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I seem to mainly be posting things related to Tanuki lately… Tanuki Earth… | Podcast/Stream Producer of The Confabulators: https://bsky.app/profile/theconfabulators.bsky.social

Light of Life Chronicle U.C.: The Turn A Gundam hangs over a cocooned earth, green light glowing as a cross star on its back, as the sun rises over the planet’s horizon. Soon the cocoon shall crack open and the planet be restored to life.
"He then attacked the boss over his iconic tune “Born in the USA,” saying, “You were born in the USA, weren’t you, dude? So act like it. But even that song, if you look at the lyrics, I mean, it’s a kind of a diss toward our country,” Cain said."
Bandai Namco Figuarts Mini Radahn Yes he is even riding the horse, who is even smaller now
A raccoon dog stares at you wearily. Why have you exhausted this poor canine with your nonsense and refusal to engage with current events, retreating to a comfortable delusion of the rationality of the market. Raccoon dog does not understand. Raccoon dog also would like some fish or maybe a worm. Particularly a sweet potato. Omnivorous forager canine raccoon dog is not picky, except for, coincidentally, eggs.
Mark from KC Green’s “Anime Club” comic He exasperated says across two panels “You… DENSE MOTHERFUCKER”
“WONG: So the Department of Justice and 17 states allege that three major egg producers - their names are Cal-Maine, Hickman's and Versova - illegally coordinated to inflate egg prices. And the government says these companies allegedly did this by submitting information to this industry publication that publishes price quotations. And these price quotations then influence what restaurants and grocery stores and other customers pay for eggs. And so the government is saying that these three companies illegally coordinated to manipulate these price quotations and make the prices of eggs higher.”
Popuko: “Ah. You are Mother Fucker?”
Marathon meme with fry from Futurama Fry holds a Misriah shotgun and a cryo vault key card in his hands as he stands in the cradle. “I HAVE PURPLE SHIELDS, A KITTED OUT MISRIAH, AND MY CRYO GOLD KEY.” His eyes narrow as we zoom in. “LET'S ROCK.”
Scientific journal report: “Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development”
Alan Wake ending gif. Alan sits in the cabin, submerged in the Dark Place. The subtitles have changed to “It’s not a lake… …It’s a battlefield.” He presses the typewriter key and the scene slams to black.
Fry from Futurama edited into the Cradle from Marathon. He has been photoshopped to be holding a Cryo keycard and a misriah instead of a mix tape and two liter bottle of Shasta. Panel one: I have purple shields, a kitted out Misread, and my cry gold key. Panel 2, zooming in: "Let's Rock"
Scatman John in a wood floor and paneled recording booth, along with Ultraman, Alien Dada and Red King. His hands are on his hips as he tries to strike Man-niisan’s classic heroic pose
However, Yenor is merely using the topic of trans athletes—one that right-wing groups have manufactured as a way to get many Americans comfortable with discriminatory policies—as a springboard for his true target: women's sports, and more specifically, "the deeper feminist settlement that has governed athletics for decades." This feminism, he writes, aimed to make women "more independent and even dominant and less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces," and as a result, "Title IX evolved from a seemingly modest anti-discrimination statute into a powerful engine of feminist social engineering, complete with proportionality mandates."
Judau Ashta, possibly the most powerful newtype to be born, about to shove a full ass soft serve cone into his face hole, which has cartoonishly enlarged like a snake by way of some small woodland rodent
An iPhone screencap depicting it is @175 on July 14, in Swatch Internet Time
A black and white page from the original Ghost in the Shell of Togusa investigating a car wreck
Two panels from Shirow’s OG ghost in the Shell manga, demonstrating the slapstick style he employed for levity. An angry Motoko slams something into the ground, her eyes giant with rage, her mouth a razor sharp set of gritted teeth stretching beyond her head to caricature her emotional state. She shouts “SHIT! YOU OLD FART!! Made us look like idiots AGAIN!” below that is a panel of a mildly SD/chibi Aramaki riding a scooter, like an off brand Vespa. He comes to a halt and turns back towards Motoko, making a comically stern, practically taciturn, face. His plain helmet accentuates and even exaggerates his baldness despite covering it up.
