#i will observe this creature

[le-panda-chocovore]

Signs that my sibling might be a Fae or some kind of supernatural creature

They were seen several times entering a room and never getting out, but when checked they're not inside anymore ??? Also they can be found in room they didn't get in in the first place ? Like- YOU WEREN'T HERE A MINUTE AGO WHAT HAPPENED ???

On the same subject, they can get in a room, do stuff inside, then get in the room again several minutes later because "they forgot something" but they never went out of the door between the 2 moments so H O W ???????

They can Hear Things that are not supposed to be hearable. One time they weren't even IN THE HOUSE when I asked something to my dad, then the minute they arrived they answered my question ???

They manage to keep their work and be an appreciated employee despite being completly irregular on their work schedule ? (do they even have a work schedule ? i don't know to this point) One time they arrived 30minutes before the end of their shift so they just stayed those 30minutes then left ??? One other time they were supposed to finish at 9:15pm but they wanted to take the 9:00pm train and they're not allowed to leave early but somehow they arrived in time at the train station despite it being 35 minutes away from their workplace ?????????? Their boss love them anyway.

They mainly eat other people foods because they consider every meal they see is their. They constantly eat in our plates even if we keep telling them to serve themselve. If they do take some food for them, they will purposely let it in public view and wait if some of us try to eat ? All of this while watching ominously as if there's some poison in the food ??? It always feels like a trap.

I don't know if this count but they can sleep in very weird context ??? One time they used their fucking bicycle as blanket and fell alseep like that ????????

They never answer directly a question, they often say something totally different, making you changing the subject, THEN they answer but you already forget what this was about. It's very hard to have a conversation with them.

So yeah I have this theory since a few month (before that it was "my sibling is an alien from another planet) and every day it validates itself. I don't know what to do nor what to think. They're in their mid-20 btw.

#i might add some other points in the future #i will observe this creature #personal anecdote #family #supernatural creatures #sibling #weird family #fae #faerie #alien #real magic #magic

[stromblessed]

Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise

In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.

Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.

I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!

Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.

In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:

I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."

Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.

I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.

This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.

There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:

When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!

By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.

It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:

(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)

If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.

Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:

Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:

No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol

So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.

And yet no one spots that she's female.

Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.

Let me explain.

She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.

But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:

I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."

Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.

Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.

One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:

Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)

And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:

Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.

Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol

There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:

After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.

So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.

May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.

Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."

#blue eye samurai #mizu #racism #bes #I am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that Taigen saw Mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal #but I still think that scene is making a point #again I dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously #but its been bothering me ever since I first saw them #I really dont think Mizu just looks like a 100 percent Japanese person...... with blue eyes #and I bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to London where Im sure she will meet plenty of people #who are more than happy to point out their observations to her #also I ran out of room in this post to go into it but this is also what made Mizus marriage an absolutely doomed prospect #Mikio talks about wanting to find the right creature for his lord and well... a mixed race woman is the right creature huh #he just needed a little push imo #getting kind of sad at the thought that Ringo is the only person in Mizus life who knows her whole identity AND accepts it wholly

[s3janus]

It's crazy to me how people criticise Victor for making the creature without any thought of the consequences, but then also criticise him for not going along with creating a second one after considering the potential consequences

After being given life, the creature became his own person, developing his own identity. If Victor created another one, they would also develop their own identity and it is reasonable to imagine that their values would be different and they may not want to go away with the creature, or agree to live in solitude away from humanity. I think Victor stopping to realise that shows an amount of character development that people don't really acknowledge

#not trying to start anything #i just think it's an interesting observation #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #frankenstein's creature #frankenstein's monster #gothic literature #classic literature #mary shelley #goth lit

[somegrumpynerd]

How absolutely wild must it have been for Nightmare to have like, minimum-to-no contact with mortals for hundreds of years and then the first two he has any regular close interactions with are Killer and Dust.

Like he must have a book in his castle somewhere of all the observations he kept like he was studying a new species

#UTDR #UTMV #Nightmare Sans #Killer Sans #Dust Sans #I could probably ramble for a while about the effect Killer had on him alone #But imagine being hurt by the world and carrying the grudge for hundreds of years while you wreak havoc all by yourself #And then you get one (1) roommate and he's so strange and unhinged but not at all what you expected #And then you get a second and he's so different again it's like they're different creatures even though they came from the same root world #And you get a third and he's a little more grounded but still has such wild needs and stipulations #By the time he got Cross he was probably onto his 3rd book of observations #If you dig around in Nightmare's library or office long enough I just know you can find at least one book where he's noted down what all hi #boys need and like and hate and what they refuse to do and how to handle them #Like someone leaving super detailed instructions for the care of their pampered beloved pet #Anyway Killer loves to joke to the other 3 that they should be nice to him because he ''let Nightmare adopt them'' #and he's not entirely wrong #Anyway I need to go to bed so I can work all day tomorrow (rip) goodnight gang!!

