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Anybody remember that one time they tried to make BIONICLE into a shonen manga/anime
Pretty sure it's lost media now since you'd think it'd show up on wikipedia or tvtropes or something but I guess it's just that obscure
Ah well
#bionicle#art#my art#bc#bionicle circulation#anime#manga#takua#hahli chan#jaller senpai#gavra#makuta#takanuva#gorast#I've seen someone refer to this as a goncharov situation#i think it sums it up enough
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Given it’s the 1st of April, I figured I would draw my manic Ko-Matoran Biotuber avatar from the Knowledge Tower in the Bionicle Circulation style by @bioniclechicken. Be sure to check out their stuff if you haven’t already, their comics / art are excellent.
#bionicle#the knowledge tower#Bionicle circulation#bioniclechicken#love your stuff#vs Zyglak and Orde and the abominable snowmen especially
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I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF I lover her and she is everything to me my GOD
Ganto has returned as an anime girl and it is so fucking good les gooOOOO
Bonus: Nobua
Check out @bioniclechicken's blog!!!
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I used some HF Ammo belt pieces to give my Chirox a better jacket. Very happy with the results.
#not a reblog#bionicle#bonkle#bonkles#makuta chirox#chirox#my moc#previously I just had a pair of long spikes running parallel to the hoses#but they fell out of alignment super easy#so the hoses didn't look like the lining of a jacket so much as#well... a pair of hoses#which they still are meant to be#antidermis gotta circulate#but like#the vibe has to be right
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I've been reading too many isekai stories. Now I have the idea for a story where a human plays a video game that is clearly based on Bionicle and the characters look like from Bionicle, but the plot barely has any resemblance to canon.
Then she visits an aquarium that has enclosures in the ocean, supernatural stuff happens, and she falls into a glowing, whirling pool that opens into a whirlpool / tunnel.
When she wakes up, she's washed up on the beach of what she quickly realizes is the game's setting. The game she's been playing. The game that has an excuse plot for the sake of blowing stuff up as a toa team.
And she's now in the body of a skakdi, one of the 'stuff'.
But one: the skakdi, name "Lekto", is still present but her mind pushed back. They strike up a friendship.
Two: The memories she has of the toa conflict with how they are played and programmed in the game. They were their area's protectors and were actually part of a larger group consisting of different species working together. Not always harmonously, but well. Which group doesn't have their problems?
But a few months ago, something changed. As if their entire personalities had been transformed. They killed, drove off, or captured the other members.
Three: The player feels intense deja-vu. Not as in "I recognize locations from my playthrough", but "There's a hidden entrance into a cave where my friends and I like to hang out with each other" that Lekto doesn't know about. The cave contains objects that belong to the protector team. This happens with other locations, too.
Four: Glatorian and agori and skrall and other species live in the nearby village. Where did they come from?! They never appeared in the game. And there's a book whose author's name is partly damaged, reading as "When-"
Five: The people are terrified. Rumors circulate that a Great Being has returned and is seeking revenge. They've teamed up with a mercenary from far away whose group consists of people who are only known by their code names.
Six: Sometimes, the world seems to... not glitch because that's not the right word. More like it becomes 'glassy', as if looking through a window, and you vaguely see something beyond.
Seven: Places have appeared where time seems to be broken. They're more frequent around the areas where the world is Glassy.
Eight: What the fuck is going on?
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This one is also dear to me for entirely different reasons. When the Bohrok Va came out, Pahrak Va was the first of that specific set that I bought, and I fell IMMEDIATELY in love, and with all the memes circulating the internet involving Bonk in some silly context, endeared me to the project even more.
Now, that said, I won't lie by saying that his construction came without difficulties.
With great thanks to the bionicle community, 3D parts packs have been a veritable bounty of resources, with more coming out seemingly by the hour.
One of the pieces within the parts packs that I have access to is the kohli stick, as well as the puck piece that was used as the kohli ball. And if you look to the piece of equipment that the little man is wielding, you will immediately note that it is not the aforementioned kohli stick, but a table-scrap esque construction of one, same with the ball.
