#half-rod

[sufficientlylargen]

I've found my new favorite units chart (from wikimedia commons).

[comicalcarnival]

with TFCon toronto this coming weekend, I suppose I should post all the plushies I made for the event this time! This time I had MUCH more prep time, thankfully 😂

[tin-can-iron-man]

I'm just gonna say it again real quick:

Yes!! Iron Man is a tragedy! It has and always has been since the very first appearance in 1963 which describes itself, Tony's life, and legacy, as such.

Tony causes most of his issues himself, he is his biggest villain, a majority of his rogues gallery are caricatures of the worst versions of himself brought to life (when they're not just being racist cuz...60s...). The worst thing about being Tony Stark is that he can't stop being Tony Stark (he tried!!) That is the point.

The majority of pain Tony goes through, is pain he inflicts on himself, whether intentionally or inadvertently. That is the point.

He is not A villain (at least. Not usually. There are...some rough moments and arcs that are. Not great. As there is with any character as old as he is). But he is his own main antagonist.

[lennonblues]

faces is such a funny band to me bc you can immediately tell who was and wasnt part of the original small faces just bc of their fucking height differences 😭

[the-queer-cowboy]

JACKLUC THE KNIGHT! Minicomic about him bellow the cut

Oh this mf is also so fun to draw, he actually has another comic with Aki, let me show y'all

This is the very first comic I made of the dunmeshi characters actually!

Here's more extra art of him:

Him, Aki and another character I'm probably posting tomorrow get the most art cuz I love their dynamic a lot

[andreisvechnikov]

PUT ME IN COACH!!

[singingcicadas]

Idw Rodimus is so high up the chain of command that even Prowl doesn't outrank him. Prowl even admits to not outranking him, and this was back when he was still Hot Rod.

Which makes the Overlord incident worse because he wasn't ever under the remotest pressure to follow Prowl's orders, Prowl has no authority over him and likely never did.

Autobot High Command members, as of Chaos Theory:

Optimus, Ultra Magnus, Prowl, Rodimus, Xaaron, Bumblebee.

Two are his subordinates on the Lost Light, two are people he regularly argues with. Optimus is the only one who can technically give him orders and expect them to be followed, and I say technically because he only actually follows them about half the time. The other half is divided between 15% screaming accusation, 15% passive aggressive attitude, 25% outright disagreement, 35% I heard you but I'm gonna do my own thing (with a healthy mix of yeah I know my own thing is insane but I'm gonna do it anyway), and 10% silent ghosting.

Then once he gets aboard the Lost Light it's 98% ghosting with 1% awarded to his (albeit minimal) effort to restablish radio contact with Cybertron after take-off. The other 1% goes to picking up Optimus' facetime call when Optimus wanted him to come back for Caminus' intergration ceremony, even if it was just to say no and complain about the co-captain arrangement.

That was the last time he saw Optimus alive, I think.

[gravelsong]

*the most unhinged noises you've ever heard in your life*

[mawofthemagnetar]

I'll stop banging on about the vast majesty of the cosmos when the cosmos shrinks down to a convenient travel size.

[grimalkinmessor]

Death Note Lifespans

I was bored so I took it upon myself to calculate DN characters lifespans down to the minute—estimates, of course, I'm not a math wiz.

Something I did notice is that only a few of them have actual, realistic lifespans—BUT this is what canon gave us. Idk if there's a canon reason for it but it's funny to think that Near & Aizawa & Ide somehow found a way to cheat death.