[daredevil-vagabond]

The burning shadows of human hands are far too much for a single life The things I see are a dread I must withstand.

Arthur and the King in Yellow

#arthur lester #malevolent #arthur malevolent #king in yellow #king in yellow malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent pod #malevolent arthur #arthur lester malevolent #malevolent king in yellow #kiy malevolent #anyway they are like tropical fish to me [colors i can barely see because i am red green colorblind] #we should get the eldritch creature trio (yellow john and king) and put them in a terrarium filled with rocks #so i can observe their behaviors like they are exotic lizards #arthurs in there too but he keeps getting stuck in the substrate #my art #AHH I FORGOT TO TAG the lyrics are the song Uncanny by GHOST

[cantstopcreation]

i have. Thoughts. about the whole tumblr sexyman poll rn

especially cecil vs reigen

see, during the twitter polls, the whole deal with reigen was that he had previously won a bunch of other polls he wasn't qualified for. that's kinda his whole thing, canonically. doing something he's not qualified for. that's why it was Funny, and people wanted to commit to the bit, even in a category he would be decently qualified for (i.e. twitters Tumblr Sexyman poll)

that's why the reigen vs sans showdown was so intense, for lack of a better word

we don't have that buildup for tumblrs sexyman poll

we have people who remember the twitter polls and want to continue the bit, and we have people who actually find reigen to be a better sexyman than cecil im sure

but. cecil is one of THE original tumblr sexymen, one of the og "lets draw this character as a blond twink" sexyman the same way wheatley and bill cipher was. he's loved by this hellsite, and wtnv had had a bigger impact on us than mp100 could reasonably have at this point

the twitter polls could never get an accurate tumblr sexyman result, cause that one was voted on by twitter users, an audience who will never have the same view on tumblr sexymen as we do here. they can only get an approximation of the concept, but it will never be truly genuine. it's like looking at the concept of a tumblr sexyman through a frost covered window and thinking you know exactly how the other side looks

idk. it's like 1 am rn. i just think reigen got as far as he did in the twitter poll because of the buildup he had, but doesnt gain the same benefit here on tumblr, especially not one of THE tumblr sexymen

whatever. cecilsweep ig

#tumblr sexymen poll #cecil palmer #reigen arataka #cecilsweep #the creature opens its mouth #text post #to be fair i AM hoping for cecilsweep here i am just having Thoughts and need to get them out #also i do actually like both of these characters. this isnt character bashing or fandom bashing. just a me thing. an observation perhaps #mob psycho 100 #welcome to night vale

[hirazuki]

Sometimes, going down a rabbit hole for research leads to finding gems, such as Tolkien's opinion on (specifically) Siamese cats:

I fear that to me Siamese cats belong to the fauna of Mordor. (Letter 219)

As someone who lives with a siamese cat, I can absolutely confirm, but I am delighted that we actually have an official statement on this very important matter.

#she's my sister's and i love her dearly but jfc #the /weirdest/ creature #she acts like no cat i've ever known even after 10+ years with her #and i've known enough cats that it is well into the triple digits now #like. if an alien wanted to mingle with human society to observe people and chose to do so by pretending to be a cat? #you'd get mandy #dumb [affectionate] and aggressive; would fit in with orcs 100% #would probably be worshipped by them ♡ #tolkien #withoutwords

[bigshotspambot]

i have something abnormal to share

#LIKE! WHATS THE APPEAL! I DONT KNOW BUT ITS THERE.. #i know other sneo people have shared this exact observation in the past #all Sneolikers share 1 brain cell its this one i think #mongster beast creature ... #JUST . THINKING #spamton neo #spamton #i think it would feel a bit rubbery. anyways.

[sleepinglionhearts]

What's the coolest thing Wakely's found in the ocean?

