Okay, I've Posted A Lot More Today Then I Have In This Entire Accounts Existence So Far, But I'm Just

Okay, I've posted a lot more today then I have in this entire accounts existence so far, but I'm just very happy.

I don't heavily interact with fandom that much nowadays because I'm busy and people scare me but I've found some cool people in the BH6 fandom so what was shaping up to be a horrible day today (I wasn't feeling great this morning) has actually gone lovely.

And if it wasn't already apparent, I love BH6. But I wanted to share this personal connection I have with the movie specifically; so currently, I am very close in age to Hiro, so when the movie came out I was really young, and before I first watched the movie, I was kinda internally misogynistic (I'm genderfluid but was born female and grew up around a lot of boys and had trouble connecting with girls due to my lack of social cue understanding) so I told myself I couldn't watch big hero 6 because the boys liked it and I was too masc to be a girl and too fem to be a boy. I told myself that BH6 was something not for me.

Buttt that changed when the movie was on cable and I watched it and was so fascinated by the robots and Hiro. Hiro was a character I connected to in a way I didn't quite understand at the time (later in realizing it was gender envy and the grief/depression themes later relating to my tween years). I loved seeing Baymax, the bot fights and the microbots, at the time I was already vaguely interested in science, but I think this move solidified my interest in robots.

I think the coolest thing with this is that next year I'm going to a public, specialized science and math school for highschool aged teens to focus on a career path in STEAM kind of like SFIT (but instead of college it's a highschool) which I think is just so cool how this movie put me on my current path while also helping me tackle internalized biases against myself and later on cope with mental illness.

Sometimes movies can have the largest impact on our lives, now I build robots, am learning to code, read science fiction, and want to make robots like Baymax to help people with medical conditions that prevent people from taking care of themselves (it is my ultimate dream to make a robot like Baymax).

Making robots has been my lifeline during some very hard points, and so has animated films, so BH6 helped me during some dark points and helped inspire my desire to make robots to further medicine and help people.

All that is to say, thank you Big Hero 6 for setting me down a path of science, robotics, determination, and challenging little me's beliefs about what I could watch and what I could be. I wouldn't be here without ya.

Love y'all, thanks for reading my ramble -Professional yapper/chatterbox, Feral/Raine

So I just realized I rebloged this- What. I did not know I could reblog my own stuff, I would delete this since it's exactly the same as the original, but it already has quite a few notes, welp. Notes are notes.

Sooo, I made this fanart of Sebastian from Stardew valley recently. I wanted to add more detail to his design and lean into alt-fashion a bit if that makes sense? Wasn't sure what his eye color was based on the sprite so I used grey to add contrast and match the background. My friend said I made him more emo and I love it.

Random Fred headcanon

Okay, so like, it's well established Fred isn't very much into science like the others, he's a nerd for comic books and a general weirdo but he's not some like genius or scientist. Buttttt what I would think would be really funny and kinda cool was if he was a historical armor nerd. Like, hear me out. He's established to be a sci-fi and I'm not fully sure on if he likes fantasy (I haven't finished re-watching BH6 the series) but I'd imagine he probably does. And I think he'd probably get really into a DnD style game, look at the armor, get mildly interested, then start reading it inbetween the different comic books he's into and then get really into historical armor. He comes from wealth so I think he'd probably try to collect historical armor and maybe try to make some cosplay historical armor. Like, I feel like he'd watch those videos online talking about female fantasy and sci-fi armor and how it isn't protective and would learn about some of the arteries and organs that you'd need to protect and then be oddly knowledgeable about armor and like, protecting the human body with it. Like, he's no med student, but I think after a while he'd be painfully aware about how some of the team's suits don't protect them as much as they could. How I would think this is funny is that what if Hiro was trying to do some repairs on their suits and needed some new ideas and Fred just brings up some historical armor pieces, and maybe point out how like, Gogo's suit doesn't protect a lot of her vital organs on her abdomen or the arteries in her thighs, or how Wasabi's fails to protect his legs all that much while his upper body is protected, which considering that Wasabi uses Plasma blades he'll be closer up to opponents and would logically need leg protection and more fully body protection. I think it would be so funny if Fred just randomly brought up how their armor isn't super protective or covers vital areas and everyone just looks at him dumbfounded for a moment that he said something very smart yet very obvious, because like, nobody expects Fred to bring up how their armor isn't protecting certain areas. (I know this is sci-fi and they could be using materials on that area that are protective, but like, for example, Gogo's black body suit type thing is skin tight, the black parts on her abdomen are skin tight and inherently less protective than if the yellow plating type armor went further down her abdomen to protect the vital organs there. Hiro: This is going to be a pain to fix *looks at his computer trying to look at the models for the team's suits* Fred: *Peers over Hiro's shoulder* "You know Gogo's suit doesn't protect her Femoral Artery or her vital organs, you should put some protection there." Gogo: "Since when did you know what the Femoral Artery is????"

