Eclectic Things

Hi! Call me Imedude. I reblog whatever interests me, which could be anything, but it's usually funny dumb stuff. The Kind are welcome here!

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[shittysawtraps]

Hello, Katrina.

Imagine, if you will, a dance studio. This studio is regarded globally as one of the, if not the most prestigious academy of its kind. It can accommodate dozens upon dozens of troupes, and provides arrangements specific for every single style of dance, no matter how specific. Even the design of the building itself is very ergonomic: the main entrance, or lobby, leads into a neat row of hallways, one for each generic classification (tap dance, ballet, etc). These broad, “generic” hallways then branch into several narrower “subtype” paths, which finally lead to a sort of cul-de-sac of individual, enclosed studio rooms for several groupings of dancers to practice in.

Now, back in the lobby, there is a P.A. speaker hanging in the entranceway of each “generic” hallway. These speakers play live audio feeds of the dancers practicing in each studio room, swapping to the next after allotments of about twenty seconds. The sound systems are in excellent quality, and you can listen with near-perfect clarity whence you are near them. Not only that, but they are spaced just so that- as long as you are not standing in the front of the lobby, or in between two of the halls- you will only hear one P.A. speaker at a time.

Now, imagine a pack of enraged silverback gorillas are released all at once into the dance studio. It does not matter in what mode of transport they were delivered, or the party who delivered them. What matters is that they are all profusely enraged, and looking to attack anything that poses a modicum of a threat to them. Normally, this would extend to the gorillas fighting each other- but in this scenario, every individual gorilla is enclosed in a personalized forcefield bubble that prevent them exclusively from harming another gorilla. Any given primate cannot punch, kick, or throw objects at another gorilla. As such, they instead focus their anger on the likes of the dance studio- and the people inside it. The gorillas, being naturally intelligent creatures, listen in to the P.A. speakers one by one, as to decide which studio room to target first (they are unfamiliar with the terrain, and because they cannot harm each other, they have decided to operate as a single unit).

Now, Katrina, in these circumstances, what type of style- depending on music, and then the specific movement of the dance- do you believe would be the most objectively likely to merit the wrath of a tribe of embittered, invincible, silverback gorillas? There is a pen and paper on the table before you to write down your answer, as well as a cohesive list illustrating every style of dance being practiced in the studio. In the far left corner, there is a 1980s Emerson 13" CRT Tube Color TV, and roughly 450 VHS cassette tapes containing footage of each dance style practiced, nearly identical to the list- though in a separate order entirely. Additionally, these VHS tapes are labeled using doctors’ prescription shorthand, and thus are very difficult to decipher for anyone unfamiliar with the methodology.

If you are unable to provide a written answer, provide an unclear written answer, or an incorrect written answer, in the provided span of six hours, then forty outraged silverback gorillas will be unleashed upon you via the row of forty separate chambers, paneled on the south wall and currently locked.

Good luck, Katrina. You are going to need it.

[shittysawtraps]

important addendum: i received a second message from this person immediately after getting this trap that read, “sorry about the gorilla post”

[shittysawtraps]

I bring good(?) news: searching "gorilla" in this blog brings up the saw trap post about invincible gorillas that hate a specific type music.

(Prior to now, the Tumblr search function just gave up looking).

I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC GORILLA MUSIC POST. it’s written like a fusion of a twilight zone opening and a r/whowouldwin post. also i did see you in the notes and in a related post so thank you for being a shooter for the Incredibly Specific Gorilla Music Trap for the past five goddamn years.

[imedude]

I genuinely think about it like. Once a week. I'll be on my deathbed thinkin about that fuckin post.

[deaderrose]

if someone doesnt come mate with this fucker soon im gonna have to start liveblogging the mocking bird outside my window every night

[deaderrose]

i dont believe you!!! i dont believe you heard all these! you are making these up!

[deaderrose]

tfw you have the skills to occasionally do the calls of two different birds at once but you still pull no bitches

[deaderrose]

maybe if you did less hawk alarms and starlings fighting someone would be willing to come near you

[deaderrose]

Hes Back

[deaderrose]

5th try's the charm I guess?