So you can imagine my anger and embarrassment when I FOUND the actual piece, after having spent all that time BUILDING ONE FROM SCRATCH.
Still, regardless of the expended emotions, Pahrak Va Kal remains one of my many favorites of these Hjönkles.
Little fluff piece under the cut.
Emerald eyes, scanning a horizonless sea of gems, whose facet intelligence matches but a fraction of your own. To wordless cause, you shepherd your carapaced flock across a stretch of foreign desert, whose sands are alien and unclean to those who heed your guidance.
Their wordless questions drown amidst the chittering of mouthless tongues, and pounding of restless hammers. "Guide us," they cry. "Give us task, so that by our task we may exist"
And so you conduct them; each gesture obeyed in your concerto construction. Pylons condense from strange sand into familiar rock. Hedrons now inscribed with scripture of a voiceless hand.
To clean it all, the land must have example of what is to be considered clean.
Timeless, and buffeting, like the stone of which you comprise.
Pahrak.
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TFW you realize this is this is the last year we’re going to get Bionicle circulation
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I’m halfway across the world right now but I’m not gonna miss fun fact friday!
I did not receive this until Saturday morning, but I'm not going to make you wait another week for Fun Fact Friday.
...I'm between the headless chicken, BIONICLE Hell, and the Bat Creek thing.
You know what let's do Bat Creek.
In 1889 someone discovered, during excavations of Native American mounds in Tennessee, this rock:
The guy in charge of excavations decided that this was writing in the Cherokee alphabet, created by Sequoyah in the early 1800's. Problem is that the mound they were excavating was considered to be much older than the Cherokee written language, which was invented in early 1800's. So somewhere along the line, much later, in the 70's, some guy decided that what this language is must be a form of archaic Hebrew.
Yeah.
Other languages were suggested too, and this rock soon became a symbol for pseudohistorical claims that there were people who sailed across the Atlantic to North America outside of the historical record.
Most serious historians these days think it's a hoax, and that the writing is probably drawn out of a Masonic text that would have been widely circulated around the time of the excavations. Which seems likely. Still, we don't know who did the fraud, or why.
Technically, the rock belongs to the Smithsonian, but it's loaned out and you can see it today in the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina:
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been thinking about that response on that video of the toa inika circulating around tumblr rn where they said "i would close my eyes when this came on as a kid and cry"
ok noob. baby. you were weak and 2006 was a great bionicle year story-wise AND set-wise so while you were crying 9-year-old me forced my parents to buy me brutaka and axonn and it was fucking amazing
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Excerpt: Kanohi Mask Names (Matoran Dictionary, 3e)
As mentioned last time, I am releasing some drafts of subparts of the Matoran Dictionary (3rd Edition) project, to give people a taste of what it looks like. Today’s draft includes a sampling of Kanohi names, the designations of the Masks of Power that play such a central role in the BIONICLE storyline.
Link to the Google Doc: Draft Excerpt: Kanohi Names
The document includes etymologies for over half of all the Kanohi names introduced in story, along with many of the subparts that make up the full designations.
As a preview, here are the etymologies of the 6 great masks that were introduced in BIONICLE year 1: the masks of the Toa Mata. The full etymologies of these masks (including some of their subparts), can be found in the linked document above.
AKAKU Name-designation of the Kanohi Mask of (X-Ray) Vision. Grants the wearer the ability to see through solid matter. ● “x-ray vision, piercing vision/sight; lit. ‘sight-of-sight’”, NMtc. in form = ak-aku, from aku “sight, vision” or aku(h) “insight, knowledge” via full reduplication (aku → ak-aku), which yields an “intensive” meaning.
HAU Name-designation of the Kanohi Mask of Shielding. Grants the wearer the ability to generate a protective shield to ward against any attack they are aware of. ● [1] “shielding, protection; lit. ‘wall/barrier’”, NMtc. in form < AMtc. sau ~ hau < PMtc. *sau, adopted from PAgc. *sau “wall, barrier” = PAgc. *sa-u, from *sa “stick, line, tool” derived by u-appendix (mass nouns, substances). ● [2] “shielding, protection; lit. ‘life-preservation’”, NMtc. in form < AMtc. cau, likely a disfixation from PMtc. *(ae)kaul, adopted from PAgc. *ækaul “life-preserving/protecting” (cf. also *ækl “reflecting, armored”) = PAgc. *ækau-l, from *ækau “(internal/biological) life-processes” derived by l-appendix (properties, practices); see also CA.
