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icys-junkyard · 2 years

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Ingo hears the rumbles of something massive and metal rushing through the underground caves. It sounds somewhat familiar.

This man deserves to have something train-adjacent in Hisui. Alpha Steelix is a very good multi-passenger mount, especially when Ingo has his Alakazam out to psychically keep everyone safe while riding.

Many passengers travel on Ingo’s Steelix! -Team Galaxy is rather hesitant and refuse to ride, other than their resident skyfaller. -The Ginkgo Guild is absolutely on board with the idea though. Fast? Safe? High carrying capacity? What else could a merchant want?? -Even the clans are pretty okay with it after realizing Steelix finds it amusing and that it’s sticking to preset ‘tracks’ rather than tearing up the land willy-nilly. Calaba won’t say it aloud, but she does appreciate actually being able to visit the Pearl camp easily and more often now that Steelix is taking passengers. -Sometimes other Pokémon will hitch a ride!!

Volo is banned from the Steelix. Giratina is suspended until it apologizes.

#subway boss ingo #pokemon ingo #warden ingo #submas #lady sneasler #pla #pokemon legends arceus #steelix #Sneasler: oh god my warden is about to do some stupid shit again #Sneasler: ...oh wait this could actually be hilarious #and it was #she was laughing constantly when ingo first started training steelix to be a train #akari also thinks its beyond funny #also. on the third page? sneasler really said :3c #been a long week for me but look look. art!!! allegedly #accidentally went too hard when drawing the cave #caves are neat #icys drawings and doodles

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tathrin · 13 days

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Hey, so do you ever stop to think about how the premise of Lord of the Rings being an in-universe book written by some of the characters who lived through that story means that they decided what parts and perspectives to use to tell that story...?

And when our authors weren't there to experience the events themselves, they have to rely on what they're told about them by the characters who were there, right...?

Okay so stop and think about the Glittering Caves.

We never actually go to the caves in the narrative. Tolkien LOVES describing nature and natural beauty, but we don't actually see the caves described "by him" the way we do other places. Obviously Gimli's words are Tolkien's, yes; but we only see the caves filtered through his words about them, after the fact.

When Gimli and Éomer and the other Rohirrim take refuge there, the narrative doesn't follow them. Obviously from a narrative standpoint this is to keep the focus narrow, and not to interrupt the battle-sequence with a long ode to the beauty of the caves, and to create tension in the reader who doesn't know if these characters are okay or not. Which all makes sense!

But think about it in terms of the book that was written in Middle-earth by the folk living there. Why DON'T we get to have a direct experience of those caves? Gimli obviously related several other parts of the story that none of the Hobbits were there to witness to them, and which were written into the books as Direct Events Happening In The Narrative (think of the Paths of the Dead scene, for one of the more visceral moments!). So why not the Glittering Caves?

Was it because they wanted to keep that narrative focus and tension, and so they didn't include his perspective on that part of the battle? Perhaps, that's certainly a possibility to consider.

But also consider: when we do hear about the Glittering Caves, what we hear is Gimli telling Legolas about the Glittering Caves. THAT is the part of that event that is considered of importance to include in the book: not Gimli's actual experience when he was in them, but rather the part where he relates that experience TO Legolas.

And I kind of just THOUGHT about that today.

And went HUH.

#i mean that's pretty neat right?#the story could very easily have included gimli and eomer in the caves #and probably tolkien could have done some really beautiful stuff with language and tension and contrast #balancing the beauty of the caves with the fear and bloodshed of the battle outside #and it would probably be an incredibly lovely sequence tbh #then the gimli/legolas discussion about the caves could be easily glossed-over on the way to isengard #with the narrative just telling us that gimli told legolas about the caves and he was moved by gimli's words yadda yadda #since we would have already experienced the wonders he was talking about for ourselves and thus wouldn't need him to go on at length #and then they make their bargain to go to aglarond and fangorn together tra la lally resume normal service here #that would have also been a perfectly fine and lovely way to write that part of the story #BUT #that is not how the story was written #and i just find it really interesting and lovely that THAT is what was considered the important part about gimli's discovery of aglarond #lotr meta #gimli #legolas #aglarond #glittering caves #lord of the rings #lotr

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crebbyhermit · 6 months

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aoilight enjoyers come get your food

#zero escape #zero escape 999 #santa zero escape #snake zero escape #aoi kurashiki #light field #aoilight #crebsketch #999 was so good.#bro #i finished it awhile ago but going thru tags opened my eyes to this ship #they’re neat :)#im ngl. i half drew this just to see. anyone still out there (yelling into a cave)#999 spoilers #just incase. perhaps

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not-thenauts · 2 months

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Entering Octonauts Catalogue . . .

