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Thursday June 29th, 2023 | Airkewld HQ | Transaxle & Brakes Combo
Just got done building a #PRObuilt Performance Transaxle for a 1956 Classic Volkswagen Beetle and we installed a set of GEN 2 BAD Series Disc Brakes in a Porsche 5x130mm bolt pattern. Very cool and unique addition to the GEN 2 brakes is the cap that hides the axle nut, I love it. The PRO's paint matched the calipers in Wilwood Red and expertly installed them for the bolt-in install. The PRO's palletized the transaxle and protected the entire product to avoid damage in transit by our friends at R&L Carriers.
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Huh... interesting twist in the pokeani episode today...
We really whipped through the third part of the battle between Leon and Ash. Given that both contenders were at half their complement or better, and expecting this to be a three-episode battle, I figured that we’d probably start knocking out pokemon rather quickly.
Rillaboom proved to be a tough nut to crack for Ash, as the grass-type knocked out not one, but two of Ash’s contenders. Most of this was accomplished flexible uses of its Drum Beating attack, which, as pointed out by Professor Oak, seemed to work as well as vine whip in terms of versatility. Even Ash’s Bulbasaur, watching on with the rest, had to acknowledge it. That said, I imagine that this is pretty atypical for how Drum Beating works, given how impressed everyone was. I suppose if Ash can twist moves around to do things they’re not meant to, so can Leon.
With Dragonite and Sirfetch’d down and out thanks to Rillaboom, Ash had to turn back to Dracovish, who still had that weird thing going on with its spikes. It proved helpful again, letting Dracovish wrangle two of Drum Beating’s massive roots and destroy them before they could finally take down the simian terror, spurred on by the spirit of Sirfetch’d as they charged in for the final blow.
It was very nice to see our best boy, Clemont, get a brief moment in the spotlight as they witnessed the end of that match-up considering the prominence both Sirfetch’d and Dracovish had in the series’ visit to Lumiose City.
Sadly, we failed to get any sort of meaningful explanation for these weird glowing spikes/fins on Dracovish before they were punted into the earth by the seemingly invincible Cinderace. It seems like the Libero ability is just as gnarly in the anime as it is in the games.
Of course, with Ash being down to his final contender, Pikachu was sent out to finish up the match. I wholly expected the initial match-up that begun this battle to resume between Cinderace and Pikachu, but Leon is impulsive as Ash apparently, as noted by Dawn earlier in the match.
Leon instead opted to sub in his ace, Charizard, to gigantamax against Pikachu’s massive electric Z-Move. And that’s were the episode went off the rails...
I knew something was going to be up with Eternatus, given last week’s preview, but I wasn’t sure it would have anything to do with the actual match. I figured it might just start causing havoc elsewhere and cut the closing ceremonies short. But apparently, Ash and Leon’s eagerness to outdo each other with the massive power between Gigantamax Wildfire and 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt caused some sort of reaction that replicated, at least locally, the Darkest Day, a phenomenon that we probably didn’t expect to return after having dealt with it much earlier in the series.
I suspect that Eternatus might actually do something to stop it this time, being a loyal pokemon now to Leon, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it did something to make the situation worse again too. Either way, it’s safe to say... the finals are on hold for the moment.
This might be a light blessing for Ash, as it really looked like he wasn’t going to be able to pull this battle off based on how he had to put everything into that final attack, and still had a semi-fresh Cinderace to go up against after. If Leon is as impulsive and cocksure as I think he is though, even if Leon has to exhaust his pokemon to stop any sort of impending disaster, he’ll probably still ask Ash to continue the match, thus evening the odds slightly.
If that’s the case, I wonder if this really will count as a true victory for Ash, given the fact he would not only have that handicap, but the use of all three major pokemon enhancements in one match. If they’re going to write Ash winning... I’d rather the writers have done it in a way that actually legitimized Ash’s skills...
I suppose we’ll see how they handle this next week, but so far, I’m pretty worried for how they’re going to end these finals.