Light: 93312639

26, 240 days & 21 hours & 36 minutes

71 years & 9 months

L: 75231362

21,156 days & 4 hours & 5 minutes

57 years & 11 months

Misa: 1542306

433 days & 16 hours & 48 minutes

1 year & 68 days

Matsuda: 548192

154 days & 3 hours & 58 minutes

0 years & 5 months

Aizawa: 28317

7 days & 23 hours & 4 minutes

Near: 43406

12 days & 4 hours & 48 minutes

Mello: 502209

141 days & 5 hours & 31 minutes

0 years & 4 months

Soichiro: 932293

262 days & 4 hours & 4 minutes

0 years & 8 months

Sayu: 11213

3 days & 3 hours & 36 minutes

Ide: 9761

2 days & 17 hours & 45 minutes

Halle: 52438

14 days & 17 hours & 45 minutes

Gevanni: 305717

85 days & 23 hours & 16 minutes

Kollet: 592

3 hours & 50 minutes

Rod: 351011

98 days & 16 hours & 48 minutes

0 years & 3 months

Gardner: 026513

7 days & 10 hours & 48 minutes

McBride: 563532

158 days & 11 hours & 17 minutes

0 years & 5 months

Dwellton: 2134738

600 days & 7 hours & 41 minutes

1 year & 7 months

Ratt: 023521

6 days & 14 hours & 38 minutes

Kamoda: 16823428

4,730 days & 23 hours & 55 minutes

12 years & 11 months

Kuromoto: 234813

66 days & 43 minutes

0 years & 2 months

Bloyer: 12993

3 days & 15 hours & 36 minutes

Solt: 36928

10 days & 9 hours & 7 minutes

Shiroba: 6923781

1,947 days & 1 hour & 41 minutes

5 years & 3 months

[florsial]

Hello friend! I’ve never sent an ask before tehe but i was thinking about your post on rodolphus because your interpretation of him eats my brain and specifically the part where you mentioned how he acknowledges him and regulus’ relationship as strange but doesn’t do anything about kept pushing itself to the front of my mind because why wouldn’t it. Anyway my actual ask is, what do you think rodolphus’ opinion on regulus is or their relationship if you think they have or had one? Like does he approve of regulus for his brother or just as a person? Did his opinion on regukus change from when regukus was young to when he grew up? So many questions I believe you have the answer to

In a small summary: He views Regulus as a part of Rabastan.

Background Info: The Lestranges, despite what you might think, are very VERY family oriented people, (maybe with a couple of exceptions but family above all mostly) they are distant but that’s how they love (a clear example is Rodolphus’ “freedom as a love language”). In fact, a lot of these wealthy, old family pure blood branches are (Blacks, Avery, Malfoy etc etc) (But not Rosier which is why Evan and Pandora are also viewed as an anomaly to the high class pure bloods.) (But I won’t get into that rn).

Anyways back to Reg and Rod.

Rodolphus has always viewed Regulus as a part of Rabastan. This mostly stems from his choosing not to care but also because Reg and Rab have been around each other from the very moment they met. From late boyhood to mid 20s, Rod has always seen Rabastan with Regulus, on his arm, in his arm, sharing a seat, a bed, etc etc. So he’s just associated Regulus with his brother.

But that doesn’t mean he sees Regulus as his brother! In fact, I could say Rodolphus knows little to nothing about Regulus and that’ll be more accurate than anything else. It’s best to remember that Rodolphus and Rabastan are more brothers than they are twins. There is always going to be a disconnect. They weren’t each others constant, they are nothing alike. Yeah sure maybe they were familiar as children but by 8 years old they were so different it was almost as bizarre as the Rosier twins being so very much the same. They don’t have that same relationship as twins that other pure blood twins do (unhealthily codependent, intertwined in ways beyond romance or platonic understanding, that’s how pure blood twins are raised, they are viewed as one in their families (except Rosiers))

Rodolphus isn’t close to Regulus at all because he never had a chance to meet him in his “prior to Rabastan” days. From afar, it does kinda seem dehumanizing to Regulus because Rodolphus associates Regulus with Rabastan and doesn’t see him beyond that. So he never had an opinion on Regulus that didn't involve Rabastan.

They barely interact because Rabastan keeps them apart without really realizing it (insecurity and possessiveness) and Regulus is content with just hiding out in Rabastan's room or hiding in Rabastan's corner during meetings while playing his violin honestly (he doesn’t need another wizard poking around HIS family) (Ahem ahem James… who said that WHO SAID THAT) and Rodolphus doesn't mind either since he isn't all that interested in Regulus as his own person overall.

And this apathy and dehumanization isn't just to Regulus, it's also to Bellatrix as well, he doesn't really see her as anything past his wife as worst and his coworker whom he always gets put with at best. He's just not that concerned with people outside his family, which is why a lot of purebloods actually genuinely like Rabastan but can only respect Rodolphus.

As for his thoughts on their relationship, because Rod associated Regulus with Rabastan, the relationship didn't phase him at all. In fact, he sort of expected them to announce that they were getting married at any second.

