#in reference to the last post i shared >

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Lately, I have been participating in events and projects, and unfortunately it's become clear to me that my presence and name have only been used to attract the attention of my national and international community with the objective, as I see it, of generating more attention towards controversies - destructive controversies, and a rupture that is very clear in the community. [...] In advance, I ask the organizers of any type of events and projects like this to please show more respect to me and my community, because I've shown lots of sympathy and cooperation in these various projects and events, but it's become clear to me that their only interest is in using my name. My name and my community have been used to attract all this attention for distorted purposes, and I will no longer allow that to happen. That is not what my content is about - not me nor my content nor anything I’ve done.

Here's Quackity's commentary on respect and his reasoning for distancing himself and his projects from future events and awards shows.

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Quackity: Before I leave, I would like to talk about something that is very serious for me and something that I would like to tell you about. Because for me it is a very serious topic and it is a topic that- well, I had my mind on and I want to express it- [reading Chat] yes, thank you. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Anyways, lately I have been participating in events and projects, and in these events and projects, unfortunately it's become clear to me that my presence and name have only been used to attract the attention of my national and international community with the objective, as I see it, of generating more attention towards controversies - destructive controversies, and a rupture that is very clear in the community, and this is what I want to say: I'm NOT ok with these types of dynamics or stuff like this, and I want to make it very clear to my stream, my community, and everyone that, for this exact reason that I just mentioned, I want to make it clear that I want to distance myself and any of my projects from the Esland Awards, which you all know is coming up.

Sadly, the Esland Awards have been an event with a history of much controversy, a lot of division, and a lot of divisions within the community, and as you guys know, as you know, my content has never been characterized by seeking controversy or divisions or anything like that. It's for this exact reason that I don't want to be involved with these awards.

In advance, I ask the organizers of any type of events and projects like this to please show more respect to me and my community, because I've shown lots of sympathy and cooperation in these various projects and events, but it's become clear to me that their only interest is in using my name. My name and my community have been used to attract all this attention for distorted purposes, and I will no longer allow that to happen. I don't want it to happen. That is not what my content is about - not me nor my content nor anything I've done. That's what I want to make very clear here.

That's about it. I'm going to continue with the projects I'm doing and I want to thank my community so much for the support and love. I appreciate it very much, but I wanted to make this clear - I wanted to make this clear. This is just a topic I wanted to address quickly.

Thank you for all the love and support, I love you all so much.

#Quackity #QSMP #December 23 2023 #Translated #I tried my best but as always; if you have any suggestions or corrections please let me know #For context: Quackity and the QSMP have been repeatedly snubbed and undermined but very recently (as in like. the last 48 hours) #the ''Hispanic rewind'' aired and they were VERY rude to Quackity and his project #like straight up in the video itself they were rude about his project (and many other projects). It was basically a Spain-centric video #Then the creator double-downed on it on Twitter and was an all around asshole about it #I don't like sharing ''drama'' here but this is a matter of respect and communities so I think it's important to share #Especially since I know some people will ask ''hey why isn't Quackity / the QSMP nominated at this award show?'' #The Esland awards are a whole 'nother can of worms but the dude who did the Rewind is tied to that too #The Eslands have had a lot of problems though so frankly I can't blame him #I wasn't planning on posting this but I wasn't seeing any translations or clips floating around on here #despite the discussions people were having #so here it is for folks if they want / need to reference it #Anyways. Good for Quackity #He never speaks up about this kind of stuff but this was long overdue #k I just updated the wording on this I didn't like how I phrased a few things

[allowcase]

Karlach renders from Art Station to use as reference :)

#same as last time #posting these to use as references but I thought I'd share #reference sheet #kinda #references #Karlach #bg3 karlach #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate 3

[hansama]

