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Moana Visual Development, Part 2 

“The Brothers”.

At one point in the story development, Moana had 9 older brothers, who sailed off leaving Moana behind, and who Moana eventually had to rescue!

Designing them, I thought it would be a fun idea to give them each a distinct personality, and to have their personalities reflected in the way they wear their lavalavas (The garments around their waist).

Bro No.1 = The leader, most like his father.

Bro No.2 = The warrior.

Bro No.3 = The artist and dreamer, and who Moana feels closest to.

Bro No.4 = The easygoing lovable big guy.

Bro No.5 & 6 = Twins who were amazing at rowing in synchronicity.

Bro No.7 = The lady’s man who was a great dancer.

Bro No.8 = The annoying loud one.

Bro No.9 = The aloof weird one.

And Moana’s the 10th child of the chieftain, and the first daughter. 

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my favorite part of episode 2 is when anakin and obi-wan are in pursuit of someone and they chase them into a club and obi-wan just up and makes a beeline for the bar and starts taking shots in the middle of the mission because anakin has been So Extra lately that kenobi just cannot take it sober anymore

imagine your favourite character with the most agonizingly pained expression on their face as they watch the love of their life die and there’s nothing they can do about it

:)

Illegal numbers

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of Silicon Valley, there was an age undreamed of…

Movies were sold on big reels of tape, wound up inside little plastic boxes.

And played on machines called VCRs.

And if you wanted to create a copy of a movie, you could hook two of these machines together and do it with no problem. In fact, it was ruled in a court of law that it was a fair use of someone elses copyrighted movie to make yourself an archival copy, so that if your tape broke, or the machine ‘ate it’ you wouldn’t have to buy another one.

Hollywood didn’t care for this.

So, when the digital age dawned, someone came up with the bright idea of selling movies on DVDs. And one of the big selling points, so far as Hollywood was concerned, was that you could encrypt the data of the movie on the disc, and put hardware to decrypt it in the DVD player, in such a way that it wouldn’t play if two DVD players were hooked together, and so that someone who put a DVD into a computer couldn’t copy it.

Techies and hackers didn’t care for this.

So, they started trying to figure out how to cryptanalyze the DVDs, which were encrypted with a tech called CSS, for Content Scrambling System. And they didn’t have much luck, because crypto is hard, and breaking it is harder. And then one day they caught a lucky break.

Some manufacturers of DVD players, from Taiwan iirc, put out a new product, one of which was bought by a hacker somewhere, who tinkered with it and realized that the makers had made a mistake. They hadn’t properly protected the chips that contained the CSS decryption key, which allowed this guy to get access to it and copy it. He then created a program called DeCSS, which would allow you to put a DVD in a computer and then ‘rip’ the data to your hard drive, then write it to another DVD. He posted it online, and within hours the news, and copies of the key and code, had spread all over the world.

Hollywood flipped their shit over this.

They brought the legal hammer down on this guy, and it ended up in court. He said he had a right, as per the previous Fair Use ruling, regarding VHS tapes, to copy DVDs as well. When people had previously complained that encryption was stripping them of their rights, Hollywood had argued that there was nothing in the law that said they had to make copying easy, and basically challenged them to figure out how to break it. In the court case, Hollywood argued that under a new law that had passed, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, it was illegal to circumvent an DRM, or Digital Rights Management system. The plaintiffs counter-argued that they hadn’t really reversed engineered anything, that the dumb machines had been built wrong, that they had a right to tinker with it and see how it worked.

So, sitting between these parties was a judge who… to put it kindly, was probably in over his head. Probably some old guy, the kind of guy who still owned a VCR with the clocking blinking 12:00 PM because he didn’t know how to adjust the time. An old grandpa sorta guy. Maybe not a bad guy, just clueless about how tech works. So, when Hollywood argued that there should be some sort of injunction against the spread of the DeCSS software online, that it should be illegal for people to host it, or for others to download it, or to tell people how it worked, or even to link to it, gramps said, “Sure, why not? Here you go, here’s an order that says it’s illegal to possess this software.”

Well, the tech people freaked out about this, because it contradicted a number of already established precedents. Like Phil Zimmermann publishing the source code of PGP and shipping the books containing it to Europe, despite the fact that the encryption tech it contained had been ruled a munition that couldn’t be sold overseas. The precedent, that code was speech, and therefore subject to first amendment protections, seemed to be being thwarted in the DeCSS case. And the tech/hacker community wanted to make it clear that they weren’t going to stand for that.