3:32 am, April 6, 2024;

Dashi : “Captain! Captain!”

Captain Barnacles : “Yes, Dashi?”

Dashi : “We found it. We found out what was behind that cave and…”

Captain Barnacles : “Did something happen?”

Dashi : “You’ll have to look at the footage yourself, Captain.”

Captain Barnacles : “Oh… my…”

Dashi : “It’s absolutely stunning— monumental even! This is going to change everything!”

Captain Barnacles : “Faster than you can say crunchy-bunchy-however you say it- carrots!”

Tweak : “Hey, that’s my line!”

Exempted from catalogue.

#nocturnal octonauts #octonauts #captain barnacles #tweak bunny #octonauts tweak #Octonauts dashi #a neat discovery #cave dive #secret sculpture

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un-pearable · 4 months

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i think ninjago fans need to rewatch s3e7 every once in a while. to keep them humble and remind them of the wonders of an early 2010s lego that didn’t give a shit

#we random generated an ep for funsies. god i love The Void it’s such a funny sequence for the PENULTIMATE EPISODE #before major character death #in other news anim8 pointed out that the big cave interior model they use for the comet is the same one as the room morro died in in s5 #just with a giant hole added in the center . pretty neat!#text✨#ninjago

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cinnamon-flame · 1 year

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Here are some Swoobats that I drew to reset my mind. I honestly love these guys so much and I want to spread the Swoobat love.

#Whenever I play pokemon fangames I always run to get my own Swoobat #they are almost always super easy to find #being cave pokemon and all #I don't see a lot of people loving these guys as they should be #so I'm just doing my sacred duty by drawing swoobat propaganda #also some tarot reference #I don't know much about tarot but I always found it pretty neat #pokemon #luxray #swoobat #woobat #cinnamon's doodles

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ode-on-a-grecian-butt · 2 years

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This endless river of bats emerging from Cueva de los Murciélagos in Mexico

#bats #Mexico #Cueva de los Murcielagos #cave #animals #nature #neat

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jadeazora · 6 months

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As an aside to Pokemon Altair, I do think Wallace and Steven have aspects to their characters that makes them fit into the villain role pretty well (even tho they're still good people and wouldn't be evil of their own volition.)

With Wallace, it's mostly the bombastic personality and stage presence, really always makes a villain more fun to watch and interesting when they've got that charismatic side to them.

Steven is genuinely a pretty nice guy, but does have a bit more of a merciless side to him that even Wallace notes. He'll do what he has to do in order to protect his interests. There's also that time in the anime where he showed up when Team Flare's plan was kicking off, presumably having headed to Lysandre Labs to put a stop to Lysandre himself, and had his Mega Metagross attack Mable and her Weavile directly (they barely avoided it and were sent flying in its wake), with its Meteor Mash blowing up the building behind her.

It's a shame that's where being an older hack comes in (it dates back to 2010), since while they were pretty creative with the changes they made and how they handled the storyline basically having the same plot progression as Emerald's in spite of it being a sequel, I feel they could've done a little more with them and Nemea, the evil Legendary that's responsible for their turn (it would be cool to see a more modernized remake with an enhanced story, but I don't think anyone would bother enough):

#pokemon altair and sirius #pokemon altair #pokemon rom hack #pokemon romhack #steven stone #champion steven #gym leader wallace #champion wallace #pokemon fangame #fakemon #it's kinda the greater scope villain in terms of lore #but it's just at the end of a cave puzzle in the game #it would be neat if it had more of a presence in the story

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flame-shadow · 1 year

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Anthill Palace and Cave of Trials

