[arcanaah]

hi! I’m arc, and welcome to my main blog :] I almost exclusively reblog whatever here, but you can also find me at:

@aramais (dnd, ttrpgs)

@hellomarina (vocaloid, project sekai)

@pareidahlias (horror media)

@aurevue (theatre)

@librarylocal (literature)

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I love how these are from an Unreality subreddit but to my eye they just read like regular Tumblr shitposts. Did we cross-pollinate or something

[dramatic-dolphin]

some of my favorites

[segamascot]

not feeling very hundred emoji flame emoji today

[palmer]

well I am so 💯🔥💯🔥

[segamascot]

🧯💨

[palmer]

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[alwaysbewoke]

—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

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[transitoryparentheses]

This NPR Article!!

A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico

As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attentio

[lelouch]

Also, in the Mexican constitution, the first article mentions how slavery is prohibited in México and every enslaved person arriving here would be freed by virtue of being on Mexican soil, and protected by our laws

[save-the-child-lama]

I just want you to know that my sister is dying before my eyes right now. We have reached a point where words have lost their meaning, and nothing in life feels the same anymore. Everything has changed, and every moment is filled with pain.

DONATE HERE IF YOU CAN

[professionalmushroom]

This campaign is still only at £114!! It’s understandable if you cannot donate anything, but you can still share, and if you can donate, do it now!! Any amount can save her still! This campaign has Ben stagnant for weeks and any help will save Lama!

[save-the-child-lama]

I will never forget those who saw our cries for help and turned away without doing anything, while my little sister continues to fight for her life and slowly slip away.

My sister is fading before my eyes, losing a piece of her strength with every passing moment, while so many choose to stay silent as if nothing is happening.

[ranaosama2003]

Israel has besieged Gaza for over 19 years, and food and medicine are scarce. However, after the October 7th war, Israel prevented everything from entering Gaza, and Gaza became completely besieged. Gaza is a giant prison controlled by the worst jailers in the world: the Nazi Zionists who kill, displace, and starve us without mercy.

Donate to Help Save 8-Year-Old Mohamed and Our Family from Gaza’s War, organized by Ubaida Aldahdouh

My name is Obaida, and I am speaking on behalf of my family a… Ubaida Aldahdouh needs your support for Help Save 8-Year-Old Mohamed and Our

[ranaosama2003]

My young son was injured in the war, and since that day our lives have completely changed. I see him in pain every day, while we suffer from a lack of treatment and medicine in Gaza, and I cannot provide him with what he needs to recover.

[ranaosama2003]

My heart breaks every time he looks at me asking for help, and all I wish for is that he gets a chance to receive treatment and return to the childhood that the war stole from him.

[ranaosama2003]

Your prayers for him, and sharing our story, may be the reason he receives the help he needs.

[sobcat]

buying 78 tarot decks so I can put one deck together that includes 78 "the fool" cards to remind myself of what I am every time i come home from uni and immediately get into bed

[dogpuppy]

[creepycrag]

Needlessly poetic in a way that draws your credibility into question. The whimsical typography also reduces the gravity of the statement. Please see the revised edition attached below.

[lucatielsgirlfriend-deactivated]

i sleep diagonally so i wake up to a dutch angle view of my ceiling symbolising my descent into madness

[ratbastarddotfuck]

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

[digitalsymbiote]

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[prokopetz]

It doesn't bother me when none of the houses in a fantasy or sci fi video game town have toilets. I understand that the floor plans we're seeing are simplified for gameplay purposes; the houses don't "really" have no toilets in the same way that the town's total population isn't "really" twelve people and a dog.

It does, however, bother me immensely when exactly one house in the town has a toilet. What the fuck.

[motherwife]

i wont hatepost but sometimes it does feel like this to scroll fandom tags

[catchymemes]

[scorittanius]

a "white boy" is a type of invasive freshwater fish closely related to the common carp

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[pixelatedcrown]

It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...

I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!

I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!

(lots more after the Read More cut...!)

Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍

There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.

When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.

These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.

Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…

Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.

Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄

I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?

After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.

As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️

This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.

Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.

Say it with him, folks!!

For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.

Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.

I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?

Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!