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[fischotterkunst]

🌊 hi im River u can also call me Fischy (they/them) 🦦 

professional artist, naturalist, and environmental educator. i love animals, nature, monsters, horror, fantasy, history, and video games involving any of these topics.

personal/chatter tag is #river babbles

primary fandoms: Identity V, Tensura, Don’t Starve, Transformers, Cyborg 009, sometimes Genshin Impact

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[fischotterkunst]

I'm compelled to ask.. now that all of the character previews are out, do you have any thoughts on the Cyborg 009 Nemesis designs for the team?

i was gonna ask you the same question sldkfjasdf ok honestly i'm setting my bar at Call of Justice which was a mixed bag for me personally but as far as Pyunma, Geronimo, and Chang are concerned i thought CoJ was their best looks so far. and tbh i do prefer Geronimo's CoJ look (i don't understand the choice to give him red hair in Nemesis but at least he has long hair now? the bar is SO low.) BUT i think Nemesis Chang is the best he's literally ever looked and i adore him, and Pyunma i think is on par with CoJ (VERY handsome, 10/10). in my brain, Great Britain NEEDS to be 1968/2001 version stretchy if you know what i mean? i feel like they tried to make him look like a cool bald guy but like. he's already a bald guy who is cool, let him look like the lovable doofus he is!! Joe is fine imho, Albert is nigh impossible to mess up (Re: Cyborg aside) and so is Ivan, but sadly i think poor Francoise looks a little bland :c i can't quite put my finger on it but she just looks so lifeless compared to several of her past incarnations and she deserves better. the uniform designs overall are fine, though honestly i kiiiiiiinda miss the sexy boots from CoJ. (don't get me wrong, 2001 and 1968 versions are my favorite, but i really liked the modernization of most of the design choices in CoJ)

but Jet.

oh my gods.

like we're not at Re: Cyborg levels of "what the fuck were they thinking" by far, and it's an improvement imho from CoJ (why was he blonde??) but for the love of the gods WHY are they so afraid to give him his iconic nose??? or at least AN aquiline nose?? how is he supposed to be aerodynamic without his BEAK, dammit??? but also i'm personally REALLY partial to big aquiline noses irl, i think they're extremely attractive, and aside from that i feel like giving him such a painfully generic anime boy face does a disservice to the uniqueness of the original creator's designs.

tl;dr i'm glad we're FINALLY at acceptable appearances for Pyunma and Chang (and Geronimo, even though the red hair feels off to me, i'm not Indigenous myself so i can't confirm whether it's actually egregious) in the year of our lord 2026, but i feel like depicting them as NOT racist stereotypes didn't need to mean that the others' unique designs had to be watered down?

[fischotterkunst]

man i really miss the days when it was possible to stream movies for groups without having to bend over backwards (Rabb.it you will always be missed) cause it's been AGES since i did a "Horror Movies and Chill" stream and i'm really in the mood to do it again.....like i'm gonna rewatch the Chucky series in honor of pride month and it would be SO fun to do an art stream/watch but i'm also not out to get sued or w/e :c

[fischotterkunst]

BROS im a fake Chucky fan (well......) deadass i forgot about Child's Play II and III even though i've seen them bc like in my mind the series goes

Child's Play

Bride of Chucky

Seed of Chucky

and that's fucking it sldkfjasdflkj (its actually bc im only a casual Chucky fan, tbh i mostly only care about Tiffany and Glen/da ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[fischotterkunst]

man i really miss the days when it was possible to stream movies for groups without having to bend over backwards (Rabb.it you will always be missed) cause it's been AGES since i did a "Horror Movies and Chill" stream and i'm really in the mood to do it again.....like i'm gonna rewatch the Chucky series in honor of pride month and it would be SO fun to do an art stream/watch but i'm also not out to get sued or w/e :c

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[barneycalhounslutmoments]

honestly this whole genAI debacle has been a very awesome way to tell which companies truly do not give a fuck about making products or services people actually want. which already-billion-dollar companies are willing to shed what's left of their humanity in the name of *maybe* making more money using technology that is immensely destructive and historically never has been profitable and everybody fucking despises. which companies will fire thousands of employees and alienate all of their consumers in order to *maybe* save money. we here at google have decided to make our main products completely fucking useless because we hate you

[fischotterkunst]

i wish i hadn't been homeschooled. like yeah i didn't have to deal with bullies or waking up at like 6am or whatever but holy shit was i stifled in the long run. like as an adult i realize more and more that i got none of the opportunities offered to public school students - field trips, especially trips abroad, and my social skills are still fucked, nor do i have any lifelong relationships that public school allows one to develop. it's extremely difficult for me to build connections, career-wise and socially. but shit i didn't get taught evolution or sex ed so i guess it was all worth it (i looked it up online when i was way too young and unsupervised and learned about sex the most dangerous way possible, and also became a biologist and pagan).

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 13 minutes

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[shithowdy]

every time i visit the yellow-headed blackbirds at this marsh i am treated to something special. this time i watched a pair perform a circular, bobbing courtship dance in which the female remained bowed and facing the male as he quietly dipped and jumped a circle around her. this is not at all typical of them-- their typical courting involves the male perching himself conspicuously on a reed/branch/post and fanning his wings whilst screeching loudly. between this and the unique songs i have recorded at this marsh, i am beginning to wonder if these birds don't have their own regional "cultures". i look forward to observing them more.

[michaelnordeman]

Viviparous Lizard/Zootoca vivipara/skogsödla. Värmland, Sweden (7 June 2014).

[dashamanych]

Remembered that i have free will and can just add animated Charlie in my clumsy boring uni assignment

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[drtrinitysantos]

sdxfcgvzdxfcgvhzdxfcgvhbjnkmlcgvhbjnk science

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

#the reason that lab safety regulations are the way they are is because literally all chemists are like this #as in 100% of them #no exceptions (via @prokopetz)

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[dreamsrunfaster]

[fluffysheeps]

Otterly adorable 🦦

[eel-hat]

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