#bug fables #bug fables npc collab #flameshadowart #characters removed for this but the cave of trials one is pretty neat with the characters in it just saying #id in alt #the hologram is a harvestman fyi. not a spider

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goldensunset · 4 months

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i was previously complaining about not having the fly hm yet but now that i do have it i’m like ehhh whatever it’s more fun to walk and appreciate the scenery and music. i think the primary difference might be that a lot of the routes between cities are straight shots that have little to no tall grass/deep sand/caves/etc that could potentially stop me. like there are definitely some routes i’m never again gonna want to travel through just as thru traffic (*cough* route 7 *cough cough* chargestone cave) but otherwise i’m like yeah i’ll just walk over to driftveil city. yeah route 3 to the daycare is a straight shot. yeah i’ll bike across skyarrow bridge. i’ll go back and forth for fun even. i don’t want to fast travel unless it really would be that much effort otherwise

#shows good game design imo #where fast travel is a neat little fun luxury in a pinch of a situation #and not something you need to make life borderline bearable #getting around sinnoh sometimes…#it was so fun having to go all the way through multiple cave systems to get to the top of mount coronet every time #but i mean. that’s one i understand #but every other route…#meanwhile in unova i can zip along to any city rather quick #and because of this convenience venturing off the path into the grass is seen as a fun and beneficial thing to do #not a mandatory chore #do you get what i’m saying?#goldie plays pokémon black

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smokeys-house · 9 days

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i'm 7 hours late to ask sending cause i was in the eepy zone but now i must know! do u like crabs and if so what is your fave species 🦀

I love crabs! I think they're very silly critters and they're quite fun. That being said I don't know any of the species but my favorite crab is my brother's fiance who we call crabigail (I just call her crab)

#smokey answers #sorry i know thats not a real answer lol but i legit dont know any crab species #i like the like... classic red one #but i think cave crabs are neat! the white ones r cool...

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fanvoidkeith · 4 months

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hey remember when everyone thought axolotls were weird and ugly?

me neither. that's my baby boy(?) right there

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korpikorppi · 2 years

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Some impressions of the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style (and some of the others, too)

This comment by @mylittleponygrrl

My one wish (regret) about the series is that we never got to see the Yunmeng Jiang fighting forms. What a wasted opportunity that we never got to see Wei Wuxian, their first disciple, actually sword fight 🥺

on this post about my favourite LWJ sword technique got me thinking. While I agree that There Should Have Been More!, we actually do see Wei Wuxian sword fight and we do also see the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style 🙂. Let's see...

We do, of course, have The Moonlight Duel™️. Wei Wuxian does not, as we know, draw Suibian, but he uses the sword in it's scabbard to parry Lan Wangji's attacks, using defence techniques we can safely assume to be part of the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style. And he fights Lan Wangji to a standstill, so they appear to be quite effective.

The occasion where we see the best glimpses of Wei Wuxian fighting with a sword (even if the sword is not, unfortunately, Suibian) is the fight against the Wen in the cave of the Xuanwu, which is actually a really nice show of the various fighting styles. It is (also unfortunately) almost impossible to get good screencaps of him: he is a flurry of motion, twirling in tight circles (rather similar to the moves he uses when casting his talismans, come to think of it, so that is perhaps something typical for him), performing fast parries and strikes with relatively small movements, skillfully wreaking havoc as he goes.

In this fight, Wei Wuxian also performs a neck slice, basically the same technique as my LWJ favourite (caps here), but the execution is more straight forward with him moving in after a nice little parry, keeping his body straight, barely leaning in, before pulling the blade back.

Moving on... Wei Wuxian actually wields Suibian during the fight on the Jinlintai stairs! Even if he has not been using a sword for a long time, even if he no longer has his golden core nor a reservoir of spiritual energy, he's doing... quite ok, relying at this point (I imagine) on his reflexes and muscle memory from his years of training.

And of course, regarding the Yunmeng Jiang fighting style, we must not forget Jiang Cheng. As the Young Master of the Jiang Clan he's sure to have received as thorough and rigorous a training in the Yunmeng Jiang sword techniques as Wei Wuxian, and we see him fighting both in the Xuanwu cave...

