Cosplaying Siren

this is it........ dunmeshi in a nutshell

fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block

“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess

What’s the comic sans trick?

#i feel like someone just asked me to eat dirt for my health

wingdings' true purpose as a font

Wingdings holy shit some of y'all are on a whole different level of galaxy wizard brain batshittery and I am in awe.

Exciting. When I don't want to see what I'm writing I just make the font color almost indistinguishable from the background color. (Do not do this.)

(I don't think the secret to the comic sans hack is comic sans itself; I think it's any deflation of being intimidated by your canvas.)

Hold on I need to go look something up immediately.

... you can't say that and not give the link.

Looks like you can even make it something other than kittens, by appending ?search=dinosaur (that's the example the page gives) to the end of the URL.

@andauril

@gattmammon

Im gonna shill for Marie Kondo again but this is why I find her books (yes, books, the TV show is fun but ultimately misses a lot of the core ideas) so good.

A lot of home org advice fully misses this aspect. Kondo not only acknowledges it, but leans into it. And ultimately this helps motivste me to keep my space tidy - it's really hard to me to keep on the nebulous goal of self-care, but much easier to get up and put things away if I envision my salt and pepper grinders as like, retail workers who are now standing in an empty shop (my dining table) and just wanna go home (the spice rack where they live).

Normie tidying process: that heater should be put away for summer! I mean, I'm not gonna need it

Me: well it's just chilling and also I can't be arsed.

Kondo: that heater has done a good job keeping you warm over winter and now it should get to go have a rest in the cupboard

Me: !! Sabbatical for my heater!! Thank you for your service sir and have a very nice break!

just saw a tiktok or something where the person was saying they did this and they were on a hike and they were like "i managed to get myself to go on this hike because i promised my boots we would go" and its like. OH YEAH. THAT.

i know that when a book describes dragons picking up their riders they probably mean scruffing them by the neck in their mouths like a kitten, but i always imagine something like this

Don’t leave this in the tags. It’s too funny not to be enjoyed by everyone

@wisteriaalu

that crying “babe I’m so horny!” meme but the response references the queen’s funeral holiday

so by the “babe I’m so horny” meme, you mean

aya getting shouted at by her dad, which turned into

the crying anime girl meme, which has now apparently become

image language is wild

why does she look like a dog, she practically has a snout, do all anime girls look like that in profile, is the lack of nose an illusion

Starting in the early 80s, there was a transition toward more simplified noses, ultimately manifesting in the tendency around 2003 to draw characters without any noses at all. There are two reasons for this: one is that the nose is not very expressive most of the time (unless you’re showing, like, snot streaming from nostrils) so there’s no point in spending space and effort on them that you could instead use on the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. The other is that “big nose” codes for “white” – and if noses are barely drawn, any noticeable nose at all counts as “big”.

The transitional stage – the level of nose simplification that’s been normal for most characters in most styles from the mid 80s to today (and in some works in the 70s, like those of Leiji Matsumoto) – is to show a nose as a slightly bent line. This is great because realistic noses drawn straight on are very complicated. When a character is drawn in profile, though, the nose becomes visible as a protrusion! Until the 90s this was a major difficulty whenever a character was turning their head: how do you draw a nose that doesn’t draw attention to itself, even if a character smoothly turns their head? The solution was to treat the nose as a slight protrusion in the contour of the character’s face.

This became normal because of the specific problems of animation, but because characters and stories are constantly moving between anime and manga, manga artists quickly adopted it, and it’s been normal for manga to draw noses in the style shown above since the 90s, even when the manga in question would never be adapted to animation.