I tried pour painting

My friend gave me a set of old pour paints and silicon oil to use, I've never done pour painting, so this was a first, and even though it was an ugly work to some, I think it felt very freeing to make something not for the look, but the feel, after months of depression and recovery it felt freeing to make this.

I started out trying to make it pretty and aesthetic, a purple and black and white piece of art to gaze at and talk about, nothing more. But as I went on I added acrylic paint, I stored, I tried different things, and I think I reflected on myself while doing so: I used to never show unfinished work, I never showed my mistakes, my fuck ups, I hid them behind walls of insecurity. My life has always been bordered by darkness, a frame around my life that I couldn't overlook. Swirls of red rage and blue sadness blended, emotions always mixing, filling with greyness and numbness. But amongst those swirls were streaks of white and gold. Gold that reached out and broke the borders of darkness, piercing, daring to be seen, not drowned in the gloss of paints. This determination and ambition couldn't drown within me. But even amongst that hope still was darkness, some things don't go away, they just get smaller. I filled that darkness with light, and within that light I would still find darkness, but it kept growing smaller, smaller, till the white and black mixed and became something I could live with the ups and downs.

Then, when I turned my back to wash my hands, watching the grey paint on my fingers go down the drain, staining my finger tips, my carelessness had smeared the center and the border.. and yet, I wasn't mad, the opposite really. The gradient mix of the light and dark felt truer to me, this accident later changing my perspective on something is not the first or last of many accidents that have changed my life, and that's beautiful. As I painted I listened to Solas by Jamie Duffy, the quiet opening that turned into swelling almost enchanting middle, to a quiet, reflective end was enough for me to change a silent painting session where I just played with paints to a reflection of my life over the past few years. A painting that came from a gift, a surprise, something I hadn't known but was given also gave me this freedom that I had been building for months, to sometimes, not care about the here or now, the future and past, but to let paint hit the canvas, carve into the mountains of paint, and just feel it, I saw myself, a reflect, no matter how ugly it may be, because my soul doesn't have to be pretty for others, it is mine and I will love it as mine.

Analyzing San Fransoyko

okay, credit to @razbotz for encouraging me to do this, I was on the fence about this, but I think I might do a full series of posts just dedicated to analyzing San Fransoyko's world-building from the perspective of a former AP Human Geo student who spent a year studying the course and applying it to world-building. The course has little practical use but it's a course I know a lot about (I can proudly say I kept an A in the class despite it being a college course I took at 13-14 when the class had a low passing rate at my school due to the fact we were WAYYYY too young to be taking the course) so now I'm going to infodump about it.

Sooo, if I continue this, then this is part 1/? of idk how many.

Okay, so cultural diffusion, as a concept, cultural diffusion is when traits or aspects of culture (clothing, language, architecture, textile works, art, religion, music, all these things associated with a culture) diffuse or move from its hearth (a hearth being the origin of a cultural trait, agricultural crop, or other things, basically, the birthplace). San Fransokyo is a really good example of the positive effects of cultural diffusion. As the name of the city implies it's a mix of San Francisco California and Tokyo Japan, we see the Golden Gate Bridge altered to use Japanese Shinto temples/shrine designs (insert image lol)

Now.. compare that with the actual golden gate bridge and you can notice the differences in design.

This is an example of multiple types of diffusion (there are 6 main types, Contagious, Expansion, Hierarchical, Stimulus, Relocation, and Maladaptive).