KAKAMA Name-designation of Kanohi Mask of Speed. Grants the wearer the ability to move at extremely high speed. ● “fast speed, high velocity”, NMtc. in form = ka-kama, from kama “speed, velocity” via full reduplication (kama > ka-kama), which yields an “intensive” meaning.
KAUKAU Name-designation of the Kanohi Mask of Water Breathing. Grants the wearer the ability to breathe water instead of air. ● “water-breathing; lit. ‘breath-of-breath’”, NMtc. in form = kau-kau, from kau “life-process; breath, circulation” via full reduplication (kau → kau-kau), which yields an “intensive” meaning.
MIRU Name-designation of the Kanohi Mask of Levitation. Grants the wearer the ability to float on air currents and slow their rate of fall. ● “levitation, floating (on air)”, NMtc. in form < eAMtc. mairu, likely a disfixation of mairuh in the eAMtc. period, see entry miru(h).
PAKARI Name-designation of the Kanohi Mask of Strength. Grants the wearer significantly increased strength. ● “strength; lit. ‘exertion-of-exertion’ or ‘effort-of-effort’”, NMtc. in form < PMtc. *papari = PMtc. *pa-pari, from *pari “exertion, effort” (see entry pari) via full reduplication (*pari → *pa-pari), which yields an “intensive” meaning.
#bionicle#conlanging#matoran language#matoran dictionary#agori language#kanohi#masks#names#3e#3rd Edition
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There’s an urge in art lately to ‘make it bigger’. You could argue it’s the Marvel Effect, in this case referring to the MCU which is somewhat misnamed as these days it’s in TV shows and video games as well, but it feels more accurate to call it the Marvel AND DC Effect. It strikes me as something that really grew out of comic books of the mid-to-late twentieth century: crossovers, crossovers, crossovers. A story isn’t good unless it has far-reaching effects.
We’re getting something similar in video games as well. One of the biggest companies in that area is trying to remake a game that’s over a decade old at this point, and what they’re doing is taking so many people so long that they’re having to release it in installments years apart.
I’m absolutely guilty of this as well. I grew up on BIONICLE, so the urge to ‘make it bigger’ is ingrained into my creative psyche. It’s something that derailed my last big project, although attempting to write for a series that’s still ongoing certainly didn’t help.
Bringing it full-circle to the MCU, which I have no investment in, having seen only four of however many installments there are at this point. It feels as though their first television project, focusing on so few characters you could just about count them on a single hand, was their most successful. Whereas their most recent one spanned multiple universes and the exact same number of episodes so far and landed with a plop.
Maybe that one bit of advice circulating in grade school was right.
Keep It Simple, Stupid.
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April approacheth so I drew some girls
Forgive me
Hahli-chan
Maku
Tamaru
Gavra
Gavra (reboot)
Vhisola
Dalu
Kai
Marka
Nokama-sensei
Idris
Bahrag Princesses
#bionicle#art#my art#bc#bionicle circulation#anime#manga#hahli chan#maku#tamaru#gavra#vhisola#dalu#kai#marka#idris#bahrag
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See You In Hell, Bratz Passion 4 Fashion: Diamondz!
Contrary to the opinions of many of my peers, I think weeding is awesome and I love it. There’s little I find more satisfying than an item of obviously low quality with no demand whatsoever coming into my attention and having the privilege of removing it from circulation.
Just to be entirely clear, we’re not talking about “extreme” or “controversial” content. I’ve had that conversation done to death a thousand classroom-polarizing times before. We’re talking about cheap. We’re talking about cash-grab. We’re talking about no artistic, cultural, spiritual, or even material value.
We’re talking about Bratz Passion 4 Fashion; Diamondz.
