Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.
this is like saying NASA has forever destroyed our ability to wonder what it’s like on the moon. like we can still use our powers of imagination if we want to but the question’s pretty much fucking settled.
my friend liz downloaded some free audio software a few months ago to do something and now every time she joins a call a female voice says “trial. trial.” and liz doesn’t remember the name of the software or know how to stop it and she doesn’t want to
my friend liz had her spotify account hacked and literally didn’t realize for a year until I was talking about my decade in review playlist and she looked at hers and it was all brazilian music and she was like oh this explains why I would go to sleep listening to classical music and wake up and it’s playing trap. and also why there are like 30 playlists on my account that I didn’t make. she just thought spotify was like that
hand to god at some point my friend liz managed to fuck up her install of Portal so bad that it was displaying minecraft textures
like she’s bringing me dead mice
tonight she very carefully explained that there’s been a screw rattling around in her laptop for months but today it stopped which means it’s wedged on something and then the image on the screen started sliding sideways but she rebooted three times and now it’s fixed. and then an hour later she dropped from the call
also she said her laptop bluescreens every time she connects to the school wifi specifically I guess just to round things out
Thinking to myself “they can’t possibly have written this entire 20 000 word fic exclusively in 4chan greentext format”, like a fool.
Give us the fic
> be me > 22 year old baby trans in the Most Serene Republic of Greater Caliphornia, year of our lord 2069 > no talents or skills aside from a mastery of the Hissatsu Ougi > (my parents were transphobic ninjas)
I’m desperately curious about your daily internet navigation routine that takes you these places.
I mostly just look up what’s being referenced when people blorbotag my shitposts.
>and I have to keep walking east because there’s a trail of dead bodies behind me >which is why I’m now in fuxking DENVER >and I’m legit out of estrogen >drowning my sorrows in some shithole bar >”what’s got you down stranger?” >look up >buff cowgirl milf is talking to me
I low-key love this? They’re certainly making use of the format; the chaotic and comedic flow of events would feel lower quality and wordier in standard prose
I don’t know how anyone has found this as the only ao3 tag it has is “original work.” There’s not even a rating or relationship type. The fic summary for anyone intrested is:
“in 2069 AD, the region once known as the United States of America is a world of complex lore and political intrigue that our heroine doesn’t really care about because she’s too busy trying to find estrogen in the post-apocalyptic Midwest.”
Give that roughly two thirds of the comments and kudos appear to post-date the creation of this thread, at least in this particular case the answer to “where do people find this stuff?” is apparently “right here”.
are you aware your mutual is sexualizing body horror?
@revretch has studied this the most and has the most reference files for insect mouths!
Here’s an exploded view of a grasshopper mouth (they’re fairly close relatives):
On top is the labrum, which is like the top of a beak. (Ignore the face plate (clypeus) above it, it’s not important.)
On the bottom is the labium, which is the bottom of the mouth.
To the sides are the maxillae, which are kind of like cheeks, if your cheeks could open like a sideways beak. (Singular is maxilla.)
Finally, there are the mandibles, which are like big incisors that flip out when it’s time to eat or bite something. Most of the time, they’re tucked away under the labrum and the maxillae.
(Bonus: The hypopharynx inside the labium is basically a tongue! It even has a salivary gland at the base.)
In addition to the antennae, roaches have four palps, which are like little antennae on the mouth for tasting food. There’s one on each maxilla, and two on the labium–maxillary and labial palps, respectively.
Now, here’s a render I did of Sophodra’s mouthparts flared open (mantises are even closer relatives of roaches than grasshoppers are):
You can see that the labium is split into two halves, called the prementa. Additionally, each prementum has two little fingers at the end, the glossa (inner)and paraglossa (outer), for four little fingers in total.
The maxillae also have their own fingers at the ends, called the galea (on top) and the lacinia (bottom). Overall, these eight fingers act like lips, letting the insect manipulate food better.
Sadly, I don’t have many good gifs of roach mouthparts working, so here’s a look at them in motion on a mantis (the mandibles have black tips, the insides of the maxillae are red):
A better look at the mandibles:
A better look at the maxillae:
And now for the best gifs of roach mouthparts I have!
Sorry :( Hopefully that gives you a good enough idea!
wanted to reblog this again because so many artists still don’t know how insect mouths work, and even if you’re going for cartoon simplification, you might realize there are other fun ways to do it besides the common tusk-mandible look.
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