#they're literally magic

[theskyawaitsmyhand]

OH ME OH MY OH BOOOYYYYY. DIAGONAL TWIX ANIMATIC???? HELL YEAH THERE IS

i love my ocs and i heard this audio and i HAD to make it real. i love these fellas so much <3 freshies. freshman. 21 hours of work went into this so i hope yall enjoy!!!

im gonna try and post more here soon <3

#art #digital art #animation #animatic #i just think theyre neat.jpg #allos alteria #ellie easton #irida iversion #octa octavia #uriel uphori #theskyawaitsmyhand #i just think they're neat #silly #they have magical instruments guys #they're literally magic #artwork #art tag #my hand still hurts

[5ftboy]

"I've been afraid all of my life. And you guys are really, really kind. There's no part of you that'll feel like you're just dragging me around?" "[We're] all going to do stuff the others don't like from time to time... But that's what best friends are for. We'll work through whatever we have to."

#dimension 20 #misfits and magic #d20 #d20edit #mismag #brennan lee mulligan #lou wilson #danielle radford #evan kelmp #whitney jammer #sam black #mine ** #i've been rewatching mismag clips and i couldn't Smash the ENTIRE like . 15 minute convo they all had #but these bits made me very :'-o emotional . #smth smth mental health feeling of like . Oh my (in this case literal) demons coming to the surface . #but allowing and accepting ur loved ones to Help u through rough times when they're all here for u !! #1k **

[xan-from-space]

I love when girls are narrative foils and diametrically opposed.

plus lines because I liked them

#They're so magical girl protagonist and dark magical girl coded literally the starry-eyed #white knight and the girl who already learned the lesson the former is about to. so much potential and for what? #barriss offee #ahsoka tano #clone wars #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #my art

[lumiereswig]

I'm still seeing a lot of angry takes in the tags about how excessive Watcher's current costs are and how all fans really want, apparently, is "just shane and ryan sitting in a basement" back again. While I do think Watcher is probably spending over budget and that's a real issue, a lot of the takes I'm seeing show a fundamental misunderstanding of how video production works and where costs actually lie. So a few quick things that I just keep seeing that are bothering me:

It was never just Shane and Ryan in a basement. BFU did a great job selling that conceit and making sure you never saw anyone beyond them and maybe TJ, but they absolutely had other crew members with them on ghost hunts and they didn't do all the work on BFU themselves. This Q&A from Season 2 lists 36 people on staff for Buzzfeed Unsolved. It's fair to make arguments that Watcher may or may not need 25 people, but those arguments should not be coming from a place of "before it was just Shane and Ryan and nobody else."

If you don't know how many people are needed to make a professional video from a TV/film standpoint, you will not have a reasonable grasp of why Watcher wants to keep 25 people on staff. Sure, some YouTubers get by with a ring light and a contracted editor. The Watcher team have stated repeatedly that they do not want to work as just YouTubers and see themselves more as a production studio—so why do people keep referencing the YouTube model to understand their business? This is like asking the local shake shop why it doesn't function like the kids' lemonade stand down the block. The item category is similar but they're not trying for the same products or process.

The "gold dusted food" is not the big budget sink you think it is. On most TV shows I've worked on it's normal to partner with businesses that are shown onscreen and work out a deal where the price of the product (in this case the gold food) is reduced or eliminated in exchange for the free publicity. Watcher very likely made a deal with every restaurant it worked with to make the Korea trip affordable for the company. The real budget spends are on things you're probably not seeing but that still matter: camera and lighting equipment is expensive, insurance for that equipment is expensive, business overhead and paying your staff are expensive. So again—it's fine to critique Watcher for the streaming plan and the perceived budgetary issues, but go into this knowing the costs might not be coming from the things you see onscreen.

My source is that I work in TV and film and actually have a clue on how the industry functions. Again, 36 people worked on Unsolved (and those were the people mention in Season 2—who knows how big the team blew up past that in later seasons). Entertainment work is real work, and demands decent equipment, competent staff, and the same types of business and budget problems you'd find in any other business (overhead, staffing, etc.). Feel free to critique Watcher's business model, but first try to understand where that model is coming from and what goals it's attempting to serve.

