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bisonwares

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

This was the test of the new pattern and I love her. 🎏💕

worcestershirecheshirecat

Oh my goodness, this is so beautiful. Everything about this is perfect.

3000s

im not addicted to images i can quit any time i want

mahikoto

light is made up of lots of colors

mahikoto

it's June

mahikoto

IT'S JUNE

zmeess

sword and shield

tip jar!

otaku553

I’m not super proud of how this turned out but after 11 hours I finally finished it!! One of these days I’ll get better at drawing environments and backgrounds

fallershipping

Kanto -> Alolan Vulpix and Ninetales (Transitional Forms)

Normal + Normal/Fairy Type

The research into Alolan forms has discovered that there was a brief period of time where the Fox Pokemon became Normal type. They retained a few weak fire type attacks from their lineage but gained some ice moves as replacements. Ultimately, all of the Fox Pokemon became purely ice type as they exited this transitional phase, as it seems the Normal type serves as a nexus to all other known Pokemon elements.

The Fairy type, however, seemed to be due to Mount Lanakila's mystical properties or perhaps the power of the Tapu surging across Alola.

blumineck

This is why safety rules matter!

Don’t forget if you like my videos and want to see me test more stuff, I’m looking to commission a set of historically accurate fitted armour for testing!

You can pitch in here if that’s something you’d like to see:

Blumineck is raising money for a suit of fitted historical plate armour for both fun and serious historical and fantasy testing.

(If it doesn’t get funded nobody gets charged)

sometiktoksarevalid

the-seelie-court-official

"that doesn't sound sincere- it sounds rehearsed" is one of the most devastating and fucked-up statements you can make to anyone in the neurodivergent/ADHD/Autistic/Schizophrenic/Disordered Personality sphere. yeah bitch it's rehearsed. because i wanted to get it right when i said it

beanthebugboi

I’ve recently discovered how much better life can be when we normalize this. My best friend and I have started saying “hang on, I’m scripting” when we need a minute to mentally rehearse during big conversations (and “bear with me, I’m doing improv” when we’ve reached the end of our script and start to struggle with words lol)

vivipokedex

i love you gay dragonite

miyuliart

Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.

melongifts

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

melongifts

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

melongifts