Some personal history first: I’m old enough that my last big toy phase before I reached the special level of adolescence where you have to openly condemn everything you once held dear as a child was Bionicles. I had the black bionicle from every generation up until that point, as well as a complete set of those little rolly-polly guys with the stretchy necks. I don’t know what they were called and I couldn’t be bothered to look it up for this lil micro-essay here.
What’s important is that they were cool. They did action-y stuff, I felt smart putting them together.
Waaaay Cooler, Smarter, Action-y, and REAL than my sister’s interests! Polly Pocket? Dumb! Pre-bronification MLP? Barf! Bratz? How fake can you get? Those were just shallow pieces of plastic made by toy companies. Not like my precious bionicles. So cool. So adult. So smart.
Then I watched the first Bionicle movie when it was on TV and realized I too was a cog in an elaborate toy commercial scheme. Something clicked in my horny mushy pre-teen brain, and I put away all my old favorite toys forever. It was now time to be shitty and elitist about intangible concepts instead, a hobby I’d keep until my early 20′s. But in addition to a change in hobbies, I also started to be a little bit less shit to my sister about her toys.
This confession out of the way, I don’t think my sister would have stopped me from throwing this DVD directly into the trash. My sister didn’t become a high-fallutin’ working-class intelligentsia asshole like her big brother, and we have nothing comparable in terms of media taste, but I think she would support me 100% if I told her I sent this DVD straight to hell. In fact I might call her later just to confirm. This disk was bad, is the moral of my story.
It took six paragraphs, but let’s talk about Day 3 on the job!
It was just me and Lisa today. I’ve upgraded from liking Lisa to absolutely loving working with Lisa. We talked everything from how her kids are doing to politics (she brought up Tr#mps latest satire-destroying phone call) to video-gaming to the history of animation. I genuinely like talking to her and it’s a shame she’s just filling in. If a job opens up at her branch, I’d apply for it, no question.
My boss Wallace, “Yer dad”-level queerphobe and Ron Swanson-esque libertarian, was putting out a metaphorical fire at another branch and I didn’t have to deal with him at all.
I did my opening routine. Checking the drop box, collecting the pull list, putting together holds, refiling returned materials, preparing ILL material, checking my work email, and the like. I was done with it all in about 90 minutes, with 4 hours left to go on my shift.
Wallace had told me to fill the time with anything I can qualify as “professional development” the week before, so I spent some time reading articles on the ALA website and googling “anarcho-librarianism” just to see what would happen. I found an abandoned blog and a twitter.
Then I remembered oh shit. I have to make a twitter don’t I
I don’t like twitter. I’ve tried to use it. I don’t get it. I’m too old to learn a new app. It’s impossible.
And yet I must. That’s where The Discourse is happening. That’s where the minds in my field are saying things. If I’m taking my career seriously, if I want to get a grip on the currents in my profession, I have to bite that checkmarked bullet. Stand by for updates on my professional twitter.
I got bored of being on the ALA site and ran out of productive things to google, and decided to look around the building for abandoned projects and mysteries to solve. It didn’t take long to find one, when I found a cart in the work room with a pile of DVDs in paper sleeves.
“Scratched” a post-it note on top said.
I asked Lisa if she knew how long these had been here, and she confirmed that they were in fact a hold-over from the previous staff that had left in a mass exodus some months before.
Well cool, I thought. I’ll see if these are too fucked up to play.
Commence with an hour of consuming children’s media, a few seconds of a minute at a time. I was fortunate that the work computers both had CD drives AND VLC media player! Thank you, past cool supervisor who put VLC on the work machines! Good call!
So I “watched” a few Dora The Explorers, a Care Bears film, that Trolls movie, Hotel Transylvania, and a Barbie horse adventure film, watching a few seconds before skipping a minute ahead to see if it would choke and skip.
See here’s the thing about scratched CDs. They’re weird. You can have a CD that’s fucked up completely (looking at you, my copy of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1) that still somehow plays fine like it just came out of the box. Sometimes scratches will seem totally superficial but goof up just enough microscopic binary that no machine will touch it. All these DVDs were ugly as sin, but that didn’t mean they were broken did it?
And it turns out a lot of them worked fine. That’s how I ended up watching Bratz Passion 4 Fashion: Diamondz which, unfortunately, played fine.
