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assiraphales · 4 months
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poor sanji never stood a fucking chance
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the-sound-of-progress · 8 months
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The Autism Is Making Me Measure Things Again
Hands. Let's go.
So, to start off, you might be wondering: How can we actually get accurate measurements of the characters and the objects that we're comparing to them?
Blender gives you a real-world measurement for your objects, which is so damn nice. Having worked in Unity and a few other game engines, I always found it super frustrating when a game engine refused to use real-world measurements, and just used its own vague definition of 'units' instead.
So, let's see how tall the hisanimations Ludwig port is...
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Oh, shit, he imports at 27.3 feet tall. Yeah that's a little inaccurate. It's interesting to note that the hisanimations map ports are also sized by these proportions, which makes those maps fucking huge. But the maps and the characters can go together without needing any resizing, so it works.
But not for our purposes right now. We need Ludwig to be about 6'1", his canon height. That's the size of that gray plane I've put in the lower left of that image there. (Don't worry, I also include metric measurements from here on.)
Fortunately, there's an easy fix for this - just scale him down until he's as tall as the plane.
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So now he's the size that we need him to be. And now we can see how big his hands really are.
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You didn't think I wasn't gonna bring the BIG MAN to this party, did you?
Note that here, the Y axis is the height (or length, if you prefer), but on some of the objects we'll be looking at, the height is actually going to be the Z axis. It's due to mismatched standards between different engines. Anyway.
Ready to compare some everyday real-world-sized objects to these magnificent yaoi hands?
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... not that grizzly bear paws are 'everyday objects', but I knew I HAD to make that comparison.
Anyway, just, damn. I knew their hands were big, but somehow they're actually even bigger than I thought they were.
There are vast multitudes of naughty jokes and theories I could start making here. But I don't think I even need to type them out at this point.
the bananas were chosen for a reason
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daylite-writes · 4 months
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Lynye which you wrote about is perfect, we need more yandere platonic Lynye
Soft Platonic Yandere Lyney (+ Lynette) PT 2
Sorry this took so long, first one disappeared (it’s back up dw!) so this was set back a bit. I’m glad you liked it! I love platonic yandere it’s so underrated.
cw: kidnapping, (mild) yandere, completely platonic, child!reader, gn!reader, reader goes on a hunger strike, implied future force-feeding (but it’s vague + well meaning), Lynette feeds into Lyney’s actions,
Lyney supposed he couldn’t be too upset at your actions. After all, he had snatched you up from the streets and plopped you in a guest bedroom with a door that locked from the outside. None of that stopped the little pang in his heart when he entered the room, seeing it basically ransacked. The shelves and their contents were on the floor, the dresser tipped over, clothes he bought for you scattered about. All that, plus the pillows and comforter of the bed had been pulled off, and he could see it all shoved underneath the bed, where you were undoubtedly bundled up in a little nest. Hiding best you could from your ‘captors’.
“Hey kid.” He greeted, shaking off his disappointment and replacing it with something cheery. “Are you feeling good enough to come out? I feel as though I haven't seen you in days!”
No response.
“Oh come on. Lynette cooked this time, and she set aside a pastry just for you. She won’t even let me near those!” He laughed, taking a seat on the floor, right next to the bed.
“I’d love to run a few magic tricks by you while you eat. I really think these ones are gonna be real showstoppers!”
He heard a small, unamused huff from under the bed.
Spurred on by the acknowledgement, no matter how negative, he continued. “I mean it! The crowd is gonna love this one. I can show you it if you come out.”
The offer was met with a small sniff. Then another.
Panic flooded his veins. You were crying. Oh no you were crying. He was already failing as a big brother and and—
“Move, Lyney.”
His head turned to the door, where Lynette had strode through, closing it gently behind her. Lyney frowned—he absolutely did not need his sister’s help, not when he promised he could take care of you all on your own.. “Sh! Lynette, I’ve got this.”
“You don’t.” She kneeled by the bed, peering under it. Her ears twitched as she waited a second. Then, after one still moment, she reached under the bed, grabbing your small frame and pulling you out.
You make your anger known, your small cries turned into a shriek of fear as you tried to escape her. “Let go! Lemme go!”
