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HAPPY BI-VISIBILITY DAY!

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Jirby

Jirby (Jeans Kirby)

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A breakdown of medieval armor, since a lot of pieces are required to create a full suit.

kuropii

Ref

queerpyracy

i know i was grumping about naive female characters the other day but now i gotta grump about how naivety in male characters is allowed to be endearing but in female characters it’s either a flaw or it’s uncomfortably sexualized and anyway! fuck that noise

keybladesoras

Edna Mode - Incredibles 2

dollwoman

Megamoe X randoms

therobotmonster

Explanations and Answers

Goes down a bit like this.

When a storyteller sets up something as a mystery, they are telling the audience that the answer to that mystery is important to the narrative. This is why some “twist endings” work and others don’t. If the revelation changes the situation or the audience’s perception of it, then that’s a satisfying reveal. One needs only to look at, say, any given Hercule Poirot story to see this. All the pieces fit together once you know the answer.

On the other hand, lets say you have a story where, for instance, a major hero is struck dead by lightning in the second act. And when people go “hey, what’s with this lightning bolt out of nowhere?” and then you say “its a mystery!”, you’re telling people its not just a random event. It meant something to the story. If you knew where the lightning bolt came from, that part of the story would make sense. That’s the understanding you’re coming to with the audience. So when you go and say “the lightning bolt happened because an un-involved monarch butterfly flapped its wings in Tibet” you haven’t given an answer. You’ve given an explanation. It tells you why there was a lightning bolt, but functionally its no different than saying the character was unlucky or it was Tuesday.

There’s no answer. No meaning.No agency.

Which is fine, so long as you don’t pretend it was a mystery in the first place,

eldritchsandwich

#This goes double if your first answer to “why the lightning bolt” is a lengthy rambling story about frozen desserts#Triple if your second answer is called 20 Random Second Act Lightning Bolt Parkway

wannabeanimator

via Deja View

Milt Kahl gave the final look to all deer characters, including adolescent Bambi. He ended up animating most of his personality scenes, including the section where Bambi meets Feline as an adult. As usual, the anatomy in his drawings feels rock solid while offering possibilities for unrealistic, even cartoony animation. Milt’s animation of Bambi following Feline through the clouds has nothing to do with realistic deer motion, but it interprets instead the dreamlike state of falling in love.

catscatscatss

bunjywunjy

I want to know what kind of face the owner made to get that response

emmi-kat

just-shower-thoughts

If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey

i-draws-dinosaurs

I’m afraid you’ve missed the predatory giraffes by about 66 million years mate.

These guys are Azhdarchid pterosaurs, and they were some of the strangest reptiles to ever exist. They were perfectly capable of flight, but their physiology suggests that they may have spent a significant portion of their lives hunting on the ground.

The largest of them could reach over 5 metres tall while standing, and had a 10-metre wingspan. They varied greatly in body type, from the tall, spindly forms of Quetzalcoatlus and Arambourgiania (images 4 and 1-2 respectively) to the heavy brute strength of Hatzegopteryz, a species that may have used its head to bludgeon its prey (images 2 and 3).

There has never been another flying animal before or since to have reached such incredible sizes, nor any predator so intimidatingly tall. Well, not any that we know of yet.

All of these illustrations are by Mark Witton, a palaeontologist and artist who specialises in pterosaurs. This is his blog about palaeontology and the science of reconstructing extinct species. You can find out more about each of these images here, here and here.

(Oh, and by the way … these are NOT dinosaurs)

crystallineknight

What the hell these are so intimidating, why aren’t these in any dinosaur movies

i-draws-dinosaurs

Just imagine it …

The protagonists and a few disposable minor characters are walking carefully through a forest at night, covered by a thick fog. They know there are dinosaurs everywhere, but they can’t see more than three metres in front of their own faces.

Eventually they stop near a small cluster of trees to rest. As they sit there, exhausted, one of the trees begins to move. Everyone freezes, terrified. They have no idea what this thing is.

Then a massive beak slams down, longer than a person is tall, and plucks one of the minor characters off his feet and into the air.

The small group erupts into movement, frantically running away from whatever those things are. There’s two of them now, and as the fog begins to clear the group are able to make out more of their shape. They are huge, with long, spindly necks topped with a massive, daggerlike head. The long legs that they once mistook for trees have an almost mechanical movement as the giant creatures stalk towards them. And then comes the next terrible surprise.

These things can run.

just-shower-thoughts

If giraffes were predators they would look both hilarious and terrifying while sneaking up on their prey

i-draws-dinosaurs

I’m afraid you’ve missed the predatory giraffes by about 66 million years mate.

These guys are Azhdarchid pterosaurs, and they were some of the strangest reptiles to ever exist. They were perfectly capable of flight, but their physiology suggests that they may have spent a significant portion of their lives hunting on the ground.

The largest of them could reach over 5 metres tall while standing, and had a 10-metre wingspan. They varied greatly in body type, from the tall, spindly forms of Quetzalcoatlus and Arambourgiania (images 4 and 1-2 respectively) to the heavy brute strength of Hatzegopteryz, a species that may have used its head to bludgeon its prey (images 2 and 3).

There has never been another flying animal before or since to have reached such incredible sizes, nor any predator so intimidatingly tall. Well, not any that we know of yet.

All of these illustrations are by Mark Witton, a palaeontologist and artist who specialises in pterosaurs. This is his blog about palaeontology and the science of reconstructing extinct species. You can find out more about each of these images here, here and here.

(Oh, and by the way … these are NOT dinosaurs)

crystallineknight

What the hell these are so intimidating, why aren’t these in any dinosaur movies

i-draws-dinosaurs

Just imagine it …

The protagonists and a few disposable minor characters are walking carefully through a forest at night, covered by a thick fog. They know there are dinosaurs everywhere, but they can’t see more than three metres in front of their own faces.

Eventually they stop near a small cluster of trees to rest. As they sit there, exhausted, one of the trees begins to move. Everyone freezes, terrified. They have no idea what this thing is.

Then a massive beak slams down, longer than a person is tall, and plucks one of the minor characters off his feet and into the air.

The small group erupts into movement, frantically running away from whatever those things are. There’s two of them now, and as the fog begins to clear the group are able to make out more of their shape. They are huge, with long, spindly necks topped with a massive, daggerlike head. The long legs that they once mistook for trees have an almost mechanical movement as the giant creatures stalk towards them. And then comes the next terrible surprise.

These things can run.

artoo

thank you, mark

melyzard

This is the only Star Wars discourse I’m interested in right now.

gifbro

tastefullyoffensive

“Why can’t I eat you!” [video]

Hey new devilamn fans, meat jinmen, the series “first major boss battle”. I hope you get along with him well.

#devilman

kaban-bang

I really appreciate the fact that these are actual sprites and they didn’t just hit “pixelate”. Or that they actually drew a sprite of Popuko falling instead of just hitting “rotate”.

Complaining about things people couldn’t stomach amuses me like “you wanted to watch an R rated film. This is what you get.”

If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. This goes for shows like Devilman, which hello, has “devil” in it’s name and isn’t going to be quite the wholesome series you expect it to be as it’s written by Go Nagai.

And it’s amusing as years ago, you were able to handle the just as bloody Castlevania netflix series and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure before that.