Ask astro boy blog

ask me yo!!

[askreno]

So are you and Astro dating now?

“jeez, lahat kayo..”

[scottislate]

[askreno]

ask box is empty! feel free to send asks, it’s lonely here!!

[microid-s]

positive o’shay and astro father and son content right here folks

[odamakilock]

Attention people who don’t have horses:

Sorry to break in with this on a very much Sherlock-only kind of blog- I promise not to make a regular thing of this, but this is something that’s happened TWICE now. 

This is Beyli. He’s a two-month old foal and he’s adorable. He belongs to a friend of the family. 

So adorable, in fact, that a member of the public spent a nice afternoon feeding him. You feed the ducks and that’s ok. right? It’s a nice thing to do. 

They fed him turnip. He choked and gave himself a stomachache as a result.

The problem is that horses can’t really burp and horses can’t vomit. Their digestive systems are fine-tuned and when they go wrong, they go really wrong. Colic in horses is difficult to treat and in Beyli’s case, like many others, proved to be insurmountable. With pain medicine not working, after 4 hours of doing their best with no improvement, the vet called time on his suffering rather than let him go on to a very slow and painful end. 

A horse needlessly suffered and died because someone fed him the wrong thing. They weren’t necessarily malicious, they were just hugely ignorant. And worse, they were hugely entitled. There were already signs asking people not to feed the animals. As I said, this has now happened TWICE to the same family, and they’re by no means alone. 

PLEASE Don’t feed horses that don’t belong to you. 

Horses can have disorders, diabetes, allergies and dietry requirements and you have NO IDEA if what you’re giving them is acceptable or not. Even ‘safe’ things like carrot and apple could be ‘wrong’ for this particular horse. Grass clippings? Not okay. Grain? Not okay for a horse that hasn’t been regularly eating it. 

Don’t assume. i have seen walkers pull up random plants and offer them over the fence INCLUDING TOXIC, DEADLY weeds like ragwort. I’ve seen horses offered dog-biscuits and bread. I’ve heard of horses being regularly fed by strangers thinking they were being under-fed, when the horse in question was on a vet-given diet to control weight and other conditions. 

Don’t feed horses that don’t belong to you even little treats and things like sugar cubes because it gives them bad manners. They start biting and harassing people. It’s bad for their teeth and too much sugar is terrible for them.

In some places if the owner has liability insurance, if you can be identified, YOU will be legally responsible for the vet’s bills. And if you’re thinking ‘well, they’d never identify me’, then that’s besides the point. 

Please. You wouldn’t feed someone’s dog without asking, I hope. You definitely wouldn’t feed someone else’s child. 

TL;DR: Don’t feed other people’s horses. You can make them SERIOUSLY ill. Treat animals in fields like animals at the zoo: you’re welcome to look, but don’t meddle with their care. 

PLEASE DON’T FEED OTHER PEOPLE’S HORSES. 

[tumatawa]

Here’s a quickun’ i did for a redesign for this “reverse” AU of Astro Boy 2003 where Tobio is still alive, and Astro’s human friend Reno is a robot. It was made up by this post. (the headcannons in the link will have lingo based on the dub)

His “shoes” have buttons on the front of  them to activate roller blades because he doesn’t fly like Astro. To activate them, he would tap the front of his foot against the ground to push the button. 

By the way, thanks to: @astro-png, and  @nightmarecerberus, for coming up with the idea! You guys rock!

[askreno]

How do you feel about Astro? Do you like him as a brother, or something more?

[jettermarz]

cursed image

[tumatawa]

[ask-astro-boy-blog]

help how do you draw astro boy without him looking like an old man

[yeezuss]

reblog with the age you turn in 2018

[tumatawa]

13!!

[ask-astro-boy-blog]

15 yeET

[ppeachyy-keen-deactivated202205]

OK but like AU where Reno’s the robot and Astro’s the human

[cerberustheterrible]

Reno Boy and Toby

Pairing name: Roby (Lol)

[ppeachyy-keen-deactivated202205]

This sounds like an interesting concept- why is no one jumping in on this?????

[cerberustheterrible]

I guess now they are~

[ppeachyy-keen-deactivated202205]

this is now fanon everyone pls draw us fan art thanks bye.

