#smart paws

[fruitcage]

#cats #cats on TV #tiddles the cat #john cleese (not pictured) #betamax #sony C6 #1982 #80s #80s commercials #UK TV #VHS #old tech #my gifs #gifs #smart kitties #smart paws

[utilitycaster]

Now that I'm thinking about that video criticizing C3, I think a much more valid criticism of Campaign 3 is how disconnected the characters are from political institutions. Orym is the only one with any such connections going into the story, and his are a very specific and limited situation. Chetney is intelligent, but he's also been a loner and isn't from Marquet. This is in fact a very political story - international cooperation from many disparate nations to address a global threat, a violent cult deliberately fomenting unrest, one key figure in that cult ruthlessly using the resources of the Dwendalian Empire (and earlier, Molaesmyr) to pursue these goals, another key figure a former war hero - and yet no one in the party knows shit. I am bringing up Campaign 2 not so much to bemoan that this is not a repeat campaign - I don't in fact want that - so much as that it's a very good illustrative example, but that was also an extremely political story and it was one that succeeded because there were characters like Caleb and Beau who were both knowledgeable about and deeply invested in the outcome, and tied to the institutions involved. The same can frankly be said about Vox Machina. I think if this campaign had leaned into those political aspects instead of having a group that's largely apolitical and to be honest ignorant even of very recent history they lived through, that would have helped both with the sense of party agency and with the sense of stakes and consequences. Political stakes in actual play are incredibly popular - again, see both the previous two campaigns as well as Dimension 20 and Worlds Beyond Number (and, for all its faults, RQG) - and it feels like Bells Hells is often avoiding them.

#monkey's paw situation of guy voices the flaws correctly but also like. the issue is a character and plot mismatch #which actually i think both fans of the campaign AND haters of the campaign and everyone in between agree on! #it's just fans insist the problem is the plot and haters insist the problem is the characters avoiding the plot #and smart people (me) recognize it is simply a round peg in a square hole and neither is wrong they just are improperly paired #cr tag

[sparring-spirals]

indulge me for a moment here:

Matilda, drawing a bird, dreaming of something that can pick her up and carry her away from here.

Paté De Rolo, as a bird skull on a rats body. A dead bird on a rats body. A body bound to the ground and scurrying through streets, unassuming and common and- to many, lowly pests, scarely able to be anything more. With a bird skull on its head- dreaming of flight, of escape, of faraway places, of bigger, better things.

(The bird is long gone and dead, only the bones left behind, puppeted by sheer will and hopeless dreams.)

#i dont actually think this is intentional but its neat right? #critical role #cr spoilers #c3e37 #pate de rolo #laudna #i got my booster a while ago and am waiting for it to fully knock me on my ass but in the meantime i guess. pokemon and random meta? #character meta #? #also for the record i love rats. adorable. smart lil bbs. washy washy themselves with paws #this is not looking down on rats. good bois. just the. Imagery and Symbolism u hear me

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i love having cats. there's just a Little Guy in my house that i can go annoy when i'm bored

#she's my bestie she's my nemesis she's my comedy partner she's my little meow meow #i poke her she smacks me #i say hi she makes an unholy noise in return #i crochet she sits in my lap and watches #i freak out bc theres a spider & she eats it #and when i keep my door closed for more than five seconds she yowls and scratches like she's been exiled #she truly is The Most Cat Ever #except also not bc she acts more like a person. shes too smart #absolutely unprompted #sorry im just feeling Affection for my small ginger menace #she is currently crouching on the rug trying to Entice me into shenanigans #ohhhh nvm she just brought one of her toys into the room. she wants me to throw it so so badly #get you a cat who plays fetch #and Wont Stop Staring oh my god i can feel her eyes boring into the back of my skull #she's just staring at me from the hallway. menacingly #her tiny murder paws.... her weirdly strong tail that hurts when it slaps me in the face... big ol ears... pink nose... She <3 #i've never had a cat with such a strong personality #sorry *purrsonality #her range of expressions and vocals... unparalleled #helped me carry a bit for a full five minutes a lil bit ago #meowed back in all the right places with the right tone #she knows whats up <3

