Pleased to meet you! The author of this blog is a bit shy but has a penchant for doodling and translating otome info. May spam posts on delicious food. Updated as the wind blows. Please read the info in the "about" link in regards to translations and art. Warning: Sometimes NSFW.
I invented the Chumbuddy/shark sleeping bag back in 2009 and it went into production back in 2010. Since then, I’ve been lucky enough to see it going semi-viral around the interwebz and get sold in stores like ThinkGeek.
It’s been out of stock for a little while, but it’s finally BACK and now my new designs are now on the market! Palligator and Snore-ca (oh yes painfully punny names abound) can now be found in the new Chumbuddy website just launched by the good folks at Patch Together. They also have a child-size original shark sleeping bag now too! WHEE.
Anyway, sorry for the shameless plugging, but this is fun and it is also something I helped create. So I guess it belongs on my art blog, by golly.
And for the record…I’m the designer, NOT the manufacturer. So if you have any questions about actually purchasing one of these, I can only do so much. You might have better luck contacting Patch Together instead!
i've had some time to think about the gbf msq update and if anyone's followed me on twitter for the past couple years you would know i've been very patiently awaiting the return of a certain character for a whopping 7 years now
i got to talk about it a bit on stream with my friends (vod) but wasn't able to #post much about it
let's start with: okay so whose body is that?
To me the hair resembles lucifer's. lucilius and lucifer parted their hair in the same direction when faasan was in his astral robes and still alive (excuse the crunchy concept art) but faa's hair was much messier and and stuck out in places
lucilius after his resurrection parts his hair in the opposite direction and the strands are longer compared to lucifer's
The wings also have a pinkish tint to them much like lucifer's 6 wings
(faa's wings in comparison are black and he also has 12 and they have a pointier edge to them)
while not entirely 1:1 the design does closely resemble doomlord lucifer from shinbaha quite a bit (with the exception of the bahamut colored wings) the black smokelike substance floating around him is also similar to the weird black ichor around doomlordsama
The mysterious figure is also sitting atop ruins that resemble a crumbled pandemonium but if you take a closer look, the pattern on the rubble is exactly the same as the arches at the canaan shrine, which was where lucifer was killed by beelzebub using chaos matter
With the otherworld and the damage it caused to the world (chaos energy being the power that predates providence & can unravel and destroy it, hence why beelzebub was able to kill lucifer) being retroactively restored it does very heavily imply that lucifer would be resurrected as well. The story does imply that this event causes a whole bunch of paradoxical things to happen which i'm really looking forward to though. for example if this is lucifer's resurrected body, would he still possess the powers of the supreme primarch? since those were passed onto sandalphon.
also note that i am choosing to take that CG with a grain of salt though. The owner of the voice is kept deliberately vague, especially after the english text may or may not have revealed something with the final line (before it got patched out) but what it actually means will remain to be seen once msq actually gets to the part where this becomes relevant. (PS. i don't blame the localization team in the slightest for the change b/c i know they did their best to make the line more decipherable to non Japanese speaking audiences and got slapped on the wrist for it... the JP line also censors the [ore/watashi] and the [shuumatsu/annei] and wants you to rely on your hearing)
left: the old version
right: the current version
I think the most likely red herring is the implication that lucilius and lucifer are now sharing a body or at least a consciousness. This could either be true and result in some hilarious gag (or tragic) scenarios especially when sandalphon and belial are concerned but a part of me thinks that's just what they want you to think.... they might just be separate entities and lucilius is still stuck in his interdimensional bubble with belial and finds a way to get out to bring about his grand finale again even though bahamut is? gone? dead? we just don't know.
maybe the blue will itself is reason enough for him to be angry at every action being pre-determined
with all that said... what now?
I only tangentially know about shingeki no bahamut lore (i gotta hop on this) but considering what we know about granblue lore i think the horns would probably have something to do with providence becoming unbalanced which might have lucifer getting bahamut-like attributes (as opposed to shinbaha lucifer who gained those attributes b/c he was considered a demon after falling) I think as of now shinbaha lucifer is pretty chilled out after being freed from the Torment Nexus and is considered to be one of the good guys again
also he's moe as hell i've grown partial to the horns like i didn't wanna talk about handlebars in a serious lore post but he's literally got handlebars now. PEACE!
