#muted knowledge

[badnewswhatsleft]

i uploaded the america's suitehearts stems fob released for their remix challenge way back when here!

there are also a few other song stems from the rockband games here - i guess those are compressed/mixed pretty differently and are def not studio stems BUT theyre still amazing for hearing some instrumentals/vocals only !!!!

import the tracks into an audio editor (i used audacity) and have fun!!

[smimon]

Recent rise of interest in buff Häärija reminded me of this comic and you all know it's him

[blae-kitta]

Zoro 🐯 Process:

Commentary below:

Notes:

One of the first attempts at sculpting the boy; the head was later altered quite a bit and the legs entirely scrapped, and the torso bulked up shaking my shoulders feverishly: we need to properly represent his 110 cm bust and what we have isn't cutting it. Scabbards were made (which survived till the end!) and the original clay swords were made by this point.

New torso and legs give (hallelujah), as well as the loops and holes for the ears (such finicky small work, fuck me) were made. Holes were first made with straight wire and dried before the hoops were gently (and with swearing) inserted through.

Clothes added, also with swearing as the clay dried and stiffened faster then I wanted to and made it hard to get nice folds. Scarf was re-made and smoothed later.

Scabbards added! Immediately drops it and breaks a piece of it off. I've glued multiple bits of the scabbards back on the flimsy bastards. He remained armless for a good while. A Venus on the shelf by my desk...

Because the clay sword (after a good hour of tender focused work) would IMMEDIATELY would break upon the lightest touch, annoying me to no end, one evening was like God I wish I had actual metal to use instead wouldn't that be cool, and then was like OH! I COULD DO THAT! So the metal is actually cut from the tin of a cat food can, straightened and sanded., as seen in photo!

The blades hilted, before placed in capable hands

ARMS! and the sculpting is finished. Onto painting!

First layers of paint on various parts; I generally paint via colours I'm using at the moment (ie, greens in this instance)

More layers laid down. I generally go for shading in rules of three (main colour, lighter, and darker hues) and apply them at different opacity of acrylic. Adjusted the green since I found it too pungent. Once the fur tones were finished I gave him his stripes (cue me searching up loads of photos of tigers and tiger fursonas to see how people have done the stripes. Did you know depending on the area they are from they have different face shapes and stripe patterns? Fascinating stuff)

Finished project! Last layers, and highlights where added, adjusted the eye and fuck-ups re-adjusted. Dropped and had to reglue things. The gold is actual gold leaf I applied using a glue you paint on but that was a bit of a whole mess and took a long time, and doesn't go on very flat on very not-flat surfaces... (Who would have thought...) In the future may instead use gold paints for metallics.

Here's also the link to the post of more photos of him finished!

[mirakurutaimu]

Favorite d&d class (or if you prefer a different system, favorite class from that)?

my most-played class in 5E is Variant Fighter, a homebrew version of Fighter that moves maneuvers from Battle Master and makes them a base-class feature. it's super fun and effective, letting one do flavorful multiclasses without taking too much of a hit to effectiveness (especially nice if you're playing with turbogamers minmaxing for combat encounters). besides that I'm also a big fan of Lore Mastery wizard, because my favorite ttrpg character i've ever played was one. here is them, Cammy (girl, living car battery, chief stick carrier) & Maximus (the stick, world's dickheadest wizard, probably a bad guy)

[goldensunset]

even as someone who's been into pokemon for like 15 years now yeah i get it. people act like its some kind of moral failing to still like pokemon sv?? enjoying the game and criticizing it where deserved are two things that can co-exist but also you don't have to constantly remind people who do enjoy it that its not up to snuff. we know. we are acutely aware. we are talking about kieran's character arc rn tho you can leave that for another time thanks

the point of this ask is do whatever you want my guy. block idiots who cannot help but bring up the graphics every two seconds like their life depends on it. also i very much enjoy your commentary on the games 👍

honestly it's not really this site it's mostly people on other social media who have the stalest takes on the matter ever cuz that's where the most normie and old fashioned dudebro gamers live. not even just for this topic but in general it feels like other places with more users tend to have the same dusty recycled opinions but on tumblr it's always fresh which is why i like it here. and like you're right it's very bad faith in general to assume that someone who loves a thing isn't aware of its flaws and it's also annoying when someone in an otherwise good post has to throw in a 'i know this media is bad because xyz but-' no you didn't need to say that. ok. i don't know whether it's to try to save face and try to criticize their own thing before someone else does or to be mean but it is just not necessary.

also tumblr is like the only site where you can take stories completely seriously whether it's a literary masterpiece or peppa pig or somewhere in between which is nice. you won't find character arc analysis of pokémon npcs anywhere else that's for sure. and as someone who takes everything seriously i hate when someone is like 'isn't this for eight year olds' so what. eight year olds can have nice things too. i am frolicking in the beauty of this world