[tumatawa]

i’m currently in the works of sketching this, so have theese!

If we go back, Reno is based off of Mamoru from Osamu Tezuka’s ambassador magma manga. (Since reno is a robot, he’ll look more like Gam.) I simplified his name to Maru (which it think is a synonym for round in japanese??) to fit the number of letters in Reno’s name.

Tobio is still alive, so his father couldn’t care less. Since he’s so busy, he creates a playmate for Tobio, and he is one of the first robots to have kokoro.

Maru is pretty bouncy and rebellious, and ventures around Metro City with Tobio on Sundays to get ice cream.

ship name: mario

Tobio remembered precisely how much Maru disliked his own creator in the first few days they were introduced to each other.

Tobio asked, “What are you doing, Maru?” Maru turned.”Taking you outside. Everyone needs a little sunlight, don’t they?” he wore the biggest smile. 

Tobio sadly said, “I don’t think we’re allowed to go until I get permission from my father.” That was the first time he saw Maru,or any robot frown. It was also the first time a robot disagreed with him. 

“Aw, who cares if I stroll with you? I one-hundred percent bet your old man wouldn’t mind. I mean, if we waited for permission, by the time we receive it, we both would be loong gone!”

Maru liked it when Tobio laughed.

“Maru, weren’t you ever programmed to follow my dad’s orders?” “Nah. I don’t follow rules. Your pop gave me a heart. So ya know what i do? I follow my heart instead!”

Maru really liked it when Tobio laughed.

When Tobio would accidentally see something creepy on the internet, he would ask Maru to help him sleep. Maru talked Tobio to sleep by talking about the city, the sun, the flying cars, and how innovative the future is. This helped because the city sure was colorful, and the sun makes it even pretty and cool. Too big and bright and futuristic for creepy stuff.

Tobio realized he’d fallen in love with Maru when he went to run errands with him. A drunk truck driver passed a red light, and was recklessly heading towards the pedestrians - unfortunately being them. Thoughts as  crazy as the speed of the vehicle, Maru instinctively stepped in front of Tobio, and tried to use his bare hands to stop it. It miraculously worked, and he even showed up in the news. The first time Maru was Tobio’s hero.

 You see, Tenma made Maru extra sturdy because he didn’t have time to fix him. Hasty, but effective.

Tobio gets bullied at school. Maru knew this because he saw him being spit at and punched as he was going to pick him up.

Maru yelled. And he yelled loud.“HEY! WHADDAYA THINK YOU SCHMUCKS ARE DOING?!” This made everyone turn. “Hey, it’s the robot on TV! you gonna stop us like you did with that truck, huh?” 

This led Maru to dodge punches and have kids tripping on each other. He was able to distract them long enough for he and Tobio to make a run for it.

Tobio gave a kiss as a thank you, because his voice was still hoarse from crying. Tobio found it funny when Maru’s face turned to him and he overheated.

Maru thought Tobio’s laugh was the prettiest sound. 

Once Tobio showed what him music was, Maru bolted up “THAT!!” Tobio was confused. “Huh?” “Your laugh! It’s like that!! Like music!”

Maru thought Tobio was sick because of how red he got after.

feel free to add more!

[askreno]

 “Can someone explain to me what this face means?”

[puniper]

appreciation of the sound Atom makes when he runs

[chelsiegeorgia]

Squeaky boots <3

[tezukapunk]

Atom’s sibling(s)

If you think about it, Atom has a lot of siblings. There’s Uran, Cobalt and Chi-tan, but also Reno who is his adoptive sibling, and Atlas who refers to him as his brother and is also made by Tenma/made from the same blueprints, and if you want to hop series then there’s Jetter Mars, A-106/six, Roppei..

I like the idea of him having many siblings to care for and love. I don’t want him to be lonely.

[ask-astro-boy-blog]

Why are you so cute? X3

(sorry for the grainy quality and the bad art ive been really busy with highschool ;w; but now that regions done ima try to answer these if i have literally any time!!)

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[snaileo]

why is the dub like this

[tumatawa]

most of the voice acting in the 2003 dub was decent, and the VAs were pretty well chosen (except rock), but THIS. This is the KEY to voice acting. take note in how instead of “too”, and then a reasonable grunt, it’s a very passionate “TooOuOoo!!”