I'll post some of the results now! Firstly, I'll write about how I processed the data for those interested in details. (Please inform me if you see anything wrong or want to suggest a different method. I'm just an average person with an undergrad degree...)
If you just want to see the analysis, skip the data cleaning and test assumptions part! As a disclaimer, I don't know if this is all for now or if I can bring myself to work more on it soon 😭
Special thanks to @xavieslittlestar and @m00nchildwrites for sharing this on bluesky and twitter
Data Cleaning
I realized that some of you guys didn't do the test and wrote the numbers by yourself 😊 And it took me hours to clean the data
As expected, there were some typos, and I corrected them before deciding which participants to exclude. For instance, some wrote 29/20, and since the sum of the subfactor scores is equal to your main factor score, I was able to confirm that it should be 19/20 by doing main_factor_score—other_subfactors = target_subfactor.
After dealing with typos, all participants who entered random values like 0000 and values that didn't align with the main factor scores were excluded.
In the end, the sample size was reduced from ~2600 to 1929.
Test Assumptions
The normality and homogeneity of variance were checked. Most of them fulfilled the homogeneity of variance(Levene's Test), but normality was problematic. I assessed normality based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov(KS), kurtosis, skewness, and Q-Q plot. There were some outliers, but most of them were a natural part of the data, so I didn't change anything about them. Although KS values were lower than .05 , I assumed normality if kurtosis and skewness seemed average (-2 to +2 for kurtosis, -1 to +1 for skewness). For others, I tried trimming, LOG, SQRT, Z, and LN transformations, but still couldn't normalize... Winsorizing would probably work, but there are too many participants(yes, I'm lazy). So, I'm gonna be relatively liberal about normality.
Results
Please note that all of them have small effect sizes (0.2 Cohen's d or 0.1 η2). So regardless of the p values, the actual association between your personality based on the big five and character choices in lads might be small in degree. Also, this is an observational study, which means you shouldn't try to infer a causation or a strict relation (so use it just for your enjoyment, not for fandom chaos~). But I'll put my personal comment under them because I need to enjoy myself too lol
Also, I realised that some of those are changing or disappearing when I compare poc(people of color) and non-poc within themselves. Therefore, the effects might be moderated/mediated by cultural differences as well.
===Trust====
Sylus mains had the lowest mean score in terms of trust(M=11.2, SD=3.42). Yet, they significantly differed only from Xavier mains who had the highest mean(M=12.1, SD=3.28).
Personal comment: I don't know what to make of it. But let me put those here as well.
==Conscientiousness and Agreeableness==
I'll write this together because I have a theory about these results.
Caleb mains' scores were the lowest in terms of conscientiousness (M=74.3, SD=13.7) and agreeableness(M=84.4, SD=13.8). For conscientiousness, they significantly differed from Zayne and Sylus mains. And for agreeableness, they significantly differed from Zayne and Xavier mains. [Agreeableness showed unequal variances, so I used Kruskall-Wallis test]
Personal comment: Honestly, I'm surprised. (Caleb and his girlies not beating red flag/villain allegations)
If anything, I would expect Sylus mains to have lower agreeableness and conscientiousness (first impressions don't disappear).
Then I thought, what if it's related to Caleb being MC's adopted brother? Listen before shooting me. To feel at ease with this setting, you should have higher (but healthy) dissociative tendencies to detach yourself from its real-life associations. And guess what— low agreeableness and low conscientiousness are related to high disassociation [refer to:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1130527417300373]. Secondly, having a lower need to conform(related to agreeableness and conscientiousness) with others might be making it easier for some people to choose Caleb as their main love interest.
(But as I said, these results are liable to change. For instance, for the non-poc sample the lowest mean value of conscientiousness belongs to Rafayel mains)
===Emotionality===
Caleb(M=14.7, SD=3.49) mains had the lowest emotionality score, and the difference between them and Zayne(M=15.6, SD=3.04), Rafayel(M=15.5, SD=3.11), and Sylus(M=15.5, SD=3.33) mains was significant
Personal comment:......Babes lolololol. Is Caleb's robot alter taking over his mains?? Did they get a Toring chip as well? It's so funny omg
===Self-Discipline===
Rafayel(M=10.1, SD=2.96) and Caleb(M=10.1, SD=2.97) mains had similarly low scores of self-discipline, and they differed from Zayne(M=10.8, SD=2.87) and Sylus(M=10.8, SD=2.79) significantly.