[deaderrose]

Oh no! I think he just gave up :( now i feel bad, he only tried for 8 minutes tonight instead of 3 hours

[deaderrose]

the last call was a full 10 second impersonation of a northern -- GODDAMNIT HE WAS JUST TAKING A BREAK

[thecrumbez]

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Oh no! All RPGs are delayed because the ontologically evil minions that it's morally uncontroversial to kill have unionised and gone on strike.

If you don't want your games to have to deal with the ethical implications of violence, you'd better be prepared to give them at least a 10% raise and double their vacation days.

[optimistic-tree]

oh god, their capacity to go on strike has challenged the assumption that they exist only in order to be killed by players and cause harm. If this goes on any longer, we're all doomed-to think about them as being capable of making their own choices! The horror!

[imedude]

Ah, don't worry. Their ontologically evil democratically elected union representative has confirmed they will be using the funds to do more evil things with their evil family members during their evil vacations. Relief!

[optimistic-tree]

...family members you say?

[imedude]

EVIL family members, EVIL. When an EVIL mommy and an EVIL daddy EVIL each other very much and take EVIL dates on the EVIL beach they eventually make 2.3 EVIL children.

[optimistic-tree]

And you're sure children can be ontologically evil?

[imedude]

Of course! My good friend told me all about it, he's right over here. I'd like you to meet Mr. Gygax!

[ranchwamen]

I don't know if you've talked about this before, but are there primate taurs in the Sirpaverse? As in, lower half monkey, top half human?

Along similar thoughts, did any branches in the genus Homo tree of life (like Neanderthals or Homo erectus) also have taur stuff?

There are, yes yes! I haven't drawn them before, mostly because I’m prone to forgetting my ideas and when I remember I don’t have the time or means… Actually you know what, I'm done with my work for a bit! Primatetaur time!!! :DD

(There's no colour here so it doesn't really show, but if you were wondering, the inspirations are: black-capped squirrel monkey, central chimpanzee, yellow-cheeked gibbon, lion-tail macaque)

I think they could get really silly with their clothes, perhaps it'd be inevitable when they have such a humanoid taur half. They can do double-tops instead of many-legged bottoms, even wear "faun clothes" on their taur half and nothing else (not actually very proper, but, it's funny)! And they can have shoes or gloves or nothing at all on their hand-feet depending on how they feel.... even if that's a little weird either way ^^''

Anyway, other human species have never been found to have taurs, only Homo sapiens! Though, that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been quote unquote “weird” humans before taurs. Sometime in prehistory there were several populations of two-headed H. sapiens for example! And other human species sometimes naturally grew fur, feathers or even long, sharp spines before taurism was observed. They seem to have appeared out of nowhere, lingered for a bit, and quietly sank into extinction.

I’m not sure how well the modern people of the Sirpaverse know of these ancient humans — seeing as soft tissues don’t tend to last in remains — but they existed! I suppose if the feathered and furred humans had lice adapted to them, then we would suddenly find that these suspiciously land taur-adapted lice seem to be of a far older lineage than merfolk-adapted parasites, revealing that furred and feathered humans are older than at least some taurs (after the extinction of the other humans the lice most likely hung around in other mammals and birds before being transmitted to taurs)

Thanks for the questions :D

[imedude]

There's something so very cursed yet magical about how you've leaned into the strangeness of the body plans for taurs. Whenever you draw a new one, I'm always drawn (heh) to how you do the clothes, because that can get a bit difficult to visualize, yknow?

Side thing, in that second image... are those decorative suspenders? Because what are they holding up that isn't supported by the taur's shoulders...?

[ranchwamen]

Thank you so much! I really enjoy tackling the challenges of taur clothes, which is one reason I’ve been looking forward to drawing primatetaurs. I mean, come on! A humanoid body walking on all fours with shoes on their hands in fullbody bottoms, or two tops stacked on top of each other to create one big hoodie squared, that’s so…! It’s wildly cursed, it’s beautiful because it’s so cursed! This is the norm in the Sirpaverse!!!! I kinda get why people don’t wanna do pants on centaurs wherever they occur because it can be hard to make sense of, but it’s genuinely a lot of fun, especially in this modern setting where I can draw skinny jeans and summer dresses for many-legged people!