#Rez Rambles#Pokemon#Pokeani#Pokeani Spoilers#SwSh#Eh I wasn't a big fan of this episode#Maybe they'll surprise me and do something spectacular next episode#But compared to the first two#This one was a bit lacking#A lot of repeated animations and unexplained tricks working on both sides#The final clash between Pikachu and Charizard definitely made up for some of the visuals but...#...I think my verdict on this match is going to be heavily dependent on how they end it next week
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Holidays 11.13
Holidays
Actor’s Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Brassiere Day
Canterbury Day (New Zealand)
Caregiver Appreciation Day
Geographic Information Systems Day
International Day of Huntington’s Disease
International Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome Awareness Day
Lhabab Duechen (Bhutan)
Madder Day (French Republic)
Mister Rogers Cardigan Day
National Community Education Day
National Hug a Musician Day
National Japanese Culture Day
National Mom’s and Dad’s Day
National Reread Old Letters and Magazines Day
National Saddle Hunting Day
National Sunflower Day (South Africa)
Njegos Day (Montenegro)
Odd Socks Day (UK)
Quasihomosexual Pride Day
Start a Rumor Day
Swiftie Day
Symphonic Metal Day
Tree Festival Day (Tunisia)
World Kindness Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Frankfurter Day
Indian Pudding Day
National Chicken McNugget Day
2nd Monday in November
American Education Week begins [Monday of 2nd Full Week]
Bank Holiday (Canada) [2nd Monday]
Barack Obama Day (Perry County, Alabama) [2nd Monday]
Obama Day (Kenya) [2nd Monday]
World Orphans Day [2nd Monday]
Independence Days
Politzania Independence Day (Klaatu)
Feast Days
Agostina Livia Pietrantoni (Christian; Saint)
Barneveldt (Positivist; Saint)
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Artology)
Brice of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Charles Simeon (Church of England)
Chillen (a.k.a. Killian; Christian; Saint)
Chuang Tzu’s Day
Constant (Christian; Saint)
The Dangerous Dragon (Muppetism)
Didacus (Diego) of Alcalá (Christian; Saint) [Cooks]
Diwali, Day 2 (Hindu, Jain, Sikh), a.k.a. ...
Balipadyami Diwali (Parts of India)
Day of Dogs
Deepavali Holiday (Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; India)
Deepawali (Sikkim, India)
Festival of Lights, Day 2
Gobardhan Pooja (Nepal)
Goru Tihar (Nepal)
Govardhan Pooja (Parts of India)
Jain New Year
Kukar Puja
Kukur Tihar
Laxmi Puja (Sikkim, India)
Vikrim New Year (Hindu)
Vikrim Samvat (Parts of India)
Yam Panachak (Nepal)
Epulum Iovis (Festival of Feronia, Juno, Minerva and Jupiter; Ancient Rome)
Eugenius II of Toledo (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Feronia (a.k.a. Epulum Iovis; Old Etruscan and Roman Fertility Goddess)
Feast of the Saints of the Premonstratensian Order (Roman Catholic)
Festival of Feronia (Ancient Roman Goddess of Wildlife, Fertility, Health & Abundance)
Festival of Jupiter (Ancient Rome)
Fontinalia (Festival to Fons, Spirit of Springs; Pagan)
Fortuna Primigenia (Fortune of the Firstborn; Ancient Rome)
Frances Xavier Cabrini (Christian; Saint)
Homobonus (Christian; Saint)
The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)
Ides of November (Ancient Rome)
John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodox, Repose)
Leandro (Christian; Saint) [Spain]
Mitrius (Christian; Saint)
Otis Campbell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Quintian of Rodez (Christian; Saint)
Saints of the Benedictine family (Christian; Saints)
Saints of the Premonstratensian Order (Christian; Saints)
Stanislaus Kostka (Christian; Saint)
Talk to Birds Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Prime Number Day: 317 [66 of 72]
Premieres
Aladdin (Animated Disney Film; 1992)
An Old-Fashioned Love Song, by Three Dog Night (Song; 1971)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Film; 1992)
The Bush Pusher or Beri Beri Who’s Got the Berry? (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 178; 1962)
Double Danger (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #9; 1964)
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, by Aleksandr Ostrovsky (Play; 1868)
Fantasia (Animated Disney Film; 1940)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Stop Motion Film; 2009)
Hairied and Hurried (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (Novel; 1902)
Laundry Service, by Shakira (Album; 2001)
Laura, by Vera Caspary (Novel; 1942)
The Lightning Bugs or Nuts and Volts (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 177; 1962)
The Line, The Cross & The Curve, by Kate Bush (Short Film; 1993)
Lionheart, by Kate Bush (Album; 1978)
Lose Yourself, by Eminem (Song; 2002)
Mountain Mover or Boris Sneaks a Peak (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 72; 1960)
1, by The Beatles (Compilation Album; 2000)
Out of the Past (Film; 1947)
Porky’s Double Trouble (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)
Rocky and the Rock or Braver and Boulder (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 71; 1960)
The Saint in Pursuit, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1970) [Saint #43]
A Short History of Decay, by Emil M. Cioran (Science Book; 1949)
Silent Night, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1935)
2012 (Film; 2009)
War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series; 1988)
