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Side blog for reblogging memes - @bagoftrashwithadollarsignonit

Side blog for reblogging art - @art----howdoitwork

Side blog for my art - @learninghowtodrawdinosaurs

I saw a reddit post with an Incorrect Opinion on the bird wyverns. Also they should so obviously be called dinosaur wyverns it's insane.

Edit:omg I can't believe I forgot my one true love, qurupeco

#Monster hunter

After completely failing to get into wilds, I tried tri on my Android handheld, through dolphin. It was my first monhun but I haven't played it since 3 ultimate came out. And I've just been enjoying the shit out of it. No wonder it made me fall in love with the franchise. Also, other than too much text, it's such a perfect way to get into monhun. I really love how this game is structured. And at 3x or 4x graphics, holy balls it's a beautiful game. I love moga Woods. I love the farm. I love cha cha. I love swimming and harpooning fish. I really need to get the loc lac mod so I can check that out and die of nostalgia.

Undecided as to whether I should replay freedom unite next, or 4 ultimate. Or maybe I'll replay the first one, and stay in the clunky era

#Monster hunter #Monster hunter tri

Yamaguchi Ryota's favourite tropes (a non-exhaustive list i might add to over time)

Main trio consisting of agro boy, smart boy, and girl

secondary cast member who has a digimon that can reach a higher stage, but often doesn't join the main crew. but sometimes does.

old kooky guy

intel-gathering woman (there's 2 in savers but theyre also just the same person)

they all work for the govenment. but they dont always agree on the proper way to do things.

mostly set in the real world, but they go to the digital world occasionally. they can kinda do it on demand.

absent parent(s)

some bad guys are just regular dudes with digimon, who do crime.

some of them are shithead dads

when bad digimon are defeated, they revert to a lower stage

rival trio

lilamon

bombernanimon commits a terrorism

big bad is an evil scientist (to be confirmed)

digivolving is, like, a whole process

dark mode powerup

bad guy does a digi fuse

#digimon #beat break

Get on my level

#Goodreads

*Retroactively trying to work out when i started this latest attempt at my comic *remembers i made a post with my progress, and an overly optimistic goal about what i could accomplish in a time frame *looks it up wtf i've restarted again since then? this is the last time i swear to god. I'm setting the new start date as February 23. because.

#writing progress

mellifexfarm

ok like kakapo are great and all, i love them dont get me wrong but takahē are by far the best endangered new zealand bird and quite possibly THE Best Bird?

you cant really get any better than this. criminally underrated

kinka-juice

Even better, we thought it was extinct for 50 years, and then we just found a whole bunch in a meadow. We lost a bright purple flightless bird the size of a large chicken for 50 years.

#Science

alpaca-clouds

Why was Digimon Frontier like this?

Something I have heard a lot of people talk about in regards to Digimon Frontier, is... Well: "Why was it like this?" Especially because of three things: Why is Izumi probably the most sidelined and sexualized female character in all of Digimon (outside of maybe Digimon Xros Wars' female cast)? Why is Izumi the only girl? And why do Takuya and Kouji get so much front and center screentime in comparison to everyone else?

The thing is that I know some of the answers. And no, it isn't really that the series composer (a role roughly equatable with an US showrunner) Tomita Sukehiro is a sexist or anything. He worked actually on a lot of female lead anime, some of it adaptions of Shojo manga, some even mostly original work.

Now, I do have the slight suspicion that Kaizawa Yukio, the main director, is a bit of a horndog, Mainly because Xros Wars became a whole lot hornier when he joined the project after not being included from the beginning. So, I wouldn't put it past him. lol

Ironically, a lot of what Digimon Frontier is, can be explained with what Digimon Adventure did not get to be.

I would say that Digimon Adventure had an infamously chaotic preproduction, but fact is that this is neither famous not infamous. But yeah, the pre-production of the show went through a total of three teams, before finally ending with the team that we know did the series. With Kakudou Hiroyuki (who was involved from the very beginning, but in another position) as the director, Nishizono Satoru as the series composer, and with Yamatoya, Maekawa, Yoshimura, Masaki, Yoshida, and Urasawa writing episode scripts. (Maekawa and Yoshimura would eventually go on and do the series composition of 02.)

If you were to ask me what the biggest issue with Digimon Adventure is, then I would say it is the overcrowding of the show with characters. 8 main characters is a whole lot for 50 episodes. It is something you usually can only do if you outright make clear priorization happen. Because you will not be able to adaquately develop 8 characters (16, if you count the Digimon) in 50 episodes. Or I guess 54 episodes.

In a way Digimon Adventure does prioritize the characters, but in a way that it is not properly communicated towards the audience. I think it is pretty clear, that there is a priority towards Taichi and Yamato, though ironically towards Mimi and Jou as well, if go by time that we focus on those characters in particular.

Now, the thing is, that Nishizono knew this were too many characters. Originally when developing the plan went like this: "We do six characters, one for each of the 'good' fields established before." Meaning: One character with a Dragon's Roar Digimon, one with Nature Spirit, Wind Guardians, Deep Savers, Jungle Troopers and then one Virus Buster.