So, some bright person somewhere, went out and got himself a shirt made, that had the source code of DeCSS printed on it, along with some quote from the order basically saying that it was illegal to buy or own this shirt, then started selling them on his website. This clever idea opened a floodgate of people coming up with unique ways to spread the source code of DeCSS, in a way that was tempting the court to try to stop them, on the grounds that the ruling would then go to a higher court and be turned over on first amendment grounds.

“Take t5’s low byte (AND t5 with two hundred fifty five) to put it

in the ith byte of the vector called k.  Now shift t5 right eight bits;

store the result in t5 again.  Now that’s the last step in the loop.

No sooner have we finished that loop than we’ll start another; no rest

for the wicked nor those innocents whom lawyers serve with paperwork.”

Quote from a long haiku that gives step by step instructions for implementing DeCSS

One of these people, Phil Carmody, raised an interesting argument. He said that software is just numbers. In fact, every piece of software is a single number, that is also a infinite number of numbers (or practically so) as there are nearly an infinite number of mathematical conversions or encodings you can perform on a number. So he wrote a little script version of DeCSS, then converted it to a number, then started to look to see if this number was the same as another somewhere. Was it hidden somewhere in pi? Or the Golden Ratio? What if you doubled it? or added 1 to it?

And after some searching, he found a list of the largest known prime numbers, wherein the 19th largest prime that had been found by that time, was the same as his code for DeCSS. So he posted this info online, and said, “If you go to this website, take this prime number, and save it in a file, then compile it, the output is this piece of software that is illegal to possess, transmit, or share information about.” Here it is, by the way:

485650789657397829309841894694286137707442087351357924019652073668698513401047237446968797439926117510973777701027447528049058831384037549709987909653955227011712157025974666993240226834596619606034851742497735846851885567457025712547499964821941846557100841190862597169479707991520048667099759235960613207259737979936188606316914473588300245336972781813914797955513399949394882899846917836100182597890103160196183503434489568705384520853804584241565482488933380474758711283395989685223254460840897111977127694120795862440547161321005006459820176961771809478113622002723448272249323259547234688002927776497906148129840428345720146348968547169082354737835661972186224969431622716663939055430241564732924855248991225739466548627140482117138124388217717602984125524464744505583462814488335631902725319590439283873764073916891257924055015620889787163375999107887084908159097548019285768451988596305323823490558092032999603234471140776019847163531161713078576084862236370283570104961259568184678596533310077017991614674472549272833486916000647585917462781212690073518309241530106302893295665843662000800476778967984382090797619859493646309380586336721469695975027968771205724996666980561453382074120315933770309949152746918356593762102220068126798273445760938020304479122774980917955938387121000588766689258448700470772552497060444652127130404321182610103591186476662963858495087448497373476861420880529443

Carmody argued, if the ruling that it’s illegal to do these things with the DeCSS software holds up, then it’s also illegal to possess, transmit, or share information about this prime number.  It will become an illegal number. It would have to be redacted from websites, and whatever books it might appear in. People searching for new primes, or any other number, will have to worry about sharing them online, that they are on some list of illegal numbers somewhere. The lists will grow exponentially, as the precedent that this software is forbidden to possess or share, will lead others to demand that software, and numbers, they don’t care for be made illegal as well.

And then… I forget the rest. Whether it was finally ruled in the favor of common sense, or if the case simply petered out and nothing more was ever heard about it. I do know that no one was ever brought up on charges for possessing a number, and DeCSS has been widely available ever since the day it was first posted online (if you’ve ever used a movie ripping software like ffmpeg, you’ve used DeCSS or it’s descendents.)

wheeee

The true north American hogwarts houses are bigfoot, mothman, jersey devil, and the chupacabra and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Somedays I really consider becoming some kind of creative goal coach.

Like, I love helping people break walls and obstacles to finish their projects or reach some point. I used to teach people via Livestream with art a couple years ago, or do tutorials on tumblr re: perspective, and when people would message me with “I FINALLY UNDERSTAND”, it was the best feeling ever.

