Towns

On this little minecraft roleplay server where we have a Urahara kinnie next to an anthropomorphic fox next to a bright neon green blob thing, skins put absolutely no limit to the kind of story they can tell. The story doesn't revolve around these characters and their odd origins their skins seem to imply—all it demands is that they fit into the world that is theirs to carve and shape as they wish.

Most of the time skins are just a convenient tool to be used in a Comedic Bit—like, insulting Techno using the words "bacon" and "butcher". BBH being an angelic/demonic entity and having the excuse to designate himself eight feet tall. Foolish naming himself Father of Totems because of his skin and using it's unholy features to scare people. Fucking Mexican Dream.

But then in the flip side, it could also be used to tell a story. The messy fit of Tubbo's tweek skin being used as the basis of the "he was abandoned on the side of a road" story. Schlatt's goat horns foreshadowing the devilish cruelty of his character. Ranboo's creating a monstrous amount of well-executed lore based on his half-enderman, half-something status. Crowns symbolizing the concepts of corruption and betrayal due to being one of Eret's, Ranboo's, and Techno's signature items.

And then the fan designs make it even more charming! Pogtopia!Tommy being distinguished from OG-L'manberg!Tommy with his a green bandana and braces. Sam being drawn as a centaur as a nod to normal creepers having four legs while still being obviously human and sentient. Karl's eyesore of a color scheme being used no matter what the time period of his outfit is.

Science Saturday

This week we are diving into the realm of popular natural history with the American Boys Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles by Dan Beard; with illustrations by the author. It was published by the J. B. Lippincott Company in Philadelphia in 1915. The colored plate features insects from the American Museum of Natural History. Daniel Carter Beard was the founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone youth program that later merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. This book is a guide to insects with tips for catching, collecting, and preserving specimens. It is specifically targeted at boys, but it follows in a long tradition of teaching young people about the natural world because it was considered a wholesome pastime activity.  

Beard wrote in the introduction:

“Among the little folk of this world known as the insects, we find almost as many traits of character as we do among the human beings. We have the idle insects, the industrious insects, the warlike insects, the robber insects, the dead-beat insects, the stupid insects and the intelligent insects. We also have among them the low, degraded insects, dirty insects, clean insects, the sluggish slow-moving insects, the bright lively insects, the useful insects and the beautiful insects; all of them interesting, all of them in one way or another are of vast importance to man, and a study of their habits is not only a source of fun but it is also a most useful study. Besides which, boys, nature lovers live longer and happier lives than ordinary people!”

Today’s post features examples of Lepidoptera, the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths.

View other Science Saturday posts.

View other posts about BUGS.

setup crack

download these two then setup paint studio right click one of the icons after its done and click “file location” copy the crack files into the main paint studio file then click on the crack.exe till it says ok open paint studio

adobe animate: