#as secondary sources

[nigrit]

#history #primary sources #historiography #it’s hard work but someone’s gotta do it #historians #that rely mainly on secondary sources #naive or lazy historians that take primary sources at face value!

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

Me, having just finished the last 60th Anniversary special:

#Doctor who #Christmas time is doctor who season what can I tell you #I'm ready to cry again #Ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #Sadly this does not include classic who which I a slowly informing myself about through secondary sources because I get archive panic #When I think too hard about it

[get-rammed]

Testing Project Starlight's ability to taste is very serious work

#Record scratch AU #Record scratch AU lore #Fnaf au #Project Starlight #Security Monty #Diego #Dawn #Video #five nights at freddy's #Fnaf #He likes sweet things and yes this holds true to now #You can absolutely calm him slightly with sweet fruits #He can use food as a secondary fuel source of needed and also taste to ensure nothings been tampered with #Which was part of his orignal orders

[cowardlybean]

who needs a dad? [everyone raises their hand]

(DO NOT. TAG AS SHIP.)

#Bnha #mha #toshinori yagi #yagi toshinori #all might #dadmight #Izuku midoriya #Once again: horikoshi sucks!! I hate that guy! #consume the media through secondary sources!!!!!! #If at all #my Hero academia #cowardly draws

[arataka-reigen]

Do you ever come across a character blog that has probably been surrounded by fanon so much they are now completely removed from canon and so absolutely unrecognizable as the character from the source they might as well just be an oc by now

#i see that a lot around here #specially with secondary characters. because they have less stuff in the source material so fans end up making lots of hcs to develop them. #gi talks #fandom

[omaano]

…. Just so we all know this is the stage from where I need to pull my little clone portraits together

#Wip #my art #and then I will merge my sketch and paint layers together and the messing around starts for real #but FIRST I need to figure out my colours for good #haven’t struggled with them so much in a very very long time I feel like #shadows and mid tones and secondary light source and all that aaaah #I need to switch my brain off a little between commissions #I swore I was normal about that Tem gifset didn’t I? #then I stumbled into a fic where Rex picks up the horrible habit of smoking while on leave and here I am #I know I messed up something in my sketch that I will suffer to try and fix later but even when I flip it it doesn’t look TOO bad #he looks FINE in the reference window #which I will take at this point #the sketch took me as long as the other portraits from first line to colour adjustments lol #purple is giving me hell…. it’s time I run away and live out the rest of my life as a hermit away from civilization I suppose

[azurityarts]

Skye

#pokemon #pkmn #pkmnart #art #absol #well uh- it's been a bit huh #most of my art has just been traditional sketches so that's why I haven't been posting much #but anyways have this abu :D #trying to fiddle around with shading and lighting again #no yellow was not an ideal secondary light source ^^;;

[my-hobby-is-finding-the-source]

Got these off of Twitter in March and forgot to like the post to archive it (and the artist) and I genuinely haven't been able to find the artist since (I tried reverse searching it and going through all the tags once but couldn't find it)

The artist is reportedly 구마린 (Coumarinnn), but the tweet was no longer accessible.

#answer #information from secondary sources; original could no longer be found

[nameissmile]

Day 19: in the freezer

Strange things grow in the freezer if left there too long

(Color of the day, green!)

#it’s another quick one today folks #but you can’t blame me #I spent three hours rendering (rubbing away line art adding a secondary light source adding little details) on ONE (1 singular) peice #I’m a bit tired #art #my art #smiles doodles #caught on tober 2023 #day 19 #tw decapitated head #moss #cw decapitated head #ummm #digital painting #ajajajajajaj #can’t think of anything else

[outlying-hyppocrate]

hoping this is accurate to the source material.

#random thoughts #art #mx. crispina edwardia #i am the source material. it's me. #also yes i changed my secondary artstyle again. fuck consistency #fellas. is it gay to draw yourself as a girl?

[compacflt]

does ice read architectural digest to keep up w home decor trends or are they solely somewhere between coastal gradparents house and mediterranean style home w leather accents

okay. yes. when they first move in together their house is frat-house-ugly-bad. They don’t want to think about it too much. interior decoration is Incriminating when you’re not supposed to be living together. It’s hand-me-down furniture with scuff marks and stains and no sense of interior design or organization etc. After the whole rooster-papers-pulling-divorce fiasco they (mostly ice) basically start throwing money at it in the hopes that it will help heal their relationship so that’s when it actually starts to look nice & like an actual house that people live in and not just their chaotic secret escape-from-reality house

all of this couched by my own personal opinion that it was a mistake of the highest narrative order to have them buy a house together and everything ive written about it is just an attempt to try to fix/explain that original mistake (as I write about on this blog All the Time)

but late-40s early-50s ice is somewhat clued in to interior design trends yes. think midcentury modern and a Lot of chrome everywhere because they are middle-aged white guys. or, shit, his canonical interior decorating sense, that’s what the house is supposed to look like! It’s supposed to be the TGM house lol. so like dark woods and bookshelves and big windows etc. HOWEVER. this is just a hc that i cant in any good conscience actually work into any type of narrative, but: they’re, like, really into aviation themed decor. like, really really. it allows them to be into the girlycoded hobby of interior decorating because it’s interior decoration about a manlycoded lifestyle. like if you look on etsy for aviation decor…

ice & mav have it all. i am so serious about this.

