#nerdy-nonbinary

[celluloidrainbow]

I noticed you don’t have a lot of animated films on here (or at least I cannot find them with tumblr’s poor search function.) If you are ever interested in including more, I keep a fairly comprehensive list on Letterboxd of queer animated films, shorts, and shows (if they are listed on the site.) It is LGBTQ+ Animation by Alex K, if it could be of any service to this project. I really admire what you do.

You're helping me a lot, thank you! I'll definitively look through your list, I only have four animated (or semi animated) films here, so any suggestion is welcome, and I'm sure others would also like to check it out!

[dyk-this-anime-song]

I’m really curious what the audience of this blog is. I know I’m biased as to what people know bc I go out of my way to listen to a lot of anime openings, watch a lot of ranking lists on youtube, do online anime quizzes etc. but I do feel like there’s openings to very popular shows like Frieren that a confusing number of people say they’ve never heard before.

Hello nerdy-nonbinary!

It's really interesting looking at what songs people as a collective seem to know. If I had to guess based on your ask, you are younger than most people who follow this blog. While it is true that Frieren is a very popular show, it only came out in 2023. A lot of people my age haven't seen it yet, especially if they don't keep up with seasonals.

The following songs are ones where knowing the song and/or the anime make up more than 50% of the vote totals:

1 - "Pokemon Theme" or "Gotta catch 'em all!" written by John Siegler and John Loeffler and performed by Jason Paige (Pokemon 1997)

6 - My Generation by The Who (A Silent Voice 2016)

9 - Sleep Walking Orchestra by BUMP OF CHICKEN (Dungeon Meshi 2024)

15 - Tank! by Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop 1998)

20 - CHANGE THE WORLD by V6 (Inuyasha 2000)

42 - 99 by MOB CHOIR (Mob Psycho 100 2016)

44 - THE HERO !! ~Okoreru Kobushi ni Hi wo Tsukero~ by JAM Project (One Punch Man 2015)

67 - Easy Breezy by chelmico (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken 2020)

71 - Resonance by T.M.Revolution (Soul Eater 2008)

73 - Mezase Pokémon Master by Rica Matsumoto, THE JADOES (Pokemon 1997)

75 - Guren no Yumiya by Linked Horizon (Attack on Titan 2013)

86 - Moonlight Densetsu by Dali (Sailor Moon 1992)

We can probably ignore A Silent Voice for the sake of this post since My Generation is already a very popular song. The oldest anime on this list is Sailor Moon 1992 and the newest is Dungeon Meshi 2024.

I think that Dungeon Meshi could be explained away by my follower count at the time. Back when this blog first started, the only people who saw it were people who know my personal blog and people in anime tags. Now more people follow the blog from seeing their friends reblog polls and those people are less likely to be following seasonals and modern anime in general than the people who originally followed this blog.

Now, the song that I actually think is the most interesting is Easy Breezy by chelmico from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken 2020. That one post is the first time I broke 200 votes on a poll with 208 votes. No other song came close until Moonlight Densetsu by Dali from Sailor Moon 1992 which blew that record out of the water with 265 votes.

Now why did Easy Breezy get so many votes? Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken came out in 2020. This is when a lot of people in my country (USA) were getting back into anime because they couldn't work. This isn't meant to discount Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken as an amazing anime, it is, but I think without the pandemic starting in 2020 not nearly as many people would have seen it.

I remember being on Tumblr at the time and seeing people who never talked about anime once posting about Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken obsessively.

Maybe if those Frieren polls were posted three or four years from now more people would have recognized them. Obviously this is not scientific in any way shape or form but from the evidence I've gathered on this blog that is my best guess as to why seemingly popular anime like Frieren, Jujutsu Kaisen and Dan Da Dan are not being recognized on this blog.

