I just love the word sarsaparilla @sweetsarsaparilla - Tumblr Blog

Hey, so, I dunno if anyone is still following this account but I'm now posting under Atom Heart so feel free to move over there. I'll probably shut this blog down eventually once I've saved some old posts, so consider this your warning.

But don't worry it'll probably take me years to finally get around to it so no rush. :P

ilyone

A few months ago, I said on this blog that in my head PJO is an anime with a badass opening credits. I meant it quite literally, like I can actually picture this OP in my head, with all the shonen tropes like Percy walking around pretty backgrounds, cool fighting scenes with lots of camera movements and huge statues of the Gods standing ominously in the background, Nico standing in the rain till Reyna and Hazel and Jason come for him and a ray of sunshine breaks throught the clouds and light hits his hopeful face, GIMME ALL THE TROPES hahaha. Doing the whole opening would be impossible for a single person but I really wanted to try one big “shonen” group shot, so here you are !!! This actually took me AGES, I’m not kidding, the folder for this on my computer is named “batshit crazy ” for a reason, it may not look like it if you don’t know animation but a really huge amount of work went into this. I think it’s actually the biggest thing I ever did for a fandom. I can’t say how many hours I spent on it since I didn’t count, but let’s say I started this in September and spent a lot of week ends and most of my Christmas holidays on it, and I just finished it this week. I had a lot of fun though !!! And I learned a lot too, this was my first time trying to animate japanimation style, with not many in-betweens and ultra dynamic poses. So yeah, I hope you guys will like it !

I want to thank fimyuan and bisexualjason for keeping me motivated with their lovely comments through the project, even when I was complaining about my own decisions to animate friggin’ skeletons, hahaha. Another big thank you to my friend Wekake who went through the animation frame by frame and spotted all the little compositing mistakes that remained ;p

A few words on the process : I animated and colored everything in TV Paint, drew the background in Photoshop, and composited everything in After Effects. The song is an extract of the Yowapeda opening “Reclimb” by Rookiez is Punk’d because I wanted something very distinctively shonen but no lyrics, and I like that song ^^ I animated directly without any model sheet references which is definitely not how you should do it, hahaha, hence the design inconsistencies, but honestly even my madness had its limit and I didn’t want to spend more than a year on this thing ;p

#animation #percy jackson

theartofanimation

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#Illustration

Fallout Salem

If I ever make a single mod in my entire life it’d be to make Salem in Fallout 4 an actual settlement with its own side quests.

You’ll probably hear about the place before you get there. It’s an isolated town full of weirdos wearing dark clothes and pointy hats that speak with odd accents and are suspicious to ‘outsiders’. Even worse legends say that at night they go to a mysterious pit where they burn trespassers alive on stakes! They’re friendly enough when you see them travelling around but people stay away from that place.

Naturally you got to see this shit for yourself.

You go there and this place is like Halloween town. They’ve got creepy effigies, weird masks, lanterns with scary faces and the top of the church glows an eerie purple. To a wastelander this would be creepy. To you, a pre-war person, you see through this shit immediately. Their ‘creepy language’ is just a thick Boston accent. They’re wearing witch costumes from Halloween. If you have high intelligence you know that Salem witches were hanged and not burned. They deny it, of course, but with some investigation or S.P.E.C.I.A.L. checks you call them out.

Okay, okay, they come clean. Because of the oppression of the Institute and the synths wastelanders have ironically become very superstitious. So when a bunch of vagrants read the stuff in the witch museum they came up with this charade so people would leave them alone. The people burned at the stake? They were raiders or criminals who were already dead when burned. The purple glow? A variant of the glowing blue fungus you see on trees. All of the creepy shit is stuff they’ve made up. It all seems to be just a Scooby-Doo Hoax.

But ...

#fallout #fallout 4 #salem #my stuff

Why does this keep happening

Me: *reading a McHanzo fanfic*

Hanzo: Several years ago I killed my brother and ever since I’ve been seeking redemption.

McCree: Well damn, what happened?

*cue flashback to the scene of the fight where Hanzo is a cruel, vicious bastard who murders Genji as he pleads for his life or barely manages to fight back*

Hanzo: ... And I can never forgive myself.

McCree: Aw honey, don’t beat yourself up like that.

Me:

Me: ... I’m sorry, what?

