Irregularly Annunciating into the Void

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[sudrien-scratched011]

And. That's the queue. Refollow at @sudrien, if you so choose.

[psymob-moved-deactivated2024022]

Hi. I wanna know about Furby animated show actually

It would be an honor to infodump about Furby history to you.

I'm not sure how verifiable some of these things are since it's been yeaaaars and it's more than likely been subject to some "Well I heard that-" embellishment over time. So I'd take things with a grain of salt.

Okay so that disclaimer aside:

Furby Island was a movie that was actually released by Nickelodeon in 2005 and the whole thing is available on youtube if you'd like to watch it. Don't worry, I'll wait.

So the Furby Island movie that aired on Nick was also meant to be a sort of testing pilot to see how well a Furby TV series could possibly fair. The movie actually did well enough in ratings for the TV series to be picked up by Nickelodeon.

It was being developed by Frederator Studios who are mostly well known for The Fairy Odd Parents, Chalk Zone and Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. It seemed like a good fit because Frederator Studios was kind of known for bringing toy and video game franchises to TV as cartoons and sitcoms.

Anyways, the show had three episodes of its first season written and presented to Herb Scannell (the Nick President at the time) in 2006 and the show was greenlit for production on their network.

Unfortunately, it seems that it was a perfect storm of things that kind of phased the whole thing out. In mid-2006 before the show could be announced, Cyma Zarghami took over as the Nick President and was pushing for a few changes to the show which caused for it to be pushed back.

Combining this with other much more popular projects that Frederator already had greenlit meant that the show kind of got pushed to the wayside and was never announced, aired or released.

According to the Furby wikia page on this, Frederator tried to re-present the show to Nick in the unexpected wake of success of the Furby revival in 2012, but it wasn't picked up.

All content of the show was lost when Frederator Cartoons had a server crash in the mid-2010s, according to a supposed former employee. It was already lost media but now it's like... super lost media.

There's some more cool details like who Frederator Studios was thinking of getting to voice the characters and what the premise of the show was meant to be about and what the plots of the first three episodes were. If you want to read or learn more then I would recommend this Lost Media Archive page and some of the links hosted at the bottom.

[greebledgoblin]

posts creature commissions in more visible places

gets messages by a head of my degree industry asking for my rates

:0

[maretriarch]

Spaghetti Jester-n

spaghetti themed cowboy clown is actually really such a concept

[gharibajameel]

iwant this so fucking bad unfortunately its child sized and six hundred dollars

[gharibajameel]

Me too and everyy month we get a little taller from the taffy puller treatment and our backs are always cracked

[sudrien-scratched011]

"I don't think you understand. Everything effects the voice. The shape of the oral cavities, the tongue, the pliancy of the tissue of the mouth the bone beneath, the resonance of the whole body-" "So?" "So even if I can sound close to someone else, I'll never be mistook for them."

This was a flat-out lie. In perfect conditions, a quiet room with no wind, people would notice something amiss. All that meant was she had to avoid perfect conditions. The human ear was surprisingly forgiving. But she had heard this before, and the people who asked a second time it rarely had good intentions.

[sudrien-scratched011]

The great part about “As you grow older, you’ll find the the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”

Or whatever version of the quote you misattribute

Is that there will never not be something you didn't do

It's one of them Catch-22 scenarios. Like, at any point your future has limited potential. And no, it's never unlimited, just because you don't care you're draining the potential of others doesn't mean you're not doing it.

[wiitchofdoom]

Commission for some bendy Kanayas!

[sudrien-scratched011]

Panel 1: Officer Cop has taken out a pack of cigarettes , is searching for their lighter Panel 2: “Anybody got a light?” Looking around, people are sorry. Panel 3: Looking disappointed, they are running the end of the cigarette against rough concrete, flames, speed lines, motion blur are present. Panel 4: “Such a waste” the now lit cigarette is lifted to their lips, but only the slightest bit remains unburnt before the filter.

[sudrien-scratched011]

"everyone has a price"

"of course, of course. But don't expect to remain a rich man when meeting mine."

...

"So what are you underestimating mine is?"

...

"No, no, that's *someone* can be bought. Let's see if it's your warden."

[sudrien-scratched011]

"'The Pinnacle of Evolution.' What is that. What Is that." "Um. Nothing ever dies?" "I think its just a writer who doesn't even know their own theories." "So. A few days ago I saw a video that claimed... uh. Larval thing. Tiny thing with lots of legs." "So not a snake." "'Pillar' something. Anyways, builds its own damn containment matrix out of local materials and comes out with wings." "Oh - so not very large then." "Shut. Listen. Whatever made the video claimed it rewrote its own genetic structure." There was the muffles sound of at least three heads slapped. There were no dedicated biologists among the bridge crew. "Ok, we have proof someone on that planet knows what DNA is." "Apparently they're not sharing the facts very well." "Wait, I...." "No offense.... or not much"

"Moths. Butterfiles. Uh..."

