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The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

14-year-old in a normal shonen: “I need to fight for my FRIENDS!!! And to save everyone—no, save the WORLD—from total annihilation!!” *insane fight sequence*

14-year-old in Mob Psycho: “I fear if I keep living my life like this, coming to my part-time job every day and doing the same things, then life will be comfortable and easy for me, but that comfort may mean I will stagnate, and that as the years pass, the only thing that changes is my age.” *insane fight sequence*

ladeviant

Artem Rohovyi - Symphony of Branches gouache on paper

theoldbone

Gorgeous paleoart by Rebecca Dart

So many more awesome pieces in her gallery! Check her out! https://www.instagram.com/rebecca_dart_art/?hl=en

spiribia

when enkidu dies Gilgamesh covers his face, veiling it “like a bride”. Haha (sudden low voice through gritted teeth) the ancient Mesopotamians are running circles around us. I need you to get your ass on the field and give me your best yaoi or we can kiss these quarter finals goodbye

cornbreadlesbian

xiakeponz

i want these to exist on this hellsite so you have to see them too [裂开]

geopsych

Take a walk with me. <3 From a mid-September morning walk on the lake path, 2023. A radiant morning—I have so many more pictures.

don-dake

How did Hiragana & Katakana originate?

“Katakana 片仮名 script was first created by picking up one radical from a Kanji 漢字. Every Katakana syllable is identical to a part of its parent Kanji from which it was created. To be more specific Kana scripts were created from Manyougana 万葉仮名. Irrespective of their meanings these Kanji were used to represent Japanese syllables.

On the other hand, Hiragana 平仮名 characters are simplified versions of whole Kanji characters.”

n.b.：ゐ/ヰ and ゑ/ヱ were once part of the Kana 仮名 chart, it is pronounced as “い” and “え” respectively but spelt in Romaji as "wi” and “we”; after a reform of the Kana chart in 1946, it's no longer found in current standard Kana charts; these characters may still be seen around today, most common examples would be the word “whisky” (standardised as ウィスキー today, but was once written as ウヰスキー and some old advertisements may still reflect that) or the beer brand "Yebisu/Ebisu” (still written as ヱビス in Japanese today, for historical, branding or artistic reasons).

P.S.：To type out ゐ/ヰ or ゑ/ヱ respectively, input “wyi” or “wye” on a Romaji keyboard, on a 12-key flick keyboard, look under “い” and “え”.

don-dake

↑ Because someone expressed an interest in a Zhuyin chart to compare against the Kana chart…｡⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠｡ (I was interested too!)

How did “bopomofo” originate?

Like the Japanese 仮名 (Kana) chart, the 注音 (Zhuyin) (aka “bopomofo” colloquially) chart took its cue by adapting from existing 漢字 (Chinese characters).

Some 注音 characters are taken from archaic, obsolete or variant 漢字. For example, 「𠫓」, 「巜」 and 「㐅」 are archaic characters of 「突」, 「澮」 and 「五」 respectively, and 「甽」 is an alternative character to the standardised 「畎」.

And sometimes, a character is just flipped or modified from another one; for example, 「ㄛ」 is supposed to be a mirror image of 「丂」, and 「ㄜ」 is just 「ㄛ」 with a little extension.

P.S.: An easy-to-see-all-at-once image chart that shows which 漢字 “bopomofo” evolved from was surprisingly not easy to find! In the end, I compiled this on my own, sorry for some askew alignment (I have an eyesight problem).

P.P.S.: Info on development of “bopomofo” taken from Wiki.

beefstrugglenoff

I love you dead punctuation marks.

beefstrugglenoff

ferret-with-a-knife

memorycycle

when u unholster the gas pump and expose its insert and u push it into ur cars hole and feel the hose stiffen with liquid and u hold down on the trigger watching your cars tank fill all the way up until its close to its breaking point and only then do u let the pump slide out and its still dripping and u plug ur car up to make sure nothing leaks out and u dont even clean the pump as u hang it back up for the next car to enjoy

tashucashew

This is why self-serve gas is still illegal in New Jersey ⛽️ 👎

unculture

sayyestothejess

Tag yourself I’m C minor

i-am-a-fish

I hate when I open a drawing app and try drawing something and then it looks bad. to solve this issue instead of opening my drawing app I simply lay down, do nothing, and feel a combination of guilt/shame. this is a skill I am much more practiced at