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!
my dear fellow stoners i am delighted to announce that @hearker and i have made a huge fucking dr stone trivia quiz that you can play on ao3!!!!! YOU SHOULD TRYYYYYY IIIIIITTTTTT
This quiz is stellar, good job! it's very fun and covers varied types of trivia which is harder to do than it sounds: I had to share it even though my reblog is basically gonna reach the same people as the original post.
I scored 87/112 for single choice questions and 2/5 multiple choice
The artwork is lovely too btw
For the calculation question I decided to inconvenience myself by using an old calculator I've been restoring lately (the multiplication key is still very unresponsive which made this a huge pain in aess)
This made me realize something interesting, the result (as well as the first number in the formula) takes up the entire 12 digits of the display, which makes me wonder if it was in any way deliberate, as 12 digits was and still is a very common display size for calculators. Maybe it was sized so one could try it at home and have the result fill the whole screen (for wow factor perhaps?)
I am glad to have been here with you all as this was happening. Like those who carved their names on the stones of now ancient landmarks, I have been a bit obsessed with leaving my mark saying "I was here" at the time history was written.
Despite that, once again I find that I procrastinated too much on having any art prepared for this special occasion, besides it's very hard to do now that I have a full time job, but expect to see something hopefully in the next few days.
I've had a great time in the fandom (and will continue to do so), and I'm very thankful for all the fun and great people I've met along the way.
Here's a fun fact about me, I actually met my wife in the Dr. Stone fandom!
Some of you already knew this, but I met @kittypuppet in the Dr. Stone discord server several years ago, we fell in love and a year ago we got married (we recently had our first anniversary). Our pictured wedding rings we made by hand for each other.
Since we met I've been to many new places, and even met up with another great friend of us, known as dxdydx on discord. I won´t put a pic of him so have this gif that perfectly represents what it was like to see him climb a tree in the forest.
I have found that I've almost ran out of those KoS buttons I posted about ages ago. Initially made for selling at a con, I never sold a single one.
I have been giving them to my friends ever since, and seeing that they're almost entirely gone from my hands makes me happy. To everyone who got one of these, thanks for joining our very own Kingdom of Science (even the ones that haven't gotten theirs in the mail yet)
I would like to also give my gratitude to June and Sophia, Mizz, Balb, Bre, Tora, Sammzor, everyone who's contributed to the science chat, and everyone who's tagged along that I haven't listed for brevity (you know who you are).
At last I can say, that at least to some extent, I've found the connection I so desperately longed for, during those lonesome, dark uncertain days in early 2020 and the years that followed, the time when incidentally I got into this series while being faced with a surplus of time and a lack of mobility, and options to socialize.
And of course, thanks to everyone who's followed and supported this blog. I'm sure I'll keep finding things to talk about every so often, plus I still have a few I just haven't had time to touch on.
Image converted into an SSTV audio file, put in the air by a small AM transmitter, received by the Senku phone (which is a technologically accurate replica of the phone as shown in season 1, using a vacuum tube from the 1930's), and decoded back into an image.
I had to use the slowest SSTV protocol to make up for the bad sound quality of the phone. Because ultimately it's my laptop's mic picking the sound from the horn speaker, some ambient noise added static to the image.
Here's a couple of other attempts.
Anyway this was gonna be my Kohaku birthday meme for friday which took more tinkering than I was expecting.
Also it turned out the phone was fine, I was just wiring it wrong due to a mistake in my notes (or maybe I did make a weird choice 4 years ago which somehow worked anyway at the time but doesn't anymore).
We are attempting to revive the namesake for a meme on this here Kohaku day, this device has sat idle since 2021 and I'm not sure I'll be able to get it to work today, so we are making a post anyway.
I'll get back to it after work.
Incidentally, at work we have the same controller Xeno uses, it's based on a Futaba T4GRS or a very similar model.
It was especially amusing to see it when I watched the episode last thursday over lunch break (with @kittypuppet of course), right after seeing my coworker fiddling with the exact same device during the morning.
Also yes, those are some Stanley branded allen wrenches in the background in the first image.
This is the machine featured at the end of today's episode, a toy phonograph kit made by the Gakken company of Japan (it seems to be missing one piece of plastic? wonder if it was done so it wouldn't obscure the title).
It uses a candle as sound recording medium, which if you ask me ("an" ecxpert) is ingenious if a bit misguided, this kit is very hard to get to work, which is probably later they made a different, more well known kit that records onto the side of a plastic cup.
Not the first time these kits appear in anime either, long ago I was sent this screenshot showing the Gakken premium gramophone (i have no idea what this series is)
I may not be in this picture posted by @ DisAnimeBeetch on twitter but the Dragos are my own hand crafted ones, commissioned by them back in June or so, and sent across the world.
(Procrastination hits hard and I can't access the actual post anymore, it might have been deleted)
It's really nice to see my work go so far and be enjoyed by people I haven't even met
As I posted long ago, these dragos are unique pieces made with a hand carved wood block I made a few years back
Here's a few of them; though they ordered 45 I ended up sending 50 including misprints and some extras to make up for a bunch of them being the wrong color (blue instead of red as I ran out of ink).
As the new ink mixed with the previous one it produced a whole range of purplish and grey colors which I think was pretty cool
Went all out with the packaging too, check out my pinned post if you want to see how to make that Kingdom of Science stencil
Incidentally, just after I dropped off the package at the post office, I turned around the corner half a block down the street and happened upon a little stand on the sidewalk with a fella selling miscellaneous items including this
For a while I had been hoping to eventually meet a dcst fan willing to sell me something in exchange for dragos. This wasn't quite it, but I'd say it's close enough for the time being, as part of the commission money went to this (pretty much exactly 600 dragos if you are wondering, considering part over total)
And I know it's a counterfeit, but it was pretty cheap. She can stand on the shelf holding a tiny vacuum tube in place of her missing knife.
I'll make my own Kohaku eventually, just like Suika (haven't been procrastinating on it since 2021, I assure you)
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)
This year's Kohaku birthday post comes late and as barebones as it's ever been
Got no time or energy this time around as now I work a depressing, corporate job that has me nailed to a spreadsheet for 10 hours every day
If anything, at this time I've been thoughtful about the time when I started this series during the first month of lockdown back in 2020, and I felt myself yearning for the sense of great freedom that she has in the stone world. Now I feel it more than ever
I know her life was probably worse in a million other ways but I don't feel like this is better either
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.
Fantastic work, yes I am not wholly satisfied with the labelling, or the curation of the museum, though I also gotta admit I have high standards for the preservation of historical artifacts; the museum is one of the most rich and highly polished collections in the country.
I guess somebody (or several of us) could try to ask Boichi about that now that he's youtubing again.
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.
