Knick Knacks

I just came here to follow artists, but discourse caught me in its claws.

[kiguri]

Vaal Hazak lady

And she’s finished! Commission work, Monster lady Vaal Hazak

[o-craven-canto]

The thing with shows like Il était une fois la vie and Osmosis Jones and Cells at Work is that a human society is an obvious, useful, and clear metaphor to explain to young viewers how the immensely complex human body functions. But also a society that actually worked like a human body would be a murderous totalitarian nightmare that would make the Third Reich look like Mr. Roger's neighborhood.

Thank heavens blood cells aren't actually sapient!

[xenomutt]

The murderous totalitarian nightmare implications are some of the best parts of those shows!

[apricops]

not to gatekeep or anything but if the idea of protagonists heroically killing faceless bad guys without having any moral qualms or self-reflection makes you uncomfortable then Why Are You Playing Dungeons And Dragons

[femmenietzsche]

Hate it when people complain about the ultrarich eating babies as if the cost of baby meat hasn't come down by like 95% relative to median wages over the last decade. And most of the rest is regulatory hurdles

[xenomutt]

At least we aren't being wasteful. All those baby hides make such fine leather gloves.

[tanadrin]

15th century Transylvanian fortified church builder isekaid into Warring States era China where he Connecticut Yankees his way to a position at court and introducing Renaissance engineering techniques and Gothic ornamentation. in the course of helping resist Qin expansion he falls in love with a Mohist siege engineer. im imagining a sort of gay Pillars of the Earth where erotically charged scenes of design planning and sex chocked full of period specific architecture metaphors blend into each other until you can’t tell the difference. do you see my vision.

[tanadrin]

Claude suggests the following titles:

Stone That Has Not Heard of Heaven

The Worm That Doesn’t Know the Year

I Was Reincarnated in Warring States China and Now I Have to Explain What a Flying Buttress Is to the Duke of Chu

The Fortification Specialist From Transylvania Keeps Impressing Everyone at Court With His Weird European Stonework and He’s Not Sure How to Feel About That

[xenomutt]

I suggest "The Wise Man Builds His House on Rock, But Can I Build My Love on Rammed Earth Fortifications?"

[vhyrel]

[thememedaddy]

[argumate]

that's the real punishment, Thunder by Imagine Dragons on loop

[xenomutt]

Fuck, just reading that put the tune in my head. Curses are real, and ear worms are proof.

[apricops]

*walks up to a gay couple* which one of you is the ruler who thinks that this time it’ll totally work out fine if you don’t pay your troops and which one of you is the ruler who creates a professional and well-funded standing army that eventually becomes so entrenched and self-serving that they keep trying to kill you

[apricops]

gay person #1: oh I’m totally the second one

gay person #2: it’s true, you’re so Janissary-coded :)

gay person #1: well we certainly had an auspicious incident last night ;)

gay person #2: omg stoppp haha :)

me: wait hold up how did you say an embedded hyperlink out loud

[xenomutt]

Janissary-posting is back on the menu, boys!

[yaldabaothadeez]

(sources: 1, 2, - ocatg on bsky)

[xenomutt]

Tsuchinoko real!

[prokopetz]

Historically, one of the most reliable sources of widespread banditry was rulers ramping up military recruitment for major wars, then cutting their soldiers loose afterwards without pay, leaving a bunch of heavily armed men with military experience floating around broke and homeless.

Knowing this, whenever someone jokingly refers to raccoons as "trash bandits", I get a vivid mental image of, like, a raccoon succession crisis leading to a raccoon civil war, the aftermath of which forced the former soldiers of the losing side (who are all raccoons) to take up the life of the raccoon outlaw.

[prokopetz]

#I've seen the soldier thing in historical Cdramas! #what a bad idea #but also lol (via @fake-married-my-dead-fiance)

The interesting thing about this particular phenomenon in Chinese history is we've got multiple recorded cases of the winner of a civil war going out of their way to make sure the losing side's soldiers got paid; having them all rounded up and executed was politically untenable – in a civil war, the losing side's soldiers are your loyal subjects' friends and neighbours! – so the only real options were either to pay them or to have to deal with an explosion of bandit activity a few years down the road.

[xenomutt]

Another Chinese option is to fight the bandits (or pirates) for a while, then pardon the strongest group of bandits and hire them to fight the remaining bandits. All enemies will be brought to heel by bureaucracy!

[strange-aeons]

If I don't see any code geass cosplayers at the revolution themed dashcon I'm gonna be ... well, unsurprised. Because it's a largely forgotten show from 2006. But still slightly sad ... because the revolution themed dashcon is an excellent habitat for code geass cosplayers

[strange-aeons]

Besides being My Childhood Cringe and the reason i made my first tumblr account in 2011, code geass is still one of the craziest, most genre confused pieces of media i’ve ever seen.

It's about the horrors of colonialism and war and genocide. It's a high school drama. It's a sexy mecha show. there’s titties everywhere the 2006 fan service is absolutely tasteless and egregious. But don't get distracted, this is a show about rebels fighting to overthrow an evil genocidal empire except for when it's about the world’s largest pizza, yes, the world's largest pizza. Sponsored by Pizza Hut. This Show Is Sponsored By Pizza Hut. Major characters will die in devastating ways that you will remember forever. Buy Pizza Hut. The fandom is mostly yaoi of the two male leads but they’re not canonically queer. There are some canonically queer side characters! but watch out! you’ll wish there weren’t! It takes place in the futuristic year of 2017, which is actually in the 1960s if you convert the shows alternate universe calendar into our own.

If you were to ask me whether this show is good, bad, or so bad that it’s good, i would have to tell you honesty that it’s good. The pizza hut titties out horrors of colonialism show is good.

[xenomutt]

I only got about 70% of the way through it, back when it aired. Perhaps it would be worth returning to. That, or rewatch G Gundam.

Perhaps both. Imagine...

[tanadrin]

The wizard who runs thought experiments gives you a magic orange tree. Once a day, this tree grows a single orange that, when eaten, restores the person who eats it to perfect or near-perfect health. The fruit loses its magical property if divided between multiple consumers, or if it is frozen or artificially preserved. The tree produces no more than 365 fruits per year. Any cuttings or seeds sprouted from it produce non-magical, ordinary orange trees; there is no way to increase the absolute number of fruits produced. What is the most ethical way to distribute the fruit?

Give it out to whomever you personally like best

Give the tree over to a public authority to control according to its rules

Auction the fruit on the open market

Give the fruit to applicants who meet specific moral and personal criteria

Distribute the fruit by lottery

Give it to those to whom it will grant the most quality-adjusted life years

Give the fruit to the most important people in society

The fruit can't be distributed fairly, so no one should get it: destroy the tree

Voting ended onMay 22

If I missed an option, pick the closest one and complain to me about it in the notes.

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

auction the fruit and use the money for good

[xenomutt]

This seems obviously the best. Get billions per fruit, and then fund healthcare or malaria nets or whatever.

[yaldabaothadeez]

(source - Ruteko / ruko220 on twitter (comission) )

[xenomutt]

The bigger the wings, the better the little hats look.

[aliteralchicken]

someone who is attempting to put their fav male character in a blender will say you hate your fav female character if you put her in a slight angst scenario, don’t let this deter you, she deserves the blender as well

[pichichustudios]

[kiguri]

Lala Barina final version

Lala Barina monster girl concept done. Commission work for a friend. Meanwhile me and the other friend have been thinking how male version would look like ~ SOON

[suigintou]

i bet it feels good as fuck to erupt from the soil as a skeleton warrior

[scavengedluxury]

Ouffff