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Shinki - Goddess of Makai

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A weird thought that kind of hung out in my head for a while that is sort of relevant to this blog's theme, but also kind of isn't, but I'm honestly not sure, but I have no better place to dump it into, so whatever. Feel free to ignore this if you're not interested >>

Yautja. Predators. However you want to call them. They have a very particular, hunting and honor-centric cultural mindset. But. What would it be like for someone in their culture to just... not be into that? There are people who are basically entirely averse to romance, in spite of how central it is in our culture, so how would some who is, uh... akynig, not interested in hunting? And how would such a person, perhaps, adapt to another society, lacking this aspect of Yautja culture but carrying across many others?

The worldbuilding nut in me is always excited about those things but it is a very rare opportunity to discuss it in any manner >>

i dont rly know anything abt the predator film franchise so i cant rly add much but i do enjoy the idea of like. alien cultures and what that means for the individuals within that culture.

idk how comparable this is but i was just recently watching a video that was talking abt the ferengi from star trek and how upon their original introduction they were kinda this one note species because their sole characteristic was being a hyper capitalistic culture built around hoarding wealth, but in deep space 9 we start to actually see individual ferengi characters outside the context of this monolithic cultural concept and come to understand that their greed is not like some innate personal trait but the result of the values and demands of ferengi society.

theres def a larger discussion to be had abt the way a lot of popular scifi tends to narrow entire planets worth of people down to singular traits and how thats kind of a major weakness when it comes to like world building and imagining alternate societies, but when thats a thing the franchise is already doing it does open up an interesting avenue of like, how many ppl within this culture actually share this valued trait? how many are just going along with it bc its what you do? how many have so deeply internalized it that even if removed from this society and its rules they would unconsciously mirror it? is there a space for counter-culture in this world?

it seems like itd be harder to analyze stuff like that in the context of predator movies tho since, from my limited understanding, it seems like the yautja were at least originally designed simply according to what would make them serve best as a scary antagonist. i do think its cool tho that there seem to be a lot of fans who are trying to give their species more depth and complexity than the source material affords them. again tho im probably missing a lot of actual context lol.

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Matoric writing tool

Random thought a few days ago brought me here, a simple-ish 3D Model of a tool that would be used in-universe to write, or I guess scribe Matoric.

More images and explanation under Keep Reading

The stamp part at the bottom is dual-purpose. The smaller circle is a bit deeper than the larger circle, and as such a softer press only adds the base circle of Matoric, while a harder press adds the small circle as well. If you need more circles, you rotate the tool and do a hard press again.

The dial controls the heat of the tool on both ends, since from what we've seen in the movies the main forms of writing seem to be based on using a heated end to burn symbols into either rock or metal.

The top chisel part is swappable, but the base one is slanted to permit for both longer lines and more precise work with the pointy end of it.

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The Elder Scrolls headcanon

It's a seldom mentioned fact, because most men and mer are too embarrassed to admit it, but Argonians are actually the unstated, secret sex symbol on Nirn. Virtually everyone is attracted to them, but virtually nobody is brave enough to actually go out and say that they find lizards hot.

Nobody knows what the origin point of that attraction is, but the most common theory is that it, as so many other things about Nirnian culture, comes back to dragons.

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Jade Light over the Shadow

First art piece in the new apartmenet!

Posted using PostyBirb

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Just some knotted artful Kanohi.

Numero Dos Because I suddenly came up with better presentation a moment after I posted it everywhere >>

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Almost at the point of release! Just need to do some more tweaking, add MustardUI support and it's off for testing

TO ANYBODY WHO SEES THIS

The model's actually been released and finalized! Go check THIS POST HERE

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Actually got this Roodaka modeled! Been doing the rigging for the last few days, with varying success.

Still very imperfect because I had to manually tweak a LOT, and I'm not certain I'll be able to get rid of the intersections entirely but still some decent progress.

At some point I'll just have to accept some of the wonkiness and say "Some of the bones are only intended for small adjustments and will break if you rotate them 90 degrees"