I like headcanoning smilk and pv as autistic because like them bitches just got something not right going on
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I like headcanoning smilk and pv as autistic because like them bitches just got something not right going on
keep having dreams where i just have More Spiders. just inexplicably have more tarantulas or even jumping spiders. most of these dreams feature the spiders escaping which is stressful but like. at the same time i'm wondering. is my brain trying to turn me against the idea of more spiders orrrr trying to tell me that more spiders is inevitable
Y'all… I have a silly character design resolution for myself and that silly character design resolution is taking the energy from these particular Sal pieces and figuring out how to manifest more of it because these are some of my favorite Sals and that's how I want to Sal in 2026. 🤍
🤔 Part of me wonders about exposing her ears more - or even having the hair tucked on the right side being more of a main thing vs. special occasion. Or reducing the layering a bit as well, have her hair be longer and sleeker.
Whatever the secret is, I like it, love it and want some more of it! 😤
So weirdly enough the flowers on Rose's shirt appear to be the Stewartia pseudocamellia (notable here is the clear camellia-like profile) which is in fact a flower called shara[沙羅] in Japanese, like the name of his zanpakutou, Kinshara[金沙羅]: "Gold Shala." But from what I had always gathered the zanpakutou had a lot of clear references to a different species of slower entirely, the Shorea robusta also shara[沙羅] aka the sal/sāla/shala tree.
So to start, in Buddhism the sal tree of scripture is arguably more mythical than real, and so it's associated with the former in Japan, but natively in India it's associated with the latter, which would seem to account for the confusion, except that the actual design of Kinshara clearly evokes the long whip-like vine shape of the Indian Shala rather than the Japanese pseudo-camellia, which just grows on normal tree branches.
I kinda wonder if Kubo didn't just google it and grab whatever looked good without any regard for them being the same/different flower(s) or not.
Kensei's shirt seems like a pretty straight forward reference to his name Muguruma[六車] meaning "6 Car/Vehicle," something Kubo used to base his bosozoku gimmick off of in TBtP, so the 6 bars just look like stylized bikes or cars in a sort of motorcade.
It is also, perhaps coincidentally... the daoist bagua trigram ☷ for kun[坤]: "Earth" (as in the opposite of "heaven" but it's elemental association is actually [地]: "earth" but in the dirt and soil sense) But incidentally the Earth trigram is associated with the epithet Liù duàn[六斷]: "Six Fragments/Sever(ed things)" and the traditional chinese character duàn[斷] simplifies to [断] which is the same kanji in tachikaze[断地風]: "Sever (the) Earth Wind." The Six is there, The Earth is there, the Sever is there...
Again I'm not even sure this was intentional but it does happen to link the name Muguruma[六車] to ☷ and [地] to Liù duàn[六斷] the sword Tachikaze[断地風] even if it took a seemingly improbable game of 6 degrees from such an innocuous design, of just 6 lines, to get there.
I haven't drawn Sylvia in a hot minute, so ...
She's a bit nice, don't you think ...?
So much has changed - myself included - in the last several years for me that I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever be as gung-ho about General Conference as I used to be. With each new session, it gets harder and harder to listen intently, and the talks that I do listen to don’t really do anything for me.
And of course, the knee-jerk answer I would expect to get from a “devout Mormon” is, well, you need to listen harder. You need to pray and read scriptures and participate in church, and like. I get it. Maybe those things do help the vast majority of people. They used to help me. They generally don’t anymore. Deciding whether to be okay with that or terrified by it (as I was taught to be) is a whole other animal.
This is probably the only #ldsconf related post I’ll be making this year, but - especially after scrolling through the tag for a bit, I’ve gotta say, it’s at least nice to know I’m not the only one that feels like the phrase, “there’s something for everyone in Conference” still doesn’t apply to me.
*Le Bonks you*
Why would you do that????