#like that engine coffee table… thinking about mav sourcing an f-14 turbofan from ‘a buddy of mine’ in the mid 2000s to DIY table like that #look these extras are just an opportunity for me to work in all my extremely specific lame headcanons okay #and do weird shit with the writing i couldn’t otherwise do #having fun for once #trying to give myself permission to be silly/goofy/experimental #writing practice is writing practice #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #asks #secondary headcanon that maverick is the real Magazine guy in this relationship #ice reads books; mav doesn’t have that kind of attention span 90% of the time #but that boy can Fuck Up a magazine #maverick is the AD reader here #He got the free tote bag and was like ‘now what the fuck am i sposed to do with this’

[masonsystem]

sorry but im thinking abt the zelda's fandom obsession w "canon" again, cuz like imagine how ridiculous it would be if smth like say pokemon sorted their different medias by canon and non-canon like wouldnt that be kinda fucking dumb... what pkmn fans generally do instead is accept everything as its own existing canon and if theres contradictory info then theres contradictory info, bc like that is the nature of a franchise that will have multiple writers.. one writers interpretation is not more valuable / more "canon" than another so we list all of the interpretations down instead of what zelda fans prefer to do which is to.. cherry-pick the intrepretation they like more as 'canon' 😑

^ bulbapedia accepting the existence of multiple canons meanwhile the zelda wiki's idea of canon is based off.. personal interpretation + secondary sources. awesome

also this tidbit which is just.. lmfao

#YEAHHH IVE COMPLAINED ABT THIS BEFOREEE but im still annoyed so... WHATEVER #but like yeah anyways theres no actual valid reason that the mangas should be considered non-canon #while developer interviews are considered canon #cuz like guess what man.. those are both secondary sources! #this is also related to how lü fans are capable of entertaining the idea of hw being canon #like canon is flexible why is the wiki and fans in general this anal... GRAAAHGGH

[forlovewithyou]

Uh-huh, I drew this article! !

The order of this comic may not be that correct, BUT what I want to express is that I really like this short article, it is great...

Warp's change of mood and Buzz and his slapstick are very cute... (cry)

I hope they can really be together after all this...

Also, I'm sorry if this offended the author of the article, I'm not sure if he is on this site, sorry!

#buzz lightyear #blosc #buzz lightyear of star command #my draws #my art #Warp x Buzz #Buzz x Warp #darkyear #comic #fanart #fan comic #The source of inspiration is not me #secondary creation #warp darkmatter

[irregularbillcipher]

do love how many of us bill cipher flatland truthers heard "when bill destroyed his home dimension, he killed everyone he'd ever known" and all simultaneously decided "well except kryptos. he knew kryptos. he kept kryptos :)"

#the circles trying to arrest bill for Dimension Crimes or w/e: can you explain your relationship to bill cipher #kryptos: i am bill's right hand arm. man. i'm bill cipher everything. his best friend. his confidant. his silly rabbit #the circles: his what #kryptos: his silly rabbit #the circles: ... his silly rabbit #kryptos: yes :) #the circles: is that what he calls you? #kryptos: no <3 #i see so many interpretations of their dynamic but i think it's funny how it always basically boils down to well of COURSE he kept kryptos #even the people who are like 'he finds kryptos annoying as shit and rags on him whenever he can and hates him' are like #'but yeah no obviously he kept kryptos around!' #also while i have my own thoughts on their dynamic to the point it is the main point of my fic and kryptos is now the secondary lead #i do love that however you interpret him (friend acquaintance partner court appointed attorney family member WHATEVER) we're all just like #'he was there too :)' #i also think it's funny that someone felt so strongly about their own kryptos idea that they went hogwild on the wiki unsourced and was #just like 'ummmm they're related now! it was confirmed. source-- my divine knowledge :)' and then caused everyone to go HUH #until it was taken down #bill and kryptos are very much NOT related in my hcs like very very very much not #but i gotta hand it to you. as much as i disagree with the take #it takes guts to go on the fandom wiki with your random hc and go 'this is real trust me :)' and then dip

[romanceyourdemons]

still fucks me up that shang qinghua transmigrated to an infant. how old was he when he finally gained free will? five? ten? fifteen?? how did he live until then?? i cannot even imagine

#i mean i can and do imagine and indeed i may even Write Fic so intensely am i imagining #you get me though #and of course there’s the plot hole question of what power source did the system use before luo binghe was born #but that’s of secondary importance #ryddles

[dailydemonspotlight]

Mizuchi - Day 22

Race: Snake

Alignment: Neutral

April 19th, 2024

Serpentine monsters are a common sight in mythology; whether it be the great Dragons of yore, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl, the aboriginal Rainbow Serpent Yurlungur, or even the classical Ouroboros. However, Japan loves snakes in mythology. We've already covered one in Yamata-No-Orochi, but there are so many more, whether it be the adorable and hilarious Yokai Tsuchinoko, or, in the case of the demon we're covering today, the legendary water serpent, Mizuchi.

