You can call me 3xho. I use she/they, though just she/her or they/them are fine if you wanna stick to one.
Bigotry of any kind isn't welcome on this blog.
This blog isn't strictly fandom, but some things that frequently appear are: The Arcana, Last Legacy, Touchstarved VN, Percy Jackson and related book series, Gravity Falls, Keyframes VN, Obey Me (SWD)
Currently listening to The Magnus Archives, watching Critical Role Campaign 4, reading Dracula, and playing Keyframes and Obey Me.
My Ao3 is @/3chowrites, ATM there's a couple of Last Legacy fics.
Tag organization key under the cut
'3cho rambles to the void' = personal posts
'choir shenanigans' = personal posts specifically about choir
'the wretched organ' = personal posts that are period-related (mostly onomatopoeia of agony, ex. 'aough')
'asks' = self explanatory. Asks are also tagged with the blog that sent it, or in the case of anons, 'anon'.
'3xho x art' = art posts/sketch dumps
Any posts I make of certain media is going to be under '3xho x' followed by the media's name (ex. '3xho x last legacy')*.
*The Arcana is the one exception, all posts are under '3cho plays the arcana' because i hadn't come up with a tagging system yet.
Posts I reblog of specific media may or may not be tagged appropriately. I'm trying to organize my blog after years of having it I swear
'oc tag' = anything with multiple or referring to general OCs. All OCs are under their own tags as well ('oc: [name]'). Here is a list of ones I've mentioned the most on here.
'oomh' = a friend's game WIP. I'll leave it up to him how much information he'd like to be disclosed, but feel free to send asks about it to me, @/pikinethegator, or @/ocean-of-my-heart
the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.
half of fic research is rereading the fandom wiki four times for obscure character info and the other half is googling shit like “when did we start using drywall in home construction”
I would give anything to be able to see how the world looks through the eyes of a mantis shrimp. it's been a deeply felt desire of mine for a very long time now and I will not know satisfaction until it is somehow requited
Mantis shrimp have the 12 to 16 cones compared to a human 3... But they also can't easily distinguish between colours. Humans get that rainbow blend, while mantis shrimp get 16 blocks. We can tell the difference between yellow and orange - mantis shrimp can't.
And also - ultraviolet vision is nothing special - most crusatations can see in ultraviolet, and that range impedes colour vision - almost everything is blue shifted.
Also their distance vision sucks.
So... To us, a mantis shrimp perspective is blurry, blue, and mildly pixilated... Great at motion detection, though.
I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"
I love that Jules Verne asked the question "What kind of person could circumnavigate the world in 80 days?" and decided that the answer was not a groundbreaking explorer or genius inventor, but a guy who's really, really, really obsessed with train and boat schedules.
my final paper for my CS degree was literally "how can we algorithmically optimise for the fastest possible circumnavigation route on commercial flights?", which incidentally required me to adopt a very good working knowledge of what flight options are available at what times (and also led to me accidentally memorising several hundred airport codes)
incidentally the fastest possible route seems to be about 51 hours, if you're working from 2022 schedules like i was. if you use current schedules and are very optimistic about how quickly you can transfer between flights, you can maybe get it down to around 48 hours (also known as 25 millivernes).
hey! apologies if this has been asked already or if it's a question you're not well equipped to answer, but do you have any advice on how to depict vitiligo in art (< not regarding patterns, but how to stylize the pale spots themselves? if that makes sense at all). thank you and have a great day/night :]
It’ll depend on your art style so here’s a very simple “cheat sheet” that should hopefully help regardless!
I’ll also be reblogging this post with examples of my own art!
Text in image under cut:
Hair doesn’t always lose pigmentation!
Color reflects undertone of skin
can vary in lightness
blood pooling can make it more sat[urated] or look darker
