Fighting Fire with Fife

My mom asked me what vibe check meant. This is my personal blog, feel free to judge me.

[lamaery]

It's alright Dalinar, babe, he got this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- image description: A loosely scribbled and coloured comic page with several panels in four rows of the scene in Words of Radiance in which Kaladin joins the duel in the arena. The background in the panels is painetd very patchily implying the seats of the arena with half roofs offering shadow from the sun above. The first row has two panels, on the left we see an agitaed Dalinar, in his blue uniform with gold and white trimmings, as he leans forward, hands on the wall of the dueling pit in front of him, calling out "What happened to us?", "Where is our honor?". A smaller speechbubble to the side contains the words "Honor is dead". The panel to the right depicts Dalinar looking to the side to see who gave that cynical commentary. Kaladin stands there not far behind him, also in captain's uniform holding his spear and looking very grim. The next row has two smaller and on medium sized panel, they all show Kaladin from the side in profile – as Dalinar would see him. He inhales like he is fortifying himself for what comes next. On the exhale he looks down into the arena with mix of resignation and determination and utters the words "But I'll see what I can do." The speechbubble for it is already in the next panel, in which Kaladin is gazing towards us with a mournful expression as he says "If this goes poorly, take care of my men."

The third and fourth row are both each one long horizontal panel. The third row shows Kaladin as he vaults himself over the wall in the foreground. Dalinar stares at him seeming very shocked. The panel in the last row is a top down view into the arena. Kaladin stands in front of six people, four of them Shardbearers in full plate all now turning towards him. On the far left is Relis in his black plate holding a big shardblade. Adolin kneels next to him in the sand of the arena holding his broken shoulder. To his right stand Elis with a shardhammer in a grey plate, then Adrobar in a orange one with a blade. Further to the right is Jakamav in his green plate and the king's blade, Renarin standing blade- and plateless next to him.

[lefthandedbastard-deactivated20]

Wait are sans and papyrus named after fonts? <- clueless non undertale fan

[fifelore]

Yep! Their in-game fonts are unique compared to all other text in the game, as their dialogue fonts mimic(albeit pixelated) the look of their titular fonts.

Part of the logic behind it is that comic sans and papyrus are near-universally understood to be the “worst” fonts. Comic sans because professional fonts have a ridiculous amount of math and angles taken into consideration in order to achieve whatever goal that font is going for, and comic sans spits on all of that hard work by being a low-effort vector mess(fonts and font makers/lovers can be pretentious, absolutely, but there IS something to be said about being a master at a craft and being upstaged by something with zero refinement). Frustratingly, comic sans also happens to be one of the very few dyslexia-friendly mainstream fonts(which is a big snub to the font makers/lovers because 99% off professional/pretty/“well-designed” fonts are NOT dyslexia-friendly)

Papyrus is a “bad” font for similar reasons. Back in school I was told it was bad because when making things using Bézier curves(which is what fonts are made of) you want as few “points” as possible. More intricate, complex shapes require more points to draw them. Having a ton of vertexes is ultimately taxing on a machine(because all of these things are mathematically calculated, and every time you adjust a line or add a vertex point it adds another formula into the mix). With fonts there is no way around this, as the shape HAS to be mathematically manipulatable so that you can scale it with font sizes and have it look pretty instead of pixelated. Drawing a Helvetica or an Arial “N” with your metaphorical graphing calculator would be a much shorter equation than drawing the Papyrus “N”. This is because Papyrus has a bunch of cookie-cutter-shark notches carved all along the edges. More complex form=more complex points=more complex internal equations to make the font’s visuals on the computer’s end. At least, that was the reason I was taught, though I’m sure it probably isn’t the universal reason people hate Papyrus(the font) and I can’t be bothered to look up other reasons. It probably isn’t close to the “”real”” reason but it is still a true take on the matter. If I had to guess other reasoning behind the hatred though, I’d say that designers have little respect for “default” fonts in professional spaces(minus use of the beloved Helvetica) and I cannot COUNT the number of companies and products I’ve seen use Papyrus as their professional logo font. It’s patently ridiculous.

