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Thinking of the time I was at a coffee shop and said "Greetings, fellow human!" to the barista taking my order and without missing a beat he replied "Greetings! Is this your first day on earth?"

Favorite kinds of mushrooms?

Gah! Such a hard question!

I love all mushrooms, but there are a few that hold special places in my heart.

In terms of sentimentality, Mica cap mushrooms were the first mushrooms I ever spore-printed and documented, Prince mushrooms were the first mushrooms I ever foraged, cooked and ate, and Oyster mushrooms were the first mushrooms I ever grew myself, which I’m pretty proud of!

in terms of asthetics, I adore the Violet Court mushroom. I have not yet had the chance to find one, but they are a beautiful purple mushroom, my favourite colour. I also quite like the coldfoot bonnet mushroom, it’s a light blue mushroom that I think is very cute and a pretty colour. I look forward to one day seeing these two beautiful mushrooms myself!

CAPTAINSPARKLEZ!!!!

My thoughts on episode XCIX of Samurai Jack Warning: Spoilers

Ok, so all you Samurai Jack fans probably saw the latest episode. Spoiler alert: Jack and Ashi get together. Jashi is canon. Well, they kissed so it’s probably canon. Anyway, based on posts I saw it seems like everyone either hated or loved it because of Jashi. Now, I’m not a huge fan of the ship, I’m pretty neutral, but some of the reasons why fans hate it is a bit confusing to me. 

 One main reason I think a lot of people don’t like the ship is because of the age gap. Now, if you ship Rose x Greg or Aang x Katara, that’s a bit hypocritical. Jack is around 50 years older than Ashi, but Aang is less than 100 years older than Katara and who knows how big the age gap between Rose and Greg are. He’s probably less than a sperm cell in comparison to how old Rose is. However I think, and I might be wrong, why people don’t like Jashi is because they might have been wanting a more father daughter relationship or student teacher relationship between the two. That’s what I was kinda hoping but oh well. 

 Another reason some fans don’t seem to like it is because of how inexperienced both of them are. Well, that might not be the right phrasing but both of them are kinda clueless when it comes to romance. I mean, Ashi lived her whole life in a cave and Jack spent his whole life training to defeat Aku and fighting villains. I guess the ship is kinda cute seeing how they both have been training to defeat someone and they can kinda relate to each other I guess. And it was funny how flustered Jack got, but that’s understandable. Like I said, I’m pretty neutral on the ship. If they do stay together, it will affect what will Jack do in future episodes. Will he go back to past and defeat Aku? If he does, then Ashi probably won’t exist. Who knows? Anyway, that’s just my two cents of the whole thing. I’m really curious to see how everyone else interprets it.

last post I mentioned, having a bad art day, I spent hOURS trying to draw some self ship stuff, BUT it either looked awkward as hell, or I couldn't get poses right. I just wanna make them embrace and kiss each other man,, I need them to be SOFT 😤

it's actually starting to frustrate me so bad, bc i haven't had a bad art day in AGES!! ahdhdh,,, I'll try and go to eep and see if that helps

Well, at least he got nominated,, :,] ❤️

Still a winner in my heart 💕

SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT!

hi!! I have been making new art pieces here and there, but it's gonna be a bit harder this week specifically, I have a pretty tight schedule this week and will be going out a lot, but I'll try to post some things in between whenever i'm available! ❤️

Thank you for all your continued support I really appreciate you lot! I'll try to pop in and out of tumblr and post whenever I can! :]c

ughdjdh,, i'm officially back on art schedule after a long, busy week, I'm gonna start posting as soon as I get the motivation, since i'm a little tired, and I haven't felt the best tbh,, Ahhhh.. I apologise that i've been inactive for a bit, I'm gonna work on art trade halves and other side stuff to get back into the groove :,]

A quickie that the inbox is open! feel free to drops something there, wanna doodle Em some more hehe 🫶❤️

since it's now new year's eve for me I wanna be sappy real quick 🫶

WOWIE! The year went by SUPER quick! I'll admit, I thought the year was gonna be quite plain, since 2022 wasn't the best year for me, I struggled a bit since I was finishing highschool and DAMN that was a HUUUGE weight off of my body. ANYWAY!!

2023 was kinda a healing year me, (if that make sense) I've had a bit of a rocky start to the year, (getting out of shitty friendships, and school blah blah all that jazz) but as the months pressed on, things started looking up for me! my mental and physical health are improving A LOT! I got my driver's licence this year, (red P plates) I gained new fictional husbands to make my day's a lot better, (teehee🍕💗) But the number one highlight of the year for me at least, was working and developing my art some more, and of course meeting some AMAZING friends and mutuals!

Seriously, I loved talking to each and everyone of you, just your overal hype and support for the silly little things I do is enough to make my week, the overwhelming love that I get from my Pizza Tower selfship and sona art is CRAZY!! 💕 You lot honestly inspire and motivate me to push out more content to give. My new year's resolution is to be more outgoing and creative and of course interact with some more cool people!

So, Thank you so much, my friends, mutuals and followers 💕 You all mean the world to me, And I love each and everyone of you And have a Happy New Year, here's to a chill 2024 💕💕

- Woo/Em ❤️

I'm already at 70 followers, which is AMAZING!!! AHHH <33 I'm considering opening a DTIYS at 100 so keep an eye out!! 👀💗

Thank you for 70 though! that's awesome!! 💗💗

As much as I hate to say this, I'm currently running out of ideas for new Peppino x Em pieces, It's pretty difficult to think of new ideas

SO! If ya have any ideas yourself,,, feel free to tell me about 'em! Bc i'm NOT stopping on drawing these two so soon 💕👉👈

OKAY I'M GONNA QUICKLY RAMBLE ABOUT MY SONA AGAIN REAL QUICK HEHEHE <33

AIGHT so I dunno if people are still assigning theme songs to their sonas/ocs or whatever but if I had to give Em a theme song it would DEFINITELY be GenesisKeys - Trade Glances

The instrumental is so bouncy and energetic! aaAGH!! FFSDG- I feel like it fits Em's overall chirpy and chill personallity! she's a friendly sweetheart who just wants to make everyone around her smile

despite her usual dark apperence, she's a lovely woman <3

here's the tune in question for anyone who's curious,,,

I'M AT 83 NOW WAHGDSA???!!!💗💗💗💗💗💗

I'm already at 70 followers, which is AMAZING!!! AHHH <33 I'm considering opening a DTIYS at 100 so keep an eye out!! 👀💗

Thank you for 70 though! that's awesome!! 💗💗

AYE AYE AYE I WILL NEVER STOP THANK YOU 💕🫶

Dear Peppino lovers

Never stop drawing yourself showing affection to that old man cause it's freaking adorable

art trades and other art related stuff will be a bit delayed since i'm going to a convention this weekend! I promise i'll be back on the art grind once i'm not busy and have more energy

Texting one’s partners and saying the most poetic shit for mundane things that aren’t even romantic is frankly a waste of my talent 😔😔

Just wanted to post this: my current dnd brainstorming session notes

I’m so good at this guys

Nail polish 2 hours after you apply it to your nails intentionally: oh no, a gust of air has lightly accosted me! I have been torn asunder and stricken from my resting place, I must leave this place at once!

Nail polish the millisecond you spill it on something accidentally: the essence of my being has been permanently bonded to this substance since the day I was born—atom to atom, body and soul. you could no sooner remove me from this wooden table than you could remove the ocean from its water

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