family, duty, honour & electromagnets

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[quietsnooze]

Attack 34 for Art Fight is this very special portrait of two of my players' characters as children! @deerkick @pippki

[deerkick]

THEMMMMMMMMM

[iraprince]

anybody else in the club feeling this one

[mothcub]

The future will be so beautiful.

[flagellant]

*plants mint directly in your dash* heehee :3

[cipheramnesia]

🌿🌱🌱🌱🌿AIUUGGG🌿🌿HHHHDKD🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌱🌱☘️🌿☘️🌿🌿AUUG🌿GHHHHHHH🌿🌿HHHSHSJ🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🍃🌿🌿🌱🌿🌿🍃🌿🌿🌿

[elodieunderglass]

The mint is out of the cage

Yes

YES

The mint is free

[horitsuba]

[deerkick]

long time, no see

[quietsnooze]

Holding myself accountable: I'm writing a book! I will get the words on the page and worry about the [everything else] later. My one consistent life goal has always been to get a book of mine on shelves in bookstores, and I am the master of talking myself out of things, so I've already written myself off as far as making that happen with a graphic novel. (Perhaps that will change, though the industry at the moment scares me into believing I cannot handle even trying.)

The details aren't hammered out yet as to what I'll try writing this time. I think it'll be very fey, because that's my bread and butter. I'm toying with the idea of a two POV story between Cat and Rowan, though I can also make a case for Tove being there. They would make for a solid trio, but their story arcs would far surpass a self contained novel, and next to no one is taking a chance on an unproven writer for a multi-book story.

I feel as though I should find a writing group in order to keep myself motivated and inspired, though I will also come up with a thousand introverted reasons why I can't possibly manage that, either...

[deerkick]

and it’s time for a few small repairs, she said sunny came home with a vengeance

[quietsnooze]

Today's repostober is this hug between my friend @deerkick's character Sol and mine Lorelyn. They had such an emotionally charged start to their relationship in season 1 of my DnD/Good Society game.

[deerkick]

I am the sail, the plank The mast that breaks and gets replaced I am remade, repaired Reshaped but somehow still the same Even after every cell in my body changed I know my name

[martamara-deactivated20120801]

[felixinclusis]

martamara: La cosa più pericolosa da fare è rimanere immobili. Drop by Alex Stoddard

[deerkick]

long time, no see

[gingercatsneeze]

1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai. 

2. Previous post on breakdowns right here 

Some thoughts on acceleration and force

I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns. 

Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful. 

Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha 

[pippki-writes]

What you thought you knew, what you thought you wanted—it wasn’t what you’d find.

—

Inspired by @deerkick’s d&d OC (who is not a rabbit nor a hare, but for whom the metaphor comparing the two was apt)

[rainbowgazes-archive]

here’s a compilation of different people driving box trucks into a low bridge over and over

[thetrashiestoftrash]

It’s worth knowing a few fun facts, courtesy of 11foot8.com:

They can’t raise the bridge because it’s a train trestle, and raising it would require closing and modifying miles of busy track.

They can’t lower the road because it’s directly over a sewer main.

They can’t ban trucks entirely because there are too many local deliveries.

That section of road has a speed limit of 25 mph, numerous signs alerting drivers to the 11'8" limit, and recently they added a sensor that activates the stoplight and a flashing “overheight warning” sign so that drivers have to stop and think really hard about going forward.

The clearance is actually nearly three inches more than 11'8", the maximum deviation from the signage allowed.

Trucks have been getting stuck or damaged since the 1960s.

The guy who runs the website (and owns the cameras) says he sees a lot more trucks pull up to the stoplight, look at the warnings, and turn off onto the side road, but about once a month, someone hits the bridge.

[big-funky-tree]

the penske business is probably sick of this shit

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Since all the information is from 2017, here some updates from April 2022 according the website 11foot8.com

The bridge was finally raised in October 2019 to a new clearance height of 12 feet and 4 inches (though the actual height is 12 feet 8 inches, measured by the webmaster himself). The road was open again to traffic on November 5, 2019.

The first truck struck the new crash beam on November 26, 2019.

In acknowledgement of the new height, the website now calls it the 11 foot 8+8.

He also calls the bridge “the Canopener”

Despite clearance being a whole 8 inches higher, trucks still strike the clearance bar.

If you want to support him, he has a Patreon and a store where he sometimes sells art made from the debris. Both are linked off his website.

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[deerkick]

long time, no see