Patlabor on Television's traditional Post-Credits screen. White kana on a blue screen that reads, when translated: "This story is fiction... ...but in 10 years, who knows?"
A small figure of the Eponymous Spriggan Mark II from the PC-Engine game of the same name, follow up to Seirei Senshi Spriggan
Popuko from Pop Team Epic. She points at someone off panel and says “Ah. You are Mother Fucker?” With the second sentence written with a different kerning size to represent her shifting from speaking Japanese to English
To "solve" the Reagan-Jackson antinomy, centrist and conservative white Democrats from the South-led by political strategist Al From and including Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, Virginia Governor Chuck Robb, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and Tennessee Senator Al Gore-established the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in 1985 with the chief aim of "mov[ing] the party-both in substance and perception- back into the mainstream of political life." The DLC repudiated Franklin D. Roosevelt's development of the social welfare state through New Deal initiatives and what it perceived to be Lyndon B. Johnson's partiality to special interest groups. No longer was the Democratic Party interested in speaking to, and representing, its core constituency since the 1960s: people of color, labor, women, the working poor, and the unemployed. Instead, the DLC couched its campaign rhetoric and policy platforms in the language of "mainstream America" and "the forgotten middle class." The DLC was determined to make the party more palatable to the white men - especially the Southern white men - the Democratic Party had lost to the GOP after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other political victories won by people of color. If Nixon's Southern strategy opened the GOP's door to alienated white voters by dog-whistling an embrace of white supremacy, the DLC's aspiration to move the party into the mainstream of political life was an attempt to court those same voters.
Boston Review: “A striking photograph from the Stone Mountain event, which [Journalist JoAnn] Wypijewski describes as “the iconic image of ’92,” shows “Clinton and [DLC leader] Senator Sam Nunn posing at Stone Mountain, Georgia . . . and in the middle distance, a group of black prisoners.” Directly behind Clinton stands Georgia Governor Zell Miller, who made headlines in 2004 when he crossed party lines to support George W. Bush instead of John Kerry. Flanking Clinton opposite Nunn is Georgia Congressman Ben Lewis Jones, former star of The Dukes of Hazzard and outspoken defender of the Confederate flag.”
A screencap that depicts a small “recency” clock and says “Add to ‘Reactions’”
Eastern European arhouse film from the Simpsons. In the shot (black and white” a goat overlooks a desolate landscape, scattered trees with their limbs bare of any foliage. The goat, its horns long and wavy, turns its head to the camera and bleeds. It is subtitled as saying “I AM OLDER THAN TIME ITSELF.”
Max Lloyd-Jones as the capture actor, Mark Hamill’s double, for Luke Skywalker
Motoko Kusanagi looking like she just had to experience the most soul sucking experience of her life. Even as a full body prosthetic cyborg, the experience has caused her to have bags under the bags under her eyes. Her eyes are three quarters of the way shut as she stares off into space, desperate for some semblance of sensical meaning. Her mouth is agape in an expression of exhausted disdain. Exasperated suffering.
Flippy the Laser Disc Turtle is on his back; he is wiggling trying to turn back over from his hemisphere shaped back. His belly is a shiny laser disc that, well, has “LaserDisc” printed on the label “PROGRAM MATERIAL IS RECORDED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS DISC”
King Furry, a middle aged, stocky blue dog man with a big fluffy white mustache, wears a kind of Rooseveltian three piece suit and eyeglasses while sitting at his desk He is the King of Earth in Dragon Ball, for at least forty plus years starting from the year Age 733. Also he’s died like three times. The Dragon Balls are fairly useful in times like that.