...and during the Sunshot Campaign.

Based on how the Yunmeng Shuangjie fight, I get an impression that where the Lan (or at least the Twin Jades) like to keep their enemies at a distance to employ their large, graceful sweeps and swirls, the Yunmeng Jiang seem to go by the principle of "keep your friends close and your enemies closer", also in practise.

Both Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng perform their parries relatively close to their bodies (as can be seen in some of the images above), keeping their movements precise, fast and economical. And even when thrusting and striking out, they do not seem to reach very far or lean in but keep their bodies straight and their weapons closer to their bodies than the Lan, who always seem to go for range, to bend and stretch (check out the contrast between Jiang Cheng above and Lan Wangji below). I also have a feeling that compared to the Lan, more emphasis is placed on defensive techniques in the Jiang style, which would make sense considering the above-mentioned difference in their "range of engagement".

Also, the Yunmeng Jiang characteristic of fighting at a relatively close range allows Wei Wuxian to more easily adapt his sword style to fighting with Chenqing when he uses his flute (much shorter than a jian) as a melee weapon. Quite handy.

To end this, I also have to mention that I absolutely love the way Jin Zixuan fights! If the Lan favour engaging at a long range and the Jiang at a relatively short range, Jin Zixuan seems to settle somewhere in between. His techniques are not as graceful as those of the Lan nor as fast as those of the Jiang, but they are very powerful and well grounded. And while all of the young masters are quite adept at unarmed combat (look at the fight in the Xuanwu cave!), Jin Zixuan strikes me as being the most comfortable with it. So are those things representative of the Jin fighting style? Probably, but it is pretty much impossibe to say to what extent, because we do not see anyone else really use it (and Jin Ling for sure had not been taught proper unarmed combat).

And oh, talking about the fight in the Xuanwu cave! It is also interesting to see Lan Wangji fight the Wen: his injured leg prevents him from moving much so he needs to adapt his preferred fighting style. Pretty cool!

And the Nie style? Beats me. There are sure to be clear differences compared to the rest of the great sects, stemming from the difference in their weapon to begin with, but the only Nie representative we really see fighting is Nie Mingjue. And I strongly suspect no one else fights like Nie Mingjue.

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kazumasougi · 7 months

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totk is very fun dont get me wrong but i do feel like when they leaned into the "everyones being creative so lets have them make insane contraptions" thing they went so far into it that it reduced what originally made that part of botw so interesting— that these solutions were fully unintended and creative for having broken the game

#mileposting #totk lb #dont get me wrong building things is literally my entire major i love the concept they were going for here but it feels like they were both #1. too afraid to lean too far into it (limited use zonai devices)#2. too far invested in the idea (every fucking cave needs a hammer now. you cant just go in with a bomb like you used to #+ all of the enjoyment of these being unintended solutions is now limited because youre playing into what theyre expecting of you)#i think if youre gonna have a sequel that uses the same map you REALLY need to make it feel different in some way. and to me #unfortunately the map just feels like botw but . more boring because ive seen it all before #the depths are a cool area and the concept of sky islands are very neat #but it doesnt feel like enough to warrant an entire new game yet #though. please take all of this with a grain of salt as i havent gotten super far into the game yet #in any case the game is fun but i wish they would step out of the botw comfort zone LOL

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ironraven · 1 year

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deep reef, abandoned wip

#is it obvious I still don't know how to do bgs #anyway coral caves is neat. love these things #they're like jellyfish to me #rain world #rainworld

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yesmissnyx · 5 months

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Looks like I'm going to have to make an audio masterpost, because there are some audios missing from my tag...

I assume this is because my account is only viewable on dash (because of adult content reasons), and that makes some of your posts unsearchable.

Ugh. That makes it really hard to keep track of the quick audio posts I make! Annoying!

#A site with a proper and functional tagging system please!!!#Bluesky has some really neat functionality with custom tagging algorithms so that looks promising.#I also might just cave and make myself a personal site as a directory...#Anyway I am trying to find my CNC audio post and I assume tumblr was like “Aww :) No.” and hid it from the search.#nyxrambles #Social media sites let me live challenge!!!

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