[pcktknife]

Personally I was mostly able to ignore how LMM-core Encanto’s music is until Bruno raps at the end. Making a guy who can’t sing rap to cover up his lack of vocal ability? Sounds like some actor/lyricist/playwright I know…

no cause this is exactly it. I heard it first in surface pressure n for the most part i was able to get thru it then they gave bruno that corny rap and it felt like an out of character goof and i didnt like it at all 😭

[mandareeboo]

Oooh I have thoughts on 1984. Mostly that I read both it and animal farm in like, 7th grade with no understanding of the history context or what they were metaphors for in wider society, and I still enjoyed animal farm and hated 1984. It cemented the idea for me that a good thought-provoking book should still have an enjoyable plot to carry it. If it’s intelligent but boring (and/or misogynistic) as hell, I’m not gonna finish it.

Honestly as much as I hate 1984- and good lord, do I hate 1984- I still hate Fahrenheit 451 more. 1984 was thiiiis close to being somewhat salvable- an outdated book, but not Shit- but 451??? Honest to god, can't think of one decent thing about 451. At least 1984 had a point to it. 451 felt like a spiteful ball of hating women juice and "this One Man will be Better Than Them All"

[incorrectfmaquotes]

Mars brown

mars brown; what’s a movie that always puts a smile on your face/makes you laugh?

Legally Blonde! Maybe kind of a ""basic"" response, but I've been thinking about all my other comfort movies and I doubt any of them wouldn't be considered that.

[cosplaytutorial]

Hello! If someone was hoping to cosplay MT/Lake from Infinity Train, what would be the best ways to get that full-body silver look?

Hello there!

There’s a few things you can do here, with varying levels and types of skills involved.

For the clothing, you can either buy clothing or you can make clothing. If you make the clothing, look for silver metallic fabrics: silver lame, silver pleather or vinyl, silver foiled or silver mystique (foil dot) spandex, etc. These won’t be comfortable fabrics to wear, but you can get a more realistic metallic look this way.

If you buy clothing, start with a grey base and paint over it with fabric paint. This will take a long time and a lot of paint. For anything stretchy, be sure to stretch it to at least the amount of stretch you need when worn while it is being painted, or else it may not stretch enough once the paint is dry. Make sure the paint is either safe for fabrics or you mix another paint with fabric medium, or else you will end up with crunchy, flaking clothes! You may find it easier to use a spray-on fabric paint like this one (there are many other brands, so look around at reviews) than to use a bottled paint you have to brush on. Since you’d be using a grey base, you would really only need enough paint on the clothing to give it the shiny appearance.

You can also try a hybrid approach if you can find a silvery mesh fabric, and add the silvery mesh over existing clothing.

For the wig, since this outfit is a pretty cartoony style, I have a cursed suggestion: style a grey base wig to exactly how you like it, and then spray paint it with regular silver spray paint. It will have to be stored on a wig head as to not squish it and flake the paint (though spray painted wigs are more flexible than you’d think), and the style isn’t going to ever budge again. 

If that’s too cursed for you, look into what Land of the Lustrous cosplayers do with bits of vinyl and tinsel and add some metallic touches to a regular silver wig. You can also use silver hair glitter to add to the look.

For the skin, you are going to have to get familiar with body painting techniques, but thankfully you really only need to do your face and neck. I would find some metallic silver tights that are a lighter color than your leggings and wear them underneath, and also find (or make out of an extra pair of tights) matching silver gloves for you hands.

I haven’t personally done silver metallic body paint, so someone in the comments may have brand suggestions, but I have heard good things about Mehron’s metallic powder. Be sure that you research proper setting methods for whatever type of paint you go with (we can always help you with that here once you decide on a type).

I would also suggest adding a bit of a silvery white highlighter to the high points of your face to create an additional shiny metallic look and to add a bit of dimension back in.

I hope that helps! Good luck. :]

—Fabrickind / Q&A Staff / Twitter

[sabertoothwalrus]

You were accidentally better at writing romantic subtext for Steven Yeun and Jeremy Shada characters than the voltron writers ever were.

and I WAS trying to make it gay!

[phantomrose96]

Whenever you make a reference to living in [city near my hometown] I become distinctly aware that the next time I’m in [city], I could cross paths with the stranger who has been influential to my online fandom experience for the last 5 years and not even know. That’s weird man.

If you find me you DO become the new owner of this blog.

This is more of a threat than a promise.