Han, but make it Triple

#oc #han #skellie han #plushie han #i've made this last year(?) as a business card for college #probably my fav business card so far ngl #i forgot to upload it so here it is #i don't think i ever introduced plushie Han #even though she has multiple UT centered stories!!!!!! (granted... i never shared them with anyone asdfhaldfajkd) #well!! here she is! xDDD i'll make a reference sheet of her soon #i have so many interaction drawings between these three but i have no clue how to post any of it x'DDDDDDDDD #it's cuz none of it is drawn for posting purposes aslkjhalkjdgh it's just uhh-- website or presentation purposes... #so as standalone drawings they'd look weird #me thinks #idk #i have so many Hans you don't even know ajlkghalkdjfghlkdf #anyway hope everyone has a nice day! :D

[mdemn]

#& i mean the two i have posted are from last year so maybe it’s time anyway ! #kudos-wise my paulie/sam fics do the best on ao3 #which i guess maybe makes sense since they’re the more popular of the ships but #tommy/sam my beloved #& TOMMY/PAULIE ?? genuinely surprised that one didn’t do the numbers i thought it would #like wdym everyone doesn’t share my same vision of slutty bottom tommy & paulie who is down horribly for him #also i want to post a tommy/sarah fic as well eventually but i don’t think there’s a single tommy/sarah fic on ao3 #although it will probably reference paulie/sarah/tommy since that’s my mde ot3 🫣 #anyway #let’s weigh in #post: personal #polls

[skhardwarevers1]

sometimes I forget nobody understands half the shit I say

#In reference to “I am both the fish and the hand” in the tags of my last post #I looked back at it and remembered that not everyone knows the exact meaning I put behind it #But alas…I cannot share just yet. #Or explain it quite well #S.K thinks

[we-joyless-few]

updated my discord a bit since i got to pick my username! it’s changeable, but i wanted to get my original tumblr/original main online username- and it was thankfully not taken yet!

im glad it has the option show your old username (by tapping the legacy # button) if you want it to, just in case.

icon and display name are bound to change over time (icon in picture drawn by one of my epic friends!!), but my username will be the same!

if you want to contact me outside of tumblr, feel free to send a request to “moosetrackart” (no quotations) on discord and we can chat about stuff!

#from the parade #discord #update #just wanted to make an update about my discord since i haven’t in a while! #last i posted about it other than sharing my old username was before they rolled out the username update lol #also i kept thinking about the phrase ‘apropos of nothing’(basically ‘in reference to nothing’) and thought ‘what about the opposite?’ #and so thats how i chose today’s display name :)

[srah-the-violist]

I'M BACK WITH ANOTHER 100% CANON OOT SECRET MARRIAGE HEADCANON!

Now let me preface this by saying I'm not 100% sure how this would play out, but this idea popped into my head just now (mostly because I've been hyperfixating on Steven Universe for the last few months but I also still love ZeLink and want to stay involved and I'm mad that something else is taking hyperfixation space away from Zelda 😖) But essentially it would go like this...

Link and Zelda have a hard time being separated and pretending they aren't married, and so sometimes they take advantage of when Zelda's being Sheik to goof off a little bit (Link, Sheik, and Impa are part of the Queen's Personal Guard)

So all the knights are already curious as to how one of the resident Sheikah and some mystery kid from nowhere got to be such good friends (they acted like the knew each other when Link first got back to Hyrule!)

But one day during training, Link and Zelda (Sheik) are having an especially hard time being separated...

And Link just walks up to Sheik like, "Haven't I seen you somewhere before?"

And Zelda/Sheik's just like, "Idk, I don't leave town much" and they digress into the whole Ruby/Sapphire flirting sequence from "Hit the Diamond" 😂😅

Like, it's the middle of training and Link is bringing Sheik flowers and they're teaching each other how to use each other's weapons and talking in cheesy pickup lines and the other knights are EVEN MORE CONFUSED 😳😳😳

*Impa losing her mind in the background*

Impa: Link! Stop being cute! Sheik! Focus!

Sheik, to Link: But all I want to focus on is you...

