Sinbad - For All Those Years

A Magi dedication blog. Samsara/Sammie // 15 // Head-over-heels for Sinbad and SinJa. Avatar is a bromide portrait of Sin from Yoshifumi Ohtera. 

[trulyvincent]

Northern Lights. Study from North Norway Anna Boberg - Date unknown

[paintingispoetry]

Anna Boberg, Northern Lights. Study from North Norway, ca. 1885-1935

[jjetsam]

For all the artists out there

[imgonnafuckthetriangle]

Youre telling me I threw away 10 dollar markers FOR NOTHING

[sebatticus]

REBLOG to save a life and a wallet!

[imthesaltydad]

Plus copics are actually refillable and you can buy more colored ink online for pretty cheap! So yeah dont throw out copics.

[discretelyobvious]

NO NO NO NO!

Never refill a Copic with regular isopropyl alcohol unless you have absolutely no other option.

Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,

They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times

By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.

Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.

As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged

Copic also make replacement nibs for all of their markers

Which are much cheaper than buying a new marker as you get multiple in a pack.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Reblogging to save an artist. Copics are meant to be reusable and I know how hella expensive those things are. NEVER throw out your Copic markers!

[oxenstierna]

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

Hiatus announcement

Hi everyone. You might have noticed that I haven't been active on here for two months. I checked SnB 177 as well as the epilogue announcement, and I'm really looking forward to see where my dear Sinbad will come to after Sindria 1.0 . I'll drop in from time to time to check my dashboard and message, but I will not be as active as last year anymore. Thank you so much for being with me and support me all this time, I'm really grateful that I had the chance to come to know many wonderful people and this amazing fandom. Sinbad and Ja'far, as well as the whole Magiverse, will always be treasured in my heart.

A lot is going on in my life, which results in me needing a long-term hiatus. I still have a research paper to do to graduate my 2-year course, application for my new school and projects to complete. The good news is that I will be able to go to Sweden and Denmark (and possibly Finland) this summer after three years of waiting, so I'm very excited. Then there's the visa to apply for, tickets to book and plans to be made. But overall, I'm quite happy with how things are in my life right now. My mental health has been better, and I'm able to recall many things from my childhood without my head being messed up.

I wish you all a great day. Once again thank you so much for being with me all this time! <3

[magi-new-year-exchange-blog]

“I’m sorry I’m…”

“It’s okay. Welcome home.”

“…I’m home.”

Happy New SinJa Year @sinbad-for-all-those-years! I really liked your prompt! `v´ 

From @naoscifra

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

Thank you so much @naoscifra !!! I'm literally crying right now!! It's so beautifulllllll!!

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in every version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.” -Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars-

Hi @mari-m-rose , I hope you’ll like this little gift for the new year exchange event. The lighting in my room is not good, and the scanner doesn’t work properly, so the actual drawing is brighter than this. I did the best I could to make it look as much alike to the real piece as possible. I hope this turned out good. Please click on the photos for the full-scale ones. I’ve always loved the idea that Sinbad and Ja'far will meet each other no matter which form of universe they are in. Or as in this picture, a reincarnation in the modern world.

I’m a fan of you and your beautiful artworks. Thank you so much for the hard work and dedication for the Magi fandom! I hope 2018 will be an amazing year for you! Happy New Year!

Thank you @magi-new-year-exchange for being the host of this event!

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎄🎄🎄!

[divalinaman]

i’M FINE

*slaps bunch of effects and some text stuff on*

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

*sobbing like crazy* No don't do this to meeeee ;-;....

[ri-ro-ro]

[commander-hot-pants]

So this weekend I found myself chatting with an established comic writer, he asked me about my interest in the matter and I told him I ran a webcomic but before he could even respond I qualified it with;

“Well it’s a fan comic, I’m not a real comic creator.” He was appalled.

“What do you mean you’re not a real comic creator?” He demanded. “Do you have a comic?”

“Well yeah but its a fan comic its not a real-” He literally put his hand on my shoulder to stop me.

“You have a comic. You made a comic. You’re putting in the work. You’re a real comic creator.” He told me about how one of the people he works with on a comic started by writing Mass Effect fanfiction even. I’ve been thinking about that ever since.

I’ve thought about how many times I’ve heard myself and other say things like, “Oh, I’m a writer but I write fanfiction not like real writing.” And thats so bullshit, he was right. 

If you write you’re a writer, end of story.

[commander-hot-pants]

I’ve been thinking about this again lately, I’m not always happy with my work but I’ve put hundreds of hours into the comic and that’s not something a lot of people can claim. 

[theinkstainsblog]

“If you write you’re a writer.”

