Live from your mothers basement

By Dragonarte

Hi, Tom! Hi, Igadevil!

FINALLY!

CONNER HAS COME BACK HOME!

Young Justice #1

Instead of Santa, there are 13 Trolls called “Yule Lads” who leave candy or rotting potatoes in your shoes…

They’re also all apparently fetishists who’s name describes their kink. Stekkjastaur - Sheep-Cote - Clod Harasses sheep, but is impaired by his stiff peg-legs. Giljagaur - Gully Gawk - Hides in gullies, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into the cowshed and steal milk. Stúfur - Stubby - Abnormally short. Steals pans to eat the crust left on them. Þvörusleikir - Spoon-Licker - Steals Þvörur (a type of a wooden spoon with a long handle - I. þvara) to lick. Is extremely thin due to malnutrition. Pottaskefill - Pot-Scraper - Steals leftovers from pots. Askasleikir - Bowl-Licker - Hides under beds waiting for someone to put down their ‘askur’ (a type of bowl with a lid used instead of dishes), which he then steals. Hurðaskellir - Door-Slammer - Likes to slam doors, especially during the night. Skyrgámur - Skyr-Gobbler - A Yule Lad with an affinity for “skyr”. Bjúgnakrækir - Sausage-Swiper - Would hide in the rafters and snatch sausages that were being smoked. Gluggagægir - Window-Peeper - A voyeur who would look through windows in search of things to steal. Gáttaþefur - Doorway-Sniffer - Has an abnormally large nose and an acute sense of smell which he uses to locate laufabrauð. Ketkrókur - Meat-Hook - Uses a hook to steal meat. Kertasníkir - Candle-Stealer - Follows children in order to steal their candles (which in those days was made of tallow and thus edible).

And don’t forget their pet the Yule Cat “a huge and vicious cat said to lurk about the snowy countryside during Christmastime and eat people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve”

Zi-O’s Heisei Rider anniversary logo. The shoe soles of each Rider circling the logo are a nice touch.

Keita Amemiya, creator of Garo and character/monster designer of various tokusatsu works (Kamen Rider J & ZO, Zeiram, Shougeki Gouraigan, etc.) throughout the years, was a guest at Monsterpalooza this weekend!

My friend and I were 1st in line on Saturday!  He was quick yet detailed with each of his commissions, doing them on the spot.  Those in line did not mind the (surprisingly quick) wait because we all got to witness his magic with the brush pen.  He came prepared with a stack of shikishi so we didn’t even have to supply our own.

Fun fact: Amemiya-san has a Pikachu cellphone ring =X

Fat? Easy to gain. So so easy. Our bodies want to keep fat around, because we’re designed not to starve.

Dropping fat? NOT so easy. When people talk about “losing fat,” what they’re saying is “I need to override millions of years of genetics to convince my body I’m not dying and it doesn’t need this carefully-stored fuel.” Dieting? Your body thinks it’s starving. Work out like crazy? Your body thinks it’s in a situation where it needs to bring the hammer down on the regular, and that means you need more fuel – speaking just for myself, I want to eat the world after I lift. That shit doesn’t melt away, even if you’ve been training like a motherfucking monster for months and eating right, because the body wants to keep it.

So yeah, the “eat less move more” doctrine can fuck itself right in the face. 

There are very, very active fat people, fat people who are experts at every sport and physical activity you can imagine. But because fat rests on top of the muscle, you don’t know when we’re jacked. Oh, sure, sometimes you can get a idea, if a person is WILDLY active, like for a fucking living. Here’s Samoa Joe, the NXT pro wrestling champion who was literally dethroned last night: 

Yeah, you can see there’s a lot of power there. 

But a lot of times you can’t. Here’s Vince Wilfork, two-time Superbowl tackling champion:

And here’s Holley Mangold, 2012 superheavyweight division Olympian: 

These are people who fight (and flip, and do all kinds of crazy shit in Joe’s case), and run, and lift for a living. 

And they’re not unusual, as much as you’d like to think so. The world is full of fat powerhouses, of fat runners, of fat Crossfitters, and they’re just as good at doing the thing as their smaller counterparts. 

So realism? Fuck off. The only reason we don’t have fat game characters is because society is fatphobic as fuck. 

(Exhibit A: Fezzik carrying 3 people up a cliff)

“yeah but that’s fictional!”

Cool story, quick question: can you? 

Ultra Signs

Soooooo I spent the entire late night scribbling these out. These came from whatever was available online (screenshots from stage shows, magazine scans and such.) I’d write down the others, but I can’t make them out from one of the images I was referring to due to its small size and low quality.

And then on Mebius’ Ultra Sign, if you look at the curve and the circle at the end, it may as well represent his Mebium Brace.