Impa: 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Anyways, Idk how funny this actually is, but I thought it was funny at 10:30 pm so yeah lol 😅

#legend of zelda #ocarina of time #legend of zelda ocarina of time #loz #oot #loz oot #zelink #100% canon oot secret marriage #steven universe #steven universe reference #su #su reference #this is honestly my last braincell 😅 #this probably isn't as funny as i think it is but oh well 😅 #i might as well share my thoughts here once in a while #instead of just liking things in the background posting an occasional art and then leaving again 😅 #the 100% canon secret oot zelink marriage

[gotham--fc]

Tagged by @grapefruit-personified

Lockscreen, last photo taken, last song, last photo saved

I’ll explain in the tags!

Everyone I would tag has already been tagged sooo I’ll just leave this open to whoever wants to do it

#lockscreen is my wittle baby Lucy #the photo is like 4 years old but look at her little squishy face #she’s also sleeping on our pope blanket which is a blanket with pope John Paul II’s face on it #I made chocolate chip waffles but they didn’t work out super great bc I substituted the eggs with bananas #really needed an egg #you got me at a good music time I just stopped listening to my embarrassing emo music #Shania’s new album is *chefs kiss* #and not technically the last photo I saved but the actual last photo I saved I can’t share on here #real people I know in real life got engaged and I saved the photos she posted so I could scream to my friends about it #but I saved this one to use in reference to the jays who’ve absolutely sucked this season so far

[cypaira-the-skeleton]

I know this may be out of the blue and all but...

I just finished watching Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and in a nutshell it was Gorgeous!🤩

The animation was hypnotizing, the colours were so Vibrant and it almost looked like the whole thing was painted in Acrylic paint, the characters were either hilarious or lawfully evil or down right giving goose bumps (I'm looking at you Death!🧐) and the plot was just hilarious, dramatic, emotional and enticing!

But bottom line, I MUST mention my favourite character of all...

Perrito, my Beloved!❤️❤️

He's the most wholesomest character I could ever meet! His back story was just so sad and yet he kept smiling in life! He's too precious for this world 🥺🥺

And yes, I did imagine Raven watching the movie and practically relating and falling in love with him. If he was real she would definitely have him as her Emotional Support Dog.

Okay that's enough of my rant

Go watch the movie it's worth it!!

#cypaira the skeleton #random post #raven oc #oc raven #oc child #child oc #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #perrito #I don't post reviews about movies all the time but I HAD to share this! #also I grew up with DreamWorks thanks to Shrek and seeing all those references to older movies was just 😙🤌🏻 #the sequence of DreamWorks opening was also gorgeous!🤩🤩

[izupie]

WELCOME BACK, IZUPIE!

THANK YOU !!

I took a long break from tumblr while I got sucked into the never ending algorithm nightmare of Instagram, but I'm Back Babey

#at least I assume thats what youre referring to ahahaaaa #i took a long tumblr break but im so so happy to be back for the last few months #never leaving againnnn #i prefer the person i am on tumblr to the person i am on insta #alogrithm slave and full of guilt for not sharing commenting and saving all the posts friends and my fave artists make #i didnt have enough time or emotional effort for it all #that sounds mean but the whole point of insta is that the algorithm is the worst #so my fave artists would constantly be asking for shares and comments and saves to help them #and id feel bad if i didnt #and i wanted to support my friends for the same reason #and you could scroll forever and the timeline Never Ended #and nothing was even in chronological order! #anyway! #tumblr is a much more fun experience #aaaaallll about fandoms and ships warms my soul #izu replies #izu rambles in the tags again

[pepprs]

just took a covid test and jm negative but i am so anxious and insane. i think i have symptoms but i am probably imagining them which only makes me more anxious which only makes me imagine them more. tess pepprs psychological torture moments