As I put the disk into the drive I remembered my sister’s participation in the Bratz toy craze. As an adult, a real one not the one I told myself I was at 13, I told myself that I might have a bias against this content, to just check the disk and not get judgy about what might be a kids favorite movie.
I uh... I failed to do that.
BUT IT’S OK BECAUSE MY BIAS IS TOTALLY JUSTIFIED AND MY JUSTIFICATION IS RIGHT HERE
If you didn’t or don’t want to click the link, it’s a scene where the Bratz Diamonds are about to head out on some sort of fashion trucking marathon/race. Like any proper racer, the blonde at the wheel has a white-knuckle grip on the wheel, has just put their rig in gear, and in proper high-octane fashion, puts on a knowing smirk.
Except the smirk is, well... the animators just stretched the lips across the face further. I can’t do it justice, you just have to watch it, but I’ve done better animating just by pan-and-scanning around Windows Movie Maker.
This... isn’t content anybody needs.
But I’m a librarian. I’m sworn to access. So the question becomes, does anyone want it?
I had to know, I had to know, how much circulation has this gotten? When was the last time this disk was in the hands of anybody at all besides me?
I popped it into Evergreen and behold: 15 check-outs since 2006 when it was released. No checkouts in the last 2 years.
I asked Lisa the proper procedure for removing something from the catalog, and in only a moment the deed was done. The case was repurposed, the disk trashed, the DVD cover recycled. It was time to go. I’d spent my remaining hours quasi-consuming children’s media.
I placed most of what I’d watched in a new pile, which I labeled “SCRATCHED BUT WORK FINE.” I placed one lone Barbie horse movie in a different pile labeled “SCRATCHED AND DOES NOT WORK.”
I felt like I’d accomplished something. I turned off the lights and I went home.
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Decided to draw Ganto as a Bionicle Circulation character.
She doesn't make sense, that girl. She'd get good grades if she could find her way to class on time.
And then not sleep through it immediately.
Check out @bioniclechicken's blog!!!
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I used to write fuckin essays on this site about a lot of inane nonsense, and I don’t know where the motivation to do that went. I have this general desire to learn how to write better, but don’t have the motivation to discuss anything at length. Work sucks, but it sucks for a lot of people. Not in a choir at the moment so I can’t say fuck all about that. My Girlfriend is amazing but I doubt many people want to hear me gush about her. I’m having a weird struggle with wanting to date another person but having a bunch of obstacles in place of going poly again… the whole thing’s too complicated to describe in one go. And I’ve talked about my family to death, though generally that’s going better than it used to. I suppose… part of what I want is to finally write something that draws an audience beyond my friend group. I’d love to connect with new people somehow, get beyond where I’m at physically.
Iunno. If anyone wants to hear what I have to say gimme a topic, but aside from that I’m not terribly inspired at the moment.
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#GemCityComicCon is pleased to welcome Stuart Sayger to our 2019 show! Stuart Sayger is best known for his moody and expressive style, inks, gouache, chalk and oil pastels are standard when creating his comic book pages. He first broke into the industry as the creator of SHIVER IN THE DARK, producing the comic independently from start to finish. Currently Sayger is produced artwork for “#ManofSteel” #Superman movie, as well as a #videogame adaption of Robert Kirkman’s “Thief of Thieves” Recent comic book projects include producing art for various #IDW projects including: “#30DaysofNight”, “Robert Rodriguez’s Machete”, and “Bram Stoker’s Death Ship”. Toy fans may remember Stuart’s work from a 2-year run drawing the “#Bionicle” comic book based on the popular Lego toy line of the same name. The series was translated to 8 different languages and distributed internationally boasting the largest circulation of any comic book in the world. Gamers will know Stuart’s work from various sets of collectible card game, “VS” from #Upperdeck as well as “Vampire the Eternal Struggle” from White Wolf Games. Stuart is often drawing during conventions, so please stop by and see his inky fingers at work! #GCCC19 #comics #comicbooks #convention #FeaturedGuest #creator #artist #cosplay #gaming #popculture http://bit.ly/2DnchJx
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