[rhinocio]

Hi!! I'm the person who sent you the ask a while ago with the promise of Tomoe fanart.....it took my foreverrrrr oops but here it is! Tomoe fanart! I hope it's accurate to what you had in mind <333

BRB GOING INSANE

Serviiiiiiiiiii she's so PRETTYYYYYYYYYYY this is BETTER than what I had in mind!!!! her big fluffy tail!!!!! you totally nailed down that shaggy cat fur look and she's like?? equal parts unkempt and elegant oh my GOSH the white highlights are so sharp!!! THE LITTLE MON PATTERN ON HER KIMONO and the PAW BEANS I'm running to the tallest hill I can find to show this off to everyone in the vicinity are y'all seEING THIS SHIT?!?!?! damn dude I didn't realize you were doing a wholeass render!! I feel like her expression in the front-facing drawing is SO conveying comic Tomoe she's PERFECT

bowingbowing grovelling at your feet could I embed / link to this drawing in the fic???? I want to like. blast it at as many eyeballs as possible oh my GOSH thank you so much!!!! ;;;;;;w;;;;;; crying sobbing inconsolable look at my DAUGHT E R

#RRCU #tomoe ame #NONUfic #rhin reply #usbarkservice #usagi yojimbo #ROTTMNT #can't believe I didn't even think of paw beans in the reference sketch you're so SMART #wehhhhhh look at sheeeeeeeee #saving this forever printing it out sticking it to my wall #you are an ANGEL Servi this is the BEST #if you need me I'll be watering the grass with my tears

[myiayse]

ʚ🐹♡🦊ɞ

#ensemble stars #aira shiratori #hiiro amagi #alkaloid #I DID THEM ALL YAAAAY #i tried to match the paws w rhe animal cause im suprr smart an original and beautiful

[lotusmonkey]

#lego monkie kid #lmk core au #lmk #doodles #lmk crow #he is SO TALL YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND #he is one of those skinny lanky black cats #claws included #no for real i gotta draw his hands sometime #danger paws #unlike Bug who is absolutely adorable and huggable #Crow is (also adorable) meant to take out threats #he is a Danger and v v smart #on that note MK named him and he DOES mellow out #keeps his claws but mellows out #hawk draws #lotusmonkey

[mctives]

my favorite thing is thinking about stu in his released verse getting out of prison and having to live in the world and trying to figure out how to use modern technology

#he'd be so bad at it #someone help pee paw stu sort his emails on his smart phone #'what is a tick tock' #'didn't they have email in the 90s???' 'YES BUT IT WAS EASY THEN YOU JUST OPENED YOUR AOL AND IT WAS THERE'

[chryblossomjjk]

i have an orange cat who is extremely quirky (not bonkers bc he is somewhat skiddish but like… something is off yk?) and he has a habit of sitting on top of anything and everything and one time i woke up to him sitting on top of my shredded presentation handouts bc he was making biscuits with them

#… he’s literally a comedian so i cant even be mad #he’s double pawed too so he opens cabinets like a pro #i literally catch him on his hind legs looking through the cabinets for food #ive always come home to an entire loaf of bread on the floor #cat toof marks n paw prints in every slice #he also like sentient ? #but like more so than the average cat #like he stares at his reflection in the window all day #pondering #and stares at shadows inquisitively #but like don’t get me wrong bro is not smart shizheiejs- #is a philosopher with zero common sense #can tell u about the other realm but not this one #he also has face markings that look like a mustache :) #adore teh car

[loving-jack-kelly]

signed me and my dog up for puppy training classes :)

#i'm excited she's pretty smart and she learns things quick but I don't have enough experience #in actually training a dog #to do more than the very basic sit lie down paw command #she knows come here but doesn't have super strong recall so this class is also supposed to work on that

[bitchfitch]

I've been trying to find the post i originally made this image for for Days but I'm officially giving up and just posting it again. It's their old designs but this is still how they stack up against each other and like, a taller than average person.