#purrs #my dad brought me groceries and david and romy brought me extra tests and mt dad is coming back with toothbrush heads bc i accidentally #touched my toothbrush to the faucet and my roomie and I share a sink and COVID germs last 24h on stainless steel. ihave capstone oresentstio #presentation rehearsal in an hour and sauter is gonna kill me proabblt and i have to tell her im not trying to get out of it it’s that my #roommate went to a party. i have sclc tomorrow and dr shapiro probably thinks im a flake and i am so glad to be done w it LOL and i wanna as #ask her to be a reference for my application but she can’t and i have to be creative with references and this shit is so stressful my heart #is giving out i know im namedropping all these things b nim too anxious to even think clearly and i was so anxious last night I couldn’t sle #sleep. and i have to get my capstone done by Tuesday but im like a deer in headlights rn and shaking so badly. everyone keeps telling me im #gonna be ok and i know feelings aren’t facts and me feeling abject terror doesn’t mean anything but i am so so so so terrified. i just want #to not have a body like i need to ask pat how to separate ur mind from ur body bc being in my body right now is really bad. it’s really bad #ajdni don’t trust myself or anything and it’s so bad. i can’t trust my body or my brain and im at the mercy of the particles in the air. lol #delete later #ik all i post these days is like snapshots of despair abt irl things but this is really really hard. and i just don’t know what else to do

[myname-isnia]

WHYYY does every MC character I try to draw end up looking like Hatice???

#idk if it’s my style or what #but for some reason #even with reference pictures #the facial features end up having extreme Hatice vibes #why do you think I posted one piece of MC fanart last year and never did it again #(even Viktoria in that piece looked like Hatice lmao) #(ironic cause they share a russian dub actress) #magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl

[arolesbianism]

Y'know what I take back wanting every dupe donor to get full names and shit I want all of them except Marie so I can continue my half joke hc that she and Mi-ma come from the same donor

#rat rambles #oni posting #this is a joke tbc if I dont have full names for all of them in due time Ill explode and die #also I do need the peace of mind in knowing I am indeed correct abt mi-ma being the scientist of my nightmares #oh dr. sklodowska how you torture me so by being almost certainly mi-ma but not provably so #and it sucks cause shes almost certainly referencing the same person marie also references so there is semi evidence for marie being her #I say semi because other scientist also devatably reference the same ppl between them #like theres a guy named otto stern whos a physician and while that could easily be coincidence I wouldnt put it above the oni team #but yeah ideal third option for marie reveal is for the writers to just give me the win and make my joke hc canon cmon guys be a bro #that wont happen ofc but its fun to imagine #mi-ma and marie may share a hair style but several other elements of their designs are out of line so I wouldn't put my money on it #real think I need them to do is unfix the devon double last name thing let them and frankie be married #or alternatively make them canonically divorced love loses <3

[maepersonal]

reasons I don't love jongsang (no hate)

1. I headcanon jongho as aroace bc he just like me fr fr /hj

2. from what I can see, a lot of people only ship it because they're 'left over' after seongjoong, yungi, and woosan and not because they actually like their dynamic (this is especially annoying to me bc not everyone needs a romantic relationship to be happy and I wish fanworks would let people be happily single more often)

3. I feel like a lot of ppl who ship this are too attached to monogamous ships (see 2) which gives me weird vibes like I did not join the Ateez fandom for nuclear family energy?

#new to the Ateez fandom so I could also be completely off base but I just get weird vibes from this #especially when people complained about the units on ep.fin will not having their ship? #like they're cute and I would love this normally (I'm usually down for any pairing) but I'm just kinda like :/ when I see it now #once again - no hate just sharing my opinion #just to clarify I don't ship kpop idols but I enjoy fanworks that have romantic pairings if that makes sense? #but at the same time no shade to the people that do as long as you aren't weird to the idols about it yk? #idk man I'm fucking tired #aroace jongho lovers rise up #aroace #kpop #ateez #kpop opinions #oh mae oh my #look guys I posted it after all (referring to my last post)