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (Children’s Boolk; 1963)
Yellow Submarine (Animated Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Eugen, Livia, Stanislaus (Austria)
Brcko, Brickije, Didak, Dobroslav, Homobonus, Ivan, Mitar, Stanislav, Stanko (Croatia)
Tibor (Czech Republic)
Arcadius (Denmark)
Krister, Kristjan, Kristo, Risto (Estonia)
Ano, Kristian (Finland)
Brice (France)
Eugen, Livia, Stanislaus, Rene (Germany)
Chrysostomos, Damaskinos, Hrysostomos (Greece)
Szilvia (Hungary)
Brizio, Diego, Omobono, Paterniano (Italy)
Eižens, Jevgēņija, Jevgēņijs, Taida (Latvia)
Arkadijus, Eirima, Norvydas (Lithuania)
Kirsten, Kirsti (Norway)
Arkadiusz, Arkady, Brykcjusz, Eugeniusz, Jan, Mikołaj, Stanisław, Walentyn (Poland)
Ioan (România)
Stanislav (Slovakia)
Diego, Leandro (Spain)
Krister, Kristian (Sweden)
Brice, Bruce, Bryce, Bryson, Stan, Stanford, Stanley (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 317 of 2024; 48 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 46 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 1 (Yi-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 29 Heshvan 5784
Islamic: 29 Rabi II 1445
J Cal: 17 Mir; Threesday [17 of 30]
Julian: 31 October 2023
Moon: 0%: New Moon
Positivist: 9 Frederic (12th Month) [Barneveldt]
Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 51 of 89)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 21 of 29)
Calendar Changes
露月 [Iùyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Dew Month) [Pig Month]
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Holidays 11.13
Holidays
Actor’s Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Brassiere Day
Canterbury Day (New Zealand)
Caregiver Appreciation Day
Geographic Information Systems Day
International Day of Huntington’s Disease
International Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome Awareness Day
Lhabab Duechen (Bhutan)
Madder Day (French Republic)
Mister Rogers Cardigan Day
National Community Education Day
National Hug a Musician Day
National Japanese Culture Day
National Mom’s and Dad’s Day
National Reread Old Letters and Magazines Day
National Saddle Hunting Day
National Sunflower Day (South Africa)
Njegos Day (Montenegro)
Odd Socks Day (UK)
Quasihomosexual Pride Day
Start a Rumor Day
Swiftie Day
Symphonic Metal Day
Tree Festival Day (Tunisia)
World Kindness Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Frankfurter Day
Indian Pudding Day
National Chicken McNugget Day
2nd Monday in November
American Education Week begins [Monday of 2nd Full Week]
Bank Holiday (Canada) [2nd Monday]
Barack Obama Day (Perry County, Alabama) [2nd Monday]
Obama Day (Kenya) [2nd Monday]
World Orphans Day [2nd Monday]
Independence Days
Politzania Independence Day (Klaatu)
Feast Days
Agostina Livia Pietrantoni (Christian; Saint)
Barneveldt (Positivist; Saint)
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Artology)
Brice of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Charles Simeon (Church of England)
Chillen (a.k.a. Killian; Christian; Saint)
Chuang Tzu’s Day
Constant (Christian; Saint)
The Dangerous Dragon (Muppetism)
Didacus (Diego) of Alcalá (Christian; Saint) [Cooks]
Diwali, Day 2 (Hindu, Jain, Sikh), a.k.a. ...
Balipadyami Diwali (Parts of India)
Day of Dogs
Deepavali Holiday (Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; India)
Deepawali (Sikkim, India)
Festival of Lights, Day 2
Gobardhan Pooja (Nepal)
Goru Tihar (Nepal)
Govardhan Pooja (Parts of India)
Jain New Year
Kukar Puja
Kukur Tihar
Laxmi Puja (Sikkim, India)
Vikrim New Year (Hindu)
Vikrim Samvat (Parts of India)
Yam Panachak (Nepal)
Epulum Iovis (Festival of Feronia, Juno, Minerva and Jupiter; Ancient Rome)
Eugenius II of Toledo (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Feronia (a.k.a. Epulum Iovis; Old Etruscan and Roman Fertility Goddess)
Feast of the Saints of the Premonstratensian Order (Roman Catholic)
Festival of Feronia (Ancient Roman Goddess of Wildlife, Fertility, Health & Abundance)
Festival of Jupiter (Ancient Rome)
Fontinalia (Festival to Fons, Spirit of Springs; Pagan)
Fortuna Primigenia (Fortune of the Firstborn; Ancient Rome)
Frances Xavier Cabrini (Christian; Saint)
Homobonus (Christian; Saint)
The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi (Georgian Orthodox Church)
Ides of November (Ancient Rome)
John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodox, Repose)
Leandro (Christian; Saint) [Spain]
Mitrius (Christian; Saint)
Otis Campbell Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Quintian of Rodez (Christian; Saint)
Saints of the Benedictine family (Christian; Saints)
Saints of the Premonstratensian Order (Christian; Saints)
Stanislaus Kostka (Christian; Saint)
Talk to Birds Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Prime Number Day: 317 [66 of 72]
Premieres
Aladdin (Animated Disney Film; 1992)
An Old-Fashioned Love Song, by Three Dog Night (Song; 1971)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Film; 1992)
The Bush Pusher or Beri Beri Who’s Got the Berry? (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 178; 1962)
Double Danger (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #9; 1964)
Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, by Aleksandr Ostrovsky (Play; 1868)
Fantasia (Animated Disney Film; 1940)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Stop Motion Film; 2009)