edit of the old Nedroid/Anthony Clark comic “The Internet:” The bystander guy has been retained form the original, but the artist has now been replaced by a crudely drawn old timey computer system, with a reel to reel tape system and a bunch of buttons. The placement of the reels and buttons resembles a face. With the reels as eyes, a button as a nose, and two rows of more buttons as a rectangular smile of gritted teeth. The human character from Nedroid’s original comic says “Artmotron, I envision a strange ball with a few antennae sprouting from it.” Artmotron replies, and the dialog from the original comic is retained: Artmotron: “I made this.” Guy: “You made this?” The guy holds the ball, frowning, thinking. Guy, now smiley slightly: “I made this” An additional bit of dialog is added now as side comment outside of a word balloon: Artmotron (multiple tears rolling down its chassis): “Why master…”
Bootsie, a tuxedo cat, sits in a bathtub think of various mischiefs he can get up to in the bathroom, including what small object he can abscond with before the humans notice they’ve been taken… mostly sponges…
A docked Bellicose-class heavy lifter from Star Wars docked on a building. It’s hull is primarily a saucer design with three large thrusters (not visible from this angle), two large fins in the back that may either be sensors or in-atmosphere handling vectors, a sensor saucer off to one side, a large, possibly articulating portion that is either a cannon or another sensor antenna, with two large ball turrets mounted on the underside bilaterally on either side of a long, drooping conical fuselage that attaches to the saucer hull at a 90 degree angle
Homer skiing down a mountain, his intrusive thought balloon bursting. He cringes and says "Stupid live action Frozen!"
Anakin Padme meme: Anakin: “they’re putting YouTube playlists on Netflix and Disney Plus” Padme (smiling): “Oh nice so we can watch Ultraman there now?” [Anakin stone faced] Padme (worried): “we can watch Ultraman there now right?”
Achewood: Philippe, a small, living-stuffed toy otter child, is on his knees screaming at something Lie bot, a boxy automaton with sideburns, sunglasses and leather shoes, has just told him.
the same drawings of Swanboy and Noel without the compositing or drawn in effects from the previous image.
Swanboy and Noel dressed as NiGHTS and Reala from NiGHTS into Dreams for Sega Saturn. Swanboy excitedly galavants in flight through the sky over Twin Seeds (composited from official assets) with twin tails of green light and sparkling stars flying off him. Noel, dejectedly, just floats with stars drifting off him as he looks miserable and slouches. Honestly Noel come on you're flying, have some fun with it man.
Char Aznable stares into a glass of ice chilled liquor as he sits in a bathrobe in a palatial sitting room. He has just spoken about someone needing to shoulder the evils of humanity, a self-aggrandizing justification for committing an epochal atrocity to shock the senses of society into reformation in his wake. A “human sacrifice” as it was once put to him. He is planning something extremely wicked.
Tintin and Captain Haddock talking meme Haddock: “Lord what a fight… that damn cougar Haman Karn is something, huh?” Tintin: “Cougar? Captain, she’s twenty.”
The Flutter, the Casket-family airship, passes over the sea on its way to an underground ruin, accessible via a tower jutting from the sea. Text scrolling up reads: “In a world covered by endless water... People are forced to eke out a living on the small patches of land that remain above the sea...”
“this video is no longer available because the uploader has closed their YouTube account”
Chicago Magazine, “The Alan Keyes Constant,” Whet Moser “But Keyes got 27 percent of the vote. He wasn't from Illinois; had spent the better part of the decade as the electoral equivalent of the Washington Generals; and regularly said things that were either "crazy" or "surprising to hear in the realm of generalized American political discourse" depending on how charitable you feel. And still got 27 percent of the vote. This led screenwriter John Rodgers and a friend to coin the term Crazitication Factor-an unpredictable and shifting yet relatively consistent bottom, like the silt at the bottom of a pond: "Half just have worldviews which lead them to disagree with what you consider rationality even though they arrive at their positions through rational means, and the other half are the core of the Crazification - either genuinely crazy; or so woefully misinformed about how the world works, the bases for their decision making is so flawed they may as well be crazy."