#overwatch #like #I get that this would be a hard scene to write #especially since Genji is 70% cyborg #but #why do I keep finding fics #where the writer expects me to feel sympathy for Hanzo #after writing him like that #and then get emotionally involved in the pairing #my stuff

itscolossal

A Gigantic Buddha Statue Emerges from the Top of a Hill in Japan

#holy fuck #WOW

kentuckymeatshower

this website is really uniquely terrible in nearly every way but where else am i gonna put my posts about batman being named after bruce springsteen. do i post that on facebook? do i email my mom

tcfkag

The best explanation of Tumblr’s appeal that I’ve seen

#... yeah true #goddamn it

wildersage

non native english speaker culture is constantly switching between british and american spelling and writing words however you prefer without caring about consistency and you dont really always know which is which anyway

sweetsarsaparilla

Hell, even english-speaking countries outside of the US or UK have this fucking problem

karekareo

“Mothership” 🖖🖖

#aww!#so cute!#animation #digital art

library-mermaid-blog

Here are some wintry animals reminding you to have a nice day and please take care of yourself because you are lovely!

thetrevorproject

We’re big fans of self-care.

mikedett91-blog

I will reblog this every time it pops up on my dash!

poselikeateam

This legitimately just reminded me that I need to take my medication thank you kind animals

silverhawk

one of my favorite corgi facts - besides how they’re the breed where the term ‘sploot’ comes from bc of how they lay down - is that they’re one of the ONLY small dog breeds that are perfect for herding cattle bc they’re so fucking short that cattle hooves cant kick them while the corgis nip their heels to get them moving

like thats the reason why they’re good at herding cattle. bc they’re little sasuages that can evade hooves and go back to charging and leading the cows. they’re amazing look at them go

silverhawk

while this is one of my fave corgi facts, lets also appreciate some other corgi facts that i enjoy:

they’re only 1 foot tall and are the smallest dog in the herding group

they’re in the spitz family which means that one of the corgis closest relatives is the siberian husky. like. huskies and corgis are cousins as far as dog breeds go. let that sink in. a sled dog is the taller cousin of this 1 foot tall cow herder

its a common belief that vikings had corgis and traveled w/ them. like. actual vikings had these tiny, little sausages aboard their ships just bc they liked them so much, and if that isnt the cutest thing

it was a law in ancient wales that u couldnt steal someones corgi and if u did u’d get fined

welsh legends say that corgis were used 2 pull fairy carts and were like, service dogs for fairies and if that isnt the mOST AMAZING ThINg

MOST corgis are born w/ out tails bc after years and years of tail docking, they’ve evolved to become tailless, BUT

here is a corgi as we know them, without a tail:

aaand heres a corgi w/ its tail:

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The last image is filled with unimaginable power. It must be guarded at all costs, lest it fall into the wrong hands…

owlmylove

i have a cocker spaniel-corgi mix who has the fluffiest, most up-turned tail i’ve ever seen and now i know where he gets it from

sweetsarsaparilla

How could anyone remove such a precious thing

#doggies

lesbianxwing-deactivated2017091

everyone talks about how terrible tumblr was from 2012-2014, but let me tell you, as someone who has been on this website for 5 years, 2015-2017 has been the absolute fucking worst from blatant bullying, to spreading extremely diluted information about mental illness, excusing unhealthy coping mechanisms, and adopting black and white thinking skills. yeah sure, there was some cringy shit back in 2012, but at least people were fucking nice to each other

#yep

vimeddiart

Finished Craig’s broute a while ago and it’s just so hard to get over him and his butt so I can date other dads smh

bonus scribble of my dadsona Steve, dadding

#dream daddy #craig cahn #right?#I'd romance this dude #but #but working out?#oh lordy

the-future-now-deactivated20170

‘Overwatch’ fan Chris Guyot created adorable, minimalist animations of the game’s heroes

follow @the-future-now

sweetsarsaparilla

Best thing? Blizzard offered this dude a job cuz they liked his work so much.

#overwatch

charadreemurrrrrrr-deactivated2

can we as a community stop like, immediately burning things that have one mildly controversial thing in it, like, game of thrones has like, seven seasons, like

its just like. when you make stuff where the intended audience is transphobes and homophobes you. you make money. and yeah you’re a monster but you… still make money. you make stuff where teh intended audience is trans people and gay people and you have like one small not great thing and your whole audience leaves. shitty tv shows can piss off every gay in the world and still turn a profit. stuff made for gay people is always so in danger of flopping. its not safe to create work with the intention of uplifting lgbt folk because of this hypercritical eye. im not saying like. ignore problematic elements, im not saying dont work towards doing better, but, like, we cant keep expecting and demanding perfection and we cant keep saying like, uhhhhh did you know one of the voiceactors in that cartoon was an asshole? you’re not allowed to like that show anymore

there’s a BIG difference between media that has problems that you want to improve and FIX those problems and media whos problems are so bad you just want it to end

and we have to stop… putting everything, everything in the second category