Hairied and Hurried (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (Novel; 1902)
Laundry Service, by Shakira (Album; 2001)
Laura, by Vera Caspary (Novel; 1942)
The Lightning Bugs or Nuts and Volts (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 177; 1962)
The Line, The Cross & The Curve, by Kate Bush (Short Film; 1993)
Lionheart, by Kate Bush (Album; 1978)
Lose Yourself, by Eminem (Song; 2002)
Mountain Mover or Boris Sneaks a Peak (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 72; 1960)
1, by The Beatles (Compilation Album; 2000)
Out of the Past (Film; 1947)
Porky’s Double Trouble (WB LT Cartoon; 1937)
Rocky and the Rock or Braver and Boulder (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 71; 1960)
The Saint in Pursuit, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1970) [Saint #43]
A Short History of Decay, by Emil M. Cioran (Science Book; 1949)
Silent Night, recorded by Bing Crosby (Song; 1935)
2012 (Film; 2009)
War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series; 1988)
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak (Children’s Boolk; 1963)
Yellow Submarine (Animated Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Eugen, Livia, Stanislaus (Austria)
Brcko, Brickije, Didak, Dobroslav, Homobonus, Ivan, Mitar, Stanislav, Stanko (Croatia)
Tibor (Czech Republic)
Arcadius (Denmark)
Krister, Kristjan, Kristo, Risto (Estonia)
Ano, Kristian (Finland)
Brice (France)
Eugen, Livia, Stanislaus, Rene (Germany)
Chrysostomos, Damaskinos, Hrysostomos (Greece)
Szilvia (Hungary)
Brizio, Diego, Omobono, Paterniano (Italy)
Eižens, Jevgēņija, Jevgēņijs, Taida (Latvia)
Arkadijus, Eirima, Norvydas (Lithuania)
Kirsten, Kirsti (Norway)
Arkadiusz, Arkady, Brykcjusz, Eugeniusz, Jan, Mikołaj, Stanisław, Walentyn (Poland)
Ioan (România)
Stanislav (Slovakia)
Diego, Leandro (Spain)
Krister, Kristian (Sweden)
Brice, Bruce, Bryce, Bryson, Stan, Stanford, Stanley (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 317 of 2024; 48 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 46 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 1 (Yi-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 29 Heshvan 5784
Islamic: 29 Rabi II 1445
J Cal: 17 Mir; Threesday [17 of 30]
Julian: 31 October 2023
Moon: 0%: New Moon
Positivist: 9 Frederic (12th Month) [Barneveldt]
Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 51 of 89)
Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 21 of 29)
Calendar Changes
露月 [Iùyuè] (Chinese Lunisolar Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Dew Month) [Pig Month]
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Electrostatic Speakers.
They are out there. There are things I like and things I don't about them. Many years ago I thought they were the best you could have. And that is what I wanted. Full range from low to high no cross-overs, seamless sound. The large surface area couples almost ideally to the air in the room so converting electrical signals to sound waves is very efficient. Mostly true then and still today.
The down side is dipole radiation so the back wave bounces around and can cause weird effects. Some of those are very pleasant. Placement in the room is difficult. Another thing is limited low frequency response as the wavelength approaches the size of the speaker. Not so bad if you make them BIG. Bwah Ha Ha Ha!
Ironically they are the easiest to build from scratch. Mechanically they are so simple. I had a basic design from a 1970s issue of "Audio Amateur" and I was off to the races. Two sheets of perforated metal each with a thin frame of polycarbonate and a sheet of mylar with a conductive coating in a sandwich. A bit of work, some funky jigs and a lot of epoxy was all it took. I was turning out an 18" by 48" by 1/4" panel every week. I needed 6 of them.
The principle is very simple. You polarize the membrane with a thousand volts DC (more or less). Attach the outputs (high voltage) of an audio quality transformer to the front and back with the center tap on the polarized sheet ( think through a capacitor to block deadly levels of DC ) and physics does the rest. Execution is not so simple. I needed transformers and the logical source was out of a tube amplifier. More logic told me to buy operating tube amps and hook up the primaries to the speaker poles.
In the end I had two huge wood frames over five feet square, (not five square feet ) each holding three of my panels. I had a tube amplifier on station beside each frame operating as full range ES speakers.
It did not go perfectly smoothly. I found I needed to limit the width of the free membrane to prevent arcing so there was some trial and error. I almost blew myself up with the polarizing power supply. I had a hard time tracking down those tube amps too. But it all worked in the end.
And yes there was a severe roll off in the deep Bass, but a big woofer cabinet took care of that with a cheap used transistor amp. The cross over was a trick, but it all ran nicely. Audio nirvana was mine.
The sound was amazing. Thing is when you invest a lot of work and worry into a thing it does skew your opinions. There were flaws but I did not mind them so much. They were huge and imposing. That is the image of a hardcore audio nut isn't it? A chair, two huge speakers, wires all over the floor, and a stack of records. Been there.
