you sent me down the Sonic name rabbit hole and the misinformation is even more stupid then originally intended.
Archie Sonics Middle name being Maurice had only appeared twice in comic form, once as a definite joke and once as a dubious joke (hard to say if it was serious since it doubled as a throw back joke) but Maurice was kinda an inside joke for the most part and they even poked fun at it in one of the Sonic Prime adverts.
Olgilvie is where it gets stupid. Sonics 'first name' was never given in canon but was allegedly posted on Penders own website, saying that he intended it to be his first name but never actually applied it. I say allegedly because finding actual proof is basically impossible. There's no screenshots of the website, Penders never posted about it on social media and there doesn't appear to be any interviews with Penders saying so either. It is entirely possible that this was just a made up rumour/someones personal head canon posted on a mid 90s forum that spun out of control.
yeah i definitely think his middle name being maurice was just a joke at first and it was only mentioned by the characters themselves twice that i remember, but there were also multiple character profiles for sonic that mentioned his middle name being maurice and/or sonic not being his birth name, so it Was intended to be canon. but again the same cannot be said for olgilvie, i cant remember a single time the name was ever mentioned in the comic and other writers have said that it isnt considered canon
as far as penders himself talking about this goes, i actually did manage to find a couple tweets of his that mention it but theyre actually very recent and in response to someone asking about it, i still cant find the original source for this claim anywhere. but i do have some stuff to say about the tweets so.
part of the conversation is cut out because i didnt wanna post screenshots of some random persons tweets, but basically someone was asking where he originally confirmed this, where the inspiration for the name came from, and if anyone else used it. which as you can see he didnt really answer that first question. and he also says he DID use the name in one issue, but hes blatantly wrong here because issue 53 doesnt say sonics name is olgilvie, just that his birth name isnt sonic and his middle name is maurice. so hes definitely misremembering some details here
now im not saying this is actually what happened but wouldnt it be so funny if penders never intended for his name to be olgilvie specifically but someone on the internet just made it up and it became so widespread that penders himself even believed it and thats why no one not even him can provide the source for where this was originally stated
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10 Years, Every Day! - 240405
As of today, it has been exactly 10 years since I started creating and sharing a 3D animated GIF artwork every single day!
I originally began learning 3D and making GIFs after being inspired by many of the digital artists I had started to find on Tumblr back in 2013. When I decided to start making a GIF every day in April 2014, with very little prior art experience, I never could have imagined that I would still be here doing it 10 years later.
I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who has stuck around and supported my work in any way over the last decade. Likewise, I also have to thank everyone I've had the chance to work or collaborate with over the duration of this project! This has been a huge learning experience, and I am very proud of how far things have come.
To the best of my knowledge, I am the first artist to complete 10 years of daily GIFs, but I have to give major props to the other artists that I know of who paved the way and passed this milestone before me in their respective mediums:
@songadaymann / @catswilleatyou / @beeple / @graebor / @rawandrendered
With that being said, after a lot of contemplation, I have decided that today will mark the completion of my daily GIF project. I have no plans to stop creating and sharing my art, but after 10 years of pushing to have an animation done every single day, it's time for a change of pace.
There are still so many things I want to learn, and now feels like the right time to give myself the room to explore and give it a try.
Thank you again for the support. I'm excited to see what the future holds.
- pi
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Місто Марії, Океан Ельзи
English translation:
The sun rose over the Azov
The wind blows over the dunes
It's cold, but the sand smells like spring
The eyes are already used to fatigue
Too many reasons
I dream of how good we will be with you again
No, ship's guns
They will not break my dream
My heart will never betray faith
Will stand to age
The righteous Mariupol
Docks over the proud Azov
The sun rises
The sky thunders over the Azov
The enemy is firing cannons
In the evening, even the concrete smells of war
Think about what tomorrow will be like
There is no time and no reason
Heart and hands have long been accustomed to fighting
And ship guns
They will not break my dream
My heart will never betray faith
Will stand to age
The righteous Mariupol
Docks over the proud Azov
The sun rises
We remained ourselves
We wrapped up in the night
And his free mouth tightened in pain
But also in the deepest basements
The light will come back again
The cry of a new day breaks free
And ship guns
They will not break my dream
My heart will never betray faith
Will stand to age
The righteous Mariupol
Docks over the proud Azov
The sun rises
As long as the sun rises over the free Azov
As long as the sun rises over our Azov
Original Ukrainian:
Місто Марії
Сонце зійшло над Азовом,1
Вітер над дюнами дме.
Холодно, але пісок пахне весною.
Очі вже звикли до втоми –
Надто багато причин.
Мрію, як нам буде знов добре з тобою.
Ні, корабельні гармати
Не розібʼють мою мрію.
Віру ніколи не зрадить серце моє!
Буде до віку стояти
Праведне місто Марії,
Доки над гордим Азовом
Сонце встає.
Небо гримить над Азовом –
Ворог гарматами б‘є.
Звечора навіть бетон пахне війною.
Думати, як буде завтра
Часу немає і причин.
Серце і руки давно звиклі до бою.
Ні, корабельні гармати
Не розібʼють мою мрію!
Віру ніколи не зрадить серце моє!
Буде до віку стояти
Праведне місто Марії,
Доки над гордим Азовом
Сонце встає.
Ми залишились собою,
Ми загорнулись у ніч,
І вільні уста стисли від болю.
Але в найглибші підвали,
Світло повернеться знов,
Крик нового дня рветься на волю!
І корабельні гармати
Не розібʼють мою мрію!
Віру ніколи не зрадить серце моє.
Буде до віку стояти
Праведне місто Марії,
Доки над гордим Азовом.
Сонце встає...
Доки над вільним Азовом сонце встає,
Доки над нашим Азовом сонце встає...
Source: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/misto-mariyi-mariupol.html
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In the weeks since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, and destroyed thousands of homes in the territory.
And there have also been tremendous losses to the region's ancient and globally significant cultural heritage. The region was a hub for commerce and culture under Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine rule. It remained influential for centuries thereafter.
A recent survey by the group Heritage for Peace details the damage done so far to more than 100 of these landmarks in Gaza since the start of the present conflict.
The casualties include the Great Omari Mosque, one of the most important and ancient mosques in historical Palestine; the Church of Saint Porphyrius, thought to be the third oldest church in the entire world; a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery in northern Gaza excavated only last year; and the Rafah Museum, a space in southern Gaza which was dedicated to teaching about the territory's long and multi-layered heritage — until it was hammered by airstrikes early on in the conflict. (...)
"If this heritage be no more in Gaza, it will be a big loss of the identity of the people in Gaza," said Isber Sabrine, president of Heritage for Peace, in an interview with NPR. (...)
"The people in Gaza, they have the right to keep and to save this heritage, to tell the history, the importance of this land," he said.
The 1954 Hague Convention, agreed to by Palestinians and Israelis, is supposed to safeguard landmarks from the ravages of war. But landmarks in Gaza have been destroyed by Israeli strikes in earlier rounds of fighting. Dozens of sites, including the now-obliterated Great Omari Mosque, suffered damage in 2014. A report by UNESCO, the United Nations body that designates and protects World Heritage sites, cites further destruction to cultural and historic sites in Gaza in 2021. (...)
Destruction of historical sites and other cultural sites is part of genocide, it's the destruction of the proof of a people's relationship to the land and a horrible emotional blow at the community. UNESCO must act immediately against Israel's destruction of Palestinian heritage, and every country and international organism must expel Israel and impose sanctions to make the genocide and apartheid end.
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