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You can call me Nectar | An Adult | A beast of many talents but no motivation | Also runs 16snails | They / Them | GMT+2hrs

[ryebreadedd]

i respect the raiders crash out im feelin it too.

imreally feeling it

[gobstoppr]

NOT TO BE A BITCH ABOUT SPLATOON RAIDERS AGAIN BUT!

i was watching streams of it i was trying to give it a fair shot to try to take in everything. How can I be so loudly opposed to it if I don't even know whats in the game? however the streamer mentioned there were interviews so I took a look. I am here now to show you a passage that made my jaw fucking drop.

im honestly fucking speechless. players felt too bad about the colonialism in this context so they revamped it aesthetically to justify the colonialism by making it more 'wild' and 'dirty' and ''undeveloped'' Jesus fucking christ

doesnt help that the interview also says both about the concept art and the final game that the islands are 'uninhabited' and 'Infested with salmonids'. be so fucking for real right now.

YOU DIDNT HAVE TO MAKE THEM SALMONIDS. IN SIDE ORDER THEY WERE FINE MAKING BASICALLY COPYCATS OF SALMONIDS MECHANICALLY!! OR GET THIS: YOU DIDNT HAVE TO USE NATIVE CULTURES TO CODE THEM AS "LESS HUMAN" IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

if you like this game its ok. Like it IS just a game. but for the love of god Think about the themes and motivations and biases that exist in art ok. OK. repeat after me . 'Treasure hunting' is not a neutral concept. 'Untamed wilderness' is not a neutral concept. 'Savages' are NOT a neutral concept.

here is the full interview . https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2026/July/Ask-the-Developer-Vol-22-Splatoon-Raiders-Chapter-2-3143587.html

[de-wanderer-art]

@trans-phone-eater hi hello!! i was going to make this an artfight attack, but i’ve just posted my last one so this didn’t make it in. i was having a lot of trouble with the scope i planned, aswell as generally trying to figure out how to upload it. unfortunately my energy ran dry before i managed to finish my plans for it, but i want to show it off anyways :] i love your awesome a swift descent feller ever since you sent the ask, and drawing this was so incredibly fun and brought me a lot of peace. keep sharing your whimsy!!!

the eye animation effect was done manually in ibispaintx by moving parts of the face around with the transform perspective tool. it was a bit painstaking but it turned out really good. the i know she’s got no pupils in canon but i didn’t know how to configure the og twins at the carousel idea anyhow else 💔. still really proud o it tho. and the highlights could also be light given off by the floating dancing figures i didn’t get to animate too. yay!!!!!!!!

[nectarinn3]

oh that's so cute :D

[guerrillatech]

[hekatontarch]

[queertail]

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

12ft – Hop any paywall

Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder.

[sola-whumping]

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

[scarecrowbutch]

[thememedaddy]

[dog-teeth]

[bedupolker]

Friends in different Time Zones

[bedupolker]

did you know its national moth week? Happy national moth week!

[lovrboyx]

The Last Unicorn really said “There will be times when you can’t find other people like you and there will be times where you'll wonder if you're really the only person experiencing the world as you are and others will even try to take advantage of you through commodification and exploitation to the point where it starts to dilute your own sense of self and will make you question if you were ever you to begin with but it’s important for to resist the urge to assimilate and find community because there will always be people like you who will understand and have experienced these same things and the only way to combat a dark world who wants to smother your light is to FIGHT FIGHT RAGE AGAINST THE RED BULL DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT OCEAN.”

And I just think there’s something beautifully and inextricably queer about that

[snapdragonnz]

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

[anxiousmimicrpgs]

One of the classes in my upcoming OSR game A Most Bloody Devotion. She's a literal corpse. Not undead. Just an actual dead body that people get obsessed with when they touch it.

[kelocitta]

Once again reminding people that if you want to make something that has both reproductive capabilities and that is the norm for their species, the term you are looking for is NOT intersex. Intersex is used to describe a variance in what "should" be separated sexual development. If a species is meant to have functional reproductive sets of both types, by its nature its not intersex. The term 'hermaphrodite' for intersex conditions was dropped because it was both offensive and deeply inaccurate. Using intersex as a direct replacement for what it means isn't being polite and avoiding offensive terms, it actively reinforces one of the (many) reasons it was dropped as a term by conflating them as the same thing but 'nicely'

[sprawling-reptillian-effigy]

adding in op's tags as an image so they're not lost in reblogs [ID: Tumblr tags reading 't.extpost, this is out of nowhere and was originally a twit post but like i think its important, and a lot of people make this mistake for slugcats specifically, please be mindful of what you mean when you call a character intersex!!, otherwise you are just making the exact same mistake but nicely!,also to save you some trouble since a lot of people end up using alternative terms that really only apply sensically to plants, try cosexual instead,its not perfect and still quite niche but at least it isnt designed around,things having like 10 sets of reproductive organs per limb, h slur, im using it here mostly to reinforce my point that you cant just,paste over the no-no word and pretend like the issue is solved,and also to be explicit in what term is being avoided'. End ID.]

[sycamorality]

id like to add in text form too instead of just tags - the terms "cosexual" and "gonochoristic" have been suggested & used instead!

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Dinocon is coming up fast! Save the date, many dino nerds already signed up for it!

[artmagine]

The fantastic art of James Gurney

Books:

Dinotopia, A Land Apart from Time

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter

[licaijun99]

Another reference image for ArtFight.

And, I think the little doodles I drew to show expressions are cute, haha.

[lazeecomet]

So we were talking about This Post at craft night and i realized that i have a lot more to say on the matter despite NOT being a robot fucker (or much of an anything fucker for that matter ⬛⬜🟪). we're all on tumblr. we know how it goes with a mutual getting a special interest for a few weeks and now its on your dash. i just think the people who write/draw robot smut could stand to be a bit more creative then replacing ropes with Ethernet cables and the like. we'll get to the Estop button, but theres so many other ways you can dom your robot.

Anyone who has worked with setting up industrial robots knows that there is a teach/hand locate mode. you plug in a pendant, change a few settings, and now the robot is basically weightless. you can grab any of its joints and BY HAND, move it around. the robot will not resist - can not resist. all it can do is fight gravity. you typically do this to move all the joints of a robot into position for the next step which is

locking everything in place. now that you have positioned your robot how you want it, you need to keep it there while you set up other things. this is where the motor lock comes in. this enables when you exit hand locate mode. THIS is how you keep a robot in place. not with rope. nothing is going to make this robot move now. those joints are locked in place by the full might of electric motors, which by the way, have the MOST torque at low/0 rpm

if you do need to make it move while locked, you can enter jog mode and dial into a specific motor and slowly have it step forward or backward in small amounts. the position feedback on these joints is fed into a PID loop so that motion is not jerky or over/undershooting. so unless you go in and de-tune the PID control loop, your robot is not going to shiver or shudder in place

and lastly, the estop. this kills all power to all motors. if you hit this then gravity wins and your robot will collapse to the ground in a heap (and probably leave a pretty good dent in the floor)

now could i write smut where you hand locate a robot into a compromising position, lock in in place, aimlessly twiddle its PID values until its a shaky mess, fuck it senseless, and then hit the estop on the way out leaving on the ground in a crumpled heap?

eh probably not. this isnt my thing. I just work with robots. we keep it professional. except for that one time i had to spoon a massive 5 axis arm to get to one of its fasteners. but i did use protection (full body clean room suit). i'll leave the spicy stuff as an exercise for the class

[roguedeer]

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism