#dahl

[weirdmarioenemies]

You know, all this time I never realized that Bomberman had Enemies! I thought it was just all those Bombers Men blowing each other up for sport. And I love those Bombers Men, they are very cute, but wow! Enemies! I love those! Enemies are my friends. There have been sooo many enemies over the course of the franchise, but here I will be talking about the originals from the very beginning! For the sake of consistency, I will be using the artwork from Bomberman Party Edition, since that was sadly the most recent time they all got official art for the same game. Here they come! Some creatures!

BALLOM

Ballom is The Enemy. The first one! It is very simple. It is really just a balloon, sometimes with a string, sometimes not. Watch out for this one! Ever try to kill a balloon before? Don’t let the media fool you, you need a bomb to do it. Ballom actually appeared before all the others in the very first game, called Bomber Man, where it was the only enemy! This game was localized in Europe as... Eric and the Floaters. It sounds like a band name! A real Yoshi’s Island style localization choice. This is not a Bomberman game anymore. It’s an Eric game.

I do not think this is what balloons look like

ONIL

Already we have reached my favorite one! Onil is a blue onion sort of thing, and I am really just a sucker for creatures that are vegetables. It is so cute! It’s almost not recognizable as an onion most of the time, with its tip looking like a dollop of frosting rater than actual onion skin, but the original sprite does a pretty good job of communicating Onion. As you can see at the beginning of the post, its name was originally localized as O’Neal, which I think is very funny. That’s a Last Name right there! This onion was named like a Fortnite character!

DAHL

Dahl is a sort of barrel of a thing! Finally we reach a thing that would more reasonably require a bomb to destroy. Look at its little face though! I feel bad talking about destroying these things with bombs. I don’t have much to say about Dahl, it’s a barrel, though it is a very cute barrel. I can’t think of THAT many other cute barrels.

MINVO

Minvo is a little boring. I’m sorry. But it’s just a Face! Sometimes it is a very inoffensive-looking face, while sometimes it is showing a few teeth, but still just a Face. They don’t do anything all that interesting either. However!

In some 3D appearances, they are not a sphere, but instead shaped like a sandwich cookie! Maybe they have been cookies all along! They even have Filling!

OVAPE

Ovape is a funny one! Originally, it was basically a smiley Pac-Man ghost, which is cute and funny, but not very unique. When allowed more detail, though, it often looks more like an octopus, and not just any octopus, but a hot dog cut into an octopus shape!

You know? Yeah! I don’t know how intentional the resemblance is, but it is very cute and fun.

DORIA

I love Doria! It is some kind of Substance, or perhaps an amoeba, and I love a simple cute blob. It is often seen in this weirdly flat-looking shape, like it was spread on an invisible piece of bread! I would not eat it! Doria moves slowly, but it is slippery and smart, chasing Bomberman while avoiding bombs. Very impressive for a brainless (I assume) blob!

PASS

Here we have our Token Mammal! Pass is a tiger who forgot the rest of itself at home and hops around as a head lump. It almost feels like Minvo, but with an actual design! You’re lucky you became a cookie, Minvo. Pass is fast, like a real tiger, and is able to Pass right through certain solid blocks, which real tigers cannot do. Only snow leopards can.

PONTAN

Another face? Kind of! But not completely! Pontan is a COIN, so more interesting than just a face, and spins around flatly in its animations. They are the most dangerous of the original enemies, and their design does nothing to reflect this! That is funny. Like Pass, it passes through some blocks, but it also hunts you down! If Pontan finds you, you will learn that it can indeed be used as currency. One Pontan is enough to buy you one Death!

Some, but not all, of these enemies would have the privilege of appearing in a Mobile Match 3 Game with the release of Bomberman Chains, and boy! They look weird! All of them! Ballom looks like Chris Griffin. Onil looks like it just woke up at 3:26 AM to go to the bathroom. I cannot say I Like any of these designs here, which is a shame because I think they could have all looked especially cute in Doodle Aesthetic, like Bomberman himself does! But I am glad this happened, it’s funny.

These have been just a few of the many funny little creatures specifically designed to be obliterated by explosions. Thank you.

[cruella-devegan]

Saffron Ikebukuro / Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

Dinner plate with dahl and mixed vegetable curry 🍛

[morethansalad]

Pumpkin Dhal & Peshwari Naan (Vegan)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me. Never! Ever! When I am gone, if that happens, then I’ll wish mighty Thor knocks very hard on their heads with his Mjolnir. Or I will send along the ‘enormous crocodile’ to gobble them up.

- Roald Dahl

In a conversation in 1982 at Dahl’s home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, with his great friend the artist Francis Bacon, Roald Dahl, the famous children books writer, was adamant about the censoring or editing of his beloved books.

In evoking Thor’s hammer, Dahl was referring to his Norwegian roots and to his earlier story of “the greediest croc”. Bacon for his part felt just as strongly about the censoring or editing of an artist’s works, telling him: “There must be no changes to an artist’s original work when he is dead for any reason whatsoever.” Crossing himself in mock jest, Dahl replied: “I just hope to God that will never happen to any of my writings as I am lying comfortably in my Viking grave.”