The suspenders hold up that small bit of pants left around the upper torso’s waist and make it sit more snugly, but yeah, they’re not exactly doing any heavy lifting. Belts and suspenders for fashion purposes are one of my favourite things to add to taur designs hehehe

These belts aren’t doing SHIT!!! They make the pants hug around the waist tighter and maybe keep the tucked-in top in place, but that’s literally IT!!! And Karleeen’s suspender has even less hope of actually supporting anything…..

[probablybadrpgideas]

Oh no! All RPGs are delayed because the ontologically evil minions that it's morally uncontroversial to kill have unionised and gone on strike.

If you don't want your games to have to deal with the ethical implications of violence, you'd better be prepared to give them at least a 10% raise and double their vacation days.

[optimistic-tree]

oh god, their capacity to go on strike has challenged the assumption that they exist only in order to be killed by players and cause harm. If this goes on any longer, we're all doomed-to think about them as being capable of making their own choices! The horror!

[imedude]

Ah, don't worry. Their ontologically evil democratically elected union representative has confirmed they will be using the funds to do more evil things with their evil family members during their evil vacations. Relief!

[optimistic-tree]

...family members you say?

[imedude]

EVIL family members, EVIL. When an EVIL mommy and an EVIL daddy EVIL each other very much and take EVIL dates on the EVIL beach they eventually make 2.3 EVIL children.

[asundergrowth]

[nyxiemeow]

[windoftime]

[deaderrose]

if someone doesnt come mate with this fucker soon im gonna have to start liveblogging the mocking bird outside my window every night

[deaderrose]

i dont believe you!!! i dont believe you heard all these! you are making these up!

[deaderrose]

tfw you have the skills to occasionally do the calls of two different birds at once but you still pull no bitches

[deaderrose]

maybe if you did less hawk alarms and starlings fighting someone would be willing to come near you

[cryptotheism]

I just felt someone Z-target me

[search-queery]

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

[transmascmarypoppins]

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

[cecilsrandomeverything]

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

[spacefinch]

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

[chatblancofficial]

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

[huewrite]

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

[gossamermouse]

this is not a place of honor

[jackviator]

[dinosaurana]

Oh hey post of Ozymandius, good to see you again standing on your feet in a desert where no one remembers you

[probablybadrpgideas]

Oh no! All RPGs are delayed because the ontologically evil minions that it's morally uncontroversial to kill have unionised and gone on strike.

If you don't want your games to have to deal with the ethical implications of violence, you'd better be prepared to give them at least a 10% raise and double their vacation days.

[optimistic-tree]

oh god, their capacity to go on strike has challenged the assumption that they exist only in order to be killed by players and cause harm. If this goes on any longer, we're all doomed-to think about them as being capable of making their own choices! The horror!

[imedude]

Ah, don't worry. Their ontologically evil democratically elected union representative has confirmed they will be using the funds to do more evil things with their evil family members during their evil vacations. Relief!

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

i want to see some absolutely dogshit, piss-poor renaissance paintings.

ik the masters were great and everything, but not everyone back then could have been a master. i need some frame of reference over here.

[valdevia]

May I introduce you to "The Ricotta Eaters" (1585), a painting I could only describe as Ontologically Evil:

I know it's technically competent, but it just has a horrid aura surrounding it. I don't even care about disrespecting the Italian master Vincenzo Campi anymore, he should have looked at this painting and destroyed it like a sick beast.

[elodieunderglass]

They’re eating ricotta in a way we did NOT choose to continue

[lew-basnight]

Nightmare ricotta rotation

[pukicho]

I’m literally in my beast form going to bed

[pukicho]

[pukicho]

Stop calling the crumbs shit. None of you realize how hard it is to photoshop crumbs falling mid-air via a birds-eye perspective. They don't just have 'mid-air granola crumbs' on google, no one has ever thought of photographing that before. I had to color a bunch of boulders brown. I had to find images of various boulders and color them brown, whnich yeah, when I say it out loud, does make it sound like a funny euphemism for shit, but it's really more of a light brown color and it took a lot of time and effort, so stop.

[twentychildreninawashingmachine]

i thought they were bees.

[pukicho]

oh my fucking god. oh my god. it can't possibly look like that to you

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[roundaboutnow]

Shoes by Van Gogh always takes my breath away

i dont know much about him, or art as a whole really, but this whole collection is neat. looks like it provides some context for each of the paintings/drawings too!