uncle most.

[crosaidi]

also: eheheheheh booty

[shadowinthetreesbutcooler]

I was gonna say something about trbbh being a bastard but people in sneegs chat seemed to be getting legitimately pissed over minecraft rp so i think he should get worse actually

[dafpork]

Is "You Ought to Be in Pictures" a short, a real-life occurrence, or some sort of inbetween in the AU?

it’s a short! I LOVE THAT YOU ASK THIS THOUGH because tbh i never even thought about it… it’s a short, but probably still has that specialness that it has for us considering they’re actually filming the interior of the studio that they do work at, filming all with people who actually work in the studio.. so that element is real, i’d say? it definitely comes off as a novelty because of this, but moreso due to it being one big game of insider baseball! EXCELLENT QUESTION

[yeehawgeek]

i am very slowly chipping away at my wip that’s supposed to be done…. very soon

[naomiknight-17]

Starting to feel a smidge better after waking up sick on Thursday

Managed to get a doodle done today and just put some chocolate chip walnut banana bread in the oven (with hubby Jon's help)

So that's something

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 5, day 2

Glorbs

They're supposed to animate but I don't feel like rendering it lol

[noonbeam-stims]

stimboard ask game: 6 or 7, you choose! :)

6. what's your favorite arcade game? [ask game by @squishsquishy]

typhoon !!!!!!! dont @ me that shit bangs. my favorite one is astro pinball 🔥🔥🔥🔥 anyway DO YOU KNOW THE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS THAT WENT INTO THIS. i literally spent like 2 or 3 days just on shortening the whole all-6-rides video to two per file so that i could put it into ezgif and then ANOTHER 3 or 4 days to actually make the gifs. and then all of today to find other gifs to fill it out. i literally did not have to make this a long stimboard and yet i did because what if i did though. good god. WE FUCKING DID IT. how many astro pinballs would this be worth? 5. id say 5.

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[deus-ex-mona]

rage is a ✨way of life✨

[sunfloralchaos]

I have *decided*