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Droll - A Cornish Folklore Animation

An animated series rooted in Cornwall’s oldest stories, told with care, grit, and respect for the land that shaped them

Droll is a six-part animated series based on Cornish folklore that the creators wants to be seen and not forgotten by anyone. The first episode will The Droll of the Mermaid where an fisherman finds a washed up mermaid who must get back to the ocean or else her husband will eat her children. But she is not what she seems to be.

While it had made its goal, it definitely needs more attention since it sounds and looks super beautiful. I’m haven’t read into Cornish folklore, but now with this kickstarter campaign, I definitely want to read more about it now!

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Inazuma Eleven Episode 57 - "The Miracle Team! The Chaos!!"

Taken from Inazuma 11 ⚽️ De Complete Serie [Nederlandse Dub] by Ilay and edited by me

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How do you make a whore moan?

Extract sapogenins from a Mexican yam and employ Marker degradation to degrade the sapogenin side chain while leaving similar functional groups on the steroid nucleus (relatively) unaffected. Use acetic anhydride to block the hydroxyl group formed by opening the six-membered pyran ring. Then oxidatively open the five-membered furan ring with chromic acid. This forms the acetyl side chain of progesterone and an esterified hydroxyl group on the steroid nucleus. The ester is then hydrolyzed under strongly basic conditions. The use of acetic acid leads to the production of 16-dehydropregnenolone acetate (16-DPA). 16-DP can be converted into progesterone in two steps. Firstly, the double bond in ring D is hydrogenated, followed by Oppenauer oxidation of the hydroxyl group and the concurrent migration of the remaining olefin from ring B to ring A so that it is in conjugation with the ketone carbonyl group at position 3. Alternatively, a three-step procedure involving Br2, CrO3, and Zn/HOAc can be used. 16-DP can also be converted into testosterone and the downstream products estrone and estradiol. 👍

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Obscutober 2024 Day 26: Droll 🎪

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Droll (v./n.)

having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality

an amusing person; jester, comedian

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5 days. Just 5 more days and Inktober/October will be OVER. 😵 So close and yet so far! 

And this yet again didn’t get quite enough attention—It’s been a chaotic day. 😅 But I did manage to make something I like, even so! 

Click the "Keep Reading" and we'll talk a bit more about my general thoughts/process. ✨

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Allow me to start off this description very, very similar to yesterday's by saying:

I'm going to keep this description short and sweet tonight Sparklers both because I feel I don't have that much to say, but also because, as you may know, I spent most of the day trying desperately to get a very different piece of art posted today. And today was also just a very chaotic day around the house. 😅

Point being: I'm about tapped out for the evening...But we have just FIVE (!!) days left to go and I have no idea what further chaos might be around the corner that would require me to "post, run, and come back later." So since I think I can manage it tonight, we're going to try!

Because of said other art piece, also like yesterday, I didn't have as much time as I necessarily would have liked to play with different ideas. That said, today continues yesterday's trend of that somehow turning into results I really, really like! 😁

This is especially surprising because this is one word I put on the list with really no clue as to what I'd possibly end up doing for it. But with limited time on my hands, as may be obvious, my brain latched onto the word "jester" and ran with it.

I started with just some motifs that came up when I typed, "jester mandala" into Pinterest—I wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised there were a couple that I thought would work well. I was already thinking of the checkerboard pattern both because it feels jester-clothing-adjacent, but also because when you say, "whimical" or "odd," one of my first thoughts is Alice in Wonderland, and Alice is of course tied to checkerboard prints in various media, usually because of the associations the story has with Chess. (Well, more accurately the associations Alice Through the Looking Glass has with Chess, but you get the idea.)

And I saw another motif that gave me the idea to incorporate the stereotypical curled jester hat in what I think is a more subtle way.

The faces were completely my own idea, though. I associate that symbol of those two masks you often see representing Drama as a category with jesters—Which I suppose isn't too off-base since one of them is meant to represent comedy specifically. So I combined the smiling mask with my idea for the more subtle "hat," and I think it worked a treat to get a "proper" jester in there without taking too much time or being too obnoxious. 🙌

I polished everything off with just some smaller touches here and there that were vaguely circus-inspired. I know they're not really the same, but in my mind "circus" and "amusement park" are sorted closely together, and they can both have clowns, which is definitely fitting for this word.

"Circus" did also inspire the color scheme a little, but not entirely. I was already leaning towards black/red/gold just from thinking of "jesters" alone. Jesters can be many more colors, of course, but black and red came to mind first, probably because of the Alice in Wonderland association I mentioned before. Gold for the bells usually on stereotypical jester clothing was a must either way, though.

I think this might be the mandala that's surprised me the most so far, actually. I was expecting very little because of the time constraints and my initial lack of ideas, and then even just knowing how I put it all together...The individual pieces were all really pretty simple...But...Look at it! It's fun! It doesn't feel overly simple! 🎉

New favorite? Probably not enough to top what I've been thinking are my favorite-favorites of the month so far, but it's definitely one of the higher-ranked ones for sure. 🥰

Fortunately, that circus inspiration has also given me an idea for the song on the Instagram cross-post, provided Instagram doesn't argue with me about it...

Speaking of, since I think I've got everything covered and it's only getting later by the minute, I suppose I should sign off here and get to that cross-posting.

You Sparklers enjoy, and let's once again hope tomorrow is a less chaotic and rushed day. 😅 👋

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This is my chart for distinguishing eyes among different races. Note that the "white part" is not necessarily white.

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