#Aetius being fucking Big is 90% of the humor in its vibe. The fucker can look you in the eye and then rear up to be twice your height #It Still does the 'im just a little baby guy! just an itty bitty kitten' thing #but it does it while being crush hazard sized #Serapis never gets why people treat him like hes the dangerous one. #like he Is the better fighter but if you didn't see them fight you couldn't know that. #Aetius is a lion who can calculate orbital paths in its head Its Not like. Not Dangerously. #its turbo dangerous. its smart enough to be able to treat finding you like a fun puzzle box #Its the type of fucker who would have multiple phds and its middle paws are the size of dinner plates. #It Will Fuck You Up. #It exclusively uses its intelligence and strength to get into the pantry and eat soap. #its a bastard kitty cat first and foremost

[lady-zephyrine]

So I have a good chunk of my next story pre-written. Once I come up with a good title and publish the first chapter I'll share the full cover.

For now have a Molting Taranza and Blade with his new phone.

#kirby #taranza #dark matter #dark matter swordsman #dark matter blade #dark matter kirby #zephyr's artbook #I don't know if it's clear enough in the sketch but Taranza's supposed to have spider-like paws (hence the claw thumb) #Also I was initially going to give Blade a smart phone but I figured I'd give him something similar to Kirby's phone

[begaana]

im going to cry i love animals so much

#dogs and their little snoots and the way they paw at you their eyes their teeth their ears the way they trot someimts #have you guys ever seen sparrows bathing in water its the mist beautifult hing ever i fukcifn love sparrpws and crows theyre so smart #so annoying but so smart #dont even get me started on cats i will not shut up #their little teeth taht stick oit the space betwwentheir forehead name a more kissable space their noses the way they srunch their noses g #d their big beautiful eyes they look at you hwen you pspspsp them theyre so adorable their paws their little toe beans the way they flick t #their ears im sobbing i love cats i want one

[lonely--seeker]

Going on a fucking walk with my (not mine) dog that I hate (I don't) from now on because at this point I'm not entirely sure whose emotional, physical and mental health depends on it.

I need to take a picture of him because he's gotten so much bigger than last time I showed him

#this is going to be forging a symbiotic relationship between us #look the dog hasn't done anything bad but i don't like dogs #in a sense that i love animals but dogs are smelly and loud and i don't want them near me because if they lick me one more time i will- #so my dog (not mine!!!) is still a pup but a smart ass #only for violence!! this asshole will come at you and purposefully launh at you with his body weigh and kick you with his front paws #it's messing with my bodily stability how dare he #also he will walk behind you and somehow SOMEHOW jump at your feet and GRIP GRIP it tightly and put all his WEIGH on you #it's a small dog but he somehow KNOWS his game and WILL stop you #im terrified of his gripping technics #in other news I teached him to sit (sometimes) and give you his paw (violently) #now that I think of it he has Cat energy. doggy baps you with my paw baps you with my paw #Anyways. He also likes to jump and bite whatever you're holding in the air in range #i know he needs training but i do what i can it's my grandma's dog and for the most part i never see him i live on the second floor #i have never trained a dog in my life i don't know what dogs think that creature... smells #my cats smell like the sun and ocassional dirt but that's fine #this dog sort of smells like dog dirt and shampoo which is weird since i don't think he ever bathed in his life? #he is... 3 months old i suppose #ANYWAYS it's gotta be ME the one to take him on walks i guess because no one else does it

[secretsivekept]

I needed an illustration piece for portfolio stuff, so the last few days I’ve been working nonstop on a mock up book cover for an old story I made up when I was twelve LOL

It would be called “A Dragon’s Tail” but i have no graphic design skills whatsoever so there’s no typography on this book cover mockup

If you want a basic (and chaotically organized) rundown of the plot, keep reading under the cut LOL

In the OG story, there's 3 main characters: Adrien (QuetzalCoatl, or feathered serpent), Penny (a normal human) and Silver Stride (a unicorn).

Adrien the dragon was originally the main character that we follow (and if I were to ever rewrite this, she would continue to be the main character. I only put Penny in the center of the cover because it worked better for the composition i was going for, and I didn't have time to explore more variations.)

