Kabosu did not deserve to have her image turned into cryptocurrency. She did not deserve to have the meme she was known for across the world to become a code word for a fascist coup.
Her name is Kabosu. Not Doge.
Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)
DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)
I'm just gonna rant about this here since I keep seeing this take. I feel like a lot of you guys are taking too much of this piglin stuff at face value. Like, if you think Mojang is actively "demonizing" piglins or something, I straight up don't think you've been paying attention or looking at this with a critical eye. Piglins live in a cruel world. A harsh landscape which would obviously shape their societies to value strength and anything of the sort which would keep them alive. The Nether lacks certain resources, some of which is actually the fault of their ancestors.
Like, this is something we've known since the Nether Update came out.
I say this because there's actually reason for piglin society to be the way it is. It makes sense. Even so, piglins aren't inherently evil, even in the various games. Vanilla Minecraft is obvious. You can barter with them and hang around them if you wear gold. The piglin merchant from Minecraft Dungeons makes this point even more evident with the fact that they journeyed to the Overworld simply to set up shop.
They're completely passive to the player. They're not here to invade and they don't care if you wear gold or not.
In Minecraft Legends, it's a legend. A story passed down from generations. It doesn't necessarily reflect a full truth.
Even so, a lot of the piglins don't even seem to care about invading the Overworld too much. Two out of the three main piglin generals don't even actively participate in the invasion.
The boss known as the "Devourer," leader of the Horde of the Spore, doesn't do much besides send out additional forces to help with the invasion. They mainly just want to keep eating mushrooms.
The boss known as the "Beast," leader of the Horde of the Hunt, especially doesn't care for invading the Overworld. Throughout the cutscenes they appear in, they just want to hunt hoglins.
It straight up takes another piglin leader to step in before they actually do anything to help with the invasion.
Hell, these piglins get abused by their bosses for not complying or failing to accomplish what they must.
Even the bosses get abused by their bosses!
To think that they are all a truly malicious force is a gross generalization for you to take from all this. The truth is that it's complicated. The ones in power dictate what happens and that doesn't necessarily reflect the average piglin and what they want.
Ultimately, they comply out of fear. For their own security. And that's just what happens in a lot of empires with powerful leaders. Perhaps they don't even know better. The Nether is a tough place to live in. So, what's one more fight to them if they might have a chance to one day survive somewhere in a place without lava and ghasts everywhere. Especially if succeeding with also keep their bosses off their backs.
The piglins have a complicated past and that's fine and actually very realistic. If anything, I feel that Mojang has given the piglins the best kind of treatment, in this way. The most world building out of any Minecraft civilization. It just sucks to see when people don't realize that.
And with the movie, I feel it's largely the same as in Legends. Can you really tell me that piglins here are inherently an evil people? Look at this little guy.
Once again, it's the fault of their leadership and their cruel mentalities that have spawned and evolved long ago from living in a cruel world.
Yes, that piglin did just stab that child, btw.
Anyway, my point is that there's just so much more nuance to this than just taking away "piglins bad" from Minecraft media.
"I miss 2D animation, 3D is so lifeless!"
No, no - from an avid and avowed lifelong 2D animation lover - what you miss is stylization.
Something animated to be "hyperrealist" isn't appealing to me anymore because it all starts to look very... samey. It'll age.
But if you have a proper sense of your style...
And here's Rozenmarine, requested by my bf @oldmagerambles to do next lol
Of course she's from Little Goody Two Shoes made by @astral-shift-pro ❤️
That moment when the animators flex that close-up animation to let us privately investigate a character's personality or either show a tintillating state of insanity of the beloved character's meanwhile blessing us with the specific knowledge of their irises' colour full HD maximum details
(plus allowing me to finally have the perfect pantone's shade to apply in fantasy scenarios before going to sleep )
(eyes...pretty eyes...)
If I was isekai-ed into Toontown, while possibly meeting the blorbos above, visualise me like Sid from Ice Age in the scene when he goes "you have beautiful eyes" one inch from Manny's face
character aging sheet
Need this as my ringtone
Weird and wonderful compilation of strange bird noises.
25+ years old, taken by @oldmagerambles ♡, has aspergers, I do draw, hope to make my own mangas one of these days, yes that is my cat's paw in the banner lol this is gonna be a 🔞 space due to what I reblog and gonna draw.. yep I'm gonna post art and reblog whatnot in here cause fuck it so MINORS, NFT, AI BROS, PEDOS & PHOBIC FOLKS DNI AT ALL otherwise you're getting blocked 🚫 have fun with my nonsense :3 here's my link to my bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cometgoddess.bsky.social
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