#robotrain

All this time, I thought Megumi Ogata was the voice of Hiro. I have no idea why; after looking up some clips to refresh my memory, they don't even sound that much alike.

​Perhaps you got it mixed up with the recent announcement of Ogata voicing Rui in The Beginning? That certainly got all of us running around screaming that such a big-ticket A-lister was going to be on Digimon (not that Digimon doesn’t have A-listers, Ghost Game does have a few of them already, but I mean, seriously, it’s Ogata Megumi -- I heard the crowd couldn’t help but go completely nuts at DigiFes at her surprise appearance even though they weren’t supposed to be making noise), so her name’s been on the mind lately.

Come to think of it, this does have a weirder explanation than people probably realize.The body of an octopus is actually structured like this:

The “back” of its “head” is a pocket-like mantle that hangs down, and the breathing siphon sticks out of that, but can be moved around.When the octopus is on the seafloor, it sticks the siphon out of one side, like this:

When an octopus SWIMS, it sticks the siphon straight out of its underside, like this:

So how did cartoonists, particularly Japanese cartoonists, come to think of that as the octopus’s mouth if it’s not only not a mouth, but never naturally held out front?Quite simply because most Japanese people were more familiar in their everyday lives with octopuses in their cooked form.

You can just kind of see it in this photo, but once you steam a whole octopus the siphon really sticks straight out, and if that’s the side you’re looking at, it looks very much like a little round, cartoonish mouth between its eyes.So, centuries of eating octopuses this way means that this is the default concept of an octopus’s “face” in Japan:

I think the only time I have ever, ever seen this lampshaded was in an episode of the original Dragon Ball, when Goku fights a giant, talking octopus and tries to clog what he thinks is its “mouth” with a boulder. The octopus brags that that’s actually its “nose” and shows goku its real mouth, though instead of the bird-like beak cephalopods actually have, he had jaws like a shark:

YES! Like a few days ago I rambled about how badly I wanted an “Adventure-clone” that understood why Adventure worked instead of mindlessly trying to mimic it without understanding why certain pieces went together and worked

sunflower -  sun!

iris - i’m a very big fan of anything by the backstreet boys tbh

snapdragon - WEREWOLF WEREWOLF WEREWOLF

best thing about being a lesbian: just everything! everything about being a lesbian holds so much pride for me, i think the best part is the label. i love the word “lesbian”!

how do you feel about the tumblr ‘soft innocent lesbian’ aesthetic?  i love it in theory! i love the cuteness of a label that is being soft and a lesbian. my only issue is when it starts to reduce lesbians JUST to that label, and create a stigma against lesbians experiencing sexual attraction towards women. like lesbians can be very soft and innocent, but there’s also nothing wrong with being a lesbian and wanting to have sex. and the label sometimes reduces lesbians mutually to being soft and innocent.

ever been to pride? If so tell a story from then: i have been to a few pride events!!!! i’ve been to one in lexington twice, and one in louisville and in bowling green! they’ve all been fun experiences so far, i remember at one of them there was a food truck that only sold types of grilled cheese!! and i got a rly good one with goat cheese on it, and my friend claire got to order food not under her deadname for the first time and she was so thrilled and it was her first pride and i loved seeing her experience her first pride! 

what do you think of the useless lesbian stereotype? i think there’s some good and some bad to it! as a lesbian, i like to make jokes about it because sometimes lesbians can be useless!! but i also can understand where the stereotype comes from, and how it originates from society downplaying female attraction and displays of that attraction. but i still like to goof around about it because sometimes i just wanna have a little fun!

what is something a girlfriend can do that makes you feel giggly and full of butterflies? anything, oh ANYTHING. everything my gf does makes me feel giggly and full of butterflies! they could BREATHE and i’d be like “poetic cinema” (although i am a hopeless romantic and i’ve lowkey always wanted to get flowers for valentines day)

I mean, it’s not solely an issue with the spin-off games. The high-cut armor was in at least the original P3FES, and P5 has some pretty rough story issues regarding how it treats it’s female characters.

17. i have been to like 4 or 5? they’re a lot of fun, but super overwhelming after too long. the best part is the food truck food and the gay memorabilia 

22. i’m biased to hayley kiyoko!! but i’m definitely the biggest fan of like.. kristen stewart is very good also