@chaetocercus Has Been Enlightened Me About Marsupials And Soundwave W/ His Little Family And I Can’t

Has anybody made a height estimation for the Boggans and Leafmen in Epic 2013?

Because Im close to doing my own research fo figure it out

The leafmen are smaller than hummingbirds, but noted to be two inches tall

But mice are huge and taller than them

Mandrake wears a bat hide but rides a grackle

Dagda wears a rat but rides a grackle

But a bee is still as big as their shoulders

If somebody’s done this, @ them to me!

Knock Out and Breakdown enter the meme.

KoBd is love. KoBd is life.

the suffering never ends

Pretty self-explanatory

Do you think “Moon Sailor” was a bit, on the nose?

it was intended to be! i made the pilot while keeping in mind that the magical girl genre is actually somewhat niche

i wanted to make sure people like my parents or my girlfriend's law school peers or people who don't watch anime at all could easily follow and understand what's going on. if i asked my parents to name a magical girl anime, they'd be like "what is that" but if i asked them what sailor moon was, they'd be like "oh yeah i've seen those characters before!" sailor moon undoubtedly iconic and people IMMEDIATELY know what it is upon hearing it. "moon sailor" is VERY OBVIOUSLY a parody of that so it's easy to get in that one second of time i have before moving on.

the tricky thing about doing a pilot is the setup and the trickier thing about doing a SUBVERSIVE pilot is that you have to set up what you're subverting on top of everything else. that's why zira's dialogue and language is also a bit expository and on the nose during the "gasp" part. there are people watching who don't know the magical girl genre and its tropes! like how is someone supposed to know that aika anticlimactically poofing into her magical form was a joke if they didn't even know that a magical girl transformation was SUPPOSED to happen? i thought i spelled out hoshi's whole thing pretty well or didn't really need to go that into it but i saw a lot of people confused about what they were and why they were there at all (until zira tells us that they're a magical mascot).

back to "moon sailor," it's a silly one off joke meant to quickly signal to the audience that zira likes manga/anime and the magical girl genre specifically as well as circumvent copyright. i also personally just like on the nose bits hahaha. like on big city greens whenever we parody a brand we usually just put a "B" in front of it. one of my favorite being "blego blocks"

this turned into unsolicited writing advice and definitely more than what you asked for but i hope its helpful to anyone out there looking to make their own shows!! clarity, spelling stuff out and sometimes handholding is important especially in a pilot. even though it can feel stilted sometimes, it's better than completely losing your audience or leaving them with questions. but now that the pilot's done it's job, any following episodes i might make will be unburdened by too much expository language haha

@chaetocercus has been enlightened me about marsupials and Soundwave w/ his little family and I can’t help but love it a lot 🦘 it’s very cute but also very cool considering how funky marsupials are! Also consider exhibit A: red kangaroo does (females) are also called blue-flyers because of their coloring! Blue mamas that are very jacked 😌 it’s only the best for them (also, apparently drawing kangaroos is fun, they have a fun shape to them)

Late Birthday drawing for @oldmagerambles of our illagers, also first drawing to this blog!

epic (2013) and strange magic take place within the same universe no i will not elaborate on this thank you for coming to my ted talk

How to post NSFW here, but not really, but yeah!

As other platforms send refugees our way, I wanted to point out that there’s a pretty easy way to skirt the so-called “porn ban” on tumblr, especially for fanart purposes. Check it out:

Make your smutty lil art. Then make a second version with a sticker or a blur or a text banner, or simply do a clever crop to eliminate the unsuitable bits and bobs. Tip: if the art is very flesh toned, maybe drop a purple or green filter on it, so the AI that detects nudity overlooks it.

(On a desktop comp) Save the Smutty Lil Version as a Draft post on your Tumblr. In your drafts, click on the images so that it isolates, then right click and Open Image in a New Tab. From that tab, copy the URL. It’ll look something like “64.media.tumblr.com/letternumbersalad”

3. Make another separate post. Make your Modest Version the image, and then indicate that there’s a clickthrough to the Smutty Lil Version, and link in “64.media.tumblr.com/letternumbersalad”

4. Ta da! Now your viewers can choose to click into the smut. I’m not saying its gonna work every time forever, YMMV, but as someone who posts like... 5% smut, it’s always worked for me.

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Y’all remember the G1 episode where Starscream got with a pop singer who dedicated her songs to him? I sure do. ⭐️🩷

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