| Kip or Kana ✦ 20s ✦ any pronouns |
| ghostcat major with a catland minor |
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| art blog |
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About Me
I've had this blog since 2013, and it is and always has been a dumping ground for whatever strikes my fancy (which mostly ends up being art reblogs). I always have trouble paring myself down to fit into a snappy little bio, but here goes: In fandom spaces like this, I'm mostly a cheerleader and sometimes an artist. I have too many interests to fit in one post or even one blog, but I especially like mysteries, puzzle games, music, ghost stories and other spooky things (body horror in particular). I am nervous always but trying to embrace the "do it scared" lifestyle. I reblog a lot.
Don't be afraid to interact, even if we don't follow each other--I know my blog isn't for everyone (and not everyone's blogs are for me), but if we're in the same fandoms/like the same things I consider us neighbors on this website. So feel free to come say hi!
Content Warnings/Filtering
This blog will occasionally contain gore, body horror, and nsfw content. I tag my reblogs with #nsfw/#suggestive, #blood, #gore, and #body horror as applicable. I don't generally tag nsfw text or non-sexual/artistic nudity. Original posts get more thoroughly tagged, and I try and tag some more common triggers in my reblogs, if I catch them. If you want something specific tagged, please let me know! ✨
Fandoms + Tag directory under the cut!
Fandoms
My current most active fandom is Dead Boy Detectives (may it rest in peace), but I also still carry a torch for:
Star Wars (mostly Kylux)
BBC Merlin
Simon Snow/Carry On series
The Witcher (books & Netflix series; one day I may get around to playing the games)
Dan and Phil
Twoset Violin
Professor Layton (all games, movie, anime)
Spiderman (in all forms, though I'm not a huge comic reader)
plus honestly a bunch of stuff I never got ~into~ into but still blog about sometimes. I contain multitudes and all that. I also sometimes reblog art for fandoms I'm not in.
I'm a big ol' multishipper, chronic ao3 tag skipper (bad habit, I know), willing to try almost anything once (or twice), and a firm believer that (fan)art and other (fan)works have a right to exist, even if they contain things I don't like. Casefic/monster-of-the-week fics will always and forever be my favorite, even if it makes no damn sense for the canon I'm reading for (detective/ghost-hunting aus my beloved).
Tag Directory
My tags are mostly for internal organization, but here they are if you want to use them anyway:
#chatterbox for asks and personal text posts (also #ask games)
#for later and #pin to bookmark things
#keepsakes for poems, text posts etc. that I find touching/motivating/especially funny/whatever
#ref and #ref source are both self-explanatory I think
as is #recipes
and #music
#my art for stuff i reblogged from my art blog
#my music for music i have written (or perhaps someday, performed)
#kana makes things for stuff i make that isnt art or music
#fandom for stuff about fandom culture, history, and etiquette
The only fandom I tag for consistently atm is DBD:
#dbda for general Dead Boy Detectives content
#dbdaart for fanart
#dbdaanalysis for analysis
#dbda meta for meta
#dbda hcs for headcanons (mine or others')
#dbda cast for cast pics, bts etc.
#gr cameos for gameos and #gameos and jameos for the gameodens
Also tangentially related to DBD: #appearances/#pismo beach/#barbara lasagna
For characters (and sometimes actors) i usually use the character's initials:
No tags for Mick or Simon. I also tag #core four for posts prominently featuring all four main characters. Genderswapped main chars are tagged #dead girl detectives. I also have an #orbwin and chorb tag :3
Other Blogs
art blog @atariakana-art
insp blog @colorbbomb
arch blog @modernarchapologist
i am also @deadboydetectives-ao3feed!
That's it, that's all!
Sorry this post about 3 miles long, I'm a certified yapper 😅 Thanks for taking the time to read, I hope you enjoy your stay in my little corner of the internet 🫡
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Cities are inherently more sustainable than returning to some idealistic agrarian world, but we can't recognize that because we have just decided the color grey means bad
This is because cities concentrate people, allowing for land to be preserved for nature, and for less energy to be used in transport as things are closer together.
The issue with your agarian solarpunk future is that moving our entire society to agarianism would require the destruction of massive amounts of open land and be significantlh more energy intensive if you were to ever move goods between locations
Also you still need industry to produce things like solar panels which hypothetically are used to power all modes of transport, unless you want to switch to horses
One does wonder whether urbanism would be more popular if cities were made more colourful. Red brick, green foliage, and just absolutely shameless amounts of pigment. My art teacher used to say something to the effect of any unpainted space being wasted, and we may need to bring that energy to the urban environment.
Murals have been getting more popular recently and my city, as much as I don’t like it here, has been making an effort in the past decade or so to landscape a lot of the city, passing laws that require commercial land owners to landscape a certain percentage of their property if it’s in use.