She tucked you onto her lap, holding you tight against her chest. Your arms and legs were skillfully trapped and detained as she held you there against her chest, shushing you quietly. “Yes, yes I know. It’s all very scary and unfair. Shh. I know. I know.”
“Let—I wanna go. I wanna…” blubbering wails turned into hiccuping sobs as she comforted you. Eventually, you collapsed against her, hiding your face away in her neck, letting her place her chin atop your head.
“There we go.”
Lyney sat there uselessly. The gaping hole in his chest aching to hold his new younger sibling in the way Lynette was. Rocking you gently, shushing down your exhausted whimpers and sobs. He watched as you slowly fell asleep, exhausted from your outburst.
When your breathing leveled out and your limbs stopped moving, Lynette relaxed her hold, sighing down at you.
“You said you knew what you were doing, Lyney.” She chastised him. He looked away shamefully.
“I really didn’t expect… this.”
“You should’ve.” Lynette said simply. “They havent been eating the food you’ve been giving them. I doubt they've been drinking the water—I can hear the bathroom sink turning on at night. I assume that’s where they've been drinking their water. Also the reason they passed out so easy. They’re hungry, dehydrated, and most of all, scared.”
“I can’t fix their fear, Lynette. Only try to work through it.”
“You’ve kidnapped them, Lyney. They won’t allow you to work through it. You can’t play big brother when the doors and windows are locked.”
He sighed. “I don’t want to hold them down and force the family thing down their throat.”
“They’re young. They’ll hardly remember this part.” Lynnette brushed your hair back from your face. “When they wake up, make them eat. Whether they want to or not. And maybe make them take a bath.”
“…You’re right Lynette.”
“Of course. Now take them back.”
“Happily!” He chirped, back to a peppy demeanor. Lynette rolled her eyes, passing you into Lyney’s arms. You mumbled a bit in your sleep, shying into the cold chest. Lyney’s face erupted into adoration, eyes wide as he glanced between you and an unamused Lynette.
She rolled her eyes, “Good luck, brother.”
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ex0skeletal-undead · 1 year
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Dark Star Abaddon by YFNIR - Anastasiia Donchenko
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My Commentary on Rob and Rich Reviewing (4x14) Sex and Violence
I was listening to the latest Supernatural Then and Now Podcast (The Siren Episode) and I had to stop it after the Rob and Rich review to write down my thoughts because it annoyed me so much.
The guys both thought the episode was okay, but a bunch of things “bumped” for them. This is fine, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion about an episode, but some of the things that “bumped” for them “bump” for me.
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My thoughts under the cut …
Bump # 1 - The Siren turning out to be a man
So, both Rs had an issue with the siren being a man since the lore showed them as women, and I think, because in real mythology they are women. Though they conceded that the a male siren could be a thing too, it seemed to really bother them that the siren ended up not being about a sexual connection with the brothers (though Rich saw the flask sharing scene as flirtatious … because no guys have ever shared a flask, including, Dean and Bobby).
I’m sorry, but the siren targeting the brothers, and using a version of an ideal brother to get to Dean isn’t a plot hole or a “stretch” or something, it’s an interesting choice and it’s exactly the point of the episode. While many men are vulnerable to a pretty woman who is into them, Dean just wants Sam. He wants his relationship with Sam to be better. In particular, he’s so worried about Sam and insecure in their bond that he wants a Sam who likes what he likes but, more importantly, one who listens to him and doesn’t hide things from him. And I know I’ve written about this before on a previous post, but Dean doesn’t NEED the siren to be a hot girl; he can find one of those easily. He needs a Sam he can trust. That’s the whole point. The show is drawing the comparison between sexual intimacy/romantic companionship (usually one of the most desired things in literature/media) to the brothers relationship to show how much brotherhood matters to Dean in particular (in this case).
The way the male siren actor portrays its interest in the brothers, to me, is very much like it’s intrigued and excited that it found a high even better than the sexual desire that it usually feeds off of. When the siren feels how desperate Dean is for the bond with Sam to be fixed, it finds him more interesting than it’s usual target. Dean’s longing for Sam (not sexual) is even stronger than the sexual desire or romantic companionship that the siren usually feeds off of, so much so that the siren changes its entire MO to go after the brothers.