I think most people know by now that indeed it was not intended from the beginning for Hikari to join the main characters. (Which is also the reason why Gennai is totally not surprised to see seven kids on File Island, but then suddenly remembers later that there should have been eight.)

But even without Hikari (who also received a Virus Buster), there is another group overpresented: Jungle Troopers. And this is because originally Mimi was not planned to be there. However, fairly late in pre-production it was decided that to have a bit more appeal to a female audience (while boys were always the main target-demographic) there should be another girl. So Mimi and Palmon were added fairly late.

This is ironically the reason why Mimi is fairly well written: She follows a different writing paradigm than everyone else. Which is kinda ironic, because it also made her to one of the favorites of many folks working on the show. lol

But yeah, this brings me back to Digimon Frontier.

Tomita and Nishizono knew each other and were pals. And when the call was made, that Tomita would do series composition for Frontier, the two of them went out and toyed around with ideas. And one of the things they ended on was this "too many characters" problem Nishizono had run into.

So, Tomita wanted to make show that worked with somewhat similar ideas to Adventure (note how both shows start with the kids being isekai'd to the Digital World) with a group of characters based on the original make up of the Adventure-crew prior to executive meddling. Hence eventually six kids, just one girl, and one small kid. And with a clearer focus on who the main-main-characters are - Takuya and Kouji.

I personally do not really mind the fact that Izumi is the only girl in the group. But yeah, the fanservice can at times be weird, given that even as Fairymon she is just a 10yo kid. lol

But yeah, in the end, the context of how something like this happens can be very interesting, I think xD

Also, one last time: The Digimon Rewatch will start next weekend. So, if you still wanna join us, you are very welcome to do so.

bossarmadimon

I always say that the “too many characters” thing is OBVIOUSLY why all the following seasons had a much *much* smaller cast.

#Digimon

stargatelov3r

a while ago i compiled all stargate novels into one big spreadsheet including publication info and tried to put it into one coherent timeline

also on a completely unrelated note

this is definitely not a google drive folder with all stargate novels as ebooks and pdf

#Books

yumivik

#science

botanyshitposts

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

flipocrite

clickityweasel

catboybiologist

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

writing progress - dec 2024

After practicing drawing a bunch I restarted my comic. i'm a much better drawer now omg. as far as i estimate I restarted on the ~18th, and finished the first four pages of sketching today (1st). so about two weeks to sketch four pages. I'd love to have these pages finished before I go back to work on the 21st, leaving me just under 3 weeks to do the backgrounds and inkings. Hard to know if that's realistic or not. like, will backgrounds take three weeks on their own, or, like, 2 days?

Unrelated:

#writing progress

typhlonectes

Buffalos build friendships based on similar personality traits

“Our research provides evidence that friendships among water buffalo can form among individuals with similar behaviors. These findings offer valuable insights into the evolution of friendships,” said Dr. Debottam Bhattacharjee, a Postdoc in CityUHK’s Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health. “Personalities and social relationships will be potentially important for understanding how buffalo use their habitats during different seasons (wet and dry) of the year with fluctuating food resources.”

Read more: https://www.earth.com/news/buffalos-build-friendships-based-on-similar-personality-traits/

botanyshitposts

if i had a partner i would wake them up right now and i would say babe wake up im thinking about the plants that went extinct in the kt boundary comet blast again. babe the world has ended 1 million times and i want to grieve for every single one of them and its really messed up except for immediately after the kt extinction event when the ferns had so much sex they left an observable stripe of spore-dense matter fossilized in the rock forever, like that part was kinda funny. i think i have a stmoach ulcer again btw

shoresoftheshadowlands

botanyshitposts

the graph in question, from the book ‘plants and the K-T boundary’ by Douglas J. Nichols and Kirk R. Johnson

cbcbiology

These little dudes are not only chillin' but also warming themselves in heated cubbies to help them beat a fungal infection!!

Photo from the article in Science.

Research abstract: Nature

likelyapsychopath

Y'ALL this is exciting

as hell! Idk how many of you are familiar with chytrid fungi, but they cause a nasty disease in amphibians called chytridiomycosis, where the fungus infected and spreads across the skin. Amphibians both breathe and absorb water through their skin, so once the infection spreads enough it makes it difficult for them to breathe and drink. It's often deadly and has been introduced all over the world, likely from people releasing captive amphibians into the wild. Research has linked chytridiomycosis to the extinction of over 90 species, and is considered one of the primary causes of the global amphibian population crisis we're fighting.

Worst of all, there is no cure viable enough to use on wild populations.

This 'hothouse' method, if it continues to prove effective, would be a cheap and easily-implemented tool to help wild frogs cure themselves!! This could help save dozens -- if not hundreds -- of species from extinction!