So, in a way, these fonts are the ‘brothers’ of every worst font ranking ever, and the jokester, silly, oblivious(on Papyrus’ part) skeletons are brothers and it is a cute little artistic aside to have them be the fonts which are considered to be the joke of the font world. You are also correct, though, that “sans” is a variation on fonts. Sans means “without” and is the short term for “Sans Serif”(Without Serif). Serifs are the little hooks on the edges of letters(the letter m having straight legs vs a hooked last leg is an example of sans serif vs serif) and they help make the eyes flow along the text better. Serif fonts are, because of that, harder for dyslexia to process because the letters flow into each other MORE since they’re, y’know, actually designed to do that. Sans Serif fonts used to be looked down upon but now around the era of smart technology it has shifted from being the black sheep of font families to the generally preferred layman style of type. As an example, Times New Roman is a serif font and Arial is sans serif.

[roenais]

!! OC content? Hand it over

hands it over!!

(middle image by pianobelt, right image by satoimonosuke)

this is aiko! she's a candy person from a dark candy themed roleplay group. she and her twin sister are based on glazed donuts and are both kind of spoiled rich kids of different kinds. aiko is the rowdier party girl, who joins a rebellion against the government as an excuse to stick it to the man. i think she eventually becomes a singer but i never really focused on her much in that story (pensive emoji)

she also exists in 3 more universes because. i'm a mcyt fan what do u expect of me:

left: she's a freshly turned vampire who's flaunting her new undead life and accidentally angering both the hunters and the rest of the vampire community. this will not come back to bite her (lie)

middle: she's a ''supervillain'' who really just likes heists and drama. she has transmutation based powers and the cops can't catch her because she just turns their cuffs into sand. eventually agrees to help a band of vigilante heroes break into a government science facility on a favor from her ex boyfriend and has fun doing it.

right: she's the mastermind of a virtual death game who's convinced everyone that if they die in the game they die in real life. secretly she's just trying to overload the system and shock everyone awake but she's also definitely having fun playing the bad guy while she's at it. (theres more to this one but god i am not explaining my sci-fi lore)

[fifelore]

PleasepleasepleaseplepleaSEPLEASEPLEASE P L E A S E I am BEGGING YOU tell me more about the right: au PLEASE it is so incredibly up my alley that I will actually lose my mind I’m so inspired and now my plot brain cells are having a party off the idea of a villain who’s secretly trying to do the right thing, although Aiko seems a bit *cough* less strictly emotionally moral about how she does it and that is still super interesting to me because the immense majority of my characters aren’t grey in that way so discussing with people’s who are is like a whole different universe, which is very intriguing and cool and I’ve been very slowly and conditionally getting more into sci-if lately and this is my Tea and you’re awesome and butterfly wings and anYWAYS

Plus she’s a 6 foot tall Queen(TM) and that deserves to be shared more widely with the world

[fifelore]

@tardisgrump Yo this is for Teddy bc formatting is easier here than in msgs Teddy this is what I was thinking for like the first 1:20 of the song, and how I might lay it out. Dm me back about if you want to make it happen(I have the rest mentally plotted out loosely too but I haven't written it yet) but dm me also if you don't lol

I can see you standing, 

Tommy, surrounded by destruction, looks up

honey/With his arms—

Tommy sees Techno and Phil standing together over the doomsday destruction(zooming in on them?) 

—around your body

Closer shot of them, Phil has an arm thrown over Techno’s shoulder

Laughin', but the joke's—

They’re joyously laughing

—not funny at all

Tommy lies injured in the ruin of L’manburg, despairing

And it took you five whole minute—

Green festival, Techno and Tommy stand on opposite sides of the confrontation

—s/To pack us up and—

Dream approaches Techno from Tommy’s side of the group

—leave me with it

Dream and Techno leave together

Holdin' all this love out—

Techno glaring angrily at Tommy

—here in—

Closeup of Tommy’s hand gripping the Axe of Peace(panning up)

—the hall

Tommy wearing the turtle hat(panning up)(still watching Techno leave)

I think I've seen—

Tommy watches as Techno unleashed withers rise in the sky dramatically behind him

—this film before

Flashback to the finale when there were 3 withers behind Techno(parallelism)

And I didn't like—

Tubbo throws Tommy out of L’manburg

—the end—

Tommy stumbles

—ing

Tommy looks back over his shoulder

You're not my homeland anymore

He’s blocked out by the walls Dream had built/All of L’manburg faces away from him for the metaphor

So what am I defending now?