[autumnation]

getting really sentimental with the ocs today

#finally decided on some semi final designs using picrew and they look so good that it made me emotional #I've tried making them in picrew last year but it wasnt a very detailed one so its quite generic and i didnt like the designs much #i used baydews picrew this time and actually this was maybe the 3rd or 4th time ive attempted making my ocs #and finally i have a clear picture of them and- #ofc there's still limitations so I'll actually draw out their designs sometime and use the picrew designs as ref #but. holy shit ive had them with me for 7 years. maybe even more bc they used to be phineas and ferb ocs ☠️ #these are my kids. and i finally have a kinda clear vision of what they look like #ive never- ive never been confident in my art to properly expand them in art so everytime i do end up backtracking #which sucks bc how can i call myself an artist if i do that? #but. god they look so good and obviously this is all for reference but. ive finally made progress that doesnt exist solely in my head 😭 #theyre so good. i love them i love my ocs. i cant wait to tell their story. i hope i get to do that one day 🥹 #sorry im emotional #not sharing the picrews here since theyre purely for ref and it just feels weird to post smth from a picrew maker #but man. im going thru so many emotions rn #happy 7 years. here's to number 8 🥳🎉 #.txt

[maniculum]

Medieval Scorpions Effortpost

So yesterday I reblogged this post featuring an 11th-century depiction of the Apocalypse Locusts from Revelations, noting the following incongruity as another medieval scorpion issue:

The artist, as you can see, has interpreted "tails like scorpions" as meaning "glue cheerful-looking snakes to their butts".

Anyway, it occurred to me that the medieval scorpion thing might not be as widely known as I think it is, and that Tumblr would probably enjoy knowing about it if it isn't known already. So, finding myself unable to focus on the research I'm supposed to be doing, I decided to write about this instead. I'll just go ahead and put a cut here.

As we can see in the image above, at least one artist out there thought a "scorpion" was a type of snake. Which makes it difficult to draw "tails like scorpions", because a snake's tail is not that distinctive or menacing (maybe rattlesnakes, but they don't have those outside the Americas). So they interpreted "tails like scorpions" as "the tail looks like a whole snake complete with head".

Let me tell you. This is not a problem unique to this illustration.

See, people throughout medieval Europe were aware of scorpions. As just alluded to, they are mentioned in the Bible, and if the people producing manuscripts in medieval Europe knew one thing, it was Stuff In Bible. They're also in the Zodiac, which medieval Europe had inherited through classical sources. However, let's take a look at this map:

That's Wikipedia's map of the native range of the Scorpiones order, i.e., all scorpion species. You may notice something -- the range just stops at a certain northern latitude. Pretty much all of northern Europe is scorpion-free. If you lived in the north half of Europe, odds were good you had never seen a scorpion in your life. But if you were literate or educated at all, or you knew they were a thing, because you'd almost certainly run across them being mentioned in texts from farther south. And those texts wouldn't bother to explain what a scorpion was, of course -- everyone knows scorpions, right? When was the last time you stopped to explain What Is Spiders?

So medieval writers and artists in northern Europe were kind of stuck. There was all this scorpion imagery and metaphor in the texts they liked to work from, but they didn't really know what a scorpion was. Writers could kind of work around it (there's a lot of "oh, it's a venomous creature, moving on"), but sometimes they felt the need to break it down better. For this, of course, they'd have to refer to a bestiary -- but due to Bestiary Telephone and the persistent need of bestiary authors to turn animals into allegories, one of the only visual details you got on scorpions was that they... had a beautiful face, which they used to distract people in order to sting them.

And look. I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum, but I would say that a scorpion's face has significant aesthetic appeal only for a fairly small segment of the population. I'm sure you could get an entomologist to rhapsodize about it a bit, but your average person on the street will not be entranced by the face of a scorpion. So this did not help the medieval Europeans in figuring out how to depict scorpions. There was also some semantic confusion -- see, in some languages (such as Old and Middle English), "worm" could be a general term for very small animals of any kind. But it also could mean "serpent".* So there were some, like our artist at the top of the post, who were pretty sure a scorpion was a snake. This was probably helped along by the fact that "venomous" was one of the only things everyone knew about them, and hey, snakes are venomous. Also, Pliny the Elder had floated the idea that there were scorpions in Africa that could fly, and at least one author (13th-century monk Bartholomaeus Anglicus) therefore suggested that they had feathers. I don't see that last one coming up much, I just share it because it's funny to me.