[tidesfate]

gives him some chocolate... as a treat

❛[ GIVE MY MUSE AN ITEM ≻ highly accepting

THE GOD HAD GAINED SOME INTEREST OVER TIME IN REGARDS TO THE CULINARY WORLD. Much more diluted than when it had first begun taking vessels EONS AGO // BUT NOT ABSENT. Taste was a different experience 'pon the tongue of mortals than it was within its own maws-- - often lost or completely absent in place of the flavor of the mind (THE SUPERIOR DELIGHT, OF COURSE). Still, slightly clawed fingers where this form was starting to malform grabbed the morsel-- - SEEMINGLY STUDYING IT FOR A TIME, CATALOGUING IT AMONGST THE VARIETIES OF THIS CATEGORY OF TREAT. Felt it melt atop fingertips with little concern, and only when satisfied after what was truly only a collection of seconds, did it bring the item to mouth. Soft hum crested maw, already with digits upon another piece. “&– - This one is favorable.” A simple response, but its interest in eating the others showed clear enough it was of truth. // @idolsummons

[ichigosoju]

🦋

[partrin]

oh no, another writing idea: i've read so many fics about rin and haru in australia, rin and haru in japan (for obvious reasons), rin and haru in america, and other non-asian countries, but i've never read a fic about them being based in a southeast asian country (but to be fair, i've obviously not read all the fics there are available under their tag so i wouldn't know for sure).

today, i was thinking about the local sports scene—primarily football (as in soccer), because 1. when i think of sports, my favourite one is football. i enjoy football, used to even play it regularly, but i mainly watch the english premier league, and on occasion the la liga, and 2. i was wondering, "why is albirex niigata, an originally japanese team, playing in the singapore (where i'm from) premier league?"

so i found out that albirex niigata singapore fc is the satellite team for the original albirex niigata of japan, and even so, the team is made up of all (but one) japanese players.

and then i thought:

what if, in some alternate universe, rin is a football player on albirex niigata singapore fc, a player on loan, and haru is an exchange student studying in a local arts academy (idk, either the NAFA/nanyang academy of fine arts or la salle college of the arts or SOTA/school of the arts)?

and what if, one day, haru is dragged to a football match by his classmates who thought it would be a splended idea since it's the premier league finals and albirex niigata, a club that has been dominating the table, is playing, and haru, you're literally japanese—you should support your fellow countrymen even if you're in singapore right now? and haru (begrudgingly) relents, so here he is, in a stadium full of people, munching on shrimp chips and witnessing a sport he has little care for.

rin is a bench warmer. and after the finals are over, haru bumps into him in the washroom. he recognises him from the match because of his vibrant, carmine hair, even though rin's barely had any play time, and he feels obligated to congratulate him if only for the fact that he wants rin to know that he, too, is a japanese man in a foreign country. he wants to connect, desperately, to some who reminds him of home. but there's only one problem:

haru is mute.

so he resorts to fishing out a notepad he always carries along with him in case of occurrences such as these (because he can't assume that he knows japanese sign language) and quickly scribbles out a congratulations—in hiragana, because he wants rin to pick up on the fact that they're both from japan. at first, rin thinks he's merely an excitable fan who's showing off the fact that he's learnt japanese to a player of his favourite club, but no, haru quickly clarifies in messy characters, and they fall into a natural conversation.

one conversation turns into many, face-to-face and text, conversations and eventually meetings. haru, despite being somewhat of a technophobe, burries his dislike for technology and abandons the notebook in favour of typing out his responses whenever they converse. (rin asks him to tear out the pages where he'd first scribbled in hiragana to him so he can keep it, for memories' sake). he finds that he likes rin's company, and finds his voice beautiful—and after several visits to rin's trainings and official matches, he starts to feel sad because the cheering at his matches are a loud cacophony of voices, and he knows his will never be a part of it. he falls further into despair when he finds that having rin read off a screen would pale in comparison to him actually being able to speak his mind, emotively, expressively. he wants, so badly, for rin to be able to hear him speak—to hear rin's melodious, sing-song voice, or his child-like laughter in response to something haru says.

and so he makes a decision.

and he isn't sure if rin would approve of it.

[doomboogie]

If everyone could stop moral grandstanding based off their media tastes that would be fantastic

[mokureen]

so like i’m fairly sure the four sages are played by the same voice actors as the champions in botw and that has Destroyed Me

[princess-of-thebes-1995]

Abul Qasim Al Qushayri (rahimahullah) mentions that he heard Abu ‘Ali Ad Daqqaq (rahimahullah) say: “Whoever remains silent from the truth is a dumb devil.”

This sadly not a hadith. I have a feeling that Prophet Muhammad SAW said similar to this but that hadith probably is lost and should be rediscovered.

[theradicalace]

there's a fude sitting in front of me on the bus who has moved to get closer to my seat and i'm pretty sure he's staring at me but i am to uncomfortable to look up and check

[torvus-bong]

after a rigorous day of writing niche erotica for weird queers I like to unwind by jerkin off

[nostalgjc]

i’m so in love with the music in this specific part

[crowcryptid]

Leading a complete noob that asks questions every 2 minutes through all the halo games would fix me but that level of social interaction would also kill me