The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course
There are few things as embarrassingly nerdy as being the one to correct people online on Naruto ninja-sword terminology and I am painfully aware of this but like, here we fucking go anyway...
I keep seeing ANBU-Kakashi's sword being referred to as a tantō when it's most likely supposed to be a ninjatō. That's fine, I'm not the ninja-sword facts police BUT I'm a huge fan of ANBU Kakashi's character design and I'm just itching for a reason to bring some attention to his sword.
Baby Kakashi famously wields a tantō, which is a dagger or very short sword. It looks a bit like a sword when little Kakashi uses it since he's so very very small. If adult Kakashi used that tantō it would be clear that it's more like a knife.
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A ninjatō (or ninjaken) which is what Konoha ANBU all seem to be using, is exactly what it sounds like: a ninja sword. They're what shinobi of feudal Japan were supposed to have used. None of that is actual history though, it's pretty much all made up sword and ninja lore. Anyway: A ninjatō is supposed to be slightly shorter than a katana and have a completely straight blade compared to the slightly curved one of traditional Japanese blades (oh god I can hear myself with the katana facts but I just really love weapon design...)
Here are screenshots of the very straight blade of the ANBU sword and an example of Kakashi throwing a kunai by using the tip of his sword like the true fucking badass that he is:
Twirling his ninja sword <3
For reference: Obito uses a regular katana, long and slightly curved...
Santa is on strike due to global warming. All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger. Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.
My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.
Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.
Hahaha I feel completely normal about this art and not at all like I'm actively chewing glass 🫠
Every day I wake up and think:
“At some point Izzy realised how out of control things had gotten, and started putting himself in between Ed and the crew, as much as he could. Especially when Ed was too drunk/high to even know what he was doing. Cause Izzy doesn’t want the others to suffer more for his mistakes.”
Does @were--ralph have an alert for when that gif is posted or...
‘redditors need to know this’, ‘twitterinas need to know that’… no. you need to know one thing and that is that you are not allowed to complain about werewolf fuckers. this is the werewolf fucking website. grow up and go fuck a werewolf.
This is an exceptionally good essay about season 2 - I feel better for having read it but also worse for having to wait so long until season 3.
The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2
(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous
But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code
And Have You Dead To Rights*)
(*Maybe)
***
Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off.
Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse?
Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended
In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–