You can even tip them with fine clumps of algae

#doodles #answered #oc art tag #one piece art tag #one can assume many more fascinating things have been observed by Wakely #but she is utterly entranced by the guitar shrimps #i think the concept of shrimps with guitars as like.. a thing is very in line w the odd creatures in one piece #filed under: critters she brings back to show her new friends and immediately the critter gets cooked #guitar shrimp attempt 3 is what finally gets everyone to hold on and then experience the wonder of a really cool shrimp

[sirenium]

If you ever feel invalidated by an exclusionist, please remember this post because I can assure you they don't know what they're talking about💀

⚠️trigger warning for of course exclusionist dumbassery, also this gets rant-y⚠️

I swear exclusionists have the most incoherent thought processes known to man dude cuz what is this shit

[ID: purple header text reading he/him lesboy flag/ hesboy flag! Under this text is plain black text reading based on these two flags: •reclaimed lesboy •he/him lesbian. Under this, red, bold text reads DNI, followed by rad inclus, terfs/transmeds, anti he/him lesbians & she/her gays, male/men "lesbians" in black plain text. End ID]

'Lesboy flag' and 'no man lesbians' in the same post... my brain is melting. Also... these people 'reclaimed' the term lesboy? Just to exclude a group of people who are lesboys? You do know that lesbians who also consider themselves men are also included in the lesboy term? Apparently not to these people. Butches who also consider themselves men? Sorry, not lesbians anymore. Multigender man lesbians? Nah sorry you're men so you can't be lesbians./sarc

[ID: blue header text reading Demiboy lesbian flag! Beneath this, quote text (at least I think that's what it's called) reads I couldn't decide on which ones to choose, so I'm posting all of them! Beneath this, much like the previous image, OP starts off their DNI with a bold red DNI, followed by black plain text. This text reads mspec "lesbians", radinclus, terfs/transmeds, radfems, men/male "lesbians", anti he/him lesbians and she/her gays. End ID]

Is that,, not excluding demiboy lesbians? Oh my bad, it's fine cuz they're only 'partially male' and therefore aren't ACTUALLY icky men invading lesbian spaces!/sarc

Also can I just say how fucking entitled it is to be all like 'mspec "lesbians"' with the quotes and shit? Like oh my god get over yourself, you aren't the leader of the lesbians™️ [trademark]. Bro thinks they're part of the lesbian council or some shit. 💀

Besides that, this has got to be one of the funniest examples of exclusionist stupidity I've ever seen. I can't get over it bro: 'demiboy lesbian flag!' 'Fuck off icky man lesbians!' In the SAME. POST. BAHAHA–

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It's rare that I feel the need to take screenshots and talk about them on my blog, but these are so poetically idiotic that I had to make a whole post dedicated to them. So yeah, sorry about your braincells lmao. But just know you're valid regardless of how you identify as a lesbian, and these are the types of people who think otherwise. Needless to say, they aren't really that credible.

[ID: a DNI banner with a purple background with lighter purple text reading DNI: system/queer exlusionists, TERFs/SWERFs, truscum/transmeds, anti recovery for harmful paraphilia, anti otherkin, anti self dx, pro cringe culture, pro-lifers, anti xenogender. A more detailed DNI is in my pinned post. A transparent png of Shadow The Hedgehog can be seen on the right, beside the text. He's holding his hand to his chest, his body facing the text and his eyes looking off to the distance. End ID]

#tw exclusionism #random rant #demiboy lesbian #lesboy #transmasc lesbian #exclusionism rots your brain and this is proof💀 #I sometimes feel like exclus are these little creatures that I'm observing from behind a glass wall or something like it's so bizarre to me #how there are people in the world who actually think like this #and it's like ?????? #how??? can somebody be so dumb??? #that sounds so rude but like seriously how can somebody sit down #make a lesboy or demiboy lesbian flag #and be like 'lol no men lesbians' and think that's in any way coherent 💀 #it's so fucking funny to me #but also frustrating like just let people vibe lmao #anyway #we love lesboys who are lesboys for any reason here #rad inclus #radical inclusivity #radical inclusion

[spotinthespiral]

Shout-out to Marcus, one of my many ocs with horrible tastes in men 👍

Quick cut just to lore-dump a bit (skip this if ya want).

Marcus got to Ravenwood, calamity happened, Blueflower ran off to solve it. Marcus met Nolan while exploring Cyclops Lane and immediately clocked him as a pirate (cuz his bestie Griffin was a pirate) but said nothing.

Marcus stuck around and managed to befriend Nolan after a *lot* of struggle, but they got super close. Nolan was cocky and rarely did any actual work, but Marcus was willing to help him improve one step at a time, which worked to make them all the more connected. Nolan associated his forward progress with Marcus, and therefore Marcus was a valuable pawn.

Then Marcus suddenly wasn't a pawn, and in the most neurodivergent way possible, Nolan confessed a crush to Marcus. Marcus (who'd had a crush 0.2 seconds into hearing Nolan be obnoxious) returned the sentiment, and in my headcanon lil universe they're a pair.

Marcus is a beloved little pastel goth, and Nolan is still the most hated student on campus, but they're working on their shortcomings together.