*English eventually resolved this by borrowing the Latin vermin for very small animals, using the specialized spelling wyrm for big impressive mythical-type serpents, and sticking with the more specific snake for normal serpents.

Some authors, like the anonymous author of the Ancrene Wisse, therefore suggested that a scorpion was a snake with a woman's face and a stinging tail. (Everyone seemed to be on the same page with regards to the fact that the sting was in the tail, which is in fact probably the most recognizable aspect of scorpions, so good job there.) However, while authors could avoid this problem, visual artists could not. And if you were illustrating a bestiary or a calendar, including a scorpion was not optional. So they had to take a shot at what this thing looked like.

And so, after this way-too-long explanation, the thing you're probably here for: inaccurate medieval drawings of scorpions. (There are of course accurate medieval drawings of scorpions, from artists who lived in the southern part of Europe and/or visited places where scorpions lived; I'm just not showing you those.) And if you find yourself wondering, "how sure are you that that's meant to be a scorpion?" -- all of these are either from bestiaries or from calendars that include zodiac illustrations.

11th-century England, MS Arundel 60. (Be honest, without the rest of this post, if I had asked you to guess what animal this was supposed to be, would you have ever guessed “scorpion”?)

12th-century Germany, "Psalter of Henry the Lion". (Looks a bit undercooked. Kind of fetal.)

12th-century France, Peter Lombard's Sententiae. (Very colorful, itsy bitsy claws, what is happening with that tail?)

12th-century England, "The Shaftesbury Psalter". (So a scorpion is some sort of wyvern with a face like a duck, correct?)

13th-century France, Thomas de Cantimpré's Liber de natura rerum. (I’d give them credit for the silhouette not being that far off, but there’s a certain bestiary style where all the animals kind of look like that. Also note how few of these have claws.)

13th-century England, "The Bodley Bestiary". (Mischievous flying squirrel impales local man’s hand, local man fails to notice.)

13th-century England, Harley MS 3244. (A scorpion is definitely either a mouse or a fish. Either way it has six legs.)

13th-century England, Harley MS 3244. (Wait, no, it’s a baby theropod, and it has two legs. (Yes, this is the same manuscript, that’s not an error, this artist did four scorpions and no two are the same.))

13th-century England, Harley MS 3244. (Actually it’s a lizard with tiny ears and it has four legs.)

13th-century England, Harley MS 3244. (Now that we’re at the big fancy illustration, I think I’ve got it — it’s like that last one, but two legs, longer ears, and a less goofy face. Also I’ve decided it’s not pink anymore, I think that was the main problem.)

13th-century England, MS Kk.4.25. (A scorpion is a flat crocodile with a bear’s head.)

13th-century England, "The Huth Psalter". (Wyvern but baby! Does not seem to be enjoying biting its own tail.)

13th-century England, MS Royal 1 D X. (This triangular-headed gentlecreature gets the award for “closest guess at correct limb configuration”. If two of those were claws, I might actually believe this artist had seen a scorpion before, or at least a picture of one.)

13th-century England, "The Westminster Psalter". (A scorpion is the offspring of a wyvern and a fawn.)

13th-century England, "The Rutland Psalter". (Too many legs! Pull back! Pull back!)

13th or 14th-century France, Bestiaire d'amour rimé. (This is very similar to the fawn-wyvern, but putting it in an actual Scene makes it even more obvious that you’re just guessing.)

14th-century Netherlands, Jacob van Maerlant's Der Naturen Bloeme. (More top-down six-legged guys that look too furry to be arthropods.)

14th-century Germany, MS Additional 22413. (That is clearly a turtle.)

14th-century France, Matfres Eymengau de Beziers's Breviari d'amor. (Who came up with that head shape and what was their deal?)

15th-century England, "Bestiary of Ann Walsh". (Screw it, a scorpion is a big lizard that glares at you for trying to make me draw things I don’t know about.)

I've spent way too much time on this now. End of post, thank you to anyone who got all the way down here.

#medieval #medieval creatures #medieval art #scorpions #medieval scorpions #manuscript #medieval manuscripts #illuminated manuscript