#watcher #watcher entertainment #rant! sorry! couldn't see another take from someone who clearly thinks video work is just fun and games because “it's entertainment right” #funny how people expect normal business costs and problems for any other career but if it's involved with production they think everything #just magically happens and is made entirely by the onscreen talent. nutso #anyway i think watcher is probably trying its best; maybe got too overexcited; but cares about quality of life for its employees and #wants no one working to the bone. which is admirable! the streaming service was a bad idea but they're not the literal devil like some thin #they're 3 self described idiots doing this for the first time. they backpedaled. i don't see this as the death of the company & i'm gonna #keep supporting them :)

[bastart13]

A question, does Lucio's prosthetic arm work or does it just hang on his shoulder? And if the other LI lost an arm what design of their prosthetic arm would be

Honest question: have you played the game?

Not only is he posed in a lot of the art using his arm, he's often described using his arm in narration, and even purely in-universe, why would Lucio kidnap and force two alchemists to build him a prosthetic arm if it wasn't going to do anything?

But onto hypotheticals!

It's kind of cute thinking about what approaches they'd have to needing a prosthetic.

I feel like Asra's would be either made by his parents or self-made, ironically resembling Lucio's arm the most because of those influences. But it'd definitely have more interesting use in channeling magic.

Julian's would be similarly self-made/scrapped together. Lots of exposed metal and leather straps with more of a hook and crude joint than any life-like articulation. I imagine they'd be some magic element but a lot more downplayed.

In contrast, Muriel's is almost all magic. He carved the pieces himself and worked with Asra to fix it in place. While it acts a lot more like a natural arm, I think it's more prone to shorting out.

Nadia's is definitely designed by herself. Even if she had the pieces made and enchanted by other artisans, it's mechanical and elegant in a way only she could design. Like Lucio's, it can have additional covers and accesories.

And Portia's is probably the least expensive and a gift from Mazelinka. It's another case where it's magical, but Portia never knew the extent of it. It's cute, wooden, and jointed like a doll, with a practical hook, and she spent the first days with painting it.

#the arcana #the arcana game #asra alnazar #nadia satrinava #muriel #portia devorak #julian devorak #art #prosthetics #fantasy prosthetics #i imagine magical prosthetics are fairly common but vary wildly in articulation and effectiveness #nadia's is the “best” because she's a literal princess and countess and has the money #asra and muriel have a deeper understanding of magic so they can fit them to their needs even if they lack other resources #and julian and portia have the least magical and more akin to real prosthetics because they're comparatively poorer and less magical

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

weeee fantasy au scribbles look at these Guys

#ft. the magnificent return of Wormie #i say as if didnt mention wormie exactly Once.... #but believe me wormie lives in my mind. wormie is forever up there. i have a rich inner world you must Understand #fantasy wormie is a literal magic worm barnaby found & got attached to #and thus wormie has become the neighborhood's mascot / group pet #she can usually be found under barnaby's hat or somewhere in poppy's feathers #scribble salad #wh fantasy au #tw blood #< its only a lil bit but just in case... #eddie 🤝 poppy - paranoid about frank's Lack of armor despite his fighting style #he has leather shoulder pauldrons & a gambeson and thats It <3 #meanwhile eddie looks like the fuckin tin man #even julie has armor!! and her Giant Sword! #wally & sally skimp on the armor cause they're distance fighters - and magic gives them a protective edge #barnaby either doesnt fight or uses his magic - also its tough to land a hit on him. hes Skilled #and howdy shoots first asks questions later so no one gets Close #and poppy stays out of the fighting <3 #& i once again drew wally Too Small.... #someday ill be able to grasp consistent size differences. someday

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

okay they seriously outdid themselves with the new SAB weapon set this year. just LOOK at these things!! my hands are going to die a noble death collecting them... but it will be worth it.

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 SAB #my posts #no seriously LOOK at them!! #i need them all. #honestly i wish i'd had these before i invested in the hardlight ones because these fit Holoscientist Ankka even better #i definitely need at least a few because DAMN. just. man #i felt the same way about the grim machine ones but mannnn #the animations on them are great too tho you obviously can't see that in these since they're just still shots #they're called Golem Buster weapons btw if you want to check them out in the wardrobe! i looked at 'em through the achieves box #(for anyone wondering how these would fit Ankka; in Flourish AU she's an Inquest mesmer who merges holotech with her magic) #(i need to share screens of her design... someday...) #...... i literally just noticed that i specifically picked all the mesmer special weapons HDFHDFGDHDH i DIDN'T EVEN MEAN TO #but honestly it feels very magitech mesmer so i'll accept that

[reddpenn]

What makes a rock a rock and not a crystal?

Ok SO

A mineral is a naturally occurring non-organic solid with a defined chemical composition and an orderly molecular structure. This means the molecules throughout the entire structure will be exactly the same, and be arranged in a symmetrical, geometric, repeating pattern called a crystal lattice.

