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Beast of Darkness art doll
Both sold
Beast of Darkness is a character from Berserk manga.
Resin, fabric fur, wire+plastic armature, primer, acrylic paint, varnish. Posable neck has plastic ball-and-socket armature inside and can be posed. Tail is also posable and has wire armature inside. Legs contain wire armature inside, so you can carefully and slightly move it to find perfect balance if you keep the doll on uneven surface.
Size: 26 cm tall and 49 cm length
Boffer spellbook I built to hold throwable spell balls while larping. it’s all foam and duck tape, with a single cardboard “page” you can write on to personalize or make your own spells. the page is held shut by velcro so the balls don’t fall out. Can be used to deflect spells and weapons like a shield, or for bashing, if your rules allow it.
Here’s what I’ve been working on! I’ve got four done, so I figured that’d be enough to post for now.
Dragons from HTTYD in the style of monster icons from the Monster Hunter series, specifically MH3U/4U!
They were pretty difficult, specifically Stormfly. I tried to make all of them unique without looking exactly like any current monster quest icons - aside from Meatlug. Her design was just too similar to a few monsters so i used a similar design.
They don’t look 100% authentic, but they were still fun! I’m not sure what to do with them yet, might add them to my growing idea/list of “things to make buttons of” so, yeah!
Please don’t repost or use my art without permission!
Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.
Why can’t we have a movie about him?
He was often called “Sempo”, an alternative reading of the characters of his first name, as that was easier for Westerners to pronounce.
His wife, Yukiko, was also a part of this; she is often credited with suggesting the plan. The Sugihara family was held in a Soviet POW camp for 18 months until the end of the war; within a year of returning home, Sugihara was asked to resign - officially due to downsizing, but most likely because the government disagreed with his actions.
He didn’t simply grant visas - he granted visas against direct orders, after attempting three times to receive permission from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and being turned down each time. He did not “misread” orders; he was in direct violation of them, with the encouragement and support of his wife.
He was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations in 1985, a year before he died in Kamakura; he and his descendants have also been granted permanent Israeli citizenship. He was also posthumously awarded the Life Saving Cross of Lithuania (1993); Commander’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996); and the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2007). Though not canonized, some Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize him as a saint.
Sugihara was born in Gifu on the first day of 1900, January 1. He achieved top marks in his schooling; his father wanted him to become a physician, but Sugihara wished to pursue learning English. He deliberately failed the exam by writing only his name and then entered Waseda, where he majored in English. He joined the Foreign Ministry after graduation and worked in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin (where he learned Russian and German; he also converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church during this time). He resigned his post in protest over how the Japanese government treated the local Chinese citizens. He eventually married Yukiko Kikuchi, who would suggest and encourage his acts in Lithuania; they had four sons together. Chiune Sugihara passed away July 31, 1986, at the age of 86. Until her own passing in 2008, Yukiko continued as an ambassador of his legacy.
It is estimated that the Sugiharas saved between 6,000-10,000 Lithuanian and Polish Jewish people.
It’s a tragedy that the Sugiharas aren’t household names. They are among the greatest heroes of WWII. Is it because they were from an Axis Power? Is it because they aren’t European? I don’t know. But I’ve decided to always reblog them when they come across my dash. If I had the money, I would finance a movie about them.
He told an interviewer:
You want to know about my motivation, don’t you? Well. It is the kind of sentiments anyone would have when he actually sees refugees face to face, begging with tears in their eyes. He just cannot help but sympathize with them. Among the refugees were the elderly and women. They were so desperate that they went so far as to kiss my shoes, Yes, I actually witnessed such scenes with my own eyes. Also, I felt at that time, that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent.
People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply. I knew that somebody would surely complain about me in the future. But, I myself thought this would be the right thing to do. There is nothing wrong in saving many people’s lives….The spirit of humanity, philanthropy…neighborly friendship…with this spirit, I ventured to do what I did, confronting this most difficult situation—and because of this reason, I went ahead with redoubled courage.
He died in nearly complete obscurity in Japan. His neighbors were shocked when people from all over, including Israeli diplomatic personnel, showed up at quiet little Mr. Sugihara’s funeral.
I will forever reblog this, I wish more people would know about them!
I liked this before when it had way less information. Thank you, history-sharers.
