#borrowers

[pro-borrowing-wolf-bitch]

i fucking love stealing

[protector-of-tinies]

[weirdsized]

If I did decide to roleplay again, would anyone be interested in that? I have a bunch of oc's I haven't really done anything with yet, and of course things could tie in to one of my storylines.

[borrowlet]

BORROWLET'S BORROWER BINGE PART 1: 1974

I FINALLY STOPPED PROCRASTINATING, HUZZAH! I am a bit tired today, so. Take these thoughts as you will.

Well I just got done watching Borrowers 1974. Here's my initial impressions. What did I think of it? Well, I think I liked it. I think if you wanted to know what Borrowers is all about and didn't want to commit to reading the original book, this would be a good supplement. Not a replacement, but like a "do i actually want to read the book"? litmus test or something, (though it is very "spoilery", if you want to go in not knowing how things will end). Most details are the same, except like. Arrietty is a little more ignorant in this one, when in the book I'd argue she wasn't stupid, just deprived of the info needed to understand things more. And The Boy (whom was NOT named, which I respect that being kept in tact) is like. I dunno. A bit more curious about the whole "borrower" thing. Which makes sense. Overall though, all the characters are more or less the way they are in the book, especially Pod and Homily.

The effects were charming, rather good for 1974 I must say, the backgrounds and miniatures were great, the costume design was good and pretty accurate to the book actually, and yea. Ooh those props, they are so so so charming!!! Here's my very subjective bias here, I think animation is capable of capturing the feeling of the book way wayy better, but having said that I don't think this was a bad live action version at all.

The "extinction conversation" was actually in tact, almost exactly as it was in the book, which was a surprise, and the added conversation about human soldiers caught me off guard, so that was something.

I do wonder if Ghibli took some inspiration from it at all, Arrietty's comment about him "changing everything then leaving" was very evocative of Ghibli's take, so was the detail of the dollhouse being left out in the open.

I think they called that boy ugly at some point. And everyone was in general annoyed with him, even when he tried to do the right thing. I WOULD say that feels overly mean, but honestly that's how the book was too :( dang...

The frame story wasn't there. Which makes sense. I suppose in any other medium than a book its difficult to incorporate, though RIP Kate and May, I thought they were fine.

They played some banjo music whenever the borrowers started scurrying that really reminded me of Banjo-Kazooie, so that was funny. There was this like... Creepy other song they played a lot that freaked me out. There was like an intro too that reminded me a lil of the Japanese Moomin theme but not as good.

Some other strange details were thrown in there, some... Development??? Of what Pod and Sophie's relationship was like, which was wack. Not wholly sure of why they did that. And 30% to 50% more talk of horses and ferrets, with 100% more ferrets than the original book. Sometimes they'd call "Borrowers" "BURROW-ers", and I got a kick out of being like "Their BURROWERS they're BURROWING!!!". Maybe I'm just tired and missing something with all of this lol.

Overall? Yeah. I liked it! Very sweet and charming, though the end is a little hard to watch (as the ending of the book is rather hard to read. I deem this a "good adaptation", perfectly fine, and I'd say "yeah, check it out if you want". It's called "the Borrowers 1974" and you get "the Borrowers 1974". Didn't blow me away, but I also won't deny that I was pretty happy while watching it w how accurate it was. Not much else to say really.

[ilovegt]

A moment from the life of Hank and his best friend

(His name is Tatara.....Yes...Walter, we're going to prepare the echpochmaks, Walter)

I think so far I've only portrayed Hank as a scared or calm boy who draws his own pictures or trembles at any giant's presence, but his phobia is not his whole character.

Quite rightly, many of my friends thought Hank was... well..I would call it a log, a character function.Yes, it's fair enough, but in my head Hank is quite an ordinary boy, yes, calm, yes, most of the time he just draws something and doesn't cause trouble, but that's still not his whole personality.He's sociable and can sometimes go into "bully mode" when someone offends him or his friends, in general, I need to show more often how Hank shows his character, so that people don't think he's a wimp.

[justinxaviergt]

[OLD] Handheld Maple

Just a little thing I did one day, tracing my hand to practice. Drawing Maple (or any tiny) makes any practice fun!

Full resolution on my Deviantart.

Side note: I'm kinda getting towards the end of my old art backlog, so the gaps between content here are likely to get rather long as I work on future projects 😭

[protector-of-tinies]

GIRLS WHO WANT TO BE TINY:

I'm wondering if there's any relationship between your real-life height and your desire to be small in a fantasy. Are you all a bunch of little shorties in real life? Or does the fantasy have absolutely nothing to do with your actual height at all?

The percentiles in the poll options are based on US adult female heights. They're rounded and a bit messy, in order to make the height measurements nice and neat.

Tiny girls, how tall are you in real life?

A. Shorter than 4'11" / 150cm (<5th percentile)

B. 4'11" / 150cm (~5th to 10th percentile)

C. 5'0" / 152cm (~10th to 15th percentile)

D. 5'1" / 155cm (~15th to 30th percentile)

E. 5'2" / 157cm (~30th to 40th percentile)

F. 5'3" / 160cm (~40th to 55th percentile)

G. 5'4" / 162cm (~55th to 70th percentile)

H. 5'5" / 165 cm (~70th to 80th percentile)

I. 5'6" / 167cm (~80th to 90th percentile)

J. 5'7" / 170cm (~90th to 95th percentile)

H. Taller than 5'8" / 172cm (>95th percentile)

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours