#loreofthefritz

Oh my gosh.

That’s so them coded, the fact it’s blue and purple too??

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT QUESTION..... because it makes me think so hard i can't think of anything conclusively :') first up is- would this insect race be one species? one family? one order? or just a mix of all different kinds? there's literally around a million insect species and almost 30 orders that are INCREDIBLY diverse in form. i don't want to paste every single example here but here's just the silhouettes to give you an idea!!

(deep longing sigh, a graphic from one of my favorite papers by misof et al. 2014)

but also i could just. make up a new bug entirely?? 😳 like just smash together my favorite characteristics from across the insect world... what sounds good to me atm is cool wings (i like plain membranous more than the scaly wings of butterflies/moths, you can get cool patterns with them too), the general horse shape of a mantis/snakefly and sound producing organs (insects make noises in different ways! crickets stridulate by rubbing their wings together, cicadas expand/contract their tymbals, hissing roaches compress air through their spiracles). i like the idea of insects singing to communicate, it's pretty much only to attract mates or scare predators but i think it's a generally romantic idea :'3 i also think it's cool to consider aspects of physiology, like insects have an open circulatory system (their organs are bathed in hemolymph instead of supplied by vessels), they have a more decentralized nervous system (can still get around despite lots of their body missing), they can overwinter, among other things. oh i think i'd also like them to be holometabolous (larva>pupa>adult rather than a nymph that gradually sheds into its adult form) because i want to see proud parents holding their cute little worm babies :3c

in terms of dragon ball i can say what i won't do- toriyama i'm making a callout post on tumblr dot com- there are insects other than cicadas (although i LOVE cicadas) but i am tired of these things

it is a real structure found among the true bugs (order hemiptera, includes aphids, leafhoppers, cicadas, etc.) called a cibarium which basically houses the big muscles the herbivorous members use to suck up plant juices. SUCK, you say?? yeah these things don't have chewing mouthparts so shut your weird beak mouth, cell. you're supposed to be sucking up people with that instead. their mouths have been modified into straw things called a rostrum which you can barely see under the cibarium of that cicada. if i had to make an alien race based off these kinds of bugs, their mouths would remain rostra and i'd definitely have them communicate through sound production only. that would be hella cool.

(also while we're on the cell callout train, cell's wings are based off the shell of a beetle which are technically called elytra but THERE'S ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE MEMBRANOUS NORMAL WINGS UNDERNEATH! insects typically have two pairs of wings and the shell of a beetle is just the hardened first pair.)

hehe sorry that went on for a bit. take some bonus doodles that this inspired although i wouldn't consider these examples of a sentient alien race. i really like snakeflies and think they're adorable OTL

What kind of question 😭😭😭♥︎♥︎

I’m gonna give you an answer that might be shocking

Goku would plant the flowers, he wants them to last forever. I think he’s the type that appreciates permanence where he can get it. Also he likes the flowers and wouldn’t mind seeing them every day for the rest of his life.

Goten would smell the flowers. He would not know how to plant them, and maybe the smell is really good, but the longer he stares at them, the more his thoughts tell him he will get in trouble with his mother if he tries to eat them.

List your top five favorite characters in order of how much you like them.

TRUNKS 💞💞💞 his burnt out gifted energy is my fav AND ‼️ HE is a Scorpio like me and thats why hes my favorite

Vegeta 🙏 short king energy, love an angry goblin

Bulma....😽😽😽 mommy

Gohan 🤓 same energy as trunks but less chaos

Tie between Valese and Marron 🤞 they may as well be one bc they are one soul

The Dragon Ball series isn’t exactly known for being consistent with its story, its characters, and various other things. Which inconsistency irritates you the most?

AGES‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ you cannot keep track of how old everyone is in this damn show NEITHER OF THEM LOOK LIKE A NINE YEAR OLD

The questions!

6) Which saga is your favorite? 

UHMMM Right so - The Great Saiyaman Saga is my favourite because of the low-stakesness of it, and seeing Gohan interact with the rest of the world, I love all the worldbuilding snippets! But, I don't think it would work as a standalone series, as I feel you need the rest of the show to really understand why it's a good breather? It's the eternal conundrum of loving slice-of-life fantasy, really hard to pull off without knowing the full stakes.

This is a SUPER interesting headcanon, and def makes a lot of sense

Gohan’s emotions have always seemed pretty highly linked to his powers, and well. Power upgrades clearly effect everything else on the body (they get all big and muscly, their eye color changes, hair grows and changes color) so it would only make sense that their senses get better too !!

And to constantly go back and forth with that, maybe it *does* take a toll on gohan— he’s the first half-saiyan-half-human, so he’s pretty much setting every precedent. Maybe he’s a lot stronger but his body/ psyche isn’t as built to handle it, or he was traumatized too much too early and wasn’t able to build his way to enjoy fighting, so it took a toll that way—

Either way I agree, he did choose a more realistic lifestyle because he didn’t have an interest in fighting for the rest of his life lol

Am I just imagining a non-existent problem? It is just me being sensitive at any downplays of platonic and familial bonds to cater for romance? Did they purposely do it to show how macho Gohan is? I am aware of my personal biases in consuming fiction but this I'm nonetheless sad about this

Okay, as someone who loves goten a lot I am maybe biased too but I totally agree !!!!

We missed out on a lot with them barely giving any tidbits about goten— I’d have loved to see more about goten and gohan being brothers, their actual dynamic outside of just excited little brother and mature older brother…like there’s no way they never fought once !!! Or gohan being a guardian figure for goten, helping him with anything like school stuffs too would have been really nice to see.

And like, they gave us little details about how talented goten is and how much potential he has and then immediately sidelined him !!! He’s only relevant when it’s in a side character role with trunks, goten, or goku/chichi as the main role. It’s such a disservice to his character !!! Baby scrimbly boy deserves better !!!

There’s nothing wrong with gohan having a romance but I REALLY feel like buu saga had a lot of … stuffing. In it. A lot of really non-important things that could have easily been taken out and made the arc better. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Buu saga focused on all the things I didn’t care about and completely skipped over the stuff I wanted to see more of!! LOL

So. Yes you’re not the only one. In fact, I am of the opinion that Toriyama has a weird thing against siblings because every sibling ever gets sidelined so hard— and that’s if they’re lucky enough to not have been killed