Earl concept art for the Mystery Inc Gang of Scooby Doo by Hannah Barbara animator Iwao Takamoto Feeds stands feet apart, fists on waist, his face with a brave and determined look Velma stands with one leg slightly bent, resting her elbow in her other crossed arm, adjusting her glasses in a way that suggests she’s the team’s deductive expert. She looks to the camera in 3/4 profile with a confident smirk reinforcing her aura Scooby sits up with a strong, yet goofy, closed smile and half closed eyes. He exudes a comfortable confidence, alongside… Shaggy, who stands with a kind of relaxed hunched posture, cocky smirk on his face as he looks to the side at the camera, his hands firmly placed in his pockets, his thumbs sticking out stylishly and pinning the front of his shirt down. This is literally the coolest Shaggy has ever looked. Daphne stands with her hip tilted out to camera right (her left). Her right arm goes straight down, touching an outstretched right leg which is at a roughly 45 degree angle to the ground. Her other leg is straight to hold the posture, and she crosses her left arm over her abdomen with her hand open. She looks directly towards the camera with a stoic look on her face, matching Fred’s in a way.
A shot of the various layers building up to the final bit of Swanboy as NiGHTS, about a dozen layers of sketches and reference images, plus a random empty layer. You can see bits of the image were just blocked out with shapes in earlier layers that were then outlined to achieve the drawings definition
The drawing, but now its colored in in appropriately NiGHTS-y faux-watercolors: purples, yellow, reds, as well as leaving white for Swanboys feather color, his orangey beak, pink tongue and that blue bit under his eye
A further iteration on the drawing. Branson Reese’s Swanboy has avoided turning into another sonic team character and actually looks more like Swanboy in Saturn NiGHTS cosplay
A screencap of procreate in which a crudely drawn work in progress sketch of Swanboy as NiGHTS, the dream jester, has been scrawled in blue “pencil” with references for both the Saturn and Wii game versions of NiGHTS and Swanboy in a jester cap are off to the side of the page
Flork Panel: So God has finally come to humble me
Honou in "Aoi Honoo"/"Blue Blazes" in his university classroom, saying "The Age of Kamen Rider being thrilling at all is long over."
Stewie griffin's eyes going wide open, staring in one direction at Brian (off screen) then slowly tilting his head a full 90 degrees, never breaking lock-on.
Akira Nijino/Zaram, in his Shadow Line Kaijin form, cradles a rather stark and fearsome hobby horse-axe hybrid, Far Away, his arms. “Return to the farm.”
at the Centennial World's Fair, a man stands holding "The world's largest fork and knife" Both are bigger than the man, with the knife looking around if not over three meters tall, with the fork maybe 2/3 that height. The knife appears to be a flat, possibly off-centered blade more akin to a spreader, does not appear to have a sharpened edge, but comes to a point at it's tip, curving around the cutting edge back up to the point, then a sharp angle towards the top of the knife, where it has a mildly concave bend back towards the handle before a convex bump just before it. The For, for some reason, only has two tines, with a large gap in the middle, which the man is using to hold it.
“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” ― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters
Ray Smuckles, of Achewood, saying "Daaamn! That answer could use some work!"
Kyuu is looking down at something, shocked. His tabby cat eyes huge with interest and attention
Front and reverse shots of Mic Sounders the 13th in both of his forms he transforms between: one a tall, autobot-like robot and the other a small, boxy, chibi-mascot type, similar to Toei metal heroes like Kabutack and Robotack. Various elements of the shared states are seen in the design, such as his chibi form’s backpack being his humanoid forms legs, his chibi feet being his forearms in humanoid forms, his chibi form arms becoming a backpack and sub arms for his humanoid forms legs, etc
The Sochie and Azuki photos have been overlayed. A near perfect match. The first Tanuki Gundam Character
A photograph of Azuki, though I have sadly lost track of the original photographer. Azuki is a raccoon dog with a particularly memorable face, which always tends to look concerned or worried, or sometimes curiost quizzical. Here she looks kind of concerned with a bit of a spacey stare. The image has the full shot and below it a zoom in on her face, emphasizing the concern through the language of camera changes reinforcing the emotion by showing it in context, then focusing in on it more tightly
Sikoryak’s horrifying amalgamation of Steve Jobs and god only knows who from Scott Pilgrim Why does this exist What god have we offended.
Akira Toriyama’s caricature rendition of his editor at Weekly Jump. A nonplussed man with a neutral expression with poofy, somewhat frizzy hair, and wearing a dress shirt and tie, with another shirt underneath that, plus suspenders. He’s holding the river of a rotary corded phone up to his head listening to someone on the other end.