OK why talk about this now? Two reasons. One is my last post was about a review of an amplifier and one of the speakers used in the test was the KLH 9. It is a full range electrostatic speaker from I think 1958. I think they started to make them again. Those looked a lot like my version 2 electrostatics. I thought about those for the first time in a long while.
Way back when I met a girl. I married her and we moved a couple times. I moved those big ass speakers once and promised never again. I took them apart and packed away the bits for the future. In the meanwhile I built a few simple small speakers in boxes and was impressed how they did not sound all that bad compared to the monsters.
Version 2 arrived after a few more moves when I decided to resurrect the beast in a reduced form. One panel per side rather than three. Simple frame, everything else about the same. Still sounded pretty good. There is always a but.
The flaws in the ES concept are several. Dipoles have equal output front and back. There is a lot of cancellation, and a lot of the signal is reflected about. The narrower the dipoles the worse that is. The membrane is like a drum skin and has a fundamental resonance very similar to a large drum. Bong! Dispersion of the high frequencies gives you a head in a vice sweet spot for listening. And finally the Bass roll off is inevitable, but you sort of forgive that as your brain is fooled by the initial transient. You still hear the drum it just does not rumble. Low pedal organs likewise do not work well. That is what subwoofers are for but they are far from perfect.
Finally they still take up a lot of room. You need to set them well away from the wall or they sound like crap. Looked cool though. Not unlike the KLH 9.
There are other things like having hundreds of volts of electricity around toddlers and related safety issues. Fabric covers only help a bit. So I put them away again and went back to box speakers. Once again not bad compared to the deadly lightning beasts. I also went back to a big transistor amp. I built it from parts left over from when Dynaco went under. I did not strictly follow the plans. And compared to my tube amps which I still had it was much better. Not just different, better!
This is a journey after all. You explore and learn things. What I thought then is obsolete. The really interesting thing is I am sure what I have now is actually much better than that old dream system.
This is supposed to be fun so be sure to enjoy the experience.
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Masquerade
It’s @nutsandvoltsweek !! I’m so excited!!
I’m probably also going to do jailbreak but here is masquerade!!
I’ve decided on a peacock mask for Tyrian and then uh he gets a pretty dress!!
#nuts and volts week#nutsandvoltsweek#nutsandvoltsweek2021#nuts and volts week 2021#nutsandvoltsweek 2021#rwby fanart#nutsandvoltswee#rwby#anime art#nuts and volts#anime fanart#rwby art#arthur watts#watts rwby#Tyrian#tyrian callows#tyrian rwby
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@nutsandvoltsweek Day 4 - Tyrian’s Prosthetic
HC that the prosthetic doesn’t regulate the venom properly and will build up. It doesn’t hurt, its just uncomfortable and a sensation Tyrian isn’t used to. (Who actually likes pain, the pressure is just NOT NORMAL) And so, Tyrian has to drain the reservoir every so often. He just likes it when Arthur does it for him :3
#nuts and volts#nuts and volts week#tyrian callows#arthur watts#rwby#arthur's face in that last panel is a MOOD
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Nuts and Volts week day 2- Reverse AU
Watts, the snake faunus hitman who’s been in the business a long time, takes interest in Tyrian Callows, an eccentric doctor freshly kicked out of med school for “malpractice” and “crimes against humanity”
Watts brings him bodies on the condition that he gets to watch Tyrian work on them/build weapons of mass destruction.
#nuts and volts week#nuts and volts#arthur watts#tyrian callows#rwby#vegart#yes his goggles are supposed to look like bug eyes >:-)
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I wasn’t really going to post this for @nutsandvoltsweek because I wasn’t entirely happy with it... But since it’s the Free Day and I spent way too much time getting their outfits right I’m just gonna go ahead and post it. (That being said I refuse to learn the laws of physics to draw Watt’s coat tails right, so hush).
This is based on one of those Draw Your OTP poses, by blip456, I did my best trying to replicate the pose by myself Uu I thought it was funny because it looked kinda like dancing + we gonna kick your ass ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Hey guys sorry for posting so late again but traveling is a pain. Anyway here's my contribution for the last day of @nutsandvoltsweek, seriously its been so fun you guys and i hope you enjoy the content ive been putting out! I do plan to still post that other thing for Royal AU with a twist so expect that soon! Its just taking a while. I'll leave yall alone now haha!
Tyrian gets a little out of hand when hes excited...
#nuts and volts week#nuts and volts#rwby tyrian#tyrian callows#rwby watts#arthur watts#rwby fanart#rwby
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@nutsandvoltsweek day 5! y’all thought i was going to do angst.
psych
i did fluff
although i wanted to do angst i was just too sick
just a little short small thing for today. i might be dying from a headache but youd actually need to remove my head from my body to stop me making nuts and volts content
the background is a screencap from ep 8, i didnt draw it.