Quartz is a mineral. Its chemical formula is silicon dioxide, and its crystal lattice forms a repeating tetrahedron.

Ice is also a mineral. Its chemical formula is dihydrogen monoxide, and its crystal lattice forms a repeating hexagon.

Obsidian is not a mineral. It is a mineraloid, a mineral-like substance. Its chemical composition can vary wildly, and instead of a crystal lattice, its molecules are jumbled up in an amorphous solid, meaning there’s no nice repeating pattern to them.

A crystal is any solid material with a crystal lattice.

All minerals, by definition, have a crystal lattice. So all minerals are crystals! Some things that are NOT minerals are also crystals!

Sugar is a crystal. It has a crystal lattice made from molecules of sucrose. But it is not a mineral because it is organic.

Often, these repeating geometric patterns in the crystal lattice cause the substance to naturally form big geometric structures with distinct faces - such as the points formed by quartz. These larger structures are colloquially also called crystals, and their shape (called a crystal habit) is determined by the shape of the crystal lattice. The same crystal lattice can produce multiple different crystal habits, and it’s all very cool and complicated but I won’t go off on a tangent about it right now.

A substance does not have to form big structures like this to be scientifically considered a crystal. It just needs a crystal lattice!

A rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids. It can be made of a single mineral, or a bunch of different minerals. But when made from a single mineral, it will not be one solid block of that mineral with an unbroken crystal lattice. Because it is an aggregate, it will be a bunch of micro- to macroscopic grains of that mineral all compacted together, each with their own individual crystal lattices.

Granite is a rock. It is made of grains of minerals such as quartz and feldspar.

Limestone is a rock. It is mostly made of grains of calcite.

So rocks can be made of crystals, but rocks are not crystals - in the same way that a house can be made of bricks, but a house is not a brick!

And this is just a very quick overview of these terms, because the scientific definitions can get increasingly pedantic and there are tons of weird exceptions! It is all very fascinating.

But of course, the word rock also has a colloquial definition, which is just… a chunk of that hard stuff the planet is made of! A mineral, a crystal, a fossil or a bio-organic solid… whatever! This is a rock collection and these are my rocks!

#rock collecting #red pen has cool rocks #talkin' bout rocks #i'm gonna get salty in the tags for a minute about that they're minerals marie meme and how utterly unrealistic it is #because literally everyone in this hobby just calls them rocks #and we all collectively understand that we're using the colloquial definition #it's bizarre to me that the show made that joke because arguing about semantics is honestly kind of a Fake Fan red flag at this point #like the only people who argue semantics about this are the crystal woo crowd who insist they're collecting 'crystals' #they're magical healing crystals marie

[fiendishartist2]

guess who just watched this years fourth of footwerk

#idk why it hadnt occurred to me how easy it would be to make my own fin fin #i was watching the youtube upload of the stream and wayne started talking about how he wishes he had a fin fin plush #and i was like wait a minute......... #bc like its literally just a bird body with a fish tail. i just frankensteined like 3 patterns to make him #i love him <33333 #he looks better in person i just have a shitty phone lol #rtvs #fourth of footwerk #fin fin #teo the magic planet #amigurumi #man my wrists are not happy that i was crocheting oh my god. they're cracking and stinging like crazy #i was sewing the other day so they were already a little fucked up but doing tiny crochet projects like this are the worst for my wrists #its worth it tho like look at him :3

[sephospaganplace]

There are so so so many ways to experience the gods.

There is no right or wrong way. There is no blunt way. Its all feeling and ephemeral.

If you've felt warmth, if you've had a dream, if you've seen a crow that stares at you for too long, if something inexplicable happens and you're lucky suddenly, if you've caught eyes with a stranger and felt like you knew each other. If the candle flickers a certain way, if one time when you're singing your voice sounds gorgeous in a way you weren't expecting, these are all the presence of a god.

God phoning is popular on witchtok but half the time what they're saying is bullshit. I've very very rarely heard a voice and every single time it was my own voice, just suffused with something, saying something I normally wouldn’t say. Or maybe I would. I've never heard a clear, distinct, audible voice. Its an invisible world we're connecting with, its a different plain. We cannot experience it the same way we experience every day life.

We'll never sit down at a coffee table across from the physical manifestation of our god, and know that its them, not until after. And even then we can never be sure. That’s the nature of it. There are no absolutes, there cannot be. That’s what makes it beautiful. That’s where belief comes in. It isn't about being good enough or worthy enough or devout enough, that doesn't exist. That isn’t what its about at all. You are worthy even if the divine doesn’t manifest in a way we've been told is the only real way, and you are connecting even if you cant see it now. My most intense spiritual experiences are never something I realize are happening in the moment, its always only after that I can see it clearly.