"She didn't finish her education, don't blame her if she's confused. Again."

"Hey, I took the survey science course. Business is about different things." "Do you think Peyde knows what DNA is?" "Oh, that's a loaded question." "Ok, DNA is?" "Cell. Instructions. For building things." "On both macro and micro levels - the proteins, and the shapes it will be arranged in." "And they don't change." "Oh ho - they change. But never by intent. Radiation, errors in copying - if the result can live with out throwing any body alarms, it will live. But one of these mis-copies doesn't spread to other cells in the body - though descendant cells themselves may end up relocating." "Is now a good time to ask about my room reassig-" "No." "However, just because a cell has a full set of DNA, that doesn't mean it has to act on the whole instruction set. SO certain sets of DNA are enabled and disabled based on ... a whole lot of things." "...what" "A whole lot of things" "Ah... expression based on hormones." "Local environment and stress, mostly. Anyways. Pillar to Moth" "CATERPILLAR. THAT'S WHAT oh sorry." "Caterpillar to Moth is not at all from the DNA changing, but a chemical signal while it's in its matrix leading to wildly different expression of that DNA - switch flip, wings get." "Unless they die in the process." "Right. Most of the time it's just an expression switch getting flipped, but very rarely those copying errors actually lead to something different happening. And the larger organisim somehow gets a better grip of it's environment that the others bedey-bey po-" "Hey, Nine Plus in front of the guest." "The other ninety-nine. point nine percent without the new gene - getting more in that next generation, killing off, dying less, however it does it, the number with that gene expression increases." "Which is why it doesn't end. Generations keep happening, the environment changes, the situation changes. You don't win Evolution. There is no peak unless there is no Environment." "How. Do they expect not to have an Environment." "There was some mentions of brains in computers." "Of course they'd think they only need the main mass of neurons. It's got to be a fetish." "Isn't that..." "Oh no, hun. We could give you a run of the ships computer and it'd just be like staring out of a window at best." "Yeah, the so-called brain in a jar model needs constant stimulus, which is why again, no peak." "Everything alive need constant stimulus even if it isn't sentient. It's not life without it.

[sudrien-scratched011]

There are a few prerequisites for understanding FTL spaceship design.

First, A number of humans are aware of what they labeled the Kardashev scale - a fanciful measure of what level of energy is available for use compared to a solar mean. What generally is unrecognized of how infected with monoculture this scale is. Captured energy is destroyed potential. Humans have labeled subsets of this concept Entropy and Efficiency. How to... A spaceship is a closed system. A system where the ideal is Kardashev Type 1 - all energy available at any moment is being directed towards it's best use. This is both a theoretical and impossible state, because waste heat alone would kill everyone on it if allowed to accumulate. In the same vein, an FTL maneuver is by many scales of magnitude the least efficient thing a spaceship does. The other parts of the ship can not hope to take the amount of energy required by such a maneuver. There is no FTL-scale capacitor. Something has to happen with that power. Which is why there are no lifeboats, no escape pods. The greatest danger to a spaceship is itself - and if the spaceship becomes a problem, you're not going to get ahead of that problem by hiding in a slightly adjacent corner of spacetime. Any support ships are the smallest size possible to serve their function and remain maintainable. An asteroid miner seats one comfortably - or two uncomfortably - Has one vacuum-rated suit on the other side of the air lock, and the equipment and tools it will require on the next trip. It's small, because we have to have space in the hangar for four more in case it breaks down. It's small, because if there is a loss, less loss means less work for those who remain. Your concept of Kardashev Type 2 - It doesn't happen by the definition you give. Because the civilization that attempts it is a ruthless one.

And Kardashev Type 3 - would be tyrants of an inconceivable scale.

[delicious-dream-before-the-storm]

viper's tongue

[pumpkiinmiilk]

Contortionism is fun to draw, actually.

This was a commission! Bendy Kanaya is legendary and I felt blessed to be one of the artists to draw this prompt.

Patreon / Commissions

[knights-unwelcommentary]

Terezi: What’s wrong June? I thought you’d appreciate the Ghost Busters refrance >:]

June, from inside a vacuum cleaner: How could you, Dave?

June: You were supposed to help me prank Terezi D:

June: We were in cahoots! Cahoooooooots!!!

Dave: Egderp, you really need to brush up on troll lingo. Yeah, cahoots is cooperation but it’s also a two way race to perform ass kicking

Terezi: Premeditated

Terezi and Dave: Betrayal! *fist bump*

[hobsyllwin]

Man, there’s literally no art for these two is there? Guess I’ve got a lot of feeding to do 😏

[hobsyllwin]

happy belated 4/13, I don’t even know how to begin explaining this one but Emps ♠ Condy jumped into my mind when I woke up on Homestuck day so now you all get to see it too. I am so sorry