Personal comment: As a Rafayel main, I can confirm this.
=Second Love Interest=
Most of Zayne mains chose Sylus as their second love interest. The other most preferred second love interest was Caleb, but since this test was done just before Caleb's new myth, the results might be affected by our excitement for it. Also, Zayne mains showed low preference for Rafayel.
A note about less significant/non-significant observations:
As a whole, we have low extraversion and average conscientiousness, as well as high openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeableness
For subcategories, we have the highest mean for imagination and the lowest mean for gregariousness. (perfect combination to date fictional men)
Sylus and Zayne mains had similar mean scores in many main factors and subfactors of the Big Five test. Likewise, Rafayel and Caleb mains' scores were close to each other, and they contrasted with Sylus and Zayne(not always significantly tho). Xavier mains generally had balanced scores.
None of the groups differed significantly in terms of openness to experience, neuroticism, extroversion, and these factors' subcategories.
To check if the data gives standard results, I checked socioeconomic status(SES) and its relation to neuroticism since previous studies indicate higher neuroticism for low SES groups, and it was the same for this dataset as well. Anxiety, depression, and neuroticism showed a slightly decreasing trend as the SES increased.
Some studies suggest that people of color have lower trust scores, but in this study, poc had higher trust than non-poc. However, it might be due to the differences in exposure to discrimination between poc who live in the US and those who are natives of other countries.
Here is a round-up of all eight of the free digital brush packs that I’ve released so far for Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, and Procreate!
You can download them on this page (click)
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All my brush packs are totally free (tips optional but always very appreciated!) and can be used freely in any work, including commercial work that you profit off of, with no license or credit required. My goal with these brush packs is to make digital painting feel more achievable and accessible - especially painting environments, something I now LOVE but that used to intimidate me, & felt much more approachable with the right tools! Many of the packs also come with tutorial video content. I hope you enjoy!
5/8 - Court Lady old-Edo costume [full size / other charts]
Ôoku was the name given to the shogunate household -often translate by “harem” (a word quite misused by westerners). More than its orientalist cliché of languid women, ôoku first designates the feminine side of castle inhabitants: first wife, concubines but also daughters etc. In time, this word was also used for daimyo’s households.
Court Ladies Edo outfits were heavily influenced by old traditions. Uchikake brocade upper kimono were a Muromachi legacy. Those heavy kimono are now only seen worn by brides and performers.
Their hairstyles were also linked to past fashions, especially the taregami-style (hair hanging down, also called sagegami) shown here, which is a direct legacy of Azuchi-Momoyama era.
Many hints to the traditionnal values of the warrior class can be found in this outfit. The kaiken set in the obi was once used to defend oneself but most of all honorably commit seppuku if needed. And the kaishi ire shows the importance of châdo (tea ceremony) culture.
[source: personnal translation of Edo costume pose - hairstyles and outfits / 江戸コスチュームポーズ資料集 髪型と衣装編 - ISBN 9784766123074]
To those of you who aren't in the Portuguese speaking sphere, let me give you a hilarious update. Parents in Portugal are currently HORRIFIED because their children are now only speaking Brazilian Portuguese from watching so many Brazilian YouTubers. They are finding this deeply disturbing and want the Brazilian Portuguese to end IMMEDIATELY
"Luccas Neto (Brazilian YouTuber) is accused of making Portuguese children talk like Brazilians"
"Luccas Neto, who just celebrated his son Luke's first birthday, is becoming the target of criticism among some Portuguese families. The reason? Luccas Neto has become such a success that Portuguese children are starting to talk like Brazilian people.
That's right: the little ones have lost the characteristics of their local dialect and adopted the speech of the 29 year old YouTuber, who was born in Rio de Janeiro.
'All of his speech is Brazilian. We've reached the point where people ask if one of us parents is Brazilian,' said an interviewed mother, who said her son now frequents speech therapy sessions."
"Other parents who spoke with the Portuguese newspaper revealed they don't leave their children alone with tablets or phones, especially when they watch Luccas Neto.
'At this moment we're in a phase of treatment like it's an addiction. We explain everything to him, that he can't watch this because it's harmful. And we notice that he's much better now. What we're trying to do now is play with him more, and block some content, leaving only Netflix and everything that's in Portuguese from Portugal.'"
I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and
this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also
many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist
Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.
She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:
