token_diabetic

I draw sometimes. Will loredump my OCs at the drop of a hat. (26, they/she) @token-diabetic on bsky and similar variants other places Minors DNI (this blog does very occasional hornyposting)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

eggs are most delicious when least touched by fire (so poached, sunny side up, etc declining in quality to over easy, hard boiled). this is because fire cleanses the egg of sin (primary source of flavor). this is also why the objectively most delicious egg is soft boiled (hardened purified exterior traps the delicious sin inside the soft gooey interior), and why scrambled eggs are morally ambiguous

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

couple things

deviled eggs are delicious bc, while hard boiled/cleansed of sin, as the name implies the sin has been artificially added back in (via mayonnaise)

raw eggs are indeed the Most Delicious, which is why consuming them inflicts divine punishment (salmonella) unless they have received exorcism (pasteurization)

rotten eggs smell like that bc the sin has been absolved. as with most things in life, the church is to blame

[brainrockets]

100% thought this was going to be a @inbabylontheywept joint, but that's just because of all the sin eating.

[inbabylontheywept]

can i be wrong? yes. can the biggest, strongest, smartest gaudiest poltergeist be wrong? never. and so it stands. 10,000 years of raw egg.

[bd-bandkanon]

updated Senhyakkin with two pages last night~

Senhyakkin [1,100 birds]

12 - 28

yup

[nerviovago]

[bradysbigblog]

holy fuck man, whenever I need to bust a gut this always hits so hard. Holy shit.

[same-pic-rick-roll]

This video shows that delivery of the joke is far more important than the joke itself.

“What is a skeleton’s favorite snack? RIBS!”

By itself a good joke, but the skeleton prop, the dumb voice and the acting makes this truly epic.

[brakken]

(🎵 Tank! - Seatbelts)

[willgrahamscock]

[theebbestboy]

[a-sentient-cup]

[virtualgirladvance]

[makrustic]

Feelings come in waves; they always hit you, whether you expect it or not Prints | Ko-fi | Patreon

[manga-and-stuff]

Source: Eden: It's an Endless World! エデン

by Hiroki Endo

[tokendiabetic]

So I deleted Tumblr off my phone, and it's certainly decreased how often I look at my phone and get distressed. But it's also drastically reduced how often I'm on here. Like, I have Tumblr pinned and still only open it every few days.

Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tokendiabetic]

It's such a good feeling to have a problem come up in life where you can ask a friend/family member who happens to have that area as a special interest for help.

Like, yes, computer friend, I need your help! Or audiophile, I want your headphone recommendations! Please, bestow upon me some of the vast knowledge you've accumulated!! I love you :D

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

[hokuto-ju-no-ken]

there’s an agenda at play

[ayellowbirds]

from her autobio comics:

[dodgylogic]

#on a darker level #being from Hokkaido means she has reason to be personally invested in the Ishbal annihilation #because Hokkaido is stolen land #like a lot of other places colonized in the last few hundred years #if you’re sensitive to this kind of thing #it gives you a personal stake #in genocide stories #that most Japanese people don’t have #>> #idk i felt the way she handles the genocide #speaks to having been aware of that #from a formative age (via whetstonefire)

[fanfckery]

Those tags are 100% right and Arakawa has confirmed that it was intentional in an interview as she has family that are part Ainu.

So her family history definitely had a role in how she presented the genocide in FMA.

[mortalityplays]

[heybiji]

[rattlegeist]

Bit late to the party but did a quick drawing for AC6's two-year anniversary!

[thedman0310]

[ghost--bot]

[tokendiabetic]

Starting an experiment. Gonna delete Tumblr from my phone.

Every time I open this app I catch up on my following, then inevitably flip over to my For You, which promptly shows me 45 billion posts that make me sad, angry, or distressed. All while showing me horrific ads and occasionally trying to open nefarious links without my input. And then I've spent too much time on my phone.

I'd much rather Tumblr be a place that I visit once or twice a day, than a place that follows me around in my pocket, distressing me many times a day.

Here's hoping this both helps and doesn't make me totally inactive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cathartidae]

ⓘ You can Bite your Friends.

[cathartidae]

ⓘ reblog to fuckign BITE your mutuals

[alexplainlaterrrr]

chomp

[briebo-is-a-dragon]

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[moonlightsdream]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) — dir. Frank Capra