#w101 #marcus soulwhisper #w101 art #w101 oc #wizard101 #nolan stormgate #<- subscribed to the Pirate decent idea for this guy #and I've been thinking about their dynamics for a while #like Marcus is a sweetheart and technically part of a creature that can be summoned through #spells so of course Nolan would be curious at first. then fascinated. then enamored #meanwhile Marcus said #'idk if I can fix him but I can totally observe him' and then caught him hook line and sinker #they also hang out in the Cyclops Lane central courtyard and relax there when classes are out #it's their favorite spot cuz the few other students there are actually really chill and #they're the first step of Nolan getting used to wizarding #wip #sketch #oc x canon

[ask-thearchivists]

heck ya, join this archive and you have the chance to possibly meet the last living titan.

The Copyist: I really would rather not. You have to understand what this sounds like when you make these suggestions to us. It sounds like you want to make it possible for us to die. It sounds like you are suggesting we allow ourselves the possibility to be murdered. Stop it.

#toh #the owl house #ask blog #ask the archivists #asks are open #id in alt text #toh oc #toh the archivists #the archivists #meteor shower event #as a mortal when everything around you can possibly kill you #you usually become desensitized to that fact #when you are immortal and the only thing that can kill you is a family member #but they would be held accountable and severely punished for it #and suddenly you know about a random other intelligent creature that could end your life #obviously I think you would be a bit concerned about that even if it seems very unlikely to all other outside observers

[true-drew]

The creature named Jean Jacket in Nope (2022) as a concept is fascinating. At first it’s believed to be an alien spacecraft but then the realization sets in that it’s just a really weird animal no one’s ever documented before. A cryptid.

It’s a carnivorous animal who’s shape is normally like a saucer with a hole in the bottom that creates air vortices to suck in its pray and devour them whole and slowly digest them like a python or venus flytrap. It’s usual pray being large land mammals like horses, cows, the ocasional human, sound familiar? 🛸🐄

It can also bloom out ribbon structures, possibly as an intimidation tactic when threatened like a bird puffing out its feathers. It may also contort its body to mimic a cloud as a form of camouflage which could explain why the cloud structure above the mountain never moved or changed shape.

The loud thumping noise it makes could be echo location to find moving pray on the ground. If it has eyes they may not be sophisticated enough to spot pray, especially at night if it’s nocturnal. Maybe it uses electro magnetic energy to fly which may cause a dampening field that affects all electronic devices it gets near and could explain why no one’s ever filmed or photographed one. It’s likely an invertebrate with light body tissues that’d decay fast which is why no one’s ever found a carcass intact enough to raise questions.

Anyone who’s seen one and lived to tell about it without proof would surely be seen as crazy. Think of all the grainy photos of a saucer in the sky that may be one of these creatures that was far enough away not to affect cameras but just close enough to spark rumor and speculation for decades. Think of the centuries old folklore indigenous cultures must have of these things.

Questions remain as to what genus these creatures belong to, how did they evolve, how long have they been around, how big are their population, how wide spread is their habitat, or was Jean Jacket just a one off freak of nature?

Anyway, Jordan Peele has blown my mind apart with this movie I swear to god.

#nope #nope 2022 #jordan peele #jean jacket #yes I sceduled this for 6:13 pm lol #this is just a fun observation of a creature from a really fucking good movie #maybe everything I just wrote of horse shit lmaooo it’s just fun to speculate about sci-fi creatures

[tezuka-brainrot]

Ignore the Tenma hate in my into it's outdated. I still dislike him somewhat but he's simply too fascinating to wish death upon.

#astro boy #tetsuwan atom #mighty atom #umataro tenma #he's a strange sad little creature i want to observe

[ask-jewels-against-the-sea]

Does your overseer have a name?

"I suppose, if all of you wanted, you could ask Sync or my observers questions. But do not expect much for answers. The most they can do is show you footage or pictures."

#[POV its your ask blog but you're not there] #[I just didn't wanna draw him] #[dwbi] #[wow are those new creatures?] #rain world #rainworld #rain world art #rainworld art #rw iterator #rain world iterator #iterator #overseer #purposed organism #rain world leviathan #leviathan #erbinduct #squib #shores of adrift pearls #sync #observers #ask #anon

[seraa-relearns-art]

Some studies I did for my artclass this morning! Had a ton of fun making these, the model was very nice :) For the last one, our teacher wanted us to imagine a humanoïd alien-type creature, and I'm planning on completing this piece! Maybe not right now as I've got so much schoolwork to do, but sometime in the near future :D

#digital art #drawing #sketch #original character #art #studies #live model #creature design #life drawing #artclass #art class #observation #art study #For once I feel like the studies I did are good?? #I don't usually like to show these but I feel like they look good enough for me to show these #Myart #My art #original drawings