Adalo Wixord

Artist who draws round and cute things - she / her

[couponkids]

[fluxfables]

PERSONNEL INJURY LAWYER

[gramnel]

Viltrumites on Earth + bonus

[ratatosk777]

I miss my yuri. so it's neighbors au time

I still haven't developed this au much but here's my thoughts about the timeline: - the siblings move in in june/july of the first year. - hornet begins to get along with lace in october/november (they actually start talking woah). - a christmas comic that I never drew where they Actually Become Friends. - hornet sneaks into lace's room for the first time next summer, the beginning of hornet's second year in this neighborhood (this comic). by this point they're close friends and maybe lace is crushing on hornet

I love slowburn

[silviaflowers]

Since the Gameoverse pilot just dropped, I wanted to screenshot all the outfits Kit wears throughout it, since i ADORE them and kit's character design. Figured I'd share them for any fanartists who don't wanna scrub through the whole pilot!

[somethinginworl]

Kit's mustard dog review!

[ciozio]

Gameoverse is pretty good

[acquired-stardust]

Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire Sega Saturn 1998

[forgetful-dorito]

I like to think that Grace and Adrian have very similar problems

[infectiouspiss]

grace fucking pissing rocky off statement

[marnielovesyouu]

Starts throwing rocks at them oops I already used that caption I just really want to throw rocks at them ok

[sirfrogsworth]

If you have seen Ted Lasso you may have noticed these unusual microphones used by the football commentators.

Despite being a microphone nerd, I had never seen anything like them before. So I decided to go into research mode and discovered these microphones are quite fascinating.

They are called "Lip-Ribbon" or "Commentator's" microphones.

They were specially designed by the BBC in the 1950s for extremely noisy environments. Soccer Football stadiums have peaked at 130 decibels so they needed something that would not get overwhelmed in that circumstance.

They use several very clever techniques to make sure only the voice is picked up and everything else is rejected.

First, they use a bidirectional polar pattern.

That means it will accept sound from two directions, but reject any sound coming in from the sides. And since the diaphragm is only exposed on one side, that helps reject sound coming from the other direction.

Next, the microphone is not very sensitive so you literally have to hold it up to your lips (hence "lip-ribbon") in order for your voice to have enough sound energy to vibrate the diaphragm.

That top part rests directly on your lip and there is a little pop filter to keep your plosives in check.

There is a built-in high pass filter so it rejects any sound below the frequencies typically used by the human voice.

But my favorite trick... a labyrinthian internal baffle system.

(I found a diagram of this when researching but then I lost the tab and I cannot find it again. So you'll just have to accept this crude photoshop I did in 30 seconds to help you understand.)

Sound is energy. And that energy is diminished the farther it travels. The inverse square law for sound states that the intensity of sound decreases by approximately 6 dB for each doubling of distance from the sound source. Sound also diminishes when it reflects off a surface.

That is a very sciency way of saying... make sounds go through a tiny maze and only sounds with the most energy will prevail.

So if you have your lip pressed up against the front of the mic, your voice's energy will make it through the labyrinth of baffles without issue. But every other sound in the stadium will have a much harder time getting through.

These mics may even be vuvuzela-proof.

And even more amazing... this microphone was designed in the 1950s and they have yet to create anything better for incredibly noisy environments.

Isn't that neat?

I think it is neat.

[thefrogman]

Oh, and there is a "nostril grille" on top so you can exhale through your nose!

SO NEAT.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

I think to normal, well-adjusted pokemon, Mewtwo reads as painfully undersocialized

[maeneiii]

the alley

[maeneiii]

small rats in alley

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Feb. 6: MEW gave birth. We named the newborn MEWTWO.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

#I don't think I've seen a characterization of mew as... apathetic? it's an intriguing interpretation of it I like it #the serene acceptance that it did its job; it birthed something grander than itself. the offspring needs nothing more from it. #what is mewtwo's success to mew here? what is that? it is 'evolution endgoal' but now what #does mew care about its emotional state? does it Understand? is this mew old as they are sometimes described as being #disconnected from how other pokemon think and feel? #the raw vulnerability of 'I think I needed you regardless' and callousness of mew's reply wounds me

(via @pangolin-404)

Hiii I'm eating your tags <333 also, have this from about 6 hours ago

[mewvore]

Did a challenge where you get a random word and make a comic in one day based on it! The word I got was "boy"

[tealgoat]

Had a weird dream

[auncyen]

ok looking at this again. and seeing the tags about 'oh no why's bonnie there'.

I wanna pitch the idea that Bonnie would be the most likely to blame for the group having access to Mental Breakdown: The Game in-universe.

Like. over a couple weeks the group is getting more tidbits about what happened. People ask questions about how Wish Craft works and Siffrin isn't thinking anything of telling his friends so he just outright says "oh yeah ritual and intent, some of the rituals are just like saying things a certain number of times, knowing how to direct your wish, tethering your energy" and then he pauses and is like "none of you would actually use Wish Craft right. Or at least--not for anything BIG. Whittling wishes haven't gone wrong on me yet"

So like the group has this vague outline in the back of their heads of "this is how you do Wish Craft" along with "do not actually use that knowledge, that is for understanding Siffrin only".

Except, well, it's hard to understand Siffrin sometimes even when they are explaining more things, and Bonnie's an easily-frustrated preteen. Maybe they get into an argument or upset Siffrin without meaning to at all and they just wanna understand him better and hey, that's a small enough wish, right? They'll say it as many times as feels right and just. See what happens.

The Universe gives Bonnie a game console that somehow works with Vaugardian tech (idk it's Wish Craft anyway). Bonnie manages to play all the way up until the Tear death before getting freaked out (because Siffrin would probably admit to the "I got crushed by a boulder because WHAT KIND OF TRAP IS THAT EVEN" death before the "Bonnie accidentally shoved me into a Tear" death) and uh. looking for reassurance, which sets off others finding out about the game. which eventually turns into a group playthrough that Sif is cringing all the way through.

[mira-jadeamethyst]

...waitholdthephone.

just about every reaction i've seen to this is running with the underlying assumption that this is after the loops, yeah? reasonable, that's a fun track, it was where my brain went too!

but uh.

y'all.

SIFFRIN HAS THEIR HAT.

so hear me out: this is before. like, right before. like, right when siffrin would've woken up the first time, instead of waking up in a meadow (or by a tree, or in a store, or leaning on a fence, or walking toward your napping friend), they all 5 just, blink. and.. [gestures at art]

as for how, well.

loop did wish for help.