Dahl can rest easy as the current owners of the Dahl’s books reversed a decision to greatly gut so-called offending passages as approved by ‘sensitivity readers’ for anything offensive to re-edit. Puffin, the publishers, have now decided to publish two versions of Dahl’s works, one, a massively re-edited version that ticks the boxes of diversity, inclusivity and equality, and another untouched original version, as the author intended.

[laboratoryrats]

[landschaftsmalerei]

Blick aus Stalheim von Johan Christian Dahl (1842, )

[jadestargirl]

Dahl, Riddick

[turuin]

ho scovato questa notizia grazie a un post di @lady--vixen e ... non so bene cosa pensare. Nulla togliendo all'operazione che ha i suoi meriti, e senza volersi troppo addentrare nel ginepraio del inclusive o politically correct o qualsivoglia (è vero che certe espressioni sono fastidiosamente datate e che molti concetti possono/potrebbero/dovrebbero essere superati e riadattati allo spirito dei tempi) mi viene in mente però il paradosso della nave di Teseo, che sicuramente conoscerete ma che vale la pena di ripetere: (da Wikipedia, che non ho voglia di riscriverlo io) Si narra che la nave in legno sulla quale viaggiò il mitico eroe greco Teseo fosse conservata intatta nel corso degli anni, sostituendone le parti che via via si deterioravano. Giunse quindi un momento in cui tutte le parti usate in origine per costruirla erano state sostituite, benché la nave stessa conservasse esattamente la sua forma originaria. Ragionando su tale situazione (la nave è stata completamente sostituita, ma allo stesso tempo la nave è rimasta la nave di Teseo), la questione che ci si può porre è: la nave di Teseo si è conservata oppure no? Ovvero: l'entità (la nave), modificata nella sostanza ma senza variazioni nella forma, è ancora proprio la stessa entità? O le somiglia soltanto?

Qui la situazione è opposta: si modifica la forma, nella speranza di preservare la sostanza.

Ma, allora, la questione che mi pongo io è la seguente: si può modificare la forma di un'opera letteraria (vale a dire il linguaggio usato, figlio del tempo in cui è stato scritto e delle caratteristiche positive e negative e, in ultima analisi, culturali) pur preservando se fosse possibile il suo senso letterario e poi dichiarare che quell'opera è la stessa?

Lancio una provocazione: perché non permettere la pubblicazione di entrambe le opere? Una riadattata e una scrupolosamente identica all'originale con, magari, un disclaimer che spieghi che Dahl tutto sommato era figlio del suo tempo e pieno di pregiudizi anche molto gravi? S'apra la discussione civile, reblog benvenuti e contenuti costruttivi (che non siano il solito "cancel cultureeeeee" che ha rotto i coglioni ancora prima di nascere).

[awontonhousewife]

The bitch is back.

[carrionmagpie]

[tyrnn]

DracariOctober_23

Whew! Helping those little guys across the Pacific Ocean was a challenge, but nothing too difficult when you're over two thousand kilometers tall! Quebec might be feeling it for a while though, but I'm sure they'll be fine! This year we're supporting the South Sound Reading Foundation in honor of Mondomonger/Axelroo. Thank you for being there for me for a decade! https://www.southsoundreading.org/ This year's interactions are going to be a little spicier! We're only going to be increasing heights by a little bit per interaction, but Donations will begin to exponentially compound the results! The earlier the bigger, the better, and borkier! Voting will be for the next day's theme! Since we're supporting a Literacy Foundation this year, I'll select four possible literary worlds to draw our Derggo into at their given height! Each one will only appear once, so vote carefully! So how do we make this Dracario bigger? You can help! Right now, here's how much Interactions are worth: Likes = 4995.91m Retweets = 12489.775m Voting in the Poll = 4995.91m We won't fit on the planet much longer! Exponential all the way! Every $1 donated will exponentially increase these values per day, compounding +0.1% per dollar. That means the earlier you donate, the more growth it will compound down the line, and if my math checks out, he could be getting pretty huge, but will they stay on Earth? Definitely not much longer! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=H6ZB8M7EJ4QKE I will be counting Likes as Liking on Twitter or Favoriting on FurAffinity. I'd like to do more sites but I don't want to spend too much time collecting data when I could be doodling Derggo! Retweets will count both Twitter and Bluesky! Voting will count from the Twitter poll attached to the thread, or by visiting StrawPoll here: https://strawpoll.com/40ZmqkXqkZa

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[cyanid-apple]

Four of Swords - Dahl (Preludes)

Here’s my second entry for the malloysicals tarot card collab

Had a lot of fun making this :)

[scifipinups]

Katee Sackhoff Riddick (2013)

[morethansalad]

Nigella Seed and Lime Dal with Plum Chutney (Vegan with ghee alternative)

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

- Mark Twain

[tinyshe]

soooo ... i got all these glass, freezer-to-oven, small dish in the thoughts of making mum some delish meals (and healthier eating) for her birthday. that didn't happen so here i have these containers. could use for our left overs but came across a better plan! i can make big batches of sauce and suches for freezer then either pack for lunches or evening meal when everyone whines about being hungry but no ideas about what to eat. waiting for the weekend to progress/process the plan (wish me luck that i can follow through!).