Dr. Stone on a half inch CRT, the smallest one ever manufactured (reportedly)
These minuscule black and white CRTs were used in the viewfinders of some Sony camcorders from the late 90's and early 2000's, the whole module usually takes a plain composite video input (in this case I added a 75 ohm resistor to correct the input impedance, and had to do a small repair too)
you know how some cats have insane neuroses and quirks. well my recently adopted cat Rosita, who is a former feral, was said to find toes and bare skin in general "suspicious" in her shelter description. i was like, oh okay, well my other cat attacks toes, cats do that sometimes i suppose
little did we know what this means is that she not only attacks toes but if she sees you with your ankles or bare arms out for example, there is a high chance she will slap you. she will literally just come up to you and slap you where your skin is showing unless its your face. she doesnt hiss or growl or anything she will just give you a disapproving slap or two i assume to voice her disagreement with how you present yourself
this cat wants you to cover your arms and ankles NOW. slut
this girl was showing all the signs of being a secret mermaid so i pushed her into the pool and she turned into a forty foot long mosasaurus which is tbh way cooler
Uploaded to Web Archive: This manual for an old german hemometer I found between the pages of an old medical book.
Interestingly, this manual is in German, English, French and Spanish.
Manual for an antique hemometer, found inside an old medical book
I am hereby calling fellow fans to participate in the Dr. STONE Original Character Census that we are conducting.
If you have any dcst OCs and wish to participate, please message me ( @mistertalkingmachine ) or @kittypuppet with the following information:
- Name of your character
- Your DCST fandom hangout spot (ie, discord server name, whatsapp group name, etc)
- One or two pictures
- General information (for example: if they are a self insert, role in the stone world, brief backstory if available, other stats, or anything you deem noteworthy)
- Name that you want to be credited as (or anonymous), and an optional link
The census in its current state is hosted in Ao3
I hope this will be interesting to you all, see you soon!
I FUCKING LOVE INFORMATION!!! I WANT TO LEARN EVERYTHING AND KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!! I WANT TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING!!!!!! I AM UTTERLY CONSUMED BY MY THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
A few weeks ago, @kittypuppet and I spotted this ceramic statue while on a date at the Colchagua museum in Santa Cruz, Chile.
It's him.
The label nearby mentions the Tuncahuan culture, making this piece at least 1500 years old; however I have a good feeling it's mislabeled (as the tag reads "Tuncahuan culture pots").
I doubt there's any relation but the resemblance is interesting.
I actually have an update for this! We did some googling at first and didn't find anything, but after a second deeper search (which totally didn't happen just now) I found out it is very likely mislabeled like we thought!
I didn't find this specific piece, but I *did* find very similar pieces noted to be from the pre-columbian period in Manteño-Huancalvica culture.
In terms of the relevancy for Dr Stone here, I think it's very likely that Boichi drew inspiration from Ancient Andean and Mesoamerican cultures for Treasure Island, but we may never know for sure. Of course, it could also just be coincidence, but I have my own specualtions.
On this day, when celebrating the onion man is what most people indulge on, let's also turn our eyes to the fascinating civilization that is Ishigami village, in this mini post (compared to what I usually do anyway).
Starting with the reason I am doing this in the first place, Stone Day. It is a celebration from Ishigami Village that takes place in January 4th, which happens to be Senku's birthday, likely an easter egg left by Byakuya in the hundred tales.
Unfortunately we weren't shown anything regarding what this celebration involves.
As the manga itself points out, Stone day is significant in several ways, for one, 1/4 is i-shi in japanese, which also means Stone. It is Senku's birthday (and if you've been following me you'll know that the day Senku was born in, January 4th 2004, was the day that Nasa's Spirit rover landed on Mars).
Another tradition is of course the grand bout, which there isn't much left to say about since it was explained in detail in the series, even down to its specific rules
Rule 6 is the only one that wasn't relevant in the series as far as I can tell.
It's been also vaguely implied that there are other fighting tournaments that take place in the village, which makes sense, since why would you keep an open arena just to use it once very 20 years or so?
(Sideways to save vertical space, Suika will pray for your neck)
However it's never explained how this tradition started to begin with; did it exist in treasure island and disappeared after the Ishigami branched off, or did it start with them in the mainland?
The society structure of contemporary treasure island is substantially different, with a number of small villages that are all (at least in theory) managed by a centralized government composed of the master (or "head" much to our amusement) and the prime minister, where most power is held by the master, who also serves as the main religious figure, being the one who largely keeps the hundred tales, which are passed from generation to generation along his lineage.
In Ishigami village things kinda flipped and thus spawned a system that is at least half matriarchal so to speak. Now political power is split between the chief and the priestess, where the chief holds most executive authority while the priestess holds most of the religious power, and it is the lineage of the priestess that keeps the tales and that power in-family, with the chief being some allegedly suited rando from the village.
Even though it's the obligation of the priestess to marry the chief, she is rarely if ever shown as a subordinate to him and both can be seen directing the village, which I think it's very interesting.
The anime went as far as expanding on this, by implying that it was Ruri who told Kokuyo to abdicate his position to Senku.
Sneakily she gets to keep being the priestess without having to be engaged, and we see her taking leading roles from then on.
Now I've talked about religious figures but what is their religion to begin with?
Hard to tell, we know that they believe in multiple gods who control the forces of nature such as lightning.
Similarly it's also been shown that prior to Senku's arrival, they believed themselves to be the only humans on earth, at least some of them believed the earth was flat, and most bizarrely, they believed the moon was something akin to a floating lake, owning to its small apparent size, however that works.
Perhaps they took note of how water tends to form spheres due to surface tension?
This reminds me of how some scientist a few centuries ago (but idr who at this moment) believed the moon to be a solid mass of congealed air.
The last thing I want to bring up is the Ishigami village rope, reportedly made with a special technique that's unique to them.
It is also said that the rope reflects rank and profession somehow, but this is not reflected in any noticeable way on the series itself. Boichi probably hadn't been told about this when he designed all 40 known villagers in the span of one week.
The rope is worn somewhere around the body, and it contains a single red thread spun into it, serving as a symbol of kinship among them.
For now I'll leave it at that, as it's getting pretty late in the day, and pretty much all of this is written on the wiki article to begin with.
Hope you enjoyed it, I'll see you all some other day.
Also to add - the red thread is significant in itself, as, in some cultures, it is a means to signify good luck(lol senku needs all the luck he can get), protection, and serves as a reminder to stay connected to one's path :)
I scrambled to screenshot the bejeezus out of that Toho animation livestream thing last night before it ended and youtube punted me out of it, especially interested in the concept art/ref sheets, which I'll be putting on the wiki shortly.
There's actually a lot of stuff so I am doing the characters first and then I'll put the other stuff in another post.
The rest after the break:
Kirisame (two variants)
Soyuz
Kohaku (3 variants)
Gen
Moz (2 variants)
Kinro
Ryusui
Ukyo
Ibara
Stay tuned for the post about objects and locations.
Stay tuned, trivia post coming later about the chapter, I gotta do some irl stuff first.
In the meantime, I have a guess about what happened at the end, putting it after the break.
So, Ryusui notes that things are progressing too easily and it seems like humanity's scientific progress is being steered by someone else, then he accuses the medusa of impersonating Byakuya.
I think the medusa wants humanity to progress to the point it can make more medusas quickly and at any cost; and to this purpose it petrified all mosquitos to make work easier like Kaseki noted.
It might have been pulling strings in a number of ways but this was the one that got them caught.
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