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“Welcome to atlas”
tyrian had been standing in the doorway glaring at that stupid sign for the guts of an hour. Watts was never late...or maybe he was. Tyrian was always later, he’d never noticed if the good doctor was punctual or if he was just less late than himself.
the scorpion faunus rubbed his hands and shoulders for warmth, cursing himself for not bringing his jacket with him. he’d been in such a hurry to get to the hideout he was sweating like a sinner in church by the time he arrived. he’d tossed his duster jacket over the bed and sped out the door again, hurrying to meet watts and get back out of Atlas’ prying eyes until sundown.
that was an hour ago.
tyrian hopped from foot to foot trying to minimise contact with the cold asphalt. his tail reflexively curled and uncurled from his waist, hissing when the freezing steel made contact with his exposed torso. he kept forgetting it was made of metal now and probably the coldest part of his body. he supposed that did watts credit: that he often couldn't tell part of him was fake. still, what he wouldn't give for a 7ft sock to put over the chitan and metal to keep it warm.
he was pressed into the wall, the brickwork sapping what little heat he had left. he could step out a little, into the light, allowing anyone to see his breath fog the air or his golden eyes glint in the streetlamps. but if he did that, he might as well walk straight into ironwoods office.
Watts would get a real laugh out of that...
“You’ll catch your death standing there like that.” Watts snide voice appeared out of the darkness of the alley behind him
“i thought scorpions didnt mind the cold. vacuo gets to -3 every night.” Watts stated factually “I’m from Mistral.” tyrian pouted still rubbing his shoulders with numb blue fingers. watts rolled his eyes “here.” tyrian felt something heavy, warm and smelling of aftershave land on his shoulders. Soft lambskin brushed against his cheek “whats this for?” tyrian wasted no time pulling watts coat over his frozen limbs. Watts was a little longer than him but otherwise it was a good fit “im from atlas tyrian. and unlike you i understand the concept of ‘weather appropriate clothing’” watts finished fastening the buttons of his sleeves around his wrists “ i can dispense with one layer for the time being.”
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i love the sleeves on tyrian. i drew them too long so they cover his hands and its v cute.
sorry today is so small and short. my head is still a little sore rn but if its better tomorrow im hoping to do a bunch of stuff; some kottian valentines day, nuts and volts smooches maybe some comic pages
im not getting up early but i do have from like 1pm untill 10pm to do art sooo
#nuts and volts#nuts and volts week#tyrian callows#arthur watts#tyrian x watts#fluff#honestly the character a gives character b their coat trope is top tier content#rwby faunus#im going to bed soon i promise
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Hey another @nutsandvoltsweek fic too short for ao3. I’ll rewrite it someday, but for now, have the raw.
Sorry, I robbed you all of more domestic to focus on Tyrian’s prosthesis today.
“It’s heavy.”
“You’ll get used to that.”
It really isn’t heavy. Not moreso than his natural tail had been, anyway. But he chooses to complain about the weight, rather than the part that really bothers him: the sound. He’s not used to the clicking yet. He’s used to his tail moving silently. And he hasn’t been able to get that damned little chamber to fill with venom, no matter how he concentrates on it.
But of course, he’s too irritated to get right to the point of the issue.
“Why bother if it’s just for the aesthetics?”
“For the last time, it is not aesthetic. It functions. You’re just not producing venom as quickly right now. Likely due to the recovery process and stress of losing a limb: the endocrine system simply doesn’t recover from amputation quite as easily as the bulk of a physical body can. And continued stress can, and will, hinder your recovery.”
Tyrian grumbles, his tail flicking behind him in irritation as he perches on a chair across from the doctor’s desk. “What could I possibly have to be stressed about?”
“Apparently, your tail being too heavy,” Arthur shrugs, very focused on the work he has in front of him. “Or more likely the psychological aftermath of a traumatic, non-surgical amputation.”
The scorpion growls, but thumps down properly, heavily, into the chair. “Your bedside manner is atrocious.”
“I don’t seem to recall you saying that when I was actually at your bedside tending to your infected amputation site. Pulling pine needles and other such debris out of it before I could even think of capping it.” Arthur looks up finally. “What don’t you really like about it?”
Tyrian wilts a little under that intense green gaze. “… it clicks.”
“… I beg your pardon?”
“It clicks!” Tyrian growls, flicking it so the doctor can hear. “It’s not supposed to click.”
Arthur sighs. “… is that all?”
“Is that all?! What if your fingers clicked?! It’d drive you mad!”
“Yes, because we need to worry about you losing your mind over a bit of clicking.” Arthur pushes back from his desk and stands, straightening his vest and moving around the desk to Tyrian, in order to pick up his tail and examine it. “… even if I thinned out the edges of the plates, it would only reduce the sound, not eliminate it. But of course at the cost of the current amount of protection on what’s left of your natural tail. It would, though, also make it a little lighter.”
“… fine.”
“I’ll even see what I can do for a hormone therapy to jumpstart your venom production again.”