While it can look funny out of context to somebody not immersed in the style, the underlying logic is actually an attempt to support telling more serious stories. In the 50s and 60s, when practically all manga was light comedy, the style was much more cartoony and characters had a wide variety of probosces, and characters often showed their emotions the same way that they’d be shown in looney toons: dramatic and physically-impossible symbolic mutations of the entire body. The “bishojo style” that is the primary stylistic influence for almost all anime and manga today is the synthesis of two movements happening in manga in the 70s: shojo comics, aimed at teenage girls, were beginning to get emotionally and intellectually complex (in part because the genre, being dismissed as trash, was not getting much oversight from editors and censors, and became a place where politically dissident women, many of them lesbians, thrived and did the artistic experiments that had been getting them kicked out of theater and literary magazines), and to support these stories that were focused in the inferiority of characters and their relationships, a style where bodies were simplified & faces were made larger and more expressive was developed; at the same time, some mostly-male manga artists were annoyed by the lightness and child-centrism of manga and started a movement for darker-and-grittier comics called gekiga, where characters were drawn with realistic proportions and both the style & content was influenced largely by American action movies. These two movements merged into the bishojo style, which was used to sell more complex manga to older teens and adults; “bishojo” means “beautiful woman” & reflects that these comics were sold to men through the sex appeal of attractive characters & to women based on their grace and fashion sense (or at least, that was how many people thought about it at the time). In this new bishojo style, it would be normal to have serious and grounded dramas – and suddenly seeing a nose pop out of somebody’s face can break immersion. (As late as 1995, some anime kept more realistic nose sizes and suffered for it – ex., Escaflowne.)

This is an example of “normal” manga in the 60s (Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis). Note the noses & general proportions.

Here’s some gekiga:

Here’s some classic 70s shojo (They Were Eleven, a classic space opera):

And here’s some goofy-ass noses in the 90s, Escaflowne:

Noses and nostrils are sometimes shown, for comedic effect (FLCL):

But are often more likely to be omitted (Nichijou):

Quick addendum: the details of trends in stylization in anime are fascinating to nerds like me; if you want to read a few hundred pages about the cultural currents involved in fashions in breast shapes, I recommend the study “The History of Hentai Manga” by Kimi Rito, although (being released by Fakku) it’s not as academically rigorous as I would personally like.

*politely* thank you but I have a lot on my plate right now

You guys I just realized that what I’ve always wanted out of werewolf fiction is a story where lycanthropy isn’t a purely human condition

Like this dude wakes up from his wolfbender and his room is full of all these fucking chickens from local farms that he initiated into his pack. They all start clucking and crowing at the moon and when it’s full they all transform into these tiny little weird bipedal wolves with wings.

I don’t remember making this post but it’s going around again and I’m losing my shit

Imagine becoming a werewolf because you got attacked by a fucked up chicken

A wildlife rehab centre discovers that one of its patients is a lycanthrope when the full moon hits and their wolf transforms into a slightly different wolf.

being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors

glad to see those spreading the truth

Rb to force new people from twitter to eat bees

Oh, hey, I was wondering when I’d get to use this again.

did you just fucking have this

Anya storyline: oh no i have to study for a test or some shit i’m a psychich btw

average Loid subplot:

Insult to injury

Eclipse 🌘

Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

since the cowboy and the samurai were both dying out in the 1800s i want an action adventure historically wildly inaccurate comic about the last cowboy and the last samurai teaming up BUT one of them is gay and the other doesn’t understand what being gay is and there are multiple comedic mishaps resulting from this

after lots of frantic googling of “were samurais gay” “were cowboys gay” “how did gay samurais work” “did gay cowboys love each other” ad nauseam i have decided that it’s actually funnier if both the cowboy AND the samurai are gay but not for each other and also they both have their very culturally specific understandings of gay social politics so both of them still are equally like “dude why are you like this” to each other

samurai, trying to comfort the cowboy who just got dumped over pony express: when my lover left me for another man, i killed both him and his new lover, and proved to all in shudo that it is what happens when you leave me for another, and i felt much lighter. would doing that also help you?

cowboy, absolutely reeking of the flask, who stopped howling purely out of confusion to try and figure out if the samurai was being serious: dude what the fuck is wrong with you

the depictions of homosexual identity at the time are painstakingly accurate and very clearly heavily researched, and this is purposefully in direct contrast to how absolutely absurd and crazy the entire rest of the premise of the comic is

hey good news

there's a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for "guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger's house"

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures They're cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet. They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don't grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference

and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”

first checkpoint. he's coming out great guys