#why do i have to do twice the work

[flocon-tourne-en-rond]

Whoever decided celtic harps should have levers was both absolutely right and terribly wrong.

[muppenthings]

Keiki, a naturally magically altered mer from the fantasy world Aurea.

Age: Born in the 1600's

Personality: Playful, kind, very social and affectionate. He's quite impulsive and doesn't always think things through. He tries his best and wants to be helpful but is prone to clumsiness. Easily distracted.

Sizeshifter: Being magically altered, he's got the ability to change his size. He always tries to stay as small as possible, but he often ends up regrowing in spurts if he's startled, sleeping etc. On the sheet is his smallest size possible, compared to a 6ft person.

Background: Both of his parents died after swimming through a magic underwater current, trying to escape a giant predator. The then newborn Keiki survived but was magically altered and grew to a gigantic size. He then swam around in a bay, taking fish from fishing boats and terrifying the locals as they thought he was a large non-sapient sea creature. A bounty was put on him.

A crew of renowned hunters responded to the plea for help. After successfully bringing the baby to the surface they realized that he was just that; a baby. The crew took him in, hoping to come across a pod of merfolk to pass him on to. They ended up raising him anyways.

Other notes:

Communication: A syrinx allows him to communicate above and below water (underwater the air is circulated beteen the lungs, no air escapes unless he wants to). He chirps, whistles and clicks like other merfolk on Aurea. He's not able to produce human speech but he tries to mimic certain sounds with mixed result. He's also very expressive and good at communicating with gestures.

Magically altered: Due to being magically altered, his own magic is prone to become unstable. It gets worse in cycles, if he doesn't actively stabilize it himself it'll worsen until the point he gets sick. At that point his body regulates the magic on it's own but it takes longer. He'll then be unable to use his sizeshifting ability and will be stuck at his actual size until his body is done stabilizing itself.

Diet: He eats a wide variety of sea creatures, sea greens, and fruits from Titanik (a continent where everything is large). He's also able to digest magic and it's the most important part of his diet as it gives him more energy compared to everything else. Keiki can live off of magic alone if needed, but he enjoys "solids" more.

[gretagator]

Hmmm redrew that Saul drawing I did back in november....

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando Alonso × Unconventional Drinking Implements

[toytulini]

whys it so hard

[saccharinerose]

Honestly really hope 4.1 gives ANY kind of interesting aspect to Neuvillette and Wriothesley's dynamic bc rn "token yaoi bait of 2 tall men who live in the same country, work together professionally but are not close personally" is just not hitting for me...

Like give me SOMETHING to work with so I don't have to be annoyed with the Wriolette art when I'm just trying to look for Neuvillette fanart

[goldensunset]

surprise art attack!!! here’s @deityofhearts ‘s cashmere, everyone’s favorite whimsical tiefling

[spaceyflowersart]

CHAINSAW MAN AU FOR LOOKISM; JOHAN AS AKI !!! PLEASE CHECK OUT THE OG IDEA/POST BY HYUSOLK HERE <3 !!!!

[worstloki]

people fr are like "do you expect Loki to always be in armour? 🤨" and I'm here to answer that Yes! Yes I do! In fight situations, at the very least! Take a look at Thor! Take a look at Loki in Thor 1! Or either of them in Avengers 1! Or even - dare I say - Thor 2! Loki's got LOTS of outfits, switching pieces between them and across scenes, even. He goes through the most outfit changes, and they were all cool and detailed and suited to the situations! Even when not armour! So Yes! I either expect him to reflect such bombardment of clothing in the series as well (within bounds of what is reasonable) or armour when he's fighting. Or at the very least for him to be wearing some green.

[backpackingspace]

Okay but yin yu needs a raise this yin yu is overworked that. Where is the Ling wen needs a raise content

[feelingthedisaster]

everytime i watch a new tv show or read a new book set in usa, i just get even more confused how tf the educutional system works

[reallilystuff]

hey has anyone made a alien yn yet. idk how im gonna tag this shit help...

also like has anyone made a vanessa/reader yet or am i just gay for her..... uhhhh..... think something is wrong with me

[nyxofdemons]

four years for this show...

[b4kuch1n]

been scribblin with the dip pens to prepare for inking the next comic (yuuto⏫’s “origin story” kind of basically) and wow turns out I can do anything I want forever

yuuto’s new friends names of amy and linh >:]c

[deus-ex-mona]

yurusanta: the ✨gift✨ that keeps on ✨giving✨

[rohirric-hunter]

Like so growing up I was always warned about the encroaching evils of technology by the adults who were around me -- but what they were warning me about was, like, your technology will be used to spy on you and then control you, like they'll see that you're ordering a meat lover's pizza but decide that based on some profiling or other you're at risk for high blood pressure and make you order a vegetarian instead or whatever.

That's just not what I actually am seeing when I see technology used for evil these days. The thing that the adults around me feared was evil, yes, but it was a sort of logical, reasoned out evil, and it's not at all what's actually happening for the most part. Because what I see is more along the lines of, like, you buy a smart coffee maker, right? The coffee maker takes some initial instructions and then learns your schedule and predicts when you want coffee and makes coffee for you at those times, right? So you tell your coffee maker that you want coffee at 6AM and 7PM, because that's typically when you drink coffee, and at first it works great! But then after a while it notices that you also enter the kitchen at 11AM and 2:15PM and it decides that you must be looking for coffee at these times, right, but instead of making coffee at those times as well it averages all the times together and starts making four cups of coffee once a day at 12:56PM, a time when you are not even in the kitchen, and because all it knows is making coffee and frankly more math than it needs to you will never again persuade it that you don't actually want coffee at that time, and it will never make coffee at 6AM or 7PM again.

And to me this is actually worse because there's no rhyme or reason behind it. The people who made the smart coffee maker are not gleefully rubbing their hands together and cackling over the success of their plot to deprive you of coffee except at 12:56PM. They're not well-intentioned dictators who have got it into their heads that it's only healthy to consume coffee between 12:53 and 12:58 and they're doing you a favor by doing this. They either don't know this is happening, know that it's happening but don't care, or this is how they like their coffee to be served to them and don't understand that most people don't want that. It's an evil born of ignorance or apathy or both, and I think that's worse, personally.

Edit: and lest anyone think my use of the word "evil" is unwarranted here, know that a lot of medical technology is also starting to hinge on this extremely flawed AI prediction model, not to speak of self-driving cars.