The gods are all around us.

#Hellenism #Paganism #deity communication #my posts #I will never forgive witchtok for making an entire generation of pagans feel inadequate #You are good enough your practice is enough your experiences with the gods are good and normal #You don't have to have a godphone or intense dreams or whatever the hell they're claiming they're doing for clout #Even if what they're saying is true one of the Delphic Maxims is literally 'Do not boast about power' #Don't tear yourself to shreds #we all want to feel like this is real #to KNOW that this is real #but there is no way of knowing and having proof isnt the point #it isn't #it's about you and your soul and your spiritual journey and connecting with the magic in you #repeat after me #you are good enough. #the gods are with you in ways you cannot see #in ways you aren't meant to see #live your life #keep going keep building something in yourself take CARE of yourself #thats them guiding you too #ok to reblog

[aromacaque]

you want to analyze a cartoon that is something children can watch? ok here's the first and most important lesson ever.

have you ever heard of "suspension of disbelief?"

ok. next step. do you know what an unreliable narrator is and can you separate the character's perspective and opinions from the writers? because i promise you that the beliefs of the main character do not always reflect the writers and the point of analyzing media is to dissect that.

#like guys sometimes the silly jokes in the cartoon are JUST silly jokes you gotta let them be silly jokes #sometimes the shenanigans are super outlandish because it's a FICTIONAL CARTOON where sentient AIs and magic exist #i promise you. I PROMISE YOU that rottmnt's mind meld was not some elaborate problematic take on eugenics of all things #<- an actual thing i read with my own eyes #like i promise you that is literally not what the episode was doing #'they kept saying they made his brothers smarter which is incredibly ableist because it implies they weren't smart before' #ahem. it was donnie's idea of smarter #you know donnie. the one who constantly puts his intelligence on a pedestal to boost his ego #it was HIS definition of smarter and that is not the narratives definition #i think the series makes that abundantly clear with how much they make fun of donnie for whatever superiority complex he's got going on #and (in the nicest way possible) if you watch the episode it's not actually that they're getting 'smarter' what is actually happening #is that they are beginning to act more and more like donnie personality wise #and that the conflict starts with donnie feeling like they don't fully understand him. #and since donnie is a flawed character his way of coping with that is by being like 'well clearly they're inferior to my intelligence!' #(which .. if you really dissect his character is not actually what he means he just doesn't know how to constructively word his feelings)

[lethalhoopla]

the couple that takes down red templars while exploring old ruins together stays together yearns dramatically forevermore together (...in dreams)

(Solas x nonbinary!Lavellan - they/them)

#dragon age inquisition #dragon age #solas #solavellan #inquisitor lavellan #they/them lavellan #nonbinary lavellan #been too long since I posted art TwT life has been insane and i'm literally painting a 300 sq ft mural on my weekends so #love the thought of inquisitors and their romance going on little trips only there's no time for vacation so it's just #date night Feat. Bad Guy Elimination #they're talking spirits and magic and whether little fancy cakes or a fresh loaf of bread and a fruit platter is superior #and whether or not a properly placed ice spike combined with a negated barrier could launch a red templar before they could bull rush #important strategy you know how it is definitely not just magical theorizing for two fuckin nerds #lethalhoopla art

[voiider]

I think mayhaps that Batman should exclusively be a member of the Justice League Dark. He doesn't really like working with people but also sometimes John Constantine is like "You know Batsy, If you help me save the world by proxy it saves Gotham" So he does begrudgingly. But only sometimes when they need help with some things because he's like a very good detective and sometimes you need that! But also mostly I just want the rest of the Justice League to not believe that The Batman is real??

There's an issue that they need dealt with and they think it's a demon so they call Constantine and he's like "nah mate, this is just weird ritualistic sacrifices, I got a call to B-man on this one"

And Superman is like "haha The Batman isn't real... Right?" And then they meet him and he is very much real.

And Diana is all like "Oh Clark you silly, obviously The Batman is real" But internally she's like "holy shit The Batman is real???"