Bump # 2 - The Doctor sleeping with Sam (when she isn’t the siren) is weird
So, the Rs disagreed on the “bumpiness” of this one. Rob thought it was weird that the doctor would just decide to sleep with Sam (at work), while it didn’t bother Rich because … Jared Padalecki. Sound argument (in this case), Rich.
Still, the doctor is a little unusual, and her behaviour is clearly intended to be a misdirect, but the show does a good enough job of suggesting she had a bad breakup (or worse) and is now just sort of living in the moment, so her behaviour doesn’t bother me. Also, Sam is hot.
What is stranger than the doctor’s behaviour, for the audience who knows him, is Sam having sex with her I that moment. Not only that, but Sam is very chill when she’s hitting on him, where in the past, Sam has often been a little shy or awkward with women that he’s been attracted to or interested in. So no, this is not Sam’s usual MO to sleep with the doctor, especially when we know he and Ruby are or were also sleeping together. Sam is not acting entirely like his usual self. And he hasn’t been acting entirely like himself for a while now.
Bump # 3 - The Siren telling the boys to fight each other and saying the winner can “be with” him
I don’t know why they had an issue with this. The siren literally explains that it loves the rush of having people willing to do anything for it, even kill people they love. What the siren tells the brothers doesn’t matter because it’s not like it’s really planning to have a relationship with the brother who wins the fight. And the boys are already infected at this point, so it’s just giving them incentive to fight. It’s not sticky about the sexual-ness of people’s need for the siren, it’s about the desperation they have to be with it (in whatever way).
Bump #4 - Sam dismissing the Doctor after sleeping with her.
The guys were both bothered by Sam not bothering to say goodbye to the doctor, and they mentioned that it seemed sort of old-school (womanizing?). Rob said that Sam dismissing her was more like something Dean would do than Sam. I know that I already said this, but this is the whole point. Sam hasn’t been acting like his old self. This isn’t an accidental writing mistake, where the writer accidentally wrote Sam more like Dean. Sam is different now.
It also isn’t like Sam to call Dean weak, or ridicule him for being messed up from his experience in hell. Season 2 Sam would never, and Season 3 Sam wouldn’t either. Season 4 Sam has changed from the trauma of losing Dean, drinking demon blood, and having Ruby in his ear.
Also, to play devils advocate on myself, Sam has actually left towns before without saying goodbye to the girl he had a connection with, maybe not after sleeping with her, but it’s not wholly out of character for him to leave without saying goodbye (I’m not criticizing him for this). Also, I really don’t think that doctor was looking for anything more from Sam beyond hooking up in her office, so this doesn’t bother me much.
Final thoughts
Anyway, I’m not arguing that everyone has to love every episode, or even like all the ones that I do. I’m not even arguing that people need to like Sex and Violence because it really can be a little uncomfortable, and there is a bit of a sexual undercurrent to it all, even though that’s not the sirens intention with the brother. That’s also not exactly new on Supernatural. However, it’s weird to me that so many of the things that “bumped” for Rob and Rich seem to me like very deliberate choices by the writers, not careless mistakes or pointlessly out of character. This episode reveals a lot about where Sam and Dean are at this point in the season, both individually and in their relationship.
Granted, I have the benefit of watching the episode and knowing where it’s all leading, but this is what sort of bothers me about hearing people discuss the show who are doing it for a purpose and are probably only half-invested in the story. They miss things that seem like they should be really clear. Also, it’s funny when they find things uncomfortably sexual in relation to Sam and Dean (they didn’t outright say that, but I think it was implied in what they said) and act like it’s a surprise or out of place. Again, this isn’t new. They obviously listened to too many hellers if they didn’t realize that Sam and Dean are weirdly close at times or that the show makes some pretty blatant parallels between them and couples or makes quasi-incestuous connections between Sam and Dean.
I have nothing else to add here. This was mostly just a rant, but feel free to add your two cents if you made it this far.
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therestofmyfandoms · 11 months
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with totk giving us the avatars of the sages, ways for them to still help Link while also staying and doing their duties, then why couldn't we have that with botw. especially since they're already dead!
i want to have daruk jumping in front of you to take a hit, urbosa waiting for the perfect moment to attack with you, mipha catching and healing you when you are dying, revali rolling his eyes and lifting you up a cliff
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grapeenthusiast · 3 months
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dont you guys love one way glass
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aithusarosekiller · 11 months
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Minnie: what made you want to take on all 12 OWLs?
