girl at restaurant: “Are you Tony Hawk?” me: “Yes.” her: “Why?” I had no idea how to answer.
I was running out of time to create my Anime Expo cosplays (one week before con!) And I knew I wanted to do something challenging but manageable. I remembered that Monster Musume has a bunch of characters with unique features, so I latched on to Miia as my one week challenge!
Bringing it to life was comprised of running around in a panicked frenzy, hoping it would all turn out. I trekked to a faraway discount fabric outlet because I knew I would need a LOT of fabric. The tail from waist to tip is 17 feet long! Constructing it involved tediously repetitive sewing and hot glueing to make the whole tail look uniform and reptillian. I was relieved to finish it on time with a day to spare!
Wearing it to the convention was a whole new nightmare. Not only was it the busiest day Anime Expo had ever seen, but my mobility was extremely limited. Shuffling at a snail’s pace through packed hallways had me sweating and exhausted before I even made it to my destination (the most popular photo of this cosplay was taken just after bunny-hopping up a long staircase!)
When I finally arrived, I was completely overwhelmed with the response I got. I have cosplayed a lot over the last decade, but nothing I’ve done has been as popular as Miia! I’m so thankful for all the encouraging comments both in person and online that made this project worth it.
— @NikkiMoxxi
Snake girls are p. great
@collapsedsquid @xhxhxhx I went to reply to this thread, but when I opened up my draft it was already filled with this discourse from the future.Contra @fakecollapsedsquid2066’s post regarding the high-end prosthetics industry, @mecha-cyborg-xhxhxhx2066’s quick assessment is largely correct.
The development of the high-end monstergirl, monsterboy, and sex-variant full prosthetic bodies does ultimately result in lower costs for the standard bodies purchased by the middle class and for accessories and general implants available under the North American Cybernetics Subsidy Program. The key here is that these benefits are from the mass production models, and not the custom individual models, such as the gold-plated mecha scorpion body built for Ivanka Trump III.
For the custom models, they just use more material, but for the mass production models, the increase in power requirements and weight requires research into battery and materials technology which eventually filters down into the mainline models.
For example, the DSI6 Fault-Tolerant Power Control System in my body (even though I know neither of you guys have it because I’m way more paranoid than either of you) is actually a derivative of the DSI5X originally developed for the high margin DS-56 Rachnera Special, which was high margin, certainly, but sold 10,000 units, in order to increase its operational time from 76 hours to one week without violating the nuclear materials refined arms control act.
Likewise, the Modular Limb System now so commonly used by firefighters and other emergency personnel on more-or-less standard humanoid bodies was originally developed for the Broseidon Systems T-209, which as anyone on this website will remind you, is widely considered incredibly fetishistic and “deeply unnatural”!
Now of course, a lot of this could maybe come from military research, and there’s some argument whether the wealthy rebuilding themselves as fetishized versions of mythological creatures is really a good use of resources, but honestly I doubt that without it we get the same rate of progress.
Has anybody ever done Stardestroyer-style ultra-grognardy physics analysis for Gundam?
I think everyone just points out that mobile suits are not an optimal form for military combat vehicles, especially at that size. Even Code Geass’s Knightmare Frames are better, since they’re smaller and have higher mobility due to wheels.
When playing with mirrorsss and featherssss for daring #burner #boys #erevosaetherbespoke #dustycouture #burningman
This is what the future aesthetic looks like in 2017.
I really do not understand what the Emoji Movie is supposed to be.
I do not understand this one bit.
What are they trying to sell?
I have a strong sensation that it’s bad to acknowledge that that movie even exists; that somehow, some entity is making money because I am even aware that people made such a movie and are commercially releasing it.
Anonymous asked:
I can understand the concern, but were there every that many trans people in the military to begin with?
mutant-aesthetic answered:
that’s the other question, yeah, like how many trans people were really looking forward to military service?
Yeah, that’s the kind of numbers I was thinking of, with being trans and being in the military correlated.
I would wonder why this is hardly ever mentioned irt trans interests, but the link between transgender activism and Leftism, and the hate of the Left for anybody in the military has been a basic feature of the Left for my entire lifespan.
Your mistake is presuming there can be such a thing as a smart or consistent political movement.
Maybe Singapore’s PAP counts as a smart movement, but it appears to have a pragmatic grab bag of policies that aren’t united by some underlying unified ideology.
Totally not eugenics, then. Just compassion with the poor. Nothing to see here, move along!
CRISPR means we’re going to start getting designer babies soon enough.
Suppose you are from a family with a severe heritable peanut allergy. You contract with Genetic Enhancements, Inc. to create an embryo, modify it to remove the genes for the peanut allergy, and then implant it.
This is technically eugenics.
But, on the other hand, there is no benefit whatsoever to a severe peanut allergy. Not on an individual level. Not on a family level. Not on a societal level. We are much better off if such an allergy doesn’t exist.
But there is a difference between people that are already created and people that don’t yet exist and may never exist, and there is a difference between mandatory, quasi-optional, and payment-based practices.
But I don’t think “is this eugenics or not?” is a good question for untangling the morality of this, because “I refuse to have children because I have a heritable genetic heart problem that will kill me at 50″ is also eugenics.
So to me, the suitable grounds to oppose it on is that they’re in prison, under the state’s care, or something along those lines.
And of course, in the original issue that was brought up, genes may not even be relevant. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome can be extremely expensive, and how much do you want to bet that other kinds of drugs can cause similarly expensive medical disorders?
Murkowski and Collins get a minor shout-out for not doing something horrible I guess, and McCain gets nothing since he had the power to shut the bill down in several ways but chose to do it this way for positive media attention
Right-wing attitudes to Republican “no” votes: These people are turncoats and need to be made an example of
Left-wing attitudes to Republican “no” votes: These guys aren’t completely terrible, I guess. They’re slightly less terrible than the other guys
The left, a few years later: Where have the moderate, principled Republicans gone?
Where they finding $20 a month health insurance???
When Hubby had a job that offered insurance, it was gonna be $700+ per month for the 4 of us.
There is NO HEATING listed on that budget & heat usually includes the gas for cooking & hot water, unless they have a really nice electric range and 100% electric water heater. A $600/month apartment probably won’t have those.
Cable & phone looks too low. Internet in my area is $80+/ month without even a minimal cable package & nowadays phone is separate because cell phones which are about $40/ month for each person.
They are legit trying to pretend this is normal what the fuck is wrong with these people
Why does everything I see never point out that this budget doesn’t include FOOD.
Also doesn’t include insurance deductibles (which are around 3K) and co-payments (which are 20-35 bucks PER visit)
wtf is up with phone and internet prices in america? like, it’s around £20 including line rental for the landline here for regular non fibre optic broadband, or around £30-40 per month for fibre optic. and i pay like £8 a month for my mobile phone bill, when i was still paying off my phone itself it was like £25 but you don’t need to always have a new phone, once you pay off your phone then just pay for the SIM?
America lets cable companies sign deals with municipalities to prohibit competition, and is also way sparser than Britain.
“bdsm helps me cope with my mental illness/trauma and urging me to think critically about this is both ableism and PURE EVIL”
interesting how “think critically” means “adopt my worldview completely with no critique whatsoever”
Thinking critically involves rolling 1d20 to pick a new opinion. Just keep rolling it until you have the correct one.