Green Arrow still doesn't believe it because he keeps missing any mission that The Batman happens to go on and he's like "If The Batman was real my best friend Brucie Wayne would have told me so. Brucey said that the Batman is just a scare tactic created by the Gotham Police department" So he's pretty sure that the rest of the Justice League is just playing a long practical joke against him specifically

#justice league #justice league dark #john constantine #batman #I also specifically want all of Bruce's children to call him (Constantine) “Uncle John” #because of running bit where he insists that magic isn't real #'I worked in a circus Uncle John I know all of the tricks You can't fool me haha silly uncle John“ #And John is like 'boy you literally watched me raise a zombie from the dead #'You have literally seen so much magic happen right before you're very eyes' #and dick is like 'hahaha smoke and mirrors :)' #I think Tim would have a good aptitude for doing magic so John is mostly teaching him things along with zantana #I think once Jason comes back from the dead he would be very strong at doing magic but also I think it would be very volatile #and hard to control #I'm imagining holiday dinners where zantana and John both come but they're not dating right now so it's very awkward #obviously Jason Blood/Etrigan are there #the gay uncles if you will #also deadman is there But I don't imagine he's visible all the time unless they cast some sort of spell #Bruce would very much like it if these people were not in his house all the time #But his children are attached so what is he to do

[transsexualhamlet]

Gureshin Week Day 4: Fem!Gureshin

🩷✨Madoka Magica AU✨🩷

@gureshin-week-2023

GRIEF / SEED

The world ends in despair.

Quote from Richard Siken, i know i know.

AU explanation under the cut 👇👇 look im overly dramatic

For fifteen year old Guren Ichinose, the heir of a lowly clan, life offers few possibilities. But when she enters First Shibuya High School, everything changes.

Shinya Hiiragi, part of the very family oppressing Guren's clan and a magical girl, rescues her from harm and asks Guren and her friends Sayuri and Shigure to join her to rebel against their oppressive system.

But then Mahiru Hiiragi, Guren's childhood friend, reappears as a magical girl more powerful than any before, proclaiming that the world will end at the end of the year, and at once the city is met with an increasing swarm of witches from a mysterious organization, The Sisterhood of the Thousand Nights.

As the year wears on, Guren’s friends Sayuri and Shigure join Mito and Goshi in the fold of magical girls, and all must use their newly obtained powers to prevent the nearing apocalypse.

But they fail.

At the end, all that is left against the great witch Mahiru is Shinya, and in front of Guren's eyes, Shinya dies, and all hope is lost. Guren, at Mahiru’s behest finally becomes a magical girl to bring Shinya back to life and turn back time, hoping that if she can do it all again, she might save Shinya from this terrible fate.

The rules are simple -

Shinya cannot learn the truth.

Shinya cannot know Guren loves her.

Shinya cannot become a magical girl.

But every time she turns back the clock, it becomes harder and harder to stop. Every time she repeats the year yet again, reliving an oblivious meeting, Shinya's death becomes more and more inevitable, the devastation of the apocalypse more and more complete. In every timeline, in every reiteration, the angels, the incubators, will take their due, on the despair of the young.

Guren is the reason the world will end. This is the point, the mechanism of magical girls, after all.

The gears of Armageddon will turn. Shinya will choose love over safety, Shinya will die, the world will fall and Guren will rise from the ashes with all the world's blood on her hands.

#rowan screams into the void #gureshin week 2023 #gureshin #owari no seraph #art tag #me when my extremely niche take: #i literally could not ever emphasize enough how normal i am about madoka magica #the importance between the parallels between guren and homura and how they're both transfem actually #and the only moment that 'proves' guren is a real girl is the decision to end the fucking world #they were literally just teenagers!!!!!!!! they only did what they could!!!!!!!!! #madoka magica is like if catastrophe was good. and kagami didn't hate women also #anyway happy gureshin week i have more coming friday #if you're wondering how goshi is a magical girl well hes transmasc and it was a fluke in the system #he just went with it because it's funny

[radaverse]

I love how my aus are just like this

Fake Peppino crying over Peppino in the floor who's fcking bleeding out like "AUFGHHHH I KILLED PEPPINO" all super dark and angst and scary

Then there's Jack and Mai like

"mr samurai you're my best friend!!1!1! 🥰💕✨"

jack: "🥺😭💖"

#help #LIKE THEY'RE OPPOSITES #actually no PoM is real angst too #BUT MAN- #one day I said in the server “my fav stuff to write is angst and wholesome” #then my pal said “that's literally opposite things” #💀💀💀 #pizza tower #samurai jack #pt #sj #tower of mistakes #paws of magic #ToM #PoM #au #aus #pizzaposting #jackposting #radaverse

[msnihilist]

re: this post i reblogged

#fairly oddparents #jimmy neutron #timmy turner #they're itching my braaaiinnn #by ''walk through walls'' jimmy means that goddard is strong enough to break concrete simply by walking at it #LITERALLY through the wall #timmy ofc means magic. duh