Mizuchi is rarely seen throughout the tremendous amounts of tales that make up Japanese mythology, only mentioned in the Nihon Shoki (the oldest still-remaining text of Japan's history, dating all the way back to the Yōrō era) as well as appearing in a single Man'yōshū poem. In spite of this, Mizuchi has been the topic of many scholarly debates, eventually being bastardized through history into everyone's favorite root-chakra destroying turtle, the Kappa.

Mizuchi, however, is not originally from Japan- its name is actually a transliteration from several Chinese glyphs, particularly several glyphs describing different dragons, serpents, and monsters of Chinese mythology. Admittedly, I don't know much about Japanese, but one of the kanji used to spell the name Mizuchi implies that it's a snake, but it first-and-foremost means "Water spirit." The word, in English, can be broken down into "Spirit-of-Water," as Mi- means water, -tsu- (the way that it is pronounced) effectively means 'of,' and -chi is a suffix that describes a spirit. Due to this, Mizuchi's origin as a Chinese myth makes it very, very hard to track down much of a solid origin for it, given that it originates from what was effectively a way to match how it sounds to how it's spelled.

Now, in terms of mythology, Mizuchi was first referenced in the Nihon Shoki- as the story goes, under the reign of Emperor Nintoku, there was a fork at a river that contained a great water serpent that would be a very deadly nuisance- it attacked random passersby, spat venom at anybody who came near, broke apart caravans, and was generally just a prick. Eventually, fed up with this, a man named Agatamori approached the spirit with a challenge- he tossed three Calabashes into the water and challenged the spirit to see if it could sink them. If not? Mizuchi would face a swift death. The dragon, perturbed, obliged, yet was unsuccessful, meeting a demise by the hands of the man.

Later on, Agatamori found his way to the fellows of the mischievous snake, and in a move as genocidal as it was unwarranted, slaughtered the entire clan of Mizuchi. The lake below was filled with their blood, later becoming the noted "Pool of Agatamori." However, in spite of how apocalyptic this may seem, it turns out that there are more recollections of Mizuchi in the mix, and this tale was but one of many.

The god of the river recorded in Nintoku 11 is also commonly seen as a Mizuchi. A dam being built along Yodo River was subject to an attack from an unknown force, completely breached. Confused, the Emperor commanded a rebuild of it, only for it to be breached yet again. This happened time and time again, and eventually, the Emperor saw a solution to his problem through a prophetic dream. Bringing two men to the riverfront, he offered them up to the River God, but one refused. Likely recognizing the circumstances, the man demanded to see the divinity of the snake by trying the age-old calabash trick, tossing a set into the river and daring the god to sink them. Unsurprisingly, the Mizuchi failed, and likely grew to resent calabashes for the rest of its life.

The last example of a Mizuchi in classical Japanese mythology comes from the Man'yōshū, a collection of ancient poems that have been passed down from generation to generation. In one of them, a poem composed by Prince Sakaibe, he describes a short and intriguing tale regarding a Mizuchi. In quote, "I could ride a tiger to leap over the Old Shack, to the green pool, to take down the mizuchi dragon there, if only I had a sword capable of doing just that." The story regards a mizuchi dragon as being almost common knowledge, bringing up as many questions as it does answers- however, the way it regards it in such a casual manner may play into why Mizuchi are so scarcely mentioned.

If everyone knew about mizuchi, then they wouldn't feel the need to record it, right? The casual cadence of the poem seems to give light to the idea that mizuchi were a common sight or concept in ancient Japan, and it may have to do with their later bastardization into Kappa. In some areas, kappa are given a name incredibly similar to a mizuchi, such as "Mizushi," "Medochi," or "Mintsuchi." Past this, a common trait in Kappa stories lies in their hatred of calabashes, something which is similar to the distaste Mizuchi have for calabashes in both stories they appear in. Some historians speculate that mizuchi and kappa were in the same general 'clique' of water dwelling monsters.

God, that was a lot. Mizuchi are confusing. However, in terms of the SMT series, there's a lot less to comment on; their appearance as a water spirit in the form of a snake is faithful, and their design is as simple as it is elegant. They appear to be made of clear water, almost like a rushing river in the form of a snake. Throughout the series, Mizuchi are a common sight in the early-mid game, even appearing as a boss in Nocturne. Their specialty in ice skills, the closest thing SMT has to water skills, is almost obvious. However, overall, there's elegance in simplicity, and Mizuchi is just that.

#shin megami tensei #smt #megaten #persona #daily #mizuchi #this thing was a HEADACHE. #probably the hardest demon so far to research #a lot of my stuff was taken directly from wikipedia #albeit reworded #and i feel a bit bad about it #but i can't read japanese!! #and almost all the primary and secondary sources are #lo and behold #in japanese. #however i do appreciate the challenge and i love looking into weird and obscure folklore!! #its just that this guy was way too much of a doozy. #never again. jesus h jimminy cricket.