Tyrian perks up a little at that, sighing as Arthur reaches to unclasp the plates of his prosthetic tail, carefully pulling it off. He pulls his remaining natural one around to hold onto, scowling at the capped end. “I hate this.”
“I know you do.”
“She’s getting irritated with us,” he informs the doctor. “She wanted me back in the field ages ago. I don’t need my venom to do as our Lady asks.”
“No, but it’s helpful. And until you start producing it naturally again, I don’t consider you fully recovered.”
“That sounds like an excuse to keep me here,” he grins. “With you.”
“Of course I’d prefer to observe my patient’s recovery as closely as I can.”
“Ugh! Do you have a romantic bone in your body?” Tyrian spits, frustrated, as his tail flicks in irritation. “Or do those ‘I adore yous’ only come into play when you’ve got your d--”
“Must you be vulgar?”
“You know…” Tyrian frowns, then quickly grins, seizing the doctor around the waist with his tail, though he doesn’t pull him in. “I didn’t hear a ‘no’~”
“There wasn’t meant to be one.”
“Aw. I’m touched.” He giggles, finally yanks the doctor away from his work when he’s sure that doing so won’t make him drop the new tail. “If you do a good job, I might reward you~”
“I always do my job well, Tyrian. You’d do well to remember that.”
#nutsandvoltsweek2020#nutsandvoltsweek#Tyrian Callows#Arthur Watts#nuts and volts#nuts and volts week#pumpkin writes
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Copan (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]
Novaland (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Principality of Martin Presidia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
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Anianus of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Aristides (Positivist; Saint)
Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American)
Cy Twombly (Artology)
Festival of Robigalia (Ancient Rome)
Giovanni Battista Piamarta (Christian; Saint)
Ivo (Christian; Saint)
Karel Appel (Artology)
Kebius of Cornwall (Christian; Saint)
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Mark the Evangelist (Christian; Saint)
Maughold of Isle of Man (Christian; Saint)
Mr. Hooper (Muppetism)
Mr. T Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Phaebadius, Bishop of Agen (Christian; Saint)
Philo and Agathopodes (Christian; Saint)
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World Penguin Day (Pastafarian)
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Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
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The Big Short, by Michael Lewis (Book; 2010)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (Film; 2008)
Infest, by Papa Roach (Album; 2000)
Let’s Stick Together (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
Manhattan (Film; 1979)
Nuts and Volts (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens (Novel; 1840)
The Other Woman (Film; 2014)
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Novel; 1719)
Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini (Opera; 1926)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, by Bruce Springsteen (Album; 2006)
Westward Whoa (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Film; 1980)
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Erwin, Markus (Austria)
Marko (Bulgaria)
Franka, Marko, Maroje (Croatia)
Marek (Czech Republic)
Markus (Denmark)
Marek, Margo, Margus, Mark, Marko, Markus (Estonia)
Markku, Marko, Markus (Finland)
Marc (France)
Erwin, Markus (Germany)
Markela, Markos, Nike, Niki (Greece)
Márk (Hungary)
Franco, Marco (Italy)
Barbala, Līksma, Liksme, Marks, Markus (Latvia)
Gražvyda, Gražvydė, Morkus, Tolmantas, Žadmantė (Lithuania)
Mark, Markus (Norway)
Jarosław, Marek, Wasyl (Poland)
Marcu, Vasile (Romania)
Marek (Slovakia)
Marcos (Spain)
Markus (Sweden)
Mark, Marko (Ukraine)
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Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 115 of 2024; 250 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 2 of week 17 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 10 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 6 (Gui-Chou)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Iyar 5783
Islamic: 4 Shawwal 1444
J Cal: 24 Aqua; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 12 April 2023
Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 3 Caesar (5th Month) [Aristides]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 1 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 37 of 90)
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 6 of 30)
Calendar Changes
Lagu (Flowing Water) [Half-Month 9 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 5.12)
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First prompt for Nuts and Volts week! I went with Modern AU, featuring Hitman Tyrian and Beleaguered Surgeon Watts.
If you were to ask Tyrian how he and Watts had met, he would regale you with a tale about how they had known each other in passing, until the good doctor two houses down the street had ever so kindly aided Tyrian after severe damage to his scorpion tail. It had gotten to the point that Dr Watts, a surgeon, a scientist, an engineer, and so many other things that precluded the use of Dr as a title, had even made him a prosthetic to go with it, one that allowed his venom to be accessed and his balance restored.
If you asked Watts about their first meeting, he would shoot a glare at Tyrian, before turning it onto you and stating: “when he started playing that fucking tuba at three in the morning.”
There’s plenty of steps missing between Watts’ point A and Tyrian’s point B, and that is where the murder happens.
Tyrian made a face that was somewhere between a grimace and a grin as Watts dropped another bullet in the small tray beside them, fishing them out of Tyrian’s side. “Well, doctor? Do I have my clean bill of health?”
