Jaller, Toa Of Fire (He/Him)

Every time I read the word "blorbo" I picture some kind of baby Digimon

I scraped these together on my phone at work cuz someone on Twitter was being a transph0be and claiming to be a Bionicle fan. I wanted to show how easy it would be to "transition" Tahu and Gali and wanted to post them here.

Happy Pride

So like, it's no real secret that the Bohrok were inspired by the Xenomorphs from Aliens right? The way their nest looks, the Exo-Toa/Power Loader, the Krana pull double duty as both facehuggers and as the human skull you can see in the Xenomorphs head under the right angles and lighting, the way the Bohrok head snaps forward to knock your mask of is similar to the Xeno's little mouth darting out to bite your face off, and ofc the Lehvak using acid (like the Xenomorph's blood) rather than air as it's element, even though the other breeds matched theirs up with the main six elements. The references are all very obvious in hindsight, though probably went over most of our little kid brains.

With all that in mind however...

...was this literally just another fucking Aliens reference?

I'm actually really proud of how this came out, drew a lot of inspiration from FF7 and wanted to include the kraata capsule without giving it the hunched back, if nothing else then just for ease of posing. I'm gonna keep working a more complex animation for it but for my first full body I'm stoked

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

Sleepy

Web of Shadows x text posts

Also my little Turahk enjoying a cloudy day by the lake