Frankly there’s a lot of cities that are pretty cool to walk around in? I lived in Austin for a while and I loved walking around downtown. They’ve got a lot of public art there.
Also a lot of peoples issues with cities are because of the noise pollution but a lot of noise pollution in cities comes from cars. If you reduce the need for cars and what few cars you do have are electric then the ambient noise goes down significantly.
I think public transit needs to be made significantly better in order for there to be less cars. In a lot of cities you often have to go further into the city then transfer when it would probably been faster if there was a more direct route there and was set up like a wheel with spokes rather than just spokes to the center of the city.
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Because of its explosive nature, not all applications of nitrocellulose were successful. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a US$10,000 prize to whoever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacement, which he created with a new material he invented, called camphored nitrocellulose—the first thermoplastic, better known as celluloid. The invention enjoyed a brief popularity, but the Hyatt balls were extremely flammable, and sometimes portions of the outer shell would explode upon impact. An owner of a billiard saloon in Colorado wrote to Hyatt about the explosive tendencies, saying that he did not mind very much personally but for the fact that every man in his saloon immediately pulled a gun at the sound.
“You Hyatt? Well, unfortunately, Mr. Hyatt, the material you designed for a game that involves regular impacts sometimes hauls off and explodes on impact.”
“Oh dear!”
“Nah, it’s fine, we like it. it just makes the cowboys anxious.”
“Oh…?”
“They jump like stung cats faced with a pickle.”
“Is that…?”
“But personally I fuckin love it. Adds a classy edge, a what you call a nuance to the premise of my gaming establishment. I’m just telling you about the cowboys for, you know, your research programme or whatever. Now, I don’t know what chemical engineering really is, but I reckon you oughta include more cowboy representation in yer future iterations. See if you can engineer up some kinda ball that explodes with a gentle kinda noise maybe - like a ‘ping.’ Maybe like a ‘tinkle-tinkle-tinkle.’ Gentler, ya see? Easier on the post-traumatic nervous system.”
“A … tinkle-tinkle?”
“I’m not a fancy man a’science. Maybe a rewarding ba-dink. More ✨, less 💥, you see what I mean.”
“Er… okay.”
“So can ya go ahead and send a dozen boxes more?”
“Sorry?”
“On’account’a the constant fuckin attrition of billiard balls? They’re explodin’ every ten hits, we’re running low on ‘em, you can see that, right?”
“You want more? You want more! Okay! Okay.”
“Yeah - oh - hang on. You’ll want to get some of that there FRAGILE tape all over the boxes. Lots of it. For fair warning.”
Incidentally, celluloid was also used as a film base for many years (until acrylic film bases were developed.) This caused a not-insignificant number of fires including one when a portion of Cleveland Clinic exploded when their X-ray photographs archives caught fire.
Cellulose was also used in fountain pens of that era, making vintage pens from the early 20th century a risky proposition, as they have a habit of spontaneously bursting into flames.
“Ethel, bring me 50 mL of Parker Quink and the pen that causes more problems than it solves. I’m going to knock their bloody socks off. Porn you have to handle with welding gloves. Porn that wins the war.”
“Prim, I’m not sure-“
“I need the pen! The pen that remembers everything!”
“Prim, please, the fire warden said-“
“Did I fucking stutter, Ethel? do you think all of this fucking about with victory gardens and blackout paper and casual lesbianism actually kills Nazis?”
“Wait, how do you think the porn is going to?”
“Oh, you can’t predict where art will end up. We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it! … With the pen.”
For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:
Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3
Post it to AO3
And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.
Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count?
A: Yes!
Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely?
A: Okay!
Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small?
A: Sure!
Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else?
A: Wherever!
Q: What if--
A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.
And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:
So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.
There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.
Since some people have asked: There's now a Small Fandom Summer 2026 AO3 Collection! You can post your stuff right here! It's completely open and unmoderated, so if you think something goes there, well, go on and add it! Hopefully by the end of the summer, we'll have a nice little collection of stuff there.
And since some other people have asked: There's no start date for this, nor is this an end date. "Summer" in this context is an extremely arbitrary unit of measurement. I'm starting now because my personal summer runs from about mid-May to mid-August. Yours may vary.
I'm thrilled so many people have seemed excited about this! I hope it inspires the creation of a whole bunch of good stuff!
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im posting this here despite the website being extremely white centered, I want people to understand how in this country it's basically ok to murder and victimize black people, especially women and children in the name of "self defense" and white America will reward you for your antiblackness.
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i dont want to do homework or go to work i want to create overly detailed listening guides complete with citations and a chic layout for a middlingly popular book series that maybe three people on Earth will even look at