Tommy throws his arms out protectively in front of L’manburg, putting himself between the city and Techno

You were my town/Now I'm—

Techno and Phil’s cabins with Techno and Tommy side by side

—in exile, seein' you out

Tommy stands with L’manburg by his side after rejoining them, the grass is green and it is spring

I think I've seen this film be—

Over-the-shoulder of Tommy and L’manburg people watching Techno leave with Dream

—fore

Flashback over-the-shoulder of Tommy and L’manburg watching Techno leave after the coup

[mahgck]

the great thing about the etho and joel duo is that they are undoubtedly going to make themselves into the villains but they are so unbelievably lorephobic that its going to be like two frat guys showing up in the middle of the lord of the rings

[maxkirin]

these last 12 months of drawing have all led to this moment

[fifelore]

i will put your kneecaps through your eyesockets for this

[melgillman]

no one asked but I’m telling you anyway

[sunfortune]

hate lit posting but me watching the tumblr girlies call rochester a poor little meow meow and jane eyre ending up with him a girl boss happily ever after

[technoblade-updates]

What is the TEKUNOBURĒDO collaboration? I bought the merch of course, but I don’t know where it came from unless it was mentioned in the new stream.

I think you mistook the word “collection” for collaboration”? And there hasn’t been any streams in over a month! I’m not quite sure how to help you I honestly don’t quite understand what you’re asking? I can maybe help if you DM either my main or mcyt blog (listed in the pinned post)

- Mod Luna

[fungisteri]

I think they're asking where did the idea of the collection come from, since Technoblade himself hadn't mentioned making something in that style before

[antarctic-empires]

I think it just comes from Techno being a weeb lol but if they message me a clearer question I don’t mind trying to figure out an answer to whatever they might be asking

[fifelore]

Yeah, I think you guys probably have the right idea. Collaboration might’ve also been autocorrect(also since there’s weird spacing before it which makes me think of mobile antics). Also “new” might just mean the latest stream, if I had to guess.

Essentially, here’s a meticulous layman’s over-explanation of tekunoburedo: because Japanese uses a non-Latin alphabet, when writing and talking about Japanese words online we make them look English. This process is generally called romanization because of Latins and Romans and blah blah blah European history, ew. The way Japanese words are written in ‘English’(i.e. Saki or Sakura, and so-on) are called romaji(to make it easy to remember think “Roman-y = romaji). This also is used on our end for words that don’t translate into Japanese. For example, Technoblade is an unusual word mash-up of an unofficial made-up abbreviation of “technology” that’s smashed onto the front(as if it was a prefix) of an item. When you think of it like that, translations for Technoblade could get a bit absurd.

Instead of trying to translate that, we just mimic it in their language. It’s a name, after all, it’s okay if what we have them use instead doesn’t communicate the meaning. For example, Saki means blossom, literally every Japanese person would know that, but when they romanicize it the meaning doesn’t also translate, and that’s okay.

A number of Asian languages just don’t have or use the L sound. The closest phonetic equivalent is the R sound(if you play around with slurring an R/L you can see how the sounds can merge). Older media likes to mock this, like in A Christmas Story, but if you try and put an English speaker into the Arabic language you’ll watch them suffer and look like an illiterate child there, because Arabic has 3 entirely different alphabetical letters for 3 entirely different pronunciations of the th sound. They cannot be interchanged. Now dump an American into that and from the Arabic POV the person is going to sound like a child because they’re pronouncing three different letters exactly the same. Like a moron. So, it is just how language works.

There’s one more thing to know, and that is that the Japanese alphabet, in english-ified terms, is made up of syllables instead of ‘letters’. (Almost)Every ‘letter’ in the Japanese language is 2 letters in ours, a consonant and a vowel. This makes turning things into romaji suuuper easy and I find that it also makes Japanese pronunciation a breeze. There’s (almost) no double consonants, plus all their vowels are always pronounced the same. Suuuper easy pronunciation on our end :D. To indicate a different pronunciation though in romaji we use āēīōū. For romaji this basically means that we linger on that sound a half-instant longer. “ah” becomes “aah”.

With all that said lol Tekunoburēdo = Technoblade. In pronunciation it ends up slurring together a bit, as spoken words do, so Te-ku-no sounds more like Tek’no. We see this in actual Japanese words as well. Desu is a very common word, but you only ever hear it pronounced “des”, because though the u at the end is pronounced, it just fades into the atmosphere really fast. For bu-rē-do, if we break down the English “bl” in slo-mo it is kinda “BuL”. We already went over the R/L thing, so now we have “Bur”. I mentioned that in Japanese, vowels always have the same pronunciation. E is said eh and A is said ah, so neither works for “blade”. We need an ay sound. For this we just lengthen the e to ‘ee’. Remember, the e is always said as eh, so a longer version we get something like eeehh, which is as close to ay as we’re gonna get(say it aloud, you’ll see) without adding more syllables in. We want to avoid that because Japanese pronounces every letter, so adding more letters requires you to spend more time pronouncing the word. Language is all about cutting corners. Fo the final do, remember the desu/des thing I explained. Voila!!!!