(Note: as not everyone may be familiar with these terms, here's some basic definitions: -Contagious diffusion is well, contagious, think of it like a virus or disease that spreads from person to person through contact, cultural traits can move within a community through word of mouth and with the advent of the internet, through social media posts and other way things can go viral, if something goes viral and spreads a trait, it's likely Contagious diffusion. -Expansion is when a trait stays prominent in its birthplace, like rice, which has had multiple birth places but has spread elsewhere while still remaining prevalent in the parts of Asia where it originated from. -Hierarchical diffusion is when a cultural trait moves up or down a social hierarchy, for example, a lot of fashion pieces move from these high-level designers in France, which is prestigious and known for fashion, and move down the social ladder to everyday people. This can also happen with rich people and monarchs throughout history, or the opposite can happen when lower class/normal people do something, the rich find out and start doing it too and it spreads. -Stimulus diffusion occurs when a trait moves from one place to another but changes, likely due to limitations of the place it moves to. This is especially common in agriculture and cuisine, immigrants move to new places where they may not be able to access the same ingredients from where they immigrated too so their dishes get reinvented or changed. This can also happen with outside influences such as the Texas German dialect which is a German dialect native to Texas among German immigrants where as certain words didn't exist at the time so they borrowed English words while Germans in Germany created new words for these in German that didn't cross over, the prolonged exposure and changes to the culture due to outside forces created a different dialect. -Relocation diffusion is pretty straightforward, it's when people from one culture move to an area with people of a different culture, bringing their culture with them, this is common amongst immigrant populations who bring their culture with them and establish groups of other people with similar cultures, like how China towns exist with people of similar cultures and ethnicities and how they serve to protect and create a space for these people. Due to assimilation throughout history many cases of relocation diffusion result in not much spread of the trait because people assimilate into the culture of the area they're in to fit in. -Our last major definition here, which is maladaptive diffusion. This is not very relevant to the conversation but I thought I'd throw it in. Maladaptive diffusion is when a trait diffuses to an area, but doesn't catch on that much or seem that relevant while not changing that much. A common example is when people are playing soccer/football in snowy climates, the game doesn't make sense for the area but people still do it, it isn't that relevant but it remains unchanged.

The bridge is likely relocation because from what I understand of the wiki, the reason San Fransokyo is named that is due to Japanese immigrants, which if we can use basic reasoning skills (plus the background knowledge that people bring their culture with them when they move) we can likely reason that as Japanese immigrants moved from Japan to at the time San Francisco they brought their culture with them as they relocated.

Shintoism is what we call an 'ethnic religion' in AP human geo (which I have slight discomfort with as the terminology used in the course is often very Eurocentric, but ethnic religions are essentially religions that are primarily practiced by one ethnicity or culture, they don't try to convert people into it on large scales and mostly mind their own business, compared that with Christianity which is a universalizing religion that tries to appeal to a large number of people to gain or convert new members in different groups, ethnic religions like Shintoism are often indigenous religions that have much smaller populations) so Shintoism doesn't spread quickly, but we see it's influenced in the architecture of San Fransokyo meaning it grasped at the city and managed to take hold, moving and relocation with Japanese immigrants.

That's one form of cultural diffusion present, now here's another, expansion diffusion. Going back to Shintoism, this religion, though not super big, is still prevalent and one of, if not the oldest still standing religion in Japan, and due to the architectural influences scene with it in San Fransokyo, armed with the knowledge I previously supplied that expansion diffusion is when a trait defuses but is still prevalent in its place of origin, Shintoism likely expanded from Japan with Japanese immigrants to San Fransokyo and stayed prevalent in both places.

Contagious diffusion is another easy one to show examples for since it connects with the previous themes already. Immigrants move to an area, the traits expand outwardly, moving from person to person in the past now more rapidly with technology, and a larger amount of people pick up the trait.

For the last major one I can say without it being a stretch is likely Stimulus diffusion (I could make an argument from a bottom-to-top hierarchical diffusion since we've seen it happen with immigrant populations who are low on the social hierarchy influencing the top, but I'm honestly too tired as I type this to find examples). This is shown when we see the mixture of Japanese imagery and architecture mixed with more American and Spanish influences (as San Fransokyo is based on the real San Francisco but if there was an influx of Japanese immigrants, and due to the real San Francisco having large Spanish influences in its culture there's likely a mix of Japanese, Spanish, and American influences on the culture of the fictional San Fransokyo.) Stimulus diffusion is when traits are changed due to limitations or interactions with other cultures when a cultural trait is carried to new places, as we can see throughout the movie in the background, the traits are not completely left unchanged, there's American influences in the buildings, in the people, in the languages in the culture, plus the Japanese aspects which both change each other due to prolonged exposure to each other, changing both culture's traits and creating new ones.

I am about to hit character limit, but that's part 1 of my rambles on San Fransokyo and AP Human Geo concepts, I'll post the next instances I see when I'm not sleep-deprived at 2am, love ya'll, thanks to @razbotz for encouraging me to make this.

-Feral/Raine

So I tried to message someone and that won't even work- what the hell is going on.

Anyone else not being able to comment?

For like, the past month or so whenever I try to comment it doens't send or just doesn't show up and I tried it on my phone and got this!

Any of ya'll know what to do? I keep trying to comment and it won't send or anything.