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Update: one of my friends was so captivated by the snorse I made him a sculpture
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by Andres Gamiochipi
The powerful and majestic snorse
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Update: one of my friends was so captivated by the snorse I made him a sculpture
Thank you @quandocoeli what imagination!

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Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)
This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.
After the Rain / Chapter 49 / Jun Mayuzuki

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Kowloon Generic Romance vol 11 illustration by Jun Mayuzuki
you should read otherword Barbara
planets of sol and (some of) their moons
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
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always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
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being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors
with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors
plato's cave: the video game
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
Might I add:
The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child
The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
The adventures of a space roomba
Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)
I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head
hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):
The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)
The Monster of Sentan
The Witch’s Cat
Raise Both Children
Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)
Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)
My Arch Nemesis Cynthia
Pirates and Mermaid
Eindred and the Witch
The Demon King
The Cornerwitch
Grandmother Beetroot
Apocalypse Daycare Worker
Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon
New Year Saga
A Story About Changelings
Ranger in the King’s Forest
The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit
Goblin Men (Canines)
I am in love with you /p
Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella
21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship
22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed
adding the Doctors Without Borders one
I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!
24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children
25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard
26. Haunted house
27. Shark hero was about to go rogue
28. Grandma lives in the woods comic
29. A Different Aftermath comic
30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)
31. It’s A Date comic
32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay
33. Narrative Town
34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic
35. Robot Apocalypse
36. The Statues That Do Not Weather
37. Kushiel
38. Tooth Fairy
39. Alien abduction
40. Felonious wish-granting
41. When humans met actual space orcs
42. Space cousins
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Who ever added those links without asking is doing lord’s work fs.
Reblogging this again cause I never want this post to die
Making it a tradition to reblog whenever I see it.
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I would love to see a fantasy novel where the lore that the reader / protagonist learns at first is not true
e.g. they're told that this kind of creature has some kind of psychic or pheromone-based "mate bond" that cannot be broken; but it turns out that's a popular myth that has never been scientifically substantiated, and is basically used to keep people in bad relationships (basically the equivalent of "human women are biologically submissive")
"lore" is imo too often treated like information that the author is giving the reader, and it just happens to be using the medium of diagetic (that is, 'in-story') exposition.
it's so much more interesting and dynamic to treat "lore" as information that is generated and disseminated in-story. who is telling the protagonist this information? under what historical and social circumstances was this idea formed? what political motives are there for trying to get people to believe this information? which characters would disagree with it? would the protagonist believe it, or be sceptical? does the plot bear it out, or cast doubt on it?

