| any pronouns work | Welcome to my small little corner of the internet nice to meet you. I'm Ori, I mostly post about my art, or when I play games. And... that's pretty much everything.
Dawntrail will be out before we know it so all these tags will be changing for that, if you don’t want to see spoilers or just don’t want to see my posts about the game feel free to block these:
new patch is coming out soon so here’s new tags for it:
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
One time when I was a kid a group of girls and I had to treat another student for hypothermia by ourselves because she had so many invisible health issues that the adults we asked for help didn't believe us. The student in question was actively hallucinating. When I finally ran for help the people I grabbed were slow as shit to respond, casually joking about how "dramatic" the person in question was.
The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.
Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.
I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.
Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.
"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."
"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."
"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"
Sincerely, truly, from the bottom of my heart- as someone who isn't physically disabled but hears this shit all the time- fuck off
If staff reformed the ban system to stop banning trans women and used the resulting good will to re-introduce pornography, this site would become a juggernaut. It would swallow Twitter whole.
Today is the 11th anniversary of the first time I drew these two together! That means I've been drawing these two being mushy officially for over a decade now...which is crazy to think about.
I wanted to keep the art for them this year really simple. If you wanna learn how exactly Red Beans came to be, I'll leave my big ole' history dump under the read more (as well as the original pic this is a redraw of)
Back in 2015, when I was in high school and working on Beanstalked, I first drew Jack and Nana together on May 10th. However, it wasn't QUITE the beginning of their romance yet - it was still very much platonic in intention because I hadn't even decided on WHO I wanted Jack to end up with exactly.
When I first came up with Beanstalked and was writing and designing characters, there actually wasn't even a Little Red Riding Hood yet. Obviously, one was planned to exist in story since you can't really have a giant fairy tale mashup without one but I was struggling HARD with coming up with a design that actually stood out from all the other Reds in every other fairy tale adaptation and retelling.
This means Nana didn't even exist in the old and outdated Beanstalked chapters I made prior to 2015 which... means Jack didn't have a love interest even while I was actively updating the comic. And I REALLY wanted to give him one. He just had the vibe of a protagonist who needed SOMEONE romantically. It's hard to put into words other than comparing it to when you find a broken piece of something, only to realize it's half of another thing and you need to find that thing to make the broken pieces whole.
ANYWAYS - I tried plenty of match ups for Jack. I tried Goldilocks, I tried the Swan Princess, I tried a male Little Red Riding Hood with heavy yandere vibes (listen I was desperate for a unique character design for Little Red), HELL I EVEN TRIED PINOKUNI!
Nobody stuck. The chemistry was either lackluster, bland as hell, or too awkward to work out. And during that time, I had made my third and final attempt at a Little Red Riding Hood design. This design winded up becoming the Nana we know today.
Around the time I had ironed out her initial design (before I made her a Lupine), I drew this little picture of her and Jack dancing.
It was meant to be a cute little moment of their friendship since at this time, I was still trying to figure out who to pair Jack with. Nana WAS initially written to have a small one-sided crush on Jack because I always found that kind of dynamic cute, but I didn't intend to go much further than that...
...farm boy had other intentions though because I kept finding myself drawing cute little moments between them together.
💬 0 🔁 8 ❤️ 8 · I started to notice how nearly everytime I draw Najla I end up drawing her alongside Jack...so I put her in a jar to solve
Sidenote: It's incredibly funny to read old me's posts about these two before I fully fell down the Red Beans rabbit hole. (also Nana's name used to be Najla so just a heads up). I really was doing my best to avoid becoming the shipping trash I am today just because I was too embarrassed back then about drawing romance art. I was so damn determined to draw cool and awesome story stuff and character designs. OH how things have changed...
ANYWAYS BACK TO THE STORY - I fully believe this was Jack choosing his own love interest instead of waiting on me to give him one. I NEVER FELT MYSELF DRAWING CUTE MOMENTS BETWEEN HIM AND THE OTHER CHARACTERS I TRIED TO PUT HIM WITH BEFORE but when Nana came along, I just COULDN'T STOP DRAWING THEM TOGETHER!
AND I HAVEN'T STOPPED.
I HAVEN'T STOPPED FOR 11 YEARS!!!
*Ahem* SO Eventually settled on giving them a ship name, Inukag style, by calling them Jajla...eventually I just decided that nicknames for ships were cuter and picked Red Beans for them instead since I wanted to make a reference to their fairy tales: Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk. It's incredibly funny that this moment led to my long running tradition of naming my OC ships after foods because I wasn't even thinking of food initially. It was just a massive coincidence that worked in my favor since I realized red beans were a thing.
I continued to draw them together, redesigned them together, and eventually rebooted the entire comic so them being together became more of a crucial plot point and not just a side piece to the meal. Nana even went from being a minor side character to part of the main team and a major player in the story itself...which is crazy now to look back on because it is so hard to imagine the Fabled Five NOT including Nana. (though it wasn't really called the Fabled Five back then)
Jack and Nana have remained an important part of my art journey since the day I drew them dancing together. They're the sole reason I got better at my art and are the biggest reasons I didn't abandon Beanstalked years ago and continue to work on it even today.
These two have also been wonderous help for me mentally and emotionally and have brought me many years of comfort just by them being together.
HERE'S TO 11 YEARS STRAIGHT OF DRAWING RED BEANS! I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE YEARS OF DRAWING THESE TWO MADLY IN LOVE!
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Has anyone else noticed recently that when you press the 🅐 Button while in the air you can hardly find the strength to do a Double Jump anymore? Go ahead and try if you want, but it won't work.
Nothing's been the same since she... fuck... I'm sorry... since she... since she left this world. If only I'd remembered that holding and releasing the 🅑 Button would've allowed me perform a powerful Spin Attack. If I hadn't forgotten, she might still be here today. Shit... fuck... I can't handle this anymore, I'm sorry.
There's a Save Point over there. They say if you stand on it and press 🅧 you can save your game. But can any of us really be saved? I don't think so. Not after everything we've done.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
This is not necessarily doctors (though it is some doctors) but very frequently is parents, teachers, and employers.
The mechanism often starts with a legitimate treatment then strips out all the accommodations and support that make it effective. Any time some new thing becomes trendy, like mindfulness or DBT, you get to see it happen in real time.
A woman not shaving or wearing a dress or wearing makeup or wearing femme clothes or having styled or long hair or caring how she looks or using a masc name or whatever else is actually a neutral thing and not a sign of her being depressed or giving up or being sad or whatever
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.
eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??
turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.
sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale is lurking around
and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start
A little pain never hurt anyone @origamihoshi - Tumblr Blog | Tumlook