[drunk-on-writing]

stay alive not because your mother will never stop crying but because you can look up at the sky on a sunny day and see the clouds moving by and you’ll take a moment to wonder if it is because the earth is spinning or because the wind is blowing stay alive so you can answer that question stay alive so you can ask someone else that question, then wow them by knowing the answer or be wowed that they already knew it as well stay alive because you’re never too old to look up at the sky and see figures in the shapes of clouds a cumulonimbus that looks like a dog will never fail to make you smile stay alive not because your father will blame himself for the loss of his baby but because your favorite band might come out with a new song or your favorite show might get renewed for a new season or your favorite person might like your tweet on twitter stay alive because the future is unclear and that may seem terrifying, not knowing what’s to come, but it’s worth taking that chance gambling is never a safe bet but the house always wins and you, my dear, are the house stay alive not because your best friend will never forgive themselves for losing you but because of the feeling you get when you do see your best friend that calmness, that peace, that happiness – that feeling is genuine happiness and yes, you are capable of experiencing it you’re allowed to experience it you’re allowed to be happy stay alive because you’re allowed to be happy and there are countless reasons to feel that joy radiate like sunbeams like licking melted ice cream off of your hand as it drips from the cone or the way the world slowly changes from green to orange in autumn or seeing the first snowfall of winter or that first sip of a hot beverage when you’re absolutely freezing or wearing your favorite underwear or finally seeing the Big Dipper at night or the perfect amount of Parmesan cheese on top of your pasta or your pet crawling into your lap stay alive because at least one of those things make you happy and you should experience it one more time stay alive not because i’ll miss you but because one day life will feel the way a brand new notebook feels - intimidating, but exciting and more importantly, a fresh start stay alive because you deserve to be around for that fresh start

(cc, 2017)

[smolwaterbean-deactivated201903]

ok so there was a post about this somewhere but it’s out of date so i’m updating this

here’s what to do if someone’s considering suicide on here.

go to the drop down menu and click “Help”

type in “suicide” in the search bar

click on the link “Counseling and prevention”

and again click the link (you can also follow them from here if you want)

this button is on the lower right. click it

in the ‘What’s going on?” box say something like “someone on my dash is considering suicide.” and link the users blog.

tumblr will send an email that looks something like this

PLEASE REBLOG THIS. YOU COULD SAVE SOMEONES LIFE

[cpieng]

the days, our sea.

[ugo-the-nerd]

*ugly crying

Just beautiful…

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

Ahhhh the feels ;;-;; *sobs*

[muffystoffy]

Ja’far’s Assimilation Form

This isn’t really a long theory post, but just something that I wanted to point out. As people like @mari-m-rose​ pointed out, Ja’far is shown to become a monster fully for a few seconds before reverting back to human form in Snb 170.

I want to point out the shape of his “assimilated” form. Unlike Drakon’s, it doesn’t really look like a lizard of any sort. Especially from the perspective, we can tell its a HUGE monster form. He towers over Shaka and almost reaches the ceiling. 

Also note the weird “hood” shape of his form. What sort of animal could this be?

Why, what else than the very thing Ja’far is based off of? :3c

Picture credits: kingcobrasymposium.com

Our baby’s monster form is not only based off of a snake, but rather a king cobra or any other hooded snake. What a strong boy, I’m so proud of him <3 You can also see in the panel below the shadow looks like a long figure that seems to be curling/twisting around to look at Shaka:

Also the screentones and effects when Ja’far attacks Shaka looks like the way snakes attack– in one quick, deft and powerful strike.

His eyes are also hooded like a snake’s:

Picture credits: ZSL London Zoo

Aaaaah I absolutely love that Ja’far’s assimilated form is a hooded snake though, that narrows him down to types of snakes like the king cobra or the black mamba– both of whom are venomous snakes (and two of the deadliest snakes on the planet). I wonder if this means that Ja’far has some sort of feature relating to poison too? 

In the end, it’s only fitting for the High King of the Seven Seas to have the King of Snakes guarding him from danger~

Snb screenshot credits: @sinbad-ai

[sleepyzenpanda]

Fangs ✔

Slitted pupils ✔

A flared hood ✔

Spits venom ✔ 

He’s definitely a cobra

[staff]

Once more for old time’s sake

🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥

On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check. 

So let’s go through his big points:

❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content

These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that… 

Comcast blocked P2P file sharing services (EFF).

AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).

MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).

In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services. 

❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks

Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:

AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript). 

Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).  

And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars). 

❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition

As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.

The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:

Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.

Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.

A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology. 

Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.

❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes

Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.

🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨

This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.

Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈  to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections. 

The FCC votes on December 14.

We’re only powerful when we work together.

Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.

But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.

We can do this one more time, guys! ❤️

[20th-centuryghost]

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

[sinbad-for-all-those-years]

OMG <3