Barty, remembering the fact he bet Reg half his dad's fortune, his left leg, and Evan's first kiss on passing them all: uhhhhh...I'm a very motivated person
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deanportmans · 8 months
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Sometimes self care is thinking about how excited your f/o gets whenever they see you naked, doesn’t matter the context, getting dressed, getting out the shower, or even ya’ll about to have some fun wink wink. You’re so beautiful to them so stunning they can’t believe you’re their’s, that they’re yours. Just think about how perfect every little “imperfection” is to them. Every time they see you, without fail, their whole face is lighting up, they really do adore every inch of you. Just as you do them. I know we see any amount of our f/os and lose our minds, in awe of how beautiful they are. It’s exactly the same for them .
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crazysnor1ax · 11 months
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Old Friends Anew
Happy anniversary Little Nightmares!!!
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assiraphales · 4 months
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fic where luffy did come down with a terminal diagnosis and everyone's obvious reaction is 'we're going to save u we're going to find a way to make u better' (esp chopper who's whole thing is trying to cure the uncureable, especially after hiriluk) but luffy (who laughs in the face of death) is just like. is this not fate? and basically orders them to continue life as normal. captains order let's keep having fun :D and zoro just straight up disappears. the rest of the crew is appalled, especially as luffy gets sicker and sicker because wouldn't the first mate want to spend as much time with his captain as possible? be by his side at the end? n eventually zoro does show up, but its with a bag full of medicine/ingredients (cherry blossoms?) and he's essentially goes 'i've followed your orders without fail for years. not this time.' and it ends happy bc i can't stand sad things <3
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the-sound-of-progress · 8 months
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I performed major surgery on Ludwig today! (And I hope tumblr doesn't mangle the video quality too bad!)
As usual... INFODUMP MODE ACTIVATED--
I will preface this by saying that there is probably a better way to do what I've done here - but I definitely learned a lot while doing it this way!
One thing that has always bugged me about this model is the fact that the suspenders are were not in their own bodygroup.
For those who haven't worked with the models, a 'bodygroup' is basically a part or variant of the model that can be hidden if desired. This can be used to hide or swap appearances - the medigun backpack is its own bodygroup, for example. Ludwig's shirt-and-pants outfit is also its own bodygroup.
One of the really cool things about bodygroups is that they can be toggled on and off at any time, and they will respect whatever pose you've been working on. So if you suddenly decide you want the backpack after all, you can just turn it back on, and it will appear in the appropriate spot for the pose you have.
I could just use the shirt-and-pants bodygroup if I want to get rid of the suspenders, but I really like the labcoat. I've always wanted to be able to use the labcoat without the suspenders, because they have a tendency to twist in weird ways and just generally be a bit problematic in some poses, especially when the arms are raised.
Unfortunately, you can't just toggle them off like you can with the backpack... and you also can't just select the vertices of the suspenders, delete them and call it a day... because they're fused directly into the model. If you rip them out, you leave a huge hole in the model, as you'll see in the video.
Well, today, I decided to see if I could fill that hole in, and actually make it look good. In this particular case, filling in Ludwig's hole is not as fun or easy as it sounds!
You can't just snap polygons in there and expect it to immediately look right - you also have to do some very careful UV editing as well. The UV map that already exists is pretty complicated, and very hard to fix if you fuck it up. You have to splice these new polygons into the existing UV map as non-destructively as you can.
I started by selecting all the vertices that belonged to the suspenders and clips. I made sure to assign those to a vertex group, just in case I accidentally de-selected them. Keeping a vertex group going is a great way to save your progress while you're cherry-picking vertices like this.
Once I had the suspenders completely selected, I didn't delete them - I went into the right-click menu and chose 'Separate'. This takes the selected polygons and converts them into a whole new object.
There are two extremely cool things about the Separate feature: It retains the materials/textures that those polygons had... AND it remains bound to whatever armature (AKA posing controls) the original model might have had attached to it.
(At least, with the mercs, it does. I don't know if this is a default behavior of Blender, but my god, it's amazing.)