I know what it’s like to have an idea and just feel overwhelmed with approaching it. I like the thought of finding out what someone wants to do, discussing with them the big milestones/things they need to achieve that goal, and then breaking those things down, and then becoming the positive reinforcement/accountability help they need to achieve some of these things. Re-jiggering goal posts if something is too much for them, helping them find other opportunities if something becomes untenable, etc etc etc

I wonder if that is a thing people would be interested in at all. I would make a side-career out of it if I could. Considering it being a high-tier reward if I ever do patreon. We’ll see.

me @ the stars: help me

Rapunzel and Eugene + eye contact

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introducing someone to your internet friends

@neckbeardadventurer thoughts??????????????????????????????

Guess what I’ve been re-reading~

Ok so I’ve seen tons of fantastic super epic detailed PJO fanart, but I always thought that PJO would make an amazing goofy cartoon with self-conscious humor and crazy monsters of the week (and serious moments ofc) akin to Gravity Falls, Danny Phantom, etc. So character design doodles for that, I guess?

s/o for the crappy generic “ancient looking” font for existing

hi i'm asking different hp fans to see what they think. So I've been thinking about the Harry-Hermione Friendship. and I admit to being puzzled as to Why they're friends-Best friends- Harry is always grateful for all the help Hermione gives him, and worries bout her getting hurt, and values her intelligence, but other than that he only mentions how much hermione nags him, and how it's boring going to the library. they dont do fun stuff together, yet, he consider her a 'Best friend' - thoughts?

I have a lot of thoughts.

For me, this friendship is one of the most important in the entireseries and I could write you a novel about how much I adore these kids. So,naturally, I couldn’t resist flipping through my Harry Potter books to findsome great Harry-Hermione friendship highlights.

(You named a few by the way - Harry does value her intelligence! And worries about her getting hurt! And is grateful for her help! These are all friendship things, I promise.)

But I’ll grant you that it is indeed a relationship that’s understated compared toothers, particularly the bond between Harry and Ron. (Not surprising when you consider that Harry is Ron’s Number One Fan.) Rather, the friendshipbetween Harry and Hermione is present is less obvious ways. Oh is it present.

After all,

Thereare some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll isone of them.

In the aftermath of the troll incident Harry points out thatHermione loosens up a lot in regards to breaking rules and is “much nicer for it”– a sentiment not to be taken lightly considering how intolerable she is to theboys at the beginning of the book. And she really does loosen up because notlong after this she literally sets Snapeon fire because there’s a chance he might be putting Harry in danger. 

However, rule breaking aside, she’s still Hermione Granger and there are certain qualities that go along with that.

Yes, Hermione does nag. She does. That’s one of the waysher caring manifests. School is important – so very important – to this girl and of course she wantsher friends to do well. Of course she wants them to try and succeed because sheknows that they’re capable of great things. So she pushes them, she can’t help it. And yes, Harry and Ron grumble and roll their eyes, and like her anyway because that’s who Hermione is. And that’s okay.

Just because Harry doesn’t wax poetically about how dearHermione’s friendship is to him doesn’t mean it’s not there. She gets himthoughtful gifts, she helps him through his schoolwork, she rushes into dangerwith him over and over again. And – notably:

Hermione is arguably the one person in Harry’s life who never leaves.

Not when the school thinks he’s the Heir of Sytherin. Notwhen a mass murderer breaks out of prison to come after him. Not when he snubsher for ratting out his Firebolt. Not when his name comes out of the Goblet ofFire. Not when the whole wizarding world turns against him for claimingVoldemort is back. Not when Harry rushes off to the Ministry of Magic againstall sound thinking and someone dies. Not when she erases her own parents’memories of her. Not when they’re on the run from Death Eaters and a corruptMinistry, hiding in the woods. Not when they’ve run out of food and have noplans, no leads.

Not when Ron runs out on them.

Not when Harry visits his parents’ grave for the first time.Not when he proposes they break into Gringotts, the most secure wizard buildingafter Hogwarts itself. Not when Harry jumps onto the back of a dragon and hecalls out “Get up, climb up, come on –”

Not when their friends and family are dying and Voldemortsingles Harry out – You have permittedyour friends to die for you rather than face me yourself.

Hermione never leaves.

Because another way Hermione’s caring manifests is a deep,unwavering loyalty. People wonder how this girl didn’t end up in Ravenclaw, butI’d say Hufflepuff was a pretty close runner up considering how much she valuespersonal relationships and hard work.

“All - all three of us?” “Oh, come off it, you didn’t think we’d let you go alone?” “Oh course not,” said Hermione briskly. “How do you think you’d get to the Stone without us?”