Anyway, Adrien's mother goes missing, and she teams up with a Penny, and Silver Stride, who have also lost their families to an evil wizard named Rogabas, who for mysterious reasons is kidnapping dragons, unicorns, and other wizards for an evil purpose.

No i can't remember what that purpose was, and i don't think my 12 year old self would know either tbh

The three characters would go on this epic journey to find the lair of Rogabas and meet a whole assortment of fantastical creatures along the way, like a giant talking goat named Merryweather who guards a bridge (a bridge passed down from generation to generation after winning it from a troll and demands golden carrots as a toll to cross it), good werewolves and bad werewolves, gargoyles who guard libraries, and I can’t remember why but in my old drawings there’s also this manticore (or maybe just a lion) with sunglasses for some reason. Maybe he’s just there to chill, idk.

Also there would be two side kick characters, who are two of Penny’s dad’s familiars ((((oh yeah penny’s dad is a wizard, too, unbeknownst to her)))) and guardians of “Magic Rock TM” that the evil wizard Rogabas is after. The side kick characters are two overzealous, punch-first-ask-questions-later rabbits named Flopsy and Mopsy, who are enchanted to know karate. (There is a whole leigion of karate rabbits who guard “Magic Stone TM”.)

(((If you’re wondering why a wizard would enchant rabbits to know karate, well of course every wizard usually has a collection of animal familiars enchanted to know a specific type of martial arts to guard their magical artifacts. This is standard practice, don’t you know? 12 year old me definitely wasn’t going off the title of “kung fu panda” and start making a whole bunch of animals like “Kung Fu Kitty” or Jujutsu Doggy” or “Judo-Penguins” or Tae Kwon Do Tigers)))

Also, I don’t know what “Magic Stone TM” is, I just remember it was a big important thing Rogabas was after.

ALSO also, 12 year old me decided that Adrien was adopted by a European dragon and had 2 siblings, Martin (a european dragon) and Cho (a chinese dragon) who were also both adopted, but If I were to rewrite it think it would be simpler to keep it to just Adrien and her adopted mom, just to keep the keep the already big cast to a more manageable number LOL

(Btw, “Rogabas” is the latin word for “You were asking” and when my sister and I were learning latin, we thought that word sounded like the name for an evil wizard and laughed ourselves silly saying “you were asking, evil lord Rogabas??” Over and over)

Basically the story would be this wild comedy adventure with a lot of magical tropes and shenannigans thrown in.

#my art #my stuff #original characters #original art #book cover mock up #book cover #a dragon’s tail #Adrien my beloved #She is a dumbass but a good hearted dumbass #Like think Himbo but a dragon with no arms or legs #and a girl #Silver stride is smart but an anxious mess #Penny is a know it all whose world is shattered when she finds out magic is real and has an existential crisis about it #Flopsy and Mopsy only know how to throw paws but goddamn it they will protect these three kids if its the last thing they do #I only drew Flopsy on the cover tho i need to draw her sister

[synthetic-sonata]

the mr grizz we never had but always deserved

#aria doodlez #splatoon 3 spoilers #splat3 spoilers #spoilers #idk how to tag this but its spoilers #kind of but not really #mr. grizz #mr grizz #splatoon #fanart #anyways something about this feels ooc bc mr grizz canonically feels like a shitty uncle you never talk to #but he also is provenly high tech and smart in canon so idk. #anyways the transmasculine autism got him far in this version ig. #this also probably does not fall in w canon splatoon lore enough but idc i just wanted to doodle an inkling mr grizz bc itd be so much more #fun and cool . and THEN he gets corrupted into a vaguely monstrous bear sludge later bc side effects. #i just wanted to babygirlify mr grizz in the best way i knew ( mad scientistifying him ) bc i had a random stroke of inspiration #yes the little tentacle on the right of his head resembles a bear ear . and yes he has paw chesthair. i think im smart. #i am very very sorely sorry if this somehow spoils people it was not intentional #in contrast a design idea i thought of is that hes like miss bellum where you never see from the him neck up. #also sincerely sorry for not making him a bear ( bodytype ) i will fix this if i ever draw him again