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My favorite answers from authors about their work are the ones that include both Watsonian and Doylist explanations

How did the centaur’s earliest ancestors keep their brain from being part of the head? Cephalization seems pretty common in bilaterally symmetric organisms, and a separate sensory processing center seems unlikely to me

Diegetic answer: Centaurs' recent ancestors were very potato shaped and when they crawled out of the dirt, and when they elongated there was a giraffe laryngeal nerve situation where the order of development of the bones and spinal cord prevented the brain from developing further up the body, over time the sensory ganglion has been getting beefier to compensate and in several million years would likely become the primary central nervous system. This is already apparent in some other clades of centaur planet "vertebrates"

Non-diegetic answer: It's a anatomy decision I made on a whim a decade ago that I probably wouldn't repeat now, but it's way too deeply entrenched in the rest of the design to get rid of now. So I'm having fun with the knock-on effects in the meantime, like grievous head wounds being survivable.

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TIL that there's an '80s movie where they portrayed Smilodon by sticking actual fake teeth onto actual live lions.

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When a mommy skeleton and a daddy skeleton love each other very much they run at each other full-speed and crash into a huge pile of bones and then their disembodied arms start putting themselves back together but they do it wrong so now they've got their skulls on backwards and arms where their legs should be and ribs all over the place and after a few failed attempts they conglomerate into one big two-headed eight-limbed double-skeleton but eventually they get it right and reform back into their separate selves but somehow in the middle of it all enough bones got dropped and misplaced that they have enough spare parts to make a baby skeleton!

#the banach tarski paradox #skeletons #the miracle of life #isn't nature beautiful? #happy halloween everybody

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shoutout to flags that look like landscapes fr gotta be one of my favorite genders

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i hate how capitalism and 2010s-20s minimalistic designs took away creative and colorful designs. i miss how mcdonald’s used to look when it had the red tile roof and when they had chairs in the dining room molded after their characters. i miss when storefronts would have colorful cartoon art on the walls and windows. i miss how hot topic used to look, when it looked like it’d be scary to walk into when you were a kid but after you got in and saw all the invader zim merchandise it was okay. or how malls used to have so much color, from the tiles to the walls to the ceiling. i hate the bland minimalism we have now. i hate the beige and silver design that every store has now. i hate it.

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

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Elly the Elephant

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Shrek milk...

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

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Follow For More ❤️

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i love 90s television all these high quality fabrics got me so turned on i almost passed out

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Shrek (2001)

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Don't forget this

You'll need to have this fish in your ear

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Hmmm hmm *takes notes* and what about his one?

Super duper Eurasia