#winter anime 2020

[hairunowa]

A3! Season Spring & Summer EP1 | Sakuya Sakuma

[figurecollection]

Ayu Tsukimiya Nendoroid by Good Smile Company, from Kanon

[anisongoftheday]

Dorohedoro Ending 3

D.D.D.D. by (K)NoW_NAME

[semioticapocalypse]

Beth Bridget. Man and dog jumping in snow. Vermont. 2022

Follow my new AI-related project «Collective memories»

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magical mirai figure transparents

[fibula-rasa]

Favorite New-to-Me Films

February 2023

(in no particular order)

The Bell Hop (1919) [letterboxd] (seen on Silent Comedy Watch Party)

The SuperGal / ザ・超女 (1986) [imdb | letterboxd]

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023) [imdb | letterboxd]

A Tough Winter (1923) [imdb | letterboxd]

The Blizzard / Gunnar Hedes saga (1923) [imdb | letterboxd]

The Treasure / Der Schatz (1923) [imdb | letterboxd]

Bed Time (1923) [imdb | letterboxd]

The Rafter’s Bride / Koskenlaskijan morsian (1923) [imdb | letterboxd] (available on Elonet with English subtitles)

[serial-experience]

海、始めてかよ 。。。はい

[animebw]

After some thinking, since I’m watching so much anime this season, I figure it’s a good idea to break it down into categories for easy consumption. So, here are the top 5 shows you should be watching this season:

Tsurune Season 2

Ippon! again

MagiRevo

Buddy Daddies

Vinland Saga Season 2

Here are six more shows that are worth checking out if you have the time:

Revenger

Giant Beasts of Ars

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Trigun Stampede

The Tale of Outcasts

High Card

And a few stragglers that could go either way:

Nier Automata

Reborn to Master the Blade

Handyman Saitou in Another World

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea

[ducktracy]

i really like when porky and sylvester are paired together but i always got the vibe from these cartoons that porky,,,, just isnt a cat person lol like yeah in kitty kornered he does straight up say he hates pussycats. i have a hc that in these cartoons porky never even adopted sylvester he just showed up on porky's doorstep 1 day and never left. i do like chuck jones' take on sylvester also but i can very easily interpret porky in those shorts seeing sylvester as just some guy who follows him around over an actual pet. anyways im glad they returned to the sylvester as porky's pet cat dynamic in the put the cat out segments on looney tunes cartoons

MAYBE… Porky has a history of not being super great with pets to begin with (mainly i think his issue in Kitty Kornered is he doesn’t like being CHALLENGED by his cats, he’s all smiles when putting them to bed but i think the moment they get wise with him THAT’s when he’s like I’LL TEAR ‘EM LIMB FROM LIMB. mainly a personality thing more than the cats BEING cats… i think he just hates being challenged and so when domesticated animals challenge AND OUTSMART HIM it purposefully makes a bit of a bad image for him HAHAHA. guess you could argue Sylvester in the Jones shorts is “challenging” him too even if he WAS in the right and Porky is just being his stubborn little self and thus explaining the aggravation) but the cartoons he does have cats with—Sylvester or otherwise—he treats them a lot better than his dogs who he WILL berate for… just… existing LOL. i’ve been indoctrinating an irl friend into these shorts and we’ve both been poking a lot of fun at how mean he can get with his pets but dogs in particular… poor dogs.

different contexts and all but same director, one year apart LOL.

CUTE HEADCANON THOUGH YES!!! reminds me of the greatest image in existence, every time i see this it sends me into a fit of laughter for some reason

SEEING SYLVESTER AS A RANDOM GUY WHO FOLLOWS HIM AROUND WOULD BE… VERY ODD BUT FUNNY LOL another “Goofy vs Pluto” thing i guess. i do love the Porky/Sylvester shorts though and that Sylvester is given a purely domesticated angle. Kitty Kornered is so much fun because it has both angles (we’re led to believe that Sylvester and the gang are all domesticated animals but they immediately launch into a—rather intelligent given the circumstances—scheme to throw Porky out of his own house), but that would be a bit odd in practice to be petting your cat goodnight or something and having him say goodnight back to you HAHAHA.

BUT YES SAME HERE i am VERY excited for more Porky and Sylvester. in spite of my gripes with The Looney Tunes Show i really adore that the pilot had Porky as Sylvester’s owner instead, and even Wabbit/New Looney Tunes had an episode with them that was pretty true to the original Jones format which i love

BUT YEAH, i see him much more as a cat person than a dog person, but i am 99% sure i’m just projecting because i technically own… 10? cats? it’s a long story that i’ll shove into the tags but. i am VERY much a cat person LOL they’re all i’ve known my whole life so i’m probably imparting my bias onto Porky. i just think it’s funny that he’s deemed such a humanoid character that he’s able to OWN any pets to begin with. like… how weird would it be if Daffy owned a pet dog

[yakkoyesi]

FANCY MINIATURE SNOWMAN Yakko Plushie

Arctic Blast 2.0... 2022

Loads of states in a snowy freeeeeeeze

His name is Valentin <3

*yakko helped lil*

Fashioned with bowties & earnings... and a pushpin

Stay Warm *those effected*

......

"small things amuse small minds Give Me My HIGHT BACK!!!..~yakko X'D"

[hairunowa]

A3! Season Spring & Summer | Tsuzuru Minagi

[wifeposts]

Interesting….

[anisongoftheday]

Toilet Bound Hanako-kun Ending

Tiny Light by Kito Akari

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[mammalidentifier]

im sorry seals molt? my association with that word is insects so i am confused and intrigued

They do! I’d say most species of animals sloughs off “old” parts of their bodies at some point of their lives in some capacity. The word “molting” is used as a catch-all term for this process, although exactly what body part they shed and how they do it varies from animal to animal. Arthropods grow an entire new exoskeleton and shed the old one, but for most other animals, this process only involves shedding the outermost layer of their bodies, the pelage and/or their first layer of skin. Reptiles are quite famous for this because they sometimes manage to come out of their old skins and leave them almost fully intact as if they were kigurumi pajamas:

Mammals tend to mostly only shed fur or hair, growing thicker fur during colder months and losing it in favor of shorter fur during warmer months. How obvious this is depends on the climate, though. It’s quite perceptible in mammals that live in the arctic whose fur changes color depending on the season:

But even the difference between the summer coats and winter coats of domestic dogs can be palpable if you live in places with colder climates!

(I’m quite fascinated by this because I was born and raised in a tropical country and my dogs look the same all year round heh)

But back to the seals. Pinnipeds don’t really use their fur to keep warm like other mammals do, but they still have it, and they have to shed their old coats and grow new ones accordingly, which they do once a year!

In elephant seals, this process is so sudden and so extreme it’s called catastrophic molting. They don’t only lose their fur, but also a layer of dead skin all at once and this forces them to stay on land for a full month without swimming (and therefore, without hunting and eating) until the process is fully done. Because molting requires redirecting blood flow towards the skin instead of to their vital organs as usual, if they swam in the cold waters they’re usually accustomed to while molting, they’d freeze!

Bonus fun fact: despite having lost their fur during the evolution process, cetaceans like whales and dolphins also go through a molting process where they lose a layer of dead skin, which they scrape off by rubbing against rocks and rolling on sand banks.

It’s been recently discovered (as of 2020!) that the reason whales migrate annually from arctic waters to tropical waters is the exact same reason elephant seals spend a month on land: to molt! It’s much easier for a whale to keep warm while shedding its skin in warm waters than it is in cold waters.

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