#The things I do for character design...

[r0bita]

One interesting thing I've pretty much learned to expect while looking for references for my Tezuka fan art AU is that a lot of websites about the stars and constellations will have incorrect information about something specific because they all got their sources from the same mistake.

The most frequent problem I came across, for example, is when you look up the star "Al Tarf", from the crab constellation, Cancer. You'll probably notice that some information calls it the eye of Leo instead of the edge/end or leg of the Crab. Even more confusingly, they will put both the correct and incorrect information on the same paragraph with a visual example that clearly shows which constellation and location the star is actually located. This problem is because somebody (don't know who or which source...) accidentally used word for word information about the star "Al Terf", the star that represents the "eye" of the constellation Leo.

What's funny is that it's very clear why this mistake was made. "AlTarf" and "AlTerf" are both from Old/Ancient Arabic and do sound and spell similar in modern English and Cancer and Leo are both next to each other. But with the amount of visual guides and information on both stars and both constellations being VERY different, not to mention the study of the heavens being centuries old, you would think misinformation like this would be hard to come by or at least easily pointed out by someone else and quickly corrected. And probably a good motivator for a lot of people with some interest in astronomy to learn ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, etc.

Thankfully, I checked A LOT of sources - multiple times, before coming to a pretty quick conclusion that this is just a big hiccup, but it's really concerning that those mistakes are STILL THERE on a lot of free source constellation/astronomy websites that probably haven't been updated in YEARS.

For another example, you could probably take a peek into to OSP Red's minor rant about when she was researching Capricorn's mythological origins in OSP's video about the Zodiac Constellations because huh?????

[wheatormeat]

I started this around September 2023 anticipating to finish it for dunmeshi's finale! But things got hectic! Here is the finished product to celebrate anime airing day; 2024 is truly the year of dunmeshi!

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[tubbytarchia]

got an urge to design ponies oops

[electrozeistyking]

"She's Gone"

This bad boy was started on the third of November, and finished on the seventh. In total, there are thirty panels (all of which were drawn separately).

A good chunk of N's dialogue near the end came to me after I did some improv to figure out what he should say. I have since dubbed it "N's Failure Monologue."

[egophiliac]

oh, uh, this...this isn't Silver's backstory after all.

[heybiji]

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

[sw4nfire]

so I made the mistake of listening to the character songs sung by the voice actors and it sparked a buggy centric mad max style musician/music au and I cant get it out of my head here is a google doc with all the details and my reasonings

I tried not to change much about one piece's wacky world since I love it so much

[simcardiac-arrested]

day 30 - videogame (undertale, fnaf, etc)

somebody get this man some chapstick

[turtleblogatlast]

I love Raph and haven’t said that enough so to be more specific I love that Raph is a soft boy who loves bear plushies, a gross boy who eats an assortment of things that are definitely better left alone, a smart boy who is more than capable of taking down villains through planning and fortitude alike, a strong boy who is dedicated to training his muscles and fighting prowess, a teenage boy who loves his brothers but is more than happy to tease and roughhouse with them, an angry boy who sometimes lets his anger take a hold of him to cover the fear, a gentle boy who is generous with hugs and affirmations to those he loves, a capable boy who takes on more than should ever be expected of a teenager, a good boy who just wants to be a hero and slowly comes to realize the cost of that duty, a good boy who has no reservations about putting himself in the way of harm coming to his family, a good boy who’s a great brother and son and person and deserves only the best the world has to offer.

[eyes-of-nine]

early hualian dynamic my beloved(there's so much wrong with both of them but it's too early to get into it)

[mumblesplash]

he's not even that light impulse is just really strong

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable tabletop RPG premise #137: Fantasy setting where wizard towers have approximately the same role and cultural significance as Cold War nuclear missile silos. It’s impossible to really hide the fact that you’re casting a high-level spell, and extremely difficult to defend against one, so all of the world’s greatest wizards are locked in a mutually assured destruction scenario; the moment any one of them tries to perform a world-shaping act of magic, all of the other great wizards will smell it and immediately respond by casting Fuck That Guy In Particular.

The setting otherwise superficially resembles a perfectly standard Generic Fantasy Setting, though any close examination will rapidly reveal how deeply its culture is informed by the looming knowledge that the world is perpetually one wizardly temper tantrum away from total annihilation, and the extent to which the conspicuous Generic Fantasy atmosphere is a deliberately constructed facade of business-as-usual over a howling void of nihilistic uncertainty.

[b4kuch1n]

same teacher, different lessons

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[superbellsubways]

all my computer-y guy refs now all together ^__^