Tucked away in a corner in L.A.’s Little Tokyo is a life-sized statue of Chiune, seated on a bench and smiling gently as he holds out a visa.
The stone next to him bears a quote from the Talmud; “He who saves one life, saves the entire world.”
I had no idea it existed until a few weeks ago, but it’s since become one of my favorite pieces of public art.
Chiune Sugihara. Original antifa.
PBS made a documentary about Chiune Sugihara in 2005. If you’re interested in him, it’s definitely worth checking out. (The PBS link above even has some interactive information to go along with the film.) Ask your local library if they have a copy/can order you one from another library. You won’t be disappointed!
kate beaton wasn’t kidding when she said look him up
i am going to find this and take him a present
always reblog mr sugihara
If bones floated then the sea would look very different
Lucy, the white opossum at San Francisco Zoo.
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If one of the toys from Toy Story died, the kids wouldn’t know. The other toys would have to watch them play with corpses.
If you want your children to live exciting lives after you die, let your last words be “Avenge me!”
Warning: tears of happiness may ensue.
Warning: tears of happiness may ensue.
I’m so glad for this list, because i spent years wondering what those things in Spirit Away were (i never would have guessed GIANT DUMPLINGS).
FINALLY I KNOW WHAT THOSE FUCKING THINGS JIHIRO’S DAD FUCKING INHALED.
What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?
My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually
Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.
What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.
I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.
oxygen, and our dependence on it, is even more cool and terrifying. we don’t just set ourselves on fire very slowly. we set lots of things on fire, very quickly, all the time. it’s not just our lungs: the structure of our entire fucking skull reflects the fact that one of humanity’s primary tools is FIRE.
like ok way back when, you have algae and it starts producing waste oxygen and that starts building up in the atmosphere. you have the cambrian explosion as all kinds of critters start breathing the oxygen and finding that rocket fuel definitely builds you some more kickass critters than non-rocket fuel. what was also exploding in a completely literal sense was fire. all over. everywhere. earth has always had lightning, but it didn’t do shit while there was a) no oxygen to have a fire in and b) nothing on land to fuel the fire with. well, that stage was super done.
you get wildfires. you get forest fires. you get prarie fires. you get charcoal and coproliths with fire damage. dinosaurs caught on fire. mammals caught on fire. everything fucking caught on fucking fire. you get plants that start relying on fire to spread their seeds or clear out their competition. you get herbivores that know to show up a day after a prairie fire and gobble up all the tender new sprouts, and you get carnivores that know to show up five minutes after a prairie fire and chow down on whatever died of smoke inhalation. free barbecue. fire is an intrinsic part of a whole fucking lot of environments.
and humans were probably always strolling along with everyone else, the herbivores and the carnivores, cleaning out the forests and plains, enjoying our fresh salad and our barbecue. learning how to cook shit on purpose. once we had that shit down, our brains could get bigger because our jaws could get smaller. we could still eat as much nutritious nuts and roots and stems as we ever were —actually, we could eat even more roots and stems— but we didn’t need gorilla-size chompers or gorilla-size bellies to deal with it. plus, we didn’t need the kind of hardcore carnivore stomach acid and liver to deal with rot and disease and parasites from our prey, either, because we’d cook meat too. we manipulate our environment, we eat tons of stuff very fast, we collaborate with each other, we have divisions of labor, we innovate, we go to mars.
fire is really really cool. and humans are really, really, really scary.
Ir a clase en Japón es otra cosa
Japan be on some next shit
Masters of illusion.
Japan, for fuck’s sake, stop being better than us.
Alan Rickman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors I will ever work with. He is also, one of the loyalest and most supportive people I’ve ever met in the film industry. He was so encouraging of me both on set and in the years post-Potter. I’m pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn’t have to do that. I know other people who’ve been friends with him for much much longer than I have and they all say “if you call Alan, it doesn’t matter where in the world he is or how busy he is with what he’s doing, he’ll get back to you within a day”. People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner(or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny. And certain things obviously became even funnier when delivered in his unmistakable double-bass. As an actor he was one of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me like a peer rather than a child. Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career. Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this great actor and man.
Daniel Radcliffe on the death of Alan Rickman (via danielradcliffedaily)
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THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
After this week, Back to the Future will take place entirely in the past
oh no….
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I love that everyone looked at the turkey and asked themselves “who is responsible for this thing?” And then everyone pointed at everyone else.