In a sort of fucked way, it's like this: You and your sibling are family and together, but they also have their own stuff and you have your stuff but their stuff isn't yours, and yours isn't theirs.

Now, I never meant to insinuate this, and I'm so sorry lol, but Rodolphus does not view their relationship (Age gap) as strange. In fact, no one does. Rabastan and Regulus's relationship is meant to be weird to us (a viewer/outsider who doesn't understand high society pureblood views) but normal to them (The people who practice and believe in those views that get passed down the family line/spread around). It's a an interesting part of their relationship that these wealthy purebloods don't find their relationship weird but everyone else does. And it plays into this idea of, there is something wrong with this seemingly perfect, unassuming thing. Which also ties with Rodolphus not looking twice at Regulus and Rabastan!!

Like an example is Severus, who never aligned himself with these practices. So often I think, whenever he sees Rab and Reg, he has to excuse himself because he finds it hella fucking weird but he can't do/say anything about it because everyone else is like, "This is fine."

Cue Snape's heavy side eye at Rabastan during DE meetings and he's like, "Bffr rn"

[unrestedjade]

POV you're on the Perihelion's Space Tindr profile and it's making you pass a quiz about identifying Space OSHA hazard warning signage with a score of at least 90% before you can swipe right.

[kimtiny]

autism vs adhd (idea by @amphibifish )

[ceiling-karasu]

Have to do a lot more species research for this AU

So far I'm keeping my idea of Geumsaegi trying to pass himself off as a hazel dormouse/striped field mouse cross (even though those aren't compatible, but I have to drop the realism somewhere). Still have to study the behavioral and dietary habits between squirrels and mice so Geumsaegi can watch himself or the Wolf Unit might get suspicious.

Red squirrels in Asia and Europe are said to have more tufted ears than American ones, but it turns out that is primarily in the winter, meaning they have rounder ears during the rest of the year.

So my plot point in the first AU on Guemsaegi and Juldarami having to trim their fur to avoid detection is still something I need to keep in mind. I don't think SEK wanted to worry about it though.

Turns out that stripe looking thing is not even a stripe. Some Red squirrel families just kind of have that darker color around the head and back, to the point that it can be solid black. Black stripes of a different color on the sides are how you determine red from gray squirrels in some areas.

I have heard (I wanted to look up the names other countries use) some Russian and near Russia Localizations like to use 'Chipmunk' instead of 'Squirrel?' But I'm not here to trample on anyone's personal headcanon, if they want to say chipmunk then I'll respect that for them.

Yes, Darami can translate into squirrel or chipmunk, but Red Squirrel and Hedgehog does not sound as natural coming off the tongue, I would think.

Of course, there is Juldarami. His name means striped, and I read somewhere that 'Juldarami' is an old archaic word for 'chipmunk,' but that it in turn can mean striped.

There are in fact, multiple species of striped squirrel, especially in Asia.

These include but are not limited to (excuse the PowerPoint screenshot I made):

Plus, chipmunks have stripes on their face, while it does not appear that striped squirrel stripes go into that area for the most part.

So far, no character has been shown with stripes on their face that I have seen, so I'm sticking with squirrel.

Honestly the bigger question is how Juldarami managed to pull off being a mouse. I can't think of any mouse species right now that would have multiple stripes like that.

There is the Four Striped Grass Mouse, but while the Weasel Army is grabbing species from all around, a mouse from Africa is a bit of a stretch.

I am assuming that the Weasel Army calls any mouse that does not look like a typical gray mouse a field mouse without worrying about the abundance of species.

I bet someone has been spontaneously executed because there were a dormouse and said field mouse, only to get shot because that is not what a field mouse should look like. Dr. Huinjogjebi seems paranoid enough to do that.

[of-nyon]

why is rodimus primus's favorite?

See:

the entirety of the 1986 movie

in IDW it hurt Optimus when he bonded with the matrix - Roddy says it 'felt right'

This incredible post by @stairre

he's a good boy and he deserves it

[lavendorii]

I'm not even kidding if you go to the fnaf movie be respectful. be quiet. this isnt your let's play. just watch the movie. there are a ton of other people here. shut the fuck up