“Absolutely not.” Watts scowl was audible, a third bullet clinking. “Salem is going to have to accept that until you’ve healed up from whatever caused this latest foolishness, you’ll be refraining from assassinations.”
Tyrian pouted and twitched like he was about to move, before Watts’ hand fastened on his shoulder. “If you move,” The doctor grumbled, “you can stitch yourself up.”
“Fine, I’ll stay still a little longer.” Tyrian rolled his eyes in amusement before he tapped the end of his tail against Watts’ side, metallic whirring following the motion. “Fussy.”
“Tyrian, you really are lucky that I tolerate your antics,” he drawled, before setting the tweezers aside. “Are you sure you don’t want to withdraw your refusal for pain medication?”
“Why, Arthur, the stitches are the fun part,” he chuckled. “Next time I kill someone for her grace, I should bring you along. I’d paint you patterns of fear in the bloodstains.”
“You’re certainly feeling munificent.” Arthur tapped his shoulder once as a warning, allowing Tyrian to forcibly relax himself before the needle pierced his skin, thread pulling through the muscle as Arthur began to deftly stitch him up.
Tyrian giggled to himself, drumming his fingers from where they were curled over the operating table’s edge. He cast an errant eye over the laboratory Watts worked in, large enough to hold multiple sections for Watts’ research, thanks to their magnanimous employer. He raised a brow as he looked at one of the other tables. “That corpse is new.”
Watts made a noncommittal grunt, focusing on his current work. Tyrian pouted a bit as his curiosity wasn’t immediately sated and thought about how much he couldn’t wait to meet dear Qrow Branwen again. Their paths had crossed thrice now, with the other mercenary having miraculously survived Tyrian both times.
He supposed that made them nemeses, and Tyrian was absolutely thrilled at having a real challenge now. “I hope our little birdy isn’t too upset about his niece’s eye. It was a necessary message to send.”
“Yes, a very clever one at that. A shame that he’d objected so strenuously.”
“So about the corpse.”
“I sent Cinder’s little attack dog out to act as a resurrectionist for me.” Watts switched needles for a fresh one and started on the second bullet hole. “I was in need of a cadaver.”
Tyrian’s tail flicked irritably. “And you didn’t come to me? Tsk tsk, Arthur, I thought we had a bond. To think you’d stoop to grave robbing, truly.”
“Now, Tyrian, emulous of a mere child?” Watts’ smirk was obvious in his drawl.
“I’m surprised you’d want a body that isn’t freshly dead, doctor.”
“Marcus’s brat doesn’t have the finesse to get away with it. I gave him something more suited to his inferior skill level.” Yet another switch of the needle, another series of pinpricks beginning.
“Dear Cinder really should raise her standards, I agree. Though they are fun. The boy especially is an open book, every scar he hides screams his story to the world.” He had such fun getting in his head. Poor Mercury Black was a psychoanalyst’s dream, or perhaps nightmare.
Arthur made a sound of agreement in the back of his throat, and Tyrian picked up one of the bullets out of the tray. “I really should start keeping these.”
“Do you plan to make a necklace out of them?” Arthur snarked at him.
Tyrian considered the thought for the moment before deciding that would be too gaudy. His style was theatrical, certainly, but he knew when to afford a little subtlety. Still, any opportunity to play with the good doctor was one he enjoyed taking. “Would you wear it, dear Arthur?”
Arthur finished his stitches and walked around in front of him, looking Tyrian in the eye before he plucked the bullet from Tyrian’s hands and dropped it back in the ditch. “Absolutely not.”
Tyrian cackled with laughter. “Such a killjoy today, Arthur. You’d think I was playing my tuba again.”
“You and that damned tuba,” Arthur rolled his eyes. “You’re lucky that I reported you for noise disturbance, instead of multiple homicides.”
“Well, you did get me onto our queen’s radar when doing so, I suppose I should be grateful.” Tyrian lifted his hands and placed them on Arthur’s cheeks, smearing some of the blood from his fingertips over Arthur’s skin. “Blood suits you.”
Arthur’s moustache curled with his smirk. “Flattery will not let you keep the bullets. You don’t need trophies.”
Tyrian giggled again, his tail shifting mechanically behind him. “Such a pity,” he lilted, matching Watts’ smirk with a manic grin. “I suppose I’ll have to be kept with you for observation of my wounds?”
“Well,” Watts’ smirk turned into an indulgently scheming grin, a flash of teeth visible in it. “Doing otherwise would be bad practice, it seems.”
“So it would seem.” Tyrian’s grin curled at the edges. “Shall we?”
#rwby#nuts and volts#nuts and volts week#arthur watts#tyrian callows#help I'm bad at writing romance so instead we get somewhat evil flirting
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I wish i could’ve colored this, but take this Modern AU!Nuts and Volts. Tyrian is a theatre major (wearing a shirt for the Heathers musical because i think he would LOVE it) + Watts is a TA for an Engineering class
i totally forgot to tag @nutsandvoltsweek
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