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Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.
Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!
This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!
{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}
I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!
More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit
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If there's no war, do you think Cassie's and Jake's relationship could work? Tobias' and Rachel's?
My gut says that without the influence of aliens, Cassie and Jake would be fine—better, even, than they are in canon—while Rachel and Tobias would have never happened in the first place and wouldn’t have stayed together even if they had tried dating.
Cassie and Jake:
Their inciting incident, so to speak, is simply that Rachel notices their mutual crush and decides to get her inner Emma Woodhouse on. She’s the one who decides that they should all walk home together despite the sexism of it all specifically because she can tell Cassie’s interested in Jake (#1), she pretty much announces to Cassie that her interest is mutual (#9) and she goes through various Rachel-esque schemes to dress Cassie up nice and send her off to go hang out with Jake (#14, #24), until eventually she escalates to instructing Jake about when and where he will ask Cassie on dates (#29, #36). All of that would not only happen without the war, it would probably progress a lot faster without the war as this huge distraction taking up all their spare time. Jake and Cassie actually spend Thanksgiving together (#4) and regularly sit next to each other on the bus holding hands (#6) well before the war begins, so they’re headed in that direction before the war gets in the way.
During the course of their relationship, Jake and Cassie demonstrate a very healthy ability to discuss their disagreements in a way that does occasionally descend into arguing but never involves any kind of passive aggression or aggressive-aggression, instead openly airing their points of view and hashing it out (#9, #16, #31, #41). If they got married the way that Jake so clearly wants them to as of #53, I could definitely see them having a healthy long-term relationship: Cassie’s the more intelligent and dedicated one, so she’d probably be the breadwinner, while Jake’s better at leadership and general pragmatism, so he’d probably focus more on taking care of any kids or pets or houses they might acquire along the way.
The dissolution of their relationship, as unpleasant as it is, can also be traced directly back to the war. The specific incident in this case is of course Cassie preventing Jake from killing Tom, and that would obviously not be an issue without yeerks (#50). It’s worth noting that that specific incident also comes after a long decline in the quality of their relationship—in #41 Jake shows dawning awareness that they are growing apart, Cassie spends half of #44 flirting with some other boy while barely thinking of Jake, and in #48 the two of them have an argument that never gets fully resolved. However, so much of that dissolution comes from their mutual and growing anhedonia, which is unquestionably a side-effect of some combination of PTSD and depression that they both show as early as #16, that I am reasonably confident in saying that the war destroyed their relationship both in the acute and the chronic sense.
Rachel and Tobias:
Although Rachel and Tobias would have met each other without the war, it’s not clear that they would have necessarily dated. Their inciting incident as a couple is the discovery in #1 that they are the most passionate about getting involved in the war and avenging Elfangor; if there are no aliens then they obviously don’t have that common ground. The process of them getting closer as a couple is at least partially driven by the fact that Tobias wants human company and Rachel’s his best option (he can’t stand the thought of either Jake or Cassie pitying him, while he and Marco just straight-up dislike each other at first). Most of what they have in common comes from the war: Tobias draws attention to the fact that they both have these dual identities (#32), while Rachel feels like Tobias is the only one she can talk to about her own willingness to kill (#17). These two do have more than enough common ground, but it’s all common ground built on a foundation of violence and predation.
Note as well that they’re not together if they’re not both Animorphs: MM4 has Rachel/Marco in that AU, while MM3 has Tobias/Melissa in the AU opening. Whereas Jake and Cassie are still together in both books. They’re not a happy couple (Jake’s ragingly racist in the MM3 AU, and dead in the MM4 one) but they’re together. Unlike Rachel and Tobias.
Rachel, like Cassie, toys with the idea of dating elsewhere, but a lot of what drives her away from (the unfortunately named) T.T. in #27 is not so much the realization that she prefers Tobias as the realization that she no longer has anything in common with the perfectly ordinary T.T. She and Tobias spend all their time fighting side by side, so of course they have a fire-forged friendship. These two also do not handle conflict well: in #37 Rachel casts Tobias questioning one of her decisions as “betrayal” and Tobias is passive-aggressive the whole time, in #13 Tobias literally gets to the verge of starving to death rather than have a conversation with Rachel about how he envies her human life, and in #33 Rachel arguably risks Tobias ending up trapped in morph just to have a conversation. Most of their disagreements go unresolved or set aside as something more important and yeerk-shaped comes up, and although they love each other passionately, they do not do nearly enough of the hard but necessary work of relationship-building. Jake and Cassie argue more, but Rachel and Tobias do a lot more “What’s wrong?” “Nothing.” “Then why do you seem upset?” “I’m fine. God!” etcetera.
Assuming there was no war, Rachel’s and Tobias’s relative places in the social hierarchy of their school would also become unavoidably more important and thus more of an obstacle. Rachel’s at the top of their social pyramid; Tobias is at the bottom. Rachel works to stay there, and enjoys her popularity; Tobias struggles to make friends and has resolved himself to perpetual New Kid-dom. (Contrast, again, Jake and Cassie: they’re both cheerfully clueless about the social hierarchy, and the only reason Jake ranks higher than Cassie is that he’s a wealthy gender-conforming white male jock, while she is none of those things.) Rachel and Tobias would almost certainly face negative social pressure if they dated openly, and would run into a whole host of other obstacles in a yeerkless world: they are both fiercely independent and prone to anger, they are both okay-to-bad at communication and reading other people, and they are both willing to fight really really dirty when cornered (#33, #22).
The evolution of Rachel’s and Tobias’s relationship is also not necessarily one of them becoming closer as it is them becoming more codependent as they both become more volatile. I have expressed my displeasure with Cassie’s assumption that Rachel is “the only person who ever loved Tobias,” but it also makes sense that Cassie, and Tobias, would see it that way (#54). Not only does Tobias not know what to do with himself without Rachel both in the short term (MM3, #29) and in the long term (#54), but Rachel puts some deeply unfair emotional weight on Tobias: part of the reason that she is so harsh to him in #32 and #37 is that she feels she needs him to look at her and see a good person in order to retain her sense of selfhood. Those two keep each other sane during the war. I think that if Rachel had lived they’d be capable of a healthy relationship after the war. But without the war, I don’t think they’d go beyond giving each other the time of day, and that they might be better off that way. Poetry might have put it best: their relationship is fun to read about, fun to write about, and flawed in reality.
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#one of the things i like about the relationships in animorphs is how contextual they are#theres no soulmates together in every universe kinda thing#they have the relationships they do because of the situations theyre in#and if the context changes‚ so do the relationships#it feels a lot more grounded in reality than the stories where all the couples get together as teenagers and stay married for life#animorphs#(i might quibble on one small point tho -#i’m not sure rachel actually cares about being at the top of the social hierarchy#i think she kinda gets put there due to being a pretty white upper middle class girl who’s feminine‚ smart nd athletic and gets good grades#but i dont think she’s actually putting in effort to be a Popular Girl#especially given how few friends she seems to have outside the team#this is all very much a tangent to the main point tho)
I would agree! The romances feel incredibly grounded, and understanding why these two people are together is part of it.
I guess I read Rachel as enjoying when people don’t mess with her, and enjoying some of the social “games” — fashion, competition — of high school. As well as automatically getting promoted because of her appearance, yes. But I don’t think she has an iota of bully in her, so if that’s the only way to get ahead in her class then she’d almost certainly nope out.