i was wondering what would have happened if ianthe had successfully cut her own arm off and regrown a flesh magic one on her own, so i did some doodles to play around with different concepts for it.
my thoughts on the matter below....if u even care
my initial idea was like, to do a very noodley string of flesh. something very rubbery, sticky, and stretchy. because anything she created wouldn't have the support of bones, i thought maybe it could be very flexible to compensate. she doesn't have a regular hand, and so the "string" wraps around the base of objects to give her a grip on it. for heavier objects, she fuses the veins on the string to the handle of the object, as well as adds more veins on the "shoulder" and "elbow" sections for more support. also i thought it'd be funny to watch her try and slap someone, so she winds her shoulder back and smacks them like an arcade sticky hand which is hilarious to visualize for me LOL
^ arcade sticky hand
anyways, i figure she made the noodle arm as a Oh My God I Just Cut My Arm Off I Need To Replace It Quick type of solution. it's temporary, but sort of works. then it's like. okay we need more muscle on this because this is kinda impractical, so she adds onto the base (near the shoulder), and it eventually forms into a weird tentacle thing, throbbing and veiny and gross, that tapers into a thin strand near the end, to keep the whole Wrapping Around Objects To Grab Them (although this sacrifices some of the stretchiness in favor of strength) but it is kinda interesting to have her switch between the two (and perhaps other shapes i didn't think of yet) based on which is more appropriate for the situation, sort of like a swiss arm knife but made of meat.............. and so yea that was just my idea on how she would have done a flesh arm as opposed to having harrow's bone arm (: lots of fun concepts and much more to explore but this is just my first attempt .. for now maybe
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i read a thought a while back that based on rhyme anima, the stupid jokes sasara randomly tells could actually be the punchline for a more elaborate joke since we see sasara use the maneki neko first as a bit to test the waters lol and then later again as he’s on stage doing a whole comedy show with it
so sasara’s been saying his jokes out of context is what they were getting at basically and lmao
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sorry lol I just agreed with that post so much and it got me thinking tbh. I think a lot of us have gotten into a habit of looking at a story so critically, trying to sniff out plot holes and 'bad writing' in a way that misses the fact that the point of a story is to tell a story. I feel like people forget about suspension of disbelief in their mission to analyze a work sometimes. I do think there is a place for in-depth meta analysis of a work, I think it's just as much a worthy fandom experience as any, and maybe that post wasn't even meant to criticize people doing that sort of thing at all, but I just. I think a lot these days about how much more enjoyment I get out of a thing when I decide to watch or read or play it with the intention of just letting it be what it is and not trying to fucking grade its quality or something. you don't have to rate and review everything you do. sometimes you can go 'oh they could have written this differently. but this isn't that version of the story' and then just carry on and not let that other version of how things could have gone haunt your experience. sometimes you have to go 'wow that was kind of dumb' and then just integrate the understanding that the thing you're watching/playing/reading is gonna be kind of dumb sometimes and keep going anyway. and it won't always work out this way, but sometimes you're gonna get a lot more entertainment and joy out of a thing by doing that than by keeping score in your head of the things it's doing 'wrong' or whatever, and I think enjoying a thing for what it is can be a much better use of your time than criticizing it for what it isn't, you know? we're not all film critics. we're not all book reviewers. we don't always need to give a measurement of the quality of everything we experience. you can just experience it. you know?
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Currently rereading this french scifi book that's all about a bunch of medievalish people building this absurdly high cathedral (and by 'high' i mean that none of the living human in this book ever got out of what they call the cathedral and touched the actual ground)in an attempt to reach God but then the big plot twist is that the ruling class are actually a bunch of almost immortal alien beings who accidentally crashed on Earth during the actual Middle Ages, need to be at a certain height to launch their rocket and go back to their planet and therefore used the people's faith and whatever ingineering they had at this point to reach their goals, not caring that it would take centuries and centuries because it's litterally just a few hours for them and honestly this could be such a cool movie, somebody please adapt this thing right now
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Me, about to sleep:
My brain at 3am: you NEED to find that lost obscure animated Christian children's movie you watched a few times when you were little. You need to do that and you need to do it NOW
Me, nearly an hour later on google: NOTHING IS SHOWING UP FOR IT
My brain: make a tumblr post asking for help then. We NEED to find this movie
Me: ...Fine
Ok, so the movie from my childhood was a 2D animated christian children's vhs movie, probably from the 90s, most likely. That or early 2000s.
Had a bunch of talking animals and a human Friar who would talk to the animals, giving them religious guidance and telling stories from the Bible n stuff, I think. He lived in a church? Chapel? Idk
A harsh thunderstorm hits the little forest one night, the animals seeking shelter with the Friar as the church was safer, if I remember right. The next day, the animals went out to find that a tree had fallen and blocked the home of one of the animals, and they were really upset over it. They tried to find some way to remove the tree, but it was in vain. One of the animals offers their cave as a temporary home, but the animal whose home was blocked rejects it, wanting their own home back.
Something something... the Friar tells the animals about the rainbow being a promise or something as a rainbow appears overhead at the end.
In all honesty, the animation from what I remember wasn't actually that bad, the art style, too, compared to most other christian animated stuff. Then again, it's been over 2 decades since I watched it last. We no longer have the movie as we had gotten rid of a ton of movies long ago.
Honestly, the whole movie had a sort of "paradise/utopia" sort of feel to it. Sure, something negative happened, but the Friar was chill, and it ended on a happy note, and everyone was fine. Minus the animal whose home was gone.
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even back in the olden tg days I never thought furuta was interesting, cool, or well written enough to be as big a part of the story as he was and tbh once he became a major player was when the series really started getting bad from what I remember
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