In conclusion, although us fans like to portray him as this super killer epic dramatic Blood God of darkness and fear, because it’s really cool and fans like being cool, everything Techno himself actually is is a big blob of “Wow this guy is the biggest dorky nerd I’ve ever seen”. All of his hand-selected thumbnails for all 6 years of his YouTube career have been cartoony and brightly colored(minus major DSMP roleplay events), along with his emotes. He has 3 kid/baby sisters and a kid brother, with Techno being the oldest. He is a big anime binge-watcher and nerd, and he likes to analyze the shows he likes and break them down into why/why nots. Essentially, us fans make him waaayyyy cooler than he actively portrays himself and the fanbase is predominantly malewhen the statistical majority of people he grew up with were cute, very tiny, baby girls that he helped watch over.

In light of all that, the Tekunoburēdo collection makes a lot of sense :D xD

[fifelore]

Ethos with Pearl style ig you're up to it?

Took me a hot second, but I spent tonight finishing it! This was SUCH a weird swap for my brain to deal with, because I visualize them at opposite ends of the color/vibe spectrum. I had to mentally plot out what would be what on Etho. If you want it with just Pearltho or with a background just lemme know. Btw, Etho is my absolute favorite mcyt’r, and in my top 3 youtubers overall. I made 99% of my online friends through the Etho fanserver and I’ve even played a bit of minecraft with the guy. He was very nice to everyone.

Originally I was gonna do a background of him sitting on the tile roof of a pagoda(current modded series) with a Moon Big in the sky or something… but I literally do Not do backgrounds… okay FINE the real reason is because I’m a slow artist, Technoblade released a new video, I’m already in love with Techno’s old VR series, and I need to use art to campaign for the return of VR Minecraft fencing. This is very important. Clearly.

[fifelore]

Ethos with Pearl style ig you're up to it?

Took me a hot second, but I spent tonight finishing it! This was SUCH a weird swap for my brain to deal with, because I visualize them at opposite ends of the color/vibe spectrum. I had to mentally plot out what would be what on Etho. If you want it with just Pearltho or with a background just lemme know. Btw, Etho is my absolute favorite mcyt’r, and in my top 3 youtubers overall. I made 99% of my online friends through the Etho fanserver and I’ve even played a bit of minecraft with the guy. He was very nice to everyone.

Originally I was gonna do a background of him sitting on the tile roof of a pagoda(current modded series) with a Moon Big in the sky or something… but I literally do Not do backgrounds… okay FINE the real reason is because I’m a slow artist, Technoblade released a new video, I’m already in love with Techno’s old VR series, and I need to use art to campaign for the return of VR Minecraft fencing. This is very important. Clearly.

[harvocel]

he is cracked

[toothy-crow]

shop update with these fellas!!! some i have very few of so... limited edition??

toothy crow's wares

odds n ends

[hermitcraft-ask-games]

Hermit palette swap art game!

Send a hermit + a palette in the ask box 👀

Reblog to participate and let your followers send you art requests

here's a doodle for example ^

let's see what mixes and matches comes up from this :]

have fun!

** the hermit skins include more colors than the ones showed up here, this is more for representation :]

[asexual-musings]

no one:

asexuals before realizing they’re ace: isn’t it weird how we call people “hot” when we just mean, like, pretty? it makes it sound like you actually feel hot when you see them. which isn’t a thing. anyway

[asexual-musings]

ok i am absolutely losing it over the sheer number of people who found out what hot means from this post

[redrikki]

Man, this is like the time my therapist explained that watching characters with "chemistry" is supposed to make you feel aroused. Who knew, right?

[pyromaniac-fairy-of-water]

I'm sorry what?

[indelibility]

I thought it was supposed to make you intrigued like any other plot device

[threefeline]

[cryptid-friends]

maybe 2B with Illumina or 7A with Etho? Your choice!

both? both. both is good.

-8.32

[ref under cut]

:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ

outfit ask meme!! but catered only to the things i like to draw a lot send an ask with a character, letter, and a number and i’ll draw them

ninjaslab. double ninja. what the ninjas doing

going to finish the ones in the inbox first thank you for all the reqs !!

[badmccideas]

arrows are not one hit kills in dodgebolt. they do not inform the players.