That means that as soon as I separated the suspenders... I had a new bodygroup. The suspenders still responded to posing properly, even while invisible!
But now I was left with the giant gaping hole carved around Ludwig's shoulders and back. Filling in all this missing geometry was the next challenge.
I proceeded by creating new polygons by hand, trying to more or less match the style of the surrounding topology. The mercs are made out of triangles, so I mostly made triangles. I tried to make it as symmetrical as possible on both sides.
Then came the REALLY hard part... getting the texturing to look correct.
Within the UV editor, I flailed around for a bit, trying to just 'eyeball' it and get the new polygons in the right place, but that just wasn't really working. I knew there must be a better way of doing it. And that's when I discovered that UV vertices are not the same as the model's vertices. UV vertices can be merged together without affecting the model itself.
That meant I could take the UV map of this new geometry and sew it directly into the existing map with minimal disturbance to the surrounding areas!
So, one by one, I started fusing vertices together. Carefully, painstakingly, lovingly stitching Ludwig back up. Making sure every texture was lined up as seamlessly as possible. I wanted to make it look like a professional did it.
Now, I'm not a professional, so I don't know for sure if I succeeded, but I am pretty damn happy with the results. And you can see at the end there that the suspenders do follow the posing when they're turned back on!
And since I did this to the version of the model that gets imported into new projects, that means I now permanently have this ability to toggle the suspenders on and off.
And that's how I learned how to make bodygroups!
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drberfarious · 9 days
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if rick didn't skip percy and annabeth's junior year, then we could've had cotg occur during their junior summer and they would've had the rising senior experience
and it would've been the first book I've read to even come close to accurately portraying the true hell that is the college application process
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Duo, looking at Heero and Relena: Why are threesomes only for sex? Why can’t I join in on a couple’s argument in public if I have a good point to make?
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So … this is probably going to sound corny as hell, but I was just on Twitter and someone’s post got me thinking.
I truly don’t know how anyone watched Supernatural without seeing that, or not wanting, Sam and Dean to be the heart and soul of the show. They ARE, of course.
Literally, Dean is the "heart." He’s the throbbing, open wound of emotion on the show. Our emotions aren’t always good or something we should let dictate our decisions. They aren’t even always truthful, but they are what drives us a lot of the time. He loves like crazy, for better or worse. He embodies bravery in a fight and fear of being alone. Dean starts the show as heartbroken (for his family, especially Sam) and lonely, and he ends it feeling completed.
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When Dean is the most not-Dean, it’s when he is a Demon. He still technically has a soul, but he’s lost his humanity (or heart).
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Meanwhile, Sam is the "soul." He’s the ethereal or cerebral, the essential spark that gives a body life (there is no show if there is no Sam, and there is no Dean if there is no Sam). It’s where the conscience and compassion come from, and where faith dwells. Sam starts the show as the soul that is tainted and needs redemption and, by the end, he gets it. Sam is hope and the yearning for more than the base (hunter) life.
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Sorry, this just popped into my head when I was thinking of Sam (🎶he wants more than this provincial life🎶) … and I can’t find a soul gif with Sam, so here he is soulless.
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When Sam is the most not-Sam, it’s when he’s soulless. His lack of compassion and care make him almost alien.
This even makes sense for why Sam can live on without Dean, but Dean can’t live without Sam. The soul can exist without the body (depending on your belief system). This doesn’t mean Sam is whole without Dean, just that he can exist without him. But Dean, being the heart, needs a spark to keep on beating. The heart can beat, or go through the motions, with artificial assistance when someone is brain dead (or has lost the spark of life), but they aren’t truly alive anymore. No one is home.
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Okay. I need to go to bed. This is a big oversimplification, and metaphors got pretty messy here, but I just needed to get my thoughts out there. Thanks to anyone who bothered to read my rambles! 🫂
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One more thing before I go to bed … The Impala is the body. The show is complete because it has Sam, Dean and Baby: the soul, the heart and the body.
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Okay, this is the last, last thing because I can’t help but write it … A human body doesn’t need wings. So, the feathered one is, in fact, not essential for the show to be complete.
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transingthoseformers · 7 months
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I like to imagine Swindle has the most smug expression on his faceplates every time Optimus and Megatron come back to make another spicy purchase
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