Be excited about this! (Otherwise I will find you)

derinthescarletpescatarian

Medicinal frog spa!

reasonsforhope

Article via Science, June 26, 2024

thebibliosphere

It never fails to amuse me when I get “hello influencer” emails wanting me to push questionable products to my followers.

Like worstie, I can barely promote my own published book without wanting to curl up and die.

The fuck makes you think I’ll shill your discount wish shit?

thebibliosphere

Also, it's Tumblr. If I try to tell anyone about your knock-off Wish-quality sex toy there’s going to be a horde of Autistic lesbians doing a power point presentation in the notes about safe sex toy material and correct battery storage.

Which I am 100% down for, but it will not get you any sales.

cookieoppressor

I was trying to figure out if you were someone important on a other platform, because there's no way in hell anyone actually thinks you can be classified as "Influencer" if you have a big Tumblr blog.

And then also think advertising to this mob would be a good idea

thebibliosphere

There are actually lots of people who sell stuff successfully on here, usually drop ship stuff.

They’re just not disclosing it as ads, which they are supposed to do, and instead it's marketed in a very Tumblr-esque way which can be summed up as “omg guys look how CUTE this is” followed by a different account underneath going “omg found it!!” and it links to a drop ship site with the item(s).

And the link usually has an affiliate tracker in it, which you may or may not be able to spot unless you’re familiar with them, which is also something you are legally supposed to disclose.

I used to get a lot of offers from around 2016-2020 to sell “moon lamps” on here, y’know those orb lights that look like a moon? Yeah. I was offered a higher kickback to make it look like I wasnt posting an add because these sellers know Tumblrites don’t like ads.

They wanted it to look as organic and hyped up as possible and then I’d just so happen to be like “omg you guys it's on sale” and post a link. Which is skeevy as shit and also illegal af in the US.

It’s like the insta/tiktok girlies saying “link in bio” to get around saying “here’s a product I make money on if you buy it” because they want to sound like your friend because people are more likely to impulse buy stuff if a “friend” is recommending something.

They’re also trusting that everyone knows “link in bio” means “affiliate link” which is technically not enough of a disclosure but whatever.

This is why I tag all my own book promos with “affiliate links” because depending on which storefront you buy Hunger Pangs from, I may get a kickback from the vender which I do to help mediate the fees I lose from distribution. It’s not much—literal pennies in some cases—but I’m still legally required to state it.

It’s also why when I do post products I use or like, I make a point of letting people know I’m not an affiliate and not sponsored because despite the legal ramifications these people are flirting with by not disclosing their affiliate status, I want to be fully transparent with my followers when it comes to me trying to sell them things.

Y’all keep my lights on by reading my work and through my ko-fi and patreon. I am not about to risk that trust for the sake of some shitty vibrator sales from a sketch-ass drop shipper who wants me to pretend I’m not selling you things.

So, yeah. People do successfully sell stuff on here. A lot of us small indie creators sell our own work all the time.

But there are also drop-ship sellers on here who get enough of a kick-back from affiliate links to make selling cutesy kitsch stuff worth their time on here. They’re just making sure you don’t know you’re being marketed to.

earhartsease

those product posts thinly disguised as "omfg look at this cool thing!/I found it online!" seem to come in waves and once you've noticed the pattern they're just annoying - unless they're marine biology/dinosaur plushies of course in which case it's just an opportunity to gawp

a-kind-of-merry-war

The most recent one I can think of is that jellyfish light. That's 100% an ad, just hidden in tumblr-speak.

I find I can generally tell when it's an ad posted by a corp/dropshipper vs someone extremely passionate selling something they made and love, but there's a lot of the former floating around

stjohnstarling

God, thank you for saying something. I seriously considered making this same post back in July when I started noticing more and more posts of this kind with thousands of notes. Some of them were getting pushed onto my dashboard from a few of the most popular tags I track (like "artists on tumblr") but a few were getting shared by actual people who I follow (omg these ethereal dragon hair clips are perfect for cosplays... 😒)

(Screenshots I took at the time - this particular blog has been thoroughly scrubbed from existence in the meantime.)

There is an extensive interconnected network of blogs with URLs like haha-lol-cute-funny, daily-meme-inspiration, omg-wow-tiktoks, etc. that bulk post vast quantities of stolen memes with broad appeal, spam them in a million popular tags, and then reblog them back and forth from each other. Once any given meme takes off, the OP is edited and the meme replaced with one of these stealth ads. Then, because of the inflated note count, the ad version of the post will get pushed to the dashboards of anyone tracking those tags.

If you go into the notes of any of these, half the reblogs will still be of the original meme. Here's an example: Original meme / the ad it turned into.

(The OP of this one has already been taken down - screenshots because the images in this post are also liable to get scrubbed.)

The note count has the added benefit of making it look like thousands of real people are excited about the item in the post, and, for better or worse, people are strongly motivated by things they think others in their community are doing.

stjohnstarling

I see all the linked posts have already been deleted lmao.

thebibliosphere

lol they’re deleting things so fast tonight.

They really don’t like being called out.