“Atleast no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in,” said Hermione sharply. “They got in on pure talent.”

“…Bittenoff more’n she can chew, if yeh ask me, all the work she’s tryin’ ter do. Stillfound time ter help me with Buckbeak’s case mind… she’s found some really goodstuff fer me… reckon he’ll stand a good  chance now….”

Shehad slapped Malfoy across the face with all the strength she could muster. […] “Don’tyou dare call Hagrid pathetic, you foul – you evil –”

“Stopit!” Hermione said shrilly. […] She was looking, not a the spider, but atNeville, and Harry, following her gaze, saw that Neville’s hands were clenchedupon the desk in front of him, his knuckles white, his eyes wide and horrified.

Hewalked resolutely over to the portrait hole, pushed it open, climbed out of itand found himself face to face with Hermione. “Hello,” she said, holding up astack of toast, which she was carrying in a napkin. “I brought you this… wantto go for a walk?”

Ronand Hermione were supposed to be revising for their exams, which would finishon the day of the third task, but they were putting most of their efforts intohelping Harry prepare. “Don’t worry about it,” Hermione said shortly, whenHarry pointed this out to them, and said he didn’t mind practicing on his ownfor a while.

Heliked it best when he was with Ron and Hermione, and they were talking aboutother things, or else letting him sit in silence while they played chess. Hefelt as though all three of them had reached an understanding they didn’t needto put into words…

“Beenhaving a nice little chat with her about whether or not I’m a lying,attention-seeking prat, have you?” Harry said loudly. “No,” said Hermionecalmly. “I told her to keep her big fat mouth shut about you, actually. And itwould quite nice if you stopped jumping down our throats, Harry, because incase you haven’t noticed, Ron and I are on your side.”

“ThenI’ll go back again tomorrow,” said Hermione determinedly. “I’ll plan is lessonsfor him if I have to. I don’t care if she throws out Trelawney but she’s notgetting rid of Hagrid!”

Eventhrough his anger and impatience, Harry recognized Hermione’s offer toaccompany him into Umbridge’s office as a sign of solidarity and loyalty.

Heand Mr. Weasley took the lead across the station towards the Dursleys, who wereapparently rooted to the floor. Hermione disengaged herself gently from hermother to join the group.

“Yousaid it wasn’t just memorizing a bunch of spells, you said it was just you andyour brain and your guts – well, wasn’t that what Snape was saying? That itreally comes down to being brave and quick-thinking?” Harry was so disarmedthat she had thought his words as well worth memorizing as The Standard Bookof Spells that he did not argue.

“Ifyou ask me,” said Harry quietly, “McLaggen looked like he was Confunded. And he was standing right infront of where you were sitting.” Hermione blushed. “Oh, all right then, I didit,” she whispered. “But you should have heard the way he was talking about Ronand Ginny!”

“Yousaid to us once before,” said Hermione quietly, “that there was time to turnback if we wanted to. We’ve had time, haven’t we?”

“I – Hermione, I’m sorry – I didn’t –” “Didn’trealize that Ron and I know perfectly well what might happen if we come withyou? Well, we do.”

Hermione had taken his hand again and wasgripping it tightly. He could not look at her, but returned the pressure, nowtaking deep, sharp gulps of the night air, trying to steady himself, trying toregain control. He should have brought something to give them, and he had notthought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. ButHermione raised her wand, moved it through a circle in the air and a wreath ofChristmas roses blossomed before them. Harry caught it and laid it on hisparents’ grave.

His voice cracked with the strain, and thestood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry feltthey were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky. “He loved you,”Hermione whispered. “I know he loved you.”

Everywhere he looked he saw familiesreunited, and finally, he saw the two whose company he craved most. “It’s me,”he muttered, crouching down between them. “Will you come with me?” They stood upat once, and together he, Ron and Hermione left the Great Hall.

And gosh but that list is soincomplete. It doesn’t begin to cover the little things we pick up from Harry’spoint of view, the things he notices and says about Hermione in return. Howcould he not consider her a best friend? Friendship isn’t just laughs and fun.It’s compassion and bickering and loyalty, and frustration, and family.

“She’s like my sister,” he went on. “I loveher like a sister and I reckon she feels the same way about me. It’s alwaysbeen like that. I thought you knew.”

LMAO I’M DYING 😂😭

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